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Don't miss these 3 acts at the 2018 Long…
Don't miss these 3 acts at the 2018 Long Beach Jazz Festival
Poncho Sanchez will be among the more than dozen performers at the Long Beach Jazz Festival at Rainbow Lagoon Aug. 10-12. File photo..
By Richard Guzman | riguzman@scng.com | Press Telegram
PUBLISHED: August 5, 2018 at 8:11 am | UPDATED: August 5, 2018 at 8:12 am
For fans of jazz, the Long Beach Jazz Festival is known as the place to go if you want a little bit of it all, from R&B, Latin, and funk, to smooth and straight-ahead subgenres.
Once again the three-day festival will deliver that diversity when it returns to Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach Aug.10-12 with a lineup featuring more than a dozen musicians.
It will be a full weekend of music, so just to give you a taste of the diverse jazz lineup, here's our can't miss artist for each day.
Friday Aug.10
Maysa Leak: Friday is the slowest day of the festival with only three acts on the bill so you'll have no trouble seeing it all. But pay close attention to Maysa Leak. With a sultry and powerful voice, this Baltimore native is one of those singers who can do it all, from funk to r&b to soul jazz and pop. She's worked with Stevie Wonder and the 1990s British jazz band Incognito. Expect to hear a lot of songs from her latest solo album "Back 2 Love," which showcases her range with touches of disco, pop and r&b.
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Poncho Sanchez: If you're not up and dancing when this Grammy-winning Latin jazz artist takes the stage, then there is something wrong with you. The master conguero has performed at just about every Long Beach Jazz Festival since the event was founded 31 years ago, so he knows this audience well, and if you don't dance, he'll probably remember you next year.
Sunday Aug.12
David Benoit and Marc Antonie: Collaborations are nothing new in jazz, but still, this one is nice — actually, so nice. The world renowned pianist (Benoit) and guitarist (Antoine) just released a new Bossa Nova-inspired album called "So Nice!" so expect to hear a nice live version of the record in Long Beach.
This year's Hermosa Beach Summer Series lands Jamie Kennedy, Mariachi El Bronx and more
Warm weather and summer blues in concert at Scherer Park
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Snoop Dogg to DJ and noodle vendors to hit Huntington Beach for 'Nood Beach' festival
Slightly Stoopid, Dirty Heads, Interrupters and more will play the inaugural On the Water Festival in Huntington Beach
When: 5-10 p.m. Friday Aug. 10, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Where: Rainbow Lagoon Park, 400 E. Shoreline Drive, Long Beach.
Tickets: $60-$210
Information: www.longbeachjazzfestival.com
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Feature22 Nov 2020
HAYWARD FIELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Panorama by Kevin Scott
October 2020 saw the global unveiling of the incredible Hayward Field at the University of Oregon, site of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
With sweeping architecture, bold colors, and a striking modern design set within the tranquil natural beauty of the City of Eugene, Hayward Field is a world-class theater tailor-made for one purpose: experiencing and elevating the sport of track and field. This facility has athletes and fans at its very heart.
The front row of seats comes right next to the outside lane of the track, so crowds will feel the sprinters and hurdlers racing past them. This creates an electric atmosphere, connecting athletes to the crowd in an intimate setting unlike any other.
The seats themselves are wide, with plush, comfortable seatbacks. The bowl was designed to optimize the sightlines of every single seat and to amplify the cheers of the crowd within the stadium. With two permanent video boards, not a single moment of glorious action will be missed.
While the fans are enjoying those amenities, athletes will be preparing for competition inside the stands themselves, with indoor warmup and training facilities. Track surface is abundant throughout the venue, a constant reminder that Hayward Field is a permanent home to track and field athletes.
The wooden, rib-like bents that support the translucent roof and wrap the stadium are glorious symbols of the lush forests of Oregon. These shapes were the inspiration behind the WCH Oregon22 logo.
The magic of this place has captivated the world for decades, and it will continue to capture our imagination for decades to come. It is a place where local, national, and global communities come together to celebrate the sport of track and field. There is no doubt that Hayward Field is one of the greatest athletics facilities ever built and that it will be a spectacular setting as Oregon welcomes the world on July 15–24, 2022.
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MOHD FAUZAN MAT NOOR April 8, 2020 Kewangan & Perniagaan, Komputer & Elektronik
Bagaimana Mengenalpasti Ketulenan Wang Kertas RM50 ?
New Design RM50 (4th series) – July 2009
Bank Negara Malaysia is issuing a new RM50 banknote, the second highest denomination in a new design Malaysian banknotes series (4th Series). This new design of RM50 banknote is the first denomination of the 4th Series of Malaysian currency notes which will be replacing the existing series in stages.
The new design RM50 banknote retains the predominant colour of green-blue. The main theme of the design is the National Mission where the first thrust is "to move the economy up the value chain" which reflects Malaysia's economic transformation to the higher value-added activities in the agriculture, manufacturing and services sectors of the economy.
The dominant intaglio portrait of the first Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Tuanku Muhammad, is retained on the right and the national flower hibiscus is in the centre on the front of the new RM50 banknote. Design patterns from songket weaving, which are in the background and edges of the banknote, are featured to reflect the traditional Malaysian textile handicraft and embroidery.
The new RM50 banknote features Malaysia's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj at the historic declaration of Malaya's independence and the logo of the 50th Anniversary of Independence on the reverse side.
Members of the public are advised to take note of the security features and design of the new RM50 notes as outlined. The existing series of the RM50 banknotes will continue to be legal tender.
Ciri – Ciri Keselamatan
Click on any of the numbered features on the notes below for further detail:
BRAILLE FEATURE (1)
Braille feature of the diamond shape marking with a layer of tactile ink printed in intaglio can be felt by touching.
Section 1 of the obverse of the note:
WATERMARK PORTRAIT WITH ELECTROTYPE HIGHLIGHT (2)
The Watermark Portrait can be recognised by tints that are lighter or darker than the surrounding paper. This watermark portrait which has a three-dimensional effect appears without sharp outlines. At the base of the watermark, the numeral 50 is clearly visible.
PERFECT SEE-THROUGH REGISTER (3)
Perfect See-Through Register feature where the graphic songket design on the obverse side of the note will register perfectly with the same graphic songket design on the reverse side when it is held against the light.
MULTICOLOUR LATENT IMAGE (4)
Multicolour Latent Image of the denomination 50 can be seen when the banknote is tilted slightly and the colour changes when it is rotated.
[b] When tilted slightly or rotated
INTAGLIO PRINT (5)
Intaglio Print is a raised printing effect produced by applying layers of tactile inks on various parts of the front and reverse sides of the notes, such as the portrait of the First Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong, denomination figures, design elements and the wording 'Bank Negara Malaysia'.
HOLOGRAPHIC STRIPE (6)
Holographic Stripe features the denomination 50 and the hibiscus flower, with a multi-coloured pumping and matt-structure effect when the banknote is tilted slightly.
THE COLOUR SHIFTING SECURITY THREAD (7)
The Security Thread is embedded in the paper and appears on the reverse side of the note as coloured intermittent lines. When the note is held against the light, it is seen as a continuous dark coloured line and contains repeated text reading RM50 BNM. When the note is tilted, the colour of the thread changes from red to green and vice versa.
Section 7 of the reverse of the note:
FLUORESCENT ELEMENTS VISIBLE UNDER ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT
Invisible Fluorescent Elements can be seen through various parts of the background on the obverse and reverse side of the banknote and will fluoresce in different colours when viewed under ultra-violet light.
IMAGE AND TEXT ON HOLOGRAPHIC STRIPE (6)
TEXT AND LOGO (7)
A rectangle showing the text BNM 50 with the stag motif, and repeated texts on security thread reading RM50 BNM. On the obverse side of the note, the thread can be seen as a continuous yellow fluorescent line.
SECURITY FIBRES (8)
The security fibres in the paper in three colours: red, yellow and blue
TWO-COLOUR FLUORESCENT ELEMENTS (9)
Complex design numeric '50' on the reverse which can be seen in green and red.
NUMBERING (10)
The numbers fluoresce under ultra-violet light.
Section 10 of the reverse of the note:
MICRO PRINTINGS (7, 11, 12, 13)
Micro-Letterings can be viewed under a magnifying glass.
Micro-text in Security Thread (7) Background Micro-Letterings (11)
Intaglio Micro-Letterings (12) Intaglio Micro-Letterings (13)
Tarikh kemaskini: 06 April 2020
Sumber: Bank Negara Malaysia
https://www.bnm.gov.my/index.php?ch=bm_circulation_currency&pg=bm_circulation_banknotes&ac=408&lang=bm
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package com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.impl;

