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Sandra felt as low as the heels of her shoes when she pulled open the florist shop door, against a November gust of wind. Her life had been as sweet as a spring breeze and then, in the fourth month of her second pregnancy, a "minor" automobile accident stole her joy. This was Thanksgiving week and the time she should have delivered their infant son. She grieved over their loss. Troubles had multiplied. Her husband's company "threatened" to transfer his job to a new location. Her sister had called to say that she could not come for her long awaited holiday visit. What's worse, Sandra's friend suggested that Sandra's grief was a God-given path to maturity that would allow her to empathize with others who suffer. "She has no idea what I'm feeling," thought Sandra with a shudder "Thanksgiving? Thankful for what?" she wondered.. "For a careless driver whose truck was hardly scratched when he rear-ended me? For an airbag that saved my life, but took my child's?"
"Good afternoon, can I help you?" Sandra was startled by the approach of the shop clerk. "I . . . I need an arrangement," stammered Sandra. "For Thanksgiving? I'm convinced that flowers tell stories, " she continued. "Are you looking for something that conveys 'gratitude' this Thanksgiving?" "Not exactly!" Sandra blurted out. "In the last five months, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong." Sandra regretted her outburst, and was surprised when the clerk said, "I have the perfect arrangement for you." Then the bell on the door rang, and the clerk greeted the new customer.... "Hi, Barbara, let me get your order." She excused herself and walked back to a small workroom, then quickly reappeared, carrying an arrangement of greenery, bows, and what appeared to be long-stemmed thorny roses. Except the ends of the rose stems were neatly snipped: there were no flowers. "Do you want these in a box?" asked the clerk.
Sandra watched - was this a joke? Who would want rose stems with no flowers! She waited for laughter, but neither woman laughed. "Yes, please," Barbara replied with an appreciative smile. "You'd think after three years of getting the special, I wouldn't be so moved by its significance, but I can feel it right here, all over again," she said, as she gently tapped her chest. Sandra stammered, "Ah, that lady just left with . . ... uh . . . she left with no flowers!" "That's right," said the clerk... "I cut off the flowers. That's the 'Special'. I call it the Thanksgiving Thorns Bouquet. Barbara came into the shop three years ago, feeling much as you do today," explained the clerk. "She thought she had very little to be thankful for. She had just lost her father to cancer; the family business was failing; her son had gotten into drugs; and she was facing major surgery. That same year I had lost my husband," continued the clerk. "For the first time in my life, I had to spend the holidays alone. I had no children, no husband, no family nearby, and too much debt to allow any travel." "So what did you do?" asked Sandra. "I learned to be thankful for thorns," answered the clerk quietly. "I've always thanked God for the good things in my life and I never questioned Him why those good things happened to me, but when the bad stuff hit, I cried out, 'Why? Why me?!' It took time for me to learn that the dark times are important to our faith! I have always enjoyed the 'flowers' of my life, but it took the thorns to show me the beauty of God's comfort! You know, the Bible says that God comforts us when we're afflicted, and from His consolation we learn to comfort others.."
Sandra sucked in her breath, as she thought about what her friend had tried to tell her. "I guess the truth is I don't want comfort. I've lost a baby and I'm angry with God." Just then someone else walked in the shop. "Hey, Phil!" the clerk greeted the balding, rotund man. "My wife sent me in to get our usual Thanksgiving arrangement . . twelve thorny, long-stemmed stems!" laughed Phil as the clerk handed him a tissue wrapped arrangement from the refrigerator. "Those are for your wife?" asked Sandra incredulously. "Do you mind telling me why she wants a bouquet that looks like that?" "Four years ago, my wife and I nearly divorced," Phil replied. "After forty years, we were in a real mess, but with the Lord's grace and guidance, we trudged through problem after problem, the Lord rescued our marriage. Jenny here (the clerk) told me she kept a vase of rose stems to remind her of what she had learned from "thorny" times. That was good enough for me. I took home some of those stems. My wife and I decided to label each one for a specific "problem" and give thanks for what that problem taught us." As Phil paid the clerk, he said to Sandra, "I highly recommend the Special!"
"I don't know if I can be thankful for the thorns in my life" Sandra said to the clerk. "It's all too . . fresh." "Well," the clerk replied carefully, "my experience has shown me that the thorns make the roses more precious. We treasure God's providential care more during trouble than at any other time. Remember that it was a crown of thorns that Jesus wore so we might know His love....Don't resent the thorns."
Tears rolled down Sandra's cheeks. For the first time since the accident, she loosened her grip on her resentment. "I'll take those twelve long-stemmed thorns, please," she managed to choke out. "I hoped you would," said the clerk gently. "I'll have them ready in a minute." "Thank you. What do I owe you?" "Nothing. Nothing but a promise to allow God to heal your heart...The first year's arrangement is always on me." The clerk smiled and handed a card to Sandra. "I'll attach this card to your arrangement, but maybe you would like to read it first." It read: "My God, I have never thanked You for my thorns. I have thanked You a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my thorns. Teach me the glory of the cross I bear; teach me the value of my thorns. Show me that I have climbed closer to You along the path of pain. Show me that, through my tears, the colors of Your rainbow look much more brilliant." Praise Him for the roses; thank Him for the thorns...


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Friday night was the 8th Grade Valentine's Day Dance.
Nick has been talking about this dance since early January..... which was about the time we started shopping for the perfect outfit for such an occasion. The school requires them to get dressed up with button down shirt and tie....no jeans.
Some of you may remember when he went to last year's dance.
He actually wore Coachie's(my Dad)suit and a beautiful red tie!
Well, there was not going to be any shopping in Coachie's closet this time around....
Nick has grown a lot this past year and he is now towering over his grandfather.
I think my Dad was a little disappointed. He loved telling everyone that his Grandson wore his suit last year. My Dad is pretty snazzy when it comes to clothes. Seriously, he might be one of the best dressed men I know. My Mom's shopping habits have definitely rubbed off over the years and now that he is fully retired, he actually enjoys going with her to see what they can find.
The week before Nick's birthday, my parents decided to meet us at our favorite mall so that we could look for something.
It did not take him long to decide what he wanted.... This kid was on a mission and he found the shirt, pants, tie, and hat at the very first store we walked into.
And thanks to his grandparents, who tend to spoil him a little, he got the outfit in its entirety.
