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Project acronym CASSPIN
Project Comparative Analysis of Social Spaces in Post-Industrial Nations
Researcher (PI) William James Atkinson
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Summary The proposed research has two overarching objectives. First, it aims to examine whether it is possible and appropriate to extend a novel way of measuring social class recently devised for the United Kingdom to other post-industrial nations for the purposes of cross-national comparative research. If it is, the project will begin to explore, through secondary and primary analysis of large-scale survey data, the different shapes and trajectories of the class structures – or 'social spaces' – of various nation states. This will involve examination of which classes and sub-classes predominate and which have emerged or declined, as well as the different gender and ethnic/nationality constitutions of the classes and the distinct effects these differences have for understanding cultural and political struggles and, ultimately, the distribution of power or 'recognition' in each country. Second, the project aims to explore, through both statistical analysis and qualitative interviews, how social class is actually lived, experienced and balanced against other pressures and sources of recognition in everyday life, with a focus on three specific nations: the United States, Germany and Sweden. Of particular interest in this respect is the balancing of desire for recognition through money and education – the two cornerstones of social class in post-industrial capitalist societies – and their associated lifestyles with desires for recognition and love within the family. The comparative analysis included in both research aims will be guided by the hypothesis that national differences depend on the nature of the welfare regime in operation, especially as it relates to the nature and extent of workforce feminisation, though the research will also be alive to the possibility of alternative – or no significant – sources of contrast.
The proposed research has two overarching objectives. First, it aims to examine whether it is possible and appropriate to extend a novel way of measuring social class recently devised for the United Kingdom to other post-industrial nations for the purposes of cross-national comparative research. If it is, the project will begin to explore, through secondary and primary analysis of large-scale survey data, the different shapes and trajectories of the class structures – or 'social spaces' – of various nation states. This will involve examination of which classes and sub-classes predominate and which have emerged or declined, as well as the different gender and ethnic/nationality constitutions of the classes and the distinct effects these differences have for understanding cultural and political struggles and, ultimately, the distribution of power or 'recognition' in each country. Second, the project aims to explore, through both statistical analysis and qualitative interviews, how social class is actually lived, experienced and balanced against other pressures and sources of recognition in everyday life, with a focus on three specific nations: the United States, Germany and Sweden. Of particular interest in this respect is the balancing of desire for recognition through money and education – the two cornerstones of social class in post-industrial capitalist societies – and their associated lifestyles with desires for recognition and love within the family. The comparative analysis included in both research aims will be guided by the hypothesis that national differences depend on the nature of the welfare regime in operation, especially as it relates to the nature and extent of workforce feminisation, though the research will also be alive to the possibility of alternative – or no significant – sources of contrast.
Project acronym CatDT
Project Categorified Donaldson-Thomas Theory
Researcher (PI) Nicholas David James (Ben) DAVISON
Host Institution (HI) THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Summary According to string theory, coherent sheaves on three-dimensional Calabi-Yau spaces encode fundamental properties of the universe. On the other hand, they have a purely mathematical definition. We will develop and use the new field of categorified Donaldson-Thomas (DT) theory, which counts these objects. Via the powerful perspective of noncommutative algebraic geometry, this theory has found application in recent years in a wide variety of contexts, far from classical algebraic geometry. Categorification has proved tremendously powerful across mathematics, for example the entire subject of algebraic topology was started by the categorification of Betti numbers. The categorification of DT theory leads to the replacement of the numbers of DT theory by vector spaces, of which these numbers are the dimensions. In the area of categorified DT theory we have been able to prove fundamental conjectures upgrading the famous wall crossing formula and integrality conjecture in noncommutative algebraic geometry. The first three projects involve applications of the resulting new subject: 1. Complete the categorification of quantum cluster algebras, proving the strong positivity conjecture. 2. Use cohomological DT theory to prove the outstanding conjectures in the nonabelian Hodge theory of Riemann surfaces, and the subject of Higgs bundles. 3. Prove the comparison conjecture, realising the study of Yangian quantum groups and the geometric representation theory around them as a special case of DT theory. The final objective involves coming full circle, and applying our recent advances in noncommutative DT theory to the original theory that united string theory with algebraic geometry: 4. Develop a generalised theory of categorified DT theory extending our results in noncommutative DT theory, proving the integrality conjecture for categories of coherent sheaves on Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
According to string theory, coherent sheaves on three-dimensional Calabi-Yau spaces encode fundamental properties of the universe. On the other hand, they have a purely mathematical definition. We will develop and use the new field of categorified Donaldson-Thomas (DT) theory, which counts these objects. Via the powerful perspective of noncommutative algebraic geometry, this theory has found application in recent years in a wide variety of contexts, far from classical algebraic geometry. Categorification has proved tremendously powerful across mathematics, for example the entire subject of algebraic topology was started by the categorification of Betti numbers. The categorification of DT theory leads to the replacement of the numbers of DT theory by vector spaces, of which these numbers are the dimensions. In the area of categorified DT theory we have been able to prove fundamental conjectures upgrading the famous wall crossing formula and integrality conjecture in noncommutative algebraic geometry. The first three projects involve applications of the resulting new subject: 1. Complete the categorification of quantum cluster algebras, proving the strong positivity conjecture. 2. Use cohomological DT theory to prove the outstanding conjectures in the nonabelian Hodge theory of Riemann surfaces, and the subject of Higgs bundles. 3. Prove the comparison conjecture, realising the study of Yangian quantum groups and the geometric representation theory around them as a special case of DT theory. The final objective involves coming full circle, and applying our recent advances in noncommutative DT theory to the original theory that united string theory with algebraic geometry: 4. Develop a generalised theory of categorified DT theory extending our results in noncommutative DT theory, proving the integrality conjecture for categories of coherent sheaves on Calabi-Yau 3-folds.
Project acronym EURO-LAB
Project Experiment to Unearth the Rheological Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary
Researcher (PI) Catherine Ann Rychert
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
Summary Plate tectonics has been a fundamental tenet of Earth Science for nearly 50 years, but fundamental questions remain, such as where is the base of the plate and what makes a plate, "plate-like?" A better understanding of the transition from the rigid lithospheric plate to the weaker mantle beneath – the rheological lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) - has important implications for the driving forces of plate tectonics, natural hazard mitigation, mantle dynamics, the evolution of the planet, and climate change. There are many proxies used to estimate the depth and nature of the base of tectonic plates, but to date no consensus has been reached. For example, temperature is known to have a strong effect on the mechanical behaviour of rocks. However, it has also been suggested that the chemical composition of the plate provides additional strength or that melt weakens the mantle beneath the plate. We are at a critical juncture where large-scale efforts using geophysical, geochemical, and geological techniques are being launched to better understand the definition of the tectonic plate. The simple and short history of the ocean plate makes it the ideal location to advance our understanding. However, imaging the oceanic LAB has proved challenging given the remoteness of the oceans and associated difficulties in instrumentation. Most observations come from only one ocean, the Pacific, from indirect, remote observations, at different areas and scales. I propose a large-scale effort to systematically image an oceanic plate beneath the Atlantic from birth at ridge to 40 My old seafloor. I will deploy ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) and magnetotelluric (MT) instruments, and I will image the plate at a range of resolution scales (laterally and in depth) and sensitivities to physical and chemical properties. This large, focused, interdisciplinary effort will finally determine the processes and properties that make a plate strong and define it.
Plate tectonics has been a fundamental tenet of Earth Science for nearly 50 years, but fundamental questions remain, such as where is the base of the plate and what makes a plate, "plate-like?" A better understanding of the transition from the rigid lithospheric plate to the weaker mantle beneath – the rheological lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) - has important implications for the driving forces of plate tectonics, natural hazard mitigation, mantle dynamics, the evolution of the planet, and climate change. There are many proxies used to estimate the depth and nature of the base of tectonic plates, but to date no consensus has been reached. For example, temperature is known to have a strong effect on the mechanical behaviour of rocks. However, it has also been suggested that the chemical composition of the plate provides additional strength or that melt weakens the mantle beneath the plate. We are at a critical juncture where large-scale efforts using geophysical, geochemical, and geological techniques are being launched to better understand the definition of the tectonic plate. The simple and short history of the ocean plate makes it the ideal location to advance our understanding. However, imaging the oceanic LAB has proved challenging given the remoteness of the oceans and associated difficulties in instrumentation. Most observations come from only one ocean, the Pacific, from indirect, remote observations, at different areas and scales. I propose a large-scale effort to systematically image an oceanic plate beneath the Atlantic from birth at ridge to 40 My old seafloor. I will deploy ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) and magnetotelluric (MT) instruments, and I will image the plate at a range of resolution scales (laterally and in depth) and sensitivities to physical and chemical properties. This large, focused, interdisciplinary effort will finally determine the processes and properties that make a plate strong and define it.
Project acronym ExtreFlow
Project Extreme deformation of structured fluids and interfaces. Exploiting ultrafast collapse and yielding phenomena for new processes and formulated products
Researcher (PI) Valeria Garbin
Host Institution (HI) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
Summary The increasing demand for environmentally friendly, healthier, and better performing formulated products means that the process industry needs more than ever predictive models of formulation performance for rapid, effective, and sustainable screening of new products. Processing flows and end use produce deformations that are extreme compared to what is accessible with existing experimental methods. As a consequence, the effects of extreme deformation are often overlooked without justification. Extreme deformation of structured fluids and soft materials is an unexplored dynamic regime where unexpected phenomena may emerge. New flow-induced microstructures can arise due to periodic forcing that is much faster than the relaxation timescale of the system, leading to collective behaviors and large transient stresses. The goal of this research is to introduce a radically innovative approach to explore and characterize the regime of extreme deformation of structured fluids and interfaces. By combining cutting-edge techniques including acoustofluidics, microfluidics, and high-speed imaging, I will perform pioneering high-precision measurements of macroscopic stresses and evolution of the microstructure. I will also explore strategies to exploit the phenomena emerging upon extreme deformation (collapse under ultrafast compression, yielding) for new processes and for adding new functionality to formulated products. These experimental results, complemented by discrete particle simulations and continuum-scale modeling, will provide new insights that will lay the foundations of the new field of ultrafast soft matter. Ultimately the results of this research program will guide the development of predictive tools that can tackle the time scales of realistic flow conditions for applications to virtual screening of new formulations.
The increasing demand for environmentally friendly, healthier, and better performing formulated products means that the process industry needs more than ever predictive models of formulation performance for rapid, effective, and sustainable screening of new products. Processing flows and end use produce deformations that are extreme compared to what is accessible with existing experimental methods. As a consequence, the effects of extreme deformation are often overlooked without justification. Extreme deformation of structured fluids and soft materials is an unexplored dynamic regime where unexpected phenomena may emerge. New flow-induced microstructures can arise due to periodic forcing that is much faster than the relaxation timescale of the system, leading to collective behaviors and large transient stresses. The goal of this research is to introduce a radically innovative approach to explore and characterize the regime of extreme deformation of structured fluids and interfaces. By combining cutting-edge techniques including acoustofluidics, microfluidics, and high-speed imaging, I will perform pioneering high-precision measurements of macroscopic stresses and evolution of the microstructure. I will also explore strategies to exploit the phenomena emerging upon extreme deformation (collapse under ultrafast compression, yielding) for new processes and for adding new functionality to formulated products. These experimental results, complemented by discrete particle simulations and continuum-scale modeling, will provide new insights that will lay the foundations of the new field of ultrafast soft matter. Ultimately the results of this research program will guide the development of predictive tools that can tackle the time scales of realistic flow conditions for applications to virtual screening of new formulations.
Project acronym GADGET
Project Geometry and Anomalous Dynamic Growth of Elastic instabiliTies
Researcher (PI) Dominic Vella
Summary Elastic instabilities are ubiquitous, from the wrinkles that form on skin to the 'snap-through' of an umbrella on a windy day. The complex patterns such instabilities make, and the great speed with which they develop, have led to a host of technological and scientific applications. However, recent experiments have revealed significant gaps in our theoretical understanding of such instabilities, particularly in the roles played by geometry and dynamics. I will establish a group to develop and validate a theoretical framework within which these results can be understood. Central to my approach is an appreciation of the crucial role of geometry in the pattern formation and dynamics of elastic instabilities. As a starting point, I will consider the model problem of a pressurized elastic shell subject to a geometrically large deformation. This system develops either wrinkles or a stress-focusing instability depending on the internal pressure. As such, this is a natural paradigm with which to understand geometrical features of deformation relevant across length scales from deformed viruses to the subduction zones in Earth's tectonic plates. My team will combine theoretical and computational approaches with tabletop experiments to determine a new set of shell deformations that are generically observed in contradiction of the classic 'mirror buckling'. Understanding why these new shapes emerge will transform our perception of shell instabilities and provide new fundamental building blocks with which to model them. These ideas will also be used to transform our understanding of a number of other, previously mysterious, elastic instabilities of practical interest. Turning our focus to the dynamics of instabilities such as the snap-through of shells, we will show that accounting for geometry is again crucial. The new insight gained through this project will increase our ability to control elastic instabilities, benefitting a range of technological and scientific applications.
