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The workshop entitled "Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada: future research directions" will be held at Université de Montréal on 12-13 September 2013. The purpose of this workshop is to take stock of recent research on the issues of complex diversity in Europe and Canada, to identify future research directions, and to explore possibilities for new research collaborations in the years to come.
The workshop builds on RECODE's work on complex diversity. This interdisciplinary, comparative research program is exploring to what extent the processes of transnationalization, migration, religious mobilization and cultural differentiation entail a new configuration of social conflict in post-industrial societies. Such a possible new constellation we label complex diversity. The leading idea is that such diversity is developing at a global level, but particularly in European-style societies, where social entitlements, supranational policies and cultural diversity enjoy a considerable, but often contradictory degree of legitimacy. In this perspective, Canada offers some interesting similarities and contrasts with Europe.
RECODE brings together scholars from across Europe and Canada to identify the cleavages and normative issues that this new constellation raises on both sides of the Atlantic, and to develop expertise in the institutions, public policies and cultural resources that can respond to them. The thematic focus of the program covers the areas of linguistic diversity and political communication, religious pluralism, transnationalism and, finally, multiculturalism and welfare state policies.
The RECODE Research Networking Program started in June 2010 and will run through November 2014. The purpose of this workshop is to reflect on recent research developments, identify future agendas for research in this field and to explore the options for future collaborations in the period after RECODE itself completes its mandate. Accordingly, the workshop will be kept reasonably small, and will bring together research leaders in the RECODE network and in Canada.
The workshop is also sponsored by The Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue (CETD) at the Université de Montréal. CETD was formed in 2007 with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It is designed not only to strengthen Canada's research capacity on Europe and to nurture knowledge networks between Europe and Canada, but, more importantly, to look at Europe through Canadian eyes, zeroing in on those issues which have relevance for our own society.


Domestic and commercial operators may request an additional general waste and/or recycling collection or service, or may request to cancel a collection or service.
Additional bin collections and services can be applied for by completing and submitting the Wheelie Bin Collection Services Form from the Waste and Recycling Customer Forms to one of Council's Customer Service Centres.
Domestic properties can only receive the extra collection on the same day as their current service.
Available for a period of two weeks up to three months.
Must be located within a declared collection area.
Residents renting a property must have their form submitted by the property owner or Real Estate agent.
Bin collections and services can also be cancelled by completing and submitting the Mobile Bin Kerbside Collection Services Form to one of Council's Customer Service Centres. A minimum of 10 working days is required to cancel the service, upon receipt of application. Charges will cease from the date the bins are removed.
The domestic premise must be declared as an uninhabitable dwelling by Council, or demolished.
If recommencing the service an establishment fee will be included in the rates notice.
Rockhampton Regional Waste and Recycling provides an assisted service to residents who are unable to place their wheelie bins out for collection due to medical conditions. The service includes the retrieval and return of the bin from an agreed location within the property boundary.
To receive this service, please provide us with a current medical certificate/letter from a general practitioner or medical professional indicating that you are unable to place the mobile bin out for collection. An updated medical certificate/letter must be provided each financial year for ongoing services.
The assisted service will commence within ten working days of the application being approved by Council.
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has a favorite focus on caring for life and people's emotions. Through his soft and modest brush strokes, these colorful illustrations deliver a warm tone and a healing temperature. He has turned the memories from his childhood into a heartfelt story. The artist hopes to bring attention to single-family children's welfare and the care of family relationships.
On My Way Home - I see many fish around my boat when I paddle.
On My Way Home - I walk through the forest.
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Purple - Antelope Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A.
White - Sequoia National Park, California, U.S.A.
captures the depth of life from an unique and personal perspective. She was inspired by the National Geographic magazine since childhood. Her photography presents a harmonious composition with charismatic colors. To her, photography is much more than recording a moment; it is a way to share an experience, a prospect, and sometimes a concern.
Monopoly - Las Vegas, U.S.A.
Locked in SF - San Francisco, U.S.A.
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The Drilldown: Conservation groups pursue legal challenge against TMX over threats posed to whales
By Curtis Rafter. Published on Jul 9, 2019 12:12pm
A southern resident killer whale holds a piece of salmon in its mouth. Chinook salmon make up about 80 per cent of the diet of this particular population of orca. (Astrid van Ginneken / Center for Whale Research)
On behalf of the Raincoast Conservation Fund and the Living Oceans Society, Ecojustice has put forward a new legal challenge against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Ecojustice filed a motion Monday with the Federal Court of Appeal "asking for leave to launch a judicial review of cabinet's decision," arguing that cabinet did not follow through on its duty to protect the critically endangered southern resident killer whale when it reapproved the project on Jun. 18.
Margot Venton of Ecojustice said that while cabinet did acknowledge marine threats per its court-ordered review of the marine environment, the recent approval of the pipeline expansion does not include any measures to mitigate threats to endangered species. "Our concern is they haven't satisfied their responsibilities under the law because they have not ensured that there will be measures in place that will avoid or lessen these effects on the whales," Venton stated.
Since southern resident killer whales are protected under the Species at Risk Act, Ecojustice believes that Ottawa has a responsibility to address threats to their survival, including those that could stem from Trans Mountain, like physical and acoustic disturbances from vessels, marine contamination and ship strikes.
Ottawa, however, has announced a $61.5-million investment over five years to address threats to the species, the Canadian Press reports.
Should the Conservative party form government after the fall election, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has promised to eliminate a current plan to introduce new standards on fuel in 2022.
Referring to the Clean Fuel Standard in a letter Monday, Scheer described the measure as a "secret fuel tax" that would increase the price of gas by at least $0.04 per litre and would apply to all fuel sources. "I can assure you that this October, a new Conservative government under my leadership will scrap your carbon tax and your secret fuel tax, leave more money in Canadians' pockets, and let them get ahead," Scheer wrote.
The goal of the Clean Fuel Standard is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes annually by 2030. While the Clean Fuel Standard was proposed in 2016, the federal government only introduced the regulatory approach for the measure last month, iPolitics reports.
An Encana Corp. subsidiary, Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., has agreed to sell its natural gas assets in Oklahoma's Arkoma Basin for $165 million, though the buyer has not yet been revealed.
The Arkoma Basin assets produce roughly 77-million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
The deal, subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the third quarter, the Canadian Press reports.
On Tuesday morning, Brent Crude was at US$64.17 and West Texas Intermediate US$57.64.
First Nations chiefs behind Eagle Spirit pipeline project to make first regulatory application (Financial Post)
P.E.I., Quebec intervene in Saskatchewan's legal challenge of carbon tax (Canadian Press)
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs abandons planned carbon tax court fight (CBC)
Tsilhqot'in and Taseko mine dispute headed to B.C. court once again (Star Vancouver)
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez team up on climate change resolution (Bloomberg)
Mexico extends $100 million reforesting program to Honduras (Associated Press)
Oil rises towards $65 as supply concerns outweigh trade disputes (Reuters)
McDonald's Happy Meal toys caught in backlash over plastic (Wall Street Journal)
While large-scale tree planting appears to be a promising nature-based climate solution with new research suggesting that reforesting one billion hectares of land could remove two-thirds of all carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere since the 1800s, Stephen Woroniecki argues that the human impact of such activities must be considered.
Woroniecki, in a column for the Guardian, contends that an afforestation scheme must take into account issues of land tenure and land rights. "Done badly, benign-sounding tree planting schemes can simply be photo ops, shady offsetting schemes, or even land grabs," he warns.
He concludes that nature-based solutions, such as tree planting, "can be transformative in tackling the climate crisis, but only with careful stewardship grounded in sound biodiversity science and implemented in collaboration by local communities."

