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The battle over trans athletes in American schools heats up
Inclusivity bumps up against fairness
Sep 5th 2020 | WASHINGTON, DC
ESMEE SILVERMAN feels unusually nervous about the prospect of trying out for her high-school girls' tennis team this autumn. That is not surprising: last year, she played for the boys' team. For the past ten months the 18-year-old has been taking a combination of oestrogen and testosterone blockers as she transitions to becoming a woman. "It's a big emotional shift going from one team to another," she says, adding that she expects it to be made easier by the kindness she has been shown by girls her age.
Ms Silverman is fortunate to live in Massachusetts, where transgender students can play sports as the gender with which they identify. Policies on this vary from state to state. While more than a dozen have introduced guidelines like those in Massachusetts, which also allow trans students to shower and change with members of their chosen gender, 11 states have policies that prevent this. Some say birth certificates are the final arbiters of sex; others, that transgender students must first have had gender reassignment surgery (which is generally restricted to over-18-year-olds). As an increasing number of teenagers reject the sex they are born with, these clashing approaches are sparking court cases.
In Idaho, the American Civil Liberties Union is battling a statewide law that bans transgender women and girls from female sports teams. They are representing Lindsay Hecox, a transgender woman who was denied a chance to join the women's cross-country team at Boise State University. Last month, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction on that law.
In Connecticut, three female high-school athletes are challenging the policy of the state's interscholastic athletic conference, which allows transgender girls to compete against females. They argue that it violates Title IX, a law passed to protect equal educational opportunities for the sexes, including in sports. In March the civil-rights division of the Department of Education said it did violate Title IX.
These cases highlight the often irreconcilable nature of transgender rights and women's rights. Those opposed to the inclusion of transgender women in women's sports argue that it is unfair to allow people who have gone through puberty as men, and who tend to be bigger, stronger and faster, to compete against women.
Connecticut offers a vivid example of this. Since 2017 two transgender athletes—biological males who identify as women—have between them won 15 state championships that were once held by nine different girls. When they started racing as girls they had not begun hormone treatment. But research suggests that even those who have gone through testosterone suppression retain advantages of strength and muscle mass. "It is so demoralising, running for second place," says 16-year-old Alanna Smith, a highly competitive sprinter and one of the girls challenging the state policy. "I worry that women are going to become spectators of their own sports." Transgender boys, meanwhile, often attest that it becomes easier to compete against males once they have had "top surgery" (a mastectomy) and taken testosterone.
Yet transgender activists argue that the law should regard transgender men and women as members of the gender with which they identify. They say it is discriminatory to exclude transgender women from women's sports as well as deeply hurtful, especially for those at school. "This debate frames these high-schoolers as Olympians," says A.T. Furuya, the youth programmes manager at GLSEN, which campaigns for the rights of LGBT school students. Furuya, a former high-school sports coach and one of a handful of people in America to have obtained "non-binary" as their legally designated gender, adds that "These are kids who just want to play."
A similar debate is raging across the rich world. World Rugby, which currently follows the International Olympic Committee guidelines that allow transgender athletes to compete in women's events if their testosterone levels are below a certain level, is considering banning trans women from the women's game. That is partly because of fears that transgender women players could injure their teammates.
Strikingly absent from the discussion in America are women's groups standing on the women's side of the issue. Instead, many long-established women's groups have aligned themselves with the transgender movement. "Transgender girls are girls and transgender women are women," reads a statement from several rights groups in Connecticut, including the state chapter of Planned Parenthood. "They are not and should not be referred to as boys or men, biological or otherwise".
Doriane Coleman, a law professor at Duke University, observes that it is "extremely difficult" to get the support of any civil-rights group for an agenda that does not include trans women in its definition of women. That is why the female athletes in both Connecticut and Idaho are represented by the same conservative Christian organisation, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). (Ms Coleman points out that the ADF also has first-class lawyers.) In Britain, by contrast, the battle to preserve women's spaces, from lavatories to prisons, is largely being fought by feminists.
The fact that progressives appear to have largely ceded this issue to conservatives reflects the way such issues have become polarised in America. In many countries, those who suggest that the law should not regard trans women as women in all respects are denounced as transphobic; in America, such attacks are particularly aggressive. Though polls suggest that a majority of Americans believe that trans women should not play in women's sports teams, this is a view that is rarely heard publicly.
"Our discussion about this topic is insane—you can't talk about it at all," says Natasha Chart, a board member of Women's Liberation Front, which describes itself as a "radical feminist organisation". "You face so much social opprobrium for speaking out that people don't want to touch it."
How will the courts adjudicate? A landmark ruling on LGBT rights by the Supreme Court may offer a clue. In June, America's highest court ruled in Bostock v Clayton County that gay, lesbian and transgender people were protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination in employment because of sex. That has raised the question of whether this reasoning could also be applied to Title IX.
Several lower courts have suggested it could. In August the judge who issued a temporary injunction on Idaho's ban on trans athletes in women's teams, cited Bostock. The same month, a federal appeals court ruled that school policies that forbid transgender students to use the lavatory of their gender identity violate the law. That judge said Bostock had guided his evaluation of claims under Title IX, because Congress had intended it and Title VII to be interpreted similarly.
Yet in Bostock, the Supreme Court explicitly said it was ruling only on discrimination in employment; it was not attempting to address "bathrooms, locker rooms, or anything else of the kind". This qualification suggested that the justices expect to consider such questions in the future. However the courts in Connecticut and Idaho rule, the issue seems likely to end up at the Supreme Court. ■
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Vitrix ludorum"
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Residents of this coastal Georgia town helped save a tabby building that survived the 1863 burning of Darien, a scene in the movie 'Glory'
The Adam Strain building presides over tabby ruins (Landmark Preservation)
Missy Brandt Wilson grew up surrounded by history and Spanish moss in Darien, a coastal Georgia town that once rivaled Savannah for port activity. She was particularly fascinated by the Adam Strain building, a picturesque two-story structure that overlooked rows of tabby ruins and the waterfront.
Over time, the condition of the shuttered circa 1813-1815 commercial building declined.
"I would put my hands on the building and pray on it, and say, 'Please hold on until someone can save you,'" said Wilson.
View of waterfront (Landmark Preservation)
That the Darien landmark was still standing on the bluff during Wilson's teen years was something of a miracle. It had survived two fires – most famously during the Civil War when Federal troops torched Darien in June 1863 – and several hurricanes.
Darien's destruction by black troops, under orders from a virulently anti-slavery white officer, caused a howl of protest across the South and even in newspapers in the North. Those favoring emancipation were split on whether the act was barbarity or a necessary message. (The burning of Darien was made famous in the 1989 film "Glory.")
The Strain building was repaired after the war and saw a rebirth for several decades before it was used for storage following World War II. Made of oyster shell tabby and stucco, the oldest structure in Darien was beloved by its 2,000 residents, who worried for its future as its appearance worsened.
