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Take the coverage of the 2012 elections carried on the three biggest 24-hour news channels (Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN) and you get a very conservative calculation of 72 hours in one day spent talking about the races in the 50 states.
Of those 72 hours of election coverage not one minute was devoted to reporting the results of several ballot initiatives nullifying unconstitutional acts of Congress. None of the highly paid, pancake-powdered pundits spoke a single syllable about the noteworthy and now codified efforts of citizens across the country to stop the encroachment of federal tyranny at the state borders.
At The New American, we strive to promote liberty through the publishing of news stories related to the Constitution, and to that end, proceeding from Atlantic to Pacific, we here present a brief rundown of the several nullifying proposals passed by voters in Tuesday's elections.
Massachusetts: A substantial majority of voters (64 percent) in the Bay State voted in favor of a law "eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medical use of marijuana, allowing patients meeting certain conditions to obtain marijuana produced and distributed by new state-regulated centers or, in specific hardship cases, to grow marijuana for their own use."
Whether one agrees with the morality of smoking marijuana, the irrefutable truth is that there is no constitutional provision granting the federal government power to regulate in this arena. That fact, taken in the conjunction with the 10th Amendment, leaves the power to legislate on this matter in the hands of the states.
Massachusetts is the 18th state to nullify federal statutes criminalizing the growing and use of marijuana.
Alabama: On Tuesday 59 percent of voters in the Heart of Dixie approved Amendment 6, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would "prohibit any person, employer, or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system." The question was placed on the ballot after the Alabama State Legislature passed the measure on the last day of the legislative session in 2011.
The practical effect of the amendment is to protect citizens of Alabama from being forced to comply with any federal health insurance mandate, including the provision in the ObamaCare statutes.
With this vote, the people of Alabama and their elected state representatives have proclaimed their intention to protect the sovereignty of their state and to stand as a stalwart bulwark of freedom against the near constant intrusion of Washington into areas outside their constitutional authority.
Colorado: Citizens in Colorado voted in favor of Amendment 64, a measure "permitting a person twenty-one years of age or older to consume or possess limited amounts of marijuana."
In 2006, 59 percent of Colorado voters rejected a similar proposal (Amendment 44), that would have legalized the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for those 21 or over. The use of marijuana for medical purposes is already legal in Colorado.
The passage of Amendment 64 makes Colorado only the second state (Washington is the other) to have fully legalized the use and growth of marijuana.
Montana: Voters in Big Sky Country joined their countrymen in Alabama and Wyoming (more on that next) in passing an act nullifying the unconstitutional mandates of ObamaCare.
Sixty-five percent of voters in Montana cast ballots approving LR-122, an act "prohibiting the state or federal government from mandating the purchase of health insurance." Significantly, the new law also forbids imposing "penalties for decisions related to the purchase of health insurance coverage."
Some opponents of the measure argue that the vote is a no more than a symbolic act as the Supreme Court already ruled that ObamaCare was constitutional.
As reported by a Billings, Montana, TV station, State Representative Chuck Hunter said:
There is going to be nothing that happens anyway because the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that the law is constitutional. It is in effect. It is the law of the land. It will go forward in that regard. I think it's time, particularly since the Supreme Court has ruled to move on from that issue, and go about improving the places where the law needs to be improved. That needs to happen at the federal level not the state level.
Hunter's remarks represent a popular misunderstanding of the separation of powers set forth in the Constitution, as well as the rightful position of states in their relationship to the federal government they created.
The history of the drafting and ratification of the Constitution reveals that the highest authority in our government is the collective will of the people acting as states. Time and again in our history, the people have corrected congressional legislative overreaches through the passages of state law reaffirming their sovereignty.
Thomas Jefferson in 1804 wrote that giving the Supreme Court power to declare acts of the legislature or executive unconstitutional "would make the judiciary a despotic branch." He correctly stated that "nothing in the Constitution" gives the Supreme Court that right.
Wyoming: Tuesday voters in Wyoming also passed a measure amending the Declaration of Rights in the state constitution. The approved amendment declares, "No federal or state law, rule or administrative decision shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system."
Once again, the citizens and lawmakers of a state (the ballot initiative reached voters after passing both houses of the state legislature) have reclaimed their rightful authority and have placed a border of sovereignty around their state, protecting it from federal violations of the Constitution.
Washington: By a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent, voters in Washington state approved Initiative 502, a measure legalizing the production, possession, delivery, and distribution of marijuana. The law will also allow the sale of small amounts of marijuana to people 21 and older.
Again, although the use of marijuana is considered by many to be inadvisable and immoral, the Constitution does not empower the federal government to make laws governing its use or cultivation. Regardless of one's own feelings on the plant, constitutionalists understand that speaking only of sovereignty, the right to rule in this area belongs to states, despite Supreme Court rulings to the contrary.
Even Abraham Lincoln, the habeas corpus hater himself, recognized the lack of constitutional authority for the Supreme Court's assumption of the role of ultimate arbiter of an act's conformity with the Constitution.
Said Lincoln,
But if the policy of the government upon a vital question affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the moment they are made, the people will have ceased to be their own masters; having to that extent resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Despite this success, voters in four states — Arizona, Arkansas, Oregon, and Florida — failed to pass proposals that would have nullified unconstitutional federal acts.
Nullification is commendable principally because its persistent practice engenders trust between the elected and the electorate and encourages the recognition of reliable patterns of interaction between the state and local authorities and the federal government. By consistently demanding that Washington confine itself to its small sphere of influence, everyone — citizen, state lawmaker, U.S. president, and congressman — knows where they stand and can act knowing they enjoy the good will of those by whom they were chosen to serve.


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From NWChem
Basis sets
NWChem currently supports basis sets consisting of generally contracted Cartesian Gaussian functions up to a maximum angular momentum of six (h functions), and also sp (or L) functions. The BASIS directive is used to define these, and also to specify use of an Effective Core Potential (ECP) that is associated with a basis set.
