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It's the autumn, so when there's less opportunity to get out at night, what about giving yourself a bit of extra confidence when it comes to fixing a puncture?
We've got two evening sessions planned in Colchester in November, four in Chelmsford and more training courses in Yorkshire too:
- Wednesday 13 November (beginner)
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Both sessions are running at the Waiting Room, (The Bus Station), at Queen Street and run from 6.30pm – 9.30pm
- Saturday 2 November – 9.30am – 12.30 (beginner)
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This lovely XIIth-century Catalan homestead restaurant will not let you down. Located just a 10-minute walk from Girona's old Jewish quarter, Maràngels prepares mainly seasonal cuisine and changes its à la carte dishes four times a year in order to offer its clients fresh products of the highest quality.
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Liar, Liar
This story appears in the October 2003 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
A major U.S. company's chief resigns after authorizing large payments to top executives while negotiating a deal to slash average workers' pay. A multinational with significant business in the United States restates its revenue by nearly $1 billion. A leading American firm based in a southern city is charged with massive financial fraud; its CEO, who had lived an extravagant lifestyle, is indicted. Scenes from scandal-ridden 2002? Nope. All these events-the resignation of American Airlines' chief, the restatement of revenues at food-service giant Ahold, and the charges against HealthSouth and Richard Scrushy-happened this year, just one year after the biggest wave of corporate scandals in decades and after the passage of new legislation to combat corporate malfeasance.
Indeed, businesspeople and ethics specialists say, it's apparent that despite the 2002 scandals and legislation, little has changed in American business culture. Change appears slow in coming because lying and dishonesty simply have become a much more accepted part of business-and of American life. To fight this trend and to inculcate the idea that dishonesty is unacceptable, companies, business schools and corporate leaders will need to undertake massive, systemic reforms.
Nothing Changes, and Why
This year has been a bad rerun. In 2002, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley law, which forces chief executives of publicly traded companies to verify their financial statements, provides some protection for corporate whistle-blowers, and creates a board to oversee accounting at public companies. Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer negotiated a settlement with financial institutions that forced them to pay significant fines and further separate their research and investment banking businesses.
Yet in addition to the scandals at Ahold, American Airlines and HealthSouth, ExxonMobil has come under investigation for paying a fixer to funnel bribes to the Kazakhstan government, while the New York Stock Exchange is questioning employees for allegedly illegally profiting from trades, and drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has been hit by an FBI fraud investigation. In the most recent survey by the Society for Human Resources Management, an HR trade group, nearly half the respondents said ethical behavior was still not rewarded in the workplace.
"Not much has changed. We're still seeing the same behavior because the whole culture hasn't changed," says Dawn-Marie Driscoll, executive fellow at Bentley College's Center for Business Ethics in Waltham, Massachusetts. The culture in the workplace remains one in which, even with more safeguards against poor ethics, there is no notion that ethical behavior is in itself something to strive for, she says.
Other ethics specialists agree. "Greed still rules the day. A lot of people in the executive suite are thinking the scandals will just blow over," says David Batstone, the author of Saving the Corporate Soul. "Executives are focusing on compliance with ethics rules, but they haven't come out and tried to attack the root causes of the problem--the idea that if you're making money, any behavior is acceptable."
Small companies have hardly been immune to the continuing ethical morass. According to a recent survey of entrepreneurs by The Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, small companies today are less likely to have ethics programs than larger businesses. In a study conducted by Batstone, 53 percent of employees in small and large companies said they would be willing to misrepresent corporate financial information if asked to by a superior.
Indeed, many businesspeople and ethics specialists say dishonesty has become so ingrained in business that regulation or prosecution of a few supposed "bad apples" is unlikely to have a major impact. "You can't legislate morality," says Arthur Brief, director of the Burkenroad Institute for the Study of Ethics and Leadership in Management at Tulane University.
There are several reasons why unethical behavior has become so ingrained-and so hard to combat. Corporate leaders have increasingly become divorced from workers as executive pay has multiplied, a problem at both large and small companies. As a result, Batstone says, many executives seem to have lost touch with bedrock ethical values.
In 2000,
of college freshmen said doing well financially was "very" important"; 30 years earlier, less than half had said so.
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In addition, according to Michael Lissack, director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, an ethics research organization in Naples, Florida, more Americans have come to rely on market forces rather than government to police ethics in recent decades, yet the market is not set up for policing. "When we say the market will handle ethics-the market will punish or not punish ethical problems-we divorce ourselves from responsibility for ethical decisions, and we get rid of government's function of policing ethics," Lissack says.
Meanwhile, business experts say, regulations adopted in the past year are relatively ineffective. According to Eliot Schrage, senior fellow in business and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in New York City, too many of the recent statutes are "command and control type" regulations, which don't change the fundamentals of the problem, rather than incentive-based regulations, which would provide inducements for wholesale change. And some of the regulations have been undermined by a lack of enforcement and by provisions that watered down some of their mandates.
What's more, Lissack notes, in recent years, business schools have paid lip service to ethics training, yet have not focused enough on inculcating honesty. "Business schools are supposed to be training professionals in real-world situations, but they're staffed mostly by academics who haven't spent that much time in the business world and don't know how to confront business ethical situations," Lissack contends. Indeed, in a recent poll of students at 12 top business schools done by the Aspen Institute, a research organization, only about 20 percent of respondents thought their schools were seriously preparing them to deal with fraud and ethical dilemmas.
More broadly, many social scientists believe American culture has actually come to celebrate dishonesty, which encourages lying and cheating in business. During the 1990s and early 2000s, as business leaders were exalted, greed and satisfaction were touted as positive forces in society because they supposedly led to greater returns for businesses and, in public companies, for shareholders. In 1996, a poll by Harris Research Group reported that more than 60 percent of Americans believed Wall Street was "dominated by greed," yet in the same poll, over 70 percent said Wall Street generally benefits America. Also during this time, a culture of charismatic superstar CEOs developed, in which chief executives were lionized for supposedly growing bottom lines, even if they used questionable means to do so.
Outside corporate America, the trend is apparent as well. "Popular culture has, over the past 20 years, had this emerging trend where success is craved at all costs, and even people who do dishonest things to achieve that success are celebrated," says Batstone. Indeed, several ethics specialists say, as American society has become more wealth-oriented and more socially and economically competitive, antiheroes who deliver results but may play fast and loose with the truth have been celebrated.
Other commentators agree. Writing of Stephen Glass, the serial fabricating journalist who attempted a comeback earlier this year with a splashy new novel, critic Lee Siegel of MSN's e-zine, Slate, notes: "[Glass] senses that in a commercial society that constantly stimulates the libido and makes satisfaction the highest criterion of success, any shortcut to satisfaction is permissible. Lies become a consumerist tool. Their effectiveness as a tactic earns them the quality of truth. In our moment, the Glass type is becoming more and more common."
Similarly, Philip Kennicott, culture critic for The Washington Post, argues that Americans generally "are having one of our perennial flirtations with the idea that all human civilization is built on the most venal of motivations," and that now, more than ever, we allow ourselves to satisfy these motivations. Indeed, Kennicott notes, Americans have become "the most primitive opportunists," abandoning the idea that one man's profit can sometimes be another man's harm.
Few ethics commentators think American society is heading in the right direction. Leaders are "not contrite and simply consider the fines and penalties as a means to make a problem go away," Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), who has taken the lead in Congress in handling business ethics problems, recently told a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
"There's been almost no general social change," says Lissack. Without this change, he says, specific regulations won't affect society, and people will continue to believe they should do whatever is necessary to succeed and concentrate simply on avoiding being caught.
Breaching and Repairing Trust
This engrained tolerance of lying and bad behavior has seriously damaged trust in American business. In recent USA Today polls, nearly 70 percent of respondents now say they distrust business executives. Large institutional investors, such as pension funds CalPERS and TIAA-CREF, have started voting against management decisions in publicly traded companies.
