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Location in Goiás
Coordinates: 16°49′22″S 49°13′32″W / 16.82278°S 49.22556°W / -16.82278; -49.22556
Central-West
City Status
(2018 est.[1])
Aparecidense
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Aparecida de Goiânia (Portuguese pronunciation: [apaɾeˈsidɐ dʒi ɡoˈjɐ̃niɐ]) is a city and municipality in central Goiás, Brazil. It is the second largest city in the state and a bustling industrial center.
3 Political Information
6 Health (2007) and Education (2006)
Bordering on the southern limits of Goiânia, 21 kilometers from the center, Aparecida has experienced rapid growth as a suburb and an option for less expensive housing than in neighboring Goiânia.
Municipal boundaries are with:
North: Goiânia
South: Hidrolândia
East: Bela Vista de Goiás and Senador Canedo
West: Aragoiânia and Abadia de Goiás
The city is cut by the BR-153 (Goiânia-São Paulo) and several municipal highways and bathed by the Meia Ponte River.
Population density: 1,647.7 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
Population growth 2000-2007: 5.06.%
Population change: the population, now over 400, 000, has been growing at a fast rate since 1980, when it was 42,000.
Political Information
In January 2005 the mayor was Jos�� Macedo de Araújo. There were 224,835 eligible voters in December 2007 and the city council had 17 members. In October 2008 Maguito Vilela was elected mayor, who took office in January 2009.
The history of Aparecida, like that of Goiânia, is recent. In 1922 followers of Our Lady of Aparecida donated land so that their neighbors could build a church for the Virgin. In 1958 it was elevated to the condition of Vila, as a district of Goiânia with the name Aparecida de Goiás. In 1958 the name was changed to Goialândia which remained until 1963 when it emancipated itself and assumed the name of Aparecida de Goiânia.
Its proximity to the capital has attracted important industries like Mabel (cookies), Vepeza and others, concentrated in the four different industrial zones on the edge of BR-153. In recent years the number of companies has doubled. In 2007 there were 964 industries. The industrial centers in the city are Distrito Agroindustrial de Aparecida de Goiânia (Daiag), Distrito Industrial (Dimag), Pólo Empresarial Goiás and Cidade Empresarial.
In 2007 there were 13 financial institutions in the city.
Despite the heavy industrialization Aparecida still produces agricultural products. The cattle herd was 11,700 in 2003. Other agricultural products are rice, manioc, bananas, coconut, and sugarcane.
Health (2007) and Education (2006)
Hospitals: 08
Hospital beds: 782
Infant mortality rate: 1990—35.4; 2000—20.9
Higher education: Faculdade Alfredo Nasser - UNIFAN; - Faculdade Nossa Senhora Aparecida - FANAP; - Universidade Estadual de Goiás - UEG; - Faculdade Mestra( Padrão); - Faculdade Sul da América - SULDAMÉRICA.
Literacy rate: 1991—85.2%; 2000—92.1%
HDI: 0.764
State ranking: 49 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking: 1,488 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
The climate is tropical wet and dry or savanna climate (Aw) with an annual average of 21 °C and a rainfall index of 1,500 mm., with rains concentrated in the months of November to March.
One of the festivals that most attracts tourists to this industrial city is the festival of its patroness, Nossa Senhora Aparecida.
List of municipalities in Goiás
^ "Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics" (PDF) (in Portuguese). 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2019. 2018 Estimates of Population
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Source: Lakers' Larry Nance Jr. won't compete in dunk contest
ByBaxter Holmes
High-flying Los Angeles Lakers forward Larry Nance Jr., the son of the league's first dunk champion, will not be competing at the dunk contest during the Feb. 17-19 NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans, according to a league source.
Nance Jr., who has been vocal about his excitement to participate, received an invite earlier this season, the source said, but Nance's plans were interrupted by a bone bruise in his left knee, which sidelined him for 16 games in December and January.
Celtics rookie Jaylen Brown also said he will not compete in the dunk contest.
"I am honored to even be asked to compete in the Slam Dunk Contest on All Star Saturday," he told ESPN's Chris Haynes. "However I decided to pass this year because I want to focus all my energy on being ready to help my team. I hope the league asks me again. I would love to show what I can do in the future."
Nance Jr., the former Wyoming standout, has returned to action and played in Sunday's loss to Dallas. But the injury gave him a short window to prepare before the Feb. 18 contest, which led him to inform the NBA earlier in January that he'll have to miss out, the source said.
He faced a similar situation during his rookie year, when a sore right knee in January and February forced him to miss action. So he declined the invitation to complete in the dunk contest.
With the All-Star game being played in Los Angeles in 2018, Nance Jr. is hopeful that he'll be able to follow in his father's footsteps and win the dunk contest, as Larry Nance Sr. did in 1984.
Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon, the runner-up in last year's NBA Slam Dunk Contest, will compete in this year's event, sources tell Haynes.
Sources also tell Haynes that Phoenix Suns undrafted rookie guard Derrick Jones has been invited, but is still weighing his options.
The Orange County Register first reported that Nance Jr. wasn't expected to compete in this year's event.
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2019 Australian Open: Glicko Preview
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MARTIN INGRAM – DATA SCIENTIST
Martin is passionate about good code and gaining insights from data with a particular interest in sports analytics. He completed a Bachelor Of Arts, Natural Sciences (Physical) at Cambridge before completing his Masters of Science, Computing Science.
In this preview, I use Glicko, a ratings system developed by Harvard Professor Mark Glickman, to predict this year's Australian Open. Glicko is a generalisation of the Elo rating system which considers not just a player's mean skill, but also the uncertainty about that skill.
This allows Glicko to deal more naturally with player absences than Elo: if a player is out of the competition for long periods, Glicko becomes more uncertain and makes larger adjustments to their rating when they return. If you would like to know more about Glicko, you can have a look at the original paper or a less technical write-up here.
Without further ado, here are the top 8 Glicko ratings for the men and women.
(1) Rafael Nadal* 2058 73
(2) Roger Federer 2032 67
(3) Novak Djokovic 2001 62
(4) Alexander Zverev 1887 58
(5) Kei Nishikori 1866 57
(6) Kevin Anderson 1840 57
(7) Marin Cilic 1817 62
(8) Andy Murray 1817 82
Perhaps surprisingly, Glicko puts Nadal on the top of the rankings. Looking purely at the results in his last tournaments in 2018, he looks strong: Nadal reached the semi-finals of the US Open (retired against del Potro), winning the Rogers Cup just before that. However, big doubts surround Nadal's fitness this year. He underwent ankle surgery after the US Open and most recently withdrew from Brisbane. If he is fit, he is a strong contender, but given his injury issues, I do not consider him the favourite, hence the asterisk by his name.
Federer is given the second highest ranking, 26 points behind Nadal. After a stellar 2017, Federer's 2018 season was more mixed and included some surprising losses, including one to John Millman at last year's US Open. However, he had a fairly strong end to the last season, playing close matches against Djokovic at the Paris Masters and Zverev at the ATP World Tour Finals. Though it is only an exhibition, his form looked good at this year's Hopman Cup, too, which he won with Belinda Bencic, making him one of the two favourites (together with Djokovic).
