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Executive and Board
AMS Board of Directors
Dr Sonia Davison MBBS FRACP PhD
Dr Sonia Davison was appointed to the Board in February 2017.
Dr Davison is an Endocrinologist with a special interest in Women's Health. She is a Clinical Fellow at Jean Hailes for Women's Health and has an adjunct appointment at the Women's Health Research Program, Monash University.
Sonia is in private practice in Victoria at Cabrini Medical Centre and at Jean Hailes for Women's Health. Her PhD and postdoctoral research examined sex steroid physiology in women, including measurement of androgens and their relationships with age, mood, sexual function and cognition.
Sonia was also editor of AMS's Changes magazine for nine years.
Clinical Associate Professor Amanda Vincent BMed Sci, MBBS PhD, FRACP
Clinical Associate Professor Amanda Vincent is a Consultant Endocrinologist with the Department of Endocrinology, Monash Health, Clayton, working in the Menopause Clinic and Osteoporosis clinic.
Clinical Associate Professor Vincent is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Monash University's Centre for Health Research and Implementation, School of Public Health Preventive Medicine where she leads the Early Menopause Study group. Her research interests include both clinical research and education projects with a particular interest in early/premature menopause and Turner's syndrome.
She is a member of the editorial board of Climacteric.
Dr Sylvia Rosevear BA MB ChB MD FRCOG FRANZCOG
Dr Sylvia Rosevear is a New Zealand Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. Graduating in Medicine from the University of Auckland in 1980, her immediate resident years were spent at Auckland as a registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at National Women's Hospital, when National Women's had an international reputation in Obstetrics with in the fields of Intrauterine transfusion for rhesus disease, perinatal mortality publications and the burgeoning field of fertility and endocrinology. Her 'OE' was initially at High Wycombe, obtaining the MRCOG in 1986 and Research at King's College Hospital London.
Dr Rosevear then went to Oxford and completed an MD on 'The Computerised Analysis of the Fetal Heart Rate in Labour'. She was a senior Registrar in Bristol and returned to New Zealand in private practice in 1993, practicing both Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is interested in the endocrinology of the menopause and the maintenance and optimisation of middle aged health rather than just prevention of pathology.
Dr Rosevear recently completed Diploma in Exercise and Sports Medicine in recognition of the therapeutic efficacy of exercise in health promotion. She is delighted to be part of the AMS board promoting its vision.
Professor Beverley Vollenhoven MBBS PhD FRANZCOG CREI
Professor Beverley Vollenhoven is a Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility specialist. She is Head of Gynaecology at Monash Health, Deputy Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Monash University and a clinician at Monash IVF. She is the Head of the Contraceptive Counselling Clinic and has an appointment as a Reproductive Endocrinologist at the Menopause Clinic and Long Term Follow Up of Children with Cancer Clinic at Monash Health.
Her areas of clinical and research interest are infertility including IVF and ovulation induction, PCOS, paediatric and adolescent gynaecology and menopause.
She is a member of committees for the Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Safer Care Victoria and the Therapeutic Goods Administration. She is a Board Member of the Fertility Society of Australia. Beverley was an inductee to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2019.
Regional appointments
Dr Elina Safro MB BS, BSc(Med)Hon, Grad Cert SA: NSW/ACT Director
Dr Elina Safro is the Medical Education Coordinator at Family Planning NSW and Visiting Medical Officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sexual Assault service.
She works as a clinician and medical educator at Family Planning NSW Ashfield, Penrith and Dubbo clinics, and has also worked as a researcher at the National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (now the Kirby Institute at the University of NSW).
For the last four years, Elina has coordinated the Contraception unit of study at the Postgraduate Program in Sexual and Reproductive Health at the University of Sydney.
Dr Karen Magraith BMBS FRACGP: Vic/Tas Director
Karen Magraith graduated from Flinders University and spent 6 years in Darwin before returning to Adelaide, where she worked until 2007. She currently works in general practice in Hobart, where she is involved in registrar training. She has had a longstanding interest in women's health and has been a member of AMS since 2004.
Karen recognises that most menopause medicine occurs in general practice, where the GP is in a unique position to manage the medical, gynaecological and psychosocial issues in an integrated way.
Karen is keen to promote the role of the AMS in educating and supporting a wide variety of GPs, to enable them to provide high quality health care to women.
Dr Meredith Frearson BMBS FRACGP DRCOG DFFP, Cert Fam Plan: SA/NT Director
A proud member of the AMS for over 20 years I am very keen to assist the organisation to continue to advance healthcare for Australian women. A GP, I work in the city centre as well as providing a monthly rural Women's Health clinic and visit an Aboriginal Health Service. I am passionate about Women's Health and have provided numerous education sessions for women and health professionals, including topics such as Menopause, Contraception, and PCOS.
I have also been involved in writing education resources for women such as involvement in the early information sheets for AMS as well as SHine SA and I was a member of the NH&MRC PCOS Guidelines group.
Dr Janice Brown NZ MBChB FRNZCGP PGDipObstMedGyn NZ CertFP: NZ Director
Dr Janice Brown has been a GP for 21 years and is currently Medical Lead at Auckland University. She also attends some sessions at Albany Family Medical Centre.
While Janice is committed to family medicine, her special interests include women's health encompassing family planning, menopause management, menstrual difficulties, polycystic ovarian syndrome; the impact of lifestyle factors such as exercise and nutrition on health and the prevention of disease.
Dr Ashley Makepeace MBBS, FRACP: WA Director
Dr Ashley Makepeace is a clinical Endocrinologist and completed her Endocrinology training in Western Australia and in Oxford, UK.
Her public appointment is at Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals. She consults in private with interests in type 1 diabetes, bone health and women's health and works as an Endocrinologist within a fertility clinic.
She is s guest lecturer for the medical curriculum at Notre Dame University, Fremantle.
She is the chair of a local interest group of Endocrinologists and Clinical Biochemists with a focus on women's health.
Dr Christina Jang MBBS MD FRACP: QLD Director
Dr Christina Jang graduated MBBS from Monash University in 1994. She undertook advanced training in Endocrinology in Melbourne and received her FRACP in 2004. She received an NHMRC Scholarship to carry out studies towards her Doctor of Medicine which was conferred in 2008.
She has undertaken research in the area of women's health and won the Young Investigator Award at the Australasian Menopause Foundation in 2003.
She is a consultant endocrinologist at The Mater Hospital Brisbane and Greenslopes Private Hospital, and honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She has a clinical interest in female reproductive endocrinology.
AMS Executive Director & Company Secretary
Vicki Doherty BSc(Hons) PGDipEd(Int Ed) MPH AFACHSM GAICD
Australasian Menopause Society
PO Box 280, Healesville VIC 3777
www.menopause.org.au
Vicki Doherty was appointed as Executive Director of the Australasian Menopause Society in January 2016. Vicki began her career as a molecular biologist undertaking research in xenotransplantation, malarial antibiotic resistance and complications of pregnancy.
