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Sino-French Forum, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
SimonMahony17 November 2019
Just for a change, in October I was invited to speak at an event in Paris. This was organised by the University of Wuhan (as part of their International Sino-French Week) and I'École Nationale des Chartes and hosted at I'Université Paris Diderot: 4e Session de la Semaine Académique à l'étranger de l'Université de Wuhan .
I'École Nationale des Chartes
There were several events on different days and in different locations. Ours was 'Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities: A comparative approach through research projects'. This was a truly international event with speakers there from Wuhan University, I'École Nationale des Chartes, other Chinese and Paris institutions, the British Library and UCL. The theme allowed me to showcase some of the high-profile and innovative cultural heritage imaging conducted by UCLDH both in our digitisation suite and beyond: 'Non-invasive and Non-destructive Computational Imaging of Cultural Heritage'.
Mandatory conference group photo
The session was spread over two days, featuring imaging applied to bamboo slips, Dunhuang Mural Images, Watermarks in Medieval and Modern Western paper, digital recordkeeping, astronomic documents and much more. It was particularly pleasing to see the work of some of the French PhD students showcased; mapping, geolocation, cinema and historic Paris featured highly.
Greeted by the Dean of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University
Filed under Conferences, Digital Humanities, Events
Book publishing and the Beijing Book Fair
SimonMahony11 September 2019
Another trip to Beijing and another experience. This time the invitation was from Beijing Normal University (BNU) to be guest speak at their international academic symposium: "The Belt and Road" Academic Publishing symposium: Bridging East and West. This was organised jointly by the School of Journalism and Communication of BNU and the Oxford International Centre for Publishing at Oxford Brooks University.
One thing that I found particularly interesting was from the Chinese scholars and their emphasis on the importance of the study of Chinese 'classics' and particularly of old rare manuscripts (a view that I share when it comes to our own culture). This was in the context of the origins of the print industry with firstly the invention of Publishing Material 'paper' followed by Publishing Technology 'printing' and, of course, its export to the rest of the world pushing forward the 'world civilisation' through what they termed as the 'Chinese Book Road' as part of the wider 'Belt and Road' strategy.
The School of Journalism and Communication of BNU
There were other talks about the state and future of international cooperation in academic publishing. The symposium acknowledged the language barrier in academic publishing and the symposium was also the launch event of two edited volumes of academic publishing articles translated from English to Chinese – they sit in my office alongside many other publications that I, for want of language skills, am not able to read.
My talk featured UCL Press and the Open Agenda covering, albeit briefly, Access, Publishing, Education and Data.
Simon's talk at Beijing Normal University Publishing Symposium
As always, I was very well looked after by my hosts with an extremely able student on the Master's Publishing programme at BNU, making sure that I did not get lost. I was unfortunately not able to stay to attend the Beijing Book Fair which followed due to work commitments, but I did manage to round off the trip with a visit to the really excellent and highly recommended, China Printing Museum.
The China Printing Museum, Beijing
Facilitating digital art for UCL Raw Materials: Plastics, using 3D modelling and photogrammetry
Lucy JStagg9 September 2019
UCLDH Deputy Director, Prof Tim Weyrich, has been providing technological support to facilitate an artist residency programme, part of the UCL Raw Materials: Plastics Knowledge Exchange project led by PI Katherine Curran, funded through UCL Innovation & Enterprise. The project is a collaboration with Bow Arts Trust in east London, the Institute of Making, the Slade School of Fine Art and the UCL Department of Art History.
The artist in residence, Frances Scott, uses digital and analogue film processes to create her artworks. This summer, her work has been part of an exhibition at Bow Arts and an extensive programme of community projects in East London around Raw Materials: Plastics.
Furthermore, Frances' film PHX [X is for Xylonite] has been selected to be screened at the 57th New York Film Festival on 6th October 2019.
Frances Scott explores the history and usage of plastic in this imaginative essay film. Using three-dimensional animations, distorted vocal recordings, and the words of Roland Barthes, she connects the founding of the first plastics factory in 1866 and the development of cellulose nitrate, a key element in the creation of film stock.
The film includes animated 3D models of objects from UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage's Historic Plastic Reference Collection, made using photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques, and hand-processed 16mm film footage of data collected from ISH laboratory equipment.
Filed under Consulting, Digital Humanities, Events, Imaging, News, Research Projects
Digital Humanities China, Spring networking
SimonMahony21 May 2019
The long Easter break once again enabled the opportunity for travel, supported by the UCL Global Engagement fund, to build on and extend our UCLDH China networks. Flying to Shanghai always means a visit to CAA, Shanghai Institute of Design and to see what is new there.
China Academy of Art, Shanghai Institute of Design
My first major speaking event was at the University of Wuhan, missing the flower festival but also the crowds, to deliver talks to undergraduate and postgraduate students at their Digital Humanities centre (the first in mainland China), based in their School of Information Management, a member of the iSchools Consortium. The topics requested were combining research and teaching in our Connected Curriculum and cultural influences on digital design.
Connecting the Curriculum lecture at Wuhan
Traveling back to Shanghai enabled a visit to the outstanding DH research team at the Shanghai Library, which is both a public and research library. They are part of the Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of Shanghai and so combine the functions and expertise of the library, special collections, and research institute. They have a broad range of research interests and are always open to new possibilities and opportunities to hear about our UCLDH research projects.
Shanghai Library
Networking is about building on established relationships, but it is also about making new ones. One such new contact at this trip was made when I was invited to visit and speak at the University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou (which happens to be in my favourite Chinese city). They have a small but active DH group based in the School of Humanities and are attempting to develop a DH pathway for doctoral students. I was given a tour of their special collections, introduced to examples of Chinese book binding, and their tranquil rooftop Research Centre for Buddhist and Daoist Culture. As this was my first visit, I gave an overview of DH research and teaching and how that fits into a wider and more global context.
DH research and teaching lecture at Zhejiang University
Being at Hangzhou, I took the opportunity for a short train journey (not so short in UK terms but certainly quick on the high-speed rail) and a first visit to the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. We have had many students from UNNC on the MA/MSc DH programme; the meeting and lecture was arranged up by an alumna returning there after graduation to work at her UG and hometown institution. The campus is relatively small, very compact and very green with buildings mirroring their UK namesake. A research paper delivered this time on all things open: Open Access, Open Publishing, and Open Data. In our area of interest, they have a well-resourced and equipped Technology Centre with a Mixed Reality (Visualisation and AI) Lab with impressive tech projects in development.
Nottingham Ningbo campus
Final stop for this trip was the University of Nanjing to take part in their seminar 'Rethinking Digital Humanities Through Comparative Insights', with a range of speakers from several institutions in China, the USA and me from the UK.
Nanjing University Poster
Networking, building connections and creating partnerships are important aspects of our work. Digital Humanities is a fast-growing and vibrant field in mainland China and I am very pleased to have been supported by the UCL Global Engagement fund which has allowed me to build up these networks. Chinese institutions are always very welcoming, great hosts and often have funds to support visitors. What is difficult for them is paying money outside the country for things like air flights. The GEO funding I have received has covered my air fare but also importantly has allowed me to employ Chinese graduate students to add translations to my presentation slides (you can see examples above) and lecture materials to develop some of them into bilingual teaching materials that are released as Open Educational Resources (OERs) on the new UCL OER Repository that supports agendas such as the Connected Curriculum and Open Science.
I have more trips coming up over the Summer months and look forward to further developing these networks.
Filed under Conferences, Digital Humanities, Events, Uncategorized
Museum Hackathon: digging into museum data sets.
SimonMahony1 December 2018
UCLDH hosted its second hackathon focusing this time on visualising museum data sets. This was organised in partnership with the Media Centre and the Chair of Didactics of Computer Sciences of the TU Dresden. See also their news post.
Introduction at the Museums Hackathon
The attendance was disappointing low – we must have clashed with other events – but with great expert technical support from Owain Kenway (RITS) and Uli Tiedau (SELCS).
Experts supporting the hackathon participants
The prize-winning participants, students from the Digital Humanities programme and from TU Dresden, produced a really interesting collaborative project: UrbanHitory3D combining AR with historical images of Dresden.
Hackathon prize winners
Many thanks to all those who helped to organise the event and to support the students with their project development. Thanks also to Dresden 2025 for their generous sponsoring of the prize being awarded in the photo.
Filed under Digital Humanities, Events, Hackathon
Riding the Mail Rail 2018
SimonMahony1 November 2018
