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French MPEG DASH TV Requirements Have IBC Buzzing
The French TNT 2.0 connected television specifications now include MPEG DASH support, but is it a mandate or an update?
One of the more interesting bits of news coming out of last week's IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam was that the French government has mandated the use of MPEG DASH in all connected televisions.
The full story is a little more complicated, due to the number of connected TV initiatives floating around Europe. France's connected television scheme, backed by industry and government groups, is called TNT. It currently stands at version 2.0, which was launched mid-2011. The recent move to add DASH support to TNT 2.0 is the source of the buzz.
TNT is a French-only subset of what is commonly called Hybrid Broadcast Broadband television, or HbbTV, a pan-European standard for interactive televisions that now stands at version 1.5.
For those who read our coverage of the 2012 London Olympic games DASH interoperability initiative, HbbTV 1.5 may sound familiar. Belgian broadcaster VRT, which hosted the linear interoperability DASH testing in conjunction with the European Broadcasting Union, noted that the tests complied with the HbbTV 1.5 standard.
HbbTV 1.5 itself now includes DASH for adaptive streaming, so the French move to add DASH support to TNT 2.0 is widely seen as a move to coordinate technical capabilities between the French-only TNT 2.0 and the wider HbbTV 1.5 specification.
How does TNT fit in to the overall, ongoing HbbTV initiative currently engulfing Europe? That's the complicated part.
TNT, for instance, allows for two digital rights management (DRM) platforms: the open-source Marlin standards and Microsoft's PlayReady. Marlin is one of the five Common Encryption schemes allowed for in both DASH and UltraViolet, and Marlin has also been adopted by some non-HbbTV-based connected TVs and set-top boxes, with one major example being YouView boxes.
While some in the DRM space claim that Microsoft's PlayReady is the only way to go, the fact that Marlin is now a choice in three major premium content solutions may give it a leg up when it comes to DASH implementations in HbbTV, thanks to Europe's consistent support of open standards. Yet, it's worth remembering that DASH as a whole is capable of accepting three additional DRM schemes that aren't part of the TNT 2.0 initiative.
This leads to the next logical question: where exactly does DASH fit into HbbTV 1.5 and the TNT 2.0 specification?
In June, 2012, the HD Forum, a French industry body responsible for developing the TNT 2.0 specification, created a test lab for measuring interoperability in TNT 2.0 devices. HD Forum appointed the Farncombe design and consultancy firm, in conjunction with Digital TV Labs, to design the test suite.
"Farncombe in partnership with DTVL are designing the test suite to support the specific features of the TNT 2.0 profile, including DASH adaptive streaming (now specified in HbbTV 1.5)," DTVL said in a June 8, 2012 press release.
TNT will, according to the HD Forum, continue in lockstep with the HbbTV specification. Will all future French connected television sets need to support DASH? Yes, if they want to meet HbbTV and TNT standards, but it isn't a mandate as a number of connected TV devices are now reaching the market that use the TNT 1.0 and HbbTV 1.0 or 1.1 specifications.
One other issue left unaddressed by the recent inclusion of DASH within both HbbTV 1.5 and TNT 2.0 is the inclusion of a number of MPEG-2 and H.264 profiles. While everyone waits for Apple to decide about supporting DASH, the primary focus is now on the DASH subset of profiles surrounding H.264, known as DASH 264.
A recent interview with David Price, head of business development for media at Ericsson, notes that DASH 264 narrows the focus of DASH supporters, allowing them to get down to the business of interoperability testing.
"DASH 264 is a 'best practice' subset of DASH that defines everything from the codec to subtitling and audio requirements with the aim of narrowing the focus," said Price.
The same may be true for TNT as it narrows focus to DASH.

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Why demonstrating in Nice against the G20 on 1-3 November 2011 is essential
Tuesday 1 November 2011, by Éric Toussaint
In the context of global crisis, what is at stake at the G20 meeting under French presidency?
