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At Least 11 Killed in Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
8 months ago	Juventud Rebelde, Translationsterrorism, US Society
Trump calls for strengthening the death penalty and says if the temple had had armed protection, the tragedy would not have occurred.
Posted: Saturday 27 October 2018 | 07:05:43 pm
By Juventud Rebelde digital@juventudrebelde.cu
The attack is considered a hate crime and constitutes a federal violation. Author: Taken from the Internet Published: 27/10/2018 | 06:58 pm
Trump calls for strengthening the death penalty and says that if the temple had had armed protection, the tragedy would not have occurred.
The gunman also shot at the police officers who came to face him and four of them were also wounded, local KDKA reported. It described the suspect of this hate crime as a white man with a beard, 48 years old, who was wounded in his confrontation with the SWAT team.
The attack occurred during Shabbat services at the synagogue that was filled for that weekend ceremony, and the perpetrator apparently lives in a nearby apartment. Police are also investigating whether Bowers announced his intentions in social media on Saturday morning. His account appears to have been withdrawn.
One of the messages on that account said, "HIAS [the Hebrew Immigrant Help Society] likes to attract invaders to kill people. I can't sit back and watch my people get killed. Screw on your optics, I'm going in.
The Gab.com website, which describes itself as "The Home of Online Freedom of Expression," rejected claims that it was responsible for the shooting after it confirmed that the name identified in media reports as the suspect matched the name of an account on its platform.
The site's statement states that "Gab.com's policy on terrorism and violence has always been very clear: we have no tolerance for it. Gab unequivocally disapproves and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence. This has always been our policy. We are saddened We are saddened and disgusted by the news of violence in Pittsburgh and we keep the families and friends of all victims in our thoughts and prayers.
The FBI is spearheading the investigation into what happened because it is considered a hate crime and a federal violation.
According to KDKA Pittsburgh, President Donald Trump, who advocates the possession of weapons in civilian hands and refuses to endorse any legislation that limits it, said that if the synagogue had had armed protection, things would have been different.
The president added, "It's a terrible thing that's happening with hatred in our country and, frankly, all over the world, and something must be done.
Speaking to reporters at Andrews Air Force Base on the way to Indianapolis, Trump added, "I think one thing we should do is strengthen our laws on the death penalty. When people do this, they should get the death penalty and not have to wait years and years.
HispanTv cites statistics provided by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) on gun violence in the United States so far in 2018, with 11,980 people killed and 23,332 injured in shootings.
The Resurgence of Political Parties
8 months ago	Manuel E. Yepe, Translations
By Manuel E. Yepe
http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/
Exclusive for the daily POR ESTO! of Merida, Mexico.
Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann.
In the West in general, and in Europe in particular, there is a resurgence of political parties. Both old parties such as the British Labour Party and new ones such as Podemos in Spain and Insumiso in France have experienced spectacular increases in recent years, with notable organizational innovations.
Paolo Gerbaudo, a British sociologist at King´s College and a specialist in social movements and parties, attaches great importance to this renaissance. This is because, for many years, sociologists and political scientists have predicted, almost unanimously, that political parties were losing preeminence in highly diversified, globalized digital societies.
Indeed, the current revival of the European left has disproved such forecasts. Digital technology there has not supplanted the party and, rather, party activists have used their advances to develop innovative mechanisms to attract citizens, while still asserting that political struggle is their main working tool.
The revitalization of political parties in the old continent has become evident, in the first place, by an increase in membership. By contrast, many historic European parties have had a decrease in membership since the decade of the eighties of the twentieth century, Gerbaudo says.
In Britain, the Labour Party is close to reaching 600,000 members, having bottomed out with only 176,891 in 2007 at the end of Tony Blair's leadership. In France. Jean-Luc Melenchon's Insumise France movement has 580,000 supporters, making it the largest party in France just a year and a half after its founding. In Spain, Podemos, founded in 2014, has more than 500,000 members, more than twice as many as the traditional socialist party.
Even in the United States, a country that for most of its history has lacked socialist parties with mass militancy in the European sense of the term, a somewhat similar trend can be observed in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Today the country's largest socialist formation, it has grown to 50,000 members following Bernie Sanders' candidacy for the 2016 Democratic nomination.
According to Gerbaudo, this spectacular growth in the number of members of "moderate" left parties, many of which are new formations, contrasts with the forecasts made until recently by many political scientists. Between the 1990s and the period immediately prior to the 2008 financial crisis, many academics agreed in predicting the ultimate demise of political parties. Amid growing voter apathy and shrinking membership, political parties were seen by many as a relic of the past, while the postmodern theory of the "end of history" professed that the party's history – a decisive historical factor in most traditional Marxist theories – was over.
The scholar at King´s College in Britain argues that Nazism and Stalinism demonstrated the extent to which a party could become a machine bent on manipulating its members and imposing unwavering obedience. But as serious and problematic as that was, the way in which this critique was combined with long-standing liberal resentment against political parties, driven by an undemocratic fear of the organized masses and their demands for democratic control and economic redistribution made it worse.
This liberal discourse of criticism of the political party goes back to the origins of modern democracy. They attacked political parties for subjecting the individual to obedience and uniformity, arguing that instead of serving the general interests of society, parties ended up defending the narrow interests of one faction.
In neo-liberal times, this concern for individual freedom has found a new way to express itself in the over-valuation of entrepreneurship and the spontaneity of unregulated market forces. This makes all forms of collective organization seem illegitimate impediments to private property and individual freedom.
Ironically, says Gerbaudo, much of the rejection people feel today of political parties is a product of neo-liberal ideology, and of the way in which, during the 1990s and 2000s, this ideology facilitated the transformation of the old mass parties of the industrial age into new "liquid parties" in the style of American "professional/electoral parties," whose cynicism has been captured in the public imaginary by series of TV programs.
Ironically, says Gerbaudo, much of the rejection people feel toward political parties today is a product of neoliberal ideology, and the way in which during the 1990s and 2000s this ideology facilitated the transformation of the old mass parties of the industrial era into new "liquid parties" in the style of American "professional/electoral parties. " Their cynicism has been captured in the public imagination by television series such as HOUSE OF CARDS and THE THICK OF IT, with spin doctors and interviewers and communication consultants who have an advantage replacing the old apparatchiks and party cadres.
This article may be reproduced by quoting the newspaper POR ESTO as the source.
Youth Forum on Cuban Revolution's History
8 months ago	Juventud Rebelde, TranslationsCuban history
Youth Forum on Cuban Revolution, 60 Years of History
The Forum will be organized around keynote speeches, central panels and workshops.
Posted: Friday 09 November 2018 | 10:06:51 pm.
Updated: Friday 09 November 2018 | 11:15:13 pm.
The triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959 opened a new stage for national liberation movements. On an international scale, the humanist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist content, present in the important work of social transformation, modified collective images, reshaped politics and showed a cultural horizon that aspired to the complete emancipation of women and men.
Returning to the origins of that thought and practice is fundamental. Sixty years after that significant January 1st, the Young Communist League, student organizations, youth movements, with the support of the Publishers Abril and Ocean Sur, announce the Cuban Revolution Youth Forum, 60 years of history.
In a note sent to our editorial office, the 11 main themes of the meeting are specified, among which they are: The thoughts of José Martí, Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara and other figures; the United States-Cuba conflict; the historiography of the Cuban Revolution in power; the evolution of economic thought within the socialist transition, and the social policy of the Cuban Revolution.
The other topics of the forum will be: The international politics of the Cuban Revolution; the impact of social transformations in the last 60 years; institutionality, participation and socialism; social sciences in the Revolution; Marxism in the Cuban Revolution, and revolutionary journalism.
The event, which will take place on January 16, 17 and 18, 2019, in Havana, will be open to social scientists, teachers and university students, as well as other professionals who are linked to the topics they intend to address and have up to 35 years of age.
Those interested in participating should take into account the following requirements: send the abstracts of the works by e-mail (forojuvenil@ujc.cu), for evaluation by the organizing committee, before November 30, 2018; the abstracts will not exceed 250 words. They will be accompanied by the author's general data including his location, the title of the paper and key words, and if accepted, before December 15 the papers will be sent for inclusion in the proceedings of the event.
It is also required that the Publishers Abril and Ocean Sur have the materials presented for the edition of a printed volume with a selection of these, while the Organizing Committee reserves the rights of admission to the Colloquium and will bear the costs of food and lodging for participants who are not from Havana.
The Forum will be organized from master conferences, central panels and workshops.
Big Fires in Los Angeles
8 months ago	Juventud Rebelde, TranslationsUS Society
Big Fires in Los Angeles Force Hundreds to Evacuate
For his part, U.S. President Donald Trump has reacted by blaming Forest Services for not managing the fire well and threatened to withdraw funds for this type of services in his country.
Posted: Saturday 10 November 2018 | 09:57:08 am. Updated: Saturday 10 November 2018 | 09:41:33 am.
By Juventud Rebelde
Two major fires, one at the gates of Los Angeles and another in the Malibu area, have forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in the area, international media report.
In the north, at least nine people have died in a fire that has destroyed 36,000 hectares in the town of Paradise. Five of the victims were surprised by the flames inside their vehicles as they tried to flee the lit area.
More than 6,400 houses had been destroyed as of Friday night, more than 50,000 people had been evacuated, according to the Spanish daily El País.
On the coast of Los Angeles, a fire that began Thursday morning has forced the evacuation of the entire population of Malibu.
US President Donald Trump, for his part, has reacted by blaming Forest Services for not managing the fire well and threatened to withdraw funds for this type of service in his country, reports PL.
Welcome, war criminals!
8 months ago	Juventud Rebelde, TranslationsAnti-War Protests
Activists welcome with protests world leaders who will celebrate in Paris the centenary of the end of World War I.
Posted: Saturday 10 November 2018 | 11:05:19 pm.
Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.
FEMEN protests against the war in Paris. Author: AFP Published: 10/11/2018 | 11:02 pm
PARIS, November 10. – Three activists from the radical feminist organization FEMEN were arrested in this capital last Saturday after an action under the Arc de Triomphe in which they accused the world leaders gathered in France to commemorate the end of the First World War of "hypocrisy" and "war criminals," including U.S. President Donald Trump.
The women, with their breasts in the air -characteristic of the demonstrations of this group that was born in Ukraine-, jumped from a car in the Place de l'Etoile and climbed the barriers of the platform where 70 high international guests are expected to attend the ceremony this Sunday, November 11, which marks the centennial of the armistice.
Beneath this famous Arc de Triumph lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – an anonymous human being among the ten to 31 million people who died in that global conflict. The signing of the armistice between Germany and the Entente countries that took part in that holocaust is commemorated there every year, and this year 2018 acquires a special connotation.
With flowers in their hair and the accusatory phrase "False pacifists, royal dictators" painted on their torsos, the women raised posters with the legend in red blood: "Welcome war criminals".
Another sign cited the famous mantra in George Orwell's 1984 novel: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
President Donald Trump, who has already met at the Elysée Palace with French host Emmanuel Macron, and the media say differences arose, also received a response on Twitter this Saturday from British politician and Winston Churchill's grandson, Nicholas Soames, because the American president canceled his scheduled visit to the American cemetery and memorial of Aisne-Marne, in northern France, under the excuse of "logistical difficulties caused by the climate," according to a White House statement cited by The Hill.
@NSoames was categorical in his tweet: "They died in the face of the enemy and this pathetic and inadequate @realDonaldTrump cannot even defy the climate and pay his respect to the fallen," to which he added this hashtag on Trump: #hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry.
Apparently, instead of Trump and his wife Melania, the White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, and the Joint Chief of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, will attend the Aisne-Marne memorial. This cemetery is at the foot of the hill where the Battle of Belleau Forest was fought, in which some 2,000 U.S. Marines died in June 2018.
According to The Guardian, among veterans groups, a progressive organization, VoteVets, responded angrily in a tweet: "Donald Trump complained that he had to stand in the rain to talk about the Pittsburgh massacre, because he ruined his (more) hair," referring to Trump's comments after a massive shooting in a synagogue two weeks ago in which 11 people died. "Today, he will fail to honor the fallen American heroes of World War I and stay in his hotel room because of some rain.
When French President Macron visited the White House in April of this year, he brought Trump a tree from the Belleau Forest as a gift, but the shoot was briefly an object of intrigue when it disappeared from the White House lawn where Trump and Macron had planted it, The Guardian reported, but it was later revealed that they had been temporarily removed for quarantine.
As for the differences demonstrated in the meeting now in Paris, the Spanish daily El País quoted Trump on his arrival at the Elysée: "We want to help Europe, but it has to be fair. We have to share the burden. Today it's the US that pays to protect Europe, and it's not fair. There are limits.
A few hours earlier, he had heavily charged his host via his favorite, Twitter: "Macron has just suggested that Europe create its own army to protect itself from the US, China and Russia," Trump wrote as soon as he landed in Paris on Friday night. "Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its share to NATO, which the United States largely subsidizes!


