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Dupes. You might have heard the term from a YouTube beauty/makeup guru or an Instagram influencer before. But, if you haven't, all you have to know is this: cosmetic dupes are one of our favorite things to be on the hunt for when online shopping! Basically, the term dupe refers to a cheaper alternative to something amazing and usually expensive! Sometimes the best of the best is worth the investment, but, when you want to save your money for rainy-day concerts and back-to-school supplies, you might want to check yourself before you mess yourself.
And we know that when it comes to matte lipstick, the cream of the crop is none other than Kylie Jenner Lip Kits! They're like the holy grail item for every makeup maven, giving you that plump, matte lip look everyone seems to be rocking lately. And if you've bought one in the past and loved it, but only had enough fundage to get just one, we're going to help put a limit on your spending by sorting through these super affordable lip colors from Amazon!
Take a look at these 10 Kylie Jenner Lip Kit dupes that'll suit your ever-changing lip color moods. You'll be saving so much money, we dare you to stop at just one!
The packaging of these matte liquid lipsticks look just like Kylie's, but we've been told that imitation is the biggest form of flattery. These babies cost like five dollars each with 19 colors to choose from. Reviewers raved about them being "very pigmented" and that the wear "doesn't get gunky." Plus, calling all chocoholics: they smell like chocolate when you first apply them.
We're faithful to the super affordable NYX brand and their lipstick/lip gloss hybrid that is their matte lip cream. It goes on silky-smooth and finishes off looking naturally matte and colorful, no matter which color you choose.
Achieve velvety lips with these waterproof matte colors that last for hours! These lip shades come in sets of eight, 10, and 16 — with a variety of matte and metallic finishes. And after a long day of rocking the perfect lip color and finish, simply use some cleansing oil to remove all traces of fabulousness.
We really like these matte colors from the #1 lip brand Revlon! There are 16 shades and the formula is 100% wax-free, gliding on smoothly with a gel-like finish. The cool thing about these lip colors is that they stain while not over-drying your lips — we'll smooch to that!
Just the mention of the word 'catsuit' in this lipstick name is making us feel puuurfectly frisky! You'll get a precise application, thanks to its precision doe-foot applicator. It goes on glossy at first then dries down to a matte finish. We don't just want one, we want 'em all, because our besties will obviously want one for themselves.
Want matte lips that will grab everyone's attention? Look no further than Maybelline for all of the hottest shades like Wicked Berry and Sinful Stone (yes, it's grey and it's a color you should get behind.) Your lips won't feel sticky, just instantly kissable.
If you're looking for a little wiggle room with the whole matte lip approach, then try this whipped formula from Julep. You'll get stay-all-day and super weightless color that will also add an extra boost of hydration to your lips.
Want your lips to look instantly fuller? Go for this lip creme from Milani. Your lips won't feel sticky at all, just ready to take on the night with a flirty kiss or two on the cheek.
These lip paints are meant to make a statement! There are 14 high-impact shades, so go wild by trying a different color on each lip (smack your lips together for a totally unique color blend). One stroke is all you need to achieve a fashion-forward, full-on color look.
We went wild for this metallic lilac shade from Lime Crime! The liquid formula applies wet and dries down to a matte finish that will have friends marveling the entire time you talk to them.


Junior doctors in dispute over contracts and patient safety, Bradford Royal Infirmary, April 2016. Photo Workers.
The government published its overdue NHS Long Term Plan for England on 7 January. This details significant spending over the next five years, and it creates opportunities to improve the service. But there are several critical weaknesses those working in the NHS have to deal with.
The health service desperately needs long term planning. The attacks in recent years on health and social care finances, wages and pensions have lowered staff morale and undermined patient care. And in turn this has affected recruitment, retention and training. It will indeed take a decade to rectify the damage.
In 2010/11, just 5 per cent of NHS providers overspent their annual budgets. By 2015/16, two-thirds of trusts were in deficit as the slowdown in NHS funding took its toll. The injection of £20.5 billion over the next five years will not transform the service, but it's welcome support.
Lifting of the pay cap is an important step too. The junior hospital doctors dispute in 2016 played its part in enabling these changes. Their contribution should be acknowledged.
However welcome extra expenditure on the health service, a "long-term plan" must be strategic and comprehensive. The government's plan is problematic in several ways.
One limitation is obvious in the title – this is a plan for England, while the NHS is national. Devolving health matters to Scotland and Wales constantly interferes with rational planning.
