LA's Power 106 FM, 93.5 KDAY FM and parent company, Meruelo Group are teaming up this holiday season with a spirit of giving by holding its annual "Bear Hugs Toy Drive" throughout December, seeking plush toy and cash donations to provide hundreds of teddy bears and Pillow Pets to pediatric patients, at Memorial Care Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach this holiday season.
In addition to plush toy donations for the children, celebrity guests, Power 106 and 93.5 KDAY's on-air talent and Frozen and Star Wars costumed characters will entertain the children and deliver the plush toys.
93.5 KDAY and Power 106 are owned by Meruelo Media, the largest minority-owned broadcaster in California.
MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach, part of OC-based health system MemorialCare, provides specialized care for children and young adults, with conditions ranging from common to complex – as well as maternity care for expectant mothers – all under one roof. Only five percent of all hospitals are children's hospitals, making them unique not only to children's health care needs in the community but across the region. Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach is one of only eight free-standing children's hospitals in California – treating more than 14,000 children each year – and has become a regional pediatric destination for more than 84,000 children, who need specialized care in the outpatient specialty and satellite centers.
On November 16, 2017, OneUnited Bank, the largest black-owned bank in America, teamed up with Charlemagne Tha God and The Breakfast Club, a progressive national black radio platform, on their Change4Change Radiothon.
In an effort to support the "troops in the field" of the social justice movement, The Radiothon succeeded in raising over $700,000 to benefit The Gathering for Justice, an organization whose mission is to promote social justice, eliminate racial inequalities and prevent child incarceration. Harry Belafonte founded The Gathering for Justice in 2005 after he witnessed a news report of a 5-year-old black girl being handcuffed and arrested in her classroom for "being unruly." The organization is the fiscal sponsor for Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Campaign and The National Women's March.
Celebrities including Diddy, Kevin Hart, Cardi B., Eminem, DJ Khaled, will.i.am, Ludacris, Fat Joe, Swiss Beatz, Remy Ma and Nick Cannon donated generously to the Radiothon. But the real heroes were the thousands of Breakfast Club listeners who donated $1, $5, $10, & $20.
Teri Williams, President & COO of OneUnited Bank, states that now is the best time to build personal and community wealth by using technology and financial literacy. We also need to use our collective economic power to defend ourselves and fight for social justice.
OneUnited Bank encourages the Black community and its allies to not only move their money or #BankBlack, but also move their minds to do more business with Black-owned businesses or #BuyBlack and #BuildBlack. The Change4Change partnership exemplifies OneUnited Bank's commitment to the social and economic justice movements. The Breakfast Club will take donations through December 1, 2017.
102.9 KBLX has been recognized for their contributions to black music and artists by being the first radio station inducted by BMA & AOA into the Bay Area Black Music Hall of Fame.
The award presentation will take place at the annual Bay Area Black Music Awards on Saturday, November 11, 2017, in Oakland, California.
KBLX Operations Manager/Program Director, Elroy Smith said, "I am humbled that KBLX is being recognized with this prestigious honor.
Tom Joyner announced that guests aboard the 2018 Tom Joyner Foundation Fantastic Voyage will be treated to an exclusive Evening With Anita Baker.
The eight-time Grammy Award winner will honor radio pioneer Tom Joyner by performing live aboard his annual benefit cruise sailing April 29 – May 6, 2018. Anita Baker's performance will be a highlight of the cruise as we also celebration Joyner's 25 years in syndication. As the most groundbreaking entertainment cruise, the charitable endeavor is known for featuring over 60 entertainers and comedy acts along with daily empowering seminars, theme nights, morning inspiration, concerts, shopping, beach parties, fitness, late-night after-parties, parades and a cavalcade of celebrities celebrating Tom Joyner'sefforts to assist students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Baker's decades-long career has included four platinum and two gold albums with signature R&B hits including "Caught Up in the Rapture", "Sweet Love" and "Giving You the Best That I Got". Her unique voice has the sultry vibe of a jazz singer and has been the cornerstone of a sound that has helped to shape R&B since her solo career began in the early 80s. Although the Detroit-bred contralto established a musical style that has noticeably influenced an entire generation of talents, Baker herself has remained unmoved by the ebb and flow of trends in the industry. It is that timelessness that has left fans clamoring for her presence on the music scene ever since the wife and mother took a hiatus from the spotlight to focus on family.
Catch Anita Baker on Twitter at @IAMANITABAKER.
Tom Joyner can be found on Facebook at @TomJoynerMorningShow; Twitter at @TJMShow; Details on the cruise can be found at BlackAmericaWeb.com or call 972.980.S-A-I-L.
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As the U.S. economy gains strength while other countries face roadblocks to growth, now is the time for America to engineer a massive raid on the brain power abroad and capture the world's scientists, tech-savvy talent, engineers, and mathematicians.
<> on September 19, 2013 in New York City.
No one should be happy about the slow-growing global economy. But Washington should unabashedly ask whether the fact that the United States is doing much better than most other countries gives America some tangible long-term opportunities to exploit while it has a comparative advantage. I can think of at least one: The country has the chance to recruit and retain an increasing share of global talent critical to the future, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (the so-called STEM arenas). Indeed, it could attract an even bigger share of foreign brain power into the United States than happened during and after World War II, when the United States brought in German and Russian scientists, such as Wernher von Braun, who helped the country immeasurably in developing its nuclear capability and its aeronautics and space programs.
It is a fitting time to take a look at the opportunity. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 3, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act (the "Hart-Cellar Act") into law. It changed U.S. immigration policy from being based on geographical quotas to being based on a scale of categories, including refugees from violence, family relationships to U.S. citizens, and possession of special skills deemed useful to America — all of which were capped by specific numbers that have changed both up and down with prevailing population pressures at home and abroad and political winds in Washington.
In these times of paralysis in Washington, with yet another government shutdown that had been looming merely kicked down the road, it is tempting to conclude that no new constructive legislation is possible. But I'm hoping that at least some very targeted measures just might get through if they fit three criteria. First, of course, the concept should clearly and unambiguously benefit the United States and should have the change of being seen as non-ideological. Second, the idea should be relevant right now. And third, a successful proposal has to be feasible from the standpoint of execution; it can't be too complex, and it can't rely on pie-in-the-sky resources that are so far out of reach that they're virtually unattainable.
Support for STEM students is widespread.
On June 27, 2013, moreover, the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive immigration law written by eight senators — Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) among them — that included increased quotas for graduate students, but the bill was never taken up by the House of Representatives. Circulating in Congress now are at least five bills that embrace more visas for foreign graduate students studying in the United States. One example is the Immigration Innovation Act of 2015 — sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and several of their colleagues — which removes all quantitative caps on foreign graduate students in the United States who earn advanced degrees in STEM fields.
What the report couldn't anticipate, however, is how fast that new technologies — including 3-D printing, robots that learn on the job, self-driving cars, and digestible sensors that communicate with your doctor — will, in the next decade, be hurtling us toward an ever intensive tech-driven future.
The timing for immigration reform for foreign students is propitious, too.
First of all, the supply of STEM expertise far outstrips the quotas that allow qualified STEM experts to put down roots in the United States. Every year, for example, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a federal agency, awards 65,000 visas to foreign nationals in STEM and a few other fields, as well as 20,000 visas to foreign students who have earned U.S. graduate degrees. If there are more applicants, a lottery is conducted based on a computer-generated random-selection process. In fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012, it took an average of 266 days to fill the entire quota. But in the fiscal years 2014, 2015, and 2016, it took an average of just six days; in fact, in 2014 the application filing period opened on April 1, but the window was shut on April 7 after 172,500 applications were filed.
Another reason the timing is right is that the current and projected state of the world economy gives the United States a great comparative advantage over other countries. While growth problems affect Europe, China, and most emerging markets, the American recovery continues apace. As Fareed Zakaria recently wrote in the Washington Post, "The United States is more dominant on the global economic landscape than at any point since the heyday of Bill Clinton's presidency — perhaps even more so.… Annual growth is almost twice that of Europe and four times that of Japan." This dichotomy has been at the heart of the dilemma facing the U.S. Federal Reserve, which would have raised interest rates now that the United States has fully emerged from recession, except for the fact that such action might have undermined weak economies abroad and created a global recession or even an international financial crisis.
While the U.S. recovery remains on an upward economic trajectory, with the job outlook improving, the fiscal deficit declining, the banking system strengthening, and no signs of inflation, there is every reason to believe that economic conditions abroad will remain soft for the next few years at least. Europe is nowhere near solving its political, economic, and social problems. Abenomics, the name of Japan's recovery efforts under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has been underwhelming and may not have even brought Japan out of deflation. China is, at best, in the midst of a long, difficult transition to a new economic structure, moving from decades of hypergrowth of, say, 10 percent, to maybe half that rate. Many big emerging markets, such as Brazil and Turkey, have massive structural problems. Global trade has been slowing dramatically, and low prices for oil and other commodities are likely to be with us for some time to come, undermining the prospects of many raw material exporters.
The significance of this disparity between U.S. economic momentum and the rest of the world's downward trajectory is that the opportunities for highly educated, entrepreneurial non-U.S. students in their home countries are likely to be constricted compared with what opportunities had been like over the last two decades, when globalization was lifting all boats. When I came to Yale University two decades ago as dean of the School of Management, for example, the theme of most of my discussions with foreign students — particularly those from China, India, Brazil, and other emerging-market nations — was their overwhelming desire to get what training they needed in the United States as quickly as possible and then return to take advantage of expanding job opportunities at home in technology-driven industries. But my conversations with many students today reveal that attitudes have changed. The heyday of globalization has passed for now, and the siren call of work possibilities that it spawned, either in fact or in perception, is no longer so loud. In China, especially, from where so many foreign students in the United States originate, the adverse environment goes beyond just fewer great jobs and extends to escalating government interference into freedom of expression, something that foreign students whom I have met in the United States have learned to prize.
New quotas are eminently doable.
When it comes to feasibility, the technical execution should not be complicated. The number of foreign student studying in the United States has been growing rapidly, it totaled 886,000 in the 2013-2014 school year, a 72 percent increase since 2000. All that is necessary is for Congress to agree to a modification of visa constraints for those among them who are STEM graduate students. We don't need to build the university system; indeed, American universities lead the world in quality, and unlike the United Kingdom or Australia, the United States has the ability to accommodate enormous numbers of students. We don't have to worry about social assimilation; the universities will take care of that. We don't need an appropriation; the system is already in place.
Of course, there are many details to work out. Should all foreign STEM students who have earned US graduate degrees be allowed in, or should the quota be substantially increased — perhaps 10 times to 200,000? (I favor removing the cap altogether.) To what degree should visas for graduate students be part of a program for all STEM-skilled immigration regardless of whether it originates in U.S. schools or involves immigrants who already have degrees and experience from their home countries — or to what degree should the university programs be separate? (I favor a distinct program for simplicity and the feasibility of getting Congress to move quickly and without crippling amendments.) Because American universities run the gamut of quality, should there be a national exam that foreign students must pass in their respective STEM field? (I'd look sympathetically on such a system.) How to monitor the program for inevitable abuse? (This is of course a challenging issue with every U.S. government program.) But none of these complications should be insurmountable.
The biggest problem of implementation is one we all know: a Congress that is paralyzed by partisan rivalry, as well as factional divisions within parties, over just about everything. In this environment, a new visa program for foreign graduate students would have to pass a number of hurdles, especially since everything to do with immigration is politically explosive. Some of the specific issues: Many Democrats don't want to split off the high-skill end of immigration from parts dealing with low-wage workers and undocumented workers, because they don't want to give away the possibilities for a package deal that would include a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers. But the comprehensive plan they yearn for could well be years away, and delay would erode today's American advantage. Many lawmakers on both ends of the political aisle fear that foreign scientists and technologists will displace American jobs. This argument is undercut by studies such as one from the Brookings Institution called "America's Advanced Industries" and one by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, both of which show the difficulty employers have to finding and retaining a highly qualified workforce with the requisite technical skills.
Bottom line: There is no end to the potential for innovation in industry, health, urban management, the environment, entertainment, space travel, national defense — you name it. America has the potential to lead in every one of these fields. The biggest constraint is human talent. There is no shortage of financial capital; Silicon Valley venture capital is plentiful, commercial banks are flush with cash, and corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars with little to do with it but repurchase shares. There is plenty of organizational capital too, for U.S. companies are exceptionally flexible and resilient. For all the social tensions in the country, for all the political gridlock, foreigners are still lining up to stay in America, if only they could. Under what public interest rationale should they be pushed away?
In fact, in addition to amending current immigration law, we should go even further than just expanding visa opportunities for the graduate students who are in the United States. Washington should organize a public-private consortium composed of men and women from government and academia. This group would have two purposes.
First, it would be dedicated to proactively finding and attracting the best talent in the world in places that might not be on the conventional path. We don't have to worry about students from France, China, India, and Israel finding their way to the United States. But what about targeting emerging-market nations such as Vietnam, Nigeria, or even Iran in order to identify the best and brightest and seeing whether we can get them to America's shores?
Second, this new organization should create a fund to subsidize foreign talent, a fund based entirely on merit. Money could be raised from U.S. corporations and big municipalities, all of which have so much to gain.
Other countries will probably howl.
To be sure, a full-court press to attract and retain foreign STEM graduate students will likely result in other governments alleging that the United States is taking unfair advantage of them at a time when they are economically vulnerable. Some foreign officials may say that in raiding talent abroad the United States would, in effect, be using its education system in an overly aggressive and even hostile way. The sentiment is understandable, and there is probably no answer that would quiet their criticism or allay their fears. I won't pretend we have great answers to these charges.
Still, a strong America is in the world's interest, especially since the openness of American society — including receptivity to foreign investment and open, transparent communications — makes it certain that discoveries and innovations that happen the United States are quickly transferred around the world. Also, the war for talent is the heart of modern global competition, and if an aggressive U.S. policy spurs others to up their game, so much the better. In the end, the U.S. advantage won't last forever, as sometime down the road the world economy will rebalance itself.
Meanwhile, America should seize the moment.
Editor's Note: Jeffrey E. Garten is chairman of Garten Rothkopf, a Washington, D.C.-based international consultancy. David Rothkopf, editor and CEO of Foreign Policy, is also a partner in that firm.


