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Over the next eight to twelve months, David Kroodsma and Lindsey Fransen are riding their bikes across parts of Asia, and sharing what they learn about the climate issues facing the countries they bike through.
When in Istanbul, we visited the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and learned about how Turkey's official plan is to expand renewables, nuclear power, coal, and hydropower. This week, in Ankara, we met with a number of advocates and experts, and gained a fuller appreciation for Turkey's energy and climate future.
We were lucky to have many conversations in Ankara. We met with three members of Ekoloji Kolektifi, an environmental collective, and talked generally about environmental issues in Turkey. We also spoke with Erdal Apaçik, who sits on the board of the Electrical Engineers Chamber, as their organization is opposing nuclear power plants in the country, and we wanted to learn about Turkey's energy politics. We spoke with professors at ODTU, one of Turkey's top universities, about sea level rise, changing precipitation patterns, and the effects of climate change on Turkey's lakes. We met with Onder Algedik, a consultant who has also helped organize events for the local chapter of 350.org (including an awesome bike event a few years ago). And we had dinner with Mustafa Berke, who works on climate issues for WWF in Turkey, and Göksen Sahin, who is the environment policy coordinator and climate policy officer for TEMA (Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats), Turkey's largest environmental group (they claim 500,000 volunteers, or about one out of every 140 Turks).
We had fewer meetings with scientists than we would have liked, but the basic message was pretty simple: It will get drier and warmer in most of Turkey, affecting ecosystems and water management, and structures built along its long coastline will need to be protected or rethought as sea levels rise. The details, though, are unclear, and the scientists emphasized the uncertainties -- we aren't sure how much precipitation will change, or how quickly sea levels will rise.
From the advocates, what we saw was environmental movements opposing various energy development projects, with the fight against nuclear power and new hydropower plants being perhaps the strongest movements. Turkey currently has no nuclear power, but one plant, developed by Russia, is currently under construction, and another, to be built by Japanese engineers, is mostly approved. Both, however, are delayed. When we were walking through the streets of Ankara, we even saw three Greenpeace activists trying to raise money and gain members. They spoke very little English, but they talked first and foremost about opposing nuclear power.
Our conversation at the Chamber of Electrical Engineers was also interesting. Erdal Apaçik, whom we spoke with, sits on the board of the Chamber's national assembly. He told us through an interpreter that nuclear power was unsafe, not secure, and expensive, and that the waste problem had not been sorted out. He argued that Turkey has a horrible safety record in different parts of society (and I don't doubt it -- I've seen countless construction sites where no one wears a hard hat, and the incident in the Soma coal mine doesn't boost confidence, either), and that they are also very prone to earthquakes -- two strong arguments against nuclear power. He also argued that they had to use outside technology and uranium, instead of using Turkish resources. When we asked Erdal what types of energy projects should be built, he said that energy efficiency was the biggest resource, and added that renewables such as solar and wind should also be developed.
Onder Algedik, who has worked with 350.org and also consults for the World Bank, told me how he organized 50 people to lobby members of the Turkish government to act more aggressively on climate change. Whereas in Istanbul I was told that the best Turkey could do in the next two decades was to grow its emissions more slowly, Onder told me that they could actually cut emissions by 15 percent. His explanation was similar to Erdal's: Turkey is horribly inefficient, and can save immense amounts of energy, thus cutting emissions. (After our interview, I had this run in with tear gas).
Over dinner with Mustafa Berke of WWF in Turkey and Göksen Sahin of TEMA, we had an informal conversation about energy issues in the country. We talked a good deal about hydropower plants. The country has plans on the books to almost double its hydropower capacity, but almost all new power will come from small dams and run-of-the-river style hydropower. The run-of-the-river plants, in theory, are supposed to be better for the environment, as they leave water in the river. In practice, some of them have actually taken all of the water out of the river (when I spoke with the president of the Turkish Water Institute in Istanbul, he acknowledged that many of them had been poorly implemented, even if they were good designs).
Mustafa explained that the number of power plants "on the books" is much, much greater than the number that will be built -- some may not pass their environmental reviews, and many face strong public opposition. We got the impression from most of our conversations that opposition is usually ignored - for example, the dam on the Ilisu River that will flood the current and historical town of Hasankeyf, has gone forward despite local and international pressure. However, people seemed confident that many of these projects will be built -- some advocates in the northeast of Turkey, where numerous new reservoirs are planned, believe that only one in seven of the government's planned dams will be built.
In the meantime, the country is busy building more coal and natural gas infrastructure. Natural gas is expensive and puts the country at the mercy of Russia, which provides a large quantity of the country's gas. And coal is perhaps the absolute worst energy source for climate change -- in addition to its more immediate human cost, as shown by the recent mining disaster. There is some opposition to these sources of energy (and the opposition to coal might be stronger after the recent disaster), but as some of the advocates told us, there is less opposition to them than to nuclear and hydropower.
The question that Lindsey and I keep asking ourselves is this: What is good for Turkey, and what is good for the world? People understandably don't want a nuclear power plant in their backyard, or for their land to be flooded or their rivers destroyed. But a country like Turkey is likely going to need more energy, even if it manages to become far more efficient. Turkey contributes only about one percent of global emissions. Why should they sacrifice their rivers and towns, and take risks with nuclear power that many in the US are unwilling to accept, for the global good?
Obviously, we should all act together -- every coal plant built in Turkey, or anywhere, locks in a certain amount of carbon emissions for several decades. But these environmental movements feel so local. And talking with everyone, it seems that climate change is extremely low on everyone's list of priorities. And with all the talk about efficiency and the country's vast solar potential, why are coal, gas, hydropower, and nuclear being pushed so aggressively? We will continue to answer these questions as we travel.


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A Cure for a Sick Country?
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
The subtitle of this important and eminently readable book, by a prolific journalist and a distinguished political scientist, is "How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back." Their criticism of the current condition of the United States is trenchant, but incomplete. In the last part of their book, the authors call for "rediscovering America" and they put forth what the publisher describes as "a rousing manifesto for American renewal." But this proposal is more an act of faith than a realistic assessment of what such a renewal would require.
Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum tell us, rightly, that we are "getting only 50 percent of the potential benefits from our first-rate system," whereas "China is getting 90 percent of the potential benefits from its second-rate political system." Again, rightly, they argue that "our problem is us," and that "while the end of the Cold War was certainly a victory, it also presented us with a huge new challenge," but that this time there was no George Kennan to warn us about the need for modesty and realism in dealing with it.
The demise of the Soviet Union seemed to leave the United States as safely "number one," but in fact, the authors write, it left us facing not one but four major challenges: first, the expansion of globalization, which has "put virtually every American job under pressure"; second, the information technology revolution, which "has changed the composition of work," eliminated old jobs, made almost all work more complex, and "requires every American to be better educated than ever to secure and keep a well-paying job"; third, the rising national debt and annual deficits, resulting from "our habit of not raising enough money through taxation to pay for what the federal government spends, and then borrowing to bridge the gap"; and fourth, the threat of fossil fuels to the planet's biosphere, a "direct result of the growth that has come about through globalization and the adoption (especially in Asia) of free-market economics." Rightly again, the authors insist that these challenges "require a collective response."
Friedman and Mandelbaum argue that the "American formula," a set of practices for prosperity that began with our founding, needs to be renewed and refreshed after its erosion in almost every aspect over the last two decades. This, in their view, will be especially difficult because of the necessary cuts in public expenditure to reduce the deficits. And yet, they write, the "American formula" consists of five basic policies, or "pillars," that, taken together, are America's own version of a partnership between the public and private sectors to foster economic growth. These policies include providing public education for more and more Americans, building and modernizing our infrastructure, keeping America's doors open…
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Don't be scammed by fake Xbox 720 beta offers
I don't mean to sound paranoid, but...it seems potential danger lurks everywhere on the Internet and your inbox -- as criminals seek to infiltrate your computer or raid your bank account. That old saying that everyone is out to get you is basically true these days. Well, not everyone, but a surprisingly large number of people truly are out to get you.
And, to get you, they need a plausible scam. That usually means a "message from your bank" or one from PayPal -- I get the latter on a daily basis. But the underside of the web also utilizes other means -- virus scares and current events. It's the current -- or future -- events that attract the attention of Microsoft's Larry Hryb, better known as Major Nelson.
Hryb notes that a number of sites offer users to sign up for a chance to become a beta tester for the next-generation Xbox gaming console -- Xbox 720, Xbox 8 or whatever it will be called.
Needless to say, these sites will be happy to accept your sign up information, but what you get in exchange will certainly not be a brand new Xbox.
Hryb feels obligated to issue a warning via both his Twitter account and blog:
Confirmed: All sign-up pages for testing the "next Xbox" are FAKE. Do not give them your information -- it's a scam.
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson)
While the readers here tend to be the more tech savvy and likely would laugh at such warnings, there are apparently enough people falling for this to warrant the attention of the Xbox Live chief and prompt him to attempt some measure of damage control.
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DEERFIELD — For years, I have seen special license plates labeled ``Amateur Radio.``
I wondered why there weren`t special plates for ``Stamp Collector,``
``Jogger,`` ``Funeral Director,`` ``Bear Fan,`` etc.
An idea occurred to me: Why not require special plates for ``Government Worker``? When people see these plates on one in every six cars--and realize that it is their taxes that have paid for those cars--maybe then they will exert some pressure to reduce the high level of government employment and spending.


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VT operator
David Shaw is a VT operator at the BBC, working on a wide range of programmes from The Weakest Link to Casualty. His job involves the latest in TV technology but that doesn't stop him getting butterflies when he's working on a live show.
How would you outline your role?
I work in post production, preparing tapes and programmes for broadcasting and adding in extra clips, captions and titles to live programmes. This is the area of TV where everything is put together, and sound effects and graphics are added.
What specific tasks do you do?
This can involve basic work such as dubbing tapes and making copies of programmes, to editing tapes. Another process is called digitising which involves taking material that has been shot on normal (analogue) tape and turning it into a digital image.
What hours do you work?
I work 12-hour shifts, either 8.00 am to 8.00 pm, or 12 noon to 12 midnight. It's two days on and three days off. I work every other weekend too. Sometimes I work overnight if a job needs finishing for a tight schedule, but I get paid overtime.
What's your working environment like?
I work at Television Centre in London which is a really vibrant place. It's modern and high tech, from the editing suites to the studio galleries, with their huge banks of TV monitors.
Who do you work with?
In the editing suite I'm with the producer and director, but in the studio gallery there will also be a director, vision mixer and studio producer. I also work with voice-over artists and sound supervisors, and then there's the administrative and management side too.
What special skills or qualities does a VT operator need?
You need an enthusiasm for TV, and a genuine interest in how it works. Being able to work under pressure is important as it can be pretty nerve wracking working on a live show.
This was once seen as just an engineering job, but nowadays it's got as much to do with people. You've got to be diplomatic and patient, with good team working skills and the ability to explain technical issues to people without sounding patronising.
What training have you done?
I've done a two-year, paid traineeship with the BBC. It was very intensive. As well as learning the theory behind video and TV and how it works, I practiced editing, shooting and generally built up my technical knowledge. There's a lot of on-the-job training too.
What do you like/dislike about being a VT operator?
I love the fact that I do so many different things throughout the day. I'm also left to get on with things, without anyone breathing down my neck. Of course working evenings and weekends can be a pain but it does mean you can get days off during the week.
How do you see your future?
It would be interesting to move into film/tape editing but I'm looking at all the opportunities within the BBC.
What are the particular challenges in your work?
On live shows, getting the timing right; in the editing suite, it's paying close attention to detail.
David's route to becoming a VT operator
- Left school with GCSEs.
- Youth Training (YT) in sound engineering for two years.
- Worked in a recording studio, on a building site and on a magazine selling advertising space.
- Went back to college to update knowledge of sound engineering.
- Freelance script runner.
- Two-year traineeship at the BBC.
David's tips
- Get as much experience as you can, even if you don't get paid.
- It's worth it in the long run and gets you used to working in a TV environment.
