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The national organization of Phi Kappa Phi awards more than $1 million each biennium to outstanding members and chapters through the society's various awards competitions. No other honor society awards as much to as many as Phi Kappa Phi. Explore the many opportunities for members at PhiKappaPhi.org.
The University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi has awarded $133,000 in Project Grants and Awards to student members since 2008.
To promote academic excellence, the University of Michigan Chapter 39 of Phi Kappa Phi awards project grants each year.
The project grants provide $2,500 to $5,000 to fully or partially fund an independent project. The selected focus of the project should be one of personal significance and interest, related to a specific field of study or career plans. Consistent with current University of Michigan Campaign Goals, the projects should strive to extend academic excellence from the classroom into real-world experiences and have potential to serve the public good. Last year, we split awards in the case of a tie, funding two project grants at a level of $2,500 each.
Applicants must be active Junior, Senior or Graduate/Professional Phi Kappa Phi members* who will be returning to the University of Michigan as registered full-time students during the 2019/2020 academic year. They should demonstrate evidence of qualities necessary for successfully completing an independent project, such as self-reliance, maturity, creativity and resourcefulness. *Active PKP membership requires that dues are paid and the individual is a PKP member or will be inducted into PKP on April 14, 2019.
All project grant recipients will be asked to submit a brief progress report at a December PKP Executive Board Meeting, and a brief final report when the project is completed.
All project grant recipients will be expected to serve on the UM PKP Executive Board as a Student Vice-President. The term runs from August 2019 through May 2020. Student Vice-Presidents contribute about 40 hours of service, including 5-6 one-hour board meetings during the academic year. Other tasks can generally be done from a personal computer at any time within assigned deadlines.
The application includes the following:
Project proposal. Your proposal should describe a creative, self-directed plan for experiential learning, research or exploration focused on an issue that is of high personal significance and consistent with your career goals. Your project can build on an academic experience or interest you have. It can be directed at a lifelong ambition that allows you to make use of skills you have acquired. Your project can be an internship, apprenticeship, research, informal learning, volunteer activities, service, or other forms of meaningful interaction and engagement that you initiate and that will allow you to meet your goals. The award can be used to fully fund a project, or as seed money to get things started. You must design your own plan, however you can utilize opportunities provided by another party or organization as long as you personalize the experience.
Your project may include travel, however you may not include travel to destinations under University Travel Restrictions.
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Budget spreadsheet. A budget template is provided for you to explain anticipated costs associated with the proposed project. If you are proposing international travel, the budget must include international health insurance and emergency evacuation insurance, such as that offered by HTH International, and any required immunizations. This sample budget should include the kind of detail that shows you have fully thought through the expenses associated with the plan. The budget can cover living expenses, tuition or other items that make it possible for you to meet your goals. Ineligible expenses include cameras, laptops, digital recorders, telephones, other personal equipment, and personal items such as clothing and medication.
Supplemental Materials. Additional materials are not required but recommended to provide the Selection Committee with additional information upon which to judge your application. You may include memos of understanding or correspondence confirming an internship, collaboration, or other relationships and/or documentation integral to your plan.
Faculty recommendation. We ask that you have one faculty member or other principal advisor provide an assessment of your readiness to undertake the proposed project.
Deadlines & selection process. Email the completed application form, project proposal, budget and supplemental materials (if applicable). to: email@example.com. All materials must be submitted in PDF format. Submission deadline: March 31, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. The faculty recommendation must be submitted by Friday April 5, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.. Recipients will be notified of awards by April 12 and they will be presented at the Chapter's induction ceremony on Sunday, April 14, 2019.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee including UM PKP Board Members and UM Faculty. The applications will be evaluated according to the feasibility of the project and the impact it will have on the applicant's academic and career goals. The review committee will take into consideration the practicability of the proposal, including costs and whether the proposed time is sufficient to achieve the intended goals. They will also be evaluated on the extent to which the project extends academic excellence into real-world experiences and the potential to serve the public good.
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PhD Candidate - Resource Policy and Behavior, School for Environment and Sustainability
Small-Scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Desalination Plant for Freshwater Supply in Samara, Costa Rica
This research project will determine the applicability of a concentrating solar power (CSP) water desalination technology to solve water scarcity in Samara, Costa Rica. The output of this project will also include recommendations for solidifying a partnership between Sustainability Without Borders (SWB) and the local community for the near future so as to best facilitate technology transfer. The expectation is that implementation of a CSP desalination plant in Samara will lessen water scarcity pressures within the region and serve as a sustainable alternative to current methods. In the long term, the project will serve as a readily translatable model for other coastal regions thereby expanding impacts beyond the local level.
Samara is a small community in Guanacaste Province and is an important center for seasonal tourism. While rain provides water in abundance June – November, water becomes scarce and temperatures turn extreme Mid-November – April. The dry season coincides with peak tourism, which exacerbates water availability issues. Precipitation variability compounds issues with water supply, ultimately triggering a lack of potable water, food insecurity and disruption of community structures.
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Phd Candidate Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Ultrarapid additive manufacturing in Bulk Resin
Initially described in the 1980's, 3D printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing (AM), allows for the rapid fabrication of custom designed objects for applications as prototyping, or low-volume production. Over the past decades, but especially in the last few years, AM has experienced a substantial growth in both volume and revenue. The global revenue of the products and services related to AM exceed $5 billion, and in 2016 materials sales for 3D printing exceeded $900 million in the US. Photopolymers make up the largest fraction of this, and mainly find their application in molding and prototyping. Despite the descriptor of 'rapid prototyping', fabrication of a single object via AM commonly takes several hours, which in turn leads to expensive production rates. Because of this, AM currently finds its main application in production of custom medical devices.
Timeline is as follows: characterize the behavior of the redshifted photoinitiators in acrylate-based resins (May 2018) and in formulations containing o-Cl HABI (July 2018), then cure in bulk resin with photomasks and characterize the obtained structures (September 2018). Simultaneously, to synthesize the 2 proposed bridged HABIs (May 2018), and evaluate their effectiveness and requirements for inhibition in formulation with the previous photoinitiator (June-July 2018). Then, culminating from these 2 paths, combine the redshifted photoinitiator with the best performing bridged HABI, evaluate the curing kinetics (August 2018) and subsequent curing in 3D using photomasks (September-October 2018). Then, to publish these results in a peer-reviewed journal (December 2018), and to present this work at Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 257th national meeting of the American Chemical society in Orlando (March 2019).
The completion of this project will grant invaluable experience in developing and optimizing photocurable resins for AM purposes.
Lisa Walsh is a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology but her research relates to how humans affect the natural history of mammals. Understanding how species' distributions are affected by climate change is critical for both conservation and disease control, as numerous Michigan mammals harbor diseases transmissible to humans and livestock.