The crisis is worsening, especially for the most industrialized countries. The governments of the so called "emerging" countries such as Brazil, China, India and Russia wish to gain greater hearing in international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank. The G20 is an illegitimate club created in 2008 by the G7 (equally illegitimate club made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA) to convince these emerging countries to bring their help to resolving the crisis, without success. This G20 reunion is first international reunion since the enormous success of the 'Indignés' movement of the 15 th October 2011. [1] Although it had little echo in France, this movement mobilized a million demonstrators all over the planet, principally in Spain, Italy and Portugal, not to forget the Occupy Wall Street movement. [2]
So this is an important event for all anti-liberal globalization activists. It is important either to demonstrate in the streets of Nice or to attend the People's forum in Mali [3], to clamour our opposition to the policies adopted by those who claim to be the world rulers.
In what way has the European crisis become a global issue? What roles are the United States and the emerging countries to play?
The very important economic slowdown that is affecting Europe, the bankruptcy of banking institutions like Dexia could have a knock on effect on the world's economy [4] : a domino effect on the financial and banking institutions of the United States on the one hand, and a reduction of exports of China and other countries exporting to Europe on the other hand.
The European Union and in particularly the eurozone is effectively the central element of the current world crisis, the way these winds blow in the next few months will have an impact on the whole of the world's economy.
So much are European and North American banks and institutions interconnected on both sides of the Atlantic, the United States is very concerned over possible chain reactions beginning with the bankruptcies of European banks going on to touch their banks. These concerns are not strictly political; they are first and foremost economical.
What are the converging campaigns organized in Europe on public debt issues? What is the role of the Greek campaign?
Everywhere in Europe, debt repayments are the pretext used to harden the austerity policies that rain down on the working people and the majority of the population. Making progress in the creation of a European campaign for the suspension of debt repayments and the realization of a citizen controlled audit, is the step to be accomplished in the coming weeks and months. Greece has started this process during the month of May 2011, with the constitution of a citizen's commission for a Greek debt audit. This process has spread to Ireland, Spain and recently to France where a citizen's committee for a debt audit has been created. It will soon exist in Belgium, Italy and Portugal.
There is here a real solid possibility to assemble the social forces which question the neo-liberal order as well as the capitalist system itself, to gather them around a uniting theme. If we manage, by street demonstrations, to obtain a debt repayment suspension for several countries, the balance of power will radically shift in favour of the social majority. This justifies the effort of struggle.
From an interview by Flavia Verri and Gilles Pagaille
Published in "Tout est à nous"?! No 121 27th October 2011.
Translated by Mike Krolikowski for CADTM.
why-demonstrating-in-nice-against-the-g20-on-1-3-november_a2351.pdf (PDF - 356.6 kb)
[1] Eric Toussaint, "15 October 2011: a great victory for the Outraged".
[2] Mike Davis,"Occupy Wall Street. No more bubble gum".
[3] Tenth People's forum «?From Siby to Niono, the people reclaim auto determination?!?» this will be the African counter G20 summit, in Niono, Mali, from 31st October to 3rd November 2011.
[4] Eric Toussaint, "Dexia Krach: The start of a domino effect in the EU ?".
State Racism, Islamophobia & Religious Fundamentalism
Macron and Lebanon: "reforms" again and again
No to the mask of censorship on police violence
A convergence of crises, dominated by the covid-19 pandemic
Hope in the Streets, continued
Climate: the solution lies in struggle, not COPs!
The World Up in Arms Against Austerity and Authoritarianism
Let's win back our future: change the system not the climate
Samir Amin, or the raison d'être of a new internationalism
The abuses of the World Social Forum: Towards the end of the process?
Rights to Water and Land, a Common Struggle Movements
Call to Action ! Reject REDD+ and Extractive Industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories
United against the Troika
G8/G20
MEPs Send Message of solidarity to Anti-G8 protestors
The G20, the symptom of impotence
G20 : the Symbol of a System Failure
G8 out
Capital's War on the People
Éric Toussaint
Eric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the international spokesperson of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) , and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Debt System (2019), Bankocracy (2015); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago; "Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank, Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers", Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010. He has published extensively in this field. He is a member of the Fourth International leadership.


