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Building the capacity of governments around the world to implement national school meal programs.
Engaging businesses to strengthen supply chains and increase political will for school meal programs.
Partner NGOs
Working in coordination, not competition, with partners to raise awareness and support for school meal programs.
Connecting school meal leaders to resources and strategies for robust, safe, sustainable programs.
Supporting Regional Networks
As part of our commitment to sustainability and local ownership, GCNF also encourages and supports the development of independent regional networks. We are proud to have worked with the following:
Southeast Asia School Feeding Meeting
GCNF participated in the First Southeast Asia School Feeding Meeting held in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The meeting was hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the UN World Food Programme.
View the Outcome Statement here.
Local and National Governments
ministers of finance, education, agriculture and their staff members; state, provincial, or regional officials and their staff; city and district officials and their staff
Government leaders find new strategies to increase political support and implement enabling policies for locally-sourced school meal programs. Through GCNF, they can also share approaches to engaging new business partners in supplying growing programs. Some of the additional Governments participating in the GCNF network include Armenia, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Guinea Bissau, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Russian Federation, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, The Gambia, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United States, and Zambia.
By working through the GCNF network, local and national governments have access to:
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• Successful models in other countries facing similar challenges to their own in areas of financing, agricultural, job creation, and transportation,
• Strategies for inter-government coordination between departments and ministries such as education, health, and finance,
• Support for working with the private sector, ranging from local farmers to international companies,
• Models and tools for ensuring food quality and safety, including access to certified food quality and safety auditors,
• Models for reducing food waste and for growing, preparing, and storing food in new ways.
To learn more about how the GCNF network can help you meet your goals, see resources, engage, or contact us at info (at) GCNF (dot) org.
national and global companies seeking new markets through commercial interests and social responsibility, regional supply chain partners, local farmers
Local, national and international businesses can play a powerful role in strengthening the school feeding programs in developing markets. Through GCNF, they can build new relationships with government leaders and access strategies for mitigating risks. Business participating in GCNF have included Tetra Laval, DSM Nutritional Products, American Peanut Council, SOZO Foods, American Soybean Association, Edesia, Cargill, DuPont, Future Life Health Products, Kraft Heinz, American Beverage Association, Nascent Solutions Inc., and National Restaurant Association.
By working through the GCNF network, private sector members have access to:
• Introductions to government leaders and strategies for working with local and regional governments,
• Strategies for informing the development of new products and new markets related to school feeding,
• Cultural translation for working in new countries and with new sectors (e.g. local tastes, taboos, cultural considerations),
• Best practices for risk management, and
• Connection with other companies to share information on logistical items such as price point, shelf life, and packaging.
To learn more about how the GCNF network can help you meet your goals, see resources, engage, or contact us at info (at) GCNF (dot) org.
Partner NGOs
global non-governmental organizations, international development organizations, schools and universities
Around the world, nonprofits, foundations, NGOs and international development organizations are working to address hunger and education. GCNF provides a platform for the field to increase impact by facilitating coordination and partnerships. Other field leaders participating in the GCNF network have included The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Catholic Relief Services, Counterpart International, Inc., the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the National Fund for Educational Development (Brazil), the International Food Policy Research Institute, Joint Aid Management, the Lula Institute, Mary's Meals, the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, Share Our Strength, SNV, the Tiger Brands Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the World Bank, the World Food Program, the WFP Centre for Excellence in Brazil, WFP USA, and World Health Organization.
GCNF is one among many dedicated and important organizations working to support school feeding around the world. By working through the GCNF network, NGOs have access to:
• Expanded avenues through which to distribute research and resources,
• Opportunities to share experiences and lessons learned with peers working in the field,
• Access to new relationships,
• Opportunities to coordinate and partner on projects, events and initiatives, and
• A landscape view of the status of school feeding programs around the world.
To learn more about how the GCNF network can help you meet your goals, see resources, engage, or contact us at info (at) GCNF (dot) org.
cooks, purchasers, menu planners, financial managers of school programs
School practitioners and regional program managers find value in the easy access they have through GCNF to best practices, new tools, and innovations developing in other countries. A sampling of practitioners participating in the GCNF network include those from Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, China, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Nepal, Namibia, Niger, Pakistan, Sao Tome et Principe, Swaziland, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
By working through the GCNF network, school feeding practitioners will have access to:
• Case studies, best practices, and lessons learned from school nutrition programs and policies from around the world,
• Relationships with other school practitioners from other countries,
• Successful purchasing models and strategies for working with local farmers,
• Resources like school feeding toolkits and guidelines for assessing nutritional value,
• Training and Certification on food quality and safety, and business skills such as budget management, choosing menu options, supervising others,
• Effective strategies for engaging parents of students and other community members.
GCNF also facilitates annual Global Child Nutrition Communiques representing the priorities and voices of school feeding practitioners from over 40 countries each year.
To learn more about how the GCNF network can help you meet your goals, see resources, engage, or contact us at info (at) GCNF (dot) org.


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A petition to get a life-size statue of Marvel superhero Wolverine erected in his home province of Alberta, Canada has won the approval of an Edmonton City Council member.
The petition, posted on Change.org, has only been signed by just shy of 3,000 people, far off the 100,000 it would need to be acknowledged by the Canadian government.
That said it has been noted by Edmonton City Council's Andrew Knack, who told CTV News: "The first reaction is, this is kind of funny, but then you realise they're taking this very seriously. I think it's a great idea, assuming we go about it the right approach, it can't be taxpayer dollars to fund a statue of Wolverine."
The petition requests that a statue be considered to find a home at City Hall, a local square or the Alberta Legislature Grounds.
The news comes during a Marvel Comics run that will see the X-Men character die next month - not a spoiler by the way, as the four-issue series is called Death of Wolverine.
As for his statue, bizarrely there is a precedent for such monuments to fictional icons of pop culture. A Rocky Balboa statue was erected in Philadelphia in 1980, and earlier this year Detroit unveiled a statue of RoboCop.
There's also a Superman statue in Metropolis, Illinois, a tenuous link given the Metropolis that Superman comes from is entirely fictional.

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Spoilers for 5-9 June 2017
Monday 5 June 2017Lauren struggles under the pressure.
Kim attempts to offer Denise advice, but will she accept it?
Tuesday 6 June 2017Denise acts upon her feelings.
Lauren opens up to a familiar face about what's going on.
Thursday 8 June 2017Steven's paranoia and frustration at Lauren grows.
One resident is faced with a heartbreaking situation.
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Friday, 29 December 2006
about son number two's drumsticks
We had a fox in the front garden over Christmas and red squirrels in the back - as long as the two don't meet I suppose it'll be ok.
Now for the saga of the Christmas present art poster:
On December 16 I bought, over the phone, a limited edition poster signed by the artist for the artist son's Christmas present. It was from the Hayward Gallery in London and they asked when I would be able to pick it up!! I told them I needed it sending and they said they didn't do that and I would have to sort out a courier. On the Monday (18th) I arranged for it to be collected that afternoon and delivered to me on the Tuesday. Nothing happened. When I rang the courier company they said they'd called and there was nothing to collect. I rang the gallery and they said a courier had arrived but with no details about what he'd come for or where it was going and since they have collections and deliveries all the time they hadn't a clue what he'd come for.
I had to pay a re-collection fee and was told that it would be picked up on the Wednesday - nothing! On the Thursday I rang again and was told it would be picked up that day. On the Thursday afternoon I rang the gallery who told me it had been picked up. On the Friday morning I rang the courier (Post Van) to verify that it would be delivered to me that day. They said it hadn't been picked up - I told them it had. They insisted that it hadn't and said a courier would pick it up that day. It turned out that it had been picked up on the Thursday morning and another courier had gone to pick it up in the afternoon and was turned away - and that's why they thought it hadn't been collected.
I asked them to confirm that I would get it on the Friday and was told that it was now lost in the system. I rang another branch of the courier firm and was told that it was at Norwich and definitely wouldn't be delivered until the 27th. At this point I was too worn out to care. On the 27th I rang and was told that it had never been at Norwich and was at Bury. "He'll try to re-deliver it today" I asked what she meant and she said he'd had a problem with the delivery address. I asked what the problem was and she said he couldn't find it.