In her Project description, Lisa wrote "The Virginia opossum is an omnivorous mammal found from Nicaragua to the southern Midwest of the United States. In the last fifty years, it has spread as far north as Michigan's Upper Peninsula and this expansion of its normal habitat was originally credited to climate change. Opossums starve when temperatures are regularly below -4°C, so biologists now propose that urbanization and farms facilitated opossum winter survival in the form of alternative food sources, but no data has been collected to address this hypothesis." Lisa's project will collect and weigh opossums this coming fall and winter and evaluate their diets. Field collection sites will include both forested, natural habitats and those modified by humans, including farmland and suburbs.
With an evolutionary history in the tropics, opossums are ill-equipped to survive harsh winters in temperate North America, but opossums have spread as far north as Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the past 50 years. Biologists have proposed that urbanization and farms facilitate opossum winter survival in the form of alternative food sources, but no data has been collected to address this hypothesis. My project's goal is to collect data to directly examine this hypothesis. By using a combination of genetic tools and dissection, my PKP project will allow scientists to better understand the ecological drivers that might exacerbate the effects of climate change.
If you trap opossums or spot opossum roadkill, please email Lisa at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Michelle Fearon is a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology whose Project is entitled "Changing perspectives: How pollinator communities influence honey bee virus pathogen prevalence." Three RNA viruses are rapidly spreading among European honey bee colonies and some native pollinator species but little is known about how the pollinator community influences honey bee health. Theory predicts that increased pollinator species richness will reduce pathogen prevalence in honey bees, and increased overall pollinator abundance will increase honey bee pathogen prevalence.
The objectives of Michelle's proposal are (1) to provide the first analysis of how honey bee viral prevalence changes with pollinator community context in an agricultural environment, and (2) to evaluate how pollinator species richness and overall abundance change honey bee health. Honey bees are important pollinators of many fruits and vegetables, and the loss of this species will significantly impact the production of these crops.
Agricultural intensification has altered the composition of pollinator communities, changing species interactions and the spread of diseases. Three RNA viruses, Deformed Wing Virus (DWV), Sacbrood Virus (SBV), and Black Queen Cell Virus (BQCV), are rapidly spreading among European honey bees (Apis mellifera) and native pollinator species within these altered communities. However, the relationship between pollinator community composition and increased virus prevalence has not been analyzed. Disease ecology theory predicts that (1) increased pollinator species richness will reduce virus prevalence, and (2) increased total pollinator abundance will increase virus prevalence. To test these hypotheses, during summers 2015 and 2016 I collected a total of 5,010 pollinators from 14 agricultural sites in southeastern Michigan, with varying pollinator community compositions. I'm using Reverse-Transcription Polymerase Chain Reactions (RT-PCR) to test ~1,200 Apis mellifera, Bombus impatiens, Peponapis pruinosa, and Lasioglossum spp. for the presence of DWV, BQCV, and SBV. Preliminary results indicate that Apis mellifera has the highest virus prevalence, but Bombus impatiens, Peponapis pruinosa, and Lasioglossum spp. have higher prevalence than expected. I will test the relationship between virus prevalence within each species along independent gradients of pollinator community species richness and total abundance. These results will provide the first analysis of how virus prevalence changes in multiple pollinator species depending on the surrounding community composition.
Benjamin Li is a senior in Neuroscience with a minor in mathematics, whose proposal explained "For more than 200 years it was believed that image-forming vision was fully explained by rods and cones, our traditional photoreceptors. However, in 2002, a third, novel class of photoreceptive ganglion cell was characterized. Called the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC), it is a subset of ganglion cells that mediates subconscious, non-image-forming visual responses such as the pupillary light reflex, neuroendocrine regulation, and circadian photoentrainment."
Working in the lab of Dr. Kwoon Wong, one of the researchers who discovered the ipRGC, Ben will investigate the quantitative properties of ipRGCs, capitalizing on the unique dataset and methodological capabilities of that lab, and almost perfectly marrying his passions in neuroscience, mathematics, and computer science. He hopes it will lead to new understandings and research directions for ipRGCs, the retina, and neuronal networks in general.
Image-forming vision—vision typically associated with the luscious redness of an apple or ear-to-ear smiles of a loved one's birthday celebration—is received by rods and cones, the only known photoreceptors for over two hundred years. Recently, scientists have characterized a third retinal photoreceptor called the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC). ipRGCs influence circadian rhythms, pupillary light reflex, and other forms of subconscious, non-image-forming vision. I have been working with Dr. Kwoon Wong's lab at the University of Michigan since the spring of 2014 to study how ipRGCs respond to light and their implications in driving therapies via subconscious neural pathways.
Jennifer Angell is a first-year medical student and a member of the Global Health and Disparities Path of Excellence where students are mentored by physicians who are leaders in the field. She is currently working on multiple research projects in the U-M Ob/Gyn Department.
To introduce her individualized project, Jennifer wrote "Fistula is prevalent in many parts of the world where access to high-quality delivery services are not available." In recent years there has been upwards of 15,000 obstetric fistula repair surgeries reported on the Global Fistula Map. A modest amount of these are performed by Sister Priscilla, the only Ob/Gyn at her hospital in rural Uganda.
With her Project Grant, Jennifer will work with Sister Priscilla's patients to: 1) Collect socio-demographic and obstetric factors in order to better understand the antecedents of developing obstetric fistula in this population; 2) Develop a rich understanding of the social implications of obstetric fistula so that in the future targeted interventions may be used in conjunction with reconstructive surgery to aid a full social reintegration; and 3) to collect baseline data on patients who could be followed in future years to assess the progress of and potential barriers to social reintegration.
Birth injuries, such as obstetric fistula, are injuries sustained by a mother during labor, often due to delayed or limited access to appropriate obstetric care. These birth injuries leave women incontinent of urine or feces and can have extremely negative social consequences. Holy Family Virika Hospital in rural Western Uganda holds quarterly surgical repair camps for women with such injuries so that they may regain control of their lives. Investigators conducted in-depth interviews with the camp's participants to identify social, cultural, and health system root causes of these injuries, as well as the social consequences that result with the hopes of reducing future incidence and aiding reintegration.
Monica Choo is a senior in Biomolecular Science with a minor in Medical Anthropology. In her project description, Monica stated: "Virtually every country in Latin America suffers from mosquito illnesses, including the Dengue and Chikungunya viruses, the recently emerging Zika virus, and also malaria which caused 438,000 deaths worldwide in 2015 alone. As seen by the sky-rocketing mosquito illnesses in Latin America recently, previous mosquito vector control strategies have largely failed overall. Many studies have repeatedly pointed out that without vigorous community efforts, mosquito prevention programs will seldom succeed."
