Johann Matthias Sperger (1750-1812) was a name that was new to me He was a distinguished Austrian contrabass virtuoso and composer with a significant body of work to his name Born in Feldsburg in what was then Austria but is now Valtice in the Czech Republic his name may well originally have been Jan Matyáš Sperger He studied in Vienna and may have been a pupil of Albrechtsberger From 1777 he worked for the Archbishop of Pressburg (now Bratislava) He then went on extended concert tours that made him famous as a contrabass virtuoso and composer In 1789 the court of Archduke Friedrich Franz I in Ludwigslust (a Baroque palace some 40km south of Schwerin) appointed Sperger to the position of principal contrabass in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Court orchestra Sperger produced some forty symphonies and numerous instrumental concertos There is a chance to hear one on 23 February at Kings Place when Leon Bosch directs The Hanover Band in the first modern performance of Sperger's Cello Concerto in C with soloist Sebastian Comberti in a programme that also includes Cimarosa's Oboe Concerto (with soloist Geoff Coates) and symphonies by Haydn and Mozart Full details from Kings Place website ISPI The questions tourists ask most frequently when they visit Venice are: is Venice sinking (not really) and will it be submerged like Atlantis since the effects of sinking ground (subsidence) and rising sea level (eustatism) have combined to create a net altimetric deficit of at least -25cm in Venice over the last century With the evident effects of climate change this is not a good position to start from for a city that exists essentially at sea level Venice was indeed sinking even faster up until the 1970’s when mainland industries in Marghera used to pump out massive quantities of water from the underlying aquifer those deleterious practices have been halted and Venice is back to sinking at a “normal” rate of around one centimetre per century Unfortunately the 10-12 centimetres lost to subsidence in the first few decades of the postwar economic boom are gone forever and Venice has to deal with a global rise in sea level starting from an unfortunate altimetric deficit of its own making Floods have been a fact of life in Venice since time immemorial Ever since its founding – one thousand years ago – the annals of Venice have recorded a plethora of catastrophic floods In any age – past or present – high tides (acqua alta) have invariably been caused by exceptional storm surges created by strong winds pushing water from the Adriatic into the Venice lagoon and keeping it there which has been rising steadily since scientific measurements began in the late 1800s and is forecast to continue rising inexorably for the foreseeable future as more and more ice melts away from the gigantic ice stores of Antarctica and Greenland Unlike subsidence, eustatism is not a problem that can be solved locally. Due to its global nature, it can only be mitigated, as Venice has managed to do by constructing the MOSE barrier that protects the city from flooding by sealing the four main channels that connect the Venice lagoon to the Adriatic sea. [LM1] Altogether the four inlets are equipped with 78 independent mobile gates that rise up from the bottom of the channels and block tides up to 3m high This major national infrastructure project was designed to handle a 60 cm increase in mean sea level over the next 100 years and was estimated to cost over 3 billion euros at the time If mean sea level rises globally by more than 60 cm – as it is unfortunately likely to do – the MOSE gates will not suffice anymore MOSE was always understood to be an interim solution that will need to be replaced someday There are lessons to be learned from the history of the MOSE project which was first conceived in the wake (pun intended) of the devastating floods (alta marea or acqua granda) of 1966 when a catastrophic tide of biblical proportions covered the city with almost two meters of water spurring a global movement to “Save Venice” and prevent such a cataclysm from ever happening again the Italian Government passed the “Special Law for Venice” (1975) Another 20 more years went by before UNESCO listed the city and the lagoon as a world heritage site (1987) riddled with dozens of lawsuits and appeals the first stone of the massive public work was laid almost 35 years after the original event that triggered the belated response Just when all the hurdles were overcome and work had started in earnest leading to indictments of the top echelon of the Consorzio as well as several political figures including the Mayor of Venice and the Governor of the Veneto region The resulting criminal inquiry halted the project completely and it took years to pick up the pieces of what was left of the Consorzio which was placed under external supervision by the National Anti-Corruption Agency work on the MOSE resumed after a post-scandal hiatus of over 5 years and all 78 barriers were in place by early 2019 more than 50 years after the 1966 event that gave rise to the project Just as the final tests were being conducted in November of 2019 Venice experienced an unrelenting string of massive floods for a whole week One (that of November 12) was the second highest in history and four more made the top-20 list of all-time high tides Since most Venetian businesses are located on the ground floor they were utterly devastated by the relentless tides of that catastrophic week COVID locked down the city just 4 months later making Venice’s physical as well as tourism-dependent economic fragility evident to everyone the government expedited the permits to allow the MOSE gates to be used for the first time on October 3 one year after the disastrous floods that could have been prevented saving untold amounts of money for the Venetian and national economy Venetians have gradually become more and more complacent to the point that they do not even think much about tide alerts anymore – a testament to the reliability that MOSE has demonstrated so far The project was way beyond schedule and way over budget There are many other problems to deal with so it is nice to be able to forget about the problem of high tides the gates will need to be closed more and more frequently greatly impacting maritime traffic to the Port of Venice and gradually affecting the entire lagoon ecosystem we shall reach a point when the gates will be closed so often that we shall need a more definitive solution to