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Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?
John Feffer 01/22/2023
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage to the planet and to human beings of unrestrained increases in economic production and population. It was a straightforward extrapolation from then-current trends that took into account limited resources like water, fertile soil, and fossil fuels.
That same year, the United Nations held its first environment conference, which led to the creation of the UN Environment Program. Climate change was barely on the conference agenda, but it would increasingly focus the attention of scientists and policymakers over the next two decades with the introduction of the term "global warming" in 1975, the Montreal Protocol in 1987 that restricted ozone-destroying chemicals, and the creation in 1988 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
For half a century, in other words, the international community has issued warnings about the linked hazards of economic growth and climate change. Despite these warnings across five decades, very little has been done to engineer an alternate to unrestrained growth that can safeguard the planet and yet still secure a measure of prosperity fall all humans.
Current doomsday scenarios of a future dominated by environmental disasters and economic deprivation are not the result of "sudden panicking," points out Vedran Horvat, the director of the Institute for Political Ecology in Croatia and a panelist at a recent Global Just Transition seminar on post-growth alternatives. "We had 50 years to realize what the Club of Rome said in the 1970s. Already at that time we knew there were limits and boundaries to our growth and that the planet does not have unlimited resources. Already we are too late. But I don't see that as a reason not to act. Now it's a question of how we act."
Similarly, discussion of "peak oil"—of a falling off of oil production—has been around since 1956, when geophysicist Marion King Hubbert predicted that the United States would hit peak production around 1970 while the rest of the world would top out in the early 2000s. Although Hubbert did not anticipate the discovery of new sources of oil, his predictions were only off by a couple decades. The COVID pandemic's impact on global supply chains, the war in Ukraine, and the rapid transition to electric vehicles have combined to ensure that peak oil demand will arrive in the next few years if it hasn't happened already.
As with the Club of Rome's warnings, little has been done to prepare for the depletion of fossil fuels.
"For the last 14 years, we've talked about green transition," observes Simon Michaux, an associate professor of geo-metallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. "But there's been no feasibility study for macro-scale industrial reformation. We had some ideas, but we didn't cost them out. We didn't get to the point of determining what kind of power stations we would need, who would pay for them, and what kind of engineering we'd need to keep each one running. Here we are perhaps past peak oil, and we still don't have a credible plan to phase out fossil fuels."
The lack of a plan and the urgency of the crisis are two major obstacles. A third challenge is the absence of consensus on how to move forward. "For the last two decades, those of us who are more and more worried about these conditions and the fact that things aren't changing are aware of just how far we are going down the road we shouldn't be going down," says Susan Krumdieck, professor and chair in Energy Transition at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. "We've put on our superhero capes to fight. Unfortunately, we're pulling in different directions."
One obvious difference in approach is between the richer countries of the Global North and the poorer countries of the Global South. "We've seen lots of initiatives like the Green New Deal in the United States which lack the perspective and participation of peripheral economies in the Global South," notes Renata Nitta, a campaign strategist for Greenpeace International based in Brazil. "When you think of plans to decarbonize the economy and transition to electric vehicles, you have to ask where those raw materials come from. More than half of lithium resources, for instance, are based in Latin America in a very dry area where the mining takes a lot of energy and water and dispossesses traditional and indigenous communities."
At this point, after a half century of study and debate, the international community has a good understanding of the challenges of economic growth and the urgent threat of climate change and resource depletion. Only recently, however, have scientists, engineers, policymakers, and movement leaders begun to identify the components of an action plan around post-growth alternatives. From "transition engineering" and "degrowth by design" to a new social contract and a new economic model built around the commons, visionary thinkers and activists are finally beginning to pull in the same direction.
Transition Engineering
In 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City. One of the exits was locked while a fire escape was too flimsy to hold all the fleeing workers. Because they could not get out of the building, 146 garment workers died in the flames. It was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in U.S. history. It also set in motion the transformation of working conditions in factories through the improvement of safety standards.
The Triangle fire is not the only example of a man-made disaster. "At that time, roughly 40 coal miners a day were dying on the job in the United States and that year 5,600 UK workers died on the job," notes Susan Krumdieck. "That isn't the case anymore. Maybe in Qatar a lot of people are still dying on the job but that's because they're not doing what we do, namely safety engineering. We see the emergence of corrective discipline time and again. After the Titanic went down, maritime safety emerged to ensure that that didn't happen again. After toxic waste disasters like Love Canal, we saw the emergence of processes to prevent those man-made disasters."
Climate change is also a man-made disaster. Like coal mining deaths and toxic waste dumps, it is a byproduct of the industrial era. Recognition of climate change—and the costs it has already exacted in human lives and environmental deterioration—has led to the creation of what Krumdieck calls "transition engineering," namely an effort to "downshift fossil fuel production and consumption and then engineer the adaptation and resetting of the energy system and the economic behaviors in that context."
Krumdieck was motivated to become a mechanical engineer as an undergraduate in 1981 "because of the energy crisis, the OPEC oil embargo, global warming, and the existential threat of biodiversity loss," she remembers. "For nearly 20 years, I taught people how to put CO2 safely and efficiently into the air. Then in the late 1990s, many like me got distracted by carbon capture and storage and by biofuels because we are engineers and it was very exciting to work on these really impossible things."
She has since transitioned to transition engineering. "That's how impact happens: by developing standards, training, and professional organizations," she points out. "Now is the time for people working on this all around the world to come together and create a discipline."
She hopes that future historians will look at humanity's predicament today much as we look back at the Triangle Fire. Transition engineering can potentially transform the way economics work much as safety engineering has radically minimized man-made hazards in the workplace.
"This year, in the UK, fewer than 150 will die on the job," she concludes. "Not one of those is okay. But 100 years ago, all 5,600 worker lives lost were just the price of the progress of industrialization."
Addressing Fossil Fuel Dependency
Despite considerable investments by China, the United States, and other countries into renewable energy systems like solar and wind, fossil fuels remain the dominant source of energy in the world. In 1966, oil, gas, and coal supplied approximately 94 percent of all electricity. By 2009, that number had dropped to a little above 80 percent. But over the next decade, even as concern over climate change spiked, dependency on fossil fuels barely shifted, falling to just under 79 percent by 2020. The economic rebound from the COVID lockdowns, coupled with the initial energy shocks associated with the war in Ukraine, has encouraged a greater reliance on fossil fuels, particularly coal, and generated record profits for oil and gas companies.
But the war in Ukraine—and the near universal desire to achieve energy independence from external suppliers—has also inspired many countries to push harder to install renewable energy, forcing the International Energy Agency to revise its estimate of increased renewable capacity by 30 percent. According to the IEA, "renewables are set to account for over 90% of global electricity expansion over the next five years, overtaking coal to become the largest source of global electricity by early 2025."
The desire for transition may be strong but the physical infrastructure is still lacking. "The task to get rid of fossil fuels is much larger than we thought, so large that we should have been taking it seriously 20 years ago," reports Simon Michaux. "We need 586,000 non-fossil-fuel power stations to phase out fossil fuel, but there are only 46,000 in the existing system. We don't have enough minerals to build these new stations."
Further, those minerals are often in areas of the Global South where extraction poses serious risks to surrounding communities and the environment. "Half the world's cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo," Renata Nitta points out, adding that such mines are often the locus of human rights abuses. "More than 14,000 children are working in cobalt mines.
The challenge is not just the insufficiency of mineral resources. "Wind and solar are highly intermittent," Michaux continues. "To become viable, we need a power buffer. My calculations show that such a power buffer would be so large as to be impractical. Which means that wind and solar can't be the foundational energy system we want it to be. So, we either need to change wind and solar or we need to change electrical engineering to deal with variable power supply."