Monica has been carrying out an independent health project in Sudzal, a rural town in Yucatan, Mexico, and has already completed the first three phases: to educate the population in mosquito illnesses and prevention; to document their perception and behavioral patterns; and to evaluate the efficacy of the education module. She only asked for modest financial help from Phi Kappa Phi to complete the fourth phase of her project: invigorate community engagement in mosquito control efforts. Our funding will allow her to purchase mosquito screens for the five public schools of Sudzal, which will protect 388 students and 41 workers. Monica is also engaging the community in fund-raising to support installation of the screens and other prevention efforts. Monica further stated: "We must realize that community collaboration and population empowerment are crucial factors in alleviating any health issues."
The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has been rapidly spreading throughout Latin America, utilizing pre-existing vectors to quickly infiltrate the immunologically naïve populations. With the current rise of the Zika Virus, there is an urgent need for more rigorous vector control efforts to prevent further Zika breakout. We designed a community-based education module on CHIKV and mosquito prevention and presented it to the local residents in a rural town called Sudzal in Yucatan, Mexico. The residents' knowledge of CHIKV and mosquito prevention was tested via a questionnaire before and after education, and chi-squared test was performed to determine the efficacy of the presentation in increasing their knowledge. The education presentation has proven to effectively educate the local residents in several critical methods of mosquito prevention, increasing the average test scores by 67% post-education. These include applying repellent, staying hydrated during recuperation, and cleaning water containers inside the house to eliminate breeding sites (p < 0.001). Furthermore, the questionnaire captured the residents' behavioral patterns regarding CHIKV and mosquito prevention and identified cultural, ecological, and socioeconomic factors hindering effective implementation of vector control.
Preeti Samudra is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology. In her Project introduction, she wrote "Writing effectively is a critical skill for academic and professional success. Unfortunately, it is also one that many students struggle with throughout their schooling. Standardized testing in Michigan K-12 schools has revealed that fewer than half of Michigan public schools produce students proficient in English. On the national level, the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress in the United States revealed that 73% of 8th and 12th graders had only basic or below basic writing skills. These stark findings signify a serious problem in the effectiveness of our schools in producing competent writers, and suggest a need for research on writing to inform instructional practices."
Preeti's project addresses this need by taking a unique cross-cultural perspective on writing instruction. Specifically, she plans to investigate how writing is taught in elementary schools in the United States and Singapore in hopes of uncovering new and effective ways of approaching writing instruction. Even though English is the second language of many students in Singapore, those students outperform students in the United States. For example, on the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, Singapore ranked 3rd of all tested countries on Reading, while the United States was ranked 17th.
Many K-12 students struggle with reading and writing throughout their schooling. The 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress in the United States, for example, revealed that 73% of 8th and 12th graders had only basic or below basic writing skills. My project focused on understanding different ways of teaching writing by interviewing teachers in another country: Singapore. Singapore has consistently outperformed the United States on international reading assessments such as the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment, where Singapore ranked 1st in reading while the United States ranked 24th. Understanding how students are taught in high performing countries may give us new ways of thinking about instruction that may benefit the literacy skills of students in the United States.
Ryan Townshend – Also Co-founder and President of the PKP Student Organization, is a senior in neuroscience and Spanish. In the background to his proposal, Ryan stated: "During embryogenesis, neural stem cells (NSCs) are transient multipotent cells that are programmed to give rise to diverse neural cell types. Recently, studies have shown that NSCs can be derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in vitro, allowing for in-depth studies of NSCs for the first time. iPSCs are pluripotent cells that are reprogrammed from terminally differentiated cells such as adult skin cells. Since iPSCs can be derived from any viable adults, and can differentiate to become potentially any cells within the body (leading to the genetic footprint exactly belonging to the source individual), iPSCs have strong implications for personalized medicine."
Utilizing iPSC-derived NSCs from patients with Schizophrenia, Yoon et al. found that proper neural rosette formation is linked to the pathology of Schizophrenia. For his project, Ryan aims to perform detailed cell biological characterization of neural rosette, and investigate whether the regulation of cell polarity is also impaired in NSCs derived from patients with bipolar disorder. If successful, this study will be the first to link the role of cell polarity in bipolar disorder.
We sought to better understand psychological illnesses through further developing a system to study such diseases and to test possible treatment options. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are important for this project because of how they are derived: a skin sample can be taken from a patient and then chemically treated in such a way to re-induce a pluripotent state. This means that the iPSCs have the genetic footprint of the patients from whom they are taken, which allows us to test the patient specific genome and how it causes these illnesses. By culturing iPSCs from patients, we are able to mimic certain conditions in the body to model the psychological manifestation of the illness. We have begun to better define and understand the underlying regulatory mechanisms in this cultured model.
Callie Chappell is a master's candidate in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. Her project focuses on isolating new compounds with medicinal properties from natural sources and modifying diverse microbial pathways to develop pharmaceuticals. Working in Dr. David Sherman's lab, she will specifically investigate the biosynthesis of ambiguines, a category of hapalindole-like natural products which are of broad interest because of their anti-cancer, antibacterial, and insecticidal qualities. Currently, there is no understood biosynthetic mechanism for the natural production of hapalindoles, despite their considerable pharmacological and economic importance.
Natural products—complex chemicals produced by microbes, plants, and other organisms—have long been known to have medicinal effects. By combining techniques used by biologists, biochemists, and synthetic chemists, scientists can harness the natural power of these compounds. In addition to identification, scientists seek to produce these compounds in mass quantities. Currently, many important anti-cancer drugs, insecticides, and other economically-relevant compounds are produced using toxic and wasteful processes. By studying the mechanisms by which organisms produce similar compounds, we can modify bacteria and other organisms to cheaply and sustainably produce critical chemicals. I am researching a biosynthetic pathway in cyanobacteria that produce a series of compounds with known anti-cancer, antibacterial, and insecticidal qualities.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT - were awarded $2,500 each.
In 2015, Sarah Ann Knutson, our third consecutive winner, received a $5000 national fellowship. Read more about Sarah on our News page at http://www.umphikappaphi.umich.edu/news.html . Sarah is currently studying Archaeology and History at Cambridge University in England.
In 2014, Xiao Wang received a $5,000 national fellowship, one of only 51 at this level awarded annually. See more about Xiao on our News page at http://www.umphikappaphi.umich.edu/news.html Xiao is currently studying medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2013, Connie Shi became the first University of Michigan student to receive a prestigious $15,000 Marcus Urann national fellowship. Named for the founder of Phi Kappa Phi, there are only six fellowships at this level awarded annually. See more about Connie on our News page at http://www.umphikappaphi.umich.edu/news.html Connie is currently studying medicine at Harvard University.
In 2011, U-M student Samuel Burns received a $5,000 national fellowship.
