Good day, antipodeans and others.
Some of you will already be aware of of least some of our planned activities in New Zealand's glorious capital next month, but here's the full list. I recommend a cup of tea and a comfy chair as you consider your travel plans.
The weekend will begin on Thursday evening (20th) with steampunk cocktails at our favourite bar the Hawthorn Lounge (no relation), 82 Tory Street. It's a tricky place to find for the uninitiated but worth the effort (hint: it's above the Mexican restaurant opposite Harvey Norman). We'll be there from 8pm. Come upstairs and sample something from the Full Steam or Half Steam menus - or water, if that's your beverage of choice; we don't mind.
Stagecraft Theatre is presenting a steampunk-themed production of Shakespeare's The Tempest from Wednesday 19th, but the 'official' Capital! Steampunk night of attendance is Friday 21st at 7.30pm. Venue is the Gryphon Theatre, 22 Ghuznee Street. More details and bookings here.
On Saturday 22nd it's Aethercon, the Wellington steampunk convention. During the day (10am to 4.30pm, and you're welcome to stay for a drink and nibbles after that) it's in historic Dransfield House, the home of Wellington's first mayor, at 335 Willis Street. Then at 8pm the Aethercon Ball begins at Bodega, 101 Ghuznee Street. Meet new friends, display your finest steampunk attire, enjoy the entertainment. During the evening Capital! Steampunk members will be frightening the horses (in a private room) with selected Victorian erotica readings. Anti-hysteria devices will be on hand if required. Bookings for both events are on Eventfinder.
To wind down on Sunday 23rd, we suggest a stroll in the Botanic Gardens while enjoying a reading of The Hunting of the Snark. We'll be meeting at the top of the cable car in Kelburn at 11am, probably ending up in the Lady Norwood Rose Gardens where they serve a rather fine cheese scone, among other desirable comestibles. And tea.
There may be more activities to come as well, such as a visit to a display of Victorian and Edwardian undergarments in the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace during the day on Friday, but we're still finalising some of this.
We shall be delighted to welcome visitors to our fair city for what promises to be a rather splendid affair. The Capital! Steampunk website will have more details (or look for Capital! Steampunk NZ on Facebook, if you like that sort of thing).
If only in the land of Jafa would they have these entertainments. It can be rather bleak up here for festivities.
I have only just discovered there was an Aether con in Auckland a few months ago. I had been watching out for it . Promotion must not have been effective.
I will have to consider a journey to the deep dark southern regions. Though I do worry becoming prey to a panther or 2. Or chased by an feral moose.
The panthers have not been seen since we sent them into the Beehive, alas. And one generally only sees moose in the wee hours on Courtenay Place, where they generally stagger about, singing lumberjack songs.
So I should say you'd be reasonably safe, with no more than the usual precautions.
For the benefit of the literate, we have now produced a downloadable/printable programme thingy for the big Wellington weekend.
The erotica readings are beginning to take shape - think a learned discourse to the Royal Society, with illustrations - and Mrs Hudson (the younger) and myself have plotted a route for the Snark hunt which will avoid steps, mud, steep hills and other obstacles which may otherwise have discouraged the lame or heavily-skirted. Avoiding bandersnatches is, as always, your own responsibility, although the Colonel, for one, will not go unarmed on this expedition.
Things, as they say, are coming along nicely. One month to go.
Now down to mere days before festivities begin - in fact, only one day, as The Tempest opens tomorrow night and Mrs. Hudson (the younger) and myself will be attending opening night as well as the Friday night audience dress-up performance, which we are (nominally) hosting. The first two nights are already sold out; there may still be a few tickets left for Friday if you're quick.
Various personages from around our great nation have their passages booked and bags at least partly packed, and the first of these intrepid ones arrive on Thursday in time for steampunk cocktails at the Hawthorn Lounge. Friday's programme has now been settled: from about 11 in the forenoon we shall conduct interested parties around some of our favourite opportunity shops, prior to lunch at the Weta Workshop-renovated Roxy Cinema (where the ceiling of the upstairs foyer is the work of none other than Greg Broadmore - Dr. Grordbort himself!
After luncheon we may have time to take in a few more shops before we head out to Petone to the factory of Hill's Hats, conducted by Hatman himself. Capital! Steampunk has toured Hill's before; it's a great experience to see how hats are still made using their vintage machinery. Then it's going to be a mad dash back to town, particularly if anyone wants to change their attire, before The Tempest.
Saturday is Aethercon; the con during the day and the ball at night. Bookings are coming along, but to help the organisers pay their setup costs it would be nice if those who have merely said they're coming would actually buy a ticket!
And on Sunday the Capital! Steampunk reading of The Hunting of the Snark is ready to go. The weather forecast isn't entirely salubrious, but MetService has been consistently promising worse weather than we actually get for the past month or two. And in any case we have a plan B; just show up at the top of the Cable Car, rain or shine, and we will provide entertainment.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Big Steampunk Weekend.


Are engineering societies necessary anymore?
National Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineers Without Borders, American Nuclear Society, American Society of Safety Engineers, Biomedical Engineering Society, Institute of Transportation Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Order of the Engineer, Institute of Industrial and System Engineers.
This is enough to make your head spin. The aforementioned engineering societies are only a portion of those that exist in the United States alone. Each has a set of rules, specific creeds, managerial structures etc.
Engineering societies do have merit; they hold engineers to a level of professionalism and they help to keep them ethical. The American Society of Civil Engineers, for example, has a good code of ethics that engineers in other industries could also benefit from.
And the National Society of Professional Engineers promises to do 'everything that can be done' to ensure engineering industries are transparent, ethical, and organized - in order to protect the engineering profession itself.
In today's world, however, membership is dropping away. Often the only motivation to join one is because of the belief (misguided perhaps) that it will secure the member a job in industry.
Joining an engineering society and being a name on an emailing list is no longer a functional way of keeping up to date with peers within the industry. Historically, societies provided engineers with internship opportunities and some even found jobs from being closely linked with other engineers in their disciplines.
Now with social media services like LinkedIn, engineers, on top of their already premium set of skills, are learning how to network in a different forum.
Keeping a virtual (or real) rolodex of names and numbers and acquaintances in the industry is a far better strategy. Engineers are more mobile so need the flexibility of networking online. And there is another reason contributing to the drop-off in membership: some societies charge monthly fees. Admittedly they often have the authority to confer 'chartered status', but projects demanding this elite status are also dwindling.
Society member or not, the following is a wholesome reminder of what it means to be an engineer. It is an oath and is called the 'Obligation of an Engineer'.
"I am an Engineer. In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations.
As an engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect; and to uphold devotion to the standards and dignity of my profession, conscious always that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of the Earth's precious wealth.
— "Obligation of an Engineer"
"The Death of the Professional/Technical Engineering Society? • r/Engineering." Reddit, www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/7saj5y/the_death_of_the_professionaltechnical/.


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Atomic Layer Deposition of Detector Anti-reflection coatings
ESA /	Enabling & Support /	Space Engineering & Technology /	Shaping the Future
Programme: GSTP, TRP Workplan Achieved TRL: 5
Reference: G517-154MM T717- 312MM Closure: 2017
Contractor(s): e2v (GB), Aalto University and Nanovate (FI)
Anti-reflection coatings for CCDs and CMOS array detectors are typically deposited using thermal evaporation techniques. While these generally produce acceptable results there are issues with uniformity and sensitivity to moisture, especially in the blue end of the spectrum. This can be particularly problematic for both calibration and efficiency aspects and is impacting a number of missions currently in development.
