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The concept of human right including principles such as freedom of expression and the freedom of religion became a popular concept, adopted by many nations following the end of the Second World War in 1945. Today, the principles of Human Rights are promoted by many non-governmental organisations who survey abuses of Human Rights globally; many states also act on the international stage in a way to promote the ideas of Human Rights, an approach often criticised by Realist thinkers. However to say Human Rights are globally accepted is wrong as many non-westerners see Human Rights simply as a form of western imperialism and argue organisations such as the International Criminal Court are flawed. Therefore Human Rights is accepted as a fundamental doctrine primarily in western nations.
One argument to suggest Human Rights are seen as globally accepted is the fact that many Non-Governmental organisations such as Amnesty International serve to expose abuses of Human Rights across the globe and encourage states to take on the responsibility of promoting them. For example after increased pressure from Human Rights Watch the US government were forced to condemn the Uzbekistan government for their treatment of their own people. This was despite the US having considerable strategic interests in the country. After repeated criticism, the US had to withdraw its military base from the country. Evidently therefore the concept of Human Rights plays a major role on the global stage. However Realist thinkers would argue this example proves the idea that states should not mix Human Rights interests with International Relations. After leaving Uzbekistan a power vacuum opened up in the country which was eventually filled by Russia. Promoting Human Rights therefore went against US national interest as they lost a strategic source of influence to their competition but also in the long run solidified a regime that abuses human rights.
Furthermore another way by which Human Rights are seen to be globally accepted is the fact that international courts that possess the power to enforce judicial enforcement exist to enforce and prosecute Human Rights abusers globally. The International criminal court established in 2002 prosecute figures no matter what position they hold in their nation. However international courts such as the ICC can only intervene when a national court cannot pursue the case, therefore limiting the extent to which they can actually act. The fact that these courts act on a global stage suggests that Human Rights is a globally accepted concept. Moreover such organisations show a willingness of states to override state sovereignty in favour of promoting and enforcing Human Rights. It can be argued the concept of Human Rights is such a universally accepted idea that promoting it overrides a nation's sovereignty. Intervention in Kosovo (1999), for example, is evidence of where a nation's sovereignty was overlooked in order to prevent the genocide of ethnic Albanians. Liberals would argue this demonstrates how Human Rights have become globally accepted and prioritised. Critics however would argue that nations intervene using the idea of saving Human Rights when in reality they intervene to secure political interest. Intervention in Iraq (2003) can be seen as evidence for this. The Western states claimed they were intervening partly to protect Human Rights when in reality it was part of the 'war on terror', to attack an 'enemy' before they attacked again. Realists would again argue that a state's primary concern is national interest, therefore universal Human Rights should not guide state policy or be used as an excuse for war.
Furthermore, in many ways the concept of Human Rights are not globally accepted because they reflect the ideological concepts of the west limiting the extent to which they are universal. Some would argue Human Rights represents ideas that have western bias, Critical theorists argue Human Rights have been constructed by the west to marginalise and subjugate the non-western world. Non-western states such as China and Russia would also argue Human Rights are not universal, but are a set of principles established in an international order dominated by the USA. These states would also point to the many Human Rights abuses of western states for example US torture camps such as Guantanamo bay and Bagram, making the principles in many ways flawed and only used when flouted by non-westerners.
In addition the western version of Human Rights cannot be adopted by all states because it is not applicable to their customs and traditions. In Turkey for example allowing 'freedom of expression' as defined by the west, would cause internal instability and is not suitable for all countries at different points of development. When arguing whether or not Human Rights is globally accepted it's important to remember that one reason it is not is because rights may be interpreted differently. Non-westerners may have different interpretations of the principles from that of the western world. The Islamic world, for example, has recently taken mass offense at the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in cartoons by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Westerners decried 'freedom of expression' to be a non-negotiable human right, whereupon others would suggest limits and responsibilities to rights. Russia argues the right to be homosexual is not a 'universal' right and suppresses gay rights through the legal system.
The international courts such as the ICC and the Human Rights council are often heavily criticised and highlight why Human Rights are not globally accepted. Many argue the ICC does not promote Human Rights globally because it has a bias to persecute figures primarily from Africa; it therefore fails to pursue Human Rights abusers on an international scale. What also makes the organisation flawed is that it fails to hold the great powers to account for abuses of Human Rights. US actions in Afghanistan and Iraq will never reach the court, nor will the actions of its allies such as Israel.
To conclude the ideas of Human Rights are not globally accepted, because they hold a western bias and cannot be applied to many non-western states. The principles within the Human Rights doctrine need to be representative of the entire global community and its cultures in order for them to be 'globally accepted'.
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Event Location: Nicholas Hamond Academy, Brandon Road, Swaffham, Norfolk, PE37 7DZ
Saturday 18th January 2020
9:00am – 12:00pm
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"9.00am every Saturday morning come to the Nicholas Hamond Academy Playing Field for a 5km run/walk or jog at your own pace. It's free and just click on the link to register and receive your unique number and bar code so we can record your time each week!!
Great opportunity to get out and exercise on a regular basis with like minded folk"
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What is Swaffham parkrun?
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How fast do I have to be?
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Claire - posted on 08/29/2012 ( 204 moms have responded )
What does everyone think of the gov't trying to ban abortion is the US? I personally think it is wrong and the gov't has no right what to tell women what to do. I personally would never get an abortion, but I dont think anyone needs to dictate who can and who cannot. But I do believe that any abortions should be in the first trimester.
But I also dont believe women should use abortion as a form of Birth Control. I know someone who had 4 abortions and I think that was disgusting, finally she got an IUD (hallelujah!!)
And I dont understand how they can be "pro life" protecting a few cells (early abortions) when there are children all over the world dying from starvation, why not help those already living?