After eight years at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Vicki infiltrated the ivory towers of the federal Government in Canberra to work on primary care policy and program management. Vicki was an Assistant Director on the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) and Enhanced Primary Care programs. During this time, Vicki worked closely with a number of peak bodies including the AMA, RACGP, RDAA, ACRRM and NACCHO to develop and implement a number of new PIP items and Medicare programs, including the Medicare Teen Dental Program.
After a sea-change in 2010, Vicki was appointed as the Gippsland Region Palliative Care Consortium Manager. This member-based organisation was responsible for implementing the Victorian Government's Strengthening palliative care: Policy and strategic directions. During this time, Vicki led a team to implement a regional palliative care consultancy service, develop numerous clinical tools and guidelines, provide education to GPs, nurses and allied health professionals and built community capacity to deal with death, dying and grief.
Vicki is a committed foodie and loves experimenting with cheese-making and preserving. Vicki is currently working on expanding her exercise regime to ensure that her food devotion is kept in check.
Content updated September 2019


As we kicked started the week at the Florida RV Supershow, we met so many friendly people, saw informational speakers, awesome products, and exlpored the area. Within the first day, we found a vareity of helpful tips. Here are ten things we learned so far at Tampa.
Know your roof! Some sealants are only compatible with specific types of roofs. Check cleaning materials as well.
Review your plastics! Such as AC covers and vents. UV protection is key to make your parts last. Do a stress test! Cracked or brittle plastic should be replaced.
Use LP solution that won't ruin your fittings when doing annual leak/pressure test.
If your propane detector is going off but you can't smell anything, your detector is probably old and needs to be replaced.
Never close up a duct on a furnace or you'll create too much heat.
Protect your intake exhaust from intruders! Bugs can create a big problem.
A lot of people have moved to electric awnings, but if you haven't, make sure to use awning tie down kits. Different awnings (acrylic or vinyl) should use different cleaning types. This will help you maintain your awning color.
Use a dish scrubber or nail brush to clean your slide outs with hot water and soap. Be sure to clean your slide gears and friction points.
Clean and lube your steps frequently, hot soapy water is best for cleaning. Spray fold points on manual or power steps if you're getting resistance or opening and closing on a manual step.
Cycle your hydraulic jacks regularly to keep them cleaned and lubed if you're parked for a long time.


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Wednesday, October 03, 2018 at 2:42 PM by Julie Kwach
The Companies Act 2015 requires every limited company in Kenya to have a Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association before receiving certification from the Registrar of Companies. Knowing the difference between these two terminologies is important when you are planning to register a company. In this article, we will define both documents and explain the difference between Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association, usually abbreviated as MOA and AOA respectively.
To understand the difference between AOA and MOA, we will first define each term then compare. The Memorandum of Association is a document which contains all the information of the limited company. A simpler definition of Memorandum of Association is that it is the document that forms the company. The Memorandum of Association in company law is a basic requirement during registration of the company and IT is important because a company cannot be formed without it. The Memorandum of Association contains the following sections:
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Sections in a Memorandum of Association
1. Name clause
The company should register with a name which is acceptable and it should not copy the name of another company or patented names. For example, if we have company ABC Limited, during registration of your company, you will not be allowed to use the name ABC Limited. Note that if a company is limited by shares or by guarantee, the name of the company should include "limited" as the last word.
2. Location clause
It is a requirement for the company to declare its physical location. For instance, if the company sits in Nairobi, then it will specify Nairobi as the location of its offices.
3. Object clause
The object clause states the activities the company can engage in and the ones it cannot participate in.
4. Liability clause
When the company is a limited company, the liability of the members is limited. The MOA also contains information on the amount each member contributes to the overall assets of the company in case the company winds up.
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5. Capital clause
During registration of the company, the share capital should be stated including the face value of each share.
6. Subscription clause
It shows the number and type of shares taken by each subscriber.
About the Article of Association,
The Article of Association, on the other hand, is a document which contains the rules and regulations which guide the company in its operations. The Article of Association is intended for use by the members of the organization, in this case, the company. The companies are at liberty to tailor-make their Article of Association based on their preferences but it should contain the following:
Contents of the Article of Association
The liability of each member.
The powers and responsibilities of the directors of the company and other members of the company.
Procedures for auditing the accounts of the company.
The rights of all members of the company
Allocation of dividends to the members.
Procedures for appointing and removing directors.
Subscription to shares procedures
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The following are the main differences between AOA and MOA:
Memorandum of Association contains information on the requirements before registration of the company by the Registrar of Companies while the Article of Association contains the regulations which guide the company in its day to day operations.
Regarding scope, activities performed outside the scope of the Memorandum of Association are considered null and void. On the other hand, through voting by the owners of the company, acts done outside the scope of Articles of Association can be accepted.
The Article of Association focuses on the interaction between the company and outsiders, while the Memorandum of Association concentrates on the interaction between the members and the company.
The Articles of Association is not a fundamental requirement during registration of the company, but the Memorandum of Association is an essential requirement during registration of the company by the Registrar of Companies.
The Articles of Association are tailored based on the nature of the company while the Memorandum of Association must contain the six clauses discussed above.
The Memorandum of Association is second to the Companies Act while the Articles of Association is subordinate to the Act as well as the Memorandum of Association.
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The Memorandum and Articles of Association are essential in directing the company in its activities and preventing conflicts among the members of the company and outsiders. It is crucial to understand the difference between Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association, and the contents of each document as explained above. Additionally, it is vital for a firm to review its Articles of Association regularly so that changes arising can be factored in.
