Picture it — an ocean clear of the plastic debris that plagues our waters currently. Think it an impossibility? Maybe so if we don't try to combat the issue. That's where the Clear Ocean Pact comes in — the non-profit, which launched in late 2017, is targeting the superyacht industry to work to halt its influx of plastic into the ocean.
"I had the vision of what could be possible to achieve by bringing the individual efforts of the industry together behind one common set of goals — a pact — to start reducing its single-use plastic consumption," says Richard Orme, founder of the Clear Ocean Pact. Orme worked to get the idea off the ground after retiring as a yacht owner's representative last November. "The initiative still gives me the ability to have an involvement in the industry I've been working in for the past twenty-three years, but on a different level and ultimately purpose," he says.
Orme has worn many hats in his years in the industry — crew, MCA surveyor, yacht manager, and owner's rep, to name a few, so he has perspective from all sides, but it was his children who inspired him to make this change. "My children and the fact that when they are my age now, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish if we don't do something about the problem," Orme says. "I couldn't stand back and do nothing. [I] felt I had an obligation and the ability to do something due to the industry I have spent the first part of my career working in," he says.
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To filter and safely dispose of all washing machine microplastic waste.
To eliminate the use of all single-use plastic items with readily available alternatives, starting with the items due to be banned by the EU in 2021 — plastic cotton buds, cutlery, plates, straws, drink-stirrers, and balloon sticks.
To reduce the use of single-use plastic toiletries on board.
The first goal is to get 1,000 yachts to sign on to the pact by November 2020. Orme's site explains that the pact is voluntary and non-accredited. "[There's] no monitoring, no accreditation, it's driven by self-motivation," he says. The idea relies on yachting's connections — one vessel affects many people and businesses, so the philosophy is that the pact's goals will be passed on.


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Sermon for Palm Sunday 4-1-12
How many of you have been "April Fooled" already today?
Did you get salt out of the sugar bowl for your coffee or cereal? Did the lids to the pepper and salt shakers fall completely off with the first shake?
Were all your shirt sleeves turned inside out?
Good April Fool jokes and pranks are supposed to strike out at our routines, shake up our perceptions, make something ordinary odd and extraordinary. Sometimes April Fool is something contrived. Sometimes April Fool just happens. For example, Andy Warhol, who turned out to have been a devout Christian, received a Catholic burial at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on April Fool's Day 1987, attended by 2000 people. Whether contrived or natural, to be an "April Fool" is to embrace the surprises and new experiences of Spring.
There is no better day for Palm Sunday to fall upon than April Fool's Day. Jesus' entry into Jerusalem is a classic "April Fool" experience.
First, the two disciples Jesus chose to go "borrow" that colt in Bethphage must have been waiting for Jesus to say "April Fool." But he doesn't. Instead Jesus seriously instructs his disciples to go and commit the first-century equivalent of "grand theft auto." "Borrowing" a valuable animal, a pristine, unbroken young colt, was frowned upon and punished in first century Palestine as seriously as horse-thieving was in the Old West.
Jesus' suggested "get out of jail free" card sounds like another "April Fool" — just say, "The Lord needs it." Yeah. Right. That will work. But . . . it does!
Jesus and his disciples were observant, pious Jews who knew their scripture. His disciples knew the significance of their master riding a young colt into Jerusalem. This was a statement of kingship, of deliverance, of prophetic fulfillment. It is then with great anticipation and expectation that Jesus' disciples decide to disrobe. They bare their arms and back, they lay their cloaks, the garments that most physically identify who they are, down upon the roadway, creating a cushioned path for the skittish young animal bearing their master. What April Fool's was this, what April Fool's were they for stripping down and looking undignified and under-dressed, in order to honor a scriptural image of the messiah.
The disciples surely envisioned that such a significant, majestic entrance into the holy city could not help but lead to great success. Surely Jesus chose to enter the city in such a significant, royal, messianic manner because he was planning some sort of popular uprising, or some extraordinary display of power. This Passover Week was obviously going to be a scene of great success. April Fool.
Other Passover pilgrims traveling into Jerusalem got into the spirit of Jesus' procession. Some of them also peeled off their cloaks and dared to bare their backs in a state of crowd enthusiasm. Others chanted "hosanna" and lay down branches for their combined procession into the city. For everyone in this crowd — Jesus, his disciples, the mixed multitude of travelers — the destination is the same, the spiritual center of Judaism, the Temple. Obviously something wonderful is about to happen.
April Fool.
Instead Jesus reaches the Temple, enters into that sacred space and simply stares it down. Then, without a word, Jesus turns on his heel and departs — not just from the Temple Mount, but from the city of Jerusalem. Yet nothing speaks louder about the transformation Jesus' presence and sacrifice are about to bring into being than this: Just as Jesus instructed his disciples to shake off the dust of those communities that would not welcome them, so Jesus shakes the dust of the Temple and the entire priestly/sacrificial bureaucracy off his feet as he walks back to Bethany.
The Temple and all it thinks it accomplishes is nothing. Jesus does not linger. There is nothing of God there. Besides, he has a young colt he promised to return "immediately. " If the Temple, the priestly authorities, the religious power structure, thought Jesus was on his way to pay them honor and homage . . . "April Fool."
Jesus never flinched from playing "the fool" in order to fulfill God's will. He directed and rode in a pilgrimage parade to the tune of "Hosanna" into Jerusalem. Then he left it all to plod a dusty path back to Bethany. His disciples were not scholars or star students. They were fishermen and tax collectors, nobodies and ne'er-do-wells. His "foolish" path took him into Jerusalem to the chants of "Blessed be" and had him driven out of Jerusalem with a cross beam strapped to his back on his way to Golgotha.
How willing are you to become an "April Fool" for Christ? Are you willing to admit that you are part of a truly "foolish" family?
It is not without the "foolish factor" that Jesus Christ is also known as the "Son of David." King David is the backbone of Judaism, the patriarch of Israel' identity, the lineage for the Messiah. King David is also the one who stripped naked so he could dance for joy before the Lord. David happily divested himself of all his "kingly" attributes and attire, of everything and anything that might have distinguished him as royal or special or unique. David wanted to represent himself before God as "everyman," as "anyman," to be seen as only a "praising man" so that he could freely and fully express to the Lord his joy and gratitude, his utter dependence and commitment.
David danced unhampered and unadorned by any human attachments.
David danced naked before the Lord so that he could be fully present before God's presence.
God's prophets routinely made "fools" of themselves.
Isaiah stomped around naked and barefoot for three years (Isaiah 20:1-6);
Jeremiah wore a ruined loincloth (ewh!!) (Jeremiah 13:1-11); wore an oxen yoke around his neck (Jeremiah 28:1-17), and bought land occupied by the enemy (a truly BAD investment) (Jeremiah 32:1-15);
Ezekiel ate up scrolls of written words — not a low carb diet (Ezekiel 2:1-3:3);
Hosea married a prostitute and named their children after God's judgments (Hosea 1:2-2:1).
And that is just in the Old Testament!
After the ultimate "April Fool" — the April Fool of Christ's death, the April Fool that destroyed the sting of sin and offered instead complete salvation a whole new raft of fools took float. The Pharisee Saul of Taurus became Paul the Apostle. The libertine, sophisticated Augustine became a father of the faith. Throughout the two thousand one hundred years of Christianity the faithful have stepped forward form the safety of anonymity or the security of a well-heeled position to embrace . . . foolishness, nakedness, a Palm Sunday parade mentality . . . in order to proclaim Christ.
If we get all "dressed up" on Easter Sunday, then Palm Sunday should be the time we get "dressed down," the time we "get naked." Take a risk at caring about someone who is truly risky. Go out on a limb. Take the path usually not taken. Don't cross the street to avoid a possible problem. Don't' be afraid to be naked. To be on parade. To be different.
To be a follower of the One who never flinched when it came to being a fool for God, is to be an April Fool for Christ. Will you be just that? An April Fool for Christ?
Leonard Sweet, ChristianGlobe Networks, Inc., 2012,

