We've gotten more rave reviews for the profound lesson below on taking responsibility than for any of the other inspiring lessons which are part of our free, online courses. Many have written telling how the heart and mind expanding ideas presented in this lesson helped to put their lives on an entirely new track. Could it be that the more we take responsibility for how we interpret everything in our lives and world, the more we can create the lives and world we all know are possible? Read on to find out.
Welcome to lesson three of the Insight Course. After learning in the last lesson how the media at times manipulates public perception in disempowering ways, it is easy to blame those in the media for many of the problems in our world. Yet in order to be the change we want to see in the world, taking responsibility for our own lives is an essential quality.
Both Scott and Fred changed the most challenging relationships in their lives by consciously committing to let go of blame, to understand their fathers, and most importantly, to open to love. For whom in your life are you still holding blame?
Take a minute now to think about it. Are you willing to change those relationships? Do you know that you have choice and that you alone can change and invite deeper connection into all your relationships?
We invite you to consider how you can let go of blame and open to deeper, more meaningful connections in all relationships in your life. Miracles happen when we set our will in motion and hold firm to the intention to support all around us.
Taking this further, what might happen if a person chose to take responsibility not only for everything in their personal life, but even for everything in other people's lives? This may sound strange, yet the below article shows how miracles blossomed when one caring individual had the courage to take responsibility to a greatly expanded level. Please read this inspiring article before moving on.
Dr. Len states that everything in our lives is our responsibility and that the world is our creation. Though this may seem a bit difficult to swallow, think about it for a minute. Don't each one of us have some influence on what happens around us? Doesn't our individual perception of what is happening in the world around us in some way determine our experience of the world?
Remember that if you are willing to consider taking responsibility for everything that happens, this includes not only all of the craziness happening in the world, but also all of the amazingly inspiring and profound things happening everywhere. Consider what it might be like to take responsibility for all of this together.
We invite you to spend some time pondering this one. What if simply changing our deepest held beliefs and perceptions about ourselves and our world literally changes the world? Let it be so, and let it begin with me!
Consider in your life who you are blaming or holding in judgment. Draw up a list of anyone who falls in this category. For some people, the heaviest blame and judgment goes towards themselves. If you fall into this category, make a list of aspects of yourself towards which you harbor these feelings.
Whether the issue is with yourself, others, or both, think about what steps you might take in order to shift towards acceptance and love. Before moving on to the next lesson, consider taking at least one step or developing one intention to let go of blame and judgment and move towards personal responsibility, love, and deeper connection.
Even with all of the tools presented in this lesson, it often takes a long-term, continued commitment to make meaningful changes. These issues are rooted quite deep in almost all people's lives. Yet you can choose to take the first step on this journey now. Start with whatever step feels right and best for you.
Transforming blame and judgment is often like peeling away the layers of an onion. When you first start, the onion may be huge. Yet after you whittle away enough layers one step at a time, it can eventually become relatively easy to deal with and transform these challenges as they arise in your life. As you release each layer, you shift ever more fully from the role of victim into that of a powerful creator with infinite potential.
Take some time to let the wisdom of this lesson integrate into your being in whatever way is most empowering for you. Taking personal responsibility without the need for blame is a key to integrating everything presented in the Insight Course.
To close this lesson, please watch the two short, inspiring videos below. The first is a fun, one-minute clip reminding us of the interconnectedness of all in our world. The second powerful, six-minute piece gives a rich taste of the shift we are undertaking. Notice how this wonderful piece begins talking about serious problems we are facing, yet then goes on to leave us inspired that every one of us can make a difference in shifting to a beautiful new paradigm.
When you are ready to move on, please be prepared that lesson four will take us back into the shadow side as we explore the root causes of war. Through understanding the underlying reasons for some of the major challenges facing our world, we can powerfully support each other in taking responsibility and working to be the change we want to see.
Special Note: The information in this and other lessons in the Insight Course has the potential to create wonderful shifts in our lives. Yet when we open to profound changes, life does not necessarily always become easier right away. Sometimes things get more difficult before we make a significant breakthrough. Along with the new realizations we embrace, challenges sometimes arise which invite us to take what we learn even further.
Don't be surprised during your journey through the course if unusual things or strange "coincidences" start happening in your life, both challenging and inspirational. If challenges arise, look for the lesson wanting to be learned and open to guidance and support as you remember the unlimited potential inside you. If magical serendipity enters your life, celebrate and enjoy it! Most people experience some of both, with lots more on the inspirational side.
Explore and write up a list of those you are blaming for problems in your life. How are you choosing to be a victim? How is your interpretation of their actions keeping you from your own potential? Pick one or two of these relationships that you are ready to transform and take concrete steps towards letting go of blame and becoming a powerful creator in your life.
Notice every time that you find yourself sitting in judgment of yourself and/or others. Can you first accept that your feelings of judgment are there for a reason? Explore then how you might work to understand your judgment and shift it through feeling your own heart, seeing the heart in those you judge, and choosing to come back to a place of respect and love.
Think about your family or the people who raised you. Are you willing to consider that they were doing the best they could with what they had? Are you willing to forgive the past, to let go of blame, and to transform your life? Even if key people in your family have died, you can find a way to shift any difficult feelings you have with them towards acceptance and love.
When do you choose being right over being happy? How does it feel? Notice the biological reaction and comfort you take from being right. Is that what you really want? Explore ways of stepping out of your comfort zone and delving into the deeper issues in any relationship problem. Explore the deeper joy that comes with claiming full responsibility for how you interpret everything that happens to you.
Play with the ho'oponopono healing method. Choose someone who is disempowering you or others and follow the four steps given: I love you. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.
If you are one who blames yourself more than others, take concrete steps to heal this relationship with yourself. How much are you ready to let go of victimizing yourself to become a more creative force in our world?
Learn more about this courageous author, TV host, business leader, conservationist and internationally sought after speaker who motivates and inspires audiences worldwide.
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation inspires people to practice kindness and to "pass it on" to others. The foundation provides free educational and community ideas, guidance, and other resources for all interested in spreading random acts of kindness throughout their lives and world. A wide variety of inspiring materials are provided, including activity ideas, lesson plans, teacher's guides, project planning guides, and workplace resources – all free of charge.
Ho'oponopono is about opening doors to greater understanding and deeper awareness of life, and to one's purpose as a unique and valuable member of the human family. It is a process of letting go of toxic energies within you while inviting in transformational thoughts, words, deeds and actions. The articles section of this simple, yet profound website has some particularly valuable material.
Landmark Education offers seminars around the world dedicated to changing lives through taking personal responsibility. Though their hard sell tactics and attitude that Landmark is the answer to all the world's problems are weak points, don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Many have found the inspiring information gained in doing the basic Landmark Forum course to be incredibly transformational in their lives. Go in with an open mind, yet discerning eye. You very well may come out better equipped to take full responsibility for your life.
Full of warmth and humanity, this remarkable book suggests that the most powerful change happens when we are willing to face the challenges in our relationships with openness and vulnerability. Many practical tools guide towards richer, deeper relationships not only with our partner, but also with ourselves and all around us. If you are ready to take responsibility for your own life, and to take the risks involved in being truly authentic with both your partner and yourself, don't miss this book.
Renowned writer Eckhart Tolle expounds on powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to transforming conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how attachment to ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, blame, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows us how to awaken to a new, more responsible state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.
Lesson four will delve into the roots of war and the often unseen involvement of the military/industrial complex in our world. Inspiring information will also be presented on how we can work together to change this. Together, we can powerfully change our lives and world for the better.
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A pawn shop owner drew his own weapon when he was confronted by two armed robbers in May.
Bountiful, UT – The Bountiful Police Department has released pawn shop surveillance footage that showed a deadly encounter between two armed robbers and an armed pawn shop owner (video below).
The incident occurred on May 4 at approximately 10:51 a.m., as the unnamed Bountiful Pawn store owner wheeled a bike towards the business's open front door, surveillance footage showed.
As the owner reached the door's threshold, he was suddenly intercepted by two men. One of the men thrust a gun into the owner's face, backing him into the store.
The robber's accomplice then swept in behind him with a bag and a hammer, and walked out of the camera's view.
As store owner lowered the bike onto its side on the floor, the gunman held him at gunpoint and moved back towards the front door to close it.
With his hands raised, the owner stepped away from the distracted robber, and scurried into a side room while simultaneously drawing a firearm from what appeared to be his waistband.
The suspect abandoned his attempt to close the door and rushed in after the shop owner, who immediately opened fire.
The robber continued his attack, and the men fell to the ground as the struggle ensued.
"There's an exchange of gunfire there and ultimately, the suspect continues after the shots have been fired, attacks the store clerk until the suspect succumbs to his wounds," Bountiful Police Lieutenant Dave Edwards told KSTU.
A second later, the suspect's accomplice hopped over a counter and fled from the business.
When the store owner emerged from the side room, his right hand was covered in blood, the video showed.
The would-be robber, 40-year-old Kleydys Arbolaez-Hernandez, died at the scene, The Sacramento Bee reported.
His accomplice, 30-year-old Alexyanis Cutino Jimenez, was apprehended in Houston, Texas, in late May, following a nationwide manhunt, police said.
Investigators said they believe Arbolaez-Hernandez and Jimenez committed a string of at least 10 robberies within the state of Utah between January and May.
They are also suspected of having committed additional robberies in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, police said.
"We can see in other videos detectives obtained in Oklahoma the same weapon was used, the same clothing. That was one of the things that tied the case up for us," Lt. Edwards told KSTU.
Jimenez has since been federally charged with 11 counts of using a firearm during a violent crime and 11 counts of robbery, the Deseret News reported.
Investigators said that the pawn shop owner was "obviously defending himself" when he shot Arbolaez-Hernandez, and that he will not face any charges.
One POS dead, the other POS in jail for a long time!! Yeah!!


