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Arab divisions: how can the rich Gulf help the poor Maghreb build research capacity?
Andrea Rinaldi
Freelance journalist, SciDev.Net
The need for networking and the challenges posed by diversity within the vast Arab world are two of the issues that emerged prominently from the Boosting research for health in the new Arab world meeting in Bellagio, north Italy which ended on Friday (1 March).
No one doubts that much cooperation and coordination will be necessary in order to tackle the research for health demand, but it is honestly difficult to see how virtually failed states such as Somalia, economically advanced realities like the Gulf States, and the Maghreb and Mashriq countries with their variable income levels, can be brought together to put forward a unified vision for public health in the region.
Up to now, there has been very limited dialogue among these countries, and not only regarding research- or science-related issues (the overall value of trade exchange between Arab countries, for example, is low). However, those involved in the health research agenda are positive that diversity in the Arab world, if wisely used, can actually benefit the requested change, as delegates present at the Bellagio meeting told SciDev.Net.
"Diversity should be perceived as an important factor for complementarity instead of a reason for division," said Ziad Abdel Samad, Executive Director of the Arab NGO Network for Development in Beirut, Lebanon. "There is the necessity to create processes at various levels that must include academia and research. I'm aware of many existing initiatives among different universities and research centers focusing on health from different countries of the region."
Samer Jabbour, from the Faculty of Health Sciences of the AmericanUniversity of Beirut, Lebanon, said: "All countries have a stake in cooperation as it will promote development and contribute to stability and legitimacy. Regional cooperation based on solidarity is simply the right thing to do. But we need to push, and from the bottom up, for this to happen in light of a prior history of poor functioning of formal regional platforms for common work. This is the task ahead of us."
The role of the Gulf States might play in the effort is a matter of particular importance, given both their economic prominence and the considerable resources some of them, notably Qatar, dedicate to R&D.
Hanan Abdul Rahim, at QatarUniversity in Doha, Qatar, said: "There is a great interest in the Gulf in developing R&D systems. For example, Qatar partners with well known international universities in specific fields, such as medicine, engineering, and computer science, and links to a number of international research initiatives."
"At the same time, the Qatar National Research Fund presents an opportunity for research collaborations with all parts of the world. Regional and international collaborations are not mutually exclusive. One does not have to preclude the other," said Rahim.
But some believe that, in order to lead the research-for-health revolution in the new Arab world, the Gulf States must genuinely believe in their spearheading function while seriously reconsidering their attitude towards neighbours and potential partners.
"Regarding the Gulf states, many in the region want to see them play a greater role in promoting health and development," said Jabbour. "This is another subject for advocacy for those interested in promoting research for health and development."
But Abdel Samad said that "Gulf countries are supporting other Arab and Islamic countries; they are even considered among the largest donors worldwide. However, most of their donations are dedicated to charity and faith based initiatives. Few of these donations are directed to fund development programs and research projects."
There is a lack of structured and transparent process of selecting partners and programs, and the way support is channelled is often conditioned by subjective choices, which highly affects the impact of allocated funds, argued Abdel Samad.
"This is a source of frustration which is leading people in the Arab world to rather address foreign donors that have their own requirements and conditions," said Abdel Samad. "The objective is to advocate the Arab donors in order to motivate them to change this perception, and to create a properly transparent system, participatory methodologies and efficient strategies for implementation."
This blog post is part of our coverage of Boosting Research for Health in the New Arab World meeting which takes place 26 February – 1 March 2013, in Bellagio, Italy. To read further news and analysis please visit our website.
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Health research in the Arab world needs a 'Big Idea'
Work progresses at the Boosting research for health in the new Arab world meeting in Bellagio, north Italy. Today, discussion shifted from general topics to more practical issues.
Working groups gathered to think on country-specific needs for health research system strengthening, focusing on three main aspects: regional strategy and plan of action, engaging partners and building networks, funding perspectives.
The fund-raising problem is of course a crucial one, so a large part of the broader discussion that followed was devoted to explore possible avenues to get potential donors and financing bodies involved. Since the all initiative of strengthening health research in the Arab world is brand new, and the group of people that is coordinating the effort met here for the first time, one should not be surprised to know that only vaguely shaped plans were brought to the table so far. However, good, solid common ground was found to build on by selecting shared pointers for future action.
First, delegates agreed on the need for coming out with a 'Big Idea' about boosting health research as a driver of improvement of public health, advancement of fairness of health and equity, and socio-economic development in the region.
This should be something that captures imagination of donors and funding bodies, while being amenable to be efficiently communicated and appealing to politicians and the lay public as well.
"Something exciting is needed, but I still don't see it here. This is necessary not only, or primarily, to allure donors, but to have a sharp vision of the common goal to achieve," said Ibrahim Daibes, from the Canada-based aid agency International Development Research Centre, confirming that work has to be done in this direction.
Another consultation, opened to a larger panel of researchers, policymakers and stakeholders, will be held in a 6-months time frame to develop the 'Big Idea' concept further.
It was also noted that for the change to become structural and to impact substantially on health and related societal issues, donors will not be enough, but rather national governments need to be convinced to allocate appropriate resources to R&D in the health sector in their budget over a long period of time.
This – in a region where health and R&D expenditure is (with a few exceptions) relatively low (but that, on the other side, boasts the highest ratio of military expenditures as a percentage of GDP in the world) – is not going to be easy, as those around the table here in Bellagio are well aware.
Certainly, a carefully planned communication strategy will be key to the project, both to persuade international funding agencies to take the risk of investing in research in countries in conflict and transition and to raise advocacy at the national and regional level. "We have to speak clear, so to be sure that people don't think we are asking for money just to fund our own research or academic institutions," said Hoda Rashad, from the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Health research in the Arab world can benefit from experiences in Africa and Latin America
Future work needed to develop efficient health research systems in Arab countries can find a good starting point in previous experiences from other regions of the world. This is the main take-home message of the talk by Francisco Becerra, COHRED, staged today at the Boosting research for health in the new Arab world meeting in Bellagio, north Italy.
"COHRED aims to make an essential contribution to improve health, equity and development around the world. While there are many ways to do so, we focus on research and innovation – by and for low- and middle income-countries and populations," said Becerra. "Our focus is on the systems needed for research and innovation for health. We believe that strong systems produce more and better research and innovation, with a greater relevance to the country and its population."
Group at work at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
Becerra presented COHRED work in Africa and Latin America, often performed in close collaboration with key regional partners, such as the New Partnership for African Development Agency (NEPAD) and the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO). In Latin America and the Caribbean, COHRED has developed regional and country based activities. Most notable is the work with Paraguay, which led to a presidential decree on research and innovation for health; and the collaboration with Uruguay on the establishment of a financial mechanism for research for health.
"A key aspect of COHRED's work is to facilitate exchange and interaction among countries in a region. We strongly believe in this exchange with peers to stimulate research and innovation development," Becerra said. "Regional meetings were therefore organised in Latin America in the recent past, and a knowledge exchange workshop for the African countries was organised in 2012 in Tanzania."
Each country has its own peculiarities and needs specifically tailored solutions, experience shows. Also, countries are called to invest in their own systems, and to strengthen research and innovation capacity. If this does not happen and countries themselves are not interested, there is little that can be done through external aid.
