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Marea Ducesă Xenia Alexandrovna a Rusiei (6 aprilie 1875 – 20 aprilie 1960) a fost membru al familiei imperiale ruse. A fost fiica cea mare a Țarului Alexandru al III-lea al Rusiei și a soției lui, Maria Feodorovna. Xenia a fost sora viitorului Țar Nicolae al II-lea al Rusiei. S-a căsătorit cu Marele Duce Alexandru Mihailovici al Rusiei cu care a avut șapte copii.

Familie și educație
Marea Ducesă Xenia s-a născut la Palatul Anichkov din St. Petersburg și a fost botezată de ziua bunicului ei,la 17 aprilie 1875, la Palatul de iarnă din Sankt Petersburg. Tatăl ei era împăratul Alexandru al III-lea al Rusiei, fiul împăratului Alexandru al II-lea al Rusiei și al împărătesei Maria Alexandrovna a Rusiei. Mama ei era împărăteasa Maria Feodorovna a Rusiei (născută Prințesa Dagmar a Danemarcei), fiica regelui Christian al IX-lea al Danemarcei și a reginei Louise a Danemarcei.

Nașii de botez ai Xeniei au fost bunica paternă, bunicul matern, fratele tatălui ei, Marele Duce Vladimir Alexandrovici și sora mai mică a mamei ei, Prințesa Thyra a Danemarcei (mai târziu Ducesă de  Cumberland).

Xenia avea trei frați mai mari: Țarul Nicolae al II-lea al Rusiei, Marele Duce Alexandru al Rusiei (care a murit în copilărie) și Marele Duce George al Rusiei și doi frați mai mici: Marele Duce Mihail (care a fost pentru câteva ore Mihail al II-lea al Rusiei) și Marea Ducesă Olga Alexandrovna a Rusiei.

În februarie 1880, nihiliștii au avut acces la Palatul de iarnă și au plantat o bombă în camera de zi a familiei care a cauzat pagube considerabile. Familia nu a fost rănită însă tatăl Xeniei i-a mutat pe copii departe de pericol, la Palatul Yelagin.  La 13 martie 1881, când Xenia avea șase ani, a asistat la moartea bunicului ei Alexandru al II-lea care a fost ucis de explozia unei bombe aruncată de revoluționari. Tatăl ei a urcat pe tronul Rusiei și a devenit Țar sub numele de Alexandru al III-lea iar familia s-a mutat de la St. Petersburg  în mult mai sigurul Palat Gatchina.

Xenia, la fel ca frații ei, a primit educație de la profesori particulari. Un accent deosebit a fost pus pe studiul limbilor străine. În afara limbii ruse, a învățat engleza, franceza și germana. În mod surprinzător, Xenia nu a învățat limba nativă a mamei sale, daneza.

Xenia a învățat gastronomie, tâmplărie și să facă atât marionete cât și hainele acestora pentru teatru de păpuși. De asemenea, îi plăcea echitația și pescuitul, desenul, gimnastica, dansul și cântatul la pian.

Împreună cu întreaga familie își petrecea vacanțele în țara mamei sale, Danemarca. Reuniunile de familie din casa bunicilor materni, Castelul Fredensborg, erau plăcute și zgomotoase. Într-una dintre aceste vizite a cunoscut-o pe verișoara și prietena ei de-o viață, Prințesa Maria a Greciei, fiica regelui George I al Greciei și a soției lui, Olga Constantinovna a Rusiei.
În 1884 Marele Duce Ludovic al IV-lea de Hesse a venit în vizită la Palatul Peterhof împreună cu familia pentru nunta fiicei lui, Ella, cu unchiul Xeniei, Marele Duce Serghei Alexandrovici. Aceasta a fost prima ocazie cu care Xenia și-a întâlnit viitoarea cumnată, Alexandra Feodorovna, (atunci avea 12 ani) cunoscută în familie sub numele 'Alix'. În 1888, Xenia și Alix au început să-și scrie una celeilalte.

Xenia și familia ei trăiau cu teama constantă de moarte din mâinile teroriștilor. În 1887 familia era pe cale să ia trenul spre Gatchina de la St.Petersburg, când autoritățile au reținut mai mulți "studenți" care transportau cărți ce conțineau bombe pe care intenționau să le folosească împotriva familiei imperiale. Unul dintre cei cinci arestați era Alexandru Ulianov, fratele lui Vladimir, mai cunoscut sub numele de Lenin.

Căsătorie

Xenia și vărul ei primar, Marele Duce Alexandru Mihailovici al Rusiei ("Sandro"), erau prieteni și se jucau împreună în anii 1880.
La vârsta de 15 ani, Xenia și Alexandru au vrut să se căsătorească însă părinții ei erau reticenți deoarece Xenia era prea tânără și nu erau siguri de caracterul lui Alexandru. Țarina Maria Feodorovna se plângea de aroganța și mojicia lui Alexandru. După intervenția tatălui lui Alexandru, Marele Duce Mihail Nicolaievici, părinții Xeniei au fost de acord cu logodna în 1894. În cele din urmă, la 6 august 1894, la Palatul Peterhof, Xenia și Alexandru s-au căsătorit.  Au petrecut noaptea nunții la Palatul Ropsha și luna de miere la Ay-Todor (moșia lui Alexandru din Crimeea). În timpul lunii de miere a Xeniei, Alexandru al III-lea s-a îmbolnăvit și a murit la 1 noiembrie 1894. Fratele ei mai mare, Nicolae al II-lea a moștenit coroana Rusiei și a devenit Țar.

După nașterea celui de-al șaptelea copil, Marele Duce a început o aventură cu o femeie numită "Maria Ivanova". Un an mai târziu și Xenia a început și ea o aventură cu un englez numit "Fane". În jurnalele ei, Xenia se referă la el sub numele "F.". Au corespondat unul cu altul până la sfârșitul Primului Război Mondial. După ce Xenia și Alexandru au admis aventurile, căsnicia lor a început să se destrame. Deși îndrăgostiți unul de altul, au început să doarmă în camere separate și să meargă pe drumuri diferite.

În 1913, Irina, singura fiică a Xeniei și a lui Sandro și-a mărturisit intenția de a se căsători cu Prințul Felix Iusupov, care era moștenitorul uneia dintre cele mai mari averi din Rusia  însă un bărbat cu multe contradicții. Erau zvonuri că ar fi avut o aventură cu Marele Duce Dmitri Pavlovici al Rusiei. Xenia s-a căsătorit la 9 februarie 1914 în prezența Țarului care a condus-o la altar.

Înaintea revoluției, Alexandru era dezamăgit de cursul evenimentelor din Rusia și de viața de la curte. Atât Xenia cât și Alexandru au petrecut perioade considerabile de timp în afara Rusiei; ambii s-au întors înaintea începutului Primului Război Mondial. După Revoluția din 1917, au reușit să scape din Rusia și s-au separat, Xenia a locuit în Marea Britanie iar Sandro în Franța.

La 26 februarie 1933 soțul Xeniei a murit.  Xenia și fiii ei au fost prezenți la funeralii la 1 martie, la Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, în sudul Franței. În martie 1937, Xenia s-a mutat de la Casa Frogmore la Hampton Court Palace unde a trăit până la deces, la 20 aprilie 1960.