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Michelangelo & The Science of Fresco Painting | Chemistry Meets Art
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This is a topic that many people are looking for. https://granthamandira.org/ is a channel providing useful information about learning, life, digital marketing and online courses …. it will help you have an overview and solid multi-faceted knowledge . Today, https://granthamandira.org/ would like to introduce to you Michelangelo & The Science of Fresco Painting | Chemistry Meets Art. Following along are instructions in the video below:
[DIGITAL TONE] 2 00:00:01,290 –> 00:00:03,010 What involves volcanic ash, dangerous chemicals, extreme heat, expert timing, ground pigment, and expert creativity? You guessed it, Fresco painting. Check this out. [MUSIC PLAYING] 9 00:00:16,380 –> 00:00:32,955 NARRATOR: Support provided by the Glick Fund, a CICF fund focused on inspiring philanthropy. Additional support provided by the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation in honor of the children and families of Christel House. Fresco painting using wet plaster dates back to 1500 BC and the Island of Crete in Greece. Of course, fresco can be seen around Ancient Greece as well, often within tombs, depicting scenes of everyday life. There are even scenes of a couple dudes just reclining at a banquet. However, where we really see some incredible examples is in the ancient city of Pompeii. In 79 AD, Pompeii was struck by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which completely buried the city in volcanic ash. To our advantage– definitely not to the people of Pompeii– much of the city was preserved. Check out these amazing fresco paintings. Fresco painting was definitely the wallpaper of the day, so to speak. They included scenes from everyday life, which told stories of daily life, including everything from being a vendor to a competition between Pompeii and a rival town, sort of a "West Side Story," Sharks versus Jets thing. Apparently, things got pretty bloody, which tends to happen when knives and swords get involved. Fast forward to the 2nd and 3rd century AD in Rome, where fresco painting makes its way into the wells and vaults of the underground catacombs, with biblical scenes on the limestone walls. Fast forward even further to the 13th century, where we see fresco work exploding. Of course, once painters like Raphael and Michelangelo got a hold of the style, it was the go-to technique. Now that you know the basic history, lets explore what is happening within the chemistry, during the process of fresco painting. Lets break down what we are going to need to make this wet plaster mixture. First is limestone. Limestone is a very common rock found in shallow, calm, warm, marine waters. It has a simple composition consisting of one calcium atom and one carbon atom and three oxygen atoms. To prepare the limestone for plaster, we must calcify the limestone first, which means heating it to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit or roughly three times the temperature your oven at home can reach. This process of adding heat breaks down the calcium carbonate into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. Releasing all the CO2 in the air isnt exactly environmentally friendly. The calcium oxide we create from the limestone is called quicklime. This quicklime, which consists of only one calcium atom and one oxygen atom, is now a rather toxic powder of refined limestone. In fact, this lime is now an alkali. An alkali is a basic ionic salt or earth metal that dissolves in water. Since this quicklime does have a pH greater than 7, it can cause a chemical burn on exposed skin. Keep this in mind as you imagine Michelangelo and his team working daily with this chemical, 60 feet off the ground. Dangerous? You better believe it. Second ingredient is water or H2O. What happens next is fascinating. When we take lime and add H2O, the two react chemically, creating tremendous amounts of heat. In fact, tremendous amounts, as in enough to boil water.
Once you add the calcium oxide or quicklime to water, it is now calcium hydroxide or slate lime. The third ingredient is sand. Any idea why they would add sand? You would think it would absorb the water, right? Not exactly. Sand, which is basically microscopic particles of shells, fish bones, and rocks wont absorb water. But the space created between these particles can most definitely hold water and air. Adding sand created space within the plaster mixture, allowing the necessary carbon dioxide to creep in and quicken the creation of calcium carbonate. But you have to be really careful how much sand and water you add to the plaster mix. At the beginning, Team Michelangelo was adding too much water, which wasnt allowing the plaster to dry quickly enough. This caused mold to form very quickly. Mold on a painting? Yeah, thats not so good. Michelangelo, on the other hand, had an ingenious idea. In order to speed up the drying time of the plaster and to attain the smoothest surface to paint on, Michelangelo added ground volcanic ash instead of sand. This idea had been used within those ancient Roman catacombs we just talked about. And guess where he got this ash from? Remember Pompeii? Yep, this volcanic ash came from Mt. Vesuvius, the same volcanic ash that destroyed the city. As the slaked lime within the plaster mixture continues to heat up, it reacts to the carbon dioxide in the air. Heres what amazes me. As this carbon dioxide is reintroduced into the slake lime, the lime begins to harden and creates these crystals. These crystals are calcium carbonate, or CaCO3. Does that look familiar? It should. Its limestone. Yep, you guessed it. We have come full-circle back to the original molecular structure we started with. Were back to limestone. Before adding paint, you would typically need to add two layers of plaster, called the arriccio. After the arriccio layer dries, the final intonaco layer, or smooth layer, is added. Of course, Michelangelo and the other fresco painters had to paint quickly on this wet plaster layer before it turned back into limestone. As the paint sinks into the quickly drying intonaco layer, the pigment is now being blended into the calcium carbonate or limestone. Now that the pigment is fused into the limestone layer, it is very stable and can survive for centuries. I dont know about you, but I had no idea just how much science was involved in fresco painting. Pretty amazing, right? [MUSIC PLAYING] 150 00:06:47,750 –> 00:06:51,390 On May 10, 1508, work begins. And man, what a job Michelangelo has in store. Let me just short-list some of the crazy issues he will have to face. MAN: Man, thats really high. One, he has to remove all the old plaster within the chapel, which was going to be a huge mess. Two, the chapel was not going to close while Michelangelo was painting. So normal scaffolding covering the chapel floor wasnt going to work. Three, its Rome. And it can easily get to 90 degrees in the summer, and thats just standing outside on the ground. Four, Michelangelo was painting in fresco style, which had very little experience with and is one of the most difficult forms of painting ever. Five, the height within the chapel was crazy. The ceiling was over 60 feet above the ground. Thats over six stories tall.
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If Florida can produce 1% of U.S. olive oil consumption, a half-billion dollar industry could result.
Fact: Almost one-third of Florida's 570,000 acres of citrus grove land lay fallow due to HLB disease and other factors.
Fact: The U.S. olive oil market has grown 35% since 2000. That pace of growth is predicted to continue.
Fact: U.S. farmers produce less than 5% of domestic consumption.
Fact: Olives have been successfully cultivated in Florida for 300 years.
Consumption: The U.S. consumes 85 million gallons of olive oil per year (2017). According to Olive Oil Market the 2017 producer price for Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVO) olive oil was roughly $US630.00 per 100kg (27 gallons) or $23.00/gallon.
Domestic Production: California, Texas and Georgia currently produce olive oil commercially. A small amount is produced in Arizona, Florida and Alabama. California is the largest domestic producer. The California Olive Oil Council estimates the size of California's olive acreage at 35,000 with an additional 3,500 acres expected to be planted each year through 2020. While production varies by operation, variety and season; a 5+ year old high-density grove in California can typically produce between 100 and 200 gallons (of olive oil) per acre. Management largely determines where, in that range, the grove sits.
Producers: California Olive Ranch is the largest domestic producer of olive oil. They work several thousand acres between Red Bluff and Fresno, CA and recently announced an expansion of 2200 acres with a $35 million infusion of capital. Boundary Bend Ltd. is the largest olive oil producer in Australia. They recently invested $35 million in California and have constructed a new olive mill near Woodland, CA. One of the largest Texas olive operations (there are several) is Texas Olive Ranch, they produce 25,000 gallons of olive oil per year. Georgia Olive Farms, an operation near Lakeland, GA, produces several thousand gallons of olive oil per year.
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While breadboarding may seem like some odd combination of snowboarding and consuming the fluffy pastry at the same time, it's actually just the technical term for using a construction base to build a prototype electric circuit. Breadboards are solderless so they're great for circuit design and are reusable.
Check out this hacks video to learn how to turn a 7805 Voltage REgulator and 4 AA batteries into a power supply that can charge anything which runs off USB.
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A Taste of SerenaGaia's "Talking with Gaia: What Is Ecosexual Love?"
by serena anderlini | posted in: Book Excerpts, Ecosexual Love as a Resource for Social Change | 1
SerenaGaia's "Talking with Gaia:
What Is Ecosexual Love?"
Why this dialog? Serena and Gaia are two parts of me that speak together. . . . The dialog is the vanishing point where they become the same. This happens to all of us. That's why the dialog. It's for you. Namaste.
