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Hot betting LAB leadership favourite Keir Starmer first to make it onto the leadership ballot https://t.co/CQ0O2Bvokn
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 20, 2020
Two things are working in Thornberry's favour, as I understand it: the first is a desire by some members to widen the ballot because Starmer is already on, the second is that she has genuinely picked up support after her hustings. https://t.co/kO3iMjjJ1s
— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) January 20, 2020
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One of the oddest political developments is how certain concerns are seen as the exclusive property of one side or other of the Left/Right political divide, almost regardless of the nature of the issue or the reality of a party's record.
Green issues, for instance. The general assumption is that being concerned about these puts you on the left side of the axis. Take this quote.
"…..consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world."
Who might the author be?(*) George Monbiot? David Attenborough? Caroline Lucas, perhaps? It is certainly a sentiment with which they would agree. The belief that the selfishness or indifference of existing (and past) generations has damaged (perhaps ruined) the next generation's prospects and the planet is one widely felt amongst many in the Green movement. It is summed up in the description of our "contemporary lifestyle" (a consumer capitalist lifestyle naturally) as "unsustainable". Implicit in it is the belief that only state action can put matters right.
Both assumptions have a great deal of truth in them but need a rather more critical eye than they generally get. Some of the worst environmental damage has occurred in countries where the collective was considered far more important than the individual, where a consumer lifestyle was an unattainable dream. The Soviet Union – in its determination to industrialise and exploit its natural resources – was a perfect example. Its consequences affect Russia and surrounding countries to this day: some of the worst air pollution in the world, contamination of the earth and groundwater in Dzerzhinsk, a former chemical weapons production centre, Lake Karachay now radioactive, having being used as a dump for nuclear waste, rivers so full of chemical pollutants that they cannot freeze even in sub-zero temperatures, the loss of 90% of Lake Aral etc. Resources may have been owned and managed by the state for the People (in theory) but the interests of actual people in having clean water, clean air and not being poisoned by harmful substances dumped where they lived were, in reality, ignored. All this has incalculable, long-lasting and harmful consequences for the natural environment, current inhabitants and the unborn. Nor is there much chance of this changing, despite Communism's disappearance. Putin thinks climate change a Western theory invented to hold back Russia's development.
No economic model has a monopoly on selfishness and unsustainability, it seems. But too often some in the Green movement give the impression that only Western capitalism is at fault, that punishment, blame and attacking the bad guys are almost more important than finding workable solutions to put matters right. The real criticism of groups like Extinction Rebellion is that their irritatingly stupid attempts to disrupt public transport, their desire to make people feel strongly about the issue ("Emotionality is the only way you can get people to do something" as one of their co-founders has said) risk provoking an equally emotional and opposite reaction in response. If being green is seen as a desire to impose a sort of ascetic hairshirt mortification on people, rather than a genuine attempt to find workable solutions, it will likely repel those whose support is needed if effective measures are to succeed.
Still, the similarity between Putin's views and Trump's determination to ignore scientific evidence about climate change and environmental harm, to view it as a conspiracy against American economic interests, is striking. It is one shared by a number of right-wing / conservative governments who seem to view green issues as a pretext for an attack on capitalism, growth and individual liberty, an excuse for state control over both economy and people. Hence the description of Greens as "watermelons": ostensibly green but really reds under the bed (or your car) itching to ban your holiday flight.
If so, this is perhaps in part because conservatives have not as seriously engaged in the debate as they should (Mrs Thatcher's 1990 UN speech notwithstanding) some preferring ad hominem attacks on the messengers demanding action or pointing out the undoubted hypocrisies of the "Do as I say not as I do" brigade. Time has been spent contesting the science rather than on R&D. Or they have presented the argument as one between those wanting economic growth to help the poor and those rich enough not to worry grandly telling others what to do. It is a false – if superficially attractive – choice. An unsustainable economic model or lifestyle risks short-term growth followed by bust, which rarely benefits the poor. (Cynics might wonder at the remarkably convenient focus on the poor by those wanting no change to a system which suits them very well indeed.)
On one reading, it is very unconservative to think that only economic growth, regardless of the consequences, matters, that only financial inheritances count. Edmund Burke described society as "a contract between the dead, the living and those yet to be born". This beautifully encapsulates why we should want to preserve the best of the past, both man-made and natural, why we should consider ourselves temporary guardians of our world holding it in trust for the future, why we have an obligation to sustain it so that it can be passed on in good order, why we should not be so arrogant as to think we can use it as we want or so selfish as to ignore the considerations of future generations. Our politics should reflect the "democracy of the living world" (to misquote G.K. Chesterton) and not just the people currently in it.
Conservation – of buildings, natural habitats, plant and animal species, ways of life, traditions and activities rooted in a love and understanding of place and our dependence on nature, developing sustainable – rather than wasteful – ways of living – should not be seen as "Green crap" to be discarded when it all becomes too politically difficult or inconvenient. Being green is not just about saving polar bears or stopping fires and floods in faraway countries. It is about, for instance: housing developments at home being intelligently designed and built with sustainable community and transport infrastructure; people living in well built energy efficient homes; sustainable farming using natural processes producing high quality food (rather than Monbiot's latest idiotic idea to put the Googles of this world in control of providing us with artificial food); discouraging waste – and not just bad stuff like plastics but material which could be used (why, for instance, don't we value and use the magnificent wool from Herdwick sheep here rather than importing pashminas from thousands of miles away or using foam insulation?) and much else besides. Being green involves changes in attitude (less waste, repair not throwing away), individual daily actions and collective action by individual states, acting on their own and with others. It involves making some difficult political and economic choices – taxing air travel, for instance.
The dangers of appearing to be a (possibly reluctant) latecomer to an issue which now appears to be higher up the public's agenda than before is that you are fighting on ground which has been defined by others. The issue is seen as a cause. Intensity of belief matters more than coming up with practical solutions. Criticisms may be viewed as arising from a lack of commitment rather than from evidence-based objections. You risk having no alternative practical solutions to put forward. Your conversion to such policies may be seen as a gimmick ("Vote Blue, Go Green"), inconsistent or as good intentions to be abandoned at the slightest political pressure. (How confident can anyone be that, if the price of an FTA with the US is to reduce UK environmental standards, that price would not be paid.)
It need not be like this. The sustainability and fairness of our economic model, what growth means, whether it is possible to develop without despoiling, how to come up with practical action on climate change and the environment – not merely talk – are key political issues and ones on which the intelligent (small "c") conservative voice should be heard.
(*) Pope Francis.
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Two weeks into LAB's leadership election and Starmer's looking good
So far, fourteen CLPs have nominated candidates to be leader of the Labour Party.
Starmer: 11
Long-Bailey: 3 pic.twitter.com/8uvlxH95iI
— CLP Nominations (@CLPNominations) January 19, 2020
It seems to have been going on for an eternity but it was just a fortnight ago that Labour's NEC formally launched the election to choose a successor to Corbyn to lead the party following its fourth successive General Election defeat. The first round involved getting the backing of MPs while the second is about winning the support of constituency parties and affiliated bodies like trade unions.
If a contender wants to go down the affiliate route it requires the backing of bodies that consist of at least 5% of affiliate members including at least two trade unions. The constituency route to the postal ballot involves getting 33 constituency Labour parties to nominate them.
If the early constituency party numbers are indicative then it looks as though Starmer and Long-Bailey will dominate. On the affiliate pathway Starmer has already secured the 5% threshold but he does require one more to nominate him.
Based on what we've seen so far Long-Bailey and Starmer look set for the final ballot with perhaps Nandy making it as well. Thornberry and Phillips need some backing soon in order to remain relevant.
There have been three selectorate polls so far two from YouGov, with Starmer ahead and the other one from Survation with RLB in the lead. Looking at the details of the lower preferences in the latest two polls it's clear that Long-Bailey is going to struggle in the final ballot unless she can make it with a majority on the first count.