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People walk past a light sculpture titled Patria y Vida created by Cuban-American artists Ruben Millares and Antonia Wright, during Miami Art Week, Thursday,…
People walk past a light sculpture titled Patria y Vida created by Cuban-American artists Ruben Millares and Antonia Wright, during Miami Art Week, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. The sculpture is named for the anti-communism protests in Cuba. It is meant to celebrate people's right to protest, using the barricades as a symbol of global resistance. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
New smoking ban starts at Miami Beach parks and beaches
Starting New Year's Day, you can still wear bikinis on the beaches of Miami Beach, but forget about showing any butts — cigarette butts, that is.
A smoking ban is being implemented Sunday after the stroke of midnight at all Miami Beach municipal parks and public beaches. Under the new measure, a person can be fined $100 and spend up to 60 days in jail for a first-time violation.
Miami Beach City Commissioner Alex Fernandez said he sponsored the measure to keep the city's beaches pristine and protect sea turtles, seabirds and other wildlife. According to the Ocean Conservancy, cigarette butts are the most commonly recovered item during coastal cleanup efforts.
"This paradise is an important economic engine," Fernandez said in a statement. "Cigarette butts are not the butts our 18 million visitors want to see. This new law will help keep our paradise clean and beautiful."
Miami Beach is the top neighborhood for tourists visiting greater Miami. The greater metro area attracted 24.2 million visitors last year.
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Istanbul Technical University (, commonly referred to as ITU or The Technical University) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third-oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey. ITU is ranked 142nd worldwide (1st nationwide) in the field of "Engineering & Technology", and 303rd worldwide (2nd nationwide) in the field of "Natural Sciences" by the QS World University Rankings in 2022. The university has 99 undergraduate, 192 graduate programs, 14 faculties, labs with total 154,000 m2 area, and 12 research centers. The lecturer / student ratio is 1/25.