Serena: Gaia, you claim love is an art. I don't understand. The world believes love is a need and an instinct. You seem to believe otherwise. What makes you think you know better?
Gaia: I don't think I know better. I simply propose another interpretation.
Serena: Ok, I can appreciate that. Let me ask you to explain then. What's great about interpreting love as an art?
Gaia: Serena, it's simple. Interpreting love as an art creates more love for love.
Serena: Love for Love?
Gaia: More abundance of love. More "erotophilia" as the experts put it.
Serena: It's an interesting possibility. But how does it happen? I'm still confused. Can you be more specific?
Gaia: Sure. Look at it this way. Need creates scarcity. And when we come from a place of scarcity we are in a state of fear. We can only love when fear disappears. Fear is the true enemy: the true opposite of love. So the last thing we want is to interpret love as a need. The next worst thing is to interpret love as an instinct. We are afraid of instincts because we think "out-of-control." And this produces fear. To generate love we need to interpret love very differently. What is it that people love, want, cherish in abundance? What is it that they'd like to learn if time permitted? The answer is art. Art is something that makes people happy, creative, expansive. It makes them feel happy to be alive.
Serena: But Gaia, if love is an art then it's also a fiction: a deception, a performance. It becomes a game. It can't be authentic, can it?
Gaia: There is authenticity in a good performance, Serena. The poetic truth: as they say. The quality of a performance has to do with how well one believes in it as an expression of truth beyond the performance itself.Why this dialog? Serena and Gaia are two parts of me that speak together.
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How to find others who also share your love of life, is my question.
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Wrike is an easy to use project management tool which integrates with a huge variety of applications. It's not cheap, though, and is somewhat let down by its lack of an integrated chat feature and fairly bland UI.
Wrike was founded in 2006 and is based in San Jose, California. It's cloud-based project management software suitable for larger teams, and geared towards small-to-medium-sized businesses and enterprises.
The solution includes Gantt charts, its own Document Editor, calendars, a workload view for resource management, multiple dashboards and real-time updates.
It integrates with a variety of third-party applications including Salesforce and Dropbox. The platform's also available as a mobile app.
Wrike offers five different pricing plans including a free tier – plus you can try each package free for 14-days.
The 'Free' tier includes five users, a board view, task management, file sharing, real-time activity stream, spreadsheet view, basic integrations and 2GB of storage space.
The 'Professional' plan starts at $9.80 (£7.70) per user per month. This includes all the free tier has to offer plus up to 15 users, Gantt charts, advanced integrations, shareable dashboards, collaborators, 5GB of storage space and 15GB of monthly video uploads.
The 'Business' package is $24.80 (£19.40) per user per month. This has all the features of the 'Free' and 'Professional' tiers along with up to 200 users, custom fields, workflows, shared real-time reports, report templates, graphical analysis, calendars, request forms, time tracking and 50GB of storage.
The 'Marketers' tier pricing is available upon request and is geared towards marketers and creative teams. It caters for an unlimited number of users and includes all the aforementioned features plus Wrike Proof, Publish, an extension for Adobe Creative Cloud and a tailored workspace.
The 'Enterprise' solution has advanced security and controls. Pricing is also available on request.
Setup is a fairly straightforward process. We decided to go with the free trial for the 'Professional' plan. Once you confirm your email, you'll be asked to enter your name, phone number, business email and company size. After this you can decide whether to invite teammates or wait until a later stage.
Wrike walks you through some of its features before you reach the main dashboard. You can decide which template best suits your needs. The categories available are General Purpose, Marketing & Creative and IT & Engineering. You can then name your project.
Once all this has been completed, your workspace is ready. Wrike will launch a 'Getting Started' video. After watching this, you will be taken to the main interface. In our case, we chose an event management template. This displayed our chosen project and any tasks scheduled.
The interface is clean and simply presented. Your Team, Personal, Shared, and the project are displayed on the left-hand side of the main interface. You can access your Inbox, Work, Dashboards, Reports and Stream from the top of the screen.
Wrike offers users handy tips from the panel on the right-hand side of the screen. You can also share your opinion about the platform through Quora, Twitter and Facebook.
Wrike Assist can be accessed at the bottom-right of the dashboard. This displays numerous articles on how to use the software, and is also where you can access live chat. Your chosen template can be easily changed using Wrike Assist.
While the layout is easy to use, it's not as in-depth as some competitors such as Liquid Planner.
Wrike sports multiple dashboards. These are available through the Dashboards tab at the top of the screen. It displays projects that are not started yet, overdue projects, and those that are due this week by default. However, you can add more dashboards for each project your team is involved in.
Users can also add widgets to their dashboards. These can show various folders, tasks or files related to the project. You can choose from Project Widgets, Files, Active Tasks by assignee, by status, Pending Reviews, Backlog, Conflicts Monitor, Activity Monitor, Starred, Personal, Overdue and Followed Tasks. Wrike also supports customizing widgets to suits your needs.
Wrike incorporates Gantt charts which are interactive with a handy drag and drop feature. Settings, the project title, start and due date, predecessors along with a calendar are displayed on the main screen.
You can hide folders and highlight any overdue projects. Users can collapse and expand columns, or filter reports into active, finished, on hold and cancelled. Extra filters included are assignee, to do, reviews, task type, due/start date, last modified, created, completed and author. Information is viewed in list form more so than in a graphical format.
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Aristotle thought they were plants; for centuries, we have used them to scrub ourselves clean, while millions of kids round the planet think they wear square pants and play with stupid starfish. Nevertheless, sponges are in fact the oldest living animals, one of the most amazing success stories on the planet.
Argument rages over exactly how old the earliest sponge is. Some fossils that are claimed to be sponges have been dated back to around 710 MY ago, but not everyone accepts these. Everyone agrees, however, that they were around shortly before the Cambrian Explosion, around 560MY.
They now cover every part of the ocean, and can account for up to 75% of the biomass on the floor of the Antarctic ocean. 15,000 species have been identified, most of them marine, but there are around 150 freshwater species. There are three main extant groups, and – confusingly – three main body forms, which don't overlap (i.e. the body forms don't form distinct evolutionary lineages).
One group of sponges – the Archaeocyaths – flowered briefly (metaphorically speaking) during the Cambrian, but disappeared after around 15 MY. Most sponges are filter feeders, but a few deep sea sponges are carnivorous, spiking tiny crustaceans on their spicules and then absorbing their body contents.
Sponges have no neurons, no muscles, no cell-cell junctions, no gut, no front/back, no reproductive organs.
So what makes them animals?
Studies of DNA show that all the animals – "metazoa" – form what is called a monophyletic group. In other words, all us animals share a common ancestor which is not shared by any other life form. Animals evolved only once, and the earliest branch is the sponges, says the data.
But strictly speaking, that doesn't make them an animal. They could be some multicellular non-animal, which branched off before the rest of us started on our animally way.
However, recent studies have revealed some amazing things about sponges that clearly place them with the animals – they share fundamental characters with us that no other life-form shares. We can see in the sponge the beginnings of our own way of organizing our bodies and behaving.
