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Marianne Boes was born in the Netherlands in 1973. She trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School, where she performed Ph.D. research (1996–2000; Center for Cancer Research; laboratory of Jianzhu Chen) and postdoctoral work (2000–2003; Department of Pathology; laboratory of Hidde Ploegh). From 2003 to 2008 she was a Faculty Member at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, before relocating to the University Medical Centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands in 2008. Dr Boes continues to lead a laboratory in cellular immunology. Her research focus lies in the role of professional antigen presenting cells in the induction of immunogenic and tolerogenic immune responses. Recent new findings from her team include clarification of the role of iNKT cells in stimulation of self-reactive CD8 T cell responses (Sprengers D et al., Gastroenterology, 2008) and a description of a new immune regulatory mechanism via tissue homing receptor expression on activated antigen-specific T cells (Bianchi T et al., Journal of Immunology, 2009).
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While making sure our house full of boys have clothes that fit for the wedding and our home is ready for company – I find myself humming an old, familiar song. 'He Plants Me Like a Seed', Priscilla's favorite tune as a little girl, which defines her life as a young woman and embodies my prayers through the years.
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In Peak Crisco, in early July, I noted that oil prices had hit $60 per barrel, with some predicting $80-100 by Winter. It's now been hovering around $70, a little ahead of schedule.
Peak Oil is now mainstream news, if only as a theory. I have a friend who has tolerated my talk of impending crisis politely for nearly a year. She asked me once to "bring it," meaning that she was open to being entertained by my crazy End-Is-Nigh talk. And she did for months. I told her that I didn't think our children would drive–I might as well have told her I thought there was a Florida-sized meteor made of impacted fecal matter sneaking up on us from behind the moon. But after I sent links from the local paper and the New York Times presenting the threat to her, she asked me to stop. She told me that she'd prefer to live in a fantasy world loving her car until the end. I'm not embellishing. She took the blue pill. I think we're in for a lot of trouble, but as much of it will be psychological in determination as thermodynamic.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been tapped for the second time in history to stabilize oil prices. The first time was during the first Gulf War. The reserve represents less than a month of our consumption — not that we'll be relying upon it more than a little, or that tight rationing wouldn't be imposed if we were. The military would naturally get theirs first to, you know, protect our non-negotiable way of life by invading another oil-bearing region, or trying to. It's not weapons; it's not democracy: it's oil after all. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
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Hearing that his cousin was going to buy a catamaran and go sailing, Mac McCallum got caught up in the excitement and bought his own multi-hull sailboat. Turns out, he did not have a sailing partner as his cousin backed out on his end of the deal.
That was more than three years ago and from his learn-by-doing stage, the Lake Wateree resident stayed with his hobby, competed in regattas around the southeast, but never on his home lake. That will all change this weekend as the Wateree Sailing Club (WSC) will be the home base for a two-day Eastern Multihull Sailing Association Regatta (EMSA) on Lake Wateree beginning on Saturday and continuing with racing on Sunday.
McCallum, a member of the WSC as well as the EMSA, said competing on Lake Wateree is a dream come true. When he saw a free weekend on the EMSA schedule, McCallum jumped at the opportunity to bring the regatta to Kershaw County.
"I've been trying to get them to come here for a couple years. Then, a spot in the schedule opened up in the early spring so, we're going to get the guys to come out," said the 1991 Lugoff-Elgin High graduate on a cold winter day at the club headquarters located on Nautical Lane, off Sailing Club Rd., on the banks of Lake Wateree.
"Personally, I've wanted to get a race on the lake since I started sailing. We're hoping that we'll get some exposure and, hopefully, get some people to join the Wateree Sailing Club; we take power boats, pontoons and even house boats. We have people with jet skis who use the dry storage and the ramp. We have social functions. We hope people will see us out there and wonder what's going on.
"I want people to know that it's out here and to find out more about the sailing club."
A catamaran, which some know as a Hobie Cat, are usually 16- to 18-feet in length with some measuring 20-feet long. Outfitted with three sails, the lightweight vessels can travel anywhere from 15 to 20 miles per hour, depending on the winds. A rather uncommon sight on Lake Wateree, catamarans will take center stage this weekend.
Saying that he "dumb-lucked" into buying and sailing a catamaran after he bought one, McCallum laughed when telling the story of his maiden voyage from his dock on the Lugoff side of Lake Wateree.
"I have a cousin who sailed a little bit and he said they were going to get a catamaran to sail," he said. "I thought it might be a fun thing to do so, I got one … and they never got one.
"My dad helped me set it up and then, pushed it off the dock. I said, 'Do you want to get on?' He said, 'Heck, no. You don't know what you're doing.'
"I told him that it can't be that bad. I just kept pulling strings until I figured it out. Then, I started racing with these (EMSA) guys just to get around some other boats. That's when I really learned most of the stuff."
McCallum started sailing that first summer by himself. He then went on his computer to search for any groups which sailed catamarans since there were so few on Lake Wateree. He found such an catamaran organization which sailed on Lake Murray.
"I tracked them down and started going to the races with them," McCallum said of the sailors from the Lexington County lake. "A lot of those guys had been racing for 20 or 30 years and have been really helpful. They showed me what to do."
From sailing solo, McCallum lured his wife, Martie Gail McCallum, into joining him on the catamaran and in EMSA races. Their 16-foot catamaran weighs about 270 pounds with a 30-foot mast. While it may look as if once the sails are up that all you need to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the ride, McCallum said there is plenty of work and sweat which goes into racing in a regatta.
"It can be very demanding," he said. "There are a lot of sheet loads … a lot of pulling and stuff. My wife runs a lot and she does some extra weights when sailing season comes along. I drive and I have one sheet to pull and she has a couple. She sits at the front of the boat.
"With the new blocks and stuff, it makes it a lot easier, but there are still some pretty good sheet loads. It's kind of physical in getting the masts up in the air. It's not an easy sport, by any means. But it's a lot of fun when the boat gets going and you are up on one hull and you can hang off the side. It's pretty neat to watch."
Best viewed from a boat, this weekend's races will be staged in the area around the WSC. By rule, the races will start with the wind behind the backs of the vessels. McCallum said he expects boaters from the Carolinas, Georgia and, possibly, Tennessee to take part in the activities. There are expected to be two fleets split between the faster and slower boats.
The races, McCallum said, are about 45 minutes long, depending on the prevailing winds. Should the winds be blowing hard, officials will lay out a longer course. If there is a soft breeze, the course will be shortened.
McCallum said the stronger the wind, the much exciting the racing for sailors and spectators. "There will be a safety boat there," he said. "The catamarans are faster than the one hulls and it's not uncommon to see a boat flipped over on its side. We look out for each other, though. It's nothing to see a competitor help and stop another competitor during a race.
"I'm hoping we have some good wind for the event so people can really see us do our thing and see us scooting around. It's pretty exciting to watch. If you get about a 17 mile per hour wind, it gets little hairy out there."
McCallum has tried to sell his fellow club members on catamarans, which are widely outnumbered by more popular means of traversing the lake. He will take friends out on his vessel, but they politely declined an invitation to try their hand at steering the boat.
"I've taken some of them out," he said of his catamaran. "They won't ever drive; they won't try. People get a little intimidated because they're kind of fast and they think that they'll turn over easily.
"But the club members are really supportive. We're a real small club and we don't have a lot of members. Everybody's just glad to see activity around."
For those who may be hesitant about what a catamaran can and cannot do on the water, this weekend will give them the opportunity to see what the boats can do when piloted by experienced boaters. McCallum is hopeful that a good showing and a good time this weekend will be enough to sway his fellow multi-hullers to stage another regatta on Lake Wateree in the fall.
For Mac McCallum, though, this weekend is about bringing the EMSA boaters, WSC members and the public all together to see how much fun there is to be had with the organizations and, on Lake Wateree. In fact, the Wateree Sailing Club is using this opportunity to try and encourage more sailors of both sail and power boats to join the social organization. More information is included on their Website located at http://watereesailingclub.com.
"I want to race in my hometown and to get some exposure for the club," McCallum said of what was his mission in trying to land a regatta on Lake Wateree. "Sailing has been on the decline over the years. We're always keen to add event to our calendar.
"I never intended to be a catamaran sailor, but it ended up that way. It could happen to some other people, too."


