One night, when the streets of Jerusalem were dark and quiet, a leader of the Jews went to the house where Jesus was staying. He was a Pharisee named Nicodemus.
Nicodemus had witnessed some of Jesus' miracles. After seeing the miracles he had no rest. He did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah, for the Messiah would surely come in a much different way. He would be a mighty king who would chase out the Romans with the sword. He would judge and punish all heathen nations. The Messiah would not be a poor, simple, gentle person. And He would surely not come into the world as a carpenter's son!
Yet, there was something about Jesus that he could not understand. That made Nicodemus uneasy. Nicodemus always wanted to understand things, for he was a typical Pharisee. That's why he went to Jesus to talk with Him. He chose to see Jesus at night—perhaps because he was afraid that other Jewish leaders would laugh at him. Perhaps he simply wanted to talk to Jesus under peaceful circumstances.
Jesus was willing to meet with Nicodemus. In the quiet of the night they talked together. The Savior who had come to earth for sinners talked with the rich, prominent rabbi who felt virtuous and upright because he obeyed the law of Moses.
Nicodemus believed that God simply had to love him because he was pious. Surely he had earned himself a place in God's Kingdom!
Jesus told him something different. If Nicodemus wanted to enter heaven, he should start over, at the very beginning, with his life. The way he was living was all wrong. He should begin a new life and leave his pride behind him. He should become like the simplest of Jesus' disciples, who had confessed their sins to John the Baptist and had been baptized by him. The Holy Spirit would then come into his heart and make him a new man.
Jesus therefore told him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see God's Kingdom."
Born again? Although he was a scholar, Nicodemus had no idea what Jesus was talking about.
Surely he could not become a small child or a baby again. He was already a grown man!
Jesus explained it to him. Nicodemus should become just as humble and pure in heart as a small child. That was only possible through the Holy Spirit.
Nicodemus still didn't understand. But there was no need to understand the part about the Holy Spirit. No human being can understand the work of the Spirit, just as no one knows where the wind comes from and where it goes. Nicodemus should believe, even if he did not understand.
When Israel was punished in the wilderness with poisonous snakes, Moses made a bronze snake, attached it to a pole, and placed it in the midst of the afflicted people. Anyone who looked at the elevated snake in faith was healed of his poisonous snakebite. Anyone who tried to understand the miracle and refused to believe died of his snakebite.
Jesus said, "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up. Everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life."
It was all so strange and wondrous to Nicodemus. Was Jesus, the Son of man, to be lifted up? What did that mean? Would He be fastened to a pole, just like the bronze snake? Would that somehow give eternal life to all who believed in Him?
No, Nicodemus did not understand.
If Nicodemus had known how wicked and sinful his heart was, he would surely have understood! He would find it even stranger that God could love him anyway. If only he would believe, eternal joy would be his.
Jesus spoke some glorious words to Nicodemus, "God loved the world so much that He sent His only Son. All who believe in Him will not perish but have eternal life."
It was late night when Nicodemus finally went home through the quiet streets of Jerusalem. Jesus' words were still ringing in his ears: "God loved the world so much . . . ."
It was still dark in Nicodemus's soul—just as dark as the streets of Jerusalem. The first red rays of light were starting to appear on the eastern horizon. A new day was dawning. It would not always be night.
"God loved the world so much that He sent His only Son . . . ."
Had God already sent His Son? Who was the Son of God? Could it be Jesus of Nazareth?
"Yes!" said a voice in Nicodemus's heart. "He is the one! He is the Messiah!"
One day that voice would grow much stronger and drive away Nicodemus's doubt and unbelief. The light would break through fully in Nicodemus's heart.
When that happened he would come to Jesus openly, in the daylight rather than in darkness. He would come without shame or fear. But that day was still a long time away.
When Jesus was fastened to a pole—the cross—like the bronze snake fashioned by Moses in the wilderness, then Nicodemus would think back to that night. Then, at last, he would believe. Then he would finally understand what Jesus meant when He talked about being born again. The love of God, which he could never understand but only accept, would finally allow him to see the Kingdom.


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When "worked to death" is not a hyperbole
You hear it all the time, and you have probably said it yourself: "my boss is working me to death!" Most people don't mean it literally – we don't think we are going to actually pass away at our desks.
For one Ohio couple, however, the common complaint turned out to be tragically accurate. Beth Jasper was a hardworking nurse at a hospital which, like so many others, was chronically understaffed. Nurses at the hospital often had to work through breaks and pick up extra shifts. Even after a grueling 12-hour day, they might be called back to work when they were supposed to be off duty because no other qualified staff was available. As many nurses know, the problem is a common one. According to National Nurses United, staff shortages and overextended shifts for nurses are rampant throughout hospitals around the country.
On March 16, two years of being run ragged by the hospital caught up with Beth Jasper, who apparently fell asleep at the wheel trying to come home from yet another 12-hour shift. Ms. Jasper's did not survive the resulting crash, and her husband is now suing the hospital for causing her death.
Beth Jasper's husband believes that the fatigue caused by the hospital overworking his wife contributed to the tragic accident. Mr. Jasper's lawsuit says that the hospital's parent company was repeatedly made aware of the understaffing problems and did nothing to help its employees. Even Ms. Jasper's supervisor expressed concerns to her own superiors that Ms. Jasper was being "worked to death," but the hospital refused to deal with the staffing issue.
Mr. Jasper is adamant that things need to change; that hospitals must stop understaffing hospitals and overworking nurses. National Nurses United agrees, saying that both nurses and patients suffer when hospitals overextend their nursing staff. To combat the problem, the union and other groups have pushed for safe staffing legislation around the country. Perhaps new laws and better enforcement of protections for workers that are already on the books will keep other nurses from being, like Beth Jasper, literally worked to death.

