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Kelly twins learn a lot about Earth during space missions
The Kelly twins, Scott, left, and Mark talk with UB students during a question and answer session before their appearance last Thursday as part of UB's Distinguished Speakers Series.
By Emily Bingham
Published Thu, Sep 29, 2016 |Updated Wed, Mar 7, 2018
Scott Kelly, who has only been back on Earth for six months after his yearlong space expedition, has spent more than 500 days in space - his brother Mark has 55 days. Scott's year in space was part of NASA's Twin Study, a study designed to test the effects on the human body after spending a year in space. Mark, who remained back on Earth, was the control subject for the study that was done in preparation for sending humans to Mars, a task NASA wants to accomplish by 2035.
After spending so much time in space, you may think that the Kelly brothers have their heads in the clouds, but seeing Earth from a new perspective has grounded the duo in more ways than one.
"You always hear about news on Earth, and it's generally bad news, it just makes you think that we can do better and make a positive change," said Scott Thursday evening at the UB Center For The Arts before a talk the brothers were doing as a part of UB's 30th annual Distinguished Speaker Series.
Mark and Scott Kelly are among the top of their class, both have been to space four times, a feat only two other astronauts in their 44-member class have achieved. Both former Navy captains,the brothers have accomplished more in their 52 years than many people in their whole lives.
"Every time I would fly over the Mediterranean I would think about those refugees on those boats and the little kids dying. It looks very peaceful and it really isn't."
Mark was sitting on the right side of his brother behind a conference table. Both bald, Scott wore a gray box-plaid jacket with a slightly loosened tie, and Mark a plain white shirt.
"You don't see any political borders between countries [in space], so it makes it look like we're all in this together," added Mark.
Neither have regrets about spending so much time away- they contribute that to good timing. If anything, spending so much time in space has helped the pair be more empathetic back on Earth.
"(Space) definitely has made me better at dealing with difficult living conditions," Scott said.
"In the space station for a year you learned to live with very little, you don't have running water for instance, the food is all irradiated, not having gravity makes it difficult to live," said Scott, who in turn feels that he's able to better relate to all of the people who experience conditions like these. "When I see those commercials about how many people in Africa have to live without running water and have to walk 10 miles every day to get water and not having to get water and scooping the muddy water out of the river, I feel we need to do better at providing people with their basic necessities like clean water."
Neither Scott nor Mark are strangers to adversity of their own. Scott, who was quick to reaffirm what we all could have probably guessed, that living in space is hard, was faced was readjusting to life back on Earth.
"In space, you're basically told what to do, when to do it, how long to take doing it and what the procedure is. Once you're back, you don't have that anymore so you kinda feel directionless," Scott said about his transition back to living on Earth. But he went into it knowing that it would be difficult, which only made him want to do it more. "The reason I wanted to do it is because I knew it was going to be hard, which means that it's a challenge, which means once it was done I would feel much more fulfilled."
Fear wasn't something that made the brothers run away from their challenges- not even while they were orbiting the Earth, not even when a Russian satellite was on the same path heading straight toward them, and certainly not when Gabby Gifford, congresswoman and wife of Mark Kelly was shot in the head during a 2011 attack. Now, after a long, difficult recovery, Gabby and Mark speak about gun control laws through their political action committee, Americans for Responsible Solutions.
But not because he feels obligated to as a public figure, only because he wants to.
"I don't feel an obligation to promote things that I care about, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to do it," said Mark.
What do Scott and Mark not only feel obligated to speak about but a desire as well? Science and math education, and the space program that they say not only has done so much for them, but our nation.
Both brothers have retired from their careers as NASA astronauts and will not return to space as a part of the space program. They miss it, but they describe coming home as "being reborn on Earth."
So what now? Mark is working on gun violence issues with his wife and is a co-founder of an aerospace company, and Scott? Well, he's just trying to get his feet back on Earth. His plan for that is simple, write a book and work with the United Nations.
And regrets? They only have one: not joining their high school's golf team.
Emily Bingham is a sophomore at Mount St. Mary Academy.