They have a simple immune system – a sponge will accept a graft of its own flesh, but will reject that of another sponge. This rejection can be stopped by using an immunosuppressant widely used in medicine. In other words, we share a biochemical pathway that the body uses to distinguish self and non-self.
They show coordinated movement – Ephydatia muelleri, a small sponge, "sneezes" (rather slowly!) when it is agitated or has inedible ink poured over it. This movement can be induced by pouring known animal neurotransmitters over the sponge, showing the sponge cells are sensitive to stuff that we use to activate our neurons.
They may not have neurons, but they have the tiny ion channels that are required to make a neuron work. Express these genes in another organism, and they work.
They have a simple form of the genes required to make neurons. Express these genes in a toad or fly and they start to make neurons there.
This is exactly what we would expect would have happened at the earliest stages of animal multicellularity. Animals didn't suddenly appear as running, flying, swimming things. Our earliest, multicellular ancestors would have been perfectly adapted to their environment, but would also have used simple forms of cell-cell communication to build their bodies, and to respond to that environment.
Over the vast depths of evolutionary time, those methods were honed and shaped by natural selection, eventually leading to the stupendous array of animal life that the planet has carried, including me, typing these words to you.
But that doesn't make sponges "primitive", or in any way lesser beings. They have been on our planet for longer than any other animal – around 10,000 times longer than our species. They have survived repeated mass extinction events, and that suggests they will probably be around for at least another 600 MY. Not bad for an animal that Aristotle took for a plant.
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"…Sponges have no neurons, no muscles, no cell-cell junctions, no gut, no front/back, no reproductive organs.
The same question may well be asked of politicians.
Oh come on Michael, it's well known that many politicians have reproductive organs.
I did not known sponges shared all these other body-organization traits with the rest of animals. However, I thought the classic cut-up point to circumscribe metazoa was the presence of a blastula stage, for which sponges comply.
Oh, and regarding politicians, that's just secondary loss. So I'm afraid phylogenetically they will always belong with the rest of us.
Oh cool! I knew biology couldn't disappoint me.
"Primitive" is one of those words that just doesn't make sense in the light of evolution, other than in historical discussions. Every living thing on Earth today has exactly as "modern" as any other because they all share a common ancestor back at the beginnings of life. Sponges may not seem particularly "advanced", but with 15,000 species they clearly have done plenty of evolving.
I think "primitive" just means "more like a common ancestor" in some aspect.
Obviously all species have had the same time to evolve from their MRCA's.
Thank you for this (about sponges, not politicians).
Yet another reason Why Evolution Is True.
I realize that sponges are animals not plants, but which of the three processes you listed: self versus non-self recognition, signal transduction/ion channels, or coordinated movement (many plants move in response to light) could not apply to plants?
Plants don't have the kind of immune system we do (think of all those grafted fruit trees – you can carry out grafts between genera!), they don't have ion channels (tho they do have signal transduction), and although some species do show coordinated movement (sensitive plant, venus flytrap), most "movement" in response to light is in fact differential growth (the plant cells grow more on the dark side of the shoot, because of the inhibitory effect of light on plant hormones).
However, even if all these characters were also seen in plants, the question would then be what mechanisms are involved. What's striking in the case of sponges is that we share the neurogenic genes, the neurotransmitters and the immune system, whereas plants have very different ways of doing (some of) these things.
But given that, as you say: "Sponges have no neurons, no muscles, no cell-cell junctions, no gut, no front/back, no reproductive organs", why class sponges as an animal, rather than neither a plant nor an animal, but some other third kind of thing?
If we categorized sponges as something non-animal, and non-plant, they would get lumped in with all the other problematic wierdness filling out the many branches of the eukaryotic parts of the tree of life.
Sponges are similar enough to animals that they're more similar to [rest of animals] than they are to any other group. So removing them from Animalia would lead to more exceptions in descriptions of Animalia than it would solve.
As one example, sponges have collagen, just like all other animals. So dropping sponges from Animalia would change the definition of Animalia from including "multicellular eukaryotes with collagen" to "multicellular eukaryotes with collagen, except Porifera". That "except Porifera" would have to get stuck into lots of parts of the description of the group "animals".
All of this is rather semantic, of course – sponges are going to keep on being sponges regardless of how we think about them.
Of course we're related to sponges! How else do you think that we could soak up knowledge?
Has anyone studied whether they produce neurotransmitters and use the ion channels and neurotransmitters to pass signals? Or are the ion channels just there to absorb nutrients or maintain osmotic pressure?
Oh come on, they were designed as cleaning supplies.
That's a whole lot better than Behe's miracle of malaria.
Hey! You say nice things about Patrick! He's cool!
And think about this: A TV series about an animated sponge who lives in a pineapple and has the occupation of fry cook has been one of the most successful television programs for over a decade!
These creatures are indeed amazing!
I have read there are some people who think that sponges evolved from more complex ancestors and secondarily lost that complexity. What is the current thinking on that?
Yes, they used to be right wing Republicans and then they lost their neurons (brains) and nerves.
Then I find it interesting that closer to animals with symmetry axes like bilaterians we have placozoans which I gather don't have a symmetry axes either, but what I would describe as a broken symmetry: "it is possible to distinguish a back or dorsal side from a belly or ventral side in Trichoplax adhaerens [Wikipedia]".
I'm not sure that has any deeper meaning at all, but I find the "no symmetry axes – broken symmetry along an axes – true symmetry axes" path intriguing. Conceivably broken symmetry could easily evolve into later axes.
[I should probably exemplify instead of leaving it vague.
If sponges were not animals, it would be difficult to explain Spongebob Squarepants.
1. Some sponges are more closely related to us than to other sponges, so they aren't even a sister group.
2. You say no front or back end, but some sponge larvae does have an anteroposterior axis. This is very interested, as is the mounting evidence that they once had Hox and ParaHox clusters. Sponges might be secondarily simplified.


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From time to time, a document circulates, accusing the President of Proctor and Gamble that on a television show he claiming to be part of the Church of Satan.
This document is basically the same every time with just some slight differences to the information therein. The last time we saw this document, the name of the show was changed. What is always evident though, is that there is no information of, who sent it and so you cannot check the document from that end. However, you can check the television show that is mentioned and this is what you will find. There was no such appearance on the show of that date.
The following was cut & pasted from the website FAQ of the show last mentioned, the Sally Jesse Raphael show.
Sally listens: Rumor has it that the president of Procter and Gamble appeared on your show and said that he was associated with the Church of Satan. I would appreciate more information if you have any, perhaps a tape of the show if available. If this is a hoax, please let me know
Sally Sez: The rumor going around that the president of Procter and Gamble appeared on The Sally Show and announced he was a member of the church of Satan is not true. This a hoax that's been going around in one form or another for the past 20 years…only originally, it concerned the Phil Donahue Show…then evolved to the Jenny Jones Show…and now it's evolved to The Sally Show. The president of Procter and Gamble has NEVER appeared on The Sally Show…NEVER. Nor has any other person in authority at P&G. Any president of a multi-national corporation (including the head of P&G or Liz Claiborne) would be immediately fired by the board of directors if he or she did such a thing. Also, profits from any such corporation go to the stockholders…not a church designated by the president. Do not send money in to get a transcript. We do not provide transcripts or video tapes of our shows to the public. Frankly, this thing has gotten out of hand. If we had this man on our show, and he had said what it's alleged he said, we would have scored a broadcasting scoop and would have trumpeted it to all the newspapers. It would have been to the show's advantage. But there was no scoop, and there were no headlines.
