#trade barriers

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"2,000,000 PLANT FOR PT. COLBORNE," St. Catharines Standard. June 19, 1912. Page 1. --- Three Big Manufacturing Concerns Are Looking for Factories in This District---Would Like to Secure Standing Structures. ---- A large iron works corporation, with a capitalization of $2,000,000, is to be established at Port Colborne, Ont, and threes manufacturing concerns are to be erected in Central Ontario, satisfactory arrangements can be made in Toronto.

Wm. P. Fitzsimons, commissioner of industries for the Grand Trunk Railway System, who accompanying the British Manufacturers' Canadian tour, made this statement to the Toronto World yesterday afternoon.

The establishment of the $2,000,000 plant in Ontario is considered as a triumph due to the Borden anti-reciprocity policy. It will be headed by Frank B. Baird, president of the Buffalo Union Furnace Company, and will be known as the Canadian Union Furnace Company. The new plant, while affiliated with the Buffalo concern, is subscribed to a great extent by Canadian capital. The $2,000,-000 capitalization is not something to be obtained, but has already been subscribed.

This concern will not cut into the already established pig iron plants, as, instead of going in for the manfacture of one particular line, it will manufacture all lines. "A sort of a prescription plant," remarked Mr. Fitzsimons.

The plant will have a capacity of 100 tons daily to start and this will be increased to a 300 ton capacity. To begin with, about two hundred men will be employed.

The plant will be built at the end of the Port Colborne piers and will extend out into the lake, Construction of the plant is to be commenced immediately.

This, will give Port Colborne three monster industries, the government freight elevator and the Maple Leaf Milling Company, which is alongside the Government elevator, already being located there.

To accommodate the great increase in business to be brought about by the erection of the new plant, the Grand Trunk Railway will at once commence work on enlarging its freight yards there and a greatly increased freight service is now being planned.

The three other industries, which will locate either in Toronto or in this section of the province, consist of two embroidery manufacturing plants, and a concern for the handling of coarse seed. It is the desire of these firms to obtain already constructed modern factory buildings, as they wish to avoid a wait for the erection of buildings.

Mr, Fitzsimons said that although it is causing him trouble trying to locate firms desiring buildings, it is a fact that this section of Ontario can at the present time boast of not having a modern factory building lying vacant.

#port colborne #capitalist investment #capitalist development #iron foundry #iron works #capitalism in canada #canada in the british empire #borden government #trade barriers #factory construction

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2023 Red Flag: China's Self-Reliant Opening to the World

Over the past decade, considerations of security in foreign trade and international have gotten increased attention for a number of reasons. A major preoccupation in recent years, global terrorism, is getting less attention. Frictions with Secretary Xi’s China anxious to repress domestic ideological threats and what it perceives to be disrespect for its global ambitions from lesser…

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#Book of Changes #counterintelligencce #decoupling #development #economy #influence #innovation #international relations #market #media #MI5 #opening #politics #PRC #Security #self-reliance #Trade #trade barriers #Xi Jinping #中国

[trans-axolotl2]

In my last residential treatment stay, I did have one psychiatrist who I trusted and had a positive relationship with. Her name was Dr. R, and when I came in on the first day of treatment and told her that I would not take any psych meds and that I had a lot of past psych trauma, she validated me and told me that she would not bring up meds unless I did. Throughout my stay there, she was empathetic, listened to my concerns, helped advocate for me, and generally made me feel heard. At the same time, when management took away our doors-she did nothing. When I needed to get a feeding tube--she lied to me about how long it would be in, and what I needed to do to get it out. She enforced policies about restricting outside breaks, restrictions on items, and contributed to treatment plans that my friends felt were unfair and damaging.

She was a good person and I liked her, but she was choosing to work within a system where she could not control the dozens of things happening there that harmed us every single day. This is what I mean when I say there is no such thing as a good psychiatrist in inpatient units--she was a progressive, validating, nice person --but her very job description made it impossible for a “good provider” to exist. To be a provider who wasn’t a part of the harm that was occurring on that unit, she would have had to quit, because the very requirements of her job required committing ethical violations, restricting peoples autonomy, and perpetrating iatrogenic harm. If she had stopped enforcing harmful policies and challenged her coworkers publically, she probably would have gotten fired. And that really is the problem--causing iatrogenic harm has essentially become a job requirement on inpatient units, and being a “good provider” by the metrics of the system require you to participate in that harm. 