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DSAI would become PM before this Christmas
Posted on April 23, 2008 by sanooaung
Malaysiakini (AFP), "I'll be PM in three years", says Anwar
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim today confidently predicted he would be prime minister within three years, sketching out the first rough timetable for his dramatic political comeback.
"I don't think we have established a definite clear time-frame when I will take over (as prime minister) but it certainly wouldn't reach three years … much earlier than that," the former deputy premier told AFP.
"(But) I am not in a rush," he added.
Anwar, heir-apparent to long-time former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad before being sacked and jailed a decade ago, has emerged as a serious threat to the ruling coalition after the opposition's strong showing in parliamentary polls.
He became free to run for office again last week, when a five-year ban stemming from his corruption conviction expired, and claims he has the support of enough defectors to topple the government.
The Barisan Nasional coalition has ruled Malaysia for more than half-a-century since the former colony gained independence from Britain but has been rocked by its unprecedented electoral setback in March.
The Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance claimed more than a third of parliamentary seats and five states in the polls, putting Mahathir's successor, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, under heavy pressure.
Anwar, 60, pledged more effective governance and to wipe out corruption and promote racial equality, addressing some of the public's major concerns.
"Our reform programme will certainly be more secure. We will push for a market economy, judicial independence and equality for all Malaysians," he said.
Ready to cross-over
Anwar also repeated his claim that lawmakers from Sabah and Sarawak states had indicated interest in defecting from the ruling coalition to the opposition. He spoke to AFP at Kuala Lumpur airport on his way to Sabah.
"Lawmakers in the two states in Borneo island have approached me about switching sides, but so far none has declared their intentions publicly," he said.
Analysts have backed Anwar's statement he has enough support to rule, saying turmoil in the ruling coalition could hasten an exodus of lawmakers and propel him to power.
Prime Minister Abdullah is facing growing demands to quit, but has defiantly claimed a mandate to rule and refused to discuss a succession plan.
Anwar had previously been expected to re-enter parliament quickly through a by-election in one of the seats held by his PKR party, but says he is in no hurry to act and will instead focus on building up the opposition.
Some 20,000 supporters attended Anwar's rally last week. The opposition leader was released in 2004 after spending six years in jail.
-AFP
UPDATE: Dear readers, I had changed the real heading in the various reports esp the AFP's THREE YEARS to _DSAI would become PM before this Christmas.
This morning I read the news in Star Online_
Thursday April 24, 2008, by By MUGUNTAN VANAR
Anwar: We have the numbers,
however, we're in no rush to replace Barisan
KOTA KINABALU: The Opposition coalition of Pakatan Rakyat is in a position to form the federal government and it will be done no later than Malaysia Day which falls on Sept 16, claimed Parti Keadilan Rakyat adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Repeating that they have the numbers and were in no rush to replace Barisan Nasional, the former deputy prime minister said yesterday that it would all be in the timing of the announcement.
"God willing, we will be there.
If not next month,
the following month,
then if not June
or July, (it will be) on Merdeka (Aug 31)
or Malaysia Day.
I think we should not go beyond that,"
he told reporters on arrival in Sabah.
As to when exactly the announcement will be made, Anwar said discussions with the Pakatan parties were needed because Umno and Barisan were known to be rough on those intending to move.
"They are using threats and intimidation. I am for example being monitored more closely now," said Anwar, adding that he would not be discussing with the Barisan MPs interested to move while he was in Sabah and Sarawak.
He said he has his way of discussing with Barisan MPs who have given their commitment to team up with Pakatan.
"My discussions could be done in Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong although it might sound like a joke," added Anwar, who thanked the Barisan MPs for their commitment to cross over. He said Pakatan was ready to take in political parties from Barisan if they subscribed to the Opposition coalition agenda for the country.
On Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman's claim that all state leaders were loyal to Barisan, Anwar said: "He (Musa) must know that he does not have all the members he claims to hold now. If he wants to know, I can meet him privately and tell him."
He said Sabah and Sarawak MPs were keeping the Barisan afloat but were saddened that they were not given due recognition by Umno, which was dictating terms from Kuala Lumpur.
Anwar said he was not making offers of any monetary kind or of personal positions for anyone crossing over as claimed by Barisan but was here to assure PKR's commitment to Sabahans in addressing issues ranging from higher royalty to problems of illegal immigrants.
Anwar later spoke to a gathering at a ceramah held at the Hongkod Koissan cultural hall here and is scheduled to fly to Sarawak today.
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Being vulnerable in relationships is hard. I have found making friends as an adult complicated. To expose yourself and all your STUFF when your life is already full of baggage, husband, children, and health issues, is just exhausting. What if these new people are not safe and I say too much and now they have something to hold against me and hurt me? What if I pour out my feelings and I just get blank stares? What if after investing time into this friendship and it goes nowhere? That's what being vulnerable is, isn't it? Sharing the hard stuff, letting people in, and hope they take good care of your heart.
That's what being vulnerable is, isn't it? Sharing the hard stuff, letting people in, and hope they take good care of your heart.
During and after our marriage trial, I protected myself and found it very hard to trust. Those friendships that were already established were an easy default. I knew I could trust them. There were friends, however, that did not weather our marriage storm too well, and abandoned ship when things got rough. I was devastated that those friends I thought would be there "no matter what", chose to end a friendship when I needed them most. So I coiled in, built a fortress and hid. Trusting people in general after that was difficult for me to navigate. I didn't trust my own discernment of good character after what I had been through in my marriage.
Slowly, as the months and years passed, I was open to new friendships. I still have a hard time with completely trusting. It's a process, and as I grow more confident with discerning who the safe people are, it gets easier. That wound of betrayal will always be lurking in the background tempting me to be afraid. God is bigger than my fears. I've learned that God's love is enough to cover the fears. There is no need to be afraid, but I still find myself holding back at times. Will I be hurt in the future? Probably. I'm learning to be okay with that.
I had an epiphany this summer in regards to my friendships. It was more me learning about myself and how closed up I still am, while at the same time, craving those authentic relationships. I want real relationships. I want my people. I learned that it's okay for friendships to run their course and fizzle out. I've learned that some friendships are timeless and no matter where you left off or how much time has passed, you can always pick up where you left off. I've learned that growth happens when you are vulnerable and honest and real and raw. When you are brave enough to expose the deepest parts of yourself, God will meet you there and give you the strength to handle however the other person responds.
When you are brave enough to expose the deepest parts of yourself, God will meet you there and give you the strength to handle however the other person responds.
Just this week, I see the fruit of friendships in the making and growing.
This. This is why I keep opening up and being brave with my friendships. It's not always easy or a smooth process, but it's worth it. This was all this week, all with different people. The joys are so much sweeter and struggles are so much lighter when shared with friends.
Oh friend! What would I say to you if I had one more day? I would say you are loved and missed and your legacy lives on. Your short, precious life was taken too soon, but your life has impact and touches so many lives. Selfishly, I would have liked to have you around as my friend for one more day, one more year, one more lifetime. You were spontaneous and lively and pulled out a little bit of my shy personality, with each giggle, funny story, and each game of hide and seek.
Do you remember when we were 3 and met in pre-school? I do. We would play together after school and as we grew older, like 6 or 7, you said you would marry me someday. You were so adamant about that. Your mom and I joke around that she's my honorary mother-in-law. She is truly an awesome lady and I wish you could know her now. Our friendship has endured and we have a special bond that is so unique, tethered together by our mutual love for you. We both dream about what you would be like today. We play the "what if" game and it makes us smile, because we like to focus on the good.
Can I just say, I'm sorry? I'm sorry that I didn't muster up enough courage to go to your funeral. I couldn't bear the thought of saying goodbye to you that way. It was too much for my child's heart to cope with such tragedy. Will you forgive me? We were only 9. I turned 10 just a few days after you died. There was no true celebrating my life when I was mourning yours. I was so conflicted about how to celebrate in the valley. Every year, my birthday is somewhat melancholy, but I choose to honor you by celebrating the good things. You would want me to laugh… and eat cake.
I also want to say thank you. Thank you for showing me that life can be lived without hesitations. Thank you for showing me that boys can be sweet and thoughtful and full of love. Thank you for your boldness. Your memory inspires me to be a better mom to my own children, having grace for when the boys are rowdy and patience for when they are emotional and when to take a deep breath when they are bouncing off the wall balls of energy. You taught me that life can be taken away without warning. You taught me that you don't always get to say goodbye in person. You taught me compassion. Thank you for the sweet memories of a friendship unbridled by the drama that can encompass young people.
The heartache of losing you, my friend, crushed me. You were the first person in my young life that I remember losing. God used it for good in my life. He did. All that brokenness was glued back together by His love. I turned to Him. I didn't know it at the time, but He was laying a foundation of faith when losing you made no sense. He taught me real life lessons about life and death and friendships and love. He prepared me for the many valleys life would throw at me in the coming years. He allowed me to know grief so I can rejoice in life. He taught me to choose joy.
He allowed me to know grief so I can rejoice in life. He taught me to choose joy.


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Nova Zembla – Unbekanntes Land ist ein niederländischer Historienfilm aus dem Jahre 2011. Es ist der erste in 3D-Technik gedrehte niederländische Spielfilm und war im Jahr seiner Entstehung mit 7 Millionen Euro Produktionskosten der bis dahin kostspieligste niederländische Film.

Handlung
Der Film beschreibt die dritte und letzte Reise der niederländischen Seefahrer Jacob van Heemskerk und Willem Barentsz in den Jahren 1596/97: Veranlasst durch die Seeblockade der Spanier sollte die Expedition eine neue Route nach Indien durch das Nordpolarmeer finden. Doch als das Schiff im Eis stecken bleibt, ist die Besatzung gezwungen, den arktischen Winter in einer notdürftig zusammengezimmerten Hütte auf der Insel Nova Zembla zu überleben.

