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Parliamentarian Mr.Wijitha Heart, Propaganda, propaganda secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), told media Friday that abductions are now being carried out in the country with the blessing of the government. The excavation of a corpse of a Tamil person who is alleged to have been abducted and later found to be dumped in the premises of the office of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) in Batticaloa, clearly points complicity of Colombo in the abduction-murder, the JVP MP added. EPDP is a constituent of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government, and the leader of EPDP is a cabinet minister.
Commenting on the increased number of abductions in Sri Lanka, Mr.Wijitha Heart said it is appropriate to say that in Sri Lanka the democracy has been murdered.
"Tamil peoples have been living in constant fear of abduction. The government should take the responsibility for the introduction of white van culture in the country, especially in areas where Tamils live in large numbers," he added.

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When communication matters – really matters – it has to be crystal clear on two levels: meaning and intent.
Recent legislation banning 'Legal Highs', Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 is so all-embracing that caffeine, alcohol and tobacco had to be specifically excluded.
In terms of policing, the Act is completely and utterly unworkable unless some dumbass starts selling the stuff on the streets in front of the local nick. So why on earth did Parliament pass a law that on the face of it looks impractical and stupid?I don't buy into the creed that maintains politicians are generally stupid. We elected them and it follows, neatly and logically that if they are, by default so are we.
I looked into the background behind this legislation. The substances concerned mimic the effects of dangerous and illegal drugs, including cocaine, ecstasy and speed, by being chemically altered at a molecular level to evade previous anti-drug laws. Because of a legal loophole they could be sold under the guise of something else, such as plant food or bath salts.
The problem is that none were tested for human consumption and reactions to them are unpredictable. Taken with alcohol or other substances the risk of deadly seizures, mental health issues, brain damage and heart problems is unlimited. They are implicated in at least 76 deaths according to the Office for National Statistics.
The intent and purpose of the Act is perfectly clear: to warn people that by taking these substances, the responsibility is theirs alone if they are damaged or die as a consequence.
What this law is, in fact, is a form of communication, dressed up as an Act of Parliament that means what it says. Its intent is to advise people who might be confused: avoid these substances because they are dangerous, have dodgy origins and can kill you.
Will it work? Depends on how dumb we are.
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STEWART MCSWEYN: ON TRACK TO SUCCESS
By Mark Tucker
Not long after 9.30pm Brussels time on the night of 31st of August 2018, the 23-year-old Stewart McSweyn crosses the line in a new personal best time of 13:05.23, to take him to number two on the all-time Australian rankings list behind the previously untouchable king of Australian middle distance running, Craig Mottram. Having taken 14 seconds off his previous best time and having run an incredible range of personal best times in the months prior, including a 3:34 for the 1500m, a 3:54 for the mile, a 7:34 for 3000m, and a 28:05 for the 10,000m, Mottram's times are suddenly within reach. But right now, he isn't thinking of Mottram, times, or what he has just achieved. He is lying on the ground in significant pain having dislocated his shoulder falling over the finish line. Nine days later he will represent Australia in the 3000m at the IAAF Continental Cup.
A world class surf break, a producer of world class cheese, and now the home of a world class runner. Of course, I am talking of King Island, located in the middle of the Bass Straight between Victoria and Tasmania. A population of just over one thousand five hundred permanent residents combined with its isolation from the main land of Tasmania and Australia, makes it seem unlikely that one of Australia's fastest middle-distance runners of all-time would hail from here. But in Stewart McSweyn that is what King Island has produced and he may yet surpass their other most famous exports – beef and cheese.
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Growing up in a family where sport and physical activity were encouraged was the first factor in setting up McSweyn's future success. Along with this encouragement, McSweyn took full advantage of growing up on an island known for its fresh air, natural beauty, and active lifestyle. The young Stewart, along with his twin brother Angus, regularly ran around and played on his parent's farm while also dabbling in a variety of sports that included AFL, which McSweyn played until the age of fifteen. The young talent was slowly fermenting away for later use... But many have been talented and many have stagnated – never coming close to seeing their talent fulfilled. Thus, a careful mixture of ingredients are needed in the making of a world class athlete.
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We Never Forget the First Time
Posted by John on May 5, 2009
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I moved to North Carolina in 1996, attempting to get a fresh start after a career setback that at the time seemed monumental, but now seems silly. This should have been a solo trip, but the guy I was dating at the time accompanied me, also looking for new opportunities. However, after a few months there, he met someone, and I experienced my first broken heart. I was in a strange town, I knew no one, and it was Christmas. Talk about a perfect storm.
One of the hardest parts of the situation was that every other song on the radio reminded me of him, and evoked feelings of sadness, anger, loss, loneliness, and even revenge. "For You I Will" was one of the worst, and turned me against Monica for a short amount of time, even though I genuinely liked her music. The Space Jam soundtrack did not get much play in the music store I managed as a result. Even Christmas music affected me (see "When Love Is Gone"). While those songs stand out to me, the one song that really defined that whole breakup was "Unbreak My Heart".
Picture it…you're at a club a couple of months on, and you're having a good time with a couple of acquaintances. Toni Braxton comes on, and you head to the dancefloor to let your demons go. Suddenly, it's as if you're in a music video, with a camera that cuts through the crowd, focusing on two guys dancing slow to the hottest club jam of the moment. It's your ex and the new guy, and you're just stunned. Next thing you know, you're out on the patio, pacing at 80 mph in the February cold, experiencing every emotion available in record time. (My friend Chris must have thought I was Sybil from the way I reacted.)
While the breakup obviously is memorable, it's in moments like those that I recognize just how much I am touched by music. For me, music acts as a time capsule, storing bits and pieces of memories that a couple of chords can unlock in a matter of moments. So often we hear a song and think "it's as if someone wrote it just for me", but I've come to the understanding that it says as much about the common feelings and emotions we all experience as it does about a specific event. Music really is a uniter, no matter how much we bicker about who's got the better b-side or who sold more records last week.
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Dan on May 6, 2009 at 03:59 said:
Madonna says it best – music makes the people come together. I love these kinds of posts – keep them up. As I have said before to many people, anyone can write a review of an album or talk about the merits of this or that song. But it isn't until it is personal that it is *really* interesting.
Mike on May 6, 2009 at 06:17 said:
John, this is a really beautiful post.
I love the way that music can capture a memory – be it good or bad. I still can't hear Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like A Bird" without thinking about a certain someone and breaking into a cold sweat.
