Big Idea:A variety of strategies are used to help students read and spell words with long o.
Big Idea:The students will learn about words that have long a in them. They will connect the word cake to their long a file in their memory.
Big Idea:In order to reach the oral reading fluency goals in first grade I have to dig deep into phonics. I like creating mental images and fun phrases to go with each new phonics skill. I think this helps students remember the new skill.
Big Idea:A variety of strategies are used to teach students to read and use long u words.
Big Idea:Songs, chants, and motions make this lesson motivating and engaging for the student as they learn about changing y to i.
Big Idea:We roll letter cubes and blend the sounds on the cubes. This is a exciting activity to develop fluency.
Big Idea:Use a challenging activity to generate higher order thinking skills in students.
Big Idea:Bring phonics lessons alive with a video, collaboration, and complex activities.
Big Idea:Engage a class in a hands on lesson to develop phonics skills.
Big Idea:Launch a connection by relating the oi and oy sound to Buzzlight Year.
Big Idea:Poems are used to add a variety of text for students to learn to read and spell words with ar.
Big Idea:This lesson contains a fun file folder activity for students to use to learn to read, write, and spell words with er, ir, ar, and ur.


Express train in Fukushima, Japan, in 2014.
On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake caused massive devastation in the Tohoku District, followed by a massive tsunami and aftershocks. The death toll exceeded 15,000, and nearly 2,500 people remain missing. At the same time, the disaster led to the unprecedented nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO).
Five years later, the entire Tohoku region continues moving toward reconstruction, but over 80,000 people still live away from home as evacuees, particularly in areas within a 12.4-mile radius of the plant on the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.
In February, Japan for Sustainability (JFS) joined a study tour arranged for students of chief executive Junko Edahiro's laboratory at Tokyo City University. We visited areas within a radius of 12.4 miles from the plant, and the Minamisoma Solar Agripark, launched to nurture and train human resources for Fukushima's reconstruction. The tour was hosted by Eiju Hangai, director of the nonprofit group Asubito Fukushima (Asubito means "people who open the way to tomorrow"), devoted to educating the next generation to help lead future reconstruction.
It takes over two hours by northbound express train from central Tokyo to reach Iwaki Station, in the southern part of Fukushima Prefecture. After receiving a warm welcome from the staff of Asubito Fukushima, we boarded their micro-bus and headed north along the coastal highway to the areas within a 12.4-mile radius from the nuclear power plant.
The bus drove north, entered the 12.4-mile exclusion zone and came to the first town, Naraha, where the evacuation directive was lifted Sept. 5, after decontamination of the land was deemed complete. A large number of black plastic bags ("flexible bulk containers") filled with soil and dry grass scooped from the surface are still crammed into a temporary stock yard.
As a former executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., I want to apologize for what happened.
Although the evacuation directive was lifted over six months ago, only 400 residents have returned out of the total pre-disaster population of about 8,000. It has been five years since the earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear accident, and many evacuees have started new chapters of their lives in other places. According to our guide Hangai, the choice for those people was a matter of whether they really wanted to choose their home town as a place to resettle yet again.
From Naraha, our bus took us further north to the town of Tomioka, where the evacuation directive is scheduled to be lifted in March. Located along the seafront, the building of the Tomioka Station of the Joban Line, operated by the East Japan Railway Company, was destroyed by the tsunami in 2011 and only a platform remains. The tsunami also destroyed the downstairs parts of neighboring houses. As this area was designated as being in the evacuation zone, it became off-limits right after the nuclear accident, and it remains as if frozen in time, looking the same today as it did just after the disaster.
Hangai said, "Toward the evacuation directive being lifted, this area is planned to be bulldozed, including the half-collapsed houses around Tomioka Station. In my personal view, I would like to have even a small part of the area left as it is, so we [as a people] never forget about this disaster, but ..."
The town of Okuma, where the evacuation directive is also scheduled to be lifted in March, is home to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
As both Okuma and Futaba are close by, they are designated as "areas where it is expected that residents will face difficulties in returning for a long time," and they are restricted from free entry all day, except for taking major roadways, with the exception of workers engaged in decontamination and reconstruction. To protect houses from burglars, the entrances of every house in these areas, even the ones not affected by the tsunami, are barricaded shut.
Along the public roadway are former rice fields where decontamination has not yet been carried out. They looked rough, with shrubs one to two meters in height growing randomly. We wouldn't recognize the rice fields if we were not told what they were. Students who joined the tour said they felt a sense of fear, as if time had stopped, and sadness.
Hangai stopped at one place where we could see a tower of the power plant under the decommissioning process and said, almost choking, "We believed that nuclear power plants were 100 percent safe. We never imagined facing such an accident and losing all the power as a result of the earthquake and following tsunami. In this respect, we cannot deny that it was a manmade disaster. As a former executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., I want to apologize for what happened."
