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Tatjana Om (; Berlin, 9. novembar 1969) nemačko-bosanskohercegovačka je televizijska voditeljka.

Život
Rođena je u Berlinu (Istočna Nemačka), a odrastala je sa bakom u Zenici (SFR Jugoslavija). Od 1992. do 1993. godine Omova je, između ostalog, obavljala pripravnički staž za TV kanale RTL i -{VOX}-. Od 1994. godine šest meseci radila je uz nemački konvoj — ekumensku mrežu u Mostaru i srednjoj Bosni. Do 1995. preuzela je mesto voditeljke studija u Frankfurtu na Majni za redakcioni biro. Između 1995. i 1998. Tatjana Om je radila kao dopisnica u Varšavi (Poljska) i, između ostalog, izveštavala za televizijske kanale MDR, Sat.1 i RTL. Kao šef dužnosti između 1998. i 1999. radila je za Sat.1 produkcije Blic i Blicliht . Od 1999. do 2002. Omova je izveštavala za Sat.1 u Singapuru / jugoistočnoj Aziji i, pored toga, iz kriznih područja Indonezije i Filipina. Godine 2001. javljala se iz Pakistana i Avganistana. Tatjana Om je bila voditeljka u Berlinu na kanalu vesti VELT od 2002. godine (Ranije N24) — VELT Nahrihten. Od februara 2011. godine glavna je voditeljka VELT-a.

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Рођени 1969.
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Немачки телевизијски водитељи
Босанскохерцеговачки телевизијски водитељи
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Is it possible to have a perfect IV legendary?
I see... I see... This Pokemon has outstanding potential overall. That's how I judge it, anyway. Incidentally, I would say that its greatest potential lies in its HP. But its Attack stat is good, too. Hmm. And its Defense stat is good, too. Although its Sp. Atk stat is equally good. Its Sp. Def stat seems just as good, though. And, well, its Speed stat is good, too. Stats like those... They simply can't be beat! That's how I judge it.
How rare is it to have a perfect 6IV legendary, event or not?
Is your Jirachi in a cherish ball? What does it say for the 'OT' ?
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All legendaries in X&Y have 3 random perfect IVs.
All Pokemon that are Legendary have 3 Perfect IVs no matter what(Only Pokemon X and Y).In Gen 5 and before legendary Pokemon had only 1 perfect IV. I feel you are very lucky to get a 6 IV legend. Unless it is an event. Many events have perfect IVs.
You should EV train your Jirachi.
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Imprisoned for Their Faith: Jehovah's Witnesses in Auschwitz
There has been no previous study devoted solely to the Jehovah's Witnesses in the literature on Auschwitz Concentration Camp. This was partly due to the scarcity of extant documentation on their imprisonment, and the rarity of memoirs or accounts. Additionally, the small number of prisoners in category IBV (Internationale Bibelforscher-Vereinigung—International Association of Holy Scripture Researchers—the rubric used to register Jehovah's Witnesses in the Nazi camps) meant that they were treated as anonymous members of one more category among the thousands of individuals who made up the prisoner population.
This book is the first attempt at a thorough study of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Auschwitz. Although gaps in the records make it impossible to specify exactly how many Witnesses the Nazis held in Auschwitz, this study concludes, on the basis of painstaking investigations, that the number ranged from several dozen to well over a hundred prisoners at various times, and that a total of at least 387 witnesses were incarcerated in Auschwitz during the almost five years the camp functioned.
This book includes a list of the names of nearly 230 male and female Witnesses imprisoned in Auschwitz, based on documents in the Museum archives, questionnaires and accounts submitted by former prisoners, and information obtained from prisoners' families.
There are also photographs of 130 Witnesses imprisoned in Auschwitz under category IBV. Appendices, which make up almost half the book, contain accounts and memoirs by Witnesses who were imprisoned in Auschwitz, as well as documents and photographs from family and museum archives.
The book was published by the Museum in December, 2003. The author, Teresa Wontor-Cichy, is a historian on the staff of the Historical Research Department at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
Teresa Wontor-Cichy
Więzieni za wiarę. Świadkowie Jehowy w KL Auschwitz [Imprisoned for Their Faith: Jehovah's Witnesses in Auschwitz]
Editor: Jadwiga Pinderska-Lech
Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2003
158 pp., tables, documents, photographs, indices.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian denomination known from 1870 to 1931 as Holy Scripture Researchers. Charles T. Russel (1852-1916) founded the first legal corporation representing Holy Scripture Researchers (The Zion Watchtower Treact Society, known since 1955 as the Pennsylvania Watchtower Bible and Tract Society) in 1881. The International Association of Holy Scripture Researchers was registered in London in 1914. After the death of the founder, some adherents withdrew from cooperation with the existing corporations while continuing to call themselves Holy Scripture Researchers. In Poland, these included the Association of Holy Scripture Researchers, The Assembly of Free Holy Scripture Researchers, The Union of Bible Researchers, The Holy See in Jesus Christ, and the Epiphany Lay Mission Movement.
The name Jehovah's Witnesses was adopted in 1931 to define members of the denominations gathered around the Watchtower Association. In Nazi Germany, the authorities retained the name Intemationale Bibelforscher-Vereinigung (IBV - International Association of Holy Scripture Researchers), since the denomination was registered under that name as a corporation representing the Witnesses. This is why the Jehovah's Witnesses are referred to in both the official German records of the era, and colloquially, as "Researchers."
The Jehovah's Witnesses acknowledge the authority of the Bible alone, and study it at their assemblies, which are open. Their numerous publications aid in this study. The entire organizational aspect of the Jehovah's Witness community is subordinated to preaching, the most important of their tasks.
At present, there are more than 6,000,000 Jehovah's Witnesses, in 90,000 assemblies, around the world.
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With NY Fashion Week photos smattered all over social media this month, we can't help but have closet envy. But one thing we've learned is that changing out accessories easily updates basics and keeps things fresh. Lucky for us, we just received a new shipment of our newest jewelry collection, Chan Luu!
Chan Luu designs with a vision that follows her own personal motto: "I don't follow fashion like other people, I create my own. And it works for me." This independent spirit shines through in the jewelry designer's 100% handmade collections. Much of her inspiration is taken from her travels and the different cultures she experiences. "As a designer my specialty is using the craft of the country I go to because their craft is their culture. I recreate it and make it modern for the fashion world." Chan also gives back and works with a number of charities around the world.
Her organic designs evoke spirituality and a sense of non-traditionalism. The Gardenology assortment contains everyday essentials: metal accents, white freshwater pearls, sterling silver horns, citrine stones, metallic tassels, gray pearls and more. Click through the slideshow below to view our new assortment. We love layering the necklaces for a tiered look and included some of our fave combos!


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Name: Glenn Lemon Event Type: Death Event Date: 26 Oct 1925 Event Place: Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States Gender: Male Age: 30 Marital Status: Married Birth Date: 08 Apr 1895 Birthplace: Michigan Birth Year (Estimated): 1895 Father's Name: Isaac Lemon Mother's Name: Eva Wilder GS Film number: 1973055 Digital Folder Number: 005240307 Image Number: 00280Citing this Record: "Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KFQT-9YC : accessed 07 Nov 2013), Glenn Lemon, 1925.


