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Jul 26, 2013 01:55 PM Read the complete details and the discussions that happened at the conference titled, 'Partnering for Rural Prosperity: Farmers as Owners' in New Delhi.
Case Study: Apple Farming Project
Jun 06, 2013 06:10 AM The case study on the Apple Farming Project shows how an innovative social enterprise model could be an effective tool for securing livelihoods of apple farmers in the north Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Indian farmers need to upgrade standards of production: Dutch expert
May 24, 2013 11:30 PM
Wim Van Den Berg, Director of the Netherlands-based company, Van Amerongen CA Technology, said that Indian farmers would need to have better contacts with the market to raise their profits.
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Time to introduce professional farming methods: Rawat
May 21, 2013 12:45 PM India's Minister for Water Resources, Harish Rawat, lauds the innovative apple project of Uttarakhand, a model that has freed small apple farmers from the clutches of middlemen besides introducing business acumen in them.
Setting up a cold storage facility is commendable: Alok Jain
May 21, 2013 11:20 AM Alok Jain, Chairman, Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited and Chief Investment Commissioner, Uttarakhand, said that setting up a cold storage facility with modern facilities in a backward area is a commendable project.
Number of small farmers is rising in India
May 21, 2013 10:50 AM Sanjeev Chopra, Mission Director and Joint Secretary (NHM & NMMI), Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, said that while the land holdings are getting smaller, and the number of small farmers is rising in the Indian agricultural scenario.
We have destroyed our traditional agriculture: Indian Minister
May 17, 2013 12:40 PM
The inaugural session of the farmer's conference, 'Partnering for Rural Prosperity: Farmers as owners' saw many experts from the field of agriculture, the government and farmers come together to discuss how to get more ownership and profits to the farmers.
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Business and farmers: A beneficial partnership
May 17, 2013 12:25 PM At one of the sessions of the "Partnering for Rural Prosperity: Farmers as Owners" business and farmers came together to discuss ways in which both can come together in mutually profitable ways.
Agri-value chains bring prosperity to Himalayan farmers
May 17, 2013 12:20 PM
Agri-value chains are bringing prosperity to small apple farmers of Uttarakhand by helping them market their produce more efficiently.
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Innovative business model for apple farmers
May 16, 2013 12:10 PM Alok Kumar Jain, Additional Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand (Currently, Chairman,Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited), said in 2012, that the Apple Project which is being run by the cooperation of farmers and Shri Jagdamba Samiti (SJS), a Rishikesh based NGO with the help of Stichting Het Groene Woudt (SHGW), will bring more money to the small apple farmers who were so far at the mercy of the middlemen.
Bringing entrepreneurship to the doorstep of farmers
May 16, 2013 11:30 AM Laxmi Prakash Semwal, Chairman of Shri Jagdamba Samiti (SJS), a Rishikesh-based NGO, believes that a business-driven model can not only empower marginalised farmers but can also promote sustainable socio-economic development. OneWorld South Asia speaks to the man behind the apple project in Uttarakhand. Excerpts from the interview.
Fostering farmer's organisations with business rigour
May 16, 2013 10:56 AM In this concept paper L.P. Semwal, Chairman of Shri Jagdamba Samiti, and Edwin Willemsen, Fresh Food Technology, talk about a new approach is to create a profitable partnership between investors and farmer groups, by setting up joint agro-processing enterprises, based on solid feasibility studies and business plans.
Ensuring a profit for the small farmer
May 16, 2013 10:30 AM
Stichting Het Groene Woudt (SHGW), a Dutch family foundation, promotes sustained economic development in rural areas of developing countries like India. Dipankar Borah representing SHGW in India, in an interview to OneWorld South Asia, says that consumers can enjoy better quality products if the farmers are assured of a price for their produce. Excerpts from the interview.
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Collection centres empower small farmers
May 16, 2013 08:00 AM
There is a silent revolution happening in the apple hills of India. An initiative to empower the small farmers of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh has taken root wherein they are setting up joint venture companies. Six such companies, initially funded by an investor, are on the ground and the farmers eventually hope to own them once the money is repaid back to the investor.
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Uniting farmers for better profits
May 16, 2013 05:55 AM Laxmi Prakash Semwal, Chairman of Shri Jagdamba Samiti (SJS), a Rishikesh based NGO, believes that a business-driven model can not only empower the small apple farmers in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, it can also promote sustainable socio-economic development.
Partnering for Rural Prosperity
May 15, 2013 01:15 PM Laxmi Prakash Semwal, Chairman of Shri Jagdamba Samiti (SJS), a Rishikesh-based NGO talks about farmer-led companies which he has been setting up in the Himalayan region in partnership with financial institutions, technology-providers and importantly, small farmers. He writes a concept note in which he talks about how such an entity functions and how it delivers results and profits to the apple-growing farmers in the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Apple farmers unite to fight middlemen, reap healthy profits
May 15, 2013 01:05 PM
With the existence of apple collection centres, apple farmers from the local areas of Uttarakhand are able to sell their produce at market rates to the collective where the apples are then graded, sorted, packed and also pre-cooled for further storage.
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Cold storage facility brings cheer to Uttarakhand apple growers
May 15, 2013 01:00 PM The apple project of Uttarakhand, which is a unique kind of an initiative, has succeeded in empowering the small farmers of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh by enabling them to move up the value chain, says Amar Singh Kafola, Farmer Director, KINCAID India.
