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The Congressional Friends of Denmark was a caucus of the 111th Congress. Its members were Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and Howard Coble (R-North Carolina).

See also
Denmark–United States relations
Rufus Gifford

111th United States Congress
Caucuses of the United States Congress
Danish-American history


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Q: sorting a JList populated with Strings from a .txt file I have the following problem. I have an array of String within my program. It is populated with Strings from a .txt file. Every position of the array corresponds to a single String containing description, title, price and the path to an image of my products. Is it possible somehow to extract from a position only a certain part of the string, let's say only the path for the image?

A: Consider using a Product class for that.
Use for example the method substring to get out the parts and create an Array of a new class Product, which contains the description, title, price and the image.
String s;
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National River Conservation Directorate (NRCD)
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change enables login to a portal for engaging on projects such as National River Conseration Directorate (NRCD), National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (NCPA), National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP), National Wetlands Conservation Program (NWCP)
CAMPA Portal ( e-Green Watch )
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George Harvie announced his run for mayor at Tsawwassen Springs on Tuesday, May 22, 2018. (Grace Kennedy photo)
Delta composting facility the centre of election controversy
Mayoral candidate George Harvie's actions as city manager under scrutiny from two opposing slates
Sep. 20, 2018 3:00 p.m.
Tensions are mounting among some candidates in the upcoming civic election over the stench emanating from Ladner's Enviro-Smart Organics composting facility.
Current councillor and Team Delta council candidate Robert Campbell is calling out former city manager and mayor-hopeful George Harvie about his actions back in 2013, when the facility was applying to increase the amount of compost it could take in.
According to correspondence from Metro Vancouver, brought forward to council in late August, "Delta staff strenuously objected to any requirement that Enviro-Smart obtain an air quality permit, and objected to any public consultation regarding Enviro-Smart's applications to increase allowed tonnage under the solid waste licence."
That Delta staff member was George Harvie, currently running for mayor under the Achieving for Delta banner. He has taken issue with the idea that he "strenuously objected" to the permit or public consultation.
However, a 2013 email from Metro Vancouver's manager of environmental regulatory and enforcement services brought forward by Counc. Bruce McDonald (who is running for council on former Delta police chief Jim Cessford's Independents Working for You slate) at Monday's council meeting (Sept. 17) paints a different picture.
Manager Ray Rob, in his email to five senior Metro Vancouver officials, wrote that Harvie objected "to the notion of any public consultation regarding air permits or solid waste licences" and "appeared to say that I should just grant Enviro-Smart everything they want under the solid waste licence without any consultation and tell them that they didn't need an air permit, or at least tell them that I would not enforce the need for an air permit."
These comments prompted Counc. Campbell to file a freedom of information request with Metro Vancouver to learn more about this 2013 meeting.
"I am angered, puzzled and disappointed to learn — more than five years after the event — that Mr. Harvie strenuously opposed public consultation to discuss the Enviro-Smart composting operation in Ladner," Campbell said in a Team Delta press release.
Following Campbell's announcement, Harvie discussed the issue with the Delta Optimist in an article published online Sept. 14. (The Optimist has extensively covered issues surrounding the odour in Ladner since November 2017, when Enviro-Smart applied for an air quality permit to deal with the constant smell.)
In that interview, Harvie said he received direction from council to attend the meeting and express his opinion on the bylaw legislation. He also said that he did not stall any permits, and would not have had the authority to do so even if he wanted to.
Campbell claims that he could not find any direction from council for Harvie to express the opinions he did, and now is calling for Harvie to produce evidence of what direction he actually followed in regards to that meeting more than five years ago.
The North Delta Reporter has reached out to Harvie for comment, but he was not available for an interview before the Reporter's print deadline. Members of his campaign forwarded an emailed response, as well as documents he provided to council on Aug. 27 about his 2013 meeting with Enviro-Smart.
In the email, Harvie said that "the allegations levelled against me by political opponents of duping council, or not keeping the public involved, are categorically untrue, which is supported by the public record.
"The meeting in question, which dates back five years, has never been brought forward as a concern until I announced my run for mayor."
Campbell isn't the only council candidate to question Delta staff's role in the current stink being made by and about Enviro-Smart.
RELATED: Kanakos proposes whistle-blower policy for Delta staff
Current councillor Jeannie Kanakos, running for council with Independents Working for You, put forward the idea of a whistle-blower policy for Delta staff, largely because of the odour issue with Enviro-Smart Organics. During council meetings in late August, she brought up concerns with the way meetings were held during Enviro-Smart's applications for increased capacity at its facility.
Harvie has also come up against McDonald, accusing him of "electioneering" in correspondence brought forward at the Aug. 27 council meeting following McDonald sharing his concerns about Harvie's role in the Enviro-Smart debacle.
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Water storage/Collection & Distribution systems
South West Water turns to Camplas' Supertanks for sewage storage and treatment
South West Water (SWW) installed two 84 m3 Camplas Supertanks in the sewage treatment works (STW) at Lanner St. Day and Porthtowan, Cornwall. The Supertanks have an estimated service life well in excess of 30 years.
