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Pastor Ed delivers the first installment of our church wide study, Just Walk Across The Room!
Some time's we come to church with an idea of what we will do that morning and them the Holy Spirit sweeps in and takes over. That's the best description for this message on August 11th, 2013.
Part 4 of the David series.
Part 4 in the David series.


A collection of posters from both personal and freelance work.
Poster designed for Rowan University's RU Reading program. The empty speech bubble allowed students to write their own beliefs on the poster.
Poster design for a local farmers market inspired by the appearance of screen printed posters.
Infographic poster telling the history of the atom. Each scientist has an object that represents their important discovery. The shape around each scientist quickly shows how they perceived atoms during their lifetime.


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China at the UN: Choking Civil Society
Rana Siu Inboden
Issue Date July 2021
Page Numbers 124-35
The Chinese government's crackdown on freedom of expression, independent thought, and civil society now extends beyond its borders. In the United Nations, the People's Republic of China (PRC) misuses its seat on the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Committee on Non-governmental Organizations (NGO Committee) to block applications from civil society organizations seeking UN consultative status. Consultative status enables NGOs to participate in UN activities, including hosting side events, gaining access to sessions, speaking at UN events and delivering statements. While the NGO Committee was originally created to facilitate civil society's participation within the UN, China (along with other authoritarian countries) have instead used it to restrict NGO access to the UN. Chinese diplomats not only block applications from NGOs working on human rights issues (including those focused on North Korea) but also enforce the one-China policy by asking applicants to explicitly recognize Tibet and Taiwan as integral parts of Chinese territory and resisting groups engaged in advocacy on Uyghur issues. In UN reports on the NGO Committee's deliberations and interviews with diplomats, UN officials and NGO representatives provide compelling evidence that Beijing seeks to contain NGOs and has worked with the Like-Minded Group (LMG), a coalition of authoritarian countries, to cap the role of civil society in the UN and bar many organizations from participation in this global body.
Under President Xi Jinping, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has cracked down on civil society and sought to sever linkages between domestic and international NGOs. As part of a more muscular global stance, China has also started to play an increasingly assertive role at the UN, including in the Human Rights Council (HRC), where it has initiated resolutions and joined the committee that selects human-rights experts to serve as part of the special procedures system. The nexus of these trends is also evident in China's behavior in the UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) Committee on Non-governmental Organizations, the body with the authority to grant NGOs UN consultative status.
This status is vital for civil society organizations' advocacy efforts. It allows them to attend and speak at UN proceedings, such as the UN Human Rights Council; to submit information to UN bodies; to host events at the UN; and to participate in negotiations. Beijing, in concert with other authoritarian nations, has been active in blocking applications of civil society organizations, especially those focused on human rights and North Korea. In addition, China has established litmus tests as it has resisted applications from NGOs that failed to endorse the one-China policy by explicitly recognizing Tibet and Taiwan as integral parts of PRC territory. Beijing has also sought to contain NGO advocacy related to the rights of ethnic Uyghurs, a persecuted minority group. Although civil society groups have increasingly complained about misuse of the ECOSOC Committee, relatively little attention has been paid to China's strong-arming of NGOs within the UN system.
Rana Siu Inboden is senior fellow with the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas–Austin. She is the author of China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017 (2021).
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This behavior from China and other authoritarian nations runs counter to the UN's original intent in creating the ECOSOC Committee on [End Page 124] NGOs and establishing a way for civil society organizations to participate in UN proceedings. Yet, because current Committee rules allow states to pose any question, even mundane and repetitive ones, to defer an NGO's application, a number of repressive states have continually delayed some applications for years. China has been one of the most active countries stalling applications, and in numerous cases it has deferred the same NGO repeatedly.
An analysis of Committee meeting summaries and reports from 2016 through 2019 reveals that China was the most frequent user of questions to delay and block civil society applicants. The PRC asked for additional information or queried NGOs 340 times, outpacing South Africa (337), India (283), Cuba (220), and Russia (172). In total, 964 NGOs with applications before the Committee were deferred at least once (many were deferred multiple times), and in 25 percent of those instances, a question from the PRC caused the deferral.1 Reports and interviews with diplomats, UN officials, and NGO representatives provide compelling evidence that Beijing seeks to contain and throttle NGOs—capping their role in the UN or barring them from participating at all.
In 1996, in order to allow civil society to participate in the work of the UN, ECOSOC established a committee to review and recommend applications from NGOs seeking UN consultative status.2 The NGOs that sought to be included had to meet a set of criteria: engage in work that is relevant to and supportive of the UN's mission; possess transparent and democratic decision making, including a democratically adopted constitution; have established headquarters with an executive officer and operations for two years or more; enjoy substantive competence or authority to speak for members; and be governed by a representative structure and appropriate accountability mechanisms. As part of the application process, an NGO must submit copies of its constitution, charter, statutes, or by-laws; its official registration; financial statements, including contributions and other support, as well as expenses; and examples of publications and recent articles or statements.3
UN consultative status allows NGOs to engage in and access a range of UN bodies and processes and to have a voice in UN proceedings. Accredited organizations are able to attend international conferences and events, such as ECOSOC and Human Rights Council sessions; to present written and oral statements in these venues; to organize parallel or side events; and to enter UN premises, which facilitates networking and advocacy, including meeting with government delegations. Access to UN channels and corridors enables NGOs to conduct international advocacy and enhances their visibility and impact.
The NGO Committee, which effectively acts as a gatekeeper to the [End Page 125] UN for civil society organizations, comprises nineteen UN member states, including five from Africa, four from Asia, two from Eastern Europe, four from Latin America and the Caribbean, and four from the West European and Others Group. Member states serve four-year terms with no term limits, which has allowed China to sit on the Committee almost continually. The workload of the Committee, which has been increasing, makes it hard for smaller delegations with fewer resources to devote the time and energy to participate. Thus, the Committee is heavily dominated by large countries with resources, such as China and Russia, and strongly motivated ones, including Cuba and Pakistan, with repressive agendas. This has allowed authoritarian countries, such as an ascendant China with a drive to extend its regressive ideas beyond its borders, to dominate the Committee.
The NGO Committee meets twice a year—once in the winter and once in the summer—to review NGO applications. States sitting on the Committee are allowed to raise questions, even mundane, arbitrary, or seemingly innocuous ones about income or activities, that automatically delay the application, usually until the next session six months later.4 If, for example, an NGO that helps victims of human trafficking is asked a trivial question, such as why it sells handmade jewelry on its website, the organization's application is delayed until the next meeting. Some countries, primarily authoritarian ones, have used their authority to ask questions to continually block particular applicants, even though they engage in work that is in keeping with the UN Charter and provide valuable human-rights advocacy.
China's Core Interference
China's most frequent interventions have related to a core national interest—the one-China policy. Beijing frequently asks organizations to correct website content or other materials to identify Tibet and Taiwan as parts of China or to clarify their stance on the one-China policy. In most cases, the NGO up for consideration did not openly endorse Tibetan or Taiwanese independence but merely failed to explicitly list Tibet or Taiwan as being part of China's territory, for instance by using formulations such as "Tibet, Autonomous Region of China" and "Taiwan, Province of China." Beijing has applied this litmus test even in cases when the NGO in question engaged in activities unrelated to territorial or minority-rights issues. For example, in January 2016, the PRC representative delayed the application of Engineers Without Borders, an NGO that works on infrastructure projects to meet basic human needs, because "the website incorrectly identified Taiwan as a country and he hoped the group would clarify its position on Taiwan and correct that information according to United Nations rules."5 In an attempt to give these demands a veneer of legitimacy, China's representatives [End Page 126] frequently frame their objections and requests as reflecting "UN rules" or "UN terminology"—even though there are no UN requirements that civil society organizations clarify or even take a stance on the status of Tibet and Taiwan.
It is also evident that China combs through NGO materials for references to Taiwan and Tibet, and activities that it may find objectionable. For example, when a representative of the Global Peace Foundation, an NGO with offices around the world, appeared before the Committee in 2018,
The representative of China asked about a 2016 event featuring the Director of Tibet House in New Delhi at a round table and asked about the organization's position on that organization.
The representative of Global Peace Foundation replied that the Foundation had replied in writing to that query in 2016, reiterating that it had no political position on China or its provinces. China's delegate went on to ask that an answer be provided in writing, stating that Tibet autonomous region was an integral part of China. The representative of the Global Peace Foundation said its position would in no way be contradictory to China's Governmental position, which was accepted by the United Nations. . . . China's delegate requested another written response, noting that he was not satisfied with the one given on 13 May [2016].6