// Imports
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import java.util.Iterator;

import com.hp.hpl.jena.enhanced.*;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.graph.Node;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.*;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.*;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.util.iterator.ExtendedIterator;

/**
 *

 * Implementation of a node representing a complement class description.
 *

 *
 * @author Ian Dickinson, HP Labs
 *         (email)
 * @version CVS $Id: ComplementClassImpl.java,v 1.2 2009/10/06 13:04:42 ian_dickinson Exp $
 */
public class ComplementClassImpl
    extends OntClassImpl
    implements ComplementClass
{
    // Constants
    //////////////////////////////////

    // Static variables
    //////////////////////////////////

    /**
     * A factory for generating ComplementClass facets from nodes in enhanced graphs.
     * Note: should not be invoked directly by user code: use
     * {@link com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode#as as()} instead.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("hiding")
    public static Implementation factory = new Implementation() {
        @Override
        public EnhNode wrap( Node n, EnhGraph eg ) {
            if (canWrap( n, eg )) {
                return new ComplementClassImpl( n, eg );
            }
            else {
                throw new ConversionException( "Cannot convert node " + n + " to ComplementClass");
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean canWrap( Node node, EnhGraph eg ) {
            // node will support being an ComplementClass facet if it has rdf:type owl:Class and an owl:complementOf statement (or equivalents)
            Profile profile = (eg instanceof OntModel) ? ((OntModel) eg).getProfile() : null;
            Property comp = (profile == null) ? null : profile.COMPLEMENT_OF();

            return (profile != null)  &&
                   profile.isSupported( node, eg, OntClass.class )  &&
                   comp != null &&
                   eg.asGraph().contains( node, comp.asNode(), Node.ANY );
        }
    };

    // Instance variables
    //////////////////////////////////

    // Constructors
    //////////////////////////////////

    /**
     *

     * Construct a complement class node represented by the given node in the given graph.
     *

     *
     * @param n The node that represents the resource
     * @param g The enh graph that contains n
     */
    public ComplementClassImpl( Node n, EnhGraph g ) {
        super( n, g );
    }

    // External signature methods
    //////////////////////////////////

    // operand

    /**
     *
Assert that the operands for this boolean class expression are the classes
     * in the given list. Any existing
     * statements for the operator will be removed.

     * @param operands The list of operands to this expression.
     * @exception Always throws UnsupportedOperationException since a complement expression takes only
     * a single argument.
     */
    public void setOperands( RDFList operands ) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "ComplementClass takes a single operand, not a list.");
    }

    /**
     *
Set the class that the class represented by this class expression is
     * a complement of. Any existing value for complementOf will
     * be replaced.

     * @param cls The class that this class is a complement of.
     */
    public void setOperand( Resource cls ) {
        setPropertyValue( getProfile().COMPLEMENT_OF(), "COMPLEMENT_OF", cls );
    }

    /**
     *
Add a class the operands of this boolean expression.

     * @param cls A class that will be added to the operands of this Boolean expression
     * @exception Always throws UnsupportedOperationException since a complement expression takes only
     * a single argument.
     */
    public void addOperand( Resource cls ) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "ComplementClass is only defined for  a single operand.");
    }

    /**
     *
Add all of the classes from the given iterator to the operands of this boolean expression.

     * @param classes A iterator over classes that will be added to the operands of this Boolean expression
     * @exception Always throws UnsupportedOperationException since a complement expression takes only
     * a single argument.
     */
    public void addOperands( Iterator<? extends Resource> classes ) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "ComplementClass is only defined for  a single operand.");
    }

    /**
     *
Answer the list of operands for this Boolean class expression.

     * @return A list of the operands of this expression.
     * @exception OntProfileException If the operand property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public RDFList getOperands() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "ComplementClass takes a single operand, not a list.");
    }

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the classes that are the operands of this
     * Boolean class expression. Each element of the iterator will be an {@link OntClass}.

     * @return An iterator over the operands of the expression.
     * @exception OntProfileException If the operand property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<? extends OntClass> listOperands() {
        return listAs( getProfile().COMPLEMENT_OF(), "COMPLEMENT_OF", OntClass.class );
    }

    /**
     *
Answer true if this Boolean class expression has the given class as an operand.

     * @param cls A class to test
     * @return True if the given class is an operand to this expression.
     * @exception OntProfileException If the operand property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public boolean hasOperand( Resource cls ) {
        return hasPropertyValue( getProfile().COMPLEMENT_OF(), "COMPLEMENT_OF", cls );
    }

    /**
     *
Answer the class that the class described by this class description
     * is a complement of.

     * @return The class that this class is a complement of.
     */
    public OntClass getOperand() {
        return objectAs( getProfile().COMPLEMENT_OF(), "COMPLEMENT_OF", OntClass.class );
    }

    /**
     *
Remove the given resource from the operands of this class expression.

     * @param res An resource to be removed from the operands of this class expression
     */
    public void removeOperand( Resource res ) {
        removePropertyValue( getProfile().COMPLEMENT_OF(), "COMPLEMENT_OF", res );
    }

    /**
     *
Answer the property that is used to construct this boolean expression, for example
     * {@link Profile#UNION_OF()}.