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The 9Apps report found that gaming apps were among the most popular as downloads had increased from 17% in 2015 to 20% by 2016. Other popular categories were tools, social, entertainment and music apps. It also highlighted that screenshots (46%) were of particular importance for customers when picking out an app from the store, whilst 36% consider app ratings more vital.
However, app growth in India isn't likely to be entirely unhinged. One of the key challenges app developers face is cutting through the competition. Effective promotion is a difficult topic, particularly for indie developers who cannot afford big buck advertising campaigns. Challenges in internet connectivity as well as local online payments are also putting a damper on growth.
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Cardinal Ennio Antonelli was born on November 18, 1936, in Italy. He was ordained a priest on 2 April 1960. He From 1968 until 1983, he taught theology and art history in Assisi. He was elected bishop of Gubbio in 1982. In 1988, he was appointed as Archbishop of Perguia-Citta della Pieve. He resigned as Archbishop in 1995 and in 2001 was appointed Archbishop of Florence. He was elevated to Cardinal on October 21, 2003 and was appointed Cardinal-Priest of St. Andrew Delle Fratte. On 7 June 2008, he was appointed President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, from which office he retired 26 June 2012.
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Oxford students feeling pressure to sign early contracts
Students in Oxford claim they are being left liable for thousands of pounds of rent they cannot pay by being pressured into signing early housing contracts.
Some letting agents are collecting deposits and signing tenancy agreements with students nearly a year in advance.
Oxford Brookes Students' Union is worried increasing numbers are facing legal threats if they withdraw.
Letting agents say the move is simply a response to increased demand.
Second year student Oliver Scott, 19, signed a contract with his friends in November.
But, when they were due to move in 10 months later, failed exams and changed circumstances led to three tenants backing out.
Legal action risk
He said: "We have three spare rooms, and we're liable for a six-person house, being paid for by three students at the moment.
"We could potentially go to court, and soon as those words come about it adds so much pressure on to us.
"We never expected to be picking up two or three other people's rent."
Mr Scott and his housemates have so far been unable to fill the other three spaces, despite advertising them across the city.
Tom Smith, from Oxford Brookes Students' Union, said: "Quite often the issues are traced back to signing up early.
"We want letting agents to agree to release their housing lists at the start of February so that when students sign up they know what they should be looking for in the contract."
Letting agent Jan Bartlett said: "It's no good us sitting back and saying we think it's a jolly good idea to release the list in Easter when some agents release theirs as early as October."
Oxford City Council will seek to persuade agents to consider releasing their lists later in the academic year.


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So I went back to the book and found this edging:
I measured it out and it will fit the width perfectly and accommodate the squares. But it also means doing this:
The answer to the question has yet to be determined.
Knitting and more...spinning, beading, crochet, tatting, bobbin lace, tambour, watercolor....


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I am a professional truck driver with 18 years experience. I have experience with many of the modern technology advances that have brought this industry much more accuracy and safety related operations. I am willing to do whatever a company asks of me to accommodate their needs. I have excellent customer service skills.
Stephan Schultz Sr
- Rochester US-NY


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Growing up in gray Birmingham, England, Harry Koisser dreamed of becoming a professional photographer. But surveying his early snapshots, he had to face the truth: "I just wasn't particularly good at it," he admits. "So I had no real career prospects. I had pretty much no options at all, I guess."
Out of sheer frustration, and with his bassist brother Sam Koisser in tow, the vocalist formed the neo-psychedelic outfit Peace, whose debut, "In Love," is currently topping overseas charts.
Koisser remembers his most depressed period, when he took a dead-end job holding a huge sign for a local house and techno nightclub, from 1 p.m. to 7 in the evening, when the venue opened.
"It was humiliating," says the 22-year-old, who brings Peace to The City this week. "People were rude to me, and there was one day at Christmastime when it was excruciatingly cold, and I didn't have any warm clothing. And I thought 'What's happening here? Why am I doing this?'"
But sign-twirling proved serendipitous. Post-shift, the club owners gave him complimentary drinks and admittance. That's when he began studying the music that was being played, like the thumping track "Drumster" by Wippenberg, which contained a rhythmic, robotic clicking amid its white-noise mix.
"I wasn't very gifted with electronic music, so I spent a lot of time just trying to think of ways to make that sound with guitar," he says.
It was a Herculean task, trying to convert digital instrumentation to analog. But it became Peace's raison d'etre, and the band jumped headlong into sonic experiments that would wind up on "In Love" (soon to be reissued in the U.S.), like the ethereal "Sugarstone," percussive "Delicious" and the flower-power-chiming "Higher Than the Sun."
Koisser was heavily influenced by one group he had seen in concert, Explosions in the Sky.
"They had really long instrumental songs that were really dynamic, and they'd go from really low to really high in an instant," he says.
The guitarist became a mad studio scientist. He used delay pedals to create arpeggio-fretted notes, then filtered them through the warmth of vintage tube amps. To simulate an E-bow's perpetual sustain, he employed a reverb pedal with an "infinity" button, then developed his own aggressive string-palming technique.
"So the dynamics of how I play sort of echo the way techno rises and drops," he says.
In the process, Koisser developed a foppish fashion sense. But he's not clothes-obsessed. "So far, I've only spent my money on equipment," he says. "I haven't even got anywhere to live, literally — I'm just living on the road. But I've just bought some cool new guitars!"