Elastic instabilities are ubiquitous, from the wrinkles that form on skin to the 'snap-through' of an umbrella on a windy day. The complex patterns such instabilities make, and the great speed with which they develop, have led to a host of technological and scientific applications. However, recent experiments have revealed significant gaps in our theoretical understanding of such instabilities, particularly in the roles played by geometry and dynamics. I will establish a group to develop and validate a theoretical framework within which these results can be understood. Central to my approach is an appreciation of the crucial role of geometry in the pattern formation and dynamics of elastic instabilities. As a starting point, I will consider the model problem of a pressurized elastic shell subject to a geometrically large deformation. This system develops either wrinkles or a stress-focusing instability depending on the internal pressure. As such, this is a natural paradigm with which to understand geometrical features of deformation relevant across length scales from deformed viruses to the subduction zones in Earth's tectonic plates. My team will combine theoretical and computational approaches with tabletop experiments to determine a new set of shell deformations that are generically observed in contradiction of the classic 'mirror buckling'. Understanding why these new shapes emerge will transform our perception of shell instabilities and provide new fundamental building blocks with which to model them. These ideas will also be used to transform our understanding of a number of other, previously mysterious, elastic instabilities of practical interest. Turning our focus to the dynamics of instabilities such as the snap-through of shells, we will show that accounting for geometry is again crucial. The new insight gained through this project will increase our ability to control elastic instabilities, benefitting a range of technological and scientific applications.
Project acronym GREYZONE
Project Illuminating the 'Grey Zone': Addressing Complex Complicity in Human Rights Violations
Researcher (PI) Mihaela Mihai
Summary The grey zone of bystanders, collaborators and beneficiaries of violence escapes the scope of main Transitional Justice (TJ) institutions and poses tough questions for scholars and architects of post-conflict societies. This interdisciplinary project shifts the focus of academic and political debates by pursuing three objectives: conceptually, it departs from the dominant victim-perpetrator paradigm and theorises the many faces in the grey zone by analysing the interplay between structure and agency; normatively, it argues that no account of TJ is complete without engaging the grey zone; empirically, it tests if, in tackling the grey zone, cinematographic and literary representations can supplement typical TJ mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, lustration). Four cases are analysed: authoritarianism plus military occupation (Vichy France), apartheid (South Africa), totalitarianism (Romania 1945–1989) and military dictatorship (Argentina 1976–1983). The cases provide a variety of contexts of complicity and feature the most frequently used TJ mechanisms. They serve to a) examine the relationship between the official story emerging from state-orchestrated TJ mechanisms and artistic narratives of complicity; b) contextually distinguish disclosive from obscuring artistic representations of the grey zone; c) explore the contribution of these representations to TJ efforts by studying their effect on public debates about—and institutional responses to—the past. Working at the frontiers between political science, philosophy, history, law, literature and cinema, this pioneering project has critical and institutional impact. Critically, it discloses the limits of current TJ theory and practice by emphasising the negative political effects of ignoring general complicity in violence. Institutionally, it seeks to enrich the toolkit of scholars and practitioners by pointing to the potential use of cinema and literature in civic education aimed at deterrence and reconciliation.
The grey zone of bystanders, collaborators and beneficiaries of violence escapes the scope of main Transitional Justice (TJ) institutions and poses tough questions for scholars and architects of post-conflict societies. This interdisciplinary project shifts the focus of academic and political debates by pursuing three objectives: conceptually, it departs from the dominant victim-perpetrator paradigm and theorises the many faces in the grey zone by analysing the interplay between structure and agency; normatively, it argues that no account of TJ is complete without engaging the grey zone; empirically, it tests if, in tackling the grey zone, cinematographic and literary representations can supplement typical TJ mechanisms (trials, truth commissions, lustration). Four cases are analysed: authoritarianism plus military occupation (Vichy France), apartheid (South Africa), totalitarianism (Romania 1945–1989) and military dictatorship (Argentina 1976–1983). The cases provide a variety of contexts of complicity and feature the most frequently used TJ mechanisms. They serve to a) examine the relationship between the official story emerging from state-orchestrated TJ mechanisms and artistic narratives of complicity; b) contextually distinguish disclosive from obscuring artistic representations of the grey zone; c) explore the contribution of these representations to TJ efforts by studying their effect on public debates about—and institutional responses to—the past. Working at the frontiers between political science, philosophy, history, law, literature and cinema, this pioneering project has critical and institutional impact. Critically, it discloses the limits of current TJ theory and practice by emphasising the negative political effects of ignoring general complicity in violence. Institutionally, it seeks to enrich the toolkit of scholars and practitioners by pointing to the potential use of cinema and literature in civic education aimed at deterrence and reconciliation.
Project acronym HERITAGE
Project Cultural Heritage and Economic Development in International and European Law
Researcher (PI) Valentina Vadi
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER
Summary Can states promote economic development without infringing upon their cultural heritage? Although economic globalization and international economic governance have spurred a more intense dialogue and interaction among nations - potentially promoting cultural diversity and providing the funds to recover and preserve cultural heritage - these phenomena can also jeopardize the cultural wealth of nations. Trade in cultural products can lead to cultural homogenization and even to cultural hegemony. In parallel, foreign direct investments have an unmatched penetrating force with the ultimate capacity of changing landscapes and erasing memory. At the same time, the increase in global trade, economic integration and foreign direct investment has determined the creation of legally binding and highly effective regimes that demand states to promote and facilitate trade and foreign direct investment. Has an international economic culture emerged that emphasizes productivity and economic development at the expense of cultural wealth? Does the existing legal framework adequately protect the cultural wealth of nations vis-à-vis economic globalization? Could existing mechanisms in international and European law constrain negative effects of globalization? HERITAGE aims to map the interaction between economic globalization and each specimen of cultural heritage - world heritage, cultural diversity, intangible cultural heritage, indigenous heritage and underwater cultural heritage - in international and European law by investigating the relevant case law before international courts and tribunals. The study adopts an interdisciplinary approach; the relevant cases will be investigated in consideration of both their legal and cultural relevance. The main outcome of this research project will be a monograph written by the principal investigator to be published by a major international publisher; and a number of articles to be published in major international journals.
Can states promote economic development without infringing upon their cultural heritage? Although economic globalization and international economic governance have spurred a more intense dialogue and interaction among nations - potentially promoting cultural diversity and providing the funds to recover and preserve cultural heritage - these phenomena can also jeopardize the cultural wealth of nations. Trade in cultural products can lead to cultural homogenization and even to cultural hegemony. In parallel, foreign direct investments have an unmatched penetrating force with the ultimate capacity of changing landscapes and erasing memory. At the same time, the increase in global trade, economic integration and foreign direct investment has determined the creation of legally binding and highly effective regimes that demand states to promote and facilitate trade and foreign direct investment. Has an international economic culture emerged that emphasizes productivity and economic development at the expense of cultural wealth? Does the existing legal framework adequately protect the cultural wealth of nations vis-à-vis economic globalization? Could existing mechanisms in international and European law constrain negative effects of globalization? HERITAGE aims to map the interaction between economic globalization and each specimen of cultural heritage - world heritage, cultural diversity, intangible cultural heritage, indigenous heritage and underwater cultural heritage - in international and European law by investigating the relevant case law before international courts and tribunals. The study adopts an interdisciplinary approach; the relevant cases will be investigated in consideration of both their legal and cultural relevance. The main outcome of this research project will be a monograph written by the principal investigator to be published by a major international publisher; and a number of articles to be published in major international journals.
Project acronym HToMS
Project Homotopy Theory of Moduli Spaces
Researcher (PI) Oscar RANDAL-WILLIAMS
Host Institution (HI) THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Summary Moduli spaces are spaces which describe all mathematical objects of some type. This proposal concerns the study of certain moduli spaces via techniques from homotopy theory, from several different points of view. The main moduli spaces in which we are interested are moduli spaces of manifolds, or equivalently classifying spaces of diffeomorphism groups of manifolds. We are also interested in spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics on smooth manifolds, which we study by relating them to moduli spaces of smooth manifolds. The study of moduli spaces of manifolds via homotopy theory has seen a great deal of development in the last 20 years, the breakthrough result being Madsen and Weiss' calculation of the stable homology of moduli spaces of surfaces. More recently, Galatius and I have established analogous results for manifolds of higher dimension. A main goal of this proposal is to study the homology of moduli spaces from a multiplicative point of view. This leads to higher-order forms of the phenomenon of homological stability in which the failure of ordinary homological stability is itself stable. Remarkably, our methods developed to handle moduli spaces of manifolds are sufficiently general to yield deep new results when applied to other moduli spaces in algebra and topology, such as moduli spaces of modules (equivalently, classifying spaces of general linear groups) or moduli spaces of graphs (equivalently, classifying spaces of automorphism groups of free groups). In each case our methods give new information about their homology outside of the traditional stable range. Other goals of this proposal are to form new connections between spaces of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature and infinite loop spaces, and to investigate the structure of tautological subrings of the cohomology of moduli spaces of manifolds, especially in relation to the tautological rings of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces studied in algebraic geometry.
Moduli spaces are spaces which describe all mathematical objects of some type. This proposal concerns the study of certain moduli spaces via techniques from homotopy theory, from several different points of view. The main moduli spaces in which we are interested are moduli spaces of manifolds, or equivalently classifying spaces of diffeomorphism groups of manifolds. We are also interested in spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics on smooth manifolds, which we study by relating them to moduli spaces of smooth manifolds. The study of moduli spaces of manifolds via homotopy theory has seen a great deal of development in the last 20 years, the breakthrough result being Madsen and Weiss' calculation of the stable homology of moduli spaces of surfaces. More recently, Galatius and I have established analogous results for manifolds of higher dimension. A main goal of this proposal is to study the homology of moduli spaces from a multiplicative point of view. This leads to higher-order forms of the phenomenon of homological stability in which the failure of ordinary homological stability is itself stable. Remarkably, our methods developed to handle moduli spaces of manifolds are sufficiently general to yield deep new results when applied to other moduli spaces in algebra and topology, such as moduli spaces of modules (equivalently, classifying spaces of general linear groups) or moduli spaces of graphs (equivalently, classifying spaces of automorphism groups of free groups). In each case our methods give new information about their homology outside of the traditional stable range. Other goals of this proposal are to form new connections between spaces of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature and infinite loop spaces, and to investigate the structure of tautological subrings of the cohomology of moduli spaces of manifolds, especially in relation to the tautological rings of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces studied in algebraic geometry.
Project acronym Intimacy
Project Doing Intimacy: A Multi-sited Ethnography of Modern Chinese Family Life
Researcher (PI) Jieyu Liu
Host Institution (HI) SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER
Summary Families in Western countries have received a great deal of attention from social scientists but there is less information on family life in other regions of the world. Given its growing rapidly in global influence, China represents a crucial region for sociological advancement and understanding. There have been profound changes in the Chinese family over the last century as a result of industrialization, urbanization, the influence of the West and the political interventions carried out by the Communist Party since 1949. Existing scholarship has shown how the structure and function of Chinese families have adapted to changing political and economic circumstances but little is known about the changes in intimate spheres of Chinese families. This project will approach the subject of modern Chinese family life from an unconventional angle, analysing it as a process of practices and experiences. By setting a new agenda that moves from structures of family relationships to the quality of relationships and through examining 'doing intimacy', this project will take a closer, fresher, critical look at the Chinese family dynamics as they are lived. Informed by the emerging literature on gender, intimacy and modernity, this project will examine intergenerational relations as well as gender and sexual relations in the family. Is there an intimate revolution taking place? How is 'modernity'/'tradition' closely linked with practices of intimacy? To what extent can doing intimacy be a site of empowerment/domination for women? What will the study of Chinese families tell us about agency and local/global change? Through a multi-sited ethnography (mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), this study will also compare practices of intimacy in various sites and examine whether/how they are by-products of particular socio-cultural configurations. It will identify the extent to which changes in Chinese families mirror changes in the West and the factors that contribute to these changes.
Families in Western countries have received a great deal of attention from social scientists but there is less information on family life in other regions of the world. Given its growing rapidly in global influence, China represents a crucial region for sociological advancement and understanding. There have been profound changes in the Chinese family over the last century as a result of industrialization, urbanization, the influence of the West and the political interventions carried out by the Communist Party since 1949. Existing scholarship has shown how the structure and function of Chinese families have adapted to changing political and economic circumstances but little is known about the changes in intimate spheres of Chinese families. This project will approach the subject of modern Chinese family life from an unconventional angle, analysing it as a process of practices and experiences. By setting a new agenda that moves from structures of family relationships to the quality of relationships and through examining 'doing intimacy', this project will take a closer, fresher, critical look at the Chinese family dynamics as they are lived. Informed by the emerging literature on gender, intimacy and modernity, this project will examine intergenerational relations as well as gender and sexual relations in the family. Is there an intimate revolution taking place? How is 'modernity'/'tradition' closely linked with practices of intimacy? To what extent can doing intimacy be a site of empowerment/domination for women? What will the study of Chinese families tell us about agency and local/global change? Through a multi-sited ethnography (mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), this study will also compare practices of intimacy in various sites and examine whether/how they are by-products of particular socio-cultural configurations. It will identify the extent to which changes in Chinese families mirror changes in the West and the factors that contribute to these changes.


