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Thursday, 16th April 2020
European Science Engagement Conference!
The European Science Engagement Conference annually unites the international community of science communication and public engagement professionals. The main goal of this conference is to offer all practitioners in the field a Pan-European platform to expand their networks and enhance their skills via inspiring keynotes, interactive sessions and co-creative workshops. The conference shares and discusses relevant topics, funding programs and formats mainly related to the areas of public engagement and science communication. In 2020 the conference will be held in Cork, Ireland.
The day before the conference will offer a series of insightful workshops and peer-to-peer trainings, focusing on topics with a high relevance for the European Public Engagement community.
Workshop I: 13.00-16.00
Network to Get Work: Creative Networking for All!
Here we are on the eve of the wonderful Eusea conference, it' going to be so lovely to be in Cork! Our minds full of exciting and thought-provoking sessions that we can hardly wait to attend, old friends who we can't wait to meet and generally immersing ourselves in the fabness that is EUSEA.
But how best to make the most of your time here (or indeed at any conference or event)? There are contacts to be made and contacts to be maintained, ideas to be pitched, business cards to be swapped and participative science communication stories to be told.
Welcome to the world of networking! Some of us love it and some of us don't but to a greater or lesser degree it's something we all need to indulge in. Improve your networking skills in this interactive pre-conference warm-up with David and Rachel from Science made Simple!
In their science communication careers Rachel and David have done a lot of effective networking around Europe and the wider world. Rachel does a fantastic line of networking strategy for people who don't like networking and David has been known to turn up to conference sessions regardless of their content to better meet and influence the people running and attending them.
Join Rachel and David in this highly interactive training session! Bring along your networking tips and tricks and consider how best to make and maintain contacts and positively influence people!
DAVID PRICE Senior Science Communicator
David is a senior trainer with Science Made Simple, specialising in developing collaborations between researchers and public engagement institutions and events. His development of science busking methods in the UK and his experience of working with school and family audiences has led to the support of an extensive portfolio of academic institutions internationally.
David has a Bachelor's degree from Liverpool University in History and American Studies. After working in industry for 10 years he became a builder of interactive science exhibits and now builds science shows and interactive science experiences for audiences of all ages.
Always a keen informal science communicator, in 2009 David was awarded the British Interactive Group professional study bursary, which took him to the world street performance championships. This visit launched him into his chosen specialism of science busking. In 2010 David was awarded the Manchester Science Festival Josh Award for Outstanding Innovation in Science Communication for his work in developing and popularizing science busking techniques. David is a LAMDA trained public speaker to gold level with distinction. He regularly trains diverse groups in both science communication and science busking techniques.
RACHEL MASON Associate Director – Development
Rachel leads Science Made Simple's researcher training service, managing its academic modules in public engagement for diverse research groups. She also manages the company's larger collaborative projects EU H2020 Our Space Our Future and UKRI-GCRF Action against Stunting.
With a BSc in Biology and Psychology from Keele University and an MSc in Science Communication from the University of Glamorgan/Techniquest, Rachel has worked in a wide range of UK organisations dedicated to public engagement with the sciences. Her career has taken her from the British Science Association, to Theatre in Education performance, international exhibition project management at Science Projects Ltd and management of Techniquest Glyndŵr Science Discovery Centre. She has worked as a consultant for STEM communication support organisations, including BIG STEM Communicators Network, STEMNET, RAEng and Women's Engineering Society.
Workshop II: 13:00-17:00
Science Engagement for Sustainable Futures: Making Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) applicable in your local contexts
Objective: To provide clear insights about the Sustainable Development Goals, driving participants towards the drafting of an actionable plan for their institution.
Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) were born at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. The objective was to produce a set of universal goals that meet the urgent environmental, political and economic challenges facing our world, replacing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which started a global effort in 2000.
The workshop will be led by a team that's working on the UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers, an important standard-setting instrument which not only codifies the goals and value systems by which science operates, but also emphasizes that these need to be supported and protected if science is to flourish.
Participants: 20 ideal
Speakers: John Crowley, Chief of Section for Research, Policy and Foresight in UNESCO, and a team member of his section.
Facilitator: Andrea Troncoso, EUSEA
Duration: 13:00-17:00
The SDGs are a bold commitment to tackle some of the more pressing challenges facing the world today. All 17 Goals interconnect, meaning success in one affect success for others. Dealing with the threat of climate change impacts how we manage our fragile natural resources, achieving gender equality or better health helps eradicate poverty, and fostering peace and inclusive societies will reduce inequalities and help economies prosper. In short, this is the greatest chance we have to improve life for future generations.
If we believe that science is more than a material dimension, and that it means access to knowledge, participation and is essential to build democratic societies, the SDG´s become a fertile soil on which plant our stakes. The SDGs are unique in that they cover issues that affect us all, making sure no one is left behind. More importantly, they involve us all to build a more sustainable, safer, more prosperous planet for all humanity.
This workshop is an invitation to reflect and set an action plan that will begin or continue (depending on the participant´s contexts) the explicit endorsement of this policy umbrella, that will allow to aligne and to boost the programmes, projects and activities that involve science and public engagement, towards a conscious and active sustainable future that begins today.
Takes away:
A clear understanding of the aim of the SDG´s with simple idea-nuggets that will enable participants to explain them to their own teams, boosting their advocacy.
Methods and elements that facilitate their actionability and practice in different contexts that link public engagement and open science.
Introduction of participants and speakers
Story of the SDGs: Milestones and where are we now
SGD´s and science engagement: evident and not so evident links
Your own personal action plan
Methodologies:
The workshop includes ice-breakers dynamics, presentations and interactive activities oriented to get practical results, including world cafés and role games.
Workshop III: 13:00-17:00
Using LEGO Serious Play to 'talk' about Sustainable Landscapes
The Erasmus+ project SUSTAIN (https://www.sustainablelandscapes.eu/) aims to enhance the awareness of secondary school pupils about local environmental issues concerning the sustainable use of landscapes. SUSTAIN does this by engaging pupils and their families in research projects on biodiversity, bird migration and water management.
Within this project, innovative methodologies like LEGO Serious Play are used as a playful and creative tool for pupils and teachers to collectively create scenarios of local environmental issues and to analyse the involved stakeholders (e.g. farmers, local politicians, nature conservationists).
The workshop will train participants in how to use these creative methodologies to foster engagement and stakeholder dialogues.
Participants: 20 maximum.
Hours: 4 Hours
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a methodology to facilitate communication not only orally but also visually and tactile. It multiplies collective reflection and understanding of complex ideas.
The method helps to:
Use metaphors to explain their ideas, which makes them more easily understood by others.
Learn how to arrive at consensus solutions without the need for endless discussions or give up their firmer beliefs.
Lear the importance of developing general principles for making decisions rather than having to follow a list of instructions.
In this pre-conference workshop, we use Lego Serious Play to explore how the methodology can be applied to create collective narratives for analysing a sustainable landscape.
Table with set-up of workshop
PURPOSE & FRAMING DURATION INSTRUCTIONS & CHALLENGE QUESTIONS
I: Introduction 5 min Introduction to LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (20-80);
Learn having fun.
Objectives of the session.
II: Skills 45 min 1.0 Build a tower.
2.0 Build randomly and create metaphors.
3.0 Build a model to explain your ideal working environment.
III: Individual model 60 min 4.0 Build a model that represents your ideal sustainable landscape (previously fixed in the group) (AT1)
Break 30 min
IV: Collective model 90 min 5.0 Build a collective model that represents the ideal sustainable landscape (AT2)
VI: Closing the workshop 25 min 6.0 Closing the workshop with final reflections.
18:00 Welcome to the FameLab Ireland National Final!
This year's conference is inviting all participants to attend the Irish FameLab Final. Held in more than 30 countries, FameLab is among the worlds leading science communication competitions. The British Council and Cheltenham Festivals have teamed up to bring FameLab to Ireland in 2020.
We are proud to announce that the FameLab Ireland 2020 national final will be held as part of the European Science Engagement Conference 2020 in partnership with the Cork Institute of Technology, Blackrock Castle Observatory and EUSEA.
