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Satirical Novel
This book is told in first person narrative by Huckleberry Finn, friend of Tom Sawyer, and is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It follows Huck as he escapes from the confines of small town, religious, southern life to float on a river raft down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave named Jim. The two come across a mix of characters and places, and eventually run into Tom Sawyer. At the end they discover that Jim has been freed from his owner who died and freed him in her will, and that Huck's father, the town drunk, has also passed away, so he can now safely return home.
The book has been banned and challenged due to coarse language and the use of the word "nigger". There has also been a great deal of controversy over whether the book represents racist views or not. Some claim that Jim is a stereotype while others claim that Jim is humanized in the book and that Huck is clearly anti-racist.
New York: Oxford University Press
challenged works, Freedom to Read, Mark Twain, Satirical Novel
Mark Twain, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Special Collections, accessed January 29, 2023, https://archive.fims.uwo.ca/specialcollections/items/show/112.


In this eBook in the series iCake Italian, Giovanna Geremicca will show you step by step how to make royal icing, an invaluable aid both in decorating cakes with a piping bag and covering them, as well as giving an entirely different effect from fondant icing.
Similar to Italian meringue you will use it as a glue to attach the sculptures or add finishing touches, curls and many other decorations that you will find in the iCake Italian eBook series - white or colored, this recipe will give you great satisfaction.
As usual... Make way for fantasy and You Cake Italian!!
I downloaded this thinking it would have more than a single recipe. Don't bother, for a single recipe is it.


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Type of document: Full Paper
Authors: Kydyrmanov, A; Sayatov, M; Karamendin, K; Zhumatov, K; Asanova, S; Daulbayeva, K; Starick, E; Fereidouni, S
Title: Monitoring of influenza A viruses in wild bird populations in Kazakhstan in 2002-2009.
Source: Arch Virol. 2017; 162(1):147-155
Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Conservation Medicine
A comprehensive influenza virus monitoring study of wild birds was carried out at important flyway resting places and wintering sites in Kazakhstan over eight years. More than 3200 birds belonging to 155 species were sampled. Nearly three-fourths of the birds belonged to the orders Anseriformes and Charadriiformes. In total, 118 hemagglutinating agents were isolated, and 95 of them were identified as influenza A viruses. The influenza viruses comprised eight different subtypes with a high prevalence of H13 and H3 viruses and also included low-pathogenic H5 viruses. The vast majority of the H13 viruses were isolated from members of the family Laridae, whereas the H3 viruses mostly originated from members of the family Anatidae, both in concordance with other monitoring studies. All virus isolates were recovered from cloacal swabs or fecal samples only. The influenza viruses were identified mainly in wetlands north of the Caspian Sea. These findings should be integrated in the design of further wild-bird-monitoring activities.
Keywords Pubmed: Animals
Influenza A virusclassificationisolation & purification
Influenza in Birdsepidemiologyvirology
Kazakhstanepidemiology