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Jydsk Væddeløbsbane er en hestevæddeløbsbane i den sydlige del af Aarhus ved Marselisborgskovene. Banen benyttes til travløb året rundt og galop fra april til oktober. Jydsk Væddeløbsbane blev åbnet den 29. juni 1924.

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Avoiding Severe Toxicity From Combined BRAF Inhibitor and Radiation Treatment: Consensus Guidelines from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).
BRAF kinase gene V600 point mutations drive approximately 40% to 50% of all melanomas, and BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) have been found to significantly improve survival outcomes. Although radiation therapy (RT) provides effective symptom palliation, there is a lack of toxicity and efficacy data when RT is combined with BRAFi, including vemurafenib and dabrafenib. This literature review provides a detailed analysis of potential increased dermatologic, pulmonary, neurologic, hepatic, esophageal, and bowel toxicity from the combination of BRAFi and RT for melanoma patients described in 27 publications. Despite 7 publications noting potential intracranial neurotoxicity, the rates of radionecrosis and hemorrhage from whole brain RT (WBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), or both do not appear increased with concurrent or sequential administration of BRAFis. Almost all grade 3 dermatitis reactions occurred when RT and BRAFi were administered concurrently. Painful, disfiguring nondermatitis cutaneous reactions have been described from concurrent or sequential RT and BRAFi administration, which improved with topical steroids and time. Visceral toxicity has been reported with RT and BRAFi, with deaths possibly related to bowel perforation and liver hemorrhage. Increased severity of radiation pneumonitis with BRAFi is rare, but more concerning was a potentially related fatal pulmonary hemorrhage. Conversely, encouraging reports have described patients with leptomeningeal spread and unresectable lymphadenopathy rendered disease free from combined RT and BRAFi. Based on our review, the authors recommend holding BRAFi and/or MEK inhibitors ≥3 days before and after fractionated RT and ≥1 day before and after SRS. No fatal reactions have been described with a dose <4 Gy per fraction, and time off systemic treatment should be minimized. Future prospective data will serve to refine these recommendations.


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The 14 plays in this book are constructed in an unconventional way, dispensing with long set-ups, they launch straight into the story-line and drama. They are active works, written to be acted out and yet they also contain segments where the less initiated student can participate. The intention is that theatre be inclusive.
Each play leads the student into trying out different roles. There is flexibility for student experimentation and imagination. Outside of acting, there is costuming, set building and props, choreography and directing possibilities. There is even the possibility of adding to the text if need be.
At the same time, if students are new to drama, these plays can simply be read for characterisation and then acted out.
Wendy Beckett is an international playwright whose plays are produced in Sydney, Paris and New York. Ordinarily she writes for adult audiences, but on this occasion she has turned her attention to writing comic plays for primary school children. As a former school teacher, she saw the need for children to connect with familiar reference points, so each work has a distinct Australian flavour.


