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Onesti's vision of uniting the world's NOCs which laid the path for ANOC
A few days after witnessing the lighting of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is set for more duties in Greece at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly in Crete.
Bach's compatriot Willibald Gebhardt attended the first modern Olympics in Athens 125 years ago, where he suggested the formation in each country of "a strong National Committee, subsidised as much as possible by the Government".
ANOC lists its date of formation as 1979, but in fact a "Permanent General Assembly (PGA) of National Olympic Committees" first took shape in the wake of Tokyo 1964.
It was led by Italian sports official Giulio Onesti, who became an IOC member that year.
Onesti was the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) President and played a pivotal role in the reintegration of Italian sport after the Second World War.
Italy successfully staged the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo under his watch, and then the 1960 Summer Games in Rome.
There was dialogue between the IOC and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) as far back as 1928, when the IOC met the NOC Presidents in attendance at the Games in Amsterdam.
Since 1952, such meetings had become regular. However, the IOC President then was American multi-millionaire Avery Brundage, who became increasingly dismissive of NOCs as his leadership continued into a second decade.
Historian Allen Guttmann, Brundage's biographer, recalls that American IOC member Douglas Roby told him: "We'd have meetings with the National Olympic Committees and he'd say, 'we'll take it under advisement'.
"He just wouldn't listen. Let them talk and then forget it."
The whole make-up of the Olympic Movement changed during Brundage's Presidency. In 1952, there were only four NOCs in Africa. A decade later, that figure had tripled.
From the late 1950s onwards, IOC members in the Soviet Bloc called for each country to be represented with an IOC member. Brundage, however, had no desire to see the organisation become like the United Nations and many of his fellow members agreed.
To this day, the total number of IOC members is equivalent to just over half of the number of nations which compete at the Olympics.
At the 1963 IOC Session in the German spa town of Baden-Baden, Onesti and CONI secretary Bruno Zauli tabled a list of proposals.
They called for an annual meeting which would "establish better cooperation between the NOCs and the Executive Board of the IOC, which conducts the world's Olympic Movement".
It was suggested that "National Olympic Committees may give their opinion regarding the candidatures of the cities to organise the Olympic Games".
Onesti and Zauli also reiterated a call for the independence of NOCs.
Milan Ercegan of Yugoslavia, later to lead wrestling, Bulgarian member Vladimir Stoytchev and Romanian official Aurel Duma all supported Onesti's call.
There was also backing from Asian officials who felt that they too were being short-changed.
At the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, CONI "asked permission to assemble the representatives of the National Olympic Committees in Rome, in order to coordinate their proposals".
A year later, representatives of 80 NOCs were hosted by Onesti and CONI.
Their meeting had "the precise aim of arriving at mutual assistance and exchange of information amongst the various NOCs and the debating of sports problems", a statement after the event said.
"This meeting was a great success," Onesti told the IOC Session in Madrid a few days later.
"All the delegates had expressed their confidence in the International Olympic Committee and their obedience to the principles preached by the Olympic Movement.
"The organisation of the NOCs forms a solid bulwark for the IOC. The NOCs promised loyal and efficacious cooperation with the IOC."
Onesti headed a Coordination and Study Committee which included experienced officials such as Hugh Weir from Australia, Sandy Duncan, the secretary of the British Olympic Association, and the energetic Jean Claude Ganga of Congo.
When the IOC gathered in Tehran for their 1967 Session, Brundage insisted that the "National Olympic Committees are agents of the International Olympic Committee and the IOC is ever concerned with their well-being".
A share of the burgeoning television rights had now been allocated to them and 109 delegates from 63 NOCs had gathered for their own assembly. Nineteen of the participants were IOC members.
When he addressed the Session, Brundage reported that "many NOCs criticised the IOC and its Executive Board".
"Especially the younger NOCs which referred to a lack of contact," he said.
His private view of this was much more explicit. "The meeting was loaded with dynamite," he claimed. "They were like a pack of hungry lions."
The IOC restructured its commission for NOCs with Ivar Vind of Denmark as chairman. Like Brundage, Vind was another "hostile witness" who did not see the need for the Assembly.
Onesti had been at pains to keep Brundage informed of his activities, but the IOC President became increasingly agitated and even primed Mexico 1968 organisers to tell Onesti that there was no space for an NOC meeting.
Soviet member Konstantin Adrianov was supportive. "The NOCs want continuous guidance and like to meet, in order to profit from each other's experience," he said. "They are full grown children and our agents so they also want to be heard."
This was a time when the South African Government insisted on segregation of different ethnic groups under apartheid.
The IOC President's ambivalence towards the expulsion of South Africa saw African and Asian countries raise their voices.
In Mexico, 77 countries met to form the PGA. Onesti, elected as President, informed the IOC that this would meet annually, immediately before the Executive Board meetings with NOC representatives.
Brundage's hostility seems to have been fuelled by a belief that Onesti wanted to replace him as IOC President, although as the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero noted, "Onesti does not have Brundage's money, nor his pride or interest in the office".
The American was unhappy that Onesti made overtures to communist China. In the following decade, Onesti's compatriot Primo Nebiolo would allow them to participate in the Universiade, opening the door at last.
IOC archives contain a letter by Onesti which bemoans the continued criticism from Brundage.
"It is with great respect and bitterness that I observed an entire series of grave accusations against the PGA, its directors and the NOCs," he wrote.
The first formal PGA meeting took place in Dubrovnik in October 1969, and discussed "Olympic aid".
Since the beginning of the decade, French member Jean de Beaumont had called for a programme to be established, to assist new nations which were emerging in Africa and Asia.
Beaumont had run against Brundage for the Presidency in 1968 and was now disparagingly dubbed as "Onesti's second lieutenant" by his rival.
The Frenchman's idea bore fruit and eventually became known as Olympic Solidarity, an organisation headed by Onesti.
The centenary history of the IOC, written in 1994, observed that "in the long run, the IOC was unable to resist growing NOC pressure for a greater say". But the decisive change in relations did not come until Brundage finally stepped down in 1972.
In his place came the Irish peer, Lord Killanin. Under his leadership, the IOC drew closer not only to the NOCs, but also the International Federations.
In a sign of the improved relations, Onesti was soon thanking the IOC for allowing the PGA space in the Olympic Review magazine to document its activities.
In 1977, Australian IOC member David McKenzie drafted a new constitution to re-organise the PGA.
By 1978, when the group met in Mexico, it was resolved that they would become ANOC and the new name was first used at the 1979 Assembly in San Juan.
The Olympic Review noted that "at the centre of the rostrum, IOC President Killanin led the debates". The Executive Board was also present.
Mexican media magnate Mario Vázquez Raña was elected President "by acclamation" but Onesti was not forgotten.
Described as the "prime force behind the unification of the NOCs", he was named Honorary President.
During the Moscow Olympics boycott crisis which followed in 1980, the close association of NOCs proved to be an important factor in limiting the damage to the Olympic Movement.
Onesti died in 1981, but he would surely have been delighted that the Olympic Charter now stipulated that "up to 15 IOC members may also be chosen from Presidents or persons holding an executive or senior leadership position within NOCs, or world or continental associations of NOCs."
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) National Olympic Committees (NOC)