It is hard to argue with the Betfair punters who currently make Starmer a 70% chance. That might change but there been little signs so far.
Mike Smithson
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Buttigieg's powerful new argument two weeks before Iowa : When the Dems choose an old insider they lose
Their White House winners in recent times have been with young outsiders
I've just had an email from an old acquaintance who has recently visited Iowa where he attended a packed Pete Buttigieg meeting, asked questions of the young contender and got himself a selfie. This is from his email.
He said one thing that interested me: The Dems always do better when they have someone who is new to the National Stage – Obama, Clinton, even Carter, for example, were not from Washington. JFK was "next gen". Whereas they never do well with older or more experienced Washington candidates. The Dems surely did well to choose JFK over Stevenson, who wanted to run for the third time, for example. Hilary Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Mondale, Humphrey – all lost. Of course, having a non-Washington candidate doesn't guarantee success (Dukakis, McGovern). But the claim that (older) insiders never win for the Dems is interesting. If he can get traction with that, then maybe people will wonder whether Biden is another Humphrey.
Another thing that could hinder Sanders and Warren is that they are both Senators who in the two weeks between now and the Iowa caucuses will find it difficult to leave Washington because they'll be tied up with the impeachment process.
Buttigieg has bet the farm on Iowa and there's a good chance he'll succeed.
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Johnson/Cummings propose moving the House of Lords to York
Johnson plans to move House of Lords to York – Sunday Times https://t.co/vJRqP277zU pic.twitter.com/JsIO78cNmE
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 19, 2020
If not London then York is as good as it gets
There's a single column story on the front page of the Sunday Times that reads like one of those spoofs you see on April Fools day suggesting that Johnson wants to move the Lords permanently to York. The paper's Tim Shipman reports:
"The prime minister last week ordered work to begin on the practicalities of a move, in further evidence that the Conservatives are serious about cementing their gains in what were once Labour's heartlands. Disused government-owned land close to York railway station has already been identified as a prime site to build a new second chamber.
If York is chosen as the Lords' new home, it will be the first time the city has been a centre of political power since the English Civil War, when it played host to the Council of the North."
As a former resident I think that it's a good idea. If you're going to move anywhere then York with it's historical significance seems on the right tracks. After all the Synod of the Church of England meets in the city once a year. The Anglican church has managed to operate with twin centres of governance for centuries so why who not the UK parliament.
York played a big part in the early days of the creation of PB. I was appointed Director of Development at the University of York at the start of 2005 a few months after PB was created and bought an apartment backing onto the magnificent city walls. I left in the middle of 2007 the year that I retired to work full time on the site. This was the period when the site was establishing itself.
Where York stands out is that the transport links are so good with a fast and frequent rail service to London. Some services do it in two hours and there are good links throughout the whole of the north of England and, of course, Scotland.
York has a great sense of its own importance and sees itself as the natural second city. We don't know how serious this proposal is but it could work.
York voted 62% Remain.
Infrastructure: the Conservatives' necessary but misplaced priority
The Custard Factory is one of Birmingham's more striking developments. Its current incarnation is as Birmingham's answer to Shoreditch (a question that probably did not need asking). Its history, however, stands as a warning to the government, a warning that it almost certainly will not heed.
The Custard Factory's name is not, like so many new developments, the product of a random buzzword generator, but a simple statement of its origin. Until 1964, Bird's Custard was manufactured on that spot. And then as a direct result of government industrial policy, it desserted the site.
In the decades after the Second World War, Birmingham's economy boomed. In 1961, Birmingham household incomes exceeded those of London and the south east. Successive governments fretted about how Birmingham and London were leaving the rest of the country behind. Central government took direct measures to spread their success to more deprived regions. First they restricted industrial development, then they restricted office development. The city of a thousand trades was booming and this was a crisis. Introducing the order placing restrictions on office development in 1965, the government minister saw this as a "threatening situation".
In words that now seem prophetic, the MP for Sutton Coldfield at the time opposed the measure:
"This Order is a kind of penalty on the success of the West Midlands and Birmingham, imposed admittedly by the Government in order, as they believe, to help somewhere else. There is a growing anxiety in Birmingham that the Government may have carried too far this process of siphoning off the prosperity of the Midlands to other areas. I can give examples which are germane to this Order. In Birmingham on Monday I heard of firms, which provide employment similar to that affected by this Order, being forced to leave the city. These firms, to a considerable extent, are firms which are independent of cyclical fluctuations of trade.
The manufacturers of Bird's Custard, a food product, who have been in the city for a great many years, were quoted as an example. The motor industry, on the other hand, is a cyclical industry and whilst Birmingham is very prosperous, it and the Midlands, to the extent of dependence on the motor industry, are living dangerously in their prosperity. Therefore, it hurts these areas the more when industrial and commercial employment of a non-cyclical kind leave the area. Such a movement can prove a great future potential loss to the city and surrounding area."
The Order was highly effective, at least so far as Birmingham was concerned. Birmingham no longer has the problems of success. It has a lower GVA per head than the national average – and lower than Liverpool, for example. It was, however, much less effective at boosting the economy of struggling areas, many of which have remained in relative decline to this day.
55 years on, and Britain has another government looking to siphon off the prosperity of successful regions to struggling areas. There isn't much evidence that the government has any better idea how to do it this time than it did in the 1960s.
The government seems set to divert infrastructure spending away from the areas of the country that are prospering to the forgotten north. This isn't a new idea either. Nor did it prove a particularly successful idea either. At the same time as Birmingham's business was being run off, the Humber Bridge was commissioned. Hull and Grimsby are better connected to each other, but both still languish economically. A lot more than infrastructure is needed to breathe new life into depressed areas of the country. Past experience has shown that if you only build a field, they won't come.
The government doesn't really have a choice. Its newly-elected backbenchers made great play in their local campaigns of fighting for infrastructure investment. If they don't deliver, they'll be up against it at the next election. If you've successfully won seats on the basis that your opponents have taken their voters for granted, you really can't afford to take them for granted yourself.
This gives the government two big problems. First, if it is going to invest in infrastructure in previously forgotten areas, it is going to come up with a clear rationale for how it is going to prioritise investment. Previously, governments have worked on the basis of a cost-benefit analysis (which is why London has done so well – as by far the most prosperous and successful area of the country, projects can easily demonstrate bang for buck). If that metric is to be abandoned, what is going to be put in its place? The government has as yet given no clear statement of principle but without one, the likelihood of pester power winning out is high, with projects allocated on the basis of influential backbenchers' ability to buttonhole ministers. Majestic herds of albino pachyderms can be sighted lumbering towards us on the horizon.
And second, if improving infrastructure is a necessary but not sufficient condition for reviving failing areas of the country, what else is the government going to do? Shooing business away from London won't work. Wooing it away might. Again, however, the government has so far shown no trace of having thought about how it might do this.
The big risk is that the government will fail to provide the investment in infrastructure that the successful parts of the country need and instead provide investment in infrastructure in the declining parts of the country without providing the additional support to provide the economic turnaround that they urgently need. The country has enough problems at the moment without massively misallocating resources at a time when the public finances are already under serious strain. The government needs to set out some very clear principles. And soon.
Alastair Meeks
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Milwaukee mayhem: the Dems could well be heading for a contested convention
Why the usual rules don't apply in 2020
Fictional America political dramas love a contested convention, where two or more candidates turn up still in hope of gaining the nomination, with all the trading, arguing and general politicking (and, in fictionland, often rather more than politicking) that implies. In reality, it doesn't happen like that.
