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Taking Participatory Budgeting Online
Buenos Aires Elige
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and participants in BA Elige.
In April 2017, Buenos Aires joined a growing network of cities which are reviving interest in participatory budgeting by making it tech-enabled. It unveiled Buenos Aires Elige or 'BA Elige' (Buenos Aires Choose) to give residents an opportunity to propose and select projects for the 2018 city budget through a five-part process. There are limits, of course—suggestions can't require the modification of any current law, and must not incur additional operating costs once implemented. For the third edition of the program, the city received more than 28,000 proposals and included a mechanism for residents to create proposals together at co-creation meetings. proposals.
We can proudly say that we are the most participative city in Latin America, and hopefully this year there will be more neighbors who will do so, who will propose projects, and then vote.
Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, Chief of Government of Buenos Aires
Budgeting decisions have a profound impact on communities, but they are typically made through arcane technical and political processes that are difficult for residents to follow. Participatory budgeting can close the gap between residents and budgets, but it still requires a level of commitment and engagement that is unrealistic for most residents.
How'd They Do It?
Inspired by Decide Madrid through the Open Government Partnership's Local Program, Buenos Aires launched BA Elige using the open-source Consul citizen-participation software. The website mediates an open process of submitting and voting on proposals for how the Buenos Aires government should spend a portion of its budget. In the first edition, 500 million Argentine pesos (about 11 million USD) were available for local projects in the city's 15 communes. In 2018, an additional 100 million pesos were added to the participatory budget to fund citywide proposals.
The City uses the following budgeting process:
Proposals. (March/April): Residents make initial proposals:
Anyone can make project proposals, regardless of their age, nationality or residence—even visitors can recommend ways for Buenos Aires to improve.
Proposals can be made in 11 categories: Innovation, Culture, Education, Places and Parks, Mobility and Transit, Pets, Recycling, Sports and Quality of Life, Urban Art, Fairs and Markets, and Safety.
Proposals cannot require the modification of any current law, must not incur additional operating costs once implemented, and must maintain a standard of morality and public decency.
In 2019, the City added a mechanism for residents (who are referred to as vecinos, or 'neighbors') to create proposals together, collaborating and building on others' ideas. The objective was to improve the ideation process and enhance participation. In February and March, in all the communes of the city, residents were invited to be part of proposal co-creation meetings with 'ideation tables.'
Campaigning (May): Users try to gain popular support for their own or others' ideas.
The BA Elige website has buttons to share each proposal on Facebook or Twitter, and a page of best tips and practices recommends using friends and family to spread the idea through word-of-mouth. The site also provides a template promotional flyer. In 2018, WhatsApp was added as a new channel for submitting proposals.
Users can cast a 'vote' for as many proposals as they want, citywide and in one commune of their choosing.
Analysis (June/July): The city government analyzes potential costs and implementation issues for the top-ranked proposals, and accepts or rejects them based on feasibility, price, and other previously mentioned factors.
Voting (August): Users select from the remaining proposals in another round of voting. In addition to adhering to previous rules, a proposal must now get at least 200 votes to be adopted into the city budget for the next year. Residents of Buenos Aires who are at least 16 years old can vote for proposals, casting one vote for each project they support. Participants can either cast their ballot via the internet, or submit a paper ballot at select city centers. The government of Buenos Aires considers the final results of the BA Elige process to be binding, subject to budget constraints.
Adoption (September): The top-ranking proposals, both citywide and in each of the 15 individual city communes, are formalized for implementation and included in the next fiscal-year budget. Top-ranked proposals are funded one by one until the budget is exhausted. Citizens can follow each project's progress through the city's open-procurement portal and through a public works dashboard.
How Is It Going?
The first two editions of the program achieved the following participation:
New Proposals: 26,473*
Winning Proposals: 239
Most popular proposals:
Avellaneda Park aerobic circuit, proposed by an avid runner and neighborhood organizer
Use of solar energy in squares and parks, proposed by an 80-year-old resident to leave a legacy of caring for natural resources
Electronic signaling at bus stops (commune 13)
Cycling track in Sarmiento Park
Electronic signaling in bus stops (commune 14)
Electronic signaling at bus stops (commune 2)
Electronic signaling in bus stops (commune 6)
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New park and green space in Caballito, next to the Club Ferrocarril Oeste
Traffic light in Pedro Goyena and Thompson
* By comparison, online participatory-budgeting platforms in Madrid, Paris and Lisbon pulled in a combined total of about 14,000 ideas.
New Proposals: 26,004
Awareness in school of environment and animal care
Organic waste in schools
Greenhouses/ terraces or hydroponics in schools
Free sports classes
Awareness of the waste of water
Restoring athletics track Avellaneda Park
Organics fairs
Orchards in schools
Notice of fines
In the first edition, roughly a third of the proposals were transit-related, including suggestions on bike sharing, bus routes, 'next-bus' data displays, parking-meter payment methods, and traffic patterns. Some requests were popular throughout Buenos Aires, such as security cameras on streets with less lighting at night, while other highly-ranked proposals were specific to the needs of individual communes. The City held a public ceremony to honor some of the residents submitting top-ranked ideas. The administration also highlighted selected projects that seek to improve the city's sustainability or inclusion, including solar panels on schools; traffic lights for the blind; and devices for the hearing impaired in theaters and other cultural spaces.
Manuela Maunier
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The open-source Consul participation software, which was developed by Madrid and used by Buenos Aires, has been adopted by 100 institutions in 33 countries. These include youth participatory-budgeting programs in Toledo, Spain and Krnajska Gora, Slovenia as well as a platform where students at the University of Girona, in Spain, can propose campus improvements.
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Public Release: 31-Aug-2018
Water worlds could support life, study says
Analysis by UChicago, Penn State scientists challenges idea that life requires 'Earth clone'
IMAGE: Prof. Edwin Kite, University of Chicago view more
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The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could be habitable, according to a new paper from the University of Chicago and Pennsylvania State University.
The scientific community has largely assumed that planets covered in a deep ocean would not support the cycling of minerals and gases that keeps the climate stable on Earth, and thus wouldn't be friendly to life. But the study, published Aug. 30 in The Astrophysical Journal, found that ocean planets could stay in the "sweet spot" for habitability much longer than previously assumed. The authors based their findings on more than a thousand simulations.
"This really pushes back against the idea you need an Earth clone--that is, a planet with some land and a shallow ocean," said Edwin Kite, assistant professor of geophysical sciences at UChicago and lead author of the study.
As telescopes get better, scientists are finding more and more planets orbiting stars in other solar systems. Such discoveries are resulting in new research into how life could potentially survive on other planets, some of which are very different from Earth--some may be covered entirely in water hundreds of miles deep.
Because life needs an extended period to evolve, and because the light and heat on planets can change as their stars age, scientists usually look for planets that have both some water and some way to keep their climates stable over time. The primary method we know of is how Earth does it. Over long timescales, our planet cools itself by drawing down greenhouse gases into minerals and warms itself up by releasing them via volcanoes.
But this model doesn't work on a water world, with deep water covering the rock and suppressing volcanoes.
Kite, and Penn State coauthor Eric Ford, wanted to know if there was another way. They set up a simulation with thousands of randomly generated planets, and tracked the evolution of their climates over billions of years.
"The surprise was that many of them stay stable for more than a billion years, just by luck of the draw," Kite said. "Our best guess is that it's on the order of 10 percent of them."
These lucky planets sit in the right location around their stars. They happened to have the right amount of carbon present, and they don't have too many minerals and elements from the crust dissolved in the oceans that would pull carbon out of the atmosphere. They have enough water from the start, and they cycle carbon between the atmosphere and ocean only, which in the right concentrations is sufficient to keep things stable.
"How much time a planet has is basically dependent on carbon dioxide and how it's partitioned between the ocean, atmosphere and rocks in its early years," said Kite. "It does seem there is a way to keep a planet habitable long-term without the geochemical cycling we see on Earth."
The simulations assumed stars that are like our own, but the results are optimistic for red dwarf stars, too, Kite said. Planets in red dwarf systems are thought to be promising candidates for fostering life because these stars get brighter much more slowly than our sun--giving life a much longer time period to get started. The same conditions modeled in this paper could be applied to planets around red dwarfs, they said: Theoretically, all you would need is the steady light of a star.
Computational resources were provided by the University of Chicago's Research Computing Center and the Pennsylvania State University's Institute for CyberScience.
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Like most of the waters off the West Coast, the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia was super salmon-friendly last year, according to a new report by Canada's Department of Fish and Oceans. In fact, these waters were the coldest of the past 50 years.
The report said phytoplankton and zooplankton concentrations were the highest over the latest decade of collecting data across the Gulf of Alaska. "The cause is yet uncertain, but injection of iron by winds or currents is suspected (iron is a limiting factor in this region), along with higher levels of nitrate and silicate in spring.
Oxygen levels remained high near the surface in early 2009, but generally declined in deep waters along the continental slope over the past few decades. "A sudden decline in bottom-water oxygen concentration in 2008 on the continental shelf was likely due to denser water with naturally low oxygen levels moving up onto the shelf in this year due to anomalous winds and currents. This oxygen drop may have been a factor in the movement of some groundfish species to shallower depths in 2008."
The report said despite relatively cool marine conditions the past two years, many BC salmon populations remained at low levels, due partly to warmer ocean water between 2003 and 2005. Sockeye numbers stayed low coastwide, "...with one notable exception being Okanagan sockeye that returned in record numbers in 2008."
Fraser sockeye populations continued to suffer from high pre-spawning mortality from high water temperatures in tributaries.
Southern BC coho populations remained at depressed levels, but northern populations improved.
"For chinook, the situation is somewhat reversed," said the report. "Northern populations continue to decline while the status of southern chinook is highly variable."
With improving ocean conditions, BC sockeye and coho that went to sea in 2008 are expected to return at average to above-average levels.
More than 10 million sockeye are predicted to return to the Fraser River this year. Less than 2 million returned last year.