"What is happening in the Arab world? Is there a similar interest in research and innovation and an assertiveness to take this development into own hands? What are the key political and regional players, and how can organisations such as COHRED make a meaningful contribution to research and innovation in the region?" asked Becerra. These are the questions the Bellagio meeting and subsequent discussions will aim to answer.
Arab academic institutions need rethinking to improve health outcomes
Brainstorming discussion is taking place at the 'Boosting research for health in the new Arab world' meeting in Bellagio, north Italy. The common view presented so far is that health is both a causative agent and an end-point of development, and that health research is a major driver of the entire process.
"Health is a societal good, not the exclusive interest of the Ministries of Health," said COHRED Director Carel IJsselmuiden.
Iman Nuwayhid, from the Faculty of Health Science of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, spoke about the role academic institutions can play in fostering the shaping of national health research strategies in Arab countries.
"Academic institutions are partly responsible for the status of research in the region," said Nuwayhid. "On one hand, they have suffered from regional conflicts, lack of funding, a dearth of qualified researchers, lack of institutional collaboration, and restrictions on free scientific inquiry and access to information. On the other hand, these institutions have accepted the status quo and some have even served as a mouthpiece for the political regimes."
However, exceptions exist, Nuwayhid added, and a few centers of excellence present models that are distinct but homegrown and worth scaling up in the region. "Building a regional network of such core academic institutions is no doubt a strict pre-requisite for any effort to support and shape research for health in the region," Nuwayhid said.
According to the data presented by Nuwayhid, the Arab world is, at least on paper, well equipped with both public and private higher institutions (some 1,200) and universities (more than 400), with good geographic spread.
Quality, of course, differs greatly.
The Ranking Web of Universities (also known as Webometrics Ranking) in its last edition lists some 726 higher education institutions in the Arab world, with world rank position running from 420 (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) down to 21,100!
As the UNESCO Science Report 2010 remarked, poorer countries like Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco are home to some of the oldest universities in the Arab world, and can be seen as regional leaders in terms of S&T human resources and scientific publications. On the other hand, institutions based in the Gulf States "have the material and financial resources to carry out R&D but lack the solid S&T and higher education systems to generate knowledge".
But for academic institutions to be engaged as authoritative catalyzers of the transformation in the Arab world, they first have to rethink themselves. As an instructive example, Nuwahyd quoted the Kasr Al-Ainy School of Medicine of the Cairo University, inaugurated back in 1827, where teaching faculty is limited to graduates from the same institution.
"The uprisings in the Arab World have confirmed that people are ready for change. Academic institutions in this region are simultaneously the target of such a demand as well as the beacon of hope and change. It is a dilemma that we all, and especially donors and international organisations, need to face," Nuwahyd said. "We have to invest heavily in academic institutions of this region. It is a leap of faith that we cannot afford missing. If entrusted, academic institutions will deliver."
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Mapping national health research systems across the Arab world
The Boosting research for health in the new Arab world meeting officially takes off today, in Bellagio, north Italy. Delegates from several Arab countries and representatives of the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) and of other institutions are swarming in, while sessions will begin early tomorrow.
Among the background papers distributed to participants in advance of the conference, several deal with the crucial aspect of the evaluation of the national health research systems (NHRS) of Arab countries. This is not trivial matter, as no comparable international indicator of the quantity/quality of health research exists.
An easily feasible – although admittedly limited – approach is to count medical research publications by researchers based in institutions in each country, as proposed by Martin McKee (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and colleagues in a recent PLoS Medicine study. According to this indicator, the performance of Arab countries is (not surprisingly) a mixed bag, with countries such as Yemen and Somalia laying close to the bottom of the rank, and others, like Tunisia, doing fairly well, especially considering the available resources.
Other NHRS-mapping studies analysed the situation in the Arab word by using a more holistic approach, in particular trying to focus on the most important (but maybe most elusive to measure) outcome of health research: improved health of people, fair access to health care services, and reduced health inequities.
Using such a conceived method, COHRED-associated researchers have assessed the NHRS in most Arab countries, and recently published a study that completes the baseline information on health research systems in the region. In this last work five countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine and Syria) agreed to map their NHRS and collect information on research policies and regulations, governance and management mechanisms (including ethics review boards), and institutions that commission, produce and use research.
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More and better health research is needed in the Arab world
The day is coming. Tomorrow, 26 February, a meeting on 'Boosting research for health in the new Arab world' will begin in Bellagio, north Italy. Before formal discussion kicks off, we asked Hassen Ghannem, senior consultant to the Geneva-based Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) and meeting organizer, about the background and objectives of the conference.
What is the current situation of health research in the Arab countries?
"Policymakers in the developed world understand that research, science and technology are vital components of economic growth and prosperity. But, in the Arab world, translating this realization into policies and actions backed by resource commitments has been a major challenge.
In particular, weaknesses of research for health in the Arab world are seen in three areas: low investment in research and development; weak national health research systems, with considerable fragmentation and little or no coordination at the national and international level; poor scientific production and impact, as a result of low investment and weak systems."
In your personal opinion, what is to be done to change this situation? Is the Arab Spring going to have a significant impact on the status quo?
"This region is currently experiencing major historical changes with the aspiration to freedom, democracy and more equitable development. Research for health is essential to understanding the current and future projected health needs of the population and developing approaches and solutions that can contribute to health improvements.
Because research for health and national systems of research for health have been weak in the region, this time of change creates a historic opportunity to undertake key strategic actions in research and innovation, with particular focus on strengthening national systems of research for health leading to improvements in health and development. This could be done, among other things, by engaging policymakers and stakeholders to equip them with tools and skills needed for making informed decisions, and by hosting dialogues and consultative meetings to bring a range of stakeholders together to facilitate policy dialogues leading to more commitment to fund research in the region."
What do you hope will come out of the Bellagio's meeting?
"The overall goal is to end up with a strong call to action to strengthen system capacity for research and innovation for health in the Arab world, and to develop an effective communication strategy to disseminate and keep this alive until the regional conference that is planned for later this year or 2014."
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Whole Foods Market Knoxville . . . the PREVIEW!
I went to Whole Foods Market for a preview tour on Friday, and had a wonderful time learning about the store, as well as the companies core values, product labelling, and ways to save.
1) Whole Foods Cares about the community, and the planet.
And, they have well planned ways to show it through their Community Giving, foundations: Whole Kids, Whole Cities and Whole Planet, and additionally, their Whole Trade Guarantee, and Local Producer Loan Program.
2) They're committed to stocking local products.
They want to impact the community they're a part of in as many ways as possible, and stocking local products is part of that. Watch the video on this page. #NewCareerGoals!
3) You save 10 cents for EVERY bag you bring.
4) They don't offer plastic bags, and haven't since 2008.
Hence the above comment. They do offer paper bags still, but why waste paper when you can bring your own bags, right?
5) They have some great ways to save money.
Between the bulk department, coupons, flash and weekend sales, saving money at Whole Foods may be easier than you'd think! Read this blog post by Stockpiling Moms for some additional tips!!
Overall, we had a great time touring Whole Foods, and I'm SO excited to explore it more after the Grand Opening tomorrow!!
Do y'all have a Whole Foods near you? If so, what are your favorite products? I'd love some suggestions of things to try!!