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Removal of monocular interactions equates rivalry behavior for monocular, binocular, and stimulus rivalries
Jeroen J.A. van Boxtel, Tomas Knapen, Casper J. Erkelens, Raymond van Ee
When the two eyes are presented with conflicting stimuli, perception starts to fluctuate over time (i.e., binocular rivalry). A similar fluctuation occurs when two patterns are presented to a single eye (i.e., monocular rivalry), or when they are swapped rapidly and repeatedly between the eyes (i.e., stimulus rivalry). Although all these cases lead to rivalry, in quantitative terms these modes of rivalry are generally found to differ significantly. We studied these different modes of rivalry with identical intermittently shown stimuli while varying the temporal layout of stimulation. We show that the quantitative differences between the modes of rivalry are caused by the presence of monocular interactions between the rivaling patterns; the introduction of a blank period just before a stimulus swap changed the number of rivalry reports to the extent that monocular and stimulus rivalries were inducible over ranges of spatial frequency content and contrast values that were nearly identical to binocular rivalry. Moreover when monocular interactions did not occur the perceptual dynamics of monocular, binocular, and stimulus rivalries were statistically indistinguishable. This range of identical behavior exhibited a monocular (∼50 ms) and a binocular (∼350 ms) limit. We argue that a common binocular, or pattern-based, mechanism determines the temporal constraints for these modes of rivalry.
https://doi.org/10.1167/8.15.13
van Boxtel, J. J. A., Knapen, T., Erkelens, C. J., & van Ee, R. (2008). Removal of monocular interactions equates rivalry behavior for monocular, binocular, and stimulus rivalries. Journal of Vision, 8(15), [13]. https://doi.org/10.1167/8.15.13
van Boxtel, Jeroen J.A. ; Knapen, Tomas ; Erkelens, Casper J. ; van Ee, Raymond. / Removal of monocular interactions equates rivalry behavior for monocular, binocular, and stimulus rivalries. In: Journal of Vision. 2008 ; Vol. 8, No. 15.
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The 2017 Kansas City Royals season has had quite a lot of ups and downs, though there has been one constant: third baseman Mike Moustakas' chase of Steve Balboni's franchise's single-season HR record. The elusive 36 HR mark is the lowest total by any franchise's single-season home run king, and the Royals are the only franchise that has never seen one of their own eclipse 40 DONGS. In fact, no Major League Baseball player calling Kansas City home has ever made 40 trips to DONGTOWN. Bob Cerv of the Kansas City Athletics (1955-1967) hit 38 in 1958. His total stands as the best in Kansas City, but, let's get to Balboni's number first. His record has stood for over thirty years. Records are meant to be broken and this one needed to go down. Don't get me wrong, it's not that fans don't like Balboni. Many of us, that remember him, like him just fine.
Baseball is a LONG season – a grind, a marathon and not a sprint. Kansas City Royals fans like to get behind a variety of things happening in the season, as for many, many years, winning wasn't much of an option. We've had "rally sauce", "1738/Fetty Wap," and "Rally Mantis" however, not often have we had the opportunity to watch a player challenge 36 home runs.
In the few instances where 37 home runs by a Royals player seemed within reach, fans had to wait until the final days of the season, only to be disappointed. Let's stroll down memory lane, shall we?
The 1994 American League Rookie of the Year, Bob Hamelin, hit 24 home runs through the first 115 games of the season (a 34 HR pace), only to have his chase end early due to a players' strike, and the season ending in mid-August. Bob "the Hammer'" Hamelin had a very similar physical build to Balboni. What he lacked in growing an exquisite moustache, he made up for with a sharp pair of glasses and a mullet.
The following season would see third baseman Gary Gaetti chase 37 and come closest to breaking the mark. Gaetti sat on 34 home runs with 14 games remaining and appeared sure to at least match Balboni's 36. Over the next 13 games, Gaetti would go 4 for 49 (.082) with no home runs. Gaetti homered on the final day of the season, ending with 35. The 1995 season started late, also due to the players strike. Those early games likely cost Gaetti the record. Imagine #BreakingGaetti or #GettingGaetti, instead?
In 1998, Royals fans saw another third baseman, Dean Palmer, come close. Palmer started the season hot with 9 April home runs. He was a streaky player and 1998 was no different. Palmer only hit 7 home runs over the next two months. After hitting home runs in both games of a September 11 double header vs. the Mariners, Palmer was at 33 home runs with 15 games left to play. He would hit just one more long ball, finishing the season with 34.
This brings us to Mike Moustakas. We said in our season projection that Moose is the player on the roster who can challenge Balboni's record. We projected him to hit 31, and he's not let us down. His first MOOSEDONG came on Opening Day. He had six by the end of the month. He homered in three straight games in Seattle in early July in what was part of a seven homers in nine games binge. He hit another one the next night. He hit No. 31 on August 6. He hit two solo shots on Aug. 11. No. 35 came on August 15, leaving him 44 games to tie and break the record that is almost a certainty he'll break. Even the slumpiest of slumps would seem to allow him the ability to get to 37. If only hitting one #MooseDong every two weeks to finish the year, he gets to the elusive 37. Slump, he did – going more than two weeks without a HR when he hit the record-tying DONG on September 1, snapping his longest homerless drought of the season (14 games played), hitting just .205 in the process. His health was likely the only thing that could hold him back. Battling hip and knee issues, Moose went another 14-game stretch without a homer before finally connecting on the record breaker tonight in Toronto, in the Royals 15-5 beatdown of the Jays, coming a triple short of the cycle. In the process, he set a new career-high in RBI (83) and became one of four active players to be a franchise's single-season HR leader (Joey Bautista, Chris Davis, Giancarlo Stanton).
Moustakas has been a fan favorite for quite some time now, with fans bellowing "Moooooose" each time he approaches the plate for an at bat or makes a play of any level of difficulty in the field at Kauffman Stadium. Similar to this Royals 2017 season, Moustakas has had several ups and downs throughout his career. He started his career slowly, and had to make a trip back to the minors, where he stayed for just eight games, hitting .355 with 1 HR, 7 RBI while reaching base in seven straight. He has been very good over his last few full seasons. Moustakas is a homegrown player drafted by the organization, a World Series Champion, a two-time All-Star, and he is the perfect guy to take over the title of Royals single season home run king.
When he was drafted as the reigning California high school homerun champ, he was labeled as the guy who had the potential to break Balboni. And, today, he is. With one more DONG, he will ironically match Balboni for 12th on the Royals all-time list (119).
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Hamelin's physique was not at all similar to Balboni's.
Both display less than ideal physique. I'd say they're pretty similar.
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Learn More About The Land Portal's collaboration with AGROVOC and why it is a Real Success Story
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It is said that the languages which we speak changes our thoughts and the way we think. What is more, is that new research shows that the many subtle differences across languages might actually change the way we experience the world around us. Sara Jani,(link is external) Project Monitoring and Knowledge Management Coordinator at ICARDA says the following about the array of languages and words we use on a daily basis: "Our ancestors used to say each tongue (language) is a human being" "كل لسان انسان "
Despite the increasingly interconnected world we live in however, language and technology barriers continue to be a very serious constraint to effectively exchange and learning from the wide plethora of information now available to us. Land, for example, is a topic that is debated in many languages, across many different academic disciplines and in all parts of the world. Many attempts have been made in the past to find common definitions and terminologies for issues related to land, but a wide consensus or adoption has not quite yet been reached. Understandably so: one can only imagine the heated and controversial discussion to reach agreement on what we mean exactly when we use the word 'property' or 'tenure rights', for example. A new "land thesaurus" LandVoc, hopes to change that.
