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Global talent competitiveness index 2015
Growing talent for today and tomorrow: report highlights importance of 'employable skills' and vocational education amid changing labour markets and rising unemployment
Middle East, Asia, Europe
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today released the 2014 edition of its annual Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI). The study, which focuses on the topic of 'growing talent for today and tomorrow', was produced in collaboration with the Human Capital Leadership Institute of Singapore (HCLI) and Adecco Group. Measuring a nation's competitiveness based on the quality of talent it can produce, attract and retain, the index placed Switzerland at number one, followed by Singapore and Luxembourg in second and third places, respectively.
2014 Global Talent Competitiveness Index Rankings - Top Ten
1 Switzerland 6 Sweden
2 Singapore 7 United Kingdom
3 Luxembourg 8 Denmark
4 United States of America 9 Australia
5 Canada 10 Ireland
Commenting on this year's study, Ilian Mihov, Dean of INSEAD, said: "We live in a world where talent has become the core currency of competitiveness - for businesses and national economies alike. Yet there is an all-too-frequent mismatch between education systems and the needs of labour markets. Businesses and governments need new kinds of leaders and entrepreneurs, equipped with the skills that will help their firms and countries to thrive in the global knowledge economy. To help them making the right decisions in an increasingly complex environment, we need the kind of indicators and metrics that GTCI offers."
As in 2013, GTCI rankings are dominated by European countries, with only six non-European countries in the top 20: Singapore (2), the United States (4), Canada (5), Australia (9), New-Zealand (16) and Japan (20).
GTCI 2014 champions include a significant number of small high-income economies. Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director of Global Indices at INSEAD, and co-author of the report, commented: "It's really quite striking that among the top three countries – Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg – two are landlocked and one is an island. Faced with specific geographical challenges and a quasi-absence of natural resources, these countries have had no choice but to be open economies, a critical ingredient to being talent competitive." He added that "The top countries on this year's GTCI have played the game of globalisation and played it well." Many of the other economies in the 'top 20' have strong immigration traditions, including the United States (4), Canada (5), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (7), and Australia(9). These high performing countries also have long prioritised education, as is the case for the other Scandinavian countries, all in the top 15: Denmark (8), Norway (11), and Finland (13).
Paul Evans, The Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organisational Development, Emeritus, at INSEAD, and co-editor of the report, noted: "Perhaps one of the most interesting findings this year is the renewed importance of vocational education. It's not just higher education that is important today – vocational learning needs to be integrated into secondary education. In Switzerland, thinking about becoming employable starts off in schools at an early age. At age 15, over 70 percent of Swiss school children go on to select what's known as the apprenticeship track, combining practical work experience with traditional theoretical learning." He added: "Within the current Swiss government, half of the ministers have come out of the vocational stream. For future talent competitiveness, countries have to take vocational education – that is, employability – much more seriously."
Patrick De Maeseneire, CEO of Adecco Group, also highlighted the importance of work-based training for growing talent: "The talent mismatch is striking: despite 33 million people looking for a job in the US and Europe, more than 8 million positions are left vacant. Meanwhile, youth unemployment of over 50% persists in some European countries. The push for structural reforms is crucial to create jobs in Europe and to boost the economy. Governments and companies like ours should work hand in hand to create an environment where first job experiences, education and apprenticeships better prepare young people for what companies need."
Formal education in Asia is progressing by leaps and bounds, fuelled by societal aspirations of the growing middle class. But talent development is more than attending a top-tier university. Kwan Chee Wei, CEO of the Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI), commented: "In certain Asian countries, there is a need to see value and worth in both professional and technical vocations. Beyond this, traditional hierarchies and bureaucracy in many Asian corporates, often hold back openness, transparency and empowerment – important levers in accelerating talent growth."
The twenty top-scoring countries in the GTCI 2014 are all high-income countries. This is hardly surprising, since rich countries tend to have better universities and a greater ability to attract foreign talents through higher quality of life and remuneration, making them more talent competitive. However, beyond this 'top-level' correlation of talent competitiveness with wealth, the GTCI study reveals six key factors affecting talent competitiveness across countries of different GDP per capita and development levels:
Openness is key to talent competitiveness: Switzerland, Singapore and Luxembourg all have a high degree of openness to trade, investment, immigration and new ideas, embracing globalisation while leveraging their human resources.
Fiscally stable countries need talent competitiveness for sustainable development: mineral or oil rich countries, or those with context-specific competitive advantage, should foster talent competitiveness to ensure sustainable prosperity.
Talent growth can be internal or external: some countries like the US and in Europe successfully focus on developing talent within their own borders, while others such as China attract foreign talent or send their elites abroad for further education.
Countries must consider employability or risk high unemployment: 'talent for growth' means meeting the actual needs of a national economy. Switzerland, Singapore and the Nordic countries customise their education systems towards appropriate levels of 'employable skills'.
Education systems need to reconsider traditional learning: talent development in the 21st century must go beyond traditional formal education and develop vocational skills.
Technology is changing the meaning of 'employable skills': technological changes will affect new segments of the labour market, impacting the 250 million 'knowledge workers' globally today.
Commenting on the changing meaning of 'employable skills', Bruno Lanvin said: "Technology is radically altering the employment picture. For instance, big data phenomenon is changing a number of key skills required in today's labour markets. 'Knowledge workers' are being significantly affected by the changes that technology is setting in motion - not just in the more sophisticated economies but also in emerging economies with a high proportion of service workers in offshore business processing activities – typically India but also Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt."
GTCI covers national and organisational parameters and generates insights to inspire action. Based on feedback and analysis following the release of GTCI 2013, this year's index includes 65 variables (up from 45 last year). It covers 93 national economies, across all groups of income and levels of development, and has (1) four pillars on the input side - Enable, Attract, Grow and Retain – focusing on actions for policymakers and business leaders, and (2) two output pillars, benchmarking national performance in Labour/Vocational and Global Knowledge skills, respectively.
For more information on the Global Talent Competitiveness Index and to download the full report, please visit: http://global-indices.insead.edu/gtci
Follow twitter: #GTCI2014 for updates
Watch the YouTube Knowledge Video
Download the GTCI 2014 Infographic
Watch the GTCI 2014 Video graphic
About the Adecco Group
The Adecco Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is the world's leading provider of HR solutions. With approximately 32,000 FTE employees and around 5,100 branches in over 60 countries and territories around the world, Adecco Group offers a wide variety of services, connecting more than 650,000 associates with our clients every day. The services offered fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development, as well as outsourcing and consulting. The Adecco Group is a Fortune Global 500 company.
Adecco S.A. is registered in Switzerland (ISIN: CH0012138605) and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ADEN).
Adecco Corporate Press Office:
Press.office@adecco.com or +41 (0) 44 878 87 87
Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI)
The Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI) is an aggregator and neutral player in the human capital ecosystem. HCLI offers the unique ability to bring together multiple perspectives and voices from business, government and academia, offering thought leadership and insights on understanding Asia, successfully doing business in Asia and its implications on leadership and human capital strategies for Asia. Through its efforts, the Institute aims to develop global leaders with a strong understanding of leading in Asia, as well as to build Asian leaders with the ability to lead on the global stage.
HCLI is a strategic alliance between the Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM), Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and Singapore Management University (SMU) For more information, please visit www.hcli.org
HCLI Press Contact:
Rachel Tan
Tel: +65 69080454 / rtan@hcli.org


