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The week@work – Grad students win right to unionize, the changing conversation about the economy, why America's leaders fail and the story of Luke's Lobster
August 29, 2016 Eileen Kohan
Academia was in the headlines this week@work with the Tuesday announcement from the National Labor Relations Board, voting 3-1 to overturn a 2004 ruling allowing graduate students to form collective bargaining units. A Pew Research Center survey detected a shift in election season conversation from the economy (2012) to keeping the U.S. safe from terrorism. What conversation? The system isn't working, and it may be we don't have leaders who view their 'calling' as a 'vocation'. And finally, a career transition story – from investment banker to 'lobsterpreneur' for this last week of summer.
'Ruling Pushes Door to Grad-Student Unions 'Wide Open' Peter Schmidt for The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Many more private universities can expect to see their graduate employees move to form unions in the wake of Tuesday's National Labor Relations Board decision on such an effort at Columbia University.
The federal labor board's 3-to-1 ruling resoundingly overturned a 2004 decision involving Brown University. In the Brown ruling, the board asserted that graduate employees should not be allowed to form unions because their doing so would intrude into the educational process.
In Tuesday's decision, the majority held that such a belief "is unsupported by legal authority, by empirical evidence, or by the board's actual experience." It not only rejected the Brown precedent, but also overturned a 1974 ruling that had declared research assistants at Stanford University ineligible to unionize based on a belief that such research is part of the educational process.
The board's decision in the Columbia case says graduate students employed by a private university are as eligible as any other type of worker to form collective-bargaining units under the National Labor Relations Act."
In a letter to the Columbia University community, Provost John H. Coatsworth reiterated the long-held view of university administrators.
"Columbia and many of our peer universities have challenged this position. Nearly all of the students at Columbia affected by this decision are graduate students. We believe that the daily activities and the advisor-advisee relationships involved in the scholarly training of graduate students define an experience that is different from that of the typical workplace. Being a graduate student can take many years of intense research, teaching and study. But unlike university employees, graduate students who serve as teaching or research assistants come to this institution first and foremost to acquire through that work the knowledge and expertise that are essential to their becoming future scholars and teachers."
The world of academia is changing, and with it the profile of the teaching community. As more adjunct faculty assume the classroom role, it may be harder to differentiate the job description of part-time faculty from that of grad assistant.
'Since 2012, The Economy Has Changed — And So Has The Conversation' Marilyn Geewax for NPR
"Ah, 2012. You seem so long ago.
Back then, the economy was the star of the presidential election season, with more than 9 in 10 voters ranking it as Issue No. 1.
Voters worried about scarce jobs, expensive gasoline and a huge federal deficit.
Candidates proposed detailed solutions…
This year, the political conversation is very different, with much of the focus on non-economic issues: Republican Donald Trump's temperament and Democrat Hillary Clinton's trustworthiness.
And a Pew Research Center survey showed that the issue voters want to hear about most in a presidential debate is "keeping the US safe from terrorism."
Of course, economic issues remain extremely important, but they are different from 2012. This year, the hottest money topics involve income inequality, trade deals and immigrants."
Why are we focused on temperament and trustworthiness while the 'big problems' that effect our daily lives are ignored? David Brooks thinks it's about career vs. calling, and he may be right.
'Why America's Leadership Fails' David Brooks for The New York Times
"Over the past few decades, thousands of good people have gone into public service, but they have found themselves enmeshed in a system that drains them of their sense of vocation.
Let's start with a refresher on the difference between a vocation and a career. A career is something you choose; a vocation is something you are called to.
A person choosing a career asks, How can I get the best job or win the most elections? A person summoned by a vocation asks, How can my existing abilities be put in service of the greatest common good?
A career is a job you do as long as the benefits outweigh the costs; a vocation involves falling in love with something, having a conviction about it and making it part of your personal identity.
A vocation involves promises to some ideal, it reveals itself in a sense of enjoyment as you undertake its tasks and it can't be easily quit when setbacks and humiliations occur. As others have noted, it involves a double negative — you can't not do this thing.
I do think there's often an arc to vocation. People start with something outside themselves. Then, in the scramble to get established, the ambition of self takes over. But then at some point people realize the essential falseness of all that and they try to reconnect with their original animating ideals.
And so I think it possible to imagine a revival of vocation."
The last story this week@work is an 'end of summer' career transition feature.
'A Restaurant's Sales Pitch: Know Your Lobster' Janet Morrissey for The New York Times