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Q: Content Type Issue with AFAmazonS3Manager (iOS) I have an issue retrieving images with AFAmazonS3Manager. I can upload to Amazon S3 just fine but I noticed when I try to use the image URL in a browser it doesn't open as a web URL. It asks to save the image. I think this is why images are not working in my app. The Content-Type uses "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and I need the Content-Type to be "image/jpeg".
Does anyone know if there is a setting for Amazon S3 to open images in web URLs? And how do I change the Content-Type for my image URLs?
I'm using AFAmazonS3Manager (cocoapod) for iOS. My pods are updated and I am using a current version of Xcode.

A: I found the issue. I modified the AFURLRequestSerialization.m file to default to my desired content-type which is jpeg. I added a line of code in this if statement:
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Now all my image URLs open in the browser. I checked the meta data setting in AmazonS3 and it serves up jpegs. Hope this saves someone some time.

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The Dutch software company Fabfilter is now releasing its Pro-Q 2 plug-in as an AUv3 plug-in for the iPad.
The Pro-Q 2 by Fabfilter is a professional and extremely flexible equalizer that has been around for a long time as a VST / AU plug-in for popular DAWs.
The EQ supports up to 24 bands whose filters can grab a slew rate of no more than 96 dB / octave.
In general, the Pro-Q 2 has become a surgical thug for mixing and mastering applications.
With the port to AUv3 format, this top tool can now also be used in its iOS host, such as Cubasis, AUM or n-Track Pro.
The App Fabfilter Pro-Q 2 is now available for $ 29.99 in Appstore and is not the only port according to the manufacturer, because there are many more to follow.
That's a good thing because it makes it possible to get audio signals on the iPad at the professional level.
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Podcast 683: A Conversation with Herlin Riley
Herlin Riley was more than satisfied with his career as one of the top drummers in jazz. Having worked with the likes of Ahmad Jamal in the mid-Eighties, he achieved recognition as Wynton Marsalis' drummer in the second iteration of the trumpeter's great groups in the Eighties and Nineties. It's Riley you hear on the Pulitzer Prize winning Blood on the Fields, and he is the core of the group playing on the epic Live at the Village Vanguard mega-set. He followed Marsalis to Jazz at Lincoln Center, and participated in many of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's early successes.
Since 2000, Herlin has also stepped out as a leader in his own right. After two releases on the Criss Cross label, he signed with Mack Avenue, and now has followed 2016's New Direction with Perpetual Optimism. Taking a page from Art Blakey's play book, the 62 year old has surrounded himself with musicians half his age, including Godwin Louis (sax); Bruce Harris (trumpet); Russell Hall (bass) and most notably, pianist Emmet Cohen. The in-demand Cohen recently was awarded the Cole Porter Fellowship by the American Pianist Awards. More on that in a future podcast.
Perpetual Optimism allows Riley to mix his own compositions – and these are well-above average tunes in a post-bop mood – with tunes that allow him to honor those who came before him. Whether he is leading the band through a 5/4 take on "Wang Dang Doodle" or tipping his cap to an elder, Ellis Marsalis, with a cover of "Twelve's It." He brings his own flourishes to "Stella by Starlight", allowing his young Turks to follow his lead in breathing new life into an old standard.
Podcast 683 is my conversation with Herlin Riley, as we discuss his band, the album, and the legacy of the New Orleans drummer in the jazz world. Musical selections from Perpetual Optimism include "Touched" and "Wang Dang Doodle", plus "Down Home with Homey", a Wynton Marsalis tune featuring Riley from Uptown Ruler: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 2 in 1988.

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Comparison of Three Programming Languages in HEAT System
This report compares 3 different languages (D, Odin and Zig) and analyzes their suitability for building a Human Embodied Autonomous Thermostat (HEAT) system that uses the face temperature of human occupants to control the buildings' air temperatures. Performance, reliability and security are emphasized, and a conclusion is given to suggest which language is more favorable.
As described on their official websites, D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax. The Odin programming language is designed with the intent of creating an alternative to C with the goals of simplicity, high performance, built for modern systems and joy of programming. Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Performance is one of the key aspects we need to consider, as the sensor nodes with cameras typically have limited CPU and RAM sources as compared with the central server. The D language markets itself as "write fast, read fast and run fast". It offers inline assemble, direct access to hardware, explicit memory allocation control and direct native code generation. Odin has a big highlight on performance. For example, procedure parameters are considered to be immutable. This allows Odin to automatically optimize how procedure values are passed. If it is more efficient to pass them by value or more efficient to pass them as an immutable pointer internally, and it does not matter from a user perspective. Zig claims to be "faster than C". For example, the reference implementation uses LLVM as a backend for state of the art optimizations, and "Link Time Optimization" is enabled by default. For native targets, advanced CPU features are enabled. Zig also directly exposes a SIMD vector type, making it easy to write portable vectorized code.
As a system which runs 24-hour, we expect great reliability on the language, and hope it is able to handle runtime errors without breaking the system. C, for example, suffers a lot on this, as an undefined dereference of a pointer can easily crash the program. Thus, we are interested in how well these languages handle exceptions. In D language, exception handling is done with the try-catch-finally statement. One thing worth mentioning is that, in contrast to most other programming languages, even if an exception is raised in the finally statement and is not caught, it will be automatically chained to the previous exception, so that it can be caught eventually. This brings a big reliability advantage over other languages. However, Odin couples exceptions to a control structure, since it believes try-catch finally complicates the understanding of the program. Odin uses plain error handling through the use of multiple return values. And, it is clear to check which procedure the error value is from. In Zig, pointers cannot be null, so there is no chance at all of null references which are the source of many runtime exceptions. Errors are values which may not be ignored, and must be handled by a single catch statement.
EASY TO AUDIT
Simplicity and readability are important, since big customers such as prisons and intelligent offices may want to audit our program prior to deployment. Zig promotes code maintenance and readability by making all control flow managed exclusively with language keywords and function calls. Zig's entire syntax is specified with a 500-line grammar file. There is no hidden control flow, no hidden memory allocations, no preprocessor, and no macros. Most importantly, this implies that calls to functions are guaranteed, and if the code does not look like it is jumping away to call a function, then it is not, without needing to know the types of anything. This is a huge advantage over the other two languages, as though both D and Odin brings readability and simplicity to C in terms of syntax, they do not have those kind of features.
The language must be able to run on the hardware natively, without the help of third-party libraries or operating systems as they may introduce additional safety concerns. D language, as stated by the official, keeps standalone in mind at design time and enables programmers to build efficient, lightweight and standalone programs, which is ideal for our needs. Unfortunately, no information about Odin or Zig on their feasibility of writing standalone programs is found, so the only option left is D on this aspect.
IOT FRIENDLY
We are interested in whether or not the language is optimized for running on embedded systems at design time, so it may be adopted in commercial field. D is a high level language, but retains the ability to write high performance code and interface directly with hardware. This allows us to interact with devices such as sensors and cameras directly. Odin offers high control over memory layout which allows more direct hardware access. Neither Odin nor Zig provides clear indication on their support on direct hardware access, in contrast to D. Also, no information on all three languages about the existence of their application on IoT and embedded devices are found through Internet search, so it is difficult to make a conclusion here.
