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UN's development agenda requires 'local leadership'
09/04/2017 | Development cooperation; Euro-Mediterranean Partnership; Migration, asylum and integration of migrants
Europe's local and regional authorities will play a "very important role" in ensuring that the United Nations' global development strategy is a success, members of the European Committee of the Regions heard on 6 April at a commission meeting that also debated how the European Union can work with local authorities in Libya to reduce migration.
At the commission, the CoR give its preliminary support for an opinion that sets out recommendations on how European regions and cities should try to meet targets set down in the UN's sustainable-development goals (SDGs), and for an opinion that calls for the EU to develop "programmes to contribute to strengthening and empowering local governance in Libya and other countries along the Central Mediterranean" route for migrants.
In a letter read out at the meeting, the mayor of the southern Libyan city of Sebha, Hamid al-Hiali, said: "I would like to remind you of the situation in our country to show you that Libya is a victim of the situation, it is not just a transit country." Describing the effects of the military and political conflicts that have dominated in Libya since 2011, the mayor said that migrants are being recruited into mercenary armies and are being "forced to donate organs and to participate in smuggling of weapons". He warned that the situation in Libya risked "very soon" becoming "a security threat to all countries in the neighbourhood" and to the EU "unless serious action is taken".
Fathi Suleman, a political adviser to the mayor of Sirte in Libya, said that "the impact of illegal migration is evident all over Libya, particularly in the southern regions" at a time when, because of conflict, "local authorities face unprecedented constraints with very limited resources". Mr Suleman said that cities are struggling to provide basic services even "to their own residents" and have "basically" been "left alone with insufficient support to accommodate and to help" Libyans who have displaced by the fighting.
Sirte and Sebha are among a set of Libyan cities whose public administrations have been receiving practical support from the CoR and member regions and cities since January 2016. The initiative matches requests by Libyan mayors for capacity-building help with offers from European regional and local governments.
The CoR's opinion on an EU communication on "Migration on the Central Mediterranean route – Managing flows, saving lives" emphasises the need to strengthen local authorities, said the CoR's rapporteur, Hans Janssen (NL/EPP), mayor of the town of Oisterwijk. Mr Janssen's recommendations call for the EU to boost Libyan cities' ability to meet "basic needs and services", to develop youth policies, and to promote "alternative livelihoods", as well as for the EU to give its political support so that, "as a minimum", local governments are given "the authority and resources to respond appropriately to the needs of migrants in the communities under their jurisdiction".
Leonello Gabrici, head of the division for migration and human security in the European External Action Service (EEAS), said that "we need to rebuild this country [Libya] starting with local communities" and to accept that the EU's support will need to go "beyond classic development aid".
"It is the local communities who are the ones who really work with the people," said Mr Gabrici. "It is in the context of the communities in which they live that we must focus."
The second set of recommendations approved by the CoR's Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs (CIVEX), on "European action for sustainability", is intended to ensure the EU and its cities and regions respond fully and effectively to the UN's SDGs, a 15-year plan of action – in the UN's words – "for people, planet and prosperity". Specifically, the CoR's opinion, which was drafted by Franco Iacop (IT/PES), President of the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, offers the EU's decision-making institutions a local perspective on the EU's strategy to implement the SDGs, which – for the first time – set development targets for economically developed as well as developing countries.
In his report, Mr Iacop describes the EU's strategy as "very ambitious and wide-ranging", stresses that local and regional authorities should be viewed as "fully-fledged policy-makers", and argues that efforts to localise the SDGs should be reflected in greater political and financial support for local and regional authorities in and beyond Europe. To enhance the effectiveness of actions taken by cities and regions, the opinion advises national governments and the EU to invest more in impact assessments and suggests that the EU should use a pillar of its regional policy – national reform programmes – "in an even more strategic and operational manner".
Two of the UN's SDGs are particularly relevant to local and regional authorities: Goal 10, "to reduce inequality within and among countries", and Goal 11, to "make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable". Goal 11 will affect administrations' approaches to urban planning, transport, social welfare and sustainable lifestyles.
Luana Natali of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) noted, however, that each of the 17 SDGs sets out targets related to the responsibilities of local and regional governments. Local and regional authorities "are poised to pay a very important role", she said, because "implementation [of the SDGs] really depends on local action and leadership in coordination with all levels of governance".
To tackle poverty and sustainable-development challenges, "we need to give local governments responsibility and autonomy so that they can provide the right answers to the big social issues".
Ms Natali emphasised the political benefits of embracing the UN's development agenda, telling the CoR's members – all of whom are regional and local politicians – that the SDGs provide "a chance to defend democracy, to make sustainable development more inclusive and participatory, to strengthen local institutions and processes and to involve people in decision-making".
She highlighted Valencia, Tuscany and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia as some of "many, many" local and regional administrations in Europe that have begun the process of localising the UN's sustainability ambitions.
CIVEX commission agenda
Draft opinion on "migration on the Central Mediterranean route"
Draft opinion on "European action for sustainability"
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Call to cities and regions to give energy equipment to Ukraine
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EU's proposals are a welcome boost for legal migration
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Food crisis: EU regional and local leaders urge investment on local production for sustainable and affordable food
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CoR joins forces with JRC, European Commission and Parliament to assess Sustainable Development Goals on the ground
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ARLEM at the 7th UfM Regional Forum


Is it real? This man in River Ridge, a suburb of New Orleans, says oil rained down from the skies. Before you dismiss him as crazy, there has been at least one report that says the toxic chemicals BP has been using to disperse the oil in the Gulf of Mexico ultimately turns into gas and "moves to the atmosphere, where it will travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles from the site of the BP oil spill, in the form of toxic rain." Are you scared yet?


In response to the editorial about the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, I agree that we should be part of a U.S. bid for World Cup in 2026 ["Olympics? No thanks," Opinion, March 28]. The Seattle Sports Commission (SSC) pursues world-class events for our world-class community, so we're all in for another World Cup bid.
As for the Olympics, the SSC follows a vision for what we think Seattle can become. Instead of dismissing a challenging opportunity, we'll explore what this means beyond the 17-day event. Our questions will focus on feasibility, sustainability and investments that leave a positive legacy for Seattle's infrastructure.
When Vancouver considered a bid on the Olympics, it was in the same position. Their leaders didn't have all the answers, but saw an opportunity, executed a plan and forever changed the image of their city.
Fifty years ago, we sent an international invitation to the World's Fair and we're no longer a sleepy little town. Our mayor has confidence in Seattle and asked us to give thoughtful consideration to hosting the world, so we will.
It's Seattle's time, let's dream big, whether it is 2026, 2024 or sooner. Let's push ourselves to consider what we're capable of and then make it happen.