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Most local Wichita elections see single-digit turnouts. What made 2021 so different?
Turnout increased in all three contested City Council districts. But disparities in voting numbers by district remain.
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At Riverside Christian Church on the morning of Nov. 2, the line to vote stretched almost out the door. The parking lot buzzed with cars bringing voters to exercise their civic duty.
On the ballot: not a president, state representatives or senators, nor even a mayor. Just three Wichita City Council races and four Wichita Board of Education contests.
"(Local elections) are the ones that hit my pavement when I walk out the door," said Michael Jensen, a Riverside resident who was in line to vote. "It's not issues that are on my Twitter feed or that are fed to me from somewhere."
Jensen was among a surge of residents helping push turnout to the highest levels for a non-mayoral Wichita election since 2005 — when a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex couples from marrying was on the ballot. The 15% turnout in 2021 nearly doubled the 8% turnout in 2017, significantly topped the 6% in 2013 and also outpaced the 9% total in 2009.
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These years — 2017, 2013 and 2009 — were the last in which the District 1, 3 and 6 seats were up for election at the same time as four at-large posts on the Wichita school board.
What's behind the increase in Wichita's voter turnout?
While the Sedgwick County Election Office was prepared for up to 30% turnout, officials were expecting much less, according to Election Commissioner Angela Caudillo.
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"We try and pick a number to prepare for, and usually that number is probably above what we think the likely scenario is," Caudillo said.
But Caudillo said she was not sure why turnout jumped compared with 2017.
Russell Arben Fox, a political science professor at Friends University, pointed to increased polarization across the country as a contributor.
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"The parties have become more polarized, and that activates more voters to declare themselves one way or another," Arben Fox said. "That boils down even to local elections."
Locally, that meant City Council and school board candidates — running for offices that are officially nonpartisan — affiliated themselves with national political parties, Arben Fox said.
"Because of these things going on nationally, local political operatives … see opportunities to motivate voters," Arben Fox said. "As voters themselves have become more partisan and more polarized, they take a look at elections and they look for party cues."
The Sedgwick County Republican Party endorsed four candidates for the Wichita school board — three of whom won. One of the four, Diane Albert, paid the organization $2,300 for mailers. The Sedgwick County Democratic Party also endorsed five candidates in USD 259 races, none of whom won.
In the City Council races, the county Democratic Party endorsed three candidates, all of whom won, while the county Republican Party endorsed two. Sedgwick County Democratic Women and Sedgwick County Grassroots Democrats also donated to two of the candidates. Plus, two candidates worked with the Ad Astra Group, whose managing member, Casey Yingling, is a former secretary of the Kansas Democratic Party.
Arben Fox pointed to partisan-tinted issues that took center stage prior to the election, including passage of the nondiscrimination ordinance by the City Council in October.
But Brian Amos, an assistant professor in Wichita State University's political science department, said City Council races were more competitive in 2021 than in past years. Candidates spent $145,956 leading up to this year's general election, which is about $120,875 more than in 2017. Exceptionally high voter turnout in 2020 also could have led to this year's increase in turnout, Amos added.
"People who are likely to turn out are ones who have come out before," Amos said.
Absentee and early ballots made up a significant portion of votes cast in the City Council races, perhaps a carryover from the push to vote absentee or early during the pandemic in 2020, Arben Fox said. In District 3, the number of early and absentee ballots in 2021 made up 79% of the total number of ballots cast in the 2017 election. And in District 6, at least 40% of all votes were early or absentee ballots.
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"That's huge," Arben Fox said. "Wichitans, like Americans in general, are embracing early voting and taking more seriously mail-in ballots, and this is increasing overall voter turnout."
Turnout differs across City Council districts
There was no line out the door to vote at the First United Pentecostal church in District 3 around noon on Nov. 2. The parking lot sat mostly quiet.
John Ellis, supervising judge at the site, said turnout this year felt a little bit slower than in the local elections he's worked over his past seven years as a poll worker. It's also his first time at the 310th Precinct, which saw one of the lowest turnouts among precincts in Districts 1, 3 and 6 in 2017, 2013 and 2009.
Riverside Christian Church, the polling place for the 607th Precinct in District 6, saw one of the highest.
These two polling sites mimic a larger trend in Wichita's off-year non-mayoral elections: consistently higher voter turnout in District 6 than in District 3.
Arben Fox and Amos both cited income and education as factors behind the discrepancy. Arben Fox said District 3 has higher unemployment levels and lower education levels. Amos said District 6 has a higher median income.
"Wealth usually means more people with more time to volunteer," Arben Fox said.
Richard Ruth, a member of the District 3 advisory board, said lack of turnout in his district may be influenced by the perception of local government.
"That's one of the problems: the perception that the city is not meeting the needs of the people in District 3," Ruth said.
This year, though, turnout surged in both Districts 3 and 6. Amos pointed out that these districts had the most competitive races — candidates in Districts 3 and 6 came within 3 and 10 percentage points of each other, respectively. By contrast, the winner in District 1 had a 58 percentage point lead.
In 2017, all three City Council races had a difference of at least 30 percentage points between candidates.
But Caudillo also pointed out that candidates in District 3 and 6 races sent campaign mailers with vote-by-mail applications.
"If candidates in those two areas did that, then you might see an increase in turnout," Caudillo said.
District 3 City Council member Jared Cerullo confirmed that he sent a mailer with vote-by-mail applications. Cerullo lost to Mike Hoheisel by about 3 percentage points — 50% to 47%, according to unofficial results from the Sedgwick County Election Office.
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News diary 6-12 August: English cricketer Ben Stokes affray trial begins and NASA to launch solar probe
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England all-rounder Ben Stokes (pictured) is due before Bristol Crown Court on Monday for the start of his affray trial. Stokes was charged after an incident outside a Bristol nightclub in September last year in which a man suffered a fractured eye socket, and the events led to his missing The Ashes tour last winter.
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The case is expected to take around five days to be heard, which means he would potentially be unavailable for selection when England face India in the second test match of their series on August 9.
Also on Monday former Donald Trump campaign director Paul Manafort appears for trial in Virginia on fraud charges. The case opened on 31 July and involves allegations concerning false tax returns, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, and bank fraud. The prosecution case was laid out in detail last week; Manafort faces life imprisonment if convicted.
America's withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal continues Monday with the expiration of a 90-day wind-down period, after which multiple sanctions are due to be re-imposed on Iran. The penalties cover areas such as the purchase of US banknotes, the Iranian automotive sector, and the Iranian trade in gold and precious metals.
On Tuesday the newly elected Colombian President, conservative Iván Duque, takes office. During the election campaign he was particularly critical of the peace accord with FARC guerrillas, prompting fears for the fledgling peace process that saw then-President Juan Manuel Santos awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He now faces the task of negotiating a similar agreement with the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last guerrilla group fighting against government forces in Colombia.
In Washington DC, Gavin Williamson delivers an address at the Atlantic Council on European security and the US-UK special relationship. The Defence Secretary has clashed with Downing Street several times since his promotion, notably on Army pay and a controversial Troubles amnesty, and he may use this opportunity to address the rumbling row over defence spending.
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A full slate of fixtures takes place over the rest of the weekend, with Sunday's clash between title holders Manchester City and an Arsene Wenger-less Arsenal the pick of the bunch.
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2 vendors have this plant for sale.2 members have or want this plant for trade.
This plant just really kicked in after about three years. It bloomed so little last year that I could not remember which clematis it was. It has bloomed for weeks this year. I love the color and size of the flowers!
I have an "Elsa Spath" clematis which I had outside last season and brought in for the winter. I love it! I had blooms throughout the winter and since I put it back out side two weeks ago it has grown almost 4 feet! It seems tolerant of drought as well. It gets beautiful 2-3" purple blooms and will flower many times during the growing season.
Awarded RHS Award of Garden Merit.
I've found this plant to be perfectly lovely! I love the softer color of purple, and I even have one that blooms in mostly shade conditions, although it's new this year. I guess "time will tell" as to future years!
I adore clematis in general, and have LOTS of 'em! The neighbors love it, too!
Lovely vine. big purple flowers. plant in full sun.
I have tried to grow the clematis for 5 years, and have no success. I've tried different areas in my yard, and no success. My soil is black with quite a bit of clay, and acidic. Is this my problem? Please someone answer, as I would love to grow one. The last one I tried lasted 2 years, and bloomed beautifully, but last winter our frost line went down 97 inches. So I suppose that could be a factor too. I live in the U.P. of Michigan, and it's very cold here in winter.