I think Dr. R did a better job than most inpatient psychs in mitigating the harms she participated in, and finding ways to resist shitty systems when possible. I was glad she was there and I think she made my treatment better, but the two of us had a lot of conversations together where she acknowledged the fucked up things happening in the treatment center, acknowledged her role in them, and also stated that she did not have any power to change them. She could not fix the system by working within the system. 

I get a lot of questions by people who are interested in careers in the mental health system, and asking me on whether I think it’s okay for them to work there. My first response is usually if you’re asking because you’re feeling guilty after seeing what psych survivors say, I’m not someone who’s going to give you permission to ignore that guilt. The second thing I usually say is this: you need to go into this job aware with the fact that you will cause people harm, you will get into ethical dilemmas, and there will be times where you will either have to betray your personal values or quit. There isn’t one right answer on how to engage with mental healthcare as a provider, with the reality that until we build up alternative systems of care, the current structures still exist and have people who need support inside of them.  If that’s something that you think you can navigate in a way that lets you create the least harm possible, then that’s something you need to decide for yourself, and to think really deeply about if the reality of the psych system matches up with your goals.

#antipsychiatry #antipsych #mad studies #disability justice #psych ward tw #i think u also need to understand that if u go to school to work professionally in mental health #if u become a psychiatrist or a therapist or a social worker #even if you're one who does it outpatientt. even if you're an abolitionist social worker #that means there are probably going to be barriers to community spaces. that some people might not trust you any longer. if you are #coming into spaces as a professional #part of that decision might be grappling with the fact that even as you gain legitmacy from a societal side. that as u gain #new opportunities for jobs. to work within systems #you might also lose community trust. opportunities within activism spaces. opportunities #to share and be in those spaces as a survivor and patient #and im not saying this as a judgemnt or to put moral value on it #but i think that's just something you Also need to understand and weigh. sure you will gain something. by getting liscenced #but what will you lose? why might people not trust you in community spaces any longer? #what trade offs will you be making and are they worth it to you? what new communities can you build #what matters to you and what are your passions #<- all things i am really grappling with right now as i decide whether or not i want to go get my masters in social work

[weirdlookindog]

The Return of Dracula (1958) & The Flame Barrier (1958) - Trade ad

#the return of dracula #the flame barrier #1958 #1950s movies #double feature #horror #sci fi #trade ad

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Star Wars: Galaxies Trading Card Game - Barrier of Blades by iwanaga

#Star Wars #Star Wars: Galaxies Trading Card Game #Star Wars: Legends #Jedi #Lightsaber #Barrier of Blades #Sci-Fi #iwanaga

[qqueenofhades]

#uk politics #oh... oh if only there was a way to have avoided these trade barriers in the first place! #and have a closer relationship with the eu already! #i wonder what caused this #anyone have any idea? #guess it's a mystery!!

[northern-passage]

Is sign language something the Order teaches?

After asking that, I realise that it's much more likely that Handlers learn it as part of their education (being the one who engages with the common folk out of the duo).

But what if a Hunter wanted to learn it? Would they have to request being taught as well?

And outside of the Order, how is sign language treated in the overall world?

it is, actually! sign language is pretty widely taught as a second language in Adrania. that's not to say that everyone is fluent, though, and there are different dialects just like in real life (ie ASL vs BASL) if someone is fortunate enough to receive schooling they will typically study common sign language (which is mainly used for trade and is very formal), but whether or not they retain it and can still understand it varies from person to person, and again there are variations that will differ from the basic common version taught in a school. with the class divide in Adrania, i also imagine there would be a drastic difference between the culture and sign of lower classes (who most likely will not have received any kind of education) and the upper classes.

and you're right, Lea is the one that is more proficient in it between the two, mainly because they are the one doing most of the talking. the hunter has a basic understanding and can typically interpret signs, but isn't the best at signing themself. if you go with Merry in Blackwater, you can see her, Mal, and Branwen all sign to each other, with Branwen actually being hoh. the hunter recognizes that Branwen calls Merry a bastard, but for the most part the three sign too fast for the hunter to understand. Merry and Mal will continue to use sign throughout the story, and they actually use a variation that neither the hunter nor Lea will recognize, even if they were signing slower; think of it like the thieves cant, but in sign.