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Spring may call to mind budding flowers and April showers, but in the wedding world, it's all about the fresh colors that represent the new life of the season – and the start of one very big adventure: wedding planning! Choosing your wedding color palette will be one of your first tasks when it comes to planning your wedding. And these new color palettes for spring weddings are just the thing to give your bash a fresh look.


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Verspreiding en leefgebied
Deze soort komt voor van zuidelijk Mexico tot noordwestelijk Honduras.

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The Constitutio de feudis ("Constitution of Fiefs"), also known as the Edictum de beneficiis regni Italici ("Edict on the Benefices of the Italian Kingdom"), was a law regulating feudal contracts decreed by the Emperor Conrad II on 28 May 1037 (Pentecost Eve) at Pavia, during his siege of Milan. It "had wider and more lasting effects on Italian society than any other piece of imperial legislation," and by "attract[ing] to the cities [the moderately-wealthy landowner, it] built a bridge at a high social level between city and countryside." According to Susan Reynolds, it "mark[s] the foundation of the academic law of fiefs", as it formed the basis for the Libri feudorum.

The law was based, in its own words, on the "legal code of our predecessors" (constitucio antecessorum nostrorum). It specified that "no knight [miles] who was the tenant of a bishop, abbot, marquis, count or any other might be deprived of his fief unless he were convicted" of a legal offense "by the judgement of his peers", and the right of a knight to appeal to the emperor or to an imperial representative was granted. One historian has described Conrad as satiating the vavassores' "hunger for law". The emperor also limited his own right to , a tax in money levied whenever the emperor visited Italy, in order to please the greater feudatories whose rights over their knights he had just limited. It is not clear whether the knights who gained these rights were noblemen. They were sword-bearers, but they lacked prerequisites of legal freedom, such as judgement by one's peers and the right of appeal.

The Constitutio was ratified by Henry III of Germany, Conrad's son and heir, and, in 1040, by Archbishop Aribert II of Milan. It ensconced the vavassores in their benefices for life and made them hereditary, abrogating their dependence on the capitanei and thus amalgamating the two feudal classes into one broad land-owning class. This was Conrad's intention, as the preamble to the Constitutio states: "to reconcile the hearts of the magnates and the knights [milites] so that they may always be found harmonious and may faithfully and constantly serve us and their lords with devotion".

Editions
Ludwig Weiland, ed., "Edictum de beneficiis regni Italici", Mon. Germ. Hist., Constitutiones, I, No. 45, pp. 89–91.

Notes

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Q: Concurrent access to database - preventing two users from obtaining the same value I have a table with sequential numbers (think invoice numbers or student IDs).
At some point, the user needs to request the previous number (in order to calculate the next number). Once the user knows the current number, they need to generate the next number and add it to the table.
My worry is that two users will be able to erroneously generate two identical numbers due to concurrent access.
I've heard of stored procedures, and I know that that might be one solution. Is there a best-practice here, to avoid concurrency issues?
Edit: Here's what I have so far:
USE [master]
GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_GetNextOrderNumber]
AS
BEGIN
    BEGIN TRAN

DECLARE @recentYear INT
DECLARE @recentMonth INT
DECLARE @recentSequenceNum INT

-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;

    -- get the most recent numbers
SELECT @recentYear = Year, @recentMonth = Month, @recentSequenceNum = OrderSequenceNumber
FROM dbo.OrderNumbers
WITH (XLOCK)
WHERE Id = (SELECT MAX(Id) FROM dbo.OrderNumbers)

    // increment the numbers
IF (YEAR(getDate()) > IsNull(@recentYear,0))
    BEGIN
        SET @recentYear = YEAR(getDate());
        SET @recentMonth = MONTH(getDate());
        SET @recentSequenceNum = 0;
    END
ELSE
    BEGIN
        IF (MONTH(getDate()) > IsNull(@recentMonth,0))
            BEGIN
                SET @recentMonth = MONTH(getDate());
                SET @recentSequenceNum = 0;
            END
        ELSE
            SET @recentSequenceNum = @recentSequenceNum + 1;
    END

-- insert the new numbers as a new record
INSERT INTO dbo.OrderNumbers(Year, Month, OrderSequenceNumber)
VALUES (@recentYear, @recentMonth, @recentSequenceNum)

COMMIT TRAN
END

This seems to work, and gives me the values I want. So far, I have not yet added any locking to prevent concurrent access.
Edit 2: Added WITH(XLOCK) to lock the table until the transaction completes. I'm not going for performance here. As long as I don't get duplicate entries added, and deadlocks don't happen, this should work.

A: you know that SQL Server does that for you, right? You can you a identity column if you need sequential number or a calculated column if you need to calculate the new value based on another one.
But, if that doesn't solve your problem, or if you need to do a complicated calculation to generate your new number that cant be done in a simple insert, I suggest writing a stored procedure that locks the table, gets the last value, generate the new one, inserts it and then unlocks the table.
Read this link to learn about transaction isolation level
just make sure to keep the "locking" period as small as possible

A: Here is a sample Counter implementation. Basic idea is to use insert trigger to update numbers of lets say, invoices. First step is to create a table to hold a value of last assigned number:
create table [Counter]
(
   LastNumber int
)

and initialize it with single row:
insert into [Counter] values(0)

Sample invoice table:
create table invoices
(
  InvoiceID int identity primary key,
  Number varchar(8),
  InvoiceDate datetime
)

Stored procedure LastNumber first updates Counter row and then retrieves the value. As the value is an int, it is simply returned as procedure return value; otherwise an output column would be required. Procedure takes as a parameter number of next numbers to fetch; output is last number.
create proc LastNumber (@NumberOfNextNumbers int = 1)
as
begin
   declare @LastNumber int

   update [Counter]
      set LastNumber = LastNumber + @NumberOfNextNumbers -- Holds update lock
   select @LastNumber = LastNumber
     from [Counter]
   return @LastNumber
end

Trigger on Invoice table gets number of simultaneously inserted invoices, asks next n numbers from stored procedure and updates invoices with that numbers.
create trigger InvoiceNumberTrigger on Invoices
after insert
as
   set NoCount ON

   declare @InvoiceID int
   declare @LastNumber int
   declare @RowsAffected int

   select @RowsAffected = count(*)
     from Inserted
   exec @LastNumber = dbo.LastNumber @RowsAffected

   update Invoices
    -- Year/month parts of number are missing
      set Number = right ('000' + ltrim(str(@LastNumber - rowNumber)), 3)
     from Invoices
        inner join
        ( select InvoiceID,
                 row_number () over (order by InvoiceID desc) - 1 rowNumber
            from Inserted
        ) insertedRows
          on Invoices.InvoiceID = InsertedRows.InvoiceID

In case of a rollback there will be no gaps left. Counter table could be easily expanded with keys for different sequences; in this case, a date valid-until might be nice because you might prepare this table beforehand and let LastNumber worry about selecting the counter for current year/month.
Example of usage:
insert into invoices (invoiceDate) values(GETDATE())

As number column's value is autogenerated, one should re-read it. I believe that EF has provisions for that.

