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Make payments using your credit card, debit card, bank account, PayPal balance (if we have verified the required identifying information you provided to us) or other payment methods.
Accept credit card, debit card bank account, PayPal balance or other payment methods from others.
You may close your account and terminate your relationship with us at any time without cost, but you will remain liable for all obligations related to your PayPal account even after the PayPal account is closed. When you close your PayPal account, we will cancel any scheduled or incomplete transactions. You must withdraw or transfer any PayPal balance from your PayPal account before closing it. If you have not provided the required identifying information to us, or if we are unable to verify the required identifying information you provide, you must transfer any PayPal balance to a linked bank account or debit card. You cannot withdraw or transfer digital gift certificates/cards that are purchased through PayPal Digital Gifts and linked to your PayPal account as payment methods. However, even without your PayPal account, you can still use the codes you received by email when you purchased the gift certificates/cards to make purchases.
You can link or unlink a credit card, debit card, a U.S. bank account or PayPal Credit to your PayPal account as a payment method. Please keep your payment method information current (e.g. credit card number and expiration date). If this information changes, we may update it using information and third party sources available to us without any action on your part. If you do not want us to update your card information, you may contact your issuer to request this or remove your payment method from your PayPal account. If we update your payment method, we will keep any preference setting attached to such payment method. You may choose to confirm your card, so that we can verify that the card is valid and that you are the card owner. To do this, we will charge $1.95 to the card. After the card is confirmed, we will immediately refund this amount to the card.
Money that you receive from other PayPal account holders is held as a balance in your PayPal account. The balance functionality in your PayPal account will differ depending on whether we have been able to verify the required identifying information that you provide to us.The required identifying information is: name, physical address, date of birth and taxpayer identification number.
If we have not verified the required identifying information, a balance in your PayPal account can generally only be held in your PayPal account and transferred to a linked bank account or debit card. In certain instances, even if we haven't verified the required identifying information that you provide to us, your balance may also be used to fund payments or money owed to PayPal, such as payments on your PayPal Credit account or your PayPal Working Capital account, or monies owed for refunds or chargebacks.
If we have verified the required identifying information, a balance can be held in your PayPal account, transferred to a linked bank account or debit card, used to make purchases or send money to others. This functionality requires that you provide the required identifying information to us and that we are able to verify the accuracy of that information.
Any PayPal balance you hold represents an unsecured claim against PayPal and, except as provided below, is not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). PayPal combines your PayPal balance with the PayPal balances of other PayPal users and invests those funds in liquid investments in accordance with state money transmitter laws. PayPal owns the interest or other earnings on these investments. However, the claim against PayPal represented by your PayPal balance is not secured by these investments and you do not have any ownership interest (either legal or beneficial) in these investments. These pooled amounts are held apart from PayPal's corporate funds, and PayPal will neither use these funds for its operating expenses or any other corporate purposes nor will it voluntarily make these funds available to its creditors in the event of bankruptcy.
When you add money to your PayPal balance using direct deposit or when you activate our goals feature to manage your finances, the funds in your balance (including funds allocated to your goals) will be eligible for FDIC pass-through insurance. PayPal will hold these funds as your agent and custodian, and you will be the ultimate beneficial owner of the funds. PayPal will deposit your funds into one or more custodial accounts we maintain for the benefit of PayPal accountholders at one or more FDIC-insured banks. FDIC pass-through insurance protects you against the risk of loss of your U.S. dollar deposits (up to the applicable FDIC insurance limits) should the FDIC-insured bank where we deposit your funds fail. FDIC pass-through insurance does not apply to funds held in any non-U.S. dollar currencies.
There might be a short delay between the time that funds are credited to your PayPal account and when we transfer those funds into one of the custodial accounts. During this period and before the funds are transferred, they might not be eligible for pass-through FDIC insurance, although we will still be holding the funds as your agent and custodian.
You may use the payment methods linked to your PayPal account to fund transactions you make using your PayPal account and you don't need a PayPal balance to buy something or send money. If we have verified the required identifying information that you provide to us, you may transfer money to your PayPal balance from any bank account linked to your PayPal account by requesting an electronic transfer from your bank account. If we have not verified the required identifying information that you have provided to us, you cannot add funds to your PayPal balance from linked payment methods.
If we have verified the required identifying information you provided to us, requesting a check from us (subject to a non-refundable fee of $1.50, which will be deducted from the amount of the withdrawal).
We don't charge a fee to make a transfer to your bank. If your debit card is eligible to receive withdrawals from your PayPal account, you will be provided the option to use it when you transfer money out of your PayPal balance, subject to the fees applicable to such transfers that can be found on the Fees for Transferring Balance (for personal accounts) page and the Fees for Transferring Balance (for business accounts) page and that will be disclosed to you in advance each time you initiate such a withdrawal.
When you withdraw funds from an ATM using a PayPal-branded debit card, you may be charged a fee by the owner of the ATM and an additional fee by us per the terms of your Cardholder Agreement that can be found on the Legal Agreements page. Other withdrawal limits also apply to the use of your PayPal-branded debit card. Please refer to the applicable Cardholder Agreement for details that can be found on the Legal Agreements page.
If you request a paper check from us, you must cash it within 180 days of the date of issuance, or we will return the funds to your PayPal balance and retain the non-refundable fee of $1.50. We will not send a check to a post office box, and we will only send a check to an address once we have confirmed that it belongs to you.
If you receive funds in your PayPal account but we have not verified the required identifying information that you have provided to us, you will be able to transfer the funds to a linked U.S. bank account or eligible debit card, but you will not be able to withdraw funds from an ATM and we will not send you a paper check for the funds. If you do not link a bank account or an eligible debit card to your PayPal account, we will hold the funds for you until you link a bank account, an eligible debit card, or until we verify the required identifying information that you provide to us.
Your PayPal balance may be held in any of the currencies supported by PayPal, and you may hold a balance in more than one of these currencies at the same time. If we have not verified the required identifying information that you provide to us, you can only access balance that is in a currency other than U.S. dollars by transferring the balance to a linked bank account or to an eligible debit card and such a transfer will require a currency conversion (with payment of the applicable currency conversion spread) as discussed below.
You are responsible for all risks associated with maintaining a PayPal balance in multiple currencies. You may not manage multiple currencies for speculative trading purposes.
Receiving money either from a buyer or from a friend of family member in a currency that your PayPal account is not configured to accept.
For purchase and send money transactions described above in the first three bullets that involve a currency conversion, the currency conversion spread is 3.0%. For all other transactions involving a currency conversion, the currency conversion spread is 2.5%.
When you purchase goods from a merchant who accepts payment only in a specific currency that you do not hold in your PayPal balance, the currency conversion will occur at the time your transaction is processed and the transaction exchange rate in effect at the time the transaction is processed will be used for this currency conversion.
When your payment is funded by a debit or credit card and requires a currency conversion, you consent to and authorize PayPal to convert the currency in place of your debit or credit card issuer. You have the right to have your card issuer perform the currency conversion and can choose this option during checkout on your transaction review page before you complete the transaction. If your card issuer converts the currency, you'll be charged a rate set by them (shown on your statement), and you'll be subject to any fees and terms set by them related to the conversion.
In the event you request that we send you hard-copy records related to your PayPal account, we may charge you a fee of $10.00 per item requested but we won't charge you for records requested in connection with your good-faith assertion of an error in your PayPal account.