The D language may be the best option for building our system, at least based on our short-time Internet research. All 3 languages claim superior performance, but D has a reliability advantage due to its unique exception handling. D is also the only language which claims to be able to build standalone softwares and allows programmers to write interfaces for interacting with hardwares such as sensors and cameras directly, which satisfies our requirement. Odin and Zig, unfortunately, does not meet our needs for building a commercial embedded system, though they have some other advantages such as code simplicity.
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Categories or Filters: Which Works Best?
It is important for SEO to know when to use categories and when to use filters to sub-divide the pages of your website because this can have a profound effect on your SERPs rankings. But first you need to know the difference between the two?
Categories are the most natural way to divide your site into pages and are often cleaner and easier to crawl by search engine spiders.
For example, supposing you are developing an e-site for a furniture store, you would first want to designate an individual page to each specific item of furniture – such as beds, dining room sets, couches and arm chairs, dressers.
Then within each page you might want to break it down further into subcategories – so the beds page could be further divided into single beds, double beds, queen size beds, children's beds, bunk beds, etc.
Your URL for the general bed page would then read: "http://www.furniturestore/beds.html" and you would have individual URLs for each sub-category that would read, for example: "http://www.furniturestore/beds/bunkbeds" or "http://www.furniturestore/beds/singlebeds", etc.
Once you have your categories established, then come the filters. Filters are ways of distinguishing items within the same category or sub-category – so to continue the example above, you could filter bunk beds according to price points, or material, or color, etc.
You can sometimes tell you are dealing with a filter when you see a question mark (?) in the URL.
Google and other search engines tend to recognize and rank categories above filters because their URLs are cleaner and more directly obvious than filter URLs. Just as the "?" in the URL filter leapt to your attention, so too it appears to Google.
Think about the website you are creating and try to focus on the words that you think will attract the highest volume of searches. One excellent tool for fine-tuning this is Google Keyword Plannerwhich you can use to create natural categories and mapping for your site.
The great asset with this tool is that you can see for yourself the number of monthly searches for each category heading you might consider, and so choose the one that seems most appropriate for your client is offering.
Another method to decide on category headings is to use specific metrics for your site.
Try to limit the number of categories on your site as too many can be overwhelming both to viewers who may get confused when confronted with too much choice.
As a rule of thumb, you don't want to have more than four layers of categories (ie, one main category and then a maximum of three sub categories). Any more than this and your pages may not be properly crawled by the search engines.
If you still need to further sub-divide you could then move on to using filters.
There are not hard and fast rules but some of the simplest are often the best – eg color, size, price, etc. The advantage of filters is that they both streamline the amount of information that will be returned to your viewers and can reveal items that may not be searched for very often.
In the end, for effective SEO it is important to know how to use categories and filters effectively so that your site users are able to access the information they are looking for and so that Google, Bing and other search engines can index your website in an efficient and operative way.


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At the inaugural conference of the Irish Sea Maritime Forum held in Belfast in June 2012 stakeholders suggested that an Irish Sea Issues and Opportunities discussion paper would be a useful early output for the Forum which could inform the direction of future Forum activities and forthcoming maritime planning in the region. This stakeholder workshop will provide the basis of a draft discussion paper which will then go out for wider stakeholder consultation and feed into the publication of a final report in May next year.
The workshop will focus on the following themes: Fishing; Marine Energy; Ports and Shipping; Tourism and Recreation; and Environment. In order to stimulate discussion, the day starts with a series of presentations from a key stakeholder in each field setting out the issues and opportunities in the Irish Sea from their perspective. This will be followed by a series of thematic roundtable discussions which will explore the ideas presented from different stakeholder perspectives. Delegates will have an opportunity to select and contribute to three different themes during these discussions.


==Decentralized Systems== Systems comprised of a number of computing nodes all supporting a common mission. All nodes can be given the same task or asked to support the mission through a subset of tasks. Decentalized systems offer several advantages over their centralized counterparts including: * Each node does not require intrinsic knowledge of the system topology * Topology is variable. Nodes can be added or subtracted without significantly impacting the overall system * Less vulnerable to single-point failures * Computational load can be spread amongst nodes for efficiency Decentralized systems also suffer from some disadvantages: * All nodes may not have access to all information contained within the system * Multiple nodes have access to the same information Examples of decentralized systems include robotic swarms, cooperative UAVs, formation flying spacecraft and formation of synthetic apertures using multiple smaller sensors. ==Decentralized Estimation== Decentralized estimation representes an important aspect of decentralized systems. Because various nodes within the system may not have access to all measurements within the system, the individual estimates will be suboptimal. In a perfect world there would exist a means to combine the estimates from all of the nodes into a single estimate which makes use of all system measurements and is optimal. Difficulty arises because some measurements may be used by more than one node leading the estimates from those nodes to be correlated. An example of such a system is the spacecraft attitude estimator shown.


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Each spring faculty in the Division of Biology and Medicine nominate graduating seniors in Biology for the following prizes. The Biology Awards Committee selects the recipients who are honored at a luncheon and recognized at Commencement.
Dean Marjorie Thompson Senior Prize in Biology
With generous support from the community, the Division of Biology and Medicine established The Dean Thompson Prize in Biology, which was awarded for the first time in 2015. The Dean Thompson Prize recognizes a graduating senior who has proven to be an outstanding student and student-educator in biology. The recipient must also be highly accomplished in a second academic discipline and/or extracurricular endeavor.
Recent recipients: Brooke M. Spencer '19, Alexis H. Lerner '18, Jahnavi Rudrakshala '17, Beatrice L. Steinert '16 and Elena R. Suglia '15
Maria L. Caleel Memorial Award for Academic Excellence
This is the highest award given to a senior biology student in each graduating class. This prize recognizes the student with the strongest qualities of scholarship, research, academic performance, and contributions to the undergraduate intellectual atmosphere.
Maria Caleel was a dedicated and involved student who graduated from Brown University in 1987. Approximately one year later, she met a tragic and untimely death while studying for a career in equine medicine at the University of Illinois' College of Veterinary Medicine. At that time, Maria Caleel was ranked at the top of her first-year class. Her family, classmates, many friends and admirers worked together to establish an award to honor her memory - The Maria Caleel Memorial Award.
The deans and faculty of Brown's Biology departments select recipients who have demonstrated dedication to the field, outstanding academic achievement, future promise, and exemplary achievement in keeping with the standards of Maria Caleel who was not able to realize her full potential. Therefore, it is the hope of all those who helped establish this award in her memory that the recognition it brings will encourage the recipient to continue excellence in the field and embody in all aspects of life the virtues of hard work, dedication and strength of character which Maria Caleel exemplified.
Recent recipients: Joshua D. Pirl '19, Joseph R. Johnson '18, Cambria Chou- Freed '17, Lucy Xu '16, Samuel H. Church '15, and Vanessa M. Welten '14
Richard J. Goss Prize in Experimental Biology
This prize is given to a senior biology student in recognition of remarkable academic achievement, research contributions in Experimental Biology and for being a model recipient of this award in honor of the late Professor Goss, a distinguished Professor of Biology from 1952 until his retirement in 1990. He was a world-renowned authority on regeneration and compensatory growth, and a natural historian in the fullest sense.