The years rolled on. The building's condition had become so precarious by 2008 that the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation placed it on its "Places in Peril" list.
Now, after several campaigns to save the Strain -- including a time where it looked like the building would be demolished -- Wilson's and others' prayers have been answered: A Marietta, Ga., couple has purchased the building and an annex and plan to restore them.
Milan and Marion Savic have taken on a big project. They must first stabilize the crumbling building before restoration begins. Their hope is to eventually lease the building for retail space and open a museum in the one-story adjoining annex.
"We want to bring it back to something beautiful," Marion Savic recently told the Picket. "We are not tearing something down to bring something else in."
Extensive framing inside the Strain (Landmark Preservation)
Residents and officials hope the Savics' investment will have a significant economic impact. Darien, hit hard by the economic slowdown a decade ago, wants to attract more retirees who live along coastal Georgia and motorists who get off Interstate 95 to take in history, the small shrimping fleet and the natural beauty of the area.
The preservation of the Strain building, which sits on the southeast corner of Broad and Screven streets, is just one piece – albeit a significant one – in any plans to boost the small downtown district, which has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years.
The Savics are committed to doing their part, and observers credit preservation-minded residents and social media for their role in helping to save the building from demolition.
Among those the Savics have hired for the project is preservation planning consultant Rebecca Fenwick of Ethos Preservation in Savannah. Like others, she touts the building's tabby construction, distinctive roof line, large buttresses, corner quoins, metal shutters and stepped gable parapet.
"It stands very proud overlooking the river," Fenwick says. "Here is a building still standing. Your heart cries out, it has been vacant so long."
Tabby building sat above busy waterfront
As legendary coastal Georgia historian and author Buddy Sullivan points out, the Adam Strain Building did not attain its name until after the Civil War. The builder's name is not known with certainty.
Supports were added after fires, hurricanes (Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation)
But the construction techniques may well have been inspired by planter and slave owner Thomas Spalding, who used tabby on nearby Sapelo Island. Tabby is a type of cement made from crushed oyster shells and was popular in the region for several centuries leading up to the Civil War. Stucco is placed on the exterior to protect it from water damage.
Very few tabby structures remain along the coast.
Sullivan says the town's heyday in the first half of the 19th century was due to the Altamaha River, which delivered agriculture goods, including cotton, from the state's interior. Rice and other crops were grown in McIntosh County and surrounding counties.
The Strain building was used to store cotton prior to shipment in 1861 and 1862 before the Union naval blockade clamped down on Georgia's coast.
In an article he wrote last year for McIntosh Life, a special section of the Darien News, Sullivan described a conjectural drawing of how the waterfront likely looked by the mid-1830s, a few years after Scottish Highlanders settled there.
Warehouse ruins near the Strain (Wikipedia: Jud McCranie)
"The two-story building later known as the Strain Building is shown in the sketch as an upper bluff structure. The waterfront is depicted as being alive with activity: schooners loading baled cotton, Oconee boxes unloading cotton, traffic in dray wagons, coaches and horses along the shore, and cotton factors inspecting the latest deliveries from upriver."
Fire raged through town during Civil War raid
By then, Savannah was well into it ascendance of being Georgia's principal port, as more goods were being sent there by railroad. Darien's economic fortunes suffered a small downturn in the decades before the Civil War.
Then war came, and the Federal blockade of Southern ports put a squeeze on the South.
By summer 1863, coastal towns knew that where the Union army was going, emancipation of slaves was soon to follow. That fact permeated society in Darien. Most of the town's 500 white souls had fled before June 11, frightened by the blockade and the deployment of African-American troops on nearby St. Simons Island.
On that day, Darien was largely vacant.
Darien held little strategic value to the Union, but Col. James Montgomery, commanding the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers, supposedly believed it was a safe haven for blockade runners.
Col. James Montgomery
Montgomery apparently had another reason for shelling, looting and burning Darien, leaving only a few buildings standing among the charred ruins.
Steven Smith, site manager for Fort King George Historic Site in 2013 when the Picket wrote about the town's burning, said Montgomery "wanted to make a political statement. Here was a town built on the backs of slaves."
Montgomery ordered Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry to participate. While Shaw didn't mind the looting to help resupply his troops, he opposed setting the town to torch. He apparently relented under threat of court-martial.
The 2nd South Carolina Volunteers was largely comprised of freed slaves, while the 54th Massachusetts had many freedmen and business professionals.
The 54th Massachusetts was in the area to recruit freed slaves, destroy Southern crops and take out Confederate assault works.
Scene from "Glory" shows Federal troops arriving
Sullivan says while the Strain building's interior was lost to fire set by Union troops, the exterior walls held up. Most of the town was destroyed, including virtually all the waterfront.
Darien was slow to rebound from the war, and the timber industry for decades largely replaced the rice-based economy.
It found new use as grocery, hardware store
Around 1870, Adam Strain, a Civil War veteran of the 5th Georgia Cavalry, purchased and restored the building.
Sullivan wrote in McIntosh Life: "Strain utilized his building in a variety of ways from the 1870s through the 1890s. He specialized in groceries, dry goods and hardware, as well as operating a prosperous ship chandlery to furnish the numerous sailing vessels frequenting the ports at Darien and Doboy Island to load cargoes of raw timber and processed lumber.
An 1885 insurance map indicated the building was a general store with sleeping rooms upstairs.
Strain's two sons, William H. Strain and Robert A. Strain, assumed ownership of the business after their father's death in 1897, renaming it Adam Strain's Sons."
1890 Sanborn insurance map shows Strain
building at SE corner of Screven and Broad
The Strains put a new wood framing inside the building. It currently supports the existing second floor and is independent of the tabby. "It was an upgrade of the building at the time," said Fenwick, the preservation consultant.
Wilson likens it to a building within a building.
At some point over the years, it was used to store antiques and house or produce shoes. "There were hundreds of children's boots and shoes all over the place," Savic said. She estimates the building has not been used for about 50 years and what remains inside dates since the Civil War.
The annex served as a bank from 1913 and 1961 and until recently was the site of law offices.
As for the larger building, it was sold from the family estate after the Strain brothers died in the 1920s and was used primarily as a commercial warehouse and other uses described above.
By then, Darien's timber fortunes had almost ceased to exist and the town turned to fishing and other small industries.
'The building means so much'
Over the years, town residents and those who moved away lobbied for the boarded-up Strain Building to find new use and jump-start more activity downtown.
"The building means so much to so many people," says Mandy Harrison, executive director of the Darien-McIntosh County Chamber of Commerce. "People get their prom and wedding photos taken there."
Strain interior (Landmark Preservation)
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation continued to advocate that it be kept and restored. "Raising public awareness of the development threat to the building holds promise to galvanize local and state-wide commitment to broker a reasonable resolution for this iconic structure."
A 2009 report by a planning group said Darien considered the Strain "an important historic resource and is urgently working to ensure its preservation." The price tag for buying, stabilizing and restoring the building was estimated at $2 million. Nothing came of it at that time.
Meanwhile, the Savics -- who maintain two businesses in Marietta -- were longtime visitors to St. Simons and would occasionally stop by Darien. They fell in love with its homes and history. They made several offers to the property owner but could not agree to terms.
Last summer, the then-city manager said a local resident had filed a safety complaint; an inspection by a hired structural engineer found the building to have extensive wear and damage and to be uninhabitable, the Darien News reported. The engineer suggested it be demolished.