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is known to produce dense, uniform coatings while offering exceptionally high levels of layer thickness control. The objective is to design and deposit the most promising ALD coating on a wafer level and to compare the electro-optical performances with a standard thermal evaporation coating.
250nm Phot-response edge effect for e2v standard coating
Achievements and status
It has been shown that the ALD coating is more stable over environmental stress (temperature cycling, humidity, burn-in). Also, standard e2v AR coatings have a significant decrease in Quantum Efficiency (QE) for the pixel close to the shielded region after moisture stress. On the other hand, ALD coatings present inferior QE overall compared to the reference devices. This drop in QE has been linked to a difference in the level of fixed electric charge present in the coatings as deposited.
The principal benefit of ALD coatings is at the moment their stable behavior under environmental stress.
The key electro-optical performance of the ALD coating (QE) is not as good as with the existing technology, and therefore further development is proposed in order to bring it up to the current state of the art. This would involve coating a number of blank wafers under different conditions and performing wafer fixed charge measurements in each case, in an effort to reach the same level as the standard thermal evaporation coating.
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The 26th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival
By Albany Poets / September 21, 2016 September 21, 2016 / Events
The 26th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival: The Word Itself, curated by Century House Board of Trustees member Cheryl A. Rice, will take place this Sunday, September 25, in the Widow Jane Mine as a benefit for The Century House Historical Society at the Snyder Estate. For directions please visit CHHS's website.
Tickets are $5 at the door. Bring a folding chair. Rain or shine!
Here is the schedule for this poetry festival:
1-1:30 pm – Albany Poets
1:30-2 pm – Calling All Poets
2-2:30 pm – Post Traumatic Press
2:30-3 pm – Janet Hamill & her Band
3-3:30 pm – Reality Beach
3:30-4 pm – Voices of Poetry.
Other environmental notes:
The temperature of the Widow Jane Mine is substantially cooler than the surrounding area. A light jacket is recommended.
The limestone floors of the Mine can be slippery. Sneakers or other non-skid shoes are strongly recommended.
Poetry organizations from around the Hudson Valley and Northeastern U.S. will include: Albany Poets, Calling All Poets, Post Traumatic Press, Reality Beach, and Voices of Poetry. Legendary New York City poet Janet Hamill and her band will also be featured midway through the afternoon. A strong proponent of the spoken word, Hamill has read widely at such well known venues as The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, the Bowery Poetry Club, the Knitting Factory, CBGB's Gallery, the Nuyorican Café, and Patti Smith's Meltdown Festival in London. Her latest collection of poems, Knock, was recently published by Spuyten Duyvil Press.
The Subterranean Poetry Festival, now in its 26th year, began in the early 1990s and, with a few weather-related exceptions, has continued ever since. As Dietrich Werner, late Board President of the Century House Historical Society, wrote in 2007
"It all started when a group of Rosendale area folks, interested in providing a venue for poets to read and folks to listen and interact with them, formed what was called the Creative Space Co-op in the late 1980s… The Space Co-op eventually lost the space in the knish factory [on Main Street in Rosendale] and in 1991 presented the first series of poetry readings in the Widow Jane Mine."
The Widow Jane Mine is located within the 32-square-mile seam of limestone between High Falls and Kingston, NY. An example of the "room and pillar" method of mining, the Mine is one of the few in the Rosendale area that is relatively horizontal. Most mines followed the seam of limestone at angles that approached 90 degrees!
Century House Historical Society presents and preserves information about the local cement industry, the related D&H Canal and railroads, Hudson Valley and Rosendale, NY history, geological information, and much more! The site is open 7 days a week, from Sunrise to Sunset, and the Museum is open Sundays from 1-4:00 p.m. from May 10 to Sept. 5. It will be open during the Festival as well.


Majid* informed us earlier before we went out for sightseeing that we had to be back home by dinner time. Being used to Iranian hospitality, we'd expect that dinner would be served. Well, it turns out that not only is dinner served, but Majid's both parents and brother are invited to join us as well! I'm very much honoured to see them and the fact that Majid invites them over and introduces them to us mean a lot to me. Perhaps because we are the first Muslim CouchSurfer he ever hosted or perhaps because of the fact that Majid and his wife, Zahra* are just very nice to their guests. Whatever that is, I quickly feel that I'm part of their family.
Amazingly, Zahra prepared a "grand" dinner for all of us: biryani rice, salads, grilled potatoes, and desserts. Can't believe she managed to cook all of these for us! I can say that this is the best CouchSurfing dinner I've ever had in Iran 🙂 .
After dinner, Ikmal and I join Majid to discuss Shia, the most misunderstood branch of Islam, merely because the majority of Muslims in this world are Sunnis. Our intention in starting such discussion is not to try to convince the other party that his view is wrong, but merely to know and understand Shia from a Shia's perspective.
Majid starts to explain about the fact that Shias believe, that Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad SAW, was clearly appointed as his heir and successor — as mentioned in a number of hadiths (narrations). Majid mentions about the last speech of the Prophet Muhammad SAW during his farewell pilgrimage, in which a number of hadiths narrated that Ali ibn Abi Talib was the true and rightful successor. As he mentions the hadiths one by one, I feel a bit lost as I've never heard of the hadiths in my entire life. I know that one of the hadiths mentions about Ahlul Bayt (i.e. the family of our Prophet SAW) and nothing else. Most of the hadiths that he cites are from sources neither I or Ikmal have heard of.
Majid goes on to explain about some verses in the Qur'an and I become even more confused as I have never known nor read such tafseer (exegesis). The more he tries to explain about Ali's rightful caliph and divine position of Imam, the more confused I become. Occasionally, Ikmal and I exchange glances, trying to figure out how to respond to his statements. The discussion continues on and I can see that Majid is very passionate and knowledgeable on this subject. He knows how to answers our "noob questions", supported with Quranic tafseer and hadiths according to Shia beliefs. It seems clear to me that he wants to clear out all of the stereotypes that Shia people have been wrongly labelled by their Sunni counterparts.
The discussion gets even more heated towards the end. Majid becomes increasingly passionate and emotional about the whole thing; especially when he discusses the day when the Prophet Muhammad SAW passed away. Majid explains that, according to Shia sources, the most beloved companion of the Prophet SAW, Abu Bakr RA had a "secret" meeting of which Ali ibn Talib wasn't told. In this meeting, Abu Bakr RA was appointed as the next caliph. According to Sunni sources, as far as I know, Abu Bakr RA did have such meeting (which I'm not aware of it being a secret meeting). However, we believe that Abu Bakr RA was the most rightful successor as the Prophet Muhammad SAW always spoke highly of him and the fact that he was appointed by our Prophet SAW as the Imam leading the prayer during our Prophet SAW's illness showed that he was indirectly appointed as the next leader. In the end, I realise that discussing this leads to nowhere as our "historical pieces of evidence" differ.
