Obesity rates among North American youth are a public health concern (Roberts, Shields, de Groh, Aziz & Gilbert, 2012; Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2012). Previous research findings show strong statistical evidence that televised food advertisements are associated with adiposity among children and youth (ages 2-18 years old) (Institute of Medicine, 2006). In recent years, food and beverage companies have started utilizing newer forms of media including social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to promote products to youth with potential ripple effects on their food-related choices. However, there is currently a lack of research conducted on the topic of food marketing to youth via social media. The aim of this research study was to examine the marketing techniques used by food marketers to market food and beverage products to youth using social media. Another purpose of the study was to determine how youth who are exposed to food marketing on social media respond to these marketing campaigns and how they influence their peers. Data were collected from a sample of food and beverage companies that were part of the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative which were deemed to be most popular based on numbers of likes, tweets and views on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, respectively. Written messages, images and screenshots from videos posted by food companies and consumer posts were collected from food company social media sites. Data analysis resulted in development of a number of themes including: Critical Consumer, Consumer as Co-consumer, Food Brand Promotes Emotions, Food Product Associated with Social Activity, Food Brand Associated with Cool Lifestyle, and Health Appeal. Implications of the findings include development of health promotion programs and social policies that aim to mitigate the negative impact of social media food marketing directed at youth. Although social media has provided a marketing advantage for food marketers, youth consumers may also benefit from food companies use of social media, since it provides youth with an opportunity to communicate with food companies and their peers. Social media food marketing also allows youth to engage in social activist efforts directly on food company social media pages.


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The Arabs and Iran
September 21, 2010 Topic: Grand StrategyMilitary StrategyRogue States Region: IsraelEgyptIranJordanIraqLebanonPalestinian territoriesSyriaQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab Emirates Tags: CounterterrorismGulf WarInsurgencyIslamismWar On TerrorismWar In AfghanistanIslam
Do Arab governments want to see a military attack on Iran?
by Shibley Telhami
Regardless of Arab public opinion, governments in the Arab world remain largely authoritarian, with a demonstrated capacity to go against their public sentiment on critical issues, such as war. To be sure, there are always consequences for ignoring public opinion—and these may be growing—but when push comes to shove, governments have been able to disregard their publics when the stakes are important enough. The question is therefore: how do Arab governments think about the Iran issue, including the prospects of an American or an Israeli attack on Iran?
The first thing to note is that there is no unified Arab government position. Although, with the exception of Syria, most are suspicious of Iran and worry about rising Iranian power and influence, the degree of concern varies, and the sources of concern vary even more. Even in the case of Syria, where Iran is seen for the foreseeable future as a strategic partner, the Syrian government, a secular Arab nationalist government, is not naturally comfortable with the Islamic regime in Tehran. This much is clear (and is the basis of the prevailing conventional wisdom in Washington): most Arab governments would like Iranian power trimmed, with some supporting a potential attack on its nuclear facilities by either Israel or the United States.
But Arab governments' calculations cover a broad spectrum and are based on assessments on several issues: the impact of an attack on their own security (and longevity) particularly in the short to intermediate term; the impact on the regional balance of power, which includes the impact on Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict; the impact on domestic politics (and in some places this also means the Sunni-Shiite divide); the impact on broader Arab regional and global influence; and the impact on Iraq's future. The weight of each issue varies across the Arab world, partly as a function of proximity to Iran or to the Arab-Israeli arena, partly as a function of internal demographics, and partly as a function of size and aspirations.
One has to put Iraq aside for the moment, since its politics are still unsettled, and the United States will remain there for the foreseeable future. Iran's small neighbors all have concerns about growing Iranian power in the region and Iran's influence in Iraq itself, and about their ramifications for regional security and for their own domestic politics, especially in places like Bahrain, where the Sunni-Shiite divide could become a bigger issue. Saudi Arabia too has its own worries about Iran, the nature of its government, and its growing power. But no one is as concerned as the United Arab Emirates, which is not only a close neighbor but also claims sovereignty over three islands that Iran controls. Even among these countries with close proximity to Iran, however, there are differences on how to deal with the perceived Iranian threats, including potential nuclear weapons.
Their publics may see the United States as a bigger threat than Iran, but governments of Iran's small Arab neighbors see the United States as protecting them from Iran, particularly after the decline of Iraq. Even Qatar, which has maintained good relations with Iran, at the end of the day is an American ally; it hosts a large American base—not Iranian troops. The differences are all about available options and the prospects of their success. And this is central in calculations of the possible use of force by either Israel or the United States to attack Iran's nuclear program.
If the assessment is that there would be a limited war that does not expand to their countries and disrupt their comfortable lives, and that the war would end by destroying Iran's nuclear weapons potential, weakening Iran's influence, and better yet, lead to regime change in Iran—supporting war would be a no-brainer for most of them. If on the other hand, there is a high risk that the war would not be short, that Iran would still be able to develop a nuclear-weapons capability and also acquire an interest in disrupting their lives (particularly if American forces operate from within their borders), the calculations will be different. With the exception of Saudi Arabia, these states are all small states concentrated on the Gulf, and are particularly exposed to potentially destructive attacks. If, in addition, they have to be concerned that a protracted war between the United States and Iran may lead to American overextension and American public pressure to pull forces from the region, thus leaving them to deal with Iranian wrath on their own, their preference will be to avoid war. Gulf Arab states are not all of the same mind on assessing the consequences of war and, therefore, on supporting that option.
There is a big strategic picture that matters to Arab elites, especially those with a strong Arab identity and in states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia where there is an expectation of regional leadership and of an enhanced global role. There is no escaping the current sentiment that overall Arab influence has diminished and that all non-Arab states in the region—Iran, Israel, and Turkey—have grown in power—particularly since the Iraq war. While governments in the region are first and foremost driven by what's good for them, they also face a public, including elites, that places more emphasis on transnational identity, whether Muslim or Arab, than on state identity. This means nuclear power not only has strategic value but also symbolic weight. And Arab governments would have to deal with the sense that Arabs are falling further behind.
They also worry about Israel's regional hegemony and, whatever cost there is in terms of public face, Arabs may still view Iran's potential to acquire nuclear weapon as added pressure on Israel, making it more likely its government will need Arab support.
Ideally, they would like to see the Middle East turn into a nuclear-free zone, with no Israeli or Iranian bombs. But it is also clear that the potential Iranian nuclear weapons have helped them make a stronger case for such a zone, assisting Egypt to secure what was seen as a foreign policy achievement when it successfully lobbied last May, in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, for taking up the issue of turning the Middle East into a nuclear free zone in 2012, with American backing.
This perspective also gives a different view of a possible Israeli (sans America) attack on Iran. An Israeli success would be a mixed blessing: Iran would be weakened, but Israel would emerge even stronger. On the other hand, Israel would then be engaged in a real conflict with Iran bound to last for the long term, regardless of the government in power. Whereas, at the moment, the conflict between Israel and Iran remains primarily ideological; war would create a deeper divide. The negative turn in Turkish-Israeli relations, particularly since the Gaza war in 2008, has oddly left Israel dependent particularly on its relations with Egypt, for creating some regional balance. To be sure, Israel continues to rely primarily on the backing of the United States and on its own military capacities, but it has always been mindful of maintaining regional friends. A war with Iran would jeopardize that leverage in the long term.
Taken to an extreme, a protracted Israeli-Iranian conflict (that did not draw in other Arab states) would be seen by many in the region in the same way that the protracted Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s was seen by Israel: two powerful and feared countries weakening each other—in this case, with strategic benefits for the Arab states.
The trouble is that it is hard to envision a war scenario that does not impact Arabs in the region, directly or indirectly—just as it is hard to envision an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities that does not draw in the United States. For states like Egypt, Jordan, or Morocco, the Iranian threat is not a direct military threat. What they fear most is Iranian influence, in the region, broadly, and in their own internal politics. In particular, they worry about the success and popularity of the militant narrative that Iran sells, and its support for groups they oppose, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, far more than they worry about the number of Iranian troops, or the number of Iranian weapons. And it is for this reason that these states see a connection between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the degree of Iranian influence: diplomatic failure sells militancy, and conflicts like the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war and the Gaza war in 2008 make Hezbollah and Hamas more popular in Arab countries. That is why they emphasize Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy as a way of curbing Iranian influence.
In theory, Iranian influence, and the militant narrative would suffer if either Israel or the U.S. were to carry out an attack on Iran that succeeds with minimal spill-over. But it is hard to see how any attack, whether undertaken initially by the United State or by Israel, does not ultimately involve the United States, and therefore Arab states, by virtue of the presence of American troops on Arab soil, and the logistical support that the United States will require in any military effort.