protect Venice from flooding The gates will have reached their expiration date A “Dutch solution” (polderisation) may be in order at that point with earthen dams and berms to seal off the lagoon and protect it for good Gates and pumps will probably be part of the final intervention to allow water circulation when possible and keep the lagoon at least somewhat viable for aquatic flora and fauna It will not be the same lagoon as we have now but we may be able to salvage some semblance of the current ecosystem quite soon the world will be faced with the choice between saving Venice or saving the lagoon Since it took us 50 years to come up with a temporary solution it may take us 100 years to construct a permanent system to protect Venice long term The lesson we learned from MOSE’s history is that we must not wait until it is too late We certainly do not want to repeat the fiasco of 2019 when we were not ready in time We should be planning now for the post-MOSE solution to protect Venice in a permanent way we should also learn from the Covid-19 crisis which exposed the vulnerability of the Venice economy because of its near-total dependence on travel and tourism Just as we have to reckon with the inevitability of rising sea level we would be wise to plan for a future pandemic (or other global crisis) which may grind world travel to a halt Such a scenario is perhaps less predictable but almost as likely over a 100-year span Should we not try to make the Venice economy equally resilient to outside events Venice has lost three quarters of its population since the last world war mostly because of the lack of job diversity the less likely you are to find a job in Venice where the economy is monopolised by low-paid and low-skilled tourism jobs While everyone may agree that large sums of money should be invested to protect the physical Venice by means of some Dutch solution (even at the expense of the lagoon ecosystem) we need to ask who are we saving Venice for Should we not invest equal sums of money to stem the tide of tourists should we be equally concerned about the altra marea the “other tide” of visitors that is just as detrimental to the livelihood of the city as floodwater which is loved by so many people in the world requires more than saving the physical city by means of permanent barriers Venice’s future will hinge on the ability to be a “real city” capable of retaining its own young people and attracting new citizens in addition to tourists Venice needs a thriving non-touristic economy to be a real living city Only when both the container (Venice) and the content (the Venetians) are preserved and allowed to thrive shall we be able to say that this jewel of humanity will be truly preserved Image credits: Matthias Süßen (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons This content was created by ISPI MED online analysts Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Mary Elizabeth Nook Huettner of Fort Wayne Indiana passed away peacefully on September 20 She was an accomplished figure skater and skated in many Carnivals at the Cleveland Skating Club Mary went on to attend Marymount College (now Marymount University) in Arlington She loved children and was a nursery school teacher for many years She was also an active volunteer for several organizations including the Grove City Junior Chamber of Commerce Ladies Group (Treasurer) Fort Wayne Philharmonic Volunteers (Vice President) Charles Borromeo Catholic Church as well as the former Summit Club and Pine Valley Country Club tennis and knitting and will be remembered for her love of fun and her infectious laugh Mary is survived by her three loving daughters Heather Harms (Gary) and Sarah May (Stephen); her siblings and Viola Knight Nook; her husband of 54 years A Funeral Mass will be held at the Church of the Gesu Interment All Souls Cemetery.  This service will be live streamed below Click to watch Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors the second of three daughters of Laurine and Elvin Byers She remembered her childhood with great fondness Illinois where she enjoyed the fun side of farm living with her many cousins Barbara had little choice but to earn her Bachelor of Science in Education from Northern Illinois State Teachers College Barbara and Al got married and began teaching in the town of Blue Island where they lived in a small trailer in the yard of a local farmer Barbara taught home economics for four years prior to the arrival of their four children: Tom though she kept her teaching certificate valid Barbara set about raising her four children with a powerful love sharing her grace and wisdom and big-heartedness with her young brood and her beloved husband Summers were filled with trips to Lake Shishebogama in northern Wisconsin or out west to Yellowstone or Glacier National Park and other Rocky Mountain destinations There were many pictures of buffaloes and fish When Al got a teaching job at John Carroll University and Barbara transitioned to raising teenagers and helping her young adults find their way while she earned an MA in Human Services Barbara and Al moved to a smaller place in Sagamore Hills where they returned to the delightful company of each other frequently visiting their far-flung children and welcoming grandchildren when she moved to a memory care facility in New Hampshire in 2023 her sisters Betty Unbehaun and Joan Rogers ARRANGEMENTS: A Celebration of Life is in the planning stages for this summer in the Cleveland area where family and friends will be welcome Assisting the family with arrangements is the Cremation Society of NH This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page where the old stone prison looms like an imposing poltergeist One of her first tasks in 1963 was to order a hanging rope for the last Iowa execution he'd heard prison stories and wondered about the men who came and went disturbed murderers who were executed or embezzlers who turned into kind souls So when he found out the Iowa State Penitentiary was closing the photography hobbyist asked if he could take a look around Back in a dusty shed were dozens of wooden boxes he found hundreds of glass-plate negatives The negatives were like X-rays held up to the light But when Fullenkamp reversed the negatives digitally they became a metaphor for how we look at criminals Those scary ghosts became the images of men — many not seen in over a century Thus began a preservation project that's taken on a life of its own Fullenkamp is