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Distance Training Programmes for IAS.
» This Distance Training Programme is for those students who are currently pursuing their 1st, 2nd / Final Year Degree course of any stream of BA, BSc, B.Com, BBA, etc with a career planning for IAS/IPS/IFS etc.
» Also suitable for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Year of Professional Degree Courses of any stream of MBBS, BHMS, BAMS, BUMS, BDS, B.Tech, B.Arch, BPharm, Integrated LLB etc.
» These candidates would be able to appear for the UPSC Civil Service Examination either at the end of Final Year or soon after their Graduation.
» Monthly IAS study plans, modules and Tests etc. would be delivered to Hostel or Home of the candidates.
» UPSC styled OMR sheet and Mains Answer Booklets will also be sent. Written Answers can be submitted back to Delhi for expert evalaution either by post or as e-mail attachment or through WhatsApp.
» Corrected and Evaluated answers will be sent back to candidates along with model answers in hard format either by post or courier.
» Academic Experts will be in constant touch with each candidate for proper guidance.
» The programme will NOT adversely affect the ongoing Graduation study requirements.
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» This Programme is targeting 2021 Civil Service Examination. It is suitable for those who are in the Final Year or Internship of their Graduation with a career planning to IAS/IPS/IFS etc.
» Also suitable for those who have already completed their graduation and engaged in higher studies or doing any job.
» Monthly study Plans, Modules, Tutorials, Assignments, Tests etc. would be made available by Speed Post or through Courier wherever Candidates located in India.
» The programme will NOT adversely affect the ongoing academic requirements or any other professional commitments.
» This Programme effectively targets 2020 Civil Service Examination. It is suitable for working professionals, Final Year Graduates and those who are doing higher studies with a career plan for IAS/IPS/IFS etc.
» Monthly Study Plans, Modules, Tutorials, Practice Tests (Pre+Mains) and Assignments would be made available by Speed Post or through Courier wherever Candidates located in India.
» Academic experts from Performance Monitoring Cell will be continuously in touch with each candidate throughout the Programme for effective preparation.
» This is an early foundation Programme and it is for those students who are currently in their Higher Secondary class of XI or XII Standard with a career planning for IAS/IPS/IFS etc.
» Suitable for any stream, such as Science, Commerce, Humanities, Diplomas, Vocational Higher Secondary etc.
» The contents and curriculum will be at the level of Higher Secondary syllabus.
» Monthly study modules will be delivered to the home address.
» This programme will NOT disturb the current studies. Rather, the programme will help to excel in current academics as well.
» Academic experts from Performance Monitoring Cell will be in touch with the students and Parents.
» This early foundation Programme is for those students who are currently in their High School / Secondary School class of VIII or IX or X Standard with a career planning for IAS/IPS/IFS etc.
» The purpose of this programme is to instil a sense of confidence and competitive spirit among the students at an early stage without compromising their current academics.
» Specially designed study plans and modules are delivered monthly to the student's home through Speed Post from Delhi.
» The contents and curriculum are at the level of High School syllabus.
» This programme will NOT disturb the current studies. Rather, immensely benefit their ongoing academics as well.
» Academic experts from Delhi will be in touch with students and Parents for effective guidance.
This programme is meant to those who have already completed their coaching and are in the revision mode with an aim to appear at 2019 or 2020 UPSC Civil Service Examination.
This is a strategically planned, systematically scheduled and organically linked test series programme for both Preliminary and Mains in an integrated manner.
Under this Programme, question papers along with UPSC styled OMR sheets and Mains Answer Booklets shall be despatched to each candidates located anywhere in India through courier or by Speed Post.
Candidates can return their written Answers for expert evaluation and OMR sheets for scanning and All India Ranking to Delhi either by Courier or by Post or as Email attachment or through WhatsApp etc.
Hard copies of evaluated Answers along with model answers shall be returned to respective candidates by Post or through Courier. The returning dispatch will also contain detailed Evaluation Reports on each test with views from different faculty members on the written answers of each candidate.
The entire process will help the candidates for refining their writing style and horning their writing skills with insertion of constant improvements.
Mission IAS is a uniquely designed, strategically planned and meticulously choreographed Distance Training Programme for Civil Service Exam, developed by Career Missions New Delhi for early planners and enthusiastic learners.
This programme is structured to have simultaneous preparation for Civil Service Examination along with current academics or any other activities in which candidates are engaged presently.
By synchronously implementing IAS preparation strategies, the Mission IAS Programme ensures nourishments and excellence in every candidate by instilling a competitive spirit by keeping them well updated with advancements of knowledge.
All Programmes under Mission IAS are carrying inbuilt mechanisms to ensure that, learners are adequately updated and equipped with sufficient knowledge without burdening or compromising their currently pursuing professional or academic activities.
Apart from visualising to bring an organised clarity, these programmes help them to enrich and enhance their mettle and merits through systematic studies.
By redefining the concept of distance learning regime in the country, Career Missions embarked India's first uniquely designed Distance "Training" Programme for Civil Service Exam by fetching its vast repository of professionally committed experts and expertise from Delhi for etching a glittering career on the future of potential candidates in the country.
Mission IAS Programme guarantees the deliverance of simply and lucidly structured study methods and materials with result oriented quality guidance backed by effective preparation strategies delivered directly from Delhi at your door steps every month and such other scheduled frequencies.
Along with this, preparation, perseverance and the performance of each candidate will be continuously monitored by the experts for instituting effective improvements throughout the enrollment.
Therefore, if you are an early planner for a glittering career either for yourself or for your children, then stay assured.
You have landed at the most suitable place, partnered with most suitable people and found most suitable programmes ever could be found in India at present.
Stay assured and get ready to Succeed...!!!
✔. Thoroughly researched, UPSC focused, result oriented and up-to-date Study Manuals, Modules, Materials, Tutorials, Assignments, Simulated Tests etc. in simple and lucid language for the better comprehension and conceptual clarity.
✔. Study packs are delivered at your doorsteps on every Monthly, Biweekly and such other scheduled regularities, with the help of swift Courier service or Speed Post of Department of Post.
✔. Separate curriculum and dedicated programmes for High School, Higher Secondary, Under Graduate and Post Graduate students and exclusive programs for working candidates.
✔. Mechanisms to ensure not to have any obstruction in the current academics or any ongoing activities of the candidates. Rather enriching the domain where candidate is currently involved.
✔. Frequent scheduling of both OMR objective tests for Pre and simulated subjective tests for mains to build analytical ability and critical thinking.
✔. Facility for electronic transmission of written tests and assignments to Delhi for evaluation.
✔. All written tests and essays are evaluated by subject experts from Delhi and sent back with feedback and model answers.
✔. Separate Students Performance Monitoring Cell manned by dedicated experts to track the performance of each students to recommend improvements.
✔. Sharing of Students' Performance Report with observations of Performance Monitoring Cell with the candidate directly or with parents or with any responsible authorities on behalf of the candidates.
✔. Instant support and constant guidance throughout the programme with the help of state specific student support cells.
Monthly Study Packets under Mission IAS.
A meticulously planned, organically integrated and harmoniously implemented strategies are the absolute necessities to ensure a victorious emergence from the ever-growing competition regimes. So, the ingredients of Mission IAS is as follows.
Please note,The number, quantum and versions of the study packet shall be different to each candidate. It will be planned and delivered according to the Programme opted and current academic status of each candidate.
I. Compatible, summarised study manuals of following subjects to be despatched to you every month and such other scheduled regularities.
1) Economy of India and International Economics.
4) Polity, Constitution and Governance.
6) Indian Art and Culture.
7) General and everyday science.
9) Ethics Integrity and Aptitude.
13) India and the World.
II. Monthly despatch will include the Gist of the following publications.
III. Summary documents of national and international affairs which will cover important issues of national and international dimensions.
IV. Separate Fact-Sheets on the facts of relevance to make sure that candidates remain always factually correct.
VI. Special collection of Essays for Essay writing assignments along with Essays of candidates checked by the experts from Delhi.
VIII. Specially crafted modules for Linguistic enhancement and Writing Skill development.
The structure of Mission IAS is specially crafted to make sure that learners are not burdened with or distracted from their currently pursuing academics or activities. Rather, they are simultaneously preparing for Civil Service Examination.
Accordingly, its contents, mode of material despatch and scheduling of tests are planned in a precise and systematic way.
With a scheduled and planned regularity, Career Missions' Delhi centre will start despatching the Study Pack to the desired address of the candidates to start their preparation for the succeeding month. It means, study modules for corresponding months will be made available to every candidate before the first day of that month and such other intervals.
Every study packet of this dispatch shall contain Study Plans, Modules, Manuals, OMR Sheets, Answer Booklets and such other ingredients prescribed for each Mission IAS Programme to which candidate has enrolled.
The size and contents of these Study Packs are arranged and structured in a desirable format to facilitate the candidate in covering entire contents in a month without adversely affecting their ongoing academics or activities.
The despatched pack will also contain Question papers of objective and subjective examination or Essay Assignment along with OMR sheet and answer booklets to write and practice their answers in strict pattern of civil service examination.
On completion of scheduled tests, the copies must be sent back to Delhi for checking and marking. The answer copies can be sent to Delhi for evaluation as E-mail attachment or by Post or through WhatsApp. The residents of Delhi can directly submit at the centres or can be dropped at evaluation drop boxes placed at specific locations.
Every candidate who have submitted written answers shall receive hard copies of the same with feedbacks along with model answers. Irrespective of the mode of submission, all shall receive hardcopies of evaluated answers by post or courier.
With continuous performance monitoring on each candidate, this cycle will continue throughout the enrolment. Please feel free to contact us if you have any doubts to be clarified or any question to be answered. You can also refer our detailed concern and clarification section for more clarity.
Your possible doubts and our clarifications.
Q.How does Mission IAS differ from other distance learning programmes?
Ans. Unlike the traditional distance learning programme where study manuals are dumped at one go by leaving the learners in lurch, Mission IAS is fundamentally differing from this approach. We are having a monthly and Biweekly study plans with coterminous despatch. Apart from these, regular tests are scheduled with expert evaluation from Delhi. Through various mechanisms, we will be in constant touch with each and every enrolled candidates, with timely observations and guidance.
Q. What if, I have any doubt or concern regarding my study or pattern or anything with regard to my preparation?
Ans. Every Distance Learning Programmes under Mission IAS is designed and structured in a self modular format. It means the conceptual clarity will be delivered then and there itself. So, the learners will be able to comprehend the contents without any hassle as the structure of the Programme and accompanying ingredients are planned in that way. It helps to gain more relevant information in the shortest possible time. However, there will be separate all time accessible doubt clearing mechanism, should the candidate feel further clarity. Faculty will be available anytime for the effective guidance of each and every candidate enrolled under Mission IAS Programmes.
Q. While comparing with other Distance programmes provided by various institutes, I feel that the fee of this programme is different, Why so?
Ans. Situated at the prime location of Delhi that too close to the nerve centre of civil service preparation hub, we are neither blind to, nor unaware of, the thought germinated in your mind. As stated earlier, this Distance Training Programmes have differed and will continue so with its innovative uniqueness. In a traditional correspondence course, you are paying for the printed books only and the time delivery of these packets are done to you, your candidature with the same institute will stand disconnected. But, under the Mission IAS Programmes of Career Missions, each study packet delivery strengthens and furthers the connection between you and this institute. Your performance is being monitored, you are being asked to submit test and assignments, you are being reminded by a dedicated team with regard to your preparation and constant dual way communication is established between us.
