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Ancient Godly Monarch (Web Novel) - Chapter 307 — Offended Someone?
Published at 25th of March 2019 10:40 pm
Chapter 307: Offended Someone?
Qin Wentian's eyes flashed with a strange glow when he heard that. Sparring?
Qin Wentian inclined his gaze, contemplating the young lady that stood before them. She exuded an innate arrogance and a sense of nobility, like that of a high-up, unreachable princess. Her snow-white skin and beautiful features further accentuated her unattainable status, alleviating her above the common crowd.
Such an aura did indeed have a resemblance to Ouyang Kuangsheng, and also, Yang Fan.
This young lady was only around eighteen years of age, and had a cultivation base at the fifth level of Yuanfu. She was brimming with a vitality akin to the blazing sun, and the proud look in her eyes immediately caused those around her to feel a sense of distance from her.
Even her fiery ember-steed had a pair of wings adorning its back. Everything about this young lady was beyond ordinary. It was obvious that her status in the Ouyang Clan was far beyond the two young cultivators and even that Heavenly Dipper Sovereign who had been sent out to Qiyun for recruitment earlier.
However, why sparring? Did the young lady want to use them to temper her combat prowess? And that young man who was her opponent earlier, he was still smiling even though he was injured. It seemed like this kind of occurrence was extremely common within the transcendent powers.
Maybe there would be some who felt that such a defeat was a blemish on their pride and dignity, and they might as well give up the chance to enter the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan. Yet, there were also those who wouldn't hesitate to give all they had for a chance to enter a transcendent power. As long as they had talent, they could claw their way up the ranks and soar into the skies, just like the two young cultivators who had been bestowed the name Ouyang—it was already sufficient for them to lord over Qiyun, so much so that even the high princes of Qiyun didn't dare breathe too heavily in front of them.
This made Qin Wentian recall how lofty Luo Qianqiu's status was—all because he was from the Nine Mystical Palace. Demon level geniuses like Chu Tianjiao and Sikong Mingyue, didn't they all take the eligibility of being able to enter the Nine Mystical Palace as the highest mark of pride? Yet, if they were to be granted admittance, their statuses on the outside would no longer be important. They would be ranked right down at the bottom, at the beck and call of others.
Such was the path of cultivation.
"Hu…" Abruptly, a fiery red-colored long whip snapped out. Qin Wentian's eyes narrowed, only to see that the long whip wasn't targeted at him, but rather at Fan Le who was by his side. Fatty reacted instantly, narrowly dodging that whip attack.
"Crackle…"
The long whip lashed against the ground, causing a loud snapping sound to echo in the air. A cold glint of light flashed past the young lady's eyes as she stared at Fan Le. "If you dare let your gaze roam so rudely one more time, I will gouge them out for you. Mingyue, bring them over there to wait for me."
After speaking, she brandished her whip as her ember-steed soared into the skies, flying to an unknown location ahead. Fan Le grimaced, he had already controlled himself because they were in the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan. Although the young lady earlier was a beauty, he merely glanced at her face, and a little at her well-rounded boobs, but who would have thought that this mere action had almost earned him a lashing. If he were anywhere else, he would definitely openly stare at her figure.
"What a hot-tempered babe," Fan Le murmured, his words causing the young cultivators who brought them over to frown. Usually, even they had to avert their gazes and didn't dare look at Ouyang Ting when she was speaking, so who would have thought that Fan Le would be so brazen?
"Shut up," the female cultivator coldly snapped. "You guys were brought here by us, take note not to implicate us with your foolish actions."
"You guys teach these newcomers about the rules," the Heavenly Dipper Sovereign added, before disinterestedly flicking his sleeves and departing the area. The squabbles of the younger generations were beneath him.
"Since you're already here, you better watch your words and behavior," the young man coldly added, after which, he started walking away. "Follow me."
Qin Wentian patted Fan Le on his shoulder, his action hinting that Fan Le shouldn't be angered. Fan Le merely shrugged and didn't continue with more cutting remarks.
"Miss Ting is from the direct line of descent, her status is far above all of us. Not only that, Miss Ting is a fanatic when it comes to cultivating and loves to look for opponents to spar against. If you guys are smart, you should all grab this chance to spar with her. Hopefully, if you manage to gain her recognition, you guys would then have a higher chance of being bestowed upon the surname 'Ouyang', elevating yourself to the same grade as us."
The young man calmly continued, "But there's one point all of you must remember; when sparring against Miss Ting, you must not hold back and use your full strength. If you can force Miss Ting to use her full strength as well, she would of course be extremely happy. However, do not ever hurt a single strand of her head. Understood?"
The implication behind his words was obvious—even if you win, you better lose.
"Such a good opportunity, why not give it to the others?" Fan Le glanced at Thirteen and the rest as he faintly asked.
"I've heard that the two of you are quite proficient in combat, far beyond the norm, hence I chose to give this chance to you. If you can't recognise a good opportunity when it presents itself, then don't regret that you've missed out when it's too late," the young man coldly replied, as he led them to another sprawling location.
Here, the buildings were packed closer to each other with several people already there.
Not only that, almost all were from the younger generation, with many sparring sessions taking place concurrently.
"Over here at this region, strength speaks the loudest. You three can go by yourselves and find a place you want to stay in." The young man spoke to Qin Wentian and his group, before turning to the others, "The rest of you, come with me."
After which, he practically abandoned Qin Wentian, Fan Le and Chu Mang right where they stood.
"Where are we supposed to go?" Fan Le unhappily mumbled.
"Let's go take a look." Qin Wentian carried Little Rascal, and they set off towards the sparring areas. But after a while, Qin Wentian exchanged glances with Fan Le, as they halted their steps and started to retrace it.
There was somebody monitoring their movements from the shadows!
As his heart sense gushed out, Qin Wentian discovered that every building here was already packed to the brim with people staying within. The act of the young man dumping them here indicated that he had other intentions in his mind.
"Newbies?" A round-faced man passed by, he involuntarily stopped his steps when he saw Qin Wentian and the two others.
"Yeah, can we ask you some questions?" Qin Wentian nodded.
"Sure." The round-faced young man walked towards the nearby grass patch and sat down, smiling at Qin Wentian and rest. "Maybe we'll be competitors in future."
"What do you mean?" Fan Le asked.
"Don't you all know the rules? There are too many cultivators who want to join the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan. Coming here does not mean that you're automatically one of them. They usually group people of the same realm together in one region and then use an elimination match to determine who can advance. The process is tremendously cruel, but only by passing the various tests can one be conferred upon the name 'Ouyang'," the round-faced young man explained.
"To be surnamed Ouyang, they abandoned their real surnames?"
"No, it doesn't mean that you have to give up your surname to have the 'Ouyang' clan name bestowed upon you—it's only a kind of status. It means that you've officially become part of the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan, and have gained access to some powerful cultivation arts and innate techniques. There will be masters guiding you on your cultivation progress and you'll get the chance to become a disciple of these experts. If you climb your way up through the hierarchy system, you might truly become a core disciple. By then, your status may even exceed some of those from the direct line of descent."
The round-faced young man continued, "All the cultivators here possess an outstanding talent, and they all have high aspirations. Some of them, despite not being of the Ouyang bloodline, have the potential to be chosen by the Ouyang Clan to integrate themselves within. Of course, if one's talent is not high enough, they can only choose to leave in silence, but that would be extremely embarrassing."
"Does the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan force people to stay? Or can they leave anytime of their own volition?" Qin Wentian inquired.
"Naturally, but those who've come all this way obviously wish to fight for a better future. Who'd easily leave just like that? Why would the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan even need to force people to stay? Before one becomes a core member, there won't be anyone giving a damn about where you want to go," the round-faced young man replied.
"Hmm, do you know Miss Ting?" Qin Wentian asked again, the round-faced young man's eyes lit up when he heard the question. He glanced about carefully before adding in a low voice, "This Ouyang Ting has an extremely high status in the Ouyang Clan, but she also has an unruly and wilful personality. She likes to find people to spar with her, but if her sparring opponents are too weak, they'll be subjected to humiliation and even serious injury. It eventually leads to them choosing to leave. For those stronger than her, they don't dare to use their full strength and can only 'play' along with her. But even then they have to tread carefully, because if they were to accidentally anger her, or some other Chosen, the consequences would be disastrous."
"Anger?" Qin Wentian continued asking, yet the round-faced young man only waved his hands, not bothering to explain. He then added in a whisper, "Just be more careful and don't spread this information. Lastly, pray more for your own good fortune."
The round-faced young man had traces of sympathy in his eyes when he glanced at Qin Wentian's group, his words caused the eyes of Qin Wentian and Fan Le to flicker with a cold light. It seems like the young man had intentionally brought them to this place, with the intention of wishing harm to befall them.
"Have you met Ouyang Kuangsheng before?"
"I only heard that he is of the direct line of descent and his status among the clan is definitely at the very peak. If all goes well, the leadership position will eventually fall to him. I also heard that his character was extremely brazen and unrestrained, but sadly, despite half a year here, I have yet to meet him."
Qin Wentian had a bitter smile on his face, initially he came to the Ouyang Aristocrat Clan merely because he wanted to meet up with his good brother, yet who would have expected that the Ouyang Clan was so vast? It would be close to impossible to meet him. But naturally, Qin Wentian was happy for Ouyang Kuangsheng when he heard of the latter's status in the clan.
"Could you help us find a place to stay?" Qin Wentian smiled.
"How did you all manage to offend someone this quickly? I guess you all can temporarily stay in my courtyard first." The round-faced young man was extremely amicable, seeing how readily he agreed. Qin Wentian and the rest accepted his offer with their thanks.
Afterwards, when Qin Wentian and the two others tried to step out of the Ouyang Clan, they found themselves forcibly prevented from leaving.
"What's going on? We can't even go out?" Fan Le coldly stared at the person blocking their way. "We heard from a reliable source that before becoming core members, there would be no one restricting our movements."
"For the time-being, the three of you do not have permission to move about freely," the person blocking them replied. Qin Wentian frowned as he asked, "Why not?"
"I've heard that Miss Ting will look for you guys to spar with her tomorrow," the man bluntly replied.
"Then when will we be free to leave?" Qin Wentian's voice dropped several degrees.
"After the sparring match." The person blocking, just as coldly shot back. Qin Wentian sighed, after which he turned back, as a cold glint of light flashed in his eyes. What the hell was going on, had they offended someone? But who did they offend?
She wanted to make them her sparring dummies? Well then, he was raring to go!
Indeed, on the second morning after their arrival, the young man and lady from before came to lead them towards the training ground. Qin Wentian discovered that other than the three of them, there were other cultivators already there. After several moments, a figure on an ember-steed was seen soaring through the air from the entrance of the Ouyang Castle. Ouyang Ting wasn't alone, several people from the Ouyang Clan accompanied her.
These people all exuded an extraordinary air. Evidently, they were all of the direct line of descent. Ouyang Ting calmly smiled, "These past few days, my sparring partners have been pathetic letdowns. I'm afraid if you've come to witness my defeat, you'll be sorely disappointed."
"We have no intention of making merry at your expense. Recently, Ouyang Kuangsheng's improvement has been too rapid. If this continues on, we will all be left in his dust." One of the young ladies by the side frowned.
"Hmph, he's older than us. Believe me, there's nothing impressive about him." Ouyang Ting coldly snorted, appearing extremely unhappy. Yet, her eyes belied her trepidation—they were all from the same generation, so that volatile guy wasn't someone that they could afford to antagonize!
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Dolphins vs Cape Cobras-18th Match-Who Will Win Today Match Prediction, Which can Held on Dec 1st Friday 2017 at Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban and the match begins at 4.00PM GMT..
Half-centuries from George Linde and Hashim Amla, and a fine bowling performance from Dane Paterson helped Cape Cobras register a 10-run victory against Warriors in the CSA T20 Challenge match at Boland Park. Having posted a competitive total of 159 for 4, Cobras managed to restrict Warriors to 149 for 8, despite a fighting half-century from Colin Ackermann, to register their third win in six games and move up to the second spot in the points table.
Warriors were set back early in the chase as Rory Kleinveldt and Paterson struck in successive overs to send back openers Gihahn Cloete and JJ Smuts cheaply. The dismissals had a direct impact on the scoring rate as Warriors could only manage 26 in the first six overs. However, Ackermann and Colin Ingram led Warriors' revival with a 75-run partnership, which came to an end when the latter fell to Linde.
Who Will Win Dolphins vs Cape Cobras ??


