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· After review, you will receive an email when your IA compliance has been reviewed and accepted.
· After acceptance, you will be permitted to register for classes for the academic year.


In support of the British Heart Foundation's mission to train 5,000 people in life saving skills by 2020, Senior School pupils at Bridgewater School in Worsley are now receiving invaluable CPR instruction, thanks to the BHF Call Push Rescue programme.
The training is being delivered as part of the Personal, Social, Health & Economic (PSHE) education curriculum, with the school having now trained 224 students in life saving skills this year.
According to the BHF, every year in the UK 30,000 cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital and there is currently a less than a 1 in 10 chance of survival. In countries where CPR is on the school curriculum the survival rates are 1 in 4.


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Islamic Reformulations was a three-year Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellowship (GULF), funded by Research Councils UK and administered by the Economic and Social Research Council. The Fellowship, awarded to Professor Robert Gleave of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, explored how Muslim thought has developed in the modern period, and how these modern developments relate to the pre-modern tradition of Islamic thought. The project focused on the interlinked themes of belief, governance and violence.
Beginning in September 2012, Islamic Reformulations has now completed its main period of funding from the ESRC. We will maintain this website for a while, to link in impact activities and other events related to the project. The project continued and developed the LIVIT Project (Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought), which ran from 2010 to 2013, and was also funded under the RCUK Global Uncertainties program.
The project was led by Robert Gleave. The project's full-time research fellow was Dr. Mustafa Baig, now lecturer in Islamic Studies in the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University.
Principal Investigator:
Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Exeter. He researchers Islamic legal theory, and has worked most extensively on the Shia tradition of Muslim thought. He was director of the LIVIT (Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought) Project, which ran from 2010 to 2013, and with Dr. Istvan Kristo-Nagy he will be editing a series entitled Violence in Islamic Thought.
Research Fellow:
Dr. Mustafa Baig gained his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2012. His interests principally lie in the study of Islamic jurisprudence in non-Muslim contexts, investigating how Islamic jurists – who predominantly addressed Muslims living under Muslim rule – discussed the 'more exceptional' cases of Muslims living in non-Muslim lands, and the legal and theological implications involved. As well as examining the classical literature on Muslims in non-Muslim jurisdictions, he is also interested in following new modern/ist discourses on Muslims in minority contexts. While conducting his own research on themes connected to the Islamic Reformulations project, he will be working with Professor Robert Gleave to coordinate activities linked to the public agenda of the Project.
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In Jordan, the Debate on Media Freedom Continues
Fanack Published on August 15, 2016
Demonstrators protest against restrictions on media freedom in Jordan. Photo al-Jazeera.
The debate on the state of media freedom in Jordan rumbles on this year, with conflicting stories emerging from different camps. The government claims it imposes no restrictions on the press, whereas journalists insist they are the target of increasingly stringent media laws.
The Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ) says media freedom in Jordan is declining. In 2015, ten journalists were detained under the country's controversial Anti-Terrorism Law, the highest number in a decade, according to a CDFJ report titled Behind Bars. The journalists were charged with publishing information that may undermine national security, slander and character assassination.
The report, which was published on World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, showed that 88.4% of the 251 journalists surveyed believe media freedom in the kingdom had witnessed a setback compared to the previous year, with 32% of respondents rating it as 'low.'
In an interview with Fanack, CDFJ President Nidal Mansour called on the government to revise or scrap laws that restrict the work of journalists, such as the Anti-Terrorism Law and the Information Systems Crime Law introduced in 2015.
Article 11 of the Information Systems Crime Law gives judges and public prosecutors the power to imprison for a minimum of four months 'anyone who intentionally and without authorization or in violation or excess of an authorization accesses a website or information system in any manner with the purpose of viewing data or information that is not available to the public and which touches upon national security, foreign relations of the kingdom, general security or national economy'.
In its 2016 Freedom of the Press report, Freedom House, a US-based political freedom and human rights advocacy group, described Jordan as 'not free' when it comes to media freedom. Jordan was ranked 145 out of 199 countries, the same position as the previous year. On a scale of 0 to 100 (0 being the most free and 100 being the least free), Jordan scored 66.
Khetam Malkawi, a journalist at The Jordan Times, blamed media-related laws for the decline in media freedom in the country.
"Journalists are afraid to write about issues that may anger the authorities," she told Fanack, adding that even looking for details on certain issues related to national security can be enough to slap journalists with a gag order.
Authorities recently issued two gag orders preventing the press from writing about or covering the deaths of five intelligence officers and the terror attack on a military forward post near the Syrian border in June.
In the 2016 World Press Freedom Index, released by Reporters Without Borders in April, Jordan ranked 135, up from 143 in 2015. Despite this improvement, the report criticized government control of the media, particularly news websites.
The report said that dozens of websites have been blocked in Jordan since 2013, on the pretext that they are unlicensed. It also criticized the government for prosecuting journalists under the Anti-Terrorism Law.
But Minister of Media Affairs Mohammad Momani said that media freedom in the kingdom is better and continues to improve, adding that the government considers media outlets as an important fourth estate.
He also said that the government will continue to review legislation and is open to amending legislation that may restrict media freedom, including the cybercrime and anti-terrorism laws.
Abdel Wahab Zgheilat, former editor-in-chief of Al Rai daily, urged authorities to support the work of professional media and to remove restrictions that may hinder their work.
"It is hard to control media now because the world has become an open digital space," he noted.
Jordan can do better when it comes to media freedom, said Zgheilat, who is currently head of the freedoms committee at the Arab Journalists Union, adding that the recent decline in media freedom is harming Jordan's image.
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For the Professional Maker: Supercapacitors Demystified, Part 1
August 28, 2019 Jeremy S. Cook
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Consider the capacitors that you may use in a system to filter out unwanted noise or store a small amount of charge for later use. These devices, in their simplest state, consist of a pair of separated parallel plates that hold positive and negative charges, though the reality tends to be a bit more intricate. These components are generally rated in farads, which is the capacitance that stores a one-coulomb charge (note that 1 ampere is 1 coulomb/second) with a potential difference between the positive and negative sides of one volt. Capacitors are also rated by breakdown voltage, which can vary between tens and hundreds of volts or more as needed. You'll generally see ratings in microfarads (μF), or millionths of a farad, or even picofarads (pF), trillionths of a farad.
If you're experienced with electronics, you hopefully have a healthy fear of these components, as they can hold a charge for some time—even when power is turned off—and can give you a jolt or worse when improperly handled. So then, supercapacitors, which can be commonly found in the multiple-farad range, would appear to be extremely dangerous, as this is orders of magnitude higher than the normal capacitors that you're used to seeing. Weirdly though, they can still be physically quite small, often resembling the generally benign coin-cell batteries that you might power small electronics or even an LED light with. Perhaps they're not as fearsome as you might initially expect.
The truth here is that, yes, supercapacitors can store a lot more electrical energy than normal capacitors, but there are a few important differences, however, that might make them a little less fearsome for your next project. In fact, you could argue that they're not even really the same thing, but the term 'supercapacitor' probably sounded cool when it was first marketed by NEC in the 1970s.
First, while capacitors are simply separated charges, there is actually ionic activity going on in supercapacitors, allowing them to form what's known as a Helmholtz double layer of positive and negative charges. The Helmholtz layer is extremely thin, and since capacitance is inversely proportional to this separation value, this gives supercaps their extremely high charge ratings. Conversely, supercaps are very slow to charge and discharge when compared to traditional capacitors, making them inappropriate for filtering applications, though they are still much faster than batteries.
The second, and most likely most important difference between the two is that their potential ratings tend to be in the single-digits. So, while a 'real' capacitor could in some cases be charged to hundreds of volts—easily shocking unprotected skin—supercapacitors normally are charged to single-digit voltages. The danger can be, however, that if you hook the two ends of a supercapacitor up without any sort of resistor, it can discharge a lot of current in a short time, potentially leading to burns or even a fire. Of course, shorted batteries can also be dangerous, so it's a good rule of thumb not to apply power like this in general.
When thinking about supercaps, consider also a normal capacitor rated at 50V and 2200μF (.0022F). This would give a capacity (at 50V) to store .11 coulombs of charge. A supercapacitor rated at 1F and 5.5V can in turn store 5.5 coulombs of charge. That's a big difference—the supercapacitor can store 50 times the charge as the normal 'cap. However, if both capacitors could only be charged to 5.5V, the traditional capacitor could only charge 0.0121 coulombs, while the supercap could still store .11 coulombs. So, charge storage advantages for supercapacitors are exaggerated at low voltages.
Supercap LED: a few seconds of charge produces light for around 30 minutes! Image Credit: Jeremy S. Cook
In an upcoming post, I'm planning to further expound on supercapacitors, and about my recent experiment with using a supercap and LED as a sort of emergency light. While there are perhaps better ways to do the job, it's a good "hello world" with the technology, a class of device that I think is perhaps widely misunderstood among many.
Jeremy S. Cook is a freelance tech journalist and engineering consultant with over 10 years of factory automation experience. An avid maker and experimenter, you can follow him on Twitter, or see his electromechanical exploits on the Jeremy S. Cook YouTube Channel!
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Andhra Pradesh: TDP leader Uma Yadav stabbed to death in Guntur's Mangalagiri
Chief of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) became stabbed to lose life out of doors at his residence in Mangalagiri metropolis on Tuesday.
Three unidentified persons attacked TDP leader Uma Yadav with sharp objects when he left his residence around 7.30 on Tuesday evening, police stated. The TDP leader died immediately.
A case has been registered, and police are scrutinizing the CCTV photos for clues.
TDP has claimed that assaults on its leaders and supporters have seen a boom following the victory of YSR Congress inside the assembly elections.
TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh had contested from Mangalagiri constituency. Still, he lost to YSRCP's A Ramkrishan Reddy, appointed as chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) with the aid of chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy.
In view of the developing attacks on TDP employees, Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu had earlier stated his birthday party might no longer adopt a 'wait and watch' policy in the direction of YSR Congress authorities in Andhra Pradesh.
"We, first of all, desired to provide the brand new government of YS Jaganmohan Reddy six months. But we cannot stay silent now while our birthday celebration employees are being threatened and attacked ever for the reason that election outcome," Naidu stated.
Naidu had alleged that the YSRC became performing with the goal of (physically) attacking TDP people on the one hand and indulging in mudslinging at the leaders on the alternative.
He mentioned the alleged assaults on TDP employees in Anantapuramu, Prakasam, Guntur, and East Godavari districts. "We have to hit return at them if they're indulging in mudslinging in the call of corruption towards our leaders. At the same time, we ought to thwart their attacks on our employees," the TDP chief had stated.
A 28-year-old woman, who changed into reportedly an employee of TDP, killed herself after an alleged assault by a set belonging to the ruling YSRCP, The News Minute mentioned. The incident befell in Rudramambapuram village in Chinnaganjam Mandal of Prakasam district.
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Shekarau urges youths to shun violence during election
Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Kano Central Senatorial seat, has advised youths against violence during the upcoming election in the state.
He gave the advice while interacting with newsmen in Kano on Wednesday.
Shekarau, a former governor of Kano state, said the advice was necessary in view of the resurgence of political thuggery in the state.
According to him, the recent happenings in the metropolis is very unfortunate and should be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians who want the country's democracy to thrive.
The former Minister of Education, accused some politicians of instigating their supporters to cause trouble for selfish interest.
"I condemn in totality the political thuggery because what happened recently in Kano metropolis is most unfortunate," Shekarau said.
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He called on politicians to warn their followers against engaging in acts capable of breaching peace in the state.
"How can somebody who is looking for support and votes from electorate direct youths to attack his opponents. It is most unfortunate.
"We have been warning our followers not to participate or go and do anything that will lead to violence before, during and after the election,"he said.
He said if elected as Senator, he would join his colleagues at the National Assembly to see how they could address the challenges of primary, secondary and tertiary health institutions in the state.
On his relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senatorial candidate said his relationship with the President was very cordial.
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Erratic man on roof of temple threatens to jump
PUBLISHED: November 23, 2015 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 13, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
By Mercury Staff Writer
SAN JOSE — An erratically despondent man drew the attention of San Jose police this afternoon when he took to the roof of a city temple, threatened to jump and then began to toss items to the ground below, said police.
Around 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, authorities were called to the Lac Temple, 1647 East San Fernando Street, on a "welfare check" involving an out-of-control male.
"Officers arrived and made contact with the subject," according to a press release by department spokesman, Sgt. Enrique Garcia. "The subject refuses to come down, has threatened to jump off, and has been throwing ceramic roof tiles to the ground. The street has been blocked off on E. San Fernando St., between N. 33rd St. and N. 34th St."
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Q: Alternative Derivation of Recurrence Relation for Bessel Functions of the First Kind How can the recurrence relation
$J^{'}_n(x) = \frac{1}{2} [J_{n-1}(x) - J_{n+1}(x)]$
be derived directly from the following?
$J_n(x) = \frac{1}{\pi} \int_0^\pi \cos(n\theta - x \sin\theta) \text{d} \theta$