Novak Djokovic is ranked third by Glicko. After a lacklustre start, his second half of 2018 was very strong, earning him a Wimbledon and US Open title, among others. His last three tournaments suggest that he may not be unbeatable – losing to Khachanov in Paris, Zverev at the World Tour Finals, and, most recently, Bautista Agut in Doha – but those losses came in two finals and a semi-final, so he is certainly playing at a high level. At a rating of 2001, he is just 31 points behind Federer, which gives him a 46% probability of beating him.
Alexander Zverev, after some strong results last year, is ranked fourth by Glicko. However, with 1887 points, over 100 points separate him from Federer and Djokovic, which translates to a 35% win probability against Djokovic and 31% against Federer. In addition, he has struggled to translate his stellar results at Masters to results at Grand Slams, his best result being a quarter-final at the French Open last year. With victories over both Federer and Djokovic at last year's World Tour Finals, he has shown that he can beat the best players, but he has yet to prove that he can do it at Grand Slams, too.
Nishikori and Anderson come in 5th and 6th. After many years of injury issues, Nishikori had some strong results recently, reaching the semi-finals of the US Open and winning Brisbane last week. Similarly, Anderson had a strong 2018, reaching the finals of Wimbledon. Like Nishikori, he has done well in a warm-up tournament, winning Chennai. Both Nishikori and Anderson appear to be in good form and may go far in the tournament. With ratings of 1866 and 1840, they are expected to beat Federer with 29% and 26% probability, respectively.
Marin Cilic is ranked 7th by Glicko. Last year's Australian Open finalist, Cilic looked strong in 2018 until the US Open, where he lost in the quarter finals. After that, he struggled, losing early in Tokyo, Shanghai and Basel. He recently beat Anderson in the Kooyong exhibition, but doubts linger about a knee injury.
Finally, Andy Murray is ranked 8th. His skill uncertainty, at 82, is the highest of all players, reflecting his long absences due to injury. Since Wimbledon 2017, Murray has only played 8 tournaments, with his best results being a quarter final in Washington and Shenzhen last year. Most recently, he lost to Daniil Medvedev in the second round of Brisbane. Nevertheless, it is hard to count out a champion, and it will be interesting to see how he fares at the Australian Open.
Winners and Losers compared to last year
Among the current players ranked in the top 32 by Glicko, several players improved by over 100 points in the last year. The largest gains were made by Karen Khachanov (+168), Daniil Medvedev (+168) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (+163).
Aged just 22 (Medvedev, Khachanov) and 20 (Tsitsipas), these players are worth keeping an eye on. Similarly, Borna Coric (+135) and Alex de Minaur (+104) are young players on the rise. Martin Klizan (+148) and Kevin Anderson (+118) are the other players who gained more than 100 points over the last year.
The biggest loser compared to last year is – unsurprisingly – Andy Murray (-179). Stan Wawrinka (-113) dropped the second-most points, and Gael Monfils (-91), Grigor Dimitrov (-85) and Roger Federer (-74) also look somewhat worse than last year.
(1) Serena Williams 1932 88
(2) Simona Halep* 1880 77
(3) Angelique Kerber 1850 68
(4) Elina Svitolina 1839 70
(5) Karolina Pliskova 1836 63
(6) Arina Sabalenka 1835 63
(7) Ashleigh Barty 1829 65
(8) Caroline Wozniacki 1800 69
On the women's side, 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams comes in as the favourite with a Glicko rating of 1932. While ranked first, she also has the highest uncertainty of all players in the top 8, at 88, due to her playing only 7 tournaments since the Australian Open in 2017 (8 if Hopman Cup is included). She had some strong results last year, reaching the finals of both the US Open and Wimbledon, but failed to win a tournament. At the Hopman Cup, she won all three of her matches, suggesting that she appears to be physically fit.
Simona Halep comes in as second favourite, but big doubts surround her physical fitness. Since losing in the finals of Cincinnati, she lost four consecutive first round matches, most recently against Ash Barty in Sydney. She missed the end of last year due to a back surgery. As a result, despite her high Glicko rating, I have given her an asterisk.
Angelique Kerber is ranked third. With a Glicko rating of 1850, she is expected to have a 39% chance of beating Serena Williams. After beating Williams in last year's Wimbledon final, she had poor results in the rest of 2018, failing to progress past the third round in any of the six tournaments she played. This year, she won all her matches at the Hopman Cup, and she is still in contention for the Sydney title.
After Kerber, four players are ranked within ten points of each other by Glicko: Elina Svitolina, Karolina Pliskova, Arina Sabalenka, and Ashleigh Barty. With around 1835 Glicko points, each of them is estimated to have roughly 37% probability of beating Williams.
Svitolina finished 2018 off strongly, winning the WTA Championships. At Grand Slams however, her performance has been subpar in the past; she has so far failed to progress past the quarter finals. Most recently, she lost her first-round match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich in Brisbane.
Pliskova, on the other hand, won Brisbane, suggesting she is on good form. Her results in Grand Slams last year were not stellar — she reached the quarter finals at the Australian Open, the third round at the French Open, fourth at Wimbledon, and quarter finals at the US Open – but she had some good tournament wins near the end of the year in Tokyo and Tianjin.
Sabalenka has had a great start to the year, winning Shenzhen, though she lost in the first round of Sydney (to Kvitova). Last year, highlights included wins in Wuhan and New Haven. Sabalenka is only 20 years old and may be worth looking out for. Her best result at a Grand Slam so far was a fourth round at last year's US Open, however, so she has yet to prove herself at a Grand Slam.
Ashleigh Barty also started the year quite well, beating Halep and Ostapenko in Sydney. She had a good finish to last year, beating Kerber in Wuhan before losing in the semi-finals (to Sabalenka), and winning the WTA Elite tournament. Like Sabalenka and Svitolina, she has not yet made it past the 4th round at a Grand Slam, that result coming at last year's US Open.
Finally, Caroline Wozniacki rounds out the top 8. After winning her long-awaited first Grand Slam at the Australian Open last year, she had a period of mixed results with some highlights, such as wins in Eastbourne and Beijing. Most recently, she lost to qualifier Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in Auckland, suggesting she may not yet be on the top of her game.
Among the players ranked in the top 32 by Glicko, the three players with the biggest gains were Kiki Bertens (+186), Donna Vekic (+177), and Arina Sabalenka (+174).
Naomi Osaka, last year's US Open winner, also made big strides, gaining 139 points, and Qiang Wang (+115), Camila Giorgi (+114), Lesia Tsurenko (+113), Anett Kontaveit (+106) and Angelique Kerber (+104) are also considerably stronger than they were last year.
On the other hand, Victoria Azarenka (-123), Serena Williams (-111), Garbine Muguruza (-72), Johanna Konta (-64) and Venus Williams (-59) lost some points over the last year.
In summary, the Australian Open 2019 promises to be an exciting tournament.
On the men's side, Glicko rates the Big Three – Nadal, Djokovic and Federer – highest. Given Nadal's injury woes, Djokovic and Federer are the most likely candidates to win. That said, players such as Zverev and Nishikori are not too far behind, and it will be interesting to see how far they go this year.
For the women, Glicko rates Serena Williams ahead, but Kerber and others are not too far behind, and young talents, such as Sabalenka, are on the rise. It will be interesting to see whether Sabalenka, Barty or Svitolina can go deep in the tournament.
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Q: iPhone web application developed using ASP.Net We are developing an ASP.Net web application and need that application to work properly on iPhone