The situation came to a head in July 2019 after the city issued a demolition permit and orange barrels were put in front of the building. The demolition request was made on behalf of the Strain owner, the newspaper reported.
"I was pretty sure the wrecking ball was coming in 24 hours," said Wilson, once chairman of the McIntosh County Historic Preservation Commission. She now lives in Athens, Ga.
Downtown has grown since this view of the Strain (Courtesy of Kit Sutherland)
At some the point, the order was postponed. It was clear no one wanted to see a huge part of the town's history gone. (The Picket reached out to the current city manager but received no reply.)
The Savics eventually reached a deal with the owner. They will spend several times that in stabilizing, repairing and transforming the building into an attractive beacon.
"A good wind storm could probably knock it down," Savic told the Darien News in early February.
What couple has planned for the Strain
As of mid-April, the Savics were waiting for final engineering plans for the project. It's possible stabilization work can begin by May 1 and continue for three to six months.
While interior structural elements are there, contractors will stabilize walls, rebuild some tabby areas and then place new stucco on the exterior.
"Everything that is usable will be taken out and stored during the restoration process. Everything that is usable will be put back in," said Savic.
The building was full of boxes, shoes and more (Landmark Preservation)
The couple wants the Strain building to meet requirements for the National Register of Historic Places and they will pursue economic incentives, including federal and state tax credits, available for such preservation.
Given the current look of the building interior, the Savics are planning for the Strain to have a post-Civil War feel.
They expect the Strain will have retail space, "some sort of businesses where people can gather, community space. Part of it might be an event space."
Town's story is bigger than the Civil War
The Savics are thinking of using the annex for a maritime museum, emphasizing Darien's timber, cotton and rice past, and perhaps its small shrimping industry. Among a handful of museums in the area is one dedicated to the burning of the town during the Civil War, but it is not fully staffed.
1921 photo includes Strain building at far left (Courtesy of Kit Sutherland)
Kit Stebbins Sutherland, a retired historic preservation planning consultant living in Atlanta, grew up in Darien and owns a house lot near the Strain building.
She believes the story of Darien should go beyond its early days and the Civil War. She is particularly interested in the second heyday of the town after the end of slavery.
The main commercial activity used to be in an west-east direction, following the Altamaha River and other tributaries to the Atlantic Ocean. Construction of Interstate 95 to the west forever changed Darien, Sutherland argues.
Blessing of fleet in 1973, Strain building in back (Courtesy of Kit Sutherland)
Traffic was diverted to U.S. 17 (which runs north-south) in the early 1970s and much of the eastern side of town was demolished to handle the U.S. 17 widening, Sutherland told the Picket.
The other down side, she says, is that Darien was basically bypassed when that section of I-95 opened.
Sutherland wants the area – which touts its affordability relative to other coastal communities -- to have better schools and economic opportunities and a more proactive and progressive approach to preservation and growth.
She laments the loss of what the downtown used to look like -- its benches, awnings and trees. "It is a very pedestrian unfriendly streetscape."
A belief that project will provide big boost
To be sure, there is growth occurring in Darien. Near the Strain are fish and Mexican restaurants, a produce market, wine shop and other retail.
High-end condos going up along the waterfront have a colonial Spanish look. While increased investment in Darien was welcome, the look is not pleasing to everyone; critics believe the style detracts from a classic Darien waterfront aesthetic.
The approval of the design brought "out the inner preservationists," Wilson said.
Stabilization is expected to start soon (Landmark Preservation)
The Savics, meanwhile, are in it for the long haul. They have a home on nearby Union Island and eventually will live in the area for much of the year.
Harrison, with the chamber of commerce, says Darien is on the way up.
"This is a place where you can come slow down. We have a lot of ecotourism and historical tourism," she says. "Everybody who comes here falls in love. You get out of the rat race and into calmness."
(July 11 update: Stabilization has yet to begin. A permit has been acquired but power lines need to be relocated and steel fabrication for the work completed.)
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Teknion is proud to announce that Routes, designed by Pearson Lloyd, has been named as an honoree in the Office Furniture category at the 2022 Metropolis Planet Positive Awards. Routes allows teams to create flexible, utility-driven, and engaging workspaces quickly and efficiently, breaking with convention and introducing a sense of play into the world of work. The product line extension enables greater agility with new tables, seating, and a TV cart. These pieces invite users to take full control over how and where they work, empowering collaboration, whether in person or remotely with a consolidated kit of parts.
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Each of Routes' four new table options are intended to be used alone or grouped together to form various configurations based on the needs of the user. The Agile Tables accommodate larger meetings and feature casters at one end, gliding easily from one side. At 30 inches deep, the High Tables function as double-sided worksurfaces. They are available with levelers for more permanent applications, or with casters if mobility is desired. The Partner Tables are intended for screen-sharing applications with a tapered work surface profile to optimize sightlines. Offered in three different heights, these tables accommodate a range of postures for more active and engaging use. Like the Multi-Use Stool—now offered with an optional Halo Cushion in expanded textile design options for added comfort—the new SoloMini Tables are small enough for users to lift and move. Perfect for individual or collaborative work, these tables are also stackable and easy to store.
Further extending the collection's flexible workplace seating options, the Workshop Chair accommodates 360-degree seating postures, including side sitting and straddle sitting on the T-back model. Users can pull up a chair or backless stool to the new Media Rover, producing an interactive digital experience between present and remote workers that effortlessly moves around the office to create a destination and solution for digital collaboration.
"Routes being honored for its sustainable innovativeness is quite the heartwarming merit," says Luke Pearson, designer at Pearson Lloyd. "The collection will hopefully continue to positively impact its users and the locations it resides in," adds Tom Lloyd, designer at Pearson Lloyd.
Now in its second year, Metropolis's Planet Positive Awards recognizes the most creative projects and products from around the world that benefit people and the planet. Judged by industry experts across project types and product categories, the winners and honorable mentions represent the highest achievements today in design that addresses climate change, ecosystem health, human health, and equity.
For a full list of winners please visit metropolismag.com.
Teknion creates furniture that empowers people through design. Dedicated to innovative and sustainable design, Teknion provides a diverse portfolio of office furnishings, seating, ergonomic accessories and architectural products. The company's versatile and integrated furniture collections support workplace wellness, responding to essential human needs and behaviors. Clients are served through a worldwide network of facilities, showrooms and authorized dealers. To learn more about Teknion, please visit teknion.com and join Teknion at facebook.com/teknion.
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Many schools will accept the GED test certification for entrance into a college or university program if you GED test scores are at least equivalent to those of recently graduating high school seniors.
Learn more about each test section here.
GED Standard Score: Ranges from 200 to 800 and compares your performance in a content area to the performance of a graduating high school senior. The average score is 500 for each content area, but a minimum of 410 is required to pass.
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Nataliia Chmutina (Ukrainian: Наталія Чмутіна; 18 December 1912 – 8 November 2005) was a Ukrainian architect and academician. Member of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine and Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture.