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Anokiwave founder and CTO, Dr. Nitin Jain, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for leadership in the development of physics-based models for mmWave System-on-Chip ICs.
The IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred in recognition of unusual and outstanding professional distinction. It is awarded at the initiative of the IEEE Board of Directors following a rigorous nomination and evaluation process. Individuals receiving this distinction have demonstrated extraordinary contributions to one or more fields of electrical engineering, or related sciences. The total number of Fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.
Under Dr. Jain's leadership, Anokiwave's portfolio of highly integrated silicon ICs have seen an extremely high percentage of first pass design success showing his attention to detail, his EM simulation ability, and the integrity of his modeling of the mmWave, RF, analog, and digital circuits. This is something rarely accomplished in this market.
The IEEE is the world's leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. Through its 400,000 members in 160 countries, the IEEE is a leading authority on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power, and consumer electronics.
Dr. Jain earned his B.Tech degree (in Electronics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1986, and his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY USA in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He has over 37 publications in international conferences and journals, and more than 35 granted and pending US patents.


NEWARK – The State Board of Nursing has permanently revoked the license of a Bergen County Registered Professional Nurse after a video purportedly showed her slapping and roughly treating a ventilator-dependent, bed-bound patient she was assigned to care for in his home.
Dorothea Harvilik, RN, voluntarily surrendered her license, to be deemed a permanent revocation effective immediately, in a Consent Order with the Board that resolves the allegations against her.
The patient's mother set up a camera to record Harvilik's interactions with her son after she noticed scratches on his hands.
Harvilik's employer reported the termination to the Board, as required by the state's Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting Enhancement Act. The law requires, among other things, that health care entities notify the Division of Consumer Affairs in writing when a health care professional working for them is fired or sanctioned for reasons relating adversely to patient care or safety. Upon receiving notice of Harvilik's termination, the Board immediately opened an investigation, which resulted in the immediate and permanent revocation of Harvilik's license.
Under the Consent Order, Harvilik agreed to the revocation without making admissions to the allegations against her. Under the order, she shall not hereafter apply for a reinstatement of her license.
Deputy Attorney General Barbara J.K. Lopez, of the Division of Law, is representing the State in this matter.


We will provide a brief update of the most recent advances in targeted therapies for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) to help guide the practicing oncologist faced with the dilemma of how to treat this complex disease.
The current standard of care remains chemotherapy, with recent data supporting the use of platinum agents and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARP) inhibitors. Immune checkpoint inhibitor trials have also shown efficacy.
TNBCs are grouped together, yet there is an extraordinary amount of diversity amongst these cancers, which have distinct molecular subtypes that predict response to therapy. The use of platinum agents and PARP inhibitors is now well supported. Novel agents including checkpoint inhibitors and antibody-drug conjugates hold promising avenues for the future.


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New video surfaces of Mexican president's brother taking stacks of cash
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FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech on the third anniversary of his presidential election victory at National Palace in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A Mexican news outlet broadcast video on Thursday of a brother of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador receiving stacks of cash several years ago, just ahead of a national vote in which the now-ruling party was competing in its first election.
The new video marks the second time that a brother of the president can be seen accepting large amounts of cash, several years before Lopez Obrador rode to a landslide presidential election victory in 2018 on a pledge to root out rampant corruption.
In the video released late on Thursday by Mexican news outlet Latinus, Martin Jesus Lopez Obrador can be seen receiving an envelope stuffed with a large stack of bills, which a narrator says totaled 150,000 pesos ($7,500) and were part of a recurring set of payments.
According to Latinus, the video was filmed in 2015 just ahead of elections in which the newly-formed Morena party of Lopez Obrador was competing in its first elections.
Latinus added that the cash was never reported to electoral authorities by Morena, and could amount to a campaign finance violation.
The man in the video giving the president's younger brother the cash is David Leon, a political operative who served as an adviser to Lopez Obrador before heading Mexico's civil protection agency. He gave up the government job last August.
Late on Thursday, Leon said on Twitter that the money in question was a loan he had provided from his personal savings.
The president's spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Leon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Martin Jesus Lopez Obrador could not be immediately contacted for comment.
Leon was also filmed giving a different brother of Lopez Obrador – Pio Lopez Obrador – wads of cash in separate videos published by Latinus last year.
The president at the time said the cash came from legal contributions by his supporters and was used for the 2015 elections. He denied the payments amounted to corruption, but called on the attorney general's office to investigate.
In response to the videos released last year, Leon said that from 2013 to 2018 he worked as a consultant "not a public servant," adding that he supported Lopez Obrador's political movement by "collecting funds among acquaintances in order to hold rallies and other activities."
($1 = 19.9947 Mexican pesos)
(Reporting by David Alire Garcia and Sharay Angulo; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Chizu Nomiyama)
Ten years on, South Sudan's leaders say peace is way forward
N.Ireland's Orange Order sees no appetite for violence at marches
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Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' to appear in LA court on murder charge
December 21, 2016 Edit
LOS ANGELES – Wealthy real estate scion Robert Durst, whose ties to several slayings were chronicled in HBO's documentary "The Jinx," was due back in court on Wednesday for a hearing on documents seized in the investigation of a murder case pending against him in Los Angeles.
Durst, 73, is charged with fatally shooting writer and longtime confidante Susan Berman in December 2000, a murder prosecutors say he committed because of what she knew about the unsolved demise of his wife in New York two decades earlier. He pleaded not guilty last month to first-degree murder in the Berman case.
Prosecutors have asked a judge to appoint an independent expert, or "special master," to examine crates of Durst-related documents confiscated by investigators and determine which papers should be excluded as material protected under attorney-client privilege. One of the main points of contention is likely to be the admissibility of a collection of legal files and other papers seized from a friend of the defendant. Prosecutors say Durst waived his attorney-client privilege over those documents when he allowed "The Jinx" producers to comb through them. The rest of the material was taken from Durst's Houston apartment and from the New Orleans hotel where he was arrested in March 2015. Defense attorney Dick DeGuerin said in a telephone interview he supports appointing a special master. But he also plans to address prosecutors' public release of a jailhouse statement Durst made in 2015, a disclosure he said could prejudice potential jurors. Berman, 55, was found shot dead in her Los Angeles home, reportedly execution style, not long after police in New York reopened their investigation into the 1982 disappearance and presumed killing of his wife, Kathleen. Durst was questioned but never charged in that probe. The Berman case is likely to revive discussions not only about the investigation of his wife's disappearance but also his 2003 acquittal by a jury in the killing and dismemberment of a Texas neighbor two years before. Durst was formally charged with the Berman murder a day after HBO aired the final episode of "The Jinx," in which Durst was recorded muttering to himself off-camera: "What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course." Durst told authorities after his arrest that he smoked marijuana daily and was high on methamphetamine during his appearance on "The Jinx," according to court records. –Reuters


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Kevin Klein's post centers around the concept that often times, marketers forget who we're selling to – human beings. It's easy to get lost in the everyday grind of metrics, conversions, call tracking, and spreadsheets. It's important to step back from data and metrics littered with numbers and think to yourself: Who am I marketing to? What are their motives? What do they care about? Who is my target audience, as individuals?
Imagine your user behind their computer. I'm a 27 year old Internet-savvy woman that needs to buy a special necklace for my mother. I'm less concerned about price, and more concerned about the type, quality, and uniqueness of the necklace. Therefore, an ad that's heavy on "special offers" wouldn't necessarily appeal to me. Rather, an ad that has sentimental value such as "Put her children's birthstones in a necklace for a truly unique gift" is going to get me clicking.
Create several different ads for different kinds of people. As I've mentioned before, people aren't one size fits all. Whether you're using Facebook advertising, Google pay-per-click, or any other form of digital marketing, you need to cater to different people's personalities. Using the necklace example, your potential customer could be a husband looking for his wife, a woman buying for her sister, or in my case, a daughter purchasing a gift for her mother. Write ads to cater to each of these audiences, and you'll be guaranteed to appeal to a potentially diverse crowd.
Tell a compelling story. To put it simply, don't speak AT your customers, speak TO them. This instantly humanizes your brand and puts a little heart behind your messages. It's great to market offers, deals, and discounts, but sprinkling a little sentiment behind your story works wonders. Give people reasons to click because you're a good company, and you care about their wants and needs. It's amazing how far a little compassion goes in advertising – because it's very rare.
Use these tips in your marketing efforts and I promise, a little will go a long way. Behind every conversion or phone call is a click, and behind every click is a person.


