A new US study has found that 90.7% of consumers say it's important for companies to support causes and charities.
A new US study has found that 90.7% of consumers say it's important for companies to support causes and charities.
The 2007 PR Week / Barkley Cause Survey reveals that philanthropic activities can drive business success. In fact, 72% of consumers say that they have purchased a brand because it supports a cause they believe in.
Furthermore, corporate respondents say they see positive PR (65.3%), an increase in sales/retail traffic (26.7%) and an enhanced relationship with their target demographic (52%), as a result of their cause marketing efforts.
The first cause marketing campaign was launched 25 years ago, and what was formerly viewed as a trend, is now considered a cost of entry for many businesses.
In fact, consumers demand it, with 90.7% of consumers saying it's important for companies to support causes and charities. The survey also revealed that the majority of companies (34.7%) with cause programs funded their efforts through the marketing department, as apposed to HR (4%), or even PR (14.7%).
Mike Swenson, the President of Barkley Public Relations says companies are beginning to clearly understand that there is a return on their 'reputational' investment and cause is the perfect storm to allow companies to engage employees and customers in a more meaningful way.
In addition to an increase in sales or enhanced customer relationships, corporate philanthropy can also drive recruitment and retention. Among companies with cause marketing programs, 56% saw heightened staff morale and retention and 14.7% "strongly agreed" that they have an easier time finding top-notch recruits.
The PR Week/Barkley PR Cause Survey was conducted by PR Week and Millward Brown. E-mail notification was sent to approximately 8,222 consumers and marketing pros and a total of 368 people (225 consumers and 143 marketing pros) completed the survey online between August 27 and September 17, 2007.


Father John (Jack) A. Fitzgibbons, 73, who began his ministry as an Augustinian and continued it as a diocesan priest, died at St. Martha's Manor in Downingtown on Oct. 25.
Born in Hartford, Conn., the son of the late John F. and Margaret L. (Porta) Fitzgibbons, he attended Kenelly Elementary School in Hartford, St. Denis School in Havertown and Msgr. Bonner High School before entering the Augustinian order.
He was ordained Sept. 7, 1968 by Bishop Gerald V. McDevitt at St. Denis Church and among his assignments was St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish in the Bronx, N.Y., where he taught at the former high school of the parish and is remembered as a brilliant, funny and wonderful person and teacher, with hundreds of former students sending condolences on his death, according to his brother, Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons.
He was the eldest of five children in his family, and "we were all pleased that the Lord chose him to serve the church as a priest," Dr. Fitzgibbons said.
Other assignments as an Augustinian include graduate studies at Villanova University, parish ministry at Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Staten Island, back to St. Nicholas of Tolentine in the Bronx and then to St. Nicholas of Tolentine in Staten Island.
He was incardinated into the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1983 and served as parochial vicar at St. Isaac Jogues, Wayne; St. Joseph the Worker, Fallsington; St. Laurence, Upper Darby; Good Shepherd, Philadelphia; Mater Dolorosa, Philadelphia; St. Dominic, Philadelphia; St. Anastasia, Newtown Square; St. George, Glenolden and Holy Spirit, Sharon Hill. He also served as a chaplain for the Holy Redeemer Health System.
Bishop Robert P. Maginnis will celebrate a funeral Mass for Father Fitzgibbons at St. Colman Church, Ardmore, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5.
Concelebrants include Msgr. Daniel J. Sullivan and Father Sherlock, who will be the homilist.
In addition to his brother Richard (Adele) he is survived by his brother James (Margaret); his sisters Mary Jane Tadeo and Julia, and many nieces and nephews.
Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery, Conshohocken.


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var util = require('util');
var path = require('path');
var common = require('../cldr/common.js');
var ListFmt = require("../../js/lib/ListFmt.js");
var mkdirs = common.makeDirs;

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function usage() {
    console.log("Usage: geniddarea.js [-h] [ output_dir ]\n" +
            "-h or --help\n" + "  this help");
    process.exit(1);
}

process.argv.forEach(function (val, index, array) {
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});

console.log("geniddarea.js - generate the iddarea.json file.");

var metadata = require("./libphonenumber-js/metadata.json");
var countries = require("../../js/data/locale/ctryreverse.json");

var callingCode = metadata.country_calling_codes;
var countryData = {};

var listfmt = new ListFmt({locale:"en-US", style:"disjunction", length:"full"});
var i, arrayCountry;

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    "1": {
        "sn": "North America",
        "ln": "North America and the Caribbean Islands"
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    "65": {
        "sn": "Singapore",
        "ln": "Republic of Singapore" //Wikipedia
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    "86": {
        "sn": "China",
        "ln": "People's Republic of China" //Wikipedia
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    "886": {
        "sn": "Taiwan",
        "ln": "Republic of China" //Wikipedia
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public class LiquiTradeHistory {

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  public LiquiTradeHistory(final Map<Long, LiquiUserTrade> history) {
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  @Override
  public String toString() {
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Despite Monday's Heat, No Records Broken
Water restrictions in place in several suburbs
By Lauren Petty	• Published at 7:39 am on June 18, 2012
The first day of a predicted three-day heat wave wasn't a record-breaker, officials said.
Monday's temperature climbed to a high of 94 degrees just before 4 p.m. at O'Hare International Airport, according to the National Weather Service. The record high for June 18 was 98 degrees, set in 1947.
Tuesday and Wednesday, however, will offer additional opportunities to set records. The record high for June 19 is 99, and for June 20 it's 98 degrees, set in 1983 and 1947, respectively, the weather service said.
Record-breaking or not, it's hot. Sweltering hot. And conditions will feel even hotter with heat index readings of up to 100.
Though many will flock to the beach or Chicago Park District pools, medical experts advise people to stay inside where it's cool and to exercise only in the early morning hours or late evening hours.
"We got our run in early," one lakefront runner told NBC Chicago Monday morning. "I left the house at about 3:30, so I'm headed back from a two-hour run."
"We were gonna run our long run yesterday but it was too hot when we woke up, so we did it this morning at the crack of dawn," another runner said. "Eight miles before work."
Experts also recommend avoiding sugary drinks like soda and very cold drinks that can cause stomach cramps. Those who exercise are encouraged to drink between two and four glasses of cool water or sports drinks every hour.
High temperatures coupled with limited amounts of rain have forced several suburbs to put water restrictions in place.
Highland Park, Bannockburn, Deerfield, Lincolnshire, Glenbrook and Ft. Sheridan implemented an odd-even water schedule for homes and businesses. That means addresses ending in an odd number can only water lawns on odd days of the month. The opposite applies for addresses ending in even numbers.
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5 inspiring women who are changing the world for the better
From women's suffrage to equal parenting and representation in politics, International Women's Day (IWD) has celebrated the social, cultural, economic and political achievements of women for more than 100 years. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. Here we give you 5 inspirational women who are reshaping the world for the better.
Aung San Suu Kyi is a political leader of the National League of Democracy in Burma. She spoke up against the brutal rule of dictator U Ne Win and initiated a nonviolent move towards achieving democracy and human rights. Her nonviolent approach was influenced by her Buddhist beliefs. She was held under house arrest by the government for 15 years during the period 1989 till 2010.
She was also the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory in the 8 November 2015 general elections. However, she is barred from becoming president because of the constitution's article 59 (f), which says anyone with a foreign spouse or children cannot hold the executive office. Despite this negotiations on changing the constitution are taking place and it is hoped she will take office at the end of March.
With a net worth of more than $1 billion, an Academy Award nomination, a hit television show, a successful magazine (O, The Oprah Magazine) and a cable channel (Oxygen Media), there seems to be little else that Winfrey can do to add to her status as an international media phenomenon.
Winfrey is also a vocal advocate for the education and well-being of women and children around the world, giving to those in need via Oprah's Angel Network and her personal charity, the Oprah Winfrey Foundation.
As First Lady of the United States, a US Senator, and a hugely popular candidate for President of the US, Hillary Clinton has been a trail blazer for women in politics. Having come closer to being nominated for President by a major party than any woman before her, Clinton has encouraged women to join the political process and pursue their dreams.
Whether you're her biggest fan or her staunchest critic, Hillary Clinton is probably the most recognised woman in world politics. As her husband's second term as President drew to a close, Hillary succeeded in being elected US Senator from the state of New York, making her the first 'First Lady' in US history to run for (and win) an elected office.
J.K Rowling
Not counting the Bible, Harry Potter has reached more people than any other book series in hisory. Her books have sold more than 450 million copies. The next highest series is "Lord of the Rings," by J.R.R. Tolkien, at a comparably paltry 150 million copies. She wrote the first book as a single Mother, struggling to make ends meet, but is now one of most successful self-made women in history.
As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but survived. In October 2014, Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. At age 17, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
In congratulating Yousafzai, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said: "She is the pride of Pakistan, she has made her countrymen proud." For her 18th birthday on July 12, 2015, also called Malala Day, the young activist continued to take action on global education by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon. The school was designed to admit nearly 200 girls from the ages of 14 to 18.