"It was a steamy summer day in New York in 2009 when Luke Holden, an investment banker, had a craving for a lobster roll. Not just any lobster roll, though. He longed for the "fresh off the docks" taste he enjoyed growing up in Cape Elizabeth, Me.
After an exhaustive search on New York's streets, he came up dissatisfied and disappointed.
"Every lobster was served over a white tablecloth, extremely expensive, drowning in mayo and diluted with celery," he said. "I wondered why all the great chefs in this city had screwed this up so badly."
So that year, Mr. Holden decided to open an authentic Maine lobster shack in Manhattan. To replicate that fresh taste that he remembered, he would need to oversee, track and, where possible, own every step in the process.
Today, he owns 19 Luke's Lobster restaurants, two food trucks and a lobster tail cart in the United States, and five shacks in Japan."
If you only read one of these this week, spend some time with David Brooks…and reconnect with your "original animating ideals" and begin a "revival of vocation".
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MEC Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment Kgosientso Ramokgopa, is cautioning farmers regarding the outbreak of the African Swine Fever (ASF).
MEC for Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment Kgosientso Ramokgopa
The MEC's office said that In April, some informal pig keepers on the outskirts of Daveyton next to Masenkeng informal settlement) bought pigs at an auction at Sundra, Mpumalanga and a few days later, they reported unusual deaths in the pigs which were confirmed to have African Swine Fever (ASF) virus.
This was the first reported outbreak in the Province.
Nombulelo Nyathela, Spokesperson to Gauteng MEC Economic Development, Agriculture and Environment, said that 257 belonging to 19 communal pig farmers were culled.
The average number of pigs per farmer was 14.
ASF is a disease of pigs, both domestic and wild pigs, that is caused by a virus. Wild pigs (bush pigs, warthogs, and European wild boars) are considered reservoirs for the disease as they will not show any clinical signs when infected but will be able to infect other pigs that they come into contact with. The disease is also spread between pigs by soft ticks (tampans) that would be found habiting warthog burrows. Domestic pigs that come into contact with either infected wild pigs, infected pig products or other infected domestic pigs will become seriously sick and most will die from the disease.
Nyathela said more outbreaks were reported in May where a small-scale farmer in Vanderbijlpark was reported to have visited the Hersa auction in Vereeniging and bought pigs from a Free State farmer whose pigs had been diagnosed with ASF.
"The farmer inevitably introduced infected pigs into his farm, which as a result infected his animals. A total of ninety-six (96) pigs were culled on this farm and disposed of. Again, between the end of May and the middle of June, the department became aware of pigs dying around Alra Park near Nigel, 91 pigs belonging to fourteen farmers were culled and disposed of.
"Towards the end of June, another outbreak was detected at an agricultural smallholding in Hallgate (Nigel) in which 7 pigs were culled. A further 55 pigs belonging to 4 farmers have culled on the 1st of July 2019 in the Alra Park extension 3 areas as they were in close proximity to the outbreak area.
At the beginning of August another outbreak was detected in Leeuwfontein Farm on the Lesedi side of Nigel in which thirty-four confined pigs were culled," she said.
The current and latest outbreak was detected in an informal set up in the Swanieville area under West Rand district. A group of about five pig owners are affected. The estimated population of pigs in the area is in the region of 1000. The culling process is still pending.
The Gauteng Department for Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD) has instituted the following measures in an attempt to minimize the spread of the disease to other regions:
1. GDARD, together with other affected Provinces, directed the cessation of selling of pigs at auctions until the ASF outbreak is declared over in Gauteng. The unintended consequence of this disease control measure was curtailing the sale of pigs other than through registered abattoirs.
2. The department has also implemented a system of issuing of movement permits for farmers wishing to move their pigs to abattoirs for slaughter.
3. Pig farmers are advised to contact their local state veterinarian to enable them to acquire these health attestations and/or movement permits.
4. The department is in the process of procuring pig feed for distribution to small scale farmers to buffer against losses resulting from the inability to sell their pigs in the live market.
5. GDARD has also intensified ASF awareness measures and strongly emphasized the importance of maintaining optimal biosecurity measures in their farms. In this regard, the department has held face-to-face engagements with pig farmers in all regions of Gauteng. The field officials have also distributed the pamphlet detailing information about the ASF and what measures to take to reduce the risk of the spread of the disease.
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Q: Why is it bad to teach students that p-values are the probability that findings are due to chance? Can someone please offer a nice succinct explanation why it is not a good idea to teach students that a p-value is the prob(their findings are due to [random] chance).  My understanding is that a p-value is the prob(getting more extreme data | null hypothesis is true).
My real interest is what is the harm of telling them it is the former (aside from the fact it is simply not so).