Armed only with their wits and a few props, the top newest voices in science, technology, engineering and maths from across Ireland will give 3 minute talks on always fascinating, sometimes bizarre science concepts. Expect to hear anything from why newborn babies cry to how 3D glasses work and even the science behind pimple popping. Presentations will then be judged according to FameLab's golden rule – the 3 Cs: Content, Clarity and Charisma.
The FameLab Ireland final will be an unpredictable, enlightening and exciting way to encourage your curiosity and give you a snapshot into the world of science. As an audience member you will also have the power to judge contestants along with an esteemed panel from academia, media and industry. The winner of FameLab Ireland will then go on to represent the nation at the FameLab International Finals, Cheltenham Science Festival, UK in June 2020.
So come along to witness leading scientific research, amaze friends with surprising facts and interact with individuals in Ireland responsible for tackling some of the biggest scientific issues in the world today.
9:00 – 10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 10:40 Conference Opening
Welcome and Introduction by EUSEA President Markus Weißkopf
Panel Discussion with leading stakeholders and representatives from the Cork Institute of Technology and Science Foundation Ireland.
Musical Interventions from the Cork School of Music.
10:40 – 11:20 Keynote by Dr. Niall Smith, CIT
Niall Smith, B.Sc., Ph.D., MIAU
Art and Astronomy – why you and me really are special
Niall Smith studied astrophysics at University College Dublin and became CIT's first Head of Research in 2005, now providing strategic oversight of a budget of €14m per annum across disciplines from science and engineering to arts and music. Niall played the lead role in establishing a Researcher Career Framework for CIT researchers, a development which was also central to the Institute being awarded the EU Commission HR Excellence in Research badge.
Niall is the Founder-Director of the internationally award-winning Blackrock Castle Observatory (BCO) which has just celebrated its 12th anniversary and over 1.2 million visitors. BCO staff have trained over 800 teachers to use space in the classroom, has engaged with over 35,000 primary and post-primary students in formal science workshops and an additional 40,000 in informal workshops, with over 120,000 members of the public attending events at BCO.
11:20 – 12:00 Keynote 2
13:00 – 14:30 Parallel Sessions I
La Moulinette: a tool to remix your projects to get them even better!
Horace Perret
Réseau romand Science et Cité, Switzerland
Like cooking, communicating science is a subtle mixture of art, love and technique, of which it is necessary to know how to master all the components, to balance all the flavours to make it work. While public communication of science always stems from good intentions, it may sometimes, be it out of clumsiness or naivety, has the opposite effect and ends up widening the gap it claims to close between science and society.
To win the public's trust, a good public communication of science therefore requires a reflective approach in order to challenge practices that sometimes stem too much from habit or spontaneity. The aim of this talk will be to present you this tool, from the history of its design to the principles that govern its functioning, and most of all to make you feel like using it !
Augmented Lectures: communicate science by triggering emotions
Andrea Brunello, Arditodesio Theatre Company \ Jet Propulsion Theatre, Italy
This talk will present Augmented Lectures, an innovative science communication format where a scientist and an artist co-create and co-produce a staged theatrescience lecture performance. Theatre, storytelling and other art forms are powerful tools to elicit emotional responses and provide a more empathetic and inspiring communication of science.
This format, developed by the Jet Propulsion Theater, has had demonstrable results in audience engagement with scientists, through cutting edge scientific concepts, connecting with unsuspecting audiences, dispelling stereotypes and misunderstandings, and inspiring young audiences to pursue a scientific career.
Augmented lectures are at the heart of the Theatre of Wonder Festival (www.teatrodellameraviglia.it) and have received the CULTIVATING CURIOSITY Bronze Award at the 2016 Reimagine Education Conference organized by The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania and QS Quacquarelli Symonds.
Spectroscopy for all: Behind the scenes of using music to shake your bonds up
Maria Larriva Hormigos
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
Music and Science are both universal languages. Music is also the perfect vehicle to deliver complex scientific concepts.
For example, Music allows us to construct easy to grasp allegories we could use to teach basic Physical Chemistry to non-specific audiences in a non-academic and interactive environment.
Here I present the project "Shake your bonds up", a multi-activity science-fair stall funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The aim of this project is to engage young children and a broad audience with little knowledge of Chemistry with molecular structure, vibrational modes, and how scientists harness light-molecules interaction to do Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy, a technique that remains almost unknown to the public which has many applications in bioscience, industry and in everyday life. In this presentation, I will talk about our experience making the basics of IR Spectroscopy fascinating and fun for everyone using DIY costumes, music, a bit of acting and our audience's best moves.
Educational Robotics in Ireland
Sharon Lawton
Cork Institute of Technology
The VEX Robotics programme in Ireland, Cork Institute of Technology are leading, through its Access Service, the VEX robotics programme in Ireland.
This programme was introduced in Cork in 2012 with 12 DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) post primary schools participating. This has now grown to over 350 primary and post primary schools nationally, with most counties having at least one team. The programme is heavily supported by both CIT and Dell in the cork region and by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Discovery funding call nationally.
Fine-tuning an intensive science communication course: a flipped classroom approach
Amanda Mathieson
It can be argued that if we want the voice of science to be heard, we're going to need a bigger choir.
We need researchers and other STEAM professionals on board, communicating science with us. The problem is that professionals often have a lack of time for training. Intensive science communication or public engagement courses are one option but they have limitations. Namely, how can such a wealth of content be absorbed in a mere number of days?
STEAM summer school has trained more than 100 students in science communication through the arts over the past four years and has continually evaluated and updated its methods. In our most recent year, we tried a flipped classroom approach, allowing participants to learn some of our content prior to the school so that we could focus on practical application and skills development in session. In this talk we will discuss how this approach benefited our course in contrast to previous years and what this means for science communication trainers.
Mixing new sounds for diverse audience: robotic fabrication meets philosophy in the City Hall of Hannover
Theda Minthe
Hannover Science Initiative / City of Hannover, Lord Mayor's Office
Robotic engineers meeting philosophers? 'Nerds' communicating with 'dreamers'?
Yes, it is challenging to bring together different spheres of scientific cultures. We designed a two-days-event with workshops of programming robots, experiments around robotic fabrication and philosophical interventions including theatre about the interaction of humans and humanoids. We share our experience building new alliances and of how to overcome prejudice and to enjoy dissonances. Copying is absolutely appreciated.
Encouraging uptake in STEAM careers
Danielle Martine Farrugia
University of Malta, Department of Physics, Malta
Participation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) fields can be increased through initiatives targeted towards different genders and interests; however, research shows that both sexes become disengaged from STEAM subjects at school.
This results in a lower likelihood for girls and boys to choose certain careers. Although dependent on culture and country, males tend to take technical careers while females are encouraged into care-based roles. The reasons for this are complex.
This includes a lack of knowledge about STEAM careers at schools, lack of female role models, unconscious bias and a tendency for males and females to be encouraged into stereotyped roles and careers. Key research findings and case studies will be used to encourage participants discuss major agendas in this fishbowl discussion. The discussion will be moderated by Danielle Martine Farrugia (Science Communicator & lecturer, Ph.D. student, University of Malta), together with Jon Rea (Engagement and Participation Lead Nottingham City Council) and Dr Edward Duca (Science communication practitioner and lecturer), Simone Cutajar (Esplora Natura director, researcher) and will address SDG Goals 4 & 5 concerned with quality education and gender equality. The goal of this workshop will be to discuss the current models worldwide that are already in place and working to address skills gaps and encourage more STEAM careers.
Maths in City: Public Engagement with STEM, in Public
Sheila Donegan
Calmast STEM Engagement Centre, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Maths Week Ireland is an annual celebration of maths taking place in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and is the largest festival of its kind in the world.
It has achieved this through an innovative partnership model linking academia with education at all levels, government bodies, industry & business. It is successful in using traditional and electronic media to spread the positive message further. Linking maths to the rest of STEM, to other disciplines and to art is important.
This session describes innovative aspects in the organisation, development and delivery of the festival and focuses on one activity. Maths in the City in Belfast and Dublin engages the public, in public spaces. In the second part of this session participants will engage as the public do in these fun activities.
The model has been fully replicated in Maths Week Scotland (2017) and Maths Week England (2019) and Maths in the City has inspired Oxford Maths Festival and Mathematicas en la Calle, Madrid.
Introducing Creativity into Chemistry
John O'Donoghue
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
In TCD our PhD students complete a semi-structured programme with a number of flexible modules available to fit around their research.