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Oh, Shut the Fuck Up, John Kasich
Ah, John Kasich, you who are supposed to be the calm, reasonable substitute for the savage Trump and the viperous Cruz. You and your aw-schucks demeanor and golly-gee-whizzos attitude toward being allowed in the big ol' game after coming from little ol' Ohio (the seventh largest state by population in the country, with a shit-ton of cities), goddamn, you are such a scum-licking pigfucker it's a wonder someone isn't assigned to punch you in your smug cunt-face at least once every single day. Just shut the fuck up already.
Looking like everyone's slightly confused, slightly unkempt uncle who no one would ever accuse of molesting his nieces despite the fact that he's totally molesting his nieces, Kasich spoke at the Women's National Republican Club (motto: "Stockholm syndrome is alive and well") to say that he offers the only path for decency for the GOP. Republicans have a choice. There's Path A, "the path that exploits anger, encourages resentment, turns fear into hatred and divides people. This path solves nothing, demeans our history, weakens our country and cheapens each of us. It has but one beneficiary and that is to the politician who speaks of it." That's one motherfucking terrible choice. What's the other?
"The other path is the one America has been down before. It is well trod, it is at times steep, but it is solid," Kasich explained. Yeah, that boring ol' path is where "America's supposed decline becomes its finest hour, because we came together to say 'no' to those who would prey on our human weakness and instead chose leadership that serves, helping us look up, not down."
Them's mighty fancy words for a man who has never seen an abortion restriction or defunding bill he hasn't loved, a man so full of right-wing jizz on education policy that he's helped destroy the school systems of Ohio, a man who hates unions, loves lower taxes for the rich, and is generally a total dickhead to anyone who crosses him. Motherfuckin' John Kasich is, as he told the womenfolk of Manhattan about others, "the path to darkness."
If you ever wanted to scream, "Shut the fuck up" to a sitting governor, check out his interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, where Kasich's just vomiting up cornpone: "Oh, I mean, my dad was a mailman. I mean, come on. I'm just a kid from McKees Rocks. I mean, being governor, I've accepted that. In New York City? Me? Running for President. It's hard to believe." Put aside for a second that McKees Rocks isn't some little village in the middle of a wheat field. It's a fucking suburb of Pittsburgh. No, the son of a mailman was once a Fox "news" regular and show host (of the bullshit-named Heartland), living large in New York City. He's a fucking liar. The whole thing is a goddamned lie.
And the rest of the interview involves Kasich saying that he doesn't "know the numbers" so many times, it's a wonder he can even count.
So shut the fuck up, John Kasich. Shove the whole faux country boy act up your ass and choke on your rationally-voiced irrationality.
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NEIL LENNON is "running out of time" to turn things around at Celtic as the criticism mounts.
However, former Hoops star Davie Provan, who won titles at the club during the reigns of Billy McNeill and Davie Hay, believes the under-fire manager possesses the qualities to answer the snipers.
It is crucial, though, Lennon finds the spark as swiftly as possible to get the historic 10-in-a-row championship bid back on track.
Two wins in the last eight games, the loss of 17 goals over the period while dropping 11 points adrift of Steven Gerrard's Ibrox outfit – although the champions have two matches in hand – is the sort of form lapse that attracts brutal attacks on a team boss.
Provan, now a top media pundit, told Go Radio: "I don't think people should be particularly surprised, that's just the nature of the beast up here.
"I read Martin O'Neill making a case for Neil Lennon. A rational man making a rational case. Glasgow doesn't do rational in times like this.
"When the panic button is pressed, all bets are off.
"And Neil Lennon has been around Glasgow long enough to know this was coming his way at some point.
"He has to hang in and hope that the club can find a spark that has been missing for just about the whole of the season so far.
"This ultimately will come down to Dermot Desmond and I think he will recognise the service Neil Lennon has given the club and will back him as far as he can."
Provan, who was part of the 10 players who won the league on an unforgettable occasion when the legendary McNeill's side overwhelmed Rangers 4-2 in 1979, added: "What I would say is Neil is running out of time and he needs something to happen and to happen quickly if he's to see this out.
"Second is last in Glasgow and Lennon knows that.
"He has a decent run of league games coming up. Favourable on paper. There is a chance for Celtic to turn a corner, but they have to find something so far that has eluded them."
Lennon will lead the Hoops against Sparta Prague in their Europa League Group H encounter in the Czech Republic capital tonight with a 5.55pm kick-off.
The European interest is almost certainly blown after disappointing losses to AC Milan and the Czechs in Glasgow, despite a worthy point in the 2-2 draw with Lille in France.
They commence the defence of the League Cup they have won in the past four seasons when they take on Ross County at Parkhead on Sunday and that is followed by a sequence of three home league encounters against St Johnstone, Kilmarnock and the Dingwall side.
In the midst of the pursuit of Premiership points, Celtic will play Hearts in the delayed Scottish Cup Final at Hampden on December 20 where the club can claim their twelfth successive domestic honour while completing the unprecedented quadruple treble.
The champions' only away league game before the turn of the year is at Hamilton on Boxing Day and Lennon's side will bring down the curtain on 2020 with a match against Dundee United in Glasgow four days later.
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First official NCDP Chair candidate e-mail
Submitted by WakeVerifiedVoting on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 11:14
Did anyone else get this today?
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0dca4115622a4b266ea3c43bd&id=8dd96199be&e=f7ff2ea12a
Fellow Democrats,
It's time for a change in Raleigh. The party of Jim Hunt, Terry Sanford, Henry Frye, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson is at critical place in North Carolina. My top priorities are winning back both houses of the General Assembly, keeping the Governor's chair in Democratic hands, and electing Democrats at the local level. Now more than ever we need to keep our eye on the ball and get to work. That is why I am running for Chair of your Democratic Party.
I am currently Deputy Democratic Leader in the North Carolina State Senate. In the Senate I have served on the Senate Ethics, Judiciary and Commerce Committees. My goals in the Senate have been the same as your goals: protecting education, safe guarding our civil rights and standing against a Republican legislature that is trying to drag us back to the last century. Together we can achieve these goals.
We need to fight the Republicans in every county and in every city from Murphy to Manteo. After redistricting the Republicans are willing to claim victory before votes are even cast. I'll make sure that we are a 100 county competitive force and remind them why voters in our state have time and time again chosen Democrats. We are the party that built North Carolina's schools, North Carolina's 21st century economy, and North Carolina's reputation as the civil rights leader in the South. That's why I voted against the Republican budget, stood against the Republicans when they tried to attack a woman's right to choose and voted against Amendment One being placed on the ballot.
From the grassroots to the State Senate, my commitment to the Democratic Party spans more than thirty years. Before being elected to the State Senate, I have been a precinct chair, Guilford County Young Democrats President (3 terms), Young Democrats 12th District Chair (12 terms), and Guilford County Democratic Party Treasurer. I was Mayor Pro Tem and seven term member of the Greensboro City Council. I have continually served on the State Executive Committee since the 1970's. I grew up going to North Carolina's public schools, graduated with highest honors from UNC-Chapel Hill, hold a Master of Public Administration from American University and earned a law degree from Wake Forest University. Early on I served as legislative clerk to US Senator Robert Morgan and then in the office of Governor Hunt's Economic Advisor. Since that time, I have practiced law in Greensboro for over thirty years.
After the SEC Meeting the election will be only a few months away. I am ready to hit the ground running, but I can't do it without you. I'm excited to be running for Chair and I hope to have your support at the May 12th SEC meeting in Greensboro. I look forward to the dialog that I will have with many of you in the upcoming days.
Democratically Yours,
Don Vaughan
It sounds like Vaughn is running for PUBLIC office - not the Chair of the NC Democratic Party.
Sorry - I really want to see someone who has real experience in the leadership of the Democratic Party. What has he done to organize precincts and to build the Party? What has he done to help make our Democratic legislators and other elected public officials be more aware of our Party platform? What has he done to help turn that Party platform into public policy?
Here in Wake County, we've had some really bad experiences with "electeds" or candidates for elected public office also being Party officers. And on top of that, we are going to need ALL elected Democrats to be at the front lines (in Vaughn's case - at the NCGA) every day to make sure the Republicans don't try any sneaky end-runs to pass their disgusting legislation or overturn any more vetoes. That's the reason I didn't support BIll Faison for NCDP Chair in 20011. And I can't support Vaughn for the same reason.
Also, I am hearing some very disturbing information about this whole NCDP "scandal" merely being pretext for the "electeds", candidates, campaigns, and - most shockingly - the consultants to loot and pillage the taxpayer checkoff funds. Vaughn was on a list of candidates "approved" by the very people behind this attempted looting of the taxpayer checkoff funds. Yet another reason I can't support him.
Sorry - many people worked too hard to elect Jerry Meek to NCDP Chair to strengthen the grassroots. Even though Jerry has gone a little "corporate", the grassroots are still here. We elected Parker for NCDP Chair, and I resent these sleezy tactics being used to force out Parker to grab the money. The fact that political consultants got out in front of this scandal - calling for the Chair to resign - says more about them being desperate for low-hanging cash than their concern for the good of the Party.
That being said - I'd support one of our current or former District Chairs running for NCDP Chair. Heck - I'd even support a few of the former County Party Chairs (one in particular from Wake County) running for NCDP Chair. Someone who actually has experience building up the Party by organizing more precincts. And someone who actually raised a TON of money, and left it in the bank to the Chair who succeeded her - until the next Chair pissed it away on those "Board of Elections" mailers produced (and sent out too late) by a certain political consultant who just so happens to be one of the loudest voices calling for Parker's resignation.
People calling for us to do whats good for the Party ought to have participated in doing good work for the Party, instead of just making money off of it - and incidentally screwing up along the way.
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He's a member of ALEC
Submitted by LiberalNC on Sat, 05/05/2012 - 00:30
He's an ALEC man. ALEC being the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Koch Brothers enterprise.
http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/archives/2012/05/04/new-nc-dems-chair-its-the-first-decision-dalton-...


Justin Bieber and Bryan Adams? Sure, we'll take it.
The Canadian artists performed an unlikely duet on Tuesday when Adams joined for an acoustic performance of Bieber's star-making hit "Baby." The spontaneous mashup — which took place at a Universal Music Group event at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin — saw Adams on the guitar, and Bieber handling the vocals, including Ludacris' verse.
Bieber's latest single, "What Do You Mean?" recently debuted at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making him the youngest male artist to debut at No. 1. The track also set a Spotify record during its first week.
Bieber's next album is slated for release on Nov. 13, while Get Up, Adams' 13th album, is due Oct. 16.


Argosy University - Washington D.C.
Argosy University-Washington D.C. is a for-profit 4-year institution. This school, which is near the heart of downtown, is located in Arlington, VA. It is one of several campuses. It offers subjects including clinical psychology and business management. This school offers two certificates, four degrees at the bachelors level, six masters level degrees, and six degrees at the doctoral level to students. In 2010, 1,277 students sought degrees from the 11 programs at Argosy. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities accredits this school.
In 2010, Argosy had 1,277 students enrolled.