Computers as weapons of mass destruction? If you can't believe it, you will soon understand.
The rise of the cyber-war is upon us and it is only getting stronger where each day hackers are discovering new ways to observe us, attack us and boycott us by owning and functioning off our personal information. Hacking has seen a shift from exposing social problems and humorous antics to operating as a gargantuan surveillance system, where anyone can be monitored no matter their location (Mitew, T 2015).
We all spend a considerable amount of time creating personal brands for ourselves online, whether it be searching, uploading or following content specific to our interests. In today's society our sexual, religious and political views place great emphasis on the career path we plan to take, with any wrong connotation on the internet carrying great detriments into our 'real life'. What is scary is that society will never forget, the internet will not be erased or deleted, one wrong move and that is the end of our lives. But what if others could shape our identity? In extreme cases, this has observed in extremist countries where groups such as the 'Syrian Electronic Army' have attacked and overloaded social networking profiles with pro-Assad messages (Keller, J 2011).
Not only are individuals affected…whole nations are utilising computers as weapons of mass destruction in gaining control over the world, where recently the Prime Minister of Paris expressed concerns over not having access to society's Snapchat and iMessage content in an attempt to monitor and 'spy' on popular chat communications (Griffin, A 2015). Similar events have seen the Thailand government come under attack by hacktivists, by attempting to implement a single internet gateway to monitor information from abroad (Samuth, N 2015). What I initially thought of as fun ways to connect with my friends has now become excess weight put on my shoulders, where I am continuously second guessing every move I make online. This isn't living, this is prison.
Computers are weapons of mass destruction. Do you believe it?