One strategy for gradually reducing dependency on fossil fuels is rationing. The United Kingdom, in a plan supported by the Labour and Green parties, considered implementing Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) as a way to equitably reduce fossil fuel consumption. In a TEQ system, individuals are issued quotas of fossil fuel energy to use, the surplus of which they can sell. Institutions purchase TEQs at auction or buy as needed. The TEQs are linked to carbon reduction goals, and governments can progressively reduce them to meet national and international requirements.
"The system that does the rationing and why is a primary requirement," Susan Krumdieck points out. "Seats at a Queen concert are rationed: there are only so many. If everyone who wanted to see the concert just showed up it would be a disaster. So, the system that lets us book and manage our expectations is essential. Does that system exist for fossil fuels? No, so let's build it."
Simon Michaux agrees that rationing would be sensible, but it would work only if there were sufficient trust in the system, which requires full transparency. "Everyone involved has to understand what's happening and why," he maintains.
Because of the war in Ukraine, rationing of energy has already happened throughout Europe. Vedran Horvat points to measures "related to air-conditioning temperatures in offices, the heating of swimming pools, and the lighting of public monuments. This broad range of measures to decrease energy consumption, in the context of the energy crisis in Europe due to the war in Ukraine, is well understood and easily accepted. It is also an issue of solidarity to understand that if we maintain our comfort at an unsustainably high level, it might have detrimental impact on people on the other side of the planet."
Addressing Growth
Economic growth continues to push greater consumption of energy. The pandemic shutdowns led to a 4.5 percent decline in global energy consumption in 2020, but that was erased by a 5 percent increase in 2021 during the economic rebounds. In the first half of 2022, energy consumption continued to rise by 3 percent.
The war in Ukraine, however, has dampened growth prospects, not only for Russia and Ukraine but for Europe more generally. "At the moment, many European countries are facing zero-growth scenarios and some core European economies are not predicting any growth in the next few years," Vedran Horvat points out. "Which means that we really need to address questions of how to organize our lives and ensure wellbeing for all in conditions of if not degrowth then at least zero growth. This sort of degrowth, which is imposed by geopolitics, is degrowth by disaster." This kind of degrowth resembles austerity measures imposed during or after other kinds of disasters, like war or debt default.
A better approach, Horvat notes, would be "degrowth by design." In this way, "we program our developmental scenarios to satisfy human needs and wellbeing but in ways that don't lead necessarily to economic growth," he explains. "This would involve fair and equal redistribution of resources through as much of a democratic process as possible. We should think of how to use the current crisis as an opportunity, A democratic transition to degrowth is necessary if we want to discuss viable alternatives rather than have degrowth imposed by disaster as is now the case."
Such degrowth by design, argues Renata Nitta, must include a major shift in thinking. "We have to move from a very individualistic, profit-driven society to one that is more based on sharing, on the commons, on valuing care," she notes. "In this sense, we have a lot to learn from what indigenous and traditional communities are doing and telling us. Their vision of the cosmos is embedded in a different ethic that respects the environment. Deforestation rates inside indigenous areas can be 26 percent lower than other areas. So, these communities are very effective in terms of protecting the environment. We have to ensure that they're part of the decision-making and we surely have to respect their constitutional rights."
Who Are the Changemakers?
All transitions need people who help engineer the pivot. These are the changemakers, like the revolutionaries in America and France in the eighteenth century or the Silicon Valley scientists and entrepreneurs who ushered in the computer age.
"When change happens, it's not a shift in mass consciousness among people as such," Simon Michaux points out. "It's a relatively small number of people embedded in our civil service. They're not necessarily elected officials, they're people advising those officials. And when they decide to move on things, they can move quickly." He notes that it's difficult to work through official channels because the establishment is not interested in change: "They're having a great time with growth and power and money." But advisors, who aren't themselves in charge, are a different matter. "If they decide that they've had enough, change happens," he points out.
Scientists and engineers, too, can play a role. "A network of badly-behaved scientists and engineers who just do stuff without permission," Michaux continues, can also spur forward a shift in consciousness by developing new ideas, approaches, and innovations and getting information about them into circulation. "Most of humanity is inured to the existing paradigm. So, you only need 4-5 percent of humanity" to understand the new approaches and decide to move on them.
Vedran Horvat looks to trade unions as key players in the process, particularly in Europe where the European Green Deal is decarbonizing economies from the top down and without sufficient attention paid to addressing inequality and injustice. Trade unions, he argues, are essential in forging a new social contract that creates the consensus necessary for degrowth scenarios to move from the fringe to mainstream acceptance.
"Trade unions are sometimes quite difficult but necessary partners to tackle the justice element of moving toward post-growth scenarios," he concludes. "Post-growth scenarios are not politically represented in democracies, are not related to democratic power in a way to execute such scenarios. So, we must find other ways to have political representation of this shift in the political arena."
Renata Nitta is skeptical about the notion that technology can solve all environmental and climate challenges. To advance zero-growth alternatives, she says, "we need to redefine the convergence points between state, trade union movements, and all those who might be left behind when adopting this new regime."
Change can happen when a critical mass of people abandons an old model in favor of something new. Sometimes that happens as a result of a particular event. For instance, the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 spurred an effort to ban the pesticide DDT. On the climate front, the approach of a number of tipping points—the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, the complete thaw of northern permafrost—should have already prompted a reconsideration of the push factors behind global warming. Ideally, physical tipping points should translate into perceptual tipping points.
When it comes to economic growth, however, virtually all governments, international financial institutions, and economists—as well as significant majorities of the population—believe that either the status quo is working for them or that directing a larger share of a growing pie will remedy what's wrong. Only when a critical mass of people understand that the pie can't keep growing—that unlimited growth is not liberating but ultimately self-defeating— will a tipping point in public opinion be reached.
In April 2010, the largest oil spill in history happened when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Several months later, a massive fire at a ruptured gas pipeline south of San Francisco brought renewed scrutiny to the perils of the fracking industry. Also in 2010, "it was becoming quite clear that the Kyoto protocol was not going to make a blip of difference," Susan Krumdieck reports. "Those were the galvanizing moments. And that's when 100 engineers came together to create the Global Association for Transition Engineering. It was clear we were going down a very dangerous path and that we had to help end users adapt to a better way of doing things."
Another way of discussing tipping points is the notion of sacrifice. When will a critical mass of people willingly accept sacrifices—of their SUVs, frequent air flights, cruise ship vacations, and so on—to save the planet from its multiple environmental threats? Or will sacrifice need to be imposed on an unwilling populace, as China did with its one-child policy beginning in 1980?
"In many countries, social majorities are not accepting that sacrifices need to be made," Vedran Horvat points out. The stumbling block is not willingness to recycle but willingness to scale back on consumption. "The circular economy obviously has some positive environmental or climate impacts but it doesn't teach us to consume less," he adds. "Bringing some resources back into circulation to use again is all good and needed, but it doesn't require us to consume less. We need to relearn what our lives look like if we consume less."
Sacrifices can be imposed from above, or they can be agreed upon collectively through a democratic process. "Obviously governments, commissions, and transnational governance regimes are all engaged in delivering quick, top-down solutions without investing time into democratic processes," Horvat continues. "That's no reason not to bring this debate into society and, wherever possible, enable citizens to learn how to transform their lives. When we say that we don't have enough resources, we are not asking what energy is being used for at this moment and whether we need that to maintain the system. Some things must be shrunk or calibrated to the new reality if we are to be more responsible toward future generations and for them to live in a just world."