director of Web services at the University of Iowa historians and library archivists — have been eager to help They wore big wool prison coats of the era unlike the prison jumpsuits they arrive in from today's county jails Fullkenkamp saw fear and uncertainty about what was to come Those faces and stories needed to be preserved Fullenkamp has embarked on a volunteer project to invert and digitize more than 11,200 glass-plate negatives with the blessing and assistance of the Iowa Department of Corrections Phase one is complete with the help of prisoners at Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville often asking for the stories behind the faces Now Fullenkamp is working on matching faces with names and stories and one day hopes to produce a book He brought English doctoral candidate Gemma Goodale-Sussen to the project in May was taken by the faces popping up on the computer screen "They are on the precipice of their former life and being an inmate," she said "Do they know that their lives are changing?" They would look at the negative image from the 3-by-4-inch or 5-by-7-inch plates you're suddenly seeing a face that hasn't been seen in 100 years Inmate numbers loomed behind their heads in early photos and were later attached to uniforms which changed over the years from heavy woolen coats with big buttons and checkered patterns to stripes on thinner smocks and coats Inmate number 4439 looks like a bald town doctor in the negative Fullenkamp guesses most others had motivations for looking tough upon prison intake "The eyes are everything," Goodale-Sussen said While she often sees weariness or sadness in those eyes Fullenkamp sees uncertainty and nervousness "Everyone projects his own feelings onto these photos," he said Then a series of coincidences made the project almost eerie Boxes of deteriorating intake papers holding inmate information were also found but the paperwork and photos have yet to be matched Fullenkamp began asking around about what was known about the face of one man or another he heard an author tell of his book about a man who faked his own death by putting a drunk in a building and burning it down He was later caught because the skull found in the ashes wasn't his own The kicker that startled Fullenkamp: Novak became the prison photographer Novak took many of the photos that he had studied as Fullenkamp tried to find more information on inmates president of the North Lee County Historical Society and a local expert on everything related to the prison I love this," Andrews said of Fullenkamp's project "Prison staff don't have time to go through them and all we've had is inmate numbers with no name and in no particular order So when family of former inmates requested information or photos Andrews gave him some of the few files he had on notorious inmates One of them carried the name "Lundquist," a man who at age 19 killed a police officer Goodale-Sussen was telling Fullenkamp a story about an inmate from a book she was reading She described a man who had lived in the prison for 40 years and for 30 of those years he had never had a visitor After an Iowa newspaper wrote about him around Christmas gifts and letters flooded the inmate's cell He began sharing them with inmates who also got no letters or gifts He so captivated Iowans that women began writing to him The inmate was eventually granted clemency because of his prison decency and Goodale-Sussen found out he moved to the Waterloo area to be with his wife A quick search of the 60 photos Fullenkamp had inverted out of 11,000 revealed a surprise "That's him," Fullenkamp told his colleague as the image of the long but some of the coincidences seem to have some magic in them," he said The old prison is one of the oldest buildings in Iowa It's always been a major employer and strong presence in Fort Madison Andrews used to see a convicted murderer riding his bicycle every day in town on his way to give haircuts to "old folks in the home and invalids." residents still heard the noon bell at the prison echoing through town within months the old stone prison will sit empty City and state officials are devising plans on what to do with the buildings and the leftover materials inside often sitting in boxes or sheds like Fullenkamp found "A lot of our storage is not appropriate for these types of historical documents," said John Baldwin director of the Iowa Department of Corrections "Eventually these glass plates wouldn't hold up We really wanted a record of what the old (prison) was like Fullenkamp's work spurred interest in a symposium on prison projects among academics and others that was held Saturday at the University of Iowa One motivation was to discuss preservation and further study on many aspects of incarceration Fullenkamp hopes eventually to produce a public online archive of the faces and names as a record of history but also one that puts a face on society's attempts at correction With ArcGIS Business Analyst, you can use demographic, consumer, and business data to create presentation-ready maps and analyses. Two of the best ways to share Business Analyst results are to create an infographic or create a dashboard you don’t have to choose between these two formats—ArcGIS Business Analyst and ArcGIS Dashboards have long partnered on an in-app integration Many Business Analyst users are familiar with the basics of sharing infographics in dashboards providing guidance for creating a custom infographic and editing a dashboard made through Business Analyst By leveraging the design and configuration options of both platforms you can create a sleek dashboard displaying your custom infographic Here’s a quick overview of how you can customize both infographics and dashboards to share information in an interactive Note: This workflow can be done with ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App Advanced Business Analyst includes many interesting and insightful infographics the standard infographic templates are almost perfect but might not include some of the variables that help tell your story we are working on a project to show the use of public transportation in the Chicago area to understand how people are getting around We’ve discovered a standard infographic template – Commute Profile – that’s almost exactly what we need to tell this story It includes information on how workers get to and from work since we are focused on public transportation usage we can take this template and customize it to “zoom in” on that topic