According to Proctor & Gamble, the rumor you refer to started almost 20 years ago and is totally false.
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Seated Boy, Book in Lap, 1900s.
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Man In Driving Gear, 1900s.
Man in fur-collared, double-breasted driving coat, driving cap, with a pair of gloves in his hands. Appears 1900s. Photo by C.M. Howe, Erskine, MN.
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From a real-photo postcard, early 1900s. The reverse had a message written in Norwegian, but had never been mailed.
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On April 1 1905, railwaymen around the world were pleased to find this issue of Street Railway Journal waiting for them. The magazine contains news and photos regarding municipal electric railways, such as trolleycars -- none of that high-falootin' long-distance steam railroading here!
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Where's the rest of the magazine? I'm in the process of scanning it; it'll be available here, and via LuLu like the Fallout Shelter booklet.
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Last week's postcard got a lot of attention thanks to SPS (nsfw), so here's card #2. This appears to hail from the same time-period, but isn't postmarked or dated like the previous card. The top line says, "Quotation From Scripture", and the bottom reads, "So fear those who slaughter the body and the soul." Like a bull to slaughterhouse (porážka), a child is taken in for religious education (škola klerikálni). The blindfold on the bull is used to keep it calm when leading it to slaughter; the child is also being taken 'blindfold to the abattoir,' oblivious to the harm approaching. Even without understanding Czech, the image is powerful without the direct accusation of destroying body and soul.
The quote isn't right, though; I compared to several Czech translations available online, and the quote is similar to Matthew 10:28, which says not to fear enemies who can destroy the body, instead fear what God can do to your soul in Hell. By changing word-placement, the maker of this card accuses the clergy of making a Hell on earth for students left in their care.
I've read up a bit more on what group would be so critical of the church to produce these editorial cartoons so publicly. At the time, turn-of-the-20th-century, the Freethinkers were a prominent group in Czech life, growing from Bohemia and anti-Hapsburg sentiment. The Czech regions, ruled by Austria, were made Catholic states, and popular sentiment began to turn anti-church by the mid-19th century. The Hapsburgs rule ended, and the regions gained more autonomy through the end of the 19th century. Marxism and socialism were developing as social, non-governmental movements, the Freethought movement was very popular amongst the religion-suspicious populous. These postcards were popular-sentiment status quo for the young independent, Bohemian Czech Republic.
I'm not sure how these children relate to the grumps in this photo from last week, But they seem to share a venue and photographer. It's the same (or very similar) venue, a folded sheet of some sort hung as a backdrop, with a dirt floor. The kids' footing is improved by adding a reed mat on the ground for this photo, but it didn't improve the children's attitudes. Little Gunther looks like he's about to cry, and the photographer is lucky Marta can't actually start fires with her mind even though she's trying really, really hard.
The style of dress is of a similar period as the previous photo, but a bit more formal: all white may signify some religious event is taking place (baptism, first communion, etc.), or it could be that their church-clothes are the nicest outfits they have to put on for a photographer.
I bought a couple of these interesting postcards at a antique show recently. The drawings caught my eye, but the messages on them are a bit more striking as I've been figuring out what they say. They date from the very early 20th century -- this one from 1909 -- and they are all blatantly anti-religious, focusing on Christianity. This one doesn't directly target the church itself, but the followers. The phrase "strach před smrtî", as closely as I can translate, means "The fear of death." To believe in something solely over fear of your eternal soul, the producer of this card believes, is a poor choice for faith. I'm still researching the postcards' origins: they seem too early to be Communist, but religious opposition had many sources in that period. I should know a little more as I get to the other cards in the future.
Oh, my -- I know kids hate to get dressed up, but the dress clothes of today pale in comparison to the kids of the early 1900s. That sailor suit on the right? It would cause a riot among modern kids. The photo appears to me to be from a travelling photographer; the ground is dirt and grass, the chair is simple (probably recruited from the nearest building), and the backdrop is simple. Despite the outdoors, the camera is of a vintage without a speedy shutter, resulting in some blurriness. It could, however, also be an attempt to emulate a more expensive photo studio by hanging a sheet over the washline and getting the kids dressed up to the tees. Either way, the kids weren't happy about it.


02:03 Corner kick by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso [02:03].
02:09 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Nicole Starkey-Cox, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
02:19 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, Wide Right.
04:17 Corner kick by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso [04:17].
06:55 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, Wide Left.
07:25 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso, Wide Left.
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14:32 Corner kick by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso [14:32].
14:50 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Abby Silva for Liz Stearns.
15:36 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
17:36 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Abby Silva, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
19:41 Offside against UMass Dartmouth.
20:54 Shot by Plymouth State Leah Swanson, Wide Left.
22:04 Corner kick by Plymouth State Hannah Kallis [22:04].
25:57 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Courtney Hewitt for Catrina Longo.
26:47 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
27:55 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Kate Dasey for Sophie Brisere.
27:55 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Taylor Wright for Leah Swanson.
27:55 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Sabrina Sweeney for Amy Luther.
29:06 Offside against UMass Dartmouth.
29:54 Offside against UMass Dartmouth.
30:06 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Sabrina Costa for Maddie McGee-Cochran.
31:37 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Jenna O'Malley for Naomi Kramer.
32:30 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
33:50 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Baily Dowling for Erica Farias.
34:06 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Kat Holmes for Caitlin Johnson.
34:39 Offside against UMass Dartmouth.
36:52 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Rebecca Simpson for Lucy Jensen.
38:03 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Abby Silva, Wide Left.
39:50 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Abby Silva, Blocked.
44:05 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso, Wide Left.
45:20 Shot by Plymouth State Hannah Kallis, Save (by goalie) Madison Boucher.
46:25 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Baily Dowling, Blocked.
48:02 Shot by Plymouth State Leah Swanson, Save (by goalie) Madison Boucher.
49:36 Shot by Plymouth State Caitlin Catania, Save (by goalie) Madison Boucher.
52:03 Shot by Plymouth State Caitlin Catania, Blocked.
52:15 Shot by Plymouth State Caitlin Catania, Save (by goalie) Madison Boucher.
56:33 Shot by Plymouth State Caitlin Catania, Wide Right.
56:40 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Courtney Hewitt for Baily Dowling.
64:04 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Nicole Starkey-Cox, High.
64:12 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Kate Dasey for Tabitha Josefik.
68:00 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Amy Luther for Naomi Kramer.
68:48 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
71:01 Corner kick by Plymouth State Hannah Kallis [71:01].