I end up asking Majid what he thinks about Abu Bakr RA and Umar Ibn Khattab RA, both being the companions of our Prophet SAW and the caliphs. Majid responds by saying, "I believe that Abu Bakr, Umar bin Khattab, and others are munafiqun (i.e. hypocrites)". I was surprised and hurt when he said that. How can he say such a thing when these men had been accompanying our Prophet SAW almost all his preaching life? How can Abu Bakr RA be a hypocrite, when our Prophet SAW was known to have spoken highly of him and to have married his beloved daughter, Aisya? Ikmal and I exchange glances — unable to say anything anymore. We both realise that this discussion needs to be stopped, once and for all.
Despite the heated discussion, Majid and his family continue to shower us with kindness throughout our stay in Esfahan. The next day, he introduces us to his friends and shows us around Esfahan. We visit the 33 Bridge (Bridge with 33 arches) at night, which is beautifully lit up.
On our last night in Esfahan, Ikmal, Nabilah and I decide to cook for dinner for Majid and his family. We feel very grateful for their kindness and generosity for these past two days — allowing us to sleep in their living room and preparing breakfast for us every single day. In return, we would like to do something small and insignificant for them to show our appreciation. We cook Malaysian style fried rice using whatever ingredients we can find at Majid's house. It doesn't turn out to be an awesome nasi goreng, but it's eatable at least 😀 .
After dinner, Majid and Zahra show us their small basement. The basement is used for Majid's working area and as a temporary storage for their stuff. There's a computer with an access to Internet, including YouTube and Facebook. Although these sites are banned in Iran, Iranians — including Majid — have their own way to access them using VPN, which make the ban practically useless.
A moment later, Zahra shows us pictures of their wedding party two years ago. Many Iranians would opt for a mixed wedding party, in which they need to bribe officers in order to have an unsegregated party. For Majid and Zahra who came from religious family, they had a segregated wedding party for male and female guests. With the party being segregated, the female guests can wear whatever they want and dance however they want. It really closely resembles the wedding parties in Saudi.
Interestingly, it's only six months after their marriage that both of them could stay and live together. The reason is that Majid did not have a house yet and he had to rent a house and furnish them in order for him to live together with his new wife. After two years living in the same house, Majid and Zahra are planning to move to a bigger house. Zahra complains that the kitchen is too small by Iranian standards. Having visited a few Iranian houses, I have to agree that her kitchen is tiny. Her refrigerator is gigantic, occupying the large portion of the kitchen, that it's hard to fit three people there.
We have such a great conversation in the basement that we don't even realise that it's already quite late. We need to get some rest, as tomorrow is another long 270-kilometre-journey to a Zoroastrian city called Yazd.


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Speaker handouts added to conference webpage
Several speakers have added their handouts to the conference web page including the session "Mobile and Wireless Approaches to Dietary Behavior Change: What Is the Evidence and Where Do We Go from Here?" and Creative and Culturally Appropriate Methods to Promote Nutrition Education in Diverse Populations" sponsored by the Division of International Nutrition Education. READ MORE
2016 program proposal form now online
Program proposals for the 2016 conference are due Oct. 9 and the new online submission form is ready. New this year is the ability to save a draft of your proposal before its submitted. This will require you to set up a username and password to get started. READ MORE
Seen on SNEEZE listserv
Could you suggest education materials or curriculum that are used to help families do a cost-effective food shopping/cooking or eat healthy on a limited budget? Our local community partners (including a church) want to create an educational program to address food insecurity and struggles their clients are having in providing enough food for their families.
Check out the listserv archive and search by thread to see the responses.
Are you an SNEB member and would like to join the listserv? Email rdaeger@sneb.org.
Social media division conference call
Noon to 1 p.m. ET Monday, Sept. 28
Please call 1-800-434-8642 and enter 1600 when the voice message comes on.
Weighing In: High Quality Protein for Weight Management
1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 23 | Register
A growing body of research demonstrates the benefits of higher protein diets (combined with negative energy balance) in weight management, for satiety, reduced energy intake, fat loss and muscle preservation. Consumers need help identifying foods with higher quality protein so that they may incorporate these choices into their diets to meet healthier lifestyle goals.
SNEB Journal Club 1: Conducting Cognitive Interviews with Children
Noon EDT Sept. 28
From the JNEB article "Validation of a Group-administered Pictorial Dietary Recall with 9- to 11-year-old Children"
Welcome new SNEB members (since Sept. 1)
Erika Bonilla BA, MPH(c), NCLR CSULB Center for Latino Community Health, Long Beach, California, Public Health Nutrition
Priyanka Chakraborty Ph.D., RD, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ilinois, Nutrition Education for Children
Cynthia Conway RDN, Ohio State University, Hilliard, Ohio, Food & Nutrition Extension Education
Stephanie De Leon, MS, RD, CSSD, LD, University of Texas at Austin, San Antonio, Texas, Nutrition Education With Industry
Gretchen George, Ph.D., RD, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, Higher Education
Vanessa Lord RD, Long Beach, California, Weight Realities
Jennifer Mansfield, BS, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Nutrition Education for Children
Angelica Medina, MA, Adelphi University, Westbury, New York
Oak-Hee Park, Ph.D., Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, Public Health Nutrition
Michelle Pearson, BS, Quincy, Massachusetts, Healthy Aging
Stephanie Scarmo, Ph.D., MPH, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, D.C., Public Health Nutrition
Participation requested for nutrition education survey
Drs. Natalie Cooke and Suzie Goodell (NC State University) are validating the Self-Efficacy in Teaching Nutrition in the Community (SET-NC) survey. They need your help to recruit nutrition education practitioners (of all education levels) and nutrition/dietetics students (undergraduate, graduate, dietetic interns) to help with our study. Individuals can access the survey here. Please share with your colleagues and students. Thank you!
Note from the executive director
It is with regret that I inform you Sarah Gould will be leaving SNEB and Raybourn Group International (RGI). She has accepted a position focused heavily on meeting planning, which is her passion. We wish her great success in her new job! Rachel and I will be stepping up to cover Sarah's committee responsibilities while we search for her replacement.
Report: School grant program is helping students eat healthier
A new report that shows that USDA's Farm to School Grant Program has helped 12,300 schools improve nutritious meal options made with local ingredients for 6.9 million students, while expanding market opportunities for family farmers and ranchers in their communities. Recent studies published in Childhood Obesity and Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior indicate that strong farm to school programs can impact consumption of fruits and vegetables, leading to reductions in plate waste. READ MORE
The Food Environment Through the Camera Lenses of 9- to 13-Year-Olds Living in Urban, Low-Income, Midwestern Households: A Photovoice Project
Authors: Lindsay Heidelberger, BS, RD, LD; Chery Smith, Ph.D., MPH, RD
Interview: Using the Photovoice method, researchers from the University of Minnesota were able to engage participants and learn about the food environments and eating habits of 9- to 13-year-old children eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). September/October 2015
Investigating the relationship between food pairings and plate waste from elementary school lunches
The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between entrée/vegetable "pairings" and plate waste by elementary school students pre- and post-implementation of the new school meal standards. READ MORE
Field-testing of the eLENA mobile phone application
To reach those in settings without internet access, an eLENA mobile phone application (mobile app) has now been developed which delivers much of the content of eLENA to smartphones and can be accessed anywhere — no internet connection required. READ MORE
New model for obesity treatment and prevention in the US
George Washington University via EuerkAlert!