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Today, watching the State of the Union Address on television, it is hard to imagine that this annual event is not really a static tradition within the 217 years of the American Presidency. In fact, the State of the Union Address has not always even involved a public appearance by the President. However, throughout history, First Ladies have played both a private and public part in shaping this unique Address.
The first President, George Washington (1789-1797) was an icon even in the 1790s as the General who successfully led the American Revolution. It was in the national newspapers that most Americans read his famous speeches - Inaugural Address, Farewell Address and annual "Message to Congress" (as the State of the Union speech was then referred to). For New Yorkers and Philadelphians, however, there was a more palpable sense of the regal pomp surrounding the already mythological George Washington. Over six feet tall, with a stark white wig and ruddy complexion, often wearing his dramatic navy blue cape in winter, President Washington either walked or rode through the streets in his kingly coach to the hall of Congress to deliver his annual message, which became an anticipated event. The "message" was on the previous year's progress of the nation - from the president's viewpoint, of course - and his advised course for the year ahead. Although Martha Washington (First Lady, April 30, 1789-1797) was in residence at the time of all of his eight appearances, there is no documentation suggesting whether she accompanied him. Considering the ceremoniousness of the event, the fact that she did go to hear debates in Congress and was present at the second inaugural, it is likely that she was present for at least one of the speeches.
Under the bitterly partisan presidential term of his vice president and successor, Federalist John Adams (1797-1801) continued Washington's tradition. Although she was not present in the capital for the second of his four messages to Congress, Abigail Adams (First Lady, March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801) wrote her assessment of her husband's speech, on December 3, 1799, opining that it would prove unpopular in regard to her husband's efforts to keep the U.S. out of war with France or England. "They will grumble at all events and under all circumstances, and so let them," she philosophized. She was therefore delighted that the House and Senate received the speech "with more applause and approbation than any speech which the President has ever delivered." As for the traditional reply of the Senate to the President, she was certain it was drafted by a New Englander because it quoted Scripture, she said, "no Southern man ever quotes Scripture." Interestingly, despite her public reputation as the president's great political advisor and a sharply partisan Federalist in her own right, the First Lady felt it was improper for her to attend. Instead, she asked her daughter Nabby Smith to sit in the audience and report back her observations.
The leading anti-Federalist, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, Adams' old friend, was deeply troubled by the pageantry of it all. As President, Jefferson (1801-1809) refused to continue the custom of a grand ceremonial visit to the legislative branch to speak his message. He believed that the entire ceremony and procession of his two predecessors had become too much of a monarchial procession that was dangerous for democracy. Jefferson simply sent a written version of his address to Congress and had it printed in the public newspapers. For 112 years his successors - from James Madison to William Howard Taft - did likewise.
One month and four days after becoming President, Woodrow Wilson broke the long precedent set by Jefferson. On April 8, 1913 he became the first since Adams to deliver the Presidential Message to Congress in person. Former President Theodore Roosevelt, among many others, was astonished at what he viewed as arrogance and later railed that Wilson was "selfish and cold-blooded politician" and an "doctrinaire" who put his "personal ambition" above all else. Ellen Wilson, (First Lady, March 4, 1913- August, 1914) with whom the President had a long history of first reviewing his public statements, was there to proudly witness the event. She had, in fact, urged him to make the bold move. As she was leaving the Capital she remarked that it was "the kind of thing that Theodore Roosevelt would have liked to do - in fact would have done if he had thought of it."
By coincidence, on that same night in the same chamber, the woman who would, in 32 months, become the second wife of the president, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, (First Lady, December 1915 - March 4, 1921) was also in attendance and focused on him. She coaxed a Capitol Building police guard to let her into the House chamber without the required ticket so she could hear Wilson speak. After a "definite effort on my part" Edith took a front-row seat in the visitor's gallery, where, directly above the speaker's rostrum, she had a close-up view of Wilson. When she became First Lady Edith Wilson would rarely ever leave the side of the President at any of his public events and she sat prominently with the wives of Cabinet members and Democratic Senate and House leaders to listen to all of Wilson's State of the Union Addresses after their marriage.
Few First Ladies were as overtly involved in presidential policy as was Florence Harding (First Lady, March 4, 1921 - August 2, 1923). Having helped shape the anti-League of Nations stance of the successful presidential campaign of her husband, Warren Harding, she vigorously held him to that view. Harding read a draft of his 1921 State of the Union speech to his Attorney-General Harry Daughtery in the Oval Office. Daughtery grew alarmed that Harding was implying his eventual acceptance of the League. He went directly to the First Lady and was present at a heated argument between the couple. The First Lady insisted the President remove the paragraphs in question and by the time Daughtery left, Harding had not budged. Listening to the State of the Union along with Interior Secretary Albert Fall, Daughtery was shocked when the place came for the intended paragraphs: Florence Harding had prevailed. "A wise little woman," remarked Fall. Presidential speechwriter Judson Welliver further recalled an incident where Florence Harding came into the Oval Office, read through a draft of Harding's State of the Union for either 1922 or 1923 - and refused to leave until he removed a proposal to Congress of a one-term six-year presidency that would remove the Chief Executive from the partisan politics necessary to winning a second term. She again succeeded.
When Jacqueline Kennedy (First Lady, January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963) attended her husband's State of the Union Address, she often invited women relatives who lived in Washington like her mother, half-sister, sisters-in-law Joan Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. The press gallery frequently turned their attention away briefly from the president's speech for a quick glance at what the First Lady was wearing - and included accounts of it in the next day's "women's page" of newspapers. Jacqueline Kennedy also turned her attention from the speech - to the members of Congress below. She made acute observations of their responses to various parts of the speech, especially those concerning the President's proposed funding for the space program and school bill initiative. A friend recalled, "She follows every roll-call in the Congressional Record. She is intensely loyal to Jack and resents votes against his programs." Once, while being driven through town, she spotted a bachelor Republican senator who had taken her social secretary on a date. The man was cool to the school bill and she had her driver pull up to him by the curb, rolled the window down and shouted, "I thought you were going to be nice to us, because if you're not I won't let you take out [my social secretary] anymore."
The last months of Lyndon Johnson's presidency were fraught with the trauma of the Vietnam War and many of the former colleagues of LBJ in the House and Senate with whom he had become friends, now withdrew much of their support for him. At his last State of the Union Address, Lady Bird Johnson (First Lady, November 22, 1963- January 20, 1969) sat with her daughters Lynda Robb and Luci Nugent, and the latter's child, the President's first grandchild, Lyn Nugent, two years old at the time. Suddenly, without warning, the toddler began banging his bottle against the railing - below which sat the august and humorless members of the U.S. Senate. He then began shouting as babies will, turning the heads of the legislators up towards the president's family. The usually calm First Lady couldn't help bursting into laughter, relieving some of the political tension she felt that night, as Luci Nugent finally slipped out with her son. In his 1964 address, LBJ became the first president to make passing reference to his wife, recalling their international travel during his vice presidential years and the goodwill towards the United States they had encountered.
Jimmy Carter was one of the first Presidents to acknowledge his tremendous reliance on his wife for her political input, opinion and suggestions. Indeed Rosalynn Carter (First Lady, January 20, 1977 - January 20, 1981) made it her business to not only initiate several domestic and international efforts on behalf of the Administration. She often traveled the nation and spoke with common citizens about their reaction to policy and concerns. In that context, she attended Cabinet meetings so she could take notes and hear firsthand the issues on the Administration's agenda and then carry it out herself in speeches. Both the President and First Lady thus openly acknowledged that on the day before his 1978 State of the Union Address, in their bedroom suite in the White House, Rosalynn Carter carefully went over the final draft of the intended speech, suggesting changes and additions, some of which he incorporated. The President felt that because she understood issues "from the viewpoint of the average American, I don't mind her criticizing my speeches."
According to the sharp memoir accounts of Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff Donald Reagan, it was Nancy Reagan (January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989) who influenced the exact date of her husband's 1987 State of the Union Address, based on astrological readings that were prepared for her by Joan Quigley, with the intention being to chose the best possible day to deliver it in terms of the President's health. Certainly a great influence on the decision was based on Nancy Reagan's concern for the full recovery of her husband from surgery just weeks earlier. Reagan further stated that the First Lady significantly influenced the content of the President's January 1987 State of the Union Address, advising to avoid contentious partisan issues and focus instead on building the Reagan legacy. It was during the Reagan years that the custom began of inviting special guests to sit with the First Lady in the V.I.P. Gallery, regular citizens or prominent figures, who exemplified a point or a program that the President was referring to in his speech.
In 1988, Ronald Reagan also became the first president to bring attention to his wife by referring - he called her by her first name - to her project work, as it related to the larger Administration agenda. "The war against drugs is a war of individual battles, a crusade with many heroes -- including America's young people, and also someone very special to me," Reagan said. "She has helped so many of our young people to say 'no' to drugs. Nancy, much credit belongs to you, and I want to express to you your husband's pride and your country's thanks. Surprised you, didn't I?"
George Bush followed suit. In his 1992 State of the Union Address, he referred to his wife Barbara Bush (First Lady, January 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993) in the context of the Administration's emphasis on family-related policy. He stated: "And finally, we must strengthen the family, because it is the family that has the greatest bearing on our future. When Barbara holds an AIDS baby in her arms and reads to children, she's saying to every person in this country, 'family matters'."
Perhaps the most unusual role played very publicly by a First Lady was in 2001. It was the first month of the last weeks of the Clinton Administration and also marked the start of the U.S. Senate term of the only presidential wife elected to office in her own right, Hillary Clinton, Senator from New York. For the first 20 days of 2001, she was both the President's spouse and a member of Congress.
For the previous seven years, Hillary Clinton (January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001) had a notable presence at the State of the Union Address. Seated in the traditional gallery seats set aside for the First Lady, she was often flanked by a variety of American citizens working on numerous projects or symbolizing various programs. One year she invited the founder and president of the National First Ladies Library, Mary Regula to sit with her, giving prominence to the NFLL as an emerging institution.
From the rostrum itself, no First Lady was more frequently evoked in a State of the Union Address than was Hillary Clinton. In 1994, the President referenced her efforts to devise the Administration's proposed health care reform reading part of a letter a Nevada couple had sent her, chronicling their struggles following health emergencies. In his 1996 speech, Clinton made an unprecedented remark acknowledging how influential his wife had been on him: "...to thank the person who has taught me more than anyone else over 25 years about the importance of families and children -- a wonderful wife, a magnificent mother and a great First Lady. Thank you, Hillary." The next year, he raised the topic of her work on children's issues, announcing, "The First Lady has spent years writing about this issue, studying it. And she and I are going to convene a White House Conference on Early Learning and the Brain this spring, to explore how parents and educators can best use these startling new findings."
In 1998, the President called attention to the First Lady three times: in reference to a trip they took to Sarajevo; her sponsorship of the first White House Conference on child care; and the launch of her White House Millennium program promoting America's innovation and preserving its heritage and culture. That year Hillary sat with a woman who had successfully gone from welfare to work under Clinton's welfare reform bill, and a U.S. Army Sergeant who had fought in Bosnia.
In 1999, the President mentioned the First Lady in two different contexts: her efforts to aid Central American and Caribbean nations in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes and her leadership of Save America's Treasures, a historic preservation program. Seated with her that year were civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks and a gun control advocate who had lost a child in a school shooting.
In 2000, he mentioned her three times: her efforts to get the entertainment industry to develop one standard "v-chip" rating system; her Millennium Dinner with a lecture on the human genome project; and her success in drafting new foster care and adoption policy. He ended by saying, "I am forever grateful to the person who has led our efforts from the beginning, and who's worked so tirelessly for children and families for 30 years now: my wife, Hillary."
George W. Bush became the fourth consecutive President to make reference to the symbolism, and project work of his wife. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Laura Bush (First Lady, January 20, 2001- present) made numerous appeals to parents to focus on their children and explain the crisis while also offering a sense of protection to them. As the President stated in his 2002 State of the Union Address, "And I hope you will join me -- I hope you will join me in expressing thanks to one American for the strength and calm and comfort she brings to our nation in crisis, our First Lady, Laura Bush." In 2005, Bush talked about a "need to focus on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail." That night he proposed a three-year initiative to deter young men from joining gangs and propagating violence. "Taking on gang life will be one part of a broader outreach to at-risk youth, . . . And I'm proud that the leader of this nationwide effort will be our first lady, Laura Bush."