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Cross Party Working Group on New Psychoactive Substances
A report summarising the work of the New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)Cross Party Working Group and recommendations for further action.
3. Setting The Scene
4. Information Sharing
5. Education and Prevention
6. Research
7. Trading Standards
4.1 The CPWG examined the work being taken forward in relation to NPS and information sharing. Members heard from experts from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, University of Glasgow and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) who shared some of the challenges NPS present from an Accident & Emergency (A&E), toxicology and forensics perspective. In addition, the group reviewed a mindmap created by the Scottish Government that illustrated the complex relationship between stakeholders, information held and information shared.
Information Sharing within the NHS
4.2 The CPWG heard evidence from Dr Richard Stevenson, an Emergency Consultant from Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and Dr Hazel Torrance from the Toxicology Service at the University of Glasgow, who outlined the challenges NPS present to the NHS and work being taken forward to tackle these issues.
4.3 Technology to test for NPS agents does not form part of routine toxicology testing provisions within the NHS. Due to the changing nature of the market and the emergence of new substances, new analytical methods need to be devised and validated. This reinforced the need for a NPS Forensic Centre for Excellence to assist in the development of reference standards that the NHS could access.
4.4 There are challenges facing the NHS in capturing and sharing data on NPS. A key issue is that NHS Scotland patient recording systems do not currently include a code to capture NPS use. Collecting data on NPS prevalence and harms within the NHS is therefore limited. These problems are not restricted to Scotland, but are common across Europe and internationally, where the systematic collection of data on NPS in healthcare settings is scarce. In part, this reflects challenges in identifying NPS and the limitations of self-reported use, as well as the difficulty of establishing standardisation across different systems of data capture. Approaches to tackling these barriers to improved data collection are not straightforward, as data capture systems are influenced by local, national and international pressures.
4.5 Nonetheless, in Scotland, positives steps are being taken to improve information sharing through network building, educating clinicians and staff, and adopting a multi-agency approach, such as through Drug Trend Monitoring Groups. Within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde three hospitals are taking part in a study to identify NPS that have been consumed by those presenting at A&E Departments. The purpose of the study is to enhance the knowledge base of the use and impact of NPS locally. The findings will be disseminated both locally and nationally with a view to improving information sharing on NPS. However, while the CPWG noted this work was a step forward, more needs to be done at a national level.
4.6 Additional challenges faced by A&E departments are caused by users consuming NPS and consequently presenting in a manner typically consistent with severe mental health conditions. This can lead to a misdiagnosis of the patient and result in subsequent pressures on A&E and mental health professionals in managing the care of the patient.
4.7 Barry James, Forensic Scientist from SPA Forensic Services, provided an overview of the SPA response to NPS. He explained that the increase in NPS cases began in 2008. This growing trend has continued and now represents a significant proportion of forensic casework. There are challenges in identifying through existing instrumentation whether a substance is controlled as many new drugs have a similar chemical structure which Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) struggles to identify without reference standards. To assist in the identification of NPS a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instrumentation was recently procured by SPA and the Scottish Government to enable the breakdown of and identification of previously unidentifiable NPS's. This will provide greater confidence in analytical results on NPS.
4.8 The SPA is a key stakeholder in sharing information about the substances present in Scotland with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The EMCDDA provides regular warnings and legislative updates to SPA and partners and in turn, SPA ensures this information is shared with appropriate stakeholders. This relationship is fundamental as it provides a robust evidence base to support decisions taken in relation to drugs and NPS.
Mindmap of Key Stakeholders
4.9 The Scottish Government presented a mindmap to illustrate to the CPWG the key stakeholders and the data and information being collected and shared on NPS in Scotland. This illustrated the complexity of the landscape and highlighted the gaps to be filled. A copy of the mindmap can be found on the Scottish Government website.
Consultation on the Forensic Centre for Excellence
4.10 In response to some of the issues raised above, a consultation on NPS had been shared with an extensive range of stakeholders through the NPS Evidence Group, and others, including the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Border Force and the National Crime Agency. The consultation covered three of the recommendations of the NPS Expert Review Group, these included; the development of a definition of NPS; proposals to establish a Forensic Centre for Excellence; and improving data collection and information sharing of NPS. A summary of the results was published on 18 February 2016[14].
Key Observations and Conclusions
4.11 In considering the evidence presented on information sharing the CPWG acknowledged the significant challenges in this area, particularly within the NHS and A&E. It was agreed that further work was needed to improve communication in relation to NPS across each of the health boards in Scotland to assist clinicians and staff to better understand NPS, raise awareness of symptoms of patients who may have consumed NPS and to share this knowledge across the healthcare profession.
4.12 It was also acknowledged by the CPWG that further work needed to be done to improve data collection within the NHS both at a local and national level. It was recommended that the Scottish Government build on the work commenced by the NPS Evidence Group and engage further with stakeholders to consider how to improve data collection on NPS for Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions.
4.13 The CPWG noted the impact of NPS on mental health and the associated complexities. Further engagement with mental health professionals was recommended to better understand the challenges in relation to NPS.
4.14 The CPWG also noted the potential the NPS Forensic Centre for Excellence could bring to alleviate some of the pressures and gaps experienced by the health and justice sector, particularly in relation to improving data collection and sharing, and improving access to reference standards to assist in the identification of psychoactive substances. Progress on the development of the Forensic Centre for Excellence should be monitored on a regular basis to ensure this work does not lose momentum.
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Leithner, Chris, "Value Investing's Compatibility with Austrian Economics — Truth or Myth? A Rejoinder," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 171–178.


Known by many people as 007. Personally, Saskia does not think he is the best looking James Bond, but he has inspired her enormously by his powerful character. Dark people often have a more powerful appearance because of their dark eyebrows and eyelashes. But this blonde actor radiates his power trough his light, hard and almost cold traits. Saskia has made a series of actors and actresses in which she has tried to demonstrate the various experiences of beauty. On the one hand, the actresses, the generally existing ideal of symmetrical faces, youthful or those who lived through time well. On the other hand, the appeal of characterful and experience-drawn faces, of the actors. Often the beauty is in someone's appearance, perhaps the more tangible representation of someone's character. This is reflected in almost all her portraits.
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The limited edition special art print "Daniel Craig" by Saskia Vugts bears the artist's signature and a handwritten edition number.
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The YA-Sisterhood YA Crush Tourney is on Round three and it will be narrow down to the Elite Eight. Match 25 will be between Will Herondale from Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series versus Adam Kent from Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me.
Now, I'm about Team Adam and I know what you're thinking: This is Will from The Mortal Instruments and this is Cassandra Clare and she has a huge following. I haven't had the pleasure of reading TMI series yet but I do know how popular they are. But Adam has been going against some really great and swoon-worthy guys and I believe he has a chance to give Will a run for his money.
So, let give Adam some love and vote for him. The contest runs from 12am to 12am today, August 3rd.
Will against Adam :O I can't choose between those two. They are too amazing!


