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High quality materials that offer superior desired characteristics for the intended purpose are called advanced materials. These can either be a single product or a combination of products. Manufacturers are focusing on developing new advanced materials as well as fine tuning already existing products to enhance its desired properties.The high quality of these materials enables its usage in a wide range of applications, including applied physics, electronics, medical devices, green packaging, and wastewater treatment, among others. Some of the popular advanced materials enabling manufacturers to meet rising demand are advanced steel and aluminum alloys and a variety of ceramics that include silicon nitride, toughened zirconia and aluminum nitride, among others. Researchers have also developed a range of advanced fibers such as Dyneema, Vectran, M5, and Zylon PBO which is estimated to have a positive impact on the advanced materials market.
Advanced materials provide improved chemical and physical properties, including high stiffness coupled with lightweight, superior strength towards reinforcing fiber, high resistance to chemicals and temperature, dimensional stability, and high flexibility, among others. Some of the end-use industries of advanced material markets are aerospace, electronics and semiconductor, automotive, and medical devices. Advanced composites can be segmented on the basis of its matrix phase into ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), polymer matrix composites (PMCs) and metal matrix composites (MMCs).Europe is the largest market for advanced materials, due to rampant growth of various end-use industries in the region. North America is estimated to be the fastest growing region in the advanced materials market, followed by Asia Pacific, mainly due to major investments in R&D by major players, rampant demand for high-tech materials across various sectors flourishing in the region and growing concerns about environmental safety. For example advanced materials are used in wastewater treatment due to features such as enhanced redox, strong adsorption, and photocatalytic properties. Polyvinyl chloride membrane reactor works as an advanced material that helps in ground water safety by removal of nitrate.
Extensive R&D in the field of advanced materials has led to the development of enhanced product range of advanced materials market. Some of the newly developed products in the advanced materials market are superior strength polymers (PPS, PEEK, and Radel), fiber-polymer composites (epoxy lytex glass), aluminum with silicon carbide or boron fiber whiskers. Other types of advanced materials include metallic glasses, pyrolytic graphite, hard coatings (titanium nitride, titanium aluminum nitride), doped mediums, and optical modulators, among others.
Some of the major factors driving growth of the global advanced materials market are rising demand for lightweight vehicles in order to increase fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions and increasing demand for graphene as an advanced material. Graphene has various highly sought after features such as it being the thinnest and strongest material, transparent and pliable, superior conductor of electricity and heat, and high frequency. This leads to its wide application across various sectors, which in turn is expected to drive growth of the global advanced materials market over the forecast period (2016–2024).
Advanced Materials–Regulatory Scenario
Various government regulations are in place across the globe pertaining to production, usage and export/import of advanced materials. For example, manufacturers and end users in the advanced materials market must take into account standardized rules and regulations defined by Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in case of graphene production and its usage. Also,the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that regulates the usage of carbon nanotubes. There is Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 that provides the safety guidelines for advanced packaging materials especially used in food packaging. Directive 84/500/EEC provides the EU laws on advanced ceramic materials which comes into contact with food items.
Increasing demand for lightweight vehicles expected to drive growth of the advanced materials market over the forecast period. Light weighting is a rampant trend in the automotive sector, as it allows for superior fuel efficiency, improved safety, and superior overall performance of the vehicles. According to Scientific American (a leading science magazine), fuel economy of a car increases by 6%-8% by decreasing its weight by one tenth. For example, Nissan significantly reduced weight of its 2016 model cars such as Altima, Frontier, and JUKE, among others. Few have a misconception that lightweight vehicles are not as safe as heavy vehicles, which, previously was acting as a barrier to the growth of lightweight vehicles market. However, over the years the general conception regarding safety issues in case of lightweight vehicles has changed, thanks to newly developed lightweight vehicles, offering enhanced safety. Newly developed advanced materials including carbon, aluminum, and magnesium composites provide lightweight vehicles with greater safety features.Some of the newly developed cars using advanced materials are BMW and BMW i8. The passenger cell of these cars are made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), which very strong yet 50% lighter than steel.According to Coherent Market Insights, the global sales of passenger cars was pegged at 73.9 million in 2015, which in turn creates a highly conducive environment for complementary industries such as advanced materials market.
Some of the restraining factors towards the growth of the advanced materials market are high price, complex fabrication, and low availability of advanced materials.Production and usage of advanced materials require major investments, as it requires experienced professionals and extensive and continuous research. Some of the emerging technologies that would boost market growth during the forecast period are expandable polymer technology, which is projected to have a significant positive impact on advanced electronics. Also, bio-based polycarbonate is also expected to gain significant traction in the energy and gas sector over the forecast period.Some of the major companies operating in the global advanced materials market are Akzo Nobel, 3M Company, BASF, Dow Chemical, and Momentive Performance Materials Inc.


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Man who travelled with fake passport given suspended sentence
The defence argued that since the man would be deported, a suspended sentence would be adequate
An Albanian national who pleaded guilty to having travelled to Malta using a forged passport was handed down a suspended sentence today, after the defence argued that incarcerating him would only make him a burden on the state.