However, I only have happy memories attached to "Unbreak My Heart" – mostly because a drag queen friend of mine used to perform it, complete with a giant dildo and strap-on for props! I'm guessing Toni would be proud.
Paul on May 6, 2009 at 08:50 said:
i still think of my first smooch with la dazpants everytime Never Be The Same Again by Mel c plays.
Poster Girl on May 7, 2009 at 07:43 said:
Mike chose exactly the right word for this post: "beautiful." Yes, please, when the moment feels right or when you feel inspired, keep these posts coming! There is something so incredibly…vivid about music, something that allows it to capture slivers of life better than maybe any other medium.
Yuri on May 8, 2009 at 17:42 said:
Great post! Music's ability to evoke the good and the bad memories is like a time machine (as you mentioned), drawing you back to the experience, almost out of the blue when you hear it. It's especially magical when you hear those special songs you've shared with others or that surround a memorable experience.
In your post, it sorta worked in the opposite direction. I wish we could shut off the 'music memory making place' in our brain or be able to delete the connection to those unpleasant events, but I guess that's now how it works, is it?
ww_adh on May 9, 2009 at 04:32 said:
Great post John–very vivid. There are certain songs I strongly associate with people from my past, and whenever I hear them it really takes me back. A song I avoided for a long time was "Damn I Wish I was Your Lover," as it reminded me of a bad date. Thankfully, that was long enough ago that I can enjoy it again now. Thank you for sharing.
David Minogue on May 22, 2009 at 12:47 said:
Music really is bittersweet,
I love the way you noted that even the remixes evoke memories for us, maybe even more so because they remind us of specific moments,
Toni's remixes were amazing, I adored that mix, there is also a great mix of Hit The Freeway, do u remember that one,
I love your posts,
rockymtranger on May 22, 2009 at 13:31 said:
Hit the Freeway didn't really have a huge impact for me, but I do like it. The Frankie Knuckles remix of "I Don't Want To" is another amazing remix. And thanks so much for the compliment.
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Q: Solve the differential equation using Variation of Parameter. I am given the following differential to solve by using variation of parameter.
$y'' +3y'+2 =\frac{e^{-x}}{x}$
My Attempt:  I first find the C.F. The C.F is $c_1 e^{-2x} + c_2e^{-x}$. Let's suppose $u(x) = e^{-2x}$  and $v(x) = e^{-x}$.
So the complete solution will be $y =A(x) e^{-2x} + B(x)e^{-x}$ .  Here $A(x) = -\int\frac{v(x)}{uv' - u'v}$  and $B(x) = \int \frac{u(x)}{uv' - u'v}$.
Now I am getting $A(x) = - \int \frac{e^x}{x}$  and $B(x) = \ln(x)+c_4$.
Now how to determine $A(x) = - \int \frac{e^x}{x}$. As far as I know , $\int \frac{e^x}{x}$ is an infinite series. What to do now? Should I keep $- \int \frac{e^x}{x}$ this in the solution without solving?
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by Aurlane Pascal on June 17, 2019 June 14, 2019 in BDD, HipTest, Living documentation
Many developers treat behavior-driven development (BDD) like test-driven development (TDD). Rather than using it as an opportunity to communicate with product owners, they write the tests in isolation and then write the code necessary to make the tests pass — the same as they would with TDD tests.
If you treat BDD like TDD, then you're probably missing out on most of the benefits. BDD is designed to improve communication between business and technical teams. If there's no communication, these tests become a redundant form of TDD with little benefit. But, how should you involve business teams?
Let's take a look at where business teams fit into the BDD process, and in particular, who should write the BDD scenarios to realize the greatest benefit.
Running a Discovery Meeting
Behavior-driven development begins with a discovery meeting that involves a product owner, test engineer and software developer. The goal of the meeting is to get everyone on the same page through a conversation involving concrete examples of how a feature should behave.
Each person on the team plays a specific role:
Product owners are responsible for determining the scope of the application, including the translation of user stories into features and the acceptance/rejection of features.
Test engineers are responsible for generating scenarios and thinking through the edge cases. They ask questions like, "how could the application break?" and "What user stories were missed in a given set of features?".
Developers are responsible for adding steps to the scenarios and reason through the details. They ask questions like, "How will the application work?" and "What are the potential technical roadblocks behind the scenes?".
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The meeting begins with a user story that's about to be pulled into production. After introducing the user story and acceptance criteria, the team comes up with concrete examples of the user story. They also document any questions or concerns that come up along the way, which could be a reason to delay the story.
The concrete examples form the basis for executable specifications called scenarios. These scenarios are written in a language called Gherkin that's easy for business teams to understand. Step definitions are added to these scenarios to actually complete the tests.
Who Does the Writing?
Test engineers are typically responsible for writing scenarios while developers are responsible for writing step definitions. However, this doesn't mean that they should be responsible for writing these things in isolation following a discovery meeting — the best approach is a collaborative one.
Each team member contributes specific expertise:
Product owners ensure that scenarios remain in-scope and relevant to the business values.
Developers ensure that scenarios are described in a way that will deliver the product owners' desired features.
Test engineers uncover things that everyone else misses — the edge cases that can cause major problems.
John Ferguson Smart recommends that acceptance criteria are recorded and automated in a pair-programming session with both a tester and product owner. The tester takes ownership of the scenarios at that stage, but product owners are required to ensure that the scenarios stay true to their original intent.
Similarly, the developer and test engineer might pair-program the development of step definitions to ensure that no edge cases are missed. The developer takes ownership of the scenario at that stage, but the test engineer can help ensure that nothing falls through the cracks that could cause issues.
The test engineer may be responsible for seeing the scenario through the various stages of development and liaising with the product owners and developers, but they shouldn't be solely responsible for taking notes from the discovery meeting and translating them into step definitions in isolation.
Writing Effective Scenarios
There are several things to keep in mind when writing scenarios and step definitions.
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The biggest mistake that beginners make is writing imperative rather than declarative scenarios. For example, many teams write imperative scenarios with low-level steps like navigating to pages, filling in fields or pressing buttons. Declarative scenarios describe what the user does rather than how they do it, which covers more high-level business rules.
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Salzburg's head coach Jesse Marsch walks to his disappointed players after the Champions League group A soccer match between RB Salzburg and Bayern Munich in Salzburg, Austria, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Andreas Schaad)
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'I'll take laughter over seriousness any day' is as good a Wayne White quote as any to start discussing the artist and his work.