A: Referring directly to the question: Where is the harm?
In my opinion, the answer to this question lies in the converse of the statement, "A p-value is the probability that the findings are due to random chance." If one believes this, then one also probably believes the following: "[1-(p-value)] is the probability that the findings are NOT due to random chance."
The harm then lies in the second statement, because, given the way most people's brains work, this statement grossly overestimates how confident we should be in the specific values of an estimated parameter.

A: Here is a simple example that I use:
Suppose our null hypothesis is that we are flipping a 2-headed coin (so prob(heads) = 1).  Now we flip the coin one time and get heads, the p-values for this is 1, so does that mean that we have a 100% chance of having a 2-headed coin?
The tricky thing is that if we had flipped a tails then the p-value would have been 0 and the probability of having a 2-headed coin would have been 0, so they match in this case, but not the above.  The p-value of 1 above just means that what we have observed is perfectly consistent with the hypothesis of a 2-headed coin, but it does not prove that the coin is 2-headed.
Further, if we are doing frequentist statistics then the null hypothesis is either True or False (we just don't know which) and making (frequentist) probability statements about the null hypothesis is meaningless.  If you want to talk about the probability of the hypothesis, then do proper Bayesian statistics, use the Bayesian definition of probability, start with a prior and calculate the posterior probability that the hypothesis is true.  Just don't confuse a p-value with a Bayesian posterior.

A: OK another, slightly different take on this:
A first basic problem is the phrase "due to [random] chance".  The idea of unspecified 'chance' comes naturally to students but it is hazardous for thinking clearly about uncertainty and catastrophic for doing sensible statistics.  With something like a sequence of coin flips it is easy to assume that 'chance' is described by the Binomial setup with a probability of 0.5.  There is a certain naturalness to it for sure, but from a statistical point of view it's not more natural than assuming 0.6 or something else. And for other less 'obvious' examples, e.g. involving real parameters it's utterly unhelpful to think about what 'chance' would look like.
With respect to the question, the key idea is understanding what sort of 'chance' is described by H0, i.e. what actual likelihood/DGP H0 names.  Once that concept is in place, students finally stop talking about things happening 'by chance', and start asking what H0 actually is.  (They also figure out that things can be consistent with a rather wide variety of Hs so they get a head start on confidence intervals, via inverted tests).
The second problem is that if you're on the way to Fisher's definition of p-values, you should (imho) always explain it first in terms of the data's consistency with H0 because the point of p is to see that, not to interpret the tail area as some sort of 'chance' activity, (or frankly to interpret it at all).  This is purely a matter of rhetorical emphasis, obviously, but it seems to help.
In short, the harm is that this way of describing things will not generalise to any non-trivial model they might subsequently try to think about.  At worst it may just add to sense of mystery that the study of statistics already generates in the sorts of people such bowdlerised descriptions are aimed at.

A: I have a different interpretation of the meaning of the wrong statement than @Karl does. I think that it is a statement about the data, rather than about the null. I understand it as asking for the probability of getting your estimate due to chance. I don't know what that means---it's not a well-specified claim.
But I do understand what is likely meant by the probability of getting my estimate by chance given that the true estimate is equal to a particular value. For example, I can understand what it means to get a very large difference in average heights between men and women given that their average heights are actually the same. That's well specified. And that is what the p-value gives. What's missing in the wrong statement is the condition that the null is true.
Now, we might object that this isn't statement perfect (the chance of getting an exact value for an estimator is 0, for example). But it's far better than the way that most would interpret a p-value.
The key point that I say over and over again when I teach hypothesis testing is "Step one is to assume that the null hypothesis is true. Everything is calculated given this assumption." If people remember that, that's pretty good.