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SAC, prosecutors are ready to settle: Sources
Published Mon, Oct 28 201312:48 PM EDT Updated Mon, Oct 28 20131:40 PM EDT
Kate Kelly@katekellycnbc
SAC likely to plead guilty
Federal prosecutors are close to finalizing a settlement with SAC Capital that would end a painful chapter for the embattled hedge fund, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that a deal could be announced as early as this week.
Any settlement between the U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District and SAC, which was indicted on criminal securities and wire fraud in July, would involve a guilty plea, according to one of these people, and a fine of more than a billion dollars, others familiar with the matter have said.
The basic terms of the settlement have already been hammered out, one of these people added, but a number of more technical issues still need to be resolved.
(Read more: SAC retrenches as insider trading probe drains firm)
Spokesmen for the U.S. Attorney's Office and SAC declined to comment.
For SAC, which manages about $13 billion, the admission of guilt is probably more significant than the payout.
Although the exact details of the anticipated plea could not yet be determined, any admission of guilt will probably render SAC unable to manage public money in the future. That means the firm either will have to convert quickly to a so-called family office, solely managing founder Steve Cohen and his senior employees' money, or shut down entirely.
If SAC opts to close, said securities lawyers and a person familiar with the matter, it can move its remaining capital and its staff into a new money-management firm with a new name. But even after that, Cohen, who was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in July for failure to supervise errant employees, faces the prospect of a securities-industry bar that would restrict his trading abilities dramatically.
(Read more: SAC to shutter London office in downsizing move)
Prosecutors reportedly told SAC that any settlement deal would have to be completed before Nov. 18, which is when the federal trial against longtime SAC manager Michael Steinberg commences.
Eyeing that date and aware of the firm's desire for resolution, SAC employees have been expecting a deal this week, according to someone who works there.
The government has reportedly demanded a fine of $1.8 billion. SAC has held out for a figure lower than that, said someone familiar with the matter, and a deduction from the eventual fine of $616 million it paid earlier this year to settle related SEC charges.
Whether they have prevailed, however, is not yet clear.