You can send money to a friend or family member using the send money feature in your PayPal account (sometimes called "personal payments" or "peer-to-peer/P2P payments"). You can send money to a friend or family member even if they don't have a PayPal account at the time you send them money, using their email address or mobile number in any currency that PayPal supports, and you can choose which payment method you want to use. If the person to whom you are sending money does not have a PayPal account, they can claim it by opening a PayPal account. If they don't claim it, it will be refunded to you. Receiving money from a friend or family member is described under Receiving Money.
If a friend or family member sends money to you, the money will appear in your PayPal balance. If someone sends you money in a currency you do not currently hold, you may decline it and return it to the sender. Alternatively, you can accept it as-is and create a PayPal balance in that currency or accept it and convert it to the primary currency you have selected for your PayPal account. If you choose to convert the funds, you will be charged a currency conversion spread included in the foreign exchange conversion rate.
The fees applicable to sending money can be found on our Fees for Sending Money to Friends and Family page and will be disclosed to you in advance each time you initiate a transaction to send money to a friend or family member. If you convert money in your PayPal balance from one currency to another before sending money, you also will pay a currency conversion spread for that conversion. If you use your credit card as the payment method when sending money, you may also be charged a cash-advance fee by your card issuer.
When you authorize a payment to a seller who accepts PayPal, some sellers may take up to 30 days to complete the transaction. In these instances, your payment may appear as a pending order in your PayPal account. In that case, your authorization of the payment will remain valid until the seller completes the transaction (but no longer than 30 days). If you used a debit or credit card as the payment method, your debit or credit card issuer also may show a pending authorization for a period of time until they release the hold or receive a completed transaction.
When you buy something from a seller who accepts PayPal you don't pay a fee to PayPal unless your purchase requires a currency conversion. In that case, you will be charged a currency conversion spread. Your debit or credit card issuer may also charge you a separate fee for non-U.S. transactions.
When you buy something from a seller online using PayPal and the transaction is ultimately refunded, the money will be refunded to the original payment method you used for the transaction if you used a debit card, credit card, PayPal Credit or PayPal balance. If you used a bank account as the payment method for the transaction, we will refund the money to your bank account, or to your PayPal balance if we cannot refund it to your bank account. For purchases you make in a seller's store location that you paid for using your PayPal account and the transaction is ultimately refunded, the money will be refunded to your PayPal balance.
Within 60 days of the date of the original payment, the exchange rate used at the time of the original payment will apply.
Beyond 60 days of the date of the original payment, the exchange rate on the date of the refund will apply.
Certain one-time online transactions may require that a backup funding method be used in the event that your selected or preferred payment method is unavailable. In those instances, the backup funding method may be displayed to you on your transaction review page, before you complete the transaction. Note that this only applies for one-time, online transactions, and not for in-store or automatic payments.
When you send money to friends and family within the U.S. using your PayPal balance (if available) or your bank account, we waive all fees, so we always show you these payment options first, even if you have a set preferred payment method for your online purchases. Remember, you always have the choice to select any payment method in your PayPal account by clicking the "Change" link on the Send Money page. If you select a payment method with a fee, we will always show you the fee before you send money.
There are a few sellers where you can select PayPal as the method of payment for future transactions, but you won't be shown the specific payment method that will be used. When setting up an agreement with one of these sellers, the payment method used will be in the following order, if applicable: 1. Preferred payment method; 2. PayPal balance (if we've been able to verify certain identifying information you provide to us); 3. Bank account; 4. PayPal co-branded debit card; 5. PayPal co-branded credit card; 6. Debit card; 7. Credit card; and 8. E-check. This is also the order of payment methods that will be used if a previously selected payment method to be used in a seller agreement is unavailable.
All Pay with Rewards redemptions are subject to the terms of your card agreement with your card issuer. Pay with Rewards is only available for eligible purchases with certain merchants, and PayPal or your issuer may limit, suspend, or terminate your ability to redeem rewards at any time in accordance with the PayPal User Agreement and your card agreement. Your issuer determines the value of rewards redeemed through PayPal and available redemption methods (e.g., to pay for your purchase or for a statement credit).
PayPal will process your debit or prepaid card funded transactions through either the ATM debit network or the Visa, MasterCard or Discover network. If we process your debit or prepaid card through an ATM debit network, we may provide you with the opportunity to switch to a Visa, MasterCard or Discover network by changing your preferences for that debit or prepaid card through your PayPal account profile. If you use your PayPal-branded debit card for a payment that is not in U.S. dollars, your transaction will be funded with your U.S. dollar PayPal balance, (but only if we have verified the required identifying information that you have provided to us as described under Holding a Balance in Your PayPal Account), even if you have a PayPal balance in another currency. Any required currency conversion will be performed by Visa, MasterCard, Discover or a similar third party and may be subject to a fee by that third party.
If you used a debit or credit card as the payment method for a transaction through your PayPal account and you are dissatisfied with the transaction, you may be entitled to dispute the transaction with your card issuer. Applicable card chargeback rights may be broader thanthose available to you under PayPal's Purchase Protection program. For example, if you dispute a transaction with your card issuer, you may be able to recover amounts you paid for unsatisfactory items even if they don't qualify for protection under a Significantly Not as Described claim with us.
We may adjust the fees applicable to future transactions that you process using PayPal. We will provide you at least 30 days' advance notice of any fee increase or the introduction of a new type of fee.
If you receive a payment for selling goods or services that is later refunded or invalidated for any reason, you are responsible for the full amount of the payment sent to you plus any fees (including any applicable chargeback fee described below). Whenever a transaction is refunded or otherwise reversed, PayPal will refund or reverse the transaction from your PayPal account in the same currency as the original transaction. If your PayPal balance for a particular currency is insufficient to cover the amount of a refund or reversal, PayPal will perform a currency conversion in order to refund or reverse the transaction, and you will be charged for the currency conversion.
If you refund a payment for goods or services, we will retain the fixed fee portion of the fees you paid as the seller. The buyer's account will be credited with the full payment amount and we'll retain the fixed fee portion of the fees you paid and the amount of the refunded payment will be deducted from your PayPal account.
We may place a reserve on your PayPal account at any time if we believe there may be a high level of risk associated with you, your PayPal account, your business model, or your transactions. When we place a reserve on your PayPal account, it means that all or some portion of the money in your PayPal account is reserved as unavailable for withdrawal in order to protect against the risk of transactions made by you being reversed or invalidated or any other risk related to your PayPal account or use of the PayPal services. We make decisions about whether to place a reserve based on a number of factors, including information available to us from both internal sources and from third parties.
If you manage your PayPal balance in multiple currencies, and the PayPal balance for one of the currencies becomes negative for any reason, PayPal may set off the negative PayPal balance by using funds you maintain in a different currency. If you have a negative PayPal balance in non-U.S. dollars for a period of 21 days or longer, PayPal will convert this negative PayPal balance to U.S. dollars. In either case, a currency conversion may be required, and you will be required to pay a currency conversion spread.
If you do not log in to your PayPal account for two or more years, PayPal may close your PayPal account and send the PayPal balance to your primary address (if we have verified the required identifying information that you have provided to us) or, if required, escheat (send) your PayPal balance to your state of residency. PayPal will determine your state of residency based on the state listed in the primary address for your PayPal account. If your address is unknown or registered in a foreign country, your PayPal balance will be escheated to the State of Delaware. Where required, PayPal will send you a notice prior to escheating any funds in your PayPal account. If you fail to respond to this notice, your PayPal balance will be escheated to the applicable state. If you would like to claim any escheated PayPal balance from the applicable state, please contact the applicable state's unclaimed property administrator.


The Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, has announced that an election will be held on 18 May 2019.
The Official Secretary to the Governor-General formally read out a proclamation proroguing the Parliament and dissolving the House of Representatives on the morning of 11 April 2019 on the Great Verandah at Parliament House. This brought the 45th Parliament to a close.
The Australian Government is now working under caretaker conventions. This means that the ordinary business of governing the nation continues, but the government avoids making major policy decisions or carrying out large projects without consulting the opposition. More information on caretaker conventions can be found here.
Following the election in May, the government will be formed by the party or coalition of parties with the support of the majority (more than half) of the 151 members elected to the House of Representatives. The 46th Parliament will then commence with an opening ceremony at Parliament House.


TOKYO (REUTERS) - Mitsubishi Motors Corp is considering boosting output capacity in Indonesia and possibly building a new plant there to capitalise on brisk demand in emerging Asian economies.
"It is true that we are considering strengthening our operations in Indonesia, but nothing has been decided as of now," a company spokesman said on Saturday.
A Nikkei business daily report said the automaker, along with trader Mitsubishi Corp and local partners, plans to build a new Indonesia plant by around March 2017, with investment totalling at about 40 billion yen (S$527.2 million).
The spokesman said Mitsubishi, the maker of Triton pickups, the Outlander Sport SUV and i-MiEV electric car, aims to post a net profit of 100 billion yen by the year ending March 2017.
If it were to build a new plant, that would have an annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles, he added.
For the current business year to March 2014, Japan's 7th-largest carmaker expects a net profit of 50 billion yen.