You only need glance at the Wayne White prints displayed here to see the evidence of an artist with his tongue firmly in cheek.
An artist who believes that 'humour is our most sacred quality and it deserves to be on a pedestal.' So how has White translated that belief throughout the decades?
White is an artist with a career as prolific as it is unconventional. Wikipedia describes White as an American artist, art director, puppeteer, set designer, animator, cartoonist and illustrator. They also forgot to list talented banjo player, harmonicist and a mighty fine dancer too.
In Wayne White's 2013 TED talk he shows a slide of his thrift store word paintings, Dogs on LSD, as an example of the magic that takes place during the creative process.
I love White's ultimate faith that serendipity is at the core of the creative process and somehow finds a way to elevate the work an transcend human limitations.
If you do one thing after viewing this page spend a couple of dollars to stream the Wayne White documentary by Neil Berkeley. It's truly a joyous thing to behold. It's a love letter to quirky artists everywhere and a celebration of the art of being generously and passionately creative. It's one of the best films on art I've seen.
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Seid Korac (; born 20 October 2001) is a Luxembourgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Allsvenskan club Degerfors IF and the Luxembourg national team.

Club career
Having started his youth career at CS Oberkorn, Korac joined the Rodange 91 academy in 2014, along with his two older brothers Irfan and Kenan. Integrated into the professional team competing in the Luxembourg National Division from 2017, he contributed to the team avoiding relegation in the 2017–18 season.

Korac left Rodange in January 2019 to join Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg. In Nuremberg, Korac quickly distinguished himself with the youth teams, scoring a goal in his first appearance with the U19s. The following season, he joined the club's reserve team, playing in the Regionalliga.

On 11 August 2021, Korac joined Danish 1st Division club Esbjerg fB on a deal until June 2024. On 24 August 2022, Korac was loaned out to newly promoted Cypriot First Division side Akritas Chlorakas until the end of 2022. In the beginning of January 2023, Korac left Esbjerg and joined Allsvenskan club Degerfors IF, signing a deal until the end of 2025.

International career
Korac made his international debut for Luxembourg on 11 November 2020 in a friendly match against Austria.

Personal life
Korac is Bosniak of Serbian descent.

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Mark Remmert hails from Northern California and has been making music most of his life. He started piano-accordion lessons at age 8 and was playing professionally as a solo act by the time he turned 13. In 1976 he was asked to play keyboards for an established 5-piece variety band, "the Crystal Mint." With a hard-working management team and an extremely talented group of young musicians, "the Mint" quickly became one of the most in-demand bands in the San Francisco Bay Area for weddings and private parties. "Growing up in the Bay Area in the '60's and '70's, I was exposed to a lot of great music," Mark remembers."My parents were always playing records by Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra and other great singers. The older kids on my block listened to The Beatles, Chicago, Grand Funk, Santana, and that incredible music of Motown. I loved ALL of it!" Mark says that as a teenager, he had a split personality. "I was making a good living playing standards and soft rock on weekends, and spending every spare moment rocking out to Black Sabbath, UFO, and Ted Nugent. It's why I play like I do. I didn't listen to piano players....I stole licks from guys like Michael Schenker and Tony Iommi--not Billy Joel or Elton John." In the early '80's, Mark and guitarist/vocalist Lance Morris left "the Crystal Mint" to form "The Move", a 5-piece Top-40 band featuring female vocalist Keri Rodrigues. With more of a dance-music focus, "The Move" played local clubs and the hotel lounge circuit, along with plenty of private parties. Mark moved to San Antonio, Texas in January of 1987, and after a chance meeting at a Century Music store 10 months later, played his first Jay Eric gig at the Blue Bonnet Palace. "I didn't know George Strait from George Blanda from George Bush back then," he recalls. "I thought the boys played the same song for 4 hours. But the place was packed, the band was good, and the crowd was having a blast! After the show, a couple of the guys said "OK we know you can play, but now you need to learn WHAT to play. They gave me a Ray Price Greatest Hits cassette. That weekend I fell in love with rhythm and with Country Music." This October will mark 24 years as a member of the Blieder's Creek Band. "Playing with Jay, Matt and the guys really changed my life. I've been places, seen things and done things I never would have had it not been for the band. I wouldn't change a thing.......well....almost!" Mark has also played keyboards for several other bands in the area, including The Nick Lawrence Band, John Christopher Way, The River City Kings, and the late Rodney Warner & the Blues Express. Mark currently lives in San Antonio with his wife, Debbie, and their son Jeff. At 17, Jeff is already working as a solo guitarist/vocalist. He has performed at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo's BBQ Cook-off, and has been the opening act for Jay Eric, and has played Floore's Country Store on 2 occasions with the Nick Lawrence Band.


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10 things you didn't know about Jes Staley (and may need to)
by Sarah Butcher 13 October 2015
Jes Staley will be the new CEO of Barclays. The BBC says so, and the BBC is the oracle when it comes to events in the UK. Everyone knows a little of Jes's backstory: that he spent 34 years at J.P. Morgan, that he was bestest friends with Jamie Dimon, that he was supposed to be Dimon's replacement until he ran away to work for a hedge fund... But do you really know Jes? If you want to get to know the man behind the media through the medium of electronic communication, you need to digest the facts below.
1. He's obsessed with sailing, but not in a Sunseeker sense
Staley specifies sailing as his hobby on BlueMountain's website. However, he's more of an arts-and-crafts type sailor than a Sunseeker man. He has a 'boat', not a yacht. It's an artisan-crafted custom-built 90 foot affair from Maine (although the boat may grow again in line with Staley's promotions - back in 2009 it was only 40 foot).
2. He's a Democrat
Like Dimon, Staley has Democratic inclinations. In the past, he donated money to the Democratic Senatorial Committee.
3. He wants the bank he works for to be the best
"I didn't want to run a business where everyone believed that mediocre was the best I could do," said Staley in relation to J.P. Morgan's purchase of hedge fund Highbridge Capital in 2004.
4. He's pro-diversity since his brother was diagnosed with Aids
Staley has reportedly been a big advocate for diversity since discovering that his brother Peter had been diagnosed with HIV. He helped push the diversity agenda at J.P. Morgan.