Further, while we respect the services provided by others in this filed, no institute is taking care their correspondence course as their core activity. It is a by-product of, and a subsidiary to, the main activity of the concerned institute. The result is that, enrolled candidates are left un attended and uncared for. Here at Career Missions, we have specialised at and treating the Distance Training Programme as our core activity to have focused, individualised, and flawless attention to each and every candidate enrolled with us and that too with dedicated team of Faculties, State Specific Co-ordinators, subject specialists, advanced reaserch team etc.
Furthermore, the segmentation of Mission IAS programmes under the different nomenclatures of High School, Higher Secondary, Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Accelerated Intensive is carried out to have scientific and perspective plan of action for the career planning and development of each candidate. The methods, materials, modules will be different and will be in synch with the current academic status of the candidate. So that, such candidates can excel without having any adverse effect on their ongoing activities while preparing for IAS and other competitive examinations. This feature, too, is missing in the current Distance Learning regime in the country. It simply means, you are being treated individually not as a part of crowd here.
Against these and other myriad features, the comparison may be embarked. We have neither kept Programme fee astronomically high nor prohibitively sky. Rather, we have kept it and will continue keeping it on a frugal pedestal without compromising on the qualitative and quantitative aspects for the larger benefit of students.
Q. Will this Mission IAS programme affect my current academics or my professional activities or my job?
Ans. Preparation for Civil Service Examination generates the interest and enthusiasm to tread into different dimensions of knowledge and information. All these Mission IAS Distance Training Programmes are expected to inculcate these habits of acquiring and expanding the knowledge base of each candidates in a systematically planned way. So, naturally its benefit will be visible in your over all personality. Including academic, professional and extracurricular activities. So, in this way the Mission IAS Programmes will affect your ongoing activities positively and constructively only.
Q. Are the study plans and study packets same for every enrolled candidates irrespective of their age and stage of academics?
Ans. No. the study plans, study packets and all related ingredients will be different to each candidate. It will be according to the current academic status and the programme opted. It is to ensure the excellence in the ongoing academics as well. So, study packets will be according to different academic framework we have developed as per the requirements and dynamicity. This is the logic and logistic behind the segregation of Mission IAS Programmes under different streams, such as High School, Higher Secondary, Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Accelerated and Intensive Programmes.
Q. Do the examiners and faculties know my current academic status and where and what I am currently engaged with while evaluating my answer sheets or while sending me study plans?
Ans. Yes. While taking admission you will be allotted an understandably Unique Enrolment Number through which your details such as current academics, domiciled state, etc. will be decipherable. This mechanism equips the examiners and faculties to look into your specialised needs and guidance.
Q. How this unique ID will be generated and allotted to identify my candidature?
Q. How the different streams of Graduation will be addressed?
Ans.Considering the fact that candidates currently pursuing graduation are going to appear for the exam anytime soon, we have devised special mechanism to look after their preparation strategies. Every candidate who are doing their graduation would be known to the concerned experts who look after the Graduation cell. Suppose you are studying BA first year from Kerala then your Unique ID shall look like "13BA3258745". Here 13BA stands for first year BA and 32 represents your state. Rest will be your roster number with us. Accordingly, a second year BSc will be known as 14BSC3289485 and third year BCom 15BCOM3298745. In this way every student will be known uniquely.So, this specially devised mechanism will certainly make sure that you are getting unhindered, individualised and focused attention by our team in the process of your preparation.
Q. How and where will I receive my study packs?
Ans. We will ensure prompt and timely delivery of every despatch to your preferred address with the help of swift, speedy and reputed courier services or by speed post of department of Post. We will also verify your pin-code with our courier partner before finalising the mode of despatch from Delhi. So, in all circumstances you will receive every despatch on time.
Q. What does the Students Performance Monitoring Cell (SPMC) mean?
Ans. It means, there will a separate cell manned by qualified experts who will track and document your performance in every tests and other assignments given to you. All your performance and recommendation given will be recorded in separate file under your name. In this way we will be able to monitor performance of every students individually. if requested, we will share this report with students or to any responsible person on behalf of the candidate.
Q. How shall I send my answer sheets to Delhi for evalauation?
Ans. On completion of your examination written from your home, you must transmit your answer sheet to Delhi without any delay. You can do it by sending as email attachments to careermissions.delhi@gmail.com or WhatsApp to 08130982070 or by post to Career Missions, H-3/272 3rd Floor, Pocket 3, Block H Rohini, New Delhi 110085.
You can also drop it at Evaluation Dropbox placed at centres in Delhi also. We will take the print of your electronically transmitted copies for checking. Same will be send back to you along with model answers by Post.
If you are still left with more query to be clarified, Please feel free to connect with us by any mode of your convenience.
Candidates or their parents who wish to take admission in any Mission IAS Programmes can do so by any of the following ways as per their convenience.
Click here to navigate to the Enrollment section of this portal. Select the programme suitable to your requirements and fill the requisite information in the relevant fields. We accept Payment through Debit Card, Credit Card, Net-Banking, ATM, Paytm, UPI, BHIM, Google Pay, PhonePe, Mobikwik, Ola Money, Jio Money, NEFT, IMPS and Direct Bank Transfer modes. You are free to opt any mode as per your convenience. There will NOT be any additional processing and gateway charges levied on your fee payment.
You can request payment link by calling or sending us a request. We will revert with a customised instamojo payment link through which you can complete your online payment in a secure environment.
You can initiate payment through IMPS or NEFT to the given Account. Your admission will be processed soon after the transfer.
By Direct Deposit in the Bank.
Most conveniently you can approach any of your nearest branch of State Bank of India (SBI) and make the payment into the Account mentioned in the prospectus or the Account Number you receive after the registration of your candidature in the admission section of this portal. For which you may select Bank Transfer option during checkout.
Programmes for Non Resident Indian (NRI) Students.
The candidates who are currently pursuing their academics or working abroad can enrol for Online version of the respective Mission IAS Programmes.
The strategy, methods, materials and methodologies in the NRI Programme will exactly resemble the Offline programme available in India. Only the mode of material despatch will be different. The study packets will be electronically made available on a planned and scheduled regularity.
If the candidate wish to have the physical delivery of study packet to the country in which they are currently located, then such facility will be available by paying the shipment charges from India to the destination country in addition to the domestic Off-line programme fee. Click here to view NRI Programmes.
The necessity of Career Missions is conceived at a time the intense competition is engulfed in every sphere of career planning and development in the country. It is to fetch the convergence of expertise from various fields to properly nurture and guide the learners for better planning of their careers.
It is also to ensure that each and every learner is better placed and properly positioned to take every academic and other challenge head-on.
Established in 2015, the Academy of Career Missions is headquartered at New Delhi and has cleared all requisite regulatory and licencing requirements in this regard from both Central and State governments. Accordingly, its establishment is in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.
Blessed with innumerable experts who have gained experience and exposures from the field of civil service preparation strategies, it is a platform of dedicated, sincere, hardworking and committed strategists who can provide impeccable guidance to enhance the mettle and enlarge the merits of each learner associated with us.
With the help of our unflinching specialization with the most outstanding Research and Result oriented apparatus in the field of IAS and other competitive preparation strategies, we have been able to constructively contribute to the academic and career enrichment of promising learners spread across the depth and breadth of our vast country.
So, you too can certainly bank and pin your hope on us, for ascension to the pinnacle of Success...!
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Graduated from University of Calicut in Commerce & Cooperation and Post Graduated in Public Administration from JMI New Delhi. Then, pursued Law from prestigious Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.
He has also secured Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Development from IGO New Delhi and qualified for UGC NET with JRF.
He has gained experience and exposure of more than 10 years in Civil Service training sector. He was associated with various civil service coaching institutes under various academic capacities before moving as permanent faculty at Career Missions New Delhi.
Graduated from University of Allahabad in Applied Science and obtained MSc from Delhi University.
He has gained experience as a mentor and content developer in the Civil Service training sector. He is known for his expertise in Science and Technology related topics. He is looking after Science and Technology and emerging Technology related segments at Career Missions.
Graduated in Law from NLU and got associated with leading law firms before moving to Civil Service training sector.
He has also secured Diploma in MASCOM and has gained experience and exposure of more than 5 years in Civil Service training sector with specialisation in Polity and Governance related issues.
Graduated from MDU in Public Administration and Post Graduated in Sociology from Ambedkar University.
He has also secured MPhil in International relation and Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Education.
He has gained experience and exposure from various civil service coaching institutes under various academic capacities.
He has done BSc and MSc in Mathematics and is known for simplistically solving the complex theorem.
He has also qualified for UGC NET with JRF.
Graduated and Post Graduated in Economics and is well-versed in micro, macro and international economic related issues.
He has gained rich and varied experience in Civil service training by getting himself associated with various Institutes in Delhi and elsewhere.
He is known for lucid explanation of complex thoughts from all domains.
Graduated and Post Graduated in Anthropology and secured MPhil in the same filed.
He has also secured Diploma in Journalism and was project fellow at NHRC, ARC and NCSC.
He too has gained rich and diverse experience from Civil Service training sector and is known for comprehensive coverage of Socio-Political issues in succinct style.
Apart from our core faculty memebers, we are blessed with many Associate faculty members, Research Associates, Question framers, content devolopers, State specific coordinators etc.
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This entry was posted in Events News and tagged Asia China energy India Sustainability Transition Urban on March 9, 2016 | Open »
"With over 50% of the global population residing in cities, projected to grow to 70% in the coming decades, the urban energy transformation has never been more relevant."
Research Center for Regional Development and Planning
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS)
73, East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
The transition in energy systems has been playing an important role in urban sustainability and associated policy making, especially in Asia over the recent decades. As the cities and towns in Asia are undergoing rapid and intense socioeconomic transformations during recent decades, a process that has been accompanied by rapid economic development, Asia's energy systems will experience significant change over the coming decades. The local governments continuously look for a practical and sustainable path to a low-carbon future – reducing emissions in an economically attractive, socially acceptable, low-risk and technically feasible manner. Efforts to understand the energy transitions within different social and geographical contexts have drawn attention of both academics and policymakers in the recent years. Key issue here is: more understanding is required on the politics and practice of urban energy transitions in Asia.
AN EARLY CAREER EVENT
The Research Center for Regional Development and Planning, at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS), with generous financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and in association with Klimate Research Institute of Sustainable Habitat (KRISH), India, is proudly announcing the early career symposium on 'Energy Transitions in Asia- Towards a Research and Policy Agenda'[1]. The symposium is a friendly and supportive event that aims to encourage postgraduate researchers, at any stage in their studies, and early career researchers to engage in debates, present their research and collaborate with other early career researchers in a welcoming and supportive environment.
THE SYMPOSIUM TOPICS
The symposium will run in several sessions. The overarching themes for the event will include the transition to:
Economically competitive energy futures
Sustainable and resilience energy sources