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*Are there any  memory constraints for an ASP.Net web application  to work properly on iPhone

*are there any issues with  usage of ASP.net controls like gridview/ tab view etc.

*would there be any issues with 3rd party controls like Ajax RADSchduler from Telerik

*any other other constraints for a web application to work on iPhone.

Thnx
Amit

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*If we are talking about a standard asp.net website, memory constraints aren't really the issue. Asp.net just generates (ugly) html with some javascript. Nothing really special about that. Memory in this setup is important server-side. Offcours asp.net tends to generate lots of bloat when viewstate is enabled (without it, too). And this IS an issue when it comes to bandwidth, especially for mobile applications.

*When using the Asp.net Ajax Toolkit, it should work crossbrowser. Apple Safari version 2.0 or later versions are supported.

*Checkout the docs for the 3rd party controls, which browsers are supported. If Safari is supported, it should work.

*But i would suggest using asp.NET MVC instead of standard asp.net controls, because it allows full control over html and javascript. This will ensure minimum use of bandwith and maximum javascript performance. Or any other language/framework with full control like php/codeigniter or python/django. And maybe a javascript library like mootools, jquery or prototype.

A: I think having a real iPhone to test on would be most optimal.
As for integrating third-party components you should be able to ask the vendor about their support. These Telerisk and Infrastigistic components look great, but you need to ask yourself do you need that amount of power and options, if you follow the mantra of the iPhone and Apple in general you'll want to keep it as simple as possible.
One approach is to develop a different view for the iPhone, keeping the display basic and optimized to the dimensions of the screen and the touch system rather than cursor.
Since Safari is based on Webkit you can get some basic compatibility testing on your local PC.

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I have been married for six years. This is my first marriage, but the second for my wife. Everything was going well until my 18-year-old daughter, who lives in rural Jamaica, asked me if she could come and stay with us and go to school.
We have a three, bedroom house, and it is only my wife and I living here. I told her mother that I have no objection to her coming.
I have always supported my two children. The boy is older and he is doing welding. He has a girlfriend and she has two children for him.
My daughter was living with her mother. There is not a week that she doesn't call me. She doesn't even have a serious boyfriend.
When I told my wife that she wants to come and stay with us and go to school, my wife objected and said that she wouldn't want her in the house because an 18-year-old girl is a big woman. She felt that she would bring her man into the house. I told her that that doesn't have to happen. We can lay down the rules. She still said no, she doesn't want her in the house.
Imagine, Pastor, this house is mine. I bought the land and built it. I am a small contractor, and now this woman is telling me that my daughter can't come here to stay and go to school.
When I became friendly with my wife, my younger brother told me that I should be careful because something must be wrong for a woman to get divorced and she does not even have a child or money.
When I took this woman, she told me she did not have any money. I bought her a car, and she is working. Sometimes she still asks me for money.
I asked her what she does with her money, and she says she has it in the bank. She is always going to Miami and to New York to shop.
I am not complaining about that, but I don't see why my daughter can't live here with us.
Tell me if I am wrong, Pastor. If my daughter can't live here with us, don't you think my wife should leave? I told her that she would have to go, and she told me that I can't put her out.
So, I am here asking for your advice. My daughter is here now, but she doesn't talk to my daughter at all.
I wish not to cause any problem, but, sir, c ontinue to do your very best for your daughter . Your wife is not even willing to give this young woman a chance to prove herself.
She is determined not to have her stay at your house and that attitude is wrong. What does she know about this young woman that would cause her to feel that she would bring men into your house?
There are women who do not like to have stepchildren living with them regardless of who these stepchildren are. I say to you, don't allow your daughter to leave your house.
But I go further to say, please go and see a lawyer for legal advice. This woman seems to be a gold digger.


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Hinterkind #1
by Jennifer Cheng
in Comics, Comic Book Reviews
Francesco Trifogli
Colors by
Cris Peter
Letters by
Dezi Sienty
Greg Tocchini
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Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifogli begin "Hinterkind" #1 with a cinematic teaser page, zeroing with fractured camera closeups on a scene of bloody mayhem and some monstrous hands, before cutting away into the splendor of a forest landscape. It's a great introduction, because the two settings together sum up the vivid energy and man vs. nature themes of the title.
There's a lot of world-building to do with a post-apocalyptic civilization, and thankfully, Edginton reveals a lot of the world without information dumps. First, Edginton uses the technique of a fictitious historical or religious text, in this case, the casual voice of "The First Book of Monday," to set up backstory and also to give this world a sense of history. Secondly, he reveals the world through following two young characters who draw the reader in through their dialogue and friendship.
With so much focus on the new world order, Edginton doesn't have a lot of room to develop characterization. Prosper's wise and protective mentor-figure father is definitely a type, but Edginton's dialogue gives Prosper and Angus's friendship some depth and spark. It does feel too convenient for the plot that the two would find a reason to ditch the adults and take off. The catalyst for this action is Angus' secret, an unexpected twist. Another notable part of Angus' identity is also revealed by the pictures on his wall, but Trifogli's panel transitions cleverly downplay one set of facts to maximize the reader's and Prosper's shock.
Edginton also lulls the reader by playing up the camaraderie and affection between the human characters, so the violence of the first page is almost forgotten by the time the plot decides to remind the reader that this world has other threats. The profanity in the scene when this other threat is introduced is effective in reinforcing the jolt to the reader's complacency. The villains aren't given enough panel time for character development, but Edginton drops in an enticing hint about an impatient and violent queen.
Francesco Trifogli's is art is an excellent match for the rapid world-building. Instead of the usual motion lines, he draws an action scene of Prosper hunting by showing the faded trace of her old position. It's a well-executed image, and feels appropriate to the landscape of foliage-created shadows and sunshine.
In the introductory sequence for Prosper and Angus, Trifogli's camera angle pulls away to reveal their home settlement in a beautiful, almost abstract landscape, emphasizing the smallness of the red and brown bits of civilization almost lost within the dominant green. Cris Peter's palette evokes the wildness and brilliancy of the verdant world. The colors are attention-grabbing and reinforce Edginton's intention that nature itself is a character in "Hinterkind" #1.
"Hinterkind" #1 is a strong expository issue, establishing the main characters, central themes and conflicts. It skimps on characterization in favor of action and world-building, but there is still enough to hook readers into picking up the next issue.
X-Men: Several Major Mutant Deaths Mark the End of an Era