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4Cs offers Child Care and Early Education Providers trainings and workshops that provide child development education along with various related subjects. These informative trainings and workshops are enjoyable by way of discussions and activities. Trainings and workshops are designed to enhance the provision of quality child care. Trainings and workshops are offered in English and Spanish.
Register On-line in the Event Calendar below.
The first three years of life are a period of incredible growth. Learn how the earliest relationships with caregivers can promote healthy development. It starts with Responsive Caregiving. Responsive care is the process of watching and tuning into a child's cues, thinking about what they might mean, and then responding to them in a sensitive way. Knowing a child's temperament, and stage of development will help you guide them and support their growth.
Presented by: Jeanette Bellerive M.A.
Los proveedores aprenderán a implementar las prácticas de atención basadas en relaciones que no son algo que se hace una vez y luego se olvida. Aprenderán cómo aumentar el enfoque en la calidad de la relación cuidadora-niño. Cómo trabajar con los niños en el desarrollo social emocional. Los proveedores también aprenderán a continuar el proceso que requiere actualizaciones para el desarrollo profesional, las políticas y los procedimientos con el fin de comunicar a los padres y al personal la importancia de cambiar hacia un modelo que valore la continuidad de la atención.
The first three years of life are a period of incredible growth in all areas of a baby's development, but most dramatically within an infant's brain. Throughout the first 3 years, an infant's brain creates hundreds of trillions of connections, or synapses. In this workshop we will explore the structure of brain development including how infants are "wired" for learning.
Los tres primeros años de vida son un período de increíble crecimiento en todas las áreas de desarrollo del bebé, especialmente en el cerebro. A lo largo de los 3 primeros años, el cerebro de un bebé crea cientos de billones de conexiones, o sinapsis. En este taller vamos a explorar la estructura y desarrollo del cerebro incluyendo cómo los bebés nacen para aprender.
Come and gather information about the resources available to families and child care providers in Santa Clara County. Listen to presentations from Community Organizations. Learn about the Subsidized Child Care System, Community Care Licensing and Community Based Organizations who support Child Care Providers and Parents. Gather resources and tips to use and share. Presentations will be in English and resources will be provided in multiple languages.
The Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework is a national and international initiative that aims to develop and enhance five specific characteristics (called protective factors) that help keep families strong and children safe from abuse and neglect. A protective factor is a characteristic that makes a parent, child or family more likely to thrive and less likely to experience a negative outcome.
Resilience, simply defined, means the ability to recover from difficult life experiences, and often to be strengthened by and even transformed by those experiences. Resilient parents have empathy for themselves and others and are able to keep a positive attitude, solve problems creatively and take life's events in stride.
Social connections help families stay strong, get through the hard times and enjoy family life. Families can have many different types of social connections that provide different types of support. Positive social connections can provide support when you need it, help you deal with stress and illness, are a positive influence and bring out the best in you.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation defines successful families as those who have their basic needs met. They have economic security, housing, health care and other necessary resources in place. They also have some form of education or skill and are connected to family, neighbors, co-workers or friends. This course examines how providers can help support families and help connect them to others who can provide the support they need.
Parents who have some knowledge of basic child development are likely to have more realistic expectations of their children. With that knowledge, parents are better able to provide an appropriate amount of nurturing, supervision, and guidance. When parents understand their roles in their children's lives and learn about specific parenting techniques and strategies, they can form positive relationships with their children and have options for appropriate responses to typical child behaviors.
This protective factor is the only one that addresses issues with children. The other protective factors are intended to "speak to parents" and offer suggestions and strategies for how they can strengthen their families.
This workshop will provide vital information from the California State Disaster Plan, concentrating on Child Care Health and Safety Preparedness. You will gain knowledge of your responsibility and the steps to take before, during and after a disaster occurs.
Este taller proporcionará información vital del plan de emergencia del estado de California – el cuidado de niño salud y seguridad – Preparación del plan de Desastres de EEUU. Tendrá conocimiento de su responsabilidad y los pasos a seguir antes, durante y después de que un desastre ocurre .


This echos what I see with my own kids. They have become so accustomed to the DVR and AppleTV that they think of Live Television as something foreign.
Even at 5 years old, my daughter still struggles to understand why I can't just fast forward through all the commercials to get to the good stuff.
TV Broadcasters take note. The next generation has no patience for your 3 minute blocks of annoying commercials at ear-splitting volumes. Find a better solution now, or you'll be relegated to the scrap pile like the newspaper and radio industries.


To all of our students that receive PBIS awards! We are so proud of you! For example, as an award, students are able to pick from extra recess, acting lessons, lunch with the Principal, MakerSpace, etc. One student picked learning to sew as a skill, and others picked learning to decorate cupcakes using piping tools. Stay tuned for more pictures, each month.


Students, activists, and labour movement leaders are sounding the alarm about the devastating impact the Ford government's plans for post-secondary education will have on the system's accessibility and democracy.
On Jan. 17, the Ford government announced it was – ostensibly – taking three major steps towards ensuring affordability of post-secondary education. It will lower tuition fees by 10 per cent at every publicly-funded college and university in Ontario, give students "more choice" over the fees they pay, and "restore financial sustainability" to OSAP, the Ontario Student Assistance Program.
According to CFS, the government's announcement includes a guaranteed four per cent cut to institutional funding, a reduction to needs-based grants, an increase in student loans, and the elimination of the six-month grace period for loan repayment and interest accumulation.
CFS estimates that colleges and universities will face combined funding cuts of up to $440 million annually, which is expected to result in larger class sizes, fewer course options, and downward pressure on workers' wages and benefits.
The Ford government is also changing the definition of 'dependent' from being four years out of high school to six. This means higher education will become less accessible for mature students, since students' parents' income will be part of the OSAP assessment for loans and grants even if those students are living independently.
Graduate students and students in professional programs like medicine and law will be denied grants and forced to rely entirely on loans.
Labour leaders also weighed in on the government's plans.
"We will also take action to defend the autonomy of students' unions because we understand that students' unions, like labour unions, are democratically controlled by their members and should be free from government interference," Hahn added.
Conservatives have campaigned for years on university campuses to attack student unions and defund student-funded groups like CFS and OPIRG, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group. OPIRG is a decentralized network of campus-based groups that work locally for social and environmental justice through research and popular education, community organizing, and direct advocacy.
Although right-wing students were able to take over the undergraduate student union at Carleton University in 2012, successive campaigns to eliminate OPIRG and CFS from the campus through democratic referendums were defeated. A similar campaign at Queen's University succeeded in defunding their OPIRG in 2012.
Conservatives seem to have now seized this moment of provincial power for a top-down implementation of these strategies to attack, undermine, and ultimately destroy progressive forces on campus.
Numerous groups in addition to CFS and OPIRG operate on campuses across the province, based on student fees implemented through a referendum process, typically ranging from the $1-7 range. These include Pride and disability awareness centres, sexual violence support centres, food banks, and peer support programs.
Not every student uses every service but, collectively, this broad array of student-run groups enriches the academic experience and provides valuable services otherwise not offered to students and, for that matter, the broader community.
This includes student media, such as community radio stations and newspapers – like The Leveller, dear reader.
All of these will become optional under the Ford government's plan.
The national representative for CFS-Ontario, Sami Pritchard, agreed. "Students' unions are the independent, democratic voice for students ensuring they may have a say in their own education," she said in a statement.
"Students, through their students' unions, have long fought for government action on accessible, affordable high quality public post-secondary education, so it's no wonder they are the next target of the Ford government," Pritchard added.
CFS also pointed out that average student union dues are only about $100 per year and are used to "advocate for students' best interests and provide cost-savings services." Dues are established democratically by student union members.
Among other services, student unions provide health and dental insurance plans, transit passes, peer support programs, academic advocacy, orientation programming, volunteer and job opportunities, and non-profit commercial services – such as cafes, restaurants, and bookstores – on campuses where students have limited choices.
Activists are planning to hold a rally on Jan. 21 to oppose Ford's measures. One of the rally's organizers, identified as Carolyn S., told The Leveller that collective grassroots action was necessary to stop the Ford government's cuts to post-secondary education.