The basis functions to be used for a given calculation can be drawn from a standard set in the EMSL basis set library that is included in the release of NWChem. Alternatively, the user can specify particular functions explicitly in the input, to define a particular basis set.
The general form of the BASIS directive is as follows:
BASIS [<string name default "ao basis">] \ [(spherical || cartesian) default cartesian] \ [(segment || nosegment) default segment] \ [(print || noprint) default print] [rel] <string tag> library [<string tag_in_lib>] \ <string standard_set> [file <filename>] \ [except <string tag list>] [rel] ... <string tag> <string shell_type> [rel] <real exponent> <real list_of_coefficients> ... END
Examining the keywords on the first line of the BASIS directive:
- name :
By default, the basis set is stored in the database with the name "ao basis". Another name may be specified in the BASIS directive, thus, multiple basis sets may be stored simultaneously in the database. Also, the DFT and RI-MP2 modules and the Dyall-modified-Dirac relativistic method require multiple basis sets with specific names. The user can associate the "ao basis" with another named basis using the SET directive (see SET).
- SPHERICAL or CARTESIAN :
The keywords spherical and cartesian offer the option of using either spherical-harmonic (5 d, 7 f, 9 g, ...) or Cartesian (6 d, 10 f, 15 g, ...) angular functions. The default is Cartesian. Note that the correlation-consistent basis sets were designed using spherical harmonics and to use these, the spherical keyword should be present in the BASIS directive. The use of spherical functions also helps eliminate problems with linear dependence.
- SEGMENT or NOSEGMENT :
By default, NWChem forces all basis sets to be segmented, even if they are input with general contractions or L or sp shells. This is because the current derivative integral program cannot handle general contractions. If a calculation is computing energies only, a performance gain can result from exploiting generally contracted basis sets, in which case NOSEGMENT should be specified.
- PRINT or NOPRINT :
The default is for the input module to print all basis sets encountered. Specifying the keyword noprint allows the user to suppress this output.
This keyword marks the entire basis as a relativistic basis for the purposes of the Dyall-modified-Dirac relativistic integral code. The marking of the basis set is necessary for the code to make the proper association between the relativistic shells in the ao basis and the shells in the large and/or small component basis. This is only necessary for basis sets which are to be used as the ao basis. The user is referred to the section on Dyall's modified Dirac-Hamiltonian approximation for more details.
Basis sets are associated with centers by using the tag of a center in a geometry that has either been input by the user or is available elsewhere. Each atom or center with the same tag will have the same basis set. All atoms must have basis functions assigned to them -- only dummy centers (X or Bq) may have no basis functions. To facilitate the specification of the geometry and the basis set for any chemical system, the matching process of a basis set tag to a geometry tag first looks for an exact match. If no match is found, NWChem will attempt to match, ignoring case, the name or symbol of the element. E.g., all hydrogen atoms in a system could be labeled "H1", "H2", ..., in the geometry but only one basis set specification for "H" or "hydrogen" is necessary. If desired, a special basis may be added to one or more centers (e.g., "H1") by providing a basis for that tag. If the matching mechanism fails then NWChem stops with an appropriate error message.
A special set of tags, "*" and tags ending with a "*" (E.g. "H*") can be used in combination with the keyword library. These tags facilitate the definition of a certain type of basis set of all atoms, or a group of atoms, in a geometry using only a single or very few basis set entries. The "*" tag will not place basis sets on dummy atoms, Bq* can be used for that if necessary.
Examined next is how to reference standard basis sets in the basis set library, and finally, how to define a basis set using exponents and coefficients.
Basis set library
The keyword library associated with each specific tag entry specifies that the calculation will use the standard basis set in NWChem for that center. The variable <standard_set> is the name that identifies the functions in the library. The names of standard basis sets are not case sensitive. For a complete list of basis sets and associated ECPs in the NWChem library see the available basis sets or the EMSL Basis Set Exchange for naming conventions and their specifications.
The general form of the input line requesting basis sets from the NWChem basis set library is:
<string tag> library [<string tag_in_lib>] \ <string standard set> [file < filename> \ [except <string tag list>] [rel] ...
For example, the NWChem basis set library contains the Dunning cc-pvdz basis set. These may be used as follows
basis oxygen library cc-pvdz hydrogen library cc-pvdz end
A default path of the NWChem basis set libraries is provided on installation of the code, but a different path can be defined by specifying the keyword file, and one can explicitly name the file to be accessed for the basis functions. For example,
basis o library 3-21g file /usr/d3g681/nwchem/library si library 6-31g file /usr/d3g681/nwchem/libraries/ end
This directive tells the code to use the basis set 3-21g in the file /usr/d3g681/nwchem/library for atom o and to use the basis set 6-31g in the directory /usr/d3g681/nwchem/libraries/ for atom si, rather than look for them in the default libraries. When a directory is defined the code will search for the basis set in a file with the name 6-31g.
The "*" tag can be used to efficiently define basis set input directives for large numbers of atoms. An example is:
basis * library 3-21g end
This directive tells the code to assign the basis sets 3-21g to all the atom tags defined in the geometry. If one wants to place a different basis set on one of the atoms defined in the geometry, the following directive can be used:
basis * library 3-21g except H end
This directive tells the code to assign the basis sets 3-21g to all the atoms in the geometry, except the hydrogen atoms. Remember that the user will have to explicitly define the hydrogen basis set in this directive! One may also define tags that end with a "*":
basis oxy* library 3-21g end
This directive tells the code to assign the basis sets 3-21g to all atom tags in the geometry that start with "oxy".