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Benedictine College Students Ready to Lead March for Life
By Benedictine College, January 8, 2014
Ravens Will March
By Kathryn Brown | Junior Kathryn Brown is a Gregorian Fellow at Benedictine College and is the March for Life coordinator for Ravens Respect Life. Her work secured Benedictine College as the leaders of the 2014 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Benedictine College is taking eight buses, 434 people, to the March For Life this year, breaking last year's record of seven buses and making this the largest student trip in the history of the College. On Jan. 22, 58 students and 2 monks from our school will lead the march, carrying the "March for Life" banner in front of over half a million people who will gather from across the nation for the biggest pro-life event in the world.
On top of that, the World Apostolate of Fatima has asked us to carry at the March a statue of Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, blessed by Pope Francis, as the start of the statue's tour of the United States.
This is all very exciting, but one of the most inspiring aspects of the whole trip is what it says about our student body. Our 386 Benedictine College students are missing three days of class, sitting on a 48-hour round-trip bus ride, and enduring the winter weather to stand up for something they deeply believe in: the sacredness of our God given gift of life. They are joined by monks from St. Benedict's Abbey, faculty, administrators, alumni, and students from three other colleges in the area. When it comes to their faith, Ravens are certainly willing to take action and sacrifice themselves for their beliefs.
Benedictine College's participation in the March For Life has been student organized since the Knights of Columbus took a van to D.C. in January 1985. Once the College's student pro-life organization, Ravens Respect Life, was founded in 1989, it took over organizing the trip and does so to this day.
The students also work for the pro-life cause throughout the year; they pray every other week at an abortion clinic in all weathers, sidewalk counsel, visit nursing homes, help struggling pregnant mothers in the Atchison community, and much more. For decades Benedictine students have been sacrificing their time, energy, and resources, giving of themselves because of the simple truth that our lives are precious gifts from God and as children of God every one of us deserves to live in dignity from conception to natural death. We travel to D.C. every year to witness nationally to this truth, to remember those whose lives have been taken unjustly, and to stand in hopeful solidarity with our fellow pro-lifers. We have pledged to not stop fighting until the battle is won.
We will see you in D.C. in two weeks.
Tags: March for Life, Pro-life
Founded in 1858, Benedictine College is a Catholic, Benedictine, residential, liberal arts college located on the bluffs above the Missouri River in Atchison, Kansas. The school is proud to have been named one of America's Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report as well as one of the top Catholic colleges in the nation by First Things magazine and the Newman Guide. It prides itself on outstanding academics, extraordinary faith life, strong athletic programs, and an exceptional sense of community and belonging. It has a mission to educate men and women within a community of faith and scholarship.
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Myotis macrodactylus () è un pipistrello della famiglia dei Vespertilionidi diffuso nell'Asia nord-orientale e in Giappone.

Descrizione

Dimensioni
Pipistrello di piccole dimensioni, con la lunghezza della testa e del corpo tra 42,06 e 52,94 mm, la lunghezza dell'avambraccio tra 35,5 e 41,5 mm, la lunghezza della coda tra 31,02 e 38,18 mm, la lunghezza del piede tra 9,54 e 12,06 mm, circa il 70-86% della tibia, la lunghezza delle orecchie tra 13,84 e 16,36 mm e un peso fino a 10,4 g.

Aspetto
La pelliccia è corta e soffice. Le parti dorsali sono bruno-grigiastro scuro, mentre le parti ventrali variano dal grigio al grigio scuro. Le orecchie sono strette, lunghe e con l'estremità arrotondata. Il trago è sottile e lungo più della metà del padiglione auricolare. Le membrane alari sono ampie e attaccate posteriormente lungo la tibia. I piedi sono molto più lunghi della metà della tibia stessa. La coda è lunga ed è inclusa completamente nell'ampio uropatagio, mentre il calcar è sottile e privo di carenatura. Il cranio è grande e robusto. Il cariotipo è 2n=44 FNa=50-52.

Ecolocazione
Emette ultrasuoni a basso ciclo di lavoro, sotto forma di impulsi di breve durata a banda larga e frequenza modulata compresa tra 94,39±33,78 kHz e 39,4±4,03 kHz, con massima energia a 54,63±5,10 kHz. Oltre alla fondamentale sono presenti 1-2 armoniche.