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La Military Medal (abbreviato MM) è stata fino al 1993 una decorazione militare di cui potevano essere insigniti tutti i sottufficiali appartenenti alle Forze Armate britanniche e, originariamente, anche quelli dei Paesi del Commonwealth per il coraggio dimostrato sul campo di battaglia.

Storia
La medaglia fu istituita il 25 marzo 1916. Questa decorazione era l'equivalente della Military Cross, che invece poteva essere assegnata solamente agli ufficiali o ai Warrant Officers, sebbene questi ultimi potessero ricevere anche la Military Medal e sebbene la Military Medal, in ordine di precedenza, venisse subito dopo la Military Cross, come del resto accadeva per i sottufficiali decorati della Distinguished Conduct Medal, che erano differenziati dagli ufficiali insigniti dell'equivalente Distinguished Service Order.
Coloro che ricevevano la Military Medal era autorizzati a usare le lettere post-nominali "MM".
Nel 1993, la Military Medal fu soppressa e da allora la Military Cross fu resa accessibile ai soldati di ogni grado.

Descrizione
La medaglia consiste in un cerchio d'argento di 36mm di diametro. Il dritto mostra l'effigie del monarca regnante al momento del conferimento. Il rovescio mostra la scritta su quattro righe "FOR BRAVERY IN THE FIELD" (Per il coraggio sul campo), circondata da una corona d'alloro e sormontata dal monogramma reale e dalla Corona imperiale.
Il nastrino ha lo sfondo blu ed è largo 1,25 pollici (3,175 cm) con cinque strisce verticali uguali allineate verso il centro che sono, in ordine, di colore bianco, rosso, bianco, rosso e bianco.

Personaggi famosi insigniti dell'onorificenza
Ci sono più di 135.000 persone che hanno ricevuto la Military Medal. Alcuni di essi sono personalità conosciute come:
 Jack Cock, calciatore inglese.
 James McCudden, il pilota più decorato dell'intera prima guerra mondiale.
 Andy McNab (pseudonimo), ex-membro dello Special Air Service e scrittore.
 Chris Ryan (pseudonimo), ex-membro dello Special Air Service e scrittore.

Voci correlate
 Distinguished Conduct Medal
 Distinguished Service Order
 Onorificenza

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Medaglie militari britanniche

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I have a client who is trying to follow a Udemy course which uses a template from 2014 with the Jgive component.
I have tried with different templates and the jQuery error does not appear, so it must be template related.
The page is located here although it does require registration to view the page - please feel free to register if need be, or if the error in the code is obvious, please let me know and I'll correct it and post back.
I have updated to Joomla 3.7.2 to see if the issue fixes itself but it does not unfortunately.
you need to load jQuery before the code you pasted is run, which is done automatically by most modern templates.
if you still face errors after this it may be due to the code requiring an older jQuery, look here for a complete list.
An alternative and possibly easier way to achieve this is to install a plugin that will do it for you, for example jQuery easy.


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We're currently seeking a Publishing Assistant: an enthusiastic, adaptable new member of the team to contribute to all aspects of our publishing activity. This is an exciting opportunity to gain varied experience at the UK's leading specialist theatre publisher.
Applications are now open until 22 February. For more information – including the full job description, person specification and how to apply – visit our Jobs page. Thanks, and good luck!
Please note that the NHB office is now closed for the festive period, and will open again on Tuesday 2 January.
Our website remains open for print orders, but any orders placed will not be processed until Monday 8 January. If you require your books sooner, please try an alternative retailer.
If your enquiry is urgent or if you require ebook support, please email us as this is being checked intermittently - we will do our best to help and we will get back to you as soon as we can. In the meantime, if you need help with any ebook issues, please take a look over our ebooks help page.
Thanks, and have a Merry Christmas!
The anthology is published on 25 January, and is available to pre-order now.
VAULT Festival is London's biggest and boldest annual arts festival. The 2018 event runs 24 January - 18 March 2018 at The Vaults, Waterloo, London. There'll be over three hundred new shows, plus new venues, new bars, new food and plenty of surprises – see more on the VAULT Festival website.
The winners of this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced yesterday (Sunday 3 December), with NHB plays and authors triumphing across a range of categories.
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth was the night's big winner, scooping Best Play, Best Director (Sam Mendes) and the Emerging Talent Award (Tom Glynn-Carney). in this thunderous drama, set in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1981, the Carney family's traditional harvest celebrations are interrupted by the arrival of a visitor, whose shocking news threatens to unravel all they've built. First seen at the Royal Court earlier this year, the play is currently running at the Gielgud Theatre, where it has recently extended until May 2018.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was honoured with the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for An Octoroon, his dazzlingly inventive comedy which draws on Dion Boucicault's 1859 original melodrama to explore issues about race and identity in America today. After receiving its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, An Octoroon will transfer to the National Theatre in 2018.
Elsewhere, Andrew Garfield is shortlisted for his performance as Prior Walter in the National Theatre's acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America. The production will transfer to Broadway in February 2018.
The winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2017 were announced at a ceremony at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, hosted by actor, Fleabag creator/star and NHB author Phoebe Waller-Bridge. To see the full list of winners, visit the Evening Standard website.
The Papatango New Writing Prize 2018 opened for entries today (1 December), with writers able to submit their script until midnight, 28 February 2018.
The winner of the Prize will develop their play with Papatango over several months, building towards a four week production at Southwark Playhouse in autumn 2018. The script will be published by NHB. The writer will receive a royalty of 10% of the gross box office income. Following the production, the writer will be paid a £6000 commission to create a new play with development support from Papatango.
Entries must be full-length, and an original, unperformed and unproduced piece of work. For further information, including how to submit, visit the Papatango website.
The very best of luck to all entrants, and we can't wait to see what you come up with!
We're delighted to announce that Nick Hern Books is to publish an anthology of the three winning plays in the inaugural Heretic Voices competition.
The plays will be produced with leading actors and directors for performances at the Arcola Theatre from 9-13 January 2018, with all three monologues performed each evening.
Max Gill, Artistic Director of Heretic Productions: 'Our three winning plays stood out to the judges for the belief and conviction each writer showed in their own voice. Their writing is original, honest, and surprising and their handling of the monologue form highly sophisticated. Their words sing on the page but crucially the dramatic tension that thrives at the heart of each means they are begging to be performed.
Nick Hern Books is proud to support the first series of The Miniaturists Podcast – the new audio drama podcast from The Miniaturists, celebrated purveyors of acclaimed shortform drama since 2005.
Each season The Miniaturists will work with five exciting writers to develop a programme of short, stand-alone plays, that will embrace and celebrate shortform in the audio medium. The plays will be released weekly: Episode 1, Stanley Road by Al Smith, was released on 16 November, and is available to listen to via iTunes, SoundCloud and other podcast services.
The first series will also include plays from Camilla Whitehill, Isley Lynn, Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Vinay Patel. The Miniaturists Podcast is produced by Will Bourdillon & James Huntrods, and audio produced & edited by Andy Goddard.
Founded in 2005, The Miniaturists is a group of playwrights and other theatre workers interested in the possibilities of the short play. They stage a regular writer-led event dedicated to short but perfectly formed plays. Their next new writing night, Miniaturists 66, will be held at the Arcola Theatre on Sunday 26 November - see more and book tickets here.
The nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced today (Friday 17 November), with NHB plays and authors featured across the various categories.
Three NHB plays are included on the shortlist for Best Play. In the thought-provoking The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, two ageing nuclear scientists, living in an isolated cottage on the edge of a crumbling world, receive a frightening request from an old friend. The play received its premiere at the Royal Court in November 2016, and a New York transfer opens at the Manhattan Theatre Club on 28 November.
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth is also shortlisted for Best Play. Set in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1981, the Carney family's traditional harvest celebrations are interrupted by the arrival of a visitor, whose shocking news threatens to unravel all they've built. First seen at the Royal Court earlier this year, the play is currently running at the Gielgud Theatre, where it has recently extended until May 2018.
Also nominated for Best Play is Oslo by J. T. Rogers. This darkly funny political thriller about the unlikely forging of the Oslo Accords between Israel and Palestine won the Tony Award for Best New Play when it premiered in New York, and is now playing at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End following a short run at the National Theatre.
Elsewhere, two NHB authors are nominated for the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is shortlisted for An Octoroon, his dazzlingly inventive comedy which draws on Dion Boucicault's 1859 original melodrama to explore issues about race and identity in America today. After receiving its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, An Octoroon will transfer to the National Theatre in 2018.
Also up for Most Promising Playwright is Katherine Soper for her hard-hitting drama Wish List. Winner of the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, this sensitive, delicate and powerful play, which asks what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you, premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, before transferring to the Royal Court.
NHB is represented in other categories, too. NHB author Dominic Cooke is shortlisted for Best Director for his hit production of Follies at the National Theatre – which is also up for Best Musical Performance (Janie Dee). Mike Bartlett's state-of-the-nation drama Albion is included on the shortlists for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress (Victoria Hamilton) and Emerging Talent Award (Luke Thallon); both shortlists also include nods for The Ferryman, with Laura Donnelly and Tom Glynn-Carney nominated respectively.
Finally, Andrew Garfield is shortlisted for his performance as Prior Walter in the National Theatre's acclaimed revival of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America, and Sheila Atim is nominated for the Emerging Talent Award for her role in Girl from the North Country, Conor McPherson's beautiful play built around the iconic songbook of Bob Dylan.
The winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2017 will be announced at a ceremony on Sunday 3 December, hosted by actor, Fleabag creator/star and NHB author Phoebe Waller-Bridge. To see the full shortlists, visit the Evening Standard website.