As Renata Nitta points out, the Global South has already made sacrifices for centuries through colonial appropriation and its aftermath. But now, the Global South urgently needs help in transitioning away from fossil fuels and addressing the current impacts of climate change. "It took 30 years to agree on financing for loss and damage," she points out. "We can't wait another 30 years to define the rules for financing the transition. At the national level, we need to move away from the lobbying of big corporations on governments to create processes that are more bottom up than top down: to include marginal groups and ensure that their rights are being respected. It takes a lot of time, but what other choices do we have? I don't see any other way to create faster change."
At the same time, Nitta stresses the importance of utopian alternatives. "We are constantly being bombarded by messages of doom," she says. "These messages disempower people. For quite some time, the environmental movement was quite good at using "end-of-the-world" messages. But now is the time to change. People are building resilience in communities all over the world. Our job as researchers and environmentalists is to help amplify these ideas."
Sacrifice won't come easily to the affluent in the Global North. "We've been living a wonderful life in the last century, a golden era of getting whatever we want with a snap of our fingers," notes Simon Michaux. "What happens if we are moving into a world without enough to go around, when we have to work very hard for less outcome? From a biological point of view—and I learned this from Nicole Foss—energy determines the size and complexity of an organism. If energy is reduced, that organism has to shrink in size and become less complex. If we are stepping into a low-energy future, industry will likewise become simpler and smaller whether we like it or not. There will be a reorganizing of energy around new energy sources. Then people will reorganize themselves around those industrial hubs, and our food production will reorganize around those people."
In other words, a major fork in the road approaches. "In this way, we'll decide who we really are and what kind of world we want to live in," Michaux concludes. "Do we turn against each other or work together?"
Role of the State
The economic trend of the last four decades has been in the direction of reducing the power of the state: privatization of state assets, reduction of regulatory apparatuses, weakening of government leverage over the economy. Some of the policies to address climate change fit into this pattern by emphasizing market-based solutions such as carbon trading. But as the example of Chinese state investments in renewable energy suggests, governments have enormous power to push through economic transitions.
"If a government can come up with a sensible plan that everyone gets behind, more government intervention might work," notes Simon Michaux. "But if it's like the Roman Empire, when the government wasn't acting in the best interests of the majority of the population, then it won't work. If that happens, there will be less government intervention and a parallel system of governance will emerge, and the social mandate to govern will transfer from one system to the other. We'll need government in some form, but that government would have to implement a new system that doesn't exist yet in a paradigm that doesn't exist yet. My job going forward is to build the tools that try to understand what that paradigm might be and then hand those tools off to people who will go on past me."
Governments also remain subject to considerable influence from the corporate sector, particularly fossil fuel companies that continue to lobby for subsidies and other favorable terms. "We see at every COP how weak governments are," Vedran Horvat explains. "They are not able to make agreements that are immune from fossil fuel companies and the corporate sector more generally. The return of government is essential in abandoning fossil fuels for it is governments who ultimately have to operate in the public interest."
Renata Nitta agrees: "The market won't resolve the climate and biodiversity crisis. A market mechanism proposed by companies is often little more than greenwashing so that they can maintain business as usual. It's important to pressure government to keep these corporations accountable and not accept false solutions."
Time, all of the presenters agree, is of the essence. "Now that I'm a granny, I don't have time to think about things I can't do anything about, such as the way the market works or the way politicians work," Susan Krumdieck reports. "I'm laser-focused on the changes that are required, on a change in a place or a system that can be scaled up."
"Odrast is the Croatian word for degrowth," points out Vedran Horvat. "The word doesn't sound negative in Croatian. It means to grow up and be mature. So, we need to be mature enough to cooperate and identify a definite set of options to ensure the survival of future generations."
Via Foreign Policy in Focus
Filed Under: Climate Crisis, Environmentalism, Pollution
John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus. His latest book is Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response.. He is also the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands


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The above code works but as you can see I have to manually create the SOAP message. Is there any way to just pass in the parameters and the method name and the soap body/message is created automatically. There was an example on StackOverFlow for the same exact scenario but I am not able to find it.

A: Assuming that you can generate a WSDL for your services I recommend that you look at WSDL2SOAP for iOS. I have used this in a historical project (2+ years ago) and it worked well:-
http://code.google.com/p/wsdl2objc/
This is an app that you point to a WSDL and it automatically generates classes for you to use to access SOAP services. I can't vouch that it still works, but I'd recommend investigating because it makes for easy SOAP handling. Do remember that the library (unless recently updated) is pre-ARC so in addition to the installation steps in the docs, you will need to flag this for appropriate memory management.

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The town and the two streets
By Paulo Coelho
The following story is told by Sheikh Qalandar Shah in his book Asrar-i-Khilwatia (Secrets of the Recluses):
In eastern Armenia there was a little village with two parallel streets, called North Way and South Way, respectively. A traveler from afar walked down South Way, and soon resolved to visit the other street; however, as soon as he entered it, the merchants noticed that his eyes were filled with tears.
"Someone must have died on South Way," said the butcher to the textile salesman. "That poor stranger, who just came from there, look how he cries!"
A child heard the comment, and as he knew what a sad thing someone dying is, he began to cry hysterically. Before long, all the children in that street were crying.
Startled, the traveler decided to leave immediately. He threw away the onions he was peeling in order to eat them – that being the reason his eyes were filled with tears – and went off.
However, the mothers, worried by their children's weeping, soon went to find out what had happened, and discovered that the butcher, the textile salesman and – by this time – several other merchants, were all deeply concerned about the tragedy which had occurred on South Way.
More rumors began to spread; and since the town hadn't many inhabitants, everyone on both streets knew that a terrible thing had happened. The adults began to fear the worst; but, since they were worried about the gravity of the tragedy, they decided not to ask anything, so as not to make matters worse.
A blind man who lived on South Way and didn't understand what was going on, decided to speak up:
"Why such sadness in this town, which as always been such a happy place?"
"Something terrible happened on North Way," answered one of the inhabitants. "The children are crying, the men frown, mothers send their sons home, and the only traveler to pass through town for many years, left with his eyes filled with tears. Perhaps the plague has hit the other street."
Before long, rumors of an unknown deadly disease spread through the town. And since all the weeping had begun when the traveler visited South Way, the inhabitants of North Way were sure that that was where it had begun. Before nightfall, people from both streets abandoned their houses and left for the mountains of the East.
Centuries later, that ancient village where a traveler passed peeling onions continues abandoned to this day. Not far away, two settlements emerged, called East Way and West Way. Their inhabitants, the descendents of the former inhabitants of the village, still do not speak to each other, for time and legends placed a great barrier of fear between them.
Sheikh Qalandar Shah says: "all in life is a question of attitude towards things, and not the actual things themselves. It is always possible to discover the origin of a problem, or choose to enlarge it in such a way that I no longer know where it began, its true size, how it can affect my existence, and how it is capable of distancing people I used to love."
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MANILA, Philippines - The Bootleg Beatles, the acclaimed entertain- ment group from Lon- don, that provides the closest thing to a true Beatles experience in con- cert, will be arriving for a series of shows in the Philippines on January, 2014.
A production of Viva Live Inc. and Redstone Media Productions, The Bootleg Beatles in Concert will be held at the Plenary Hall of the PICC on Roxas Blvd. tonight. The show will be followed by another perfor- mance at the SMX Convention Center in Davao on Jan. 18 and then also on Jan. 19 at the Grand Ballroom of the Solaire Resort and Casino, the Bootleg Beatles' official residence while in Manila.
The Bootleg Beatles was formed in 1980. Envisioned as a tribute band, the group has performed in sold-out concerts all over the world. Playing the leads are Adam Hastings as John Len- non; Steve White as Paul McCartney; Andre Barreau as George Harrison; and Hugo Degenhardt as Ringo Starr on drums, percussion and vocals. They all sing and play musical instruments and look like the Beatles.