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Movies about Aboriginal Legends
By moviejourneys On May 31, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
Here are two films that come close to the core of modern understanding of Aboriginal culture in Australia. The first of them can be found among the films of David Gulpilil
Ten Canoes (2006)
Written, produced, and directed by Rolf de Heer in collaboration with the indigenous people of Ramingining in Arnhem Land, this project arose from discussions between the director and David Gulpilil. These two had worked together on The Tracker and felt a need to take Australian film deeper into the Aboriginal experience. Gulpilil was inspired by an archive of 1930s photographs by a European anthropologist. Just before shooting was to begin, Gulpilil left the project under mysterious circumstances (no explanation is given in any of the Special Features interviews). Jamie Gulpilil, David's son, plays a lead role. This is an Australian Iliad. Narrated by the elder Gulpilil, it is framed in the oral tradition and offered as a legend of the ancestors of present-day Aborigines who are rapidly losing their culture. The action follows a young man who covets the wife of an older warrior and is told this tale as a way of cautioning him against impatience. Like the Iliad, the drama is precipitated by the abduction of a woman and the determination of opposing groups of men to seek redress. The husband mistakenly kills a man he thinks participated in the abduction and then must engage in a ritual battle allowing the brother of the man to have revenge. A painted sorcerer is called to heal the wounded man but to no avail. In the end he does a dance of death by a fire and dies. The woman that Jamie loves would be the ultimate Helen figure but she remains elusive. The telling of this tale is awkward and slow-paced at first but it picks up momentum as things go along. More importantly, it is deeply evocative of a lost time.
There is an interesting Making Of film in the Special Features on the DVD, where the unique difficulties of filming in collaboration with the Aborigines are documented. They are committed to making this film as a statement of the value of their disappearing culture but the demands of Western filmmaking are strange and unnatural to them. Oddly, they are particularly sensitive to the demand for them to be naked throughout the filming, even in front of women. There is an interview with the primary Aboriginal collaborator who has difficulty expressing his thoughts but is at pains to underscore the need to create understanding and appreciation for his culture.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
Based on a novel taken from "real events in Australia at the turn of the century," it follows the adventures of a fine looking Aboriginal boy. Opening with scenes of natural aboriginal life dissolve quickly into them demoralize life of aboriginal settlement.. Jimmie has been taken in by a missionary couple and hopes to make them proud. When he goes off to seek his fortune, he gets a job on a farm building long stretches of wooden fence. He endures the usual forms of racial prejudice for this time and place, and moves from place to place. His younger brother comes to join him. His eye is caught by a white girl who works on one of the farms and he marries her with a minimum of disapproval. She bears a child of pure white, and it seems to be not his. Still, they stay together and are joined by others of Jimmie's clan. The white landowners resent this gathering and deny them credit at the grocery store.
Tensions grow and Jimmy goes with a cohort to the home of his patron and kills several of his daughters with axes. In his mind, he is avenging more than a century of white abuse and appropriation of his land. He takes his wife and some of the others and escapes into the bush. He continues his murderous rampage. Each side thinks of the other as deserving of vengeance. An older member of the clan is captured and convicted of murder. Jimmie and his brother invade the house of a rural schoolteacher and take him hostage. He is in poor health but sympathetic to the resentment the boys feel about the destruction of their culture. He says that a quarter of a million Aborigines have been killed. They push further out into the wilderness, learning the ways of survival and finding desecration of sacred sites. Jimmie runs off and leaves his brother and the teacher alone. The brother carries the ailing teacher to safety and returns to the bush where he paints his face white and performs ancient chants. He is shot dead by a search party. Jimmie is still on the run and has been shot in the face. He breaks into a convent and falls asleep in an empty bedroom. When he is discovered, the authorities are called and he is carried away to jail. He is transferred to what looks like the Melbourne Gaol and preparations are made for his hanging.
This is a movie that aired both sides of the story and achieved no popularity with either faction. It confirms the Aborigines as bloody savages and the whites as brutal dominators. This is the Spartacus motif: the revolt of the slaves against their masters. All that can be done is to move beyond the paradigm. The film was met with initial critical enthusiasm but soon faded into neglect causing the director to become disillusioned and move to Hollywood.
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HomeMichael Nielsen speaking at the OII on Open Science
Michael Nielsen speaking at the OII on Open Science
August 8, 2011 billdutton *OIINEWS, Internet Studies, OII, Research and Learning, Shaping the Internet, Social Informatics, Social Science Research, Socio-technical Systems
'Doing Science in the Open' a talk by Michael Nielsen
OII, 1 St Giles', Oxford from 12-13.00 on 8 September 2011
Michael has written: "I'll start this talk by describing the Polymath Project, an ongoing experiment in "massively collaborative" mathematical problem solving. The idea is to use online tools — things like blogs and wikis — to collaboratively attack difficult mathematical problems. By combining the best ideas of many minds from all over the world, the Polymath Project has made breakthroughs on important mathematical problems.
What makes this an exciting story is that it's about much more than just solving some mathematical problems. Rather, the story suggests that online tools can be used to transform the way we humans work together to make scientific discoveries. We can use online tools to
amplify our collective intelligence, in much the same way as for millenia we've used physical tools to amplify our strength. This has the potential to accelerate scientific discovery across all disciplines.
Michael Nielsen
This is an optimistic story, but there's a major catch. Scientists have for the most part been extremely extremely conservative in how they use the net, often using it for little more than email and passive web browsing. Projects like Polymath are the exception not the rule. I'll discuss why this conservatism is so common, why it's so damaging, and how we can move to a more open scientific culture."
Background reading:
The talk is based on the book "Reinventing Discovery", to be published by Princeton University Press on October 21, 2011.
Michael Nielsen is an author and an advocate of open science. His book about open science, Reinventing Discovery, will be published by Princeton University Press in October, 2011. Prior to his book, Michael was an internationally known scientist who helped pioneer the field of quantum computation. He co-authored the standard text in the field, and wrote more than 50 scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His work on quantum teleportation was recognized in Science Magazine's list of the Top Ten Breakthroughs of 1998. Michael was educated at the University of Queensland, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2008, he gave up his tenured position to work fulltime on open science.