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The app installs fine, detects an update, and downloads it. But then it gets stuck with the error:

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I've tried including cordova-plugin-file as thats what appears to be missing. However, it didn't work. I assume that my projects plugins get loaded after hydration.

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Faculty ›
Jenna Grant (she/her/hers)
jmgrant@uw.edu
Denny Hall, 136
Background and Experience
I am a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology and medical humanities; feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies (STS); visual anthropology; and Southeast Asia Studies. My work includes participatory filmmaking, ethnographic and historical analysis of medical imaging, and community-based inquiry of archival images.
My book project, Fixing the Image (under review), based on over two years of ethnographic and archival research in Cambodia and France, examines contemporary medical imaging services in Phnom Penh. I explore how imaging services relate to the importance of images and seeing in medical and other healing practices, to the reconfiguration of public and private health care, and to expectations for techno-modernity across political regimes. Connecting technological and spiritual ways of seeing the body, in which doctors and healers describe their diagnostic practice as the ability to see with and through interference, suggests a modest objectivity, for humans and machines, and a different typology of expertise.
A second project, in development, is a collaboration with malaria scientists on drug resistance and migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion. My interest is how parasitologists, entomologists, and epidemiologists grapple with histories of drug resistance as they develop techniques for surveillance and elimination. As Cambodia becomes a site of experimental global health science, it raises questions about the directionality of knowledge production and transfer, and the ways in which particular diseases configure novel understandings of how humans, microbes, medicines, and environments live, transform, and die together.
A third area of research has to do with public scholarship and critical archive studies. The Archive Actions project, explored methods of opening the Elizabeth Becker Collection to Cambodian and Cambodian American publics for the creative production of critical histories. The LuceSEA project, 'Tracing authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America through archives, language, and pedagogy', is a collaboration with the Bophana Center and the Center for Khmer Studies, among many other institutions, that will explore forms of empiricism, art, and activism as archive-based responses to contemporary authoritarianisms in Southeast Asia and the U.S.
I teach undergraduate courses in medical anthropology and STS, visual studies, and Southeast Asia Studies, and graduate courses in sociocultural theory. I mentor students in Anthropology, Southeast Asia Studies, and the Science, Technology, and Society Studies Certificate Program, and serve on student committees in a range of disciplines, including Built Environments, Political Science, and Museology. I am core faculty in the Medical Anthropology & Global Health program, a unique and thriving undergraduate track in the Department of Anthropology.
Affiliated Departments:
American Ethnic Studies
Southeast Asia Center
Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters
Grant, Jenna. 2020. Repair in translation. East Asia Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) 14: 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-8233535
Grant, Jenna. 2018. Friends, partners, and orphans: Relations that make and unmake a hospital. Medicine Anthropology Theory 5(2): 56-72. doi.org/10.17157/mat.5.2.533
Grant, Jenna. 2017. Fixing things, moving stories. In The Ethnographic Case, edited by Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski. Mattering Press.https://doi.org/10.28938/995527744
Grant, Jenna. 2017. "Cambodian pathology": Imagining modern biomedicine in the Cambodian-Soviet medical journal, Revue Médico-Chirurgicale de l'Hôpital de l'Amitié Khméro-Soviétique (1961-1971). In Translating the body: Medical education in Southeast Asia. Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson, and John Harley Warner, eds. Pp. 194-229. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
Grant, Jenna. 2017. How to rename a hospital: Biomedical technologies and new combinations of business and charity in Cambodian public health. Anthropological Quarterly 90(3): 605-636. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2017.0038
Grant, Jenna M. 2016. From subjects to relations: Bioethics and the articulation of postcolonial politics in the Cambodia Pre-exposure Prophylaxis trial. Social Studies of Science 46(2): 236-58. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306312716632617
Grant, Jenna M. 2013. Government official. In Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist, eds. Pp. 89-90. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Grant, Jenna. 2017. Review of Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 23: 203-205.
Grant, Jenna. 2016. Fixing things, moving stories. Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2016/07/fixing-things-moving-image-stories-into-case-stories.html (accessed September 7, 2016).
Majano, Veronica, Dolissa Medina, and Angela Reginato. 2015. Shooting the shit with La Caca Colectiva. Interview by Jenna M. Grant. Other Zine. Other Cinema 32 (Spring). http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/shooting-the-shit-with-la-caca-colectiva/
Grant, Jenna. 2015. Screening room: Collecting in the collection. Visual and New Media Review, Cultural Anthropology website, January 14. http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/628-screening-room-collecting-in-the-collection
Emma Kowal, Todd Meyers, Eugene Raikhel, Peter Redfield, Sharon Abramowitz, Barbara Andersen, Eileen Moyer, Emily Yates-Doerr, and Jenna Grant. 2015. The open question: Medical anthropology and open access. Medicine Anthropology Theory 2.1: 75-94. doi.org/10.17157/mat.2.1.216
Grant, Jenna M. 2014. Technology, magic, anthropology, Cambodia. International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 69 (Autumn): 13. https://iias.asia/the-newsletter/newsletter-69-autumn-2014
Alarilla, Adrian, Jenna Grant, and Judith Henchy. 2017. The age of the Kampuchea picture. Video installation, text.
Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations
Liamdee, Khathaleeya. On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland. Diss. U of Washington. 2020.
ANTH 303 A: Technologies of Health
ANTH 469 A: Special Studies in Anthropology
ANTH 536 A: Seminar in Visual Anthropology
ANTH 408 A: Experiments in Southeast Asia
ANTH 479 B: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 565 A: History of Sociocultural Anthropological Theory
ANTH 479 A: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 567 A: Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH 352 A: Buddhism and Society: The Theravada Buddhist Tradition in South and Southeast Asia
ANTH 369 B: Special Problems In Anthropology
ANTH 569 A: Special Topics In Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH 499 A: Undergraduate Research
ANTH 469 B: Special Studies In Anthropology
ANTH 475 A: Perspectives In Medical Anthropology
Visuality and Medicine: Course designed by Jenna Grant Apr 23, 2021
The Age of the Kampuchea Picture Jun 11, 2019
Conversation with Sven Haakanson — The Angyaaq Project Jun 16, 2016
Resources and Related Links
UW Science Studies Network
The Age of the Kampuchea Picture