Ultimately, experts say, changing the ethical climate must be led by businesspeople themselves. "What Sarbanes-Oxley mandates, directors of companies and entrepreneurs could already have been doing. Corporate best-practices cases that follow Sarbanes-Oxley were already out there to be studied," says Driscoll. To make wholesale changes to the ethical climate, Driscoll says, businesses have to drastically change their internal systems of governance, creating truly independent internal monitors of behavior; offering stronger protections to whistle-blowers; putting systems in place that can anticipate ethics problems; and having corporate leaders not only talk about ethical behavior, but also set out specific changes that will be instituted to improve ethical standards.
But for the ethical climate to truly change, society as a whole must change. Batstone contends the general public needs to embrace the idea that the process is as important as the result, and that material success is not the ultimate determinant of self-worth and status. He argues that leaders in society need to show their organizations-and the general public-that they are contributing to society in ways other than providing a product, a good or another material item. Meanwhile, Batstone says, leaders have to shed the idea that material success equals entitlement, including entitlement to take whatever actions-ethical or not-are required to achieve success.
For his part, berinvestor Warren Buffett has argued that one way to force society, and leaders in particular, to focus more on ethics is to limit the compensation paid to leaders in all fields, forcing them to focus less on material wealth. In fact, Buffett has urged shareholders to protest executives who receive extravagant salaries.
Even as lying has become more common, significant evidence shows that Americans increasingly say they favor organizations-corporations, nonprofits, political groups-that embrace ethical practices and ideas. According to Business for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit advocacy group, in a 2002 study by DePaul University in Chicago, the overall financial performance of companies rated highly in Business Ethics magazine was better than the performance of firms that received a lower rating.
As John Brennan, chairman and CEO of investment management firm The Vanguard Group, told Bentley College's Center for Business Ethics, "Companies that mislead or lie always pay a price eventually." Maybe. But for now, old habits still have a strong pull.
Teaching By Example
To reduce unethical business behavior, the hardest change of all may be transforming American popular culture's attitude toward honesty, money and easy satisfaction. Many ethicists suggest that grade schools, elementary schools, universities and graduate schools need to make character education a larger part of their curricula.
To some extent, this has already begun. Junior Achievement Inc., an organization with headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that teaches children about entrepreneurship, has planned a program called "Excellence Through Ethics," designed to incorporate ethics into the classroom in elementary and secondary schools. Meanwhile, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, has launched an ethics camp for California elementary and middle school teachers.
But to change the culture, business schools have to respond to the ethics crisis as well. In the past, too many have compartmentalized ethics, offering one class on the subject rather than making it a focus of each course. "Most business school courses on ethics are about complying with rules rather than about broader issues of the social impact of business," says David Batstone, the author of Saving the Corporate Soul (Jossey-Bass). "Who wants to take a course on filling the regulations of Sarbanes-Oxley?"
"Business schools tend to be hard to change because they are rigid. We've been through past crises without much change in business education," says Arthur Brief, director of the Burkenroad Institute for the Study of Ethics and Leadership in Management at Tulane University. Schools must give business ethics a full department so it has prestige and is seen as worthy of attention by students, expand the number of ethics-related courses in their core curricula, and encourage more interactions between students and businesspeople who are focused on ethical practices, he says.
Some business schools are already following Brief's advice. In addition, several schools, including Wharton, have actually raised the ethics bar even before classes start, by checking applicants' resumes and personal statements more closely for fabrications (a practice few schools had followed in the past) and by including more questions about ethics when interviewing potential incoming students.
Joshua Kurlantzick is a writer in Washington, DC.


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Curry Chicken or Beef (Indian) with Coconut Milk
• 2 Cups of partially cooked chicken cubed to bite size – small pieces. (2 large breasts)
• 1 Cup chopped onion (about half a medium onion)
• 2 oz. olive oil or Coconut oil
• 4 oz water
• 14 oz can coconut milk – or – SO unsweetened coconut milk. The can has slightly less water than the other product – so adjust the amount of water.
• 6 tablespoons tomato paste (same as 3 ozs – one half of the small cans)
• 2 teaspoons curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons garam masala (either purchase at spice store or see mix below)
• 2 teaspoons sugar-substitute
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• almond slivers for garnish
4 servings of finely chopped (riced) cauliflower, prepared and hot to serve under chicken curry
• Heat oil in a large, deep frying pan. Simmer onion until translucent.
• Add curry, garlic, ginger, garam masala and stir while cooking one minute.
• Add chicken and water, scrape pan while stirring to mix in spices, simmer just until meat is heated.
• Blend coconut milk into the pan.
• Add rest of the ingredients, including the tomato paste.
• Simmer about 15 minutes to cook and blend the spices, and reduce consistency to your taste.
• Serve over riced cauliflower, garnish with the almond slivers
. Throw in a 1/2 cup of Pomegranate seeds just before serving – adds a sweet crunch.
You can purchase this mix of spices in a specialty store – or just mix your own as I did.
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Mix cumin, coriander, cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg in a bowl. Place mix in an airtight container, and store in a cool, dry place. This will make enough for multiple uses.
Just made this recipe with beef. Used good quality meat and did not want to over cook it. Fried the onions part way and put the cut up pieces of beef in the frying pan. Browned the meat on all sides and removed it leaving most of the onions in the pan. Followed the recipe as above. Did not add the water. When the Curry was fully mixed, I let it simmer for 1/2 hour to reduce it – then added the beef for maybe – 10 minutes just before serving – worked well. The meat was great.
Variations on the Theme:
Add a tablespoon or two of Peanut Butter just before simmering.
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Winchester 1886 in 40-82 caliber Built in 1894
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1886 Rifle SN 88387 built in 1894. This piece shows a round 26" barrel, caliber 40-82 with a bright excellent bore. The barrel appears to have been improperly cleaned by a prior owner. The barrel markings remain clear & crisp. The front sight is a correct Lyman's Patt. improved hunting front sight(aug/31/86) which was available for all models of the 1886.seePage 141 of the Winchester Sight book.The rear sight is a correct Winchester 24C with the proper elevator. See page 83 of the above reference. The magazine tube is complete but shows an old refinish. The receiver shows traces of case color as does the hammer. Excellent original thin blue on the bolt with nice but fading case color on the lever. The wood is very good , sound, and shows most of its original finish on the butt stock. The wrist on the right side shows what we presume the initials of the original owner. The forewood shows evidence of a light sanding and added oil finish. A nice representative 1886. This item comes with a Cody information sheet shipped May 18, 1894 returned by Boston dealer William Read in 1896.


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Things seem to have just gone south after all those people were injured on the set of Valkyrie. And the film just hit another roadblock. Its release got pushed back until 2009.
Tom Cruise is on a roll here! His last movie Lions for Lambs grossed only $15 million. Long gone are the days of Tom being able to create a blockbuster. His best saving grace would be to put Suri in something.


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Tata Steel Asian Chess Team Championship, Kolkata, India, 20-29 December 2009
A City of Joy Event Diary
Monday, December 28, 2009
Thank You Kolkata! Thank You Organisers of Tata Steel Asian Team Championships
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(Both worked round the clock to make things run: Saheli was usually Invisible and Mishra always Visible!)
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A Grand Prize Giving Indeed!
The prize giving ceremony was a grand affair indeed as can be seen from the following photos and yet reflected showed the graciousness of the VIPs present, all who key roles in making the event possible and this was shown throughout the ceremony with their obvious goodwill towards the organisers, chess, and participants.
