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But I'm back, with a treat. Today we'll be enjoying a woo-woo challenge to clinical trials methodology, in the form of Resonance, Placebo Effects, and Type II Errors: Some Implications from Healing Research for Experimental Methods, published in The Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by William F. Bengston ( an energy healing sociologist) and Margaret Moga (an anatomist and moxibustion enthusiast).
Randomized controlled trials
The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is generally considered to be the gold standard experimental design for medical research. RCTs are widely used and there's a huge literature on RCT methodology (including a journal entirely devoted to the subject), but the basic idea is quite simple.
Let's take a relevant example. Suppose we want to examine the efficacy of, say, laying-on-of-hands "energy healing" for shrinking tumors in mice. Well, efficacy is always efficacy relative to something, so we need to choose an appropriate control treatment. In this example, let's say we're interested in comparing "energy healing" with no treatment at all.
Well, we need to start with a sample of mice with tumors. In animal research, when you want to study animals with a certain disease, you usually start with healthy animals and then give them the disease you want to study. (Generally, this practice would be looked at somewhat unfavorably in human subjects research.) So, we'll take a bunch of mice and inject them all with tumor cells. Stop looking at me like that, animal rights activists. Anyway, maybe one of the experimental mice would have gone on to become the mouse equivalent of Hitler. You never know, do you?
Anyway, the next step is key: we randomly assign the cancer mice to receive either the "energy healing" or no treatment at all. The principle of randomization is deceptively simple, but it has profound implications. The most immediate implication is that, because all personal characteristics of the subjects are randomly distributed between the groups, any observed differences in outcome are likely to be due to the treatment assignment rather than to irrelevant factors like age, sex, socioeconomic status, or whatever the mousy analogues of these might be. It's no exaggeration to say that the introduction of randomization by (principally) R. A. Fisher, was one of the seminal moments in the history of science.
Then we give our treatment group the treatment of interest (i.e., laying-on-of-hands) and our control group the control treatment (i.e., no treatment). After an appropriate length of time, we measure the tumors on all our mice, calculate the remission rate for the treatment group and the control group, and use standard statistical methods (Fisher's exact test, say, although more on this subjet another time) to decide whether the observed difference in remission rates is larger than would be expected due to simple chance differences between the groups.
The inconvenience of negative results
Now suppose you conduct the experiment described above not once, not twice, but four separate times, each time with the same result: many of your "energy healing" treated mice undergo tumor remission, but so do many of your control mice. In fact, in each experiment, the difference between treatment and control groups is smaller than would be expected due to chance ("not statistically significant").
Now, a few possible explanations might spring to mind for these negative results:
- The tumor induction was inadequate in both control and treatment mice to result in a sustained cancer. The majority of mice remitted because their disease was self-limiting. The "energy healing" treatment doesn't work better than no treatment.
- The tumor induction was adequate but some physiological process or trait separate from the treatment but common to all mice resulted in tumor remission in the majority of mice. The "energy healing" treatment doesn't work better than no treatment.
- #1, except the "energy healing" treatment does work better than no treatment, but the effect is small and the sample size was inadequate to determine statistical significance.
- #2, except the "energy healing" treatment does work better than no treatment, but the effect is small and the sample size was inadequate to determine statistical significance.
- The study protocol was broken in some way due to carelessness or fraud.
That's right! Number 6 is obviously gold. The really great thing about the hypothesis underlying number 6 is that, the more negative your results are, the more amazingly effective your treatment must be! The only way things could look better for the treatment is if more control mice remitted. And not only does the hypothesis explain this experiment, it single-handedly accounts for all placebo effects in all clinical trials, ever. This is paradigm-shattering stuff, truly.
But let's not jump to conclusions. We're scientists here. We like the cut of hypothesis 6's jib, sure, but we're not going to just jump in and publish an article proposing an occult relationship between control and treatment groups in RCTs without first making damn sure we can back it up with science. What we need is an experiment....
How do you test an insane hypothesis?
Why, with an insane experiment of course. SILLY! AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA.
Ok, so here's what we'll do (and, in case you haven't caught up with my rhetorical stylings so far in this post, "what we'll do" translates to "what Bengston and Moga did"). We'll take 30 mice, inject them with tumor cells, and randomly assign half to "energy healing" and half to no treatment. So far so good - it sounds like a replication of our previous experiments.
But wait, you're saying, what about the resonant bond? If our revolutionary hypothesis is correct, the two groups will be mystically connected, all the tumors will remit, and we'll be back to square one. What we need is a TRUE CONTROL GROUP that won't be bonded with the treatment group, resonantly or otherwise. Then we can see if our two original groups are more similar to each other in course of disease than they are to the third control group.
But how to make that third, TRUE control group? Well, why not take another 25 mice and not inject them with cancer cells at all in the first place? Just 25 mice. No tumors. Then we'll follow all three groups, see if remission rates and biological markers are similar in the treatment and bonded control groups and different in the group that, hey, we never gave cancer in the first place. Why this group should be immune to the mystical resonant bond is anyone's guess, of course, but it's worth a shot, right?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, 55 innocent (or, who knows, maybe not so innocent) mice and several inappropriate statistical analyses later (the rest of this is so much fun, I can't even be bothered to critique their statistics), our long hours of work have paid off. Remission rate in the "energy healing" treatment group? 100%. In the bonded control group? 100%, that's all. Just a paltry 100%. And what about the third control group? The group that NEVER HAD CANCER IN THE FIRST PLACE? 0%. Zero. The big zilch. Nada. Not a single one of the mice that NEVER HAD CANCER IN THE FIRST PLACE remitted from their cancer.
Just in case that's not enough to convince you, Bengston and Moga also measured hemoglobin levels and weighed the spleens of a subset of mice from each group at each follow-up. Guess what? The group of tumor-injected mice that had "no" treatment and the group of tumor-injected mice that had "energy healing" treatment? Pretty much the same. And the group that never had tumor cells injected? Different!
An analogy
The setup: In case all of this talk of mice and tumors has gotten a bit esoteric, here's an analogy for what we've just learned. Let's take three cars: car A, car B and car C. We fill the fuel tank of car A with gasoline, plus a fuel additive. We fill the fuel tank of car B with gasoline only. We leave the fuel tank of car C empty.
The experiment: We line the three cars up and race them, to see which can go farthest in 10 minutes. Cars A and B go 20 miles each. Car C doesn't go anywhere.
The conclusion: The fuel additive is effective, and a resonant bond caused Car B to go as far as Car A. The existence of this resonant bond is proved by the fact that Car C didn't go anywhere.
And that just about settles that. Take a bow, Drs. Bengston and Moga. You've really done something here. Really.
Now those of you still reading shall be rewarded with a collection of choice excerpts.
Questioning the logic of experimental design is the last thing we want to do:
This paper does not question the logic of experimental
design. Rather, it suggests that, under some circumstances,
for example, illustrated by placebo effects, the presupposi-
tion of experimental and control group independence is
questionable. It suggests that this violation can occur via the
creation of a "resonant bond" between groups. Resonance,
in turn, can result in a macroscopic entanglement of exper-
imental subjects, so that a stimulus given to one group also
stimulates the other group.
Weeks of practice to master:
As previously reported, the healing-with-intent experi-
mental protocol required that the volunteer healers practice
mental and "directed energy" techniques taught to us by an
experienced healer formerly based in Great Neck, New York.
These techniques did not involve focused visualization, med-
itation, life changes, or belief of any sort. Although they are
straightforward, the mental techniques required weeks of
practice to master and involved a series of routine mental tasks
that were to be practiced simultaneously while placing hands
around the standard plastic mice cages for 1 hour per day.
Our curiosity got the better of us:
Our intent was to keep the control mice
separate for the duration of the experiment and to keep them
particularly hidden from anyone who knew the healing tech-
niques. Our curiosity got the better of us, however, and, within
several weeks of the first experiment, we violated protocol
and visited the control mice. In hindsight, this may have
proved fortuitous, because it inadvertently opened the door
to unexpected phenomena.
Naturally, it's all down to quantum entanglement:
Almost all of the seeming paradoxes of these remissions
disappear if we allow for the possibility of "resonant bond
formation" and "resonant bond dissolution," which may
serve to entangle or de-entangle subjects. Certainly the no-
tion of "entanglement," although still quite mysterious, is
widely accepted and hailed for its predictive power on a
quantum level in conventional physics.
You want an explanation of resonant bonds? Well, how about two explanations, smarty-pants?
Consider two possible hy-
potheses: (1) shared experiences among experimental sub-
jects can "bond" them together resonantly; and (2)
consciousness itself, including that of the experimenter, can
delimit the boundaries of experimental subjects, effectively
defining those who are "in" and those who are "out." Those
who are "in" form something akin to a larger "collective,"
analogous to those formed by colonies of insects, flocks of
birds, and schools of fish.
All your failed studies are belong to us:
Researchers are encouraged to
reexamine their old data within the framework of resonance
to determine whether these phenomena are as extensive as
they now appear to be (e.g., placebos). This reexamination
needs to broaden the question from the difference between
experimental and control subjects to inquire more generally
about the difference between experimental subjects and
"what ought to have happened."