- Read up on the subject as you're expected to have a technical understanding of TV.
VT operator related jobs
- Lighting technician
- Sound engineer (recording industry)
- Sound technician
- TV/film camera operator
- TV/film editor
Salary of a VT operator
- The Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) recommends the minimum wage for a 60 hour week for a VTR operator is £791, and for a vision mixer £911.
- However, salaries are negotiable and working on a feature film often pays higher than working on a TV drama. Many VT operators are freelance.
How to become a VT operator
- While there are no set entry requirements for this career, pre-entry experience of working in film/video production or post production is essential, as is a technical or scientific qualification. Working as a runner with the promise of training is a common entry route.
- There are many qualifications available from degree and HND to NVQ/SVQ City and Guilds. Skillset and the British Film Institute can provide a full list.
- A number of paid for courses exist which cover specific skills, and the latest technology and editing packages.
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Michael Jerome Browne
Genre: Delta Blues, Multi-Instrumentalist
Three-time Canadian Folk Music Award winner (Traditional Singer, 2015; Solo Artist, 2012 & 2008), Maple Blues Award Winner, Kerrville (Texas) New Folk Finalist, Four-time Juno Award Nominee in both the Roots/Traditional and Blues categories- MJB is a multi-instrumentalist, a songwriter, and a living encyclopedia of American Roots music.
"SLIDING DELTA" is the new album on Borealis Records, available in 2015. It is a tribute to his early influences, filled with his own personal interpretations of the rural blues of Mississippi John Hurt, Fred McDowell, Memphis Minnie, Skip James, Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and many others. Recorded live off the floor in three days, it features MJB on several 6- and 12-string guitars, 5-string banjo, mandolin and rack-harp.
"Michael Jerome Browne… magnifies the magnificence of 1920s and 1930s country blues numbers… A singer of clarity and character, he is as skilled on banjo and mandolin as he is on valuable old guitars." (4 stars)
-Frank-John Hadley, Downbeat
"Haunting to uplifting, subtle to powerful"
-Jamie O'Meara, Montreal Gazette
"Arguably the finest acoustic blues artist in this country"
-Globe and Mail (Toronto), Jan. 23, 2015
The album also includes a duet with Eric Bibb recorded in Scotland while on tour.
"…one of the finest musicians who is well versed in so many interrelated genres… Any chance I get to hear Michael and then play with him is a chance I'll leap at."
-Eric Bibb, interview with Holger Petersen (Talking Music)
Whether he's gliding a slide across his national guitar, pulling his bow over the fiddle strings to play a lively Cajun waltz, or frailing away on his gourd banjo, Michael's passion and virtuosity always shine through. In the true tradition of folk music, his performances inspire us to see the interconnections between the many cultures and influences that gave birth to American Roots Music. Gospel, Blues, Old-Time, Country, Soul and Cajun, expect to hear all of this and more from a performer who's been called a street-smart archivist and an absolute treasure.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Michael is the son of English professors whose love of music and poetry inspired them to take their nine year old son to the great jazz, blues and folk clubs in their adopted home of Montreal. By the age of fourteen, MJB was already a regular on the vibrant folk and coffee house scene adding banjo, fiddle, and mandolin to his masterful command of all variety of guitars and harmonica.
A musician's musician, when he isn't performing his own material he is in demand backing up and recording with artists such as: Eric Bibb, Jordan Officer, and Susie Arioli.


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Al Jawhara Gardens Hotel is situated in Deira, very close to Dubai's enjoyment and business regions. Dubai International Airport is less than 1 distance generate away.
The building is modern.
The medium-sized lobby is bright and elegantly decorated, with marble flooring and traditional furniture. The reception is found on the right of the entrance and adequate seating is available to arriving guests.
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 17:02, Paul Davis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > I'm not really a fan of roadmaps. We get new features when people > write them. Everyone has the ability to write code, submit it and get > a new feature. I can't tell you what feature you're going to write, so > why would I tell everyone else that I expect you to write a given > feature? Well, there are usually ideas floating around about things that should be done at some point, and I think it's helpful if there is at least an attempt at keeping a list of these things, so that people might look at them and infer things about the current state of the software, or may start to help out because it's something they want themselves. That said, it's perfectly alright if there's no roadmap at all, I'm just surprised by the lack of thoughts from the core developers (who are usually the ones to have these ideas) in this thread. Cheers, Dirkjan
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Vik, Iceland. 30 second exposure.
Every photography trip and workshop is an adventure. I've just returned from Iceland where Christian Fletcher, Tony Hewitt, Antony Spencer and I were entrusted with the lives of 20 stalwart photographers.
Yes, I'm giving these photographers a lot of credit because for nearly two weeks, they put up with Christian's poor jokes and Tony's equally poor apologies. Fortunately, Antony had so many amazing photos on his iPhone, of locations we were going to visit in the next day or two, that he was able to keep the peace - and interest!
We all put a lot of trust in Antony who has visited Iceland over 30 times, but half way up the side of a hill, I was having second thoughts.
One of the things you know about Iceland is that it has amazing weather. Of course, that amazing weather is sometimes horizontal rain, hail and snow, which in turn can affect the roadworthiness of access tracks to great photographs.
Antony mentioned an amazing view over the sea stacks at Vik on the Icelandic south coast. We could see the stacks from the hotel, as well as the road leading up to them. It didn't look too hard and our vans were 4WD or AWD.
I was last in a procession of four. Tony was in front of me, an expert 4WD driver (his dad was a 4WD instructor), but when he struggled to make it over some deep rutts on the last section of a particularly steep hill, I was a little worried. So, it appeared, was Tony, because he got out of the vehicle to check things out and it took him three goes to get through.
Now, I'm a city slicker, but in the back of my car I had a couple of travellers with lots of 4WD experience. "Just gun it, Pete. Keep moving and you'll be fine."
At the top of the hill, my legs were shaking, but my advisers were correct and we had arrived at the top without incident. And we had this amazing view of the Vik sea stacks below us!
One of the reasons I turned this into a black and white was because, after recent rains, the water below had a range of different colourations from mud and run-off, and so the easiest solution was not to deal with colour at all!