In Odaka, the evacuation directive is scheduled to be lifted this summer. At the time we visited, the whole area looked like a ghost town, with no people on the street. Yet it was the same streetscape as before, because it was not severely affected by the tsunami.
After seeing the area, one participant said, "Even though the houses remained safe, without people the place has lost its function as a town."
Hangai says that most of the people planning to return to town when the evacuation directive is lifted are older than 65. Japan is facing serious problems as an aging society with a low birthrate. Particularly in the areas where the evacuation order has been lifted, the demographics today are already at the projected national average for 20 years from now. In this regard, the 12.4-mile evacuation zone is a so-called "advanced area of aging." How the area copes with the aging problem and whether it can take a leadership role in solving it will be an important case study for the future of all of Japanese society.
The 12.4-mile evacuation zone's boundary north of the power plant is somewhere around Haramachi Ward in Minamisoma. To foster the next generation of leaders who can take on the responsibility of Fukushima's reconstruction, the Minamisoma Agripark was established and opened in March 2013 in Haramachi on former farmland and the empty lots of five houses washed away by the tsunami.
The Agripark includes power generation equipment that allows visitors to see and try out electricity generation using green energy.
The Agripark includes power generation equipment that allows visitors to see and try out electricity generation using green energy. The facility includes small-scale hydroelectric equipment that runs either by using a human-powered water turbine or pumped storage, and a solar panel manually adjustable to the most suitable direction and angle for effective generation. The students eagerly tried the generation equipment.
At the facility's room for training the next generation of leaders and companies, we exchanged opinions in small groups about what we discovered at the evacuation zone.
"Even in the same (12.4-mile) evacuation zone, the extent of damage varies. Some areas were severely damaged by the tsunami, leaving many houses and buildings half-destroyed. Others have the same streetscape as before but have become an uninhabited zone," said one witness.
One of the students said, "I saw an electric power cable near the power plant that runs towards Tokyo. I simply don't understand why the electricity generated at this power plant was transmitted to Tokyo all the way from Fukushima," which deepened discussions and the active exchange of opinions.
Asubito Fukushima's Hangai, who has been engaged in the reconstruction of Fukushima, worries that the younger generation's outflow to urban areas would lead not only to greater economic disparities between cities and rural areas but also to gaps in human resource capacity. Thus, he came to think about how to foster human resources in the countryside.
I simply don't understand why the electricity generated at this power plant was transmitted to Tokyo all the way from Fukushima.
Having a sense of crisis, he launched the Fukushima Solar and Agriculture Experience Association in April 2012 to foster children and the next generation who will be responsible for Fukushima's reconstruction in the future. He thought that hands-on experiences would be the best way to educate children.
That's why the association has been hosting experience-based educational activities and an open school at the Minamisoma Solar Agripark in collaboration with local elementary and junior high schools, aiming to help children develop their thinking abilities, make presentations and take action.
In May 2014 in the city of Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, the association also launched an open school for senior high school students, colloquially called "Hangai & Edahiro Juku" (juku means "school"), with JFS chief executive Junko Edahiro, to foster the young generation of reconstruction leaders in Fukushima through planning and running a social enterprise.
As the nuclear power plant accident damaged the reputation of agricultural products from their beloved home of Fukushima, the students' editorial club started publishing a magazine every three months, "Messages from High School Students: Fukushima Taberu Tsushin (Eating Fukushima Magazine)," where they compile stories and anecdotes from farmers in Fukushima, along with a supplement on the agricultural produce they painstakingly grow.
Hangai is working on nurturing the human resources of the next generation, hoping that children who see adults making efforts in reconstruction come to admire them and want to be like them.
Hangai is dealing with a corporate training program that encourages working adults to think together about Fukushima's reconstruction.
Under the slogan "The end is social and the means is business," he is also trying to ensure economic sustainability to continue activities of human resource development by launching a photovoltaic facility and sell surplus electricity to donate the profits to the association.
In addition, Hangai is dealing with a corporate training program that encourages working adults to think together about Fukushima's reconstruction. The name of the association was changed to Asubito Fukushima in January.
A new project to develop university students into social entrepreneurs is underway in Tokyo. A joint team, consisting of students who have graduated from the open school for senior high school and working adults who participated in the corporate training program, will take on the challenge of establishing social enterprises.
The situations vary within the radius of 12.4 miles from the nuclear power plant. It has been five years, but many problems remain. Even once the evacuation directive is lifted, will residents come back? Even if they return, will each town function again? That's not to mention the critical issue of what this all means within a super-aging society.