Biologia

Comportamento
Si rifugia all'interno di grotte e costruzioni umane in gruppi fino a 100 individui. I siti sono spesso in prossimità di specchi d'acqua e vengono condivisi sia in inverno che in estate con altre specie di pipistrelli.

Alimentazione
Si nutre di insetti che cattura in volo o sopra le superfici d'acqua.

Distribuzione e habitat
Questa specie è diffusa in estremo oriente dalla Cina nord-orientale alla Penisola coreana e la regione russa del Territorio del Litorale fino al Giappone,  le Isole Curili e Sachalin.

Tassonomia
Sono state riconosciute 3 sottospecie:
M.m.macrodactylus: Giappone: Hokkaidō, Honshū, Shikoku, Sado, Tsushima e Tokunoshima;
M.m.continentalis (): Province cinesi di Harbin e Jilin sud-orientali,  regione di Vladivostok, Penisola coreana;
M.m.insularis (): Isole Curili: Kunašir, Sachalin meridionale.

Stato di conservazione
La IUCN Red List, considerato il vasto areale,  la mancanza di eventuali minacce e nonostante sia naturalmente raro, classifica M.macrodactylus come specie a rischio minimo (LC).

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Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Microchirotteri

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NCLB has changed the course of education by setting indelible, incremental goals that peak at 100-percent proficiency for all students in reading and mathematics by 2014. Failure results in school and district sanctions, and districts have responded by auditing instructional programs for alignment with state standards. As part of this review process, many districts have examined their assessment systems and developed district tests to help predict student achievement on end-of-year state tests. Districts also have searched for electronic programs that generate tests and, more importantly, store and disaggregate data for both state and local assessments.
For Snowline, a rural Southern California district of 8,000 students, ETS's Instructional Data Management System (IDMS) fit the need. Prior to using IDMS, district personnel invested hundreds of hours at the beginning of each school year compiling data into bulky district and school-site books. As the district grew, this work became too cumbersome, and administrators began searching for an electronic program that accomplished these tasks. About five years ago, we investigated programs that provided detailed analysis of state data, and IDMS accomplished that task for us.
But to me and my team, it became apparent that if Snowline were to meet NCLB goals, it needed more than just a state analysis program. To improve student achievement, we felt we needed to more closely monitor and adjust instruction. We realized we had to pace instruction, provide opportunities for teachers to build district assessments, and create practical data reports based on the assessments. IDMS was again the answer. The program integrates state data storage and management with interim assessment analysis, and it generates teacher reports for local tests. Data are now stored and analyzed in a web-based electronic program that all teachers and administrators can access.
First developed as a state analysis tool, IDMS became the instrument for ETS's Focus on Standards (FOS) instructional model. An integrated, five-step model, FOS fully aligns instructional improvement by emphasizing the teaching of essential state standards, calendaring these standards into pacing plans, periodically assessing instruction according to the pacing plans, engaging teachers in structured dialogue about the assessment data, and developing interventions based on teacher discussions about student achievement. IDMS was designed to provide meaningful data reports that teachers could use in these important, structured discussions.
Here's how the program works: Tests that are manufactured by Snowline teachers are calendared and tagged as they are entered into IDMS in electronic format. The student population is re-rostered according to the calendar to place students in current classes, and answer sheets are produced for each student taking each test by class. The answer documents are then distributed to the school sites and, as soon as testing is completed, collected for scanning. These documents are scanned, and the results are uploaded to ETS servers.
The IDMS program automatically generates specific reports that are predetermined as essential to use by teachers in the improvement process.
Here's an actual example of how the process works: Snowline fourth-grade teachers during the first trimester taught five mathematics standards according to the fourth-grade pacing plan. At the end of the trimester, a district-wide, teacher-generated assessment was administered to all fourth-grade students. The answer documents were scanned at the district level and uploaded into IDMS. Within hours, teachers were given the results, which were posted on the web-based IDMS program. Within days, in structured school-site meetings, teachers discussed the results based on the standards assessed.
At one school site, fourth-grade teachers found that 66 percent of their students correctly answered the questions that tested mathematics standard Algebra and Functions 1.2, "evaluate mathematical expressions." Only 42 percent correctly answered the questions testing state standard Number Sense, 1.1, "reading and writing whole numbers in the millions." The teachers discussed instructional techniques concerning the first standard, but focused on why students tested lower on the second standard. They conferred about "next steps" that resulted in modifying instruction and creating interventions for groups of students. As a result of their interventions, 16 percent more students scored proficient at the end of the year on the state test.
Herein lies the beauty of the program … Within hours of giving tests, teachers are given invaluable IDMS data reports that are used to help make instructional program decisions. This improvement process occurs in structured, teacher meetings that take place after every assessment. Teachers learn to quickly examine the data reports and move to indispensable discussions about data trends. IDMS by itself is not a panacea, but it is an indispensable tool that provides impetus for teacher dialogue, instructional change, and–ultimately–student achievement.
In this data-driven world of accountability, Snowline has continued to grow student achievement. This past year, all schools and the district experienced noticeable gains in state and federal accountability measures. Students earning proficiency according to state tests increased by 7 percentage points, far above the state's NCLB requirement. All subgroups, such as English-language learners and students with special needs, experienced steady growth as well. As district-wide scores ascended, the district far outdistanced county and state averages.
This school year, Snowline will use IDMS to process more than 125 assessments in first through twelfth grades in the four core subject areas of English/language arts, mathematics, history/social science, and science. Well over 300,000 test pages will be printed and scanned at the district level. The result is well worth the price; the "ah-has" I hear from teachers about student achievement are exponentially greater than any costs in time, effort, and equipment. The process works!
Jim Canter is the assistant superintendent for Snowline School District in Phelan, Calif.


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Haloceras carinata is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Haloceratidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1883 door Jeffreys.

Haloceratidae


I continue to find myself so inspired by the Spring season this year. Maybe because of the fun trips & plans I have leading up to Summer? A weekend at the beach, fun with friends, a short trip to a fashion week with Lo. Life is good. White continues to make me feel free this season. Thank you fashion for keeping me on my toes.
love feeling the sun rays hit my skin as the beautiful days continue throughout this wonderful time of year. I am in LOVE with everything white. Spring you are a favorite, but Summer I am anxious for your arrival.


A legal system is one fo the defining elements of civilization. But it's too often overlooked in fantasy settings. In a world where high-level characters can single-handedly defeat armies, how can any powerful individual be captured or imprisoned?
Just as Dynasties and Demagogues deals with political intrigue, Crime and Punishment takes an in-depth look at campaigns that focus on the forces of the law. Players can take the roles of bounty hunters tracking down mystical renegades, justicars seeking to restore order in a cesspool of corruption and crime, mage hunter, itinerant justices, the local sheriff's men, or even spies for the crown.