     * @return {@link Profile#COMPLEMENT_OF()}
     */
    public Property operator() {
        return getProfile().COMPLEMENT_OF();
    }

    // Internal implementation methods
    //////////////////////////////////

    //==============================================================================
    // Inner class definitions
    //==============================================================================

}

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    All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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    3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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Today (19th September) marks the anniversary of Christiana Edmunds' burial in the grounds of Broadmoor Asylum. Christiana lived to the ripe old age of 79, dying in 1907 of "senile debility" (or old age). At the time of her death, her crimes were a distant memory: it had been 36 years since she had committed her poisoning spree and 35 since she had stood in the dock of London's Old Bailey. Nevertheless, many newspapers reported Christiana's death and used her passing as an opportunity to remember her "curiously cunning" poisoning spree.
For the Banbury Advertiser, Christiana was the scorned lover who planned a "diabolical course of action" as a means of winning back Dr Beard. Similarly, the Manchester Courier called Christiana the "notorious poisoner" whose case was one of the most serious of the past century. Interestingly, the Essex County Chronicle chose the headline "Mad for thirty years" and noted that her death sentence was respited on the ground of insanity.
Christiana remained a figure of interest well into the twentieth century. In 1970, ITV televised a series of plays called Wicked Women in which Christiana's poisoning spree was featured. Christiana was played by Anna Massey (whose performance was universally praised) and her "horrid case" was retold to a modern audience. Reviewing for The Times, Leonard Buckley claimed that Christiana made the "average Borgia…seem like the proprietor of a health food store."
And that, I think, sums up popular conceptions of Christiana as a lady who combined mad and bad in one of the most sensational cases of the nineteenth century.
Find out what Christiana's contemporaries thought of her character and her crimes in the first, full-length story of her life. Get it here.
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Homeonline educationI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Tr. Anil Kumar April 08, 2022
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is generally known as Daffodils. Daffodil is the name of a bell shaped flower. The colour of the flower Daffodil is yellow. The flower Daffodils have also its beautiful fragrance. It usually blooms in early spring by the lakes side. The poet has seen Daffodils has been fascinated and written this poem after returning home.
FAQs About Daffodils / I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
In which year was the poem Daffodils written?
The poem Daffodils was written some time among in the year 1804 and 1807 that has seen in 1804 by the own account of William Wordsworth. The poem Daffodils was first published in the year 1807 in poem in Two Volumes. The Revised version of the poem Daffodils was published in 1815.
I wandered lonely as a cloud 1 who is i in the extract
I Wandered lonely as a cloud in this extract "I" refers to the poet William Wordsworth.
How many daffodils are present in the poem Daffodils written by William Wordsworth?
There were Ten Thousand Daffodils present that the poet William Wordsworth saw at a glance.
How would you feel if you come across a host of golden daffodils?
If I come across a host of golden daffodils, I would feel like the poet and I gazed and gazed at the daffodils for some time. After that i thought that the very sight of the daffodil flowers are precious for me that more precious than gold and jewels. Daffodils provided me spiritual wealth. I also pluck some daffodil flowers and click some snaps of the golden daffodils.
How is the title daffodils relevant in contemporary society?
Daffodil is the name of a bell shaped flower. The colour of the flower Daffodil is yellow. The flower Daffodils have also its beautiful fragrance that draw attention towards it. The sight of daffodils give the p[perfect happiness with great joy in the state of loneliness. Today's word is very busy. People also very busy in their work. That is why human can not enjoy the beauty of nature. If we read the poem we feel and the beauty of nature and got to visit the sight of nature.


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Overcoming Challenges: Women in the Military
Broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien will moderate a discussion about the evolution of women's roles and responsibilities in the U.S. Armed Forces. Originally forbidden to serve on the battlefield, women in the military gradually won victories: more responsibilities and access to all the service academies and basic training. Finally in 2015, women were finally permitted to take part in leadership roles and physical combat, putting them on equal footing with their male counterparts. Joining O'Brien will be Heather A. Wilson, former Secretary of the Air Force; retired Brig. Gen. Kristin K. French; and Lt. Madison Hovren.
Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote and programs presented in conjunction with the exhibit are made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Unilever, Pivotal Ventures, Carl M. Freeman Foundation in honor of Virginia Allen Freeman, AARP, AT&T, Ford Motor Company Fund, Facebook, Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation, Google, HISTORY ®, and Jacqueline B. Mars. Additional support for National Outreach and Programs provided by Denise Gwyn Ferguson, Maggie and Robert Boroujerdi, BMO Financial Group, The Hearst Foundations, Maris S. Cuneo Foundation, FedEx, Bernstein Family Foundation, and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation/Ambassador Fay-Hartog Levin (Ret.).


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Cisco Cuts Investment In KPMG Consulting In Half
Cisco Systems Inc. has cut its investment in KPMG Consulting LLC in half, from $1 billion to $500 million, in accordance with guidelines established by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Cisco will reduce its ownership of KPMG Consulting from 19.9% to 9.9% in order to retain its "desired accounting treatment" with the SEC, says a Cisco spokeswoman. If Cisco had kept its investment in KPMG Consulting at 19.9%, the SEC would have viewed KPMG Consulting as a subsidiary of Cisco, according to a spokeswoman for KPMG Consulting. Cisco will reduce its investment by selling half of the KPMG Consulting shares it had purchased from KPMG LLP back to the Big Five accounting firm.
Cisco's reduced investment will not affect KPMG Consulting's plans to launch an IPO, nor does it affect its relationship with Cisco, according to the KPMG Consulting spokeswoman. "Ultimately, this will float more shares [of KPMG Consulting] out to the market," she says. Under the SEC's guidelines, KPMG LLP must reduce its own ownership of KPMG Consulting to 19.9% at the time of the company's IPO. KPMG LLP must relinquish all ownership of the consulting firm within five years.
In light of the hard times E-services companies are seeing lately and the SEC's intense scrutiny of Big Five accounting firms, Cisco is "justifiably nervous", according to one analyst. "Cisco may see KPMG Consulting as less of a solid investment now than it did a year ago," says Tom Rodenhauser, lead analyst for Consulting Information Services.
According to both companies, plans are still in place for KPMG Consulting over the next year to hire 4,000 Internet consulting professionals who will be dedicated to the implementation of Cisco networking and telecommunications equipment.


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Q: C++ error: 'unordered_map' does not name a type I am doing everything correctly as far as I can tell and I have gotten the error message:
error: 'unordered_map' does not name a type
error: 'mymap' does not name a type

In my code, I have:
#include <unordered_map>

using namespace std;

//global variable
unordered_map<string,int> mymap;
mymap.reserve(7000);

void main {
  return;
}

I don't see what can be missing here....
EDIT: when I update my declaration to
std::tr1::unordered_map<string,int> mymap;

I an able to eliminate the first error, but when I try to reserve, I still get the second error message.
EDIT2: As pointed out below, reserve must go into main and I need to compile with flag
-std=c++0x

However, there still appear to be errors related to unordered_map, namely:
error: 'class std::tr1::unordered_map<std::basic_string<char>, int>' has no member named 'reserve'

A:
If you want to support <unordered_map> for versions older than c++11 use
#include<tr1/unordered_map> and declare your maps in the form :- std::tr1::unordered_map<type1, type2> mymap
  which will use the technical report 1 extension for backward compatibility.

A: You can't execute arbitrary expressions at global scope, so you should put
mymap.reserve(7000);

inside main.
This is also true for other STL containers like map and vector.