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May calendar
* In Richmond: The Emerson String Quartet, in one of its last performances with cellist David Finckel, closes out this season's Rennolds Chamber Concerts at Virginia Commonwealth University in a program of Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven, May 5 at VCU's Singleton Arts Center. . . . The Richmond Symphony concludes its classical season with a Metro Collection program of Boccherini and Stravinsky, conducted by Erin R. Freeman, May 6 at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, and a Masterworks program of Dvořák, Janáček and Rachmaninoff, conducted by Steven Smith, May 12-13 at Richmond CenterStage. . . . The Richmond Philharmonic is joined by trumpeter Mary Bowden in a program of Rossini, Haydn and Tchaikovsky, May 6 at VCU's Singleton Center. . . . The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia, led by cellist James Wilson, presents three evening programs on water themes, with music by Handel, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Smetana and others, May 18, 19 and 21 at First Unitarian Universalist Church in Richmond, plus a free noontime program on May 19 at the Richmond Public Library. . . . Peter Mark's Lyric Opera Virginia stages a "jewel box" (abridged) performance of Bizet's "Carmen," May 19-20 at The Steward School in Richmond (with earlier dates in May at the Ferguson Arts Center in Newport News and Paramount Theater in Charlottesville and later dates at the Sandler Arts Center in Virginia Beach). . . . The Greater Richmond Children's Choir celebrates its 15th anniversary in a concert on May 19 at Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. . . . The Richmond Symphony presents a special concert of symphonic arrangements of music by the rock group Queen, May 19 at Richmond's Landmark Theater.
* Noteworthy elsewhere: Hampton Roads' Virginia Arts Festival stages some of its major classical attractions this month: A program of Beethoven, Grieg and Brahms by pianist André-Michel Schub, violinist Ani Kavafian and cellist Peter Wiley, May 10 at the Barr Education Center in Norfolk; music of Mozart, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn played by violinist Itzhak Perlman with young musicians from the Perlman Music Program, May 13 at the Sandler Arts Center in Virginia Beach; the Daedalus Quartet with pianist Schub in a program of Brahms, Mozart and Joan Tower, May 16 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portsmouth; and a rare performance (quite likely the Virginia premiere) of Mahler's Eighth Symphony ("Symphony of a Thousand") in which JoAnn Falletta conducts an augmented Virginia Symphony with some 400 choristers (including members of the Richmond Symphony Chorus), May 26 at William and Mary Hall in Williamsburg, May 27 at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk. . . . Violinist James Ehnes joins Charles Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra for a program of Debussy, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, May 11 at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs of DC. . . . Pianist André Watts joins Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony for Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2, May 12 at Strathmore. . . . Itzhak Perlman plays Schubert, Brahms and Prokofiev, May 14 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. . . . Nelson Freire, the eminent Brazilian pianist, joins Andreas Delfs and the National Symphony in Brahms' Concerto No. 2, May 17-19 at the Kennedy Center. . . . Jonathan Biss plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Günther Herbig and the Baltimore Symphony, May 31 at Strathmore.
May 1 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Young Concert Artists:
Louis Schwizgebel, piano
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
May 5 (7 p.m.)
May 10 (7:30 p.m.)
May 13 (2 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington
Washington National Opera
Philippe Auguin conducting
Verdi: "Nabucco"
Franco Vassallo (Nabucco)
Csilla Boross (Abigaile)
Burak Bilgli (Zaccaria)
Sean Panikkar (Ismaele)
Géraldine Chauvet (Fenena)
Solomon Howard (High Priest of Baal)
María Eugenia Antúnez (Anna)
Jeffrey Gwaltney (Abdallo)
Thaddeus Strassberger, stage director
Morgenstern Trio
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Bernstein: Piano Trio
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Lyric Opera Virginia
Peter Mark conducting
Bizet: "Carmen" (abridged)
Magdalena Wór (Carmen)
Jonathan Burton (Don José)
Suzanne Vinnik (Micaëla)
Christopher Job (Escamillo)
Lillian Groag, stage director
in French, English captions
http://www.lyricoperavirginia.org/
Rennolds Chamber Concerts:
Emerson String Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in F major, Op. 77, No. 2
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 5
Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
violist Lawrence Dutton in free master class, 4 p.m.
Military Aviation Museum, 1341 Princess Anne Road, Virginia Beach
Virginia Arts Festival:
Virginia Symphony
Benjamin Rous conducting
"Flying PROMS: Symphonic Air Show"
with flyovers by historic aircraft
http://www.virginiaartsfest.com/
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
New Dominion Chorale & Orchestra
Thomas Beveridge conducting
Mendelssohn: "Elijah"
Timothy Lefebvre, bass (Elijah)
Esther Heideman, soprano
Laura Zuiderveen, mezzo-soprano
Isaachah Savage, tenor
http://cfa.gmu.edu/calendar/month/2012/5/
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Anna Polonsky, piano
works by Stravinsky, Brahms, Richard Strauss
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
http://www.wpas.org/
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue S.E., Washington
U.S. Army Band ("Pershing's Own")
Col. Thomas H. Palmatier directing
Carter: Elegy
Walker: "The Anthony Gell Suite"
Rochberg: "Electrikaleidoscope"
Ives: "The Unanswered Question"
Ives: Adagio sostenuto
Cage: "Third Construction"
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert/1112-schedule.html
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Debussy: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
Debussy: Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Debussy: Fantasie for piano and orchestra
Brian Ganz, piano
Debussy: "La Mer"
http://www.strathmore.org/
Blackwell Auditorium, Randolph-Macon College, 205 Henry St., Ashland
Richmond Symphony
Erin R. Freeman conducting
Boccherini: Symphony No. 6 in D minor
Stravinsky: "L'histoire du soldat" ("The Soldier's Tale")
cast from TheatreVCU
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
http://www.richmondsymphony.com/
Richmond Philharmonic
Robert Mirakian conducting
Rossini: "Il Signor Bruschino" Overture
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Mary Bowden, trumpet
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
$8 in advance, $10 at door
http://www.richmondphilharmonic.org/
Hixon Theater, Barr Education Center, 440 Bank St., Norfolk
Bruce Brubaker, piano
Mark Mobley, narrator
Philip Glass: "Mad Dash"
John Cage: "A Room"
Cage: "Dream"
Nico Muhly: "Drones and Piano" (2010)
Glass: "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
Meredith Monk: "Railroad (Travel) Song"
Monk: "Windows in 7s"
Curran: "Hope Street Tunnel Blues II"
André-Michel Schub, piano
Ani Kavafian, violin
Peter Wiley, cello
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
Steven Reineke conducting
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, guest star
Charles Dutoit conducting
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
James Ehnes, violin
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Steven Smith conducting
Dvořák: Slavonic dances TBA
Janáček: "Taras Bulba"
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park St., Charlottesville
Virginia Consort
Judith Gary directing
Mozart: "Ave verum corpus"
other works TBA
http://www.virginiaconsort.org/
Fairfax Symphony
Purcell: "Funeral Music for Queen Mary"
Purcell: "The Gordian Knot Untied"
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Elgar: "Enigma Variations"
http://www.fairfaxsymphony.org/
Emmanuel Villaume conducting
Massenet: "Werther"
Francesco Meli (Werther)
Sonia Ganassi (Charlotte)
Emily Albrink (Sophie)
Andrew Foster-Williams (Albert)
Julien Robbins (Bailli)
Tim Augustin (Schmidt)
Kenneth Kellogg (Johann)
Chris Alexander, stage director
Marin Alsop conducting
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
André Watts, piano
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Perlman Music Program performers
Mozart: String Quintet in G minor, K. 516
Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20
Rohan de Silva, piano
Schubert: "Rondo brilliant" in B minor, D. 895
Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Brahms: Hungarian dances Nos. 9, 2, 1
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94
Trinity Episcopal Church, Portsmouth
Daedalus Quartet
Raymond Jones, host
Mozart: Quartet in F major, K. 590
Joan Tower: new work TBA
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Andreas Delfs conducting
Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor ("La Poule")
Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
Nelson Freire, piano
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1000 Blanton Ave. at the Carillon, Richmond
Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia:
Fiona Hughes & Diane Pascal, violins
Max Mandel, viola
James Wilson, cello
Mary Boodell, flute
Rieko Aizawa & Carsten Schmidt, piano
Handel: "Water Music" Suite
Smetana: "The Moldau"
Ravel: "Jeaux d'eau"
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major ("Trout")
http://www.cmscva.org/
May 19 (noon)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
James Wilson, speaker
Carsten Schmidt & Rieko Aizawa, piano
works by Debussy, Szymanowski, Richard Strauss
Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 8 N. Laurel St., Richmond
Greater Richmond Children's Choir
Hope Armstrong Erb directing
http://www.grcchoir.org/
Vivaldi: "Storm at Sea"
Chopin: "Raindrop" Prelude
Dowland: "Lachrimae"
Rameau: "Platée" Suite
Beethoven: String Quintet in C minor
Cramer Arts Center, The Steward School, 11600 Gayton Road, Richmond
Landmark Theater, Main and Laurel streets, Richmond
conductor TBA
"We Will Rock You" cast members
"The Music of Queen: a Rock & Symphonic Spectacular"
Narak Hakhnazaryan, cello
pianist TBA
free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW, Washington
Jeremy Denk, piano
National Philharmonic & Chorale
Stan Engebretson conducting
Debussy: "The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian"
Audrey Elizabeth Luna & Rosa Lamoureaux, sopranos
Linda Maguire, mezzo-soprano
Eliot Pfanstiehl, narrator
Church of the Holy Comforter (Episcopal), Monument Avenue at Staples Mill Road, Richmond
Richmond Concert Chorale
Grant Hellmers directing
Crystal Jonkman, accompanist
Pachelbel: Magnificat
Lauridsen: "Les Chansons des roses"
Howells: "A Hymn for St. Cecilia"
Parry: choral songs
Psalm settings by Sweelinck, Schütz, Schubert, Goudimel
donation requested
Virginia Zoo, 3500 Granby St., Norfolk
Invencia Piano Duo
Virginia Symphony members
Othalie Graham, soprano
Brent Stater, baritone
"The Essential Wagner"
excerpts from "Lohengrin," "The Flying Dutchman," "Rienzi," "Tannhäuser," "Die Meistersinger"
St. Luke Catholic Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean
City Choir of Washington
St. Luke Festival Choir
St. John Academy Boys' and Girls' Treble Choir
Robert Shafer directing
Paul Skevington, organ
Duruflé: Requiem
Britten: "Rejoice in the Lamb"
Robert Shafer: "Soul of My Savior"
http://www.citychoirofwashington.org/
Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" Overture
Gaubert: "Watercolors" (excerpts)
Brahms: Violin Sonata in G major
Donizetti: "Alina" Overture
George Crumb: "Voice of the Whale"
Tianwa Yang, violin
Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 115
Hindemith: Violin Sonata, Op. 31, No. 2 ("Es ist so schönes Wetter draussen")
Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
William and Mary Hall, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg
Chrysler Hall, 201 Brambleton Ave., Norfolk
JoAnn Falletta conducting
Virginia Symphony Chorus
Christopher Newport University Chamber Choir
Old Dominion University Concert Choir
Richmond Symphony Chorus
Virginia Children's Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand")
soloists TBA
Oratorio Society of Virginia
Michael Slon directing
Fauré: Requiem
Fauré: "Cantique de Jean Racine"
Fauré: "Messe basse"
Saint-Saëns: "Ave verum corpus"
Franck: "Ave Maria"
http://www.oratoriosociety.org/
Central United Methodist Church, 14 N. Lewis St., Staunton
Staunton Music Festival:
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord & speaker
Jason Stell, speaker
lecture-recital: history of the toccata
http://www.stauntonmusicfestival.com/
Peter Oundjian conducting
Bruckner: Te Deum
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral")
Joyce El-Khoury, soprano
Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano
Brandon Jovanovich, tenor
Morris Robinson, bass
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord
Bach: toccatas in D major, C minor, D minor
Bach: "French" suites in D minor, C minor, E flat major
Virginia Holocaust Museum, 2000 E. Cary St., Richmond
Jocelyn Adelman, violin
David Fisk, piano
Leone Sinigaglia: "Twelve Variations on a Theme by Franz Schubert"
Milhaud: Violin Sonata No. 2
Messiaen: Fantasie for violin and piano
donation requested; proceeds benefit museum and Richmond Symphony
Vocal Arts DC:
Gidon Saks, bass-baritone
Roger Vignoles, piano
John Musto: "Shadow of the Blues"
works by Handel, Shostakovich, Finzi, Ibert, others
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Shepherd: "Blue Blazes"
Richard Strauss: "Der Rosenkavalier" Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
Günther Herbig conducting
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Jonathan Biss, piano
Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C major
'Dear Leader' music?
Operas target 'tsar' Putin
Review: Virginia Symphony
Roanoke Symphony seeks $250,000
$4.3 million for tchotchkes
Review: 'Carmen'
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)
Virginia Opera adds 'Carousel'
Tuesday Evening Concerts 2012-13
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
Review: Emerson String Quartet
Inside the 'jewel box'
Rennolds Chamber Concerts 2012-13