About 79 million adults in the United States now suffer from obesity, a number that will stay unacceptably high unless there is radical change in both the U.S. health care system and the environment, says an analysis published in the September issue of Health Affairs. READ MORE
Study shows nutrient shortfalls are a serious health disparity
A study published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved concludes that ethnicity is associated with nutrient shortfalls of important nutrients. This study compared usual intake for essential nutrients between non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white Americans using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. READ MORE
CDC wants your feedback on the Health & Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions & Vending Operations
The HHS/GSA Health and Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions and Vending Operations ("Guidelines") are being updated through a collaborative federal effort. It is anticipated that the updated Guidelines will be disseminated following the release of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015.
Interested individuals and organizations can view and provide comments in response to the RFI by going here. The public comment period has been extended to Sept. 30.
100 years of nutrition advice
The USDA's National Agricultural Library recently launched the Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection, an online collection of over 900 federal diet and nutrition publications representing more than 100 years of history. READ MORE
Regular mealtimes make you eat more healthily, study finds
People who eat at regular times and pack lunches instead of eating out have healthier diets overall, new research suggests. In a new study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition, researchers found that college students who made their meals at home and regularly consumed breakfast and an evening meal, had overall better diets. READ MORE
Report: Big funding increase needed to balance scales for fresh produce
The Packer
A new analysis finds fruits and vegetables are still getting shortchanged in the federal budget relative to their importance in the diet. The Produce for Better Health Foundation has issued the 2015 GAP Analysis looking at how federal spending falls short of addressing public health needs, particularly relating to fruit and vegetable consumption. READ MORE


One of the many things Mac users are proud of is the fact that we never have to turn our Macs off. Macs are built to run for days, weeks, months and even years (in some instances) on end without ever restarting. And it hardly ever feels bogged down.
If my Mac isn't performing any tasks and if I won't be using it, I'll set it to sleep. How to put mac to sleep? That's equivalent to Standby mode on Windows computers. Since the PowerBook G4, all portable Macs including the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have a separate sleep mode known as Safe Sleep.
Set as the default sleep mode for portable Macs in 2005, Safe Sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernation modes. At the initiation of sleep, the contents on your main memory will be stored as a sleep image on the RAM and written on the hard disk. The memory is kept powered but if the battery is depleted, the Mac will shut down. After an adapter is plugged in and the Mac is switch on, it will load the sleep image which was saved to the hard disk and restore your workspace.
While this approach is, as they call it — safe; the whole process of initiating sleep is slower because the sleep image has to be written to the hard disk. There are 2 other sleep modes you should know about.
Also known as mode 0, this is the old-school sleep mode. Only the RAM is powered during sleep, nothing is written to the hard disk so the process of sleep initiation is much quicker and so is waking it up. The downside is the lack of a backup if the battery runs out of juice while sleeping. The advantage: sleep is almost instantaneous.
Also know as mode 1 (or 5, for secure virtual memory), the contents of the memory are written to the hard disk, the entire Mac powers down. In this mode, sleep initiation takes the same amount of time Safe Sleep. Waking up also takes slightly longer than the normal sleep mode since it has to read the sleep image from the hard disk. This mode is equivalent to Hibernate on Windows computers.
I use this mode when I have to leave my Mac idle for longer durations but don't really want to shut it down and also to save power. The duration to start up from this mode is somewhere in between a normal boot and waking from sleep — around 10 seconds.
On waking, a progress bar will be displayed as the sleep image is read from the hard disk to restore your workspace.
Brought to you by the same guy who developed JollysFastVNC, SmartSleep combines the best of both worlds. It even defeats Safe Sleep at its own game.
SmartSleep is a preference pane which will allow you to set the sleep mode you desire (described above).
In addition to that, it introduces a new sleep mode: um, SmartSleep. Using SmartSleep, the 'Sleep Only' mode is used to put your Mac to sleep. In the case that the battery level drops below 20%, it will switch to Safe Sleep and write the sleep image to the hard disk. SmartSleep makes your Mac sleep quicker without jeopardizing the safety of your data.
While Safe Sleep is slow, it is very useful. For instance, during sleep, the battery can be safely removed/changed without worrying about losing data since it has already been written to the hard disk. SmartSleep does not replace this feature because hibernation only kicks in at 20% battery level.
SmartSleep requires OS X 10.5 to run (although reported to work with 10.4 also) and needs to be installed for all users.
How long has your Mac gone without restarting? Which sleep mode do you use? Let us know in the comments.
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Very very very great! This is what I was looking for!
I'm going to set my MacBook on "Hibernate only", to save battery and also to save power.
what i truly want to know is how to disable that damn light when my Macbook is asleep.
I know it's kinda cute, but it just kept on blinking at me at night!
Well, then set it to "hibernate only", and everytime it will power down - and the light is off.
Well, i tried but couldn't find the configuration anywhere. Do I have to install a software to do that? I have Deeper and Onyx installed.


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Essay on Aviation
Example Of Research Paper On Armed Pilots
Type of paper: Research Paper
Topic: Aviation, Airline, Terrorism, War, Pilot, Security, Aircraft, Nuclear Weapon
The American Homeland Security Act contains a provision to arm pilots of commercial airlines and gives the deputy pilot the authority to use lethal force in protecting the flight deck against terrorism and other criminal threats. This act was later extended to include the cargo pilots as well. During the debate over the law, the opponents viewed such program as risky and expensive and outweighed the potential benefits suggested (Thurman 48). The proponents, on the other hand, saw the potential benefits of thwarting criminal acts outweighing the presumed risks associated with arming the pilots. In the wake of the September.11 attacks, where four airline cockpits were invaded and taken over by hijackers, the pilots pushed for arming their being armed. Their supporters suggest that an armed pilot could quickly dispatch the perpetrator in the event of hijacking. However, their quest did not flow smoothly (Aviation Week & Space Technology 86).
The Transportation Secretary and the Homeland Security Director, opposed the idea whereas, other airline personnel called for the use of non-lethal weapons such as stun guns. The opponents urged that allowing pilots to carry firearms is an extreme measure not to be undertaken lightly. They maintain that pilots have been protected by reinforced cockpit doors, to add on, the state is taking a move to increase the number of armed marshals aboard the commercial fight. Cabinet attendants rejected the idea of arming pilots if they do not have access to any weapon. They were not convicted whether an armed pilot could thwart terrorists and save hundreds of lives in case such circumstances arise. Magaw deliberately decided to ignore the Pilots Association's petition, which had asked the state to allow pilots who have passed firearm training to carry weapons (Aviation Week & Space Technology 87).
The VPC gave a statement to oppose arming of the pilots. According to him and many other opponents, the contemplating terrorism will be aware of the possession of a gun by the pilot and will always plot a surprise. In their view, charging defense task to a pilot who is already engaged may lead to an event with disastrous consequences (Thurman 48). Some cases have been reported where highly trained law enforcers often have their weapons turned against them by the culprits. Sometimes, the police make grave mistakes in deciding when a deadly force is justified. They maintained that many handguns can fire when bumped or dropped whereas others are prone to fire with very light pressure on the trigger. The VPC argued that a single unintentional fall fires may injure or kill a fellow pilot or other flight crew member, destroy the key controls, or even pierce the jetliner's hull. He further suggested alternative methods as having armed trained air marshal whose duty will be limited only to protecting the safety of the people on board (Aviation Week & Space Technology 87).