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Preservation Recordings
The "with special guests" album is typically a loaded proposition. While the guest often adds new elements to the band's sound (and hopefully increases exposure and sales), the guest also can also disrupt the fragile chemistry of the band, significantly diluting their sound. Thankfully Preservation Hall Jazz Band's new guest-laden effort does not fall victim to these traps and wonderfully weaves each guest's sound into that of the ensemble. Band leader Ben Jaffe initially laid out a dream list of potential guests who understand the traditional sound of Preservation Hall, and much to his surprise, everyone on this dream lineup agreed to take part in recording the twenty standards that comprise the excellent Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Andrew Bird sets the tone for the album with a rollicking turn on the bouncy "Shake It and Break It." After opening with such a lively pace, the group downshifts a bit but maintains their unmistakable swing feel as Paolo Nutini deftly warbles through "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea." Up next is madman Tom Waits, who leads the band through one of their most thrilling numbers, a twisted, butt-shaking turn on the ancient Mardi Gras anthem, "Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing." With plenty of percussion powering an oddball secondline beat that compels strange movements reminiscent of a hip replacement, Waits applies his unique, guttural growl and guides the ensemble through dynamic shifts while maintaining an incredibly loose atmosphere that has a warts-and-all/devil-may-care vibe. The entire piece crackles with a very live energy, and a similar feeling is successfully applied later on in the album with Dr. John directing everyone through "Winin' Boy." The song shuffles, slinks, and grinds before he shouts, "Oh, suffer now, honey!" and everyone erupts into a raunchy burst of sound.
While the more explosive numbers are obvious highlights, this album is not without its share of wonderfully soothing songs, particularly Jim James' megaphone-enhanced vocals on the very smooth "Louisiana Fairytale," Ani DiFranco's delicate touch on the sprightly "Freight Train," Del McCoury's country twang on the bluesy "After You've Gone," and Ritchie Havens' effortless and gentle spin on the emotional "Trouble in Mind." Even Louis Armstrong makes an appearance, his vocals lifted from an old recording and plugged seamlessly into "Rocking Chair." As wonderful as these performances may be, they pale in comparison to the effort Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger apply to "Blue Skies." Taking a song that is usually performed without much depth of meaning, this arrangement shifts its tone numerous times, perfectly portraying the pain and difficulty the singer has experienced before relishing in his newfound source of love and optimism. The result is a revelatory turn that is laden with pathos and indirectly alludes to the rebirth of New Orleans in a post-Katrina landscape, as the elder Seeger leads everyone in a joyous sing-a-long while Charlie Gabriel's clarinet beautifully wails across the top.
With twenty tracks in tow, not every one can be a winner. Indeed, Brandi Carlile's vocals on "Old Rugged Cross" are sung an octave lower and serve to create a plodding dirge, while Merle Haggard's spin on "Basin Street Blues" suffers from his decision to occasionally sing off the beat while the band plays what may be the most straight-ahead version they've ever recorded of this classic, resulting in a puzzling incongruity that doesn't always sit well. Nevertheless, the vast majority of these performances are big winners and should serve to expose the genius of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to a new and larger audience. As an added bonus, the proceeds from this album will benefit the band's venerable French Quarter hall and their music outreach programs, so Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program will become a gift that keeps on giving in many ways.


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Guests strolled, dined, and danced the night away at Palate 2 Palette 2014 on April 26th. The stroll, which took place in the Southside, provided guests the opportunity to view different types of art throughout seven different galleries. Each gallery had something special to offer, from floral arrangements, to food, to live entertainment. This year, the H*Art Gallery had a Bananas Foster live demonstration, while the Debarge Winery acted as home to the Fashion Gallery. The Church on Main housed the annual Youth Gallery, which allows high school students an opportunity to display their work in a gallery setting. Niedlov's Breadworks was the place to go if you wanted to see the featured artist, James Parker, and his incredible vegetable dress. His team came to town ready to amaze everyone with their creations, ranging from sugar-pulled accessories, to gladiator outfits made of bread, to an edible wedding dress made entirely of wafer paper! The Craniofacial Foundation Gallery, held at Cobblestone Rue, had pictures taken by owner Garrett Nudd of CFA patients and families. The Foundation Gallery also displayed the collaborative auction pieces created by patients and local artists.
Following the stroll, guests enjoyed desserts courtesy of Whole Foods, champagne, and even a whiskey luge at the "Bubbles & Sweets" after-party at Track 29. Willie Kitchens and his band rocked the house, and the WEAVE Dance Company worked with Chattanooga acroyoga performers Matt Fields Johnson and Liz Overton to create an original performance to kick off the theme of the unforgettable evening—"Fire & Ice."
Fun was had by all and plans are already underway for P2P 2015--Save the date for April 25th, 2015!


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Book deal for local author
It was a magical moment for Longford author Anne Skelly when she learned that her book 'Estrangement' (working title) was to be published by Book Republic, a boutique imprint of Maverick House publishing company.
"I am so delighted to have got this book deal," said Anne in speaking to the Leader. "My feet have hardly touched the ground. The message for all writers is clear - 'Don't let rejection get you down, just keep trying.'"
'Estrangement' is Anne's first full length work of fiction and it is based upon the storyline of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion'.
"It's based around the story of Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth. The book transports this tale into 21st century rural Ireland where it is set in a fictional village in County Longford."
Estrangement looks at the life and loves of Skelly's heroine, a character named Beth Maguire. Beth is a 34 year old primary school teacher who is single and living at home with her parents. Tension mounts throughout the plot as Beth seeks to find her 'ideal' partner. Will she choose the dashing Andrew McKay or will she bridge the gap that exists between her and former love Sam Butler?
A native of Dublin, Anne Skelly (nee Collins) came to Longford in September 1999 and shortly thereafter met and in time married local Abbeyshrule man Mike Skelly. Mike wasn't her first love though. Since a very young age her heart belonged to writing and the English language.
"English was always my favourite subject at school and I've always loved reading, but I only started to write about 12 years ago," said Anne, who now teaches creative writing courses in Counties Westmeath and Longford. Since that time Anne has had a short story published in the Heartland anthology of Longford writing, and a chapter in a collaborative novel (Goldsmith's Ghost 2002). She has also been shortlisted for many short-story competitions.
However, today her focus is upon 'Estrangement' which will be published within the next two months and available to purchase over the summer. Anne believes that Book Republic are the ideal partners for her new publication.
"After all the delays and rejections I've had over the past six months from literary agents here and in the UK, it seemed nothing short of a miracle to find a publisher who paid me the courtesy of a quick response. I also think it's wonderful that they're dedicated to promoting new writing and giving emerging writers the chance to get published where most of the bigger mainstream companies will only consider you if you're already famous."
'Estrangement' will be officially launched in Longford County Library in the near future.