Christmas is around the corner (just 55 days away) and I LOVE this time of year! I started my blog in January and i've had such a positive response to it that I wanted to give one of my lovely readers a Christmas Treat!
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Such a lovely giveaway! I love St Moriz so that's probably my fave item!
I'd love to try the Hask Hair products!
The Argon Oil Shampoo and Conditioner look great.
Everything looks amazing, thank you so much for this!
The Argan Oil looks fab, as does everything!
Definately the St Moriz set as I've read so many good blog posts about it! Would love to give it a wizz on my pasty skin myself! hehe!
Ooh this giveaway sounds wonderful, especially the pizza vouchers hehe!
The Collection gel finish polishes I have a couple of these and they are amazing!
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evaluation for safety of subjects i.e at the end of both periods.
Here I have one doubt. After end of period-I, if any parameter (e.g.
haemoglobine, bilrubin, etc) find out or reference, what will we do?
period, on what basis can we take him?
known to cause elevation of liver enzymes, you can add ALT and AST.
these tests do not amount to a lot but safety wise, they are useful.
book "Drug safety assessment in clinical trials" by Gene S. Gilbert.
to be recorded as an adverse event and followed up.


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Q: Creating a script involving the memory usage of processes How can one create a bash script that displays the sum of memory usage for the processes which have PID<100?

A: #!/bin/bash
ps -e -o pid,pmem | awk '{  if($1>100) s+=$2} END {print s}'