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Q: Pagination broken in a third party module We bought this job application suite module from a dev that I can't get in touch with and our store managers can't view applications past the first page (set of 20). If they try to go to the second page of applications (admin side) they get an ajax spinner that loads in the panel and then the entire admin reloads inside that panel but the spinner never stops. They get the same thing if they try to change the results per page.
I had to do quite a bit of work on the code to get it to work in the first place, but I can't find the hook where pagination of the grid is called to mess with it.
I need to get this working ASAP. Here is the code from the class that loads the tab that shows applicants for the job listing:
class ModuleMart_Jobs_Block_Adminhtml_Job_Edit_Tab_Applicants extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid
{

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->setId('applicants_grid');
        $this->setDefaultSort('id');
        $this->setUseAjax(true);

    }

    protected function _beforeToHtml()
    {
        $this->setId($this->getId().'_'.$this->getIndex());
        $this->getChild('reset_filter_button')->setData('onclick', $this->getJsObjectName().'.resetFilter()');
        $this->getChild('search_button')->setData('onclick', $this->getJsObjectName().'.doFilter()');
        return parent::_beforeToHtml();
    }

    protected function _prepareCollection()
    {
        $id = $this->getRequest()->getParam('id');
        $collection = Mage::getModel('jobs/applications')->getCollection()->addFilter('job_id', $id);

        $resource = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource');

        $this->setCollection($collection);

        return parent::_prepareCollection();
    }

    protected function _prepareColumns()
    {

        $this->addColumn('applicant_name', array(
            'header'    => Mage::helper('jobs')->__('Applicant Name'),
            'sortable'  => true,
            'index'     => 'applicant_name'
        ));

        $this->addColumn('applicant_email', array(
            'header'    => Mage::helper('jobs')->__('Applicant Email'),
            'sortable'  => true,
            'index'     => 'applicant_email',
        ));

        $this->addColumn('created_at', array(
            'header'    => Mage::helper('jobs')->__('Applied Date'),
            'sortable'  => true,
            'index'     => 'created_at',
        ));
        $this->addColumn('action',
            array(
                'header'=>  Mage::helper('jobs')->__('Download Resume'),
                'width' => '100',
                'type'  => 'action',
                'getter'=> 'getId',
                'actions'   => array(
                    array(
                        'caption'   => Mage::helper('jobs')->__('Download'),
                        'url'   => array('base'=> 'adminhtml/jobs_applications/view/'),
                        'field' => 'id'
                    )
                ),
                'filter'=> false,
                'is_system' => true,
                'sortable'  => false,
        ));

        return parent::_prepareColumns();
    }

    public function getRowUrl($row)
    {
        return $this->getUrl('adminhtml/jobs_applications/view/', array('id' => $row->getId()));
    }

    public function getGridUrl()
    {
        return $this->getUrl('adminhtml/jobs_applications/view/',    array('index' => $this->getIndex(),'_current'=>true));
    }

    protected function _getStore()
    {
        return Mage::app()->getStore($this->getRequest()->getParam('store'));
    }
}

Hopefully this is just some small tweak that I am nmissing, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to get the pager working, or just not load the pager (display all rows on the first page) since there should never be more than 100 applicants per job listing.
Please let me know if there is anything else I should be looking for.
EDIT
I changed $this->setUseAjax to false which obviously fixed the spinner issue, but now it loads up a different block and reports that "application no longer exists" when I haven't made a selection.
Here is the model that Melvyn mentioned:
class ModuleMart_Jobs_Model_Applications extends Mage_Core_Model_Abstract{
    /**
     * Entity code.
     * Can be used as part of method name for entity processing
     */
    const ENTITY= 'jobs_applications';
    const CACHE_TAG = 'jobs_applications';
    /**
     * Prefix of model events names
     * @var string
     */
    protected $_eventPrefix = 'jobs_applications';

    /**
     * Parameter name in event
     * @var string
     */
    protected $_eventObject = 'applications';
    protected $_productInstance = null;
    /**
     * constructor
     * @access public
     */
    public function _construct(){
        parent::_construct();
        $this->_init('jobs/applications');
    }
    /**
     * before save job
     * @access protected
     */
    protected function _beforeSave(){
        parent::_beforeSave();
        $now = Mage::getSingleton('core/date')->gmtDate();
        if ($this->isObjectNew()){
            $this->setCreatedAt($now);
        }
        $this->setUpdatedAt($now);
        return $this;
    }
    /**
     * check URL key
     * @access public
     */
    public function checkUrlKey($urlKey, $active = true){
        return $this->_getResource()->checkUrlKey($urlKey, $active);
    }
}

A: Try by comment out function _beforeToHtml() as class

Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid

will do it
/*
protected function _beforeToHtml()
{
    $this->setId($this->getId().'_'.$this->getIndex());
    $this->getChild('reset_filter_button')->setData('onclick', $this->getJsObjectName().'.resetFilter()');
    $this->getChild('search_button')->setData('onclick', $this->getJsObjectName().'.doFilter()');
    return parent::_beforeToHtml();
}
*/

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If you are not clear what a solo ad is about, it is actually referred as an email ad or ezine ad. It's around 500 words or less and it is mailed out to the subscribers of an ezine. Of course, not all ezine newsletters are the same size. Depending on the size of the list, you can reach up to hundreds or even thousands of network marketing customers.
So the first thing you can do is to write a short 'pre-sell' email about your network marketing product or opportunity. You can briefly talk about the simple benefits of your product or you can share with the prospect what your business opportunity will be able to help them with.
The goal of writing it is to get the newsletter subscriber to click on a link. When you click on a link, you lead them to a landing page or a lead capture page. This is your most important method to gather leads. You want to funnel as many targeted leads from the subscribers to become YOUR subscribers.
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Nope. No. No. Uh-uh. No thanks. Nope. Bye.
Pop quiz! What's grosser: this whip scorpion, or that guy's mustache?
After killing a big spider, the videographer noticed something escaping from its corpse. Haunted spaghetti? No, that's a nematode, or parasitic roundworm. Fun fact: There are thousands of tiny ones inside you at this very moment. Have a great day!
It's hard to imagine anything worse than untold thousands of bedbugs crawling around your bed while you sleep.
All right, this is worse than bed bugs.
6. "Big Spider Attacks Daddy"
The phrase "spider attacks" in this video title is a little harsh. "Spider justly and appropriately defends itself" is more fitting.
Bot flies are an old standby. YouTube is full of disgusting extraction videos.
The Vietnamese centipede, or scolopendra subspinipes, is among the largest centipedes on Earth, with a maximum length of about 20 cm. Highly venomous, it is the only species of centipede verified to have killed a human.
9. Deadly Spider Bites With "Dr. Venom"
The creepy spider expert/Bond villain known as Dr. Venom adds to the charm of this video. What's more unsettling – the long shots of horrible spider bite infections, or the way he lovingly handles his eight-legged friends?
Warning: Graphic, potentially disturbing content. Proceed with caution.
Want to get in shape before swimsuit season, but paleo just isn't doing the trick? We guarantee you'll lose your appetite immediately after watching these videos.
YouTube can be an amazing and inspiring place full of educational and hilarious videos. But it also houses some pretty dark corners.
That's where we're shining a light today: nine "creature feature" videos that would make Indiana Jones proud. We waded into the seething masses for the very best material (and by "best," of course, we mean "nauseating"). We originally aimed for an even 10 videos, but just didn't have the nerve.
For the entomology nerds among us, it's true that the term "bug" should really only include insects of the order Hemiptera. But for the sake of better gross-outs, we widened the definition to the informal use, which applies to a number of arthropods, including spiders and centipedes. You're welcome.
What's the most disgusting thing you've ever seen on YouTube? Share in the comments.