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Musical diversity makes jazz festival a truly global gathering
The mesmerising universality of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival (CTIJF) is evident in its latest announcement of 12 artists from a range of musical styles and different parts of the world. The 20th annual CTIJF is set to take place on 29 and 30 March 2019, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
Festival organiser espAfrika is proud to present its third reveal of artists, offering traditional jazz, hip hop and experimental sounds. Collaborations also feature prominently with this batch of artists, as musicians from various nationalities will share the stage at the upcoming 20th celebration of Africa's Grandest Gathering, held annually in Cape Town.
CTIJF 2019 Third Artist Announcement
Blurring genres and upending expectations is Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles (USA), led by organ virtuoso Cory Henry; The Mike Rossi Project featuring John Fedchock (SA/USA), featuring Rossi, a professor of music from the University of Cape Town and two-time Grammy nominee Fedchock, an established world-class trombonist; London-based saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia (UK), who is one of the leading forces behind the resurgence of jazz-influenced sounds; South Peninsula High School Band (SA) chosen from a selection of school bands who participated in the festival's annual Sustainable Training & Development Music & Career programme.
Bickram Ghosh Quartet (India), led by one of India's greatest masters of the tabla and widely regarded as a pioneering force in the world of experimental fusion music; Oliver Mtukudzi with special guest Vusi Mahlasela (ZIM/ SA), two of southern Africa's greatest musicians and songwriters; The Reza Khota Quartet (SA), led by Reza Khota and including well-known local musicians offering a range of experimental sounds;
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble (USA), whose music weaves swing, blues, avante garde jazz, bebop, African rhythms, Eastern modes and Western classical sounds; Alfa Mist (UK), a self-taught pianist and rapper drawn to jazz and world music, who blends melancholy jazz harmony with alternative hip hop and soul; The Mill (SA/ Swiss), a South African/Swiss collaboration offering a mish-mash of horn arrangements, piano and razor-sharp guitar; Los Angeles-based musical duo Knower (USA), featuring drummer-producer Louis Cole and singer Genevieve Artadi, and Keyon Harrold (USA), whose music draws on elements of jazz, classical, rock, blues, and hip hop to create something uniquely modern.
Previously announced artists include ten-time Grammy Award winner, Queen of Funk Chaka Khan (USA); award-winning jazz pianist Eliane Elias (Brazil); multi-instrumentalist, neo-soul group Moonchild (USA); South Africa's first all-female big band, The Lady Day Big Band (SA); and local sensation, singer/ songwriter Shekhinah (SA); South African jazz legend Don Laka (SA); chart-topping vocalist Craig Lucas (SA); seven-piece indigenous band known for their outstanding live performances BCUC (SA); local jazz master and saxophonist Don Vino (SA); rapper Sho Madjozi (SA) who infuses her rhymes with Gqom beats; creative phenomenon and vocalist Ntsika (SA); and two-time Grammy award winners Soweto Gospel Choir (SA).
Festival Director Billy Domingo says the best part of the CTIJF is that it offers a global experience, with the latest talent sharing a platform with established favourites. After CTIJF's host city was recently crowned as the Events Capital of Africa, Domingo explains how this echoes the festival's ethos and brings home the festival's own title as Africa's Grandest Gathering.
"For years, the festival has been known as Africa's Grandest Gathering, and now our slogan has come home. It's amazing that after all these years, our host city has become the Events Capital of the continent. "
"The growth of this festival has always been dependent on critique from our audience. We've listened and next year we aim to deliver. In the last few years, we've focussed on artist collaborations instead of solo acts to offer our festinos a truly unique entertainment experience, encompassing more than one artist or group at a time." says Domingo.
Ticket sales for CTIJF 2019 are open at Computicket. Loyal festival-goers are in for a treat, as a limited amount of Weekend Pass tickets are available at R 999. Thereafter, CTIJF 2019 Weekend Passes will remain the same price as last year:
- Weekend Pass: R 1290
- Day Pass: R 850
Official sponsors of the 20th annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival are the Department of Arts and Culture, Independent Media, AYO Technology Solutions and host city, the City of Cape Town.
CTIJF 2019 Premier Hospitality packages are on sale now
Celebrate 20 years of jazz, with new features and exciting early bird specials, experience the very best that Africa's Grandest Gathering has to offer in 2019! Contact Samantha Pienaar on 021 671 05 06 or email hospitality@espafrika.com for more information.
The CTIJF 2018 After-Movie shows what the CTIJF has to offer and can be viewed at this link: http://bit.ly/2NXqFf3
Visit the website for more information: www.capetownjazzfest.com
For all media enquiries and artist interviews, please contact:
Janet de Kretser - Meropa Communications
Tel: +27 11 506 7300 / +27 83 973 3531
E-mail: janetd@meropa.co.za
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Jam-packed Line Up for CTIJF's Free Community Concert 2019
Music Master Class makes it's way to Langa
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Cape Town International Jazz Festival team mourns the passing of jazz legend Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi


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Posted on July 27, 2010 by Briana Tomkinson
New West councillors pull all-nighter voting for youth centre in Kraft contest
Fortified by Kraft Dinner, New Westminster Councillors Jaimie McEvoy & Jonathan Cote pulled an all-nighter voting for the Youth Centre in Moody Park in the Kraft Celebration Tour online contest. Thanks to them and others in the community who voted, New Westminster youth won the $25,000 prize! Photo: Angie Torres (via Flickr)
We often hear that New Westminster is a small town, not just in size but in style. And that can be both good and bad. This week, in the Moody Park Youth Centre's campaign to win a $25,000 grant in an online contest, there was a whole lot of good going around.
It seemed that the whole town pulled together for the youth centre. To win the big prize, New Westminster went head to head with the city of Nelson, both trying to muster the most votes in one day. With no restriction on the number or frequency of votes, the Kraft Celebration Tour contest was as much about passion for the community as population numbers.
Said The Royal City Record about New West's win:
New Westminster clobbered Nelson – who were hoping to use the cash for an upgrade to their curling club – by a score of 220,531 to 154,709 in the 24 hour contest that ran from 9 a.m. Friday to Saturday. Not bad for a city with an estimated population of around 60,000.
New Westminster rallied for our youth, urging each other on through many emails, tweets, Facebook posts and blogs to cast a vote (or more) for our town. Meanwhile, a group of teens gathered in the library to stay up all night watching movies and vote, vote, vote! City councillors and staff also took time out during the day to vote during coffee breaks and lunch hour. Then, two City councillors, Jonathan Cote and Jaimie McEvoy, saw each other on Facebook that night and upped the ante, challenging each other to pull an all-nighter voting for the youth centre.
Jonathan Cote on Twitter at 3:46 a.m.: "I am going to pay for this tomorrow..."
"We were both getting tired and getting ready to call it quits, so I put out the challange on twitter," said Jonathan via email. "I thought with two kids under the age of three I would have the edge in staying up through the night."
The wager? A dinner out with both spouses. The winner would pick the restaurant – and the loser would pick up the tab.
"Jaimie and I would occasionally check on each other on Facebook to make sure we were still up."
All that time staring at the Kraft logo on the contest screen made both councillors crave Kraft Dinner. Jonathan said he made his around 2 a.m. and Jaimie around 3:30.
"Around 4:30, I thought I would rest my eyes a bit to get my second [wind]. Next thing I knew it, it was 7:30. As per the posts on Facebook, it looks like Jaimie made it to about 6:30. No word on which restuarant Alix and I will be taking Jaimie and Stacy to."
CategoriesCommunity, Family Life, New Westminster TagsJaimie McEvoy, Jonathan Cote, Kraft Celebration Tour, Moody Park, Vignettes, Youth Centre at Moody Park
11 Replies to "New West councillors pull all-nighter voting for youth centre in Kraft contest"
dearheart says:
That's so awesome! Way to go to Jaimie, Jonathan and the New West Youth Centre! Woot!
Susan Wandell says:
Does anyone know when and how the money will be allocated to the youth centre? Will the "Board" of the youth centre have control to purchase items it may want/need, like say a pool table, dart board, etc… or does it get paid to the City and the administrators distribute it at they see fit?
Jan Greenhow says:
Thank you for posting about the Youth Centre @ Moody Park's win of the Kraft Community Celebration and $25,000 prize. We couldn't be more thrilled! Before launching the fundraising campaign, our committee developed a list of items to be purchased and scoped out our fundraising goal of $200,000. The Kraft Community Celebration winnings will be added to the nearly $150,000 raised thus far to furnish and equip our new youth centre. A sample list furnishings and equipment list along with background information can be found on our campaign website at http://www.youthcentreatmoodypark.ca/index.html
100% of the monies raised from the YC@MP campaign will be applied towards furnishings, equipment and fundraising costsfor the new youth centre. The campaign has been going very well and the community support has been amazing. Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far and, if you'd like to contribute, please visit our website. Jan Greenhow, Youth Centre @ Moody Park Fundraising Committee Co-Chair
Thanks for the explanation Jan, I'm glad that the winnings are going directly to the "software" of the facility. Also happy to see that donations are tax deductible!
Interesting comments again by Mr. Cote indeed. I was also perplexed by his recent public letter to the record editor. The tax payers deserve the truth, the 17 million dollar grant will only if everything goes right cover 1/9 of the new peir park – not 1/3 as stated by the young councillor. It is nice to see that we won the $25,000 for our youth and our politicians worked overtime on it.
The city staff are not telling giving the young councillor all the information on the peir park, he should request it.
Briana Tomkinson says:
Lisa & Shawn: Please keep your comments on the subject of the post. And please show more respect to Jonathan. There's no need to disparage him as "the young councillor." New Westminster elected him to do the job, and as this story shows, he's putting his heart into it.
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Norman Wriglesworth says:
Whats the big deal with saying "young councilor" ?
I don't see the disrespect your claiming as an author.
I can think of many disparaging comments about Cote and McEvoy.
Calling one or the other "Young" isn't on my list.
And what is this article about anyways ? 25 grand from an American company that markets to CHILDREN low nutritional value foods.
Keeping the palate-less masses fed with processed cheese since 1915 ?
Or is this off topic aswell ?
Hi Norman,
Substitute another irrelevant aspect of appearance for young" and perhaps you'll see why I find it disrespectful. How about constantly referring to someone as the "fat" or "aged" councillor, for example. Or what if Betty McIntosh was constantly referred to as "the woman councillor." It implies that the adjective has some bearing on the person's job performance. Ageism bugs me.
As for Kraft, I'm somewhat with you there. But the story of the community rallying behind those kids was one I wanted to tell.
The dictionary is full of adjectives we can use as labels for people.
Blunt ones like "Fat" rather then "Obese" or "Aged" instead of "elderly" might conjure objection depending on the person, and even those subtler words might bring offense as well !
Perhaps the commentators should have used the term "inexperienced" ?
or would that have been to blunt ?
Ageism, Sexism, Nepotism, How many other Ism's are a part of the real-world we live in ?
Sure, I understand the idea of what was going on and support youth activities that encourage mental development. However typing on your computer till the break of dawn seems to be somewhat hollow victory.
I'm sure the children would be better served by time spent with them, rather then time spent in isolation, tweeting and farting for a monetary prize. And how about the loser, Nelson, what valuable lesson has that communities children learned about consumerISM.
The real prize you cherish is in the time spent having fun with friends while "young" and before you become "aged".
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The general organisers are Alexander Kasprzyk (Nottingham), Artie Prendergast-Smith (Loughborough), Frank Neumann (Leicester), and Paul Johnson (Sheffield).
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Francesca Carocci (Edinburgh)
The geometry of moduli spaces of stable maps to projective space and modular desingularisation via log blowups
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Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial)
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Liana Heuberger (Angers)
Constructing Fano varieties via mirror symmetry
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Birational models of terminal sextic double solids
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Vector-valued Siegel modular forms of degree 2 and weight (j,2)
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An introduction to higher categories
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4-5pm: Tyler Kelly (Birmingham); Room SCH1.01
Open Mirror Symmetry for Landau-Ginzburg Models
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Leicester, Bennett Building Lecture Theatre 5 (BEN LT5)
11am-12pm: Anna Barbieri (Sheffield)