America cannot stay on it's current trajectory. Since the New Deal, we have been on a course to utter annihilation in the world of debt, with spending at ludicrous levels, Trillions of dollars, in the name of benefits and the general welfare of the American citizen.
What Jackanape came up with that foolishness? The interest alone on this debt is obscene; the sad thing is, we're the ones to feel the consequences of their disastrous decision making. A bubble is going to pop in the next 10-15 years, that will level the American economy, and strengthen China.
The Pentagon put out a study, that says our countries dominance will end within 20 years. I think that's a bit generous, but we need to put this country back on track. We need to create a more moral system of governance.
[We want] a Homeland, that is driven by our dreams, our work and our innovation. Not one that's driven by blood and oil, but driven by the traditional Family unit! No more of 87 genders, and the sliming of the American way!
We pay out 900 Billion in subsidies, and another Trillion in Social Security. These numbers aren't counting food stamps, unemployment, and Medicare programs. Our budget is just under 4 Trillion.
Why is the government spending that level of money? It's simple. CORRUPTION. We need to elect people in, that aren't beholden to Democrats or Republicans, but the American voter.
Long live the Republic. Long live America.
I agree with you John. To quote someone much smarter than myself "a house divided against it's self can not stand! I have seen what the Republicans can do to third parties and I assume the Democrats have as much on the ball as those who we battle in our party.
I agree that a 3rd major party to get off the ground would take decades. R party needs a rebranding and there would be a better chance to effect change within and start now to hold the GOP in local county and state accountable.
In the meantime YUGE effort mounted to find those good conservatives to seek ofc.
I like your thinking, Adam. As long as you don't make all drugs legal, elevate homosexuality and LGBTQ to normalcy, and expound that America was not founded as a Christian nation. I actually like the Libertarian Party's stance on many things, but having the last verse in Judges as a platform (every man did what was right in his own eyes) is a recipe for disaster. There ARE absolutes. So, You change the present platform and we'll go from there.
I'm thinking that train already left the platform for your "as long as".
This election has so much riding on it. It's not just about defeating ALL democrats. We should embrace those who strive to limit the scope of government in our lives, reduce taxes, and live within our means. The rule of law applies to ALL in the human genome. The logic is a simple one, if your garden hose has a leak in it ... you shut off the water at the source ... then you fix the leaking portion. We must stop the source of our discontent by way of the voting booth. Parents dare to discipline their crying children, so we should also do it at the border sieve, at the welfare offices, and at the local "stop sign". You run a stop sign, and if the police sees you, you pay and get the penalty for doing so. That is called a righteous LAW that protects all others. Nationality, race, nor creed or religion should not claim an exemption, only evil does !!
I have a solution also. Let's end the FED (since it was never ratified by all the states), declare it an illegal entity and take the gold they stole illegally from all Americans. Then we'll have a surplus instead of a debtr.
Larry, I wouldn't count on them having much gold. Ending the FED I could get behind that.
Why not buy them out? Congress could just give them a Federal Reserve Note for the entire debt stock and all the property and be done with it. No Gold just the note. After all they had all the states pass "Legal Tender" laws to force us to take them and we are the sovereign not the corporation known as the "Federal Reserve Bank".