#i know this kind of breaks some of the potential customization for the hunter #but it's not really something that will come up besides with Mal and Merry (which the hunter cant understand anyways) #but dont take this as me saying you cant roleplay your hunter as hoh #just know that it's also not something im planning on writing into the story. if that makes sense #also i use the word 'common' here like the way it's used in dnd #ive had sign built into the world since i started hehe i always intended for it to kind of work as a common trade language #a very formal variation used in ports and markets to get around language barriers #which is how a lot of pirates ended up using their own variation that evolved into what is basically a secret language #this will come up in ch3 since mal and merry will use it to talk to each other in front of everyone else #ask #anonymous #lore

[iteration-penumbra]

A quick stop at a trading post, thank god for air conditioning.

#nms #no man's sky #nms photography #planet: scorched #seriously though how in the world are trading outposts exempt from all that wild weather #its like. wide open. there's not even a futuristic barrier like in the archives. #I think they should make you deal with the horrible weather #not because I like the challenge #but because I would find it funny to simulate the getting out of an air-conditioned car into 5billion degree weather at a gas station #to get your little treat during a long roadtrip #they should let you buy snacks at the trading outposts #our travellers deserve them #penumbra's pics

[aixirivall]

one reason i don’t really have issues with self diagnosis and get annoyed when people make a big deal out of it is that when i was a young teenager i self diagnosed with ocd and i was told by medical professionals that i was wrong and “all kids” do the things i labeled as symptoms. well it took until i was 20 and my ocd was so debilitating that i could barely function for them to take me seriously and officially diagnose me. imagine if i got treated back when i was 14, maybe it wouldn’t have almost ruined my life!

#yes trivializing symptoms of serious disorders is wrong but i really don’t think that #15 year olds on tiktok identifying with adhd or ocd is the main barrier to acceptance and awareness #if 100 kids are faking it but one kid gets the help they need because of social media. I’ll take that trade off

[llatimeria]

Just finished The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert (my dad likes to play audiobooks in the car on trips) and I didn't like it much (and there's quite a bit of Yikes in it, because frank herbert and the 1960s in general,) but the aspect I found most interesting was the concept of like. A world's subconscious desire to kill The Other.

In the book an investigator visits a small cultish town in order to investigate it for a market study after a few other researchers mysteriously died. he gets into a frightening number of "accidents" while he's there (like the former investigators) and starts believing that there was a conspiracy among the townsfolk and all of them were intentionally trying to murder him.

tl;dr, it turns out it actually was a subconscious yet intense phobia/hatred they had of The Outside they had as part of their personal traumas, childhood indoctrination into their local cult, and the LSD-like drug they were constantly on. They didn't mean the investigator any harm, if anything they were extremely welcoming, kind, well-meaning people, but this background radiation of fear and rage kept making them accidentally do things to kill him - mixing up insecticide and spices in his food, gas fumes being pumped in his hotel room after a botched maintenance job, a torn carpet tripping him off the railing of the balcony, and Many Other subtle attempts on his life that he just happened to avoid by sheer chance.

But all the townsfolk don't really think anything of it - the town doctor, especially skeptical, "diagnoses" him as "accident-prone" until the investigator begs and pleads with him for days after several brutal accidents in a row, and only then does the doctor start believing him but even then only comes up with the theory that all of this supposed malice towards the investigator is "subconscious" - later shown to likely be correct when the investigator himself, after overdosing on their special drug, "accidentally" shoves his colleague off a roof, killing him, but the investigator physically cannot see it as anything but an accident anymore. it simply doesn't reach his mind that he killed a former friend of his. it was just an accident. he just fell, all on his own.