If standard basis sets are to be placed upon a dummy center, the variable <tag_in_lib> must also be entered on this line, to identify the correct atom type to use from the basis function library (see the ghost atom example in SET and below). For example: To specify the cc-pvdz basis for a calculation on the water monomer in the dimer basis, where the dummy oxygen and dummy hydrogen centers have been identified as bqo and bqh respectively, the BASIS directive is as follows:
basis o library cc-pvdz h library cc-pvdz bqo library o cc-pvdz bqh library h cc-pvdz end
A special dummy center tag is bq*, which will assign the same basis set to all bq centers in the geometry. Just as with the "*" tag, the except list can be used to assign basis sets to unique dummy centers.
The library basis sets can also be marked as relativistic by adding the rel keyword to the tag line. See the section on relativistic all-electron approximations for more details. The correlation consistent basis sets have been contracted for relativistic effects and are included in the standard library.
There are also contractions in the standard library for both a point nucleus and a finite nucleus of Gaussian shape. These are usually distinguished by the suffix _pt and _fi. It is the user's responsibility to ensure that the contraction matches the nuclear type specified in the geometry object. The specification of a finite nucleus basis set does NOT automatically set the nuclear type for that atom to be finite. See Geometries for information.
Explicit basis set definition
If the basis sets in the library or available in other external files are not suitable for a given calculation, the basis set may be explicitly defined. A generally contracted Gaussian basis function is associated with a center using an input line of the following form:
<string tag> <string shell_type> [rel] <real exponent> <real list_of_coefficients> ...
The variable <shell_type> identifies the angular momentum of the shell, s, p, d, .... NWChem is configured to handle up to h shells. The keyword rel marks the shell as relativistic -- see Section 9.3 for more details. Subsequent lines define the primitive function exponents and contraction coefficients. General contractions are specified by including multiple columns of coefficients.
The following example defines basis sets for the water molecule:
basis spherical nosegment oxygen s 11720.0000 0.000710 -0.000160 1759.0000 0.005470 -0.001263 400.8000 0.027837 -0.006267 113.7000 0.104800 -0.025716 37.0300 0.283062 -0.070924 13.2700 0.448719 -0.165411 5.0250 0.270952 -0.116955 1.0130 0.015458 0.557368 0.3023 -0.002585 0.572759 oxygen s 0.3023 1.000000 oxygen p 17.7000 0.043018 3.8540 0.228913 1.0460 0.508728 0.2753 0.460531 oxygen p 0.2753 1.000000 oxygen d 1.1850 1.000000 hydrogen s 13.0100 0.019685 1.9620 0.137977 0.4446 0.478148 0.1220 0.501240 hydrogen s 0.1220 1.000000 hydrogen p 0.7270 1.000000 oxygen s 0.01 1.0 hydrogen s 0.02974 1.0 hydrogen p 0.141 1.0 end
Explicit basis set specifications are available from the basis set exchange. We strive to provide all the basis sets from the exchange as an integral part of the internal basis set library.
Combinations of library and explicit basis set input
The user can use a mixture of library basis and explicit basis set input to define the basis sets used on the various atoms.
For example, the following BASIS directive augments the Dunning cc-pvdz basis set for the water molecule with a diffuse s-shell on oxygen and adds the aug-cc-pVDZ diffuse functions onto the hydrogen.
basis spherical nosegment oxygen library cc-pvdz hydrogen library cc-pvdz oxygen s 0.01 1.0 hydrogen library "aug-cc-pVDZ Diffuse" end
The resulting basis set defined is identical to the one defined above in the explicit basis set input.


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Hi, I realize that you're using Crimson's userpage format for your own user page, but could you please remove the Pokepower and Featured User templates from your userpage? You haven't been awarded them. Thanks ChaosVoid 09:00, August 13, 2012 (UTC)
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So once again serendipity has reared its lovely head. Actually, that's unfair, I wouldn't call what's happened here "luck", as there's been a lot of leg-work and networking that gotten this stuff out there, but anyway...
A few weeks ago I answered a question on Quora: What are some ways to survive the Zombie Apocalypse?
I filled it with tons of pictures that Tim Verstynen and I made as part of our work with the Zombie Research Society for zomBcon last year (where I got to meet and interview George Romero!)
In that answer I linked to my NerdNite presentation that had tons of those "data":
Well, someone working with Pimsleur saw the video and Quora response and shot me an email asking if he could create an infographic on how our "results" inform ways in which we could survive the zombie apocalypse.
In the mean time I'd been in touch with Angela over at Wired about doing something zombie-related, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
She thought so too! So here's the article on Wired:
How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse Using Science
I've talked at length on this blog about why I do the zombie neuroscience stuff: it's a tongue-in-cheek jab at cognitive neuroscience, it gets people to accidentally learn about the brain, and it's just damn excellent geeky fun!
So far this zombie stuff has lead to an interview for National Geographic's The Truth Behind Zombies, my new article in Wired, speaking at zomBcon, and now speaking on two panels at Comic-Con.
Like I said, if only my actual research lead to such opportunities!