A: I've seen this interpretation a lot (perhaps more often than the correct one).  I interpret "their findings are due to [random] chance" as "$\text{H}_0$ is true", and so really what they are saying is $\Pr(\text{H}_0)$ [which actually should be $\Pr(\text{H}_0 | \text{data})$; say, "given what we have seen (the data), what is the probability that only chance is operating?"]  This can be a meaningful statement (if you are willing to assign priors and do Bayes), but it is not the p-value.
$\Pr(\text{H}_0 | \text{data})$ can be quite different than the p-value, and so to interpret a p-value in that way can be seriously misleading.
The simplest illustration: say the prior, $\Pr(H_0)$ is quite small, but one has rather little data, and so the p-value is largish (say, 0.3), but the posterior, $\Pr(\text{H}_0|\text{data})$, would still be quite small.  [But maybe this example isn't so interesting.]

A: I'll add a late answer from the (ex) student perspective: IMHO the harm cannot be separated from its being wrong.
This type of wrong "didactic approximations/shortcut" can create a lot of confusion for students who realize that they cannot logically understand the statement, but assuming that what is taught to them is right they do not realize that they are not able to understand it because it is not right.
This does not affect students who just memorize rules presented to them. But it  requires students who learn by understanding to be good enough to

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*arrive at the correct solution by themselves and

*be good enough so they can be sure they are right

*and conclude that they are taught bullshit (for some allegedly didactic reason).

I'm not saying that there aren't valid didactic shortcuts. But IMHO when such a shortcut is taken, this should be mentioned (e.g. as "for the ease of the argument, we assume/approximate that ...").
In this particular case, however, I think it is too misleading to be of any use.

A: If I take apart, "p-value is the probability that an effect is due to chance," it seems to be implying that the effect is caused by chance. But every effect is partially caused by chance. In a statistics lesson where one is explaining the need to try to see through random variability this is a pretty magical and overreaching statement. It imbues p-values with powers they do not have.
If you define chance in a specific case to be the null hypothesis then you're stating that the p-value yields the probability that the observed effect is caused by the null hypothesis. That seems awfully close to the correct statement but claiming that a condition on probability is the cause of that probability is again overreaching. The correct statement, that the p-value is the probability of the effect given the null hypothesis is true, does not ascribe cause to the null effect. The causes are various including the true effect, the variability around the effect, and random chance. The p-value doesn't measure the probability of any of those.

