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Are you thinking about a scientific, technical or engineering-based career but not sure what it would be like? Whether to apply for University, find an Apprenticeship or go straight from school to work?
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We'd like to share our passion for innovation with you!
Our science and technology work experience scheme offers students from Year 12 the opportunity to spend time at our health care products manufacturing and research and development site at Loughborough, Leicestershire.
A total of 10 places are available, five each week.
We've put an exciting mix of observation and hands-on activities together, giving you the chance to learn from our employees at work in many different scientific, technical and engineering disciplines. You'll experience the complex and regulated environment of a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility and how this is supported by our engineering, laboratory and regulatory functions. You'll also get to meet our apprentices and learn about different career paths within the company.
Open to Year 12 students at school/college in Leicestershire, you'll be studying for a minimum of two 'A' levels (or equivalent) in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, Computer Science, Engineering or similar.
You'll also need to be able to get to and from our site at Derby Road, Loughborough for a 9.00am start and 4.30pm finish.
Complete the attached application form and return it by 1 June 2018 to Grace Ladkin, Leicestershire Education Business Company, 30 Frog Island, Off North Bridge Place, Leicester, LE3 5AG.
Please ensure the form is countersigned by your school form tutor/careers adviser and your parent/guardian.
Places will be offered based on the information provided on the application form.


Within the last three years, Detroit's approved mortgage rates have doubled thanks in a large part to the efforts of Detroit Home Mortgage (DHM), which is helping to make homes affordable by eliminating the appraisal gap.
In 2017, CRF established an internal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee to increase intercultural competence and better serve the many diverse communities we work with across the United States.
National nonprofit Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (CRF), is working to create big impact through community development lending.
Jennifer Ericson Wins Coleman's Mission-Based SBA Lender of the Year!
Congratulations to Community Reinvestment Fund, USA's (CRF) Jennifer Ericson for being named 2018's Coleman Mission-Based SBA Lender of the Year!
Congratulations, Krysta! This honor is well-deserved and we are proud to have you on the CRF team.
The new CRF website, which was last updated in 2013, reflects the organization's new strategic plan and emphasizes how access to capital, catalyzed finance ecosystems, and policy and advocacy work together to empower communities and change lives. We are dramatically scaling our work and transforming the community development finance system to better serve underinvested communities across the nation.
In the mid-1980s, Frank Altman and Warren Hanson had a revolutionary idea: create a secondary market for community development loans, which would help other community development organizations weather the uncertain funding atmosphere of the time.


Following on from Toby Mitchell's The Weekender - BATH, we look into what makes the Georgian city an architectural wonder.
To disregard the City of Bath's regency styling as a true masterpiece of England's architectural history is, quintessentially, compromising the significance of the cities contribution concerning the progression of culture, lifestyle and industrious activity, between the 18th and 19th century. While we may readily accept Jane Austen's adoration towards her residence, both in reality and in her fictitious work, how can a site notorious for its preservation of history remain so successful in a world almost 'too' ready for change? On visiting this historic city, the grandeur of its Georgian property somewhat overwhelms the senses. The Bath stone monoliths monopolise the relatively compact and quaint city. However, these are comparatively, some of the most recent instalments to the landscape as R.A.L. Smith recognises in his study and reflection on the spa town. "Bath has known every age in our island story. The Romans set foot here…[and] the Saxons…Bath became the ecclesiastical centre of the medieval world", yet somehow the visionary Georgian town has survived to this day. So much so, that the city achieved UNESCO World Heritage status, in 1987, putting it within the same company as The Great Wall of China, the historic centre of Rome and the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. While the honour of such a title evokes the significance and importance of the city, with the title also comes a multitude of restrictions. Planning laws and UNESCO guidelines impose great limitations as to how the city can develop today. On the one hand, the protective measures ensure that we can enjoy the city as a treasure house of British architectural antiquity, on the other, it allows us to consider how the city, and also the nations past, has created an attitude toward what is retrospectively, no more than a mere habitable town in the south west of England.
To suppose that much of the contemporary city we find today is the "redevelopment" of 18th Century design compels two predominant questions. What does the imposition of UNESCO status oblige upon the city to protect this design? And what protection does England and Wales impose upon the city? UNESCO World Heritage procures its methods of protection and rules via the 1972 World Heritage Convention. Article 4 and Article 5 of the convention impose the duty to protect the designated sites. While the convention aims to protect the physicality of the site, section (a) of Article 5 also denotes the retention and maintaining of functionality at the site; a disposition most prominent in the working and still very much inhabited city. The identification of the past and its physical and functional elements is important when considering the protecting legal sanctions that we impose today. Not only can the past dictate how we have arrived at certain stance in law, but also carry with it a sense of how we have attained certain values for protection and why it is necessary to preserve our cultural heritage. Interestingly, article 15 asserts the implication of a trust fund that each member state must contribute a donation that can be used to preserve, conserve and protect the UNESCO sites. The trust is a legal system that has developed from 8th century feudal system origins and it is somewhat charming to suggest that a historic form of property protection is used to care for historic sites such as Bath today. This is largely due to a flexibility it bestows in regards to its relationship with equity. Protecting the city becomes just as much a just and fair 'right' today to preserve social an cultural history, as a legal duty.
We take inspiration from our past, our present our potential future and our physical surroundings. The colossal architectural antiquity in Bath has led us to consider the necessary requirements to preserve and protect an age of austerity, social luxury and idealised, upper class, societal living. While the fundamental ideological stance may be somewhat drastically different, than in 18th and 19th century England, anticipating the importance and functionality of the city allows modern day Bath to engorge itself in preserved cultural heritage. We idolise what we can learn from the grandiose lifestyle depicted by "the fine analytical skills of Jane Austen" and gain elation that we may enact a moment of history with our fleeting visit to the city.
Why not check out Toby Mitchell's book, 'The Weekender – BATH' and take inspiration to go see the city yourself.
 J Austen, Northanger Abbey (Standard Novels, London 1848) 84.


News from the world of Social Networking that Seesmic have just bought out Ping.fm. Both enable easy posting to social networking sites so the amalgamation of the two could create an important social networking hub letting you cross closed sites with ease – message someone on Facebook via g-chat for example, or post on someone's MySpace wall by email.
Ping.fm lets its users use post to 50 social networks (including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ning, WordPress, TypePad) by using the the simple tools of email, text message or chat. Ping.fm is a simple way of controlling a whole host of more complex sites. It is compatible with every single Internet device in the world, which is why it has become so successful among thousands of users.
Makes applications for web, desktop, and mobile. For example it has a computer app for Twitter and Facebook updates.
What could Ping and Seesmic do together?
You can now update those 50 social networks through Seesmic's apps. That would bring that capacity onto mobile phone platforms too: Blackberry, Android, Windows and soon others, as well as the traditional Ping inputs of email, chat and text message.
Should goes some way to making the jungle of walled-off social networks a little easier to manage, making Seesmic+Ping.fm the key service for updating social networks.
CES 2010: 37" bar speakers from iLive – longest iPod speakers ever?
Social bookmarking submission has developed into a powerful tool for SEO experts. It involves linking sites within the various forums, blogs and message boards on social networking websites, blog sites and content centric sites like Digg.
Its sounds great that our friends are not all in one social network, but they want to help them stay in touch with us anytime and from any device.


Commission your own museum quality hand painted reproduction of "A part of Jallais, Pontoise" on a high quality cotton-linen canvas, originally by artist Camille Pissarro. This artwork will be painted by an experienced artist.
When I received the photograph of the painting, as stated in the e-mail from Cory the picture did appear much lighter than I had imagined, but quite rightly this was due to the flash of the camera. This photograph did not do the painting any justice at all.
I am so impressed with this piece, it is just perfect. I have recommended OceansBridge to all of my friends.