An 8 m3 Supertank is also due to be installed at Ernsettle STW, Plymouth. In the original design the tank was polypropylene, but after further research it was discovered that Camplas' helical filament wound continuous glass fibre tanks had a shorter lead time and were 20 times stronger than polypropylene. The company said the patented helical filament winding process creates an integrally wound support skirt, which, when combined with the geodesic domed base ensure all substances are drained and there are no remaining residues to cause cross-contamination.
www.camplas.co.uk
Stormwater management system
Oldcastle Precast's patent pending Storm Capture modular stormwater detention system is an underground structural precast concrete system for stormwater management.
The system can be used for infiltration, detention, or retention and reuse, as well as for treatment-train systems. It features a stand-alone, traffic bearing design which does not rely on final paving and associated stone underlayment, or on specific stone backfill for structural capacity and storage.
Modules are constructed of high-strength concrete and installed on a simple setting bed of stone. Their ability to support traffic allows for minimal cover with pavement options of asphalt, concrete or concrete pavers.
Standard inlet grates allow stormwater direct entry from a roadway surface into the system, eliminating the need for separate inlet structures. Access for inspective and cleaning can be achieved through grates, manholes or removable slabs.
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Recharge V8 chamber from Cultec
CULTEC's Recharger® V8™ is the company's largest capacity plastic chamber able to hold a minimum of about 2.8 m3. The units can be used for subsurface retention, detention, recharging, or controlling the flow of stormwater. It is 32 inches high and 60 inches wide, with a bare chamber capacity of 0.24 m3 per linear foot.
The Recharger V8 chambers include a internal manifold feature, which allows for extra design flexibility and decreased installation footprint. HVLV™ Feed Connectors are inserted into the side portals to create the internal manifold.
The Recharger V8 series differs from CULTEC's previous models in that its starter and end sections are shorter in length then its Intermediate section. Therefore, when users calculate the Recharger V8 system's row length, they need to subtract a lay-up length adjustment from the row length. Customers who use hydrology modeling software need to choose the Recharger V8I to make up the Intermediate sections of a row and one of the V8S and V8E for each row in their model, according to the company.
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Lid closed on two San Jose Water Projects
Shearer Tanks, a division of Shearer & Associates, has finished installing the Rainbow's End tank in Cupertino, California, and the Branham Lane tank in San Jose, CA.
Both contracts were Fusion® Glass-Fusedto-Steel tanks. Rainbow's End was 60,000 gallon capacity and Branham was 104,000 gallon capacity. Their selection was said to follow careful technical and engineering consideration, and was based on their greater service life, very low maintenance and reduced capital costs. Both tanks were through Lewis & Tibbitts, general contractor, and engineered by San Jose Water. These tanks are an integral part of San Jose's municipal upgrade.
www.sheartanks.com
Underground rainwater collection system
Rainwater harvesting system manufacturer, Stormsaver, has been contracted by Hiltons building and services engineers to supply a 20 m3 pressurised rainwater harvesting system for a new project with the Natural Environment Research Council.
The James Hutton Building is part of a £6.5 million development at the British Geological Survey's (BGS) headquarters in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. The below ground system will collect approximately 840 m3 of rainwater each year from the centre's 1,164 m2 roof area, which will be used for the flushing of 14 toilets and urinals. The system will result in financial savings of over £1,100 annually, as well as helping to considerably reduce mains water usage.
Alongside the Stormsaver rainwater harvesting system, the new office will have high exposed thermal mass to retain heat and mixed mode ventilation systems. The environmentally friendly features are intended to help achieve more than just a BREEAM 'Excellent' rating and dramatically reduce energy usage.
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Tank ring groove connection
An important and critical item in tank building is the connection between the tank wall and the foundation, because of the link of two different materials and different characteristics. GLS Tanks says that when enameled elastic steel meets brittle concrete, the enameled steel sheets are usually set down in a large groove, which is a part of the foundation. This groove will be sealed with concrete later. The responsibility of the tightness goes from the tank-erector to the client and by the subsequent concrete-grouting, leaks are an inevitable result, as there is no bondage between old and new concrete and enameled steel-sheets, says GLS.
Also, according to the company, it can be "problematic" if the tank wall is set down on a smooth and flat foundation without any groove. As concrete slabs are never perfectly flat a gap between the concrete and tank can remain.
This gap is usually closed with sealing material but the tightness of the heavily loaded foundation connection relies solely on the sealing material. In response, GLS Tanks said its ring-groove system comprises a small 4-5 cm deep ring-groove cut into the prepared foundations. The tank wall is then set down into this ring-groove and any unevenness of the concrete slab will be compensated. The next stage includes the ring-groove being poured-out with a reactive epoxy-resin sealant, which joins the enameled steel panels to the concrete(base). The firm claimed this creates a "100% durable and guaranteed tightness from the wall to the floor".
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Ylva är ett gammalt nordiskt kvinnonamn, en feminin form av Ulf (eller Ulv) och betyder varg eller mer specifikt varghona. Birger jarls mor, som hette Ingrid, och var gift med Magnus Minnesköld, har av okända skäl fått binamnet Ylva (möjligen pejorativt). Ingrid Ylva är den första kända kvinnan som kan kopplas till namnet. I Frans G. Bengtssons romaner om vikingahövdingen Röde Orm berättas det att denne gifte sig med en kvinna med namnet Ylva.

