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Rethinking processes and governance
Image: House of Statistics, February 2022, Foto (c) Jaana Prüss
The city as a place of social diversity is in danger. In Berlin, the growth pressure is particularly evident: a rapid increase in the value of land, increasingly scarce affordable residential space as well as increasing displacement pressure on actors from the fields of art, culture, education, small-scale commerce and social affairs.
As a result of high-profile actions by the Haus der Statistik initiative, a group of committed artists, architects, cultural workers and politicians, the previous plans for selling to investors and the planned demolition were prevented in 2015.
The initiative's demand to secure the complex in a cost-effective mix of uses as a common good was finally accepted. At the end of 2017, the State of Berlin acquired the site, paving the way for the development of the quarter for the common good.
The existing building and around 65,000 sqm of new construction will provide space for art, culture, social affairs and education, affordable housing as well as a new city hall for the district of Berlin-Mitte and administrative uses.
To achieve this goal, a novel constellation of actors was formed: The "Koop5" consists of the Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing, the District Office Berlin-Mitte, the state-owned companies WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte mbH and BIM Berliner Immobilienmanagement GmbH and the ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG, which acts as the legal representative of the Haus der Statistik initiative. In this way, civil society knowledge and commitment are coupled with the expertise and scope of action of the administration.
Haus der Statistik is a place for democratic practice: The "Werkstatt" as a center for participation involves people and perspectives in the planning process who would otherwise have little chance of being heard.
Since summer 2019, selected ground floor areas of the existing buildings have been allocated to stakeholders in art, culture, education, social affairs and from the neighbourhoods as part of the so called "pioneer utilisation". During the next years of construction and planning, these pioneer usages will processually and prototypically test what is later on to become established in the quarter for the long term.
The pioneer users represent the cooperative planning process in practice and actively contribute additional value for urban society, in the way that neighbourhood and city-wide demands are corresponded to on-site at the Haus der Statistik.
The unique feature of the transformation lies in the processual planning based on values committed to the common good and simultaneous openness in the process. Here, especially the early involvement of user groups and the development of context-specific carrier models play a major role in terms of long-term navigability and participation.
As a learning process, the pioneer uses continuously interlink project development, the broad participation of urban society as well as the users' perspectives. They thus form a key component of cooperative district development, in the context of which both long-term use clusters, transparent organisational and allocation structures, and publicly effective formats are established and continuously developed.
The project illustrates the need of many people to actively and self-determinedly participate in the shaping of their living environments beyond formal participation formats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z03DA0P0-W0
The KO-Market once a month invites the neighbourhood at "Allesandersplatz" [Everything different place] to swapp and exchange. Different resources are traded: Knowledge, goods & emotion. Economic profit plays a secondary role.
Pioneer projects offer workshops, research and experimentation in the field of ecological circular economy and there is always program, live music and fresh food from regional producers.
The initiative Haus der Statistik (House of Statistics) has posed election test questions to Berlin's politicians and invited politicians, neighbors, and committed people to debate the future direction of the neighborhood at a long table during a neighborhood policy hearing.
Since 2019, there is the Choir of Statistics under the direction of songwriter and unconditional choir director Bernadette La Hengst. All those interested in singing from the city society and neighborhood can participate. The choir gives an additional voice to the change process around the HdS. Together, the participants sing and write utopian songs about the future of the city, about neighborhood and the neighborhood around the HdS. At the same time, it is an artistic form of addressing urban i
The Making Future Summer Academy explored forms of productive collaboration, exchange, solidarity and life around the House of Statistics.
Making Futures was an action research project that addressed issues of architecture as a collective form and architecture as a resource as an experimental research unit that advances future directions for architectural practice and education.
In the existing buildings and through approx. 65,000 m² of new construction, the Haus der Statistik model project will create space for art, culture, social affairs and education, affordable housing and a new city hall for central and administrative uses. Between the buildings, city rooms are being created for community use by the diverse neighborhood. Final decision Urban planning for Teleinternetcafe and Treibhaus landscape architecture with the participation of the interested urban community.
KOOP5 is an innovative and effective constellation of actors consisting of five cooperation partners: Senate for Urban Development, Building and Housing; Housing Administration
Berlin Mitte WBM; Mitte district of Berlin; Federal Real Estate Management Company
and ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG - Cooperative for Urban Development
in collaboration with around 60 Pioneerprojects from art, culture, sustainability, circular economy, up-cycling, repair, sharing economy, foodsharing, social affairs, education, urban practice etc.
https://hausderstatistik.org/


My name is Pete Soderman, and I live in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, with my wife, Gethyn. Ajijic is a village of approximately 15,000 people, located on the Northern shore of Lake Chapala, roughly 45 minutes by car south of Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. We are retired here, as are many other Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, enjoying a near-perfect climate, low cost of living, and the friendliness of the Mexican people.
I had a 26-year drinking career that began on my eighteenth birthday, and ended in August of 1990. The last two years were the worst, and as a result of a series of events, I found myself at an AA meeting after a friend told me it was a place where I could learn to drink normally. It isn't, of course, but I found that I couldn't agree with its principles, nor follow most of its suggestions, except for one, I didn't drink. Why was I successful when an overwhelming percentage of those who stumble into AA fail to stay sober for any length of time?
My search for the answer to that question is what this book is all about. I had to find my own way, and in doing that, I discovered that most addicts recover completely on their own, or with minimal help, and that their methods for doing so were readily accessible if one was willing to research the available scientific literature. I spent several years doing just that, and arrived at the conclusion that the established addiction treatment industry was using methods that the research community knew, and had known for years, were ineffective, and in fact counterproductive.
The bottom line, I found, was that the key to recovery for most people wasn't spiritual at all, it was cognitive! A recovering addict needed a good deal of motivation, a way to overcome urges, the skills to deal with life's normal problems without a drug, and the ability to change their focus from short-term gratification to the achievement of long-term goals. Once these became a part of one's life, falling back into addictive habits became virtually impossible, as long as the recovered individual maintained their attitude and outlook.
I helped start a SMART Recovery® meeting in Wilmington, NC, because after the principles of that program were explained to me, it was obvious that SMART included almost all of the methodologies that my research had determined were among the most effective for the largest group of addicts. Many of those methodologies had been a part of my life for many years.
When I moved to Mexico, I began working on this book, and started a local SMART meeting here as well. As I mention often in the book, no single program will work for everyone, and there are probably almost as many paths to recovery as there are addicts who have successfully recovered. This book is about choices. I had few choices when it was time for me to get sober; I had to discover them for myself. Powerless No Longer is about offering you the choices that I didn't have. Tools you can pick and choose from to find what works for you.
I wish you the best on your personal journey.


In order for me to prepare my body for what is going to happen to it, I decided that I need to understand how the surgery is done. I do this because I believe that the subconscious mind is always at work and is always giving the body directions as what to do. It controls our blood pressure, heart rate, etc.
The two main process of interest to me are the the process of the joint replacement itself and the process and choices of anesthesiology.
Here a few videos that help me understand the process from the surgeon's point of view.


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General Assembly Adopts Resolution Seeking ICJ Opinion on Separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
General Assembly Meets on ICJ Advisory Opinion on 1965 Separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
General Assembly Adopts Resolution on ICJ Advisory Opinion on 1965 Separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
ICJ Delivers Advisory Opinion on 1965 Separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
The President of the Court, H.E. Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, on 25 February 2019 (reading of the Advisory Opinion of the Court)
General Assembly Meets on Advancement of women
Assembly Adopts Resolution Requesting ICJ to Issue Advisory Opinion on West Bank Separation Wall
Headline General Assembly Adopts Resolution Seeking ICJ Opinion on Separation of Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius
Caption Description The General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render an advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius before that Indian Ocean island nation's independence in the 1960s. The text was adopted by a recorded vote of 94 in favour to 15 against, with 65 abstentions. The Assembly recalled its 1965 resolution in which it asked the United Kingdom not to dismember the territory of Mauritius ahead of its independence in 1968, and asked the Court whether the decolonization of Mauritius had been carried out in a lawful manner, given the Archipelago's subsequent separation.
The delegation of Mauritius during the meeting.
Production Date 06/22/2017 12:51:02 PM

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Q: Simplify $(p)(\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n) + (1-p)(-\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n)$ to $\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^{n+1}$ The expression was simplified in the answer to this question. I'm trying to simplify it but I got stuck. Multiplying all the factors and regrouping didn't work, but maybe I'm doing the wrong regrouping.
Also, I don't understand why the $(2p-1)^n$ dropped the exponent in the second line of the same solution.