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Why Classics?
This is an article I was asked to write for the school magazine, and I decided to post it on here as well since I'd already written it. I hope you like it.
In today's increasingly forward-looking and modern world, it would be easy to ask what the point is of such a backwards-looking subject as Classics. Does the subject still hold relevance, or is it a relic of the past? I strongly believe that this isn't the case; the ancient world does indeed have relevance today, just as much as ever, and there is still a point to studying it.
More so than any other subject, Classics is wonderfully diverse. Topics can range from Roman politics in Cicero's republic to Greek tragedy, and in addition there are several more unusual areas of study such as Classical reception (the impact of the ancient world on our own). This variety is something that makes the study of the ancient world fairly unique. Unlike in most subjects, which involve choosing a specialisation to pursue, studying the ancient world allows you instead to choose a period of history spanning over 1000 years and then to gain a far broader understanding of the myriad of different cultures that co-existed within that era.
As well as being very diverse subject, the subject has practical benefits in learning a second language such as French, Spanish or Italian. While most people will learn a modern language before they do an ancient one, studying Latin makes it far easier to acquire a second or a third one since these languages all share a root in Latin (as an aside, I recently saw a safety warning in Spanish, and found I was able to identify a purpose clause and a subjunctive; clearly it does help, since I've never studied the language). English is also partially has its origins in Latin, although indirectly through French, and so understanding this language allows us to develop a greater proficiency with our own. This can only be a good thing.
In studying Classics you can develop a diverse set of skills, such as presenting and engaging in debates, as well as less common ones such as analysing source material. These are transferable, and can be applied to a wide range of situations. Due to its demanding nature, it is well regarded as by employers and marks you out as an individual, rather unsurprisingly; the skills gained through studying an ancient language, as well as the culture surrounding it, makes you pretty unique as a potential employee.
Forget the misconception that Classics is a long dead subject, because it's not the case. The study of the ancient world is still very much alive and relevant in today's society, and there are plenty of reasons to do so. There's also just something special about being able to read what was written over two millennia ago! I shall finish, as any Classicist should do, with a quote from Cicero which nicely sums up the most important reason of all; 'to know nothing about the past is to forever be a child'.
Thank you for reading, and feel free to give me your opinions below.
Gracchus and the shutdown
Recently in America, there's been a great deal of opposition to the passing of Obama's Affordable Care Act. This resulted in the shutdown of the US government as the Republicans attempted to block the act. The whole situation reminded me of a similar one in 133 BC, when the tribune Tiberius Gracchus proposed the lex sempronia agraria, intended to redistribute land to the poor of Rome. Likewise, this was opposed by the Senate and led to the city grinding to a halt.
In Gracchus' case, this was done using the veto which all tribunes were entitled to use, when the tribune Octavius blocked the land act. In response, Gracchus barred the ceremonies which allowed the daily opening of the markets and temples, and as a result the city was effectively closed for business until the law was passed (as this recent documentary shows). In some ways this appears to be quite similar to the US shutdown. Although they share a number of similarities, what interested me most were the differences between them.
One significant difference between the two is the cause of the shutdown. Gracchus himself closed down Rome, which forced the Senate to pass the law in order to reopen the city, while in the US the Republicans stopped the government in opposition to the healthcare act, imposing the deadline on Obama. In this respect, the recent crisis was somewhat more serious; Gracchus held all the cards, while Obama had a far stronger opposition to his legislation.
The other main difference between the two was the impact they had. In the America, because the budget had been refused, nearly all government funded services such as museums and libraries were suspended (exceptions included defence and emergency services). On the other hand, all businesses continued to trade and were mostly unaffected, although the stock market was significantly impacted. Gracchus on the other hand, by closing the temples and markets, brought the entire city to a standstill. Obviously this was far more of a disruption to day to day life than in the recent US shutdown, however it was free of the impending financial crisis that threatened last month. This means that the more recent situation was far more serious and would have affected more people globally, however it was also less disruptive to day to day life.
Something else to consider is the outcome for the parties involved. Gracchus' use of the veto enhanced his reputation in Rome and was successful in passing the lex sepronia agraria, but ultimately led to his death. Like Tiberius Gracchus, Obama's reputation was somewhat improved following the shutdown, due to his refusal to back down on his principles. On the other hand, the Republicans damaged their image by blocking the healthcare act, in a similar manner to the Roman senators who opposed the people. It's relatively difficult to judge who came out better out of Gracchus and Obama, since Gracchus died as a result of his veto but ensured that his stand for the people would be remembered for 2000 years.
There are a number of parallels between Gracchus' shutdown and the more recent one, since they both helped to bring the laws being discussed to the attention of the public. However there are also some key differences, in the way that politicians tried to use them as a threat both to pass and block legislation. Regardless, it's an interesting comparison to make, and one which shows that very little is ever new. What do you think?