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Title: Publishing Second World War History as Linked Data Events on the Semantic Web
Authors: Eero Hyvönen, Erkki Heino, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Minna Tamper, Jouni Tuominen, Eetu Mäkelä
Keywords: linked data, semantic web, war history, data service, semantic portal
Hyvönen, E., Heino, E., Leskinen, P., Ikkala, E., Koho, M., Tamper, M., Tuominen, J., Mäkelä, E. (2016). Publishing Second World War History as Linked Data Events on the Semantic Web. In Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University, Kraków, pp. 571-573.
Publishing Second World War History as Linked Data Events on the Semantic Web
1. Second World War on the Semantic Web
Data about wars is typically heterogeneous, distributed in the data silos of the fighting parties, multilingual, and often controversial depending on the political point of view. It is therefore hard for the historians to get a global picture of what has actually happened, to whom, where, when, and how. We argue that Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies are a very promising approach for modeling, harmonizing, and aggregating data about war history. Our goal is to make it possible, for both historians and laymen, to study history in a contextualized way where linked datasets enrich each other. The paper presents the in-use WarSampo 1 system, where massive collections of heterogeneous data about the (Finnish) history of the Second World War are harmonized using an event-based approach, and provided as a Linked Open Data service for applications to use. As a use case, a semantic portal WarSampo providing six different perspectives to the war based on events is presented.
There are several projects publishing data about the World War I on the web, such as Europeana Collections 1914–1918 2, 1914–1918 Online 3, WW1 Discovery 4, Out of the Trenches 5, CENDARI 6, Muninn 7, and WW1LOD (Mäkelä et al., 2015). War history makes a promising use case for Linked Data because war data is heterogeneous, distributed in different countries and organizations, and written in different languages (Hyvönen, 2012). Using metadata, also different opinions and conflicting information about the war can be represented.
Many websites also publish information about the World War II, the largest global tragedy in human history, such as the World War II Database 8 to name just one. However, such portal data is typically meant for human consumption, and there are only few works that deal with machine readable data about the WW2 for applications to use (Collins et al., 2005; de Boer et al., 2013).
Our work contributes to the related research above by initiating and fostering large scale LOD publication of WW2 data on the web, based on event-based data modeling. The idea is to publish Linked Open data, aggregated from distributed data silos, for Digital Humanities applications to use. In our case study, the data is related to the Finnish Winter War 1939–1940 against the Soviet attack, the Continuation War 1941–1944, where the occupied areas of the Winter War were temporarily regained by Finns, and the Lapland War 1944–1945, where the Finns pushed the German troops away from Lapland.
We first present and discuss the data modeling approach developed for the WarSampo LOD service. After this an application of the data, the WarSampo semantic portal, is presented where events are linked to related resources, such as photos, persons, and historical places. In conclusion, lessons learned are discussed and directions for further research pointed out.
2. The data service: modelling war events as Linked Data
Table 1. Central datasets published and linked in WarSampo.
2.1. Data
The project deals initially with the datasets presented in Table 1. The casualties data (1) includes data about the deaths in action during the wars. War diaries (2) are digitized authentic documentations of the army unit actions in the frontiers. Photos and films (3) were taken during the war by the troops of the Defense Forces. The Kansa taisteli magazine (4) was published in 1957–1986; its articles contain mostly memories of the men that fought on the fronts. Karelian places (5) and maps (6) cover the war zone area in pre-war Finland that was finally annexed by the Soviet Union. Organization cards (7), written after the war, document events of military units during the war. War time events (8) extracted from various publications include, e.g., battles and political incidents. The data, over 5 million triples in total, has been transformed into RDF from database dumps, spreadsheets (CSV), and by applying OCR to documents. Named Entity Recognition (NER) techniques were used to link texts to data, e.g., to identify and disambiguate persons and places in the magazine articles and captions of the photos. In addition, new datasets are planned to be included in the system, such as the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE's audio and film material recorded during the war or related to it ("Living Archive"), and a database of prisoners of war.
2.2. Metadata models
CIDOC CRM 9 is used as the harmonizing basis for modeling data, with events providing the semantic glue for data linking (Doerr, 2003). Our data model for WW1, presented in (Mäkelä et al., 2015), is used as the metadata model to start with. The model and data is documented at the data service 10.
2.3. Domain ontologies
The data is annotated using a set of domain ontologies, including: 1) an ontology of the troops and their hierarchies, 2) persons with their ranks and roles, 3) place ontology of historical places, 4) event ontology of battles, politics, and other war time incidents, 5) an ontology of time periods, and 6) a subject matter ontology. Ontologies on objects such as weapons, aircraft, and vessels remain topics of possible future work.
All WarSampo datasets are available as Linked Open Data (LOD) at the "7-star" Linked Data Finland service 11 (Hyvönen et al., 2014), based on Fuseki 12 establishing the SPARQL endpoint, and with a Varnish Cache 13 frontend for dereferencing URIs.
3. Application: perspectives to war history
The idea of the WarSampo portal is to provide a variety of different perspectives to war history. There are six perspectives available: Events, Persons, Army Units, Places, Kansa taisteli Magazine Articles, and Casualties (Hyvönen et al., 2016). The idea is that the perspectives enrich each other based on data linking.
Figure 1 illustrates the WarSampo Events perspective application to the WarSampo data. Events are displayed on a map, (a) in Fig. 1, and on a timeline (b) that shows here some events of the Winter War. When the user clicks on an event, it is highlighted (c), and the historical place, time span, type, and description for the selected event are displayed (d). Photographs related to the event (e) are also shown. The photographs are linked to events based on location and time. Furthermore, information about casualties during the time span visible on the timeline is shown alongside the event description (f), and the map (a) features a heatmap layer for a visualization of these deaths.
Figure 1. Event perspective featuring a timeline and a map.
The events can also be found and visualized through other perspectives. For example, in the Army Units perspective, the events in which a unit participated can be viewed on maps and in time, providing a kind of graphical activity summary of the unit. In the casualties perspective, military units of the dead soldiers are known, making it possible to sort out and visualize the personal war history of the casualties on historical maps that come from a yet another dataset in WarSampo.
The WarSampo semantic portal 14 was published Nov 27, 2015 at and has had tens of thousands of users. It is implemented solely on the SPARQL endpoint of the WarSampo LOD data service.
Our first experiments, as illustrated in Section 3, suggest that heterogeneous datasets of war history really can be interlinked with each other through events in ways that provide useful insights for the historians. We have also learned that even in the rural northern parts of Europe, massive amounts of WW2 data can be found. We have initially dealt with tens of thousands of people killed in action. However, there is also data available about hundreds of thousands of soldiers who survived the war. In addition to historians, WarSampo data is very interesting to the laymen, too: every soldier's history is of interest at least to, e.g., his/her relatives. Managing the data, and providing it for different user groups, suggests serious challenges when dealing with, e.g., the war in the central parts of Europe, where the amount of data is orders of magnitude larger than in Finland, multilingual, and distributed in different countries. For example, solving entity resolution problems regarding historical place names and person names can be hard. However, it seems that Linked Data is a promising way to tackle these challenges.
Our work 15 is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture and Finnish Cultural Foundation. Wikidata Finland project financed the alignment of the historical maps in WarSampo.
De Boer, V., van Doornik, J., Buitinck, L., Marx, M. and Veken, T. (2013). Linking the kingdom: enriched access to a historiographical text. In:Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP 2013). Association of Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 17–24.
Collins, T., Mulholland, P. and Zdrahal, Z. (2005). Semantic browsing of digital collections. In:Proc. of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005). Springer–Verlag.
Doerr, M. (2003). The CIDOC CRM – an ontological approach to semantic interoperability of metadata. AI Magazine, 24(3): 75–92.
Hyvönen, E. (2012).Publishing and using cultural heritage linked data on the semantic web. Morgan & Claypool, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Hyvönen, E., Lindquist, T., Törnroos, J. and Mäkelä, E. (2012). History on the semantic web as linked data – an event gazetteer and timeline for World War I. In:Proc. of CIDOC 2012 – Enriching Cultural Heritage. http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/publications/2012/hyvonen-et-al-ww1-cidoc-2012.pdf
Hyvönen, E., Tuominen, J., Alonen, M. and Mäkelä, E. (2014). Linked Data Finland: A 7-star model and platform for publishing and re-using linked datasets. In:The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Revised Selected Papers. Springer–Verlag, pp. 226–30.
Hyvönen, E., Heino, E., Leskinen, P., Ikkala, E., Koho, M., Tamper, M., Tuominen, J. and Mäkelä, E. (2016). WarSampo data service and semantic portal for publishing linked open data about the second world war history. In:Proceedings of the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016). Springer–Verlag, forth-coming.
Mäkelä, E., Törnroos, J., Lindquist, T. and Hyvönen, E. (2015). World War I as Linked Open Data (2015). http://www.seco.tkk.fi/publications/submitted/makela-et-al-ww1lod.pdf, submitted for review.
"Sampo'' is a magical artifact in Finnish mythology that brought good fortune to its owner.
http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu
http://www.1914-1918-online.net
http://ww1.discovery.ac.uk
http://www.canadiana.ca/en/pcdhn-lod/
http://www.cendari.eu/research/first-world-war-studies/
http://blog.muninn-project.org
http://ww2db.com
http://cidoc-crm.org
http://www.ldf.fi/dataset/warsa/
http://www.ldf.fi
http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving\data/
https://www.varnish-cache.org
The application is in use at http://sotasampo.fi.
See the project homepage http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/sotasampo/en/.