After Dibyendu Barua welcomed all on behalf of the organising committee and shared his challenges in making this event happen while constantly expressing his gratitude to D.V. Sundar and the All India Chess Federation, the Central Government, the state of West Bengal and City of Kolkata (including buses from the Department of Tourism and cars by the Police), Tata Steel and the various other sponsors, Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan, on behalf of the All India Chess Federation congratulated him was an excellent event while at the same time pointing out he had now joined the ranks of organisers!
Mr Peeyush Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer of Tata Steel was kind enough to say that Tata was pleased to be associated with such and event and that the challenge in his opinion was less financial than in having a successful organisation so Dibyendu Barua was to be congratulated.
The guest of honour was Dr. Asim Das Gupta, State Minister of Finance, West Bengal, Government of India, and in his key note address spoke of his appreciation of the benefits of chess, reminding all that to playing chess was just like live in important moments in making and anticipating moves.
He then went on to reaffirm the state's commitment to supporting sport in general and chess in particular and offered assistance to make up any shortfall in the budget! And then went on to say he had spoken privately to Dibyendu and the West Bengal Chess Association and asked for a proposal for coaching children - a program for chess in schools which he said would have the government's full support.
Then came the presentation of individual board medals.... which was of course then followed by the winners of the championship!
(Nguyen Thi Mai Hung for Womens - Board 4 )
(Harika Dronavalli for Womens - Board 1)
(Nguyen Anh Dung for Mens - Board 5)
(Le Quang Liem for Mens - Board 1)
(India A won Silver)
(Vietnam got Gold and are the Champions!)
(Iran got Bronze)
(India won Gold and so are the Champions!)
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Final Round: India and Vietnam are Asian Champions!
The Tata Steel Asian Team Chess Championship concluded today in a final round that was little more than a coronation for men's champion India and women's champion Vietnam, but saw a fierce fight between both the men and women of Iran and India B to decide the event's second and third placings.
The final round started with India A making short work of Sri Lanka, easily winning 4-0, but in the second match a grim struggle between Ian and India B finally ended with Iran winning 3-1, ensuring that Iran would tie Vietnam for second but only placed third after tie-breaks.
(A very happy India A side at the post event live press conference being interviewed by Grandmaster P.Thipsay.).
Already assured of second place, Vietnam had a routine 4-0 win against bottom placed Nepal while Bangladesh hit form to crush Singapore 3.5-0.5 and Indonesia beat Yemen by the same score.
Individual Board Medals: 1. Le Quang Liem (VIE), 2. Sasikiran Krishnan (IND), 3. Ganguly Surya Shekhar (IND), 4. Negi Parimarjan (IND), 5. Nguyen Anh Dung (VIE).
Vietnam made sure of the title with a quick win 4-0 over bottom placed Nepal as second placed India A sat out proceedings with the 2-0 bye.
(An equally happy Vietnam team at the live press conference. You do not need to speak Hindi or English well to express hapiness!).
India B then had a chance to win second place but fell to Iran 1-3 and that meant third place would be shared between these two teams and the tier-break went in Iran's favour.
Of the remaining matches, Indonesia was surprised by Singapore 1.5-2.5 and Sri Lanka well beaten 1-3 by Bangladesh.
Individual Board Medals: 1. Harika Dronavalli (IND), 2. Paridar Shadi (IRN), 3. Nguyen Thi Thanh An (VIE), 4. Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (VIE), 5. Hoang Thi Nhu Y (VIE)
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
India A are the Men Champions!
Today, in the penultimate round, India A, unbeaten and with maximum points took on Singapore after having beaten all their main rivals, and romped home to an easy 3.5-0.5 win which ensured that India will be champions one round before the end!
(The Singapore team before their 0-4 defeat to India A.).
(The reliable Deepan Chakkravarthy K was the only India A player not to win this round.).
Instead the attention was really on the fight for second place and it was still very much the status quo after the dust had settled with Vietnam recording a 4-0 win over Indonesia while the other silver medal hopefuls Iran crushed Sri Lanka by the same 4-0 score.
India B also had an easy time against Yemen, winning 3-1, and Nepal lost 1-3 against Bangladesh.
Leaders Vietnam today faced their last strong team - Indonesia - and still easily won 3.5-0.5 to retain their two point advantage over India A which beat Bangladesh 4-0.
(A calm and determined Vietnam team in action against Indonesia whom they beat 3.5-0.5, a result which has all but won them the championship.).
(In fact Vietnam were so confident that the rested a player that had so far scored 3/3 and she was also more interested that round in doing media work that including being interviewed by TV!).
Indian B joined India A in second place, also on nine points with a 4-0 trouncing of Sri Lanka.
And with a 4-0 win over Nepal, Iran moved up to fourth place on seven points as Singapore received the 2-0 bye and fell to fifth place with six points.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
A Talk with Dibyendu Barua, Chess Legend, Grandmaster and Organiser
(Exhausted, Dibyendu Barua still kindly agreed to an interview while multitasking on the phone)
Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua, you are now also a chess organiser and promoter with the Tata Steel Asian Team Championship, so thank you for taking time during this event when you are so busy to talk to us. We would also like, before we start, to congratulate you on a very fine event - everyone we talked to has only good things to say - and despite the intense competition, the participants are really very happy to be here and very much enjoying the warm Indian and Bengali hospitality.
Q: So, how did India, West Bengal, Kolkata, and you in particular get involved in organising this prestigious event?
A: I have in the last four years been promoting chess by organising a chess for youth program in West Bengal with competitions in two age group categories, under 16 and under 25, and in casual conversation with Mr D V Sundar, Secretary of the All India Chess Federation, I mentioned I was keen to do an international event one day. Soon after I got an email challenging me to take on the Asian Team Championship that had been awarded by the World Chess Federation through the Asian Chess Federation to India, and after getting an indication of the budget, I agreed. But I really did not know what I had signed up for! This was an official international event and not just an international open tournament, and there were things like standards to be adhered to, be it hotel, equipment, etc,, protocol to be followed, and services that needed to be provided such as transportation. The budget also just kept growing and what was provided by the central government to start began to look like a very small sum indeed. So I approached the state government and they really helped. In particular I must mention the Minister of Sport and the Minister of Finance as incredibly supportive. But even then, until after the opening ceremony, and only when my employer Tata Steel stepped in as main sponsor, I was facing a major financial ruin! So I must thank all of these parties from the bottom of my heart. Also, Mr Sundar too who gave me this opportunity has been a great support throughout with much needed guidance.
Q: In the chess world, India for sure and especially in Kolkata, you are a legend, because before World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and after the early days of Manual Aaron, you were a prodigy, in fact India's first great player, performing at the top level for more than 20 years and was seen to be proof of the high quality of India chess. How do you see yourself in 5, 10 years time, and what are your remaining aspirations for chess?
A: As I said earlier, I am well employed by Tata and while not rich, I live a comfortable life and even today if I focused on playing chess I believe I would still be among the top 10 players in the country. But I have been playing a lot less in recent years, around 2-3 tournaments a year and I have become very selective. This is because I believe that I have benefited from chess and that senior players like myself need to give back to society and while organising this event I realised too that chess players like myself bring something extra in that we understand what is needed to make a good event great, having been there ourselves! I have over the years begun to get more involved in promoting chess in Kolkata and West Bengal and I see myself continuing to do that and hopefully can make a difference. In fact I am organising this event with All Sport Management India under my newly formed academy, the Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy which I set up with my own money and with no profit motive in mind.
Q: Everyone is impressed by the high quality of the organisation of the Asian Team Championship. We have heard that you have started a Chess Academy and the students there enjoy the same high standards which seems to be identified with all that you do. Please tell us a bit about your academy and what are your hopes and plans in this direction?