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- Got authority by Government to make the Moonlight School
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Hello Innsbrook Nature Enthusiasts
In our Spring 2017 newsletter you will find nature news and guest articles on: tips for living in harmony with nature, Innsbrook's growing bald eagle family, touring Innsbrook trails, nature photography workshop this June, cougars now close by in Missouri, bird feeding tips, phenology and climate change, and results from the recent dark sky survey and winter bird count. If you read or learned something of interest please share this link https://ibknature.com/newsletters/spring-2017-newsletter/ with your Innsbrook friends and neighbors who may not be on our newsletter notification list. They can sign-up by providing their email address where prompted in the top right-hand side field of any page, including this one. Don't forget to celebrate Earth Hour (tonight) on Saturday, March 25, at 8:30 pm by turning your lights off for just one hour to enjoy rural darkness.
Living in Harmony with Nature
In our winter newsletter we asked readers how well they thought Innsbrook as a community did with practicing its motto of living in harmony with nature. We asked this question because we worry that as we grow we are starting to take for granted just how special and rare the many natural amenities are which we have to enjoy. If you didn't participate yet but would like to, visit https://ibknature.com/newsletters/winter-2017-newsletter/. Here are the results so far:
It appears most think we do pretty good, but have some work to do better. We would like to hear what you think our collective community of property owners, residents, visitors, developers, and trustees needs to do better to help us live in harmony with nature. Send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will report back in the next newsletter. Here's one to get us started.
Tip 1 for Living in Harmony with Nature
Our first tip is well known to long-time property owners. Don't plant anything in your landscaping that you don't intentionally want to be nibbled on by wildlife! We are not in the city, we are the intruders not the wildlife, and it's a losing battle! Here's a photo of the salad bar stop we provide our local deer each winter. I admit, we were rather clueless when we first moved here and planted arborvitae, but soon discovered that the winter browse line always grew back each year. For wildlife friendly native planting tips visit the Garden Club of Innsbrook's website at http://www.gardenclubatinnsbrook.org/ or download this MDC guide at MDC Native Plant Guide
Hiking Trail Tour
It's been inspiring to see so many more families regularly enjoying Innsbrook's hiking trails in recent years. It's now a rare day that we don't see someone on a trail. For those of you who have not ventured out to enjoy any of these natural amenities you can visit this Innsbrook Resort website page to take a virtual trail tour: http://www.innsbrook-resort.com/blog/ibk-hiking-trail-tour. Thanks to the Innsbrook marketing team for pulling this together!
Nature Lover's Hike
For our third annual Valentine Nature Lover's Winter Hike we enjoyed an unseasonably warm, sunny day, as was most of this past winter. Fifteen hikers and four dogs gathered at the log cabin for an easy hike along the Tyrolean Trail. It was a rare February that we could attempt this trail as in most years the gravel road up and down the Alpine Dam can be icy to navigate. One highlight of this trail is a giant sycamore tree that must be over 250 years old. It took four of us with our arms outstretched to encircle its base that we estimated to be over 20 feet diameter. A surprise was the relative lack of wildlife along the meandering Charrette Creek, especially on a warm winter's day. I see more mammals and birds on our lot than I often do in this valley. We don't know why this is, but plan to explore it further.
Nature & Wildlife Photography Workshop
Our first Nature Chautauqua event for the summer will be on Saturday, June 3, from 10:30 am – noon at the Charrette Creek Commons meeting room. We are excited to host a visit by Gary Hesse who is a professional photographer that teaches nature photography classes at Meramec Community College. Gary will present a fast-paced one-hour program on tips for getting those special outdoor photographs of landscapes and wildlife. We also invite our own Innsbrook photo enthusiasts to share what they have learned practicing their hobby in such a perfect setting. The event is free and open to all. At 1 pm there will be an optional hands-on expedition along one of Innsbrook trails for those who desire more personalized instruction directly from our guest expert.
Earth Hour / Earth Day / Earth Epoch
National events of interest coming soon include Earth Hour, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, on Saturday evening, March 25, from 8:30 – 9:30 pm local time. Join millions of others around the globe, including landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, and show your love of the planet by turning off lights for just one hour. More info at https://www.earthhour.org/.
Earth Day is one month later on Saturday, April 22. For those of us old enough to remember the first Earth Day in 1970, we can't believe that in 2020 we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary! While there is no official Earth Day celebration at Innsbrook – other than getting out and honoring the environment by enjoying it – the St. Louis region hosts a 2-day Earth festival at Forest Park that weekend with more info at http://www.stlouisearthday.org/events/festival/.
One week later on April 29 a series of events and marches will occur across the country to raise awareness of how climate change threatens our economy, security, health, and planet. Info at https://350.org/april-29-2017-lets-march/.
Cougars in Missouri
Yes, there are mountain lions (puma concolor) in Missouri, but we prefer to call them cougars or pumas which is equally correct but not as alarming as some media outlets and hunting organizations like to make them sound. This past January we were sad to see that a rare young male cougar was killed while crossing traffic on I-70 in Warren County. This was widely reported in the regional news including the following at Warren County Record Cougar Article and Fox 2 Cougar News.
According to experts at the Missouri Dept. of Conservation (MDC), cougars are shy, secretive, and solitary carnivores that avoid human contact. They are rarely seen even at night when they come out to hunt for small mammals, and yes, deer. However, they like other large predators can be dangerous. The MDC offers excellent guidance on what to do on the very rare chance you may encounter a cougar in the wild at MDC Cougar Advice. We recently attended an MDC program at the Powder Valley Nature Center on mammals new to Missouri, such as the cougar and bear, which we hope to have presented at Innsbrook this summer. Until then, we have learned much about the role of cougars in our environment from an organization that Jane Goodall helped to create, The Cougar Fund, at About The Cougar Fund.
Bird Feeding Tips for Innsbrook
This guest expert article comes from Innsbrook resident Steve Taylor who is owner of the Wild Birds Unlimited store in Saint Charles. I asked Steve to educate us on what type of bird seed is best for use at Innsbrook, especially in the Spring. Steve responded:
"Because of its fat content, black oil sunflower is the single most energy efficient seed you can offer your feathered friends. However, many feeder birds cannot crack a sunflower shell and prefer to look for pieces of the seed meats left by other birds. Therefore, a good quality blend containing the different forms of black oil sunflower can feed as many as 30-40% more feeder-bird species than just black oil sunflower alone. Feeder birds obtain only about 20% of their caloric intake from food offered in feeders, so the type of seed offered is critical to your enjoyment of the hobby. The higher the fat/calorie content of the seed, the better return to the bird for their energy investment, and that means more visits to the feeder!"