Namnet är relativt jämnt fördelat mellan generationerna och ligger stadigt på en plats omkring 150 på topplistan. Den 31 oktober 2019 fanns det totalt 10 608 personer i Sverige med namnet Ylva. År 2003 fick 82 flickor namnet, varav 56 fick det som tilltalsnamn.

Namnsdag: 11 april, delas med Ulf, som är den manliga motsvarigheten till namnet.

Personer med namnet Ylva
 Ingrid Ylva, Birger jarls mor (1200-talet)
 Ylva Annerstedt, svensk politiker
 Ylva Eggehorn, svensk författare och poet
 Ylva Ekblad, finländsk skådespelare
 Ylva Floreman, svensk dokumentärfilmare
 Ylva Gallon, svensk-norsk skådespelare och dansare
 Ylva Gustavsson, svensk filmregissör
 Ylva Hällen, svensk TV-programledare
 Ylva Johansson, svensk politiker (s), statsråd
 Ylva Karlsson, svensk författare
 Ylva Lindberg, svensk ishockeyspelare
 Ylva Lööf, svensk skådespelare
 Ylva Noring, svensk triatlet
 Ylva Nowén, svensk alpin skidåkare
 Ylva Spångberg, svensk översättare
 Ylva Maria Thompson, svensk konstnär och TV-presentatör
 Ylva Thörn, svensk f.d. fackförbundsordförande, landshövding i Dalarnas län
 Ylva Tiveus, direktör EU-kommissionen
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Expense this to MathSoc in lieu of foreign speaker.
-We have $359.02 on budget that we can expense to MathSoc.
-Funding for casters was denied.
-Shopping for the Video card.
delay that now, discuss it with MEF.
-Better to do it this term, so it doesn't get lost.
-Let MFCF know about this concern.
-Regarding books, can be done anytime before September.
-Generally, Jim Eliot talk when really well.
-Apparently he was generally offensive.
-When was the LaTeX talk? End of the month.
-Kegger at Jim's place on the 16th.
-Hang out in here, and he'll make a CSC commercial.
-Co-ordinate when everyone should be in here, so we can email Jason.
-CEO needs it's database changed to use ISBN as a primary key.
-Needs functionality to take out/return books.
--Choose CRO for next term.
-Stefanus has expressed desire not to be CRO.
--Mike Biggs has to get here naked.
-Nakedness only applies to getting here, not being here.
-keep receipts for CSC office expenses.
-The vote is coming up Monday.
Get your faculty society to recognize CSC as a club.
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HomeShatrughan Prasad Sinha
Shatrughan Prasad Sinha
Constituency: Asansol
Party: All India Trinamool Congress
Father's Name: Late Shri B.P. Sinha
Mother's Name: Late Smt. Shyama Devi Sinha
Birth Place: Patna (Bihar)
Spouse Name: Smt. Poonam S. Sinha
SONS: 2
DAUGHTERS:
State Name: West Bengal
Permanent Address: Bhuneshwar Niwas, House No.12, D Block, Kadamkuan, Patna - 800003Tel:
Present Address: A/3/2, Vasant Vihar,New Delhi - 110057Tel:
Email Id: shatrughansinha[at]gmail[dot]com
Education Qualifications: B.Sc., Diploma in Acting Educated at Patna Science College, Patna and Film & Television Institute of India, Pune, Maharashtra
Countries Visited: Widely travelled Australia, Canada, China, Mauritius, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South America, U.A.E., U.K. and U.S.A.
Positions Held:
OTHER INFO: Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation at the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly; shared the dais with Mr. Frank Pallone of the US Congress on the occasion of the Celebration of 50th Anniversary of India`s Independence organised by Indian Political Association of Central California (USA); Grand Marshall, India Independence day Parade, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA); State Guest of Pakistan and personal guest of the late President Shri Zia-Ul-Haq, as well as Present PM Shri Nawaz Sharif ;
Attended (i) Golden Jubilee Mela, August, 1996 on the occasion of India`s independence Day, invited by Indian Association in North America and UK; (ii) Chief Guest, International Hindi Association, New Jersey (USA), October, 1997; and (iii) Guest of Honour, Silver Jubilee Celebration, India Day Parade, Manhattan, New York (USA), August, 2005; Recently attended the UN General Assembly Session in 2013;
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Q: Loop UIScrollView with PageController I've found a good solution for looping my scrollview, but I'm also using a UIPageControl for showing  what the actual page's number is.
I change the pageControl.currentPage property when the scrollview scrolls, so if you scroll the scrollview more than a half the pageControl shows the new page.
I'd like to keep this feature, but with my actual code the pageNumber is not correct.
I think I should use this: https://github.com/gblancogarcia/GBInfiniteScrollView
But I can't make it work...
Here's my code:
-(void)rotateIfNecessary{
    if(scrollView.contentOffset.x == 0) {
        CGPoint newOffset = CGPointMake(scrollView.bounds.size.width+scrollView.contentOffset.x, scrollView.contentOffset.y);
        [scrollView setContentOffset:newOffset];
        [self rotateViewsRight];
    }
    else if(scrollView.contentOffset.x == (scrollView.contentSize.width - scrollView.frame.size.width) ) {
        CGPoint newOffset = CGPointMake(scrollView.contentOffset.x-scrollView.bounds.size.width, scrollView.contentOffset.y);
        [scrollView setContentOffset:newOffset];
        [self rotateViewsLeft];
    }
}

-(void)rotateViewsRight {
    NSMutableArray* controllers = [DashboardFrameUtil getFrameViewControllers];
    DashboardFrameViewController *endView = [controllers lastObject];
    [controllers removeLastObject];
    [controllers insertObject:endView atIndex:0];
    [self resizePages];
}

-(void)rotateViewsLeft {
    NSMutableArray* controllers = [DashboardFrameUtil getFrameViewControllers];
    DashboardFrameViewController *endView = [controllers firstObject];
    [controllers removeObjectAtIndex:0];
    [controllers addObject:endView];
    [self resizePages];
}

Then I call rotateIfNecessary in my scrollViewDidEndDecelerating, everything works fine, but the page calculating.. (when the scrollview resizes itself, it calls the scrollViewDidScroll where I calculate the pageNumber:
CGFloat pageWidth = scrollView.frame.size.width;
int page = floor((scrollView.contentOffset.x - pageWidth / 2) / pageWidth) + 1;
pageControl.currentPage = page;

The pageControl doesn't show the correct page number when the scrollView loops.
Any idea?
Thank you in advance!