A: With my academy I hope to be better able to promote chess and we have two main thrusts. The first is introduce the game to children so that they will learn to love chess and to this end we have tie-ups with many schools already. Only in this way will we grow a mass of chess literacy amongst the public and appreciation by would be sponsors we recognise this community as a valuable market for their products and services. The second is to facilitate talent development which is a little more complicated. We try and reward winners at city, state, and national levels with scholarships, and for those who qualify to represent the country we even provide special training to help prepare them for international competition. I don't know how successful we will be but I will do my best and hope that is good enough.
Thank you Grandmaster. We know you are very busy indeed even though you have an excellent team in place for this event and so will let you go now!
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India A Men Lead, Vietnam Women Lead
The fifth round may have decided the championship. India A, leaders from the start met Iran which is a point behind and the only other unbeaten team, the difference being India A had beaten the other pre tournament favourite Vietnam while Iran only drew.
(India A before the start of the essentially title winning round)
And they rose to the occasion with Negi Parimarjan, Ganguly Surya Sekhar and P Harikrishnan all winning for an emphatic victory 3.5-0.5 which all but ensured India would retain their title and comfirm their leadership position in Asian chess.
In other match ups, Bangladesh fell heavily to Vietnam 0-4, Indonesia trounced Sri Lanka 4-0 as did India B over Nepal, and it was the same story for Singapore over Yemen.
Surprising Singapore met leaders Vietnam and were well beaten 0.5-3.5, Le Thanh Tu, Pham Le Thao Nguyen, and Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (see photo below) delivering the wins.
Barring a major drop in form and with a commanding two point lead, Vietnam now looks set to emerge as champions.
Indonesia took on India B which was still on a high after their win over India A yesterday and so won 0.5-3.5, while India A, even without their sick captain and team stalwart Harika Dronavalli were much too strong for Sri Lanka with an easy 4-0 rout and the kids from Nepal could not match the experienced Bangladesh team, also going down 0-4.
It was Iran's turn to get the 2-0 bye.
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Last post, I talked about what word clouds are and how they can be used to find the most common words in a given body of text. Check that post out if you want the long version.
Word clouds don't just create pretty arrangements of words, although they do that, too. You can use word clouds to define what you have written in your business plan, your mission statement or your web page. Take Coca-Cola's mission statement, for example. Throw it on Wordle.net and this is what you get:
So, what does this say about Coca-Cola? They don't just sell soda, that's for sure. Using the terms this gives us: They are operating a global business, and they want their shareholders to know they have a roadmap and they are in it for the long-term; Better actions will continue into the future.
All of the largest words in the cloud are the kind that invoke stability and sound business practices. We'll assume that this mission statement was crafted with very specific ideas in mind, which means this is how Coca-Cola wants to project itself as a business (the beverage itself has a whole other brand identity to sell).
Now, this is what Wikipedia has to say about the Coca-Cola Company:
(Note: I removed "Coca-Cola," "Company," and "company" out of the word cloud because they were too big!)
The Wikipedia entry talks a lot more about what Coca-Cola makes and its global brand identity, using much more specific wording. It's another area of public perception that Coca-Cola likely keeps track of on a regular basis.
Here are a few ways word clouds can be useful when you plug in the content you are working on:
- Find a title for a project, book or article
- Easily see how your business communications compare with your competitor's
- Identify key points in a business plan or presentation
- Ensure web copy is targeted to your keywords and target market
Plus, word clouds are also fun to do with books, and it can pinpoint their main ideas and characters. Check out Alice in Wonderland's word cloud:
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Flexible and stretchable power sources represent a key technology for the realization of wearable electronics. Developing flexible and stretchable batteries with mechanical endurance that is on par with commercial standards and offer compliance while retaining safety remains a significant challenge. We present a unique approach that demonstrates mechanically robust, intrinsically safe silver-zinc batteries. This approach uses current collectors with enhanced mechanical design, such as helical springs and serpentines, as a structural support and backbone for all battery components. We show wire-shaped batteries based on helical band springs that are resilient to fatigue and retain electrochemical performance over 17,000 flexure cycles at a 0.5-cm bending radius. Serpentine-shaped batteries can be stretched with tunable degree and directionality while maintaining their specific capacity. Finally, the batteries are integrated, as a wearable device, with a photovoltaic module that enables recharging of the batteries.
- Wearable power sourses
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TechTalks from event: FOCS 2011
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A Unified Continuous Greedy Algorithm for Submodular MaximizationThe study of combinatorial problems with a submodular objective function has attracted much attention in recent years, and is partly motivated by the importance of such problems to economics, algorithmic game theory and combinatorial optimization. Classical works on these problems are mostly combinatorial in nature. Recently, however, many results based on continuous algorithmic tools have emerged. The main bottleneck of such continuous techniques is how to approximately solve a non-convex relaxation for the submodular problem at hand. Thus, the efficient computation of better fractional solutions immediately implies improved approximations for numerous applications. A simple and elegant method, called ``continuous greedy'', successfully tackles this issue for monotone submodular objective functions, however, only much more complex tools are known to work for general non-monotone submodular objectives. In this work we present a new unified continuous greedy algorithm which finds approximate fractional solutions for both the non-monotone and monotone cases, and improves on the approximation ratio for many applications.For general non-monotone submodular objective functions, our algorithm achieves an improved approximation ratio of about 1/e. For monotone submodular objective functions, our algorithm achieves an approximation ratio that depends on the density of the polytope defined by the problem at hand, which is always at least as good as the previously known best approximation ratio of 1 - 1/e. Some notable immediate implications are an improved 1/e-approximation for maximizing a non-monotone submodular function subject to a matroid or O(1)-knapsack constraints, and information-theoretic tight approximations for Submodular Max-SAT and Submodular Welfare with k players, for any number of players k. A framework for submodular optimization problems, called the contention resolution framework, was introduced recently by Chekuri et al. The improved approximation ratio of the unified continuous greedy algorithm implies improved approximation ratios for many problems through this framework. Moreover, via a parameter called stopping time, our algorithm merges the relaxation solving and re-normalization steps of the framework, and achieves, for some applications, further improvements. We also describe new monotone balanced contention resolution schemes for various matching, scheduling and packing problems, thus, improving the approximations achieved for these problems via the framework.
Enumerative Lattice Algorithms in any Norm via M-ellipsoid CoveringsWe give a novel algorithm for enumerating lattice points in any convex body, and give applications to several classic lattice problems, including the Shortest and Closest Vector Problems (SVP and CVP, respectively) and Integer Programming (IP). Our enumeration technique relies on a classical concept from asymptotic convex geometry known as the \emph{M-ellipsoid}, and uses as a crucial subroutine the recent algorithm of Micciancio and Voulgaris (STOC 2010) for lattice problems in the $\ell_{2}$ norm. As a main technical contribution, which may be of independent interest, we build on the techniques of Klartag (Geometric and Functional Analysis, 2006) to give an expected $2^{O(n)}$-time algorithm for computing an M-ellipsoid for any $n$-dimensional convex body. As applications, we give deterministic $2^{O(n)}$-time and -space algorithms for solving exact SVP, and exact CVP when the target point is sufficiently close to the lattice, on $n$-dimensional lattices \emph{in any (semi-)norm} given an M-ellipsoid of the unit ball. In many norms of interest, including all $\ell_{p}$ norms, an M-ellipsoid is computable in deterministic $\poly(n)$ time, in which case these algorithms are fully deterministic. Here our approach may be seen as a derandomization of the ``AKS sieve'' for exact SVP and CVP (Ajtai, Kumar, and Sivakumar; STOC 2001 and CCC 2002). As a further application of our SVP algorithm, we derive an expected $O(f^*(n))^n$-time algorithm for Integer Programming, where $f^*(n)$ denotes the optimal bound in the so-called ``flatness theorem,'' which satisfies $f^*(n) = O(n^{4/3} \polylog(n))$ and is conjectured to be $f^{*}(n)=\Theta(n)$. Our runtime improves upon the previous best of $O(n^{2})^{n}$ by Hildebrand and K{\"o}ppe (2010).