One of the nice things about having working partnerships with other institutions is that you get invited to their events. When the invitation is from the Postal Museum for a Mail Rail event you get to explore their underground museum, enjoy their hospitality but even more importantly, you get to ride on the underground Mail Train (now converted to take passengers rather than mail sacks).
Mail Rail at the Postal Museum
These are the tunnels under London where the mail from the Mount Pleasant sorting office (in the background of the image) that was destined for London would be sorted and distributed by a network of underground tunnels.
Mail Rail sorting office
With a colleague from UCLDH, we met with their CEO and researchers, enjoyed their hospitality, discussed possible collaborations while eagerly awaiting our turn on the train.
The network was, of course, built to carry mail sacks and so the carriages are necessarily small to fit in the narrow tunnels, so this no place for the claustrophobic.
Mail Rail mini-train
We have had students at the Postal Museum for several years now and riding the mail train has always been identified in their reports and one of the highlights. And all just a short walk from UCL.
Filed under Digital Humanities, Events
Shanghai Library Forum (SILF 2018)
I was very pleased to be invited back to the Shanghai Library and this time to speak in the Digital Humanities strand of the 9th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF 2018). The municipal library of Shanghai is the second largest public/research library in China (after the National Library in Beijing) and also houses the Shanghai Institute of Scientific and Technical Information.
The building is certainly impressive and a fitting venue for an extremely wide-ranging conference. I felt privileged to be included among the VIP foreign speakers.
9th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF 2018)
The theme for the conference was 'Library for All: Towards a Smarter and Inclusive Society' with eight sub-themes including 'smart age and smart libraries', 'the transformation and innovation of libraries in the age of the "internet+"', 'design ideas in libraries' and more. My session, 'digital humanities and library services' allowed me to talk about and highlight some of the important initiatives taking place in the West: Open Access, Open Publishing and Open Science.
Simon presenting at SILF 2018
And that context gave a welcome opportunity to once again showcase UCL Press with its strong stand on open and the recent celebration of 1 million downloads.
UCL Press 1 Million downloads
It was particularly pleasing to be able to be joined at the conference by two DIS students: Yamin Fu, who gave an excellent paper, taken from her PhD research, titled 'Cognitive mapping in exploring library user experiences', and a completing MSc Information Studies student, Yifan Wang. My thanks to them both for the photos of me above and for making sure that I didn't get lost (too often).
As always, the hospitality was exemplary with a VIP welcome dinner plus a conference banquet featuring the many multi-talented library professionals demonstrating skills ranging from calligraphy, a traditional tea ceremony, modern and traditional dancing (not all at the same time). The conference was rounded off with a visit to the original Shanghai Library in Yangpu, which has recently been opened to the public after considerable restoration. Do take a look at the images on the website link.
Simon with friends from SHL and PKU at the Yangpu Library
The Digital Humanities research team at the Shanghai Library are involved in an impressive array of research projects with much of their output and many data sets freely and openly available. They produced a document flyer for the conference: From Digital Library to Digital Humanities – The Practice of Shanghai Library and I include images of that here.
From Digital Library to Digital Humanities – The Practice of Shanghai Library (cover)
From Digital Library to Digital Humanities – The Practice of Shanghai Library (inside)
PKU Digital Humanities Forum 2018
SimonMahony28 July 2018
When we think about Digital Humanities from our base here at UCL, it is all too easy to think about the anglophone world and the predominance of Western Europe and North America, and particularly the UK, USA and Canada. So, it was good to see this year's ADHO conference being held in Mexico City at UNAM (DH2018) as a move to a more global digital humanities. With its theme, "PUENTES/BRIDGES", it was also pleasing to see to that the organisers had taken a multi-lingual approach with proposals, presentations and conference material in languages other than just English. This was the first ADHO conference in Latin America and the global south.
I was very pleased to be able to visit UNAM, Isabel Galina Russell and the National Library last year and so I was not too disappointed in not being able to attend DH2018 – although I did miss networking and catching up with many DH friends and colleagues. Instead, two weeks earlier, I took the opportunity to move beyond the anglophone world myself and presented a paper at the main DH event in China, held for the third time at UCL's strategic partner Peking University (PKU).
The official Forum audience photo
The 3rd Peking University Digital Humanities Forum had the theme: 'Incubation and Application: How Digital Humanities Projects Cater to Academic Needs'. I had the full experience of what it must be like to attend an English speaking conference if you do not speak the language – everything was in Chinese with no translations. I was the only 'foreigner' (non-Chinese) at the Forum which also had several speakers from Taiwan and Chinese scholars based in the USA.
Although mine was the only non-Mandarin presentation, there were a surprising number of familiar words in many of the others (metadata, big data, linked data and several others, again pointing to the dominance of the English language in our field). My presentation was in collaboration with my Chinese PhD student, Jin Gao (who could not attend as she was presenting her work at DH2018), and benefited from her translations to enable bilingual (English and Mandarin) slides to aid the audience.
On the podium at the PKU DH Forum 2018
I was not alone and so all was well; there were many friends there and hosts from my earlier networking visits to Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and Nanjing – I was not short of company. In addition, the day before the Forum I had been invited to give a presentation to the DH group at Renmin (The People's) University in the School of Information Resource Management, following their visit to UCL DIS last year.
Renmin University, School of Information Resource Management
The delegates from Renmin very kindly picked me up from my hotel and dropped me back after dinner – always worrying that this 'foreigner' might get lost. I explained that I was a seasoned traveler (and sailor) so there was no problem, except perhaps crossing the road! Renmin is not far from PKU and I had strategically picked a hotel midway on the road that linked the two. PKU is a large and sprawling campus and so I was very grateful for being so well looked after. For anyone wondering about visiting China, their hospitality is exceptional and they are very welcoming to foreign visitors.
There was, in addition, a DIS student from the Information Science programme at the Forum and a PhD candidate from King's Department of Digital Humanities who between them, together with their phone camera translations of the slides, updated me with what was being said.
The visit to PKU was rounded off with a talk in the PKU Faculty of Social Sciences.
The prize winning poster from my talk at Renmin – now on my office wall
Speaking and being interrogated at Renmin
And, of course and as always, the Beijing visit was completed with a dinner in the warm company of former students.
Revival of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage
SimonMahony9 July 2018
I was very pleased to be able to accept an invitation to speak at the 2018 World Historical & Cultural Cities Expo in Nanjing in May. The organisers (Traditionow – Xihan Action) have a strategic partnership with UNESCO to protect the World historical & cultural cities and their cultural heritage. Xian Action is an NGO working on the protection and promotion of intangible heritage, especially handcraft technique, knowledge and recreation.
2018 World Historical & Cultural Cities Expo
There is a danger that in an industrialised and fast developing society that traditional crafts and skills will be lost. This two-day event, Forum of Dynamic Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage, had presentations from academics, craft practitioners and entrepreneurs, all interested in cultural heritage and its preservation. I was able to draw on UCLDIS colleagues' oral history research, emphasising the importance of talking to craft practitioners to protect the skill's memory; I used the traditional craft of paper-cutting as a case study and specifically the unusual 'black paper cutting' from the Nangou Village where the older inhabitants live in caves decorated with their work.
Black paper cutting at Nangou Village. Image copyright Kong Qiongpei (China Academy of Art) and used here with permission.
As part of the event, there was a really inspiring exhibition of traditional craft work, which also included modern interpretations of traditional design work.
Traditionow
This trip allowed another opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of Nanjing University and the Digital Humanities research group there. This included a guest lecture to staff and students in the Faculty of Arts and Cultural studies as well as meetings in their Institute of Advanced Studies of Social Science and Humanities to discuss possible future collaborations and further visits.
Poster for Nanjing University guest lecture
UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture 2018
Lucy JStagg22 June 2018
Recently we had the pleasure of meeting Professor Carlo Meghini, who came to UCL on 30th May to give the fourth Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities.
The aim of this annual public lecture series is to celebrate and promote work in Digital Humanities: the application of computational techniques within the arts, humanities, culture and heritage. Prof Meghini spoke on 'What can be said, can be said clearly? The role of ontologies in the Digital Humanities'.
The lecture was well attended, with over 100 people registered, and attendees had plenty to discuss afterwards over a glass of wine.
The lecture was filmed and is now available to view on the UCLDH website.
Event poster (detail)
Digital Humanities and Education at Guangdong 4 January 2020
Digital Publishing Conference at Wuhan 24 November 2019
New open access publication 22 November 2019
Sino-French Forum, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities 17 November 2019
Computation and the Humanities download highs 8 November 2019
Alumna Visiting UCLDH Under Erasmus+ 21 September 2019
Book publishing and the Beijing Book Fair 11 September 2019