Geometric structures on some spaces of stability conditions
The space Stab(Q) of (Bridgeland) stability conditions on a category associated with a quiver Q is a complex manifold, whose geometry is partly governed by the combinatorics of the quiver, and there are well-defined invariants counting semistable objects. In a joint work with J. Stoppa and T. Sutherland, we show that, in some nice cases, these data endow Stab(Q) with the structures of Frobenius and Frobenius-like manifold. I will discuss the main ingredients of this picture and the result for the quiver A_n.
2-3pm: Hipolito Treffinger (Leicester)
Giving an algebraic description of the support of scattering diagrams
Scattering diagrams were introduced by Kontsevich, Soibelman and Gross, Hacking, Keel and Kontsevich in order to tackle the phenomenon of mirror symmetry, resulting, at the same time, in proofs for several conjectures in the theory of cluster algebras. Later, Bridgeland defined scattering diagrams for quivers with potential and he showed that both notions of scattering diagrams coincide under some technical condition on the potential. In this talk, following Bridgeland's methods, we study the wall and chamber structure of an algebra using the \tau-tilting theory introduced by Adachi, Iyama and Reiten. In particular we show how \tau-rigid pairs induce stability conditions \theta, as defined by King, and we give an explicit description of the category of \theta-semistable modules. As a corollary we show how \tau-tilting pairs induce chambers in the wall and chamber structure of the algebra. This includes all reachable chambers. Time permitting, we will talk about c-vectors for every finite dimensional algebra and their categorical meaning.
3.30-4.30pm: Jon Woolf (Liverpool)
Stability conditions: phases and masses
Each triangulated category T has an associated complex manifold Stab(T) of stability conditions. In general Stab(T) is difficult to compute, and only a few examples are understood in detail. I will discuss how properties of the phase distribution of a stability condition in Stab(T) relate to the complexity of the category T. In the simplest case, roughly when all stability conditions in Stab(T) have discrete phase distributions, this can be used to show that Stab(T) is contractible. This is joint work with Yu Qiu. I will also outline an approach to partially compactifying Stab(T) by allowing the masses of objects to vanish. Conjecturally, one obtains a space stratified by components of Stab(T/N) for various thick subcategories N of T. This is joint work with Nathan Broomhead, David Pauksztello, and David Ploog.
4.30-5.30pm: David Pauksztello (Lancaster)
Silting theory and stability spaces
In this talk I will introduce the notion of silting objects and mutation of silting objects. I will then show how the combinatorics of silting mutation can give one information regarding the structure of the space of stability conditions. In particular, I will show how a certain discreteness of this mutation theory enables one to employ techniques of Qiu and Woolf to obtain the contractibility of the space of stability conditions for a class of mainstream algebraic examples, the so-called silting-discrete algebras. This talk will be a discussion of joint work with Nathan Broomhead, David Ploog, Manuel Saorin and Alexandra Zvonareva.
Nottingham, Physics C27
1.30-2.30pm: Karin Schaller (Tübingen)
Stringy Chern classes of toric varieties, lattice polytopes, and the number 24
We give a combinatorial interpretation of the stringy Libgober-Wood identity in terms of generalised stringy Hodge numbers and intersection products of stringy Chern classes for arbitrary projective Q-Gorenstein toric varieties. As a first application we derive a novel combinatorial identity relating reflexive polytopes of dimension d >= 4 to the number 24. Our second application is motivated by computations of stringy invariants of non-degenerated hypersurfaces in 3-dimensional algebraic tori whose minimal models are K3 surfaces, giving rise to a combinatorial identity for the Euler number 24. Using combinatorial interpretations of the stringy E-function and the stringy Libgober-Wood identity, we show with purely combinatorial methods that this identity holds for any 3-dimensional lattice polytope containing exactly one interior lattice point.
2.45-3.45pm: Elena Gal (Oxford)
Higher Hall algebras
We recall the notion of a Hall algebra associated to a category, and explain how this construction can be done in a way that naturally includes a higher algebra structure, motivated by work of Toen and Dyckerhoff-Kapranov. We will then explain how this leads to new insights about the bi-algebra structure and related concepts.
4-5pm: Rosemary Taylor (Warwick)
Constructions of Fano 3-folds using unprojections
The Graded Ring Database uses numerical data to create a list of the Fano 3-folds in weighted projective space which could exist. In codimensions 1, 2 and 3 we know those that exist. But what do we know of codimension 4? Unprojections provide a method for constructing explicit examples of these Fano varieties. This talk will provide an overview of the current research, beginning with an introduction to unprojections and concluding with recent progress in type II1 unprojections.
Loughborough, Schofield 1.01
1.30-2.30pm: Dylan Allegretti (Sheffield)
Meromorphic projective structures and framed local systems
A projective structure on an oriented surface S is an atlas of charts mapping open subsets of S into the Riemann sphere. There is a natural map from the space of projective structures to the PGL(2,C) character variety of S which sends a projective structure to its monodromy representation. In this talk, I will describe a meromorphic analog of this construction. I will introduce a moduli space parametrising projective structures with poles at a discrete set of points. I will explain how, in this setting, the object parametrising monodromy data is a type of cluster variety.
2.45-3.45pm: Emilie Dufresne (Nottingham)
Separating invariants and local cohomology
The study of separating invariants is a new trend in Invariant Theory and a return to its roots: invariants as a classification tool. For a finite group acting linearly on a vector space, a separating set is simply a set of invariants whose elements separate the orbits o the action. Such a set need not generate the ring of invariants. In this talk, we give lower bounds on the size of separating sets based on the geometry of the action. These results are obtained via the study of the local cohomology with support at an arrangement of linear subspaces naturally arising from the action. Joint with Jack Jeffries.
4-5pm: Anne Fahrner (Tübingen)
Smooth Mori dream spaces with small Picard number
In the case of toric varieties, it is well known that the projective spaces are the only smooth examples of Picard number one, Kleinschmidt gave a description of the smooth toric varieties having Picard number two and Batyrev studied the case of Picard number three. We extend these considerations in two directions: Firstly, we discuss (non-toric) rational varieties with a torus action of complexity one and secondly we look at intrinsic quadrics, i.e. varieties whose Cox ring is defined by a single homogeneous quadratic relation. In both cases we obtain explicit descriptions and, moreover, identify the Fano ones among the respective varieties.
12-1pm: Gavin Brown (Warwick); Michael Atiyah Building MA119 (First Floor)
Fanos in P2xP2 format
The classification of complex (projective) curves and surfaces is ancient (1850s, 1905, 1960s). In 3 dimensions we can say an enormous amount, but nothing like an explicit classification yet. The general shape of classification is familiar: just as with compact real orientable surfaces there are three broad classes: Fano 3-folds, Calabi-Yau 3-folds and 3-folds of general type (the analogues of positively curved spheres, flat tori and hyperbolic g-holed tori for g at least 2). Fano 3-folds can be embedded in weighted projective space (which is the quotient of usual projective space by a finite abelian group) in their total anticanonical embedding. We know the Hilbert series of all possible such embeddings (including, sadly, many that surely don't exist). In low codimension (<= 3 or 4ish) those involved in Miles Reid's graded rings program have found a few hundred deformation families of Fano 3-folds to realise all the Hilbert series in those cases. Sometimes more than one deformation family may realise a given Hilbert series. I will describe some families of Fano 3-folds whose equations look like those of the Segre embedding of P2xP2 (so lie in codimension 4) that seem to be new. I'd like to make this all very explicit: these varieties are the loci where general 3x3 matrices drop rank, and much of the birational geometry I would like to explain can be described in terms of hands-on linear algebra. (This is in progress, and joint with Al Kasprzyk and Imran Qureshi.)