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United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) ZERO DRAFT Proposal for the Rio+20 November 1, 2011
- Kelley Lewis
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1 General Content: United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) ZERO DRAFT Proposal for the Rio+20 November 1, 2011 a. What are the expectations for the outcome of Rio+20, and what are the concrete proposals in this regard, including views on a possible structure of the Outcome document: The structure of the Outcome document should ensure the balanced integration of economic development, social development and environmental protection, as these are mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development. The Outcome document should also deliver a concise, action oriented and forward looking plan that reflects current trends and realities and develops measurable targets. The Outcome document should also consider that any sustainable development framework will never be realized unless it includes a clear prescription and the practical application of disaster and climate risk management. Disaster risk is increasing globally due to climate variability, poor land use planning and management and ecosystem degradation that endanger people, assets and development efforts. Any future framework for sustainable development needs a clear prescription and practical application of disaster and climate risk management. The series of catastrophes in 2011 is a strong reminder that disaster risks associated with hazards such as tropical cyclones, floods, earthquake, droughts, tsunamis, as well as technological hazards, constitute a major challenge to development. The Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami sent a clear message that both developed and developing countries are exposed to high risks and raised the potential trans boundary implications of disasters. b. What are the comments, if any, on existing proposals e.g., a green economy roadmap, framework for action, sustainable development goals, a revitalized global partnership for sustainable development, or others? Sustainable Development Goals (SDG s): The SDG proposal builds on main Agenda 21 issues such as combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting sustainable human settlement development, biodiversity and forests, oceans, water resources, advancing food security and energy. In order to ensure that any proposed goals are attained and new development investments protected, it is important that disaster and climate risk management is integrated in the plans. For example, factoring disaster and climate risk into investments for sustainable development, human settlements and the construction of schools, hospitals and energy infrastructure could scale up risk reduction and protect investments. Green Economy Roadmap: See Specific elements (b)
2 c. What are the views on implementation and on how to close the implementation gap, which relevant actors are envisaged as being involved (governments, specific major groups, UN system, IFIs, etc.) Governments are increasingly recognizing that disaster risk reduction is crucial to sustainable development. This has been reflected in a number of inter governmentally agreed, development related outcome documents, such as the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (2002), the 2010 MDG Summit and more recently in the 2011 Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries. However, only little has been achieved in terms of implementation as shown by the increasing vulnerability and exposure of communities and assets to disaster risks. Ahead of Rio+20, a strengthened political and financial commitment is crucial to ensure that disaster risk reduction becomes a core component of sustainable development. Such commitment can only be achieved with an active participation of all major groups. There is a greater recognition of the increasing importance of the role of local governments and the private sector to address the implementation gaps and achieve sustainable development. As providers of social services, builders of economic infrastructures, regulators of economic activity and managers of the natural environment, local authorities have many direct instruments that could influence sustainable development. At the same time there has been an increasing commitment and interest in sustainable development actions from the private sector that could stir up jobs and income opportunities. The concerted and complementary efforts of these stakeholders will be essential for effective and sustainable development. d. What specific cooperation mechanisms, partnership arrangement or other implementation tools are envisaged and what is the relevant time frame for the proposed decisions to be reached and actions to be implemented. The Hyogo Framework for Action : Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA) is a 10 year plan adopted by the UN Member States at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in 2005 and subsequently endorsed by the UN General Assembly (GA Resolution 60/195). The HFA sets a clear expected outcome that is to reduce disaster losses in the lives as well as the social, economic and environmental assets of communities and countries and lays out a detailed set of priorities to be achieved by First among the strategic goals of the HFA is the more effective integration of disaster risk actions into sustainable development policies, planning and programming at all levels, with a special emphasis on disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness and vulnerability reduction. Several cooperative mechanisms support implementation of the HFA. The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is a multi stakeholder mechanism that is used to accelerate world wide momentum on disaster risk reduction. Mandated by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/62/192), the Global Platform convenes every two years to assess the progress of the Hyogo Framework for Action implementation, enhance awareness of disaster risk reduction, share experience and lessons from good practice and identify remaining gaps and recommend targeted action to accelerate national and local implementation. Regional Platforms (across six regions) also assess progress but focus on
3 the details of the plans of implementation and National Platforms act as the national coordinating body for disaster risk reduction. These existing mechanisms could also analyze the gaps and monitor the implementation progress of development related outcome documents such as Agenda 21 and the future Rio+20 as they relate to disaster risk reduction. Specific Elements: a. Objective of the conference: To secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcome of the major summits on sustainable development and addressing new and emerging challenges. The practical application, as well as political, financial and technological commitment to disaster risk reduction, needs to be reinforced as a core component of sustainable development and climate adaptation in order to achieve the objectives set out in the Hyogo Framework for Action : Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. Such reinforcement is essential if international agreements such as the Rio+20 Summit, implementation of the MDGs, and the UNFCCC Cancún Adaptation Framework 1 are to achieve their objectives. Promoting disaster risk reduction in the new development agenda entails multiple benefits to economy, society and the environment For example: Disaster risk reduction measures positively contribute to economic growth through reducing losses to disasters and contributes to reduction of poverty by protecting livelihooods, effecting use of social safety net programs and opening new potentials for developing social capital and assets. Integration of disaster risk reduction in public services such as water management and drought resistant agricultural practices are effective measures that address drought risk, water shortages, increase generation of hydroelectricity, water storage capacity for agricultural use, and availability of domestic drinking water. Similarly, protection of ecosystems such as forests and mangroves could save lives, assets and livelihoods 2 while at the same time serving as natural protective barriers and buffers against physical hazards. The benefits of investing in human, financial, technical resources in disaster risk reduction outweigh the costs and negative outcomes of disaster losses and impacts. For example, in a study conducted in Colombia, the inclusion of disaster risk considerations in land use planning and building was found to be four times less expensive than rebuilding or repairing infrastructure damages from disasters. Corrective measures such as retrofitting or relocation are less cost effective but can reduce mortality by 40 percent 3. Protecting schools, hospitals and other public infrastructures is particularly critical in this regard. 1 FCCC/CP/2010/7/Add.1 2 UNISDR, 2011 : Revealing Risk, Redefining Development. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction Geneva: UNISDR. 3 Ibid