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Enjoy the combined adventure of a horseback riding experience on St Andrew's Beach, and a scenic return boat journey from Queenscliff to Sorrento. The ideal package for couples looking to have a romantic weekend away in what we consider the best part of Australia.
You'll take part in our signature St Andrew's Beach Ride, known for leaving riders in awe at the gorgeous landscape of the Mornington Peninsula.
There truly is no other way to experience this majestic landscape than to hop aboard a Gunnamatta horse, and wind your way through the bushland trails before finally setting foot onto the golden sands of St Andrew's Beach.
Once you've completed your riding journey, and soaked in all of the sights and sounds of the area – it's time to relax and board a SeaRoad ferry from Queenscliff, bound towards the famous Sorrento Valley. With numerous restaurants, and local gems it's the ideal location to enjoy a spot of dinner, and some local wine after your intrepid two hour horse ride!


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Sa Torreta est un îlot rocheux au nord-ouest de l'île d'Espalmador, délimitant une zone de mouillage accessible seulement aux bateaux à très faible tirant d'eau.

Notes et références

Île des îles Baléares
Géographie de Formentera

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The Ouai is launching four sophisticated eau de parfums to join the brand's extensive lineup of gloriously scented hair products.
It's the cult brand's first-ever fragrance collection, inspired by some of the world's most iconic streets. There's Melrose Place, which contains notes of bergamot, lychee and cedarwood, and gives a nod to the heavenly scent of the brand's Rose Hair & Body Oil, while Mercer Street, a blend of Italian lemon, Turkish rose, jasmine sambac, iris, lily, and white musk, is an airy floral musk like many of the brand's shampoos. North Bondi evokes total beachy vibes and contains notes of Italian lemon, rose de tai, magnolia, lily, blackberry, violet, cedarwood, amber, patchouli and sandalwood. Rue St Honoré, which smells like springtime in Paris, was inspired by The Ouai's OG, bestselling hair oil, and contains notes of violet, gardenia, ylang ylang and white musk.
The Ouai Eau de Parfums will be available as of November 13 exclusively at theouai.com for $56 USD each. Can't ouait? You can now sign up for early access via the brand's website.
Full size fragrance coming 🔜 to theOUAI.com on 11.13, featuring four of our signature scents—Melrose Place, Mercer Street, North Bondi and Rue St. Honoré. Sign up for early access to this limited edition drop via the link in bio.


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La communauté de communes de l'Arvan est une ancienne communauté de communes française, située dans le département de la Savoie et la région Rhône-Alpes.

Elle fusionne en 2017 avec la communauté de communes Cœur de Maurienne pour former la communauté de communes Cœur de Maurienne Arvan.

Géographie
La communauté de communes de l'Arvan est située dans le Massif d'Arvan-Villards et la vallée de l'Arvan (vallée des Arves), confluent de l'Arc, au sud de Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne et à la limite entre la Savoie et l'Isère. La liaison vers l'Isère se fait d'ailleurs par le Col de la Croix-de-Fer sur la commune de Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves. Son altitude varie entre  à Fontcouverte-la-Toussuire et  à Saint-Sorlin-d'Arves.

Histoire
Cette communauté de communes a été créée par arrêté préfectoral du  et disparaît par fusion 16 ans plus tard.

Composition
L'intercommunalité regroupait les communes suivantes :

Démographie

Histogramme (élaboration graphique par Wikipédia)

Pyramide des âges

Administration

Statut

Le regroupement de communes a dès sa création pris la forme d'une communauté de communes. L'intercommunalité est enregistrée au répertoire des entreprises sous le code SIREN . Son activité est enregistrée sous le code APE 8411Z

Présidents

Conseil communautaire
À la suite de la réforme des collectivités territoriales de 2013, les conseillers communautaires dans les communes de plus de  sont élus au suffrage universel direct en même temps que les conseillers municipaux. Dans les communes de moins de , les conseillers communautaires seront désignés parmi le conseil municipal élu dans l'ordre du tableau des conseillers municipaux en commençant par le maire puis les adjoints et enfin les conseillers municipaux. Les règles de composition des conseils communautaires ayant changé, celui-ci comptera à partir de  seize conseillers communautaires qui sont répartis selon la démographie :

Bureau

Le conseil communautaire élit un président et des vice-présidents. Ces derniers, avec d'autres membres du conseil communautaire, constituent le bureau. Le conseil communautaire délègue une partie de ses compétences au bureau et au président.

Compétences
Les actions qu'entreprend la Communauté de communes de l'Arvan sont celles que les communes ont souhaité lui transférer. Ces dernières sont définies dans ses statuts.

 Services
 Adduction d'eau
 Secours
 Jeunesse
 Personnes âgées

Financement

La Communauté de communes de l'Arvan, communauté de communes à fiscalité propre, perçoit une partie des quatre taxes locales (taxe d'habitation, taxe sur le foncier bâti, taxe sur le foncier non bâti et taxe professionnelle). La Communauté de communes bénéficie également de différentes sources de financement :
 Aides de l'État, notamment par le biais de la dotation globale de fonctionnement (DGF).
 Taxe d'enlèvement des ordures ménagères (TEOM) : financement de la collecte et du traitement des déchets ménagers et assimilés.
 Rétributions dans le cadre de délégations de services publics.
 Subventions de divers organismes.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des intercommunalités de la Savoie