Presidential primaries have an inherent instability about them which in recent decades has generally ensured that both parties' candidates are secure in their place months before being formally nominated. Once a candidate establishes a firm lead in both national polls and in state victories, he or she becomes hard to displace as other candidates struggle for funding, endorsements and media attention.
Granted, this doesn't always happen. Sometimes two candidates become so closely matched that both have sufficient strength to ride out defeats, which they then reverse in a later round. Clinton-Sanders and Clinton-Obama both were notionally in the balance – though the endorsements of superdelegates meant that in reality no surprises would be sprung. In earlier years, Reagan pushed Gerald Ford all the way in 1976 before losing out.
However, we have to go right back to the Democrat convention of 1952 for the last case of delegates having to vote more than once: Stevenson won on the third ballot (a mixed blessing: he would be steamrollered by Eisenhower in November). Notably, this was before the primary season as we now know it was established – fewer than a third of states held primaries then as opposed to nearly all now – and momentum built in even a strong run of victories wasn't necessarily sufficient to propel a candidate to the nomination. Those days are gone.
So why do I think it could well be different this time? Three things: the candidates, the schedule and the rules.
The Democrats have a crowded field. True, well over a dozen candidates have already dropped out, including sometime serious contenders like Beto O'Rourke and Kamela Harris, but there's still a double-digit field and while Joe Biden has held a healthy (at times commanding) national lead for most of the last year, matters are much closer in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first states to vote, where he, Sanders, Buttigieg and Warren are in something close to a four-way tie. If the actual results look something like those polls then all four are all-but certain to head into Super Tuesday at the beginning of March not just in the race but in contention. On top of which, someone may come through from the pack.
This matters because the schedule's had a bit of a shake-up compared with 2016. In particular, California's 415 delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday at the beginning of March rather than in June. All told, over 60% of delegates will be awarded by 17 March – only six weeks after Iowa kicks everything off. This, combined with the closeness of the race, means that delegates are likely to be sprinkled round much more diversely than usual.
Even if the early contests do produce a clearer pecking order, history still suggests a race that'll last well past the St Patrick's Day primaries. The 2016 Republican race, where Trump held a clear lead throughout, five candidates contested Super Tuesday and two kept fighting for a month and half beyond; likewise, Gingrich and Santorum didn't throw the towel in in 2012 until the beginning of May. Not only did the Democrat contest go the distance in 2008 but the Republicans took well past Super Tuesday to settle on John McCain.
Where the Republicans differ from the Democrats though is in the allocation of delegates. The final primaries in the GOP race are mostly winner-take-all. As there is usually just one serious candidate left at this stage, that provides a massive boost to whoever it is, sufficient to gain an absolute majority.
By contrast, all the Democrat primaries are approximately proportional (subject to a high 15% qualifying share, though this operates individually at both district and state level – so a candidate who wins 11% statewide won't receive any of the at-large delegates but will still gain some in any districts where he or she tops 15%). So even in a much narrowed field, it'll be difficult for anyone to poll heavily enough to scoop up the delegates needed to put them over the top, if there are two or three lingering in.
And the very fact that there might well be a contested convention is good reason to stay in, before we even think about the nature of people like Sanders and his supporters, who are not natural quitters. If the primary contest isn't a matter of first past the post but a preliminary stage to a convention contest then why quit if you think you can attract crossover support – and all the candidates might feel able to do that.
All of which makes it far more likely than normal that the Democrats will get to Milwaukee without a confirmed candidate. Chances are, that still favours whoever has most delegates, who can not only claim a moral victory but who inevitably starts closer to the winning line. But it's no certainty. If there's a mood to stop someone for whatever reason, or if there's a deal done between two of the candidates, or if some other dynamic takes off, having most delegates might not be decisive.
Of the candidates, I only really see Biden, Sanders and Warren going the distance. They're the heavyweights and it'll take a lot to break into that company. But three is enough to force a deadlock.
David Herdson
Starmer edges up further in new YouGov leadership poll
New Labour leadership polling for @thetimes
KS – 46%
RLB – 32%
JP – 11%
LN – 6%
ET – 3%
RLB – 37%https://t.co/JrHoW89WKs
— Chris Curtis (@chriscurtis94) January 17, 2020
Punters move back to Starmer who's heading for a 70% chance once again
This from the Times shows how the poll has it going round by round.
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By Rory Masterson
Basketball, NBA
What Fruits They Bear
Jamal Murray, relatable (Courtesy ESPN)
On Tuesday night, we received the first-ever NBA Game 7 that occurred in the month of September. The series had been a showcase for two of the league's premier young teams, the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz, and specifically for those teams' respective young guards, Jamal Murray and Donovan Mitchell.
Two teams, of the same juggernaut division in the same juggernaut conference, sporting a guard apiece of the modern vintage, but with a distinctly timeless flair: they are Murray and Mitchell, players who would've been wildly successful in any era of the NBA but are coming into their own now, in an exceedingly strange 2020. This first round series, an instant and all-time classic, certainly had the flavor of, if not necessarily "kingmaking," then a long-awaited debutant ball. Each of them revealed parts of themselves and their respective games that are almost certain to shock and amaze for years to come.
So, as with everything showing any kind of promise under the microscope of popular opinion, we ask: Where do they go now?
Inversely a year apart in both birth and draft class, eventually attending college in the same state for rival schools – Murray was born over five months later, but drafted a year earlier, a product of John Calipari's one-and-done factory at the University of Kentucky, while the Westchester County, New York-bred Mitchell[1] plied his trade at Louisville for two years – the two lottery picks arrived with the vanishing hope that eternally evades small market teams desperate for a draft pick, whom the team can control for the ensuing 4-7 years.
Both guards were All-Rookie, with Mitchell first team and Murray second team. Mitchell was an All-Star this (this?) season. Murray's first appearance is soon to follow. In their own ways, they've been going back and forth separately for as long as they've been in the league; the first round series between their teams was just the most prominent clash they have thus far had, a shared coming out party.
Mitchell had games of 57, 30, 20, 51, 30, 44 and 22; Murray followed with 36, 14, 12, 50, 42, 50 and 17. Basically, unless you were at Game 3, you could count on one of them to score 30, and on three instances, at least one of them was going for 40. Both far exceeded their career averages in several categories.
(Stats courtesy basketball-reference.com)
Under the duress of great anticipation, neither had an especially impressive Game 7, with Mitchell a photo-negative version of his regular season self and Murray only seeming to gain steam in the final five minutes. They were both visibly trying to will their teams to victory, and they were both visibly exhausted.
When the circus ending of Game 7 ended with a Mike Conley shot that went halfway down before rimming out, Mitchell fell to the floor, the Jazz having lost by a tantalizingly close 80-78. Who would pick him up but Murray, who had been openly appreciative of his counterpart's exploits throughout the series.
One of the more fascinating questions coming out of both this series and the bubble concerns the further development of these two gentlemen, breakout stars and shining lights of the NBA's future. They represent the best shot at anything like "parity," that particular hope, should they be considered among the building blocks of their respective franchises (the obvious nods going to Nikola Jokić for Denver and Rudy Gobert for Utah as their long-term counterparts).
After signing an extension estimated to be in the $170 million range, Jamal Murray's contract runs through 2024-'25. After some concern over not signing an extension before entering the bubble, Donovan Mitchell is expected to sign a similar contract with the Jazz in October. They appear to be geared to battle for years to come.
While Murray heads toward the expected buzzsaw that is the Los Angeles Clippers – he admirably if incapably gunning his heart out in what turned out to be a Clippers 120-97 Game 1 win – Mitchell is left to mull next season, and the uneasy but effective partnership he has fostered with Gobert. An uncertainly long offseason awaits, in both cases.
When Scott Van Pelt informed Murray he would be playing the Clippers Thursday night, Murray delivered one of the most relatable pieces of broadcasted reaction I have ever seen from a professional athlete: "We play Thursday? …bummer."
[1] Mitchell grew up – and, by all accounts, remains – a huge New York Mets fan, as his dad was an executive with the team. This is more than enough reason to gratuitously shout out Tom Seaver, the three-time Cy Young Award winner and 1969 World Series champion who passed away on August 31st. Here's to The Franchise, the foremost figure of the #nice Mets.