Ever since I used hulled pearl millet in this dosa for the first time, pearl millet has become a regular addition to my grocery list. I've been wanting to experiment with it a lot more , but for now I have been using it in a variety of dosa recipes. Recently for the first time I tried it in adai. For those you unfamiliar with adai, it is a very nutritious and filling kind of dhal dosa / savory crepe traditionally made with rice and a mixture of lentils.
A little extra sesame oil to shallow fry the adai/ dhal dosa.
In a large bowl mix together, millet, rice and lentils. Fill with water, swirl with hand and drain water. Rinse once or twice more, fill with sufficient water and allow to soak for 3 to 4 hours.
Drain the water and grind in batches with green chilies, dry chilies, ginger and water as needed. The grains need only to be of a coarse texture so you do not need to grind it smooth.The batter needs to be on the thicker side, not runny so do not use water too liberally when grinding the batter.
Add salt to taste, asafoetida powder to the batter and mix well. This batter can be used immediately or can be refrigerated for upto 4 days and used as needed to make adai (crepe).
When making adai, heat a flat pan/ griddle/ tawa on medium heat. When hot, pour a little batter on the center of the pan/ tawa and quickly spread it into a thin circle. Pour a few drops of sesame oil around the circumference of the adai. When the lower side is golden brown, flip over and cook the other side until it has a few brownish/golden spots on it.
Serve hot with chutney of choice, honey or jaggery / Gud/ vellam or with aviyal.


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Kampung Malays: surviving modernity
Moten, Abdul Rashid and Wahiddin, Mohamed Ridza (2019) Kampung Malays: surviving modernity. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. ISBN 978-967-491-014-3
Official URL: https://www.iiumbookshop.com/general-reading/kampu...
Modernization has led to changes in people's lifestyle and their worldviews. The traditional form of life was governed by a set of community-validated patterns of behaviour with individuals assuming a relatively fixed role in society. Modernity led to the replacement of communal solidarity with interest associations. It encourages migration from rural areas to urban centres and makes people insecure due to the loss of family ties. Malaysia is also affected by its march towards industrialization and modernization which gave rise to a sizable new middle class. The traditional ways of life of the Malays have been affected. Nevertheless, the distinctive cultural traits endure over long periods of time albeit with the active reinvention and reincorporation of certain traits of modernization. To what extent has modernization changed the Malaysian landscape and how much their inhabitants especially the Kampung Malays have embraced this line of progress. How has this development impacted the rural grassroots level individuals? The traditions that survived after these tumultuous changes are the focus of this book which is based upon a socio-economicand religious survey carried out on selected samples and thus renders it original in the empirical sense.
Kampung Malays, rural delopments, Malaysia, villagers, Malays and social life
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races > HT401 Rural groups. Rural sociology
Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology
Professor Abdul Rashid Moten


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No 'current' plans to force schools into multi-academy trusts, says Williamson
Freddie Whittaker
8 Mar 2021, 5:00
There are "currently no plans" to legislate to force schools to join multi-academy trusts, the education secretary has said, after he revealed the government wanted "far more schools" in the clusters by 2025.
Gavin Williamson told the Foundation for Education Development's inaugural summit that partnerships between schools were "fundamental", especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, adding the government was "actively looking" at how to get more schools into MATs.
There's certainly currently no plans to legislate, but I think the pandemic has shown the strength of creating these families of schools
But speaking to Schools Week, the education secretary said he was proposing to promote to leaders the "real benefits of being part of a family of schools", rather than changing the law to force them in.
Williamson told the summit on Monday that multi-academy trusts were "powerful vehicles for improving schools by sharing expertise, working collaboratively and driving improvements".
"By 2025, we want to see far more schools residing in strong families than we do today, and we're actively looking at how we can make that happen."
Williamson spoke to Schools Week later in the week following a visit to City Heights Academy in south London, which is part of the 28-school E-ACT academy trust.
"Talking to the teachers, pupils, headteacher, everyone there, you really saw the benefit they'd had of being in a family of schools," he said.
"There's certainly currently no plans to legislate, but I think the pandemic has shown the strength of creating these families of schools, these strong clusters, the benefit of schools working together, really driving performance."
Multi-academy trusts seen as main route to school improvement
Although it abandoned plans to force all schools to become academies in favour of a more woolly ambition in 2016, the government has made it clear that MATs are its preferred vehicle for school improvement.
It comes amid concerns about a fragmented school system, with the majority of secondary schools now academies but most primary schools still being local authority-maintained.
Ministers have sought to increase participation by providing growth funding for MATs, and through moves to rebroker struggling academies into larger groups.
However, the jury is still out on whether MATs are the right vehicle for school-to-school collaboration.
A 2019 report from the EDSK think tank called for a single unified school system, with the terms "academies" and "free schools" abandoned and MATs renamed as "national school trusts".
Tom Richmond
Tom Richmond, the report's author and a former DfE adviser, said it was "widely accepted" that having all schools operate within a strong and successful partnership is the "right way forward", but said it was "wrong to assume that a MAT is the only possible way of achieving this goal".
"Given the enormous strain that schools are under right now due to the pandemic, it would be disappointing to see the government expend precious resources trying to convert more maintained schools into academies when there is still no convincing evidence that academies outperform other institutions."
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders' union, told the summit the "structural conversation" proposed by the education secretary was "a diversion away from creating the trust that we need to be innovative in taking things forward".
Neville A Brown 8 March 2021
It is a nonsense to add te COVID expeereince to support the case for MATS.
Where is the evidence ?! Look objectively at the individual success of Community schools who have tailored to local needs and opportunities.
8 March 2021 at 11:52 am
Henry Walton 8 March 2021
Looks like Gavlar's trying to play that game where you smuggle a truth into a stream of bollocks. But he's forgotten to include it.
Peter Read 9 March 2021
Here's a thought! Why not create families of schools, strong clusters, able to take advantage of the benefit of schools working together, really driving performance, by grouping them into clusters based on Local Authority boundaries.
Mark Watson 10 March 2021
Here's another thought. The current Government made very clear in its electioneering that they were strongly in favour of the academies programme. If it wasn't clear enough Labour and the unions did everything they could to make sure (a) people knew this was the Tory platform, and (b) Labour was standing on the opposing platform of increasing local authority involvement.
And as we all know, the current Government won a thumping majority. So if we believe in democracy and accountability, the arguments constantly put forward by opponents of academies, why is the election result ignored?