Notes et références

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May 5, 2020 9:35AM
Senator Hawley's Many Misunderstandings of the WTO
By Simon Lester
Senator Josh Hawley has a NY Times op‐ed today entitled "The W.T.O. Should Be Abolished." Debates about the scope and nature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the trading system in general are important, but this op‐ed gets so many facts wrong that it cannot serve as the basis for a useful discussion. In this blog post, I'll go through a few of them. If the early response on Twitter is any indication, plenty of other pro‐trade folks will be doing a similar exercise, so keep an eye out for other commentary on this.
Hawley starts off with this:
The W.T.O. was created in 1995 as the crown jewel of a new global market, a system designed by ambitious Western policymakers after the fall of the Soviet Union. Their aim was to create one giant, liberal international economy to support a new liberal international order.
The reformers wanted all the world to follow the same economic rules, so that capital, products, and people could move easily across national boundaries. Nation‐states themselves would become less important in setting economic policy and new, multilateral institutions, like the W.T.O., would take on the role of managing the global economy.
One crucial point missing here is that the WTO carried over the previous system that existed under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created after World War II. The GATT covered trade in goods, and the WTO expanded that system to cover trade in services and intellectual property protection. The WTO also strengthened the dispute settlement system a bit and created a better monitoring system for evaluating governments' trade policies.
But what the WTO certainly does not do is "manage the global economy." Under both the GATT and the WTO, nation‐states are in charge of "setting economic policy." Thus, Hawley's expressed concerns are moot, and he could have stopped writing at this point.
The way I like to think of the main function of the GATT and then the WTO is as mutually agreed constraints on protectionism. Governments recognize their weakness in giving in to protectionist interest groups, and they all agree, through the GATT and WTO, to limit their protectionism. Not to eliminate it (which would be nice!), because protectionism is still allowed. There are plenty of famous examples, such as the 25% U.S. tariff on imported trucks.
Thus, nation‐states are still clearly in charge of their economic policy, as there is flexibility for governments to act within the rules and protect their domestic industries if they choose to do so. But through their actions in the WTO, nation‐states have chosen to moderate their protectionism. It's a small, sovereign step towards trade liberalization.
Hawley seems to want to downplay the continuity between the GATT and the WTO. He says: "[The WTO] was a bold vision, and a major departure. The economic system it replaced had been created by America and its allies at the close of the Second World War and pursued more modest aims." The reality is that the GATT and all of its various agreements were carried over into the WTO. The WTO is not a "major departure." Rather, it was a modest expansion, and it's worth noting that key aspects of this expansion — adding trade in services and IP protection — were pushed by the United States.
Hawley then explains his understanding of the WTO as follows:
Its mandate was to promote free trade, but the organization instead allowed some nations to maintain trade barriers and protectionist workarounds, like China, while preventing others from defending themselves, like the United States. Foreign agriculture won concession after concession, while American farmers struggled to get fair access to markets. Meanwhile, the W.T.O. required American workers to compete against Chinese forced labor but did next to nothing to stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property and products.
For what it's worth, the WTO Agreement does not refer to "free trade," but rather "entering into reciprocal and mutually advantageous arrangements directed to the substantial reduction of tariffs and other barriers to trade and to the elimination of discriminatory treatment in international trade relations." But he is right that "the organization instead allowed some nations to maintain trade barriers and protectionist workarounds." What he gets wrong is that WTO rules allow all nations to do this. Remember the 25% U.S. truck tariffs I mentioned earlier? Again, those are permitted.
Now, there is a real issue with China and other nations who are less wealthy taking on fewer commitments, and an op‐ed by Hawley arguing that China should do more as it has gotten wealthier (like this one from me and one of my colleagues) would be useful. But pulling out of the WTO would be counterproductive for the goal of opening up the Chinese market. Chinese tariffs were higher before it joined the WTO, and if the U.S. pulls out of the WTO, U.S. producers would face higher tariffs on their exports to China than their competitors do.
Along the same lines, Hawley complains that "the W.T.O. … did next to nothing to stop Chinese theft of American intellectual property and products." He has it backwards here. In fact, the GATT did next to nothing here, whereas the WTO, with its agreement on Trade‐Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, does a lot. If the U.S. pulls out of the WTO, it loses one of the key mechanisms to press China to improve its protection of these rights.
So what does Hawley want instead of the WTO? Here is his vague prescription:
The United States must seek new arrangements and new rules, in concert with other free nations, to restore America's economic sovereignty and allow this country to practice again the capitalism that made it strong. History can be our guide. For nearly 50 years before the W.T.O.'s founding, the United States and its allies maintained a network of reciprocal trade that protected our national interests and the nation's workers. We can do it again, for the 21st century. That means returning production to this country, securing our critical supply chains and encouraging domestic innovation and manufacturing. It means striking trade deals that are truly mutual and truly beneficial for America and walking away when they are not. It means building a new network of trusted friends and partners to resist Chinese economic imperialism.
As I mentioned above, "for nearly 50 years before the WTO's founding," we had the GATT. Does Hawley want to go back to that? If so, that means he loses the IP protection that he was concerned about. But he doesn't mention the GATT by name, so it's not really clear what his vision is here. And to the extent that he offers a vision, it is pretty cloudy. He talks about "returning production to this country," but also mentions "building a new network of trusted friends and partners." But you kind of have to pick one of these. You can't really have both. If you adopt a trade policy that forces production back to the United States, you will aggravate your friends and partners (and also raise prices for U.S. consumers). In doing so, you will lose their trust.
Now, he doesn't say this, but I can imagine a policy that fulfills his goals. Basically, the United States would negotiate trade liberalizing agreements with our European and Asian friends, building up trust with allies in both places and putting China on the defensive a bit. Does that strategy sound familiar? It's pretty close to what President Obama did with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trans‐Pacific Partnership. It's actually not a bad strategy, although it obviously needs some tweaking to make it work this time. But of course, Hawley doesn't want to seem like he is endorsing an Obama initiative, so he has to obfuscate a bit here.
Ultimately, you are not going to learn much about the WTO, its actual problems, or its future by reading the Hawley op‐ed. But it will probably generate a number of useful tweets, blog posts, and op‐eds explaining the real issues. I hope this blog post was a start, but keep an eye out for all the others.
Trade Policy, Trade Agreements and the WTO
Senator Hawley's Case for Nationalism Is Strong on the Propaganda but Weak on the Facts
Voting on WTO Withdrawal
Does China Comply with Its WTO Obligations?
Congressman DeFazio's Misinformed Arguments for Leaving the WTO


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A special issue: 25th Anniversary of the SSPX
An extraordinary amount of photographs, detailing the life and work of the bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X over the past 25 years. A must-have for anyone interested in the Consecrations themselves, or in the work of the Society of Saint Pius X.
Theme: The Silver Jubilee of the Episcopal Consecrations
Letter from the Publisher, Fr. Arnaud Rostand, SSPX
Bishop Bernard Fellay, The 1988 Consecrations: Vital for Continuation
The Society of St. Pius X: 1988 Mandatum
Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize: Operation Survival
Fr. Dominique Bourmaud: The Other Witness
Fr. Johnathan Loop: The Role of Bishops in the Church
Fr. Paul Robinson: The Consecrations of 1988: Necessary for the Church's Survival
Fr. Jurgen Wegner: The Last Word
Special Section: The Silver Jubilee of the Episcopal Consecrations Ceremony of '88
Special Events --Pilgrimage to Rome 2000 ---Pilgrimage to Fatima 2005 ---Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2008
Why We Need Bishops
The Growth of the Society
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Lifestyle Arts & Culture Alicia Keys launches storytelling app for kids
Alicia Keys launches storytelling app for kids
Written by MESFIN FEKADU
By MESFIN FEKADU | Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys, after giving birth to her son two years ago, said she wanted to create tools for children. Now she's launching an app for kids.
"The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee" is about a young New York City girl's relationship with her wise grandmother. Keys produced music for the interactive app, which will be released Thursday for $3.99.
"It's a new adventure for me, and I'm really enjoying it," the Grammy Award winner said in an interview Wednesday.
The app is loosely based on Keys' relationship with her grandmother. It's centered in LeeLee's bedroom, and it allows users to read books, play music and write in a journal.
"It does remind me of my world," the New York-born singer said. "The piano, the journal, music's such a big part of my life, the city, all of that."
Keys is launching the app through her company AK Worldwide and Bento Box Interactive. She said raising her 2-year-old son, Egypt, was part of the app's inspiration.
"I was just getting introduced to kind of the TV shows and the DVDs and all the things you start kind of introducing your kids to, and I thought how cool it would be to be a part of something that really allows them to hear music from different places, different cultures, different sounds," she said. "That's what we're able to do with this."
Keys is a 14-time Grammy winner. Her fifth album, "Girl On Fire," is out Nov. 27. Maxwell, Jamie xx, Bruno Mars and John Legend are among the featured acts and songwriters.
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Report urges province to tighten tap on moraine
By Phinjo GombuUrban Affairs Reporter
Wed., July 30, 2008timer4 min. read
Ontario's environment ministry is being slammed in a new report for allowing dozens of golf courses on the protected Oak Ridges Moraine to draw billions of litres of water a year with little or no oversight.
The report, being jointly released today by the Earthroots and Ecojustice environmental groups, contends the province has not done a proper study of the cumulative impact on the moraine of golf courses and other large water users.
The moraine is the headwaters region for 65 streams flowing into lakes Simcoe, Scugog and Ontario, and the source of much of the region's drinking water.
Earthroots campaigner Josh Garfinkel says their research shows the province doesn't have accurate information on where golf courses are drawing their water from – an important issue because of a history of water shortages and declining groundwater levels in the Aurora-Newmarket area.
"What we need to do is have a better reporting method and monitoring of how much water is being taken and better enforcement of the laws and polices we have," said Hugh Wilkins, a lawyer for Ecojustice. "The government has a system to regulate, but it's not being properly implemented.
"This report shows we are not properly managing the use of these resources, and this may lead to problems in the future as our aquifers are depleted."
The 32-page report, titled Ontario's Water Hazard, studied 10 courses – including one yet to be built – among the 38 that are located on the moraine. Together, the 10 courses were found to have permits entitling them to use 3.1 billion litres of water a year – enough to cover the needs of 25,000 people.
The irrigation requirements of the golf courses are based on freedom of information requests and conversations with ministry officials, as well as the development application for the controversial Westhill golf course in Aurora.
The Westhill project, opposed by Aurora town council, involves building a golf course and condominiums outside the municipality's urban boundary. It's one of many new developments still on track on the moraine since the province ended an environmental war by passing the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan in 2001.
At issue are projects that were in the pipeline before the plan's passage, but that still need final approval by local councils.
The litany of oversight issues identified in the environmental report include expired and missing permits, incomplete data, and missing annual reports:
In one instance, a golf course's permit expired in 2001 but wasn't revoked until June 9, 2003. The ministry then issued a new permit under a new number – without a reprimand to the owners.
Another golf course, which had a permit to draw "surface" water, continued to do so for nearly a decade after its permit expired in 1990. During the renewal process, it was found the course was actually drawing water from deep aquifers using production wells.
The report says several golf courses omitted the depths of their wells and other information when filing their annual reports, or failed to file reports entirely.
The report acknowledges that many of the problems cited occurred prior to 2005, before changes were made to water-taking legislation.
But the environmental groups claim other problems persist to this day and are symptomatic of a lack of ministry oversight.
It says one golf course that recently added two wells and a new irrigation system had applied for the necessary permit in 2003 but didn't hear back from the ministry.
It was only after the owners reapplied, four years later, that the permit was granted – raising questions about whether the new wells were in place for that whole period without ministry oversight.
Just last August, Lebovic Enterprises's year-old permit to draw water for the planned Westhill course was revoked because the ministry suddenly realized an environmental assessment had not been done.
"The fact that no one appeared to notice this most basic requirement had not yet been met raises serious questions about common practice at the Ministry," the report states.
Ministry of Environment spokesperson John Steele yesterday acknowledged some of the report criticisms and said the lapses occurred after the ministry had staff cutbacks in the 1990s, while the Mike Harris Conservatives were in power, and went to a complaints-driven system.
"At the time the ministry was short-staffed," Steele said. "It's a much different system now."
Steele acknowledged the "big" job of figuring out exactly how much water is in the moraine aquifers is an ongoing process. Today's knowledge is substantially better than a decade ago, but "it's going to take a while," he said.
Wilkins and Garfinkel said they were surprised to learn that a resource as environmentally sensitive as the moraine was not being better managed.
"I think the government recognizes that there are issues that have to be addressed and they will take action, but time is of the essence," Wilkins said.
The groups are seeking a moratorium on new golf courses on the moraine.