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Gathering perspectives: knowledge
RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
"I know" = "I have sufficient confidence in this claim to treat it as reliable when making life decisions".
This required or implied level of confidence differs depending on how much impact the claim being false would have on my life decisions. For example, a claim "The big bang is the origin of space-time" is a claim that has very little impact on my life, so the level of confidence expressed by saying "I know the big bang is the origin of space-time" isn't necessarily very high. On the other hand "I know that I need to eat to live" might imply a high level of confidence in the claim because the decision that revolve around the claim directly impact my life.
Give me your argument in the form of a published paper, and then we can start to talk.
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RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
Hello LostandInsecure, how's it going? Have you found yourself yet? :-)
(11-04-2014 10:21 PM)LostandInsecure Wrote: My 18 month old knows not to touch outlets but she doesn't understand why. She points at them and says no no no, but she doesn't understand what they could do she still knows not to touch.I can relate to that! I was closer to ten years old when I finally learned what the adults meant. Finding out was a shocking experience!
Would you say that your child understands that she's not supposed to touch the outlets, but she does not know what the consequences will be if she touches them?
If you would, I'd guess you use both verbs as synonyms, and the difference in both statements lies in the direct object, not in the verb. Your child has some knowledge ("I must not touch the outlets") but still lacks many other notions (for example, "if I do, an electric current will painfully flow through my body").
If you wouldn't, then would you mind describing for me the difference between, on one hand, knowing what behaviour is appropriate and not understanding the reasons why, and on the other hand, understanding what behaviour is appropriate and not knowing the reasons why?
(11-04-2014 10:21 PM)LostandInsecure Wrote: I know the universe is 13.8 billions years old but I don't understand why that is true or how we know this.So it is not that much that you know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old, but that you know that the universe is claimed to be 13.8 billion years old? Would that be an accurate description of the limits of your personal knowledge (regarding the history of the universe)?
I must confess I find myself in a similar situation. I think I can understand how the shift towards lower frequencies found in the spectral lines of familiar substances when we analyse electromagnetic radiation coming from distant objects, suggests that the average distance between objects in the universe is increasing as time progresses. I also think I may be able to understand how we can combine several astrophysical notions in order to estimate when the volume occupied by every thing in the universe was its minimum possible, although I say that with a lower degree of confidence because I have never performed the calculations myself. But I don't think I understand how that can be the beginning of space and time.
I cannot really say that I actually know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old, all I might be able to say is that I take that notion as a truth. However, a certain sense of caution makes me try not to take notions as truths, especially if I cannot understand how they may be true, so I find it unlikely that I will make such a claim, at least for as long as I don't understand it. That does not mean that I consider the notion false, it simply means that I don't consider it part of my knowledge. If anything, it would be a part of my beliefs.
But the subject of space and time are interesting outside the scope of this thread, they may be worth their own thread.
Thanks for your interesting remarks. Have fun!
RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
Hello again, evenheathen.
(11-04-2014 10:51 PM)evenheathen Wrote:It is an excellent tool for describing the structure and behaviour not just of reality, but of information in general.(11-04-2014 10:21 PM)LostandInsecure Wrote: I know the universe is 13.8 billions years old but I don't understand why that is true or how we know this.
I have a little question, though. In the abstract universe of mathematics, numbers don't seem to stop at zero, zero seems more like a mid value between negative infinity and positive infinity, don't you think? So if we choose to call the initial instant of the big bang instant t=0, why couldn't we use maths to describe the universe in the instants t=-1, t=-2, t=-3…?
RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
(12-04-2014 12:00 AM)DLJ Wrote:(11-04-2014 09:55 PM)living thing Wrote: Hello DLJ, how are you?
That would be wise.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
Hello DLJ.
(12-04-2014 12:00 AM)DLJ Wrote: I'm ok, thanks for asking. And you?I'm very well, thank you. A little bit tired, maybe, because we have friends visiting from a different planetary administrative region, and my recovery period after a good night out seems to be getting longer and longer as I grow older. Other than that, I cannot personally complain. Still stuck in this planet, though
(12-04-2014 12:00 AM)DLJ Wrote: I would classify those statements ["Bob is 30 years old", "Billy is 5 years old"] as 'information' as they are messages conveyed and understood.If they are successfully conveyed and understood, wouldn't that place them closer to knowledge, rather than information?
(12-04-2014 12:00 AM)DLJ Wrote: Bob, Billy, 30 and 5 are data.I am not sure I understood what you meant by "discrete facts", then. Is 30 a discrete fact? It doesn't really tell me anything by itself and it is not discrete (it is 1+1+1+…+1).
I think there is a parallelism between this subject and the increasing levels of structure we can find in material objects. One unit of oxygen and two units of hydrogen might all be seen as discrete units, although it is fairly well understood how so-called atoms are not discrete. In the same sense, the word "Bob" is not strictly discrete because it can still be decomposed into simpler sounds or symbols, but it can act as a single unit in reference to some person named Robert.
We can arrange those three chemical units so that each hydrogen forms a covalent bond with the oxygen, yielding a molecule of water, which is an entity that is meaningful by itself; it has its own set of implications. Similarly, we can arrange the notions "Bob", "be", "30" and "years old" and produce a more complex notion that is meaningful by itself: "Bob is 30 years old".
Water molecules have a slightly asymmetric distribution of electric charge, implying that several molecules may be arranged in such a way that the complete structure is stabilised by electromagnetic interactions; the rigidness in a block of ice is an effect of that increased stability. Similarly, we can combine several complex notions like "Bob is 30 years old" and "Billy is 5 years old" into a concept that conveys an even more complex meaning: "Billy is younger than Bob".
The degree of complexity of a material structure is a relative notion; things may be complex structures (meaning that they are not discrete elements) but they can behave as relatively simple components in structures that are even more complex. So-called atoms are simple when compared to molecules, but complex when compared to electrons, protons and neutrons.
This seems applicable to abstract notions too; the number 30 may be simple when compared to the statement "Bob is 30 years old", but it is complex when compared to the number 1. The statement "Bob is 30 years old" is complex when compared to the number 30, but it is simple when compared to the statement "Billy is younger than Bob".