On the Reports tab in Business Analyst, we can build custom infographics using templates of existing infographics we’ll choose the Commute Profile template and swap out some of the variables and panels we’ll replace the site summary panel with an infographic panel showing aggregate spending on public transit in the site area selected we hover over the panel and click Edit to modify its contents we’ll change the title and remove some of the text fields and replace them with a variable and an icon we will display the 2022 Intracity Mass Transit Fares variable we want the variable in the “Workers” section (currently showing the percentage of people who drove alone to work) to instead show people who took public transportation we can hover over the panel and click Edit and this time we want to keep the panel layout We sub in the 2020 Workers 16+ Took Public Transportation variable from the American Community Survey dataset we swap out the old icon for one that represents public transportation We’ll build our Interesting Facts panel to be based on variables that relate to public transportation An Interesting Facts panel highlights “outlier” data displaying variables that are distinctive to the site compared to others the interesting facts panel displays transportation-related variables for which the site falls in the top 5% or bottom 5% of all areas Now that we have an infographic more aligned with what we want to present about public transportation usage, we can go through the Business Analyst workflow to create a dashboard For this project, we want to see the data for each ZIP Code, so we have already added sites for those areas in and around Chicago using the Select Geography workflow for creating sites Going through the Business Analyst dashboard creation workflow we choose Many sites as the dashboard type we can select all the sites we want to include (in this case This dashboard on its own is ready to share We can edit our map and dashboard to include more visualizations and data that help tell a larger story about public transportation in Chicago As part of this project to understand public transit use in the area, we have layers from the Chicago Transit Authority and tables showing the monthly ridership for each route This data can complement the infographics we have in our dashboard to help tell a larger We can add this data to the map in our dashboard that was created in Business Analyst we’ll open the map of sites created with Business Analyst and edit it to include this data and match our dashboard aesthetically The map already has our sites that were created in Business Analyst, so now we want to add the transit route layers. The transit routes layers are feature layers with line geometries representing individual bus and train routes Since the layers only contain the locations and names of the routes we’ll also add associated tables that include ridership stats for each route The tables include ridership data that is not stored in the feature layers themselves we’ll use the tables’ data in our dashboard to power our added visualizations For the map’s look, since the dashboard we created is in the dark theme we’ll change our layer styling for the sites so that they are transparent fill just displaying the outline of each ZIP Code Now that the map is styled and we’ve added additional data to it we can edit our dashboard to visualize more we click Edit Dashboard from the window that appears when the dashboard is created we can open ArcGIS Dashboards and access our dashboard from there Next, we can include trends and key information that we don’t have in our infographic already. We can visualize average ridership over time for both bus and train routes, and ridership averages by day for each route, by adding other dashboard elements For ridership over time, we’ll add a serial chart in the right of the map The chart shows total ridership of all bus routes per month (using the bus ridership table as its data source) but this time showing total ridership of all train routes per month (using the train ridership table as its data source) so viewers can switch between bus and train information using the tabs For ridership averages by day, we’ll add a grouped value table showing the average bus rides and a second one for the average train rides. We’ll add them above the charts and stack them again. The data and customizable infographics of Business Analyst, combined with the visualizations in ArcGIS Dashboards work together to unlock trends, insights, and key information that present data in new ways and help inform decisions. The curvature of the bridge and the abutments being at different levels presented a special challenge for the Aalen-based contractor, Stark. A task that was accomplished very well with NOEtop wall formwork.The challenge: Construct the foundations, abutment walls, carriageway deck, road surfacing and the parapet rails on the farm access bridge for the B466 bypass in southern Germany. The Süssen Bypass in southern Germany is intended to relieve through traffic. An overpass was built as part of this project. Andreas Stark GmbH & Co. KG from Aalen was awarded the contract to build the overpass. The contractor decided to use NOEtop wall formwork manufactured by NOE-Schaltechnik, Süssen. The new 1.3-mile bypass includes the construction of a 91-foot-long, 19-foot-wide bridge. This bridge takes a farm access track over the new B466. It was built by Andreas Stark GmbH & Co. KG from Aalen. At Süssen, the contractor's task was to construct the foundations, abutment walls, carriageway deck, road surfacing and the parapet rails on the farm access bridge. The entire bridge had to be concreted in one pour to ensure the structure would act as a portal frame. This presented the contractor with several challenges. Since the volume of the abutments is quite large, there was a risk that the heat of hydration of the cement would produce temperatures of 113°F or more in the concrete, which could lead to it cracking. In addition, the bridge is built to a slight curve, which meant that the contractor's concreting gang had to work "uphill". Added to this is the asymmetry of the bridge, with one abutment being higher than the other, which makes concreting operations even more difficult. "NOEtop made our work much easier — which was one crucial reason why we opted for NOE," said Giuseppe Maniscalco, the site foreman. "Another was something that the site team knew they could rely on: when the need arises, a NOE expert is always available and able to come up with a solution." This isn’t the article I was supposed to write.  