Equally frustrating is that the long-term plan does not engage with the crisis in social care. The King's Fund, responding to the plan pointed out that the NHS and social care are "two sides of the same coin, yet the publication of the social care Green Paper has been delayed yet again".
"The plan's failure to address workforce issues exasperates NHS staff."
The plan includes worthwhile commitments to promote public health. And yet local government funding for public health services continues to be cut. But what most exasperates NHS staff is the plan's failure to address the many workforce issues. It feels as if the government has decided to spend the money on a new conservatory while the roof is leaking.
Unison also highlights this as the most disappointing aspect. It points out that although the long-term plan recognises that workforce planning is "disjointed at a national and local level," there is no detailed workforce strategy contained in that plan.
This failure to include the workforce strategy must be deliberate. A draft workforce strategy was published nearly a year ago. The final version was due to be published in July 2018 to coincide with the 70th birthday of the NHS.
At the launch of the long-term plan in Sheffield, the Prime Minister announced she has appointed Baroness Dido Harding to produce a workforce strategy. But she made no reference at all to the 2018 draft workforce strategy. It seems the government wants to forget the home truths it let out last year.
The reality is that NHS workers and their trade unions have to work their hardest to address the workforce strategy deficiencies in the plan. For this they need their own short and long-term planning goals.
The most obvious urgent need is retention of current staff. That means improving staff pay and conditions and assistance with accommodation costs. The plan includes only a small amount of money to aid retention of current staff. Pressing for an increase and expansion to this funding must be an immediate priority for trade unions.
Solutions for the medium and long term can only come from NHS staff themselves. For example, doctors point to one post referendum achievement namely the expansion of the number of medical school places this September.
Since its inception the NHS has imported doctors yet there is no shortage of UK applicants with the enthusiasm or academic qualifications to meet our own needs. The aim of the long-term plan and the yet to be seen workforce strategy must be self-sufficiency in health care staffing.


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Desmond Swayne called 'a disgrace' over Afghanistan comments
A Conservative former minister has been labelled a "disgrace" for calling into question why people were fleeing Afghanistan rather than resisting the Taliban.
Sir Desmond Swayne who represents New Forest West was heckled by Opposition MPs after he intervened on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a debate on the situation in the country.
Speaking in the Commons, Sir Desmond – who previously served as an international development minister – said: "Were the Government of this kingdom to be overthrown by a wicked and brutal regime, I venture that he would want a leading role in the resistance, he wouldn't be queuing at the airport would he?"
At this point MPs could be heard voicing their disapproval at Sir Desmond's comments, with one shouting "disgrace".
Sir Keir replied: "When I was director of public prosecutions I had some of my prosecutors in Afghanistan at huge risk working on counterterrorism with other brave souls there.
"So I won't take that from him or anybody else."

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SILVER CITY, N.M. – Mitchel's Auto Service and Repair, LLC was honored at a reception on February 4, 2019 at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe. The business was named 2018 Star Client by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Western New Mexico University. New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Howie Morales presented the award.
The following day, Representative Candie Sweetser (Deming-Dist. 32) introduced owner Mitchel Boomgaarn on the House floor.
Since opening his business, Boomgaarn has used the advising services the WNMU Small Business Development Center provides to entrepreneurs in Grant, Luna, Hidalgo and Catron counties. He persevered in his endeavor as a small business owner even after getting severely burned in an accident just weeks after opening his shop.


Discover or rekindle the spark you desire in your career and life. With Business, Balance & Bliss®, learn valuable insights and tools based on Amy's work-life journey and those of other successful business leaders, backed by the latest scientific research, on how to discover and align your authentic self and inner talents with the work you do.
The CPA, accounting professional and bookkeeper's guide to the future.
As technology paves the way for increased self-reliance and DIY financial services, much of the traditional data entry tasks of accounting professionals and bookkeepers will be reduced. Yet, nothing can replace the human side of the client-advisor experience and the desire to improve your clients' businesses and lives with financial information.
This book shows financial advisors how to take on more of an advisory role and become a critical component of their client's success.
I am excited that I finally had a chance to start reading this great book Business, Balance, & Bliss: How the B3 Method Can Transform Your Career and Life by Amy Vetter. I started reading it on the train on the way to a meeting and almost missed my stop.
I've finally had the opportunity read Amy's book after seeing her present multiple times. She is an amazing and influential impact on the Accounting industry. Defining the difference between a traditional CPA and what it truly means to be a modern, true advisor.
Clear, concise, easy to read and implement! I already know who I will pass it on to help! This book will help a lot of people whether they are just starting out in their careers or need quick inspiration in the middle of them.