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Korišćenje i održavanje - Vreće za spavanje
Korišćenje i održavanje - Vreće za spavanje
Down: a traditional choice for excellent heat insulation and minimum size. The down — more valued — to feather ration is the ID for a down sleeping bag (e.g. 80/20 means 80% down and 20% feathers). Heat insulation, measured by the CUIN unit, is defined as the loft height, in inches, of 30 g of down. A SEPARATE CHAMBER construction guarantees more even down distribution.
Hollow fibre: for the utmost comfort and heat insulation, less absorption of moisture and extremely easy washing. Manmade fillings facilitate the diffusion of body heat in the sleeping bag, retaining it uniformly. The fibres are arranged in independent LAYERS to form barriers against the cold.
Maintenance and Washing
Maintenance and washing
Wash by hand or machine wash at 30° using a delicate cycle. Do not dry clean. Dry in the open. Keep the sleeping bag out of its storage sack when not in use.
European Standard En 13537
In order to standardise determination of reference values for comfort temperatures, a European standard for the thermal testing of sleepingbags was established in 2004. Obviously this has to do with a laboratory test on an instrumented dummy which can never reproduce thephysiological–physical conditions but which standardises the test conditions that were previously differentiated for each individual laboratory. Contrary to what might be assumed, the comfortable temperature of a sleeping bag, however, does not depend solely on the quantity/qualityof the down used or on its construction but it is affected by different important factors. For this reason, though availing of the determining results of the laboratory test, as required by the standard, Ferrino continues on the roadit has undertaken for many years, using field tests, collated each year in our High Lab laboratories on the basis of appraisals whichcustomers, on their own initiative, give to our products.
Maximum comfort temperature is the maximum temperature, which allows a standard man to sleep without perspiring excessively. It is established with the zips of the sleeping bag open, the arms out and the hood open.
Comfort temperature is the temperature value (referred to a standard woman), which facilitates a full night's sleep in a relaxed position.
Lowest comfort limit defines the minimum temperature (referred to a standard man) in which it is possible to sleep in a curled up positionfor eight hours without waking.
Extreme temperature is the minimum temperature at which the sleeping bag protects the user (standard woman) from hypothermia. It allows six hours of uncomfortable sleep without the internal temperature decreasing to a dangerous level.
When choosing your sleeping bag we suggest you consider comfort temperatures and intermediate temperatures depending on your level ofphysical fitness. Feeling hot or cold is caused by our body producing greater or lower quantities of heat compared to what we are losing to the surroundingenvironment.
Metabolism: When sleeping a person generates 75–100 watts of heat, depending on various factors like age, gender, weight, habits andpsycho-physical conditions.
Weight: Overweight people usually have a slower metabolism. In general they eat more than they consume. When we undertake anymountaineering activities we often take in less calories than we consume. Overweight people will be able to take energy from their fatreserves and also avail of greater natural insulation than thin people.
Age: Metabolism is connected to age. An old person generally generates less heat and therefore feels colder than a young person.
Gender: Women feel cold more than men, so much so that the standard comfort temperature for women is 5°C higher than that for men.
Habits: The majority of people living in the western world live in homes fitted with central heating, work in offices with air conditioning andmove around in an air-conditioned vehicle. This lifestyle reduces the body's ability to withstand the cold.
Experience: Experience and familiarity with our open–air sleeping equipment help to obtain its optimum performance. First-time users willusually feel greater discomfort and colder than experienced climbers.
Physical fitness: If we lead a sedentary lifestyle and we submit ourselves to a difficult excursion, we immediately become aware of theeffort. Fatigue reduces the production of heat and thus leads to our feeling cold.
Some useful advice
Choose a sleeping bed that is suited to the activities you think you will carry out, considering temperature, humidity, and the size and weightof the sleeping bag, seeking the assistance of a qualified salesperson. Remember however that to sleep well, other factors are important,and these include:
Investing in a good mattress, which as well as helping you to sleep comfortably, will also provide adequate insulation from the ground.
Buying a good tent, which can protect you from bad weather. Sleeping in conditions of direct exposure to the wind and/or in particularlydamp conditions will lead to a considerable increase in heat loss due to convection.
Always checking long–term weather conditions, in fact these can change with little warning and the equipment you choose on departurecould be unsuitable in the case of worsening weather.
Equipping yourself with additional clothing, which in cold conditions can be worn under normal clothing and can also be used at night. Furthermore if you foresee below zero temperatures equip yourself with a balaclava and bivouac socks.
Eating correctly otherwise your body will produce less heat and become more sensitive to the cold as a result. Drinking is also important asdehydration reduces the body's ability to produce heat. Avoid alcohol, which only gives an initial sense of heat, after which you will feel colderthan you did before.
Keeping your equipment dry as wet sleeping bags (especially with down filling) give lower insulation than dry ones. For this reason, Ferrinooffers sleeping bag covers on different models to protect your product from damp conditions.In any case, as soon as you are able to, dry your sleeping bag in the open air, for example on the top of the tent during the day. Air your tentwhere possible, maintaining an air change that is sufficient to reduce the problems of condensation.


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Updated at 5:38: The TSA's official response:
"TSA has not been contacted by this passenger. TSA is conducting a thorough review to determine what, if anything, occurred. TSA holds its employees to high standards and is committed to treating all passengers, including those with disabilities, with respect and courtesy at all times. The agency works with a coalition of more than 70 disability-related groups to better understand the needs and concerns of individuals with disabilities and medical conditions."
Updated at 1:26 pm: It'll be difficult for the TSA to proceed with an investigation because the blog is no longer active and it's unclear who the individual making the allegations is. TSA officials did not want to comment while so many questions are left unanswered.
A passenger visiting Louisville for the National Association of the Deaf's biennial conference is claiming Transportation Security Administration agents at Louisville International Airport called him names and ate his candy after not allowing it through the security check point.
WFPL has requested comment from the TSA, and officials say they'll respond as soon as possible.
The story gained attention after blogger "Tea and Theatre" wrote about his experience online. That site has since been unavailable but several online sources grabbed and printed text from the post.
Boing Boing provides the following except:
While I was going through the TSA, some of them started laughing in my direction. I thought it might've been someone behind me, but I found out otherwise.
They went through my bag (for no reason), and found a couple bags of candy I brought. I was told I wasn't allowed to fly with that (wtf? I've flown with food before — these were even sealed still because I brought them right in the airport). I was then asked if I would like to donate the candy "To the USO". Since I know the airport there has an Air National Guard base, and I figured it would go to the soldiers, I (annoyed) said sure, why not?
The guards, as I was getting scanned, started eating the candy they just told me was for the soldiers. In front of me, still laughing at me (very clearly now). One of them asked why they were laughing, and one of them came up to me, pointed at my shirt, laughed at me and said, "Fucking deafie". The Louisville TSA called me a "fucking deafie" and laughed at me because I was deaf, and they expected wouldn't say anything back (or wouldn't hear them). Make no bones about it — she was facing me and I read her lips. There was no mistake. I would later find out that they had called at least 4 other individuals the same thing.