Environmentally and socially equitable energy futures
Unconventional energy markets
The contributions may be generic in nature or be specific to a particular geographical region, or typologies of city based on population size, economic structure, geography, or other classification scheme; they may be specific to a theme or cut across several themes (examples of cross-cutting themes might include planning and governance strategies, decision support tools, envisioning and transition studies and strategies); and they may also consider particular energy transition challenges.
The papers may also emerge from research questions, such as, if not limited to, how can cities shape sustainable energy transitions and how would we know if they were? What are the sustainable energy transformative initiatives in Asia and to what extent have they been integrated into the urban energy planning to help achieving low-carbon transition? What are the forces underlying energy transitions in Asia? What are the opportunities and challenges for energy transitions in Asia? and what policy recommendations can be made to the urban governments to better cope with energy use and achieve sustainable energy transformations?
Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are invited on each of these themes by 15 May 2016.
An expression of interest should take the form of a title and an abstract (200 words) and indicate the name, institutional affiliation and contact details of the author/(s). The deadline for expressions of interest is 15 May 2016. Please indicate whether your abstract is intended for oral or poster submission and send an email as per below instructions.
Email Subject: Poster/Paper-First Name-Last Name-Title
File Name: First Name_Last Name_Title
Full Paper/Poster Submission
Full Papers should be in the range of 3, 000 to 5, 000 words. Posters should be in the size of A1. Please indicate the name, institutional affiliation and contact details of the author. The deadline for submission of posters and full papers is 31 August 2016 for the accepted abstracts.
You will receive confirmation of the outcome of your abstract submission by 31 May 2016. Upon the acceptance of the abstracts, full length papers will be expected to be submitted for review by 31 August 2016.
Two "Best Young Scientist Award" will be given to best paper and/or poster presentation.
All the accepted abstracts are going to be published in the Abstracts & Proceedings and will be given to the participants on the conference day.
The conference proceedings will potentially be published in 'Energy Procedia'. We are also exploring the opportunity to publish all accepted full papers, with the prior permission of the authors, in a book format (edited by Prof Chen Wen, Prof Yehua Dennis Wei, and Dr. Komali Yenneti).
Both abstract and full papers should be sent to: Mr. Gaurav Joshi ( joshigaurav@niglas.ac.cn )
Once your abstract has been accepted we will send you a link to a registration site where you can indicate your attendance and preferences regarding catering, etc. Everyone interested in attending the symposium are also welcome to join us and follow the event in Nanjing. Thanks to the kind support from the NSFC, the Attendance is Free of Charge.
For all participants, we will provide catering (refreshments, lunch, etc.) at the symposium venue. We will reimburse a fixed printing costs of all posters accepted for presentation. We also have a number of first come first serve basis travel grants for participants within China.
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province in the Yangtze River Delta. Throughout the long history of China, Nanjing, has held the position not only as the political capital but also as the cultural center. Among the landmarks of Nanjing are the City Wall, the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Dr. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Presidential Palace and the Confucius Temple. Over the thousands of years of its development, Nanjing has been a centre of creative innovations, ranging from Mr. Zu Chongzhi's modified calendar, the 7 decimals of the ratio of circumference of Pi, to the Creative Nanjing-New Generation Design Exhibition that engages the whole city. Following the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, the ancient yet vigorous city is bound to amaze the world once more. The 2500 years of cultural legend has contributed to the essence of this creative city.
We look forward to seeing you in Nanjing!!
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof Chen Wen, NIGLAS, China
Dr Komali Yenneti, NIGLAS, China
Prof Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Utah, USA Organizing Committee
Dr Yuan Feng, NIGLAS
Gaurav Joshi, NIGLAS
Cai Yuanyuan, NIGLAS
Yang Liuqing, NIGLAS
[1] Sponsored by NSFC, China; Supported by NIGLAS and in association with KRISH
This entry was posted in News and tagged Germany green economy Green Transformation inclusive economy India on December 3, 2013 | Open »
Green Economy has been recognized as 'one of the important tools available for achieving sustainable development' in the outcome of the Rio+20 Summit. It was further emphasized that it should 'contribute to eradicating poverty as well as sustained growth, enhancing social inclusion, improving human welfare and creating opportunities for employment and decent work for all, while maintaining the healthy functioning of the earth's ecosystems'. Such transition towards a green and inclusive economy requires major efforts both on a national and international level, and cooperation and exchange of experiences is a key to support and facilitate the process.
India and Germany are major players in this transition. Enhancing the understanding of the complex cause-effect relationship among environment, development and economic issues, developing a joint perspective and spelling out possible areas of cooperation and mutual support can greatly benefit both countries in addressing the challenges. Against this backdrop, our director Komali Yenneti participated in an interdisciplinary Indo-German expert group meeting on inclusive and green economy held at the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin from November 25-26, 2013. The interdisciplinary working group comprises of renowned experts from leading institutions/political think tanks in India such as IITs, IIMs, TERI, etc and Germany such as GIZ, Wuppertal, Fraunhofer, DIE etc. This group aims to enhance mutual understanding and learning; and provide guidance for policy makers in both countries to support the transition towards a green and inclusive economy. The initiative is supported by BMU and GIZ and rooted in various activities in India and Germany. The interdisciplinary expert group will provide a forum for regular reflection and exchange between think tanks of both countries and contribute to a higher level of institutionalization of the Indo-German cooperation on the 'Great Transformation' in Green and Inclusive economy areas within the both countries, says, our director. A series of events including high level briefings, parliamentary evenings, dissemination of knowledge in media, business and civil society, summer schools for young researchers, exchange of PhD students between both countries, and publication of papers are planned for the next two years, also says, Komali.
This entry was posted in News on November 19, 2013 | Open »
Finalist at Young Innovator of the Year 2013, FallingWalls, Berlin
Our director Komali Yenneti today had yet again received another recognition for her research. She participated as a A.T.Kearney scholar and as a finalist of the 'Young Innovator of the Year 2013' in the Falling Walls Lab, Berlin on November 8th, 2013, one day before the Falling Walls conference where she had also participated. The Falling Walls Lab is an international forum which aims at building and promoting interdisciplinary connections between young excellent academics, entrepreneurs and professionals from all fields. All participants present their research work, business model or initiative to an audience of industry experts, decision-makers and scientists – in 3 minutes each.
At the Lab Komali presented her research on 'Breaking the Wall of Energy Transitions'. Her talk highlighted that the walls of social acceptance, public participation, equitable distribution of benefits and costs need to be brought down for successful energy transition to clean energy.
This entry was posted in News and tagged Buckingham Palace Commonwealth Education KRISH The Queen Youth on October 18, 2013 | Open »
Our director meets The Queen, attends reception at Buckingham Palace
Our director Komali Yenneti had the most privilege today as she met the royal couple – Queen Elizabeth II and her husband The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. In her role as a Commonwealth Youth Climate Network's (CYCN) policy co-ordinator she was invited for a reception given by the royal couple for 'Youth, Education and the Commonwealth' at Buckingham Palace. The reception, in the palace's White Drawing Room, was attended by 350 guests from academic institutions around the world.
At the event, apart from the royal couple, our director had the opportunity to meet the other members of the royal family including Princess Beatrice of York and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
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Fragmentation or Pluralism? The organisation of development cooperation revisited
International development cooperation is characterised by a diversification of goals, approaches and a proliferation of actor constellations. While these fundamental changes of the development cooperation landscape have been reflected in the aid- and development – effectiveness processes, the international development community – and especially aid-receiving countries – continues to struggle with their implications.
Critics have long argued that this proliferation of actors and approaches has led to a fragmented development cooperation landscape in many aid-dependent countries. This carries important unintended consequences in terms of higher transaction costs for those on both sides of relations; conflicting concepts and policies; efficiency losses; and neglected sectors and countries. Proponents point towards the potential of a diverse development landscape for mutual learning, innovation and competitive selection among the different providers for development assistance. Fragmentation also frequently goes hand in hand with donors' needs for individual visibility coupled with an endeavour to retain full control over the aid-allocation process, which further perpetuates fragmentation. Managing such opportunities and risks is the challenge on the ground.
Our director Komali Yenneti attended a conference addressing these issues held at German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn from 10 – 11 October 2013. The purpose of the conference was to explore fragmentation and pluralism of development cooperation, both at the theoretical and practical levels. By bringing together a diverse group of presenters and participants from the academic and policy communities from both developing and developed countries, the conference explored the issues of fragmentation and pluralism from a variety of perspectives, focusing in particular on concepts, measurements, the political economy of development co-operation causing the emergence and persistence of fragmentation, actor, modalities and instruments, and practical experiences in the attempt to overcome fragmentation and/or to manage diversity, says Yenneti.
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In recent times whenever Kent Roosevelt and Norton have matched up on the basketball court there normally has been plenty at stake, namely the Portage Trail Conference Metro Division title.
But when the two 2011-12 Metro co-champs got together to draw the curtain on this year's regular season, there was no such drama. The Panthers clinched the outright Metro crown one week ago, while the rebuilding Rough Riders were hoping to notch their seventh win of the season heading into next week's postseason play.
However, in a high-intensity contest defined by two big scoring spurts, it was the Panthers who left Roosevelt High School with a 67-59 victory.
"Every time we play them it seems like it is for the league title or first or second place," Roosevelt coach Ben Dunlap said. "Nobody else is Ravenna, but they are definitely our No. 2 (rival). And I knew these guys -- you can throw the records out -- that they would be ready to play."
Norton (19-3, 13-1 Metro) reeled off 22 straight points encompassing a seven-minute stretch from late in the second quarter through the third period to build a 53-36 lead with one stanza to play.
The Panthers then held off a blistering-hot Corey Mitchell offensive display over the last eight minutes to claim the win.
One of a handful of seniors closing out their home careers, Mitchell made every second of his time on the floor count, pouring in 15 of his game-high 28 points in the last frame. He notched nine straight at one point, and his driving layup with under four minutes to play trimmed what at one time was a 19-point Roosevelt deficit to just a bucket at 56-54.
"The basket also capped a 16-0 Roosevelt run in a four-minute span."
Mitchell shot 11-of-16 for the night and added six rebounds and five assists.
"When Corey gets hot, he can go with the best of them," said Dunlap.
Following Mitchell's hoop that reduced the lead to two points, Norton 6-foot junior Justin Blanks responded with the biggest play of the evening. Fouled while attempting a shot from beyond the arc, Blanks stepped to the line and sank all three opportunities to extend the lead to five points. His free tosses also ignited a 9-0 spurt that finally sealed the win for the visitors.
Blanks finished with 16 points, including 6-of-6 from the foul line. Tyler Sherman, a 6-7 senior and candidate for Metro Player of the Year, led the Panthers with 18 points. Jay Ventura and Matt McGlone each chipped in eight points.
"Tyler Sherman is a heck of a player. If he doesn't win the Player of the Year on Sunday, I'll be absolutely shocked," said Dunlap.
Myles Wright had 11 points for Roosevelt, who fell to 6-16 overall and 5-9 in the Metro. The Rough Riders will have one full week off before competing in the Alliance Sectional Tournament next Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.
Dunlap was very appreciative of his team's effort and his senior class.
"These seniors, they deserved the moment tonight," he said. "They are great in the classroom, great in the community and with our youth. They epitomize what I want Rough Rider basketball to be about. I'll love them until the day I die. I tell them that I hope my son grows up to be like them. I can't wait to see the success that they have."