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Distributed Control Systems - DCS
Integrated Process, Electrical Control and Safety System for Statoil Gullfaks
Integrated process, electrical control and safety system for Gullfaks oil platform in the North Sea
Enabling Integrated Operations (IO) through live upgrades
Gullfaks A began production on December 22, 1986
Gullfaks B began production on February 29, 1988
Gullfaks C began production on November 4, 1989
When the Gullfaks platform went online in 1986, it featured ABB's very first large-scale integrated Process Control and Safety System. Oil company owners StatoilHydro and ABB have since upgraded this solution in several planned steps necessary for Integrated Operations (IO).
Evolution optimizes safety and control
StatoilHydro signed a total EPCI contract with ABB in 2005 for upgrade of the control systems at Gullfaks A, B and C in the Norwegian North Sea. This contract was separate to the frame agreement ABB has with Statoil Hydro for ongoing modifications to installed control and safety systems. The main goals for the project have been to prepare Gullfaks with the automation technology, topology and competences necessary for Integrated Operations (IO) and to enable tail-end production through to 2030.
The most recent project included live (no shutdown) evolution of the existing Advant and Master control systems to System 800xA, plus a Fire and Gas (F&G) systems retrofit. In addition, System 800xA and HVAC as well as sequence, subsea and wellhead control were added. Wellhead, process and Emergency Shutdown (ESD) systems, fire and gas instrumentation, an information management system, generator control and a power management system are also now in place.
Main facts
Industry Oil, gas and petrochemicals
Customer StatoilHydro
Country North Sea
System 800xA with
Integrated Safety System
Power Management System
Central Control Room
800xA Simulator
Advant Master control system evolution
Direct electrical heating system
Erosion management system
Three generations of ABB control systems
The three platforms in the Gullfaks field have been in successful production since the mid- to late-1980's, when ABB installed the original control systems. Today, the field utilizes a combination of three generations of ABB control systems, including many of the original controllers installed over 30 years ago. Phasing out these first-generation controllers has been an important part of the upgrade project. To prepare Gullfaks for an extended lifetime through to 2030, another important goal has been to ensure that the total solution shall not limit the implementation of work processes, either offshore and onshore. In this way, strong focus has been placed on Integrated Operations (IO).
A comprehensive control system upgrade
The largest single task of the project has been the upgrade of the remaining MasterPiece 200/100 controllers at all three platforms, without causing disturbances in production. Local operation with push-buttons and indicators has been replaced by monitoring and control from a Central Control Room (CCR).
The HMI systems have all been upgraded from the ABB Avant to the new 800xA control system, comprising update of all operator- and large wall screen displays and installation of new network structures.
Upgrade of the Gullfaks process controls and workstations includes:
Upgrade 34 MasterPiece 200/1 and 250 MasterPiece 100 (DCM) to AC800M
Installation of approx. 10,000 I/O's in existing cabinets
AdvaCommand Unix OS for process/safety to 800xA
Convert approx. 3300 faceplates/displays to 800xA
Implementation of new network infrastructure
Life Cycle Information (LCI)
More than 10,000 existing documents were updated or voided and around 30,000 tags were electronically updated according to StatoilHydro's requirements for Life Cycle Information. A database was developed to track status of all affected documents and register information throughout the project. This database is linked to StatoilHydro's STID for electronic information exchange.
The work processes and database tools for LCI updates were developed during the project, ensuring a high-quality, on-time LCI delivery with tremendous cost savings compared to traditional LCI deliveries.
The work processes and database tools ensure a high-quality, on-time LCI delivery with tremendous cost savings compared to traditional LCI deliveries
Integration of wireless gas detectors
ABB has integrated signals from the wireless gas detection system to the ABB AC 800M controller to display status messages and alarms in the control room interface.
The advantages of a wireless vs. wired system are quickly apparent. The time needed for installation, integration and commissioning of the system was a fraction of what has been the norm for wired systems and shows one of the many advantages of implementing wireless detection.
Response time and accuracy are comparable to wired systems. Wireless gas detection offers further advantages compared to wired solutions:
Easier and more flexible installation (no cables, no junction boxes, no barriers, no cross wiring)
Simplified engineering and documentation
Minimum overall 70% cost reduction
Easy expansion using more detectors without pulling new cables
Direct electrical heating
ABB Direct electrical heating (DEH) system provide a reliable solution for preventing formation of hydrate and wax in the flowlines and pipelines. The DEH system is based on ABB's proven and reliable standard components. ABB has over the last 30 years successfully designed, manufactured and implemented a large number of electrical systems to the oil & gas industry. ABB offers system solutions, products and services for the entire field of electro-technical installations.
ABB provides DEH solution to Statoil's Gullfaks A platform. All electrical and control products conform to international standard, from transformer to output cable connection. In addition, ABB is responsible for design and in-house engineering.
ABB Relion® family provides protection, monitoring and control of the DEH system.Relion IEDs implement the core values of the IEC 61850 standard. These products interoperate with other IEC 61850-compliant IEDs, tools and systems, including to transfer parameters and event lists to the ICSS through IEC61850 or alternative Modbus TCP/IP. 670 and 615 series IEDs include high performance GOOSE messaging. It is also possible to transfer all necessary information to the main control system with time-stamping.
ABB DEH system provides a reliable solution for preventing formation of hydrate and wax in the flowlines and pipelines.
Increasing sand production is a common problem in maturing fields, resulting from declining reservoir pressure and increasing amounts of water. Sand production has an impact on both production and safety, because sand causes erosion of production equipment. In some cases, increasing sand production triggers premature shut down of production wells.
Statoil has more than 400 sand producing wells in the North Sea. The sand producing reservoirs with the lowest formation strength are located in the Gullfaks field. (The reservoir rock disintegrates when it is squeezed between the fingers). As a result, Gullfaks was the first field to systematically enhance sand management through investments in knowledge and technology.
Cooperation between Statoil and DNV was established, and a systematic review of the erosion phenomena was conducted. The major break-through of the sand management project reached surface in 2001, which made it possible for Statoil to control the oil production according to an Acceptable Sand Rate (ASR) instead of a Maximum Sand free Rate (MSR). As a direct consequence, the oil production from the Gullfaks field has increased.
The Insight - Erosion Management System software (ABB) was installed on the Gullfaks field, and is today keeping track of the actual wall thickness reduction due to the sand production in chokes and other erosion nodes. Besides from an increased production and improved safety situation, the software provides an economical gain due to condition based inspection and maintenance operation. Based on the experiences from the Gullfaks field, the system is now also in operation on the Statfjord field, which has seem similar results (SPE 94511)
Besides an increased production and improved safety situation, ABB software provides an economical gain due to condition based inspection and maintenance operation
More on System 800xA
More on ABB offshore oil and gas solutions
35 years in Safety - an ocean of experience
Modernization and upgrades of Safety and Automation Systems (SAS) - Extending oilfield life span
Gullfaks - the first field to systematically enhance sand management
Wireless Gas Detectors Find Application in Off-Shore Platforms
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MINNEAPOLIS – The big plenary session of RightOnline began with an incredibly long Celine Dion version of "God Bless America"* with a swing at the bottom line. Americans for Prosperity, the main sponsor of the conference, was co-founded by David Koch. A lot of Koch money comes from the energy industry. Etc, etc – we don't need to worry this point. But Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, wasn't exactly subtle with his introductory remarks. He asked the crowd how much gas was on January 20, 2009, and how much it is now.
Phillips ran through three quotes that are always used to write the brief on liberals and energy price gouging starting with Stephen Chu's comment about the desirability of getting to European gas prices, and Obama saying the high prices of 2008 had simply come too fast.
The third quote was a reminder of just how wired these activists are into the narrative about Barack Obama. Phillips referred, without naming the source, to a 2008 interview Obama gave the San Francisco Chronicle.
"What did he say about energy prices under his plan?" asked Phillips. "They will, what?
"Necessarily skyrocket!" yelled the crowd.
"The Wisconsin phone center is open! Are you willing to stand with Scott Walker?


Sengupta, U., cheung, P., iossifova, D., Hyde, R., 2016.
This paper examines future planning methodologies based on development of 'smarter' new digital tools. These new tools are critical of the conflation of Smart Cities with sustainable futures and explores the subject from a complex adaptive system framework (including Ecological Resilience). Custom digital tools enabling multi-stakeholder participation and building of evidence bases for policy change within urban governance will examined against the techno-utopian promise of sustainable futures based on the use of urban data. The operative framework of the new tools focuses on guiding urban transformation towards desirable and resilient cities using co-productive top-down and bottom-up approaches enabled by digital interfaces, designed for discourse and decision-making rather than simply dissemination of information. The theoretical framework based on the complexity sciences addresses change over time within emergent relational social and infrastructural urban systems. Cases developed in co-operation with Manchester City Council demonstrate how system trajectories based on an understanding of existing transformational trends, probability fields and indicators within 'situated' social, economic, geographical, cultural and ecological topographies, can be extrapolated for sustainable future scenario evaluation. Possibilities for direct democracy enabling citizens to co-produce their future cities are examined against the structural changes required to organisational frameworks in government and urban planning institutions before this potential can be fully realised. By combining 'gamification' with 'smarter' cities the research aims to critically bring together system capacity with multi-level stakeholder involvement in decision making and behaviour change using digital interfaces to engage with the sustainable transformation of cities.


