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Global Market Outlook
Why It's Time to Reconsider Your China Exposure
The size of the market and the magnitude of the opportunity require a dedicated China approach.
Elliot Hentov, Ph.D.
Head of Policy Research
In 2021, China's economic slowdown, zero-COVID strategy, and regulatory interventions led to many negative headlines. From an investment perspective, we think it's important to look beyond the headlines at the underlying trends at work in China. Our examination of those trends leads us to believe that Chinese assets remain appealing. At the same time, we think that the Chinese market has evolved to require a differentiated approach. Investors should consider positioning their China exposure on a standalone basis, with a preference for active strategies and an expectation that their China allocation's portfolio share will grow.
Macroeconomic Outlook
The macro rationale for China investment remains intact. While the country's growth trend is decelerating, its growth rate will remain far above that of developed markets and slightly above that of other emerging markets. Even if annual GDP growth were to slow to a persistent level of 4% to 5%, this would provide a lot of room for companies to grow their earnings at an attractive rate. Moreover, China's size means that its companies can take advantage of a larger home market - China's domestic economy is larger than the economies of all other emerging-market countries combined.
In addition, there are some distinct competitive dynamics at play in China. The country remains a large net creditor, and its unique political system means that it has built up a sizable capital base in the form of hard and soft infrastructure. This capital base should still deliver outsized productivity gains for a country at this income level.
While some of our macro arguments are debatable, our core investment thesis is not. China's equities market appears structurally undervalued. China's equities-market capitalization is stuck at 82% of GDP, far below that of any developed market. Figure 1 uses the Buffett Ratio1 to show the comparison. This relatively low ratio provides leverage for China, as we estimate that market-cap-to-GDP should reach 100% by 2025, driven by new stock issuance and the growth of the current market. In addition, cyclical markers also indicate excessive discounting, with China's current price-to-earnings ratio falling well below 20-year averages and global/developed-market benchmarks.
Figure 1: China's Equities Market Appears Structurally Undervalued, As Evidenced by Its Relatively Low Buffett Ratio
Buffett Ratio (Market Capitalization to GDP) of Select Equity Markets
Second, despite the size of the China market, global investors currently have relatively little exposure. The economy represents roughly one-sixth of the global economy, but Chinese equities represent only 4% of the MSCI ACWI (on a free float basis). All other EM countries make up about 8% of the MSCI ACWI.2 The bond side looks much the same, with foreign investors owning only 3.2% of the Chinese bond market. By comparison, bond markets in India, Brazil, and Russia have foreign investor participation rates in the double digits, and they represent the most closed markets among the G-20. All of these China figures reflect several years of net capital inflows, as well as inclusion in major indices.
Third, Chinese assets retain very low correlation to other markets and maintain excellent diversification features. The pandemic illustrated how much China follows its own economic cycle and its own policy priorities. Limited integration with global financial markets also helps to reduce correlation with other markets. And while China's equity correlation with other emerging markets has picked up in recent years (see Figure 2), it still remains below that of any other comparable correlation pair (its correlation with developed markets has remained low).
Figure 2: Chinese Assets Retain Very Low Correlation to Other Markets
10-Year Monthly Equity Correlations for Select Markets
Such diversification is particularly hard to achieve in today's investment landscape, and Figure 3 demonstrates that this gap is even more pronounced for Chinese bonds. Exhibiting the lowest correlation among major bond indexes, Chinese bonds clearly do not move with the global monetary cycle.
Figure 3: Chinese Bonds Clearly Do Not Move with the Global Monetary Cycle
Fixed Income Asset Correlations for Select Markets
Based on USD Unhedged Returns
Another strong argument in favor of Chinese bond allocations is that China has maintained a healthy yield premium over developed markets. Given the rebound in global growth, this premium is narrowing from its recent highs, but it is still likely to October 29, 2021. The combination of yield premium and modest volatility makes Chinese Treasury and Policy bonds outliers in terms of the risk/return ratio among most bond indices (see Figure 4). The question of exchange-rate risk remains, but here, too, policy objectives have clearly sought to maintain stability. The real effective exchange rate has remained within a 6% range for more than five years, the longest stretch since China's economic liberalization. China's policymakers have the unique ability to engineer exchange-rate stability and have telegraphed their intention to continue to do so.
Figure 4: Chinese Treasury and Policy Bonds Are Outliers in Terms of Risk/Return Ratio
Risk/Return of Major Bond Indices
Given China's idiosyncratic features compared with other emerging markets, the ongoing evolution of its growth story, and the unique risks involved, we believe that investors would be well-served to give particular, dedicated consideration to China investment. This may include a separate portfolio allocation to China, which would allow investors to tailor and adjust their China exposures to meet their particular return and risk objectives over time. By breaking out China from EM, investors may receive a more favorable return from owning the systematic risk, which is of course higher in a China-only exposure than in a more diversified EM exposure.
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A new era, a new villain. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens features a new villain with an impressive new look. Will this masked villain become as iconic as fan-favorite, Darth Vader? Officially licensed by Lucasfilm Ltd.


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module IB
  class Generator
    class RenderingHelper

      def initialize(build_platform, files)
        @build_platform = build_platform
        @files = files
      end

      def ib_version
        IB::VERSION
      end

      def ios_project?
        @build_platform == :ios
      end

      def osx_project?
        @build_platform == :osx
      end

      def framework_headers
        headers = ''
        if defined?(Motion::Project::App.config.frameworks)
          Motion::Project::App.config.frameworks.each do |framework|
            headers << "\#import <#{framework}/#{framework}.h>\n"
          end
        else
          headers << "#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>\n"
          headers << "#import <CoreData/CoreData.h>\n"
          if ios_project?
            headers << "#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>\n"
          elsif osx_project?
            headers << "#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>\n"
          end
        end
        headers
      end

    end
  end
end

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Q: Python skipping XML child nodes while parsing in BeautifulSoup I'm running into a problem where a certain group of child tags aren't parsing fully. I follow the same logic as this with other tags but for reasons I cannot see it's skipping all but the first entries of the tags I want. A basic snippet of my current script looks something like this:
for xml_string in separated_xml(infile):

   soup = BeautifulSoup(xml_string, "lxml")

        us_grant = soup.findAll("us-patent-grant")

        with open('./output.csv', 'ab+') as f:
            writer = csv.writer(f, dialect = 'excel')

            for info in us_grant:

              data = []
              us_class_search = soup.findAll("us-field-of-classification-search")

              for item2 in us_class_search:

                if item2.find("classification-national"):

                  country_search = item2.find("country")
                  main_class_search = item2.find("main-classification")

                  data.append((country_search).text)
                  data.append((main_class_search).text)
              print(data)

Once I print(data) after each iteration it only gives me the first entry of each country and main-classification tag under every us-patent-grant parent; but there are many more. For example the XML file with these tags looks like:
<us-field-of-classification-search>
<classification-national>
<country>US</country>
<main-classification>D 1100-130</main-classification>
<additional-info>unstructured</additional-info>
</classification-national>
<classification-national>
<country>US</country>
<main-classification>D 1199</main-classification>
</classification-national>
<classification-national>
<country>US</country>
<main-classification>426  5</main-classification>
</classification-national>
<classification-national>
<country>US</country>
<main-classification>426 76</main-classification>
</classification-national>
</us-field-of-classification-search>

I know that the if item2 statement does not follow through correctly because even if I take it out it still runs the for item2 loop the same way; finding and appending only the first tags under each. This means it must be the loop itself not running through and finding each instance and treating the first tag as all of them.
Any ideas? I don't see any obvious fault in logic.
If you'd like to see the XML itself you can find it here on USPTO

A: item2 is iterating over all <us-field-of-classification-search> elements, of which there is only one in your sample.
Within that loop you should then be iterating over <classification-national> elements, but you are examining only the first one.