Julian Rama, 30, was arraigned in court before Magistrate Audrey Demicoli on charges of having, on 5 August, knowingly made use of a forged passport.
In a statement to the police, Rama had said that he had travelled to Italy with an Albanian passport, and had then met someone there who had given him the forged passport. He said he had come to Malta for the purpose of then travelling on to the UK.
Rama also claimed that the person who had given him the passport had also given him the email address of a certain "Tony Montana", who he was to email on his arrival to the UK.
The defence argued that, since the accused would be deported from Malta, it wouldn't make sense for the court to give him an effective prison sentence for his crime, and turn him into a burden on the state.
"We shouldn't be after a pound of flesh, but we are after justice, so we believe a suspended sentence, in the circumstances, would be ideal," the defence said.
The prosecution, however, requested an effective prison sentence, remarking that this was the second instance of someone being caught using a fake passport in the last four days, and that the practice shouldn't be allowed to turn into a trend.
Taking the circumstances of the case into consideration, the court nevertheless sentenced the man to 18 months in prison, suspended for four years.
Inspector Claire Borg prosecuted.
Ismael Psaila was legal aid for the accused.


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Through the keyhole 016: How to step up learning by blending coaching, training, and doing
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Stuart Munton | About a 3 minute read
For us, learning is paramount, it is the crux of what we do. On top of our dedicated offering -The Academy, we have our 'Agile and Technology Coaching team'. But what's in a name? The team do a lot more than just coaching, and it is what this team do that is really enabling us to continue to step up learning at AND Digital.
Our Coaches are subject matter experts with experience in multiple industries, they are goal-centric, they are teachers AND they support teams to get products over the line.
Our Coaching Team spends their time working between both our internal and client teams. They aim to support these teams deliver innovative and engaging products again and again. Their mission is to strive for great product development – "Building the right product" and great delivery – "Building the product right".
The coaching team work across three core areas: Coaching, Training, and Doing
Coaching – The members in this team spends time with Agile teams, Agile leadership teams, and senior management teams, working to help them improve and meet their goals. By being empirically based, progress can be tracked and improvements observed with the use of goal centric metrics.
Training – This team spends time researching and building the content for interactive learning workshops. They deliver these workshops in small (~6 people) to large (~40 people) sessions. The content covers a wide range of Agile and technology delivery practices and techniques.
Doing – This team spends time working with-in Agile teams (either Scrum Master, Product Owner, or other) to help the team deliver great products. Having hands-on experience is critical to 'keep it real' and ensure that the team remain grounded in their areas of expertise.
While each of these three core areas is important, for us it's the combination and cross-learning that comes from individual coaches blending across these areas that gives the greatest benefits to our teams and clients at AND Digital. A few of the benefits of these blends are:-
Training to Coaching Blend – After training people the coaching experience is much closer and tighter as they have a common context from the training session. For example, with one client we were able to move directly from training into delivery supported by coaching due to the same member of the coaching team completing both aspects.
Doing to Coaching Blend – The team are able to take the real work experience from doing into their coaching to provide a much stronger goals to the coaching experience. For example, we have been able to take learning from one team at a client where the coaching team members were embedded in the team and then apply them to other teams at the same client through our coaching actions.
Doing to Training Blend – Lessons learnt from doing lead directly to improvements in the training content, with then supports the learning for future training sessions. For example, we have seen technology trends with-in client teams that have lead to us updating our coding dojo (tech training practices) to include additional languages.
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Domestic abuse survivors push to keep guns aways from abusers
JEFFERSON CITY - Domestic abuse survivors testified at a house hearing Tuesday night to push a bill that would keep guns away from domestic abusers.
"If we can come up with legislation that makes it possible to take away the firearms from someone who has an ex parte or a convicted order of protection, we need to do it," said COPE Shelter executive director Judy Kile.
Kile shared her story about losing her twin sister to domestic gun violence.
"If we can get this, we can possibly cut down on murders by guns because of domestic violence," Kile said.
House Bill 960 would prohibit people convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors from having firearms. The bill would also require police officers to remove firearms at the scene of a domestic violence call.
During her testimony, Kile explicitly said she is not against guns. She said she loves the National Rifle Association, but this bill is for something different.
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One concern that Colleen Coble, the chief executive officer of Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, addressed was this law violating the Second Amendment.
"These bills aren't about restricting Second Amendment rights. They're about protecting those who have already been harmed by convicted offenders," said Coble.
Rep. Jered Taylor, R-Republic, said he had a concern with judges' authority to take away a person's gun who has an order of protection against them.
"This is a requirement. It doesn't give judges any authority or leeway to decide what's best in the situation. My concern is that these individuals in which we're taking their rights away have not been convicted of domestic assault," Taylor said.
One domestic assault survivor told her story of being stalked and nearly killed by her ex-husband. He was not convicted of stalking.
Rep. Dean Plocher, R-St.Louis said a problem is the bill would need to explicitly state stalking as a form of domestic abuse.
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According to Coble, 57 women died as a result of domestic violence within the past year.
"We can't continue to turn away from that reality. This is about the value for Missourians and our value for other Missourians, which is we want them protected. We want them to all be safe in our communities
Coble said if the bill doesn't pass this year, she plans to try again next year.