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If one aims to simulate the interaction of light and matter, the calculations are so complex that the radiation can usually only be described in a traditional manner. However, a European team of researchers including representatives from the University of Innsbruck recently presented a method in the scientific journal "PNAS" enabling them to take the quantum nature of light into account.
In the field of solid state physics, the quantum nature of radiation is usually ignored. However, in other subareas of physics such as quantum optics, this could lead to false or imprecise forecasts. In this case the new type of simulation method should provide assistance.
The advantage of the new method is that it is scalable upwards. It should also function in the case of more complex systems with a larger number of particles. In particular, the researchers are focused on the simulation of so-called nanoswitches i.e. individual molecules which change their electrical conductivity under irradiation. According to Ruggenthaler, the new method could also deepen our understanding of photosynthesis or can be used for the further development of photovoltaic systems.


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Queer Duck was an animated series that originally appeared on Icebox.com in 1999, and later moved to the American cable television channel Showtime in 2002. The show was created and written by Mike Reiss, executive producer of network cartoons The Simpsons and The Critic. The animation was directed and designed by Xeth Feinberg. Queer Duck was the first animated TV series to have homosexuality as its predominant theme.[citation needed] Like several later television cartoons, Queer Duck was animated in Macromedia Flash.
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The show follows the adventures of Adam "Queer Duck" Duckstein, his boyfriend Steven "Openly" Gator, and their friends Bi Polar Bear and Oscar Wildcat. Although nearly all the characters are anthropomorphic, the series was not intended to have furries as the target audience. The series makes numerous references to gay culture but has never directly recognized the furry fandom.
Many times throughout the series the focus of homosexuality is more on human men than anthropomorphic characters; however, there is some sexual furry content in many episodes, such as Gym Neighbors and Bi Polar Bear and the Glorious Hole.
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To some people[who?] the series is offensive in its portrayal of gay males.[citation needed] The show uses stereotypical humor to an almost discriminatory extent.
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On most days there are times when you feel terrified. One of those times is when you are scheduled to have a closed meeting with your boss. You even dread the possibility of accidentally meeting him in a hallway. Another is when you read things like "ERS Research says the average tenure of sales manages is now less than two years." You also feel terrified when you realize that you are trying to do too much and very little is actually working.
You feel frustrated because your job is to have your sales force increase sales well over quota and it is not happening. Too few of your district managers and salespeople seem willing to be led by you. More frustration is created when you learn that your best salespeople are not using the new CRM system, which you bought at great expense. You can't make them use it, because if you do they might quit and go to work for a competitor. Even worse, their defiance may spread to the rest of the sales force and threaten your effectiveness.
You question your own competence because a higher percentage of good salespeople are leaving the company than last year. Furthermore, your new hires are taking too long to train and too many of them seem certain to fail.
You feel thwarted when you try to get more cooperation from the marketing, production, customer service, and accounting managers. They seem to be too busy with their own problems to care about yours.
You are starting to have doubts about your sales abilities. You are spending a lot of time trying to close a few very big sales opportunities, and now they do not look very promising. You feel indecisive about continuing on that course.
Your primary job function is to know what is going on in your department and manage for optimum results. You feel negligent because you haven't made the time to analyze the sales activities of your sales force or even read their sales forecasts.
You feel guilty because you are working too long and too hard without much in the way of tangible results. And, your spouse is insisting that you spend more time with your family.
Through all that, you are doing your best to act competent and be competent while trying to hide your doubts and fears.
This Introduction is taken from the book "High Probability Selling" by Jacques Werth and Nicholas E. Ruben.
Why doesn't sales training work?
Why is it that most people who attend sales training courses and seminars show very little sustained improvement? Why doesen't modern sales training consistently produce successful salespeople?
Why is it that most sales training courses and seminars contain large doses of motivational psychology? Why is it that the sales profession is the largest user of motivational training? Is it coincidental that the next largest user is the armed forces? What is it that the armed forces and salespeople have in common that requires them to be the largest users of motivational training? How many carpenters, mechanics, CPA's, claims adjusters or veterinarians need to attend motivational seminars in order to do their jobs?
How many professions come with a built-in fear of rejection and a reluctance to do the job? Why do approximately eighty percent of the people who enter the selling profession leave within the first few years? Why do so many who remain feel trapped or burned out in their jobs?
Why do most people try to avoid salespeople?
Is this all endemic to selling or is there something fundamentally wrong with the way we sell that causes these problems? Could it be that "Selling as the Art of Persuasion" is a concept whose time has come and gone? Could it be that it's no longer profitable to persuade and convince prospects to buy what they don't already want?
We maintain that persuading and convincing is no longer a viable selling strategy. Even worse, the attempt to do so causes too much tension, stress, and frustration. Therefore, we re-invented the selling process.
Everything's changed. All the rules are different. Fear of rejection is no longer an issue. Resistance disappears. Relationships of mutual trust and respect develop naturally.
Self-esteem is a natural result of the process. Salespeople have standards. Who they are as people and who they are when they're selling no longer have to be different.
High Probability Selling trains salespeople how to discover whether there is a mutally acceptable basis for doing business – without using manipulative techniques. High Probability Selling is not an improvement on, or a variation of, any sales technique you know. It's a new paradigm that requires salespeople to sell with integrity in order to achieve outstanding results.
High Probability Selling takes salespeople off their knees and puts them back on their feet, with dignity, where they belong.
I'm sure you've had a salesperson try to push you into a sale by asking something like, "You do want to make money, don't you?" How does that make you feel?
A few weeks ago I got a call from a salesman representing a major telephone service provider that wanted my business back. He was eager to send me a quote so he could prove to me that he could save me money.
The next time he called, I thanked him for the quote. I told him I had decided to stay with my current provider, which was a small local telephone service reseller. He asked me who that was, and I told him.
That stopped me cold. It felt so disrespectful. I thought about it a bit. Then I remembered a very important principle.
Only do business when there is mutual trust and respect.
I was doing research on how top salespeople sell and I read about Bill in a contractor's equipment magazine. He was the top salesman with the leading manufacturer of several lines of contractors' equipment. So, I called him up and arranged to go out on a few sales calls to observe his sales process.
"I don't know, because I don't pay attention to anyone else," he replied.
"Well, I got along real well with the contractors and our sales doubled. The District Manager kept dropping in to see what I was doing. He kept telling me that I should be friendlier and more accommodating to the customers. When he realized that I wasn't doing it his way, he started giving me poor ratings, in spite of my sales success.
I once read an article (by Seth Godin I think) about the difficulty of selling something that requires prospects to give up long-held or cherished beliefs. The author had only two solutions for this problem.
Try to overwhelm them with logic and evidence that proves your idea is better.
Try to make your product or idea seem like a less radical departure from what they believe.
There is a third approach that he did not mention, and this is to find people who are already beginning to question their beliefs.
Of course, this is the problem of High Probability Selling. It is based upon several very radical ideas that contradict very strongly held beliefs.
We already know that persuasion is counterproductive when applied in the prospecting or selling process. It also appears to be ineffective in the marketing process. People react negatively to being pushed. The harder you try to convince someone to change their mind, the less they trust you.
So how do we find people who are already questioning the belief that persuasion is a good way to get people to buy from you?
Post Script: The article by Seth Godin mentioned in this blog post is "Gravity is just a theory" and was posted on his blog in December 2008. I have deviated from his original words substantially.