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Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike's Stanford University…
Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike's Stanford University sisterhood coming to an end
Stanford basketball players Chiney Ogwumike, left, and her sister, Nnemkadi at Stanford's Maples Pavilion Wednesday March 28, 2012. This is the last season they'll play college basketball together, since Nnemkadi, a senior, is set to graduate. (Patrick Tehan/Staff)
By Elliott Almond | ealmond@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012 at 10:36 a.m. | UPDATED: August 13, 2016 at 6:00 a.m.
College basketball's most dominant sister act has reached its closing scenes at the Women's Final Four. Whether it ends Sunday against top-ranked Baylor or Tuesday with an NCAA title at stake, it will be a wrenching conclusion for the Stanford sisterhood.
"I'm splitting my body in half and I'm losing half of it," said younger sis Chiney Ogwumike. "I'm losing my sister."
A victory in the national semifinals against Baylor and its unparalleled 6-foot-8 center Brittney Griner would help ease the pain of senior sister Nneka Ogwumike's send-off. But as Nneka enters her final days as one of the greatest players in Stanford history, she is staying strong for the more emotional Chiney.
"I want two more games with my sister, but I'm passing the torch now," the three-time All-American said Saturday. "It's her turn to do two years on her own. I know she will do just fine."
No one is more determined than her sophomore sister to savor these fleeting moments and ensure the farewell is filled with the joy of an NCAA crown.
"That would be the ultimate going-away present," said Chiney (pronounced Shuh-NAY).
Reaching a record
The Ogwumikes' last dance on the college stage provides an emotional backdrop to the highly anticipated showdowns at Denver's Pepsi Center this weekend. The first-generation Nigerians from Houston have helped the Cardinal (35-1) reach its fifth-consecutive Final Four, a record matched only by Connecticut (twice) and Louisiana State.
But the relationship goes beyond victories and defeats, blocked shots and rebounds. The Ogwumikes' respect and support have played out on the court for the past two seasons like a Jane Austen story of heroic women. It has spread to their adoring teammates, making the Cardinal a close-knit team.
"That's the perfect sisterhood," Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. "I saw that right from the beginning."
It has been that way since Chiney was born, 21 months after Nneka. The Ogwumikes (og-WOO-ME-kays) shared rooms, outfits and sports.
Mother Ify Ogwumike placed the sisters in gymnastics just to get them out of the house. But once Nneka started growing — she is 6 feet 2 and Chiney 6 feet 3 — the family switched to YMCA basketball. Soon the girls became two of the nation's top players at Cy-Fair High in suburban Houston.
And now there are two more Ogwumike sisters headed down a similar path. Olivia, 15, and Erica, 14, already have stated their preference to attend Stanford if they continue to excel on the court and in the classroom.
When Nneka decided to attend Stanford for its rich combination of academics and strong basketball, it was no surprise Chiney followed two years later.
"They have this unwritten rule of sharing their lives without complicating it," their mother said.
Nneka recently completed her requirements to graduate and already has moved out of her off-campus housing. Her parents are in the process of finding an agent for the projected No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, which will be held April 16.
The older Ogwumike is more circumspect about discussing the separation from Chiney because she is protective of her sister.
"Nneka believes in being strong and holding things in for everybody, especially Chiney," Ify Ogwumike said. "In her mind she is saying, 'I've got to show Chiney that this next chapter in our lives will be fine.' "
Opponent stands tall
And that includes the possibility of losing in the Final Four. Most basketball analysts predict the end will come Sunday because Baylor (38-0) is thought to be superior to the second-ranked Cardinal. Big East Conference rivals Connecticut and Notre Dame play in the other semifinal game.
Griner, who averages 23.4 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, won the National College Player of the Year honors Saturday. Nneka, who averages 22.5 points and 10.3 rebounds a game, tied for third.
Ogwumike holds the highest single-season scoring average in school history and Monday tied Candice Wiggins' single-season scoring record with 787 points. She is one of four Stanford players to have more than 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her career.
But the difference Sunday night might be the play of Chiney.
"The younger sister is going to have to step up," VanDerveer said.
The Hall of Fame coach recalled how Nneka talked about wanting to reach the Final Four last year for her freshman sister.
"Maybe this is going to be reciprocal," VanDerveer said with hope.
VanDerveer isn't the only one who sees the closeness of the bond. Rob Amboree witnessed it when coaching the Ogwumikes on the Cy-Fair Shock youth team.
"That's why they have so much chemistry on the court," he said. "They know what each other is thinking."
A potent duo
The Ogwumikes are not the first sister act to hit the college basketball scene. Twins Pam and Paula McGee played for USC in the 1980s, Heidi and Heather Burge for Virginia in the '90s and Piedmont's Courtney and Ashley Paris for Oklahoma a few years ago.
But none of them ever combined to form such a potent post tandem as the Ogwumikes have. Chiney supports her sister's glossy statistics with some of her own: 15.3 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. She also is a finalist for National Defender of the Year.
In the regional final Monday against Duke, Nneka had 29 points and nine rebounds while Chiney added 12 points and 17 rebounds as the Cardinal won its 32nd consecutive game.
The senior Ogwumike is confident her teammates can help Stanford win its first national crown in 20 years — even if others are not.
"I believe our team wants it the most," Nneka said.
"When she just believes in it, everyone goes with it," Chiney added. "And we're going to follow right behind her and play for her because we know this game means so much to her."
It also means the world to Chiney, who already is bracing for major changes next season without Nneka by her side.
But by almost anyone's estimation the sisters will reunite sometime in the future while playing for Team USA or in the WNBA.
"They always find their way back to each other," Ify Ogwumike said.
That's just what sisters do.
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The global Muslim population accounts for 4.6% of spending on media
A new generation of media-savvy Muslims is making media a top-priority for governments, said experts yesterday at the Global Islamic Economy Summit.
People under the age of 30 currently made up 61 per cent of the total Muslim population.
"The contents of social media and all other media channels should be monitored by authorities for the sake of the new young generation of Muslims who have their own needs," said Rana Al Chemaitelly, Founder of Little Engineer in Lebanon, said. This generation has full access to all media channels, and they are looking for information, recreation options and other entertainment without any control, and some of this may be sensitive to their values and traditions. It is a big issue that should be controlled under religious parameters, she added.