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Temporal and thematic trends in water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) research in Pacific Island Countries: A systematic review
HadwenPUB2679.pdf (2.045Mb)
MacDonald, Morgan C
Chan, Terence
Elliott, Mark
Kearton, Annika
Shields, Katherine F
Barrington, Dani J
Souter, Regina T
Powell, Bronwyn R
Bartram, Jamie
Hadwen, Wade L
Griffith University Author(s)
Hadwen, Wade L.
MacDonald, Morgan C.
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) lag behind global trends in water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) development. We conducted a systematic search of all English language papers (published before February 2015) about WaSH in PICs to evaluate the state of the peer-reviewed literature and explore thematic findings. A total of 121 papers met the criteria for full-text review following an initial search result of more than 6,000 papers. Two reviewers independently assessed the quality and relevance of each article and consolidated their findings according to four emergent themes: public health, environment, emergency response and ...
View more >Pacific Island Countries (PICs) lag behind global trends in water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) development. We conducted a systematic search of all English language papers (published before February 2015) about WaSH in PICs to evaluate the state of the peer-reviewed literature and explore thematic findings. A total of 121 papers met the criteria for full-text review following an initial search result of more than 6,000 papers. Two reviewers independently assessed the quality and relevance of each article and consolidated their findings according to four emergent themes: public health, environment, emergency response and interventions, and management and governance. Findings indicate a knowledge gap in evidence-guided WaSH management strategies that advocate for human health while concurrently protecting and preserving drinking water resources. Extreme weather events threaten the quantity and quality of limited freshwater resources, and cultural factors that are unique to PICs present challenges to hygiene and sanitation. This review highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the peer-reviewed literature on WaSH in PICs, addresses spatial and temporal publication trends, and suggests areas in need of further research to help PICs meet development goals.
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Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2017.021
©IWA Publishing 2017. The definitive peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development Volume 7, Issue 3, 2017, DOI 10.2166/washdev.2017.021 and is available at www.iwapublishing.com.
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"Ulpan" is Hebrew language instruction. Though IGF fully operates in English, it is hugely beneficial for Fellows to develop or improve their Hebrew skills, in order to both support their internship experience in Hebrew-speaking environments and to allow for a more nuanced understanding of Israel.
IGF uses Ulpan-Or, which specializes in rapidly learning spoken Hebrew. The classes and study groups are very personalized, giving each and every Fellow a chance to learn at his/her own level and pace. Applicants' initial level of Hebrew does not affect their chances of acceptance to the program. The program provides Fellows with a chance to really get immersed in Israeli society and culture. Improving or building useful language skills is one of the ways to maximize such experience.