Biography
She was born in 1912 in Kyiv. From 1918 to 1926 she lived with her grandmother in Aramil (now Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia). She received a secondary education there. Later she studied at foreign language courses. At the same time she graduated from drawing courses.

In 1930-1936 she studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Kyiv Civil Engineering Institute in the studio of architect Volodymyr Zabolotny. In 1936, as a part of Zabolotny's team, she took part in a competition for the project of the Session Hall of the Verkhovna Rada building in Kyiv. Their project eventually won.

From 1938 to 1941, she worked as an architect of the Capital Construction Department of the Aircraft Repair Plant № 43 in Kyiv.

In 1941-44, during the evacuation, she worked as an architect in the Aramil, Ivanovo and Moscow. Shortly after the liberation of Kyiv, she returned to the city.

From 1946 to 1999, she taught at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. In 1952 she becomes first woman to receive Candidate of Architecture degree in the USSR.

She was fluent in German and French and in 1965 spoke in Paris at the VIII Congress of the International Union of Architects.

In 1971, she worked with architect A. Stukalov & Y. Chekanyuk in "The House of furniture". The project was conceived by its author, N. Chmutina, with a dual performance: trade and exhibition. In the project, there is a trading floors and also the project mirroring the interiors of real apartments with examples of furniture compositions.

She died in 2005, at the age of 92. In 2012, commemorating 100th anniversary of her birth, at the house on the 22 Volodymyrska street in Kyiv, where the architect lived, on November 29, 2012, a memorial plaque was installed.

Notable works

 Restaurant "Riviera" in Kyiv (1936-1937)
 The building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR on the Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv (1936-1939)
 Cotton factory in Armavir (in evacuation, 1942)
 Restoration of the destroyed building of the Verkhovna Rada
 Intourist Hotel in Kyiv (1952-1956)
 The building of the Union of Consumer Societies ("Ukoopspilka") in Kyiv (1957-1964)
 Hotel Dnipro on European square in Kyiv (1959-1964)
 Hotel "Tarasova Gora" in Kaniv (1962)
 Department furniture store "House of Furniture" in Kyiv (1963-1967)
 Hotel "Lybid" on Victory Square in Kyiv (1965-1970)

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 Natalia Borysivna Chmutina: Life and creative path of an architect / edited. O. V. Maznichenko. - К.: АДЕФ-Україна, 2012. - 300 с. : 285 il. - ISBN 978-966-187-185-3.
 Chmutina Natalia // Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies: Dictionary part: [in 11 volumes] / Shevchenko Scientific Society; Goal. ed. Prof., Dr. Vladimir Kubiyovych. - Paris — New York: Young Life, 1955-1995.
 Chmutina Natalia Borysivna // Art of Ukraine: Biographical reference book / edited by: AV Kudrytsky, MG Labinsky; for order. AV Kudrytsky. - Kyiv: "Ukrainian Encyclopedia", 1997. - 700 p. - ISBN 5-88500-071-9.
 Formation of Natalia Chmutina's school in the context of architectural culture of Ukraine of the Soviet era: author's ref. dis. … Cand. art history: 26.00.01 / OV Maznichenko; Nat. acad. of Arts of Ukraine, Inst. of Modern Problems. art. - K., 2015. - 16 p.

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2005 deaths
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Shawn Murphy is devoted to the idea of infusing greater joy and responsibility into the modern workplace. He is turning to the world of books and publishing to expand the reach of his work. Along the way, he's learning a lot about what it's like to evolve from pure businessman to author entrepreneur. He's experimented with seeding his ideas by publishing a Snippet—a multimedia-based ebook. He's aligned himself with a book agent to seek a traditional book deal. And he's co-founded a growing community of likeminded business leaders at SwitchandShift.com. Shawn joins the show to talk about his observations as a first-time author pursuing the brighter career through books. If you're making this exciting evolution yourself, you'll really enjoy what Shawn has to say. And for more, find us on Twitter @WinningEdits or #AuthorMBA. Enjoy!