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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain personal watercraft and components thereof. The products at issue in this investigation are small watercraft powered by an internal combustion engine and used primarily for recreation.
The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, dba Yamaha Motor Company, Ltd. of Iwata, Japan, and Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, dba Sanshin Industries Company, Ltd. of Hamamatsu, Japan, on February 6, 2001, and supplemented on February 26, 2001. The complaint, as supplemented, alleges violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, and the sale within the United States after importation of certain personal watercraft and components thereof that infringe five patents owned by Yamaha and six patents owned by Sanshin. The complainants request that the ITC issue a permanent exclusion order and a permanent cease and desist order.
The ITC has identified the following companies as respondents in this investigation:
By instituting this investigation (337-TA-452), the ITC has not yet made any decision on the merits of the case. The case will be referred to the Honorable Debra Morriss, an ITC administrative law judge, who will schedule and hold an evidentiary hearing. Judge Morriss will make an initial determination as to whether there is a violation of section 337; that initial determination is subject to review by the Commission.
The ITC will make a final determination in the investigation at the earliest practicable time. Within 45 days after institution of the investigation, the ITC will set a target date for completing the investigation. ITC remedial orders in section 337 cases are effective when issued and become final 60 days after issuance unless disapproved for policy reasons by the President of the United States within that 60-day period.

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The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched a general factfinding investigation regarding competitive conditions in the U.S. market for fresh oranges and lemons.
The investigation, Conditions of Competition for Certain Oranges and Lemons in the U.S. Fresh Market (Inv. No. 332-469), was requested by the House Ways and Means Committee in a letter received July 5, 2005.
In the letter, the Committee noted that certain U.S. citrus growers are concerned about competitive conditions affecting certain sectors of their industry. The Committee requested that the ITC's study include an overview of the industry focusing on navel oranges and lemons produced for the fresh market, with information provided on broader segments as appropriate.
As requested, the ITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency, will provide an overview of the global market for oranges and lemons for the fresh market, including production, consumption, and trade; profiles of the orange and lemon fresh-market industries in the United States and principal foreign producer countries, such as Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Mexico, Spain, and South Africa; an analysis of U.S. trade in fresh-market oranges and lemons with major competitor countries, including a description of trade practices and measures; and, a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. fresh-market orange and lemon industries with foreign competitors in such areas as input costs of production (such as labor, land value, water, energy, packing costs, transportation to market, fertilizer and pesticides, taxes, and regulatory compliance), technology, government programs, exchange rates, and pricing and marketing regimes. The ITC investigation will provide information for the most recent five-year period to the extent possible.
The ITC will submit its report to the Committee by July 5, 2006.
The Commission will hold a public hearing in connection with the investigation at 9:30 a.m. on February 7, 2006. Requests to appear at the public hearing should be filed with the Secretary, United States International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC, 20436, and must be received no later than 5:15 p.m. on January 24, 2006.
The ITC also welcomes written submissions for the record. Written submissions (one original and 14 copies) should be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission at the above address and should be filed at the earliest practical date, but no later than 5:15 p.m. on February 21, 2006. All written submissions, except for confidential business information, will be available for public inspection.
Further information on the scope of this investigation and appropriate submissions is available in the ITC's notice of investigation, dated August 2, 2005, which may be obtained from the ITC Internet site (www.usitc.gov) or by contacting the Office of the Secretary at 202-205-2000.
ITC general factfinding investigations, such as this one, cover matters related to tariffs or trade and are generally conducted at the request of the U.S. Trade Representatives, the Senate Committee on Finance, or the House Committee on Ways and Means. The resulting reports convey the Commissions' objective findings and independent analyses on the subject investigated. The Commission makes no recommendations on policy or other matters in its general factfinding reports. Upon completion of each investigation, the ITC submits its finding and analyses to the requestor. General factfinding investigations reports are subsequently released to the public, unless they are classified by the requestor for national security reasons.


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A teenager factory worker who pulled out a baseball bat and tried to attack others during a fight outside a pub will appear in court next week.
Liam Harry Panayi, 19, was involved in a brawl outside the Black Bull pub on Woodhouse Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, and went to his car to get the bat.
Mansfield Magistrates' Court was told that police arrived on the evening of January 15 and found four men fighting outside the pub with punches and kicks being thrown.
One officer noticed Panayi because he had the three-foot bat that he was swinging it at the others.
All four were eventually arrested.
During questioning, Panayi said he had received a call from friend to go to the pub, but when he got there with this brother they were confronted by two young men who said they had a knife, although no knife was ever found.
Panayi, of Birch Road, New Ollerton, told police he went to his own car and the bat to defend himself.
He said he kept it with him when he went playing with his cousin's children.
Panayi said he didn't make contact with anyone when swinging the bat and said he was scared of being stabbed.
He admitted a charge of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place, and failing to surrender to custody.
Following a report by the probation service, they said the teenager panicked at the time and was fearful of leaving his brother.
They added: "He accepts full responsibility and said he knew that anybody who would have seen him would have been frightened."
The court was told that he suffered with depression and spent a lot of time in bed, which explained his reason for not turning up at a previous hearing.
Probation said that because of his depression, a curfew requirement was the "only option available".
The case was adjourned for sentencing until March 3, so he could be provided with legal aid.