While China's territorial integrity is a core issue for the PRC, Beijing also appears to deploy these questions to slow or stall an NGO's application when it has broader concerns about the NGO's work, especially when the applicant works on human rights. Chinese diplomats may find it more convenient to cite territorial concerns rather than having to openly oppose the organization's mission, such as advocating fair trials or supporing human-rights defenders. According to a representative with a human-rights advocacy organization, the PRC seized on minute issues and "complained that a map on our website used different colors for Taiwan and China." As the NGO continued to make changes in an effort to appease China, it became clear that the PRC's opposition to the organization was much more significant. When the NGO in question met with other state delegates sitting on the Committee, "other countries said that they had already been approached by China, and China had basically asked them to oppose our application … One of the missions said, 'China told me that you are a very, very bad organization.'" China also was one of the countries blocking the application from the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, an NGO named for the late U.S. congressman Tom Lantos (1928–2008), a Holocaust survivor. In January 2019, the PRC blocked the foundation's application by "request[ing] that it use the correct United Nations terminology in referring on its website, to Taiwan and Tibet."7
In addition to Tibet and Taiwan, Chinese diplomats are vigilant about NGO positions on China's autonomous region of Xinjiang and advocacy [End Page 127] for the territory's Uyghur Muslims. In a controversial case, the PRC attempted to strip UN consultative status from the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), an NGO focused on ethnic and minority rights, because the group allowed a Uyghur activist to attend UN activities as part of its roster of participants. Although it is not an unusual practice for NGOs to include affiliated activists on their lists of participants, the PRC has protested the inclusion of Uyghur activists who are not full-time employees of the sponsoring NGO in an effort to impede their participation at the UN. In particular, the PRC complained about STP's inclusion of Dolkun Isa, a Uyghur activist residing in Germany. During the 21 May 2018 session of the NGO Committee, the Chinese representative stated that STP
had facilitated the participation of Dolkun Isa, an individual designated as a terrorist by China, at the seventeenth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues … the individual's organization demanded so-called Xinjiang Independence and the establishment of East Turkistan … the individual … had received accreditation through the Society for Threatened Peoples … Mr. Isa had engaged in criminal and terrorist activities in China.8
The PRC countered statements from Germany and the United States endorsing STP and defending Isa's participation in the UN forum. The Chinese government further registered its disdain by issuing a note verbale, a formal diplomatic communication, that reiterated its arguments against STP and making the case that STP's consultative status should be revoked. The PRC relented only after receiving a written response from STP that "expressed its commitment to upholding the purposes and principles of the United Nations, respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China … [and] expressed its unequivocal opposition to terrorism."9
Authoritarian Collusion
Although the PRC is the most active delegation in querying NGO applications, it typically does not act alone. Other countries, especially authoritarian powers, often join Beijing in its efforts to contain civil society, and their actions sometimes appear to be based on at least low-level coordination. In addition to a general oppositition to human-rights NGOs, these countries demonstrate solidarity by delaying applications from groups working on issues related to other repressive nations, especially Iran and North Korea.
The countries whose views align with China's generally hail from the Like-Minded Group (LMG), a coalition of primarily authoritarian regimes that has been active in the Geneva-based HRC and, before that, the UN Commission on Human Rights.10 Although the LMG does not have a formal membership, with countries having the flexibility to [End Page 128] choose to affiliate with particular statements, a review of LMG statements in the HRC suggests that the group has expanded to 51 nations from the roughly 22 that had associated with it in the Commission.11 According to an analysis of these countries' conduct on the NGO Committee, in 94 percent of the instances when an NGO experienced a deferral, this was due to a question from an LMG country.12 The most active countries hindering NGO applications include China, Russia, Cuba, India, and South Africa—all countries from the LMG. Because of these blocking efforts, a UN official estimated that only about 25 percent of human-rights NGOs eventually receive consultative status. The International Service for Human Rights, an NGO with offices in New York and Geneva, estimates that human-rights organizations are 50 percent less likely to be recommended for accreditation than NGOs working on other issues.13
Although other nations share Beijing's hostility toward human-rights NGOs, China often appears to be the leading opponent. A human-rights NGO that was deferred fourteen times and received more than eighty questions, including a number of mundane and vague questions about activities or finances, stated that "China was leading countries in questioning our work" and that PRC diplomats had approached other countries to complain about the organization's work and to request support for continued denial of consultative status. Although the NGO's meetings with other countries sitting on the NGO Committee "were quite friendly … the meeting with the PRC delegation was quite hostile … and they expressed concern about our work … that it made China look negative."
Beijing's opposition to Peace Brigades International, an NGO based in the United Kingdom that works with human-rights defenders to ease conflicts, is illustrative of China's willingness to be vocal in delaying an application. During the seven NGO Committee meetings between 2016 and 2019 in which the organization's application was discussed, the PRC queried the group at every meeting—making it the only country to do so consistently. The May 2016 session was the only time another country delegation asked a question. At this session, aside from China's enquiry about "how the organization maintained its independence given that it received funds from Government institutions," South Africa also asked "about the location of its operations in Africa."14 Subsequent questions posed by China between 2017 and 2019 included requests for "details on projects in Nepal over the past three years and the names of local partners,"15 "further information about the organization's current field projects and other initiatives it intended to take in the future,"16 "further information on how the group selected volunteers to carry out its work,"17 "a list of the countries for which it made oral statements [at the UN] in 2014 and 2015,"18 the group's definition of "peaceful social change,'"19 and a request for "the organization to provide details about [End Page 129] its partnerships with two groups in Indonesia and Nepal, as well as any other groups in Asia."20 During the January 2019 session, China voiced its usual refrain of insisting "that it use the correct United Nations terminology in referring, on its website, to Taiwan and Tibet," forcing the NGO to respond to yet another question before finally receiving UN consultative status in 2020.21
China and other repressive nations often protect each other by resisting civil society groups that focus on authoritarian allies, especially Iran and North Korea. Some of these states posed questions even when they did not have clear national interests at stake and the NGO under consideration worked in an entirely different region. Moreover, there was some evidence that this effort was orchestrated. For example, when the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center was reviewed in January 2016, China, Iran, and Cuba all queried the group.22 A UN official noted that sometimes this collusion appeared to be as simple as a few of these countries consulting "outside the meeting room before the session," and then later, during the Committee's proceedings, one or more of these countries put forward questions that protected the interests of another country in this group. Diplomats also reported observing "papers being passed during the Committee's session" or "a delegation, such as Egypt, standing up and walking over to another delegation [such as] Sudan, Burundi, Iran or Venezuela, and hand[ing] them a paper that appears to be an already drafted question … and then that country would ask a question that reflected the Egyptian government's concerns." In addition, some of these countries asked questions that appeared to reflect the interests of a delegation that was absent from that session or did not serve on the Committee. For example, even though North Korea did not sit on the Committee, its authoritarian allies asked questions to block NGOs working on North Korea.
There are indications that other countries increasingly seek to align themselves with China's positions and that the PRC is a growing locus of power on the Committee. China's ascendance was manifest even in the behavior of delegates in the meeting room. One civil society representative described other countries as doing a "dance that goes on around the PRC delegation. It is almost like some of the other countries are kowtowing … during the break … while Chinese representatives literally don't get up … reflecting power … that everyone comes to the PRC."
Moreover, Beijing appeared to have sway over the positions of other [End Page 130] countries on the Committee. An NGO that faced repeated deferrals met individually with countries on the Committee and noted that "the way … other Committee members reacted when we met them and [when we] said that China is against us, they … reacted like it is going to be very difficult" for the application to be approved. Other nations even indicated that "they were not really so concerned about our work, but for many of them a central issue was China's opposition. One of them said that 'China's opposition actually makes it very, very difficult for us to support you.'" A diplomat concurred that they suspect that other countries act at Beijing's behest, explaining that China might do this in order to "spread the wealth by getting other countries to ask some questions for them." This coordination served PRC interests by bringing "down the number of questions coming from the PRC delegates" and obscuring the degree to which Beijing is "out in front in opposing civil society."
A core group of LMG countries joined China in preempting South Korean and U.S. groups working on human rights in North Korea. China, in tandem with Cuba, Iran, and South Africa, repeatedly queried the Database Center for North Korea Human Rights, a South Korea–based NGO that compiles information on human-rights violations in North Korea and whose application the Committee has continually deferred. In May 2016, the PRC questioned "how the organization maintained its independence given that it received funds from Government institutions," and South Africa made an inquiry along similar lines.23
Similar efforts brought China, Cuba, South Africa, Iran, and Russia together in stymieing the application of NK Watch, another South Korea–based NGO, and repeatedly deferred an application from the Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights. In the latter case, Beijing's question was much more pointed, and during the NGO Committee's summer 2016 session, it asked about the group's activities in China, which was followed by a February 2017 question about "how the group maintained its independence" from the South Korean government.24 More than a year later, a Chinese diplomat again frustrated the group's quest for UN consultative status by asking how the Citizens' Alliance "could assess and guarantee the objectivity of information it received from defectors from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea without visiting the country."25