A: Let's start with:
if(scrollView.contentOffset.x == 0) {
        CGPoint newOffset = CGPointMake(scrollView.bounds.size.width+scrollView.contentOffset.x, scrollView.contentOffset.y);
        ...
    }

condition is true when scrollView.contentOffset.x == 0, so what for do you add scrollView.contentOffset.x (it's surely = 0) to scrollView.bounds.size.width ?
UPDATED
I didn't run code - there can be some mistakes
If I understand correctly when you, for example, rotate right - last element became first and you want LAST page to be showen?
If yes -- the problem with pages is because you change contentOffset all the time and also change 'data source' of scroll view, so there's no correlation between contentOffset and individual DashboardFrameViewController - same DashboardFrameViewController can be at different offsets in different moments of time. So You have to calculate page N according to something else.
For example:
Somewhere in ivar store initial controllers (with initial order):
- (void)viewDidLoad {
        [super viewDidLoad];
        _initialControllers = [[DashboardFrameUtil getFrameViewControllers] copy];
}

then you need some method to discover what vc is currently vissible or nearest to center (and store in ivar _currentlyVissibleVC), for example:
- (DashboardFrameViewController *)vissibleVC {
     for (DashboardFrameViewController *vc in _initialControllers){
          if (CGRectContainsPoint(vc.frame, CGPointMake(scrollView.contentOffset.x + scrollView.bounds.size.width/2, scrollView.contentOffset)){
               _currentlyVissibleVC = vc;
               return;
          }
     }
}

then you can calculate page num:
int pageN = [_initialControllers indexOfObject:_currentlyVissibleVC] + 1;

Hope helps


Why choose email over social media? Your email list is one of the most important assets that you can ever build in a modern business. It's essential for communication. Remember you do not own the social media property. Those fans are not yours. That connection with your customers when you are connecting with them through the social media platforms is not yours. You do not own that connection with your fans or your customers on social media.
When you choose email over social media, you're choosing to control the method of communication and who owns the relationship.
Here's an example. In the early days of Facebook, we were all encouraged to build up as many fans as possible to follow our pages. But those weren't really our fans – Facebook had businesses build up their fan pages. Wait, what? Yes, we all did that. But who's fans were they? Facebook's!
In 2011, Facebook really started implementing their business revenue model with advertising, slowly and methodically with algorithm changes, diminishing organic reach to a now approximately 2% to 6%. Now,the only way that you can reach the fans that you worked so hard to acquire is you to pay for the privilege and you have to pay a lot.
Keep your eye on the goal. The goal is not to become a superstar on a social media platform. Your job is to get people on your website with the GOAL OF COLLECTING THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES! You're goal is email over social media.
Email is not dead – It's not a trend and it's not going away at least not anytime soon.
Marketing and Brand Director, Blake Pinsker of MVMT, recognized that the ebb and flow of social — algorithms changing, the up-and-downs of platform popularity — made it an unsteady base for a business model. Pinsker explains, "We knew in order to continue our growth and sustain that over a long period of time, we couldn't romanticize with only getting traffic with social media." So, to diversify source of traffic, the team began to invest time and resources into building a robust email marketing strategy that increased revenue by 98%.
Let's look at that again – that's nearly double the revenue!
Social media is also not dead, but it cannot carry the load that email can. Remember, you're building a relationship, not shouting from the mountain tops.
The role of email in any business is to assist in moving your customer from one stage of the journey to the next.
Email has the ability to do this more than any other channel, including social.
According to Hubspot, companies who use email to nurture leads generate 50% more sales-ready leads at 33% lower cost.
Email still drives more conversions than any other marketing channel, and that includes search and social.
According to the Direct Marketing Association, 66% of consumers have made a purchase online as a direct result from an email marketing message.
Putting all of your efforts into social media is not only short-sighted but it's irresponsible because you have to own that connection in a relationship with your customers.
Your email list is one of the most important assets that you can ever build in a modern business. If you prioritize it, if you take care of people, if you nurture them, if you send them relevant interesting content, they will open up and they will look forward to hearing from you over your journey of building your business.


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Suns pull out Devin Booker for game against Pelicans
NEW ORLEANS ( Associated Press) — The Phoenix Suns have ruled their leading scorer Devin Booker for Sunday's game against the New Orleans Pelicans because of a left hamstring.
Booker played 36 minutes in a 128-117 loss at New Orleans on Friday night, scoring 14 points — nearly half his average of 27.4 points per game this season.
Normally an elite perimeter shooter, Booker hit 2-of-8 3-pointers in the loss.
"I didn't see the 'book' in general," Suns coach Montey Williams explained before the start of Sunday's game. "As an organisation, it is better to make sure he is okay.
"He wants to play like the 'Book' would play," Williams said. "We're trying to be as smart as possible."
Williams indicated that Dario Saric, who played just 46 seconds without an injury Friday night, would replace Booker in the starting lineup.
"We'll try to do the best we can in terms of managing rotations and issues of that nature. We've done it all year, so it's nothing new for us," Williams said. "He's just another all- A member of the NBA First Team who does not play. That's part of the NBA season. New Orleans does just that. Only one has to solve it".
The Pelicans will play their seventh straight game without star Brandon Ingram, who is averaging 20.8 points per game behind Zion Williamson on the New Orleans roster. Ingram is recovering from a left foot injury.
New Orleans is also without starter Herb Jones, considered the team's best defender, because of a sore left ankle. Jones is absent for the fifth straight game.