Acceptance to the university is competitive, and entrance to most of its departments require scoring among the top 1% of nearly 2 million applicants at the national university entrance examination known as "YKS" every year. Graduates of ITU have received many TUBITAK science and TUBA awards. Numerous graduates have also become members of the academy of sciences in the USA, UK and Russia. The university's basketball team, İTÜ BK, is in the Turkish Basketball Super League.

History

Ottoman Empire
Considered as the world's third institution of higher learning specifically dedicated to engineering education, Istanbul Technical University (ITU) has a long and distinguished history. ITU was founded in 1773 by Sultan Mustafa III, as an important institution in the Nizam-ı Cedid reforms, as the Imperial School of Naval Engineering (Mühendishâne-i Bahrî-i Hümâyun), in the Kasımpaşa quarter on the Golden Horn, originally dedicated to train ship builders and cartographers for the Ottoman Navy. In 1795 the Imperial School of Military Engineering () was established in the nearby Hasköy quarter on the Golden Horn, and the scope of the school was broadened to train technical military staff for the modernization of the Ottoman Army. In 1845 the engineering function of the school was further widened with the addition of a program devoted to the training of architects. The scope and name of the school were extended and changed again in 1883, and in 1909 the school became a public engineering school which was aimed at training civil engineers who could provide the infrastructure for the rapidly developing country.

Modern Turkey
By 1928 the institution had gained formal recognition as a university of engineering which provided education in both engineering and architecture. In 1944 the name of the institution was changed to Istanbul Technical University and in 1946 the institution became an autonomous university with architecture, civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering faculties.

With its long history of 249 years, its modern teaching environment, and well-qualified teaching staff, Istanbul Technical University today is the personification of engineering and architectural education in Turkey. Istanbul Technical University not only played a leading role in the modernization movement of the Ottoman Empire, but has also maintained its leadership position in the changes and innovations taking place in the construction, industrialization, and technological realms during the modern days of the Turkish Republic. Engineers and architects trained at Istanbul Technical University have played significant roles in the construction of Turkey. Alumni also played a significant role in Turkish politics.

Academics

The structure of faculties, except the Faculty of Science and Letters, at ITU is comparable to those of "schools" in the U.S. institutions, where each faculty is composed of two or more departments in line with a comprehensive engineering field. For example, the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering consists of the departments of electrical engineering, control engineering, electronics and communication engineering.

Faculty of Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering
Geomatics Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Architecture
Architecture
Urban and Regional Planning
Industrial Product Design
Interior Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Control Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Faculty of Computer and Informatics
Computer Engineering
 Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering (Undergraduate)
Information Systems Engineering (Joint programme with SUNY)
 Faculty of Mines
Mining Engineering
 Mineral Processing Engineering
Geological Engineering
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Geophysical Engineering
 Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
 Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Food Engineering
Bioengineering (UOLP)
 Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering
Faculty of Sciences and Letters
Mathematics Engineering
Physics Engineering
 Chemistry
Molecular Biology and Genetics
 Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aeronautical Engineering
Astronautical Engineering
Meteorological Engineering
 Faculty of Management
Management Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Economics
Maritime Faculty
Marine Engineering
Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering
 Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design
Textile Engineering
Fashion Design
Textile Development and Management
ITU-TRNC Education and Research Campuses

 Computer Engineering
 Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 Economics and Finance
 Architecture
 Maritime Business Management
 Maritime Transportation Management Engineering
 Marine Engineering
 Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
 Preparatory School of Foreign Languages

Institutes and Research Centers
There are several Research Groups in ITU, including:
 Energy Institute
 Institute of Science and Technology
 Social Sciences Institute
 Institute of Informatics
 Eurasia Earth Sciences Institutes
 Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Genetics Research Center (MOBGAM)
 ARI Technopolis
 Center for Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing
 National Center for High Performance Computing
 Rotorcraft Center of Excellence (ROTAM)
 Mechatronics Education And Research Center (MEAM)
 Center of Excellence for Disaster Management
 Prof.Dr. Adnan Tekin Materials Science and Production Technologies Applied Research Center (ATARC)
 Housing Research and Education Center
 Women's Studies Center in Science, Engineering and Technology
Planned Research Center Projects:
 Vehicle Technology Research Center
 Rf/Mixed Signal Processing Research Center
 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advanced Research Center
Finally, ITU also has the following departments / educational institutes that are not tied to any of the faculties, but serve as independent departments. These include
 School of Foreign Languages
 School of Fine Arts
 School of Athletic Education
 State Conservatory of Turkish Classical Music
 Advanced Musical Sciences Research Institute
 Polar Research Center

International Perspective and Rankings

25 engineering departments of ITU are accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Also ITU's Faculty of Architecture is accredited by NAAB and the Faculty of Maritime is accredited by IMO. Minimum score of 79 from TOEFL IBT, or success in the English proficiency exam is one of the prerequisites to register the Bachelor, Master, or Doctorate level courses at ITU. Instruction is both in English and Turkish (roughly 30% and 70%, respectively or 100% in English for some disciplines). Master and Doctorate courses are mostly held in English. ITU is highly reputable institution in the area of engineering sciences within the Europe. Therefore, the university provides a broad range of options, that involve highly reputable institutions, to its students for the Erasmus Mobility.

In the QS World University Rankings 2022, ITU is ranked within the top 200 universities in the subject areas "Engineering - Petroleum", "Engineering - Mineral & Mining", "Engineering - Civil and Structural", "Engineering - Electrical and Electronics", "Engineering - Mechanical", "Engineering - Chemical", "Architecture & Built Environment", and it is ranked within the top 350 universities in the subject areas "Computer Science and Information Systems", "Environmental Sciences", "Material Sciences", "Mathematics", "Physics & Astronomy", "Chemistry".

Campus

ITU is a public (state) university. It has six campuses, five of which are located in the most important areas of Istanbul and one is located in Famagusta. Among ITU's six campuses, the main campus of Maslak, in Sarıyer, is a suburban campus, covering a total area of 2.64 km². The University Rectorate, swimming pool, stadium, along with most of the faculties, student residence halls and the central library of ITU are located there.