I wish you all could have seen him that day as he made his way through the racks at Banana Republic. My Mom and I were exchanging sideways glances as we watched him navigate. It was a special afternoon for all of us and I know that my parents were grateful to be part of it.
When he got dressed Friday, I could hardly believe my eyes.
There in front of me stood a very stylish and handsome young man.
I would have done anything to see what went on inside the school Friday night.
When the permission slip came home, it said they needed chaperones and I wanted to check the box to say that I would be willing to do it. Nick begged me not to.... I think he was afraid I would have my camera a blazing.... so I respected his wishes. When we were on our way, I asked him if he was going to ask any certain girl to dance. Sort of prodding to see if there was anyone that he was interested in. He said, no Mom, there is no one that I really like this year.
(said in true teenager fashion complete with eyeroll)
A few hours later, I returned to pick him up and I received what I am sure was the "cliffnotes" version of the night. But I did get the most important detail.....
There is a girl... and her name is Erin!
I knew there had to be someone!!
He and his friends had a great time and they are already talking about the graduation dance that takes place at the end of the school year. I guess we better start shopping now.
I hope Grandma and Coachie are up for another retail adventure:)
To see more Sunday Snapshots, head on over to my friend Stefanie's blog and while you are there, be sure to congratulate her on their newest addition to the family. She is BEAUTIFUL!!!!


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Cassoulet D'Artagnan
- 3 pounds French Coco Tarbais Beans, rinsed and picked over
- Water, as needed
- 12 ounces Ventrèche, in one piece
- 10 cloves garlic, peeled
- 2 medium onions, skinned and cut in half
- 5 whole cloves
- 1 carrot, coarsely chopped
- 1 bouquet garni, made of 5 parsley sprigs, 3 celery leaves, 1 thyme sprig, 1 bay leaf and 10 peppercorns, wrapped in cheesecloth and tied
- 6 Duck Leg Confit, cut in half at the joint
- 6½ ounces Duck and Veal Demi-Glace, dissolved in 3½ cups of water
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
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- 2 packages Duck and Armagnac Sausage
- 1 pound French Garlic Sausage, cut into ¼-inch slices
- ¼ cup Duck Fat, at room temperature
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- Place beans in a large non-reactive container(s) and cover with cool water by several inches. Leave them to soak at room temperature overnight, checking the water level every so often as the beans will absorb quite a bit of water.
- Drain beans then add them to a large, heavy pot along with the ventrèche, garlic, carrots, and bouquet garni. Press the pointed end of each clove into the outside of the onion, add to pot. Add enough cool water to cover the mixture by at least 3 inches. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat then reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, until the beans are barely tender, about 1 hour.
- Drain the bean mixture. Discard onion and bouquet garni. Remove ventrèche, cut into 1/2-inch cubes and set aside. Season beans with 1 teaspoon of salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- In a medium skillet over high heat, sear duck and Armagnac sausages until just browned. Remove from the pan, cut into thirds, and set aside.
- Lightly grease a large casserole (8-9 quarts), preferably earthenware or enameled cast iron, with duck fat on the bottom and sides. Place half of the bean mixture in casserole. Add duck legs, browned duck sausages, chopped ventrèche, and sliced garlic sausage; drizzle with half of the duck fat. Cover with remaining beans.
- Stir tomato paste into demi-glace/water mixture, mix well until dissolved. Pour evenly over the beans then drizzle with the remaining duck fat.
- Bake until hot and bubbling, about 2½ hours, checking occasionally to make certain the beans are not drying out. (See Ariane's Recipe Tips below).
- NOTE: Cassoulet may be prepared ahead up to this point, then cooled and refrigerated up to 3 days. Remove from the refrigerator and bring up to room temperature before proceeding.
- Increase (or preheat) oven to 400 degrees F. Bake cassoulet until the top is nicely browned and a crust has formed, about 45 minutes. If at this point, cassoulet is not heated through, cut open the crust, and pour in an additional ½ cup of water and/or demi-glace, and continue to cook until hot all the way through.
- Serve immediately. Each guest should get an equal proportion of beans to meats.
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Don't hesitate to open the crusty top to make sure the cassoulet is not drying out. The texture should be similar to a thick stew. If it seems too dry or pasty, add some liquid, such as stock, demi-glace, or even water. Typically, you'll have to cut the crust and add liquid about 3 times before it's hot all the way through. Some cooks in Gascony think cassoulet will only be ready after 7 times of breaking the crust and adding liquid!
If adapting the recipe, try to use as many confit meats as possible. They will give the most flavor.
Cassoulet should always be eaten very hot!
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False Conversions Are the Suicide of the Church, Pastor Warns
False conversions are a serious problem that could lead not only to the "suicide of the church" but also to the defaming of God's name, an evangelical pastor warned.
Mark Dever, senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., told some 8,000 ministers Tuesday at the Together for the Gospel conference that he fears there are thousands, if not millions, of people in churches who are not truly converted.
"My fellow pastors, could it be that many of our hearers each week aren't saved, even many of our members?"
The problem isn't just the "occasional hypocrite lost in unrepentant sin," but "systems that seem to produce false converts – not just one man, but whole congregations," he lamented.
While some may brush off the problem as inevitable and one that pastors should not worry too much over, Dever sought to underscore how false conversions could dim the light of the church.
More importantly, "false conversions obscure God's plan" – which he described as God doing all things for the glory of His name.
The Southern Baptist preacher described false converts as those indistinguishable from the world and who don't hold to certain Scriptural truths.
A big source of the problem, he named, is false teachers, and that includes "health and wealth" preachers.
"We need to know that we can teach the wrong things with disastrous results," he said, noting that the New Testament has "too many" warnings about false teachers.
Dever listed five truths that are frequently distorted and attacked: God's judgment is coming, we should be judged by God, our only hope is in Christ, we don't see the fullness of our salvation in this life, and we can deceive ourselves and others about our relationship with God.
By not teaching these truths clearly, churches become filled with those who do not "evidence the fruit of the Spirit" or who aren't truly born-again.
"We have to be clear ... that because God is good and we are not, we deserve God's judgment," he emphasized. "How many churches seem to downplay, if not deny, natural human depravity and lostness?"
He also warned that without the clear teaching of Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation, "you can make converts to fatalism or to an ethical society as so many of our Protestant churches have become but you cannot have a truly Christian church."