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Review of Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
December 30, 2022 December 30, 2022 • Sascha Darlington
I did not vanish although it probably seemed that way. I have been bingeing the Truly Devious mystery series by Maureen Johnson in order to read and review the ARC of Nine Liars by December 27. The bingeing has probably taken me most of December but it was well worth it.
The heroine of the Truly Devious series is Stevie (Stephanie) Bell, the daughter of middle class conservative parents who look askance at their daughter because she has this obsession with murders. Stevie wants to be a detective and even at 16, she's very good at it. Her parents would rather she behaved more normally with a respectable boyfriend, marriage, and kids. And, as we enter the world of Nine Liars, the fifth installment of the series, Stevie does have a boyfriend in David, the son of a politician whom Stevie's parents adored. David, however, is studying in England while Stevie is continuing her studies at quirky Ellingham Academy. When an opportunity arises for Stevie to visit David, she convinces her friends as well as the school's president that a week's trip to London would be a good thing. Of course, a missing woman and a decades old murder come into play in Nine Liars.
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Blurb: Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.
Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college, love, and life in general.
Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax.
The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can't explain. This was no break-in. Someone's lying about what happened in the woodshed.
Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.
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The thing about having binged all of the previous books in the series in rapid succession was that I noticed that the writing in Nine Liars was clunkier than usual. Far too often Maureen Johnson led us through England using Stevie's anglo-ignorance to introduce places and items using "called" or "named" in phrases. Using this phrasing once or twice would have gone unnoticed but multiple times drew attention.
I found the flashback in this book occurring in 1998 to be far more interesting than the ones in the previous novels. The British characters, members of a university comedy sketch group, felt a little like the characters in the 1992 Kenneth Brannagh film, Peter's Friends, except that murder is involved. Johnson drew these characters a bit more roundly and I cared about them more and, frankly, would have loved to have spent more time with them.
Stevie has always been a self-involved character, drawn into self, and sometimes oblivious, but she reaches her peak of being self-serving when she creates a lie that involves her friends. I found this to be particularly problematic as Stevie's friends forgive completely despite the fact that she compromised their once-in-a-lifetime trip as well as their education and perhaps more remotely their lives. While Stevie does solve the case, the idea that she faces no repercussions for lying and basically abusing her friendship left a bad taste. Her friends are the best and probably deserve a little better (or a lot) from her.
Lastly. Stevie Bell in my mind is a slim blonde, hoodie-wearing 16-year-old Columbo. She is observant cataloger of information. In the way that Columbo solved cases by storing seemingly irrelevant facts is the same way that Stevie does and makes the ending of each novel a fun fest. While Nine Liars felt uneven, it's still a fun treat for any reader who enjoys a quirky teenage sleuth.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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Dropped five new lures into the employment ocean today. I've been at the previously-mentioned DTUT cafe, dealing with frequent, frequent WiFi interruptions. I look forward to the day when *the world* is covered with solid WiFi coverage, which may sound to some dystopian, but by *the world* I suppose I mean *wherever I am when I'm applying for work*. I mean, who needs the Internet in the middle of the ocean? Mermaids?
Work on "Safety Culture" proceeds apace. Sam Beam, the too-talented-for-school force behind sad band Iron & Wine, responded to a producer's expressed interest with I believe two, possibly three albums' worth of material. This material became "The Creek Drank the Cradle." Somewhat more well-known an anecdote: Ryan Adams recorded four albums' worth of material after "Gold", shelved most of it, and came out with "Demolition". I don't think that "Food Bed Gospel" and "Safety Culture" are collapsible... although it's good to know that there are other foolhardy over-producers out there, doing alright by their mamas.
There's an open-mike taking shape here, and it proves to be awkward at best. Better split.
~ The line for and performance of the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It. This is an all-day affair: the free tickets are some of the more sought-after commodities in this city, and the line can go for a mile. But the line is in Central Park, and everyone comes with blankets and bagels and good spirits, and fifers play their fifes. No better line experience exists that I know of.
~ Superchunk's Here's To Shutting Up. A particular highlight is "Florida's On Fire", track 4, the opening electric guitar of which makes the melody sounds as though it'll fall right on the beat, but when the drums-et-al kick in in the seventh measure its instantly clear that the melody falls between the beat. Consistently satisfying.
~ Stevie Wonder, for any- & everything.
~ DTUT, which, while a hike from Washington Heights, may have finally solved my WiFi + coffee + good atmosphere math problem.
~ The intermittent-at-best WiFi at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the NYPL. I'd rather be at Countee Cullen.
~ Unabashed people-watchers. This fellow at said branch won't stop with his undisguised, openly-smiling study of the (admittedly interesting) folks surrounding him.
~ Rainstorms which, even though you knew it was going to rain, even though you're two blocks from your destination, attain full rainstormhood just before you make it where you're going.


I just set up the one-click wordpress installation and received the email for further directions. However, when I click on the first link to create an admin user, I get a 404. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Since no one else has replies, I'd use the panel and have it try and delete the install, then try it all over again.
I'm having the same problem as Colleen when I try to install WordPress using one-click. I've previously used the one-click install on other Dreamhost-hosted domains without a problem, but this time it didn't work properly (even though I received the success email). I tried deleting both the WordPress installation and the database and reinstalling everything but I met with the same result.
What makes this even more unusual is that the file in question – /wp-admin/install.php – does exist on the server and the permissons on the file appear correct.
Is it just that the link from the E-mail doesn't work? Can you just type in the address manially and get the file?
Out of curosity, are there some strange charcters in your domain name or the url for the file? things like dashes or anything that might be getting messed somehwere along the way?
Ok, this is rather bizarre. I checked again this morning and it still wasn't working. I just went to reply to the thread that there was nothign out of the ordinary about the installation and when I went the the WP install to get the error message to post here it was working properly. Very strange.
As a work around just install it on your own.
Download the zip, the use the web panels upload and archive feature.