Early morning sessions normally aren't my thing but between these two & that light, I might schedule them more often.
Catharine & Kevin met in college during an anatomy class & have been dating for nearly 3 years. Now they are planning a small & intimate Spring wedding. I have photographed them both individually but never together. And what a treat that was to finally have that opportunity.
We met up for their engagement session at Springhill College & walked along the avenue of grand oaks with their precious pup, Ava. Enjoy a few of my favorites from their session!


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Q: How to write data from 1D array to an excel file from python? I'm new to python and I have to change this code to have a 1D array not a 2D array.This code is perfectly working to write data to an excel file. Please help me to change this in to a 1D array.
eg: only to enter as 1D array as below
  expenses = [
        [1000],
        [100],
        [300],
        [50],
    ]

import xlsxwriternter

workbook = xlsxwriter.Workbook('20.xlsx')
worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

expenses = [
    ['Rent', 1000],
    ['Gas',   100],
    ['Food',  300],
    ['Gym',    50],
]

row = 0
col = 0

for item,cost in (expenses):
    worksheet.write(row, col,     item)

    row += 1

workbook.close()

A: This question basically comes down to tuple unpacking, the for loop in the original code was basically doing this for each item in expenses:
item, cost = ['Rent', 1000] #unpacks 'Rent' to item and 1000 to cost

if each element of expenses consisted of only a single element you would unpack a single element with a trailing comma after the variable (like how you do with a single element tuple)
item, = [1000]  #unpacks 1000 to item

so in the for loop it would just be:
for item, in (expenses):
     #  ^ the trailing comma here!

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JWM study: Logging may cause caribou stress
By Dana Kobilinsky
Two boreal woodland caribou travel through the snow in Manitoba. ©Dennis Brannen
More than natural events like wildfire, or manmade features like roads and transmission lines, effects of logging operations on their habitat seem to be the biggest indicator of long-term stress for Manitoba's boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou).
In a new study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, researchers originally studying food web interactions between predators and prey used caribou hair samples they had already collected to determine concentrations of the stress-related chemical cortisol.
Comparing hair samples to the home ranges of 55 collared caribou, researchers considered a variety of natural and anthropogenic variables on the landscape and found logging was the strongest predictor of high cortisol levels.
"What was interesting was, we didn't find fire had much of an influence," said TWS member James Roth, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba and coauthor on the study. "Fire is the main natural disturbance in boreal forests, but the burned areas in the range of caribou didn't have an impact."
Past research had shown that woodland caribou populations appear to be sensitive to logging, Roth said, "but what we were excited about was a physiological indicator of something going on in the environment."
While cortisol in blood or feces shows short-term responses to immediate stressors, hair samples show longer-term impacts on stress levels, which researchers could match with telemetry data "and see how aspects of their home range affected the animals' physiology," he said.
Woodland caribou are threatened through much of their range and their populations are at risk of decline, Roth said, and stress on caribou may also impact predators such as wolves. Researchers don't know for sure how elevated cortisol levels affect caribous' reproductive and survival success, Roth said, but research in some captive animals has shown negative effects.
Dana Kobilinsky is associate editor at The Wildlife Society. Contact her at dkobilinsky@wildlife.org with any questions or comments about her article. You can follow her on Twitter at @DanaKobi.
Read more of Dana's articles here.
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Journal of Wildlife Management


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Remember however that if you are using outdoor lighting, you`ll need to make sure that it is suitably protected against the weather. In sheltered outdoor locations such as under cover in an open entrance porchway, a lamp unit with an IP54 (or possibly even IP44) rating may be adequate, but to be sure, you should choose a unit which is IP65 rated.
Please also consider the implications of light pollution on the night sky and ensure that your lights are installed in a way that causes minimal stray light from being reflected upwards.


Today, we remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001.
Every year, on the Sunday prior to the anniversary of September 11, people from all over the country commemorate the sacrifice of the hundreds of first responders who lost their lives at the World Trade Center. 343 firefighters, 60 police officers, 8 paramedics, and 1 patrolman from the New York Fire Patrol died trying to save the thousands and thousands of people inside the Twin Towers. In all, 2,997 died in the attacks that occurred on 9/11.
Yesterday, I joined my Franciscan brothers, Br. Chris Keenan, OFM, chaplain of the New York Fire Department, and Br. David Schlatter, OFM, as well as hundreds of families, friends, and loved ones of the many men and women who bravely gave their lives to rescue their brothers and sisters. We retraced the steps of our Franciscan brother, Br. Mychal Judge, OFM, as he hurried from the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi on 31st Street to the burning wreck at Ground Zero, that fateful September morning. 16 years ago today, Mychal entered eternal life and joined the communion of saints.
Along the way, we stopped by various fire stations and police precincts in New York City, where the names of the brave men and women were read by their surviving brothers and sisters. After the names were read, we listened to reflections from Mychal's homilies and prayed. Bells of remembrance rang out after each stop.
We also commemorated the heroic life of Detective Steven McDonald of the New York Police Department, a close friend of Mychal's who founded the Walk of Remembrance in 2002. Steven's life was also an example of Christian discipleship. After having suffered multiple gunshot wounds that left him quadriplegic, he forgave his assailant and began to preach a Gospel message of reconciliation and forgiveness. Steven and Mychal formed a beautiful friendship and travelled to Belfast to spread their message of peace.
Steven died earlier this year, on January 10, 2017. His wife Patty and son, Conor, was present on the Walk. I pray that the lives of Steven and Mychal, as well as their many brothers and sisters in the FDNY, NYPD, and other first responders can be an example of what it means to truly love, for "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:13).
As we saw in the brave sacrifice of Br. Mychal Judge, OFM and in the heroic life of Detective Steven McDonald, the greatest love involves the greatest sacrifice, but it is also lived out in everyday moments of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Steven and Mychal, please pray for us.


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Baby's first REI deal; sleeping bag for tots lands in 60 stores
Aaron Kremer July 4, 2019 0
Tavis Malcolm will start selling his baby sleeping bags at multiple REI stores. (Courtesy Morrison Outdoors)
So much for baby steps.
Morrison Outdoors, four months removed from a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a sleeping bag for infants and toddlers, landed an order from REI to stock 60 stores with its diminutive sleeping sack.
Founder Tavis Malcolm, 33, said he will sell his 20-degree down bags for $160. And he's added a second product: a 40-degree synthetic bag for $85.
Malcolm told BusinessDen in February that he was sewing prototypes at home in Englewood on a sewing machine.
"Thankfully, we're no longer slaving away on the old Singer," he said recently, adding that he traveled to China to find a factory that could crank out his order of 2,400 sleeping bags – some for REI, some for the Kickstarter orders and some for his website.
Tavis Malcolm and his family. (Submitted)
Malcolm said he's the only full-time employee, and that the business will be profitable in the fall.
He said he's applied for a patent.
Malcolm previously told BusinessDen that the options for camping with a baby are inadequate.
For parents with newborns looking to camp outdoors, Malcolm said one option is to put the baby in the parents' sleeping bag, which he said can endanger the baby through overheating or suffocation. The other option is to layer the baby up in layers of pajamas, snow suits and blankets.
"You can imagine sleeping in eight layers of clothes," he told BusinessDen. "It doesn't regulate. If you need to change them, that's a huge pain to dig through all these layers."
Malcolm said he has a few other ideas up his sleeve, including sleeping pads and other items for parents who backpack.
"There aren't a lot of things for them now," he said.
An Englewood dad's product is going from Kickstarter to the prominent outdoor retailer at lightning speed.
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I like this a lot, especially the guitar leads. My only complaint is that there was not enough guitar leads in the song as I much prefer the guitar leads over the synth leads. I though the synth leads were a little redundant, however that my just be me and YMMV.
I always really like your guitar tones. Very tasty sound on this one. Particularly nice playing. Thanks for sharing it!
Greg spoke the exact words I initially thought. Carlos would really like that.
Maybe the synth solo is a touch too long, and repetitive. I was trying to use it as a hook but it didn't quite do that for me.
Nice feel and groove though throughout the whole song, but perhaps the ending was a little unpredictable / truncated?
I liked your mambo truly very much !
(misty) night club somewhere in the Caribbean ?
nice playing and a great guitar tone.
bring back your guitar after some synth lead.
Eric, Nice playing. Tasty Santana like tone and feel. Well done.
Hi Greg, I agree, your guitar playing is way too good not to return on a third chorus. Great stuff!
Absolutely every time I hear you play, I come away thinking "I wish I knew how to play guitar". You're very talented and your music is ALWAYS a pleasure to listen to.
I really enjoyed this. It's great to hear something Latin.
Well, I know many artists don't like comparisons....but I'm gonna jump on the Santana bandwagon here. Mighty tasty and a cool backup to go with the wonderful guitar. I love this music!
Yep, loved the guitar work. Nice.