Google Music elevates your music media to the Cloud. It allows you access to all your songs anywhere in the world, purchase music (only when based in US), and download them back to your computer or phone for offline access when needed. The only catch: Google Music would not work in Singapore as you would need to be 'based' in US for the initial registration. And location can easily be spoofed.
Download and install Hide-My-Ip which comes with a 14 day trial. Choose a US Proxy.
Turn on Incognito mode or Privacy mode for your browser. This ensures a clean new connection without any pre-existing cookie or cache.
Visit music.google.com or through play.google.com and start using the service. You can try adding a couple of the free playlists and upload a couple of songs through the music manager. The upload feature continues to work even after you deactivate the proxy.
And that's it. Google music activated. The Play Store limits access to the Google Music application if you are not in US but you can download it separately through the XDA Forums.Note: You can probably use other VPN services such as anonymisers or hotspot shield, but the easiest way for me was through SuperFreeVPN and then Hide-My-Ip.
Did it worked for you? Let me know through the comments, thanks!
I am in the process of moving my music collection on to Google Music.The free online storage locker for music has space for up to 20,000 songs that can be streamed through a browser on any computer or mobile device (including even iOS). With all my devices connected to the net, I don't see a need for storing them on my hard disk offline and well, for those devices that I need to transfer music to, it shouldn't be that much of a hassle to download a couple of albums or play lists for offline access. The quality of the music through the browser interface is good and it has a Pandora-esque instant mix function for quickly finding similar songs catered to your taste. It looks like it will take at least another two more weeks before I finish uploading all my songs, but the cloud does indeed seem the way to go.
Jailbreaking lifts the limitations set by Apple and allows developers to expand the features on your iOS device (iPod / iPhone / iPad. More importantly, jailbreak is not illegal in the United States! However, with every iteration of iOS, there's less reasons to jailbreak and increasingly, it has become harder too.
Update your device to iOS 5.1.1 through iTunes.
Download Absynthe and extract the app to your desktop. Plug in your device, open Absynthe, quit iTunes (if its not closed automatically), and click the jailbreak button.
Be patient. Your device will go into a fake restore session and reboot. When it reboots, DO NOT TOUCH IT OR UNPLUG IT. You will be notified on-screen when Absynthe completes the jailbreak. When it's done, you can unplug your device from your computer.
And, it's done. It IS really that simple.
As of last count, Android's Market has approximately 250,000+ apps to iOS Appstore of 350,000+. The numbers are steadily increasing and while the total number is not representative of the quality of the apps or the platform, it is a healthy sign indicating that the Android platform has attracted its fair share of developers. Having used Android for some time, I will recommending my favourite apps that I can't seem to do without.
1) Pulse Reader – Pulse is a popular RSS Feed Reader for the Android Platform. The reason is simple. It is breathtakingly beautiful. It presents the newsfeed in a colourful interactive mosaic that maximises the use of the touch screen, i.e. both horizontal and vertical scrolling. While it may sound complex at first, the navigation is intuitive. It is easy to browse through the articles and a clean and elegant in-depth view is readily available at a click.
2) imo.IM – my current Instant Messenger of choice is the imo.IM beta. It provides a clean interface, tabbed chats, supports different IM protocols (Facebook Chat, Google Talk, MSN, Skype and more). Also, it allows multiple logins for MSN which doesn't seem to work with the other clients, like Meebo, Palringo etc. The simplicity is one of its biggest attractions. It doesn't try to add in too many extra features, bloating the memory footprint. It just does exactly what it needs to, and it does it well.
3) MoboPlayer – By far, the best video player on Android! It supports a large range of video format, from the standard AVI, MP4, MKV and even the more obscure RMVB format. It has subtitles support and has a clean library interface with auto-thumbnail generation. It does not add any watermark to the video, providing a sleek interface and none of the other competitors in the video playback category comes close. It's a must have software for my nook color.
4) ³ (cubed) – The default Android music player is just average, and is strikingly lacklustre if you were to compare it to Apple's alternative. If you are a frequent music listener, there are much better options out there, and for me, that option is ³. Your album list is displayed as a cube that, when you swipe up and down, spins around, scrolling through your albums. You can also swipe left and right to scroll through the alphabet instead of through your albums (which makes the process a bit faster). It has album-art fetching, and a last.fm plugin.
5) Adilko – I was looking for the Nook application when I stumbled upon Adilko and that stopped my search for an eBook reader. It supports a variety of formats and notably ePub, the industry standard format for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs on thousands of books (including thousands of free public domain work) and downloading them directly into your personal library. The application features a day / night reading mode and the standard tweaks to borders / font sizes and also features a bookshelf-like user interface that allows for easy browsing and navigation of the books.
Hello! Welcome to GadgetReactor. We are a technology blog in Singapore and you read more about us here. As the iPad 2 starts making its launch around the world, an unknown little tablet has grown in popularity and started creating its own waves in the budget tablet department. The Barnes and Noble Nook Color is a 7 inch e-reader, developed based on Android. It has a brilliant display, 16 million colors on a top of the line IPS display, with a resolution of 1024 x 600. It is remarkably similar to the specs of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, differing in the availability of the 3G connection, GPS, camera, and an inbuilt microphone. The caveat is that a stock Nook Color from B&N has majority of the android functions disabled as it is primarily an e-reader, but it can easily be hacked to unleash the full potential. Oh, I also forget to mention, the Galaxy Tab retails at approximately S$988 while the Nook Color can be purchased for US$249 or approximately S$345 with shipping included.
The Nook has a nice charcoal colored case, that has adequate heft and provides a sturdy feel to the tablet. Even though it's constructed of plastic, it doesn't feel cheap. The back of the Nook is made of a soft rubbery material, which gives it some extra grip. The bottom corner is open like a loop, though it is more of a design feature than being useful for anything.
While using it as an e-reader is all fine and dandy, the real fun comes in when you hack the Nook for the full functionality it can offer. First up, there are multiple options available for the Nook in terms of the Android Operating System, ranging from Eclair (2.1), Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3) and Honeycomb (3.0). I have tried Eclair, Gingerbread and Honeycomb and am now predominantly on Gingerbread. It offers the nice compromise between stability (Eclair) and cutting edge development (Honeycomb). In Gingerbread, the interface has been tweaked and it runs a little snappier. Flash 10.1 is available and majority of the apps in the Android market are available. The current disadvantage is that Graphics Acceleration is still not available on Gingerbread. In comparison, the basic Eclair (version the Nook was developed on) has the full functionality. I am currently running Cyanogen Mod 7, based on Gingerbread 2.3.3 which receives tonnes of developer attention and majority of the new developments for the Nook will be seen here. As we speak, basic hardware acceleration for CM7 is has been achieved and though slow, it is a promising sign that we will see full functionality very soon. Honeycomb is also seeing some promising development, with full 2D hardware acceleration in all applications. Exciting times are just round the corner.
There are multiple ways to use a customised ROM on your Nook Color.
The easiest method would be to copy the ROM image to your micro SD card and boot your nook with the mSD card loaded. It is as simple as that. A decent image writer will be the win32 image writer (https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer). SD images for NC can easily be obtained from XDA Sub-Forums : Barnes & Noble Nook Color. Currently, CM7 (Gingerbread 2.3), Honeycomb (3.0) and Nookie Froyo (2.2) have an SmD boot image for you to experiment the various features and trial the roms before you commit to your preferred version. The disadvantage is that this a rom running off mSD is slow and is not optimised, often resulting in laggy performance.
The next method involves flashing the eMMC, which is the Nook embedded storage.
Put rom zip file (don't need to extract) at root of mSD.
Put the mSD into your NC. Turn it on.
You should see a screen with a lot of options in text. To select use the home (n) button. To go back/up one menu use the power button. To scroll use the volume up and down buttons.
Navigate to Mount and Storage. format all of the following: data, system,and cache. Each require you to separately navigate down to YES to wipe.
Go back to Main Menu. Select 'mounts and storage' and press 'unmount sdcard'.
Take out mSD. Go back to main menu again and press 'reboot into system'. Your device will now reboot with the new ROM boot up.
Update (May 2012): The Nook Color has been replaced by the Nook Tablet, which offers a better processor, more ram, and larger storage. However, android development on the Nook Color is still very much active, and despite the lower-end specs, it is still quite usable in today's context. CM7 has full features activated on the Nook Color, with full hardware acceleration, bluetooth, video playback activated. With the launch of Ice Cream Sandwich, developers are actively trying to bring a stable version to the Nook Color. The XDA Developer Forums are very active and do visit there for the latest details on how to bring the CM9 and ICS 4 experience on to the Nook Color.