Although the U.S. Committee on Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), an NGO based in Washington, D.C., faced similar treatment in the NGO Committee, U.S. diplomats championed this group's application. China was again joined by Russia, Iran, and South Africa in hindering the group's application with the same strategy of posing un-ceasing queries. In order to overcome this indefinite limbo, the U.S. delegation used a strategy that it had employed to secure UN consultative status for other NGOs—including the Committee to Protect Journalists [End Page 131] and Freedom Now—by calling for a vote of the whole nineteen-member NGO Committee. As predicted, China, along with other states, voted down HRNK's application.26 However, the U.S. strategy of pushing for a Committee vote (even a failed one) allowed the matter to come before the Economic and Social Council, the NGO Committee's parent body. Unlike the NGO Committee, where authoritarian countries are often able to prevail, ECOSOC comprises all member states, and in this instance it overturned the NGO Committee's decision by approving HRNK for consultative status.
The proximate reasons for China and other authoritarian countries' willingness to block NGOs working to counter the North Korean regime's totalitarian system are difficult to pinpoint precisely. Most of these countries, however, appear to be driven by a sense of "solidarity and support" that exists among these repressive regimes and draws many of them together under the umbrella of the LMG. The work of these countries on behalf of North Korea provides insight into this aspect of authoritarian camaraderie because North Korea does not have the diplomatic capacity, economic resources, or soft power to reciprocate. Instead, these countries appear to act out of a reflexive instinct for mutual protection. While China may also have been driven by its own interests in protecting a client state and obscuring its treatment of North Koreans who have taken refuge within its borders, the joint nature of these efforts is worrying evidence of authoritarian collusion to cap and contain civil society in the UN.
Making Room for Human Rights at the UN
While China's military prowess and economic heft are changing the world beyond its borders in visible ways, another aspect of Beijing's ascendance is manifest in the way that it subverts the NGO Committee to enforce its territorial interests vis-`a-vis Tibet and Taiwan; to hamper advocacy on behalf of Uyghurs; to protect authoritarian allies, particularly North Korea; and to contain civil society. Given the role of civil society in advancing human rights globally and drawing attention to China's human-rights lapses in international fora, the PRC is working hard to shrink the space for these groups. Moreover, Chinese diplomats pair their opposition to applications in the NGO Committee with manuevers in the UN Human Rights Council to restrict participation in a variety of UN events to only "ECOSOC accredited organizations." While some of these stances are unsurprising, the Chinese government's persistence and activism is evidence that Beijing is determined to contain civil society wherever it can.
China's actions on the Committee also demonstrate the ease with which Beijing has found allies in its effort to constrain civil society. Cuba, South Africa, Iran, and Russia are some of the PRC's most frequent [End Page 132] accomplices in stonewalling human-rights organizations. Moreover, the concerted actions of these nations in blocking NGOs working on human rights in Iran and North Korea illustrate their sense of authoritarian solidarity. This axis of repression has been able to hijack a Committee that was meant to facilitate civil society cooperation with the UN, but which is now used to push civil society groups to the fringes of this global body.
The future ability of NGOs to operate within the UN will depend largely on the response of democratic countries and their willingness to draw attention to the need to combat authoritarian powers that are abusing their UN presence. The introduction of membership standards for various bodies—particularly the UN Human Rights Council—to prevent autocratic nations from sitting on bodies that are meant to protect and safeguard human rights has been a divisive issue. A simple criterion for NGO Committee membership could be that any country will be banned if it has been included in the UN secretary-general's report on intimidation and reprisals against civil society for cooperation with the United Nations in the field of human rights.27
In recent years, the number of countries that affiliate themselves with the LMG has grown, bolstering its influence. The United States and its allies must do more diplomatically, including widening the umbrella of support for civil society among smaller states. To advance a reform agenda in the UN General Assembly, this effort will require broad support that includes not just liberal democracies in Europe and North America but other nations that value freedom of association and the role of civil society. Inaction will allow China and its authoritarian allies to bar civil society and human-rights advocacy from the world body.
1. The PRC's interventions were responsible for blocking 241 NGOs. Some of these groups were ultimately awarded consultative status after answering questions, but often their applications remain in limbo.
2. United Nations Economic and Social Council Resolution 1996/31, 25 July 1996, www.un.org/esa/coordination/ngo/pdf/res96-31.pdf.
3. "How to Apply for Consultative Status with ECOSOC?" United Nations, www.un.org/development/desa/dspd/civil-society/ecosoc-status.html.
4. In some instances, if the NGO responds immediately the Committee can review the application during the same session but generally because the Committee only meets twice a year the application is not considered again until the next biannual session.
5. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (ECOSOC/6729-NGO/820), 27 January 2016, www.un.org/press/en/2016/ecosoc6729.doc.htm.
6. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2018), 31 January 2018, ECOSOC/6882-NGO/863 (2018), www.un.org/press/en/2018/ecosoc6882.doc.htm.
8. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Report (2018), 11 June 2018, E/2018/32 (Part II) (2018), 51 and 53, https://undocs.org/e/2018/32(partii).
9. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Report (2018), 11 June 2018, E/2018/32 (Part II) (2018), 53, https://undocs.org/E/2018/32(partii).
10. For further analysis, see Rana Siu Inboden, Authoritarian States: Blocking Civil Society Participation in the United Nations (Austin, Texas: Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, 2019), https://strausscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/strauss/18-19/rsinboden_authoritarianstates.pdf.
11. Inboden, Authoritarian States.
13. "Political Interests Continue to Distort the Decisions of the NGO Committee, But this Time the World Is Watching," International Service for Human Rights, 14 June 2016, www.ishr.ch/news/political-interests-continue-distort-decisions-ngo-committee-time-world-watching-0; interview with UN official, New York, 14 June 2018.
14. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2016), 25 May 2016, ECOSOC/6761-NGO/831 (2016), www.un.org/press/en/2016/ecosoc6761.doc.htm.
15. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2017), 3 February 2017, ECOSOC/6812-NGO/845 (2017), www.un.org/press/en/2017/ecosoc6812.doc.htm.
21. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2019), 24 January 2019, ECOSOC/6957-NGO/881 (2019), www.un.org/press/en/2019/ecosoc6957.doc.htm.
22. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2016), 29 January 2016, ECOSOC/6731-NGO/822 (2016), www.un.org/press/en/2016/ecosoc6731.doc.htm. India, which is a democracy but often affiliates itself with non-western countries out of what appears to be a sense of global-South solidarity, also posed a question.
25. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2018), 25 May 2018, ECOSOC/6922-NGO/874 (2018), www.un.org/press/en/2018/ecosoc6922.doc.htm; See also, United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Meetings Coverage (2016), 24 May 2016, ECOSOC/6760-NGO/830 (2016), www.un.org/press/en/2016/ecosoc6760.doc.htm.
26. United Nations Economic and Social Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Report (2018), 23 February 2018, E/2018/32 (Part II) (2018), https://undocs.org/E/2018/32(partii).
27. In the most recent report, concerns about reprisals against fifteen individuals in China were included by the secretary-general: United Nations General Assembly, "Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights: Report of the Secretary-General," 25 September 2020, A/HRC/45/36, https://undocs.org/en/a/hrc/45/36.
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Community 54 is not a video arcade, per se, but so it will serve for me from now on when I have time to kill in Parkdale . All of the glorious, highly pixelated games of my past are there in standup arcade form, including Galactica, Pac-Man, NBA Jam, and Terminator: Judgement day. No, that $0.25 slot is not just for show, so yes, you have to deposit a quarter to play a game.
And for those who hate to give up their turn, the entire machine can be brought home (though good luck getting it in your car) for somewhere between $950 and $1500, depending on the game. Since I don't have the space, money, or--most importantly--any good excuse for buying an entire system, I plan on showing up at Community 54 in my snapback hat and khakis full of quarters and pretending it's 1993.
Community 54-the-original is actually located in New York on the Lower East Side. I meet one of the Toronto partners, Trung Hoang, at the new Toronto shop and he tells me the decision to open in Parkdale was a deliberate move, made to mimic the atmosphere of the New York shop. "Parkdale, sort of like the Lower East Side, is a changing community," he says. "There are still areas that are a little rough, but there's also a vibrant and growing art and family community."
The Community 54 space, located on Queen west of Dufferin, beautifully merges old with new, starting right at the front door. Trung points out the original "Parkdale Business Men's Association" sticker pasted at the foot of the front door, which dates back to 1957. Inside are walls of exposed brick and an awesome restored tin ceiling. And just to throw you off (and perhaps make you think you're in Calgary, rather than Toronto) Community 54's makeshift change room hangs mid-space, comprised of a draped Canadian flag. "We have the same thing in New York," Trung says, "except with an American flag."
There are other decidedly Canadian touches throughout, including a pair of wooden snowshoes ($300) hung on the wall behind the cash table (which is actually an old sewing table) and rows of "Eh Life" t-shirts ($40) made by a collaborating brand. Most of the clothing at Community 54 is streetwear and almost all of it is men's, though Trung says women's clothing is on the radar for the near future.
The vibe is very 80's and 90's (obviously hinted at by the games in the front) with snapback hats ($40), varsity jackets (one with the name "Curtis" carefully stitched over the right breast, $225), and Levi's denim and Ralph Lauren plaid polo shirts.
There are also little vintage items scattered around the store--a collection which includes old Coke memorabilia, a license plate from 1943 ($15), and a few of those terrible boom boxes that appeared in nearly every '90s rap video. If there's something worth reliving about that decade, I say we stick with Galactica.