Another suburban campus of ITU is the Tuzla Campus. It serves the Maritime Faculty students and faculty members. It is located in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, which is a dockyard area.

The three urban campuses are near to one another and are situated close to Taksim Square.

Taşkışla campus is where the Faculty of Architecture is located. The Taşkışla building is one of the most renowned historical buildings in Istanbul. It dates backs to the Ottoman era and was used as military barracks.

Gümuşsuyu (Mechanical Engineering Faculty) and Maçka (Management Faculty) campuses are also among the important historical buildings of Istanbul.

The Famagusta campus at Northern Cyprus is currently the first and only campus that hosts the ITU-TRNC Education and Research Campuses faculty.

Library Services
 ITU's library roughly holds 533,000 books, 500,000 volumes of book periodicals and 6000 rare Ottoman/Latin books. ITU Library has access to international libraries and online databases. It has the largest collection on technical materials (science and engineering) in Turkey. Mustafa Inan Library named after Mustafa İnan, a former rector of the university, is the central library, the coordination center, of the library services of the Technical University. ITU Library Services' history goes back to 1795, the printing house of the Mühendishâne-i Berrî-i Hümâyun of Ottoman Empire.
 ITU Mustafa Inan Library's Rare Books Collection

Triga Mark-2 Nuclear Reactor
ITU's nuclear reactor of Triga Mark-2 is in the Maslak campus. It is located at the Energy Institute.

Arı Technopolis
Since the foundation in 2003 Arı Technopolis, which is located at the Ayazağa Campus, provides companies with research, technology development and production opportunities at the university, in cooperation with the researchers and academicians. The technopolis have two buildings:Arı-1 and Arı-2. Arı-3 building in Maslak and another building in Floria are announced to build. Arı Technopolis has the 49% of export among technopolises in Turkey.

National High Performance Computing Center
NHPCC, is located in the Ayazağa Campus. It is the national center for high performance computing. The super computer of this center was one of the world's top 500 list super computers (240th).

Student Life

Athletics

Having a suburban campus like Maslak has created the opportunity of building many sports areas. Ayazağa Gymnasium is the center of sports in ITU. Ayazağa Gymnasium also has a stadium with a seating capacity of 3500 for basketball and volleyball matches. A fitness center is also located there.

Basketball matches are among the most important sports activities in ITU. The ITU basketball Team, which won the Turkish Basketball League Championship five times, currently plays in the Turkish Basketball League's Second Division (TB2L). Ayazağa Gymnasium is the home of the ITU Basketball Team.

Despite the successes in basketball, the football team of ITU plays in the amateur league. A football stadium is also located in Ayazağa, where the football team plays its matches.

Tennis courts and an indoor Olympic swimming pool, which is opened in May 2007, are also available in the Ayazaga Campus. An open-air swimming pool serves the ITU faculties.

ITU's American football team ITU Hornets has won the Unilig (Turkish University Sports Leagues) Super League of American football in the 2013-2014 season and in 2014-2015 season.

Other sports clubs/activities in ITU are: Badminton, ultimate, fencing, diving, winter sports, dancing and gymnastics, tennis, paintball, aikido, athletics, mountaineering, bridge, swimming, cycling and triathlon, skiing, parachuting, korfball, handball, iaido, capoeira, wrestling, archery, ultimate frisbee and sailing.

Social life

ITU offers many options to students who like doing extra-curricular work during their studying years. The most popular ones are Rock Club, Cinema Club, Model United Nations, EPGIK, International Engineering Club. Also ITU has an option for those who like to organise events and socialise with people from various European countries in the Local Board of European Students of Technology Group which had 40 members in 2007. Despite all these, it can still be a little quiet in the campus from time to time because students can choose the city of Istanbul over the campus life.

ITU Model United Nations (ITUMUN)
Model United Nations Society of ITU is one of the most active student clubs in the University. Participating in MUN conferences regularly, both domestic and international, MUN society offers an opportunity for personal development.

Model United Nations is a conference where students participate as United Nations delegates. Participants research and formulate political positions based on the actual policies of the countries they represent.

Housing
ITU dormitories have a capacity of 3,000 students. They include Lakeside Housings, IMKB Dormitory, Verda Urundul, Ayazaga Dormitory and Gumussuyu dormitory. Additional dormitories are planned.

Radio ITU
Radio ITU (or Technical University Radio) is the first university radio station in Turkey. Radio ITU is located in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering building on Maslak campus.

Entertainment
ITU Stadium is one of the most popular locations in Istanbul for concerts and such those performances.

For instance, Metallica (in 2014), Justin Timberlake (in 2014), and Roger Waters (in 2013) gave concerts at the ITU stadium. Lady Gaga also performed at the stadium on September 16, 2014 to a sold-out crowd of 19,157 people as part of her artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball.

Notable faculty
 Cahit Arf
 Fatih Birol - Economist and Energy expert
 Aykut Barka - Geologist
 Rudolf Belling - Sculptor
 Ratip Berker - Mechanical engineer
 Nihat Berker - Physicist
 Abdulşahap Cengiz - Art historian
 M. Cengiz Dökmeci - Applied mathematician
 Kerim Erim
 Bülent Evcil - Flutist
 İstar Gözaydın - Political scientist
 Hakan B. Gülsün - Art historian
 Mustafa İnan - Civil engineer-mechanics, Rector
 İhsan Ketin - Geologist
 Y. Doğan Kuban - Architect, historian of architecture
 Emin Halid Onat
 Zekai Şen - Civil engineer, hydrologist
 Erdoğan Şuhubi - Mathematician
 Karl von Terzaghi - Civil engineer, Founder of soil mechanics
 Yusuf Yağcı - Chemist
 Celâl Şengör - Geologist

Notable alumni

Many of the graduates take role in the development of Turkey, with many of them playing significant roles in constructing bridges, roads and buildings. For instance, Emin Halid Onat and Ahmet Orhan Arda are architects of Anıtkabir. Süleyman Demirel (civil engineer) and Turgut Özal (electrical engineer) are the two former presidents of Turkey. Necmettin Erbakan (mechanical engineer) and Binali Yildirim (naval architecture and ocean engineering) were former prime ministers of Turkey.

See also

 Technical university
 Turkish universities
 Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME) network of technology universities
 ITUpSAT1, first Turkish university satellite
 CESAER Association
 Education in the Ottoman Empire

Notes and references

External links

 ITU Homepage
ITU Maslak Campus, interactive
 Radio ITU, official website
 Radio ITU Notable people
 Photos of radio ITU

Technical universities and colleges in Turkey
Engineering universities and colleges in Turkey
Şişli
Educational institutions established in 1773
1773 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Campus, college, student and university radio stations
Istanbul Central Business District

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Q: Can a Trac 0.12.3 textarea field span columns? Our old Trac installation was running version 0.11.5. We have just upgraded to 0.12.3 (rc1). On the old installation we had a custom textarea field for entering additional info separate from the description. I have recreated that field in 0.12.3.
In 0.11.5 it used to span both columns of the ticket. In 0.12.3 it takes up only one column. Some searching revealed some tickets and discussion about layout, but more complex than what I'm talking about.
How can I make a textarea span both columns like it did in 0.11.5?