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Dr. Samuel J Klempner
GI Medical Oncologist
Assoc. Prof. Autumn McRee
Prof. Shubham Pant
Asst. Prof. Joleen Hubbard
Mayo Cinic Rochester
Dr. Samuel J. Klempner is a GI medical oncologist with research and clinical focus on esophagogastric cancers and cancer genomics. Dr. Klempner completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, followed by a combined hematology-oncology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. While at Harvard, Dr. Klempner studied the mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies in tumor cells in the lab of Dr. Lewis Cantley, PhD. Dr. Klempner is board certified in medical oncology, hematology, and internal medicine. Prior to joining The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute Dr. Klempner served as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the division of Hematology-Oncology at the University of California Irvine. Dr. Klempner's research interests include the intersection of genomics and immunotherapies, oncogene-driven tumors, acquired resistance, and experimental therapeutics. Dr. Klempner is involved in professional societies including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).
Dr. Samuel J Klempner has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies:
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Dr. Autumn McRee is an Associate Professor of Medicine specializing in gastrointestinal (GI) medical oncology at The University of North Carolina (UNC). She graduated from the McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas in Houston and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University. During her hematology/oncology fellowship at UNC, she developed an interest in GI oncology and now as faculty, has established a career dedicated to early drug development and experimental therapeutics with an emphasis in pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancers. Dr. McRee demonstrates the unique combination of clinical trial productivity and correlative science knowledge that has allowed her to seamlessly bridge the gap between scientists and clinicians with a translational research focus in tissue-based research, next generation sequencing and bioinformatics. She oversees the GI clinical trials program at UNC, serving as PI for trials both industry sponsored and investigator initiated. Dr. McRee also is an active member of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and co-chairs the Hoosier Cancer Research Network GI Clinical Trials Working Group.
Prof. Shubham Pant is a Hematologist-Oncologist and an Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He previously served as the Director of Clinical Trials for the Section of Hematology-Oncology and Associate Director of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) Phase 1 program, for the Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma City. Furthermore Prof. Pant was the Oncology Lead of the Clinical Research Disease Site Group for Gastrointestinal Cancers and Clinical Research Disease Site Group Chair for Hepatocellular Cancers at the same institute. Prof. Pant completed his fellowship from the Ohio State University, where he was elected Chief Fellow. He previously served as an elected member at large to the Board of Directors for Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB), was the Site Principal Investigator for CALGB and was a Member of the Board of Trustees for ACTION. Prof. Pant served on the Board of Oklahoma Society of Clinical Oncology. He is a participant in the ASCO Leadership Development Program, Class of 2015-16. His awards include the Golden Pillar Award for Outstanding Patient Service in 2012 and 2014, America's Top Doctors by Castle Connolly and Oklahoma 40 Under 40 in the Oklahoma Magazine. In 2015, he anchored a health show on CNN-IBN India titled: 'Let's Talk Health'.
Dr. Joleen Hubbard is an Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic. She completed medical school and residency at the University of Minnesota, U.S., and hematology/oncology training at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. Dr. Hubbard specialises in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers, focusing on colorectal cancer. Dr. Hubbard is the PI of several phase I clinical trials, investigating novel agents for gastrointestinal cancers. Her research interests also include geriatric oncology with a special interest in clinical and biologic markers of frailty. She serves as a member of the Cancer in the Elderly, as well as the Health Reported Outcomes and Translational Research committees for the North American Alliance of Clinical Trials in Oncology Network. Dr. Hubbard is the chair of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Group Practice at Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
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Coconut recipes are dime a dozen in South Indian cooking. Learn how to store grated coconut for easy use in recipes that require coconut. You will also find coconut recipe ideas, both sweet and savoury.
While I love using coconut in South Indian cooking, there's never a chance to use the whole coconut in one recipe. I end up using a couple of tablespoons while grinding a masala or a teaspoon for a garnish over a light Tambrahm style stir fry. One coconut, broken open and scraped / grated can be used in multiple dishes over a couple of weeks or so, in my kitchen.
Coconut has the tendency to spoil easily because of the high oil content, not lasting for more than 2-3 days even in the refrigerator. Grated fresh coconut is best stored in an airtight box in the freezer. This gets problematic when I need just a couple of spoons of coconut to garnish a dish and I have to struggle with the whole big lot- break off a little and thaw. Quite a few frail knives and spoons have been bent in the process of scraping out a small portion from a big frozen chunk and now I know better.
This is my kitchen tip for you on how to store a grated coconut with quite a few coconut recipes to try out.
1. To break open the coconut, hit it around the central circumference on a big stone or a stony edge.
2. Usually, it will break off into two halves. You can keep a bowl beneath, while breaking to collect the sweet coconut water. In some occasions, the shell may break off leaving the whole coconut inside intact (the way it is in the picture). In the latter, you will have to cut open the whole nut into two halves-collecting the coconut water in a bowl.
3. Grate or scrape out the flesh using a coconut scraper.
5.Extract the coconut cubes and save them in a Ziploc bag in the deep freezer. Now you can have exactly as much fresh coconut as you want and yet save the rest.
6.Whenever you need some of this for a recipe, just remove the required number of cubes into a bowl and microwave them for 1 min in the defrost mode.
Ok my gues is a bun, pumpkin or a alien!
I give up but everyone seems to be guessing coconut. Guess I haven't seen that many coconuts.
Hey Nandita,I missed the whole drama. 🙁 🙁 🙁 I, too, would have guessed coconut.Anyway, I, too, make frozen coconut cubes. Ginger and garlic pastes (separately as well as together) can also be frozen to cubes and stored like this. However, I never did any freezing back in Pune. The power-cuts are so often there, that the frozen food is thawed at least twice a day in the freezer. Not good, not healthy.
Vaishali, I missed you in the guessing game coz you are generally so prompt- but after everyone started guessing it right, there was no point in pulling along. Bombay is reeling under power cuts too, but touch wood, some of the western suburbs are saved.Yes Vineela- in US when I didn;t have a smaller mixer, I would grind the masala for Kootu (coconut, cumin, gr, chillies ) and freeze them as cubes- used to be extremely convenient.Hey Santhi- Haha, you must be using a lot of coconut in cooking- traditionally so do we, at mom's place she breaks a coconut, and she finds use for the whole thing. Here, between me and DH, we can't consume as much-Well, the drama was very short lived but it was fun!
Well, now that I've learned how to open and use a coconut, thanks to you, I'm just going to have to go out and find one!Thanks for inviting me to visit your site…. your recipes look fantastic, and I think I'm going to have to get back to cooking Indian food very soon. Those mango pancakes look fantastic!
thats a neat idea to freeze them in ice trays.never thought of that.
For some reason, I cant see your monthly archives? Have you set that option?
Nandita:I missed the guessing fun too. For soem reason your blog wasn't coming up for me last night. Must be "blogger problems".I would have guessed coconut too. This used to happen quite often (the coconut breaking one whole piece) at my grandparents place where they had coconut trees.My favorite coconut recipe, hands down has to be the yellow/green coconut pachadi that goes with rice (not the idli one). As soon as I get a mortar and a pestle, that is the first chutney I am gonna make :). My second favorite is kobbari louzu the sweet ball/bar thingy..I consider cocoonut a fruit!
I don't use fresh coconut a lot because it's to big to finish in time. But it'said to be better than the dessicated ones. I'll try your tip. Thank you for it.
A method that I learnt from a fantastic Sri Lankan tamil vegetarian cook is to grate the coconut , take small handfulls and give them a small squeeze to shape it into a round or an oval and then arrange it in a single layer in a box and refrigerate. That way, you need only take out one ball of it to use. When I make thoran/poriyal type dry curries that call for grated coconut I just put the whole ball on top of the curry and close it. The heat loosens the ball and then I mix it up with the rest. Otherwise, I can nuke it in the microwave for 30 seconds and use as well.
Vidwata,Welcome to saffron trail!Sorry i had to reply you here, coz your blogger profile isnt visible, so cannot access your blog or ur email.Here's the answer. Break the two halves into smaller pieces with the shell itself. You could use a heavy pestle or some sort of stone, or bang it against some rock outdoors. After that it is easy to pry the flesh from the shell, and you could either grate it or throw the flesh pieces in the food processor and then go on to save the scrapings.
Thanks Nandita!You can visit my blog at http://vidwata.blogspot.comI do not write about cooking though! Just took to writing as a hobby!Came to your page while searching for tips to break coconut!!Actually I recovered from chickenpox and I have been recommended to apply coco water on the spots… So I thought I need to now do some magic with the coconut too!!!And just for the record, I love cooking too!
Hi I just read your page of storing coconuts in the freezer.I buy fresh and cut into pieces and store it in a ziploc bag in the freezer.I heat it in the microwave for 30secs and grind it with onions for kulambhu.but I find some oil coming out of it everytime.how do i prevent this.i am fed of making kulambhu.My kulambhu has some white thing floating on top everytime and i hate it.Please help.