Using ICTs to hunt better markets for apple farmers
May 15, 2013 12:50 PM
Shri Jagdamba Samiti (SJS), a Rishikesh based NGO, is engaged in the task of empowering small apple farmers in the North Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, by enabling farmers to move up the economic chain.
Vikram Singh, Senior Executive, ICT and Value Chain, at SJS, advocates that ICTs could be an effective tool for imparting farm related inputs to farmers to make the reap a quality harvest.
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Universal Studios Hollywood has announced plans for haunted attractions based on "The Thing," "The Wolfman," "Scream," "Hostel" and "House of 1000 Corpses" films as well as shock rocker Alice Cooper and the La Llorona folk legend while continuing to drop online hints about more scare zones and shows for Halloween Horror Nights 2011.
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The Thing: Assimilation, a creature-based maze, will be based on the film remake about a scientific research facility overrun by an epidemic. Maze visitors will walk through a frozen and abandoned station where shape-shifting aliens can transform into replicas of any living being. Universal Studios Orlando will also feature a maze based on "The Thing," which opens in theaters on Oct. 14.
Eli Roth's Hostel: Hunting Season, an extreme gore maze, will be based on the horror film franchise about a European youth hostel with a terrible and dark secret. Maze visitors will walk through a series of torture chambers where a secret society hunts American youths for sport. Film director Eli Roth has indicated he will work in the maze as a torturer on select nights.
The Alice Cooper: Welcome to my Nightmare haunted maze will draw on elements from the shock rocker's theatrical concerts and feature music from his 1975 concept album, "Welcome to my Nightmare." Visitors to the Alice Cooper maze will encounter boa constrictor snakes, black widow spiders, guillotine decapitations and electrocutions inside a sadistic insane asylum.
Based on the 2003 horror movie by filmmaker and rock star Rob Zombie, the returning House of 1000 Corpses maze featured a walk through the Firefly family residence, Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen and Dr. Satan's lair in 2010. Presented in 3-D ZombieVision, "scareactors" in the 2010 maze included Captain Spaulding, Baby, Otis, Mother Firefly, Killer Karl and Dr. Satan.
The Wolfman: Curse of Talbot Hall maze will be based on the 2010 remake of the classic 1941 werewolf horror film. The critically panned 2010 film disappointed at the box office but won an Academy Award for best makeup.
Universal Studios Hollywood announced a Wolfman maze for Horror Nights 2009, but then quietly dropped the maze when the movie remake was pushed back to 2010. Universal Studios Florida went ahead with a Wolfman maze for HHN 2009.
Based on the Mexican legend of a distraught mother who drowned her children and then herself, the La Llorona: Village of Lost Souls maze will be haunted by the ghost of the drenched, weeping woman and the wandering children she snatches at night. La Llorona was the theme of an underwhelming scare zone at HHN 2010.
After stepping off the Terror Tram in Universal's studio backlot, visitors will be chased by the Ghostface Killer through a "Stab 8" location shoot from the movie-within-a-movie "Scream" slasher film series.
Halloween Horror Nights creative director John Murdy has been sprinkling clues on Twitter about the Universal Studios Hollywood 2011 event, going so far as to create code names for six potential mazes.
The Thing maze, code named GV Black, will be located in the Wild West area of the park. The Hostel maze, code named 3 Dog Night, will be located in the Revenge of the Mummy ride queue on the theme park's lower lot. The Alice Cooper maze, code named Steven, a fictional character that appears on several of the singer's albums, will be located in the Jurassic Park ride queue.
The House of 1000 Corpses maze, code named Bunny Gibbons, will be located in the Terminator ride queue. The Wolfman maze, code named Trivia, will be located in the House of Horrors attraction. The La Llorona maze, code named Soap Opera, will be located in the Shrek queue.
Universal Studios Hollywood sent out a survey asking fans for feedback on potential themes for Halloween Horror Night 2011 mazes. The survey included 34 horror movies, two television shows ("Dexter" and "True Blood") and two video games (Left 4 Dead and Biohazard).
The survey included several past mazes (Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Saw and My Bloody Valentine) as well as a few maze contenders that Murdy has now declared "unlikely" (Dawn of the Dead, The Exorcist, The Shining and Zombieland).
Murdy singled out two of the horror films on the survey – "Trick 'r Treat" and "Evil Dead" -- for his short list.
Halloween Horror Nights will run at Universal Studios Hollywood on September 23, 24, 30 and October 1, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31.


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U.S. stocks fell in Wednesday morning trading, effectively wiping out modest gains from a day earlier, as a survey on hiring did little to ease uncertainty over the health of the economy.
KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average was down 75 points, or 0.5 percent, to 15,369 at 11:07 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 14 points, or 0.8 percent, to 1,740. The Nasdaq composite fell 55 points, or 1.4 percent, to 3,976.
JOB GROWTH: A private survey on Wednesday showed that U.S. businesses added jobs at a steady but modest pace in January, a sign that hiring has rebounded after a disappointing figure in December. Payroll processor ADP said companies added 175,000 jobs last month. That's down from 227,000 in December, which was revised lower. But it was much better than the government's official figure of just 74,000 new jobs in December. The ADP numbers cover only private businesses and often diverge from the government's more comprehensive report due out Friday.