A: $$p\cdot (1/2)(2p-1)^n +(1-p) \cdot (-1/2)(2p-1)^n = \\
p \cdot (1/2)(2p-1)^n +(p-1) \cdot(1/2)(2p-1)^{\color{red}{n}}= \\ \left[\frac{p}{2}+\frac{p}{2}-\frac{1}{2}\right](2p-1)^n =\\ (2p-1)\cdot(1/2) (2p-1)^n$$
You are correct that an $n$ was missing; I inserted an extra line which should help clarify.

A: Start with: $(p)(\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n) + (1-p)(-\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n) = x$
 (I'm setting it equal to $x$ so it's easier to follow.)
$\therefore (p)(2p-1)^{n} + (1-p)(-1)(2p-1)^{n} = 2x$
Factor the $(2p-1)^{n}$:
$\therefore (2p-1)^{n} \cdot (p + (1-p)(-1)) = 2x$
$\therefore (2p-1)^{n} \cdot (p + (p-1)) = 2x$
$\therefore (2p-1)^{n} \cdot (2p-1) = 2x$
By law of exponent addition:
$(2p-1)^{n} \cdot (2p-1)^{1} = 2x$
$(2p-1)^{n+1} = 2x$
$\therefore \frac{1}{2} \cdot (2p-1)^{n+1} = x$
And there we are at the solution!
$ = \frac{1}{2} \cdot (2p-1)^{n+1}$

A: Just take $\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n$ common and simplify.
$(p)(\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n) + (1-p)(-\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n)$
Taking $\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n$ common, we have
$\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n\left(p-(1-p)\right)$
$\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^n\left(2p-1\right)$
$\frac{1}{2}(2p-1)^{n+1}$

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Q: can't Access Payment methods (under Sales ) in magento Admin Panel after server migration I can't Access system -> Configuration -> Sales -> Payment methods after server migration. its shows server error 500
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link : index.php/admin/system_config/edit/section/payment/key/

A: Looks like mcrypt is not installed in your new server. Check with the your hosting and get it installed. This link might help further : http://www.magestore.com/magento-installation/test-server-for-compatibility-with-magento

A: Please install mcrypt.
You can do the following steps.
Sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
And then restart your apache sever.
Sudo service apache2 restart

A: i follow the following steps to install mcrypt.
# yum install epel-release

Then, i installed the php-mcrypt module:
# yum install php-mcrypt

finally i restarted my server. now its working fine


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FIRST LISTEN: "Version of Us" by RKVC (Available May 1, 2015)
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FIRST LISTEN: "Version of Us" by RKVC (Available May 1, 2015) The Rod Kim & Vince Cirino Self Deprecating RKVC Pop Rock Pop Up Videos.
Here's an exclusive first listen to the upcoming EP "Version of Us" by RKVC! Available in digital and physical format 5.1.15! Pre-order the new EP here! → https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/version-of-us/id982328261
For this first listen, the guys vlog directly from their studio not too long after completing the final mixes of their new EP! This first listen of "Version of Us" features clips from each of the songs on the upcoming project that releases May 1, 2015! Danielle and Jennifer, Maggie Gabbard, Michael Baunach, Cathy Larue and Joey DiTullio all made guest appearances on this new project! The guys hope you enjoy this first listen to their 3rd traditional EP and share it with everyone you know! Don't forget to click the "like" button on this video and subscribe to this channel for more updates! This was your first listen preview!
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VBCo1TRZq0
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***What was RKVC up to…
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The Self-Deprecating Romantic Pop Rock Duo of RKVC bridges the gap between songs of heartbreak and love without making you want to jump off that bridge. Rod Kim & Vince Cirino: Mixing the feel & soul of the singer/songwriter genre with a noncommittal love for modern electronic pop.
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Q: Mail.app: How can I set a different default signature for each address? I have my Gmail account setup in Mail 6.2 (Mountain Lion). From that account I can send mail with one of five different addresses (4 other accounts forwarding onto Gmail). Is there a way I can set up a different default signature for each address, rather than a single default signature for all addresses?
I have 5 addresses and 5 signatures, I just can't link them together.

A: 1) Open Settings (Cmd + ,), click signatures. You will see a list of email accounts on the right.

2) Click the one you want to set a default signature to. Click the + button below the signatures.

3) Add you signature.
If you have more than one signature, select your preferred default on from the drop down menu below the signatures.

A: You might wanna try SignatureProfiler (shareware). It can assign different signatures and From names for each e-mail address on the same account. Setup is somehow cumbersome (after a conversation with the dev, he acknowledged the plugin needs a redesign) but it works great, pretty much like standard e-mail identities. It also offers other features such as Random Quotes or iTunes/Skype Statuses on e-mail signatures.
Mail alone can't do what you (we) want. Even the option to insert signatures sequentially, when using multiple addresses separated by commas, in the Accounts pane, is as useful as the option to insert signatures randomly.


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For most of the decade, the heart of Austin's impressive improv revolution has been the Hideout Theatre. The little Congress Avenue storefront, with its pair of cozy cabaret spaces, has been offering a steady diet of improv all week every week for almost 10 years, serving as both home base for dozens of groups that sprang up as legions of Austin performers responded to improv's siren call and host venue for several annual improv festivals that bring troupes from across the country to perform alongside local improvisers. Still, despite the energy of the improv community and a growing audience, keeping the doors open hasn't been any easier for the Hideout than any other Downtown entertainment establishment, and with the recent economic hits, the Hideout's 10th year was looking like it might be the theatre's last.
But that same community that made the space a hive of improv isn't letting it vanish into the Heaven of Lost Austin Clubs just yet. Three scene regulars who cut their improv teeth on classes at the Hideout have acquired the venue in order to keep that heart of Austin improv beating. Jessica Arjet of the Flying Theater Machine and Kareem Badr and Roy Janik of Parallelogramophonograph are the new owners, and with support from Michael McGill, Andy Crouch, and Kaci Beeler, they have plans to make the Hideout an even more active improv center. They'll roll out their ideas – and solicit feedback – during a panel discussion on Saturday, June 6. That will be after Friday's grand opening celebration with special shows at 8pm and a party following. For more information on these and other special activities that weekend, visit www.hideouttheatre.com.