A durability test of the 2018 iPad Pro reveals that the redesigned tablet can be bent with surprisingly little force. The test was posted by YouTuber JerryRigEverything.
Apple says their New iPad Pro is a magical piece of glass that does everything you need, any way you hold it. (As long as you are gentle of course.) Today we are going to find out how durable Apples new piece of glass really is. How good is the drawing on the iPad? We'll be testing that out with Art Class With Jerry. (Which side did Apple want us to draw on again? I forget...) And finally we will finish off with the New iPad Pro Bend test, this will tell us realistically how much force the iPad Pro can withstand while it is in your backpack or book bag, or while being accidentally sat on.
The video also notes that the sapphire crystal camera lens cover does not perform at expected levels, scratching at the same level 6 as glass.
Take a look at the bend test below and let us know what you think in the comments!
Here's an idea. Don't try to fold it to fit it in your pocket. Problem solved. Cus if you're doing anything else that's causing it to bend, you're just a careless clumsy moron that should probably just not own one.
Look here! I'm an Apple guy, I have no windows or androids devices. But if this new iPad Pro is the quality dished out for 1000 dollars, no thanks, I'll keep my old iPad Pro. Don't they test this kind of thing for strength?? Where's the sapphire for the camera???
Apple's 2018 quality: tough as cardboard.
Told you guy that making it "slimmer", which apple loves to do was a big phucking mistake. I'm glad #bendgate is back. Inch of idiots at apple.
EverythingApplePro also did this test with the same results, even while they might be biased for Apple's products. Apple should've gone the way they did with the iPhone XR - super solid frame and glass panels, thicker than usual - damn tough to break.


Rourkela: As many as 25 officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are conducting simultaneous raids on the residence and office of Rajiv Ranjan, the Deputy General Manager of Rourkela Steel Plant's New Plate Mill, in connection with alleged irregularities in tender process, sources said.
According to reports, the CBI sleuths are carrying out simultaneous raids at six locations including the office of Ranjan.
Sources informed that the raids are linked to the arrest of the then Executive Director (ED) (Works) of the steel plant, Prasad Verma in 2017.
This apart, the central probe agency has also raided the office and residence of noted businessman and managing director of Reliable Hi-Tech Infrastructure Pvt Ltd (RHIPL) Surendra Dua.
The officials have been accused of extending undue favour to RHIPL to get contracts and release tenders.
Verma was arrested in January 2017 after the CBI caught him red handed while accepting bribe of Rs 2 lakh. During a raid, the CBI had also seized Rs 20 lakh from his residence.


CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - With Republicans having a 2-to-1 advantage in the number of registered voters in Franklin County, the real horse race in Tuesday's Board of County Commissioners race was who would be the Democratic member of the board when it is sworn-in in January.
With all 74 precincts reporting as of 11 p.m., Bob Ziobrowski defeated fellow Democrat Cheryl Stearn, 8,491 to 6,563, in his bid for a four-year term on the board, according to complete and unofficial results from the Franklin County Election Board.
"I have to learn the ropes," said Ziobrowski. "I don't come in with an agenda. I just want to learn to be competent and then focus on my vision for the future."
Republican incumbent Bob Thomas led all vote-getters with 12,759 votes, followed by Republican David S. Keller with 11,189 votes.
Thomas, 52, of Chambersburg, was the lone incumbent in the race as Commissioners G. Warren Elliott, a Republican, and Democrat Cheryl Plummer chose not to run for re-election.
"There were a lot of good ideas that came up during the campaign, which is really the beauty of our political system" Thomas said.
Those issues include greater cooperation between the county and municipalities, encouraging volunteerism in the fire and rescue services and farmland preservation.
"I have no doubt we will work very well together," Thomas said of Keller and Ziobrowski.
Keller, 38, of Chambersburg, who recently earned his law degree and passed the Pennsylvania Bar exam, had worked as a computer network consultant at Sunrise Computers, the business owned by Stearn and her husband, Frank. He had previously run for office in an unsuccessful attempt at the GOP nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives against U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-9th, a few years ago.
"My priority will be to work with the other commissioners on farmland preservation, economic development and reducing drug and alcohol abuse," Keller said. "I'm very grateful to the people of Franklin County, my friends and supporters who made this possible."
Thomas had finished first among the seven Republican candidates in the May 15 primary, with Keller edging out the third-place candidate, Carl W. Helman, by about 300 votes.
A former president of the Chambersburg School Board, the 56-year-old Ziobrowski is an appraiser and chairman of the Chambersburg Hospital Board of Directors.
Stearn, 61, is a resident of St. Thomas Township, where her husband serves as a supervisor, and is also on the Chambersburg Hospital Board of Directors. In recent years, she had been politically active in the township, first as an opponent of a quarry project and then as an unsuccessful candidate to serve on a commission to draft a home rule charter for the township.
The ballot question to form the home rule commission was soundly defeated in the township.
Stearn had emerged atop the field of five Democratic candidates seeking the two nominations in the May 15 primary, finishing first or second in many of the county's 74 precincts with Ziobrowski picking up the second nomination.
Commissioners were paid $63,458.37 this year, according to county records.