A: Hint: $J'_n(x)={1\over\pi}\int_0^{\pi}\sin(\theta)\sin(n\theta-x\sin\theta)d\theta$
Hint: use $\sin x\sin y ={1\over 2}(\cos(x-y)-\cos(x+y))$
$={1\over \pi}\int_0^{\pi}{1\over 2}(\cos(-\theta+n\theta-x\sin\theta)-\cos(\theta+n\theta-x\sin\theta))d\theta$

A: The easiest way to get the recurrence relation is to use the generating function for Bessel functions of the first kind:
$$\displaystyle \exp\left(\displaystyle z\displaystyle\frac{t-1}{2t}\right)=\displaystyle\sum\limits_{n=-\infty}^{\infty}t^nJ_n(z)$$
See, for example: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BesselFunctionoftheFirstKind.html
If you really want to derive the relation directly from an integral definition, however, it might be easier to use the contour integral for the Bessel function of the first kind:
$$J_n(z)=\frac{1}{2\pi i} \oint \exp\left(\displaystyle z\displaystyle\frac{t-1}{2t}\right) t^{-n-1} \text{d}t$$
The relationship between this definition and the generating function is much clearer (use Cauchy's integral formula). Namely, we can derive the generating function from it as follows:
First, use the following version of Cauchy's integral formula:
$$\displaystyle \frac{f^{(n)}(0)}{n!} = \frac{1}{2\pi i} \oint f(t) t^{-n-1}$$
If we define $f(t)=\exp\left(z \frac{t-1}{2t}\right)$, then it follows immediately that:
$$J_n(z) =\displaystyle \frac{f^{(n)}(0)}{n!}$$
and then the generating function for the Bessel functions turns out to just be the Laurent series of $\exp \left( z \frac{t-1}{2t} \right)$ around the origin.