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This Law & Order Actor Is Officially Running for Congress
by Christina Marfice
Feb 07, 2018 at 11:37 am EST
Image: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
The trend of actors running for seats in the U.S. government is continuing, like it or not. And while the latest Hollywood star to announce an election bid doesn't have any real legal experience, she's at least played a lawyer on TV a few times (not that it should be comforting, because political jobs should be for people with policy-making experience).
More: Law & Order: SVU Proves Fake News Can Have Very Real Consequences
Law and Order: SVU star Diane Neal, who fans probably remember as Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak, just returned from a social media hiatus to announce that she's running for a New York Congressional seat. Though she's a registered Democrat, Neal is running as an Independent, which will require her to collect 3,500 signatures of support to secure a guaranteed spot on the ballot for the November election.
"MORNING! Ok, so it's ON!!!" she wrote on Twitter Tuesday. "But I'm doing with nearly no staff, no donations (yet), with no party. Website will be up later today (fingers crossed) and all ready to go. But goal is bigger than parties. Goal is no negativity. Goal is HIGH ROAD all the way."
More: Marcia Gay Harden Opens Up About Caring for a Loved One With Alzheimer's
Ok, so it's ON!!! But I'm doing with nearly no staff, no donations (yet), with no party. Website will be up later today (fingers crossed) and all ready to go. But goal is bigger than parties. Goal is no negativity. Goal is HIGH ROAD all the way.
— Diane Neal (@DianeNeal) February 6, 2018
In a second tweet, she shared a campaign graphic, which reads, "Empathy & reason." She added, "And that's why I dropped off social- to think, read, write, ponder. Reacquaint with every bit of Political Phil., History and Ethics from The Republic to Rackove. To make a plan for us worthy of American Ideals."
And that's why I dropped off social- to think, read, write, ponder. Reacquaint with every bit of Political Phil., History and Ethics from The Republic to Rackove. To make a plan for us worthy of American Ideals. So… pic.twitter.com/exFmokdxNl
From her early interviews, Neal sounds like another wannabe politician trying to convince voters she's not like other politicians.
"I'm a little Libertarian, I'm a lot liberal, mostly progressive, but I have this amazing ability to be able to take really complicated policy and break it down into edible sound bites, which is something most progressive liberals cannot do," she told The Daily Freeman.
More: Law & Order: SVU Fans — the Time Has Come for a Stabler & Benson Reunion
Can't she just return to SVU instead? That's something we could all support.
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Ben Roethlisberger Still Not Happy With Offense: 'We've Got To Put More Points On The Board'
By Matthew Marczi
Posted on November 22, 2020 at 5:30 pm
The Pittsburgh Steelers have scored 24 points or more in each of their first 10 games in 2020, which is the first time in franchise history that they have done so. I believe they are the only team this season to have pulled that off. In spite of their scoring success, coming off of a 27-point game today, however, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger still sees the need for improvement.
"We've got to put more points on the board", he told reporters after the game. "I know the scoreboard says what it does, but there were too many times we punted today, and so offensively, we're happy we got the win, but we know that we need to be better".
He's not wrong. It's not like the Steelers blew this game away. They did finish with 373 yards as an offense, averaging 5.1 yards per play, but that is largely because they controlled the ball for over 36 minutes against a rather bad opponent.
The Steelers started their opening drive from the Jaguars' 46-yard line after they attempted an onside kick. They only picked up 19 yards of offense after that with one first down, and the drive ended with a missed Chris Boswell field goal.
Their second drive started from just their own five-yard line, and they did move the ball 53 yards, starting with a 25-yard run, but they drive stalled at the Jaguars' 42, and they had to punt. The offense would score on its next three possessions, including a touchdown aided by an interception that set them up at their own 39.
Pittsburgh did not score at all in either the first or third quarters, punting three times in the third despite opening the half with the ball. They only picked up two first downs across those three drives, somehow managing to run a combined 13 plays taking up nearly half the quarter on the two drives in which they did pick up a first down, but none of those drives made it past the Jaguars' 48.
They would put up one final touchdown in the fourth quarter, but, again, it came from the aid of the defense, with a Terrell Edmunds interception setting them up at midfield. They also got 15 yards of penalties out of it, scoring in just four plays.
In all, the Steelers had 12 meaningful possessions, and they had to call on Jordan Berry to punt five times. He did so for 216 yards, gross averaging 43.2 yards. I don't know what his net is off-hand, but I know it's worse, considering he had a touchback. He did have two punts inside the 20.
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Q: Concatenation in a VB.net loop I'm not sure how to make concatenate inside a loop in the same way as this:
For x As Integer = 1 to 10
    Me.Button & x & .top = 0
Next

instead of:
Me.Button1.top = 0
...
Me.Button10.top = 0

Any suggestions would be much appreciated,
Thanks :)

A: I recommend an array of buttons, my friend :)
It's been a while since I've done VB, but something like:
Dim buttons(10)
buttons(1) = Me.Button1
' Add other buttons here

For x As Integer = 1 to 10
  buttons(x).top = 0
Next

Better yet, if you are creating your buttons dynamically, just store the array of buttons instead of each button as a member of the form object.

A: Maybe you can do something like this:
For x As Integer = 1 to 10
    Me.FindControl("Button" & x).top = 0
Next

A:  Dim buttonarray(10) As Button
 Dim x As Integer

 buttonarray(0) = Button1
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 'Etc

  For x = 0 To 10
     buttonarray(x).Top = 0
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A: To do this in VB you would have to add each of the buttons to a collection and then loop over the collection.  Non dynamic languages don't have very many conventions for looping over variable variable names.

A: Or... no array
dim ButtonPrefix as string = "Button"
dim myButton as Button
For x as Integer = 1 to 10
   myButton = me.FindControl(ButtonPrefix & x)
   myButton.top = 0
Next

Also, top isn't a valid member of Button. Did you mean text?


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The Beechlawn Advance and Retreat is a historic mansion in Columbia, Tennessee, U.S..

History
The house was built as a house for A. W. Warfield in 1853. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Warfield served as a Major in the Confederate States Army. His wife remained in the house, and she let Confederate generals John Bell Hood and Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Union general John Schofield use it as army command on November 24, 1864 and December 20, 1864 respectively.

Architectural significance
The house was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 14, 1971.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Maury County, Tennessee
Greek Revival architecture in Tennessee
Houses completed in 1855

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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Cal Poly sophomore Bonnie Diamond was the runner-up in the women's 500-yard freestyle race Thursday evening at the A3 Performance Invitational, highlighting several impressive swims for the Mustangs on the first day of the regional meet at ELAC Stadium.
Diamond started the day with a second-place qualification through the prelims, clocking a time of 4 minutes, 53.01 seconds, and then came back in the championship final to again touch the wall second, bettering her performance to 4:52.97.
Diamond's time, which tallied 28 points in the team standings, easily ranks No. 1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and moved her up from No. 4 to 3 in school history. She trailed only San Jose State senior Riley Spitser, whose winning 4:46.64 was a provisional NCAA Championships-qualifier.
Mustang teammate Meghan Merlihan, a freshman, also earned a second swim in the 500 free, ultimately winning the consolation final at 4:56.41.
The men's 500 free also featured a standout Cal Poly result, as fellow sophomore Nolan Newland came in third place (for 27 points), at 4:22.29 (second-best in program history and also No. 1 throughout the conference).
Cal Poly senior Alan Peterson (at 4:31.27 in the prelims) and sophomore Pearu Pold (in 4:28.09 to win the bonus final) also fared especially well in the 500 free.
Also on the men's side, sophomore Zach Cootes won the consolation final for the 200-yard individual medley, in 1:48.86 (third-fastest all-time at Cal Poly, good for 20 points and another MPSF-best mark).
Additionally, junior Caleb Davies was 11th overall in the sprint freestyle, finishing in 20.72 seconds (actually three-hundredths off his prelims pace), adding 16 more points to the tally, as the squad ranks third so far with a score of 221 (behind Stanford's 566 and UC Santa Barbara's 279).
In the women's 200 IM, senior Allison de Peralta took 12th place, at 2:05.56, to chalk up 15 points, as the team is eighth heading into Day 2, scoring a 144.
To view the full opening-day results on each side, click HERE.
The UC San Diego-hosted competition will continue through Saturday. The Mustang divers will also soon be in action, competing at the Wildcat Diving Invite held at Arizona until Sunday afternoon.