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Local musicians hold benefit for Ybor institution Cephas' Hot Shop
The festivities happen tonight at Crowbar.
By Scott Harrell on Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:06 pm
Artists, musicians, hipsters, hippies and holistic eaters alike all know about Cephas' Hot Shop, the Caribbean cuisine hotspot a few blocks off Ybor City's Seventh Avenue sprawl. Owner Cephas Gilbert has been an Ybor staple for more than three decades, and the man himself is famous not only as a breathing encyclopedia of rare and healthy eats (ever try one of his aloe shakes?), but also as an altruist who's fed more than one guest who couldn't afford a meal.
Gilbert has been forced to shut down for operating without a food-service license. He admits it's true; the license reportedly lapsed five years ago, and he needs to make approximately $15K in repairs and upgrades to his kitchen — which was nearly gutted in a fire eight years ago — before he can renew it.
In true local-scene tradition, Ybor club owners and promoters have rallied a killer slate of island-hued local bands in record time for the Cephas' Hot Shop Benefit Concert, to be held this Thurs., Sept. 11 (tonight) at Crowbar. If you can't make the gig, you can always donate here.
CEPHAS' HOT SHOP BENEFIT CONCERT
Thurs., Sept. 11 @ Crowbar, Ybor City - 8 p.m.
The lineup:
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Dubb Tenn
Der feat. Acho Brother
Bangarang
The Growers
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Q: Sending JSON from PHP to Javascript (undefined) I sent JSON object from PHP to JS, and in HTML I get the answer "undefined". Why?
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xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
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Large mask ring, designed to rest on the knuckle, delicately sculpted in hard wax by artist Caroline Bergonzi. July 2013, NYC.
Measurements: 3.75 cm / 1.48 in. x 2.30 cm / 0.91 in. x 4.40 cm / 1.73 in. Weight (for a size 8): 39.73 grams / 1.4 oz / 0.9 dwt.