It eventually came at 3pm on the 27th, so our son didn't get his present on Christmas Day and I've had to pay £22 for a pathetic service - I've emailed my complaint but of course have had no reply.
I would think it was a one-off except that the very same thing happened a couple of months ago with a different courier service.
Friday, 22 December 2006
The next thing to go wrong was my daughter's ipod, and since I don't understand how they work, I don't understand how it broke - she'll have to sort that one out.
But it's just been that type of day - annoying!
Tuesday, 19 December 2006
The house is full again - the London son and Loughborough daughter having descended for Christmas, and the washing machine and tumble drier are feeling the strain. In fact it's just like old times with people in dressing gowns draped over chairs and laptops all over the lounge floor.
I got some lovely birthday presents including six books that I can't wait to read - but judging by the amount of ironing, cooking and shopping that'll have to be done over the next few days, it will be some time before I can sit down and turn a page.
Sunday, 17 December 2006
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On Friday we went to Boundary Mill. My now-retired husband has suddenly developed a penchant for shopping - well, browsing - not much is ever actually purchased. We managed to make a full day of it and had a Christmas dinner complete with crackers in the little restaurant outside. Never have I felt so much like a pensioner and if I'd had any false teeth I'm sure I'd have put them on a side plate.
Bannisters Restaurant
I have just given the London son a lecture by email. A pack arrived for him yesterday from the London Marathon organisers saying that his application to run in next year's marathon had been unsuccessful. He's already injured his knees - twice - by running round the streets of the city. This is something that's supposed to be healthy, so I've just told him what I think, and then I realised that I was sounding just like my mother......
Friday, 1 December 2006
November 30, 2006 at 2:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
The sky was glorious this morning
We went to "An Audience With Peter Sallis" last night at Crosby Civic Hall. The place was only 75% full so why we were all jammed together like sardines I just don't know. In a way it was quite funny because everyone was sitting with their shoulders hunched and their arms straight out in front of them. Peter Sallis looked old - he's 85 - and came on with the help of a stick. He's hard of hearing too and kept having to ask for questions to be repeated. By the time the interval came around we both had cramp in our arms and legs so called it a day. A pity because we'd have liked to buy his book and get it signed - but the Civic Hall has a lot to do if it wants to join the 21st century (cleaning the toilets would be a start).
November 29, 2006 at 4:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
I'm amazed that the London son hasn't come down with raging food poisoning. I've had numerous texts asking me if bits of food that he froze and then thawed can be re-frozen and yesterday he wanted to know if some lamb chops he bought four weeks ago and then froze would be ok in two days' time, bearing in mind that he thawed them out three days ago. I just dread to think…. I suppose I should be glad he buys fresh meat rather than ready-meals. I'm grateful that Innocent provide his breakfast, and more often than not, his lunch - at least it reduces the salmonella risk.
Talking of eating - we enjoyed a fantastic Sunday lunch at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club this week
This was thanks to our lovely neighbours and now every Sunday lunch will be a bitter disappointment because the meal we had just could not be bettered and looking out over the magnificent course to the sea was the icing on the cake.
November 26, 2006 at 9:18 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
We've just come back from a few days in the Cotswolds but we might as well have been in Outer Mongolia for all the mobile phone reception we had. On the journey home I found I was replying to texts that had been sent two days previously and I'm sure the recipients must have wondered what on earth my replies meant - having completely forgotten their original enquiry.
We stayed in Bibury
Arlington Row, Bibury
and sat by log fires in the lovely old hotel reading Cotswold Life. There was an article about Jilly Cooper and about the village where she lives. We decided to look it up the following day along with the pubs she recommended. After travelling on single-track roads for an hour we eventually stumbled across Bisley. Very nice. Next stop, Jilly's recommended pubs. Well, I can only assume that she didn't want readers to find the places where she actually does go because the two she'd mentioned looked like working-men's hang-outs. So all in all a bit of a disappointment. And trying to get out of the place was a nightmare. We had to reverse down the same stretch of hill five times because every time we got to the top a van or tractor was coming towards us.
November 21, 2006 at 4:42 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
Our daughter was home for the weekend and planned to get the 4.15 train back to Loughborough yesterday. It should have got her there at 6.30ish. Instead of that she eventually landed at 10pm after two cancelled trains and another train at the end of her journey where the doors jammed and instead of stepping onto Loughborough's station platform she found herself being transported back to Nottingham. I'd like to know what passengers in Switzerland would make of this and in Japan I'm sure the drivers are beheaded if they're more than two minutes late.
I had another letter in today's Times. However the subs had changed the wording. I'd written "Christian name" and it was altered to "first name". Honestly, what are things coming to.
The artist son's got a new book out called Social Club, it's a limited edition and is signed and numbered and I've ordered two. So when he's a sought-after illustrator I'll be able to sell them and live in luxury.
November 17, 2006 at 9:28 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
I've just upgraded to a smart new white mobile phone. There are just a couple of problems. The first and possibly most important is that I can't hear it. I can't hear the message tone and I can't hear the ring tone, which in a way almost defeats the object of carrying it around with me. I've just paid to have the Twin Peaks theme tune as my ring tone and that has made matters even worse - because if you can remember it, it's a soft sort of tune anyway. The other problem is that I can't use it. I'm not being limp-wristed I just can't make it out. Sometimes I press the camera button and get the video; other times I'm writing a message and when I glance at the screen I've compiled a string of numbers. Sometimes I get the message right but just as I'm about to send it I hit the wrong button and the thing completely disappears and I have to start again.
This was all very annoying but it got worse. Son number two has also upgraded his phone and in the process lost all his contacts' numbers. He sent me a text (which I didn't hear - obviously - and only saw it by luck) asking me to text him everyone's phone numbers. Then he sent me a photograph of himself and I tried to send him a picture of me. The phone numbers and the photograph took me over an hour and I have a feeling I sent him the picture of me looking like a witch five times. I could almost hear him cursing at the other end.
So I don't know what I'm going to do. Perhaps I'll start by getting my ears syringed.
November 15, 2006 at 8:21 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
My husband's turning into Victor Meldrew. Never a day goes by without him arguing with someone in a shop or swearing at other drivers. Yesterday he had a disagreement with a cash machine and the poor woman behind him in the queue looked bewildered. But she was even more bewildered when he instructed her to stand on her head before using the machine.
Our daughter was home last week and told me she'd tried on some lovely Ug-type boots. Yesterday I thought I'd get them and surprise her on Christmas Day. They weren't to be found so in the end I had to ring her while I was in the store. "They're hanging up, beige and dark brown and I'd like the dark brown ones please." Surely she didn't mean the soft ones hanging below the pyjamas? She did. Slippers. "O and I nearly bought them and I'd have worn them to work," she said.
November 14, 2006 at 9:32 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
I know I've got an interest here but it's well worth popping into Tesco - the big one litre packs of Innocent smoothies (nothing, but nothing but fruit!) are only 20p dearer than the little bottles - they're on special offer and the use by dates go up to the middle of December so worth stocking up. My interest (in case you didn't know) lies in son number two, who works at Fruit Towers.
November 12, 2006 at 10:10 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
As well as watching the baby panda I'm now hooked on a prison in Mississippi. I've just seen three handcuffed prisoners taken in- this should be compulsory viewing for young thugs in this country. It's a lesson in boredom.
Woo-hoo we had five lottery numbers last night. I reckon we should now be millionaires but we're not. But just one more number and we'd have bagged £9m.
November 10, 2006 at 9:43 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
Son number two went to Chelsea to see "his team" play. Not Chelsea, but Aston Villa. The match wasn't on telly but I happen to know that there's a webcam at the Chelsea ground so I logged on to see if I could see him and his friend. Texts were flying as usual and I asked him where they were sitting. "Far far left, behind the corner flag" came the reply. His sister and I had the magnifying glass against the computer screen as the picture jumped and then froze. We didn't spot them but on four occasions we did see men in blue shirts hugging each other. I can't remember him ever going to see a match that Villa won.