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We can't shrug off Trump's attacks on the press. Ever. They're undemocratic and invite, even incite, violence. This bears repeating. It demands repeating. Last night @CNN's @Acosta faced down a hostile crowd. Support from his colleagues, competitors, and general public is a must.
At the White House press briefing, Sarah Sanders called on @Acosta and he asked Sarah if she or the Trump White House would denounce that the media is an enemy of the people. She did not denounce that but went on to describe the media and the progressive abuse the Trump administration endures, listing many nasty encounters.
But there is more. It goes beyond CNN actually. Media and the left are simply branding all things law enforcement as racist, including those in government, Republican voters and even some at Fox News. So, we are in a war posture here that is undeniable. So… no sooner was all that over, when here comes the New York Times.


SYDNEY (AFP) - A landmark trial began on Tuesday (Sept 11) against Australian casino giant Crown and poker machine maker Aristocrat, alleging players are misled or deceived about their chances of winning.
The Federal Court case was brought by Maurice Blackburn lawyers on behalf of gambling addict Shonica Guy, who suffered significant losses playing the machines.
"I started playing the pokies when I was 17. Poker machines took over my life for the next 14 years," she said.
"This case is not about seeking compensation for what I lost - I just want to make sure what happened to me doesn't happen to anyone else."
Gambling addiction is a major social problem in Australia with advocates for reform estimating that people lose around A$12 billion (S$12.9 billion) a year, with losses spiralling since the first machines were built in 1953.
A public inquiry in 2010 showed 115,000 "problem gamblers", whose habit can lead to serious health, family and financial issues. Another 280,000 were categorised as at "moderate risk".
The legal case centres on the design of the "Dolphin Treasure" machines at Crown's flagship Melbourne casino, which offer cash prizes to players who line up matching symbols across a series of spinning reels.
It claims that the true chances of winning are misrepresented, with four of the reels the same or similar size, with around 30 symbols, but a longer fifth reel, which has 44.
This means it is much harder to land on the best symbols and get the highest prizes with a match on the last reel, the court heard.
It also claims, among other charges, that Crown's assertion that people can expect an 87 percent return on their wager is misleading given this is calculated on millions of spins and not from an average gambling session.
"This is a landmark pro-bono action that we hope will shine a light on what we believe are grossly unfair practices within the poker machine industry," said Maurice Blackburn's Jennifer Kanis.
"The gambling industry is well aware of the research outlining the harmful effects of problem gambling on vulnerable people, and they have been for many years.
"Our concern is that despite these known risks, the industry continues to exploit vulnerable problem gamblers, by knowingly designing machines that are misleading and deceptive." Crown and Aristocrat strongly deny the allegations, with Crown saying it would be "vigorously defending the claim".
Aristocrat also "emphatically rejects any suggestion that its games are designed to encourage problem gambling, or in any way fail to comply with all relevant regulations and laws".
Guy is seeking an injunction banning Crown from operating Dolphin Treasure or any machine with a similar configuration, and for Aristocrat to stop supplying them.
The Alliance for Gambling Reform said although Guy might be the sole plaintiff, she was representing thousands of Australians.
"This trial can't come soon enough - it should have happened years ago to mitigate the enormous harm which is imposed on communities year after year by a rich, powerful and well connected industry," alliance director Allison Keogh said.


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"Chris B" gets bail
Dominica News Online - Friday, August 29th, 2014 at 4:37 PM
Chris B was granted bail
Chris "Chris B" Sylvester has been granted bail in the sum of $30,000 in his own recognizance when he appeared in court on Friday.
The budding calypsonian is facing several charges in relation to a shooting incident in St. Joseph on July 8.
Strict conditions have been attached to his bail. He has been ordered to report to the St. Joseph police station Monday to Friday between 7:00 am and 7:00 pm, he is not to interfere with witnesses and has told to surrender all travel documents.
The matter will be heard again in court on December 9.
The police say the shooting incident occurred after an alleged argument over $2.
He faced a number of charges including possession of of a firearm and ammunition without a valid license, unlawful and malicious shooting with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, among others.
He has been at the state prison since his arrest.
Calypsonian charged in St. Joseph shooting
"I am a good citizen," Chris B tells court
$50,000 bail for Alpha Alexander
UPDATE: Man charged for murder in deadly Krazy Kokonuts shooting
Argument over $2 led to St Joseph shooting; one in custody
grell
Chris take a boat and disappear,the justice system in Dominica is a waste,its all about the money,slap in the face for the victims.
should we be getting a calypso on that too????????????
RealBadMan
@ dominican in U.K….. Ten to one is murder.. The Migthy Sparrow…Slinger Francisco
Chris you should be ashame of yourself. You almost kill four people over two dollars. They should never reduce your bail who ever did this should think of those whom you hurt.
Why was there a bail reduction? How can you recklessly use a firearm and fire shots indiscrimately, because you felt that you are untouchable. What is the logic behind the bail reduction. Where is the law to protect the victims. It is bad enough that a single mother of four was shot in both hands and be hospitalized, but, somehow you were given a bail reduction. Three people got wounded plus your intended victim. We know tomorrow it will be business as usual. You run the Route my boy.
Labour Right
You are so correct, however it would be more meaningful and balanced if you consider it against the five police officers who are currently accused of ruthlessly beating a man to death. They are out zero dollars bail. For that matter they may never be charged due to various" technicalities". So according to the police commissioner: "whats good for the goose is good for the gander." So allow the law to take its course.
dominican UK
HE SHOUld be ashamed of himself, in his position he should be seen as a role model for the youths not a gangster come on. What was that about.
Happy for you bro.I Hope you learn your lesson.Think before you act.Praying for you and the people you hurt.
am so happy for you my friend i hope you learn a good lesson from that .just be strong and pray hard.god will see you throuuh

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Katlego Mphela (n. 29 noiembrie 1984 în Brits, North West) este un jucător de fotbal sud-african, care joacă pentru Mamelodi Sundowns și pentru echipa națională de fotbal a Africii de Sud.

Goluri pentru echipa națională

Legături externe

 Cariera la National Football Teams
 Profil la ESPN

Nașteri în 1984
Sud-africani în viață
Fotbaliști sud-africani
Nașteri pe 29 noiembrie
Fotbaliști ai Campionatului Mondial de Fotbal 2010