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Game Talk: Scott Simpson's MBA for TELUS capstone project is leveling the gaming playing field
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
June 2, 2022 - Susan Pederson
Scott Simpson couldn't be happier with the capstone project that he embarked on two years ago alongside three other cohort members of UVic's custom MBA program for Telus.
Not only does the outcome of Simpson's capstone project—the Telus Esports affiliate program, which was launched by the telecom giant in February—have the potential to change the way the company communicates with gamers, it also aims to combat bullying, racism and sexism in the gaming community.
Simpson, who is director, business development at Telus, hadn't exactly planned to do an MBA at that particular time in his life. In fact, had he not sought a promotion at Telus and been shot down, the capstone project would never have come about.
In 2008, after graduating from UBC with a business administration degree, Simpson joined Telus and methodically worked his way up the corporate ladder—from business analyst to manager of a marketing team. Eager to continue his upward trajectory, Simpson approached his manager to discuss his next advancement, only to be told, "You need to be more holistic in your thinking, and how it impacts the rest of the organization."
A somewhat dejected but undefeated Simpson wondered how to think "holistically" about a company that is 65,600-plus people strong and spans more than 20 countries. After some inward contemplation and research, he landed on the perfect solution: as a Telus representative, he would apply to earn the custom MBA that Telus and UVic's Gill Graduate School of Business partnered to create in 2015.
"I had always wanted to get my MBA, but I didn't do it immediately after I graduated because I wanted to get work experience," Simpson recalls. And so he found himself back in the classroom, only this time with 18 fellow high-performing Telus employees and future leaders.
Eventually, with Andy Balser, vice president at Telus as their VP sponsor, Simpson and teammates Amit Sharma, Madeleine Baker and Emily McGlenen began brainstorming for their capstone project. Many possibilities were entertained, including brief consideration of gaming's dark cousin, gambling. But this was quickly rejected. "Not quite on brand for us," Simpson laughs.
"However, since we were getting deep into hosting the greater Telus Esports Series, in which more than 800 teams compete for over $50,000 in prizes, we thought we might just have something here."
The team quickly developed the Telus Esports affiliate program. The premise was simple: the program would reward gamers for referrals to Telus service. "We added fun to it by gamifying the experience and meaningfully connecting to the gaming market, incorporating everything that Telus is."
Safer online spaces
Working with underrepresented groups in the field, most notably female gamers, the team also took on the task of trying to combat bullying, racism and sexism in the gaming community by carefully vetting the gamers Telus accepts into the program. "We want to build people up on the online community who have the right message, who will make the community a better place," Simpson says.
A rigorous approval process was developed that involves sifting through all the potential gamers/partners' social media, as well as a multi-level list of checks and balances. Although complex, the process did not deter the type of gamers Telus wanted to attract—in fact, 230 applications were filed during the February 2022 launch week alone.
Simpson says the program and its applicants will be assessed in the next six, 12, 18 and 24 months. "It will be really exciting to further the reach of women in gaming, for example. Right now, only about four per cent of the protagonists in games are female."
Rather than target gamers who already have three million followers, the program targets those budding influencers with around 200 followers. "We want to help them as a sponsor to get their career to the next level. We also want to help lessen the stigma associated with gaming and addiction. There's a lot of good that can come from gaming," says Simpson.
More than an MBA
Although he himself isn't a gamer, Simpson knows of what he speaks. His nine-year-old daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia and struggled with reading; but thanks to playing Minecraft, Roblox and other games that greatly developed her focus, she now reads to him and consistently aces her weekly spelling tests. "We don't owe it all to gaming, but if it's supervised by parents, there are a lot of positives," he says.
Simpson admits that he initially went into the MBA program with a cavalier attitude— "almost a 'my way or the highway' attitude. Plus, I was probably lacking a lot of the hard skills, such as the legal side of things, accounting, and math-based and numbers-based learning." But today he has a solid understanding of how those elements impact Telus's business as a whole. In short, he has gained that holistic view of the company he was after.
Another positive outcome for Simpson's MBA team is a marketing award for the Telus Esports affiliate program. Plus, Simpson is reaching the finish line for his MBA. But as satisfying as these wins are, Simpson, who convocates with his cohort this June, says he has gained a much longer-term sense of satisfaction—that of having forged business bonds with classmates he knows will last a lifetime.
Keywords: convocation, student life, business
People: Scott Simpson
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Sustainable industries are this grad's next goal
With his bachelor of commerce in hand this November, commerce grad Will Adams is continuing his passion for sustainability in business at UVic's industrial ecology program—a path he says the Gustavson School of Business helped to inspire.
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For sociology grad Jasmine Webster, community-engaged learning courses at UVic focused her passion for a career in the non-profit sector. "The skills you learn simply from engaging with people with different lived experiences shape your approach to community-based work," says Webster.
A coding career of science—and sound
When Calgary-based Logan Wood was looking for a leading post-secondary music and computer science degree program, he quickly realized that there was only real choice for him. "In comparing programs across the country, UVic stood out for me," he says.
Family roots support grad success
For graduating student Kailee Hibbert, a curiosity about identity, feminism and race led her to study sociology and gender studies at UVic.
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Q: how to make a canvas responsive I am using a demo from console.image to make a simple meme generator. I am having a hard time making it responsive. I have done some searching for this but I am not getting examples that fully show me how to do it. i made a plunker. I am using angular/materialize/console.image
plunker

              <select class="browser-default" ng-model="selectedMeme" ng-init="selectedMeme = memes[0]" ng-change="alterMeme()" ng-options="m.name for m in memes"></select>

              <input type="text" placeholder="" id="top_text" class="validate" ng-model="toptext" ng-change="alterMeme()" />
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(function(console) {
"use strict";