Die Geschehnisse werden aus der Sicht eines Teilnehmers an der Expedition, Gerrit de Veer,  geschildert. Auf seinen Tagebüchern beruht die Filmhandlung in großen Teilen.

Kritik
Die Website Cineclub meint: Überraschend flott kommt diese filmische Umsetzung eines historischen Tagebuchs daher. Mit viel Tempo, gut aufgebauter Spannung, einer geschickten Vorblende und in weichem Gegenlicht gehaltenen Fantasiesequenzen gelingt es Reinout Oerlemanns, sein Publikum gute 100 Minuten lang zu fesseln. Ergänzt wird dieser positive Eindruck durch einige beeindruckende Landschaftsaufnahmen von einer Vogelinsel und die durchweg stimmungsvolle musikalische Begleitung von Melcher Meirmans, Merlijn Snitker und Chrisnanne Wiegel. Auch die Schauspieler, allen voran Robert de Hoog, wissen zu gefallen, auch wenn die Dialoge, die ihnen in den Mund gelegt wurden, nicht immer tiefgründig sind.

Synchronisation

Die Synchronisation wurde von der Metz-Neun Synchron Studio und Verlags GmbH in Offenbach durchgeführt.

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2011
Niederländischer Film
Historienfilm
Seefahrt im Film
3D-Film

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Spotlight On: Richard Warner, CAI, AARE, President, Warner Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc.
We recently spoke with Richard Warner, President of Warner Real Estate & Auction Company, Inc. With a solid background in the commercial sector, Richard's company focuses on real estate auction activity in the Northeast region. Dealing frequently with government institutions as well as farmland and developmental property, Richard's experience includes a wide spectrum of inventory.
PA: How would you describe your organization (specialties, longevity, experience, etc.)?
RW: Warner Real Estate & Auction Company is a full service real estate brokerage firm specializing in selling real estate at auction via live on-site, sealed bid, on-line or a combination of live and webcast. Our company was founded in 2006 and has successfully sold millions of dollars of real estate at auction throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We have sold properties for estates, private sellers, institutions, municipalities and the USDA-FSA. Some of the properties we've sold at auction include gas stations, beach and luxury homes, offices, investment properties, farms, development land, industrial and other specialty properties.
PA: You apparently have a strong background in commercial real estate. How do you think the auction industry in the commercial sector has been affected by the current economy?
RW: My background is in commercial real estate, specifically gas stations, truck stops and car washes. I grew up in the family business which was an AMOCO distributorship, worked for Truck Stops of America and the largest Texaco distributor in New Jersey. I learned the petroleum business from pumping gas to purchasing sites, renovating existing sites, managing locations and building car washes. The current economy has certainly affected commercial real estate values, and buyers are finding it difficult to finance purchases especially if there is an existing consistent cash flow. We're being very selective on the assignments for selling commercial real estate, especially for private sellers. Institutions and corporations are, in my opinion, better sellers in the current economy. The seller has to be ready to sell the property and more importantly, be able to sell the property.
PA: I see from your website that your company has extensive experience with the auctioning of farms and development land sites. Do you see these types of properties selling more frequently via auction than commercial properties? Than residential properties?
RW: Yes, farms have been some of our most successful auctions in the past few years. The demand for good farmland coupled with the softening of the prices has created great buying opportunities for farmers and land investors. I think there is an abundance of residential and commercial properties on the market currently, so the demand is nominal, whereas buying a farm is generally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The types of residential properties we're targeting for an auction are condos and luxury homes.
PA: What group have you been dealing with more – private owners, business owners or banks? Why?
RW: For the past few years, the majority of business and best auctions have been coming from institutional sellers, government entities and estates.
PA: How do you think the Northeast compares to other parts of the country in terms of sales at auction?
RW: The Northeast sales at auction are less prevalent. Pennsylvania is an auction state and real estate auctions are more popular there than in New Jersey.
PA: What are your thoughts/predictions for the auction business in 2012? What areas/types of properties do you think will do well? Which ones will decrease?
RW: I think 2012 is going to be a good year for selling real estate at auction. Institutional clients are slowly considering the benefits of selling at auction and will be more likely to dispose of their REO inventory. Farms will continue to be good properties to sell at auction along with income properties. In my opinion, most residential and commercial property sales will be about the same as in 2011. Building lots are a dime a dozen, so we tend to pass on those prospective sales unless they are part of a lender's portfolio and we can sell them absolute.
RW: Do your homework. Understand the property is being sold "as is, with all faults" and have your financing lined up before auction day. Most auction firms have strategic alliances with lender partners which can assist you in getting pre-approved for financing. Go to the auction prepared and have a limit on the most you can pay for the property. Review the Property Information Package and other pertinent information provided by the auction company, but do your own due diligence.
PA: What are your top 2 or 3 tips for sellers?
RW: Have in your mind, 'it's time to sell the property and move on'. Consider the carrying costs of keeping the property in your decision to sell at auction. Ask for a written proposal and line item budget from the auction firm(s) you are interviewing and review it thoroughly. Also, request testimonials/reference letters and sample marketing pieces from the firm(s) you are interviewing as well.