In 2010, U-M student Kevin A. Callender received a $5,000 national fellowship.
Other national fellowship winners who have received graduate degrees from the University of Michigan are:
Javier Orman, 2007 Fellowship winner, Music
James Reinhart, 2006 Fellowship winner, Medicine
Kevin Haworth, 2003 Fellowship winner, Applied Physics


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With north of 15,000 athletes from over 190 countries, twenty-five thousand media personnel, seventy thousand volunteers, and countless Brazilians, this eBook, is central to the help guide to the harder than 3 hundred thousand tourists supposed to visit Rio de Janeiro come july 1st. Driven by some negative past experiences in her travels to europe, Neves provides insider tips that will enable tourists to truly enjoy the games, while staying safe and respecting cultural diversity. The hem ebook offers interactive media for tourists to help them feel at home and feel the best that Brazil, and much more specifically Rio, has to offer. The data will probably be delivered through easy-to-follow guidebooks and personable interactive videos. Neves, provides essential information on local routes traveling, safe places to stay and go through the local culture and cuisine, and suggestions to save money and avoid scams.
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ClassDojo has concluded yet another round of funding for its innovative app that promotes parent-teacher meetings. The company raised $21 million that will be used in incorporating more features into the app. By communicating on a daily basis throughout the entire year, the parents are acquainted of the behavior of their children and, hence, incidences that are discussed during annual parent-teacher meeting do not surprise them.
ClassDojo's co-founders said that the funds generated during the recently closed round of venture funding would help the firm to expand its workforce and to finance development of new content and features. The goal of the two executives is to transform the way parents and teachers use the tech app. When they started ClassDojo in 2011, the founders realized that other tech firms were creating grade books, digital syllabus, and testing platforms. They discovered that the educational sector needed an app that would build an interactive community between trainers, learners, and their parents.
ClassDojo competes with other edtech firms, including FreshGrade, Kickboard, and Nearpod. However, the application has continued to register a tremendous increase in the number of users. Educators in over 85,000 private, public, and charter schools use ClassDojo to empower students and communicate with parents. Additionally, many teachers are using the app to teach students from Kindergarten all the way to 8th-grade classes. Currently, the edtech company is on a mission of distributing its app across the globe. The founders are planning earn revenue by creating premium features that parents can use after paying for them.
ClassDojo is a state-of-the-art platform that facilitates communication among educators, students, as well as parents. The app assists educators in encouraging the development of positive behavior among students. It also improves the standards of education via instantaneous teacher-to-student advice. The teachers communicate with both students and their parents through mobile devices. The app monitors behaviors like hard work, teamwork, innovativeness, persistence, and curiosity. The firm behind the edtech app is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Liam Don and Sam Chaudhary launched a beta version of ClassDojo in July 2011. The app garnered one million users comprised of teachers and students after a full version of the application debuted in August 2011. The co-founders offer primary features of ClassDojo at a zero cost to educators. Their mission is to help educators in all types of learning institutions to use the app to create a better learning environment.


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If you have a very keen eye, you may have noticed that I added CAPTCHAs to the comment form. The problem isn't exactly the volume of spam that I was getting (maybe two or three comments a day), or that the spam was getting through (WordPress has correctly marked almost all of the spam comments for moderation), but that there were very few nuggets of real comments in there to make the whole process worthwhile, and it was getting a bit depressing. I'm too paranoid about false positives to trust the filter to delete them altogether, so captchas seemed like the best option.
For now, I'm using a WordPress plugin called CapCC. However, on and off I've been working on my own text distortion doohickey which I'm planning to drop in at some point. It's a really interesting problem – coming up with a system where you can generate a test in software, then determine in software that whatever completed the test was not software.
One annoying thing is that it there's currently no vision-impaired option. "Well," you say, "how many blind people actually read and decide to comment on your blog?", and the answer is probably zero (only slightly lower than the number of able-sighted people who comment on my blog), but it annoys me on principle. It's also an interesting addition to the general problem – now it has to be possible for software to read but not answer the test – so it's sitting there mocking me as a technical challenge. The standard solution is to offer an audio version, but that has its own issues.
I did think of one solution, but it relies on spammers being rational actors, which is not an assumption I'm completely at ease with. Suppose there are two answers to the captcha – one encoded in the image, and one in the image's alternate text. If you enter the one in the image, your comment is published, no questions asked. If you enter the alt text one, your comment is put in the moderation queue.
The alt text, of course, can be easily read by accessibility software and spambots alike. However, because the comment is going into the moderation queue, it'll never see the light of day unless I recognise it as legitimate; so there's no incentive in terms of published spam for a spammer to specifically try to defeat it. So as long as there aren't any spambots that look at alt text as a matter of course, and as long as no one decides to spam my moderation queue out of spite, it should all work. (And if spambots do look at alt text, then I can put it in body text alongside or whatever.)
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A topping-off ceremony celebrated construction progress on the Las Vegas Ballpark, a new Triple-A baseball stadium under construction in downtown Summerlin.
A ceremony Thursday honored 25 people killed by acts of domestic violence between July 1, 2017, and June 30.
Shaquille O'Neal has revealed the full menu for his new restaurant Big Chicken, which is set to open at 4480 Paradise Roadnear the Hard Rock Hotel on Oct. 23.
At least 45 students were affected Thursday when school police used pepper spray to break up a large fight at a central Las Vegas Valley high school.
About 45 to 50 people were pepper sprayed Thursday when school police used the agent to break up a large racially motivated fight at a central Las Vegas Valley high school. Four students were arrested, police said.
A 1-year-old Las Vegas boy who died Tuesday morning after he was found unresponsive inside a central valley apartment has been identified.
George Chomakos of Las Vegas was killed early Wednesday at Sun City and West Lake Mead boulevards, when he turned left at the intersection into the path of a Toyota 4Runner driven by a 17-year-old girl, police said.
Researchers counted 187 of the inch-long, neon-blue fish during a population survey late last month in the water-filled cavern 90 miles west of Las Vegas that they call home.
You'll have to wait a little longer to bid adieu to the Prince of Darkness.
Believe it or not, there was a time when your live-music options around the Strip were mostly limited to lounges, old-school showrooms or arenas. The only thing resembling a middle ground was the cavernous 7,500-seat Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts.
Live in-play wagering on Saturday night's Lights-Sacramento match will be available in Nevada on the William Hill sports book mobile app.
Howard Stern likes to travel the way most people like to be audited by the IRS while waiting in line at the DMV. But that didn't stop him from making an annual pilgrimage — along with his radio show, its cast and an assortment of Wack Packers — to the Hard Rock.
Just before 9:30 a.m. several people called police to report that a woman was hit by an SUV on the 700 block of East St. Louis Street, near Las Vegas Boulevard South, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Aden Ocampo Gomez said.