The California liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer came out in favor of allowing pilots to carry guns even if the administration opposed it. She observed that both terrorists and criminals prefer to attack unarmed people. It is further noted that, the communities that have passed laws permitting any law-abiding citizen to carry gun usually have an immediate decline in crimes. Taking an example of a mass killer shooting in places with unarmed civilians, they stop as soon as they encounter an armed person. The period after the destruction of the World Trade Center altered the prism through which airline security was viewed. It became no longer efficient to worry about the safety of the members of the crew and the passengers on board. In my opinion, it is necessary to approach the attackers with aggressiveness in a terrorism situation, rather to quest to the demands of the criminals (Thurman 48).
The responsibility and the training given to an individual who operates an eighty million dollars aircraft, with over 200 passengers are significant. Such person should be able to carry a firearm. For instance, looking at United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the Western Pennsylvania, the attackers only had box cutters when they overpowered the crew members. Had the pilots been armed, they could have foiled the plot and saved thousands of innocent lives. An aircraft renders a soft target to potential terrorist and therefore strengthening security without hardening the target could make a plane an attractive target for terrorists. Giving pilots special training and equipping them with carefully chosen firearms is the most inexpensive, effective and simplest way of hardening the airliner target (Las Vegas Review – Journal 1).
Since 1970, passengers have been screened to ensure no weapons are brought into the aircraft. This guarantees the terrorists that if they can manage to bring their weapon in the aircraft, then they will be the only ones carrying firearms. In a terrorist attack, this condition assists them to swiftly take command of the airliner. Security is a subject to improvement and even the best security has limitations. Pilots are among the most highly trained professionals and carefully screened. They are procedure-oriented, and most gone through military training. They are level headed, dedicated to safety, stable and always willing to embrace their responsibility to the passengers. The pilots can quickly make critical decisions (Thurman 48).
Looking at the safety records of the airline travel, is an evidence of how well the pilots can perform under life and dead situations. In addition, no one can better judge if the use of a firearm is prudent or is aware of the consequences of an in-flight firearm discharge than the controls and the pilots. It is therefore out of logic not to trust the pilots with guns in order to defend their passengers (Las Vegas Review – Journal 2). Getting deeper into the view that arming the pilot could worsen the hijacking situation, a terrorist has control of the aircraft if he is the only one with a firearm. If he manages to take the pilots firearm, he will still be the one in control of the aircraft hence the situation has not worsen. Moreover, it would be very difficult to disarm a trained pilot since he will be locked in the cockpit and would presumably forewarn by the loud attempts to break down the door (Aviation Week & Space Technology 88).
Some opponents have suggested that the problem can be solved by strengthening the cockpit door. As much as the doors need to be strengthened, there is a limit on how thick and strong a door can be. In designing the door, a consideration should also be made to the pilot's rescue in case of an accident. It is important to notice that a determined attacker would break even the heaviest door. In my opinion, the strengthened doors will work hand in hand with the armed pilots.
Finally, by simply publicizing the idea that pilots on board are armed, the likely hood of similar attacks as of September 11will me minimized. Arming pilots also puts them in an upper hand to prevent the terrorists from taking control of the aircraft. In my opinion, I agree with the view that guns on board should be the duty of a professional marshal, however, the limited resources may never allow for the provision of a marshal on every flight. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the officer will not be overwhelmed by the trained attackers. It is only by entering the cockpit can the attackers gain access to the pilots' weapon (Las Vegas Review – Journal 3).
In conclusion, firearm and airplane could be a dangerous mix. However, it is better to have armed pilots on board. The otherwise would be to order a military plane to shoot down an airliner full of innocent people because a plane has because attacked by terrorists who are ready to repeat. In my opinion, the major reason for the pilots to possess the guns is for self-defense. The opponents had many other proposals to improve security that in my view, are more controversial than arming the pilots. Most of them had visions from movies of pilots and terrorists who are shooting in the aisle of the plane that is not the case. The cockpit must be protected, and the pilots must play a crucial role in protecting their area of work.
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"EDITORIAL: The Pilots should be Armed." Las Vegas Review - Journal: 10B. Sep 26 2001. Pp. 1-3
Thurman, Russ. "Arming American's Airline Pilots Not a Simple Task." The Shooting Industry 47.10 (2002): 48.
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Sin and Sickness: An Orthodox View (2)
Dr. Nikolaos Koios, Content Coach of Pemptousia
We have another instance where the righteous suffer without guilt, as in Job and Tobias. In these cases the answer is provided by Scripture itself: the aim is to manifest the loyalty of the believer and to glorify God's name: 'May the name of the Lord be blessed'.
There is also the prophetic/eschatological perspective of sickness, as we might call it. The Servant of Yahweh in Isaiah bears the sicknesses of the people of God and suffers with the aim of atoning for the sins of his people (Is. 53, 4).
We should mention that, in the Old Testament, it is nowhere forbidden to have recourse to medical science for the healing of sickness. On the contrary, in the Wisdom of Sirach, the doctor is an honoured personage, not only in terms of his professional usefulness, but also as the incumbent of a capacity favoured by God Himself ('for the Lord made him'). However this may be, there is a clear preference for referring sickness to God and seeking healing from Him Who is recognized as the Lord of life. People confess their errors humbly, bewail the wretchedness into which they've fallen and await grace and mercy from God. In this way, healing is a sign of the presence of God.
Despite its pedagogical nature, sickness never ceases to be considered objectively as something evil and its complete expunction is envisioned only through an eschatological prism. At the end of time, when God renews the world, the cause and its effect- sin and sickness- will both be erased.
Jews at the time of the New Testament largely continued to live in the state we've just described. The instance of the paralytic at the pool of the Sheep Gate and the question of the disciples about the blind man: 'Lord, who sinned…?' more or less confirms this view of the triptych of sin-sickness-divine intervention.
The presence of Christ, however, demonstrates a shift towards a difference in practice and also in perspective. Christ responds directly to those who are ill. He has mercy on them and cures them, liberating them from the shackles of sickness. It's important to note that there are cases where the sickness has to do either with the pathology of the body; sickness of the soul, such as demonic possession; or a combination of the two, as in the case of the woman bent to the ground. The combination of sin and sickness appears to be present in the instances where Christ heals and, indeed, is pointed out by Him. We have here, however, another factor, which we cannot gloss over. Christ first cures and only then adjures the person to 'sin no more'. What He wants to see first is faith, confidence in His person, not remorse. Repentance, as a turning away from the life of sin towards real life was requested after He'd given His grace and gift. He desired it as the result of the participation in His love. As an inspired condition, not as something imposed by necessity. For Christ, those who are sick have already undergone a great deal of torment. It's no part of His intention to add to this. He wishes to liberate them, to give them wings, to fill their soul with hope and urgency, so that repentance can be the product of freedom.
In instances such as that of the woman of Canaan, or the father of the son who was possessed, He seems to make things more difficult, not so much for the sick persons themselves, but in order to instruct other people present, and, in particular, those among the circle of His disciples. And we should also take note of something else, which is equally important. The Biblical narrative indicates that Christ liked to cure sick people when third parties asked this of Him. In other words, when the request for healing was offered by a neighbour, especially from a sense of humble courtesy, as was the case of the centurion. This was even more the case when the neighbour came from a different social class, nation or race and so on. In other words, Christ passes on some of His therapeutic power to the persons requesting help, when they're imitators of Him in expressing the double commandment of love, through humility towards God and charity towards a fellow human being.