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The Bharathiar University seems to be moving from one controversy to another.
COIMBATORE : The Bharathiar University seems to be moving from one controversy to another. Recently, the Madras HC summoned its officials, as well as Higher Education Secretary Mangat Ram Sharma, over the decision to allow franchise centres to offer distance education programmes for one more year. Now, another of its decisions has been pointed out to be a violation of UGC regulations and orders of the HC and the Supreme Court.
The latter is a decision of its syndicate to give 'temporary qualification approval' for three years to teachers of affiliated colleges who do not possess the qualifications specified by UGC.On October 10, the syndicate favourably considered a resolution that the earlier practice of granting conditional qualification to such teachers be continued. Its justification was that the teachers and their institutions would face a lot of difficulties if this is not allowed.
This, according to Association of University Teachers vice president N Pasupathy, is a serious violation of UGC regulations and orders of the Madras HC and the SC. Also, this practice of giving conditional or temporary approval to unqualified teachers does not exist in any State university in Tamil Nadu, except Bharathiar University.
Why should the university approve, conditionally or temporarily, unqualified teachers recruited by private colleges when there are hundreds of eligible candidates who apply for teachers' posts, he asked. Pasupathy appealed to Governor Chancellor Banwarilal Purohit to correct this gross violation before it attracts contempt petitions.
"For a long time, the AUT has been pointing out the grave and gross violations of rules by the Bharathiar Varsity School of Distance Education. The distance education programme was plagued by corrupt middlemen with connivance of successive vice-chancellors. The AUT's untiring efforts, along with UGC regulations, ended this menace," he said.


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Radosh's Rant Against the Old Right
By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles
A recent posting on neocon-lite website, Quillette, by its go-to authority on foreign affairs, Ronald Radosh, makes unkind references to Pat Buchanan, Pedro Gonzalez, and me:
The current issue of Chronicles, meanwhile, includes an article by Pat Buchanan condemning President Biden's "vilification" of Putin, while in another, Paul Gottfried cries "Long Live Orbán!" and elsewhere blasts neoconservatives for promoting "Grotesque Ideological Imperialism."
These maliciously intended references turn up amid attacks on Compact, a new online publication edited by Sohrab Ahmari, which seeks to blend social conservatism with economic socialism, and which shares Chronicles' long-held noninterventionist foreign policy stance. Radosh's main complaint is that some members of the Old Right are not sufficiently hostile to Putin, so I've no idea why I am cited along with those who have been blasting the Ukrainians, since I have been unequivocal in my condemnation of Putin's invasion.
Unlike Quillette and its preferred neoconservative publicists, however, I and other Chronicles writers have in our current issue, "Not Our War," also observed problems with the behavior of America and NATO that may have tipped Putin's hand. These include the continuing eastward extension of an anti-Russian NATO and the U.S. State Department's involvement in the 2014 overthrow of the duly elected Ukrainian government. Pedro Gonzalez holds admittedly more negative views of the Ukrainian side of this conflict than I do, but this does not hinder us from working together, since we on the Old Right actually do believe in open discussion.
The open discussion that we affirm at Chronicles is not just about allowing neocons to dialogue with leftists, as is the case at Quillette, National Review, and other neoconservative-dominated publications. We actually think people on the right, including the traditional right, should be allowed to disagree, without having the conservative establishment purge dissenters.
Radosh, meanwhile, seems infuriated that I've had nice things to say about a Hungarian conservative democrat, Viktor Orbán, and (to add insult to injury) that I have described Radosh's fellow neocons as wacky imperialists. Of course, context is everything, and Radosh was citing me as a member of his rogues' gallery for being critical of the neocon understanding (or non-understanding) of foreign policy, and for not supporting Orbán's leftist competition in Hungarian politics. That Radosh hates Orbán should come as no surprise. After all, Radosh is also a neocon imperialist. He is in fact a relic of the anti-Soviet left that came into existence in reaction to Stalin but has since profitably merged with the neocon hive. Everything Radosh writes carries the familiar moldiness of the anti-Communist left, which, absent its neocon sponsors, would have mercifully disappeared.
Now that Stalin is gone, Radosh has new enemies to attack, like "isolationists," a term of abuse for critics of his expansionist foreign policy aimed at inflicting the latest version of American democracy on the rest of humanity. This includes a factually flawed attack on the "isolationists" of the past, like his favorite whipping boy, the prominent post-war senator from Ohio, Robert A. Taft, who we profile in our current issue.
Point of Compact
Breaking Points: 4/22/22 Weekly Roundup
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Professor Sachs discussed challenges and opportunities in the next 20 years when there will be an unprecedented focus on sustainable development. Humanity has entered a new era of both risk and possibility.
Extreme poverty is down by half since 1990, and the IT revolution allows new possibilities as never before. Yet social inequalities are soaring; the environment is under great and growing stress; and governance is so far unable or unwilling to adapt. As humanity pushes against the planetary boundaries, how can we achieve economic growth that is both environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive?
Jeffrey Sachs will discuss the new age of sustainable development, and Australia's role in achieving sustainable development both domestically and globally.
Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist. Professor Sachs serves as the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, and held the same position under former Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, as well as co-founder and director of the Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General's MDG Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development.
He has authored three New York Times bestsellers in the past 7 years: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The Price of Civilization. His most recent book is To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace.
This lecture was presented by the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation, in partnership with The Treasury.
The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation was established in 1998 with donations from ANU and the Wilson family estate to advance the study and development of public policy and management within Australia and internationally.