Kwazee Texas monkey Jamboree with Ron and Jim ... great off the wall stuff, thanks for the fun?? :O:D:W Glad to be the bass chimp on this one!! :D Some day I will visit the great mystical land of Texas where this kind of music is common and controls the minds of the simple folk there!! :O My kind of land!!


Optimism in the Headlines? Hardly!
for the month of June..."
In his July 7, 2006, George W. Bush celebrated the creation of 121,000 new jobs around the nation for the month of June. In a nation of millions of inhabitants, surely, 121,000 new jobs in one month is like trying to find spit in the vast oceans of this planet. Bush may have had an inkling about the fact that 121,000 jobs is really pittance in a nation as vast and wide as this and, hardly a cause for celebration because he added, "That's 5.4 million jobs since August of 2003." I will leave it to the statisticians to decide whether 5.4 million jobs since August of 2003 is a another one of Bush's cause c�l�bre, or not, but I will forever wonder, where on this earth, and in this country, or in this world, have these jobs been created?
The headline for the local newspaper yesterday, Sunday, July 9th, was, "Owners losing homes". Foreclosures are up. People around here are hanging on to their jobs for dear life. And, jobs that afforded them a worry-free breakfast in the comfort of their homes each morning, hardly affords them that worry-free breakfast anymore.
Bush plows on, however. "People are better off. Things are working." He says. Yes. Perhaps they are working for him, and for the Halliburton crowd, and the Exxon Mobile crowd, but I hardly think that they are working for county and city employees, pool cleaning services, fence installers, pipe fitters, office workers, or, I dare say, even for doctors who bill HMOs for services rendered to HMO subscribers only to have payment for services rendered slashed more than 50% by most of the HMO companies.
Keeping economic vitality alive, he says, is a fundamental question faced by himself and others in Washington. "What are the policies necessary to keep this growth strong?" He wonders. Get ready for the butcher's knife now because he wants to keep taxes low. "One policy is to keep taxes low. If you raise taxes, you take money out of the pockets of small businesses and entrepreneurs, which makes it harder to increase employment."
As a former solo practitioner in mental health counseling-something that qualifies me to say I once owned a small non-profit business, paying taxes never broke my back. And it made the nation better off when there was money, collected through our taxes, to keep up with our infrastructure; money to go to our States, to go to our counties, to go to the cities and towns in our counties to pay for the upkeep of our roads and highways and hospitals (hey! Those were jobs and people worked at them, and they got paid a salary, and they ate a breakfast free from worries in the comfort of their homes each morning as they prepared to go to work). As a result of a government which collected taxes, our property taxes were kept low and within easy reach of our pockets. Gasoline prices were affordable and people could commute to and from work, without having to worry whether filling up the gas tank was going to eat-up all of their hard-worked, hard-earned, wages, and whether they were going to have to quit work and hope to find some equal paying job near their homes. Food was affordable. The cost of transporting food from one state to another across our nation's highways was not prohibitive. Due to the cost of gas prices today, Supermarket prices are becoming mind-boggling and oxygen snuffing. Many tables go without, one or another, essential nourishment, but, I am willing to wager, that, like his father in 1992, Bush has no idea of what goes on in supermarkets and at supermarket counters across the nation where people tell cashiers, "This is what I have. If the amount on my shopping bag exceeds this, then I am going to have to put some things back."
I still fail to see how raising taxes makes it harder to increase employment. I am about to believe (or, I already believe) that tax collecting is about keeping the middle class healthy, thriving, and alive. Perhaps raising taxes, or tax collecting, is something that goes counter to the ambitions of power grabbers, elitists of any and every sort, garden variety snakes and evil sorts. It is certainly something that the Bushes have never believed in.
Bush also said, "...one way to make sure we continue to grow our economy is to have a work force that's capable of filling the jobs of the 21st century." He did not however clearly say what the jobs of our 21st century are.
Bush did go on to tout reading scores for Chicago area students. He said, "The mayor said something interesting. He said, reading scores are up. That's a good sign. It means people are measuring and teachers are teaching. And when you have the basic-you know, the basic foundation for a good education laid, then you can focus on math and science. So the truth of the matter is, we have to make sure our kids have got the math and science skills to fill the jobs of the 21st century."
But he seemed to leave an empty there, a void: what are the jobs of the 21st century that need math and science skills? And are we going to develop people with math and science skills without giving them the benefits of a well rounded education? An education which would also help in developing the side of their human equation which teaches them to think, to feel, to have empathy?
Or, has training in and learning of any of the Humanities become something to be had only by the elite and the children of the elite? Why do I think that Bush was only talking about masses of workers taught to press a level on an x-ray machine, or to press a key on a computer board, or ... But when all of that is done, then what? Should the masses not have an appreciation of philosophy, art, music? Should they not be able to go home and enter the land of those higher instincts and learning that have moved civilized societies forward from time immemorial? Has that no been the charge of education, including the masses?
Did Bush himself ever learn the basics of a good education? Is this the reason why our country has been set adrift by him?