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Scandinavian Trading Company (STC) var ett svenskt företag inom oljehandel som genererade stora vinster under slutet av 1970- och början av 1980-talen. STC ägdes under denna tid av Beijerinvest och företaget leddes av Tedde Jeansson. När Beijerinvest 1981 gick ihop med Volvo AB hamnade STC inom Volvo-sfären.

Ursprunget till STC:s vinster var att de förmedlade olja mellan stora oljebolag i olika delar av världen, och utnyttjade prisskillnader som inte var allmänt kända. Från mitten av 1980-talet skedde ökad terminshandel med olja, med mer transparent prissättning som följd, vilket ledde till minskande vinstmarginaler för STC och liknande oljehandelsbolag. Ett kraftigt oljeprisfall 1983 ledde därefter till stora förluster inom STC. 1989 sålde Volvo STC till Interfinans, som ägdes av den tidigare STC-anställde affärsmannen Holger Hjelm. 1992 slogs STC och Interfinans ihop till STC Interfinans. Oljehandelsverksamheten, det ursprungliga STC:s verksamhet, lades ner år 2000, men namnet STC finns kvar i det tidigare moderbolaget STC Interfinans namn.

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US Squash explore the way that squash player Dr. Toby Lynch has served the community of St. Louis during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The ongoing pandemic has transformed the way healthcare workers operate and treat patients in Emergency Rooms and Intensive Care Units around the world. Dr. Toby Lynch, an emergency medicine critical physician, has been working a demanding schedule directly with COVID-19 patients in Emergency Rooms and Intensive Care Units in the Washington University of St. Louis medical system in Missouri.
Like all hospitals, Dr. Lynch's team have dealt with the challenges of exhaustive protective measures for both themselves and their patients in the ER and ICU.
"It's a whole new world," Lynch said.
"For every patient now there's a new level of protection that we use whether it be facemasks and eye protection just to see any type patient in the ER. In the ICU it's N95 masks or respirators and faceshields or gowns. Before you could see patients face to face but now there's always needs to be an extra level of protection for you and your patient."
In addition to the unprecedented hazards, medical professionals are also grappling with relationship management due to widespread visitation restrictions implemented.
"From the ICU side of things, not having visitors is one of the hardest things for families and for the nursing staff and physicians," Lynch said.
"We're used to having very close interactions with loved ones and having them see and understand what's going on so that they can come to decisions about what comes next for their loved ones. We're not able to do that now because of the no visitors policy and the safety measure that are required due to COVID-19."
Like many areas of the country, Lynch praised support for medical professionals from the St. Louis community.
"There's been a huge outpouring of support from the St. Louis community throughout this whole process," Lynch said.
"Whether it's just signs in people's yards or food donations, or a lot of our physicians have partnered with members of the community to produce new PPE concepts and are making sure they're getting distributed to health care workers."
Lynch moved to St. Louis in 2016 when he began as a critical care fellow, and graduated and joined the staff in 2018.
"Our team has been handling things very well," Lynch said.
"There's been a lot of education and growth and adaptability from all members of the teams, which has been great to see and led to really good cohesiveness and results for what was a new disease process that developed very quickly with evolving information and treatments over the past few months."
Squash has also been an important part of Lynch's life. A native of Pittsburgh, Lynch picked up the game at Shady Side Academy and went on to play in college at Hobart. He joined the Racquet Club of St. Louis upon relocating and has been a regular member of the community ever since. Lynch lauded club pro Mike Puertas for his ability to bring newcomers into the game as well as promoting an active professional singles and doubles schedule.
"My favourite part about the Racquet Club community is the camaraderie," Lynch said.
"When I joined the club I knew one person. Over the span of a few months, I knew a couple dozen people. Everyone was extremely welcoming and willing to get on court with me regardless of how good or bad I was. It's been a great environment to be a part of. It's really nice to see guys at the Racquet Club who have never played step on court and Mike can teach them and have them playing the game in record time. His ability to interact with the members is phenomenal. The amount of high-level squash he brings to the city through both singles and doubles is unbelievable. Each year our professional events seem to get more popular and get everyone that much more excited to play themselves."
Like most squash players, Lynch looks forward to returning to the court when it is safe to do so and advises the community to be ready for adjustments to their past rhythms.
"Be smart, be practical and realise that there is going to be a new normal for a while and we're not sure what it is yet," Lynch said.
"Ultimately there will be a way to get back to the court and back to a more normal lifestyle in the coming months. It just takes time. I don't know what it's going to look like, but it's definitely not going to be the same as it was."
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Игорь Григорьевич Черванёв () (род. 17 апреля 1937 года, Волчанск, Харьковская область, Украина) — украинский ученый в области геоморфологии, физической географии и геоэкологии. Заслуженный профессор Харьковского национального университета имени В. Н. Каразина (2004), доктор технических наук (1982), кандидат географических наук (1969), заслуженный деятель науки и техники Украины (2009), лауреат Государственной премии Украины в отрасли науки и техники (2004).