On May 22, 2012, 100 people came out to hear Harvard Law School grad and world renowned business consultant and author Dov Seidman talk about his ideas for how to do business in our changing world. The Harvard Club of Israel co-hosted the evening with the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya (Israel's first private institution for higher education). Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, expanded on his idea that " Our world is being dramatically reshaped. The rules of the past no longer apply. In the 21st century, it's no longer what you do that matters most but how you do it." In other words, it is not just the revenue, market share or profit margin numbers that matter, but the way you govern your company from the inside and outside in the world. There are more than 1000 Harvard Alumni in Israel, including professors at all of the universities and several members of the Knesset (Israel's parliament), armed forces officers and business leaders.


Drive South on Cedar Ridge Drive for 2.1 miles.
Bullseye Range and Guns is on the right side of the street.
Take the Danieldale Road exit and go west.
Turn North (right) on Santa Fe Trail.
Turn West (left) on Cedar Ridge Dr.
Bullseye Range and Guns is on the left side of the street.


Newtown is known for its eclectic and vibrant Bohemian culture. In recent months, its specialty coffee culture has significantly flourished. The opening of the new Handcraft Specialty Coffee on King Street adds to Newtown's amazing cafe scene.
Handcraft Specialty Coffee brings a hipster and chic vibe to the area. They are also currently the only carrier of the Sensory Lab coffee beans in the area. They also feature other beans weekly like Proud Mary and Market Lane. Espresso and filter coffee brewing methods are both on offer here. Thanks to David Jiew's burger recommendation that I found out about them. Sensory Lab beans plus burgers could only mean one thing; visiting them ASAP is a must!
We started with a flat white ($3.50) and a piccolo latte ($3.50). Sensory Lab's Steadfast blend was used for both. The coffee was full-bodied with notes of milk chocolate and a nutty finish. Their head barista John got the milk temperature and texture spot on. I prefer the Steadfast blend as a flat white due to its strong flavour profile. The blend cuts through the milk nicely.
The Seoul Bite Burger with chips ($12) was the other reason for this visit. The sweet soy beef patty retained a lot of juicy goodness, was slightly sweet and flavoursome. The sweet tomato relish, mustard, pickles and onion gave it that classic cheeseburger taste. The bun is a little bit on the dense side but the burger as a whole was delicious. The nicely seasoned chips were crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside.
The fried eggs with sourdough toast, roasted rosemary tomatoes, hash browns and bacon jam ($12) was a next level kind of breakfast. Yes, you read that right! It had BACON JAM!!! It was like a caramelised sweet and slightly salty meat relish with flavour that reminded me of char siu (Cantonese-style barbecued pork). Spread it on your toast and fried eggs with runny egg yolk and you got yourself a breakfast party in a plate.
I love everything about Handcraft Specialty Coffee! The pleasant service combined with excellent coffee and food are just a few of the reasons to return. A great addition to both Newtown and the Sensory Lab family.
Italian food brings that feel-good vibe into my system. I find comfort in pizza and excitement takes over me when I have gnocchi dishes. Appreciation of good produce and simplicity is the essence of Italian cuisine. The newly renovated Candelori's in Smithfield took on that philosophy along with top notch producers to bring the best out of Italian food in South-Western Sydney.
The octopus carpaccio was one of my favourites of the night. I have never had octopus prepared that way and it was amazing! The extra virgin olive oil and lemon gave the octopus a nice smooth texture and light citrus zing. While the orange zest and pomegranate seeds gave it sweetness. The touch of dry chilli balanced out the flavours.
The oven baked figs was one of the stars of the night! This is the first time I've had fig as a savoury dish and it was all kinds of awesome! The sweetness from the soft fig and the lightly salty flavour from the San Daniele prosciutto it was wrapped in was a perfect marriage. The the soft fig and slightly crisp prosciutto gave the dish a nice pronounced textural contrast. The gorgonzola sauce completes the whole dish serving as its final flavour accent.
The gamberi in tegame was very Sicilian and also superb! It consisted of perfectly cooked tiger prawns with cherry tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, parsley, pomodoro and chilli. Sicilian food is influenced by Spanish cuisine. The punch from garlic and chilli along with nice tomato based sauce is a testimony of that influence. Here's a tip: finish off the sauce by dunking crusty bread in it. One of the best things ever!
I absolutely adored and enjoyed their wood-fired pizza margherita D.O.C.! The simplicity of tomato, melted buffalo mozzerella, basil and some extra virgin olive oil in a nice thin pizza base was perfection! The pizza base stayed true to how a Neopolitan Pizza base should be (one that folds and that has nice burnt bits).
Candelori's was both authentic and innovative with their dishes. The combination of quality ingredients from their suppliers and their passion for Italian cuisine, they took some things to the next level whilst keeping the others traditional. Congratulations to Candelori's for a successful launch!
Ramen Raff was invited by Wasamedia as a guest of Candelori's.


Autonomous digital currency provider Decred is serious about its decentralisation mission – so much so that Jake Yocom-Piatt, project lead, wants to eventually decentralise himself from the operation.
Decred spoke to The Block at Blockchain Expo last week – having already been the subject of a long feature earlier this year – which gave a good opportunity to run through the company's mission and history – including eschewing the now commonplace ICO route – as well as trends in the industry.
"To some extent, what we're trying to do as a project with Decred is remove me as the project lead," said Yocom-Piatt. "I have a lot of responsibility and I make a lot of decisions, but when it comes to consensus changes – which are typically the most contentious changes within a cryptocurrency – I've made a point to distance myself from being the person calling all the shots and flipping all the switches.
This sense of community is one which runs throughout the company. Take ICOs as an example. Yocom-Piatt said he didn't want any 'legal jeopardy' around the company, as well as a feeling there was something 'unethical' about it.
"In many ways, the spirit of the Securities Act is you can't take money or established valuable items from people in exchange for promissory notes," he said, "and that is in effect what many ICOs are doing. That's not to mean these projects are necessarily scams or bad actors – it means it's a situation where it's hard to determine who's a bad actor and who isn't.


1 The priests the Levites, [even] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance.
2 And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah is their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto them.
3 And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
4 The first-fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
5 For Jehovah thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Jehovah, him and his sons for ever.
7 then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah.
8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
9 When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah: and because of these abominations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
13 Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.
14 For these nations, that thou shalt dispossess, hearken unto them that practise augury, and unto diviners; but as for thee, Jehovah thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
16 according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And Jehovah said unto me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
20 But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah hath not spoken?
22 when a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.


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Stair climbing/descending exercise for a short time decreases blood glucose levels after a meal in people with type 2 diabetes
Correction - August 01, 2016
Clinical care/education/nutrition/psychosocial research
Hiroto Honda Toyooka Hospital Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka, Japan Laboratory of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Makoto Igaki Toyooka Hospital Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Yuki Hatanaka Toyooka Hospital Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Motoaki Komatsu Toyooka Hospital Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Shin-ichiro Tanaka Toyooka Hospital Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Tetsuo Miki Toyooka Hospital Hidaka Medical Center, Toyooka, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Taiga Suzuki Laboratory of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Correspondence to Professor Tatsuya Hayashi; tatsuya{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Honda H, Igaki M, Hatanaka Y, et al
BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2016;4:e000232. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2016-000232
Received March 24, 2016
Revised June 20, 2016
Accepted June 27, 2016
First published July 25, 2016.
Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/


The property is located within The Square Shopping Centre which comprises circa 230,000 sq.ft of outdoor retail accommodation anchored by Boots, Peacocks, Quality Save & Wilkinson. Sale is an affluent South Manchester suburb approximately 6 miles of Manchester City Centre which benefits from excellent transport links with easy access to the Metrolink Tram system and M60 Manchester Orbital Motorway.
The Square Shopping Centre is easily accessible sitting adjacent to the A56 which links to Manchester, Altrincham the M60 and M56 Motorways. Set in the heart of the Town Centre The Square also benefits from its close proximity to the Metrolink Station on Northenden Road (B5166) and major bus routes also on Northenden Road and the A56.
The premises are comprised of a former restaurant located in a prominent position on the Waterside Plaza development immediately adjacent to the Slug & Lettuce.
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How will your employees become your most powerful brand advocates?
In our recent research exercise, which has become known as the "Dawson Walker Communications Influence Index", we were astonished to discover that 44% of the senior internal communications professionals we surveyed said that under half of their colleagues understood their brand values. On the face of it this would seem to be an admission of failure on their behalf – given that brand values would surely be an important subject to communicate internally.
Most people would know me as a "glass half full" type of person and so perhaps I should be celebrating the fact that 56% of respondents are confident that the majority of their colleagues understand their brand values. But even my rose tinted specs cannot enhance this failure – as my Headmaster, Slobbo, regularly also used to say to me – "I'm appalled". If there's a bright side I guess we should applaud the openness of our respondents some of whom later joined us for a lively debate at a workshop:"Harnessing the power of your employees".
We're very interested in this subject because it's clear to us that the people in charge of internal communications are actually also in charge of the most powerful channel for external communications – your employees (as simplified below).
The pizza topping jokers, eyebrow raising CEO and hated investment banker could have been your brand ambassadors.
When you read this it's perhaps not surprising that most companies are focused on "policy" and "discipline" rather than advocacy. But we think that's rather short sighted and that there's a real opportunity being missed. Our "Influence Index" also revealed that only 11% of our respondents reward their employees' positive social media behaviour, whilst somewhat perversely 1/3rd of the same audience have disciplined employees for their social media mis-behaviour. Don't you agree that there's something going wrong here?
It's time to encourage authentic advocacy, put away your sticks and get out your carrots.