A: Compile with g++ -std=c++11 (my gcc version is gcc 4.7.2) AND
#include <unordered_map>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

//global variable
unordered_map<string,int> mymap;

int main() {
  mymap.reserve(7000); // <-- try putting it here
  return 0;
}

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Subjects: Corporate Social Responsibility, Survey
New WeSpire State of Employee Engagement Research Finds Significant Drop in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs
WeSpire, the award-winning employee engagement platform specializing in purpose-driven initiatives, released the 2021 State of Employee Engagement report today. It is the tenth year of conducting this research and represents a unique opportunity to assess the widespread impact on employees of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift for many to fully remote work as well as rising racial justice and equity concerns, political divisions and social unrest on the US workforce.
Key findings from the report include:
Employees who feel their company is strongly making a positive impact in this world are fifty percentage points less likely to be open to leaving their job
Employees are significantly more concerned about social isolation and social unrest than HR team members think they are
Despite rising corporate diversity commitments, the number of employees indicating their company offers diversity, equity and inclusion programs fell 35% versus 2019
"This trend research is always fascinating, but particularly this year given the unprecedented challenges that the pandemic presents. The data proves once again that being a purpose-driven business is critically important for resilience and successful workforce outcomes," said Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO of WeSpire.
The research also shows a significant gap between employees' interest in having access to various engagement programs and the availability of those programs.
"The biggest, and most disheartening, surprise is that fewer employees now have access to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Our hypothesis is that many of these programs were relatively new, often volunteer-led, and just haven't effectively survived the transition to remote work. We hope this serves as a wake-up call to leaders that effective, universally accessible programs are required to turn commitments into culture change," said Stevens.
Other findings include a growing interest in pro-social incentives, ranging from donations to not-for-profits to wellbeing classes and sustainability upgrades. Finally, while many in the workplace complain of getting "too many emails", email is still the preferred method for learning about engagement initiatives for 60% of employees.
WeSpire surveyed 1,843 US adults across four generations, giving these results a confidence interval of 95%. Forty percent of respondents work for companies with more than 1,000 employees. A copy of the full research report can be requested here.
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Australian live export ship believed capsized after typhoon
by Phoebe Loomes
3rd Sep 2020 12:03 PM | Updated: 5:43 PM
The Japanese coastguard is searching for a missing live export ship after a typhoon hit waters south west of Japan.
One crew member has been rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard today, however the welfare of the rest of those on-board remains unknown, according to a report from RNZ.
The rescued crew member told rescuers the ship, Gulf Livestock 1, had suffered engine failure during the typhoon, before it capsized after being hit by a freak wave.
On board the missing vessel are two Australians and two New Zealanders, as well as a crew including 39 people from the Philippines and one person from Singapore according to The New Zealand Herald. Also on board are about 5800 head of cattle.
The search efforts are being affected by Typhoon Maysak. The cargo ship went missing after sending a distress signal during the typhoon, while in the East China Sea.
A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) told news.com.au they were in contact with the families of the crew members on board.
"The Australian Government is providing consular assistance to the families of two Australian crew members on board a cargo vessel reported missing in Japanese waters," DFAT said in a statement. "Owing to our privacy obligations we are unable to provide further comment."
An infrared satellite of Maysak. Picture: NASA MODIS Source:Supplied
The Gulf Livestock 1 is missing in waters south west of Japan. Picture: Vesselfinder.com
Livestock carrier goes missing in the East China Sea
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The ship is en route to China after departing from Napier in New Zealand on August 14. It was expected to arrive in China on September 3.
The live export ship was in waters west of Amami Oshima Island in south west Japan, according to a report from Japan's public broadcaster NHK.
About 7pm Japanese time NHK reported a sea patrol plane had spotted a life jacket in the waters, as well as an object that looked like a lifeboat.
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Pierre Boillot (Algiers, 30 oktober 1941) is een Frans diplomaat. Hij was ambassadeur in Bahrein en Suriname. Hij was de eerste ambassadeur van Frankrijk die in Suriname was gevestigd.

Biografie
Boillot studeerde aan de universiteit van Parijs en slaagde in 1958 voor een bachelorgraad en in 1964 als meester in de rechten. Een jaar later behaalde hij aan dezelfde universiteit een licentie (vergelijkbaar met master) in de letteren. Vervolgens slaagde hij in 1968 voor een diploma Arabisch.

Vanaf 1969 werkte hij in diplomatieke dienst in Libië, Koeweit, Libanon, Syrië, Colombia en Saoedi-Arabië. Van 1985 tot 1988 was hij consul-generaal in New Orleans (Verenigde Staten) en van 1988 tot 1991 ambassadeur in Bahrein.

Vanaf 1991 was hij ambassadeur in Suriname. Hij was de eerste Franse ambassadeur die in Paramaribo was gevestigd. Tijdens zijn ambassadeurschap eindigde de Binnenlandse Oorlog in Suriname, die tot gevolg had gehad dat Frans-Guyana een toevluchtsoord was geworden voor duizenden Surinamers. In januari 1993, na afloop van de oorlog, wilde de Franse regering vergeefs rond de achthonderd Surinamers in Charvein nabij Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni repatriëren. Boillot bleef in dienst in Paramaribo tot 1994.

Vanaf oktober 1996 was hij ambassadeur in Costa Rica en vanaf augustus 1999 in Jemen. Hier bleef hij tot medio 2003.