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Strengthening of health systems, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and sexual and reproductive health
The SDC is committed to ensuring that public services are performed competently in the interests of all citizens.
Reducing greenhouse gases and promoting adaptation to climate change
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Adressing fragilities, promoting human rights, promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies
Fragility, violence and conflicts are major challenges in the fight against poverty. The promotion of human rights and the promotion of sustainable, peaceful, just and inclusive societies contributes to address their root causes, to strengthen resilience and to leave no one behind.
Commitment to equal opportunities for men and women in all development processes for a balanced society
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International priority
Blue Peace: Water as an asset for peace
Sustainable water and pasture management to alleviate the plight of Ethiopian pastoralists
Borana locals helping to rehabilitate water points so they can cope better with drought and improve their incomes. © Helvetas
Drought, fodder scarcity and conflicts over natural resources make life difficult for pastoralists in southern Ethiopia. The SDC has taken various measures to improve their food security and their resilience to crisis situations, ranging from the rehabilitation of pastureland and water points to the introduction of land use plans and the diversification of income sources for women.
Agriculture & food security
Water resources conservation
The project in brief
Ethiopia's livestock sub-sector contributes to about 47% of the agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP), to more than 20% of the total GDP, and to 13% of national exports. Livestock is the key determinant of food security for pastoralists. While pastoralist areas cover 60% of the country's land mass, their specific needs are insufficiently addressed by national laws and policies. Arable agriculture, which has better defined rules and regulations overall, often overshadows pastoralism, in a context where the peripheral lowlands have been historically side-lined by the central Government. These realities – alongside socio-economic, environmental, and institutional challenges – have increased the vulnerability of pastoralist communities overall, particularly in the Borana Zone of the Oromia National Regional State, where rangeland productivity has significantly dwindled in recent years mainly due to advancing bush encroachment, overgrazing, soil erosion, inappropriate and poor quality water developments, demographic pressure, recurrent drought and the weakening of traditional rangeland management systems. Other factors contributing to the weakening of pastoralist livelihoods are competing land uses (grazing vs. farming), the increased incidence of resource-based conflicts, a high prevalence of livestock diseases, and a Government strategy to foster sedentarization for an easier availing of social services. With such challenges, an increasing number of Borana pastoralists are poorer today than two decades ago, as reflected by a major decline in cattle holdings per household. Despite these challenges, initiatives to improve the situation have been ongoing, though mainly of short-term and humanitarian aid in nature, with weak harmonization and coordination systems.
Improve the food security and resilience of pastoralist communities in the Borana Zone through sustainable and context-specific natural resources management (NRM) practices, along with enhanced income diversification strategies.
The primary target groups are 11'570 pastoralist households (4'773 women-headed) in 16 kebeles across 5 woredas, representing a total population of 70'930 people (35'715 women).
The Government of Oromia will benefit through capacity building interventions, while being directly involved in project implementation.
Other NRM stakeholders will benefit from a strengthened coordination, harmonization, and knowledge management system at local and regional levels.
Medium-term outcomes
Pastoralists have increased access to pasture and water resources from rehabilitated and/or improved rangelands.
Pastoralist women incomes are increased while diversifying their livelihood sources.
Proven NRM interventions are better coordinated, harmonized, and their knowledge management system enhanced to properly document and scale up promising practices.
Climate resilient Participatory Rangeland Management Plans are developed and implemented;
Communal water points are rehabilitated and water management schemes & water, sanitation and hygiene services are provided;
Disaster Risk Management Plans are developed and implemented in 16 kebeles;
Selected women groups are trained in business planning, financial management and cooperative development, and start to operate;
The Government-NGO forum is regularly organized, with good participation and systematic sharing of good practices and lessons learned;
Promising experiences and lessons learned are properly documented and disseminated.