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I am not a political specialist and I am certainly not aware of all the details in South African politics, but it does grasp me: the South African politics.
Today I read that The Netherlands is ranked number two in the World Press Freedom Index 2014. South Africa is not yet on that level, but was able to climb up to the 42nd place compared to 52nd place in 2013. Still, there is a lot to be done to reach more press freedom. Last Sunday there was an article with picture on the front page of the Sunday Times, which showed a journalist whose phone was taken by an ANC official.
During an ANC rally he noticed that a policeman was handing out t-shirts for the ANC and that his police car was stacked with those t-shirts. That is abuse of state resources and the journalist wanted to capture this on film. But obviously the ANC didn't agree with this and erased the pictures after he took them, not being aware of all the other journalists which witnessed the process and could publish this event.
Even though I am well aware of the amount of corruption taking place in this country, the story shocked me more than for example the corruption by current president Jacob Zuma. Zuma is charged for corruption for by the Public Protector of South Africa using 230 mln ZAR (€15,7 mln) for home improvements. Reason enough to be deposed in most democracies, Zuma is denying this allegation and seems to be getting away with it, again.
Another thing which occupies my mind, is democracy and the right to vote, something that I find a privilege. On Sunday 27th of April, South Africa celebrated 20 years of democracy with the national holiday: Freedom Day. But sometimes it seems that some people are not appreciating democracy as much as they should be after the long fight. A lot of young people I have met these past few months, say they won't go and vote. The answer to the question 'why not?' is that they don't believe in de democratic system anymore. Some elder people actually state that they were better off during Apartheid, because at least they were taken care off. They also say that they will only go and vote when a white government is back in power because of the recent corruption scandals by the ANC government.
To me, it painfully shows that Apartheid is still very much present in the thinking and acting of people and that the long walk to freedom is not over yet despite the good efforts the last 20 years.


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Jeremy Faber, Mushroom Hunter
The secret life of the founder of Foraged and Found Edibles.
By Langdon Cook 9/3/2013 at 9:00am Published in the September 2013 issue of Seattle Met
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Jeremy Faber, the owner of Foraged and Found Edibles, is the chief supplier of rare and elusive mushrooms for Seattle's most carefully sourced restaurants. He has been notoriously secretive when it comes to revealing his prime locations for foraging in Northwest forests, and as such he has been as elusive as the bounty he delivers to our tables. In The Mushroom Hunters, Seattle writer Langdon Cook gets closer to Faber and the secrets of his business than ever before. This excerpt reveals the beginnings of Faber's obsession with wild edibles, as well as his partnership with one of this city's seminal interpreters of foraged foods, Christina Choi, who died two years ago of an aneurysm at age 34. —Editor
Like every business with a long-term vision these days, Jeremy Faber's Foraged and Found Edibles is obsessed with customer service and satisfaction. In Faber's case, the final arbiter is the restaurant patron or home cook who takes a bite of his product. At a time when so-called USDA-approved organic greens, grown in factory-farm conditions, can become contaminated with E. coli by a pack of feral hogs, many consumers are looking for a purer sort of "all natural" food to grace their tables and impress dinner guests. Found well beyond the fence lines of Big Ag, wild foods are by definition organic, and they offer an authentic taste that can't be duplicated in domesticity. Faber figures every big city has at least one dealer like himself: a backwoods-savvy merchant in the delicacies of the wild.
Becoming such a woodsman was Faber's first trick. He was raised on Long Island, where, by his own admission, he got into New York City's rave scene at a young age and first developed an interest in, shall we say, natural products and all-cash business. When he was 17, his parents sent him to rehab, even though by then his inclination wasn't so much to indulge in his own product as it was to make money from it. He majored in forestry at the University of Vermont and then transferred to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. For most of his life he had worked in restaurants—greasy spoons and fast-food joints as a kid, and later at more-upscale places like Perry's Fish House in Burlington. After graduating from the CIA, he moved West and took a series of restaurant jobs in Seattle, working at such stalwarts as Ray's Boathouse, Serafina, and the now-defunct Brasa before landing a job at the renowned Herbfarm in the suburbs east of Seattle. There he apprenticed under James Beard Award–winning chef Jerry Traunfeld, who taught Faber how to use wild ingredients in imaginative preparations. The Herbfarm was one of the first restaurants to champion foraged foods in a big way, and it routinely lands on Top 10 lists for the Pacific Northwest's best eateries. There Faber met one of his best friends, Matt Dillon, before Dillon would go on to make a name for himself with his own restaurants [Sitka and Spruce, the Corson Building, Bar Ferd'nand, Bar Sajor]. He also worked with Christina Choi, another wild-food enthusiast, who had bright, expressive eyes, an infectious smile, and who would become his girlfriend.
Food Finder Faber attracts other forest hunters to his buy stands (as in Sisters, Oregon, above); he displays a fall mushroom (left) found in Raymond, Washington.
Faber and Choi explored the wilds of Washington together, camping all over the state and experimenting with the little-known foods they found during long hikes through mountains and woods. Meanwhile, Faber worked up to sous chef. All the while he was also running a little grow operation on the side, housed in an attic crawl space above his rental room. Though not much of a dope smoker anymore, he grew pot to satisfy his yearning to work with actual currency. He grew and sold several crops over the course of a few years, until an ex-roommate threatened to rat him out if he didn't pay hush money. Rather than split profits with the blackmailer, Faber ripped out all his plants and went legit.
At the Herbfarm, he was spending more and more time outdoors. He brought his finds back to the restaurant and incorporated them into dinner specials. Soon he was known as the house forager. In 2001, he and Christina Choi started Foraged and Found Edibles together. In a smallholder echo of the Microsoft and Amazon legends, they used Choi's garage as the launching pad for their effort to supply the Herbfarm and numerous other Seattle-area restaurants with wild foods. A year later Faber left the Herbfarm altogether to concentrate on his business, while Choi, in time, decided to travel and pursue her own interest in wild foods down a different path. Though Choi's departure—and the end of their romance with it—gave Faber full control over the fledgling company, Faber himself would continue to refer to Christina Choi as both his best friend and the heart and soul of the business. Choi's interest was purely culinary and spiritual. She championed wild foods for their unique qualities and also because they were products of nature rather than agriculture. Her cooking, a fusion of her Chinese-Swiss heritage, was forever changing with the seasons and whatever foraged foods were available nearby, and though her financial interest seemed nonexistent, unlike Faber's, this passion would lead eventually to the opening of Nettletown [now closed], a Seattle lunch spot that could boast quite possibly the highest ratio of wild to conventional food of any restaurant in the country.
A commercial forager's life is hard on relationships. This was something Faber would learn in the coming years. The money, on the other hand, was steady. Despite the Internet bubble, these were boom years in Seattle. Flush with high-tech capital, the city built a baseball park with a retractable roof, a football stadium, and a new opera house. Swanky restaurants opened in droves in trendy neighborhoods like Belltown and Queen Anne, catering to Seattle's new breed of young, moneyed professionals who wanted to eat well and to eat local.
From the book, The Mushroom Hunters by Langdon Cook.
Copyright © 2013 by Langdon Cook. Reprinted by arrangement with Ballantine Books, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Christina Choi, Jeremy Faber, Foraging Edibles, Foraged and Found Edibles