The artist son and his wife are house-hunting. They have very little time and we have loads so we decided to drive round town and make notes. I have to say I found our journey quite depressing. Tumble-down houses with roof slates missing, dirty curtains which seemed as though they were permanently drawn and un-weeded gardens. My list read something like: "Tip; unkempt; overpriced; looks filthy" . Anyway in their limited free time, they've managed to come up with something clean and tidy so all is not lost……
I've had a Christmas cactus for the last 20 years. From January till November it lies neglected in the greenhouse and then as if by magic it starts to flower. And then it's like a shocking pink firework. I decided to tell it how glorious it looked and took a photo - so here it is
November 6, 2006 at 6:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
I saw an airbus today - a most surreal sight, sort of floating in a clear blue sky.
Lovely to watch - but you'll never catch me in one!
October 29, 2006 at 9:24 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
After moving everything out of the London son's old bedroom (which took a week) and then having new furniture/carpet/curtains fitted we've now crossed the landing into our new bedroom. This meant that all our son's stuff had to be brought up from its home in the garage to our old bedroom which has become his new bedroom. I don't think he has thrown anything out in his 23 years and I'm beginning to regret that we ever started on this project. I realised that when he next comes home he won't have a clue what we were going through so I decided to take pictures.
I emailed them to him and the response I got was: "Haha. That green recycling box isn't mine."
October 26, 2006 at 10:35 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
We've just got in from our Antiques Roadshow stint. It was so unlike anything we've ever done and really interesting. Unfortunately we're not millionaires but I can't say we expected to be.
We were led through the Floral Hall and given refreshments behind the scenes. Then we had make-up slapped on (much to my husband's disgust). Then the mikes went on and finally we were led out into the hall to see our painting in pride of place with three huge cameras pointing at it and floodlit. We met our expert, Philip Mould
October 26, 2006 at 12:51 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
If you've got hours and hours to spare have a look at this site. It's a live webcam of a six week old panda and you'll be hooked.
October 25, 2006 at 7:05 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
The paintings are now wrapped and on their way to the Antiques Roadshow. The London son has just rung to say he's on a two day course at The Crazy Bear Hotel near Oxford http://www.crazybeargroup.co.uk/main_oxford.html . He said his room has velvet and fur-lined walls and he has an infinity bath which apparently means it fills from the ceiling and just constantly overflows - sounds like the sort of thing I'd get the plumber out to. He's just discovered that he can have breakfast in bed - so some things never change. Oh, and the reception area is in a double decker bus.
October 25, 2006 at 8:16 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
I'm THRILLED, THRILLED, THRILLED. The artist son was in yesterday's Times. But I'm so cross - because I've studied the arts pages for years hoping to see his name. Yesterday was the FIRST TIME EVER that I didn't get chance to open the T2 section. So now I've had to order a dozen copies. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2417649.html
October 24, 2006 at 9:34 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
Carpet cleaner (Allkare) due to arrive at 9am. Call at 8.58am to say someone's rung in sick and "we'll come on another day". You MUST be joking. We've moved all the furniture and planned our week round this long-standing appointment. You either turn up as arranged or you don't get our £130. Yet another name to add to the list of firms we won't be doing business with in the future.
October 24, 2006 at 7:39 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
The Antiques Roadshow people REALLY ARE interested! They rang last night to say that they're calling to pick the paintings up - we don't even have to take them off the wall, they'll do everything. Can't wait for Thursday.
Our new bed from Bensons is SO comfy that I really didn't want to get up this morning and sleeping in a brand new bedroom is lovely - no dust, no clutter - I wonder how long that will last.
Today it's the turn of the carpet cleaners, what and exiting world I live in!
October 23, 2006 at 2:23 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
Knowing that the Antiques Roadshow was coming to town I emailed the producers about a painting that my husband's grandma did over a hundred years ago (a copy of Landseer's Dignity and Impudence). I was amazed when they actually called at the weekend. Now I'm practising saying "No, I've never considered the value" and "Oh, as much as that?" to a pretend camera. And I'm wondering if it's "done" to ask Michael Aspel for his autograph.
October 23, 2006 at 1:32 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
I want to do business with a company that can tell me to within 60 minutes when my purchase will be delivered. Over the past three weeks I have spent days waiting in for things that haven't arrived and hours on the phone listening to automated options on expensive 0870 numbers as I tried to find out where the item had got to.
Curry's promised a tv on a Thursday. Apparently the lorry burned out (we got a call at 7pm after we'd spent all day waiting in the house) and we were put back to Saturday. Parcel2Go were supposed to collect a parcel on a Monday - no sign of anyone. A call centre employee told me that the driver had logged "failed collection, item not ready" . I soon put her straight about that! The next day there was still no sign of Parcel2Go. By 5pm I was frazzled and my blood pressure was through the roof. At 6pm a driver called and told me that he'd run out of time the previous day (so 'failed collection' meant he'd failed to collect) and had been on his way back to the depot that day until his boss had told him there was an irate woman on the phone.
Add to that the fact that a decorator booked two months in advance let us know the day before he was due to turn up, that he was working on another job and you'll get an idea of my state of mind!
I have to add however that a bed bought from Benson's beds has just arrived - on time!
October 23, 2006 at 10:01 am · Filed under Uncategorized · Edit
There was a beautiful rainbow over the house the other day. My hi-tech son told me it was almost impossible to capture a raibow on a camera like mine. But look….


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Way back in December, I entered a giveaway. A kitchen-things giveaway. Sounded like a good idea to me. And luck would have it, my name was drawn. How 'bout them apples? So a few weeks ago, I receive a package in the mail.
The hubs immediately accused me of shopping on eBay. I hadn't. He just goes around accusing me of stuff all the livelong day. But it wasn't anything I'd gotten from the interweb. It was my prize from Wendi at Bon Appetit Hon.
And inside was a microplane. I've never owned a microplane but I've always wanted to microplane things. My goal was to get my kitchen as messy as possible and whip out my microplane to grate some cheese or chocolate or lemon zest and photograph myself doing it. But everything that I've made lately has not required said microplane. Unless it doubles as a can opener.
But I will. Cross my heart. Hope to die. Stick a needle in my eye. I will photograph myself with that sword-like kitchen tool.
But I couldn't wait any longer, I had to tell you what else was in that box.
Like any savvy business woman, she included her card. And a hand-written note. I love getting letters in the mail [that don't involve collection agencies]. I had pen pals as a child and that feeling of getting a special note with a stamp on has never died.
You're probably wondering what that white box was. That, my friends, was a piece of the North East. I opened it and inside were about 10 little crab-shaped chocolates. I immediately knew they were the Old Bay crabs Wendi had talked about on her blog. And then I consumed them. So I have no pictures. So sorry.
Thank you, Hon, for having a fun giveaway. And thank you for your kind words and honest-to-goodness lovely little crabs. I pinky promise – when I use that microplane, credit will be given where credit is due. ;)


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A position paper based on the proceedings of the
the Searching of Mathematics Workshop
Robert Miner
Design Science, Inc.
June 8, 2004
The rise of the World Wide Web has made information available to
knowledge workers on an unparalleled scale. As the availability of
information has increased, the challenge of finding relevant
information has become more central and more difficult. The success
of text-based Web search engines such as Google has dramatically
illustrated the potential of effective information retrieval to impact
the way people conduct research and think about information
management. However, current text-based search paradigms have a number of
limitations, particularly for scientific, mathematics, engineering and
technical (SMET) literature.
One challenge is that the majority of this literature is held in
collections where the dominant economic model for sustainability
involves collecting fees for access. Cataloging information or
federating searches involving these collections requires negotiating
separately with each such organization. Another challenge is that a
significant portion of the information in SMET documents is
non-textual, consisting of figures, tables and especially mathematical
notation. This problem takes an extreme form for the large and
rapidly growing class of documents that were "born in print" and
subsequently digitized, where even textual information must somehow
be recovered from a scanned image.
At the same time, a window of opportunity for enhancing the
searching of SMET literature is opening. For some years, the demand
for cross-media publishing and the concomitant need for more effective
information reuse and management in large collections of electronic
documents has been moving the publishing industry toward XML-based
workflows. In particular, SMET publishers have begun moving to
XML-based workflows using MathML, a standard for representing
mathematical expressions in XML. As a data format, XML offers
enticing possibilities for enhanced searching. Since SMET workflows
are still transitioning to XML, this is the ideal time to introduce
best practices that will facilitate better searching in the future.