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Fellow, Lockheed Martin
Dr. Ben Calloni is a Lockheed Martin Fellow for Embedded Cybersecurity and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is a senior research program manager of Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth assigned to the Advanced Development Programs, formerly known as "The Skunk Works". His research interests are in the area of Software Security and Safety Assurance.
Dr. Calloni serves as the LM Corporate representative to the Object Management Group (OMG), is currently serving on the OMG Board of Directors, and co-chairs the System Assurance Task Force developing international specifications for System Assurance modeling tools. He also chairs the Cybersecurity Subgroup of the USAF Rapid Capabilities Office (AFRCO) Open Mission Systems (OMS) standardization effort. The subgroup is developing the common security controls and requirements using the latest DoD RMF and 800-53 instructions and guidance for OMS compliant systems of the future.
Dr. Calloni was inducted in 2013 as a Texas Tech University Distinguished Engineer for his lifetime contributions to the field of Software and Security Engineering. He is licensed by the State of Texas as a Professional Engineer in Software Engineering. He was the first software engineer nationally in Lockheed Martin Corporation to achieve software engineering licensing.
Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Dr. Calloni served as a USAF Fighter Pilot in the F-4 Phantom with 2000 hours. He served operational tours in Europe, South East Asia, CONUS, and as an F-4 Central Instructor School instructor. He has a Ph.D. and M.S in Computer Science (Texas Tech University), an M.A. in Theology (Wayland Baptist University) and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering (Purdue University).


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Ever dream of 'accidentally' getting locked in the toy store overnight as a kid? Now's your chance to make that dream a reality.
Airbnb has partnered with LEGO to offer one lucky winner — or more accurately, a family of four lucky winners — a night in the spectacularly over-the-top LEGO House in Billund, Denmark designed by the award-winning architect Bjarke Ingels.
For a chance to score the prize, all you have to do is enter your name for consideration on the Airbnb listing and answer a simple question: "If you had an unlimited supply of LEGO bricks, what would you build?"
The winning family will be whisked off to Billund (not coincidentally, also home to the LEGO headquarters) to spend November 24-25 in the 12,000-square-meter space. For reference, that's about 3 acres.
According to Airbnb, guests can expect to be welcomed by master builder Jamie Brerard, who will guide them around the space, and help them build their dream lunches out of bricks. Their designs will then be transformed into a real meal. And once LEGO House closes to the public for the night, they'll get the whole space to themselves to explore.
The remarkable home is constructed from 25 million LEGO bricks, and comes complete with a bounty of amenities, albeit, mostly made out of plastic. While it's not the only LEGO house around, it's certainly the most impressive.
The house features a cozy family room, complete with a patterned throw rug, family portraits, and even a cat. LEGO House also has 2 bedrooms with double beds, fortunately not made out of LEGO bricks, where guests can slumber away their cares under scenic handcrafted waterfalls.
See more of the spectacular space below.


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by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 02:36 PM EDT
Das Keyboard Presents First-Ever Ultimate Typing Championship
"Game On" – Das Keyboard Presents First-Ever Ultimate Typing Championship
Nationwide Typing Competition to Award $2,000 Grand Prize to Fastest Typist; Final Bout to Take Place at SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas
AUSTIN, TEXAS (November 11, 2009) – Das Keyboard has launched its search for the nation's fastest fingers on a keyboard, announcing today the launch of the first-ever Ultimate Typing Championship.
From geeks and gamers to soccer moms and plumbers, the Ultimate Typing Championship (UTC) is an opportunity for individuals to prove they have the fiercest typing skills around. Conceived by the makers of the award-winning Das Keyboard, the UTC will award $2,000 to the competition's fastest typist—a person who also will receive the distinct honor of being crowned as the nation's first Ultimate Typing Champion.
"Typing may not yet be considered a competitive sport, but we think that perception will start to change once everyone begins to experience the intensity that this competition promises to deliver," said Daniel Guermeur, founder of Das Keyboard and brainchild of the Ultimate Typing Championship. "We expect to see competitors sweating like gladiators engaged in the heat of battle. And even though trash talking is perfectly acceptable, we really prefer that participants let their keystrokes do the talking for them."
Competing in the UTC
The UTC is open to individuals who are at least 18-years-old and legal residents of the United States at the time that they register for the competition. The general UTC online competition runs through December 31, followed by a semi-final "Round of Six" that happens online in early January 2010. The final round will take place in person at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, during which two individuals will compete head-to-head for the grand prize and UTC crown.
An online typing application called TyprX was created specifically for the UTC and will be used to conduct the competition's typing races. The application tracks an individual's progress as they type through a random paragraph of text, then calculates their final words-per-minute (WPM) typing speed once they've completed a race. Individuals can take a typing test as many times as they'd like during the general UTC online competition. Top race results will be shared on the UTC website's leader board in near real-time, enabling participants to track their performance and keep a close eye on their competition.
"People are going to get hooked once they start competing in the UTC," added Guermeur. "Their fingers will ache; they'll dream about winning; they'll become attached to their keyboards like they never have before. Let the typing begin, and may the best typist win!"
For more details on the Ultimate Typing Championship and to participate in the competition, please visit
www.ultimatetypingchampionship.com.
Tags: Keyboard, das, keyswitches, mechanical


How does Inner Wheel operate?
All Clubs have a president, secretary and treasurer plus a few committee members. Each Club arranges its own programme for monthly meetings and selects which charities to support and what services to give.
Each Club enjoys close ties with its corresponding Rotary Club and is willing to give support when asked.
Clubs are organised into Districts headed by a Chairman and a small executive committee. District 127 meetings are usually held in November, March and June (evening). We have an evening Assembly in July for all those taking office. All District meetings are open to any member.
Each year we hold a Service of Thanksgiving and Rally, usually in September. This is the occasion when members have the opportunity to meet the Association President.
Around 3,000 members gather for our Association Conference each spring for more fun and fellowship.
In money - approximately £28 (covering District, Association and IIW) plus the Club subscription per annum.
In time - a monthly meeting but there are no attendance rules.
An instant circle of friends with similar interests within your own area. Similarly, if you move to another area because transfer is automatic.
Frequent newsletters from your Club so you are aware of what is happening should you miss a meeting.
Newswheel our District magazine is published twice each year with reports from each club plus many other items of interest to members.
Newsletters/magazines from Association www.associationofinnerwheelclubs.co.uk and International Inner Wheel www.innerwheel.com containing articles and information from our friends around the world.