Биография

Родился Игорь Черванёв в г. Волчанск, Харьковской области, 17 апреля 1937 г.

Окончил с отличием Волчанское педагогическое училище и по его окончании вступил в 1955 г. в Харьковский государственный педагогический институт имени Г. Сковороды на естественно-географический факультет, в 1956 году вместе с факультетом переведен в Харьковский государственный университет имени А. М. Горького.

Окончил с отличием географический факультет этого университета в 1960 году и начал работу в Отраслевой лаборатории структурной геоморфологии и неотектоники Географического общества Украины под руководством профессора С.И. Проходского, которая стала одной из известных в СССР ячеек новейшего направления изучения рельефа как индикатора глубинных тектонических структур, перспективных на залежи нефти и газа. Участвовал в исследованиях структурно-геоморфологических проявлений Шебелинского газового месторождения, которое на то время было в стадии активной разработки, и региональной характеристике перспективных площадок (больше чем 160 объектов, из них около 10 стали впоследствии месторождениями) в пределах Днепровско-Донецкой впадины. Возглавлял аналогичные исследования на Волыно-Подольской окраине Русской платформы.

В 1968 году защитил кандидатскую диссертацию по геоморфологии «Структурный анализ рельефа бассейна р. Стырь (западная Волыно-Подолия)».

С 1973 г. возглавлял пионерные работы по математическому моделированию и структурному анализу продуктивных отложений газового месторождения Медвежье — на то время наибольшего в мире. Впоследствии продолжал аналогичные исследования на других крупных месторождениях — Уренгойском, Ямбургском, Вуктыльском, а на Украине — Шебелинском, Западно-Крестищенском, Медведовском. Научные принципы моделирования рельефа и прикладные результаты его анализа стали основой докторской диссертации (защитил в 1979 по географическим наукам, получил степень доктора технических наук в 1982 г.).

С 1962 года и поныне — на преподавательских должностях в Харьковском государственном университете имени О. М. Горького (ХДУ) / с 1999 г. — это Харьковский национальный университет имени В. Н. Каразина (ХНУ): с 1962 — преподаватель, с 1967 — старший преподаватель, с 1972 — доцент, с 1984 — профессор. В 1982 году возглавил первую в СССР географическую кафедру рационального использования природных ресурсов и охраны природы, которая в 1995 году была перепрофилирована в кафедру геоморфологии и природоохранных компьютерных технологий. В 2002 году создал кафедру географического мониторинга и охраны природы, заведовал ею до 2010 года. С 2010 года — профессор кафедры физической географии и картографии (на которой 50 лет назад начинал научную и учебную деятельность).

Научная деятельность

Научную деятельность начал на 1 курсе естественно-географического факультета Харьковского педагогического института имени Г. Сковороды под руководством геолога И. Н. Ремизова, исследовав гранулометрический и минералогический состав песков одного из стратотипов полтавской серии неогена. В 1957—59 гг. работал в студенческих научных отрядах Кавказской высокогорной экспедиции Харьковского государственного университета имени О. М. Горького по программе ІІ Международного геофизического года под руководством доцента (с 1963 г. — профессора) П. В. Ковалева. Исследовал современное и древнее оледенение, описал и паспортизовал 114 ледников Центрального Кавказа, что стало содержанием дипломной работы и первой публикации.

Окончив с отличием географический факультет Харьковского государственного университета, начал работу в Отраслевой лаборатории структурной геоморфологии и неотектоники Географического общества Украины, где под руководством доцента (с 1974 г. — профессора) С. И. Проходского изучал локальные тектонические структуры Днепровско-Донецкой впадины и Волыно-Подольской окраины Русской платформы. Возглавив с 1973 года разработки по математическому моделированию и структурному анализу сеноманских продуктивных пластов месторождения газа «Медвежье» (Север Зап. Сибири), впервые выявил в них сеть палеодолин, которые характеризуются улучшенными коллекторско-емкостными свойствами, тем самым определяют повышенную производительность скважин и контролируют основные газопромысловые параметры. Это открытие, которое впоследствии подтвердилось на других крупных газопромысловых объектах, дало возможность разработчикам залежи существенно изменить стратегию газодобычи, а в дальнейшем распространить этот структурно-палеогеоморфологический подход на другие месторождения подобного генезиса (в том же регионе — Ямбургское, Уренгойское, в смежном Тимано-Печорском бассейне — Вуктыльское). На Украине структурно-пагеогеоморфологический подход был успешно применен к продуктивным пермским отложениям Шебелинской брахиантиклинали, Кегичевского и Медведовского месторождений, а метод структурного анализа соляного тела признан изобретением (1982). Вместе с группой ученых Харьковского университета, производственного объединения «Тюменьгазпром» и научно-производственного объединения «Союзгазавтоматика» (1977—1985) инициировал включение в комплекс задач АСУ разработкой газовых месторождений методов структурно-палеогеоморфологического анализа. Впервые начал применять методы геоинформационных технологий для обработки материалов бурения и сейсморазведки. В 1984 году за эти исследования и разработки удостоен почетного диплома общества нефтяников имени И. М. Губкина.