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"""Launcher for main_comment_gcn.py on PyTorch with GPUs using JobTrialGenerator.

Note that JobTrialGenerator uses CAIP Optimizer for automatic hyperparameter
tuning, which requires the training executable to report measurements via
setting up a CAIP Optimizer client.
"""

import os

from absl import app
from absl import flags
import termcolor

from google3.learning.brain.frameworks import xcloud as xm
from google3.learning.deepmind.xmanager import hyper
from google3.learning.vizier.service import automated_stopping_pb2
from google3.learning.vizier.service import vizier_pb2

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flags.DEFINE_string('project_name', 'gcnrnn', 'name for the project')
flags.DEFINE_string('image_uri', None,
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flags.DEFINE_string('base_image', None,
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flags.DEFINE_boolean('use_gpu', True, 'use GPU')
flags.DEFINE_string('acc_type', 'v100', 'Accelerator type , v100 or t4')
flags.DEFINE_integer('num_gpus', 1, 'Number of GPUs.')
flags.DEFINE_string('gcs_path_in', None,
                    ('A GCS directory within a bucket to store input'
                     'in gs://bucket/directory format.'))
flags.DEFINE_string('gcs_path_out', None,
                    ('A GCS directory within a bucket to store output '
                     'in gs://bucket/directory format.'))

flags.DEFINE_string('task', 'cat', ('task: sr(subreddit classification), '
                                    'cat(url categorization), '
                                    'fake(fake news detection)'))
flags.DEFINE_string('local_path_in', './fake_input/', 'local path for input')
flags.DEFINE_string('local_path_out', './fake_output/', 'local path for output')
flags.DEFINE_string('g_emb', '', 'graph embedding file')
flags.DEFINE_string('seq_file', '', 'post sequence file')
flags.DEFINE_string('post_file', '', 'post dataframe h5 file')
flags.DEFINE_string('balance_df', '', 'the balanced dataset with url ids')
# RNN, LSTM parameters
flags.DEFINE_string('model', 'rnn', 'rnn, lstm')
flags.DEFINE_float('train_ratio', 0.8, 'training data ratio')
flags.DEFINE_float('val_ratio', 0.1, 'validation data ratio')
flags.DEFINE_integer('batch_size', 64, 'bacth size for rnn')
flags.DEFINE_integer('gcn_hid_dim', 32, 'hidden dimension in GCN')
flags.DEFINE_integer('gcn_out_dim', 32, 'output dimension in GCN')
flags.DEFINE_integer('rnn_hid_dim', 32, 'hidden dimension in RNN/LSTM')
flags.DEFINE_integer('rnn_num_layers', 2, 'number of layers in RNN/LSTM')
flags.DEFINE_boolean('bi', False, 'birectional')
flags.DEFINE_float('rnn_dropout', 0.3, 'dropout rate for RNN/LSTM')
flags.DEFINE_float('gcn_dropout', 0.3, 'dropout rate for GCN')
flags.DEFINE_boolean('gcn_bias', True, 'whether to have bias in GCN')
flags.DEFINE_integer('epochs', 40, 'epochs')
flags.DEFINE_float('lr_gcn', 0.0001, 'gcn learning rate')
flags.DEFINE_float('lr_rnn', 0.001, 'rnn learning rate')
flags.DEFINE_integer('print_step', 10, 'print step during training')
flags.DEFINE_boolean('save_model', False, 'save model')
flags.DEFINE_string('name', '', 'specify model name')

# Flag specifications
flags.mark_flag_as_required('gcs_path_in')
flags.mark_flag_as_required('gcs_path_out')
flags.register_validator('gcs_path_in', lambda value: GCS_PATH_PREFIX in value,
                         message=('--gcs_path_in must follow'
                                  'gs://bucket/directory format'))
flags.register_validator('gcs_path_out', lambda value: GCS_PATH_PREFIX in value,
                         message=('--gcs_path_out must follow'
                                  'gs://bucket/directory format'))

def main(_):
  if FLAGS.use_gpu:
    accelerator = xm.GPU('nvidia-tesla-' + FLAGS.acc_type.lower(),
                         FLAGS.num_gpus)
  else:
    accelerator = None
  runtime = xm.CloudRuntime(
      cpu=3,
      memory=24,
      accelerator=accelerator,
  )

  args = {
      'task': FLAGS.task,
      'gcs_path_in': FLAGS.gcs_path_in,
      'gcs_path_out': FLAGS.gcs_path_out,
      'local_path_in': FLAGS.local_path_in,
      'local_path_out': FLAGS.local_path_out,
      'g_emb': FLAGS.g_emb,
      'seq_file': FLAGS.seq_file,
      'post_file': FLAGS.post_file,
      'balance_df': FLAGS.balance_df,
      'train_ratio': FLAGS.train_ratio,
      'val_ratio': FLAGS.val_ratio,
      'bi': FLAGS.bi,
      'gcn_bias': FLAGS.gcn_bias,
      'print_step': FLAGS.print_step,
      'save_model': FLAGS.save_model,
      'name': FLAGS.name,
      'use_optimizer': True
  }

  if FLAGS.image_uri:
    # Option 1 This will use a user-defined docker image.
    executable = xm.CloudDocker(
        name=FLAGS.project_name,
        runtime=runtime,
        image_uri=FLAGS.image_uri,
        args=args,
    )
  else:
    # Option 2 This will build a docker image for the user. Set up environment.
    executable = xm.CloudPython(
        name=FLAGS.project_name,
        runtime=runtime,
        project_path=(
            os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))),
        module_name='gnns_for_news.main_comment_gcn',
        base_image=FLAGS.base_image,
        args=args,
        build_steps=(xm.steps.default_build_steps('gnns_for_news')),
    )