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Everyone Is Responsible For The Attendance Problem. USF Has 19 Days To Fix It.
It's time to stop spitballing and blaming, assess the current challenges, and start looking at tangible, long-term solutions.
By Collin Sherwin@CollinSherwin Sep 25, 2017, 8:52pm EDT
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After leaving Ray Jay Thursday night, where a ranked USF team on ESPN won by 36 points against last year's conference champion in front of 16,797 people, there was more consternation about the lack of support for a quality football team than ever.
But this here website has popped off annually on USF attendance basically since we started doing this. So writing another screed vilifying USF fans and administration seemed pointless. There's plenty of blame to go around about, and all parties involved are responsible.
Everyone has a solution for the USF attendance problem. Most of them have been tried before, and all of them are in my Twitter mentions. But there is no quick fix. It's a culture that has to change, from the administration to the alumni to the current students.
I've spent the past three days talking to everyone I think has a valid opinion on USF attendance, and how to solve the problem. Donors, administrators, city leaders in Tampa Bay area, former employees, students... everyone.
Absolutely none of those people wanted to go on the record. There is a level of terror about crossing USF's administration by those in and out of the university community that is almost North Korean.
So I took what I learned and put it here.
What USF Can't Control
- When you play back-to-back weeknight games against mediocre opponents, your attendance is going to suffer no matter where you are. 98% of college football wouldn't have sold out the last two games either. Attendance is down nationally, and in a competitive sports market like Tampa, it makes things even tougher. The AAC needs to help out USF here: no more than one weeknight home game per conference team.
One season ticket holder: "There's too many season ticket holders with too many kids to make that work. You're not getting your kids to bed after midnight for Temple."
But everyone agrees that it shouldn't be this bad, and that the relationships aren't being built for the future. And unless some drastic measures are taken soon, it could be bad for Cincinnati in less than three weeks too. Remember: ECU for Homecoming last year drew just 16,585.
- The home schedule doesn't offer a lot of marquee names to the casual fan. Wisconsin should have been playing here this year, but they asked to move it back. You can't make Power Five schools come to Ray Jay. And if you give them terms that are too favorable in terms of two-for-one scheduling or rebates, your hurt yourself financially.
- The American's best teams still don't have tremendous name ID outside of Navy and Houston, and this season's game against C. is on the road. We knew this was going to be a bad schedule, but USF couldn't do anything about that.
What USF Can Control
- USF Athletics has had four development directors in the last four years. The staff in marketing has been turned over multiple times as of late. And that's not just for external relations, but across the department. College athletics is a transient industry, but not this transient. And the churn has affected the ability to design and implement a plan.
Plus USF is just weird. Since the start of the program, fans have been coddled by an inclusive, fan-friendly infrastructure. For years, when Bulls patrons were supporting just a men's basketball team, those that were a part of the "family" received a level of service and support from Athletics that was unusually kind for a school competing at a high level.
But when subsequent athletics leadership has tried to take stewardship like that away, as is sometimes necessary when an organization grows, some fans have rebelled and felt excluded.
- Yes, USF fans are entitled. And with their feet and wallets, they've shown they'll stay away if you don't make them feel special. That is the reality. But when you do entitle them, they will show up and support your program wholeheartedly. See 2000-2010.
Last year when we went to student organizations, we found out the problem was even worse than we thought. It seems many of those same challenges are still around. They're trying, but it's a relationship that has to be built peer-to-peer, 365 days a year.
A couple USF staff people tell me they think it's ridiculous that USF has to ask students to go to games. But when USF has done that in the past, they had a lot more butts in seats than they do now. And everyone I've talked to agrees that a large student crowd makes the atmosphere at games so much better for everyone, including those in the paid seats.
But a significant majority of people I talked to said the problem starts with the president's office, and a few pointed directly at Judy Genshaft. They said not enough is being done to get everyone bought in, from prospective students to current staff to young alumni to big donors. They said the level of commitment to building loyal students and alumni isn't nearly big enough.
A donor asked: "Why isn't every freshman University Experience class required to come to Athletics for a day and see what it's about?"
One current USF staffer not in Athletics: "USF sends emails, they don't build a culture."
USF used to have marketing professionals solely dedicated to getting students to games. Bring them back.
- Several folks also pointed to the revised marketing structure when former Chief Marketing Officer Tom Hoof was brought in August 2013. He was given a wide berth to control the marketing and messaging for departments across campus, including Athletics.
Hoof was "non-renewed" in state employee parlance in May 2016 after his ideas clashed significantly with the president's office. He was replaced on an interim basis by John Robinson, chief communications officer USF Health who acted as CMO for Athletics. By all accounts he's a great guy, but he had no experience with sports marketing.
Hoof got quietly disappeared the way so many USF employees at senior staff level do, which is why as one person told me: "If you have a mortgage, you keep your mouth shut."
Joe Hice, formerly of Enterprise Florida, replaced Hoof in the role a month ago. His Twitter avatar is fantastic. The reporting structure has been changed somewhat, but how that will affect future USF marketing is unclear so far.
- There's also a belief that an overemphasis on selling season tickets, combined with a very weak home slate, makes marketing even tougher. Also, the new ticket plan implemented a couple years ago brought down the donation level for most ticket holders, but some that weren't grandfathered in lost lots of priority. A few of them still hold a grudge.
- This will be debated by those on staff, but how much earned media is USF getting locally? Where is Charlie Strong at events in the area? Can players be sent to the mayor's Food Truck Rally in downtown the week of games?
I can't confirm this complaint. I don't watch a ton of local media, and when I've looked at things like local news coverage of USF in the past... it's actually better than UF, FSU, and Miami. Believe it or not, USF gets more coverage than those teams in this market, not less.
Also this is a common complaint of people who don't see USF marketing reaching out to them, despite being huge fans of the program.
- Under the current ticketing structure, current alumni get 20% off. There used to be a program where young alumni paid as little as 25% of the gift associated with the ticket they used in their first year after graduation. It scaled up to 50% in Year 2, and 75% in Year 3. It might help get the new grads in the habit of going to Ray Jay.
Note: this is not a comprehensive list. It's just things I haven't heard ad infinitum previously from fans since 2002.
So What Can They Do?
If USF agrees this is a crisis, it should be all hands on deck for Cincinnati. Here's what you need:
- Unyielding, unrelenting text messages and emails to students. Feel free to annoy them a bit this time. Show up in person at student organization meetings over and over until the game.
- Maybe even a statement from the president's office about the importance of being a part of the USF community? How good the football team is, and how much they deserve the support of their fellow current students?
- As far as the sidelines, it might cost him some recruiting time, but Charlie Strong needs to be on local television during the bye week more than Gayle Guyardo and Reggie Roundtree combined.
- Publicly acknowledging that the attendance isn't good enough, and that you're not getting an on-campus stadium (and tacitly, a better conference) without an uptick in support from the seats might be a first step. You've got to admit there's a problem before you can fix it.
Will any of this happen? Who knows. But something has to change immediately.
And though much of the above is university-focused: the fans and alumni, even if none of the above gets addressed, have to just show up anyway. Because if you want to be a big-time program, you have to act like it as a fan base too. The day of the week is one thing, but if the game's on Saturday, don't complain about the kickoff time. All those last-minute kickoff time decisions didn't stop you from buying tickets during the Grothe years and showing up whenever you were told to show up. Fans at big-time programs build their entire Saturday around the game, whenever it is. They don't see if it will fit into their schedule.
USF Football: Head Coach Jeff Scott Receives Two-Year Extension Through 2026 The former Clemson coach has had to deal with a lot since taking over.