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Human Rights Campaign to Track NBC's Coverage of Russia's Anti-LGBT Law
"NBC has a unique opportunity to report on Russia's inhumane assault on the rights of LGBT people," said HRC president Chad Griffin. "They've promised to not shy away from covering the issue, and we will hold them to their word."
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Sochi Russia Winter Olympics - H 2014
Millions of television viewers will inevitably tune in to NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia, which kicks off on Thursday with team figure skating and slopestyle skiing. But the network will be under a microscope for its coverage of events that will not be happening on the ice rinks and ski slopes.
The Human Rights Campaign plans to track NBC's coverage of Russia's troublesome anti-gay laws during the 17 days of Olympic competition. The law makes expressions of homosexuality, or "propaganda," illegal, putting LGBT Russians and those visiting the country in legal jeopardy, but also spurring violence against many in that community.
STORY: Sochi Winter Olympics: Mayor of Host City Says 'No Gays Live Here'
"NBC has a unique opportunity to report on Russia's inhumane assault on the rights of LGBT people to the millions of American television viewers tuning in to watch the Olympic Games over the next few weeks," said HRC president Chad Griffin in a statement. "They've promised to not shy away from covering the issue, and we will hold them to their word."
NBC Sports executives and anchors have said that while they are in Sochi to cover the Olympics and the athletes competing there, they will not ignore the news stories that present themselves, including the LGBT issue as well as the threat of terrorism. Sochi, a resort town on the Black Sea, sits in the shadow of the restive Caucasus Mountains. And terrorist groups have vowed to strike during the Games.
Jim Bell, executive producer of NBC's Olympics coverage, told reporters that his team is not in Sochi "to poke a sharp stick in anybody's eye, but we're not going to shy away from reporting anything either." He added that the sports division will rely on the considerable resources of NBC News in breaking news situations. Indeed, the news division has filed dozens of pieces on both issues, and NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel remains in Sochi reporting on the terrorism angle.
"My colleagues in NBC News will ask appropriate questions," added Bell during a press briefing on Jan. 7. "They'll do what they have to do to report stories as they develop. I don't think we're worried about that at all."
HRC will post daily reports tracking NBC's coverage on its website at HRC.org/Russia. Several weeks after the law was passed last June, Griffin sent a letter to NBCUni executives, including CEO Steve Burke and NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus, urging the network to "expose this inhumane and unjust law" during their broadcast. And NBCUni executives felt compelled to issue their own letter to employees reassuring them that the company is taking their safety seriously in Sochi.
STORY: Sochi: Hotel Horrors Haunt Olympic Journalists
While previous Olympic Games have focused a worldwide spotlight on one geopolitical issue or another, Russia presents several at the same time, including the apparently rampant state corruption during the $50 billion remaking of Sochi from a sleepy seaside village into a world-class sports destination. (According to many reporters in Sochi to cover the Games, the latter efforts have been woefully inadequate, with Tweets about the subpar accommodations — no light bulbs, running water, door handles — bouncing around Twitter earlier this week.)
Griffin and HRC members also have called on the International Olympic Committee to publicly condemn the law and call for its repeal. And last December, HRC made its first contribution, in the amount of $100,000, to the Russia Freedom Fund, which benefits LGBT activists and advocacy groups in Russia. Celebrities and athletes, including skier Bode Miller, Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff, Madonna, Andy Cohen, Lady Gaga, Chelsea Handler, Ricky Martin, Kristen Bell, Kevin Bacon, Jonah Hill, Matt Damon, Robin Thicke, Russell Simmons and Sarah Silverman have joined the HRC in denouncing the law.
Groups have also targeted Olympic sponsors; NBC has booked close to $1 billion in advertising for Sochi. On Jan. 31, a coalition of 40 groups from the U.S., Europe and Russia, which included HRC, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, released an open letter to the 10 biggest Olympic sponsors.
"LGBT people must not be targeted with violence or deprived of their ability to advocate for their own equality," the letter said. "As all eyes turn toward Sochi, we ask you to stand with us."
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Flock to see Hell's Kitchen star and Young One Ade Edmondson in concert
Published: 6:00 PM May 9, 2009 Updated: 8:02 PM November 3, 2020
PUNK rockers The Bad Shepherds will be performing in St Albans later this month. Formed in 2008, the band are the brainchild of comedian Adrian Edmondson, the star of Bottom and The Young Ones, and more recently seen on Hell s Kitchen. They play famous p
PUNK rockers The Bad Shepherds will be performing in St Albans later this month.
Formed in 2008, the band are the brainchild of comedian Adrian Edmondson, the star of Bottom and The Young Ones, and more recently seen on Hell's Kitchen.
They play famous punk songs by bands using folk instruments, including the mandolin, cittern and fiddle.
The Bad Shepherds will be at The Horn on Thursday, May 21.
Ade, the group's vocalist and mandolin player, will be joined on stage by Maartin Allcock (guitar, bass, vocals), Troy Donockley (Uillean pipes, cittern, whistles, vocals) and Andy Finan (fiddle).
Doors open at 8pm and tickets cost �20.
To buy tickets go to www.ticketweb.co.uk
For more about the band, visit www.thebadshepherds.com


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Although the Hyundai Accent was given a long list of upgrades, there is still a lot that could have been better but according to Consumers Reports, those can still be ignored.
A lot of people have reported that the interior of the Accent could do with more comfort. The front seats are not the most comfortable and the rear seat is a little cramp. Soundproofing is not the best as well but if you can look past that, the Accent is actually a decent model.
The vehicle comes with a 1.6-litre engine that delivers about 130hp and 119lb ft of torque which is great especially with the six-speed automatic transmission. The infotainment system works well and the air conditioning won't disappoint. Topping it off with the $13,495 and you actually have a vehicle that is pretty reliable and functional.
What do you think of the Hyundai Accent?


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Buffett pulls ahead in wager against hedge funds
BYCarol J. Loomis
January 24, 2013, 8:02 PM UTC
FORTUNE — It's halfway time in the 10-year stock market wager sometimes called The Million-Dollar Bet—that's Warren Buffett backing the performance of an S&P index fund vs. a New York money manager backing five funds of hedge funds—and there's double-barreled news.
Item One: For the first time since the bet started five years ago, Buffett has moved ahead—by an okay margin to boot. Item Two: For the first time ever as well, both sides have crawled out of the ditch (though the funds of funds barely made it) and are showing positive results.
About that history of bad results, of course, you need to keep in mind that this bet started in the gut-wrenching year of 2008, which left both contenders deep in the red. Buffett, though, was definitely a deeper shade of red: Vanguard's Admiral shares—the S&P index fund he'd backed—lost 37% in 2008 vs. a 24% drop, on the average, for Protégé's five funds of funds.
Reporting on that first year of the bet, Fortune quoted Buffett as just hoping he could be like the fabled tortoise that ultimately passes the hare.
MORE: Why the world's biggest hedge fund missed big in 2012
So now the tortoise, after crawling four more years, indeed leads. At the five-year mark, the Vanguard index fund backed by Buffett is up by 8.69%. The five funds of funds picked by Protégé Partners to carry its flag in the race are up, on the average, only—"gulp," says Protégé partner Ted Seides—0.13%.
By the terms of the bet, the identity of those five funds has never been made public. It has always been assumed, however, that one of them is a fund of funds run by Protégé itself.
The strength of 2012's stock market is naturally what carried the contestants into the black. The market's vigor is displayed in the performance of the index fund, which rose by 15.96% last year. In contrast, the five funds of funds managed a 2012 gain, on the average, of only 6.46%.
From his trailing position, and probably having heard enough about the tortoise, Protégé's Seides imagines an alternative future for the bet by recalling the movie, City Slickers. In it, says Seides, "Billy Crystal's character asks Jack Palance's character, Curly, if he has killed anyone today—and Curly answers, 'Day ain't over yet.'"
We'll let that suspense hang and report still one more piece of news about this bet. This bulletin concerns the 10-year zero-coupon bond that the two bettors, Buffett and Protégé, bought with the collateral they put up as the bet began. Each contributed about $320,000, so a total of roughly $640,000 went into the bond. Its value was set to rise gradually to $1 million—thus the nickname for the bet—by its conclusion on December 31, 2017.
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But as Fortune.com reported last year (Buffett gains ground in hedge fund bet), the zero-coupon bond proceeded to perform so splendidly in the prevailing environment of falling interest rates that by 2012 it was already worth almost $1 million.
That remarkable result suggested to Buffett and Protégé that they could revise the terms of the bet and quite possibly get more than $1 million to the charity ultimately benefitting from the bet. That will be Girls Inc. of Omaha if Buffett wins and Absolute Returns for Kids if the victor is Protégé.
So the zero-coupon bond was sold for nearly $1 million toward the close of 2012, and by agreement between Buffett and Protégé, the proceeds were put into the B stock of Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA). Berkshire's shares have risen since, and the current value of the investment is well over $1 million.
And couldn't the stock fall? It certainly could, but that won't make a whit of difference to the winning charity—because Buffett has guaranteed that it will get at least $1 million at the end of the bet. On the upside, meanwhile, there's no ceiling on what the charity can walk away with. That depends simply on what happens to Berkshire's stock between now and the bet's conclusion.
Fortune senior editor-at-large Carol Loomis, who wrote this article, is a longtime friend of Warren Buffett's, a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder, and editor of his annual letter to shareholders.