A: The way that we handle this in SQL Server is by using the UPDLOCK table hint within a single transaction.
For example:
  INSERT
    INTO MyTable (
         MyNumber ,
         MyField1 )
  SELECT IsNull(MAX(MyNumber), 0) + 1 ,
         "Test"
    FROM MyTable WITH (UPDLOCK)

It's not pretty, but since we were provided the database design and cannot change it due to legacy applications accessing the database, this was the best solution that we could come up with.

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6 Best Things to Do in Lake Mills, WI
By VI Staff on December 23, 2019
© City of Lake Mills Community & Government TV
Lake Mills is a city in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, on the east shore of Rock Lake. Lewis Station winery and tasting room occupies a refurbished old-school gas station . Aztalan State Park protects an ancient Mississippian settlement that thrived between the 10th and 13th century, with massive earthwork pyramid-shaped mounds. The Glacial Drumlin State Trail is a 52-mile long rail trail in the Midwestern United States that runs through Lake Mills among other Wisconsin cities. Rock Lake is a 1365-acre lake shaped as number eight, with marshy area on one side and sandy beaches on the other. Lake Mills Golf Club opened to the public in 1927 and is one of the oldest courses in the area.
1.Lewis Station Winery
© Lewis Station Winery
Lewis Station Winery is a family owned winery and boutique wine shop located in downtown Lake Mills, Wisconsin, about a 50 minutes from Milwaukee and 20 minutes from Madison. Lewis Station Winery occupies a refurbished old-school gas station and offers daily wine tastings, as well as a small bistro menu. The winery specializes in small-batch, hand crafted premium wines using natural method of wine making with a low sulfite content. .Many of the wines produced and bottled by Lewis Station are winners of Gold and Silver awards in the World Wine Competition and the Finger Lakes Region Wine competition. In 2018, Lewis Station Winery became the first Wisconsin winery to be Certified Craft Winery, with certification from the Craft Wine Association. Lewis Station produces about 25 different wines, most of which are made in 60 to 70 case lots. It is known for its big reds, such as its Lodi California Zinfandel, and its Sangiovese.
217 N Main St, Lake Mills, WI 53551, Phone: 920-648-5481
2.Aztalan State Park
Aztalan State Park in the Town of Aztalan, Jefferson County, Wisconsin was established in 1952 and registered as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The park covers 172 acres along the Crawfish River. Aztalan Park is best known as the site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that thrived in the period between the 10th and 13th century. The indigenous people built massive earthwork mounds, presumably for religious and political purposes. They were part of a culture that was widespread throughout the Mississippi River valley. They traded with other groups from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, and into the southeast of the today's United States. The most outstanding features of Aztalan culture are the pyramid-shaped mounds with flat tops and the stockades that probably served both ceremonial and defensive purpose.
N6200 County Rd Q, Jefferson, WI 53549, Phone: 920-648-8774
3.Glacial Drumlin State Trail
© Gajus/stock.adobe.com
The Glacial Drumlin State Trail is a rail trail in the Midwestern United States stretching for 52 miles from Waukesha, Wisconsin to Cottage Grove, Wisconsin. The trail runs through or near the cities of Cottage Grove, Deerfield, Lake Mills, Jefferson, London, Helenville, Sullivan, Dousman, Wales, and Waukesha. It crosses the Rock Lake In Lake Mills on one of its old railroad bridges. The trail, which was opened in 1986, follows the old Chicago and North Western Railway track. The first 13 miles of the trail is paved with asphalt. The remaining 39 miles it is crushed limestone. There are multiple rest stations along the trail. The trail crosses sixteen wooden bridges, two of which are more than 300 feet long. The Big Muck Farm Bridge is about 880 feet long. The trail is used for biking and hiking in the summer and for cross-country skiing, snowshoe hiking and snowmobiling in the winter.
Lake Mills, WI
4.Ephraim Pottery
© Ephraim Pottery
Ephraim Pottery is an art pottery company established in 1996 in Deerfield, Wisconsin, currently operating in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. The company makes art pottery collectively made by nine artists in the Arts and Crafts Movement tradition, with matte glazes over earthenware sculptures, in no more than 500 pieces per edition. Ephraim produces mostly vases, but also bowls, candleholders, lidded boxes, pitchers and lanterns. A recognizable Ephraim Faience piece is a vase finished in a matte green background color, embellished with decorative representations of plant or animal life. Each piece is marked with a date, the company logo and an artist signature.
130 E Lake St, Lake Mills, WI 53551, Phone: 920-648-3534
5.Rock Lake
© alexkich/stock.adobe.com
Rock Lake is a 1365-acre lake located in south central Wisconsin, at Lake Mills, Jefferson County, Wisconsin about 20 miles from Madison. The lake's maximum depth is 87 feet and is fairly clear. The lake is shaped as figure eight, with several distinct areas - Bean Lake State natural area, a protected marsh, the area often covered in tall aquatic vegetation that spreads out of the water and a sandy area where boats can anchor and swimming is possible. Visitors have access to the lake from several public boat landings and public beaches. The fishermen come to the lake for panfish, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, northern pike and walleye. The Glacial Drumlin State Trail runs across an old rail road bridge across the southern portion of the lake.
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
6.Lake Mills Golf Club
© Lake Mills Golf Club
Lake Mills Golf Club in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, opened in 1927, and is one of the oldest courses in the area. The original nine-hole course was shaped from softly rolling farmland. It eventually expanded to a full 18 holes. It has undergone other major renovations since, while managing to retain the traditional character of the original course. At just over 6,700 yards, the course has several holes favored by long hitters. The occasional water hazard as well as several strategically placed bunkers play their part as well. Mature trees line the fairways, forcing players to be accurate, but also providing shade. While the Lake Mills Golf Club offers a significant amount of challenges, beginners should not feel intimidated about approaching it, especially since it has four different sets of tees. The golf club has a popular restaurant Muligan's at Lake Mills.
800 S Main St, Lake Mills, WI 53551, Phone: 920-648-5013
Lewis Station Winery, Photo: Lewis Station Winery
Aztalan State Park, Photo: City of Lake Mills Community & Government TV
Glacial Drumlin State Trail, Photo: Gajus/stock.adobe.com
Ephraim Pottery, Photo: Ephraim Pottery
Rock Lake, Photo: alexkich/stock.adobe.com
Lake Mills Golf Club, Photo: Lake Mills Golf Club
Cover Photo: City of Lake Mills Community & Government TV
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London design studio PostlerFerguson has collaborated with Viennese jewellers A.E. Köchert to make a set of bespoke microphone accessories for DJ Ken Hayakawa, being presented for Vienna Design Week.
PostlerFerguson created the microphone accessories for Viennese DJ and music producer DJ Ken Hayakawa, who bases his compositions on snippets of sound recorded in the field as part of Vienna Design Week's Passionswege program, which pairs international designers with local craftspeople.
Matched with A.E. Köchert, a Viennese jewellery house founded in 1814 that once supplied jewels to the Imperial court, PostlerFerguson designed two attachments for the AKG C1000 microphones used by Hayakawa to record his samples.
To create the pieces, the designers and jewellers made 3D-printed moulds, which were used to cast molten brass.
"Since we are really an industrial design based outfit we wanted to push the boundaries of what a modern jeweller can do in case of applying its craft and skillset to an industrial product," explained PostlerFerguson co-founder Martin Postler.
"We really thought of Ken as a brand as well. As much as people like Daft Punk have their helmets, we thought of him using these pieces during a process – field recording – that is normally pretty invisible as something visually more spectacular," Postler told Dezeen.
A large brass cone with a flat covered end provides a shield for the microphone that also allows it to balance on a flat surface to record ambient noises.
The sides of the cone are formed from spirals of metal that merge into the circular base, which is perforated with small round holes. This design "both filters the sound as well as makes it possible to stand the mic upright while protecting the recording part and acting as a shock absorbing spring," explained Postler.
At the top a solid circle of brass slots over the microphone handle to provide a secure attachment. A protruding triangular loop of metal forms a finger grip that can be used to help add and remove the cover.
A matching brass cable clip serves two potential functions – attaching the microphone's cable to a bag or another item to provide steady support or creating a hook to hang the microphone off.
"The mix of functionality and style reflects the modern obsession of having our accessories, like phones and headphones, reflect our personality while also continuing the tradition of the Sisi Stars, a line of jewellery and accessories first created for the Empress Elisabeth in the 1800's by Köchert," added PostlerFerguson.
The pieces are on display as part of an installation at the jewellery firm's store in Vienna during the design week, accompanied by a soundtrack by Hayakawa that was created by mixing recordings of noises made by craftspeople during production of the microphone cover and clip.


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SAA's 2022 Blue Horizon Honoree
By Science & Arts Academy
On Saturday, April 30, the SAA community gathered for our Annual Benefit, A Whimsical Evening at the Garden, at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. The proceeds from the event help support the SAA Scholarship Fund.
During the evening we had the opportunity to pay tribute to the 2022 Blue Horizon Award honoree, presented to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and unwavering support to SAA.
This year, we are proud to recognize Aviad Sheinfeld, former SAA parent and Chair of the SAA Board of Trustees from 2016 to 2019, for his unwavering support and commitment to the school's mission and core values.
Aviad Sheinfeld is, together with his wife Kari, the proud parent of three SAA alumni: Yael, Lev, and Rahm. Aviad grew up in the area, graduating from Maine East high school just down the road from SAA. After college at UPenn, he returned to Chicago and began his career as a software engineer at Motorola. Soon enough, he and Kari dated and married. When daughter Yael was born, Aviad opted to become a stay at home dad. The following years were spent raising three kids by day and attending grad school evenings.
Aviad began getting more and more active at SAA. His initial involvement was as a member of the Technology Committee, back when the big question was whether middle schoolers should have access to a tablet or laptop. He joined the Board of Trustees and later served one term as Board Chair. He remained a Trustee until last year, when Rahm graduated from SAA, wrapping up a 17 year stretch for Kari and Aviad as SAA parents.
Most recently, Aviad founded and operated Wiseacre Farm, an indoor hydroponic farm located in Glenview.
Aviad embodies the generous sharing of time, talent, and treasure so vital to a successful home/school partnership, and SAA is a better place thanks to his leadership.