4 Disaster risk reduction should be highlighted as an important cross cutting sustainable development issue in the Rio+20. Any future framework for sustainable development needs to include a clear prescription and the practical application of disaster and climate risk management. Equally, poverty and vulnerability reduction are integral to effective risk management. The recommendations below highlight the key opportunities and areas for government action within the context of urgently needed integrated approaches. Know risks and account for disaster losses: Estimating recurrent loss is essential in justifying increased investments in disaster risk reduction. Establishment of national disaster loss databases that account for all disaster loss and damage as well as probabilistic risk assessments can enable countries to estimate their probable maximum losses and estimate the costs and benefits of different risk management strategies and options. Integrate disaster risk reduction into public investments and sustainable development plans: Public investment projects are shaped through a number of planning processes that include land use planning and management, development planning, sector investment planning and investment4. Factoring and applying disaster risk into public investment decisions directly address critical risk drivers and downplay potential disaster related losses and costs at a scale impossible to achieve through stand alone disaster risk management. Through the application of disaster risk reduction, quality and sustainability of public spending is enhanced and further contributes to social and economic development5. Utilize disaster risk reduction as an instrument to achieve a more sustainable (greener) economy: Ensuring that physical infrastructure meets disaster resilient design standards is critically important. The exposure and vulnerability of infrastructure takes a significant toll on the economy of disaster affected countries and regions. When buildings and bridges are damaged by disaster, recovery is further inhibited and the ability of businesses to bring employees back to work at full scale is reduced. Addressing these factors can reduce the scale of losses and strengthen the resilience of the local economy. Businesses both small and large are increasingly planning for resilience through business continuity planning and the protection of supply chains. b. Green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication: views regarding how green economy can be a means to achieve sustainable development in its three dimensions, and poverty eradication; what is its potential added value; experience to date, including what has worked and how to build upon success, what are the challenges and opportunities and how to address the challenges and seize opportunities, and possible elements of an agreement in outcome document on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The green economy concept, advocated in the Rio+20 process, carries the promise of a new economic growth paradigm that generates growth, creates jobs and eradicates poverty by investing in and preserving the natural capital. The transition to green economy however does not entail new solutions but are also based on sustainable actions and practices that are already in place such as energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and sustainable urbanization. Considering disaster risk reduction in the planning and investment stages promises 4 Ibid 5 Ibid
5 to support the transition to green economy by protecting these news investments and strengthening resilience of countries to disaster and climate risks. Thus, disaster risk reduction and green economy could be mutually reinforcing as reflected in the following examples: Public infrastructure investments: green economy could provide opportunities to address the infrastructure challenges in a sustainable way especially in developing countries. For example, remote off grid electricity generation system is a viable approach to electrify many rural areas. Ensuring that this new physical infrastructure such as this meets disaster resilient design standards is critically important. The exposure and vulnerability of infrastructure takes a significant toll on the economy of disaster affected countries and regions. Addressing these factors can reduce the scale of losses and strengthen the resilience of green economy Sustainable agriculture: green economy strongly calls for building natural capital assets by promoting green practices such as sustainable agriculture that include attention to landcover changes that affect flood, drought and landslide risk and the underlying vulnerabilities of communities reliant on natural capital. There is growing evidence that sustainable forms of agriculture can increase yields and revenues, open up new market opportunities and reduce climate change and environmental vulnerability. Any transition must be managed in such a way as to prevent food insecurity and to promote resilient livelihoods. Sustainable urbanization: green economy provides an opportunity to reduce the unsustainable trend of rural urban migration in many developing countries by empowering (economically) rural areas. Thus, it allows better and efficient planning of cities. However, how land is used in cities and how buildings, infrastructure and networks are designed and constructed all influence exposure to physical hazards and the rise or fall of a country s stock of risk. Factoring and applying disaster risk into urban planning downplays potential disaster related losses and costs. The transition to green economies will not be possible without the full engagement of the private sector. The extent to which the transitional plans also address the concerns and interests of private sector may well be a deciding factor in the success of green growth. While many entrepreneurs will respond to the opening of new markets, others are already recognizing the importance of business continuity planning and addressing vulnerabilities in the supply chain. Disaster risk reduction is well positioned as a win win area of mutual interest where cooperative relationships may be built. c. Institutional framework for sustainable development: Priorities and proposals for strengthening individual pillars of sustainable development, as well as those for strengthening integration of the three pillars, at multiple levels local, national, regional and international. In order to strengthen the broader institutional frameworks for sustainable development, other relevant existing inter governmental instruments, such as the Hyogo Framework for Action are important. The HFA emphasises that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development and therefore an important element for the achievement of internationally agreed development goals. First among the strategic goals of the HFA is the more effective integration of disaster risk into sustainable development policies, planning and
6 programming at all levels, with a special emphasis on disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness and vulnerability reduction. In line with the views expressed by some Member States, the value of an objective appraisal of implementation of sustainable development commitments and action plans. In this regard, national reports on progress in implementation of the HFA could contribute significantly.


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Inscribing Prints
The Prints and Drawings Study Room is hosting a new displays that responds our Reading Drawings in The Courtauld Gallery. Print Room Assistants Imogen Tedbury and Sean Ketteringham talk us through the latest display.
Timed to coincide with the exhibition Reading Drawings, which showcases inscriptions on drawings in the Courtauld collection, this display in the Prints and Drawings Study Room looks at the function of inscriptions in prints. The Courtauld Gallery has 7,000 drawings, but it also has over 26,000 prints – so we had plenty of works to choose from!
Printed text in printed images can function very differently to handwritten text in drawings. So, we decided to leave aside the themes thoroughly examined in the drawings exhibition – attribution, the history of collecting and working practices – instead exploring why and how prints include text, and what functions word and image can serve together, across a broad range of dates and places. Playing around with the word and concept of 'Authority', we thought about the relative 'authorities' of text in an image: what happens when text moves from the frame or border to take up an active role in the image itself?
Some Early Modern printmakers represented God by representing the Word of God – his textual 'authority', if you like. In these prints, the physical representation of God's Word as visual sign plays a central role within the image. In the Fall of the Tower of Babel, for example, the illegible rotation of the Latin text signifies the fragmentation of earthly language.
We were also interested in how an authority – whether political, religious or artistic – can be undermined by the use of inscription. Two eighteenth-century satirical prints chosen for the display use fragments of text to make fun of their subjects, subverting them by parodying religious language. An attack by an anonymous artist on Robert Walpole, the first prime minister of Britain, even seems a forerunner for 2017 Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton's installation of a giant bottom, Project for Door (After Gaetano Pesce), or Pauline Boty's 1966 painting, Bum!