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The course includes thoughtful discussion of the elements of novel writing: inspiration and the sustaining of ideas, plotting, setting, character, and point of view. Students will receive feedback on their work from both the class and the teacher. Students will learn how to build a novel outline and how to write scenically. The goal is for each student to leave the course with at least one good chapter to build upon.


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Democrats blame GOP for Obama administration's painful cuts to fund Zika trials
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Democrat. (Associated Press) ** FILE ** more >
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Monday, August 15, 2016
The Obama administration has chosen some of the most painful cuts possible to pay for anti-Zika efforts, including AIDS research, home heating assistance used by the vulnerable elderly and funds to fight drug addiction.
The administration said it made "difficult" decisions" based on "emergency needs," though Republicans say there is more than enough money in the budget for the Health and Human Services Department to cover all of its functions and still fund Zika vaccine trials.
With the number of mosquito-borne cases in the U.S. reaching 30 on Monday, the amount of money dedicated to Zika — and the sources of that money — are quickly becoming political issues.
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Democrats insist Republicans will be blamed for shortchanging anti-Zika efforts, even as HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell siphoned $81 million from the National Institutes of Health and other department initiatives to bolster Zika vaccine trials.
"That means 70 fewer research grants to identify cures or treatments for cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer's, autism, diabetes, or else to make other breakthroughs to reduce illness and improve our quality of life," said Ron Boehmer, a spokesman for Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who is urging Republican leaders to cancel summer recess and return lawmakers to Capitol Hill to free up more money.
In a statement, HHS itself said $34 million in NIH money was "cut directly" from programs to fight those diseases, while the remaining $47 million would otherwise "go to states to treat people with HIV/AIDS, fight substance abuse and to help low-income families heat their homes in the winter."
"The funding that was cut from these programs to put towards vaccine development comes near the end of the budget cycle that runs out in September," agency spokesman Marissa Padilla said. "The cuts come at the expense of other opportunities in priority programs, like hiring additional staff or putting more resources towards new research or state grants."
But Republican lawmakers were urging HHS to shift funds for a month, saying the budget had plenty of money despite the gloomy assessment from Democrats.
"HHS has sufficient funds to cover this, as well as all other core duties," said Jennifer Hing, a spokeswoman for House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, Kentucky Republican.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, and Mr. Rogers said the administration should have started scrounging for extra funds weeks ago, after Senate Democrats filibustered to block a deal that included $1.1 billion to address the Zika outbreak.
The situation has since intensified. Officials in Texas said Monday that a resident who tested positive appeared to have picked up the disease in Miami, raising the specter of a broader national outbreak thanks to travel cases within the U.S.
Administration scientists, though, said there isn't enough money now.
"That's bad for the biomedical enterprise because we're taking money away from cancer, diabetes, all those types of things," Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIH's director of infectious disease research, said last week.
Cuts at the NIH include $7 million from cancer research, $4.3 from national institutes on heart, lung and blood research and more than $2 million each from diabetes and mental health divisions, according to an agency breakdown.
Outside of NIH, the administration said it would cut nearly $20 million from home heating and cooling assistance to low-income people and $4.1 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, even as the federal government pays closer attention to a prescription painkiller and heroin epidemic that is ravaging the nation.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Democrat, said Congress should have approved emergency funds to combat the opioids epidemic and Zika rather than swiping money from the former to pay for the latter.
"Ignoring the immediate funding needs of these health emergencies is legislative negligence, and I strongly urge [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell and Speaker Ryan to call Congress back into session to finally provide an adequate response to both the Zika virus and the opioid epidemic," said Mrs. Shaheen, whose push for $600 million in anti-addiction funding was rebuffed by Republicans this year.
Republican leaders say they offered their political rivals an easy way out of the fiscal quagmire, only to be stymied by a White House veto threat and a Democratic filibuster.
Their plan put $1.1 billion in Zika money on the table, but Senate Democrats balked. They said the funding was insufficient, that none of it would go to Planned Parenthood and that it shouldn't be offset with cuts elsewhere.
President Obama asked in February for some $1.9 billion to fight Zika at home and abroad, though Republican leaders said there was money in existing accounts, forcing the administration to shift more than $500 million from Ebola in West Africa to the Zika effort.
House and Senate Republicans then forged a compromise that would pay for two-thirds of the $1.1 billion with cuts elsewhere and tack the remaining amount onto the deficit in the manner Democrats wanted.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a New Hampshire Republican who faces a tough re-election battle, said money to fight Zika "absolutely cannot come at the expense of low-income seniors and families or those on the front lines of the heroin epidemic." But she insisted that Democrats had the keys to avoid such a scenario.
"I urge my Democratic colleagues to put politics aside, stop their filibuster and swiftly pass the $1.1 billion funding package the House has already passed," she said.


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I don't have the solution to fix Yahoo! That's now Scott Thompson's headache. It may well be too late.
While Obama's speech at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship was short, his message was clear: he's pushing for a new era that includes diverse businesses and innovation in the U.S.
In the first 9 months of 2008 the number of CEOs who left their jobs hit a record high. In tough times good boards are looking at whether they have the right CEO.
Yahoo!'s Flickr kills Googles Picasa. Yahoo! has just not been able to figure out a good way to monetize it yet. When they do, watch out. People spend way too much time on Flickr, myself included.
I'm hoping that this time Yahoo is (finally) able to apply some smarts in the human capital area. Maybe this time the huge upheavals and chaos this reduction in force will create actually leaves the best and brightest on staff.
Ballmer Nixes Yahoo Deal Revival: "We've Moved On"