A constituent has asked what steps the Greater London Authority (GLA) is taking to mitigate the impact of diesel emissions from ships that will be docking at the proposed cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf in east Greenwich. For example, will a shore side power supply be required by planning condition?
The main pollutant emission of concern from cruise ships is sulphur dioxide (SO2). It is understood that ships using the Enderby Wharf terminal will be complying with international, national and local emissions legislation, which is enforced and policed by the Maritime Coastguard Agency in the UK. The Enderby Wharf terminal is within the Sulphur Emissions Control Area (SECA) and therefore ships using this terminal will be burning low sulphur emissions, i.e. less than 0.1% as per current legislation.
The possibility of using shore power at the Enderby Wharf Cruise Terminal has been considered. However, the layout of the proposed development would mean that the prevailing south-westerly winds in London would not normally take emissions from the liners to the nearest sensitive receptors, located to the south-east of the liner berth.
The number of ship movements expected at Enderby Wharf per year is approximately 110, assuming 55 cruise liners arriving at the terminal. This number of ship movements is lower than the threshold included in the relevant Defra guidance which is between 5,000 and 15,000 per year.
Based on the above information regarding the use of the Enderby Wharf terminal by cruise liners and current guidance, the potential effects on local air quality are not likely to be significant and therefore no further mitigation is considered to be required.


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Група синхізиту — група мінералів, флуоркарбонатів кальцію і церієвої групи рідкісних земель острівної будови.

Назва — від грецьк. «синхізис» — переплутання (G. Flink, 1900).

Склад групи
Трьома хімічно ізоструктурними кінцевими членами є синхізит-(Ce), синхізит-(Nd) і синхізит-(Y). Хуанхеїт-(Ce) належить до групи, але має іншу симетрію, а кальцій замінений барієм:

Варіанти формули:
 За Є. Лазаренком, К. Фреєм, Ґ. Штрюбелем синхізит-(Ce) має формулу СаСе[F(CO3)2].
 За «Fleischer's Glossary» (2004):
 синхізит-(Nd) — Ca(Nd, La)[CO3]2F;
 синхізит-(Y) — Ca(Y, Ce)[CO3]2F.

Загальний опис
Сингонія ромбічна або моноклінна. Форми виділення: ромбічні кристали, товсті таблички. Густина 3,9. Тв. 4,0-5,0. Спайність по (001). Колір восково-жовтий до коричневого. Напівпрозорий. Блиск скляний. Злам напівраковистий.

Розповсюдження
Гідротермальні мінерали. Зустрічаються разом з астрофілітом, ельпідитом у пегматитах лужних сієнітів Південної Гренландії, в жилах альпійського типу у Швейцарії, олов'яних жилах Південної Африки. Рідкісні.