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Salisbury ist das zweite Studioalbum der britischen Rockband Uriah Heep. Inspiriert durch einen Aufenthalt in der gleichnamigen Stadt Salisbury, wurde die LP von Oktober bis November 1970 aufgenommen, erschien in England im Februar 1971, in den USA etwas später. Wie auch schon bei …very 'eavy …very 'umble hat die US-Ausgabe ein völlig anderes Cover und eine etwas andere Titelliste (Simon the Bullet Freak, B-Seite der Single Lady in Black, statt Bird of Prey).

Mit dem Titelsong wagten sich Uriah Heep das erste Mal an einen wirklich langen Song, geprägt von Ken Hensleys Orgel und einem großen Bläsersatz, einem getragenen Anfang, der in einem orgiastischen Solo mündet.

Lady in Black ist der Song, den viele mit dem Namen Uriah Heep verbinden, der aber erst Jahre später zu einem echten Hit wurde.

Zwischen eher ruhigen Tönen und kräftigen Gitarrenriffs kultivierte die Band den für sie typischen Satzgesang weiter, der sie für viele andere Bands zur Referenz in Sachen mehrstimmige Chöre werden ließ.

Das Originalcover des Albums zeigte einen Kampfpanzer des Typs Chieftain, was im Zusammenhang mit dem Titel des Albums auf die Salisbury Plain anspielt, einem großen Truppenübungsplatz im Umland von Salisbury. Für die amerikanische Version befürchtete die Plattenfirma allerdings, dass das Cover wegen des Vietnamkrieges ungeeignet und verkaufsschädigend sei, und wechselte das Covermotiv aus.

Titelliste
 Bird of Prey (4:12) (Mick Box, David Byron, Paul Newton)
 The Park (5:37) (Ken Hensley)
 Time to Live (3:59) (Box, Byron, Hensley)
 Lady in Black (4:40) (Hensley)
 High Priestess (3:39) (Hensley)
 Salisbury (16:17) (Byron, Hensley, Box) (Die Wiederveröffentlichung von 2016 enthält an dieser Stelle einen leicht anderen Mix mit einer Spieldauer von 16:03)

Bonustracks der Wiederveröffentlichung von 1996
  Simon the Bullet Freak (3:25) (Hensley) (ursprünglich auf der US-amerikanischen und kanadischen Edition des Albums sowie als Single-B-Seite von Lady in Black veröffentlicht)
 High Priestess (Edit) (3:13) (Hensley)

Bonustracks der Wiederveröffentlichung von 2003
  Simon the Bullet Freak (3:25) (Hensley) (ursprünglich auf der US-amerikanischen und kanadischen Edition des Albums sowie als Single-B-Seite von Lady in Black veröffentlicht)
 Here Am I (7:50) (Hensley)
 Lady in Black (3:33) (Hensley)
 High Priestess (Single version) (3:39) (Hensley) (ursprünglich auf der Single High Priestess veröffentlicht)
 Salisbury (Edit) (4:21) (Byron, Hensley, Box)
 The Park (5:18) (Hensley)
 Time to Live (4:14) (Box, Byron, Hensley)

Bonus-CD der Wiederveröffentlichung von 2016
 High Priestess (3:50) (Hensley)
 Time to Live (4:31) (Box, Byron, Hensley)
 Simon the Bullet Freak (3:48) (Hensley)
 Bird of Prey (4:45) (Box, Byron, Newton)
 Here Am I (8:35) (Hensley)
 Lady in Black (5:19) (Hensley)
 Salisbury (16:26) (Byron, Hensley, Box)
 Salisbury (Live) (17:34) (Byron, Hensley, Box)

US-amerikanische und kanadische Pressung
 High Priestess (3:39) (Hensley)
 The Park (5:37) (Hensley)
 Time to Live (3:59) (Box, Byron, Hensley)
 Lady in Black (4:40) (Hensley)
 Simon the Bullet Freak (3:25) (Hensley)
 Salisbury (16:17) (Byron, Hensley, Box)

Informationen zu den Bonustracks
 Bei allen Bonustracks der Wiederveröffentlichungen von 1996 und 2003 sowie allen Songs der Bonus-CD von 2016 handelt es sich um zum Veröffentlichungszeitpunkt unveröffentlichte Versionen, sofern in Klammern nichts anderes angegeben wurde.
 Der auf der Wiederveröffentlichung von 1996 enthaltene Single-Edit von High Priestess wird im Booklet so beschrieben, dass er ursprünglich als Single veröffentlicht wurde. Dies scheint allerdings ein Fehler zu sein, da die Version des Songs, die auf der Promo-Single enthalten ist, eine Spielzeit von 2:14 aufweist und die Singleversion auf den regulären Singles eine Spielzeit von 3:39. Somit wäre dies die erste Veröffentlichung dieses Single-Edits.
 Die auf der Bonus-CD der Wiederveröffentlichung von 2016 enthaltene Liveversion von Salisbury wurde wahrscheinlich am 21. November 1971 in The Greyhound im Londoner Stadtteil Croydon aufgenommen.

Wissenswertes
 Bei der US-amerikanischen und kanadischen Edition des Albums, die mit einem gänzlich anderen Coverartwork versehen ist, wurde der Song Bird of Prey durch Simon the Bullet Freak ersetzt, weil Bird of Prey bereits auf der US-amerikanischen und kanadischen Edition des vorhergehenden Studioalbums …very 'eavy …very 'umble enthalten war. High Priestess rückt dabei statt Bird of Prey an die erste Stelle der Titelliste, während Simon the Bullet Freak die ursprüngliche Position von High Priestess einnimmt.
 Simon the Bullet Freak wurde auf einigen Editionen der Single Lady in Black mit dem Titel Simon the Bullit Freak abgedruckt.
 Die Singleversion von High Priestess weist zwar mit 3:39 die gleiche Spielzeit auf wie die Albumversion, unterscheidet sich aber von dieser. Erkennbar ist dies bereits am kürzeren Intro bei der Singleversion.