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How to Create an Incredible Company Culture with Exceptional Hiring with Zach Suchin
As part of our series, World's Most Interesting People, I chatted with Zach Suchin, entrepreneur, investor and founder of Brand Knew, a creative agency and technology studio.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why company culture is such an important element to consider in the job hunt
How comfort plays into company culture
Zach's recipe for good progress within a business (hint: one is complacency is dangerous)
The thought process Zach goes through to evaluate the creative process of an interviewee
The most crazy, weird and interesting answers Zach's heard in interviews
and get the answers to:
What exactly is company culture?
What mistakes have you made in your business and how have you course-corrected?
What are your 4 favorite interview questions?
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In 2006, Zach Suchin was the youngest CEO of a publicly-traded company in the US, and today he runs Brand Knew which works with huge brands and their digital presence including Youtube, Stand Up to Cancer, and many more. Zach was "that guy" in college who everyone knew and liked and, during that time, was building his company that he went public with upon graduation.
We talk a lot about hiring and culture in our approach to people. What is company culture, how does it work at Brand Knew, and how do you approach it?
Zach believes that the challenge is that 'culture' is an overused word. It is the number one thing that people preach, especially in the hiring process. The millennial generation is heavily invested in finding a work experience where the culture is good. It is the most meaningful thing you can build- not your product, not your client roster- but the meaningful interactions that people have internally every day.
Culture is something that Brand Knew heavily focus on. Zach says that it is the notion that you spend more time in an office with these people than you do with your family. The environment needs to be one where people feel comfortable- not lack being challenged- but where they can function optimally, express themselves, and genuinely enjoy the people they're surrounded by. Zach takes pride in the culture at Brand Knew and truly feels lucky to work with some of his favorite people.
Culture is freedom of expression, freedom of creativity, and, of course, from organization to organization there are these subtle nuances, but generally to us, that's what it means.
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What mistakes have you made along the way to course correct? Maybe a bad hire, or a bad choice, or you got off track? And what did you learn from it?
Failure is the greatest professor, so if you can't look back at your missteps and value them greatly, and understand how the teachings lend towards all of your future decisions, then it's a major missed opportunity.
Zach considers himself a perpetual student. The challenge for him is trying to develop a grand stature where people will respect the hierarchy of the company but still see him as a relatable figure. He always keeps his door open, and knows a lot about his employees personally, and he finds this to be very rewarding. Zach believes it's really important to find that balance between being liked and also being respected in terms of making decisions that people won't always agree with. He feels that if the fundamental tenets of the business are collaboration, respect, and the notion that complacency is dangerous, this is the recipe for really good progress.
At Brand Knew, they have had scenarios where they hired people who didn't fit- even though their interview process is very tough to ensure their hires do culturally fit. Zach believes that the key here is to identify the situation as quickly as possible, as well as take on the responsibility of helping that person find their next role. He says that "the burden is on us" for having brought them in and, just because it's not a good fit, to help them find their next step in their occupation.
Key Takeaway: Complacency and ambivalence come from two sides: 1- There is the boss being complacent about someone who is not a good fit, and 2- There is the employee who is complacent about trying to make it a better fit. So we need to think about both sides for work environments, social environments, etc. Not willing to take action is one of the biggest detriments to our success and improvement.
How do you hire the right people amongst a pool of incredible candidates? How long is your interview question list?
Zach doesn't always ask everyone every question. If he senses that an interviewee will not be a good fit, he may only ask two interview questions. Only if someone is of true interest to the company, will he or she then be asked 22 questions.
Can we walk through three of those questions? You can pick your favorites, and let's talk about how they work and how they have found someone who is or is not a good fit.
1."Would you prefer to be doing awful work and clients are incredibly happy, or would you prefer to be doing incredible work and clients are extremely dissatisfied?"
This is a scenario where Zach doesn't know what the right answer is; He doesn't always ask a question knowing what he wants to hear.
The most important part of a response is the creativity that goes into it. I want to understand someone's thought process. It informs how, when they're here, they will deal with different types of issues.
Zach says they have a lot of startup and world renowned clients, and they will present incredible campaigns to them, but for whatever reason they are not adopted or executed; And then there are times where there are more "run-of-the-mill" campaigns given and clients love it. The question is: What kind of operation do you want to be running? At the end of the day they can be doing all this great work, but if the clients don't like it, then "we're sitting in a bubble by ourselves."
Key Takeaway: This question quickly shows if someone is other-oriented or self-oriented. When you do your work, are you looking through the lens of yourself, your clients, your boss, your colleagues, or a status, etc?
2."What is the largest living being that you would feel comfortable killing with no provocation?"
Zach says that the point of this question is to learn more about someone's soul. He has received an array of answers, and will typically hear some sort of insect, and when asked more specifically, spiders. These answers teach Zach if someone values life, have empathy, have creativity to give an answer.
3. "Give me- in rapid succession- twenty different uses for a paperclip."
With this question, Zach is simply trying to test creativity as well as seek "out there" responses.
Zach wanted to share one more question, or as he states is more of a command, that he likes to ask interviewees. He usually has a box of tissues in the middle of the table in preparation for this part of the interview because it often triggers emotion. The command is: Eulogize yourself. He says that they ask this question because he wants to know what that person considers a life well lived, as well as details such as if they are ending their life in this room or at a much older age. With this, Zach says that they are looking for creativity and a sense of what these people think their life is worth and where they think they're going.
We need to read all the different tells from how they conduct themselves, what they're wearing, whether or not they curse… all of these different elements are majorly helpful in reporting whether or not (to bring it full circle) someone fits culturally.
Key Takeaway: Whether you're hiring or not, interviewing or not, out-of-the-box questions or asking questions to try to understand people at a deeper level build true relationships. Don't stick to the boring questions, ask story-harvesting questions.
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Chauk, town and port, north-central Myanmar (Burma). Situated in the Irrawaddy River basin, it is a petroleum port for the Singu-Chauk oil fields. Traditionally, people of the Mon group gathered asphalt in the area to weatherproof houses. In 1902 the British discovered the Chauk-Lonywa oil field. Later, crude oil from Chauk was sent by a 350-mile (563-kilometre) pipeline to Syriam for refining. Insurgent sabotage of the pipeline after World War II confined marketing of Chauk's oil to northern Myanmar. Oil tankers began operation on the Irrawaddy River as an alternative means of transport to the damaged pipeline. The Chauk refinery was renovated in 1954, and the pipeline was repaired between Chauk, Tagaing, and Yenenma and between Pyay and Syriam. A pipeline connecting Man and Syriam was completed in 1979. Abundant natural-gas reserves are found in the Chauk oil fields. Paved roads extend from Chauk in several directions, and air connections are accessible through Meiktila town. Pop. (1993 est.) 67,845.
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Chauk, downstream from the confluence in the oil-field district, is a petroleum port. Like Mandalay to the north and Prome, about 140 miles (225 km) to the south, it is linked to Yangon by road and rail. Hinthada, near the apex of the delta, is…
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If you're looking for a way to dress up your backyard or porch without too much effort, consider container gardening. A lot of plants thrive in pots and hanging baskets, and they can easily add some much needed color to the outside of your home. There are many new varieties of plants available to buy which are perfect for the spring and summer. To help you decide which ones to get, here is a selection of the best container plants which are guaranteed to provide long lasting beauty.
Coral Bells Perennial, also known as heuchera, are naturally found in wooded areas, but also make a stunning addition to your backyard. These beautiful bell shaped blooms offer plenty of color, but their main feature is the foliage amongst the flowers. Coming in a rainbow of colors, ranging from light pink and peach to deep red and purple, the leaves are a very attractive sight. Long after the flowers have faded, the foliage continues to dazzle with its visually stunning colors throughout the growing season. All this plant needs is partial exposure to the sun to grow and they look great next to other perennial plants.
Begonias are a very versatile plant that is ideally suitable for growing in containers and hanging baskets. They are well known for their brightly colored flowers which range from white to red, and their attractive waxy bronze or green leaves. Begonias have a very long flowering season and continue to produce new blooms until frosted in Autumn, making them a favorite among gardeners. If you manage to bring the plants into your home before they are affected by the frost, the flowers will actually continue to bloom during winter. So you can get even more use out of them. Just make sure they receive partial exposure to the sun so they have the best chance of survival. Top varieties of begonias include Dragon Wing which produce red and pink flowers and Million Kisses which come in an assortment of colors including yellow, pink, cream and red.
Angelonias are very delicate looking but surprisingly easy to care for. You will find these heat loving plants often called summer snapdragons due to their flowers resembling the look of small spring snapdragons. Angelonias come in vibrant shades of pink, purple and blue as well as white, and look beautiful against a backdrop of glossy green foliage. Luckily there is no deadheading needed, as a continuous display of blooms is produced all season. Just place them in a location that is guaranteed to get plenty of sun so your plants can thrive.
Coleus has the most impressive foliage amongst container plants, as it comes in a huge range of colors, including cheerful yellow, deep luscious red and dark pink. It's not only the colors that are impressive but the patterns too. Instead of just a solid color, expect to find leaves decorated with splashes, streaks, blotches and flecks of different shades. Depending on the variety of plant, you may need to keep it in the shade or in direct sunlight. Wizard series and Versa series are good in the sun, while ColorBlaze series is more suited to shade or only partial exposure to the sun.
Euphorbia Hypericfolia can withstand a variety of conditions including heat and drought, making it an ideal plant for many gardeners. With its light and airy combination of delicate soft white flowers with green wispy leaves it resembles a beautiful version of baby's breath. If you're not good at maintaining flowers but want to dress up your yard, these are an ideal species of flower. Euphorbia Hypericfolia don't require watering, feeding or bedheading, and still manage to look lush all year round. They can grow in either the sun or shade, and still produce gorgeous results.
Nemesia offer soft dainty blooms in a variety of bright colors including pink, purple, yellow, orange, red and white. Many types are sweetly scented and can add a soft welcoming fragrance to your home, by being placed on your porch. Nemesia are a very versatile and tough plant which can survive most climates whether they are placed in baskets, pots and containers. They only need a little bit of watering and some sunlight to bloom, and can even flower in the winter, depending on the conditions.
Hydrangeas are popular garden shrubs, but that doesn't mean they can't also be planted in containers. There are many dwarf varieties which only grow two or three feet tall, making them the most suitable for containers. Amongst the shrubs, delicate flowers in shades of white, pink and blue grow, but in the late summer they actually change color. Blue and pink flowers will fade and create combinations of green and either pink or red. While the clean and crisp white flowers turn into a vibrant pink. This is just a normal part of the aging process, but the transformation is a mesmerizing sight. Luckily any new flowers which bloom afterwards will be in the original color. Depending on what type of hydrangeas you choose you may need to have them in the shade or in the sun.
Pansies and violas are a perfect choice for spring as they come in a dazzling range of single and multi-color blooms. These are very budget friendly flowers which prove to be cost effective, as they are able to withstand the elements and last through spring, fall and winter. You might even witness the flowers making a reappearance the following spring after surviving the first frost. Pansies and violas look great on their own if you want to create a solid burst of color. Alternatively, you can be selective and place a few in pots of tulips, tiger ferns or later-blooming plants to create a mixed plants display.


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Cmentarz francuskiego kościoła reformowanego (Französische Gemaide Reformierte Kirchhof) – dawny cmentarz francuskiej parafii ewangelickiej położony na terenie Szczecina. Zajmował niewielki teren przy ulicy Storrady (Französischestr.), Wawelskiej (Am Fort Leopold), Parkowej (Gustaw Adolf Str.) i Kapitańskiej (Stein Str.).