//Bootlegged of imgur.com/memegen
var memes = {
    "Rudy": "http://i.imgur.com/1nJv40n.jpg"
};

var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
console.list = memes;

function drawMemeText(ctx, type, text, width, y) {
    text = text.toUpperCase();
    //Determine the font size
    if (text.length < 24) {
        var val = Math.max(0, text.length - 12),
            size = 70 + (val * -3);

        drawText(ctx, size, text, width / 2, y);
    } else if (text.length < 29) {
        drawText(ctx, 40, text, width / 2, y);
    } else {
        var strs = wrap(text, 27);
        strs.forEach(function (str, i) {
            drawText(ctx, 40, str, width / 2, (type == "lower") ? (y - ((strs.length - 1) * 40)) + (i * 40) : y + (i * 40));
        });
    }
}

function drawText(ctx, size, text, x, y) {
    //Set the text styles
    ctx.font = "bold " + size + "px Impact";
    ctx.fillStyle = "#fff";
    ctx.textAlign = "center";
    ctx.textBaseline = "middle";
    ctx.lineWidth = 7;
    ctx.strokeStyle = "#000";
    ctx.strokeText(text, x, y);
    ctx.fillText(text, x, y);
}
function wrap(text, num) {
    var output = [],
        split = text.split(" ");

    var str = [];
    for (var i = 0, cache = split.length; i < cache; i++) {
        if ((str + split[i]).length < num) str.push(split[i])
        else {
            output.push(str.join(" "));
            str.length = 0;
            str.push(split[i]);
        }
    }

    //Push the final line
    output.push(str.join(" "));

    return output;
}
console.meme = function (upper, lower, image, width, height) {
    if (!upper && !lower && !image) return console.log("> " + Object.keys(memes).join("\n> "));

    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d"),
    width = width || 500,
    height = width || 500,
    //I tweaked it at these dimensions,
    //So everything scales from here
    _w = 500, _h = 500;

    ctx.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);

    var img = new Image();
    img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');
    img.onload = function () {
        canvas.width = width;
        canvas.height = height;

        var text = upper.toUpperCase();

        ctx.scale(width / 500, height / 500);

        //Draw the background
        ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0, _w, _h);

        drawMemeText(ctx, "upper", upper, _w, 50); //upper
        drawMemeText(ctx, "lower", lower, _w, _h - 50); //upper

        //my lil' hack
        canvas.id = 'myCanvas';
        $('.canvas').html(canvas);

    };

    if (memes[image]) var url = memes[image];
    else var url = image;

    img.src = url; //"http://www.corsproxy.com/" + url.replace(/https?:\/\//, "");
   };
 })(console);

app.js
angular.module('scottMeme', [])
 .controller('AppCtrl', function ($scope) {

$scope.toptext = '';
$scope.bottomtext = '';
$scope.selectedMeme = 'Rudy';
$scope.memes = [];

for (var key in console.list) {
    $scope.memes.push({ name: key, url: console.list[key] });
}

$scope.alterMeme = function () {
    var url = $scope.memes[$scope.memes.indexOf($scope.selectedMeme)].name;
    console.meme($scope.toptext, $scope.bottomtext, url);
}

$scope.create = function () {
    var uri = document.getElementById('myCanvas').toDataURL();
    downloadImage(uri, generateName());
}

function generateName() {
    var n = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        n.push((Math.floor(Math.random() * 16)).toString(16));
    }
    return n.join('');
};

function downloadImage(uri, name) {
    var link = document.createElement('a');
    link.download = name;
    link.href = uri;
    link.click();
    };
  }).run(function () {
   console.meme('', '', 'Rudy');
});

A: Try to set #myCanvas { width: 100%; } in the css.

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Special Lecture delivered by the Executive Director of the LKIIRS
A special lecture on the "Role of Sri Lanka in South Asia and Beyond: Emerging new Contours" was delivered by Dr. Dinusha Panditaratne, Executive Director, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of Sri Lanka on 19 January 2018 at the Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The special lecture was organized by the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) in New Delhi.
At the inception the welcome remarks were made by Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General of the RIS and the session was chaired by Ashok Sajjanhar, former Indian Diplomat.
Dr. Panditharatne reflected on four emerging contours and Sri Lanka's role in South Asia and beyond. She identified contours as;
- Sri Lanka in the centre of the Indian Ocean gaining a south asian geographic identity
- In the past focusing on political diplomacy, but now more towards economic diplomacy
- Strategically non-aligned, but cautious and actively engaging with regional powers
- Seeking to demonstrate that Sri Lanka follows regional and international norms.
The presentation encapsulated the discernible shifts in these characteristics. She noted that these four developments in Sri Lanka's foreign relations are nascent, but generally positive. Pursued in combination, these developments will elevate Sri Lanka's standing, while strengthening its neighbourhood relations. The experiences of successful small states like Singapore, the Netherlands and New Zealand, are instructive for Sri Lanka in this regard.
Dr. Panditaratne also noted in her lecture that, Sri Lanka is being rebranded in the present context in order to aspire to be major trading hub in Asia. Furthermore, she noted that Sri Lanka has been able to bring its Free Trade Agreements (FTA) into force which in turn impacts positively to the rebranding process. She stated that economic diplomacy is given priority, adherence to the rule of law and good governance gave a new face to the rebranding process. Sri Lanka has also pursued non-alignment in the current context and non-alignment according to Sri Lanka's national interest. This has shaped the international norms within Sri Lanka's foreign policy and framing a South Asian geographic identity.
At the end of the special lecture, H. E. Mrs. Chitranganee Wagiswara, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in India made special remarks referring to current developments in which she highlighted that Sri Lanka has to face many challenges. She emphasized that Sri Lanka is a resilient country and that Sri Lanka is developing the economy in order to play an important role as a hub in the region while pursuing political stability and promoting links with the international community. The High Commissioner referred to India's neighbourhood policy and Sri Lanka – India linkages which contributes to closer engagement between the two countries.
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One of the most prestigious institutions of science and technology in India, IIT-Bombay, marked its 55th founder's day on Monday amid celebrations and award-giving ceremony.
During the event, awards were bestowed to its alumni across generations.
Professor Spenta Wadia, Director International Center for Theoretical Sciences of Tata Institute of Fundmental Research, presented the distinguished alumnus awards to ten past students.The Young Alum Achiever Awards were presented to four other students.
"We continue to attract outstanding talent in terms of both students and faculty. In the last five years, students have grown from 5,000 to 9,000 and 50 per cent of them are at the post graduate or doctoral level," professor Devang Khakhar, director of IIT-Bombay, said during the event.
He also discussed the plan of setting up Tinkerers lab where students can work on their ideas to turn them into reality.
IIT-Bombay's foundation stone was laid by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru on March 10th, 1959.During the event, professor Wadia also talked at length on the topic "End of Space-Time and beyond".