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Nature Photography in your Backyard sounds easy but you still have to walk around and look for the right light, different angles and backgrounds to create an interesting image.
Yesterday afternoon I decided to remove the dust from my Sigma 150mm macro lens. I noticed that lately I was stuck to my 300mm L 4.0 lens for close-up photography so I made myself walk around with the Sigma lens and I looked for a nice insect or a nice flower.
This little Crab Spider (Thomisidae) was waiting for its next pray. I did not see the spider at first because it was white and sitting on a white flower.
For me 'the white on white' was interesting so I looked around for some nice soft background light. I turned and turned to get another flower in the upper part of the frame to make the composition complete.
The white little spider has two orange/red stripes and while I was looking for different angles I noticed an orange Lily nearby. In my mind this could be a nice repetition of the two colors and the white from the flower against the orange background would provide a nice color contrast. While waiting for the little spider to move into the right position on the flower I walked around and tried out different angles and positions.
Both images were taken with a Canon 5DMII -Sigma 150 Macro lens, natural light.
Look for an interesting subject (flowerbeds, insects, different details, water movement, etc.) and study it.
Look for a nice background color and/or elements.
Walk around your subject and try out different angles.


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Plant-based Food and Beverages- Growth, Trends, and Forecasts (2023 - 2028)
The Plant-based Food and Beverages Market is segmented by Product Type (Meat Substitutes, Dairy Alternatives Beverages, Non-dairy Ice Cream, Non-dairy Cheese, Non-dairy Yogurt, and Non-dairy Spreads), Distribution Channel (Hypermarket/Supermarket, Convenience Stores, Online Retail Stores, and Other Distribution Channels), and Geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, and Middle East and Africa). The report offers market sizes and values (in USD million) during the forecast period for the above segments.
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Plant-Based Food & Beverages Industry Overview
Fastest Growing Market: Asia-Pacific
CAGR: 9.28 %
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Analysis
The plant-based food and beverages market is projected to register a CAGR of 9.28% during the next five years.
Consumers are more aware of their health nowadays, and vegan culture is growing more popular among consumers due to the various health benefits associated with it, such as lowering cholesterol, stabilizing blood sugar, reducing inflammation, and supporting the immune system, thereby increasing the demand for plant-based food and beverages across the globe. Additionally, companies from all sectors are making significant investments to acquire and develop new plant-based products. This is primarily due to the increasing demand for plant-based products. For instance, in June 2021, Nestle launched plant-based pea milk in its UK stores. The product is made from protein-packed yellow peas.
Thus, the growing preference for plant-based diets and the major meat processors and manufacturers announcing their intentions to join the competition with their line of meat alternatives present a massive opportunity for plant-based food and beverage consumption. This trend is expected to keep growing in the forecast period.
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Industry Segments
Plant-based food and beverages are primarily products made from plants, vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes, and fruit sources, which provide nutrients including iron, magnesium, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin E, and dietary fiber.
The global plant-based food and beverage market is segmented by type, distribution channel, and geography. The market is segmented by type into plant-based dairy, meat substitutes, plant-based nutrition/snack bars, plant-based bakery products, and plant-based beverages. Plant-based dairy has been segmented further into yogurt, cheese, frozen desserts and ice cream, and other plant-based dairy products. Also, meat substitutes have been segmented further into tofu, tempeh, textured vegetable protein, and other meat substitutes.
Moreover, plant-based beverages are further segmented into packaged milk, packaged smoothies, coffee, tea, and other plant-based beverages. By distribution channel, the plant-based food and beverages market is segmented into on-trade and off-trade channels, while off-trade is further segmented into hypermarkets/supermarkets, convenience stores, online stores, and other distribution channels. By geography, the report provides an analysis of emerging and established economies across the world, comprising North America, Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East and Africa. For each segment, the market sizing and forecasts have been done on the basis of value (in USD million).
Plant-based Dairy
Frozen Desserts and Ice-Cream
Other Plant-based Dairy
Textured Vegetable Protein
Other Meat Substitutes
Plant-based Nutrition/Snack Bars
Plant-based Bakery Products
Packaged Milk
Packaged Smoothies
Other Plant-based Beverages
Other Food and Beverages
Off-Trade
Other Off-trade Distribution Channels
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Trends
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market according to our research experts:
Growing Popularity of Vegan Culture
The emergence of the plant-based food and beverage market clearly demonstrates a shift in customers' demands from animal-based products to plant-based products. This incremental shift toward a plant-based diet is primarily influenced by ecological concerns, health consciousness, ethical or religious beliefs, and awareness about environmental issues and animal rights.
Furthermore, consumer awareness of allergies, hormones, and unethical animal husbandry practices utilized in the dairy industry has led to an increase in the popularity of veganism. Therefore, the demand for plant-based food and beverages is constantly increasing, mainly due to consumers' perception that these products are healthier and safer than conventional foods. Along with this, dairy alternatives hold wide scope for product development, pulling significant attention from manufacturers to contribute to the market. As a result, food companies are increasingly investing in catering to the appeal that novel flavors and taste profiles provide. For instance, in November 2022, Kraft Heinz launched plant-based cheese slices called NotCheese, which is the first product launched by the joint venture of Kraft Heinz and Chilean food tech firm NotCo and is expected to be rolled out across the United States in 2023.
Asia-Pacific Holds the Largest Share
Plant-based food and beverages are becoming increasingly popular in Asia-Pacific countries such as China, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, and Australia. According to a recent study conducted by DuPont, over 75% of APAC consumers are willing to spend a similar price spent on meat for plant-based alternatives. Meanwhile, protein has been rated as an essential element by 83% of respondents behind consuming plant-based food and beverages.
Plant-based burgers, meats, and dairy-alternative beverages have been accepted well by Asians. Furthermore, consumers look forward to plant-based Asian cuisines and beverages with clean labels, as they value health and nutrition with convenience. Moreover, soy is currently the most widely consumed plant-based beverage in Asia, with China, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand leading the growth of dairy-alternative beverages, which include almond milk, oat milk, hemp milk, pea milk, and rice milk.
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Competitor Analysis
The market is highly competitive with the presence of small-scale and global companies such as Danone SA, The Hain Celestial Group Inc., Conagra Brands Inc., Nestle SA, Campbell Soup Company, and Blue Diamond Growers. These companies have been the front runners in terms of expansion of their production capacity and product launches to cater to the increasing demand for plant-based food and beverages around the world. Owing to the rapidly developing market, product innovation in terms of packaging, advertisement, and infusion of healthy ingredients is the major strategy adopted by companies.
Furthermore, companies such as Conagra Brands Inc., Unilever, and Danone SA, are also focusing on partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions to expand their market shares and product portfolios by leveraging on the expertise of the acquired companies.
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Top Players
Danone S.A
Tofutti Brands, Inc
Conagra Brands, Inc,
Beyond Meat, Inc.
Nestle SA
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Recent Developments
May 2022: Danone launched the new Dairy & Plants Blend baby formula to meet parents' demand for feeding options suitable for vegetarian, flexitarian, and plant-based diets, while still meeting their baby's specific nutritional requirements.
January 2022: A new biotech company, Gaia's Farming Co., launched its first two milk alternatives made with hemp and oats to cater to the growing vegan population.
May 2021: Conagra Brands expanded its Gardein meat alternatives in Canada with the introduction of a new Suprême Plant-Based Burger.
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Report - Table of Contents
4.3 Porter's Five Force Analysis
5.1 Type
5.1.1 Plant-based Dairy
5.1.1.1 Yogurt
5.1.1.2 Cheese
5.1.1.3 Frozen Desserts and Ice-Cream
5.1.1.4 Other Plant-based Dairy
5.1.2 Meat Substitutes
5.1.2.1 Tofu
5.1.2.2 Tempeh
5.1.2.3 Textured Vegetable Protein
5.1.2.4 Other Meat Substitutes
5.1.3 Plant-based Nutrition/Snack Bars
5.1.4 Plant-based Bakery Products
5.1.5 Plant-based Beverages
5.1.5.1 Packaged Milk
5.1.5.2 Packaged Smoothies
5.1.5.3 Coffee
5.1.5.4 Tea
5.1.5.5 Other Plant-based Beverages
5.1.6 Other Food and Beverages
5.2 Distribution Channel
5.2.1 On-Trade
5.2.2 Off-Trade
5.2.2.1 Supermarkets/Hypermarkets
5.2.2.2 Convenience Stores
5.2.2.3 Online Stores
5.2.2.4 Other Off-trade Distribution Channels
5.3.1.4 Rest of North America
5.3.2.6 Russia
5.3.5 Middle East and Africa
5.3.5.1 Saudi Arabia
5.3.5.3 Rest of Middle East and Africa
6.1 Most Adopted Strategies
6.2 Market Share Analysis
6.3.1 DANONE SA
6.3.2 Blue Diamond Growers
6.3.3 Campbell Soup Company
6.3.4 Nestle SA
6.3.5 Conagra Brands Inc.
6.3.6 Tofutti Brands Inc.
6.3.7 Beyond Meat Inc.
6.3.8 Vbites
6.3.9 The Hain Celestial Group Inc.
6.3.10 Eden Foods Inc.
**Subject to Availability
Plant-Based Food & Beverages Market Research FAQs
What is the study period of this market?
The Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market is studied from 2018 - 2028.
What is the growth rate of Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market?
The Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market is growing at a CAGR of 9.28% over the next 5 years.
Which region has highest growth rate in Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market?
Asia-Pacific is growing at the highest CAGR over 2018 - 2028.
Which region has largest share in Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market?
North America holds highest share in 2021.
Who are the key players in Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market?
Danone S.A , Tofutti Brands, Inc, Conagra Brands, Inc,, Beyond Meat, Inc., Nestle SA are the major companies operating in Plant-Based Food and Beverages Market.
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One will often see a large circle surrounded with the pattern consisting of 2 short–2 long straight stitches, but special to this design is a smaller circle divided by a cross inside the larger circle. How to work such a design?
As always, the embroiderer can choose to disregard some lines and cover the enlarged area with a filling pattern.
This method was chosen for the oval runner. The entire circle shape was filled with the Limet pattern "Röserich" (No. 452 [A1] Röserich Filling Patterns, pages 1-6).
Coton à broder in the following sizes was used: No. 20 for the Coral Knot stitches, No. 25 for the Satin stitches, No. 30 for the Chain stitches and the filling pattern.
On the rectangular runner, per the original design, I worked the cross into the inner circle. However, to make the cross I followed the fabric threads and took the line drawing only as an approximate guide.
The ring around the inner circle was filled with the openwork pattern "Diagonal Cross Filling – French Variation" (Openwork Pattern Samplers, pages 26-28).
Around the ring "2 short–2 long" was worked, with the stitches placed very close together. The short stitches were worked a little more than half the length of the long stitches.
Coton à broder in the following sizes was used: No. 16 for the Coral Knot stitches, No. 20 for the Satin stitches, No. 25 for the Chain stitches and the filling pattern.
The previous part of this series can be found here.
I just wanted to thank you again for your class 2 weeks ago. I learned so much and you were such a gracious teacher. I know Susan and Sally want to come back next year, but I will not be able to do that again. I was so welcomed at every shop I entered. Your neighbors were so welcoming, that it just made to visit more memorable. I am now working on the "Tulip" doily and hope to show my quilt club and my bible study group my results soon.
My Mom was thrilled with what I learned and all my experiences while in her home country. I think she was a bit sorry that she didn't join me.