I just opened an email invitation to a New Year's Day "Open House" and couldn't be more thrilled! My son and I have fun plans for an otherwise "let's-lay-low" kind of day, but also the menu sounds "safe" —diabetes-wise, that is. Our host, Alyssa, who hails from Virginia, is putting out a traditional New Year's Day buffet of black-eyed peas, collard greens and ham. I grew up in an Italian-American household, where our New Year's Day dinner was very similar: lentils, plus some form of pork along with a dish of escarole sautéed in olive oil and garlic. I've since learned that many other cultures serve some variation of these ingredients, because of what they signify.
If you ask me, I think that pork won its reputation as a harbinger of good fortune, because centuries ago in some cultures, only the wealthy could own a pig (or a goat, or a few chickens).
While growing up in Los Angeles, LaLa helped in her family's Mexican restaurants and, later, studied at Le Cordon Bleu. Having watched three of her grandparents and her father struggle with type 2 diabetes, LaLa decided to pursue a career that linked her passion for Latino cooking and her knowledge of health and nutrition. Today, as both a chef and a certified nutritionist with a specialty in weight management, LaLa creates diabetes-friendly recipes that the entire family also can enjoy. She also owns SAVOR! Catering in Los Angeles and is the author of two cookbooks, Latin Lover Lite and Chef LaLa Presents: Best Loved Mexican Cooking.
LaLa lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their son, Maddox, who, his mother proudly notes, is 2 ¾ years old.
Did your family's medical history, which includes several cases of type 2 diabetes influenced your decision to become a nutritionist?
I don't think it influenced my decision as much as it made me aware of the prevalence of diabetes. Diabetes is a subject that is very close to my heart. Three of my grandparents and my father have struggled with diabetes. As a chef and a nutritionist, I have dedicated a big part of my life to showing people that it is possible to enjoy healthy Latino food without sacrificing traditional family flavor. That's how I became involved in the Journey for Control campaign, which encourages people with type 2 diabetes to recognize that small changes can have a big effect on managing diabetes.
Seeing diabetes at such an early age in my grandparents has helped me realize the evolution of diabetes care and how much things have changed for individuals with diabetes. It is an exciting time in the diabetes-care management—a person with diabetes can live a long healthy life—a nd I want to be able to teach them how. I know my grandparents would have wanted to know I lost three of them to complications of diabetes. And now my father asks questions all the time so that he can manage his diabetes and live a long healthy life.
Do you ever worry that you or your children will develop diabetes?
I am very conscience of the statistics. I am Latina, with a family history of diabetes. Those are things I can't control. I do, however, pay close attention to the things I can exert some control over, such as controlling high blood pressure. I also managed my weight before trying to get pregnant to help avoid having gestational diabetes or delivering a large baby over that weighed over 9 pounds. Now, I manage my weight daily and I eat foods that are well-balanced, nutrient-rich, and low in fat and calories. Also, I exercise regularly because exercise lowers blood-glucose levels by using some of the glucose in your blood.
With my son Maddox, we give him well-balanced, nutrient-rich foods that will help him grow strong. I believe that good eating habits start at home and are lessons learned that will last a lifetime. If he has healthy habits, he has less chance of developing type 2 diabetes—and that is all I can really give him…a chance.
Do you agree with what many people say about "healthy cooking," which is that "healthy food can not possibly taste as terrific as regular cooking"?
Let me answer by example. At a recent diabetes education event, I passed out cold oranges to the audience. I asked them to peal them and enjoy while I spoke to them about healthy eating. When I asked how many people had forgotten how delicious a plain cold orange tasted, about 90‰ of the audience raised their hands. Sometimes the simple things in life are the most delicious, flavorful foods. Things that come in their own "package" —such as an orange— are natural, and provide the nutrients that we need. So they are good for you! People that don't think healthy food tastes good can begin by making small changes to their food choices. It can be as simple as eating more fresh vegetables, or using sugar and salt substitutes if that helps them.
What foods or recipes do you usually recommend to people who want to eat healthfully?
Opt for natural flavor enhancers like herbs and chiles. The benefits of using spices in your diet would be to enhance or add flavors to food without having to use unhealthy measures such as adding too much sodium, sugar or fat for flavor. Also, use healthy cooking methods, use less fat, and add more vegetables, fruits and whole grains to your favorite recipes.
I also have developed many diabetes-friendly recipes, and they are available by visiting JourneyForControl.com.
What advice do you have for people who want to make a diabetes-friendly menu for a holiday dinner or for any other celebration meal?
With a few small changes, I made favorite holiday staples like mashed potatoes and gravy healthy for people with diabetes to eat. When you're planning and preparing holiday meals, you have to know what's in the foods you're serving and eating and how it affects your blood glucose levels. It's easy to guess what some foods contain, but others are more of a challenge. That's where food labels come in. Food labels list a food's ingredients, nutritional information, and calories. Eat regular meals with carbohydrates making up approximately 50‰ of meals; limit intake of foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar; increase intake of fruit and vegetables; and eat some foods less regularly than others but nothing should be "banned" unless instructed by your healthcare professional.
All people with diabetes need to make healthy food choices, stay at a healthy weight, and be physically active every day—even during the holidays.
Do you think that people with diabetes should bring their own food to a holiday dinner?
I come from a large family, so I always have to bring a dish. I take advantage of this by making a dish that I know has been cooked using a healthy cooking technique—that is, baking, sautéing, steaming, grilling, poaching, broiling. Then I make sure that's the main item on my plate. If you go to a gathering where that is not possible, you must practice moderation. Serve yourself a plate selecting a wide variety of foods. Do not graze—this way, you are well aware of your daily intake and can manage your glucose to insulin levels. Also, keep in mind that it takes 20 minutes before your tummy knows you have eaten, so eat slow—wait a while before reaching for dessert. The holidays are a time for sharing meals and memories —at least in my house they are. Share a traditional holiday meal, but pay attention to your portion sizes and amounts consumed, so that you can continue to make memories and great food.
What dessert(s) if any do you recommend for people who have diabetes?
Make your own desserts because you can control the contents. The main ingredient in desserts is often flour, sugar and fat. Reduce the fat in home baked dessert by substituting oil with applesauce, mashed bananas, or yogurt (my favorite method). Also, opt for fruit-based desserts such as fresh berries, stewed apples, and cobblers.
Keep in mind that "fat-free" products often add extra sugar and extra sodium to compensate for lost flavor.
And most of all, practice moderation—products that are low-fat, fat-free and sugar-free do not mean that you have a "green light" to eat without limits.
1. In a stockpot, cook lentils with water, covered, over medium heat for 40 minutes. Most of the liquid should be absorbed and lentils should be soft.
In the meantime, cook diced bacon in a separate pot until brown and crisp. Add garlic and onion, and cook until clear. Stir in bell pepper, celery, fennel seeds, cumin, and ground red pepper, and cook for 5 minutes. Add chicken stock to pot and transfer the lentils to the pot with the onion mixture. Simmer covered for 15-20 minutes. Add salt if needed.
In a sauté pan, cook the remaining 2 strips of bacon until crisp, drain. Use for garnish.
1. Heat large roast pan over medium-high heat. Spray evenly with cooking spray. Add olive oil, garlic and saffron to pan; reduce heat to medium. Cook for about 3 minutes.
Add chicken to pan and cook for 5 minutes; add rice and continue to cook for an additional 5 minutes. Add onion and bell peppers and stir all ingredients for 3 minutes.
Pour chicken stock, salt, and black pepper; cover and bring to a boil (about 10 minutes). Uncover and stir once. Add clams and shrimp to rice. Cover and cook for an additional 5 minutes. Serve immediately.
1. Place steak in a stockpot; add water to cover. Cover stockpot. Simmer steak with 3 peppercorns, ¼ onion, garlic, and bay leaf. Steak should be boiled until tender and able to be shredded thinly, about 3 hours, making sure to check the water level occasionally. Remove steak from liquid, reserve liquid, and discard vegetables. Shred steak into thin strips.
Heat a medium sauté pan, add olive oil. Cook remaining sliced onions and garlic until tender. Stir in shredded meat. Add tomato puree, beef stock, bay leaf, and white wine. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add salt if needed. Add bell peppers and olives, stir to combine and cook for 5–10 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Serve with boiled yucca or white rice.
In a medium bowl, combine apple slices and cinnamon. Stir to combine. Carefully remove fillo dough packet from the box and unfold spreading sheets out on a clean counter. Take 1 single sheet, transfer onto another area of the flat counter and lightly coat with cooking spray. Lay another sheet on top and lightly coat with more cooking spray. Repeat until you have a total of 5 single sheets. With a sharp knife, cut fillo sheet into six squares. Coat a 2-ounce muffin pan with cooking spray. Press squares into prepared muffin cups. Fill center with apple filling and 1 teaspoon of walnuts. Top with raspberries and sprinkle with sugar (optional). Bake for 20-25 minutes.
For more diabetes-friendly recipes from Chef LaLa and to learn more about how small changes to your diet can make a BIG difference in managing type 2 diabetes successfully, visit Journey for Control.