A: Simple fix when introducing the for-loop:
for items in item2.findAll("classification-national")

Allowed me to hit every component inside the parent.

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Soju is the former stage name of Tony Hyunsoo Ha, a South Korean-American retired drag queen, singer and television/YouTube personality. Soju is best known for her online reviews of the reality show RuPaul's Drag Race, until being cast on the show's eleventh season.

Early life
Ha was born on May 12, 1991, in Seoul, South Korea. His family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa when he was ten years old, due to his father's military background. He came out as gay when he was 21 and his drag mother is Kahmora Hall. Ha's original drag name was Soju Love, but later shortened to just Soju, which is taken from the drink of the same name.

Career
Outside of drag, Ha is the owner of a taekwondo academy.

Soju was announced as one of fifteen contestants on the eleventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race on January 24, 2019. She was eliminated in the first episode after doing poorly in the sewing challenge and losing a lip sync to "The Best of Both Worlds" by Hannah Montana against Kahanna Montrese. A conversation between Soju and the judges about a cyst became a viral meme within the Drag Race fandom.

After season eleven, YouTuber Miles Jai became the co-host for the third season of Shot with Soju. Comedian Margaret Cho appeared in the first episode of the season in March 2019. Soju is one of the founders and performers of the touring LGBTQ+ K-Pop drag show Seoul Train Party. She appeared in the music video for Lizzo's song "Juice" on April 17, 2019.

Music
Soju released her first single "So Juicy" with a music video on January 11, 2018. Her second single, "K-Pop Idol Reject" featuring Edward Avila was released on November 6, 2018. In an interview with Billboard, Soju stated, "We want to bring more foreigners, we want to see queer people in K-pop. It's slowly changing - the industry is very conservative and very old school, so it will take a while for them to change. But it's happening."

Personal life
Soju lives in Chicago, as of 2017. On January 21, 2021, Soju was accused of sexual assault. On March 9, 2021, Soju announced that she had quit drag to focus on her mental health and that she wouldn't be returning.  In 2022 Soju returned to Instagram and has refused to address questions about these allegations.

Filmography

Television

Music videos

Web series

Discography

Singles

References

External links

 Soju on Discogs

1991 births
Living people
20th-century LGBT people
21st-century LGBT people
American gay musicians
American LGBT people of Asian descent
American LGBT singers
American people of Korean descent
Asian-American drag queens
Gay entertainers
LGBT people from Iowa
LGBT YouTubers
People from Chicago
People from Seoul
Soju
South Korean drag queens

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Christie Wants NY to Take Back 'Jersey Shore' Cast
Gov. Christie says 'Jersey Shore' does not represent the state
Published on February 15, 2011 at 2:56 pm
NBC 7 San Diego
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is still complaining about how his state is represented by MTV's "Jersey Shore."
Christie wants New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to "take back" the stars of the hit show, some of whom are from New York.
The show "parachutes out-of-control New Yorkers into Seaside Heights," Christie said at a town hall meeting on Tuesday.
Christie was apparently referring to Snooki, who is from Poughkeepsie and Mike "the Situation" Sorrentino, who is from Staten Island.
Last July, when asked about the show, Christie said he thought the show portrayed a negative image of the Garden State.
"Negative for New Jersey... It takes a bunch of New Yorkers, drops them on the Jersey Shore and makes them look like they came from (here)," Christie said.
Many Italian-American groups have also panned the show, deeming it offensive and reliant on crude stereotypes.
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a few weeks ago, we committed to improving it over time to make the Outlook experience on Apps as similar to the experience on Exchange as possible. We first focused on making mail, contacts, and calendar work really well, because those are the features that the more than one hundred companies who tested Apps Sync before launch asked for. Today we wanted to share a couple of updates on our progress in improving compatibility.
We worked closely with Microsoft to address two issues that we shared recently, and we appreciate their help. The Windows Desktop Search feature now works, so you can choose between the native Outlook search, which has been available since launch, and Windows Desktop Search to find information in Outlook. We've also worked with them to add support for accessing Windows Live Hotmail via the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector plug-in.
We also added an option to allow users to enable or disable autoarchive during installation, improved the two-way synchronization of notes in contacts, and improved our installation to make it more clear where data in other Outlook accounts is located. To access these additional features and fixes, current users are being updated automatically to the latest version, and it's available immediately to new users here. As always, you can find more detailed information about Apps Sync in our help center, and we're going to continue to add more advanced features in the coming months.
Since the release of this tool, many businesses have asked us for more information about switching from Microsoft Exchange, so we've pulled together a Google Apps resource site that centralizes information for businesses coming from an Exchange environment. It has information about Google Apps, answers to your due diligence questions, customer feedback from those who have switched before you, and more.
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When we announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook a few weeks ago, we committed to improving it over time to make the Outlook experience on Apps as similar to the experience on Exchange as possible. We first focused on making mail, contacts, and calendar work really well, because those are the features that the more than one hundred companies who tested Apps Sync before launch asked for. Today we wanted to share a couple of updates on our progress in improving compatibility.
Thanks for the good (and fast) work!
Any chance that the plugin could support sending from the same email address you have setup as the default Send Mail As: on the web interface?
Each of our users gets a first.last@ourschool.edu alias setup so that they can have something easier to remember for business cards. Many would like to be able to send as that address without editing the "From:" field for every email.
This sync application has brought our company very close to converting entirely to Google Apps Premier. The one major complaint that remains is the problem with Outlook invitations received from outside the domain. When these invitations arrive in Outlook, the option to accept is shown in the email, but when clicked will not create an addition to either the Outlook or the Google Calendar.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make Gmail Sync for Outlook honor the default "Send mail as" setting that users specify in the web interface Account Settings profile.
For those of us who have email addresses in the format "First.Last@domain.edu", this would be a great feature. Currently, Sync for Outlook only send messages using the username@domain.edu account, where username is the logon name, which in our case is in much different format.
For us to transition hundreds of emails from exchange to gmail, we must be able maintain the email addresses we have had for many years.
Thanks for your work on this tool.
There is a problem with syncing 1-way Outlook-to-Google.
Somehow a random assortment of events are selected and synchronized but never all of the events.
There's a long discussion on this in the help forum.
One of the largest headaches for us is team scheduling. Some of us use Outlook primarily and some use the GApps web interface (or smartphones). It would be nice to be able to use the Outlook calendar interface to view team events via the public folder, or to view shared calendars.
I use gmail google apps since a few days, with outlook interface.
when mails i sent mails from this account in outlook or just copy some mails from this IMAP account in the google apps MAPI folders of outlook, they donot appear in gmail.
How can I setup my Microsoft Outlook to send and receive e-mail messages from Gmail?
There are a few updates expected with the Outlook Sync tool (ie. marking messages in Outlook as replied, when sending message from BlackBerry gmail app).
Is there an RSS feed or website that I can track, so we can track the latest updates to the Outlook Sync Tool?
Is it possible to sync more than one outlook profile into one google apps account?
Google sync tool is not recognizing Outlook 2007 anymore. Ths started happening 2/1/10. I've been using it for a few months with no problems but now this. Help!
I am not receiving email messages from one of my customers who now uses Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. My email address uses the first.last@domain.com format. In reading some of the information above, is this why I am not receiving their messages?
WinPST Share Outlook allows your organization to share Microsoft Outlook Calendars, Mails, Contacts, Tasks, Journals and Notes amongst its staff without Microsoft Exchange Server. In addition to sharing users' personal folders with other members of staff, it is possible, using WinPST Share Outlook, to define public shared folders, for example, shared contacts and holiday calendars, which may be made available to any members of staff.