But it's not just doctrine that pastors and believers need to get right, Dever pointed out. The way a Christian lives is also just as important.
"Wrong living," he said, "can be just as damning as wrong teaching."
"Watch your doctrine and life closely," he asserted, citing the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 4.
So how must the church and the believer live?
They must be holy – not conceding to worldliness; there must be self-sacrifice and denying of oneself; and they must evidence love.
"If you want to get a lot of fake Christians in your church, just tell them that there is this free gift that entails no self-sacrifice and trouble," the Baptist pastor told conference attendees in Louisville, Ky. "The truth, however, is 'no cross, no crown.'"
When believers get doctrine and life wrong, church life and mutual edification are eroded, the church's witness to the world is subverted, and God's name is profaned, he summed.
But "when we get some crucial things right about life and about doctrine, we will help cause the witness of God to shine."
Together for the Gospel was founded by prominent pastors and theologians Ligon Duncan, Dever, Albert Mohler and C. J. Mahaney. The first T4G conference was held in 2006 with the aim of encouraging other pastors to stand together for the same Gospel. This year's event, which mainly drew those in their 20s and 30s, is the fourth gathering of its kind and concludes Thursday.


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Thomas Rhett and Family Put on Matching Swimwear for the Beach and It's Adorable
Just when you've thought you've seen it all from Thomas Rhett and his family (Harry Potter costumes! Disney princesses! Jellyfish mermaid princesses!)—he and wife Lauren, along with daughters Willa Gray and Ada James, have upped the ante yet again with probably the best I-just-can't-even photo to date.
Yes, that's the entire fam bam in matching swimwear, looking sharp in pastel Aztec print while enjoying a day by the ocean.
If you're wondering (like many fans who commented on Rhett's post) where you can get some suits just like theirs, you can find them—along with a variety of other prints—here. It's definitely one way to make sure your family doesn't get separated from each other at the beach!
Rhett, who has been out on the road on his Life Changes Tour, is doing an admirable job of making family time while he's hard at work. He's currently busy opening some dates on Kenny Chesney 's Trip Around the Sun Tour along with Old Dominion and Brandon Lay.
Rhett's solo tour resumes in Bangor, Maine, on Sept. 13, and runs through October. Brett Young is slated to open all of the dates, while Carly Pearce, Midland, Russell Dickerson and Jillian Jacqueline will appear in select cities.
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Battle of Tiles (5h) - Saw this indie game on GameSetWatch. Liked it enough to pick it up for a fiver.
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I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up, leaders of the G8 - that's the group of eight highly industrialized nations - are meeting at Camp David this weekend, but they're also joined by the leaders of some emerging African countries who will discuss the issue of food security on the continent. We'll talk more about that in a few minutes.
But first, we want to turn to a case that we've been following closely on this program. That's the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. He was the unarmed Florida teenager who was killed in February by self-appointed Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
George Zimmerman is facing second-degree murder charges. He's out on bail right now, but yesterday a trove of information about the case and the investigation was made public for the first time.
NPR's Greg Allen is based in Florida. He's been reviewing that and he's with us now. Greg Allen, thanks so much for joining us.
GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: Sure. Hi, Michel.
MARTIN: So what's jumped out to you as you've reviewed this material?
ALLEN: Well, you know, there's not a lot of stuff here that you didn't have some inkling about, but you start to get more of a complete picture and you start to see what is going to be, you know, brought forward at trial, what are some of the conflicting stories you're going to hear.
I thought, to me, the first - the most compelling thing at first was this request that the Sanford police investigators prepared and put forward and sent to the state attorney back on March 13th - excuse me - and that was a request for George Zimmerman to be arrested and charged with negligent homicide, manslaughter.
And in that report - this was put together by Christopher Serino, the Sanford police investigator - he says that - in there he expresses some skepticism about - it seems to me - about Zimmerman. He says in his report according to records checks, all of Zimmerman's suspicious calls - person's calls while residing in The Retreat neighborhood have identified black males as a subject and he says the encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was ultimately avoidable by Zimmerman if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement.
And he says there's no indication that Trayvon Martin was involved in any criminal activity at the time of the encounter. So he's saying that he thought he should have been charged and that was before - that was when Norman Wolfinger, the previous state attorney, still had it. He declined to act for whatever reason.
MARTIN: Now, there has been a - this has been one of the issues that Trayvon Martin's family has talked about all along, which is why did George Zimmerman pursue him and why did he get out of the car? Now, I know that there are witness accounts or people who heard things, people who saw things. Do any of the witness accounts shed any light on why George Zimmerman got out of the car?
ALLEN: They don't. No. And you know, the witnesses - most of the witnesses actually heard - got their attention when they heard the sounds of the fight, so most people - no one saw actually what created the actual fight and the physical altercation there - at least the witnesses who were in Sanford.
There was a few different people who say there was a chase. They heard footsteps running. Most of those people weren't - none of those folks in Sanford could say who was chasing whom. The one insight we get on that is from Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, who's not been named, but was interviewed both by Benjamin Crump and then also by the state attorney's office. They went and talked to her in person and she gave them a detailed description of the night.
She talked to Trayvon Martin on and off all day long up to moments before his death and she describes that first Zimmerman was in the car and then Trayvon - she told Trayvon to run - he ran - to run to his father's house. She said he was running to his father's house, going the back way. He had to stop running, she said, because he became too tired. She said, keep running. And he said no. The other guy - Zimmerman, presumably - is too tired also.
Eventually Zimmerman catches up and she's on the phone with Trayvon Martin at that time and she says she hears a thump and then after that the phone went dead. So that would suggest that there was a pursuit and that Zimmerman was the one who was doing the pursuing.
MARTIN: And on the other side of it, though, George Zimmerman has claimed self-defense, and I just want to play a cut of tape from another witness interview and ask for your thoughts. This is from a man who lived close to where the scuffle was taking place. Here it is.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: The one guy on top in the black hoodie was pretty much just throwing down blows on the guy, kind of MMA style.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Like a ground and pound...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Yeah. Like a ground and pound on the concrete at this point, so at this point I told them I was calling 911. I locked my door, went inside, heard a pop. Never heard a gunshot before, so I didn't know if it was a rock or something like that. We ran upstairs. As soon as I got upstairs, I looked down below and then I saw the guy in the black hoodie pretty much just laid out on the ground.