Results from previous phases:
This is a new project with no previous phases. A set of activities (including rangeland, gender, conflict & stakeholder analysis, baseline study and ProDoc drafting) were conducted during the Inception Phase. Prior to that, the SDC Humanitarian Aid supported Action Contre la Faim and Vétérinaires sans Frontières Suisse to undertake short-term livelihood recovery projects in this region. The lessons and recommendations of these (now phased out) interventions have influenced the design of this project through a capitalization exercise.
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HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Sub-National State SouthEast
Sub-contractors: Hochschule für Agrar-, Forst- & Lebensmittelwissenschaften (HAFL); Managing Risk for Improved Livelihoods (MARIL); Community Initiative Facilitation & Assistance Ethiopia (CIFA).
Government partners: Oromia Pastoralist Areas Development Commission (OPADC); Bureau of Finance & Economic Cooperation (BoFEC); Yabello Pastoral & Dryland Agriculture Research Center (YPDARC); Disaster Prevention & Preparedness Agency (DPPA).
Coordination with other projects and actors
Synergies will be sought with donors and projects working in pastoralist contexts including, the USAID-funded Pastoralist Risk Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) project and the Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND) project, the EU-funded Resilience Building in Ethiopia (RESET) project, the SDC-funded Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (K-RAPID) project in northern Kenya.
Budget Current phase Swiss budget CHF 6'753'920 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 3'565'267
Project phases Phase 99 01.06.2015 - 31.12.2027 (Current phase) Phase 1 01.06.2015 - 31.08.2020 (Current phase)
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Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, FISHING
GENERAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation
Environmental policy and administrative management
Water resources conservation (including data collection)
Cross-cutting topics The project promotes biodiversity.
The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.
The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
The project also supports partner organisation improvements
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Obbo Dhoketa Gadhafo, a pastoralist from the Borana zone in southern Ethiopia, recalls: « 20 to 40 years ago, this land was not like now. There was plenty of pasture and water, and the livestock were few in numbers.» He remembers a time when animals and pastures thrived there: regular rains meant there was no shortage of milk, butter and other animal products. But, he says, things started to change around the end of the 1990s: climate change has made the rain scarcer and less reliable, droughts have increased, as have the number of livestock and the population density. «As a result of all this, the pastureland has steadily deteriorated over the years, and now we can hardly find enough fodder for our cattle.»
The situation described by Obbo Dhoketa Gadhafo is being faced by many other pastoralists in the country. Their pastureland, which covers over 60% of the surface area of Ethiopia, is severely affected by increasingly frequent droughts, conflicts between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers for the country's natural resources, and the degradation of pastureland – whether through overgrazing, bush encroachment or soil erosion. The consequences are dramatic: a decrease in productivity and an increase in poverty, hunger and water shortages. In the Borana zone alone, more than 200,000 people have too little to eat. In some seasons, up to 80% of households are affected by famine.
Support for 71,000 people in 12,000 households
In an effort to remedy this, the SDC launched in 2016 the project 'Sustainable natural resources management for enhanced pastoralist food security in the Borana zone', implemented by an NGO consortium led by Helvetas in cooperation with the Ethiopian authorities. Through more sustainable management of natural resources, the project aims to improve the long-term food security of pastoralist communities in the Borana zone and strengthen their resilience to crisis situations such as drought and famine. Overall, these measures are set to benefit almost 12,000 households with some 71,000 people.
Measures are being taken at different levels simultaneously. For example, plans for the sustainable use of pastureland are being drawn up in association with the pastoralist communities concerned. Based on these plans, measures are being taken to improve the quality of the land – such as clearing bushes and planting fodder crops instead of plants that cannot be used to feed cattle. A rotation system will ensure that pastures are no longer used unchecked in the future, giving the soil time to recover.