THE POTENTIAL OF THE SEMANTIC WEB
It is no secret that there is a wealth of data and information available on the web, with more being added each and every day in every part of the world. It has become impossible for humans to digest all of this information. For example, a simple Google search for 'surveying techniques' returns over 34 million records! Even a curious mind and thirst for knowledge simply will not be enough to sift through this amount of information.
Despite this plethora of information, it is sometimes said, ironically, that the answer to the world's problems lies in a PDF somewhere online. In essence, we have yet to reap the benefits of the mass of information being produced every day, because information is hidden and fragmented; not published in ways that would turn information into knowledge that could invoke change. Furthermore, much of the information out there, especially when it comes to land rights, remains highly compartmentalized. This often happens by theme, sector or geography and information often fails to move outside of these predetermined categories.
The semantic web aims to address this discrepancy. The goal of the 'semantic web' is to make information available online machine-readable. What does this mean in simple terms? As mentioned above, humans cannot absorb all data and information. This means that important knowledge will never reach its full potential or even, in the worst-case scenario, remain unused. Machines can help us read and digest this information at an unprecedented speed or scale. In order to effectively share knowledge and technologies across the globe and increase our collective efficiency - we should indeed embrace a tool like the semantic web.
Let's look at an example here. If a user asks for a specific set of information from a database, for the machine to be able to retrieve the relevant information, it is essential that the machine also understands what the topic is. If user A, who uploads content to this database, can fill in any word to describe the content uploaded, the machine then has no way of knowing the relationships between terms. A common issue is when a resource may be tagged with a synonym, for example. When user A has tagged a piece of content "favela" and user B is searching for "slums", there is no way for the machine to know that these are indeed closely related terms. Controlled vocabularies help to mend these gaps, and work with unique IDs for each concept, with the possibility of adding several labels to that ID: the preferred term, translations in an endless number of languages, relationships between terms (A is related toB, or X influences Y, etc.). This way the machine can understand the languages and the nuances we use in languages, and help retrieve the most relevant and to-the-point information to a user's search and information needs.
AGROVOC is one such controlled vocabulary, built by and for the agricultural sector. It is facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It covers "all areas of interest to the FAO, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc.".The AGROVOC thesaurus was first published in English, Spanish and French in the early 1980s. In 2000, AGROVOC went digital. It has evolved and grown over the years, with a vibrant and international community of editors behind it, contributing new concepts and new translations every month. Today, AGROVOC consists of over 36,000 concepts and over 750,000 terms (synonyms or translations to those concepts, etc.) related to agriculture and is translated to over 35 languages.
A controlled vocabulary such as AGROVOC, has helped no less than 10 million users a year in overcoming the language barriers which have been described. Through AGROVOC's technical infrastructure, computers can read concepts to understand that 'maize' as a concept is the same as 'Maïs' in French or 'ذرة صفراء' in Arabic. Translations, synonyms and relationships of this one concept are captured in one unique code, a 'Uniform Resource Identifier' (URI) that computers, including search engines, can read and understand.
International Research Organizations such as the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA),(link is external)the International Potato Center (CIP),(link is external)the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)(link is external), WorldFish(link is external), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)(link is external)and World Agroforestry (ICRAF)(link is external)use AGROVOC every day(link is external) in their data management processes in order to achieve greater discoverability of their results and support development actors and policy makers.(link is external)
With such an incredible tool and even more incredible user base as AGROVOC, one quickly starts thinking: what about land? If the AGROVOC tool covers all areas of interest to the FAO, surely land governance must be one of the topics they cover. When the Land Portal Foundation first discovered AGROVOC and engaged with the team, only 20 concepts related to land governance were included in the AGROVOC vocabulary.
It is with this in mind that, in 2012, the Land Portal Foundation did a scoping study of land information providers online and the way they classified their information. To put things simply we asked: what kind of tags are land information providers using? The main conclusion was that there was no standard vocabulary being used and no structured or uniform approach to publish information. We saw a range of sophistication in the way to classify the materials organizations were publishing, starting from no classification at all, to a standard set of keywords that could be used.
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The Land Portal Foundation responded to this gap, not by creating yet another new standard, but by taking a widely accepted and used standard such as AGROVOC and enriching the concepts related to land within this vocabulary. By building on existing land glossaries, such as the FAO's Land Tenure Thesaurus, or the Land Administration Domain Model or the Global Land Indicators Initiative, new concepts were added and translated to several languages. This particular set of land-governance related concepts in AGROVOC is now called "LandVoc - the linked land governance thesaurus".
"The Land Portal collaboration with AGROVOC is an excellent example of how to work with an expert community. It is a community of experts on land governance working with the AGROVOC Editorial Community. The LandVoc is a real success story: not only a living controlled vocabulary, but actively used in the Land Portal information platform. Working with LandVoc has been a learning process for the AGROVOC Team, and it has been an extraordinary opportunity to work with a high-level team," said Kristin Kolshus and Imma Subirats of the FAO AGROVOC team.
LandVoc is an extremely powerful tool in making data and information more discoverable. It connects knowledge and experiences from across the world, bridging both language and cultural barriers. LandVoc is intended to be an unbranded linking tool between the different classification and tagging systems information providers in the land sector use. "It is important to highlight that LandVoc does not attempt to be a glossary of universally accepted concepts related to land governance that will never change: language lives and evolves, therefore so should vocabularies and thesauri. While the Land Portal facilitates the enrichments technically, we do not 'own' LandVoc nor are we the ones that decide whether a concept is warranted or a definition is inaccurate or not. LandVoc is, in the end, an unbranded product by and for the land governance community." say Laura Meggiolaro and Lisette Mey of the Land Portal Foundation.
Land concepts are contained within the AGROVOC hierarchy, but there is also a separate scheme within AGROVOC, that only contains concepts related to land governance: "LandVoc". This LandVoc scheme has its own independent hierarchy from AGROVOC. This solution has allowed us to avoid duplication of efforts, while still making the thesauri relevant for specific expert communities. The AGROVOC team goes on to say that: "By introducing LandVoc as a specialized subvocabulary within AGROVOC, LandVoc benefits from AGROVOC infrastructure and the international network of editors. At the same time, LandVoc has enriched AGROVOC with a well-curated collection on land governance, and contributed their expertise in this key area. The Land Portal were pioneers in this regard. The recent addition of LandVoc content in Swahili was an exciting development."