As the director of health equity at the Roosevelt Institute I research and write about the health dimensions of race But I’m also a mom of three kids between the ages of three and eight I have experienced and analyzed what’s happening in my family in my community and in the world more broadly (I will note upfront that I recognize the extraordinary privilege I have to be part of a household where both parents still have a paying job.) Ten days ago I started writing a hard-hitting analytical piece about the chilling attempts of conservative lawmakers to exploit a global pandemic to erode abortion access On a normal week it would have been something I could have turned around in a day I felt the time slipping away as other people published the piece I meant to write This is just one of the ways I’ve seen the coronavirus reveal the fault lines within many of our homes in our places of work and in the economy more broadly The coronavirus has laid bare many divisions in our society it has elevated the extent to which structural sexism permeates our lives: impacting the gendered division of labor within the home and also shaping what is possible for women A quick scroll through Twitter explains exactly what I’m talking about: tbf husband a key worker and flat out but as per usual Currently have four jobs – home schooling trying to work and making a sandwich mountain each day My experience certainly isn’t universal: There are many different family configurations operating in different ways during this challenging time For me, I’m joined by mothers everywhere in having found myself shouldering the lion’s share of the household labor over the last few weeks: We have prepared the vast majority of the meals cleaned up our kids messes throughout the day and navigated telemedicine calls with our pediatricians We’ve done the majority of the at-home teaching setting up our own laptops at our kids’ make-shift workstations so we can serve as teacher and IT technician while attempting to do our own jobs We’re often the point of contact for our kids’ teachers: In fact one mother told me recently that when her child’s teacher emailed the original at-home learning instructions to parents she only included mothers—but that has since been corrected.  I woke paralyzed with panic about my kids’ physical and mental health and about my husband and me staying well to care for them I was panicked for my mother and her colleagues who are like family to me all of them laid off when the restaurant they’ve worked at for more than 30 years closed due to COVID restrictions I was panicked not knowing how the COVID nightmare would unfold and what we would be when this all ends I laid in bed with my kids and soothed them when they told me they were scared and sad and didn’t know when they would see their friends and family in real life again I attempted to dramatically reorganize our daily life to accommodate our new reality.  I know it’s a mark of my privilege that there have been few times when I’ve had to parent from that place of panic I’ve reflected a lot about how exhausting it’s been to put on a brave face to reassure and calm my children in a time of endless uncertainty while feeling anything but brave.  So many mothers I know have had stark reminders that we can only hold so much for so long There have been more days than I’d like to admit when I hid in the bathroom to cry between participating in work conference calls and administering Google classroom tutorials after an hour of asking my kids to please not throw a ball in the kitchen one of them accidentally slammed into me while I was making pasta it wasn’t a big deal—bless them for making their own fun on a rainy day during an abysmal time But the internal tightrope that had been growing increasingly taut snapped quickly left the room and fell to the ground against my bedroom door and sobbed And then I pulled myself together and joined my kids for lunch giving them hugs and loving and comforting them as best I could Pushing down the panic until it escapes again.  The women I know shouldering a disproportionate burden of the household and emotional labor aren’t doing so because our husbands are misogynistic assholes In fact, three weeks ago, most of us—proud feminists and progressives—would have said we shared the burden of parenting relatively evenly. (I say relatively because research shows that, despite couples feeling they have egalitarian relationships, women still do the lion’s share of domestic labor.) Because structural sexism is always lurking just below the surface ready to rear its ugly head and quickly upset any semblance of intra-household gender equity.  Think about how structural sexism plays out in the economy and Women make only 82 percent of what their male colleagues make, and Black and Latina women make 61 and 53 percent Only 24 percent of women have salaries higher than their husbands Only 19 percent of all U.S and men are far less likely to take time off than are women The minority of women who are lucky enough to have time off after childbirth or adoption face an extraordinary parent penalty later on. Women’s earnings drop significantly after the birth of their first child and they end up earning 20 percent less than their male partners over the course of their careers There is no comparable salary drop for men but it also is bad for men: It locks them into rigid and often toxic definitions of masculinity that make it harder for them to achieve work-life balance and more equally participate in family and home life but they’re stuck in a system that makes it hard to achieve This system normalizes a culture where paid leave is a privilege and not a right—which especially hurts lower-income workers who are the least likely to have access to care What all of this structural sexism adds up to is that in many heterosexual relationships the male partner earns more than the female partner when decisions need to be made about the economic security of our families the job that brings in more money takes priority This is particularly true when a historic crisis threatens the stability of the higher earner’s job or industry—as COVID is doing to so many jobs and industries today Many women I’ve talked to understand and appreciate this dynamic—in fact many of us sympathize that our partners are shouldering such a heavy burden of our financial wellbeing it can be a tough pill to swallow as we attempt to shift our expectations quell our fears about what this moment means for our own careers and earning potential and reconcile our new realities with our own feminist ideals.  