Bethel Assembly Church in Fosston, MN | A church that loves God and loves people.
We are a small but vibrant full-gospel church, located in Fosston, Minnesota. Learn about our ministry by browsing our website and make sure to join us for Sunday morning worship!
We value children and offer several ministries to help them reach their full potential, including nursery, First Look (pre-K), US 252 (K-6), and Rangers (k-6).
Being a teen today isn't easy. Our teen ministry helps young people build Bible-based values and prepares them to stand strong in the world.
Sunday mornings we gather to worship together, pray, and study the word. Special events throughout the year provide opportunity for a deeper connection.
Bethel Assembly has always had a heart for missions. The church supports both foreign and local missions, helping to fulfill the great commission.
Life groups are smaller groups that gather in homes twice each month. Life Groups are a great way to get to know others and share the joys and burdens of life.
We are an active church! We host numerous events and gatherings throughout the year. Check our calendar to see what's going on now and in the months ahead.
There are many opportunities to get involved at Bethel Assembly! Please contact us to learn about volunteer opportunities that might be a fit for you.
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Last year, around this time, I was eagerly anticipating the turn of the calendar page from 2015 to 2016. It had been an extremely difficult year, a year when I was beginning to feel like God was raining the 21st century plagues of Egypt on us until we finally relented and we were crying out for mercy.
I thought that turning the page to a new year would somehow be magical. It would make all things new. I had hope in the power of the calendar. Last Christmas, I settled into a romantic meditation on the Blessed Mother and the Baby and all the hope the Christmas story offered. In that moment, I was a Christmas Person, clinging tight to the thrill of hope.
Or maybe it was actually just the faintest glimmer of optimism left at the end of a very bad year.
The new year came. I was sick, sicker than I'd been in two decades. For three months, I could not draw a breath without whooping, could not speak above a whisper. I was so sick.
My son and his wife and their darling baby girl moved across the country. Every appliance that hadn't broken in the previous year, broke in the beginning of the new year. My mother-in-law died. My friend Mike died. My father's health deteriorated. One of my children faced heretofore unimaginable challenges.
It was not the year I'd hoped it would be.
What of the Baby and the Blessed Mother?
Jesus' parents were amazed at what was being said about Him. Then Simeon blessed them, and he said to Mary, the Baby's mother, "This Child is destined to cause many in Israel to fall, but He will be a joy to many others. He has been sent as a sign from God, but many will oppose Him. As a result, the deepest thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your very heart and soul" (Lk 2:33-35).
Oh. With this blessed motherhood, with this acceptance of the vocation of Christian womanhood, comes a sword to pierce my very heart and soul. I'd always skipped that part. Now I was living it. I'd bought into the joy idea and thought it could come without the pain. I was a Christmas person through and through, but an Easter person, especially the Easter person who suffers and dies just before the resurrection? Not so much. The idea of an extended period of suffering in a fallen world was sort of novel, even though it should have come as no surprise.
As this year closes out, a day rarely passes when someone doesn't comment on how terrible 2016 has been. If nothing else, for all its awfulness, we seem to have the comfort that comes with suffering together. I silently shake my head as people share how eager they are to turn the calendar page. It doesn't work that way, my friends. Optimism is very nice.
But hope is of God.
Hope says life is going to get hard, sometimes very hard, but that's not the end of the story. Our hearts will be burdened with heaviness we cannot even fathom, but He comes. He comes humbly into the stench of it all so that we don't have to walk the hard journeys alone. He knows. He knows the pain of the sword that pierces us. And He feels it, too. He is the compassionate Savior who speaks peace into our troubled nights. We can turn the calendar page not with optimism, but with genuine hope in the God who saves. This year, next year, this burden or the next one: we are not alone.


Transparency Market Research has published a new research report to discuss the future of the global smart surfaces market. The research report, titled "Smart Surfaces Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2015 - 2021," presents an objective assessment of the suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers operating in the market. The report states that the global smart surfaces market was valued at US$0.4 bn in 2014. Researchers are anticipating that by 2021, this market will reach a valuation of US$20.5 bn, surging at a CAGR of 66.4% between 2015 and 2021.
Surfaces manufactured through nanotexturing are called as smart surfaces. The name is derived from the unique capabilities of these surfaces to react smartly to various exposures. For instance, the surfaces are best known to be repellent to water, ice, oil, and certain microorganisms. The anti-icing, superamphiphobic, and antifouling characteristics of these materials make them inherently self-cleaning, thereby making them a popular option in several applications. The biggest driving force behind the real success of global smart surfaces market is the growing demand for surfaces that are self-cleaning in nature.
The global smart surfaces market is segmented on the basis of application, material, and geography. The applications of smart surfaces are seen in areas such as energy, construction, transportation, electronics, medical and healthcare, and others. The medical and healthcare segment is further divided into drug delivery surfaces and antimicrobial smart surfaces. In terms of material, the global market is segmented into self-healing materials, self-assembling materials, and self-cleaning materials. Geographically, this market is segmented into Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the World.
The transportation segment has played a pivotal role in the growth of the global smart surfaces market as it has been showing a huge demand for surfaces that do not collect dust, are easier to clean, remain scratch-resistant, and water-resistant. This trend has also percolated to the self-cleaning materials, making it the leading material segment in the overall smart surfaces market. However, analysts predict that self-assembling materials segment will show the fastest growth rate between 2015 and 2021.
Presently, North America holds the biggest share in the global smart surfaces market. However, analysts predict that the dynamics of regional leadership are poised to change as industrialization gears up in Asia Pacific. Following this trend, the Asia Pacific smart surfaces market will lead the global market by 2021. The burgeoning automobile hubs of India and South Korea are likely to drive the growth of the smart surfaces market of Asia Pacific.
The chief operating players in the global smart surfaces market are Gentex Corporation, P2i Ltd., 3M Company, Inc., SLIPS Technology, Nanotrons Corporation, Clariant, The Dow Chemical Company, HzO, nanoShell Ltd., and Debiotech S.A. The research report includes a thorough profiling of these companies and explains the nature of competition defining the global smart surfaces market. Furthermore, the report also offers an assessment of the financial overview, management styles, research and development activities, and expansion plans of these companies in the global smart surfaces market for the coming few years.


The higher education bill falls well short of the money the University of Minnesota and the State Colleges and Universities System wanted.
In the bill, the U of M is awarded an additional $147 millions over the next two years. The U of M would get another $27 million in one-time money. Much of that goes to fund a partnership with the Mayo Clinic. MnSCU secures $142 million for the biennium along with $8 million in one-time funds.
The bill provides incentives to keep tuition hikes at the University of Minnesota to less than 3 percent a year. Legislators also urged MnSCU officials to hold tuition increases down. MnSCU Trustees have promised to keep any rise in tuition below a four percent average. If they stick to it, that would be the lowest increase in 10 years.
Senate Higher Education Budget Division Committee Chair Sandy Pappas says the spending plan focuses more on what the college systems are already doing, rather than new projects.
"The next priority needs to be holding down tuition," she said. "Although they had a lot of new and exciting initiatives... holding down tuition increases is a higher priority and they should fund those other things through reallocation or increased productivity."
Pappas says the higher education budget, which does not rely on tax increases, underfunds higher education.
One thing absent from the bill is a provision to allow children of illegal immigrants living in Minnesota to pay in-state tuition when they go on beyond high school. The House and Senate both passed the Minnesota Dream Act language. Pappas says the DFL-controlled committees bowed to the governor's opposition.
"We agreed to drop it in order to avoid the governor's veto. This is the third time he's threatened to veto the bill because of the Dream Act. We feel very sad for students. We hope to help them on an individual campus basis," she said.
The budget all but abandons Gov. Pawlenty's ACHIEVE Two plan to allow more high performing students to take college-credit courses while still in high school. Instead the conference committee gave a $4 million boost for existing advanced high school programs.
House Higher Education Finance Committee Chair Tom Rukavina says there's no room to add on the governor's program.
"For us to do the things we want to do, especially address tuition, to all of a sudden address a brand new program, we just can't do it," Rukavina said.
The committee's version also strips out Pawlenty's idea of performance pay for talented instructors.
Pawlenty called removing the Dream Act provision "progress," but was still holding out for word on key details of the plan before committing to signing it.
"There's still a lot of provisions up in the air in that bill including our ACHIEVE proposal, including the House's provision on tuition caps and many other things so it would be way premature to comment on the higher ed bill," he said.
The higher education bill is $71 million short of the total amount of operating money requested by the U of M and MnSCU. But it's overall spending is $102 million more than the governor proposed.