Parallella Community • View topic - Free Parallella Porcupine breakout boards!!
Free Parallella Porcupine breakout boards!!
Re: Free Parallella Porcupine breakout boards!!
It will still be better and cheaper than the Zebax one I just ordered!
In case it's any help I've created both C and C++ libraries for GPIO, check here, description here. There's even a bit-bang'd SPI library, slow but functional. There's also a command-line script to control the individual pins. Some example code too, all in that directory. One of these days I'll get around to cleaning it all up and adding more documentation.
I am a member of the radio astronomy research group from Poland. We are working on unique Radio Astronomy Project - build the pulsar clock.
I am going to use this board with my Parallella board (16core) to test and proof of concept idea.
Finally, we will use Parallella board (64 core) to test idea full scale computation intensive data processing (poly-phase filter bank and de-dispersion signal from pulsar- 30-60-100MHz wideband) (of course the university must buy this parallella version board).
If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information.
I've tested the PMOD connector, it was easy to get a LED connected to the +3.3V, and connect the other end to one of the user settable bits, which have 200 Ohm resistors in series with the Zynq outputs.
However, finding the right GPIO numbers was hard, and the numbering of the actually present connections on the breakout board is upside down and unclear.
Using "sudo ./gpiotest -g 61" lets the LED connected to the third from the right, top row connection, with it's other end to either the GND or VDD (+3.3V normally I think) light up and off again or at half PWM brightness as the program runs, and only the correct number output responds.
the shorting current measured as 11.5 milli Amps, so it all appears to work.
Do you know when the Porcupine board will become available for buying online?
1) A lightweight 2D Core + maybe a 3D core.
2) Porting Sproulls FPGAtools to zynq.
Are you sure you don't want one right away. I am 100% in support of you work on #1 and #2. Those would be huge boosts for the Parallella community.
I'm working on a mobile robotic camera platform / processing station. Currently positioning my DSLR using motors, configuring/triggering exposures on via USB, and using accelerometers/PID control for closed loop control - all driven from a lowly AVR (+ USB host controller) controlled via a UART, or the accelerometer in an Android phone (via BT). I have only done rough prototyping of the robotics, and have a ways to go before I have any sort of stable platform I can publish design files for. Only then can I begin to look at mechanical zoom control and so forth.
The Parallella is the perfect fit for the processing brain, being a low power, highly customisable processing platform (I am interested in both run-time reconfiguration of the FPGA for highly tuned operations, as well as the Epiphany as a more general purpose co-processor). The porcupine is what I need to have the Parallella become the single brain to control the robotics platform (via the AVR) as well as control/configure exposures, retrieve and process images (via USB).
I daresay there will be overlap with the image processing side of advanced UAV/gimbal style projects moving to the Parallella. The robotics part itself could be used for any number of applications involving camera control and image processing, or guided video capture. My interests are real-time target tracking/acquisition (eventually - requires additional instrumentation, of course), exposure bracketing, HDR, panorama capture/stitching, GPS tagging (since my DSLR lacks it, but my Android device doesn't) - and programmed tracking / intervalometer type tasks, such as tracking stars for stellar photography.
Thanks for your interest in the Porcupine breakout boards! We look forward to hearing about your experiences.
Aha, my board arrived thanks guys.
Here are some pics, generating a 45kHz saw wave via a first order sigma delta ip block running on the fpga.


What kind of museum donor hosts a visit in her home with the museum's director, as she is nearing death, and asks him to read aloud the list of artworks in her final bequest? What kind of donor had let the previous director choose which works the museum would want and then, when it was not enough, ask why he didn't ask for more? And then give them? What kind of donor offers to match money for acquisitions and lets the other donors take all the label credit? What kind of donor gives omnivorously, not just to the departments for which she collects, like European paintings? And what kind of donor want the bequeathed art stripped from the walls of her home as soon as possible after her death so that it can go on view quickly?
That would, of course, be Margaret McDermott, patron of the Dallas Museum of Art, who died on May 3 at age 106.
I wrote about McDermott recently for The Art Newspaper, in an article headlined Dallas Museum of Art says thank you to a life-long patron.
As Augustin Arteaga, the current DMA director, said, this final gift was transformational for the museum, which could definitely use the infusion, especially because many of its European paintings are sequestered in a separate period-room environment dictated by a previous and less impressive gift. What is, in the museum's words (but I agree) "staggering," however, is that the sum total of all the acquisitions she (and her long-dead husband) either made or made possible with contributions amounted to about 3,100 works.
"Her understanding of art went well beyond what was her taste at first," Arteaga said. She was, he said, instrumental in reimagining the museum and giving it the aspiration of being an encyclopedic museum. And in the meantime? "It was her view," said John R. Lane, the museum's director from 1999 to 2008, "that the Dallas Art Museum should not only be bigger, but better and better." She made it happen with "her money, her enthusiasm and her inspiration," he added.
I hope you will read my article, as I'm not repeating everything here, and I'm adding things.
Arteaga tells a story about her that made me like her, even though I'd never met her. On his first visit to her home, after his appointment was announced in 2016 but before he took up the job, he enthusiastically started talking about a Monet still life from 1872 there. She let him go on and on and then she said, "do you know that all these works are going to the museum–all but that one. It's going to the Kimbell." Arteaga said he felt a bit sheepish, until she added, "And then it's going to you." She was lending it to the early Monet show organized by the Kimbell and San Francisco's Legion of Honor.
I asked Jack Lane if he could think of a parallel donor, and he did–but different. Dominique de Menil. She created a private museum for her collections.
Another parallel – Paul Mellon. No fuss, no nonsense – just pure generosity.
Anne Marion. Ft. Worth Modern Art, Kimbell and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, to name just a few where her service to those boards and institutions was and continues to be truly remarkable.


Updates to Monika's profile since your last visit are highlighted in yellow.
For many years now I have counseled foreign exchange students that stay a year in a High School programm in Germany in my area. That often reminds me of my time in Mansfield.
I have stayed for some time in several other countries such as France, Paraguay and Brazil and travelled a lot over the world. At the moment this is not possible due to the fact being a single mom with 4 children.
Monika Petersen has a birthday today.
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Hi Nancy, this is the former exchange student from Germany. Unfortunately I will not be able to come to the class reunion but I love to hear /read about it and see pictures.
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Happy Birthday Lynn from Hamburg Germany from the former exchange student.Love to hear from you.