  # Set UNIT_LOG_SCALE to explore more values in the lower range
  # Set UNIT_REVERSE_LOG_SCALE to explore more values in the higher range
  parameters = [
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'model', hyper.categorical(['rnn', 'lstm'])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'batch_size', hyper.discrete([8 * k for k in range(1, 6)])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'gcn_hid_dim', hyper.discrete([16 * k for k in range(3, 10)])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'gcn_out_dim', hyper.discrete([16 * k for k in range(3, 10)])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'rnn_hid_dim', hyper.discrete([16 * k for k in range(3, 10)])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'rnn_num_layers', hyper.discrete([1, 2])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'lr_gcn', hyper.interval(0.00001, 0.2), scaling='UNIT_LOG_SCALE'),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'lr_rnn', hyper.interval(0.00001, 0.2), scaling='UNIT_LOG_SCALE'),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'rnn_dropout', hyper.discrete([0.0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'gcn_dropout', hyper.discrete([0.0, 0.15, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7])),
      hyper.get_vizier_parameter_config(
          'epochs', hyper.discrete([5, 10, 20, 30]))
  ]

  vizier_study_config = vizier_pb2.StudyConfig()
  for parameter in parameters:
    vizier_study_config.parameter_configs.add().CopyFrom(parameter)
  metric = vizier_study_config.metric_information.add()
  metric.name = 'valf1'
  metric.goal = vizier_pb2.StudyConfig.GoalType.Value('MAXIMIZE')
  # None early stopping
  early_stopping = automated_stopping_pb2.AutomatedStoppingConfig()
  vizier_study_config.automated_stopping_config.CopyFrom(early_stopping)

  exploration = xm.HyperparameterOptimizer(
      executable=executable,
      max_num_trials=256,
      parallel_evaluations=8,
      vizier_study_config=vizier_study_config
  )
  xm.launch(xm.ExperimentDescription(FLAGS.project_name), exploration)

  no_prefix = FLAGS.gcs_path_out.lstrip(GCS_PATH_PREFIX)
  print()
  print('When your job completes, you will see artifacts in ' +
        termcolor.colored(
            f'https://pantheon.corp.google.com/storage/browser/{no_prefix}',
            color='blue'))

if __name__ == '__main__':
  app.run(main)


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Similar to installing on an SD card, GPI (.gpi) files are placed inside a "POI" folder which resides in a "Garmin" folder on the device. When the device is plugged into the GPS, these folders should already exist. GPI files are simply placed inside the Garmin/POI directory.
For a list of devices that support GPI files please visit Garmin's website.


A key plank of the British record industry's response to the increasing popularity of music downloading was put in place last night with the introduction of the first "official" chart to measure tracks bought on the internet.
The countdown, broadcast on BBC Radio 1, is an attempt to take account of the thousands of tracks that are bought legally from online sites such as iTunes and Napster. But if supporters of online music were hoping it would herald a break in the dominance of the music industry majors, they were disappointed: Westlife took the number 1 spot and all the the tracks in the top 20 were released by the big five record companies: BMG, Warner, Sony, EMI and Universal.
There has been an increase in legal downloading in the past year: more than two million tracks accessed since January.
Last month music fans downloaded 500,000 tracks, making music downloading a serious rival to CDs as a platform for distributing singles.
A number of high profile artists, including Westlife, released their singles exclusively on the internet last week in an attempt to top the new chart. Maroon 5 took three of the 20 places, their success being attributed to the fact that they are currently on tour.
Scott Mills, the Radio 1 DJ who presented the first count down at 6pm last night, told Radio 5 Live earlier: "What we have found - especially with Radio 1 listeners, who are primarily aged 15 to 24 - is that young fans of bands like Snow Patrol and Starsailor live with computers every day of their lives.
"Downloading music is not alien to them. It is just another way of buying music."
The colonisation of the chart by the big record companies is an indication of the seriousness with which they have em braced the internet, albeit belatedly. Carolyne LaSala, manager of iTunes Europe, said: "I think it's a great jump in legitimising digital music, and will be a key indicator for the industry going forward."
Napster launched its own chart at the weekend on Virgin Radio, but the Radio 1 chart also takes into account other sites, such as iTunes, OD2 and mycokemusic.com.
Eventually, as legal downloading grows in popularity, it is expected that the download chart will be merged into the conventional singles chart to give an accurate picture of the most popular tracks. Both are compiled by the Official UK Charts Company for the BPI, which represents the British record industry.
Sales of singles in traditional formats are in steady decline, although the record industry was keen to jump on the first piece of good news for years recently: a modest increase in singles in the second quarter of this year.


At around 9.15am this morning, police received reports of a man, armed with a knife, shouting in Murano Street.
An armed response unit was called to deal with a man armed with a knife outside the Murano Street student halls in Glasgow this morning.
At around 9.15am this morning, police received reports of a man, carrying a blade and shouting on Murano Street.
"The guy was out in the middle of the road," a source told Glasgow Live. "Someone said he had a knife.
"The police were there in minutes. There was an armed response van and the road was sealed off."
Police Scotland have confirmed to Glasgow Live that a 37-year-old was arrested in connection with the incident.
The Murano Street student village are Glasgow University's largest halls of residence. The smaller flats within the complex provide accommodation for over 500 students, the larger flats house over 600.
In 2009 students raised concerns about safety within the complex, which lies north of Maryhill Road.
Police Scotland work closely with student bodies, providing talks during talks on personal safety during Fresher's Week.
The Police also publish a complete safety guide for students online.


This client's boiler was more than 20 years old and was scheduled for refurbishment. RENTECH was contracted to supply supervision, labor forces and equipment to refurbish Boiler #1. The work was performed around-the-clock, and materials for the project were supplied by the customer. RENTECH personnel replaced the complete generating section along with furnace roof and side wall tubes. Also included in the project were replacements of an expansion joint, boiler penthouse, ducting and casing.


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On May 4–6, 1960, a large tornado outbreak sequence affected parts of the Midwestern and Southern United States. The severe weather event produced at least 71 confirmed tornadoes, including five violent tornadoes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Major tornado activity began on the afternoon of May 4, with strong tornadoes affecting the Red River Valley and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Two tornadoes struck parts of southern Oklahoma, causing significant damage to the Konawa and Soper areas. In all, at least 22 tornadoes formed between the early afternoon and late evening hours, with two more tornadoes forming early on May 5, shortly after midnight CDT. A much more significant tornado outbreak began on the afternoon of May 5 and continued overnight, spreading from eastern Oklahoma into portions of southern Missouri and Central Arkansas. At least 35 tornadoes developed between 6:00 a.m. CST on May 5–6, including a long-tracked F5 that struck rural areas in Northeastern Oklahoma and killed five people. Two other tornadoes killed 21 people in and near Sequoyah County in the eastern portion of the state. Other strong tornadoes affected the Little Rock metropolitan area early on May 6 in Arkansas. In all, the tornado outbreak sequence killed 33 people and injured 302.