LAHORE: Former president general (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Friday founded a 23-party alliance as chairman with the title of Pakistan Awami Ittehad (PAI), ARY News reported.
"The alliance formed in Karachi broke within a few hours for lack of leadership. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has become ill-famed, therefore, Mohajir community should gather under one umbrella with new name," he said offering Mohajir leaderships to join him in his bid to unite the Pakistani nation. He also brushed aside the notion that he would become head of MQM-Pakistan or Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP).
While addressing leadership of the new alliance through telephone, he expressed hope that the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) would also become part of their alliance.
"Pervaiz Elahi led a good government in Punjab," he said praising the PML-Q that was an integral part of Musharraf's government in 2000s.
Musharraf said the situation of the country was deteriorating and it was time that they should take big decisions for the national politics and one of the big decisions was to unite all under one umbrella.
He favoured snap polls in case the circumstances do not get better.
The former president said chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) thought about his party rather than Pakistan. He worked according to his mind, he said.
He said he was proud that the military and judiciary were working in right direction.


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Foods with Iron - "Iron Mom"
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Welcome back to the fourth lesson in my seven part series on the 7 advanced gnosis food combinations to help pregnant women get all of their nutrition from eating real food, opposed to relying on the sometimes false promises we are advertised to believe that come from a synthetic supplement. Today's concept is: "foods with iron."
1. Energy Boosting Foods - "Flash Foods"
4. Foods with Iron - "Iron Mom"
What can foods with iron do for me exactly?
Good question, they mainly help with energy production in your body via Hemoglobin, an iron-rich protein found in red blood cells.
This protein is responsible for helping red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to your muscles, brain... really all over your body.
Some iron deficiency anemia symptoms besides fatigue (tiredness) include: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), very heavy menstrual bleeding, shortness of breath, dizziness, headache, coldness in your hands and feet, pale skin, and chest pain.
This causes our heart to work much harder than normal to move oxygen-rich blood throughout the body, which may lead to irregular heartbeats as well.
Infants and young children may show signs of poor appetite, slowed growth and development and behavioral problems.
What can you do to get an Iron Boost, without an (inferior) synthetic supplement?
Too bad people don't advertise natural food, like they do with processed food.
If they did, more people would probably know that Vitamin C helps boost the absorption of iron by 4.1% according to research done by the University of Surrey, in England.
Red Sweet Bell Peppers combined with Spinach are some of the top foods for vitamin C and Iron, respectively.
Also, Iron from plant sources (including dark chocolate) are better regulated in our bodies than iron from animal sources.
In other words, this helps prevent iron toxicity and other related problems from too much iron in the blood.
Adding Salmon for example, although it doesn't really contain iron, in itself provides another amazing nutritional combination.
Vitamin D helps our bodies absorb Calcium, in which salmon is high in both nutrients. These two are essential for building strong bones, helping muscles move, and allowing nerves to carry messages between the brain and every body part.
Vitamin D works with Vitamin C by helping the immune system fight off invading bacteria and viruses. And Calcium helps Iron by helping blood vessels move blood throughout the body and to help release hormones and enzymes that affect almost every function in the human body.
Throw Omega-3 fat into the mix, which is found naturally in salmon, and it helps absorb these two fat-soluble nutrients (vitamin D and Calcium).
Add some lemon to it both salmon and green tea to boost the antioxidants absorption by 13 times!!
Food Alchemy at it's best.
As combining foods, comes separating foods. Drinking coffee (due to it's caffeine and polyphenols) blocks the absorption of iron, as well as calcium.
Also, this combination booster won't work as well with acid fruits (vitamin C - oranges, pineapple, etc.) and concentrated fatty proteins (iron - nuts, seeds, cheese, eggs, fatty meats, etc.) Although lemons are the exception, adding a pineapple on top of a burger for example isn't going to be the best, especially for people with weaker stomachs. As good as that might taste.
The sugar from the acid fruits inhibit the flow of gastric juice, which is needed to break down the fatty proteins... basically these two require opposite pH environments in our stomach, so when an acid and an alkaline environment combine, the pH levels become neutral, making the process to break each other down much slower than normal.
If digestion is prolonged, then the sugar from the acid fruit and the fat from the protein will begin to ferment in our stomachs... which is something we don't want.
This normally produces gas, but if done enough may make us physically sick. Especially when it comes to fatty meats.
3. Drink Green Tea with any fish to reduce absorption of Mercury, plus add Lemon for a boost!
If you found this article useful, please share this with a close friend if you think it will help them.
Also, let me know in the comments below if you have any favorite recipes that give you an extra iron-rich boost!
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Innovative procedure may improve outcomes in people with keratoconus
An innovative procedure may improve outcomes in people with a degenerative eye disease, suggest five-year results from a study presented at AAO 2016, the 120th annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Transplantation of one layer of the cornea may help people with keratoconus avoid or delay full corneal transplantation and other potentially risky procedures, according to the researchers. They say the technique may enable those with advanced keratoconus to tolerate extended contact lenses wear, which is traditionally a challenge for people with the condition.
Keratoconus is a disease that causes the cornea - the clear front of the eye - to thin and become cone-shaped. Symptoms often first appear in childhood or the teen years. The disease only effects one in 2,000 people, but it can lead to severe visual impairment. Traditional treatment options, including corneal transplantation, are limited or risky due to the complexity of the disease. In addition, keratoconus patients are unable to wear contact lenses for an extended time to correct vision due to their cone-shaped corneas. To address these issue, researchers in the Netherlands sought to study whether only transplanting the second layer of the cornea - the Bowman layer - would be a safe and effective alternative to full corneal transplantation in the long term. They also hoped the procedure would enable patients to wear contact lenses. After providing the treatment to 19 patients and following them for 5 years, the researchers determined the treatment improved recipients' vision and stabilized the disease in 90 percent of the eyes.
Currently, there are four common treatments for keratoconus. In its early stages, the condition can be treated using glasses or contact lenses. As the condition progresses, glasses may no longer work and many people are unable to wear contact lenses because the lenses no longer fit as the corneas become more cone-shaped. Another treatment uses a laser and eyedrops to promote strengthening of the collagen fibers that make up the cornea, a procedure called cross-linking. A third option is a procedure called Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty, or DALK, which involves implantation of the front and middle layers of the cornea. Ultimately, some people require a full corneal transplantation to restore their vision, which involves removing the damaged cornea and replacing it with one from a donor. Complications of the various corneal transplants include wound healing difficulties and persistent astigmatism, which causes distorted vision.
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The innovative technique used in the study involves placing donor tissue from the second layer of the cornea - the Bowman layer - into the middle layer through a tiny tube. This strengthens and flattens the cornea, improving vision. The Bowman layer is ideal for transplantation because it does not contain cells. The body often rejects cell-containing tissue transplanted from another person because it perceives the tissue as foreign and potentially dangerous. Placing it in the middle layer of the corner appears to prompt the healing response, researchers said. Because it doesn't involve cutting or stitching, it is less risky than some procedures to treat keratoconus, including full corneal transplantation.
Researchers at the Rotterdam, Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery, Melles Cornea Clinic and Amnitrans Eye Bank transplanted the Bowman layer in 22 eyes in 19 people with advanced keratoconus. These patients were not candidates for corneal cross-linking because their corneas were too steep and thin. They were also unable to wear contact lenses for an extended time, and had 20/400 vision while wearing glasses.
Following the procedure, the results were as follows:
Disease progression was halted in 20 of the eyes, or 90 percent, which is the main goal of the treatment.
The patients' corrected vision improved to 20/200.
All the patients could tolerate extended contact lens wear. The average best-corrected vision with contact lenses held stable at 20/40 from pre- to postoperatively.
None had postoperative complications that can occur with corneal transplantation, such as wound healing difficulties and persistent astigmatism, which causes distorted vision.
"Bowman layer transplantation may be safer than a full corneal transplant, is effective and the benefits last," said Jack Parker, M.D., lead author of the study and a corneal fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery. "The procedure can spare young people with the condition a lifetime of difficult, expensive and risky eye procedures and interventions."
The limitations of the study are a relatively small study population and no control group. Researchers say the technique should be studied in a larger group.
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It seems that Motorola is quietly working on some new devices. After Motorola X+1 and Moto G2, today, we have Motorola Shamu, the next Nexus device, which is reportedly in development along with Google.
Motorola has codenamed it as Shamu and it may be the next upcoming Nexus Device. Well, nothing is confirmed for now it's just a rumor from somes previously noted information by guys over Android Police. Also, There's also the fact that its codename is Shamu – Google's Nexus devices typically have codenames in reference to seafaring critters, from tilapia to maguro (sushi tuna) to hammerhead.
Further talking about the device, it is targeted for the U.S. market and other markets where Nexus devices are available. Spec-wise it is expected to be packed with 5.9″ display with unknown details, fingerprint sensor will also be there.
As according to the source it is due for launch in November, as expected.


It's always so fun to get my monthly box of Organic Girl Greens for recipe creation, but this month was even better! They sent me two brand new mixes to try, Super Spinach and Mache Rosettes. Both are ahhhhhmazing, but lets start off with the Spinach.
I enjoy the challenge of not ALWAYS making a salad with the greens and occasionally coming up with something unique and "outside of the box", so my first thought was Pesto.
As you can see from above, the ingredients for a pesto are quite simple.
First off dry toast the Pine Nuts. Use whatever method you are comfortable with, I just do them for a few minutes over med-high heat on the stove but be cautious, once they start to burn, the flavor is to overpowering and not good.
Most people use a food processor to make Pesto. I don't have one so I use my Nutri-Bullet, which is far more powerful than an ordinary blender. I just layered and packed all the ingredients in and added the EVOO last.
Voila! Spinach Pesto! But my idea isn't finished. I decided to use the Pesto to make Crepes and fill them with some sweet and savory ingredients.
In order to make crepes you need Flour. I realized I have never made Gluten Free Crepes before, so this was going to be a real experiment. I decided to reach for my Cup 4 Cup All Purpose Gluten Free Flour. I have had great success with it a few times in the past, so it was time to put it to the crepe test!
I decided to use the Pesto to replace some of the eggs, regular crepes use more than 1 egg. Mix all ingredients together in a blender (my handy Nutri-Bullet). My Grandmother always taught me to refrigerate the batter for an hour or so before making crepes, a step I actually JUST remembered! Yikes. Man she made the most amazing light and fluffy crepes you can imagine – so I missed this step but you don't have to.
That's ok, unless you regularly make them expect to screw up the first ….well few to be honest! Ha! Afterwards I got the hang of it again.
So I poured about 1/4 cup batter in the center and immediately used a silicone spatula to spread it around to cover most of the pan. Let it cook until you see the little bubbles you do in pancakes and the edges are starting to lightly brown then carefully flip over. This also takes practice, when they are thin and perfectly cooked, they flip over like a dream. IF not…well just keep practicing.
Place crepes on wax paper in layers while cooking the rest until you are finished. Now it is time to fill. This is where you can get creative, but I will tell you the fillings I chose for these. For the Sweet I grabbed these Fruit Pastes at the supermarket by Rutherford & Meyer.
These tasted GREAT, but they were more of a jell-like consistency,good for a cheese plate, so they didn't spread very easily. You could choose to use your favorite kind of fresh fruit preserves. However, when I heated up leftovers the next day, the fruit paste turned into an amazing fruit glaze. So the consistency is great for that!
Then you just layer your ingredients, fold and There you go!
Now I have to say, I was VERY impressed with the crepes in the fact that the Cup 4 Cup GF Flour did an outstanding job. I brought them down to Mom and she whole heartedly agreed! Now, they were not QUITE as light and fluffy as Gram's, but considering I substituted Pesto for eggs and used GF Flour, they were pretty damn close!
After toasting Pine Nuts, add all ingredients to a food processor and blend until Pesto. Add more EVOO if it is far to thick.
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerate batter for an hour.
Wipe oil on a crepe pan set over medium heat.
Pour about ¼ cup batter into center of pan and spread out thinly until almost size of pan itself, act quickly it starts to cook immediately.
When bubbles have all popped (like pancakes) and edges start to brown, (2 - 3 min) flip over and cook for additional minute or two.