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from unittest import skipUnless

from django.contrib.gis.db.models import F, GeometryField, Value, functions
from django.contrib.gis.geos import Point, Polygon
from django.db import connection
from django.test import TestCase, skipUnlessDBFeature

from ..utils import postgis
from .models import City, ManyPointModel

class GeoExpressionsTests(TestCase):
    fixtures = ['initial']

    def test_geometry_value_annotation(self):
        p = Point(1, 1, srid=4326)
        point = City.objects.annotate(p=Value(p, GeometryField(srid=4326))).first().p
        self.assertEqual(point, p)

    @skipUnlessDBFeature('supports_transform')
    def test_geometry_value_annotation_different_srid(self):
        p = Point(1, 1, srid=32140)
        point = City.objects.annotate(p=Value(p, GeometryField(srid=4326))).first().p
        self.assertTrue(point.equals_exact(p.transform(4326, clone=True), 10 ** -5))
        self.assertEqual(point.srid, 4326)

    @skipUnless(postgis, 'Only postgis has geography fields.')
    def test_geography_value(self):
        p = Polygon(((1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2), (2, 1), (1, 1)))
        area = City.objects.annotate(a=functions.Area(Value(p, GeometryField(srid=4326, geography=True)))).first().a
        self.assertAlmostEqual(area.sq_km, 12305.1, 0)

    def test_update_from_other_field(self):
        p1 = Point(1, 1, srid=4326)
        p2 = Point(2, 2, srid=4326)
        obj = ManyPointModel.objects.create(
            point1=p1,
            point2=p2,
            point3=p2.transform(3857, clone=True),
        )
        # Updating a point to a point of the same SRID.
        ManyPointModel.objects.filter(pk=obj.pk).update(point2=F('point1'))
        obj.refresh_from_db()
        self.assertEqual(obj.point2, p1)
        # Updating a point to a point with a different SRID.
        if connection.features.supports_transform:
            ManyPointModel.objects.filter(pk=obj.pk).update(point3=F('point1'))
            obj.refresh_from_db()
            self.assertTrue(obj.point3.equals_exact(p1.transform(3857, clone=True), 0.1))

    @skipUnlessDBFeature('has_Translate_function')
    def test_update_with_expression(self):
        city = City.objects.create(point=Point(1, 1, srid=4326))
        City.objects.filter(pk=city.pk).update(point=functions.Translate('point', 1, 1))
        city.refresh_from_db()
        self.assertEqual(city.point, Point(2, 2, srid=4326))

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According to a recent evaluation by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, in the 2019/2020 funding period, RWTH was among the top universities for the support of start-up projects.
With 19 approved grants in the EXIST program – three funded research transfer projects and 16 approved start-up grants – RWTH and Uniklinik RWTH Aachen rank second in a nationwide comparison of universities.
For 13 years now, RWTH has been offering students and researchers support with applications for the two EXIST funding lines, Business Start-up Grants and Transfer of Research. Looking back on the 13-year history of EXIST, between 2007 and 2019, University members received funding for 17 research transfer projects and 90 start-up grants. With a total of 107 approved grants, RWTH is ranked third nationally when it comes to the acquisition of EXIST funding.
EXIST, an initiative from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, aims to help establish a culture of entrepreneurship at German universities and to promote the translation of research findings into economic activity.