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Derbyshire captain Billy Godleman fell two short of a century but his team are in a strong position on the second day of the Division Two match against Durham at Chesterfield.
Godleman was caught behind hooking Paul Coughlin which ended a 10th wicket stand of 102 with Gurjit Sandhu whose unbeaten 48 was his highest first-class score.
The pair, who came together on the first evening with the score on 266, frustrated Durham for another 15 overs either side of a 35 minute rain break to secure a fourth batting point.
Durham were left with an awkward six overs to negotiate before lunch but Michael Richardson and Cameron Steel survived to take the visitors to 13 without loss at the interval.


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Table of Contents
Though the house is sizable, most of the rooms are small and cozy. Often times, most lights are kept off unless used. Beware of any traps. Most of the house is fireproof and has multiple water sprinkles everywhere.
ROOMS: (Arranged Per Level)
The proximity of the basement is the same as the house. The texture is cement base for the walls and floor which is all painted a medium blue color. There are no windows. There are many tables all filled with all kinds of scientific instruments. A massive computer on the center wall (Think Batman crime computer). A few round - office chairs. Lights hang from the ceiling openly. The water heater and fusebox (circuit panel) is located in the northwest corner of the basement. Spiral staircase leads downstairs and are painted black and made of some kind of medal, in the very center of the basement.
- This is the Control Room
The security camera's have been organized and have been routed to a control room present at the 2nd basement. This is found beneath Crocker's basement laboratory. Entrance is through the cabinet by the dining area. Access is through a numerical pass code and iris identification. [CURRENT ACCESS: Kurenai and Denzel Crocker]
Currently, it has lots of empty space for future needs. However, in one side of the room is a conglomeration of LCD monitors all routed to three keyboards.
Access to this network allows the characters to monitor activity within the mansion grounds and the rooms of the mansion. Aside from this, the users will gain access to the various defensive and offensive mechanisms of the mansion.
1. Dim the lights anywhere within the mansion.
2. Monitor movement of others within the premises.
3. Lock the doors.
4. Lock the windows.
5. Activate the metal and concrete barriers.
6. Control Maria. [On/Off]
7. Deactivate Kitchen control panel.
8. Activate accessory water sprinklers for emergency.
Houses the machine for NEON.
- An AI, which announces if there are any intruders or guests, 30 meters prior to the arrival. (list of guests are updated by the characters.). The announcement happens over a PA(Public Address) system.
- Announces if the temperature levels of the mansion when it goes over 300 degrees Celsius. (With the exception of the kitchen). Constantly announces the temperatures as it rises, intervals of 100 degrees.
- Activates the main sprinklers of the mansion and the metal barriers to contain any fire.
Level 1:
The hallways are long with it's floor and walls made of marble. Hallways are often dark as preferred by the owners. However, when guests are present, the halls and the rooms are lit by chandeliers. Although there are windows, they are rarely open and are heavily tinted, aside from having thick curtains preventing light from getting inside. Some hallways and rooms are devoid of windows. There are multiple staircases winding across the house leading to different halls and rooms.
Defensive Structure: MARIA
Within the hallway is Maria. She's a classical statue, similar to Venus de Milo. Her base is firmly rooted on the ground. Her mouth piece opens to reveal a high-powered yet thin laser canon.Activation and Deactivation can occur by using the control panels found within the control room and the one hidden in the kitchen.
Living Room
It has a long oak coffee table with 4 chairs surrounding it. The fourth chair is long enough for someone to sleep in it. This room is where guests are usually brought to sit down, have tea, and enjoy a long conversation. No other furniture exists in this room aside from a book case in one corner of the room.
Private Library
This area is where serious discussions, deliberations and planning are done. Aside from long aisles of books, the library is filled with scrolls, memorabilia and dolls from Nautilus. The staircase to Crocker's lair can be seen here. [If you know where to find the access panel]
Dining Area
The dining area can sit a maximum of 6 people. The dining room is beside the Kitchen area. The room has ashes of rose shade to allow the guests to have a better appetite.
There is an accessory control panel in the kitchen. Pressing the button found underneath the burner will grant access. The counter top will rise and show a 21 inch LCD screen. It is touch screen and allows the user to manipulate the defensive, offensive and accessory details of the mansion. However, main power is still in the control room and people from the control room can override the user of the kitchen control panel.
Level 2:
Crocker's bedroom
The main room is black and white. With a strange bookcase on the wall. The other walls are actually white boards. A Beatles poster is kept over from the Grabbag event. Crocker also has a helmet from Sonic, a Deckard doll from Yuuta. Dib, Sonic, Tails, Ace, Gellert, Wheeljack dolls.
Kurenai's Bedroom
Kurenai's bedroom is small but has an elegant flower theme. There is a small bed across her room specifically for her cat Ally (given by Alphonse) and the Green Wisp. This room has the most water sprinklers in the whole house. Just in case she accidentally burns things by reverting to her flame form. There's a special cabinet also with a glass case that has every gift that Nott has ever given her, along with her Violet ring and an empty can of Silly String.
Guest's Bedroom
The house has two guest rooms fashioned in a simple way. Panels are made to look like they are wood, but they are all made from fireproof materials like the rest of the house.
In case of emergencies, metal panels and concrete walls will contain any threat. Concrete walls are two meters thick. Metal panels are 2 inches thick. Metal panels can be found within the walls, windows and doors of each room. They take 5 seconds to descend from the ceiling to the ground.
Scarlet coffee and flower shoppe
The coffee shoppe gives the guest a view of the wonderful garden of flowers. Serves fresh house coffee and tea as well as pastries, bread and chocolates. A request for the most eloquent flower arrangements must be made at least 24 hours prior to purchase. [FREE]
The garden is massive and home to foreign and native flowers which Kurenai tends herself. There is a small structure in the middle with an arrangement of plants, and an intricate fountain within it. The plants are arranged in an intricate maze with surveillance camera's in strategic areas [Camera's which are manipulated using Crocker's computer]. There are hidden areas with marble tables and chairs where people can enjoy the afternoon breeze and tea.