I went on to ask Steve whether we need to be worried about the quality, origination, and freshness of seeds we use in our feeders. "About 90-95% of all birdseed grown in the US is grown for human consumption products, and the bird seed portion of this is either by-product from processing or excess acreage of certain crops. Therefore, the seed offered to birds is grown under the same regulations (for fertilizers, pesticides, non-GMO, etc.) as human food with some corn being the exception due to non-GMO. In some cases, certain crops must be imported because of crop shortage, draught, or it's simply not grown in this country. This amounts to a very small percentage and again, these imported seeds must meet stringent customs regulations. Nyjer seed fed to finches is a perfect example, as it is 100% imported. As far as freshness is concerned, purchase from a reputable dealer that specializes in bird feeding, as they will receive multiple shipments weekly to avoid the issues of warehousing for long periods of time."
"Just starting to feed the birds here at Innsbrook? Try feeding from a suspended tray or simply on the ground. As birds visit your feeding area, you can figure out what birds you prefer to feed and tailor your choices of feeders and seed. Your bird feeding store and their specialists can answer all your questions and help you enjoy the hobby. A great resource for more information is: https://www.wbu.com/get-started."
Next time I will ask Steve how we can avoid feeding so many non-flying critters unintentionally at our bird feeders!
Our Beloved Innsbrook Eagles
This update comes from Innsbrook property owner and master naturalist Allison Volk who writes:
"I am so excited to report that a pair of Innsbrook eagles is currently raising two apparently healthy chicks. The off-white 3 inch eggs hatched right around the first of March. This photo of mom feeding both chicks was taken when they were about 15 days old. The parents can begin leaving the chicks after their bodies are able to thermo-regulate their temperatures, but the parents are never far away and guard the chicks and nest aggressively.
After 25 days or so the next set of feathers will begin to emerge on the chicks, which will be dark brown in color. These will eventually grow into the very long flight feathers that give the juvenile eagle the appearance of being larger than their parents. These extra long feathers help the young eagle while learning to fly. The young birds of prey will fledge from the nest some 75-80 days after birth but may still be fed by the parents for another 6 weeks.
Perhaps due to the very unique situation of Innsbrook, the eagles are not very afraid to be around humans, so please be extremely considerate of the eagle family and always give them the space they need. Do not ever help a young (or mature) eagle with food. Their parents have a process of helping eaglets become independent and we should not interfere as it could risk the survival of the eaglet as it leaves home for good. The eaglets are very fast to grow but slow in learning to catch food for themselves. Eagles are extremely opportunistic hunters and it is best that we do not train them to think we can provide for them.
It's possible that we will be seeing another nesting pair within Innsbrook. Keep reporting your eagle sightings, especially if you see more than two adults or ANY juvenile. The youngsters will appear to be very large with a flat wing span in flight and a marbled or flecked brown/gold underwing belly and wing in flight. Eagles are larger than a turkey vulture and do not fly with their wings looking like a "V" in the sky, though they often soar in the wind thermals just like vultures. As a master naturalist I would very much like to hear of your sightings or photos so send me a note to email@example.com."
Thanks Allison for that great update which reminds us again how special and rare Innsbrook is, along with our responsibilities to maintain a healthy ecosystem and habitat for wildlife on the ground and in the air. You can see learn more about our Innsbrook Bald Eagles, including recent photographs of the growing chicks, at https://ibknature.com/gallery/innsbrook_eagles/.
Great Backyard Winter Bird Count Results
Thanks to all those who participated in the winter bird count this year. Warren County, including Innsbrook, reported 30 species, including 7 types of woodpeckers and 5 types of raptors. The state of Missouri showed great diversity with over 140 species reported. You can explore the data at http://gbbc.birdcount.org/.
Dark Sky Results
We find the winter night skies just as spectacular for star-gazing as the summer months, and the Orion constellation always impressive. This past month we participated in an international citizen scientist survey https://www.globeatnight.org/ that measures the erosion of our rural night skies due to light pollution. This year we reported seeing stars down to a magnitude of 5.5, a bit worse than last year. If you have neighbors that leave Innsbrook for weeks or months at a time, please ask them to turn off their outdoor lights. Remind them that this is not the city and many of us moved out here for clear skies in the day and dark skies at night.
Will Climate Change Affect Innsbrook?
We had another record warm winter with very little precipitation. For several years on a Phenology Log page at https://ibknature.com/phenology-log/ we have recorded how shifts in our local weather may be impacting the seasonal cycles of the flora and fauna at Innsbrook. As example, those of you on a lake already know how dry seasons or flash floods, which we seem to have more frequently, adversely impact water levels and water quality. This February, in the middle of winter when we rarely think about encountering snakes, we witnessed a Yellow-bellied Racer snake sunning itself along a trail. And ticks are appearing earlier each year it seems.
This summer we will be collecting more information about climate change in the Midwest and across the globe for a new page at https://ibknature.com/climate-change/. For now, the only content we have is a simple poll question asking if you believe what the vast majority of the world's scientists do, that man-made climate (and ocean) change is real and happening now due to the burning of fossil fuels that puts carbon into the atmosphere. Visit our climate change page now to vote and we will report back the results in our summer newsletter. Until then, view this map to see just how early spring came across the US, including Missouri at https://nyti.ms/2m36XjG
Closing Nature Quote
Innsbrook property owner Shawn Pohlman shared this comment with us in response to a question we had about what our readers love the most about living so close to nature at Innsbrook.
"Nature is what called me to Innsbrook from the beginning, and nature is what continues to nourish my soul. Nature reminds me to focus on the now. Nature reminds me to pay attention to the little things, like a lizard scampering on a rock or a single leaf floating down to the ground or a fish plunging back into the lake after a high jump. The steady presence of Mother Nature calms me by reminding me of my place – I am just a tiny dot on a page that we refer to as "the universe." Last but not least, changes in Nature, like our four seasons at Innsbrook, nudge me to continue to adapt – and that is a good thing – as flexibility is an important ingredient to a happy life."