WAIT AND SEE: Despite the market's tepid rise on Tuesday, many investors remain leery, waiting to see if upcoming economic reports and company earnings will show that the U.S. economic recovery is on track.
A look at trading volumes illustrates the dynamic, notes Chris Gaffney, a senior market strategist at EverBank.
"On the down days, we're seeing larger volumes than on the up days," Gaffney said. "That leads me to believe that we're still in a down market here. And it's really going to take a surprise on the upside in this Friday's jobs numbers to maybe get us out of this funk."
BIG DECLINERS: Freight transportation company C.H. Robinson Worldwide led the S&P 500's decliners, falling 5.52, or 9.4 percent to $53.12. Health care information services provider Cerner also fell sharply, shedding $4.83, or 8.5 percent, to $51.77.
MONEY HANDLERS: Several financial services companies were posting gains early Wednesday. Genworth Financial was up 36 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $14.92 after reporting first-quarter earnings. Ameriprise Financial rose 24 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $103.80. The Hartford Financial Services Group gained 7 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $32.90.
TREASURIES: The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged up to 2.65 percent from 2.63 percent on Tuesday. The yield, which affects rates on mortgages and other consumer loans, has dropped from 3 percent at the start of the year as investors have bought bonds amid concern that U.S. growth is slowing.
EUROPE SLUGGISH: European stocks shifted between slight gains and losses after data showed disappointing retail sales across the 18-country eurozone in the crucial shopping month of December. Britain's FTSE 100 and the CAC-40 in France edged up 0.5 percent. Germany's DAX rose 0.4 percent.
ASIA MARKETS CLOSE: Markets in Mainland China remain closed for the Lunar New Year holiday until Friday. But the region's second-biggest market, Hong Kong, stayed lower. The Hang Seng slipped 0.6 percent and stocks in Taiwan also fell. Japan's market recovered slightly as the Nikkei 225 rose 1.2 percent. It remains down 13 percent for the year. Elsewhere in Asia, stock indexes rose in New Zealand, Indonesia, India, the Philippines and Thailand. They fell in Australia.


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PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND DISTURBANCE ADAPTATION FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL by Zhijie Sun A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CHEMICAL ENGINEERING) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Zhijie Sun
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|Model predictive control (MPC) is a widely used advanced process control technique in the process industry. According to the internal model principle, the internal model of MPC has to include both exact plant and disturbance models to be optimal. However, in practice, the MPC usually assumes a step-like disturbance or a fixed disturbance model. As a result, the MPC will be suboptimal when disturbance changes slowly. Moreover, it lacks a tool assessing the optimality of control performance in terms of the MPC model. ❧ In this dissertation, a new MPC disturbance adaptation method is presented. Starting from a single-input-single-output (SISO) semiconductor manufacturing process, we replaced the conventional run-to-run controller by an adaptive EWMA controller. It is shown that the plant model mismatch can be compensated by adapting the disturbance model. Analysis has been done to show that the adaptive controller is stable and converges to the optimal controller. ❧ The proposed method is then extended to multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems. For the ease of practical applications, the integrated moving average (IMA) model with order (1,1) is recommended. The equivalence between the IMA(1,1) parameter and the prediction error filter constant in commercial MPC has been established. Implementation of disturbance adaptation is explained. ❧ Another disturbance modeling tool is presented. It focuses on the closed-loop identification of a nonparametric disturbance model. The method incorporates the plant model information during the conversion from observer Markov parameters to system Markov parameters. ❧ A new control performance assessment method evaluating MPC model quality is then presented. Feedback invariant principle is introduced, based on which a method estimating disturbance innovations is given. A model quality index is developed as the performance benchmark, which compares prediction errors with disturbance innovations. It is shown that the model quality index related to the MPC performance index. ❧ Most industrial processes are optimized by a linear programming (LP) problem on top of the MPC. A new control performance monitoring method for cascaded LP-MPC system is developed. The block-lower-triangular interactor matrix is introduced to form a new method that is able to determine the performance benchmark based on controlled variable (CV) priorities coming from the LP results.
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|PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND DISTURBANCE ADAPTATION FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL by Zhijie Sun A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CHEMICAL ENGINEERING) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Zhijie Sun


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I'm an enthusiastic user of the Python programming language, although I don't get to exercise my skills enough since I program only infrequently for work and for hobby projects. I've enjoyed teaching Python at work to people who were mostly nonprogrammers and I'd like to find more opportunities to teach, so I'd be glad to try to set up either a Python class for nonprogrammers or a Python class for non-Python programmers at Noisebridge.
Two problems I've encountered when teaching coworkers are how to get (the same set of) people to attend regularly and how to get people to do homework or practice outside of class. I guess in an academic setting these problems are often handled by giving letter grades for attendance (or testing), which doesn't work well in a volunteer class setting.