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ABŪ MANṢŪR HERAVĪ
ABŪ MANṢŪR MOWAFFAQ B. ʿALĪ HERAVĪ, ḤAKĪM (fl. ca. 370-80/980-90), author of the oldest preserved Persian text on materia medica, Ketāb al-abnīa ʿan ḥaqāʾeq al-adwīa. He is known only from this source, which provides his name and title and attests to his Muslim faith (ed. Bahmanyār [see bibliog.], p. 1). Knowledge of his place and date of activity is necessarily approximate. Of the two preserved manuscripts of his Ketāb al-abnīa, the copy made by the poet Asadī Ṭūsī in Šawwāl, 447/December, 1055-January, 1056 is the oldest extant New Persian manuscript, and early attracted scholarly attention (J. von Hammer[-Purgstall] in Fundgruben des Orients II, Vienna, 1811, pp. 292-93; republished in 1812 as Codices Arabicos . . . Bibliothecae . . . Vindobonensis, recensuit . . . , pp. 10-11, no. 83). This copy provides a clear terminus ante quem for the book's composition, but a terminus post quem can not be easily established. The dedicatee is referred to only as ḥażrat-e ʿalī mawlānā al-amīr al-mosaddad al-moʾayyad al-manṣūr. While this titulature indicates a ruler in the Samanid sphere of influence, it could apply to princes as far apart as the Buyids of northern Iran and the early Ghaznavids (C. E. Bosworth, "The Titulature of the Early Ghaznavids," Oriens 15, 1962, p. 214; L. Richter-Bernburg, "Amīr—Malik—Shāhānshāh: ʿAḍud ad-Daula's Titulature Reexamined," Iran 18, 1980, pp. 83-102). It appears plausible the Abū Manṣūr may have spent at least some time in Ghaznavid dominions and even traveled to India; he repeatedly refers to Indian medicine and quotes such authorities as Srīfarkavādat (Śrīhārgavadatta), Rātā (?), Bahāyil (?), and Jātak (i.e., a book on nativities, ǰātaka), in addition to sources previously assimilated into Arabic medicine (Achundow, "Grundsätze," pp. 294-96). On the other hand, he twice quotes Abū Māher Mūsā b. Yūsof b. Sayyār—an acquaintance which points to some familiarity with authors in the Buyid realm. Of the authorities named in Abū Manṣūr's book, Abū Māher is closest to the author's lifetime. The two quotations (ed. Bahmanyār, pp. 117, 318) have close parallels in the works of Abū Māher's two famous students, ʿAlī b. al-ʿAbbās al-Maǰūsī, who wrote his Kāmel al-ṣenāʿat al-ṭebbīya for ʿAżod-al-dawla between 364 and 367/974-78, and Aḥmad b. Moḥammad al-Ṭabarī, author of al-Moʿālaǰāt al-boqrāṭīya and physician at the court of the Buyid Rokn-al-dawla (Ebn Abī Oṣaybeʿa, ʿOyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭ¡abaqāt al-aṭebbāʾ, Cairo, 1882-84, II, p. 321) (See Maǰūsī, Kāmel, Būlāq, 1294/1877, II, p. 116.13-15; and M. Rihab, "Der arabische Arzt At-Tabari. Übersetzung einzelner Abschnitte aus seinen " Hippokratischen Behandlungen"," Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin 19, 1927, p. 160.) Thus the year 360/971 could be taken as a plausible terminus post quem for Abū Manṣūr's activity.
In spite of the author's professed predilection for Indian medicine (ed. Bahmanyār, pp. 3-5), his literary models are clearly Arabic texts which continue the tradition of Galenic medicine. Abū Manṣūr discusses the properties and medicinal uses of simples (minerals, plants, and animals) in 584 articles ordered according to the Arabic alphabet (abtaṯ). The fact that he lists the simples under their Arabic names even when Persian equivalents exist further shows his dependence on Arabic models; within the text itself, however, he generally uses Persian drug names whenever these are available. He frequently adds synonyms from Greek, Syriac, "Indian," and also from local Persian dialects. As for medical terminology proper, Abū Manṣūr wavers between the Arabic or arabicized terminology of his textbooks and what might be called everyday medical usage with its notable current of native Persian (see G. Lazard, La langue des plus anciens monuments de la prose persane, Paris, 1963, pp. 45-48).
The importance of Asadī's manuscript of Ketāb al-abnīa as evidence for the early stage of the New Persian literary language and especially of technical prose has long been recognized (see Qazvīnī and Mīnovī in bibliog.). The book has been repeatedly studied as a document of medical history, but no detailed study has been made to evaluate Abū Manṣūr's sources, whether oral (in Persian) or written (in Arabic). The text was copied as late as ca. 700/1300 (M. T. Dānešpažūh, "al-Abnīa ʿan ḥaqāʾeq al-adwīa," Rāhnemā-ye ketāb 9, 1345 Š./1966, pp. 491-93), but it left no trace of influence in later Persian medical literature.
A. Bahmanyār and Ḥ. Maḥbūbī Ardakānī, eds., Ketāb al-abnīa ʿan ḥaqāʾeq al-adwīa (Entešārāt-e Dānešgāh-e Tehrān. Ganǰīna-ye moyūn-e Īrānī, no. 63), Tehran, 1346 Š./1967.
A. Achundow, "Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze . . . des Abu Mansur . . . übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen," Historische Studien aus dem Pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserl. Universität Dorpat 3, Halle a. S., 1893, pp. 137-414.
F. R. Seligmann, Kitab al abnijet an hikajik eledvijet . . . Liber fundamentorum . . . epitome codicis . . . inediti primus latino donavit . . . , 2 vols., Vienna, 1831-33.
Idem, Ueber drey höchst seltene Persische Handschriften, Vienna, 1833, pp. 9-23.
Idem, Codex Vindobonesis sive medici Abu Mansur . . . Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae . . . pars . . . , Vienna, 1859 (no more published).
G. Flügel, Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen Handschriften der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hofbibliothek zu Wien II, Vienna, 1865, pp. 534-36, no. 1465.
E. O. von Lippmann, "Chemische Kenntnisse vor tausend Jahren," Abhandlungen und Vorträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, 1, 1906, pp. 81-96.
A. Fonahn, Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin, Leipzig, 1910, pp. 80 f., nos. 224-26.
Sezgin, GAS III, index, s.v. Muwaffaq b. ʿAlī. Storey, II, pp. 199 f., no. 353.
Monzawī, Nosḵahā I, pp. 463b-64a, nos. 4254-55.
M. Qazvīnī, "Qadīmatarīn ketāb dar zabān-e fārsī-e ḥālīya," Bist maqāla I, Bombay, 1307 Š./1928, pp. 50-53.
M. Mīnovī, introduction to the photostatic reprint of the Viennese MS, Tehran, 1344 Š./1966.
(L. Richter-Bernburg)
Vol. I, Fasc. 3-4, pp. 336-337
L. Richter-Bernburg, "Abu Mansur Heravi," Encyclopædia Iranica, I/3, pp. 336-337; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abu-mansur-mowaffaq-b-ali-heravi-fl-ca-980-90 (accessed on 30 January 2014).
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L'îlot insalubre 16 est un îlot urbain du  de Paris, qui fut désigné îlot insalubre en 1921. Son numéro 16 correspond à son rang dans les  insalubres classés par ordre d'urgence, en fonction du taux de mortalité par tuberculose entre 1894 et 1918.

