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Rose Émilie Batut dite Lise Berty, née à Marseille le  et morte à l'Hôtel-Dieu dans le 4e arrondissement de Paris le , est une comédienne et chanteuse d'opérettes française.

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Elle débute au Concert européen et dans les cabarets de Montmartre : La Lune Rousse, la Boîte à Fursy,..., puis elle se produit à la Cigale, à la Scala, au théâtre des Variétés et au théâtre des Capucines.

Morte à 69 ans des suites d'une longue maladie, Lise Berty était la mère d'Émile Batut (1891-1954), journaliste au New York Herald (édition européenne), nommé chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur en 1929.

Carrière
Revues, théâtre

1896  : Paris Incognito, revue de Paul Gavault et Charles Mongel, à La Roulotte.
1897 : Paris-Pompier, revue de Jean Meudrot et Georges Nanteuil, à La Roulotte, 90 représentations, puis à la Bodinière.
1897 : Passez-Muscade, de Dumat et musique de Cusas et Madelaine Guitty, à la Bodinière, 22 novembre.
1897 : La Voiture versée, de Georges Courteline, au Carillon, le 2 décembre.
1898 : Les Vers du nez, revue de Jules Oudot et Henry de Gorsse, au Carillon.
1902 : L'Agence Léa, fantaisie-actualité de Miguel Zamacoïs, au théâtre des Capucines.
1903 : Soyons optimiste !, au théâtre des Capucines.
1903 : Une étoile filante, fantaisie-revue de Miguel Zamacoïs, au théâtre des Capucines, 11 mai.
1903 : Paris aux Variétés, revue de Paul Gavault, théâtre des Variétés, 22 novembre.
1905 : La Vie de château, revue de Miguel Zamacoïs, aux Mathurins, Perlette.
1905 : Marigny-Revue, revue de E.P. Lafargue et Gabriel Timmory, au théâtre Marigny.
1905 : Le Bonheur, mesdames !, de Francis de Croisset, création le 13 octobre , théâtre des Variétés, Marthe de Férieux.
1907 : La Revue du centenaire, de Paul Gavault, Pierre-Louis Flers et Eugène Héros, théâtre des Variétés, 3 mars.
1908 : On rentre, revue d'Hugues Delorme et  Henri Fursy, à la Boîte à Fursy.
1908 : L'Impromptu des salons, revue d'Henri Fursy, au théâtre Michel.
1909 : O.E.O.E., revue d'Hugues Delorme et Jean Deyrmon, à la Boîte à Fursy, .
1910 : L'Agence Léa, fantaisie de Miguel Zamacoïs, au théâtre Michel.
1910 : D.P.F.A.V. (Des Petites Femmes au Volney), revue de Charles Clairville, au Cercle Volney.
1910 : La Dame du second, fantaisie de Miguel Zamacoïs, au théâtre Michel.
1911 : Article de Paris, de Claude Genal et Emile Erzog, au théâtre Michel.
1911 : L'Agence Léa, fantaisie de Miguel Zamacoïs, au théâtre Michel.
1912 : Bibelots, revue de Robert Mureaux à la Boîte à Fursy.
1912 : Doucet...tement, fantaisie de Robert Mureaux, au théâtre Michel.
1913 : La Timbale, de Georges Lenôtre et Fernand. Vandérem, au théâtre du casino municipal de Nice, Sabine.
1913 : Les Cubisteries de l'année, revue de Robert Mureaux, au théâtre Impérial.
1913 : Les Berceuses, de Pierre Veber et Michel Provins, au théâtre Michel, Pilar del Rio.
1913 : Il en rira...car il est Espagnol !, fantaisie de Robert Mureaux, au théâtre Impérial.
1913 : A la bonne Franckette, revue de Jean Bastia, Jules Moy et Moriss, au théâtre Impérial.
1914 : La Main dans le sac, revue de Robert Mureaux, au théâtre Impérial.
1919 : Hercule à Paris, revue de Rip et Régis Gignoux, au Palais-Royal, 27 octobre.
1921 : S.M. le Concierge, de Serge Veber, aux Ambassadeurs.
1923 : La Fille du bouif, de Georges de la Fouchardière, avec Félicien Tramel, au Perchoir.
1924 : Tu perds la boule, revue de Max Viterbo et Max Eddy, à La Cigale.
1931 : Caniche, de Lonjon-Raynaud à la Comédie Caumartin.

Opérettes

1899 : Les Mousquetaires au couvent,  opérette en 3 actes de Louis Varney, sur un livret de Jules Prével et Paul Ferrier, reprise au théâtre de la Gaîté : sœur Opportune.
1899 : Les Saltimbanques, opéra-comique en 3 actes et 4 tableaux de Louis Ganne, livret de Maurice Ordonneau, créé le 30 décembre au théâtre de la Gaîté : Marion.
1904 : La Vie parisienne, opéra-bouffe en 4 actes de Jacques Offenbach, livret d'Henri Meilhac et Ludovic Halévy, au théâtre des Variétés (9 avril).
1906 : Le Paradis de Mahomet, opérette en 3 actes de Robert Planquette, livret d'Henri Blondeau, au théâtre des Variétés (15 mai) : Babouch.
1909 : Mam'zelle Main-Leste, opérette en 2 actes et 3 tableaux de Charles Cuvillier, livret de Joseph Méryl et A. Petit-Mangin, à la Scala (1er décembre) : Nini.
1923 : Épouse-la !, opérette en 3 actes d'Henri Hirschmann, livret de Pierre Veber, au théâtre Fémina (14 janvier).
1925 : Pépète, comédie musicale en 3 actes de Robert Dieudonné et Didier Gold, musique de Charles-Alexis Carpentier, au théâtre de l'Avenue :  Armande.

Chansons
 Hier et Demain, paroles de Miguel Zamacoïs, musique de Rodolphe Berger, 1902.
A quoi nous pensons, paroles de Miguel Zamacoïs, musique d'Édouard Mathé, 1915.

Critiques
Peu d'artistes savent, comme elle, créer une atmosphère de joie, Lise Berty c'est la gaîté parisienne, c'est la rosserie boulevardière, mais avec quelque chose en plus. Chaque phrase malicieuse, chaque propos mordant est mis en valeur par un geste, une attitude qui ajoutent à l'ironie je ne sais quoi de caricatural et de bouffon qui hausse la boutade jusqu'à la satire. La raillerie de Lise Berty n'égratigne pas seulement, elle fustige, elle frappe dru et juste. Son jeu trépidant tient à la fois de la comédie et de la parodie. On y retrouve la bonne humeur boulevardière et la férocité d'un Sem. C'est ce mélange singulier c'est la science accomplie d'une mimique incomparable, qui font de Lise Berty une des premières fantaisistes de ce temps

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Chanteuse française d'opérette
Chanteuse française du XIXe siècle
Chanteuse française du XXe siècle
Naissance en août 1873
Naissance à Marseille
Décès en août 1943
Décès dans le 4e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 69 ans