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This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
An excellent periodical published on Hawaii's history is The Hawaiian Journal of History, a scholarly journal published by the Hawaiian Historical Society in Honolulu. Between 1892 and 1940 the Hawaiian Historical Society published the Hawaiian Historical Society Papers, which are devoted to scholarly articles, genealogy, and early record sources. The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, publishes The Journal of Pacific History, which has printed many articles on Hawaii. The Institute for Polynesian Studies at Brigham Young University'Hawaii publishes Pacific Studies, which also contains articles and book reviews on Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Historical Society publishes Guide to Newspapers in Hawaii, 1834-2000 (Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society, 2000) which can be read online at its website (see Archives, Libraries, and Societies). The Hawaii State Archives has an index to many newspapers published in Hawaii from 1836 to 1950. This index includes the following: Advertiser, Star Bulletin, Polynesian, Hawaiian Gazette, and Friend. An index to marriages and deaths from English language newspapers in Hawaii (1836'1929) is also available at the archives.
During the history of Hawaii, many Hawaiian language newspapers were published. These newspapers were not only reflections of politics and culture but were primary instruments of movements and individuals. An indispensable guide to Hawaiian language newspapers is Esther K. Mookini's The Hawaiian Newspapers (Honolulu: Topgallant Publishing Co., 1974). This work will help in locating Hawaiian language newspapers and the dates they were published.
Native Hawaiian genealogies were published in Hawaiian language newspapers between 1834 and 1900 and are published in Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers (Laie, Hawaii: Institute for Polynesian Studies, vol. 1, 1983; vol. 2, 1985) by Edith Kowelohea McKinzie with Ishmael W. Stagner II, editor.
Chinese newspapers can be helpful in reconstructing the Chinese experience in Hawaii. Unfortunately, many Chinese newspapers have not survived, and those that have were often organs for political groups, although vital material can be obtained from these newspapers. Chinese newspapers have been gathered and microfilmed by the University of Hawaii, Hamilton Library. The University of Hawaii'Sinclair Library also has several Chinese newspapers. Among these are the United Chinese Press, Hawaiian Chinese Journal, and the Hawaii Chinese Weekly.
The FHL has microfilm copies of many older Japanese newspapers in Hawaii. These include the Nippon Jiji (1896'1942) and Hawaii Hochi (also Times, 1912'42). These papers frequently published items on the arrival of immigrants as well as community affairs. The Bishop Museum and Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have a good collection of early Japanese newspapers. The Hamilton Library also has various early Korean and Filipino newspapers.
The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library has records of the nineteenth-century missionary families sent to Hawaii by the American Mission Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This collection also has information on the early Hawaiian converts. The library is not open to the general public but will accommodate descendants. Fortunately, many of its records have been utilized in various publications over the years. One such publication is Descendants of New England Protestant Missionaries to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), 1820'1900: An Alphabetically Arranged Copy of Births, Marriages, and Deaths from the Records of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu: Privately printed, Hawaiian State Regent, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1984). For a more detailed listing of the holdings of this library, see 'The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library,' The Journal of Pacific History 16 (1981): 1-2.
The Hawaii State Archives has supplemented many sources for early Hawaiian research. Some collections have been gathered from outside Hawaii. Sources include the records for the British Consulate in Hawaii (1824'94); Admiralty and Foreign Office records in the Public Record Office, London (1824'75); and the portions of journals concerning Hawaii from Captain Cook's voyage. Other sources include a 'Biographical File,' which indexes the names of individuals whose names appear in both published and unpublished sources.
Several hundred Hawaiian and 'haole' genealogies have been compiled by Bruce Cartwright in the Cartwright Collection at the Hawaii State Archives. Voters records are also available at the state archives. These include the 'Great Register of Voters' (1887'88), which gives the name, age, place of birth, and occupation of the voter. This register is arranged by island and precinct. The 'Oath and Certificates' of persons registering as voters in 1894, arranged by island, is also available. In some cases they list age and birthplace. Registers from 1900 to about 1960 are presently being organized and microfilmed for availability through the FHL.
The Russian presence has been in Hawaii since the 1800s. Czarist Russian Consulates were in the U.S. port cities of Chicago, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle, as well as the office in Nome, Alaska. The Russian Consular Records, deposited at the National Archives in Suitland, Maryland, have been microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. This collection has been indexed by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington in Sallyann Amdur Sack and Susan Fishl Wynne's The Russian Consular Records Index and Catalog (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1987). This valuable collection covers the period of 1849 to 1926, with the majority of documents dating from 1917 to 1926, and is on microfilm at the FHL and the National Archives.
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I do not have all the content of this course prepared yet but I do have the sense of it and some great quotes.
The sense of it is from the writings of Norton Hadler and much of it can be found in his article on various European backache compensation systems (JOM,vol 31, pg 823, 1989). In it he speaks of clinical truth which he distinguishes from scientific truth-although scientific truth must be utilized in obtaining clinical truth-and from legal "truth"-which is incidental to settling the dispute at hand. Clinical truth is or is derived from a contract between a physician and a patient and is based on trust.He said it better than I can and his article would be required reading in this "anti-hubris" course.
Our approaches are provisional and based on fragmentary information and when I think about the algorithms and paradigms that are in our tool boxes, Boris Pasternak's quote appears as an emphatic "yes..but", "What is laid down, ordered, factual, is never enough to embrace the whole truth:Life always spills over the rim of every cup". Karl Popper said " we know a great deal but our ignorance is sobering and boundless...all things are insecure and in a state of flux".