Access to drinking water for people and animals is at least just as important. A large number of water holes and reservoirs are therefore being cleared of mud and rehabilitated, with the local population actively contributing to this work. Filters and treatment plants are also being used to make the water drinkable. In addition, an information campaign is being run to discourage people from defecating in the open, which is the cause of numerous diseases.
Training opportunities specifically for women
The project places particular focus on the situation of women in the pastoralist community, traditionally dominated by men. For instance, it ensures that women's concerns are heard by official bodies and community institutions. Courses are held to teach women how to cultivate high-value foodstuffs and animal fodder. Other courses in subjects such as poultry rearing, beekeeping and business management enable women to create new sources of income for themselves and their families.
All of these measures are long-term in nature. However, the project, which has a duration of five years, also has a short-term component: a fund for emergency measures in crisis situations. This fund was already drawn on in 2017 shortly after the project was launched, to cope with the devastating drought. This meant that hundreds of households received fodder and veterinary medicines as an emergency measure. Pastoralist Obbo Dhoketa Gadhafo is grateful for the swift aid received in time of need. As he points out, this saved many animals which otherwise would have perished.
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Understanding Family Support
Policy, Practice and Theory
Pat DolanJohn CanavanJohn Pinkerton
Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.
Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy and practice. The authors argue that this weakens family support as an overarching child welfare paradigm. They present a unifying definition of family support along with ten principles and a series of reflective practice questions applicable to: legislation and policy; organisation, management and planning; direct work with children and families; and research and evaluation.
This is an important resource for any professional engaged in policy development, service design, delivering or evaluation of family support, including social workers, residential care staff, community development workers, teachers, community police, human services managers, evaluators and policy makers.
160 pages 229 x 166mm
Press reviews for: Understanding Family Support
Nick Frost, Professor of Social Work (Childhood, Children and Families), Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University
The authors of this important book have been central to keeping family support on the policy agenda for many years now. As part of this project they have produced an excellent text which is relevant to all those with an interest in family support. A major strength of the text is that it is simultaneously both theoretically well-informed and practically relevant. The elegant use of theory means that the book forms a coherent and consistent whole. This book is a must read for policy makers, practitioners, academics and students alike - highly recommended!
John Davis, Professor of Childhood Inclusion, The University of Edinburgh
The authors of this very accessible book have made a significant and lasting contribution to theory, policy and practice on family support. They have established the field internationally and promoted comparative research-led thinking amongst academics, policymakers, managers and practitioners. This book provides principles, tools, methods and a critical foundation from which to evaluate, question and review the way we work. Key issues include: boundary-spanning, strength-based working, post-modern management and global analysis. At the heart of this text is an aspiration to develop family support from children and parent's perspectives and the book successfully provides detailed advice on how we can collaboratively ensure better outcomes for children, families and communities.
Professor Ilan Katz, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia
This book makes a significant contribution to theory, policy and practice of family support. By attempting to develop a clear definition of what is (and what is not) family support, the book clarifies and opens up an important debate about the nature and context of family support. The book also situates family support within global developments in policies which increasingly recognise the importance of state support for families. Policy makers, academics and practitioners will all benefit from its important insights and discussions.
Dr. Carolyn Cutrona, Chair of the Department of Psychology, Iowa State University
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Matthias Steiner
Olympic Champion 2008
Matthias Steiner has taken people's hearts by storm. The touching life story of the Olympic Champion has moved many, and the sympathetic athlete has become a role model for young and old. Matthias Steiner (*1982) grew up in Lower Austria and started weightlifting as a teenager. At the age of 18 he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Steiner, who at that time was already one of Austria's best young athletes, remained true to competitive sport against the advice of doctors and only one year later competed for the first time at the European Championships in the adult category, where he came 16th. In the following years, he regularly participated in World and European Championships and in 2004 in the Olympic Games in Athens. In the same year, he moved to Germany for private reasons and in 2008 took part in the European Championships in Lignano for the first time under the German flag. He won gold, silver and bronze in various disciplines. As captain of the German national team, Matthias Steiner celebrated his greatest sporting triumph at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008: with a new personal best, Steiner wins the first gold medal for Germany in the super heavyweight category and the first German gold medal in weightlifting since 1992. With 461 kilograms in the Olympic total, he stood at the top of the podium and is thus the strongest man in the world in 2008. In 2013, Matthias Steiner declared his retirement from professional sport. In 2015, he participated in the German version of "Strictly come Dancing" and impressed the audience with his dancing skills. Despite the handicap caused by his illness, he has managed to stand at the top of the podium several times in his life and thus shows like hardly anyone else how one can emerge stronger from setbacks and defeats and how one can achieve anything with will and discipline. In his lectures, Steiner describes his ambitious and determined sports career and shows how he achieved the highest goals despite major health problems. Matthias Steiner is an expert in self-motivation and conveys this in an impressive way in his keynotes.