I found this book to be such a practical guide to building a modern accounting practice. What I really appreciated was that the author used real examples from other practitioners throughout the book, as I have always learned more through the experiences of my peers than just reading an academic or theoretical book.
WOW! Amy, thank you for writing this amazing and insightful book. Each page contained sage advice I was able to relate to and pull instant wisdom from. I read cover to cover during a Sunday morning and I am so glad I did.
A "must read" for accounting firm owners of all stripes. Whether you're running a traditional practice and looking to modernize or your firm is already cloud-based, this is *the* authoritative guide on operations and growth. Amy combines actionable insight from her own experience with anecdotes and interviews from successful firm owners throughout the country. I don't normally like to read business books while on vacation, but this I couldn't put down. Can't wait to put her ideas o practice. Highly recommend.
Amy Vetter's book Business, Balance, and Bliss is absolutely fantastic. I saw her speak at my yoga studio in SF and was so inspired by the message of this book. Amy breaks down how to go about getting balance and bliss out of your life while still using your professional skills and experience. Her perspective truly changed mine and inspired me to go about beginning a plan to reshape my career and life, and with the teachings in this book, I feel much better equipped to make my dreams a reality.
"Having known Amy Vetter for better part of my 15 years covering the accounting profession, I can say that she helps to unequivocally define what it means to be a 'thought leader' in this space."
This is a great resource for accounting professionals!
This is a great resource for accounting professionals! It speaks about the transformation that is occurring in the accounting industry and lays out a roadmap to follow to become your clients' cherished advisor. I found the case studies really fun to read. I especially like the various checklists and other resources that give the reader practical takeaways to use. My copy is all marked up with ideas I plan to implement or use to improve our processes in my bookkeeping business.
Great book, and a very easy read. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for balance in their life. It's a very simple process and the author guides you through.
"One thing is certain, the future is about relationships and the human side of accounting. Amy will make you want to get out from behind your desk and out with clients or out in the business operations. This is a must read for every accountant and CPA."
"Technology is no longer just a business enabler--it has become the product. The CPA advisor is the specialist to fine-tune the accounting product and make it more meaningful for the client. No matter what technologies future accounting and financial professionals will have at their disposal, it is the human connection that counts, as Amy Vetter so aptly points out in her new book."
Amy's book is an enjoyable read and provides a great challenge to the traditional mindset and methods of delivering services and interacting with clients and is applicable to many areas within a professional services firm.
"Today's successful accountants don't just tell you what the numbers are, they tell you what the numbers mean. Amy Vetter's career has led her through every aspect of accounting and business. She combines her talents to offer an engaging and mindful perspective on how accounting professionals can provide true and lasting value to the clients they serve."
If you feel stuck in your career or can't quite get into your groove as an entrepreneur, this book will recharge you. I was inspired by the many life lessons Amy shared along with examples of how other business leaders developed their own sense of work-life harmony. And with stress levels at an all-time high here in the U.S., there's no better time to read this book. I for one felt my blood pressure go down by simply putting into practice a few of the useful tools and tips outlined in the book.
As a former colleague of Amy, I was always impressed with her ability to balance her extremely intense work life with her yoga practice. And now she's sharing how she's doing it but focusing on how we can develop that balance for ourselves. Really enjoying the information and being thoughtful about working through the book to get the most out of it.
Amy has been an inspiration to me, specifically as I was exploring transitioning from corporate America to starting my own accounting firm. Her book "Integrative Advisory Services" gave me practical advice and case studies which gave me many of the tools and confidence to start Sugarcreek Consulting. I appreciate Amy as an advocate for pursuing a healthy lifestyle and work-life harmony as finding this balance is something that is also important to me.
I am so grateful to have received 2 copies of your Integrative Advisory Services book as door prizes at the Maryland CPA Society conferences. I gave one copy to my good friend and AICPA Leadership Academy classmate who owns her own firm with her husband in Texas. I look forward to reading Business Balance Bliss over the summer.
Reading your book and having attended your talk, I am inspired to continue to look for ways to serve my client (the firm that I work for) in different ways. I think the information in your book and your sessions about acting as a trusted advisor is transferrable to solo practitioners, partners at large firms, as well as CPAs in business and industry. Integration of work and life is a theme that I feel cannot be emphasized enough and your thought leadership around this is leading us in the right direction as a profession. You also put your words to action by owning your own yoga studio and leading by example showing CPAs that we can be multi-dimensional.
Thanks for all that you do! Look forward to seeing more of your content in the future!