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Michael Bisping Reveals Profane Exchange With Jon Jones At UFC 232
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On the latest episode of his podcast 'Believe You Me', Michael Bisping revealed that he had a profane exchange of words with Jon Jones off air, during UFC Tonight's UFC 232 post-fight show.
According to the former middleweight champion, Jon Jones wasn't happy with his questions he posed to him before his fight with Alexander Gustafsson, regarding the abnormalities that were found in his pre-fight drug tests.
"I don't care about asking difficult questions and I asked Jon Jones some questions, which apparently he didn't like because after the fight, we interviewed him again and when we were on commercial break he was talking f***ing shit" Bisping said.
"To whoever the powers may be were at FOX, he [said], 'Is that motherf***er Michael Bisping going to be asking questions again, with his f***ing dumb s***,' and all this and I was like, 'Ohhh yeah.'"
"Here's what we never spoke about: he tested positive in August, he tested positive in September and he tested positive in December. Now they're saying that they are metabolites and they're saying the presence of Turinabol can stay in his body for a long time. So, if you put that all together, he's probably going to test positive after fight".
"So, I said, 'Jon, has there been any discussion as to what happens if you test positive after the fight?' Because I'll tell you what, if I'm Alexander Gustafsson and you stopped me in the third round, but the motherf***er tests positive…and I don't care how many small pinches of salt it is in an Olympic sized swimming pool…I want that overturned to a f***ing no contest because you've tested positive after the fact."
Bisping went on to say that Jones avoided answering the question. "He said, 'Well, you know, I'm just looking forward to this fight, this fight's going to be great and blah blah blah—he just totally ignored the question. So then I went back at him again, I slightly reworded [the question] and once again he ignored it. You could see he wasn't happy."
"I wasn't trying to be a dick with Jon. I love watching Jon Jones fight; he's incredible. I've been around him enough during my fight career and Jon's always been cool with me. I've always liked the guy, but being in that position that we're in, we've got to ask those f***ing questions."
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Home Cities Where can I study to become a Futurist?
Where can I study to become a Futurist?
Posted By nikolas-badminton on July 29, 2018
I often get asked where can I study futurology and become a Futurist, or Futurist Speaker? To answer that I tell my story and have also decided to compile a list of courses around the world to help people take a step in the right direction.
Today we can see the disciplines of futurology and foresight having been established in the academic arena, with a wide variety of programs around the world ranging from Masters and Ph.D. programs, through to short courses that give you a boost in thinking with longer-range strategic planning and foresight . I have scoured the world to compile what courses exist (these are in alphabetical order and not by preference or rating). Always due your due diligence on the courses you are interested in.
Please let me know if there are other programs you think I should include here.
Country University Department Program Description
Australia University of Technology Sydney Institute for Sustainable Futures Doctor of Philosophy in futures studies The Institute for Sustainable Futures takes a futures/ foresight perspective for teaching sustainability. Of the methods taught, integral theory and the long view are key highlights.
Colombia Universidad Externado de Colombia (Externado University of Colombia) Business Administration Doctorate in Administration An interdisciplinary doctoral degree with an option to focus on integrating futures and foresight (prospectiva).
Denmark Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences Doctor of Philosophy in organizational future orientation or corporate foresight This doctoral program is offered by Professor René Rohrbeck. The program offers scholarships every six months to cover tuition and expenses. Research proposals with a strong empirical core are favored.
Finland Turun yliopisto (University of Turku) Turku School of Economics: Finland Futures Research Centre Doctor of Science in economics and business administration or Doctor of Philosophy – futures studies as a major The stated purpose is to help prepare students to become independent futures researchers. Applicants are required to have no less than 10 ECTS credits of futures/ foresight courses.
France Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) EPN Innovation Doctor of Management Sciences (PhD) in foresight (prospective) management, innovation, strategy, organization Cnam's EPN Innovation has a history of foresight education that stretches beyond their doctoral and masters degrees. Their Fundamentals of Foresight course is included in 45 of their degrees.
Hungary Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (Corvinus University of Budapest) Doctoral School of Economic Informatics: Department of Futures Studies Doctor of Philosophy in future research The university has several futures/ foresight related classes which are available to related courses. They also have both bachelor and master degree programs in futures/ foresight.
India University of Kerala Faculty of Applied Science and Technology: Department of Futures Studies Doctor of Philosophy in futures studies There are a total of 20 seats available, and the program has produced 20 PhD graduates in various topics.
Iran University of Isfahan Department of Futures Studies Master of Futures Studies A two-year program with an updated syllabus that focuses on teaching theoretical topics and methods for future studies. Students' dissertations are chosen based on their interest so that they can apply what they have learned to specialize in a particular field.
South Africa University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) Institute of Futures Research (IFR) Doctor of Philosophy in futures studies The IFR began in 1974. This program provides the only PhD degree in futures/ foresight in Africa. It is primarily focused on those students who have graduated with the USB's MPhil in futures studies or a related degree with futures studies as a main component.
UK University of Strathclyde Strathclyde Business School: Department of Strategy & Organisation Doctor of Philosophy or Doctor of Business Administration in scenario thinking and scenario planning The Department of Strategy & Organization offers a PhD and a DBA with three different research areas: strategic management, international business, scenario thinking and scenario planning. Although not explicitly titled strategic foresight or futures studies, the scenario thinking and planning degrees are focused on futures/ foresight and it's tools & methods.
USA University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Social Sciences Doctor of Philosophy in political science with a focus on alternative futures The Manoa program teaches futures studies as a subset of political science. Started in 1971 by James Dator, the program was the first of its kind in the world.
USA Regent University School of Business & Leadership Doctor of Strategic Leadership in strategic foresight The Regent degree is focused on fostering leadership skills in its doctoral students. Strategic foresight helps these leaders to concentrate on the intricacies of leading organizations.
Argentina Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES) (University of Business and Social Sciences) Postgraduate Department Specialization in strategic foresight As a specialization, the degree is intended for those already in the workforce as managers or in strategic roles.The program is available virtually on a distance learning platform in Spanish.
Canada Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) Strategic Foresight and Innovation Master of Design in strategic foresight and innovation The stated purpose of the program is to develop designers who think strategically to develop innovations that could build a better world.
Colombia Institución Universitaria de Envigado (University Institution of Envigado) Faculty of Social Sciences Master of Psychology with a specialization in Technological Foresight (Prospectiva Tecnológica) The stated purpose of the program is to train students to develop multiple scenarios within a technolgical context according to best practices.
Colombia Universidad Externado de Colombia (Externado University of Colombia) Business Administration Master's in strategic thinking and foresight (prospectiva) This degree has been tailored to train students how to prepare the future of organizations and territories in Latin America. Two certifications are also offered during the program: Economic Commission for Latin America's "Diploma in Territorial Prospecting and Sustainable Development" and Futuribles Internacional's "Certificate in Prospective".
Colombia Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Pontifical Bolivarian University) n/a Specialization in management strategy and foresight (prospectiva) The program is for professionals and entrepreneurs needing to increase their strategic skills.
Colombia Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (Technological University of Bolivar) n/a Specialization in strategic planning and foresight (prospectiva) The program focuses on integrating foresight into the traditional strategic planning process.
Finland Turun yliopisto (University of Turku) Turku School of Economics: Finland Futures Research Centre Master of Arts in futures studies The Finland Futures Research Centre leads the Finland Futures Academy to offer futures studies courses to other students in other universities across Finland.
France Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) EPN Innovation Master of Law, Economics and Management in foresight (prospective), innovation and public management (Master of Public Innovation) The degree is aimed primarily at students who are or desire to be public servants.
France Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) EPN Innovation Master of Law, Economics and Management in foresight (prospective), innovation and transformation of organizations The degree is a little more broad than the Master of Public Innovation. It is targeted at students who will support organizations to manage their futures.
France University of Angers n/a Master of Science in foresight and innovation The program is taught entirely in English. The two years of the degree are split according to their focus. The first year is focused on understanding change and the second is focused on creating and/ or managing change.
Germany Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) Department of Education and Psychology: Institut Futur Master of Arts in futures studies The program offers a two year degreee primarily taught in German. The focus is on concepts and methods, areas of application, and practical exercises.
Hungary Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (Corvinus University of Budapest) School of Information Economics: Economic Geography, Geoeconomics and Sustainable Development Institute: Department of Futures Studies Master of Science in economics, regional, and environmental economics The university has several futures related classes which are availaable to related courses. They aslo have bachelor and doctoral degree programs in futures/ foresight.
India University of Kerala Faculty of Applied Science and Technology: Department of Futures Studies Master of Philosophy in futures studies The program requires two semesters of six months each. The second semester is devoted to dissertation work.
Italy Università di Trento (University of Trento) Department of Sociology and Social Research Master of Social Foresight The program is aimed at students who are already employed for their professional development. It is conducted entirely in Italian.
Mexico CENTRO n/a Specialization in design of tomorrow: scenarios and solutions The program was developed with support from the Club of Rome, WFSF, WSF, Millenium Project, and Institute for the Future. The program trains students to analyze large sets of data, design scenarios, communicate complex ideas, and generally apply the principles of futures/ foresight to complex problems.
Mexico Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) School of Government and Public Transformation Masters in strategic foresight (prospectiva) Established in 2000, the program has taught students how to study the future for public, private and civil society organizations. The program seeks to benefit all of Latin America with students from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.