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We reached out to two long-term Beetroots who have been part of the process for changing our outlook. What we actually mean is, they got us to change our gaze from the traditional IT hubs in Ukraine and encouraged us to look into smaller cities around the country. The reasons for moving away from expensive metropolitan areas can range greatly, from cost-savings, to convenience through to reducing competition, yet the core motivation in our case has been to unlock a previously inaccessible and potentially huge workforce. This workforce holds the budding possibility of being quickly tuned and trained to international standards that can cope with high volume needs. A mid-sized city in this text is defined as having a population of around 200,000, and examples include cities such as Kramatorsk, Ivano-Frankvisk and Poltava.
Find below two independent conversations we had with both Uve Poom, Partnership & Fundraising Manager at Beetroot Academy, and Andreas Flodström, Beetroot and Beetroot Academy Founder & CEO.
What is Beetroot doing in mid-sized cities?
Uve: Basically, we open IT academies and teach people. From an individual perspective, we create new & professional opportunities. The economies in mid-sized cities are outdated and salaries are too low. So from the global perspective, if we want to modernize the economy, we have to modernize people's skills in all of our cities. It is a well-known fact that the modern economy is digital and knowledge-heavy, so we are helping underdeveloped towns make this leap into the new age. We work as a catalyst to the marketplace. Since we entered new cities we bred new blood in the IT industry. We created a talent pool using practical and quick education. And we work as a link between old and new. We bridge between bulky higher education and fluctuating market needs; between the old way of doing things and our new economy.
Andreas: What we aim to do is to create new job opportunities by developing local IT fields. But the whole thing is much more complicated. If you think about Maslow's pyramid, there is a basic layer there, right? That's what we do at first – we give people a job and decent salaries to buy items of necessity. But then we go further, to the next level of the pyramid. We give them purpose, we teach them to think of the big picture and not just about making money. Today in Ukraine you can easily find expensive things and cheap things – but nothing is in between. We teach people to want to create the middle ground, strive towards developing a better lifestyle.
How leading business in mid-sized cities differs from leading business elsewhere?
Uve: In three ways. Firstly, it's the cost of doing things. The further you go from the centre, the lower the prices are. So starting a company is cheaper. Secondly, it's the risk of doing things. The risk is usually higher, mostly because you're not just trying to start a company, but you're revolutionizing the whole environment. Thirdly, it's the impact of doing things. Working in the intense atmosphere of huge cities, surrounded by competitors, startups and innovators, it's really hard to see your footprint. In smaller cities, you can definitely see the impact of your business and it inspires to do more.
Andreas: Frankly speaking, the outsourcing industry is based on disbalance to a large extent. The same work is valued differently in different locations. For instance, the work of developers in mid-sized cities would cost less than the same work in megalopolises. We don't pretend that we are saints and aren't using this to our own gains. But while building a business around this, we also decrease the gap. Just imagine this, now developers in Poltava (a mid-sized city in Ukraine) are educated enough and have good opportunities to compete with developers in Sweden. Actually, they can compete with any developers in the world. It opens up a new field of opportunities for them, chances to change their lives and the lives of their societies.
Why did we start doing this?
Uve: Mostly out of inner strive for balancing the development of the country. Ukrainian business is focused in a handful of cities, while others remain underdeveloped. This creates a vicious circle. People fly away from smaller cities, cities receive fewer taxes and fail to develop, so more people leave them for good. The only way to break the cycle is to provide attractive opportunities in those cities and persuade people to stick around. In broader terms, this applies on the national level as well – so that people wouldn't need to leave their home country for purely economic reasons.
Andreas: The reason why we are opening academies in mid-sized cities is to develop these places. We come with a very specific offer – practical courses that will land you a job in the IT sphere. We underline that we welcome people not only with basic skills or education but with a specific mindset and values that hopefully make them more interested in developing their societies with us
Uve: By opening a company we obviously generate job opportunities. But it doesn't stop there. For every new IT job created, a couple of surrounding jobs are also created. In the western countries, the ratio is around 1-2 new jobs for every IT post that's formed. However, in Ukraine, where the salary gap between the IT industry and other spheres is ridiculously big, every new job in IT creates 3.8 new jobs. The impact is huge!
How it influences IT and the Ukrainian economy?
Andreas: We decided to do this mainly to rejuvenate the middle class in Ukraine. 80% of Ukrainian IT is working for export and the Ukrainian economy is much weaker than the ones where it exports. By offering new job opportunities within international companies we create an inflow of currency. We do this not only to strengthen the economic situation but also to change people's mentality and teach them to take social responsibility.
Uve: We can see that the creation of new openings in mid-sized cities influences the IT industry as a whole. We don't only increase the talent pool, but we increase competitiveness. We build stronger loyalty from people in smaller cities, which makes a lot of sense from a business perspective. And we actively work with gender discrepancy, because two-thirds of our students are women. Donor funding helps us offer scholarships to engage more women. By doing so we attract a further 50% of the population into the IT industry, shaking up the male dominance that is in play.
What challenges do we face?
Uve: Young people still have a belief that they will have a better life if they move away. Which might be true, of course, and might be not. But it's hard to find students in mid-sized cities, willing to learn and to stay. Another challenge is the mentality. Big cities, somehow, have a more progressive way of thinking. It can be seen in people's independence, ability to self-manage and to take responsibility. In mid-sized cities, people seem to have less of an independent mentality. They are still choosing more passive roads, hoping to have someone to tell them what to do. This is a legacy of the Soviet period when the state took care of everything, but also took away individual autonomy. But we think that this will change once they see emerging opportunities and a new way of doing things.
How international business benefits from this?
Uve: I believe that by building new academies in mid-sized cities we acquire huge opportunities to change the way business functions. Let's think of the existing patterns. For instance, Google decides to open a new development office in Europe. They would partner with local universities to train people for this new function. The process can take three, four or even five years. We are doing something very similar but on a smaller faster scale – our Beetroot customers can partner with Beetroot Academy and can quickly start a four-month course that fits their needs. The companies don't have to develop their own curriculum now – they just want to hire developers, and that's what we do. Beetroot with Beetroot Academy commands a powerful talent pipeline. We pick only those people, who are motivated enough to study, and that ensures the quality of future hires.
Andreas: The workforce nowadays becomes more global. What we do with the Academy is create opportunities for gaining enough competence in these locations to join the global competition. In the long-term, we believe that one day there will be a perfect capitalistic world where everyone will compete globally and equally.
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In an article published by the Hartford Business Journal, JCJ Architecture's vision, "to be the most sought-after firm within the industry," was illustrated by JCJ's President Peter Stevens as he discussed the firm's recent downtown Hartford relocation and U.S. expansion into Los Angeles.
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Q: JCJ recently relocated to the Colt Building. Why was that an important move for you? Does an architectural firm need to be in a dynamic space to impress its clients? Or were there other factors behind it?
A: Looking back on JCJ's history, our firm has been attracted and committed to locating in areas that were part of a larger redevelopment initiative. This occurred in the 1970s when we moved to 450 Church St., as part of the Union Station redevelopment initiative, continued with our move in 2006 to the Front Street neighborhood, and now with our move to Coltsville.
In each case, JCJ was not "the first one in," but the firm has realized the impact our moves could make in acting as a catalyst for the area's further development.
In contemplating our most recent move, we had an opportunity to reflect upon the fact that we were going to be celebrating our 80th year in business — a milestone that made for ideal timing to renew our commitment to the city of Hartford as well as make a profound impact on our work environment for our employees. To create a more open and collaborative office, JCJ made it a priority to find a space that would house the firm on a single floor.
In the end, we felt that locating in Coltsville allowed us to create a very dynamic workspace — one that is both sustainable (LEED Silver) and healthy (WELL Building Certified). While Coltsville is still considered to be "on the fringe" of the downtown area, this is not new for us; JCJ has a passion for reinventing and reimagining historic structures, and our new headquarters truly celebrates the rich history of the East Armory Building and surrounding neighborhood.
Q: JCJ recently purchased Los Angeles-based Randall/Baylon Architect Inc. Does your LA expansion indicate a need to diversify among various parts of the country for more stable revenue?
A: For the past 15 years, JCJ has strategically committed itself to diversify both geographically and in terms of market sectors. Currently, this manifests in locations from east to west including Atlanta, Boston, Hartford, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix and San Diego — with project work spanning a broad range of building types from institutional (i.e. K-12, college and university, civic) to hospitality (i.e. hotels, gaming, entertainment).
We strive to create a high level of synergy between our offices within each region, with the majority of our large projects involving a cross-office team of experts. Our Los Angeles expansion aligns with our approach to open offices in key urban areas where we already have established a presence working on significant and highly visible projects near these cities.
This bi-coastal format also proves to be a very efficient business model for JCJ, allowing us to extend our business day to the equivalent of "two shifts."
Q: How's the pipeline for up-and-coming architects? Is it still a field drawing sufficient numbers to replace retiring architects?
A: According to the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), 2015 saw the number of aspiring architects continue to grow. In the last reporting year of 2014, an all-time high of 37,174 people were actively engaged in the activities leading to professional licensure. During the last recession many architects left their firms to pursue other career paths — and while the pipeline of young professionals is strong, there are fewer mid-career architects in the profession.
JCJ remains very engaged in activities to both increase the pipeline of new graduates and offer young professionals career-development opportunities. Through our decades-long involvement in the ACE Mentor Program and Hartford Scholars, we have introduced high school students in Hartford to careers in architecture, construction and engineering.
From an internal perspective, we provide regular continuing education and leadership opportunities for our younger professionals as well as support them as they study for and take the licensing exam.
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A: With more advanced computer models, one of the most pressing challenges facing our industry is the ability to manage growing client expectations. The industry's most cutting-edge architects must keep pace with this more sophisticated design technology and integrate multiple disciplines to stay ahead, but building project budgets aren't matching this increase in investment.
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Хосе́ Фігеро́а Алько́рта (; *20 листопада 1860 — †27 грудня 1931) — аргентинський адвокат і політик, президент Аргентини з 12 березня 1906 року по 12 жовтня 1910 року.