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$48 Million Award: British court rules against FAAN over Lagos airport project
By Oladeinde Olawoyin
A British appeal court has overturned an order that prevented a Nigerian construction company from enforcing parts of a $48 million arbitration award.
The company is seeking damages over an abandoned hotel project at the Lagos airport.
The ruling was delivered in November 2020 but PREMIUM TIMES has just obtained a copy.
The award, given in favour of AIC Ltd, a construction company, was against the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN.
On June 1, 2010, an arbitration panel headed by late Justice Kayode Esho awarded $48 million as damages against FAAN for violating a concession agreement involving AIC Ltd, documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES show.
At a hearing on December 6, 2019, Veronique Buehrlen, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge ordered that the appellant (AIC) has leave to enforce the arbitration award in its favour in the sum of $48 million, together with interest.
However, a week later, on December 13, 2019, the judge allowed an application by the respondent, FAAN, to reconsider her order of December 6, and she rescinded AIC's right to enforce the award. She also granted FAAN relief from sanctions.
In the latest judgment, the British court of appeal allowed an appeal by the company, AIC Ltd, after finding that the lower court did not take into accounts the role of FAAN in slowing the proceedings when it reversed an earlier decision to enforce the award.
Court documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES showed that by a Deed of Lease dated February 17, 1998, FAAN leased parcels of land at Murtala Mohammed Airport in Ikeja to AIC Ltd. for a term of 50 years for the sole purpose of developing a flight path hotel and resort complex.
However, by a letter dated May 16, 2000, FAAN directed AIC to refrain from work on the hotel development and prevented it from proceeding with the construction of the hotel and resort as planned.
The company later got an award in 2010 after an arbitration panel headed by late Mr Eso was set up to resolve the concerns.
Following the publication of the award in favour of AIC Ltd by Justice Eso in 2010, FAAN filed an application at the Federal High Court in Lagos to set aside the award.
In its reaction, AIC filed three applications to, first, enforce the monetary element of the award, remit the award on a point of law, and establish a preliminary objection challenging the application filed by FAAN on procedural grounds.
Justice Buba of the Federal High Court delivered judgment on the applications on June 19, 2013, dismissing AIC's applications and setting aside the award.
But AIC filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal in Nigeria challenging the judgment. The Court of Appeal allowed AIC's appeal and remitted FAAN's application to set aside the award to a different judge of the court. FAAN has since filed an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal but several years afterwards, the case is still pending at the Supreme Court.
In January 2019, an apparently frustrated AIC filed an application before the High Court of Justice in England to enforce the 2010 award. FAAN challenged this application on the grounds that there is an application to set aside the award currently pending before the Nigerian Supreme Court.
Following FAAN's application, AIC applied for an order that FAAN give suitable security in the sum of $162 million, in the event that AIC's application to enforce the award is adjourned.
The British court noted the considerable delay in relation to the enforcement of the Award in Nigeria and FAAN's lack of diligence in prosecuting the pending appeal. The court thus held that there should be security as a condition of the grant of the adjournment and that it would be reasonable for this to be in the sum of $24.1 million representing 50 per cent of the Award or just under three years' worth of interest on the Award.
But in subsequent hearing, the British court rescinded AIC's right to enforce the award and granted FAAN relief from sanctions.
AIC thereafter sought to appeal the reconsidered order and was given the express approval to enforce the award against FAAN last November.
It remains unclear whether FAAN would appeal the British appeal court verdict. Multiple efforts to speak to FAAN spokesperson, Henrietta Yakubu, were unsuccessful as her known telephone number could not be reached. A text message sent to her line was also not responded to.
AIC, Akande's long-running battles with FAAN
For many years, AIC, owned by politician and businessman, Harry Akande, battled with FAAN for the control of the controversial piece of land in Lagos.
In June 2013, PREMIUM TIMES reported how FAAN claimed that Mr Akande used thugs to displace aviation workers at the site, adding that it had reclaimed a land it disputed with the late politician.
The then General Manager, Aviation parastatals, Yakubu Datti, claimed at the time that Mr Akande forcefully invaded the said land with some thugs and succeeded in driving FAAN staff on the site away.
In July of same year, reports said a police officer attached to AIC Limited threatened to 'gun down' an official of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.
Mr. Akande, a presidential aspirant under the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, extended the battles with FAAN to the courts until his death.
The businessman died in the early hours of Saturday, December 5, 2020. He was 77.
Source: PREMIUM TIMES