Son territoire de  comprend un patrimoine historique et architectural très riche.

Après l'expulsion brutale d'une partie de sa population de 1942 à 1945, comprenant environ 20 % de Juifs, se prolongeant de manière plus progressive jusque dans les , ce secteur fait l'objet d'une rénovation urbaine des  aux . Sa population d'ouvriers, d'artisans et de personnes indigentes est remplacée par des catégories sociales supérieures et son territoire touristique est devenu l'un des ceux où les prix de l'immobilier sont les plus élevés à Paris.

Localisation
L'îlot est délimité par la place Saint-Gervais et la rue de Brosse à l'ouest, les quais de Seine au sud, la rue Saint-Paul à l'est, et les rues Saint-Antoine et François-Miron au nord.

Historique
Le quartier royal du  à proximité de l'hôtel Saint-Pol, résidence de la Cour à partir de 1362 abandonnée au , est encore florissant au  avec la construction d'hôtels particuliers et de demeures bourgeoises. Il s'appauvrit au  avec le départ d'aristocrates au faubourg Saint-Germain : le curé de Saint-Gervais estimait le nombre de pauvres de la paroisse passé de  en 1675 à  en 1758.

Le délaissement s'accentue à la Révolution avec la fermeture des couvents et le départ de nobles. Des bâtiments sont construits sur les jardins et dans les cours des hôtels particuliers pour des établissements artisanaux et des logements. Le quartier se couvre d'un enchevêtrement très compact d'immeubles le long de voies étroites sans dégagement arrière.
Au cours du  une population démunie s'entasse dans des logements obscurs mal entretenus comprenant une forte proportion d'hôtels garnis ce qui entraîne surmortalité et épidémies. Celle de choléra en 1832 cause  sur  de la rue de la Mortellerie ensuite renommée rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville (à cette date la rue atteignait la place de l'̈Hôtel-de-Ville avant l'arasement de l'ancien quartier jusqu'à la rue de Brosse par les travaux d'Haussmann).

À la fin du  et au début du , le quartier se peuple d'immigrants juifs d'Europe orientale fuyant les pogroms.

Projet de rénovation
Le projet d'assainissement présenté en 1939 par les architectes André Hilt et Henri Bodecher prévoyait la destruction totale du quartier à l'exception des églises Saint-Gervais et Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis et de l'hôtel de Sens. Les constructions anciennes auraient été remplacées par des locaux administratifs et des immeubles de logements de type HBM dans des espaces aérés au milieu d'espaces verts. L'intervention dans ce secteur se limite à la démolition des immeubles entre la rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville et l'hôtel d'Aumont mais les travaux sont suspendus dans les  par la pénurie de matériaux et les priorités imposées par l'effort de guerre de l'occupant allemand.

Ce projet suscite un débat entre modernistes tel Le Corbusier qui y localise une cité administrative dans  et partisans de la préservation et de la mise en valeur du patrimoine. Dans un manifeste Destinée de Paris, Robert Auzelle et Georges Pillement s'élèvent contre les positions de Le Corbusier : . Des pétitions sont adressées au maréchal Pétain contre le plan de destruction, en  par Achille Carlier, architecte qui avait démissionné en 1935 du service des Monuments historiques, puis par Marcel Raval au début de 1941 signée par , architectes (Albert Laprade, Auguste Perret, Paul Tournon) et écrivains (Paul Valéry, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Jean Giraudoux).

Expropriations et expulsions
Parmi les projets d'assainissement des  insalubres, seul l'îlot 1 avait connu un début d'exécution avec la démolition à la fin des  de maisons du quartier Saint-Merri et le dégagement du plateau Beaubourg. Ces opérations n'étaient plus à l'ordre du jour depuis le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale jusqu'au milieu de 1941. Or, l'îlot 16, qui n'était pas prioritaire (son taux de mortalité par tuberculose s'élevait à 5,58 pour  de 1894 à 1918 contre 10,35 pour l'îlot 1 de Saint-Merri, et 5,36 pour l'ilot 17 de Plaisance), est le seul à faire l'objet d'une opération d'expropriation. Les  de l'îlot sont visités en  par les architectes-voyers pour la mise à jour du casier sanitaire pour les classer en « totalement salubre », « partiellement salubre » ou « insalubre ».

Une loi du  autorisait la ville à procéder à des expropriations massives étendues à l'ensemble de l'îlot et non aux seuls immeubles insalubres avec versement d'une indemnité aux occupants et aux propriétaires, quasiment aucun de ceux-ci n'habitant d'ailleurs les immeubles. Cette indemnité est fixée par une « commission arbitrale d'évaluation » administrative sans possibilité de négociation par les propriétaires et locataires. Une partie des logements antérieurement occupés par les Juifs étaient vacants à la suite des déportations, représentant environ 10 ̥% de l'ensemble, ce qui a permis à l'administration de limiter le coût de l'expropriation. Les expulsions applicables sous préavis de deux mois avec recours possible à la force armée se sont pour beaucoup d'entre déroulées en hiver.

Les Juifs encore présents n'ont cependant pas été traités différemment des autres occupants en ce qui concerne le montant des indemnités.

Les textes ne prévoyaient pas l'obligation de reloger les habitants. La plupart des locataires non juifs le seront, souvent dans des conditions indignes en raison de la crise du logement sévissant à cette époque, mais les Juifs ont été décrétés non éligibles au relogement ce qui en faisait une proie pour les rafles.

Les expulsions se sont déroulées de  à  en priorité sur la partie est de l'îlot entre la rue des Nonnains-d'Hyères et la rue Saint-Paul où résidait la plus forte proportion de Juifs.

Au total, plus de  sont chassées représentant  et  dont  juives. 57 % des familles juives expulsées échapperont à la déportation. Il faut cependant ajouter aux 43 % de Juifs expulsés déportés ceux raflés avant les opérations d'expulsions dont les logements étaient vacants.

Des hôtels particuliers sont acquis par la ville dans des conditions très favorables, l'hôtel de Beauvais à une famille juive pour la somme de  dérisoire sans commune mesure avec sa valeur, l'Hôtel de Chalon-Luxembourg pour un franc symbolique contre l'engagement de maintenir le vendeur dans les lieux pour un loyer symbolique d'un franc.

À la Libération, le quartier vidé de la moitié de sa population, était en partie en cours de destruction, une autre partie composée d'immeubles délabrés avec des logements ouverts, abandonnés et pillés dans un premier temps, puis obturés en attendant la rénovation. Quelques-uns dont les occupants avaient été expulsés sont réutilisés pour des locations à titre précaire.