The Trafalgar Rowing Centre facilities are available for hire; either the Clubhouse or gym separately, or as a complete package, subject to availability.
The Trafalgar Rowing Centre is a wonderful and affordable space in the heart of Greenwich. The licensed riverside venue, with ample outside space and a capacity of up to 80 people, makes it the ideal location for parties, receptions, functions and meetings. There is a working kitchen and BBQ for those who opt for less formal, buffet style catering, however the venue is also happy to allow external catering and beverages (although a corkage fee may apply).
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Our indoor rowing gym has 10 Concept2 rowing machines, as well as 2 gym bikes, floor mats and free weights. There is also a ceiling mounted projector and screen, which is perfect for viewing any rowing/training footage, and DVD, video or camcorder content. We have a stock of mats and blocks, so the space can also be rearranged to cater for exercise classes such as yoga or Pilates, for up to 12 people.
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The 2009 Festival of Banners "Oceans Alive" is coming soon to the Nanaimo Art Gallery. From mid February to mid April, painting is taking place at Port Place Mall beside the Sake House and the handpainted banners will brighten Nanaimo's streets from May till October, 2009, marking the 22nd anniversary of the Festival of Banners!
Currently during Banner Days a collection of small and large banners from previous years is on sale at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, 900 Fifth Street (building 330). As a fundraiser the gallery is devoting its entire lower gallery to the display and sale of past banners. The cost per banner is $25. Or you can become an art gallery member and the cost of the banners will be only $15. Banners make wonderful gifts, privacy screens, conversation pieces and add a splash of colour and interest to any yard or balcony.
This sale is offered from February 20 to March 28, 2009. Weekday gallery hours are 10 am to 5 pm, Saturdays noon to 4 pm. Go now to check out the wonderful selection. All banners purchased at this sale can be taken home immediately for summer enjoyment. For more information, call the Nanaimo Art Gallery at 740-6350.


The Arlington project site was formerly three separate properties that Clark assembled and successfully rezoned for multifamily residential use. A planned road that bisected the assemblage of land for the site was one of the major issues faced by the development team.
The street was intended to connect two city blocks and was not necessary to the proposed traffic plan for The Clarendon. The development team considered petitioning the county to remove the street from the Master Plan, but knew it would be a long, difficult fight. During a team meeting with Clark and the project's architect, one team member suggested that the building be constructed over the planned street. Everyone laughed at first, but then took a closer look at the suggestion.
In the end, this offhanded comment materialized into a beautiful archway over a new two-block "Festival Street". The archway is now the signature focal point of the building. The Clark team was also successful in gaining the approval of adjacent neighbors during the process, including winning the support of the Lyon Village neighborhood association.
This 292-unit luxury community is located directly across from the Clarendon Metro Station, just off Wilson Boulevard. At the south end of the site, a 151-unit, 12-story tower straddles 12th Street, featuring a three-story archway over the road. This tower intersects a 4-story, 142-unit apartment building designed to resemble a block of upscale townhomes. Three levels of underground parking services both buildings. The residential community now offers many upscale amenities for both work and play, including a courtyard pool with sundeck, a business center, a 24-hour fitness center, and concierge services. In addition, each apartment unit is pre-wired for high-speed internet access.