72:20 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Lindsey Perkins for Leah Swanson.
73:46 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
74:47 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Naomi Kramer for Hannah Kallis.
75:10 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Jennifer Woehl for Catrina Longo.
76:11 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso, Wide Left.
77:41 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Hannah Kallis for Amy Luther.
78:28 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Jenna O'Malley for Caitlin Johnson.
79:17 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Sabrina Sweeney for Kate Dasey.
79:17 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Abby Silva for Jennifer Woehl.
81:51 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Alyssa Martins, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
82:03 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Emily Crawford for Jenna O'Malley.
83:04 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Talia D'Ambruoso, Save (by goalie) Annaliese Schmidt.
83:21 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Leah Swanson for Lindsey Perkins.
85:55 Offside against UMass Dartmouth.
86:35 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Catrina Longo for Courtney Hewitt.
86:35 Substitution!Plymouth State substitution: Megan Toman for Sabrina Sweeney.
87:36 Corner kick by Plymouth State Hannah Kallis [87:36].
88:42 Shot by UMass Dartmouth Erica Farias, High.
89:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Jennifer Woehl for Abby Silva.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Kayleigh Ellison for Catrina Longo.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Jaimie Nakamura for Talia D'Ambruoso.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Rebecca Simpson for Lucy Jensen.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Liz Stearns for Sarah Pacheco.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Cara Pimentel for Nicole Starkey-Cox.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Sabrina Costa for Erica Hammond.
88:42 Substitution!UMass Dartmouth substitution: Juliana Fleming for Erica Farias.


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LEDCs are Less Economically Developed Countries. Typically, people in LEDCs are farmers. Manufacturing is poorly developed as is the country's infrastructure of roads, rail, electricity, water treatment and sewage disposal. As a result, the standard of living is low, with high death rates, high infant mortality, low levels of literacy and low life expectancies.


Cosmic Radiance Britney Spears™ is an irresistible new fragrance inspired by the dazzling glow of the international music star. Elizabeth Arden turned to Diamond for packaging as captivating as the product.
The overall presentation imparts unusual depth and distinction through innovative design, material selection, printing, and embossing.
The carton features metallized polyester board and intricate embossing accents. The brilliant mirror-like finish of the metallized polyester film makes it a perfect choice for conveying the radiant graphics.
The carton was offset printed with four color process, black, transparent gold, transparent pink, flexo white, and opaque white inks, in-line with low-fingerprint UV gloss coating.
Transparent gold ink enhances the embossed logo and text at the bottom of the front panel and reinforces Cosmic Radiance as an upscale brand.
Distinctive black and white embossed jewels radiate outward from the center to the side panels, supporting the product's tagline "Be the brightest star in the universe", and beautifully complementing the perfume bottle (primary container) – also decorated with black and white jewels.
The result is a strikingly visual and tactile presentation that stands out in the crowded retail environment.


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Let's indulge in the concept of non-formal mathematics
Math Reality Project is seeking to transfer non-formal math scenarios and activities into the virtual world, primarily through the creation of virtual reality tools which will be applied in parallel with the official math curricula in all the six partner countries, namely France, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Croatia and Romania.
Accordingly, before the official launch of the virtual tools, which will arise as a part of the project derivatives and which will be free of charge for anyone who would be willing to use them, let's indulge in the concept of non-formal mathematics; inasmuch, by indulging in the term of non-formal mathematics, one would be capable of comprehending in depth the alternative way in which Math Reality's VR tools will be approaching mathematical theories and concepts.
Let's start by providing the official definition of the term; according to Coombs, Prosser and Ahmed (1973) who had been of the firsts who attempted to approach the concept, non-formal education refers to any "educational activity organised outside the formal system and designed to serve identifiable clientele and educational objectives".
Consequently, non-formal education has several of the inherent characteristics of formal education, as they both share a commitment to learning and knowledge acquisition, thus being developed according to methodologically designed curriculum and scientifically sound resources. However, there are many points of non-convergence; the most obvious is the fact that formal education takes place in a school building, while non-formal education occurs in any place that belongs to a community, without any limitations in terms of spatial nor temporal axes.
Non-formal education could be developmentally beneficial in various ways. As Van Horn, Flanagan and Thomson first claimed (1998), non-formal education promotes the experiential learning, the privilege of personal choice and it scatters different types of interpersonal relationships. Through the structured assignment of work, such as creative tasks and activities, young people, but also adults, are encouraged to take decisions related to the mode of working they prefer to be led to the successful absorption of knowledge, thus feeling flexible to extensively investigate their abilities and some of their emerging interests.
It is also proven that non-formal education has a beneficial influence in basic pillars that are interwoven with youth's and adults' life: such as personal development; reinforcement of active citizenship; abatement of unemployability, and; formation of more human societies.
The effective teaching of mathematics includes the use of various teaching methods. There is a consensus that certain methods such as problem-based learning, investigation and contextualization are particularly effective in achieving results and improving students' attitudes towards mathematics. Although most central authorities in Europe say they provide some guidance on how to teach mathematics, there is a need to strengthen support for methods that encourage active student participation and critical thinking.
At present, many studies reaffirm the idea that non-formal mathematics can provide a basis on which learners can rely to build more sophisticated mathematical knowledge; the classroom activities should allow the learner to experiment with a plurality of mathematical situations, tools and concepts that make explicit the links between the mathematics of everyday life and those developed in school.
With non-formal mathematics, the learner is at the heart of learning: he discovers, manipulates and models. They can be based on individual and group learning as part of an overall collective approach, they are participatory and learner-based, they are action and experience-based.
Non-formal mathematics can therefore demystify math in order to give it a taste from an early age and, therefore, encourage STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) to contribute to the economic development of our countries.
If you are a math/science educator or student and you would like to learn more about various ramifications of non-formal mathematics, stay tuned with "Math Reality" website, as well as with the official communication channels; we will very soon launch the finalised version of our Pedagogical Guide "VR for Mathematics". The guide, specifically customized for math/stem educators, but also easily readable for anyone who is interested in such topics, will be elaborating on the following:
The Non-Formal Approach of teaching Mathematics
What's the non-formal approach of teaching mathematics; tools for learning in non-formal education; successful examples of non-formal tools related to mathematics which could be incorporated to the official math curricula; how to DIY Non-Formal Math.
Integrating VR Technology into the Non-Formal Approach of Teaching Mathematics
Modern technological innovations that are currently being used; new perspectives and possibilities that VR Technology could bring to mathematical non-formal scenarios.
Pedagogical aspects of VR technology
What makes a VR Math tool pedagogical; properties and criteria; the most powerful VR Math tools/games that are currently being used within different educational contexts.
Practicalities of using combined non-formal approach and VR technological innovations for mathematics in the classroom:
A practical guide on how to create lesson scenarios:
How to select the topic along with the mathematical concept(s)?
Which topics-concepts are suitable and why?
How to embed the topic along with the math concept into a non-formal scenario?
How to introduce innovative technologies and already existing VR Math applications into the non-formal scenario you have created?