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The public can enjoy the following facilities which are located throughout Watauga County: a gym, a community clubhouse, multi-purpose athletic fields, parks, tennis courts, and picnic shelters.
The Recreation Department, formed in 1973, the department is advised by an 18-member Recreation Commission. These members are appointed by the Watauga County Board of Commissioners. It is the role of this commission to guide and advise the Department to provide for adequate recreational opportunities for the citizens of the County.
Watauga County residents may rent recreational equipment or facilities for a fee by calling or coming by the Watauga County Parks and Recreation Office.
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This month for one of my New Year's resolutions, I'm resolving to finish my baby's room. He's almost 2 ½, so it's probably time to get that finished, don't you think??
A new lamp for the nursery has been one item I've been putting off for ages because I just wasn't sure what I wanted and couldn't find anything I liked in my price point. At first I wanted the lamp base to be bold, colorful, or graphic, but after searching for ages to no avail, I instead decided to keep the bottom simple and make the top bold! So I used a little bit of acrylic paint and a brush, and painted a New York City skyline on my lampshade. I love how it turned out, and it's so easy!
• plain white lampshade
• black acrylic or fabric paint (I used acrylic and it worked really well)
• sponge brush
• pencil
• straight edge ruler
Step 1. Use a pencil to draw out the shape of your skyline. I Googled "New York skyline silhouette" and found a bunch of good options. Use your ruler to sketch out the skyline.
Step 2. Use black acrylic or fabric paint and your sponge brush, and carefully fill in your pencil drawing.
Step 3. Let your lampshade completely dry, and then install as normal.
Now go make one already!


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Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism
Gilbert Achcar
In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism.
A compelling range of issues is discussed within these pages, including a comparative assessment of Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism; "Orientalism in reverse", which can take the form of an apology for Islamic fundamentalism; the evolution of Marx's appraisal of non-Western societies; and the vagaries of "cosmopolitanism" up to our present era of globalisation.
Erudite and incisive, these essays provide a major contribution to the critical discussion of Marxism, Orientalism and cosmopolitanism, and illuminate the relationships between all three.
About the Author
Gilbert Achcar, who grew up in Beirut, is Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His other works include the highly acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab–Israeli War of Narratives, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising and, with Noam Chomsky, Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy.G


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SUNNYVALE, California, November 13 /PRNewswire/ --
Picarro, a leading manufacturer of high-performance trace gas analyzers, today announced that Michael Woelk has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. Previously, he served as vice president of marketing at Varian, Inc., overseeing the company's scientific instrument business. Mr. Woelk will replace Bill Gignac, who will remain with the company.
"I am extremely excited to join Picarro as I believe the company has a tremendous opportunity for growth in the vast scientific instruments and process control markets," said Mr. Woelk. "Picarro has developed a series of ultra-high performance analyzers based on technology that has the potential to solve many real-world problems for customers around the globe. I look forward to working with the talented team of professionals at Picarro to continue to build upon the company's success and to extend its leadership position in the market."
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Picarro's instruments set new standards for sensitivity, speed, selectivity and ease-of-use in trace gas detection, which enables customers to achieve dramatic improvements in measurement precision, reliability and cost of ownership. The company serves the needs of customers across a diverse range of markets. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.picarro.com.
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|Life Lessons From a Child
We all have learned some or the other things from life from our childhood,
Here are some story or incident with some general knowledge information too that we can relate ourselves to and know what we can do when we are in the same situation.
|Lessons in Life
Our best Teacher is our Life, it always have something new to teach us at every steps of life,
keep sharing those thing so that if anybody faces same kind of situation the he/she knows in prior what to do.
Sharing is good thing, because it helps other, and increase their knowledge too. Because time always passes and memories always remains.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. - Lisa Willis scored a career-high 18 points and the Liberty beat the slumping Connecticut Sun 77-71 Tuesday night.
Shameka Christon had 14 points for the Liberty, while Cathrine Kraayeveld scored 11 and Janel McCarville had 10. The Liberty (11-9) won their second straight and moved one game behind the second-place Sun (13-9), who have lost four straight.
Willis' third 3-pointer field goal of the game with 4:29 remaining gave the Liberty the lead for good at 61-59. The defense held Connecticut scoreless over a span of 5:10 in the fourth period.
"We were just trying to play our game," Willis said. "The first half we were a little stagnant. We came in at halftime and said to just play our game, execute, play better defense and rebound because they were killing us on the boards. We had to get back to playing team basketball."
Willis made another 3 with 2:17 left to push the lead to 66-59 and complete a 9-0 run. Connecticut got no closer than five the rest of the way.
"Lisa did the things she's really good at," Liberty coach Pat Coyle said. "She's a good shooter. We were able to penetrate and give her some open looks."
Lindsay Whalen led the Sun with 19 points, while Jamie Carey had a career-high 18 on six 3-pointers and Asjha Jones scored 16.
"We're definitely going to keep working at it," Whalen said. "It's the only mentality that we've ever had here. It's something we will continue to do and get back to practice and regroup for the next game against Chicago on Friday."
The Sun led 34-26 in the third quarter before Willis' 3-pointer completed a run that helped the Liberty tie the score at 42.
"In the second half, we did a much better job of moving the ball," Coyle said.
The Sun led by two after the third quarter and Jones scored for a 59-56 lead with 6:40 left in the game. The Sun didn't score again until Whalen made a layup with 2:06 left.
"We gave up 51 points in the second half," Connecticut coach Mike Thibault said. "Every time we had to help on somebody, Willis, Krayyeveld or Christon knocked down jump shots. They played better than us."
Carey became the first Sun player to make six 3s in a game since Katie Douglas against Houston on May 25, 2004.
Carey's three 3s in the first gave Connecticut its largest lead of the first half, 28-23, with 1:25 remaining.
Carey led the Sun with nine points in a half when both teams struggled from the field. The Sun shot 11-for-35 (31 percent) to New York's 9-for-28 (32 percent).
"Neither team hit their shots," Willis said. "They executed their plays, they just didn't make any baskets. We executed ours and missed jump shots that we normally make."
The teams combined to miss the first eight shots of the game.