"We want to ensure that those who use violence against their family members face a penalty and are not allowed to continue to harm them," Coble said.


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The partial derivatives ∂z/∂x and ∂z/∂y of the function z = f(x, y) measure the small variations in x or y. The total differential provides us with an idea of linear approximation of the small variations in the function z due to small variations in both x and y.
The symbols dx and dy in the derivative dy/dx of the function y = f(x) are calledthe differentials. The differential of y is defined as:
Dy = f' (x) Δx
Then, the differential of dx of x is given by
dx = 1Δx
Since derivative of x with respect to itself is 1. Thus, the equation (1) can be written as
Dy = f' (x) dx
This concept can be applied to the function of two, or more variables. Let z = f(x, y) be a function of two variables x and y. For small increments Δx and Δy in x and y respectively, let Δz be the corresponding increment in z. By definition we have,
Let dx, dy and dz be the limiting values of Δx, Δy and Δz. Then, from the above equation we get,
Dz = ∂z/∂x. dx +∂z/∂y × dy are called partial differentials of z with respect to x and y respectively. The sum of these partial differentials of a function is called the total differential.
The result of the above equation can be extended to the functions of several independent variables. Thus, when z = f(x, y, r) then,
dz = ∂z/∂x dx + ∂z/∂y dy + ∂z/∂r.


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Migrant workers unite to sit-in rally in rapid succession.
Migrant workers, one after another, unite in sit-in rally for the sake of freedom of assembly and association, annihilation of massive crackdown, and achievement of working visa.
Last April 8, two comrades, Busira and Jarnadan from Nepal combined to the rally. ?Korean government will wipe out us from this country after it put our noses to the grindstone. The 1 year stand-by seal, which will be provided to us at the cost of registration, is no legalization that we have wanted. Neither is the Employment Permit System(EPS) without labors three major rights and freedom of transfer. What we want is the working visa that secures at least 5 years of stay, freedom to transfer factories, and complete labors three rights. We joined in the rally for this goal, resolved ourselves to carry it on at the risk of deportation which is identical with death for us. Not merely 260,000 undocumented foreign workers' but also 400,000 migrant workers' combative spirit will we show to the government. We will fight obstinately to the last.", they clarified their fighting volition. The suppression from Korean government rather activated our fighting spirit and indignation. We surmounted the fear of coercive deportation and now will struggle to the death. The number of the comrades who muster under our banner is swelling out. No oppression from the government can squelch our firmly determined mind.
One Hundred of migrant workers joined Mayday rally.
After the commence of sit-in rally on April 28, one hundred of migrant workers celebrated the eve of Mayday(April 30th), and participated in Mayday rally(May 1st), bearing up under the oppression of Korean government.
Our struggling figures were exhibited through a large-sized monitor, followed by Hussein's utterance.
Kabir, the representative of migrant workers, who are on the sit-in rally in Myeong-dong Cathedral, said at the demonstration on Mayday, "Korean government is committing such an unreasonable and absurd crime now. I will fight, regardless of the threat of deportation, until the end when we achieve working visa, annihilate the massive crackdown, and terminate the suppression of freedom of assembly and association from Korean government. My fellow comrades, are you with me?" Then, 15,000 Korean workers answered with struggle slogan.
What made us speak out in front of a numerous group of Korean workers was our ceaseless struggle. More than 2,000,000 won was raised through "Achieve legalization" button sale and donation only for two days. The ardour of solidarity and alliance is glowing out.
Solidary struggle of international workers
Last May 3, a demonstration was held, demanding freedom of assembly·association, annihilation of massive crackdown, and achievement of working visa. The protesting comrades claimed with ardent will to struggle. Afterwards, Korean workers and students proclaimed their willingness to ally.
On the same day, several picket demonstrations were held in front of the Korean Embassy in Toronto, Ottawa, Ontario(Canada) and Hong Kong to protest against Korean government's despotic suppression and to urge it to issue working visa. Continuous demonstrations were held in the Philippines, Bangladesh(May 6th) and in Australia(May 7th), while the workers in the USA and Saudi Arabia were holding a forum in the interest of solidarity. Like this, the flames of alliance and solidarity are burning out all over the world. It is because out struggle is right and persistent.
What Korean government and the capitalists fear most are the workers in struggles and their solidarity. It caused them to clamp down on our rally. We are not struggling by ourselves but with the 13,000,000 Korean workers and workers of the whole world.
Our struggle cannot be ceased!!
Migrant workers' struggle will continue.
On May 9, there will be held a press conference demanding freedom of assembly and association, annihilation of massive crackdown, and achievement of working visa and the beginning ceremony of the association of Korean workers, academic circle , and religious circle for annihilation of massive crackdown, and achievement of working visa"
On May 11th, a demonstration will be held in front of the Immigration, opposed to deportation within a year and usual crackdown.
On May 19th, the postponed mass rally will take a place.
We never yielded under the government but took a time to complete arrangements to fight against it. We are workers. Workers die rather than step back. That is the very spirit of workers'. Let's shout ourselves hoarse, crying out our demands until they will be engraved on Korean government and spread out our struggle to the all over the world.