Building on this experience, AGROVOC is now exploring these options for other expert communities as well, such as fisheries and soil."Within the dynamic and available internet resources and communication between experts internationally, there is a need for a common information system on land terminologies. The efforts made by The Land Portal Foundation in developing and maintaining the thesaurus of land governance "LandVoc" will be minimizing the difference between translation and localization of lands' related vocabularies" says Mira Haddad(link is external), Senior Research Assistant of Spatial Analyses and Database Management at ICARDA.
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UNFCCC interim meetings: another season without progress on finance?
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Springtime in Bonn, but another season passes without progress on finance?
It's UNFCCC interim meetings time in Bonn this week and next (May 8-18). High on the agenda is the next phase of creating the "rulebook" for implementing the Paris agreement. The stakes on this are discussed in a useful article by the WRI's Paula Caballero, reprinted with permission below. These introductory remarks address what agreeing the rulebook might mean for financing Paris.
Agreeing the rulebook without making any linkage to finance is a major missed opportunity.
What still seems to be missing, though, 18 months after Paris, is any linkage of all this to finance. I'm no expert on interpreting UN agendas, so I may have overlooked sessions called something else, but looking through the 10 days or so of meetings I saw only two that were overtly linked to money for NDCs. With many calling for COP23 to be the "COP of investment", that seems a gloomy indicator that yet another year is passing without the UNFCCC addressing the critical need to engage capital markets in the Paris process.
Because agreeing the rulebook without making that linkage is a major missed opportunity.
Cleaning up and standardising the NDCs creates a chance to develop what we have been calling a "standard categorisation"of climate actions (both adaptation and mitigation) that financiers could then use to understand aggregation opportunities. ("Aggregation" is the bundling of similar projects together to create more sizeable and therefore more viable financing opportunities). Standardisation is key to this – no financial market has ever progressed to scale without it, and nor will the climate finance market.
For example, a fund focussed on wind power will not just finance any old wind power. It will have a strategy for its investments that's focussed on particular project sizes and technologies and locations. This is because developing sector expertise is one of the things that is vital to the success of such investment vehicles (as we reported, for example, in our piece on the UK Green Investment Bank).
A standard categorisation of projects linked to the NDCs – and built for financiers not scientists or negotiators – would dramatically increase the ease of translating these NDCs into financeable investment pipelines, including across countries, as that would be a part of successful aggregation.
Such a categorisation would be relatively quick, cheap and straightforward to produce – the DFIs already have most of one for mitigation projects. But it would need to have some official recognition as the standard and that is where someone – UN, World Bank, wherever – needs to step forward.
Right now the expectation of such bodies appears to be that understanding of the investment opportunities latent in the NDCs by the international capital markets will occur by means of some miraculous virgin birth. It won't. If you want an international market for shoes, for example, you need to agree on shoe sizes. If you want an international market in NDCs, you need some commonly agreed way for those markets to analyse the projects in those those NDCs.
This linkage must become a part of the agenda at COP23.
Since this historic agreement is already in force, those tasked with implementing national climate action plans will urgently need to complete the rulebook by the end of 2018. Under the Paris Agreement, countries must progressively increase their commitments to climate action at a pace and scale that avoids irreversible tipping points. Incremental changes won't do it. We need deep, systemic transformation.
Current national climate commitments — known as Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs – will push global mean temperature to 2.6 to 3.7 degrees C (4.7 to 6.7 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels, far beyond the 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) or optimally 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) required to head off the worst effects of a changing climate. Without more ambitious goals, we will move into uncharted danger zones where scientific projections point to an increasingly uninhabitable planet.
Parties need to know that climate action efforts will be measured, communicated and counted in ways that create a level playing field and build trust to reinforce the sense of common purpose.
Geopolitically, the playing field today is even more complex. Sweeping political changes in the United States and elsewhere could make these negotiations more challenging. There is a risk that the collective political will to deliver a robust transparency and accountability framework may be weakened. However, we're clearly traveling in the right direction: for the last three years, global carbon emissions have stayed flat as the global economy has grown. This is called decoupling and it shatters the myth that tackling climate change is an impediment to economic growth.
On the contrary, what we are increasingly seeing is that it is precisely climate change that is already wreaking havoc with hard-won development gains. On the other hand, we are also seeing that the transition to a low-carbon economy generates new opportunities for profit and for jobs. One data point tells the story: the fastest growing U.S. job category in 2017 is wind-turbine service technician.
This is what negotiators need to know as they enter the Bonn conference center later this month. Progress on transparency, accountability and the global stocktake process will ensure that what we signed up to in Paris is delivered in ways that are fair, equitable efficient and effective.
We're headed the right way, but the question remains: how fast will we advance? The present and future wellbeing of our people depends on how we answer that question.
Paula Caballero is Global Director, Climate Program of the World Resources Institute. This post is peproduced with permission from eco-business.com.
Да сказать есть что. Я до сих пор не получил ответа от государства на тему заявки на финансирование. Вот несколько моментов которые не замечены. У вас говорится о проектах. И почему Человек должен, как вы говорите подбирать ботинки. Но ведь нельзя новейшую инновацию подобрать под выгоды другого проекта и подстраивать свои разработки под выгодный подход и лишь потому что у других, для масштаба не хватает сил. Да делают молодцы, но почему действительно большой проект и по теме и по масштабу рабочих функций, должен подбирать для себя только обязательное сравнение возможностей другого государства, которое не видит максимум производства. Это не решение климата, это попытки подбора минимум сложности и затрат и выдать за максимум. Это разрушение своих экономик. Нельзя строить глобализации только в одном направлении. Максимального рынка экономики не будет. Это позиция только для одного полушария на юге. А как же уничтожение свалок, и сохранение производств. И климат это и здоровье. Тем более занятости населения в одном направлении не будет. Вот и получается развитие безработицы с патриотизмом. Потому что где трудно, там Человек всегда один.
International market for shoes? There is and there are European, UK, and US sizing… aren't emission reductions the standardisation that you are needing? It exists!
Посмотрите, ведь главное сохранить основную школу производства и при этом полностью выдержать продукт. Но нельзя основное производство и продукт, перевести на подбор к видам адаптации другого предприятия. Тем более если то предприятие слабее и по масштабу и по производству. Пытаясь делать подбор такого рода, получиться автомобиль остаётся без основной функции движущей силы и без колёс. И тем более на прямую пытаться совместить два разных предприятия и ждать экономики.