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Saudis prepare 'al-Qaeda' trials
Security tight as court reviews cases of dozens of men accused of planning attacks .
The so-called "al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" began a campaign to destabilise the Saudi government in 2003 with two suicide bomb attacks on foreign housing compounds in Riyadh. Around 264 people died in the violence.
Saudi Arabain security forces launched a massive operation, in co-operation with foreign experts, and the last major attack was a failed attempt to storm the world's largest oil processing plant at Abqaiq in February 2006.
Hundreds of people have been detained over the last year with Saudi authorities saying that they were trying to revive a number of al-Qaeda inspired cells.
Human Rights Watch has expressed concerns that some of those detained were political dissidents rather than members of armed groups.
Saudi Arabia's al-Riyadh newspaper said that the men facing trial were "implementers, inciters and supporters".
It said suggested that they could include men who fought in Afghanistan, Iraq and fighters extradited to Saudi Arabia recently from other countries.
The Arab News daily, citing Saudi interior ministry officials, said that the defendants were accused of either direct involvement in attacks or are thought to have helped by providing refuge, transport and funds.
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In order to make your system perform at your desired pace, you should take help of Windows built-in tool to defrag your hard drives. It's important to note here that the modern versions of Windows automatically defragment your hard drives. However, it's never bad to do the task manually whenever you feel your OS is taking hours to load. It's advised to do this on monthly basis to improve PC performance and speed.
Note: A Solid State Drive (SSD) should not be defragmented. Unlike hard drives, SSDs do not use a spinning platter to store your data. So, defragging them isn't going to help you. On the contrary, this may adversely affect your Solid State Drive's lifespan.
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Q: Python sqrt() doubles runtime? I've recently started learning Python. My apologies if this is really obvious.
I am following along with the 2008 MIT open course on Computer Science and am working on the problem of calculating the 1000th prime integer. Python 2.7.3, Win7 lappy (cough, cough...)
Here's the code I came up with:
num = 3
primeList = [2]