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Tag Archives: Crisis of Capital
Society for Socialist Studies
Posted in Call for Papers, Conferences, Employment and Unemployment, Marxism, Neoliberalism, News and Politics, Politics, Socialism, Sociology
Tagged Anti-racism, Capitalist Crisis, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Ecology, Feminism, History, Marxism, Matthew Brett, Neoliberalism, Political science, Politics, Radical Politics, Socialism, Socialist History, Socialist Studies, Socialist Theory, Society for Socialist Studies, Sociology
New Scholars Session
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Fredericton, Canada 31 May – 03 June 2011
The most recent crisis of capital poses an immense set of challenges. Neoliberalism is deepening, chronic hunger is widespread and ecological degradation continues apace. Opportunities have nevertheless emerged. Student movements are organizing across Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, while creative projects and struggles are proliferating across the world.
To make sense of all of this, the Society of Socialist Studies invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the New Scholars Session at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Submissions are welcome from those who have yet to complete their Masters degree. Perspectives from a wide array of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields are welcome, including history, political science and sociology, among others. Paper topics are encouraged from socialist, feminist, anti-racist and ecological points of view. Paper proposals could be in any of these areas, as well as on topics relating to the Society's theme, "Continental Shifts, Divisions, and Solidarities."
The theme marks an attempt to grapple with global shifting and fragmentation of capital and power. Like other changes in the past, "Continental Shifts, Divisions, and Solidarities" is an attempt to challenge to the ways we understand the world(s) around us. This is a time to rethink established epistemologies, theories and underlying philosophies.
Please submit abstracts (maximum of 100 words) by January 31, 2011 to: Matthew Brett, New Scholars chair, brett.matthew@yahoo.ca
Contact Matthew for more information, or visit http://www.socialiststudies.ca
The Politics of Labour and Development
Posted in Academic Stuff, Call for Papers, Conferences, Economic History, Economics, Employment and Unemployment, Globalisation, Politics, Trade unions, Work
Tagged Call for Papers, Capitalist Crisis, Capitalist Logic, Conferences, Cooperatives, Credit Unions, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Development, Economic Crisis, Economic Nationalism, Education, Gender Oppression, Global Economic Crisis, Globalisation, Globalization, Green Politics, Health, Labor, Labor Process Theory, Labour, Labour process, Logic of Capital, Logic of Capitalism, Minimum Wage, Politics, Politics of Labour, Protest, Redistribution, Social Inequality, South African Strikes, State in Capitalist Society, Statee Power, Taxation, The Global Labour University, Trade Barriers, Unemployment, Workers Power, Working class
The Global Labour University is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2011 conference on "The Politics of Labour and Development" to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from September 28 to 30, 2011.
The global economic crisis has had a particularly hard-hitting impact on working people, their families and communities throughout the world. What is more, they also face an environmental crisis that is closely linked to the economic crisis. Together, these crises have intensified the dispossession of the commons (including both local resources and public goods such as health and education), the informalisation of labour, unemployment, national and global social inequality, and the "slummification" of cities. Declining biodiversity, climate change and pollution are evidence of the impact of the crisis on the planet itself. Environmental degradation threatens viable livelihoods and endangers public health. Meanwhile the market imperatives get defining power over daily life, business interests tighten their stranglehold on the state logic and power is transferred to supranational institutions with limited democratic accountability, simultaneously narrowing electoral choices, and increasingly restrictions on protest.
Labour, as a key social force of the excluded majority, has a crucial role to play in countering the destructive logics of capitalism. The politics of labour is about altering the balance of power away from capital and unelected bureaucracies toward labour and broader society. The politics of labour is also about overcoming the multiple relations of power and oppression, including the economic, political, gender, ethnic and cultural, that contributes to and reproduce the power of the few and the subordination of the many. This has the
following dimensions:
1) The workplace imperative: Labour's attempts to reverse the declining wage share and extract as much of the social surplus created through mobilisation for higher wages and better working conditions, as can be seen in the recent strike wave in South Africa and other parts of the world. This is especially important as rising inequality has devastating effects on society, as more and more people are pushed to margins of production and consumption patterns. For example, this includes issues of the distribution of productivity growth, minimum wages and basic income grants as well as policy issues of taxation and redistribution.
2) New forms of power or leverage: With rising unemployment and increasing numbers of workers pushed into precarious forms of work, traditional sources of power are eroded, but new forms of power are being explored, often by the most marginalized and sectors traditionally ignored by labour movements. Labour's links to other social forces is crucial here. This also raises questions about who constitutes the working class, with wider understandings of labour increasingly finding salience in innovative movements around the world. The development of transnational linkages and networks is also an important dimension to the development of new forms of power and leverage.
3) The policy imperative: Labour's attempts, often in alliance with other groups in civil society, to pressure governments to increase the social wage (public health, education, transport, housing, etc.), increase employment and change economic (and slowly environmental) policy accordingly. For example, what would a "green new deal" look like? We also encourage papers that look at the conversion of industrial production into alternative forms of production and consumption as well as papers looking at ecological issues.
What are the most effective ways to develop pro-working class policy? Corporatism seems to have spread, rather than declined, in the neo-liberal era: what is its balance sheet?
4) Political parties, alliances and trade union organizations, and political power: Labour's attempts to directly alter the balance of state power, either
a. through alliances with ruling political parties,
b. through the reorganization of trade union organizations and strategies,
c. through the development of alternative organizations and alliances with other movements in civil society, or
d. through building movements that refuse to participate in the state, but are willing to pressure it for reforms.
This raises questions about the role of labour—as a reforming force, as a legitimating function that hinders more radical challenges to state power, or as a central actor in building an alternative to the destructive logic of capitalist development. The nature of political alliances and forms of mobilizing are vital issues that are being experimented on in various regions of the world (e.g., many movements in Latin America, South Korean marginalized workers, etc.). It also raises questions about international approaches to global governance.
5) The economic imperative. Within the neoliberal framework, competitiveness becomes more aggressive and self-destructing through currency manipulation, quantitative easing, wage dumping, trade barriers, devaluation etc. Is there space for economic policy nationally and internationally that avoids the disadvantages of a competitive race to the bottom or a retreat in isolated economic nationalism?
6) Alternative forms of production, consumption and redistribution: This raises questions about what are alternative forms of production and consumption. For example, worker cooperatives, microcredit / microfinance projects (including its problems for informal sector workers), local agricultural production, and solidarity economy alternatives have emerged around the world.
We welcome submissions for papers on any of these themes. While we encourage submission of papers that broadly fit into the themes, we will also consider papers that do not fit directly into one of the themes as long as they address the broad focus of the conference. The GLU encourages policy orientated research and therefore welcomes submissions that not only analyses the problem, but also offer some policy initiatives and solutions for debate.
Please send a one page abstract (which includes your methodological approach) by January 30, 2011 to Pulane Ditlhake at Glu.SouthAfrica@wits.ac.za and Michelle Williams at michelle.williams@wits.ac.za
Civilization Crisis or Crisis of Capital?
Posted in Crisis, Economic History, Economics, Marxism, Marxist Analysis, Marxist Theory, Radical Economics
Tagged Barbarism, Capitalism, Capitalist Crisis, Cemarx, Civilization, Civilization Crisis, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Crisis Theory, Economic History, Economics, Globalisation, Globalisation and Crisis, Imperialism, Jairo Pinheiro, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Muniz Ferreira, Politics, Ricardo Moreno, Virginia Fontes