Frans ambassadeur in Suriname

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London: a walk in the park
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Chris Dorney
In the 2016 London Mayoral election, the city's natural environment was high on the agenda. Geographical asks: does the capital have a green future, and what might it look like?
Tired of London, tired of life, as Dr Johnson so neatly put it. However, his further claim that 'there is in London all that life can afford' has likely raised many an eyebrow over the intervening years, not least by the millions who flocked to the surrounding suburbs following the birth of the railways, escaping the fabled dirt, grime and squalor of the city. While undoubtedly a place where culture, society and business thrive, London has never epitomised a popular vision of an ecological hotspot.
In the recent 2016 Mayoral election, won by Labour's Sadiq Khan, the environment – from air pollution to green spaces to cycle lanes to solar energy – was very much on the agenda. This can be partially attributed to a 21st century world where 'liveability' and 'green cities' are increasingly en vogue, moving from mere buzzwords to genuine concrete policies. However, the city's 8.6 million residents have also spent the past four years reading headlines about how many thousands of Londoners die prematurely due to air pollution every year, that the city's children are spending less and less time outdoors, and that many people are being increasingly priced out of the tree-lined residential streets found in the capital's more affluent boroughs.
The election asked some fundamentally big questions: does London have a green future? If yes, what might that look like? Can this truly global city, like its contemporaries around the world, evolve and re-embrace its green-ness, its naturalness, its wildness?
'It's one of the first times that you [had] such green competition at an election, which is really wonderful,' observed Frieda Metternich, a policy advisor for the London-based think tank Green Alliance, prior to the election. As she noted, all major candidates for the election made varying bold promises related to improving the city's natural environment, with near universal agreement on cleaning air, improving solar capacity, and generally encouraging Londoners – especially children – to spend more time outdoors. She believes that there has been a noticeable shift following the COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris last year. 'There is momentum around climate, greening, and living in sustainable cities,' she said.
Despite the existing pledges, Metternich and her colleagues challenged candidates to dream bigger. She is lead author of a report entitled Greener London, co-published by a consortium of environmental organisations (Green Alliance, Greenpeace, RSPB, WWF, National Trust, CPRE, Friends of the Earth, London Wildlife Trust and Campaign for Better Transport) which set out suggested policy decisions that could be reasonably undertaken over the next four years and would make a significant difference to London's environment.
'Our starting point was, how do we make a better, healthier, cleaner and fairer city?' explained Metternich. 'This is not some utopian London that is not actually deliverable – it's something concrete that the next Mayor can do if he wants to. The ideas are feasible, yet ambitious.'
These proposals included a tenfold increase in the city's solar capacity, a requirement for green rooftops on new commercial developments, and quality green spaces to be introduced to 100 social housing estates by 2020. However, it led with proposals to phase out diesel-powered black taxis and buses by 2020 and 2025 respectively, to expand the city's Ultra Low Emission Zone (an area in the city's centre where vehicles have to meet certain exhaust emission standards or pay a fee to travel through), and to set up a fund specifically devoted to tackling air pollution around London's schools.
Metternich explained how air pollution is one of the key reasons preventing London from scoring highly whenever cities around the world are ranked by sustainability or liveability. An estimated 9,400 Londoners died prematurely from air pollutants in 2010, principally from exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine PM2.5 particles, with commercial hotspots such as Oxford Street and Putney High Street consistently breaching their annual EU limits for NO2 within the first few days of January.
Lost Green
London-based environmental charity and think tank Green Alliance claims that budget cuts to local council spending have led to reduced investment on open spaces, and forced the development of London's formerly green land. Between 2009 and 2012, 215.5 hectares of 'green, open land were lost', a space the Alliance equates to the size of Hyde Park and Battersea Park combined.
'There is currently a massive financial crisis for London's parks,' says the Alliance's Frieda Metternich. 'Quite often at the moment the grass is maintained but all the other bits aren't. It's something people don't really see immediately, but local authorities have no money at all to properly care for parks anymore.'
One radical idea for significantly improving the city that has gained a lot of traction – and one that was strongly endorsed by all four Mayoral candidates at the Greener London electoral hustings hosted by Green Alliance in March – was Daniel Raven-Ellison's proposal to make London into the world's first National Park City. 'We want to make London a far greener city, both in terms of it being physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and technologically greener, and in the process making people and wildlife better off,' enthuses Raven-Ellison. 'This is about inviting life into the city.'
The idea he proposes – which is supported by over 100 social and environmental organisations and which received a vote of confidence from the London Assembly last year – goes far beyond making isolated changes to parts of London's urban landscape. Instead, it views the entire city – all 1,572km2 of it – as a living, breathing organism.
'The focus on the National Park City is around the things individual people can do that can improve their lives, or the lives of others, including wildlife,' explains Raven-Ellison. 'We're not coming from a top-down position saying, "What can government, or business, or the council do to make your park better?" We're asking what are the things that you can do to have a better experience? That's the big thing.'
The working definition for a National Park City labels it as a 'large urban area that is managed and semi-protected through both formal and informal means to enhance the natural capital of its living landscape.' This includes 'the widespread and significant commitment of residents, visitors and decision-makers to allow natural processes to provide a foundation for a better quality of life for wildlife and people.'
At its heart it's an encouragement for all residents of London's capital to embrace opportunities for ecological engagement by any means, large or small, by scaling up existing practices across the city.
'The really exciting thing is creating an atmosphere where millions of people make everyday decisions in their gardens, and in their lives, and as parents, that they'll want to do because of a cultural change that will make the city better in a wide range of ways,' continues Raven-Ellison. 'That can be as small as someone deciding they're going to, as a family, put a bird box in their wall. Or it could be as big as a major property developer saying, "We're going to be the first property developer to install swift bricks, hedgehog holes, and bug hotels in every single building."'
His proposal explains how the official declaration of London as the world's first National Park City would lead to the creation of the National Park City Partnership (NPCP), an organisation with no formal planning powers, but with the responsibility to inspire and educate parties across the city in order to bring the National Park City idea to life. Drawing parallels with Tech City in East London, Raven-Ellison envisages the NPCP as a unifying force to find and promote best practice in creating a wilder London more suited to outdoor recreation, urban exploration and guerrilla gardening.
Specific initial goals include: increasing the city's physical greenery from 47 per cent to 51 per cent; consistently improving London's air quality, water quality and biodiversity, as well as inspiring new business activities and the construction of affordable green homes; ensuring 100 per cent of Londoners have 'free and easy access to high-quality green space', as well as aiming to 'connect 100 per cent of London's children to nature'.
'Clearly 100 per cent is quite a challenging target,' admits Raven-Ellison, a former geography teacher. 'The point is that it's unacceptable to think that anyone isn't connected. Every nursery, every primary school and every secondary school should have policies in place to make sure that outdoor learning is taking place across the curriculum. We need a shift in culture where it becomes seen as neglectful to have your children inside.'
Feedback appears to suggest overwhelming support for the idea, according to an in-depth survey organised by Edward Truch, a director of the National Park Research Centre at Lancaster University. 'We asked a number of quantitative questions around people's understanding of how green London is and also the extent to which they would support all sorts of initiatives, including the formation of the National Park City, having explained to them what the concept is,' says Truch. 'To our amazement, in excess of 85 per cent of the general population of London feel that it's a very worthwhile initiative and should be carried through.'
Furthermore, 83 per cent thought making London a National Park City would improve Londoners' health, 85 per cent felt it would make it a better place to live and visit, while 88 per cent thought it would help protect and promote parks.
The argument that creating the London National Park City would improve Londoners' prosperity also has support from the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP). 'One of our missions is to define what prosperity can mean for people and how it can be achieved,' explains Konrad Miciukiewicz, a research associate at the IGP. 'We go beyond the economic context of prosperity towards broader definitions that incorporate cultural and environmental dimensions and other issues like health and diversity.'