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Robert Half International (NYSE:RHI) is a temporary staffing company. The company provides its customers with temporary, project, and full-time workers specializing in accounting and finance.[1] Though Robert Half competes with companies such as Adecco SA (ADO), Manpower (MAN), and Kelly Services (KELYA) in the temporary staffing market, its employees' high degree of specialization sets it apart from its peers. The company earned $3 billion in revenue and $37 million in net income in 2009.[2]
Robert Half uses its reputation for providing specialized financial and accounting workers to charge a premium price, making it the most profitable of the large temporary staffing companies. Despite Robert Half's advantages, several external factors, such as unemployment rates, which are hovering at 9% as of the sumer of 2010. On the other hand, higher demand for flexible workers has led to an increase in the average number of temporary workers employed on a given day. Additionally, because the company generates revenue overseas, a weak dollar also helps the company's revenues.
Temporary and Consultant Staffing provides customers with temporary and consultant workers. The workers are employed and paid by Robert Half and customers pay Robert Half a fee for hours worked. Temporary and Consultant Staffing operates under the following brand names:
Permanent Placement Staffing provides customers with full time accounting and finance workers under the Robert Half Finance & Accounting brand name. Customers pay Robert Half Finance & Accounting a placement fee (usually a percentage of the new employees salary) to help them find new workers. Workers are not charged any fees by Robert Half Finance & Accounting. Additionally, customers sometimes hire a worker from one of Robert Half's Temporary and Consultant Staffing programs to work full time. If this happens, the customer pays Robert half a one-time fee to convert the worker from a temporary worker to a full-time employee.
Risk Consulting and Internal Audit Services provides customers with independent internal audit and risk consulting services under the Protiviti brand name. Customers pay Protiviti a consulting fee for internal audit and risk management consulting.
Temporary workers are generally the first hired as unemployment drops and the first fired as unemployment rises. Situations in which unemployment rises usually result in decreased demand for temporary workers. As of the summer of 2010, unemployment was 9% due to the sluggish global economy.[3]
According to the American Staffing Association, two-thirds of temporary employees cite increased flexibility as their main reason for choosing to become a temporary or contract employee, along with having more time to spend with family.[4] Businesses also prefer to hire temporary workers because they can add employees during peak work periods without incurring the costs of hiring full time.


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Federal Jobs for Home Economics Majors
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Students of home economics, or family and consumer sciences, learn about issues that affect individuals, families, and communities – especially issues that relate to the basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, and relationships (source: collegeboard.com). Below is a list of federal jobs appropriate for home economics majors.
Consumer Safety Officers
Food Technologists
Return to Find Federal Jobs for Your Major page.


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Hanoi Larosa Hotel
Select your stay dates to check availability at Hanoi Larosa Hotel
Hanoi Larosa Hotel
About the Hotel
Property Location
Hanoi Larosa Hotel is in the heart of Hanoi, walking distance from Embassy of Singapore and Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts. This hotel is within close proximity of Lenin Park and Hanoi War Museum.
Make yourself at home in one of the 72 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Partially open bathrooms have deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Pamper yourself with onsite massages, body treatments, and facials. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and wedding services. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the area shuttle (surcharge).
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Hanoi? This hotel has 678 square feet (63 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and a meeting room. For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a cruise ship terminal shuttle.
Hotel Facilities
- Coffee shop or café
- Luggage storage
- Free valet parking
- Free parking nearby
- Restaurant
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- One meeting room
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Business center
- Fitness facilities
- Year Built 2013
- Free WiFi
- Television in common areas
- Wedding services
- Spa services on site
- In-room accessibility
- Free wired Internet
- Cruise terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 678
- Designated smoking areas
- Total number of rooms - 72
- Number of floors - 11
- Conference space size (meters) - 63
- Elevator/lift
- Accessible bathroom
- Conference center
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Porter/bellhop
Room Facilities
- Rainfall showerhead
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Daily housekeeping
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Partially open bathroom
- Free newspaper
- Free wired Internet
- Bathtub or shower
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Room service (24 hours)
- Access via exterior corridors
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Separate bedroom
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Desk
- Air conditioning
- Pillow menu
- Free toiletries
- Soundproofed rooms
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Minibar
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Free WiFi
- Washer/dryer
Hotel Policy
Know Before You Go
- Local laws may restrict unmarried guests from sharing rooms. Guests are responsible for providing proof of marriage, if requested by the property.
- This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal, airport, and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- One child 6 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 25 per vehicle (one way)
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.Show all hotel policy Show less hotel policy