Peru Center for Higher National Studies n/a Masters in strategic foresight (prospectiva) After students have finished their studies, they can travel to a regional Peruvian government office to practice what they have learned. They may also travel to Bogota for a week to study at the Externado de Colombia University.
South Africa University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) Institute of Futures Research Master of Philosophy in futures studies The IFR began in 1974. This program provides the only MPhil degree in futures/ foresight in Africa. It is primarily focused on those students who have graduated with the USB's Graduate Diploma in futures studies. The main point of the program's vision is to foster futurists who want to engineer a preferred future.
Taiwan Tamkang University College of Education: Graduate Institute of Futures Studies Master of Education in futures studies Primarily taught in Chinese, the program is focused on teaching futures studies as a method to keep education moving forward. Undergraduate courses and courses taught in English are also available. Graduate Institute of Futures Studies also publishes the Journal of Futures Studies.
UK University of Strathclyde Strathclyde Business School: Department of Strategy & Organisation Master of Philosophy in Scenario thinking and scenario planning The Department of Strategy & Organization offers an MPhil with three different research areas: strategic management, international business, and scenario thinking & scenario planning. Although not explicitly titled strategic foresight or futures studies, the scenario thinking and planning degree is focused on futures/ foresight and its tools & methods.
USA University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Social Sciences Master of Arts in alternative futures The Manoa program teaches futures studies as a subset of political science. Started in 1971, the program was the first of its kind in the world.
USA University of Houston College of Technology Master of Science in foresight Originally begun at University of Houston-Clear Lake in 1974, the UH MS of foresight program is the longest continuously running futures/ foresight program in the world. They started enrolling online learners in 2002.
Colombia Universidad EAFIT (EAFIT University) Continuing Education Diploma in strategic foresight (prospectiva) This 32-hour course is focused on using futures/ foresight as an advanced manangement tool.
Costa Rica Instituto Centroamericano de Administración Pública (Central American Institute of Public Administration) n/a Diploma in foresight (prospectiva) The program is intended for mid-level professionals in the public and private sectors for their professional development in using strategic foresight within strateic planning.
Portugal Instituto para o Desenvolvimento e Estudos Económicos, Financeiros e Empresariais (IDEFE) (Institute for Development and Economical, Financial, and Entrepreneurial Studies) n/a Post-Graduate in foresight (prospetiva), strategy, and innovation The university perceived a need from both public and private sectors to increase the skills of staff in anticipation, innovation, and value creation. So the program integrates foresight, strategy, leadership and innovation. 3-month internships are available in the Consulting arms of Deloitte and OgilvyRED. After receivng the diploma, students will be able to easily segue to the Master in Industrial Management and Strategy.
South Africa University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) Institute of Futures Research Postgraduate Diploma in futures studies The IFR began in 1974. This program provides the only postgraduate diploma in futures/ foresight in Africa. The main point of the program's vision is to foster futurists who want to engineer a preferred future.
Hungary Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem (Corvinus University of Budapest) School of Information Economics: Economic Geography, Geoeconomics and Sustainable Development Institute: Department of Futures Studies Bachelor of Arts in future research The university has several futures/ foresight related classes which are available to related courses. They also have master and doctoral degree programs in futures/ foresight.
USA San Diego City College n/a Associates in futures studies It is only a two year degree, but it provides all the basic learning necessary to engage the futures/ foresight community.
USA University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Social Sciences Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies The Manoa program teaches futures studies as a subset of political science. Started in 1971, the program was the first of its kind in the world. Although UHM does not offer a BA in futures studies, such a degree can be custom built for students under the BA in Interdisciplary Studies program. Undergraduate classes are also available for students in other degree programs.
Australia Swinburne University of Technology n/a Graduate Certificate of Design Strategy and Innovation This is a 6-month, single semester program that integrates futures thinking with design thinking. Students are taught design within a strategic and operational context which includes strategic foresight as a key skill.
Denmark Aarhus University School of Business and Social Sciences Strategic Foresight This is a four day course attended from 9 am – 4 pm. It is a leadership course that introduces students to the principles of foresight and shows them best practices for practical application.
France Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) EPN Innovation Certificate of Competence in foresight (prospective) and strategic management The purpose is to give students a deep understanding of the four key aspects of an organization: foresight, strategy, management and marketing
France Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) EPN Innovation Certificate of Competence in organization strategy and applied foresight The certificate will give students a deep understanding of foresight and how it applies to strategy with tools for implementation in one of the specialities: human resources, organization, technology, business, sustainable development and territories.
Germany European Business School (EBS) n/a Module on Strategy, Corporate Foresight & Business Model Innovation in the Mobility Sector This is a module that can be included or is compulsory in Master in Automotive Management and Master in Business Administration (MBA).
Germany European Business School (EBS) n/a Module on Strategic Foresight This is a module that can be included or is compulsory in Master in Management and Master in Business Administration (MBA).
Portugal Instituto para o Desenvolvimento e Estudos Económicos, Financeiros e Empresariais (IDEFE) (Institute for Development and Economical, Financial, and Entrepreneurial Studies) n/a Executive Education Program: Futures, Strategic Design & Innovation The program promises to be an immersive experience with illustrious keynote speakers and a Scanning, Sensing, and Acting framework specifically designed for this course.
Sweden International Certified Future Strategist (ICFS) n/a Certified Future Strategists The program is administered by foresight professionals in five different consultancies from five different countries across Europe. There are four modules within the course that are held over four 3-day weekends. So, the program is perfect for professionals needing an extra qualification for professional development. The certification process is overseen by the Executive Management Institute, https://www.exmi.se/en-us/.
UK Oxford University Department of Continuing Education Certificate of Attendance for strategic planning and foresight: Learning from and managing for the future A one-day course, the workshop gives attendees a toolbox of methods intended to be applied in their work.
UK Oxford University Saïd Business School Oxford Scenarios Program This is a 5-day program teaching scenario planning. Alumni of the course will be able to attend the 3-yearly Oxford Futures Forum.
UK University of Manchester Manchester Institute of Innovation Research The ART of Foresight & Sustainable Futures: Anticipating, Recommending and Transforming Research and Innovation Futures With Course Director Rafael Popper and Co-director Ian Miles, this short course provides an overview of foresight techniques and their practical application for decision-makers and researchers. University of Manchester has run a Foresight and Horizon Scanning program every year since 1999.
USA University of Houston College of Technology Professional Certificate in foresight This is a 5-day, project based workshop that must be attended face to face. Those who complete the post-workshop project will gain a pre-requisite for joining the Association of Professional Futurists (APF).
Australia University of Technology Sydney Institute for Sustainable Futures Various The Institute for Sustainable Futures takes a futures/ foresight perspective for teaching sustainability. They offer degrees in topics such as resource futures, water futures, food futures, etc. which appear to teach sustainability through the lens of futures/ foresight.
Canada Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) n/a Master of Arts, Master of Design, or Master of Fine Arts in digital futures Many universities have a course in digital futures, but this program, that is connected to OCAD's strategic foresight and innovation program, has a course called Possible Futures that focuses on teaching scenario thinking.
India University of Kerala Faculty of Applied Science and Technology: Department of Futures Studies Master of Technology in technology management The degree is an interdisciplinary program administered by the Department of Futures Studies and focuses on integrated planning, design, optimization, operation, and control of technological products, processes, and services.
Malta University of Malta Edward de Bono Institute for the Design and Development of Thinking Master in creativity and innovation Although the degree program is not specifically futures/ foresight in subject, the Edward de Bono Institute uses futures/ foresight as a key principle for the program.
UK Birmingham City University School of Engineering and the Built Environment Master of Science in building surveying with facilities management It is not a foresight program at all. However, the program exists in response to a futures/ foresight study that was performed: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Strategic Foresight 2030: http://www.rics.org/uk/about-rics/responsible-business/rics-futures/discussions/rics-strategic-foresight-2030/
UK Brunel University n/a Master of Science in integrated product design Although not a futures/ foresight course, the program contains a Design Futures module that teaches the integration of futures thinking and design thinking.
UK University of Glasgow n/a Master of Business Administration (MBA) The program has a class called Strategic Foresight, but it does not necessarily teach the principles of futures/ foresight. The class is primarily conducted by visiting speakers–business heads, who discuss the issues of mainatining a strategic edge. The content of the class therefore depends on the content of the presentations from these guest speakers.
USA University of Arizona School for the Future of Innovation in Society Doctor of Philosophy in human and social dimensions of science and technology Although not focused on the future, the degree is an interdisciplinary study of how technology is affecting society and vice versa.
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'Diplomats need narrative tone in digital age'
Sherouk Zakaria /Dubai
Filed on March 3, 2018
Omar Saif Ghobash and Thomas Fletcher at the Emirates Literature Festival 2018. - KT photo by Mohammad Mustafa Khan
With all opportunities and risks that social media brings, the biggest risk for a diplomat is not being part of the online conversation
In the current digital age, diplomats have to use online platforms to represent their country's values and create dialogue with all segments of society.
In a panel discussion at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Omar Saif Ghobash, the UAE's Ambassador to France, joined the former British ambassador to Lebanon Thomas Fletcher, in a conversation on digital diplomacy.
Both young diplomats agreed that politicians should be authentic and focus on representing the values of their countries rather than branding themselves.
Referring to US President Donald Trump's controversial tweets, Fletcher said while they're authentic and engaging for making the world speak about Trump, the tweets are not purposeful and fail to build America's reputation in the world.
Fletcher, currently visiting professor of International Relations at NYUAD, said diplomats have to speak in the language of the people, in order to include everyone in the conversation. "Social media has given me the chance to speak to people I'd never be able to previously. I was able to have a dialogue with those who claimed to be Hezbollah supporters," said Fletcher.