A nearly mlogn time solver for SDD linear systemsWe present an improved algorithm for solving symmetrically diagonally dominant linear systems. On input of an $n\times n$ symmetric diagonally dominant matrix $A$ with $m$ non-zero entries and a vector $b$ such that $A\bar{x} = b$ for some (unknown) vector $\bar{x}$, our algorithm computers a vector $x$ such that $||{x}-\bar{x}||_A < \epsilon ||\bar{x}||_A $ \footnote{$||\cdot||_A$ denotes the A-norm} in time $${\tilde O}(m\log n \log (1/\epsilon)). The solver utilizes in a standard way a `preconditioning' chain of progressively sparser graphs. To claim the faster running time we make a two-fold improvement in the algorithm for constructing the chain. The new chain exploits previously unknown properties of the graph sparsification algorithm given in [Koutis,Miller,Peng, FOCS 2010], allowing for stronger preconditioning properties. We also present an algorithm of independent interest that constructs nearly-tight low-stretch spanning trees in time $\tilde{O}(m\log{n})$, a factor of $O(\log{n})$ faster than the algorithm in [Abraham,Bartal,Neiman, FOCS 2008]. This speedup directly reflects on the construction time of the preconditioning chain.
Balls and Bins: Smaller Hash Families and Faster EvaluationA fundamental fact in the analysis of randomized algorithm is that when $n$ balls are hashed into $n$ bins independently and uniformly at random, with high probability each bin contains at most $O(\log n / \log \log n)$ balls. In various applications, however, the assumption that a truly random hash function is available is not always valid, and explicit functions are required. In this paper we study the size of families (or, equivalently, the description length of their functions) that guarantee a maximal load of $O(\log n / \log \log n)$ with high probability, as well as the evaluation time of their functions. Whereas such functions must be described using $\Omega(\log n)$ bits, the best upper bound was formerly $O(\log^2 n / \log \log n)$ bits, which is attained by $O(\log n / \log \log n)$-wise independent functions. Traditional constructions of the latter offer an evaluation time of $O(\log n / \log \log n)$, which according to Siegel's lower bound [FOCS '89] can be reduced only at the cost of significantly increasing the description length. We construct two families that guarantee a maximal load of $O(\log n / \log \log n)$ with high probability. Our constructions are based on two different approaches, and exhibit different trade-offs between the description length and the evaluation time. The first construction shows that $O(\log n / \log \log n)$-wise independence can in fact be replaced by ``gradually increasing independence'', resulting in functions that are described using $O(\log n \log \log n)$ bits and evaluated in time $O(\log n \log \log n)$. The second construction is based on derandomization techniques for space-bounded computations combined with a tailored construction of a pseudorandom generator, resulting in functions that are described using $O(\log^{3/2} n)$ bits and evaluated in time $O(\sqrt{\log n})$. The latter can be compared to Siegel's lower bound stating that $O(\log n / \log \log n)$-wise independent functions that are evaluated in time $O(\sqrt{\log n})$ must be described using $\Omega(2^{\sqrt{\log n}})$ bits.


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Game Of Thrones S05E01 – The Wars To Come
It all flies by in an instant, ten episodes of Game Of Thrones that is. More so than any other show GOT leaves you absolutely chomping at the bit for more. This week it returns with its fifth season, after a finale last year that left audiences a little divided for a change. How did the return go?


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Methadone is a medication prescribed to treat withdrawal and the various effects of addiction to heroin of other opiates—not lead people back to their use.
New methadone is failing the people it's designed to assist, says local researcher
A recent study found the new formulation of methadone, called Methadose, and the regime used to administer it are leading to withdrawal symptoms and heroin relapse among patients.The study, published in the Social Science and Medicine journal, found that the vast majority of study participants experienced heightened withdrawal symptoms about 14 to 16 hours after ingesting the new methadone. The old formulation had previously lasted at least 24 hours, until patients got their next daily dose.
These findings confirm a story I broke in Megaphone last year, citing the experiences of users, frontline workers and harm reduction advocates after provincial authorities forced more than 15,000 patients onto the new methadone and made substantial changes to the way it's administered. Working with the BC Association of People on Methadone (BCAPOM), I witnessed the negative impacts of the new formulation from the start.
Methadone is a medication prescribed to treat withdrawal and the various effects of addiction to heroin of other opiates—not lead people back to their use.
"Within three days I was back to using heroin"
Allan Fowler started feeling bad just after he was switched to Methadose. He'd been on the old methadone for five years and had gotten clean. But "within three days I was back to using heroin, picking up Dillies [Dilaudid], morphine," he said. Patients could count on the old methadone to work steadily until their next daily dose. But for Fowler, Methadose wasn't lasting a full day. "Within 16 hours, I was getting really sick," he said. "Then, 100 per cent relapse."
Ryan McNeil heard the same thing from most of the 34 participants in his recent study of changes to Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) in B.C.
McNeil is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Urban Health Research Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. "The vast majority of people [we] spoke to talked about experiencing heightened withdrawal symptoms," he says, "usually beginning within 14 to 16 hours after ingesting [new] methadone, as opposed to the day that it would have previously carried them."
For 75 per cent of McNeil's study participants, this caused problems.They "missed doses," he says, and experienced "withdrawal symptoms that, in turn, led to increased injection opiate use, as well as the consumption of diverted [black market] methadone."
Chereece Keewatin participated in McNeil's study. "I'm happy there's people out there that care enough to listen to us, to believe us," she says of the study. As part of the BCAPOM, Keewatin became familiar with official indifference.
After 11 years on methadone, she says Methadose failed her. "I never used heroin for years and years on the other stuff [the old methadone formulation]."
But after the switch to Methadose came withdrawal and relapse: "I was really sad to go back to that stuff [heroin]. I thought [heroin addiction] was over."
Keewatin is frustrated. "Why would they change something that is already working?" she says of officials in charge of MMT. "They're not sick. They're not the ones who are taking it."
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Patients have always been policed by the methadone system in B.C.
McNeil's study found that the increasingly restrictive methadone regime further marginalizes an already vulnerable group. According to his report, it creates obstacles for patients with "insufficient resources (e.g., lack of transportation) or disruptions due to drug criminalization (e.g., arrest, detention) or housing instability (e.g., homelessness, eviction)."
One of those obstacles is that now people have to come to the pharmacy to access methadone. This policy change came in at the same time as the new methadone was introduced. Methadone deliveries enabled treatment for patients who couldn't afford bus fare to and from a pharmacy every day.
Not being able to get to the pharmacy disrupts this treatment, and that can be devastating. One participant described the experience of getting sick after missing a dose as "heroin withdrawal times 10." Having to drink the methadone every day under the watchful eye of a pharmacist, having to consent to regular urine testing, and frequent doctor visits is like a pair of "liquid handcuffs," many patients say.
McNeil's study suggests that the strict regime "operates as a form of biopower, regulating the bodies and lives of people on methadone."
McNeil and his co-investigators also found that doctors were unlikely to adjust doses to compensate for withdrawal symptoms, leaving patients to devise their own solutions. Some bought additional methadone illegally on the street to"top up." Others used heroin or various opiates to treat withdrawal symptoms.
Not just guinea pigs
For methadone patients, big changes can lead to big problems. This phenomenon has been documented for decades. In a 1992 study, researchers Steels, Hamilton, and McLean found "a decline in social stability and an increased use of non-prescribed drugs in some patients" when their methadone formulation was changed. Gourevitch and his colleagues noted the vulnerability of "those at risk for intolerance to the change" in a 1991 study.
These kinds of findings should have alerted officials to the fact that methadone patients are very sensitive to big changes. Regardless, B.C. authorities went ahead with what the McNeil study called a "natural experiment."
Drug users on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are one of the most studied populations anywhere.