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My chapter with Chiara Diana (Université Libre de Bruxelles) is now published in Kristen Cheney and Aviva Sienrvo's "Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Interventions", Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. Look it up!
In the wake of the massive human displacement from Syria (2011–), some international NGOs (INGOs) have intervened in Lebanon to prevent Lebanese and Syrian youth from "radicalizing" and joining armed groups. In the framework of international humanitarian assistance within the "Global South," while refugee adults are expected to become self-reliant, children and youth are often addressed as objects of universal concern and rarely as aware subjects of decision-making. Drawing on interviews conducted between Spring 2015 and Autumn 2016 with INGO workers and child players and their parents, we consider INGO play activities in contexts where political violence is widespread and longstanding, such as the Tripoli governorate in northern Lebanon. This chapter first aims to unpack the INGO discourse on children's vulnerability. Second, we analyze INGO discourses and practices in a bid to critically examine the humanitarian and developmental attempts at providing politically neutral spaces for refugee and local children. We therefore build a threefold analysis focusing on the dehistoricization of political violence in the Arab Levant, the employment of the "Sport for Development" formula as a path to social cohesion, and the weak cultural literacy of INGOs in regard to contextual adult-child relations. Thereby, we argue that while INGOs tend to commodify the child as an a priori humanitarian victim, the international assistance community should rather strive to provide children with alternate avenues for political engagement in order to counter war recruitment.
This piece is posted as part of the blog series, Thinking through the Global South. You can read the series here.
In this blog post Dr Estella Carpi examines the impact of the structural relationships between the Global North and Global South and puts forward the concept of 'Southism'. This term is used to describe the unequal power relations, practices and belief systems that enable Northern humanitarian actors and organisations to assume a right to care for, rescue and assist Global South settings and people that it preconceives to be disempowered and incapable. Dr Carpi also examines how "epistemic failure", and "material discrimination" influence and shape the encounters between humanitarian providers and their beneficiaries and suggests a 'geography-free' approach to enable us to critically question geographies of birth and national passports as assumed sole identifiers of power.
This piece was posted on the 23rd January, 2019.
In my chapter for the Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, I sought to uncover the multifaceted power relations that underpin the ways that humanitarian practitioners lead their lives and encounter and think about local residents, governors, infrastructure, providers and refugee groups in the context of Lebanon's humanitarian crises. My contribution, 'The "Need to Be There": North-South Encounters and Imaginations in the Humanitarian Economy' also seeks to explore how the so-called international community of humanitarian practitioners is perceived by local and refugee populations.
My chapter specifically considers the Lebanese humanitarian provision systems in place during the Israel-Lebanon July 2006 war and in response to the Syrian refugee influx into Lebanon from 2011. In these settings, it can be argued that there is a relationship between aid providers and recipients that cements the Global South as the key source of the Global North's empowerment, accountability and capability to develop and assist vulnerable settings and people. This is a relationship that I explore in more detail below.
Aiming to problematise ethnic and political geographies within this context of provider-recipient power relations, my chapter suggests the concept of Southism as an analytical tool. The complex role of international and local aid workers in crisis-driven transnational labour, and the ad hoc relevance of nationality within humanitarian economies, demonstrates to interrelated dynamics: on the one hand, the paternalistic behaviour of the humanitarian apparatus which deems itself as "necessary" in areas of need and, on the other hand, the complex relationships that exist between local, regional and international NGOs. For some displaced people I had the chance to speak to in Lebanon, these provider-recipient power relations seemingly form a homogenous arm of governance unable to either empathize with them or enact solidarity. It is in this articulated context that I explore North-South actual encounters and perceptions within the humanitarian economy.
My field research in Lebanon between 2011 and 2013 pointed to a tension between the philanthropic spirit of the humanitarian system, and local and refugee responses to the "Southist" intent. This Southist intent of the Northern humanitarian system to care for, rescue, upgrade and assist settings in the Global South combines personal affection and collective compassion with professional aspirations. By using the concept of Southism, I intend to resonate with Gayatri Spivak's "monumentalization of the margins", that is the overemphasis of needs and areas of need exclusively in the Global South. As such, Southism indicates a structural relationship, rather than a mere act of assisting the South with a philanthropic spirit. Specifically, it preconceives the South as disempowered and incapable.
To examine these concepts further, in my chapter I identify "epistemic failure" and "material discrimination" as key issues that influence and shape the encounters between humanitarian providers and their beneficiaries, and the latter's perceptions of the former. Epistemic failure, or the failure of the humanitarian system to accumulate local knowledge concerning the cultures, languages and capacities of the areas of intervention exists at the same time as valuing the geographic diversification of professional experience and the standardization of operational skills. This creates a problematic disconnection between humanitarian practices and lifestyles on the one hand and aid recipients on the other.
In turn, material discrimination refers to the different pay-scales set up for local and international staff, heavily disadvantaging the former. In addition, I propose that "humanitarian tourism", "politics of blame" and the "betrayal of the international community" represent local and refugee perceptions of global humanitarian worldviews, ways of being and lifestyles. "Humanitarian tourism' represents the temporary as well as voyeuristic international interest in crisis-stricken settings. There is also a humanitarian tendency to blame local staff, infrastructure and politics for operational failures: "the politics of blame". Lastly, "the betrayal of the international community" refers to the moral wound felt by forcibly displaced people who denounce the fictitious intervention of the international community and its inability or unwillingness to eradicate injustice and the very causes of crisis.
The humanitarian approaches to thinking about and assisting the needy that I discuss in my chapter relate to disparate sides of the world and, therefore, it questions geographies of birth and national passports as a priori sole identifiers of power. The global humanitarian way of being that I explore in Lebanon's humanitarian crises is also about the social class and economic status of aid workers, and their own freedom to move inside (and away from) vulnerable areas and opt for educational and professional migration.
From this perspective, I strive towards a geography-free interpretation of Southism. While passports and nationalities still prove their efficaciousness in times of risk, my research in Lebanon has rather aimed to identify comfort zones which protect social statuses, ease and privilege across passports. The hegemonic culture which underpins the "NGOization" of postcolonial settings, on the one hand, can sometimes be adopted regardless of the geographic context of its primary actors. On the other hand, an exploration of hegemonic culture can unearth the organisational and individual ethics of international and local practitioners in approaching southern settings affected by crisis.
This geography-free approach helps to highlight and critically examine the "too-easy West-and-the-rest polarizations sometimes rampant in colonial and postcolonial discourse studies". To understand the contextuality of humanitarian action and its impact on societies, we therefore need a flexible geography of Southism, which disappears when irrelevant and re-emerges when able to uncover the ad hoc performative roles of nationality.
Nonetheless, in my chapter I limit myself to showing some of the moral and material implications of Southism. After all, the feelings, intentions and aspirations which often underlie the humanitarian career make such Southism not a matter which can be straightforwardly addressed in the short term. Humanitarian actors' tendency to believe that, whenever a new emergency breaks out, Lebanon – like other "fragile states" – would collapse without international humanitarian help is a belief that requires longstanding cultural intervention.
As I affirm in my chapter, "Southism does not merely make the Global South, or Southern elements in the North, its special place – as Edward Said does with the Orient – but it is, rather, employed by Northern and Southern actors to reassert, solidify and legitimise the Northern humanitarian presence and actions". As long as the very aim remains the politico-pragmatic role and the moral survival of the Global North, "polycentric forms of knowledge, politics and practice" – as stated by Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Daley in the introduction– are unlikely to emerge and produce tangible transformations. My contribution, in line with the other 30 chapters of the Handbook, has attempted to prompt critical framings of everyday political geographies that form our material lives, actions, and conceptual referents.
This extract from Dr Carpi's chapter in The Handbook of South-South Relations, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Patricia Daley, has been slightly edited for the purposes of this blog post. For more information about the Handbook, see here, and for other pieces published as part of the Southern Responses blog series on Thinking through the Global South, click here.
Conceptualising the South and South-South Encounters – in this extract from their introduction to the new book, Handbook of South-South Relations, Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Prof. Patricia Daley explore different ways of conceptualising and studying 'the global South' and diverse encounters that take place across and between diversely positioned people and institutions around the world.
Histories and spaces of Southern-led responses to displacement – In this blog post Prof. Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh highlights the need for the analyses of local responses to be more attentive to the longstanding history of diverse "local/Southern" actors and examines the ways in which Southern-led responses can work alongside, or explicitly challenge, Northern-led responses to displacement.
Empires of Inclusion – In this post Dr Estella Carpi explores the implications of the concept and process of 'inclusion' in relation to South-South Cooperation.
The Localisation of Aid and Southern-led Responses to Displacement: Beyond instrumentalising local actors – In this blog Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh examines a number of questions relating to recent action by international humanitarian actors responding to displacement and the new impetus to localise aid by engaging with 'local' actors in and from the global South.
I have contributed to the Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Patricia Daley (2018), which has just been published!
The edited volume collects an important number of critical contributions which question contemporary political geographies of Global North and Global South. Here below you can read the abstract of my chapter which focuses on my work on humanitarianism in Lebanon.
Based on ethnographic research conducted in Beirut's southern suburbs (Dahiye) and northern Lebanon (Akkar) between 2011 and 2013, this chapter advances a critical reflection on humanitarian lifeworlds in Lebanon and their encounters with war-stricken local citizens and refugees. Defining Southism as a structural relationship that cements the 'global South' as the key symbolic capital of Northern empowerment, accountability and capability, the chapter discusses the attitudes and thinking that have characterised the Lebanese humanitarian economy during the Israel–Lebanon July 2006 war and the Syrian refugee influx into Lebanon from 2011. While it defines 'epistemic failure' and 'material discrimination' as the actual encounters between humanitarian providers and their beneficiaries, this chapter proposes that 'humanitarian tourism', 'politics of blame', and the 'betrayal of the international community' represent the local and refugee imaginary encounters with global humanitarian lifeworlds. With the purpose of problematising ethnic and political geographies in provider–recipient power relations, it finally theorises a de-geographicised notion of Southism that can better capture the complex role of international and local humanitarian workers in crisis settings, as well as the ad hoc relevance of nationality within humanitarian economies.
You can access here my review of Lucy Mayblin's book "Asylum after Empire. Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking" on Refuge 34(2): 158-160.
In November 2018, Dr Estella Carpi from the Southern Responses to Displacement research team took part in "Working Together: Human Rights, the Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality," a workshop held at the British Academy to launch a report of the same title. In this post, Dr Estella Carpi reflects on the workshop and the report, which focuses on the need for the human rights and SDG frameworks to work together in a bid to take steps towards achieving substantive gender equality. In this regard, the Southern Responses project is examining how principles and motivations differ in various models of care, development, advocacy and protection across the global North and the global South, and how 'northern' approaches have historically overshadowed alternative frameworks to overcome diverse structural barriers and inequalities.
This blog was posted on the 27 November 2018.
Over the last decade, international humanitarian agencies have endeavoured to develop effective ways to localise their practices of intervention in areas receiving forced migrants or stricken by conflict or disasters. 'Localisation' is an umbrella term referring to all approaches to working with local actors, and includes 'locally-led' projects which refers specifically to "work that originates with local actors or is designed to support locally emerging initiatives" (Wall 2016).
Local-international partnerships have received much rhetorical attention as a more acceptable face of the humanitarian programming designed in the global North. Nonetheless, there is evidence that northern funding and organisational structures still give preference to implementers from the global north (Ramalingman, Gray and Cerruti 2012). In this framework, the middle space, spanning from international donors to local implementers, is of crucial importance in shaping decision-making processes related to humanitarian funding, practices and policies. In this framework, I would like to advance my considerations on the international humanitarian system that presently places special emphasis on the role of intermediaries in crisis-stricken settings, or contexts that are proxies to crisis.
On November 14 2018 I participated in a roundtable organised by the Overseas Development Institute which aimed to evaluate the role of intermediaries in humanitarianism. In this context, several London-based humanitarian professionals expressed the need to define the role of the intermediary figure in humanitarian action, and to rely on the latter's support to access local and refugee communities in the targeted areas. By contrast, academic literature which seeks to map such a 'middle space' is scant (Kraft and Smith 2018). Based on these observations, what are humanitarian actors trying to bypass, remove, enhance or achieve by emphasising the importance of intermediaries in their sector? With the following considerations, I intend to shed light on how intermediaries may be problematically employed as a shortcut to localisation and as a logistic facilitation strategy to not further contextualise policies and practices which are often designed in the so-called global North.
The first observation I would like to make is related to the layered social identity of intermediaries. Indeed, it is a common belief that intermediaries are mostly local or regional residents with strong connections and networks in the areas targeted by humanitarian programmes. If the line of separation between the 'international' and the 'local' is unavoidably blurred, it is important to note that some segments of local middle classes – generally those employed in the humanitarian system to manage crisis – are as unfamiliar with other social strata of their own country as many international workers with whom they share common lifestyle standards. As a result, from a relational and emotional perspective, some local professionals may not necessarily be any closer to the people they address. At the same time, however, intermediaries are believed to be well placed to manage local politics, such as corruption, inefficiency or reluctance to comply with external norms and requests. Can such a social figure ever exist? In this respect, the research I conducted from 2011 to late 2013 in Lebanon (Carpi 2015) demonstrates a promiscuous intentionality of the international humanitarian apparatus: on the one hand, the desire to avoid local politics and its discontents, but, on the other, the need to rely on intermediary figures who are able to prepare beneficiary lists and can provide contextual knowledge to enable humanitarian actors to rapidly and safely access local and refugee groups. However, as my research has shown, by doing so international humanitarian agencies often end up recognising local authorities as key actors of the humanitarian machine. In my field experience, the moral impact of what I may call an 'unintended alliance' between humanitarian internationals and local gatekeepers was particularly relevant when local residents and refugees expressed their desire to get rid of intermediary figures operating between them, the humanitarian system and the central government. Intermediary roles were predominantly covered by local state officials and delegates (makhatir and mandubin respectively) and other local informal leaders (zu'ama'). In sum, the necessary entrance of formal and informal local authorities into the international humanitarian labour chain produced a substantial impact on humanitarian workers who must deal with local politics and its contextual configuration.
The second issue that I would like to analyse is the excess of intermediaries in the contemporary humanitarian sphere. Looking at the intermediary role as a relational and performative process rather than a clear-cut sociological mission, it is possible to identify unorthodox configurations of "intermediariness". Even though it is mainly conceived as local actors, –networks, individuals, diaspora groups or formal organisations that occupy the middle space between initial donors and final implementers, intermediaries can sometimes be epitomised by INGOs and UN agencies. For instance, the humanitarian corridors that currently take Syrian refugees from Lebanon to Italy and France across the Mediterranean are a suitable case in point. As a local aid worker recounted in an interview in Beirut in March 2017, in order to retrieve personal data and carry out an initial selection of the refugee groups who better suit the Italian and the French labour markets, the INGOs in charge of organising the humanitarian corridors rely, in turn, on other INGOs and UN agencies that can provide them with a contact database. This modality of selection is believed to avoid a costly and time-consuming door-to-door strategy. In this case, needs assessment is viewed as a bureaucratic hurdle rather than an effective way of identifying needs and protection and their changing nature. Likewise, another aid practitioner working for an INGO in a village of northern Lebanon affirmed that individual and family eligibility to cash transfers was determined through the UNHCR central database, rather than independent field visits and assessments (interview in Halba, February 2017). These two anecdotes show how intermediaries operating in the humanitarian middle space are at times excessive.
My third observation concerns bureaucracy. Enhancing and institutionalising the role of intermediaries may sort out the difficulty of pinning down sociological figures in changing contexts and of managing institutional trust versus informal society. By this token, we may think that the role of intermediaries should therefore be professionalised. However, the institutionalisation of the intermediary role might instead add complexity and slow down the already hyper-bureaucratised system of international humanitarianism and development. The same system has long been accused of being poorly responsive to context-sensitive needs (Belloni 2005) and de-humanising war and disaster victims (Pandolfi 2002). In this regard, Lebanon offers the meaningful example of the Municipal Support Assistant (MSA). This professional figure, appointed by local municipalities, has been created to work with local authorities and international humanitarian actors and acts as a local government administrative assistant. In the case of Lebanon, the MSA needs to be fluent in Arabic and English to be able to develop double communication strategies. As a municipality representative of Sahel az-Zahrani reported in a 2016 study conducted by UN-Habitat and the American University of Beirut, the MSA has presumably been created to enhance coordination between the local and the humanitarian systems of governance (Boustani, Carpi, Hayat and Moura 2016). However, considering the formal ways of working that the MSA needs to comply with, bureaucratic impediments are practically enhanced. In other words, if bureaucracy is enhanced to achieve greater coordination, I would be wary to believe that actual coordination can soon see the light.
The very aims of the ongoing efforts towards an "intermediary-sation" of humanitarian action need to be clearly motivated and contextualised. From a personal perspective, considering the provisional presence of many international humanitarians and researchers in the areas where crisis management is needed, we continue missing historical continuity. Short field visits are in fact unlikely to trace the local history of human relations, contextual power dynamics and assistance mechanisms. Should the international humanitarian system not find the radical determination to develop physical and moral proximity towards the populations it endeavours to serve, I hence envision intermediaries only as everyday researchers who conduct "reality checks" whenever accurate humanitarian assessments of outreach, programming, policies and local specificities are needed.
Belloni, Roberto (2005) Is Humanitarianism Part of the Problem? Nine Theses. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, MA.
Boustani, Marwa, Carpi, Estella, Hayat Gebara, and Mourad Yara (2016) Responding to the Syrian Crisis in Lebanon. Collaboration between Aid Agencies and Local Governance Structures. London: IIED Urban Crisis report.
Carpi, Estella (2015) Adhocratic Humanitarianisms and Ageing Emergencies in Lebanon. From the July 2006 War in Beirut's Southern Suburbs to the Syrian Refugee Influx in the Akkar Villages. PhD dissertation, University of Sydney (Australia).
Kraft, Kathryn and Smith, Jonathan D. (2018) "Between International Donors and Local Faith Communities: Intermediaries in Humanitarian Assistance to Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon", Disasters.
Pandolfi, Mariella (2002) "'Moral Entrepreneurs', Souverenaités Mouvantes et Barbelés: le Bio-Politique dans le Balkans Postcommunistes", in Politiques Jeux d'Espaces, ed. Pandolfi, M. and Abélès, M., special issue, Anthropologie et Sociétés, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 29-50.
Ramalingam, Ben, Gray, Bill, and Cerruti, Giorgia (2012) Missed Opportunities: The Case for Strengthening National and Local Partnership-Based Humanitarian Responses, Christian Aid, CAFOD, Oxfam, Tearfund, and Action Aid.
Wall, Imogen with Hedlund, Kerren (2016) Localisation and Locally-Led Crisis Response: A Literature Review, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.