The global Muslim population spent a total of $151 billion (Dh555 billion) on recreation and culture in 2012, which represent about 4.6 per cent of global expenditure, according to a Thomson Reuters report issued on Monday. This groups spending is expected to reach $205 billion by 2018. "The key segment of the recreation industry's value chain that are structurally impacted by Islamic values are service provider, distribution channels and talents, said Navid Akhtar, BBC and Channel 4 Producer and Founder of Gazelle Media (photo) in the UK. He said that media should understand the technical language of the new generation of Muslims and engage them at the grassroots level.
He added that media should promote the three Fs of Islamic economy — food, finance, fun. The responsibly of the media is to educate, inform and generate healthy content to attract the Muslim audience, said Shahed Amanullah, Founder of Zabihah.com in the USA. There is a power embedded in the young Muslim generation and media has to tap, he added. The UAE ranked 12th in terms of consumption on creation and culture in 2012 at a value of $4.79 billion, while Iran top the list of the Muslim countries at a consumption $12 billion followed by turkey $10.2 billion, US $10.2 billion, France $9 billion and Saudi Arabia $8.4 billion. Muslims in US and Canada collectively spent an estimated of $13 billion on recreation and culture in 2012. These two places where Muslims are minorities, Thomson Reuters report said.
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The book as an object designed for the transmission of text persists as a significant artifact even in a culture increasingly digital. Not all books are created as works of art, but those that are have been collected by connoisseurs, bibliophiles, and Special Collections librarians for as long as there have been libraries. Book art is a collaborative art form created by artists in small but thriving studios and printing shops. Artists, poets, writers, printmakers, engravers, papermakers, bookbinders, photographers, together create an artist's book, in which text and illustration are fused within the tactile structure of paper, binding and case. UNLV Special Collections & Archives has a small collection of artists' books representing local and regional artists, authors, and presses, a few of which we would like to highlight here.
Peter Koch, typographer, designer, printer, and author has an international reputation in fine press printing and a catalogue of oeuvre dating from 1974. Koch's longstanding interest in the changing face of his native Montana and the American West has resulted, in his words, in "an ongoing series of literary explorations utilizing appropriated photographs as evidence and documenting man's battle against nature in the American West." The volumes include Hard Words I and II, Nature Morte, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea and the latest volume, Liber Ignis. After a visit by Peter Koch to UNLV Special Collections & Archives we started to acquire his western-themed works that seem a reflection on the history of Nevada.
A portfolio of digital pigment prints assembled from historic photographs and documents; text from the manuscript journals and papers of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elers Koch and others; and short legends by the artist hand-set in lead type. A preface by Rick Newby, an introduction by Griff Williams, and a statement by the artist complete the portfolio.
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea began as a project during the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In the Spring of 2005, the Missoula Museum of Art had two exhibitions running simultaneously that were critical responses to the celebratory afflatus that customarily surrounds such events. There Koch saw a fragment of a poem that accompanied Native Perspectives on the Trail: A Contemporary American Indian Portfolio written by Debra Magpie Earling, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, and an award-winning novelist and poet. Based on that fragment, Koch proposed a collaboration.
The text is printed on hand-made paper at Peter Koch Printers and bound at the press by Jonathan Gerken. The smoked buffalo rawhide cover paper was designed and hand-made by Amanda Degener especially for this edition at Cave Papers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The spine is beaded with trade beads and small caliber cartridge cases.
Liber Ignis is a collaborative project of appropriations, inventions, and constructs documenting the ongoing war against nature in the American West. A collage poem composed in counterpoint to the images by Adam Cornford, image manipulation, surface engineering, & binding structure by Jonathan Gerken.
Koch was inspired by a visit to a small gallery in Germany, "saturated," as he described it, "with the leaden-grey ashes of war and suffering." "Pursuing my work in the archives of mining and banking – appropriating images and building my own memorials," Koch created this stark vision of a dark industrial landscape which mining had wrought in Montana. LIBER IGNIS consists of six lead sheets printed on a UV cured acrylic flatbed press interleaved with laminated felt and split microfiber sheets dyed black and printed from polymer plates at Peter Koch Printers. The binding is constructed with soldered copper tubing and linen thread.
Michelle Burgess, the director of Brighton Press of San Diego visited UNLV Special Collections & Archives last May. Burgess works in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and book art. With Bill Kelly, the founder of the Brighton Press, she has produced forty-six limited edition artist books and broadsides, often working with contemporary poets and artists. The artists make their own plates and cut their own blocks. Each work is printed by hand in their studio in small editions and is signed and numbered.
Diana in Sight, Poems by Nancy Willard; archivally hand printed Diana photographs by Eric Lindbloom. printed on Twinrocker "Turner Blue" handmade paper. Case bound in Japanese cloth and hand marbled paper and housed in a clamshell box. Edition of 30. 2009.
In 1978-79, poet Nancy Willard and artist Eric Lindbloom traveled together with their young son through the northeastern U.S. while Willard was on various poetry reading tours. They then went to Italy and Holland. Lindbloom made these photographs in small, largely unnoticed places along the way. According to him: "These photographs were all about the joy of using the lighthearted Diana, a toy camera, after a long apprenticeship with a 4' x 5' stand camera, with its physical and historical weight on my back. They were part of a series called 'Private Lives of Public Places.'" Willard wrote the poems twenty years later in 1998.
SEVEN motes of zen dust. Japanese koans with text and woodcuts by Ian Tyson. Printed on Twinrocker and Cave papers. Housed in embossed slipcase covered in cross-dyed linen. Edition of 40. 2015.
Thirty-six chapter numbers designed by the artist. Bound in printed cloth over boards with a wraparound image, hand painted by the artist. Number 71 of edition of 94. 1988.
This short story was first published in 1936 in the literary journal Transition and was later collected into Adventures in the Skin Trade published by New Directions. "The Mouse and the Woman" is a cyclical tale whose dreamlike narrative approaches the boundaries of surrealism.