5. He's made mistakes, lived through crises
Staley was working in Brazil for J.P. Morgan during the Latin American crisis. The bank bought a Brazilian investment bank which later folded. "We brought some of the best and brightest we had from London and New York in to run it," Staley said. "It took us four years to run it into the ground."
6. Staley's grandfather nearly bankrupted J.P. Morgan
Staley's grandfather was one Edward Staley. Edward Staley was a senior executive at W.T Grant stores, which was akin to Walmart in the 1970s. In 1976, W.T Grant filed for bankruptcy, resulting in the largest ever loan loss for J.P. Morgan (at that time).
7. He's highly ethical
He has, "impeccable character and integrity" according to Jamie Dimon. He has a, "He has a well-developed sense of right and wrong," according to Britt Harris, chief investment officer of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
8. He's passionate about his alma mater
Staley attended Bowdoin College. He graduated cum laude and on the dean's list in economics and has been both a 'breakfast speaker' and on the board of trustees.
"I'm amazed at his accessibility," a Bowdoin president told Bloomberg in 2009. "He e-mails me from around the world noting Bowdoin victories on the sporting field."
9. He likes to hang around in the Grill Room of the NYC's Four Seasons
Or at least he did, back in 2009. It's worth a try.
10. He's good with people
In the words of Dimon, Staley is, "an unbelievable people person" who is very good at mentoring employees.
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Strikers try to overturn a streetcar in 1919 in the Winnipeg General Strike in front of the old city hall building on Main Street. // L.B. Foote collection/Archives of Manitoba
Manitoba Law School co-founder 'A labour jurist ahead of his time'
One hundred years ago, H.A. Robson tabled the 1919 General Strike Royal Commission Report, making recommendations to improve conditions for workers
November 12, 2019 —
On November 6th, 1919, co-founder of the Manitoba Law School Hugh Amos Robson, K.C., as he then was, tabled his report as Commissioner of the Royal Commission to Enquire into and Report Upon the Causes and Effects of the General Strike which Recently Existed in the City of Winnipeg for a Period of Six Weeks, Including the Methods of Calling and Carrying on Such Strike.
Within this long sub-title, the whole purpose of the report is clear. Addressing the origins of the strike, including the various trades disputes happening at the time, the specific cause of the strike, and the general discontent of Winnipeg's working class, Robson concludes that the striking workers had legitimate reasons for their dissatisfaction, and that the strike was not primarily caused by radicals trying to over throw democracy as had been touted by the "Citizen's Committee of One Thousand." Comprised of local business owners and members of Winnipeg's legal community, the Committee had worked to end the strike, which did officially conclude on June 26, 1919, after two people had died, and many had been wounded and arrested.
Title page of H.A. Robson's Royal Commission Report, tabled Nov. 6, 1919.
Robson, the namesake of the building that has housed the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Law since 1969 here at the Fort Garry Campus, established the Manitoba Law School in 1914, five years prior to being appointed Commissioner of the General Strike enquiry. At that time, he had already led an interesting life having been born in England, practiced law in Regina, and been an eye-witness at the trial of Louis Riel. Since 1899, he had practiced law at the firm of James Aikins in Winnipeg, served as a Bencher for the Law Society of Manitoba, co-authored several important text books on Municipal Law, and served as chair of a public utilities commission for Manitoba.
Dr. Bruce Curran, Associate Dean of the Juris Doctor (Bachelor of Laws) program at today's Robson Hall, describes Robson "a lawyer and jurist remarkably ahead of his time," which is evident in the report where
Hugh Amos Robson, co-founder of the Manitoba Law School.
Robson demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to the deplorable conditions of wage earners of his day. Curran, who holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto, will soon have a paper examining the impact of Robson's Royal Commission report published in the forthcoming Manitoba Law Journal's volume 42 (2), titled Chief Justice Robson: A selection of his original works and contemporary reflections on them.
According to Curran, Robson "viewed the Winnipeg General Strike as legitimate, and unlike some of his legal contemporaries, believed that the workers were, for the most part, exercising their rights in an attempt to obtain better terms and conditions of employment."
Contrarily, Curran explains, Robson's colleagues and contemporaries in the Winnipeg legal community viewed the General Strike as a challenge to "authority and the existing social order, amounting to nothing short of seditious conspiracy on the part of the strike leaders."
Robson's report clearly demonstrates his recognition and understanding of the dire circumstances the workers had reached, which drove them to take such drastic action in May of 1919. "Robson's views on the nature and extent of workers' rights to organize, collectively bargain, and strike were consistent with subsequent developments in North American labour legislation, international law, and Canadian constitutional jurisprudence over the next century," said Curran. "Robson's sympathy for workers, his understanding of the social, political, and economic context in which they found themselves, and his recommendations were all remarkably enlightened and innovative. Such enlightenment and innovation demonstrated by Robson is still necessary today, as Canadian workers are even now facing some of the same problems he observed."
The full text of Robson's report is available to read online at the University of Alberta Website.
Curran's paper and other essays on Robson's life and works will be included in Volume 42 (2) of the MLJ, edited by Dr. Bryan Schwartz and recent Robson Hall graduate, Erik Gusdal. In addition to that volume, the Manitoba Law Journal will soon publish a revised version of Jack Walker's book,The Great Canadian Sedition Trials: The Courts and the Winnipeg General Strike 1919-1920, which was originally edited posthumously by Duncan Fraser and published in 2004 by the Legal Research Institute at the University of Manitoba. Both of these volumes will soon be available online at the Manitoba Law Journal website.
The University of Manitoba Libraries' digital exhibit of the 1919 General Strike, Unbreakable: The Spirit of the Strike, is available to view online.
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COVID and the Constitution
In early December, several legal dramas unfolded in provincial courtrooms across Canada, generating public debate regarding citizens' constitutional rights and public health policies intended to help curb the pandemic. Thanks to the initiative of Acting Dean David Asper, Q.C., University of Manitoba Constitutional Law professor Karen Busby and about 15 law students sat in on a virtual court hearing before Queen's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal on Saturday, Dec 5th, 2020.
Fifty Years of Teaching Law: An Interview with Lord John Irvine
Professor John Irvine – now officially titled Lord John Irvine of Hougun Manor, has taught generations of law students for the past 50 years at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Law. Modest beyond compare, Robson Hall's resident British gentleman was presented with the Lordship on November 5th (Guy Fawkes' Day, of all days), at a virtual homecoming event hosted by the Faculty. The online event was attended by upwards of 200 alumni whom Irvine had taught in five decades'-worth of Torts, Property law, Jurisprudence and Legal Systems classes.