Our banner cannot be let down-reject registration!!
We are workers. Workers never compromise. Therefore, we, the Equality Trade Union-Migrants Branch(ETU-MB), differentiate ourselves from Joint Committee for Migrant Workers in Korea(JCMK) who tries to enforce the Employment Permit System and attempts to drive us out, in collusion with Korean government. Also, we draw a sharp line between ourselves and the Korean-Chinese Church who yielded to the government with little trouble. We will never let out flag fall. We will never recall our registration reject campaign.
We are obviously aware that we will be enslaved and have to live in insecure and uncertain condition where we can be deported at any time if we withdraw our struggle now. Through the crackdown no better than a witch-hunt, Korean government will wipe out migrant workers as if they were garbage and call new migrant workers in. The government intends to enforce the Employment Permit System which is no longer different from the Trainee System. The stamp misread by us as visa will disclose its sharpened blade to us.
We have to fight from now on. We have to show Korean government and the capitalists that we are living workers, that we are not slaves who are willing to kneel down to them with the carrot given to us by their hypocritical hands. There will be no compromise until the real legalization is achieved that secures at least 5 years of stay, freedom to transfer factories, and complete labors three rights.
The more our enemy suppresses us, the more indefatigable and the stronger will our struggle become. It will awaken and raise a storm of prevalent and exuberant alliance.
Migrant workers, resist!!! Struggle!!!
*** Migrant Workers' Demands
ˇÜ Give us working visa!
ˇÜ Oppose to the Voluntary Reporting Program for Unauthorized Foreigners(VRPUF)!
ˇÜ Oppose to the crackdown!
ˇÜ Oppose to the Employment Permit System!
Give us labors right to transfer factories and labors three right!
ˇÜ We are human beings. Don't beat us! Give us salary!
Give us retirement grants! Give us day-off!
ˇÜ Let us stay at least 5 years in Korea!
ˇÜ Give us right to assemble and apeak!
Seoul Gyeonggi Incheon
Equality Trade Union Migrants' Branch (ETU-MB)
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Victor Kiriakis Defends Gay Grand Nephew, Sonny Kiriakis, And Gets The Girl!
Just when you thought you had Victor Kiriakis pegged, be goes and does the unexpected. In recent episodes Days of our Lives has been bringing to our screens its first real attempt at a gay storyline.
There was an attempt in the late 70's when Mike Horton supposed he may be gay due to his inability to make love to his girlfriend Trish Clayton, but it was quickly squashed when Linda Patterson (Mickey Horton's secretary) took the young Horton to bed to prove he was as straight as his "father". (Linda also had an affair with Mickey, who was believed to be Mike's father until the boy was a teen).
When Soap Opera Story speculated that Justin and Adrienne's son would be Will Horton's gay love interest in Days of our Lives first gay storyline, we also assumed that Sonny's sexuality would be the cause of much tension in the Kiriakis family – most notably coming from Victor.
It seems the opposite has turned out to be true, and in a nice twist, Victor got to put his money where his mouth is on his "nothing is more important that family" mantra by coming to Sonny's defense when T called Sonny disgusting (for his sexual orientation). Victor then told the prejudiced teen that evolution wasn't moving fast enough if there are still people in the world with T's attitude.
It has to be noted that the conflict regarding Sonny's coming out as Gay to his family and friends is stemming from the teen scene. T showed his prejudice, Kinsey, who has a crush on Sonny doesn't know how to deal with boys who don't want to sleep with her, and Will is disappointed by his own surprise at Sonny's revelation over his sexual preferences. Gabi thinks Sonny is great, but her tune may change when Sonny steals her boyfriend, Will, from her!
The older crowd, however, seems okay with Sonny being gay. And Victor's open support of Sonny bagged him Maggie Horton. Maggie overheard Victor defending Sonny, and was so pleased that she hustled over to Victor's mansion for the cup of tea she'd turned down earlier. Maggie told Victor how wonderful he was, curled up on his lap and kissed the open minded Kiriakis patriarch.
We're not sure how much of this storyline was re-written, if any, from the the Higley vision, but we imagine there have been some changes since Higley's original summer spoilers spelled trouble for Will and Gabi 's relationship(which hasn't really occurred…yet?). Regardless, the slower pace of the storytelling and the gentle introduction and focus on the reaction of friends and family to the news that Sonny is gay is very true to life making for good viewing…


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Tomorrow sees the closing event of Lavinia Raccanello's exhibition all about Faslane Peace Camp, having an open discussion about our views on nuclear weapons. Also the Wise Women of Glasgow are planning to have several 10 week courses taking place in the following areas:
DAYTIME: 10 week Course
Where: Langside Halls, 5 Langside Ave, Glasgow G41 2QR
When: Every Tuesday, 19th August to 28th October 2014 (stop for School October Week)
Time: 12pm till 2pm
EVENING: 10 week Course
Where: The Albany Centre, Ashley St, Glasgow, Lanarkshire G3 6DS
When: Every Wednesday, 20th August to 29th October 2014
Time: 7pm till 9pm
If you are interested then head onto their site http://www.wisewomen.org.uk/currentcourses.html
Now without further ado…
Sunday, September 7 at 7:00pm
Nie Glasgow Society, 1307 Argyle Street, G3 8TL.