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In an era when Occupy Wall Street protestors are beaten and arrested like hardened criminals, more than 40 years ago in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there was another organized protest movement that captured the nation's attention as it spread from New Hampshire's Clamshell Alliance to the Abalone Alliance in southern California. In the mid-to-late 1970s, massive civil disobedience and notably peaceful arrest of protestors were taking place from the tidewater of Virginia to the farmlands of Oklahoma against the construction and operation of commercial nuclear power reactors.
What is less well-known is that at the root of the controversy, prior to public demonstrations of opposition, were a handful of exceptional women, mostly "housewives" whose thankless work done at their dining room tables provided those demonstrators and an uninformed country with the true realities of the "peaceful" atom.
As each became a legal "intervener" against utility applications during the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's unwieldy licensing process, NRC bureaucrats quickly discovered, each was a feisty woman with a built-in B.S. detector and an ability to recognize a dog-and-pony show when they saw one. With not a shrinking violet among them, none were intimidated by a deliberately complicated NRC process meant to deter public access nor did they succumb to coercion by high-paid snooty corporate lawyers.
All educated, the intervening women interpreted lengthy, complex interrogatories from utility attorneys as they discovered an ingrained NRC resistance and a special vernacular that hid the reality of "abnormal events" that translated into recurring safety problems as "isolated incidents," "generic safety issues" and "lacking specificity" became common denominators for bureaucratic camouflage. Exhibiting innate leadership qualities, each funded their own interventions at great personal expense -- both monetarily and emotionally, each understood their role to educate the public and media to the immediate and long-term health and safety hazards of nuclear reactor operations.
After the first nuclear chain reactor split the atom in 1942, it was only a matter of time before a profit-motivated industry would be created around an extremely complex, dangerous and expensive way to boil water with the added benefit of U.S. taxpayer subsidies. Established by Congress in 1974, the NRC's licensing process required a legal petition to intervene identifying an "interest" that may be affected and at least one "admissible" contention which the individual seeks to litigate. Once granted "standing," the petitioner becomes an "intervener" as a legal party to the proceedings.
* Irene Dickinson, who was in her 70s when she organized the Citizens Committee for Protection of the Environment in 1966, quickly became the heart-center of the intervening women's network with a reputation for an expertise in all aspects of an intervention including anticipation of NRC and nuclear industry tactics. With the energy of a teenager, Irene opposed Consolidated Edison's plans at Indian Point, 34 miles north of New York City.
Under the pressure of reams of NRC inspection reports and depositions to be answered, Irene became a savvy, proficient intervener and persistent questioner as she introduced a multitude of public officials to the hazards of nuclear pollution, radioactive spent fuel, seismic faults, inadequate evacuation plans and "abnormal occurrences." By 1979, her voluminous files containing more than 6,000 pieces, all alphabetized and catalogued into 22 boxes, were turned over to Columbia University.
Thanks to her efforts so many years ago, former Governor Mario Cuomo, then-Senator Hillary Clinton and current Governor Andrew Cuomo have all called for shutdown of the Indian Point plant.
* In 1973, Carrie Barefoot Dickerson was a grandmother of five when she became aware of plans to build two GE nuclear reactors near her farm in northeast Oklahoma, setting for the musical Oklahoma and near Will Rogers' childhood home. In response, a former school teacher and author of "Aunt Carrie's War Against Black Fox," Dickerson formed the Citizen's Action for Safe Energy. As a registered nurse, Dickerson questioned the health effects of cumulative nuclear exposure from the daily release of radioactive emissions during routine operations.
In 1982, after an arduous nine-year battle, her retirement savings depleted and her farm mortgaged, Black Fox became the first nuclear reactor to be canceled due to combined legal and citizen action. Until her death in 2006 at 89 years old, Carrie Barefoot Dickerson continued to actively promote safe, renewable energy sources.
* In 1967, when Midland, Michigan resident Mary Sinclair's letter to the editor questioning the safety of a proposed nuclear reactor along Lake Michigan stirred considerable heat, she knew she had a tiger by the tail. A former technical writer for the Atomic Energy Commission, Sinclair intervened and when the sinking and cracking of buildings designed to contain the plant's twin reactors was discovered, Dow Chemical pulled out of the project. By 1984, Consumers Power backed out of its contract after spending $4 billion with construction 85 percent complete and by 1987, the Midland nuclear project was converted into a natural-gas fueled power plant.
During her years as an intervener, Sinclair endured community ire when the family car's brake lines were cut, their mail box bombed, her husband's business boycotted, life-threatening letters received, and being spat upon while grocery shopping. In commenting on Sinclair's role in cancellation of the Midland reactor, a spokesman for Consumers Power said, "I want to blame her but I don't want to give her any credit."
In 1994, Mary Sinclair earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Communications at 75 years of age and continued to question the storage of spent fuel at reactor sites 300 yards from the shore of Lake Michigan until her death in early 2011.
* As the Atomic Energy Commission's (forerunner of the NRC) began public hearings on Vermont Yankee Power Company application to construct a nuclear reactor along the Connecticut River, Esther Poneck organized the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution to intervene against construction in 1971.
Descendant of a Quaker family that (almost) dates back to the country's founding and owner of a 500-acre farm 20 miles north of the proposed reactor, Poneck, a psychologist and member of the first graduating class of the New Jersey College for Women in 1918, was joined by her equally-formidable daughter Diana Sidbotham, a Vassar College graduate and classical singer. Poneck, known as a Grand New England Lady, continued to oppose nuclear projects throughout New England until her death in 1991 at 91 years of age.
* Dr. Judy Johnsrud established the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power in 1970 when she became the original intervener against Three Mile Island construction in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Johnsrud participated in interventions against the Limerick nuclear power plant and the proposed Peach Bottom reactor both in close proximity to high population areas. With a Ph.D. in geography and a brilliant analytical mind, Johnsrud analyzed the features of each site and today, the Limerick plant is considered to be the third highest earthquake risk in the United States.
A longtime citizen activist who criss-crossed the country speaking to safe energy groups and testifying before the NRC and State regulatory commissions, Judy was considered an expert on all aspects of nuclear power and remained active until health considerations forced her recent retirement at 80 years of age.
* With a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, Kay Drey made her first speech against nuclear power in 1974 before a Missouri State Senate Committee. In 1976, Drey organized the Citizens for Reformed Electric Rates which sponsored a successful ballot initiative against a rate increase to finance construction of the Calloway Nuclear power plant. The initiative passed with 65 percent of the vote.
Drey participated in the intervention against the Calloway reactor, participated in the cancellation of the Marble Hill nuclear plant in Indiana and provided expert testimony against the Dresden reactor in Joliet, Illinois. Kay continues a 25-year effort to clean up nuclear waste from the uranium purification sites located in downtown St. Louis.
* A music and English Literature major at the University of Vermont, June Allen organized the North Anna Environment Coalition in Virginia when she learned from a local geologist that the proposed nuclear reactors at North Anna, 86 miles south of Washington, D.C., sat astride an existing geologic fault.
A soft-spoken classical pianist who wore pearls, Allen developed her investigative talents as she became an eloquent, hard-nosed intervener in 1972 pointing out what she saw as collusion between the NRC and Virginia Electric Power Company. Allen testified before Congress in 1974 identifying the "nuclear-industrial complex" as an inherently unsafe technology and frequently attended VEPCO stockholder meetings. According to Allen's husband, on an occasion when spied in the audience, VEPCO's Chairman stopped the meeting, extended an arm, pointed a finger directly at June and announced with great indignation, "There is Mrs. Allen."
After the reactors at North Anna began operation, June continued to expose the health effects of radiation as she succumbed to breast cancer in 2010 which she believed to be caused by radiation exposure.
* A graduate of the University of North Carolina and on Walter Cronkite's staff at CBS in New York City, Faith Young organized the Concerned Citizens of Dixon Springs when she learned of the Tennessee Valley Authority's plan to build the world's largest nuclear complex one mile from Young's 150 acre beef cattle ranch. Four GE reactors were to be built at Hartsville, 50 miles northeast of Nashville along the Cumberland River amidst a historic rural farming community with antebellum homes that date back to 1787.
One-half of a southern belle duo, Steel Magnolia #1 became an intervener in 1975 and, as a result of President Carter's review of TVA's plans, all reactors at Hartsville were cancelled by 1984 as too expensive and unnecessary with a $2.5 billion "white elephant" cooling tower still visible from Young's farm.
In 1985, Young was arrested while speaking at a TVA meeting on the Watts Bar reactor and held in Knoxville County Jail until the hearing concluded at the end of the day. The next morning's Nashville Tennessean headline read "TVA Arrests Two Grandmothers."
* Steel Magnolia #2, Jeanine Honicker, who was arrested with Young in 1985, filed a 92-page petition with the NRC in 1978 to shut down the entire nuclear industry based on excessive radon emissions from the milling and mining of uranium. The petition was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1982.
A leukemia diagnosis for Honicker's 19-year-old daughter as she read Dr. John Gofman's "Poisoned Power" was enough to motivate the Nashville native to become an anti-nuclear activist. Today, still active with safe energy groups, Honicker recalls that her daughter's illness was "too high a price to pay for electricity."
By 1978, due, in part, to widespread public opposition, no new applications for nukes were forthcoming until 2011. Touted today as a "'clean' non-polluting energy," nuclear reactors are known to release radioactive gases and liquids during routine daily operations. In their determination to publicize its hazards, the intervening women were pioneers alerting the American public to the scientific consensus that all radiation exposure is cumulative and damages cellular DNA.
With five of the intervening women gone, they remain all-American visionaries, every one a heroine almost half a century later. In the aftermath of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima, the result of their persistent efforts, their diligent research and analysis on behalf of a safe energy planet for all the world's children, lives on.


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Карл Карлссон Гюлленхельм (;  — ) — шведський воєначальник і державний діяч, фельдмаршал, барон.

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Карл народився поза шлюбом герцога Карла (згодом короля Карла IX) і Карін Нільсдоттер, дочки священника з Естерйотланда. Здобував освіту за кордоном, також йому вдалось побувати у французькому дворі, згодом повернувся до Швеції.

Брав участь в польсько-шведській війні. У 1601 році при облозі Вольмара потрапив в полон. Після того, як він намагався втекти, він був змушений носити праски для ніг протягом останніх шести з половиною років свого полону. Всього йому довелося бути в полоні 12 років, до 1613 року. Провів час у неволі, пишучи та перекладаючи книги. У 1616 році призначений фельдмаршалом, в 1617 — членом ріксрода. У 1617—1620 роках — генерал-губернатором Ингерманландии і Приозерського лена, з 1620 року — ріксадмірал.
У вересні 1628 року він обіймав посаду голови трибуналу, який був скликаний для розслідування втрати нового військового корабля «Ваза». Після смерті Густава Адольфа в 1632 році Гілленхіелм відповідав за повернення тіла свого брата у Швецію. У 1633—1634 — член регентської ради під час малолітства королеви Христини.

У 1615 році отримав у придане село Huseby, де організував виробництво заліза, яке лишилось центром шведської промисловості протягом трьох століть. 1629 році він також побудував школу на власні кошти, що вважається першою шведською початковою школою за межами міста, ця школа діяла до 1987 року.