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Народився в Кордові, Аргентина. Займався адвокатською практикою. Почав політичну кар'єру депутатом законодавчих зборів Кордови, 1895 року став губернатором провінції Кордова. 1898 був обраний до лав Конгресу Аргентини, обіймав посаду сенатора до 1903 року. 1904 став віцепрезидентом Аргентини, а 1906 змінив президента Мануеля Кінтану, обіймав ту посаду до 1910 року.

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Paul Hensley, the president of the CC Morris Cricket Library, an American, was introduced to the sport of cricket at Haverford College where he played all four years as an undergraduate. In his senior year he was captain and was primarily known for his bowling – medium pace with a swing.
After college he played intermittently and a few years later when he moved to New Hampshire, rarely. In 1986, he moved back to the Philadelphia area and soon joined the Executive Committee of the library. About 10 years later, he became the Library President. Paul has provided leadership for the library to expand its role to support all aspects and forms of American cricket.
Since he became president, the Philadelphia International Cricket Festival merged into the library. The festival continues to grow and has become one of the premiere cricket events in the United States. During this time, the Library helped to support the Philadelphia Cricket Club reestablish their playing of cricket.
The collection of the Cricket Library has gained international stature since the Swinging Away Exhibit was on display in 2010 at Lords and 2011 at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The exhibit traced back the roots of baseball and cricket. Many of the great cricketers of the 1880 to 1910 period, like Bart King, started in baseball and converted to cricket.
Further expending the Library's role, it was the founding sponsor of the United States Youth Cricket Association (USYCA), providing critical early financial support of the program. Many of the library's members joined and continue to be active in the USYCA programs that bring cricket into grade schools across the US. Well over 100,000 American children play cricket in public schools because of the USYCA's program.


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The returnees were all women in their 20s or younger.
by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 27, 2017
After almost two days of waiting for their arrival, 41 Nigerian human trafficking victims returned home from Mali on Monday.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) flew the victims from Bamako, Mali into Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, touching down at 7:25 p.m. on Monday night. The victims were subsequently profiled by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Matters, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, along with officials of the National Agency for Protection and Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and other government officials, were on ground to welcome the girls back to the country.
Speaking on their return with journalists, Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa said that the Chief of Defence Staff, Nigerian Air Force, NAPTIP, and other relevant government agencies assisted in the rescue operation.
She stated that President Muhammadu Buhari had given a directive to evacuate and rehabilitate any Nigerian stranded outside the country.
Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa revealed that there are still several more Nigerians stranded in Mali and other parts of the world, but vowed to rescue them.
She explained that Monday's returnees were tricked into traveling to Mali in pursuit of economic opportunities.
"They were deceived into embarking on the journey. We will ensure we train them to the state of proficiency in different vocations, after which we will trace their parents and counsel them," Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa said. The NAPTIP has been tasked with rehabilitating the victims, she added.
"We will monitor the girls for two years so they do not sell their vocational equipment. It goes beyond poverty for them to embark on such a mission. The government had to rescue them because they sent a distress call. This made Buhari direct the service chiefs to wade into the matter to rescue the girls."
While commending the officials who facilitated the girls' release, Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa called on international non-governmental organizations to assist the Nigerian government in fighting human trafficking.
Nigerian human trafficking victims at Murtala Muhammed International Airport after being evacuated from Mali
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Everything you need to know about using questions in selling can be found in Professor Neil Rackham's timeless book, SPIN Selling™. His work stands today as the only time in history that University PhD grade research was conducted to analyse how business-to-business (B2B) sales people interact with prospects and customers in the field. In the 1980s they observed 35,000 sales calls done by 10,000 sales people in 23 countries over 12 years and employed 40 researchers. The body of work was peer reviewed and validated. Nothing before or since comes even close to matching the level of transparency and integrity in the research data and findings.
The undertaking was massive and resulted in a selling framework that Huthwaite took to market before being acquired recently by Miller Heiman who are now the largest B2B sales training organization globally. When the research was originally conducted, people thought that the key to sales success was asking open questions rather than closed questions; but the study surprised everyone when they found this not to be the case. Instead, there were four types of questions employed by sales people and it remains the case today. The first type of question sales people use are Situation questions (fact-finding or discovery). The second type are Problem questions. The third type are Implication questions (exploring and deepening the pain). The fourth type are value or benefit questions but that would have created an acronym of SPIV or SPIB. They decided to go with the acronym of SPIN with the N standing for 'Needs payoff'.
Neil Rackham remains a luminary in the field of professional selling today and SPIN is an evergreen framework for driving sales conversations with prospective customers. Even Matt Dixon and Brent Adamson who wrote The Challenger Sale invited Neil to write the foreword and also contribute within the body of the book (page 82). Here is the SPIN model with some annotation by me in red.
If you need a framework for helping your team have better conversations in the field, I suggest you combine insight selling or Challenger (Corporate Executive Board) concepts with SPIN. Lead with insight to earn the right to ask questions and then use the SPIN framework to structure the conversation. Importantly, don't jump from S to N which is a common mistake made by many salespeople. Leading sales people take the best from various methodologies and create a 'mash-up' that they combine with digital and physical selling techniques. It's not about old school solution, value or insight selling versus new school Social Selling 3.0… it's combining them all together that creates amazing results.
If you want SPIN selling training, contact Miller Heiman / Huthwaite. Don't deal with people who steal or imitate their IP or have inferior question based approaches. To Neil, thanks for your personal support with my own book and for all you continue to do in professional selling, including your tireless work in making selling a profession recognized through university qualifications.