Watching the Bootleg Beatles in concert is the only opportunity for fans of the legendary lads from Liver- pool to approximate what might have been a Beatles performance. The show will bring to life the era of Beatlema- nia from 1963 to 1969 with songs like I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Yesterday and I Saw Her Standing There, Here There And Everywhere, Eleanor Rigby, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, With A Little Help From My Friends, Across The Universe, The Long And Winding Road, Let It Be and many others.
The official TV partners of Boot- leg Beatles in Concert are PBO, Viva Channel, 2nd A venue and Jack TV . The official media partners are Manila Bulletin; People' s Journal and People' s T onight with PEP .ph and ClickTheCity as online partners, with special thanks to Outdoor Advertising Association of the Philippines (OAAP).
Tickets to Bootleg Beatles in Concert at the PICC are now available at Tick- etnet 911-5555; SM Tickets 470-2222; Ticketworld 891-9999; PICC 789-4734; and Viva Concerts 687-7236. Ticket prices are Flat Center (P4,700); Flat Left/Right (P3,700); Level 2 Center, Left/Right (P3,700); Level 2 Side Left/ Right (P3,100); Level 3 Center Left/ Right (P3,100); Level 3 Side Left/Right (P2,500); Balcony (P1,000); and Gallery (P600).


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Camila Cabello breaks up with boyfriend Mathew Hussey
by James Boley
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Camila Cabello is a very private person. And she made it clear that she was in the business because she loved the art of making music. She could never be a great celebrity. Camila said- "I know it would be a lot more interesting if I posted more about my private life or was involved in the gossip or whatever. I just don't like it. I just want to be a good artist. I don't want to be a great celebrity. I'm not!."
The 22 year old singer was a member of the girl band Fifth Harmony. But she decided to leave the band. She released her song "Havana", and became a sensation. The singer keeps her private life under wraps but it wasn't so private.
New Jersey Based Artist, Hefna380 has been Receiving Excellent Response for his Second Single "Real Rockstar"
Nashawn Raines has been Receiving Excellent Response for his Song 'Rain On Me' on all Music Platforms
The Havana singer and Matthew Hussey got together during February of 2018. Camila and Matthew were spotted sharing PDA on a beach in Mexico. After a year, both attended the Vanity Fair Oscars in 2018.
Camila does not like making it public, but she shared her experience with Matthew. She told the Marie Claire magazine – "He's so similar to me.. In person, we're just weird and silly and stupid together. He makes me the happiest I've ever been in my life."
Her new collaboration with Shawn Mendes is out and all the fans ship Shawmila. And their prayers can come true. It is news that Camila and Mathew broke up.
The break up is fresh, and it happened after Shawmila shippers crowded Mathew's account and left hateful comments. While that might not be the reason, we are not sure about anything yet.
Camila begged fans not to promote hateful behaviour. She also asked fans to not add more pain to her pain. And she said such an act "does not reflect the values I talk about".
She further shared- "To my fans, if you really love me please do not send people I love and care about hateful things. You doing that really hurts me, and it's so unnecessary and heavy and damaging to add more pain to pain."
Calvin Harris reacts on Ex- Taylor Swift and Katy Perry Reunion
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With an experience of two years covering the local news, James has a panache for recognizing, understanding and decoding science based news. He brings in the best news pieces for the Science/Environment section of the website.
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Nashawn Raines, a Chicago based music artist has been into the news for his new romantic song 'Rain On Me'...
Mp3Juices has more Clients to Listen the Best Free Music on the Web than Others
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In a survey, it has been found that Mp3Juices is getting increasingly more clients than other players in the same...
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NYC's Black-and-white Pop-up Exhibit Takes Guests Into Paradoxical Thinking
Paradoxity, a black-and-white exhibit with minimalism design, including innovative use of materials, is making waves this Fall in SoHo, Manhattan....
Use of Aromatherapy Candles is Increasing to Provide Pets With a Calm Environment
Silver State Relief's Lemon Kush is Helping People Fight Depression, Loss of Appetite and Anxiety
Athletes are now using CBD to Assist Recovery and Improve Health and Performance
Custom Printed Boxes are Taking the Businesses to Another Level
A2 Hosting Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale 2019 has been Attracting lots of People due to its High Affordablity
People Share Tips on Choosing the Best Furniture Stores
Lenders Loan Portfolios Are Growing in the 4th Quarter
Increasing Debts of Consumers are Giving Rise to Unscrupulous New Lenders in the US
Brig Agency is Helping Businesses Reach Greater Online Visibility
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For the record, February 6, 2018
Email your For the Record information to: fortherecord@biv.com. Please include a high-resolution, colour headshot where possible; photos are published in the print edition.
Mike Bannerman has been named a partner at Presley & Partners, an accounting and business advisory firm on Vancouver Island. Bannerman has been with the firm since January 2012.
Toronto-based Camilla Sutton has been appointed president and CEO of Women in Capital Markets (WCM), a national network of professional women in the Canadian capital markets and the voice of advocacy for women in the industry. Sutton spent more than two decades in capital markets, most recently as Scotiabank's global head of foreign exchange. WCM has a chapter in Victoria, co-chaired by Carmen Firmani and Tamara Bonn, and the Vancouver chapter is co-chaired by Catherine Heath and Kirsten Kennedy.
Hospitality/Tourism/Convention
Simmone Lyons has been appointed spa director at Scandinave Spa Whistler. Lyons previously held the role of marketing manager at the spa, starting in 2014.
Andrew Woodhouse has joined Fasken's Vancouver office as an associate in the firm's labour, employment and human rights practice group.
Keri L. Bennett and Danny Bernstein have joined the partnership of Roper Greyell LLP. Bennett, a labour, employment and privacy lawyer who assists both public bodies and private organizations, is also leader of the firm's privacy initiatives. Bernstein first practised law in Western Australia and then Ontario before moving to B.C. and joining Roper Greyell in 2015; he acts in all areas of labour, employment and human rights law in both provincial and federal jurisdictions, and regularly helps clients respond to wrongful and constructive dismissal claims, human rights complaints and statutory entitlement claims.
Timothy Louman-Gardiner and Matthew W. Pierce, both with general litigation practices, have joined the partnership at Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP. Louman-Gardiner's practice includes corporate and commercial disputes, banking litigation, creditors' remedies, estate and estate administration matters, and he also maintains an insolvency practice that includes acting for creditors, debtors and other stakeholders in restructuring and insolvency proceedings. Pierce has a broad litigation practice covering corporate-commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, securities law and other regulatory matters, construction disputes, employment disputes and insolvency matters. Pierce has appeared regularly in the courts of British Columbia, Alberta and Nova Scotia.
Prentice Durbin, Una Radoja, Roselle Wu and Kim Yee have joined the partnership at Harper Grey LLP.
Bev Holmes has been appointed president and CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), British Columbia's health research funding agency. Holmes has an eight-year history of leadership within MSFHR and a wealth of experience in health research, practice and policy.
Dr. Rakesh Arya, a dentist and entrepreneur, has been appointed to Pacgen Life Science Corp.'s board of directors. Arya has more than 25 years of business management experience and currently serves as the principal of a high-tech dentistry clinic based in Canada.
Christine Battist has joined Avison Young as a principal and CFO; she will be based in the firm's Chicago office. Battist has more than 25 years of financial management experience, most recently as CFO of Silver Bay Realty Trust, and, previously, Two Harbors Investment Corp.