Istnienie cmentarza zapoczątkowała decyzja króla pruskiego Fryderyka Wilhelma I ogłoszona w dniu 6 czerwca 1721, która pozwalała Francuzom osiedlać się na terenie Prus. Napływający do Szczecina Francuzi założyli parafię ewangelicką i wystąpili do władz miasta z prośbą o wyznaczenie terenu pod cmentarz wyznaniowy. Przez wiele lat dokonywaniu tu pochówków Francuzów zamieszkujących miasto, którzy często byli znanymi i wybitnymi mieszkańcami Szczecina. W 1928 dokonano modernizacji cmentarza, wybudowano kaplicę i dom dla cmentarnego ogrodnika. Cmentarz zamknięto dla pochówków w 1937. Murowana kaplica podczas działań wojennych została zniszczona, natomiast przetrwał drewniany domek, zwany "Domem grabarza". Cmentarz po 1945 wśród polskich osiedleńców nosił nazwę Żabikowskiego. Do końca lat 50. XX wieku na terenie nekropolii znajdowały się nagrobki, w późniejszych latach teren zniwelowano i włączono w granice Parku im. Stefana Żeromskiego. Obecnie żaden ślad nie wskazuje na dawne przeznaczenie tej części parku, a w dawnym domku grabarza mieści się "Klub Storrady".

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Medininagar (Jharkhand): Two persons have been booked for allegedly gangraping a 16-year-old girl and making a video of the incident in Palamu district of Jharkhand, police said on Thursday.
The incident happened under Lesliganj police station area on 23 July but the case was registered on Wednesday after the girl told her parents about it.
According to the complaint, the girl was on her way to Satbarwa High School when the two accused, who knew her, offered to drop her.
But they took her to an isolated area and raped her, police said. Superintendent of Police Indrajeet Mahatha said the two accused video-graphed the incident and were blackmailing her.
Mahatha said the accused have been identified and would be arrested soon.
A medical examination of the girl was being done, he said.
Relevant sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), IT Act and Pocso Act have been slapped against the accused, Mahatha added.


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Exporting China and Brazil's agricultural know-how to Africa
February 25th, 2016 Suzanne Fisher-Murray 1 Comment
Can China and Brazil use their home grown agricultural knowledge, which has driven phenomenal agricultural productivity at home, to transform agriculture in Africa? That was one of many questions discussed at the Contested Agronomy conference.
When Lidia Cabral interviewed a Brazilian agronomist from Embrapa, Brazil's agricultural research corporation in Mozambique, he talked to her about the "primitive" and "backward" practices of Mozambican farmers, including their use of the short-handled hoe. Why, he wondered, didn't farmers use the long-handled hoe instead of having to bend over to use the short-handled hoe to till the soil? He bought some long-handled hoes to replace the short ones but, when he visited the farmers a few weeks later, he noticed that all of the handles had been cut in half. After he noticed that this kept happening he asked some of the farmers – many of whom are female – why they were cutting the hoe handles in two. Their answer: they needed to use the shorter handled hoes as they could carry them on their shoulders, thus keeping their hands free for carrying their babies, and other materials.
Brazil's ability to increase its own agricultural productivity has been phenomenal. Embrapa, short for Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, has been largely responsible for the successful development of the cerrado (Brazil's savannah). The cerrado, which was once considered unfit for farming, and was an under-developed and poverty-stricken part of the country, now produces 70% of the country's farm output, helping to feed Brazil, and provide exports.
Given the successes, a big question being asked is whether Embrapa can export its know-how to Africa. The Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly focused on agriculture in Africa as the Brazilian government and Embrapa think it can use the transformation of the cerrado as a success template to make it a leader on tropical science.
President Lula said at the inauguration of an Embrapa research centre in Ghana in 2006 that it was the "beginning of a peaceful revolution that will have as a result the germination of grain, food, and products that can do in the African savannah the same revolution that Embrapa carried out in the Brazilian cerrado."
Like Africa, Brazil's land is tropical and nutrient poor. It has taken crops from Africa, like the Brachiaria grass, and cross-bred it so that it produces more grass per hectare to feed its cattle. It also has research stations in African staples, cassava and sorghum. This would suggest on the surface that South-South learning between Brazil and various African countries would be possible, and fruitful.
Cabral's research looks at how knowledge and processes from Embrapa is travelling to Mozambique via cooperation projects. She shared findings from her in-depth interviews with professionals from Embrapa and found that, while they are well positioned to be able to exchange and share knowledge, Mozambican agriculture is broadly seen as primitive and rudimentary by the majority of Embrapa professionals, and they are frustrated with the lack of cooperation from local counterparts, if financial rewards are not on offer.
Some of the professionals are focussing on correcting "backward" practices, like the failed attempts to replace the short-handled hoe with a long-handled one, in this case because the professional had failed to understand why the farmers were using them in the first place.
This was one example of how some technologies don't embed in local systems, while other technologies do move, travel and are adopted. Like aid workers before them, Embrapa professionals' capacity to engage with and understand the local context depends more on their own personal attributes, epistemological inclinations and training. This will have as much impact on the outcomes than the experience and credentials that they bring Cabral suggested.
Brazil is not alone in being proud of its achievements and keen to promote its agricultural practices in Africa. China has seen the most dramatic decreases in poverty in human history, and is also keen to share its know-how on the continent. China's increased engagement in African agriculture has been well documented with different "narratives" used to describe this engagement, including its frequent description as a coloniser or economic competitor in the media [PDF].
Just as Brazil's transformation of the cerrado affects its work in Africa, China's "epic past" also informs its approach, says Professor Xu Xiuli from China Agricultural University. In centuries past, Chinese emperors placed great emphasis on ensuring food security and this emphasis has continued to today where science and technology are now prioritised as key for national development.
China made agriculture one of its development assistance priorities at the Third FOCAC Summit in Beijing in 2006. The country focuses on technological solutions that prioritise agricultural productivity and enhance growth.
As part of this process, 23 agricultural demonstration centres have been established in Africa, and more are planned. The government is emphasising state business cooperation – which, says Xiuli, the Chinese state is adopting to ensure the long-term financial "sustainability" of the centres.
These state-business relations, say Ian Scoones and others in this new paper, is a key feature of Brazilian and Chinese engagements in African agriculture, and will "shape and steer" development in the future.
The Chinese companies receive technical aid from the Chinese government for 3 years (which is sometimes extended to last in total for 4 or 5 years) to establish and build the centres. The companies hope that in this time they can develop a potential market for their seeds, machinery and other technology.
The agricultural demonstration centres are an example of "a top-down policy being implemented at the grassroots" says Xiuli, who has developed case studies and research on four of the centres.
Different Chinese provinces are linked to different African countries, a strategy used both internally within China and overseas. For example, Shanghai, the country's biggest city and a global financial hub, has been twinned with Yunnan to help support its development.
Tanzania's agricultural demonstration centre has been built and developed by the Tong Qing autonomous zone in China. As a result, Tanzania's agricultural demonstration centre is painted yellow in a style common to Tong Qing because the materials were imported from China and the construction companies from Tong Qing built in the style they knew. It must sit in striking contrast to the surrounding architecture and might be seen by some as an example of top-down development, using Chinese materials and architectural styles to create the buildings with local workers.
Despite this approach, researchers are interacting with local communities, says Xiuli. She believes the aid workers, often agronomists, living in the research centres are the ones meeting most with the local communities to do agricultural research and training. The agricultural centres are now sometimes used as buildings for weddings and other local ceremonies. It's not their main purpose, but a nice example of their usefulness for the wider community.
But these researchers see themselves as agronomists who want to help others, and not as development workers. One day, she shared, she was talking to a researcher at one of the centres and she referred to him as a development worker. In response he said it was the first time that he had ever thought of himself as a development worker. Semantics perhaps, but it might also be representative of a technological agronomic approach that leaves little room for a more in-depth understanding of the social context within which the centres are operating.
Find out more about some of the complex issues revealed about China and Brazil's involvement in African agriculture. Read a special issue of the journal World Development, with 16 different case studies discussed in 8 new open access articles available to download. Lidia Cabral's work is not yet published but will be available in a future working paper.
Photo credit: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre on Flickr (CC by-nc-sa 2.0).
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REVIEW: Patrick Robertson: A Tale of Adventure
February 15, 2016 § Leave a comment
I used to hate salespeople. You go into the cell-phone store for a new phone, and someone swoops in to try and convince you to get the same phone he has, a more expensive one than you had in mind. The store could have made money off the phone you wanted, but since they have this glorified con-man on their pay-roll, he has to find a way to justify his wage by pressuring you into something you don't want.
As a grocery buyer, I had to deal with them all the time, dropping into the store just when I was least expecting it, to see if I was interested in carrying their new line of sprouted nuts or artisinal jams, talking too quickly to give me a chance to cut them off with a, "no thanks, not interested." They'd fill my mouth with samples and tell me to think about it, they'd be emailing soon. I always felt like chasing them out of the store–"Really just no! Not maybe! No need to send your pricing structure. We are not interested, never will be."–but politeness always stopped me. Then the call came a week later, "Remember me? I fed you ginger peach jam from my jar with a tiny spoon: now you owe me! How many cases can I put you down for?" Even after that no, they had to find a way to keep it open ended and check back to see if anything changes in a few months.
After one guy's fourth call-back, it hit me: these weren't the slick talking, smooth operators I was hating them for being; they were desperate losers–they reminded me of myself in high-school and college, trying to ask out girls, pitching my pathetic, inexperienced self in way that avoided the chance of ultimate rejection to keep hope, however slim alive. In addition to making me finally realize why I was always left feeling led-on when girls were as clear with me as I could be, I came to recognize that at the heart of every salesman, there is a sad, scared, and lonely man.
Patrick Robertson is probably the purest example of that sad, scared, lonely bastard since Willy Loman. The title character of Brian Hennigan's slim novel, Patrick is a divorced and friendless alcoholic stumbling from Asian hotel to machine parts sales meeting without ever making a real connection with anyone.
Don't let that description and the Willy Loman comparison fool you, though: Patrick Robertson: A Tale of Adventure is not some somber elegy but a raucous farce full of more ups and downs than a regional sales graph. Though a barechested special-ops comando may be the more obvious choice to take on the terrorists, jungle elements, and mistaken identity that pop up in this book, as a salesman, Patrick is a perfect protagonist for an adventure: used to pushing forward towards a deal against all odds, as he falls deeper into trouble, he never gives up, always persevering even in the face of certain death; and as an alcoholic, he is ready to make the sort of brash, split second decisions needed in high-pressure situations. As he explains, "Alcohol is not the answer to all our problems. But if one removes from one's life those problems that cannot be solved with alcohol, the path is clear."
Patrick makes a perfect narrator, too, as he's always dispensing terrible wisdom like the above lines. Interspersed with the action, advice like, "There is a time and a place for the truth, and the conclusion of a sales pitch is not it", is funny, in part, because readers are left wondering why Patrick would think any of us would want to follow the steps to ending up as sad and lonely as him. Only a narcissist as cut off from others as himself could think that he's in an admirable position–especially as things keep going from bad to worse for him. And that's the other reason they are funny: Patrick's grand schemes for survival keep taking him further and further from life, until he is finally floating on the ocean in hot-air balloon basket, being roasted to death by the sun.
And that's why I wholeheartedly recommend this book: it fits in with our program here at The Oldest Jokes in the World, with the humor working as another literary device to reinforce and deepen the subtext. If the life of a salesman is a large and already bullet riddled target for a satire, this book gets by for being a quick, energetic read, full of other surprises, the somehow warm without being schmaltzy ending chief among them. Previously published by Cape in the UK, it is now available for the first time in America. You can get it at Amazon or head on over to ataleofadventure.com for more info… and wisdom.
Full disclosure: a friend sent me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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Keen On… Microsoft: The Supreme Decathlete (TCTV)
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Roger McNamee might think that we are in the midst of the revolution, but according to Microsoft Chief Strategy and Research Officer Craig Mundie, the race to become the dominant technology company of the digital age hasn't really even begun yet. Mundie, whom I interviewed yesterday in Tucson, Arizona at Techonomy, believes that the last ten years have actually been a prelude to a technological contest that is still in its warm-up stage. And, of course, Mundie believes that Microsoft is the odds-on favorite to win this race once it actually gets going.
"It's a decathlon", Mundie described today's grand contest to make computers into sensory machines that mirror our speech and our sight. And given Microsoft's undoubted strength right across the technological board – from PC's to tablets to cloud servers to software services to cars – Mundie says, his company is the only one positioned to be able to compete in every sphere of what he calls this "profound revolution."
The winner of the Olympic decathlon is often called "the world's greatest athlete". Whatever else one might say about Mundie and Microsoft, you can't fault their ambition. But is Mundie – who, after Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, is as influential as anyone at Microsoft – correct? Could the old war horse from Redmond still surprise the world by retaining/regaining its title as the world's greatest technology company?