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Drawing road networks with mental maps
Shih Syun Lin, Chao Hung Lin, Yan Jhang Hu, Tong Yee Lee
Department of Geomatics
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Tourist and destination maps are thematic maps designed to represent specific themes in maps. The road network topologies in these maps are generally more important than the geometric accuracy of roads. A road network warping method is proposed to facilitate map generation and improve theme representation in maps. The basic idea is deforming a road network to meet a user-specified mental map while an optimization process is performed to propagate distortions originating from road network warping. To generate a map, the proposed method includes algorithms for estimating road significance and for deforming a road network according to various geometric and aesthetic constraints. The proposed method can produce an iconic mark of a theme from a road network and meet a user-specified mental map. Therefore, the resulting map can serve as a tourist or destination map that not only provides visual aids for route planning and navigation tasks, but also visually emphasizes the presentation of a theme in a map for the purpose of advertising. In the experiments, the demonstrations of map generations show that our method enables map generation systems to generate deformed tourist and destination maps efficiently.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2014.2312010
Published - 2014 Sep
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One Woman's Opinion: MY FUNNY VALENTINE by NIGEL BIRD
TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE
5.0 out of 5 stars Complex and gripping
This is an excellent and gripping story that revolves around a
serial killer who strikes just before, and on, St Valentine's Day.
This central core is interwoven with some of the police officers'
back-stories, including one whose cousin is in thrall to a group
of drug dealers. It's a kind of matriarchy whose tentacles it's
almost impossible to escape. There's more than just this, though.
It's a densely-woven fabric of a story and I whizzed through it. I enjoyed it hugely.
I don't usually post individual reviews of my work,
but when you get your first for a new novel it means a lot.
Not only was this the first review, it's the first time anyone
has given me any feedback on the novel. Of course,
I'm delighted that she liked it and I'd like to express a
heart-felt thanks for the thought and the effort taken to
read and evaluate.
It may seem strange that this is my first feedback and
that probably says more about me than anything else.
After working closely will the lovely Allan Guthrie
right through the first book in the series, I was lucky
enough to have his input into thinking about aspects of
the story arc for Valentine. After that, it's pretty much
been a solitary venture. Because the book was already
signed as part of a series, there was no direct feedback
from the publisher either- I think that possibly gets lost
in the journey when one book follows another.
So, a huge thank you and a happy Christmas to
Kath Middleton.
Can I also pass on my Christmas wishes to everyone
who has popped in over the last year or who has taken
the time to read any of my work. It's been tough and
we've all had to dig deep. I know my personal reserves
all but ran out months ago, but there's hope and I'm clinging
to that with the strength I have left. Be happy and healthy
and try and appreciate the good things about what you have.
My Funny Valentine is available from the links below:
• Amazon — Trade Paperback | eBook
• Amazon UK — Trade Paperback | eBook
• Barnes & Noble — Trade Paperback | eBook
• iTunes — eBook
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One Man's Opinion: LIKE LOVE by ED McBAIN
It's 173 pages long and it catches the interest from the off, so it's a mystery to me that it took me almost four months to read this, my latest in the line of 87th Precinct novels. Truth is, it's not likely to be the book's fault at all- I put it down to losing my way and unraveling since March. It's been the kind of fragmentation that builds up without being noticed, but I guess the pieces must be coming back together just now otherwise I wouldn't have finished it at all.
Like Love opens with a suicide and moves onto a huge explosion and the discovery of two semi-naked bodies sharing a bed. The woman is married to someone else, a bottle of whisky has been consumed and there's a suicide note to explain their final moments of life. Thing is, none of those involved in the case believe the note and there are enough clues to investigate further.
I was getting on really well with it until I reached a section where it's revealed that Bert Kling has turned sour following on from recent events, which was a pretty hard pill to swallow. After that, I lost momentum and stopped reading altogether.
When I picked it up again, the threads were still tight and the case was still fascinating. The clues were finally put together in about the most unusual circumstances I can remember and all's well that ends well.
Truth be told, it took so long I can't give it any sense of detail. I enjoyed it and there are terrific scenes which means I'll recommend it to the house. Whether my slow reading was down to the book, you might get a better idea from the guys at Hark, the 87th Precinct podcast.
And speaking of podcasts, my brother Geoff''s been at it again. His latest series involves the discussion of music by Elizabeth Alker and Stuart Maconie and it's called Notable if you fancy checking it out.
Nothing to do with podcasts, my latest, My Funny Valentine, has it's first review. It's courtesy of Ignite (a top #1000 reviewer here in the UK) and it's a real Christmas cracker: "It's a densely-woven fabric of a story and I whizzed through it. I enjoyed it hugely." Other than a vaccine, what better shot in the arm could there possibly be than that?