Read the first part here
Source: pemptousia.com
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Cogsworth does this by synchronising with the business owner's calendar and that of the staff for services that the business wants to offer.
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Erik van Doorn
Robert Hafner
PhD, Institute of Geography, Innsbruck University, Austria
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Cultural geographer and postdoctoral researcher
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Human geographer and postdoctoral researcher
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Radboud University, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment
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Weißermel, Sören
Hein, Jonas
Francesca Rosignoli
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Bogazici University (Istanbul), The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
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Christian Baatz
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Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland
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University of Bern, Institute of Geography
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German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History
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TU Berlin, Department of Planning Building Environment and Ain Shams University, Urban Planning and Design
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Süßen, Matthias
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Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development with interests in feminist political ecology, water resource management, gender and development research and geographical Education for Sustainable Development. Stephanie holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany. She received a four-year Mobility Grant of FORMAS, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning for the project "Revitalizing community-managed irrigation systems in contexts of out-migration in Nepal" (2019-2023). Currently Stephanie is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK.
Before she was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Gender, Poverty and Institutions at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Kathmandu, Nepal, and led studies in inter- and transdisciplinary projects within the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Program "Water, Land and Ecosystems" in India, Nepal and Bangladesh (2014-2017). For her PhD thesis, she conducted empirical research on Education for Sustainable Development in policy, textbooks and practice by examining geography teaching on water resources at secondary schools in Pune, India. Her book "Transformative Pedagogic Practice" is published with Springer 2018.
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium. Main research focuses on the global and local nexus between the environment and processes of social change, and more specifically in the socio-political dynamics triggered by (international) conditional climate change/development finance instruments, such as carbon and biodiversity markets, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), and green microfinance. Also works on alternative (transformational) paradigms, social movements and processes related to degrowth, and decolonial approaches to social-ecological futures. Research has mainly focused on Central- and South America, using participatory action research methods.
Professor of Human Geography in Coastal and Marine Regions at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and member of the Cluster of Excellence "Future Ocean". Her current research in the Central Pacific focuses on climate change, climate change adaptation and migration. She integrates postcolonial perspectives and critical theories into the field of climate change adaptation. Further research focuses on the cultural and social consequences of climate change and flight and migration as well as EU border regimes. Silja Klepp's main research areas are in Fiji and Kiribati and in the Mediterranean region.
Erik van Doorn's field of expertise is international law of the sea, with a main interest in the international regulation of marine resources but also new uses of the ocean and the effects of climate change. His research has focused on fisheries, mineral resources of the deep sea, and marine planning where questions relating to justice on an international level play an important role.
edoorn@wsi.uni-kiel.de
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Member of the interdisciplinary FWF Young Independent Research Group "Exploring values-based modes of production and consumption in the corporate food regime" at Innsbruck University. His current research focuses on (i) alternatives in the corporate food regime (including values like solidarity and trust), (ii) method development in the realms of viscerality to combine traditional methods with beyond rational/multisensory approaches, (iii) re-conceptualizations of human-environment-relations by exploring them through, despite and beyond technology. Empirical examples include soy agribusiness expansion and social-ecological conflicts in NW Argentina, online gardening and offline consuming, alternative producer-consumer relationships (e.g. CSA) and their potentials for social-ecological transformation. Robert Hafner's main research areas are South America (esp. Argentina) and Central Europe (esp. Austria).
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Judith is a postdoc with the Institute for Spatial Analysis and Planning in Areas of Intensive Agriculture (ISPA) at the University of Vechta. Her study deals with the use of local knowledge in smallholder practices, and sustainable farming approaches such as organic farming, natural farming or agroforestry. She works on how farmers include sustainable farming to stabilise their livelihoods as well as to adapt to climate-related changes of their farm environments. She looks in particular at local knowledge in those farming and climate adaptation approaches. Prior to her postdoc, Judith was engaged in megacity research: Her doctoral project explored the emerging organic food movement in Bangkok, Thailand as a new social movement. She has her regional focus on Thailand, Myanmar and Southern India.
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Local Notions of Alternative Practices: Organic Food Movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India
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judith.bopp@uni-vechta.de
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Anna Lena Bercht is a human geographer and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography at the University of Kiel. Previously, she was a guest researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at the Stockholm University and at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU) at the Freie University Berlin. Her research lies at the interface of geography and psychology, with a current focus on psychological barriers, climate adaptation and climate justice based on the example of coastal fisheries. Anna Lena works primarily in the Norwegian Arctic and employs qualitative social research methods. One crucial aim is to better understand cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes in complex human-environment relationships.
Human geographer and currently working as Research Associate at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation focused on the political geographies of the struggles for food sovereignty in Bolivia where he conducted several months of ethnographic research. His main research interests are political geography, political ecology, geographies of food, and geographies of justice, as well as sustainability and transformation research. His current research is centered on conflicting imaginations of sustainability, climate justice, and geographies of democracy in the Anthropocene. Besides his academic activities, he was working for WWF Germany and the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union.
benno.fladvad@uni-hamburg.de
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Maria is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Politics at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Department of Geography, Planning and Environment). Her current research focuses on governance of climate change adaptation (particularly flood risk governance), nature-based solutions, energy vulnerability and understanding societal transformations (or the lack thereof). She integrates insights from discursive-institutionalism and critical theories into the field of environmental adaptation. Methodologically her focus is on qualitative research methods.
Assistant professor in public policy and geography at the University of Delaware and core faculty in the Disaster Research Center. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation decision-making, evaluation, and equity. Recent projects have explored managed retreat and relocation as coastal adaptation strategies and the social justice implications of adaptation and disaster risk reduction allocations. She is a lawyer and social scientist with interdisciplinary training.
siders@udel.edu
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Sören Weißermel is a human geographer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Kiel University. Areas of interest are human-environmental relations, critical development studies, urban studies and urban climate politics. In his PhD-project, he focused on processes of dispossession and precarization of marginalized and invisibilized people and lifeforms in the context of the construction of the Belo Monte power plant (Brazil) and on their struggle for recognition and (environmental) justice. In his current project, he focuses on the socio-spatial implications of urban climate politics in cities of the Global North.
weissermel@geographie.uni-kiel.de
www.stadtgeo.uni-kiel.de/de/team/soeren-weissermel
I am researcher and lecturer at the Department of Geography at Kiel University, Associate Researcher at the German Development Institute and at the Collaborative Research Center 990 on Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia) at University of Göttingen. I am interested in the political ecology of conservation and development, climate politics, agrarian change and state theory. Currently, I am working on the socio-ecological transformation of the Jakarta Bay and on the fairway adoption of the Elbe River. My research has mainly focused on Indonesia, Northern Germany and Colombia.
hein@geographie.uni-kiel.de
www.marinesocialscience.uni-kiel.de/de/team/dr-jonas-hein
Postdoctoral fellow of Political Science at Stockholm University (SU), member of the Environmental Justice Institute (EJI) and coordinator of EJ-ITALY, the first research group made up of women only focusing on Environmental Justice (EJ) in Italy. She is currently engaged in a research project on Environmental Justice and 'Climate Refugees.' The main goal is to operationalize EJ to overcoming the legal impasse concerning the lack of recognition of 'Climate Refugees' at the international level. She analyzes the topic through a multi-disciplinary lens, including law, philosophy, and political science. In doing so, she bridges a conceptual, legal, ethical, and political analysis of the phenomenon. Further, she is part of a Team project at SU called Environmental research in the human sciences area (cross-faculty activities- Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences – on environmental issues realized by a team of five postdoctoral researchers).