This imbalance that’s playing out in our homes—and the extraordinary toll that a crisis like COVID is taking on all working parents—significantly impacts how we show up at work and how we perform relative to those who have fewer or no childcare responsibilities During the first two weeks of social distancing mothers in the progressive policy space shared with each other frustration over how hard it was to write and been seen for our ideas Carving out time to write during these tumultuous days was painfully challenging this piece was written in bed long after the kids were tucked in on a backlit iPhone screen so I didn’t wake my partner Lately I find that swirling amidst the toxic storm of emotions that course through my body every day—panic longing and also gratitude—is a strong and steady current of rage Rage at the willful ignorance of our national leadership Rage that we live in a country so drugged on notions of rugged individualism that we all live in fear of the ways a shift or loss of employment would impact our health and our ability to care for our families Rage that women need to hold so much more than our hearts and brains and arms have room for And that the whole system feels more broken than it ever has This is the rage that authors like Rebecca Traister and Brittney Cooper have so powerfully given voice to.  How can we not feel rage when we think about how the imbalances of COVID are unfolding against a relentless backdrop of stark gender inequities and injustices Women’s labor is underpaid and underappreciated The person making decisions about our lives gets to be president even after admitting to sexually assaulting women and while he degrades women from the podium on a daily basis Women are routinely harassed and assaulted at their place of work Lawmakers care more about controlling our bodies than they do about keeping us alive The people who literally hold up our economy—on their backs like my mom—are those who will be most quickly left behind and will pay the price of our government’s negligence for the rest of their lives the world we re-enter likely won’t feel safer or more equitable All that makes it so much harder to adjust to the weight of any imbalances in the scales of our households The other day someone asked me how work was going I joked that my male colleagues are on the path to becoming “COVID famous” while I am learning elementary school math Because fuck if I can write a book right now.  The coronavirus pandemic and the response by federal state and local authorities is fast-moving is keeping a focus on aspects of the crisis—especially as it impacts women and their families—often not reported by mainstream media If you found this article helpful, please consider supporting our independent reporting and truth-telling for as little as $5 per month Ms. is wholly owned and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation Data Axle business locations are part of a comprehensive portfolio of points of interest (POI) data offered by Esri Points of interest data from Data Axle focus specifically on business information containing key details such as industry codes Read on to learn about what’s new in the latest release of Esri’s POI data as well as best practices for using it in ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App: The June 2024 release of Business Analyst Web App includes a redesigned points of interest search All the familiar functionality is there—searching and saving points of interest—with a refreshed look and new features you can now save your search parameters to use again The Results pane has now been customized for POI searches you can quickly view statistics on many business attributes do you want to know if your area of interest is predominantly independent businesses or chain stores The pane provides an immediate overview of this information There are different views of the pane to help you explore the trends in your data Would you like to know which business in the map area are outliers in sales volume New attributes create additional pathways for querying and displaying Business Locations point data The Specialty field added with this release provides detailed information about business type Whether you’re looking for a Catholic church or a Mercedes dealership the Specialty field gives you a glimpse into helpful business details Here is an example: Say you are interested in opening a new burger restaurant in an area A search for the word ‘burger’ in the Specialty field shows some potential competitor businesses The Specialty information also reveals whether the locations are full-service This could be valuable to consider when evaluating services that competitors in the area offer You can now save your POI search criteria in BA Web App Click the ‘Save search’ button in the Search interface and give your search criteria a name Note that the former ‘Professional Specialty’ field has been folded into this new richer Specialty field and is no longer available as a standalone attribute The second attribute addition for this release is a field called Location Parent Relationship which provides information on the relationships between businesses that share a common location the pharmacy section inside a grocery store might be designated as a department whereas the coffee shop that is also inside the grocery store but a completely different company would receive the value of separate in this field Did you know you can symbolize Business Locations by the building size This capability was released earlier in 2024 Data Axle provides an approximate square footage estimate for most business locations that can now be used to symbolize business points in your map If you are interested in identifying the large shopping centers In our banner image at the top of the article sushi restaurants in Southern California are symbolized (using a nifty custom symbol we made) by minimum square footage and below we are showing the same concept with warehousing and transportation businesses along I-10 around Phoenix Esri Business Summaries aggregate Business Locations from Data Axle for specified North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories Business Summaries were only released once a year these summaries will be released three times per year along