Why you need to "Go and See"?
One of the advantages of having a company that spans three continents is that you get a diverse array of opinions and approaches. Unfortunately, the disadvantage of having a company that large is that you get a diverse array of opinions and approaches. Sometimes it can feel like you have no idea what other people in the same organization are doing.
This is a problem that many of our clients face and we are no different. After a few conversations with our European coaches about how they operate that left me more confused than when I started, I decided to do exactly what we tell our clients to do: Go and See.
When we tell our clients to do this, we are used to hearing these normal excuses: That is too hard; It is too far away; I am too busy; I don't speak the language. Well I can tell you, these are all real challenges, but they are far less insurmountable than you may think.
Well, it started with a simple, important (and often overlooked) step: we decided to. Specifically, I said, "I would like to work in Europe to see how you do things." and Marion, our CEO, said "Sure." Of course, we both understood that we were far from making it happen, but from there, the ball was rolling. We both made a commitment and we were going to see it through.
This was followed by a conversation with others in the company that would have to support this trip - the people who would cover for me in North America and those who would partner with me in Germany. Our sales team started looking for clients who were comfortable working with an English-speaking coach (we were lucky enough to find two!).
Finally, I made the necessary family arrangements. It is often easy to forget that everyone has his or her own schedule, and it takes time to coordinate. I was going for 4 months, and that meant I had to make plans with my family and my home. This wasn't just my problem though. Both the North American and German offices helped line up the trip close to my children's summer break from school so that my family could move with me.
All-in-all, the effort wasn't herculean, but it was far from trivial. However, it was worth the effort.
So, what did I learn from all this effort?
First, I learned how a lot of the tools and practices that originated from Germany were meant to be leveraged in coaching. Sure, I had read the instructions and talked to people at meetings, but seeing them in action was completely different. Additionally, I was able to share how we had been adapting these tools to our circumstance, which opened up possibilities they had not considered themselves.
I expected to learn about the difference in tools that were applied, but what I did not expect was to learn about the difference in problems. The circumstances, culture, and temperament of the clients we worked with meant that while they faced many of the same problems and struggles as our clients in the US and Canada, the right approach to solving the problem was completely different. This led to a better understanding of the problem thanks to seeing it from different angles. I also got to learn some things about pace and company cultures that challenged many norms I once thought were immutable. Ultimately, this changed my views on how we approach our coaching back in the US.
agile42 invests a lot in keeping employees connected. We visit other countries regularly, we collaborate remotely, and we all get together annually in one location. However, working together for an extended period of time adds a personal connection that you cannot get in short stints.You become part of the team, and not just a visitor.
We grow when we are challenged, and nothing is quite as challenging as being thrown into a new context with a new team (in a language you don't speak) and being expected to deliver excellence from day one. This trip tested my skills and forced me to adapt. The most notable challenge was when one of the clients decided that they didn't want to speak English but wanted to converse in German instead. It was their prerogative - we were in Germany after all - and I was the outsider. But how could I help and contribute? It turns out that you can get a lot from tone, body language, and pulling just enough from the conversation to follow the thread. Matching this with the understanding of conversations between other coaches, I was surprisingly able to add value.
When you make your employees an instrumental part in how you bring your company together like this, it goes a long way. Not only did I learn and grow from this experience, but my family did as well. What could have been a difficult long trip became a shared, meaningful experience. Many companies talk about investing in their employees, but they only consider tangible benefits such as continuing education and compensation packages. However, what makes people stick around are investments that develop the person as a whole.
So the next time you feel disconnected from another part of your organization and you're not quite sure what's happening at the office in Beijing or London, don't set up another conference call. Don't ask for better documentation. Instead, plan a trip. Go and See!


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See how alumni use the foundation they gained at Willow to make a difference in their high schools, colleges, and communities. We want to hear from more Willow alumni! Contact Director of Marketing & Communications Kerri O'Malley to tell us what's new!
Gabriela Amaral
Gabi earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Rutgers University, graduating Magna Cum Laude and earning a spot on the Dean's List on the way. Gabi currently works in New York City as a technical recruiter in the legal and financial services industries. Looking back, she says Willow shaped her "to be curious, to always strive and add value to the world, and to appreciate the people in my life." Gabi adds, "I'm a person that loves to learn, and I think that really came from Willow. Learning was always a fun, exploratory thing. It was never about memorizing or the pressure to perform. It was about learning because you love to find out new things, and I think that's why I've enjoyed school beyond Willow. It really has made me who I am today."
Wallace Kalkin
Wallace graduated from Barnard College with a major in sociology and a minor in French. She will attend Harvard Business School later this year. Wallace attended the International School of Paris and The Thacher School after graduating from Willow. "During my time at Willow, creativity wasn't its own activity, it was infused into everything," she says of her Willow experience. "I felt like I could influence the direction of what I learned, which made me more excited and engaged."
Alec Steinhorn
Alec is currently attending Northwestern University, where he is pursuing both of his passions: engineering and theatre. He acts, direct, and writes at Northwestern and recently returned to Willow to teach two very popular acting summer camps. "Willow taught me not to be shy about my passions," Alec said during his 2017 Willow Graduation address. "At Willow, you've got the woods to explore and open assignments that allow you to insert yourself into the work. This place is a breeding ground for passion."
Kirsten Traudt
Kirsten will earn her Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Princeton University in Spring 2020. She is minoring in Humanistic Studies and Teacher Preparation. Kirsten has been awarded the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence at Princeton. She is also passionate about acting and currently works as Communications & Development Director for the Princeton Summer Theater. When she spoke at Willow's 2018 Graduation, she said, "Willow is not a place where perfection is demanded, but where acceptance of imperfection allows for growth and improvement. It is a community of care; a place where strong bonds between students, teachers, parents, and administrators make us each stronger and better individuals."
Megan Traudt
Megan began studies at Boston College in Fall 2018 after graduating from Kent Place School. She was a member of the Kent Place Ethics Bowl Team, and her team won the National High School Ethics Bowl in 2018.
"The values that Willow taught me are the ones that I brought to this competition. Willow taught me to think deeply about virtues and my values," Megan told Middle School and Grade 5 students when she returned to Willow after the team captured the prestigious championship.
Quin Cunningham
Quin is studying at University of Arts London, which is a part of The University of London, a top university for global arts undergraduate studies. Quin is currently working on his Foundation Diploma in Art and Design in Fashion Communications. Quin has coordinated worked on CSM's White Show, as featured in British Vogue, and recently became the Creative Director of Lithium Magazine, an independent magazine that focuses on youth culture, criticism, and expression.
"Willow teaches you how to learn and absorb information in a meaningful way. A Willow education instills a sense of urgency and reality into what you study so that students become empowered stewards of the planet" Quin said. "A lot of kids I've met since Willow don't understand how to connect what we're learning back to the world that we're living in, and I think that's really unfortunate. It really helps you to go into secondary school with the knowledge that things are very interconnected."
Trudy Holmes
After Willow, Trudy graduated from Episcopal High School and is now a freshman at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Trudy is studying management, international relations, and art history. She hopes to apply these skills to a career in international marketing after college.
Trudy credits Willow with her educational success. "Classes at Willow were structured around critical thinking. We were taught to truly think and engage, not just know," she said. "Emotional and interpersonal growth was almost equally weighted with the importance of academics. Through the emotional intelligence we were taught, we could draw more connections and therefore distinguish ourselves as thinkers — even if we were only 10 years old."
For more from Trudy the impact Willow made on her life, click here.
Zak Griffin
Zak is a junior at Gill St. Bernard's High School. He is programming captain of the robotics team and an épée fencer. In his free time, he pursues his passion for coding, programming, and drumming. Zak has come back to Willow to play in many school concerts!
"My favorite Willow virtue is diligence," he said. "I really resonate with the mindset that anything is possible if you keep at it and put everything you have into it, and I feel like Willow really taught me that."
Luca Pizzale
Luca is now a sophomore at The Pingry School. In school, he enjoys math, science, and art, and outside of school, he plays the piano, participates in a trivia competition club called the Quiz Bowl, and works set and tech for drama productions. Luca is now working in his school's lab researching two proteins called KIF11 and YAP. "We're doing some experiments to see if they could affect each other's expression and ultimately play a previously-unknown role in a pathway called the Hippo pathway," he explains. "Many of the genes in the pathway, including YAP, are tumor-suppressors."
Describing his time at Willow, Luca says, "Willow taught me how to see many perspectives and think critically. I'm able to pick apart arguments and analyze facts to form a unique stance that I'm able to defend. Another thing Willow helped with is that I enjoy the process of learning. Especially in a high-pressure environment, I've found it has helped me tremendously; school is much less stressful when you focus on understanding as opposed to obsessing over grades and numbers. I feel comfortable taking risks and challenging myself, even if it means I could fail. This has been especially helpful in classes such as my cancer biology class where we sometimes hypothesize about questions that scientists don't know the answers to yet."
Griffin Russ
Now a sophomore at Solebury School, Griffin is taking on challenging honors classes, which she said she would not have been ready for without her Willow Education. Griffin has also joined clubs like Chemistry Club and enjoys performing in school plays and musicals. The confidence she gained at Willow is motivating it all. "Willow helped me build so much confidence in myself as a person. I walked in on the first day of high school, and I was confident in who I was, who I wanted to be friends with, and where I wanted to go. I think it's amazing that Willow gives that to its graduates."
Ashwin Barama
Biology is Ashwin's favorite class at Bernards High School, where he has also joined the robotics team. In his free time, Ashwin enjoys bird-watching and photography. He credits Willow with making his transition to high school easy, academically and emotionally.
"At Willow, we're accepted for who we are and made to feel comfortable and respected," Ashwin said. "I'm really grateful that Willow is such an accepting place where you can learn a lot and have fun doing it at the same time. High school is so much easier, thanks to Willow. The academic courses at Willow are really rigorous and got me accustomed to taking in a lot of information, plus we already covered many of the things I'm learning now."
Samantha Graff
Samantha is a freshman at West Morris Central High School, where she's enjoyed the transition to a larger school, especially after joining the soccer and fencing teams. She credits Willow with nurturing her confidence, academic self-motivation, and relationship-building skills.
"I'm really grateful that I gained the ability to work hard at Willow. I know it sounds really simple, but that really seems like the difference between me and other students," Samantha says of her time at Willow. "At Willow, I also learned how to build relationships with my teachers. Every teacher was so open to students coming to them, asking them questions. In high school, you need to be the one to reach out, and I'm able to go ask questions outside of class and talk to teachers."