1620—х купив три села, що розташовувалися на території нинішньої комуни Сулена, і в 1630-х на їх місці почав будівництво своєї садиби,  палацу Карлберг (), який після ряду перебудов в наступні епохи став однією з визначних пам'яток Стокгольма. Зараз в палаці розташовується Військова Академія Карлберг.

Він помер 17 березня 1650 року і був похований у церкві Стренгнес.

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Afreen Hidayat
The Prime Minister of Netherlands, Mark Rutte is all set to visit Bengaluru on 25 May.
The Country wants to strengthen the innovation ecosystem with India efficiently. This comprises the setting up of Startup Link in India. Startup Link is an umbrella initiative in order to help Dutch startups explore the Indian market. This trip for Mark Rutte plays a vital role in pertaining to Netherland's focus toward India.
It could also be understood by the fact with a 120 member business trade delegation, with two ministers and the mayor of the Hague to Bengaluru, the Netherlands-India delegate is the country's largest delegate to any foreign country!
Even larger than that of Netherland's recent visit to China.
The Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag, is expected to launch the Indo-Dutch Startup Link Digital Hub, on 25 May.
According to a source, Consul General Jaap Werner stated,
The delegates will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, signing a number of MoUs to promote technology and Innovations at all levels universities to SMEs and corporates. In Bengaluru alone, we are expecting to sign 15-20 MoUs. The Bengaluru visit will focus to strengthen the bilateral trades and relationships in the areas of healthcare, smart cities, life sciences, waste management and cybersecurity.
Recently, Netherlands also upgraded its Bengaluru, South India office to a fully operational Consulate General. It also amalgamated various ministerial departments under one roof.
The Senior Deputy Representative Consulate General Of Netherlands, Bengaluru, Meenakshi P.R., stated that the Consulate General would also help Dutch startups soft launch in Indian territory, specifically in Bengaluru.
She also added, IoT, 3D Printing, cybersecurity and blockchain are some of the areas where the startups under startup link can collaborate.
Apart from that, the events on 25 May also include an 'Innovation power lunch' where the Dutch PM will meet 30 top Indian CEOs.
However, there are over 200 Netherlands companies operating in India. While India is the fourth largest investor in the Netherlands, the latter stands fifth in India.
There are plenty of opportunities and challenges to do business in the Indian market. India has been abuzz with Startup culture now!
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Leher Versus Clubhouse: Which Audio Listening Startup Would You Choose?
Sampath Pavan Kuppili
Clubhouse is a new type of social networking platform which is an audio only platform. This means every conversation takes place through audio where users speak to let their thoughts known. Users can create and host rooms where speakers will talk about a particular topic. Originating in the Silicon Valley, Clubhouse attracted some major names onto its platform like Elon Musk, Evan Williams, Reddit co founder Alexis Ohanian, former Y Combinator President Sam Altman, AngelList co founder Naval Ravikant, Ashton Kuthcer, Oprah Winfrey, Drake, Kevin Hart and many others are some of the influential personalities who are on Clubhouse. There is however a catch as Clubhouse is currently limited to iOS.
Leher is an Indian made alternative to Clubhouse and is a similar audio sharing and listening startup. Leher also has video support unlike Clubhouse and is also available for both Android and iOS. However, Leher does not have the biggest names in the world on its platform but it does have significant micro influencers and is growing at a rapid pace. Within 180 days of its beta version launch, the company claimed to have its users spend about 44 minutes every day and 250,000 minutes per month for live video sessions.
We at Startup Stories are curious to see which among Leher or Clubhouse would our readers choose to take part in a virtual discussion. Please let us know your answer in the poll below.
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Why Are Ads On Digital Media Failing To Reach The Right Audience?
If you are a regular user of social media platforms and also a fan of consuming content on the digital medium, then there is a very high likelihood that you have seen ads on pages you are reading or watching something. There would be times when you have been targeted by an ad which feels like it was wrongly targeted at you. Imagine if you are a vegetarian by choice and while browsing online, if you are targeted by a food delivery app which shows ads about chicken dishes. The ad would only serve to spoil the mood of the online user instead of serving its actual purpose which is to push the user to buy a chicken dish.
These wrongly targeted ads might be the side effects of performance marketing or a weak brand marketing. Performance marketing means advertising programs where advertisers pay only when a specific action occurs. These actions can include a generated lead, a sale, a click, and more. Inshort, performance marketing is used to create highly targeted ads for a very specific target audience at a low cost. Performance marketing usually means high volume for a very specific cost.
Brand marketers on the other hand believe in narrowly defining target audiences but end up spending a lot of money on ad placements. Gautam Mehra, CEO, Dentsu Programmatic India & CDO, Dentsu International Asia Pacific said, "You've defined a persona, you know the emotions you want to elicit, but then you buy a YouTube masthead and CricInfo sponsorships because IPL is up. If brand advertisers look at audience-based buys more deeply than just placements, you will see more relevant ads (sic.)"
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Performance marketing is more of a sales function rather than a marketing function and is about meeting the cost of acquisition. This is a reason why budgets are usually high for performance marketing. Mehra goes on to add, "the fact is that an engineer can out-beat FMCGs on performance marketing. Advertisers who have cracked this are spending 10x and are on an 'always on' mode (unlike time-bound brand campaigns.)"
There is always the case of supply and demand, with the supply usually exceeding the demand on digital platforms. Ultimately, it boils down to the choice between no ad versus low relevance ad and it is quite easy to guess that having a low relevance ad is better.
Arvind R. P., Director – Marketing and Communications at McDonald's India (West and South,) said "McDonalds' for instance, has seen its share of spends on digital grow from 20% levels a couple of years back to over 40% at present. Outcomes of this journey have been encouraging, proven by our media-mix-modelling and other key metrics. We have seen best results from an optimal mix of Television plus digital (sic.)" Moreover, Arvind also believes performance marketing only approach could turn out to be more suited to short term, versus a more consistent full funnel effort. The latter ensures adequate emphasis on building consideration, as well as growing transactions. Arvind feels digital is a complex medium which needs investment in the right talent who could use the right tools. Brands which underestimate the need for the investment are often disappointed from the return on investment from the digital medium.
With the constantly changing consumer dynamics marketers are now shifting to unscripted marketing which frankly needs more insights into the consumer mindset. The lack of marketers to do the proper research is why digital medium is plagued with irrelevant ads.
Facebook Launches BARS For Creating Raps To Counter TikTok's Growing Popularity
Facebook is leaving no stone unturned to tackle the surging popularity of the Chinese video making app TikTok. As part of its redoubled efforts Facebook is launching a new app named BARS which could be used to create and share raps. The core idea behind the app is rappers could focus on creating content without having to worry about investing heavily in production and equipment.
Facebook said, "Audio production tools can be complicated, expensive and difficult to use. With BARS, you can select one of our professionally-created beats, write lyrics and record yourself dropping bars (sic.)" The company also added, "BARS auto-suggests rhymes as you're writing to keep your flow going. You can also jump into Challenge mode and freestyle with auto-suggested word cues. Choose from a variety of audio and visual filters to take your creations to the next level (sic.)"
The app is now available in the Apple App Store in the United States of America. The invites for using BARS would be sent out in batches beginning in the USA and then expanded worldwide.
This would be the second app which Facebook is launching to counter TikTok's growing popularity. Instagram Reels was the latest offering from the photo sharing platform Instagram (owned by Facebook) and was launched as a replacement for the video sharing application TikTok. TikTok was enjoying an unrivalled popularity in India as it became a means to keep boredom at bay during the nationwide lockdown which was imposed in light of the COVID-19 virus. However, the Indian government announced that it would ban 59 Chinese applications in which TikTok was one, along with WeChat, Helo, Cam Scanner and many others. This left a sudden void in video making applications, and Instagram realised the need for urgency to capitalize on this void. Therefore, Instagram immediately pushed their latest feature Instagram Reels which lets its users create 15 second videos with music from Instagram's database. These videos look very similar to the ones made on TikTok and has gained a lot of popularity in India where Tik Tok continues to be banned.
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Google also took advantage of the Indian Government's ban of the viral application TikTok. Google introduced a new feature on YouTube called YouTube Shorts. The feature for all intents and purposes mimics the same features TikTok used to provide. The new feature mimics many of TikTok's most popular features, allowing users to make and post 15 second videos with built in creative tools encouraging them to add licensed music and more.
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Vietnam begins human trials of indigenous Covid-19 vaccine next week
First stage human trials of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by the Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology company will begin December 10.
A researcher takes blood sample from a mouse to test for Covid-19 antibody response. Photo courtesy of Vabiotech.
Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said the company will cooperate with the Vietnam Military Medical Academy to start recruiting volunteers to participate in the first phase of the human trial. The volunteers will be given the first test shots of the vaccine a week later.
The ministry said around 20 volunteers, aged 18-40, are expected to be injected with the vaccine during the first phase.
Long also asked relevant agencies to get ready for the second phase of the human clinical trials.
"We must be proactive and get the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as possible," Long said at a Saturday meeting.
He said the ministry would create all favorable conditions for vaccine production units, including relaxing administrative procedures and speeding up registration and licensing of products. The ministry will report the investment policy for vaccine production to the government and coordinate with related institutions to support them access capital for research and production, he added.
Vietnam currently has four Covid-19 vaccines produced by Nanogen, Vabiotech, Polyvac and the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC) currently under research.
The health ministry earlier has assessed Nanogen's Covid-19 vaccine candidate among the most promising, having been successfully produced it on a laboratory scale and provoked immunogenicity during animal testing.
Ivac and Vabiotech have completed their laboratory-scale production process and are evaluating the safety and immunity of their vaccines on animals.
The ministry has asked Polyvac to work with producers in Russia and China to get access to their vaccines.
Globally, there are 11 vaccines that have entered phase three of clinical trials.
Before a vaccine can enter clinical trials, it needs to go through pre-clinical development stages like laboratory research and tests on cell, tissue cultures and animal subjects.
Vietnam has recorded 1,365 Covid-19 patients so far, including four imported cases reported Saturday evening. Thirty-five have succumbed to the disease so far, many of them elderly patients with underlying conditions like diabetes or kidney failure.
By Le Nga
Source: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-begins-human-trials-of-indigenous-covid-19-vaccine-next-week-4202122.html