Just before 9:30 a.m. several people called police to report that a woman was hit by an SUV on the 700 block of East St. Louis Street, near Las Vegas Boulevard South, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Aden Ocampo Gomez said.
Las Vegas police are searching for a masked man and a woman wearing sunglasses and a hoodie in connection with a robbery early Sunday morning at a central valley gas station.
Rehab, the Hard Rock Hotel pool party that spawned the city's dayclub culture and helped turn it into a $250 million-a-year phenomenon, is coming to an end this weekend after 15 years, hundreds of thousands of partygoers and no telling how many visits to the nearest health clinic.
Some parts of the Las Vegas Valley could see isolated showers on Thursday, though rain is more likely to fall outside of the area.
A police officer pulled an injured driver from a burning limousine early Thursday morning after it crashed into the officer's vehicle near the Las Vegas Strip.
Westbound Flamingo Road is blocked from Las Vegas Boulevard South to Interstate 15 while Las Vegas police investigate a crash involving a limousine and a police vehicle.
LeBron James wowed fans watching the Los Angeles Lakers' preseason game against the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Arena, finishing with 15 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in the first half of a 123-113 victory over the Golden State Warriors.


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Advancing the intercultural mission of Gustavus Adolphus College
The mission of the CICE is to foster compassion, empathy, and global and social responsibility by providing abundant opportunities for intercultural experiences while encouraging individuals to challenge themselves intellectually and personally toward a deeper understanding of our interconnected world. Our values align very closely with the Core Values of the College:
We are committed to offering intellectually, socially, and emotionally engaging intercultural programming that both cultivates and reflects a rigorous approach in experiential learning grounded in the liberal arts.
We understand community as being at once a local and a global and borderless phenomenon, and we are deeply committed to fostering intercultural communities that embrace and build upon the diverse strengths in our cultural differences.
We believe that functional intercultural communities must attend to matters of social, economic, and environmental justice, and we build our programming to reflect this value. The liberally educated person should be equipped to make the world a better place.
We understand that intercultural interactions must be reciprocal – that we each gain extraordinary gifts and lessons when we provide service to one another. We further believe that service learning should reflect the self-identified needs of the host culture(s) in which the service is fulfilled.
We value the great diversity of faith and belief in our intercultural world as well as the unifying themes of compassion, hope, and responsibility for taking care of one another.


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Author, Representing Yourself in Oregon State Post-Conviction Proceedings – A Guide Toward Preserving Your Issues for Federal Habeas Corpus Review, Manual Distributed by Oregon Federal Public Defender (March 1, 2003; updated with co-author in 2006).
Author, How Can You Defend "Those Kinds of People?" Oregon State Bar Journal (April 1998).
Author, Capital Jury Selection in the Death Belt: A Colorful Learning Experience, Multnomah Lawyer (May 1995).
Author, Exhaust Those State Remedies or Go Down in Flames, The Oregon Defense Attorney (December/January 1995).
Author, RETRIALS (Rethinking Every Tactic Results in a Life Sentence), The Champion (April 1990).
Editor-in-Chief, Federal Issues for Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers, quarterly publication of the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (1987).
Author, Prosecutorial Misconduct During Closing Argument: The Arts of Knowing When and How to Object and of Avoiding the "Invited Response" Doctrine, 37 Mercer L. R. 1033 (Spring 1986).
Author, Help Wanted: Lawyers Willing to Work Long Hours on Unpopular, Difficult Cases at Little or No Pay. – An Urgent Plea for Help from the Alabama State Bar, THE ALABAMA LAWYER, Vol. 47, No. 1, January 1986.
Author, Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Demise of the Witherspoon Test and Other Important Developments in Death-Penalty Defense, THE CHAMPION, Vol. IX, No. 3, April 1985.
Editor, POST CONVICTION REMEDIES IN CAPITAL CASES, A MANUAL, Death Penalty Task Force, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, May 1984.
Editor, Special Death Penalty Issue of THE CHAMPION, Vol. VIII, No. 2, March 1984.
Author, The Penalty-Phase Trial: A Practical Guide, THE CHAMPION, Vol. VIII, No. 2, March 1984.
Author, Putting It All Together: The Penalty-Phase Closing Argument, THE CHAMPION, Vol. VIII, No. 2, March 1984.
Co-author (with John L. Carroll), TRIAL OF THE PENALTY PHASE Manual, Death Penalty Project, Southern Poverty Law Center (1981; personally updated in 1983).
Editor, MOTIONS FOR CAPITAL CASES Manual, Southern Poverty Law Center (1981) (re-edited and updated, 1986).
Co-author (with Morris Dees), VOIR DIRE FOR CAPITAL CASES Manual, Death Penalty Project, Southern Poverty Law Center (1979; personally updated in 1983).
Author, New Strategies for the Defense of Capital Cases, 13 Akron L. Rev. 331 (1979).


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Kilshaw, Kerry, Montgomery, Robert A, Campbell, R D, Hetherington, David A, Johnson, Paul J, Kitchener, Andrew C, Macdonald, David W and Millspaugh, Joshua J (2015) Mapping the spatial configuration of hybridization risk for an endangered population of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) in Scotland. Mammal Research, 61 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2199-241XFull text not available from this repository.
The wildcat in Scotland, UK, is currently at risk of extinction because of hybridization with feral domestic cats (ferals) and hybrids (wildcat × domestic cat crosses). Conservation efforts are hampered by limited information on the distribution of these three cat types and the spatial variation in hybridization risk. From January 2010 to July 2013, we conducted widespread camera-trapping surveys throughout northern Scotland to document the distribution of ferals, hybrids, and wildcats. Using single-season occupancy models, we predicted the probability of occupancy for these three cat types across Scotland. Over 49,031 camera-trapping days, we had 87 captures (photo of a cat at a camera-trap station within a 24-h period) of wildcats, 145 captures of hybrids, and 193 captures of ferals. At over 48 % of the camera-trap stations where we detected wildcats, we also detected ferals or hybrids. We predicted wildcat occupancy as a function of habitat covariates. Wildcat occupancy probability increased in habitat with a higher proportion of mixed woodland habitat and decreased in habitat with more edge (transition from closed to open habitats). Hybrids showed a clear overlap in their distribution pattern with both ferals and wildcats. The results indicate that wildcats in Scotland are at risk of hybridization across much of their current distribution from ferals and/or hybrids. In particular, hybrids have an increased probability of occupying much of the same habitat as wildcats compared to ferals, supporting recent suggestions that hybrids may pose a significant additional hybridization threat by facilitating gene flow between wildcats and ferals.