So could we not say that whether a given notion is a datum or information depends on the context in which it appears? But if we can, we already are assuming that there is a context in which the notion appears, suggesting that data might be pieces of information too, just more simple.
(12-04-2014 12:00 AM)DLJ Wrote: More information: I have attempted to make this post 3 times and together with my earlier post on this thread, these attempts have consumed 16% of my phone's battery capacity.That seems wise.
But I'd like to know if the concepts you describe are limited to our human minds, or whether non-human behaviours can also be described as wise. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks DLJ, take care.
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Hello Airportkid, thanks for extending your view.
(12-04-2014 12:14 AM)Airportkid Wrote: Knowledge is what we use to direct our reactions, but more important is that we use it to direct what we initiate. The first is what machines do, and they can be said to "know" what's needed to respond or react appropriately; the latter is still the exclusive province of sentient life, initiating, creating, imagining what could be and, as the Captain says, "make it so".Let me see if I have understood your words.
If I have a lightbulb connected to a motion sensor (a device that repeatedly estimates its distance to the objects in its surroundings, for example by emitting ultrasounds and measuring the time lapsed before the reflected sounds arrive back, and detects motion when those estimated distances change), and also connected to a timer so that it only operates during certain hours, turning the light on when I arrive home late in the evening, can that machine be said to know, in the sense that it can react to external and internal stimuli (the external motion and the main processor's clock, respectively)?
That is very interesting.
Regarding belief, I thank you for bringing up such a related concept. I don't believe that beliefs are vital, but I don't believe that my view is an objective truth either, so I cannot even suggest that you may be wrong; I may be wrong too. But the point here is that I am little inclined to believe, in general. I try not to take any notion in my mind as a truth, just in case it is not true. In my opinion, replacing analysis with belief is not the wisest behaviour. For several reasons.
You have mentioned how changing established beliefs is hard, but while that seems to you a source of effectiveness, in my mind it is a source of problems. When our mistakes stem from a disbelief, the consequences can be expected. Maybe not the exact nature of the consequences, but if we're not too sure about the reasons behind our actions, we can at least expect that the consequences may differ from our intentions. However, when our mistakes stem from belief, the consequences are all too often completely unexpected, we're not prepared for them because we think we know what we are doing. Besides, belief generally leads to segregation; people who hold beliefs tend to split the rest of humanity between those who consider the same notions true, and those who don't. If beliefs were easy to change once "established", I might see them as useful alternatives to analysis, but seeing how some people are willing to kill and die to defend their "truths", I think its cost outweighs its benefits.
I don't believe that 2 + 2 = 4, but I think I can understand how that notion is true. If I have two sets of two things each, I do have four things. I'd be struggling to understand what you meant if you claimed that 2 + 2 = 5, because I'd be wondering where the extra thing comes from. But if you explained that if you have two sets (A and B) of two things each (1 and 2), you have five things (A1, A2, B1, B2 and you) then I would understand what you meant.
In my opinion, it is not belief what is vital, it is understanding. But that is only my opinion, it needn't be an objective truth.
Thanks for sharing your view, Airportkid. Have a good day!
RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
Hello Hafnof, thanks for joining in.
When you say that "I know" = "I have sufficient confidence in this claim to treat it as reliable when making life decisions", do they have to be life decisions, or can they simply be decisions? In other words, can machines that are able to make decisions based on some incoming information, be said to know anything?
Also, are you trying to say that the degree of confidence about the truth of a given notion is not very meaningful by itself, but it becomes meaningful when we consider the relevance of the notion? For example, the teapot orbiting Mars. I cannot say I know it is not orbiting Mars, although I find that most likely because all the explanations for how it would have got there seem very far fetched. But in any case, it does not really matter because the influence the actual teapot might exert on my life is negligible. Is that what you are saying?
Thank you, it is an interesting view. Enjoy!
RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
(12-04-2014 08:10 AM)living thing Wrote: Hello Hafnof, thanks for joining in.
Perhaps it is the engineer in me, but when I think of something's intrinsic meaning I don't see a good way to separate that from its function. If the function of knowledge is made decisions about our lives (both our internal lives and the life we live in our shared reality) then this function must be relevant to and in some way guide what it is we mean when way say "knowledge".
When you ask whether a machine "knows" something we are in danger of overly trivialising both the similarities and the differences between us and the machine. We think we are special and different and that our knowledge is more significant than that of a machine. It is certainly more nuanced and less task-focused. However, consider a human and a machine doing the same job in a factory production line. Can the human in any real sense be said to know how to assemble two parts together while the machine is ineligible to claim knowledge? If it does not have the knowledge, how did it assemble the parts? If we do not call the ability to assemble the parts "knowledge", what would we call it?
At a basic systems engineering level we describe any system (human, machine, or some combination thereof) externally by its form, fit and function. The function describes the behaviour of the system and is generally also tied to performance. The fits describes compliance with specific interfaces to other connected systems. Its form describes the physical envelope the system resides within and potentially other non-functional requirements. From the external viewpoint it seems that knowledge is indistinguishable from function. The machine and the human perform the same function, the human doing so with knowledge while the machine operates on... some other principle perhaps?
Let's follow this reductionist rabbit hole down a little further. A system is composed of parts. Each part has fit, form, and function that when assembled together meet the fit, form, and function of the system they compose. Is the human's knowledge a part of the system, or is the human's knowledge (the knowledge that seems to be hiding within function at the system level) something that decomposes onto the function of one or more parts of the human?
So yes this is a bit reductionist, but I don't see any valid case for arguing that a human doing a task can have knowledge while a machine capable of the same task cannot. Either knowledge is a thing - a part that can be added to a human or a machine - or knowledge is whatever enables the proper execution of a function - in which case the machine and human both exhibit knowledge by virtue of being able to complete the function. That said, for the moment at least, many tasks are not achievable by machines. Perhaps we could say that we have not yet figured out the means of embedding knowledge specific to those tasks into a machine.