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Medical students need to know-in regard to the "factual knowledge" imparted to them- that while that material may be the very best that the very best of minds can determine at this time that they need to stay tuned because all of that may change at any time and the physician will have to decide what to do for the patient even before the next authoritative pronouncement is prepared.In that decision she will have to call upon her knowledge,expertise and judgement and the patient's values and views and do her job the way physicians have for many years before guidelines were part of medical language and work with the patient for their particular clinical truth.
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While filming parts of the second episode of his BBC series 'Indian Ocean' in Madagascar, Simon Reeve was accompanied by Charlie Gardner, scientific advisor for WWF's Ala Maiky programme in the region. Here Charlie tells us the stark truth about what's really happening in Madagascar, behind all the photogenic wildlife and the cute cartoons…
"Madagascar has been in the public eye a lot in recent years. Not just because of the computer-animated cartoons of the same name, but also last year's wonderful BBC documentary series. Both paint a picture of a tropical idyll, swarming with weird and wonderful creatures found nowhere else on earth, and seemingly surviving in peaceful tranquillity. The reality, unfortunately, is rather different.
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The team visited the coast first, and witnessed some of the challenges faced by the Vezo fisher people in the face of overharvested fish stocks, climate change and sedimentation of once-productive coral reefs.
Wanting to investigate the sedimentation phenomenon a little further, Simon asked me to show them where the problem originates. It's actually caused by deforestation.
So I took them inland from the murky waters of the Onilahy river mouth to areas where the last scraps of forest are being chopped down. Migrants have come to the area to exploit the forests to supply the rampant energy needs of Toliara, southern Madagascar's major city.
Most households in Toliara use charcoal for cooking, but with no plantations in the region, the demand for the wood to make charcoal is met from the rapidly dwindling natural forests.
And with drought blighting the south and no forests left across much of the region, cutting trees to produce charcoal is one of the few livelihood options left for many people.
Forests act as sponges, absorbing water when it rains and releasing it slowly over time. When forests are removed, rain runs off the hillsides in sheets, taking with it the fertile topsoil that Simon had seen clogging the coral reefs off the coast, and often causing catastrophic flooding on land too.
This is the sad story we witnessed back in the Onilahy valley. The rains had been good that season, too good almost, and the flooding had devastated the fertile fields along the river valley.
We met farmers whose entire crop, their only source of food for the year ahead, had been washed away, and others forced to abandon their villages entirely and search for higher ground.
Watching men wade chest-deep across the floodwaters, carrying all their possessions on their head, brought home the urgency of our fight against environmental destruction.
It's my passion for nature, and particularly birds, which keeps me fighting for Madagascar's forests. But it's Madagascar's people who are suffering most from our rampant destruction of the planet.
But all is not lost. Even though the fight to save Madagascar's biodiversity will be a long and difficult one, there are increasingly signs that it's one we can win.
Since 2003, Madagascar's government and its partners have been in the process of tripling the size of the protected area network, with a view not only to conserving biodiversity, but also to using natural resources more sustainably, for poverty alleviation and development.
WWF is heavily involved in this process, working with local communities to establish nine new protected areas throughout the spiny forests of the south.
By empowering local communities to manage their own forests, helping them increase their agricultural productivity and develop alternative livelihoods, and planting alternative sources of wood fuel, we believe we can help Madagascar's rural poor to escape the poverty trap and conserve their forests for future generations.
It's an enormous challenge, but it's a fight we must win at all costs. And it's now or never."


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It has been a lot harder to find time to build and post than I would have thought.
Anyway, I have my second big MOC to show you. It is my impression of the Citadel of Minas Tirith, capital city of Gondor.
I tried to stay close to the depiction in the Lord of the Rings movies, at least as far as my brick collection, time and skill allowed.
I used stickers I found in the folders of brickshelf user Mattcorp.
This MOC shows:
-The White Tree of Gondor, protected by the Citadel Guard
-The King's House, with Denethor's private quarters attached
-The tower of Ecthelion with a palantir inside. (Denethor's palantir is not mentioned in the movies, but it is in the book)
The roof of the King's House and the private quarters can come off, showing the interiors. Inside are Gandalf and Pippin, when they first meet Denethor.
There is no interior in the tower. The hexagonal consruction did not allow solidity AND an interior.
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What do I do with my egg?
I have bought a wealth egg, but no instructions came with it, so what do I have to do with it? (if anything) I forgot to order the transmitter so I have one on order now
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all the Ethos Eggs, need to have a transmitter. The first time your purchase your egg or eggs, lightly touch the egg to the top (crown) of your head for about 10 seconds, this connects the egg or eggs to your own energy field.
The each day , take the egg or eggs one by one, touch gently to your centre of forehead (brow Chakra) three times.
Then looking at the egg, breath in through the nose and out through your mouth three times whilst viewing the egg.
Do the Forehead and breathing each day if you can remember.
I tend to wear the egg on my person, although it is designed to also work whilst sitting on your transtmitter to, its connected to your own energy field, and the touching to the brown chakra and the breathing are helping to keep the egg connected to your field.
Its not drastic if you forget for a day here and there, but on the whole try to remember most days!!