Hi! How are you today? I hope you are doing well! Today I have a card for you using the Butterfly Basics stamp set in the Annual Catalog. I haven't used the set in a while so that it could use some love.
I made this card for someone who recently went through some surgery to let them know I was thinking of them and wishing them well.
I created a mask using the Layering Ovals framelits and a piece of the thick cardboard that is in the back of every 12×12 Designer Series Pack. I tend to cut the cardboard to the same size as the panel so it is easy to use. I sponged Daffodil Delight in the center and then Crushed Curry around the edge of the oval before removing the mask. I love the depth this added to the card. The flower is stamped with Memento Black ink and colored using the Stampin' Blends. I love how these markers color – such a rich and beautiful look.
The sentiment is from Flourishing Phrases. If you are lookingfor a set with a gorgeous font, I highly recommend this one. The sentiment is stamped in Memento Black ink as well. The main panel is layers on a Rich Razzleberry mat before being attached to a Thick Whisper White base.
Pretty simple card – and sometimes you need that.
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Twelve dedicated young people from Midhurst Rother College are celebrating after successfully graduating from the FireBreak course at Midhurst Fire Station.
Jet engine aids firemen. Jet powered small pump as aid to firefighting on back of Landrover.
Fire Engine To Road Crash Rescue with new electric cutters.
Midhurst fire brigade were called to a Porsche which caught fire in Bepton road tonight opposite the Grange entrance.
Even worse than usual traffic jams were caused to Festival of Speed traffic with the backlog on the A286 almost reaching Cocking. The London driver returning from the Goodwood event was unhurt. Other motorists and in particular a number of motorcyclists attempted to save the car using extinguishers from the nearby garage but the vehicle was badly damaged.
Police & Midhurst fire brigade were called to a collapsed power cable pole tonight, on New Road, only a 100 yards from the fire station. The pole was left at a dangerous angle blocking the footpath and threatening to fall into oncoming traffic supported only by the cables being held by an adjacent street light. WSCC sent a workteam to the scene.
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The SGP4 model was later extended with corrections for deep space objects, creating SDP4, which used the same TLE input data. Over the years a number of more advanced prediction models have been created, but these have not seen widespread use. This is due to the TLE not containing the additional information needed by some of these formats, which makes it difficult to find the elements needed to take advantages of the improved model. More subtly, the TLE data is massaged in a fashion to improve the results when used with the SGP series models, which may cause the predictions of other models to be less accurate than SGP when used with common TLEs. The only new model to see widespread use is SGP8/SDP8, which were designed to use the same data inputs and are relatively minor corrections to the SGP4 model.
SGP8/SDP8 introduced additional improvements for handling orbital decay.
Note that the current usage of the term SGP4 tends to refer to implementations that contain both SGP4 proper and SDP4, the switchover being at a period of 225 minutes.
Spacetrack Report Number 3 officially introduced five orbital propagation models to the user community—SGP, SGP4, SDP4, SGP8 and SDP8—all "generally" compatible with the TLE data. At the time, SGP had just been replaced by SGP4/SDP4 (the latter having included deep-space perturbations). The SGP8/SDP8 model was developed to alleviate deficiencies of SGP4/SDP4 for the special cases of orbital decay and reentry. The approach provided a closed-form solution based on the general trends of orbital elements as they neared reentry, and was quite successful. However, there is no evidence to suggest that SGP8/SDP8 was implemented for operational TLE formation.
Is this "closed-form solution based on the general trends of orbital elements as they neared reentry" the only significant difference between SGP8 and SGP4?
What is this closed-form solution? Is there a reference for further reading?
What does "...there is no evidence to suggest that SGP8/SDP8 was implemented for operational TLE formation..." mean exactly? A "forensic" examination of TLEs shows no sign that they are being generated for SPG8? Or no evidence that people are using SPG8? Something else?
Is SGP8 ever used in practice?
About fifteen years ago, I very carefully implemented SGP8 and SDP8 (and the 'original' SGP) into my software (see https://github.com/Bill-Gray/sat_code ). It is hard to prove a negative -- i.e., that the 8 versions never saw any use -- but I've since seen SDP4/SGP4 get an incredible amount of use, and have seen the 8 variants get absolutely zero use and have never seen a reference to them being used.
I should note that I work almost exclusively with objects in multi-day to multi-month orbits, rather than those about to re-enter. Still, people using my code (of whom there are many) do use it for a lot of purposes; I think if they were using the 8 variants, I'd have heard about it.
But the convincer, to me, would be the 'Revisiting Spacetrack Report #3' comments. Those of us outside Space-Track/JSpOC/etc. have to do a certain amount of reverse-engineering; details on how SGP4/SDP4 are implemented internally, for example, have never been publicly released. The authors of 'Revisiting' are not only experts in this field; they also have some inside knowledge and access to historical data which I lack. If they can't come up with a case where the 8 versions were used, I'd be reasonably confident such use never occurred.
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Divorce has a profound effect on every member of your family and toddlers are particularly vulnerable to feelings of anxiety and insecurity. Young children understand the world more intuitively than intellectually. That's why it's important to provide a sense of stability and coherence during and after divorce. At the Salt Lake City Law Office of David Pedrazas, divorce attorney David Pedrazas has the experience to help you work through a difficult divorce and begin a new and more fruitful life. We hope these tips about helping toddlers prove to be valuable.
Children thrive on consistency and divorce tends to turn their world upside down. Toddlers may not be able to express the finer points of what's going on, but their feelings are quite sophisticated. They feel the upheaval. When parents express anger and frustration toward each other, the child may feel unsafe. When blaming and bad-mouthing occurs in front of your child, family life can become unsettling. It's imperative that you rebuild a safe, secure quality of life for your child. Consider these divorce coping ideas to help your child.
The absence of one parent can create separation anxiety in your toddler. When they ask: "where's mommy" or "where's daddy" give them a solid answer and let them know that both parents love them. Follow that up with a defined time when they'll see the other parent. Spending additional quality time and reinforcing that the primary people in their lives love them can help ground toddlers. Express love daily.
Toddlers may experience waves of emotion about the changes in their lives that require you to be more patient than ever. It's important to recognize that you are also in an acutely stressful period. The combination calls for additional reflection and internal calm. Try to proceed with additional patience when toddlers are unruly or situations feel overwhelming.
Keeping normal schedules and activities in place helps make your child feel grounded. It's not necessarily important who makes the usual meals at the usual times or plays the insider game. But, consistency matters to children. It reinforces a sense of security and safety.
Telling the truth right from the beginning of a divorce is vital to maintaining a trusting parent-child relationship. Many parents instinctively want to shield children from family problems. Toddlers are intuitive and the older they get, the clearer the picture. You don't have to be brutally honest, but don't undermine your own credibility either. Let them know that mommy and daddy no longer live together, but that they both them very much. All children really want to know and feel is that they are still loved, they are safe, and that they are deeply cared for.
You and your former spouse divorced for a reason and hard feeling tend to linger. Take a breath and understand that you are leading separate lives now and forging a friendship is in your child's best interest. If you have an ongoing war of words with your ex, the child may feel like they are in the middle and need to choose a side. A united front teaches your child that cohesion still exists in his or her family.
Arguments, insults and negative talk about former spouses creates untold anxiety in young children. The complexities of broken marriages are lost on toddlers. The subliminal messages they receive are anger and frustration. That can make toddlers afraid. Polite, inside voices matter.
One of the best ways to be a terrific parent is to take care of yourself. Eat right, stay fit and seek emotional support from friends, family, clergy and mental health professionals. By taking care of your well-being, you'll be fully prepared to take care of your toddler during the particularly sensitive time.
Getting divorced means that all the standard practices must be revisited if you are to keep the lines of communication open. Successful communication helps stabilize things in the two-household family your toddler must negotiate. Co-parenting requires a greater degree of formal communication because you won't have impromptu opportunities to discuss the daily issues your toddler is experiencing. Consider these parenting strategies.
Most divorces have a court order in place that defines visitation. But that doesn't resolve the full breadth of co-parenting issues. Be open to making reasonable changes and expanding the noncustodial parent's access when appropriate. Of course, agreements should be based on sound reasons and never be spiteful. Consider exchanging all pertinent information such as cell phone numbers, email, medical contacts, babysitters, daycare and other things that simplify pickups and drop-offs.
Many parents disagree about how children should be punished for poor behavior. One parent tends to be stricter and the other more nurturing. Both are reasonable aspects of parent-child relationships. But parenting separately may run more smoothly if you agree on the penalties for certain infractions. Consistency matters.
The rule should be to introduce new love interests very slowly, if at all. Only serious long-term, relationships make sense. Short-term dating interactions can make a child feel like the home is a revolving door. Tread lightly and seek the advice of a family professional before moving forward.
At the Law Offices of David Pedrazas, we understand that divorce affects the entire family. It's important to account for the emotional stresses of minor children and we hope this discussion proved helpful. If you are considering divorce, contact David Pedrazas to schedule a free consultation. Give us call at 801-263-7078 today.