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Agricultural Production and Technology
Improving the Effectiveness, Efficiency and Sustainability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Saa Dittoh, Olubunmi Abayomi Omotosho, Adama Belemvire, Margaret Akurib, Khondoker Tanveer Haider
Global Development Network
kathryn.kincheloe 20 Feb, 2013 16:02
http://digital.agripolicyoutreach.org/54544/IMPROVING-THE-EFFECTVENESS-EFFICIENCY-AND-SUSTAINABILTY-OF-FERTILIZER-USE-IN-SUB-SAHARAN-AFRICA/Research-Paper
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Dittoh, S., O. A. Omotosho, A. Belemvire, M. Akurib, and K. T. Haider, "Improving the Effectiveness, Efficiency and Sustainability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa", GDN Policy Research Paper 3, June 2012.
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Fertilizer had been part of the technological trinity (improved seed, irrigation, and fertilizer) responsible for bringing about the Green Revolution of Latin America and Asia. Its adequate and efficient use should, therefore, be a main ingredient in achieving food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). At present, average fertilizer use intensity in SSA is the lowest compared to anywhere in the world and the region needs to take affirmative action to improve the situation.
Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model?
Nazaire Houssou, Xinshen Diao, Frances Cossar, Shashidhara Kolavalli, Kipo Jimah, and Patrick Ohene Aboagye
International Food Policy Research Institute
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-mechanization-ghana
Houssou, N., X. Diao, F. Cossar, S. Kolavalli, K. Jimah, and P. O. Aboagye. "Agricultural mechanization in Ghana: Is specialization in agricultural mechanization a viable business model?" IFPRI, GSSP Working Paper No. 30, January 2013.
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The Government of Ghana (GoG) since 2007 has been providing subsidized agricultural machines to individual farmers and private enterprises established as specialized Agricultural Mechanization Services Enterprise Centers (AMSECs) to offer tractor-hire services to small-scale farmers across the country. Current demand in the country is primarily focused on land preparation services, especially plowing. This paper assesses whether AMSEC enterprises are a viable business model attractive to private investors.
Gender differences in access to extension services and agricultural productivity
Catherine Ragasa, Guush Berhane, Fanaye Tadesse, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
International Food Policy Research Institute and Ethiopian Development Research Institute
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/gender-differences-access-extension-services-and-agricultural-productivity
Ragasa, C., G. Berhane, F. Tadesse, and A. S. Taffesse. "Gender Differences in Access to Extension Services and Agricultural Productivity," IFPRI & EDRI, ESSP Working Paper No. 49, December 2012.
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This paper contributes new empirical evidence and nuanced analysis on the gender difference in access to extension services and how this translates to observed differences in technology adoption and agricultural productivity. We employ a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression method using a regionally-representative dataset of more than 7,500 households and 32,000 plots in four major regions in Ethiopia that was collected during the 2010 main season.
Impact of off-farm income on agricultural technology adoption intensity and productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmers in Uganda
Gracious M. Dirro
International Food Policy Research Institute/ Uganda Strategy Support Program
kathryn.kincheloe 23 Jan, 2013 16:23
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/impact-farm-income-agricultural-technology-adoption-intensity-and-productivity
Dirro, G.M. "Impact of off-farm income on agricultural technology adoption intensity and productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmers in Uganda," IFPRI/USSP Working Paper No. 11, January 2013.
Read more about Impact of off-farm income on agricultural technology adoption intensity and productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmers in Uganda
This study analyzed the impact of off-farm earnings on the intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties and the productivity of maize farming in Uganda in the years 2005/06 and 2009/10. Summary statistics show significantly higher adoption intensity and expenditure on purchased inputs among households with off-farm income relative to their counterparts without off-farm income.
Improved performance of agriculture in Africa South of the Sahara
Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Michael Johnson, Bingxin Yu
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/improved-performance-agriculture-africa-south-sahara-taking-or-bouncing-back-taking-or-bouncing-back-taking-or-bouncing-back-taking-or-bouncing-back
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The improved performance of the agricultural sector in Africa south of the Sahara during the most recent decade (2000–2010) has raised questions about the drivers behind the growth. Skeptics argue that rising commodity prices, as world markets experience a commodity boom, are the main cause of the agricultural growth. Others point to improvements in the policy environment and increased investments in agriculture at a time when African governments and donors have been rallying to increase their support to agriculture.
Does water harvesting induce fertilizer use among smallholders? Evidence from Ethiopia
Mekonnen B. Wakeyo and Cornelis Gardebroek
yuan 15 Oct, 2012 15:32
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X1200128X
Mekonnen B. Wakeyo, Cornelis Gardebroek "Does water harvesting induce fertilizer use among smallholders? Evidence from Ethiopia" Agricultural Systems, Volume 114, January 2013, Pages 54-63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2012.08.005
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Rainfall shortage is a major production risk for smallholder farmers. Due to rainfall shortage, smallholders limit the use of modern inputs such as fertilizer and improved seeds. This study investigates if water harvesting technologies (WHTs) induce fertilizer use and whether there is joint adoption of fertilizer and water harvesting technologies. Using panel data collected from Ethiopian farmers in two regions in 2005 and 2010, a random effects probit model and a bivariate probit model are estimated to investigate these two issues.
Calibration and evaluation of a semi-distributed watershed model of Sub-Saharan Africa using GRACE data
H. Xie, L. Longuevergne, C. Ringler1, and B. R. Scanlon
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/16/3083/2012/hess-16-3083-2012.pdf
Xie, H., Longuevergne, L., Ringler, C., and Scanlon, B. R.: Calibration and evaluation of a semi-distributed watershed model of Sub-Saharan Africa using GRACE data, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 3083-3099, doi:10.5194/hess-16-3083-2012, 2012.
Read more about Calibration and evaluation of a semi-distributed watershed model of Sub-Saharan Africa using GRACE data
Irrigation development is rapidly expanding in mostly rainfed Sub-Saharan Africa. This expansion underscores the need for a more comprehensive understanding of water resources beyond surface water. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites provide valuable information on spatio-temporal variability in water storage.