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Further reaction to the EU referendum result
Research | Regulatory
Comments from British Generic Manufacturers Association and the British Biosimilars Association, and APBI
Following the result of the United Kingdom's referendum on membership of the European Union, Mike Thompson, CEO of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has said: 'The voice of the British people has been heard. This creates immediate challenges for future investment, research and jobs in our industry in the UK. With that being the case, we are committed to working closely with the government to agree what steps need to be taken to send a strong signal that the UK is open for business.'
Warwick Smith, Director General of the British Generic Manufacturers Association and the British Biosimilars Association, added: 'The existence of a single European marketing authorisation for medicines has generated considerable benefits for patients, the NHS and the industry. The single European marketing authorisation reduces cost and complexity for manufacturers, facilitating the production and regulation of high quality medicines and their availability to patients.'
'The UK generic and biosimilar medicines industry therefore urges the government to do everything possible to maintain this European marketing authorisation system in the forthcoming negotiations with the European Union,' he said.
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Clifton's Republic in Downtown Los Angeles was listed in the Green Book for more than a decade.
Mapped: LA's last remaining Green Book locations
The safest places for black travelers to eat, sleep, shop, and play in segregated America
By Marissa Clifford Updated Feb 25, 2019, 10:00am PST
Photography by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
In Jim Crow-era America, the open road was not open to all. For African Americans, Route 66, the iconic cross-country highway, was dangerous. It was dotted by racist signs and Sundown towns, cities like suburban Glendale that warned blacks to "leave town by sundown."
In 1936, a postal worker named Victor Green set out to create a guide that would help black travelers drive the "Road of Dreams" safely, and as he put it at the time, "without embarrassment."
What he published was the Negro Motorist Green Book. A guide to thousands of safe havens nationwide for people of color, from barbershops to ballrooms, the book was brought to the mainstream this year with the divisive film Green Book, winner of three Golden Globe awards and the best picture Oscar.
The guide was published for the final time in 1966, and of the 224 original Green Book sites in Los Angeles, only about 8 percent still stand, mostly due to neglect and gentrification.
Documenting those sites is essential to recasting U.S. history, says historian and artist Candacy Taylor. That's why she has made it her work to catalogue every remaining one.
Taylor encourages Americans to map the sites, preserve them, and give surrounding communities ownership over their reconstruction. In a deeply diverse city such as Los Angeles, restoration of these sites, she says, could revitalize impoverished neighborhoods.
Below is a map guide to those sites, some still in operation, some abandoned, and others now nondescript storefronts.
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Hayes Motel
Built in 1947, the Hayes Motel was ultra modern at the time, boasting rooms complete with radios and showers. Now owned and operated by Lily Ho, 78, the site has fallen into disrepair. According to Taylor, it's one of the Los Angeles Green Book sites that's most in need of help.
960 E Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90011
Hayes Motel in disrepair.
Dunbar Hotel
South Central was once called the "Harlem of the West," frequented by Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. Other musical greats once graced the streets of Central Avenue, but because of racist policies such as redlining, many Angelenos now associate the area with the ghetto.
Originally the Hotel Somerville, the Dunbar Hotel and jazz club was located at the heart of that jazz scene. Black built, owned, and operated, it was considered one of the finest black hotels in the nation, playing host to other greats such as Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, and W.E.B. Du Bois, and the first national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Unsurprisingly, it was the most often listed LA site in all 30 years of the Green Book. About a decade after segregation ended, the hotel closed its doors.
It was declared a Historic-Cultural landmark in 1974. In the decades following, the hotel underwent a series of reconstructions, most resulting in its being used as low-income housing. In 2013, it was carefully restored and converted into low-income senior housing. For Taylor, this iteration of the Dunbar is beautiful and fully "appropriate for the Green Book legacy."
4225 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90011
Dunbar Hotel.
Regal Hotel
Another hotel that was highly praised as being the finest and most luxurious "negro hotel in the nation," the Regal Hotel stands, completely dilapidated, in what is now Skid Row. No longer host to the NAACP or fancy galas, the Regal Hotel is also in desperate need of care. For Taylor, the stark difference between the grandeur of sites like the Regal in the past and their squalor today says a lot about the history of housing discrimination in LA.
815 E 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
The dilapidated Regal Hotel.
Hotel Alexandria
Hotel Alexandria has a turbulent history. One of the oldest Green Book sites, it was built in 1906 as the exemplification of luxury. Over a few decades, it went from hosting the likes of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, to being shuttered during the Great Depression, to being reopened and re-styled in a faux-Victorian model, to hosting Cassius Clay and Aretha Franklin. From Coppertone beauty contests to Malcolm X rallies, Hotel Alexandria was a notable hub for international and community-based events.
But, in the late '70s and early '80s, it fell into decline again, becoming a single room occupancy hotel and drug-trafficking focal point. It wasn't until the early 2000s that arts and entertainment kicked off its revitalization. Thanks to films such as Dreamgirls, Water for Elephants, and Spider-Man 3, which shot in its famous Palm Court, the Hotel Alexandria is now a functioning low-income housing apartment building. This year, it's even welcoming a new bar geared to creatives called The Wolves downstairs. And, like many Green Book sites, it's rumored to be haunted.
210 W 5th St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Hotel Alexandria.
Allums Drug Store
The Green Book included a variety of businesses, including hairdressers and drug stores. Allums was opened in 1940 by William Henry Allum, and primarily released ads for medicines curing stomach ailments. The building still stands, but is shuttered.
The shell of Allums Drug Store.
Aster Motel
The Aster Motel is claimed to have put up Elizabeth Short—the Black Dahlia—before she was stalked on her way to the Biltmore Hotel. Opened in the 1940s, it is one of the more modest hotels listed in the Green Book. It still stands in relatively good condition, but it is closed.
2901 S Flower St, Los Angeles, CA 90007
The shuttered Aster Motel.
Biltmore Hotel
Many people know the Biltmore as the Beaux-Arts landmark that was once the largest hotel west of Chicago, as the famous hotel that hosted presidents and celebrities, and as the setting for Chinatown, Ghostbusters, Ocean's 11, Spider-Man, and National Treasure. But the Biltmore also has a less-told history of welcoming those routinely kept out of the limelight.
In the 1940s and '50s, its Grand Avenue Bar was part of the small string of establishments called "the Run" that served as a bustling hub for the LBGTQ community. And from 1962 to 1964, when it was listed in the Green Book, it hosted numerous black sorority events, as well as the Outstanding Student Awards for black scholars and the Women's Lawyers Association. Significantly, it was in its halls that the chairman of the United Civil Rights Committee spoke out against Proposition 14, which would have re-legalized housing discrimination in California, saying, "the California Real Estate Association has admitted its concern is not with property rights—it is to destroy human rights."
506 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Biltmore Hotel.
Clifton's Pacific Seas
Today, it's a parking lot near the whiskey bar Seven Grand, but in the 1940s, it was a Polynesian-themed, pay-as-you-wish paradise. Its sister restaurant, Clifton's Republic (originally Clifton's Brookdale) was also listed in the Green Book for more than 10 years, and it still stands in its original location off Route 66 in Downtown. Clifton Republic's new bar Pacific Seas, which opened last year, is an homage to this lost treasure.
Correction: An earlier version of this map incorrectly stated the opening date of Pacific Seas. It was 2016, not 2017.
618 S Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Diners at the original Clifton's "Pacific Seas" Cafeteria, now a parking lot.
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Clifton's Republic
Clifton's Republic, originally called Clifton's Brookdale, is an anomaly among Green Book sites across the country; few have been lucky enough to undergo an almost $9-million restoration. Brookdale and Pacific Seas were just two in a string of Clifton's, all of which were pay-as-you-wish eateries, a policy implemented in response to the Great Depression. Both the cafeteria and the original Pacific Seas hosted black modeling shows and awards in journalism banquets that featured black journalists.
648 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Clifton's Cafeteria.
Jack's Basket Room
"It was always music and food that brought white people into more acceptance of bending some of the rules." — Candacy Taylor
Green Book sites were often hubs in the African American music scene, providing venues and hotels for the many notable performers, including Marvin Gaye, Little Richard, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday, to play and stay in. In the south and the south-east, these sites lined what was called the Chitlin' Circuit. In Los Angeles, there was Central Avenue. Jack's Basket Room, a jazz club that derived its name from the house speciality (fried chicken and shoestring fries served in a rattan basket), was at the heart of the Central Avenue scene. An after hours spot where impromptu jams were likely to break out, hot chicken was served until 2 a.m. and again at 6 a.m. for those who stayed through the night.
Besides its legendary food and music, Jack's Basket Room boasted a radio broadcasting booth and held massive charity meals for underprivileged children. Listed in the Green Book from 1947 to 1955, the building is abandoned now. But, if you look closely, you can make out the faint lettering of its iconic motto painted on its facade: "Chicken ain't nothin' but a bird."
Jack's Basket Room, abandoned.
Hotel Norbo
The Hotel Norbo, built in 1912, was once an all-hours spot for musicians to play and patrons to drink. But, by the 1970s, it had become low-income housing, and by the 1980s, due to Reagan-era policies, had fallen into squalor. As Taylor notes, LA County was eventually sued over the hotel's dangerous and unlivable conditions. Today, it's still single occupancy housing in the heart of Skid Row.
Hotel Norbo.
Residence of Mrs. J.O. Banks
Many of the sites that still stand today happen to be hotels, but the Green Book listed many other types of businesses, including beauty parlors, liquor stores, tailors, and tourist homes. One such tourist home, a private home that rented out a room or two to travelers, was the residence of Mrs. J.O. Banks, now demolished.
1200 S New Hampshire Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006
South New Hampshire Avenue.
Watkins Hotel
[Green Book sites] are part of the story of African Americans in Los Angeles, and the story of Los Angeles itself writ large. — Ken Bernstein for the Los Angeles Times
Hotel Watkins was converted from a 1920s apartment building into a hotel and jazz club, called the Rubaiyat Room, by Bill Watkins in 1945. It was the first black hotel on the Westside, and it was the place that legendary entertainers flocked to as the Central Avenue scene petered out in the 1960s.
2022 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018
The former Watkins Hotel.
Hotel Californian
The original Hotel Californian is another Green Book site with a long and complicated, boom-and-bust history. Built in the 1920s, the hotel was the site of multiple fires and scandals, and it eventually became a symbol of Westlake/MacArthur Park's decline before it was destroyed in 1995. Newly rebuilt in 2016, the Hotel Californian is now low-income housing. Its original neon sign, which was saved and stored for a decade in Griffith Park, was restored and re-installed on its roof, making it the oldest neon sign in Los Angeles.
1907 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Hotel Californian, now low-income housing.
Palm Vue Motel
Many of the fates of the Green Book sites are murky, and the Palm Vue Motel is no exception. It's not widely known what happened to it—it may have been closed shortly after the 1992 LA Uprising—but what we do know is that it was opened in 1959 by the late attorney Sherman Smith and dentist Helen Guenveur, parents of the LA-based actor Roger Guenveur Smith. According to a spring issue of Jet magazine, the owners "spared no expense, even wall-to-wall carpeting and a swimming pool."
Details of the hotel's demolition are murky, but it would have stood somewhere near the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center on Western.
3922 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90062
Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center.