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Grand Cayman Cinema
The Cayman cinema is located in Grand Cayman across the butterfly farm in the Marquee center close to Cafe Del Sol Coffee place: Most weekends has a matinee that starts at $5. If you would like to see the weekday show the first cinema has 2 show times: 7pm and 9:15pm, the second cinema also has two show times: 7:30 and 9:30. The cost for the weekdays is $8.
Cayman Islands National Museum
The Cayman Islands National Museum is the most historical museum in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. This Cayman museum was once the Old Court Building, the museum then developed in to the most nostalgic place on the Island. The great thing about this museum is that it shows Cayman's Heritage over the years.
Grand Cayman - Prentice Powell's Museum
Although very small, the Grand Cayman - Prentice Powell's Museum is very amazing. It is filled with unique artifacts with exciting stories behind them. For more information call 949-3477
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands
Located in the Harbour Place in George Town facing the Ocean, the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands is a wonderful museum for the whole family to enjoy. Membership ranges from $25-$500; it depends on the package you get, however admission is free to the public. They are known for their art as well as children exhibits, so while you are looking at beautiful art with your spouse your children can have at the same time.
For more information call 945-8111
Grand Cayman - Esteban Gallery Limited
The Esteban Gallery Limited is an art gallery where people can enjoy the works of Horacio Esteban as well as local art. The gallery is situated on the last floor of AALL Trust and Banking which is located on Fort Street. For more information call 345-947-2787.
Pedro St. James Castle
Pedro St. James Castle is located in Savannah, Grand Cayman. It is open from 8:30am-5:00pm everyday. The show starts an hour before 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission tickets include $8/adult and $4/children that are 6-12 years old.
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park
Located on Frank Sound Road in the east end direction of Grand Cayman, the Botanic Park is a great place to enjoy nature. It opens 9am and closes at 5:30pm. The last tour is at 4:30pm. Admission Tickets are $6/adult and $3/children from 6-12. If you have a child that is under 6 years old there is no charge. The park is named after Queen Elizabeth, because when she came here 1994 she opened it herself!
Hell is a very beautiful place. Hell, is an area of Grand Cayman that was once under water. The limestone deposits are from the coral that had inhabited that area. A bacteria attacks the dead coral (limestone) and turns it black. So, what one sees is lots of black jagged rocks that kind of look like brimstone. In the distance the Mangrove trees have started to take over the area about 200-300 yards away from the Hell stone. Very Pretty and unique. If you visit Grand Cayman go to Hell.
Stingray City
Stingray City is Grand Cayman's most famous underwater attraction, a curiosity in the shallows of North Sound. Stingray City and the nearby location known as Sandbar offer the world's only opportunity to swim with more than two dozen wild Atlantic Southern Stingrays which seem comfortable in the company of humans. Its name may suggest a commercial, man-made marine life theme park, but Cayman's Stingray City is entirely natural, an aquatic phenomenon which delights thousands of visitors each year.
Cayman Turtle Farm
Everything about turtles! From a wealth of turtle educational, scientific and conservation information to Turtle Farm: The turtle farm is open everyday from 8:30am to 5pm. All Tours are self-guided and only take about 30-35 minutes. Tickets are $3/kids 6-12 and $6/adult. For more information call the information center at 345-949-3894
Cayman Rum Point Ferry
Ferry going to Rum Point: Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for kids. For the ferries schedule call 949-9098. The large 2 decker ferry seats about 150 people. It takes about 40 minutes to reach to Rum Point.
1. Seven Mile Beach: The seven mile beach is located north of George Town. It is called Seven Mile Beach because it is literally seven miles long!
Cayman Helicopter
If you want to really enjoy the birds eye view of the Grand Cayman and sister islands and you are not scared of flying you ought to see he island from up above! the best way to do that is to go on a helicopter ride by Jerome Begot. Contact him at 943-4354
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Cycling in the Cayman Islands
All cyclers meet at Grand Harbour Shopping Center at 6:30 in the morning and normally cycle 18-25 miles!
Dance: The following places are for dance:
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Motions Unlimited: If you are interested in Gymnastics, then Motions Unlimited is perfect for you. The cost is $25/ session Monday-Friday. There are also Friday and Saturday night activities that include gymnastics and a snack. For more information call 345-949-8365
Gym and body building
There are several gyms in the Cayman Islands such as Fitness Connection, Gold's Gym, World Gym and the Powerhouse gym. Memberships start at about $250. All gyms offer weight training, and exercise machines
Cayman Football
There are 10 football teams for men and 6 football teams for women. For more information on football you need to contact the Cayman Islands Football Associations at 345-949-5775
Gaelic Football
Since there are many Irish people the Cayman Islands has adopted the Irish football game, and the great thing about it is you don't need to be Irish to join any nationality is welcomed. For additional information call 914-5762
If you like to play Badminton then you should go the Kings Sport Center. It is $10/ person. The best time to come is around 5-6pm on either weekdays or weekend. The island also has a badminton association, where you can play with your friends. For more information call 949-3322
The Cayman Islands squash association is called Caysra Squash Club. The best thing about Caysra is that they really help you with your game. You can rent a court by the hour at Kings Sport Center. The cost is $10/person.
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The Rugby Club (345-949-7960) located in South Sound is a great place for people to learn rugby. If you are interested in tennis then the Cayman Island's Tennis Club located in South Sound is the place for you. Children of all ages are welcomed. The have a great after school program. For more information call 345-949-9464
Swimming: One of the major attractions of the Cayman Islands is the swimming. If your child wants to learn how to swim you should send them to the Fitness Connection. The Fitness Connection is located in South Sound. Children as young as 3 months old are welcome for swimming lessons. For more information call 345-949-8485 or email them at email@example.com
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The women of Mountjoy WLOL 29 are finalising plans to visit the grave of Laura Mation Gailey, the only woman to be commemorated on the War Memorial in The Diamond.
The visit is part of an ongoing project to celebrate and promote the life of Ms Gailey, who was one of the first voluntary aid detachment nurses to serve in WW1.
A resident of Bayview Terrace, she was posted to serve in Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool, treating injured soldiers returning from the battlefields of Europe. She contracted measles which developed into pneumonia and died from the fever in 1917. She was buried with full military honours, her coffin draped with the Union Flag and borne on a gun carriage. After the interment the Last Post was sounded by buglers from a Regimental Band.
The plan is to visit her grave in Liverpool and the hospital where she worked. The ladies will leave the city on July 9, take part in Battle of the Boyne celebrations in Liverpool and Southport on July 11 and return home on July 12 for the local celebrations on July 13 in Londonderry and Coleraine, parading with their new bannerette depicting a portrait of Laura Gailey and Londonderry Cenotaph.
The new bannerette will be unfurled and dedicated on July 1 at Glendermott Parish Church at the annual Battle of the Somme Service, organised by No. 5 District Loyal Orange Lodge.