The last four games of the Sweet 16 tips off on March 29 and it promises to be a great day of college basketball March Madness action.
This will be the first meeting between LSU and Michigan State and it should be a great contest.
Both teams have looked good and bad at times this season, but it has been the Spartans that have looked better during March Madness to date.
With wins over Bradley and Minnesota, with the latter coming by 20 points, Michigan State are in good order coming into the Sweet 16.
LSU lost their coach towards the end of the season but they're fighting strong with tournament wins over Yale and Maryland. Both were narrow wins (5 and 2 points) but they were tough affairs.
Bookmakers aren't giving LSU much respect in the spread, which is currently set at 6. This game should be closer than they're predicting and LSU could test Michigan State.
We expect a tight game and although the Spartans should win, we like LSU to keep it close.
Two quality teams meet in this Sweet 16 clash, with the winner likely to be the favourite in the Elite 8 match up.
Auburn has yet to face North Carolina in the history of these two programs, which is surprising given their talents.
North Carolina has played like a #1 seed throughout the season, notching a famous win over Duke along the way. With a player like Cam Johnston leading the way, the Tar Heels could be good enough to progress through to the National Championship.
They took care of Iona and Washington in the tournament so far, despite being down at the half against Iona in Round 2.
Auburn, on the other hand, have scrapped their way to victory. They defeated New Mexico State by one point in the opening round before winning more comfortably last time on court.
Bookmakers are treading carefully with this game.
We respect the ability of Auburn but there's a sense of pride with this North Carolina team and we think they could go all the way this season.
Bookmakers have the line currently set at 5 and that should play into the hands of Tar Heels' bettors here.
This game will attract a big audience, as any game involved Zion Williamson and the Duke Blue Devils will.
Virginia Tech and Duke have a long history and it has been Tech which has had the upper hand in recent games. They have won the last two meetings against Duke, including a 77-72 win in February.
That will play on the mind of the Duke players, considering they only narrowly defeated UCF by a point in Round 2. Some would say they were lucky to get away with the win and it certainly would have been the upset of the tournament.
It was an easier road to the Sweet 16 for Virginia Tech, which comfortable defeated St. Louis and Liberty. They're now facing the acid test of Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett and a host of other future NBA players.
Virginia Tech's win earlier this season is going to get them plenty of confidence in this game. It's tough to bet against Duke, considering the talent they have on the court but Tech is a team not to be taken lightly.
We think Duke will come out on top, but it won't be a blowout.
A tight battle is expected in the final Sweet 16 game of the year as the Cougars face the Wildcats.
This is the first meeting between Houston and Kentucky.
The Wildcats had some nervous moments last week when beating Wofford by only six points and being behind for a majority of the game.
Houston didn't have any troubles in putting away Ohio State, scoring by 74-59, and they're a confident side that has the ability to take down this slightly undersized Kentucky team.
Kentucky isn't as strong as it used to be and one-year players going to the NBA has hurt their team this season. That could be Houston's gain and we're smelling a minor upset.
Houston is a –3 underdog in this game but based on form, they could well have been the favorite.
They have been playing better basketball than Kentucky and we're confident they'll at least keep it close.


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Q: AngularJS form validation ngMessages not working with multi-step form I am using AngularJS 1.5, ui-router for state management and ngMessages for validation and ngMaterial for UI. I have one main view contained in myformView.html and I load inside it two states (firstPartView.html and secondPartView.html).
I followed this tutorial to create multi-step form.
myformView.html:
   <form name="vm.myForm" ng-submit="vm.submit()">

   </form>

firstPartView.html:
  <md-input-container class="md-block" flex-gt-sm>
   First name (required)
   <input name="firstName" ng-model="vm.user.firstName" ng-pattern="/^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$/" required>

  div ng-message="required">Your first name is required!

div ng-message="pattern">Your first name should only contains valid characters!

secondPartView.html:
<md-button type="submit" ng-disabled="vm.myForm.$invalid" class="md-primary md-raised">Sign up</md-button>
<md-button type="reset" ng-click="vm.resetForm()" class="md-primary">Reset</md-button>

State Handling:
 .state("registration", {
                      url: "/register",
                      templateUrl: "app/register/myformView.html",
                      controller: "myformController as vm"
                  })
                      .state("registration.first", {
                          url: "/first",
                          templateUrl: "app/register/firstPartView.html.html"
                      })
                      .state("register.second", {
                          url: "/second",
                          templateUrl: "app/register/secondPartView.html"
                      })

Now the validation is not applied correctly and I don't know if this is due to multi-step form or not? For example, if the user didn't input anything in the first name input, the submit button should be disabled due to

ng-disabled="vm.myForm.$invalid"

but this is not happening, any help?
Update:
I want to mention that the example I wrote above is too lightweight of an example for my real code, so I tried to do that below:

Typing this generated too large of a JSON object for the first view.

THE OUTPUT:

First View:
    {
  "$error": {
    "required": [
      {
        "$validators": {},
        "$asyncValidators": {},
        "$parsers": [
          null
        ],
        "$formatters": [
          null,
          null
        ],
        "$viewChangeListeners": [],
        "$untouched": true,
        "$touched": false,
        "$pristine": true,
        "$dirty": false,
        "$valid": false,
        "$invalid": true,
        "$error": {
          "required": true
        },
        "$name": "firstName",
        "$options": null
      },
      {
        "$validators": {},
        "$asyncValidators": {},
        "$parsers": [
          null
        ],
        "$formatters": [
          null,
          null
        ],
        "$viewChangeListeners": [],
        "$untouched": true,
        "$touched": false,
        "$pristine": true,
        "$dirty": false,
        "$valid": false,
        "$invalid": true,
        "$error": {
          "required": true
        },
        "$name": "lastName",
        "$options": null
      },
      {
        "$validators": {},
        "$asyncValidators": {},
        "$parsers": [
          null
        ],
        "$formatters": [
          null,
          null
        ],
        "$viewChangeListeners": [],
        "$untouched": true,
        "$touched": false,
        "$pristine": true,
        "$dirty": false,
        "$valid": false,
        "$invalid": true,
        "$error": {
          "required": true
        },
        "$name": "email",
        "$options": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "$name": "vm.myForm",
  "$dirty": false,
  "$pristine": true,
  "$valid": false,
  "$invalid": true,
  "$submitted": false,
  "profilePicture": {
    "$validators": {},
    "$asyncValidators": {},
    "$parsers": [
      null
    ],
    "$formatters": [
      null
    ],
    "$viewChangeListeners": [],
    "$untouched": true,
    "$touched": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$dirty": false,
    "$valid": true,
    "$invalid": false,
    "$error": {},
    "$name": "profilePicture",
    "$options": null
  },
  "firstName": {
    "$validators": {},
    "$asyncValidators": {},
    "$parsers": [
      null
    ],
    "$formatters": [
      null,
      null
    ],
    "$viewChangeListeners": [],
    "$untouched": true,
    "$touched": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$dirty": false,
    "$valid": false,
    "$invalid": true,
    "$error": {
      "required": true
    },
    "$name": "firstName",
    "$options": null
  },
  "lastName": {
    "$validators": {},
    "$asyncValidators": {},
    "$parsers": [
      null
    ],
    "$formatters": [
      null,
      null
    ],
    "$viewChangeListeners": [],
    "$untouched": true,
    "$touched": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$dirty": false,
    "$valid": false,
    "$invalid": true,
    "$error": {
      "required": true
    },
    "$name": "lastName",
    "$options": null
  },
  "email": {
    "$validators": {},
    "$asyncValidators": {},
    "$parsers": [
      null
    ],
    "$formatters": [
      null,
      null
    ],
    "$viewChangeListeners": [],
    "$untouched": true,
    "$touched": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$dirty": false,
    "$valid": false,
    "$invalid": true,
    "$error": {
      "required": true
    },
    "$name": "email",
    "$options": null
  },
  "phoneNumber": {
    "$validators": {},
    "$asyncValidators": {},
    "$parsers": [
      null
    ],
    "$formatters": [
      null,
      null
    ],
    "$viewChangeListeners": [],
    "$untouched": true,
    "$touched": false,
    "$pristine": true,
    "$dirty": false,
    "$valid": true,
    "$invalid": false,
    "$error": {},
    "$name": "phoneNumber",
    "$options": null
  }
}

Second View:
{
  "$error": {},
  "$name": "vm.myForm",
  "$dirty": false,
  "$pristine": true,
  "$valid": true,
  "$invalid": false,
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Participants enjoy ice fishing on Lake Bemidji.
A participant showing off her catch of the day.
Bemidji State University's Fossil Fuel-Free Fish House and Hardwater Ice Lab provided shelter at the event.
Participants weigh and measure fish inside BSU's the Fossil Fuel- Free Fish House.
Area ice fishing enthusiasts gathered at Bemidji's Diamond Point Park on Jan. 26 to participate in the third annual student-run "Beaver Freeze" tournament, co-hosted by Bemidji State University's Outdoor Program Center and Department of Campus Recreation.
Baylee Johnson, a senior aquatic biology student from Bemidji, Minn. helped establish the Beaver Freeze in 2017 and worked with Bemidji State's American Fisheries Society to coordinate the 2019 event.
This year's event drew 95 participants. 85 fish were registered with the largest being a 4.2 pound Northern Pike.


Unity Fest celebrated its 10th anniversary on Tuesday when it returned to the East Tennessee State University Amphitheater.
The event, which is sponsored by the Black Affairs Alliance and the Multicultural Center, aims to create cultural unity on campus.
Free food and drinks were available with a live band called Natty's Common Roots performing and a variety of booths, including free give-a-ways, were present.
To promote the idea of unity, food was of Nigerian, Liberian, Middle Eastern, Hispanic and Chinese cultures.
Booths present included Black Affairs, South Asian Cultural Exchange, Chinese Student Scholars, National Panhellenic Council, Muslim Students, Quest, the Language and Cultural Resource Center, Umoja, Kappa Delta, Hispanic American Student Community Alliance, Alpha Delta Pi, A Little DAB, Taylor Made Barbers, International Buccaneer Buddy Program and Student Abroad.
It was the first time that Rana Zakaria, who ran the Muslim booth, had attended Unity Fest. Her booth included a board of all Middle Eastern countries and facts that not many people know about the areas as well as traditional clothing for people to try on.
One fact in particular on her board was that, in two-thirds of Middle Eastern countries, more women than men attend university.
Zakaria says that she will be attending the event again next year.
Other booths involved fun games, like jenga at the Hispanic American Community Alliance booth, as well as jewelry and clothing at others.
Visitors could even see haircuts at the Taylor Made Barber Shop booth.
With a diverse turnout of students in attendance, Unity Fest lasted from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Here's to another 10 years of unity at ETSU.
Brittnee is a sophomore from Elizabethton, Tennessee. She is a Journalism major and an English minor.


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United May Squeeze Nike After Record GM Deal
Manchester United convinced General Motors Co. (GM) to pay a record $559 million to have its Chevrolet brand on the team's red jersey. Now, the 19-time English soccer champion is ready to play hard ball with Nike Inc. (NKE), its maker.
United, which this week announced its first results since August's initial public offering, got 33.8 million pounds ($54.7 million) in retail sales for the year ended June 30. That's mainly from its 13-year, 303 million-pound contract with Nike, which gives the Oregon-based company control over the club's complete merchandise sales operations, including the jersey.
"We continue to believe that there will be an opportunity to reset our existing deal with Nike to market rates," United's executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said on a conference call with analysts after the team announced a fourth-quarter loss of 14.9 million pounds. "There have been many changes to the world of football since this deal was negotiated in 2001."
Woodward's optimism may have been fueled by the seven-year GM deal, which the club says is the largest such agreement in sports. The carmaker will pay more than double current jersey sponsor Aon Corp.'s 20 million pounds a season when it takes over in 2014. Even before then it's paying almost $18 million for each of the next two seasons as part of the agreement.
When United enters its exclusive negotiating period over a renewal with Nike in February, Woodward may point to new entrants in the soccer apparel market from the U.S.
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Q: Persist object with LazyObjectStorages I am currently implementing a web application in TYPO3 7/Extbase which has a complex object structure consisting of a root object and a tree of child objects.
Let's say it resembles a more complex version of:
Object A <--1:n--> Object B <--1:n--> Object C
Since instances of object a are aggregate roots I use an Object-A-Repository to persist the tree.
This worked well, for performance reasons I switched many of the relations to lazy loading though (making their object stoages lazy). This sped up the application immensely, but not all update() calls to the Object-A-Repository seem to work anymore. The problem occurs in cases where a method receives an object of type C, changes it and needs to persist the changes. C has parent links to his parent B, and B has a parent link to A (the lazy object storage's counterparts).
The problem seems to be related to the LazyObjectStorages not replacing themselves with the actual content (because the A object didn't use it's "side" of the relation in this case). If I call DebuggerUtility::var_dump() on the object before updating it, persistence works perfectly. If I don't, the database does not change.
Is there a way to force an object to load all it's lazy storages? Or should I go about solving this another way?

A: If one action does only change Object C, why dont use a separat Repository for that model? You can very easily provide a repository in extbase.
I dont see any bad practice or problem in this case. By default typo3 will only persist the number of relations into the database field for objects_c, so you only need to persist changes via the aggregate root, if you add or remove objects. A simple update would work perfectly fine using a sub repository for ObjectC.
If you really need to do it via the aggregate root, you should make sure there is no LazyObjectStorage anymore.
By invoking one function of the concrete object, LazyObjectStorage will exchange its parents property (so the pointer to itself) with the real ObjectStorage.
For example
$objectA->getObjectsB()->current();

will set the property objectsB in $objectA as ObjectStorage (with all relations).
Other methods like $objectA->getObjectsB()->toArray() will work too of course.