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WINNERS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE EXPANDED REASON AWARDS
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CLAUDIA VANNEY AND JUAN F. FRANCK
"DETERMINISM OR INDETERMINISM?"
Claudia E. Vanney is Doctor in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires and Doctor in Philosophy from the Universidad de Navarra. She is the head of the Institute of Philosophy at the Universidad Austral, where she runs several interdisciplinary research programs. She is currently focused on the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology, with a particular interest in the philosophy of physics.
Juan F. Franck is Doctor in Philosophy from the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie (Liechtenstein). Currently he teaches modern philosophy at the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino and is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (Universidad Austral). His current research interests include the philosophical problems linked to cognitive sciences.
Besides other publications, in recent years both have collaborated in developing the Interdisciplinary Austral Dictionary for Sciences, Philosophy and Theology, which they have edited alongside Ignacio Silva.
The book, Determinism or indeterminism? Great questions from science to philosophy, is the result of a collaborative work between physicists, biologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and theologians from over 15 universities in 6 different countries. During the years 2013-2015 the editors promoted several activities focused on the discussion concerning determinism in nature, delving into the epistemological, anthropological and meaning-of-life questions. The researching itinerary that was put to the test led to a broadening of the scientific horizon in favor of a transdisciplinary perspective that included theology and philosophy. This book is the outcome of these efforts. Each chapter was co-written by a scientist and a philosopher who pursued the dialogue until an integrated text was reached.
Darcia Narvaez
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom.
Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on moral development and flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. She writes a popular blog for Psychology Today ("Moral Landscapes").
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom provides an evolutionary framework for early childhood experience grounded in developmental systems theory, encompassing not only genes but a wide array of environmental and epigenetic factors. It describes the neurobiological basis for the development of moral feelings and reasoning, outlining ethical functioning at multiple levels of complexity and context before turning to a theory of the emergence of wisdom. Finally, it embraces the sociocultural orientations of our ancestors and cousins in small-band hunter-gatherer societies—the norm for 99% of human history—for a re-envisioning of moral life, from the way we value and organize child raising to how we might frame a response to human-made global ecological collapse.
Integrating the latest scholarship in clinical sciences and positive psychology, Narvaez proposes a developmentally informed ecological and ethical sensibility as a way to self-author and revise the ways we think about parenting and sociality. The techniques she describes point towards an alternative vision of moral development and flourishing, one that synthesizes traditional models of executive, top-down wisdom with "primal" wisdom built by multiple systems of biological and cultural influence from the ground up.
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. ; Michael Schuck y Nancy Tuchman
healing earth
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. is presently founding a new center to build an International Associate of Jesuit Universities based at Fordham University in Queens, New York, USA. Prior to that he was Chancellor of Loyola University Chicago from 2015-17. He was also president of the same university for 14 years (from 2001). Since 2011 he is also Secretary for Higher Education for the Society of Jesus, by appointment of Adolfo Nicolás, S.J. superior general of the Society of Jesus. He served in multiple capacities at various universities, including as Professor of psychology, Acting Vice President for Student Development, Academic Vice President, and Special Assistant to the President, among others.
Michael Schuck is a Professor of Christian Ethics in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the Co-Director of the International Jesuit Ecology Project which has produced Healing Earth, a free online textbook in environmental science, ethics, spirituality and action. In addition to environmental ethics, Michael teaches and does research in the areas of Roman Catholic social thought, theological and philosophical ethics, and religious ethics and social theory. Michael was the Founding Director of the Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago.
Nancy Tuchman spent the first 14 years of her career as a Professor of Aquatic Ecology in the Department of Biology at Loyola University Chicago. In 2002–2003 she served as a Program Officer in the Ecosystem Studies Program at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C., then returned to Loyola to serve as the Associate Provost for Research for five years (2004–08). In 2005 she founded and directed the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy (CUERP) at Loyola. From 2010–2013 she served as the University's Vice Provost before being appointed Founding Dean of the Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES).
In 2012, Fr. Michael J. Garanzini S.J., President of Loyola University Chicago, envisioned a 'living textbook' in environmental science that would provide a sound scientific understanding of the primary environmental threats to the planet, while also providing ethical reasoning, spiritual reflection, and a call to action. His vision was to develop a free, online textbook that seamlessly integrated science, ethics and faith, and could be accessed by anyone on the planet who had web access, with those living at the margins in mind. This was the birth of the International Jesuit Ecology Project, an endeavor by a small group of scholars at Loyola University Chicago that quickly grew to a community of over 160 contributors (students, university faculty, high school teachers, students, language translators, technology specialists) from over 20 countries.
Laura Baritz O.P.
The keteg teaching program
Sarolta Laura Baritz an economist by training, used to travel around the world as a sales development manager for Pepsi-Cola Hungary. Despite traveling around the world, she made the longest journey of her life without leaving town, practically without leaving her own apartment. Sarolta Baritz, a successful business manager, became Sister Laura, a Dominican nun. She gave away her wealth and moved into the convent. She had seven years to change her mind, but instead, she renounced her secular life. Since then she graduated as a professor of religion and ethics, teaches at Sapienta College and received her PhD in economics. In 2010 she established the KETEG (Christian Social Principles in Economy) teaching program connecting religion and ethics with economics.
KETEG (Christian Social Principles in Economy) is a community and teaching program of devoted persons coming from the Hungarian academic and business world with the aim to promote and spread value driven economic and business thinking both on the level of theory and of praxis that is based on the principles of virtue ethics and Catholic Social Thought (CST). The original goal of the KETEG teaching program was to create an interdisciplinary connection between theology/philosophy and social-economic sciences, so as to provide a a new paradigm in social-economic thinking compared to the present mainstream utilitarian approach. We are convinced that by teaching and acting according to this way of thinking and value order that involves the holistic approach of the various sciences (especially economics in our program) we can best serve the good of mankind and the sustainability of our world.
FIRST EDITION OF THE EXPANDED REASON AWARDS
CHRISTOPHER COOK
MA in Spirituality, Theology & Health.
Professor Christopher Cook qualified in medicine from St George's Hospital Medical School, London in 1981. He specialised in psychiatry and worked for over 25 years in the psychiatry of substance misuse. He has research doctorates in medicine and in theology. His academic interests are in spirituality, theology & health. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 2001. He is an Honorary Minor Canon of Durham Cathedral and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. Chris is Professor of Spirituality, Theology & Health in the Department of Theology & Religion at Durham University. He is President of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality. His book publications include: The Philokalia and the Inner Life: On Passions and Prayer (2011), Spirituality, Theology & Mental Health (ed., 2013), and Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice (eds Cook, Powell & Sims, 2016).
The MA in Spirituality, Theology & Health at Durham University is an inter-disciplinary and inter-professional programme aimed at enabling students to develop an integrative understanding of human sickness, health and wellbeing from both theological and scientific perspectives. To our knowledge, it is the only programme of its kind internationally on which clergy and health professionals, theologians and scientists can study together at masters level on the same programme in the same classroom. It provides opportunity for inter-disciplinary conversations within which scientists and health professionals can increase their awareness of the theological questions and research pertaining to their work and, similarly, chaplains and theologians can have opportunity to engage with some of the relevant scientific issues.
ARTURO ENCINAS Y ALBERTO OLIVÁN
Teaching Narrative in Videogames,or how we narrate our lives through video games.
Alberto Oliván Tenorio is co-founder and game designer at Fictiorama Studios and a professor in the Narrative and Creation of Video Games degree at the University Francisco de Vitoria.
Arturo Encinas Cantalapiedra is an audiovisual manager at Apóstrofe Comunicación and professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University Francisco de Vitoria.
La enseñanza de la Narración en Videojuegos o cómo relatamos nuestra vida a través del videojuego (Teaching Narrative in Videogames,or how we narrate our lives through video games) is a teaching project that aims to orient future video game designers in their professional work, both from the technical side as well as from the perspective of poetic truth in their video game creations.