EQUAL WRITES: which women are we not seeing represented on stage?
Women are 51% of the population and form 68% of theatre audiences yet recent statistics by The Guardian, Equity, FIA and Sphinx Theatre show a persistent 2:1 male-to-female ratio of roles for actors appearing on stage. A significant consequence of this inequality is the stereotyping of women, lack of role modelling and an even greater diminishing of representation of women over the age of 35.
These statistics reflect the fact that the narratives of numerous women's stories and identities are missing. While "all the world's a stage" it is clear that many women are not seeing themselves represented; a wealth of their stories are to be uncovered, considered and made visible.
Following Equal Writes' call to all playwrights for submissions >>: an evening of selected scenes, monologues and discussion focusing on women, women's stories and women in situations we are not presently seeing represented on UK stages was held at Tristan Bates Theatre on 11 March 2013.
Equal Writes received a fantastic response to the call for submissions and would like to thank all the playwrights who submitted their work.
Equal Writes is part of the nationwide campaign towards gender parity.


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Dave Morick (1934–1997)
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Known for Earthquake (1974), Hearts of the West (1975), Happy as the Grass Was Green (1973), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-1977)
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Pastor Carl Hetler
Pastor Carl joined Broadway two years ago, and he has brought a great deal of dedication, experience, and energy to the church and community. After spending the early part of his life in Berkeley, California, Carl arrived in South Bend in 2010, but his path from the West Coast to the Midwest made other stops along the way. As a student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., he continued a life of service instilled by his parents, Gail and Bob Hetler, who now live in Michigan. "Together as a family we combined worship with service. It's in our DNA," he said. At Northwestern, Carl did an internship at a shelter. He also met his wife, Heather, at Northwestern, and they have been married for 22 years. Heather leads the Communication and Assistive Technology Team for the South Bend Community School Corp. They have three children -- Chloe, Anders, and Grace. Heather's parents, Rick and Barb Van Wechel, also live in South Bend.
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This year during the scared month of Ramadaan Palestinians spent their days in oppression. Loosing loved ones and their basic human rights.
Sharing my thoughts and experiences. It has been sometime since I have shared. Hope all is well with members of this forum. I am glad to post this tonight and I am ready to take a rest and sleep.
It is time to focus on compassion ... please take action to protect the innocent.
Supreme Court of Maldives – nullified the entire election of a country!
The Supreme Court annulled the elections outcome of 7 September 2013 and now calls for a fresh ballot to be held on 20 October 2013. This is the craziest thing that can ever happen.