He added that diplomats need to have narrative to their tweets and purpose behind their messages, recalling sending a strong message by taking part of a blood donation campaign when the Iranian consulate was bombed in Lebanon.
With all opportunities and risks that social media brings, the biggest risk for a diplomat is not being part of the online conversation, which can give room to extremists and terrorists.
Ghobash said that social media allowed him to display certain qualities hidden in the bureaucratic system, and reach more people in the UAE. "The point of diplomacy is to talk with those who disagree with you, and social media gave me that opportunity," he said, referring to his book that addressed moderate Islam and drew some criticisms.
The emergence of Artificial Intelligence, he added, will never replace human interaction, which is why diplomacy will remain important.
Fletcher, however, said that the key lies in facilitating conversations between governments and high-tech companies. "We need diplomats who can stir such conversations in an age where people generally distrust their governments," said Fletcher.
Great diplomats, both speakers agreed, need to put themselves in other people's shoes and be kind, curious and brave.
Running until March 10 at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City, the Emirates Literature Festival features over 180 authors from 47 countries, engaging in discussions of different topics.
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Currently, two thirds of students at the Emirates Diplomacy Academy are women, he noted.
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(By 2020) ...Initial teacher education is predicated on strong subject knowledge right from the lower end of primary education and teachers entering the profession have a deep knowledge of the subjects they teach. Higher education institutions work in partnership with schools to ensure that pedagogical practice and skill is anchored in strong theoretical knowledge. Right from the point of entry into the profession, teachers both use and create evidence.
1. Teaching is a profession. As such, it is rooted in a body of knowledge and is evidence-informed. Initial teacher education (ITE)1 should therefore be grounded in strong subject and pedagogical knowledge, developing the quality of instruction, classroom management and climate and professional behaviours.
2. Calculation through agreed modelling of numbers of teachers needed in each sector and region and the promotion of the status and value of teaching as a profession is a key role for government. However, the profession also has a responsibility to be taking action to support the supply of high quality teachers through school-led initial teacher education.
3. Groups of schools in the form of hard governance arrangements like multi-academy trusts (MATs), but also in soft partnership like teaching school alliances, have greater capacity to take on these system roles.
4. Recent evidence arising from a range of sources2 showed that HE filled 90 per cent of allocated places in 2014, School Direct overall filled only 61 per cent of allocated places with the training route (fee based) recruiting 57 per cent of its target compared with 71 per cent for salaried route (Table 1, SFR 48/2014). School-centred initial teacher training provisers (SCITTS) filled 79 per cent of their places. In the past three years, overall recruitment numbers when matched against the predicted level of need for trainees from the DfE's3 teacher supply model (TSM), was 99 per cent in 2012-13; 95 per cent in 2013-14 and 92 per cent in 2014-15. That works out to be a shortfall of 5,860 trainee teachers across three years. The shortfall is larger in some subjects than others indicating that the forthcoming supply of trainee (beginner) teachers is a matter for serious concern.
6. Sir Michael Wilshaw, in his Ofsted annual report (November 2014), said: "There are serious implications for future NQT recruitment given such significant under recruitment of beginner teachers for the academic year 2015-16".
7. At the January 2015 UCAS status report, allocation for postgraduate teacher training handled through UCAS were down 18 per cent in comparison with the same point in 2014. This may be a consequence of the smaller cohort of graduates in the first year of the higher tuition fees and the overall dip in university applications.
8. At the same time, from 2016 through to 2022, there is a steady decline in the population of 21 year olds. This means the pool of graduates is likely to fall in absolute terms, meaning fewer teacher trainees.
9. This coincides directly with an economic upturn which means that there are more vacancies in the jobs market generally, and more graduate level job vacancies than there has been since 2008. This means that all employers are finding it more difficult to recruit – it is a 'buyers' market' from the point of view of graduate job seekers.
10. The numbers of 11 year olds is rising, with the 'bulge' in primary-aged children moving into the secondary sector, which means more teachers will be needed.
11. This means there is a perfect storm brewing. It is not the fault of initial teacher training reforms; however a strong policy response will be needed to tackle this.
12. The TSM makes assumptions to estimate the number of new teachers required in the future and how many training places are required to meet this need. The outcomes from the TSM are used to allocate initial teacher training places to providers and to help meet the demand for the number of newly qualified teachers.
13. The TSM does not provide an accurate projection of teacher supply in large part because it fails to analyse by geographical region.
14. An unwieldy, over-complicated UCAS application process could in itself be a disincentive to potential candidates.
School-led routes, which can also result in a PGCE.
17. Both routes lead to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
18. School-led teacher training courses generally last a year and all lead to qualified teacher status (QTS). Many school-led courses result in a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and/or master's-level credits on successful completion.
School Direct – salaried and unsalaried routes.
School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) – it should be noted that many SCITT providers also run School Direct courses.
Teach First – an education charity that runs a two-year course for outstanding graduates. The programme runs in schools in low-income communities.
Troops to Teachers programme – for ex-service personnel.
20. It should be noted that the government expects teaching schools and teaching school alliances to lead the development of school-led initial teacher training through School Direct or by gaining accreditation as a SCITT provider.
21. However, it is important to note that schools do not have to be a teaching school or indeed in a teaching school alliance to offer School Direct training, although they are normally expected to be good or outstanding.
22. The management of training places from The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) to schools and universities is inefficient and unresponsive to schools' needs. The School Direct programme is variable at best. Many schools are frustrated by the organisation and management of School Direct itself. Places are not evenly spread across the country and do not take account of local demand.
23. The diversification of provision has meant that several universities have had to reduce or close their programmes. In November 2014 a report into the impact of ITE reforms on English higher education institutions stated that between 2012 and the academic year 2014-15 there has been a 23 per cent reduction in university ITE departments. The impact of this is to reduce the capacity of higher education.
24. In his review of initial teacher training (The Carter Review)6, Sir Andrew Carter makes clear that whilst no one single route into teaching is any better than another, partnerships between schools and universities is crucial. Neither schools nor universities can educate teachers alone - his recommendations emphasise the importance of working together. His findings identified significant gaps in a range of provision such as subject knowledge development, subject specific pedagogy, behaviour management, assessment and preparation for teaching students with special educational needs and disabilities.
25. Carter's recommendations include the development of a revised ITE curriculum, in which all schools and universities would develop a curriculum programme in partnership.
Teaching schools and SCITTs have established school-led training programmes. SCITTs have led school-based ITE for several years. They have a successful track-record not only in educating beginner teachers but also in retaining them. Schools could join their local teaching school alliance or SCITT, using a portion of the teacher fees to pay for the release of mentors who have achieved the profession defined standards.
In addition to the current programme of teaching school alliances, leadership of the SCITT sector should be developed at national level in order to oversee the development of a pipeline of teaching schools and SCITTs, coordinate these nationally and stimulate teaching schools and SCITTs in areas of the country where recruitment is most difficult.
With the current drop in applications, providers that cannot fill enough places to make ends meet and cover their costs might pull out. Consider possible safety net arrangements for providers faced with a shortage of applicants but serving parts of the country where their disappearance would cause real supply problems.
High-performing MATs should be funded to recruit good and outstanding teachers and middle leaders on flexible contracts which enable deployment to schools in sub-regions or local areas where there is strong evidence of difficulty in recruiting and/or retaining good teachers and middle leaders. This could include a 'disruption payment' as a financial incentive for teachers on these contracts and pay accommodation expenses.
This incentive could be costed and targeted on the most severe shortage areas/subjects. It would be a successor to the 'golden handshake' acting as an incentive to teach.
The TSM needs to be able to take account of regional variation in supply and demand, ensuring sufficiency of teachers needed in each sector, subject and region.
The imminent teacher shortage and its impact is of such concern that a commitment from government to work in partnership with associated agencies to address the issue is necessary. The Teaching Schools Council might be appointed to lead this.
A core curriculum for ITE should be developed including strong foundation in subject knowledge and subject specific pedagogy, behaviour management, assessment and preparation for teaching students with special educational needs and disabilities. Provide training for subject mentors with agreed standards.
There is an opportunity for schools and higher education to work together to ensure that teachers entering the profession have a strong foundation in pedagogical and subject knowledge. In the best examples of partnership work this is already the case. Some school-led providers are working effectively with universities, some have employed university education lecturers to develop the research element of pedagogical theory and schools are themselves becoming better at delivering these elements. However, there is inconsistent practice across the country and this is an area for further development.
This is a good time to review the criteria that might make an effective professional learning institution. Quality assurance of effective professional learning is currently in the spotlight: proposals set out in the consultation on a College of Teaching refer to a set of standards for senior leaders responsible for CPD/ professional learning and Sir Andrew Carter's report6 recommends the development of Mentor Standards. Now is the time to make the connections between the importance of ITE as a first rung on the professional learning ladder for teachers and teaching school/SCITTs' abilities to put in place ffective standards for high quality professional learning for all teachers.
1 Throughout this paper the term Initial Teacher Education (ITE) is used in preference to ITT as a position statement in itself. Our view is that ITE describes a deeper theoretical understanding of pedagogy and subject knowledge. It is informed by a set of values and draws on evidence based research to inform our understanding of what makes effective teaching and learning in the classroom. While it is essential to develop a range of skills in classroom teaching, the practice of teaching is underpinned by secure pedagogical and subject knowledge.
4 The figure of 83 per cent assumes that percentage of recruitment into specific subjects is capped at 100 per cent.