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Dylan's Restaurant chain plans further expansion of their retail brand
The firm is launching additional products and aims to push brand into England
Owen HughesBusiness correspondent
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Dylan's plans a major expansion of their retail brand in 2018.
Welsh Government Minister, Lesley Griffiths AM, last week visited Dylan's Restaurant at the Llangefni headquarters to discuss ambitions for further growth of the company's retail brand.
Dylan's, who opened up a central production unit on the Bryn Cefni Industrial Estate last year, plan to expand their popular range of sauces and condiments with new product launches expected in the new year.
Anglesey restaurant boss now wants to open a bar at former bank
The range, which includes three 2017 Wales Great Taste Awards winners, is already being sold in 75 speciality and fine food stores across Wales and North West England.
David Evans at Dylan's production facility at Llangefni
With a growing demand for the range, Dylan's are now looking to work with more distributors to help carry the brand further into England and beyond in 2018.
The company has three North Wales restaurants in Menai Bridge, Criccieth and Llandudno.
Dylan's Director David Evans said: "We've had a really busy year with the opening of our third restaurant in Llandudno, and the ongoing development of our retail range - and there's no sign of things slowing down with Christmas around the corner.
This is what Dylan's has planned next for Llandudno Washington site
"We're taking more orders than ever for our food products and regularly taking enquiries from speciality food shops wanting to sell our range. We've even had interest from a few of the well known national chains.
Dylan's production facility at Llangefni
"Next year, we're planning a bigger push across the Welsh borders, bringing additional distributors onboard to help us take the Dylan's brand to all corners of the UK and even beyond.
"All the products stem from recipes developed in our kitchens, using locally sourced ingredients, and refined through feedback from customers who dine with us at the restaurants.
Historic Caernarfon townhouse transformed into 'urban bunkhouse' and cocktail bar
"Through the expansion of the retail range we aim to promote not only the Dylan's brand, but also the amazing food offering that helps make North Wales such a fantastic destination."
The Cabinet Secretary said: "Dylan's restaurants are a fine example of a business working closely with local suppliers to deliver a first class experience for customers."
Lesley Griffiths
RhylDoctor's surgery targeted with anti-vaccination graffiti as patients waited for boostersGraffiti has been daubed on several areas outside the building
Gallery: New Year's celebrations across the UK in 2022
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Gallery: 2021 in pictures by Haydn Iball
Kiosks up for grabs for independent businesses on newly refurbished Colwyn Bay Pier
Colwyn BayConwy Council is looking to attract new vendors to offer food, drink, retail, arts and crafts


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A municipalidade foi estabelecida em 1 de janeiro de 2016 e consiste na fusão das antigas comunas de Groslée e Saint-Benoît.

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Everything in the world is made of subtle vibrating energy. This energy is information that vibrates at different frequencies. This energy expresses itself as patterns, sounds, light, thoughts, and forms the matrix for everything we see and feel around us. Subtle energy is present before cellular growth and is the basis of all manifestation into physical reality.
Even though these subtle energies are not perceptible to the five senses they do exist. They obey most of the same laws as physical matter and operate on a different plane or continuum than do physical energies. Energy healers see the shapes and patterns of these subtle energies and bring balance, health and vitality to their flow.


Meri-Jo Borzilleri Fans can get an opportunity to check out the America's Cup.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- It's a trophy that's tall, silver and heavy with history. The winning team gets to keep it until there's a new champion. It gets its own seat in the plane -- business- or first-class only -- and travels in a padded case with its own white-gloved security detail.
It's not the Stanley Cup, but sailing's America's Cup, said to be the oldest continuous trophy in sports, first awarded in 1851.
It's back in the United States for the first time in 15 years, and it's on tour.
Most people hadn't noticed the Cup, nicknamed the "Auld Mug," was gone.
America last won the America's Cup in 1992 and hasn't been home to the Cup since 1995, the next time the event was contested, when it was lost to New Zealand.
Following lengthy and complex legal wrangling over race format between defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland and U.S. billionaire Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle Racing syndicate, the series returned to the water in February. Ellison, the Oracle software magnate and world's sixth-richest man, used a revolutionary trimaran to cruise to a 2-0 win in a best-of-three series off the coast of Spain.
Now the America's Cup will likely be contested on its namesake's shores, probably within the next three years, and Ellison is determined the country will know it this time.
His challenge: get Americans interested in a sport many see as boring, confusing and high-brow. So a trophy tour that includes plenty of public face time, instead of showings limited to exclusive yacht clubs, could help.
Meri-Jo Borzilleri Unlike the Stanley Cup, people can't touch this trophy.
"Sailors understand it," said Tom Ehman, BMW Oracle Racing Team director of external affairs. "This is their Stanley Cup. This is their Holy Grail."
First-time viewers of the trophy, an ornate Victorian ewer stacked atop three bases, often walk away dazzled.
In Anacortes, Wash., where the winning boat was built, the America's Cup was treated like a rock star during an April appearance.
Sparkling from a recent polish and dozens of flashbulbs, the trophy was held aloft by two security guards pushing through a whooping mosh-pit of 1,000 people. Later, red velvet ropes separated it from the public.
Chelsea Ramerman, 32, was there with her husband Matt.
"It blows my mind," Chelsea said. "I don't know a lot about sailing. I didn't know any of the history. It's gorgeous."
Giddy sailors have doused it with champagne, clutched it overhead with sweaty paws, given it sloppy-wet smooches.
But during public tours, with its nearly 160 years' worth of engravings of past champions, it appears to be treated like a museum piece.
And unlike the Stanley Cup, trophy handlers insist the America's Cup won't be seen propped in a poolside deck chair, lugged to a wedding, hiked to the top of a mountain, or sleeping with Sidney Crosby.
Frequent contact with bare hands is a no-no, because skin oil degrades the silver and could melt off the engraving. And with all of the engraving, two bases have been added, more than doubling the trophy's original 27-inch height.
Security guards, wearing hidden earphones and Secret Service faces, accompany the Cup everywhere it goes.
When the Cup resided in San Diego after Dennis Conner won it back from Australia in 1987, it was housed in a glass case with its own alarm system. In its current home, San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club, the trophy is locked away off site each night.
The trophy travels in a 5-foot-tall Louis Vuitton case, too big for airport screening machines, and the case must be searched by hand.
But sometimes security isn't enough. In 1997, while on display in New Zealand's harbor, a political activist carrying a bag containing a sledgehammer pushed past guards and smashed it with several blows.
The trophy was sent to a special silversmith for major repairs. New Zealanders were aghast such a thing could happen in a nation where racing is revered.
A replica of the 35-pound sterling silver trophy would cost about $50,000. But the Cup's history makes it priceless, Ehman figures.
"It's uninsurable," he said. "It's like the Mona Lisa."
Meri-Jo Borzilerri is a freelance writer for the Sports Media Exchange, a national freelance network.
Meri-Jo Borzilleri has been a journalist for more than 20 years, most recently for the Colorado Springs Gazette, where she covered the U.S. Olympic Committee and three Olympics before resigning to freelance in 2007. Her work has appeared in The Seattle Times, USA Today, ESPN.com, nbcolympics.com, universalsports.com and The Associated Press.