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Proof of concept designs are useful for gaining valuable feedback from outside parties on a skeleton version of your final product.
Proof of concept is an experimental project that's developed and examined internally, without being displayed to the public. The main objective is to seek risks and potential of the product or service, with a minimum resource involvement. In the world of software development, POC can take an unlimited variety of forms.
Very often, POC takes the shape of a single page website with the use of the most available and non-absorbing techniques. This "service" is usually dumped after a series of tests and then developed again from scratch if the conclusions turn positive. As an example, I'd like to point at a project of a Django-fuelled marketplace, which was finished by our team last year. Initially, the founders created their POC using Prestashop with an insufficient graphics effort.
Another reasonable approach is building a deck of wireframes without involving any developers. By using tools like InVision, we're able to design fully clickable templates, perform tests with a group of users, collect feedback, and seek further paths of exploration. A mockup can be very simple and plain, but at this stage, an entrepreneur might consider hiring a UX designer and evaluate its concept.
Risk limitation: Even primitive POC delivers bits of precious information regarding business logic, usability, and functionality. It's also helpful for service architects before they launch the MVP development as it becomes the first draft of project's future roadmap. POC as a tool in a hand of the entrepreneur doesn't only measure the attractiveness of the services but also informs us about the possible costs.
The Dragon's Den Value: Well-made proof of concept can become a useful tool in a hand of a founder without funding. By proving that you have a clear vision of your goals you basically increase your chances while searching for an investor. And it's significantly better than a PowerPoint presentation.
Hands-On Approacing vs. Theorizing: While creating a pen and paper concept, we don't think practically about the costs and consequences of solutions we aim to implement. Even a "warm-up" session performed with limited involvement of funds and manpower should help you know your limits.
Why are we doing this and what are we trying to achieve?
What are we comparing this to?
Are we testing a specific business process?
Who will maintain this when it's live?
If you're aiming to build a web/mobile application, I strongly recommend involving a User Experience Designer from the very beginning (assuming that you don't possess that sort of competencies). As mentioned above, a deck of mockups can become a valuable POC and, what is even more important, you can reuse them as the project reaches the open-to-public stage. Such effort won't validate the technical difficulties, but it allows you to perform tests on, for example, a small focus group of users. In the opposite to a simple e-commerce solution of the static website, you can recycle the assets created to build a POC.
Every workshop is designed for the particular product or service we will work on. Before the workshop, we collect information about the vision, origins of the project, and data we can rely on. (...) Our next step is to analyze collected data, existing products, and the competition. During this phase, we are also looking for inspirational pages and solutions. With this information, we can establish the goal for workshops and choose the tools and techniques that will fit the project.
As you can see, with a minimum effort the POC of a web application can be slightly expanded and reused during the further evaluation. In my opinion, investigating the business possibilities is more important than the examination of technical requirements. After all, the dress rehearsal is the last moment to prepare for going public and launching your MVP.


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A large scale survey of individual researchers currently working outside Europe (28 Member States and 3 Associated Countries). The survey addressed both researchers in higher education institutes and researchers who work outside higher education institutes (public or government sector, private not-for-profit sector and firms). The survey included i) EU researchers currently working outside the EU, ii) non-EU researchers who have worked in the EU in the past, iii) non-EU researchers who have not worked in the EU but who have been internationally mobile elsewhere and iv) non-EU researchers who have not been mobile at all.


Eustace Conway was a Mountain Man long before he starred on the show with a similar name. It seems to be in his blood, along with the desire to preserve nature, and teach others how to live off the land.
Eustace is the owner of Turtle Island Preserve in Boone, which guides people through experiences with the natural world to enhance their appreciation and respect for life. It's part education center, part naturalistic setting which allows Mr. Conway and guests to live off of the land, and feel the bond with it.
Eustace attributes his passion for stewardship to his grandfather, who founded Camp Sequoia in 1924. Like his family before him, Mr. Conway hasn't forgotten his connection to the land. He lives his life more like our ancestors than most.
Most of us have sanitized our lives with technology. We rarely need to get our hands dirty, and even gardening is considered a hobby. On a large scale, this disconnection has caused a lack of concern for the environment, as if the "environment" were a thing outside ourselves.
Mr. Conway draws his life and his living from the earth, and that makes him notable in our region, since that is a thing most of us have forgotten. Our grandmothers remember, but we only know the stories. Turtle Island offers us, and our children, an opportunity to experience a simpler way of living. It's a living history experience that is rare, and we think, beautiful.
We encourage you to go to their website, www.turtleislandpreserve.org, or call (828) 265-2267. Please note they are a working farm and education center, and can only entertain guests by appointment, so make sure you call ahead.
Like every bona fide Mountain Man, Mr. Conway has hiked the Appalachian Trail. In fact, he hiked ALL of it, at the age of 17. He's also broken speed records for traveling horseback from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
The most recent television series Eustace was involved with was History Channel's Mountain Men, but this certainly hasn't been his first brush with fame. He has enjoyed continued media coverage throughout his life, The weekly radio show "This American Life" reported on Conway's cross-country journey in the episode "Adventures in the Simple Life."Full Circle: A Life Story of Eustace Conway, was directed a documentary about his life, directed by Jack Bibbo. Conway is a main character in the 2012 documentary film Reconvergence, which was directed by Edward Tyndall.
In 2012, Fox News aired a feature called War on the Little Guys, hosted by John Stossel, which focused on a fight the North Carolina lawmakers regarding code violations for primitive structures. Turtle Island Preserve was locked in a long and expensive battle, as the traditional buildings couldn't possibly meet code requirements. In the end, NC lawmakers voted unanimously to pass H774, which is "an act to direct the building code council to adopt rules exempting certain primitive structures from certain provisions of the building code." His fight has made it easier for many groups across the state to preserve and share our history.
Foothills Digest salutes the work of Eustace Conway.
Thank You Mr. Eustace for preserving the wild in the word "wilderness!" We need to stop developing everything and get back to nature!