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Law Faculty Teaching Awards announced
In a normal year, the Faculty of Law's two major teaching awards would have been announced at the annual Grad Dinner, but due to the new normal, the Faculty was forced to postpone the selection process until the fall term. On December 10, Acting Dean David Asper was pleased to announce that Associate Professor Dr. Amar Khoday had won The Barney Sneiderman Award for Teaching Excellence, and that Natasha Brown [BEd/01, LLB/05] had been selected for the The Deans Award for Teaching Excellence for Sessional Instructors (Practicing Professionals).
International Centre Language Exchange Program November 16, 2020
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Weekly Support Chat for International Students January 14, 2021
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New shows are a a dime a dozen these days. More networks have begun the transition into launching original programming, and with that we get more shows to watch. However we all have schedules – not just from jobs, but social lives, other hobbies, and not all of us have found use for a DVR. With that, we are selective into which shows we will watch every week/day. A&E hopes that Breakout Kings will be one of them. TheVoiceOfTV.com dives into the debut of Breakout Kings.


Read syllabus, either hardcopy or online (AesDes.org). Return signed hardcopy syllabus agreement in class Friday January 15.
Complete the AesDes Perception Survey by midnight Tuesday January 12! You will receive an email invitation from Qualtrics with a link. Your responses will be kept anonymous from me until after the end of the semester. You may opt out of the survey without penalty, but you must send an email to the TA to do so.
Complete the CATME Team Builder survey by Friday January 15 midnight. This survey is not optional. You will receive an email invitation for this too. Use your CU email address lastname@colorado.edu, and your CU login ID, usually something like name1234. Be sure to read the directions for indicating your schedule very carefully!
Create your login on the course website, AesDes.org, which will allow you to post to the blogs. That's right, you'll get an email invitation for this too. Your first required blog post is described below. Please read my post on posting guidelines.
Explore an aesthetic. We will go over the definition and examples in class, but keep this assignment in mind. As a special blog post, identify an aesthetic, include at least 6 images and/or videos illustrating it, and discuss the context a bit. When was it created? Who were the big players? What influenced it? What has it influenced since then? Be sure to find the original authors of your images and videos, and provide citations for all your information sources. This blog post will be due Jan 20. Be sure to categorize your post as 'Aesthetic Explorations'. You'll also be asked to do a short presentation of your exploration in class sometime between Weds Jan 20 and the end of the semester.
This will be your individual warm-up project. Create an artifact that conforms to an aesthetic, either the aesthetic you researched, or one that someone else in class posted about. Upcycle means that your artifact should be constructed of inexpensive or recycled material, something easy to manipulate using additive or subtractive techniques: cardboard, foam core, drywall, sticks, plastic forks or plates, soda cans/bottles, Legos, bubblewrap or packing peanuts, stir sticks, straw, hay, cloth, papier Mache, tires, DVDs, PVC, food, plastic bags etc. You'll be asked to document your design and construction process, so keep track of where you find inspiration. In particular, if you use an existing design you must document the source, but hopefully you will use this opportunity to create something new. Your artifact should be of moderate size, something between 0.5 and 8 cubic feet; can be small but must be viewable without a microscope, or up to as large as a chair. We will have a display day in class on Monday February 1, and short in-class presentations.


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CHRIS EDGINGTON
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Chris Edgington, of St. Ansgar, Iowa, serves as a member of the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association, a farmer-led trade association with offices in St. Louis and Washington.
Edgington raises corn and soybeans along with his dad, brother and son. Chris and his wife, Vanessa, have two children, Alex and Elizabeth. In addition to his row crop operation, he gains insight into livestock through a small business run by his son. He holds a bachelors of science degree in animal science from Iowa State University.
On the national level, Edgington serves as Corn Board liaison to the Food, Feed and Industrial Action Team and as a member of the Finance Committee.
Previously, he served as the board liaison to the Freedom to Operate Action Team and the Market Access Action Team. He has also served on the CornPAC and the Governance Committee. He represented the Corn Board on the Syngenta Advisory Council for Enogen and to the National Pork Producers Council.
A past chairman of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and co-chair of Corn Vision 2020, he was a member of NCGA's Trade Policy and Biotechnology Action Team prior to his election to the Corn Board. Currently, he also serves as president of Rural Development Partners.
Founded in 1957, the National Corn Growers Association represents nearly 40,000 dues-paying corn growers and the interests of more than 300,000 farmers who contribute through corn checkoff programs in their states. NCGA and its 49 affiliated state associations and checkoff organizations work together to help protect and advance corn growers' interests.
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Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries (2015)
Chapter: IDR Team Summary 3: What proximate mechanisms underlie helping and cooperation?
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Suggested Citation:"IDR Team Summary 3: What proximate mechanisms underlie helping and cooperation?." National Research Council. 2015. Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21737.
IDR Team Summary 3
What proximate mechanisms underlie helping and cooperation?
What kind of social tendencies and cognitive evaluations urge an individual to help another or to cooperate on a joint task? In order to cooperate with others, individuals need to choose partners or join an ongoing effort. They may also be recruited by others, and will need to decide if the joint effort will be worth their participation. Sometimes they just assist others who are in trouble or cannot reach their goal alone. There are basically two situations:
(a) Anonymous cooperation: Species without individual recognition and remembered experiences cooperate with other conspecifics. Here partner choice is guided by cues that simply indicate that the other individual is a member of the same nest, colony, or population. Anonymous cooperation with members of the same group likely evolved under conditions in which all group members were closely related kin, and thus it was unnecessary (and perhaps too costly for large groups) to distinguish among them. Alternatively, if groups are fairly stable and interactions are repeated, cooperative behaviors may benefit all members of the group and thus be selected for, even if relatedness among individuals is low. Finally, social interactions (and the underlying neurophysiological and cognitive pathways that drive these interactions) that evolved among members of a closely related kin group may have easily expanded to include less related individuals. For example, phylogenetic studies have indicated that social behavior evolved under conditions in which groups were headed by singly mated females, and mat-
ing number increased subsequently. Thus, once social interactions among closely related individuals became firmly established, the group could take advantage of the benefits of increasing genetic diversity and thereby enhancing immunity, task specialization, and division of labor. Similarly, it is theorized that maternal care evolved into sib-care; in this case, the underlying sensory pathways simply expanded to include siblings as well as offspring. This is not unlike ideas about mammalian empathy (below), which is thought to be rooted in maternal care neural circuitry.