About Matthias Steiner
Matthias Steiner has taken people's hearts by storm. The touching life story of the Olympic Champion has moved many, and the sympathetic athlete has become a role model for young and old.
Matthias Steiner (*1982) grew up in Lower Austria and started weightlifting as a teenager. At the age of 18 he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Steiner, who at that time was already one of Austria's best young athletes, remained true to competitive sport against the advice of doctors and only one year later competed for the first time at the European Championships in the adult category, where he came 16th. In the following years, he regularly participated in World and European Championships and in 2004 in the Olympic Games in Athens. In the same year, he moved to Germany for private reasons and in 2008 took part in the European Championships in Lignano for the first time under the German flag. He won gold, silver and bronze in various disciplines. As captain of the German national team, Matthias Steiner celebrated his greatest sporting triumph at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008: with a new personal best, Steiner wins the first gold medal for Germany in the super heavyweight category and the first German gold medal in weightlifting since 1992. With 461 kilograms in the Olympic total, he stood at the top of the podium and is thus the strongest man in the world in 2008.
In 2013, Matthias Steiner declared his retirement from professional sport. In 2015, he participated in the German version of "Strictly come Dancing" and impressed the audience with his dancing skills.
Despite the handicap caused by his illness, he has managed to stand at the top of the podium several times in his life and thus shows like hardly anyone else how one can emerge stronger from setbacks and defeats and how one can achieve anything with will and discipline.
In his lectures, Steiner describes his ambitious and determined sports career and shows how he achieved the highest goals despite major health problems. Matthias Steiner is an expert in self-motivation and conveys this in an impressive way in his keynotes.
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This group typically contains chlorophyll A and chlorophyll B together with various carotenoid and xanthophyll pigments contained in chloroplasts.
Some green algae may not appear green due to the masking of chlorophyll by one or more of the accessory pigments. Manufactured food is stored principally as starch, also cellulose is present in the cell walls.
The green algae are especially common in a variety of body forms. Single celled forms such as chlorella are sometimes common in lakes and ponds, often in numbers sufficient to color the water.
Desmids are green algae which occur as single cells or sometimes as small colonies in filamentous and filaments of minute cells. These often exhibit intricately beautiful patterns of body form. Desmids may be found on objects in the lake or freely floating as important constituents of phytoplankton. Cosmarium and Closterium are common forms in lake or pond plankton.
Colonial green algae such as Volvox and Eudorina are common in lakes and ponds. The thalus or body of other green algae may appear as a continuous filament or as a partitioned or septate branching filament. The species of Ulothrix and Spirogyra are unbranched filamentatious forms. The filament of each plant is a very small, threadlike structure attached to the substrate by a specialized cell called a holdfast.
Except for the holdfast cell, all the cells of the filament are identical and are arranged end to end in a single series. Each cell contains a single nucleus and a single large chloroplast.
Other attached green algae use rizoid like structures at the bases of filaments which trail out as tassels into the current. In many of the filamentatious Chlorophychae, in some genera Cladophora Oedogonium and Ulothrix tassels may become very long and in some cases may exceed a meter in length.