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UFO and ET Disclosure at Burning Man 2013
The theme of Burning Man this year was Cargo Cult, which encompasses a variety of millennial beliefs, including the ritualistic 'myth-dreams' of John Frum, the synthesis of commercial value with colonization, and, yes, UFOlogy. We were as surprised as anyone to discover that the cargo cult metaphor involves a kind of underground First Contact ethos when it comes to the idea of extraterrestrials. Indeed, this year's Black Rock City metropolis showcased its titular Man atop a giant flying saucer.
There were numerous other alien and UFO inspired art projects, supporting the general idea that the entire human race is a cargo cult.
What surprised us most this year was emerging from the flaming hot playa to discover a curious bounded document inside Center Camp. The cover read: 2013 Burning Nerds Edition of The Proceedings of the Citizen Hearing on UFO/ET Disclosure. The document contained the transcript of a hearing that took place from April 29th to May 3rd of 2013 regarding UFO disclosure.
During this hearing, six former members of US Congress listened to the testimony of 40 military, scientific, and governmental UFO witnesses. Representing 10 nations, they are considered to be some of the most credible witnesses to ever testify in public about UFOs and ET.
Though we missed Dr. Joseph G. Buchman (author of the transcript) and his Census Lab and Burning Nerds Spark Talks, we are here to relay to you the provocative statements and theories issued during this hearing.
"[Roswell] would scare the heck out of [aliens] because we are such a primitive society"
-Stanton Friedman
The Roswell case remains a focus of UFOlogists because during the late 40s it contained three things that would likely alarm an alien species: atomic weapons, powerful rockets, and powerful radar.
"Artificial intelligence is an extremely valid hypothesis"
-Richard Dolan
Because of the distances involved in intersolar travel, UFOs of an extraterrestrial nature would almost certainly be Artificial Intelligence.
"Secrecy becomes profitable"
UFO disclosure and technology has been largely removed from government channels and monetized in the private sector.
"Nationalism is the only game in town"
UFO coverups result from nationalist governments fearing the global allegiance that would occur from the revelation of alien intelligence.
"They can literally bend space and time and move point to point in the Universe"
-Moulton Howe
According to Howe, a physicist working on ring lasers at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base said he had first hand knowledge of incomprehensibly advanced alien technologies.
"There is a 95 percent probability that there are from two to ten highly technologically developed ET civilizations within our own galaxy"
-Daniel Sheehan
According to a Congressional Research Service report commissioned by President Jimmy Carter, it will become clear during our lifetime that there are multiple alien empires occupying the Milky Way galaxy alone.
"[Humans] are not in a harmonious, balanced relationship with the rest of reality"
The human race, or at least many human cultures, are closed off from knowledge of other dimensions and vibrational frequencies because of our individuated nature. Our scientific knowledge of quantum physics should now allow us to understand what the Native American cultures of the past understood with regard to UFOs and the existence of other realities.
"The day before 9-11 then Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated that there's 2.3 trillion dollars unaccounted for in the Department of Defense budget"
-Steven M. Greer
This money was supposedly spent on a top secret 'special access project'. There is no paper trail whatsoever and the people who were involved were ordered not to speak of it under threat of death.
"[Laurance S. Rockefeller invested millions into] his UFO, paranormal, new-age, and consciousness-oriented interests"
-Antonio Huneeus
Both Rockefeller and Bill Clinton were extremely interested in UFOs. In fact, Cameron states that most of the Clinton administration believed there was an alien recovered at Roswell. Clinton was also very interested in who killed JFK, and delegated people to research the answer.
"[Alien intelligence] in the human abduction syndrome appears to be 100 percent telepathic"
Aliens may be able to manipulate reality–placing impressions within the human mind as well 3-dimensional holograms.
"It turns out thought is the best way to travel"
– Steven M. Greer
ET communicates and travels through the vastness of space using thought-actuated events called "Technology-Assisted Consciousness and Thought". It is part of a new physics that allows teleportation across vast distances.
More coming on the odd presence of UFO and ET iconography at this year's Burning Man…
Joe Buchman
I love that you found my gift. That was an early draft transcript of only the first day, however. For more info, contact me by email drbuchman@gmail.com


I found an old copy of Triple Play 2001 (Mike Piazza on the cover) and am attempting to run this on Windows 7. Whenever I put the disk in, I get the main menu and click install, and nothing happens. I was easily able to install and play MVP Baseball 2004 (using compatibility mode) on this same computer (installed several months ago, not modding) but I can't seem to get Triple Play to work and I can't remember what steps I took to install MVP Baseball 2004 in compatibility mode. Can someone help?


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Correspondent / Southern California News Group
Lou Ponsi
Teens help Holocaust survivor share her tapestries of Jewish history and concentration camp experience
Curated by two Pasadena teens, Trudie Strobel's "A Life in Tapestry," is on display in the Slutzky Art Gallery at the Merage Jewish Community Center in Irvine.
Peace Light flame offers a message of unity in Orange County
The flame originates in the Grotto of the Nativity in the West Bank and is shared with community members, who light their own flame to take back to churches, homes,...
Rails are now being installed for OC Streetcar
Orange County's first modern-day streetcar is expected to be operational by late 2022 or early 2023.
Orange High debuts first S.T.E.M. building of OUSD's Measure S-funded projects
November 12, 2020 at 12:23 p.m.
Similar additions and renovations are also underway at Villa Park, Canyon and El Modena high schools, funded by Measure S, which voters approved in 2016 to raise $288 million for...
Coronavirus couldn't spook this father and son from their haunted fun
they re-configured their haunt into an elaborate and interactive 10-minute show in their front yard titled: "Pirate's Cove: Origins."
Contributions of influential Latina women brighten new Costa Mesa mural
Painted on a 6-foot tall, 75-foot long stretch of wall along Baker Street, the "Poderosas" mural celebrates 11 influential Latina women for their contributions in areas that include education, faith,...
Laguna Hills High cross country coach makes course improvements during down time
With the help of a variety of volunteers, Coach Lynch has spent months giving a 3-acre segment of the course the team runs a much needed makeover the community now...
Fullerton Union High alumni bid old gym farewell
A new gym is already under construction on the east side of the high school campus.
La Habra Boxing Club, a haven for youth, has closed its doors
August 25, 2020 at 3:52 p.m.
For 40 years the club has trained fighters, but more importantly has been a place for local kids away from the streets.
Santa Ana alley is a canvas for muralists
"Now it's someplace that people want to walk in and take a photo ... and hang out for a little bit," said Moises Camacho, who is leading the artists.


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ABC Receives Inaugural Weil Foundation Grant
(Austin, TX, November 9, 2005). The nonprofit American Botanical Council (ABC), an Austin, Texas-based herbal medicine research and education organization, has been selected to receive one of the inaugural grants by the newly-formed Weil Foundation. The Weil Foundation was established earlier this year by Andrew Weil, M.D., best-selling author and pioneering educator in integrative medicine. The other three grants went to university programs and teaching hospitals. "We are pleased to be able to provide this support to four outstanding organizations," said Dr. Weil, chairman of the Foundation board. "Their pioneering work will help to create a healthcare system that fully recognizes the natural healing capacity of human beings, emphasizes prevention above treatment, ensures appropriate use of both conventional and alternative therapies, and makes doctors and patients true working partners." ABC received $5,000 toward the cost of completing Healthy Ingredients <http://www.herbalgram.org/products/hmbc/> , an online database of plants and other ingredients used in supplements, cosmetics and body care products. There are currently 63 ingredient overviews in the database and this number will increase to 130 by the end of 2005. Healthy Ingredients, geared to consumers and healthcare and industry professionals alike, provides an overview of each ingredient, including:
Descriptions of plants, including native growth regions
Historical and current uses of plants and parts used
Clinical studies and other scientific research
Market outlook, sustainability and future commercial growing
The Weil Grant will also be used to continue the development of ABC's Literature Database, a searchable reference catalog of journal articles and other printed materials pertaining to medicinal plants and the science behind their use. The system is used internally for ABC staff members and writers. Support will permit the system to be brought more up-to-date and will improve the functionality of the system. "ABC deeply appreciates the Weil Foundation's confidence in and support of our nonprofit educational activities," said ABC Founder and Executive Director Mark Blumenthal. "For over 30 years Dr. Weil has been a pioneer in educating the public in the role that natural foods and beneficial herbs can play in modern self-care and healthcare and his work clearly reflects the mission of ABC." "ABC has had a long relationship with Andrew Weil, his colleagues, and one of the programs that he founded, the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. We applaud the formation of this charitable foundation and are honored to receive its support," said Wayne Silverman, PhD, ABC's Chief Administrative Officer. "Healthy Ingredients is a prime example of ABC responding to the needs of the natural product community to present simple yet science-based information," Silverman continued. The Weil Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supporting integrative medicine through grant-making and other activities. The Foundation seeks to improve the training of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied health professionals; educate the public about health, healing, and lifestyle; reform public policies governing health care and the practice of medicine; and expand and deepen research in integrative medicine. Established in 1988, ABC, also a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, is the leading nonprofit, member-based international organization working to educate consumers, healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, industry, and the media on the safe and effective use of herbs and medicinal plant products. ABC is located on a 2.5 acre site in Austin, Texas where it publishes HerbalGram, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal, reviews clinical studies and other scientific literature, produces continuing education for healthcare professionals, and engages in innovative, science-based programs to promote its educational mission. ABC operates an extensive, non-commercial website at www.herbalgram.org <http://www.herbalgram.org/