Thanks Shawn for expressing so well what many of us surely also feel.


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Londoners Dave and Barbara Edgar are listing their home for $4.2 million inside a castle built around 1720 by Sir John Vanbrugh, a Georgian-era architect and playwright. Photo: Vanessa Berberian for The Wall Street Journal
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The Washington Post is reporting a local police vehicle is currently stationed outside of LeBron's home in Akron suburb Bath Township.
Word is police had to protect his property back in 2010 after "the decision" so this time they are prepared for both the celebration or the retaliation.
LeBron is continuing to keep us waiting on his decision this year, which will reportedly not take place on prime time TV but instead on his website.
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Then there's the next feeling, upon arrival at the aforementioned throne, that is enough to make you feel like your insides are falling out after they've all been rendered into a (mostly) liquid state.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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- Leeanne said...
What a fabulous prize! You won't know yourself. I see it has a built in light box.
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- Laura said...
Just wondering if your sewing machine is a Bernina. I have a 1260 and was thinking about getting a real sewing table after using a folding table for years. Can you tell me what brand table yours is? Thanks!
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You totally deserve that amazing prize! Congratulations! Did you see the red and white Nearly Insane quilt at the quilt show in Ontario? Fabulous.
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I saw your sewing machine table months ago and have had it on my mind since! Did you ever give out the brand name? It looks so perfect!
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Nido Science Discovery Center came in as a late runner for our Halloween 2010 options. It was a good entry though. It was even cheaper than Cartoon Network's halloween event and undoubtedly more unique than all the other halloween events combined!
It's like a space explorers trick or treat that totally broke the usual mould of halloween activities. Each child is given a galaxy map and must traverse through all the scientific galleries of the museum (and there are a lot), facing challenges and puzzles, which will ultimately --if the kid is smart enough-- lead him to the mystery alien. Finding the mystery alien wins you prizes. There will be treats given away per gallery, too. There's no Best in Costume thing going on. But kids are expected to wear space monsters and aliens costume, which would've been da bomb if we had the time and the resources. But we already spent on the boys' Last Airbender costumes. Having a new set made for this one halloween party alone will be completely idiotic.
But the activity would've totally floored Miro who, as you know, is a big science freak. I'm not sure if Kenji would've liked it though. But hey, it's a museum! Every child loves the museum!
What's in the running now is Cartoon Network's House of Halloween (because it's cheap) and Nido Science Discovery Center's Blurb Hunt (because it's cheaper). LOL! And yeah, we did run out of tickets for the Nickelodeon Scarenival. THAT would've been DA REAL BOMB!


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Breakfast from Leftovers
R had made spinach curry the previous day ( sauted some onions, red chilli, one pod garlic and spinach together with salt) , it tasted delicious and we had some leftovers.
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egg whites of 3 eggs well beaten with a dash of milk.
A Pinch of italian seasoning
Salt and pepper for seasoning
Hot sauce.
In a pan with a little bit of oil saute the spinach and then pour in the egg white, and there you have it scrambled eggs with spinach. Have it along with toast and some fruits for a kind of balanced breakfast


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J&J Opens San Diego Biotech Startup Center
J&J has been moving quickly the past few months on a new initiative to help biotech startups get up and running…
From Xconomy:
"Johnson & Johnson's West Coast research leader, Diego Miralles, has met with a lot of biotech entrepreneurs who are curious about what J&J is doing to foster more startups at its facility in San Diego. At some point, a skeptical question usually comes up.
"What's the catch?" Miralles says he's sometimes asked.
He insists there isn't any catch.
"We are genuinely trying to help the industry," Miralles said last week in a meeting at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. "We think helping the biotech industry helps us. We strongly believe that a rising tide lifts all ships."
J&J (NYSE: JNJ), which is based in New Brunswick, NJ, has been moving quickly the past few months on a new initiative to help biotech startups get up and running, through its new 30,000 square foot Janssen Labs startup space on the Torrey Pines Mesa. As Bruce first reported here in October, the idea is to create a space at J&J's facility where 18-20 fledgling companies can get modern lab space, supplies, professional facilities management, and equipment that is supposed to free up the entrepreneurs to focus more on their science…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
Press Release (including list of first startup residents) [web]
Janssen Labs at San Diego [web]
Growing a New York Biotech Culture
NYC plays catch-up to create centers, attract venture capital.
From Crain's NY Business:
"In recent years, the Bloomberg administration and its partners in academia and business have worked to overcome barriers to commercial biotech, from lack of space to lack of funding. The focus is now turning to what some consider the most difficult obstacle: a scarcity of entrepreneurial instinct in a medical-science community that widely thinks "going commercial" means to succumb to the dark side. From networking and pitching events to mentoring, advocates are trying to build the kind of startup ecosystem that has helped make the city's Internet industry the fastest growing in the country.
"Innovation is a mindset; it's a culture," said Jonathan Lewis, a former Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center surgeon, and founder and CEO of Manhattan-based cancer-drug developer Ziopharm Oncology Inc. "It's been applied to high-tech, and now it has to be applied to biotech."
It remains to be seen whether such efforts can replicate here what developed organically in biotech hot spots like Boston and San Francisco. Venture capitalists expect that it will take years, along with a string of successful companies and a coterie of seasoned biotech entrepreneurs who can invest in and mentor the next generation of startups…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
NYU's Venture Fund Announcement [web]
Aisling Capital [web]
Alexandria Center for LifeScience – NYC [web]
BioBAT [web]
NYC Tech Connect [web]
Columbia Tech Ventures [web]
U. of Cincinnati an Engine for Innovation, Launches Program for Campus Entrepreneurs
The idea is to remove the wall between discovery at universities and implementation in the economy.
From Cincinnati News:
"Dean Carlo Montemagno believes that some of the best teachers at the University of Cincinnati are dreaming up products that could change the world.
They're partnering with corporations like GE Aviation, Procter & Gamble and Ethicon Endo-Surgery to apply that research or start their own companies. And they're providing students with real-world experience that readies them for careers.