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Faculty & Staff Directory
Eric Kuehnl, MFA
Music Technology Instructor
Fine Arts and Communication Division
Music Technology
(510) 499-4082
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Foothill campus
Office: 1209
Office Hours:
Tuesday/Thursday 12:00-1:00pm
Eric Kuehnl is a composer, sound designer, and educator. Previously, Eric was an Audio Training Strategist in the Avid Education Department, and a Senior House Engineer for Sony Computer Entertainment America. He holds a Master's degree from California Institute of the Arts, a Bachelor's degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and studied composition at the Centre Iannis Xenakis in Paris.
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A new paper on Rapporteur‐shadow rapporteur networks in the European Parliament: The strength of small numbers, co-authored with Nils Ringe, is now pubishd online by the European Journal of Political Research.
An updated version of the FPSIM dataset of similarity measures of foreign policy positions is now available for download download from my Dataverse.
The dataset provides measures of foreign policy similarity of dyads based on alliance ties (Correlates of War, version 4.1) and UN General Assembly voting (Voeten, version 17) for all members of the international system (Correlates of War system membership list, version 5.0). The alliance data cover the time period from 1816 to 2012, and the UN voting data from 1946 to 2015. The similarity measures include various versions of Ritter and Signorino's S (weighted/non-weighted by material capabilities; squared/absolute distance metrics) as well as the chance-corrected measures Cohen's Kappa and Scott's Pi. The measures based on alliance data come in two versions: one is based on valued alliance ties and the other is based on binary alliance ties. For a discussion of the advantages of chance-corrected measures over Ritter and Signorino's S for measuring the similarity of foreign policy positions, see my 2011 article in Political Analysis.
My article on 'Political Conflict in Bismarck's Germany: An Analysis of Pariamentary Voting, 1867-1890' has been published in Party Politics. The study investigates the number and content of party political conflict dimensions in the early years of Imperial Germany by scaling legislative roll call votes in the Reichstag.
In a paper that has now been published with European Union Politics, I am presenting a new dataset on the allocation of 'Political attention in the Council of the EU', covering all policy areas and a period of twenty years.
My article on 'Consensus Decisions and Similarity Measures in International Organizations', co-authored with Simon Hug from the University of Geneva, has been published by International Interactions.
My paper on the 'Scheduling power of the EU Council Presidency' has now been published online by the Journal of European Public Policy.
Unfortunately, some of the process information in Prelex for procedures starting in 2013 and 2014 seems to have been lost in the transition from Prelex to EUR-Lex (see my earlier post). Since EUPOL is based on Prelex, this information is also missing in the last update of the dataset (v05). Prelex has since been taken offline without rectifying these omissions.
Here's the communicaton I had about this issue with the EUR-Lex helpdesk:
13 October 2014 (Email to EUR-Lex helpdesk):
"I am relying on Prelex for some of my research on legislative politics in the EU. When gathering information from the database, I noticed that information on many proposals introduced in the years 2013 and 2014 is missing. Process information on 171 out of 936 proposals is missing for 2013 and 310 out of 583 proposals in 2014 (as of 17th September). After checking some of those files on the new EurLex page, I found that the information on legislative procedures was complete there (see e.g. COM(2013)937, COM(2013)853, COM(2013)902; I can send a list of all files if required). Therefore, I am wondering whether PreLex is not being updated anymore and if it still is, how much of a time delay one can expect?"
6 November 204 (Reply by EUR-Lex helpdesk):
"We have been trying to analyse and fix the problem about which you so kindly informed us. Unfortunately, both processes involve several technical issues that need time to be overcome. The new EUR-Lex is, since its opening (April-2014), the site of reference for the information related to the legislative procedures. All the content of Prelex has been made available in EUR-Lex, that also features several possibilities of research throughout the thousands of existing procedures (please see the advanced search form – domain: legislative procedures; with the important remark that this form, together with the other advanced search forms, is currently undergoing an in-depth analysis and revamp). PreLex is still updated, but since EUR-Lex is, and will be, the site of reference, the PreLex website is foreseen to be shut down in some months. We are trying to solve the shortcomings spotted, which are not linked to delays, but to technical difficulties, but we cannot guarantee a quick and complete solution, concerning Prelex. What we can guarantee (and if this is not the case, please inform us about the mistakes or omissions you may find) is the proper information on and display of procedures in EUR-Lex webpage, that is the site to visit for searches like yours."
European Voice asked me to comment on the possible effects of the voting rule changes in the Council of Ministers of the EU that come into force on 1st November. If you have a subscription, the article can be directly accessed online. If not, here's the PDF page of the print version.
On 1st November, the new Lisbon treaty voting rules for the Council of the European Union enter into force. In comparison to the existing Nice treaty rules (and considerably simplified, for more details see especially Table A3 in the online appendix to an article I wrote on the topic), the new rules reduce the overall threshold for reaching a qualified majority from about 74 to 65 percent and allocate voting weights of individual member states in direct proportion to member states' population size. The figure below shows that the clear winners of this reform, at least in terms of increased voting weight, are the larger member states, whereas the medium-sized and small states lose out. However, the full effect of the changes in the voting rules are unlikely to be felt before April 2017. Until that point in time, any member state can still request that a Council decision is to be adopted according to the old Nice treaty rules. Whether the new voting rules will make any difference until then for the way the Council makes decisions will mainly depend on how readily member states are willing to take advantage of this right to request the application of the old rules.
My book on 'Bureaucrats as Law-Makers: Committee Decision-Making in the EU Council of Ministers' is now also available from Routledge in paperback at a significantly reduced prize of £30. UACES members only pay £25 by entering the code 'uaces' at checkout.
An updated version of the European Policy-Making (EUPOL) dataset is now available here. The information was downloaded from Prelex on 17th and 18th September 2014, covering the entire 7th term of the European Parliament. However, it should be noted that a substantial proportion of proposals recorded in Prelex in the years 2013 and 2014 lack any information on the progress of the decision-making process (i.e. the only information available for those cases is the proposal code, the title of the proposal, and the code of the legislative procedure). To be precise, process information is missing for 171 of 936 proposals in 2013 and 310 of 583 proposals in 2014. At the moment, it is not clear why this information is missing and whether it will be added to Prelex at a future point in time.
I have written a contribution for the European Politics and Policy blog of the LSE, which discusses possible effects of the change in Council voting rules resulting from the Lisbon Treaty amendments. The entire blog entry can be read here: http://bit.ly/1j3ZrAw.
Daniel Naurin and I contributed an article on 'The effect of codecision on Council decision-making: informalization, politicization and power' to a special issue on 'Twenty years of legislative codecision in the European Union' that just came out in the Journal of European Public Policy.
I have written a summary of my article on 'Coalition-Building and Consensus in the Council of the European Union' for the LSE's European Politics and Policy blog. The articles came out in print this week in the British Journal of Political Science. A copy of the article is available here.
The Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Limerick is inviting applications for a PhD scholarship in the area of European Union Politics. Applications are especially welcome from candidates who wish to study aspects of the European Parliament or the Council of Ministers in their role as law-making institutions. Skills in research methods or a willingness to acquire them would be an advantage.
The scholarship covers tuition fees (at EU rates) and provides a maintenance grant of €7000 per year for up to four years, subject to academic performance. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the tutorial teaching of the department.
Applications should include (a) a research proposal (5 pages maximum); (b) copies of academic transcripts; (c) a CV or resume (3 pages maximum); and (d) one academic reference. The closing date for applications is 1 May 2013.
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Government Gazette, a "quarterly magazine which provides quality analytical and politically neutral coverage of the leading institutions and policy makers in the European Union, its cities and regions", has asked me to contribute an article to its section about the "Irish EU Presidency". The article has been published in the magazine's October edition and is available online here.
Version 4 of the European Policy-Making Dataset (EUPOL) is now available for download. The data have been updated to include all decision-making processes initiated in 2012.
My paper on Coalition-Building and Consensus in the Council of the European Union has been pre-published by the British Journal of Political Science as part of their FirstView online service.
Although qualified-majority voting is possible, member states in the Council of the European Union
(EU) still adopt most policies by consensus. The agent-based model of coalition building in multilateral
negotiations presented here addresses this puzzle. The model demonstrates that consensual decisions may
emerge as an unintended by-product of government representatives' desire to form blocking coalitions.
A qualitative case study demonstrates the plausibility of the model's assumptions and resulting coalitionbuilding
dynamics. Moreover, a quantitative test shows that the model's predictions correspond closely
to the observed consensus rates. Finally, computational experiments predict a positive effect of the voting
threshold but no effect of increases in membership on winning coalition size, which has important
practical implications for institutional design and enlargement policy.
My book on 'Bureaucrats as Law-makers: Committee decision-making in the EU Council of Ministers' has been published with Routledge now. Further details about the book can be found on the publisher's website. Members of UACES can buy the book at a heavily discounted prize of £25.
From the back cover:
The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European policy-making process. Drawing on formal theory and combining quantitative and qualitative methods in an innovative fashion, this book provides novel insights into the role of national bureaucrats in legislative decision-making of the Council of the EU.
The book examines and describes the Council of Ministers' committee system and its internal decision-making process. Relying on a wide quantitative dataset as well as six detailed case studies in the policy areas of Agriculture, Environment, and Taxation, it provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the extent to which national bureaucrats act as law-makers in the Council. It also examines the degree to which theories on collective decision-making, delegation, and international socialization can account for variation in the involvement of bureaucrats. Investigating how often and why national officials in working parties and committees, rather than ministers, make legislative decisions in the EU, this book addresses the implications of bureaucratic influence for the democratic legitimacy of Council decision-making. The author finds that ministers play a generally more important role in legislative decision-making than often assumed, alleviating, to some extent, concerns about the democratic legitimacy of Council decisions.
Bureaucrats as Law-Makers will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in the field of European Union politics and policy-making, legislative decision-making, intergovernmental negotiations and international socialization.
Together with Bjorn Hoyland from the University of Oslo, I organized and acted as discussant for a panel on 'Legislative Politics in the European Union' at this year's Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) in Chicago. The panel line-up with summaries of the papers is given below and some of the presented papers are available for download from the online archive of the conference.
8-1 Legislative Politics in the European Union
Date: Friday, April 13 10:25 am
Chair(s): Heike Kluever, Nuffield College University of Oxford
Frank Haege, University of Limerick
Bjorn Hoyland, University of Oslo
The journal West European Politics has announced today that my 2011 article on 'Politicising Council Decision-making: The Effect of European Parliament Empowerment' has been awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize of that year for 'making a significant contribution to the study of comparative European politics'. Here's a link to the complete text of the announcement.
Based on the updated version of the EUPOL dataset, which includes information up to and including 2011, I had a look at the European Commission's recent policy-making activities (the underlying numbers, a few more graphs, and the do-files generating them can be found here). In general, the data point to a substantial increase in the number of documents submitted by the Commission last year as compared to 2010. With respect to non-binding policy documents, the increase is mainly due to the larger number of working papers submitted (up from 64 to 107), while the number of communications (up from 141 to 145) and reports (down from 165 to 159) remained largely stable (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Number of non-binding policy documents by type of file (1976-2011)
With respect to legislative proposals, proposals for all types of acts have increased considerably in relative terms: the number of proposals for decisions almost doubled (up from 9 to 16), the number of directives increased by more than half (up from 30 to 46), and the number of regulations by about two thirds (up from 77 to 128). In absolute terms, the increase in the number of proposals for regulations was clearly by far the highest (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: Number of legislative proposals by type of file (1976-2011)
Not surprisingly, given the extension of the applicability of the codecision procedure to almost all policy areas by the Lisbon treaty, the overwhelming majority of legislative proposals in 2011 was processed through this procedure (now officially called the 'ordinary legislative procedure'). The number of codecision files increased from 108 in 2010 to 168 in 2011 and the number of consultation files increased from 8 to 22. Despite this growth, the latter number is still much lower than the 2009 number of consultation files of 98. However, the number of consultation files pre- and post-Lisbon might not be directly comparable. Over the last three years, PreLex indicates an increasing number of proposals that are submitted under a new 'inter-institutional non-legislative procedure' (more than 500 proposals already). According to a Kosmopolito blog post, this 'NLE' category covers all procedures that involve the EP but do not fall under the ordinary or special legislative procedures (i.e. the old assent and consultation procedures). Since no explicit distinction between legislative and non-legislative acts existed before the Lisbon treaty came into force, I would not be surprised if some of the files now classified as being decided through the non-legislative procedure used to be classifed as being decided through the consultation procedure. Any comments or insights shedding some light on this question would be very welcome.
Figure 3: Number of legislative proposals by type of procedure (1976-2011)
All in all, the number of legislative proposals introduced by the Commission seems to have rebounded from all-time lows in 2009 and 2010. The relative inactivity in terms of legislative proposals might have had something to do with the uncertainty surrounding the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty and/or subsequent adjustments to the new rule book. It will be interesting to see whether the strong increase in 2011 marks the start of a more ambitious legislative programme for the remaining term of the second Barroso Commission.
The third version of the EUPOL dataset covers the time period up to and including the year 2011. To ensure the smooth extraction of the information from the PreLex webpages, I had to make minor changes to the python extraction script (the two changes are documented in the script). Both the updated dataset and the updated Python scripts are available for download from the EUPOL page. I will also update the Excel file with descriptive statistics and graphs soon and discuss interesting developments in a future blog post.
A list of publications with citation statistics is now available on my Google Scholar author profile.
The dataset of chance-corrected measures of foreign policy similarity as described in the Political Analysis article 'Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement' can now be integrated into Bennett and Stam's data management software EUGene. To incorporate the dataset as 'user data', download the EUGene configuration file and the dataset in CSV format from the FPSIM page and save it into the local "user data sets" subdirectory (normally "c:\program files\eugene\user data sets").
The description of the 'European Union Policy-Making dataset' (EUPOL) has been published as a forum article in European Union Politics. The supporting information in the online appendix and the full replication archive for the data manipulations and analyses reported in the article can be accessed here. An updated version of the EUPOL dataset can be downloaded here.
A new version of the European Policy-Making (EUPOL) dataset is now available. Version 2 of EUPOL includes all decision-making processes documented in the Commission's PreLex database as of 7 May 2011. Thus, the new version adds information for about one more year. Some summary statistics of the dataset are available here.
Together with Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University), I organised and chaired a panel on Biology and Political Science at this year's ECPR conference in Reykjavik. Some of the presented papers are available for download here.
Panel abstract
Recent years have seen a growing cross-fertilization between the natural and social sciences. The increasing convergence of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological toolkits (e.g. network analysis, game theory, and statistical models) fosters the generation of such interdisciplinary insights. This panel is devoted to work that crosses the disciplinary boundaries between biology and political science; either by applying biological theories and methods to political science problems or by applying political theories and methods to topics in biology. Examples of such work include, but are not limited to, the following topics: Population ecology approaches to the study of political institutions and organizations; evolutionary dynamics of the diffusion of policies and ideas; genetic effects on political attitudes; evolutionary causes of international and domestic conflict; collective decision-making in animal groups; development and maintenance of social institutions in animal groups; evolution of cooperation and conflict in general.
Papers and authors
I presented a paper on 'The Duration of Multilateral Negotiations in the Council of the European Union' at this year's ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik (25-27 August). The paper formed part of the Computer Simulation and Agent Based Modelling in Political Science panel. The mainly theoretical paper describes an agent-based model of coalition-building that allows the generation of direct hypotheses about the effects of preference configurations, impatience levels, and group size on decision-making duration. The presentation and paper is available here.
My article on 'Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement' has now been published in Political Analysis. Political Analysis is a leading methodology journal with the highest five-year ISI impact factor in Political Science. The article is available here.
A replication archive and datasets including all measures of foreign policy similarity discussed in the paper are available on the Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity (FPSIM) page.
My article on 'Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement' is now available as online pre-publication on the website of Political Analysis.
A replication archive and datasets including all measures of foreign policy similarity discussed in the paper are available on the Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity (FPSIM) page.
To accompany the article 'Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement', which will be published in Political Analysis, the new FPSIM page provides a number of dyadic datasets for download with different measures of foreign policy similarity.
My paper on 'Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement (12)' has been accepted for publication in the methodology journal Political Analysis. According to the latest ISI Journal Citation Reports, Political Analysis is the journal with the highest 5-year impact factor in Political Science.
A replication archive and datasets including all measures of foreign policy similarity discussed in the paper are available on the Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity (FPSIM) page.
My article presenting the European Union Policy-Making Data-Set (EUPOL) is now available as online-prepublication from European Union Politics. The dataset itelf is available on the EUPOL webpage.
The Department of Politics and Public Administration has launched two new MA programmes in the area of European Studies. Applications are now accepted for the academic year 2011/12. A limited number of tuition fee waiver scholarships are also available.
MA in European Union Politics and Law
The MA in European Union Politics and Law is an interdiciplinary programme offered in cooperation with UL's School of Law. It is designed to provide students with a clear and comprehensive understanding of how the European Union works. The EU and its member states form a political and administrative system governed and held together by the rule of law. Therefore, combining insights from law and political science, this interdisciplinary programme offers a unique approach to the study of the EU and its increasingly complex interrelationships with member state governments and administrations. The programme aims to provide the substantive knowledge required of students who intent to pursue a career in the European institutions and other EU-related organisations in Ireland or internationally. In addition, the programme aims to foster students' transferable skills, emphasising research methods and other job-relevant competences, which are attractive to employers in a wide range of occupational areas.
Further information
MA in European Politics and Governance
The MA in European Politics and Governance is designed to provide students with an advanced understanding of how modern societies are governed through the complex interaction between public and private actors at different levels of government. The ability of national governments to determine domestic policy outcomes is increasingly limited by interdependencies with local and European levels of government. Furthermore, the distinction between governmental and non-governmental organisations is increasingly blurred when the formulation and implementation of policies relies heavily on the cooperation of private actors. Taking a multi-level and governance perspective, the programme offers a distinctive approach to the study of politics and policy-making. The programme aims to provide the substantive knowledge required of students who intent to pursue a career in governmental and non-governmental organisations at the local, national, or European level. In addition, the programme aims to foster students' transferable skills, emphasising research methods and other job-relevant competences, which are attractive to employers in a wide range of occupational areas.
Further information
The biennial conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA) took place on 3-5 March in Boston. I presented a paper on the Council's policy-agenda, relying on a new, comprehensive dataset on the timing and length of Council working party meetings between 2000 and 2008 to map the allocation of the Council's political attention across policy-areas and over time. The paper and the presentation are available on my research page.
My article on 'Politicizing Council Decision-Making: The Effect of EP Empowerment' has now been published by West European Politics. The article is part of a special issue on 'Linking Inter- and Intra-institutional Change in the European Union' edited by Daniel Naurin and Anne Rasmussen.