IV Seminar Cemarx – UNEB
Date – 09 to 12 November 2010
Venue – Auditorium Aduneb
Campus of the University of Bahia-UNEB, Brazil: http://www.uneb.br
Day 09:11:10
Opening conference – 14:30
The Marxist Reflection About the Current Impasses
Prof. Virginia Fontes (UFF / Fiocruz)
Table 01 – 14:00
State, Power and Social Conflicts
Milton Pinheiro (UNEB / PUC-SP)
Marcelo BUZETTO (MST / ENFF)
Jairo Pinheiro (UNESP)
Imperialism, Globalisation and Crisis
Sofia Manzano (USJT / UNICAMP)
Marcelo Fernandes (UFRRJ)
Muniz Ferreira (UFBA)
Civilization or Barbarism
Mauro Iasi (UFRJ / ICP)
Lúcio Flávio R. de Almeida (PUC-SP)
Osmar Moreira (UNEB)
Promotion: Cemarx / Uneb
Sponsor: Institute Caio Prado Jr. (ICP) and CMMG
Milton Pinheiro (Uneb)
Ricardo Moreno (Uneb)
Release of books and magazines:
Brasil e o capital-imperialismo
Virginia Fontes
Ed EPSJV / UFRJ Editora Fiocruz and
Outubro e as experiências socialistas do século XX
Milton Pinheiro (Org.)
Ed Quarteto
Revista Novos Temas (ICP)
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Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society Conference Programme
Posted in Communism, Conferences, Crisis, Critical and Radical Pedagogy, Critical Education, Critical Education Policy Studies, Economic History, Economics, Education, Education Privatisation, Employment and Unemployment, Globalisation, Higher Education, History, Marxism, Marxism and Education, Marxist Analysis, Marxist Theory, Neoliberalism, News and Politics, Politics, Privatisation, Socialism
Tagged Aer Lingus, Alpesh Maisuria, Andy Story, Capitalism, Capitalist Crisis, Capitalist Decline, Celtic Tiger, Communism, Conleth Hussey, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Critical Education Policy Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Critique, Dave Hill, David Harvey, Declining Capitalism, Dominic Haugh, Eamon Slater, Econnomics, Economic Crisis, Economic Histiry, Educaitonal Theory, Education Policy, Eoin Devereux, Financial Crisis, Gabriella Hanrahan, Globalisation, Globalization, Helena Sheehan, History, Irish Politics, Irish Society, Jill Wharton, Karl Marx, Kieran Allen, Killel Ticktin, Marx and the State, Marxism, Marxism and Education, Marxism and State Theory, Marxist Analysis, Marxist Educational Theory, Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society, Marxist Theory, Michael O'Flynn, Neoliberalism, Neoliberalism and Education, Odette Clarke, Political Economy, Politics, Privatisation, Privatization, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Kennedy, Social History, Socialism, Socialist Histiry, Socialist Revolution, Sociology, Terence McDonough, Terry Dunne, Tom Turner, Utopia, Utopian Studies
October 22nd – 23rd 2010
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS)
The Department of Sociology
The Department of History
The Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies
The Postgraduate Student Association Programme
Friday October 22nd, ROOM SR3006 (Schrodinger Building)
11:00: Conference Opening Address – Professor Helena Sheehan
11.30: Plenary – Dr. Kieran Allen (Deptartment of Sociology, UCD)
Aftershock: Ireland's Economic Crash and the Global Recession
The people of Ireland have suffered one of the worst declines in living standards of an industrialised country since the Second World War. Yet its elite are being hailed as pioneers of a revived neo-liberalism. When other governments were embarking on stimulus programmes in a half hearted return to Keynesianism, Ireland boldly adopted a strategy of wage cuts and public sector reduction. It boasted that it was able to do so without significant social upheaval. This example was used by other countries, who subsequently adopted a deficit reduction strategy after the last G20 meeting.
This paper argues that the Irish government's strategy has, in fact, been a failure and that the long term prospects for Irish capitalism are bleak. Ironically, its own example of a 'successful' austerity will help to reduce the very export markets that it pinned its hopes on. The bank bail outs were designed to buttress support for capturing a niche market in global financial services. This, however, is only a further recipe for leaving the country open to more financial turbulence. The much hailed knowledge economy will be undermined by lower levels of investment in education. In reality it is intimately tied to maintaining FDI from the pharmaceutical industry but this is by no me means guaranteed.
The paper finishes by suggesting that the current global crisis will be protracted. Capitalism has entered a major systemic crisis and, due to the concentration and centralisation of capital, re-structuring via a crash has become more difficult. In this situation serious imbalances between different economies are also likely to increase state tension. The only viable alternative strategy has become resistance.
Chair: Dr Eoin Devereux
12.40– 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.50: Session I
Chair: Dr. Tadhg O' hIfearnain
1. Dr. Andy Story (UCD): The Great Gas Giveaway – The Political Economy of Plunder
2. Dr. Tom Turner (UL): Are Capital & Labour interests reconcilable under Market Capitalism? An Empirical Test.
3. Professor Terence McDonough (NUI Galway): The Celtic Tiger and its Crisis: A Social Structure of Accumulation Analysis
14:50-15:00: Short Break
15.00 – 16.20: Session II
Chair: Dr. John Logan
1. Terry Dunne (MIC): Class and Collective Action in Pre-Famine Ireland.
2. Stephen Ryan (UL): Class Conflict in Drumsna.
3. John McAnulty (Socialist Democracy Ireland): The Hunger Strikes – A defeat for Republicanism, a defeat for the working-class.
16.30 – 17.50: Session III
Chair: Odette Clarke
1. Paul O' Brien (ILHS): Marxism, History, and Culture: 1930 -1945.
2. Dominic Haugh (NUI Galway): A Lost Opportunity – The potential for Socialist Revolution in Ireland 1917 – 1922 and the role of Marxism in the workers movement during this period.
3. D. R. O' Connor Lysaght (Socialist Democracy Ireland): The coming Revolution in Ireland.
Scholars Club
Saturday October 23rd
ROOM C1063 (Charles Parsons Theatre, Main Building)
10.00: Plenary – Professor Dave Hill (School of Arts & Education, Middlesex University)
Neoliberal/ Neoconservative Capitalist Globalisation, The Current Crisis, and Resisting the Capitalist Class War from Above in Ireland and other countries in Western Europe.
This paper puts forward a Marxist critique of neoliberal/ neoconservative capitalist globalization and its varying impacts. The paper develops from the series of books (Education and Neoliberalism, edited by Dave Hill) published by Routledge in 2009. I represent the analyses and findings of those books and develop them in the light of the 2008-2010 financial and legitimacy crises of neoliberal capitalism, and developing resistance to `the cuts' in, and assault on, workers' rights, pay and social wage/ benefits, across the capitalist world, and in Britain and Ireland.
The paper examines neoliberal impacts on equality, equal opportunities and access to schooling and education; impacts on democracy/democratic control of schools and education; impacts on critical thinking, and analytical skills among students and teachers/ lecturers; and impacts on the rights/pay and condition of education workers- in particular those in private sector schools and universities in spaces vacated by state provision.
I contest the legitimacy of neoliberalising government policy and its subordination to and participation in the neoliberal project of global capital, a project encompassing what David Harvey (2005) calls "the class war from above" (see also Dumenil and Levy, 2004), using what Naomi Klein (2007) has described as shock and awe' tactics to `sell' —the diversion and appropriation of welfare funding and wages into the pockets of a small minority of the super-rich, `the masters of the universe', the capitalist class.
The current crisis of capital accumulation, as predicted by Marx and Engels [1847], and as amplified now in the current (2008-2010) crisis of Capital- is having amplified impacts across the capitalist world, for example in England and Wales, in France, in Portugal, in Greece- and , very notably, in Ireland. These encompass reductions in public expenditure (the social wage, including public/ state educational provision) as well as reductions in the actual wage of workers. These are capitalist responses to `paying for the bankers' crisis. The current crisis has led and, it is argued, will lead to the intensification of the extraction of surplus value, the progressing global immiseration of workers, and the intensification of control of populations by ideological and repressive state apparatuses (Althusser, 1971; Greaves, Hill and Maisuria, 2007).
The paper concludes by examining forms and organisation of resistance to the `class war from above', including past and current models and actions, and discussing the united front and popular front strategies, parliamentarism and direct action (Socialist Worker, 2010; Taaffe and Mulhearn, 2010; The Socialist, 2010; Trotsky, 1922).
Chair: Professor Helena Sheehan
11.10 – 11.30: Tea / Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.50: Session IV
Chair: Gabriella Hanrahan
1. Jean Bridgeman (NUI Maynooth): A matter of trust – "The politics of working-class self education".
2. Kieran McNulty (People Before Profit): How does the Social Model of Disability challenge the notion of charity?
3. Dr. Eamonn Slater (NUI Maynooth): Marx on Economic Distress and the State's inability to alleviate that distress (among the wine growers of the Moselle region of the 1840s).
LUNCH: 12.50 -13.40