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Curator-Led Tour: Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison
Sep 19, 2018, 6PM–7PM
Ree Morton, The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, 1974. Five lightbulbs, enamel and glitter on wood and celastic. 46x64 inches. FWA – Lieve Van Gorp Foundation for Women Artists. © Estate of Ree Morton. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
Join Laporte Associate Curator Kate Kraczon for an in-depth tour of Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison.
Though the eclectic arc of Morton's practice was rooted in Postminimalism, a poetic approach to language and symbolism progressively distanced her work from easy categorization in the early to mid-1970s. Her inclusion of personal narrative—through literary, philosophical, and autobiographical references—along with use of bold color and theatrical imagery, infused these objects with sly humor and a prescient concern with the decorative, generating a feminist legacy increasingly appreciated in retrospect.
Morton's short but prolific career was profoundly shaped by her time in Philadelphia, where she attended graduate school and taught for several years. A key sculptural work, Sister Perpetua's Lie, was created for a 1973 ICA exhibition and will be on view in this retrospective, along with other rarely seen installations.
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Ree Morton, Weeds of the Northeast #5, 1974. Pencil, crayon, watercolor, and glitter on grained paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection Gift 2005. All images: © Estate of Ree Morton. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
Ree Morton, Something in the Wind, 1975. c. 100 flags: acrylic and felt-tip pen on nylon.South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 1975. All images: © Estate of Ree Morton. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
Ree Morton, Don't worry, I'll only read you the good parts, 1975. Oil on celastic. 54 x 26 inches (137 x 66 centimeters). Photo: Joerg Lohse.
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Rule 49 was about making sure your child knows they're good at something. That's essential, and especially so when you have more than one child. One thing you can guarantee is that they'll have very different strengths.
Gifts and talents often run in families. It may well be that if one of your kids is musically talented, or hugely athletic, or deeply artistic, or brilliantly academic, so are their siblings. Even so, it can be tough being a bassoonist whose older sister is a more advanced bassoonist. Maybe your younger child would feel they could succeed better as a cellist or a flautist. You need to encourage these small differences so that everyone can shine.


The prevailing windy and showery conditions will continue across the country and in the adjoining sea areas in the next few days due to the active south-west monsoon, according to the Meteorology Department.
A Duty Meteorologist of the department predicted that heavy rains, above 100 mm, could be expected at some places in the Sabaragamuwa, Western and Central provinces and in the Galle and Matara districts over the weekend.
In addition, strong gusty winds up to 60 kmph were predicted for Western, Southern, Central, Northern, North-central and North-western provinces and Monaragala district.
The Met Dept said that showers or thundershowers would occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Central and North-Western provinces.
The water level of the Kalu Ganga rising had put the Millakanda areas in danger following heavy showers experienced in the catchment areas, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.


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package pl.srw.billcalculator.db;

import org.greenrobot.greendao.database.StandardDatabase;
import org.greenrobot.greendao.query.QueryBuilder;
import org.greenrobot.greendao.test.AbstractDaoSessionTest;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import pl.srw.billcalculator.db.dao.DaoMaster;
import pl.srw.billcalculator.db.dao.DaoSession;
import pl.srw.billcalculator.persistence.Triggers;
import pl.srw.billcalculator.persistence.type.BillType;

public class TriggersTest extends AbstractDaoSessionTest<DaoMaster, DaoSession> {

    public TriggersTest() {
        super(DaoMaster.class);
    }

    @Override
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();
        QueryBuilder.LOG_SQL = true;
        QueryBuilder.LOG_VALUES = true;
        Triggers.create(((StandardDatabase) db).getSQLiteDatabase());
    }

    public void testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsertPgeBill() {
        testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsert(new PgeG12Bill(), BillType.PGE_G12);
    }

    public void testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsertPgeG12Bill() {
        testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsert(new PgeG11Bill(), BillType.PGE_G11);
    }

    public void testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsertPgnigBill() {
        testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsert(new PgnigBill(), BillType.PGNIG);
    }

    public void testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsertTauronG11Bill() {
        testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsert(new TauronG11Bill(), BillType.TAURON_G11);
    }

    public void testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsertTauronG12Bill() {
        testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsert(new TauronG12Bill(), BillType.TAURON_G12);
    }

    public void testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDeletePgeBill() {
        testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDelete(new PgeG11Bill());
    }

    public void testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDeletePgeG12Bill() {
        testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDelete(new PgeG12Bill());
    }

    public void testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDeleteTauronG11Bill() {
        testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDelete(new TauronG11Bill());
    }

    public void testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDeleteTauronG12Bill() {
        testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDelete(new TauronG12Bill());
    }

    public void testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDeletePgnigBill() {
        testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDelete(new PgnigBill());
    }

    public void testTriggerDeleteSingleHistoryEntryOnDeletePgeG12Bill() {
        final PgeG11Bill bill = new PgeG11Bill(1L);
        // given: 3 bills inserted
        daoSession.insert(bill);
        daoSession.insert(new PgeG12Bill(1L));
        daoSession.insert(new PgnigBill(1L));

        // when: 1 bill is deleted
        daoSession.delete(bill);

        // then: 2 history entries present
        assertEquals(2, daoSession.getHistoryDao().loadAll().size());
    }

    private void testTriggerDeleteHistoryEntryOnDelete(Bill bill) {
        // save
        daoSession.insert(bill);

        // delete
        daoSession.delete(bill);

        // test
        assertTrue(daoSession.getHistoryDao().loadAll().isEmpty());
    }

    private void testTriggerInsertHistoryEntryOnInsert(Bill bill, BillType billType) {
        Date date = new Date();
        // save
        bill.setDateFrom(date);
        final long billId = daoSession.insert(bill);

        // load
        final List<History> history = daoSession.getHistoryDao().loadAll();

        // test
        assertEquals(1, history.size());
        final History historyBill = history.get(0);
        assertEquals(billId, historyBill.getBillId().longValue());
        assertEquals(date, historyBill.getDateFrom());
        assertEquals(billType.toString(), historyBill.getBillType());
    }
}