The IGP concluded that the London National Park City would 'enhance well-being, sustainability and prosperity in the metropolitan environment' as a result of the benefits provided in terms of health, environmental sustainability, diversity, social inclusion, and political empowerment. 'Our key idea was to think about the vision of a National Park that would recognise that the natural environment and the built environment are weaved and work together,' says Miciukiewicz. 'While most National Parks are quite top-down governance structures, we were working towards a concept of a National Park that would be more open to bottom-up initiatives.'
Therefore, the IGP proposed a number of measures including a Greater London National Park City charter, a Natural Capital Fund to act as a financial arm of the National Park City, and a Mobile Green Hub to educate Londoners about the work of the Park. 'We tried to build a positive social and cultural case for this,' says Miciukiewicz. 'Our idea was to imagine something that would open up channels of human creativity and that would bring different communities together to do something in nature, for nature and to benefit from that in different sorts of ways.'
The Green Belt
Contemporary discussions regarding London's greenery are arguably a perfectly natural 21st century extension of several centuries worth of similar debate, the result of which is the city's existing eight Royal Parks and the perpetually divisive green belt.
Monarchs began flirting with the idea of enclosing green spaces within and around London in the 15th and 16th centuries, beginning with Greenwich Park in 1433. Charles II encouraged the redesign of several parks during the 1660s, adding various walkways and water features in order to create something akin to what we might recognise today. Throughout the 19th century, the parks were gradually opened for public usage, as laid out by the Crown Lands Acts.
Despite years of debate, it wasn't until 1938 that the Green Belt Act empowered local authorities to buy land for preservation. Although since followed by subsequent revisions, this remains the pivotal legislation which directs green belt policy. It now encompasses 484,173ha, 35,000 of which lie within the control of the Greater London Authority.
JUMPING HURDLES
With such overwhelming support for the National Park City, what opposition has there been to the idea? Possibly the key question relates to who actually has the authority (or is willing to take the responsibility) to give an official stamp to the idea. The previous Mayor, Boris Johnson, reportedly responded to the initial petition for the scheme by saying that he 'does not have powers to create a new class of urban National Park.'
Daniel Raven-Ellison clearly believes otherwise. 'I replied to Boris saying, actually you do have the authority,' he says. 'There's a good question about what is the threshold that would be needed to democratically show, through our political system, support for London to be a National Park City. Having the support of the Mayor of London and of councillors from two thirds of the wards which make up London's local authorities would be more than reasonable.'
Indeed, borough councillors across the city have been gradually pledging their personal support towards the idea, and currently councillors from 187 out of London's 654 wards which make up London's 27 local authorities had given the green light to the initiative.
Then there's the wider, national picture. Would London as a National Park City diminish the status of the UK's existing 15 National Parks? Not according to Rob Bushby, from the John Muir Trust, which seeks to conserve, protect, and engage people in wild places across the country. 'John Muir wasn't the founder of the first National Parks, but he politicised it and was a big influence on the National Park service being created, so he is considered to be the founding father for them,' explains Bushby. 'The National Park City idea very much resonates with that sense of connecting with people where they're at, and promoting the values of wildness and connecting with nature.'
One famous Muir quote reads: 'Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.' In short, he was a man who felt that wildness and conservation were for all, not just the few who happen to live in sufficiently rural parts of the world.
'He was certainly a populist in saying that wider society – everybody – should engage with wild places and become active conservationists, as he described it,' continues Bushby. 'To interpret that ethos, that legacy of John Muir in this sort of context in 2016, I think personally that's really exciting.'
It's a sentiment echoed by Paul Hamblin, Executive Director of National Parks England. 'National Parks is an internationally recognised brand that successfully enhances wildlife, the wellbeing of people, and demonstrates the practical application of sustainable development,' he explains. 'We see a National Park City as a new concept, but one that can usefully draw on the underlying principles for National Parks.'
He even argues that a National Park City could potentially have positive impacts for the existing Parks, highlighting one of their traditional purposes 'to increase people's understanding of the special qualities of these places'.
'An important role of any National Park City,' he adds, 'should also include showcasing the beauty that exists and is available to all its residents in our existing National Parks. A National Park City has the potential to inspire millions of people to better understand the natural world around them.'
Of course, preserving London's greenery is a question which has been asked for over a century, and the city was pioneering in its embracing of the Royal Parks and the green belt many decades before congestion charging or cycle superhighways were ever conceived. 'It's not like we are taking an empty London and asking "How do we make it green?"' says the Green Alliance's Frieda Metternich. 'We very much work from what we have right now, and where we can be in 2020.'
So where, potentially, could we be in 2020? Students from the London College of Communication (LCC), part of the University of the Arts London, have drawn upon the National Park City to try and envisage innovative natural ideas for the city, including built environment designs such as algae roundabouts, bird habitats built into lampposts, and roof gardens, as well as more technological innovations such as creating a map of the city's wild swimming locations, or a smartphone app featuring popular natural walks.
'Algae roundabouts – that's a fantastic idea,' enthuses Sarah Temple, a course leader at the LCC. 'They're luminous, so at night they create these fantastic moving spaces in the centre of very grey roundabouts. And they're actually absorbing pollution so they have fantastically positive effects. It's about mobilising people to change and do things differently, not necessarily about the green space itself. It's about people changing their habits, changing their lifestyle, changing their values.'
One other issue that united this year's Mayoral candidates was a steadfast refusal to consider building on London's green belt. While this has invited criticism from those keen for extra land to be given over for development as a potential way of alleviating the city's housing problems, it may play well with others increasingly concerned by the reduction in green spaces across the city as a whole – the opposite of the National Park City plan to make the city more 'physically green'.
The global view
While the 'National Park City' name itself may be a world first, the idea of merging National Parks with cities is one that has previously been implemented elsewhere around the world. However, National Park City campaigner Daniel Raven-Ellison suggests these often try to fit one inside the other, as opposed to brand the city itself as a new type of National Park.
'In Stockholm,' he explains, 'there's an urban National Park, but it's a National Park within the city area. In Toronto there's Rouge National Park, which is a National Park on the outside of an urban area. And the mall in Washington DC – it's run by the National Park service, but it's in Washington. So, there are National Parks around the world that have urban relationships. The difference with this is that it will cover the entire city and be everything.'
Few cities have embraced the green concept more than Singapore though, which brands itself as the 'City in a Garden'. Over decades, it has developed a network of parks and nature reserves to enhance biodiversity and create spaces for recreation.
'It has a National Park service that looks after a lot of its green spaces,' says Raven-Ellison. 'While that may inspire lots of people who have their private spaces, there's a division between the public and private space. So, whether you're looking at flooding or climate change, strategically it has been thought about for the public space, but not the private space. To miss out a third of the land, it's a noticeable chunk.'
SOCIAL ENDEAVOUR
As Daniel Raven-Ellison explains, the National City Park idea is by no means just an entirely environmental movement. 'The majority of people who are involved come from more of a social position actually,' he explains. 'It's not being pushed just from a conservation agenda, which I think is one of its strengths. A lot of initiatives are just about nature, they win over a niche of people who really like wildlife, and then they exclude or alienate another group of people.'
Unfortunately, it is those least financially able to access green spaces who are suffering the most, increasing a trend showing that it is poorer children, as well as those from black and minority ethnic groups, who are spending less and less time in London's outdoor spaces. 'The poorest populations in London don't have access to these high quality green spaces,' points out Metternich.
Therefore, the National Park City aspires to reduce social divides by ensuring that green spaces are available to all, and that the capital's poorest communities aren't excluded from nature.
One organisation who could potentially guide the way is the Black Environment Network (BEN), which works to 'enable full ethnic participation in the built and natural environment', highlighting the ways in which ethnic minorities can be most deprived of a connection to the natural environment. BEN encourages the involvement of disadvantaged ethnic minority communities in environmental participation, hoping to ensure that they can also enjoy the benefits of green spaces just as much as those living in leafier pastures.
'Many of the most disadvantaged groups, including ethnic minorities, are on council estates in the cities,' says Judy Ling Wong, Honorary President of BEN. 'The National Park City intends to pay attention to every bit of space, and continually ratchet it up so that more and more the whole city is in the presence of nature. Many council estates actually have more green space than all the local parks and gardens, but they're of the lowest quality. There's acres and acres and they're right outside the most disadvantaged groups' windows. Imagine what we can do with that, by changing the atmosphere, getting social landlords to be inspired by this whole idea of creating green space that allows people to have true contact with wild nature.'