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Featured Author: Elicura Chihuailaf
Introduction: Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán, Mapuche Poetry for Our Survival
by Paula Miranda
On September first of this 2020 (year of the pandemic), the nation of Chile, represented by seven jurors, awarded the National Prize for Literature to Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán (Kechurewe, 1952). This is the first time in the history of this National Prize (established in 1942), and in the history of all other national prizes given in all areas (341 prizes in total), that a National Prize has been awarded to a persona belonging to one of Chile's native peoples, in spite of the fact that our country considers itself a "pluricultural and multiethnic entity" (Boccara, 2012). This persistent omission is a reflection of our history. The processes of conquest and colonization of the 16th-18th centuries, followed by the actions of the Chilean state from 1883 on, systematically robbed the Mapuche of their territory, their culture, and their language. In prehispanic times, they occupied thirty million hectares from the Choapa Valley (31 degrees South) to Chiloé Island (45 degrees South). Between 1641 and 1883, the Mapuche resisted and/or negotiated with the Spanish, keeping hold of their lands south of the border formed by the Bío Bío River (36 degrees South), preserving their language, culture, and what remained of their territory (ten million hectares). But with the creation of the Chilean national state (1818) and the so-called "Pacification of Araucania" (1865-1883), the Mapuche survivors (mapu: land, che: people; people of the land) were progressively relocated and confined to reservations, in a sort of internal exile, in which their system of knowledge (kimün), their language (mapuzugun), their legal and organizational system (Az Mapu), and their spirituality were rendered subaltern. But despite all efforts against them, the Mapuche culture and language were able to survive and resist extermination. The end of the twentieth century brought with it various movements for indigenous autonomy. In this context, starting in the late 1970s, Elicura Chihuailaf's work emerged. It was succeeded by an important new blossoming of Mapuche poetry, with diverse manifestations (Caicheo, Lienlaf, Huinao, Huenún, Aniñir, etc), in a system differentiated from but in dialogue with Chilean poetry, coinciding with the emergence throughout the continent of new poetic voices native to the far-flung lands of Ab'ya Yala (Toledo, Ak'abal, Ninamango, Cocom Pech, Ancalao, Chikangana, etc). In the past twenty years, Elicura's work has had a unique impact on Chilean education—his poems have been included in all Chilean and Argentine textbooks, and he has been invited to hundreds of universities and high schools throughout the country.
For this reason, his selection for the National Prize this 2020 was preceded by an enthusiastic campaign in his favor, carried out by hundreds of wide-ranging personalities and professionals: from the academic and educational world, from the social sciences, the humanities, and healthcare, professors, scientists, human rights and environmental activists, cultural managers, students of all levels, and social organizations. Dozens of artists supported him as well, since many of his poems have been set to music or adapted to other media; among them were Ana Tijoux, Manuel García, Oona Chaplin, Beatrzi Pichimalen, and Roberto Bravo. His supporters, myself among them, appreciate the immense cultural and aesthetic richness of his work—a product of its rootedness in Mapuche knowledge (kimün), in Mapuzugun (the Mapuche language), and in its respectful bond to nature.
The Prize also represented a revindication of Chile's decentralization: an important marker in an excessively centralist country whose massive socioeconomic inequality is also expressed in the unequal distribution of land (80% of the market is concentrated in the capital, Santiago). In opposition to this trend, the regional government and municipalities of the Araucanía Region (where the poet lives) lent their support to his candidacy, and the city of Temuco (the region's capital) was covered in billboards showing his face and his poetry. Two important universities nominated him officially: the Universidad de la Frontera and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. What's more, in the last days before the decision, the campaign was aided by a letter to the jury from Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, in which the K'iche' Maya activist likened Chihuailaf's legacy to those of Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, indicating that "like the great creators, his poetic works are living expressions of nature, of history, and of mankind's path. His legacy is holistic, with universal space-time, which, besides enriching the spiritual production and fine arts of Indigenous Peoples, vastly transcends the poetic and literary creation of the Chilean nation." With these words, Rigoberta Menchú recognizes in Chihuailaf a project, both poetic and political, that widely transcends national borders, proposing a dialogue that can effectively allow us to face present-day crises. It is no surprise, then, that since 1977 (El invierno y su imagen [The winter and his image]), his seventeen books have received abundant awards and been translated to more than twenty languages. His body of work has remained vibrant from that year to the present day, with the publication of his latest books La vida es una nube azul [Life is a blue cloud] (memoir, 2016) and El azul del tiempo que nos sueña [The blue of the time that dreams us] (2020), a book on astrophysical and environmental themes. The importance of this Prize lies in the recognition of the foundational work that Elicura Chihuailaf continues to undertake in the midst of these complex, hard times, linked with his Maya symbol, the tz'ikin: the chosen one among us who will "pass on the sacred words." This title is borne out in the design that Genechen assigns him: "This one will be a singer, you said / turning over to me the Blue horse / of the Word" ("I Came To Heal You, Spoke the Canelo," 1995). A word that, according to Chihuailaf, IS "Nütram," conversation. This "conversation is the air, the water, our shared inspiration, exhalation, and draught; it is the force that will allow us to return to the natural order," he tells us in his memoir La vida es una nube azul (2016). In the face of present crises, indigenous cultures offer integral and sustainable answers, and they can all be found in his poetry. So much so that in March of this 2020 the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, cited one of his poems, indicating that he expressed with powerful eloquence "this link between indigenous ways and the protection of ecosystems." This is poetry staked on dreams and memory, connected to his ancestors, to his trees and hillsides, to the tenderness of his Mapuche lof, that simultaneously stays alert to the "counter-dreams" of the contemporary world (ecocides, dispossessions, systemic violences, colonizations). This is why his body of work is more than a body of work, and the Prize he has just been awarded is clearly much more than a prize. It represents the urgent need to learn from this "message" that Elicura ("transparent stone" in Mapuzugun) has come to pass down to us, in spite of the history of dispossession, usurpation, and misunderstandings that national states have long maintained with native peoples. The poet himself, playing with words, points out that here we find certain "alter-native" ways: we can learn a great deal from them, and they can open up paths through this nightmarish present.
His word is a word that comes from the oral memory of his family, and that is written in the memory of the present-future (this is why he has coined the term "oralitura," or "oraliture"), writing dreamt in orality. The backbone of this oralitura is associated with the stories he heard from his elders: "I remember one my grandmother used to tell, about the blue… The first Mapuche spirit comes from the blue of the east, where the sun rises. That is the energy that lives within us." This word that looks back on the blue has come to pray. What is asked for in these prayers? "That my people might always pray, / that they might have life, that they might have / food / that they might have good visions / and good Dreams / That they might have wisdom / and that their good Conversation / with Mother Earth and the Universe / might not end," Elicura tells us in "Rogativa azul" [Blue prayer], alluding to Mapuche "good living" or "küme mogen"—meanings that have never diverged from the Mapuche, and that are offered to us today as a way to access a "certain experience of totality," as Raúl Zurita tells us.
Whether it be written, sung, or spoken in conversation, the word desires to make-create things, to carry out an action upon the world: to pray, to remember, to invoke, to recognize. This function is only achieved through a poetic use of the word, turning to tangible, localist, sensorial, and emotional images (not intellectual ones, as Elicura clarifies himself). This is why hearing Elicura read his poems moves and impacts us so. This poetry passes on aesthetic joy to us, as well as ways to act and orient ourselves in our life, seen as a circular journey that "opens and is closed in two points that unite it / Its origin and encounter in the Blue." In his fundamental poem "Sueño azul" [Blue dream] (from De sueños azules y contrasueños [Of blue dreams and counter-dreams], 1995), at once powerfully cosmological and personal, he builds the blue house of his youth in Kechurewe, as a "concentrated being" brimming with gestures of community, with belonging, rootedness, connection with the Ñuke Mapu and with his ancestors. He recalls, as well, the meaning of life and also of death, lodged forever in the "forests of the imagination." In the poem "The Key that No One has Lost," poetry itself defends its primordial function: to serve as an analogue, in correspondence and tenderness, to the conversation of nature—to be "the song of my ancestors." But this sense of fullness is not everywhere; in many poems we also hear echoes of the despairing expressions of En el país de la memoria [In the country of memory] (1988) and the poem "Parece un contrasueño la ciudad" [The city seems like a counter-dream] from his 1995 book.
In his essay Recado confidencial a los chilenos [Confidential message to the Chileans] (1999), which now boasts eight editions and almost fifteen thousand copies published, which also includes fragments of his poetry, the oralitor connects us in confidence (confidential) with part of Mapuche history and knowledge (kimün) in order to pass down the visions and lifeways of his Mapuche people. In this book, we find figures, reflections, and intense dialogues with others who have also turned their thought to the complex relationship between the Chilean state and the Mapuche people (Juan Ñanculef, José Bengoa, Pablo Neruda, etc), in the ever unsuccessful process of negotiating the relationship between the Chilean state and indigenous peoples. The book has been considered a fundamental contribution to the possibility of building a bridge or plotting a course between cultures and peoples, for mutual recognition and appreciation, for the promotion of development based on interculturality, biodiversity, and sustainability, in spite of the long-standing difficulty of resolving these conflicts.
As a counterweight to this story of misunderstandings, Chihuailaf published in 2016 the first volume of his memoirs, La vida es una nube azul, the culmination of a long path: the path of life, from youth to old age, where "the wind yellows in memory." This memoir, far from a summing-up of biographical anecdotes, represents the exercise of unraveling, in old age, the meanings of this life, as if it were a cloud. But why a cloud? In the Mapuche vision, clouds represent an element of great polarity, but also of complementarity between positive and negative charges, for only these warring forces can give rise to the miracle of rain, of life. Elicura tells us: "In the clouds there is a constant discursive struggle between the present and the past (their positive and negative)." The result of this struggle is the cloud's explosion into many meanings. The clouds are also journeys, shining light eclipsed by the sun, souls outlined against the sky, counter-dreams, an apparition of forest groves, environmental crises, ravaged cities, thunderheads in the times of military dictatorships. But clouds are also and above all, now in their positive charge, the place where the poet chooses to lose himself, the warm and welcoming place of the blue house of his youth and the ruka of his elders. The passage of a young man who travels in exile to the city to become an obstetrician, a poet, and finally the messenger he is today. Around these intimate spaces of refuge and protection there are only a few faint little clouds, a small cloud with wings, and "the blue cloud of imagination," upon which he will embark on new journeys, "that unfathomable and brief, marvellous journey, which is life."
Only the deepest and most illuminated poetic word, of which Elicura is a bearer, could revive in all its tangibility and imagination the life of the past, the glimmers of each gesture and each act of this life, of each person and each lifeway that this oralitura now brings back to life. In this blue space-time, Elicura has decided to leave the footprints of all the voices and experiences that inhabit his work. He, "riding" on the clouds of imagination, will finally be able to pass on his message by means of a conversation woven of deep blue, the color from which everything emerges and emanates for the Mapuche culture, and toward which he wishes to invite us to take part in this long and urgent conversation.
Paula Miranda
Translated by Arthur Malcolm Dixon
Elicura Chihuailaf with Paula Miranda at his house in Kechurewe. Photo: José Luis Torres.
Paula Miranda Herrera was born in Santiago de Chile in 1968. She is a professor of literature, an associated academic of the Facultad de Letras of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and associated researcher of the Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas CIIR. She has researched and taught Chilean and Latin American poetry for more than twenty years and has organized the poetry conferences "Chile Mira a sus poetas" (2011), "Los ríos del canto" (2013) y "El poema más allá del poema. Enseñar, estudiar y hacer poesía en el siglo XXI" (2015). She is the author of the books La poesía de Violeta Parra (2013) and Violeta Parra en el Wallmapu. Su encuentro con el canto mapuche (2017) and editor of the books Chile mira a sus poetas: estudios y creaciones (2011) and Violeta Parra. Poesía (anthology, 2016).
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Екатери́нинский район — административно-территориальная единица Тарского округа Сибирского края РСФСР СССР существовавшая в 1925—1929 годах.