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Carey Clarke (born 1936) is an Irish academic figurative painter, known for his landscapes, interiors, still lifes and portraits.

Biography
Carey Clarke was born in Donegal in 1936 as the only child of Protestant, middle-class parents. He was educated at St Andrew's College in Dublin, and from 1954 to 1959 attended The National College of Art there, with further studies at the Salzburg Summer school of Fine Art under Emilio Vedova (1969), with Annigoni in Florence (1976–77) and at Slade School in London (1991).

He taught at the National College of Art and Design from 1959 to 1995, where his emphasis on painterly craft and observation had a profound influence on several generations of younger painters. Clarke was appointed to a full-time teaching position in 1968, and to the college's first Academic Council in 1969, in the midst of a student rebellion demanding more freedom for self-expression and a relaxation of academic discipline. Perceived as a conservative, he became a target for hostility by avant-garde elements within the college, who (according to Clarke) made it difficult for him to teach there. Artist Robert Armstrong (who came to NCAD as a student in 1969 and subsequently taught at the college) has described how students "were almost forced" to take sides:  "There were certain staff members, like Alice Hanratty and Charlie Cullen who represented the avant garde, and there were the John Kellys and Carey [Clarke] and Brett McEntagart, who were associated with the RHA, who were regarded as the enemy ... it became very bitter, very unpleasant. There were a lot of casualties along the way." Despite these difficulties, Clarke continued to teach at NCAD, upholding a traditional approach to observational drawing and painting where possible, and remained long enough to influence younger artists (among them Mick O'Dea, Joe Dunne, Maeve McCarthy, James Hanley, Geraldine O'Neill and Conor Walton) less hostile to academic tradition. According to Shirley Armstrong Duffy "Clarke has been a vital link between academic tradition and its current exploitation and reinterpretation" by younger artists.

An associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1967, Clarke was elected full member in 1981 and served as President of that institution from 1992 - 1996. He is also a member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland and the Cork Arts Society.

Principally a painter of landscapes, interiors and still lifes, Carey Clarke is also regarded as one of Ireland's finest portraitists and has painted many leading politicians, academics, artists and other well-known Irish figures, among them former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Michael Mulcahy, playwright Tom Murphy and artist Mick O'Dea. Clarke remains active as a painter, with an exhibition of recent portraits at the RHA in 2017 marking his eightieth year.

Technique and aesthetic
Whether working in oil paint, tempera, watercolour or graphite, Carey Clarke's work is always slowly and patiently constructed, his technique highly controlled and meticulous, aiming at realism and classical balance. According to James Hanley "His work is all about the perception and analysis of reality, and the ability to then translate that experience into the exquisite language of paint." Aidan Dunne has written that "even when he is depicting southern locations bathed in warm Mediterranean light, Clarke's yen for absolute control and endlessly refined detail lends a certain chilly quality to the genuine appeal of his work." According to Clarke himself, "My work is clearly realistic. Nevertheless I sometimes transcend this obsessiveness with realism and create the occasional image that is imbued with lyrical feeling."

Critical appreciation
Irish Times critic Aidan Dunne has describes Clarke as "one of the most popular and respected of Ireland's established academic artists, and deservedly so." Brian Sewell described him as "among [the] keepers of the academic faith." Bruce Arnold declared him "a master of his craft and art, revered as a teacher, admired as a painter and loved as a friend." According to Cristín Leach Hughes, "Contemporary reaction to Clarke's work may hinge on questions of taste and fashion, but realism is enjoying a revival among younger, more conceptual painters than Clarke. The fact that he is still painting and passing his skills on to the next generation means the Irish art world continues to be that bit richer." James Hanley has written of Clarke's "remarkable body of work that is of the best of the European classical tradition, in portraiture, still life, landscape and interiors, and Irish in his commitment to the landscape of his native place – making him the continuum, of Osborne, Orpen and Keating, Hennessy and McGonigal", and also of his "enormous contribution" as a teacher: " ... using a timeless language, relevant to any painter, of any time, he taught students to understand design, tone, pictorial harmonies, composition, structure, planes, figure to ground, taste and refinements of aesthetics in the execution of a style."

Mick O'Dea, former President of the Royal Hibernian Academy, offers this evaluation of Carey Clarke's work and his position in the history of Irish art:"Carey Clarke follows his vision, and he will have a corpus of work that will transcend any decade, particularly as part of the continuity of that Orpen tradition, which was so derided even when I was at college ... I think there is a line going back to Ingres, from Orpen to Keating to Clarke, and on to the present generation such as myself. So there is a continuous line. I think he was holding that line when it was being most assaulted, and it was looking a hopeless cause."Shirley Armstrong Duffy argues that "Carey Clarke has largely been ignored by art historians and critics alike, because of his reputation as an academic and a conservative at a time when traditions were being subverted" and that his achievement is ripe for reappraisal.

Awards

 1959 Taylor Art Competition, Royal Dublin Society, prizewinner
 1985 ESB Keating McLoughlin Medal
 1986 Open Award, Arnotts National Portrait Competition
 2008 Ireland-U.S. Council Portrait Prize

Solo exhibitions

 1966 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
 1972 Winged Arts Gallery, Sedona, Arizona, USA
 1973 Emmet Gallery, Dublin
 1987 Grafton Gallery, Dublin
 1990 The Solomon Gallery, Dublin
 2012, Retrospective Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
 2017, 'Portraits', Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

References

1936 births
Living people
Irish male painters
20th-century Irish painters
21st-century Irish painters
Still life painters
People from County Donegal
Irish landscape painters
Irish watercolourists
Irish portrait painters
20th-century Irish male artists