while len(primeList) < 1000:
    for i in primeList:
        if num % i == 0:
            break
    else:
        primeList.append(num)
    num += 1

print "The 1,000th PRIME integer is", primeList[999]

One of the assignment conditions was to only check odd numbers. Given the starting num is three, I figured it would be easy enough to simply change num+=1 to num+=2. Of note: I won't bore you with the detailed code I composed, but while writing this I was using a very verbose mode of printing out the results of each check, whether or not it was prime, which number was being checked, which integer divided into it if it wasn't prime & such (again, sorry - newB!)
At this point I became curious to test if this was actually taking less time to compute - seemed like if half the numbers are being checked for primacy, it should take half the time, no?
I imported the time module to check how long this was taking. Computing to the 1000th was pretty quick either way so I increased the number of primes I was searching for to the 10,000th and didn't see any significant difference. between num+=1 & num+=2
import time
start = time.time()

num = 3
primeList = [2]

while len(primeList) < 10000:
    for i in primeList:
        if num % i == 0:
            break
    else:
        primeList.append(num)
    num += 2

print "The 10,000th PRIME integer is", primeList[9999]
end = time.time()
print "That took %.3f seconds" % (end-start)

Sometimes the n+=2 even took a couple milliseconds longer. ?. I thought this was odd and was wondering if someone could help me understand why - or, more to the point: how?
Furthermore, I next imported the sqrt() function thinking this would reduce the number of integers being checked before confirming primacy, but this doubled the runtime =^O.
import time
start = time.time()

from math import sqrt

num = 3
primeList = [2]

while len(primeList) < 100000:
    for i in primeList:
        if i <= sqrt(num):
            if num % i == 0:
                break
    else:
        primeList.append(num)
    num += 2

print "The 100,000th PRIME integer is",primeList[99999]
end = time.time()
print 'that took', end - start, "seconds, or", (end-start)/60, "minutes"

Certainly - it might be the way I've written my code! If not, I'm curious what exactly I am invoking here that is taking so long?
Thank you!

A: Two things.
First, you're calculating sqrt(n) on every loop iteration.  This will add work, because it's something else your code now has to do on every pass through the loop.
Second, the way you're using sqrt doesn't reduce the number of numbers it checks, because you don't exit the loop even when i is bigger than sqrt(n).  So it keeps doing a do-nothing loop for all the higher numbers.
Try this instead:
while len(primeList) < 100000:
    rootN = sqrt(num)
    for i in primeList:
        if i <= rootN:
            if num % i == 0:
                break
        else:
            primeList.append(num)
            break
    else:
        primeList.append(num)
    num += 2

This finds 100,000 primes in about 3 seconds on my machine.