(b) Individualized cooperation: Species in which individuals recognize each other and build up a history of interaction known as "social relationships."
Here we are concerned with individualized societies (e.g., mammals, birds, other vertebrates; de Waal & Tyack, 2003; also some invertebrates with individual recognition, such as paper wasps). Recruitment by means of communication is well developed, such as by vocalizations, postures, or gestures aimed at specific partners to solicit their support. For example, many primates have specific behaviors to activate supporters to help them in a fight. The decisions to cooperate are guided by previous experiences with the other (e.g., reliability and effectiveness) and its social rank, with high-ranking individuals being superior supporters. On the other hand, a partner of similar low rank is preferred to jointly overthrow the existing hierarchy. Choices are often guided by kinship, but also by mutual benefit and reciprocity, such as when chimpanzees share food with those who have groomed them before, or when fish recruit fish of another species that complements their hunting strategy.
Many of these cooperative situations are mutualistic; i.e., parties gain benefits at the same time. For example, when animals hunt in groups and together bring down large prey they benefit simultaneously. This kind of cooperation requires coordination, communication, and sharing of payoffs, but no altruism or long-term memory except memory of specific individuals and their effectiveness as partners. It also includes monitoring against freeloading.
The second kind of cooperation spreads benefits out over time so that one individual may gain now and his or her partner gains next time, an exchange known as reciprocity (Trivers, 1971). Several proximate mechanisms may produce reciprocity, but our understanding of how it works, and especially how it works outside of the primates, is still very limited. It is unlikely that animal actors know about reciprocity in the sense that they perform
helping acts with future return benefits in mind. There are indications that some large-brained species may do so, but the planning of future exchanges is beyond most animals' cognition. This means that helping must have its own autonomous motivation. In humans, the main motivator is assumed to be empathy, which makes one person gain a stake in the other's situation. Without necessarily implying the cognitively advanced forms found in human adults (e.g., theory of mind), the empathy explanation takes as its basis bodily connections, involuntary mimicry, and emotional contagion. These mechanisms have been proposed to underlie helping in other mammals as well, and there are indeed reports on empathy from mice to elephants, and also birds (de Waal, 2008).
Key Questions
Apart from kinship, what determines partner choice in a cooperative context? Is it (a) the effectiveness of the partner on the task at hand, (b) trust based on other experiences with the partner (e.g., affiliation and friendship), (c) the payoff division to be expected (i.e., tolerance, sharing), or (d) fear of retaliation (i.e., punishment for not cooperating)?
Apart from kinship, what determines the tendency to help others in distress or trouble? Empathy is generally thought to be promoted by similarity and familiarity between individuals.
What are the mechanisms underlying reciprocal exchange of favors? Is reciprocity organized along tit-for-tat lines, requiring memory and score-keeping, or are there simpler mechanisms at work, including the generalized reciprocity reported for a few species?
How similar are the proximate mechanisms mediating anonymous and individualized cooperation? Are the differences simply due to differences in the level of resolution of individual recognition?
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IDR TEAM MEMBERS
Shawn Alter, Emory University
Sarah F. Brosnan, Georgia State University
Tyrone W.A. Grandison, Proficiency Labs
Mark E. Hauber, Hunter College, City University of New York
Katharine M. Jack, Tulane University
Timothy A. Linksvayer, University of Pennsylvania
Julie R. Murrell, EMD Millipore
Stacey R. Tecot, University of Arizona
IDR TEAM SUMMARY—GROUP 3
Shawn Alter, NAKFI Science Writing Scholar Emory University
IDR Team 3 was asked to determine the proximate mechanisms that give rise to cooperation between individuals. Cooperation is a core component of social evolution, allowing groups to adapt to selective pressures, even though it comes at a cost to altruistic individuals. This phenomenon is evident in all levels of life, from quorum-sensing unicellular bacteria to group-living primates. In 1964, William Hamilton proposed the theory of inclusive fitness, which holds that genetically similar individuals who cooperate indirectly improve the fitness of their group and the likelihood of passing on their shared, identical genes, including those that encode cooperative traits. However, inherited traits are ultimately the result of cooperation, rather than the proximate cause.
Primate ethologist and NAKFI Steering Committee member Frans de Waal challenged IDR Team 3 to find the very spark that ignites cooperation. This challenge is not just an exercise in scholarship, but may also provide fresh insights for the fields of behavioral economics, education, and artificial intelligence. Comprised of thought leaders from cellular through evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science, the members of IDR Team 3 have collectively studied the social behaviors of ants, birds, primates, and simulated populations. By drawing from their collective expertise, IDR Team 3 established the conditions that are required for cooperation and compel organisms to cooperate and determined the proximate elements of cooperation. To determine the relative importance of these proximate elements—the cooperative spark—IDR Team 3 next turned to
the field of evolutionary robotics, and conceived the Artificial Test-bed for Experimentation into Cooperation and Helping (ATECH).
Evolutionary Robotics: A Very Unnatural Selection
The field of evolutionary robotics grew from a seed first planted by Alan Turing in the 1950s. In Computing machinery and Intelligence, Turing presaged that machines capable of learning and adaptation could not be created by man, but would rather be borne from an evolutionary process subject to mutation and selective reproduction. In the decades to follow, systems biologists developed computational algorithms to model and test evolutionary phenomena as the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics continued to flourish. In the 1990s, international teams of roboticists launched the first experiments in evolutionary robotics.
In an evolutionary robotics arena, robotic genomes are subject to survival of the fittest. In one of the earliest demonstrations, Dario Floreano, a pioneer in evolutionary robotics, challenged contenders to navigate a maze with mutably coded genomes that defined the patterns and activity of their neural networks; these networks in turn dictated the robots' actions in response to sensory input during the challenge. Robots earned a fitness score (f), commensurate with their performance in the maze, so that robots that successfully navigated the maze with few crashes received high f scores, while those that crashed frequently or did not complete the maze received low f scores. Following the challenge, a computer would select the genomes of robots with the highest scores, and pair them for genetic crossover and mutation. The resultant genomes were then used to reprogram the robots as a new generation, in a process that would be reiterated hundreds of times.