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The need for change in the way business and academia work together
There is general consensus in Australia on the need for change in the way business and academia work together, but as higher education and businesses alike grapple with digital evolution, finding the right way forward will require active engagement from both sectors.
Wander around the sprawling campus of South Korea's 600-year-old Sungkyunkwan University and it's hard to miss the modern, multi-storey Samsung Library. Built in 2009, the library represents a collaboration that spans over half a century between the university and the industrial giant. It's a similar story in the US and the UK, where New York's Columbia University has a long-standing partnership with technology company IBM, and London's Imperial College boasts one of the world's largest university and industry partnerships with healthcare leader GlaxoSmithKline.
Australia has a slightly different story to tell. Earlier this year, the chairman of Innovation and Science Australia (ISA), Bill Ferris, lamented the lack of robust collaboration between the university and business sectors. In fact, according to the ISA's Performance Review of the Innovation, Science and Research System, Australia ranked last out of 26 OECD countries for cooperation between business and research institutions.
According to the ISA, Australia needs to get moving to create better university and research institution partnerships if we're going to best serve our nation's future economic needs. The real conundrum however, is how best to build these relationships and create outcomes with realistic expectations? Already some in the tertiary sector feel they're being pressured by a business community only interested in their top 1% of graduates, whereas business wants a little more bang for its research dollar investment.
Finding the right model
The challenge is finding the right model and it's one the Business Council of Australia, a lobby group, and the peak university body, Universities Australia, are grappling with. On both sides, there is general consensus on the need for a massive cultural change and Universities Australia has even suggested the days of the single three- to four-year degree are coming to an end. Higher education will be more project-focused and could offer more sub-degrees or micro-credentials as individuals work more closely with potential employers.
According to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (Commonwealth Bank), Managing Director, Government, Health and Education, Julie Hunter, the business community itself needs an elevated public debate on what better collaboration looks like. "Business needs to engage with the university sector in language they understand," she explains.
Her view is business has to be more focused on the long-term when it enters partnerships with universities. She cites Commonwealth Banks's own relationship with the Quantum Computing research team at the University of New South Wales, as well as the bank's relationship with Macquarie University's Health Economy Unit. Both are long-term projects and are grounded in the bank's desire to contribute to positive broader societal impacts.
"We need to have an element of patient capital where we believe an investment is the right thing to do. In the case of our work with Dr Henry Cutler and his team at the Health Economy Unit, we're looking at consumer choice in the public health system and we're sharing our research with government," Hunter says. "We understand there is no immediate outcome but our research can inform policy decisions that could benefit Australia in the long term."
At present these collaborations are based on societal benefits, but Hunter says the bank believes these decisions will also be commercially beneficial in the long term. However both the bank and academia need to be flexible in how these may be implemented in the future. Commonwealth Bank's General Manager of Group Strategy, George Robinson, agrees, and says for the first time now has a holistic long-term academic partnership strategy on how this will happen.
"About a year ago we examined our 75 formal engagements with universities both domestically and abroad. From there, we have refreshed our engagement strategy with an innovation-led approach combined with a focus on people and talent, that is based on strategic partnership principles that are mutually beneficial. We want every action we take to support our strategy and best position both the academic community and the bank for success. We are focusing on five innovation areas: cyber-security; data and analytics; digital banking; financial wellbeing and behavioural economics," he says.
"These are areas which have a huge impact on our customers. As our new partnership approach accelerates our innovation agenda, we will also play a critical role in Australia's financial wellbeing.
Moreover, a relationship based on co-creating solutions for some of the industry's pressing challenges is more of a strategic partnership than a traditional vendor relationship. "It's a long-term engagement with academia across a broad spectrum of disciplines with equal shared inputs, risks and outputs on both sides—true strategic partnerships," Robinson adds.
Beyond collaborating on research, Commonwealth Bank is also interested in the future of education and how universities rethink their offerings. Hunter says they're already looking at their business models and increasingly looking at their ability to deliver online.
"Our assessment is the desire for undergraduate students to have an on-campus experience will continue, whereas post-graduates may be more flexible. Universities also need to think about how they utilise their infrastructure considering the majority of it is only used around 30% to 40% of the time."
Aside from better infrastructure use, universities also need to examine how they can better deliver student services which might mean creating smart cards or digital wallets that give students the opportunity to seamlessly transact with all the different retail and administrative outlets within the university precinct. It's the type of innovation designed to deliver increased productivity at a time when the Federal Government is imposing more cost constraints on the sector.
Future ready now
Probably the most important factor driving the need for better collaboration between universities and the business sector concerns the very future of work. What will the jobs of the future look like and what skills will be needed? The government has spent the last couple of years emphasising the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning whereas universities and employer groups have come to the realisation a broader range of disciplines are needed. Robinson is also heavily involved and represents Commonwealth Bank across a number of STEM initiatives.
Creating this desired workforce of tomorrow requires a lot more than just throwing money at the problem. Australia already spends the fifth highest amount on education in the OECD, yet we've continued to slip in our science,maths and reading rankings in the OECD's Programme for International Assessment (PISA) global education survey. More troublingly, the percentage of Australian graduates in full-time employment four months after graduation is at a 10-year low of 68.8% according to the Graduate Careers Council of Australia.
The solution to this can also be found in collaboration, according to Robinson. "The onus is on the business and education sectors to proactively engage with each other in addressing this challenge," he says. "These efforts must also be focused on ensuring that we are looking at future areas of development rather than just immediate needs."
"Strong academic partnerships are more important than ever, and clearly in Australia we have work to do," he adds. "Together this approach will make Australia stronger and more globally competitive by continuing to forge stronger relationships between academia and enterprise. This is good for everyone involved."
"Our research can inform policy decisions that could benefit Australia in the long term."
-Julie Hunter, Managing Director, Government, Health and Education, Commonwealth Bank.
"The onus is on the business and education sectors to proactively engage with each other…These efforts must also be focused on ensuring that we are looking at future areas of development rather than just immediate needs."
-George Robinson, General Manager of Group Strategy, Commonwealth Bank.
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Australia's digital ecosystems
In the digital age, few if any companies can successfully go it alone. In many parts of the world, ecosystems are forming in which organisations collaborate in one way or another to advance their digital capabilities.
Companies are leveraging ecosystems not just to find solutions to digital challenges but to acquire technology capabilities they did not have before. The interactions are not necessarily frictionless but, as we have discussed elsewhere, they are becoming increasingly collaborative.
There are few large Australian businesses that have yet to launch an innovation lab of their own, where developers, inventors, university researchers and staff of customers and suppliers are invited to share ideas for new applications and products.
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The material is 40 denier, really elastic thanks to its Lycra content.
Sandal toe, the fabric has the same thickness all the way over the leg, foot and toe. You can wear them with sandals!