Stonewarts of which Chara is an example are often placed in the Chlorophyta. These large algae possess whirls of branches along a stemlike filament and holdfast to anchor the plants in the substrate. The common name derived from the brittle, stony texture of the algae caused by deposits of lime frequently found on the plant surface in highly calcareous streams or lakes. Nitella, similar in form to Chara, often thrives in soft or acidic waters. Under such conditions, Nitella lacks the hard texture.


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Wall Street giveth and Wall Street taketh, but Amazon's founder is playing the long game. Hours before Amazon's second-quarter earnings call came word that Jeff Bezos had surpassed Bill Gates as the richest person in the world. On Thursday Amazon's stock slipped, in response to the company's second-quarter earnings miss, and Bezos lost his top spot.
Just because Amazon will own Whole Foods, don't expect it to stop experimenting with its own cashier-less grocery stores and other grocery sales and delivery offerings.
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Obituaries » Jacquelyn Johnson
Jacquelyn Johnson
March 16, 1936 - May 21, 2008
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Jacquelyn G. Johnson was born on March 16, 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of Charlie and Rose (nee Bergner) Strubinger. She died on May 21, 2008 in House Springs, Missouri at the age of 72.
She is survived by three sons, Bobby (Mary) Johnson of Eureka, Missouri; Douglas (Ramona) Johnson of Silsbee, Texas; and Billy Johnson of St. Louis, Missouri; three daughters, Terri (Wayne) Permenter of House Springs, Missouri; Rhonda Johnson of O'Fallon, Missouri; and Linda (Tim) Carroll of Hermann, Missouri; one brother, David (Martha) Strubinger of Imperial, Missouri; two sisters, Rose Valentine of Ballwin, Missouri; and Elsie Breidegam of Waterloo, Illinois; 11 Grandchildren; and 7 Great Grandchildren; and one niece, Charlene.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Billy Bob Johnson; three brothers, Charlie, Robert and Eugene Strubinger; three sisters, Dorothy Naylor, Myrtle Walker, and Evelyn Patt.


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This Day in Sports History: Muhammad Ali Refuses Induction Into Army, Stripped of Title
Elizabeth Swinton
Muhammad Ali's boxing career was put on pause when he refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army 53 years ago today.
On April 28, 1967, a 25-year-old Ali denied his call for military service while citing religious reasons. As punishment, Ali was convicted of draft evasion, stripped of his heavyweight title, suspended from boxing, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000.
Widely considered among the greatest boxers of all time, Ali was called to join the armed forces while the United States was involved in the Vietnam War. The army lowered its classification for draftees in 1966, allowing Ali to qualify after he originally failed his test in 1964 due to his dyslexia.
"I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong," Ali said after he found his status changed.
During his scheduled U.S. Armed Forces induction in Houston, Texas on April 28, Ali refused to step forward three times as his name was called. After receiving a warning and being informed of the consequences, Ali did not acknowledge his name-call one final time. Later that day, Ali was stripped of his title and had his boxing license suspended, and he was found guilty of violating the Selective Services law on June 20, 1967.
Ali remained out of boxing for over three years until he was able to attain a license for a fight on October 26, 1970 against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, where he recorded a knockout. Ali, who held a 56-5 record in his professional boxing career, later suffered his first loss on March 8, 1971 after a 15-round bout against Joe Frazier in the "Fight of the Century."
Though he was sentenced to five years in prison, Ali stayed out of jail before the Supreme Court was able to rule on his appeal. On June 28, 1971, Ali's case "Clay v. United States" was overturned by a unanimous 8-0 decision, allowing him to avoid jail time altogether.
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While away from boxing, Ali became a popular speaker at colleges across the United States. One of Ali's most popular speeches, entitled "Black is Best," was spoken in front of 4,000 students and staff members at Howard University in 1968. He also became known for his free-style rhymes and poetry during his time in boxing.
As Ali brought awareness to the civil rights movement, he formed a lasting cultural impact in America. In 1970, Ali was given the annual Martin Luther King Award by civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, who said Ali was "a living example of soul power, the March on Washington in two fists."