Media and Techniques which could reinforce the educational process
A practical guide on how to create a progress timeline:
Possibilities that the educator has as regards the structure of the lesson (lesson plan) that includes VR technologies and the order of presenting all the material which contains VR applications
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Blaming the victims: threats to the Roma in France0
Reports on child abductions spreading on social media lead to the attack of Roma communities in France in March 2019. Following these, the reports and rumours proved to be unfounded and the police and city authorities in Paris warned against sharing false information and inciting to violence.
The EU-US trade negotiation is the ultimate test for EU climate goals0
On Monday, 15 April the Council decided to adopt the negotiating directives for trade talks with the United States on a Free Trade Agreement. Now concerns are raised regarding the US administrations departure from its commitments to combat climate change envisaged in the Paris Agreement. On the other hand, supporters of the FTA argue that due to the current state of international trade it would be important to reach such an agreement to avoid further escalation. However, when it comes to trade the EU has failed to observe its climate commitments as part of negotiating schedules, questioning its willingness to be in the forefront of the fight against climate change.
Why the rule of law link to EU funds is unlikely to make a real difference0
EU Governance and Politics, Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
The emphasis on rule of law in the next EU budget framework (2021-2027) is a first step in addressing the risk of corruption in the Visegrad Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). It is likely that a soft coercive mechanism will be chosen in on-going negotiations due to its political soundness and will not be effective in targeting the corruption cycle as a whole.
The 500 Euro banknote nightmare
Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
Justice denied: Voiceless in Guantanamo
That is my name! - The battle for the name Macedonia
Blaming the victims: threats to the Roma in France
The EU-US trade negotiation is the ultimate test for EU climate goals
Why the rule of law link to EU funds is unlikely to make a real difference


Born and raised in picturesque Normandy, David grew up in his family's restaurant, where a passion for food and good produce, handed down for generations and generations, was virtually everywhere. Watching his mother cook and learning his family's secret recipes fuelled David's growing passion for cooking. 'From Normandy to London, Paris and St Barths, my journeys inspired my skills and passion for food' he says. Only using local produce and his unparalleled skills, David is a perfect choice for enjoying first-class meals in the comfort of your own home.
David is in connection with St Barth's premium butchers and fishermen to deliver only the best products to his clients. From breakfast to lunch and dinner, your private chef will prepare delicious meals bearing in mind your preferences and allergies if any. Further to this, David has five three course gourmet menus from which to choose from, inspired by his travels and expertise: the 'St Barths menu', a celebration of our island's resources, the 'Asian Influence menu', inspired by the wonders of the Far East, the 'Sunset menu', fusion food at its best with influences from Spain, the 'Caribbean menu', perfect for discovering the diverse culinary heritage of the West Indies, and finally the 'Mediterranean menu', an ode to the fresh products of everyone's favorite sea.


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'Pheeyownah' - new track 'Silver'
We wrote about Swedish songwriter Sara Forslund yesterday whom we welcomed back after a 2 years absence, and the situation is similar with Swedish / Ugandan artist 'Pheeyownah' who recently returned after a similar break since her 'Zero09Zero09' EP in 2016.
We haven't featured 'Pheeyownah' before, she's the recording name of 'Fiona Naluzzi' a songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who had released EPs on her own label before her 2016 release on Labrador Records, who are also releasing her latest single.
Now we don't feature that many releases in this Indie Electro / R&B style, but 'Silver' is a startling track which seems to generate its own power through the heavy and hazy backdrop of bass and beats. Through the mist 'Pheeyownah's' vocals emerge with this hypnotic authority, and the whole effect is captivating as well as slightly unsettling - and I mean that in a positive interesting way. I don't think I've heard anything quite like it, I love the way the track builds with the intensity of sounds and I just really love the vocals throughout.
This is 'Silver':
Hopefully this is the start of the path towards an album release for 'Pheeyownah', as that was certainly the original intention, and you can keep track of her progress in the following places:
www.pheeyownah.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Pheeyownah/
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Nordic Music Review is a small independent UK based website, which aims to find the best new (and old…) music from the Nordic Regions, and try and bring it to your attention. Whilst our primary aim is to try and raise awareness in the UK of great Nordic Artists and Bands, we're delighted that so many music lovers from Nordic countries themselves have taken to reading us, so thank you.
Please visit our 'Contact' page if you are an Artist / Band with a music submission for us to listen to. Although it is not possible to feature everything sent to us, we do listen to everything and try to cover a wide range of music styles.
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Sterling Court's residents enjoy lunch and dinner every day served in a restaurant-style environment. A large menu provides for a variety of tastes and dietary needs. Many healthy alternates are always available.
Sterling Court has a private dining room for residents to entertain guests with full restaurant services. Meals are served in an elegant setting and the waiters will really impress your friends.
After dinner, guests can retire to the formal living room to relax and chat by the fireplace.
Special dining requests for you and/or your guests are no problem. Just let us know in advance.
Sterling Court has a fresh new menu every day. We don't simply repeat the same old boring meals every few weeks! For lunch and dinner, you have a choice of a gourmet entree every day and we always have baked chicken, baked fish, or hamburgers available as well. Along with every meal comes an assortment of beverages including wine, beer, and fresh juices.
All meals are adjusted to your liking or to dietary needs.


Steve has worked for the National Park for nearly ten years. Based in Abergavenny he is responsible for the public rights of way in the most South/Easterly region of the Park, an area close to where he has lived all his life. He works closely with partners at the Blaenavon World Heritage Site and manages various volunteer groups. Steve is particularly interested in moorland habitat management and is a licensed bird ringer with the British Trust for Ornithology. He is also interested in rare breed sheep and currently owns a small flock of the Hebridean breed.
He feels that through guided walks we can share knowledge and make friends with similarly minded people in the most fabulous environment that is Monmouthshire and the Brecon Beacons National Park.


This year has already seen two major announcements coming out of the payments industry, each heralding a different trend set to transform how we pay for things. The announcements pertain to two new payments methods, one likely to take hold within the US, the other likely to catch on outside North America – each uses biometric fingerprint authentication technology, but applies the technology in two different ways.
Last week Google announced the debut of Google Pay, a payment service that will combine Google's two digital wallets, Android Pay and Google Wallet, into one product. Digital wallets, like Gemalto's smart cards, utilize both biometric technology and near-field communication (NFC) – that is, the tech allowing two devices like your phone and a payments terminal to carry out contactless payments transactions when close. Payments using digital wallets like Google Pay and Apple Pay, however, are made through your phone, not your card. And whereas the Gemalto announcement might signal a new era of biometric smartcards outside the US, Google's announcement may portend the age of Americans paying for everything with their smartphones.
"In-card biometric technology is more likely to proliferate in countries outside of North America where chip and pin are often used. Because chip and sign is the norm in North America, we believe biometric authentication will be done using the existing contactless-NFC infrastructure via technologies like Apple Pay and Google Pay", says industry expert Drew Sementa, CEO of Tidal Commerce, a merchant solutions and payment processing company focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses grow.