13.40 – 14.50: Plenary – Clare Daly (Socialist Party)
Privatisation – A disaster for workers & the economy?
As the government gears up to sell off the state's economic jewels, a barrage of propaganda will be unleashed to say that these assets are a drain on the economy, a luxury we can't afford, a handy way of generating funds, and are crucial to improving our economic competitiveness. Meanwhile they bring into public ownership, the debts and liabilities of irresponsible banks. The legacy of Eircom and Aer Lingus has valuable lessons in the battle ahead against privatisation in order to defend public services, jobs and conditions.
Chair: Dr. Carmen Kuhling
14:50-15:10: Tea / Coffee Break
15.10 – 16.30: Session V
Chair: Dr. Joachim Fischer
1. Jill Wharton (Rice University USA): Seamus Heaney – Poetics of the Postcolonial?
2. Dr. Sinead Kennedy (NUI Maynooth): From Repudiation to Reconciliation – Marxism and Irish Modernism.
3. Professor Conleth Hussey (UL): Suppression of the Chromatic Rebellion – Mathematics in the Service of Universal Human Emancipation
16.50 – 18.00: Plenary – Professor Hillel Ticktin (Critique)
Global Crisis and Dependent economies, like Ireland, in the Context of a Declining Capitalism
This article argues that the logic of the present depression is one of disintegration. The logic is clear even if dismal. During a crisis the poles of the contradiction pull apart- use-value from exchange value, sale from purchase, department one from department two, and one sector from another. Unless there is a resolution to the crisis, for which none can be foreseen the logic is one of disintegration. The parts of the economy and society will continue to pull apart and be reflected and refracted in national and geographic disintegration. Nationalism, as opposed to a struggle against a national oppressor, in this context plays a reactionary role.
The only way out, for the whole population, is for the workers to become not just a class but the universal class, both socially and geographically.
Ireland is not an emerging country but it is a small country dependent on Anglo-American capital and Euro subsidies, which shares its subordinate role with those of the former colonies. It is now obvious that we are in a depression. The dynamics of capitalism are given by its dominant imperial power, its financial capitalist hegemon, the United States, and it is clearly in decline itself. Decline of capitalism and crisis are closely intertwined even at a superficial level. In a global context there is only one finance capitalist power, with Britain as a junior partner. The remainder of developed capitalist countries are subordinate. Although there is an industrial division of labour, it is still controlled by a few countries, the United States and Germany in particular. Given de facto world overproduction of crucial items like cars and today even of computers, other relatively industrialised countries are forced to find particular subordinated and de-industrializing roles. The concept of inter-imperialist rivalry used by some who hearken back to the days before 1914 has little purchase on reality.
The present crisis presents itself as a huge agglomeration of surplus capital, unable to find profitable outlets, acceptable to capital itself. The essential barrier remains- the fear that reflation will strengthen the working class. On the one side there is an ever bigger surplus of capital which cannot be invested and on the other increasing levels of unemployment. Marx's famous statement about the greater the growth of capital, the greater the growth of surplus labour has now been extended to a global level.
Capital, itself, has no solution other than cutting the public sector, which can only intensify the downturn. The idea that emerging markets, so called, will pull the world out of the downturn is a chimera. Finance capital and its political offspring, neo-liberalism no longer have the same force. If economic forces cannot hold the system together the ruling class will use more authoritarian methods.
Chair: Dr Micheál O' Flynn
Conference Link: http://limerickmarxistreadinggroup.webs.com
Andrew Kliman on the Causes and Implications of the Capitalist Crisis
June 9, 2010 – 8:30 pm
Posted in Books, Crisis, Economic History, Economics, History, Marxism, Marxist Analysis, Marxist Theory, Marxist-Humanism, Meetings, Neoliberalism, News and Politics, Philosophy, Politics, Socialism
Tagged Andrew Kliman, C.L.R James, Capital, Capital accumulation, Capitalist Crisis, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Economic Crisis, Economic Theory, Economics, Eurozone, Greek Crisis, Heterdox Economics, Karl Marx, Keynesianism, London Forum, Marx's Capital, Marxist-Humanist Initiative, Political Economy, Politics, Radical Economics, Raya Dunayevskaya, State Capitalism, State Debt Crisis, Statism, The Commune, The Hobgoblin, Time
Andrew Kiliman
ANDREW KLIMAN ON CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE CAPITALIST CRISIS
July 8th London Forum
Andrew Kliman speaks on the Capitalist Crisis
Andrew Kliman, author of 'Reclaiming Marx's Capital', will be giving a talk in London on Wednesday 8th on 'causes and implications of the capitalist crisis'. The meeting takes place from 8pm at the Lucas Arms, Grays Inn Road, near King's Cross.
See: http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/july-8th-london-forum-kliman-speaks-on-the-capitalist-crisis/
Kliman, a member of the USA's Marxist-Humanist Initiative, has argued that we have to see the current crisis as part of a wider structural crisis of capital, and moreover has argued that statist and Keynesian solutions to the crisis are a dead end for the working class. See our October interview with him here.
The meeting is being jointly hosted by The Commune and The Hobgoblin group.
Plenty of time for discussion
Email uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more information
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Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory
Posted in Call for Papers, Communism, Conferences, Crisis, Critical Theory, Economic History, Economics, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Neoliberalism, News and Politics, Politics, Privatisation, Radical Economics, Socialism
Tagged Call for Papers, Capitalism, Capitalist Crisis, Conferences, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory, Crisis Theory, Critical Marxist Theory, Critical Theory, Debt Crisis, Economic Crisis, Economics, Euro-Crisis, Financialization, Global Financial Crsis, Greek Crisis, Heterdox Political Economy, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Political Crisis, Political Economy, Politics, Radical Economics
Capitalist Crisis
A conference sponsored by Routledge
Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory is the first in a series of student-organized conferences on heterodox political economy, seeking to develop new ways of understanding capitalism and power.
The conference, to be held Oct. 29 to 31 at York, will have a dual theme: to investigate the global financial crisis and to use the crisis to probe alternative theoretical frameworks in political economy.
Recent events have given political economists plenty to talk about: the bursting of the real estate "bubble", the bailout of Wall Street, the collapse of global exports and more. Not only were most theorists unable to foresee the crisis and adequately explain its particularities and implications, they continue to employ concepts and categories that ha ve long-since been challenged.
The conference organizers believe there is great need for new ideas, concepts and analyses, and welcome both panels and individual papers. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to casp.york@gmail.com by June 30.
FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/281/
Recent additions and updates to the Bichler & Nitzan Archives: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/perl/latest
The Globalisation Lectures at SOAS
Posted in Marxism, Meetings, News and Politics
Tagged Alex Callinicos, Capitalism, Capitalist Crisis, Crisis, Crisis of Capital, Gilbert Achcar, Global Crisis, Globalisation, Globalization, Leo Panitch, Noam Chomsky
THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES, 2009-2010
Organised by the Department of Development Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Convenor: Professor Gilbert Achcar
Tuesday 27 October, 6:30pm – Logan Hall, Institute of Education
CRISES AND THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT
PROFESSOR NOAM CHOMSKY
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Co-sponsored by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (SOAS)
Information at http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event52739.html
Wednesday 25 November, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IN LIGHT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS – A DEBATE BETWEEN PROFESSOR ALEX CALLINICOS Director of the Centre for European Studies, King's College London, and PROFESSOR LEO PANITCH, Distinguished Research Professor, York University, Toronto
Wednesday 27 January, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
FOR A GREEN AND JUST WAY OUT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS
DR. SUSAN GEORGE
Board Chair of the Transnational Institute (tni.org)
Wednesday 3 March, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
HUMANITARIANISM AT THE RISK OF IMPERIALISM
DR. RONY BRAUMAN
Former President of 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner Doctors without Borders (MSF, Paris)
Professor of Development Studies & International Relations
University of London – School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Fax +44 (0)20 7898 4759
http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30529.php