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Explainer: How serious is the US-UK ambassador row?
Some fear the diplomatic dispute over criticism of Trump could spiral out of control
Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 11:51
James Blitz, Sebastian Payne, Demetri Sevastopulo
The UK's ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch: It is unclear precisely what Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be the next prime minister, will do. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Britain and the US have been plunged into a full-scale diplomatic dispute, centred on Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to Washington.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump used Twitter to denounce Darroch as a "very stupid guy", while Theresa May told her cabinet that her ambassador was a "highly respected" civil servant.
Why has Britain's ambassador incurred Trump's wrath?
The spat stems from the leak of confidential diplomatic telegrams written by Darroch to senior ministers over the past two years.
In the telegrams, obtained by the Mail on Sunday, Darroch described the Trump administration as "dysfunctional", "faction riven" and "inept".
Trump came close to declaring Darroch persona non grata on Monday by saying he would "no longer deal" with the UK ambassador.
Is May standing by her ambassador?
May, who will step down as prime minister later this month, has given Darroch her "full support", according to a Downing Street spokesperson.
"The PM is playing it as robustly as necessary right now, which is to stand by her man," said Robin Niblett, director of Chatham House, a think-tank. "In her final days at Number 10, May has effectively thrown herself up as a heat shield for the next administration."
However, some MPs noted May has said nothing publicly in defence of Darroch, and a Downing Street spokesperson said on Sunday she disagreed with her ambassador's critical judgments on the president outlined in the leaked telegrams.
"I don't think May disagreeing with what was in the telegrams was very helpful to Kim," said a former Whitehall official.
Darroch's withdrawal from a meeting on Tuesday between Liam Fox, UK trade secretary, and Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a White House adviser, is also likely to go down badly in parts of the UK civil service.
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"The UK shouldn't give the impression it is taking orders from the White House on when our ambassador can accompany ministers and when he can't," said the former Whitehall official.
If Boris Johnson succeeds May, will he stand by Darroch?
It is unclear precisely what Johnson, the frontrunner to be the next prime minister, will do, particularly given Darroch's ambassadorial term is due to finish at the end of the year.
Even before the current row broke out, there were strong indications from Johnson's campaign team that he would move Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, to Washington to replace Darroch at some point in 2020.
"It's very difficult to imagine Kim in his post after January," said one Whitehall official. "There was some talk he would stay on but that has ceased."
There is speculation at Westminster that Johnson could appoint a political figure to the Washington embassy as ambassador. But allies of Johnson vehemently reject the idea he would choose Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, even though he is a friend of Trump.
In Tuesday night's head-to-head leadership debate, Jeremy Hunt criticised Trump and promised to leave Darroch in his post until he is due to retire early next year, adding that no other country could determine who Britain sends as its ambassador.
"If I am the next prime minister, the ambassador in the United States stays because it is our decision," he said.
Johnson refused to offer that commitment, trumpeting instead his friendly relations with the US president.
Will the US administration refuse to deal with Darroch in any way?
The White House followed through on Trump's tweet that he would not deal with Darroch by withdrawing an invitation to the UK ambassador to attend a dinner that US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin hosted for the Emir of Qatar on Monday evening.
One person briefed on the matter said Mnuchin's decision was in the best interests of the UK since Darroch would have found himself in the same room as Trump.
US officials said the brouhaha would dissipate once another big story started to dominate the headlines.
Several noted that Washington has had its own version of such embarrassments, with the WikiLeaks dump of US diplomatic cables almost a decade ago.
However, Tom Wright, a foreign relations expert at the Brookings Institution, said if Trump enforced the tweet it would "effectively PNG" Darroch. "He is not deported but he cannot do his job."
Another former Whitehall official said: "[The White House] could try and shut Kim out but it's tricky. We're a friendly nation and there are large reaches of the US that are not under White House control, such as Congress, business, mayors, think tanks and so on. But the White House can shut out central parts of the administration and, if that happens, London would have to think about whether it's feasible to keep Kim there."
What impact will this spat have on UK-US relations?
While the UK and the US generally have a close relationship, the dispute comes amid tension between the two countries because Britain is proposing to allow Huawei, a Chinese telecoms equipment maker, to supply parts of a next generation mobile phone network in spite of Washington concerns it could be used for spying by Beijing.
The row could also complicate efforts by the UK to forge a free-trade agreement with the US after Brexit.
While May has had a fraught relationship with Trump, the president gets on with Johnson, and the favourite to be the next prime minister has the opportunity to reset relations.
Some former officials play down the likely impact of the dispute. "I don't think the disagreement will have a huge effect in the long run," said Peter Ricketts, a former head of the UK Foreign Office. "The history of these sorts of things . . . is that although there is short-term irritation, the bilateral relationship is defined by long-term priorities. Ultimately, what happens on trade policy, Russia, Iran and climate change will shape the relationship far more."
But other former officials fear the row could spiral out of control. Tom Fletcher, the UK's former ambassador to Lebanon, said: "The hope was that this could be contained. But president Trump's bizarre tweets have clearly escalated. It is now bigger than an unfortunate leak." – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2019
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ADUNAGOW Magazine celebrates all women around the globe today as part of the 2014 International Women's Day. International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
On Friday, 11th January 2019, at Holiday Inn Hotel (Accra), the organizers of the AGAFEST announced the nominees for its maiden edition. The festival, which has four participants Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, will take place on 8th March of this year at the Fantasy Dome Trade Fair in Accra, Ghana.
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is underway in Sochi, Russia. it will be running until the 23 February 2014. The event (including the 2014 Winter Paralympics) is being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC). Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007. The Sochi Olympics will be the first Olympics in the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR in 1991.
Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On this day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the nonprofit organization LE HESED in collaboration with a couple of local organizations hosted an impressive event with Reverend Jesse Jackson as the guest speaker.
The Count Down continues for the 2011 Miss Africa USA Pageant, a pageant like no other in the United States of America, celebrating African beauty. Miss Africa USA Pageant empowers young African girls as Goodwill Ambassadors and prepares them for leadership roles. African women are beautiful, bold, ambitious and very savvy but most of all they are intelligent.
Leila Lopes from Angola is crowned Miss Universe!
Born in Benguela, Angola, to parents of Cape Verdean background, Lopes is a business management student in Great Britain, where she was crowned Miss Angola UK on October 8, 2010, the official representative of the Angolan community in the United Kingdom to the 2011 Miss Angola pageant.
In the United States, Mother's Day is an annual holiday celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day recognizes mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general, as well the positive contributions that they make to society.Although many Mother's Day celebrations world-wide have quite different origins and traditions, most have now been influenced by the American traditions.
Clayton County Cultural Celebration 2011!
Saturday April 16, 2011 • 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Miss Africa USA Scholarship Pageant.
The mission of the supported non-profits is to help provide services throughout the Clayton County Community. Last year we had over 1,800 guests and performers. All proceeds will go towards community based projects and events.
Tickets are scheduled to go on sale March 18th and may be purchased from the non-profits listed.
African Women's Development Foundation Inc and Hope Floats Initiative invite you to the 3rd Cameroon Medical Missions Luncheon and Mini Conference coming up April 16th in Maryland. Please kindly RSVP by return email or Phone call. Join us and network with a great team of Professionals, business men and women, Community leaders and very dynamic movers and shakers.
Time to get your wallet out: only two more weeks before Christmas. It's that time of the year again, when miracle happens: mean people become somehow friendly, crazy drivers become tolerant of others, people actually smile at you without reasons, and somehow we all truly believe that we have unlimited cash on our bank accounts to buy everyone a gift in this world.
The Pan-African Cultural Festival is brought to you by Ark Jammers Connection and ACCDF, Inc (All Cameroonian Cultural and Development Foundation Inc), in Partnership with Listar Love Inc, the Montgomery County African Affairs Advisory Group and diaspora groups from Mali, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Gabon, Cote D'Ivoire, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Mauritania, Rwanda, Chad, Madagascar and African Embassies.