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Matt Rossiter
From Club to country
*taken from a piece I wrote for the Leander Club Spring Newsletter
Since September 2016 I have been a proud Leander member training in the British Rowing Team at Caversham. The past 6 months have been hard but hugely enjoyable and I'd like to share my experience with you in this piece.
I started rowing at Abingdon School and carried this forward with three years at Durham University. In 2012 I moved to London and worked for two years whilst rowing at University of London Boat Club. In 2014 I decided that I wanted to focus more closely on my rowing so I joined Leander. I had two fantastic years coached by Matt Beechey and Karl Reid culminating in a rather dramatic Henley Regatta in 2016 where we won the Ladies Challenge Plate final after Neurus were disqualified. Through the 2016 season I also had some solid trials results and as a result, at the ripe old age of 27, I fulfilled a childhood dream by getting the call up train with the British Squad at Caversham.
Fresh new olympiad
The Rio Olympics was an absolute triumph for Team GB, the British Rowing team and Leander Club athletes. The end of the Olympiad brings many retirements resulting in fresh faces being invited to train at the national centre, including me. It's a really interesting time to be called up with new athletes actually outnumbering the old guard of returning Olympians. I'm sure this first year is a pretty challenging period for these guys but for us new crop it's an absolutely fantastic opportunity. Having the chance to train with Olympic Champions such as Will Satch and Moe Sbihi is incredible.
Training life at the National Centre, in Caversham, is much the same as what I experienced at Leander. The intensity is just a bit higher, the attention to detail is a little more with a dedicated team of sports scientists keeping a close eye on things. We train three times a day whereas at Leander I trained twice a day.
What's definitely noticeable and something that certainly takes some getting used to is the long sightedness of Head Coach Jürgen Grobler and his coaches. Personally, I am very much operating on a week-by-week basis focusing on just surviving each day. I worry about each test as it comes and then move onto the next. But you can see in the more experienced guys that the work is all going in towards building themselves for the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020. The intensity of the training is still ferocious but those guys don't necessary worry about performing at 100% every day. They know when the important days are and pull out the big guns when it really matters. When I was training at Leander I would tear around training as hard as I could every session. Training is tough, really tough and most of the team work in the afternoons to fund their training. The attitude in the national team is subtly different where the goal is to complete the training to a very high standard session on session, day on day, month on month building towards 2020.
Leander launchpad
As I've mentioned the setup in the British Rowing Team is absolutely world class but I feel that Leander has delivered me there and in as good a position as I could wish to be in. I've been exposed, all be it in a slightly watered down version, to everything that Jürgen Grobler could throw at me.
In my opinion Leander offers an unparalleled launchpad towards the national team. Unlike any club I've rowed at, everything is put on a plate for the athletes. The facilities, the coaching staff, the boats, the kitchen and food provision, the behind the scenes logistics and the overarching support from the Club, which enables athletes to purely, focus on the rowing. That said the training is tough, very tough and all the athletes have to work in their free afternoons to fund their training lifestyle.
Rowing with the British Team is what I've always wanted to do and I am absolutely loving it but Caversham will never have that intangible feel of history and togetherness that Leander has. We've all been at the club during the regatta and would agree that the atmosphere is like none other. All the athletes, members and staff give the club an amazing community feel and atmosphere. Caversham is deliberately clinical and generates results. But I do miss the club feel of Leander
Looking forward, the focus is turning towards the national trials in April where competition will be fierce to gain selection for the World Championships; which are in Florida this October. I will be giving an update on my first season in the GB team in the Autumn Newsletter.
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A Sydney University study on the effectiveness of junk food advertising on television found that four unhealthy food products were among the top ten items children remembered.
Every hour an average of 7.25 ads promoting lollies, burgers and fries were screened. Based on varying daily viewing figures, children might watch anywhere between 9.25 and 18 junk food ads a day – the highest figure recorded.


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Musings on data, privacy, and a few product announcements
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In the last decade, JSON has become the dominant data-interchange format and the backbone of most NoSQL databases. [1] So it's not surprising that the ISO SQL standard added...
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In my 6 months internship at Step in Books I worked as a gameplay programmer for Mur.
Mur is an AR mobile game which recently won the Bologna Ragazzi Digital 2017 award in the AR game category. I was responsible for design implementation, the camera system (a hybrid between gyroscope and touch gestures) and profilin/optimization for both Android and iOS builds.
Development of the Mur app has ended in March 2017, and is expected to be released soon on the app stores.
You can find more information about Mur in the official website.


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Cryin' Chuck Schumer Calls Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court Confirmation "One of the Darkest Days." Such as...Pearl Harbor? 9/11?
"Today...will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231 year history of the United States Senate." That's how Cryin' Chuck Schumer began his long, eloquent speech on the floor of the Senate objecting to Judge Barrett's confirmation. What he lacked in truth, he more than made up for in boredom and repetitiveness.
He went on to say, "And let the record show that the American people, their lives and rights and freedoms, will suffer the consequences of this nomination for a generation." He even had the audacity to call the confirmation process for Amy Coney Barrett "this sordid chapter in the history of the Senate." The only sordid recent events have the been the content revealed on Hunter Biden's laptop and in Ashley Biden's diary.
But what really caused my ears to perk up was at the very end of his speech when he again repeated, "Monday, October 26th, 2020 will go down as one of the darkest days in the 231 year history of the United States Senate."
Joe Biden's "Dark Winter": Was It Code for a Smallpox Plandemic?
In my rare moments of not wearing my rose-tinted glasses, I think it's time we stop calling him "Dementia Joe." Biden may get angry, stutter and struggle to find his words, but you have to be on the ball to drop code words, twice, during a live Presidential Debate.
That's exactly what Joe did on Thursday evening when he gloomily stated, "We're about to go into a dark winter."
Then he repeated it again: "A Dark Winter."
What are the odds that he'd "accidentally" use the exact code name for a 2001 simulation of a "smallpox attack on U. S. Citizens."


With Congress moving rapidly to revise the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), no issue has proven more contentious than whether the federal government should continue to require that states test all students in math and reading annually in grades three through eight. The push to roll back this requirement has bipartisan support, and key members of Congress responsible for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind law have yet to weigh in on the debate. In fact, the discussion draft circulated by Senate Republicans last month included two options on testing, one maintaining current requirements and the other providing states with far more flexibility. Consequently, there is a real possibility that, going forward, states may only be required to test students once in each grade span (i.e., once in elementary, middle, and high school).
What impact would a move to less frequent testing have on states' abilities to provide parents with meaningful information on school quality and to hold accountable schools that contribute the least to student learning? We address this question using roughly a decade of detailed, student-level records from all public elementary schools in Florida and North Carolina.  We examine how schools would look if they were judged based only on their average test scores in a single grade—as might be the case under a grade-span testing regime—compared to how they can be judged using measures based on the growth in student test scores from year to year, which is only possible with annual testing.  The type of growth measure we use in our analysis has been validated using data where students are randomly assigned to schools, thus increasing our confidence that it captures the true impact of schools on student achievement. The measure is conceptually similar to the growth measures currently used in some state accountability systems, such as student growth percentiles.
The figure below compares the average scores and growth measures in math for North Carolina schools; both measures are constructed to have an average of zero. For any given average score, there is a wide variety of performance in terms of growth. There are schools with above-average scores but below-average growth, and vice versa.
The lines on the figure show the cutoffs for the bottom 15 percent of schools on each measure, as this is the share of schools that many states have been required to identify for sanctions under the Obama administration's NCLB waiver program. There are many examples of schools that would be sanctioned based on their average scores, but not based on their growth, and vice versa. For example, among schools with bottom-15% average scores, 55 percent were not failing based on their growth and 20 percent were above average on this measure.
These data make clear that average test scores do a poor job of identifying the schools that contribute the least to students' learning. Another way of showing this is to calculate the average growth of bottom-15% schools, as defined by each measure. We find that North Carolina students in the bottom-15% schools in terms of average scores learn about a third of a year less in math than the statewide average, whereas the difference for students in the bottom-15% of schools in terms of growth is more than half a year of learning.  Thus, the growth measure more accurately identifies those schools in which learning is not taking place. We find a similar pattern of results in reading and for both subjects in Florida.
The figure also shows how schools serving low-income students are punished by accountability systems based on average test scores. The red dots represent low-income schools (the 10 percent of schools with the highest share of free-lunch-eligible students). They are predominantly on the left side of the figure, which means that they tend to have low average scores, even though they are widely spread out in terms of their average student growth (i.e., they appear at spots high and low along the y-axis). Sixty-eight percent of low-income schools that would be identified as failing based on their average score would not be sanctioned based on academic growth. In fact, 34 percent of the low-income schools sanctioned based on average scores are actually above the statewide average in terms of academic growth.
Accountability based on grade-span testing judges schools based on the students they serve, not how well they serve them. This is driven home by the figure below, which shows the percentage of schools serving predominantly low-income and minority students that would be labelled as failing (bottom-15%) based on their average scores as compared to our growth measure. Fifty-six percent of low-income schools would be classified as failing based on their average scores in North Carolina, whereas only 16 percent would be labelled as such based on their growth. The pattern is similar for schools that serve mostly minority students, and for both groups of schools in Florida.
One possible alternative to growth-based measures is to use a single year of test data, such as would be available under a grade-span testing regime, but adjust it based on student demographics. In other words, schools serving students that tend to score lower, such as low-income and minority students, are compared to schools serving similar student bodies rather than all schools in the state. The figure below compares a demographic-adjusted average-score-based measure to our growth-based measure of school math performance for each school in North Carolina.
Growth-based measures and demographic-adjusted average test scores identify similar types of schools as low-performing, as shown by the fact that the red dots (low-income schools) are spread out in the figure, as opposed to clustered on the left-hand side. However, the two measures do not identify the same schools as low-performing; the correlation between the two measures is only 0.56. About seven percent of all schools would fall in the bottom 15 percent of schools based on their adjusted scores, but not based on their growth. The opposite is true as well, with schools with very poor growth avoiding sanction based on mediocre (but not terrible) average scores. Demographic-adjusted average test scores also do a worse job at identifying schools where students learn the least, with the average growth rates of bottom-15% schools based on this metric closer to that of the average score measure than the growth-based measure. The reason growth measures outperform demographic adjustments when judging school quality is straightforward: although student characteristics such as family income are strongly correlated with test scores, the correlation is not perfect.
In sum, our results confirm that using average test scores from a single year to judge school quality is unacceptable from a fairness and equity perspective. Using demographic adjustments is an unsatisfying alternative for at least two reasons. In addition to providing less accurate information about the causal impact of schools on their students' learning, the demographic adjustments implicitly set lower expectations for some groups of students than for others.
Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students' academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps. This is a legitimate concern, and policymakers may want to strike a balance between average scores and growth when deciding where to focus improvement efforts. However, not administering the annual tests required to produce student growth measures would make it impossible to distinguish those schools where students learn very little from those that perform well despite difficult circumstances.
An exclusive reliance on student performance levels, on the other hand, is perhaps the principal shortcoming of the much-maligned accountability system mandated by No Child Left Behind. Under that system, whether a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress is determined primarily based on the share of students scoring at proficient levels in math and reading in a given year. But a key reason Congress mandated such a system in 2002 was that many states were not yet administering annual tests, and many of those that did lacked the capacity to track the performance of individual students over time. Eliminating the annual testing requirement would therefore recreate the conditions that led to the adoption of a mistaken accountability system in the first place.
Policymakers thus face a stark choice: require annual testing or settle for low-quality and potentially misleading information on school quality.
This post originally appeared on the Brown Center Chalkboard.
 We thank Katharine Lindquist for exceptional research assistance. The analysis excludes observations from years in which a school tested less than a total of 20 students across the fourth and fifth grades.
 The average test score measure is simply the average fifth grade score (standardized by grade and year) of each school in each year. The growth measure is based on aggregated residuals from a regression of current-year scores in fourth and fifth grade on prior-year scores in both subjects (with squared and cubed terms included in addition to the linear terms) and grade-by-year fixed effects.
 Conversions of achievement growth to percent of a school year are based on effect sizes for fifth grade math reported in Hill et al. (2008), "Empirical Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Sizes in Research, Child Development, 2(3): 172-177.
 We control for gender, race, eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, limited English proficiency, gifted, cognitive disability, other disability, and whether the student is repeating the grade.