As you all probably know there are a vast number of energy devices out there in the market, that are designed to protect against EMF's, the ETHOS EGG RANGE, work uniquely to eradicate EMF'S from your field and also other environemental stresses, such as energies from others that are negative, we are all energy beings, and as such, keeping our energy field healthy, is just as important as the good nutritional support products that you can purchase from ETHOS.
The ETHOS ENERGY EGGS do not stress your own field in any way, but most of the others on the market do, that founders, designers, and manufacturers have unique testing methods, which is why we know we can sit safely with these eggs. AFter all not everyone has the ability to percieve subtle energies, and to be able to test in such depth..
As they used to say GO TO WORK ON AN EGG!! LOL
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As a blogger, few decisions will be more important than finding the right name for your site.
Ken Finton on Scriggler.com/peekinside has some something on this subject! Good read.
As a blogger, few decisions will be more important than finding the right name for your site.
In this post, first appearing on The Daily Post in 2012, two bloggers walked us through the ins and outs of successfully choosing a blog name to suit your content. Their insight on the naming process is as spot-on today is it was two years ago.
We discover different types of blogs in our community, from travel to food to parenting, with memorable and clever names. You may notice that a number of blogs on WordPress.com have unique web addresses, or custom domains: instead of mysite.wordpress.com, their address is mysite.com. Bloggers get custom domains for different reasons, but ultimately, it's a great way to build and solidify your presence across the Internet. You can register a new domain through WordPress.com; you can also use a domain you already own with your WordPress.com site, which is called domain mapping.
A crucial step before purchasing a custom domain is deciding on the right name for your blog. Since selecting a name that best reflects your content is so important, we wanted to share insights from two writers on WordPress.com — Sarah and "C.J.'s Mom" — on how they ended up with names they were happy with.
Sarah, a world traveler who has left toothbrushes in many countries, documents her adventures at Where's My Toothbrush? We love how her blog name not only complements her writing style and reveals her personality, but personifies a toothbrush!
I was staying in a hostel in Beijing, China, and the walls were covered with graffiti. One quotation struck me:
I continue to collect things for an apartment I don't have, while my toothbrush rests in bathroom cupboards on three different continents.
It got to me: Something about these societal obligations to have certain things, or the assumption that at a certain age one must have a fixed address. Plus, I forget my toothbrush everywhere. I remember claiming at the hostel bar, "One day, I'm going to start a blog named after that."
When I left China, I did.
To some degree, yes. I use the Twitter handle @wheresmytbrush and the name "Sarah's Toothbrush." When I comment on other blogs, I use this "name." It makes things consistent within the blogging community to the point that other travel bloggers probably roll their eyes and say something like, "Oh right, that toothbrush lady . . ."
I am still completely happy with my blog's name. It's clever, honest, and forgetful — kind of like the blog itself. My blog focuses on the last two-and-a-half years of almost constant travel; and oh man, the toothbrushes I've left behind.
It's proved successful, as people smile when I talk about the title. It's not so successful for those on search engines who are genuinely concerned about their toothbrush's whereabouts.
I encourage bloggers to go with their gut, but also to think about the name logistically: Use it in a sentence. Reference it to friends. Write it without spaces to see how it would look as an email address, on Twitter, etc. Your blog's name will be the first things readers will see. You want to attract them with originality but not mislead them with the content.
"C.J.'s Mom" is the writer behind Raising My Rainbow, a blog about raising C.J., a gender-nonconforming five-year-old. The name fits the content and the colorful, carefree design. The alliteration in the name (the repetition of the letter R) is also effective and makes it easy to recall.
I liked the word rainbow because of its association with the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) community and because the image is cheery, happy, and hopeful — just like my son. I initially wanted to name my blog Raising A Rainbow, but the domain name was taken. I settled on Raising My Rainbow, which I didn't like as much, but now I love it and wouldn't change a thing.
Absolutely! That's why it was so important to own the domain name, which feels like it gives some legitimacy to my blog, my writing, and me as a mom who hopes to make a difference. I use the blog name everywhere: my email address, all social media, business cards, as the name associated with my P.O. Box, and wherever and whenever I talk about being a blogger.
I love it. I'm glad things worked out the way they did and that the domain for my original blog name was taken. I think my blog name is catchy, easy to remember, and accurately reflects the content and tone of my blog. And, from what I hear, other people like it, too.
Before you make a move: research, research, research. Research and decide on a name that is unique. Then, check if the domain name is available. It is inexpensive to buy the domain name, and WordPress makes it easy to connect it to your WordPress-hosted blog.
Make sure your name is available across social media platforms you intend to use. I think the urge is to just jump right in, but if you aren't strategic about it, you could pick a name, get going, and then not be able to use the name on Facebook or Twitter. Take the time to research . . . then pounce.
And, have fun!
Interested in learning more about choosing a domain name and purchasing the Custom Domain upgrade? Head on over to our WordPress.com blog to read Personalize Your Online Home with a Custom Domain.
Mine's really simple, "Priscilla and her Books". I always appreciate a witty blog name. Love these two!


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"Breakfast at Tiffany's," "The Matrix," "Dirty Harry" and "A Christmas Story" are among 25 movies that have been selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
"These films are not selected as the 'best' American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture," The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation."