Robots quickly evolved beyond maze navigation. In a chess-like battle, miniature predator and prey robots co-evolved hunting and evasion tactics, while robots capable of autonomous design and fabrication adapted brain and structural morphologies to adapt to varied mechanical tasks. In 2006, Floreano joined forces with evolutionary entomologist Laurent Keller to challenge multiple kindred of genetically similar robots to collectively forage and transport food tokens. These robots could boost their individual fitness by foraging and transporting small tokens by themselves, or opt to incur a fitness cost by foregoing this low-hanging fruit and cooperatively moving larger, otherwise immoveable tokens to earn a larger distributed fitness score. Remarkably, Keller and Floreano found that cooperative token movement evolved first and most strongly between the most genetically
similar robots. Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness thus applies to the field of evolutionary robotics, which may provide the ideal means to investigate the proximate mechanisms of cooperation.
Finding the Spark
Before ATECH could be formed, IDR Team 3 established the relevant testing parameters that would give rise to cooperation. IDR Team 3 defined cooperation as "interaction that, on average, benefits all participants," which will be manifest in individual robots' fitness scores. In cooperative interaction, continual iterations will produce a benefit greater than the participants could achieve individually, as is the case with collective carrying and food sharing among ants. In simulations and robotics, successful cooperation earns a collective fitness score that is distributed among the group. However, sometimes cheaters come along, draw from the fruits of cooperation, and do not expend any cost of their own, as is the case of a worker ant that forgoes food gathering to attempt mating and egg-laying to the detriment of the colony. Similarly, a "cheating" robot would accumulate group fitness points while leaving its kin to do all of the work; these groups are at risk of losing fitness to competing robot groups. IDR Team 3 hypothesized that the proximate elements below will provide a graded and interactive context for cooperation, whose relative strengths and effects can be directly tested.
Environmental variability. Within homogenous or genetically similar populations, environmental variability places selective pressure and drives specialization of individuals. Within a heterogeneous group in which specialization may already exist, environmental variability may exert demands that surpass the capacity of the individual participants.
Flexible response to cooperation. Faced with a challenge such as predation or limited resources, participants must be able to respond in such a manner as to serve their own interest or help other participants at a cost. Partners must be able to respond to each other's actions and vary their own actions so that the sum effort is not so costly that it precludes collective benefit. In the case of altruism, however, an individual may incur great cost and even death to benefit the group, as is the case of a stinging honeybee that will die shortly after defending its queen and nest.
Communication. In order for participants to cooperate, it is essential that they be able to sense an environmental cue and recognize the cooperative "effort" of the other participants. For example, ant societies, which
have evolved the ability to divide labor and collectively solve problems, communicate using pheromones, sound, and touch.
Goal-directed activity. In order for participants to cooperate, they must share a common goal or interact in a manner that is beneficial to achieving each other's goals, even though this goal need not be conscious. Goal-directed behavior occurs when one expends energy or effort toward an end, after which effort ceases (i.e., a feedback loop). Pack hunting by gray wolves is a prime example of this proximate element of cooperation.
Moving forward, IDR Team 3 proposes to manipulate the proximate elements of cooperation as test parameters to determine their impact on simulated and robotic fitness in cooperative challenges including foraging and defense from variably sized and challenging intruders. As ATECH develops and evolves, IDR Team 3 intends to develop predictive models that can be tested on model organisms to predict cooperation in nature.
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Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries Get This Book
Collective Behavior is the summary of the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Collective Behavior. Participants were divided into fourteen interdisciplinary research teams. The teams spent nine hours over two days exploring diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. The composition of the teams was intentionally diverse, to encourage the generation of new approaches by combining a range of different types of contributions. The teams included researchers from science, engineering, and medicine, as well as representatives from private and public funding agencies, universities, businesses, journals, and the science media. Researchers represented a wide range of experience - from postdoc to those well established in their careers - from a variety of disciplines that included science and engineering, medicine, physics, biology, economics, and behavioral science. The teams needed to address the challenge of communicating and working together from a diversity of expertise and perspectives as they attempted to solve a complicated, interdisciplinary problem in a relatively short time. This report highlights the presentations of the event and includes the team reports and pre-meeting materials.
Front Matter i–xiv
Conference Summary 1–10
IDR Team Summary 1: Using our understanding of cooperation in cognitive organisms to understand cooperation in organisms or entities without brains and vice versa. 11–20
IDR Team Summary 2: How would you spend $100 million over the next five years to understand and harness the power of social networks? 21–34
IDR Team Summary 3: What proximate mechanisms underlie helping and cooperation? 35–42
IDR Team Summary 4: Develop general principles to understand the interplay between individual variation and group function. 43–56
IDR Team Summary 5: How do we solve the tragedy of the commons? 57–64
IDR Team Summary 6: Are there fundamental principles underlying the transition from one to two individuals? Are these scalable to larger social groups? 65–72
IDR Team Summary 7: Evaluate the degree to which cooperation and conflict need to be balanced in order to facilitate the evolution, expansion, optimal performance, and maintenance of collective behaviors. 73–84
IDR Team Summary 8: From single cells to tissue: What causes organismality to emerge from individual cells, achieving control of conflict at lower levels so the organism becomes the unit of adaptation? 85–98
IDR Team Summary 9: How do general principles of cooperation and competition influence our understanding of brain networks? 99–106
Appendixes 107–108
List of Collective Behavior Preconference Tutorials 109–112
Agenda 113–116
Participant List 117–128


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Hell in a Handbasket Postponed
While Rome is burning, as it were, in the ghetto suburbs where 'les jeunes' are armed to the teeth with Kalachnikovs, hold up Marseille TGV trains à la Robin Hood to rob the passengers, set traps for the police and generally break the law with impunity, the Languedoc-Roussillon regional magazine, L'accent du Sud, reminds us that all is not on a downward slippery slope into Hell.
On pages two and three we are told about a new initiative to provide lycéens with a 'Pass contraceptive' from the beginning of April. L-R is the third region in France for the number of abortions carried out - nearly 9000 per year, 20% of which are done on girls aged 15-17, and a third on women aged 18-24. Only the regions of PACA and Corsica have higher rates.