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Australia launches investigation into Facebook over data scandal
by Rishi Iyengar @Iyengarish April 5, 2018: 9:45 AM ET
Here's why quitting Facebook is so hard
Australia has launched a formal investigation into Facebook after the company revealed information about hundreds of thousands of Australians was potentially exposed to data research firm Cambridge Analytica.
The investigation will examine whether the social media giant breached Australia's privacy laws, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) said Thursday.
"Given the global nature of this matter, the OAIC will confer with regulatory authorities internationally," Angelene Falk, the country's acting information and privacy commissioner, said in a statement.
Related: Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress twice next week
Facebook (FB) revealed on Wednesday that data from 87 million of its users "may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica," far higher than the 50 million estimated by initial reports.
A little over 300,000 of those users were in Australia, the company said in a blog post. The vast majority of the affected users -- around 70 million -- were in the United States.
Millions more users were potentially affected in other countries including the Philippines, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, India, Brazil and Vietnam.
Facebook says users from these countries may have had user data "improperly shared" with Cambridge Analytica.
Indonesia's communications minister, Rudiantara, told CNNMoney that he had asked the country's national police to launch a criminal investigation into whether Facebook had violated local data privacy laws.
It's not clear whether such an investigation has been launched. Indonesian police did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Thursday.
Rudiantara said the government is now waiting for Facebook to share results of its ongoing third-party audit.
He added that he would "deeply consider" shutting down Facebook in Indonesia if the results of the audit were "not satisfactory."
Cambridge Analytica, which worked on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, disputed the numbers disclosed by Facebook, saying in a statement that it "licensed data for no more than 30 million people" from an independent scientist who collected it.
"We did not receive more data than this," the firm said.
Facebook said Thursday that it had not authorized Cambridge Analytica to access the user data, which was gathered by an app created by the independent scientist.
Facebook friends of users who downloaded the scientist's app may have been affected, according to the company. In India, for example, only 335 people installed the app, but the data of more than 560,000 people may have been exposed.
Related: Security on Facebook is 'never-ending battle,' Zuckerberg says
India's technology minister said last month that "any data theft of Indians ... shall not be tolerated." The Indian government didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Facebook also continues to face the fallout from the scandal in the United States. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify in front of two separate US congressional panels next week.
The company plans to notify individual users whose data may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica by April 9.
-- Carly Walsh and Huizhong Wu contributed to this report
CNNMoney (New Delhi) First published April 5, 2018: 3:08 AM ET


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Working at a start-up means every day is different. A start-up is a small business venture,usually with a smaller team, that has identified a problem or gap in the market and has decided to be the solution. Start-ups instigate change.
How do you get a foot in the door of a start-up?
Getting to know people in the start-up community is seriously important. Not just for job opportunities, but to learn from their successes and mistakes, and get first-hand informationabout what it's like working at a start-up. Plus, having connections helps. But where do you meet these people?
Otherwise known as accelerators or incubators, a hub is a local collective for start-ups and entrepreneurs. They're all different, but a hub offers networking events, educational talks and is there to help you find the tools and resources you and your start-up have been looking for. Here is an amazing list of hubs around the world, compiled by famous entrepreneur Richard Branson's team at Virgin, including articles on Sydney and Melbourne.
Contact a recruitment agency, or browse a start-up job website (like https://angel.co/jobs) to get a sense of what's going on in your city, country or the world. If you're very lucky, the start-up of your dreams is advertising a position. But given the time and budget constraints on most start-ups, they often don't advertise vacancies. Instead, they fill them by word-of-mouth, with recommendations from colleagues they can trust. That's where the network comes in. If you don't have that network yet, there's no harm in reaching out directly.
Get in contact with a start-up you admire, or you want to work for. Do this by whatever means, as long as you keep it professional. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and email are all great. If you have a mutual acquaintance, ask them for an introduction. Before you do this, practice your pitch. You need to be able to tell them quickly and clearly why you want to work for them, what your relevant experience is and why you'll be valuable to the team. Here are 9 tips to get the most out of LinkedIn.
There's no clear or concise method to finding a mentor. A mentor is a professional guardian angel, someone to bounce ideas off or ask for advice. They are usually someone who has a lot of experience and connections in the industry, who can offer you guidance and direct you towards opportunities. Have a read of 5 Reasons why you should seek a business mentor for more information on finding a great mentor match.
If you don't have previous experience with a start-up, don't be daunted by potential risk. The most common way into a start-up is from the ground floor. This is usually an unpaid internship,or a very basic entry level position. Be humble and patient, don't expect your dream promotion to be waiting just around the corner. Plenty of highly successful people have been in your position before, and they put in the hard yards, time and effort to get to where they are now.
A start-up is usually a progressive, creative environment. The very nature of their business is innovation. So to make your application stand out, don't stick to a black and white two page typed document that will fall to the bottom of the barrel. Check out this Pinterest board for created CVs, or read about how to create the perfect cover letter (with a template) here. You could record an interview with yourself, make a little video, design a poster or a book. Make it personalised, and put some heart into it.
If you're desperate for a job at a start-up, persistence pays off. Every new employee at a start-up is a gamble for a fledgling business, who have a tight budget and a close-knit team. Prove that you're dedicated, willing to learn, and hard-working and your efforts will be rewarded.
Upskilled offers a range of business courses that you can study at your own pace, online. If you're keen to begin your start-up career on the right foot, check out this range of flexible business courses you can do from the comfort of your own home.


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Die Europäische Norm EN 61378 befasst sich mit Stromrichtertransformatoren. Teil 1 beschreibt Anforderungen an Leistungstransformatoren, die für den Einsatz in Halbleiterstromrichteranlagen bestimmt sind, und Teil 2 Anforderungen für ölgefüllte Einphasen- und Drehstrom-Stromrichtertransformatoren von HGÜ-Anwendungen. Teil 3 stellt eine Erweiterung zu Teil 1 und Teil 2 dar, der Anforderungen für den Betrieb von Transformatoren an spannungsgeführten Umrichtern beschreibt.

Stromrichtertransformatoren, die nach Teil 1 als Öl- und Trockentransformatoren ausgeführt sein können, sollen diese bis auf in der Norm genannte Ausnahmen IEC 60076 entsprechen. In Teil 2 wird darauf hingewiesen, dass Transformatoren, die unter diesen Teil fallen, den Betriebsbedingungen von IEC 60076-1 entsprechen müssen. Für Stromrichtertransformatoren, die unter Teil 1 oder unter IEC 60310 Stromrichtertransformatoren für Bahnanwendungen fallen, gilt Teil 2 nicht.