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Playing anthems…to 20 people
The Low Anthem, Mississippi Studios, July 2018
Some bands can't catch a break.
Last week I saw The Low Anthem at Mississippi Studios in Portland, a small (smaller than intimate, in truth) venue. Just as well, as there were about 20 people in the room.
How could this be? Surely some mistake with the booking or the promotion? Were The Decemberists are playing an impromptu set in the bar next door?
Nope. Just the vagaries of popularity and music and trends and time. The one unimpeachable thing was the night's music: a full rendition of the band's latest release (a concept album about a salt doll immersing herself in the sea), followed by some older songs. It was a sublime, if unnecessarily low-lit (see above), evening.
Leaving the venue I cast my mind back a decade or so, to a time when The Low Anthem were being heralded as the new Fleet Foxes of sorts, and tickets to their Dublin shows were hard to get.
Somewhere along the way something changed – not least the band itself, whose members turned away from the 'new folk' (or whatever) label to indulge their own, more niche, interests (including building their own studio in a restored vaudeville-era theater).
Nonetheless, one assumes that when artists reach a certain plateau – of recognition at least, if not success – they remain there, maybe not ascending to the next level but, at the very least, not slipping down the hill.
Why care about this? Because The Low Anthem makes music that deserves to be heard, that may at times require immersion and focus but may also – when it comes to beautiful song like "Gondwanaland" – be the most sublime thing you'll hear today.
Tagged Cormac Looney, Folk, Gondwanaland, Mississippi Studios, Music, Portland, the low anthem, The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea
Dublin, Portland
Islands I've made my own
Columbia River from Sauvie's Island, July 2018
I've always lived near marshy islands.
As a kid I remember taking part in the religious processions around Our Lady's Island in Co Wexford. Thirty years later I ran most days on Bull Island in Dublin, when we lived in nearby Raheny.
This weekend I paid my first visit to Sauvie's Island, just outside my current home in Portland, Oregon. It's a little larger than its Wexford or Dublin equivalents, but it has many of the same features: low brushland, boggy beaches, and a huge sky above.
I can't offer any great insight into why I'm attracted to these peninsular places, other than the solitude and immersion in nature they offer.
Aside from that, each place has its own unique feeling. To this day, Our Lady's Island remains a ghostly place in my mind because of the exposed and lonely grottos that pilgrims stop and pray at as they circumnavigate the island.
Bull Island, September 2017.
Bull Island is weather and wind, an elemental place near – but completely alien to – Dublin city. My main memories of the place are of running there on a summer morning before dawn, and walking over it on a winter night after a huge rainstorm. On both occasions it was a vast, cacophonous place, even when silent.
I don't yet know what Sauvie's Island offers. The ghosts of dairy farmers and Indian tribes, perhaps. On the summer morning I walked there it was a calm – I imagine its shoreline is a very different place on a December night.
Thinking about this at my desk, I came across these lines written by the 19th century New York poet Emma Lazarus, about Long Island, which go some way to explaining the lure of my three islands, and why I'll return to all three some day.
The luminous grasses, and the merry sun
In the grave sky; the sparkle far and wide,
Laughter of unseen children, cheerful chirp
Of crickets, and low lisp of rippling tide,
Light summer clouds fantastical as sleep
Changing unnoted while I gazed thereon.
All these fair sounds and sights I made my own.
Tagged Bull Island, Cormac Looney, dublin, Ireland, Oregon, Our Lady's Island, running, Sauvie Island, Sauvie's Island, U.S., Walking, Wexford
Art, Dublin, Literature, Music
Listening back to Dublin in the 2000s
Will Oldham, 2001. Pic: Sébastien Crespin
I wish I could remember more.
About my twenties, but more specifically about the music shows I attended back then. This occurred to me in recent days, when I listened to an album I hadn't heard in a decade, by an artist who was once a major part of my musical life. The recording was "Ease Down The Road", the artist Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham to his mother).
In the early 2000s I was a devotee of Oldham's music – not as hardcore as some, but I knew his albums "Master and Everyone", "I See A Darkness" and "Ease Down The Road" very well. Then, for some reason, I stopped listening.
This is one of those curious things that I've encountered in my relationships with certain artists – in music or literature or art. One day I'm deep into their rare studio outtakes – then I blink and it's 10 years later and I can't even recall the name of the record I played constantly for two months.
It happened with David Gray, with Jan Gabarek, with Francis Bacon and with Jonathan Franzen. One moment I'm hanging on their every note, brush stroke or sentence, the next it's "oh, that guy".
It seems, though, that if the roots have been laid deep enough, I can return. So it was with "Ease Down The Road", which I came across while mindlessly browsing my music streaming service.
A single listen was all it took to bring me back to Dublin 18 years ago, to a friend who pushed a copy of "I Can See A Darkness" on me, to an ex-girlfriend who was even more into "Master and Everyone" than I was, to a half-remembered night at Whelan's on Camden Street, where an irate old guy (who was probably younger than I am now) kept hissing "quiet!" at tipsy gig goers, cupping his hands around his ears to get his deep dose of Oldham's gothic folk music.
At times it was hard to fight off a feeling of nostalgia. But this was outweighed by one of regret – that night in Whelan's was one of many in those years, the highs and lows of which I've forgotten. Where are the crew I used to go to those shows with now? Why did they rebuild Whelan's (to my ears and eyes it was an imperfect gem)? Could me-then have predicted than me-now would one day look back on that scene from a distance of almost two decades and 5,000 miles?
And why should any of this bear thinking about? Isn't every day a new one? What's the value to tracing past experiences?
Finally though, a most important question – how could I live through those intervening years without listening to this song?
Tagged 2000s, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Cormac Looney, dublin, Ease Down The Road, I See A Darkness, Master and Everyone, Music, Whelan's, Will Oldham
Poetry, Portland
The Japanese Garden, Portland, 2017.
Rock swirls and moss green
Surrounds chatter and cell phones –
Someone's missed the point.
Tagged Cormac Looney, haiku, Irish poetry, Japanese Garden, Portland
Music, Portland, Time, music, place
The dirty dream of the nineties is alive in Portland
Belle and Sebastian, Oregon Zoo, June 2018
Much time has passed since I first heard the Scottish chamber pop outfit Belle and Sebastian.
I have a vague recollection of seeing the video for their 1998 song "Dirty Dream Number Two" on MTV, back in those ancient days when music television was a thing. I remember a college housemate singing the praises of the album that song featured on, "The Boy With The Arab Strap".
But my listening interest was truly sparked when I picked up a copy of their debut album "Tigermilk", likely in Tower Records on Wicklow Street in Dublin (now gone the way of MTV), and played it endlessly through fourth year of university.
For a number of years after that I dutifully bought Belle and Sebastian albums on their release, always intending to see them live one day. I never did of course, as the fates and my best laid plans conspired against it. In time, though no reflection on the quality of the band's output, I eventually gave up buying the latest B+S album.
Stuart Murdoch. Pic: Amy Hope Dermont
But ageing and perhaps nostalgia and – more likely – distance from Europe has recently led me back to seeing bands from my 20s, acts who heydayed in the late nineteen nineties and early noughties. And so, in the past year, I've seen live performances by Teenage Fanclub, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and Lloyd Cole, to mention four.
All of which is a convoluted way of explaining how, on a sunny Saturday evening last weekend, I sat amid the toddlers on the grass, the 40-something indie kids and a family of bored elephants, watching Belle and Sebastian perform at the Oregon Zoo in Portland.
The music was – as I expected – wonderful; bright, melodic and witty, it was easy to link the best of the evening's songs to their writer, front man Stuart Murdoch, who himself looked just as he did in the MTV videos of my memory.
That was the charming thing about the evening. Belle and Sebastian didn't sound or feel like they'd aged. Nowadays, when I look at pictures, or read cards, or reminisce about the nineties, my reaction is usually: "God, we were so much younger" or "what the hell happened to that guy?" or "I wish I'd time to read that book again".
But for a couple of hours in a zoo in Portland my knees didn't feel the ache of an old running injury, and my hair didn't appear as gray as usual in a photograph. Nor did I have to fight through the mental distractions of everyday life just to focus on the music.
Twenty years later Belle and Sebastian were there and so was I. Ain't that enough? And they even played "Dirty Dream Number Two".
Tagged 1990s, 2000s, Belle and Sebastian, indie music, Music, Oregon Zoo, Scotland, The Boy With The Arab Strap, Tigermilk


When my divorce was finalized and everyone knew where they would be living, I went to the Humane Society and got a kitten – a long-haired, tortoise-shell kitten with green eyes. She was so cute. I named her Kathryn, after my mom. I'm not sure how thrilled Mom was to have a cat named for her, but she was gracious about the whole thing and we enjoyed Kat.
A couple of years after I got Kat, I heard a loud cry coming from my backyard and, when I went to look, there was a little kitten sitting on my fence yowling fit to beat the band. She was a white short-hair with gray splotches, a pink nose, and blue eyes. I asked around and, when I didn't find anyone to claim it, she joined Kat and became Lucy.
Kat and Lucy traveled with me to Tahlequah, Oklahoma when I ran away from home at 39 (an awkward age to run away from home). They moved again with me to Tulsa a year later to look for a job. The best that I could do was to work for three temp agencies in Tulsa, so I came back to Great Bend – with a third cat by the name of Tom, a yellow tiger-striped short-hair male who loved to lay around the house looking handsome.
After several years, the cat population of my home started to dwindle. Tom decided to go traveling during a snow storm and never came back. Lucy came down with a virus and died so it was just Kat and me.
I felt so sorry for Kat – all by herself. She was getting older and I had a real job by this time and was gone during the day. I worried that she would be lonely, so I asked at work to see if anyone had an extra cat that needed a home. I worked with a lady who lived in the country and she had a cat who needed a home, so I went out to see it. It was a black and white tiger-striped short-hair male, and I thought that could work out. He'd be handy around the house. That's when McPherson joined our family.
Unfortunately, I hadn't been aware of how many female cats there were in the neighborhood and, even though Mac had been neutered, he still felt compelled to entertain all these women. He had a pretty busy social life and didn't have time for Kat.
Back I went to the Humane Society. They had another little long-haired tortoise-shell kitten with stitches in her lip where she had been bitten by a dog, but she was so sweet and loving. That's how we got Lizzie. I took her to the vets to get the stitches out of her lip where the dog had bitten her, and she fit in really well with Kat and Mac.
Actually, the three cats were pretty funny. Mac and Lizzie acted like an old married couple, and Kat became Lizzie's mother-in-law! Mac would go trotting out of the house in the morning to make the rounds of the neighborhood and Lizzie would be stuck at home to take care of Kat. Poor Lizzie put up with a lot in those days. We three women of the house would gather in the evening and sympathize with each other.
Eventually, Kat died and Mac, Lizzie, and I moved to another house. Well, Lizzie and I moved to another house. Mac had found that our next door neighbor had a good-looking female cat who promised him the sun, moon, and stars. Lizzie and I tried to tell Mac that she wouldn't be any good for him, but he didn't listen to us. He stayed with his new girlfriend and Lizzie and I headed on down the road.
We have now added a couple more cats to our family and Lizzie is now the "old lady" of the house. I'm afraid that she has always had to wait until last to be fed but she has claimed the softest cushion on the couch and the sunniest perch on the table by the window. She and I still gather in the evenings. Now, however, we gather on the couch and tell each other how beautiful we are!