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Environmental Design Library
Landscape Architecture Resources
Landscape Architecture Resources: Reference
Landscape Architecture Resources is a collective of research guides consisting of selective list of landscape and landscape architecture resources.
Finding Books
Organizations and Networks
Bibliographies & Library Catalogs
American garden literature in the Dumbarton Oaks collection (1785-1900): from the New England farmer to Italian gardens: an annotated bibliography. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and Jack Becker. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.
L'Art des jardins: catalogue des collections de la bibliotheque administrative de la Ville de Paris, de la Bibliotheque Forney, de la bibliotheque historique de la Ville de Paris, de la bibliotheque de l'ecole du Breuil. [coordination Claudine Chevrel]. Paris: Paris bibliotheques, 1999.
Bibliography of landscape architecture, environmental design, and planning. Antoinette Paris Powell. Phoenix: Oryx Pr., 1987.
The Built environment: a subject index 1800-1960. Brookfield, VT.: Dist. in the USA by Gower, 1989.
Vol. 1 includes gardens and landscape design.
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2d ed., enl. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1968.
Includes landscape architecture.
Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1968--.
Environmental literature: an encyclopedia of works, authors, and themes. Patricia D. Netzley, comp. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
Gardeners delight: gardening books from 1560 to 1960. Martin Hoyles. Boulder, CO: Pluto Pr., 1994.
The Island Press bibliography of environmental literature. Joseph A. Miller, [et al.], comps. Covelo, CA: Island Pr., 1993.
Making educated decisions: a landscape preservation bibliography. Charles A. Birnbaum & Cheryl Wagner, eds. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, Historic Landscape Initiative, 1994.
One hundred years of American garden design literature: 1840-1940. Roger Franklin. 1979. Master's thesis, Landscape Architecture, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
Encyclopedias & Compendia
See the Plants & Horticulture section for additional encyclopedias.
Decorating Eden: a comprehensive sourcebook of classic garden details. Elizabeth Wilkinson and Marjorie Henderson, eds., San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992.
Dictionary of art. Jane Turner, ed. NY: Grove, 1996. Not a dictionary, in spite of its name. Includes excellent articles on landscape topics. Bibliographies & illustrations. Available online as Grove art online.
Dictionary of gardening. Anthony Huxley, ed. in chief; Mark Griffiths, ed. 4 vols. NY: Stockton Press, 1992.
Includes plant descriptions, plant science, garden history, horticultural science, gardening techniques, biographies.
Dictionnaire historique de l'art des jardins. Michel Conan. [Paris]: Hazan, [1997].
Includes quotations.
Dictionary of environment and sustainable development. Alan Gilpin. NY: Wiley, 1996.
Encyclopedia of gardens: history and design. Chicago Botanic Garden. Candice A. Shoemaker, ed. 3 volumes. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001--. Excellent source for landscape design history. Substantive signed articles are illustrated and each includes a brief bibliography. Chronologies of of selected projects are given for landscape designers.
Environmental encyclopedia. William P. Cunningham ... [et al.], eds. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
Environmental literature: an encyclopedia of works, authors, and themes. Patricia D. Netzley, comp. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
Larousse gardening and gardens. Pierre Anglade, ed. NY: Facts On File, 1990.
Lexicon of garden and landscape architecture. Meto J. Vroom. Boston: Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 2006. Contains short illustrated articles on landscape architecture concepts and practices.
The Oxford companion to the garden. Patrick Taylor, ed. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2006. Online table of contents. A one-volume encyclopedia of short authoritative articles on notable gardens, landscape designers, garden features, etc. New ed. of the classic The Oxford companion to gardens. Selectively illustrated. Bibliography: pp.531-538.
Electronic Resources:
JSTOR Global Plants
A community-contributed database of high resolution plant type specimen images and other foundational materials from the collections of hundreds of herbaria around the world. (JSTOR Plant Science)
Global Plants is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies. Through Global Plants, herbaria can share specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations. Primary source content highlights include Carl Linneaus's annotated editions of Species Naturae and correspondence from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and foundational reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, Flowering Plants of South Africa, and illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
Dictionaries & Glossaries
See the Plants & Horticulture section for additional dictionaries.
Dictionary - landscape and urban planning: multilingual dictionary on environmental planning, design and conservation. Evert Klaus-Jurgen, ed. NY: Springer, 2001. English, German, French, Spanish.
A Dictionary of environmental quotations. Barbara K. Rodes & Rice Odell, comps. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
A Dictionary of landscape: a dictionary of terms used in the description of the world's land surface. George A. Goulty. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1991.
A Dictionary of landscape architecture. Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Pr., 1987.
Elsevier's dictionary of environment: in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. M. Bakr, comp. NY: Elsevier, 1998.
The Environment dictionary. David D. Kemp. NY: Routledge, 1998.
The Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Nikolaus Pevsner. 5th ed. NY: Penguin Books, 1998.
Spanish/English landscape dictionary. Sacramento: California Landscape Contractors Association, [1992?]
A Technical glossary of horticultural and landscape terminology. Washington, DC: Horticultural Research Institute [1971]
Basic Guides
See also the series of topical research guides to UC Berkeley Library and web resources for landscape architecture.
Landscape architecture sourcebook: a guide to resources on the history and practice of landscape architecture in the United States. Diana Vogelsong, Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1997.
Thesis and dissertation research. A strategic guide for city planning, urban design, and landscape architecture graduate students beginning their thesis or dissertation work at UC Berkeley.
The School in a garden: foundations and founders of landscape architecture. Gordon T. Millichap, J. Gordon Millichap. Chicago: PNB Publishers, 2000.
Plants & Horticulture
The American Horticultural Society A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants, Christopher Brickell, Trevor Cole, eds.-in-chief. Rev. ed. NY: DK Pub., 2004.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's gardener's desk reference. Janet Marinelli, general ed. NY: H. Holt, 1998.
The Design characteristics of plant materials; plant form studies, by Gary O. Robinette, [Madison, WI, College Printing & Typing Co., 1967].
A Gardener's book of plant names; a handbook of the meaning and origins of plant names, by Archibald Smith. NY: Harper & Row [1963].
The Gardener's dictionary of horticultural terms, Harold Bagust, comp. NY: Dist. in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1996.
The Hillier gardener's guide to trees & shrubs: a directory of more than 4,000 high-performance trees and shrubs for the garden, John Kelly, ed.; John Hillier, consultant ed. North American ed. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, [1997?]
Each listing describes the plants growth habit. The color photos are excellent; however, not all cultivars listed are illustrated. Has a greater range of plants than Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs, although Dirr's photos are generally better at giving a sense of the plant form.
Hortus third: a concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada, L.H. Baily, comp. NY: Macmillan, 1976.
The Oxford encyclopedia of trees of the world, Bayard Hora, consultant ed. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1981.
Especially useful for images of trees in the landscape.
The Plant List. An online list of over 1.3 million different plants with images
Plants and their names: a concise dictionary, by R. Hyam, R. Pankhurst. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1995.
Trees in the urban landscape: principles and practice, by Anthony Bradshaw, Ben Hunt, and Tim Walmsley. NY: E & FN Spon, 1995.
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Betis Futebol Clube é uma agremiação esportiva da cidade de Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais. Atualmente disputa a Segunda Divisão do Campeonato Mineiro.

A equipe foi fundada através de uma ação social, que tinha como objetivo atender mais de 200 crianças por ano, afastando-as das drogas . Justamente por isso o clube foi simbolicamente criado no Dia das Crianças, em 12 de outubro de 1999, e teve como inspiração o Betis da Espanha, tanto em seu nome, como em suas cores e uniformes.

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Fundações em Minas Gerais em 1999
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The holidays are a busy time of year, so you need a workout that can fit into almost any schedule. This 5 minute HIIT workout is the perfect workout to sprinkle into your busy days to help keep your fitness levels up while you get through the holiday season.
You will be repeating that sequence two times through for a total of 5 minutes.
I do this before I do my cardio and my legs are like jelly after only 5 minutes. Hey is right these work out do work. I have to lose 14lb and I'm determined to do this.