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Will States Ban Trans Athletes From Competing?
Evan Gerstmann Contributor
I am a professor and publish on constitutional and educational issues.
Tennesse is one of the latest states to consider legislation requiring students to compete only on ... [+] teams that match their birth gender.
One of the thorniest issues in the debate over trans individuals is whether to allow students to compete on teams that don't match their genetic and anatomical gender. In other words, can an anatomical boy who identifies as a girl compete on girls' sports teams and vice versa?
An increasing number of states are considering laws that would require everyone to play on teams matching their gender assigned at birth. Tennessee is now considering such a bill. House Bill 1572 would require both public elementary and secondary schools to "ensure that student athletes participate in school-sanctioned sports based on the student's biological sex as indicated on the certificate issued at the time of birth." If schools fail to comply, they would be sanctioned by a loss of state funding.
Georgia, Washington State, and Missouri are all considering similar laws. Seven other states, including Texas, already have various laws limiting trans student's ability to play on the team of their identified gender. These laws will allow a student to play on a team that doesn't match their birth gender only if they have undergone surgery or an extended course of hormone therapy and a waiting period.
Meanwhile, Congressional Democrats in Washington D.C. are considering legislation that pressures schools to move in the opposite direction and would sanction them if they don't. The Equality Act, a broad bill that is intended to prevent discrimination on the basis of sexual identity and sexual orientation, would most likely require schools to allow students to compete on the team that matches their gender identity. According to a press release from the House Judiciary Committee regarding the Equality Act: "Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out. Sports have positive impacts on physical, social, and emotional well-being, and we should not be denying transgender athletes those opportunities simply because sometimes they may win."
This is a very controversial area and it provokes strong passions. But hopefully, one thing that everyone can agree upon is that schools shouldn't be caught in a situation in which they will be punished by the state for doing one thing and punished by the federal government for doing the opposite. Schools shouldn't be treated like hockey pucks being battered by politicians from both sides.
This issue is difficult for several reasons. First of all, the public is divided. When asked in May 2019 whether they favored or opposed "allowing transgender students to participate on the sports teams of the gender they identified with, letting biological males, for example, play girls sports" a slight majority were opposed. Fifty-four percent said no, while 28% said yes and 18% were uncertain.
Furthermore, this is an area where people disagree over both facts and values. In terms of values, people don't agree on how to weigh the value of access against the value of fair competition. For example, after two trans girls placed first and second in a Connecticut state track competition, the mother of one of the trans athletes defended the decision to let her daughter compete. She said, "it allows her to be who she wants to be and I think that has to have a little bit more weight than just winning a medal." But others point out that important scholarships that put college within financial reach can turn on who wins the medals.
There is also widespread factual disagreement about whether trans girls have a competitive advantage over anatomical girls, even after hormone therapy. The Tennessee legislator who introduced the bill says: "We are seeing more and more transgender athletes competing and posting victories in traditionally gendered sports competitions, and doing so to the detriment of girls and women biologically born female. Boys and men, due to testosterone levels, bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size, have physical advantages in sports relative to girls and women." Others disagree. As noted above, House Democrats say such arguments have "not been borne out."
Also, there is a disagreement about which physical traits lead to a competitive advantage. While men might be bigger, stronger, and faster, a recent study found that women may have greater muscle endurance. According to one of the study's authors: "I may not be able to bench-press the same amount of weight as a big muscle-bound guy, but if you ask us both to perform a contraction at 100 percent of our maximum strength and sustain it as long as we can, I should be able to outperform him."
So, there is a lot of disagreement here and, if things don't change, many schools are going to caught in a situation where they get sanctioned no matter what that do. Part of the problem is the poor level of dialogue on trans issues. The political left sees this a civil rights issue and therefore treats even verbal skepticism about gender fluidity as a punishable offense. As I have written about previously, a teacher in Virginia was fired for declining to use a transgender student's preferred pronouns. Very recently, J.K. Rowling set off a firestorm of criticism when she tweeted that a woman shouldn't be fired for expressing skepticism about gender fluidity. Meanwhile, it is difficult to imagine that a lot of open-minded discussion about gender fluidity is taking place in the reddest parts of America.
This is an area where Americans would be a lot better off trying to talk to one another rather than trying to punish one another. J.K. Rowling is right—no one should be fired for expressing general views about gender fluidity. (Negative statements targeting or about a specific transgender person may be workplace harassment though.) States and the federal government should be working together at compromise, not battering schools with sanctions from both directions.
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Take control and get creative
Michel Roux Jr has partnered with Siemens for the launch of its new range of iQ700 ovens, designed to help you live a life less ordinary.
Michel Roux Jr is a busy man. The Anglo-French chef arrives at the kitchen of Le Gavroche, his two-Michelin-star restaurant in London's Mayfair, at 7.30am. It's rare for him to get home before 10.30pm. Search for his name on Twitter and you'll find hundreds of tweets from diners surprised to see the man himself exiting the kitchen in chef whites – and thanking him for stopping by their table, as he invariably does.
But Roux Jr is known for more than overseeing one of the world's highest regarded haute cuisine eateries. He's an accomplished marathon runner, with 20 races under his belt, and has had five books about French food and wine published. You may have also seen him on television.