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I know I have been awful with doing Top 5 Wednesday lately, I've just been so busy. Anyway I will do this one, the topic is: Top 5 books I read in one sitting (or close to it). To join Top 5 Wednesday go to the Goodreads page the creator is Gingerreadslainey. So without further ado here is my T5W:
1. Helia's Shadow Part One by K.C, Neal – It took me a day and a half to read but that was because life got in the way. I would have much rather been reading than whatever it was that pulled me away from it.
2. Dangerous Girls by R.L Stine – I read the entire thing before my high school graduation. So while the rest of my classmates were getting all spiffy and taking lots of pictures I was reading about vampires. Yep, that pretty much sums up my life.
3. Every book in the Crescent Chronicles by Alyssa Rose Ivy – Hot guys with wings…yes please.
4. Nevermore by Kelly Creagh – This book is still on my favorite book list. I have re-read it multiple times because I love it so much.
5. Allegiant by Veronica Roth – I think it was more out of anger that I finished this one so quickly. I'm still mad at this book…how could Veronica Roth do this to me!
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Developing an Agile company culture can be a major obstacle to successfully implementing an Agile development approach; however, it doesn't have to be that difficult.
- Some people make the mistake of thinking that you have to change the entire culture of a company in order to adopt an Agile development approach.
- I don't believe that is either necessary or appropriate in many cases; a company's culture should be designed around whatever business they are in and that may or may not be well-aligned with implementing an Agile development approach.
- See my previous blog post on "Agile and Corporate Culture" for more discussion on this:
Impact of Corporate Culture
Agile works best in companies that are in the business of developing products or where software product development is somehow very directly related to their primary business.
- In other companies where the relationship is more indirect, it can be much more difficult to implement an Agile development approach because it may not be as well-aligned with the company's primary business objectives.
- An example is Walmart…Walmart's primary business is driven by reducing costs. I'm sure that software development plays some role in that but it is much more indirect than a company like Amazon.com whose business is very directly leveraged by software development.
- It should be very easy for a company like Amazon.com to implement an Agile development approach and far more difficult for a company like Walmart to do the same thing.
The key point is that since Walmart's primary business is through conventional brick-and-mortar retail stores, they have to develop a culture that is well-aligned with squeezing costs out of every area of their operations and managing a large number of retail stores very efficiently and effectively.
- Those are the primary drivers of their business and that may not align very well with an Agile development approach.
- If you were to set out to implement an Agile development process inside of a company like Walmart, would you try to get them to give up their entire corporate culture and adopt a different corporate culture that is more suitable for hosting an Agile development process? I don't think so, but there are some fundamental aspects of any company's culture that can be dysfunctional are most critical to adopting an Agile development approach.
What Are the Most Important Factors?
Here are a few of what I think are the most important factors in developing a corporate culture that is consistent with Agile:
1. Transparency and Trust
In many large corporations, there is somewhat of a contractual relationship between the business users and the people who deliver Information Technology solutions. The business users may be under intense pressure to reduce costs and want to get firm commitments from the solution providers on the costs and schedules of projects. That is one of the major factors that has can be a big obstacle to implementing an Agile development approach – sometimes it even creates somewhat of an adversarial relationship between the two organizations. The key to getting past that obstacle is:
- Companies need to realize that this is not an "all-or-nothing" proposition to totally give up all control of projects to become Agile. There are many ways to blend traditional project management principles and practices with Agile principles and practices to develop the right balance of agility and control. See my blog post on a Hybrid Agile framework here:
- Developing a spirit of trust, partnership, and collaboration between the two organizations can require some strong executive-level leadership to break down some of the traditional barriers that exist inside of companies. The strongest driving force for making that happen is that it requires a more collaborative partnership approach to focus on rapid innovation.
2. Focus on Continuous Improvement and Innovation
A focus on process improvement and continuous innovation is certainly not new to Agile.
- It has been around a long time and many companies have successfully adopted continuous improvement approaches based on Six Sigma and other methodologies.
- I published my first book in that area called "From Quality to Business Excellence" in 2003.
- What I found was that in the companies that did Six Sigma well, it may not even be noticeable that it was Six Sigma. They may not have a lot of the hoopla like black belts and green belts that are normally associated with Six Sigma and it was so deeply ingrained into the way the company did business, that it may not even have been called Six Sigma.
- The companies that did it well took a systems thinking approach to adapt it to their business while the more superficial companies simply did it mechanically "by the book" and treated it as just another "Program du jour".
- I think a similar thing is happening today with Agile. Companies who take the time and effort to understand Agile at a deeper level and adapt it to their business are probably more likely to do it successfully.
3. Respect for People and Self-organizing Teams
This principle is also not new to Agile. It was a key element of Dr. Deming's principles that form the basis of the Total Quality Management (TQM) approach and I can remember a strong focus on this when I worked at Motorola in the early 1990's.
- It's another thing like Six Sigma that some companies forget about when the pressure gets intense to deliver business results.
- They sometimes take a superficial, brute-force approach to try to drive business results rather than taking a systems-thinking approach to understanding the factors that drive business results and the role that people play in achieving those goals.
If you only focus on those three things about a company's culture, I think you will have a pretty good foundation for implementing an Agile development approach and those three things are somewhat common to all companies regardless of what business they're in.
An Interesting Footnote
By the way, here's an interesting footnote to this article: Walmart has recognized the importance of e-commerce to their business and has formed a new division called "Walmart Labs" to address that challenge. Here's an interesting article on that topic:
Additional Resources
You will find much more detail on this in my Online Agile Project Management Training.


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10 smart food solutions for the future
By Joachim Christensen, Sustainia
Hunger and food waste are the defining characteristics of our global food system, both of which are exacerbated by a climate changing planet. By 2050 there will be more than nine billion people to feed, in a hotter and less predictable world. Rather than be daunted by the scale of the problem, and to mark World Food Day, we present ten of the most exciting sustainable food solutions that promise us a tasty bite of the future. Bon appétit!
1. Totally meatless beef-burger
Impossible Foods' mission is to replicate the taste and texture of meat to convince people to eat fewer animal-based products. By using the protein heme, found in plants, the company's technology can make plant-based burgers taste like the real deal.
By combining corn, beans, chia seeds, peas and cricket flour, Six Foods has created a healthy, low-fat snack. Crickets are rich in protein, calcium and iron and have low environmental impact. The chips also help promote insects as an acceptable foodstuff in western society.
3. From Coffee Fruit to Coffee Flour
CoffeeFlour is made from the coffee cherries that hold the beans, which would otherwise be discarded in early coffee-production. Now farmers have the opportunity to rely on more than just the coffee itself, as the nutritious flour can go into bread, sauces and many other dishes.
4. Urban farming in dense Singapore
How do you secure fresh vegetables in densely populated Singapore? SkyGreens has the answer. In its vertical farming system, plants are stacked in rows and watered by a closed-loop irrigation system that requires minimum water, fertilizer, and most importantly, space.
5. Solar-powered drip irrigation
Every drop of water counts in a hot environment like Kenya's. That's why SunCulture has created an affordable sun-powered irrigation system, which saves up to 80 percent water by dripping directly onto the plant. The system can increase yield gains of up to 300%.
6. Cheap, rentable tractors for smallholder farmers
Hello Tractor rents and sells low-cost tractors to smallholder farmers. The company relies on a smart SMS system in which farmers can request, schedule, and prepay for tractor services. Low-income farmers avoid having to invest in expensive tractors and can increase their yields by up to 200%.
7. Solar-powered walk-in coolers
ColdHubs battles food waste in sunbaked Nigeria as it provides farmers with solar-powered walk-in coolers for their perishable food. The farmer stacks his produce in a clean crate inside the cooler and pays only a small daily fee of $0.50.
8. Non-chilled food preservation tent
Refrigeration is energy-intensive and often not an option in rural areas. Wakati addresses this problem by offering a portable tent that keeps perishables fresh for up to a week without cooling. The tent produces a sterilized microclimate through a small solar-powered ventilator.
9. Making ugly fruits and vegetables attractive
Supermarkets discard piles of two-legged carrots and discolored tomatoes every year because of the way they look. French supermarket chains Intermarché and Marcel are changing this wasteful practice by selling cosmetically unusual fruits and vegetables at a lower price.
10. Restaurant leftovers sold via smartphone app
The Too Good To Go app connects late-night diners to restaurants that wish to sell their daily leftovers at a lower rate to avoid food waste. Pre-order on the app and grab your meal before closing time for as little as $2.50.
Find more intriguing food solutions at solutions.sustainia.me and get behind the food systems of the future this World Food Day.