MARTIN: Now, that seems to - I think one might argue that that supports George Zimmerman's version of events, which is that he was in fear for his life and safety at that point and that he was acting in self-defense. Do investigators offer any narrative around that?
ALLEN: No. They don't around that, and I think you're exactly right. There is material here that does bolster Zimmerman's defense and that is a key part of it. That witness - his townhouse was right next to where the altercation took place. He was watching television with his fiancee. He came outside and saw much of the fight going forward, and he had more descriptions and he's been interviewed several times by various investigators and always gave pretty much the same story, that the person on top appeared to be Trayvon Martin and he was raining down blows upon George Zimmerman. They were on the concrete at that point and, you know, of course then later we have photos and medical personnel reports saying that George Zimmerman did have his nose broken and had a couple of lacerations on the back of his head.
And on that there's also a question about who was calling for help and that's an interesting question as well.
MARTIN: That is an interesting question, too, and also I want to mention that there are other interviews that - where two people who are not identified say that they thought Zimmerman was acting strangely and were pretty adamant that he's in the wrong. Not clear about why that is because - and also, there's an autopsy report that was done on Trayvon Martin that showed that were some substances - controlled substances - in his system.
So, Greg, before we let you go, very briefly, is there anything that has not been released that people who are closely following this case would find compelling and important?
ALLEN: Well, of course the most compelling stuff we have not heard or seen is the interviews with George Zimmerman. Those are protected under Florida law. All of this stuff is made public under Florida law if you give a public records request, but Zimmerman's account - his interviews are protected because they could be construed as confessions under Florida law. Any confession, if someone is charged, then is not made public, so that's why we haven't seen those and that will have - that will be a key to this case, of course.
MARTIN: And we will keep following that and we appreciate you. NPR's Greg Allen has been covering the Trayvon Martin case closely. He was with us from his home office in Miami.
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What is striking about Open Access (OA) is that it so obviously the right and rational way for the research community to respond to the networked world. Indeed, one could aptly describe it as a no-brainer — or, as OA advocate Stevan Harnad likes to put it, OA is "raincoat science" ("It's raining, kids, and you're getting wet: Time to put on your raincoats!").
What is odd about OA is that so few in the research community yet appear to have understood (or at least accepted) its inevitability. Such myopia is doubtless no accident — many have a vested interest in the status quo, while others instinctively fear change, and have an irrational abhorrence of the new.
As a consequence, what is surely "inevitable and optimal" has been delayed now for over a decade and a half: While universal OA could in theory be realised practically overnight, it is estimated that still only around 30% of the world's academic and scientific literature is freely available on the Web.
Fortunately some do "get it" the moment the concept is explained to them — as did Bernard Rentier, a professor of virology and immunology at the University of Liège (ULg), in 1998.
Rentier had been appointed vice-rector in charge of research policy and libraries at ULg the year before — a position that inevitably focused his professorial mind on a number of problems for which OA turns out to be the solution. This became apparent to him during a conversation he had with a science librarian, who introduced him to the concept behind the then incipient OA movement.
"[I]t was immediately obvious to me that this was the logical approach to take," says Rentier, "especially as the new technology that was then emerging made it entirely possible."
For a start, he says, he saw that OA could help alleviate the serials crisis — an unwelcome burden on universities that each year sees larger and larger chunks of their library budgets swallowed up by increases in journal subscription prices.
He also realised that by making their papers freely available on the Web, ULg researchers could increase both their impact and their visibility within the global research community — something that all researchers and their institutions desire.
Finally, Rentier could see that OA would allow ULg to demonstrate to the world the quality of the research its scientists were doing, and thus enhance its institutional reputation.
What was especially fortuitous about Rentier's conversion to OA was that he is a man with unbounded energy and enthusiasm, and one in a position to create change more effectively than many OA advocates — particularly after he was elected Rector of ULg in 2005.
By now Rentier had concluded that although Gold OA (OA publishing) might prove to be a good long-term solution, the best short-term strategy was to embrace Green OA (self-archiving). In other words, instead of advising researchers to seek out an OA publisher for their papers, it was better to encourage them to carry on publishing as normal, but to make all their papers freely available on the Web — by self-archiving them.
To this end Rentier oversaw the creation of ULg's own institutional repository (IR) — dubbed the Open Repository and Bibliography, or ORBi. This went live in November 2008, and the University's researchers were invited to deposit all their papers in it. To help persuade them to do so Rentier began his own blog, and began a campaign of encouragement and exhortation.
Moreover, determined that ORBi should capture all the research being produced at the University, Rentier also introduced a self-archiving mandate — which requires all ULg researchers to deposit their papers in ORBi.
To further motivate compliance, Rentier announced that depositing papers in the repository was henceforth the sole mechanism for submitting them to be considered when researchers underwent performance review.
Fourteen months after it was launched ORBi had accumulated 30,000 bibliographic references, and more than 20,000 full text documents.
Today ORBi is the most active institutional repository of its type in the world (Ranking first of 1,418 IRs), and ULg researchers are beginning to see the benefits of embracing OA, both in terms of increased citations and prestige, and enjoying the excitement of seeing some of their older papers begin, as Rentier puts it, "to live a new life".
But Rentier is not a man who would ever be content to see OA implemented in his own university alone: He wants the research community at large to seize the opportunities that OA provides. To that end he has also taken on the chairmanship of EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS).
Founded in 2009, EOS aims to persuade the world's rectors, vice-chancellors and university presidents of the benefits of OA, and to tutor them in how best to achieve it.
He is also currently trying to persuade the National Research Fund of Belgium to adopt a green mandate, one that would require all papers resulting from research that it funds to be made OA.
Rentier was not the first senior manager in academia to introduce a green OA mandate (that plaudit must go to Tom Cochrane, deputy vice-chancellor at Australia's Queensland University of Technology, who introduced the world's first university-wide mandate in 2004). Nevertheless, says Harnad, "Bernard is the first rector/VC to fully grasp and fully act upon OA".
He adds: "Bernard understood, implemented exactly the right mandate at Liège (Immediate Deposit/Optional Access, linked to performance evaluation) and, in addition, immediately assumed the leadership in university OA policy, not just in Europe but worldwide."
In short, Bernard Rentier is no armchair enthusiast of OA; he is an energetic advocate who has proved himself both able and willing to institute change at home and abroad. Indeed, says Rentier, it is not just change he seeks, but "a global revolution" in scholarly communication.