So tomorrow night I leave for my trip and seriously have no idea what to pack. I am going through one of those phases where nothing looks good and I have "nothing to wear". Whenever I say that my sister just looks at me like I am insane. I may have to do some last minute shopping tonight. I recently picked up this super cute tunic/dress from Chicwish. It has it listed as a dress, but I felt it was a little to short of my taste. I could have just worn shorts under but I opted for a tunic look. If you like this dress, which has adorable pineapples on it, that I would size up for sure. Just so the length will work. I seriously is such a comfy piece to have, but there are only a couple left, so pick your's up here!
Thats all for now, I have to finish up on homework and of course get to packing, which will probably end up happening hours before the flight. But it has to get done. Stick around to find out what I end up packing!


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Arsenij Arkadjevitj Golenisjtjev-Kutuzov (ryska: Арсений Аркадьевич Голенищев-Кутузов), född 7 juni (gamla stilen: 26 maj)  1848 i Tsarskoje Selo, död 10 februari (gamla stilen: 28 januari) 1913, i Sankt Petersburg, var en rysk greve och skald.

Golenisjtjev-Kutuzov blev 1895 sekreterare i kejsarinnan Maria Fjodorovnas kansli och 1900 hedersledamot av akademien i Sankt Petersburg. Han var en finkänslig, natursvärmande lyriker, bland vars dikter finns motiv från Krim, och författade även poetiska berättelser, däribland Gasjin (1875), med motiv från Turkestan, Stariki (Gubbarna, 1877), från det sista rysk-turkiska kriget, Skazka notji (Nattens saga, 1880) och Razsvjet (Gryningen, 1882) samt det dramatiska utkastet Svjatopolks död (1878). Hans samlade dikter utkom 1894 (ny upplaga 1904).