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The announcement about the player who wore No. 18 was made on the 18th day of August in 2018.
A surprise was awaiting patients and families who gathered Saturday at Zionsville Lions Park to celebrate the doctors and patients of both the St. Vincent Women's Hospital and the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital.
Hossain Marandi, a pediatrician and the hospital's president, announced the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Vincent Women's Hospital will be renamed to honor Indianapolis Colts football great Peyton Manning.
"Here we are on Aug. 18 of 2018 — and the number 18 has a very significant meaning to the city of Indianapolis," Marandi told IndyStar after the event.
He said the hospitals carry Manning's name, legacy and work ethic. And, Marandi said, they hope to match the outcomes he had on the football field with the outcomes of the care they provide.
The reunion, which celebrated its 20th year, looks to give patients and families an opportunity to reconnect with the medical experts who cared for them.
More than 2,000 families signed up to attend the event, and Marandi was pleased with the turnout.
While Manning did not attend the announcement, organizers played a video message he recorded in advance.
What has the former NFL quarterback meant to the hospital?
"Everything." Marandi said No. 18's presence is always felt.
Peyton Manning will go down in history as one of football's greatest. 🏈 But his legacy as a champion for our patients is equally – if not more – impressive.
"Peyton is extremely involved in the hospital," Marandi said.
And now children will be cared for in the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Vincent's Women's Hospital.