Recent recipients: Lucy Jia '19, Christopher F. Noyes '18, Zemplen Pataki '17, Charlene V. Chabata '16, Eric L. Tung '15, and Rosalyn M. Price-Waldman '14
George W. Hagy Prize in Human Biology
This prize is given to a senior Health & Human Biology student in recognition of embodying the spirit of the Human Biology program along with a record of remarkable academic achievement. Dr. Hagy is an emeritus Professor of Genetics, who also initiated the Human Biology concentration many years ago.
Recent recipients: Matthew J. Orringer '19, Sachit Singal '18, Tori Kinamon '17, Emily M. Wright '16, Divya S. Bhatia '15, Jessica D. Fields '14, and Hasina S. Maredia '14
James F. Kidwell Prize in Genetics and Population Biology
This prize is given to a senior biology student in recognition for a remarkable record and research achievements in Genetics and Population Biology. The late Professor Kidwell was a distinguished Professor of Population Biology and Genetics.
Recent recipients: Hallie S. Fischman '19, Fiona L. Beltram '18, Thomas Pettengill '17, Nicolas H. Ledru '16, Aaron A. Behr '15, Sinéad M. Crotty '14.5, and James P. Roose '14
Elizabeth Leduc Prize in Cell Biology
This prize is given to a senior biology student in recognition for a remarkable record and research achievements in Cell Biology. The late Professor Leduc was a distinguished scholar in the field of cell biology. She taught cell and tissue biology here for many years and also served as a Dean of Biology.
Recent recipients: Erica M. Lin '19, Lilit Grigoryan '18, Jea Yun Sim '17, Emma T. Corcoran '16, Sonia A. Boor '15, and Rachel H. Occhiogrosso '14
Morris L. Povar Prize in Physiology or Zoology
This prize is given to a senior biology student in recognition for outstanding academic achievements in Physiology or Zoology. The late Dr. Povar was a distinguished Professor of Medical Science (Physiology Section) and Psychology, and the former Director of the Animal Care Facility. He conducted research on eye movements in relation to learning, at the Primate Behavior Laboratory, in addition to overseeing all aspects of animal care at the facility on campus.
Recent recipients: Jeffrey O. Okewunmi '19, Jessica L. Cao '18, JD Laurence-Chasen '17, David A. Perry '16, Mary E. Tarantino '15, and Amber S. Harris '14
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Recent recipients: Winnie Fan '19, Courtney L. Hoggard '19, Jacob K. Jamison '19, Lena M. Joesch-Cohen '19, Fahim H. Mahmud '19, Morcos N. Nakhla '19, Victoria M. Tran '19, Ashley M. Aldridge '18, Yueming "Allie" Cao '18, Mursal Gardezi '18, Wing Lam "Natalie" Ho '18, Daniel L. Roque '18, Kylen Soriano '18, Naveen Balakrishnan '17, Tyler Devlin '17, Benjamin Doughty '17, Kenneth Kim '17, Nari Lee '17, Sakura Nakada '17, and Chibuikem Nwizu '17
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HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth for sea trials as families wave off sailors on board aircraft carrier
David George & Louisa Moth
IT was an emotional afternoon for naval families today, as they said their goodbyes to loved ones setting sail on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.
The Royal Navy's 65,000-tonne carrier left Portsmouth Harbour just after 12.30pm today ahead of another round of sea trials.
Story: HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth. The view from Old Portsmouth on June 17 2019. Picture: Habibur Rahman
The £3.1bn carrier is due to return to Portsmouth in five weeks' time before a second phase of flight tests with the F-35B jets.
At the Round Tower in Old Portsmouth, families gathered to say their goodbyes.
Well-wisher Louise Fullwood, 34, watched with her children 11-year-old Sophie Campbell and Thomas, seven, as her partner Neil Campbell left Portsmouth.
She said: 'It's the first time Neil has been away on the carrier and the first time he's been away in six years.
Marcus White waves off the HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier, as she sets sail for a fresh round of sea trials. Picture: Louisa Moth
'He only joined the ship's company two weeks ago.
'We all went to Chessington the weekend before last and just filled the family days before he went away.
'All of us are going to miss him – I think the first week will be okay but it will feel longer and longer towards the end.'
Neil's daughter Sophie said: 'I'm going to really miss him – but I'm going on a school residential so he'll be home when I get back from that.'
Families say goodbye to HMS Queen Elizabeth as she sets sail from Portsmouth Harbour. Picture: Louisa Moth
Lottie Harland, 22 from Old Marston, Oxford, waved goodbye to her boyfriend, who was also sailing on the carrier for the first time.
She said: 'My boyfriend is a Trail Officer on the ship, he's off for a week and it's the first time he's gone away on the ship while we've been together.
'I thought I would come down and wave him off.'
'Lives on the line' as Royal Navy sends third warship to the Gulf amid tensions with Iran
Linda White and her son Marcus were also at the top of the Round Tower.
She said: 'His cousin is on the ship so we regularly come to see him off and always bring a Union Jack with us.
'He joined the navy when he was 17 and is 22 now, he loves his job.'
Navy supporter Carl Davaes, 52, from Leeds, said his family has a strong connection to the service.
'My sons are in the navy, serving on HMS Duncan and HMS Daring,' he said.
'I've seen the destroyers leaving but never the QE carrier, so that's quite special to watch.'


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10 things you need to know today: August 18, 2022
Pence urges Republicans to stop attacking FBI over search of Trump's home, Cheney considers running for president after primary drubbing, and more
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Pence calls for Republicans to stop lashing out at FBI
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday said it is fine for Republicans to question the Justice Department over the search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, but "attacks on the FBI must stop." Pence also said he would give "due consideration" to any request to testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, although "it would be unprecedented in history for a vice president to be summoned to testify on Capitol Hill." In June, the committee described in a public hearing how Trump tried to pressure Pence into rejecting the certification of his election loss.
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Liz Cheney considers presidential run as she focuses on stopping Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Wednesday, a day after losing her Republican primary in a landslide, that she will focus now on keeping former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House, possibly by running for president herself. Cheney told NBC's Today that she is "thinking about" launching a 2024 White House bid and will "make a decision in the coming months." The Wyoming Republican didn't say whether she would run as a Republican or an independent. Analysts expressed doubt Cheney would gain traction either way, USA Today reported. Cheney, vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack by a mob of Trump supporters, said Trump "continues to pose a very grave threat — a risk to our republic."
Giuliani testifies to Georgia grand jury
Rudy Giuliani testified for six hours Wednesday before a Georgia grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results. Giuliani, who has been identified as a target of the criminal investigation, left the courthouse without commenting. "We were ordered to be here. We showed up," said one of his lawyers, Bill Thomas. Giuliani, a former New York mayor who served as Trump's personal lawyer, is the highest-profile Trump ally to testify to the grand jury called by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Giuliani told Georgia lawmakers in late 2020 that he had evidence of widespread voter fraud in their state, a claim Georgia election officials debunked.
Ex-Trump Organization CFO reaches plea deal
Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump's family business, is expected to plead guilty Thursday to 15 felonies related to an alleged tax-avoidance scheme involving compensating executives with off-the-books perks. Weisselberg faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted at trial. Under the plea deal, he's expected to serve as little as 100 days. Weisselberg will have to testify at the trial of Trump's company, the Trump Organization, which could make it harder for the business to fight charges over the alleged tax scheme, The New York Times reports. But he won't be required to cooperate with the Manhattan district attorney's broader investigation of Trump, who hasn't been accused of wrongdoing in the case.