Printmaking's close relationship with book-printing inspires the last group of prints – a selection of title pages and cover images from Canaletto to Wyndham Lewis considering how frontispieces reveal and conceal their textual and pictorial content. In these prints no clear boundary can be drawn between word and image, as together they combine to communicate the author's identity.
Come and see these printed treasures, some of which have not been on display before. The Prints and Drawings Study Room is open by appointment Monday-Thursday 10am-5pm, or drop in on Wednesday afternoons during term time, 1.30-4pm, no appointment needed


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You may have already been aware that plants are one of nature's best filters. Within the last few months, we have highlighted several plants that act as natural water purifiers. Oregano kills bacteria and viruses in water, as one high school student recently discovered through a science project. In addition, Moringa tree seeds kill bacteria, and may be used to provide clean water to people in developing nations in the future.
Plants are also some of nature's best air purifiers. Though it has long been known that plants are able to take in carbon dioxide, researchers recently reported that plants clean air pollution even better than previously expected. Some plants excel at taking in chemicals known as oxygenated volatile organic compounds (oVOC's), which form in the atmosphere from hydrocarbons and other chemicals from sources such as cars, construction, and ironically – plants. These chemicals have a negative long-term health impact on humans and their environment.
For better indoor air quality, you may want to keep several house plants around. These require extra responsibility, however, so if you're looking for a lower-maintenance solution to your respiratory ailments, or if you want to improve on the performance of your plants, you may want to consider one of our many air purifiers. If you visit our website and the selection is too much to bear (we know – it's pretty extensive), then look out for our buyer's guide on air purifiers to be released in the near future.


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Hugin Compiling Windows
NOTE: this is work in progress and not finished yet. Please add clarifications or comments for the individual steps.
- 1 Why do I want to compile hugin?
- 2 Deciding on the toolchain
- 3 Building with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
- 4 Building using MinGW
Why do I want to compile hugin?
If you want to fiddle with the hugin code, test new features or help squashing bugs, and do all that on Windows, this is the guide for you. Be warned that building hugin on Windows is not a piece of cake, so only try if you know the dark sides with all the development tools involved.
For normal testers it is better to use the binary snapshots we will offer during the preparation period for hugin 0.7. This guide is designed to be a help for people who have expressed interest in build Windows version of the current hugin code on a regular basis.
This guide will describe two ways of building the latest trunk. It does not apply to the hugin code prior to 2007/10/27.
Deciding on the toolchain
Currently, there are two methods for building hugin. Both are based on the CMake build system.
- Compilation with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. MSVC 2003 or later is required. The recommended method is to download Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, and install it. For convinience I provide a Hugin SDK with precompiled libraries for MSVC 2008. It is recommended to use these, rather than to compile your own libraries.
- Compilation with MinGW32. This does not require the Microsoft compiler and even allows cross compilation of binaries for windows on a linux machine. Until now, only the cross compilation approach has been tried, but a building on a native system should also be possible.
The following additional programs are also required for building a hugin installer package:
- CMake Note that Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is not supported by CMake 2.4. Download the Nightly CVS Windows Binary, until CMake 2.5 is released.
- enblend 3.1
- GNU make, required by hugin, not for building hugin. (included in Hugin SDK)
- War Setup 3
- GNU gettext. (included in Hugin SDK)
For both MSVC and MinGW32 approaches, the hardest task is the compilation of the libraries required by hugin. This mainly includes wxWidgets, boost, libpano13 and OpenEXR.
Building with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
This also works with earlier version from 2003 onwards. However, you will need to compile the dependencies from scratch. For simpler installation (and less headaches during building) I have build everything against the older, multithreaded runtime libraries (\MT option), and linked all exectuables statically.
Getting the dependencies
It is tempting to download precompiled libraries from the different projects, and use those. Be prepared that they might have been created with different compiler setting (Especially with a different runtime libraries). This can lead to hard to find and nasty problems and amount to days of depressing work (I speak from experience).
Downloading precompiled dependencies
This is the recommended approach.
Download the Hugin SDK. and unzip it into a directory of your choice. I will use src in this document. Continue with #Building Hugin.
Build all required dependencies from scratch
Download the source packages. Newer versions might work, too.
1. Download wxWidgets from http://www.wxwidgets.org, I used 2.8.4, but later version should work, too
2. Download boost from http://www.boost.org, I used 1.34_1
3. Download OpenEXR source (IlmBase and OpenEXR) from http://www.openexr.com/
4. Download panorama tools source (pano13), from http://panotools.sf.net. Use version 2.9.12 or later. Latest SVN is even better.
5. Download and install gettext installer package from http://gnuwin32.sf.net
Unpack the source packages.
Building wxWidgets
1. Open libs/wxWidgets/src/tiff/tiffconf.h in your favorite editor, and add
#define ZIP_SUPPORT
near line 90 to support ZIP compressed tiff files (update: wxWidgets ships with an ancient version of libtiff, so LZW will still be disabled. The Hugin SDK additionally contains libtiff 3.8.2). To avoid nasty popup messages with the command line tools we are going to build, additionally add:
#define TIF_PLATFORM_CONSOLE
2. build wxWidgets: start the MSVC command line shell (from the startmenu) and cd to the wxWidgets/build/msw. To build Unicode debug release libraries, execute the following commands:
cd wxWidgets*/build/msw nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=debug UNICODE=1 SHARED=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static nmake -f makefile.vc BUILD=release UNICODE=1 SHARED=0 RUNTIME_LIBS=static
It may be more reliable to build the wxWidgets libraries with the distributed MSVC projects, as described here. When I used the commandline method several libraries were built wrong, or not at all. -- TKSharpless
I never had trouble using the makefiles, maybe thats a MSVC 2005 issue? -- Pablo d'Angelo
Building boost
Refer to the boost documentation for details, especially Build binaries from source. Download bjam exectable and place it in the boost directory. Open the MSVC Command line prompt located in Start Menu -> Programs Microsoft Visual Studio -> Utilities, change directory to the boost dir and issue
bjam stage --with-thread
This will build the boost thread library.