"People have as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." – Emma Goldman
Lavinia Raccanello (1985) is an Italian artist and activist, now based in Glasgow, where she was selected to be part of the Many Graduate programme 2013 – 2014. Her work always focusses on the relationship between human beings and society, with a particular emphasis on the power of dialectic and participatory practice. At the beginning of March, she moved to Faslane Peace Camp, the longest-running permanent peace camp in the world, and for her first solo exhibition at New Glasgow Society she stands up with Faslane Peace Campers for a nuclear-free Scotland.
On the closing day of the exhibition, September 7th, an open talk will be hosted in the gallery space, inviting artists, politicians, activists, and concerned citizens to come together to share their views on nuclear weapons along with their hopes for the future.
Clydeside IWW Branch Meeting
Tuesday, September 9 at 7:00pm – 9:ooPM
Electron Club room, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall St, G2 3JD
Open to all IWW members and prospective joiners of the syndicalist Union.
YES or NO, Scotland needs a movement for people's democracy
Thursday, 11 September at 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Online chat using Webinar – url posted on http://www.aworldtowin.net/ nearer the time
10-minute presentations by:
Gordon Asher & Leigh French, Authors, Crises Capitalism and Independence Doctrines
Steve Freeman, Republican Socialist Alliance
Penny Cole, A World to Win.
followed by an open discussion.
Glasgow Skeptics: The Next Five Years
Monday, September 15 at 7:00pm – 9:30pm
The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo Street, G2 7DA
Glasgow Skeptics has been going for five years now (and if you've not already RSVPed to our very special anniversary event, please do!https://www.facebook.com/events/1495028154042640/). Looking ahead to the future, we'd like to talk about the next five years.
What should skeptics care about? What should Glasgow Skeptics be doing, and what could we be doing better? Should there be more of a focus on raising public awareness? Should we focus on the evidence base for specific legislation being discussed? Are there areas that are crying out for a skeptical eye, that have so far been missed?
If you've never been along before, this might be the perfect time to say hello. Part open-mic night, part group discussion: come along and let us know what you want from the next five years of Glasgow Skeptics.
Accessibility: As per the policy of the Admiral Bar, access to the venue "can only be provided to patrons who are sufficiently mobile and capable of independently evacuating premises, or with the minimum of assistance." Unfortunately, this leaves the basement inaccessible to most wheelchair users.
Education as the Practice of Freedom
Wednesday, September 17 at 6:45pm – 9:00pm
Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, G4 9AJ
"There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes "the practice of freedom," the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." – Paulo Freire
Anarchists have a long and illustrious history of involvement within education, with interventions in libertarian education as notable as Ferrer's Escuela Moderna, and the Free Skools, right through into the contemporary spaces of Social Centres. As a movement, Anarchism has historically emphasised the importance of the role of education – whether as a domesticating tool of oppression or as a prefiguring and liberating force – with a concern rarely echoed in other political perspectives.
While naturally touching on some of that history, this talk will mainly be concerned with the understanding that radicalism presents us with a fundamentally educational space, and will consider this in light of the work of Paulo Freire, among others. Though identifying outside of the specific Anarchist tradition, Freire's work within Popular Education can be easily understood as broadly libertarian, and with implications and prospects for Anarchism.
Though the talk will highlight the role of informal education, contributions and reflections on all modes are welcome and expected in the discussion following.
Glasgow AF discussion group is open and free to all, however any donations towards costs will be appreciated. Tea/coffee/juice/biscuits will be provided free of charge. Our venue is accessible to wheelchairs/powerchairs. We will also have a book stall from the RiB project with books and other related material for sale. We ask that all those attending this event read the brief introduction to our safer spaces policy here: https://glasgowanarchists.wordpress.com/safer-spaces/
Smashing Physics – Prof. Jon Butterworth | Glasgow Skeptics Special
Friday, September 26 at 9:00pm – 10:00pm
Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, G51 1EA
The discovery of the Higgs boson was the culmination of the largest scientific experiment ever performed, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
But what really is a Higgs boson and what does it do? How was it found? And how has its discovery changed our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature?
Jon Butterworth is a professor of physics at University College London. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group on the Atlas experiment at Cern's Large Hadron Collider and also manages to write regularly in The Guardian, as well as taking part in other science communication.
His book, Smashing Physics: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs,was published in May 2014.
Friday, September 26 – Monday, September 29
Sallochy Woodlands
Do you have what it takes to spend a night or two sleeping rough in the wild? Take part in our sponsored camping weekend. Participants will be provided with a tent and pitch in Sallochy Woodlands. Minimum sponsorship of £50 to be raised by each participant. Maximum of 4 people to each tent. All money raised will go to charities supporting homeless people in Glasgow.