On the second point I also take a bit of an engineer's approach to the question. Russel's teapot doesn't have any influence over decisions in my external life (though it may affect the internal life I live, and its lesson may influence my external life). My belief or disbelief in a god claim influences my external life significantly, but my internal life even more so. Or I suppose it may not depending on where I am in my life and the nature of any observances I may need to comply with. I might not need to have much certainty in order to go to church on a Sunday and enjoy the company of friends and fellows. While I might claim some knowledge or belief the confidence I have in it doesn't need to be high to do these basic things. Perhaps if I am asked to offer 10% of my income the confidence I need to claim knowledge is or should be higher than the knowledge required for mere attendance. If the religion requires I pray five times a day and never eat bacon again perhaps my certainty must be a little greater. If the religion requires me to sacrifice the life of my firstborn or perform any number of other anti-social acts then my confidence must be higher again.
I feel that the greater the impact a given piece of knowledge would have on the course of my life, the more confidence I need in that idea in order to claim that I know it and I accept it. Perhaps this is the product of cognitive dissonance being reduced. If I act in the way I would normally live my life new knowledge that requires me to change my actions must be in some way reconciled with my current lifestyle. I can change my lifestyle, or I can reject or downplay the significance of the new information. In order justify actually changing my external life or even my internal life to a significant degree I need a high level of confidence in the new information. I may believe that losing weight will extend my lifespan, but if I ignore the information and downplay its significance can I be said to know it to be true? If I act in accordance with the information perhaps I can truly be said to know it and to live it.
That said, I suppose the ordinary philosophical viewpoint on knowledge is one of justified true belief. That there is a whole different kettle of fish
Give me your argument in the form of a published paper, and then we can start to talk.
RE: Gathering perspectives: knowledge
(12-04-2014 10:03 AM)Hafnof Wrote: Let's follow this reductionist rabbit hole down a little further. A system is composed of parts. Each part has fit, form, and function that when assembled together meet the fit, form, and function of the system they compose. Is the human's knowledge a part of the system, or is the human's knowledge (the knowledge that seems to be hiding within function at the system level) something that decomposes onto the function of one or more parts of the human?
Look at animals including humans as being composed of hardware and software.
Evolution has equipped us with "instinctual knowledge". The degree of this knowledge varies from individual to individual and item to item. That is evolution in progress. This knowledge is even supported by the production of mood/action changing chemicals to reinforce the required behavior. Like the fight or flight situation, the decision to risk injury to protect a baby, we somehow "know" what to do in the fraction of a second. Humans have lost a lot of this "hardware" in favor of software, like many females are not instinctual mothers and don't know what to do with a baby without all kinds of instruction.
A duck for instance knows exactly when to get pregnant, how to build something that prevents the eggs from rolling accidentally, how long she is able to leave the nest during what temperature, how much moisture she needs to bring back to wet the eggs (too little and the eggs dry out, too much and the babies get "mushy"), how often she needs to turn the eggs to avoid crippled offspring, ... a lot of specific and precise knowledge.
The software is the learned - a way to keep up with environmental changes and modify the output from the hardware to fit current events. This is also part of the process of evolution.
The difference between the knowledge of humans and other animals and machines is that the machines do at this time not know how to modify their knowledge through specific adaptation to current circumstances.
But, yes, I would call it all knowledge.
Science is the process we've designed to be responsible for generating our best guess as to what the fuck is going on. Girly Man
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The purpose of filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy is to discharge debts. But even after obtaining a discharge, a debtor is not totally in the clear. A recent case in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan involves an adversary proceeding in which the United States Trustee sought to revoke a Chapter 7 debtor's (the "Debtor") discharge.[i]
In the case, the Debtor received a discharge on July 13, 2015. A week prior to the discharge the appointed Chapter 7 trustee (the "Trustee") received an email from an escrow agent at a title insurance agency informing her of an upcoming sale of the Debtor's home. The Trustee - before the discharge took effect - contacted the realtor about the pending sale who informed the Trustee of the details of the sale, which the Trustee believed to be fraudulent.
On July 28, 2015, two weeks after the discharge, the Trustee informed the United States Trustee's office (the "UST"), via email, of the pending sale of the Debtor's home. Both the Trustee and the UST agreed that this email was the first time the UST became aware of the pending sale. That same day, the UST filed a complaint to revoke the debtor's discharge. The UST subsequently filed a motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of whether the trustee's knowledge of alleged fraud can be imputed to the UST in relation to section 727 (d)(1).
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On request of the trustee, a creditor, or the United States trustee, and after notice and a hearing, the court shall revoke a discharge granted under subsection [727(a)] if … such discharge was obtained through the fraud of the debtor, and the requesting party did not know of such fraud until after the granting of such discharge.
The motion filed by the UST relates to the second factor - whether the UST lacked knowledge of the alleged fraud until after the discharge. The Bankruptcy Court explained that "knowledge" of fraud exists "when the party seeking revocation first becomes aware of facts such that he [or she] is put on notice of a possible fraud."
Neither party disputed the fact that the UST did not have actual knowledge of the alleged fraud until after the discharge, however the Debtor argued that the Trustee's knowledge of the home sale should be imputed to the UST. The Bankruptcy Court rejected this argument and granted the UST's motion for the following reasons.
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Mr Lammy said: "On Father's Day, we should celebrate the work and importance of dads. I, like a lot of young men growing up, really missed my dad, who walked out on us.
"I missed someone help me learn how to shave, someone help me learn how to do up my tie, someone to talk to in those teenage years that can be so difficult.
"No-one there on Fathers' Day, no-one at the end of the football game that you were playing, all of those things where the absence of the father is felt acutely.
"Of course relationships break down but active fathers make a huge difference to the lives of young people."
He added that there were exemptions where the mother was a victim of rape or domestic violence.
Adrienne Burgess, joint chief executive of the Fatherhood Institute, said: "Requiring both parents to sign the birth certificate sends out a powerful message that our expectations of mothers and fathers are equal.
"Meanwhile, 45,000 children every year are losing out because they do not know, and often never will know, who their father is."