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Naomi Osaka is the new world No 1 and Japan's first Australian Open singles champion after a dramatic and suspense-filled 7-6 (7-2) 5-7 6-3 victory over Czech Petra Kvitova.
And, on a perfect Melbourne night, there was nobody there to hijack the moment after a final for the ages.
Banishing bitter-sweet memories of a traumatic US Open triumph over aggrieved Serena Williams in September, Osaka deservedly exulted in a magnificent win.


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2013 Dodge Journey Review, Ratings, Specs, Prices, and Photos
The Dodge Journey straddles the line between boxy SUVs and tall wagons, with a 3.6-liter 'Pentastar' V-6 making 283 horsepower and a six-speed automatic transmission. The look isn't wacky, but it's different enough to avoid the family-vehicle styling rut. Ride quality is good, but the quick steering ratio feels out of place.
Is Dodge Journey a 7 seater?
A: The Dodge Journey has a seating capacity of seven people.
What problems do 2013 Dodge Journeys have?
It has a lack of agility, poor fuel economy from the optional 3.6-liter V6, a sluggish transmission, and a cramped third-row seat, as well as poor IIHS small overlap crash-test results and low owner satisfaction.
Is a Dodge Journey a small or large SUV?
The Dodge Journey is a mid-size SUV with three rows of seating that seats up to seven people. For 2020, the Journey is only available with front-wheel drive and is powered by a standard 172-horsepower 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine paired with a four-speed automatic transmission.
How long will a 2013 Dodge Journey last?
Subject to regular maintenance, the Dodge Journey can last for 150,000 to 200,000 miles on average, with some users reporting 200,000 miles on their Journeys. If you drive 15,000 miles per year, you could get 10 to 15 years out of your Dodge Journey.
Is the Dodge Journey a good vehicle?
The low base price of the 2020 Dodge Journey can't compensate for its lackluster engine, poor predicted reliability rating, and subpar cargo space, so it ranks near the bottom of our midsize SUV rankings.
We recommend reading: Question: How Long Was The Journey To Sheol?
Which 7 seater SUV is best?
The Top 10 7-Passenger SUVs
2021 Audi Q7. $54,950. 69.9. 7,700.
2021 BMW X7. $74,900. 90.4. 5,950.
2021 Cadillac XT6. $52,695. 78.7. 4,000.
2021 Dodge Durango. $31,995. 5, 6, or 7. 85.1.
2021 Infiniti QX80. $69,050. 95.1. 8,500.
2021 Lexus GX. $53,250. 7 or 8.
What's wrong with Dodge Journey?
The car not turning over, the engine not starting, multiple electrical failures, a faulty TIPM, premature battery failure, electrical system shutting down while driving, ignition recall, and wireless communication are the main areas of concern within the electrical system for the Dodge Journey problems this year.
Does the Dodge Journey have transmission problems?
A problem with the lockup control valve or the TCC accumulator has been reported in the transmissions of the 2017 Dodge Journey. One such problem occurs when you put your car in drive or reverse, causing the car to jerk or shake.
Is the Dodge Journey discontinued?
After discontinuing the Grand Caravan minivan, Dodge has announced that the Journey will be discontinued after the 2020 model year.
Why did they stop making Dodge Journey?
Dodge finally decided to end the Journey's production run after a decade because the few improvements it had made weren't enough to overcome the vehicle's flaws. While Dodge announced the Journey's retirement, it hasn't said what, if anything, will replace it.
Which is better Dodge Journey or Chevy Equinox?
The Chevrolet Equinox transmits power to its wheels more effectively than the Dodge Journey, but it has fewer seats than the Dodge Journey, making the Dodge Journey the better choice if you need to transport a large number of passengers.
We recommend reading: Question: Layton's Mystery Journey How Many Squares?
Does the Dodge Journey hold its value?
After 5 years, a Dodge Journey will depreciate 40% and have a resale value of $16,224.
What is comparable to a Dodge Journey?
To save you time, we've compared our Dodge Journey to three of its competitors, the Ford Edge, Honda Pilot, and Toyota 4Runner, in terms of price, performance, interior quality, and safety.
Is Dodge Journey good in snow?
The Dodge Journey, which comes with either a 173-hp, 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine with front-wheel drive or a 283-hp, 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine with all-wheel drive, performs better than good in the snow and offers better traction and fuel economy for driving on unpacked snow or gravel.
Do dodges last long?
The average Dodge Ram 1500 can have 300,000 miles on it and still perform admirably, but only if it has been well-maintained throughout its life span.