Mike Mutchler has been appointed president, CEO and director of Amarillo Gold Corp. Rolly Uloth, who has held the position as interim CEO, will continue as executive chairman. Mutchler is currently a partner and advisory board member at Whittle Consulting Pty. Ltd. and has more than 30 years of experience as a mining engineer in both open-pit and underground mining operations.
Christopher Wolfenberg, a partner with Fasken Martineau LLP, has been appointed to MGX Minerals Inc.'s board of directors. Prior to his current position he was a partner with Norton Rose Fullbright and provided advice to clients active in the mining, technology and energy sectors. MGX Minerals has also formed a compensation and valuation committee composed of directors Wolfenberg, Lyndon Patrick and the firm's CFO, Michael Reimann.
A.J. (Pine) Pienaar, former CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management Canada (Inc.), has been appointed as a non-executive member of the board of directors at Mineworx Technologies Ltd. He is replacing Brent Fleischhacker, who is standing down to facilitate Pienaar's appointment, having been a director since June 2015.
Eric H. Edwards has been appointed president, chief executive officer and a director of TriMetals Mining Inc. The company also announces the retirement of founder Ralph Fitch as a director and officer after a 53-year career as a geologist. Fitch has led the company and its predecessors since inception in 1994. Edwards has worked for major and junior public companies with projects in Canada, the U.S., Ecuador, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Peru. Edwards most recently served as president and CEO of Lupaka Gold Corp., where he directed the company through its initial public offering and through the acquisition of Andean American Gold Corp.
Brian Corrall, controller for the TFN Economic Development Corp. of the Tsawwassen First Nation, has been appointed to the board of Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. as an independent director. To accommodate the appointment, Marshall Bertram, a founder of Mineral Mountain, will resign from the board of directors on March 1. Corrall has more than 30 years of experience in the forest industry in financial and strategic management positions with MacMillan Bloedel and Weyerhaeuser.
Russell Ball and Marie-Hélène Bérard have been appointed independent directors at Columbus Gold Corp., replacing Donald Gustafson, who died in 2017, and Gil Atzmon, a founding director of the company, who has retired. Most recently, Ball was CFO of Goldcorp Inc. and, prior to that, CFO at Newmont Mining Corp. Bérard is a former high-ranking French civil servant; she was special adviser to Jacques Chirac, former president of France, and is currently treasurer at the Chirac Foundation.
Juan Ramos Taboada has been appointed as an adviser to the board of directors at Upco International Inc., a cloud-based mobile service company. Ramos Taboada, based in Argentina, has extensive experience; he was chief operating officer of Business Telecommunications Systems, a strategic adviser for Skype for Latin America, and vice-president, Latin America, of iBasis.
Business in Vancouver welcomes submissions from local small businesses and large corporations alike that demonstrate examples of corporate philanthropy and community involvement in the Vancouver area. High-resolution images are also welcome.
The Founder's Cup Charity Classic donated $10,000 to the BC Sports Hall of Fame and $10,000 to the BC Sports Hall of Fame Foundation. Ron Jones, founder and Hall of Famer, BC Sports Hall of Fame, donated $50,000 to the BC Sports Hall of Fame Foundation.
Patrons at the Arms Pub in Port Coquitlam donated $10,000 to Crossroads Hospice Society. The funds were raised during the pub's fourth annual football pool.
Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services donated $2,500 to the Down Syndrome Research Foundation. The funds were raised at the fire department's golf tournament in 2017.
Watson Goepel LLP donated $15,800 to Charlford House Society for Women, an organization providing a safe place for women recovering from substance addiction. Proceeds were partially raised through employee fundraising events. The donation will make a difference in the lives of 60 women and their families this year.
KPMG donated $6,000 to Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland. These funds will help the organization match at-risk girls, transgender and non-binary youth with supportive mentors through its mentoring program.
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and CEO of Slack and University of Victoria alumnus, has been named the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business 2018 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year at the University of Victoria.
Eat! Vancouver donated $25,000 from its 2017 festival to Project CHEF (Cook Healthy Edible Food), an organization that educates elementary school children about eating and cooking healthy.
TB Vets Charitable Foundation donated $40,000 to BC Women's Hospital Foundation. The donation will provide the hospital's new neonatal intensive care unit with life-saving respiratory video laryngoscope equipment designed for fragile newborns. •


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Police now say man in critical condition after being pulled from water in Old Lyme
by: Matt Dillane
A man is in critical condition after a near drowning incident at an Old Lyme beach on Monday.
According to officials, around 5:55 p.m., units responded to a report of a drowning in the area of Soundview Beach.
At the scene, police said the man, John Theriault, 34, was located alert and conscious.
He was then transported to Hartford Hospital where he is currently recovering.
More New London Stories
by Tina Detelj / Jul 18, 2019
NORWICH, Conn. (WTNH)--Just listen, and you may hear a familiar sound of summer. It's the hum of air conditioners which are expected to be blowing full blast as the extreme heat settles in.
"For some reason it just helps me sleep at night and keeps me cool," said Zak Mitchell of Norwich.
ICE officials found in New London
NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) -- New London police said they learned Wednesday morning that ICE officials were in the area pursuing a male with criminal history.
After observing an unknown law enforcement agency pursuing a male subject from the superior court house, police responded to the area to assist as the subject ran across the street, behind a business and through backyards on Post Hill.
Smiler's Wharf application withdrawn
MYSTIC, Conn. (WTNH)--The owners of Seaport Marine had big plans for their waterfront property which included a hotel, townhouses, a new restaurant, and a public walkway which would lead right to downtown Mystic. But those plans are now on hold.
"It wasn't surprising to me because everybody was up in arms about it, it seemed," said Sherry Compher who lives across the street from Seaport Marine.


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(a) Application. The following rules and regulations enacted in accordance with the provisions of sections 70, 71 and 73 of chapter 45 of the Consolidated Laws (Public Health Law), as finally amended by chapter 391 of the Laws of 1933, shall apply to all bodies of water (wherever located) now in existence or that may be hereafter developed which serve as a source of the public water supply of the city of Utica and the adjacent communities which derive their water supply through the mains of the bureau of water of the city of Utica.
(1) The term water supply means the public water supply of the city of Utica and adjacent communities.
(2) The term reservoir means any natural or artificially impounded body of water serving as a source of water supply of Utica and adjacent communities and to any additional reservoir which may be constructed or used for said water supply.
(3) The term watercourse means every spring, pond (other than reservoir), stream, marsh or channel of any kind, the waters of which flow or may flow into the water supply of Utica and adjacent communities.
(4) The linear distance of a structure or object from a reservoir or watercourse is the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of the structure or object to the high-water mark of such watercourse.
(c) Watersheds. These rules shall apply to the drainage area of the Graffenburg or No. 1 Reservoir, south of the city of Utica, and to that portion of the watershed of West Canada Creek which lies above the concrete dam at Hinckley in the towns of Russia, Remsen, Webb, Norway, Ohio and Salisbury in Herkimer County, the towns of Arietta and Morehouse in Hamilton County, and the town of Trenton, Oneida County, including all the tributaries of West Canada Creek.
(d) Human excreta. (1) No human excreta shall be deposited, thrown or placed in or allowed to escape into any reservoir or watercourse.
(3) No human excreta shall be buried in the soil on the watershed of the water supply unless deposited in trenches or pits at a distance of not less than 130 feet from any reservoir or watercourse and covered with not less than 18 inches of soil in such a manner as to effectually prevent its being washed over the surface of the ground by rain or melting snow.
(4) No privy or receptacle of any kind for the storage or deposit of human excreta shall be placed, maintained or allowed to remain within 25 feet of any reservoir or watercourse, except a properly constructed and operated sewage disposal plant as hereinafter set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (e), provided, however, that the property on which the privy or receptacle is built or is to be built is so located, bounded or otherwise placed that the distances above named can be obtained within the limits of such property.