Below is the text of a speech made by the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on 23rd May 2002 to the Royal Society.
When 12 men founded the Royal Society in 1660, it was possible for an educated person to encompass all of scientific knowledge. In fact, that was probably true for more than half of this body's existence. It was only in 1847 that the Royal Society decided to restrict its membership to working scientists.
But in the last century, and in particular in the last 50 years, such has been the pace of scientific advance that even the best scientists cannot keep up with discoveries at frontiers outside their own field. More science is being done, it's more global and it's faster to impact on our lives.
Given the great advances of recent years, it would be easy for non-scientists to think that the great scientific problems have been solved, that today's work is filling in minor gaps. But we stand on the verge of further leaps forward in scientific endeavour and discovery.
Now I know there are scientists here who can explain with far more insight than I the challenges and wonders that are emerging. But there are three main reasons why I want to address the potential of this new age of discovery.
First, science is vital to our country's continued future prosperity.
Second, science is posing hard questions of moral judgement and of practical concern, which, if addressed in the wrong way, can lead to prejudice against science, which I believe would be profoundly damaging.
Third, as a result, the benefits of science will only be exploited through a renewed compact between science and society, based on a proper understanding of what science is trying to achieve.
The idea of making this speech has been in my mind for some time. The final prompt for it came, curiously enough, when I was in Bangalore in January. I met a group of academics, who were also in business in the biotech field. They said to me bluntly: Europe has gone soft on science; we are going to leapfrog you and you will miss out. They regarded the debate on GM here and elsewhere in Europe as utterly astonishing. They saw us as completely overrun by protestors and pressure groups who used emotion to drive out reason. And they didn't think we had the political will to stand up for proper science.
I believe that if we don't get a better understanding of science and its role, they may be proved right.
Let us start with the hardest thing of all to achieve in politics: a sense of balance. Already some of the pre-speech criticism suggests that by supporting science, we want the world run by Dr Strangelove, with all morality eclipsed by a cold, heartless test-tube ideology with scientists as its leaders.
Science is just knowledge. And knowledge can be used by evil people for evil ends. Science doesn't replace moral judgement. It just extends the context of knowledge within which moral judgements are made. It allows us to do more, but it doesn't tell us whether doing more is right or wrong.
Science is also fallible. Theories change. Knowledge expands and can contradict earlier thinking.
All of this is true, but none of it should stop science trying to tell us the facts. Yet in every generation, there are those who feel that the facts may lead us astray, may tempt us to do wrong. And in one way, they are right. There is a greater capacity to do wrong with scientific advances because we have greater technological capability – for example, nuclear weapons.
But the answer is not to disinvent nuclear fusion. The answer is that with scientific advance, we need greater moral fibre; better judgement; and stronger analysis of how to use knowledge for good not ill.
The balance is that better moral judgement goes hand-in-hand with better science.
But first why is science important to our economic and social future?
There are many issues of gravity in our world, of danger, of difficulty. But I think scientific discovery is one of the most exciting developments happening in the world today.
The biosciences are, rightly, drawing much admiring attention at the present time. But huge advances continue to be made in the physical sciences and the interdisciplinary areas between them. Indeed, increasingly, physical and life sciences are inderdependent.
The current work in nanoscience – manipulating and building devices atom by atom – is startling in its potential. From this we now see emerging nanotechnology, the ultimate in miniaturisation. Programmable and controllable microscale robots will allow doctors to execute curative and reconstructive procedures in the human body at the cellular and molecular level. Visionaries in this field talks about machines the size of a cell that might, for example, identify and destroy all the cancerous cells in a body. Nanomachines might target bacteria and other parasites, dealing with tuberculosis, malaria and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
I saw a demonstration last week of some of the pioneering work being done in Cambridge in light-emitting polymers. Imagine a thin, flexible sheet of plastic coated with flexible semiconductors. This kind of disruptive technology may create whole new industries and products we can't begin to imagine. And it's revealing that this sort of work requires the collaboration of physicists, chemists, material scientists and engineers.
Meanwhile, climate change presents one of the greatest challenges. Science alone can't solve the problem. But I'm encouraged by the work in Britain on improved solar panels, better fuel cell technology, and more efficient means of tapping tidal and wave energy. Note for example that our tidal rip – if harnessed – could provide ten times our current energy needs.
Meanwhile, hydrogen technologies offer the potential of zero-pollution transport. The vision of the scientists and engineers developing this technology is of clean and safe cities, without the air quality and health impacts of conventional vehicles.
What is particularly impressive is the way that scientists are now undaunted by important complex phenomena. Pulling together the massive power available from modern computers, the engineering capability to design and build enormously complex automated instruments to collect new data, with the weight of scientific understanding developed over the centuries, the frontiers of science have moved into a detailed understanding of complex phenomena ranging from the genome to our global climate. Predictive climate modelling covers the period to the end of this century and beyond, with our own Hadley Centre playing the leading role internationally.
The emerging field of e-science should transform this kind of work. It's significant that the UK is the first country to develop a national e-science Grid, which intends to make access to computing power, scientific data repositories and experimental facilities as easy as the Web makes access to information.
One of the pilot e-science projects is to develop a digital mammographic archive, together with an intelligent medical decision support system for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. An individual hospital will not have supercomputing facilties, but through the Grid it could buy the time it needs. So the surgeon in the operating room will be able to pull up a high-resolution mammogram to identify exactly where the tumour can be found.
We already enjoy many of the fruits of biomedical science. In Shakespeare's day, life expectancy in Britain was only 30 years. Even by the 1880s, for the malnourished working class, it was still under 40. Today, life expectancy at birth is nearly 80 years, and we can expect many of us to live healthily into our eighties and nineties and even hundreds. The availability of this extraordinary progress is largely a direct result of advances in the life sciences and improved diets.
As we move into what Sir Paul Nurse calls the post-genomic world, we can anticipate that healthcare will undergo enormous change. Some diseases can be directly linked to the presence or absence of particular genes or gene sequences. The new field of pharmacogenomics will vastly increase the efficiency of medication. Drugs will be tailored to an individual's genetic make-up.
Beyond that, we can now see a future where the doctor will swab a few cells from inside your cheek, put them into a DNA-sequencing machine and a computer will spit out a complete reading of your unique genetic makeup – all 30,000 or so genes that make you who you are. From that, doctors could pinpoint flawed genes and gene products and predict what diseases you are likely to develop years in advance of any symptoms – and how to help you avoid them.
As scientific understanding develops, we may even be able to change the fate of individual cells – which could mean breakthroughs against diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes, Parkinson's and cancer.
We have a unique resource in this regard in the National Health Service. There are crucial issues of privacy of genetic information that we need to deal with. But our national, public system will enable us to gather the comprehensive data necessary to predict the likelihood of various diseases – and then make choices to help prevent them.
Everything I've mentioned is already work in progress in laboratories in Britain and elsewhere. But what is most exciting is that science creates possibilities that were not imagined previously. After all, only ten years ago researchers in elementary particle physics were determined to find a way in which they could share information more effectively. Out of this seemingly simple aim, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
This is the best recent example of the hidden power of science. We use these devices and don't even think about them being creations of science. In the case of the Web, particle physicists created a great equalising, democratic force.
So: what can all this mean for Britain's future well-being and prosperity?
We are fortunate to have a long science tradition, perhaps best represented by the history of this very institution. Newton, a former president of the Royal Society, and Darwin are acknowledged as two of the epochal scientists of human civilisation, and are probably – with Shakespeare – Britain's greatest contributors to human civilisation. I would also cite Faraday, Thomson, Dirac, Crick, Perutz, Nurse and many others. As Bob May has said, "creative imagination at and beyond the frontiers simply is something we are good at".
By any measure, our record is outstanding. With 1% of the world's population, we fund 4.5% of the world's science, produce 8% of the scientific papers and receive 9% of the citations.
The strength and creativity of our science base is a key national asset as we move into the 21st century. Britain has produced 44 Nobel laureates in the last 50 years, more than any country except the US. But this statistic does conceal a problem we must acknowledge. Only eight of those laureates are in the last 20 years. We have relied for too long on tradition and sentiment to aid our scientists. We need strong funding and strong public support, not just the warm glow of our traditions.
I don't want our next Nobel laureate to echo the tale of Tim Hunt, who – in the moment of his Nobel triumph last year – told the story of how he and his colleagues had to scrape together money to buy a telephone for their lab.
When the Government came to power science was suffering from a lengthy and disastrous period of underfunding and neglect. Scientists were increasingly going abroad to do their research; our laboratories were in an appalling condition and the inept political handling of the BSE crisis meant that there was a growing distrust of science and scientists.
The Government has taken major steps to improve the funding of science. In the 1998 comprehensive spending review we increased the science budget by 15%, the largest increase of any area of Government expenditure. And in the 2000 Spending Review we took further steps, so that today the science budget is increasing by 7% a year in real terms.
As part of this increase, in a highly valuable partnership with the Wellcome Trust, we have invested £75bn for the renewal of science research infrastructure in the last 2 spending reviews.
And it isn't just the sums of money that are important. The Research Assessment Exercise and the thousands of hard working scientists who have responded to these incentives have fostered excellence and driven up the quality of research in universities. But we realise the need to do more still to promote world class excellence and this will be a priority for us in the period ahead.
As a result, we are seeing an improvement in the quality of our laboratories, and instead of seeing a continuing "brain drain" we may be seeing the beginning of a "brain gain". Sir Gareth Roberts' report for 2001 estimated a net inflow of 5000 scientists and engineers to the UK. But there is a long way to go.
Also, science is a thoroughly globalised endeavour, one in which Britain can and must play a key role.
A considerable amount of scientific effort today occurs on a pan-European scale. There's the research at CERN, the fusion work at Culham and the experiments organised through the European Space Agency.
It is typical in today's research to have British scientists working with other European, American and Asian colleagues on a common problem. In radio astronomy, for example, UK scientists at Jodrell Bank collaborate in a network of antennae spreading across Europe, China, Australia and the US. This is truly an example of global science, with free access to the facilities and to the science.
Science is both internationally competitive and internationally collaborative. If we are to remain an innovative, forward-looking nation, we need to retain the capacity to do this work, both on our own and in collaboration with scientists in other nations.
Government and business support for scientific research is not enough on its own. We also need to make sure that scientific innovation gets translated into applied uses in business.
We are already leaders in science-based industries including pharmaceuticals, aerospace, biotechnology and opto-electronics. But there are many more that could benefit from our world-class science and technology.