Районный центр — село Екатериновка.

История
Район был образован Постановлением ВЦИК от 25 мая 1925 года путём преобразования Екатерининской укрупнённой волости Тарского уезда Омской губернии. Район входит в Тарский округ Сибирского края.

В 1925 году из Айткуловского сельского совета выделен Речаповский. Из Ермаковского и Самсоновского сельских советов выделен Баженовский. Из Нагорно-Ивановского сельского совета выделены Бекмесский, Новотроицкий. Из Егоровского сельского совета выделены Верхнебобровский, Юрьевский. Из Верхневятского сельского совета выделен Усть-Тарский. Из Екатерининского сельского совета выделена часть Петропавловского. Из Ермаковского сельского совета выделены части в Баженовский, Петропавловский, Кошкульский. Из Пореченского сельского совета выделен Петровский I. Из Фёдоровского сельского совета выделен Петровский 2. Из Екатерининского, Ермаковского сельских советов выделен Петропавловский. Из Уразайского сельского совета выделен Бешметовский.

В 1926 году центрами сельских советов Екатерининского района были: д. Ауйткулово, д. Баженова, д. Бекмес, п. Верхне-Вятский, д. Егоровская, с. Екатериновка (Екатерининское), д. Ермаковка, д. Кошкуль, с. Нагорно-Ивановское, д. Ново-Троицкая, п. Петровка 1, д. Петровка 2, д. Петропавловская, д. Поречье, д. Речапова, с. Самсонова, с. Унары, д. Уразай, с. Усть-Тара, .Бешметовский, Фёдоровский и Юрьевский с/с не имели центра. В районе насчитывалось 871 населённый пункт, 23 сельских совета, 4118 хозяйств.

В 1929 году Екатерининский район был упразднён. Территория вошла в Муромцевский и Тарский районы.

Административно-территориальное деление
 Айткуловский сельский совет (село Айткулово)
 Баженовский сельский совет (село Баженово)
 Бекмесский сельский совет (село Бекмес)
 Бешметовский сельский совет (село Бешметовка)
 Верхнебобровский сельский совет (село Верхняя Бобровка)
 Верхневятский сельский совет (село Верхняя Вятка)
 Егоровский сельский совет (село Егоровка)
 Екатерининский сельский совет (село Екатерининское)
 Ермаковский сельский совет (село Ермаковка)
 Кошкульский сельский совет (село Кошкуль)
 Нагорно-Ивановский сельский совет (село Нагорное)
 Новотроицкий сельский совет (село Новотроицкое)
 Петровский I сельский совет (село Петровка 1)
 Петровский II сельский совет (село Петровка 2)
 Петропавловский сельский совет (село Петропавловка)
 Пореченский сельский совет (село Поречье)
 Речаповский сельский совет (село Речапово)
 Самсоновский сельский совет (село Самсоново)
 Унарский сельский совет (село Унары)
 Уразайский сельский совет (село Уразай)
 Усть-Тарский сельский совет (село Усть-Тара)
 Фёдоровский сельский совет (село Фёдоровка)
 Юрьевский сельский совет (село Юрьевка)

Население
По переписи население 1926 года в районе проживало 20462 человека в сельской местности (10014 м — 10448 ж). Крупные национальности: русские, белорусы, бухарцы, поляки, латыши, эстонцы, немцы.

Крупнейшие населённые пункты:
 село Екатерининское — 885 чел.;
 село Усть-Тара — 763 чел.;
 село Нагорно-Ивановское — 556 чел.;
 деревня Баженова — 522 чел.;
 деревня Ивановка — 489 чел.;
 село Самсоново — 483 чел.;
 село Унары — 483 чел.;
 деревня Игоревка — 474 чел;
 деревня Уразай — 469 чел.;
 деревня Алексеевка — 434 чел.

Примечания

Литература

 Список населённых мест Сибирского края. Том 1. Округа Юго-Западной Сибири; Сибирский Краевой Исполнительный комитет. Новосибирск. 1928.

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Упразднённые районы Сибирского края
1920-е годы в Омской области
Появились в 1925 году в России
Районы, упразднённые в 1929 году
Районы, образованные в 1925 году

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Check your pockets and wallet to make sure you've got enough cash to pay for dinner and possible drinks afterwards as well as taxi fare home. There's nothing more embarrassing than letting a new date pay for dinner.


Helen Norsigian Rowles was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, to first generation American parents of Armenian descent. Her Armenian cultural roots both shaped and influenced her childhood. Helen's mother was an artist who gave her children access to the arts at an early age. The magnificent St. Louis Art Museum was a frequent trip across the Mississippi River for the family. The first major exhibit Helen saw as a child was a retrospective showing of Van Gogh's paintings that has remained clear in her mind to this day.
Helen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University graduating in 1983. Through college she painted scenery for The Lyric Opera Theatre and participated in several group showings. Helen was awarded a Board of Regents scholarship based on her portfolio and after graduating, she worked as an interior designer, and as a freelance artist painting and drawing portraits, illustrations, and murals. Helen received her Masters Degree in Education in July of 2008 and currently enjoys teaching studio art classes to adults at the Mesa Arts Center.