the idea of A Town That Wants To Kill You, But It's Nothing Personal resonated with me from the perspective of being a disabled person, especially one in a generally welcoming, accepting environment. when you're disabled, not a lot of people will come to you bearing their ableism between their teeth. They'll be nice, insensitive maybe, but nice, and are often outwardly willing to accomodate you. But they also stick out their leg as you're walking along to trip you. They'll apologize, and you'll maybe even believe it, even though to you, from your perspective, it was obviously an attempt to harm you. You excuse it once, maybe twice, but after a point, you realize that this world, this community you have entered, is actively hostile towards you and everyone like you. so you start screaming it to the rooftops. you tell authorities that the world wants to hurt you, but they begin affixing labels to you like "paranoid" or "anxious". they know no one actually has it out for you, personally, after all. that would be ridiculous.

but you still keep getting tripped down the stairs. the rat poison and the sugar at your favorite coffee shop still keep getting mixed up, but only when it's your order. in the hospital, recovering from your previous "accidents", a nurse will still accidentally pump you full of saline instead of medicine.

after a point, doesn't the fact that all of these are "accidents", and that no one WANTS to kill you, just... stop mattering a little bit? Yeah, no one wants to hurt you, but they just keep doing it. They keep making stupid little mistakes. They know everyone like you who has visited their community has died or been seriously injured under suspicious circumstances, but the idea that they, themselves, could be a little bit at fault just doesn't even register to them. they don't even consider that they might have to change their ways in order to protect people like you. After all, you can't prepare for every "freak accident". Even when the solution could be as simple as "stop putting rat poison next to the sugar", every time it happens to you, or a person like you, it's just an "accident", that no one "meant" any harm, and "nothing could be done".

it doesn't cross their mind that a string of unfortunate accidents ceases to be accidents, but serious negligence. it can't cross their mind, because they're not the victims here. they only even begin to acknowledge something might be wrong when the victims are screaming in their face, day after day. even then, they come to the conclusion that even if you're right, and the community does want to kill you because you are Other, they won't immediately see anything wrong with that. To Them, the answer is clear as day: just become one of Them, and you'll be safe. They take care of their own.

#this isn't even really what the santaroga barrier is even about i just found this to be a useful structure for talking about disability #It's not... NOT what it's about?? #it's definitely got themes of Otherness #but it's more about like. #My dad put it as 'how much of your individuality would you give up to live in paradise' #which is also interesting to think about but . imo if i have to give up parts of myself it would no longer be paradise #But also a lot of what the cult-town tries to get you to 'give up' is. like. Believing in capitalism #And to me it definitely feels like Herbert was on the santarogan's side with that part at least but it's still interesting that that's like #it's still interesting that That of all things is what you have to give up in order to Become Santarogan. #Like. Personally i'd have to change very little to become a santarogan. the trade off for me is not that huge #which makes the protagonist actually seem a little unhinged and unnecessarily hostile #Does daesin just want to believe in capitalism That Badly even when he doesn't understand that that's what this is about #Is it like the scene from They Live where the protagonist tries to get his friend to wear the Anticapitalism Sunglasses but the friend #just refuses point blank even though he has no reason to? #idk. it's definitely an interesting premise. but the racisms. and the misogynies. it's really hard to look past that #especially the part where one black character describes himself like #'before [santaroga] i was an ignorant [n slur hard r]. now i am an educated n-gro“ #which was just. holy fucking shit. that is unspeakably awful. shut the fuck up frank #Also a part where a woman disrobes herself to prove herself to be no harm to the investigator [her fiancee] #and he says something like. 'you're so beautiful i just might rape you' and shes just like teehee thats sweet :) #Which. Bad. Very nasty. Don't say that. #And the general concept of potentially using that woman to lure the investigator into the cult. it's unclear how much of that was #on purpose on the part of santarogans but it does have this slimy Women Are Evil Temptresses That Trap Men In Bad Situations miasma to it #anyways. sorry for blabbing on and on about a 50 year old book by the same guy who wrote dune which is clearly an unquestionable masterpiece #/s. #I just had no choice in listening to this story while sitting in the back of a car on Very Empty Montana And Wyoming Highways #so I might as well rotate it just a little I guess. nothing better to do

[lizkreates]

I've been thinking about accessibility lately, and as a slow typer, I remembered there’s dictation, like speech-to-text!