How he's found time to achieve so much is likely down to his work ethic – one based on efficiency.
"To be able to work to a time frame and deliver the goods the way they should be, you have to be efficient and everything has to have its place," says Roux Jr, in the gleaming kitchen of Le Gavroche. "I hate mess. Everything has its place in the kitchen. In my store cupboard, even the labels are all facing the same way."
Perhaps it's this affinity for efficiency and precision that's led Roux Jr to partner with Siemens and its new range of iQ700 ovens. Bristling with technology to simplify, save time and boost efficiency, they're polished monuments to minimalist, lined-up design.
"They're beautiful," he says. "I'm a firm believer that if something looks beautiful, it's going to give you pleasure and you're going to use it more. You can see this product has values. You know people have taken care and time in making it, and that thought has gone into it."
But looks aren't everything. The iQ700 range is also immensely practical, featuring easy-to-use touchscreen displays, self-cleaning modes, a built-in system that knows how long to cook various dishes, and microwave power that can be combined with more conventional cooking options.
"Traditionally, you would take your chicken out of the freezer in the morning and cook it in the evening. You had to leave it to defrost fully – the conventional rules of health and hygiene. But you can actually cook from frozen with these ovens. That is quite new and a massive time-saver."
Roux Jr knows his famous family name isn't to be used lightly. It was his father and uncle – Albert and Michel – who founded Le Gavroche in 1967. Within ten years it would receive two Michelin stars.
"I would never dream of lending my name to something I didn't believe in," he explains. "The Roux name isn't just me – it's my father, my uncle, my cousin and even generations to come.
So we're very protective of it. But when I saw this offer to work with Siemens, I had no qualms and no second thoughts. It's a great product, it looks beautiful and it delivers the goods. And it really isn't far off the professional ovens like the ones we have in the kitchen of Le Gavroche."
Between 1982-83, Roux Jr trained with the French Army, later working in the kitchen of the Élysée Palace under Presidents Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand. He then began his formal culinary training, first in Paris, then London (with a stint as an accountant) at Gavvers and La Tante Claire – both celebrated haute cuisine restaurants at the time.
Following a spell at Hong Kong's Mandarin Hotel, Roux Jr joined his uncle at Berkshire's Waterside Inn in 1985. He finally moved to Le Gavroche later that year, and took over from his father in 1993. With Roux Jr as chef-patron, Le Gavroche has consistently ranked in The World's 50 Best Restaurants guide.
The gastronomic world is one that demands innovation and change, yet remains wedded to core values and ideas. So how does one achieve creativity within those constraints?
"There are rules. And the rules are the foundations, or building blocks, of cooking – the classics," he says. "When I say classics it's not just recipes but the techniques of how and why cooking works. Once you've grasped that, then you can go on and be innovative and be creative. The great painters, such as Picasso, were taught the classics – then they went and did their own thing."
"If you know what works with what and how cooking affects the taste and texture of a product, then you throw a little spanner in works – a little twist."
As part of the Siemens partnership, Roux Jr has curated a list of ingredients he believes every kitchen should have in stock – not just the basics, such as rock salt and pepper, but also a few less ordinary selections. Piment d'Espelette – Espelette Peppers – are one.
"Espelette is a tiny village in the Basque region and they're famous for their chilli," he says. "But it's not too spicy, it's a mild chilli. A little bit of that on cheese on toast. Gorgeous."
Tripe in a tin is another. "It's one of those stop-gap meals that I have. And whereas someone else might
go for a tin of baked beans, I have a tin of tripe. It's truly delicious, and can be used mixed with leftover roast chicken or something like that, to bulk up some leftovers."
Offal is another facet of Roux Jr's quest to cook efficiently. "I've always been a huge fan of eating as much from each animal as you can. Tripe, tail, snout, tongue – I love them all."
This passion to eat what makes others squeamish is more than just a question of taste – it's one of ethics.
"We have to feed the world. So not only should we be eating more of the animal, but we should actually be eating less protein," he says. "It's better to eat chicken once a week, and make sure it's a very good chicken, rather than eating cheap, industrially-raised meat. Provenance is massive. People are now demanding to know where their food comes from.
As chefs, we've got a duty and a responsibility to get that message out there. Not to waste, to be conscious of what you eat, to maybe change your diet, to cook from fresh whenever possible."
It's staggering how far that idea of efficiency can take you – from informing an approach to cooking, to the design process of an appliance, to the sourcing of ingredients.
Start with efficiency, and creativity and control follows.
For more, visit siemens-home.co.uk
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'The project was pleasingly indulgent, a free licence to propose nearly anything,' says Mick Peter in an interview
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CS: Could you tell me a little about your collaboration with the Hospitalfield team and how that informed the installation?
CS: Has the opportunity to work outside influenced or impacted your practice?
Mick Peter's latest show, Gerroff!! (or User Feedback), opens this year's artistic program and summer events in the lovely, recently restored grounds of Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland. His characters appear to be acting out a series of connected, amusing situations, and guests are encouraged to interact with them as they wander the grounds. Incorporating comic-book images and the inherent disruption of categorical divisions between cartoon drawing and sculpture, the piece subverts the normal relationship between the public and "fine art."
MP: It was a delightfully gratifying opportunity to offer nearly anything. Of course, [Hospitalfield's director] Lucy Byatt and [its programming and communications manager] Cicely Farrer must have been reasonably certain that it wouldn't be too bad!