Identifying Recommendation Domains for Targeting Dual-purpose Maize-based Interventions in Crop-livestock Systems in East Africa
An Notenbaerta, Mario Herreroa, Hugo De Grooteb, Liang Youc, Ernesto Gonzalez-Estradaa, Michael Blummela
yuan 9 Oct, 2012 12:50
An Notenbaert, Mario Herrero, Hugo De Groote, Liang You, Ernesto Gonzalez-Estrada, Michael Blummel, Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa, Land Use Policy, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 834-846, ISSN 0264-8377, 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.06.016.
Read more about Identifying Recommendation Domains for Targeting Dual-purpose Maize-based Interventions in Crop-livestock Systems in East Africa
In the three major maize producing countries in the East African region of Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia, up to 44% of the dietary calorie requirements is provided by maize. It is also recognized that livestock are an essential asset of poor farmers in the mixed crop-livestocksystems in this region. One of the major constraints to their productivity is, however, feed availability. A significant proportion of this feed is sourced from maize stover. We engaged in a multi-disciplinary research of dual-purposemaize cultivars with the purpose of contributing to smallholder food security.
Trends and spatial patterns in agricultural productivity in Africa, 1961-2010
Samuel Benin, Alejandro Nin Pratt, Stanley Wood, Zhe Guo
https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/127142
Read more about Trends and spatial patterns in agricultural productivity in Africa, 1961-2010
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) provides an agriculture-led integrated framework of development priorities aimed at reducing poverty and increasing food security by achieving an average of 6 percent agricultural growth rate every year.
Forest management and economic rents: Evidence from the charcoal trade in Madagascar
Bart Minten, Klas Sander and David Stifel
Energy for Sustainable Development
yuan 10 Sep, 2012 11:53
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Licensing the exploitation of forest resources is often used as a preferred policy to regulate natural resource management in developing countries. Based on survey data from 178 charcoal traders, this paper studies the regulated charcoal trade in Madagascar and tests if regulatory control through a licensing system leads to rents (i.e., excess payments above those required to induce or provide for production) in charcoal trade. Two main findings were made.
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Saturday Sharp Action Report for Auburn-South Carolina, Ole Miss-Arkansas, Virginia-Wake Forest and Georgia-Alabamaa
By Josh Appelbaum (VSiN.com) Follow @josh_insights
Welcome to another action packed Saturday of college football. We have roughly 30 games to choose from today. For Saturday betting analysis and line movement updates, be sure to join Michael Lombardi, Patrick Meagher and myself this morning on NESN from 10 a.m.-noon ET on The Lombardi Line. We'll be dissecting all the big matchups and breaking down late sharp action leading up to kickoff.
In the meantime, let's discuss four Saturday matchups receiving sharp action from respected bettors.
12 p.m. ET: Auburn (2-1, ranked 15th) at South Carolina (1-2)
On paper, this looks like an easy win and cover for Auburn. After all, the Tigers are ranked and have a winning record while South Carolina is unranked and has a losing record. But a closer look at the line movement tells a different story. Auburn opened as a 3-point road favorite. Roughly two-thirds of bets are backing the Tigers as a short favorite. However, we've seen this line either remain frozen at 3 or fall slightly to 2.5. This signals smart money hitting South Carolina as a live home dog. South Carolina has value as a contrarian conference dog with a line move in their favor. Sharp money has also hammered the over, pushing the total up from 51.5 to 53.
3:30 p.m. ET: Mississippi (1-2) at Arkansas (1-2)
Both of these SEC teams are 1-2 and looking to get back to .500. Ole Miss just put forth a valiant effort against Alabama, losing 63-48 but covering as 24-point dogs. Mississippi is averaging 42 PPG on offense and giving up 52 PPG on defense. Similarly, Arkansas battled hard against Auburn, losing 30-28 but covering 13.5-point dogs. Arkansas has averaged 20 PPG on offense while giving up 27 PPG on defense. This line opened with Ole Miss listed as a 3-point road favorite. Just under two-thirds of bets are backing Ole Miss, yet we've seen this line fall from 3 to 1.5. This sharp reverse line movement is a dead giveaway that pros got down on home dog Arkansas, dropping the line in their favor. Keep an eye on the weather in this game. The forecast calls for 15 to 20 MPH winds. The public is hammering hte over, yet the total hasn't budged off of 76.5. This lack of upward movement signals windy under liability.
4 p.m. ET: Virginia (1-2) at Wake Forest (1-2)
Both of these ACC teams are 1-2 and looking to get back to .500 with a victory. Virginia won their season opener against Duke but has since dropped two straight, most recently falling to NC State 38-21, losing straight up as 7-point favorites. Wake Forest started the season 0-2 but then crushed Campbell 66-14, easily covering as 34-point favorites. This line opened with Virginia listed as a 3-point road favorite. Spread bets are split down the middle and the public doesn't know who to take. However, we've seen this line fall from Virginia -3 to -1.5. This signals pro money grabbing Wake at home, causing sharp reverse line movement in their favor. Sharps have also gotten down hard on this under, dropping it from 62.5 all the way to 56.
8 p.m. ET: Georgia (3-0, ranked 3rd) at Alabama (3-0, ranked 2nd)
This primetime SEC showdown features two of the best teams in the country going head-to-head. Georgia is coming off a 44-21 win over Tennessee, covering as 12-point favorites. The Bulldogs are undefeated and have outscored their opponents by an average margin of 36-12. Meanwhile, Alabama just beat Ole Miss 63-48, failing to cover as 24-point favorites. The undefeated Crimson Tide have outscored their opponents by an average margin of 51-30. This line opened with Alabama listed as a 6-point home favorite. The public is all over Alabama as a relatively short home favorite. However, despite two-thirds of bets laying the points, we've seen this line fall from Bama -6 to -4.5. This signals sharp reverse line movement on the Bulldogs, with pros grabbing Georgia and the points. We've also seen some sharp money hit this total. It opened at 56.5 and has been bet up to 58 despite over/under bets being split down the middle. This signals pro money hitting the over. A big x-factor here is Alabama coach Nick Saban. He tested positive for COVID-19 and it's unclear whether he will be coaching in person or not. One big edge to Georgia: when two top-5 teams go head-to-head, the dog has covered at roughly a 60% clip over the past decade.
More notable line moves
Mississippi State + 6.5 to + 5 vs Texas A&M
Miami -10.5 to -13 vs Pitt
Navy-ECU Under 59.5 to 54.5
UNC -10 to -13.5 at FSU
Virginia Tech -10.5 to -13 vs BC
Temple -10 to -13 vs USF
South Alabama -2 to -3.5 vs Texas State
Georgia Southern -28 to -31 vs UMass