ARIKA | Episode 6: Make A Way Out Of No Way
Friday, 26 – Sunday 29 September
A 3-day exploration, through performance, screenings and discussion, of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
Episode 6: Make a Way Out of No Way is about working class American dance (Krumping,Voguing), black poetry, queer counter-publics, cultural history and theology, ballroom & house music. It is in conversation with communities who challenge the prison industrial complex and who organise in the face of multiple oppressions. It features a queer operatic requiem, the greatest film in the African-American canon, and counter canonical impulses at the dawn of a singular black cinema. It is about the noise of black and/or queer sociality. And it asks whether it is possible for communities, even while so constrained, to practice being somewhere else – practically, socially and aesthetically making a way out of what is at hand and rehearsing in anticipation of what is to come.
"Waywardness is the refusal to be governed. It is the next phase of the general strike, the flight from the plantation and refusal of slavery and the demeaning conditions of work, this time it happens in the slum. It is a social experiment and an effort to elaborate new forms of existence." Saidiya Hartman
Friday 26 Sept
Waywardness – Saidiya Hartman
The wayward create upheavals and incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are riotous; they are itinerant and never settle; they are fugitive; they are excessive rather than efficient, they are in open rebellion against society. Saidiya's keenly affecting and poetic writing is some of the most influential cultural criticism in America today, deeply concerned with the mental and physical traces bodies accumulate as they manoeuvre between terror and pleasure, power and flight.
Killer of Sheep – Dir: Charles Burnett, USA, 1977, 87 mins
Killer of Sheep is an undisputed masterpiece of African-American filmmaking. Filmed in the aftermath of the Los Angeles Watts Riots, with the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, it is one of the major films of the L.A. Rebellion. The film makes visible the struggle undertaken by black communities as they improvise themselves in relation to social conditions that seek to habituate depression and desensitization. It explores a space of numbing labour and insidiously enforced brutality – but also one of play, humour and love.
Make a Way Out of No Way: Club – MikeQ, Miss Prissy, Kia Labeija and the Legendary Pony Zion Garçon – Stereo
In which the crown prince of modern ballroom music, a master and rising star or Vogue, the Queen of Krump and hopefully you explore whether the club a world within a world? Can it be a space in which we can organise our bodies, our selves differently? Is it a space in which we might still be able to dance our way out of the time-traps and identity prisons we are locked in? What happens if we think of house music or social dance forms as ways to organize our bodies in relation to this quote from the Krumper Dragon – "most people think: they're just a bunch of rowdy, ghetto, heathen thugs. No, what we are is oppressed"?
Saturday 27 Sept
Fugitivity and Waywardness – Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten
What are the politics of the wayward or fugitive, of self-defence, self-organisation and flight? What can we learn from runaway slaves, maroon societies and the underground railway, from queer counter-publics and from waywardness in Glasgow today? Fred is one of the great poets, educators and theorists of blackness and fugitivity. Saidiya's book Scenes of Subjection is one of the most telling contributions to current black thought.
Touching the Imperceptible – Kara Keeling and Arthur Jafa
A performed constellation of voices and filmic fragments that might variously be about slipping into darkness or the (im)possibilities of being black…about cinematic, queer and black world-making and the similarities and differences therein…about Instagram and the acinematic… Kara Keeling is a leading thinker on what queer and/or black film might be, or become. Arthur Jafa is the most inventive, talkative improviser of the cinematic we've ever met.
Speculum Orum: Shackled to the Dead – M Lamar
Drawing on negro spirituals, Marion Williams, opera and Leontyne Price, M Lamar's performances slide between noise and music, pain and truth. A 75-minute requiem that asks us to stay in the hold of the slave ship and that tries to understand the connection from the slave ship to the prison. Including movements from M Lamar's "Surveillance Punishment and the Black Psyche" – an imprisoned black man's reflections on his life sentenced to death for killing his male overseer and lover.
You've Never Seen Pain Expressed Like This – Miss Prissy, the Legendary Pony Zion Garçon, Kia Labeija and Danielle Goldman
A freestyle performed conversation for bodies and voices – on how Black, working class and queer dance is a way of moving in tight spaces and giving shape to oneself, of practicing and being ready for freedom. What's political about American black, working class dance styles like Krump and Vogue? Do they practice moving in two worlds at the same time? With the Queen of Krump, the master of Vogue Femme Dramatics, the rising star of Vogue Women's Performance and Danielle Goldman, writer on dance as politics.
Sunday 28 Sept
Workshop with Miss Prissy and Glasgow Open Dance School
A movement-based workshop on Krump and the politics of how we teach, learn and listen with our bodies.
From Subjection to Subjection – Reina Gossett, Saidiya Hartman and Charlene Sinclair
How are categories of race, sex, sexuality, gender and class mobilised to criminalise communities and create and maintain such carceral spaces? And how are people organising in realisation that it is not enough to work to reform the system, but that the system itself is the problem? Reina Gossett is Activist-In-Residence at Barnard College's Center for Research on Women. Saidiya Hartman is a leading cultural critic. Charlene Sinclair is the Director of Centre for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy.
Dreams Are Colder Than Death – Dir: Arthur Jafa, USA, 2014, 52 mins
Using a range of tactics that resist the white cinematic gaze, Arthur Jafa's most recent film asks what it means to be black in America in the 21st century. Grounded not in sequence but in the interrelation of a constellation of voices, bodies and images, the film maps out black relationships with early and frequent death, with violence, with fantasy, with love and with memory, assembled from interviews with Charles Burnett, Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Portia Jordan and Storyboard P.