To explore the possibilities for enhancing searching of SMET
literature in general, and mathematics in particular, a workshop was
held in April of 2004 at the Institute for Mathematics and its
Applications at the University of Minnesota. The workshop was funded
by the National Science Foundation through a National Science Digital
Library grant awarded to Design Science, Inc. The remainder of this
document describes the issues and areas of consensus identified by
that workshop, and lays out an agenda for action.
The workshop brought together a wide variety of SMET content providers,
researchers, software vendors and library scientists.
Several academic society publishers were represented, as well as
commercial publishers, abstracting and indexing services, digitization
and archiving projects, and an assortment of academic and
educationally-focused collections. The level of interest and
participation served to reinforce perceptions that questions of
information management, workflow and added functionality such as
searching are both timely and relevant to the community. However, it was
also clear that enhanced searching of mathematics meant
widely-divergent things to different organizations, and during the
workshop, several distinct user groups began to emerge.
One natural grouping consisted of academic society publishers from
highly mathematical fields. Representatives from SIAM, AMS, CMS, The
Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational
Physics) and the IEEE attended, as well as from the abstracting and
indexing services Math Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH, which work
closely with society publishers. They all publish documents
containing many involved and complicated mathematical expressions.
Their users are primarily academic researchers, and their users
interests are strongly biased toward the apparatus of scholarship:
access to the peer-reviewed literature, citations, abstracts, and
bibliographies. The material is very dense, and more suited to
reading in print than on the screen, so PDF is widely used for
electronic publication.
Another important characteristic of this community is that many of
its authors use TeX and LaTeX. Dr. Michael Doob of the University of
Manitoba reports that author submissions to the Canadian Math Society
went from around 10% TeX in 1990, with a large proportion of
submissions as manuscripts, to 100% percent LaTeX submissions today.
Other publishers of research mathematics and theoretical physics show
similar trends. Consequently, many of these publishers share the
distinctive characteristic of having TeX-based production workflows.
In other disciplines, most production workflows have been based on
XML, SGML or proprietary page layout software such as Quark Xpress.
For example, a survey of commercial SMET publishers in areas other than
mathematics suggests that overall, perhaps 80% submissions are in Word
format, with equations rendered in Equation Editor or MathType™
format, and that the use of LaTeX is relatively rare.
Some math-intensive society publishers are planning to migrate or
are in the process of migrating to XML-based workflows using MathML, a
standard XML-based markup language used to encode mathematical
expressions. However, even among those publishers that were not
planning to change their production workflows in the immediate future,
many are looking at XML+MathML for information management purposes at
some point. MathML is a highly-structured, more information-rich
representation of mathematics as compared to LaTeX. It contains
vocabularies for describing both the visual presentation of
expressions, and for indicating their semantic content. However, it
is also a low-level representation, more akin to PostScript than TeX.
Thus, MathML is almost always generated and processed via software,
and is not suitable for hand authoring. For automatic processing, the
regularity, structure and ability to represent both presentation and
semantic aspects of expressions are highly appealing. Consequently,
there was strong interest in LaTeX to XML+MathML conversion strategies
at the workshop, as was evidenced by the attention given to the
presentation on the Hermes project, a part of the larger MowGLI
project funded by the European Union.
Another group that was well-represented, and which has become
increasingly significant in recent years, consists of
"retro-digitization" projects. Projects such as JSTOR, NUMDAM,
ERAM and others have made tremendous strides toward scanning and
digitizing research literature which originally appeared in print,
stretching back into the 19th century in some cases. For these
groups, creating and maintaining accurate cataloging and abstract
information is important.
A number of projects also employ OCR and other techniques to
extract text for full-text searching. Several are also looking into
at least limited use of XML+MathML for some of their holdings, such as
abstracts. However, the challenge of augmenting traditional OCR
processes so that they can infer the information needed to mark up
document structure, equations, tables and other non-textual data is
substantial. A presentation by Dr. Masakazu Suzuki of Kyushu
University on his INFTY system for mathematical formula recognition
was therefore both significant and encouraging. The system, which is
already commercially available, appears to yield impressive results
with low error rates.
One final group worthy of note consisted of those content providers
who publish to the web in HTML or XML as opposed to PDF. This
includes many educational content providers and content providers
targeting broader audiences, where graphic design, interactivity, and
seamless integration with other Web content is important. For this
group, XML+MathML is also an appealing format, though most
organizations are planning to use XML+MathML as a source format and
to generate HTML (or XHTML) for publication, for example using XSLT.
There was a strong consensus that XML and
MathML will be important for SMET publishing, especially for
information management purposes. The corollary is that effective
conversion software is a prerequisite to migrating large bodies of
existing material to that format. In fact, the process has begun.
The Grainger Library at UIUC has converted around 200,000 pages of
SMET research literature into XML+MathML under a Digital Library
Initiative grant and over time, documents will increasingly be
originally generated as XML+MathML. Some estimates suggest
as many as 100,000 pages a year of research literature will be
published, processed or archived in that format as early as 2005.
A major theme that emerged from the workshop was metadata and its
management. Scholarly publishing has long relied on bibliographic
cataloging information for accessing and referencing literature. In
the electronic world, cataloging information such as author, title, and
date of publication is regarded as metadata. While precise
definitions of metadata are disputed by experts, broadly speaking,
metadata consists of assertions made by third parties describing the
content of an item of information. In practice, most metadata records
apply at the document level, as opposed to describing items within a
document, such as a picture, but such "fine-grained" metadata is not
unheard of. Another useful distinction is that between objective and
subjective metadata. Bibliographic cataloging information and
intellectual property rights are examples of objective metadata, while
grade-level, subject area, and overall quality are examples of
subjective metadata.
Properly speaking, metadata records are not part of a document, but
are instead stored, maintained and shared separately. For pragmatic
reasons, certain kinds of objective metadata, such as the author, are
often embedded within the documents to which they apply, usually in
some sort of special header field. However, even in these cases, such
metadata is often extracted into separate records during production.
The point is that to be useful, cards belong in the card catalog and
not in the books on the shelves, to use a pre-digital metaphor.
For digital libraries, the role of the card catalog is filled by
databases of metadata records. Such databases have obvious utility
for searching and information retrieval. One frequent kind of
question knowledge workers ask is "what are all the articles by author
X" and a metadata database is an ideal for answering such questions.
However, even this simple example illustrates two major challenges
that must be addressed when using metadata for information retrieval.
The first difficulty is that not all the articles by X may
be in the same database. The second difficult is that in practice,
there is wide variation in how metadata is recorded. As an extreme
example, there are dozens of spellings for the name of the Russian
mathematician Chebychev, or Chebeshev, or Tschebyscheff, or ...
To attack the first issue, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has
developed a protocol for sharing metadata so that unified metadata
databases can be developed. When libraries were exclusively physical
places, it was reasonable that their card catalogs reflected their own
holdings. But in digital libraries, boundaries between collections
are artificial, and from the point of view of the searcher, what is
needed is a single unified metadata store. The basic idea of OAI is
that content providers set up OAI servers which returns XML metadata
records in response to standardized queries. Aggregators then
periodically "harvest" metadata from multiple collections in order to
create unified databases, and offer search services built on top of
Note that only metadata records are shared, so that content
providers who restrict access to their holdings can be included in
search services without losing control over their content. A searcher
without proper credentials following a link to an item in a protected
collection is typically redirected to a page with information about
obtaining access to the collection. Of course, for some organizations
such as indexing and abstracting services, or reviewing services such
as Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, metadata is itself important
intellectual property that carries value. However, even in these
cases, it is typically possible to share some basic metadata, such as
a title, merely to indicate that an item is in a collection, and that
authorized users can obtain further information about it. This is
precisely the strategy that most of these organizations have adopted
to date.