In his return to boxing, Ali became the only three-time heavyweight champion in the sport's history. Two of his most historic fights include the "Thrilla in Manila" with Frazier and "The Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman, the latter of which was viewed by 1 billion people worldwide.
In June 1979, Ali announced his retirement from professional boxing—but it did not last long. He returned in a fight on Oct. 2, 1980 against Larry Holmes to attempt to win the WBC heavyweight championship belt a fourth time. Ali fell by stoppage for the first time in his career, and a year later lost in 10 rounds to Trevor Berbick in his final fight.
Three years after his official retirement, Ali announced his Parkinson's diagnosis at 42 years of age. He still remained active in the community through his philanthropic and humanitarian efforts.
"The Greatest" died on June 3, 2016 in Phoenix, Ariz., at the age of 74 after being hospitalized with a respiratory issue.
Throughout his life and career, Ali graced the cover of Sports Illustrated 40 times—a total only topped by Michael Jordan.
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Biogeosciences, 9, 1597–1609, 2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-1597-2012
Special issue: Nitrogen and global change
The influence of model grid resolution on estimation of national scale nitrogen deposition and exceedance of critical loads
A. J. Dore1, M. Kryza2, J. R. Hall3, S. Hallsworth1, V. J. D. Keller4, M. Vieno1, and M. A. Sutton1 A. J. Dore et al. A. J. Dore1, M. Kryza2, J. R. Hall3, S. Hallsworth1, V. J. D. Keller4, M. Vieno1, and M. A. Sutton1
1Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2Department of Climatology and Atmospheric Protection, University of Wrocław, Poland
3Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, Wales, UK
4Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Received: 31 Oct 2011 – Discussion started: 15 Dec 2011 – Revised: 03 Apr 2012 – Accepted: 04 Apr 2012 – Published: 03 May 2012
Abstract. The Fine Resolution Atmospheric Multi-pollutant Exchange model (FRAME) was applied to model the spatial distribution of reactive nitrogen deposition and air concentration over the United Kingdom at a 1 km spatial resolution. The modelled deposition and concentration data were gridded at resolutions of 1 km, 5 km and 50 km to test the sensitivity of calculations of the exceedance of critical loads for nitrogen deposition to the deposition data resolution. The modelled concentrations of NO2 were validated by comparison with measurements from the rural sites in the national monitoring network and were found to achieve better agreement with the high resolution 1 km data.
High resolution plots were found to represent a more physically realistic distribution of reactive nitrogen air concentrations and deposition resulting from use of 1 km resolution precipitation and emissions data as compared to 5 km resolution data. Summary statistics for national scale exceedance of the critical load for nitrogen deposition were not highly sensitive to the grid resolution of the deposition data but did show greater area exceedance with coarser grid resolution due to spatial averaging of high nitrogen deposition hot spots. Local scale deposition at individual Sites of Special Scientific Interest and high precipitation upland sites was sensitive to choice of grid resolution of deposition data. Use of high resolution data tended to generate lower deposition values in sink areas for nitrogen dry deposition (Sites of Scientific Interest) and higher values in high precipitation upland areas. In areas with generally low exceedance (Scotland) and for certain vegetation types (montane), the exceedance statistics were more sensitive to model data resolution.
How to cite: Dore, A. J., Kryza, M., Hall, J. R., Hallsworth, S., Keller, V. J. D., Vieno, M., and Sutton, M. A.: The influence of model grid resolution on estimation of national scale nitrogen deposition and exceedance of critical loads, Biogeosciences, 9, 1597–1609, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-1597-2012, 2012.
Nitrogen and global change


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The 2007 European Junior Judo Championships is an edition of the European Junior Judo Championships, organised by the International Judo Federation. It was held in Prague, Czech Republic from 5 to 7 October 2007.

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

Women's events

Source Results

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External links

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European Junior Judo Championships
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