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'Mortal Kombat' Review: A Klassy Looking Video Game Movie
I would love to get a copy of the Mortal Kombat rulebook. Is there a rulebook? In Mortal Kombat (2021), like Mortal Kombat (1995), a deadly tournament determines the fate of "Earthrealm" (AKA Earth) and "Outworld" (AKA a nebulous hellscape populated entirely by weirdos with gruesome fighting abilities). Supposedly, if either realm wins ten straight Mortal Kombat tournaments, they earn the right to invade the other. Seeing as how Outworld is a barren wasteland, this is not great prize for Earth, but it's a hell of an incentive for Outworld — and in the Mortal Kombat movies, they always seem to be one more victory away from ultimate triumph.
But the actual rules of the tournament are ... nonexistent? I'm honestly not sure we ever see Mortal Kombat in the new Mortal Kombat film. The characters fight, many die, but no one ever lays out the format (Round robin? Single elimination?) or keeps tabs on the score. The bad guys, led by Shang Tsung (Chin Han), keep breaking the rules by trying to kill Earth's champions before the tournament begins. The good guys yell "You're breaking the rules!" but there's no apparent repercussions for sending your minions to preemptively rip off your opponents arms or heads. So Shang Tsung just keeps doing it. Can you blame him? Pro wrestling has more strictly enforced "rules."
I say this not to nitpick, but to observe that 2021's Mortal Kombat, slick as it is, it doesn't carry a lot of stakes — because it's never entirely clear exactly what the stakes are. Is Earth on the verge of losing the tournament? Has the tournament even started? Who knows.
One must not think too deeply about these things, or much of anything, to enjoy this Mortal Kombat. As directed by first-time feature filmmaker (and longtime commercial veteran) Simon McQuoid, the movie applies a gloss of high-budget gravitas to the venerable fighting game. 1995's Mortal Kombat movie was barely a notch or two above a grindhouse flick, with special effects that would have barely passed muster in the original arcade game. 2021's update comes with impressive CGI and artful splashes of blood amidst its careful recreations of the games' core cast and violence. While it doesn't add up to very much beyond a high-end recreation of the game series' vibe and aesthetics, it does look mighty good.
Curiously, the focus of this tribute to the Midway video games is a totally new character who never appeared in any of the earlier iterations. That's Cole Young (Lewis Tan), a family man and washed up MMA fighter who just-so-happens to bear a birthmark that looks like the dragon logo from the Mortal Kombat video games. The mark means he's been selected to defend Earth in Mortal Kombat — if he can survive long enough to get there. Shang Tsung decides he can't lose a fight to Earth's champions if all of Earth's champions are already dead, and sends his icy warrior Sub-Zero (The Raid's Joe Taslim) to kill Cole.
He gets rescued by a Special Forces soldier named Jax (Mehcad Brooks), and meets another elite soldier named Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) who's got one of those movie conspiracy walls full of plot exposition and Easter eggs from the Mortal Kombat games. Along with a foul-mouthed mercenary named Kano (Josh Lawson), they travel to the temple of an ancient god named Raiden (Tadanobu Asano), who introduces Cole to even more of Earth's warriors (like Ludi Lin's Liu Kang) and trains him to discover his "arcana" — a special ability that all Mortal Kombat warriors possess. (Think Sub-Zero's balls of ice or Raiden's lightning bolts.)
That sounds like a movie's long first act, but in Mortal Kombat's case, that's basically the entire plot. The film never builds to any kind of formal confrontation. Every 15 minutes or so, the characters just beat each other up. Then, in the final act, everyone who's survived that long beats up the other survivors. (In all cases, Choreographer Chan Griffin does an impressive job of blending the combatants' — excuse me, kombatants' — various fighting styles into cohesive, spirited battles.) Arcana get discovered, heads get squished, and there's a really cool fight between Sub-Zero and his fellow ninja Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada). That's it. Then the film just stops, after a shameless setup for the potential sequel.
Is that enough for a satisfying movie? If you're a hardcore gamer, probably. McQuoid and screenwriters Dave Callaham and Greg Russo take the franchise' mythos and characters incredibly seriously, faithfully recreating the fighters' costumes, move sets, and Fatalities. (There's even a clever joke about Mortal Kombat players' cheap tactics.) Germain McMicking's handsome cinematography elevates the material even further. This is surely the classiest a fight between a half-woman/half-dragon and a Shaolin monk with a razor-sharp hat could possibly look.
Casual MK fans will likely enjoy the fight sequences and overall production design, and remain a little flustered by some of the mechanics of the story. Characters randomly sprout new powers when the situation calls for them. Sometimes when someone dies, they're just dead; other times they spontaneously combust, then return with new powers. Or they sprout new arms, or whatever they need to keep the plot moving forward. Tan's Cole Young doesn't bring anything to the table beyond generic my-family-needs-me motivations, and his Arcana pales in comparison to the franchise's heavy hitters like Kung Lao.
Frankly, the original Mortal Kombat arcade game had a better sense of narrative momentum; at least there the fights progressed toward a final showdown with the big bosses. Without spoiling this Mortal Kombat, it mostly feels like a giant prologue to something else. Still, for sheer visual panache, intricate fight scenes, and the fact that it's not an out-and-out embarrassment, Mortal Kombat rates very highly on the list of video game movies. On a more traditional scale, it's more like a...
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On a bright, windy morning, 70-year-old An Mathis Springs was going crabbing. She pulled on her rubber boots, coat, and hat and walked down to the dock on the creek toward her dinged-up aluminum boat.
She had two traps to put in that day and eight to pull, and she did it all easily—gunning her 15-horsepower motor, steering with the tiller, lifting traps from the chop, and shaking out the live catch into a bucket in the hull. Born in Vietnam, Springs explained that when she arrived in Murrells Inlet in the 1970s without a job, she started walking on the mud flats, setting minnow traps and selling bait to fishermen. Before long, she turned to catching blue crabs and still goes out several times a week to set and pull up her traps. She cooks the crabs and handpicks the meat, then makes thick crab cakes and delicate crab egg rolls to sell. This tiny, agile woman is a legend in Murrells Inlet, where the air smells like pluff mud and salt and, at night, of hush puppies frying. Along the main north-south road just inside the creeks of Murrells Inlet, there are more than 30 seafood restaurants set among houses and small businesses such as hair salons, boat yards, and bait shops.