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Castello Tramontano
Matera, Italy (IT)
The Tramontano Castle is situated on a hill near the town center of Matera Italy. The hill, called Lapillo Hill, overlooks the historic city of Matera. The 15th-century castle was left unfinished after the unpopular Count Tramontano was killed by Matera's townsmen.
The castle, with a male central and two lateral towers that are round, scalloped and have slits, was built starting in1501 by Count Gian Carlo Tramontano, feudal lord of Matera. The count was quickly unpopular with the people because with the passage of time he became steeped in debt and to meet such debt he began heavily taxing the population. At that time construction of the castle on the hill began in order to control the "feudal" lands surrounding it more so than for the defense of the city. It appears that the building should have included other defensive towers, one of which was found in the central Piazza Vittorio Veneto of Matera along with other underground sites.
It was that some citizens, tired of constant harassment, gathered hidden behind a boulder, which was thereafter called the Stone of Bad Advice, organized the murder of the Count of Matera. On 29 December 1514, the Count, just out of the Cathedral, was assassinated on a side street, which was subsequently eloquently named Way of Redemption.
The castle currently has three large towers, while twelve were probably included in the original design. During some restoration work in the main square of the town, workers came across what was believed to be the main footings of another castle tower. However, on further excavation large Roman cisterns were unearthed. Whole house structures were discovered where one can see how the people of that era lived. Found under the main square of the modern city was a large underground reservoir, complete with columns and a vaulted ceiling.
In 2008, the castle, together with the surrounding park, closed for restoration. The restoration is expected to take many years.
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How important is it for employees to belong?
Belonging isn't a feeling we often discuss in a workplace context, but a report released by Culture Amp drawing on data from our Inclusion survey, created with Paradigm, suggests it's a feeling we're going to be talking about a lot more.
The Diversity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality report shows that inclusion and belonging matter most. A feeling of belonging at a company, (i.e. "I feel like I belong at my company") has the strongest relationship to engagement.
By analyzing the correlation of belonging, diversity and inclusion factors to employee engagement, Culture Amp discovers that belonging factors are more strongly and consistently correlated with employee engagement, especially for people from underrepresented groups.
Diversity remains important, and framing diversity and inclusion programs through the lens of belonging could make for more effective initiatives. Belonging is not a new concept in diversity and inclusion, and this is the second time we've found its connection with employee engagement within our data.
For further reading, you can access the Diversity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality report or Culture Amp's 6 Ways to Foster Belonging in the Workplace ebook.


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LinkedIn's New Content Marketing Score
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Do you ever wonder how effective your LinkedIn content is at reaching your target audience? Well, wonder no more. The social media giant is rolling out two new features to help small businesses improve content marketing.
One feature is a Content Marketing Score, which quantifies the effectiveness of your content. The second concept lists Trending Content, which will help you write about topics that are of interest to your target audience. (The changes are the latest among several LinkedIn has made recently.)
Intrigued? We thought you might be. Here's a closer look at each of the features and how they can improve your marketing efforts.
Content Marketing Score
Remember school report cards? Your teacher gave you a grade and wrote a note about how you could improve in certain areas. The Content Marketing Score is similar. You get a grade, which is a score of 1-1000, and LinkedIn tells you how you can improve.
To be more specific, your grade is based on how much engagement your content gets, which is divided by the number of active LinkedIn members that you'd like to reach. You can adjust the score to look at specific areas, too. For instance, you can get a score on just your sponsored updates. You'll also see how your score stacks up against competitors, but the rankings will be anonymous.
The score is private. It's for your eyes only, which Stephanie Katcher, a social media specialist at All My Web Needs, says is vital.
"The fact that the Content Marketing Score is private is significant," she says. "It negates the desire to game the system for popularity and puts the focus on performance.
"The anonymity of competitors is important to letting small businesses focus on how to develop and optimize their content rather than how they are going to compete, or worse yet, who they need to copy."
For Katcher, the new score is a "huge win for the evolution of digital content."
To reach your target audience, you need to know what topics interest them, right? LinkedIn will supply a list of trending topics that are pertinent to your target audience. The idea of "trending topics" is nothing new, Twitter has cashed in on this phenomenon, but LinkedIn's list won't be as broad. The list will reflect your target audience, not the audience as a whole.
LinkedIn is using an algorithm to evaluate the trends and categorize content into 17,000 topics. The result is a list of trending topics that your audience will want to read about and engage with.
Katcher says this list should point business owners in the right direction, but she reminds everyone that trends can have a short lifecycle.