I have always been an avid reader of literature, insatiable in my appetite for new stories, but also revisiting beloved favourites to dwell in their familiar geographies. This was not just simple entertainment – too often did I spend days agonizing over conflicts the characters were caught up in and thinking about the lives of characters I cared about. The literary stories I read blended into how I understood the world around me. As such, I can relate to enthusiastic readers like Rebecca Mead, who describes in her mixture of memoir and literary criticism, My Life in Middlemarch (2014), how the constant re-engagement with her favourite book, George Eliot's Middlemarch, throughout the years helped form her outlook on personal relationships. Not only memoirs, but also works of literature frequently highlight the magic of reading.
As a literary studies scholar, I am now also a professional reader, but seek to bridge the often deplored divide between professional and lay reading by concentrating on issues of reader response and the cultural functions of literature. In Lloyd Jones's novel Mister Pip, the first-person narrator, Matilda, describes Dickens's Great Expectations in terms of a protective home she could inhabit and how reading this novel from a different culture and time generated moments of self-recognition and empathy regarding the people around her in Bougainville. The novel thus illustrates how literature matters to the way we live our lives, how we imagine home spaces, fashion our identity and perceive others. In my article, I explore the connections between literature and homemaking by concentrating on the role literature plays in forging specific types of subjectivity that are linked to idea(l)s of home rooted in power hierarchies. I apply this focus both to the level of characters and to the level of reader response by asking how reading or engaging with Mister Pip encourages specific practices of the self and homemaking in the 'real' world.
I became interested in the topic of home not only because of the attraction that this emotionally and ideologically charged key cultural idea continues to exert on individuals but also because of the ways in which it influences our notions of community on larger scales. As scholars such as Alison Blunt and Robyn Dowling emphasize, home cannot be reduced to a physical structure because home is suffused with an imaginary element. Representations of home in works of fiction play a vital role in shaping this spatial imaginary with manifest effects. Ideals of home are bound up with mechanisms of exclusion: whom do we imagine as (not) belonging to home spaces? Reading Mister Pip with its depiction of how Matilda's notion of home and communal life is tested and recalibrated through her response to Great Expectations may encourage readers to think about what kind of books they read as a child or young adult and the ways in which these stories affected their thinking about home. In my case, a classic of children's literature, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, belonged to my all-time favourites when I was young. Back then, the vividly conjured up blossoming garden in rural England became a part of my imagined ideal home. Rereading this book as an adult was a sobering experience as I only then became aware of the blatant racism pervading this literary representation of an English home. If storytelling is a crucial means for creating meaningful places and fashioning the self, then it is well worthwhile to take a closer look at the ideological implications of the kinds of home and selves created in and through literature.
I was drawn to Lloyd Jones's bestseller Mister Pip not only because the novel is a great read, but because it offers an intriguing case study for exploring the interplay between literature, practices of home and the self against the backdrop of neo-colonial power relations – both within the fictional world and in the extratextual world. Given that literature is one important means for disseminating idea(l)s of home, my interest in the interplay between literature and home extends to the status of literary works in the global market place: whose work is published and marketed and whose voices are (not) prominently represented? The research questions I have sketched here invite a transdisciplinary dialogue between literary studies and other disciplines, especially anthropology.
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Nel 1980 venne inserita nella Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.

Biografia

Primi anni ed educazione
Ruby Pickens nacque il 13 gennaio 1880 a Livingston, in Alabama, come figlia minore di un coltivatore di cotone. Frequentò la Livingston Female Academy, seguita dal Sophia Newcomb College e successivamente dalla University of West Alabama, dove studiò con Julia Tutwiler, prima e unica presidente donna dell'istituto.

Nel 1901 si trasferì a New York, dove studiò arte alla Parsons The New School For Design; lì conobbe William Merritt Chase, noto pittore impressionista. Tartt sviluppò il proprio stile basandosi sull'abitudine di Chase di dipingere direttamente sulla tela senza fare degli abbozzi preparativi. In seguito insegnerà arte nella sua città natale.

Si sposò il 18 ottobre 1904 con il banchiere William Pratt Tartt: i due ebbero una figlia, Fannie Pratt Tartt, nata il 21 giugno 1906.

I primi lavori e le prime registrazioni musicali
Durante gli anni della Grande depressione la famiglia Tartt stava passando un periodo difficile economicamente. Ruby riuscì a trovare un posto di lavoro al Works Progress Administration di York. Nel 1936 ottenne l'incarico di presidente della sezione di Sumter del Federal Writers' Project, un progetto del governo creato per fornire lavoro a scrittori disoccupati durante la Grande Depressione: sfruttò questo posto di lavoro per raccogliere storie di vita, storie, tradizioni e canzoni degli ex schiavi della zona. Il suo lavoro fu notato dall'etnomusicologo John Lomax, che allora stava registrando canzoni per la Biblioteca del Congresso. Nel 1937 i due intrapresero insieme una spedizione nella contea di Sumter con l'obiettivo di raccogliere testimonianze e registrare canzoni popolari: la spedizione fu un successo, e vennero registrati circa trecento brani. Tartt intraprese altre spedizioni, sia in solitario che con Lomax, in modo da raccogliere altro materiale per l'archivio delle canzoni popolari presente nella Biblioteca del Congresso. Al 1940, la coppia raccolse oltre ottocento canzoni e più di ottanta scatti fotografici dei cantanti. Tra loro era presente anche Vera Hall, concittadina di Tartt oggi considerata una delle migliori cantanti folk statunitensi.