Rénovation urbaine
En réaction avec le projet initial de démolition totale, les architectes Albert Laprade, Michel Roux-Spitz et Robert Danis sont désignés pour élaborer un nouveau plan. Celui-ci publié en  est approuvé par les défenseurs du patrimoine.

L'aménagement supervisé par Breschi, inspecteur général des Ponts-et-Chaussées et secrétaire de la Commission du Vieux Paris, mobilise  sous la coordination de  auxquels est confié chacun un secteur.
 Le secteur Ouest entre le quai de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, la rue de Brosse, la place Saint-Gervais, la rue François-Miron et la rue du Pont-Louis-Philippe à Albert Laprade.
 Le Centre entre la rue du Pont-Louis-Philippe à l'ouest, les rues des Nonnains-d'Hyères et de Fourcy à l'est, à Michel Roux-Spitz.
 L'Est entre la rue des Nonnains-d'Hyères et la rue Saint-Paul à Robert Danis.

Une grande partie de l'opération d'aménagement dans le secteur ouest porte sur la réhabilitation des immeubles et l'assainissement de l'intérieur des îlots, intervention nommée « curetage ». Albert Laprade conserve le tracé des voies avec quelques élargissements et s'efforce de préserver la majorité des façades. Il remplace par un jardin les ateliers qui occupaient l'espace triangulaire de l'ancien cimetière Saint-Gervais entre l'église, l'immeuble du 2 au 12 de la rue François-Miron et du 15-17 rue des Barres et restaure cet immeuble. La plupart des maisons des numéros impairs de la rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, celles du côté pair les plus proches de la rue de Brosse et l'ensemble des immeubles de la rue Louis-Philippe sont conservées. Les maisons de la rue des Barres entre l'église et à l'angle de la rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, et celles au sud de l'église le long d'une voie étroite, le passage du Gantelet, sont détruites et remplacées par un jardin et une crèche. Ce secteur est celui où l'aménagement est le plus proche du plan initial de .

Le tracé des rues du secteur centre est conservé mais leur largeur est régularisée. Les maisons de la rue François-Miron sont réhabilitées, notamment celle du 44-46 promise à la démolition et restaurée par l'association Paris historique dont elle est devenue le siège. Des maisons détruites sont remplacées par des immeubles aux façades s'intégrant dans l'environnement. La destruction dans les  et en 1942 des maisons entre l'hôtel d'Aumont et le quai de l'Hôtel-de-Ville permet l'aménagement d'un square. Roux-Spitz avait prévu de construire un immeuble le long du quai s'harmonisant avec l'architecture de l'hôtel d'Aumont. Ce projet abandonné est remplacé par la construction moderniste de la Cité internationale des arts par Paul Tournon.

Le secteur réaménagé par Robert Danis est celui où les destructions étaient les plus importantes, ce qui a permis l'élargissement de la rue des Nonnains-d'Hyères de , la création de squares ouverts au public à l'intérieur des îlots de nouveaux immeubles et derrière l'hôtel de Sens et de terrains de sport rue des Jardins-Saint-Paul le long du mur de l'enceinte de Philippe Auguste découvert à cette occasion.

Des immeubles sont reconstruits à l'identique (15 rue du Figuier), leur façade déplacée (42 rue du Fauconnier) ou sont accompagnés de nouveaux immeubles avec une façade d'architecture comparable ou en harmonie avec celles de leurs voisins, « immeubles d'accompagnement ».

Le projet de reconstruction des maisons de la rue Saint-Paul est abandonné. L'îlot entre la rue Charlemagne et la rue Saint-Antoine n'est pas, non plus, modifié.

Modification de la composition sociale
Cette rénovation s'est accompagnée d'un changement de population. L'expulsion s'est poursuivie jusque dans les  (et même dans les  concernant le Village Saint-Paul), au fur et à mesure de la rénovation des immeubles, parfois au-delà. Ainsi les habitants des numéros pairs de la rue du Pont-Louis-Philippe ont été expulsés pour un projet abandonné d'élargissement de la rue. Le relogement a été effectué de manière sélective sur des critères sociaux et raciaux : les pauvres et les nord-africains ont surtout été relogés dans d'autres quartiers.

La population du quartier Saint-Gervais (dont l'îlot insalubre 16 ne représente qu'une fraction) a diminué de  en 1861, à  en 1921,  en 1962 et  en 1999.

Un des quartiers les plus misérables de la capitale est devenu l'un de ceux où les prix de l'immobilier sont les plus élevés.

Ce remplacement des ouvriers et des habitants indigents par une population plus aisée et plus cultivée était un des buts affichés de la rénovation à l'origine.

Cependant, la municipalité de Paris souhaite rétablir un minimum de mixité sociale dans un arrondissement où la part de locataires HLM était en 1999 de 7,6 %, deux fois inférieure à la moyenne parisienne.

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Heading to East Lansing for Saturday's football game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Michigan State Spartans? You might want to bring a poncho.
It won't be a wet as last year's rivalry game was in Ann Arbor — played in monsoon-like conditions for much of the game — but Weather.com is putting the chances of rain at Spartan Stadium at noon at 70 percent.
The rain is expected to start after 11 a.m. and is expected to last until about 4 p.m., covering the meat of the football game.
It will likely be blustery as well, with the wind peaking around 20 mph at game time. That'll make the expected mid-40s temperatures forecasted feel like they're closer to freezing, meaning fans will likely want to take a heavy jacket, too.
Just don't bring an umbrella; those are prohibited under Michigan State's security protocols.
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has approved up to US$66mn in financing to Novatrans Energia to fund a 1,200MW, 1,278km electricity transmission line from the state of Maranh to Brasilia.
By doubling the capacity of the existing north-south transmission link, the private sector project will increase the overall energy flow and improve system reliability, reduce energy shortages and interruptions, and generate fuel cost savings.
The project will follow right-of-way of the existing north-south interconnection line, sharing access for inspection, maintenance, and operation, thereby reducing environmental impact. It will connect the Imperatriz substation in the state of Maranh with the Samambaia substation in the Federal District.
IADB financing consists of an A loan of up to US$30mn from the IADB's ordinary capital and B loan of up to US$36mn with funds provided by commercial banks or other financial institutions.
BNDES, the Brazilian national development bank, will provide a separate loan equivalent to about US$133mn, and ABN Amro will provide another loan equivalent to around US$33mn. The total project cost is US$338.1mn.
An important benefit of the project will be the increase of power flows between the southern and northern electrical regions, which have different climates and complementary seasonal hydropower capacity.


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Round table: Dune: Then and Now
Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1965, is one of the most relevant and most popular science fiction novels in the history of the genre that has won both Hugo and Nebula awards and is one of the rare examples of SF work that has successfully managed to transform its setting into a driving force of the story. Apart from its ecological subtext that makes Dune particularly relevant today in the context of climate change, among its many layers this work also contains warnings of charismatic leadership and fallacies of separating logic and/or mysticism from the entirety of human being. At first sight an imperial saga about intrigues of the warring fiefs and local population caught in between, with significant elements of fantasy and cold war allegory on oil, Dune is in fact a complex cognitive parable that inspires not only later ecological SF and fantasy, but also films, miniseries, board and video games… among which we also find perhaps the greatest film project that was never realized. On the significance of Dune both today and in the history of speculative fiction, in the atmosphere of once again growing popularity and highly anticipated new movie, leading Slovenian and Croatian writers and theoreticians of SF discuss Herbert's work.
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Out of favour Arsenal midfielder Gilberto Silva has left The Emirates Stadium for Greek side Panathinaikos.
The fee is expected to be ₤5 million which is expected to be used for an attempt to sign Gareth Barry from Aston Villa.
With the deal over Barry between Aston Villa and Liverpool all but over VillaÂ's boss Martin OÂ'Neill is likely to look elsewhere to off load Barry.