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The Fresno Business Journal is reporting that employees of the SEIU have been accused of acts of vandalism toward opposing union supporters.
The SEIU and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) are embroiled in a contest to organize home care workers in the Fresno area. About 10,000 workers will vote to decide whether they want to remain members of SEIU or join NUHW.
"I was extremely upset," said Silbenia Conley of Kerman. She said she witnessed a heavyset African-American male come to her door, allegedly tear down a red NUHW support sign, replace it with a SEIU magnetized sign, then speed off in a newer silver-gray Chevy Malibu.
Conley said she has no idea how the SEIU found her address. She filed a report and was told that by the police that tearing down her NUHW sign constituted theft.
In a separate incident, Lesalie Kyle of Clovis said she witnessed a man wearing a purple SEIU t-shirt allegedly kick in the screen on her front door, then place several SEIU flyers in front of her NUHW support poster.
This is yet another reminder of the type of tactics and measures that unions resort to in order to intimidate and coerce workers. It's bad enough that this type of activity occurs. It's a fair warning to legislators and voters about how unions will operate if they have free reign under EFCA. After all, if this is how they treat other unions, how will they act when they're trying to organize non-union employees?


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Parliament suspended after two members test positive for Covid-19
Two Members of Parliament (MPs), a journalist and a driver have tested positive for Covid-19, the Parliament of Zimbabwe (PAZ) said on Monday. The members were part of a team that had been on field visits around the country. "It is with a heavy heart that Parliament announces the suspension of most of its business due to exposure of some Member of Parliament to Covid-19," PAZ said in statement.
"As at this morning only two MPs had been confirmed positive. A driver from one of our service providers and a Journalist who were part of the team also tested positive." The parliament said everyone who was part of the team is now in self quarantine in line with the Ministry of health and Child welfare guidelines
"Consequently, tomorrow's sitting for the National Assembly will be done with very limited numbers for the sole purpose of adjourning to a future date." Parliament added that: "This will allow for deep cleaning and disinfection of the Parliament Building and contact tracing and testing of those who came into contact with the affected Members of Parliament."
Those intending to submit any documentation have been asked to do so by email. Since the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak on 20 March 2020, the total number of confirmed cases is 2 512; recovered 518, active cases 1 960 and 34 deaths.
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Juanita Tolliver is the campaign director at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Prior to joining the team at CAP, she led New Profit's electoral engagement efforts for all candidate outreach and field activities throughout the 2016 election cycle including hosting regular policy briefings with campaign staff, facilitating site visits and events across the nation, and leading a strategic communications advocacy campaign. She has worked as a campaign staffer on races at multiple levels of government—including state and local levels—and has served as a federal government staffer at the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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Q: Is there an easier way to truncate a string with PHP regex? I have a string that looks like the following:
Security/Flow_Setup/Steady_State/Verification

I only need the first two levels (e.g. Security/Flow_Setup) Is there an easier way to get this.  Currently I explode the string into an array using: '/' as a delimiter and then piece together elements 0 and 1.
This works but I was hoping for a more elegant solution.
Any thoughts?

A: I don't think you can get too much more elegant/short than this if you only need the first two pieces:
list($var1, $var2) = explode('/', $str);

Regex is totally unnecessary here.
Someone mentioned dirname in the comments, which I thought was a clever and probably appropriate idea, and very short and readable (and gets you the string you need instead of two separate parts like the code above):
$str = 'Security/Flow_Setup/Steady_State/Verification';

echo dirname(dirname($str));

// Output: Security/Flow_Setup

A: I believe that you do everything ok. You can try it this way if you like:
$str = "Security/Flow_Setup/Steady_State/Verification";
echo substr($str, 0, strpos($str, '/', strpos($str, '/') + 1));

(No arrays involved, should be a little bit faster)

A: not a typical usage nor a string function, but since your string is effectively a path, maybe this would suffice...
dirname(dirname('Security/Flow_Setup/Steady_State/Verification'));

A: Here is the shortest and most efficient one-liner I can come up with:
$firstTwoParts = implode('/', array_slice(explode('/', $str, 3), 0, 2));

This could be wrapped into a function that let's you control how many parts you want:
function first_n_parts ($str, $n, $delimiter = '/') {
  return ($n = (int) $n) ? implode($delimiter, array_slice(explode($delimiter, $str, $n + 1), 0, $n)) : '';
}

...so you can do:
echo first_n_parts($str, 1); // Security
echo first_n_parts($str, 2); // Security/Flow_Setup
echo first_n_parts($str, 3); // Security/Flow_Setup/Steady_State

A: this regex should do it
'/^([a-zA-Z]+\/[a-zA-Z]+)?/'

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Just a few snaps I took of my last two batches of fabric swatches that arrived. Life's been too busy to catalog them properly, but they're here and (I think) they're lovely!
PS, please forgive the yellowy indoor lighting on some of these photos!
The last two pics are from my new upcoming stripe collection...can't wait to see how they turned out!