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Krista Formanek, DPT, received her doctor of physical therapy degree from the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. Her special area of interests include orthopedics and sports medicine. She is trained in video gait analysis and is also a personal trainer/group fitness instructor. In her free time she enjoys running, biking, Pilates and yoga.
In the articles reviewed regarding conservative versus surgical management of patellofemoral pain, all of the articles suggested conservative management should be the first attempt. This statement is based on the fact that the cause of patellofemoral pain syndrome is uncertain and can be caused by an array of possible dusfunctions. Calpur et al (2002) reported that surgical intervention should be performed as the last option after conservative management has failed. Physical therapists can treat conservatively until improvements are no longer apparent, then referral for diagnostic imaging may be necessary to identify another possible cause. Physical therapy may not be able to correct anatomical misalignments; therefore, patients with these types of dysfunctions would be candidates for surgical interventions. According to Bruce and Stevens (2004), patient's reported full satisfaction with the rotational osteotomies of the femur and tibia, however, the outcome measures used in this study were not valid, reliable or functionally related. Based on the poor research design of the two surgical articles, the benefits of surgical outcomes remain questionable.
Patellofemoral pain would be best treated with conservative interventions. A treatment program including both open kinetic chain (OKC) and closed kinetic chain (CKC) exercises focusing on hip flexion strength has shown to decrease pain (Tyler et al, 2006). The study also noted that improvements in flexibility of iliotibial band (ITB) and iliopsoas muscles contributed to decreased patellofemoral pain. However, it remains to be determined whether a treatment protocol that exclusively focuses on hip flexion strengthening and ITB and iliopsoas stretching would prove more effective in the treatment of patellofemoral pain than the comprehensive protocol used in this study. Witvrouw et al (2000) reported no significant differences in improvements between OKC compared to CKC exercises with both types of exercise improving pain, function, strength and muscle length.
If patients are willing to participate in an exercise program, patellar taping as performed in the study by Whittingham (2004), would be an effective adjunctive therapy to aid in improving acute patellofemoral pain. If tape is applied correctly, patellar taping is a safe addition to an exercise program consisting of strengthening and stretching and can be beneficial for physical therapists to try with their patients. However, physical therapists need to reinforce to their patients that taping is not a cure and adherence to their home exercise program is essential. Another possible adjunct to the exercise program is foot orthoses. Physical therapists may be able to use the following three predictions in their decision to recommend an off-the-shelf foot orthotic: forefoot valgus alignment of greater than equal to 2°, passive great toe extension of less than or equal to 78°, and navicular drop of less than or equal to 3 mm (Sutlive et al, 2004). Seventy-two percent of the 45 subjects reported at least a 50% decrease in pain with orthotic use and activity modification. However, the navicular drop and forefoot to rearfoot alignment measurements have low interrater reliability, in addition to the lack of a control group in the study. Therefore, activity modification may have given a false sense of improvement when using the orthotic. With this in mind, an educational approach similar to that of patellar taping is needed. Orthotics should not cause any serious negative effects in patients and for that reason can be used as an adjunct to physical therapy. Again, patients need to understand that orthotic or tape use alone will not decrease their pain or dysfunction completely.
1. Calpur O, Tan L, et al. Arthroscopic mediopatellar plicaectomy and lateral retinacular release in mechanical patellofemoral disorders. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2002; 10:177-183.
2. Bruce WD, Stevens PM. Surgical Correction of Miserable Malalignment Syndrome. J Pediatr Orthop. 2004; 24(4):392-396.
3. Tyler TF, Nicholas SJ, et al. The Role of Hip Muscle Function in the treatment of patellofemoral pain syndrome. Am J Sports Med. 2006; 34:630-636.
4. Sutlive TG, Mitchell SD, et al. Identification of individuals with patellofemoral pain whose symptoms improved after a combined program of foot orthosis use and modified activity: A preliminary investigation. Phys Ther. 2004; 84: 49-61.
5. Witvrouw E, Lysens, et al. Open versus closed kinetic chain exercises for patellofemoral pain. Am J Sports Med. 2000; 28(5):687-694.
6. Whittingham M, Palmer S, et al. Effects of aping on pain and function in patellofemoral pain syndrome: A randomized controlled trial. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2004; 34:504-510.


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NEW ORDER | music complete | 2xLP
New Order release their first album in 10 years when the icons return with their new LP 'Music Complete' on Mute. The band's 10th studio album, their first since 2005's 'Waiting for the Sirens' Call', also marks New Order's first full-length release without longtime bassist Peter Hook, who left the group in 2007. However, 'Music Complete' features the studio return of keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who last appeared on 2001's 'Get Ready'. The group produced all of the 11-track album except for three songs: Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands worked on 'Singularity' and 'Unlearn This Hatred,' while revered dance producer Stuart Price contributed on closer 'Superheated.' New Order's longtime collaborator and artist Peter Saville – Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', 'Power, Corruption and Lies' – once again provides the album's art direction.
This is the non-limited black vinyl edition which includes a 12 page booklet featuring variations of the 'lines' artwork in black & white and recording credits.
(Mute/2015)
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Kmart's Oxenford store opens Thursday
November 18, 2015 3:31 pm in Gold Coast by Carla Tooma
Kmart will open the doors to its newest Gold Coast Store at Oxenford tomorrow.
Located between the Global Plaza and Tamborine-Oxenford Roads, it will be the city's first freestanding Kmart.
The 6,200sqm store will showcase Kmart's new store layout that is being rolled out nationally, designed with coloured zones that feature Kmart's celebrated categories across apparel, toys, homewares, health and beauty, stationery and sporting goods to ensure the customer shopping experience is convenient and enjoyable.
Over 100 new recruits have been hired to run the store, with experienced store manager and 2015 NRA Young Retailer of the Year finalist, Scott Phillips, appointed to lead the Oxenford team.
A Kmart employee of five years, Scott is eager to open the doors of the new store on Thursday. "The Oxenford team are really looking forward to welcoming locals into our new store. Offering the latest ranges across all of the Kmart 'worlds', shoppers can be excited by our on-‐trend and affordable products," said Scott.
The Oxenford opening day on Thursday will commence from 8am with free family entertainment available throughout the day including a children's magician, face painting, balloon artist and cupcake treats for customers.
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Carla is a full time journalist, presenter and announcer for 102.9 Hot Tomato and myGC.com.au, joining the team towards the end of 2011. When she is isn't busy presenting all of myGC's videos, bringing you the latest news or chatting live on air, Carla will often be found scoping out the hottest local events. Carla holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Bond University, where she graduated with number of First in Class and Dean's List of Academic Excellence awards. Carla is also a well-regarded MC, singer and actor. Some of her credits include hosting the Australia's Next Top Model Queensland Auditions for Foxtel, guest starring on Toybox for Channel Seven, and performing as Mrs Banks in The Arts Centre Gold Coast's production of Mary Poppins.
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Morena Bauerhuit
Do u think use will ever open up a KMART in Warwick QLD?
We so could do with one here
Or closers Kmart in Toowoomba:(
Be assured the locals are very happy its here, hope we dodt get too much traffic, and plenty parking thanks
Margaret Ward
I will be there when the doors open. Looking forward to seeing the layout of the store.
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