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A new 3d and unity game is on at vitalitygames.com. Skyline Runner game is a free flash online game. In this fun 3D game you have to jump over many obstacles and collect diamonds. It is magic of reebok shoes which makes the runner run fast. I mean it is a kind of ad of the company. Though you have to perform better on this game by balance running.Tight up your shoelaces and move upward to touch the skyline, because you are a free running guy.You should stay alive in this construction zone in the high sky as the Skyline Runner!Collect the objects surrounding the construction site running.You have to be fast because there is a time limit.Have fun all you Vitality Games lovers and good luck!
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How to spy line messages by using Copy9 app
For those that still have not heard about LINE, LINE is a free messaging tool used on electronic devices like smartphones, computers and tablets.
It functions like all other messaging applications, meaning with it you can send and receive text messages, pictures, audio and video files, and you can also make free calls and video conferences.
The application appeared back in 2011 and today the number of its users is close to eight hundred million.
Initially it was designed for Android and iOS smartphones, but they expanded the services and now it is also available for Windows Phone, iPhone, BlackBerry and on PC both for Mac and Windows.
One of the reasons why this application is loved is the possibility of making free international voice calls as well as free video calls.
Its handy features are used by many and people are also looking for ways to find a good line messenger spy tool through which they can spy on your Kids.
If you belong to the group of people searching for a quality line spy app, then look no further than at copy9.
Copy9 is an application that when activated it allows you to check out all of victims messages by accessing your account at my.copy9.com remotely.
Best thing about it is that all you need to do is just install it on the target smartphone and then monitor the information by login in on your copy9 account.
It is compatible both with Android and iOS, there is non-stop customer support available and the installation process takes just two simple steps.
Today spying on messages no longer requires constant access to the smartphone or computer.
Now you can do that thanks to the rapid development of modern technology and appearance of great line hack tools such as copy9. This app will help you protect your Childs and will also keep closest ones safe.
You do not have to have good hacking skills or to have an extensive knowledge in computer systems in order to use this line messenger spy tool.
It has been developed specifically for average people that have basic understanding of operating systems. Spying line messages remotely is the safest method for spying you can use.
It does not require jailbreaking or rooting, so everything is done very simply without following some complicated steps.
Due to the fact that copy9 is installed directly to the root folder of the smartphone's operating system, it is a read-only folder meaning it is completely invisible and can never be detected. Regardless of the user's actions, the application stays permanently in the phone.
Using performance boosting apps, antivirus software or formatting the smartphone's storage will not reveal the presence of the application.
Therefore, if you are looking for a very efficient line hack then copy9 will do the trick and you will be definitely satisfied. Install this app, try its features and see all the benefits it can bring to you.


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Meet the refugee at the airport; and provide transportation to housing.
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Assist with housing and provide basic household furnishings.
Provide food, or food allowance as well as other basic living needs.
Provide basic clothing for the refugee, appropriate to the climate.
Assist the refugee in receiving an initial health exam.
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Assist the refugee in applying for a Social Security card.
Help find a job for each employable refugee; enroll refugee in job training programs or on-the-job training.
Enroll the refugee in English language classes; assist with school registration for children.
Help the refugee become oriented in the community; show how to shop, use public transportation, emergency telephone numbers, understand local customs and laws, obtain a driver license, life and health insurance, bank accounts, etc.


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"We recently added a new Controller power with Light Powers in Fight for the Light – our first DLC pack – and now, we're going to be adding Electricity Powers into the game," explains creative director Jens Andersen. "They're going to fill the role of DPS and also healing. So people will be able to boost up their allies and keep them moving through the fights with their electricity healing."
The DCUO team is calling the new mechanic Rescue Healing. "Put a charge on someone, and when they reach a certain threshold, they'll actually get the heal automatically," says Andersen. "So it's kind of fire-and-forget stuff. It's a really cool mechanic."
But Lightning Strikes' most interesting new content will likely be found in what the DCUO team describes as a "brand new style of map," a large scale shared instance that can host up to 50 players at a time. "It takes place in a part of Central City outside the Flash Museum – and 50 players are going to be able to join each other for solo and group content in this shared space," says Andersen.
Someone has used the Cosmic Treadmill to travel back in time and sabotage Barry Allen's origin, creating a paradox and giving birth to an army of paradox reapers that are intent on consuming reality around them. Villains will be capitalizing on the chaos for Professor Zoom, while heroes will focus on helping The Flash control the situation.
You won't have to queue up or anything to enter this shared space, which will be about eight-by-four city blocks in size. In addition to new open world bounties in Gotham and Metropolis, the Lightning Strikes DLC will also introduce a new set of origin storylines. Andersen sets the scene for the first one players will experience: "You get to go back in time to Central City Police Department the night that Barry Allen fatefully got struck with that lightning bolt and became The Flash – and you're going to have to make sure that he takes on his destiny as The Flash and make sure that happens."
Although SOE has not announced a specific release date for the Lightning Strikes DLC, you can expect it to launch before the end of the year. Considering that the year's almost over, the upcoming Flash content can't be far away. When it does arrive, the Lightning Strikes DLC will be available for $9.99 for all Free and Premium players, but Legendary membership players can expect to receive the new content for free.


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How to Migrate Data to a New Profile
Here's how to migrate the following settings from an old profile to a new profile:
- POP and Local Mail
- Postbox Address Books, Signatures, Responses, Quick Posts, and Topics
For IMAP accounts, there is no need to migrate mail, simply setup your IMAP accounts and Postbox will download your messages from the server.
At this time we do not have a way to migrate message filters.
POP and Local Mail
Within the new Postbox profile, select Import from the File menu, and then select the following folder:
Home Folder /Library / Application Support / PostboxApp / Profiles / [your.profile] / Mail
(Note: In macOS the Library folder is hidden. To access it, open the Finder, hold the Option key, then select Library from the Go menu.)
Users \ [your username] \ AppData \ Roaming \ PostboxApp \ Profiles \ [your.profile] \ Mail
(Note: The AppData folder is folder is a hidden folder; to show hidden folders, open a Windows Explorer window and choose "Organize --> Folder and Search Options --> Folder Options --> View (tab) --> Show hidden files and folders".)
Local Mail will be imported under the On My Mac account (macOS) or Local Folders account (Windows).
Postbox Address Books, Signatures, Responses, and Topics
Within the OLD Profile
Create a new folder on your OS to hold your preferences files, and name it "postbox-prefs". The location can be anywhere you wish, but we prefer a Dropbox folder since they have online backups, and you can sync it across machines if you wish.
Go to Preferences / General, click the "Choose..." button in the lower right, and navigate to the "postbox-prefs" folder that you created. Once selected, close the Preferences panel.
Restart Postbox and boot into the new profile.
Within the New Profile
Go to Preferences / General, click the "Choose..." button in the lower right, and navigate to the "postbox-prefs" folder that you created. Once selected, close the Preferences panel.
Restart Postbox.