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Sharma, A. (1996). Developing Awareness and Attitude Towards Environment Through Education: (An Experimental Study). Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur , Rajasthan.
The objectives of this study were: (1) To measure existing environmental awareness in students. (2) To measure existing attitude in students. (3) To develop environmental awareness and attitude through educational programs. (4) To analyze effectiveness of the programme. (5) To give suggestions to improve awareness and positive environmental attitude in students.
The sample was equated on the basis of age, sex, intelligence, interest and socio-economic status. The sample comprised of 60 subjects. Of which 30 were in experimental group and 30 in control group.
Standardized and self made tools were used in this study.
In the present study, experimental method was used.
For the analysis of data t-test, and percentage were used.
The findings were: (1) The split-half reliability of environmental awareness test is 0.891 which shows that the test is reliable. (2) After first training the experimental group of private school showed 68.2% improvement in total mean value and after second training the improvement was 89.6% towards environmental awareness. (3) In private schools the experimental group gained 69.95% environmental awareness after first training. (4) After second training the experimental group of private school showed 90.1% improvement in their awareness towards environment. (5) The split-half reliability of environmental attitude scale was 0.947 that shows the test is more reliable. (6) In private schools the experimental group gained 85.8%. (7) After second training the same group gained 94.95% positive attitude towards environment.
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M&S sees another Clothing & Home dip but e-sales rise in double-digits
today Jan 10, 2019
Some of the UK's biggest retailers released their Christmas trading updates on Thursday and with M&S among them, it was definitely going to be a day in which the health of the UK retail sector was heavily in the spotlight.
The M&S Report for the 13 weeks to December 29 was headlined 'Steady performance in difficult markets and transformation plan on track', which certainly wasn't suggestive of a triumphant Christmas season.
The company said that its UK sales fell 2.2% on a like-for-like basis and 2.7% in total to £2.78 billion. Its food sales fell 1.2% in total but, more importantly for the fashion industry, the Clothing & Home division was down a much worse 4.8%, or 2.4% on a like-for-like basis. The unit's sales dropped to £1.1 billion.
And international sales fell as well, although the large size of the drop (15.1%) was mainly due to the sale of its Hong Kong business to its franchise partner and the closure of stores in loss-making markets. Factoring those out, international revenue was down only 1.4%.
The company said that the Clothing & Home revenue decline reflected "lower footfall to stores, partly as a result of [the] increasing pace of closures." It was offset to some extent by online growth of 14% "driven by improvements to proposition and operations." And it said stock that went into its clearance sale was down around 25%, as a result of a planned reduction in stock levels.
CEO Steve Rowe said of all this: "Against the backdrop of well publicised difficult market conditions, our performance remained steady across the period."
But despite his relatively upbeat stance, he added that "reducing consumer confidence, mild weather, Black Friday, and widespread discounting by our competitors made November a very challenging trading period. However, overall our 13-week performance was steady with some early encouraging signs."
The Clothing & Home performance may not look very encouraging on the surface, but Rowe said the company is still "at the early stages of far-reaching changes in range, in style, customer focus and channel mix. Our objective is to reshape our buy, deliver market leading value and focus on stylish and wearable wardrobe 'Must-Haves' as we grow our business with family-aged customers seeking style, quality and value."
ONLINE STRONGER
At least there was that good news about online sales, which was especially encouraging given that M&S has a chequered history with its webstore that hasn't always delivered the results it was hoping for.
This time, however, it seems that "improvements to [its] online proposition and operations helped [it] to mitigate lower footfall to stores resulting from, in part, the increasing pace of change in the store estate."
As the 14% rise shows, its Clothing & Home online sales performance was "strong, supported by an increased focus on digital marketing together with improvements to [the] delivery proposition and [its] operations at Castle Donington."
And it was particularly pleasing that "womenswear online growth significantly outperformed, driven by areas including dresses and knitwear reflecting [its] 'Must-Haves' and social media campaigns."
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Q: Show $\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{-z}}{(1 + x)^{2}} ~ \mathrm{d}{x} = \frac{\pi z}{sin(\pi z)}$ I need to solve the following integral:
$$
I = \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{-z}}{(1 + x)^{2}} ~ \mathrm{d}{x}.
$$