Recently, our organization, American Transparency, released a comprehensive oversight report on EPA agency spending from FY2000-FY2014. As a result, the EPA faced tough questions from reporters regarding expenditures such as $6.4 million on military-style weaponry, $92 million on high-end furniture costs, $170 million on public relations, $715 million spent on the Criminal Enforcement Program, $1 billion on their Senior Employment Program, and $1.2 billion on 1,020 staff lawyers.
During this questioning, EPA spokespersons were exposed as budget deniers. Instead of answering questions regarding the highlighted fact patterns, the EPA employed a "truthiness" spin that uses language that sounds like fact, but deliberately confuses and obfuscates the issue.
1. We quantified $110 billion in comprehensive EPA disclosed salary, bonus and checkbook expenditures as required by the federal transparency law the "Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006" co-sponsored by then-Senators Barack Obama and Dr. Tom Coburn.
2. We simply reorganized EPA's own spending disclosures into an illuminating oversight report. Over the past two months, the EPA has not successfully disputed one single fact that we published in our report.
3. By design, our report covers two administrations – one Republican and one Democratic – and thus shows the bureaucratic intransigence of the EPA's culture of denial.
4. The job of an agency employee is not to "ensure people are informed about the critical work of the EPA." That's public relations. Today, at the EPA it's obvious that PR has replaced its core mission to protect public health and the environment.
1. They denied purchasing military-style weaponry and equipment when they purchased $6.4 million worth.
2. They denied misallocating resources on the purchase, rental, and moving of high-end furniture amounting to $92 million. They said they saved taxpayers money by moving into a smaller building and couldn't fit the old furniture into the new space. For American families and businesses simply moving isn't a license to redecorate.
3. They defied spending $170 million on public relations since 2000 – including up to $27 million in contracts to outside PR firms (EPA employs up to 200 PR officers and even uses outside firms to push proposed regulations).
Now, the EPA is hiding or slow walking the disclosure of information taxpayers deserve to know. For example, our Freedom of Information Act requests are taking up to five months to fulfill. The agency also signs their largest contractors to non-disclosure hush agreements. They're taking secrecy and denial to a new level. Agency employees recently deleted text messages subject to the Public Records Act. Agency administrators also have used private email accounts for public business.
Inside the EPA checkbook, we also found more than $336 million in contracts with unknown or vague product descriptions, which points to a severe lack of internal accounting controls.
Every citizen ought to be especially concerned about the EPA as they ramp up their rhetoric to match their newly expanded mission – defending America from our #1 adversary, climate change.
If you're a "climate change denier" the EPA may come and get you, but if you're a budget denier within the EPA you might just earn yourself a new recliner.


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Drawing out families' stories is a key skill for Jigsaw social work team members (from left) Atea Rongo-Raea, Margot London, Gael Clark and Vanya Teki.
- You're an overwhelmed step-parent taking primary responsibility for a child with complex behavioural and health issues.
- You're a single parent whose children display significant behavioural issues after spending time with their other parent.
- You need therapy for past experiences you haven't dealt with.
- Your partner is very controlling of the rest of the family.
- You and your children are couch surfing because you can't afford a rental property and there is no social housing available.
- You have a child with ADHD – and your partner also has ADHD, leaving most of the parenting, household and life workload to you.
- Your young child has been hospitalised with severe anxiety.
- Your child is so violent they cannot be on their own at school and must have you with them at all times.
- Your family has experienced intergenerational physical and/or sexual abuse.
- You're a grandparent raising your grandchildren who have been traumatised by earlier events in their lives and the relationship between you and your own child has broken down.
- You don't know how to budget.
- Your child has few language skills by the time they are due to start school.
- You can't make sound decisions and can be triggered by the slightest thing like tone of voice or a colour because of past trauma in your life.
- You're addicted to alcohol or drugs.
- You have older children who are not toilet trained.
- You don't know how to praise or play with your children.
Now consider what it would be like to have two or more of these scenarios happening within your family. That's the reality for families in Jigsaw Whanganui's social work programme.
"With some families it's like we're scraping the layers of ice off the windscreen, little bit by little bit. Or sometimes it's more like it just needs a little squeegee. But the family are still always the ones in the driver's seat and we're alongside them."
Vanya Teki's car windscreen analogy draws swift agreement from Jigsaw Whanganui's practice manager Gael Clark and colleague Sandy Dunlop.
They are part of a six-person team delivering social work with a difference in Whanganui and the surrounding region, providing intensive home-based support for families under stress.
"Some people think we go and have cups of tea with the people we visit," Gael says, prompting roars of laughter from Vanya and Sandy.
"There's no time for that – it's damn hard work.
"Visiting families in their home week after week is unique. There's a huge range of things we work with them on – parenting skills, family violence, alcohol and drugs, health, ASD [autism spectrum disorder] and ADHD.
"Some people say they want to become a social worker to help people. We don't see our role as helping people. It's about bringing hope."
The flexibility of the Jigsaw model, compared with traditional social work, means there's more continuity of care and the ability to do some preventative work which doesn't fall within the scope of most other social work roles.
Sandy, whose experience includes psychiatric social work, said that role was more about supporting the family and building a bridge to the patient in hospital. She started out with the Department of Social Welfare where the focus, as it remains with government agencies that have taken over from that department, was on applying the relevant act.
Vanya's background is in social work in the health sector.
"Being family centred is more difficult when you're just seeing the patient," Vanya says.
"The medical model is based on accountability. Based in a hospital, they are doing more brokerage-type social work because of the necessity of discharge. At Jigsaw we have the luxury of time as home-based social workers where we look at a holistic approach."
The organisation uses the terms "family" and "whānau" in the broadest possible sense. They may be working with single parents or couples and their children or several generations of an extended family. About 15 per cent are "kin carers", such as grandparents raising grandchildren.
They are families with complex needs, and often intergenerational trauma, from all walks of life. Many of the children have learning difficulties or are considered to be on the autism spectrum and their caregivers need parenting strategies and support.
Establishing trust is the first step for the social workers. Often this is the first reliable relationship a family has had so the Jigsaw team has to be "utterly dependable".
It can take two or three visits to get a picture of what's happened in their lives and the challenges a family is facing. The social worker then draws up a plan with the family and tasks for the family and social worker are allocated.
"When we get family harm cases through from the police, I will make a cold call which gets all sorts of reactions to start with," Vanya said.
"Their guard goes down as I talk to them as it's transparent and we have the skills to talk to them."
Vanya says much of their work is hearing the family's stories and unravelling the story as it goes, reflecting back a lot of what the family is saying and drawing things out.
"A lot of our conversations are following up on what we said the week before," Vanya said.
"Often I'll give them a strategy and the next week they'll say they tried it and it didn't work so then I'll remind them about consistency and they'll say they tried it twice and it still didn't work. So I'll remind them about consistency again."
"Families love it when you remember what you said to them the week before," Sandy says.
Jigsaw's involvement with a family can last from several months to several years.
"We are supporting healthy interpersonal relationships and forming attachment between the child and the parent which is pivotal for children to thrive," Gael said.
It's often simple things like how to talk to them, listen to them and set appropriate structures in the home.
Atea Rongo-Raea travels to the Waimarino area once a week to work alongside whānau.
Jigsaw receives about 200 referrals a year to its social work service. About half of the families are referred through various health services where a problem with a child has been identified. There are some self-referrals.
For just less than half of the referrals, the team does brief work with them which involves linking them to services, giving advice or putting them on a parenting programme. Just over half are more intensive.
The referrals are called "requests for service" and require input from the families. They are asked to assess themselves against statements about concerns/stresses they may be facing rather than the referrer filling it in, giving them investment in the process.
When a request for service comes in, Gael allocates a family to a social worker.
"I try to do a 'good match', knowing our team's strengths and the different resources they work with," she said.
Gael says the social workers restore dignity to the families by behaving with dignity.
"I go in as myself and I'm honest with them and start where they want to start," Sandy says.
The social workers say some of the behaviours they encounter within families are "horrible" or "really dumb".
The social workers model appropriate behaviours alongside families by doing activities with them.
"It's not a teacher role but a model role, facilitating role and co-ordinating role," Vanya said.
"We do a lot of facilitation of support and collaboration work with other organisations that have resources they need. We look at it through the eyes of the children's safety and needs and we make an assessment."
Measuring success is part of the plan they develop with the families.
They set goals with the families and review those regularly. At the end of the social worker's involvement, Jigsaw gets feedback from the family: are they better off, are the children better off and safer, have they made the changes they said they would?
There are varying degrees of success but the aim is to build safety and resilience in families.
"Some families make significant shifts; others make some shifts but it's significant for them," Vanya said.
"Success is about what the family says success looks like for them. Other agencies may meet them and say to us 'oh my goodness, that family' but the families have come a long way from where they were. Often you don't know the impact we have made until further down the track when a crisis hits them and they haven't gone back to previous types of behaviour."
The Jigsaw social work team also has a community focus, with a pivotal part of their role being participation in health and other networks. Most of their work has a health component.
They also "walk alongside" families in their interactions with other agencies such as Work and Income.
"It's about mana," Gael says.
"We see them as experts in their own lives. If you don't 'sit with' people, you don't understand the impact of their situation."