I can recommend the whole book, in which she manages to captures that remarkable period of time.
her somewhat dysfunctional parents may well remind us of our own, albeit perhaps not so famous.
For myself I can say that I would not even have been at the school at all, if it not been for my own parents' being, shall we say, rather unorthodox.
Perhaps if Anjelica visits this site she might like to tell us more about her life, during her Town & Country years?


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Games Makers At The Fore Of Science Education Push
Owen Good
Filed to:Education
If you're asking industry heavyweights to make a video to fire up kids about math and science, it's probably no surprise that the video game maker is the one getting the most views.
There's nothing on the line in this informal competition - maybe bragging rights. But Activision Blizzard's three minute spot for Change the Equation, a White House educational initiative, shows the games industry's reach and its value as a voice to which younger generations will listen. It's more than good PR for Activision or its Albany, N.Y.-based studio, Vicarious Visions, whose developers star in the video. It shows public policymakers that games makers are as interested in the future of the country as an major industry, and know they have a special responsibility given their status with younger Americans.
"Totally, that responsibility has always been there," Karthik Bala, who cofounded Vicarious Visions with his brother, Guha, when they were 14 and 15, respectively. "We were a bunch of geeks then, and proud of it. We feel a huge responsibility to encourage kids to like science and math, to get into it, and to do some really cool things with it."
And what's cooler than video games? Bala asked rhetorically. Change the Equation focuses on science, technology, engineering and math; video games offer the application of those disciplines for artistic purposes. Games themselves, Bala added, can also be a unique teaching tool.
"In video games, you go through learning and practicing and mastering, from beating a level to beating a game, that's the process you go through," he said. "It's an incredibly powerful teaching tool, one that's not really used all that much. There are a lot of positive things that can happen, coming from video games."
Change The Equation, begun by the Obama administration last year, has 100 member companies signed on to help promote its agenda of improving science education across all grade levels, deepening enthusiasm for it among students and rallying support from the business community. Activision/Blizzard isn't the only games company in the partnership; Epic Games is a member as well, and so is Microsoft.
Vicarious Visions has been reaching out to schools before this, too. Bala says his developers have visited Albany-area schools in the past, knowing that telling kids about their jobs making video games grabs their attention for other lessons about science. "When you're talking to fourth or fifth graders, they'll tell you what games they like, and, you know, what games suck," Bala said. "They say 'This racer's bad, because it's not realistic.' And you ask, 'How do you know that? You haven't even driven a car.'
"But you continue the conversation, and they learn that the physics modeling is what makes it realistic, and then the light bulb starts going off," Bala said. "Because they've never thought about it in a way that takes something in the abstract and makes it concrete."
[If you want to vote for Activision Blizzard's video, you may do so by clicking like either on its YouTube page, or Change the Equation's Facebook page]


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De Profundis (Oscar Wilde)
 De profundis (Pärt), een compositie door Arvo Pärt
 Psalm 130, ook bekend als De profundis

Hei is Latijn voor "uit de diepte".


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Iran's Terror Plot… Color Me Skeptical
by Reid Smith
A little while back, I composed a list of the ten greatest "state-actor" threats to American security interests, both at home and abroad. I ranked Iran #2, given their reckless bellicosity, nuclear ambitions and willingness to fight America by proxy.
Conspicuously absent from my security metric was the Islamic Republic's most diabolical catspaw: A 56-year old, naturalized Iranian-American divorcee who sells used cars for a living in Corpus Christi, TX.
If in fact Manssor Arbabsiar was involved in a high-stakes plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador by blowing up Café Milano, it's probably because he was dead broke and could use the money. Described by friends and neighbors as untrustworthy and disorganized, this international man of mystery was apparently involved in several used car lots, and a failing fast-food outlet at a local strip mall. Most of his properties were up for hock, or recently sold. A criminal mastermind, he ain't. Court records reveal a 2001 arrest for theft regarding some business deal gone sour.
Of course, charges were later dropped, so maybe I'm not giving him enough credit.
All this sounds considerably less diabolical than White House claims that "an Iranian American, operating in Texas and acting at the behest of the elite al-Quds Force, attempted to co-opt a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate Saudi Arabia's senior diplomat… before bombing the Israeli embassy in the nation's capital." Pretty scary, huh?
While the latter makes for good press, the former sounds utterly half-baked. Given Arbabsiar's curriculum vitae, I'd have guessed he was shooting his mouth off to Mexican drug-runners and DEA informants because he heard ATF and Eric Holder were giving away free guns and ammo, and figured he could turn a tidy profit.
If the best Iran can muster is a used-car salesman who couldn't shut up about his connections to the Iranian military, I ranked them way too high on my list of prospective threats.
Beyond that, the mission doesn't fit Iran's M.O.
Despite thirty-two years of rabid anti-Americanism and "Great Satan" chants, the Supreme Leader has never ordered a hit on U.S. soil. In the past, when understudies have been employed, they've been seasoned task-men, operating within the ranks of allied organizations such as Hizbullah or the Muslim-Bosnian government.
Let's put it this way: I'd be shocked to learn the Iranians decided to staff up at amateur hour to conduct a high-profile attack against their three most significant enemies.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stated that "senior levels of the al-Quds Force were engaged in the plotting." Attorney General Holder stressed that high level officials in the Iranian government "were responsible for this plot." Fair enough. But I'm going to side with President Bush's leading expert on Iran, Hilary Mann Leverett, who has explained that "What we've seen unfold makes no sense in terms of Iran's national security strategy." If Iran wanted to hit Israel or the Saudis, there seems little reason to take the fight to the District of Columbia. Plus, a plot like this smacks of desperation. Iran is already a regional power broker and a would-be member of Club Nuke. Leave this sort of nonsense to Yemen or Sudan.
With little to gain, and too much to lose, why ruffle any additional feathers by attempting the most dramatic assassination in recent memory, while simultaneously enraging your nuclear bête noire in Israel? None of this makes any sense.
Which begs the question… if Arbabsiar wasn't a legitimate proxy, why cast him as one? Well, for the past two days, every news outlet in America, Europe and the Middle East has run spectacular headlines focused on the stunning allegations and wild speculation about the U.S. response.
I suppose the fact that these accusations against Iran broke on the same day Senate Democrats joined their Republican counterparts to quash President Obama's jobs bill (after weeks of Barry's barnstorming) could just be a coincidence… not to mention Eric Holder's appearance today before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to explain the sale of thousands of firearms to known and suspected straw buyers for the big, bad cartels in Mexico.
Some might suggest that these two black eyes for the Obama administration are clearly related to a spotty charge of proxy terror brought against a 56-year-old fall guy. I guess much like the Iranian terror plot, my cynicism doesn't mean it isn't true.


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Q: How can I get context dependent syntax coloring for the same keyword in Vim? I am creating a vim syntax file for a niche language that has no syntax file yet. The language has the following syntax when setting up a simple function.
foo(parameter)
    if parameter then
       print("yes")
    else
       print("no")
    end
 end

I want the end that is paired with the if to have the syntax coloring for conditionals and the "end" paired with the function declaration to have function syntax coloring. How do I achieve this? I currently have end set as a keyword. This ensures that it is colored, but it matches the color of the if only, never the function name.
Thanks for any help.