When you get your new Windows 7 computer home or if you have upgraded to 7 you should go a head and make a Repair Disc, you will need one blank DVD in your DVD Drive. Then go to the Control Panel and click Backup and Restore, in the upper left corner click the link Create a system repair disc. You will get a popup Window, it should have selected your DVD drive, then click the Create disc button. That is it, after it is done label it and put it in a safe place. If you have a major crash you can use this disk to resolve the problem.
You should do this right after you make your Repair Disc. You can use DVD's 7 to 8 of them or you could use a slave drive, or an External Hard Drive, I made my own External Hard Drive and used that. Then go to the Control Panel and choose Backup and Restore, in the upper left corner choose Create a system image. Choose where you want to store the image, one or more DVD's or Hard disk. You can use this image to restore your computer back to where it is when you make this image. It is best to make it right away before you add to many programs. This is a complete restoration, just like reformatting a drive and reinstalling Windows. When you click that link and the Window pops up there is another link, How do I restore my computer from a system image? open that and read on about how to use this image. I installed a bunch of software and my image was 32.07 gigs, that why I say make it right away and then start making regular Backups for the other data.
After you have made your Repair disk and Image disk, make your first Backup, go to the same place and click the Backup up now button. This will make a backup disk of all your files and data, if you have to use your image disk to restore your computer, then use your backup to install the rest of your files and data. This is going to take up a lot of space, it will save all your data and files and the neat thing with 7s backup you can restore individual files or folders, that is next.
As you can see you can open the folders and see what is in them and choose what you would like to restore, pretty darn cool, Woot!! So they gave us a GREAT tool now we just need to be vigilant about keeping our Backups Up To Date. Now if your hard drive dies, you put in a new one, install your Image onto the new hard drive and then connect the computer to your Backup and transfer all your files and folders, back in business. And again if you mistakenly delete something and have kept your Backup current just open up the back up and restore the files or folder.


What a night! Kanye's performance, Taylor Swift looking hot and Madonna's fall!
Not the sort to miss out on a party, we sent our Total Access reporters Amy & Jordan down to London to get all the goss from the red carpet!


The expression of the experts from Skymist were all extremely heavy and ugly to behold. A peak-phase mid-stage immortal king of theirs dying here was a great loss to them. In addition, the expert who died was even of the royal clan.
They provoked Qin Wentian and fought him together, yet one of them was actually killed like that. How ridiculous was this?
"This brat must die. He cannot be allowed to survive."
The stronger Qin Wentian was, the stronger their killing intent towards him would be. Given the depth of their mutual hatred, if Qin Wentian continued to grow stronger at such a speed, what heights would he reach? In the past before the adjudication battle, he was merely an insignificant character. But now, he could already kill peak-phase mid-stage immortal kings.


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"The Kindness of Strangers": Hitler, Beveridge and the origins of the Academic Assistance Council
Professor Mick Cox, Director of LSE Ideas, outlines how and why William Beveridge set up the Academic Assistance Council in 1933 to help fellow academics fleeing totalitarianism in Nazi Germany and elsewhere.
Professor Michael Cox was appointed to a Chair at the LSE in 2002, having previously held positions in the UK at The Queen's University of Belfast and the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth. He helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre at the LSE in 2004 and later co-founded LSE IDEAS in 2008.
Professor Cox has lectured to universities world-wide as well as to several government bodies and many private companies. He has also served as Chair of the United States Discussion Group at Chatham House, as Senior Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo; as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, Australia, and as Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research.
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Santomera News - July 2018
Ecologists in Action: "ARIMESA can not be licensed until it evaluates its condition on the Natura 2000 Network" (30/07/2018)
La Cantera owned by former President of the Chamber of Commerce, Pedro García-Balibrea, has been operating irregularly for 40 years with a license of 1974 which only authorizes the "crushing and classification of stone"
Secondary students will have the next course of catering service (25/07/2018)
The initiative of the Department of Education will only be launched if a minimum of ten enrollments are reached
ARIMESA will appeal to the Hearing the file of the complaint for alleged prevarication against the mayor of PSOE de Santomera (24/07/2018)
The PSOE celebrates that the Justice has given the reason to the mayor of Santomera with the file of the complaint of Arimesa (24/07/2018)
Alfonso Martínez Baños affirmed that this is a clear example of what the regional government intends to do by imposing, through the Law of Administrative Simplification, a wild environmental vulnerability
The judge files the complaint for prevarication against the mayor and the mayor of Urbanism (24/07/2018)
The instructor does not see evidence of crime against the quarry of Arimesa and shelves the matter even before the statements
Located a missing person with senile dementia and reduced mobility in Santomera (17/07/2018)
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Snagit Library is a great feature which helps to keep captures organized.
However, sometimes I need to look through each capture individually to locate some information. When doing so, I want to click on a capture (as a thumbnail or even as an entry in the list) and see it in full size on my second screen.
Let me quickly preview Snagit captures in full size on the second screen.
Agree. This would be a very handy feature. I too have an extensive SnagIt Library and usually, the small thumbnails are too small to find what I want yet expanding the thumbnail size means you can't see very many captures on the screen as you navigate them.
Suggestion: Add the ability to "Pop out" the Library screen. Add an icon to allow that. On the Popped-out window, have an icon to "un-pop."
+1. I am frequently looking through the saved screenshots for details of some screenshot I've saved, and it is often a slow process to have to let SnagIt load each image into the editor, and then if it is not the correct one go back to the Library and try again.
On SnagIt Mac, I'm imaging this would be pressing the spacebar like previewing files in Finder and showing an image preview without loading it to the editor - select the thumbnail, press spacebar once to open the preview and again to close it.
Thanks for considering @snagit team!


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22:05 - Intensive bombing on Soghanke village in Sherawa
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Soon… Medical conference is held in north, east Syria
The Health and Environment Body in Autonomous Administration in North and East of Syria is preparing to hold the first medical conference of its kind in order to keep abreast with the latest medical developments in the field and to discuss the medical reality in the area.
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The Health and Environment Body in Autonomous Administration in North and East of Syria is working to improve the health situation in the area through several projects which are being studied currently by discussing with the seven Autonomous and Civil Administrations, including the first medical conference of its kind in the north and east of Syria, with the participation of doctors and specialists.
On the conference and preparations for it, our agency, Hawar news agency (ANHA) held a meeting with the Co-chair of the Health and Environment Body Dr. Joan al-Mustafa, who in turn indicated that the conference which is scheduled to be held on May 31 aims to improve the health situation in the north and east of Syria.
At the beginning of his speech, Dr. Joan Mustafa pointed out that they are in the process of holding the first medical conference at the level of northern and eastern Syria. They are currently discussing preparations for the conference with similar Health Committees and Bodies in the seven departments.
Al-Mustafa said that after a meeting held by the Health and Environment Body on 2/5/2019, a specialized medical conference on cardiology, the first of its kind was determined to be held in northern and eastern of Syria.
And about the reasons that prompted the Body to hold this conference, the co-chair of the Health and Environment Body made clear, "It is very necessary to hold such conference due to the bad situations had effected on the health reality negatively, and the wars got the health reality away from the scientific developments taking place in the world."
The aim of the conference was to raise the scientific level of the medical and health staff in cardiac specialization in the north and east of Syria, and to know the latest medical developments that have occurred in this field at the level of the world and to cope with them, according to the Co-chair of the Health and Environment Body Joan Mustafa.
Al-Mustafa made clear, "There are many plans to improve the health reality in the area, including the provision of a medical and food control laboratory, which has become an urgent need to know the medicines that enter the north and east of Syria, and improve our health reality in the area."
He concluded by saying, "The Body works in coordination with similar committees to provide preventive treatment of any health risks can be exposed to, and that will be approved during the coming period."
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«Щ-101» — советская дизель-электрическая торпедная подводная лодка времён Второй мировой войны, головная лодка серии V проекта Щ — «Щука». При постройке лодка получила имя «Карась», позже была переименована в «Лосось».

История корабля
Лодка была заложена 20 марта 1932 года на заводе № 189 «Балтийский завод» в Ленинграде, в июне доставлена в разобраном виде на завод № 202 «Дальзавод» во Владивостоке для сборки и достройки, спущена на воду 25 декабря 1932 года, 22 сентября 1933 года вступила в строй, 26 ноября 1933 года вошла в состав 1-го дивизиона подводных лодок 2-й Морской Бригады Морских Сил Дальнего Востока.

Служба
Боевых походов не совершала.

За успехи в боевой и политической подготовке ЦК ВЛКСМ наградил лодку почётным комсомольским значком, увеличенная бронзовая копия которого разместилась на рубке. Такой награды больше не удостаивался ни один военный корабль.