The Ladies Lodge will be led by Caw Flute Band and at the conclusion of the service of remembrance, everyone is invited to return to the Royal British Legion Club in Iona Terrace for refreshments.
All Orange Brethren and Sisters are welcome to attend the parade and dedication. Support will be greatly appreciated by the Ladies of Woman's LOL 29.


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Khartoum, rest day
When we arrived in Sudan our handler explained how things "are" here. Female genital mutilation came up. It's totally illegal here. But it continues in rural communities. It will take time to change custom, he said.
Today's visit to the Sudan National Museum was a chance to see some artifacts highlighting Sudan's history, including 12th century Christian murals.
Leaving the museum, it was heartening to see murals of another sort hung on the exit gate wall.
Art, old and new, reminding us that change does happen here.
It just takes time.


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The Inquiring Mind (Blog)
Yet another set of excuses (1) to avoid an inquiry into the disgraceful treatment of Peter Ellis.
Simon Power has denied a request for a Commission of Inquiry and says that is because Ellis can still appeal to the Privy Council.
Why is it that Ellis is denied justice?
Rick Barker under the old regime seemed to take same view. (2)
Read Poneke's various posts on this matter. Just type in Peter Ellis.
(1) http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2964204/Commission-of-inquiry-for-Ellis-declined
Oct 14 2009
(2) http://poneke.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/bark/
Peter Ellis told "go to the Privy Council" as Barker rejects new call for a Civic Creche royal commission


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by Roger White
Enough! Enough, already. Attention, all dogma-driven talking heads, all self-serving politicos, all idiotically uncompromising ideologues—and, yes, all fallow-minded followers: shut up. Please, please, shut the hell up.
In this high-wire act of a column, in a squeaky office chair some two and a half feet off the ground (without a net, mind you), I am going to attempt one of the most dangerous, possibly career-ending maneuvers ever risked by an aging, pot-bellied freelancer with two mortgages. I am going to ruminate on politics without straying one iota from the fence. I vow to roundly box the ears of both donkey and elephant alike.
In fact, it is my goal to shred these stubborn creatures to the point that, when I am finished, there will be only pieces left to fashion one political animal: the donkephant. Could make an elekey, I suppose, but donkephant sounds better.
Seriously, folks, the middle path is the only way out of this terrific mess we're in today. Don't you think? Never in my [mumble] years on this little planet have I witnessed the viciousness of partisan politics as it exists now. The oft-used cliché is "rancor." Oh, the partisan rancor. Kids, this puny word falls far short in describing what's transpiring in D.C., on the talk-and-shout shows, and in state capitol buildings of late. This is akin to calling World War II "a bit of rancor among the countries." A more appropriate term for today's political divide might be unlimited nuclear warfare.
In the nasty climate du jour, compromise is a dirty word. Negotiation is a black mark on a Congressional resumé. Truth is an opinion, either red or blue. And progress is sacrificed. We have not only the politicians and money-grubbing media to blame; we have to hold ourselves accountable, too. But who am I kidding—it's approximately 97 percent politicians and the media.
You can basically lump your elected officials and the news hounds in the same group: They're both out for No. 1; they'll say just about anything to keep their ratings high; and they wouldn't tell you a real truth even if they had an intelligent grasp of what it is.
How'm I doing so far? I'm a little queasy from the view up here.
Real people—Redcrests, Bluetails, Independents, and every other feather in between—are sick to death of nothing of real consequence ever being accomplished in Washington because the two major factions under the big dome are too busy bashing each other like Punch and Judy.
And we follow along, don't we? Brainwashed to the point of demonizing the party we oppose instead of trying to see the other side, even for a minute.
Think about it. (Here's where it's going to get tough. My chair's getting a tad wobbly.) Let's look at guns. As I launch into this, understand that I'm painting with a broad, flat, over-generalizing brush, so bear with me. By and large, conservatives believe guns are necessary for self-protection; liberals think the proliferation of guns means more deadly violence. The real thing we're after here is personal safety. In the larger picture, both sides would rather not have a criminal kick down their door and savage their family—it's the means of achieving the same goal we're debating. Mostly.
Abortion? (Boy, it's getting tougher. A crowd's gathering below me. Helloooo down there!) Conservatives say this is taking a life; liberals say what about the desperate life of the unwanted child? Bigger picture—both sides, if they're sincere, are wrestling with the issue of basic human rights.
Government. Hmmm. Let's pick just an aspect here; this is a big, steaming hunk of rancor. How about social welfare? Let me just say I believe in my little ol' heart of hearts that both factions don't want to see weathered stick figures on the roadside carrying "Will Work for Food" signs and old ladies dining on Alpo. Some see it as the government's role to provide; some believe it is the purview of private enterprise and charities. Again, means, not end, is the rub.
There must be room for, gulp, compromise. Hey, I said it! Felt good, actually. Look, if the Israelis and Palestinians can make noises about peace talks, maybe Republicans and Democrats can, too.
Remember the big Congressional "prom" at President Obama's 2011 State of the Union address? When members of opposing parties sat together to show unison in the wake of Representative Gabrielle Giffords' ghastly shooting? I think some wore corsages. As laughingly transparent as that move was, it made me think. We should form a new party—not independent, not extremist, but one that seeks common ground whenever possible.
We'll call it the Repumocrat Party. Our mascot, of course, will be the donkephant. Our color will be purple (red + blue, natch). We shall not use the words "staunch," "never," "always," "left," "right," or any term including the words "wing," "trending," or "spin." Our goal will be the greater truth always, our motto: "Ends matter, means are negotiable." We'll start a TV channel that features only good news. Station NAGS—News About Good Stuff.
I'm thinking we'll need a fundraiser to get us off the schneid. Hundred bucks a plate perhaps, payable to oldspouse.com. We'll need a party chairman—that will be me, thank you very much. I'll work away from the spotlight, in the wings, and I vow never to stray from our staunch principles. I promise that the Repumocrats will always seek what is right and that no one will be left behind. How are we trending thus far?
OK, I'll shut the hell up. The fall from my chair has me in a spin.
Roger White is a freelance writer living in Austin, Texas, with his lovely wife, two precocious daughters, a very fat dachshund, and a self-absorbed cat. For further adventures, visit oldspouse.wordpress.com.


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POSTCARD CAMPAIGN FOR RETENTION TAX EXEMPTION SCHEME : The Arts Council
The Arts Council has warned that the abolition of the artists¹ tax exemption
scheme could cost Ireland a generation of new and emerging artists. Without the scheme, artists will choose to base their work in more well-established art markets around the world. The Arts Council has launched a postcardcampaign to the Minister for Finance urging him to retain the exemption.