So we are establishing strong links between universities and business through specific schemes – such as University Challenge, Link, the Faraday Partnerships and the Higher Education Innovation Fund.
But more general initiatives too are helping lead to a major cultural change in higher education. A recent survey showed that in 1999-2000, 199 companies were spun off from our universities, compared with 70 a year on average in the previous five years. In relation to the amount of research we do, this was a better record than even the United States. The number of patents filed was also sharply up. And the percentage of university research funded by industry was higher than in the US.
Cambridge Science parks and the surrounding area now house about 1,400 high-tech companies, and some of the top companies are worth over 1 billion Euro. Science parks and incubator laboratories for start-up companies have now sprung up around many of our universities.
We have also just introduced a new tax credit for research and development: a boost to innovation, affecting expenditure by 1,500 large companies in the UK.
Biotechnology is at the forefront of these developments. The biotech industry's market in Europe alone is expected to be worth $100 billion by 2005. The number of people employed in biotech and associated companies could be as high as three million, as we catch up with the US industry – currently eight times the size of Europe's.
And Britain leads Europe: three-quarters of the biotechnology drugs in late-stage clinical trials in Europe are produced by British companies. With our excellent science base, our sophisticated capital markets and venture capital industry, the large number of skilled scientists and managers in our pharmaceuticals sector, and the investment in research by the Research Councils, Wellcome Trust and others, Britain is well placed to keep and extend its lead.
What's more, the other disruptive technologies that I have already mentioned – nanotechnology and plastics electronics – have the potential to penetrate global markets in the same way.
The ideas recently put forward for a Nanotech fabrication plant and for investment by a public/private partnership in "proof of concept" work to demonstrate the potential of new scientific discoveries, are well worth examining.
So Britain can benefit enormously from scientific advance.
But precisely because the advances are so immense, people worry. And, of course, many of these worries are entirely serious. In GM crops, I can find no serious evidence of health risks. But there are genuine and real concerns over biodiversity and gene transfer. Human cloning raises legitimate moral questions. Advances in arms technology makes the world less safe. Humanity has, for the first time, the capacity for vast prosperity or to destroy itself completely.
People have an understandable concern about the pace of change, about the new and the unknown. They are concerned that technology dehumanises society. They are concerned by their belief that scientists contradict each other, or can be unreliable. And about what they see as the inability of Government to regulate science properly.
In some cases, these concerns descend into a fear, which is amplified by parts of the media.
Some of these concerns are not new. You don't need to go back to Galileo for examples. Lightning conductors, invented by Benjamin Franklin, were initially torn down, even from churches, because it was believed they thwarted God's will. There were riots in the streets when the smallpox vaccine was introduced. Smallpox has now been eliminated. In the early days of heart transplants they were attacked as unnatural or dehumanising, but in surveys today heart transplants are seen as one of the most beneficial results of modern science.
Sometimes science is wrongly blamed for the faults of others. Take BSE. Science in this case correctly identified a new problem. The American Scientist Stanley Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for discovering prions, and establishing the link between BSE and CJD. Bad science didn't cause the spread of BSE; it was bad agriculture and poor government.
The response of the government must be to encourage openness, transparency and honesty. The Food Standards Agency, which operates in an area of particular public concern and sensitivity, holds meetings in public and publishes minutes on the Web. The Human Genetics Commission and the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission are other examples where we are spearheading this approach and the Chief Scientific Adviser has established an independent voice in Government as an important part of this process.
And there are lessons to be learnt from the way that we handled the embryonic stem cell debate. Firstly, we established the scientific facts very carefully, with the authoritative report by the Chief Medical Officer in August 2000.
There was then a lengthy discussion which gave time for all groups, including the medical charities, to make their views known, and this led to a very balanced debate in Parliament, resulting in carefully framed legislation. As a result we have an intelligent, stable regulatory regime for this crucial field.
Nowhere in the world has what one might call a community of stem cell experts yet – the science is too new. But Britain starts with a strong reputation in developmental biology and a number of institutes with worldwide reputations. I want to make the UK the best place in the world for this research, so in time our scientists, together with those we are attracting from overseas, can develop new therapies to tackle brain and spinal cord repair, Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's.
It is also critically important that the Government are given the best possible advice on science, engineering and technology through Government departments. We are currently looking at ways of improving Government science.
The recent appointment of Professor Howard Dalton, a Fellow of this Society and a much respected microbiologist, as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Secretary of State for DEFRA, is an example of this in action. Drawing on the successes of the Research Assessment Exercise in the University sector, we are looking at introducing a programme of external benchmarking and review of the way Government departments use science.
The revised Government Foresight Programme has just been launched by the Chief Scientific Advisor with two examples of scientific horizon scanning. A Foresight project on cognitive neuroscience will bring together experts in IT and in brain research to seek out new technological opportunities for exploitation.
And a project on flood and coastal defences will examine increasing threats to our country over the next 50 to 100 years arising from predicted changes in climate. Here the predictive capability of the science will be evaluated alongside science and engineering possibilities of mitigating against the worst effects. Environmentalism is strongest when allied to hard science and empirical testing.
But this isn't just about Government and science. Its crucially about society. We need better, stronger, clearer ways of science and people communicating. The dangers are in ignorance of each others point of view; the solution is understanding them.
The fundamental distinction is between a process where science tells us the facts and we make a judgement; and a process where a priori judgements effectively constrain scientific research. We have the right to judge but we also have a right to know. A priori judgement branded Darwin a heretic; science proved his tremendous insight. So let us know the facts; then make the judgement as to how we use or act on them.
None of this, incidentally, should diminish the precautionary principle. Responsible science and responsible policymaking operate on the precautionary principle. But that principle should make us proceed with care on the basis of fact; not fail to proceed at all on the basis of prejudice.
There is only a small band of people, I believe, who genuinely want to stifle informed debate. But a small group can, as has happened in our country, destroy experimental crops before we can determine their environmental impact. I don't know what that research would have concluded. Neither do the protestors. But I want to reach my judgements after I have the facts and not before.
Of course there must be constraints that we properly place on scientists, through health and safety regulations, through legislation controlling animal experimentation, and, most recently, through the ban on human reproductive cloning. There are strong ethical reasons why we have one of the world's strictest, most regulated regimes for animal experimentation. The Government is also at the forefront of pan-European efforts to ensure that there is no unnecessary duplication of animal experimentation. But if we had stopped all animal experiments in recent years we would not have developed a meningitis vaccine or combined drug therapy for HIV infection.
We're faced with a current example, where Cambridge University intends to build a new centre for neurological research. Part of this would involve using primates to test potential cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But there is a chance the centre will not be built because of concerns about public safety dangers and unlawful protests. We cannot have vital work stifled simply because it is controversial.
We need, therefore, a robust, engaging dialogue with the public. We need to re-establish trust and confidence in the way that science can demonstrate new opportunities, and offer new solutions.
This task will be aided if we can embed a more mature attitude towards science in our society. I absolutely reject notions of two cultures. There is a deep human need to understand, and science has revealed so much of our extraordinary world. Science is a central part, not a separate part, of our common culture, together with art, history, the social sciences and the humanities.
All of this adds up to a clear challenge for Britain over the next 10 years.
We need to ensure our bright young people share our excitement about the potential of science and the role they can play. We particularly need to reverse the decline in maths, physics and engineering, and make science a career to aspire to, for girls as well as boys.
We have recently reversed an eight-year decline in teacher training applications for science subjects, partly through 'golden hellos' for science and technology teachers. But we are not complacent – recruiting and retaining more science teachers remains a key priority.
We've also concentrated on establishing a network of specialist schools that share their best practice with other schools in the locality: of the 1000 we expect by this September, around 500 will be in scientific disciplines, of which about 25 will be specialist science colleges. We have proposed a new National Centre of Excellence in Science Teaching. We have created a network of Science and Engineering Ambassadors to support science teachers. And we have provided millions to refurbish school labs and modernise the learning infrastructure.
We have also ensured that science remains a core subject until 16. From September 2002 there will be a new applied science GCSE to offer pupils a new route into science as a career. Science is also at the heart of our programme to develop the potential of the very brightest pupils through the Academy for Gifted and Talented pupils at Warwick University, which will open next year.
We also need to deepen school specialisation in science, in particular by seeking new forms of collaboration involving colleges and Higher Education institutions. I would like to see many more universities sharing their facilities and teaching expertise with secondary schools, as well as linking up with the private sector to maximise our national scientific capability.
We should not ignore our strengths in science education. The recent, highly respected OECD PISA study ranked British 15-year olds fourth internationally for science literacy, well ahead of most of our competitors.
However, I am concerned about the findings of the Roberts report on skills shortages in the sciences and engineering. We will be looking very carefully at his recommendations as part of the Spending Review 2002.
I want to make sure the UK is one of the best places in the world to do science. For that we need our people, equipment and infrastructure to be properly funded. And we should continue to promote British science abroad.
We need to continue our improvements in Government handling of science, where public trust is particularly low. All departments need strong systems for managing research and handling advice. Scientific information and advice to Government should be freely available and accessible. Open and informed public debate on key scientific issues will be an integral part of our approach.
We need to go further in our drive for successful knowledge transfer. Our goal is prosperity for all through successful business using excellent science.
We need to ensure that Government, scientists and the public are fully engaged together in establishing the central role of science in building the world we want.
If we can succeed in producing a confident relationship between scientists and the public, the promise is that Britain can be as much of a powerhouse of innovation – and its spin-offs – in the 21st century as we were in the 19th and early 20th century. The benefits in industry, jobs of quality, healthcare, education, and the environment can transform our future. Of course, we must exercise the care and judgement to make scientific discovery a liberating, civilising force not a leap into the unknown.
But let the debate be one between open minds, not a retreat into a culture of unreason. I want to prove those entrepreneurs in Bangalore wrong. I want Britain and Europe to be at the forefront of scientific advance. But its no exaggeration to say that in some areas we're at a crossroads. We could choose a path of timidity in the face of the unknown.
Or we could choose to be a nation at ease with radical knowledge, not fearful of the future, a culture that values a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to new opportunities. The choice is clear. We should make it confidently.