Montemagno, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, is an entrepreneurial pioneer for UC. This month, he raised $50 million in funding from the state of Ohio and GE Aviation to start a new research institute at the university…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
U. of Cincinnati Press Release [web]
J&J Launches Incubator for Biotechs in San Diego, No Strings-Attached Business Model
Incubators run by universities and economic development groups have long provided the facilities, expertise and even funding to help biotechs bridge the valley of death. But incubators run by drug companies have garnered mixed results.
From Seeking Alpha:
"Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) [has announced] the launch of Janssen Labs at San Diego, a 30,000-square-foot incubator designed to serve as the future home for 18 to 20 biotech start-ups.
Companies in the J&J incubator will get access to their own space, as well as common areas that house equipment for nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, flow cytometry and other analyses. In exchange for short, renewable leases, they will get "cost-efficient, flexible, turnkey wet labs…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
The Varick Street NYU-Poly Incubator: Best In NYC?
The incubator has one single goal. To help create great companies that will call NYC home.
From the Business Insider:
"It's very rare that a joint effort between the public, private, and education sector comes together to produce meaningful results. However, The Varick Street Incubator may be a shining example and roadmap for other cities to follow on how to foster tech innovation.
After spending time at various incubators in the city, it very well may be that the Varick Street incubator is the top place in NYC for new entrepreneurs to call home. If you get the opportunity to be at Varick Steet, you enjoy a lot of benefits. The incubator does not ask for any equity in your company. The rent is really affordable and includes a lot of amenities that are not free at other incubators. Best of all, you get access to high quality interns / employees from NYU, potential seed investors, NYU faculty advisors, and assistance from dozens of other private partners involved with the incubator. Probably one of the best benefits is that several serial entrepreneurs call the incubator home and serve as mentors and motivation for first time founders…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
Inside view of the Incubator [web]
Varick Street Incubator [web]
NYC Seed [web]
NYC Venture Connect [web]
Can the U.S. Government "Out-Startup" Silicon Valley?
Lean LaunchPad, Steve Blank, Stanford and the Nat'l Science Foundation Set Out to Prove They Can Starting Sunday, Oct. 9
From BusinessWire:
"One hundred of the best U.S. scientists and engineers are about to start one of the most exciting science experiments ever attempted — can you turn Rocket Scientists into startup founders? It might be called the U.S. Government versus tech incubators like Y-Combinator, as the National Science Foundation (NSF) creates a full-fledged incubator, complete with mentoring, for 100 teams of top engineers and scientists.
The National Science Foundation, which funds all non-medical science and engineering research in the U.S., is giving out 18,000 grants a year — with a $7 billion annual budget for innovation. This new Innovation-Corps program will infuse "startup" culture, training and mentoring for the best science and engineering funded by NSF–taking the best projects out of the science labs and universities to speed privatization and job creation, following the path of incubators like TechStars and Y-Combinator…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
NSF I-Corps Program [web]
I-Corps 1st Round of Awardees Announced [web]
Stanford Technology Ventures Program [web]
I-Corps introduction by Steve Blank [web]
How University of Michigan executives resolved their clash over startup investments
The analysis examined the performance of the university's startups over the past 30 years — including the 104 spinoff companies launched by the U-M Technology Transfer Office over the last decade. U-M analyzed how the university's endowment would have performed if it had invested in those startups at an early stage.
From AnnArbor.com:
"The University of Michigan's decision to invest up to $25 million in its own startup companies offers a telling glimpse at how the university is balancing its investment pursuits with a stated desire to boost the economy.
The move also revealed a private debate in which U-M executives clashed over whether the university's own spinoff companies were worthy of cash.
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman announced Wednesday morning that U-M's $7.8 billion endowment would deliver up to $500,000 to every early-stage U-M startup that has already secured venture capital from an outside source.
It's an admission that the university has missed out on past investment opportunities that would have helped its own startup companies expand — and earned the university's endowment big financial returns…"
READ FULL ARTICLE [web]
University of Michigan startups [web]
University of Michigan Announces Initiative to Invest Endowment $$ into Startups [web]


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Q: I feel utmost boredom in my daily work in a government office. Recently I read few books and done some homework but still scared to switch careers. My ambition is to become a freelance journalist. How to move forward?
A: First of all, it is important to know why do you want to become a freelance journalist. Is just your interest or to avoid boredom in your current job or both. I guess both.
If writing is your principal interest, start writing now. While you are at your present job, pursue freelance-writing opportunities where you can begin to build a name for yourself. Make sure that you don't use your work time to do your research or write. Use mornings, evenings and weekends to build your portfolio. That's what most people do when they want to transition from one field to the next.
Be mindful about stepping out on your own without establishing yourself first. You have responsibilities that include being smart about your next steps.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
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Naomi Wolf's article is hilariously for many reasons. And David Weinberger's nuanced position worth to reconsider. The lines are drawn by others anyway. While Weinberger's sees the significants of wikileaks as primary symbolic, Wolf is the artist who puts on the audience as a mask. Mark Zuckerberg's baby is exercising the same effect on the individual that wikileaks exercises on institutions; identity crisis. Facebook's goals are clear and find much support in driving a profession to embrace social networks for their purpose. To "master the art of behavioral targeting" sounds more familiar to our ears as "a just civilization". But the effect is the same.
"This year they passed 500 million users. … The scale of Facebook is something that is transforming our lives. One in 10 people on the planet, and it's excluded in China where one in five people on the planet live,"
Assange's appearance creates the attention facebook has in 2007. And it divides opinions along the same lines as does wikileaks. How did the journalistic profession react to facebook? Uniformly they reacted in the same way to facebook as they did to weblogs or RSS a decade ago. Although Kuebler-Ross's five stages of grief played out not quiet as simultaneously around the globe for weblogs as they did for facebook the structural impact was the same.