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Oregon fishing industry on the rebound
By Joel Gallob Of the News-Times
After several years of woeful news, the worst appears over for the Oregon coast - and the broader West Coast - commercial fishing industry.
"We've bottomed out, we're coming back up, and I think that's very important," Ginny Goblirsch, past president of Newport Fishermen's Wives and now a commission member at the Port of Newport, said this week.
Dave Wright, manager of the Pacific Shrimp processing plant in Newport, agreed. "There's an awful lot of positives happening," he said.
"We've been through the worst," said Onno Husing, Director of the Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association (OCZMA). "In 2002 there was an air of desperation. Now there's an increasing sense of optimism. There's a proliferation of new small enterprises, including fish buyers at the wholesale and retail level who are using new trends in consumer demand and pioneering new markets."
Dissenting opinions
Not everyone feels that way. Jeff Boardman, President of the Newport Shrimp Producers Coop, went back out shrimping this week after a ten-day boat "tie-up" collapsed. When the price talks began, boats out of Westport (Washington) went shrimping while others stayed home to negotiate prices. When the Westport vessels later received a price rise, Boardman concluded the new price negotiation system under the state Department of Agriculture, which worked so well in setting prices for Dungeness crab, may not work in the future.
The details of a report issued this month by Yachats-based economist Hans Radtke and Shannon Davis - together, the Research Group - make it clear there are some trends still at work that are not so cheerful. But the positive ones are far more numerous.
The overview
"Sardines," said Radtke, "are back after 50 years." The Dungeness crab, he said, "is a cycle we thought was seven years, but it's been up quite a while now." The shrimp situation, Radtke continued, "is kind of sad," as the West Coast fleet faces "very tough competition" from other regional shrimpers and from aquaculture. "You can grow Chinese pond shrimp and they look good; they don't taste that great, but they're OK for presentation."
Further, adds Lincoln County Commissioner and former commercial fisherman Terry Thompson, this year's shrimp are nearly all three and four-years olds, with hardly a juvenile around. That's good for shrimpers now, but doesn't bode well for the next couple years.
Salmon, Radtke said, "has been a good story" in the past few years, and whiting, just recently placed on the overfished list, may soon be taken out of that category.
That puts nearly all the key fisheries in improving shape.
The factors
Numerous factors have converged to lift the fishing fleet.
Some are government related. One is the recent federal buyback of groundfish permits, which has cut fishing capacity in Oregon by half. Another is the new role the Oregon Agriculture Department (ODA) now has in facilitating pre-season price talks between fishermen and buyers. Other factors include the increasingly strict limits the PFMC placed on groundfish catch in the past several years, and the Endangered Species Act protections and Oregon Salmon Plan habitat enhancements of the past several years.
Market factors have helped, too. Recent wide publicity about the drawbacks of farmed salmon - first reported in Oregon by the News-Times and later the focus of a five-part series by The Oregonian - have sparked a price rise for Oregon-caught salmon. Americans have become more health conscious, and consumers have become more aware of the benefits of seafood, Husing said, with its low carbohydrates and high levels of Omega 3 fatty acid, documented as useful in fighting heart disease and depression.
About the same time, Governor Ted Kulongoski began his Brand Oregon project with a Seafood Oregon marketing effort. That promotional effort got a major boost from the federal government. In January, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden (D) and Gordon Smith (R) and other members of the Oregon delegation secured $3 million for marketing for Oregon seafood. Half went to the Oregon Trawl Commission, which has taken the lead in the Seafood Oregon effort, the other half to the Oregon State University Seafood Laboratory for new seafood product research and development.
The fishermen themselves, too, are "being proactive and adaptable," said Goblirsch, and began looking for new niche markets for their products even before the Seafood Oregon project began. "Now the opportunities are in value-added products and niche markets. My family," she added, "just launched our own website."
Other sources of the upturn are natural, with a striking, if cyclical, upturn in the Dungeness crab harvest. And the numbers of salmon coming across the Columbia River dams have astonished scientists, while the numbers in many (though not all) coastal streams have also jumped.
Perhaps most important is the huge fact that the ocean has returned to conditions favoring larger fish populations. The changes are cyclical, based on a return of strong cold water upwellings. These sweep nutrients up from the seafloor, making them available to fish up and down the water column.
Triple factors
Husing says there's been "a trifecta of factors."
One was the buyback program, with its "promise that if you stay in the industry, the trip limits will go up. In return for a small assessment on those who do stay in," he recalled, "to help pay the buy-out costs, there was to going to be an increase in the value you can catch. And the PFMC just met and had a lot of smiles because that end of the bargain has been met."
Number two was the legislation that brought crab and shrimp price talks under the ODA umbrella. That not only got the crabbers out on time - an unusual event - but it "got people out shrimping," Husing noted, whatever the subsequent issues. And the shrimp price is better, he added, than it had been a year or two earlier, before the ODA process. "There's always going to be brinkmanship," Husing said, "but at least there's a forum, a chance to have price negotiations. A huge barrier's been removed."
Part three, Husing said, is the Seafood Oregon effort. "It's an unprecedented collaboration, and it got a big, timely shot in the arm with the publicity about farm fish and wild fish. That really moved prices up."
County Commissioner Thompson, who sold his fishing boat in the buy-back, added "part of it is the biological information we get. It's starting to catch up with what the fishermen have been saying. They've been saying there's more fish out there than the scientists think, but it takes a couple years to go from the fish tickets to the databases."
All agree the return of good ocean conditions has been critical - and that change began with the end of the El Niño ocean phenomenon a few years ago.
Radtke warns "a lot of this is cyclical" and "things could go down again in a few years." That may be implicit in the nature of cycles, but, says Goblirsch, "we survived the downturn, we're on the upswing now."


The IPMS UK Scale ModelWorld show is taking place at Telford this weekend on November 11th and 12th. Those who attended are reporting another excellent show. The 2018 show will be held in the same location, on November 10th and 11th. Note to self: start saving the $$$ to attend!
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Ahh, AA Electras … cool. Been some time since I've worked on the airliner models, or ordered decals. Might just have to acquire that decal set in 1/144 here in a bit. Yesterday I dug out the Revell Germany Constellation to do a bit more on. There are several Minicraft Electras needing attention, especially a silver AA one with some damage to the silver paint on fuselage above wings. Am pondering what to do since it had been clear coated with Future over enamel spray paint and decalse except the windows and fuselage stripes are on. Am looking at the acrylic model paints and the airbrush, and the Microscale trim film decal.