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AppWriter, for the iPad, can turn textbooks into spoken words and offers other features designed to help users with physical or learning limitations.
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LingApps, a Danish software company that develops speech and language technology, launched AppWriter, a text editor for the iPad, in the United States on Thursday. The software features Dyslexie, a font designed to help dyslexics read and write, as well as text-to-speech, optical character recognition, and other features designed to help users who have learning disabilities or visual limitations.
The software can be set to read all button and menus items aloud. The optical character recognition feature, integrated with mobile OCRKit software, allows handouts, photocopies or textbooks to be uploaded into the iPad and converted to text that the user can highlight or edit. AppWriter can then read the documents aloud through the text-to-speech feature (see video for a demonstration).
For users with learning disabilities, AppWriter offers a word prediction feature designed to help users construct sentences and make fewer grammatical errors. This feature can be used in combination with the word reader so that the application plays audio of the words as the user types or selects them. Further, the Dyslexie may help users to differentiate letters that look similar, making words and sounds easier to comprehend.
Christian Boer, a dyslexic designer who created Dyslexie, praised the AppWriter in a press release (and why wouldn't he?). "People with reading disabilities understand the importance of reading, because they don't take reading for granted," he said. "AppWriter helps these people and enables them to participate in today's information based society."
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In The Death of Ivan Ilych, Ivan is devastated when he realizes that he is dying. He thinks it "impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror." He tries to approach the idea of his death philosophically, but he fails miserably in his efforts. He takes to blaming God for deserting him and punishing him with a painful death.
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Proved that with all n is positive integer, let equation:
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Vincent Martin (born 4 September 1992) is a French rugby union player who plays for Montpellier HR in the Top 14. His position is centre, although he can also play as a wing. In November 2012, he was named in the France 30-man squad for the 2012 autumn internationals by coach Philippe Saint-André.

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