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Archaeology & Fossils
Agriculture development and its imprints in environmental records during Neolithic Age in North China
by Science China Press
Slash-and-burn cultivation during Neolithic Age. Credit: ©Science China Press
China has a long tradition of agriculture production. Millet crops including foxtail millet and broomcorn millet were first domesticated in North China. Tthereafter, the development of millet-based agriculture (also called "rain-fed" agriculture) provided an important foundation for the emergence of ancient Chinese civilization, which might have also exerted unprecedented impact on natural environments.
Previous studies revealed that the Yangtse River valley of south China and the Yellow River valley of north China were the original center of rice agriculture and rain-fed agriculture respectively. The history for the development of rain-fed agriculture during Neolithic period is important, as central North China was the cradle for the origin of ancient Chinese civilization in early 4th Millennium BP (Before present). Archaeologists summarized the timeline for the development of rain-fed agriculture in Neolithic China based on archaeobotanical evidence. While the space variation in this process has not been adequately studied, the spatial-temporal intensification and expansion of rain-fed agriculture in the Neolithic Age has not been clarified.
Whether human behaviors of slash-and-burn cultivation had significantly and extensively affected their surrounding environments after the emergence of intensive rain-fed agriculture has also not been well understood, due to the lack of interdisciplinary studies—for example, the cross-over studies between archaeology and earth sciences. The issue is valuable for the controversial discussion of the Anthropocene, which has been nominated as a new geological epoch. Some scholars argue for an onset of the Anthropocene between 1945 and 1964 AD, when intensive atmospheric nuclear testing resulted in the peak values of 14 degrees C that is widely recorded in tree rings and sediments; other scholars argue that its beginning may be traced back to the early Holocene. This latter argument is related to the beginnings of significant landscape modification through the development and spread of agricultural practices in old world since 10,000 BP.
In an article coauthored by Guanghui Dong, Shanjia Zhang, Yishi Yang, Jianhui Chen and Fahu Chen, scholars at MOE Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System, Lanzhou University, the intensification and expansion of agriculture during Neolithic Age in Northern China and its imprints in paleo-environmental records has been detected based on the comparative analysis of multidisciplinary evidences.
These five scholars review the results of archaeobotanical and dating studies, and carbon isotope analysis of human bones from Neolithic sites. They compare them with black carbon content from palaeoenvironment records in Northern China. Based on these works, they conclude that millet cultivation was an auxiliary subsistence strategy in Northern China from 10,000 to 7000 BP; while hunting-gathering was the primary subsistence strategy, the earliest millet-cultivation might have emerged in eastern Inner Mongolia post 7700 BP. Millet cultivation transited from a secondary strategy to become dominant in the Guanzhong area of north-central China during 7000-6000 BP, and probably facilitated the development of early Yangshao culture in the middle reaches of the Yellow River valley. Intensive millet-based agriculture emerged and widely expanded across the Yellow River valley in northern China during 6000 to 4000 BP. This promoted rapid population growth and cultural evolution in the late Neolithic period, and was key in the subsequent emergence of the ancient Chinese civilization. The temporal-spatial variation of black carbon (EC-soot) corresponds well with the intensification and expansion of millet-based agriculture during Neolithic period, suggesting intensive millet agriculture production activities exerted evident impact on fire frequency in northern China.
This work provides a valuable case study for understanding the temporal and spatial development of millet agriculture, and human-environment interactions in northern China during Neolithic period from an Anthropocene perspective.
Research reveals history of Chinese agriculture
More information: , Agricultural intensification and its impact on environment during Neolithic Age in northern China, Chinese Science Bulletin (2016). DOI: 10.1360/N972016-00547
Journal information: Chinese Science Bulletin
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Citation: Agriculture development and its imprints in environmental records during Neolithic Age in North China (2016, October 14) retrieved 18 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2016-10-agriculture-imprints-environmental-neolithic-age.html
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SRINAGAR: With its almond trees in full bloom and its range of amusements from food stalls, singing, painting, a selfie zone and magic shows to a display of the art and heritage of Kashmir, the historic, sprawling Badamwari Garden in Shehre-e-Khaas has been a major draw for nature lovers this season.
Organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, the spring festival drew almost 1,000 students from various schools, including Blue Bells, Vishwa Bharti Higher Secondary School, Kashmir Harvard and Mars Public School, all of whom participated in different shows.
Apart from shows, local vendors set up their stands, includng food stalls and displays showcasing Kashmiri heritage and culture.
"We received invitations for the spring festival a few days before it started and we were ready with our food stall at once. There is a huge rush of people buying different food items from our stall," said a member of Hatrik food stall.
Apart from enjoying the food, people got to see a display of different heritage tools from Meras Mahal Museum, Sopore. "We have only displayed a few heritage items, but visitors showed much interest in seeing them," said Imtiyaz Ahmad, one of the stall's organisers.
Badamwari holds in its warm bosom the undercurrent of our culture. While poverty was writ large on the faces of many of those attending, the festival invites visitors to feast their eyes on the irresistible charm of almond blossoms and thus forget for a while the hardships of the freezing winter from which they have emerged alive.
As per the official records, 40,000 people a day visit the Badamwari to enjoy the spring festival. The festival was made possible after the garden was taken over by the JK Bank as part of its corporate social responsibility and heritage trust and was formally opened for the public in 2008.
"We took over this garden from the Jammu and Kashmir Horticulture Department in 2005 and started development of the park. We have almost 70 employees here, including gardeners, sweepers, security guards and housekeeping staff," said the garden incharge, who asked not to be named.


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CBN lacks resources to protect naira, says Sanusi
Posted by News Express | 16 March 2015 | 5,372 times
Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, now Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said the country does not have enough resources to save the naira from shaving off value from speculative attack and other deleterious effects.
Sanusi, who spoke at the weekend in Washington, explained that the major reason for the bleak prospect is the failure of government to save for a rainy day and by relying too much on oil revenue, thereby leaving the economy vulnerable to oil price shocks.
"If you didn't save during the years of plenty, when the drought comes, you die," Sanusi said. "And that's basically what's happened. We had high oil prices, we did not save."
He added: "Now prices are down, the Central Bank does not have the ammunition to protect the currency and, therefore, there is no alternative to devaluation, no alternative to a collapse in the stock market, no alternative to higher inflation until hopefully the price of oil goes back up."
Nigeria, like other oil exporters, has seen a 50 percent drop in prices since last year's peak in June. Beyond the downside of the oil cycle, which is considered exogenous, other value eroding factors include poor handling of monetary controls, fears that the Boko Haram sect would further cause damage to the social system and what is generally perceived as a bungling of the electoral process as government pushes national votes from February 14 to March 28.
As a consequence of the mix of economic eroding factors, there was a herd effect as foreign portfolio managers headed for the borders last January in a move that saw a cumulative outflow of N793.17 billion. It was the first time in three years that Foreign Portfolio Investment outflow would surpass inflow, analysts said.
But there were also other intervening factors at work in that time, including the CBN's devaluation of the naira in an attempt to defend the national currency. In one fell but unsavoury swoop, the economy as summed up by Oscar Oyema, head of the Nigerian bourse, was such that the "bearish sentiments prevailed for most of the year as foreign investors steadily withdrew from the Nigerian market due to currency risk and the recovery of developed economies, and the effects of the US Federal Reserve tapering of its quantitative easing policy."
In an attempt to rein in bleeding of the naira, the Central Bank got cowered in what the investment community believed was an abdication of responsibility and a clear breach of confidence, allowed the powerful bloc of money traders to suspend trading.
It is not unlikely that this is the policy bungling that Sanusi alluded to.
Lamido Sanusi is now known as Muhammadu Sanusi II, having become Emir of Kano after being ousted from CBN last year.
•Adapted from Newswatch Times. Photo shows Sanusi.
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Reversals are one of the most common elements in markets traders are wanting to either know of to avoid or confirm their trade. The clues to whether a reversal is in play are hidden in the price action and easily found. These key elements are found in rejections which show up in the price action formation of long wicks occurring at key price levels.
The answer to this question would be a minimum of 50%. Why?
Because this is the minimum amount to satisfy the condition that one side of the market does not have more control than the other. Think about it like this. If price is in an uptrend and starts to approach a key price level, once it touches this key price level now creates a wick which reverses 50% of the price advance of say a 4hr or daily candle, this 50% rejection means the bears were able to stop the upward force/momentum of the current uptrend and 4hr/daily candle, but were able to push prices back 50% of that candle and move. This would translate into the bears having at least as much strength on the board in terms of order flow than the bulls because they were able to take half of the gains and eliminate them.
In some sense, it would actually translate into more strength because they also had to stop the momentum which was already upward. Thus, to stop momentum on any moving object takes energy and force. This then translates into there being the minimum requirements for a reversal for it demonstrates the bears have the minimum energy and force to reverse the trend.
Obviously the larger the wick the better because if the bulls who have the current handle on the market run into some sell orders and are not only unable to keep advancing price, but get pushed back quite a strong amount, this means the bears have taken short term control of the market and this can be seen in the price action.
Remember, a wick is a rejection of price. If price was accepted at a certain level, it would stay there or advance past it. However, if the order flow in the market does not support price being at that level, it will reject it and send it back because the institutions would be finding that price over-valued and time to sell. This is what it means when we say a wick is a rejection of price action.
This is the trickier part of your assignment – finding the key price levels. However with a few simple tools, its not that hard to confirm. We will suggest three tools to help you confirm the reversal is happening at a key price level.
Before we do, its important to note this works better on time frames such as the 4hr and daily charts. Anything below this does not contain enough time to signify an important impact on the market. Thus, when we are talking about these, we are referring to the 4hr or daily charts.
1) Pivot Points – key price levels that are respected and watched by all institutional traders, when strong price rejections occur at key pivot levels, they often have more impact. Why? Because institutions place intraday orders around pivots more than anything else. They enter the market at these locations more than they do any other price levels so when we see price reject strongly off a pivot point – it usually has more impact.
Taking a look at Exhibit A below, we can see how the price action had a pretty strong intraday rejection off of the M3 pivot level at 1.0366. This was the highest price surge for any candle on this trading day and it rejected back down below the daily pivot to stop where? At the M2 Pivot showing you the market is respecting these two pivot levels.
The fact that this pivot also happened to line up with a lot of the support for the candles to the left along with the swing low all the way to the left of the chart at the same price level shows this to be a strong intraday price rejection point. One can also notice the candle is over 50% of the entire candle's size suggesting its strength. One other key point in the price action is that there is two way interest here as the support of this candle lies with a decent rejection to the downside which is also at a pivot.
Thus, when rejections occur at intraday pivot levels, they have more potency so look for them to line up at a pivot whenever possible.
2) Fibonacci Levels – another tool to look for and help confirm the rejection is for them to occur at key Fibonacci levels. Which ones would we consider key? The 38.2 / 50 / 61.8% fib levels. Now which fib levels are the next question because they can be drawn from anywhere. Anytime you have a strong trend in place, there will be market swings and corrections. Fibs were meant to be used during trends to find retracement levels where pairs would find support/resistance in their current trend to continue the trend. Thus, when we pull fibs, we always pull them in the direction of the trend looking at the major swings. Below is an example.
In this chart above we have the GBPUSD 4hr chart where price was consolidating after a downmove and then started another leg down. Price hit a floor around 1.5900 and then started to attempt a reversal. However it created two rejection wicks right at the same level which was not only support for the previous consolidation move but also a 38.2% fib level thus making it a good rejection area according to Fibonacci price levels.
By combing previous support/resistance levels along with a key Fibonacci level, when a rejection wick occurs at these levels, it gives it further confirmation of it being a legitimate rejection.
3) Key Support/Resistance Levels – previous swing highs and lows are great places to look for rejections to take place because the market had already rejected price there once before. If the market rejected price at a key level once before, it certainly should be considered it could happen again.
Looking at the chart below, we actually have two examples in the same chart. Starting at the bottom the price action was stable and holding at a particular level building a base around the 146.00 handle. After several touches on this price level, it launched up towards 150.68 where it rejected back down to 149.00 or 268 pips. It then very quickly re-advanced on this same price and swing high only to create a very strong rejection at this level by producing a very large wick. The price action from here then went all the way down to where? The last major base of support down at 146.00. Thus, by spotting these previous key swing highs and lows, and looking for larger rejections off of them, we can find great trading opportunities or examine the price action to confirm our reversal trade.
To learn more about how to spot these simple high-probability setups and how to trade reversals with rejections, you can check out the Advanced Price Action or the ProForex Course which will teach you rule-based proprietary systems to trade these profitable setups.