with the associated Business Locations release You can use wildcards in your NAICS and SIC code searches try doing a Primary NAICS search and type 31 into the Code search box and hit return Then press the Search button to see your results The Esri Business Summaries provide ready-to-use information by business category for standard geographies (such as ZIP Codes) There are many business category aggregations to pick from The figure below shows a smart map search using Business Summaries for Wholesale Trade We hope this has been a useful update on enhancements to business data in the June 2024 release Check out the links below for additional information: the Angel of Peace has kept watch over local philanthropist Barbara Donahue's home the angel is taking on an even bigger task: teenage boys and their teachers at St which is a copy of Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Angel of Peace was cast at the Strassacker Foundry in Sussen Donahue’s home in honor of all the angels protecting people Donahue said appeared before her and her daughter who has been a longtime supporter of the school and has funded the tuition of several students and bought four crew shells for the school decided to have the angel moved from her home to the school so that more people could enjoy it It has been installed on a patio outside Ryken Hall including one that was dedicated to the memory of Angelo Pashos who was killed in a drunken driving crash in 2006 Headmaster Alex Zequeira said that he had loved the angel from the first time he met Mrs "Today is a day of celebration of our gratitude and Babs' generosity," he said and I was moved even more when I heard the story peace and reflection and prayer for our students Zequeira said the angel has already been sketched by students in an art class and that other students had walked around it to get a closer look Brother Paul Feeney offered blessing on the angel "I expect to see your car drive in every day," Mr Carl Stahl entwickelt innovative Lösungen zum Bewegen von Lasten die für Menschen und Betriebsmittel größtmögliche Sicherheit und effiziente Prozesse bedeuten Das familiengeführte Unternehmen mit Firmensitz im schwäbischen Süßen betreibt 70 Standorte auf 4 Kontinenten und beschäftigt rund 1.700 Mitarbeiter Sein Knowhow hat sich Carl Stahl seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1880 in der Betreuung von 30.000 Kunden weltweit erarbeitet Produktlösungen und Services von Carl Stahl begleiten den Kunden über den gesamten Produktlebenszyklus Loyalität sowie Nachhaltigkeit sind treibende Kraft und Antrieb zugleich Carl Stahl hat sich mit seiner Mission zum Ziel gesetzt Der Unternehmensslogan „Mit Sicherheit verbunden“ dient dabei als Orientierung Bei der Außendarstellung sowie der Eigenproduktentwicklung lässt sich Carl Stahl durch die Natur inspirieren und verfolgt bionische Ansätze Erhalten Sie täglich aktuelle und relevante Storys kostenlos an Ihre E-Mail-Adresse zugeschickt Melden Sie sich an und bleiben Sie informiert Eine systematische Speicherung dieser Daten sowie die Verwendung auch von Teilen dieses Datenbankwerks sind nur mit schriftlicher Genehmigung durch die unn | UNITED NEWS NETWORK GmbH gestattet Sie erhalten nach dem Absenden eine E-Mail Bitte klicken Sie den in der E-Mail enthaltenen Link an Für diese Funktion ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich Mit Klick auf den Button „Google Maps laden“ erklären Sie sich damit einverstanden dass Ihre Daten an Google übertragen werden Eine Übermittlung findet erst nach erfolgter Einwilligung statt Damit Ihre Nachricht korrekt zugestellt werden kann wählen Sie bitte einen der folgenden Empfänger:innen Hungary will withdraw its ambassador to the Netherlands for an indefinite period of time after the Dutch ambassador in Budapest made critical remarks about the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary will take “political and diplomatic steps” if the Netherlands does not formally apologize for remarks by Gajus Scheltema Scheltema said in an interview with magazine 168 Óra published Thursday — days before he will leave his post as ambassador — that the rhetoric of the Orbán administration is similar to that used by terrorists in the Middle East Scheltema said the terrorists behind last week’s attack in Barcelona were “losers of globalization” who “use extremism and fanatic religion.” He added that they “create enemies according to the same principle as the Hungarian government.” Szijjártó called the remarks “shameful.” “This is an accusation that nobody has made before,” he said The Dutch ambassador is not welcome in the Hungarian ministry Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders on Friday distanced himself from the remarks made a comparison between the acts of terrorists and the Hungarian government,” Koenders said He did not say whether the government will officially apologize “I have not yet spoken to the minister,” he said while adding that he wants to talk with his Hungarian colleague in the next few days Mark Rutte says it not all about France and Germany. News comes as Angela Merkel is hoping to get the final sign-off on coalition deal with SPD. French MEP claims the Patriots have some 6,500 members. While Kate wasn't on hand for his afternoon with Grandma Carole, the twosome was seen "playing monster" in a park near their home earlier this month. Keep reading to see Prince George and his grandma at the petting zoo, and look back on his equally cute park date with Kate A group of cyclists on holiday in Mallorca were hit by a bus driver on Thursday leaving one rider dead and three others seriously injured in an incident that has prompted an investigation into possible mechanical failure The crash happened at around 12.25pm on the Ma-2200 road linking Pollença to the port The Transports de les Illes Balears (TIB) bus struck four foreign cyclists before crashing into a tree A 48-year-old Ukrainian cyclist died at the scene, while a 42-year-old Kazakh and a 43-year-old Russian suffered multiple severe injuries and were taken to Son Espases Hospital in Palma. A fourth cyclist, a 40-year-old woman, was treated for a hip fracture at Inca Hospital, reports Majorca Daily Bulletin Several ambulances and the local police were quickly dispatched with a doctor who happened to be nearby the first to alert emergency services and confirm the fatality The crash also injured four of the 16 passengers on board the bus and a six-month-old baby treated for minor injuries