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11 Windjammers sail into the harbor
Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce
Eleven tall ships will be at this year's Windjammer Days Festival, according to the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce. The 2013 Windjammer Days is scheduled to take place June 25 and 26, with the schooners appearing in Linekin Bay on Tuesday the 25th and in the harbor on Wednesday, June 26.
The Windjammers include:
American Eagle: A deep draft vessel designed to be safe and stable in open water. John Foss is the captain. This schooner offers four- and six-night cruises with a few shorter weekend cruises. www.schooneramericaneagle.com
Alert: The schooner was the last New England fishing schooner engaged in commercial fishing and is now captained by Perry Davis and Bethany Mcnelly-Davis. This schooner does 2, 4 and 6 hour charters along with "Island Adventure" trips to explore islands in Casco Bay from Bailey Island.
Bowdoin: The Bowdoin is the official vessel of the state of Maine and a national historic landmark. It was was built in East Boothbay by Hodgdon Brothers (now Hodgdon Yachts) in 1921. Owned and operated by Maine Maritime Academy, the schooner provides a platform for students to demonstrate competencies in vessel operations and technology. Captain of the Bowdoin is Eric Jergenson. For more, visit www.mainemaritime.edu.
Nathaniel Bowditch: Built as a racing yacht in 1922 in East Boothbay, this 82' schooner won special class honors in the Bermuda Race in 1923, and served in the Coast Guard during World War II. Owen and Cathie Dorr are the captains. This schooner offers may specialty cruises such as Sail and State Parks Package. For more, visit www.windjammervacation.com.
Eastwind: Herb and Doris Smith sailed around the world twice with their three children on schooners they built by hand; Eastwind is one of the schooners they built. Tom and Jennifer Smith are the owners and captains of the Eastwind. The Eastwind offers two-hour voyages out of Boothbay Harbor. For more, visit www.schoonereastwind.com.
Lazy Jack: A topsail schooner when fully rigged can carry up to eight sails; Lazy Jack sailed for 20 years from Massachusetts to Cuba carrying various cargo for her master. Joe Tassi is the captain. The Lazy Jack offers a two hour day sail or private charter adventures. For more, visit www.schoonerlazyjackcruises.com.
Lewis R. French: Launched in 1871 in Christmas Cove, Maine, the Lewis R. French is the oldest vessel in the fleet and the oldest commercial sailing vessel in the USA. Garth Wells and Jenny Tobin are the captains. This schooner offers 3, 4, 5 and 6 night excursions. For more, visit www.schoonerfrench.com.
Timberwind: This schooner is family-owned and operated and last year raced in "Jammers & Joggers." Bob Tassi is the captain. The Timberwind offers 3, 4, and 6 day windjammer cruises. For more, visit www.schoonertimberwind.com.
Heritage: This ship was designed and built by Captains Doug and Linda Lee. The Heritage offers 3, 4, and 6 day windjammer cruises. For more, visit www.schoonerheritage.com.
Sherman Zwicker: Built in 1942, this schooner is the last remaining auxiliary fishing schooner and has all of its main original features still intact and operational. George McEvoy is the captain of this fully operational, traveling museum. For more, visit www.schoonermuseum.org.
Windfield Lash: The two-masted schooner was launched in 2000 after 18 years of hard labor to bring it to fruition. The captain is Dave Clarke. This schooner's homeport is Friendship and cruises in Maine in the summer.
The annual Windjammer Days Festival will feature its classic line-up of events, which include a One Design Boat Race; Windjammer Days Golf Tournament fundraiser for Community Fireworks, the hometown street parade; an antique boat parade of more than 30 boats; second annual Artists Alley; 10 waterfront concerts; tours of the USCG and Maine State Aquarium; Kid's tent; 2-day craft show; boat excursions; and a spectacular firework display over the harbor. Visitors can enjoy a complimentary 2-day shuttle during the festival.
To learn more about Windjammer Days and to track updates, visit www.boothbayharbor.com or find the Chamber on Facebook.