It has been an embarrassingly long time – over a year and a half! – since I last updated this blog. It's certainly not for a lack of trying. But a lot has happened, and finding the time to write about it kept getting away from me. The long and short is that we had a triply successful 2016 season: in the woods, in the sugarhouse, and on the farmers' market circuit. With the help of Colin Kaferle, our beloved friend and trusty woodsworker, we added close to a thousand taps last year. That meant more syrup in the bank for all of you – a total of 33 barrels – most of which we were able to sell retail via farmers' markets and at an increasing number of stores all over Maine. We also have started aging small quantities of syrup in bourbon barrels, which lends a delicious, subtly oaky flavor to a product already full of woody essences. Those bottles feature a beautiful new label by Alexis Iammarino with hand-drawn ermines (a favorite sugarhouse visitor) and lettering inspired by old 1950s Chinese restaurant menus. Since we age the syrup in advance, we had only a limited supply in 2016, and it disappeared quickly. In fact we sold almost all of it at the Common Ground Fair, over three whirlwind and wonderful days! We hope to age about a third of our crop this year to keep up with demand. We're now using five-gallon mini-barrels from Split Rock Organic Distillery in Newcastle, which can infuse syrup with all that barrel juice in about half the time.
Perhaps most excitingly, 2016 brought us a son! Fed off the fat of trades from the farmers' markets in utero, he was born on September 9, a happy, pink-cheeked, perfect human! He was, I might add, born a lucky two weeks early, as his official due date was the Saturday the 28th, smack dab in the middle of the Common Ground Fair weekend. His early arrival allowed him to pay a brief visit to his papa and to Pat Hunt, both of whom heroically manned the booth at the Fair for an insane 72 hours. While I was massively pregnant and then recovering at home, we also had help from a slew of other friends and family members who worked farmers' markets, helped load and unload Subaru station wagons full of syrup, and who babysat while I canned syrup and made candy. Of special note: my aunt Sherry and uncle Ted, who have travelled from Vermont a gazillion times over the past year, and who, among myriad other contributions, volunteered their Fourth of July weekend in Jackman, helping to put the gable ends on the sugarhouse at long last. And worth shouting out, again, Pat Hunt: available at the drop of a hat when we got a scary-early run of sap this February (global warming, much?) his tapping help was absolutely invaluable. It allowed VJ to spend a few more precious hours with me and the baby, even during his most stressful time of year. As a result, despite the distractions of new parenthood, we're starting off the season readier than we've ever been.
The business, too, is growing. I was able to leave my teaching job in June of 2015, and now work flexibly as a freelance writer between sugarmaking tasks. In addition to all the old standbys, we now sell our syrup and candy at Rising Tide Coop in Damariscotta, Local Market in Brunswick, and Fine and Dandelion in Carmel. And we have been admitted into two new farmers' markets for the upcoming 2017 season: in addition to Camden and Northeast Harbor, we'll now be at Bar Harbor on Sundays and in Boothbay on Thursdays from May through October.
We've just completed our first boil of the season, and look forward to a busy month ahead. This is, of course, our favorite time of year, when, huddled around the evaporator and watching the sap fill the tanks, we can bask in the sweetness of spring. Then we can bottle it and pass it along to you.
Cheers to the season, and thanks so much for your support!
Here's our recipe for the much-loved maple glazed nuts we sell at the farmers' market (at least when we have our act together). As our market season starts to slow down, I remind you that you can buy our syrup and make your own!
Preheat the oven to 350. In a saucepan on the stovetop, combine all ingredients. The nuts should be immersed in the syrup but not drowning. Cook the nuts on high heat, stirring frequently. As the syrup begins to crystalize and coat the nuts (you'll see less liquid in the bottom of the pan), remove from heat. Let stand 10-12 minutes, until slightly cooled (the color of the syrup will change from shiny to "matte"). Stir to evenly coat, then spoon onto cookie sheets in a thin layer. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, until crispy. These are delicious warm from the oven, but are shelf-safe and will keep for several weeks without refrigeration.
It's tedious to talk endlessly about the weather, but such tedium is actually relevant to sugarmakers. So I'm going to just warn you now: this blog entry is basically a detailed weather report. The past week (also known as my "spring break") started with a trip to Maine Guide Snowshoes, outside of Bingham, to pick up a new pair of handmade-by-veterans, old-fashioned wooden snowshoes for VJ, whose last pair finally bit the dust after three years running. As a snowshoe design expert after years of trying the more gear-y variety available at outdoor equipment stores, VJ recommends Maine Guide, which are nice and sturdy and which float beautifully in snow. (For the love of God, don't buy MSR snowshoes. We've gone through two pairs in two months!) Even so, the owner of Maine Guide, when I stopped by to pick up VJ's replacements, told me that she'd never seen such a worn-out pair.
Running this wintry errand turned out to be a apt way to start the week: I was met by snow, rain, snow, rain, and more snow out on the frontier, despite the warmer weather I left further downriver. Also apt was viewing "Happy People," Werner Herzog's documentary about trappers on the Siberian Taiga, which Colin, VJ and I watched on a laptop in the sugarcamp trailer one night. It was easy to draw some parallels. "Spring comes late to the Taiga" - the first words spoken in the film, over images of sand-dune-sized snow banks in a remote village. Yes. Yes it does. This became our refrain as we woke each morning to a perpetual late-April Narnia. Other parallels: inconvenient fallen trees (including two that blocked the driveway after a windstorm on Tuesday night), gathering drinking water by snow-melt, and bearded men hiking around a vast wilderness in wool coats. Some differences: we are not sable hunters, we do not fashion our own skis out of spruce logs, and we do not, as yet, feed large quantities of fish to our dogs.
Here's the irrefutable evidence that spring is here after all: I left Sandy Bay Township yesterday on a high note - a double-barrel day. Both barrels (#14 and #15 of the season) contain some pretty lovely syrup - light and delicate like the snowflakes that preceded it. Fingers crossed that the snow takes it's merry time melting into mud and the sap keeps coming in gang-busters.
VJ's first pair of Maine Guide snowshoes - perfect for the Taiga.
An icy selfie taken in the stainless steel reflection of the Reverse Osmosis machine.
Drawing syrup off the evaporator before filtering it.
April 11, 2015. Perhaps unsurprisingly, if you were anywhere in Maine or New England this winter, a late start to the sugaring season. But Friday was sunny and beautiful, with a solid overnight run, and Saturday - though windy and gray in the morning - ended up bringing in some nice sap, too. My students (Rose, Papi, Myranda and Erika) joined us in the early afternoon, promptly set up a proper hobo camp in the sugarhouse dooryard, and witnessed the first billows of steam rising from the evaporator pan. Myranda strained sap like a champ, Rose shared her backyard sugaring stories, Erika took steamy footage through her Go-Pro camera, and Papi fed the fire.
It's been another long, cold winter. After months of legwork (namely digging things out of four or five-foot snowbanks) we're finally tapping some trees! Below are some photos from a recent afternoon of woods work.
Check out Cleo's video, which documents the 8 weeks she spent helping us out this winter. What a lady!