В 1979 году, после пребывания в докторантуре Харьковского университета, защитил в Московском государственном университете докторскую диссертацию «Структурный анализ рельефа» по геоморфологии и палеогеографии, в которой обосновал научное направление структурализма относительно исследования морфологии современного и доревнего рельефа: выделил метрическую и топологическую структуры, установил их типы и порядки, выявил и структурировал топологический инвариант рельефа и разработал алгоритмы структурного анализа в научных и прикладных целях. Одним из первых ввел, наряду с цифровыми моделями рельефа, в то время едва известными, структурно-цифровые, структурно-каркасные и структурно-лингвистические модели рельефа. Это дало возможность коренным образом изменить (в сравнении с мировым опытом) способы отражения, анализа и синтеза реальных и мнимых (впоследствии — виртуальных) рельефов и их составляющих (моно- и полирельефы, базисные и вершинные поверхности разных порядков и производные от них исследовательские объекты). Первым в геоморфологии начал разработку теории самоорганизации геоморфологических систем (монография вместе с А. В. Поздняковым, при участии коллег Харьковской геоморфологической школы — Б. Н. Воробьева, Н. В. Куценко). В последующем, вместе с Б. Н. Воробьевым и С. В. Костриковим разработал основы учения о флювиальных геоморфосистемах (монография, 2006) и исследовал (вместе с С. В. Костриковим) самоорганизацию флювиального рельефа на принципах синергической парадигмы естествознания, её проявления в ангулярных свойствах структуры флювиальных сетей, топологической структуре русел и др. фундаментальных чертах рельефа. Ими был впервые использован математический аппарат и ГИС-технологии для выявления и строгого доказательства таких особенностей рельефа. Участвовал по этой тематике в нескольких пленумах Геоморфологической комиссии РАН (1983, 2003, 2011, 2012).

Положил начало инвайронментологии как современному направлению познания окружающей среды и человека как холистического целостного объекта. Использовал ведущие идеи инвайронментологии в разработке международной программы. GIWA (2001—2004) и государственных и общественных экспертизах (1987—2000). В этом научном направлении подготовил 2 докторов и 31 кандидата наук, в их числе 10 иностранных граждан из Германии, Вьетнама, Иордании, Гвинеи-Бисау, Буркина-Фасо, Чада, Мали, Эфиопии.

Вместе с профессором В. А. Боковым осуществил разработку междисциплинарного направления инвайронментальной энергетики, создав авторский спецкурс для магистратуры университета.
Участвовал в разработках методологии и методики оценивания экологических ситуаций.

Инициировал (вместе с академиками НАН Украины Н. В. Багровым и Л. Г. Руденко) разработку парадигмы, научно-методологических принципов и системы методов «новой» географии, которая должна стать авангардной отраслью знания о комплексном территориальном ресурсе человечества и его рациональное использование как природного капитала.

Имеет около 300 печатных работ, в числе их 27 монографий (в качестве автора и научного редактора).

Педагогическая деятельность

Преподавательская деятельность была сосредоточена преимущественно на географических кафедрах Харьковского университета (50 лет научно-педагогического стажа). Также на протяжении 10 лет преподавал природоохранные дисциплины в Харьковском институте бизнеса и менеджмента.

С 1983 по 2010 гг. возглавлял первую в СССР природоохранную кафедру, которая стала праматерью ряда подобных кафедр во всех вузах Украины. Руководил разработкой учебного плана специализации кафедры «Рациональное использование природных ресурсов и охрана природы» для географов университета. Почти 50 лет преподает в Харьковском университете курс «Общее землеведение», ряд других дисциплин (см. ниже). Вместе с единомышленниками (В. А. Боков, Н. В. Багров, К. И. Геренчук, Ю. П. Селиверстов) придал этому курсу содержание теории географической оболочки — естественной самоорганизующейся геосистемы. Этот новейший подход дал возможность объяснить, как имманентные, ряд свойств, процессов и явлений, которые раньше считались только реакцией на внешние влияния.

Читал избранные темы землеведения и общей геоморфологии в университетах Польши и Югославии.

Разработал и преподавал несколько учебных курсов для бакалавров, специалистов и магистров географии: общее землеведение, глобальная экология (инвайронментология), теория и методология географической науки, математические методы в географии, оценка природных ресурсов, история географии на Украине, геосистемные основы управления окружающей средой, менеджмент территорий, альтернативная энергетика.
Автор и соавтор 14 учебников и учебных пособий. Вместе с соавторами напечатал учебник из общего землеведения для ВУЗов СССР (1984), для университетов России (1998) и университетов Украины (1993, 2000). Учебник издания в 2000 г. удостоен Государственной премии Украины в области науки и техники (2004). Вместе с В. А. Боковым, И.Е. Тимченко напечатал учебное пособие к авторскому курсу «Геосистемные основы управления окружающей средой» для обучения географов и экологов основам инвайронментального менеджмента (наряду с менеджментом экологическим).

С 2000 г. руководит разработкой научных принципов и учебно-методического обеспечения преподавания в университетах серии специальных курсов для обеспечения развития альтернативной энергетики. Был координатором международного проекта Темпус-Тасис (2001—2004), разработал (вместе с В. А. Боковым) спецкурс «Основы энергетики окружающей среды (инвайронментальной энергетики)» (два учебных пособия 2004, 2005) и участвовал в издании серии из 9 авторских учебных пособий(возглавлял международную редакционную коллегию консорциума Международного проекта). В Харьковском национальном университете участвовал во включении в учебный процесс на физико-энергетическом факультете специализации «Альтернативная энергетика» (с 2008), а на геолого-географическом факультете — специализации физико-географов «Региональное развитие альтернативной энергетики» (2003—2010).

Является автором (соавтором, научным редактором) 14 учебников и учебных пособий.

Профессиональная общественная деятельность

 Внештатный консультант Постоянной комиссии верховной рада Украины по вопросам экологической политики и ликвидации последствий аварии на ЧАЭС (1994—1999);
 Участник международных школ-семинаров Центрально-Европейского университета по изучению методологии и проведения ЕІA и SEA (1996, 1998);
 Член редакционной коллегии Географической Энциклопедии Украины (1985—1993);
 Сопредседатель Харьковской областной общественной экспертной комиссии (1988—1991);
 Член Президиума Харьковского областного общества охраны природы (1983—1991);
 Заместитель Председателя учебно-методической комиссии Минобразования Украины по рациональному природопользованию и экологии (1986—1991);
 Научный руководитель Международного ЕІА центра Харьковского университета (1998—2000);
 Научный руководитель Украинско-немецкого центра энергосбережения и альтернативной энергетики (с 2011 г.);
 Член Экспертного совета по географическим наукам ВАК Украины (1998—2006);
 Член Президиума и Научного совета Украинского Географического общества (с 1986 г.)
 Член секции окружающей среды Научного совета Минобразования Украины (1998—2010);
 Член редакционной коллегии 1-го тома Экологической энциклопедии (2004—2006);
 Член Национального комитета географов Украины (с 2009 г.);
 Член редколлегий «Украинского географического журнала» (с 2008 г.) журнала «Геополитика и экодинамика регионов» (с 2003 г.), «Вестника Харьковского национального университета: Геология. География. Экология» (с 1983 г.);
 Руководитель многих (больше чем 10) научно-исследовательских разработок по изучению объектов окружающей природной среды, оценке влияния на окружающую среду хозяйственных объектов, менеджменту территорий по координационным планам Минобразования СССР, Минобразования Украины и экологических экспертиз Минприроды Украины (с 1973 г. по настоящее время).