Wolfram Alpha gives the answer as $ \frac{\pi z}{sin(\pi z)}$, or equivalently, $\pi z csc(\pi z)$
My ultimate goal is to demonstrate that $z!(-z)! = \frac{\pi z}{sin(\pi z)}$
So far, I arrived at this integral by gamma and beta functions:
$$
z!(-z)! = \Gamma(z+1)\Gamma(-z+1) = \Gamma(m)\Gamma(n)\\
= B(z+1,-z+1)\Gamma(m+n) = B(z+1,-z+1)\Gamma(2)\\
\\
=B(z+1,-z+1) = \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{-z+1-1}}{(1 + x)^{2}} ~ \mathrm{d}{x}\\
= \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{-z}}{(1 + x)^{2}} ~ \mathrm{d}{x}
$$
This integral is effectively the answer. Can you solve this with a contour integral? Also, is there a special name for this integral?

A: By considering the contour integral
$$\oint_C d\zeta \frac{\zeta^{-z}}{(1+\zeta)^2} $$
about a keyhole contour and using the residue theorem, we may derive the relation
$$\left (1-e^{-i 2 \pi z} \right) \int_0^{\infty} dx \frac{x^{-z}}{(1+x)^2} = i 2 \pi \left [\frac{d}{d\zeta} e^{-z \log{\zeta}} \right ]_{\zeta=e^{i \pi}} = i 2 \pi (-z e^{-i \pi} ) e^{-i \pi z}$$
The result follows after a little algebra.

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Elizabeth Smart is buried in St. George's Churchyard, Saint Cross, South Elmham, Suffolk, England.
Photograph by Cameron Self
Smart was born in Ottawa in Canada - the daughter of an attorney and she began to write poetry at an early age
She famously fell in love with fellow poet George Barker after reading a volume of his poems. She subsequently began to correspond with him and finally engineered for him and his wife to visit her in California. This proved to be the start of a two year affair and resulted in her having four of Barker's children: Georgina, Christopher, Sebastian and Rose Emma. (In total Barker fathered 15 children by different women.)
In 1943 Smart moved permanently to England and in 1945 she published her famous passionate, prose poem By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. This was based on her affair with Barker and was described by Brigid Brophy as: "shelled, skinned, nerve-exposed".
Morrissey used many lines from Grand Central Station in The Smiths songs such as: Reel Around the Fountain, Shakespeare's Sister, London and Louder than Bombs.
After retiring as a copywriter and journalist in London, she moved to rural North Suffolk where she wrote prolifically. By this time George Barker was married to the novelist Elspeth Barker and lived across the border at Itteringham in Norfolk. Although they never married or lived together, Smart's relationship with Barker continued until her death in 1986.
Elizabeth Smart's collections of poetry include: Ten Poems (1981), Eleven Poems (1982) and In the Meantime (1984). After her death, her journals were edited by Alice Van Wart.
In 1991 a documentary about her life entitled On the Side of the Angels appeared - starring Jackie Burroughs as Smart.
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For an obscure magazine
I popped it in the box
And such a starry elation
Came over me
That I got whistled at in the street
For the first time in a long time.
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House Democrats' plans to interview Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos — the wife of former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos — fell through late Wednesday over efforts to reimburse her travel expenses.
Papadopoulos told POLITICO that she had arranged to testify to members of the House Intelligence Committee on July 8 and had even selected flights only to be informed that the committee's Republican majority was unwilling to fund her transportation from Chicago.
George Papadopoulos — a central figure in the FBI's decision to launch an investigation of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia — has been cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller since pleading guilty last year to lying to the FBI about his relationship with Russia-linked professor.
Simona Papadopoulos told POLITICO that she had intended to be on Capitol Hill next week for the interview, which comes amid efforts by Democrats on the committee to continue investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election even though Republicans have concluded the formal probe.
In recent months, Papadopoulos has become an unofficial spokeswoman for her husband, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last year. She's appeared in numerous television interviews and become a fixture on Twitter, where she's recently raised questions about the FBI's conduct.
Though she once suggested her husband would be a "John Dean"-like figure in Mueller's probe — a reference to the former White House attorney who pleaded guilty and became a key witness against Richard Nixon — she has recently become a more vocal critic of the FBI, openly suggesting her husband was set up by law enforcement. She's also pleaded for Trump to pardon her husband and solicited funds to help cover his legal fees.
"i used to trust Institutions until they proved me wrong," she tweeted last month. "Definetely 'a lot to come' it smells of #entrapment."
George Papadopoulos' April 2016 interaction with an Australian diplomat in London appeared to help trigger the FBI's investigation of Trump campaign contacts with Russia that year.
According to reports and a Republican memo revealing once-classified details of the origin of the FBI probe, Papadopoulos told the Australian official that he had learned from a Kremlin-connected associate, Josef Mifsud, that Russians had obtained damaging information about Hillary Clinton. The tip made its way to the FBI by July, when the Russia investigation was officially opened.
Papadopoulos later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the timing of his interactions with Mifsud. He's been cooperating with prosecutors in the interim and is due for sentencing in September.
Trump campaign associates and the White House have downplayed his role in the campaign, though he took foreign trips and interacted with high-ranking foreign officials under the auspices of the campaign. It's unclear whether Republican lawmakers will be invited to attend Simona Papadopoulous' interview.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, has held at least one hearing since Republicans shuttered that panel's probe, bringing in former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie. Schiff invited Republicans to attend the interview.
Aides to Schiff and the committee's Republican chairman Devin Nunes declined to comment.