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"The non-resident Indian (NRI) community has a big part to play in becoming an example towards making our country clean, not just by helping to maintain the places they live in, but by also sharing these ideas with their countrymen back home," asserted Indra Mani Pandey, India's Ambassador to Oman.
He was speaking at the Swachhta Hi Sewa (Cleanliness is Service) campaign, which was run by the Indian Embassy as part of the Indian government's 'Clean India' initiative aimed to make India a far cleaner nation by October 2, 2019, which will be the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Indra Mani Pandey further said, "India at the moment is changing very rapidly, and it is very important to be a part of this change and contribute to it in a positive way. If more people come to our country and see a cleaner, greener India, then they will be more inspired to stay for business, tourism, or any other interest they have in the country."
Appreciating the cleanliness in Oman, he said, "I think all Indian residents in Oman, and back home in India should admire and appreciate Oman's efforts in making it (Oman) such a clean country. His Majesty and the government have made lots of investment into keeping Oman a clean and beautiful nation that all Indians appreciate when they come here."
"I also have a message for all Indian residents in Oman; the people and government of this country have made great efforts for maintaining the natural beauty of the country, and we also have to help them keep it that way, and respect their initiatives in this field."
He added, "In terms of cleanliness, I think Oman is an example all the people of India should follow."
Reflecting on the historical relations between India and Oman, the Ambassador said, "The relationship between Oman and India goes back a long, long way, even before our governments began ties."
He said, "Indians and Omanis used to visit each others' lands for trade and business, and that has stayed strong even today. I invite all Omanis here to visit India in the future, and see what a clean country India has become. Our strong connections are very good for both countries."
The Swachhta Hi Seva campaign is another effort by the Indian Government and its embassy in Oman to ramp up stronger relations with other nations and the Indian diaspora, who live in them.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- ABC is benching "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" for the remainder of the May sweeps period, scheduling updates released by the network confirmed this afternoon.
The series has been absent from the Tuesday, 8:00/7:00c hour since April 19 as the Alphabet has opted to air "Dancing With the Stars" recaps in its place. Said strategy will continue through May 24 leading into "Dancing's" two-hour season finale that night at 9:00/8:00c.
As for "Food Revolution," ABC will encore the show's first two installments on Friday, May 27 beginning at 8:00/7:00c with new episodes resuming the following Friday, June 3 at 9:00/8:00c.


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Students' Competition – 3rd IFLA Africa Symposium 2013
Students' Competition
Productive landscapes
Land degradation is a major threat to the performance of both rural and urban landscapes. Massive deforestation, overgrazing, polluted water bodies, uncontrolled fishing, peasant farming rooted in bush burning, uncoordinated mining, oil spillage and sprawling urbanization are typical man made disasters. These are compounded by flooding, ocean surges, erosion and desertification driven by climate change phenomenon. Restorative solutions still consider sustainable land management defined as combination of "technologies, policies and activities aimed at integrating socioeconomic principles with environmental concerns so as to enhance natural resource base production systems, protect the natural resource base, be economically viable and socially acceptable" relevant. (Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management, 1991).
Students are invited to creatively provide economically viable and socially acceptable productive landscape design and planning solutions to degraded land areas. Participants are expected to focus on a geo referenced site that has experienced major natural or anthropogenic land degradation.
Jury: Will be announced later.
Entries should:
Concisely state the nature of the site with emphasis on problem analysis.Proposals should be presented at a conceptual stage scale of between 1:5,000 and 1:10,000. Detailed design at scale between 1:500 and 1:2,000.
Clearly illustrate the way in which the planning and design achieve the principles of sustainable land management practices.
Highlight the leadership role of landscape architecture in the design. At the same time state how the adopted concept will integrate other disciplines that maybe involved
Students in accredited landscape architecture programs are eligible.
Students who have graduated more than one academic session are not eligible,
Bachelor's and Master's projects completed while a registered student are eligible.
Entries may be individual and group of not more than four members. Multiple entries are not
Relatives and associates of members of the jury may not enter the competition
Note that all categories of entries require a fully completed eligibility declaration
Entries should be in a single PDF file. Entries must be in a landscape format and a maximum of two A1 landscape format panels. Please note the following requirements:
Existing situation to be properly shown in aerial photograph
Design at conceptual scale of between 1:5,000 and 1:10,000.
Detail design scale between 1:500 and 1:2,000
Explanatory cross sections to highlight the site in three dimension
A minimum of four illustrations is required
Please submit a one A4 page explanatory synopsis which describes the degraded landscape; existing situation; and propose design solutions in PDF file. Please adhere to the following: single line spacing, Time Roman, 12 point font size and submit separately.
Be advised that this text will assist the jury in project evaluation. The text will also be included in chosen publications of prize-winning projects. On that note, ensure that the text is well edited and clearly convey desired message..
Anonymity and Protocols
English is the official language of IFLA. Therefore all titles, legends, captions, and submitted text must be in English
Names of the entrants, faculty and universities where entrants are based shall not be identified in the two PDF panels and page of text.
Please remember to attach completed Declaration of Eligibility as additional PDF file.
Received entries will be assigned serial numbers. Hence entries will be referred to only by these serial numbers throughout the judging process to ensure anonymity.
Submission process
Please visit http://www.iflaafrica2013.com to submit all files online by 7pm (Nigerian Time) Thursday, August 15 2013 (NG Time = UTC/GMT +1 hour). Files must be PDF and maximum file size is 20MB.
Please ensure that your file size conforms to these requirements to avoid disqualification.
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Green economy is a response to the multiple crises confronting humanity in recent decades especially resource depletion, economic crises, climate change anomalies and food insecurity. The later is particularly true of Sub Saharan Africa with twenty one of the thirty poorest nations of the World and highest number of people that are unable to feed adequately. The twin issues of poverty and glaring food shortage is traceable to land degradation that threatens environmental performance of both rural and urban landscapes. Indiscriminate logging, overgrazing, reliance on fire wood, peasant farming, bush burning, uncoordinated mining, oil spillage and sprawling urbanization continue to strip the landscape of its vegetative cover.
This is in view of unpredictable and extreme weather events that propel massive flooding, gully erosion, destructive ocean surges and desertification. There is an urgent need to examine our value system and identify more productive landscape developmental alternatives. Green economy as a local developmental strategy must then address land and water management in all their ramifications. This symposium recognises cultural differences in landscape perception and aims at generating people oriented strategies, policies and agenda for social, environmental and economic sustainability through discussions of all stakeholders and environmental professionals at continental level.
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Let's celebrate the World Landscape Architecture Month
is the topic of this year World Landscape Architecture Month. It is also the topic IFLA World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa!
Easy! We are interested in photographs and videos that show LANDSCAPES IN TRANSITIONS of everyday life. We are looking for informal and spontaneous landscapes in transitions made by communities or individuals which show how they deal with a changing world. Here is a text that may inspire you.
"All landscapes are in various states of Transition, being changed by various forces and processes over time. Humankind inherited a world of natural processes and forces which created the landscapes that people first inhabited. Through dynamic interaction people have altered their environment by cultural practices which have in turn themselves been fundamentally shaped by the particularities of that environment. Three often referred to categories of landscape which arise from the dynamic relationship between humans and their environment are natural-, cultural- and urban landscapes."
Natural Landscapes in Transitions
Cultural Landscapes in Transition
Urban Landscapes in Transitions
Each participant can send one image and/or video by category. In addition, please send us a short description of where the image was taken (in English). It is not compulsory to send material for all the categories.
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Videos: HD 1920×1080 (1 minute max)
During the month of April 2012. The World Month of Landscape Architecture!
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The best five photos and videos will be presented at the World Congress in South Africa where the winner will receive a diploma of recognition for this achievement. In addition, we will publish the winner photos and their credits on our web page and in IFLA Newsletter that is distributed all over the word.
The Jury
Ms. Desiree Martinez, IFLA President
Mr. Carlos Jankilevich – IFLA Vicepresident Americas Region
Mr. Nigel Thorne – IFLA Vicepresident European Region
Mr. Philip Ngunjiri – IFLA Vicepresident Africa Region
Mr. Ilya Mochalov – IFLA Secretary General
Mr. John Easthope – IFLA Treasurer
Mr. Herman de Lange – President of the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA)
Ms. Paula Villagra – Chair Communication Committee of IFLA
Ms. Christine Bavassa – IFLA Executive Secretary and webmaster