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Q: how to extract data from json in mysql m trying to extract data from json in mysql:
my sample mysql query is :
I already tried using below code , but its returning null vales , But i have value in database .
In the below  code column_name1 and er_trading_sales is column name and table_name is the name of the table
    SELECT column_name1 as column_name1,
        substring(
        er_trading_sales,
        locate('"C2":{"type":"label","value":"":{"m":"label","k":"(a) to registered       dealers","v":"}","C3": {    "type":"textbox","value":"',er_trading_sales,locate('"Trading_B_I"',er_trading_s ales))+70,
    (locate('"},"C4',er_trading_sales,locate('"C2":{"type":"label","value":"":{"m":"label","k":"(a) to registered dealers","v":"}","C3":{"type":"textbox","value":"',er_trading_sales,locate('"Trading_B_I"',er_trading_sales))) - (locate('"C2":{"type":"label","value":"":{"m":"label","k":"(a) to registered dealers","v":"}","C3":       {"type":"textbox","value":"',er_trading_sales,locate('"Trading_B_I"',er_trading_     sales))+70))
     ) as TradingAmount
      from table_name

    //sample json
     "R10" => array(
                "col_data" => array(
                    "CR1" => array(
                        "C1" => array(
                            "type" => "label",
                            "value" => "8.",
                        ),
                        "C2" => array(
                            "type" => "complex",
                            "value" => array(
                                "m" => "label",
                           "k" => "Turnover of sale of goods taxable @ ^d^%",
                                "v" => "4.5"
                            ),
                        ),
                          "C3" => array(
                            "type" => "textbox",
                            "value" => "",
                            "validation" => "decimal",
                          ),
                             "C4" => array(
                            "type" => "textbox",
                            "value" => "",
                            "validation" => "decimal",
                            'htmlOptions' => array('readonly' => 'readonly'),
                          ),
                          "C5" => array(
                            "type" => "",
                            "value" => "",
                          ),
                    ),
                ),
            ),

   i want "value" of   "C3" => array(
                        "type" => "textbox",
                        "value" => "",
                        "validation" => "decimal",
                    )


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I'm looking into making a livestock tracker for our sheep which will consist of a collar and an enclosure small enough not to cause the animal problems, but big enough the house the items mentioned in the title, in addition to a small lipo battery. I also need to be able to fix a *tiny* solar panel on there to charge the lipo.
On that point, what would be a good way to charge the lipo? Is there a mcu available with this functionality?
My main question here is where I could look for enclosures that would fit this bill.
This is at the very beginning of the idea, so any advice or ideas very welcome.
My first stop for enclosure shopping is Aliexpress because they usually have the best prices. There are enclosures of all sizes there. I got some super small extruded aluminum enclosures that are nice but I think you'll want to go with plastic since you'll be wanting waterproof and also probably don't want metal blocking the radio communications.
Since you're buying a lot of enclosures, I would do some shopping around. Some of the enclosures are a little cheaper on eBay. You can also get enclosures from the component distributors like Digikey, Mouser, etc. They tend to have higher prices once you add in the shipping but they might have some items not sold on Aliexpress/eBay and you also avoid having to wait forever for shipping from China.
If you find that none of the commercial enclosures are just the right size, you could consider 3D printing, which would allow you to customize the enclosure to your specific needs.
Hammond 1553 enclosures come in a variety of sizes. There are a couple smaller ones around 1.5" in length that have mounting ears that you could pass a collar through.
I'm not in my lab right now or I could give you a specific part#, but Digikey carries them.
The logger at the top of the page is in a translucent blue Hammond 1553 enclosure (so the status LEDs could be seen), but it's one of the larger ones. They make them half that size.


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A certain number of exercises are based on the construction of new neuronal pathways to ensure that the learning process is optimal and to improve physical and mental performance.
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Singapore, 3 October 2016 – The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Lloyd's Register Foundation today officially launched the Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS, the first international academic and public outreach institution of its kind in Asia.
In its academic role, this new Institute will spearhead transformative research on the scientific understanding of risk and its practical application through a multi-disciplinary approach that brings together science, engineering, social sciences, and humanities. As a public outreach institution, it would endeavour to serve as a trusted and authoritative voice to enhance public dialogue on risk issues that are relevant to communities in parts of Asia. Through research, education, and outreach, it aspires to be a world leading node of excellence to pave the way for policy makers, regulators, business leaders, scientists, and the general public to make better decisions collectively for the betterment of society.
The new Institute was officially launched today by Singapore Minister for National Development and Second Minister for Finance Mr Lawrence Wong.
The Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk was established through a generous gift of £10 million from the Foundation, a charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom (UK) that works to enhance the safety of life and property and advance public education. This is the Foundation's largest gift outside the UK to date, and it is also the largest gift towards research that NUS has received from a foreign foundation . In line with NUS' commitment to the Institute, the University will contribute £11 million in funding for the new Institute.
NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan said , "Understanding risks and the effective communication of these risks are areas that are vital to nearly all societies, and often underdeveloped in many parts of the world. The new Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS will help to bridge this gap in Asia, and take the lead in high quality research in this underserved area."
With a projected staff strength of 50 researchers at steady state, the Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk seeks to map public concerns with a focus in Asia, build scientific capacity that mediates expert and lay understandings of risk issues, and develop effective risk communication tools and methodologies of use to policy makers, regulators, scientists, media and the general public. The Institute will leverage on NUS' deep expertise in a broad range of disciplines, from engineering to data analytics, as well as the University's global network of industry and university partners, to tackle complex problems that cut across sectors and geographical boundaries.
A risk perception study conducted recently in China and India by NUS researchers showed that people overestimated the likelihood of events with low true frequency (such as death from terrorist attack and food poisoning), but underestimated the likelihood of events with high true frequency (such as cancer). Survey participants also generally overestimated others' risk perception. Such findings highlight the disparity between actual risk and perceived risk, and underscores the importance of the new Institute's role in Asia to enhance public understanding of risk. The survey also showed that interestingly, Chinese and Indian participants are most worried about different risks – the former is economic while the latter is environmental. Asia provides a diverse test bed and findings may be applicable to countries outside of Asia.
The Institute will undertake in-depth Asia-centric research to offer decision makers in governments and businesses in the region access to previously unavailable data and information to positively inform their actions and policies. It will undertake up to 30 research projects in the first five years, and may focus on research areas where the Foundation and NUS have deep expertise and strategic interests. Where applicable, the projects will be conducted in collaboration with local and international institutions. The Institute will also partner governments and businesses on joint research projects and ad-hoc consultancies to enhance their assessment of risk and improve their decision making.
The Institute will also attract top risk experts from across the world to collaborate and exchange ideas and knowledge. It aims to attract up to 20 distinguished visiting faculty in the first five years to complement and provide further thought leadership based on their field of expertise in risk communication. It plans to offer up to 30 Fellowships in the first five years, for the best young scholars in the region to pursue research related to risk communication.
As part of its outreach efforts, the Institute will also conduct training programmes for industry and government leaders, and organise conferences to bring experts together, to forge closer networks and collaboration on risk communication across Asia.
The Institute will train 25 Masters, PhDs and post-doctorates in the first five years. Two PhD scholarships in risk communication will be awarded each year, with preference given to PhD students from disadvantaged or under-represented communities.
The Lloyd's Register Foundation (the Foundation) is a UK charity, established in 2012, which funds the advancement of engineering-related education and research and supports work that enhances safety of life at sea, on land and in the air. It is funded by the profits of its trading arm, Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR Group), and investments.
The Foundation's strategy for 2014-2020 focuses funding on four strategic themes: promoting safety and public understanding of risk; advancing skills and education; supporting excellent scientific research; and accelerating the application of research. Four research themes have been prioritised: structural integrity and systems performance; resilience engineering; human and social factors; and emergent technologies.
It also discharges its charitable purpose through the safety related activities of LR Group – such as safety inspections on 8,500 ships each year, rules for the safe construction and maintenance of ships, verifying the safe design and operation of oil rigs.
NUS has three Research Centres of Excellence (RCE) and 28 university-level research institutes and centres. It is also a partner in Singapore's fifth RCE. NUS shares a close affiliation with 16 national-level research institutes and centres. Research activities are strategic and robust, and NUS is well-known for its research strengths in engineering, life sciences and biomedicine, social sciences and natural sciences. It also strives to create a supportive and innovative environment to promote creative enterprise within its community.