This was such a fun show. Barbara Manning had not played in SF for a LONG time (10 years?) and so the show had a family reunion vibe going. Russ opened, accompanied by Robert Lloyd. Please pardon the chatter, lots of people were catching up. Still sounds great. The flashing effect is part of the make out room's lighting, unfortunately.
Recorded in San Francisco at The Make Out Room on April 6, 2015.
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Siyang, an Asiatic black bear cub, was rescued by local environmentalists when it was just one month old. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
Five-month-old Siyang and three of her peers are all set to make Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Arunachal Pradesh their new home, having completed the acclimatisation process in the national park under the supervision of experts over the past few months.
Siyang, an Asiatic black bear cub, was rescued by local environmentalists when it was just one month old.
The tiny one was then brought to the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) here, where it was nursed back to health, said one of its officials.
The cub was found in a dehydrated condition on the Siang river bed, and was named after the river.
At the centre, Siyang met three other rescued friends – two male cubs, Den and Itna, and another female Devi – and the four got along well quickly, the CRBC official said.
"Orphaned bears are made to go through the acclimatisation process before they are released in the wild. These four will be released in the reserve in December or early January next year," he said.
Siyang is the most active of the four and a favourite of all forest personnel, CBRC head Panjit Basumatary said.
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"The day begins with morning walks deep inside the reserve. They play and fight with each other, climb trees and feed on fruits and insects before returning home," Basumatary stated.
During their walks, which are monitored by animal keepers and biologists, the cubs learned to forage and also gradually developed their wild instincts.
"Once the cubs become reluctant to follow their keepers back to the camp, they are ear-tagged, micro-chipped and radio-collared for soft release in the wild. Eventually, if they do not return to their cages anymore, they are considered ready for the wild. However, they are monitored for a few more months before release," the CBRC chief said.
Millo Tasser, the deputy conservator of forest (wildlife), pointed out that bear cubs take time to adjust to a new environment and overcome their proximity to humans, with some getting more attached to the caretakers than the other.
"The ones that find it more difficult to adjust are sent to zoos for captive rearing," Tassar said.
Basumatary further explained that poachers often kill Asiatic bears for their skin, leaving their cubs orphaned.
Their population has also declined over the years due to deforestation, habitat loss and other abiotic factors, he added.
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With a goal of reducing incidences of methanol poisoning by children or as well as chronic alcoholics using methanol as a cheap substitute for alcohol; Methanol shall not be placed on the market to the general public after 9 May 2019 in consumer windshield washing or defrosting fluids, in concentration to or greater than 0.6% by weight.
To reduce the amount of D4 and D5 that are washed off with water during normal use, D4 and D5 shall not be placed on the market in wash-off cosmetics in concentrations great than or equal to 0.1% by weight of either substance, after 31 January 2020.
D4 and D5 are of concern due to their release into freshwater and their subsequent persistence and build-up in sediments, followed by bioaccumulation through the food chain. D4 contains both Persistent, Bio-accumulative and Toxic (PBT), as well as very Persistent and very Bio-accumulative vPvB characteristics, while D5 is classified as vPvB. Each has a range of generally similar uses in cosmetic products.
To reduce the risk to health workers exposed to NMP, this substance shall not be placed on the market in concentrations great than or equal to 0.3% after 9 May 2020 without relevant chemical safety reports and safety data sheets. Safety documentation must include the appropriate risk management measures and operational conditions necessary to ensure the exposure to health workers is below 14.4mg/m3 by inhalation and 4.8mg/kg/day for dermal exposure. NMP used as a solvent or reactant in the process of coating wires will not be restricted until 9 May 2024.
NMP is of concern due to its reproductive, eye, and skin toxicity.