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Parkland shooting survivor says Harvard rescinded his admission over racial slurs he used two years ago
Posted 12:43 pm, June 18, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
A Parkland shooting survivor and pro-Second Amendment activist said Harvard University rescinded his acceptance as a result of racist remarks he made before the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
Kyle Kashuv disclosed the rescinding Monday in a Twitter thread, acknowledging that he and classmates, then 16, made "abhorrent racial slurs" in digital messages almost two years ago "in an effort to be as extreme and shocking as possible."
He wrote an apology for his remarks and posted a screenshot of what appears to be a June 3 letter from Harvard Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons, rescinding his admission.
"Harvard deciding that someone can't grow, especially after a life-altering event like the shooting, is deeply concerning. If any institution should understand growth, it's Harvard, which is looked to as the pinnacle of higher education despite its checkered past," Kashuv said on Twitter.
"Throughout its history, Harvard's faculty has included slave owners, segregationists, bigots and antisemites," he added. "If Harvard is suggesting that growth isn't possible and that our past defines our future, then Harvard is an inherently racist institution. But I don't believe that."
A Harvard spokeswoman told CNN Monday that the university does "not comment publicly on the admissions status of individual applicants."
Kashuv is a young conservative with a following
Kashuv has built a profile as the conservative alternative to other visible, outspoken members of the #NeverAgain movement — fellow Parkland students David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and Cameron Kasky. He's been outspoken about his support for gun ownership while his classmates have called for more laws to be implemented in the wake of the February 2018 shooting, in which 17 people died.
Kashuv went to the White House in March 2018 to meet with first lady Melania Trump and had a surprise meeting with President Donald Trump.
While his classmates walked out of school in April 2018 to demand action on gun reform, the teen hosted an livestream with conservative commentators who discussed their support of the Second Amendment. He has more than 300,000 followers on Twitter.
A few weeks ago, Kashuv said, he became aware "egregious and callous comments" he and other classmates "made privately years ago" were being made public.
"I immediately apologized," he said, saying he was "embarrassed" by the comments. He said the comments don't reflect who he is and "this past year has forced me to mature and grow."
"I see the world through different eyes and am embarrassed by the petty, flippant kid represented" in screenshots of the comments," he added.
Kashuv said the notoriety led to "speculative articles" and attacks by "former peers & political opponents" urging Harvard to rescind his admission.
Harvard said it became aware of his 'offensive statements'
In Kashuv's Twitter thread, he posted a May 24 letter from Harvard's Fitzsimmons saying the university had become aware "of media reports discussing offensive statements allegedly authored by you."
The letter added that "Harvard reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission under various conditions, including 'if you engage or have engaged in behavior that brings into question your honest, maturity, or moral character.'"
Kashuv said that in response to a request from the Harvard admissions committee he wrote back with a "full explanation, apology and requested documents" and also sent an email to the school's Office of Diversity Education & Support "to seek guidance on how to right this wrong and work with them once I was on campus."
But the Harvard admissions committee still voted to deny him admission, he said.
In an ironic twist, he said the school's Office of Diversity Education & Support responded to his apology the next day, saying it appreciated his "thoughtful reflections" and looked forward to connecting with him "upon your matriculation in the fall of 2020."
Kashuv said he then asked for a face-to-face meeting to make his case and "work towards any possible path of reconciliation," but Harvard declined his request.
"I believe that institutions and people can grow. I've said that repeatedly. In the end, this isn't about me. It's about whether we live in a society in which forgiveness is possible or mistakes brand you as irredeemable, as Harvard has decided for me," Kashuv said.
In his final Twitter post Monday morning, Kashuv said he's still trying to figure out his next steps.
"I had given up huge scholarships in order to go to Harvard, and the deadline for accepting other college offers has ended. I'm exploring all options at the moment."
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This page contains a short section from an interview Ray Carney gave to filmmaker Shelley Friedman. In the selection below, Ray Carney discusses the limitations of Hollywood filmmaking and the fallacy of thinking of art in financial terms. The complete interview covers many other topics. For more information about Ray Carney's writing on independent film, including information about obtaining three different interview packets in which he gives his views on film, criticism, teaching, the life of a writer, and the path of the artist, click here.
An Interview with Ray Carney about the Digital Revolution
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What does the future hold for indie filmmakers with the rise of desktop filmmaking? Do you see any interesting filmmakers out there working in digital video?
All of the young filmmakers I know are working in digital, since they can't afford film! Well, maybe not all, but most of them. I think Andrew Bujalski is a hold-out. The obvious advantage of digital is that you can massively over-shoot. I just got off the phone with a friend who told me he had thirty hours of footage to work with to build his new movie out of. It would have been out of the question to buy and process that much 16mm film.
The downfall of most low-budget indie work is the acting. By necessity, young filmmakers usually have to use students, relatives, and other non-actors in their work. If they are limited to one or two takes because of the cost of film and processing, the results can be embarrassing. Massive over-shooting allows them to compensate. They can shoot until their actors are too tired to "act" or put down their actorly mannerisms, and start being real. My friend said he even shot some stuff like a documentarian, filming his actors when they weren't acting, when they didn't realize they were being filmed. Cassavetes did the same thing. It can make a real difference. As Renoir said, the whole scene is saved when the girl playing the servant thinks the shot is over and lets out a sigh.
When you don't have to worry about an eleven minute mag, you can do a scene over and over again. You can take chances. You can improvise. You can have fun, play around, experiment. Chaplin shot this way and it's always good for the work.
Having a smaller crew and more portable equipment can also make things less intimidating. The mood is different – not so scary and formal and unnatural. The camera and crew aren't as obtrusive. And, of course, the PC has revolutionized editing, to take away a little of the time pressure and cost from that part of the process as well.
Technology Does Nothing
The new Sony and JVC HDV cameras are amazing. (A mid-2005 postscript from Ray Carney: The Canon XL2 HDV Camera is the one I would now recommend. It has exceptional video quality, great audio input capability, a 24-fps mode for transfer to film--be sure any camera you buy to make a feature has this, comes with a 20X zoom standard, and can be used with a wide range of other Canon lenses, prime and non-prime. It sells for less than $5000 as of the date I am writing this.) Near 35mm quality in a $5000 camera. Commercial high-definition TV-station quality. And Avid has a new editing program that you can work on it with in post. So anyone can really make a feature film now. A high-quality feature film at used car prices as Rick Schmidt puts it.
A mid-2006 note from Ray Carney:
Good news! The technology keeps being improved. Here is the updated information from Canon and Sony. I print excerpts from the press releases:
Canon debuts two HD camcorders
Cannon today unveiled its XH A1 and XH G1 three-CCD HD camcorders, designed for broadcasters, cinematographers, an dproduction facilities. Building on the image quality of the XL H1 model, the XH A1 and XH G1 HD camcorders offer a Genuine Canon 20x HD zoom lens, Super Range Optical Image Stabilization, as well as 60i, 24F, and 30F frame rates. Both camcorders feature three 1/3-inch native 16:9 1440 x 1080 CCDs that capture images at 1080i resolution, and can utilize the 24 Frame rate to create the feel of movie film. Users can also send their cameras in to Canon's Factory Service Center for an optional 50i/60i upgrade to conform to PAL standards. The XH A1 model is slated for shipment in late October for an estimated price of $4,000, while the XH G1 model adds HD-SDI output with embedded audio and timecode; Genlock synchronization and Timecode In/Out is expected to ship in mid-November 2006 for $7,000.
Sony Handycam HDR-FX7 1080i 3X-16:9-CCD HDV 1080i is equipped with three-chip ClearVID CMOS Sensor technology to deliver exceptional high-def video and the ut ...most in creative control.For videographers on the move, the HDR-FX7 sports a compact body design, weighing in at about three pounds. It is approximately 40 percent smaller and 25 percent lighter than Sony's first prosumer HDV model. Like previous HDV models, the HDR-FX7 can record and playback both 1080i HDV and standard definition DV video on standard miniDV tapes. Recorded HDV video can be conveniently edited with a choice of available HDV, non-linear editing software. Its HDMI interface offers simple, one-cord connection to compatible display devices so you can just plug and play into instead of struggling with multiple cables. Price: $3500.
But, but, but… no matter how cheap filmmaking becomes, there won't ever be a glut of masterpieces. Technology does nothing by itself. Did composers write better music or music criticism suddenly improve when cheap recording and playback methods became available? Did film criticism suddenly improve because of the invention of the VCR and DVD? Did architectural design programs result in better buildings being built? If technology made people smarter and more sensitive, the second half of the twentieth century should have seen the greatest flowering of creativity in the history of art. Instead we know most music, painting, architecture, and film got worse.
Better, smaller, cheaper cameras don't make better films; better filmmakers do. The digital revolution will probably quadruple the number of feature films shot and edited in a given year, but most of them will still be garbage, just like most of them are now. Look at the first video revolution ten or fifteen years ago – when Beta SP and Hi-band 8 became cheap. What is its legacy? Porno flicks. There won't be any more artists born in a given year just because movies become cheaper to make. That particular form of insanity is in your DNA, and you either have it or you don't. Pen and paper are the ultimate low-budget technology, but how many great novels and plays and poems are written every year? I don't see a stream of Shakespeares being produced just because writing is inexpensive. Emotional clichés still lurk like land mines waiting to destroy you.
As a violinist friend used to say, it's a poor musician who blames his instrument. A real artist can use whatever is available. Picasso could have created masterpieces with a burnt stick and a piece of chalk. In fact he did. They're called charcoals. Cassavetes could have used a cheap, old-fashioned VHS camera and created scenes that were worth watching. In fact he did. In the last ten years of his life he filmed scenes that way at home just for the fun of doing it. Michael Almereyda made three amazing movies with a Pixel-cam, a sixty-nine dollar toy video camera for kids: Another Girl, Another Planet, The Rocking Horse Winner, and a documentary about the Sundance film festival.
It's a faulty analysis that locates the problem in the cost of the production. The harder nut to crack is distribution. How does a young, unknown filmmaker get a movie into a theater or onto mainstream TV – the internet doesn't count; the internet is a joke – no matter how it is made? The rub, of course, is that the more original the work, the harder it will be to sell it to the corporations that run those enterprises. It might not be "entertaining" enough. It might require you to think a little. It might be different. Or the worst sin of all in our culture of complaint: It might offend someone – another name for forcing them to think.
The life-or-death struggle every artist fights is not with technology but with our commercial culture. The businessmen, the accountants, the advertising guys always want to get their fingers in the pie – suggesting cuts, trying to speed up the pacing, pandering to some imaginary demographic – and if you let them convince you to make a single change, it's the death of personal expression. If anyone ever tells you to do something because someone else won't understand what you've done, you know they are talking nonsense. Generic truth – what "they" want, need, or feel – is not truth anymore. Truth can only be what you feel. The more personal your work, the more idiosyncratic and eccentric, the more truth there is in it. What's the Emerson quote? "Speak your most private, secret, personal thought, and you speak to all." When you try to speak for everyone, you speak for no one.
The distribution problem won't go away and I don't have a solution for it. If I did, I could go on TV and sell "how to get rich quick" kits. [Laughs] All I can tell you is that every week I get videos in the mail that are better than anything on HBO or PBS, accompanied with painful, personal letters describing how the filmmakers can't get them screened or distributed. The indie films that get lucky, the ones you hear about, are almost always picked up for the wrong reasons – not because of their intrinsic merit, but because they deal with some flash-in-the-pan topical theme, have sexual content, or appeal to a special-interest demographic – blacks or feminists or whomever. If you don't play to a special interest, forget it. When an edgy indie film about the Ku Klux Klan or middle school sex or high school violence gets picked up, it's not a vote for art; it's a business calculation of how many talk shows the distributor thinks the director can get onto because of the hot button issue. That's why most of the people who claim to want to help the indie movement are actually part of the problem.
I'll give you an example of how screwed up the support system for indie film is. I already mentioned Andrew Bujalski as an artist whose work I admire. Well let me tell you the story of how I first came across his work and what happened after that. I got a tape of his first film, Funny Ha Ha, in the mail a few years ago, along with a note saying that he couldn't get it screened anywhere. Nobody was interested. It's not that uncommon a story. I hear it all the time. Almost exactly the same thing happened with Caveh Zahedi's Little Stiff, which I got it in the mail with the same kind of note attached to it: "Please look at my movie. I can't get it screened anywhere. Nobody is interested in it. Can you help me?"
Well, I looked at Funny Ha Ha and thought it was wonderful. It's a study of emotional clumsiness and imaginative confusion among the young and aimless, but better than Harmony Korine, because it was not about Diane Arbus gargoyles but recognizable people. The characters were just as twitchy and odd as Harmony's, but less exaggerated, in other words: closer to life, truer than Harmony's. And to make it even more interesting, the main character is a young woman and Bujalski really understood and appreciated her point of view. That's almost unprecedented for a male filmmaker – and totally beyond Harmony's capability.
Anyway, just as I had done after I viewed Caveh's tape, I went into action to try to help Andrew out. I sent him a quote to use on his web site; I made a few phone calls; I sent a few letters and emails to theater and festival programmers. Now this is where the story gets interesting. Remember nobody but nobody wanted the film to start with, but a few weeks later the buzz has gotten going and everything has changed. Now everybody wants the movie. The funny thing is that many of these people are the exact same ones who turned down, or refused to look at, Bujalski's film six months earlier, before I wrote or called them and told them how great it was. And now they love it. Isn't that funny? Critics and programmers are such sheep. They just need to be told what to like. You just have to tell them, and then everything is OK. Isn't that sick? Anyway, back to the main story: Now that everyone has changed their minds about his movie, Bujalski calls me and tells me he suddenly has three offers to screen it in Boston and one in another city. But guess what? Each programmer wants him to turn down the others. Each one says he doesn't want the movie unless he can be the first to screen it. The argument is the usual one about the smallness of the audience for indie film and how hard it is to sell tickets and how this particular programmer needs exclusivity to cash in on any reviews that appear.
Do you see how sick that is? The programmers claim to want to help the indie, but the only person they really want to help is themselves. They act like the filmmaker owes them something for showing the movie he poured his blood into and they didn't put up a penny for. This goes on all the time – at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Cannes. They all want you to give them your movie first so they can get the glory and the reviews. And most indies end up agreeing to their terms. The theaters and festivals have the filmmakers, who are absolutely desperate for a screening, over a barrel and take advantage of it.
So what is a filmmaker to do?
Every indie has to resist this kind of squeeze play for the good of all of the others in the future. I told Bujalski to tell the bookers that none of them could have his movie unless they agreed to his terms, which would include playing it everywhere he wants to, whenever he wants to. If all of the independent filmmakers did that in a given year, the indie theater and festival bookers would have to cave in. What are they going to do? Not show any films that year? I'm sure he didn't dare take my advice.
Bujalski's situation also illustrates the futility of paying an entrance fee and sending a video as a cold submission to a film festival. It's like sending an unsolicited manuscript to a publisher. Almost no one gets published or screened that way. It's practically all done by word-of-mouth recommendation. Only chumps play by the rules and pay the fees. But of course the festivals will be the last ones to tell you this. Right up to Cannes and Sundance, they maintain the pious fiction that anybody can get in. It just ain't so. You have to be known to them or your film has to come with a powerful recommendation. Ask me sometime about the student Academy Awards screenings I've been on the jury for. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about how they are run.
This page contains a short section from an interview Ray Carney gave to filmmaker Shelley Friedman. In the selection above, Ray Carney discusses the limitations of Hollywood filmmaking and the fallacy of thinking of art in financial terms. The complete interview covers many other topics. For more information about Ray Carney's writing on independent film, including information about obtaining three different interview packets in which he gives his views on film, criticism, teaching, the life of a writer, and the path of the artist, click here.