A: You'll need to define some syntax regions, starting with the if and ending with the end and another one starting with the function declaration and ending with the end.  You can use the 'contains'/'containedin' options to allow nesting of regions etc.  This is far from trivial, but there are lots of useful guides in :help syn-region among others.  Read the whole help file thoroughly and experiment.  To get you started, you could try something like this:
syn keyword MyLanguageElse else containedin=MyLanguageIfBlock

syn region MyLanguageIfBlock matchgroup=MyLanguageIf start="^\s*if\>" end="^\s*end\>" containedin=MyLanguageFuncBlock contains=MyLanguageIfBlock
syn region MyLanguageFuncBlock matchgroup=MyLanguageFunc start="^\s*\k*\ze(" end="^\s*end\>"

hi link MyLanguageIf Keyword
hi link MyLanguageElse Keyword
hi link MyLanguageFunc Comment

Good luck!


Writing, like music, painting and sculpture is a form of write. For the most part great writers like Orlando Figes are born with a skill and knack for the art. But like every great painter or musician, having great skill alone is not nearly enough to become great. You need a range of skills that you master in order to let your natural talent shine.
But good writing is not only for those who want to become professionals, Good writing can help you get a good job, or move up in the one you have. It can help you with a school paper or when you want to tell someone how you feel about them. So having good writing skills is something that is a great benefit in life. How do you become a good writer? We there is a list of things that follow that can help you to improve greatly and become a writer whose papers everyone wants to read.
Good writers pull from a large pool of words that they have at the ready when they write. So as a good writer you need to have a wide vocabulary always at your disposal. Getting a bigger vocabulary is simple but lots of work. The first thing to do is to buy a dictionary. Many people spend hours studying a dictionary to learn new words, but this rarely works because you learn best by using something in context. A better idea is to read books that use lots of different words and keep the dictionary handy. When you come across a word you do not know, look it up. Soon that word will become part of your vocabulary and you will find yourself using it in your speech and your writing. The goals should be to add a steady number of new words. Focus on a few each week and soon your vocabulary will be broad and deep.
A framework is an outline of the story you want to write. You create this first, thereby creating for yourself an outline that can help you organize your thoughts before you begin to write. Your framework should be very simple, and function as a walkthrough of the writing, that your are about to undertake. This will guide you through the process and help you when you get stuck.
In addition to a dictionary, you should also keep a thesaurus, books about writing and other writing related resources handy. These tools that can be found in your local library or purchased at a book store, can increase the quality of your writing. Also locate online sites with writing tools, and even consider asking people that you know who are good writers to mentor you.
The key is to understand that like anything else worthwhile, becoming a good writer takes time focus and commitment. It will not happen overnight, but if you stick to it soon your work will be amazing.


in brown enigmatic hands do I hold my cards.
Days follow days, similar and multi-coloured.
what do they know of the burning cards?
What do they know of the living images?
What do they know about each card being a fate?
Nobody knows that these hands seek something.
Nobody knows that these hands were sent out long ago.
and yet only touch everything in a dream.
There is only one such pair of hands in the world.
in defiance and melancholy, strong, adorned by rings.
These brown eyes stare in endless longing.
these worriless hands must do their deed in the sinister flame-coloured night.


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L'université de Bourgogne (uB) est une université française située à Dijon (Côte-d'Or) fondée en 1722. Elle possède également des antennes à Auxerre, Chalon-sur-Saône, Le Creusot, Mâcon et Nevers . Elle offre un large éventail de formation dans toutes les disciplines (hors odontologie : droit, économie, gestion, lettres, philosophie, langues, médecine, pharmacie, sciences humaines, sciences exactes et expérimentales) et à tous les niveaux (licence, master, doctorat, diplômes de technologie, d'ingénieurs, professionnalisés, de santé, d'enseignement et de formation à la recherche).

Plus de  sont accueillis chaque année, plus de  ou demandeurs d'emploi s'y forment dans le cadre de la formation continue. Propriétaire de vignoble et d'un centre d'expérimentation à Marsannay-la-Côte (agglomération dijonnaise), elle offre des filières complètes en sciences de la vigne et œnologie, regroupés dans l'Institut Jules-Guyot nommé d'après Jules Guyot. L'université de Bourgogne consacre près du tiers de son budget (hors salaires) à la recherche.

Depuis le  avril 2015, l'université de Bourgogne est membre fondateur de la communauté d'universités et établissements Université Bourgogne - Franche-Comté (COMUE UBFC), dont le siège est à Besançon.

Histoire

Les écoles médiévales
Les écoles publiques de Dijon jouissent au Moyen Âge d'une grande réputation. La création pour les deux Bourgogne de l'université de Dole (alors Dôle), en 1422, leur porte gravement atteinte car elles se voient privées d'étudiants et surtout des étrangers.

À la demande du maire et des échevins, appuyés par Georges de la Trémoille, gouverneur de la province de Bourgogne et son défenseur contre les Suisses en 1513, François  (1515-1547) institue à Dijon une université avec quatre facultés en 1516 mais cette décision reste lettre morte, même si les patentes royales sont très flatteuses pour les Dijonnais.

Le Collège des Martinots ou des Martin (1531), dans l'actuelle rue du Vieux-Collège, puis le collège jésuite des Godrans, fondé en 1581 en exécution du testament d'Odinet Godrans, président du Parlement de Bourgogne, tentent avec plus ou moins de succès de pallier cette situation. Le transfert de l'université de Dôle à Besançon en 1691 incite les États de Bourgogne à solliciter du roi de France la création à Dijon d'une université. Les deux villes deviennent alors rivales. Sous l'influence du Prince de Condé, gouverneur de Bourgogne, Louis XV accorde à Dijon une université avec quatre facultés le . Besançon réplique par une véritable coalition avec l'université de Paris et plusieurs universités provinciales. Le roi hésite alors et établit un compromis.

L'université moderne
L'édit de décembre 1722 ne crée donc plus qu'une faculté de droit (civil, canon et français) confirmée par une bulle d'Innocent XIII en 1723. L'université, soutenue financièrement par la Ville et la Province s'installe au couvent des Jacobins (à l'emplacement actuel des halles centrales) et se voit inaugurée en grande pompe le . Le Parlement tout entier vient assister à la séance de rentrée qui accueille les 117 étudiants de la nouvelle faculté. Le premier président Berbisey ouvre le cortège, entouré des neuf présidents avec leurs manteaux d'hermine et leurs mortiers, des chevaliers d'honneur, de soixante-quatre conseillers et de cinq conseillers clercs en grand costume ecclésiastique.  Les cinq professeurs et les trois agrégés exercent aussi leur profession d'avocat et enseignent à des étudiants dont l'effectif atteindra jusqu'à 209 étudiants en 1773. Le futur Président de Brosses, Guyton de Morveau, Cazotte ou Berlier en font partie.

L'université tient donc ses écoles et ses assemblées dans le couvent des Jacobins qui offre un abri fort convenable bien qu'emprunté. Celui-ci sera démoli en 1874 en même temps que la vaste église à laquelle il tient pour faire place aux Halles du marché couvert. Il n'en reste plus aucun vestige. L'Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres y tient aussi des cours publics et organise des démonstrations de botanique, de chimie et de matière médicale.

La tourmente révolutionnaire emporte avec elle l'université de Dijon, en même temps que l'Académie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres : de 1788 à 1792, date de sa fermeture, le nombre d'étudiants passe de 181 à 18.

L'université de Dijon au

Lorsque Napoléon entreprend de réorganiser l'enseignement, Dijon devient le siège d'une école spéciale de droit. Le nouvel établissement s'installe au Collège des Godrans 1806 et devient faculté de droit par décret du 17 mars 1808. La faculté de lettres est créée la même année et la faculté des sciences ouvre en 1809. Dans le même temps est ouverte une école secondaire de médecine et de pharmacie.