 В 1942 году была переоборудована в подводный минный заградитель, несла 40 мин типа «ПЛТ», закреплённых рядами побортно.
 С 5 ноября 1945 года использовалась только в учебных целях.
 10 июня 1949 года переименована в «С-94». Отнесена к подклассу средних лодок.
 2 июня 1952 года разоружена, выведена из состава флота, отправлена на утилизацию.
 В 1955 году разделана на металл на базе «Главвторчермета» в бухте Малый Улисс, Владивосток.

Командиры лодки
 1933-… — Г. Н. Холостяков, будущий адмирал,
 … — Д. Г. Чернов
. … - август 1945 — … — И. С. Дунец.

Сноски и источники

Ссылки
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Военные корабли и суда Балтийского завода
Подводные лодки серии V


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CUPERTINO, California—June 4, 2002—Apple® today announced that the public preview of QuickTime® 6 is now available as a free download from Apple (www.apple.com) for both Mac® and Windows. QuickTime 6 is the industry's first mainstream MPEG-4 solution for streaming media to all MPEG-4 compliant players. In addition, Apple announced the public preview of QuickTime Broadcaster, which captures and encodes QuickTime content in MPEG-4 for live streaming over the web.
MPEG-4, the next-generation international standard for digital video, was created by the group that created MPEG-2, the "gold standard" of digital video used by every DVD player and DVD. There are hundreds of companies committed to the MPEG-4 standard, including Apple, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Panasonic, Phillips, Real Networks, Samsung and Sun.
QuickTime 6 includes the new Instant-On Streaming feature that eliminates frustrating buffer delays and provides users with the ability to quickly and easily scrub through streaming media content to locate and instantly view specific sections. In addition, QuickTime 6 running on Mac OS X now supports JPEG 2000, the next generation JPEG standard that allows users to capture still images in a higher quality and smaller file size than ever before.
QuickTime 6 also includes Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), the standard MPEG-4 audio format. AAC is the next-generation professional-quality audio format that delivers vastly superior sound quality at drastically reduced file sizes—better than MP3 and better than Windows Media Player (WMA).
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US announces new 600 million dollar arms package to Ukraine
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US President Joe Biden has announced a new 600 million dollar arms package to Ukraine. According to Pentagon, the package includes the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, night vision goggles, claymore mines, mine clearing equipment, 105 mm artillery rounds and 155mm precision-guided artillery rounds.
The Pentagon further said that the United States will continue to work with its allies and partners to provide Ukraine with key capabilities to meet its evolving battlefield requirements. A White House memo sent to the State Department yesterday said that the money will also be used for military education and training. Washington has sent about 15.1 billion dollars in security assistance to the Kyiv government since the start of the Ukraine- Russia conflict.


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John Carter Movie Review
On March 2nd I was invited by Disney Vacation Club (DVC) to have a sneak preview of Disney's John Carter. The screening was held at Disney's Hollywood Studios in the Premier Theatre. I was excited to see what has been heralded as the first big blockbuster movie of the year. It has a lot going for it with great writer/director Andrew Stanton, who won two Oscars for his work on Wall-E and Finding Nemo. The visual effects were some of the best possible and were used to the fullest. The film is visually stunning. But that is where my fascination with this film stops and I'll tell you why.
The opening act of the film to me left more questions than answers. I'm usually on top of things quickly with a movie but I didn't feel a connection with the character. I felt more like it was an M. Night Shamalon movie just holding out for the twist. I've read the Edward Rice Burrows Book The Princess of Mars so I am familiar with the story and I still didn't feel like I felt a strong connection to John Carter. Possibly, it could be because the film tried to interject humor where it didn't necessarily need to be. I think in my mind I was looking more for an epic to the tune of Spartacus and it didn't deliver to my expectations.
The plot is a mix of more than just The Princess of Mars and I am not a fan of mixing stories if you are basing it on a book series because now a follow-up is going to be difficult. The story is jumpy and lacks a clear direction in parts. While it doesn't lack in special effects and large screens with thrills and action, I was frequently confused as to the incoherent story combined with the longest wedding sequence in history.
The Martians themselves are perfectly as described in the book and lived up to everything I hoped for, 15 feet tall 4 arms, even the men were darker than the women. The CGI for the Martians, planets and the cities was great, no problems with the special effects. Also the 3D isn't worth it as with so many movies these days. I don't understand why there is so much emphasis placed on 3D, it gives me a headache. As far as the story, I should keep in mind that this was a story written 100 years ago so science wasn't necessarily the front focus like most science fiction I grew up with where it would be a blend of science and fantasy.
However the best I can give this movie is a rental. I wouldn't waste my money on seeing this one in the theater unless you are only going into it to see the special effects and you've been warned.
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thanks for being honest! I watched the trailer and wasn't impressed. I'll wait for rental!!
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LAME excuses for submitting late tax returns have reached new lows.
A third complained their "fingers were too cold to type" after the boiler broke while one blamed a string of unreliable maids.
The taxman released a dossier of self-assessment excuses ahead of the January 31 deadline.
Bosses also revealed the most outlandish rejected expense claims, including £750 for a family holiday to Nigeria plus pet insurance for their dog.
What happened to Anni Dewani, when was she murdered on her honeymoon?
Four men suspected of having participated in the scam of horsemeat sold as beef in Europe are judged from Monday in Paris.
Six years after the resounding scandal of horse meat sold as beef in Europe, four men suspected of having participated in the scam, including two former leaders of the company Spanghero, are judged from Monday in Paris.
The case, of international scope, had broken out at the beginning of 2013 in the United Kingdom. Consumers had discovered, frightened, that their "pure beef" lasagna could actually contain 100% equine meat, or that Canadian horses could be sold as European beef.
This food scandal – but not sanitary – had revealed the complexity and opacity of the supply and processing circuits, from the slaughter of the animal to the agglomerate of a "meat ore" which ended, after a long journey, in millions of plates in the form of thawed dishes. In the wake, the opinion had become more observant on the origin of the products.
See also: Is meat gone out of fashion?
The Spanghero voucher, judged from Monday by the Criminal Court of Paris, is the most media, but all the horse meat found in pure beef at the time of the scandal has not passed through this company. Four men are to appear, mainly for deception and fraud in organized gang: a former leader of Spanghero, former meat processing company established in Occitania, the former director of the site and two Dutch traders. The former director general Jacques Poujol, Patrice Monguillon and intermediate Fasen and Johannes Hendricus Windmeijer include suspected of having deceived the dishes manufacturing company prepared Tavola, Luxembourg subsidiary of Comigel group, selling it in 2012 and early 2013 over 500 tons of meat presented as beef while it was horse.
In parallel with this trading activity, Spanghero itself has sold more than 200 tons of horse, mainly in the form of beef merguez, but also prepared meals.
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This year, the Miss France contest will be chaired by Iris Mittenaere and Jean-Paul Gaultier. A particular duo, who has forged strong ties for two years.
In 2017, Arielle Dombasle had the heavy task of chairing the jury of the Miss France election. For this 2018 edition, this title goes to the sublime Miss Universe, Iris Mittenaere, and the great French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. Two important names in the kingdom of beauty, quite legitimate to reign over this year's contest. This pair of shock was also not chosen at random, since the great couturier was already at the head of the jury two years ago, during the coronation of the beautiful Lille. Since then, the two accomplices have had great adventures together. Last July, in particular, the 24-year-old was parading for the artist on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week. A very applauded event where the pretty brunette had a strong sensation.


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US Stocks Slump as Dow Falls Nearly 800
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank some 790 points, or about 3 percent, on Tuesday amid a large sell-off in stocks across the board. 04.12.2018, Sputnik International
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank some 790 points, or about 3 percent, on Tuesday amid a large sell-off in stocks across the board.
Few industries were spared. Transportation stocks like UPS and FedEx tumbled amid skepticism and confusion about the truce between the US and China on trade. According to an investment note published by Morgan Stanley, Amazon's new "Amazon Air" service, which features a fleet of 40 transport aircraft, is eating away at UPS and FedEx's air shipping business. But Amazon's stock fell about 5.87 percent anyway.
UPS sunk 7.37 percent while FedEx saw its shares tumble 6.26 percent.
Shares of Caterpillar Inc., a construction firm, dropped 9 points, or about 6 percent.
Boeing's shares fell 4.7 percent.
The S&P 500 dropped 86 points, or 3.11 percent.
As ZeroHedge reports, the US stock market has been somewhat "neurotic" this quarter. On 19 trading days — 20 including Tuesday — the S&P 500 has sunk or risen more than 1 percent. The average number of such volatile days for Q4 is about 14 since 1958 — and about 17 trading sessions still remain this year.
On Tuesday, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, voiced concern that "there's no way you can see the complexity of these trade negotiations in 90 days… I'm hoping they'll announce that they've made progress enough to continue negotiating."
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a temporary trade truce for 90 days during the G20 summit over the weekend, stalling the imposition of even greater tariffs.
If no agreement is reached, "remember, I am a Tariff Man," Trump said Tuesday in a tweet.