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mayweed chamomile control
2, 4-D. GrazonNext HL. mayweed chamomile stinkweed This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Introduction Mayweed chamomile, also known as dog fennel, mayweed, stinkweed, or stinking chamomile, is a native Combinations of rotation grazing and herbicides treatments are the best methods of successful control of mayweed chamomile in pastures. In winter wheat, increasing crop density will reduce seed production due to the effect on weed growth. Before seeding it is important to have a proper seedbed without any weeds for which reason residual herbicides can be used. Effective March 16, 2020, WSU Extension county offices and WSU Research & Extension Centers will be closed to the public. Individual plants can produce as many as 17,000 seeds, and seed remain viable in the soil for many years. It will germinate and grow year-round (albeit very slowly over the winter). Seed is dispersed by water in ditches and streams, in contaminated crop seed, and by animals or equipment. Contact with mayweed can cause skin rashes and irritation to the mucous membranes of livestock. Stem. In grasses grown for seed, the herbicides bromoxynil (Buctril®) and dicambda (Clarity®) can be applied and should provide fair to good control. Abstract. Seeds can remain over 50% viable in the soil for more than 11 years. Mayweed chamomile is a serious problem in cereal crops, waste areas, pastures, and along roadsides. In grasses grown for seed, the herbicides bromoxynil (Buctril®) and dicambda (Clarity®) can be applied and should provide fair to good control. Controlling Mayweed The economic importance of this weed in the pasture ecosystem has not been determined. However, if applied while stinking mayweed is still a young seedling, good control can be obtained in pastures with herbicides such as bentazone ( eg Basagran, or in products such as Pulsar), flumetsulam ( eg Preside) and thifensulfuron ( eg Harmony). Seed is dispersed by water in ditches and streams, in contaminated crop seed, and by animals or equipment. Mayweed is not native to the United States but has been brought in from its native Europe. Scentless chamomile has been listed as a noxious weed in Colorado, and is a very close relative to mayweed chamomile or dog fennel (Anthemis cotula L.), also known as stinking mayweed and dog fennel. Alternate, finely and deeply divided, up to 2.5 inches long and sometimes hairy. Pasturall HL. ID Characteristics. Introduction Mayweed chamomile, also known as dog fennel, mayweed, stinkweed, or stinking chamomile, is a native of the Mediterranean region. Control is by surface cultivations in spring and summer and by the inclusion of root crops in the rotation. May be tank-mixed with metribuzin to help control lambs-quarters or mayweed chamomile. chamomile in spring wheat, it is only labeled for suppression of mayweed chamomile in winter wheat. Mayweed chamomile and pigweed both annual weeds, are very destructive to the quality of peppermint oil but are easily controlled with currently registered herbicides. Control of Scentless Mayweed. The plant grows from ½ to 2 feet tall. In hysteria it is used in Europe as an antispasmodic and emmenogogue. An integrated management approach is required for the sustainable, long-term control of this species. Insects are also utilized as biological control agents for scentless chamomile. Mayweed chamomile flowers mid … Mayweed chamomile control and wheat injury following late post-emergence application of several herbicides. If you think that your animal is ill or may have ingested a poisonous substance, contact your local veterinarian or our 24-hour emergency poison hotline directly at 1-888-426-4435. Remarks Registered for use only in certain counties in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; see current label for appropriate use areas. Daisy-like; 0.5-1 in. Quarantine livestock known to have been in areas infested with mayweed chamomile. Cultivation or mowing prior to seed set can be effective. Taking chamomile with birth control pills can reduce the effectiveness of these pills. Anthemis cotula, forage crops, weed control, herbicides, allelopathy, digestibility, Georgia Abstract: Mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula L.) is a cool-season annual weed that germinates during March and matures by mid-May in the southeastern United States. In 1995, it could be found in almost all of the lower 48 states. Chamomile is a plant with medicinal properties. Other names for the weed are wild daisy, scentless mayweed, false chamomile, Kandahar daisy or barnyard daisy. The globally invasive weed, mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula L.) is an annual, bushy, ill‐scented herb, originating in Eurasia.It is aggressively weedy in croplands, field‐side ditches, wet areas and along roadsides, especially in slightly acidic, nitrogen‐rich, clay‐loam soils. Leaves. ... Common name- Chamomile, Mayweed, Pinhead, pineapple weed. Late autumn and early spring tillage is effective in controlling scentless mayweed before drilling. Prevent seed production whenever possible; sow clean seed, manage animal movement to avoid infested areas, and clean equipment whenever it is moved from infested to uninfested areas. But if control is required, a number of herbicides work poorly on this weed. This species is resistant to a number of herbicides. mayweed chamomile stinkweed This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Use properly timed preemergence herbicides for control. Other It can be found growing in open areas such as lawns, fields, and along ditch banks. for mayweed chamomile control, herbicide-resistant biotypes are an increasing concern. If you think that your animal is ill or may have ingested a poisonous substance, contact your local veterinarian or our 24-hour emergency poison hotline directly at 1-888-426-4435. Mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula) Stem. Mayweed chamomile control 35 DAAT was less for all split treatments of fertilizer first and then Talinor 7 days later. 25.09.2017. CombCut works excellent also for weed control in some vegetables. It is moderately drought-resistant, and summer drought may restrict the size of the plant, but does not prevent seed development. It is used to induce sleep in asthma. We are available via email, phone, and webconference. In this trial there wre also seedling populations of scentless chamomile. Establishing competitive plants can crowd out scentless mayweed plants. The seeds are 10 ribbed with small glandular bumps. Mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula) Stem. Mayweed chamomile reproduces by seed. COVID-19 Advisory: WSU Extension is working to keep our communities safe. Mayweed can be found in flower from May to September but the main flowering period is June to July. This plant is a weed of disturbed soils and may be an indicated of loamy soils. Control. Combinations of rotational grazing and herbicide treatments are the best methods for successful control of mayweed chamomile in crops and pastures (Ivens 1979). Cultivation is most successful if done when the plant is in the seedling stage, before an extensive root system develops and before the plant flowers and produces seeds. Mayweed chamomile can have a spreading form or be an erect plant, reaching 6 inches to 3 feet long. Chamomile, Dill Weed, Fetid Chamomile, Hogs Fennel, Mayweed Chamomile, Mayweed Dogfennel, Stinking Daisy, Stinkweed. Mayweed chamomile reproduces by seeds. Mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula) often known as dog funnel, is an annual bushy broadleaf plant that germinates in early spring. It is most important to prevent the production and spread of mayweed chamomile seed. But bioherbicides are not the only biopesticide that have the potential to benefit farmers looking for new scentless chamomile control options. This plant can be toxic to animals including dogs, cats, and horses. It is most important to prevent the production and spread of mayweed chamomile seed. Short, thick taproot. Control: As we have previously stated this weed is more of a problem in newly sown lawns and can be eradicated with regular mowing. In small grain crops, many herbicides can be used, although control … Control Methods Management: Combinations of rotation grazing and herbicides treatments are the best methods of successful control of mayweed chamomile in pastures. Mechanical. Life cycle: Summer or Winter annual Growth Habit: Erect branching Propagation: Seed Leaf Margin: finely dissected Leaf Hairs: Some short hairs Leaf Structure: pointed, deeply divided Leaf Arrangement: opposite Hand-pulling can be an effective control method in small infestations of chamomile. For centuries it has been used for the treatment of many diseases. Small infestations can be hand pulled. Alternate, finely and deeply divided, up to 2.5 inches long and sometimes hairy. Chamomile has a slow youth development that requires a good weed control. Mowing early in the growing It was first collected in Alberta in 1933 at Lacombe and Sylvan Lake. It is most important to prevent the production and spread of mayweed chamomile seed. It may be necessary to clean the animals' coats before they are moved to un-infested land. Chamomile, Dill Weed, Fetid Chamomile, Hogs Fennel, Mayweed Chamomile, Mayweed Dogfennel, Stinking Daisy, Stinkweed. Family Asteraceae Scientific Name Anthemis cotula ← → Other Common Names: stinking chamomile. Mayweed chamomile, often called dog fennel, is an annual bushy broadleaf plant that germinates in early spring. Scented mayweed is attacked by several insects and is an important food plant for many of them. Manage livestock grazing to improve the competition of desirable grasses and legumes and avoid overgrazing of plants. Cultural Control. dog fennel or mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula L.), also can become weedy. Cultivation is most successful if done when the plant is in the seedling stage, prior to seed set. Scentless chamomile, Tripleurospermum perforatum (Merat) M. Lainz, is a noxious weed in Saskatchewan. Tiny flowers cluster to form a daisey-like flowerhead with white flowers and a yellow center. In 1995, it could be found in almost all of the lower 48 states. Mechanical Control: Small infestations can be eliminated by hand pulling and digging, but this is not practical for large infestations. Once the mayweed becomes established, eradication is impossible. Diuron cannot be used in baby mint. Chaparral (labeled for use in bermudagrass pastures and hay meadows; will control bahiagrass) Flag leaf bleaching following applications of Talinor + CoAct with UAN in the same tank 13 days after treatment (DAT). 0.5-2 ft. tall, highly branched and bushy. Daisy-like; 0.5-1 … Mayweed can be found in flower from May to September but the main flowering period is June to July. Plants of average size are capable of producing from 5000 to 17,000 seeds. Distribution of mayweed chamomile in Alaska . Matricaria discoidea, commonly known as pineappleweed, wild chamomile, and disc mayweed, is an annual plant native to northeast Asia where it grows as a common herb of fields, gardens, and roadsides. Contact with mayweed can cause skin rashes and irritation to the mucous membranes of livestock. Mayweed Chamomile, Anthemis cotula L., is native to the Mediterranean region, but has been widely introduced as a weed in the temperate zones. Flower. Flower. Matricaria chamomilla (synonym: Matricaria recutita), commonly known as chamomile (also spelled camomile), German chamomile, Hungarian chamomile (kamilla), wild chamomile, blue chamomile, scented mayweed, is an annual plant of the composite family Asteraceae.Commonly, the name M. recutita is applied to the most popular source of the herbal product chamomile, although other species … Mayweed chamomile (Anthemis cotula L.) is a cool‐season annual weed that germinates during March and matures by mid‐May in the southeastern United States.The economic importance of this weed in the pasture ecosystem has not been determined.