Koi Janta Hai Kisi achi tour planner company ko pakistan tour k liye?
First mention here which city you want to know about tour planner for Pakistan.
Agar aap kai pass kisi aur city mein shift honai ki option hoti than aap kis city of prefer krtai and why?
I would prefer islamabad because it provides many recreational spots within the city like Faisal mosque, monument, lok virsa, raval lake etc. there are also many other visiting places near to islamabad like kallar kahaar, kheora salt mine.
Dhund ma safar krny k kya safety measures ho sakty hain ?
Fog is morning or evening weather phenomena, avoid driving during these times. Also be aware of local areas that tend to accumulate fog, as low lying areas near lakes and rivers.
Khado Dam kaise ja saktay hain agar family ke sath hon aur kaun sa time behtar hoga wahan jane ka?


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Q: R Alternatives to a for loop for searching through a large dataset The goal here is to identify and count if the entries in column b have  matching entries in column a with a range of +/-1 (or as required). A simplified version is provided:
a <- c("1231210","1231211", "1231212", "98798", "98797", "98796", "555125", "555127","555128")
b <- c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "1231209", "98797", "555126")
df <- data.frame(a, b)

I merged this data in a dataframe to simulate my actual dataset, converted them to numerics and wrote the following function to get my desired output. (note: column a need not be part of the df, but can be a separate list I suppose?)
df$c <- mapply(
function(x){
    count = 0
    for (i in df$a){
        if (abs(i-x) <= 1){
            count = count +1
        }
    }
    paste0(count)
},
df$b
)

a
b
c

1
1231210
1
0

2
1231211
2
0

3
1231212
3
0

4
98798
4
0

5
98797
5
0

6
98796
6
0

7
555125
1231209
1

8
555127
98797
3

9
555128
555126
2

While this appears to work fine for the trial dataset, my actual dataset has over 2 million rows which means 2M^2 iterations? (still running after 3h) I was wondering if there is an alternate strategy to tackle this, preferably using base R functions only.
I'm quite new to R and a common suggestion is to use vectorization to improve efficiency. However, I have no clue if this is possible in this case when looking at the examples provided on the net.
Would love to hear any suggestions and feel free to point out mistakes. Thanks!

A: why are vectors a and b characters? They should be numeric:
a <- c(1231210,1231211, 1231212, 98798, 98797, 98796, 555125, 555127,555128)
b <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1231209, 98797, 555126)

You can simplify by using only one loop and vectorization:
unlist(lapply(b, function(x) sum(abs(a-x) <= limit)))

where limit is variable describing allowed difference. For limit <- 1 you get:
 [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2

A: What about colSums + outer?
transform(
  type.convert(data.frame(a, b), as.is = TRUE),
  C = colSums(abs(outer(a, b, `-`)) <= 1)
)

output
        a       b C
1 1231210       1 0
2 1231211       2 0
3 1231212       3 0
4   98798       4 0
5   98797       5 0
6   98796       6 0
7  555125 1231209 1
8  555127   98797 3
9  555128  555126 2

A: As your data is quite large, outer and lapply approaches will be quite slow (for outer you need 14901.2 Gb of RAM). I suggest using data.table
require(data.table)
dt <- as.data.table(df)

dt[, id := 1:.N] # add id as maybe you have duplicated values
setkey(dt, id)
dt[, b1 := b - 1L]
dt[, b2 := b + 1L]
x <- dt[dt, on = .(a >= b1, a <= b2)] # non-equi join
x <- x[, .(c = sum(!is.na(b1))), keyby = .(id = i.id)]
dt[x, c := i.c, on = 'id']
dt
#          a       b id      b1      b2 c
# 1: 1231210       1  1       0       2 0
# 2: 1231211       2  2       1       3 0
# 3: 1231212       3  3       2       4 0
# 4:   98798       4  4       3       5 0
# 5:   98797       5  5       4       6 0
# 6:   98796       6  6       5       7 0
# 7:  555125 1231209  7 1231208 1231210 1
# 8:  555127   98797  8   98796   98798 3
# 9:  555128  555126  9  555125  555127 2

dt[, id := NULL][, b1 := NULL][, b2 := NULL] # remove colls

p.s. check that a and b are converted to integers before...


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Durham University ● 19–21 July 2019
Symposium VI
Chaired by Wendy Parker (Durham)
The Virtues of Relativism
Maria Baghramian (UC Dublin)
What is it about relativism that justifies or at least explains its continued appeal in the face of relentless attacks through the history of philosophy? This paper explores a new answer to this old question, casting the response in metaphilosophical terms. Section I introduces the problem. Section II argues that one part of the answer is that some of the well-known defences of relativism take it to be a philosophical stance - that is, a broad perspective or orientation with normative consequences - rather than a doctrine or a thesis. Section III draws attention to an assumption, not always explicitly stated by its proponents, that the relativist stance leads to the cultivation of some key intellectual virtues. Open-mindedness, tolerance, intellectual humility, and curiosity are examples of the intellectual virtues that relativism can foster. Section IV argues that the defence of relativism on the basis of the virtues that are assumed to follow from it, at best, is only partially successful. Moreover, there is a range of epistemic vices, resulting from the stance, that undercuts the virtue-based defence presented in section III.
Maria Baghramian is Full Professor of American Philosophy, the Head of the School of Philosophy and co-director of the UCD Cognitive Science Programme at University College Dublin, Ireland. She was elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Harvard in 2014. In 2011 she founded the Society for Women in Philosophy- Ireland (SWIP-I) and was the Chair until 2018. Her research and publications have focused onrelativism, pluralism, and Neo-pragmatist American philosophy. Her most recent book is The Problem of Relativism, co-authored with Annalisa Coliva (Routledge 2019). Currently she is a Principal Investigator, with Prof. Luke Drury, of "When Experts Disagree" (WEXD), an interdisciplinary research project on trust and expertise, funded by the Irish Research Council, and a member of the British Academy/ALLEA working group on "Truth, Trust and Expertise". Among the publications of these projects is her edited book From Trust to Trustworthiness (Routledge 2019). Baghramian was born in Iran in an Armenian family but moved to Ireland in 1979.
Relativist Stances, Virtues and Vices
Martin Kusch (Vienna)
This paper comments on Maria Baghramian's 'The Virtues of Relativism'. We agree that some relativist positions are naturally couched as 'stances' and that it is fruitful to connect relativism to virtue epistemology. But I find Baghramian's preferred rendering of relativism uncharitable.
Martin Kusch is professor for philosophy of science and epistemology at the University of Vienna. From 2014 until May 2019 we was PI of an ERC Advanced Grant Project entitled "The Emergence of Relativism: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Issues". Prior to moving to Vienna in 2009, he was a Reader in the Science Studies Unit in Edinburgh (1993-1997) and Professor for Philosophy and Sociology of Science at the Department for History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge (1997-2009). He has published widely in epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language and social studies of science. He is currently writing a book on relativism in the philosophy of science, and editing the Routledge Handbook on Relativism. Main past book publications are: Language as Calculus versus Language as a Universal Medium (Reidel 1989), Foucault's Strata and Fields (Reidel 1991), Psychologism (Routledge 1995), Psychological Knowledge (Routledge 1998), (with H.M. Collins) The Shape of Actions (MIT 1999), Knowledge by Agreement (OUP 2002), and A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules (Acumen 2006).
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Q: What are "Grids" and Detection at different scales" in YOLOV3? I've recently started working with Yolov3 and the more I go in depth, the more confused I get. In the simplest terms what I think about YOLOV3 (On 416 input, 80 classes, 3 BB) is that:

*

*It Extract features from DarkNet-53 and then again use 53 Convolution networks throughout.