But often participants never know what happens to their data. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users' (VANDU) volunteer coordinator and community organizer, Aiyanas Ormond, explained what VANDU asks before participating in any study: "Is this research going to actually support empowerment and social justice for people? Is it going to leave our movement stronger after the researcher is gone?" For his methadone study McNeil partnered with VANDU, giving the group a voice in the research process.
Cascading harms
When methadone treatment fails, it can mean a return to heroin, crime and the sex trade—what the McNeil study calls "cascading harms of MMT disruption."
The study concludes that the MMT regime is too focused on "reforming 'irresponsible drug users' ...[and on the] 'discipline' of people on methadone." In our conversation, McNeil kept strictly to his data. But, he reflected, "These changes have had such a devastating impact on people enrolled in methadone. It's really sad."
Last August, BCAPOM wrote to Terry Lake, B.C.'s Minister of Health, about the problems caused by the switch to Methadose. Minister Lake told a press conference that he would look into the situation.
An emailed statement from the Ministry of Health dismisses the McNeil study, saying it uses a small sample size. I asked about the impacts from Methadose. They wrote: "we have no scientific evidence of this effect.. we also have had no new complaints." The ministry encourages patients to talk totheir doctors if they are having problems.
McNeil disputes the provincial government's assertion of lack of evidence. "Formulation changes should be undertaken with awareness that the phenomenon of 'change intolerance' is well established in the academic literature," he says.
McNeil points out that the study had reached a point of "data saturation" at 34 interviews. That is, a point in qualitative research where no new information is being revealed. Regardless, research continues: "We are currently analyzing data from our larger data sets to further understand these dynamics at the population-level," McNeil says.
Study participant Chereece Keewatin was on the BCAPOM board when the group sent that letter to Minister Lake.
After being switched to Methadose, she started using heroin. Today, she says, "heroin is a totally different game. You gotta scrabble every day to pay for it."
That scrabbling takes the time, energy and spirit that Keewatin would have spent on advocacy. She's not optimistic the McNeil study will change things.
Doctors, patients, activists and researchers are all starting to point to the same set of negative impacts: last year's radical changes to MMT are leading to serious problems among patients. It's time for those in charge to start listening.


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We arrived in the town about noon and found the meeting place. The morning session was set to end anytime so we waited to see if anyone was there yet that was part of the Wyoming Food Freedom Act. After meeting another couple and the bill's sponsor, Representative Sue Wallis, we decided to get some lunch before the afternoon session began. This meeting was in a fairly small town and it turned out that we had a choice of two places for lunch. The first place we went was so full that there were no seats. We went down the block to a coffee shop that had a few lunch options. In the coffee shop were two well dressed men. It was obvious that they were part of the meeting we were attending. We ended up speaking with them and one of the gentlemen was rather vocal that he was not really in favor of the Food Freedom Act. Both were very respectful though and we had a good conversation. After lunch we headed back to the meeting.
I have never been involved in anything political and honestly did not know what to expect. I have to admit that I was very impressed with the overall process. It was ran very well and people were respectful of each other even when presenting differing viewpoints. Turns out that the two gentlemen that we had met in the coffee shop were the Co-Chairmen of the Committee!


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Ingredients Edit
- 1 cup diced tofu
- 4 cups cooked brown rice or quinoa (wild rice may be part of it)
- ½ cup pine nuts or chopped pecans, or a combination of these
- ¾ cup golden raisins, plumped in hot water and then drained
- ½ cup chopped green onions
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- 2 tbsp. reduced sodium tamari
- ¼ tsp. pepper
- lettuce leaves
- paprika
- parsley or coriander
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- Use extra firm tofu.
- This recipe lends itself well to a small amount of ginger powder or grated fresh ginger.
- You can use 2 - 3 teaspoons sesame oil and then add olive oil to make ⅓ cup.
- You can also skip the oil and vinegar and use a soy "mayonnaise".
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Amy Ettinger works for months to put together the Scottsdale International Film Festival's five-day schedule. As the event's executive director, she has one goal in mind when organizing each year's lineup: Surprise the viewer.
"Artistically, it is our goal that we can find the best of what is available and put it in this particular festival," Ettinger says. "There are a lot of things to balance, but we are firmly fixed every year on the highest quality of film."
Ettinger begins the search for films in January at other festivals in the U.S. and abroad. She starts actively pursuing films in March. At the same time, five to seven programmers from different walks of life review the submissions, sending Ettinger critiques to let her know if she should consider an entry for programming.
"They make sure that anything with high production values, a good plotline, or an unusual story told well is considered," she says. "[The submissions] are not the typical Hollywood ending sort of films, but they never leave you wanting. By July, we pretty much have everything locked in."
The 2017 edition of the festival counts the Weinstein Company and Amazon Studios among its sponsors. The companies, which also have films featured on the festival's schedule, have come under fire following alleged sexual misconduct by studio heads who have since left the respective companies.
Harvey Weinstein was fired from the Weinstein Company. And Roy Price resigned from Amazon Studios.
Concerned moviegoers have been debating whether they should support films from these studios.
Even as more people come forward to share stories of harassment and abuse, and executives have distanced themselves from Weinstein and Price, Ettinger is not removing the studios' logos from the festival's website — nor the films The Upside and Last Flag Flying from the festival's lineup.
"I'm one of the #metoo people," she says. "I don't think that if you are a woman who grew up between the dawn of civilization and just recently that you have not encountered some uncomfortable situation, at the very least, either verbally or otherwise.
"We cannot eradicate overnight the humiliations and [other actions] these men perpetrated on women. There are other people who work at these companies, so I am not going to join the bandwagon and strip the logos off of our website or our ads because I think it does a disservice to those who still need to make a living."
When asked if this controversy could affect next year's schedule, Ettinger says she suspects The Weinstein Company will not exist in its current form when preparations for the 2018 festival begin.
This year's title sponsor for the festival is the City of Scottsdale. That's a point of pride for Ettinger as the event enters its 17th year. To her, it says a lot about the quality and importance of the festival to the Phoenix suburb that they are willing to support it with their grant dollars.
"I'm thrilled with the way our community is starting to explode with artistic offerings," Ettinger says.
A Western called The Ballad of Lefty Brown will open the 2017 edition of the festival on Thursday, November 2.
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The one movie Ettinger really wants attendees to see is the Arabic-language film In Syria. It revolves around a mother in Damascus who uses her apartment to protect her family and friends from the violence taking place outside.
"I cannot stress how much I adored this film," Ettinger says. "The acting is superb. The storyline is current and timely. It's a confusing world right now. This film doesn't do anything to undo the confusion, but it reminds you that the human condition requires a major overhaul."
The Scottsdale International Film Festival is scheduled for Thursday, November 2, through Monday, November 6, at the Harkins Shea 14 Theatre, 7354 East Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale. Opening night tickets, which include a reception, are $25. Individual screening tickets are $12 each. There are various discount ticket packages available, but those must be purchased before 5 p.m. on November 1. For more information, visit the festival's website.
Editor's note: This post has been updated from its original version to clarify that Ettinger said she does not think the Weinstein Company will exist in its current form in 2018.


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The United States and Brazil agreed in June 2015 to "...jointly promote the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Sustainable Development Goal on food security, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture by working bilaterally and through the United Nations".
In the framework of this initiative, the Tropical Agriculture Platform (a G20 initiative facilitated by FAO) organizes a joint conference aimed at bringing together the issues of capacity development, agricultural innovation, and food security and nutrition with the objective of developing recommendations for policy-making.
A paper providing background information and introducing the topics of the conference is available here.
The e-conference will discuss the following questions:
- Which policies or instruments would be effective for developing capacities of food security and nutrition-sensitive Agricultural Innovation Systems (FSN-AIS) at the organizational and systems levels?