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During the year (late 2011-late 2012) I spent in Auckland after moving up there to be with Lisa, I collected a number of good memories and pictures from the region that I want to share to showcase what I consider to be the best bits of Auckland in my personal experience.
Auckland and I certainly have a love-hate relationship, it's easy to be negative about Auckland with it's transportation chaos, massive sprawling size and huge (by NZ standards) population, but at the same time it faces challenges that no other NZ city faces and serves up it's own slice of awesomeness in the face of these issues.
An example of Auckland's transport policy.
I personally loved the Auckland region from an explorer point of view – being in a new city, especially one with lots of island and other areas I've never been to before was a really exciting change. Wellington has it's collection of interesting places of course, but you always know your home city too well for it to be surprising and new after a while.
My personal highlights of my adventures in Auckland would have to be my visit to Rangitoto Island, regular Takapuna to Devonport walks and my wanders along Takapuna Beach.
At times the warmer climate of Auckland, whilst a constant source of annoyance and suffering when working from home, also served up some beautiful swimming weather during summer in which I was able to visit the beach and swim in the sea just enjoying life.
Auckland does a remarkable job of being both ugly and beautiful at the same time – sometimes you're stuck in a bland generic corporate business park, yet an hour later you can be on the harbour bridge looking over the city whilst a ship cruises under you, up in the Sky Tower cabling servers or getting up early and exploring the near empty city as the sun rises.
Viewing Auckland CBD from up on Mt Eden.
Takapuna beach, a summer gem. Plus there's amazing gelato right on the beach.
My time in Auckland was particularly people orientated. I had moved up to Auckland to be with Lisa, but at the same time I missed my Wellington friends and family terribly leading to a really weird contrast where I was happy to be with her, but sad to be away from those who have played such a big part in my life.
Lisa and I outside our apartment building.
Over beer we plot how to unleash our awesomeness on the world.
The TNC crowd and my other friends helped me seek out some of the good food locations in Auckland – Pikelet even managed to introduce me to some decent coffee in Auckland's CBD a task I feared impossible after Wellington's high standard in caffeinated deliciousness.
Delicious delicious coffee with chocolatey addition.
I even discovered some great food places such as Sunflower Vegetarian Restaurant, as well as some amazing local breweries and pubs including Britomart Brewery, Galbraith's and Brew on Quay.
Hidden vegetarian gem – Sunflower vegetarian restaurant.
Whilst living in Auckland, I was also able to get out and around the city and experience different parts of it, both whilst working but also whilst exploring on a personal level.
Auckland is New Zealand's economic power house and most large companies base their head offices here, the unfortunate side effect has been that the city keeps growing and growing as more people base themselves there for work opportunities and there's easily a risk of the city becoming a very corporate and developing an all-business, no-play feel.
Whilst some will argue that Auckland is already a soulless corporate city, I argue that whilst it does have it's downsides, it has more than enough great features to make up for them.
Whilst a city like Wellington is generally great all round, Auckland has a contrasting mix of horrible problems yet amazing areas to visit and great places to go.
I even found greenery inside Auckland's CBD!
Generally speaking, Auckland is a young city, but there's still a lot of older buildings amongst the glass and steel towers.
Suburban Auckland (view from Takapuna down Fred Thomas drive).
The waterfront has to be one of Auckland's more redeeming features.
Whilst I don't regret leaving Auckland to spend time over in AU, and as a devout Wellingtonian, I must admit that I do have a special place for the city and I'd happily live in it again if it wasn't for the strong pull of dear friends and family in Wellington.
I suspect Auckland is somewhere I will consider visiting semi-frequently, even if it's just for the beach visits and warm weather during summer, the region with it's harbour and islands is one of the best feature and a strong pull for an excuse to visit the city.
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Please note that the call text has been updated on 2 March. The following sentence has been added to the item Preliminary and previous results in the Research plan: "State also whether the project contributes further to research and scientific results from a grant awarded previously by the Swedish Research Council."
Closed call
10 February - 17 March 2021
Research project grant for research on civil society
The purpose of the project grant is to give researchers the freedom to formulate their own research idea, method and implementation, and to solve a specific research task within a limited period. The focus of this grant aims to support research on civil society.
Support form: Project support
Subject area: Humanities and Social Sciences
Focus: Civil society
Applicant: Individual researcher
Participating researchers: Up to 6 other researchers may be invited to join the application.
Grant period: 1–4 years
Grant amount: Minimum 400 000 SEK per year, maximum 1 700 000 SEK per year
Start of grant period: January 2022
Application period: 10 February 2021 (14.00/2 pm) – 17 March 2021 (14.00/2 pm)
Publication of grant award: No later than the beginning of November 2021
For this call, the project period shall in normal cases be a maximum of three years. If your proposed project period is longer, you must specifically justify the need for a fourth year.
As from 2020, you must explain in your research plan how your stated activity level is suited to the implementation of the research project.
You will need to have a data management plan Opens in new window. for data generated within the research we award funds for. You must not send the plan to us, but according to our general grant terms and conditions, your administrating organisation must confirm that a data management plan will be in place when you start your project or equivalent, and also that the plan will be maintained.
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Requirements for applicants
The following requirements must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible to apply for the grant. We carry out checks and reject applications that do not fulfil the requirements.
Social changes impact on the role and practices of civil society. The changes raise questions about the composition, scope, operational focus, development and social importance of civil society. The wide focus of the call means that civil society can be looked at from several different directions. The research may relate to different aspects of civil society, such as its historical development, importance for societal development, organisation and control, and also the motivations for individuals and groups to organise themselves. Other urgent questions are also how civil society, the state and the market relate to and influence each other. Studies may focus on associations, interest organisations and popular movements, and also on transnational organisations and newer forms of social networks. The research can relate to both activities aimed at influencing political processes or the market, and activities aimed at supplementing or replacing state involvement or commercial markets. Studies of local, national and global aspects of the importance and practices of civil society are welcome.
The project grant aims to strengthen Swedish research focused on civil society. Participation by junior researchers in the projects, who may contribute to strengthening and developing the research is welcome.
Projects awarded funding will be part of a larger research programme focusing on civil society. The Swedish Research Council will appoint a coordinator among those awarded project grants within the framework for the programme. The coordinator's tasks will include arranging joint activities for professional development, in which projects awarded funds will be expected to take part. The coordinator will be appointed following notice of interest, and separate funding will be allocated for this coordination.
The applicant must be an individual researcher. You shall be the project leader and have scientific responsibility for the project. The time you set aside for the project (your activity level, that is the percentage of a full-time equivalent) must be suited to the task and its implementation throughout the grant period.
You must hold a Swedish doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, awarded no later than the deadline for this call. The degree award date we use is the date you fulfilled all the requirements for a doctoral degree, such as mandatory courses, oral defence and an approved doctoral thesis. For applicants with Swedish doctoral degrees, the award date listed in Ladok applies.
Grants from the Swedish Research Council shall be administered by a Swedish HEI or another Swedish organisation that fulfils our criteria for administrating organisations. Your organisation must therefore be approved as an administrating organisation for you to apply. The administrating organisation must sign your application in Prisma no later than 7 calendar days after the deadline for this call.