My Steam&Sweep is not producing steam. What should I check?
*Please don't use vinegar or other cleansing solutions in your steam product. Demineralized or distilled water is recommended for optimal performance. Ambient tap water can also be used in your steam product.
Make sure the trigger has tension by checking it springs back when depressed. If the handle doesn't have tension, unplug the unit, remove the water filter and tank from the back of the machine, and remove and reinstall the handle.
Check the filter for cracks or damage. If it's cracked or pitted, order a new filter here.
Check the color of the filter grains. They should be green. If they're blue, order a new one.
Make sure the filter is seated correctly on the bottom of the machine. If the filter isn't lined up straight, remove and reinstall it.
Make sure the tank is full of ambient tap, distilled, or demineralized water.
Plug the machine in and make sure the blue 'Ready Light' is illuminated on the front of the machine. If the light doesn't illuminate after a few minutes, unplug the machine and try a different outlet. If that doesn't work, call BISSELL Consumer Care (see below).
Check for steam by removing the Water Tank and filter from the machine and pouring a small amount of water in the receiver area for the male connector on the filter. With the trigger depressed for two minutes, check if water dissipates and the machine starts to steam.
If the machine doesn't steam, remove the mop foot and press the trigger to check for steam at the base of the machine.
If it doesn't steam with the mop foot removed, clean the spray tip area by inserting a paper clip into the hole. If that doesn't work, call Consumer Care.
If the machine does steam with the mop head removed, the mop foot could be clogged. Pour white vinegar through the hole of the mop foot to clean it out.
*Don't run vinegar or any other cleaning supplies through the machine via the Water Tank.
Re-assemble the mop foot. Attach the filter and Water Tank and depress the trigger to check for steam. You may hear a soft knocking sound which is normal as the machine tries to pull water through the pump and filter. It should stop after a few minutes.
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Heinrich Kaminski ( - ) est un compositeur allemand.