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On a bright mid-October day, more than 200 people gathered in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center to discuss the promise and challenges of global leadership.
Hosted by the Meridian International Center, the 2013 Global Leadership Summit was a timely exchange among diplomats, policymakers and businesspeople about the state of affairs around the world. Now in its second year, the summit served as a prelude to the popular annual Meridian Ball held at the Meridian Center later that evening.
Before the desserts and dancing, however, there was a discussion on leadership — specifically the "Global States of Mind: New Metrics for World Leaders," a new report by Gallup.
Jim Clifton, Gallup chairman and CEO, presented results from the polling company's second annual global audit, which looked at what people in 160 countries around the world think about their leaders. The only global study of its kind, the Gallup report measures the views of citizens on key quality of life issues including law and order, food and shelter, institutions and infrastructure, good jobs, and overall well-being.
"We need to know what's in the hearts and minds and souls of the world's 7 billion people," Clifton said.
From left, Senior Advisor for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies at the State Department Tomicah Tillemann; Ambassador of Singapore Ashok Kumar Mirpuri; Ambassador of Botswana Tebelelo Seretse; Ambassador of Mexico Eduardo Medina-Mora; Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Vali Nasr; and Ambassador Stuart Holliday, president and CEO of the Meridian International Center, participate in the panel discussion "Reimagining Power: The Demands of Global Leadership Today" at the 2013 Meridian Global Leadership Summit.
This is behavioral economics, he added, and is a better predictor of societal progress than traditional economics because well-being predicts stability better than money does.
For example, when Gallup asked 3 billion people what their dream is, the overwhelming response was to secure a decent job. "Today, having a good job is the global dream," said Clifton.
"That sounds simple but it's really profound," he said, because the follow-up question — 'do you hope to get a job' — garnered negative replies.
From left, Ambassador of Botswana Tebelelo Seretse talks to the audience as Mexican Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora, Vali Nasr and Meridian President and CEO Stuart Holliday look on at the 2013 Meridian Global Leadership Summit, held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
"That's key," said Clifton, noting that hope is the fundamental premise of well-being. If one is hopeful, then dreams are limitless and one lives in a state of well-being. But if one is hopeless, the person will be a burden and possibly a threat to society.
"Well-being is slipping away in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. No one knows this and so we are trying to quantify the phenomenon," he said.
Ambassador of Singapore Ashok Kumar Mirpuri speaks on a panel that examined America's positioning as a global superpower, the emerging role of civil society, and the relevance of the United Nations as a governing entity.
What about the United States, which recently suffered a 16-day government shutdown? Is it still a global superpower or a waning empire?
Panelists praised the United States for creating many international institutions that preserve peace. "There's no substitute for the superpower role of the U.S.," said Vali Nasr, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
The United States has the resources, demography, financial penetration and, above all, the rule of law, which is the underpinning of democracy and the single most important criteria enabling a country to move forward.
"This makes the U.S. an international powerhouse regardless of the role of China," said Mexican Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora.
Meridian International Center Board of Trustees Chairman James J. Blanchard, left, talks with Meridian Ball and Summit Chair Dalia Mroue-Fateh, founder of Salt Productions, LCC.
Ashok Mirpuri, Singapore's ambassador, said he was grateful for the security blanket that America has provided to its allies. "The U.S. has guaranteed our safety for the past 50 years," he said, reminding the audience how much President Obama's presence was missed at the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (Obama had to skip the meeting because of the shutdown).
Despite that shutdown, a sluggish economy and ongoing budget battles, Mirpuri said the United States is still number one in defense and education. "The problems aren't insurmountable. They can be fixed," he said.
Where does that leave the world's main multilateral bloc, the United Nations?
Nasr said the world body was designed to do exactly what it does and is still relevant in today's changing world. "The question to ask today is whether the right number of countries are [Security] Council members," he said, referring to the five veto-wielding permanent members of the council (the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom). Other nations have long argued that the Security Council needs to be expanded to give others a greater say in the bloc.
Mirpuri disagreed, describing the U.N.'s peace and security role as disappointing — largely because of the Security Council, where one nation can torpedo any resolution (i.e. Russia's refusal to slap sanctions on the Syrian government). "The institution only moves ahead on issues not of vital interest to any of the Security Council members. The result is action only on minor issues," he argued.
But in addition to the traditional levers of diplomacy, technology is changing the world at a pace both people and governments can hardly keep up with.
The fastest transformation is in financial services — corporate banking, customer banking, government banking. "We'll have a hard time recognizing the financial industry in five to 10 years," said Kheradpir. For example, it's likely that African farmers will use computers in their cell phones to make decisions about their land.
"Every 28 months, the amount of information transmitted over phones doubles," Tom Monahan, chairman and CEO of CEB, pointed out.
The single biggest change will be the practical way people get work done, he said. They will still sit in cubicles in sight of colleagues, but increasingly teams are orchestrated over geography and tasks. "This changes leadership drastically," Monahan said.
Leaders must enable people's voices to be heard despite the distance between workers. A good flow of opinion through an organization is essential to building strong companies and creative employees, he said.
For more on the 2013 Meridian Global Leadership Summit, click here.
To read The Washington Diplomat's profile of Meridian President and CEO Stuart Holliday, click here.
Audrey Hoffer is a contributing writer for the Diplomatic Pouch.