The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ignaz, Etta, and Karolina Hauptmann, including their life in the Ulm displaced persons camp from 1946-1949, immigration to the United States in 1949, and testimony in the trial against SS Officer Friedrich Hildebrandt. Included are Ulm DP camp identification cards, Karolina's report cards, affidavits and testimony about the family's Holocaust experiences, restitution paperwork, declarations of intention and naturalization certificates, documents and correspondence related to Ignaz and Etta's testimony during the Bremen county trial against Friedrich Hildebrandt, and a transcript of an interview with Etta by her granddaughter Jessica Wilner Pollard. Additionally, there are photographs documenting Etta and Ignaz in pre-war Borysław, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine), the Ulm DP camp, and aboard the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman on their way to the United States in 1949.
Etta Hauptmann (née Federbusch, 1907-1996) was born on 13 September 1907 in Borysław, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine) to Chaim and Krania (née Herschdörfer, d. 1934) Federbusch. She had five brothers: Eli, Wolf, Moshe, Israel, and Issac; and one sister: Yetl. Her family was poor and her father worked as a butcher. After the start of World War II, Borysław fell under the Soviet zone of occupation. The following spring Etta married Ignaz (Israel) Hauptmann (b. 24 October 1900 in Borysław to Wolf and Taube Hauptmann) on 15 March 1940. Ignaz studied art in Vienna and then returned home to Borysław. Their daughter Karolina (later Carol Wilner) was born on 7 March 1941.
On 1 July 1941, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, German troops occupied Borysław. The following day, local Ukrainians staged a pogrom killing some 300 Jews. Ignaz and Etta's brothers escaped by fleeing to the woods. They returned the following day after the violence had subsided. Soon after the Germans established a ghetto in the town. Etta managed to maintain some contact with non-Jewish friends and bartered her remaining belongings for milk for the baby. In November German troops rounded up and killed some 1500 Jews including most of Etta's family. She escaped after having a vision of her father instructing her to take the baby and run.
In the ghetto Ignaz worked as a German translator for the Gestapo, which afforded them somewhat better conditions. Towards the end of 1942, the Germans converted the ghetto into a slave labor camp. Though children were not allowed, Etta smuggled Karolina into the camp in a sack. She and Ignaz built a hiding place for their daughter in the ceiling rafters. During the day while everyone was at work, they placed the toddler there. She was trained never to make a sound. The family shared their room with some other families including the camp doctor and dentist, all of whom helped hide Karolina. Etta gave birth a second time to a little boy. The other prisoners, however, felt it was too dangerous to have a newborn there and took the child and killed him.
Karolina remained hidden in the camp until it was liberated by the Russians on 7 August 1944. Soviet officials then accused Ignaz of collaboration and arrested him. He was releases a short time later. After liberation Etta gave birth to a second boy, Wilhelm (William). After Ignaz's release, the family then moved to Waldenburg (Walbrzych). In 1946, the family fled west through Czechoslovakia. From there they made their way to Germany and eventually arrived at the Ulm displaced persons camp. There Ignaz studied bookkeeping in an ORT school (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training), and Etta learned to become a seamstress. Through the Red Cross, they found a nephew living in Washington DC and decided to immigrate to the United States. They left Germany out of Bremerhaven via the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman and arrived in New York on 14 August 1949. In the 1960s, Ignaz gave an affidavit in a war crimes trial in Bremen county against the Nazi commandant in Borysław, Friedrich Hildebrandt. The family later changed their last name to Hauptman.
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Carol Wilner in 2018. An accretion was also donated in 2018. The collections previously numbered 2018.428.1 and 2018.491.1 have been incorporated into this collection.


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The Jordanian-sponsored resolution was approved during a session of UNESCO's 21-member World Heritage Committee in the southern Polish city of Krakow on Tuesday. Ten countries voted for, three against and eight abstained.
The vote was originally scheduled to take place next week, but it was advanced, according to reports.
Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon reacted to UNESCO's resolution and said, "Nothing is more disgraceful than UNESCO declaring" Israel the occupier of the Western Wall and Jerusalem al-Quds' Old City.
The file photo shows an Israeli excavation site around the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem al-Quds.
Enraged by such anti-Israel measure, Tel Aviv has cut ties with UNESCO and reduced its UN budget, putting the 2017 payments at $3.7 instead of the original $11 million.
Meanwhile, UNESCO is to vote Friday on the inclusion of the old city of al-Khalil (Hebron), where the Ibrahimi Mosque is situated, on its List of World Heritage in Danger.
She further expressed the hope that other countries would join the UN in opposing the measure.


We are excited to announce our three judges for the 2018 awards! During the awards year, all the work we receive from our participants will be submitted to our judges who will determine the 2018 winners. We are thrilled to have them part of the 2018 awards!
Participants have the opportunity to enter their latest and greatest work for the 2018 awards. Their work will be sent directly to our panel of judges once submitted. The judges will only receive the photos and participants will therefore be judged anonymously.


Sugar Trap 2 will also include the hot record "Poppin" which has totaled over a million views on YouTube. The single was also used in a season 2 episode of HBO's Insecure.
Check out Rico Nasty's "Rojo" and the Sugar Trap 2 cover art/tracklist below.


One Hood Media Academy's opening ceremony will be held at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture on January 25, 2013 at 7 p.m. with special guest, Grammy award winning, multi-platinum artist David Banner. A Conversation with David Banner will include an in depth discussion with David Banner regarding the Black male image in Hip Hop, his career and current activities, as well as current state of Hip Hop. The ceremony will also feature a performance by One Hood Media Academy graduates Jordan Montgomery and Cameron Layne.
Emcee and community activist Jasiri X is the creative force and artist behind the ground breaking internet news series, This Week with Jasiri X, which has garnered critical acclaim, thousands of subscribers, and millions of internet views. A six time Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Award winner, Jasiri is the first Hip-Hop artist to receive the coveted August Wilson Center for African American Culture Fellowship.
Paradise "The Arkitech" Gray, founding member of XClan and the Blackwatch Movement, is the man behind the camera responsible for framing the images that make the Hip Hop series so unique. Paradise's work as an elder in the Hip Hop community is rivaled only by his work dedicated to issues that effect the disenfranchised of the community.
If you would like more information regarding this topic, or to schedule an interview with Jasiri X or Paradise Gray please call 412-404-2347or email jasirix@gmail.com.
Another example of why mainstream media has to be ignored and we must continue to be forthright telling our own news and commentary. This type of story makes a Black person feel good because we are not in isolation fighting against this beast!!!