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The Foremothers of Burlesque
By Jessica Klein Aug 20, 2011 Aug 22, 2011
This week I'd like to pay homage to some of the women who paved the way for the contemporary incarnation of burlesque. Had it not been for the creativity and courage of these sassy lasses, I wouldn't be able to get up there and shake my stuff on stage.
As many of my avid readers are aware of, I'm a member of a fabulous burlesque troupe known as Glam Gam. When I first started performing with my Glamily, I was relatively unaware of the traditions of burlesque, and how it shaped up to become a popular arena for showcasing sexuality, satire and silliness.
Speaking of which, here's my act of shameless self-promotion for our latest Glam Gam extravaganza, a murder mystery entitled "If Looks Can Kill… They Will". It runs tonight and tomorrow night at the famed Café Cleopatre, right in the heart of Montreal's former red light district. It's truly going to be a killer night of titillation, titters, and most importantly of all, titties! And maybe a few cocks thrown in for good measure.
Bettie Page's trademark look of jet black hair and crimson lips is nothing short of pin-up perfection. Though she only worked as a model for seven years during the 50's, her fresh face and gorgeous curves graced everything from calendars to playing cards.
While most well known for her Playboy contributions and fetish and bondage modeling, Page was also an accomplished dancer and performer. Her trademark look and charismatic personality were marked by the alluring contradictions of nice and naughty, sugar and spice. She could exemplify the girl next door at one moment, then get tied up and spanked into submission in the next.
She retired from modeling at the height of her popularity and spent some time as a Christian missionary. Sadly, later in her life she nearly faded into obscurity after suffering a nervous breakdown on account of paranoid schizophrenia and spent some time in an asylum following a violent altercation with her landlord. Recent biopic and documentary films have led to a new-found appreciation of the Queen of the Pin-Ups.
Sally Rand
Sally Rand rose to prominence as a burlesque performer in the mid 1930's, and popularized two of the genre's most enduring numbers: the ostrich feather fan dance and the bubble dance. Both dances rely on the illusion of exposure by limiting the parts of the body shown to the audience while revealing just enough at the pinnacle moments. Rand continued to perform her famous fan dance into her 70s!
Most famous for her appearance at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair and her Naked Ranch at San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exhibition, Rand was arrested many times for her obscene performances and stunts that included riding a horse down the streets of Chicago while seemingly nude.
By injecting humour, class and wit into striptease, Gypsy Rose Lee changed the art forever. Her sassy performances even prompted writer H.L. Mencken to coin the classier term "ecdysiast" from the Ancient Greek term for "to take off or to strip off".
Lee performed with her sisters on the Vaudeville circuit, although her sister June's talents outshone her own attempts at singing and dancing. When she realized she could earn a living in burlesque, she developed a signature, casual style after a shoulder strap gave way on one of her gowns during a performance, a trick she incorporated into her routines.
She was as famous for her sharp wit as she was for her undressing by putting the "tease" in striptease. She was also frequently arrested for indecency during raids on New York's famed Minsky's Burlesque club, where she performed for four years in its heyday. Her 1957 memoir became an instant best-seller and was adapted into the stage musical and film "Gypsy". In her later years she started in a number of moderately successful films and hosted a morning television talk show in San Francisco.
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Sometimes I write codes and then share them on the internet. Here are some of those codes.
change_class Lets you set the class of an object.
debride Analyze code for potentially uncalled / dead methods.
debride-erb Extends debride to analyze erb (w/ rails' extensions) files.
flay-persistence Makes flay analysis persistent and cross-project.
gauntlet Runs code against all the latest rubygems.
graph Easiest and cleanest graphviz api EVER.
hoe-seattlerb Hoe plugins common to Seattle.rb projects.
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metaruby Metaruby is a reimplementation of ruby in ruby.
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minitest-coverage Ruby's contemporary test coverage tools all lie. This fixes that.
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minitest-gcstats A minitest reporter showing top tests by number of allocations.
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minitest-server A client/server setup for minitest.
minitest-unordered A minitest assertion for unordered collection equality.
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rake-remote_task Extends rake with remotely run tasks.
ruby2smalltalk Generate smalltalk from ruby code.
rubygems-checkcert Gem command to display the certificate of a gem.
rubygems-cleanroom Gives you a truly clean gem environment.
rubygems-sandbox Helps you manage your command-line tools and their dependencies.
rubyholic A 'no-peeky'-TDD rails site for ruby groups.
rubyinline Inlined foreign code for ultra-fast and flexible ruby.
rubyinlinefortran Just because we can… Inline::Fortran.
sexp_processor Flexible language processing tools.
ssh Simple streaming ssh command runner. Nothing more.
vlad Pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy.
vlad-perforce A vlad plugin providing perforce support.
wilson A pure ruby x86 assembler.
worker_bee Encapsulates a simple pipeline of threaded workers.
yoda Spec yoda will, and spec you shall too.
zengraph Temporal graphs from arbitrary data.
zenhacks A cornucopia of hackery.
zenprofile A faster version of the standard library profiler plus extra tools.


How Match.com almost ruined my life. Or something like that.
I recently had an experience that almost made me lose all faith in humanity, technology, dating, hiring, and everything else that we hold dear in this world. Almost.
It happens that I've started with a new company (you'll get the link, don't worry), in a new field (recruiting), and wanted to get some feedback from someone qualified, and whom I trusted. I approached a friend who's a hiring manager here in Colorado for a megalithic tech company. Now, mind you, this isn't an ordinary buddy. I've known this guy for 30 years, and while he's all Rolex and Armani now, I knew him when…Well, let's just say we go way back.
-	A new model for recruiting salespeople (we're niched).
-	We use in-depth assessment and matching to find a long-term fit.
-	We help evaluate current culture and values, which can be a benefit to your existing team.
Blah blah…There were a few more, but when I came up for air halfway through my list….CRICKETS!!!
AAARRRGGHHH. As if I hadn't enough cause to curse that website for the $87 I spent on a tragic evening with "SmartFunny72", now I had my old dear friend reducing my spiel – my newfound lifeblood – to a cliché, and a bad one at that!! I figured the first pitch might be a little outside, maybe low even, but I expected to at least be in the ballpark!
I hung up the phone thinking I'd failed completely. Yeah, he'd agreed to meet with me, and yeah he'd look at my printed material, but somehow I got the feeling that I'd never be able to overcome his preconceptions.
Then I got to thinking (the dangers of which will become evident shortly) that I'd take the concept to the extreme. What if it WAS like Match? What if the whole hiring process, nay, our whole way of interacting with one-another, had really just become like internet dating? Certainly if you squint a little, you see a similar way of doing things between the LinkedIn's and the Facebooks and the Match's of the world. What if we really had entered a Huxleyan future where our identities were just an amalgam of all the junk we'd entered in drop-downs and pop-ups? What if my whole freakin' life was going to play itself out 140 characters at a time? Mister Wizard take me home!!!
And just like that, it hit me! My dear friend was dead wrong! And so was my cousin who'd stunk up a different phone conversation with talk that there were no jobs, no one would pay a recruiter, and everything one needed was available on job boards! And so were the hordes of people who'd given up hope of being hired, or hiring based on anything other than a bunch of zeros and ones.
Wanna know why? Well, I'll tell ya! It's because HIRING SOMEONE IS LIKE MARRYING THEM!! Ding ding! Match.com (and just about everything else on the internet) is most decidedly NOT!
You might go to Match to find a date, but what if (cue creepy twilight-zone music) you had to determine who your life partner would be based on three fuzzy photos from spring break circa '92 and a bunch of drivel about looking good in sneakers and / or cowboy boots?! Would you sign up for that? Me thinky you'd want the information that would tell you whether that hottie would actually WANT to move to Mongolia with you because you heard it's a great place to raise a family. Or something. A union such as this clearly involves some in-depth evaluation on everyone's part.
BZZZT!!! Sorry pal, you have to choose right now. Sounds crazy right?
Well, that's what a lot of people are doing. My resume might say that I'm a fire-eating yak-tamer, but does that mean that "VeganGoddyss2468" is athletic and toned? Probably not! Although yaks do like me, or at least my LinkedIn profile. But I digress.
Are you willing to bet "forever and ever, amen" on woefully insufficient information? Of course you ain't!! And neither should anyone be forced into the shotgun wedding that is the hiring practice of most employers and employees.
And so….my friend has unwittingly provided me with the ammo I need to go out and win the hearts and minds of humans all over this great green earth! He's shown me that since my company provides tangible information that can cut through the shock and awe of this crazy hiring dance and determine whether there's a match (not com), that we're providing a substantial service to both employer and employee. All at a fabulous low low price! Don't believe me? He did.
Check it out for yourself: (www.teneotalent.com). Sorry, we don't have a system for weeding out crazies on dating sites. Although….
Tagged as: Assessments, Colorado, Hiring, Job search, Matching, Profile, Start up.
Did you write this? if not, which one of your new staff did? Terrifically written!
Kathy… is this you? I agree with Melissa you are a terrific writer. You should write a book in your spare time! Or at least continue to write posts regularly here (I'd come back just to read them). Congratulations on your new site and the new look-well done!
I stumbled across this because of an announcement on LinkedIn in a LION group discussion. I do not normally follow a tangent off the site, but I must say that I am glad I did. You are absolutely correct, yet unfortunately I believe too many prospective employers are not looking beyond the 1′s and 0′s right now. It's a very cold hiring climate right now. One posts their resume on the job boards or actually send it out to a listing and it's like it was swallowed by a black hole.
Recently (only yesterday in fact) I received a rejection note from a hiring manager for a CTO position and was actually happy to receive it. Can you believe that? How crazy is that? I mention it because it is so extremely rare that a hiring manager whom I never met or even spoke to on the phone at least took the time to acknowledge that I took the time to apply for the position.
In any event I think you've touched on part of the problem with the current state of things. I wish you well in your new venture.


The purpose of this site is to share information from the Marion County/City of Salem (Oregon) Joint Information Center/System. Information regarding the August 21, 2017 eclipse will come from Marion County, City of Salem and other local, state and federal agencies.
Marion County is in the path of totality for the Great American Eclipse!
Beginning at 9:05 a.m. on August 21 in Salem, Oregon, the Moon will slowly begin to move in front of the Sun, eventually covering it completely at 10:18. Totality will last for approximately 1 minute, 54 seconds.
Watch the eclipse live on Salem's Capitol Community Television on Monday, August 21.
Have a Hotel Reservation for the Eclipse? Make Sure You Do This!
Planning to Fly into The Salem Municipal Airport? Read This First!
What Are Local Salem-Area Agencies Doing to Prepare for the August 21 Eclipse?


The Avenger series puts a new spin on the traditional world of reels, and more importantly, what can be expected from them. This series is the upgraded and redesigned reel of the 2006 ICAST Award for "Best Combo." Quite simply, these are ultra smooth, precision crafted reels.
Featuring a lighter, thinner body and now with Okuma's patented "EOS" Eliptical Oscillation System, the Avenger is truly a spinning reel for the future. The patented "EOS" System ensures extremely flat line lay and increases castability.