Biographie
Kaminski est né à Tiengen dans la Forêt-Noire, fils d'un prêtre de l'Église vieille-catholique et d'ascendance juive. Après avoir travaillé pendant une courte période dans une banque à Offenbach-sur-le-Main, il est allé en 1906 à Heidelberg pour étudier le droit. Mais il s'intéresse de plus en plus à la musique. Ayant assisté à deux conférences de Philipp Wolfrum sur l'harmonie et également pris des leçons de piano avec Johanna Elspermann, c'est à partir de 1907 que, délaissant définitivement le droit et l'économie, il n'étudie plus exclusivement que la théorie musicale et la musique d'église protestante avec Philipp Wolfrum.
Heureusement, il a eu la chance de rencontrer Martha Warburg qui a changé son destin : elle a reconnu son don musical. En 1909, il va à Berlin et entreprend des études de musique au Conservatoire Stern, et apprend le piano avec Severin Eisenberger.

En 1914, il commence à enseigner le piano à Benediktbeuern. Parmi ses amis du moment, on trouve le peintre Emil Nolde et Franz Marc, dont l'épouse était une de ses élèves pour le piano.

Durant la Première Guerre mondiale, Kaminski a été chef de chœur et a enseigné la composition. Par la suite, il a été nommé professeur à la Académie prussienne des arts de Berlin, où il est devenu directeur de la classe de composition (et prendre la suite de Hans Pfitzner). Ses élèves les plus connus sont Carl Orff, Heinz Schubert et Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling.

Son contrat se terminait en 1933 et n'a pas été renouvelé à cause de ses "opinions politiques" et il est retourné à Benediktbeuern. Plusieurs tentatives pour retrouver son poste ont échoué pour la même raison. Une vérification de son ascendance - il a été catalogué en 1938 comme "demi-juif", et en 1941 déclaré  "quart de juif" - a conduit à une interdiction permanente de l'exécution de ses œuvres. Il a été amené à fuir en France puis en Suisse entre autres lieux.