Passed away peacefully at home in Corrimal on Monday 10th November 2014. Dearly beloved husband of Annie for 68 years. Loved father and father-in-law of Annemarie & Rod, Harry & Helen, Wilma, Frank & Robyn, Dot & John (dec) and Therese & John. Much loved Pop of his 13 Grandchildren and 26 Great Grandchildren. Sadly missed by his surviving brother and sisters.
Relatives and friends of Bill are invited to attend his Mass of Christian Burial to be offered at St Columbkille's Catholic Church Corrimal, on Saturday 15th November commencing at 11am. In lieu of flowers, donations are invited to St Vincent de Paul. A donation box will be provided at the church door.


Abstract Improved energy efficiency is among the key measures for CO2 emission abatement in the industry. Energy benchmark curves provide data measured at individual plants and they offer a basis to estimate the sectoral energy efficiency improvement potentials (IP) compared to a best practice technology (BPT) currently in operation worldwide. In this paper, we estimate the BPT energy use of 17 industry sectors based on such curves or energy indicators prepared at country-level. We compare BPT data with current energy use to estimate the IP. According to our analysis, BPT offers improvement potentials of 27 ± 8% worldwide. This is equivalent to 32.5 ± 9.6 EJ (exajoules) of final energy savings worldwide, of which three-quarters can be achieved in developing countries. Due to lack of benchmark curves and limited data availability for developing countries, our results include uncertainties. We used literature data at country-level and international energy statistics to fill data gaps and to develop energy indicators. Quality of these data should be improved and benchmark data needs to be collected for more sectors. By doing so, energy benchmarking could become a key tool to estimate energy saving potentials and energy indicators could serve as strong supplementary methodology.