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More than ever. Transform post #11
The yearly "World Energy Outlook" of the IEA (International Energy Agency) is the bible for energy policy makers. Last year's report is clear about the way the world is going: making more sustainable energy but, also burning more and more coal. And the bad message is that burning coal is growing faster than the production of sustainable energy worldwide. Time to act! More than ever!
Due to the fact that the US produces more and more shale gas, the prices of coal form the US dropped during the last years. And in the Netherlands, gas fired power plants are shut down because they don't produce profitable energy due to the high price of gas in Europe and the low price of imported coal. And you understand that the simple solution for the producing companies is to import coal and burn it to make electricity. Not the sustainable way planned.
More than ever, we need to work on sustainable solutions!
More than ever, we need smart energy solutions!
More and more our cities need TRANSFORM solutions!
– Solutions for Energy Efficiency for houses and buildings.
– Speeding up wind energy and solar energy.
– Solutions for smart energy grids.
– Effective heat recovery solutions and heat grids for our old cities.
– Climate neutral new buildings and city districts.
– Electrification of transport and its infrastructure.
We need to try to scale up replicable sustainable energy solutions. MORE THAN EVER WE NEED TO TRANSFORM!
Ronald van Warmerdam
Sr project manager Projectmanagement Bureau, city of Amsterdam / lecturer TuDelft / Coordinator TRANSFORM