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17th December 2020 Judy Kuszewski
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17th December 2020 In Insights
It's finally here! Nearly time to turn the page on 2020, and not a moment too soon. And what better way to look back on the year that was than with Sancroft's holiday-edition newsletter?
The drive to a net zero-emissions future by 2050 – in line with the Paris agreement – shows no sign of slowing down. Just this week, a group of 30 of the world's largest investors, with over US$9trn in assets under management, announced a joint commitment to set targets for their portfolios to achieve the 2050 ambition. But even as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris agreement, making substantial progress can be much harder – with ongoing concern that businesses are falling short of what is truly necessary.
So this month's newsletter features an article by our director, Dom de Ville, who asks: Is carbon offsetting a viable tool in a company's transition to net-zero emissions? Dom examines the different types of offsets available, the challenges and pitfalls in using them as part of a robust net zero strategy, and offers a few hints about how to get started.
Global commodities supply chains continue to be the focus of so many efforts to eradicate poor practices and secure sustainable credentials for a vast array of the products we buy – and this week's headlines focusing on alleged slave labour in cotton production demonstrates why. Most textiles and other products made from cotton come from multiple sources, constantly mixing, making it exceedingly difficult to know with certainty whether the products we buy are the products of forced labour.
Businesses need much better information about the provenance of the materials they purchase, and governments and society generally need accountability for the basic standards these materials meet. The last few months have seen a flurry of activity towards upcoming legislation that would make it mandatory for businesses using certain materials to conduct environmental and/or social due diligence to provide that accountability. Our Analyst Rachel Horigan dived into the subject to help you answer the question: How prepared is your business for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence measures?
And while we are on the subject, my letter in the FT last week argues that sustainability reporting is an essential complement to financial reporting, and must also become a mandatory exercise. Do you agree?
To close out the year, our Senior Analyst Robyn Lockyer has a round-up of 2020 in sustainability news and we share our recommendations from what's been on our reading and listening lists lately.
We'll have lots more for you when we return in 2021. On behalf of Sancroft, I wish you all a safe, healthy, peaceful and sustainable holiday.
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Sony A99 – a compact full-frame SLR camera: Specs & Features
In addition to a compact digital camera with a full frame sensor Cyber-shot DSC-RX1, Sony introduced and a new flagship SLR camera model Sony A99, which also uses a full frame sensor.
In this case, a 24.3-megapixel full-frame Exmor CMOS sensor with physical dimensions 35.8 x23.9 mm and an aspect ratio of 3:2. Sensor equipped with a system that provides protection from the accumulation of dust on it. In addition, the Sony A99 device is equipped with a semi-transparent mirror (technology Translucent Mirror), processor BIONZ, the system features an interchangeable lens Sony A-mount, hot shoe for mounting an external flash or accessories and the dual system of automatic focus. The assurances of Sony A99 camera is the first full frame device with Dual AF focus system with 19 sensors (including 11 cross-type sensors) and 102 focus points of the focal plane. Additionally contains a new 0.5-inch electronic viewfinder OLED Tru-Finder with a resolution of 2.36 million pixels, covering 100% of the scene, and a rotating 3-inch display XtraFine LCD technology WhiteMagic, which has a resolution of 1.23 million pixels.
The camera can take photos in automatic mode, and provides the ability to manually control the exposure. This Sony A99 device is capable of changing speeds range from 30 seconds to 1/8000 sec, ISO (in Advanced mode) from ISO50 to ISO25600, white balance control. The maximum resolution of picture is 6000×4000 pixels. Moreover it can record images in JPEG and RAW 14 bit color space, sRGB and Adobe RGB. You can maintain continuous shooting at a rate of 6 frames per second at full resolution, or 10 fps at reduced resolution. Flash synchronization is carried out at up to 1/250 second. Also available to the user the ability to record video in Full HD resolution of 1920×1080 pixels at up to 60 frames per second in the format of AVCHD 2.0 / MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) with stereo sound. To store the footage can be used memory cards Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, SD, SDHC (UHS-I), SDXC (UHS-I). This Sony α99 can also simultaneously use two memory cards.
Of the additional features built-in stand GPS, a system for noise reduction, image stabilization system. In the chamber implemented an USB2.0, mini HDMI, 3,5-mm audio input for connecting a microphone and 3.5mm headphone output. Housing news is made of magnesium alloy and provides protection against moisture and dust. The weight of the device is 812 grams (without lens, but with the battery and memory card).
It is expected that the digital SLR camera Sony A99 will be available in November this year. According to preliminary information, the price is about $ 2800.
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NOBURN is the first of its kind citizen science project involving Australian communities in data collection and predictive modelling of bushfires, garnering interest in the science behind bushfires and creating awareness of the fire-susceptibility of our forests.
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NOBURN
In the 2019-20 fire season, over 10 million hectares of forest burnt and over 2000 homes were destroyed. The cost to Australia was estimated to run into the billions and has had a devastating impact on the agriculture, forestry and tourism industries.
There are very limited resources currently available to support accurate prediction and effective response to large-scale fire events. For bushfire researchers, it is very difficult to collect continuous data on the susceptibility of forests to fire across Australia.
This citizen science project involves the design and development of NOBURN, which stands for 'National Bushfire Resilience Network'. NOBURN is a data-collection tool to capture evidence of fire-susceptibility of our forests by citizen scientists, hikers, foresters, schools and the community and provides information on the flammability of forests based on their structure, quantity, density and dryness of forest fuels. As a result of data and images recorded through the app by its users and citizen scientists, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will predict the probability, severity and burn area of potential bushfires by finding patterns between forest fuels, satellite images, elevation and weather data based on historic fire events.
Every day of the year across the country, people are in the forest for work, recreation, or just live there. And so, it is of the greatest benefit to those people to protect their environment and warn them in case catastrophic bushfires would occur. NOBURN will do exactly that and assist with national disaster resilience, preparedness and response to bushfires.
NOBURN will be launched in 2022 – Participation will be open to all Australian residents. The Research Team at the University of the Sunshine Coast encourages the engagement of Citizen Scientists in the design, development, testing and implementation of the NOBURN app, which they will use to collect data throughout the life of the project. Once developed, participants can download the NOBURN app and use it during their next forest visit to assist the Research Team with the collection of data. All instructions will be provided in the app.
MIE Community
NOBURN Citizen Science Community Event
The University of the Sunshine Coast's NOBURN and MIE Lab teams are partnering up with the Noosa Shire Council and the Noosa & District Landcare to engage community into exciting citizen science research on bushfires.
To register click this link or use QR code below
When: Saturday 29 October 2022
Where: Noosa & District Landcare, 65 Pavilion Street, Pomona
Time: 2pm to 5pm
For more information Contact Mandy Finch Email mielab@usc.edu.au
https://www.linkedin.com/company/noburn/
https://www.facebook.com/NOBURNUniSC
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For more information Contact Sam Van Holsbeeck
Email noburn@usc.edu.au


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"Fanged Noumena brings together the writings of Nick Land for the first time. During the 1990s Land's unique philosophical work, variously described as 'rabid nihilism', 'mad black deleuzianism' and 'cybergothic', developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of 'continental philosophy' – a route which was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British 'speculative realist' philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers – artists, musicians, filmmakers, bloggers – who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision.
Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume then collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s – long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print) – in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids.


Transitioning from vinyl snob to digital DJ just got easier, with Native Instruments' Traktor 3 Tutorial DVD. Featuring extensive videos that will guide novices as well as seasoned turntable pros, insider tips from DJs like Chris Liebing, and an interactive interface, this tutorial is more than just a lecture from some dude that gets paid to talk. The lengthy movie covers each function of NI's Traktor software, from preparing improvisational loops to integrating effects and changing tempos. And the best aspect of a DVD like this lies in the secrets that apply to live performance–especially when dealing with Traktor's beat grid and the arsenal of MIDI functions that aren't necessarily intuitive. Can you beat $44 and a little studying to master your mixing needs?
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Q: can i get my eclipse project path using servlet or jsp code?
 <%=session.getServletContext().getRealPath("/") %>
        <%
            String path= session.getServletContext().getRealPath("/");

            FileOutputStream file = new FileOutputStream(path+"\\testingfile.txt");

        %>

The above code is my jsp code after i run this page it will show the following output.
C:\Users\Stark\Documents\Eclipse IDE\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\Demo\

Why i get this path ? instead of i want to get the following path which is i needed ...
C:\Users\Stark\Documents\Eclipse IDE\Demo

How to solve this ? i need this project location for uploading my files into this location so help me !