OAI has gathered substantial momentum in the digital library
community. The protocol specification has gone through several
versions and is now relatively mature and stable. A variety of open
source software is available for setting up an OAI server, and for
small collections, a mechanism called the OAI Static Repository has
been devised whereby metadata can be shared by placing an XML file on
a web site and registering it with a gateway. At the workshop, most
content providers had either already set up OAI servers or were
considering doing so in the near future, and there was strong
consensus that OAI would become increasingly dominant as a means of
metadata sharing.
The second broad metadata problem, lack of uniformity, has more
facets and is therefore less subject to system solutions. One such
facet, touched on above, is the identification of equivalent variations
in names, spellings, abbreviations of journal titles, and so on. This
is an old problem in library science, and is merely exacerbated by the
scale of metadata sharing in digital libraries. The principal line of
attack is the compilation of name authority databases. For example,
the US Library of Congress and the "Deutsche Bibliothek" maintain
large name authority databases, and both institutions participate
in the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) project. The aim of
this project will be to explore virtually combining the name authority
files of both institutions into a single name authority service.
A facet more specific to digital libraries is lack of uniformity in
electronic formats for metadata. There have been a number of attempts
to standardize metadata formats within different communities. Perhaps
the most notable is the Dublin Core standard developed in 1995 under
the auspices of NCSA and OCLC. Dublin Core defines a basic set of
about a dozen metadata elements such as title, creator, publisher,
description and so on. Dublin Core is by far the most widely used
metadata standard in the publishing and digital library communities.
However, as its name suggests, many if not most organizations using
it, have extended it in incompatible ways to record additional
metadata specific to their collections. Extensions have proliferated
to the extent that the European Center for Standardization has formed
a working group that tries to keeps these extensions to Dublin Core
organized and has produced an agreement on the presentation of Dublin
Core based application profiles. It is now working on a machine
readable version of that. Further, while Dublin Core specifies a set
of metadata elements, it does not specify a particular electronic
format for recording this data, and there are a number in use,
including the W3C RDF format and a direct XML encoding. Consequently,
creating "crosswalks" or translation guidelines among varying metadata
formats and element sets used by various SMET document collections
remains a major issue.
The topic of improving the quality, interoperability and management of
metadata generated much discussion at the workshop. While there was
broad consensus on the momentum and value of OAI, there was little
sense that the problems of metadata interoperability had easy or short
term solutions. Major content providers have been working toward
convergence of metadata formats and crosswalks for interoperability,
both on a case-by-case basis, and under the umbrella of various
standards organizations. While progress has been slow and difficult, it has
been relatively steady. For example, the major math abstracting
services Math Reviews and Zentralblatt are nearing an agreement on a
common format for their metadata records. Consequently, raising
awareness of the issues and continued incremental improvement are
likely the best that can be done, given the economic considerations
that constrain content providers with very large collections
stretching back for many years into the past. In areas such as
mathematics where the useful lifespan of research literature routinely
runs to decades, such economic constraints cannot be ignored.
Historically, the collection and management of metadata is
expensive, as it generally involves a great deal of hand work on the
part of subject experts. Consequently, another focus in the workshop
discussions was techniques for lowering the cost of metadata without
sacrificing quality. One approach is to enlist the aid of authors in
identifying and/or checking at least objective bibliographic metadata,
for example, by incorporating identification and verification into
either the submission process or the proofing process associated with
scholarly publication. IEEE and the arXiv both use electronic
submission processes that take some steps in this direction. Another
avenue is to try to incorporate metadata creation into authoring
tools. However, this must be done with care. If metadata creation is
purely optional, it will likely be ignored, while at the same time
authors will resent intrusive techniques. Furthermore, many kinds of
technical documents are edited by multiple people over time. This
makes metadata management becomes more complex. Nonetheless, the
prevailing view was that there is a good deal of potential for
facilitating easy identification of basic metadata such as author and
title as part of the authoring process. For example, a standardized
set of LaTeX macros for title, author, abstract, MSC classification,
date, and so on might be used.
Another area of active research is automatic metadata generation.
Because human generated metadata is so expensive, even minimally
adequate automatic generation of metadata can has an appealing cost
benefit analysis. However studies such as the "Breaking the Metadata
Bottleneck" NSDL project conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Liddy of Syracuse
University have shown that the quality of human generated metadata
varies widely, and in the case of certain kinds of well-defined,
objective metadata, automatic algorithms can actually perform better.
Another reason automatic algorithms are interesting is that they might
be able to make much finer-grained metadata economically viable, for
example adding metadata at the individual equation level, as opposed
to the document level. Whether or not such fine-grained metadata
would be generally useful, however, is a question which leads us into
the topic of the next section.
While it is relatively clear to everyone that mathematical notation
is not accessible to traditional text-base search to any meaningful
degree, there is much less agreement on what a math-aware search ought
to look like. Discussions at the workshop covered ideas ranging from
fine-grained per-equation metadata, to combined text and equation
search, to data mining of specialized databases of mathematical
objects. The discussion is further complicated by the paucity of
functional, real-world examples of math-aware search. As a result,
the need for test bed collections, development of use cases, and
further research and usability testing of possible search techniques
were the areas where strongest consensus emerged.
The most obvious notion of math aware search is to simply extend
the keyword search models used by virtually all popular Web search
engines. That is, one would type in a collection of text keywords and
mathematical expressions, and the search engine would return a list of
documents in which they occur. This is the model used by a math-aware
search engine developed by Dr. Abdou Youssef of George Washington
University for the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF).
The DLMF documents are coded in LaTeX using special macro packages.
For searching purposes, the mathematical expressions are first
converted to structured text, e.g. "x begin_superscript 2
end_superscript," which is then indexed by a conventional text search
engine. Queries are entered in a special linear query language
similar to LaTeX. To perform the search, the query is also converted
into text, and the resulting text search is performed against the
index. While preliminary indications are that this yields
surprisingly effective math searching, the DLMF search engine is not yet
online, so there is not yet a substantial body of usage data.
The DLMF technique of piggy-backing on a text-search engine has
some interesting side effects. A common capability of text search
engines is control of proximity searching, where searching terms must
appear with in a certain distance of each other, for example within 5
words. Using this capability, it is possible to form queries such as
"find all expressions of the form (x^2 + ?)" where ? represents any
single term. On the other hand, a query such as "find all expressions
matching $a^3 + $a^2" is not possible, where both $a's denote the same
variable name. Of course, these examples merely scratch the surface
of how one might specify abstractions and constraints in a math search
query. Setting aside the non-trivial questions of devising an
effective query language or graphical query editor, a more basic
question is how sophisticated queries need to be in order to be
effective. Research indicates that most users of
search engines don't bother to inform themselves about the subtleties
of the query language, nor do they use even basic features very often
if they can't be learned quickly and remembered easily. Consequently,
real world usability data is clearly important in determining the
success of any math search paradigm that targets a general audience.
Another aspect unique to the DLMF model is that it takes advantage of
exceptionally regular notation across the collection and specialized
source code macros. In general, however, TeX and LaTeX with their
powerful macro mechanisms and ability to redefine basic language
constructs on the fly, are notorious for lack of regularity in
source code. Consequently, a naturally question to ask is
whether the analogous strategy of piggy-backing on an XML-based
XQuery search engine indexing XML+MathML source would perform better.
In particular, MathML enforces a certain regularity of structure, and
admits a fair degree of normalization. Also, the XQuery language is
more powerful than text-based query languages in its ability to define
constraints and relationships between terms.
In both these models, there is substantial appeal in leveraging
existing technology which incorporates high quality text search.