Thunder Bay, ON – Rare Earth Metals Inc. ("Rare Earth Metals", "RA" or the "Company") (TSX-V: RA; OTCQX: RAREF, PINK SHEETS: RAREF) is pleased to report diamond drill sample results from the second drill hole on the West Lavergne REE Mineralized Zone at the Lavergne-Springer property. The property is located 8 km north of the Trans-Canada Highway, in Springer Township, immediately north of the Town of Sturgeon Falls and 80 km east of Sudbury, Ontario. The results from DDH SL-11-02 include 1.24% TREO over 135.2 meters within a larger zone of mineralization which assayed 0.97% TREO over 301.6 meters. Included in the 135.2 meter intersection is a higher grade zone of mineralization with values of 1.57% TREO over 40.7 meters. The HREO/TREO ratio from the 40.7 meter zone is 5.4%, from the 135.2 meter intersection is 8.1%, and the 301.6 meter composite is 7.0%.
DDH SL-11-02 was collared on the same setup as DDH SL-11-01 at a dip of -60 degrees to undercut and test the down dip extension of the mineralization previously intersected in DDH SL-11-01. As reported in a previous press release dated August 15, 2011, DDH SL-11-01 intersected a zone of 1.50% TREO over 94.2 meters within a larger zone of mineralization which assayed 0.94% TREO over 359.8 meters. The results from the initial two holes indicate that the West Lavergne REE Mineralized Zone has a thickness of approximately 250 meters, extends down dip and contains a central higher grade zone with an approximate thickness of 80 meters outlined by a grade of 1.5% TREO. Preliminary mineralogy carried out on the Lavergne mineralization indicates the Rare Earths are contained primarily in the carbonate mineral synchysite; metallurgical test work has been initiated on drill core samples to get a better understanding of the mineral and potential concentrate characteristics. The REE mineralization is enriched with Cerium, Lanthanum, Neodymium and Yttrium.


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Q: When relating 3 entities in CRM 2011 using Advanced Find only 2 entities show up in edit columns I'm trying to create a view in CRM 2011 that will show a few columns from Customers (Account), Orders (SalesOrder), and Order Products (SalesOrderDetail). I already know I need to start at the child-most entity so under Advanced Find I select "Order Products" under Look for. When I do this I'm able to select columns from Orders but unable to select columns from Customers.
Is this even possible to accomplish in CRM?
I'm trying to create the following result set:
Account.Name,
Account.Email,
SalesOrder.OrderNumber,
SalesOrderDetail.NetAmount,
SalesOrderDetail.ShipDate

A: I verified that you cannot manually add a second link within a view query.  To my knowledge it is also not possible to add these columns though javascript.  You can get the account name in your view simply by using the account lookup on the Order.  If you need for the account email to also be in the view, then I suggest you add this field to the order entity and populate it with post callout logic on the account.

A: I Second Zach's idea, but suggest adding a direct relationship between customer and orderdetail . This way you can use fetchxml to show account.email or any other account.* for that matter.
The downside is you'll need to sync order.customer changes to orderdetail.customer.
The better option is to simply create a report and show that in an iframe or a webresource.

A: This is not possible even if we edit the fetch xml it wont work


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