For me, memories are locked into that scenery, that air. From middle school on, my family lived a few miles up the coast from Murrells Inlet, and on prom nights, my date and our friends would go out for seafood dinners there before the dance, already wearing our tuxedos, gowns, and corsages. Murrells Inlet was the place to go for special dinners with family. And during college breaks, we'd drive down to the boat landing and sit on car hoods, watching the marsh and moonlight.
This fall, I spent a couple of days and nights in the historic seafood town, having booked a room at the Brookwood Inn, the only motel right along the four-mile stretch of Highway 17 Business in Murrells Inlet. The Brookwood is a true 1950s-era motel, not modern in any way, and my room definitely was not luxurious or even cleaned very well beyond the dryer-sheet-smelling bed sheets, but it was inexpensive (just under $60 a night) and the managers were a very sweet older couple.
Once checked in, it was time to cruise through town, passing the large, mostly wooden restaurant signs decorated with fish and shrimp. In a world where so much has changed and is changing, it's a comfort to see so many lasting restaurants. There's still the Lee's Inlet Kitchen (in the same family since 1948) with its glowing sign and full parking lot; the century-old Oliver's Lodge restaurant (the original waterfront house is from the 1860s); and the best bar, Russell's, is still owned by a Vereen, which is one of the oldest families in Murrells Inlet. Russell Vereen is known to buy up old signs from the Inlet to save them from certain trash. He pointed at one on the wall of the barn behind his restaurant, a large "Welcome to Murrells Inlet—S.C. Seafood Capital" sign that he said had been cracked into several pieces by a runaway car. Russell put the planks back together, hung the sign, and says he often finds people sitting in the rocking chairs below, getting their picture taken.
Newer on the Inlet's seafood scene are Sean English and Denny Springs over at Harrelson's Seafood, a fresh fish counter where they also have a kitchen and are trying to be the very best at making a fried grouper sandwich. With every order, they cut a nice-sized hunk of fresh grouper, season it well, and don't over-fry it. And if you order the tuna tacos, the big, meaty chunks of fresh fish are blackened on the outside and still perfectly pink inside. In Murrells Inlet, extended families often own more than one business. That's the case with Harrelson's: An Mathis Springs is married to Denny's grandfather, and the boys sell her frozen crab cakes at Harrelson's and at the Crab Cake Lady Store they opened a couple of years ago on Highway 17.
We also visited the studio of Gaston "Buddy" Locklear, an old friend who used to paint designs on Perfection surfboards for Village Surf Shoppe, still open in Garden City. He now paints on canvas and wood and is one of the most prolific artists I've ever seen, sometimes covering his finished paintings in a coat of epoxy, just like with surfboards. Part of a co-op in Murrells Inlet called the Ebb & Flow, Locklear's studio is behind the gallery in a former chicken barn. That day, he showed us a just-finished painting of the marsh island in Murrells Inlet where Drunken Jack's Restaurant has been letting goats roam since the mid-1980s. (It seems there are a couple of reasons for the goats: they keep the brush down for better inlet views, and they attract tourists to the restaurant's rear deck, where seafood and cocktails are served.)
With so many restaurants in Murrells Inlet (and some of them changing names and owners practically with the seasons), it's always good to ask around for recommendations and try more than one place.
We had that good fish lunch at Harrelson's, tasty homemade clam chowder "red Inlet style" at Lee's Inlet Kitchen, and some excellent boiled-to-order shrimp at Cedar Hill Landing Restaurant, where most of the tables have holes cut out in the middle for tossing oyster shells. There's Murrells Inlet Seafood, one of the cleanest and friendliest seafood stores I've ever been inside, with its fresh seafood and refrigerator cases full of ready-to-eat seafood quiche, homemade pies, salads, peel-and-eat shrimp, and all kinds of special sauces. At the soda fountain counter at Lee's Inlet Apothecary, an old family drugstore, they serve ice cream malts in those heavy, footed fountain glasses, and if they make too much they'll leave the stainless steel cup on the counter so you can pour a refill.
My favorite of all on the Inlet's restaurant lineup, though, is the tiny pink-roofed house on the north end, the Inlet Crab House & Raw Bar. It's not on the water, and it's not fancy, but you can get a plate of clams casino with bacon and paprika, blackened grouper, or a perfectly fried softshell crab and a good Bloody Mary. I've been there in winter, too, for the oyster roasts and beer and always feel very comfortable in the room with booths, wooden tables, a worn concrete floor, and framed pictures of old fishing trips.
Murrells Inlet is changing, sure, just like all coastal places. But I'm saving my sentimental view. There's a terrific book—part memoir of lifelong resident Genevieve Peterkin and part stories of Murrells Inlet history—that was edited by William Baldwin a few years ago. In it, Peterkin describes the character of Murrells Inlet like no one else could, catching stone crabs bare-handed, weathering hurricanes, and swimming in the creeks. And the book's title? Heaven is a Beautiful Place.
• Brookwood Inn: a 1950s-era motel. 5098 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-2550
• Cedar Hill Landing Restaurant: oyster roasts on the dock. 5225 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-8706, www.cedarhilllandingonline.com
• Harrelson's Seafood Market: lunch cooked to order. 4368 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-5707
• Inlet Crab House & Raw Bar: fresh seafood and live music on weekends. 3572 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-8452, www.inletcrabhouseandrawbar.com
• Lee's Inlet Kitchen: traditional seafood recipes for 60 years. 4460 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-2881, www.leesinletkitchen.com
• Murrells Inlet Seafood: ready-to-go pies, boiled shrimp, salads, and more. 4886 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-9309
• Russell's Seafood Grill: bar and deck with walls of Murrells Inlet memorabilia. 4700 Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-0553
• The Crab Cake Lady: frozen crab cakes and casseroles to go. 4525 Wesley Rd., (843) 651-0708, www.thecrabcakelady.com
• Ebb & Flow Art Co-Op: original art and furniture. 4763 Hwy. 17, (843) 651-2386
• Lee's Inlet Apothecary & Gifts: soda fountain, jewelry, and postcards. 3579
Bus. Hwy. 17, (843) 651-7979
• Stroll the marshwalk at sunset or Morse Park Landing at sunrise.