Mark Vaeck has more than 25 years of experience in the biotech and pharma industry and has raised over €80 million in equity financing. In 2008, he co-founded the biopharmaceutical company Complix (Belgium) and was appointed as its CEO in May 2010. Before that, from 2006 until 2010, he was the founding CEO of ActoGeniX (Belgium). From 2001 until 2006, he was the CEO of Ablynx (Belgium), which he co-founded in June 2001. Prior to joining Ablynx, Mark was Chief Operating Officer of Ceres Inc. (US), a NASDAQ listed company that develops innovative technologies for biofuel production. From 1993 until 1998, he served as Director Business Development and thereafter as CEO of Keygene (The Netherlands). Between 1983 and 1993, he held several management positions in the biotech and pharma industry, including Director Business Development at EuroCetus (Chiron Corp.), Manager Licensing at UCB Pharma, and Manager Business Development at Plant Genetic Systems.


Putea Whakatupu Trust was established under the Māori Fisheries Act 2004 as part of the fisheries settlement. It was to provide for Māori resident in urban areas. Three trustees are appointed by Te Ohu Kai Moana (TOKM). The Act provides for two reviews, the first in 2014, with power to recommend changes.
the Council has represented urban Māori since 1962 when the Act was amended to provide for Māori Committees in both urban and rural areas based simply on the Māori living in those areas.
the Council's capacity to represent is based on having committees which cover the several districts of Aotearoa.
the Council led the case for urban Māori in the Courts during the fisheries allocation debate.
In 2015 the National Urban Māori Authority (NUMA) and the Whānau o Waipareira Trust took Court action against TOKM for the way the Trust was being administered.
The Court agreed with NUMA/Waipareira that each Director of the Trust must have knowledge of, and be able to represent, the interests of Māori who reside in urban areas of New Zealand. Previously, it appears that two of the three directors did not meet that test.
The Court agreed with TOKM's proposals for five directors rather than three.
The Court considered that TOKM should have consulted more fully with the Representative Māori Organisations.
The Executive supports the larger number of directors because of the varying circumstances of urban groups and the need for directors from different environments. The Executive has especially noted the position of the South Island where urban Māori are more distanced from their tribal roots than most Māori. The question for the Council now is how to best respect the position of the urban Māori.