Parmi les nombreux bâtiments confisqués à Dijon lors de la Révolution, une aile de l'ancien collège des Godrans autrefois bâti par les Jésuites est occupée, au rez-de-chaussée seulement, par l'école de droit qui commence ses cours en 1805. La faculté des sciences, celle des lettres et le Rectorat doivent investir une partie de l'Hôtel Despringles, déjà occupé par l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres. Cette situation durera plus de trente ans. L'Académie doit ensuite quitter les locaux. L'école secondaire de médecine et de pharmacie se trouve, quant à elle, dans un pavillon qui est construit pour elle à l'hôpital général. En 1888, l'Association Générale des Etudiants de Dijon est créée. Il s'agit de la première association étudiante dijonnaise.

L'université de Dijon au tournant du
L'université de Dijon connait un certain essor avec le début du  : l'année 1902 voit la création de l'Institut agronomique et œnologique de  Bourgogne, de l'Institut de géographie et de l'Institut de langues vivantes. Une bibliothèque universitaire est érigée à l'angle de la rue du Petit-Potet et de la rue Chabot-Charny, bientôt suivie dans sa continuité par la construction de la faculté de Lettre qui s'étend jusqu'à l'angle de la rue de l'école de droit, en lieu et place de l'immeuble Koch, ancienne « Maison du Singe », qui avait abrité la Chambre de la ville de 1350 à 1501. En 1903, Dijon est avec 792 étudiants la deuxième ville universitaire de France.

1922 : célébrations du bicentenaire de l'université en présence du Président de la République, Alexandre Millerand, pour mettre en échec un premier plan de suppression de l'université. Le développement de l'université se poursuit avec les constructions successives en 1923 et 1924 de la Cité universitaire, du restaurant universitaire, des salles de travail, etc. dans l'ancien séminaire désaffecté rue du Dr. Maret. Le CROUS est créé en 1936.

L'université contemporaine

En 1945, on projette de supprimer l'université de Dijon et d'envoyer les 950 étudiants à Paris, Lyon et Besançon. Le projet n'aboutit pas, et en 1946, le recteur Marcel Bouchard prend la direction du rectorat. Il choisit de bâtir la nouvelle université sur la pente de la colline de Montmuzard, et en quelques années, le nouveau campus sort de terre :
 6 janvier 1953 : on creuse les fondations de la future Faculté des Sciences (bâtiment « Sciences Gabriel »), premier bâtiment de l'université inauguré le 12 octobre 1957 par le Ministre de l'Education Nationale, René Billières.
 9 septembre 1959 : ouverture des premiers pavillons Bossuet et Lamartine qui logent les étudiants.
 6 octobre 1962 : inauguration de la bibliothèque universitaire, la faculté de droit et la chaufferie.
 23 septembre 1965 : un décret publié au Journal Officiel transforme l'école de médecine et de pharmacie en faculté de médecine et de pharmacie.
 9 octobre 1965 : la faculté de lettres est inaugurée (bâtiments droit-lettres).
 1968 : la faculté de médecine et de pharmacie rejoint l'Hôpital du Bocage ouvert en 1962.

De 1957 à 1968, l'université passe de 2 700 à 9 400 étudiants.  en comptera 17 000 à la fin des années 70 et 26 000 à la fin des années 80. Cela nécessitera un important réaménagement du campus et la construction de nouveaux bâtiments :
 1969 : construction des amphithéâtres Aristote et Platon.
1971 : construction de l'IUT.
 1974 : installation de l'INRA rue Sully.
 1983 : construction de l'atheneum, salle de spectacle et cœur culturel du Campus.
1990 : adoption du schéma directeur conçu par les architectes bâlois Herzog et De Meuron avec l'artiste Rémy Zaugg, qui permettra d'urbaniser le campus et d'engager le plan "Université 2000".
 1991 : inauguration de la Maison des Sports.
 1992 : inauguration de l'amphithéâtre Gutenberg.
 1994 : inauguration de l'extension « le petit Beaubourg » du bâtiment droit-lettres, sciences-humaines.
 1995 : inauguration de l'Institut Universitaire de la Vigne et du Vin Jules Guyot (IUVV).
 26 juin 1997 : l'amphithéâtre Galilée (similaire à l'amphi Gutenberg inauguré en 1992), le pôle d'économie et de gestion, et la Maison de l'université sont inaugurés.
 1998 : création du Centre Européen des Sciences du Goût (CESG).
 2003 : inauguration du pôle Acquisition, Apprentissage, Formation et Éducation (AAFE).
 2005 : inauguration de la Maison de l'Étudiant.
 2011 : inauguration de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

C'est en 1984 que l'université de Dijon a changé de nom pour prendre son nom actuel d'université de Bourgogne. Aujourd'hui, le campus de Montmuzard s'étale sur une surface de 150 hectares qui concentre 90 % du potentiel de recherche et d'enseignement de Bourgogne, le reste se répartissant sur les cinq autres campus de l'université à Auxerre, Chalon-sur-Saône, Le Creusot, Mâcon et Nevers.

Rénovation du campus
À partir de 2012 et l'arrivée du tramway sur le campus, un vaste chantier de rénovation s'étalant sur plusieurs années est lancé sur le campus. Plusieurs objectifs sont fixés: favoriser la vie étudiante, le développement durable, améliorer l'accès aux personnes à mobilité réduite... Le chantier permet la mise en valeur des œuvres d'art sur le campus, la création d'espaces de convivialité et une véritable cohérence de l'ensemble par la rénovation des voies de circulation pour cycles et piétons sur le campus.  € sont mis à disposition pour faire rentrer l'université dans le .

Historique des présidents
Liste des présidents successifs de l'Université de Bourgogne depuis 1946 :

 1946-1967 : Marcel Bouchard (l'université était alors dirigée par le recteur de l'Académie de Dijon)
 1971–1973 : Françoise Morey-Bailly, première présidente de l'université, maître de conférences de mathématiques
 1973–1978 : Pierre Feuillée, professeur de géologie
 1978–1983 : , professeur de droit
 1983–1988 : Roger Paris, professeur de biologie
 1988-1993 : Gilles Bertrand, professeur de chimie-physique
 1993-1998 : Jocelyne Pérard, professeur de géographie et spécialiste de climatologie
 1998-2003 : Bernard Laurin, professeur de paléontologie
 2003-2007 : Jean-Claude Fortier, professeur de droit public
 2007-2012 : Sophie Béjean, professeur de sciences économiques
 2012-2020 : , médecin, professeur de parasitologie-mycologie (PU-PH).
 2020- : , professeur de droit

Composantes

Unités de formation et de recherche
L'université compte huit UFR :

Écoles

Trois des composantes de l'université ont le statut d'école :
 École supérieure d'ingénieurs de recherche en matériaux et en infotronique (ESIREM)
Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation (INSPE) de Bourgogne
Institut national supérieur des sciences agronomiques, de l'alimentation et de l'environnement (Agrosup Dijon)

Instituts
L'université compte six instituts d'enseignement :

L'université compte également six écoles doctorales et 32 laboratoires et entités de recherche.

Formation et recherche

Enseignement
L'université propose près de 400 formations diplomantes :

 26 licences générales
 132 masters
 32 disciplines doctorat
 15 DUT
 60 diplômes universitaires
 90 diplômes et spécialisations santé

Elle accueille dans ses effectifs en 2019  étudiants en formation continue et plus de 750 en formation à distance.

Relations internationales

Partenariats internationaux
L'université de Bourgogne a signé 386 partenariats avec des universités internationales, permettant la mobilité de ses étudiants et chercheurs partout dans le monde ainsi que l'accueil de 2 783 étudiants internationaux de 120 nationalités différentes. Elle proposose également des cursus intégrés (double ou triple diplôme) en langue, sciences humaines, droit  ou sciences politiques, soutenus par l'Université franco-allemande, avec l'université Johannes Gutenberg de Mayence en Allemagne, mais aussi celles de Sherbrooke (Canada) et Opole (Pologne) en option trinationale suivant les cursus.