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The Wasp's Fighting Style Will Be Different Than Ant-Man's, According To Peyton Reed
By Nick Evans
Next year is a huge one for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The decade-long culmination of what started with 2008's Iron Man finally begins when Avengers: Infinity War marches its way into theaters. Before that, February sees the release of Black Panther and our introduction to the technology and the mystery of Wakanda. Also in the shuffle is Ant-Man and The Wasp. The sequel to 2015's Ant-Man adds a hero to the title and the lineup as Evangeline Lilly's The Wasp suits up to take part in battles big and small. She will bring something new to the table too with a fighting style that is all her own, according to director Peyton Reed. He recently revealed,
This is really her coming out party as a hero. Her power set is fantastic. She and Scott both shrink, but there the flying, and the fighting style of The Wasp is different from Ant-Man's.
Evangeline Lilly's Hope van Dyne was already a highlight of Ant-Man, so it seems fitting that she will be such a big and heroic part of the sequel. Hope van Dyne had clearly had training in Ant-Man and her skills far surpassed those of Scott Lang. So despite his record-setting development as a competent martial artist, Hope inevitably didn't teach him everything and will have more than a few new moves to show off in Ant-Man and The Wasp when she finally gets to enter the fray. With two heroes who can both shrink, it is important that this film differentiates between them on both an aesthetic level and via their skill sets.
The Wasp is ideally bringing more to the table than just being another Ant-Man. As Peyton Reed told Empire, the flying will differentiate The Wasp from Paul Rudd's Scott Lang, who has to rely on the kindness of insects for airborne combat. Given that she taught him everything he knows, she's probably still more adept at martial arts than he is. Her physical skills could be more balletic and quicker than how Scott Lang fights. The Wasp is also more intimately familiar with the various functions of the Pym technology. After Ant-Man we saw Scott Lang test out a new power at the airport battle in Captain America: Civil War when he grew to fifty feet tall. We know that he will have a new suit in this film and perhaps some new skills, too.
It will be interesting to see what powers The Wasp displays in this film. In the comics, in addition to the obvious flight and size manipulation powers, The Wasp can sting via electrical blasts she can shoots out of her hands. The Wasps unique skills and power set will also make for a more compelling team dynamic with both her and Scott tackling different aspects of a mission best suited to their abilities. The color of the suit and the wings will also visually differentiate The Wasp from Ant-Man when in a chaotic and quick-cutting set piece.
You can see The Wasp's fighting style and her power set when Ant-Man and The Wasp hits theaters on July 6, 2018. For all of the biggest movies hitting in 2018, check out our release schedule.
Nick Evans
Nick grew up in Maryland has degrees in Film Studies and Communications. His life goal is to walk the earth, meet people and get into adventures. He's also still looking for The Adventures of Pete and Pete season 3 on DVD if anyone has a lead.
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The quiet seaside village of Gearhart lies along the rugged Pacific Coast of northwestern Oregon. The town is within easy reach of numerous state and federal wilderness parks and preserves, as well as several beach recreation areas. Inland from the beach town are Clatsop and Tillamook state forests. If you're looking for a place to park your RV or pitch your tent, five campgrounds – one for RVs only -- are within a 10-mile radius of town.
Gearhart's only campground, Bud's RV Park (budsrv.com) is just a short drive north of downtown Gearhart and lies within easy reach of Seaside, a larger coastal resort town that's south of Gearhart. Despite its name, the year-round campground is open to tents as well as RVs. Its 37 campsites include 25 with full hookups, one with water and electricity and 11 without utilities. The primitive campsites are reserved for tent camping. All sites have picnic tables. Other features include a grocery store and deli, free cable TV, coin laundry, restrooms, hot showers and propane service. Nearby Gearhart Beach is one of the state's few public beaches that allows visitors to drive on the sand.
One mile south of Gearhart, Venice RV Park (shopseaside.com) in Seaside sits along the banks of Neawanna Creek and just a few blocks from the Pacific. The campground caters exclusively to RVs. Its 40 campsites include 32 with full hookups, including cable TV, and eight with water and electricity. Open year-round, the RV park also offers a fire pit and picnic area, Wi-Fi, restrooms, hot showers, pet area, coin-operated laundry facilities and a fish-cleaning station. Campers who'd like to go crabbing can rent crab rings at the park's office.
Open year-round, Seaside Resort (rvonthego.com) is two miles south of Gearhart and a short drive from several historically significant sites, including the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park that straddles the state line between Oregon and Washington. The resort has 210 RV sites with full hookups and 30 tent camping sites. Also available are a handful of rental cabins and trailers. Resort amenities include an indoor swimming pool and hot tub, sports courts, cafe-restaurant, fitness center and cable/satellite TV.
Just off U.S. Highway 101 in Seaside, Circle Creek RV Park (circlecreekrv.com) lies 4.3 miles south of Gearhart. Open from early April until late October, the campground has 44 RV sites with full hookups, including cable TV, and a grassy area set aside for primitive tent camping. Facilities and services include a camp store, free Wi-Fi, coin-operated laundry facilities, showers, restrooms and picnic areas. Ecola State Park, which includes a spot first visited by Lewis and Clark, is less than eight miles southwest of Circle Creek.
Sea Ranch RV Park (searanchrv.com), 9.6 miles south of Gearhart in Cannon Beach, has campsites for RVs and tents, as well as rental cabins for would-be campers who have no camping gear. Its 41 RV sites include 25 with full hookups and 16 with water and electricity. The park's 39 tent sites have no utilities, but each features a picnic table and fire ring. Sundance Station, the centerpiece of the year-round campground, encompasses a general store, wellness center and event lodge. Other amenities include Wi-Fi, coin laundry, restrooms, hot showers and horseback riding.


Renewable heat comes out on top whenever it substituted fossil energy, Swiss solar thermal pioneer Josef Jenni stated during the first panel discussion of the conference on district heating with solar and biomass, which was held in the German city of Trier on 16 and 17 April 2015. Organised by the local solar association, Solarverein, it provided a platform for experts from small and medium-sized industrial companies, universities and research institutes based in Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Austria and Luxemburg to work on turning this objective into a reality by focusing on viable business models of renewable use in district heating systems.
"The good news is: Our model has already worked," Detlev Seidler, Sales Manager Germany at Austrian S.O.L.I.D, said when he presented his company's crowdfunding – or rather crowd lending – approach (see attached presentation in German). S.O.L.I.D. has been acting as an ESCO for solar thermal district heating on the Austrian as well as the international market for many years. But when banks became increasingly reluctant to finance solar thermal projects, the company began to look for other than the traditional sources of financing and launched S.O.L.I.D. Invest. "Even a lot of small contributions may ultimately result in a big one," Seidler said. Investors may lend from EUR 2,000 to 25,000 each and could expect 4 % interest each year. Their investment will normally be locked for five years - but can be withdrawn also earlier.
This "civic participation model" – as S.O.L.I.D. calls it – has been a successful one in Austria: The company raised EUR 1.5 million between November 2013 and May 2014 – enough to fund the first project. Crowdfunding for a second project started in August of 2014, and S.O.L.I.D. Invest is now entering the German market as well. The company advertises that its funding approach engages environmentally aware people in solar thermal projects. The ownership of the solar thermal plants remains in the hands of S.O.L.I.D., however. And there is no limit on who may invest in the project. Hence, lender participation will be merely financial – which may turn out to be an attractive solution, considering non-existing interest rates for traditional financial products.
Still, it remains rather a financial product than a participation model, comparable to investment models for wind energy plants, which have certainly helped write their success story. The first project financed by S.O.L.I.D. Invest was a 1,500 m² plant to provide solar heat for space heating and air conditioning of the test stand at Austrian company AVL, a manufacturer of powertrain systems. The second project will expand the collector area of a district heating system in Graz from 4,960 to 6,960 m².
If there ever was a chance to make solar thermal heating viable for a wide variety of district heating projects, it would be now, some visitors of the congress said during the break. As many citizens – especially in Germany – do not want private companies to be responsible for their heating supply, some of them prefer to take over energy generation themselves by creating cooperatives. Christoph Gottwald, lawyer at the RWGV, Rhine-Westphalian Cooperatives Association, said that a local heating system was one quite popular reason to establish a cooperative in Germany nowadays – although he wasn't aware of one aiming at providing solar thermal heat. In total, there are 900 energy cooperatives in Germany. Most of them still have their focus on biogas or wood.
Cooperatives do not need to guarantee ROI and whoever invests in these projects will become one of their owners. But being planned by volunteers, they needed to instil a certain "passion", Gottwald explained. In case of a cooperative, it is more likely that the money comes from people who will later be users of the solar thermal energy provided by the project. Therefore, it is crucial to convince as many people as possible in the district for which the heating system is designed and to secure land rights if a central power source, such as a large solar field, is being planned.
The cooperative solution is closer to the idea of a democratic way of producing heat, but not even such a cooperative would chose solar thermal heat if it was more expensive than the alternatives – for example, other renewables, such as biomass or waste heat from power plants. That's why some of the speakers were concentrating on defining the "low-hanging fruit" really worth harvesting, as Thomas Pauschinger from German research institute Solites put it. Solites has been investigating which types of solar district heating may be profitable. According to Solites study results, large installations with more than 1 MWth may be profitable in combination with an existing district heating systems. But it could also be enough to install simple solar systems covering up to 20 % of the heating demand, especially if they were established as "green meadow" projects.
Considering the 20th anniversary of the Solarverein Trier, the low share of solar heating in national energy mixes might have left participants discouraged. But maybe the industry is really just beginning to take off. One visitor said during a conference break: "Only now are energy production costs reaching competitive levels for a broader range of projects." But, one might add, mostly still in combination with subsidies or tax credits.