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Church of England Gets Female Bishops and a Conservative Backlash
For the first time in almost two millennia, the church will allow women to hold some of its highest positions. That doesn't sit well with the right, which has put up with years of liberalization.
Nico Hines
London Editor
The Church of England has agreed that women can become bishops for the first time in its 1,500-year history.
After decades of bitter disputes within the church, a meeting of the General Synod on Monday approved legislation that would allow the first woman bishop to be selected by the end of the year. The typically somber atmosphere at the bi-annual church convocation was punctuated by hollers, applause and a shout of "brill!" despite a plea from Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, for the result of the vote to be met "with restraint and sensitivity."
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, joined Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in celebrating the official end of almost two millennia of male superiority in the Church of England. Women can already serve as bishops in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. "I warmly welcome today's vote formally approving women bishops—a great day for the Church and for equality," Cameron tweeted.
Not everyone was celebrating, however. The conservative and evangelical wings of the church had succeeded in stymieing a 2012 attempt to open the most senior church posts to women. That unexpected rejection of gender equality within the church won negative headlines and widespread disapproval in Britain. The Archbishop of Canterbury resolved that there would be no repeat of that rejection and launched a campaign of persuasion and compromise to win over conservative members of the church laity.
On Monday, he succeeded in pushing that vote through but there remains a bloc, some of whom abstained, that feel the continued pace of modernization is threatening to break the church apart. "This is a slippery slope," Reverend Andrew Symes, the executive secretary of the conservative group Anglican Mainstream, told The Daily Beast.
He said a recent move to question the church's stance on euthanasia, its evolving position on homosexuality, and changing the traditional role of women were all part of the same slide into modern liberal mores that could force a schism in the church.
"Traditionally the church has always gone with the culture and if that takes it further and further away from what you might call orthodox Christianity at some stage some people are going to say we want to be orthodox Christians," he said.
The fight against women bishops was led publicly by Susie Leafe, head of the Reform group, who said the church was at risk if Biblical teachings were cast aside.
"I think it's never good to go against what the Bible says for God's people, so I don't think it's going to have a good impact," she told The Telegraph. "People look to the Church not to follow the world but to guide it."
Despite the opposition of some diehard traditionalists, many of those who voted against female bishops in 2012 either reversed their position entirely or abstained on Monday. For such an historic change to the church, a two-thirds majority was required in all three Houses of the General Synod. That was a given among the bishops and clergy, who supported the change overwhelmingly. Among the "lay voters" (church members of are not part of the clergy), there were 152 votes in favor, 45 against, and five abstentions.
As members of the Synod filtered out of the chamber, hugs and cheers continued as some popped Champagne corks to mark the occasion. The Reverend Dr. Rosemarie Mallet, from Southwark diocese, said: "I'm absolutely joyful, thank God after 20 years of very hard work we now have a decision that can help us work for everyone in the Church and engage everybody to be part of that ministry."


Simplicity and cost savings made this device deployment an immediate success for paramedics, says Middlesex Health Desktop Architect Michael Romatzick. Is it possible to launch a new device that cuts costs, simplifies workflow and requires no formal training from staff? At Connecticut-based Middlesex Health, the IT team already has. In an effort to replace the clunky, state-issued computers its paramedics and staff were using, the organization turned to ruggedized Chromebooks originally built for the education sector, and with the changeover immediately saw improvements in budget and workflow.How can healthcare organizations replicate this success? HealthTech spoke with Michael Romatzick, desktop architect at Middlesex Health, on the lessons the IT staff learned from the organizations Chromebook deployment.


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Why George Migration?
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George Migration has been helping individuals and businesses navigate Australia's visa system since 2013. We're based in Melbourne with clients from all over the world!
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Growing up in multicultural Melbourne, Richard has always been passionate about the value immigration delivers to his hometown. Richard starting George Migration in 2013, determined to do things differently. He strives to make the visa application process as simple as possible for his clients. Since then, Richard has helped hundreds of businesses to grow through skilled visas and individuals and families to start their new life in Australia. Richard gets a buzz from every single visa approval and sometimes surprises his clients at work to deliver them the good news in person.
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Antionette is more than just your average coordinator.
An Australian girl, with a French name and an Italian heart, she has dedicated her studies and career to languages and helping people realise their dream of starting a new life in Australia.
After graduating from The University of Melbourne and RMIT University, Antionette found her path and has since grown in the field of migration law, specialising in Partner and Family Visas. She loves nothing more that working with a myriad of clients from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Cinzia Quattrocchi
Cinzia is Italian and moved to Australia five years ago, going through the migration path herself.
With a background in the legal field in Italy, Cinzia brings knowledge and a passion to help migrants from all over the world settle in Australia. She has been through the migration process herself and understands exactly what our clients are going through.
Cinzia loves dogs, going to the beach and helping people start their new life in Australia through work visas.
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Millie takes her job very seriously, attending client meetings and giving reassurance to clients when they visit. Millie's favourite parts of her role include sitting on visitor's feet during meetings, greeting guests with enthusiasm, protecting staff from couriers and of course, lunchtime.
"We are driven by a passion to help navigate Australia's visa system"
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JAMES Yap's trade from Magnolia to Rain or Shine happened three years ago, but until now, the move is still being talked about every time the two teams meet, whether in the eliminations or in the playoffs.
It was no different when Rain or Shine and Magnolia met in a semifinal series for the first time since the trade, with the Elastopainters winning Game One, 84-77, last Friday.
But for Yap, the mindset remains the same.
Yap has been with the Magnolia franchise too long to know that the Hotshots will not take the Game One loss sitting down.
"Kilala naman natin ang Magnolia. Hindi papayag maging 0-2. I'm sure, starting Game Two, siguradong strong start 'yung mga 'yun," said the two-time league MVP.
"Kailangan naming maghanda doon. Sana hindi kami makontento sa panalo dahil mahaba pa. Wala pa kaming na-aachieve at nararating. Kailangan tapusin muna. Doon na kami mag-relax pag tapos na. Pero dito, walang relax-relax," said Yap.
The 15-year veteran though knows the importance of taking the series opener in a best-of-seven showdown.
"Buti na lang at nakaisa kami. Pagdating kasi sa series, best-of-seven, very crucial 'yung Game One. 'Yun ang sinasabi ko sa mga teammates ko na na-experience ko, very crucial 'yung Game One," said Yap.


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June 9, 2008 Bruce Allen BSM Approval Ratings, WEEI
Approval Ratings – Fred Smerlas
It's not football season, so we haven't seen or heard a whole lot of Smerlas recently.
Fred Smerlas is a former Pro Bowl Nose Tackle for Boston College, the Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers and Patriots. He currently is a TV and Radio commentator for WEEI and other outlets. On WEEI, he is mostly teamed with Steve DeOssie, who is also his business partner in their Rhode Island steakhouse.
During football season he also serves as a a contributor to western New York radio stations WGR in Buffalo and WHAM in Rochester.
He is known for picking the Patriots in every single game, something that almost worked last season…
64 thoughts on "Approval Ratings – Fred Smerlas"
Damn…there it is!!!! I thought someone swiped the last Suzy Q out of my snack drawer and all along it was under Fred's nose.
DISAPPROVE!
There are some former athletes who are actaully pretty entertaining on the radio, Fred's not one of them! I'm sure he knows his football but his constant interrupting and talking over EVERYONE makes it very difficult to listen to 'EEI when he's on. It's like one giant "I can shout and talk over people better than you can" match.
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I approve. Fred Smerlas is a charater, and the way he is portrayed on WEEI is an act of sorts. He's actually a very nice guy, and surprisingly articulate and endearing in person. I love the comic relief he provides on WEEI, he never pretends to be someone he isn't, and, as someone already pointed out, he's not mean spirited. His greatest moments always involve his detailed and insightful description of offensive and defensive line play. Love Fred!
Joe Bock says:
I approve. FRED SMERLAS IS FANTASTIC, INSIGHTFUL, EXTREMELY KNOWLEDGABLE ON MANY SUBJECTS, FUNNY AND A PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO. KEEP UP THE GREAT JOB. I can't stop listening to him whenever I get the chance. I LOVE the Smerlas Show. Go Fred!!!
Knows football, I'll give him that. Other than that this guy is an absolute morron. I feel dumber after listening to him fumble over words and trying to think of important words to not sound like a four year old.
The fact that this guy is on the radio is ridiculous. He's your typical football jock. He's an absolute bafoon and I would love to call in and ask him about how he was scamming old people on the telephone but A) I'd have to quit my job to stay on the line for so long and B) They'd cut me off and probably hit the dump button.
Celtics Hang On, Take 2-0 Series Lead
Game Two Ratings Up 58% Over Last Year