Irmak Ertör is an assistant professor in the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. Before her current position, she was working in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-funded ENVJUSTICE project focusing on global fisheries conflicts and environmental justice. She holds a BS in Economics and an MA in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University, Turkey. She has been a Marie Curie (ITN) early stage researcher of the ENTITLE project (European Network of Political Ecology) and completed her PhD on the "Political Ecology of Marine Finfish Aquaculture in Europe" in ICTA, UAB. Currently, she is a member of the Cost Action on Ocean Governance and investigates socio-environmental conflicts and social movements of fisher communities, food sovereignty and environmental justice.
Political Ecology blog (of the former ENTITLE group)
Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History
Der Schwerpunkt meiner Forschungsfragen liegen auf den Schnittstellen Klima, Umwelt und Ressourcen. Im Fokus stehen die Themen der sozialen Verletzbarkeit, der sozialen Gerechtigkeit, Anpassungsstrategien und Auswirkungen von politischen Entscheidungen für die Gesellschaft. Dabei befasse ich mich vor allem mit den Forschungsschwerpunkten zu Risikomanagement und Governance, wie z.B. Analyse von vertikalen und horizontalen Netzwerken lokaler Akteure und deren Steuerbarkeit von Umweltauswirkungen und -risiken.
thomas.thaler@boku.ac.at
thomasathaler.wixsite.com/index
Christian Baatz is lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at Kiel University and leads a research project on how to distribute funding provided by the international community to support adaptation to climate change in the Global South. Prior to this, he finished his Ph.D. thesis on compensating climate change victims in developing countries. Having a background in environmental sciences, his work aims at analysing the normative dimension of social and environmental problems that we face today and at discussing that research within inter- and transdisciplinary contexts.
Elena Zepharovich is a researcher at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern. She finished her PhD at University of Bern at the Institute of Geography. Before joining the CDE, she was working at Vienna University of Economics (WU) in the Department of Ecological Economics in the field of Education for Sustainable Development. Her current research focus lies on inequality, environmental justice, and deforestation in the Argentinean Chaco.
Senior Researcher in Integrative Geography at the University of Bern. His current research focuses on agroecological transitions in sub-Saharan Africa with a critical perspective and an emphasis on social justice aspects. His research has the overall objective of integrating social-ecological thinking and the idea of justice. This includes conceptual and empirical work looking at environmental justice issues in telecoupled social-ecological systems, the relevance of cognitive justice in environmental governance and ecosystem management, and resilience justice in relation with climate change, natural resource governance and rural smallholders in the Global South. His main research areas are in Latin America (Bolivia, Cuba, Brazil) and in sub-Sahran Africa (Senegal, Kenya).
Sven Bergmann is a cultural anthropologist currently working as a research associate at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany where he is responsible for the thematic area Ocean, Ships and Environment and coordinates the Interreg Project "North Sea Wrecks" about environmental impact of ammunition in the sea. His research focuses on question of environmental impact of emerging objects such as microplastics or aquaculture-related toxins (e.g. algal blooms) or via the transport of species with container ships or ballot water. Therefore, his research contributes to an anthropology of speculative futures/temporalities and ecologies, always dealing with questions how to care for these emerging naturecultures with a feminist and postcolonial perspective. Regarding the specific spatialities and temporalities of waste, pollution and toxicity in the marine and maritime environments, question of environmental justice and "slow violence" have become more and more important in his research.
Florian Dünckmann heads the working group for cultural geography at the Geography Department in Kiel. He deals with questions of political ecology, the development of rural areas and processes of democracy-building. Hannah Arend's philosophy and current practical theories form the theoretical approach to these topics.
Mennatullah is an urban planner and visual thinker who aims to inspire sustained and empowered urban development through communication towards a just socio-spatial and visual reality. Mennatullah have long been fascinated by the way knowledge, power, and (in)justice are manifested in and co-construct cities and the public sphere. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia university, research associate and PhD candidate at The Technical university of Berlin, an associated researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, Germany and an affiliated assistant lecturer at the department of urban planning and design in Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.
She is moved by the exploration of 'agency', 'justice' and 'assumptions' within socio-spatial everyday encounters. She is interested in how to enable the vulnerable majority and how to develop communities in an integrated manner. She certainly practices urban planning, design and education as approaches to empowerment with an aim to cover the gap in theory building in contested urban contexts. As a multipotentialite interested in intersections, she deals with urban planning as a developmental multidisciplinary field.
She believes in the role of research in driving local development and national policies as well as the importance of transferring knowledge and systems between global north and south through win-win means. As she views learning and research as two-way cyclic processes, the impact she strives for is the growth of all the humans she meets along her journey. In particular, she is interested in experimental methodologies and participatory action research through which she aspires to take values into action by connecting justice and urban planning.
contact@johannabarnbeck.com
www.johannabarnbeck.com/
She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings together norms research in International Relations, postcolonial perspectives, and critical (legal) anthropology. Her current interests is to understand and further conceptualize the politics of translation between different ontologies involved in resource conflicts. Her regional focus is on the Amazon rainforest, especially Peru.
Riccarda.Flemmer@uni-hamburg.de
www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/fachbereich-sowi/professuren/wiener/team/flemmer-riccarda.html
Simon Radtke is studying for a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Development at the University of Kiel and deals with questions of housing policy in times of neoliberalism and the right to the city / right to housing.
Professor of public law with a focus on public international law including the law of the sea at Kiel University and co-director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law. Member of the Cluster of Excellency "Future Ocean" and, since 2017, one of the co-speakers. Adjunct professorship at Dalhousie University in Halifax and was adjunct professor at the K.G. Jebsen Centre on the Law of the Sea at the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø) from 2013 to 2018. Member of the Constitutional Court of Schleswig-Holstein. Her main areas of research focus on the law of the sea and international environmental law.
nmatz@wsi.uni-kiel.de
www.wsi.uni-kiel.de/de/team/prof/matz-lueck
mail@matthias-suessen.de
www.matthias-suessen.de/
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Stroll down the River Walk, set below street level, to experience pristine views of the San Antonio River while exploring a multitude of shops, restaurants, open-air venues and even a seasonal farmers' market. Live music always can be found gracing the walkways and in the many venues along the path.
This historic site was the location of the legendary Battle of The Alamo and represents one of the most inspiring events of Texas history. Many visitors come to San Antonio with the express purpose of making a pilgrimage to The Alamo, and the Wyndham San Antonio River Walk is just a short walk away. More than 2.5 million people visit The Alamo complex and its original buildings each year.
San Antonio's Historic Market Square was formerly known as El Mercado Mexican Market and is now managed by the Department for Culture and Creative Development for the City of San Antonio. This colorful center of Mexican culture is perfect for visitors wanting to get a taste of authentic Mexican dining and music.
The historic Peal Brewery's brand new amphitheater seats 1,000 and overlooks the beautiful San Antonio River. Catch a free performance from local acts during your visit or stop in and try some local fare at one Pearl's many new restaurants. Eat, Play, and Learn along the banks of the historic San Antonio River!