The Council hopes the many people who support the exemption will electronically post its card to the Minister for Finance. The postcard is available on the homepage of the Council¹s website atThe Arts Council.
It is a simple-to-send electronic message.
Date: December 2005
To: Mr Brian Cowen, T.D., Minister for Finance
Dear Minister
I am asking you to ensure that the artists' tax exemption scheme, currently under review by your Department, is retained in its entirety. I feel it would be a retrograde step for the arts in Ireland if it were to be changed in any way.
Despite the growing popularity of the arts, most Irish artists still cannot make a living from their creative work. The greatest number of beneficiaries of the scheme earn considerably less than the legal minimum wage. Artists' earnings are subject to very considerable annual variation. The proceeds of, say, the sales from an exhibition or the publication of a book in any one year, may represent all of the artist's significant artistic earnings for a period of three to five years.
The small number of Irish artists who have enjoyed global commercial success on an unimaginable scale are still liable for Irish tax on a significant share of their income - the only part of their income that is tax-free is the income arising from their creative work.
Artists have a unique place in society and the introduction of this tax exemption was an enlightened acknowledgement of that. I appeal to you to keep the exemption.
Yours sincerely
The Arts Council


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Mahesh PoudyalBSc (York), MRM (Simon Fraser), PhD (York)
Current Position
Postdoctoral Research Officer, Bangor University
I am a Postdoctoral Research Officer in the School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography at Bangor University, working on the ESPA-funded project P4ges. I am also associated with ForestAction Nepal as a Research Fellow. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Umeå between Sep 2011-Sep 2013, where I was involved in the study of the forest commons in Sweden, focusing particularly on the shareholder participation in the governance of the commons. Prior to my work in Sweden, I was a researcher at ForestAction, Nepal from April to August 2011. Until March 2011, I was a Research Associate in Environment Department at the University of York, UK. At York, I was involved in EU sixth framework project on 'sustainable management of shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) in Sudano-Sahelian zone', and worked as the leader for the workpackage looking at the shea parkland dynamics in relation to climate and land use. Prior to that, I was a PhD student/researcher at York (2005-2009) – based jointly in Environment and Politics Departments. I have a Masters degree from Simon Fraser University in Canada in Resources Management, and a BSc in Environment, Economics and Ecology from the University of York, UK.
My PhD research focussed on the tree tenure issues in agroforestry parklands in West Africa, with a case study from Northern Ghana. My research interests are in socioeconomic aspects of natural resources management and use, especially on the institutional arrangements and their impacts on the access to and the distribution of benefits from the resources. The focus of my work is usually on the poverty-livelihoods-environment nexus. In the past, I've been involved in studies looking at leasehold forestry (Nepal), rhino conservation and park-people conflicts (Nepal), and sustainable management of shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) in Sudano-Sahelian zone. In my current position, I am involved in the study of Forest Commons in Sweden, and a project looking at the sustainable forestry in the Baltic sea region.
- Poudyal, M., B. Adhikari, and J. Lovett (2014) "Community-Based Leasehold Forestry in Nepal: A Genuine Tenure Reform in Progress?", in R. Bluffstone and E.J.Z. Robinson (eds) Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Local Control for Improved Livelihoods and Forest Management, RFF Press.
- Adhikari, B., D. Knowler, M. Poudyal, and W. Haider (2013) "Park-people conflicts, rhino conservation and poverty alleviation in Nepal", in P.J.H. van Beukering et. al. (eds) Nature's Wealth: The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty, pp 37-55. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Lidestav, G., M. Poudyal, E. Holmgren, and E.C.H. Keskitalo (2013) "Shareholder perceptions of individual and common benefits in Swedish Forest Commons", International Journal of the Commons 7(1): 164-182.
- Poudyal, M. (2011). "Chiefs and trees: tenures and incentives in the management and use of two multipurpose tree species in agroforestry parklands in Northern Ghana". Society and Natural Resources, 24(10): 1063-1077.
- Poudyal, M., and J.C. Lovett. 2010. "Biodiesel as the potential alternative vehicle fuel: European policy and global environmental concern", in J.C Lovett and D.G. Ockwell (eds) A Handbook of Environmental Management, 408-430. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
- Poudyal, M., K. Rothley, and D. Knowler. 2009. "Ecological and economic analysis of poaching of the greater one horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Nepal". Ecological Applications 19(7): 1693-1707.
- Lovett, J.C., and M. Poudyal. 2006. "Terraforming Africa". African Journal of Ecology 44: 302-304.
- Poudyal, M., and D. Knowler. 2005. "Economic Incentives and Poaching of the One-Horned Indian Rhinoceros in Nepal: Poaching of the One-Horned Indian Rhinoceros in the Chitwan Valley, Nepal - A Retrospective Econometric Analysis". PREM Working Paper No. 05-07. Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) Program, Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Knowler, D., and M. Poudyal. 2005. "Economic Incentives and Poaching of the One-Horned Indian Rhinoceros in Nepal: Simulation Modelling of Policies to Combat the Poaching of Rhino in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal". PREM Working Paper No. 05-11. Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) Program, Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Adhikari, B.P., W. Haider, O. Gurung, M. Poudyal, B. Beardmore, D. Knowler, and P. van Beukering. 2005. "Economic Incentives and Poaching of the One-Horned Indian Rhinoceros in Nepal: Stakeholder Perspectives in Biodiversity Conservation - Analysis of Local, National and Global Stakes in Rhino Conservation in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal". PREM Working Paper 05-12. Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM) Program, Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Rothley, K.D., D.J. Knowler, and M. Poudyal. 2004. "Population model for the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal". Pachyderm 37: 19-27.


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I had been pondering a move to WordPress for over a year – especially after using it for all of my teaching blogs for the last year. When a malware attack from who-knows-where attacked Monastic Musings, a cascade of events followed: the blog was automatically shut down before I even take a peek at the source of the problem; Blogger's help forum is full of messages saying, "It's been a week – when will I get my blog back?" And I haven't figured out how to ask for a review.
It's a wonderful lesson in monastic detachment. I had been writing that blog for, oh, four years or so – and was just about to reach the 1000 post milestone. I was terribly distraught for about 10 minutes. But I am staying at the Abbey of St. Walburga, where many of the sisters don't know what a blog is, and few read any at all.
When I realized that I might have to EXPLAIN, at length, what it was that I had lost — well, it can't be much of a loss if you have to describe it. No one needs an explanation when you say you lost your keys, your child, or your passport. Better to just let it be water over the bridge, if need be.
I decided to start up again – recognizing that the same thing could happen here, too. So I will slowly be setting up home. I'm trying to get ready for the new school year and have some vacation. If the old Monastic Musings becomes available, it will let me leave a message for folks who read it – and I can port over some of the posts I liked the best. But a clean slate isn't bad.


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