Walensky unveils plan to reorganize CDC after COVID criticism
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced Wednesday that the agency will reorganize its leadership in a "reset" designed to make it more flexible. The CDC has faced criticism over its response to the coronavirus pandemic and monkeypox outbreak. "I feel like it's my responsibility to lead this agency to a better place after a really challenging three years," Walensky told The Associated Press. The changes will include staffing moves and measures to release data more quickly. "We saw during COVID that CDC's structures, frankly, weren't designed to take in information, digest it, and disseminate it to the public at the speed necessary," said Jason Schwartz, a health policy researcher at the Yale School of Public Health.
Florida prosecutor sues DeSantis over suspension
Florida prosecutor Andrew Warren filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Gov. Ron DeSantis for suspending him over his vow not to prosecute people accused of violating laws against abortion or providing transgender health care. Warren, a Democrat who has served as an elected state attorney in the Tampa area since 2016, asked the court to order DeSantis to reinstate him, calling the suspension an abuse of power and a violation of his free speech rights. "Ron DeSantis is hoping to overturn the results of a fair election," Warren said. DeSantis didn't immediately comment on the lawsuit, but has said he suspended Warren for neglect of duty and incompetence.
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China steps up cooperation with Russia in joint military exercises
China plans to send troops to Russia for joint military exercises in the latest example of cooperation between the two nations, China's defense ministry announced Wednesday. India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and other countries also will participate in the drills, which Beijing said were "unrelated to the current international and regional situation." "The aim is to deepen practical and friendly cooperation with the armies of participating countries, enhance the level of strategic collaboration among the participating parties, and strengthen the ability to respond to various security threats," China's defense ministry said. Russia, which is facing intense blowback over its invasion of Ukraine, announced last month that it would hold the "Vostok" (East) exercises from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5.
Minutes show Fed officials committed but cautious on rate hikes
Federal Reserve officials agreed at their July meeting they would have to continue raising interest rates and keep them high to cool the economy enough to bring down inflation, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday. Fed leaders raised their benchmark short-term interest rate by 0.75 basis points at the meeting, following a similar hike in June. The increases were the central bank's largest since 1994. Several Fed policy makers have said since the July hike that they would be in favor of lifting rates at least a half-point in September. The minutes indicate that officials were concerned about the risk of failing to raise rates enough to contain inflation, and also of raising them too much and hurting the economy.
Blast kills at least 20 at Kabul mosque
A massive explosion ripped through a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, during evening prayers on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, including the mosque's prominent imam. Dozens more were wounded. Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed via Twitter that the blast had killed several people, although he didn't give specifics. "The murderers of civilians and perpetrators ... will soon be punished for their crimes," he tweeted. The Taliban, which earlier this week marked the anniversary of its return to power, has claimed to have brought security to Afghanistan, but the country has faced a series of recent attacks by armed groups.
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CVS, Walgreens, Walmart ordered to pay Ohio counties $650 million over opioids
A federal judge in Cleveland on Wednesday said CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart should pay two Ohio counties $650 million in damages for the pharmacy chains' roles in the opioid crisis. U.S. District Judge Dan Polster said the award should be used to address problems caused by the companies' distribution of opioids that harmed customers and created a public nuisance in Lake and Trumbull counties, outside Cleveland. Attorneys representing the counties had estimated the total damage they suffered at $3 billion. Lake County will get $306 million over 15 years; Trumbull County will receive $344 million. Polster told the companies to pay nearly $87 million right away. CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens said they would appeal.
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There is life after Clear Channel
My home audio studio, located in a basement office.
April 28, 2010, was a memorable day for me and lots of my friends who formerly worked at the six-station Quad City Radio Group in Davenport. It marked one year since Clear Channel released us for economic reasons. That corporation, like many other large media companies, is heavily in debt for a variety of reasons, including over-expansion.
The firing wasn't a total surprise – thousands of CC workers nationwide had been given the boot in January 2009 – but it was still a shock. It was also a shame; we were dedicated employees and good at what we did. Many of us had worked in Quad-Cities radio for decades, long before there was a Clear Channel.
I was the second-shift news reporter/anchor at WOC-AM and was replaced by a so-called "news hub" at sister station WHO-AM in Des Moines. Someone there records daily newscasts that are fed to and heard on CC stations around the Midwest. That made it possible for the company to get rid of news people like me at those stations. Yes, your local radio news isn't always local anymore.
The reporting I did on evening city council and school board meetings also was discontinued when I left WOC because I had been the only reporter working second shift since my friend Terry James left in December 2006 and, per CC, could not be replaced.
My deejay friends who were fired by CC a year ago were victims of what critics call "repeater radio" – syndicated music shows hosted by announcers from afar. Listen carefully sometime, and you'll notice they don't talk about events in your community or the local weather. That's because they're in L.A., Miami or who knows where.
Are news hubs and repeater radio the best way to serve what remains of the local radio-listening audience? I don't think so, but anything the big corporate owners want to do to save a buck or make a buck is OK, thanks to deregulation of the industry.
I dearly miss my job and the folks I worked with, but I've moved on emotionally. I have, after all, been through downsizing four times now in my more than four decades of work. It's not pleasant, but it's nothing new. And it is survivable.
Luckily, my wife has a good job, and I'm a year away from drawing early Social Security if I choose to do so – one of the few benefits of getting up in years.
In the meantime, I'm doing a lot fun things on a part-time basis, working out of my home. Truth is, I was doing many of these part-time activities while I still held a full-time job. I've just stepped it all up a notch now that I have the extra time.
I'm a freelance writer of magazine articles, an auto race announcer at two speedways, the advertising coordinator for a business, a newsletter editor, a news reporter for this paper (The North Scott Press) and the Wilton-Durant Advocate News, a correspondent for the Radio Iowa network and a reporter for a service that supplies news stories to a Muscatine radio station.
I was also the publicist for a racing series, but it went out of business earlier this year. I have tried to break into voice-over work (reading commercials for hire), but that's a very competitive business.
My wife and I are now free to travel more, and I'm getting to my grandkids' concerts and sporting events more than I ever could as a second-shift worker.
I took an online college course for fun and, for a change of pace, I'm studying my genealogy when I feel like it; scanning old photos into the computer; and archiving family videotapes and a variety of audiotapes.
I am Mr. Fix-it around the house when things break, and I prepare dinner most every night for my working wife. And, oh yes, she is reminding me I still need to clean my basement office. I'm working on that, dear. At least it's in the planning stage.
I don't miss Clear Channel. But I miss my full-time radio news job, and I miss seeing my former co-workers regularly, though I keep up with many of them on Facebook.
Jobs come and go, but good memories and friendships last forever. Sure, life is different now, but life is still good.
Copyright 2010 by Phil Roberts, Creative Enterprises. This piece was submitted as a column to The North Scott Press, Eldridge, Iowa.
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Healing Where Life Connects: a Great Lakes Witness
"We know that life thrives where water meets the land." -Jill Jedlicka, Executive Director of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper
Throughout the history of the Great Lakes, life has thrived across the Basin, especially in those places where different parts of the ecosystems meet or connect.