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Sounds of Australia 2008
Theme from Blue Hills by New Century Orchestra, 1949
This is the theme music and opening announcement from the long-running ABC radio drama Blue Hills (1949–76).
Summary by Matthew Davies
CURATOR'S NOTES
Hanmer's theme successfully evokes the pastoral setting implied by the title. The opening strings suggest the breaking dawn, and the swelling horn lines create a feeling of spaciousness, not desolate but inhabited by bustling life. This scene is a perfect setting for the serial's stories about the lives of families in a typical Australian rural location.
This recording exhibits signs of generation loss as the sound from the original recording has been copied multiple times over the course of its use.
Theme from Blue Hills synopsis
This recording is a short excerpt from episode 528 of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills , including the theme music and opening announcement.
As the theme music for the popular long-running radio series Blue Hills , Ronald Hanmer's 'Pastorale' is instantly recognisable to a generation of Australians. The music introduced 5,795 episodes of the serial produced for national broadcast over nearly 30 years.
Ronald Hanmer began composing music for radio programs during the Second World War for the BBC's ITMA ( It's That Man Again ) radio series and had over 700 of his compositions published in production music libraries. Hanmer is reported to have been delighted when he discovered, on emigrating to Australia in the 1970s, that his 'Pastorale' had attained fame in Australia through its use as the Blue Hills theme.
This recording was produced as part of a production music library by the Francis, Day & Hunter company in the late 1940s. Production music libraries comprise recordings of compositions commissioned especially for sale to producers of radio, television and film programs for use as theme or background music. Unlike normal commercial music recordings, production music is sold with licence conditions that permit a wide range of uses of the music without seeking permissions or making royalty payments.
The New Century Orchestra was formed specifically to record production music for FDH and was comprised of experienced musicians, many of whom held positions in other prominent London-based orchestras. Conductor Sidney Torch was an experienced organist, who became conductor of the RAF Concert Orchestra during the Second World War and went on to conduct numerous bands and orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Blue Hills was broadcast by the ABC from 28 February 1949 to 30 September 1976.
Notes by Matthew Davies
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The People Speak
Tue, Mar 21, 2017
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
RUN TIME: 1hr 20min
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Based on the work of Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
Directed by Anthony Arnove
In association with Voices of a People's History
Co-presented by BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center New York
Part of Onassis Programs at BAM
Readings and performances by:
Staceyann Chin
Talib Kweli
Aasif Mandvi
Frances McDormand
Stew, Heidi & The Von Trapped
Martha Redbone
And more artists to be confirmed
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Some of today's leading performers and artists give voice to those figures neglected by history. The People Speak builds on the work of historian Howard Zinn (1922–2010) to bring to life the extraordinary contribution of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and laborers who built the movements that made the United States what it is today: ending slavery and Jim Crow, protesting war and the genocide of Native Americans, creating unions and the eight-hour work day, advancing women's rights and gay liberation, and struggling to right wrongs of the day.
By giving public expression, in the form of music and readings, to these rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past, The People Speak works to educate and inspire a new generation of people working for social justice.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC—200 AD, on view at the Onassis Cultural Center New York from March 9 through June 24, 2017. Free Admission.
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An Evening with George Takei
The actor and social justice activist brings his uncanny eloquence and signature wit to BAM.
Mon, May 1, 2017
André Leon Talley in conversation with Tamron Hall
Style icon and Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley discusses his life and career.
Wed, Apr 12, 2017
Poetry 2017: Word. Sound. Power.
The best spoken word artists from Brooklyn and beyond come together in this electric showcase.
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One World Trade Center (1 WTC) is a 'supertall' skyscraper built on the Lower Manhattan site of the Twin Towers which were destroyed on 9/11. It was designed by architect David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
1 WTC has a total height of 1,776 ft (541 m), an intentional reference to 1776, the year the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.
Despite controversy about whether the mast on top of the skyscraper should be included in the measurement, the Council on Tall Buildings and Habitat (CTBUH) decided that it constitutes a spire, as it is a permanent part of the architecture. This means it can be classed as the tallest building in the USA, and currently (2016) the fourth-tallest in the world.
It is also the most expensive skyscraper of all time, having cost $3.9 billion (£2.5 billion), the first tall building to exceed $2 billion.
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In 2002, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation held a competition to decide how to redevelop the Ground Zero site and memorialise 9/11. A design by Daniel Libeskind was eventually selected as the winner, under the name of the 'Freedom Tower'.
This design was then adapted and changed by David Childs of SOM, with further redesigns taking place in 2005 after the New York Police Department raised concerns about safety. Redesigns included a 57 m (187 ft) concrete base, or 'podium', to make the building more secure. The original plan for the base to be covered in decorative prismatic glass was also scrapped, in favour of a simpler, steel-and-glass façade.
From the 20th storey upwards, the square edges of the cubic base are chamfered back. This creates 8 tall isosceles triangles which form an elongated square antiprism. The tower is a perfect octagon near its centre, and culminates in a square glass parapet, oriented 45-degrees from the base.
The 'crystalline' form of the parapet creates a vibrant kaleidoscope effect, with light refracting in different directions throughout the day.
At the top of the building a 124 m (408 ft) sculpted mast contains a broadcasting antenna which rises from a circular support platform and is secured by a system of cables. A beam of light is projected from the spire at night and reaches more than 300 m (1,000 ft) above the tower.
The building has a core of 3 ft thick reinforced concrete stairwells, elevator shafts, and risers. These help it withstand high winds and earthquakes. At the base, window-less concrete walls are blast-resistant and protect against ground-level attacks. This has drawn criticism for being too 'paranoid' and resembling an 'over-ground concrete bunker'.
A number of sustainable features were incorporated in the building. Much of the structure and interior were built from recycled materials, including gypsum boards and ceiling tiles. In addition, ultra-clear glass windows allow maximum daylight penetration, while artificial lighting is programmed to automatically control the brightness on clear days. Rainwater-collecting tanks help to cool the tower and irrigate landscaping, reducing water consumption by an estimated 30% beyond the saving in a typical water-efficient building in New York. Heating is generated by steam, with limited oil or natural gas utilities on-site.
Construction work began in April 2006, and in April 2012 it became the city's tallest structure when it surpassed the height of the Empire State Building. Topping out was achieved in August 2012, and in May 2013 the spire was completed. The building was officially opened in November 2014.
The 'One World Observatory', an enclosed observation deck, opened in 2015 and is already a popular tourist attraction.
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Adjunct/part-time faculty now make up more than 50% of the academic employees in higher	education. With the increase in online	courses, the percentage	of part-time instructors is anticipated	to	continue to rise. Intermittent, part-time, and	contingent faculty hires have a	huge impact on the student learning experience. Whether your school hires many	part-time faculty a year or just	a few, there are some strategies and best practices for	recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and engaging these contributors.
Adjunct / part-time faculty now make up more than 50% of the academic employees in higher education. With the increase in online courses, the percentage of part-time instructors is anticipated to continue to rise. Intermittent, part-time, and contingent faculty hires have a significant impact on the student learning experience. Whether your school hires many part-time faculty a year or just a few, there are some strategies and best practices for recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and engaging these contributors.
Help to mitigate some of the rising costs of higher education.
A strong, organized recruiting process is the first step in finding and securing quality part-time faculty. Many academics in charge of finding the program's part- time instructors approach it in the same way they identify a new dentist or hairdresser. They "ask around." Friends and colleagues become the primary referral source and they only determine if the referred professional actually meets their expectations after trying them out – in the classroom. Another drawback to this approach is that it can lead to less diversity; referrals tend to be limited by social circles.
A well-designed and coordinated recruiting strategy requires the same level of attention that is given to recruiting a full-time faculty member. However, schools hire many more part-timers than full-time faculty. The argument against a protracted hiring process for adjuncts is that there is not the defined commitment to the adjunct hire as there is for a core or tenure-track faculty hire. Although this is true, it should not be the criterion for less effort put into the hiring. The student takes a course once, and if the instructor is not very good, that is the student's only experience of the course. Students do not differentiate between adjuncts and full-time faculty when they are assessing the experience they have in the classroom.
Universities that seem to do a good job recruiting part-time faculty not only have a high percentage of adjunct faculty (often 80% – 90%), but they also have a significant budget designated to the effort. They place ads beyond the typical sources, i.e. Chronicle of Higher Ed and HigherEdJobs.com. They have a faculty development office with a staff of 2 – 3 people, and they centralize many of the recruiting efforts. Some schools that have figured out the formula for attracting part-time faculty have large online programs, these include: University of Maryland University College, Southern New Hampshire University, and Brandman University.
The key components to recruiting are: sourcing, vetting, and interviewing.
Getting referrals from colleagues – this is generally a limited pool and seldom increases the diversity of the faculty. Referrals end up looking a lot like the current faculty.
Placing ads - the more ads you place, the better the results. Sourcing in this manner is a numbers game and can be quite expensive.
Posting the job on your website – without other efforts this is seen only by people who know to come to your website for a job or are already aware of the opening.
More proactive sourcing techniques include going to job boards, searching resume databases, contacting professional organizations, strategically researching industry trends and trendsetters, and finding where the people who know what you need taught hang out (both physically and virtually).
Ideally, all of this is done prior to the interview. One way to mitigate wasted time interviewing candidates that are clearly not a fit is thoroughly vetting them before you spend your valuable time interviewing them. Vetting is a time-consuming process.
The vetting process is best centralized. For a smaller institution, human resources or the provost's office is the best place to centralize this activity. As mentioned earlier in this article, some institutions have an office of faculty affairs where this activity resides.
Most colleges and universities have a very systematic approach to interviewing for full-time faculty appointments. However, when it comes to part-time appointments, the process ranges from an email or a telephone conversation with a program director or designated faculty member, to an in-person panel interview. Regardless of the method of interviewing, the process allows you to determine if the person is a "fit" for your institution in terms of philosophy, mannerism, and student support and responsibility. Of course, the interview also assesses the candidate's knowledge of the subject matter.
A technique called behavioral interviewing has been used to gain an understanding of how a candidate has handled prior situations. If you believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, then questions constructed with, "Tell me about a situation when..." are able to give you a better understanding of how the candidate has performed in a situation, than a theoretical question about how they would handle a situation. Henderson State University has developed an excellent set of behavioral interview questions.
Ideally, part-time faculty would go through the same interview process as full-time faculty. However, part-time faculty are often hired with short lead-times and that tends not to be conducive to group interviews or a more thorough interview process. Therefore, having one person designated to interview or a very small team designated is a good way to infuse consistency in the process. Over time, that person will become experienced and strong at detecting the best hires.
Recruiting qualified and diverse part-time faculty with verified academic credentials, industry-expertise, and proven teaching ability is crucial to higher education's primary mission of teaching critical thinking skills, as well as, specialized knowledge and abilities to future generations. Recent developments in human resources technology (HR Tech) are providing innovative solutions to some of these problems. Given the unique nuances of the higher education space, the developers of these systems should have years of diverse academic experience to understand the specific needs of higher education and the platforms currently in use. Keeping in mind the mission of preparing tomorrow's leaders, well-qualified part-time faculty can bring lasting value to the educational institutions that hire them—even if it is only for one semester.
The Delphi Project on The Changing Faculty and Student Success. (2014). http://www.thechangingfaculty.org/.