(5) Every privy or receptacle of any kind for the storage or deposit of human excreta, built or to be built on property which is so located, bounded or otherwise placed that the distances named in paragraph (4) of this subdivision cannot be obtained, shall be placed as far as possible from any reservoir or watercourse and especially constructed of masonry, concrete or metal to form a watertight receptacle from which no outward percolation can take place. Where removable watertight containers are provided, they shall be located as far as practicable from any reservoir or watercourse. All privies or receptacles referred to in this paragraph shall be constructed or installed only with the approval and under the supervision of the bureau of water of the city of Utica and in such manner as effectually to prevent any pollution of the public water supply.
(e) Sewage. No sewage shall be discharged or allowed to flow into any reservoir or watercourse nor deposited on or beneath the surface of the ground within 150 feet of any reservoir or watercourse, except into watertight receptacles, the contents of which shall be disposed of as provided by paragraph (3) of subdivision (d). If such watertight receptacles are used, they shall be located not less than 75 feet from any reservoir or watercourse. These restrictions and limiting distances shall not apply to sewage treatment plants installed under and in accordance with plans which first have been submitted to and approved by the State Commissioner of Health. (f) Wastes, refuse and garbage. (1) No bath water, sink or laundry wastes or polluted liquid of any kind shall be discharged or allowed to flow into any reservoir or watercourse nor be deposited on or beneath the surface of the ground within 100 feet of any reservoir or watercourse.
(g) Bathing, boating, fishing, etc. (1) No person shall bathe or swim or be allowed to bathe or swim in any reservoir or watercourse and no bathing or swimming shall be allowed within 1000 feet of the intake at Hinckley on the West Canada Creek.
(2) No boating of any kind or fishing from the shore, from boats or through the ice or any trespassing whatever shall be allowed in or upon the reservoirs tributary to this public water supply known as reservoirs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 11, except by duly authorized employees of the bureau of water in the performance of their duties of supervision and maintenance of the public water supply; nor shall any ice cutting or other operations incident thereto be allowed on any part of these reservoirs except by permission and under rigid inspection and supervision of the bureau of water. Notices relative to the foregoing restrictions shall be posted conspicuously at each of these reservoirs by the bureau of water. The waters of these reservoirs and the lands surrounding them, owned by the city of Utica, shall not at any time be used for picnicking, playgrounds, horseback riding, public meetings or any other assembly or congregation.
(h) Places for animals. (1) No animal or poultry shall be allowed to stand, wade, wallow or swim nor be washed or watered in any reservoir and no watering place shall be maintained in such a way as to pollute any watercourse with excremental matter.
(2) No stable for cattle or horses, barnyard, hogyard, pigpen, poultry house or yard, hitching place or standing place for horses or other animals shall be so located or maintained in such a manner that the drainage, leachings or washings therefrom may directly pollute any reservoir or watercourse.
(i) Manure. No manure pile shall be maintained or allowed to remain within 100 feet of any reservoir or watercourse nor in such a manner as to pollute said reservoir or watercourse.
(j) Camps. No camp, tent, building or other structures for occupancy by transients or for the housing of laborers engaged in construction work or for any other use, except as a private camp or dwelling maintained by a person for his own personal use or for the use of his family and friends, shall be located, placed or maintained within a distance of 300 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the water supply.
(k) Cemeteries. No interment of a human body shall be made within a distance of 200 feet of any reservoir or watercourse tributary to the water supply.
(l) General clause. In addition to observing the foregoing requirements all persons living on or visiting the watershed shall refrain from any act, though not heretofore specified, which may result in contamination of any portion of the water supply.
(m) Inspections. The board of water commissioners of the city of Utica or such other person or persons as may be charged with the maintenance or supervision of the water supply or the duly appointed representatives of the bureau of water shall make regular and thorough inspections of the reservoirs, watercourses and drainage areas tributary thereto for the purpose of ascertaining whether the above rules and regulations are being complied with, and it shall be the duty of said board of water commissioners to cause copies of any rules and regulations violated to be served upon the persons violating the same, together with notices of such violations. If such persons served do not immediately comply with the rules and regulations, it shall be the further duty of said board of water commissioners to promptly notify the State Commissioner of Health of such violations. The board of water commissioners shall report to the State Commissioner of Health in writing annually, on the first day of January, the results of the regular inspections made during the preceding year, stating the number of inspections which have been made, the number of violations found, the number of notices served and the general condition of the watershed at the time of the last inspection.


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Australia – Macedonia
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BIRTHRIGHT MACEDONIA IS BACK
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THE BIRTHRIGHT PROGRAM RESUMES IN 2022
A 3-week journey for young Macedonian adults.
The United Macedonia Diaspora (UMD) and its partner, Macedonian Center for International Cooperation are pleased to announce the resumption of the Birthright Macedonia program next year.
Birthright Macedonia will start on July 1 and end on July 22, 2022.
In 2022, the Birthright program will be expanded to run in Bitola for the first time and will be held concurrently with the program in Skopje. Birthright in Bitola will be administered by our new partnership with the Birthright Macedonia Bitola Alliance consisting of four organizations, the Organization of Women Bitola, the Center for Local Initiatives Bitola, Innova Lab Bitola, and the Tactical Management in Complexity Hub.
As in the past, the program will give young Macedonian adults, from around the world, an opportunity to reconnect to their ancestral roots or connect with them for the first time. While in Macedonia, Birthright participants will conduct an internship that complements their academic and career goals or their general interest.
Formally organized trips to various parts of the country will also be resumed. On the heritage weekends of the program, participants will be exposed to the sights, sounds, flavors, and history of their heritage. See below for more information about the weekends.
For detailed information, please click HERE and click on Birthright Macedonia.
Because participation is limited, applications will be processed on a first-come basis.
Young Macedonian adults will savor every step they take on their journey with Birthright Macedonia. Most importantly, they will experience their heritage, their history, why Macedonia is so important in the Balkans and everything that being Macedonian means to them.
WELCOME TO MACEDONIA!
BIRTHRIGHT MACEDONIA DISCLAIMER
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives and activities of many persons around the world. Although the virus seems to be in remission, there is no guarantee it will not return and have a major impact in the foreseeable future.
It is recommended that participants to the Birthright Macedonia program purchase flight insurance when acquiring their airplane ticket to Macedonia in the event the program is canceled.
As per Macedonian laws, all participants will be required to submit proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter the country.
If the pandemic intensifies prior to the inception of the Birthright Macedonia program in 2022, the program will be canceled until further notice. All monies will be refunded to participants who paid the application and other fees associated with the program.
The United Macedonian Diaspora, the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation, and the Birthright Macedonia Bitola Alliance partners, their staff, and participating entities will not be held liable for any loss incurred by the cancellation of the Birthright Macedonia program.
WEEKEND HERITAGE TRIPS
(Please note: this is only a sampling of the heritage trips. Trips may be altered by organizers, and are optional for participants.)
Skopje Trip
Enjoy a full day experiencing the sights, sounds, and flavors of the nation's capital. Start with a visit at the base of Kale, a medieval 6th-century fortress that offers a commanding view of the city's major points of interest, and a visit to the Skopje Old Bazaar. Then head to Mount Vodno, where a cable car takes you on a breathtaking ride to the top. Stand at the base of the Millennium Cross, one of the tallest man-made structures in Europe. From the crest of Vodno, witness the 360-degree panorama of the city of Skopje below and the valleys in the distance. The day ends with a trip to Matka Canyon, meandering along a stone walkway high above the river below. Enjoy a delicious Macedonian meal at one of Skopje's finest restaurants.