Diabetes is sadly classified as a modern-age disease – one that might affect any of us, regardless of our place of residence, lifestyle, age, occupation or skin colour. Currently, there are approximately 371 million diabetics worldwide. It is also estimated that in 2030 there will be as many as 550 million of them.
An issue of utmost importance in view of these statistics is the information and prevention measures that can be employed to raise awareness of the dangers of incorrect monitoring of diabetes and injuries resulting from handling sharp objects among healthcare professionals.
The We Care™ brand is the solution which satisfies these needs. It is an umbrella program developed by HTL-STREFA S.A., which is the world's largest medical device company developing, manufacturing and exporting safe lancets, personal lancets and insulin injection needles.
We Care™ encompasses coordinated activities that help to build awareness using safe products employed in the treatment of diabetes by medical staff and patients. The strong slogan – "Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment" – combines the most important concepts of the We Care™ brand.
To date, the published communication materials, although substantively well-prepared, visually have had no coherent trend, and thus they ultimately failed to evoke clear connotations.
It was Rio Creativo's task to design a visual identity that would become a showcase for this new program – as well as clearly separate the company's product domain from its preventive actions.
This is how the sign was created – one which, in a light way, expresses arguably the most characteristic element for people suffering from diabetes, their friends and families as well as the staff involved in the treatment process. Each of them knows how important it is to have a regular blood sugar control, so the main sign is evocative of a fingerprint after a blood test. A typically "unfriendly" drop of blood is lent more positive connotations in the form of a heart at the puncture site.
There has been a tendency so far to associate the medical device industry with an image that felt corporate and mostly conservative. However, We Care™ breaks the mould in introducing unconventional and joyful communication. As a result, the mission becomes far more user-friendly for both patients and healthcare professionals.
Each and every person affected by diabetes is different, has his or her own lifestyle and needs. The brand mark is a flexible changeable element as different as any one of us, regardless of the disease. We Care™ brand shows that it is possible to tame diabetes.
HTL-STREFA is a company boasting more than 20 years of experience in the field of medical devices employed in the treatment of diabetes. It manufactures and exports safe lancets, personal lancets and insulin needles. Its brands are present in nearly 80 countries – and its daily output approximates as many as 10 million products.


Dive into a day full of fun and water rides at Caribe Aquatic Park and enjoy its fast and dizzying slides. It includes air conditioned motor coach and entrance to Caribe Aquatic Park. This tour starts at 09:30 from Julià Travel Gray Line Spain office at: Balmes st nº 5, Barcelona and departs from PortAventura World to go back to Barcelona at 20:00. Print your voucher and give it to your guide. This tour starts in June.


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Zanola Company begins this plan with a Quick Start workshop with Client and Zanola Company. We then conduct a traffic analysis and mapping review including buyer patterns and home buyer draw areas. From this data we create target market hot spots, provide information on the depth of the market by demographic segment, an in depth demographics, merchandising and design review. The conclusion of this plan includes advertising and marketing recommendations for collateral and model homes, and a detailed action plan of the overall recommendations.
Zanola Company's Active Development Action Plans provides a better understanding of buyers for the community and an action plan to best market to the target buyer.
This analysis can be used by the Client as a continuing guide for financing, design development, risk control, demographics, PR, marketing, and sales.
Conducted in the initial phases of many of our detailed studies, Zanola Company facilitates a S.W.O.T. Analysis. Enabling proactive thinking, a S.W.O.T Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a business environment. Usually conducted at Zanola Company offices, typical participants are owners, managers, sales managers, sales teams or any other management teams.
Zanola Company typically conducts the S.W.O.T. Analysis as part of a larger service such as an Opportunity Assessment, Sales Improvement Services or Business Improvement Plan.


For Vandals, learning isn't limited to the classroom. In fact, two-thirds of our undergraduates engage in research, scholarly work or creative activities outside of their classes. In the 2018 Vandals in Focus magazine, undergraduate writers and photographers document the depth of research opportunities available to undergraduates at the University of Idaho.


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In the Chronicle, Jeff Anderson, dean of humanities, fine arts, and social sciences at Illinois Valley Community College, argues for the many benefits of great books courses, even for community college students.
Dr. Anderson asserts that community colleges, which many are seeing as vocational schools, should build curricula around a series of classical texts. As opposed to completing degrees by checking off boxes on a list of siloed courses, students embark upon an interdisciplinary curriculum based on the Great Conversations.
Future employers can tell educated students from a credentialed ones. According to Dr. Anderson:
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Keeping higher education from becoming full-fledged vocational training is not easy, but the fight is still worth pursuing. Students become jaded when they leave school and realize that all they have is a fancy piece of paper and a student loan bill.
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Q: NSIS inetc::put, cannot upload file: "Try setting the Content-type header." I am trying to use inetc::put to upload a Styled Layer Descriptor (.sld) to a local GeoServer instance that has a RESTful endpoint. I get an error saying I need to set the Content-type, even though I am.
inetc::put /silent /header "Content-type: application/vnd.ogc.sld+xml" "http://username:password@localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/styles/MyNewStyle" "$INSTDIR/MyNewStyle.sld"
Pop $0
DetailPrint "Uploading styled layer descriptor: $0"

This returns an HTTP 400 (Request Error). The server log has the following to say:
ERROR [geoserver.rest] - Could not determine format. Try setting the Content-type header.
org.geoserver.rest.RestletException
at org.geoserver.rest.AbstractResource.getFormatPostOrPut(AbstractResource.java:173)
at org.geoserver.rest.ReflectiveResource.handlePost(ReflectiveResource.java:116)
at org.restlet.Finder.handle(Finder.java:296)
at org.geoserver.rest.BeanDelegatingRestlet.handle(BeanDelegatingRestlet.java:37)
at org.restlet.Filter.doHandle(Filter.java:105)
at org.restlet.Filter.handle(Filter.java:134)
at org.restlet.Router.handle(Router.java:444)
at org.geoserver.rest.RESTDispatcher$1.handle(RESTDispatcher.java:204)
at com.noelios.restlet.ext.servlet.ServletConverter.service(ServletConverter.java:129)
at org.geoserver.rest.RESTDispatcher.handleRequestInternal(RESTDispatcher.java:86)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController.handleRequest(AbstractController.java:153)
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It doesn't help that the documentation for Inetc does not indicate that /header is an available option for inetc::post nor inetc::put. However, I've confirmed that I can use /header to set the Content-type for inetc::post requests to create workspaces and styles in GeoServer. There is something different about inetc::put that either requires different syntax, or it just wasn't implemented correctly.
I haven't found a single example of someone performing an inetc::put where they set the Content-type of the request. I have tried putting the /header before, between, and after the URL and local_file. I can perform the PUT using the Firefox add-on "Poster", and using cURL. But it will not work with Inetc.
I am using the latest build of Inetc available off the link I shared above.

A: I just took a look at the source and when doing a PUT INetC will add "Content-Type: octet-stream" and "Content-Length: %size%" with HttpAddRequestHeaders(..., HTTP_ADDREQ_FLAG_ADD|HTTP_ADDREQ_FLAG_REPLACE) after adding the headers specified by the caller.
You should ask the authors to add the "Content-Type" header before the other headers to fix this...

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(Some guys are drinking and using Mr. Miyagi's car as a bar table...)
Mr. Miyagi: Uh, excuse, please. Boy cold. Must leave. Kindly remove bottle.
Guy: Kindly do it yourself, Mr. Moto.
(Mr. Miyagi breaks three bottle in half with one move)
Daniel LaRusso: How did you do that? How did you do that?
Mr. Miyagi: Don't know. First time.
From the movie The Karate Kid (1984) | Produced by Columbia Pictures
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The Founder, Late Rai Kedar Nath Ji was a great visionary, who thought to provide education to masses when education was available only to the privileged ones. Lacks of students passed from the Ramjas Institutions and are serving in different fields. The Founder was a man of simple living and high thinking. He belonged to a poor family but was a brilliant student throughout getting scholarship and studied under the Lamp-post.