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Diane von Furstenberg Net Worth
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Profession: Professional Fashion Designer
Who Is Diane von Furstenberg
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Diane von Furstenberg is one of the world's most iconic fashion designers in the world, known as 'DvF' she became a household name as with the creation of her classic "wrap dress." Diane was once married to Italian Prince Egon von Furstenberg.
Belgian fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has a net worth of $1.3 billion dollars, as of 2021. Best known for her wrap dress, yet it was when she married into the House of Fürstenberg that she became a member of the highest class in Germany.
Born in 1946 as Diane Simone Michelle Halfin in Brussels, Belgium. Diana's parents were a well-to-do Jewish couple, Leon and Liliane Nahmias Halfin, who Diane recalls as providing her with a comfortable childhood in post-war Europe. Diane credits her mother, Liliane, who is a Holocaust survivor, as the one who taught her confidence and instilled in her a strong sense of self-worth.
"She was extraordinary. She survived the camps at the age of 22, she taught me only to look at positive things no matter what happens. When she talked about the camps, she talked about the camaraderie. I think she was trying to protect me. She only weighed 49 pounds when she came out, but I was born 18 months later. I was her victory," Diane told The Independent in 2008.
Diane traveled, attended finishing schools across the breadth of Europe from Switzerland, Spain and England and finally in 1965 enrolled in the University of Madrid. In 1966, Von Furstenberg transferred to the University of Geneva, where she met her future husband, Prince Egon von Furstenberg, heir to the Fiat automobile fortune and a fashion designer himself.
The following year Diane and Egon married, moved to New York and had two children – Prince Alexandre von Furstenberg and Princess Tatiana von Furstenberg. They divorced, remaining friends, only three years later in 1972.
With the encouragement of Prince Egon, Diane apprenticed with Italian textile manufacturer Angelo Ferretti in 1970. As the new Princess von Furstenberg, Diane sought to get established designers in New York interested in her simple designs.
During this time period she was designing out of the dining room of her Park Avenue apartment, while surrounding herself with images of the fashion lines of designers Bill Blass and Dianna Vreeland for inspiration.
When asked by the New York Times in 1977 why she began to design clothing as she had no financial need thanks to her royal marriage, Diane replied "The minute I knew I was about to be Egon's wife, I decided to have a career. I wanted to be someone of my own, and not just a plain little girl who got married beyond her desserts."
With the help of entrepreneur Richard Conrad and a sizable loan from her father, Diane established her own manufacturing business in 1972. Soon after von Furstenberg opened a Seventh Avenue showroom. During this time period she designed her popular garment – a sweater dressed named "Angela" after the famous black activist Angela Davis who inspired it.
Her ever classic wrap dress came into existence after she saw former-President Nxon's daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower on TV wearing a pairing of her wrap top with her wrap skirt. The glamorous effect that the pairing had together led Diane to combine them into a single dress.
In the mid 1970's von Furstenberg's "wrap dress" totally changed American women's apparel. It was first of a 'modern' kind of dress, a dress that was versatile enough to be a business garment or an chic evening gown. In 1975 alone, Diane was manufacturing 15,000 wrap dresses a week and in 1976 she had sold over 5 million wrap dresses. It is not surprising that this success landed her on the cover of Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.
"I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore," she told New York Magazine in 1988. "That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich."
By the end of the 1970's Diane von Furstenberg had successfully designed a dress that captured the spirit of women's liberation movement and became herself an icon of female empowerment for a whole generation.
"It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit," Von Furstenberg told The Independent in 2008. "The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body."
As she became a regular at the New York party scene hotspot Richard Gere, Warren Beatty and Ryan O'Neal.
In 2010 Diane fulfilled a life-long dream of working with London hotel Claridge's. Von Furstenberg designed a series of rooms and suites for the landmark hotel. The partnership marked a new phase in Diane's love affair with the hotel whose Art Deco theme inspired her past collections.
"One of my fondest memories was when I was in London as a young, independent businesswoman and stayed at Claridge's. I knew I had made it," she told The New York Times. "To me, Claridge's is the most glamourous hotel in the world; I regard it as my home away from home. I am honoured to become part of the hotel's legacy and rich design history."
She showcased a new line in 2011 called Diane which featured some of her more popular vintage prints in a ready-to-wear line and in accessories. The new line Diane is available exclusively through the Diane von Furstenberg stores.
This year Diane collaborated with Gap Kids to launch a children's wear collection featuring a kid's version of her wrap dress. "This collection is about celebrating life and colour," she told her fans. "The minute a little girl is born, she is already the woman she will be. So to empower a little girl is to empower the woman she will become."
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"The Schaefer Center Presents…" Continues its 2019-20 Season on February 1 with a Stellar Lineup of Music, Dance and Theatre
Published Monday, January 6, 2020 at 4:40 pm
The final stretch of the 2019-2020 season of "The Schaefer Center Presents…" performing arts series is just around the corner. From Feb. 1-April 4, the SCP series, presented by Appalachian State University's Office of Arts and Cultural Programs, offers something special to lift any lingering post-holiday blues —a genre-spanning Texas troubadour; evocative dance that draws equally on ballet and hip-hop; dizzyingly athletic Irish dance; a powerful radio-style dramatic play; and a distaff country artist carrying on the family legacy.
For more information, visit http://theschaefercenter.org/ or call 828-262-4046.
"The Schaefer Center Presents…" 2019-20 Season
LYLE LOVETT AND HIS ACOUSTIC GROUP
Saturday, Feb. 1 at 7pm
A singer, composer and actor, Lyle Lovett has broadened the definition of American music in a career that spans 14 albums. Coupled with his gift for storytelling, the Texas-based musician fuses elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, gospel and blues in a convention-defying manner that breaks down barriers and hits you right in the feels.
Tickets: $45 adults, $40 faculty/staff, $35 students
A.I.M (Abraham in Motion)
Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7pm
Born into hip-hop culture in late 1970s Pittsburgh and grounded in an artistic upbringing in classical cello, piano, and the visual arts, award-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham's works offer a rumination on history, identity and community. His New York-based dance troupe, A.I.M, is comprised of a diverse representation of dancers who meld modern, classical, street, and hip-hop movement to create pieces that are evocative and timely, tackling issues involving race, violence, love, longing and loss, and community. Among Abraham's numerous honors include the Jacob's Pillow Dance Award in 2012 and being named a MacArthur fellow in 2013. In 2016 Abraham was a recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Award, given to those who foster continuing excellence in the performing arts.
Tickets: $25 adults, $15 local residents/faculty/staff, $5 students
TRINITY IRISH DANCE COMPANY
Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7pm
A fusion of Ireland's vibrant and longstanding dance form and elements of American innovation, Trinity Irish Dance Company dazzles audiences with its hard-driving percussive power, lightning-fast agility, and aerial grace. Artistic director Mark Howard's uniquely Irish-American company was the birthplace of progressive Irish dance, which opened new avenues of artistic expression that led directly to commercial productions such as Riverdance.
L.A. THEATRE WORKS: "SEVEN"
Tuesday, March 24 at 7pm
This captivating documentary-style play is based on personal interviews with seven remarkable women from around the world who faced life-threatening obstacles before bringing heroic changes to their home countries. Seven female playwrights — Carol K. Mack (who conceived the play), Anna Deavere Smith, Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Ruth Margraff, and Susan Yankowitz — collaborated to create a tapestry of stories that weave together the words of these women, dramatizing their struggles and triumphs over resistance, death threats, entrenched norms and pervasive violence. Seven makes the powerful and timeless statement that even in the darkest times, one person, one voice, and a single act of courage can change the lives of thousands.
ROSANNE CASH – SHE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING
Saturday, April 4 at 7pm
Carrying on the family legacy, Cash comes to Boone promoting her recently released album She Remembers Everything, a poetic, lush and soulful collection of songs that address a flawed and complicated world, reflecting upon the blessings and bruises of life through the prism of one of the country's preeminent singer/songwriters. Cash has released 15 albums of extraordinary songs that have earned four Grammy Awards and 11 nominations, as well as 21 top 40 hits, including 11 No. 1 singles.
A faculty/staff and retired faculty/staff discount for select shows is available when tickets are purchased over the phone or at the box office. To purchase tickets, stop by the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Box Office, call 800-841-2787 or 828-262-4046, or visit http://theschaefercenter.org.
About "The Schaefer Center Presents"
"The Schaefer Center Presents" is a series offering campus and community audiences a diverse array of music, dance and theatre programming designed to enrich the cultural landscape of the Appalachian State University campus and surrounding area. By creating memorable performance experiences and related educational and outreach activities, the series promotes the power and excitement of the live performance experience; provides a "window on the world" through the artistry of nationally and internationally renowned artists; and showcases some of the finest artists of our nation and our region. Musical events range from symphony orchestra and chamber music performances to jazz, folk, traditional, international, and popular artists. Theatre productions run the gamut from serious drama to musical comedy. Dance performances offer an equally wide array of styles, from ballet to modern dance to international companies representing cultural traditions from around the world. For more information, visit http://theschaefercenter.org.
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module PivotalSync