Out of the Wings at King's College London is thrilled to present 'OOTW2017', our second festival of play readings, all presented in brand-new English translations at the Cervantes Theatre. Five plays from Portugal, Cuba, Spain, Uruguay and Colombia will take us on a journey that crosses styles of theatre and performance as well as borders of language and geography in a showcase of Ibero-American writing.
Ready or Not, by Estela Golovchenko (Uruguay), explores the difficulty of reconciliation between a young woman and her estranged father, a political activist turned Senator. Flashbacks to her childhood, during a time of political conflict, force her to re-examine her attitudes to politics, memory and forgiveness.


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Q: How to charge a customer and direct funds to another account I am currently only seeing a way to charge customers to yourself based on https://stripe.com/docs/api/charges/object
. Is there any way to set the destination to another stripe account? Basically, charge a customer whos funds then go directly to another account? The platform is acting as a facilitator and is not intended to take control of the funds during this process, but instead simply move them from one custoemr to another.

A: This is what Stripe Connect is for: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/


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GRS Names Sales Leader to Advance Growth Strategy
January 11, 2021 09:26 AM Eastern Standard Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is advancing its strategic growth objectives with the appointment of Suzanne Ziemann to Senior Vice President of Sales. "I look forward to working with this extraordinary group...
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GRS Expands its Global Complex Claims Solutions with Acquisition of R Winkler & Co. LLC
January 06, 2021 04:00 PM Eastern Standard Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is pleased to announce it has acquired R Winkler & Co. LLC. Sugar Land, Texas-based R Winkler & Co. specializes in energy loss adjusting and consulting services...
Global Risk Solutions, Inc., Acquires Tailored Adjustment Services Inc.
January 4, 2021 MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of diverse solutions for property and casualty claims, environmental risk management and complex claims, is pleased to announce it has acquired Tailored Adjustment Services Inc. "With Tailored joining our Property & Casualty Solutions business unit, we have a much greater presence in the market,...
GRS Expands Energy Capabilities, Opens Houston Office
Global Risk Solutions adds experienced leader in environmental health andsafety, emergency response and regulatory affairs to ERMS team November 30, 2020 MIAMI – Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and Environmental Risk Management Solutions (ERMS), announced that Bea Stong has joined the firm as executive advisor, opening...
GRS Appoints Training & Marketing Leader
Accomplished claims industry executive Colm Keenan joins firm to head GRS' learning and marketing operations November 10, 2020 09:30 AM Eastern Standard Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is advancing its strategic growth objectives with the addition of Colm Keenan...
GRS Names Accomplished Executives to Chair Advisory Board
James Porcari and Allan Robinson to provide strategic guidance to continue Global Risk Solutions' growth trajectory November 05, 2020 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, has established a Chair Advisory Board and named two accomplished claims...
Trend Watch: On-Demand Services
With an Atlantic hurricane season so active that it exhausted the list of English storm names, and a still-raging global pandemic, property insurers have their hands full. The need for remote work is accelerating a trend that offers significant help in handling volumes of claims: on-demand claims adjusting services. Global Risk Solutions' Scott Grenville, chief...
Record Breaking Hurricane Season 2020
"The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so active that it has nearly exhausted the regular list of storm names. If this happens, the Greek alphabet will be used for only the second time on record." – World Meteorological Organization On September 14th, the US National Hurricane Center issued advisories on five tropical cyclones over the...
GRS Adds Business Development Executive
August 10, 2020 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is continuing to grow with the addition of an experienced business development executive. "GRS is excited to welcome Suzanne to our team. The experience and talent she...
GRS Appoints Chief Systems Architect
Accomplished technology executive Chris Heywood joins firm to drive GRS' digital innovation and global claims applications August 03, 2020 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is continuing to expand and deepen its technology capabilities with the...
GRS Enhances its Global Complex Claims Solutions with Acquisition of William Kramer & Associates
WKA adds to GRS' worldwide presence, expertise in major and complex losses July 20, 2020 12:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is pleased to announce it has acquired William Kramer & Associates (WKA). "WKA is a...
GRS Appoints Global Chief Information Officer
Experienced business and technology executive Mark Stergio joins firm to accelerate GRS' growth in digital innovation MIAMI – Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, is continuing to expand its expertise and capabilities with the addition of Mark Stergio as Global Chief Information...
GRS Green & Environmental Risk Management Solutions
Global Risk Solutions is working on environmental risk and addressing green business solutions. An incident that causes environmental impairment can be tragic on multiple levels: a community is damaged, neighbors' lives are disrupted, and businesses' reputations — and often, their future — are on the line. The ERMS team at GRS has decades of experience...
2020 Hurricane Season Outlook
An above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is expected, according to forecasters with NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. "The outlook predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of a below-normal season." When catastrophes strike, high volumes of...
GRS Expands Environmental Risk Management Solutions with Addition of Marine Claims Executives
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global Risk Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of a diverse range of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, has expanded its marine claims capabilities with the addition of two highly experienced claims executives. "We are excited to welcome Peter and Joe to the growing team at GRS" Tweet this Peter Wiswell and Joe...


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Q: Throw IOException in actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) method I am trying to create a guessing game program for my online course, where there are a bunch of questions and you are able to answer them, but I have come to the point in my program where I am having some difficulties...
Now, what I am trying to do is read a file from an "actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)" method, then display if the users answer is right...
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class allQuestions implements ActionListener
{
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
    {
        if(event.getActionCommand().equals("Answer M 100"))
        {
            try
            {
                File answersFile = new File("answers_file.txt");
                Scanner sc = new Scanner(answersFile);
                if(sc.hasNext("1000000"))
                {
                    System.out.println("Your answer is correct!");
                }
                else
                {
                    System.out.println("Your answer is wrong.");
                }
            }
            catch(IOException e)
            {
                System.out.println("File cannot load.");
            }
        }
    }

    public static void math100()
    {
        JFrame m100Frame = new JFrame("100 Point Math Question");
        m100Frame.setSize(350,350);
        m100Frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        JPanel pane = new JPanel();
        m100Frame.setContentPane(pane);

        JLabel question = new JLabel("

Round 1,000,203 to the nearest thousands, and round 8.472 to the nearest hundredth.

Put answers in box below, and have the word 'and' between the two answers.</width>
");

        JTextArea answer = new JTextArea("Enter Answers Here", 10, 25);

        JButton answerQuestion = new JButton("Answer M 100");

        answerQuestion.addActionListener(new allQuestions());

        pane.add(question);
        pane.add(answer);
        pane.add(answerQuestion);

        m100Frame.setVisible(true);
        m100Frame.toFront();
    }
}

Now I dunno what I have done wrong, but I am trying to just make it so that when a user types their answer into the box, and you hit enter, it scans the file to see if their answer is right, then displays if its right or wrong...
Hope this explains it a bit. Thanks for the help.

A: Your file answers_file.txt is not being found. Add the following line of debug code to see where your program is actually expecting the file to be.
File answersFile = new File("answers_file.txt"); // existing line
System.out.println(answersFile.getAbsolutePath()); // new debugging line

Also look very closely at the spelling of the filename in the code versus the actual filename on disk.
And remember backslash \ is the String escape character in Java, so if you use backslashes in a file path you have to escape it like this:
String path = "C:\\folder\\file.txt";

Finally, if you're still having the problem, add this line of debug code to your catch block so you can see the exact error message:
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            System.out.println("File cannot load."); // existing line
            e.printStackTrace(); // new debugging line
        }

With regard to throwing IOException from ActionListener.actionPerformed() - that is not allowed because IOException is a checked exception and is not declared to be thrown in the interface method declaration.