Ling Wong also stresses the 'terrific richness and passion' that could be brought to the city's natural environment by migrant communities.
Can over 50 per cent of London be made physically green? (Image: Pete Spiro)
Wealth has always been at the heart of London, from the historic Bank of England, to the gleaming towers of Canary Wharf, and questions have understandably been asked about the cost of implementing such ideas as those encouraged by Raven-Ellison.
The capital benefits of London's existing greenery – known as ecosystems services valuation – have begun to be quantified by global design, engineering and environmental company AECOM. It calculates London's 8.3 million trees to be providing £95 million worth of air filtration every year in terms of health costs avoided. They also give the localised example of £140,500 worth of climate regulatory services being provided by Tottenham Cemetery every year through carbon sequestration, a figure that could reach £2 billion across the capital.
'We were certainly fairly conservative in the valuations that we did,' explains Ben Smith, AECOM Director of Sustainable Development in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. While he acknowledges the continued public debate about the pros and cons of ecosystem services valuations in general, he emphasises the awareness which research such as this can bring to discussions regarding green urbanism. 'For the general public, it might be an interesting way of thinking about values,' he says. 'They catch people off guard and make them ask more questions, which is exactly what we wanted to happen.
'It changes your outlook on parks that you know and love,' he continues. 'If I think of Clapham Common, I always remember playing football there, which has some value to me. But I don't necessarily think about it as a place which helps to attenuate rainwater and stop downstream flooding somewhere else. I don't necessarily think of it as a place where there's lots of trees sequestering carbon and helping air quality from the roads that are around the park. I don't think individuals tend to think very broadly about the services that green space provides.'
Of course, the outdoors is useful for more than just being present in, and the increasing worldwide phenomenon of urban farming is starting to carve out a niche in London.
The practice gives people a chance to engage with nature, and their local community, in a way which has rarely been considered in previous decades.
'We are very lucky in London to have so much green space,' insists Ian Solomon-Kawall, co-founder of May Project Gardens, a project in Merton that aims to bring communities closer together through ecological and ethical activities. He practices what he preaches, turning his home into a model for sustainability, and, crucially, an educational tool for the local community, where young people can learn about permaculture, nutrition, and biodiversity, as well as picking up numerous practical skills.
Solomon-Kawall emphasises the need to promote the ways in which many other people are making productive, positive, and efficient usage of the city's available land. 'Their voices are not being heard,' he argues. 'They're not part of the conversation. This is what we wanted to highlight.' He uses music and participatory arts, such as the Hip Hop Garden, to engage young people in nature and help them share their experiences. With the project preparing to expand onto new sites in the borough, London becoming a National Park City could help them reintroduce urban farming to the Greater London land area, and help further their social agenda.
Of all the complaints that new Mayor Sadiq Khan could potentially have now he has taken the reins of City Hall in May, a lack of ideas regarding how to improve London's environmental sustainability, prosperity, wildness, and general green credentials surely can't be among them.
Reflective of how these issues have risen up the city's political agenda, thousands of people and hundreds of organisations are now actively engaged in hands-on ways to improve the city, a grass-roots movement providing an opportunity for an ambitious Mayor to launch a new chapter in the city's illustrious green history.
'I think we can have a greener London,' predicts Frieda Metternich. 'It's very much possible, and I'm actually very confident that this is will be high on the priority list for the next Mayor – that something will be delivered.'
The Making of a National Park City event on Wednesday 21 September 2016 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, will bring together 2,000 people to reimagine London's future as a National Park City. Tickets available from £10
This article was published in the May 2016 edition of Geographical magazine.
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Marium Mukhtiar
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Marium Mukhtiar was a Pakistani pilot who lost her life during flight. She also has the honor of being the first fighter pilot of the Pakistan Air Force to be martyred on duty. She is a symbol of women's empowerment and is an example for so many women. This article has all the information about her, including Marium Mukhtiar Biography.
Name: Marium Mukhtiar
Name in Urdu: مريم مُختيار
Famous As: Pakistani Fighter Pilot
Nationality: Pakistani
Residence: Karachi
Education: NED University of Engineering and Technology
Profession: Pilot
Awards : Tamgha-e-Basalat
Ethnicity: Shaikh
Parents: Rehana Mukhtiar, Mukhtiar Ahmed Shaikh
Siblings : Shahrukh Mukhtiar , Marvi Mukhtiar
Rest Place: Kundian, Mianwali District
Marium Mukhtiar Biography
Marium was a compassionate, hardworking, and sincere person. Besides being a great pilot, she was also a good football player. She was very impressed with the Pakistan Army's discipline and uniform, so she decided to join the Pakistan Air Force.
The energetic soul was one of five female fighter pilots allowed to fly to the front lines. She was undoubtedly a role model for women and a source of pride for Pakistan and will always remain in people's hearts for her dedication, bravery, and love for her land.
Marium Date of Birth
She was born on May 18, 1992, in Karachi. Till her death, she lived in the same city.
Education of Marium
She completed her schooling from Mehran Model School and College in Pano Akil. She passed the Intermediate Examination from Army Public School and College, Malir Cantt, Karachi.
Marium Mukhtiar Family
Her father Col. (Ret'd) Mukhtiar Ahmed Sheikh was in the Pak Army.
Due to the military environment at home, she had the desire to join the army and perform the high duty of defending the homeland since her childhood. She joined the Pakistan Air Force on May 6, 2011, and graduated from the Air Force on September 24, 2014.
She belonged to PAF's 132nd GD Pilot Course, which was attended by six other women. Marium trained as a fighter jet pilot at PAF Academy Risalpur. As well as being the best football player, she also played for Balochistan United in the National Women's Football Championship.
Marium Mukhtiar Death
On the morning of November 24, 2015, she left for her usual practice with her instructor, Saqib Abbasi. While they were flying in the skies of Gujarat district, suddenly, the engine caught fire, and it started burning. In this critical situation, the pilot must jump out of the plane immediately.
Only then can his life be saved. But the conscience of Maryam Shaheed and Saqib Abbasi did not allow them to jump quickly. The plane was flying over the population, and fields were far away. The two brave pilots decided to postpone the jump for a few moments so that the plane could reach the fields instead of the population.
She wanted to save her countrymen from all kinds of loss of life and property. But these few precious moments led to her martyrdom. She was embedded in Malir Cantonment Cemetry.
Martyr Maryam was posthumously awarded the 'Medal of Courage' for her tremendous courage and sense of responsibility. She also has the honor of being the first fighter pilot of the Pakistan Air Force to be martyred on duty.
Mehreen Jabbar, a renowned drama director and producer of Pakistan, came up with the idea of making a telefilm on the life of 'Maryam Mukhtiar Shaheed' and paid tribute to her services. Umera Ahmed wrote the script of this telefilm while Sarmad Khoosat directed it. Sanam Baloch played the role of Marium.
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The first Warwick Islamic Education Summer School, held in September 2016 marked the formation of a learning community consisting of practitioners and researchers, from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, interested in exploring issues related to education, Islam and Muslims within the context of contemporary and historical Muslim societies. In reviving the Muslim educational tradition of taaruf, openness to learning from one another, the Summer School offers a collegial academic space within which critical inquiry and reflective practice in Islamic Education are encouraged.
Each annual meeting explores in-depth a specific theme related to the teaching and learning of Islam within diverse formal and informal educational settings. The aim is to enable the formation of a new transformative Muslim culture of learning and reflective inquiry through rethinking Islamic Education within the context of a secular and culturally/religiously diverse Western Europe and the wider Muslim world. A further central objective is to improve the quality of educational thinking and pedagogic practice within the diaspora and global Muslim communities essential for facilitating effective civic engagement, social welfare and economic prosperity.
The Summer School has led to the establishment of the Warwick Islamic Education Research Network which facilitates critical dialogue between the educational narratives of Islam and the West and fosters collaborative research and knowledge-transfer among diverse groups of Muslim educators and the wider community of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in Education, Social Sciences and the Humanities. The Network contributes to the emergence of Islamic Education Studies as an interdisciplinary field of research, teaching and professional development.