  class Story
    include HappyMapper

    class << self

      def all(project_id)
        parse(Client.connection["projects/#{project_id}/stories"].get)
      end

      def find(id)
        parse(Client.connection["stories/#{id}"].get)
      end

    end

    tag "story"
    element :id, Integer
    element :project_id, Integer
    element :story_type, String
    element :url, String
    element :estimate, Float
    element :current_state, String
    element :description, String
    element :name, String
    element :created_at, DateTime
    element :updated_at, DateTime
    element :accepted_at, DateTime
    element :labels, String
    has_one :owned_by, Person, :tag => 'owned_by'
    has_one :requested_by, Person, :tag => 'requested_by'
    has_many :attachments, Attachment, :tag => 'attachment'
    has_many :comments, Comment, :tag => 'comment'
    has_many :tasks, Task, :tag => 'task'

    def project
      Project.find(project_id)
    end

    # def tasks
    #   Task.all(project_id, id)
    # end

  end
end

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Red Bank investigating employee's social media after racist post surfaces online
Susanne Cervenka
Asbury Park Press
RED BANK - A borough official said the town is investigating social media posts purportedly made by a part-time employee after users on the online forum Reddit called out a racist Facebook post.
But the part-time employee told the Asbury Park Press that his account was hacked and he was not responsible for the Facebook post. The Press is not naming the employee because was not clear at publication time if he wrote the post.
Reddit users posted a screenshot of a reply from the employee's Facebook account to a post on AJ+, a digital news platform that focuses on human rights and equality.
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The post references an increase in far-right extremist groups and included a video of a Black woman wearing a head wrap. The response from the employee's Facebook page begins with a racist utterance followed by, "you so cool and down with mother Africa you ought to go back ... see how long before your gang raped and tortured" (sic).
The employee told the Press that the comment was "a pretty horrible statement" and that it was not his writing.
"That's a pretty low thing for people to say even using my name," he said.
The employee initially said he contacted Facebook to report being hacked and shut down the Facebook account. He later said he didn't know how to contact Facebook because he sent the initial message to the social media giant via a comment box and did not have a copy of that message.
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Red Bank Council President Hazim Yassin said he was alerted to the Reddit post Saturday and asked the borough administrator to investigate. The employee said he has not spoken to anyone from the borough about the posts.
Yassin said he created a Reddit account so he could inform the users that the borough was addressing the allegations and offered his email address as a contact. Several Redditors contacted him by email with screenshots from Instagram that also allege to be from the employee.
That picture showed a line of people outside a building with a caption: "A line at the gun range! Silent majority won't always be silent be careful libs"
The employee said he also was not responsible for the Instagram post and was not sure if the account — which has a screenname that matched his private business name and a link to his business website — was his. The employee said he knows an Instagram account was established for the business, but that he stopped using it because he "never figured out how to use it."
The Instagram account had 13 posts overall and 11 posts relate to the employee's private business. Besides the gun range post, a second post includes a picture of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy with a comment calling him "the piece of crap worst Governor in NJ history."
Yassin said both posts are being investigated, but could not discuss it further because it was a personnel issues. He said the findings would be made public when it is complete.
The employee said he intends to get a lawyer after being "bombarded with threats."
"I've never been politically in anything," he said. "I know it wasn't me."
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The consequences of water ingress can be expensive and far reaching. Even one breach in the building envelope can spell disaster. That's why contractors around the world rely on our waterproofing solutions. Learn how our waterproofing and weatherproofing solutions help contractors keep water out of the building envelope and keep the structure dry.
Vadistanbul is Turkey's largest industrial and urban transformation project. When completed, it will have a shopping mall with hundreds of stores, street shops, office space and a five-star hotel.
The site is located close to the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus. That means a high water table that can be found at a depth of only three meters. That's why it is essential to completely and reliably waterproof the 22-meter-deep basements.
For the Vadistanbul Boulevard part of the project, the contractor used PREPRUFE® waterproofing solutions. The project required 90,000 m² of the waterproofing membrane to provide superb protection to all built elements, including 3,000 foundation piles, up to levels above the water table.
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Sonoma State University faced several challenges for waterproofing its new concert call. The Green Music Center sits at ground level, but the hall slopes downward, below grade, toward the stage. In addition, several feet of space needed for the building's air supply extended the depth even farther.
There was also a high water table just a few feet below the surface. The Green Music Center designers chose PREPRUFE® waterproofing membrane to protect the structure and BITUTHENE® waterproofing on the exterior basement walls. As a result, everything stays dry. That's music to our ears!
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Since there was a varying water table, the project called for specific requirements to prevent water migration. The site also contains a complex maze of inverted bends and horizontal paths. Access comes in from a mix of residential, commercial and retail buildings. That required a complete matrix of fabricated movement joints.
The contractors chose PREPRUFE® and ADPRUFE® waterproofing solutions as well as SERVISEAL® waterstop to protect the expansion joints in the concrete. In total, approximately 19,000 m² of PREPRUFE® and 6,000 m³ of watertight concrete enhanced with ADPRUFE® were used on the site.
St. George Wharf in Vauxhall and Riverside West in Wandsworth are prestigious developments of modern trend-setting apartments, shops, cafes, restaurants and other leisure facilities. The developments also incorporate underground parking garages with concrete podium deck roofs, which have been subsequently landscaped to form a communal courtyard.
The architects for both projects set out to find a robust and effective waterproofing system that could be specified for the protection of the podium decks, not only for the decks themselves but also to combat water ingress and leakage that could damage the valuable cars parked below.
The decision was taken to specify INTEGRITANK® for these projects. A key deciding factor was the simplified sealing and installation of the INTEGRITANK® system in critical areas, such as service entries and gully outlets. The INTEGRITANK® waterproofing system, with unique ESSELAC® advanced resin technology, is ideal for waterproofing underground structures in both internal and external applications.
Using the system resulted in significant time savings. The areas where INTEGRITANK® waterproofing was applied could accept vehicular and foot traffic within one hour, unlike other systems that would have to be kept clear for up to seven days and required additional protective layers before trafficking.
The work was carried out in phases to tie in with the wider refurbishment plans. The client also wanted to make sure the new parking garage had a brighter, fresher and more modern appearance with an aesthetically pleasing protective finish.
The DECSEAL® wearing course system was specified based on its ease of application. The system can be applied to seven-day-old concrete, enabling the application to begin as much as three weeks earlier than other systems. In addition, the system allows for an unlimited over-coating time, eliminates adhesion issues at day joints and provides for easy detailing.
In addition, DECSEAL® wearing course is cold applied, so it requires no hot trades and no hot work permits. The Bauxite aggregates also offer exceptional wear and skid resistance, making the surface safer for car park visitors.
The DECSEAL® wearing course provided a choice of six standard colors, with bespoke colors available, offering the designers the ability to create a fresh look. With a speedy, problem-free application, the new parking garage opened on time.
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Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Governance Policy 26
26 A) The Code of Conduct policy is to ensure the professionalism and credibility of SGS members, volunteers, Board members and staff while representing the SGS. The policy is further intended to ensure that SGS members, volunteers, Board members and staff are treated with respect and not subjected to verbal or other abuse or harassment.
26 B) The Policy is further intended to ensure that SGS members, staff and all Board members are treated with respect and not subjected to verbal or other abuse or harassment.
26.1 SGS values:
a) fair treatment
b) respect
c) credibility
d) professionalism
26.2 Inappropriate behavior includes:
a) failure to accept and fulfill responsibilities
b) any action taken by individuals that misrepresents decisions taken by the Board of Director
c) any action by individuals that undermine existing policy
d) any action that misrepresents the organization to funders, potential funders and the general public
e) any action that undermines the priorities given by the Board to paid accountable staff
f) any action that does not present a positive image of SGS
g) any action that does not support the goals and mission of SGS
26.3 Any member whose verbal and/or other actions are not appropriate could be subject to discipline by SGS. The Board of Directors has the option to censure the individual(s) involved.
26.4 Censure could include any of the following:
a) removal from elected or appointed position
b) revoking of membership
c) publicly disavowing any association with the offending party