Tartt continuò a lavorare con Lomax e suo figlio Alan, anch'egli folklorista, alle raccolte musicali Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, and Ballads e Afro-American Blues and Game Songs. Lavorò anche con la folklorista Ellie Seigmeister e con il professore di musica dell'Università dell'Alabama Byron Arnold, al quale fornì materiale per la sua collezione  intitolata Folksongs of Alabama. Tartt fornì anche materiale per l'antologia New American Songbag di Carl Sandburg, futuro vincitore del Premio Pulitzer.

La svolta nella scrittura e la morte
Negli anni Quaranta Tartt si dedicò alla scrittura di libri di narrativa, spesso basati sui materiali che aveva raccolto durante i suoi anni alla Works Progress Administration. Nel 1945 il suo racconto A Pair of Blue Stockings fu incluso nelle raccolte di Houghton Mifflin Best American Short Stories e Yearbook of the American Short Story. In seguito, Tartt firmò un contratto con la casa editrice per una raccolta di storie basata sul folklore meridionale; tuttavia, il libro non venne pubblicato. Nel 1945, a seguito di un tornado, perse la casa, gran parte dei suoi appunti e si ferì alla mano destra. Continuò ugualmente a scrivere e dipingere, sebbene con difficoltà.

Ricevette alcune royalties per alcune registrazioni basate sulle sue scoperte, in particolare dal The Kingston Trio e da Harry Belafonte, ma non abbastanza da renderla finanziariamente indipendente. Si mantenne come bibliotecaria fino al 1964, in una libreria della contea di Sumter. Passò i suoi ultimi anni in una casa di riposo fino al giorno della sua morte, il 29 settembre 1974. Tartt venne seppellita al cimitero Myrtlewood di Livingston.

Eredità
Nel 1975 la biblioteca pubblica di Livingston venne rinominata Ruby Pickens Tartt Library in suo onore.

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To positively prepare, inform and advocate for women to be successful within the financial services organizations.
I believe people need competent, responsible and ethical advice given in their best interest. They need guidance from a fiduciary. The emerging financial planning profession is paving the way to deliver fiduciary advice but the traditional financial services industry (and their lobbyist) are fighting it. This is why I support the Fee-Only (not fee-based) movement and NAPFA where all advisors are fiduciaries.
I believe the vision of the financial planning profession where all planners are fiduciaries will evolve from a new breed of financial advisor who has studied the financial planning body of knowledge, preferably from a Business College within a University and sat for the CFP exam - similar to how students become CPA's. This is why I created a new degreed program at Muma College of Business at University of South Florida to train this new breed of competent and ethical advisors.
I believe the financial planning profession will better serve the community if more women participate. Although the industry is making efforts to include women, the women themselves need support, advocacy and encouragement to push through and circumvent the existing gender-challenges. This is why I created WoMEN workshops, WoMEN Advocacy Circle programs and wrote Gender On Wallstreet: Uncovering Opportunities for Women in Financial Services, to help women in financial services consciously engage in their career to achieve success.
I believe all women must engage in their financial lives since participation can improve the quality of their life and the quality of their relationships. This is why I promote education at places such as the Women's Resource Center in Sarasota, Florida and why I encourage female financial planners to work with women by showcasing their work with the Women's Money Empowerment Network podcast.
I believe money is the final source of power and inequity. I am calling for a fourth wave of the women's movement to encourage all women to gain control over money. Helping women to live their lives without worry and on their own terms is a goal for us all to strive for! Please join the calling.