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Tamara Abalde Díaz (Ferrol, La Corunya, 6 de febrer de 1989) és una jugadora de bàsquet gallega que juga en Lliga Femenina. Mesura 1,90m i la seva posició és la d'ala-pivot.

És internacional absoluta amb la selecció espanyola, havent disputat els Jocs Olímpics de Pequín 2008, i l'Eurobasket 2009, en el qual va aconseguir la medalla de bronze.

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És filla de l'exjugador de bàsquet Alberto Abalde i es va iniciar en el bàsquet als 8 anys d'edat. Es va formar en el Club Companyia de María de Vigo (1998- 2003), per després passar pel San José de la Guia i finalment saltar al Celta, club viguès on va militar en les categories inferiors des de la campanya 2003-04, debutant en la Divisió d'Honor als 15 anys amb el Celta Vigo Urban.

Abalde va ser reconeguda com a esportista revelació en la temporada 2005 i nominada en tres ocasions com a millor esportista en la Gran Gal·la do Deporte "Vigo e a súa Comarca" (Vigo i la seva comarca). Representant a la selecció autonòmica va ser bronze i distingida en el quintet ideal a Lloret de Mar (2003) i millor passadora a Santiago de Compostel·la (2004).

Va ser internacional indiscutible amb la selecció Sub-16 amb la qual va aconseguir el quart lloc en l'Europeu sub-16 de Turquia (2003), i posteriorment diverses medalles d'or. Així, ha estat campiona d'Europa sub-16 a Itàlia (2004), Polònia (2005) i sub-18 a Tenerife (2006). A més va ser inclosa en el quintet ideal en l'Europeu de Polònia amb 12.3 punts i 8.3 rebots de mitjana.

La temporada 2007-2008 va militar en l'equip Universitat de Lamar de Houston, recalant les tres següents temporades en l'equip madrileny Rivas Futura, en qualitat de cedida pel Ros Casares.

Després de disputar la temporada 2010-11 en l'Unió Navarra, va fitxar pel Pays d'Aix Basket 13 de la Lliga francesa amb el qual va disputar la temporada 2011-112. En 2012 va continuar a França, aquesta vegada en les files del Basket Landes. En 2013 torna a la Lliga Femenina en fitxar per Perfumeries Avenida de Salamanca. Després de dues temporades en l'equip salmantí en els quals no va tenir suficients minuts fitxa per Cadí La Seu al juny de 2015.

Trajectòria
 Col·legi Companyia de María. Planter.
 2003-07 Celta Banc Simeón. Lliga Femenina
 2007-08 Lamar University. NCAA
 2008-10 Rivas Ecópolis (cedida per Ros Casessis). Lliga Femenina
 2010-11 Unió Navarresa Basket. Lliga Femenina
 2011-12 Pays d'Aix Basket 13. Lliga francesa
 2012-13 Basket Landes. Lliga francesa
 2013-15 CB Avenida. Lliga Femenina
 2015-16 Cadí La Seu. Lliga Femenina
 2016-17 CREF Hola!. Lliga Femenina
 2017-18 Mann Filter. Lliga Femenina
 2018-20 València Basket. Lliga Femenina
 2020-21 Araski AES. Lliga Femenina
 2017-18 Mann Filter. Lliga Femenina
 2017-18 Ensino. Lliga Femenina

Palmarès

Selecció espanyola
 Medalla d'Or a l'Europeu sub-16 de 2004.
 Medalla d'Or a l'Europeu sub-16 de 2005.
 Medalla d'Or a l'Europeu sub-18 de 2006.
 Medalla de Plata a l'Europeu sub-20 de 2009.
 Medalla de Bronze a l'Eurobasket 2009.
 Medalla d'Or a l'Eurobasket 2019.

Clubs
 Copa de la Reina (2): 2014, 2015.
 Supercopa d'Espanya (2): 2013, 2014.

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Fitxa a FEB.es
 Fitxa oficial de Tamara Abalde
 Fitxa de Tamara Abalde an MueveteBasket.es

Jugadores del Club Baloncesto Avenida
Jugadors de bàsquet gallecs
Persones de Ferrol
Esportistes espanyols als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 2020
Jugadores del València Basket
Esportistes de la província de la Corunya
Jugadores de l'Agrupació Esportiva Sedis Bàsquet