Realness – Icon Ayana Christian, Legendary Co-Founder Michael Roberson Garçon, Reina Gossett, Fred Moten and Charlene Sinclair
What is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how are they both acts of survival and resistance? Black, queer and trans bodies tell stories. Often they are multilingual – talking to numerous cultures, telling many stories simultaneously. Portraying a sense of 'realness', conforming to a set of socially prescribed norms so that you can walk streets safely, is self-defence. Ayana Christian and Michael Garçon are both leaders in the Ballroom community.
Mutual Instruments – Fred Moten and Miss Prissy
What might be the capacity to feel through others, for others to feel through you – what is the feel for feeling others feeling you? How might you un-sensationalize yourself? How does the voice or the body remember having been moved by others, with others? How might it feel at ease with the fugitive, at peace with the pursued, at rest with the ones who consent not to be one? Can our favourite Vegas-born poet of prophetic blackness and a South Central transmuter of social rage into beauty feel through each other?
Ticket Info – £4 Friday Evening Pass, £4 Friday Club Ticket, £6 Saturday or Sunday Day Pass, £14 Festival Pass
Beat the frack out of Scotland
Saturday, 27 September at 6:00pm – 3:00am
River, 260 Clyde Street, G1 4JH
Top Glasgow musicians turn out to support communities fighting back against fracking. Appearing so far: George Tucker, The Lonesome Hearts, Willie and the Poorboys, the Carlton Jugband with special guest Carola Cosimini, Nicky Murray & Chloe Rodgers, Anti-fracking busker Alexander Mccallum. Compere: the incomparable Gary Little. Entry £10 on the door or buy in advance from http://www.brownpapertickets.com
The Dark Side of the Universe – Dr Catherine Heymans | Glasgow Skeptics
Monday, September 29 at 7:00pm – 9:30pm
The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo Street, G2 7DA
Just over 95% of our universe comes in the shrouded form of dark energy and matter that we can neither explain nor directly detect. Together, these two dark entities play out a cosmic battle of epic proportions. While the gravity of dark matter slowly pulls structures in the universe together, dark energy fuels the universes accelerated expansion, making it ever harder for those structures to grow. Catherine Heymans has used the world's best telescopes to map out the invisible dark matter in our Universe and confront different theories on the dark universe. She will explore this dark enigma and describe where we will look next in our search for darkness. It is widely believed that in order to truely understand the dark universe we will need to invoke some new physics that will forever change our cosmic view.
Catherine Heymans is a Reader in Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, a European Research Council Fellow and a member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She specialises in observing the dark side of our Universe and co-leads the European Southern Observatory KiDS analysis team, using deep sky observations to test whether we need to go beyond Einstein with our current theory of gravity. Since completing her PhD at Oxford University in 2003, Catherine has held fellowships from the Max-Planck Institute and the Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. When she is not busy unveiling the mysteries of the Universe or enthusiastically lecturing undergraduates, she can usually be found building sandcastles and paddling in the sea with her three small children.
Accessibility: As per the policy of the Admiral Bar, access to the venue "can only be provided to patrons who are sufficiently mobile and capable of independently evacuating premises, or with the minimum of assistance." Unfortunately, this leaves the basement inaccessible to most wheelchair uses.
Would you eat a GM Chicken? – Prof. Helen Sang | Glasgow Skeptics
Monday, October 13 at 7:00pm – 9:30pm
The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo Street, G2 7DA
The recent development of a range of technologies for genetic modification of animals means that the possibility of genetically modified farm animals being licensed for human consumption is getting closer. What are these technologies, and what are the applications that are being developed? The current regulations for licensing GM animals for food, including the differences between assessing GM animals and plants, will be discussed. Many of the objections to the use of GM technologies relate to societal issues rather than technological risks, so how does this relate to possible introduction of GM animals for food?
Professor Helen Sang was born in Edinburgh but went to high school in Brighton. She is a geneticist and molecular biologist, with a degree and PhD from Cambridge University. She continued her research career with postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Edinburgh universities. Since the 1980s, she has led a research group at the Roslin Institute (famous as the home of Dolly the sheep), with a research goal to develop methods for genetic modification of chickens with applications in basic biomedical research and for improving chicken breeds, particularly for enhancing resistance to major diseases including bird flu.
Doors open at 19:00 for a start at 19:30 sharp.
Accessibility: As per the policy of the Admiral Bar, access to the venue "can only be provided to patrons who are sufficiently mobile and capable of independently evacuating premises, or with the minimum of assistance." Unfortunately, this leaves the basement inaccessible to most wheelchair users.


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The portfolio hasn't seen an update in at least a few months, so I figured it's about time I made an effort to make it reflect what I've actually been doing lately. So today I added two new items:
The Creative Words Theme is something I threw together this last weekend. I went through a Photoshop tutorial to create the design, then decided to test my new WP skills by coding it up clean and fast. Said new WP skills come from the former item on that list: OrangeFinders.com
OrangeFinders.com marks my first fully featured web app created. I say fully featured in full knowledge of the fact that there are still a few minor changes that I need to make, and that the 'wish list' of features for the site is still quite long.