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Oil Company Jobs for a Physicist
by Tom Gresham
Physicists in the oil and gas industry earned a mean salary of $160,960 in 2012
The oil industry serves as a relatively minor employer of physicists, as approximately 330 physicists were employed in oil and gas extraction positions in 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The oil and gas industry has seen a robust increase in women workers overall, jumping from 48,900 in 2004 to 78,400 in 2012, according to ABC News.
Oil companies employ physicists, along with a battery of scientists in other fields, to conduct laboratory research and other non-field research. These physicists use data to develop extraction strategies and study the theory and practicality of the technology used in the oil fields. They also work with others, including engineers, to design improved equipment and techniques for the exploration and extraction of oil. In addition, physicists and others in research labs work with engineers in the field who share data and other information with them, so that the lab researchers can help with strategies for specific well cases.
Physicists who do field work for an oil company may work on sites around the world. These field engineer positions require travel to often remote conditions that are hundreds of miles away from a town. Conditions can be challenging, including extreme heat and cold. Locations can be as demanding and diverse as a Middle East desert and the Arctic Circle, or even an oil rig at sea. Field work involves working at well sites to ensure equipment is working appropriately and to analyze data findings to determine oil availability.
Management Positions
Physicists can move into management positions in oil companies. Those positions may be directly related to their scientific background, such as a leadership post running a lab. For example, Ellen Williams, a physicist, serves as chief scientist of British Petroleum, overseeing the application of scientific and technological developments to energy practices. A management post may have more of an engineering focus, such as managing a well site. In addition, physicists can move into management positions that oversee a more broad realm, including such categories as customer service, marketing and human resources.
Other Industry Careers
Physicists work in positions in the oil industry that do not involve research or field work. However, those positions often capitalize on their knowledge and skills, and the physicists who hold the posts may move into them after previous jobs in the areas of research or field work. For instance, a physicist with experience at oil extraction sites may move into a training position that calls on them to teach engineers and others how to use equipment or how to conduct field analysis.
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Millions of books, monkeys and an orchestra — the story of EW Cole and his Book Arcade
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By Taryn Priadko and Sophie Kesteven for Late Night Live
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Cole in his study at the Book Arcade on Bourke Street at the turn of the century. (Supplied: Coles Album, Henry Williams, SLV)
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In the heart of Melbourne, where a common department store now stands, you could once step off the street and into a very different world.
It was a huge and peculiar bookstore — though to simply call it that doesn't feel like enough.
Among the millions of books, there was also a live orchestra, a gallery of fine art, and a tearoom filled with bright murals.
"It was not just a bookstore, it was a carnival," says former Australian diplomat Richard Broinowski, who has written a biography of the store's colourful owner.
"It was a wonderful place to see and be seen."
Cole's arcade contained more than a million books. (Supplied: Coles Album, Henry Williams, SLVoles Album, Henry Williams, SLV)
Edward William Cole, best known for his series Funny Picture Books, opened his Book Arcade on Bourke Street in 1883.
Like Cole's children's books, it was emblazoned with a rainbow arch facade, and it became one of the biggest bookstores in the world.
"Another thing he did very cunningly was to install benches for people to sit and read in fernery, in coolness, because at that time the Melbourne City Council was discouraging drifters and chancers from sitting on the streets, and they put spikes on the windowsills and doorsteps of buildings so they couldn't do it," Broinowski tells ABC RN's Late Night Live.
"But Cole had people come in who were tired and needed resting, and he said 'No-one has to buy, you can read what you like.'"
Cole and his family seated in the arcade fernery in the early 1900s. LtoR: Eddy, Ivy, Linda (standing) Vally, Eliza, Edward and Pearl. (Supplied: Coles Album, Henry Williams, SLV)
Broinowski says former prime minister Robert Menzies used to go there when he was young because he couldn't afford the law books — instead he'd read them at Cole's.
It was also a place where you could see exotic animals, like screeching monkeys and colourful parrots.
"He had electric lighting, one of the first stores in Melbourne to do it," Broinowski says.
"He had a hydraulic lift that took people every four minutes up to the third floor to look at all the china."
The warped mirrors in the arcade — which exist today in St Kilda's Luna Park — also prompted raucous laughter from adults and children.
"He would make the thin fat and the fat thin, and the ugly beautiful and the beautiful rather plain. Lots of giggles ... would come from there."
And while Cole certainly revelled in educating and entertaining his customers, there was more to him than just his bookstore: he was a philosopher and human rights advocate who spoke passionately against the White Australia policy.
Oh, and he owned a zoo.
A Jack-of-all-trades who scandalised the clergy
EW Cole, as he's best known, came from humble beginnings.
Born in 1832, he was raised in a poor household in Kent in the United Kingdom.
He left home at 17 to try his fortune in London working as a street vendor, but after growing tired of selling pies and winkles in the streets, he moved to South Africa in 1850.
Cole's arcade in a photo taken from the north-western side of Bourke Street. State Parliament can be seen at the end of the street. (Supplied: Bourke St Melbourne, Vic, 1890, SLV)
"He was there for a year. He went through a very difficult time, he saw bloodshed, the frontier wars with the Xhosa, and he didn't enjoy it very much," Broinowski says.
"At the end of about 1851 he ... had heard rumours about the gold rush in Victoria and he said, 'Well, I'm going there.'"
But Cole's attempt at trying to make a fortune in gold didn't pan out.
"He was poor. He used to steal apples from orchards but, because of his morality, only when they had fallen on the ground," Broinowski says.
"He worked as a painter, as a lamplighter, as a plumber's apprentice, as a builder's labourer.
"He did all sorts of things but he was no good at any of them."
By the time he was 30 he was in Melbourne, and broke. He became consumed by the subject of religion.
He spent hours each day combing through every book on religious texts he could find, and in 1866 he published his first piece of writing: Cole's Information for the People on the Religions of the World.
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In the preface, he said he hoped to "annihilate sectarian prejudices" and wished for people to "extend justice and charity" to those who have a different faith.
"Universal knowledge brings the greatest good to man," he wrote.
Broinowski says Cole scandalised the clergy with his sacrilegious views about Christianity.
"He wrote an impassioned letter to his parents in Kent, saying, 'You say that if you believe in God you prosper ... but I haven't prospered. I don't believe in God either but there are people, men, who have made huge amounts of money who are themselves morally bankrupt, therefore I don't regard having morality as necessarily the same as having prosperity.'"
Advertising for a wife
When it came to finding a wife, Cole pursued an outlandish method — he advertised in the Melbourne Herald.
"He said, 'This is serious, don't just say that I'm doing this as a gimmick, I am not,'" Broinowski says.
On July 3, 1875, readers of The Herald saw this:
"She must be a spinster of 35 or 36 years of age. Good tempered, intelligent, honest, truthful, sober, chaste, cleanly, neat but not extravagantly or absurdly dressy; industrious, frugal, moderately educated, and a lover of home."
"He was a misogynist, as all men in those days were," Broinowski adds.
"But he trusted her as the only person who could run the arcade when he went to London on buying trips."
Cole's aviary, with its sulphur-crested cockatoos. (Supplied: Coles Album, Henry Williams, SLV)
Cole received a "sober, serious, considered letter" from a woman named Eliza, who offered to meet him at the top of Spring Street.
"Then they got talking. [They were] two rather plain looking people, she was sort of plump and he was not an oil painting himself, but they really got on very well together."
Even though he wasn't an Orthodox Christian, Eliza saw Cole as gentle and kind.
"She said, 'I think you've got potential, so I'm prepared to go along with you.' And she did."
They married in 1875 and had six children.
'All the same underneath'
A small selection of Cole's astonishingly wide range of publications; a common theme being improvement of the mind. (Supplied: Under the Rainbow, MUP, 2020)
Beyond the walls of his arcade, Cole campaigned passionately against the White Australia policy, which limited migration to Australia between 1901 and 1958.
He had witnessed the unfair and sometimes brutal treatment of black South Africans by colonialists, and the discrimination whites had imposed on Chinese gold miners in Castlemaine.
His opposition to the act was further vocalised after he met the commander of a Japanese naval squadron that was visiting ports in Australia in 1902.
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The next year, he was invited to be a special guest at the Osaka Trade Exhibition.
"He went with his wife Eliza and two of his daughters. They were given red carpet treatment," Broinowski says.
"Everywhere he went he explained the problem about White Australia.
"He said, 'My passionate view is that all men are created equal, and that the only difference is that the closer they live to the equator, the blacker their skins, and the further away the whiter their skins, but they are all the same underneath.'"
What became of Cole and his famous Book Arcade?
Cole about to set out in his carriage to check on the Bourke Street arcade. (Supplied: Unknown provenance )
Cole continued to expand the Book Arcade until the mid-1910s, when it had 16 departments.
He also bought an enormous property in Essendon which he turned into a zoo.
"Every passer-by had an unwanted animal and would leave it with Cole, and he had a leopard there at one stage," Broinowski says.
"That's when the neighbours objected, they said, 'You can't have that!'"
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He also had a rainbow-shaped garden.
"He could look out from his top floor with mirrors from his bedroom as he was getting older and he saw this wonderful thing, and that kept him going," says Broinowski, whose book on Cole is titled Under The Rainbow.
"He would go in his horse-drawn carriage from Essendon into Bourke Street two or three times a week to oversee things."
But when Cole died in 1918, at the age of 86, things at the arcade started to fall apart.
It finally closed its doors in 1931 — after inspiring and entertaining generations of people lucky enough to visit.
Broinowski says Cole's legacy also lives on in his Funny Picture Books.
"[They] were enormously entertaining to children from five to 50, not just in Melbourne but throughout Australia and in New Zealand and Great Britain," he writes.
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Facebook unveiled its profits during the first quarter of the current year, and reflected higher revenues from ads smartphones and tablet computers to reach $ 375 million by 30% of the total advertising revenues, compared with 23% in the fourth quarter of last year.
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And Net Profit rose by 7% to reach to the $ 219 million compared with the 205 million during the year the past. And amounted to the share of per share of 0.12 dollars.
With the end of the month March 2013 the number of Facebook users to 1.11 billion monthly active users, up 23% from last year, and the number of users of the site daily 665 million.
While effective, the number of users of mobile devices to 751 million members per month, an increase of 54% compared with the same period of last year. Which means an increase of users of the site via laptop, desktop computers, which began for the first time during the last quarter of 2012.
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Google Opens Mirror API Access to All Developers, Happy Hacking!
By Tom Emrich
Nov 24, 201311:55 AM EST
Google ramping up for a consumer release of Google Glass. Last week they gave developers a sneak peek of the Glass Development Kit (GDK). Yesterday, Google opened up the Mirror API (application program interface), the original method of programming for Glass, to all developers.
Developing for Glass has previously been closed to the public, with only those own Glass given access to the Mirror API to create Glassware. Back in April of this year, Jenny Murphy, Glass Developer Programs Engineer, stated:
"The Mirror API is currently in a limited developer preview. Specifically, we're starting off by restricting access to Explorers who have Glass. Why? Because Glass is a unique platform that is mobile but fundamentally different than existing mobile platforms in both design and use. To develop great experiences and effectively test them, you need to have Glass. So please be patient while we conduct this preview. While you wait, explore the docs, read the sample code, and take a run around the playground"
Word got out on Google+ yesterday that Murphy removed the whitelist for the Mirror API and made it accessible to all developers. "Yup I had the pleasure of closing that bug. Happy hacking!" Murphy posted on her Google+ page.
The Mirror API allows developers to build web-based services that interact with Google Glass. It provides the functionality over a cloud-based API and doesn't require code to be running on Glass. This is different than the GDK which is more like building native apps.
With access to both the Mirror API and the early version of the GDK, developers are now able to start to play around with the code to create applications for Glass, but without the actual unit it may prove difficult to test the app to prepare it for release.
The Mirror API does have a playground for developers to test, but in my experience it doesn't cover all the necessary use cases needed to ensure that your Glassware is ready to ship for use by the Explorers. The GDK currently doesn't have an emulator.
The Mirror API was used to build the initial applications available for Glass including those from The New York Times, Path and Evernote.