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Le mont Simpson se situe dans la chaîne Owen Stanley dans la province de Baie Milne en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. Il culmine à  d'altitude.

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Girl Expo Canada is a personal venture that grew out of the desire to find suitable, challenging, meaningful opportunities of various kinds.
As the mother of two girls who love sports, are not excited about pink or glitter, Allison Cepler struggled to find her daughters sport programs, clothing that wasn't "girlie" and literature featuring strong heroines with appropriate, substantive content for young readers.
Allison wanted more – for her daughters, for herself, and for all other girls. She recognized that each of these girls' lives has the potential for greatness, but realizing that potential requires that we offer girls something more than what has been available.


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De Ocean Viking was een afzinkbaar en halfafzinkbaar boorplatform dat in 1967 werd gebouwd door Aker voor Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (Odeco) dat daarvoor een contract had met Phillips Petroleum. Het was het Ocean Queen-ontwerp, een verbeterd rechthoekig ontwerp ten opzichte van de V-vormige Ocean Driller. Het bestond uit vier parallelle pontons waarvan de middelste twee van de halve lengte met daarop elk vijf kolommen op de buitenste pontons en vier op de middelste. Aan de zijde zonder binnenpontons waren twee outriggers geplaatst om de stabiliteit op de werkdiepgang te vergroten.

Het was het eerste boorplatform dat in Noorwegen werd gebouwd en werd in secties gebouwd. Burmeister & Wain in Kopenhagen bouwde de ene helft van de romp, terwijl de andere helft op de Rosenberg Verft in Stavanger werd gebouwd. De secties werden daarna naar Nylands Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo gesleept, waar de afbouw plaatsvond. Bij de Ocean Traveler van hetzelfde ontwerp bleek het voor de Golf van Mexico ontworpen platform niet volledig geschikt voor de Noordzee. Hierop werd de Ocean Viking aangepast, wat de nodige vertraging opleverde bij de bouw. In september 1966 werd het gedoopt door Mary Dunn, vrouw van Ward W. Dunn van Phillips.

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De eerste proefboring was op het Britse plat. Hier bleek dat het materiaal aangepast moest worden aan de zware omstandigheden. Nadat de modificaties waren doorgevoerd, werd opnieuw geboord, onder andere voor Petronord, maar opnieuw waren deze boorputten droog. Uiteindelijk ontdekte de Ocean Viking voor Phillips op het Noorse plat op 10 juni 1968 aardgas in blok 7/11 in het Cod-veld. Hoewel dit groot nieuws was in Noorwegen, bleek het veld uiteindelijk te klein om op zichzelf commercieel interessant te zijn. Een reeks andere putten bleek daarna droog te zijn.

Ekofisk
Hoewel management van Phillips in Europa in 1969 nog positief was, gold dit niet voor het hoofdkantoor in Bartlesville. De bedrijfsresultaten vielen tegen en daarom werd besloten niet verder te boren, maar te proberen de Ocean Viking aan een andere oliemaatschappij te vercharteren. Dit lukte niet en uiteindelijk werd daarop besloten om in blok 2/4 te boren, waarmee op 21 augustus 1969 werd begonnen. Op 7 september boorde de Ocean Viking olie aan in put 2/4-1 van wat Ekofisk genoemd zou worden. De put was echter moeilijk te beheersen en werd daarom verlaten en afgesloten.

Besloten werd om 1000 meter verderop put 2/4-2 te boren, waarmee op 18 september werd begonnen. Hier werd olie aangetroffen in een laag krijtgesteente, maar onder meer vanwege het slechte weer moest ook deze put gestopt worden. Op 27 januari 1970 werd met put 2/4-3 begonnen aan de eerste evaluatieboring en werd de enorme omvang van het olieveld duidelijk.

In blok 2/7 boorde de Ocean Viking daarna vanaf augustus 1970 Eldfisk aan dat samen met Ekofisk ontwikkeld werd. In 1972 werd Edda ontdekt, dat ook onderdeel werd van het Ekofisk-complex.

Literatuur
  (1988): Giant Discovery. A History of Ekofisk Through the First 20 Years, Phillips Petroleum Company Norway

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Gillian King is a Senior Scientist at Bloorview Research Institute in Toronto, with appointments at the University of Toronto, Western University, and McMaster University. Her primary interest is in the psychosocial aspects of pediatric services and child, youth, and parent well-being. Her research interests include the participation of children with disabilities, youth transitions, parent wellness and resilience, and client engagement. Her research also encompasses the delivery of health services, including models of service delivery and practice, and service providers' approaches and expertise. Gillian holds the Canada Research Chair in Optimal Care for Children with Disabilities (Tier 1). Her current funded research includes client engagement, services for families, and residential immersive life skills programs for youth.
The PARTICIPATE study has been designed to examine the participation of children with physical disabilities in formal and informal everyday activities.
This project was the first of two studies designed to develop and test a computerized software program that would enable health service providers in children's treatment centres to select the most appropriate outcome measure to use with individual clients and/or in program evaluations.
Through this research, we are investigating how various child and caregiver characteristics impact the health of primary, informal (unpaid) caregivers (usually parents).
The focus of this two-year prospective evaluation (N=500) is to determine the perceptions of impact and use of the Parent Information KIT (KIT: Keeping it Together™) in pediatric rehabilitation settings.
This study is designed to develop and evaluate educational materials about family-centred service.
The Focus on Function Study will compare two treatment approaches ("child-focused" and "context-focused") that are currently being used for children with cerebral palsy and other developmental and motor delays.
The aim of this 3-year research program is to develop a reliable and valid survey measure of the community impacts of research partnerships between universities and community agencies that address social or health services issues.
The Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) and the Preferences for Activities of Children (PAC) are two companion measures of children's participation.
This three-year study will look at how parenting a child with a disability affects family values, priorities, and views of their place in the world.
For children and youth, involvement in life situations includes participation in recreational and leisure activities as well as school and work activities.
The Measure of Processes of Care (pronounced "em-pock") is a well-validated and reliable self-report measure of parents' perceptions of the extent to which the health services they and their child(ren) receive are family-centred.
Part 1: Children, families and services, Part 2: Perceptions about family-centred service delivery for children with disabilities and Part 3: Factors affecting family-centred service delivery for children with disabilities.
A studies series on the topic of Children with disabilities in Ontario: A profile of children's services.
Family-centred service is an approach to providing services to children with special needs, where the family is considered to be at the centre of the services.