- Once the capacities have been developed, how can they be kept strong despite changes in management and staff turnover? Could you mention cases where capacities were successfully built and kept for at least five years? What were the factors for success?
- The concept "institution" comprises a number of formal and informal "rules of the game", including relationships between organizations, regulations and behaviours. Which are the most essential institutions that should be strengthened to foster innovation in FSN-Agricultural Innovation Systems and why?
- Which initiatives for developing capacities for FSN-Agricultural Innovation Systems are being implemented or planned in the country where your activities are devoted to the achievement of SDGs 2 (zero hunger), 3 (good health and well-being) and 12 (responsible consumption and production)?
- Which indicators would be relevant to measure improvement of capacities that support collective learning and adaptation in food security and nutrition-sensitive initiatives?
- Till recently nutrition problems in low and middle income countries were characterised mainly by undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. An additional form of malnutrition is now present in the same communities: obesity. How can the framework for capacity development for FSN-Agricultural Innovation Systems be adapted to address the more complex nature of food security and nutrition issues?
- When implementing the framework for capacity development for FSN-sensitive Agricultural Innovation Systems, how can the needs of often voiceless actors (e.g., small farmers, young people or female-led households) be incorporated and addressed?
How to participate
If you or your colleagues wish to subscribe to the e-conference, you should send an-email message to listserv[at]listserv.fao[dot]org with only the following line in the body of the message (i.e. leave the subject line blank and have no other text, such as an e-mail signature, in the message):
subscribe CD4AIS-L firstname lastname
Firstname and lastname refer to the person's first and last name. For example, if the subscriber's name is Clara Smith, then the line should be:
subscribe CD4AIS-L Clara Smith
For more information on the e-conference, please refer to the background paper.
For more information on how to participate, please contact Cristina Sette (cristina.sette[at]fao[dot]org), the conference moderator.


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The snow and freezing temperatures of January already seem like a quickly receding memory, but some of the events of the time are still fresh in my mind…….
There is a groundswell of activity happening in the Tantra world, which will lead to it becoming more and more visible and increasingly widespread as time goes by. At the beginning of January, I attended for the first time the gathering of the 'Tantra Union'. This is a meeting of many of the most well known, well established and respected teachers of Tantra in the UK. These two days gave me a chance to get to meet and meditate with and exper ience some of the flavour of different teachers work and, equally importantly, brainstorm ideas to raise the profile of Tantra. I especially enjoyed the company of these fine and talented people, and getting a renewed appreciation for the diversity of perspectives that come under the umbrella of 'Tantra'.
Two weeks later I was at another Tantric gathering as the School of Awakening (meaning Sarita, and many of her most experienced teachers, apprentices and trainees) hosted a weekend, at Croydon Hall, for the media (there were two camera crews plus several print journalists, click here for the SoA blog). This included my first filmed interview and facilitating a day of Singles Tantra and a Couples day for the media to observe or participate in. My pubic hair finally made it onto film after years of trying!! See the handsome man Sarita is demonstrating the Chakra massage on to your left……
The event was considered a great success by all – to such a degree that some of the journalists were so deeply touched by the sacred and beautiful atmosphere that permeated the work that they wanted to book themselves onto a longer residential group!
One aspect of my work that I'm really beginning to enjoy (slightly to my own surprise) is giving talks and interviews – I gave my first Tantric massage talk in January, and am really look forward to doing that again on 9th February. As well as being filmed at the School of Awakening media weekend, I also gave my first radio interview this month! It will air on Sarah Scarlett-Williams' Vivacity show at 12pm on 10th February, on Bristol Community Radio. Check out the start of my career as a radio star!! We'll have the podcast available to download on our website shortly after the show.
As I write about all this media exposure and exciting future plans, I realise that I am part of a growing wave of practitioners and teachers who are feeling ready now to respond to the Call: the vision of practices and principles from Tantra starting to be more widely understood, more easily accessible and sought out by greater numbers of people of all ages and walks of life, as their life enriching value and benefit is generally recognised and appreciated. This means sharing the work with more passion, professionalism and integrity, and a willingness to explore new ways to describe what we do, so that an ever wider spectrum of people are getting exposed to this ancient wisdom that has so much to offer the modern world. So who knows – in a few short years we may be seeing Tantra much more frequently on the TV, radio and certainly the internet, maybe nightclubs/dance parties with Tantric themes or ambience, and Tantra classes becoming as common as yoga is today. You heard it here first!
Also in January, two more groups had the chance to experience 'Feeling Really Really Good Through Tantra' – one at Osho Leela and one in London. This group process is really developing into a "delightful, fun, nourishing, stimulating, refreshing" structure. The people who come to participate are consistently describing experiences of great insight, profound yet simple joy, liberating spontaneity and delightful fun! I love running this workshop!! The next opportunity to experience this aspect of my work will be another residential weekend at Osho Leela from April 9-11, and in Bristol on 24/5 of the same month. See our calendar for all the details.
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Did Santa bring you a tablet or phone for Christmas? It's time to put that new toy to use: to watch TV!
Check out the best TV shows of 2014
For $5.99 a month, you can subscribe to CBS All Access, which features, among other programs, full seasons of 15 current CBS shows (with new episodes up the day after they air); previous seasons of eight current shows; and more than 5,000 ad-free episodes of classic shows. CBS All Access is also available through the CBS App on Apple and Android devices.
Here are eight shows you can watch right now on CBS All Access.
1. The Good Wife: Still missing Will? Look back at happier (and sexier) times.
2. NCIS: Keep this on hand if you're with the parentals.
3. The Big Bang Theory: This is no bazinga.
4. Hawaii Five-O: Old ...
5. Hawaii Five-0: and new.
6. Perry Mason: Go super old school with the legal drama, which is available for streaming for the first time.
7. The Mentalist: Before the drama wraps for good in February, catch up with Jane, Lisbon and all the Red John red herrings.
8. Reality shows: If you have a lot of time to kill, you can move in with 16 seasons of Big Brother, globe-trot with 24 seasons of The Amazing Raceand join a tribe or a few dozen with 28 seasons of Survivor.
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Today I'm working through a few orders, hitting the Post Office, and making a couple gifts in between. Monogrammed burp cloths, anyone? I LOVE these!
A customer is doing a guest room makeover and wanted a special throw pillow for the bed. It's well underway! (Time lapse -- the Janome is fast, but not crazy!)


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About 2 months ago I received an invitation by my pastor to take part in an Easter art project at our church. I felt extremely honoured to be asked, and jumped at the opportunity to work with such a diverse group artist. Those involved displayed talents in woodworking, pencil sketches, paintings, poetry, music and pottery. All of our work was incorporated into an annual event our church host on Good Friday called "Journey to the Cross", as well as the Good Friday Service.
The idea was to share a piece of art that depicted the events Good Friday. After a short time searching images on my laptop I came across this image from the fall of 2010 I entitled "Fisher of Men". Normally it is the colours and light that I'm drawn to when creating a photograph, but for this scene in Deer Island it was the cross. I'm not sure if it has a specific purpose for the local fishermen but the cross represented so much more to me and my faith and why I placed it in the center of everything.


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My name is James E Brown, I go by Jim to my friends. I was born in 1956 in Portland Oregon. I was raise in Hillsboro Oregon after spending 4 years in California from ages 1 - 5. Later moving to Aloha Oregon I graduated from Aloha High School in 1974. I went to work in the automotive buisness after High School and have in that buisness since. Hobbies have always included fishing, reading and writing. I hope you enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoyed writing them. If you have any coments or questions feel free to reach me at twitter or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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TechniTex Faraday Limited is the Premier Research and Knowledge Transfer Organisation for the UK's Technical Textiles and Advanced Textile Materials Sector. It is industrially driven, focusing on research, design and development of new technologies and applications for the technical textile industry. Established in 2000, TechniTex is a not-for-profit organisation serving the UK Technical Textile Sector.