It's four o'clock in the morning. You've been standing outside the church for three hours beacuse it is too crowned to stand inside. A circle, five people deep, has gathered around the church. Each person clutches a basket filled with delicious meats, colored eggs, candy, cheese and beautiful little cakes. You've spent the last week cooking, cleaning and preparing for this day. You haven't eaten for two days. It's cold, but everybody has a big smile on their face. Finially, the time has come and everybody lights a small candle in their basket. A priest emerges and twice circles the church followed by a choir and people of the community. On his third lap, he slows and approaches everybody in the circle with a tassel doused in water. He splashes it on the people and their baskets of food. A chorus of христос воскрес and воистино воскрес follows. Some laughter escapes from those who got splashed in the face. The food, officially blessed, is now ready to be eaten. It's five in the morning and the feast begins. It's Easter in Ukraine.
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Those eggs are beautiful! Easter sounds like a great experience. I can't believe you were up all night like that and then feasted at 5am!
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Gigstarter
www.gigstarter.nl
Discover and book live music artists for gigs.
Venue - The Harpie
The local bar The Harpie likes to feature local and visiting bands for on most nights of the week, often 2 or 3 in a night. The Harpie struggles to though find enough artists to fill its bill. Relying on word of mouth in the community and networking is cumbersome and time consuming, and working with promoters who have their own agenda misses out on a lot of possibilities.
One of the bands tipped The Harpie about a website called Gigstarter. Gigstarter has tons of artists that have signed up looking for local gigs to play. Each artist has a descriptive profile with music samples. Now the Harpie can easily browse potential artists and contact them about gigs. So convenient to have all the artists in a single central place that the Harpie even encourages their regular bands to sign up as well.
Venues owners that book an ongoing bill of regular and new bands would find it useful to have a centralized catalog of available artists.
Convenient to be able to contact the artists directly from the platform.
Party - Edison
Edison needs a quirky string quartet for his investors event, to thank them for supporting his startup which just went public. Its going to be a friendly affair, but with a bit of class. Although Edison is a great CEO, he is not connected to the local string quartet scene, and doesn't like the idea of paying an agency to find something that might not be exactly what he imagines for just the right mix of classical and playful. Edison tried googling, but got only general results. Edison is not sure how to proceed.
Edison was discussing his dilemma with one of the designers at his company, and they directed him to Gigstarter. A delighted Edison sampled the extensive choices on Gigstarter, filtered by string quartets. He loved the playfulness of one in particular from watching their video. Contacted them and was all set.
The average person doesn't really know how to find potential music artists themselves, and may not like dealing with agencies who just want their fee for minimally adequate solutions. Even communicating back and forth with an agency is cumbersome and time consuming. Trying to google oneself for artists doesn't really work either.
Having a catalog on local artists with descriptions and samples greatly extends reach and simplifies search and selection.
Artist - The Dialups
The Dialups is an electronic music band with a sort of artsy, pop counter-culture style. They have been together for a few years and have a nice catalog of their own music as well as their own takes on various covers. They has a small but devoted following, and would like to grow their audience. They would like to play more live events but being struggling artists with other jobs, they don't have the time to promote themselves. They feel like that are at a bit of a standstill at the moment.
They have a webpage and are on facebook. But still when they approach bar owner's, the common reaction is "who are you?" They have a small fanbase, but otherwise only their families and close friends know them.
The Dialups created a profile on Gigstarter. Reaction was slow at first. But the venue owners of some of their regular gigs started adding nice reviews, and suddenly they were receiving more invites to play. To their surprise, they also started being contacted to perform at private events, something they never would have imagined at this stage.
Artists would rather focus on their music than on promotion.
Artists would like a central place online where they can gain exposure, build credibility and be matched with parties interested to hire them.
Gigstarter offers a catalog of artists who can perform at live events.
Artists create profiles with information, music samples and an optional video.
Parties and venues needing bands for gigs can search, browse and filter artists.
Artists can be contacted directly for gigs.
Hiring parties are encouraged to leave reviews and ratings of artists.
Specific Stories
Weekly Music Night - Soulful
Faust is the assistant manager at a coffee house called Soulful. On Thursday each week Soulful hosts a live music night, Damn Beat, with performances from local Artists. To keep it fresh, Faust mixes recurring artists with new artists each week.
Faust loves Gigstarter as a way to find candidate artists for Damn Beat. He has built up a list of favorites through periodically browsing the catalog of artists. Faust doesn't use the filters much because he has FOMO and likes to check out every artist. Faust gets a little frustrated that he can not also dislike bands that are not appropriate for Damn Beat, either because they don't suit the event, or because he tried them already and it didn't go well. Also, each time Faust browses, he sees the same list in the same order. It is fair bit of work each time to wade through all the offerings to find Artists that he hasn't considered, because they are mixed in with those he has already decided on previously. And Faust has a tough time remembering who played recently. All this is exacerbated if he is interrupted and has to return to the task later, trying to remember where he was in the search and what was left to be looked at.
Faust is super happy this week and is telling his friend Mephisto about Gistarters' new simple but handy feature to browse Artists in a random order. Through some math magic that Faust doesn't quite understand, Gigstarter uses his likes and dislikes to favor presenting liked or new candidates. Also there is a "snooze" option to say not for now about an Artist, in case they just played or aren't right for a certain night. But definitely keep them in mind for next time. If Faust takes a break and comes back later, he can continue the semi-random browsing without having "lost his place". Now it is less mental work and even a bit fun to look at the artists for each week.
Likes alone are not sufficient to capture a person's preferences. Annoying and inefficient to see in perpetuity Artists that one dislikes.
Processing a large list that is always in the same sequence is tedious. No reason one would want to consider the same items first each time just because they happen to be on the top of the list. Remembering one's place in the list when returning to after a break is extra work. Don't really need to consider the whole list every time if goal is just to find a suitable selection for this time.
Considering items in a randomized order
doesn't arbitrarily place some items always first
can be continued after break without losing one's place (no need to remember)
will statistically cover the entire list over time
can be priority weighted to favor likely choices while not completely excluding less likely options
is a more game-like and delightful discovery process
User can elect to browse Artists in a random order weighted by likes/dislikes. Liked artsts are shown frequently. Disliked artists seldomly. Unrated artists shown moderately frequently.
Can "snooze" an Artist for temporary removal from consideration. Can indicate a duration for the snooze to be in effect, after which the Artist returns to normal consideration.
Standard Filters such as Genre and Price can be applied to remove Artists from consideration, or to reduce their likelihood.
Product Launch Party - Anna
Anna, the office manager at TaskBunny, has been tasked with arranging a musical performance at their Launch Event for a new product, Watership Up. Anna has fairly diverse musical tastes, so is a good candidate to select an Artist that will match the forward thinking but grounded spirit of the company and the excitement that Watership Up will take TaskBunny to new markets and higher levels of success.
Anna has used Gigstarter once before, and found a nice band for her best friend Emily's Birthday. Because of her good experience, she goes first to Gigstarter for the Launch Event. She had made a list of Likes previously for the Birthday, but now those are not helpful, because there is not much overlap with what is appropriate for the Launch Party. She starts liking some new Artists, but notices that they are being added to the end of her Likes list, causing her to always have to scroll to the bottom. Also now when looking at an Artist page, if she sees she liked it, she is not sure if it was for the Birthday or the Launch. A bit of confusion starts to creep in, so Anna instead opens a Google Docs Spreadsheet to make a list there of Artists for the Launch. Anna makes columns for Artist Name, Style, Price, link to the Artist page on Gigstarter and Notes about the artist's suitability for the launch event, pros and cons.
After browsing around for a while, Anna has 10 Artists on the list. She's not sure if she has done a thorough coverage of all the possibilities, but is a bit tired, so decides that is enough. She orders the rows in the spreadsheet with her best choices on the top of the list. Anna sends the spreadsheet to a colleague, Lester and to her boss Hortense for their input. Lester takes the time to click on all the links, adds some thoughts to the notes in the spreadsheet, and actually finds two more Artists to add to the list. Lester moves his favorite to the top of the list, which Anna is not sure how she feels about. Hortense also looks at the list and starts to click on the links, but the process is too cumbersome, and as a Boss she has a long list of other priorities, so she emails Anna to just go with her best choice.
For the Launch, Anna decides to try Gigstarter's new List feature. Was a bit confused at first, took a bit of work to understand, but she got it eventually and found it super useful.
Anna creates a List called "Watership Up Launch". Browses artists, adding to the list. Makes her notes about each Artist and how they might be suitable for the Launch. Anna shares the list with Lester and Hortense, who sign up for Gigstarter to view it. Both listen to the list in order, which is easy, since Gigstarter can play the samples from the Artists in the list one after another. While listening, users have the option to skip to the next sample or next Artist, or to back up, etc. Both Lester and Hortense make some notes, and Lester adds a couple Artists and moves his choices to the top. Even Hortense adds one band before feeling tense that she should be doing other work.
Artist's that suit one Gig may likely as not suit a different gig. Not possible to have one set of likes that apply to all gigs.
Making a short List can be a helpful step in choosing an artist for a gig.
Sharing and collaborating on the list can be an important part of the selection process for a gig.
Using an general external tool like a spreadsheet to collaborate on a short list requires users to all individually invent the same solutions to a problem, and will not fully exploit possible capabilities, such as being able to easily listen to all the candidate's samples without a lot of browser navigation.
Users can create Artist Lists, with a name and notes about each artist.
Can easily play samples from an artist list, or see limited artist details, without cumbersome navigation.
Users can create Gigs. A Gig has an associated candidate artist list. Users can add and remove artists, make individual notes about each artist, and order the list. Gigs can be shared among collaborators who all contribute to the selection process.
Instead of explicitly ordering a gig's artist list, collaborators on a gig could rate artists as their choices for the Gig. The top candidates are then dynamically updated to reflect the aggregate preferences.
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Times Television Network channels move to TheOneAlliance
TheOneAlliance will manage the collection of subscription revenue for ET Now, Movies Now, Times Now and zoOm
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | February 6, 2013
In a significant move aimed at spurring the growth of its Pay TV business, Times Television Network (TTN) has entered into a strategic alliance with India's leading distribution company MSM Discovery Pvt. Ltd. (MSMD) for collection of subscription revenue for its channels. MSMD popularly known as TheOneAlliance is a joint venture between Sony's Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd. and Discovery Communications. The news and entertainment channels of TTN – ET Now, Movies Now, Times Now and zoOm – will now be exclusively distributed in India for collection of subscription revenue over the Cable (Analogue and Digital), DTH, IPTV and HITS platforms as a part of TheOneAlliance bouquet. TTN will however, undertake the marketing and channel penetration plans independently.
Times Group and Multi Screen Media have a long standing business relationship that spans mega properties such as the Filmfare Awards, a movie licensing deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, and an international advertising sales partnership for the US territory.
Making the announcement, Sunil Lulla, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Times Television Network said, "The Times Group and Multi Screen Media share a similar perspective on the broadcast industry and together we are poised to help grow the industry by ushering in transparency, value creation across the chain and by building strong brands. The TTN channels reach over 100 million viewers in 30 million urban Indian households. ET NOW, MOVIES NOW, TIMES NOW and zoOm are strong brands each and have a loyal viewer base. As part of TheOneAlliance bouquet our channels will benefit from penetration in more homes and availability on a wider choice of packages. TTN and MSMD will together be able to effect realization of a fair share of subscription revenue as well as grow ARPUs (Average Revenue per User) of our premium content offerings."
Commenting on the announcement, Man Jit Singh, Chief Executive Officer of Multi Screen Media India said, "TheOneAlliance is a robust distribution force and offers the best of entertainment to viewers. Addition of the TTN channels will further strengthen the bouquet and together we can ride the digitization wave to maximize the true potential of the business."
TTN's channels will benefit from TheOneAlliance's scale, experience and expertise in successfully managing the Pay TV business of a wide variety of popular channels across content genres. With 24 popular channels such as Sony Entertainment Television, Discovery Channel, SET Max and SAB TV already a part of TheOneAlliance the addition of TTN's four channels that are leaders in their respective categories will further strengthen the platform and give both organisations a larger play in the marketplace.
Rajesh Kaul, President, MSMD said, "We are pleased to have the Times Television Network join TheOneAlliance family. The addition of TTN channels has further strengthened our already strong bouquet, moving from 24 to 28 premium channels. I am very proud that most of the channels in our bouquet are leaders in their respective genres. We have always emphasized on quality rather than quantity and this move reiterates the same."
The multi-year deal between TTN and MSMD has come into effect from February 6, 2013.