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Fredericton International Airport posts eight per cent increase in traffic in 2016, future growth limited by outdated and undersized terminal building
Although the Fredericton International Airport Authority (FIAA) presented strong financial and traffic numbers at their 2017 Annual General Meeting, more than ten years of accommodating growth in an undersized and outdated terminal means that even the authority's ingenuity is no longer enough to continue to keep growing within the current terminal.
Fredericton's airport once again broke passenger traffic records in 2016, with 377,977 passengers traveling through the capital region's airport. This represents an eight per cent (8%) increase in traffic compared to 2015, and is the seventh consecutive year of record-breaking growth.
The current terminal, however, was designed for just 200,000 passengers annually. Although it hasn't always been comfortable for passengers, efficiency and some creativity have enabled the airport authority to continue to accommodate YFC's growth, but they're running short on options.
"Our partners have been fantastic – the airlines, CATSA, and everyone in the terminal have worked hard to take care of our passengers under some tough conditions," says FIAA President and CEO, Johanne Gallant. "We continue to hear from travellers that our airport is one of the friendliest they travel through, and that's thanks to our front-line staff – we cannot thank them enough for the tremendous service they provide. Ultimately, though, we are simply out of space."
Businesses and organizations throughout the region have spoken out about the critical nature of the terminal expansion, including UNB, McCain, the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce, Ignite Fredericton, and the Atlantic Canada Salmon Foundation. Local governments have been unwavering in their support, with Fredericton, Oromocto, New Maryland, Nackawic, Regional Service Commission 11, and MP Matt DeCourcey all affirming that this expansion is needed to accommodate the existing traffic and to allow our region's economy to continue to grow.
Growth in 2016 came from strong loads on Air Canada's flights to Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Halifax, as well as the addition of a third daily WestJet flight to Toronto in early 2016. New Brunswickers also took full advantage of the sun charters in 2016, heading to Cancun, Varadero and Holguin.
Ms. Gallant emphasized the close connection between YFC and the community during the Annual General Meeting, highlighting the economic impact of the airport's operations as well as the airport authority's direct support of organizations like the Canadian Mental Health Association of New Brunswick and the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival.
The meeting ended on a cautionary tone, with FIAA Board Chair, Andrew Steeves explaining that growth at the airport will stall if the terminal expansion does not begin soon. Design work has been completed by the airport authority and the project is ready to break ground when funding is confirmed. Total project cost is $30-million, and FIAA has one-third of the funding in place. The airport authority is seeking partnership from the federal and provincial governments for the remaining $20-million.
The Fredericton International Airport serves over 377,000 passengers annually and offers direct daily service to the major hubs of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Halifax, along with seasonal service to sun destinations. Through direct, indirect and induced economic activity, YFC brings 513 jobs, $8.5-million in taxes, and $24-million in GDP to New Brunswick every year.


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Every church leader can relate to the pressures associated with leading change. Resistance is rarely absent from a transformation.
By understanding human motivation and the principles to manage change effectively, you can help people catch the vision and advocate for progress!
While the anticipation of a transformation can excite some people, most of us wrestle with the uncertainty associated with change.
Inevitably, the question 'what's in it for me?' can cloud our perception and lead us to behave with counterproductive actions.
We can most likely identify a time in our life when, unconsciously, our intuitive response to change was to initially resist it.
As leaders, our role is to help people understand the change, why it impacts them, how it impacts them, what's expected of them, and what resources are available to help people move forward.
Thoughtful communications and intentional engagement will gently shepherd people on this journey.
When you think of resistance, instead of thinking of it as trouble, consider it an opportunity to help others be transformed.
This is a challenging mindset shift.
How we as leaders think about resistance will drive how we respond to others. Say it out loud: resistance = opportunity!
Resistance is a natural expression when we encounter something new. We don't like when change happens to us.
We want to be in control of our lives. It's important to remember that and to empower people to feel like they have a sense of control, if not of the direction, then certainly how they choose to respond to the situation.
I once worked with a client that anticipated resistance to a culture shift the organization was undergoing.
Before we could expect people to change their behaviors, we needed to understand the type of resistance we could encounter, so we could equip everyone for success.
While resistance can be tangled in a complex cultural context, we can simplify the behaviors into categories.
In the book, Beyond the Walls of Resistance, Rick Maurer identifies three areas of resistance.
Let's unpack each category and address how you can mitigate resistance in your church.
"I don't understand it." If you sense that people are confused by the change you are leading, it's best to address it at the intellectual level.
Our objective is to help people understand why this change is taking place, ask questions, speak in a way they would understand, answer 'what's in it for me', listen, and repeat the communication messages multiple times and through multiple channels.
"I don't like it." If you observe emotional reactions to the change you are leading, it's best to address it by allowing people to express their feelings about the change.
Our objective is to help people reach a favorable reaction. You can expect this to take place through intentional conversations over a period of time.
Remember to acknowledge concerns, be honest and transparent up front, engage people in dialogue, listen and highlight the positive.
By allowing people to process how they feel about the change, you are validating that their buy-in is important and you value them as individuals.
"I don't trust it or I don't trust you." This can be the most challenging type of resistance because of the deeply rooted conflict at the core.
If you or other leaders have compromised the organizational culture of trust, the objective is to first build trust and establish confidence.
It's important to acknowledge past mistakes, build relationships, leverage the influencers in the group, listen to people's concerns and allow yourself to be influenced.
Over time and with good counsel, course-correction can lessen the personal resistance.
By now, you may have identified the type of resistance your church is facing and you may be ready to put some ideas into action.
While addressing resistance may not be your most favorite activity, for the sake of the Great Commission, it is a meaningful endeavor worthy of understanding and overcoming.
Pam Marmon is the founder of Threefold Tribe, a consulting firm that helps growing churches multiply. Her passion is for the church to be the highest functioning organization in the world for the sake of the Great Commission.
To receive a free resistance management video, worksheet, and practical tools, visit Threefold Tribe.
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Senators introduce long-awaited cyber bill
Three senior senators today finally introduced the long-awaited comprehensive cybersecurity bill.
The three-year effort, now known as the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S. 2105) is an attempt to secure federal systems by updating the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and expanding the role of the Homeland Security Department in securing critical infrastructure, such as the power grid, water systems and other sectors that are vital to the nation.
The bill comes on the heels of President Barack Obama asking for a major upgrade of $751 million at DHS alone in the fiscal 2013 budget request sent to Congress Monday. In addition to money for DHS, the administration is making cybersecurity one of 14 governmentwide initiatives.
All of these efforts signal one of the strongest pushes by both Congress and the administration to address cyber vulnerabilities in the government and in the private sector in the last three years.
"Consider the warning signs, hackers now seem to be able to routinely crack the codes of our government agencies, including the most sensitive ones," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) in a floor statement introducing the bill Tuesday. "Our Fortune 500 companies, they do routinely, and then everything in between. Adm. Mike Mullen, former Joint Chiefs chairman, said the cybersecurity threat is the only other threat that is on the same level as Russia's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Loose nukes, if you will. FBI Director Robert Mueller testified to Congress very recently that the cyber threat will soon overcome terrorism as the top national security focus of the FBI."
Part of an evolutionary process
The latest bill also follows closely the administration's cybersecurity proposal sent to Capitol Hill in May.
The Senate bill, which also is sponsored by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), is part of an evolutionary process that has been vetted wide and far, said a Senate staff member during a press briefing on the bill Tuesday.
Within hours, seven Senate Republicans wrote to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asking for other committees to have input in the cyber legislation process.
"The chair and ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs have recently introduced their latest legislative proposal, which as drafted, does not satisfy our substantial concerns," the lawmakers wrote. "If we are serious about enacting effective legislation into law, we must provide all members of the Senate an opportunity to become adequately informed by regular order. This is not the kind of legislation that can result in a carefully balanced solution unless the full process is afforded."
Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) want more hearings with the jurisdictional committees so the members can learn about the bill.
But other Senate staff members said they've conducted more than 150 meetings over the last three years with lawmakers, companies, industry associations, agencies, cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties experts and many others and those conversations have led to several significant changes.
In the final version, senators stripped out the Senate-confirmed White House cyber policy director and office. A staff member said there wasn't a lot of support for it and it wasn't worth the holding up the bill for it.
The bill also clarifies language in the FISMA section detailing the actions agencies can take if a vendor's system holding government data is under cyber attack or considered vulnerable.
The second staff member said the committees heard the vendors' concerns.
Includes provisions to improve cyber acquisition
The bill now defines any lawful action as one to "require the remediation of or protect against identified information security risks with respect to information collected or maintained by or on behalf of an agency; or that portion of an information system used or operated by an agency or by a contractor of an agency or other organization on behalf of an agency."
The bill also includes new provisions to improve federal acquisition of technology products and services:
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy will work with the Chief Information Officer's Council and the Federal Acquisition Institute shall ensure contracting officers have training in information security requirements.
The Office of Management and Budget also must write a report on possible impediments in the acquisition process that slow agency use of the newest, most secure technologies.
The General Services Administration shall develop a special item number under the IT schedule and consolidate under that SIN all information-security products and services.
OMB shall issue guidance within six months of the bill becoming law requiring agencies to purchase IT products only through authorized channels to reduce the use of counterfeit products.
The administration also is trying to address several of the same areas in the bill. For instance, the FISMA update requires the use of continuous monitoring. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel said the budget would improve agency capabilities to find and stop threats against their networks.
"We also will be connecting the dots between on-premise systems and cloud based systems," VanRoekel said Monday during a press call on the 2013 IT budget request. "This investment in the 2013 budget in conjunction with FedRAMP security controls will allow us to monitor whole government infrastructure whether on premise in federal facilities or in the cloud in a continuous way."
'Whole of government accountable'
And by making cybersecurity a cross-agency goal, it will place DHS on the civilian side and the National Security Agency on the Defense/Intelligence Community side in the fray to a larger extent.
"We will now hold the whole of government accountable in one way for cyber capabilities and examine threats in this holistic way," he said. "I'm excited to see that come online."
Neither VanRoekel nor the budget offers any further details on what the cross-agency goals mean.
The budget requests $202 million for a cybersecurity capability-improvement program at DHS to "further reduce the risk in the federal cyber domain" by addressing vulnerabilities, supporting continuous monitoring and improving the common operating pictures of threats across agencies.
DHS's U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (U.S.-CERT) would receive $15.3 million and 12 new employees.
Finally, DHS is asking for $117 million for network security deployment under the Einstein program.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee passed one version of a cyber bill earlier this month.
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UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) — At least one car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Raqqa, controlled by Syrian Democratic Forces, and local Kurdish and Arab media reported a number of casualties.
Kurdish news websites reported that a mine exploded, followed by two car bombs, killing women and children. Local Arab Web sites said at least four people died in the blast.
There has been a steady increase in attacks on areas controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, most of which lie east of the Euphrates River.
Syria's democratic forces, which form Kurdish protection units, have warned most of its members that the organization of the Islamic state will intensify its attacks after losing the last pocket in Syria.