In 2009 the Labour government introduced a legislation to make way for joint registration, but the current government has not implemented it.
The Home Office said: "We believe that fathers should have a role in children's lives from the outset.
"The prime minister has asked the Home Office to look at options to encourage fathers to record their names on the register.
"The options range from strengthening guidance to registrars to make clearer to mothers that the expectation is that the father's name should always be recorded on the register, to legally requiring parents to both sign the register with proper protections where necessary - in cases of abuse/domestic violence."


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National consultation on the Department of Social Services Volunteer Management Program
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This session is now fully booked. A second session will be held on Friday 2 March which you can register for and attend. If you are unable to attend either session, please complete the survey. Thank you.
Don't miss this important opportunity to inform the future of federal funding for volunteering
Join mpconsulting and Volunteering Queensland for a consultation workshop to review the Department of Social Services (DSS) Volunteer Management Program (VMP). You are invited to contribute ideas and discussion of potential new models for volunteering funding and service delivery. Together we will unpack the pros and cons of existing models and approaches, and focus on the needs, challenges and opportunities for change to maximise the potential of volunteering in both the Queensland and national context.
The existing federally funded VMP has been in place for some 15 years with 52 volunteer support service organisations funded across Australia, seven (7) of which are in Queensland. Although the program has seen a number of changes during this time, VMP has essentially focussed on volunteer support services to build capacity and capability of volunteer-involving organisations to recruit, manage, grow and develop volunteers in their local area. These volunteers support the organisation they engage with to deliver vital services and achieve its mission. In recent years VMP has also focussed on supporting people experiencing disadvantage into volunteering as a pathway to reconnection and participation.
In 2017, following a threat of funding withdrawal for VMP, a successful national advocacy campaign ('Tower of Strength') was mounted and with strong support from the volunteering sector, VMP funding was reinstated for three and one half (3.5) years. The Minister at the time (The Hon Christian Porter MP) also signed off on a review of VMP to determine its future at the end of the extended funding cycle. Mpconsulting was contracted by DSS to undertake the review.
This consultation is your opportunity to inform the future of federal funding of volunteering – whether in its existing VMP format, a new funding model, or not funded at all. With Queensland volunteer numbers below the national average, with significant gaps in volunteer support services across the state, and low per capita funding support compared with other states and territories, it is critical that Queensland's voice is heard in this consultation.
Without federal funding for volunteer support services there would be a huge void in our sector. Volunteering support services will not be able to:
- Help you find suitable volunteers to match your needs
- Support good volunteer management practice through training, professional development, technology, research and resources
- Promote volunteering and volunteer opportunities and participation in the community
- Undertake important advocacy and policy work to advance volunteering
- Support your workload and save your volunteer program money and time
- Strengthen and connect Queensland communities through volunteering
Volunteering is an issue of national interest and importance. Not only does volunteering (formal and informal) comprise our largest workforce by industry, it contributes significantly to the economic and social well-being of our nation, as well as our state and local community. Volunteering requires a whole of government investment from across all levels of government.
As a valued stakeholder, it is important for you to be at the consultation to contribute to the review and help frame its outcomes and the future of federal funding for volunteering.
All views will be respected and submitted for consideration by DSS.
Below is a snapshot of the value provided by volunteering support services:
The consultation workshop will commence with an overview of the current VMP, the objectives and focus of the review and early observations (to test whether these resonate). The consultation will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss:
- Strengths and weaknesses of the current VMP and volunteering support services
- Challenges and opportunities for volunteer management in the future
- Participants' experience and knowledge of best practice models for volunteer support, development and management
- New ideas and innovations, and
- Ways in which the effectiveness and efficiency of the VMP could be improved.
Date: Thursday 1 March 2018
Time: 10:00am – 12:30pm
Venue: 66 on Ernest, TAFE Queensland, 66 Ernest Street, South Brisbane
Public Transport is recommended as South Bank Train Station, South Bank Bus Station and South Bank Ferry Terminals are all within walking distance. Car parking is nearby on Ernest Street, Little Stanley Street, Tribune Street and Vulture Street or the public pay carparks of South Bank, Convention Centre.
To enter the venue:
- Go to Ernest Street in the heart of TAFE South Bank
- You will see a courtyard area at Block C with big green seats, a coffee shop and the library to the left and Student Services to the right
- Proceed to the end of this courtyard to a stairwell that will take you up to Level 1 and 66 on Ernest
- Lift access is to the left of the stairs, towards the Library.
While it is in your best interests to attend in person, if you are unable to make it to the workshop there are a number of ways you can still be involved in this important discussion:
- Complete a survey designed to obtain input from volunteers, volunteering support services and volunteer-involving organisations by 31 March 2018. Take the survey online: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/vmareview.
We need to work together to ensure volunteering is always valued and financially supported at a federal level, and that the voice and contribution of Queensland's volunteering sector is heard and adequately resourced so that we can continue to advance volunteering for Queensland's and Australia's economic, social, cultural and environmental well-being.


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China's GDP for the second quarter of 2010 overtook that of Japan as the second largest in the world, attracting worldwide attention and provoking considerable discussion. However, many scholars consider it worth noting that although the Chinese economy remains big, it is not strong.
China should spare no effort to improve the quality of GDP rather than simply obsessing over GDP growth, said Liu Fuyuan, former deputy director of the Academy of Macroeconomic Research under the National Development and Reform Commission.
Liu said that China should remain calm despite claiming "second place" in terms GDP because a large GDP does not mean a powerful country or wealthy nationals. Due to its huge population, China's per capita GDP, which still ranks below 100th in the world, stands at around 3,500 U.S. dollars, even less than half of the world average.
Liu said that China's GDP growth is largely driven by foreign businessmen, foreign investments and foreign trade. The share of the value produced by the Chinese people in GDP is rather low, with considerable profits taken away by foreigners.
"The surplus value always flows from weak countries to strong countries. Overall, China is still a developing country in spite of its large GDP," he said.
Liu believes that China was previously obsessed with GDP and took GDP as a core indicator, and the relationship between economic growth and economic development has not been dealt with well.