The Turner Report on Financial Regulation was reported on PrefBlog in March. The government has now taken some time off from its regularly scheduled banker-bashing to address the issues raised.
third, the failure of global regulatory standards to respond to the major changes in the financial markets, which have increased complexity and system-wide risk, or to the tendency for system-wide risks to build up during economic upswings.
… which is a lot more balanced than what they spout for the benefit of the man in the street.
Two ideas to improve banks access to capital during downturns or crises are being aired in academic and policy circles. Both have merits although how they could be applied in practice is yet to be determined.
Capital insurance:Banks essentially face an insurance problem: when faced with a shortage of capital, rather than having to raise new capital at a high market cost it would be more efficient if banks were delivered capital at a pre-agreed (lower) price though a pre-funded insurance policy. Paying the insurance premium in an expansion would be one method of providing some cost to the expansion of credit in an upturn. However, in a systemic crisis the insurance policy would need to pay out to several banks together. In order to ensure that these obligations could always be met, the insurance would probably need to be run by the state sector.
Debt-equity conversion: When banks are forced to raise new equity capital the initial benefits are shared with the existing debt holders as they have a senior claim over equity in the event of liquidation. One solution would be to make some of the debt (perhaps the subordinated debt tranche only) convertible into equity in the event of a systemic crisis and on the authority of the financial regulator. This would immediately inject capital into the bank and reduce the need to raise any new equity capital. The holders of the debt would also have more incentive to impose market discipline on the banks.
The reference supplied for the second option is "Building an incentive-compatible safety net", C. Calomiris, in Journal of Banking and Finance, 1999; this article is available for purchase from Science Direct and is freely available in HTML form from the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Assuming that the AEI transcript is reliable, though, I see very little support for the idea in the Calomiris paper (Calomiris' ideas are frequently discussed on PrefBlog, but I certainly don't remember seeing this one).
Regardless of origin, I consider this a fine idea at bottom, although I am opposed to the idea that the triggering mechanism be a ruling by regulatory authorities. I suggest that greater certainty for investors, regulators and issuers could be achieved with little controversy if conversion were to be triggered instead by the trading price of the bank's common.
In such a world, regulators approving a preferred share for inclusion in Tier 1 Capital would require a forced conversion at some percentage of the current common price if the volume-weighted trading price for a calendar month (quarter?) was below that conversion price. Thus, assuming the chosen percentage was 50%, if RY were to issue preferreds at $25 par value at a time when its common was trading at $50, there would be forced conversion of prefs into common on a 1:1 basis if the common traded below $25 for the required period.
This could bring about interesting arbitrage plays with options – so much the better!
One effect would be that as the common traded lower – presumably in response to Bad Things happening at the company – the preferred share would start behaving more and more like an equity itself – which is precisely what we want.
We shall see, but I hope this idea gains some traction in the halls of power.
Yes, the citation of my work is relevant to the proposal, although it takes a little explaining to see the connection. I have been advocating the use of some form of uninsured debt requirement as part of capital requirements for a long time. The conversion of hybrid idea is a new version of that, which has the advantages of my proposal and also some additional advantages that Mark Flannery and others have pointed to. I like the idea of requiring a minimal amount of "contingent capital" which would take the form of sub debt that converts into equity in adverse circumstances.
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One potential issue with your proposed example for RY is that a lot can happen to the common over time (even 10 years). In this crisis, RY never traded below its high of 4-5 years ago (an estimate), although Citi, BAC, and other US banks did.
Perhaps what you need instead is a >60-75% decline over a reference price defined as 1 year ago. In a period of inflation, bank prices would decline gradually over time as the inflation built up, but it would not trigger conversion.
Also, is a forced conversion better than one with Board discretion?
We can look at one of the older PerpetualDiscounts, CM.PR.P, with a convenient prospectus dated 1997-10-6. If we look at the 1998 Annual Report we see that the common price in fiscal 1997 varied between 26.55 and 41.75, closing nearer the high end.
Thus given that there have been no intervening splits, we can say that, under the 50% rule suggested above, CM.PR.P would have been issued with a mandatory conversion price of about $21 if that floor level was ever breached.
A conversion price unadjusted by inflation would have the advantage of simplicity (I hear lots of complaints that preferreds are complicated enough already!) and also easily meet the regulatory desire that conditions of issue reflect the market at time of issue.
And, after all, the objective is simply to force conversion into equity at some price well above zero; the actual price doesn't matter so much. I don't like the idea of using a stale reference price; one reason being is that it would make it harder to issue preferreds during a market decline (since they would be closer to the conversion threshold). During the crisis, preferred share issuance has helped out a lot.
I would prefer forced conversion to making it discretionary, whether it was the Board or the Regulators who had such discretion. Such a conversion will occur – by design – at a time of stress; the exercise of discretion might be interpreted in a funny way by the markets. We've seen a lot of that with sub-debt calls for redemption while out of the money during the crisis, since exercising sound business judgment has been interpreted as a sign of weakness.
There are instruments out there like this already. For instance the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has a tier-1 innovative security called PERLS III, essentially a floating step-up with a margin of 1.05%, stepping up to 2.05% in 2016. It trades on the ASX as "PCAPA". Issued in 2006.
The interesting feature is that if the bank's Tier 1 capital ratio drops below 5% an "APRA Event" occurs, and the prefs convert into shares, and the maximum conversion number is 100. These securities have a face value of $200 and the current CBA share price is around the $50 mark. So if the bank is in real trouble, they'll convert into the face value of equity. If the bank is in extraordinary trouble, they'll convert into equity but not dilute equity into oblivion.
– it's a complex security for retail, the prospectus is 120-odd pages long and full of little conditions. Frankly it's a complex security for sophisticated investors.
What I'd love to see is an instrument that deals with liquidity. There is a hybrid instrument again on the ASX, called IANG – the oddest security imaginable. Essentially it's a money market fund over which IAG (an insurer) have a call. At any time IAG can exercise an option to pull the money market fund on balance sheet and issue conventional preference shares in IAG for a value equivalent to the original investment.
I personally dislike IANG because there's not enough of a penalty for IAG exercising the option, but the underlying principle is sound. If there was a penalty (e.g. IAG exercises option, issues $110 preference shares per $100 money-market funds accessed) then it could be lovely.
Canada has Innovative Tier 1 Capital with the potential for mandatory conversion into preferred shares (e.g., the recent TD CaTS IV-3 issue), but I am not aware of any mandatory conversions into common.
I like the "APRA event" provisions of the PCAPA issue, but still think it preferable to make the price of the common a trigger for mandatory conversion, given that Capital Ratios haven't really performed all that well in this crisis.
IANG sounds fascinating, but your idea would lead to an immediate loss of $10 (probably in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, but it might hit the income statement) at a time when a loss – even if only for bookkeeping purposes – would be very nasty. I suggest that it would be better for the preferreds to pay some kind of spread to the bank bill rate.