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package org.sagebionetworks.web.client.widget.team.controller;

import com.google.gwt.event.dom.client.ClickHandler;
import com.google.gwt.event.dom.client.KeyCodes;
import com.google.gwt.event.dom.client.KeyDownEvent;
import com.google.gwt.event.dom.client.KeyDownHandler;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiBinder;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiField;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.IsWidget;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.SimplePanel;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.Button;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.CheckBox;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.Icon;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.Image;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.Modal;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.TextArea;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.TextBox;
import org.gwtbootstrap3.client.ui.html.Div;
import org.sagebionetworks.repo.model.Team;
import org.sagebionetworks.web.client.DisplayUtils;
import org.sagebionetworks.web.client.widget.LoadingSpinner;

public class TeamEditModalWidgetViewImpl
  implements IsWidget, TeamEditModalWidgetView {

  @UiField
  TextBox editNameField;

  @UiField
  TextArea editDescriptionField;

  @UiField
  CheckBox publicJoinCheckbox;

  @UiField
  CheckBox authenticatedUsersCanSendCheckbox;

  @UiField
  Button primaryButton;

  @UiField
  Button secondaryButton;

  @UiField
  Modal modal;

  @UiField
  SimplePanel synAlertPanel;

  @UiField
  SimplePanel uploadWidgetPanel;

  @UiField
  Icon defaultIcon;

  @UiField
  Image previewImage;

  @UiField
  LoadingSpinner teamImageLoading;

  @UiField
  Div iconContainer;

  @UiField
  Button removePicture;

  public interface Binder
    extends UiBinder<Widget, TeamEditModalWidgetViewImpl> {}

  Widget widget;
  Presenter presenter;
  Team team;

  @Inject
  public TeamEditModalWidgetViewImpl(Binder uiBinder) {
    this.widget = uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this);
    primaryButton.addClickHandler(event -> {
      presenter.onConfirm();
    });
    ClickHandler onCancel = event -> {
      modal.hide();
    };
    secondaryButton.addClickHandler(onCancel);
    KeyDownHandler saveInfo = event -> {
      if (event.getNativeEvent().getKeyCode() == KeyCodes.KEY_ENTER) {
        primaryButton.click();
      }
    };
    removePicture.addClickHandler(event -> {
      presenter.onRemovePicture();
    });
    editNameField.addKeyDownHandler(saveInfo);
    modal.addDomHandler(
      DisplayUtils.getESCKeyDownHandler(onCancel),
      KeyDownEvent.getType()
    );
  }

  @Override
  public void configure(Team team) {
    this.team = team;
    editNameField.setValue(team.getName());
    editDescriptionField.setValue(team.getDescription());
    publicJoinCheckbox.setValue(team.getCanPublicJoin());
  }

  @Override
  public void setPresenter(Presenter presenter) {
    this.presenter = presenter;
  }

  @Override
  public Widget asWidget() {
    return widget;
  }

  @Override
  public void setAlertWidget(Widget synAlert) {
    synAlertPanel.setWidget(synAlert);
  }

  @Override
  public void setUploadWidget(Widget uploader) {
    uploadWidgetPanel.setWidget(uploader);
  }

  @Override
  public void showLoading() {
    primaryButton.setText("Uploading");
    primaryButton.setEnabled(false);
    iconContainer.setVisible(false);
    teamImageLoading.setVisible(true);
    removePicture.setVisible(false);
  }

  @Override
  public void hideLoading() {
    primaryButton.setText("Save");
    primaryButton.setEnabled(true);
    iconContainer.setVisible(true);
    teamImageLoading.setVisible(false);
  }

  @Override
  public String getName() {
    return editNameField.getValue();
  }

  @Override
  public String getDescription() {
    return editDescriptionField.getValue();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean getPublicJoin() {
    return publicJoinCheckbox.getValue();
  }

  @Override
  public void show() {
    modal.show();
    DisplayUtils.focusOnChildInput(modal);
  }

  @Override
  public void hide() {
    modal.hide();
  }

  @Override
  public void clear() {
    editNameField.setValue("");
    editDescriptionField.setValue("");
    // defaults to the checkbox unchecked, as it's the most common case
    publicJoinCheckbox.setValue(false);
    setDefaultIconVisible();
  }

  @Override
  public void setImageURL(String url) {
    defaultIcon.setVisible(false);
    previewImage.setVisible(true);
    teamImageLoading.setVisible(false);
    previewImage.setUrl(url);
    removePicture.setVisible(true);
  }