Authorities said the bus eventually veered off the road and came to a stop after hitting a tree The Guardia Civil’s Traffic Division have opened an investigation into the cause exploring the possibility of a mechanical failure in the bus’s steering or braking systems that caused the driver to lose control > British cyclist dies during Mallorca 312 event One person familiar with the TIB buses commented on the incident saying: “I travel on these buses nearly every day Their suspensions are shot and clanking along when they hit the ‘sleeping policemen’ “Not to mention weak springs and further rattling noises from steering especially when overloaded with standing tourists and residents who are only allowed to travel on one bus The airport and Palma buses run almost empty Gross incompetence and totally inefficient.” Another cyclist who witnessed the aftermath of the incident said that one of the injured cyclists gave him a thumbs-up although “his bike was a mangled carbon wreck” > “We used to have a life”: Chants of “no more cyclists” at anti-tourism protest in Mallorca as residents complain of tourists driving up cost of living expressed its condolences and pledged full cooperation with investigators The crash led to significant traffic disruption along the Ma-2200 with island council teams deployed to clear debris and remove the wrecked bus The incident comes just days after British cyclist Phil Williams died during the Mallorca 312 Gran Fondo a national 25-mile champion riding for Team Bottrill and Liverpool Braveheart BC reportedly suffered a medical incident during the sportive near Valldemossa and tragically died despite medics’ attempts to resuscitate him In January, six members of the German national track team were hospitalised after being hit by an elderly driver in Palma while on a training ride ahead of the European Track Championships The riders included 2024 world championships medallists Benjamin Boos and Bruno Kessler with the team only comleting 2.7km of the ride as national coach Lucas Schädlich witnessed the collision from a support car A statement from German Cycling later confirmed their riders were involved the federation corroborating reports that some of the group had suffered “serious” injuries the group’s bikes were “completely destroyed by the impact” > Mallorca motorcyclist under influence of drugs who killed cyclist after hitting group ride head-on released with charges Mallorca, one of the most sought-after locations for international tourists for many years, has seen several high-profile collisions involving cyclists. Two years ago, a Polish cyclist on holiday in Mallorca died after a motorcyclist, who later tested positive for drugs, lost control of his Harley-Davidson and smashed into a group ride near Pollença In 2018, a motorist struck a group of nine German riders, killing one. The driver, Anais Marco, was jailed for three years after being found guilty of manslaughter in July last year with the court noting her “serious violation” of driving rules Although Marco tested positive for marijuana after the crash the court ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict her of driving under the influence at the time New Spanish traffic regulations introduced at the start of 2025 now require drivers to slow down by at least 20km/h when overtaking cyclists and to maintain a minimum distance of 1.5 metres as authorities attempt to reduce the number of cyclist fatalities on the roads please consider subscribing to the site to support us directly As a subscriber you can read road.cc ad-free The revenue from adverts helps to fund our site then please consider subscribing to road.cc from as little as £1.99 Our mission is to bring you all the news that’s relevant to you as a cyclist Adwitiya joined road.cc in 2023 as a news writer after completing his masters in journalism from Cardiff University His dissertation focused on active travel which soon threw him into the deep end of covering everything related to the two-wheeled tool and now cycling is as big a part of his life as guitars and football. He has previously covered local and national politics for Voice Cymru and also likes to write about science Living right next to the Taff trail in the Welsh capital you can find him trying to tackle the brutal climbs in the valleys road.cc's audience Report an advert on road.cc Privacy policy Subscribe All material © Farrelly Atkinson (F-At) Limited, Unit 7b Green Park Station BA11JB. Tel 01225 588855. © 2008–present unless otherwise stated. Terms and conditions of use Sucht Schweiz schockte mit einer neuen Studie: Immer mehr Junge greifen zur E-Zigarette Eine neue Studie von Sucht Schweiz sorgt für Wirbel: Jeder dritte 15-Jährige hat 2022 schon Tabak oder Nikotin konsumiert. Besonders E-Zigaretten sind bei den Jugendlichen immer beliebter Sucht Schweiz macht sich Sorgen und fordert von der Politik mehr Schutz Auffällig: Die Hersteller von E-Zigaretten zielen mit ihren Produkte voll auf Junge ab Sie locken mit bunten Farben und süssen Geschmacksrichtungen Auf Social Media werden zudem Influencer fürs Marketing eingespannt Häufiges Argument der Influencer: Dank weniger Nikotin und feinem Geschmack sind die Vapes eine gesündere Alternative zu herkömmlichen Zigaretten dass sie auch junge Follower auf den E-Zigaretten-Geschmack bringt winkt Nadine Vinzens gegenüber Nau.ch ab: «Ich mache keine Werbung für Teenager welches erst ab einem bestimmten Alter verkauft werden darf dass wir Genussmittel auf dem Markt anbieten.» Tatsächlich gibt es in der Schweiz noch keine Altersbeschränkung auf nikotinfreie E-Zigaretten Viele Hersteller verkaufen aber freiwillig erst ab 18 Jahren Nadine Vinzens wurde 2002 zur Miss Schweiz gekürt - NauDie 39-Jährige erklärt: «Ich rauche gerne mal ab und zu eine Vape sondern paffe nur.» Gerade die verschiedenen Geschmäcker wie Himbeere und Heidelbeere würden sie ansprechen Ob man rauchen will oder nicht, müsse für sich selber entscheiden können, so das Argument der DJane. Nadine Vinzens selber hat 20 Jahre herkömmliche Zigaretten geraucht. Seit vier Jahren verzichtet sie darauf, nimmt aber ab und zu ein Vape. Die E-Zigaretten hätten ihr geholfen, keine konventionellen Zigaretten mehr zu rauchen. Langzeitstudien gibt es noch nicht. Erste Forschungsdaten zeigten aber bereits, dass auch E-Zigis gesundheitlich schädlich sein können. Sie sollen den Blutdruck und die Herzfrequenz erhöhen, wenn sie Nikotin enthalten. Hinzu kommen krebserregende Stoffe, die eingeatmet werden können.