If you are awarded a grant, you must be employed by the administrating organisation at the start of and throughout the grant period and any additional availability period, unless the Swedish Research Council approves an exception from this requirement. The employment must equal at least 20 per cent of a full-time equivalent. You do not have to be employed by the administrating organisation at the time of applying.
Number of applications and previous grants
The requirements described in this section only apply to applicants and project leaders.
General information about overlaps between applications and grants
Your application must not cover costs for purposes that are already funded by the Swedish Research Council or any other funding body. Overlaps with other grants or applications may impact on the grant amount you are awarded, or be a reason for us to reject your application.
What grants may I apply for simultaneously from the Swedish Research Council?
You may only submit one application for this grant under this call. The table below shows information and restrictions on the grants you may apply for during the same year. Please note that you can only apply for other project grants for other project concepts.
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What requirements apply if I already have a grant from the Swedish Research Council?
There are certain restrictions if you are the project leader of an ongoing grant, that is to say where the grant period (payment period from the Swedish Research Council) overlaps the grant period of the grant the application relates to. Please note that the availability period, that is to say the time during which you have the right to use your grant, is normally longer than the grant period. You can find information about the requirements for your ongoing grant in the "Approval of terms and conditions" you received from the Swedish Research Council.
The table below shows information and restrictions on the grants you may apply for if you already have an ongoing grant. Please note that if you are the project leader for an ongoing project grant, this must have a different focus than research into civil society, and relate to a different project idea for you to be able to apply. If you are the project leader for an ongoing research environment grant, you may submit an application under this call, provided that the project grant application is not part of the research environment grant.
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Note: If you have been the project leader for previous grants from the Swedish Research Council that have ended, final financial reports for all of these must have been submitted within the permitted time frame in order for you to apply for a new grant. Please contact your administrating organisation if you are unsure whether all your final reports have been submitted.
What applies for applications to or grants from other funding bodies?
If your application to the Swedish Research Council relates to the same project concept as a grant you have already been awarded by, or are applying for to another funding body, please describe this.
Participating researchers
You may include up to 6 participating researchers in your application. Participating researchers are other researchers with a doctoral degree or equivalent competence, whose scientific competence will be crucial for the implementation of the planned research. They do not have to be employed by a Swedish HEI.
Participating researchers shall provide the necessary information themselves in Prisma, and upload these to the application. Any further collaborating partners and their roles shall be described in the research plan (please see instructions under "Research plan" below).
Costs and grant amounts
You can apply for a grant for all types of project-related costs, such as
salaries (including your own salary), however no more than corresponding to the person's activity level in the project
running costs (such as consumables, travel including stays at research facilities, publication costs and minor equipment)
depreciation costs.
Grants must not be used for scholarships. If a doctoral student participates, project funds may not be paid out as salary during teaching or other departmental duties.
The minimum amount you may apply for is 400 000 SEK per year, including indirect costs. The maximum amount you may apply for is 1 700 000 SEK per year.
Grant period
You may apply for a grant for a minimum of 1 year and a maximum of 4 years, starting in January 2022. The first payment will be made in January 2022 at the earliest.
For this call, the project period shall be a maximum of 3 years under normal circumstances. If your proposed project cannot be completed within a 3-year period, you may apply for 4 years. However, you must then specifically justify the need for a fourth project year under the heading "Time plan and implementation" in the research plan.
What must the application contain?
Please refer to the application form in Prisma in parallel with reading the instructions below, which describe the call-specific content of the application. More information on what to do in practical terms is available in our Guide for applicants. Opens in new window.
Foreign experts are involved in the scientific assessment of the applications. To ensure fair and equitable assessment and efficient processing, please therefore complete your application in English.
Sections of the application
The application form includes the following tabs:
Descriptive information
Budget and research resources
Administrating organisation
The information we request under each tab is described below.
In the abstract, please describe in brief the following:
What is to be done: purpose and aims
How the research will be carried out: project organisation, time plan and scientific methods
What is important about the planned research
The abstract shall provide a summary picture of the purpose and implementation of the research. Please use wording to ensure persons with another subject specialisation can understand the information.
The description may cover a maximum of 1 500 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one third of an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
Describe the project in such a way that a person who is not familiar with the subject can understand it. Describe what is to be done, and why. Explain also in what way the new knowledge may be important.
The popular science description is an important tool when we inform about the research funded by the Swedish Research Council. If we grant your application, we reserve the right to use the description for information purposes.
The description may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
Note: The popular science description must be written in Swedish, unlike the rest of the application.
Describe the ethical issues raised by your project or corresponding. You must also describe how you plan to address ethical dilemmas that may arise. Please justify why the research should be carried out against the background of the ethical issues you have identified. How do your research questions and expected results measure up in relation to the ethical issues? Please also state whether the research involves any handling of personal data, or experiments on animals or human subjects. If no ethical issues are raised, please justify this.
The justification may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
The research plan shall be forward-looking and consist of a brief but complete description of the research task. It shall cover a maximum of 10 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins, including references and any images.
The research plan must include the following headings and information, listed in the following order:
Purpose and aims: State the overall purpose and specific aims of the research project.
State-of-the-art: Summarise briefly the current research frontier within the field or area covered by the project. State key references.
Significance and scientific novelty: Describe briefly how the project relates to previous research within the area, and the impact the project may have in the short and long term. Describe also how the project moves forward or innovates the current research frontier.
Preliminary and previous results: Describe briefly your own previous research and pilot studies within the research area that make it probable that the project will be feasible. If no preliminary results exist, please state this. State also whether the project contributes further to research and scientific results from a grant awarded previously by the Swedish Research Council.
Project description: Describe the project design under the following headings:Theory and method: Describe the underlying theory and the methods to be applied in order to reach the project goal.
Time plan and implementation: Describe summarily the time plan for the project during the grant period, and how the project will be implemented. If your project will take four years, please justify this here.
Project organisation: Clarify how you and any participating researchers will contribute to the implementation of the project. Explain in particular how the time allocated by you (that is, your activity level) as project leader is suitable for the task, including the relationship with your other research undertakings. Describe and explain the competences and roles of the participating researchers in the project, and also any other researchers or equivalent who are important for the implementation of the project.
Relevance: Describe how your project is relevant for the focus on civil society (see the definition in the introduction to the call text) and how the project promotes the development of this field.
Provide the following information also. If a heading is not relevant to your application, please state this under the heading.
Equipment: Describe the basic equipment you and your team have at your disposal for the project.
Need for research infrastructure: Specify the project's need for international and national research infrastructure. In the first instance, you should use the research infrastructures supported by the Swedish Research Council, Opens in new window. which are open to all. If you choose to use other infrastructure instead, please justify this need (also applies for local research infrastructure).
International and national collaboration: Describe your own and the team's collaboration with foreign and Swedish researchers and research teams. State whether you contribute to or refer to international collaboration in your research.
Other applications or grants: If you are applying for or intend to apply for other grants from the Swedish Research Council, please clarify the relationship between the projects. This applies also if you are receiving ongoing grants from the Swedish Research Council with grant periods that wholly or partly overlap with the grant you are now applying for. You should also justify why you are submitting one or several further applications. Describe also the relationship with other applications to or grants from other funding bodies for the same project idea (from you or another researcher).