"Using trending topics to guide content development is only as good as your ability to recognize the life cycle of a trend," she says. "Content needs to provide value to the conversation in every stage. Early in the trend cycle generalities are okay, but as things accelerate content needs to focus on current solutions or the future phases of a trend."
With a little practice, you'll realize the ebb and flow of the trends.
We predicted that LinkedIn would become a go-to site for content this year, and while the features are impressive, there is a catch. Right now, the features are only available to LinkedIn Marketing Solution customers, who spend some $20,000 a month. The hope is that in the not-too-distant future, these features will become available to rest of LinkedIn's users.
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An overarching commitment to increase diversity and inclusion in library and Wikipedia culture and content.
Boxes of archival documents at York University. Photo by Smallison, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This project, Advancing Reconciliation and Social Justice in Libraries through Research Library and Community Collaboration in Wikimedia Projects, uses a case study approach to model community collaboration in the creation of linked open data, in this case related to archival and special collection materials related to Indigenous communities in North America. The project focuses on getting local communities access to documentation related to their own local news and culture. These materials carry much cultural value for these communities, but are frequently under-described, held far from the communities they originated from, are not digitized, and/or suffer from contested or problematic concepts of ownership and custodial history.
Even if the content is accessible, under-description can be reflected in how information is organized and structured. Metadata describing content may be minimal, incorrect, exclusionary, or absent altogether, thereby obscuring the content's contextual importance. Traditional library and archival practices of description, as well as other power dynamics, reinforce this structural exclusion. This project will contend with these problematic aspects of library and archival professional practice and bring them into conversation with Wikimedia community practices to demonstrate how a more inclusive and community-engaged approach can more accurately tell stories about Indigenous communities' notable accomplishments and impact in the world.
The records of the Mariposa Folk Festival Foundation at York University contain information about numerous Indigenous artisans, storytellers, musicians, and activists. Cesar Newashish, for example, was a master canoe builder and traditional artisan featured in several Mariposa programs and newsletters, in addition to a film by the National Film Board of Canada. His work can be found in museums and displayed at cultural events all around Canada.
Despite all this, there is little information about Newashish online. One of the few places where you can read about him is on the Atikamekw language version of Wikipedia, using an article created due to the combined work of the Manawan Nation and Wikimedia Canada. Many others do not even have an article or item about them. The Festival archives at York contain rich documentation that could build content in existing entries like that of Newashish's and others, such as digitized programs with biographical information, newsletters with articles about the practice of artisans, and photographs documenting events, performances and individuals.
To address this overall systemic problem, our project will focus on creating inclusive structured data in archival and manuscript collections to contextualize and highlight relationships among people, and in particular the stories of Indigenous groups.
The creation of referenced structured data that can be used to connect reliable sources with topics to help justify "notability" in Wikipedia in order to redress a known diversity gap in Wikipedia's coverage.
To maximize exposure of linkable structured metadata, this project will collaborate within communities to use Wikidata as the global, openly licensed knowledge base where the data can be deposited, queried, and reused.
We will work closely with different communities, community members, archivists, librarians, scholars and students, and the Wikipedia and Wikidata communities—and draw on existing theory and best practices—to find pathways for collaboration and community participation in the work of social justice.
This project is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and led by Stacy Allison-Cassin at York University Libraries. The project lead team includes Joy Kirchner, Dean, York University Libraries; Anna St. Onge, Archivist, Digital Projects and Outreach; Mark Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs; and Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Strategic Initiatives, Association of Research Libraries.
Editor's note: A detailed project page is being developed; we will update this blog post with a hyperlink when it is complete.
For example, different members of the Tootoosis family of Saskatchewan made numerous appearances at the festival. While Wikidata can be used to document familial relationships and appearances at the festival, there are insufficient properties to appropriately document roles like "elder" or other roles related to Indigenous knowledge structures.
The English-language Wikipedia's policy on notability, linked above, is one of many, each developed by individual language communities. You can see its equivalents on Wikidata.


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Choice matters: The environmental costs of producing meat, seafood
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Industrial beef production is one of the most costly to the environment, a new study shows.JacquelinNix/Istock/Thinkstock
Which food type is more environmentally costly to produce — livestock, farmed seafood, or wild-caught fish?
The answer is, it depends. But in general, industrial beef production and farmed catfish are the most taxing on the environment, while small, wild-caught fish and farmed mollusks like oysters, mussels and scallops have the lowest environmental impact, according to a new analysis.
Growing oysters at a farm in Thailand. jomkwan/Istock/Thinkstock
The study appears online June 11 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and its authors believe it is the most comprehensive look at the environmental impacts of different types of animal protein production.