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NIHHIS-CAPA Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign Application
Applications are now open for the 2022 Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign! Access the application here and apply by January 14th, 2022.
The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), in partnership with Climate Adaptation Planning and Analytics (CAPA) Strategies, is pleased to announce that we will be accepting applications from groups of organizations interested in participating in the 2022 cohort of NIHHIS-CAPA Urban Heat Island mapping campaigns. Pending the availability of funds for FY22 (see FAQ for more details), and the amount of matching funds provided by communities, we anticipate being able to support campaigns in 5 to 10 communities.
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Prior to applying, we encourage you to do the following:
Read the entire contents of this page, which contains important details about the mapping campaigns as well as the application process.
Begin building partnerships. The most successful UHI mapping campaigns are executed by a broad coalition of partners with representation from local government (Resilience/Adaptation offices, public health departments, etc...), universities, NGOs (environmental justice, museums, etc...), and the private sector.
Learn about cities that have done this mapping process, review reports from previous mapping campaigns, download and work with the maps and data, check out the media coverage, and tune in to our 2021 webinar series on building heat-resilient communities (recordings are available).
Sign up to receive the Heat Beat newsletter. This newsletter is sent bi-weekly in the summer, and less frequently during the cooler seasons. It is the best place to read about events and updates from the UHI mapping campaigns as well as from NIHHIS in general.
Over the past five years, NOAA (Office of Education, Climate Program Office, National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)) has funded CAPA Heat Watch to support 40+ communities across the United States in mapping their urban heat islands (UHI). CAPA Strategies has developed a process to help cities plan and execute a volunteer-based community science field campaign that builds upon local partnerships, engages residents in a scientific study to map and understand how heat is distributed in their communities, and produces high-quality outputs that have been used in city sustainability plans, public health practices, urban forestry, research projects, and other engagement activities.
See community profiles, learn more about the participants, and download data and reports >>
These community science field campaigns are an excellent opportunity to raise awareness about the many impacts of extreme heat and the factors that may affect the uneven distribution of heat throughout a community. It is also an opportunity to teach aspiring young scientists about how scientific field campaigns are conducted, consists of volunteers learning about urban heat in a training session, attaching sensors to their vehicles, and driving pre-mapped transects through their cities to collect temperature and humidity data that is linked to GPS coordinates.
The final product of the community science field campaigns is a set of high resolution air temperature and humidity data, and a report by CAPA Strategies that provides a detailed analysis of distribution of heat in the morning, afternoon and evening. Interactive, high resolution web maps of the modeled air temperature and heat index are also provided.. The maps are produced using a machine learning process that combines satellite imagery and air temperature and humidity readings collected by volunteers during the campaign. For more information consult a recent publication on the mapping process [https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7010005].
Communities interested in applying to run a campaign with NOAA support are encouraged to reach out to many potential partners/organizations as soon as possible to build a network for organizing volunteers and for identifying uses for the resulting datasets and products from the campaigns. Please review the information below, and let us know if you have any questions by reaching out to NIHHIS@noaa.gov. Questions specific to the application form can be directed to info@capastrategies.com
Access the application here.
What's new for '22
Justice40 - The NIHHIS Urban Heat Island mapping program is a covered program under the Biden Administration's Justice40 initiative. As such we are required to track and report on the allocation of benefits to Environmental Justice (EJ) communities. Tracking and reporting requirements have not yet been finalized, but we anticipate that communities involved in this program in 2022 will be required to assist with tracking and reporting, and that communities will use readily available demographic information (CDC SVI, EIG's Distressed Communities Index, or EJ Screen) to ensure adequate coverage of EJ communities.
Environmental Justice will be one factor that we consider in prioritizing applications. While we await final guidance on how Justice40 tracking will be implemented, we encourage you to consider the following in preparing your application:
How does your county (or counties) rank nationally in terms of overall social vulnerability according to the CDC SVI tool?
Within the spatial area you intend to map, do you have a plan for identifying and including EJ communities in the driving routes selected for the mapping campaign?
Do you have plans for engaging underrepresented and EJ community members in the mapping process itself, such as by working with EJ organizations to recruit a diverse set of citizen scientists in the campaigns?
Do you have plans to apply the mapping campaign outcomes to increase environmental justice and equity in heat resilience planning?
Going Global - We're opening up mapping to global cities. For the 2022 mapping season we plan to run 1-2 campaigns in cities outside of the United States. We are partnering with the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) to reach communities in other other countries.
Enhanced Observations - We are always looking for ways to improve these mapping campaigns to provide the best experience and data for cities. Thanks to feedback from our many partners, we will now be piloting stationary sensors in two communities in addition to the mobile transects we typically run in these campaigns. Stationary sensors will enhance coverage of cities in space and time, providing more information for decision-making. Communities selected to also deploy with stationary sensors will be taking on additional organizing responsibilities, organizing extra volunteers and managing the deployment and collection of ~20 sensors.
Heat Mapping Support from NOAA - NOAA and CAPA Strategies work together as part of a Public-Private Partnership to help cities understand how heat is distributed throughout communities, and to support subsequent decision making for the solutions to extreme heat. CAPA Strategies was chosen as the subcontractor by Harmonic International, which was competitively awarded a purchase agreement by NOAA. As such, we are using an application process to prioritize campaign communities, not a competition; we are accepting applications for interested organizations, not proposals. Community partners do not receive direct funding from NOAA in the form of a grant; CAPA strategies has been funded to perform a service on behalf of NOAA for the successful applicants. The principal organization (likely the application submitter) will still enter into a contractual relationship with CAPA Strategies for risk mitigation purposes, to ensure that borrowed mapping gear is properly cared for and returned. Staff time, remuneration of volunteers, and other expenses will not be covered through NOAA funds via this application. Please include in-kind and financial support to cover these expenses as matching funds in this application.
COVID-19 Pandemic Considerations
The summer 2020 & 2021 mapping campaigns were all conducted successfully using an enhanced safety protocol designed by CAPA Strategies, which included sterilization of gear and encouraged participants to follow local safety ordinances of their respective cities, counties, and states. Training and logistical coordination is performed online. We anticipate that any COVID-19 issues faced in 2022 will be similar to those addressed in '20/21, and we are optimistic that campaigns will be able to move forward. However, we remain in a "wait and see" posture as we cannot predict the status of the pandemic for summer 2022.
Tentative Timeline
Application form opens on this page. An announcement will go out via the Heat Beat e-newsletter as well as through several other partners. Please join the mailing list to stay informed.
Application Deadline for interested communities.
Anticipated Notification of selected communities.
Onboarding call scheduled with selected communities
Communities confirm participation and finalize any matching funds Local campaigns are then run throughout the summer depending upon local climate and other factors. Results from the campaigns are available in the fall.
There may be more interest than we have funds or capacity to support next summer; therefore, we will use a review panel process to prioritize the applications for support. The panel typically consists of 3-5 panelists. Interested applicants for NOAA-supported campaigns will be expected to address the following criteria in their application form:
Can you articulate a clear need for the campaign and resulting data?
The UHI effect often leads to a heterogeneous distribution of heat throughout a city, ultimately leading to residents in some neighborhoods facing higher exposure to heat extremes than others. Research has shown strong correlation between UHIs and health and vulnerability indicators. Communities should be able to articulate why a community science field campaign is important for engaging the community, and why the maps of the UHI effect are needed to explore and address these issues.
Do you have local leaders and ready partners required to make your campaign a success?
Experience shows that cities with strong leadership from a local host organization as well as a robust set of partners from all sectors — education, government, NGOs, and the private sector — make more effective campaigns and, thus, will be given higher priority. We prioritize diversity and inclusion in the engagement of community members, and prioritize campaigns and partnerships that can engage populations that are often underserved or underrepresented in scientific studies.
What are your goals for the campaign, and for using the resulting engagement and data afterwards?