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Experts have classified Himalayan salt lamps across the world as being authentic and having numerous health benefits. You might have heard of salt lamps being used to relieve stress, improve blood flow to the brain and also relieve patients of asthma symptoms. All these are factors that make Himalayan salt lamps to be popular among modern homeowners. Understanding the benefits Himalayan salt lamps benefits will make you want them in your house of office space. If you have stress, anxiety or asthmatic condition that has been giving you sleepless nights, you might need to add a Himalayan salt lamp as an accessory in our interior décor. You can either decide to have a small customized USB salt lamp that you can move around with, or you can have a bigger size to be installed in a specific position within the house. Let's find out what the Himalayan salt lamp health benefits are.
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Acid bath may lead to armchair quantum wires
Filed under: Science — Tags: ACS nano, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, armchair quantum wires, chlorosulfonic acid, Evans-Attwell Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship, nanotechnology, nanotubes, National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, Rice University, Robert A. Welch Foundation, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation — David Kirkpatrick @ 2:11 am
More nanotech news.
Nanotubes pass acid test
Rice researchers' method untangles long tubes, clears hurdle toward armchair quantum wire
HOUSTON – (July 14, 2010) – Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.
Nanotubes have the frustrating habit of bundling, making them less useful than when they're separated in a solution. Rice scientists led by Matteo Pasquali, a professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering and in chemistry, have been trying to untangle them for years as they look for scalable methods to make exceptionally strong, ultralight, highly conductive materials that could revolutionize power distribution, such as the armchair quantum wire.
The armchair quantum wire — a macroscopic cable of well-aligned metallic nanotubes — was envisioned by the late Richard Smalley, a Rice chemist who shared the Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the the family of molecules that includes the carbon nanotube. Rice is celebrating the 25th anniversary of that discovery this year.
Pasquali, primary author Nicholas Parra-Vasquez and their colleagues reported this month in the online journal ACS Nano that chlorosulfonic acid can dissolve half-millimeter-long nanotubes in solution, a critical step in spinning fibers from ultralong nanotubes.
Current methods to dissolve carbon nanotubes, which include surrounding the tubes with soap-like surfactants, doping them with alkali metals or attaching small chemical groups to the sidewalls, disperse nanotubes at relatively low concentrations. These techniques are not ideal for fiber spinning because they damage the properties of the nanotubes, either by attaching small molecules to their surfaces or by shortening them.
A few years ago, the Rice researchers discovered that chlorosulfonic acid, a "superacid," adds positive charges to the surface of the nanotubes without damaging them. This causes the nanotubes to spontaneously separate from each other in their natural bundled form.
This method is ideal for making nanotube solutions for fiber spinning because it produces fluid dopes that closely resemble those used in industrial spinning of high-performance fibers. Until recently, the researchers thought this dissolution method would be effective only for short single-walled nanotubes.
In the new paper, the Rice team reported that the acid dissolution method also works with any type of carbon nanotube, irrespective of length and type, as long as the nanotubes are relatively free of defects.
Parra-Vasquez described the process as "very easy."
"Just adding the nanotubes to chlorosulfonic acid results in dissolution, without even mixing," he said.
While earlier research had focused on single-walled carbon nanotubes, the team discovered chlorosulfonic acid is also adept at dissolving multiwalled nanotubes (MWNTs). "There are many processes that make multiwalled nanotubes at a cheaper cost, and there's a lot of research with them," said Parra-Vasquez, who earned his Rice doctorate last year. "We hope this will open up new areas of research."
They also observed for the first time that long SWNTs dispersed by superacid form liquid crystals. "We already knew that with shorter nanotubes, the liquid-crystalline phase is very different from traditional liquid crystals, so liquid crystals formed from ultralong nanotubes should be interesting to study," he said.
Parra-Vasquez, now a postdoctoral researcher at Centre de Physique Moleculaire Optique et Hertzienne, Universite' de Bordeaux, Talence, France, came to Rice in 2002 for graduate studies with Pasquali and Smalley.
Study co-author Micah Green, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Texas Tech and a former postdoctoral fellow in Pasquali's research group, said working with long nanotubes is key to attaining exceptional properties in fibers because both the mechanical and electrical properties depend on the length of the constituent nanotubes. Pasquali said that using long nanotubes in the fibers should improve their properties on the order of one to two magnitudes, and that similar enhanced properties are also expected in thin films of carbon nanotubes being investigated for flexible electronics applications.
An immediate goal for researchers, Parra-Vasquez said, will be to find "large quantities of ultralong single-walled nanotubes with low defects — and then making that fiber we have been dreaming of making since I arrived at Rice, a dream that Rick Smalley had and that we have all shared since."
Co-authors of the paper are graduate students Natnael Behabtu, Colin Young, Anubha Goyal and Cary Pint; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry, and Robert Hauge, a distinguished faculty fellow in chemistry, all at Rice; and Judith Schmidt, Ellina Kesselman, Yachin Cohen and Yeshayahu Talmon of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Evans-Attwell Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship funded the research.
Read the abstract at: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn100864v
For more about Rice's 25th anniversary Year of Nano celebrations, visit: http://buckyball.smalley.rice.edu/year_of_nano/
DNA-based logic chips
Filed under: Science, Technology — Tags: Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Office, chromophores, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DNA, Duke University, logic circuits, logic gates, nanostructures, National Science Foundation, Small — David Kirkpatrick @ 12:40 am
Very cool and very fascinating in terms of extreme mass production.
DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips
IMAGE: This is Duke University's Chris Dwyer.
DURHAM, N.C. – In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world's entire output of silicon chips in a month.
So says a Duke University engineer, who believes that the next generation of these logic circuits at the heart of computers will be produced inexpensively in almost limitless quantities. The secret is that instead of silicon chips serving as the platform for electric circuits, computer engineers will take advantage of the unique properties of DNA, that double-helix carrier of all life's information.
In his latest set of experiments, Chris Dwyer, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, demonstrated that by simply mixing customized snippets of DNA and other molecules, he could create literally billions of identical, tiny, waffle-looking structures.
Dwyer has shown that these nanostructures will efficiently self-assemble, and when different light-sensitive molecules are added to the mixture, the waffles exhibit unique and "programmable" properties that can be readily tapped. Using light to excite these molecules, known as chromophores, he can create simple logic gates, or switches.
These nanostructures can then be used as the building blocks for a variety of applications, ranging from the biomedical to the computational.
IMAGE: This is a closeup of a waffle.
"When light is shined on the chromophores, they absorb it, exciting the electrons," Dwyer said. "The energy released passes to a different type of chromophore nearby that absorbs the energy and then emits light of a different wavelength. That difference means this output light can be easily differentiated from the input light, using a detector."
Instead of conventional circuits using electrical current to rapidly switch between zeros or ones, or to yes and no, light can be used to stimulate similar responses from the DNA-based switches – and much faster.
"This is the first demonstration of such an active and rapid processing and sensing capacity at the molecular level," Dwyer said. The results of his experiments were published online in the journal Small. "Conventional technology has reached its physical limits. The ability to cheaply produce virtually unlimited supplies of these tiny circuits seems to me to be the next logical step."
DNA is a well-understood molecule made up of pairs of complimentary nucleotide bases that have an affinity for each other. Customized snippets of DNA can cheaply be synthesized by putting the pairs in any order. In their experiments, the researchers took advantage of DNA's natural ability to latch onto corresponding and specific areas of other DNA snippets.
Dwyer used a jigsaw puzzle analogy to describe the process of what happens when all the waffle ingredients are mixed together in a container.
"It's like taking pieces of a puzzle, throwing them in a box and as you shake the box, the pieces gradually find their neighbors to form the puzzle," he said. "What we did was to take billions of these puzzle pieces, throwing them together, to form billions of copies of the same puzzle."
IMAGE: These are many waffles.
In the current experiments, the waffle puzzle had 16 pieces, with the chromophores located atop the waffle's ridges. More complex circuits can be created by building structures composed of many of these small components, or by building larger waffles. The possibilities are limitless, Dwyer said.
In addition to their use in computing, Dwyer said that since these nanostructures are basically sensors, many biomedical applications are possible. Tiny nanostructures could be built that could respond to different proteins that are markers for disease in a single drop of blood.
Dwyer's research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army Research Office. Other members of the Duke team were Constantin Pistol, Vincent Mao, Viresh Thusu and Alvin Lebeck
Electrofluidic Display Technology news
Filed under: Media, Technology — Tags: Air Force Research Laboratory, Electrofluidic Display Technology, electronic display, Gamma Dynamics, National Science Foundation, Polymer Vision, Sun Chemical, University of Cincinnati — David Kirkpatrick @ 1:24 am
Very interesting news for the future of electronic display.
Make Brighter, Full-Color Electronic Readers? — Brilliant!
Electrofluidic Display Technology developed at the University of Cincinnati puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin.
Thinking about getting an e-reader but not sure if you like reading the dim screen? An international collaboration of the University of Cincinnati, Sun Chemical, Polymer Vision and Gamma Dynamics has announced Electrofluidic Display Technology (EFD), the first technology to electrically switch the appearance of pigments in a manner that provides visual brilliance equal to conventional printed media.
This new entry into the race for full-color electronic paper can potentially provide better than 85 percent "white-state reflectance," a performance level required for consumers to accept reflective display applications such as e-books, cell-phones and signage.
"If you compare this technology to what's been developed previously, there's no comparison," says developer Jason Heikenfeld, assistant professor of electrical engineering in UC's College of Engineering. "We're ahead by a wide margin in critical categories such as brightness, color saturation and video speed."
This work, which has been underway for several years, has just been published in the paper "Electrofluidic displays using Young–Laplace transposition of brilliant pigment dispersions."
Lead author Heikenfeld explains the primary advantage of the approach.
"The ultimate reflective display would simply place the best colorants used by the printing industry directly beneath the front viewing substrate of a display," he says. "In our EFD pixels, we are able to hide or reveal colored pigment in a manner that is optically superior to the techniques used in electrowetting, electrophoretic and electrochromic displays."
Because the optically active layer can be less than 15 microns thick, project partners at PolymerVision see strong potential for rollable displays. The product offerings could be extremely diverse, including electronic windows and tunable color casings on portable electronics.
Furthermore, because three project partners are located in Cincinnati (UC, Sun Chemical, Gamma Dynamics), technology commercialization could lead to creation of numerous high-tech jobs in southwest Ohio.
To expedite commercialization, a new company has been launched: Gamma Dynamics with founding members of this company being John Rudolph as president (formerly of Corning), a world-recognized scientist as CTO (who cannot be announced until July), and Heikenfeld as principal scientist.
"This takes the Amazon Kindle, for example, which is black and white, and could make it full color," Heikenfeld says. "So now you could take it from a niche product to a mainstream product."
Funding for this work was provided by Sun Chemical, PolymerVision, the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The pixel structure is able to reveal or hide the pigments with high contrast and video speed. The reservoir (center circle) holds the pigment until it is ready to be displayed by application of voltage. Photo credit: Gamma Dynamics LLC


There Is No Tomorrow is a Third person Stealth/ Action Adventure video game developed by KOEX studio . Currently the game is developed for PC. Release date is set in early 2018 on Steam and other web stores.
The game centers on protagonist Leon as he time traveled into the future world full of horrid and hostile creatures that he never seen before. Played in a third person perspective, players battle monster-like enemies, including humans using guns and melee weapons or stealth their way through to progress the levels. Being a story-driven adventure game, players can choose between stealth or action approach while some levels require to solve mysterious puzzles.
There Is No Tomorrow received positive reception when its' demo release in December 2017 & several mentions by Indie-DB, the largest indie game website.
The single-player story is arranged in chapters, which players complete in order to progress through the story. The game is played from a third-person perspective in which scavenging for items and learning how to stealth is crucial in surviving the dangers of the game. The game's most common enemy, is very fast and deal high damage, Players will most likely be dead after just a few hits. As a regular student, Leon must learn to survive in this adventure.
There Is No Tomorrow began development in late 2017 with development taking place at home using game engine Unity. The game draw its' inspirations from various popular video games such as Life is Strange, Last of Us, Metal gear solid.
A game demo was released in December 2017 on Gamejolt. In March/April, it was steam greenlit by the community in less than 2 weeks.
On April 2017, the game was nominated by Indie Prize Singapore to take part in the 3 days convention held in Sentosa Convention hall.