PLAINS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- All across the country people will be heading out to celebrate the new year.
The Cafe near Wilkes-Barre has a special menu prepared for the big night.
The restaurant has hosted many new years eve celebrations in the past.
"Times have changed. It evolved in a different direction than it used to be," said Jeff Woytowich, The Cafe Owner.
The Cafe's owner says over the last several years, he's noticed more people coming out to his restaurant earlier.
"It used to be later dinner hours years ago, now it seems like people want to get in that six seven and be home for midnight where before everybody used to hang out here," said Woytowich.
We spoke to people dining at the restaurant who say they will be calling it an early night.
"We're going to go out to Kevin's for an early dinner and come home after that and hang out at my sister's house and just kind of celebrate with family. Unlikely that anyone will stay up until midnight," said Peter Butera, New York.
The Cafe's owner believes a lot of people decide to stay in for new year's so they do not drink and drive.
"I know Governor Wolf just changed some of the laws with the DUIs. So, I think a lot of that has changed. I think a lot of people want to stay closer to home," said Woytowich.
Even though the owner expects people to stay in, they do have the option of ordering their meals through Uber eats.
This will be The Cafe's first New Year's Eve using the service.
"This is going to be interesting to see tonight what happens if you're going to get people ordering. We're going to try to direct people to the website, to the limited menu," said Woytowich.
The Cafe will be serving food until 10 p.m. Monday but the bar will be open to ring in the new year.


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EcoSoya Pillar Blend (PB) is self-releasing so it is perfect for all moulded candles: pillars votives, tarts, novelty candles, etc. Candles made with EcoSoya PB have a creamy appearance and ship well in all climates.
Heat the wax to the desired temperature. If adding dyes, the wax may be heated to between 68.3'C and 87.8'C. If the wax is heated to 87.8'C this will have no adverse effect on the wax if it is cooled quickly. After melting (and adding of any colours) allow the wax to cool before pouring.
Pour temperatures will vary according to the mould type and size, fragrance and dye and the effects you want to achieve. A recommended starting temperature is 68.3'C. It is typical for the wax to solidify with the mould at the beginning of the pour during its first contact with the mould. Ensure your PB is heated to a temperature high enough so that when the mould if full, the initial solidified wax has remelted. The temperature should not be so high that the liquid wax sits more than 30 minutes before starting to solidify.
There is a difference in cooling rates for different mould configurations. Cooling too quickly or too slowly can cause cracking and/or frosting. If difficulties are experienced with your pour temperatures, try a lower or higher temperature in increments of 5'C.
When using EcoSoya PB two pours are required with candles such as 7.6 cm & 10.2 cm diameter pillars. The first pour is done at 68.3°C by filling the mold to the top and allowing the candle to set up with a warm but congealed soft center. If the top of the mold (bottom of the candle) has "skinned" over and left a void inside, poke two holes into the candle near the wick.
The second pour is done at 60.0°C while the candle center is still warm but congealed.
The first pour is done at 68.3°C by filling the mold within 0.3 cm from the top. Allow the votive to cool until it is still warm with a congealed center that has no liquid. If the top of the candle has "skinned" over, poke two holes near the wick. Pour a second time at 60.0°C to completely fill the votive mold.
To achieve a better colour depth in EcoSoya Pillar Blend, we recommend adding approximately 30% more dye. Fragrances work well in EcoSoya PB, but please always do a test burn. If you have been making candles with a different type of wax (soy or paraffin), EcoSoya PB may perform differently. To minimise scent loss, add fragrance prior to pouring the wax at a temperature no less than 57'C. Remember to accommodate for the temperature drop due to the addition of the cooler scent when targeting the pour temperature.
When stored properly, as per the instructions above, EcoSoya PB has a minimum shelf life of 3 years.
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Britain UK polarised on file sharing and 3-strikes
UK polarised on file sharing and 3-strikes
Monica Horten
Published on 28 January 2009
A UK report on digital Britain, which will reveal the UK government verdict on file-sharing and 3-strikes policy, has been delayed, apparently due to a "ministerial quagmire", according to a report in the Times Newspaper this week.
It is not clear exactly what the "quagmire" consists of, but if various leaked comments to different media are anything to go by, it would seem there is disagreement at the highest level on how to deal with the issue. According to The Times article, the Digital Britain report was to have been released on on Monday, and it is now expected to come out tomorrow.
The report has been preceded by the publication of contributions to the BERR consultation on peer-to-peer file sharing earlier this month. BERR has
published all of the submissions on its website, with a covering text. It says that the final outcome will be in the Digital Britain report. The BERR consultation asked for views from industry and citizens on the issue of peer-to-peer filesharing, and how to deal with it. Questions covered issues such as filtering and 3-strikes. In publishing the responses, BERR's covering text says that the submissions represented a highly polarised set of views, and that there was no consensus which could be reached on a solution. The only aspect where there was any agreement, it seems, was on the basic principle that any solution must incorporate commercial offers of downloadable content which is "legal".
BERR specifically highlights the conflicting views on filtering technology and whether or not it can be effective in dealing with file-sharing. And it highlights the view expressed by ISPs and consumers that the problem of file-sharing is due to a market failure.
Rights-holders have asked BERR for direct access to personal data from data from ISPs – which BERR notes was viewed "with concern" by the Information Commissioner, who is responsible for data protection in the UK. Interestingly, some rights-holders have also asked for a two-tier system, where small ISPs could 'be relieved of the need to adhere to the code of Practice". I am not sure how that would work and whether the result would be in breach of the single market rules.
BERR also says that some respondents have commented on the lack of transparency within the MoU process – this is the Memorandum of Understanding signed between 6 large ISPs and two rights holder groups (the BPI, which is the UK IFPI member, and the Motion Picture Association).
Given that these negotiations were conducted in secret, it is hardly a surprise that those who weren't involved would make this type of comment. I am personally not at all surprised at BERR's conclusions. Having read a substantial number of the submissions to both rounds of the European Consultation for Content Online, they have a similar polarisation of views (this is my analysis, although I note that this is not how they were presented by the Commission in the Communication of January last year.).
But going back to that "ministerial quagmire" – well, it is probably not a surprise either, because just as we find a divergence of views within the interest groups, I suspect we also have a similar divergence among the politicians who are dealing with them. BERR does not have full responsibility over the process or the decision-making. The Digital Britain report is a shared responsibility between BERR (Business and Enterprise) and the DCMS (Culture, Media and Sport). Digital Britain is overseen by Lord Carter, who is Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, who operates across both ministries. Lord (Peter) Mandelson is Secretary of State in chargeof BERR. The Secretary of State at the DCMS is Andy Burhnam. And then there is a separate portfolio for Intellectual Property. This portfolio is overseen by David Lammy, who is Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
I note that Lammy's comments - according to The Times, he has ruled out legislating to disconnect file-sharers – are at odds with the leaked comments from Lord Carter, who is proposing a new "rights agency" whose role is unclear. The Times report also suggests there were some last minute changes to the Digital Britain report.
To understand the "quagmire" better, I checked up on both Lammy and Carter. Lammy is an elected Member of Parliament. His consitutency is Tottenham in north London, which I know a little bit about as I used to live in a neighbouring area. It is a multi-ethnic community, with a lot of social housing and a large creative and professional, family-based middle class. It has big issues with youth culture. Lammy could well find that he is answerable to his constituency on the file-sharing issue.
Carter is an unelected minister, and former head of a public relations consultancy, before he was head of Ofcom. He has no constituents to answer to.
We wait with interest to see how the ministers struggle out of the quagmire and how much of the mud sticks.
*A quagmire is a bog or marsh which sinks beneath your feet when you walk over it.
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This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted from January 2016 to January 2017 among 9,538 adult Americans on their preferred microwave oven brand. The results were sorted by age group. During the survey, 15.3 percent of respondents between 18 and 34 years of age stated their preferred microwave oven brand is GE; 18.1 percent of respondents aged 35 to 49 and 16.7 percent of respondents aged 50 or older said the same.
Respondents aged 50 years and older: n=3,533.
The source does not specify why the numbers don't add up to 100 percent.
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Have been really busy lately with wedding and pre-wedding shoots both in and out of Singapore, my sincere apology for the slow update of my blog but today is a great day receiving some really great news. The latest AGWPJA Q2 2012 contest result is announced yesterday and I am humbled to bag 5 international awards from this contest. I want to take this opportunity to thank all my amazing clients who put their faith and believe in my work.
Judges Comment: Subtle color and strong composition creates a very pleasing dreamlike quality.
Judges Comment: Strong use of color, focus and composition.
Judges Comment: The composition and depth of field choice made this abstract portrait a top choice. I thought the photographer did a nice job balancing the saturation and color palate. Beautiful picture.
Judges Comment: Stupendous image. Exceptionally strong graphic and yet so simple. Great angle and the juxtaposition of the white and black is perfect. This may be my favorite image of the entire contest. Excellent!
Judges Comment: Not all the images that supplied a dramatic sense of place worked, but this one did. The couple was composed perfectly in the scene, and even though they were very small, I found them right away. It is a lovely picture, and a nice complement to give the couple with more intimate pictures. Well done.
Judges Comment: There were several photographers that tried this and were not nearly as successful. It has to be about placement of the couple, timing of the blur and their background. It all came together here in a lovely way. The post-production by the photographer was very nice as well.
Judges Comment: Great sky and really strong but simple graphic image.