*At 3 different levels (at layers number: 82,96,106), there are feature maps created of size :13,26,52 respectively with same depth 256. The features at 82 are upscaled till layer 96 and features from 96 upscaled till 106.( **What are these? Feature Map size?)

What I want to know from now here is that :
what are Grid cells?  Are these pixels or slices of image?
Are there 3 different outputs predicted (one for each of the 3 layers) and total loss is calculated. If so? How is this achieved? Because we input 1 image with annotations? How would that give us Ground BB for the downscaled images?
OR Is the size same at each level? IF so, what are we up sampling?
In the end, How is the total loss calculated?
Apart from reading the original paper, I have referred to many blogs and videos but I could not get the meaning of how exactly works. Could someone please explain in simple terms of how an example would go in and get predicted.

A: Regarding the first comment of the question:

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*It Extract features from DarkNet-53 and then again use 53 Convolution networks throughout.

The network used to extract features is just DarkNet-53 as stated by the author in the YOLOv3 paper:

We use a new network for performing feature extraction [...]
It has 53 convolutional
layers so we call it.... wait for it..... Darknet-53!

Regarding the second comment of the question:

*At 3 different levels (at layers number: 82,96,106), there are feature maps created of size: 13, 26, 52 respectively with same depth 256. The features at 82 are upscaled till layer 96 and features from 96 upscaled till 106. (What are these? Feature Map size?)

Yes, the sizes of 13, 26 and 52, refer to the feature map dimensions at the prediction layers. These sizes are directly related to the grid cells as we are going to see in the following lines. Just a sidenote, the correct depth (number of feature maps) is 255 and not 256 (this will also  be explained hereafter).
Grid cells
Grid cells were first explained in the original paper You Only Look Once. They are part of a regular grid (of simensions $S\times S$) into wich the input image is divided. Concretely, in YOLOv1 the author uses a grid of 7x7 cells. This is an example:

Images extracted from YOLO CVPR slides
The purpose of this type of grid (which is mantained in YOLOv3) is to serve as the output of the architecture $\Rightarrow$ $B$ bounding boxes are being predicted at each of the grid cells. Specifically, in YOLOv3, $B=3 \Rightarrow$ We are predicting 3 bounding boxes at each grid cell.
But how can this be encoded in the network?
The authors used what you mentioned in the question i.e. 3 different prediction layers/ grids composed of $13\times 13, 26\times 26$ and $52\times 52$ grid cells.
Now, we should remember that $B=3$ bounding boxes are being predicted at each of these grid cells. These boxes are encoded as a vector of $85$ features/ dimensions $\Rightarrow$ The depth (number of feature maps) needed is $85\times B = 255$, as you said in the question.
To visualize this, first we can focus on how a certain box of a certain cell is encoded:

*

*$\mathbf{C}$ :  Is the objecteness of the associated bounding box (sort of a confidence measure of how likely a box is containing, or not, an object).

*$\mathbf{(t_x, t_y)}$ : Features related to the offsets of the bounding box center w.r.t. a corner of the grid cell.

*$\mathbf{(t_w, t_h)}$ : Features related to the dimensions of the bounding box.

*$\mathbf{p_1,...,p_{80}}$ : Conditional probabilities, $P(\text{Class}| \text{Object})$ , for each of the $80$ classes being considered in the paper.

By doing this we end up predicting a tensor of dimensions $S\times S\times B \times 85$, which represents the output of the architecture, as commented above:

However, we are predicting 3 bounding boxes for each grid cell $\Rightarrow$ the total output is the result of concatenating three of these tensors together, making a dimensions total of $S\times S \times 85 \times 3 = S\times S \times 255$.
Moreover, as you said in the question, YOLOv3 uses three of these regular grids as outputs $\Rightarrow$ We are predicting 3 of these $S_i\times S_i \times 255$ tensors at 3 different depths of the architecture.
Predictions and training with YOLOv3
Due to the 3 different grid resolutions $(S_i = \{13, 26, 52\})$, we will be predicting outputs at 3 different depths of the architecture. This is shown in the next image extracted from the great post "What's new in YOLO v3?":

At these 3 different layers (outputs), the same object can be detected, however this is not very likely to happen. This is because, as said by the authors, each of these regular grids uses anchor boxes with different sizes $\Rightarrow$ The lowest resolution grid ($S=13$) uses bigger anchor boxes, and the highest resolution grid ($S=52$) uses smaller anchor boxes.
The purpose of this, is to be able of detecting smaller objects which are difficult to detect in a low resolution grid. This way, in order to detect bigger objects at he highest resolution grid, the difference w.r.t. these anchor boxes would be significant, difficulting the learning procedure of the network.
However, having a look at the label generation for VOC dataset:

Now we need to generate the label files that Darknet uses. Darknet wants a .txt file for each image with a line for each ground truth object in the image that looks like:
<object-class> <x> <y> <width> <height>
Where x, y, width, and height are relative to the image's width and height

There isn't distinction of scale for the ground-truth objects. This means that the network will be learning to predict the ground-truth bounding boxes at the 3 different grids $\Rightarrow$ A ground-truth object will have influence at the loss function of all 3 output grids.
This influence in learning is by backpropagation of the gradients of the 3 loss function w.r.t. the weights/ biases. One loss function for each output grid. However, note that, for example, not all the weigths/ biases will have an influence in the first and second grid loss functions.
This is because, for example, a change in the weights and biases values of one of the final layers won't affect the predictions of the first output grid $\Rightarrow$ The associated gradient will be zero.