However, another intriguing math-search model takes a different
approach entirely. This model is exemplified by the Online
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and Series, created by Neil Sloan of
AT&T Research. Using a web interface, a user enters a sequence of
integers. If the sequence matches an entry in the database, an page
is returned detailing the basic properties of the sequence, known
relations to other sequences, and references to instances of the
sequence in the literature. In a talk at the Future of Mathematical
Communication II conference at MSRI, mathematician Rob Corless told of
solving a problem in dynamical systems using results from an article
on combinatorics which he located using the Online Encyclopedia. The
point here is that Corless thought it very unlikely that he would have
found the information using text-based keyword searching; he wouldn't
have known any of the appropriate keywords, since he was unfamiliar
with the specific area of combinatorics, and unaware of the
The model of a specialized database of mathematical objects is also
suggestive of the special functions web site created by Wolfram
Research. In that case, the database of special functions contains
representations both in the Mathematica language as well as MathML and
LaTeX. Using Mathematica, the entries in the database can be formally
manipulated, and in theory, could be algorithmically mined for
relationships and interconnections. Other groups are also working on
searching within formal systems, such as the Coq theorem proving
environment, as well as in less structured contexts such as raw
In this vision of math-aware searching, specialized databases of
mathematical objects become powerful research tools, as algorithmic
searching reveals interconnections between mathematical objects
themselves, as well as the research areas in which instances of the
objects occur. One possible architecture for such databases would
involve automatically extracting non-trivial equations from documents
into databases, and piggy-backing on a metadata sharing system such
as OAI to allow aggregators to harvest equations into unified
collections. Aggregators could then offer specialized search
services, and algorithmically enhance the collection by searching for
inter-relationships using more sophisticated but still computationally
tractable forms of mathematical equivalence. For example, by analogy
with the integer sequences and series, one might have databases of
polynomials, matrices, continued fractions, and many other classes of
mathematical objects with normal or semi-normal forms, or that can be
linearly ordered. In this context, it may be useful to differentiate
between searching in or for published literature and the building of
specialized services such as an online encyclopedias or expert
systems that combine searching and computation.
The methods and examples of math searching discussed so far are
strongly biased toward the research literature. However, the
educational community is a far larger group of users. In educational
contexts at the lower levels, a third notion of math-aware searching
returns to the idea of fine-grained, per equation metadata. A
motivating use case might be a student searching for "a^2 + b^2 =
c^2". Even using Google today, this search returns many thousands of
hits. The problem in this case is picking out the one, for example,
that occurs with worked examples of the Pythagorean theorem
appropriate for grades 6-8. The point is that the student's
information need revolves more closely around the metadata assertions
than the actual formula.
A number of research groups, such as the NSDL MetaTest project,
have begun investigating the effectiveness of search systems based on
human and automatically generated metadata, especially in comparison
with full-text search systems. However, in general metadata devoted
to classifying and describing subject matter is expensive to produce
and suffers from lack of uniformity and objectivity. This suggests
that metadata search systems based on these kinds of data are unlikely
to out perform full-text search systems. By contrast, experience from
successful, education-oriented Web sites such as the Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse and the Math Forum at Drexel, indicates that
end users do perceive significant value in augmenting text searching
with metadata-based constraints involving criteria such as educational
function, grade level and the like. Similarly, there has been some
work done indicating that metadata on physical units might be used to
good effect, particularly in engineering and the sciences.
Consequently, it seems clear there is a role for faceted
metadata-based searching in many contexts, provided metadata can be
created and managed in a cost effective way.
Another part of the appeal of a fine-grained metadata approach is
that it is well-suited to automatic creation via authoring tools. In
languages like LaTeX, a natural approach would be to use specialize
macro packages, where the macros would contain metadata labels in some
fashion. This would facilitate, for example, tagging an equation as
containing a Riemann tensor by using a \Riemann macro. Alternatively,
and perhaps more importantly in the educational sphere, wysiwyg
authoring tools such as Design Science's MathType editor could
facilitate labeling of significant equations via a simple user
interface such as pulldown menus, etc. A more sophisticated approach
might be to use the local context around an equation together with a
clustering algorithm to guess appropriate metadata, which a user could
then accept, modify or ignore.
However, as noted at the beginning of the section, all of these
visions of math-aware searching must be considered speculative until
there is more validation using relatively large collections and
representative user groups. There is a growing number of research
projects aimed at examining or implementing various of the techniques
touched on here, but very few have undergone any degree of real-world
use or usability testing. Consequently, there was strong consensus that the availability of
test bed document collections, and cooperation
in conducting pilot studies is essential if research is to advance
quickly to concrete, deployable solutions.
In a round-table discussion, workshop participants summarized their
perceptions of the areas of consensus that had emerged in a twelve
point agenda for progress. These fall under five headings:
This document is intended as a first step toward SMET community
outreach. To further that goal, a web site has also been created as
part of the Enhancing the Searching of Mathematics project funded by
the National Science Foundation through its National Science Digital
Library program. For further information about the Agenda for
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Have PepsiCo just shaken up the conventional content marketing model?
Bilious beverage purveyors Pepsi might just have turned content marketing on its head, for business' big beasts at least. It's common knowledge that the gap between brands and publishers has shrunk significantly in recent years. But, a drinks manufacturer opening a dedicated content studio… Who saw that coming?
It's among the twinkling towers of downtown Manhattan that actor Meryl Streep and smooth soulster Usher became two of the first people to enter Pepsi's cutting-edge content studio. The mission statement? Sell enough engaging unbranded content to cover their own advertising bill, as well as studio-related costs, effectively turning an expense into a profit centre.
Pepsi have already made clear that the aim of this brand-agnostic content isn't to go for the hard sell, but to entertain the audience and leave a lasting impression in their minds.
Despite naming it after a troupe of arts-and-craft superheroes, the 'Creators League' (as some clearly non-creative dubbed it) looks like it will receive all the backing it needs to regularly push out enticing new visual and written content. You better get used to this model. First Red Bull and now Pepsi have seen enough value to lay some serious capital on the line. This model has the potential to become the default for trans-national companies worldwide. Either that, or there's just something funky in those carbonated bubbles.
Stylist digital magazine closure sounds a warning: own your content!
Fashion magazine Stylist have announced the closure of their digital edition, citing the "abrupt" closure of Apple's Newsstand as the reason for the publication's demise.
A woe-is-me statement was issued by editor-in-chief Lisa Smosarski, blaming Apple for leaving them "high and dry, without a dedicated marketplace in which we can distribute our edition". How DARE they… How dare those vengeful technology gods choose to bin a feature that wasn't eliciting the desired returns, summoning locust plagues and four horsemen in the process.
Sorry Lisa, but no-one's switched off the internet, so there's really no excuse. And, here's why.
In the same way that you wouldn't build a house on rented land, you shouldn't base the entirety of your digital edition on a platform that you don't own, and have no actual control over.
Not only does it leave you exposed to the whims of a company whose aims aren't aligned with yours, it also prevents you from cultivating the online authority that you deserve. When you spend time creating content for a platform that you don't own, you're essentially handing over all those lovely clicks and eye-time to a third party. Sure, you might have linked the piece back to your domain. But, this will do little to persuade Google of the relevance, usefulness and entertainment factor of your site, keeping you pinned far from the top of search rankings.
CMI acquisition spells out value of content marketing today
The illustrious Content Marketing Institute (CMI) has been acquired by UBM plc for a cool $17.6m dollars less than 10 years after the company was founded by Joe Pulizzi and wife Pam Kozelka. The sale spells out just how far content marketing has come is the last few years, and how much potential remains in this ever-burgeoning industry.
CMI are worthy candidates for this level of investment, sending out a consistent supply of rich, informative content, as well as organising the annual CMWorld and Intelligent Content Conference marketing events. Having entertained many different suitors, UBM – a global B2B event organiser – were chosen as they possessed the resources to scale up CMI's conferences, including 5,100 staff across 20 countries.
UBM have released a formal statement about the acquisition, commenting: "Driven first by content creation and second by the technologies that allow marketers to successfully distribute, automate, track, analyse and measure, content marketing is one of the fastest growth segments of the marketing industry. By building a combined technology and marketing event portfolio, UBM and CMI will serve the market in the best way possible — covering all corners of the business — for customers, readers, attendees and exhibitors."


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01 August 2018
10 THINGS TO SEE & DO IN TORQUAYby JESS ZARNOW
Our final stop on the Great Ocean Road was a beautiful one- we visited Torquay.
Just over 100kms from Melbourne, Torquay is the perfect coastal town to visit if you are in need of some vitamin-sea, or are just looking for somewhere to relax for a couple of days.
Our days were spent eating, relaxing, exploring the coast and spending our public holiday penalties at the surf outlets (whoops). We only had 2 nights in town, but we still managed to cram plenty of activities in.