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Honeywell retires Convair 580 test aircraft after 67 years of service
Convair 580 taxiing ©Honeywell
Honeywell has retired its Convair 580 test aircraft after 67 years of service in flight, leaving behind a legacy of testing and helping bring to market some of the most advanced safety features in modern aviation. AlliedSignal acquired the venerable aircraft in 1992, and when the company merged with Honeywell in 2000, it remained in the test fleet until its final flight a month ago.
In Honeywell's flight test fleet, the Convair 580 was a workhorse in many areas because the aircraft's design made it capable of holding gear usually meant for installation on larger commercial aircraft. Its traditional passenger interior was stripped to make room for multiple data centers and servers to record information collected during test flights. Honeywell engineers used the recorded data to create what are known today as the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS), the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, and the IntuVue RDR-4000 Weather Radar System.
To test the accuracy of IntuVue and other radar systems, test flights were performed during real-life and highly dangerous scenarios. During the summer months, pilots would test the IntuVue RDR-4000 Weather Radar System by flying the Convair under and directly into thunderstorms over the Everglades and off the coast of Florida. The IntuVue RDR-4000 Weather Radar System is the world's first airborne 3D weather radar. It is fully automated, allowing pilots to focus more on detection and analysis versus controlling the radar manually.
In addition to flying through thunderstorms, Convair pilots would fly directly toward mountainous terrain to test that the warning signals in the EGPWS were activating when the aircraft was too close to dangerous terrain features. Once the aircraft was near, pilots would hear warning signals such as "PULL UP" and "TERRAIN."
"You have to have confidence in your aircraft to be around mountains, thunderstorms, and volcanos, because you're flying so close to terrain, you'll experience a lot of turbulence. Thankfully, the Convair is a heavy-duty aircraft and has very reliable engines," said Randy Moore, chief test pilot for Honeywell Aerospace who has flown the company's 580 since 2004. "I always thought of it like a 1952 Chevy pickup. That's what the Convair was like."
There are estimated to be fewer than 100 Convairs left flying. This aircraft was initially certified on January 15, 1952, as a Convair 340, not a 580. It was first put into service by United Airlines on September 2 of that year, and it had an uneventful run until late 1964. On December 30, 1964, the jet experienced a forced landing after both engines stopped because of fuel starvation. The plane landed safely in a field in a small town northwest of Los Angeles, and none of the 43 passengers or crew on board were injured.
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