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Juan Wilder 11.05.2015 3:10 PM
Jon Stewart's 12-acre Farm Now A Safe Haven For Abused Farm Animals. Could He Get Any Cooler?
When Jon Stewart retired from his amazing show in August, fans waited and wondered how the comedian who redefined political satire for a digital generation would follow up his 16-year stint as the host of The Daily Show. And late last month they heard what's next on the horizon for Stewart when he and his wife, Tracey, stepped into the spotlight to explain the details their latest project.
The Stewarts plan to use Bufflehead Farm, their 12-acre homestead in Middletown, N.J., as a sanctuary for abused and neglected farm animals. Although the couple had initially envisioned a small, independent safe haven for animals, they have decided instead to become part of Farm Sanctuary, the oldest rescue organization for farm animals in the United States. Stewart who candidly admitted he felt broken after years of showcasing the insanity of politics, culture and the media during his nightly fake-news broadcasts, will now devote time to nursing abused goats, pigs, chickens, sheep and other animals back to health. And the Stewarts plan to create an educational center where students and visitors can learn about Farm Sanctuary's mission and the organization's pro-animal, pro-vegan philosophy.
Launched back in 1986 by Gene Baur, who studied agricultural economics at Cornell University, Farm Sanctuary advocates for animal welfare and is committed to ending the abuses of factory farming through education and legislation. Farm Sanctuary operates two rescue farms in California, and a 175-acre sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y. that is now home to more than 500 rescued farm animals. With Bufflehead Farm now on board, the organization can expand its rescue efforts. But Farm Sanctuary does more than just care for neglected animals.
The organization hopes to change the way people view their relationship to animals. Farm sanctuary promotes veganism as a solution to a variety of economic, environmental and public health problems. Baur appeared as a guest on The Daily Show in the spring of 2015 and, back then, Stewart seemed a little hesitant about embracing the Farm Sanctuary lifestyle. During his interview with Baur, Stewart conceded that, on one hand, a vegan lifestyle had a slew of benefits. "But, on the other hand, you have corned beef…" said Stewart . Baur assured him that today it's possible to make a substitute corned beef from plants that's as good as a real deal.
Although Stewart seemed doubtful at first, he has since become a vegetarian who still maintains an affection for eggs and cheese. Stewart has described his role at Bufflehead Farm as "wingman" for his wife, a former veterinary technician, animal advocate and author of "Do Unto Animals" a 2014 guide to understanding and redefining the connection between people and animals. For now, Stewart now seems content to support his wife in her dream of creating an animal sanctuary.
As for fans who are still feeling the loss of Stewart's nightly take on the news, they should probably be patient and stay tuned. Whether he's focused on animal welfare or presidential politics, it seems unlikely that a talented voice like Stewart's will be quiet for long.
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St. Thomas Aquinas High School is a private, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory high school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The school was founded in 1936 as part of St. Anthony School and moved to its current location in southwest Fort Lauderdale in 1952
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Our love-hate relationship with the wolf, the animal that shares 15 thousand years of common ancestry with man's best friend, the dog, suggests a deep conflict, one that is well hidden and maybe closer to each of us than we dare to admit. Are we hiding a skeleton in the closet? Why do we take great pains to understand and be good to our dogs whilst we hunt the wolf mercilessly?
Back in time, there were no wolves or dogs, only Canis lupus perantiquus (my name), the common ancestor of Canis lupus lupus, Canis lupus familiars, and 37 other subspecies. Humans, by then Homo sapiens sapiens, developed, not surprisingly, a particularly healthy relationship with this Canis lupus perantiquus. Both shared common interests, and humans were still just one of many species. The relationship was mutually beneficial and resulted in some humans favoring certain perantiquus and certain perantiquus finding human company particularly rewarding.
Natural selection favored the fittest and, as usual, species changed over the years. These changes can be so extensive that some species turn into new ones; others only into new subspecies. The Canis lupus perantiquus changed under selective pressure from humans and their environment and became Canis lupus familiaris. In a sense, we created this subspecies and all its variations to serve and protect us.
Some species react strongly to stimuli they have not experienced for thousands of years, the scent of a predator, for example. These alarming and life-saving key stimuli remain in the species' gene pool, a kind of genetic memory. It is very unlikely that our fear of wolves stems from this kind of genetic memory; if we were that afraid of the wolf, we would never have gotten as close to it as we did. Perhaps we were afraid of the wolf in primitive times, but thousands of years of living in close proximity and cooperating would have changed that, as the least fearful members of both species would have benefited from the other. In those days, we can presume that the wolves that were least afraid of humans and capable of cooperating had better chances of survival and propagation (and ultimately turned into dogs); and conversely, the humans that were least afraid of wolves and were better at cooperating were more successful hunters, therefore survived and propagated (and ultimately turned into dog owners). Our fear of the wolf makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective, but perhaps it does from a psychological one. After all, we seem to fear what most resembles us—the enemy within!
Our fear and hatred of the wolf began long after the domestication, when humans took the first steps to distance themselves from nature, to enslave and exploit it—it happened when we invented agriculture. In the beginning, there was no war, only small-scale feuds provoked by the occasional domestic animal being taken by a wolf. The large-scale extermination of the wolf is not due to a single factor, but to an intermingled combination of factors that include mythology, religious zeal, environmental changes, economic incentives, and a deep psychological scar, as we shall see.
Mythology, such as Grimm's fairytales and Aesop's fables, evoke the wolf as evil, untrustworthy, conniving and cowardly, a greedy thief that will go to great lengths to devour a poor, little lamb, child or old person. Tales of Werewolves also exacerbated our fear and hatred of the wolf.
Religious convictions support our hatred of the wolf. "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.'" (Genesis 1:26-29). European farmers and American settlers were devout Christians, and they didn't need a clearer incentive to declare war on all that crept upon the Earth. "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26-29)—and the wolf became the ultimate target and symbol of their mission.
Farming and the keeping of domestic animals in enclosures combined with the decimation of the wolf's natural prey, forced the wolf to get closer to human settlements and to feed upon the occasional livestock. Today, most wolves avoid livestock when they have enough wild prey, but the wolves of the 1800s faced extreme food shortages and preyed upon cattle and sheep. That wasn't a problem for rich farmers. Even the smaller family farms could have survived the subsequent economic loss. Nevertheless, governments attempted to solve the supposed problem by creating bounties in return for the head of a wolf. Besides shooting them, wolf hunters used traps, poison, denning (excavating a den and killing the cubs) and biological warfare (infecting captive wolves with sarcoptic mange and releasing them into the wild)—and so wolfing became a lucrative business.
Mythology, religious zeal, and the economy go a long way towards explaining the hatred but don't explain everything. One thing is to control competition (it happens all the time in nature). Another is to embark on radical extermination and, what's more, find pleasure in the practice of torture (such as setting wolves on fire, skinning them alive, hanging them, etc.). Such barbarism suggests the real reason for our hatred is well hidden and maybe closer to our hearts than we care to believe or dare to face.
As with all organisms, human evolution happens quietly and slowly unless some sudden, drastic environmental change prompts the selection of unusual traits. The human brain was the sudden, single, dramatic cause that prompted a huge leap in the evolution of the species—and it was not an external cause, it came indeed from deep within us. The human brain enabled man to devise farming, then science and technology, and ultimately an anthropocentric religion. Farming enabled us to multiply far beyond the average rate up until that time and to colonize the entire world. Advancements in science and technology gave us the tools to subdue all life on the planet. Religious convictions provided us with motive and momentum beyond all rationality.
There is a high price to pay when evolution equals revolution. The (relatively) quick adoption of dualism and a mechanistic view of the world forced us to part with holism and animism, and left us with deep scars. In order to obey God, conquer the world and subdue all that crept upon our planet, we had to sever our connection with the natural, unruly, uncivilized world. To live up to the moral laws of Christianity, we had to go against our nature, denying who we were and where we came from. We had to cover our tracks. All that reminded us of our holistic past had to be oppressed, suppressed, forgotten. The wilderness in general and the wolf in particular reminded us of our true nature, the very same nature we despised. It became them and us. They were symbols of the unruly, the untamed and we, the purveyors of God's wishes and civilized order. They symbolized what we were, not what we wanted to be. We had to subdue our own wild side, a legacy from our ancestors from many millions of years ago, which had proved highly efficient for survival, yet was despised and denied by the Holy Church. We were imprinted with religious zeal, which elicited the need to stifle the symbolic wild wolf inside each one of us; and we denied our origins, a strategy that was always only going to work on a short-term basis. A conflict of identity was inevitable; the werewolf represents perhaps our struggle to switch from an organic to a mechanistic worldview.
While the dog represents what we aspire to be, the wolf stands for what we refuse to acknowledge as part of us. The dog represents control, reminds us of our power, and is testimony to our ability to tame the wild. The wolf is our guilty conscience, it reminds us of our humble origins, represents the freedom we gave up, the togetherness we abandoned.
We became fat slaves by our own choice; and the wolf poignantly reminds us that there was a time when we had other options—herein the dog (wolf) lies buried*.
"Looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves—and the enemy was in us," says Private Chris Taylor in Oliver Stone's movie Platoon from 1986. Echoing Taylor, I'd say: we never fought the wolf, never the enemy, we fought ourselves—and the enemy within us. As long as we will remain in denial of our inheritance, the scar won't heal, and the enemy will remain well entrenched within us—and so will we keep fighting the wolf.
* "That's where the dog lies buried," means "that's what lies behind." This idiomatic expression exists in many languages, e.g. "da liegt der Hund begraben" (German), "siinä on koira haudattuna," (Finish), "där är en hund begraven" (Swedish), but not in English. Most interestingly, the Swedish expression "att ana ugglor i mossen" (to suspect owls in the bog) meaning almost the same, comes from the Danish expression "der er ugler i mosen." Originally, it wasn't "ugler," but "ulver" (wolves), which makes more sense since an owl in the bog is nothing special. Since the two words in some spoken Danish dialects are difficult to distinguish from one another, it was translated incorrectly into Swedish, and the expression re-introduced in Denmark with owls substituting wolves. The expression and its history was too good for me not to use it in the context of this article. I hope the native English speakers will regard it as an enrichment of the language, rather than a nuisance.
Featured image: We never fought the wolf, never the enemy, we fought ourselves—and the enemy within us (photo by Monty Sloan).
Can My Dog Be Happy or Sad?
Anthropomorphism means to attribute human characteristics to (other) animals. The argument for anthropomorphism is valid enough: if I can't prove (verify) something, I'd better disregard it (at least scientifically)—and I can't prove that my dog is happy, sad, or loves me.
Yet, it seems to me, that the opposite (of anthropomorphism) is as wrong. It is true that we can't prove whether an animal can be happy or sad, but we can't prove either that it can't. As Carl Sagan wrote, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." We know nothing about one or the other. All we can see is behavior and the rest is guesswork.
If it is a sin to attribute human characteristics to other animals, it must also be a sin to say that because we do, they don't, because we can, they can't.
Bottom-line: Don't assume that others feel the same as you do, not your fellow humans, not other animals. Don't assume either that they don't, because they might.
Life is a puzzle, enjoy it!
Featured image: If it is a sin to attribute human characteristics to other animals, it must also be a sin to say that because we do, they don't, because we can, they can't.


Any ideas on how to get rid of these warnings?
Why? At byte-compile time not all variables or functions can be known by the byte-compiler, particularly when they are defined in other ELisp files. So a warning is emitted when something is felt missing. Unless the ELisp code fails in real life, i.e. when working with it, you don't need to care much about them.


The goal of the present study was to examine the concurrent correlates and longitudinal implications of anxiety among young Chinese children. Participants were N = 360 children (200 boys, 160 girls, Mage = 4.72 years, SD = 0.63) attending kindergarten in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. At Time 1, mothers provided ratings of their children's anxiety, temperament (negative emotionality, shyness), attachment, as well as their own personality (neuroticism), parenting styles, and attachment beliefs. At Time 2 (one year later), mothers rated children's social and emotional difficulties, and teachers assessed children's social, emotional, and academic adjustment. Results from regression analyses indicated that: (1) child temperament, mother-child insecure attachment, and maternal insecure attachment beliefs were associated with child anxiety; and (2) child anxiety symptoms (particularly social anxiety) predicted peer, emotional, and academic problems one year later. Results are discussed in terms of the maladaptive implications of anxiety symptoms in young Chinese children.


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