If you are using Visual C++ 7.1 (Visual Studio 2003) or 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005), you can save a lot of time and aggravation by getting precompiled Boost libraries from BoostConsulting. You first download an installer program, which when run lets you choose which library variants you want to install. For Hugin you need the multithreaded static libraries, built for the static Microsoft C runtime with the compiler you intend to use. If you already have a Boost installation, you can just add these libraries to it, otherwise install the Boost headers too.
Windows Boost libraries are named according to version, compiler and MS runtime variant (multi|single thread, static|dll) so take care that the Hugin build uses the right names. Example:
prefix 'lib' shows this is a static link library, not the import library for a Boost dll; 'vc80' says built with VC8.0; 'mt-s' built for release version of the Microsoft multithread static C runtime LIBCMT (i.e. with compiler switch '/MT') (the debug version has 'mt-sgd'); '1_34_1' built from Boost version 1.34.1 source.
Building OpenEXR
This is a tricky one, because the MSVC project files have been set up for DLL builds with the \MD runtime, and a custom program is used to prepare the DLLs. For the all static windows binaries, quite some changes to the MSVC project files are needed.
Build according to README_win in ilmbase-1.0.0 but changed the runtime of all projects to MT.
For all projects do:
- set each project to static lib
- remove OPENEXR_DLL, _USEDLL and *_EXPORTS defines
- set runtime to MT
- disable SSE2, to generate binaries that run on all platforms
- remove the createDLL part of the post-build command, but keep the call to install*.cmd, such as ..\..\..\installIlmImf.cmd $(IntDir)
Apply the same procedure to the openexr-1.6 source code. Here only the IlmImf and IlmImfTest projects are needed by Hugin. Follow the same process as for IlmBase, but additionally add include path for the zlib library (inside the wxWidget/src/zlib) to the IlmImf project, and wxWidget/libs/_vc/wxzlib.lib to the IlmImfTest linker options. The tests should run without errors.
It is a good idea to create new target configurations, say HuginRelease and HuginDebug, with the Visual Studio Configuration Manager, and apply the above changes to them, so that you don't lose the original project settings. This also makes the Hugin-appropriate libraries easy to find as they will be built in directories named for the configurations. They should be installed in directories named that way, too; the install commands make those directories in the Deploy/... tree, but fail to copy the static libraries there because the dll library names are built into them. However it is easy enough to copy the libs from the build folders by hand. The ilmbase libraries must be in the Deploy tree before IlmImf is built. -- TKSharpless
Building Panotools
Building Pano13 with MSVC is described on a separate page.
Building Hugin
Use SVN to retrieve the latest hugin sourcecode (svn root is: https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/trunk), and save it to src/hugin-trunk. Remember the SVN revision, it will be needed later.
Place all dependencies alongside the hugin-trunk source directory. Example (versions might be slightly outdated):
src/ hugin-trunk OpenExr STLport-5.1.4 boost_1_34_1 enblend-3.1 libpano/pano13 wxMSW-2.8.6 make/make.exe
Run CMakeSetup to create the MSVC project files. If you use the Hugin SDK or have a 100% identical directory structure, CMakeSetup will pick up the dependencies automatically. Otherwise the paths to each dependency will have to specified manually during the following cmake step
- Run cmake, select hugin source and build directories. Do not choose the same directories for both source and build.
- Press 'Configure.
- If building is done using an SVN checkout, the SVN revision number needs to be specified manually. Press 'Configure again.
- CMake will pick up the dependencies and show them to you. Press Configure again. Now the Ok button should be available. If CMake had problems picking up all dependencies (for example, if you build your own libraries). CMake will prompt you if it misses something. After some iterations, all dependencies should be picked up.
- Press the Ok button.
- Once all fields have been filled out, the "Ok" button should be available. Press it and open the generated hugin.sln file with MSVC. Switch to Build Type to Release and start the build (press F7). After quite some time hugin should be build. In order to run hugin, it needs to be installed so that data files are in the right place. This is done by building the INSTALL project. The binaries and all required files will be installed into INSTALL/FILES subdirectory of the build directory specified during the CMake step.
- Creating the .msi installer by opening INSTALL/hugin.warsetup with the WarSetup program available from http://warsetup.jgaa.com/ and clicking on the Build button.
- A NSIS installer can be build by building the PACKAGE target (NSIS needs to be installed for this). This is currently a default installer, without specific functionality.
Building using MinGW
I have managed to build the older, pre GSoC 2007 version with MinGW, but still having some problems with the new trunk. Once these are resolved, I will provide instructions
--pablo 18:10, 13 January 2008 (CET)


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How can leaders of all strips be more effective at hearing their people?
In the Young Leaders Panel, Government Executive editors pose a question about an issue affecting the federal workforce to a group of emergent leaders outside the federal community. The following responses come from St. Louis Coro™ Fellows Program in Public Affairs class of 2013:
Question: Senior leaders in the Army are currently wrapping up listening tours at 29 bases around the country to better understand the effects of sequestration on local communities. Brig. Gen. Theodore Martin, commanding general of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in Southern California, recently told an audience that the purpose of these "Community Listening Sessions" is to implement the sequester "right." These forums aren't uncommon--though perhaps less common then they should be--in government. Last September, Reginald Wells, Chief Human Capital Officer of the Social Security Administration, told GovExec about his efforts to institute brownbag lunches with employees so he could hear their concerns firsthand. How can leaders, whether in large forums or small, be better listeners and more effectively hear what their people need and think?
The following responses come from four fellows that make up the Coro St. Louis 2013 class.
Applying campaign tools to governance and representation
Every election cycle, our hopeful leaders are employing large teams of staff and volunteer canvassers to deliver targeted messages to the doorsteps of voters. The value of canvassing operations is the opportunity to utilize the familiar faces of community members (a) to deliver the message of the candidate directly to the voter, and (b) to mobilize the voter to the polls on Election Day. Shifting the purpose of a canvassing campaign from dissemination of a central message to a solicitation for broader feedback has the potential to incorporate the powerful tool of human interaction into the listening and input mechanisms of our elected officials.