The first stage was one of finding a new language, new metaphors for what was mostly old vine in new bottles. Only some years ago consultant's announced the marriage of "magazines" with "newspapers" (newszines) the way to go, Juan Antonio Giner now sees Journalism as about "finding" the news not just "releasing" and "decorating" it. Forgetting that his innovation was the response to the massive decline in advertisement revenue due to changing media consumption habits. Advertising plays the major role in stabilizing a media system constantly threatened by technological advances. As the internet is expected to take over newspapers in 2012 (in terms of advertising spending) the years of traditional TV are counted. The employment effects of this technological change are well documented and not unlike that of other sectors. A rise in budget cuts, rise in atypical working conditions and higher workload for many journalists around the globe. While new tools demand new skills to master the old craft of story telling much stress was underway long before wikileaks captivated so many so fast.
What happens now to wikileaks is what happened to all previous technologies. Diversification in degree and kind relative to the "rooster in the house". A selection progress is yet to come by which the niches established provide an environment in which a given species can flourish. But for now we are left with a global hunt for new metaphors to "purify the dialect of the tribe" (T.S. Eliot correctly described this process).
While government's response is uniform the business world has to wake up to the new realities unleashed by wikileaks. Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times reflects the understanding that "whatever American's secret agenda was held to be, they definitely had one – only the naive could believe otherwise". He dismisses the point that governments need to protect themselves from their own population; a principle embodied in diplomacy. While marketing seems at first to be the means to achieve for private companies what diplomacy does for governments, we can be sure that 2012 will see a rise in global advertising spending as much as in cyber security.
Wikileaks leesens the east-west divide, a comment by Boynoton Rawlings seeing Assange akin to Prometheus who "chained to the mountain with his liver eaten out by an eagle" is as much an attempt to update our sensibilities to the new realities as the comparison of Assange to Neon (the hacker from the Matrix). Prometheus stole the fire from the gods who resided in the heavens and brought it down to men. A titan himself who felt sympathy for men revenge for Zeus autocratic regime. Zeus won, and send Pandora with a box down to men – the rest is history: for the greeks at least. In the following comment G. Rayners is right in assuming that "in terms of freedom of information and consideration of human rights that west and east are now set on a convergent course". But he is wrong in that it is a truism. After all, the "Great Firewall of China" was build by European and American companies. And TOR, the encryption system Wikileaks utilizes, was developed by a chinese to overcome the firewall.


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We always stay on the Plaza and enjoy the slower pace of walking everywhere. Except Nel Hills. And ikea, which we will not miss next time.
|I even found a window with my initials on it!
Here we are outside Cinzetti's where they serve the most ahh-mazing bruschetta. The next day, we shopped the Plaza (Brian's special Father's Day treat!) and drove home where we'd enjoy a few days of "stay-cation" on our main floor. (Avoiding the kids' mess upstairs and the reminders of work needing done in the basement.) It was pretty great.
When the kids came home, I spent a day playing with them in our blow-up pool. I know...a grown up and two nine year olds? It was actually lovely and peaceful and exhausting and satisfying. That's why we can't turn up our noses to less glamorous relaxation because stay-cations and blow-up pools make happy memories too. This week it's back to real life but next week we leave again (with kiddos this time) for Texas. May not leave lots of time for posting, but you know I'll check in eventually. :)


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Softball vs. Tufts
Wednesday, April 10 | 3 p.m.
Alumni Field | Babson Park, Mass.
• Babson and Tufts will meet for the 40th and 41st times on Wednesday in a series that dates back to 1987. The Beavers are 13-26 in the all-time series but own a win over the Jumbos in each of the last three seasons.
• Ali Reilly '18 tossed a complete-game shutout and the Beavers took advantage of three Tufts errors on the way to a 3-0 win on April 23, 2018, in Babson Park.
• Reilly struck out four and scattered six hits for Babson, which got an RBI single from senior Alex Corrigan to take the lead in the fourth. Sophomore Kristi Van Meter fanned nine in five innings for the Jumbos.
• Junior Jamie Stevens scored on an error with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to help the Jumbos defeat the Beavers, 5-4, in a game that was halted due to darkness on April 17 and finished six days later in Babson Park.
• Sophomore Reegan Coleman singled twice and drove in three runs for Tufts, while junior Victoria Casey had two doubles and three RBI for the Beavers.
• Tufts (19-4) is coming off an 8-0 five-inning win over Bowdoin in the finale of a three-game series on Saturday.
• Van Meter struck out eight and tossed the first perfect game of her career, while Maggie Lebinski homered and drove in four runs for the Jumbos.
• Sophomore Emma Della Volpe is batting .351 with 10 extra-base hits and 14 runs scored, Stevens is hitting .344 with five doubles, five homers and 17 runs batted in, and junior Casey Maggoire checks in at .344 with 10 doubles, two homers and 17 RBI.
• Van Meter (10-1) has a 1.44 ERA to go along with 74 strikeouts in 63.1 innings, while sophomore Kristina Haghdan has gone 6-2 with a 2.50 ERA and 48 strikeouts in 47.2 innings of work.
• Babson (11-9) has won eight of its last 11 games after earning a split with a 5-3 victory in game two of Saturday's doubleheader at WPI.
• Senior Josephine Mares went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI, while junior Jacqueline Paul was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI for the Beavers, who finished with 12 hits.
• Mares is batting .446 with six extra-base hits and 19 runs scored, senior Ashley Tango is hitting .406 with 10 extra-base hits and 13 runs batted in, and Paul enters the week with a .404 average to go along with eight doubles and 11 RBI.
• Junior Brooke Stock is 6-4 with a 2.78 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 63.0 innings, while classmate Katie Gademsky (4-4) has won two straight starts and has a 4.53 ERA in 46.1 innings of work.
• The Beavers are batting .423, averaging more than 12 hits and scoring 8.55 runs per game in their 11 victories this spring.
• In nine losses though, the Green and White is batting just .215 as a team and is scoring just 1.33 runs.
• The 1-2-3 hitters in Babson's lineup – Mares, Tango, and Paul – combined to hit .605 (23-for-38) with nine extra-base hits, 14 RBI and 14 runs scored in four games over the weekend.
• Mares hit her first career home run, a grand slam in game two against Smith on Friday, Tango recorded two doubles and two triples, and Paul put togheter four straight multi-hit games.