For example, I live not too far from Green Bay, what some have called the largest freshwater estuary in the world. The Bay is fed by the Fox River from the southeast and empties into Lake Michigan to the northwest. At the other end of the Great Lakes Basin/St. Lawrence River system is the world's largest estuary, the St. Lawrence Estuary, where the River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Estuaries are found where the mouth of a river and its surrounding wetlands meet a larger body of water, like an ocean or a Great Lake, and life can thrive in these connecting points of water bodies.
I've been thinking about this idea of life thriving where different bodies meet, whether they be bodies of water or water and the land. I started down this road (or river, if you will) while watching a video
produced by the Great Lakes Commission Sunset over for Green Bay
about the restoration work being done with
the Buffalo River in western New York. The video highlights the 13 restoration projects on the Buffalo River funded by the U.S. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) as a partnership between the Commission and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
It was in that video that I heard Ms. Jedlicka say, "We know that life thrives where water meets the land." She goes on to say that this is true "for the ecology as with the human element of our community." That place of connection between water and land helps life thrive, no matter what kind of life.
Soon after watching that video, I received an email from a new subscriber to the Great Lakes Spirituality Project, Evelyn Wackett, who wrote, "I know for myself when I stand on the shores of the lake, nature speaks to me. The waves beating on the shore. Watching the birds soar over the water brings me so much peace." Again, life thrives (in this case, a spiritual life) where water and land connect.
Life, unfortunately, can also suffer at these connecting points because of human actions. It's no secret that people are drawn to water for physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Wallace J. Nichols wrote about this phenomenon in his book, Blue Mind. According to the National Institutes for Health, 90% of the human population live within 10 km (or about 6 miles) of a surface freshwater body.
That human attraction to the shore and coast in the Great Lakes Basin has historically come with a cost in the form of pollution, sediment run-off, and overall damage to the ecosystems of where we live. The GLRI has received about $3.48 billion in the last ten years to help heal that damage, and a map of GLRI-funded projects shows them clustered along the shores of rivers and the Great Lakes, and where the rivers connect to the Lakes.
Life can thrive or it can be seriously damaged at these points of connection or intersection, these estuaries and shorelines. That truth reminds me that human points of connection or intersection between cultures and different groups of people can also be opportunities for human life to thrive, or they can be stories of violence and oppression.
Augustine of Hippo, a saint in the Roman Catholic tradition, once said that "The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read one page." Whether we travel across the globe or to different parts of our community, encountering others from a variety of backgrounds and cultures can open our minds to new possibilities, new truths, new ways of seeing, and thus help us to thrive in our life.
However, in the history of the U.S., colonialism and violence have too often been the rule when those of European descent have encountered people of other cultures. From the enslavement of African people and their descendants, to the destruction and elimination of Indigenous nations, to systemic racism today, the connecting points between peoples and cultures have done damage and violence to life.
That's why the stories of recovery and healing taking place across the Great Lakes Basin, for me, are also stories of hope beyond these waters and land. Yes, we have a long way to go in healing the Basin, but healing is possible, as the story of the Buffalo River tells us. These stories serve as a witness for how life can thrive even after violence and severe damage.
Healing takes an honest, fact-based assessment of the damage done; a reckoning, even if incomplete, for those responsible for the violence and damage (including self-reflection); and a serious commitment in people, time, resources, and perseverance to do the work of healing.
That last point of commitment, I believe, is one of the ways spirituality enters the picture. For many of us, our spirituality informs how we connect to a larger vision of life and reality, to the Creator, God, or the Great Mystery. Seeing ourselves as part of a larger reality, and working towards a goal greater than ourselves, can motivate us and sustain us in the hard and long work of healing. It is that healing that allows life, "the ecology as with the human element of our community," to thrive in the connecting points, the estuaries and shorelines of our world and the Great Lakes.
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2019 ITTF Women's World Cup Live
October 17, 2019 by nam25 Leave a Comment
Off the back of the final World Cup qualification tournament of 2019, the ITTF Africa Cup, confirmation has arrived of the 40 athletes who will be packing their suitcases for two of the most prestigious events of the year:
The 2019 Uncle Pop ITTF Women's World Cup will get the ball rolling between 18th – 20th October, while the Men's World Cup will take place between 29th November – 1st December.
Event 2019 ITTF Women's World Cup Live
18 Oct 2019 – 20 Oct 2019
Location Chengdu, China
Let's take a look at some of the star names set to light up the shows in Chengdu, China later this year.
As world champion in Budapest, Chinese star Liu Shiwen has rightfully qualified for the Women's World Cup in her home nation and will be bidding for what would be a record fifth gold medal in the competition. A niggling injury kept her out of last month's Australian Open and she has yet to hit the heights of Hungary in recent months, however there is no way anyone can count Liu out of the reckoning.
2019 has been a tough ride for For China's other participant, Zhu Yuling, who has not won on the ITTF World Tour for over a year (the 2018 Korea Open), however the World Cup is a different tournament and last year's runner-up now has the chance to regain the gold she claimed for the first time back in 2017 in Markham, Canada, courtesy of winning the Asian Cup in April. Could last month's triumph at T2 Diamond Malaysia prove to be the turning point in Zhu's year, helping her to build a head of steam before Chengdu? Only time will tell.
Korea Republic's Jeon Jihee qualified for the World Cup by taking 7th place at the Asian Cup. Boasting an immaculate work-rate, she will be a worthy representative for her nation in Chengdu. Similarly for Japan, the youthful exuberance of Miu Hirano will be on display as the 19-year-old challenges again for top honours. Her 2016 success in Philadelphia remains the only time a non-Chinese player took the ultimate prize in Women's World Cup history.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Doo Hoi Kem – renowned for her mixed doubles prowess, yet equally dangerous in the singles – and Chinese Taipei's Cheng-I Cheng – who picked up silver in 2016 before two bronze medals at the 2017 and 2018 World Cups – will also provide stiff competition from Asia.
Romanian fan favourite, Bernadette Szocs, will be hoping to bring her A-game to Chengdu after finishing 2nd in the Europe Top 16 Cup back in February. Szocs is joined by compatriot and triple Olympian Elizabeta Samara, whose silver medal back in 2012 remains the most recent time that a European reached the final of the Women's World Cup.
Poland's Natalia Partyka has always amazed fans with her grit to participate in able-bodied competitions despite being a Paralympic athlete. Taking the 4th spot at the Europe Cup means that she too will be doing battle in Chengdu, as will of course the current Europe Cup champion, Petrissa Solja of Germany, who took bronze in 2015.
As the recently crowned Africa Cup champion for an incredible seventh time, Dina Meshref will want to leave a mark on the world stage. The Egyptian star has a strong left-handed shakehand attacking style which is surely going to make her opponents wary.
Pan American Cup champion, Adriana Diaz will be representing Puerto Rico with pride. Her decisive play and strategic timeouts have become a regular sight as she slowly gains on the Asian elite in women's table tennis.
Approximately five weeks after the Women's World Cup, the men will assemble in the same city as they go about their own pursuit of glory between 29th November – 1st December.
What more can be said about the legend that is Ma Long?! 'The Dragon' is set to appear in yet another World Cup and it will be a tough task for anyone to prevent him from claiming what would be his third career gold in the tournament.
Fan Zhendong may not have won on the ITTF World Tour yet in 2019, but you can bet the former world no.1 and defending Men's World Cup champion will be doing all he can to ensure the trophy stays by his side for another year.