MP: It's becoming more expensive to produce – the two appear to go hand in hand! I was also more interested in public liability insurance than I had been in the past. But, seriously, all of the work was done at Three Four Five Furniture in Glasgow, where I received expert fabrication assistance because we needed to work with a large CNC machine to cut the drawings into the composite material [a "computer numerical control" machine cuts materials such as plastic or metal to a high degree of specification].
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CS: How long have you been making these life-size drawings or sculptures, and what led you to this decision?
MP: For the past ten years, I've been creating sculptures that resemble large sketches. I think of each project on its own terms, so I don't think of them as a brand per se because I do a variety of things.
CS: Your characters seem to have been "liberated" from the limits of pages and a smaller size. Do you believe the recent lockdowns have had an impact on how you (and others) view your practice? Does this have any bearing on how you envision your future career evolving? To put it another way, would you want to further liberate or confine your characters?
MP: It depends entirely on the following project. Despite the constraints, I believe I've completed the assignment. I'm hoping that the next significant endeavor will take place when there are few, if any, constraints. All of this hasn't caused me to drastically alter my behavior. It's made me grateful to have something fun to do when I'm unable to travel freely throughout the country. However, if you have a nice book or a sketchpad, you won't be too unhappy.
CS: What materials did you utilize in these sculptures, and why did you choose those materials? Were there any specific difficulties in creating outdoor sculptures due to Arbroath's inclement weather?
MP: I think I've reached the end of my wipe-clean phase. These sculptures are made of the same composite material that is used to build high-end kitchen countertops. The linework is carved out of white or grey paper and then filled in with black. It's not just on the surface; it has a terrazzo appearance, or, if you prefer, a stick of rock.
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CS: Did this relationship play a role in your Hospitalfield site-specific project, or have these characters and comics impacted you in the past?
MP: Hospitalfield is closer to a McDonald's "drive-thru"… fortunately, this has had no impact on the project. As a kid, I used to subscribe to the Beano, and my favorite strip was Bash Street Kids, which had the best artwork. I'd try to figure out what kind of pen David Sutherland used by copying his line work. There was also a Wham bar glued to the cover of the Beano, which was rather thrilling.
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Latin America and the Caribbean exploits more renewable energy than any other region in the world. According to Renewables 2014 Global Status Report, three of the top five countries that invest in renewables as a percentage of their GDP are in Latin America: Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.
However, many of the region's resources remain untapped, which means that renewable energy could play a key role in meeting energy needs and creating a more sustainable future. This is especially true in emerging cities that are still trying to figure out how to meet the needs of their growing populations.
Renewable energy also has many applications in rural areas. In fact, the electricity produced from its application in these areas provides access to services such as water and sanitation, which in some cases may be lacking. It can also improve education and health facilities, which all together improve rural economies, something that may help rural populations decide against migrating to the city.
For these reasons, Sustainable Energy for All in the Americas (SE4ALL AMERICAS) was created. SE4ALL is a United Nations initiative that aims to provide universal access to modern energy, to increase energy efficiency, and to double the use of renewables—all by 2030. The Inter-American Development Bank provides a regional hub for SE4ALL in the Americas, and supports the planning necessary to achieve these goals in the region.
At the United Nations SE4ALL Forum in June, IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno announced that the Bank would provide planning and financial support to help countries reach these goals. Moreno said that the IDB would help renewable energy projects in emerging markets by providing technical assistance to help the private sector develop more bankable projects. "Our region needs to increase from 30% renewables to nearly 44% by 2035," he said.
In October 2014, the IDB, in conjunction with the Government of Chile and President Michelle Bachelet, will host the launch of the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All in the Americas in Santiago, Chile. This event will include a conference to provide energy stakeholders in the region with the necessary information to move forward and achieve the goals of SE4ALL AMERICAS.
1) By providing opportunities to learn from successful applications of renewable energy, such as Solar Water Heating (SWH) Systems, which reduce energy costs for families, reduce stress on the national electricity grid, and improve access to affordable and sustainable energy. According to the Renewables 2014 Global Status Report, Brazil is fourth in the world in solar water heating capacity. Other countries (and cities) can follow the lead of Brazil to expand solar energy use. For instance, a project in Cochabamba, Bolivia is installing 10,000 SWH Systems in homes, thereby replacing unsafe continuous flow water heaters, which run on electricity.
2) By raising awareness that renewable energy is one of the most viable ways to provide energy to remote and isolated areas. As we discussed in a previous blog, providing access to energy in rural areas has proven to slow rural to urban migration, which is an important part of decreasing the energy stress put on cities. Renewable energy like wind and solar can provide basic energy services to rural populations while increasing economic opportunities and decreasing the incentive of migrating to cities.
Doubling the use of renewable energy has profound implications for emerging cities in terms of health, education, and economic opportunities. Providing energy to rural areas is part of the equation of creating a more equal distribution of population and putting less energy stress on cities.
By supporting innovative applications of renewable energy in emerging cities and rural areas, SE4ALL AMERICAS is working to achieve the goals set out by the United Nations SE4ALL initiative. In the words of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, this framework encourages cities to see energy as the "golden thread" that ties together the goals of sustainable development in a wide range of areas, from education to the environment to ending poverty and hunger.