Here's my list of 10 things to do and see whilst in Torquay-Get immersed in the cafe culture
Torquay has some cute cafes on offer, both on the Esplanade and in the town centre. Our favourites included Pond- their juices, big brekky, coffee and blondies were delicious. Moby Cafe is also on the Esplanade- you can't go past their zucchini and corn fritters with haloumi and their House Beans with Poached Eggs. If you love chai tea then a pot of theirs is a must!
Check out the local beaches
If you love the sand between your toes then there's plenty of options for you to get your fix. The Back Beach in Torquay is the perfect place for a swim, as is Fishermans Beach. Iconic Bells Beach, just a short drive out of the town is a must visit to check out the waves and dabble in some surfing. Jan Juc is another great beach offering one hell of a view
Max out the credit card
If you love bargains and surf brands, head to Baines Crescent and get acquainted with brands like Ripcurl, Roxy, Quicksilver, Reef and Rojo, offering ridiculously discounted clothing, footwear, wetsuits and even snowboards. I loved their ladies 2 for $60 fleeced hoodies (because you can never have enough hoodies), and the other half picked up some cheap mens shorts and tees. You can also find all the major surf brands in the Surf City Plaza just around the corner. If you love homewares then head to Bell Street, where you'll find 2 of my new favourite stores- Frankie Says Relax and House Warming.
Have a cold one at the local brewery
Beer and onion rings- the perfect combination. After a long day of playing tourist we popped into Blackmans Brewery and tried their tasting flight, and it was bloody good. To go with the beer we ordered a side of onion rings, and they were the biggest, crunchiest things I have even eaten. They also offer a variety of other meals and bar snacks, including wings, pizzas and chips.
Rest your head
We spent two nights in town, and we found that it was the perfect amount of time to explore the town and the beaches as the weather was cooler when we visited. We rested our head at Torquay 1903 in one of their self contained cottages. They were close to the beach, detached, had onsite carparking and offered everything we needed for our stay. I loved their big spa bath, free mini bottle of champas (best enjoyed in the spa bath, because, holidays) and their gas fire.
Eat, drink and eat some more
When the sun goes down, you'll find you're spoilt for choice when it comes to food in Torquay. My picks included Senors– we loved their vibe, and their cocktails, Southern Fried Chicken and Barramundi. Easily some of the best food we've had all trip. Lure Fish and Chippery is a modern fish and chippy, offering dine in but predominantly takeaway. We ate the whiting (and plenty of chips) which were cripsy and well battered. One of the highlights of my whole trip was dining at Pholklore– look for the navy blue shipping container and colourful street art. This restaurant specialises in Vietnamese street food and Pho- they make a mean broth and the ribs are messy but so good.
Watch the paragliders at The Great Otway National Park Southside
While we were at a lookout taking in Jan Juc beach we spotted the paragliders and just had to check them out. There is a paragliding launch area where the general public can view- we watched them for almost a hour, watching them take off and float around in the breeze. Perfect for the big and little kids- just keep an eye on them as there's some big cliffs around.
Visit the Australian National Surf Museum
If you find yourself to be a bit of a surfing buff then you make sure you drop into the surf museum. There you can soak in all the history and culture of surfing in Australia, without having to get wet.
Soak in the views and put on your walking shoes
If you like to get the fresh air in your lungs and rack up the steps on your Fitbit then check out the Surf Coast Walk. Stretching a total of 44kms, the walk can be done in full or in parts- the Bells Track section is more my style, being just over 3kms.
If you're looking for some lookouts then check out Bird Rock Lookout and the Bells Beach lookouts- they take in some breathtaking views of the coast.
Rack up the Calories at the Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie
Ok it's not technically in Torquay, but the Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie is just a stone throw away and is worth the drive. Every wall here is filled top to bottom with everything chocolate. Literally everything. They also have free samples on hand, which explains why there was so many hypo children running around. If you love icecream then you should probably get a scoop or two while you're there (because there is always room for icecream).
For more great inspiration from Jess, head to her blog Dressed in Copper


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Story Bags as Prompts for Storytelling and Writing
by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com
Story bags are wonderful zero-tech tools that work well for both children's story writing and their story telling. I like to use them with children who find it hard to start from the abstract. A story bag contains things that are real and physical - often holding an object, or arranging several on a surface seems to unleash creativity.
At home, story bags make fun games that allow kids to practise vocabulary, practise sequencing a story, and gain confidence with speaking skills. Changing the objects in the story bag keeps the game fresh, and objects can be tailored to children's interests and needs. A story bag also make a wonderful activity to take on a family trip.
In the classroom, story bags are useful as prompts for both oral storytelling and writing. Kids working in groups can draw out three or four items and should include those objects somewhere in their stories. Small toys, LEGO pieces, small household objects, weird and wonderful items from junk sales or the tip - all make great fodder for a story bag. You can see some examples in my story bag above. Older kids who think they're "too old" for objects (they're not!) can try a story bag activity with small cards. Add another dimension by having a bag for character names or types, a bag for where the scene takes place, and a bag for the story problem, climax or resolution.
A story bag can be such a useful tool to include in story time at the library. I like to start by having kids make predictions as to what MIGHT be in the bag (a purple penguin), and then what is more LIKELY to be in the bag (a key.) Sometimes I've included objects that might give a clue as to the story I'm about to read. Depending on age, a child can then reach into the bag to draw out an object, perhaps trying to name it before it appears. Younger children might be content with naming; older kids might like to describe the object, invent a different name for it, tell a little story about it.
You can also ask kids to make a story bag for a partner at school, for themselves or for a sibling at home. Remind children to be on the lookout for items that will work well in a story bag. They might like to think of themes that draw items together (from nature, weird and wonderful, mysterious) or just try for a group of completely disparate objects. In my experience, the stranger the combinations, the more participants need to think creatively. Kids can also invent story bags as guessing games (blindfold the guesser) or as prompts for 2 minute speeches.
Extend the idea of a story bag by having children use cameras to snap pictures of their objects. They can then weave a digital story around them, perhaps by adding captions to images, the way I did in Visual Story Telling. Or children can create a story from the cards they draw out of a story bag, then set up scenes to photograph them as an accompaniment to their stories.
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MVA Lawyer Naperville, IL
Common Mistakes After a Car Accident
The period following a car accident can be chaotic. Not only is an accident victim likely to be left feeling discombobulated, they may also be in an immense amount of pain. It's no wonder accident victims can often make missteps or mistakes in the hours and days following an accident. This is a primary reason why it's so important to contact an MVA lawyer in Naperville, IL early on in the process. Here are common mistakes car accident victims may succumb to not only at the accident scene, but in the days after:
Mistake #1 Not Contacting Law Enforcement
The police can produce valuable evidence when they are called to the accident scene. As a result, they can do much of the legwork that may otherwise be left up to you if they are not present at the scene. Police will speak with those involved in the accident, gather information from witnesses, and investigate the events that led up to the accident. The police report they generate can help to outline the details of the case and act as a key piece of evidence.
Mistake #2 Waiting to Seek Medical Attention
The longer you wait to get checked out by a doctor, the more difficult it may be to prove that your injuries coincided with the accident. Not only is it important to seek medical attention to ensure that you receive the proper medical care, it's also key should you choose to pursue an accident claim.
Mistake #3 Admitting Fault
It's not uncommon to be in shock after an accident, as a result, you may take some responsibility for the accident. This may be outlined in the police report, which could be damaging should you pursue a car accident settlement. In addition, an insurance adjuster for the defendant may work to prove that you were somehow accountable for your role in the accident. It's important that before you speak with an insurance adjuster you first speak with a Naperville, IL MVA lawyer. Admitting fault to an insurance adjuster may impact the settlement you may be entitled to.
Mistake #4 Settling Your Case Early
The other driver's insurance company may offer you an early settlement, or they may lowball the claim that you made. It can be tempting to accept the first offer that comes your way. It's important to keep in mind that this is just a jumping off point for initiating negotiations. With an MVA lawyer in Naperville, IL, you may have the ability to negotiate a better settlement than if you were to pursue your case without legal counsel.