Bitola Trip
The City of Consuls, Bitola, offers a memorable experience from her present to her past. Our stops include the Bitola Museum, which was constructed as an Ottoman military school where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first President and founder of modern Turkey attended; Shirok Sokak, the enchanting Main Street that will give you a feel from the life of consuls; the Old Bazaar, a maze of shops which used to be one of the biggest of its time; and the nearby Heraclea Lyncestis, an important settlement founded by King Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC, which became a stop on the Roman Via Egnatia with beautiful, well-preserved, early Christian floor mosaics. You will enjoy a mixture of Ottoman, neoclassical, 19th-century romantic architecture on this day trip which will then lead you to the Baba Mountain range and Pelister. Here you will capture and carry the unforgettable scent of the one-of-kind Molika pine tree and surrounding nature and enjoy delicious meals in the mountain in one of Macedonia's renowned restaurants Bitola is famous for.
Ohrid Trip
Depart Friday after work. Spend two glorious days in the City of Ohrid on beautiful Lake Ohrid. Come to this UNESCO World Heritage for Cultural and Natural Site, one of only 28 sites so designated in the world. The Ohrid Summer Festival features national and international music and theatre artists and ensembles.
Relax, stroll down the narrow streets, browse its chic boutiques and savor Macedonian cuisine at the many lakeside eateries. Visit the historical and natural attractions of the area and one of its many Churches. At one point in its history, Ohrid had 365 Churches – one for each day of the year. Enjoy swimming in the lake throughout the weekend. On our way back to Skopje, we will stop at the Via Egnatia Restaurant (named after the Roman Empire Road Via Egnatia) in the "country" of Vevchani (home to the world-renowned Vevchani Carnival) – they have their own passport and money.
Galichnik Wedding Festival
Participate and witness a variety of activities of this centuries-old Macedonian event in the village of Galicnik nestled in scenic Mavrovo National Park. You will be exposed to many aspects of Macedonia's traditions and culture. Enjoy the music, food, and activities in the village's ancient, stone amphitheater. Dance in the streets with the entire town! Celebrate the festivities that start on Saturday and continue into the wee hours of Sunday morning! Of course, don't miss the wedding. Everyone is invited. This is Macedonian tradition at its best!
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We are pleased to announce that the beneficiary of the 8th annual ITOPF R&D Award is the Norwegian research organisation, SINTEF, for a project on the characterisation of low sulphur fuel oils (LSFO).
Due to IMO regulations limiting the sulphur content in fuel oils, a new generation of LSFO marine fuels is now replacing traditional Intermediate bunker fuels and heavy fuel oils for use in the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) in Europe and North-America. This Award will help fund a one-year study to document the weathering properties and behaviour of LSFOs when spilled at sea, with relevance to the mitigation effectiveness of different oil spill response options.
The project is also funded by the Canadian government "Multi-partner Oil Spill Research Initiative program" (MPRI) and the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA).
ITOPF's Managing Director, Dr. Karen Purnell, said "This is a timely and relevant project due to the current lack of knowledge and experience about the properties of new LSFOs and speculation about their potential fate and behaviour when spilled".
Since the ITOPF R&D Award was set up in 2011, £350,000 has already been distributed to seven separate R&D projects worldwide on behalf of ITOPF's shipowner Members, Associates and their P&I insurers.
Information on the Award, including updates on previous award winners, can be found on our website: http://www.itopf.org/in-action/r-d-award/. The deadline for applications for the 2020 ITOPF R&D Award is 30th November 2019. Potential candidates should not hesitate to contact us if they have any questions regarding the Award by emailing rdaward@dont-want-spam.itopf.org.


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Dr Donella Caspersz
Exploring family business identity in the information age
I love the ability to engage with people through research and find out curious things about their behaviour. Dr Donella Caspersz
Dr Donella Caspersz is a published researcher, teacher and supervisor at the UWA Business School. She is highly involved in supervising PhD students and focuses on family business, labour migration and employment relations. Originally born in Sri Lanka, Dr Caspersz completed her education in Australia where she was raised. She joined UWA after completing a master's and PhD in industrial sociology, focusing on why people behave to change their world.
One of Dr Caspersz's current research projects relates to family business identity and sustainability in the information age. She is collaborating with colleagues from the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, China, Sweden, France and Malaysia, and with a postgraduate student in Pakistan. She believes the work is highly important because it addresses key issues of identity and sustainability of business, people and the wider community.
In addition to her research, Dr Caspersz has adopted a workshop and conversational approach to teaching and supervising PhD students. She has been highly recognised throughout the University and most recently received a Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education Teaching and Service Award for Research Supervision.
BAppSc (SW), Curtin
GradDipCareerEd, Edith Cowan
MIR. PhD, Uni West Aust
External positions:
Board Member, International Family Enterprise Research Academy
Committee Member, Family Business Australia, WA
Western Region Coordinator, Enactus Australia
President, Zonta Club of Perth
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Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education Teaching and Service Award for Research Supervision, 2018
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Published in the Family Business Review, 'Developing Positivity in Family Business Leaders' and nominated for Best Practice Paper, 2015
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Freedman Fellow (Classical), 2012
Agility, values vital for family business
By its very nature, family business has a hybrid identity. And while sometimes this doesn't work out well, most of the time it does, with 70 per cent of businesses in Australia identifying as part of the grouping.
Learning to lead a family business
Families remain at the heart of business worldwide, representing over 70 per cent of business in most economies including Australia. Many call their business by their family name: Faber-Castell, Estee Lauder, and our own Australian Coopers and LinFox, closely linking their social identity as a family to the business.
Dr Caspersz enjoys facilitating student learning and seeing them improve their knowledge and skill capabilities. She adopts a workshop approach to her lectures that uses a conversational style.
She teaches the following:
Australian Employment Relations
Advanced Topics in Employment Relations
Dr Caspersz has been a research supervisor for more than 10 years, supporting topics such as employment relations, family business and labour migration. She currently has no vacancies for supervision; however, she welcomes prospective researchers with a variety of interests after 2020.
UWA's Business School offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses aimed at inspiring students to become the innovative world leaders of tomorrow.
Management and Organisations
The Management and Organisations Department at the UWA Business School focuses on key research and teachings in all employment relations.
Management is the backbone of any organisation, providing organisational, operational, staffing and resourcing expertise that can be applied anywhere, anytime.
Donella.Caspersz@uwa.edu.au
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The Secretarybird of sub-Saharan Africa looks like a slim eagle set on the long, slender legs of a crane. Secretarybirds can fly but prefer to hunt on foot, walking over 20 miles a day and dispatching their prey with powerful kicks of their taloned feet.
Meet the Secretarybird, a bird of prey like no other on earth.
Picture if you can a slim eagle, striding through the grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa on tall, slender legs like those of a crane.
Standing four feet tall, the Secretarybird is beautiful: feathered in silver, set off by black wings and leggings. The face is half covered in bright red skin. Beyond the black tail extend two long white plumes tipped in black. And from the back of the head dangles a spray of long black feathers.
Utterly fantastic in appearance, these specialized raptors are also serious carnivores. Secretarybirds track down their prey not on the wing but on foot, often walking more than 20 miles a day.
They hunt rodents, snakes, insects, lizards, and other animals, dispatching them by stamping repeatedly with rapid, powerful kicks of their talons.
"Secretary" in the bird's name might follow from its black head quills, reminiscent of 19th century human secretaries with black quill pens. But more probably, "secretary" derives from the Arabic word for "hunter bird."
Bird sounds provided by the Xeno-canto Foundation. Feature sound XC391856 Secretary Bird recorded by Niall Perrins. Background sound XC280188 Harlequin Quail recorded by P Boesman.