TechniTex offers state of the art landscape reports, strategic reviews and consultancy services for a wide range of technical textile requirements and it's team of Sector Specialists have significant expertise in a wide range of product and process areas including e-textiles, fibre and fabric performance, surface modification, novel processing, material selection, healthcare and PPE.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
The Many Faces of Niko
3 comments:
- racheld said...
My first glimpse of ANYTHING with first sip, First Cup! After an entire week with Our Dearie, I just collapsed and slept in this morning.
You KNEW how much the blue of those eyes would do for me today, and it's so wonderful just to let go and fall into the infinity of those blue depths.
That young man CONCENTRATES, and has many, many stories to tell.
Wonderful Saturday greeting!!
- Saturday, June 26, 2010
- Katidids said...
What a doll! I love his eyes and the expressions!
- Saturday, June 26, 2010
- racheld said...
I hope all is well with you, and that you are all having a wonderful Christmas Season!
I've SO missed you and your cheery words and your pictures and THOSE BLUE EYES!!
May your entire Holiday Season be blessed with home and family and the together warmth of the bond you all share.
Hope to hear how you are, and hope you're well and warm.
- Tuesday, December 07, 2010


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I've broken my record! Stayed up from seven or eight am in the morning, did not go to sleep until 11am next day. That is, what…27 hours! That moves me up a category, doesn't it?
And I only slept for two hours, then I was up again.
I've broken my record! Stayed up from seven or eight am in the morning, did not go to sleep until 11am next day. That is, what…27 hours! That moves me up a category, doesn't it?
And I only slept for two hours, then I was up again.
i was up for 40 hours, i heard feet scampering on the roof and saw rain inside
My record is 2 weeks. I sh*t you not. I ended up having a psychotic episode and having to goto hospital and get some liquid lithium to make me sleep but thats a whole nother story…
wow. erm… congrats?
yeah you start getting pretty delusional around that stage…
my sleeping record is also pretty long… everyday i will sleep for a good 12 hours, but i think the longest i've slept is about 36 hours. Thats with a couple of small breaks in between though… i.e. toilet, food, drink, etc.
I find that hard to believe, as the official world record is 11 days.
Also… lithium is a reactive solid at all temperatures up to at least 100'C. Therefore the liquid metal would be very hot and very reactive. Surely you mean something else?
Otherwise, you win.
Until now, it was about 30 hours.
I haven't been able to truly sleep for the past three days…
Stupid stressful school coming back to haunt me when I want to sleep…
I'm not one to pull all-nighters (even when pumped full of caffeine)… I get drowsy at 3am and usually pass out around 4am.
hah! well i guess i just topped the record…
although i can't prove it im sure i could do it again (not that i want to)… its honestly not that hard (well for me anyway)… you get to a point where your past being tired… you no longer feel tired its like your mind becomes really switched on, like its been overclocked. I felt like I had mind-over-matter, and i did things that you would call ESP abilities, although it could have been coincidence or just plain delusion/hallucination I truly think it was mind-over-matter becoz thats exactly how i felt by that stage.
sorry i meant Valium… they sound so similar lol.
I knew we had an old one that had a poll merged them together so you can use the existing poll
My record is 38 hours.
As of right now, I've been awake for 35 hours. I'm trying to break my record.
essentially 24 - 30 something
twice i have stayed up all night driving about 12 hours, then staying up all the day, arriving at destination in the morning,
it was fun, and the destination was a meditation retreat so i got to sleep and be refreshed in little spurts, but inevitably i would crash the day after fairly huge !
although i think the first or second time i may have gotten close to 48 without sleep sans meditation
i think my longest was 37 hours…Obama had won the election- I couldnt sleep cuz i was so excited lol. I crashed reeeeally bad after that. Felt like the mother-of-all-hangovers.
well to be honest with you i have gone through 43 and a half hours and lemme tell ya please dont keep going to the hallucionations start you will be awake for another 5 hours regreting that you have stayed up for the hallucionation. scary stuff even though i still do it some times
Thanks for the replies, guys. Interesting stuff.
I'm pleased to announce I have broken my record. I've now gone without sleep for 39 hours and counting.
I wonder if I'll be able to make it to 48 hours?
Well, I made it to 41 hours yesterday, then I gave up.
I experienced drowsiness, inability to concentrate, mild euphoria/giddiness, irritability, and extremely mild occasional visual distortions.
I think I've never gone longer than 22 hours or so. I never have the extra day to spare the results so I never try to stay up extremely long amounts. It could be beneficial for lucid dreaming though… much like the WBTB method.
Reading this topic somehow makes me want to stay up.
But my family would probably think I'm on drugs.
(They're already suspicious of me always wanting to take out the trash. I think it's fun! )
Ooh, I didnt know this kind of thread did exist
My longest period without sleep is currently 40 hours, and I really didnt like the vision you get after 30 hours without sleep
I stayed up 4 days straight once. I started avoiding mirrors because I would hallucinate my skin was glowning and falling off. I remember that just before I fell asleep, I hallucinated a man in a top hat in my room, asking me if I had the medicine. I didn't know what he was reffering to, so I put my head under my covers. then I fell asleep.
I stayed up for a full 3 days after I screwed up my sleep schedule on the fourth of July. On the final day I began to have some minor hallucinations. For instance, the clock ticking sounded more like a song to me, and shadows became dark, three dimensional moving creatures. I slept for a full 13 hours after that.
About 2,5 days, felt a bit lightheaded for a couple of days afterward but that may have been for different reasons.
Now I'm having trouble staying up even one day… guess I'm getting old.


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Jaguar XKR-S Convertible
The Jaguar XKR-S Convertible is the most powerful, fastest and costliest production car ever from the British car manufacturer. Earlier this year at the LA Auto Show, the XKR-S convertible had caused a sensation along with the concept Jaguar CX-16. This car is a successor to the XKR-S coupe model which is the pinnacle of Jaguar sporting range. The convertible XKR-S offers the qualities like that of the coupe while offering driver and passenger a heightened connection with their surroundings.
On the outside the Jaguar XKR-S Convertible gets more aggressive visual package with unique bumpers, twin nacelles, carbon fibre splitter and lower spoiler in the front. On the top, there's a triple-lined fabric roof that can be automatically raised or lowered in about 20 second time at a speed up to 15mph. Extended side sills accentuate the car's ground-hugging contours, and a unique rear wing with a carbon fiber inlay and distinctive rear apron with a carbon fiber rear diffuser balances front and rear lift. Overall the car looks spectacular, hood up or down.
As the fabric roof comes down, one can see the sporty interiors of the Jaguar XKR-S Convertible. Exclusive to the XKR-S models, this one too gets carbon-leather trimmed Jaguar Performance seats with integrated head rests, racing harness cut-outs with increased side bolster support to hold driver and passenger securely during high speed cornering as well as 16 way adjustable heated seats. The three-spoke leather-wrapped heated steering wheel is equipped with multifunction keys and Jaguar-marked stainless steel pedals.
The Jaguar XKR-S convertible is powered by 5.0 Liter supercharged V8 engine producing 550 hp and 502 lb-ft of torque between 2500-5500 rpm. Also the V engine gets twin intercooler which makes it 20 percent more efficient thermodynamically than its predecessor. The car hits 62 mph at 4.4 seconds while 100 mph is reached in 8.7 seconds. The top speed is limited to 186 mph (300 km/hr), which is same as that of the RS- Coupe.
Being one of the most powerful car from Jaguar, one should not expect it to be cheap. As this Jaguar XKR-S costs a mammoth £103,000. Some of the cars competing against this one can be Aston Martin Vantage, Ferrari 458 Spider, and 2013 Corvette 427.