Université européenne
En juin 2019, l'université est avec 14 autres universités françaises l'une des lauréates du premier appel à projet « Universités européennes » de la Commission européenne. Réunies au sein de l'alliance FORTHEM, les universités de Dijon, Palerme (Italie), Jyväskylä (Finlande), Opole (Pologne), Valence (Espagne), Mayence (Allemagne) et de Lettonie, font partie d'une des premières 17 universités européennes retenues par la Commission (sur 54 dossiers de candidatures déposés).

Classements internationaux
L'université de Bourgogne figure depuis 2017 au classement des meilleurs université mondiale réalisé par l'université Jiao Tong de Shanghai  (Academic Ranking of World Universities), à la 501-600 place depuis 2020. En 2019, elle était classée 768 par le classement Ranking Web of World Universities qui est basé sur le volume et la qualité des publications électroniques des  et universités classées. Toutefois ces classements sont à nuancer en raison de l'attribution à elle seule de l'ensemble des travaux publiés sous signature scientifique commune de l'Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté .

Collections

Vie étudiante

Logement, restauration
L'université met à disposition de ses étudiants avec le CROUS  places de logements, trois restaurants universitaires et cinq cafétérias réparties sur le campus.

Vie associative et culturelle
140 associations étudiantes animent le campus et 235 événements culturels sont proposés au centre culturel. L'atheneum, à proximité de la bibliothèque universitaire Droit-Lettre propose régulièrement des concerts et spectacles dans sa salle ou sur son parvis. Radio Dijon Campus, une des plus anciennes radios étudiantes de France, a ses locaux à cet endroit. Elle émet depuis 1982 sur 92.2 FM.

Sport
50 disciplines sportives sont proposées aux étudiants par l'intermédiaire du SUAPS (Service universitaire des activités physiques et sportives). Plusieurs équipements sportifs sont à ce titre directement disponibles sur le campus, autour de la Maison des sports, à proximité de l'arrêt de tramway « Université »:

 terrains de beach-volley, de football, de rugby, de baseball ;
 stade d'athlétisme Colette Besson ;
 un gymnase ;
 salle de danse/salle de combat ;
 salle de musculation.

Santé
Le service de médecine préventive accueille les étudiants sur le campus pour des questions médicales, et une mission handicap accompagne 594 étudiants.

Évolution démographique
Évolution démographique de la population universitaire

Durant l'année universitaire 2019/2020, l'université a accueilli le nombre record de 34 169 étudiants dont 30 315 sur le seul campus de Dijon.

Personnalités

Enseignants

Gaston Bachelard, philosophe, membre de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Lucien Febvre, historien, cofondateur de l'école des Annales
Joël Le Gall, historien et archéologue, professeur d'histoire romaine, directeur des fouilles d'Alésia
André Leguai, historien du Moyen Âge
Louis Renault, juriste, lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix
Georges Connes, maître de conférence puis professeur de littérature anglaise, résistant et maire de Dijon.
Alain Bazot, président de l'UFC-Que Choisir.
Aurélie Trouvé, coprésidente de ATTAC.
Bernard de Montmorillon, président de l'université Paris-Dauphine
Gérard Taverdet, professeur émérite prix Albert-Dauzat dialectologie et onomastique
Jean-Cyrille Hierso, chercheur et enseignant chimiste
André Weiss (1858-1928), juriste
Marie Duru-Bellat, sociologue spécialiste de l'éducation et de l'enseignement supérieur

Étudiants

Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, naturaliste.
Edvard Beneš,  président de République tchécoslovaque (1935-1938; 1939-1945; 1945-1948).
Louis Renault, juriste international, prix Nobel de la Paix 1907.
Arthur Kleinklausz, médiéviste français, spécialiste de la période carolingienne.
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, président du Burkina Faso.
Abdoulaye Wade, président du Sénégal (2000-2012) .
Aminata Touré, première ministre du Sénégal.
Alain Colas, navigateur.
Charles Rozoy, champion olympique de natation.
Arnaud Montebourg, ministre de l'économie (2012-2014), président du conseil général  de Saône-et-Loire (2008-2012) et député de ce même département (1997-2012).
Rachida Dati, ministre de la Justice (2007-2009), députée européenne (2009-2019).
Alain Joyandet, ancien secrétaire d'État chargé de la Coopération et de la Francophonie, député et sénateur de la Haute-Saône, maire de Vesoul.
Pierre Frogier, président du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie de 2001 à 2004.
Igor et Grichka Bogdanoff.
Roger Guillemin, prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1977.
Mahmoud El Materi, ministre tunisien de la Santé.
Jacques Blondel, écologue, biologiste.
Guy Canivet, premier président honoraire de la Cour de cassation, membre du Conseil constitutionnel.
Henri-François Gautrin, ministre québécois.
Antanas Mockus, maire de Bogota 1995-1998 et 2001-2003, président de l' Alliance verte (Parti écologiste de Colombie) de 2010 à 2014.
Gérard Courant, cinéaste français, inventeur de Cinématon.
Frédéric Tissot, médecin, humanitaire et diplomate français (il est notamment le premier consul de France au Kurdistan irakien de 2007 à 2012).
Daniel Křetínský, milliardaire tchèque, ayant fait fortune dans les énergies fossiles.
Jean, Marie, Albert Mairey (1907-1982), résistant et haut fonctionnaire français.

Identité visuelle

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
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Liens externes

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Emergency Ministries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan discuss establishment of early warning system
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The Emergency Ministries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan had the first joint meeting in Bishkek, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan said, reports Trend citing to akipress.com Representatives of three countries considered several issues related to further development of cross-border cooperation, including cooperation and sharing practices in respond to transboundary natural and man-induced disasters; joint preventive and liquidation efforts in border areas of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; monitoring and forecasting natural disasters in border areas and ways to improve exchange of information. The countries also considered creation of the transboundary early warning system for disaster threats, joint disaster drills. The protocol was signed at the end of the meeting stipulating the joint actions aimed to improve cross-border cooperation. Follow Trend on Telegram. Only most interesting and important news … [Read more...] about Emergency Ministries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan discuss establishment of early warning system
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New Tonga Broadcasting HQ part of National Early Warning system
March 31, 2019 matangitonga Leave a Comment
Ground breaking for a new headquarter building for Tonga Broadcasting Commission was held on March 29. Funded by Japan, the building is part of a multi-million pa'anga grant aid project on Nationwide Early Warning System and Strengthening Disaster Communications (NEWS). The ground breaking ceremony at Fasi moe Afi was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Hon Semisi Sika and Japanese Ambassador HE Mr Tetsuya Ishii. The Ambassador said the fundamental goal of this project is to alleviate damage caused by natural disasters, through the improvement of facilities and equipment for a disaster early warning information system, which will operate at a national level. This project is a grant aid assistance from the people and the Government of Japan worth 2.8 billion Japanese Yen, equivalent to over $56 million pa'anga and formulated based on Japan's Country Assistance Policy to Tonga. "The NEWS project will deliver disaster warnings to everyone in Tonga in a prompt, … [Read more...] about New Tonga Broadcasting HQ part of National Early Warning system
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A failure to spot early warning signs led to an elderly woman dying a week after she was admitted to Royal Derby Hospital. Details of the case have been revealed by the Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) NHS Foundation Trust ahead of its board meeting on Thursday, March 28. It states that the 71-year-old patient, renamed as Sheila to maintain confidentiality, "may have received life-saving treatment sooner" if "red flags" were spotted and assessed accordingly. Sheila, who lived alone in the outskirts of Derby, died as a result of sepsis in her urinary tract. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by the body attempting to combat infection in an "abnormal" manner. Staff at the trust will now be taken through mandatory sepsis training and will be given new devices to better keep track of the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood - which would flag up early warning signs. These devices, called pulse oximeters, could cost £30 … [Read more...] about Early warning signs missed as woman dies at Royal Derby Hospital
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UK to boost economy early-warning system
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