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Dr. Bregman is responsible for Neustar's product technology strategy and product development efforts. Prior to joining Neustar in 2011, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Symantec since 2006, where he developed the company's technology strategy and oversaw its investments in advanced research and development, security, and technology services.
The data scientist has been called the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it's largely going unfilled. That's a huge problem for the business world.


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Chattanooga 2.0 one year later [photos]
July 14, 2017 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated July 14, 2017 at 12:16 a.m.
by Kendi A. Rainwater
Dr. Jared Bigham with Chattanooga 2.0, left, new Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson, center, and Sarah Morgan with the Benwood foundation talk in a group session during an update on the Chattanooga 2.0 initiative on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga 2.0 launched a year ago with the goal of improving education outcomes in Hamilton County.
Chattanooga 2.0 highlights year one of work
In the last year, 216 Hamilton County public high school students earned industry credentials, preparing them to meet the workforce demands of local businesses and grab well-paying jobs.
"Think of this as an initial chip into that big, bold goal," David Steele, vice president of policy and education for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, said Thursday.
The goal Steele mentioned was set a year ago by Chattanooga 2.0, a coalition of business and community leaders, educators and foundations that hopes to double the number of county residents with post-secondary degrees or credentials by 2025.
The goal was set six months after founding members of Chattanooga 2.0 -the Benwood Foundation, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, the Hamilton County Department of Education and the Public Education Foundation - released a sobering report about the state of public education in the county.
The report showed that 80 percent of the jobs arriving in the county paying more than $35,000 a year require some sort of post-secondary certificate or degree, and just 38 percent of residents have that level of education. The report propelled the community to take action, and now more than 114 groups are working to ensure greater educational equity and economic opportunity for all.
Chattanooga 2.0 highlighted all the work that's been accomplished in the past year during a more-than-three-hour convening Thursday morning, attended by about 75 people representing different sectors of the community, including Hamilton County Schools' new Superintendent Bryan Johnson.
Jared Bigham, coordinator of Chattanooga 2.0, told the group a lot has been accomplished in the last year, but there is still much to be done. He said Chattanooga 2.0's role is to help align the community's work around the 10 strategies the group released last fall.
"We want to amplify the message of access for all students in our community, and accelerate strategies that are already getting results," he said.
In coming months Chattanooga 2.0 publicly will be launching a venture fund that will strategically distribute money to support select programs aligned with the 10 strategies, which are designed to support residents from cradle to career.
The work of Chattanooga 2.0 has been divided into working groups, and representatives from each group gave a report Thursday. Katie Harbison, vice president of development and administration at the Chambliss Center for Children, talked about several initiatives the early childhood working group is implementing to support parents during their kids' earliest years. A goal of the group is to boost kindergarten readiness from 40 to 80 percent, and help counteract the crippling effect poverty can have on a child's brain development.
Justin Robertson, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for Hamilton County Schools, said a priority for the district is getting great teachers in every classroom and a strong leader at each school. The school system also is providing increased hands-on support and professional development to educators, he said, as strong teachers boost student achievement.
Sharon Harper, executive director of the Tennessee Department of Education's southeast core office, shared about the work of the group supporting the district's 16 priority schools, which are schools that rank in the bottom five percent of schools statewide. The group is hoping to recruit more experienced teachers and leaders to these schools, she said, and continue to find ways to increase student attendance. A focus also is being placed on supporting the students in these schools who are learning English.
Keri Randolph, former director of innovation for Hamilton County Schools, talked about the working group dedicated to promoting innovation. She said the group's focus is not on technology, but taking great ideas and using them in education to boost student success.
Steele also talked about the variety of programs schools and businesses have launched and will scale up to help students and adults earn market-value credentials and prepare them to hold jobs in manufacturing.
Matt Busby, a pastor at the Camp House, ended the updates sharing about the inter-faith council's work to partner churches, synagogues and mosques with schools. The plan is for places of worship to support the needs of the school determined by its principal and staff, he said.
Wrapping up the meeting, Bigham told those gathered that it has been a year of hard work, progress and collaboration.
"And I think year two will be even more exciting," he said.
Contact staff writer Kendi A. Rainwater at krainwater@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6592. Follow her on Twitter @kendi_and.
Chattanooga 2.0's 10 "urgent strategies to transform our future":
1. Strengthen supports for parents and families2. Create an early learning network3. Reimagine learning for the 21st Century4. Increase the focus on literacy for all students5. Support great teachers in every school and classroom6. Empower school leaders7. Ensure high expectations and equity for all students8. Prepare all students for college and career9. Increase post-secondary completion10. Connect more residents to high-demand jobsSource: Chattanooga 2.0
Goals of Chattanooga 2.0:
- Increase the number of county residents with a post-secondary degree or credential from 38 to 75 percent;- Double the number of Hamilton County School graduates who earn a post-secondary certificate or degree each year from 650 to 1,300 by 2025.
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Teacher Relicensure at Weber State University
The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) has authorized WSU to offer an online, seven-week teacher relicensure course. The course, Current Issues, Topics and Practices in Education (MED 6920), is tailored to meet your needs. Choose between earning 50, 100, 150 or 200 licensure points in order to get back to the classroom. See descriptions of the points available below.
To earn 50 points, complete the following three modules:
Discover how to use Canvas as a teaching and learning tool.
Instructor: Ryan Cain
Current Laws, Issues & Ethics
Focus on current federal and state laws that impact k-12 education, and discover the issues associated with them.
Instructor: Natalie Williams
The Core and More
Review current core curricula and lesson planning techniques for today's classroom.
Instructor: Stephanie Speicher
Block II: Feb. 01, 2022 – April 01, 2022
For 100 points, complete all of the modules in the 50-point category and the following additional modules:
Diversity/ESL
Recognize the many aspects of multicultural education and their effects on today's more-diverse classroom. You will also learn several teaching strategies that will help all of your students, especially those who speak English as a second language (ESL).
Exceptionality
Get an update on special education law and practice as it relates to the general classroom. We will discuss the responsibilities of general educators and methods for including students with special needs in the general classroom.
Classroom Management 1
This module will review concepts and strategies to help manage the challenges that exist in today's diverse classroom settings. We will discuss a variety of philosophical approaches to management with an additional focus on students who are at risk for failure.
For 150 points, complete all of the modules in the 50- and 100-point categories, as well as the following additional modules:
Planning for All Learners
Engage in long-term planning based on the core curricula, students' needs and the context of instruction.
Review basic concepts of assessment including the purposes of classroom and large-scale assessment, alignment with objectives, types of assessment and current accountability issues.
Technology II
Explore the many technology-based tools available to enhance teaching and learning. Use tools for both instruction and assessment.
For 200 points, complete all of the modules in the 50-, 100- and 150-point categories, as well as the following additional modules:
Classroom Management II
Gain management techniques using Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS).
Assessment II
Expand on assessment concepts to include scoring, decision-making (grading) and assessment-development strategies. In addition, explore sources of assessment items, critique of those items and learn how to write different assessments.
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South East Queensland is home to over 3 million of the State's 4.7 million population. Brisbane is the State capital, a big, vibrant city located on the Brisbane River and offering a plethora of shopping, dining and entertainment options.
South East Queensland is considered to run from Noosa in the north to the Gold Coast and NSW border in the south. The areas are quite distinct, with the Sunshine Coast in the north best known for its gourmet restaurants, boutiques and waterside real estate.
The Gold Coast is a popular holiday destination for families, as it is home to several well known theme parks, including Sea World. The hinterland areas behind both the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast are extremely popular with those seeking a tree-change.