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We're on a budget (think €50 per person per day) and would like to go someplace warm and sunny where there's also a combination of culture and nature. So we can explore in the mornings and relax at the beach in the afternoon. Preferably a sandy beach. We don't need a lot of nightlife but it would be nice if not the whole island is closing down already. Do you have a suggestion?
Kefallonia was severely shaken by an earthquake in 1953 and thereafter lost its quaint gloss. The picturesque northern port of Fiskardo however, escaped much of the destruction and remains to this day one of the main focal points for visitors to the island, so is a good spot for a stay of 2-3 days. Pretty, waterfront cafés and restaurants and a cosy, folksy feel predominate. Asos, between Fiskardo and Argostoli is a west coast 'resort' village that pulls in its fair share of visitors and the view down to Asos from the main island road is one of the most photographed spots on Kefallonia.
At the same time, Juan Trippe began a crusade to create an air network that would link America to the world, and he achieved this goal through his airline, Pan American World Airways, with a fleet of flying boats that linked Los Angeles to Shanghai and Boston to London. Pan Am and Northwest Airways (which began flights to Canada in the 1920s) were the only U.S. airlines to go international before the 1940s.
Kate Hudson, Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer were among the first guests at Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina, a 642-acre that opened in May 2016 on the island's west coast 17 miles from Honolulu. Closer to the action of Waikiki, the Surfjack Hotel opened in May with a dose of vintage 1960s Hawaii, down to its painted murals and birds of paradise wallpaper by local artists that are just begging to be Instagramed. Pacific Beach Hotel re-emerges in the fall as Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach, whose $115 million upgrades include two new restaurants by celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto.
Be cautious with Santorini and kids. Some hotels don't do kids (check carefully) and not all hotels are suitable for kids along the caldera lip. Many steps, confined spaces and other guests who don't actually want to hear kids … Here's an idea – look for a child-friendly hotel (perhaps on the beach at Perissá) and base yourself where the kids will like it and then take them to the caldera scene. There are a couple of child-friendly hotels on the Caldera, but they get booked very early in the year.
Although Philippine Airlines (PAL) was officially founded on February 26, 1941, its license to operate as an airliner was derived from merged Philippine Aerial Taxi Company (PATCO) established by mining magnate Emmanuel N. Bachrach on December 3, 1930, making it Asia's oldest scheduled carrier still in operation.[52] Commercial air service commenced three weeks later from Manila to Baguio, making it Asia's first airline route. Bachrach's death in 1937 paved the way for its eventual merger with Philippine Airlines in March 1941 and made it Asia's oldest airline. It is also the oldest airline in Asia still operating under its current name.[53] Bachrach's majority share in PATCO was bought by beer magnate Andres R. Soriano in 1939 upon the advice of General Douglas MacArthur and later merged with newly formed Philippine Airlines with PAL as the surviving entity. Soriano has controlling interest in both airlines before the merger. PAL restarted service on March 15, 1941, with a single Beech Model 18 NPC-54 aircraft, which started its daily services between Manila (from Nielson Field) and Baguio, later to expand with larger aircraft such as the DC-3 and Vickers Viscount.
Most airlines use differentiated pricing, a form of price discrimination, to sell air services at varying prices simultaneously to different segments. Factors influencing the price include the days remaining until departure, the booked load factor, the forecast of total demand by price point, competitive pricing in force, and variations by day of week of departure and by time of day. Carriers often accomplish this by dividing each cabin of the aircraft (first, business and economy) into a number of travel classes for pricing purposes.
Can you see all the major sights in Athens in one day? No. But you can see the Acropolis, Acropolis Museum, and the top historical sites of the Plaka in one day. If you had an extra half-day then visit the Archaeological Museum in Exarcheia. That still leaves many great sights but you will have seen all of the iconic Athens attractions. Adding Naxos is always a good idea. You might even enjoy it more than Mykonos (but no nightlife like Mykonos).
Airline financing is quite complex, since airlines are highly leveraged operations. Not only must they purchase (or lease) new airliner bodies and engines regularly, they must make major long-term fleet decisions with the goal of meeting the demands of their markets while producing a fleet that is relatively economical to operate and maintain; comparably Southwest Airlines and their reliance on a single airplane type (the Boeing 737 and derivatives), with the now defunct Eastern Air Lines which operated 17 different aircraft types, each with varying pilot, engine, maintenance, and support needs.
Anguilla is most famous for its white beaches, and there are more than 30 of these to choose from. It's one of the Caribbean's smaller islands, so you can easily see the whole island if you're there for a few days. This island is perfect for people looking for a quiet and less touristy Caribbean experience. At the same time, you can find some interesting nightlife here to stimulate you after a day relaxing on the beach.
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Considering your interests (great food, hiking, beaches, nightlife unimportant) then Naxos should definitely be your other island. (And Naxos has many daily ferry connections with both Santorini and Athens.) Also, Athens needs at least one full day to explore so you should drop any thoughts about Delphi or Nafplio. Also, I would look into flights from Athens to Santorini on your night of arrival. If you could get to Santorini that night (and move your day in Athens to the end of your trip) you'd almost gain an entire day and could spend two nights on Naxos.
There are many picturesque villages to explore, and the beaches are always far from crowded. If you like walking, the lush vegetation and cliffs are ideal, while if you like to do some underwater exploration, there are many scuba diving and fishing opportunities, too. Additionally, Dugi Otok is home to one of Croatia's best sandy beaches, Sakarun, which some compare to the beaches of the Caribbean, making it a great family spot.


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The competition in the E-commerce space has heated up with many companies, big and small, venturing into the online sphere. Everyone is trying to create a brand name in the market, draw more customers, ensure customer loyalty and beat the competition. So, what are the rules of the online game? How can online sellers beat, and more so better, the competition? We give you some tips and tricks to stand out in this breakneck e-competition and create an online success story.
The Strengths refer to the exclusive features which give a business a distinct advantage over the others.
The Weaknesses refer to those features which place a business at a disadvantage over the others.
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SWOT analysis is an essential part of a brand's strategy which can help a retailer to determine the internal and external factors which will affect the success rate. Entrepreneurs need to build upon their strengths and opportunities, and overcome weaknesses and threats to achieve success.
Mobile Commerce is the new face of E-commerce. India's population both in urban and rural areas is increasingly adopting the m-commerce route to purchase products & services. In fact, Mobiles are fetching as much as 70% of the revenues for the online retailers. According to a study, Mobile Commerce market in India is estimated to grow up to $19 billion by 2019. Mobile Apps have become popular for online purchases. India is amongst one of the top five regions for the Google Play store. All these facts clearly point to the fact that the online retailers need to ensure that their sites are truly mobile commerce ready. There is a need to adopt responsive web design and provide a seamless user experience across all devices. Keeping in view the increasing usage of smartphones, iPads and other mobile devices, we can safely say that m-commerce optimized sites will lead to more conversions and give you an edge over your competitors.
Content is what rules the roost today. Ensure SEO driven content and techniques for your online store and the web traffic will increase manifold. Static Images are so passé and boring. Interactive content is what is trending now. Give videos, webinars, virtual guides and 360 degree view of images. Such content makes the site interesting and offers more details about the products to a prospective buyer.
Efficient delivery is one of the pillars for success of e-commerce firms. Fast delivery, and still better, free shipping, attracts customers. Quick delivery of products keeps the customers happy and loyal to an online store. Many stores are trying to offer one-day or next-day delivery on their online stores.
We suggest that retailers should go a step further and add a surprise gift, a discount coupon or some offer for the customers. It will make them come back to your online store and chances are they will buy more than actually planned for. It will earn positive customers' reviews and also attract more people.
The online store owners need to offer a personalized experience for the users. Ensure that you engage with your customers via the website, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, e-mailers, notifications, SMS, customer support, etc. Keep your customers informed about new offerings and your USP. When a product is delivered, make efforts to make the packaging innovative and unique. To show appreciation, retailers can give a personal touch by adding a note of thanks.
Internet has made the world a small place and it is easy to communicate with people all over the world. Go global and see your sales going places. Do not limit yourself to one country and rather sell over the world. Don't worry about how you are going to achieve this. Simply choose a platform like StoreHippo, which creates multilingual and multivendor stores integrated with all the leading payment providers to accept payments in any currency.
In this fast developing online sphere, you need to stand apart from the crowd. Online retailers need to highlight their brand's USP (unique selling point). What sets you apart from the others? If you can't figure it out, there is something wrong with your strategy. Identify a key feature and benefit of your product which attracts people to your store. Develop a USP for your brand. It will go a long way to create a positive image in the eyes of the people. Remember to give paramount importance to your brand's quality and never compromise on it else it will lead to negative product reviews. In case your site gets negative comments and reviews, do not take it lightly and address the issue/s right away.
In this world of digital media, it is impossible to carve a niche for yourself without a good social media strategy in place. You can promote and sell products via social media platforms and also connect with your customers. Respond to your customer queries on social media and also sell products through Facebook ads.
If online retailers adopt such measures, they will certainly up their ante, standout in the digital world and carve out a niche for themselves. What are your views? Please let us know.