  @Override
  public void setDefaultIconVisible() {
    defaultIcon.setVisible(true);
    previewImage.setVisible(false);
    teamImageLoading.setVisible(false);
    removePicture.setVisible(false);
  }

  @Override
  public void showInfo(String message) {
    DisplayUtils.showInfo(message);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean canAuthenticatedUsersSendMessageToTeam() {
    return authenticatedUsersCanSendCheckbox.getValue();
  }

  @Override
  public void setAuthenticatedUsersCanSendMessageToTeam(
    boolean canSendMessage
  ) {
    authenticatedUsersCanSendCheckbox.setValue(canSendMessage);
  }
}

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In many countries Information Technology (IT) Parks, which are also referred to as Techno Parks, Cyber Parks and Science Parks, have been established to facilitate the development of IT industries that foster new business development and technological innovation by leveraging synergies within a cluster environment. Given the potential complexity of these projects and scope of required investments, the growing interest of governments in developing and transition economies in designing and promoting such projects, and their needs for policy advice and financial support from the donor community, there is a pressing need for a synthesis of best practices and lessons learned both from success and failure.
Based on this framework, the study analyzes six IT Parks and presents the critical business success factors for setting up IT Parks.
The study also includes three in-depth country studies (Russia, Jordan, and Vietnam), which assesses and bechmarks each country based on the "critical business success factors" and provide recommendations on Policy Development actions (e.g. policy, regulation, infrastructure, and human capital) to be taken to address constraints.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector Week.
Organized by the Global Information and Communication Technologies (GICT) department of the World Bank, the event was part of the department's broader knowledge and learning program for all World Bank Group staff. The event engaged IFC and Bank staff, senior industry executives and sector experts in discussions on how to leverage ICT to scale up the development impact of our operations. It also presented some of the recent ICT analytical work and upcoming publications.
As part of this larger event, infoDev presented its report "International Good Practice for the Establishment of Sustainable IT Parks" in a Brown-bag lunch that brought together WB project managers and the private sector to discuss the report findings and implications for World Bank and IFC operations and clients.
(To read these PDF files, you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader).


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Magical moments for Mag Inc winners
It was not just the sites, food and shopping but the friendships forged among students that made their recent trip to Hong Kong a memorable one.
IT wasn't all play for the youngsters from SK Convent Green Lane. On the last day, they got together and scribbled down their experiences.
Excellent excursion
Grand prize winners of Mag Inc 2011 are in for a trip of a lifetime to one of the world's most vibrant cities.
22 Dec 2010 | 12:00 AM
Six blob their way to Hong Kong
SIX lucky fans of Nippon Paint's adorable Blobby enjoyed, a three-day, two-night all- expenses-paid trip for two to Hong Kong recently.
Neo's illicit affair gets front-page coverage
MAJOR Chinese broadsheets devoted more space to the illicit affair of Singapore's most successful film-maker Jack Neo (i>pic, left/i>) and a 22-year-old model.
01 Feb 2009 | 12:00 AM
A bunch of students got a taste of what makes this bustling city state tick, thanks to the The Star and Pizza Hut.
HK's Disney delights
AS you know, the theme for ourCampaign 4 Rewards (C4R) 2008 contest is #147;Going Green #150; Making a Positive Impact#148;.
Neglected and forgotten
Perched on a slope overlooking the sea in Batu Maung are more than 50 stone statues of Chinese deities and western icons left in a state of ruin and neglect.
22 Apr 2003 | 12:00 AM
HK turns to herbal medicine
B>HONG KONG:/BDesperately searching for a sure-fire cure for SARS, Hong Kong's hospitals will allow the use of traditional Chinese medicine for the first time since World War II, the city's health authority said yesterday.


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Chelsea eye sensational swap deal; AC Milan defender linked
Date published: Wednesday 29th March 2017 12:05 - Daniel Roberts
Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain could broker a remarkable swap deal this summer, with two key players switching clubs.
According to Italian news outlet TMW, the Blues are have reignited their interest in Javier Pastore after they failed to sign the attacking midfielder in January.
The Argentine is out of favour at the Ligue 1 side, making just eight starts in all competitions this season.
However, the report claims that PSG are keen on Chelsea forward Diego Costa and will exploit the Blues' interest in Pastore, offering a possible swap deal.
Since Antonio Conte joined Chelsea, Costa's future at the club has constantly been called into question, with the pair's relationship said to be strained.
The Spain international has recently revealed that he almost forced a move to Spanish side at the start of the season, which he claimed left Conte 'angry at him'.
The out-spoken forward has even spoken about the possibility of joining a French side, admitting that a move to Ligue 1 interests him.
"It's true that Marseille has a great project and is growing up," he said.
"I'm very happy with Chelsea, but in football everything can happen, and if we have to change, France is a place where I've never played, so why not?
"Everyone knows that [PSG] is a respected team in Europe. Monaco also has a great project and great players."
Chelsea's De Sciglio link
Elsewhere, Chelsea are also monitoring the situation around AC Milan's Mattia de Sciglio, who is said to be considering his future at the Serie A club.
A report in Calciomercato alleges that the defender is unhappy with life in Milan and is 'doubtful on his future at the San Siro'.
Antonio Conte is said to be a big admirer of the 24-year-old, who he regularly called up for his Italy side while he managing the national side.
However, the Blues' will face stiff competition from Juventus, who also keen on signing the full-back.
Juve boss Massimiliano Allegri also has close links to de Sciglio, giving the defender his first-team debut during his time as manager at Milan.
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As practitioners of consumption, Americans lead poorly edited lives.
Mr. Kelly edits and owns Cool Tools, a website that writes about neat stuff and makes small money off referral revenue from Amazon when people proceed to buy some of those things. He decided to edit the thousands of reviews that had accrued over the last 10 years into a self-published print catalog — also called "Cool Tools" — which he would then sell for $39.99.


OTTAWA, Feb. 5, 2014 /CNW/ – Today, the Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST) applaud federal Industry Minister, the Honourable James Moore, for his assertive action that limits cellular companies' ability to build communications towers in communities unchecked and now requires more open consultation and engagement with citizens before new cellular towers under 15m can be built.
The announcement means that this outdated legislative loophole will be closed. The regulated exemption of communications towers under 15m arose during World War ll as a means of allowing ham radio operators to assist in war efforts. This loophole has allowed particularly egregious commercial sitings of towers, including in residential back yards and other sites close to occupied residences and buildings, as well as in sensitive areas that are designed to be prohibited under municipal land use policies.
C4ST have long urged lawmakers to consider potential human health impacts of wireless radiation, advocating for increased transparency, education and awareness. C4ST welcomes today's news, believing it is a critical step in the right direction.
C4ST is a not-for-profit, volunteer-based coalition of parents, citizens and experts whose mission is to educate and inform Canadians and their policy makers about the dangers of the exposures to unsafe levels of radiation from technology and to work with all levels of government to create healthier communities for children and families from coast to coast.