Contemporary Muslim societies are facing a complex set of social, political, and economic challenges informed by a deeper reality of a faith tradition experiencing a profound process of historical transition and change. It is not surprising to observe that Muslims are struggling to self-transform and bring about mature and confident modern expressions of their faith. There are wider historical dynamics, such as the encounter with Western secular modernity and colonialism, as well as more recent factors, such as Islamophobia and a new wave of anti-Muslim prejudice within the rhetoric of political populism in the West, that engender defensive and reactionary Islamic responses. Within such an increasingly sensitive situation, Muslims appear less at ease with diversity within their own faith heritage and with the cultural and religious plurality of modern life. Muslim perceptions of the religious and non-religious 'other', women's rights, leadership and observing justice within gender relations, for example, appear to be the issues of wider public concern which provoke some of the most intransigent religious, social and political attitudes and views.
These are controversial issues that give rise to highly ideological and conflicting perspectives. Often the pressure from secular liberal expectations and the demands for cultural/traditional conformity can lead to the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance which increases feelings of perplexity and ambiguity. Attempts to overcome such psychosocial discomfort often leads to adopting mutually exclusive simplistic hermeneutic positions that avoid engaging with the complexity of the issues and show the predominant features of a secular and religious literalism. Within such ahistorical and literalist hermeneutics, wearing the headscarf can be associated with the oppression of women and there can be the insistence that in sharia the role and status of women in the family and public space are fixed.
What appears to be missing is an inclusive reflective educational hermeneutics of engaging with the tradition and today's reality to generate meaningful Islamic responses which inspire reconciliatory and integrative perspectives. Such a critical hermeneutic imagination can contribute to the formation of contextual and embodied Islamic religious and spiritual authority capable of articulating Islamic guidance within the lived reality of communities of the faithful both in the diaspora and the wider Muslim world. However, how can such a reflective Islamic imagination which is essential for bringing about transformative leadership be nurtured today? This poses further educationally significant questions: to what extent are the training programmes in traditional Islamic seminaries, the hybrid Islamic higher education institutions -largely associated with the transnational religious networks - and the theological schools established within a wider secular higher education system capable of facilitating the formation of such an Islamic contextual/embodied and transformative faith and educational leadership?
There are acute educational and pedagogic issues facing the faith leadership training within the European Muslim diaspora. But what appears to be most neglected is consideration of the extent to which existing provision is inclusive of the female presence, voice and representation, and how women respond to undergoing such a training. The need for transformative female faith and educational leadership and authority gains urgency when one recognizes the limitations of, for example, using male dominated medieval Islamic legal hermeneutics and authority frameworks to engage with the myriad of issues directly affecting women.
The presence of a transformative educational culture within Muslim communities remains crucial for facilitating engagement and understanding as well as developing meaningful responses to the challenges. The successful formation of the first historical Muslim community, the ummah, under prophetic leadership, was deeply informed by what can be discerned as a set of reflective and inquiry-led pedagogies and a transformative educational vision embedded within the Divine message. It appears that the Qur'an first formed a reflective educational culture in which the desire for inquiry and learning was the means of facilitating the gradual transformation of the human condition to bring about embodied expressions of psychosocial/ spiritual maturity, wellbeing and social justice and welfare.
A close reading of the Qur'an suggests the presence of a holistic perception of human nature embracing diversity defining the human condition in which the distinctiveness as well as the interdependence of both genders are emphasized. These teachings have gradually been turned into a practical ethics of mutual respect and the recognition of dignity, difference and complementarity between man and woman. There is what can be discerned as an 'ontological-level gender equality and justice' in the Qur'an, as both men and women are said to be created from the same essence. Therefore, human beings contain degrees of femininity and masculinity, yet preserve an embodied difference revealing distinctive ways of being in the world. Qur'anic religious and spiritual language keeps the same level of equality as the expressions of 'faithful men and women' are often mentioned together.
The historical cases of female political leadership (the Queen of Shebaa, for example) are referred to without any negative qualification. It appears that the Qur'an, as part of its transformative educational strategy, systematically pushed for the application of these values of recognition, equality, dignity and justice to empower women within the social reality of its first addressee where women were subject to an unfair, if not oppressive, treatment. Furthermore, the Qur'an directs critical appraisal and demands accountability from both genders without stereotyping or privileging. A close educational hermeneutics within which the Qur'an's overall social reform projects unfold, might offer a more contextual and realistic reading of the Qur'anic passages which deal with what are today perceived to be controversial issues such as women's inheritance, female witness in the courts of law, polygamy and wider issues related to gender relations including sexual ethics. Within an ahistorical and literalist hermeneutics, it is impossible to grasp the Qur'an's progressive reform agenda on the social status of women as part of its wider vison of a balanced just polity.
The crucial role of women and their leadership in the life of the Prophet and the success of his mission have often been overlooked: for example, the significant role of Khadija, Muhamad's first wife, in building his confidence when the first experience of revelation left Muhammad shaken, shocked and confused. Similarly the role of Aisha, whose curiosity, questioning mind and deep love for learning contributed to preserving the Prophet's living tradition, the prophetic memory that is normative for all Muslims to emulate and remember. And the figure of Fatima, the Prophet's daughter, whose dignity and uncompromising commitment to justice has become a role model for all faithful men and women. This early egalitarian and open attitude towards women gave rise to a flourishing early female Muslim scholarship, particularly in the emergence of the sciences dealing with the prophetic reports (Hadith). The authoritative role of the Prophet's wives and female companions in disseminating prophetic knowledge and wisdom has been crucial in keeping continuity in Islamic memory over generations.
Within medieval Muslim societies, however, male dominance produced patriarchal socio-political political and legal systems that have marginalized the agency of women in all aspects of private and public life, including women's presence and participation in the spiritual and educational culture of mosques. It appears, with few exceptions, that Muslim women were mostly acknowledged within the transmission of the prophetic reports rather than enabled to become experts within various religious knowledge genres and thus assume legal authority and leadership positions in public affairs. With the gradual reification and intellectual stagnation within the Muslim tradition, religion appears to have been mostly used to justify often unjust cultural practices reflecting the predominately unfair power structures of patriarchal societies in many parts of the Muslim world. Religious reasons expressed in the form of authoritarian moralizing power regimes by and large continue to shape unequal gender relations within the challenging conditions of modern life.
It must be noted that such concerns about women rights are not confined to Muslim societies. Despite many radical reforms and positive gains, the agenda of improving women's status and addressing exploitation and inequalities affecting women in Western societies remains incomplete. It is important to note that issues around gender and sexuality in general cannot be addressed in isolation but need to be considered within the intersection of faith and a host of other structural factors such as social class, traditional and tribal cultural systems, race and ethnicity.
Reflective and contextual hermeneutics discerning values, teachings and principles regarding gender relations embedded within the Qur'an and the prophetic traditions.
Enhancing female participation in higher education within Muslim minority and majority societies.
Educational reforms addressing gender inequity within contemporary Muslim societies: cases from diverse parts of the Muslim world, e.g. South East Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
The programme will be delivered through interactive workshops, lectures and presentations. There will be opportunities for networking and special sessions for researchers and practitioners to present their work. The aim is to facilitate a cross-fertilization of ideas and to share best practice among the emerging inter-disciplinary community of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. Participants will be supported in formulating and discussing their research interests and will receive peer support and have opportunities to interact with experts in the field.
The Summer School is open to all researchers and educators who are interested in developing their understanding of the educational culture and pedagogic practice within Muslim communities and their interaction with wider social and educational institutions.
Participants will also have the opportunity to learn more about the Islamic Education initiative at Warwick, research expertise within WRERU, and the wider research and taught programmes at the Centre for Educational Studies at the University of Warwick.
If you have any questions about booking please get in touch with Stephen Gardner at S.Gardner@warwick.ac.uk or if you have any questions about the programme please email a.sahin@warwick.ac.uk, the course leader.
Please note the number of places are strictly limited to 25 bookings allocated on a first come first served basis.


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