Почетные звания

В 1992 году, с появлением на Украине альтернативных академий наук, был избран действительным членом Академии наук технологической кибернетики Украины за цикл работ из саморегулирования и самоорганизации геоморфологических систем.

В том же году стал действительным членом Украинской Экологической Академии наук за работы из рационального природопользования и охраны природы.

С 1996 года является номинантом Кембриджского международного биографического издания «Dictionary of International Biography».

В 2004 году получил почетное звание Лауреата Государственной премии Украины за учебник для университетов «Землеведение» (совместно с Н. В. Багровым и В. А. Боковым).

В том же году удостоен почетного звания Заслуженного профессора Харьковского национального университета.

В 2005 году, по случаю 200-летнего юбилея Харьковского университета, награждён почетным знаком Минобразования Украины «Василь Сухомлинський».

В 2009 году удостоен почетного звания Заслуженного деятеля науки и техники Украины за совокупность научных достижений.

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Crewe Ball Number 14 In FA Cup First Round Proper Draw
THE EMIRATES FA CUP FIRST ROUND PROPER DRAW DETAILS
The Emirates FA Cup First Round Proper draw will take place on Monday 21 October from 7pm on BBC Two.
Crewe Alexandra will be ball number 14.
Conducted by Karen Carney and Jermaine Beckford, the draw will be broadcast live from the home ground of either Royston Town or Maldon & Tiptree, depending on which side is victorious on Saturday afternoon.
The 32 non-League clubs that progress from this weekend's fourth round qualifying ties will be joined by 47 clubs from Leagues One and Two.
Due to Bury FC's removal from the English Football League and subsequently The Emirates FA Cup, there will be an odd number of clubs entering the draw. As a result the final club left in the draw, that isn't drawn to play in a tie in the First Round Proper, will receive an automatic bye to the Second Round Proper and will also receive the prize fund payment applicable for the First Round Proper.
The First Round Proper is scheduled for the weekend of Saturday 9 November with winning clubs collecting £36,000 from The FA prize fund.


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Russell-Cooke successfully represented defendant in a serious fraud case brought by the Turks & Caicos Island Government.
The Turks & Caicos Island Government alleged that an $18 million fraud had taken place when a value was dishonestly understated in Stamp Duty, avoiding nearly $2 million worth of tax.
In a trial that lasted 21 days, Peter Cadman, partner in the professional regulation team at Russell-Cooke, worked alongside Jim Sturman, QC of 2 Bedford Row, to act for the defendant during the trial. In order to successfully act for the defendant under local legal requirements, Peter was admitted as an Attorney in the Turks & Caicos Island (TCI). They were supported in the UK by Matt Bosworth, partner and Amy Rudolph, associate, both in the regulation team.
The defendant had acted for an American billionaire in the purchase of Emerald Cay which was being sold by another billionaire. The matter was prosecuted by the Special Investigation Prosecution Team on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions of TCI. The Special Investigation Prosecution Team is a UK appointed investigative and prosecuting team largely involved in ongoing investigations and prosecutions of allegedly corrupt local politicians.
After 28 hours of deliberation (this is the first occasion in which a jury in the TCI has sequestered overnight) the jury of seven returned with a unanimous verdict of not guilty on all allegations.
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A Burqa is a piece of clothing. It is for Muslim women. They can wear it as an outer garment. It only leaves a semi-transparent mesh in front of the woman's eyes, so she can see. The rest of the body is covered by it.
Other garments for Muslim women that cover less of their body are the hijab and the niqab. People often call the hijab and the niqab 'burqa' because they do not know the right word for those garments.
The Quran does not say that women need to cover their faces with a veil, or cover their bodies with the full-body burqa.
In France, Italy, and the Netherlands wearing a burqa in public is illegal.
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This is only a short review because in truth there is not a huge amount of features to write about on such a small product, but here goes.
The Greenman Micro Torch is like many others on the market, but the key difference is that of the price! These micro torches are retailed on the site at only a few pence (special offer), much cheaper than the usual £4-8 price tag of similar LED lights.
The small body is quite simplistic, but of sturdy construction with a tiny on/off switch for prolonged use, and the usual 'squeeze' type button for quick on off operation is also present. The battery can be replaced by simply removing 4 tiny screws.
There is a metal key loop on the back of the torch so that it can be kept on key chains and rucksacks, etc.
The bulb is long lasting as is the battery, but the bulb is not as bright as some on the market, although when you consider the price then I would say you will have a hard time finding a better value micro torch in the UK market today.
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How was that again? A church that demanded nothing of its adherents? How does such a thing happen?
Of course the answer is easy to see and very human. Churches are worse than the anxious high schooler on his first day at a new school – he wants to be liked! He will do whatever it takes to be liked. He will cave in to conviction if that will make him popular.
So we have the odd scenario of the least biblically knowledgeable segment of the population – the unconverted and the uncommitted – determining the content of messages delivered from the pulpit.
Are we searching for an audience to hear our message, or are we searching for the message our audience needs to hear?
The Apostle Paul put it this way: "We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 1:23,24).
The cross offends, not so much because there's blood and sweat and pain, but because it declares the one thing men do not want to hear – that they are sinners, and not just that, but persistent sinners, incurable sinners, sinners whose debt was so great that nothing but the cross of Jesus would suffice to pay for it.
In a word, the offense of the cross is to our pride.
We don't want to change.
We don't think we need to change.
Which is why churches need to present a Biblical message of commitment and obedience. That's what men need.


Our four holiday flats are in our beautiful neighbouring country house, adjacent to the farmhouse. The house has a lounge and a garden with a BBQ area and wood stone oven.
The kids experience adventures at the play tower or splash with the spring water from the well, play table football, rock the swing and the slide or explore nature.
All flats are secluded but still central. It's only a few walking minutes to the shops in Altreichenau.
For your breakfast, you can order freshly baked rolls and self-made honey. You can also order a filled breakfast basket that we fill according to your individual preferences, of course our yummy honey is always included.
All flats have inviting living-rooms with TV, a fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, cozy bedrooms as well as a washing machine in the bathroom. Dryer, ironing board and vacuum cleaner are at your disposal.
Our flats carry the names of neighbouring mountain peaks.
Both flats are in the main house, have a balcony and are suitable for allergic persons.
Both 4* flats are in the neighbouring country house.
Ferienwohnung Plöckenstein F**** DTV-Klassifizierung, here are your well behaving pets heartily welcome.
If you are interested in having your family pet with you, please contact us - thank you.
Our prices include, bed linen, towels and dish towels.
For short stays up to 3 days, we charge 20% extra.
We have whet your appetite to spend your holidays with us in the Bavarian Forest?
Then do not hesitate to contact us. We gladly submit an offer without obligation.
Surly, you can book your holidays online!