Cities with clear plans to use these community science campaigns to promote awareness and understanding of urban heat and health issues, and to apply the data from the campaigns to plans to manage these issues in the short- and long-run, are preferred. For example, communitie have used these campaigns to support local long-term planning, inform immediate risk mitigation efforts, complement efforts to address equity issues, and for community education and outreach. New urban climate and health research objectives that employ the resulting data are also encouraged.
Will you be able to organize and adequately support your volunteers?
Though the Heat Watch support materials have been developed to make planning a campaign easier, bringing together a set of volunteers and coordinating local logistics can be a challenge. We prioritize applicants that can clearly demonstrate their ability to organize, and prefer applicants that can support their volunteers' efforts in some way.
In addition to these considerations, other factors such as diversity of urban climate and urban structure (density, land use) may be considered in selecting cities to facilitate a better sample of city types for more robust model analysis.
Applicants are also encouraged to engage existing NOAA and/or NIHHIS activities and partners in planning and executing a local UHI campaign.
NOAA CPO RISA Teams
NOAA CPO-Funded Grantees
NOAA Sea Grant Offices
NOAA Weather Forecast Offices
NOAA Weather Ready Nation Ambassadors
NOAA NIDIS Drought Early Warning Systems (DEWS)
Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) partners
CDC BRACE Grantees
NLC Community Resilience Grantees
USFS Urban and Community Forestry
NOAA Climate Resilience Toolkit
Though not a requirement, applicants are encouraged to provide matching funds for the basic Heat Watch campaign, to cost-share with NOAA. The cost of a campaign for a medium-sized city (~50 square miles) is $10,000, while the cost for larger cities may be $20,000 or more. Cost matching allows us to reach more cities, providing more needed UHI mapping assistance.
Please note that the Heat Watch service provided by CAPA Strategies is available to any community outside of receiving NOAA support for these campaigns, and cities/counties able to self fund 100% of the cost of a campaign may reach out directly to CAPA Strategies to inquire about their services. Whether supported by NOAA or not, all Heat Watch communities are invited to be part of the larger NIHHIS-CAPA community of practice, and NOAA will make every effort to provide in-kind support to those cities as they perform their summer mapping projects.
What happens if more than one organization from my city applies?
Campaigns are most effective with a clear lead organization and many collaborating partners, so we will work with interested applicants to help synergize their efforts locally. Casting a wide net for partners when coordinating your application survey response will help minimize potential for duplication.
How much does a typical campaign cost (i.e. what level of funding does NOAA provide to CAPA to run a campaign in a city)?
The baseline cost for a campaign, which NOAA covers for cities with successful applications, typically ranges from $10,000 for smaller cities (< 100 mi^2) to $30,000 for megacities (up to 500 mi^2). Note that this is just the baseline funding for CAPA to help the cities run the campaign, provide gear and guidance, and process the data. This amount does not include reimbursement for time or transportation of volunteers or organizers.
We are considering applying with matching funds - what would be a recommended amount?
Matching funds are not required. However, many cities (about half of the 2020 cohort) are able to cost-share about 50% of the cost of the campaign. See the previous FAQ item for typical campaign costs. It's not a hard criterion in the evaluation, but bringing other funds to the table shows partner commitment, and enables us to reach more cities with our funding. If you do not have matching funds, it can still be helpful to identify how you will support your volunteers and other in-kind contributions.
My community already has existing urban heat island maps, but we are interested in doing the campaign. May I still apply?
Some city officials have indicated that their existing urban heat island maps are not sufficient for their long-term planning needs. So, yes, you may still apply. These campaigns are different from many other mapping approaches in that they consolidate satellite imagery and in-situ air temperature information to create highly accurate and high resolution maps. For more information consult a recent publication on the mapping process [https://doi.org/10.3390/cli7010005].
Is there a minimum or maximum city size for mapping?
The urban heat island effect can be experienced in cities of all sizes, though as a general rule it tends to increase with larger, denser cities (but there are ways to mitigate the effect and thwart this general rule!). We would consider a mapping project in any community, but would prefer those with a population of ~20,000 or higher.
What is the difference between the maps created by this project and those created through satellite measurements? And which one is more accurate?
Satellite measurements provide descriptions of surface "skin" temperatures (LST: Land Surface Temperature), which includes roadways, sidewalks, and the tops of buildings and trees. The maps produced from this work describes air (or ambient) temperatures approximately 6 feet (2 m) above the ground. Each map product is useful for particular applications. EPA's Urban Heat Island primer has helpful information to further clarify the differences.
I am a resident of a city, and do not work in this space, but I would like to see my city mapped or be involved in a campaign.
Great! We encourage you to reach out to your local science museum, city government, and other organizations to see if they are interested in coordinating a campaign.
If you would like to volunteer as a citizen scientist for a campaign in your area, just sign up for our newsletter to stay informed, and you'll be among the first to know if your city was chosen for a campaign! Join the Heat Beat email list
For some potential volunteers, car ownership is a barrier to participation. Will biking, walking, or other forms of participation be possible?
Yes, biking and walking campaigns can be devised for limited, smaller areas of interest to engage participants in a more accessible, less carbon-intensive heat mapping exercise. The physical health and safety of participants, who will be asked to spend several hours outside on a hot day, is of important consideration for this campaign style.
Are cities outside of the United States able to be a part of this?
Yes! New this year, we will now consider running UHI mapping campaigns in 1-2 global cities (outside of the U.S.). We are partnering with the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)to reach communities in other other countries.
My city is planning to do our own UHI mapping soon. Can we still work with you?
Absolutely. Though limited in capacity in terms of the number of cities we can support for mapping through the CAPA process any given year, NIHHIS and its partners welcome collaboration with other cities and scientists working on urban heat island mapping. The campaigns are part of a broader effort to improve information and decision-making to reduce heat risk across the nation.
My city has already done a CAPA Heat Watch campaign. Will repeat cities be allowed?
Though we are interested in investigating the persistence of the heat island through multiple Heat Watch campaigns, we are not prioritizing repeat mapping activities at this time. Instead, we encourage researchers to investigate the longitudinal persistence of the heat island through complementary research, such as by using in-situ monitors and existing urban observing systems.
I would like to work with CAPA to map the UHI in my city even if I'm not chosen for NOAA support. Is this possible?
Yes. CAPA is an independent company and you can directly contract with them, or you may engage with another urban heat mapping service provider of your choice. If you do choose to work directly with CAPA, you'll still have access to other in-kind support from NOAA (e.g. heat beat newsletter, cohort meetings, etc.).
What does "pending the availability of funds" mean, and when will we know if we can move forward?
Every year, Congress must pass, and the President must sign, a budget to fund federal agencies in the United States. Though the budget would ideally be passed in advance of the fiscal year (which starts October 1st), this does not always happen by this deadline. We move forward with planning these mapping campaigns on the assumption that we will receive funding for them at some point in the fiscal year, but we do not know for certain when this will be, nor how much will be allocated for the campaigns.
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Every community that participates in a CAPA Heat Watch mapping campaign will need one principal organization that will lead the campaign, preferably in addition to several partner organizations that can assist with outreach and other tasks. The lead organization will need to enter into a contractual agreement with CAPA Strategies to ensure the safety of the provided mapping equipment and to be accountable for its return at the end of the campaign. Community partner organizations will help with planning and logistics, volunteer outreach, and application of the campaigns results.
CAPA Strategies is a private company that started the Heat Watch program in 2017. CAPA's Heat Watch program provides start-to-finish guidance for running the campaigns, including all supporting materials. Once campaign logistics are collaboratively developed with Heat Watch program staff, local organizers will receive sensor equipment by mail shortly before conducting the campaign. The sensors are needed to measure temperatures and humidity across select areas of each campaign city, which will be used to produce the final report and maps of urban air temperatures and heat index in cities and counties. This introductory video describes CAPA's approach to the Heat Watch program.
NOAA provides funding directly to CAPA Strategies through a sub-contract managed by Harmonic International. NOAA also provides logistical support, targeted weather and climate predictions to inform ideal campaign dates, as well as community building capacity and long-term support for implementing the UHI datasets in planning and preparedness through NIHHIS. NIHHIS is a NOAA-led, interagency platform for improving information and services to inform decision-making for heat risk reduction [read the 2-pager for more details]. All participating Heat Watch communities will become part of the growing NIHHIS-CAPA Community of Practice, and will be able to learn from other communities that have participated in these campaigns, and that are now using the resulting partnerships and data to become more resilient to extreme heat.
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