The selections represent a wide range of genres and eras. They include a 1914 version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," notable for having the first black actor to star in a feature-length American film, to more recent works like 1992's baseball comedy "A League of Their Own." Their is also a mixture of classic studio films like "Born Yesterday" and indie features such as "Slacker" and "Two Lane Backdrop." Documentaries include "The Times of Harvey Milk," about San Francisco's first openly gay elected official, and "One Survivor Remembers," a short about the Holocaust.
This year's selections bring the number of films in the registry to 600. The Librarian makes the annual selections to the registry after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and conferring with Library film curators and members of the National Film Preservation Board.
Films Selected to the 2012 National Film Registry:
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Augustas (1930s-1950s)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
A Christmas Story (1983)
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Title Fight (1897)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Hours for Jerome: Parts 1 and 2 (1980-82)
The Kidnappers Foil (1930s-1950s)
Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests (1922)
A League of Their Own (1992)
The Matrix (1999)
The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939)
One Survivor Remembers (1995)
Parable (1964)
Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia (1990)
Slacker (1991)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
They Call It Pro Football (1967)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914)
The Wishing Ring; An Idyll of Old England (1914)


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Use tools, parts, and hardware to create musical harmony, then donate them to charity.
Complete fun challenges to earn school supplies and backpacks for local children in need.
Build and test wheelchairs for individuals in need, and give back in a meaningful way with your team.
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Compete to see which team can perform the most good deeds before time runs out.
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On behalf of the Canadian Microsoft Management team, I would like to officially Thank You for leading our teams today through End-Hunger Games! The feedback from our community was overwhelmingly positive and a great way to end our day. The donation to the Mississauga Food bank resonated with us all and was the best part of the exercise.
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Charity and philanthropic team building activities are events and games that help to create meaningful relationships with your coworkers while giving back to your community. Along with making a positive impact, our corporate charity team building activities are composed of challenges that create stronger bonds with your team through collaboration, problem solving, creative thinking, and fun-filled experiences.
Here at Outback Team Building & Training, we offer a wide range of unique charity team building activities to choose from. To get started, you'll first need to figure out what type of team building exercise will be the right fit for your group:
Why Do a Charity and Philanthropic Team Building Activity?
Corporate social responsibility has become a major focal point for many businesses over the years. More and more, employees want to work for an organization that makes a positive impact. And, more and more, companies are making a point to give back to their communities or specific industries. Here are three reasons why charity and philanthropic team building activities are so popular with corporate groups:
1.Give Back to Your Community: With charity team building activities, your actions directly make a positive impact on your community or to a cause that matters to your team.
2.Make Meaningful Connections with Colleagues: Because you're working together for a good cause, the bonds you'll create with your coworkers will be deep and significant.
3.Feel Good: Helping others inevitably makes you feel good, too. It's a virtuous exchange of positivity.
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Just give us a call for your free consultation and our Employee Engagement Consultants can help you find the best choice for your team.
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Charity and philanthropic team building activities are more than just a way to have fun with your colleagues — although that's certainly a big part of it. They also offer some serious benefits. Here are three of them:
Why Are Charity Team Building Activities So Popular?
Recent studies show that there is a 50% reduction in employee turnover when employees are engaged in CSR programs. One of the main reasons that charity team building activities are so popular is because they make the act of giving a bit more accessible. Sometimes, an individual will want to contribute to a cause or make an impact in their community, but they might think that they don't have a way to do it. It could be because they feel like they don't have the financial capacity to make a real difference, or they aren't sure where to start when it comes to philanthropy.
With charity team building activities, though, employees are able to easily give back to a cause that's important to them. You have the financial backing of your company — so that part is taken care of — and with the extra manpower of your office employees coming together, you can make a significant impact that your beneficiary will feel.
How to Plan a Charity Team Building Activity
So, you're ready to start planning your charity and philanthropic event! There are a few points to consider when organizing these kind of team building activities. Here are some key things to keep in mind:
Where Can You Do Charity Team Building Activities?
Your venue is an important part of your charity team building activity. And, your choice will also depend on whether your event is taking place indoors or outdoors. Here are some popular options for philanthropic team building:
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When you partner with Outback, you can also create your very own custom philanthropic team building event! Here are some examples of companies who participated in a Custom Event, and gave back in a way that was just perfect for their team:
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At Outback, we offer a wide variety of options for charity and philanthropic charity team building activities. But, of course, the best events are the ones that are just right for your team — that make them feel good, help them build stronger relationships with each other, and give back to the community. Here are some of our top charity team building activities for corporate groups:


text: "We live on a watery world full of mystery and life! Our vast oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface, reaching depths of several miles. Water, our most precious commodity...necessary to all…is our common bond." If you have been to our Aquarium recently, these words probably sound familiar to you. It's the opening statement of our dolphin show, Our Ocean Planet. The introduction goes on to describe the underwater world in which dolphins live, a vast world that we humans barely know. The music begins to build, and just before the trainers come out to introduce the dolphins, guests are left with this thought: "The water they swim in, the ground we walk on, we call it Earth, but this is truly Our Ocean Planet." The opening statement of our show is very thought-provoking. If water is the one thing that connects every living being, and a necessity for our own human life, then why do we know so little about it, and continue to pollute the very thing that keeps us alive and healthy? Today, we're joining thousands of bloggers from around the world for Blog Action Day to talk about the issues surrounding water. When we started this blog a few years ago, we chose to name it Waterlog because as an Aquarium, we have a lot to talk about when it comes to water! But today, as we come together to talk about the issues surrounding clean water, we'd like to keep it simple. We have more than 16,000 animals that call the National Aquarium home, and if you think about it, these animals may be considered the lucky ones. They are given clean water to live in every day. Clean water and healthy habitats. And their only job is to help inspire us humans to enjoy, respect and protect the aquatic world so they don't become a living reminder of what once was. Not all animals and humans around the world are able to enjoy clean water. Our dolphin show is just one example of how we are helping people understand the importance of clean water. Through all of our exhibits, education programs and conservation efforts, we are helping people connect to water and understand its importance in this world. We hope that if you have visited an Aquarium recently, you left understanding that everyone has to do their part to keep our water clean. As we begin the celebration of our 30th anniversary, we are excited about our future in conservation education and action. Take a look at how water has played a role in our past 30 years, and how our watery world is growing: Tags: blog-action-day, clean-water, Animals, our-ocean-planet, water Categories: Animals, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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Latest Champ Car News and Commentary
Gordon Kirby's new book honors Wally Dallenbach Sr.