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New tech could lead to night vision contact lenses
The detector developed by University of Michigan engineering researchers doesn't need bulky cooling equipment to work.
First room-temperature graphene light detector of its kind "It can be stacked on a contact lens or integrated with a cell phone," said Prof. Zhaohui Zhong.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.
Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the detector developed by University of Michigan engineering researchers doesn't need bulky cooling equipment to work.
"We can make the entire design super-thin," said Zhaohui Zhong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. "It can be stacked on a contact lens or integrated with a cell phone."
Infrared light starts at wavelengths just longer than those of visible red light and stretches to wavelengths up to a millimeter long. Infrared vision may be best known for spotting people and animals in the dark and heat leaks in houses, but it can also help doctors monitor blood flow, identify chemicals in the environment and allow art historians to see Paul Gauguin's sketches under layers of paint.
Unlike the visible spectrum, which conventional cameras capture with a single chip, infrared imaging requires a combination of technologies to see near-, mid- and far-infrared radiation all at once. Still more challenging, the mid-infrared and far-infrared sensors typically need to be at very cold temperatures.
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, could sense the whole infrared spectrum—plus visible and ultraviolet light. But until now, it hasn't been viable for infrared detection because it can't capture enough light to generate a detectable electrical signal. With one-atom thickness, it only absorbs about 2.3 percent of the light that hits it. If the light can't produce an electrical signal, graphene can't be used as a sensor.
"The challenge for the current generation of graphene-based detectors is that their sensitivity is typically very poor," Zhong said. "It's a hundred to a thousand times lower than what a commercial device would require."
To overcome that hurdle, Zhong and Ted Norris, the Gérard A. Mourou Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, worked with graduate students to design a new way of generating the electrical signal. Rather than trying to directly measure the electrons that are freed when light hits the graphene, they amplified the signal by looking instead at how the light-induced electrical charges in the graphene affect a nearby current.
"Our work pioneered a new way to detect light," Zhong said. "We envision that people will be able to adopt this same mechanism in other material and device platforms."
Graphene heterostructure photodetector under testing in Prof. Zhong's lab
To make the device, they put an insulating barrier layer between two graphene sheets. The bottom layer had a current running through it. When light hit the top layer, it freed electrons, creating positively charged holes. Then, the electrons used a quantum mechanical trick to slip through the barrier and into the bottom layer of graphene.
The positively charged holes, left behind in the top layer, produced an electric field that affected the flow of electricity through the bottom layer. By measuring the change in current, the team could deduce the brightness of the light hitting the graphene. The new approach allowed the sensitivity of a room-temperature graphene device to compete with that of cooled mid-infrared detectors for the first time.
The device is already smaller than a pinky nail and is easily scaled down. Zhong suggests arrays of them as infrared cameras.
"If we integrate it with a contact lens or other wearable electronics, it expands your vision," Zhong said. "It provides you another way of interacting with your environment."
While full-spectrum infrared detection is likely to find application in military and scientific technologies, the question for the general tech market may soon be, "Do we want to see in infrared?"
The device is described in a paper titled "Graphene photodetectors with ultra-broadband and high responsivity at room temperature," which appears online in Nature Nanotechnology.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation in part through Michigan Engineering's Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials, and was carried out with help from electrical engineering and computer science doctoral students Chang-Hua Liu and You-Chia Chang. The device was made at the Michigan Engineering Lurie Nanofabrication Facility.
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In a crevice on a block wall at Eldoret, Kenya. December 2013. Length is about 12 mm.
Funnel weaver spiders hide in a silk lined crevice until an insect falls onto it's sheet web. Then it bolts out at a fantastic speed and immediately bites the prey with venomous chelicerae (fangs). The sheet webs extend 10 to 20 cm from the funnel are constructed at night. The species shown here is boldly marked which might be an indication that it is more toxic to birds and other visual predators.
Copyright Michael J. Plagens. Page created 4 March 2014.


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Personick Honored with Young Investigator Program Award from Army Research Office
by Olivia Drake • July 26, 2018
Michelle Personick
Michelle Personick, assistant professor of chemistry, is the recipient of a three-year, $339,000 Young Investigator Program grant funded by the U.S. Army Research Office. Personick will use the funds to support her nanoparticle research, which ultimately may protect military soldiers from hazardous chemicals and materials.
The Army's Young Investigator Program is designed to identify and support talented scientists and engineers who show exceptional promise for doing creative research, in order to encourage their teaching and research careers. The program is open to U.S. citizens, Nationals, and resident aliens holding tenure-track positions at U.S. universities and colleges, who have held their graduate degrees for fewer than five years at the time of application.
Titled "An Integrated Plasmonic Approach to the Design of Multifunctional Catalytic Materials," Personick will use visible light to drive chemical reactions in ways that would not otherwise be possible using more conventional sources of energy, such as heat.
In the long term, results from her research could help enable the design of metal nanoparticles that could potentially be incorporated into textiles or other materials that soldiers would wear – such as clothing, eyeglasses, or masks – to protect themselves in the event of a chemical hazard.
"Upon exposure to light, the metal nanoparticles would deactivate the hazard by changing its chemical structure by breaking or forming chemical bonds in the hazardous molecules," Personick explained.
Alternatively, the particles could be added to, or otherwise applied to, a chemical hazard to deactivate it, rather than being incorporated into clothing.
"When nanoparticles made from metals such as silver or gold are exposed to light with an appropriate wavelength, the electrons in the metal become 'excited' and can be used to facilitate the selective modification of targeted chemical bonds," Personick explained. "The research will focus on understanding how the shape, structure, and composition of metal nanoparticles influence their ability to provide electrons with the correct energy to catalyze the desired chemical transformation."
The Army is supporting Personick's research through its Chemical Sciences Program. Research in this field advances the Army's knowledge and understanding of molecular sciences for developing future military technology.
Personick, who joined the faculty at Wesleyan in 2015, is interested in developing tailored metal nanomaterials that improve the clean production of energy and enable the efficient use of energy resources. Next fall, she'll teach a course on Advanced Inorganic Chemistry.
Read more about Personick's research in this News @ Wesleyan Q&A.
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