• Both Corrigan and junior Tori Roche have at least one hit in six consecutive outings entering Monday's twin bill with Tufts.
• Corrigan is batting .389 (7-for-18) with five RBI during this her streak, while Roche is hitting. 470 (8-for-17) with four doubles, five RBI and four runs scored.
• The Beavers are 9-1 on the year when scoring in the first inning.


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I have been happy, tho' in a dream.
I have been happy— and I love the theme:
Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love— and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.
'Twas a great day nonetheless. Much like last year's kite festival shenanigans with the pirate crew. I reckon they're soon to return, much as the tourists will when the heat of summer comes anew. Luckily, I'll be off somewhere else, avoiding the madding crowds.


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Sure, most of the popular processed food products (e.g. chips, granola bars, etc.) won't complement a keto diet, but you'll have plenty of options outside of the typical snack "box." Check out these easy choices in the infographics below as well as the delicious recipes that follow.
Want more? Of course! We've got them—from convenient leftover choices to easily packable options.
Finally, check out these healthy recipes for more great keto snack ideas!
Time in the Kitchen: 25 minutes
Servings: 4 to 6
Recipe Notes:
Cheddar chips don't stay crispy long, so make them right before serving the guacamole.
Guacamole usually taste bests chilled, so either refrigerate the avocados for an hour or two before making the guacamole, or press plastic wrap against the surface of the made guacamole to protect it from air (which turns it brown), and chill for several hours before serving.
Preheat oven to 400º F/205º C.
Line a baking sheet with parchment or Silpat.
Drop heaping tablespoons of grated cheddar onto the baking sheet. Space the mounds a few inches apart. You should get approximately 16 mounds. Spread the cheddar mounds out into circles about 2 inches/5 cm wide.
Bake 8 minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbling.
Let the cheese set for a minute until it starts to solidify, then lift the Cheddar rounds off the baking sheet with a spatula. The cheese will quickly cool into "chips." The Cheddar chips will not be perfectly round; if you want them to be, then use kitchen shears to trim the edges.
Prep all the guacamole ingredients, and have them ready so the guacamole can be mixed together immediately after the avocados are cut.
Halve the avocados and remove the pits. Use a knife to cut the flesh into small cubes. Scoop the cubed flesh out with a spoon into a medium bowl.
Sprinkle all the remaining ingredients over the avocado: bacon, lime zest, lime juice, shallot, garlic, cilantro, and jalapeno.
Use a fork to mash the avocado into guacamole with a texture you prefer, either smooth or chunky. Serve with Cheddar cheese chips.
Recipe offered by Pique Tea
Servings: 10 (approximately)
Time in the Kitchen: 10 minutes (plus 1 hour for chill time)
In a small saucepan, heat coconut oil and coconut butter over low heat until melted.
Add Pique Tea Earl Grey Tea sachets, packets of Vanilla Coconut Collagen Fuel, hemp hearts and sea salt into mixture. Blend and mix well until smooth.
Pour the mixture in a silicone mold of your choice.
Freeze for 20 minutes until the fat bombs harden.
Add rose petals to garnish. Store in the freezer or the refrigerator. Enjoy!
If make-ahead isn't your thing or for times when you need to grab something and go, Primal Kitchen Protein Bars make a good keto-friendly option. Each bar contains 9–10 grams of carbs, 2 grams of sugar, and 8–9 grams of protein. Sweetened with a touch of honey and monk fruit, these protein bars are made with real ingredients, such as cage-free eggs, coconut oil, nuts, and flaxseed—all without a shred of gluten, grain, dairy, whey, soy, or refined sugar.
Nutrition Info Per Bar: Calories: 200, Carbohydrates: 9–10 grams, Sugar: 2 grams, Fat: 15–16 grams, Protein: 8–9 grams
Servings: 4
Time in the Kitchen: 10 minutes, plus at least 24 hours to marinate
Toast the fennel seeds in a dry pan until the seeds are aromatic and lightly toasted, 2 minutes. Turn off heat. Immediately add the olive oil, hot pepper, rosemary and lemon zest to the pan.
Put the olives and nuts in a large glass jar. Pour the warm oil and seasonings on top. When the oil is cool, cover and refrigerate. For the best flavor, marinate the olives and nuts at least 24 to 48 hours before eating (they will stay fresh for several weeks in the refrigerator). Bring up to room temperature before serving.
Servings: 10 (approximately)
Time in the Kitchen: 10 minutes (plus 1 hour for chill time)
Mix 1/2 cup almond butter, 1/2 cup coconut oil, and 1 Tbsp. coconut flour. Place the "dough" in the refrigerator or freezer until it firms up enough to scoop and roll into balls.
Roll into 1 1/2-inch balls and put them back in the freezer to firm up (about an hour).
At the end of the hour, make the glaze by mixing 1/2 cup melted coconut oil, 2 scoops of Collagen Fuel, 3 Tbsp. raw cocoa powder, and 1 packet of the Four Sigmatic Chaga in a small bowl until fully blended.
Servings: 4
Time in the Kitchen: 1 hour
*The egg white whisked with water is optional, but helps spices adhere better.
Line a large baking sheet with foil. Lay the strips of bacon out, spaced so they're not touching. Put the pan in the oven and turn the temperature up to 400 ºF/205 ºC (no need to preheat).
Cook bacon 20 to 25 minutes until crispy. Use tongs to move the bacon onto a plate to cool. Pour the bacon grease out of the pan and set aside.
Turn the oven temperature down to 300 ºF/150 ºC.
In a large bowl, whisk the egg white and water until frothy. Add in the nuts and seeds, and mix well to coat. Drain the nuts and seeds in a colander for a few minutes, stirring and pressing with a rubber spatula a few times, so excess egg white drips off.
Return the nuts and seeds to the large bowl and add the coconut aminos, paprika and cayenne. Mix well. Pour in the bacon grease and mix well again.
Spread the nuts out on the same baking sheet the bacon was cooked on.
Roast 30 minutes, mixing once.