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"The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Arts, and Sciences," Volume 13 (1829) redacted into a poem.
The Celestial Worlds Discovered: Redacted Poem
Christiaan Huygens' "The Celestial Worlds Discovered" redacted into a poem. (I used the 2nd edition, published 1722.)
Micrographia: Redacted poem
Robert Hooke's 1665 "Micrographia" redacted into a poem about the Feb. 15, 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor. (For the redaction, I used "Extracts from Micrographia," a 1906 reprint for ease of reading.)
Hope hov'rest near
Bits of Henry Ingram's 1815 poem "The Flower of Wye" borrowed to create a poem about the International Space Station. The initial cap "H" is part of an ISS image (photo credit: Peter Stetson and John Stetson).
The background text is a 2004 Congressional Budget Office budgetary analysis of NASA's future space vision.
My heart-blood grown fast: a valentine
Entry for "galaxy" and collocated entries in Samuel Johnson's 1805 "A Dictionary of the English Language" (Vol. II) redacted into a valentine.
Wanderlust #2
This April 4, 1968 picture of the unmanned Apollo 6 mission launch was taken from a chase plane. (Image credit: NASA.) The poem text comes from a 1909 poem in "The Public" called "Wanderlust." Phrases from other collocated articles were added in.
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences: Redacted Poem
A page of Galileo's "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" redacted into a poem. (I used Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio's 1914 translation for this effort.) The frame is a star field in Cepheus captured by the Dawn mission. Image credit: NASA/JPL /MPS/DLR/IDA
leave a man
AXE's "Leave a Man. Come Back a Hero." space academy campaign reworked through a redacted poem. The text is from "A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic" by Sir John Barrow (1818). Picture is Kathryn Sullivan from July 1, 1979 after setting unofficial altitude record for an American woman (63,300 ft). The purple outline was created with eyeliner.
starved star
Alfred Tennyson's "By An Evolutionist" (1889) and Robert Browning's "Epilogue" (1889) redacted into a poem about dying stars.
Dirge comes silent
A redacted poem remembering the crew of Columbia, lost February 1, 2003. The poem borrows words from George Henry Boker's "Dirge for a Soldier" (1862) and Christina Rossetti's "Up-Hill" (1862).


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Media Centre » Press Releases » NEW FUND LAUNCHES TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE EFFORTS IN AFRICA
NEW FUND LAUNCHES
Chicago, IL, April 30, 2019 –The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced the launch of the Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund to help support the implementation of transitional justice efforts in Africa, including the continent's new African Union Transitional Justice Policy.
The multi-year, multimillion-dollar Fund will strengthen civil society's capacity to engage with and advocate for national and regional transitional justice processes in Africa. Specifically, the Fund will support initiatives that seek to achieve truth, justice, and accountability for crimes and human rights violations in societies experiencing or transitioning from conflicts and dictatorships.
The Institute for Democratic Governance, one of Ghana's leading nonprofit and non- governmental organizations, will administer the Fund, which will start with an initial focus on seven West African countries: Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
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As of coming July 7 th, Google Chrome will improve ads that has bad experience to users. This will work only in Europe and North America from this date. According to Google, there are 12 ad experiences which are annoying. Google Chrome plans to block such ads automatically to improve the user experience.
Why Europe and North America due to GDPR?
US and Europe gets all the goodies with preference. It could be because they are a rich market.


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Henley-in-Arden Museum & Heritage Centre
the court leet
Henley-in-Arden Court Leet & Court Baron
In Mediaeval times the Court Leet, under the direction of the Lord of the Manor, was responsible for law and order in the town, to try by jury and punish crimes committed within the jurisdiction.
Some of its many tasks included checking the weights and measures and the quality of goods offered for sale by the tradesmen in the town, especially the quality and strength of the ale.
The earliest mention of a Manorial Court in Henley comes from an entry in the Warwickshire Feet of Fines dated 1240, when Brice of Henley promised to pay the yearly rent and to do suit at the Court of Henley three times a year. Detailed records of the Court exist from 1546 and edited transcripts of the court rolls from 1546 to 1918 were published in 1919. The names of the High Bailiffs are recorded from 1477.
The Court Leet maintains the traditions and history of the town. Annual re-enactments of the ceremonies of ale-tasting, bread and butter weighing, fish and flesh tasting, brook looking and beating of the manorial bounds take place. The Court represents and promotes the town at many events.
Its officers are elected annually in the Guild Hall by jurors who must have been resident in the town for a period of three years.
Court Leet officers
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Kendals to close: 'the flair was lost years ago'
Jonathan Schofield 19 October 2018
Jonathan Schofield on the demise of a Manchester retail icon
THE CLAMOUR will be loud. That lodestone of Manchester retail, Kendal's, is closing.
Kendal's, that's the name given to it by the BBC and the MEN despite the fact it has been House of Fraser for more than a decade and hasn't been locally owned since 1919. That's when Harrods took it over and changed the name and all hell broke loose in the letters pages of the Manchester press, so the name reverted.
That building now has to be cherished and a fitting use found for it
The closure is a tragedy for the staff who in uncertain times have now to look for work, unless a saviour can be sought. Yet it is part of the retail story. The difference with Kendal's, of course, is it's age and its reputation. The original ancestor of the store was opened by John Watts at the end of the eighteenth century. He passed it on to Kendal, Milne and Faulkner, which is the name currently over the main Deansgate entrance.
They were originally on the other side of the road. Waterstones occupies the purpose built building there from 1873. Expansion followed expansion and prestige became second nature, especially as William Morris opened a concession in the store to bring the best of fashionable furniture to Deansgate in the late 19th century.
Read the literature, watch the plays, go through the Coronation Street record and there are endless mentions of Kendal's by Harold Brighouse, Anthony Burgess, Howard Jacobson as well as Tony Warren and others. It became the totemic store for the aspirant. If you could shop at Kendal's it meant things were good. In that case you didn't go to Lewis's you went to Kendal's.
Kendals in the 1950s
People of old age fondly recall in-store events that included pageants, food fandangos, high-glam catwalks and extravagant Christmas celebrations. A store that hosts such memories is special, but there has not been much of the special about House of Fraser/Kendal's latterly. There has been little evidence of that flair for the spectacular, there have been few events. The opening of Cicchetti restaurant was a smart move but House of Fraser, as it declined, was in no position to make the store stand out as an exceptional shopping experience, aside from its heritage and its spectacular Modernist host building from 1939 by the practice of JW Beaumont.
That building now has to be cherished and a fitting use found for it. Come on John Lewis, we know you have not had the best time of things recently, but the most famous retail site in Manchester is right there for the taking. There are lots of excellent staff trained and ready too.
Or if that proves impossible let me indulge in a fantasy.
Christmas lights outside House of Fraser
Is there any philanthropist out there with maybe £15m, who could give this city the museum it misses, the last piece in its cultural jigsaw? Given the city's over-achievement in politics, industry, science and culture can we not take this magnificent building and turn it into The Museum of Manchester. If Liverpool has their museum can we not have the same, only with less sentimentality.
The hard lesson of city life is, in the end, situations and circumstances change. Such times aren't usually accompanied by such cruel irony. As Kendals announces its closure Amazon announces it is bringing 600 jobs to the city centre half a mile away. It's down to Amazon more than any other company that traditional retailing is having such a terrible time. The internet has become Death wielding a scythe for the High Street.
John Watts, who opened up more than 220 years ago, might understand something of the fluid nature of business. His company, under the tutelage of his family, after selling out to Kendal, Milne and Faulkner, became one of the greatest textile companies in the world. Now the Watts Warehouse on Portland Street is the Britannia Hotel. How the mighty fall.
At least we have Fred Aldous and its art supplies, and Forsyths, with its musical instruments, to remind us of 19th century retail. Kendals looks like its closing, but, the comforting thought is, the city will re-invent itself.