Augusta "Gussie" Williams '13, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, delivered a presentation on her current research exploring the influence of the built environment on human exposure to extreme heat, and public health and societal impacts of these exposures.
During her visit to the HWS campus on Monday, Oct. 1, Williams met with student and faculty interested in public health. She specifically met with students in GEO 360: Applied Climatology to discuss a variety of topics related to the influences of weather/climate on public health in connection with semester-long research that GEO 360 students are conducting in this area.
"Heat waves are the leading cause of mortality among all meteorological phenomena, and are associated with increased morbidity related to cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and diabetic disease, as well as impairments in cognitive function, sleep and productivity. In the Northeast United States, it is expected future heat waves are likely to increase in frequency, duration and intensity," Williams' abstract explains.
The results of Williams' research could help improve strategies for "sustainable, equitable and targeted adaptation strategies" to protect public health at the local level.
Working at the intersection of climate change and public health for more than six years, Williams earned her B.S. in biology and geoscience from William Smith with a focus in atmospheric science. In 2015, she completed her Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in climate and health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Funding for the event was provided by the Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs.


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Federica Ancona
How much can you dare with beauty? It takes a genius to push the boundaries of an art form without compromising excellence. It takes Wayne McGregor to recalculate the coordinates within which contemporary dance makes its way towards innovation, without losing sight of what dance ultimately is about: the sheer beauty of bodies.
With his past cutting-edge productions, such as Chroma (2006) and Infra (2008), Wayne McGregor has coined a new vocabulary for contemporary dance. It is an idiom in which nobody else can speak, yet he uses it to communicate with unprecedented eloquence, as in Entity, McGregor's latest work for his company Random Dance. The piece premiered last year at Sadler's Wells and, after an international tour, came back onto the same stage from 4 to 6 June: an invaluable chance for those who missed it.
Entity is the first outcome of a long-term research project that McGregor started three years ago, in collaboration with neuroscientists from the universities of Cambridge, UC San Diego and Sussex. The project aims at exploring what happens in the brains of the dancers and the choreographer in the process of dance-making, shedding light onto the connection between the brain and the body. The objective is to develop an 'autonomous choreographic agent' or 'entity', in other words a software capable of generating unique solutions to choreographic problems, by reproducing human cognitive dynamics.
What is ravishing about Entity is that such a remarkable body of research fed into the choreography with subtle implicitness. What we see on stage is nothing like Artificial Intelligence, but bodies, pure bodies in never-ending motion. Restless limbs stretch to the brink of their muscular tension, undulating shoulders trace sinuous shapes, marking the space in which the bodies relentlessly conquer their consciousness. What seems to be chaos is ultimately demystifying order. Dancers' movements are different yet synchronous. Performers dance in clusters or in pairs, taking turns on the stage and immediately bringing the beholder to the peak of an emotional climax which will not fade until the very end of the show. Entity is a demanding piece. It is technically and emotionally challenging for the dancers as much as it is rewardingly exhausting for the viewer, who gets caught in a loop of hypnotic tension, following the complex pattern of bodies on the stage.
The music undoubtedly contributes to such a gripping experience. McGregor's musical choices are as daring as his choreography, yet always fine. This time the piece includes two moments, set to music by Joby Talbot and Jon Hopkins respectively. The music mixes smooth acoustic sequences played on rhythmic loops and strong percussive and electronic elements. The cello sequence is one of the most moving as it accompanies a pas-de-deux featuring a male and a female dancer entwining their bodies in sensual torsions. They drag their interweaved limbs on the floor as to suggest that the earth and humans are of the same matter and that's where instinct comes from. The most enticing duets are those performed by male dancers in couples, with delicate sensuality. A choice – that of the male partners – that provokes with fine subtleness.
The performance features video installations on the background which show abstractions of the human body, leitmotiv of the piece. At the same time, mathematical structures are projected on the floor, creating patterns which frame and locate the dancers' movements. Those structures, such as the golden ratio, seem to recall the elementary forms which underpin a pure and essential beauty in nature, mirrored by the dancers' sculptured bodies.
The performers are, indeed, central to the piece. They also get credits in the programme as creators of the choreography along with Wayne McGregor himself. It is, indeed, stunning how dancers give themselves up for this piece. Their bodies may well be said supernatural, as capable of what average human beings could never perform. Yet they couldn't be more human. The movements keep a quality of instinct which makes them revelatory, therefore powerfully moving.
The vision that led to the making of Entity is rare in that only an innovator like Wayne McGregor could have achieved it. He's a master in reshuffling dance paradigms without betraying his devotion to beauty.
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