Typing out my thoughts versus dictating my thoughts are completely different. Removing the "self-edit" before I type removes a barrier. If I can get the hang of it, it’ll save me a lot of time. :D

#liz blabs #I didn't know I needed this ;-; #that barrier is 100% the self-diagnosed adhd part of me overthinking everything I write #i don't think i could make it thru 16 vols of Trigun for bookclub without this - it's now possible! AAAAHH #still gotta edit in post #honestly not a bad trade-off

[husband-steve-cortez]

I think one of the sexiest things about biotics is the way it potentially turns your very body into a tool. I just think that's a fun thing to consider with Shepard.

#oc: Miles Shepard #Miles is a sentinel but Vanguard keeps tempting me as Miles' canon specialization... #Vanguard is so much more. Just throwing yourself forward #easier to have a main character complex. Easier to view yourself as a tool. A bullet. #Constantly pushing yourself physically. Scary and dangerous #but I also really like Miles and Kaidan as double sentinels. And also the team work #in later games sentinel really feels like a jack of all trades that fits into any group and can be whatever you need of them #biotic caster. Engineer. Tank. Not the *best* at most of those things but versatile. Deadly. Swiss army knife #I also really like Miles being a biotic but not a *powerful* biotic and only being able to do a few things with a lot of concentration #vanguards are powerful biotics. I think of adepts as having more control than raw power but also having control + power #sentinels have warp and throw as projectiles and that's it. The rest is all tech. and I like the idea of it as sort of #control but lacking power #like Miles has to really force out those warps and throws and he's not throwing a whole bunch of people in an area in front of him. #it's single pinpoint and really it's best if someone lifts something for him first #sometimes I like the idea of him still having strong barriers

[jasnstilnski-moved]

i just think jason and animals.....

#hes always v cautious always scared to hurt them but hes so gentle and soft to them and i love it #he doesnt understand much ab animals but he adores them #he loves worms he thinks theyre cool #probably befriends a crow and trades w it constantly #any stray animals in the area r his friends #bc he just. the communication barrier is arguably stronger than it is w people but hes so good at non verbal communication #and i think he'd work v well w animals

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2022: The Rebound in PRC Interprovincial Trade Barriers

I recently came across a 2022 article on Chinese domestic trade barriers that found that interprovincial trade barriers declined after 1997 as China prepared for WTO entry but then rebounded considerably after 2007. 分久必合，合久必分 — from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国演义 — [The Empire or the World as understood in the Chinese cultural sphere in those days — tianxia] long divided must united,…

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#China #commerce #economics #economy #finance #inter-provincial #PRC #province #Trade #trade barrier #中国

[astrummorte]

cassandra telos / eerie tags

#♡. eerie.ic ⁄ ⁄ the unwavering . #♡. eerie.aesthetic ⁄ ⁄ the unwavering . #♡. eerie.visage ⁄ ⁄ the unwavering . #♡. eerie.v01 ( main ) ⁄ ⁄ these city lights are so distracting . #♡. eerie.v02 ( deity.au ) ⁄ ⁄ as above so below ; so the saying goes . #♡. eerie.v03 ( vigilante.au ) ⁄ ⁄ the poster said sword for hire . #♡. eerie.v04 ( wandering.au ) ⁄ ⁄ let’s make a mad dash for the goal . #♡. eerie.about ⁄ ⁄ jack of all trades . #♡. eerie.bond: ( zephyr ) ⁄ ⁄ a friend in gender envy . #♡. eerie.bond: ( spectre ) ⁄ ⁄ not even a barrier could separate us . #♡. eerie.thoughts ⁄ ⁄ master of none . #♡. eerie.asks ⁄ ⁄ i’m sure there’s something i know . #tagging system;

[shinyspandex]

Colombia is one of the world's largest flower exporters, second only to Holland.

#Breaking barriers and making heads turn Colombia reigns supreme as the confident contender in the global flower trade. Journey through the