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Mailbag: 'Are you freaking serious?'
We got lots of feedback about our first Promise Broken for President Obama — and much of it was from readers who were unhappy with our conclusion. A sampling of the comments:
• "I will have to disagree on your Broken Promise . . . The Lilly Ledbetter bill has been around for months and months and many people commented on it on the old Obama Web site back when it was first defeated when Bush was still in office and it was been discussed in the media and on tons of Web sites. I think that saying that there wasn't time for debate and comments in this particular instance is unfair. It's not like if it was a new bill."
• "Do you really think the Lilly Ledbetter equal pay required a comment period? I think it's more important than a comment period for it. There was plenty of print and electronic coverage of it, and it's the first signing. Cut this man a break. He's not the liar that just moved to Dallas."
• "The important thing is it has been signed. When time for his signature came, this bill had been completely vetted and there wasn't a lawmaker (certainly not Lilly Ledbetter) who was thinking about 'sunlight before signing.' If PolitiFact doesn't handle gray areas vs. black and white, there is not a lot we can do, if you don't."
• "I have to admit I'm not so upset about his speed in signing this one. It's a NO BRAINER. Thank you for keeping us informed."
• "Are you freaking serious, PolitiFact? Are you airing this petty grievance as a broken promise?
Do you really think the majority of Americans, other than the ones who listen to the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck types would really care? Perhaps that was your goal regarding this petty 'broken promise' grievance: Appease as many of the 'Regional Party's' constituency and disregard the the 77 percent of Americans who think that the president and his administration are doing what is right for this nation, petty grievances aside ...
"When I first saw your PolitiFact on President Obama's promises, I thought it was a great idea as I wanted to gauge his words against his actions, also. However, if you plan to continue to fill white space with these petty, nonsensical, so-called 'broken promises,' you have marginalized and watered down your authenticity. Do yourself a favor and save this section for real broken promises for which most Americans will agree. Otherwise, your readers will begin to take you as seriously as, let's see, Sarah Palin."
• "I hope sincerely there are more broken promises to come; I was born into a mildly socialist country in 1940 and will die in one nearly as leftist as France if he keeps only half of his campaign promises."
• "In fact, it is quite ironic that as a women you were not familiar enough with this OVERDUE legislation which took the slow road to Congress, and has been pending for two years, and was not rushed in the least. In addition, please understand that the purpose of this bill was to reverse a judgment, not make a new law, and indeed, it was an emergency for all women in this country! To call this a broken promise based on a technicality of no consequences demonstrates to me that I will be discounting PolitiFact Web site as often as possible, and using this as my example as to why it is not to be taken seriously."
• "I liked your analysis about Obama's first broken promise. It contained precise details such as the time that the WH finally allowed comments, if I'm not mistaken at 12 p.m. the same day it was signed. But beware of Obama cultists who will falsely accuse you of 'blowing it out of proportion' and other nonsense."


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