by Tim Wohlford
Normally we don't plug books here, but this time it's long-time motor sports journalist Gordon Kirby writing a book about highly respected CART steward Wally Dallenbach. Gordon commented to me that this book was fun to write, with lots of respect and praise for Wally's career in motor sports.
Dillon Saves Fuel, Wins XFINITY Thriller
At Fontana
Austin Dillon saved just enough fuel and was in the right place at the right time to steal the victory away from a dominant Kyle Busch after the winner of the last three Xfinity Series races blew a tire on the white flag lap and managed to sneak by Busch's battered Toyota in the final turn to win the TreatMyClot.com 300 at Auto Club Speedway for his first Xfinity Series win of the season.
AR1 Catches up with Steve Edwards
by Lucille Dust
Recently, AutoRacing1 IndyCar Correspondent caught up with former CART safety team director Steve Edwards. The Indianapolis native joined the nascent organization at its founding in 1979 and became one of the driving forces behind the group widely considered to have been a pioneering force in motorsports safety.
Remembering George Bignotti
by AJ Foyt
Auto racing lost one of the all-time great mechanics today when George Bignotti passed away at his home in Las Vegas. He was 97. "I'd say he was one of the greatest mechanics that was ever at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. We had such a close relationship and even though I went on my merry way, we were still close up to his death," said A.J. Foyt. Bignotti, whose record shows 85 IndyCar victories including seven Indianapolis 500 wins with five different drivers, including Foyt, Indy's first four-time winner.
F1 car takes back record from Champ Car/IndyCar
by Bob Heathcote
Marc Gene drove in the Ferrari Driving Days held at Laguna Seca in California this past weekend. The Ferrari reserve driver 'allegedly' unofficially beat the track record with a lap of 1m05.78s driving a Ferrari F2003-GA. The official record is currently held by Sebastien Bourdais who had a time of 1m05.88s in 2007 while driving a Panoz DP01 Champ Car. Our Bob Heathcote was there to capture this and all the action in these captioned photos.
Marco Andretti tops soggy day at Long Beach
Marco Andretti topped the time sheets on a soggy opening day on the streets of Long Beach as IZOD IndyCar Series teams began preparations for the 38th Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The third-generation driver, whose family claimed wins in the first four Indy car races on the streets of Long Beach, turned a lap of 1:17.2298 in the No. 26 Team RC Cola Chevrolet as the track dried late in the morning session. Takuma Sato (1:17.9448) was second in the No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, while defending race winner Mike Conway (1:18.2396) was third in the No. 14 ABC Supply car for A.J. Foyt Racing.
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Give it up already Jacques Villeneuve
by Brian Carroccio
Today I am writing about a developing story, I was in fact, ahead of months ago. For those who read regularly, you might recall I wrote an article about Jacques Villeneuve, the 1995 Indianapolis 500 champion and 1997 Formula One (F1) World Champion. Villeneuve, has had something of a star crossed career, as he became world champion at the age of 26 and joined an illustrious pantheon in racing history, having won the IndyCar Championship, Indy 500 and F1 titles. For perspective that list contains three names: Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Villeneuve.
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Labor Day weekend 1952. A weekend I'll never forget
by Steven Levinson
If you were to ask anyone where they spent Labor Day a year ago, or even 5 years ago, most people would be hard pressed to remember. For me however, I can vividly recall exactly where I was 50 years ago this past week-end. The events of that Sunday afternoon in Dayton, Ohio are forever seared into my memory. This article is dedicated to the brave and talented drivers who participated in the AAA Midwest Sprint Car Championships of that era, many of who lost their lives.
Scenes from Long Beach Sunday - 2
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Q and A with Kevin Kalkhoven
After Champ Car's final event
KEVIN KALKHOVEN: The good news is it's not the final Long Beach Grand Prix because, of course, the Council has just extended it for another 10 years. During that period there have been different technologies involved, and obviously with mixed emotions today. I mean, I'm very proud of the DP 01, but I'm also looking forward to the future which is the future of open-wheel motorsport here in North America.