• Take a guided kayak tour with Sail & Ski Connection, (800) 868-7245, www.sailandskiconnection.com, or a fishing or sightseeing charter from Captain Dick's Marina, (843) 651-3676, www.captdicks.com.
• Bike across the new bridge that leads to Huntington Beach State Park, Brookgreen Gardens, and Pawleys Island.


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Delete Your Facebook Account Without Losing Anything – Including Your Photos
Whether you are looking for a new job, wanting to escape your past, or just sick of the social networks taking over your life, I present to you an easy way to remove your presence on Facebook without having to sacrifice any lost data, photos, comments or messages.
The first step is to download all of your content from Facebook directly. To do this, follow the simple steps below.
How-To Backup Facebook Data
- Log into Facebook
- Click the pinwheel at the top right of any page
- Click on Account Settings
- Click the General tab on the left
- Then click 'Download a copy' of your Facebook data
- You will then get an email confirming your request and after a bit, Facebook will compile it all for you and have it ready to download.
What is included in your copy of your Facebook data?
The backup downloads nearly everything involved with your account. It also organizes it very conveniently allowing you to read your past messages, wall posts, list of friends, all uploaded photos and videos, events all on your computer without an internet connection. The data is stored in html files but they are easily searchable by pressing Ctrl + F or Cmd + F on Macs.
What next?
Tell your friends on Facebook before going through with a full or partial deletion of your account. Why? Because they might want to download photos of the great memories you shared together before you remove them. To help them do this, they can use the website zipnpic.com
Downloading Facebook Photos from Other People's Accounts
- Go to http://www.picknzip.com/
- Login with your Facebook account
- Choose the name of the friend in the left column whose photos you want to download
- Click on 'Albums' in the tabs above the thumbnails
- Select albums that you want download photos from
- Select all photos you want to download
- Click on Download in the tabs above the thumbnails
- Choose 'Download My Selection'
Tip: If you don't have time to search through all the galleries of a friend, you can skip Steps 4-6 and after completing Step 7 you can choose 'Download All Photos' and then sort them out after you download all of the photos to your computer. Don't worry about it being too many photos, it will notify you of how many photos are selected before it begins to download. This could be a great way to surprise a friend on their birthday with a collage of photos!
Deactivating your Facebook Account (Not permanent. Permanent solution below)
- Log into Facebook
- Click the pinwheel at the top right of any page
- Click on Account Settings
- Click the Security tab on the left
- Click on 'Deactivate your account' (This is the creepy part where Facebook tries to keep you from deactivating by showing you friends they claim will miss you)
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If you are certain you want to delete your Facebook account and that you will not want to reactivate it at any time you can by visiting this link Delete my Facebook account permanently.
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text: Apologies for cross-posting ********************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012) June 10-14, 2012 Washington, DC, USA Hosted by The George Washington University and The Library of Congress http://www.jcdl2012.info<http://www.jcdl2012.info/> CALL FOR PAPERS The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing; and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education. IMPORTANT DATES * Full Papers due January 23, 2012 * Short Papers, Panels, Posters & Demos, Workshops, Tutorials due January 30, 2012 * Notification of acceptance for Workshops and Tutorials: March 1, 2012 * Notification of acceptance for Papers, Panels, Posters & Demos: March 21, 2012 * Doctoral Consortium Abstract submissions due March 31, 2012 CONFERENCE FOCUS The theme for JCDL 2012 is #sharing #linking #using #preserving. Digital libraries, under a variety of names and modalities, are often part of the every day web experience. The challenge is how digital libraries can enhance user experience through providing stability in changing information environment, breaking down information silos, integrating into accepted practices of the web, and providing a range of access and services to resources across the web, both to human and machine users. The intended community for this conference includes those interested in all aspects of digital libraries such as infrastructure; institutions; metadata; content; services; digital preservation; system design; scientific data management; workflows; implementation; interface design; human-computer interaction; performance evaluation; usability evaluation; collection development; intellectual property; privacy; electronic publishing; document genres; multimedia; social, institutional, and policy issues; user communities; and associated theoretical topics. JCDL welcomes submissions in these areas, and submissions associated with the JCDL 2012 theme of social media influenced themes of linking, sharing, usage, and preservation are particularly welcome. The conference sessions, workshops and tutorials will cover all these aspects. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of established and emerging disciplines and professions including computer science, information science, web science, data science, librarianship, data management, archival science and practice, museum studies and practice, information technology, medicine, social sciences, education and humanities. Representatives from academe, government, industry, and others are invited to participate. JCDL 2012 will be held in Washington, DC on the campus of The George Washington University. The program is organized by an international committee of scholars and leaders in the digital libraries field and attendance is expected to include several hundreds of researchers, practitioners, managers, and students. JCDL 2012 invites submissions of papers and proposals for posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops that will make the conference an exciting and creative event to attend. As always, the conference welcomes contributions from all the fields that intersect to enable digital libraries. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Collaborative and participatory information environments * Cyberinfrastructure architectures, applications, and deployments * Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information * Digital library and Web Science curriculum development * Distributed information systems * Extracting semantics, entities, and patterns from large collections * Evaluation of online information environments * Impact and evaluation of digital libraries and information in education * Information and knowledge systems * Information policy and copyright law * Information visualization * Interfaces to information for novices and experts * Linked data and its applications * Personal digital information management * Retrieval and browsing * Scientific data curation, citation and scholarly publication * Social media, architecture, and applications * Social networks, virtual organizations and networked information * Social-technical perspectives of digital information * Studies of human factors in networked information * Theoretical models of information interaction and organization * User behavior and modeling * Visualization of large-scale information environments * Web archiving and preservation IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS All contributions must be submitted in electronic form via the conference's EasyChair submission page, following ACM format guidelines and template available from http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Please submit all papers in PDF format. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Paper authors may choose between two formats: Full papers and short papers. Both formats will be included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Both formats will be rigorously peer reviewed. Complete papers are required-abstracts and incomplete papers will not be reviewed. Full papers report on mature work, or efforts that have reached an important milestone. Short papers will highlight efforts that might be in an early stage, but are important for the community to be made aware of. Short papers can also present theories or systems that can be described concisely in the limited space. Full papers must not exceed 10 pages. Short papers are limited to at most 4 pages. All papers must be original contributions. The material must therefore not have been previously published or be under review for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written in English and must follow the ACM formatting guidelines, http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012 All accepted papers will be published by ACM as conference proceedings and electronic versions will be included in both the ACM and IEEE digital libraries. POSTER & DEMOSTRATION SUBMISSIONS Posters permit presentation of late-breaking results in an informal, interactive manner. Poster proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors, and should not exceed 2 pages. Proposals must follow the conference's formatting guidelines and are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of posters will appear in the proceedings. Demonstrations showcase innovative digital libraries technology and applications, allowing you to share your work directly with your colleagues in a high-visibility setting. Demonstration proposals should consist of a title, extended abstract, and contact information for the authors and should not exceed 2 pages. Proposals must follow the conference's formatting guidelines and are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. Abstracts of demonstrations will appear in the proceedings. PANELS & INVITED BRIEFINGS Panels will complement the refereed portions of the program with lively discussions of controversial and cutting-edge issues that are not addressed by other program elements. Invited briefings will explain a topic of interest to those building digital libraries-they can be thought of as being mini-tutorials. We are not soliciting formal proposals for panels or invited briefings, but if you have an idea for one that you'd like to hear, please send email directly to the panels/briefings chairs, Noha Adly, adly at bibalex.org, and Haowei Hsieh, haowei-hsieh at uiowa.edu. TUTORIAL SUBMISSIONS Tutorials provide an opportunity to offer in-depth education on a topic or solution relevant to research or practice in digital libraries. They should address a single topic in detail over either a half-day or a full day. They are not intended to be venues for commercial product training. Experts who are interested in engaging members of the community who may not be familiar with a relevant set of technologies or concepts should plan their tutorials to cover the topic or solution to a level that attendees will have sufficient knowledge to follow and further pursue the material beyond the tutorial. Leaders of tutorial sessions will be expected to take an active role in publicizing and recruiting attendees for their sessions. Tutorial proposals should include: a tutorial title; an abstract (1-2 paragraphs, to be used in conference programs); a description or topical outline of tutorial (1-2 paragraphs, to be used for evaluation); duration (half- or full-day); expected number of participants; target audience, including level of experience (introductory, intermediate, advanced); learning objectives; a brief biographical sketch of the presenter(s); and contact information for the presenter(s). Tutorial proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the conference's EasyChair submission page, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS Workshops are intended to draw together communities of interest-both those in established communities, and also those interested in discussion and exploration of a new or emerging issue. They can range in format from formal, perhaps centering on presentation of refereed papers, to informal, perhaps centering on an extended roundtable discussions among the selected participants. Submissions should include: a workshop title and short description; a statement of objectives for the workshop; a topical outline for the workshop; identification of the expected audience and expected number of attendees; a description of the planned format and duration (half-day, full-day, or one-and-a-half day); information about how the attendees will be identified, notified of the workshop, and, if necessary, selected from among applicants; as well as contact and biographical information about the organizers. Finally, if a workshop has been held previously, information about the earlier sessions should be provided-dates, locations, outcomes, attendance, etc. Workshop proposals are to be submitted in electronic form via the conference's EasyChair submission page, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for PhD students from all over the world who are in the early phases of their dissertation work (i.e., the consortium is not intended for those who are finished or nearly finished with their dissertation). The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on using the research environment in a constructive and international atmosphere. Students interested in participating in the Doctoral Consortium should submit an extended abstract describing their digital library research. Submissions relating to any aspect of digital library research, development, and evaluation are welcomed, including: technical advances, usage and impact studies, policy analyses, social and institutional implications, theoretical contributions, interaction and design advances, and innovative applications in the sciences, humanities, and education. Doctoral Consortium proposals are to be submitted via the conference's EasyChair submission page, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jcdl2012. ********************************** Barrie Howard Coordinator, Program Management National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Office of Strategic Initiatives The Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington DC 20540-1300 +1-202-707-1830 bhow at loc.gov<mailto:mande at loc.gov> http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ ============================ To unsubscribe: http://bit.ly/web4lib Web4Lib Web Site: http://web4lib.org/ 2011-12-08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserv.nd.edu/pipermail/web4lib/attachments/20111208/234382d7/attachment.htm>


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With the enactment of RA 11898, also known as the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act of 2022, the Philippines moves one step closer to advancing a circular economy and addressing the country's plastic waste problem towards a more sustainable future.
The said law requires large-scale companies and enterprises to be environmentally responsible throughout the life cycle of their products—from manufacturing, usage, and post-consumer stage—by establishing EPR programs and mechanisms that ensure effective reduction, recovery, treatment, and recycling and/or disposal of waste, especially plastic packaging.
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Uy stressed the importance of collaboration for the effective implementation of the EPR Act.
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"Based on the data of the Environmental Management Bureau, only about 13% of the obliged enterprises are currently registered. We really need the support of the private sector to make sure that this law would be successfully implemented. Nestlé Philippines and other companies have started their own initiatives even prior to the EPR Act. The challenge is how we can sustain such initiatives that strengthen our collaboration so that we can address the different aspects of this problem," said DENR Undersecretary Annaliza Rebuelta-Teh.
Three roundtable discussions (RTDs) were also dedicated for participants to dive deeper into the implementation of the EPR Act specifically in terms of (1) compliance and integration among stakeholders, (2) innovation of EPR programs, and (3) collaboration between the private sector, civil society, and the government to support EPR—all in an effort to build the foundation for a circular economy approach to waste management in the country.
In RTD 1, participants were able to discuss emerging questions and concerns regarding the EPR Act implementation at its early stages, and provide clarifications and concrete guidelines to address these. One of which is how large enterprises with a B2B business model should comply with the law specifically whether the obligation rests upon the businesses that they serve or supply their products to, as they are the ones directly selling to the end consumers.
RTD 2, on the other hand, focused on exploring recovery and reduction programs that obliged enterprises across various industries in the country are already doing and potential EPR programs that could be beneficial to all and the environment.
Lastly, RTD 3 further looked into the importance of joint industry-government collaborations in making the plastic ecosystem more attractive to circularity, developing the right systems for EPR, and building recycling infrastructure. They also presented recommendations on how the private sector could effectively collaborate with the government towards implementing and measuring the impact of the EPR.
"It's important to have the voices of all sectors be well-represented because the sustained collaboration among stakeholders and those impacted by these activities, and the cooperation and compliance of companies in the private sector are key to the successful implementation of the EPR Act," said Sec. Yulo-Loyzaga.


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