2-3pm: Liana Heuberger (Imperial); Attenborough Seminar Block LR 001 (Ground Floor)
Del Pezzo surfaces with 1/3(1,1) singularities
I will talk about how and why we classify these surfaces, resulting in 29 Q-Gorenstein deformation families. We will discuss their biregular invariants and give a gentle introduction to the Minimal Model Program needed for the classification. To go more in depth with their description, we look at their model constructions (mostly) as complete intersections in toric varieties. This is joint work with Alessio Corti.
3.30-4.30pm: Benjamin Nill (Magdeburg); Attenborough Seminar Block LR 001 (Ground Floor)
On the maximal degree of toric Fano varieties with canonical singularities
Toric Fano varieties are among the most studied classes of toric varieties. This is due to their explicit description in terms of certain polytopes, called Fano polytopes, and the importance of Fano varieties in algebraic geometry. Here, a Fano polytope is a convex polytope with the origin in its interior where each vertex has coprime integer coordinates. By the toric dictionary, interesting invariants of toric Fano varieties (such as the anticanonical degree) have often a combinatorial description (such as the volume). In this talk, I will present joint work with Gabriele Balletti and Alexander Kasprzyk where we give a sharp upper bound on the anticanonical degree of toric Fano varieties with canonical singularities. I will describe the geometry of numbers in the proof, some related results, and some challenging questions that are still wide open.
Sheffield, Hicks Building, F24
1-2pm: Anna Felikson (Durham)
Geometric realisations of quiver mutations
A quiver is a weighted oriented graph, a mutation of a quiver is a simple combinatorial transformation arising in the theory of cluster algebras. In this talk we connect mutations of quivers to reflection groups acting on linear spaces and to groups generated by point symmetries in the hyperbolic plane. We show that any mutation class of rank 3 quivers admits a geometric presentation via such a group and that the properties of this presentation are controlled by the Markov constant p2+q2+r2-pqr, where p,q,r are the weights of the arrows in the quiver. This is a joint work with Pavel Tumarkin.
2.30-3.30pm: Ed Segal (Imperial)
Homological projective duality for Pfaffians
A Pfaffian variety is a space of anti-symmetric matrices with some fixed upper bound on the rank, and the projective dual of a Pfaffian variety is a another Pfaffian variety. Kuznetsov conjectured that these varieties should have non-commutative resolutions, with the derived categories of projectively-dual pairs satisfying a nice relationship called "homological projective duality". I will explain what all of the above means, and describe the construction of these non-commutative resolutions (which is due to Spenko and Van den Bergh) and a proof that they do indeed satisfy the duality. Our proof is motivated by a physical duality of non-abelian GLSMs, proposed by Hori. This is joint work with Jorgen Rennemo.
4-5pm: Clelia Pech (Kent)
Rational curves on some varieties with an action of an algebraic group
In this talk I will report on joint work in progress with R. Gonzales, N. Perrin and A. Samokhin on rational curves on a family of two-orbit varieties. One of the motivations is to study the quantum cohomology of these spaces, an associative and commutative deformation of their usual cohomology ring whose structure constants are given by counts of rational curves. Using a classification of these varieties by B. Pasquier we study their moduli spaces of rational curves and deduce a Chevalley-type formula for the quantum cup product by the hyperplane class. Some of the varieties we consider have particularly well-behaved moduli spaces of stable maps, and in these cases we obtain a more precise description of the quantum cohomology.
Warwick, Mathematics Institute
12-1pm: Joe Karmazyn (Bath); Room B3.01
Simultaneous resolutions and noncommutative algebras
Minimal resolutions of surface quotient singularities can be studied and understood via noncommutative algebra in a variety of ways packaged as the McKay correspondence. Assorted higher dimensional examples, such as flopping contractions of 3-folds, can be realised from simultaneous resolutions associated to surface quotient singularities. I will discuss how these simultaneous resolutions can also be understood via noncommutative algebras, and how certain examples can be easily calculated.
2-3pm: Elisa Postinghel (Loughborough); Room MS.04
Tropical compactifications, Mori dream spaces and Minkowski bases
Joint work in progress with Stefano Urbinati. Given a Mori Dream Space X, we construct via tropicalisation a model dominating all the small QQ-factorial modifications of X. Via this construction we recover a Minkowski basis for the Newton-Okounkov bodies of Cartier divisors on X and hence generators of the movable cone of X.
4-5pm: Robert Marsh (Leeds); Room B3.02
Twists of Plücker coordinates as Dimer partition functions
Joint work with Jeanne Scott. The homogeneous coordinate ring of the Grassmannian Gr(k,n) has a cluster algebra structure defined in terms of certain planar diagrams known as Postnikov diagrams. The cluster associated to such a diagram consists entirely of Plücker coordinates. We introduce a twist map on Gr(k,n), related to the twist of Berenstein-Fomin-Zelevinsky, and give an explicit Laurent expansion for the twist of an arbitrary Plücker coordinate in terms of a scaled matching polynomial. This matching polynomial arises from the bipartite graph dual to the Postnikov diagram of the initial cluster, modified by an appropriate boundary condition.
5.15-6.15pm: Thomas Prince (Imperial); Room B3.02
A symplectic approach to polytope mutation
Polytope mutation is a combinatorial operation which appeared in the study of the birational geometry of Landau-Ginzburg models mirror-dual to Fano manifolds. We give a mirror/symplectic account of this subject. This heavily utilizes the notion of an almost-toric Lagrangian fibration, due to Symington. This perspective elucidates the connection with cluster and quiver mutation (in the surface case) as well as the connection to toric degenerations via "algebraization" techniques due to Gross-Siebert.
Nottingham, Physics C5
1-2pm: Elana Kalashnikov (Imperial)
Some new Fano fourfolds
I will discuss some new Fano fourfolds found in quiver flag varieties as zero loci of sections of homogenous vector bundles. This is work with Tom Coates. The classification of Fano varieties up to deformation is known in dimensions 1, 2, and 3. The program of Coates, Corti, Galkin, Golyshev, Kasprzyk, and others seeks to use mirror symmetry to find and classify Fano varieties in dimension 4 (and more). Küchle classified 4 dimensional Fano varieties of this form in Grassmannians; quiver flag varieties are a generalisation of Grassmannians that include flag varieties as well. I will briefly discuss mirror symmetry for Fano varieties, then explore some of the combinatorial aspects of quiver flag varieties which make them a good testing ground for the conjectures and the search, and finally describe the 138 new Fano fourfolds we have found so far.
2.15-2.45pm: Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh)
Del Pezzo surfaces, ample line bundles on them and their alpha-invariants
This "pre-talk" is aimed at PhD students and non-experts.
3-4pm: Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh)
Stable and unstable polarized del Pezzo surfaces
Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture, recently proved by Chen, Donaldson and Sun, says that a Fano manifold is Kahler-Einstein if and only if it is K-stable. Its stronger form, still open, says that a polarized manifold (M,L) is K-stable if and only if M admits a constant scalar curvature with Kahler class in L. In my talks, I will describe K-stability of ample line bundles on smooth del Pezzo surfaces (two-dimensional Fano manifolds). I will show how to apply recent result of Dervan to prove K-stability and how to use flop-version of Ross and Thomas's obstruction to prove instability. This is joint work with Jesus Martinez-Garcia.
4.15-5.15pm: Jonny Evans (UCL)
Lagrangian cell complexes and Markov numbers
Joint work with Ivan Smith. In a degenerating family of complex projective varieties, with one singular member, there are cohomology classes ("vanishing cycles") in the smooth fibre which disappear in the singular fibre. These vanishing cycles are more than just cohomology classes: they're realised geometrically by Lagrangian subsets of the degenerating smooth variety. For example, the vanishing cycle of a nodal degeneration is a Lagrangian sphere. In this talk I will focus on the vanishing cycles of a class of surface singularities called Wahl singularities. Their vanishing cycles are cell complexes (we call them "pinwheels"). We deduce constraints on configurations of Wahl singularities in degenerations of CP^2 from nondisplaceability properties of the Lagrangian vanishing cycles. In particular, we give a symplectic topology explanation for the appearance of Markov numbers in this problem.