After many years in abeyance, Nigeria and the Netherlands yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on migration matters.
The signing ceremony, took place in Netherlands, with Ambassador Aminu Wali signing for Nigeria, while the Minister of Migration Fred Teeven signed for Netherlands.
In his speech, Wali said the objective of the MoU was to improve cooperation between the two countries, with the aim of better implementation of provisions relating to migration of persons and guarantee of their fundamental rights in conformity with international norms and best practices.
"We are therefore pleased to sign the MoU with the hope that it will guarantee the fundamental human rights of our people and also create new areas of cooperation to further strengthen our relations.
"There is no doubt that migration and development play a big role in our bilateral relations in view of the large number of Nigerians in Diaspora working in the Netherlands and vice versa.
"This should be encouraged as a win-win situation for both countries of origin and destination" Wali said.
He thanked the government of Netherlands for the support and assistance it rendered to the Nigeria Immigration Service, NAPTIP, and other agencies in combating irregular migration and trafficking in persons.
Netherlands' Minister of Migration, Fred Teeven said government of Netherlands saw the signing of the MoU on migration matters as a welcome development.
"This is a field that affects both countries and therefore of mutual concern. The fight against illegal immigration is important for several reasons. First and foremost to prevent human tragedies that can occur when people risk their lives investing in an uncertain future in an unknown country.
"We know of the obvious risks involved with illegal border crossings, orchestrated by traffickers. But unfortunately we also know of too many examples of illegal migrants that are exposed to dangers living as illegally residing citizens in the countries of destination in Europe or elsewhere.
He stressed the importance of the fight against illegal immigration, adding that members of the public must support the fight against the scourge.
He said a fair migration policy could be viable, if migration based on rules and regulation is effectively managed.
According to him, it included the return of persons who are not allowed to reside in the two countries legally.
Teeven noted that to fight illegal immigration effectively, it requires good cooperation between countries of origin, transit and destination alike, including exchange of information between public authorities.
In this wise, he added that over years, Nigeria and the Netherlands had been partners.
"Time and time again, we have been able to prove that we have the will and ability to find collective solutions to mutual challenges.
"This has resulted in many achievements over the years. I very much appreciate this good cooperation. But I don't take it for granted. That is why I so much value and honour your presence here today.
"In signing this MoU we aim not only to even further improve the quality of our cooperation, but also to deepen our commitment to the goal of fighting illegal immigration.
"I will make sure that my services and I will do everything we can to continue our cooperation with Nigeria in good spirits and full respect" the minister emphasised.


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Samsung needs to bring back its iPod competitor
An Android media player with Play Store access and the right price would mean never buying another iPod again.
I've had a lot of Android devices over the years. Among all the phones and tablets and TV boxes though, my favorite is the lowly Samsung Galaxy Player. I got more mileage out of it than any other Android device, at half the cost of the others. It was cheap as dirt and had a great Wolfson DAC that drove my headphones almost to the breaking point. I used it until it literally stopped working, no matter how many new batteries I stuck in it.
That's why one thing I really wanted to see over the Black Friday weekend was a new Android Media player. My wishlist wasn't very long: it needed to have access to the Play Store, it needed to have a decent set of audio specs with a headphone jack, and it needed to be under $300. Needless to say, I was disappointed.
You can buy a media player that runs Android. But unless you're willing to spend a ton of money on something that's already a few years old or will settle for something that doesn't have access to a small handful of apps through Google Play, you're out of luck. And that stinks because even though I don't want to buy an iPod Touch, it's the only media player that can check your email when you're in range of a Wi-Fi router.
I'm 100% aware that I am in the minority. Most people are fine with using their phones to play music over their Bluetooth headphones and not worry about having another device to keep charged and carry around.
But there is a market for such a device. I know there is because you can still buy an iPod Touch starting at $199. It has decent specs, a headphone jack, and access to the App Store. Even though the audio hardware isn't exceptional, it ticks enough boxes. Apple wouldn't keep making one if it didn't make money from it.
I started yearning for another Galaxy Player once I was left without a phone that was a good PMP.
I really started missing my old Galaxy Player once my LG V10 kicked the bucket and boot looped itself to the big recycle bin in the sky. Rest in peace, my well-armored friend. It's too bad LG couldn't make the inside as tough as the outside.
I've made do with other phones since, but always with some sort of compromise. I don't like draining my phone battery while streaming music with piss-poor audio quality. And since only a few phones have headphone jacks, I have to use an annoying headphone dongle too. It's either that or buy that iPod Touch, which is an equally bad option in my opinion.
Samsung could and should easily address this; there are plenty of reasons why an iPod Touch-like device could be profitable for them. They're perfect for kids who are old enough to want apps and music but aren't ready to manage a data plan (some adults fit here, too). The battery life on a device without an always-on cellular connection is awesome. Carriers like T-Mobile or Verizon track your every move then sell that data, even if you have no active service. Unless you want to use Airplane mode regularly, an MP3 player would give you much better privacy on the go.
Samsung can build the right Android-powered PMP and sell it at the right price. I wish it would.
Samsung is willing to keep making the best Android tablet to target the few people that actually buy Android tablets; no other Android OEM cares about them, not even Google. I think a big reason the company does it is that it wants to cater to people who are invested in Samsung's device ecosystem. If you have a Samsung phone, a Samsung laptop, a Samsung TV, and even a Samsung refrigerator, you will want your tablet to be made by Samsung, too. Samsung makes good products that people love, in as many categories as possible.
I wish Samsung's next tablet — not including the Galaxy Tab S8 — would be a 5-inch one that played MP3s. It's something only Samsung could pull off it can afford to build it in a way that won't cost $750. I know it will probably never happen, no matter how badly I want it. But like my dad used to tell me: it's good to want things.


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Published: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 10:25
International tribunal rejects Milwaukee mining company's $100 million claim against El Salvador
International community continues to demand reparations for environmental damage
Washington, DC: On March 15, 2011, a tribunal at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rejected Commerce Group Corporation's claim against the government of El Salvador, essentially tossing out the case.
Steve Watrous, of the Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining, a group of student, environmental, and religious organizations that have been pressuring Commerce Group to drop the suit, commented, "We are celebrating this victory together with the communities in El Salvador that have been suffering the effects of gold mining. Now it's time for Commerce Group to clean up the mess they've made in El Salvador."
A 2006 study of the local waterways surrounding the San Sebastian mine in La Unión, El Salvador, owned by the Milwaukee-based Commerce Group Corporation, revealed elevated levels of cyanide and heavy metals, for example, an aluminum level 1800 times higher than the World Health Organization's recommended limit.
According to Salvadoran court documents, Commerce Group's environmental permit was revoked in 2006 for failure to comply with clean-up and other requirements for that permit. At that time, El Salvador's Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources stated, "The environmental ministry cannot grant permits for mining projects if the company's environmental impact assessment does not show that they're going to protect the earth, aquifers, surface, the air and the health of the people that live in the communities."
The company filed a lawsuit against the government of El Salvador in 2009 through the foreign investor provisions of the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade, demanding at least $100 million in compensation for alleged lost profits, despite the fact that, according to SEC filings, Commerce Group has not had any earnings since 2002, four years before their permit was revoked
"It's pretty outrageous that the government of El Salvador has been attacked for protecting the health and safety of its people," said Al Gedicks, professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin LaCrosse, and author of Resource Rebels. "If anything, it is Commerce Group who should be paying for the toxic legacy they have left behind."
Even though the case was dismissed, El Salvador paid nearly $800,000 in legal fees for the initial stages of the hearing, according to the government's report to the tribunal; in addition, the tribunal ordered each party to split the costs of arbitration, or $45,000 each. Jan Morrill, from U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities, who has been working closely with the affected communities, commented, "El Salvador has had to pay close to $800,000 just to be dragged through this arduous process for over a year in order to defend itself from a baseless attack. This is money that could have been much better spent by the government investing in economic growth, health and education."
Press Release by the Midwest Coalition Against Lethal Mining