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Chef and Owner, Paul Strabley, produces all food at the Lakeview Kitchen & Market located in Chicago's vibrant Lakeview East neighborhood at 3109 N Broadway. This location used to be the old House of Fine Chocolates and is now a licensed commercial kitchen used by several food businesses in the preparation and packaging of their foods. The retail store in the front is great for local foodies to stop in and pick up their fix of Paul Wayne. Some items are only sold in the store location. Custom orders are accepted; email paul@paulwaynefood.com to inquire.
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Womenswear etailer Sosandar has reported a strong start to autumn trading as the company holds its first AGM today (19 September).
Sosandar, which joined AIM in November 2017, said the strong sales growth it had enjoyed earlier in the year had continued into the summer months. It added that this was achieved without having to resort to extended discounted promotional activity.
The etailer said it had moved to a seven-day logistics service and had upgraded its ecommerce platform.
"Both of these investments demonstrate our commitment to building for growth whilst providing the best customer experience," said Murray. "These will, in turn, provide our growing number of repeat customers with improved delivery options and increased functionality as we continue to scale.
"We are very pleased with trading so far during the year which has been in line with management's expectations and we look forward to updating on the first six months of our financial year to 30 September 2018 in due course," he added.
In July Sosandar revealed that sales had jumped 387% for the year to 31 March 2018 to £1.4m, as the womenswear etailer increased product categories, invested in marketing and improved its use of data.
Revenue at Sosandar shot up by 387% for the year to 31 March 2018 to £1.4m, as the womenswear etailer increased product categories, invested in marketing and improved its use of data.
Womenswear label Sosandar has appointed Andrew Booth as an non-executive director.
Womenswear etailer Sosandar said it expected full-year revenue to be at least £1.34m for the year to 31 March.


Those who work in the marketing industry understand that direct marketing involves equal doses of art and science. So, in that spirit, we've compiled a slick little direct marketing cheat sheet that outlines some of the finer points of employing six of the most popular direct marketing channels.
According to the CMO council, the average American company sends out 1.47 million emails per month. But let's not assume that figure means spam emails are a sound marketing practice. Unlike spam, proper email marketing reaches out to make contact with customers who have already communicated some type of potential interest in their company. Seventy percent of marketers polled report that email marketingyields a valuable ROI. That's because good email marketers understand the finer points of the craft, like how using the recipient's first name in the subject line improves click-through rates.
Did you know there are some people who believe we should mothball the U.S. Postal Service? The basic rationale behind that idea states that 'snail mail' is an antiquated method of communication that should no longer be funded by taxpayers. We could go on about this topic at length. But suffice it to say, that perspective is woefully misinformed, and not just from a social standpoint. As a marketing tool, postal mail allows variation in presentation—personal letters, pamphlets, etc. It is a physical piece of content that the consumer can touch, which creates a tactile connection that is more difficult to dismiss than email. By using databases of gathered information that is compiled into consumer mailing lists, direct marketers can target specific demographics to generate higher-quality business leads. In 2013, an average of 65% of consumers over age 15 made a purchase as a direct result of direct mail. This equates to approximately a 4.4% success or response rate.
Telemarketing has been stigmatized as a purely scam-driven marketing channel. However, telemarketing can be an effective way the expand businesses by selling to audiences well outside a business's normal territory. The stigma of telemarketing might make it kind of a tough sell. And it must be done at very low overhead to be worthwhile. To make telemarketing a successful endeavor it's important to start with clear objectives. The caller should know what the desired end-result of each call is before picking up the receiver. Also, outsourcing call centers instead of keeping everything in house can save both money and time in the long run.
Each day millennials touch their smartphones an average of 43 times. That number seems a bit conservative. Nevertheless, the explosion of smart mobile devices has made SMS marketing—marketing text messages sent to people's smartphones—the shiny new toy of the marketing world. Delivery is fast, easy, direct, and feels personal even if the message doesn't address each recipient by name. What's not to like? To really dial in an SMS marketing campaign, it's important to remember to ask customers to opt in. Messages received from unknown numbers can feel very invasive. Also, pay attention to timing, especially as it pertains to target audience. When targeting sports enthusiasts, for example, avoid messages during big games, but consider sending relevant texts during halftime.
Last year's shiny new toy, and still a heavyweight contender among direct marketing tools, social media marketing is a really effective channel for increasing brand exposure. In the U.S. 34 percent of customers report that they only use social media to follow favorite brands and retailers. Social media channels encourage ongoing interactions and dialogues between companies and their consumers, building stronger relationships. But what really draws the art and science aspects of direct marketing together in social media is the fact that several social media platforms have tools that can be used to analyze customer engagement.
Direct sales grants the opportunity for businesses to build personal relationships with customers. Data-driven marketingenables salespeople to learn more about their audience, and create a relationship with customers to make interactions feel more meaningful and generate a feeling of loyalty. Although some marketers in the direct selling space report significant sales numbers from their methods, many customers approach the idea of direct selling with a certain trepidation. The main reason is because, if not done carefully, direct selling can erode the line between personal relationships, and transactional relationships. People find that creepy. To avoid any negative labeling, make sure that sales representatives are explicitly instructed to use standardized marketing vocabulary and presentation, in order to reinforce marketing messages with customers. Use care when encouraging direct sales consultants to sell to their friends and family. While this approach can reach new customers who may not shop at retail stores that carry a certain product, some people are put off by this approach.


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The Secret Garden è un film muto del 1919 diretto da G. Butler Clonebaugh (Gustav von Seyffertitz, dopo l'entrata in guerra degli Stati Uniti contro la Germania, preferì usare per qualche tempo lo pseudonimo di G. Butler Clonebough con il quale firma anche questo film).

La sceneggiatura di Marion Fairfax si basa sull'omonimo romanzo di Frances Hodgson Burnett pubblicato a New York nel 1909 e che, tra il 1910 e il 1911, uscì a puntate su The American Magazine. Nel 1949, la MGM ne avrebbe prodotto un remake sonoro, Il giardino segreto, diretto da Fred M. Wilcox con protagonista Margaret O'Brien.

Trama
Rimasta orfana dopo la morte dei genitori, morti di colera in India, la piccola Mary viene affidata ad Archibald Craven, nominato suo tutore, un uomo triste e amareggiato dopo la morte della moglie. Craven considera Mary un ulteriore peso, oppresso com'è anche dalla presenza del suo stesso figlio Colin, un ragazzino storpio. Quando decide di partire per l'Egitto, Craven lascia i bambini alle cure di suo fratello Warren, un medico. Warren, però, trama per disfarsi del nipote la cui morte farebbe di lui l'unico erede di Archibald. Prima gli mette un pesante tutore che aggrava le già precarie condizioni del bambino, poi cerca di avvelenarlo. Mary, che scopre nella tenuta un giardino segreto, riuscirà a riportare in salute Colin e contrasterà i piani di Warren. Quando Archibald ritorna e scopre che i bambini hanno trovato il giardino dove si rifugiava la moglie morta e che lui voleva lasciare intatto e inviolato, riesce a superare le proprie angosce, ritrovando nel contempo la sua fede nell'umanità.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.

Distribuzione
Il copyright del film, richiesto dalla Famous Players-Lasky Corp., fu registrato il 2 dicembre 1918 con il numero LP13128.
Distribuito dalla Paramount Pictures e dalla Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, uscì nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi il 12 gennaio 1919 presentato da Jesse L. Lasky. In Venezuela, il film fu distribuito con il titolo El jardín secreto e in Brasile uscì il 5 marzo 1919.

Non si conoscono copie ancora esistenti della pellicola che viene considerata presumibilmente perduta.

Note

Bibliografia
 The American Film Institute Catalog, Features Films 1911-1920, University of California Press, 1988 ISBN 0-520-06301-5

Voci correlate
Filmografia della Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film drammatici
Film basati su Il giardino segreto