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Irungbam Surkumar Singh (ur. 21 marca 1983 w Imphalu) – indyjski piłkarz, grający na pozycji prawego obrońcy w klubie Mohun Bagan.

Kariera klubowa
Singh rozpoczął swoją karierę w East Bengal Club w 2000 roku. Z East Bengal zdobył mistrzostwo Indii w 2001. W 2001 został zawodnikiem klubu Mahindra United. Z Mahindrą zdobył Puchar Federacji w 2003. W latach 2003-2004 ponownie występował w East Bengal Club, z którym ponownie zdobył mistrzostwo Indii w 2004.

W latach 2004-2007 ponownie występował w Kingfisher East Bengal Club, z którym zdobył mistrzostwo Indii w 2006 oraz Puchar Federacji w 2005 roku. W latach 2007-2009 był po raz trzeci zawodnikiem East Bengal Club, z którym zdobył Puchar Federacji w 2009 roku. W 2009 przeszedł do klubu Mohun Bagan.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Indii Singh zadebiutował w 2001 roku w wygranym 1-0 meczu ze Zjednoczonymi Emiratami Arabskimi w eliminacjach Mistrzostw Świata 2002.
W 2008 Singh wygrał z reprezentacją AFC Challenge Cup, co oznaczało wywalczenie awansu do Pucharu Azji, po 27-letniej przerwie. Gawli znalazł się w kadrze na ten turniej. Dotychczas rozegrał w reprezentacji 45 spotkań i strzelił 2 bramki.

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Indyjscy piłkarze
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Uczestnicy Pucharu Azji 2011
Urodzeni w 1983


The Department of Justice has launched an internal investigation to find out why a man was kept in jail for 43 days after his sentence was over.
The man, who was scheduled to be released on Oct. 5, was kept in the Central Nova Correctional Facility in Burnside until yesterday morning.
Metro has learned the man is Robert Jefferies, in jail for breaking conditions of his release regarding several offences, including assaulting a peace officer.
Justice Minister Ross Landry said the department will investigate what factors led to the extended detention. "(As well as) what might have transpired from there, and any information that might come from that to lead us into any other area of investigation or responsibility," he said.
Landry offered his apologies for the mistake. "I'm sorry if that's what occurred," he told reporters.
While he could not say what caused the extended detention, Landry suggested the incident might be connected to the mistaken release of Vernon Martell on Nov. 5. Martell was serving an 84-day sentence at the Burnside jail for theft under $5,000 and breaching his conditions.
The department said "clerical errors" led to Martell's release, and Landry indicated yesterday an issue with the court system led to Jefferies' retention.


What do you do on a hot September morning when the sky is as blue as the ocean and the breeze is still warm? You thumb your nose at the rules of September and wear white; all white.
This week I took a page out of my friend Jan's book and wore a dress with jeans underneath. I bought this white lace dress last year at Marshall's for $19.99 and i only wore it once because it's a little too short, even for a petite flower like me. So I decided it was worth trying with my white Chico's jeans and the effect is a bit referential to a pantsuit. Still, I think it looks okay. Because it is a lace dress shortening it to top length just isn't feasible so it's a "wear it this way or thrift it situation. What do you think?
The accessories are very basic, just a string of purple beads, my purple skull wrap bracelet, and purple watch. The inimitable floral sequined Shi shoes round out the outfit.
Linking up with Patti at Visible Monday, Monday Mingle, Fashionista Style Hop, Jane for Shiny T Tuesday and Anne for 52-pick-me-up. Be sure you come back on Tuesday because I've got a nice surprise and an awesome giveaway coming your way.