Entre 1939 et 1945, il a perdu trois enfants, et est décédé en 1946 à Ried (Bavière).

Œuvres
Ses œuvres comprennent des chorals, concertos, chants, sonates choral, motets et autres œuvres chorales, ainsi que des opéras.

Opéras
Jürg Jenatsch,  ("Le Jeu du Roi Aphelius") opéra en 3 actes (1927, UA Dresden 1929)
Das Spiel vom König Aphelius, opéra en 5 scènes, un prélude et un épilogue (1946, UA Göttingen 1950)

Musique chorale
Psaume 130, motet pour chœur mixte a cappella (1912)
Psaume 69 pour ténor, chœur d'enfants, chœur mixte et orchestre (1914, révisé en 1930)
6 Choräle für chœur mixte a cappella (1915)
O Herre Gott, motet pour chœur mixte et orgue ad libitum (1918, révisé en 1936)
Introitus et Hymnus pour soprano, alto, baryton, violon, alto, violoncelle, petit chœur mixte et orchestre (1920)
Musik zur Passion pour chœur mixte a cappella (1920)
3 Gedichte von Joseph von Eichendorff pour chœur d'hommes et instruments (1924)
Magnificat pour soprano, alto, petit chœur et orchestre (1925)
Der Mensch, motet d'après Matthias Claudius pour alto et chœur mixte a cappella (1926)
Der Mensch, prologue pour récitant, chœur mixte et orchestre (1926)
Die Erde, motet d'après Zarathustra pour chœur mixte a cappella (1929)
Die Messe deutsch pour chœur mixte a cappella (1934, inachevée)

Lieder
3 Cantiques Bretons pour voix et clavier (1923)
3 geistliche Lieder pour voix, violon et clarinette (1923)
Triptychon pour alto ou baryton et orgue (1930)

Orchestre
Concerto grosso (1923)
Werk pour orchestre à cordes (Arrangement du quintette à cordes par Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, 1927)
Dorische Musik (1934)
Orchestrekonzert avec clavier (1936)
In Memoriam Gabrielae avec violon et Alto-Solo (1940)
Tanzdrama (1942)

Musique de chambre
Quatuor en la-mineur pour clavier, clarinette, alto et violoncelle op. 1b (1912)
Quatuor fa-majeur (1913)
Quintette à cordes fa dièse-mineur (1916)
Canzona pour violon et orgue (1916)
Quintette pour clarinette, cor, violon, alto et violoncelle (1925)
Präludium und Fuge pour violon et orgue (1929)
Musik pour 2 violons et clavecin (1930)
Canon pour violon et orgue (1931)
Präludium und Fuge pour alto (1932)
Klavierbuch in 3 Teilen (1935)
Musik pour violoncelle et clavier (1935)
Hauskonzert pour violon et clavier (1940)
Ballade pour cor et clavier (1941)

Orgue
Toccata über den Choral "Wie schön leucht uns der Morgenstern" (1923)
Choralsonate (1925)
3 Choralvorspiele (1930)
Toccata und Fuge ut-majeur (1939)
Andante mi bémol-mineur (1939)

Liens externes

Professeur de composition
Compositeur allemand de musique classique de la période moderne
Compositeur allemand de symphonie
Chef de chœur
Naissance en juillet 1886
Naissance à Waldshut-Tiengen
Naissance dans le grand-duché de Bade
Décès en juin 1946
Décès à Kochel am See
Décès à 59 ans

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By margreet riphagen, June 4, 2014 at 1:10 pm .
The Masters of Media are at the New Network Theory Conference – organized by Network Cultures, ASCA and the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam (that's us!).
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Antonio Segni, né le  à Sassari et mort le  à Rome, est un juriste, universitaire et homme d'État italien du , président de la République de 1962 à 1964.

Membre de la Démocratie chrétienne, il a été ministre au sein de nombreux gouvernements et, par deux fois, président du Conseil des ministres de 1955 à 1957 et de 1959 à 1960.

Élu président de la République italienne à l'issue d'un scrutin laborieux en 1962, il est néanmoins contraint de démissionner après un accident vasculaire cérébral en 1964 ; il est, à ce jour, le président italien ayant eu le mandat le plus court depuis l'instauration de la République en 1946. Après sa démission, il devient sénateur à vie de 1964 à sa mort, en 1972.

Sa présidence, bien que courte, est un épisode controversé de l'histoire italienne : réputé pour sa grande méfiance à l'égard des communistes, dont il craignait qu'ils accèdent un jour au pouvoir, Antonio Segni, alors président de la République, aurait favorisé l'élaboration du « plan Solo », dont la mise en œuvre aurait été soutenue par le chef de l'État si celui-ci devait se trouver contraint de nommer un gouvernement communiste.