The Pass consists of a 'chequebook' which will be available from the lycée infirmary upon request, without telling the parents. It contains a coupon which has to be returned to the Région, coupons for a blood test and analysis, one or two consultations with a doctor, a coupon for the pill, plus a small stock of preservatives (both male and female). I asked my eldest if he knew about this initiative. From his response "Eh what?" I deduced that no, he didn't. Girls aged 15-17 can already ask their doctor to prescribe the pill anonymously but this initiative ensures total anonymity because, by using coupons, parents won't see the reimbursement of the consultation or pills on their CPAM statement.
On page 4 we see that 2.4million passengers used the five L-R airports (Nimes, Montpellier, Béziers, Carcassonne, Perpignan), bringing in €808million and which employ 7450 people. Every euro invested by the Région in 2012 returned €21. I thought Nimes was heading for oblivion, so there you go!
Proof of just how dynamic the airports are can be seen on page 5. This weekend, Air France's low-cost service Hop! starts flights from Montpellier to Nantes, Lille and Strasbourg, while Perpignan will keep its flights to Paris and may even be able to offer seasonal flights to Amsterdam. My DB is incredibly rude about Montpellier airport, in comparison to Nice from where you can fly to practically anywhere in the world and brings in the world's richest folk. From Montpellier you can fly to natty Nantes...
Good news for medical students on page 8, bad news for tax payers. The Région is building a new faculty of medicine which will cost it €37.5million. The old fac is a wonderful old building in the heart of the medieval city. Lovely to visit but woefully inadequate as a centre of high tech medical teaching. The new building will be on the Arnaud-de-Villeneuve campus right by the University Hospital, so convenient for hands-on training. Behind the building will be a garden of medicinal plants offering a 'clin d'oeil' at the 800yrs of local medical history and the original Jardin des Plantes which is located next to the old fac and is the oldest in the world. It opens for the 2015 rentrée of students.
Some news concerning des jeunes who are not up to criminal activities (yes, they do exist!) can be found on page 10. Three lycées have been experimenting with the concept of an internal web-radio. The kids were given twelve hours of teaching including how to articulate, and then told to write their own material, paying attention to syntax, phrasing, vocabulary etc., and to present it ("C'était le stress!"). The project went down very well and is due to be extended to other lycées.
On page 13 we see that the Région is setting up a 'Parlement de la Mer' to mobilise the maritime community and provide it with a platform to promote this dynamic local sector.
On pages 18 and 19 we are treated to the splendid sight of the wilderness that is the nature reserve island of Sainte-Lucie not far from Port-la-Nouvelle in Aude. Cars are banned, so once you park, you can explore the 250 hectares of diverse scenery by foot, bike or boat. Definitely looks worth a visit with a well-packed picnic.
On the next page, we learn that kitesurfing is becoming big business in the region. There are now 70 zones where you can kitesurf, along 220km of coast. The internationally-renowned wind event, Mondial du Vent will take place this year in Leucate-la Franqui where kitesurfing is considered the 'discipline reine'. F-One, third largest manufacturer of kitesurfs is located in Perols, near Montpellier, and has seen its sales increase by 10% each year since 1997.
Sport is, in general, big business in Languedoc-Roussillon (page 22). In 2011 there were 109 sporting events sponsored by the Région which brought in €42million. Of the 84 disciplines, the most successful were the 160km endurance riding race in Florac, the semi-marathon at Marvejols-Mende, the car rally Critérium des Cevennes, the FISE (Festival of extreme sports) in Montpellier, and the Défi Wind at Gruissan.
I can't tell you anything about the pages written in Occitan or Catalan, but they looked to be full of cultural events. One section was interesting (and in French) though, telling us about la Porta d'Oc, an online network providing access to all the data and websites in Occitan. This year, it will be extended to take in social networks and smartphones.
I think that about wraps it up. A mooch around the good stuff that's happening in the region is a welcome relief from the monotonous output of what 'les jeunes' are getting up to. Thankfully it's not all gloom and doom!
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Tags : Kitesurfing, la Région, Languedoc-Roussillon, Mondial du Vent, Pass Contraceptive, Porta d'Oc, Sainte-Lucie nature reserve
Thanks for the breath of fresh air.... I have to go to the big metropolis next week, I'll keep all this positive stuff in mind as I watch my back on my way through town ;-)
Sarah 29/03/2013, 08:59
I hope it'll have stopped raining by then!
Delana@dujour 29/03/2013, 09:00
Hopelessly out of touch and didn't see the train incident. I think I'll be taking the bus to Marseille from now on. I love the Pass Contraceptive idea. But I'm really curious why, here in the south, there are more abortions than any place else in France. More sex? More fear of parents or less communicative families? It's a curiosity. Thanks for the good news today, Sarah. Happy Easter Weekend.
Maybe the kids have taken 'sea, sex and sun' to heart. :)
Happy Easter weekend to you too, Delana. :)
About Last Weekend 29/03/2013, 18:47
I am liking the sounds of pages 18 and 19. Think if local authorities all had the guts to kick out cars from the central vicinity life would be so much more pleasant for everyone. i was told when we arrived here 10 years ago "You will live in your car" and it was so right!
I hated that about Dallas. No one walked except in designated walking areas. You drove to the park and then walked.
The centre of Montpellier is a pedestrian zone only. It's cool for visitors except that if you just want to take a peek of the centre as you drive through, you can't. You have to stop, park, get out and walk.
Muriel 01/04/2013, 19:14
I missed the train incident. What has happened? I can't believe it. I like the way our newspapers like to put a positive spin on everything...
Yeah, it would be funny if it weren't so desperately pc!
Diplo_Daddy 14/04/2013, 18:45
Handing out free conterceptives to young girls is one way of controlling unwanted pregnancies in France. Before you know it, they'll be giving out free condoms too, or at least a coupon for free condoms.
There are a couple of free condoms that come with the 'coupon book', both male and female versions. :)


Professor Enge passed away on April 22, 2018, while serving his sixth term as a member of the National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board.
Per Enge was the Kleiner-Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He was also the director of the university's GPS Research Laboratory, which pioneers satellite-based navigation systems for aviation and maritime use. Two of these systems are in widespread use today.
The first uses medium frequency beacons to broadcast differential GPS corrections to some 1.5 million, mostly marine, users around the globe. The second uses geostationary satellites to broadcast differential corrections and real-time error bounds to GPS users in North America. This system came on line for aviation in the United States in July of 2003, and similar systems are being developed in Europe, Japan and India.
Per Enge received the Kepler, Thurlow and Burka Awards for his work. He was also a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ION and the IEEE.


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