It's almost June, and that means it's time for Limmud Oz!
This year in Sydney from June 6th to 8th, Limmud-Oz has some great international speakers, as well as incredible local presenters. You can view the full schedule here, but we thought we'd highlight some of the speakers and sessions NIF supporters might find interesting.
You can buy your conference tickets online.
Whether you live in Sydney, or you're coming up especially for Limmud-Oz, make sure you say hi -- it will be great to see a strong New Israel Fund Australia contingent there!
NIF Australia and Limmud-Oz are excited to bring Israeli feminist activist Hamutal Gouri to Australia. Hamutal is the executive director of the Dafna Fund, which fosters Israeli women to be effective agents of social transformation, enhance the collective capacities of the women's movement in Israel, and promotes gender mainstreaming through powerful partnerships between women's organisations.
"K'vod Bat Melech P'nima": Women and the public sphere in Israel – Monday at 1:30pm – Women of the Wall, the "Women Freedom Riders", and the "Big Album of All Male Speakers Panels": this session explores how women in Israel are demanding their right to pray, be seen and heard in the public sphere.
Hamutal is also running a number of sessions for 'Young Limmud' (ages 5-12).
Hamutal Gouri is a guest of NIF Australia and Limmud-Oz Sydney.


The questions in the SLA audit checklist take you through a service level agreement checking for quality and completeness throughout.
The SLA Toolkit provides a quality set of documents designed specifically to jump start your service level agreement. Through use of the many elements you will not only have the means to produce a quality SLA in double quick time, but a valuable reference kit for both the present and the future.
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Canadian MVP Lead, Sasha Krsmanovic concludes his two part blog post today, with a discussion of MVP Global Summit and other MVP benefits.
I promised to cover some of the MVP Program 'benefits' and Microsoft product group (PG) interaction in my last entry. Well, these two are kind of tied together. The ability to talk to a developer who developed a specific feature on i.e. SQL Server or Exchange Server is generally seen as a great benefit by MVPs. When answering IT Pro questions, on forums or on stage, it is useful to have a connection to the right people. If an immediate answer is not available, we can generally connect the MVPs and the product group to help find a correct answer. We do this through private newsgroups, monthly live meetings, conference calls and chats – whatever is best suited for particular MVP / PG combo, which is kind of neat.
However, according to most of the MVPs I talk to, the biggest benefit is the ability to connect to other MVPs. The MVP Program facilitates this in a number of ways, both online (private newsgroups, Live meetings) and offline (i.e. Local, country specific MVP Open Days, MVP Summit). MVP Summit is the highlight of the year for me. MVPs come from all over the world to meet with the Product Groups face to face. I already mentioned MVPs are sometimes our biggest critics – and this really comes out during these meetings. A lot, if not all, of MVPs have new ideas on how to make the products better. During MVP Global Summit we get a chance to discuss many of those ideas. This could potentially be your chance to make a change in the next Microsoft product.
On that same note, the MVP Summit is not the only place MVPs get to influence Microsoft products. MVPs are involved in pre-alpha, alpha and beta/CTP releases (depending on how much free time they have!). So, throughout the year they give us feedback on what they think needs to be changed. As MVPs spend a lot of time in the community, they know very well what the community thinks about certain features of the 'current release' and they are the main voice of the community back to the product group.
Some MVPs say having a dedicated person – MVP Lead - handling the relationship between them and Microsoft is a pretty big benefit as well. On that note, and if you are more of a "podcast type", here are the Channel 9 podcasts from my peers in the US (Part 2 & Part 3), discussing where MVPs can be found and what are some of the other benefits of MVP Program (website, public profile, award kit, etc). You are also welcome to check out IT Pro MVP Canada Insider here at the TechNet blog, or to check out a Channel 9 podcast with our Canadian MVP Charlie Russel or Lee Benjamin who is chairman of the largest Exchange User Group in the world.
So as an MVP. Does Microsoft reimburse you for expenses when you go to these summits?
No. MVPs are not reimbursed for expenses. However, accommodation during Summit is provided.
As an MVP I'd have to agree that the MVP Summit is one of the great benefits but as of late there are no MVP Summits on the calendar, even tentative. I'm assuming there wont be one in the next 6 months and that makes me truly saddened.
Yes, there will be an MVP Summit for this program year. You will receive information about the Summit in a couple of weeks, i.e., mid-September. The information will come to you from your MVP Lead.


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Luers' lone TD pass stops Cadets
Journal Gazette
Norman Knapke's 10-yard touchdown pass to Janarion Moore in double overtime lifted the Bishop Luers football team to a 34-31 victory over Concordia at Zollner Stadium on Friday.
It was Knapke's only touchdown throw of the night – he was 12 of 24 for 191 yards with two interceptions – and it came after the Cadets had gotten a 9-yard game-tying touchdown run from Amir Drew and a 27-yard field goal from Mason Kaschinske for a 31-28 lead.
Concordia (1-3), which has lost three in a row since opening with a 42-0 victory over South Side, got a 15-of-30 night from Jake Byrd, who totaled 309 passing yards with two touchdowns and one interception. Teammate Kamari Anderson-Drew had three catches for 139 yards and one touchdown.
But the Knights' Brayden Cowherd's 8-yard touchdown run with 4:41 left in the fourth quarter tied it at 21 – he had 65 yards and two touchdowns on nine carries – and that included a 6-yard touchdown run early in overtime for Luers (3-1), ranked seventh in Class 3A.
ADAMS CENTRAL 41, JAY COUNTY 0: At Monroe, the Flying Jets continued to show they're the team to beat in the ACAC, but they did it on the ground. Logan Macklin had 154 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries. Jalen Hammond added 115 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries for the Jets (4-0), ranked seventh in Class A. Noah Harris had six solo tackles for the Patriots (3-1).
CHURBUBUSCO 35, EASTSIDE 11: At Butler, Nathaniel Keener had 24 carries for 137 yards and two touchdowns to pace the Eagles (4-0), the sixth-ranked team in Class A. That included a 43-yard fourth-quarter touchdown run, as the Blazers (1-3) were outscored 28-8 in the final quarter.
SNIDER 55, SOUTH SIDE 0: Since losing to Carroll, Snider, ranked 11th in Class 6A, has outscored its opponents 92-7, and the Panthers were led in this road game by Anyis Lockett's 85 yards and three touchdowns on just nine carries. Jasuan Lambert rushed 13 times for 77 yards and two touchdowns, as the Panthers (3-1) outgained the Archers (0-4) in yards, 317-68.
WOODLAN 49, BLUFFTON 21: At Bluffton, Tyra'yn Jones got things started with a 76-yard touchdown run and the Warriors have clearly put the troubles of the first two weeks of the season, when they were outscored 48-0, behind them. Woodlan had a 28-0 lead in the first quarter and mounted 535 yards of offense, 310 more than the Tigers. Woodlan (2-2) got 203 yards and two touchdowns off 22 carries from Sebastian Spieth, and Benjamin Reidy completed 7 of 10 passes for 123 yards with two touchdowns. Bluffton (0-4) got an 11-of-19 effort for 139 yards with two touchdowns, and Levi Boots had 11 solo tackles.
WAYNE 31, NORTH SIDE 6: At North Side, Craig Young reeled in four passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns, and he rushed for a 70-yard touchdown, to lead the Generals (3-1). Brandan Young completed 9 of 18 passes for 215 yards with two touchdowns. For North Side (0-4), Alex Holliday rushed 26 times for 151 yards and one touchdown.
ROCHESTER 42, WHITKO 16: At South Whitley, Rochester (4-0) scored the first 28 points. For Whitko (0-4), Cade Berg accounted for a rushing touchdown, a receiving touchdown and 2-point conversions by land and by air.
LAKELAND 27, GARRETT 16: At Garrett, the Lakers (3-1) trailed 16-7 before Adam Kreider's 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. He added a 4-yarder in the third quarter. For Garrett (1-3), Levi Follett had a 19-yard touchdown pass to Kraig Smith, a 5-yard touchdown run and also ran for 2-point conversion.
EAST NOBLE 35, DEKALB 7: At Kendallville, Kaiden Harshberger's 165 yards and three touchdowns on 15 carries paced the Knights (3-1). Kyle Dunham completed 10 of 15 passes for 93 yards with one touchdown and one interception for the Barons (1-3).
WARSAW 14, ELKHART MEMORIAL 7: At Warsaw, the Tigers (3-1) were clinging to a 7-0 lead in the fourth quarter until Blake Marsh's 67-yard touchdown run put things out of reach.
CONCORD 49, WAWASEE 28: At Elkhart, Levi Brown had seven tackles (four solo) and intercepted a pass for the Warriors (0-4).