Remove from the oven and immediately scrape onto a large plate or pan to cool (or it will stick to the aluminum foil). Chop the bacon up into small pieces and combine with the cooled nuts and seeds. Let the nuts cool completely before storing in an airtight container. If not eating within 24 hours, store the bacon trail mix in the refrigerator.
Servings: 6 soft-boiled eggs
Time in the Kitchen: 25 minutes
*The saltiness of tamari can vary between brands. If your first batch of eggs is too salty, cut back on the amount of tamari used for future batches.
In a medium bowl, whisk together warm water, tamari, coconut aminos, rice vinegar, ginger and kombu. Set aside and let cool to room temperature.
Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Use a large spoon to carefully set the eggs in the bottom of the pot.
For soft-boiled eggs, cook exactly 7 minutes.
While the eggs boil, fill a large bowl with water and ice.
When the eggs are done, set them gently in the bowl of ice water.
When the eggs are cool, peel while holding the egg underwater (this helps the shells come off more easily).
Submerge the eggs in the tamari marinade so they are completely covered. If the eggs aren?t completely submerged, try a different sized bowl or a jar, or, add more water.
Marinate the eggs in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours and up to 8 hours (after that the eggs tend to get too salty). If refrigerated, the eggs will stay fresh for about a week out of the marinade. The marinade can be kept in the refrigerator and re-used for more eggs.


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Planning a Fall Festival at Your Church?
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by Jane Robinson
"If you want to reach the community in a nonthreatening way, if you want to provide a place where children can experience the love and safety of Jesus in troubled and dangerous times, then by all means plan a fall festival!"
This advice comes from Nichole Sims of Cedar Park, Texas. CTA recently interviewed Nichole, and we thank her for her willingness to share information about her fall festival, as well as contributing some of the following ideas to help you design and organize your own event. Adapt them to fit your location and resources. Remember, even a simple event sponsored by the church can bless both members and neighbors. In Nichole's words:
I believe God will use this kind of event to build his church and further his kingdom. The benefit is twofold. First, members of the church are blessed as we love God by loving others and serving the community. Also, the members of the community are blessed as they encounter Jesus in and through us!
Name a director. It makes sense to have one person ultimately in charge. You'll want this person to be able to delegate and take the leadership role this endeavor requires.
Give the director an executive committee to help. Committee members can each take charge of organizing a group of volunteers to achieve specific tasks and making sure the tasks gets done. The size of the committee will vary, depending upon the scale of your festival. If yours is a small church in a small town, two or three people may be able to do the job. On the other hand, planning activities and food for several hundred people will be easier if eight to ten people share the workload. Possible areas for assignment:
• Make the congregation aware of the upcoming event.
• Let the community know that your festival is coming soon and that they are invited.
• Prepare information about your church to give to festival visitors.
• Reserve space in advance.
• Plan for parking and parking lot safety.
• Decorate the space.
• Check with those in charge of other groups to find out what specific needs they have (e.g., electrical outlets, a large area for a game, tubs of water for apple bobbing).
• Clean up the space.
• Plan for musical entertainment.
• Enlist a master of ceremonies.
• Plan games and simple art projects for the children.
• Arrange for treats for the children to take home with them. Click here for ideas.
• Provide food for the occasion.
• Schedule food servers.
• Make contact with the visitors who attended your festival. Invite them to worship services and Sunday school.
• Share names of visitors in an organized way with your church's evangelism calling committee.
• Evaluate the festival, taking careful notes regarding what to repeat and what to avoid next year.
• Make reservations for next year (e.g., tables and chairs, inflatables for children to jump in).
• Staff the executive committee for next year.
Recruit volunteers and assign them to the group that will most benefit from their gifts and talents. Recruiting may not be as hard as you might think. Nichole told us, "Most members get excited about 'rolling up their sleeves' to work together to offer the community something that is free, loving, and safe."
Families appreciate a safe place for their children to be entertained at Halloween. When you hold a fall festival, you're providing that—and so much more! Perhaps some of the families who come will be led to the eternal safety of the Savior's loving arms!
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Kill for Peace!
First, the religious right appropriated the tactics of the labor movement to create a formidable electoral bloc. Now, reports Newsweek, a pro-war group called Protest Warriors plans to appropriate the tactics of the anti-globalizers in order to "countermessage" the lefties expected to pour onto the sidewalks of New York.
Gotta give 'em points for creativity. However small their numbers, they're likely to get a lot of attention. Let's hope it's taken with the grain of salt the media would shake on something called, say, Hookers for Christ.
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text: This assignment was to combine two learning theories together then create an accompanying graphic. I have selected the Classical Conditioning Theory of Learning to mash up with Multimedia Learning Theory. I believe that these two elements in conjunction exemplify the reasons for Gamification of Education. When multiple stimuli are presented in a variety of means to reinforce one another the end user has greater comprehension and retention of the presented material. For example, a game that has both text and audio narration with a pictorial representation of the directions has greater success for the user because they can absorb the content in multiple ways stimulating more receptors int he brain. Once this information is processed a new schema is developed in the brain as to the functioning of the game. This creates a new desired behavior in the user of the game to use controls in certain ways to acquire a winning condition. As the player (or learner) works their way through the game and face various obstacles the gamer learns from their mistakes through conditioning to over come each level creating new schema of how the game works at various levels. The new schema is created by a combination of feedback stimulus that can take the form of text, audio, and pictorial references in conjunction with each other. When the player adjust their schema they will experience success in the game and ultimately achieve the winning condition as desired by the game designer. Through the process of multiple stimulus the player acquires these new skills and retains them longer than if the stimulus was just in a single textual form.


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Madrid (Marks) Notification No. 74
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
Ratification by the Kingdom of Denmark
The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark, on November 10, 1995, of its instrument of ratification of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, adopted at Madrid on June 27, 1989 ("Madrid Protocol (1989)"). The said instrument contains the declaration that "until later decision, the Protocol will not be applied to the Faroe Islands or to Greenland."
The Madrid Protocol (1989) will enter into force, with respect to the Kingdom of Denmark, on February 13, 1996.
The date on which the said Protocol will become operational will be notified in due course.
November 13, 1995