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Iranians voice dismay after Iran opens supermarket in Venezuela
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Yaghoub Fazeli, Al Arabiya English Sunday 02 August 2020
The opening of an Iranian supermarket in Venezuela has drawn criticism from Iranians online who say Tehran should prioritize providing for its people at home, according to reactions on social media.
An Iranian supermarket named Megasis opened its doors to Venezuelans in the capital Caracas on Wednesday.
Megasis is owned by Etka, a company affiliated with Iran's defense ministry.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by Venezuelan officials and Iranian diplomats including Tehran's ambassador to the South American country.
The store sells a wide variety of products, from edibles and clothing to tractors, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
A conglomerate owned by the #Iranian military and tied to Iran's missile program has established a retail foothold in #Venezuela, according to a report.https://t.co/wWLSfWQ1p7
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 6, 2020
Iran's ambassador to Caracas described the opening of the store as a move to "counter the US' policy of economic terrorism and support the Venezuelan nation at the time of heightened sanctions," Tasnim reported.
Iranians took to social media to criticize the move. They argue that Iran is not in a position to offer help to foreign nations given the economic situation at home.
"At a time when millions of Iranians live below the poverty line and the government is unable to provide for the needs of society, the joy and encouragement of state media for the opening of an Iranian supermarket in Venezuela is truly disgusting," one Iranian user tweeted.
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The Iranian economy has been hit hard since US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Tehran in 2018. Rising inflation, growing unemployment, a slump in the rial, and the coronavirus crisis have deepened Iran's economic woes.
"The Iranian regime wastes the country's resources in Venezuela at a time when lack of capital at home has led to high unemployment," another user tweeted.
Other users speculated that the supermarket may be a cover for a money-laundering scheme.
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shake hands during their meeting in Caracas, Venezuela July 20, 2019. (Reuters)
Many Iranians are critical of the regime's foreign policies. They accuse the regime of squandering the country's resources by supporting foreign allies while neglecting Iranians at home.
Acting Assistant Secretary for US Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Michael Kozak told journalists that the opening of the store represents "an alliance of pariah states."
Like Iran, Venezuela is also under severe US sanctions that have crippled its economy.
Iran said in June one of its vessels discharged a cargo of food and medical supplies at the Venezuelan northern port of La Guayra to supply an Iranian supermarket.
Iran also sent five gasoline tankers to Venezuela in May to help with the gas shortage in the country.
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It's been nearly 80 years since British economists James Meade and Richard Stone devised a method of national income accounting that would become the global standard. Today, we call it a country's gross domestic product (GDP).
Their method was intended to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of an entire national economy, by estimating the monetary value of all "economic" production that took place in a country in a given year. Like most economic statisticians of the day, Meade and Stone focused almost entirely on measuring the value of goods and services that were actually bought and sold.
But a problem quickly emerged, thanks to the experiences and observations of a 23-year-old woman named Phyllis Deane. She was hired by Meade and Stone in 1941 to apply their method in a few British colonies. In present-day Malawi and Zambia, Deane realised that it was an error to exclude unpaid household labour from GDP.
In a research paper I published recently on the history of the GDP, I write that Deane believed this convention excluded a great share of productive activity – especially in rural Africa. She argued that it was "illogical" to exclude the economic value of preparing and cooking food and collecting firewood. She contended that such kinds of labour had historically been excluded because they were commonly viewed as women's work.
To decide which activities to include in her GDP calculations, Deane spent months conducting village surveys in order to measure, and include in GDP estimates, particularly burdensome activities like the collection of firewood.
She concluded that if governments wanted to formulate policies that increased aggregate national income and ensured an equitable distribution of that aggregate, the contributions of all producers – including rural women – had to be counted.
Over the next seven decades, GDP calculations would not generally include unpaid (and mostly female) labour. But Deane's work shows us this was not the only way to measure economic production. As GDP calculations come under increasing criticism, we should look to her research for a way forward.
Invisibility of female labour
Richard Stone paid little attention to Deane's recommendations. In 1953, he oversaw the publication of the United Nations' first System of National Accounts. This report provided detailed standards for calculating GDP.
The system ignored Deane's call to include unpaid household labour. And because UN technical assistance programmes sought to ensure that low and middle-income countries followed the system's standards, Stone's method had global consequences. Activities which were central to every day life in low-income African countries – like fetching water, grinding corn, and weaving mats – were not included in national accounts.
This invisibility of female labour in national income accounting eventually provoked a backlash. While pushing for female domestic labour to be economically quantified, scholar-activists like the Italian-born philosopher Silvia Federici, who taught for many years in Nigeria, argued that male "economic" production was impossible without women's uncompensated "non-economic" labour.
For instance, without a wife to tend to the children and the home, how would a male factory labourer have the time or the energy to fulfil his stereotypical role as the breadwinner?
Time rather than money
Some feminist economists held a different view. In 1999 the New Zealand-born economist Marilyn Waring articulated concerns about including unpaid labour in national accounts. Rather than using economic activity to measure the value of labour, Waring called for a different indicator: time.
Time, she explained, was "the one investment we all have to make". Drawing on research she conducted in rural Kenya, she argued that time-use surveys would demonstrate "which sex gets the menial, boring, low-status, and unpaid invisible work".
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Such surveys would show how targeted interventions, like access to clean water and efficient cooking stoves, could alleviate the drudgery of domestic labour and allow billions of women to gain greater freedom in how they spend their days.
In 2008, the authors of the newly updated System of National Accounts responded to their feminist critics by way of a compromise. They agreed to include the production of all goods – whether these were sold or not – in GDP calculations, so activities like weaving mats or brewing beer would be included.
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However, they continued to exclude most unpaid household services, like cooking and cleaning. And the revised system ignored both Deane's and Waring's calls for more data on the distribution of time-use by gender. This has caused ever more criticism to be levelled at the system.
In recent decades, the work of feminist economics has shown how the methods of calculating GDP render much of women's labour invisible. Meanwhile, surveys and time-use studies show the toll this has taken on women's lives, particularly in the Global South. One recent report found that hundreds of millions of women worldwide have to walk more than a 30-minute round-trip to reach clean water for their families.
Future of the GDP
A 2009 report commissioned by then French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that because GDP is "treated as a measure of economic well-being" it "can lead to misleading indicators about how well-off people are and entail the wrong policy decisions".
More recently, the World Bank pointed out that GDP only measures flows of income but doesn't tell us whether health care, education, and the wealth of the natural world are being built up or plundered. The Economist called for a "new metric" of economic progress that included "unpaid work in the home, such as caring for relatives".
None of these insights are new. But they do mark a renewed appreciation for the economic indices and policies that feminist scholars have long favoured. For instance, Silvia Federici's insistence that household labour should be paid has been at least partially realised in the spread of cash transfer programmes across Africa.
If we want to really bring women's work out of the shadows and overturn the stereotypical gender roles that relegate women to more than their fair share of household labour, we must first take the blinders of the GDP.
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Giordano Orsini (1360/70 — 29 May 1438) was an Italian cardinal who enjoyed an extensive career in the early fifteenth century.  He was a member of the powerful Roman family of the Orsini.

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Orsini was Archbishop of Naples from 1400 until 1405, when he was made a Cardinal by Innocent VII. In 1408 he abandoned the "Roman Obedience" and attended the Council of Pisa. He was subsequently administrator of the see of Pécs 1409–10, and legate of Antipope John XXIII in Spain, Picenum and Bologna. Promoted to the suburbicarian see of Albano in 1412, he had a considerable role in the Council of Constance, where he presided over the fifth session. He was the papal legate appointed to establish peace between England and France in 1418. He became part of the Grand penitentiary in 1419. In 1420, he was named Abbot Commendatory of the Imperial Abbey of Farfa. He was a legate of Pope Martin V in Bohemia, Hungary and Germany in prosecution of the Hussites in 1426.

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Among Orsini's friends was the Danish cartographer Claudius Clavus, who lived in Rome.

The humanist circle disbanded when Giordano Orsini followed Pope Eugenius IV into voluntary exile from Rome in 1434. He spent the remainder of his life in Florence and northern Italy and never returned.

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