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Responsibility for the Association's activities is delegated to a number of policy committees.
The Chairs of policy committees sit on RYA Council as ex officio members as do the Chairs of the various Home Country and Regional committees.
Several policy committees have further sub-committees and/or expert panels, who deal with specific aspects of their main departmental activity.
The main function of the policy committees and sub-committees is to agree and oversee the implementation of RYA policy in their respective areas. Responsibility for day-to-day management of each area rests with the RYA's professional staff, with the relevant departmental manager acting as secretary to his or her committee.
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The RYA's main committees are shown below. Please note that the responsibilities shown against the main committees are for general guidance only and are not intended to be definitive.
Honours and Awards
Considers nominations for RYA honours and awards, e.g. RYA Community Awards.
RYA Tribunal Terms of Reference
Deals with disciplinary issues within the sport.
Audit & Risk Committee
Draws the Board's attention to matters affecting the proper protection of the RYA's interests with regard to the material risks to the RYA, financial reporting and Board procedures.
Cruising and Government Affairs Committee (CGAC) Terms of Reference
Responsible for policy, advice and services relating to motor and sail cruising. Combines this role with representation of the RYA's views to government and other public bodies, and the management of legal issues including the provision of relevant legal information and advice to members and affiliated clubs and classes.
Supporting committees/sub-committees and advisory groups: Planning and Environmental; Inland Navigation
Participation and Membership Committee (PMC) Terms of Reference Terms of Reference
The Participation and Membership committee was formed in 2012 as a merger of the former Marketing and Sport Development Committees. Its purpose is to focus on the introduction, growth and retention of participants in all aspects of boating as well as membership of the Association. Its work includes developing and advising on detailed RYA strategy, brand proposition, marketing, communication and tactical implementation plans necessary to achieve the RYA's strategic objectives in relation to Participation and Membership.
Racing Committee (RC) Terms of Reference
Oversees the RYA's responsibilities as the national governing body for sail racing in the UK and responsible for the management of Team GBR and supporting development activities.
Supporting committees/sub-committees:
International Group; Racing Rules; Judging and Umpiring; Race Management; Match Racing; Yacht & Keelboat Racing; Team Racing; Olympic Steering Group; Youth Racing.
Technical Committee (TEC) Terms of Reference
Responsible for RYA policy, advice and services relating to handicapping and technical issues, e.g. coding, recreational craft directive, boat safety scheme.
Supporting committees/sub-committees: Empirical Handicap Advisory Group; Certifying Authority Committee; Technical Officials Group.
Training Committee (TC) Terms of Reference
Responsible for RYA policy, advice and services relating to training and safety issues, and for the management of the RYA Yachtmaster scheme and further training courses and qualifications including RYA Training Centre and individual instructor accreditation.
Supporting committees/sub-committees: Yachtmaster Qualification Panel.
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- A Pint of Science
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Professor Jesús Martínez-Frías from Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), will be giving a talk on Mars on Tuesday 19th May, 7pm at Café Moderno in Madrid.
You can also read this article in Spanish here.
Professor Martínez is a researcher at the "Instituto de Geociencias" (the School of Geosciences), which is a collaboration between Spain's National Research Council, "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)" – "The Higher Board of Scientific Research" – and UCM. A scientist with ample experience in many areas, he founded the Spanish Network of Planetology and Astrobiology, REDESPA, which is a free network created partly to involve young people and society in scientific research and communication; he has been part of the teams involved with the Curiosity rover; he directs the Commission for Geosciences Education of the International Union of Geosciences (http://www.iugs.org/); he is the coordinator for Spain of the foundation Earth Science Matter; he has taught occasionally at the other university in Madrid, and he leads research of Meteorites and Planetary Geosciences with CSIC. Currently, he is officially focused in the area of astrogeology.
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In the Pint of Science talk, Professor Martínez is going to present to the public what he is doing right now in Spain, sharing his day to day work, and the importance of studying terrestrial analogues/similarities with Earth. He explains to me that the study of the analogues is the third way to study Mars (the other two are via meteorites and through missions, for example rovers). Certain parts of the Earth (for example the Río Tinto in Spain) are unique and have "real peculiarities that allow us to test prototypes" and validate the relationships of scientific models with Mars here on Earth. That is to say, the studies done here with analogues will later help to understand the environment on Mars, in order to find out more on the idea of life on Mars. He explained this to me (as a non-scientist) in simple terms to understand, and this is what he wants to offer at Pint of Science also.
Martínez likes very much to collaborate with other experts from all over the world and from various disciplines, because he says that "There is a scientific component and a human component". I hope that they continue investigating so we will know whether there is life on Mars, we still only know that there are simple organic compounds in meteorites that are related with life…


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Jonathan Narcisse, a possible candidate for governor, said that raising the minimum wage to $15-an-hour is a quick fix. Instead of bumping up the minimum wage, the state, Narcisse argues, should instead focus on providing education incentives so that higher education is a more affordable and attractive option.
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