But that's beside the point. This site taught me a plethora of new skills that are highly relevent to web design and WP development. This include: Form Validation (soooo boring), AJAX (super cool) and general PHP awesomeness. Having largely completed the functionality of that site I'm now fully confident standing by the 'developer' half of my job. I now feel capable of doing just about anything I need to for a client with the combination of PHP and WP. Consequently, I've reshifted my focus back to the design half of my job. I'm going to learn Illustrator, create a logo for myself and most importantly completely redesign my site from the ground up. When? Good question, ideally before my birthday next month.
I'm still a long ways from where I want to be in terms of personal knowledge on both the design and development fronts, but I'm quite content that way. Having myriad new fields that I intend to learn about is much more exciting than it is daunting. Not time to waste, I'm getting started right after I finish this post.
I'm Ian. I'm a software engineer. Here are some things I'm into: javascript, functional programming, simplicity, Mandarin. If you want to chat you can find me on Twitter and GitHub.


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Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee
The Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee is an all-volunteer run committee based in Seattle, Washington with the goal to organize an annual trip to the former Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho. The first pilgrimage began in 2003 and it is exciting to how every year is different and special. The annual pilgrimage strives to honor the generations that were at Minidoka by sharing stories of their imprisonment with the younger generation and others unfamiliar with the story so that in the future due process of the law will be demanded so no single group is targeted again.
(Picture: 2013 Pilgrimage Committee)
Minidoka Pilgrimage
In 1942, almost 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were American citizens, were removed from their homes and sent to a desolate incareration camp"near Twin Falls, Idaho. Today, most of the 33,000 acres that once made up Minidoka has been taken over by farms. However, in 2001, 73 acres along the North Side Canal, and near the entrance to Minidoka has been designated a National Monument.
Minidoka Internment National Monument was established in 2001 as the 385th unit of the National Park System to commemorate the hardships and sacrifices of Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Also known as the 'Hunt Camp', the Minidoka Relocation Center was a 33,000-acre site with over 600 buildings and a total population of about 13,000 internees held from Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. In 1944, the internees harvested 7,300,000 pounds of produce in the surrounding agricultural fields, making the camp completely self sustainable.It was in operation from August 1942 until October 1945.
Former incarerees spent nearly 3 years incarcerated at Minidoka and other camps during WWII. Today, the site continues to hold a mixture of memories and strong emotions - feelings of denial, distrust, shame, and joy. The Pilgrimage is attended by former incarcerees, their family members, friends, and allies. The pilgrimage offers an opportunity to revisit the place and the memories amidst family, friends, supporters, and National Park Service officials. The intent is to honor the first generations of Japanese Americans who suffered most under institutionalized racist laws, to deliver the message of "Never Again," and to pass on the legacy to anyone who will listen.
On the first full day of the Minidoka Pilgrimage, pilgrimage participants will attend the Friday Education Program and listen to talks and participate in discussion sessions of various topics relating to the incarceration experience.
On Saturday, participants will have visit the grounds of the National Monument where there will be guided tours of what remains of the former site. Saturday afternoon is our "legacy session" where we break into smaller groups made up of various ages to share stories and experience.
On Sunday, a memorial service will be held at the National Monument to honor incarcerees. Participants also have the opportunity to participate in workshops and forums during this time. Throughout the duration of the trip, there will be many opportunities to share memories and stories with fellow participants.
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2019 Minidoka Pilgrimage


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Living - Book Three of Petra's Story
Living - Book Three of Petra's Story
Petra's memories have returned. The realisation that she was once a little girl called Mireille who was murdered by a serial killer has tipped her over the edge. After trying to kill Jenny and blowing herself up, she is now lying in a coma her guardians do not expect her to wake up from. The second entity in her head now has the upper hand and he is slowly erasing Petra's existence while she lies helpless.
Jenny, Jackie and Sophie find Petra where her guardians have taken her. The Schumachers prepare the three friends for the worst, but the Musketeers do not give up on Petra that easily. They must confront the evil entity of Petter Ulfson and expel him from Petra's mind. But if they are successful, who will wake up? Petra Connell, who had finally admitted her feelings for Jenny, or Mireille Bouchard, Petter Ulfson's final victim?
Chief Inspector Fransson still has no clue as to where his serial killer has disappeared to, or the body of Mireille Bouchard. The trail seems to lead directly to Petra Connell and her guardians, but sometimes finding the truth has unwanted consequences.
With Petra free of Petter's influences, she can begin to search for answers. Who was Petter Ulfson and how did he end up inside her head? What really happened that night so long ago when Ulfson shot little Mireille Bouchard? Who were her real parents and what was their connection to the Schumachers, Ulfson and the mysterious and secretive Gentek?
She is finally free to live how she chooses and love who she chooses, knowing that it is her choice and not tainted by Ulfson's evil influence. Will she choose Jenny or Frank or both? There is so much to look forward to, but things are never that simple.
Catch up with the full story with books one and two - Awakening (free ebook) and Surviving.


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