Buddy Dive Resort's house reef, this site is perfect for beginners. Black crinoids can be found perched on coral heads in the shallows here. A resident tarpon greets most night divers. Depth 30-100 feet (9-30 meters).


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Kollbach ist ein geographischer Name:

Gewässer:
 Kollbach (Donau), linker Zufluss der Donau in Deggendorf, Landkreis Deggendorf, Bayern
 Kollbach (Kilverbach), linker Zufluss des Kilverbachs nach Rödinghausen, Kreis Herford, Nordrhein-Westfalen
 Kollbach (Nagold), linker Zufluss der Nagold zwischen Calw und Bad Liebenzell, Landkreis Calw, Baden-Württemberg; siehe Liste der Zuflüsse der Nagold
 Kollbach (Vilskanal) (Femininum), rechter Zufluss des Vilskanals neben der Altvils bei Kröhstorf, Markt Eichendorf, Landkreis Dingolfing-Landau, Bayern

Orte:
 Kollbach (Gangkofen), Pfarrdorf des Marktes Gangkofen, Landkreis Rottal-Inn, Bayern
 Kollbach (Malgersdorf), Einöde der Gemeinde Malgersdorf, Landkreis Rottal-Inn, Bayern
 Kollbach (Petershausen), Pfarrdorf der Gemeinde Petershausen, Landkreis Dachau, Bayern
 Kollbach (Tann), Weiler des Marktes Tann, Landkreis Rottal-Inn, Bayern

Gebäude:
 Burgstall Kollbach, abgegangene Burg bei Kollbach, Gemeinde Petershausen, Landkreis Dachau, Bayern

Kollbach ist ein Familienname:
 Karl Kollbach (1858–1911), deutscher Reiseschriftsteller

Siehe auch:
 Kohlbach
 Kolbach
 Kolbbach
 Kollenbach
 Kollerbach


Are you looking to be an empowered female Super Hero? Look no further than Marvel's recent update to the Spiderman series…Spider Gwen!
In 2014, Marvel Comics decided to explore a world where Gwen Stacy, in lieu of Peter Parker, was bitten by a radioactive spider and had to accept her role as Spider-Woman. This creative DIY costume is sure to get your spider-senses tingling!
Step 1. Take the White suit and cut the top off (image A). Cut "swooshes" from the side of the costume (image B). These pieces will be attached with glue or needle and thread to the black cat suit.
Step 2. Cut the head off of the white suit (this will become Spider Gwen's hood).
Step 3. Take the child's Spiderman costume and cut out 2 triangles with rounded bottoms.
Step 4. Cut down the center of the white suit top (piece A) from Step 1 and attach the hood from Step 2. (You can either glue or sew the pieces together).
Step 5. Attach the top (piece A) from Step 4 to the cat costume with needle and thread or with glue.
Step 6. Finish the look by attaching the Spiderman triangles from Step 3 to the arms of the Spider Gwen suit.
Swing and sway from the webs you weave this Halloween when you don the hood of one of Marvel's newest heroes, Spider-Gwen! And if you're still looking for your Peter Parker, Wholesale Halloween Costumes can help with an extensive selection of Spider-Man costumes!


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The OSWeb extension for OpenSesame (Figure 1) allows you to test experiments in a browser, and to export experiments in a format that you can import into JATOS (desribed below).
The extension is pre-installed in the Windows and Mac OS packages of OpenSesame 3.2.6 and later.
Figure 1. The OSWeb extension for OpenSesame.
In OpenSesame, open the OSWeb extension (Menu → Tools → OSWeb).
The extension will perform a simple (and incomplete) check to see if your experiment appears to be compatible with OSWeb.
If no problems are detected, click 'Test experiment in external browser'.
This will open the experiment in your default browser so that you can check if the experiment runs as expected (Figure 2).
Figure 2. The welcome screen of OSWeb when testing the experiment in a browser.
You can get and set experimental variables using the vars object, which works similarly to the var object in Python.
You cannot create Canvas, Keyboard objects, etc.
OSWeb is under active development. If you want to make sure that you're running the latest version, you can upgrade the OSWeb extension by running the command below in the OpenSesame debug window. This may require you to run OpenSesame as administrator on Windows.
Currently, you need to host your own JATOS installation to manage experiments.
JATOS is a system for managing online experiments. It allows you to create accounts for experimenters, upload experiments, and generate links that you can distribute to participants. JATOS needs to be installed on your own web server. However, for testing purposes, you can use the JATOS test server (Figure 3).
Figure 3. For testing purposes, you can use the JATOS test server.
Figure 4. Click on 'Import study' and select the .zip file that you have exported with the OSWeb extension.
Figure 5. Once the experiment has been successfully imported in JATOS, it appears in the list of experiments.


iPhones, iPads or other tablets to the Museum. We'd use these to enhance exhibits with existing media (e.g. bird sounds via the Macaulay Library). We also want to explore, test, and perhaps even develop some of our own apps to deepen and diversify the Museum experience.
A critter cam (or several) for new and unusual views of our trails and feeders. Should we seek one that can be shared online easily? What do you recommend? GoPro? Wingscapes? Wildgame? A differnt kind? How come?
Of course we welcome any and all contributions! Checks may be made out to the Birds of Vermont Museum and mailed to us at 900 Sherman Hollow Road, Huntington, VT 05462. You can give online too, with JustGive or Network for Good. (If you want us to do Paypal too, tell us!). Donations are tax-deductible.
Hello Harvey Schugar, do you have in this museum?
I've been using Sibley's Field Guide for the last three years, and my Western Sibley's is very well worn. But now, the field guide I refer to is the National Geographic. The new fifth edition is great. Rather than just list field marks, it offers tips on distinguishing similar species. The art is all new, and IMHO, very close to actual (compared to previous editions which were…schematic…[that's putting it kindly]).
Additionally, the submerged tabs are very handy, and they've picked up on putting the map in the back, like Sibleys.
My only complaints are that it's not a harder cover, and that I'd like it more narrow and tall, rather than wide and short. Nits. It's a fabulous field guide.