The Rivercenter Mall features a wide variety of restaurants, stores and other attractions anchored by Macy's and is just a mile from the Wyndham San Antonio River Walk.
With the largest collection of Greek, Roman, Asian and Egyptian art in the southern United States, the San Antonio Museum of Art allows you to almost literally step back in time! The museum's boutique café and riverside location make it perfect for an entire day of exploration.
The San Pedro Creek Culture Park is a new chapter and vision for this courageous and persevering little creek of ours and it's a historic collaboration. It combines public art, architectural design, local craft, and historic preservation with engineering, ecosystem restoration, and native landscaping.


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ABC Pediatric Therapy is Now Offering Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy in West Chester, OH
01-11-23 - News & Press Releases
ABC Pediatric Therapy, an Ivy Rehab Network partner, is now offering Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy in West Chester, Ohio. This new facility is located next to the existing pediatric clinic, offering pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapy, at 7591 Tylers Place Blvd, across the street from the fire department.
ABC Pediatric Therapy supports children and their families to learn new skills and techniques using the therapy most effective for autism. They aim to work on what's most important to the child and their support system by creating an individualized pediatric treatment program tailored to their needs. Whether it's working on communication, social skills, aggression, non-compliance, self-help skills, play, academics, or fine or gross motor skills, the team always addresses specific concerns for each individual. They focus on increasing the child's skills while decreasing undesirable behaviors.
Aly Hammond, M.Ed, BCBA, COBA, serves as the Clinic Director and Board-Certified Behavior Analyst at the ABA facility in West Chester.
"I have lived in the Cincinnati area the majority of my life and am so excited to be able to bring these much-needed services to the area," said Aly. "I look forward to helping these children thrive and reach their full potential while helping their families navigate."
Aly is attentive to every one of her clients and strives to always deliver high-quality care to children and their families. She utilizes evidence-based treatments and provides each client with an individualized plan of care. Aly is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with an extensive background in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for the last seven years, including areas of early intervention, toilet training, behavior reduction procedures, parent training, executive functioning, and more.
Aly began her career as a registered behavior technician in 2015, working one of one with clients, completed her Master's degree in 2017, and became a BCBA in 2018. Outside of work, Aly enjoys spending time with her three daughters and husband.
Services available at ABC Pediatric Therapy in West Chester, OH, include:
Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy
Learn More & Request Appointments
To request an appointment for applied behavioral analysis therapy (ABA), call (513) 755-6600, or to request an appointment online, visit the ABC – ABA Therapy West Chester page.
Founded in 2003, Ivy Rehab is a rapidly growing network of best-in-class outpatient physical, occupational, speech therapy, and ABA clinics throughout the United States. The Ivy Rehab Network is comprised of multiple brands dedicated to providing exceptional care, personalized treatment, and unparalleled outcomes. With the support of leading middle-market private equity firm Waud Capital Partners, Ivy Rehab will continue its strategic growth via the ongoing investment in new partners who embrace a shared mission, vision, and values, and a culture of being "All About the People."
The medical information contained herein is provided as an information resource only, and does not substitute professional medical advice or consultation with healthcare professionals. This information is not intended to be patient education, does not create any patient-provider relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis, treatment or medical advice. Please consult with your healthcare provider before making any healthcare decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition. If you think you have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. IvyRehab Network, Inc. disclaims any and all responsibility, and shall have no liability, for any damages, loss, injury or liability whatsoever suffered as a result of your reliance on the information contained herein.
Ivy Rehab for Kids Opens New Pediatric Therapy & ABA Facility in Harbour View – Suffolk, VA
Ivy Rehab for Kids is thrilled to introduce its opening of a state-of-the-art facility in the Harbour View area of Suffolk, Virginia. The unique space has two pediatric therapy offices: pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapy, as well as...
Pediatric Occupational Therapist, Michael Pafunda, Opens a New Ivy Rehab for Kids Facility in Williamsburg, VA
Ivy Rehab for Kids in Williamsburg, Virginia, is now open. This new facility is located at 457 McLaws Circle. Ivy Rehab for Kids provides a wide range of pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy services with highly trained therapists...


Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they're called phobias.
To learn more about phobias – and how to deal with them – we're speaking with Kalliope Barlis. She is the author of this book – phobia relief: from fear to freedom.
Dictionary-dot-com says a phobia is an "irrational fear." what does that mean?
It is unreasonable, which means that, it's like a fear on steroids. it prevents us from doing the things that we want and being the person who we really are.
How does a phobia differ from just plain, everyday fear?
An everyday plain fear is good, because it's there to protect us. You want to fear fire to a certain degree, because you want to avoid it so you remain safe. You want to be fearful of not doing well on your test, so that you take all the steps necessary to get the grade that you want.
So besides fire and fear of failing a test, what are some of the things people have phobias about?
All sorts of things. like dogs, spiders, snakes, clowns, ghosts, and even the dark. you name it.
Most of us are afraid of snakes. They can be deadly – which is real. Is our fear of snakes a phobia?
The key word is irrational fear. because if you live in a place where there aren't many snakes, and that prevents you from going outside because you're so afraid of them, that's a phobia. but if you were to see a snake in the wild, and you're not able to tell the difference if it's a pet snake or otherwise, then it's smart to stay away from it. that sort of fear protects you.
How do we deal with a phobia?
First, by using your imagination. because, too often, just by talking about a spider, will make people flip-out. which means that, it's not the actual spider that's making him feel afraid, but it's their imagination. how they're thinking about it.
So is it possible to use our imagination to actually get rid of a phobia?
Picture this, imagine taking a test, you can either flip-out, even though the test is two weeks away, or instead, you can imagine yourself being calm, getting the grade that you want, and doing all the steps in order for that to happen. which means, you've created a plan. so, how you think influences how you feel.
If we can't "imagine" our phobias away – should we just live with them or get help?
There's no reason to live with phobias when there are plenty of professionals who can help you overcome them.
Remember – you don't have to live with it. and if you can't deal with it yourself – don't create a phobia about getting help. Get help.
Olympic Figure Skating: How does the scoring work?


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Summer 2022 brings an update to the popular PreAmpster II and a new addition to the electronics line.
PreAmp II
The Tangent PreAmp II is the latest generation of the popular preamplifier. Previous generations have offered plenty of connectivity options: bluetooth, optical digital, RCA analog, phono (RIAA) and AUX mini jack. The PreAmp II adds a headphone jack on the front, which can be used as a headphone amplifier.
The big news, however, is the addition of XLR Balanced outputs, which allow connection to a power amplifier via XLR cable.
PowerAmpster II
The Tangent PowerAmpster II is a new addition to the popular line of electronics products. The power amplifier has the option to connect to the preamplifier via RCA or XLR. The PowerAmpster II delivers 2 x 100 watts and has the additional option of "bridge mode" with 1 x 200 watts.
Both novelties will be available on the market during July 2022.


Hmmm…where's Old Sol going to be relative to my shack, my crib, my cabin, my hammock, whatever, on July 16 at 4 in the afternoon? The answer and much more can be gathered from the Motions of the Sun Simulator, a nifty tool produced by the Department of Astronomy at the University of Nebraska. I suspect my friend Dave Kriegler had his hand in this.
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