"From the consumer's standpoint, choice matters," said lead author Ray Hilborn, a University of Washington professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. "If you're an environmentalist, what you eat makes a difference. We found there are obvious good choices, and really obvious bad choices."
The study is based on nearly a decade of analysis, in which the co-authors reviewed hundreds of published life-cycle assessments for various types of animal protein production. Also called a "cradle-to-grave" analysis, these assessments look at environmental impacts associated with all stages of a product's life.
Read the paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Of the more than 300 such assessments that exist for animal food production, the authors selected 148 that were comprehensive and not considered too "boutique," or specialized, to inform their new study.
As decisions are made about how food production expands through agricultural policies, trade agreements and environmental regulations, the authors note a "pressing need" for systematic comparisons of environmental costs across animal food types.
"I think this is one of the most important things I've ever done," Hilborn said. "Policymakers need to be able to say, 'There are certain food production types we need to encourage, and others we should discourage.'"
Broadly, the study uses four metrics as a way to compare environmental impacts across the many different types of animal food production, including farm-raised seafood (called aquaculture), livestock farming and seafood caught in the wild. The four measures are: energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, potential to contribute excess nutrients — such as fertilizer — to the environment, and the potential to emit substances that contribute to acid rain.
A fishing boat off the coast of Ireland.FrankMirgach/Istock/Thinkstock
The researchers compared environmental impacts across food types by using a standard amount of 40 grams of protein — roughly the size of an average hamburger patty, and the daily recommended protein serving. For example, they calculated how much greenhouse gas was produced per 40 grams of protein across all food types, where data were available.
"This method gives us a really consistent measurement people can relate to," Hilborn said.
The analysis showed clear winners that had low environmental impacts across all measures, including farmed shellfish and mollusks, and capture fisheries such as sardines, mackerel and herring. Other capture fish choices with relatively low impact are whitefish like pollock, hake and the cod family. Farmed salmon also performed well. But the study also illuminated striking differences across animal proteins, and the researchers advise that consumers must decide what environmental impacts are most important to them when selecting their food choices.
Some of the additional findings include:
Overall, livestock production used less energy than most forms of seafood aquaculture. Farmed catfish, shrimp and tilapia used the most energy, mainly because constant water circulation must be powered by electricity.
Catfish aquaculture and beef produce about 20 times more greenhouse gases than farmed mollusks, small capture fisheries, farmed salmon and chicken.
Mollusk aquaculture — such as oysters, mussels and scallops — actually absorb excess nutrients that are harmful to ecosystems. In contrast, livestock beef production rated poorly in this measure, and capture fisheries consistently scored better than aquaculture and livestock because no fertilizer is used.
Because livestock emit ammonia in their manure, and producing their feed requires burning fossil fuels, they performed poorly in the acid rain category. Farmed mollusks again performed the best, with small capture fisheries and salmon aquaculture close behind.
For capture fisheries, fuel to power fishing boats is the biggest factor, and differences in fuel use created a large range of performance in the greenhouse gas category. Using a purse sein net to catch small schooling fish like herring and anchovy uses the least fuel and, perhaps surprisingly, pot fisheries for lobster use a great deal of fuel and thus have a high impact per unit of protein produced. Dragging nets through water, known as trawling, is quite variable and the impact appears to be related to the abundance of the fish. Healthy stocks take less fuel to capture.
When compared to other studies of vegetarian and vegan diets, a selective diet of aquaculture and wild capture fisheries has a lower environmental impact than either of the plant-based diets.
In the future, the researchers plan to look at biodiversity impacts as another way to measure environmental costs. The analysis also mentions a range of other environmental impacts such as water demand, pesticide use, antibiotic use and soil erosion that were addressed in some of the studies they reviewed, but not consistently enough to summarize in the study.
Co-authors are Jeannette Banobi, a former UW research assistant in aquatic and fishery sciences; Teresa Pucylowski and Tim Walsworth, former UW graduate students; and Stephen Hall of Avalerion Capital.
The study was partially funded by the Seafood Industry Research Fund.
For more information, contact Hilborn at rayh@uw.edu.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Ray Hilborn • School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences


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the whisky lounge: ... Long Live the King!
... Long Live the King!
Continuing the trend of experimenting with a cheap, barely drinkable whisky, rather than risking a more expensive one, I have selected a Glen Parker Speyside for the next batch. I know what you're thinking. Glen Parker? Am I crazy? Quite possibly, but hey: if I'm going to follow the effects of maturation, why not start with something so young it's offensive?