"We should prevent a few people from grasping at the interests of GDP growth that belong to the entire country," he stressed.
The quality of GDP will be enhanced if the Chinese economy truly adopts a people-oriented development pattern, Liu said.
"We should promote the growth of investments and GDP through stimulating consumption thereby accelerating industrial restructuring and raising the quality of GDP. In order to fulfill the important role of consumption, China's distribution system must be improved," Liu said.
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The birth of a baby brings joy, love and hope for the future. And, for unmarried couples, it also brings the added responsibility of establishing paternity for their child.
Establishing paternity is one of the most important steps unmarried parents can take because it creates a legal relationship between a father and his child. Paternity establishment ensures that children are eligible for child support and possibly other benefits such as Social Security, veteran survivor benefits and health insurance. Legal paternity guarantees a father's parental rights should he and the mother ever separate. It also enables the father's name to go on the birth certificate.
Hear personal testimonials from actual parents who explain the Acknowledgment of Paternity process and why establishing paternity was the right thing to do for them and for their children.
The Acknowledgment of Paternity (AOP) is an administrative process that allows parents who are not married to each other to establish paternity for their child. When both the biological father and the mother sign the AOP form and it is filed with the Texas Vital Statistics Unit (VSU), it becomes a legal finding of paternity. The biological father then becomes the legal father and has all the rights and duties of a parent, including his name being placed on the birth certificate. Parents who would like to establish paternity for their child through the AOP process must seek the assistance of an AOP certified entity.
Parents may complete an AOP before, at the time of, or any time after the birth of the child, but before a child support order or paternity determination is made. If the father cannot be at the hospital at the time of birth, the AOP can be completed at the county birth registrar's office or at an Office of the Attorney General (OAG) child support office, or by an AOP certified entity. There is no cost to complete an AOP for a child.
Note: Parents are not required to open a child support case to complete an AOP at an OAG child support office.
An AOP may not be appropriate in all instances. For example, an AOP is not appropriate if the mother or alleged father is unsure about the paternity of the child, or if family violence is a concern. Regardless of the situation, if parents do not wish to use the AOP process to establish paternity for their child, they may establish paternity through a court order with the assistance of a private attorney or by opening an OAG child support case. For more information, refer to Frequently Asked Questions for parents.


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The second film that springs to mind is Patch Adams. I've only watched it the once and can't recall all the detail but the thing that stuck with me about it is how one person can make a difference. Again based on a real-life story. And once again a situation with the odds stacked against them. Yet tenacity, persistence, and passion pays off in the end despite some tragic circumstances.
I think many organisations could do with recognising that quote and when they find themselves with parents / patients / customers that are questioning, 'difficult', demanding more. Perhaps they should find a way of harnessing the passion of these people and using it to make things better instead of going into defensive mode which puts up 'us and them' barriers and leaving those people as thorns on the outside.
So those are two films that have inspired me because of their key characters. Kate has also included which film star she looks like and this is a trickier one for me to answer as I think it's really hard to do that about yourself. But when I had my wedding make-up done for my wedding day (bearing in mind that was a long long time ago - 16 years ago in fact) I remember the beautician saying that she thought I looked like a film star even before she'd put the make up on and she said I was prettier that Catherine Zeta-jones. It might be she said that to every bride she did make up for but I thought it was a lovely thing of her to say.
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Why are tyres so important?
When driving down the road, only a small part of each tyre actually touches the road at any given time. Close to half of the accidents, happen when a car experiences a skid. Tyres are a critical component to completing safe journeys and having them professionally fitted by qualified personnel like those at Tyre Shopper is a smart way to go.
Why does the tyre tread matter for performance?
Tyre tread is there to help the tyres gain a better grip on the road as they rotate. Large amounts of water floating on the road's surface need to be pushed out by the tyre treads.
To put this in perspective, riding at 60mph, with only a 3mm water level on the road, a tyre has to work to push away 2 gallons of water every second. With heavy rain, 3mm of water is not uncommon. Riding across a large puddle, the depth can reach 8-10mm quite quickly.
Aquaplane Issues
Aquaplaning is when a layer of water builds between the tyre and road, preventing the tyre from maintaining a grip on the road below it. This is a major problem for maintaining control of the vehicle when this happens. Either low or worn tread is extremely dangerous because a tyre loses the capacity to handle the water level.
Is there a legal tread limit in the UK?
UK law requires that tyres still retain a tread depth of no less than 1.6mm in a non-interrupted band covering at least 75 percent of each tyre. This is the lowest level and for safety purposes, a tyre this worn should be replaced right away.
There is also EU tyre labelling that is shown as three labels providing information about fuel efficiency, wet grip, and noise levels for regular tyres sold in the UK.
How to check if a tyre is below the legal tread limit?
Many manufacturers include tread bars in the tyre at the 1.6mm mark. If the car owner can see any of these bars in the tyre, then they need to replace the tyre immediately because it is no longer either legal or safe to drive on it.
Wet braking distances were said to be much longer when tread goes under 3mm according to the test centre, MIRA.
Why do tyres wear out earlier than expected?
Tyres can need replacing much sooner due to faster than anticipated tread wear or tread wear that is unevenly disbursed.
The typical reasons for faster tread wear are:
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On Monday, September 26, the career panel will focus on careers with non-governmental and civil society organizations who specifically work with refugees and migrants.
Brad Heckman, Chief Executive Officer, New York Peace Institute, will moderate.
Confirmed Panelists:
Andrew Apostolopoulos - Program Manager, Asia, Caucasus, and Middle East Regional Program, International Rescue Committee
Kate Rosin - Program Specialist, International Migration Initiative, Open Society Foundations
- Lorna Solis - Founder and CEO, Blue Rose Compass
This panel is part of a series offered in collaboration with New York University's Center for Global Affairs.
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Sleeping Beauty Castle is beautiful fairy-tale building which original version can be seen in Disneyland park in Hong Kong. Originally, the design is based on Neuschwanstein Castle which can be found in Bavaria, in Germany. Some versions of Sleeping Beauty Castle can be also seen in Disneyland in USA, Disneyland Paris and Disneyland Tokyo.
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