If you have more than one carburetor you want them to have an even balance. If they are out of balance the cylinders fight each other causing vibration.
No Balance equals no Integrity.
The best way to balance your carburetors is with some form of Mercury Manometer. The manometer measures intake manifold vacuum pressure. You want the pressure to be the same in all of the carburetor manifolds. In the carburetor manifolds, or on the front of the carburetors themselves, you will find small tubes that you can push a rubber hose over, or little threaded holes that you can thread a fitting into. You attach the hoses from the Manometer to these tubes or fittings.
With the fittings attached and the Manometer connected, start the engine. It is a good idea to have a large fan blowing on the engine to help cool it. With the engine warm, adjust all carburetors to read about the same manifold pressure. Normally, this is within 2 cm Hg of each other. Just get all the carburetors reading within 2 cm of each other. The Manometers are marked in 2 cm increments. Usually there are only three screws to mess with. You match carburetors 1 and 2 to each other, then 3 and 4 to each other, then match carburetors banks 1/2 and 3/4 to each other. When you are finished, blip the throttle several times and let the throttle snap shut each time. Now check and make sure all the cylinders are still matched. If you wanted to do this several times, it would not hurt!
The adjusting screws are between the carburetors and hard to get to unless you have a Special Tool. Some carburetors do not require a special tool and can be adjusted with just a long screw driver. You have to work fast. Once the engine gets too hot, it will be hard to get good readings. If this happens, stop the engine, let it cool down then re-test. As always, a shop manual is very helpful.
You really must have the Manometer if you have CV type carburetors. However, I have noticed that if the CV carburetors are in balance, the engine will rev up smoothly with no stumbling, when you whack the throttle open hard, from an idle, with the engine in neutral. If it stumbles, they are probably out of balance. Be careful and don't over-rev the engine. If you do this with an engine that has normal slide carburetors, the engine will die. This is normal. With too big of throttle opening at idle the vacuum disappears. With no vacuum, no gas is sucked from the carburetor. No gas... No run!
Speaking of gas. Many machines have a fuel petcock that is vacuum operated. Honda says "If the motorcycle is equipped with an automatic fuel valve, disconnect the vacuum tube from the intake manifold of the carburetor, draw vacuum and pinch the tube with a clip as shown." However, they don't bother to mention that you better plug that hole in the intake manifold or you will get some funny readings off that carburetor. I prefer to remove the gas tank and, after pugging that manifold hole, use a remote gas tank to feed fuel to all the carburetors while you perform the balancing tests. I use an old lawn mower gas tank but any tank with a hose will do. Just make sure the tank is made to hold gas. Milk jugs and things like that will fail and create a big time fire hazard.
Some carburetors have no Manometer fittings. If you have one of these, you will have to invent a way to make sure the throttle slides rise and fall together.
Take the air cleaner off and stick your fingers in two of the carburetors and feel the slides move (Engine off, I would hope!).
Listen to the slides hit the throttle stops.
Look at them. See which throttle slides move first.
Put pencils under the slides and see if all the pencils move the same as the throttle opens.
Lots of funny ways to do it. Maybe even try looking in the shop manual! If the carburetors are normal slide carburetors, that is, with a solid connection between the throttle cable and the throttle slide, you don't absolutely have to have a Mammometer... but it sure helps. They do make a Manometer that fits on the carburetor bell, but I'm not impressed with the one I have.
I prefer to use a mercury manometer. The reason they use mercury is because it is very heavy and usually will not be sucked into the engine. I have heard of that happening but it has never happened to me. It also helps dampen the intake pulses. If you run a search on the Internet you will find lots of plans for Manometers using different weight oils and the like. I have never tried to make one but I see no reason why you could not. You may have to put some kind of restrictors in the lines to the carburetors to dampen out the intake pulses. I have seen people use a set of vacuum gauges with success too.
I am surprised at the amount of E-Mail about my little Mammometer typo! I think I shall leave it just because it seems to bother so many men. Strange, no women have complained... only men! I mean really guys, it does kind of look like the right tool, doesn't it! But I don't want to disappoint anyone so here is a PDF file of a patent for a real Mammometer. There you go guys... have at it!


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Get Ready For Summer
With summer vacation just around the corner I am feeling a huge need to stock up on my books. This is a crazy thought considering I have more books in my Kindle than I will ever be able to read in my entire life.
Mad About You (boxed set of beloved romances)
Stephanie Bond
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Romance
MAD ABOUT YOU is a boxed set of three beloved romances to make you love…laugh…and sigh. This boxed set contains the following full-length books by Stephanie Bond:
LICENSE TO THRILL (a romantic mystery) She's between a rock and a hard body….
ALMOST A FAMILY (a heartwarming romance) Fate gave them a second chance at love…
THREE WISHES (a romantic comedy) Be careful what you wish for…
October Snow
JennaBrooks
Genre: Parenting & Relationships | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Josie spent twenty years as a battered wife, dying for a hero.
Now, she's dying to become one…
Josie Kane is a "difficult" woman, a pure enigma – one who survives her abusive husband by honing her unnerving talent for playing mind games: she knows exactly how to manipulate a bully. Finally divorced, she thinks the abuse is over, and she's free. She's wrong. And her cynicism is building.
Josie works with battered women, trying to rescue them from a fate similar to hers. But on the night that yet another battered woman is murdered by her husband, pining for a hero as she dies in Josie's arms, her cynicism becomes a quiet, simmering hatred.
Her one remaining refuge is in her bond with Maxine and Samantha, the two friends whom she loves like sisters. When Samantha becomes pregnant by Jack – an abuser who makes known his intentions to use the baby as a weapon of control – Josie's hatred ripens to a vengeful fury. She sets out to take on one more batterer, manipulate one more bully… And she lures Jack into the crosshairs of the ultimate mind game.
Her friends are convinced that she intends to rid Samantha of Jack. They're right. But with Josie Kane, as always, there's a twist.
With her friends helpless to stop her – and with Samantha hanging in the balance – Josie squares off with Jack in a life-and-death, winner-lose-all battle of wits to determine which side will win Sammy's future.
And this time, there will be a hero.
The Eden Project (Peter Zachary Novel)
John Bolin
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Action & Adventure
Deep in the Amazon jungle, a mysterious virus threatens all of humanity. When an ex-Army Ranger and a beautiful anthropologist team-up to find a cure, science and faith collide in an epic struggle for survival.
Anthropologist Alex Forsythe spent three years studying a remote tribe in the Amazon jungle when they mysteriously vanished without a trace. Months later, a teenage girl from the tribe turns up babbling about a horrifying place her people had been taken. The girl's body is ravaged by a strange malady, and blood tests reveal an unknown, lethal pathogen. Alex realizes she must find the source of the outbreak if there is to be any hope of a cure.
Nearby, former Army Ranger Peter Zachary leads a small team into the jungle to film a reality show created to explore and explain paranormal phenomena. When Alex and Peter's paths cross and they join forces, they face the most dangerous adversary they've ever encountered—and a technology that threatens the future of humanity. Faith and science collide as Peter and Alex discover the dark secret at the heart of The Eden Project.
Alcatraz: A Very Brief History
Mark Black
Want to learn more about history, but don't think you have the time? Think again.
'Alcatraz: A Very Brief History' is a concise history of the maximum security prison that housed some of the country's most dangerous inmates, including such infamous criminals as Al Capone and the "Birdman" Robert Stroud. However, the history of Alcatraz is more varied and interesting than many people might think; its strategically important location in the San Francisco Bay meant that it was an important defensive fort for several decades, and it played a key role in the American Civil War, when it served as a military prison.
The Very Brief History series is intended to give the reader a short, concise account of the most important events in world history. Each book provides the reader with the essential facts concerning a particular event or person; no distractions, just the essential facts, allowing the reader to master the subject in the shortest time possible.
With The Very Brief History series, anyone can become a history expert!
The Back-Up Plan
Debra Webb
Genre: Humor & Satire | Romance
When life throws you a curve, it's time for Plan B.
Dr. Donna Jacobs' life has fallen apart, personally and professionally. She needs a back-up plan fast! Donna and her five-year-old daughter head south to a small town where everyone knows everyone else and where life is about family and community. All she wants is a fresh start. No more big city issues. No more work troubles. And definitely no romantic entanglements. But Fate has a different plan in mind for Donna and her little girl.
Hank Bradley just needs to get through this school year. As the high school football coach, he's a god. After all, the former Miami Dolphins quarterback is a living legend in his small hometown. But the school's new interim principal is a vicious cougar determined to have the handsome coach whether he wants to play or not. When the town's new doctor turns out to be the mother of one of his students, Hank is instantly smitten. Now he's the one determined to go with a back-up plan and to make his fantasies come true with the relationship-shy doctor.
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