For the uninitiated, Glen Parker is rather like the mystery meat of the whisky world. No one seems entirely certain what it is. It's a Speyside, with no age mentioned, and here in Ontario it costs about $36 per bottle. It is rumoured to be just a bottling of whatever single malt the independant bottler can get his hands on at the time, such as Glenfiddich or Glenfarclas, that the distillers just want to be rid of rather than besmirch their good names by selling it under their own banner. And, after sampling a bit of it, I can see why.
I challenge anyone to find a good review of the stuff which actually describes it; I have been unsuccessful. I have however found a number of mentions on just how god-awful it really is. It's one of the favourites on the "what whisky would you never buy again" and the "are there really any bad single malts" fora over at Whisky Magazine. Yes. I said fora. Not forums. I didn't spend three long years studying Latin for nothing. Semper ubi sub ubi, my friends.
Linguistic peculiarity aside, I have to concur with the rest of the plebeians out there: Glen Parker Speyside is terrible. Its nose is a weak yet still impressively malodorous blend of such delightful aromas as tar, rubber (like a pencil eraser), wet straw and moss or mildew. Rather like how a stack of old tires and bales of hay would smell if stored in a wet stone cellar. I had been unimpressed by the McClelland's Islay, but I take my hat off and salute the Glen Parker: I had not thought a whisky could smell so unappetizing.
It's a good thing, then, that the taste is quite different from the bouquet. Well, in theory it's a good thing. In reality, it's really no better, merely different. It tastes of fish. I'm not talking the salty tang of a good stiff sea breeze. Nope. I'm talking fish. Along with the piscatorial deliciousness, there's a strong component of pine boughs and resin. There's also some oatmeal. I can't find vanilla, fruit, fresh grass, smoke or any of the other tastes one can commonly associate with whisky. Just fish, pine trees and oatmeal. It makes for rather a pungent, lip-puckering combination.
It also comes in a green bottle. Not that that actually is of any importance, but it's not something I see terribly often. Just another thing to make this particular whisky all the more unique.
So, this is going to be a difficult trial. I think it's likely that the barrel will have lost a reasonable amount of its oakiness by this point, after having had water, sherry, Whisky Works and McClelland's in it already. I imagine, then, that it will take longer than a few weeks to get the Glen Parker to any state even vaguely resembling drinkability. It may not even be possible. But we shall see.
I won't be here to let you know about the Glen Parker experiment next weekend: I'm at the Spirit of Toronto. I'll try to take a camera with me to get a few shots of the show and I'll let you know how it went and how the Glen Parker is coming along early the following week.
On the linguistics: the linked pages are threads, not fora! Impressive Latin though.
Also, I'd recommend doing a big post on the Spirit of Toronto (with lots of pics). Chances are if you do you'll get a lot of links from other blogs or fora!
I'll take as many photos as I can of the Spirit of Toronto show. It should be a blast. Friends have gone to similar events in Halifax and Montreal, and have reported a fantastic time. But then again, how could hanging around with hundreds of whisky aficionadi be anything but fantastic?


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Large-time decay of the soft potential relativistic Boltzmann equation in $\mathbb{R}^3_x$
The Lifschitz-Slyozov equation with space-diffusion of monomers
June 2012, 5(2): 357-382. doi: 10.3934/krm.2012.5.357
Periodic long-time behaviour for an approximate model of nematic polymers
Lingbing He 1, , Claude Le Bris 2, and Tony Lelièvre 2,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
CERMICS, École des Ponts ParisTech, 6 & 8, avenue Blaise Pascal, 77455 Marne-La-Vallée Cedex 2, France, France
Received July 2011 Revised January 2012 Published April 2012
We study the long-time behaviour of a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, which models the evolution of rigid polymers in a given flow, after a closure approximation. The aim of this work is twofold: first, we propose a microscopic derivation of the classical Doi closure, at the level of the kinetic equation ; second, under specific assumptions on the parameters and the initial condition, we prove convergence of the solution to the Fokker-Planck equation to a particular periodic solution in the long-time limit.
Keywords: Entropy method, nematic polymer., Doi closure, periodic solution, liquid crystal.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B40, 76A1.
Citation: Lingbing He, Claude Le Bris, Tony Lelièvre. Periodic long-time behaviour for an approximate model of nematic polymers. Kinetic & Related Models, 2012, 5 (2) : 357-382. doi: 10.3934/krm.2012.5.357
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Lingbing He Claude Le Bris Tony Lelièvre