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Home news Married man Mr Ayan Olubunmi sent to prison for posting lover's nude photos online. Mr Ayan Olubunmi, was on Wednesday handed a two year jail term
Married man Mr Ayan Olubunmi sent to prison for posting lover's nude photos online. Mr Ayan Olubunmi, was on Wednesday handed a two year jail term
A married man, Ayan Olubunmi, was on Wednesday handed a two year jail term with a fine of N500,000 by a Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for posting nude pictures of his ex-lover, Arare Monica, on Facebook.
The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that Justice Taiwo Taiwo who handed down the sentence, said he had been lenient with the convict.
The suit marked FHC/AD/17c/2017 was between Attorney General of the Federation and Olubunmi.
Counsel to the AGF, Mrs A.Oyewole told the court that Olubunmi had earlier threatened to post nude pictures of his ex- girlfriend, Monica, on the social media sometimes in 2017, when the lady told him she was no longer interested in their relationship.
According to the counsel, Monica, a single lady, had pleaded with Olubunmi, who is married with children, not to carry out his threat, consequent upon which the convict requested that a sum of N200,000 be paid to him as inducement so as not to expose the nude pictures.
She said in spite of that, Olubunmi went ahead post the pictures when it dawned on him that Monica could not pay the money in record time.
NAN reports that Justice Taiwo while delivering his judgement, said Olubunmi was found guilty of committing the crime, after considering all evidences made available to the court.
He said the evidences were weighty and incontrovertible enough to prove that the accused actually willfully and maliciously committed the crime.
Describing the crime as "disgraceful, very despicable and barbaric", Justice Taiwo said Olubunmi was guilty of violating Section 24 (1) of the Cyber Crime Act, 2015 and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.
NAN reports that the judge therefore sentenced the culprit to two years imprisonment with a fine of N500,000, to be paid into the coffers of the Federal Government.
He added that the jail term took immediate effect, stressing that the court was lenient in sentencing the culprit as the punishment for his crime attracts a fine of N7 million and three year jail term.
This, the judge said was in recognition of the plea of the defense counsel that his client has a family to look after and a first offender.
The judge however lamented that those who made the law attaching a punishment of N7 million and three year jail term to the persons guilty of such crimes did not make provisions for compensation for the victim.
He therefore called for appropriate amendment to the law to make provisions for compensation to victims.
"I find the act of the convict highly disgraceful, very despicable and barbaric to say the least, he has behaved true to the saying that hell knows no fury than a lover's scorn", the judge said.
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City Tour - Saintly Gosforth
South Gosforth Metro Station
Meet at South Gosforth Metro Station (West side, corner of Rectory Terrace). Finish at St Charles' RC Church, Church Road.
A gentle walk looking at the religious side of Gosforth, starting at St Nicholas' Church, with an inside visit and tour of the churchyard and its graves. Following a short walk, with reminders of coal and post-war housing, we finish with an inside visit to St Charles' RC Church.
City Tour - Saintly Gosforth (20 Oct 2019)
Adult £5.00 per ticket type
Over 60s £3.00 per ticket type
Accompanied under 16s are free. No charge for season ticket holders.
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Nurses are often the healthcare professional patients turn to when they're vulnerable. As the most trusted profession, our patients may confide information during routine care that they wouldn't normally share. Sometimes vague or questionable information about relationships may be concerning, and raise questions as to whether emotional or physical abuse is occurring. The way we respond to the patient may determine whether they feel validated, or persist in seeking help.
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2017 Parish Financial Report
by Fr. Romy
Dear Holy People of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church!
The Thanksgiving's blessings, the Advent's spirit and Christmas' joy are sneaking so fast in our life's celebrations. And as early as now, rest assured that all of you will be remembered in our prayers and masses during those spiritual events of our life!
Servant-leadership's values are accountability and transparency! Therefore, the Parish's Financial Summary Report (July 1, 2016 --- June 30, 2017) is in today's bulletin. It's also the Diocese of San Bernardino's mandate. If you so desire to see the details of the report, please don't hesitate to come to the office during the week.
The year's past yielded abundant blessings! Both Fr. Michael and Fr. Joseph's assignments as Parochial Vicars are renewed for another three years. Deacons Pat and Tony are still graced with spiritual energy in doing sacramental ministries (e.g. Baptisms and Quinceañeras). Through Deacon Paul's leadership and with the collaboration of the Evangelization Team's members, the parish's evangelization program has grown into an engaging ministry.
Inclusive in these blessings are YOU – our lay people! Your volunteerism's spirit animated the parish's vibrancy. Visualize this: 1,000 plus volunteers - involved in the parish's various ministries; a Mass on a Sunday has many as 50 volunteers - from hospitality to music and to Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion; inundated with many second collections, yet your generosity abounds. Beloved parishioners - your commitment, generosity, and love for the parish are very much valued, treasured and appreciated. THANK YOU very much! MUCHAS GRACIAS! MARAMING SALAMAT PO!
Although the parish incurred a deficit of $37,517.23 during the Fiscal Year 2016-2017, the parish's financial status is still liquid. This is due to the diligent and efficient management of the Parish's financial resources by Tacie Adams – the Parish's Business Manager. The proactive members of the Parish's Finance Council professionally assisted her.
The new Ministry Center, the haven for religious education of our children, encountered facility costs as rooms are fully furnished; offices are supplied with adequate office equipment; and the parking lot and landscaping are improved. On the other hand, the Church's facilities are aging, hence, maintenance and repairs are necessities: painting the Church exterior; landscaping maintenance; interior lighting has been addressed; changing the Church's screens are unavoidable. All the above are addressed but resulted into considerable expenditures: $542,958.54 (facility cost) plus $130,871.34 (office cost) – a total cost of $673,829.88.
But overall, while we encountered a deficit during the Fiscal Year 2016-2017, the Parish's financial status is still healthy; for that, we are grateful. Please continue praying for God's blessings on St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community that, we become "visible signs of God's love!"
Fr. Romeo N. Seleccion, MS


On 8 and 9 December, the European Law Academy (ERA) will hold its Annual Conference on EU Trade Law 2016 in Brussels. The Law Society members benefit from a special rate and should register using the registration form available on this page (please note that the early bird rate applies until 18 November).
The topic of this year's conference is 'The modernisation of EU trade law: first assessment and practical implications'. It will focus, among others on the reform of EU TDIs and China's market economy status and on the current challenges for EU FTAs (in particular CETA and TTIP but also implications of Brexit).
The event aims to provide legal practitioners with an update on key recent trade law developments. Participants will have the possibility to attend the whole conference or only the session of their choice. For further information, please click here.


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WEBINAR WITH ACADEMY AWARD WINNER – TORILL KOVE
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Torill Kove is an Academy award-winning Animation Director, Illustrator, and Author. She has won numerous awards for her outstanding animated shorts.
Torill began working at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the mid-1990s. She directed six animated short films with the NFB and Mikrofilm (Norway). Three of her films received Oscar nominations, and 'The Danish Poet', won an Oscar in 2007. The film also won at Aspen Shortsfest 2006, New York City Short Film Festival 2006 and Genie Awards 2007. Her two movies 'My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts' and 'Me and My Moulton' also won several international awards.
In 2013, she made her animated feature film 'Hokus Pokus Alfie Atkins', based on a book by the Swedish writer Gunilla Bergström. Kove has adapted four of her animated films to picture books. As an illustrator, she has worked with the Norwegian authors Endre Lund Eriksen and Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen. She also illustrated books, written by Henrik Hovland. In 2015, she received Norway's top cultural prize – 'Anders Jahre Prize for the Arts' for her immense contribution to the field of Creative Arts.
The webinar will be moderated by Kireet Khurana, renowned Filmmaker and Storyteller. Kireet has directed India's first 3D Animation and live action combined movie 'Toonpur Ka Superrhero' starring Ajay Devgn and Kajol. He has won 6 President's National awards & 14 International awards.
The webinar will be live Q&A between Torill and Kireet. Followed by live Q & A sessions.
Date: 18th July, Saturday, 2020
Time: 7.30 pm