THIS CONFERENCE IS OVER AND WAS GREAT! THIS PAGE IS NOW ARCHIVED FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT A FUTURE AIR CARE CONFERENCE!
Air Care 2015 is in the Air! Register to Attend Now!
Our annual national conference is the place to be to meet leaders of volunteer pilot organizations nationwide, share ideas, and learn the latest news about Public Benefit Flying. As part of our Air Care conferences we have wonderful social events in the venue and nearby areas. You will be happy to hear that Air Care 2015, your premier event for leaders of all Public Benefit Flying Organizations, will be held in San Antonio, Texas on April 24-25, 2015. And some attendees will arrive early on Thursday the 23rd and share an informal dinner together.
The location of the conference is San Antonio, Texas, one of the nation's top tourist and convention destinations - and our venue is the historic and beautiful El Tropicano Hotel in the heart of San Antonio's picturesque River Walk. It's within walking distance of a variety of tourist and entertainment points of interest including the Alamo, El Mercado, and the RiverCenter Mall. Also just steps away are dozens of restaurants, bars, and other attractions.
The Alamo is just one of the many attractions featured in the video!
You can reserve your steeply discounted rooms for the Air Care conference for $129 per night, with breakfast available for an additional $8 per person. Make your reservation by calling the hotel's reservation line at 877-736-4311 or by emailing reservations@eltropicanohotel.com. Be sure to mention that you are with the Air Care Alliance when making reservations in our block!
PLEASE MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - THE BLOCK OF ROOMS IS LIMITED! THE DEADLINE FOR THE HOTEL BLOCK RATE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 7th BUT WE EXPECT OUR BLOCK TO BE FILLED QUICKLY.
ALSO - PLEASE MAKE YOUR AIR CARE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION BY USING THE FORM BELOW. FORM DUE BY APRIL 15 BUT WE MUCH APPRECIATE EARLIER REGISTRATIONS AND THAT ENSURES WE HAVE ROOM FOR YOU. IF NEEDED WE CAN TAKE LATE REGISTRATION UP TO APRIL 20.
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Dinner and drinks for early arrivers at an informal no host Restaurant to be announced soon. A good reason to arrive early!
Special Excursions: The Angel Flight South Central team is happy to encourage you to enjoy outings to local points of interest on Friday, April 25th. Many wonderful attractions are an easy walk from the hotel, as mentioned above. We also plan to have a Rendezvous Point near the hotel where we can tough base between excursions and gather prior to the evening events.
Opening Reception: In the evening visit with your friends and colleagues from public benefit flying organizations from across the country and enjoy refreshments and libations, hosted and provided by Angel Flight South Central.
The theme of this year's conference is How to Greatly Enhance Your Group by Telling Your Story, Embracing New Technologies, and Improving Your Board's Effectiveness.
— "Telling your Story" led by Aaron Bramley of lightscamerahelp.org. Aaron is a speaker, videographer, storyteller, and founder of lightscamerahelp.org, an Austin Texas based nonprofit organization that is dedicated to encouraging other nonprofit and cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their stories. They do this through our education program (Learn with LCH), the Reel Change Film Frenzy and an annual film festival.
— Air Care Alliance leadership survey Results — We will reveal the results of our recent survey of VPO founders, officers, directors, and Executive directors and discuss what seem to be their priorities for ACA in the future.
— Strategic Information Technology for VPOs led by Stephan Fopeano. Stephan is an information technology strategist with deep roots in the Volunteer Pilot movement and is a key resource to VPOs in the development and deployment of VPOIDS (AFIDS). Stephan will describe new and emerging trends in information technology to help VPOs efficiently and effectively carry out their mission.
— Mission Coordinators' Workshop — Eileen Minogue of PALS will facilitate a discussion among Mission Coordination staff and volunteers focused on current issues with coordination, cooperation across organizations to complete missions, new ideas for improving efficiency and effectiveness, etc.
— Current VPOIDS User Group Workshop — Stephan will also facilitate this separate discussion for current VPOIDS users to talk about new features, potential improvements, issue resolution, tips and tricks, etc.
— Trends in Executive and Board Leadership — This breakout session will be focused specifically on Executive Director/CEOs and board members and will provide an opportunity to share best practices, board recruitment and engagement strategies, cooperation between VPOs at a strategic level, etc.
— Regulatory and Legislative Update — Our panel will reveal the status of reforms and legislation regarding FAA's treatment of fuel reimbursement, volunteer pilot and group liability relief in the Pilots Bill of Rights, and related issues.
— Membership Meeting and Board elections — a final General Session and elections plus important announcements and news such as the Public Benefit Flying Awards - East and West - and many other items of interest!
Cocktail Hour and Closing Banquet with Guest Speaker and Entertainment to be announced!
Enjoy the day getting to know San antonio better - and enjoy your travels home!
If you will be flying commercially, San Antonio's International Airport is served by Delta, Southwest, US Airways, American, and Alaska Airlines, and ground transportation to the hotel is available by taxi (about $25), rental car, and VIA Metropolitan Bus service.
If you are flying yourself, Stinson Field (SSF) is located just south of downtown and is very convenient to the Riverwalk area.
Our conference hotel is the El Tropicano located on San Antonio's historic and beautiful Riverwalk. You can view great information on the hotel and the Riverwalk at www.eltropicanohotel.com and www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE - THE BLOCK OF ROOMS IS LIMITED! SEE FORM BELOW.
We look forward to seeing you on the Riverwalk!
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Reminder: We have our Meeting and painting 'A Landscape in Acrylic' demo with Mellissa Read Devine tomorrow, Tuesday 10th July, 7:30pm at the Stan Stevens Studio, Deerubbin Centre, George St, Windsor.
Mellissa has studied & practiced printmaking and painting continuously for the past 21 years and is a recipient of many prizes and awards. Her Artwork is part of many private and public collections around the world.
Living in rural Sydney overlooking the Hawkesbury River, Mellissa's work ranges between vibrant interpretations of her local landscape to intricate wood & linocuts.
Her combination of quirkiness and calm blend to create works with a strong spiritual base.