The latest Megadoor technology has provided the Alaska Airlines hangar in Anchorage, Alaska, a five part Megadoor system with optimal cold weather performance and energy efficiency.
ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems (AAES) is proud to have supplied Alaska Airlines a 281' x 45' five part Megadoor system for their new two bay, narrow body, hangar in Anchorage.
The $50 million state-of-the-art building more than doubles the size of their original '50s-era hangar. The old hangar was unable to accommodate the Next Generation aircraft. The new facility, spanning 100,000 ft² (3,048 m), will be able to house two 737-Max 9 aircraft in an efficient climate controlled environment.
In order to perform line maintenance cost effectively, the facility and systems must be reliable and energy efficient to control the indoor climate. During the early planning stages, Jason Gamache, Director of Sustainability and Principal Architect at McCool, Carlson, Green (MCG) understood that the hangar door system would be a critical choice for Alaska Airlines. Hangar doors play an important role in energy efficiency, and their reliability in winter weather ensures planes depart for their gates on schedule.
After the tour, David Boyce, Anchorage Regional Line Maintenance Manager, Alaska Airlines, saw the value of the energy efficiency and cold weather reliability offered by the vertical lifting Megadoor. Additionally, he appreciated the fact that Megadoors did not require the large rail systems in the floor. These rail systems are a nuisance because they require routine cleaning, heating and drainage.
However, before David would recommend Megadoors for the new hangar, he wanted a system that did not require the manual opening and closing of the mullion floor pit covers that he saw on the existing doors at ANC. He also wanted a flush, clean, door threshold. Therefore, AAES proposed its retractable mullion pin option with its new, spring-loaded pit cover. Since 2001, AAES has been supplying the Megadoor retractable mullion pin option which uses a linear actuator to extend and retract a pin at the base of each mullion which transfers horizontal wind loads into the concrete floor.
Megadoor understands that if a door does not open when required, it can delay aircraft departure times with huge financial consequences. Since 1987 over one hundred Megadoors have been installed in Alaska earning them the reputation as the best cold weather door on the market for large openings. Megadoor systems operate vertically, so they do not need floor tracks, (required by bottom rolling doors), which commonly fill with ice during winter months which hinders their operation. Ice does not accumulate on the Megadoor exterior surface as it does on conventional doors, because as the door fabric flexes in the wind or folds during operation, the ice simply flakes off. The Megadoor will not freeze to the ground like other door systems which can damage them if forced open while locked in ice.
With over one hundred Arctic installations, the Megadoor has proven to be the most energy efficient hangar door in the world. With its demonstrably superior seals, the Megadoor reduces air leakage more than any other door which is crucial since 80% of energy loss on a closed hangar door is attributed to air infiltration around poor seals. In addition, the vertically operating Megadoor systems are faster than other hangar systems, enabling Alaska Airlines to quickly open and close a Megadoor for aircraft movements. This minimizes the loss of conditioned air and keeps the technicians comfortable and accountants happy.


This is a database of AngelScript code snippets, which can be used for scripting Jazz Jackrabbit 2 levels using JJ2+. You can find out more about JJ2+'s AngelScript capabilities and syntax in the scripting readme.
Lets all rabbit players slide down walls and jump off of them, similar to the wall jump mechanics in Hollow Knight.
Lets you add a Sync parameter to Swinging Vines in JCS.ini (or the MLLE equivalent), akin to the one on platforms and spike bolls, so that vines will reliably be at predictable positions relative to one another.
This snippet allows you to know how much food you still have to eat for a Sugar Rush.
Removes the ability to buttstomp through pinball bumpers.
A simple wrapper for checkpoint objects that lets you save and restore additional information, e.g. the jjTriggers array. Optionally you may also have checkpoint objects be reusable, so if you use checkpoint A and then checkpoint B, checkpoint A will go back to being unused. This could be useful for less linear level design.
JJ2+ has the maskedHLine and maskedVLine functions (and their derivatives) but those are only useful if you're checking a straight line. This function takes two arbitrary points (x0, y0) and (x1, y1) as arguments and checks if any pixel on a straight line between them is masked.
Makes rain look more realistic in comparison with the standard "bubble rain" that comes packaged with JJ2+.
Adjusts the fade position of a Tunnel or Warp Horizon textured background to reflect each player's distance from the center of the level. For example, a player in the top left corner will see the background fading away to the bottom right and a player in the dead center will see the background fading away right behind them. Options are provided to clamp the range/s of fade positions. Works with splitscreen.
Draws water in the background of the level without causing any swimming, altered gravity, etc.
Loads a new set of animations from your custom .j2a file and replaces Jazz's animations with them. Works in either 1.23 or 1.24, and people using the opposite version of yours in an online server will still see your animations displayed correctly.
It's just a simple recharging blaster weapon like in Jazz Jackrabbit 3D.
Lori can use both Jazz's Air Jump and Spaz's Air Jump. By pressing "Z" Lori will be able to use helicopter ears, and by pressing "X" Lori will be able to use double jump.
Ice bullets explode violently upon impact causing injury and knockback to players struck by the bullets. Additionally, pressing fire while frozen fails to melt you any faster.
Adding the code for the Bubble Gun as a snippet here for convenience in case anyone wants to use it in their own levels.
Replaces all Powerup monitors with special +3 Ammo pickups. Your powerup status for any given ammo type (except blaster) will reflect whichever ammo pickup you last collected, specifically whether it was itself powered-up or not. Updated (v3.0) to work for ammo that comes out of crates.
As with any mouse-based code, doesn't work so well in splitscreen or 3D.
Armor. The armor protects you from enemies, if you get hurt sometimes you don't even lose a heart.