Biographie

Issu d'une famille de l'ancienne noblesse originaire de Gênes, Antonio Segni exerça le métier d'avocat et de professeur de procédure civile à l'université. Il enseigna à Sassari (où il eut pour disciple, puis pour assistant, Salvatore Satta), Cagliari, Pavie, Pérouse et finalement à Rome. En 1919 il adhère au Parti populaire de Luigi Sturzo. En retrait pendant le fascisme, il est l'un des fondateurs de la Démocratie chrétienne en 1943. Élu député en 1946, et constamment réélu jusqu'à son accession à la présidence de la République en 1962, il est le chef de file de l'aile modérée de son parti. De 1944 à 1946 il est sous-secrétaire à l'agriculture. De 1946 à 1962 il est à plusieurs reprises ministre de l'Agriculture, de l'Éducation, de la Défense et des Affaires étrangères.

En tant que ministre de l'Agriculture, il est l'auteur d'une réforme radicale avec la loi Sila (12 mai 1950) ciblant les terres pauvres calabraises, et la loi-règlement ou «stralcio» du 21 octobre 1950 permettant l'expropriation partielle des grands et moyens domaines au profit des paysans pauvres dans certaines zones.

Président du Conseil du  au  et du  au . Il est l'un des signataires du Traité de Rome instituant la Communauté économique européenne le . En 1964, il est lauréat du Prix International Charlemagne.

Antonio Segni accède au poste de président de la République italienne le . Méfiant envers les communistes et la police, il demande l'élaboration d'un plan de lutte anti-subversion aux carabiniers, le plan Solo. Atteint par un accident cérébral foudroyant le , il reste paralysé et démissionne le . Pendant sa maladie, les fonctions de Président de la République sont exercées par le président du Sénat Cesare Merzagora. Après sa démission il se retire de la vie publique.

Son fils Mario Segni est lui aussi un homme politique italien.

Mandats

 Ministre de l'Agriculture de 1946 à 1951
 Ministre de l'Éducation de 1951 à 1953
 Ministre de l'Éducation de 1953 à 1954
 President du Conseil des ministres de 1955 à 1957
 Ministre de la Défense de 1958 à 1959
 Président du Conseil des ministres de 1959 à 1960
 Ministre de l'Intérieur de 1959 à 1960
 Ministre des Affaires étrangères de 1960 à 1962
 Président de la République de 1962 à 1964
 Sénateur à vie de 1964 à 1972

Notes et références

Sources

Bibliographie

Liens externes

  Biographie d'Antonio Segni sur le site officiel de la Présidence de la République italienne

Naissance en février 1891
Naissance à Sassari
Décès en décembre 1972
Décès à 81 ans
Personnalité politique liée à la Sardaigne
Personnalité italienne du XXe siècle
Universitaire italien
Juriste italien
Avocat italien du XXe siècle
Personnalité politique italienne
Ministre de l'Agriculture et des Forêts de la République italienne
Ministre de l'Instruction publique de la République italienne
Ministre de la Défense de la République italienne
Ministre de l'Intérieur de la République italienne
Ministre des Affaires étrangères de la République italienne
Président du Conseil italien
Candidat à une élection présidentielle en Italie
Président de la République italienne
Personnalité de la Démocratie chrétienne (Italie)
Prix Charlemagne
Député de l'Assemblée constituante de la République italienne
Député de la première législature de la République italienne
Député de la deuxième législature de la République italienne
Député de la troisième législature de la République italienne
Sénateur de la quatrième législature de la République italienne
Sénateur de la cinquième législature de la République italienne
Sénateur de la sixième législature de la République italienne
Sénateur à vie italien
Décès à Rome


They got the chaos part right. It was not a total rout, but a lost majority, a hung Parliament and a rush of frantic deal-making. Nine seats short of what she needs, May now believes she can lead a minority government propped up by Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party. How – if at all – the coalition will work is as yet unclear, as is May's future and the future of Brexit.
She dodged debate, opening herself to accusations that she was afraid of confronting Corbyn. Her retort: at least she "had the balls" to call the vote – in hindsight a colossal error. British media had a field day looping clips of her fallback "strong and stable leadership" mantra, in a campaign they dubbed "weak and wobbly." Astonishingly, she's still sticking to the "stability" line.
It's a perfect storm for Britain. Instead of solidifying May's authority, the election threw her leadership into question and weakened her Brexit negotiating position. Corbyn, who has expressed admiration for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, isn't going anywhere. He is a force to be reckoned with – who conceivably could form a government if this one falls. Once again the Liberal Democrats – the only anti-Brexit party and the one The Economist endorsed as the best hope for the future of liberal and free market values – struggled to translate support into seats. That former leader Nick Clegg lost his to a political novice shocked even the winner.
At the Munk School, we've long been watching developments in Britain closely and sharing our analysis of the global fallout. In September, we'll welcome renowned commentator Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford University to share his views on a post-Brexit Britain.
Canada has a long and close relationship with the U.K., along with some outstanding real estate in London. We should abandon neither. But with Britain doing everything it can to diminish itself – and with President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirming their commitment to the European Union – it is time for Canada to invest heavily in maintaining our ties with France and building a closer relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany. I find it's not very well known here that Merkel holds Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in high regard, and Germans are generally sympathetic toward Canadians and Canada. We should take full advantage of this goodwill.