Egypt's Omar Assar will be joining the party in Chengdu following his Africa Cup victory last weekend. This will be his third career appearance at the Men's World Cup having previously qualified in 2015 and 2017.
Meanwhile the "Thrill from Brazil" and Pan American Cup champion, Hugo Calderano has started to show flashes of excellence on the international stage of late and looks determined to overcome an underwhelming group-stage exit last year in Disneyland Paris.
Two-time Men's World Cup champion (2002 and 2005) and four-time runner-up (2008, 2012, 2017, 2018), fans will be delighted to see the highly popular German legend Timo Boll lining up in Chengdu after he claimed 3rd place at the Europe Top 16 Cup in February. Having qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Boll took a small break tending to an injury, but he is now back in the fold and ready to fire on all cylinders.
Meanwhile, his compatriot, Dimitrij Ovtcharov – the man who beat Boll to the 2017 title in Liege – has shown signs of being able to turn on the style on the big occasions again of late. His victory at this year's Europe Cup was a perfect example of this, as he now looks for further honours.
Chinese Taipei's upcoming prodigy Lin Yun-Ju can no longer be considered a 'dark horse' in Chengdu. Winner of the 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open, Lin then defeated Ma Long and Fan Zhendong on his way to claim gold at the T2 Diamond Malaysia event in Johor Bahru. Everyone's eyes are certain to be on this fast-rising 17-year-old star.
Tomokazu Harimoto is Japan's prime candidate for honours and the 16-year-old will be aiming to go beyond his quarter-final finish at last year's Men's World Cup in Paris.
Representing USA will be Kanak Jha, who had a splendid run to silver in the Pan American Cup. It will be his and Indian Sathiyan Gnanasekaran's main target to move on to the quarter-finals as a bare minimum in Chengdu.
Finally, Mattias Falck is set to be a literal Wild Card entry into the World Cup, as fans will get a taste of the impressive Swede's style and grit in the competition.
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Badminton World Championships 2019 Live Stream How to Watch BWF Online
July 17, 2019 by nam25 Leave a Comment
This is going to be the 25th version of this entire BWF Badminton World Championships, including men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles matches. Badminton fans may anticipate a global sports event in the front of spectators that'll be broadcast on television.
Badminton World Championships 2019 Live Stream
Event Badminton World Championships
Start Date 19 August 2019
End Date 25 August 2019
The BWF World Championships (formerly known as IBF World Championships, also known as the World Badminton Championships) is a badminton Championship sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF).
The tournament offers the most rank points, together with Summer Olympic Games. The winners will be crowned as the"World Champions" and given gold medals. It does not offer any prize money.
The championship started in 1977 and was held once every three years until 1983. Nevertheless, the IBF (International Badminton Federation) faced difficulty in hosting the very first two events because the planet Badminton Federation (which combined together with the IBF to make 1 badminton federation) hosted exactly the same tournament per year after the IBF World Championships with exactly the exact objectives. Started 1985, the tournament became biennial and played once until 2005. Starting 2006, the tournament has been shifted into an yearly event on the BWF calendar with the goal to offer chances for its players to become heralded as official"World Champions". Nevertheless, the championship won't be held every four years to give solution to the Summer Olympic Games.
Thus far, just 20 states have achieved at least a bronze medal in the tournament: ten in Asia, eight in Europe, one in North America and one in Oceania. Africa is.
In age 18, Ratchanok Inthanon became the youngest winner of a singles title in the bible.
By 1977 as much as 2001, the medals were usually divided among five states, namely China, Korea, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia. In 2003, the champions comprised seven countries and in 2005 the medal plank comprised a record high often nations.
Tony Gunawan also bears the distinction of winning a gold medal in Men's Doubles, representing two countries, 2001 cooperating with Halim Haryanto for Indonesia and in 2005 cooperating with Howard Bach to give the United States its first medal in the competition.
The 2005 edition also attracted new faces in the mixed doubles event which had been dominated by China and Korea as 1997. With the retirement of winners and 2 time winners Kim Dong-moon/Ra Kyung-min (Korea), Nova Widianto/Liliyana Natsir won Indonesia's first mixed doubles gold as 1980 if Christian Hadinata/Imelda Wiguna acquired it continue for Indonesia.
Successful players
Lene Køppen, 1977, mixed doubles and women's singles
Christian Hadinata, 1980, men's doubles and mixed doubles
Park Joo-bong, 1985 & 1991, men's doubles and mixed doubles
Han Aiping, 1985, women's singles and doubles
Ge Fei, 1997, women's doubles and mixed doubles
Kim Dong-moon, 1999, men's doubles and mixed doubles
Gao Ling, 2001, women's doubles and mixed doubles
Zhao Yunlei, 2014 & 2015, women's doubles and mixed doubles
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The EU is a fun place, they have lots of rules and regulations and want Google to do lots of things that may not benefit the end user. I am not a lawyer, I don't live in the EU but when I saw what Greg Sterling posted on Search Engine Land - I had to share it here.
Google told Search Engine Land that these screen shots will help you "to understand what the impact of the proposed EU Copyright Directive would be to our users and publisher partners."
I suspect maybe that Google is exaggerating a bit but I do not know. Greg goes into way more detail on this at SEL.
I cannot imagine Google launching this in the EU regions, it makes no sense.


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"Suddenly everyone was hurrying towards me yelling 'back, get back'"
By Team JP on March 30, 2017 in Newspaper Articles
Weston's MP has described the moment he was shouted at to 'get back' from the windows after shots were fired outside Parliament, less than a week after the devastating attack stunned the country.
League President John Penrose MP.League President John Penrose MP.
On March 22 at about 2.40pm, a man later identified by police as Khalid Masood drove a car he had hired from a depot in Birmingham over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament, into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Bridge Street. It left Parliament in lockdown for hours.
John Penrose and Wells MP James Heappey were both in the House of Commons at the time of the attack and have spoken out after the tragedy.
Mr Penrose told the Mercury he was on his way to vote at the time of the attack and described the 'weird' few hours which followed.
He said: "I was running a bit late, otherwise I'd have been almost next to it when the shots were fired.
James Heappey speaking in parliament.James Heappey speaking in parliament.
"As it was, suddenly everyone was hurrying towards me yelling 'back, get back' and then I saw policemen running (which never happens in Parliament – it's usually all very ceremonial) towards the trouble.
"Someone shouted there had been shots, and we were told to get away from entrances and windows.
"I headed back to my office, and checked my staff were OK. We all texted our families to let them know we were safe."
Mr Penrose said there were a host of rumours making their way round Parliament as he sat in a corridor for five hours alongside his staff, having already been moved twice.
He added: "Everyone then streamed away, as if we were leaving a football match, although the mood was much more sombre as we were thinking of the victims who wouldn't be going home that evening. And, of course, we all said 'thank you' as we filed past the police on the gate; their organisation, and their sacrifice, was what had kept the rest of us safe."
Wells MP James Heappey was keen to thank PC Keith Palmer who was killed while on duty.
Mr Heappey said: "A policeman stood his ground to stop an attacker getting into Parliament. He lost his life doing so.
"Eventually we were all able to go home. He won't. My heart goes out to his family, friends and colleagues."
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