Governance and representation stipulate equal obligations to the adamant supporter as to the fundamentally apathetic. What a listening campaign makes possible is the ability to move away from the old adage, "the squeaky wheel gets the oil" and move towards the empirical collection of what's important to all of the constituents of a district, a state, a country. Effective listening for our leaders can look like maintaining direct voter contact as a tool to facilitate the active participation and contribution of the public in our own governance and representation.
-- Bram Sable-Smith (Columbia, Missouri)
Reverting Back to Membership
Drawing from the model of labor unions, a leader only becomes a leader when he is elected; until then, he is a member. The beauty and benefits to being a member are that all issues are voiced without filters on who will be listening or the relevance of the topic. Then, when a leader is elected, he is already familiar with the needs and thoughts of his people. The key to being a better listener as a leader is to find a way to become a member again.
The challenge of sustaining the intimacy with people only appears when a leader begins to act from the summit. So, the first question to ask is: How can a leader listen to the people on the ground from the top of a mountain? Then, moving beyond rank, the leader needs to begin identifying causes of biased or selective hearing. When does the perspective of rank or responsibilities influence listening? Then, when listening has occurred, the last step is to acknowledge. What actions have the leader shown to people that acknowledges their needs and thoughts?
Effective listeners commit toward shifting the paradigm to being among the people.
-- Amelia Noor (Los Angeles, CA)
I'm Wrong – We're Right.
My mother always preached, "How can you hear with all the wax in your ear?" Back then, she was being literal. Today, it has a different meaning. The wax isn't filth impairing my hearing; it's my ego clouding judgment. It's the attachment to my own personal ideas. We all do it. It's human nature.
I've been put in leadership positions my entire life. And when I ask myself how a leader can become a better listener, I think it's acknowledging that you're not always right. I have found myself, plenty of times, arguing for something that doesn't make sense. It started off making sense. It started off as genius. Now it's evolved, and I'm finding myself fighting for something that is irrelevant.
I would ask leaders to put the job, task or project before them—to accept others' opinions and ideas as equal to their own. I find the most effective leaders are the ones that question themselves. That regardless of who gets the credit, they are focused on creating the best product.
There is something unique about questioning your own beliefs. There's something special about doing something because it's right and not because it's yours.
-- Matt Nichenko (Shreveport, LA)
Power from Listening
The city planner's greatest fear is that his or her inspired ideas of the moment will "sit on the shelf," never to be looked at again or acted upon. When planners control neither the policies of their own government nor the whims of the developers and residents for whom the policies are made, it is easy for a good idea to be left behind. In the absence of power, we have developed a number of techniques for building consensus.
The least effective of these is the typical community meeting, in which city officials descend into churches and school gymnasiums with a polished proposal, ready for public comment. Frustrated residents rise against ideas that they see as derived from a detached and secretive process.
Always adapting, we have taken to coming to public meetings earlier, more often, and less "prepared." The first meeting is to learn about the community as it is; the second, to bring broad ideas for change; the third for specifics; the fourth, to discuss implementation, and so on. In these meetings, the community does the work of planning their community, and the "planners" themselves are merely the well-trained scribes. In the end, the plan is nothing more than the record of a conversation.
-- Phil Fargason (Birmingham, AL)
Read the panel's previous responses:
- Do Good Leaders Sacrifice With Their Employees?
- What Does the Ideal Work Environment Look Like?
- With GSA Canceling Trainings, How Can Feds Develop New Skills?
The Coro™ Fellows Program in Public Affairs is an intensive, nine-month, full-time program that combines exposure to various industries with rigorous, hands-on training. The program uses experiential learning; interviews with private, public and nonprofit decision-makers; and training in critical thinking, communication and project management. These 16 Fellows are participating in the program in St. Louis, where it is operated by FOCUS St. Louis. The program is also offered in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Pittsburgh.
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What a weekend I've just had!
Saturday was the culmination of months of work by my wonderful dance students. They finally got to show their friends and family what they had been working on for the past 9 Tuesday nights.
I've always loved Star Wars, ever since I was a kid and my Dad and two brothers would freak out over the movies and associated paraphernalia. I even had my own Yoda doll.
So when it was casually mentioned one night that the Cantina Band song would make a great song to dance balboa too, my brain lit up… "Yes! We have to do that for this year's routine!"
And so the germ of an idea progressed to the above.
I'm so proud of all of the students – particularly those that haven't been dancing for very long and those who haven't performed like this before. A couple of hundred people watching you can be very intimidating!
Heck, it can be very intimidating when you HAVE been dancing for a while and have done it all before!
I thought my nerves would have been lessened this year as I wasn't performing but I turned out to be just as nervous for the group to do well and be happy with their performance! The video I took is actually a bit shaky as I couldn't hold the camera still, so the above video is someone else's.
Anyway, I was originally intending to write about a handy little tip that I have for your belt, but I seem to have veered off topic. I put it down to the fact that I'm in the death grip of a cold and it's the second day which is proving worse than the first.
So, ever had a problem with your belt sticking out at weird angles or flopping about like a mad thing, particularly when your clothing – or indeed your belt itself - has zero in the way of belt loops?
A quick and easy fix is to make yourself a five second belt loop, and all you need is a hair tie/elastic in the same colour as your belt. Loop it around a couple of times, depending on your hair tie and the width of the belt, then slide it up towards the buckle. Belt up, slip the end through the loop et voila!
Of course you could sew up a permanent belt loop, but when its this easy… well, I think I've just discovered where all my hair ties have gone. Pretty sure they are on my loopless belts.
I think the Vicks Vapourub and nasal sprays are getting to me, so I'm going to leave this right here for you.
Enjoy your day!


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