Project personnel
State the activity level (per cent of a full-time equivalent) of all personnel active within the project, that is to say yourself, any other researchers and other personnel. Please also state the salary you are applying for, for yourself and/or other personnel active within the project, both as a percentage of a full-time salary and as actual annual amounts (including social security contributions). Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.
Describe any other costs of the project (premises costs, running costs and depreciation costs). Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.
You may include depreciation costs for equipment to be used in the project, provided that
the equipment has an economic life of at least three years
the equipment has an acquisition value above a certain amount
the need cannot be satisfied through use of national or international infrastructure supported by the Swedish Research Council and thereby open to all.
You may only include the proportion of depreciation costs that corresponds to the use of the equipment in the proposed project, and you may not include depreciation costs for equipment that is wholly funded by other grants. Please contact your administrating organisation for information about what is included in local research infrastructure, acquisition values or how to calculate depreciation costs.
Total cost of the project
Prisma will automatically add up your budget items in a table. The total amount you are applying for shall also include indirect costs. You will have to add these to the table yourself. Here you can also add any additional costs that the project entails (for which you are not seeking funding under this call).
Please contact your administrating organisation if you have any questions about what constitutes indirect and direct costs.
Justification of the budget applied for
Justify briefly each cost applied for in your budget. The description may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.
Please state your or any other researcher's funding for the project over and above what is applied for in this application. Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.
Applicant's publication list
Please attach your publication list drawn up according to the headings and information below. The list shall cover a maximum of 5 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins.
Sort the publications under each heading in reverse chronological order, so that the latest publication is at the top of the list. Please only include articles or equivalent that are published or accepted for publication at the time of applying. The author name order shall be identical to that of the published work. The application cannot be supplemented with publications after the deadline for the call.
1. Selection of publications: List the 10 publications of greatest importance to your application. Describe how you contributed to each publication, and its relevance to the research project described (maximum 4 lines per publication). Highlight your name in bold in the author list.
2. Relevant publications from 2013–2021: In this part, the publications listed under item 1 shall also be included if they have been published during the period in question. Sort the publications, with your name highlighted in bold in the author list, under each heading (publication type) in the following order:
Peer-reviewed original articles
Peer-reviewed conference contributions, the results of which are not included in other publications
Peer-reviewed edited volumes
Research review articles
Peer-reviewed books and book chapters
Other publications including popular science books/presentations
Participating researchers' publication lists
Attach all participating researchers' publications lists joined up into one file. The list for each researcher shall include the 10 publications that are the most relevant to the research described, and shall cover a maximum of 1 A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins. The name of the researcher in question shall be highlighted in bold and also be included in the page header of each list.
Please only include articles or equivalent that are published or accepted for publication at the time of applying. The author name order shall be identical to that of the published work. The application cannot be supplemented with publications after the deadline for the call.
The publications shall be of the types: Peer-reviewed original articles, conference contributions, edited volumes, research review articles, books and book chapters, and other publications including popular science books/presentations.
Please state the administrating organisation and project site.
Here you as applicant may invite other participating researchers and administrators to your application.
Under this tab, please upload your relevant CV information from your personal account in Prisma. Any participating researchers must upload their own CV information to the application.
The following information (where available) must always be included in each CV:
Education: First, second and third cycle higher education and specialist degrees.
Work: Current employment (including employment form) and longer relevant employment held, postdoctoral visits (also included as employment if relevant), research exchanges relevant to the research described and any longer interruptions in the research that have impacted on your opportunity to gain merit as a researcher.
Merits and awards: Docentship/associate professorship, supervisees (postdoctoral and doctoral students; state the number of persons in each category and list the names of the up to 10 most relevant to you), up to 10 of your most relevant grants awarded in competition, up to 10 of your most relevant prizes and awards, and up to 20 other merits relevant to the application.
Intellectual property rights: For example, patents and open access computer programs developed by you; state up to 10 of your most relevant.
How your application is assessed
Scientific quality is the fundamental criterion when the Swedish Research Council allocates grants to research. Your application is evaluated in competition with the other applications on the basis of the following evaluation criteria.
Your application is evaluated by a review panel where the members are international researchers.
At least three members review and grade your application individually. The entire review panel then meets at two review panel meeting, one during the spring and one during the autumn, to discuss and prioritise the applications, and finally to make a proposal for a decision to the Scientific Council for Humanities and Social Sciences.
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In order to enable more in-depth discussions of applications of higher quality that have a reasonable chance of being funded, the applications that received the lowest grades from the panel members during the spring meeting are not discussed in detail at the review panel meeting during the autumn. Following the grant decision, all applications receive a final statement stating that includes the review panels' grading of the application. The applications that have been discussed in more detail at the second panel meeting receive an individual final statement which, in addition to the grades, also contains a summary of the review panel's discussion and overall assessment of the scientific quality of the application.
Here you will find a more comprehensive description of the Swedish Research Council's assessment of applications. Opens in new window.
Evaluation criteria and guiding questions
The evaluation of the scientific quality of your application is made based on four basic criteria (Scientific quality of the proposed research, Novelty and originality, Merits of the applicant, Feasibility). The purpose of using several components is to achieve a multi-faceted evaluation. The criteria are assessed on a seven-grade scale, except for feasibility, which is assessed on a three-grade grade scale.
For each criterion, there are guiding questions to support the panel members' evaluation of your application. These can also function as guidance for you when you write your application.
Scientific quality of the proposed research (1–7)
Strengths and weaknesses of the project's question and methodology, including potential for future scientific activities.
Guiding questions:
To what extent are the design of the project and its questions of the highest scientific quality?
To what extent is the project description sufficiently clear and systematic, for example in its definition of the research problem, its theoretical basis, and the summary of previous results within the research area?
To what extent is the proposed research design suitable for achieving the aims of the project?
To what extent are the methods for any data collection and analysis well described and suitable?
To what extent is the project relevant for knowledge about civil society?
Novelty and originality (1–7)
To what extent does the project have the potential to increase knowledge of civil society in a significant way (examples are new concepts and theories, approaches and methods and/or new data)?
To what extent does the project show a clear progression and new thinking in relation to previous research?
What potential does the project have for scientific and societal impact?
Merits of the applicant (1–7)
The merits of the applicant are always evaluated in relation to the applicant's career age and to the research task.
To what extent do the project participants have sufficient research experience and expertise within the area the application relates to?
To what extent have the project participants displayed an ability for independent and creative scientific work?
How good are the project participants' scientific production, impact and other merits in a national and international perspective, in relation to the research area and the applicant's career age?
To what extent do the project participants have the relevant and supplementary competence required to carry out the research task?
To what extent does the applicant (in the event the application includes doctoral students) have any experience of supervising doctoral students?
Feasibility (1–3)
To what extent are the project's staffing, work allocation and time plan realistic?
Is there access to materials, equipment, research infrastructures and other resources required
for the implementation of the project?
Have the permits required to implement the project been obtained? If not, please state how such permits are being applied for, and how likely it is that these permits will be obtained.
Overall grade (1–7)
The above subsidiary criteria are weighed together into an overall grade, which reflects the review panel's joint evaluation of the application's scientific quality.
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