Mistake #5 Waiting too Long to Contact an Attorney
The longer you wait to pursue your case, the more difficult it can be to prove your case. There are a number of reasons for this. Primarily the fact that it could be difficult to gather the evidence that is needed to support your case.
How an Attorney May Help
Although mistakes or missteps made in the period following a car accident can certainly pose as an additional challenge when pursuing an accident claim, a Naperville, IL MVA lawyer may be able to help. Attorneys have experience in managing such situations. The following are benefits to hiring an attorney to represent you in a car accident case:
- Help to increase the likelihood of compensation
- Legally strategize
- Help gather the evidence needed to build a strong case
- Prepare victims for depositions or legal appearances
- Negotiate with insurance adjusters
Facing hardships after a car accident can feel overwhelming and disheartening. For many accidents victims the financial, physical and emotional impact can be difficult to face. Having an attorney by your side can help to alleviate some of the stress and unknown victims may be facing.
Contacting an The Law Offices of Konrad Sherinian, LLC early on can no only mitigate problems, but also have help run damage control. Facing a car accident can be exceptionally challenging. For an accident victim, an MVA lawyer in Naperville, IL can not only help to reduce the stress that often comes with an accident, but provide peace of mind.


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WACO, Texas (BP) -- Baylor University's response to reports of campus sexual violence has drawn scores of protesters to the university president's house and provoked at least two observers to call for the severing of official ties between Baylor and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Baylor President Ken Starr responded to critics with two statements, which affirmed the protesters' "poise and maturity" and stated the university is conducting a thorough review of its response to reports of sexual violence.
A BGCT spokesman told Baptist Press the convention will "celebrate the good and work to resolve the bad" in its "long and storied relationship" with Baylor.
About 200 people participated in a candlelight vigil at Starr's home Feb. 8 asking Baylor to "handle campus rape cases better," according to The Dallas Morning News. The protesters then held a prayer service at the university's George W. Truett Theological Seminary.
The vigil occurred one week following allegations by ESPN's Outside the Lines that in multiple instances, "school officials [at Baylor] either failed to investigate, or adequately investigate, allegations of sexual violence," including two instances of sexual assault by former members of the university's football team.
The football players referenced, Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukwauchu, both have been convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to prison.
The Dallas Morning News reported at least three women who allege they were assaulted by Elliott say the university mishandled their allegations. During Ukwauchu's 2015 trial, "it was disclosed that Baylor officials had conducted an internal investigation into the assault complaint and cleared him of any wrongdoing," ESPN reported.
A day before the vigil, Starr released a letter to the Baylor community explaining that last fall, the university's board of regents hired the law firm Pepper Hamilton to review its sexual violence policies because the firm has "expertise in the institutional response to all aspects of sexual misconduct."
Vigil participants said in a statement on the event's Facebook page, "Baylor University's Administration repeatedly promises justice to students raped at Baylor and fails to provide it. Ken Starr repeatedly issues emailed platitudes while students still suffer. Policies outlined in Baylor's Title IX compliance documents are inconsistently followed, and, at times, ignored altogether. Perpetrators are repeatedly allowed to go free due to these shortcomings. This makes our campus unsafe."
Starr responded to the vigil in a Feb. 9 statement posted on Baylor's website.
"Last evening, our students came together as a family," Starr said. "They displayed great poise and maturity during the vigil at Allbritton House [the official name for the Baylor president's home] and in the prayer service that followed at our beloved Truett Seminary. We hear your voices loud and clear."
Starr gave his word the university would "continue to improve" and take "definitive, responsible actions" after it receives recommendations from a Philadelphia law firm that is conducting what Starr previously called "a comprehensive external review of the university's response to previous reports of sexual violence."
The university has not publicly discussed "specific reports of sexual assault," Starr said, in an effort to comply with federal student-privacy laws. Baylor will not comment on "policies and procedures" until after the external review is complete.
Under Baylor's current policy on "sexual harassment, sexual violence and interpersonal violence," Starr said, "a trained and experienced external professional reviews [each] investigative report, meets with the parties and witnesses and renders an objective and impartial determination as to responsibility. When a student is found to have committed an act of sexual violence, strong disciplinary consequences ensue."
Bart Barber, a Baylor alumnus and pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, speculated on the SBC Voices blog that Baylor's quest to achieve top national rankings in athletics and academics may have led the university to "cover up sexual misconduct," and opined that the university "handled sexual violence on its campus in such a shoddy and disgraceful manner … because it has learned so much from churches."
"Ambitious people and ambitious organizations," Barber wrote, "often see allegations of sexual assault as a threat to themselves."
Churches that "have tried to cover up sexual misconduct" should be disfellowshipped from their local Baptist associations, their state Baptist conventions and the Southern Baptist Convention, Barber wrote, until "they have made amends with the victims and have put in place procedures and safeguards to protect those who report sexual misconduct in the future."
In the same vein, Barber encouraged the BGCT "to take disciplinary action in its relationship with Baylor University."
Barber's call for cessation of the cooperative relationship between the university and the convention echoed a similar call by Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Mac Engel, who wrote Feb. 2 Baylor should "distance itself" from "the Baptists, or quit messing around with these overly enabled ... football players."
Engel concluded, "Don't take my word for it, listen to Jesus Christ when he commanded: 'Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.' If you can't, just drop the charade with the Baptists."
BGCT communications director Rand Jenkins said in a statement, "Baylor University and the Baptist General Convention of Texas have a long and storied relationship that dates back to the founding of both entities." BGCT funding of Baylor "is directed to provide scholarships for students in ministry training. Most of those scholarships are directed to Truett Seminary.
"All individuals and institutions go through difficult times," Jenkins continued. "We celebrate the good and work to resolve the bad. In the midst of this horrific situation surrounding Baylor and some students, we prayerfully hope for a satisfactory resolution to this matter. Furthermore, we grieve with those who are suffering and prayerfully approach resolution for all involved."
Currently, the BGCT elects 25 percent of Baylor's board of regents and planned to send the university $353,124 this year, according to the convention's 2016 Missions and Ministries Budget.
In his letter, Starr assured friends of Baylor that the university is seeking "to eliminate the scourge of sexual violence" from campus life. "Such despicable violations of our basic humanity contradict every value Baylor lifts up as a caring Christian community," he said.


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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Maturity of Anne
How does Anne matures and develpoees through the course of her diary?
How does Anne matures and develpoees through the course of her diary?
When Anne begins her diary, she is a bright-eyed thirteen year old. She like boys, loves school, and loves, spending time with her friends. Upon their arrival at the annex, she is hopeful and optimistic, but over time, you can see that hopeful optimism disintegrate into loneliness, isolation, and deep thinking. This very young girl, who entered the annex a bit silly and definitely hormonal and was quick to challenge and argue with the other residents. She also falls in love for the first time.
Lastly, you might want to address the relationship she had with her parents. Anne was a daddy's girl..... she fought with her mother in a young, teenage girl's typical fashion. Over time, she comes to appreciate and understand her mother.
The Diary of Anne Frank


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Shrimp Dishes
1 bag of frozen or refrigerated tail off shrimp (50-100 ct)- we highly recommend NOT going the "farm raised" route.
1 lemon
3 Tbsp garlic
Generous sprinkle of lemon pepper seasoning
1/4 cup fresh dill, chopped
3/4 pound orzo pasta (or brown rice!)
Boil orzo pasta and set aside
In saute pan, heat olive oil
Add garlic, heat for 20 seconds over medium heat
Add shrimp and 1/2 lemon. Cook until shrimp is pink, about 5-8 minutes
Mix shrimp and sauce from pan with orzo, 1/2 lemon, dill and feta.
Shrimp Tacos
1 package corn tortillas
1 package frozen tail on shrimp, defrosted
3 limes
chopped garlic
2 limes
8 ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped red onions
1 handful cilantro, chopped
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp chopped garlic
salt and pepper to taste
Saute garlic in 2 Tbsp olive oil
Add shrimp and lime (salt and pepper to taste). Saute until shrimp is pink, about 5-8 minutes
Microwave corm tortillas in a damp paper towel for 20 seconds
Blend all salsa ingredients in a food processor
Place shrimp in tortillas, top with salsa, serve
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