Summet Arora, SVP Engineering CISCO, reported some really impressive figures, statistics and predictions for Digital India, i.e. India's Digital Growth. Summet blog post was published following India's first ever Mobile Congress kicked off in New Delhi in September.
With more than 400 million current users, the country's Internet adoption is the second largest in the world (after China)… and it is growing. As its citizens embrace new technologies, a massive number of connections are coming online. These users are expecting more services and better experiences—as a result, consumption is pressing heavily on the limits of the country's current broadband infrastructure.
Over the next four years, Internet usage is expected to double to more than 829 million users!
India's economy is gaining huge momentum from digitization and is creating a significant Socio-economic impact.
Rural India – 250,000 villages will be connected to the Internet by 2019.
Education – the Indian government is aiming to train 400 million people in different skills by 2022. Cisco has committed to train 250,000 by 2020.
Innovation – Cisco's Innovation Labs and Centers of Excellence will touch 200 new startups. India now ranks third in global startups.
GDP – 20% of all transactions are online. By 2020, India's internet industry will double to $250 billion and contribute 7.5% of the GDP and Cisco will be playing a key role in this transformation.
Healthcare – India is currently ranked 127th by the World Health Organization. By the end of 2018, citizens across India will benefit from E-Healthcare, which includes virtual consultations, online medical records, and online medicine supplies. Cisco is currently collaborating with the Govt. of Rajasthan to help enable remote healthcare as well as telemedicine for the armed forces.
Summet reports that Cisco is playing a proactive role in shaping India's digital landscape through the CDA (Country Digital Acceleration) program.