Having problems with your HP Pavilion dv5-1160us Notebook ?
What are regional codes ?
Motion picture studios want to control the home release of movies in different countries because theater releases aren't simultaneous (a movie may come out on video in the U.S. when it's just hitting screens in Europe). Also, studios sell distribution rights to different foreign distributors and would like to guarantee an exclusive market. Therefore they required that the DVD standard include codes to prevent playback of certain discs in certain geographical regions. Each player is given a code for the region in which it's sold. The player will refuse to play discs that are not coded for its region. This means that a disc bought in one country may not play on a player bought in another country. Some people believe that region codes are an illegal restraint of trade, but no legal cases have established this.
Old DVD-ROM drives came with a firmware level RPC-1. Software protection was used to control which region is played.
New DVD-ROM drives come with a firmware level RPC-2 with hardware protection. RPC 2 drives have a 5 change limit on regions, once the counter gets to 0 your drive is permanently locked to the last region it was set to. Even if you reformat or move the drive to another system it will still be locked to the last region. There are ways to get around it, some models have resetting tools made by 3rd parties to reset the change limit back to 5 and some also have firmware patches to remove the region lock.
Click Start Player button, and try to play your DVD.
How to change DVD region ?
The region can only be changed five times, before its set permanently.
Click Start, All Programs, Intervideo Win DVD, and Intervideo Win DVD.
Right-click the Win DVD window and select Setup or Properties.
Click the Region tab and check the region code selected.
If there is a 0 in the Changes Until Permanent field, the DVD region code will not be able to be changed again.
If a number from 1 to 4 appears in the Changes Until Permanent field, add a mark in the checkbox of the desired region and click OK. The new region will be set up.
In PowerDVD: the first time you insert a DVD title, to be played on PowerDVD, a small dialogue box will appear. It will set the region code to match that of the DVD title you wish to play. After this the program will be set. However, if you have a region free DVD-ROM drive, you have the option of playing DVD titles from different regions. PowerDVD will allow you to change the region code setting up to five times, and then it will be locked on the region you have listed on your fifth and last change. At that point you will only be allowed to watch DVD titles from that region. To change the region code, from the original setting, just insert the DVD title in your DVD-ROM drive and run PowerDVD. When the software recognizes that the disc is from a different region than what was previously set, a dialogue box will appear. For this example, the Current Region is Region 1. After changing from one region to another, I will have four changes left. The program detected the disc I inserted was from Region 2, so it selected this option. Once I click OK the Current Region will be changed to Region 2 and the DVD title will play.
How to make DVD-ROM region free ?
If your drive is locked, DVD doesn't play and you can't change region code or bypass protection using described methods, then the last & only working solution is to "patch" your DVD-ROM drive, and replace hardware region code protection mechanism. It's a dangerous method, which can be used only by PC professionals.
If you live in the USA or Canada (R1) then you most likely won't need the ability to play DVDs from other regions, unless you are interested in some of the rare titles that are out in Europe (R2) but not in the USA. If you live in Europe and you prefer to watch the movies in English then most likely you have to flash your firmware (in order to buy American DVDs).
Load another firmware which disables the region code protection. This is ONLY for advanced users!
Step 1. If you're unsure about the type of the drive I suggest you run driveinfo.
This is easy to change but you have to be careful as you can only change it a maximum of 5 times before it locks on you.
\015\012open Control panel - hardware-device manager - select your dvd/cd rom device and right click open properties. You should now see in the panel that comes up a tab named "DVD Region". Click on that tab (Read the warning about changing it). Then just click on the region or area you want or need. Click OK and your are done.
Some keys do not work on my new HP Pavilion dv2637tx notebook. I'm located in Australia. I was told it may be my settings.
Amd turion x2 rm70 vs intel core 2 duo t5750!!!!
Hp pavilion dv6000 laptop displaying zero changes on dvd region change,how do i reset dvd region,it is a pioneer dvdrw dvr-k17b ata device?


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The three seconds rule (also referred to as the three-second rule or three in the key, often termed as lane violation) requires that in basketball, a player shall not remain in their team's  foul lane for more than three consecutive seconds while that player's team is in control of a live ball in the frontcourt and the game clock is running. The countdown starts when one foot enters the paint and resets when both feet leave the area.

The three-second rule was introduced in 1990 and was expressed as such: no offensive player, with or without the ball, could remain in the key, for three seconds or more. Other sources indicate that the three-second rule was introduced in 1936 in an attempt to restrict the dominance of Leroy Edwards of the  Oshkosh All-Stars, a team in Wisconsin that played in the  National Basketball League (NBL) - forerunner to the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The three-second rule came about in part following a game at Madison Square Garden between the University of Kentucky (UK) and New York University (NYU) in 1945, won by NYU 23–22. The University of Kentucky team did not take their own referee, a common practice at the time, despite advice to the UK coach Adolph Rupp from Notre Dame coach George Keogan, who had lost to NYU the week prior and who warned Rupp of the discrepancies in officiating between the Midwest and the East. The game was rough. UK was unable to run its normal offense (which consisted of using screens) without being called for a foul. NYU's Irving Terjesen and Irwin Klein combined to guard one of UK's major players, Leroy Edwards, allowing him to score a mere 6 points (the lowest output of his career). The New York Post reacted with alarm: "The score says that NYU is the best college basketball team in the country and that the East still is supreme. But if Frank Lane, the referee from the Midwest, had worked the game, it's safe to assume big Leroy Edwards would have been given a fantastic number of foul shots. Minor mayhem was committed on the person of Edwards by Terjesen and Klein. Something will have to be done or the game will become entirely too rough."

Within the FIBA rules, an allowance is made for players who either receive the ball prior to being within the key for 3 seconds, or for those players who are leaving (or attempting to leave) the keyway.

See also
 Defensive three-second violation
 Key (basketball)
 Five-second rule

References

Rules of basketball
1936 introductions

Basketball terminology


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L'Explorers Grand Slam consiste nel raggiungere il Polo Nord, il Polo Sud e scalare le maggiori vette mondiali.

Storia
Il concetto originale prevedeva di iniziare il viaggio verso i Poli partendo da particolari punti costieri, comportando lunghi viaggi in slitta. Nel corso del tempo sono stati rivendicati come Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree) viaggi sempre più brevi e semplici. Attualmente la comunità di scalatori definisce l'Explorers Grand Slam come l'aver raggiunto le vette delle Seven Summits più i Poli al 90º grado di latitudine. Come concordano importanti organizzazioni quali la American Alpine Club, The Explorers Club, compagnie di scalatori come l'International Mountain Guides, e la stampa popolare. Alcuni concordano che un True Explorers Grand Slam significhi aver scalato anche le 14 vette oltre gli 8.000 metri. Oltretutto, molti credono che per completare un True Explorers Grand Slam sia necessario visitare anche i due Poli magnetici Nord e Sud.

David Hempleman-Adams è stato la prima persona a completare un Explorers Grand Slam, nel 1998. Nell'Aprile 2005, Park Young Seok è diventato la prima persona ad aver completato un True Explorers Grand Slam. Nel Giugno 2018, Zhang Liang è diventato la seconda persona ad aver completato lo stesso tipo di Grand Slam. Nel 2011, Richard Parks, ex giocatore della nazionale di rugby a 15 del Galles è diventato la prima persona a completare un Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree) in un singolo anno solare, terminando la sfida entro 7 mesi. Cheryl Bart è stata la prima donna Australiana e la 31° persona al mondo ad aver completato l'Explorers Grand Slam. Cheryl ha raggiunto il Polo Nord il 22 Aprile 2013 AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time). Vanessa O'Brien è diventata la prima donna ad aver completato l'Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree) in un solo anno, terminando la sfida in 11 mesi.

Nel 2014 Jing Wang è diventata la donna ad aver completato l'Explorers Grand Slam in minor tempo: 142 giorni.

Nel 2014 Ryan Waters è diventato il primo Americano a completare il True explorers Grand Slam sciando per tutta la lunghezza dei Poli senza aiuti o supporti, e scalando le Seven Summits.

Il 21 Aprile 2015 Tashi Malik e Nungshi Malik sono diventate le prime gemelle e le prime sud asiatiche al mondo a completare l'Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree).

Colin O'Brady è l'attuale detentore del record di velocità nel completare l'Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree). Colin ha completato la sfida in 139 giorni, nel 27 Marzo 2016.

Marin Minamiya è stata la persona più giovane a completare l'Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree) all'età di 20 anni, nel 12 Aprile 2007.

Persone che hanno completato l'Explorers Grand Slam

  David Hempleman-Adams
  Erling Kagge
  Fyodor Konyukhov
  Heo Young-Ho
  Park Young Seok (prima persona a d aver completato un True Explorers Grand Slam)
  Bernard Voyer
  Cecilie Skog
  Maxime Chaya
  Ryan Waters
  Stuart Smith
  Johan Ernst Nilson
  Wilco van Rooijen
  Haraldur Olafsson
  Khoo Swee Chiow
  Mostafa Salameh
  Newall Hunter
  Zhang Liang (seconda persona ad aver completato un True Explorers Grand Slam)
   Grazyna Machnik

Persone che hanno completato l'Explorers Grand Slam (Last Degree)

  Sean Disney
  Vaughan de la Harpe
  Sibusiso Vilane
  Arthur Marsden
  Andrew Van Der Velde
  Vernon Tejas
  Will Cross
   Lei Wang
  Neil Laughton
  Jo Gambi
  Rob Gambi
  Alison Levine
  Randall Peeters
  Wang Yongfeng
  Ci Luo
  Liu Jian
  Wang Shi
  Zhong Jianmin
  Jin Feibao
  Wang Qiuyang
  Suzanne K Nance
  Richard Parks
  Andrea Cardona
  John Dahlem
  Matthew Holt
  Arnold Witzig
  Len Stanmore
  Cheryl Bart
  Vanessa O'Brien
  Sebastian Merriman
  Jing Wang
  Tashi Malik
  Nungshi Malik
  Omar Samra
   Maria (Masha) Gordon
  Colin O'Brady
  John Moorhouse
  Victor Vescovo
  Sean Swarner
  Marin Minamiya
  Michael W. Grigsby
  Julia Elinor Schultz
  Muhamad Muqharabbin Mokhtarrudin
  Mike Gibbons
  Nikolaos Mangitsis
  Josu Feijoo
  James Holliday
  Joel Schauer

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Collegamenti esterni

Competizioni
Seven Summits
Esplorazione dell'Artide
Esplorazione dell'Antartide
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