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BRI Achievements
Steve Higgs writes about research and training successes at the Biosecurity Research Institute.
In the almost six years that I have been at K-State, the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) has continued to flourish thanks to dedicated BRI staff, institutional commitment, and exceptional researchers from several departments who have successfully pursued funding opportunities. Data from the Office of the Vice President for Research show that since 2006, funds obtained by K-State researchers that were in some way attributed to the capabilities of the BRI totaled more than $111 million. And the parking lot is now consistently full!
Here are a few examples of research done at our facility.
Barbara Valent, James Stack, and Christian Cruz from plant pathology lead work on wheat blast fungal disease, continuously funded at the BRI since 2009. The recent introduction of wheat blast into Bangladesh and India — the first occurrences outside of South America — emphasize the threat that this pathogen poses to worldwide crop production. Studies on Rathayibacter toxicus, a bacterium transmitted by nematodes to certain grass species, will begin in 2017. This plant pathogen produces a toxin that is more deadly than ricin for livestock, potentially killing those that eat the infected grass.
For the second year in succession, the livestock research area of the BRI is at maximum capacity. Projects include studies on African swine fever, avian influenza, classical swine fever, Japanese encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, Schmallenberg, and evaluation of a vesicular stomatitis expressed Ebola vaccine. Research on chikungunya, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever and Zika are also ongoing. Development of vaccines, diagnostics and treatments are common themes for many of the studies, with goals to save animal lives, improve detection and response capabilities in the event of outbreaks, ensure a robust and secure agricultural system and food supply, and protect public health. These studies, several of which are funded by the State of Kansas National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility transition fund, are being conducted by faculty from the College of Veterinary Medicine, including Roman Ganta, Stephen Higgs, Scott Huang, Juergen Richt, Bob Rowland, Jishu Shi, and Dana Vanlandingham, with collaborating scientists Drolet, McVey, and Wilson from the USDA's Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit.
Other projects focus on mitigation of foodborne pathogens during food processing, as part of a $25 million grant from the USDA that is directed at K-State by Randall Phebus from animal sciences and industry, plus a study on HEPA filtration monitoring by Stephen Eckels from the College of Engineering.
In 2016, the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center relocated to the BRI, where team members are developing risk analysis and mitigation strategies to anticipate and respond to events such as foreign pathogen introduction into the U.S. NABC staff are involved in a DHS-funded national livestock readiness program and are conducting FEMA supported animal disease response training for first responders.
Training is a critical part of ensuring safe and secure work at the BRI. More than 200 people have been trained to the level of independent high-containment access, including 115 currently approved to work with the so-called select agents that are regarded by the U.S. government as the highest threat to animals, plants, and people. The BRI is now actively involved in educating undergraduate and graduate students; we have helped develop five new for-credit courses related to biosecurity, biosafety, and research on high-consequence pathogens since 2012. Other accomplishments include:
Five trainees are currently enrolled in the DHS Research and Development Fellowships for Transboundary Animal Disease Professionals;
In January, scientists from 11 different countries attended the week-long High Containment Laboratory Practices and Techniques course taught by BRI staff and funded by the USDA;
In upcoming months, BRI staff will help coordinate, teach, and host a DHS-supported Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases two-week summer program and a Plant Biosecurity and Practices Workshop; and
BRI will offer a new Transboundary Animal Diseases course taught by Alfonso Torres, former director of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, later this year.
Along with all BRI staff members and researchers, I look forward to continuing to contribute to the vigorous and collaborative research and education community at K-State. We invite you to read more about the excellent work of BRI researchers and to attend our BRI Research Fellows Lecture by Arturo Casadevall, Chair of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, on April 21 at 9:30.
— Steve Higgs
Register to attend the 2017 K-State Research Showcase, submit a project for video-professional writing partnership, read how K-REx can help with interim research products, plus find upcoming events.
Not Exhibiting? You Can Still Attend the Research Showcase
Faculty and staff are invited to attend the 2017 K-State Research Showcase on May 17 at K-State Olathe. Find more information and register.
Call for Projects for Video-Professional Writing Partnership
For the past two years, the Office of the Vice President for Research has identified National Science Foundation-funded researchers as clients for video production and professional writing classes. This year the collaborators are looking to expand the topics, and they are looking for K-State researchers, centers, or others as clients. Read more.
K-REx Helps Faculty House Interim Research Products
The National Institutes of Health released a notice in March encouraging investigators to use interim research products such as preprints to "speed the dissemination and enhance the rigor of their work."
The K-State Research Exchange, or K-Rex, can help investigators accomplish that goal. K-REx showcases a variety of content created by K-State research, scholarly, and creative activities and discovery efforts and is globally accessible by anyone with Internet access. According to Ryan Otto, digital scholarship librarian at K-State Libraries, Federal funding bodies such as the NIH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other funding sources are pushing hard for public access both to help reviewers see preliminary work associated with funding proposals and to speed the flow of information for efforts such as the Cancer Moonshot. K-REx provides the infrastructure that is necessary to share preprints and other interim research products.
"Peer review may take a few months to a year, and quick dissemination of initial work is what NIH is really looking for," Otto said.
K-State scholars can submit their work to K-REx by clicking "Submit Content" on the K-REx website, or they can email documents to Otto at cads@k-state.edu. Please note:
Submissions should allow lead time of at least one week.
Displaying interim research products in K-REx does not preclude display or publication in other venues.
The NIH notice contains instructions for citing interim research products in applications, proposals, and reports.
Contact K-REx via the Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship at 532-7444 or cads@k-state.edu.
BRI Research Fellows Lecture
Arturo Casadevall, chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will deliver "Insights into the Origin of Virulence from Model Organisms" at 9:30 a.m. TOMORROW, Friday, April 21 at the Biosecurity Research Institute lecture hall. Read more about Casadevall.
NSF EAGER webinar from Principal Investigator's Association: May 3
USDA spotlights climate, land use, and land management.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) through its National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate Challenge Area is focusing on sustainable increase in agricultural productivity and the accessibility of safe and nutritious food. This year one priority area will be invested in climate, land use, and land management. Through these investments, USDA will address the understanding of underlying processes, drivers and consequences of land use change, including biophysical and biogeochemical processes, climate feedbacks and environmental outcomes, and social, behavioral, economic and land use interaction.
The effects of funding crunches on scientific integrity, a new global tree species database, a U.S. Cluster Mapping Portal, and more.
How A Budget Squeeze Can Lead to Sloppy Science and Even Cheating
A funding crunch for scientific research is creating incentives for scientists to cut corners and even occasionally to cheat. This is one of the findings in a new report about scientific integrity from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The Quest to Capture and Store Carbon — and Slow Climate Change — Just Reached a New Milestone
A new large-scale technology has launched in Decatur, Illinois that, by combining together corn-based fuels with the burial of carbon dioxide deep underground, could potentially result in the active removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. It's an objective described as crucial by scientists hoping to control the planet's warming. The facility operated by ethanol giant Archer Daniels Midland, dubbed the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture Project, arrives at a time of uncertainty for the U.S. and global biofuels industry. It faces growing competition from electric vehicles, and continuing struggles to move beyond so-called "first generation" feedstocks like corn, which can create conflicts with food supplies.
Growing Wildfire Risk Brings Challenges for Remote Research Facilities
Fire season is underway already in parts of the United States, and the growing prevalence of wildfires can pose serious challenges for college research facilities in rural areas. Such facilities can encompass expensive research centers or thousands of acres of experimental forest, like a Clemson University property where a tiny portion of 17,500 acres of land burned in November. Wildfire seasons have gotten longer, with research linking them to hot summers and other factors that are associated with climate change.
University Research and the Great Mistake
This country's public universities face the Trump administration in a weakened condition. That is partly because they have suffered years of state funding cuts and still aren't back to pre-2008 levels. But it's also because they have long embraced a private-funding model that doesn't work and whose weaknesses Trump and his people can exploit.
How Many Tree Species Are There? More Than You Can Shake A Stick At, New Database Reveals
Trees are important for timber, food, and medicine, but getting a handle on the world's thousands of tree species is a tough task. Up until this year, there's been no complete census. Now, researchers have published the first global database of tree species and their geographical ranges, a "huge scientific effort," the team reports in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry.
U.S. Economic Development Administration Cluster Mapping Portal
Many different types of users visit the U.S. Cluster Mapping and Registry portal, including business economic developers, policymakers, academics, and researchers. Some are trying to effect change in state or national policy, while others are trying to determine a strategy for a region, industry, or organization. But all have one thing in common: they can use the U.S. Cluster Mapping and Registry portal to achieve their goals. You can read some specific examples of how the portal is helping to boost a regional network, teach a class, create an economic forecast, and much more on the Cluster Mapping website.
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Q: Get the formula of the sum of a sequences I have a formula $\sum_{t=1}^{\infty}\beta^t\sum_{i=0}^{t-1}\alpha^i$, so I know the sum is $\frac{\beta}{[(1-\alpha)(1-\alpha\beta)]}$, if it is right. I was thinking of doing $\sum_{i=0}^{t-1}\alpha^i$ first to get $\frac{1-\alpha^{t-1}}{1-\alpha}$, then do the calculation on $\sum^{\infty}_{t=1}\frac{\beta^t(1-\alpha^{t-1})}{1-\alpha}$ to get the answer; but I could not get that formula...  am I on the right track or how should I do the algebra to get the final formula?
Thank you!

A: Hint: $$\sum_{t=1}^{\infty}\beta^t\sum_{i=0}^{t-1}\alpha^i = \sum_{t=1}^{\infty} \beta^t\frac{1-\alpha^t}{1-\alpha}= \frac{1}{1-\alpha}\left(\sum_{t=1}^{\infty} \beta^t - \sum_{t=1}^{\infty} (\alpha\beta)^t  \right) =\frac{1}{1-\alpha}\left(\sum_{t=0}^{\infty} \beta^t - \sum_{t=0}^{\infty} (\alpha\beta)^t  \right) $$


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Selisk var et sprog, der tilhørte den baltiske sproggruppe i den indoeuropæiske sprogfamilie. Det blev talt af den østbaltiskestamme, selerne, der indtil det 1400-tallet boede i Selen, et område i det sydøstlige Letland og nordøstlige Litauen.

I løbet af 12-1400-tallet mistede selerne deres sprog efter at være blevet assimileret af letgallerne og litauerne.

Det er opfattelsen, at det seliske sprog beholdt proto-baltiske fonemer *an, *en, *in, *un ligesom det litauiske sprog, men ligesom det lettiske sprog blev det proto-baltiske *kʲ, *ɡʲ ændret til c, dz, og det proto-baltiske *š, *ž ændret til s, z.

Spor af selisk sprog kan stadig findes i de områder, der var beboet af selere, især i accent og fonetik i de såkaldte seliske dialekter af det lettiske sprog. Der er nogle spor af selisk sprog i den nordøstlige sub-dialekter af aukštaitiske dialekt af litauisk.

Uddøde østbaltiske sprog


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Con il termine foto-finitura (photo-finishing in lingua inglese) si identificano i seguenti servizi combinati di produzione di massa commerciale, controllo qualità, elaborazione degli ordini e la consegna delle commissioni fotografiche.

Caratteristiche

Questo avviene tramite l'ausilio di attrezzature e tecniche di riproduzione fotografica. La produzione di massa commerciale viene effettuata da grandi laboratori industriali. Il controllo qualità e dei prezzi viene effettuato dai punti vendita dove il prodotto finale viene acquistato dal cliente. Nel tempo grazie alle nuove tecnologie oltre al servizio di stampa si sono aggiunti altri servizi come la personalizzazione di oggetti vari come puzzle, calendari, foto-libri, cuscini, tele, tazze, portachiavi con impresse le proprie fotografie.
Grazie all'evoluzione  del settore anche piccoli negozi sono in grado di fornire servizi di stampa e di finitura fotografica in pochi minuti. Molti operatori offrono servizi fotografici su internet. Il cliente può caricare le proprie immagini digitali elaborarle, scegliere il prodotto, e infine farselo spedire per posta direttamente a casa propria. La maggior parte dei fornitori di servizi di fotografici on-line offrono oltre alle stampe fotografiche anche una varietà di altri prodotti che il cliente può creare online come: calendario fotografico, poster, tazza, album fotografici, puzzle o T-shirt.

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Collegamenti esterni

Sviluppo e stampa fotografici