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Since mysteries are one of my favorite genres I was excited at the opportunity to read a book by an author whose work is new to me. That's why I selected this historical fiction by Anita Davison, Flora's Secret.
Flora's Secret is the story about a young governess, Flora Maguire, who is accompanying her charge Eddy Vaughn as they journey home to England on the maiden voyage of the Minneapolis. Any hope for smooth sailing is quickly abandoned when Flora finds a dead body at the bottom of stairway. Is it an accident or murder? Spunky Miss Maguire is not one to be easily deterred and will do whatever she can to get to the bottom of this man's untimely death. Thrown into the mix is a shipboard romance with a fine gentleman Mr. Bunny Harrington.
I really enjoyed this book. The main characters well developed, interesting and very likable. The author did a great job in describing people and scenes. She gave enough details for the reader to imagine the scenes, but not too much. The characters, Flora and Bunny, where very likable; people I would want to know. I'm hopeful their story will continue in another book. Other characters were intriguing and it was fun to try and figure out who the good guys were and the bad guys were.
While this book is not from a Christian writer and publisher, I appreciated the fact that the story was told and developed without profanity and sexually explicit scenes. It's clean historical fiction, a mystery with a bit of romance, that focused on developing characters and the storyline. This was the first book I've read by Anita Davison and I look forward to reading more of her books.
I would like to thank NetGalley and Aria Publishers for the opportunity to read Flora's Secret by Anita Davison. I was under no obligation to give a favorable review.
With each passing year, I find that I'm more and more grateful that I don't know what future holds. If I did have foreknowledge, I'm sure I would spend more time worrying and being anxious. Instead I know Who holds the future.
The LORD entrusts me with today and calls me to trust Him and call out to Him in prayer and with thanksgiving.
My eyes behaving badly started a few months ago, when I was reading my Nook in bed. As I looked at the screen I realized that not only could I see the screen, but the time from our alarm clock (which was situated about six feet away and three feet higher) appeared to be behind the screen. Okay…so that's a little weird.
At my yearly eye exam, I mentioned it to my eye doctor. Dr Brandon Marsh did some additional testing and informed me that I had a condition called Strabismus. It's also knows as a wandering eye or lazy eye. My right eye was intermittently turning outward instead of staying focused on what was in front of me and in sync with my left eye. My doctor set up an appointment with a specialist who deals with this condition. I left with a business card in hand and an appointment a few weeks away.
Good golly, how in the world could I have developed this condition and not been aware of it? When I got home and looked in the mirror all of a sudden, I could see what the doctor was talking about. Since there was no precipitating event, like an accident, it's a bit of a mystery what caused it.
With each passing week, the condition seemed to be happening more frequently. I was relieved that I would soon be seeing the eye specialist. The one catch, the doctor's primary practice was working with children.
Talk about feeling awkward, I walked into the office for my appointment with Dr Cynthia Beauchamp and lo the office was filled with children and their parents. Okay, so I'm feeling a little self-conscious.
But that uncomfortable feeling didn't last because after an examine, the doctor said she could help me. I would need surgery on my eyes to weaken the outer muscles of my eyes, so they would be correctly positioned and focus together.
I was most grateful to hear that this condition could be corrected. After praying and talking with my husband Chris, I decided to move forward and have the surgery. With the holidays coming up quickly and vacation, the surgery would take place in the new year.
The Lord went before me and worked out the details that concerned me. Not only did I need an examine from my primary care physician, I needed blood tests, x-rays and a letter from her and a cardiologist that I would a good candidate for outpatient surgery. The clock was ticking, but thank You Lord, I was able to get everything that was needed to the eye doctor within the allotted time frame.
As the day of surgery approached, I was more grateful. Everyday tasks, like walking down stairs and even driving became something that I needed to pay extra attention to. Using good quality eye drops and blinking helped when my eye started to wander.
Yesterday was the big day. We headed out early for my appointment arrival time of 6 am. Though some distance away, the traffic was light and we got there ahead of schedule. The Ophthalmology Surgery Center of Dallas is one hopping place. The waiting room filled up quickly by time I went back in for my surgery. As I walked back with the nurse, we passed many, many bays where patients were being prepared for surgery.
I didn't have to wait long before they took me in for surgery. I was a little nervous, but overall the Lord gave me peace. During the waiting period I was able to pray.
Thankfully, I was given general anesthesia so I was completely oblivious to what the doctor was doing. The anesthesiologist gave me plenty of anti-nausea medicine which helped me greatly.
When I awoke from surgery, I had my eyes closed for quite a while. They had put some ointment in my eyes which made my vision very blurry. Once I was sufficiently alert and not ready to toss my cookies, they released me. Of course, my eyes were very sensitive to light so I put on sunglasses.
I kept my eyes closed most of the way home and opened them briefly to navigate the steps to go inside. After a brief nap, I stayed awake most of the day. Closing my eyes, even briefly, helped the discomfort and pain, as did good quality eye drops.
If I had an Indian name, today it would be Susan Red Eyes. Instead of white, my eyes are very, very red. There's some pain, but minimal. Much better than I expected. At the end of yesterday, the double vision had already improved. When I awoke this morning, I was back to seeing double. I'm prayerful that will be resolved in a few days.
The main reason, I decided to go forward with the surgery is that I didn't want my wandering eye and seeing double to get worse and impact my ability to drive safely and navigate stairs. Safety was a primary concern.
Also, I found that was I was increasingly self-conscious when I recognized my eye was on the move. Until, the condition was diagnosed I was unaware of it as was my husband Chris. But we both became hyper aware of it. He said it was strange to be talking with me and all of a sudden one of my eyes was looking elsewhere.
After personally experiencing a wandering eye, I can tell you first hand if someone you know has this condition, when you are looking at them focus on the eye that's looking at you. For some reason, even though my right eye was looking elsewhere, my brain was focused on what was in front of me. I know that I felt very self-conscious about it, others may feel likewise.
I am so thankful to God that getting this corrected was possible. I thankful for the excellent healthcare I've had here in north Texas. I'm thankful for good insurance.
But most important, I know that all health and healing come from the LORD. He is my Great Physician. He is my Healer. He walks with me at all times. If God was not willing to heal me, I pray that I would be praising God and trusting His greater work within me. I can't imagine how people do life without the LORD.
I'm so grateful for family and friends who were praying with us and for us. I'm grateful for my husband Chris and his steadfast support and help, not just during this season, but every day.


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The interview begins with Stephanapoulos lining up emails where Stone claims he was a conduit between Wikileaks and Trump campaign. But Stone says, right in the beginning of the interview, that entire premise is incorrect.
Stephanapoulos showed Stone an email between Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone with the subject line, "Get to Assange," which seems like pretty damning evidence, as well as other emails between the two about the Wikileaks founder. Stone even emailed Sam Nunberg to say he ate dinner with his "new pal," Assange, the night before. And, finally, a clip of Stone speaking and saying, "I actually have communicated with Assange." But, apparently, those were all lies.
It's a perplexing move for Stone, going on national television while he is under scrutiny by Mueller. On the other hand, Stone has never been one to shy away from a camera.