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Lookout was an 1853 clipper known for her passages from New York to San Francisco, and as an offshore and coastal trader in the lumber and coal trades.

Launched at the height of the clipper boom

Lookout was launched in 1853, just as the construction of clippers reached its peak. The day that Lookout loaded for her first trip to sea, 10 November 1853, there were ten other new clippers loading at the piers in New York for their maiden voyages: Chief of Clippers, Edwin Forrest, Electric, David Brown, David Crockett, Dreadnought, Golden Fleece, Lightfoot, Pride of America, and Quickstep.

Voyages
Lookout made 16 passages to San Francisco between 1854 and 1871. Her fastest was 108 days. On three voyages she met with unfavorable weather, her slowest trip being 157 days; however, her remaining 13 passages averaged 121 days, a very respectable showing.

She also called at the ports of Boston, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Liverpool, Callao, Chamala, Mexico, Honolulu, New Bedford, and Port Stanley, as well as making a voyage to Australia, before she was sold into the Pacific Coast lumber and coal trade in 1871.

In 1855, on a voyage from San Francisco to Hong Kong, Lookout was two days shy of Hong Kong when she encountered a British clipper, Invincible, in distress and about to be abandoned. Invincible had collided with the ship A. Chesebrough and sunk it, but managed to save members of Chesebroughs crew. Lookout received $25,000 in salvage money for its efforts in assisting Invincible to reach Hong Kong.

Locomotive transport

In September 1867, the three clipper ships Lookout, Franklin, and Haze delivered a total of four locomotives between them to San Francisco for the California Pacific Railroad Company. Lookout left New York on 26 April 1867, and arrived in San Francisco on 11 September 1867.

Loss of the ship
In 1878, Lookout was wrecked in the Japan Sea. She was en route to Puget Sound from Shanghai, and was partially dismasted in a typhoon on September 12. She went up on a reef near the island of Kutsonoshima. Three crewmen drowned attempting to land the ship's boats; the rest managed to land with the help of local fishermen.

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Q: ag-grid: key.forEach is not function console error while resizing column In my application, i am using ag-grid view. To solve last empty pseudo column issue, i was resizing last displayed column by using 'autoSizeColumns' method of ag-grid. It is working but i am getting console error.
here is code of resizing last column on initial render
onDataRendered () {
  const colIds = this.gridOptions.api.columnController.getAllDisplayedColumns().map(c => c.colId);
   const lstColumn = colIds[colIds.length - 1];
   this.gridOptions.columnApi.autoSizeColumns(lstColumn); // problem is here
    setTimeout(() => {
      this.gridOptions.api.sizeColumnsToFit();
    }, 50);
},

Error screenshot

I have tried by changing .map to forEach method but still i am getting this error.

A: According to docs, autoSizeColumns function accept column keys as array so you have to pass it like this only. You have to change your this line from
this.gridOptions.columnApi.autoSizeColumns(lstColumn); To this.gridOptions.columnApi.autoSizeColumns([lstColumn]);
and now it should work. Here is working Plunker Example


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I am trying to do UART communication between atmega128 and arduino UNO. Both are running at 9600 baud rate( checked both by doing serial communication with laptop using xbee radios from zigbee),but i am not receiving data properly. The data is following some pattern but i am not able to understand the relation.The lower four bits are always correct but upper four bits follow some weird pattern.
my atmega128 and arduino code are as follow: arduino sends one value and atmega128 displays the recieved value on array of 8leds on PORTA.
Have you connected the grounds of the two microcontrollers together?
Is that value "33" supposed to be hexadecimal, or decimal?
Could you give more examples of data send and what you receive.. include code.
yes ground is common, 33 is decimal value... for 31 it gives 8E, 32 ---8F, 33 ---91 for 1 it gives 81, 2--- 82, 25 ---99, 26--9A, code is same have just changed value in serial.write.
So, the lower four bits are not always correct.. You seem to have the MSB always 1 at the receiving end.. that makes me suspect a baudrate mismatch.
.. although the first two pairs you listed tells otherwise.
How long wire do you have between the two?
yes the problem is with baud rate only as in case sending 33 in a loop it gives 81 sometimes and 91 sometimes.
I have checked default fuse bit settings for arduino here. so it is set for 16mhz external crystal only.
for register settings of 128 i have posted my code above.
What else i should be checking to make my baud rate correct?
Can you check the data with an oscilloscope? That should get those problems sovled in about ten minutes.
Also as misterT asked, how are the two micros physically connected? How long is the wire?
unfortunately i do not have oscilloscope with me.
have connected tx of one with rx of other and vice versa and a common ground... wire length is around 10 cm .
Could you do one test.. send these 8 messages from the arduino to the atmega128 and post what is received. And do it many times in a loop with a delay between transmissions... I do not like the fact that you are sending one message after reset and then nothing. Make a loop that sends the same character over and over again, with 200 ms delay between sends.
.. you get the idea.. post what was received after each of those.
Do you have the oscillator fuse set properly to match your crystal? Can you post a circuit diagram?
my fuse bit settings for external crystal were lfuse:FF, hfuse:99 , calculated from here and cross checked... i can draw the exact ckt diagram as i am using a development board bought online(here) and crystal arrangement is below the small PCB of atmega.
You didn't happen to notice that the ATMega128 board is using a 14.7456 Mhz crystal did ya?
I would just try replacing the crystal and see what happens.
Ya, with a 16Mhz crystal.
Seems we cross posted. Any crystal with known frequency would do just fine. Or he could put the correct value of the actual crystal into the code.


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