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It's annexation time
https://michaelfreund.org/14830/judea-samaria-annexation
With the collapse of American-led efforts to revive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the peace process has largely faded from view, as the prospect of a deal seems more remote than ever.
Even the key players appear to have moved on, as US Secretary of State John Kerry is now busy trying to botch up another foreign policy challenge, the pope is attempting to get President Shimon Peres to pray, and large parts of Europe are sinking into a morass of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
But despite the absence of discernible diplomatic efforts, Israel should not be lulled into a false sense of complacency. Now is the time for some dramatic decision-making and for steps to be taken which will advance Israel's national interests and strengthen any future negotiating position. In other words: it's annexation time.
In the most recent round of recriminations, the Palestinians demonstrated that they are not interested in peace. Maximalist demands, combined with an unwillingness to make even minimalist concessions, revealed the rejectionism that lies at the heart of the Palestinian cause.
Nonetheless, the Left and others continue to highlight the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as the crux of the problem, the obstacle in the way of peace.
The nebulous status of the settlements in Israeli law only serves to contribute to the strength of their argument. After all, they assert, if even right-wing governments have refrained from annexing Jewish settlements, then surely that implies that everything is on the table.
It is time to disabuse the Left, and especially the Palestinians and the world, of this dangerous delusion, and to formally incorporate the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as part of the State of Israel and anchor their status in law. Doing so will remove any lingering doubts about Israeli intentions and bolster Israel's hand. It will show the Palestinians that there is a tangible price for their obstinacy, and underline the fact that time is not on their side, since the longer they choose to wait, the less there will be to discuss.
Fortunately, a growing number of government ministers and Knesset Members are looking to do just that, advancing bills which would annex most of Area C, the 60 percent of Judea and Samaria currently under Israeli control. This past Monday, a total of 10 such bills were submitted to the Knesset plenum, with coalition chairman MK Yariv Levin of Likud-Beytenu and MK Orit Struck of Bayit Yehudi leading the charge.
These bills would extend Israeli law and administration to the areas, giving them a status equivalent to that of any other part of the State of Israel. Currently, the IDF is considered the legal sovereign in Judea and Samaria. Since regions such as the Jordan Valley, Ariel, Gush Etzion and Ma'aleh Adumim will remain part of Israel regardless of whether a deal is ever reached, there is no compelling reason not to annex them now. Why should the tens of thousands of Israelis who live in these communities not enjoy the same status and services as their friends and loved ones in Tel Aviv or Netanya?
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz has also put forward an interesting proposal to enlarge Jerusalem's borders by creating a "Greater Jerusalem" that would include surrounding communities such as Givat Ze'ev, Beitar Illit, Ma'aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion. Modeled along the lines of Greater London and Greater Paris, each suburb would retain its identity and municipal autonomy while being run under the auspices of a joint local authority.
But perhaps the most wide-ranging plan thus far is the one that Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett proposed at the end of April, when he said that Israel would gradually annex Area C.
"The era of Oslo is over and we are entering a new era of realism," Bennett rightly pointed out, adding, "That means we invest massively in joint infrastructure for Arabs and Jews in Judea and Samaria."
In Area C, there are just 70,000 Palestinians, along with over 350,000 Israelis, so absorbing these areas into the State of Israel would not threaten the Jewish character or demography of the state. Sure, much of the international community would not be happy with such a move, and it would entail diplomatic consequences.
But at a time when the Palestinians are creating facts on the ground, applying for membership in international organizations, building illegally throughout Judea and Samaria and courting Hamas to form a unity government, Israel cannot and must not sit with folded hands.
47 years ago this week, our brave soldiers liberated Judea and Samaria from foreign occupation after 19 long centuries of exile. Now, at last, let's send a clear and unambiguous message for all the world to see, and absorb them into the State of Israel where they so belong.