A: The reason why you are getting "weird" path is simple-You are using Eclipse.
When you run an application on Eclipse, Eclipse side will create new path and run your app there. This is why "getRealPath("/")" is giving you weird path, because your app is now running on a temporary folder.
Why is Eclipse doing this? Here is What I think

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*In this way, Eclipse can run your app faster(Cached App or codes etc...)

*Your Original code will keep in safe with any unnecessary changes made by Eclipse.

So how can I solve this issue?
I suggest you use "Properties" class for setting upload path. This way you can divide URL setting from your logic and your code will become easy to be maintained. And you won't encounter any unexpected "environmental" error like this, because your setting value will be fixed by your input.
Here is fixed code for using "Properties".
<%

Properties prop = new Properties();
InputStream input = null;

try {

    input = new FileInputStream("config.properties");

    // load a properties file
    prop.load(input);

    // get the property for upload path
    String path=prop.getProperty("path.upload");
    FileOutputStream file = new FileOutputStream(path+"\\testingfile.txt");

    //TODO:rest of your logic codes will come here.

} catch (IOException ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    if (input != null) {
        try {
            input.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}
%>

You must create "config.properties" file as well. Here is the contents of the file.
path.upload=C:\Users\Stark\Documents\Eclipse IDE\Demo

I hope my answer will help you.


Directory of 2 Mississippi Turkey hunting lodges, guides and outfitters in Mississippi.
In Mississippi, we can hunt turkeys from March 15 – May 1. State guidelines only allow longbeards to be harvested during turkey seasons. The beard must be at least 6 inches long. No jakes or hens may be harvested in Mississippi. No rifles may be used. You may use a bow or shotgun. We scout heavily for turkeys before and during the season. Plus years of hunting here gives us the knowledge of where the turkeys hang out. We cut timber here every other year so our habitat changes. Turkeys like to be able to see. They don't like thick cover. Turkeys like to roost in big timber and fly down in open areas. Therefore, when we cut our timber we have all wildlife in mind.
For the bird hunting enthusiast, Tara is a great place to chase a gobbling turkey. We invite all hunters to experience one of the nation's premier hunting destinations. Success rates have averaged above 75% historically. Of all the species hunted in the Mississippi Delta, Turkeys are the ones most adversely affected by spring flooding. Timing and duration of any flood plays a significant part in the rate of annual nesting success.


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Chemical Giant Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289 Million In Roundup Cancer Trial
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(Reuters) – A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weedkillers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $ 289 million in damages.
The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG <BAYGn.DE> following a $ 62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, faces more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the United States.
The jury at San Francisco's Superior Court of California deliberated for three days before finding that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weedkillers.
It awarded $ 39 million in compensatory and $ 250 million in punitive damages.
Monsanto in a statement said it would appeal the verdict. "Today's decision does not change the fact that more than 800 scientific studies and reviews…support the fact that glyphosate does not cause cancer, and did not cause Mr. Johnson's cancer," the company said.
Monsanto denies that glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, causes cancer and says decades of scientific studies have shown the chemical to be safe for human use.
Johnson's case, filed in 2016, was fast-tracked for trial due to the severity of his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system that he alleges was caused by Roundup and Ranger Pro, another Monsanto glyphosate herbicide. Johnson's doctors said he is unlikely to live past 2020.
A former pest control manager for a California county school system, Johnson, 46, applied the weedkiller up to 30 times per year.
Brent Wisner, a lawyer for Johnson, in a statement said jurors for the first time had seen internal company documents "proving that Monsanto has known for decades that glyphosate and specifically Roundup could cause cancer." He called on Monsanto to "put consumer safety first over profits."
Over the course of the four-week trial, jurors heard testimony by statisticians, doctors, public health researchers and epidemiologists who disagreed on whether glyphosate can cause cancer.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in September 2017 concluded a decades-long assessment of glyphosate risks and found the chemical not likely carcinogenic to humans. But the World Health Organization's cancer arm in 2015 classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic to humans."
(Reporting by Tina Bellon; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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In its original configuration, the Westfield proved itself an absolute blast. Sure the interior was a little cheap looking thanks to the low-rent carpeting and exposed screw heads in the dash, and the seats weren't particularly supportive, but it was full of character. The handling was entertaining and the sound under full throttle acceleration was intoxicating. A four cylinder had no business sounding that good!
Shortly after arriving home with the car, I began to make some improvements. I redid the dash with leather and hid the fasteners, I replaced the 300mm steering wheel with a 270mm Spa Alpha, installed a Qaife quick shift, replaced the Spax shocks with much better Avos, and from Cat Motorsport came their wide track front suspension and quick ratio steering rack. On the engine side I installed a lighter weight, more reliable gear reduction starter, an MSD 6-AL ignition, slightly larger 32mm venturis in the Webers (30mm came with the car), full radius velocity stacks (none were fitted before), and an ITG air filter to replace the K&N units. The net result was a much nicer car that maintained its vintage flair in the looks and driving departments.


The 20HP was produced between 1927 and 1935, with a total production of 8,847 vehicles.
When the Long 20HP was introduced in December 1927, it had a 6 cylinder motor of 2,872cc developing 19.8hp and a wheelbase of 10' 9". Its speed range in top gear was 5 to 55mph, petrol consumption was 21mpg and the engine consumed one gallon of oil for every 1,500 miles travelled. A number of models were available including the Ascot Open Tourer de Luxe, York Enclosed Limousine, Malvern Saloon Limousine, Maidstone Saloon Laundaulette and Chester Enclosed Laundaulette. Prices ranged from £600 to £825.
The Short 20HP had a wheelbase of 10', similar track of 4' 8" and a shorter overall length and was available with it's own extensive range of body styles including 2/3 Seater, Open Tourer, Special Tourer, Saloon, Fabric Saloon, Special Saloon, Saloon Laundaulette, ¾ Laundaulette and Coupe.
The appearance of these models was enhanced by the use of rich soft colour shades of mole, middle blue, dark blue and maroon. Open cars were trimmed with soft natural grained leather, in the case of closed cars cloth was offered as an alternative. Equipment on the various models included tool box under seat, door pockets, door pulls, interior electric light, lady's and gentleman's companions, coat and rug lockers, pile carpet, locker under rear floor boards, sunshine roof, roller blind to rear window and mahogany finished interior woodwork.
In the early 30's, by which time the engine capacity has risen to 3,190cc, S.C.H.Davis, Sports Editor of The Autocar entered the Monte Carlo Rally in a 20HP and won the Grand Prix d'Honneur and the Concours de Confort. In a similar car, W.F.Bradley, the well known Continental motoring critic, gained full marks for reliability and condition in the International Alpine Trial, the most severe test of reliability, speed and hill climbing ever undertaken in Europe.


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