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Home>Events>Sustainability in Practice>Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020>Understanding complex systems
Understanding complex systems
The climate emergency is so large it requires a rewiring of the whole economic and financial system. But to do this new risk models are required and old paradigms must be abandoned to make way for a better way of understanding complex systems.
View Professor Hepburn's presentations slides here
Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Cameron Hepburn is the director of the economics of sustainability programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He is also director and Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, a Fellow at New College, Oxford, and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics.
He has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across a range of disciplines, including engineering, biology, philosophy, economics, public policy and law, drawing on his degrees in law, engineering and doctorate in economics. He is on the editorial board of Environmental Research Letters and is the managing editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His research is often referred to in the printed press, and he has been interviewed on television and radio in many countries.
Hepburn provides advice on energy and climate policy to government ministers (e.g. China, India, UK and Australia) and international institutions (e.g. OECD, UN organisations) around the world. He began his professional life with McKinsey, and has since had an entrepreneurial career, co-founding three successful businesses – Aurora Energy Research, Climate Bridge and Vivid Economics – and investing in several other social enterprises, such as Purpose and Apolitical. He also serves as a trustee for Schola Cantorum of Oxford.
Director, institutional content, Conexus Financial (Australia)
Principles to guide investment towards a stable climate
Sensitive intervention points in the post carbon transition
Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change
We need to piece together what nasties might be lurking ahead.
We are pouring trillions into the rescue and recovery. Let's make sure these trillions are directed into assets that are fit for the future.
80 per cent of people in China, Mexico and India want a green recovery. There is overwhelming appetite for a different and better future.
We must achieve net zero. It is a question of when, not if.
What theoretical 'surgical interventions' – legal cases or geopolitical actions – would accelerate the move to net zero?
Government is a key actor in the system as it can potentially enforce mandatory initiatives.
A carbon tax might be useful, but it is probably not the most important of effective tool. We have to paint on a broader canvas.
What percentage reduction in emissions from today's levels is ultimately required to stabilise temperatures at 3°C
China ESG risk: the next unknown
One of the most important, upcoming challenges at CalSTRS is how the fund should evaluate Chinese investments from a human capital and environmental standpoint, says Chris Ailman, chief investment officer at the giant pension fund.
AO talk manager selection and data gap
PRI and the road ahead
Prepare portfolios for tipping point
CEOs: Don't ignore sustainability
Sustainability lacks global solidarity
Princeton University Professor of International Affairs, Stephen Kotkin explains why large global investors and multinationals can lead on sustainability but national governments fail.
How to integrate the SDGs
Integrating the SDGs involves analysing investee companies' core business, the products and services they sell, and mapping that to the SDGs. Two investors, APG and Schroders, outline the indepth process.
Coca-Cola and Robeco talk engagement
In an intimate case study this session at the Sustainability conference profiles the relationship between Robeco and CocaCola and how investor engagement has helped prioritise sustainability issues and drive long-term growth through a focus on the circular economy.
Nordhaus calls for carbon tax
International negotiations like the Paris Agreement no longer work. The world needs a new framework supporting a carbon tax with both carrots and sticks to encourage participation, says William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University and 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Economics.
Bridgewater's three dimensional approach
In a rare insight into the portfolio construction process at Bridgewater, the head of investment research, Karen Karniol-Tambour discusses how to shift from only looking at risk and return to adopting a three-dimensional model that incorporates impact.
Ford Foundation's impact strategy
The Ford Foundation outlines its ability to achieve impact and returns and announces plans to invest for impact in public markets in the next 18 months. Elsewhere, renown impact investor Pictet Asset Management explains how impact investment is becoming more mainstream.
Holistic and lasting sustainability


─The four sides of each step have a yellow colored synthetic resin frame that clearly delineates the border of each step. This feature clearly marks each step to eliminate the possibility of slipping accidents.
─Automatic escalator steps have an 8mm safety step to prevent shoelaces or clothing from being pulled into the gap. This safety equipment is another manifestation of Yungtay's care for passengers.
─Automatic escalator framing safety steps have been calculated to a precise angle to prevent passenger shoes from being pinched. In the event of shoes encroaching on the space between the step and the step skirt, as the shoe begins to be bent inward opposing force results which pushes the shoe away from the opening. Additionally, the 8mm directional border makes it even less likely that shoes will encroach on the clearance gap.
─Yungtay utilizes stainless steel in automatic escalator products to ensure gear pathways do not break, bend, or become corrupted, thus enhancing the life of the product. The surface also has an anti-slippage design that increases passenger safety. Additionally, black ion charged paint makes steps less likely to retain dirt, adding to the dignity of the elevator.
─Yungtay has obtained OHSAS18001 international certification and fully integrated this environmental ideal into our products. Natural resources and electrical power are in short supply, and automatic escalators running at full capacity with no passengers are a large waste of resources. Because of this, Yungtay automatic escalators may be equipped (for an additional charge) with a frequency modulation feature that automatically senses when the escalator has run empty for a period of time. When this happens, the full speed operation will be reduced to half speed, which saves up to 30% power. When passengers step onto the automatic chassis cover plate, the escalator senses passengers entering by means of infrared sensors and begins operating at full speed.
─Some elevators constantly have passengers, and some have far fewer. Based on the above idea, Yungtay has designed an "Automatic Operation Feature" (for an additional charge) and a "Frequency Modulation Feature," which are different. When the escalator senses a period of empty operation, the escalator will change from full speed operation to a complete stop, saving approximately 50% power. And as above, when passengers step onto the automatic chassis cover plate, the escalator senses passengers entering by means of infrared sensors and begins operating at full speed.


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Q: Is Internet Explorer 9 an "evergreen" browser? What about IE 10? Chrome and FF will silently update to newer versions and I've read that MS did an auto-upgrade for folks on IE6 & 7 to IE8 and from IE8 to 9. Has Microsoft stated whether or not 9 and 10 will be pushing out regular (weekly/monthly) silent updates or is it going to be similar to what they did to bump people from 6 & 7 up to 8?

A: The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari are evergreen browsers, i.e. they automatically update themselves silently without prompting the user.
Microsoft started moving toward evergreen browsers as of IE10, the first major Internet Explorer release after Microsoft made the announcement it sounds like you are referencing. Through Windows Update, Microsoft automatically updates users to the latest version of Internet Explorer supported by their version of Windows: up to IE8 on Windows XP, up to IE9 on Windows Vista, while IE10 requires Windows 7. Technically, a user on Windows 7 with IE9 (provided they have a local admin account, automatic updating enabled) would be upgraded to IE10, but that doesn't make IE9 an evergreen browser; Vista users stuck with IE9 cannot upgrade.
Regardless, we are now most definitely in a new age of the web, where developers don't have to worry about supporting ancient browsers and can actually use the new features coming to the web platform. For what it's worth, I drew a line in the sand with a web application at Intel to only support evergreen browsers, and it makes me very happy to say so, having gone through the dark ages of supporting oldIE myself.

A: By "Evergreen browser", I mean a browser whereby only the latest version is supported by the manufacturer and most apps that support it.  That said, no version of IE is evergreen. However, Microsoft Edge is evergreen.
To illustrate, if you have a bug or serious-issue, even in the immediate previous version, no developer nor browser-maker will fix it, IF it works fine in the latest and the browser is "Evergreen". You have to update it. On the opposite end,  in like 2014, if you have a bug that occurs in IE 9 but not IE 10, the bug still has to be fixed, since both versions were within Microsoft's date of support (at that time). Microsoft or the developer responsible for the bug had to deal with multiple version of the same browser.
"Evergreen browser" has nothing to do with auto-update. That is just an updating strategy


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De två kulturerna är ett begrepp som myntades 1959 av C.P. Snow i en föreläsning vid Cambridge University som senare publicerades som en bok. Han ansåg att mänskligheten gick att dela upp i två huvudkategorier: "Scientists" (positivister, modernister) och "litterärt intellektuella". Enligt honom var de förra framåtskridande, medan de senare var tillbakablickande. Snow menade att kommunikationen mellan de två grupperna, som tidigare hade varit livaktig, hade upphört och menade att detta var ett problem.

"De två kulturerna" har haft stor inverkan på diskussionen om vad som är "vetenskap" och vad som är "bildning" i Sverige, där "scientist" ibland har översatts till "naturvetare" och "litterärt intellektuell" ibland till "humanist".

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) är en publicerad version av föreläsningarna i bokform. 1963 kom uppföljaren The Two Cultures: And a Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.