Loughborough, Schofield Building, Room 1.01
1-2pm: Alan Thompson (Warwick)
Constructing threefolds via K3 fibrations
Kodaira's and Tate's classification of elliptic surfaces is a powerful result with many applications. In brief, it states that an elliptic surface is essentially determined by two invariants: the functional invariant, which controls the behaviour away from a few special points, and the homological invariant, which determines the fibres appearing over the special points. An analogous result for threefolds fibred by K3 surfaces would be quite desirable but is, at least with current technology, completely intractable. However, if one simplifies the problem by restricting to certain classes of lattice polarised K3 surfaces, then there is much more that one can say; in particular, there are analogues of the functional and homological invariants, which play similar roles to their surface counterparts. I will present a series of results pertaining to the construction of threefolds fibred by lattice polarised K3 surfaces, and show how this may be used to study Calabi-Yau threefolds admitting K3 fibrations. This talk is on joint work with Charles Doran, Andrew Harder, and Andrey Novoseltsev.
2.30-3.30pm: Diletta Martinelli (Edinburgh)
On the number of minimal models of a smooth threefold of general type
Finding minimal models is the first step in the birational classification of smooth projective varieties. After it is established that a minimal model exists some natural questions arise such as: is it the minimal model unique? If not, how many are they? After recalling all the necessary notions of the Minimal Model Program, I will explain that varieties of general type admit a finite number of minimal models. I will talk about a recent joint project with Stefan Schreieder and Luca Tasin where we prove that in the case of threefolds this number is bounded by a constant depending only on the Betti numbers. I will also show that in some cases it is possible to compute this constant explicitly.
4-5pm: Miles Reid (Warwick)
The Tate-Oort group scheme of order p
The aim is mostly group schemes in mixed characteristic, but the methods are mostly Galois theory of cyclotomic fields.
The different faces of geometry, a workshop in honour of Fedor Bogomolov
A workshop dedicated to Fedor Bogomolov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Speakers are:
Ekaterina Amerik (HSE, Moscow)
Christian Böhning (Univ. Warwick)
Paolo Cascini (ICL)
Ivan Cheltsov(Univ. Edinburgh)
Ivan Fesenko(Univ. Nottingham)
Mikhail Kapranov (IPMU, Tokyo)
Ludmil Katzarkov (Univ. Wien)
Kobi Kremnitzer (Univ. Oxford)
Sergey Oblezin (Univ. Nottingham)
Tony Pantev (Univ. Pennsylvania)
Yuri Tschinkel (Courant Inst.)
Misha Verbitsky (HSE, Moscow)
Boris Zilber (Univ. Oxford)
Leicester, Michael Atiyah Building, First Floor, Room 119
12.30-1.30pm: Katrin Leschke (Leicester)
Quaternionic Holomorphic Geometry
In my talk, I will give a short introduction to Quaternionic Holomorphic Geometry: conformal maps into 3-space can be used used as an analogue for complex holomorphic functions. As an example of the theory I will discuss the Darboux transformation of minimal surfaces.
2.30-3.30pm: Marina Logares (Oxford)
Higgs bundles, Integrable systems, singularities and a Torelli theorem
We will introduce Higgs bundles over a punctured Riemann surface. The moduli space of such objects describes an integrable system that completely determines the Riemann surface together with the punctures. Hence, it provides a Torelli type theorem for such moduli spaces. This is joint work with I. Biswas and T. Gómez.
4-5pm: Gabriele Balletti (Stockholm)
Classifications of lattice polytopes and open questions in Ehrhart Theory
A lattice polytope P is the convex hull of finitely many points of a lattice (such as Z^d). Counting the lattice points of P leads to a discrete version of the volume of P. The Ehrhart Theory studies the relation between the discrete and the usual notion of volume of a polytope, but the most important problems in this area are still open already in dimension 3. In this talk I give an introduction to this theory and explain how classifications of lattice polytopes can suggest some behaviours in higher dimension.
Sheffield, Hicks Building J11
2-3pm: Diane Maclagan (Warwick)
Tropical ideals, varieties, and schemes
3.30-4.30pm: Hendrik Suess (Manchester)
Torus equivariant K-stability in complexity one
Loughborough, Schofield Building
1.30-2.30pm: Norbert Pintye (Loughborough)
Complexity in Light of the Castelnuovo--Mumford Regularity
3-4pm: Roberto Svaldi (Cambridge)
Hyperbolicity for log pairs
A classical result in birational geometry, Mori's Cone Theorem, implies that if the canonical bundle of a variety X is not nef then X contains rational curves. This is the starting point of the so-called Minimal Model Program. In particular, hyperbolic varieties are positive from the point of view of birational geometry. Very much in the same vein, one could ask what happens for a quasi projective variety, Y. Using resolution of singularity, then one is lead to consider pairs (X, D) of a variety and a divisor, such that Y=X \ D. I will show how to obtain a theorem analogous to Mori's Cone Theorem in this context. Instead of rational complete curves, algebraic copies of the complex plane will make their appearance. I will also discuss an ampleness criterion for hyperbolic pairs.
2-3pm: Paul Johnson (Sheffield)
Topology of Hilbert schemes and the Combinatorics of Partitions
The Hilbert scheme of n points on a complex surface is a smooth manifold of dimension 2n. Their topology has beautiful structure related to physics, representation theory, and combinatorics. For instance, Göttsche's formula gives a product formula for generating functions for their Betti numbers. Hilbert schemes of points on C^2/G, for G a finite group, are also smooth, and when G is abelian their topology is encoded in the combinatorics of partitions. When G is a subgroup of SL_2, the topology is well understood and in terms of cores and quotients of partitions. Following Gusein-Zade, Luengo and Melle-Hernández we study general abelian G, stating a conjectural product formula, and proving a homological stability result using a generalization of cores and quotients.
3.30-4.30pm: Cristina Manolache (Imperial)
Enumerative meaning of genus one Gromov-Witten invariants
Enumerative questions have a very long history in Mathematics and have been subject to a significant revival in the nineties with the construction of the moduli space of stable maps and the machinery allowing us to integrate on these very singular spaces. However, moduli spaces of stable maps have many "unwanted" components which are reflected in the intersection numbers. In this talk I will discuss the meaning of genus one Gromov-Witten invariants of three folds.
5-6pm: Lino Amorim (Oxford)
Derived Lagrangian correspondences
I will describe the construction of the Weinstein symplectic category of Lagrangian correspondences in the context of shifted symplectic geometry. I will explain how this follows from "quantizing" (-1)-shifted symplectic derived stacks: we assign a perverse sheaf to each (-1)-shifted symplectic derived stack (already done by Joyce and his collaborators) and a map of perverse sheaves to each (-1)-shifted Lagrangian correspondence (still conjectural).
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Getting to Nottingham
There are trams leaving from Nottingham train station (go upstairs) every 7 minutes. You want a tram in the direction of Toton Lane; get off at the University of Nottingham stop. You need to buy a ticket from the machine before you get on the tram. The trip takes about 15 minutes. People travelling from Loughborough might prefer to catch the train to Beeston train station and walk to the campus.
The Maths building is number 20 on the campus map. Talks are usually held in the Physics building, opposite the Maths building, number 22 on the map. The tram stop is the green circle on the map near the South Entrance. A nice place for lunch is the Lakeside Arts cafe (number 49 on the map, near the lake and tram stop).
Getting to Loughborough
Talks are typically held in the Schofield Building.
From the station, catch the Kinchbus Sprint to the university (every 10 minutes; £1.90 each way). Get off at "Computer Studies"; the Schofield Building is directly behind you. Alternatively, the university is 30-40 minutes from the station on foot.
Getting to Leicester
Talks are typically held in the Michael Atiyah Building.
Talks are held in the Hicks Building.


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