Are you, your friends or family not big meat eaters? No worries, there's something for everyone at Burger Mondays. Below are 5 meatless items that you'll want to try next time you stop in.
This "secret menu" item, which can only be found on our mobile app is one meatless item that should be at the top of your bucket list. Chef Matt takes a house-made chickpea and herb fritter and tops it with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, yogurt sauce and hot sauce. It's a taste of the Middle East right here in Binghamton!
Salads can be good. Actually, salads can be great, especially when we're taking about the Burger Mondays Caesar Salad. The romaine lettuce is perfectly tossed with shaved Asiago cheese, toasted croutons and house-made creamy Caesar dressing. We personally like to kick this salad up a notch by adding an Ahi tuna burger to the top of it. Pure salad perfection.
Simple and delicious are two words that describe this burger. The sushi-grade Ahi Tuna is cooked rare and topped with Asian-style cabbage slaw and finished with wasabi aioli. This burger is light and savory with a slight kick from the wasabi.
This is probably our most popular meatless dish, and rightfully so. The flavor profile of the Animal Lover is off-the-charts. The pesto-marinated portabella mushroom is artfully topped with roasted red peppers, cucumber, tomato, house-made mozzarella cheese (yes, Chef Matt makes his own mozzarella cheese), balsamic reduction and house aioli. This burger is savory, sweet and delicious. Highly recommended for anyone abstaining from meat.
We're not kidding when we tell you this is the best fish fry you'll ever have. Every Friday during Lent, Chef Matt dishes out orders of his famous fish and chips. The wild caught cod is Guinness battered, perfectly fried, topped with house-made tartar sauce and drizzled with a champagne vinaigrette. This dish is fried perfection. You'll have to act fast though because there's only two Friday's left during Lent!
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Maturana H. R. and Poerksen B. (2004) The view of the systemicist: A conversation. Journal of Constructivist Psychology 17(44): 269–279. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/698
In this reflective dialogue, Humberto Maturana speaks about his understanding of living systems and its implications for psychotherapy. Dismissing the myth of "instructive interaction," Maturana argues that a simple causal conceptualization of therapeutic procedures producing precise and predictable effects in clients is incoherent with a theory of structure-determined systems. Instead, he contends that every therapeutic action is embedded in a network of relationships, whose dynamics must be appreciated by therapists in order for them to participate in the client's system and at the same time maintain the distance necessary to relate reflectively and in a noncontrolling fashion. Maturana contends that the profound and unbiased understanding that can follow from this stance fosters an awareness of the observer-dependent nature of "pathology," and provides grounds for a critique of larger cultural systems in shaping the distress or liberation of their members.
This dialog is an excerpt from the book: From Being to Doing. The Origins of the Biology of Cognition by Humberto R. Maturana and Bernhard Poerksen published by Carl-Auer Verlag (ISBN: 3-89670-448-6).
Poerksen B. (2003) At each and every moment, I can decide who I am Heinz von Foerster on the observer, dialogic life, and a constructivist philosophy of distinctions. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 10(3–4): 9–26.
Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002) is held to be the 'Socrates of cybernetics. ' Having studied physics in Vienna, he worked in various research laboratories in Germany and Austria, and after World War II also briefly as a journalist and as a consultant to a telephone company. At the same time, he wrote his first book, Memory. A quantum-mechanical investigation. (Publ. Vienna 1948) His theory of memory caught the attention of the founding figures of American cybernetics. They invited him, he immigrated to the USA in 1949. There, he was received into a circle of scientists that began to meet in the early fifties under the auspices of the Macy Foundation. He was made editor of the annual conference proceedings. The mathematician Norbert Wiener whose book Cybernetics had just been published, John von Neumann, the inventor of the computer, the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, the neuropsychiatrist Warren S. McCulloch, together with more than a dozen other intellectual enthusiasts, formed the group essentially contributing to the so-called Macy Conferences.
Poerksen B. (2004) Preface: The circular view of the world. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: vii–xiii. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/5692
Excerpt: The constructivist thinking game is being turned into a norm, a new creed – a new truth. To avoid the fossilisation and dogmatisation of thinking, all so-called constructivists must constantly make clear that there can be no final proof and no observer independent justification for their theses. Biology and brain research cannot, in any way, claim to be the trailblazers for the verification of constructivist assumptions; they can make them plausible, they can illustrate them, they can supply relevant indications, but they cannot prove their truth in an emphatic sense. Constructivism is itself only a construction (among many others); it cannot be tested for its truth but only for its utility, its viability. The main thing is, Ernst von Glasersfeld maintains in conversation, to develop effective procedures and assumptions, which will serve the purposes of particular observers. One must struggle to move forward, to explore whether one's theses and theories prove productive or whether the big unknown, ordinarily and quite roughly called reality, resists our interpretations.
Poerksen B. (2004) "We can never know what goes on in somebody else's head": Ernst von Glasersfeld on truth and viability, language and knowledge, and the premises of constructivist education. Cybernetics and Systems 35: 379–398. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4007
Ernst von Glasersfeld, *1917, studied mathematics in Zurich and Vienna, was a farmer in County Dublin during the War, and worked as a journalist in Italy from 1947. There he met the philosopher and cybernetician Silvio Ceccato who, in the beginning stages of the computer age, had gathered a team of researchers in order to carry out projects of computational linguistic analysis and automatic language translation. Ernst von Glasersfeld became a close collaborator of Ceccato's, translated for him, and developed projects of his own. In 1966, he moved to the USA where he was made a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Georgia in 1970. Three principal research interests have made him one of the well-known founders of constructivism. He systematically scoured the history of European philosophy for varieties of epistemological skepticism and set up an ancestral gallery reaching back to the insights of the ancient skeptics of the 4th century B. C. He replaced the classical realist concept of truth by the idea of viability: theories need not and do not correspond with what is real, he says, but they must be practicable and useful, they must be viable. Finally, he introduced the work of the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget, into the constructivist debate. Jean Piaget, in his book La construction du reel chez l'enfant, constructs a model of how knowledge is created and developed through the confirmation or disappointment of expectations (or, more precisely, of particular patterns of action, so-called schemes). A model of this kind has profound consequences for the conception of learning and teaching: it eliminates the reification of information and knowledge, the conception of knowledge as a substance that can be transferred from the teacher's head to the empty heads of students. The mechanical idea of teaching evaporates. We must face the ineluctable subjectivity of meanings and given cognitive patterns. From this perspective, the acquisition of knowledge no longer appears to be a passive reception of information but a creative activity. The upshot is that teaching someone something will only be successful if it is oriented toward the reality of that someone. Ernst von Glasersfeld is, at present, with the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts. There he works on models of teaching and learning that apply the theory of constructivism to school practice.
Poerksen B. (2008) Theory review the ideal and the myth of objectivity. Journalism Studies 9(2): 295–304. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/3853
How do journalistic realities arise? Do journalists simply record events, or are they inevitably involved participants? Is objectivity a useful ideal or a myth? This essay offers a compact introduction to the discourse of constructivism, which is based on the assumption that absolute knowledge of truth is impossible, i.e. that we as human beings are inescapably biased. Following a general introduction to constructivist thinking, short interviews with principal thinkers of constructivism – Heinz von Foerster and Paul Watzlawick – will highlight the main ideas of the approach.
Poerksen B. (2011) Ethics of Enabling Ethics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 18(3–4): 143–149. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/3578
The work of Heinz von Foerster on ethics can be read from a double perspective: first as the attempt to create a transcendental ethics, secondly as the attempt to warn of the abysses of the merely well intentioned that does not see its self-constraining structure. This article addresses the fascinating question how an ethics (of the second order) can be constructed that makes for transparency and contains the proclamation of its own goals – emphasis on freedom of choice, recognition of responsibility, avoidance of force – in all its differentiations of argument, and yet refers back to the central figure of constructivist thought, the observer.
Poerksen B. (2011) Schlüsselwerke des Konstruktivismus. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden.
It is a central assumption of all constructivist approaches that access to an absolute truth is impossible. Starting from predecessors and relevant theories from the history of philosophy, this book, edited by Bernhard Poerksen, describes various theoretical tracks of constructivism, which derive from both natural sciences and the humanities. The range includes philosophy classics, language philosophy and sociology of knowledge as well as the theory of autopoiesis and recent brain research. In easily comprehensible articles written by leading experts, key works of constructivism and the potential of its application in many disciplines (such as media and literature science, pedagogy, psychology, organization management, and social work) are presented.
Roth G. & Poerksen B. (2004) We are constructs of ourselves: Gerhard Roth on the creation of reality in the brain, on a reality independent from human consciousness, and on the relationship between neurobiology and philosophy. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 109–132. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/5693
Excerpt: Roth – director at the Institute of Brain Research at the University of Bremen – calls cognitive neurobiology, with reference to the German terminological tradition, a geisteswissenschaft, "of a special kind." It investigates how perceptions and mental states take place. It attempts to tackle the key question of the relation between res extensa (matter) and res cogitans (mind; spirit; consciousness) that has remained virulent since Rene Descartes first formulated it in the 17th century. It describes how a human brain produces the image of an external world with all its riches of sounds, smells, colours and shapes. The link between this research programme as designed by Roth and the cognitive quest of constructivism is immediately apparent: the purpose of cognitive neurobiology is to discover the rules of reality construction as they operate in an organism's brain.
Schmidt S. J. & Poerksen B. (2004) We can never start from scratch: Siegfried J. Schmidt on individuals and society, on the reality of the media, and on the construcilvist conception of empirical knowledge. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 133–152.
Excerpt: In his books on constructivist themes, Schmidt always pursues a twofold objective: he tests the theory by application and simultaneously works on its elaboration. On the one hand, he uses constructivist assumptions as an instrument to investigate the world of advertising or the irritating power of art. On the other hand, he seeks to develop the constructivist framework as a whole. As the constructivist authors come from very different traditions and disciplines, and either concentrate on the individual or on the culture surrounding individuals as the decisive producers of reality, the points of view are manifold and cannot easily be reconciled. The integrative constructivism advocated by Siegfried J. Schmidt unites the thesis of the cognitive autonomy of the individual with the assumption of the socially fashioned human being: brain and society combine in a new kind of theoretical synthesis.
Stierlin H. & Poerksen B. (2004) The freedom to venture into the unknown: Helm Stierlin on guilt and responsibility in systemic and constructivist thought, on the dialectical nature of human relations, and on the ethos of the therapist. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 153–171.
Excerpt: Since the early 1980s, Helm Stierlin has been working on integrating the systemic view, which deals with the ties of individuals, with constructivism, which postulates the autonomy of individuals. His principal interest is not the highlighting of opposites but the integration of diversity; it is synthesis, the goal of any dialectical effort.


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