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 "De två kulturerna" — en seglivad metafor, essä i Tvärsnitt nr 2, 2009.

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This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.
The first official clock in North America, it kept time for the Spanish government of Santo Domingo.
The final resting place of Christopher Columbus - or possibly someone else.
Built in 1512, the oldest cathedral in the Americas.
The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia at 4,683 feet above sea level.
Wild beach ponies who go for a swim each year, and the legend of a buried 18th century ship.
Graffiti-covered siege engines still litter the tropical beach of a Puerto Rican island the US military used to use for target practice.
This Puerto Rican chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers, founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.


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Ana de Armas has a brand new look!
The 32-year-old actress, who just split from her boyfriend Ben Affleck after a year of dating, debuted a new short haircut in a video message for a friend.
Ana was one of several people who recorded video messages to pay tribute to her friend Claudia Muma.
The haircut was first noticed by fans a couple of weeks ago from photos posted during the holidays. She has reportedly been in Cuba with family recently, which has led fans to speculate about a breakup.
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Garth Brooks to Perform at Biden's Inauguration, Was Asked to Perform at Trump's in 2017
Garth Brooks has been added to the performers lineup for Joe Biden's inauguration this week!
The 58-year-old country singer, who is a Republican, says that his appearance at the inauguration will be about unity.
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Donald Trump Is Expected to Pardon This Celebrity
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We've tested a few bikes recently that have been sporting Shimano's new XTR stoppers and we thought it was time we got a set for ourselves, albeit a set of the slightly scaled down (and with a bit more plastic) and more affordable XT ones. After getting out the company credit card (not everything we test is free) on Friday they arrived, along with some of the last Shimano ICE rotors available in New Zealand/Australia. We'll be dropping our full review on these chaps in the Feb/March issue. In the mean time here's a couple of photos, Spoke reviewer Leif Roy's initial reactions are very positive but that's just after one ride, so we'll see if that stays the same through summer!


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using AopDemo.Model.Extensions;
using PostSharp.Aspects;

namespace AopDemo.Model.Attributes
{
    [Serializable]
    [DebuggerStepThrough]
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method | AttributeTargets.Class)]
    public sealed class CheckParametersAttribute : OnMethodBoundaryAspect
    {
        public CheckParametersAttribute()
        {
            ParameterAttributes = new Dictionary<int, Tuple<ParameterInfo, ParameterAttribute[]>>();
        }

        private Dictionary<int, Tuple<ParameterInfo, ParameterAttribute[]>> ParameterAttributes { get; set; }

        private bool CheckParameters { get; set; }

        public override void CompileTimeInitialize(MethodBase method, AspectInfo aspectInfo)
        {
            base.CompileTimeInitialize(method, aspectInfo);

            // resolve the parameters list and keep track of which parameters need to be validated
            // at compile time instead of runtime!
            var parameters = method.GetParameters();
            for (var i = 0; i < parameters.Length; i++)
            {
                var param = parameters[i];
                var attributes = param.GetAttributes<ParameterAttribute>();
                if (attributes.Any())
                {
                    ParameterAttributes.Add(i, Tuple.Create(param, attributes.ToArray()));
                }
            }

            CheckParameters = ParameterAttributes.Any();
        }

        public override void OnEntry(MethodExecutionArgs eventArgs)
        {
            // don't do any validation if no necessary
            if (CheckParameters)
            {
                var arguments = eventArgs.Arguments;

                foreach (var kvp in ParameterAttributes)
                {
                    var arg = arguments[kvp.Key];
                    var param = kvp.Value.Item1;
                    foreach (var pa in kvp.Value.Item2)
                    {
                        pa.CheckParameter(param, arg);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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A  DUTCH  BARN
(Demolished)
Almost as important to the Dutch farmer as his house was his barn. The
earliest ones had clay floors and thatched roofs but as time went on the
floors were planked with oak or hickory and the roofs were shingled.
Like the houses these barns usually faced the south. When they were
painted they were invariably painted red. They had an overhang across the
front gable but by the end of the eighteenth century this overhang began to
be eliminated and the barn, like the one pictured, began to take the place
of the earlier type. At one end of the barn was built a "hovel", a shed with
an open front. In the hovel was a compartment for the pigs and also a place
for storing farm implements.
One of the old barns stood until the late 1920s on the DITMARS property
that bordered on the Flatlands Neck Road. This farm lay partly in Flatbush and
partly in Flatlands but the farmstead was in Flatlands. It had been purchased
from various owners by Jan Stevensen van voor HEES and went to his son Roelof.
Roelof VOORHEES had a daughter Femmetje who was married on 30 April 1748 to
Jan DITMARS of Flatbush by Domine Ulpianus VAN SINDEREN.
Jan DITMARS (baptized 28 March 1749) and Femmetje had a son Johannes who was
baptized 28 March 1749. When Jan died on 23 November 1756 he left a large fortune
to Johannes, who had also inherited his grandfather Roelofs property. A neighbor
was appointed to be the child's guardian.
In August, 1776 when the Americans ordered all grain and fodder removed from
the barns and stacked in the fields ready to be burned should the British land on
Long Island, Johannes' guardian refused to allow his hay to be touched.
Members of the local militia were just about to set fire to it, although in
the barn, when Johannes jumped upon it shouting,
"If you burn the' hay, you burn me!" And the hay was not burned.
Such is the story that has passed from father to son in the DITMARS family.
In November, 1783 the following advertisement was published in Gaine's Gazette:
£20 Reward--Last neight Nov. 5 about 8 o'clock, 4 men, with weapons forced
into the house of Johannes DITMARS, Flatlands, and beat him and his mother
in a cruel manner. Through his resentment, three of them went off, the fourth
was put in Flatbush Jail, but escaped the same night wounded in the head and
said his name was Jos. Mosier.
Johannes DITMARS married Margrietje RAPALJE (b. 1 October 1759 - d. 10 January 1785)
on 12 December 1781. His second wife was Lammetje LOTT, widow of Peter KOUWENHOVEN.
His son John, who was born 1 June 1783, married Maragret VAN SICKLEN and died
20 August 1827, inherited his property.
The house and barn with the farm next went to John's son John
(b. 18 April 1806 - d. 28 August 1844) who married Elizabeth VANDERVEER on 17 May 1838.
From him, the property went to his son Cornelius (b. 30 May 1840 - d. 20 September 1911)
who married Margaret VAN HOUTEN, widow of Lorenzo M. STARR.
Cornelius and Margaret DITMARS had four children:
Elizabeth (who married Willard Parker SCHENCK)
Lavinia,
John Townsend (who died at the age of 18) and
Maria Marguerite (who married Dr. Bergen GLOVER).
Jan DITMARS, who was the husband of Femmetje VOORHEES, was the son of Johannes
and Jannetje (REMSEN) DITMARS.
Johannes' parents were Jan JANSEN and Adriana _________.
Jan JANSEN, who signed his name Jan JANSEN VAN DITMARSEN, was born about 1643.
He settled in Flatbush where he owned land and where in 1676 he kept a tavern. He was
a member of its church in 1677 and took the oath of allegiance there in 1687. He was
the son of Jan JANSEN, sometimes called PLATNEUS (flat nose).
Jan JANSEN PLATNEUS emigrated from Ditmaren in Holstein. He married Aeltje DOUWS.
In 1647 he was living on a farm in Queens County where he died, probably before 1650.
His children were:
Jan Jansen,
Douwe and Reynier.
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