This information is only available to students completing Roger Greens trainings and is not published to the general public.
Each technique being covered has a unique comprehensive workbook based on 25 years research and practical involment by Roger Green.
All the Southern Hemipshere Feng Shui calculations are intellectual property of Roger Green and have international copyright protection.
The Taoist's elegant yet scientific approach to looking at nature allowed them to formulate some profoundly rational principles. In many cases it confirms our own instinctive ideas about what makes a happy and productive environment. Feng Shui builds on this intuition through the understanding of sound principles, allowing us to maximize beneficial energy flow, ideally in a way that is harmonious with our own unique culture, values, beliefs- for both the northern and southern hemispheres!
Become a certified Feng Shui Practitioner at the Sydney School of Feng Shui.
There is no better time than now to begin your journey.
Take this opportunity to study with a pioneer of Feng Shui in the west.
Roger Green is recognised as one of the world's most innovative and dynamic teachers on Feng Shui. A lively and enthusiastic teaching style, he illuminates and explores the deeper principles and underlying wisdom of this ancient philosophy. Integrating the various schools of Feng Shui into a creative, flexible and holistic approach, he is a pioneer of Feng Shui in the west, having been the first to teach classical Feng Shui methods in Europe, London and America. He was the first to develop a western english Lo pan compass, and seminars to teach the 4 pillars, flying star, lo pan and ba zhai and other classical feng shui methods. He is the author of the best selling The I Ching Workbook.
Roger Green was the first to establish an effective protocol to apply feng shui to the southern hemisphere, and has taught in over 50 countries and trained hundreds of Feng Shui practitioners worldwide.
He currently teaches his curriclum with the New York School of Feng Shui, and is the Director of the Academy Sacred Geometry and the Academy Healing Nutrition.
In the past, he has been the Founder and Director of the European, London, Sydney and San Francisco Schools of Feng Shui. In 1996, Roger organised the first ever Feng Shui study tour of China. Since then, he has organised several study tours to China, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Mexico and Peru and has sponsored International Feng Shui, Ecology and Sacred Geometry Conferences in Prague, Zurich, Melbourne, Budapest, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and New England. Over the last seven years he has hosted a retreat in South France, exploring the deep secrets of the western esoteric traditions and mystery schools and sacred sites.
This course is offered only by ONLINE TRAINING because of Roger's busy schedule, so take the opportunity to train yourself completely in the Southern Hemisphere Feng Shui techniques, and become a qualified Southern Hemisphere Feng Shui Practitioner.
Our time-tested curriculum integrates the richness of eastern philosophies with innovative western techniques. It balances ancient traditions with modern knowledge, and analytical thinking with intuitive being. You will gain insight into the treasures of Taoist Philosophy as we explore the limitless possibilities for enriching our lives by applying the principles of the ancient Art and Philosophy of Feng Shui to our contemporary lives. Our principle based non-dogmatic teaching inspires students to reach new heights. Once mastered, these principles become a catalyst for personal, community and global transformation This intensive is taught in Roger's concise and inimitable style, and is filled with universal wisdom, and clarity of purpose.
" A week later I'm still 'coming down' from our truly inspiring training with Roger, which, I feel, has opened a new chapter in my life. It was trulywonderful. I feel so fortunate to be part of this program".
"No one covers this subject as clearly as Roger Green. Some of the subject matter is quite intense. Roger's Light hearted generous and very insightful teaching style opens the door to maximum understanding for the students. Also his explanation of Southern Hemisphere Feng Shui will make a believer out of you".
"Any human willing to wrestle the scaffolding of ancient traditions with Certainty and Truth is beyond any accolade I could write of. OF COURSE the Southern Hemisphere is to be -----included. It is astonishing to think so otherwise. Roger having stepped outside of The Box with earnest intention, knocking down the walls of Tradition is beyond remarkable. The Southern Hemisphere is now on the map of feng shui, thanks to this kind and brilliant man." I am honored to have been in the company of such a person. Being in your class was one of those lifetime Great Experiences. Without a doubt, the level of education I expected to receive was surpassed in spades. It is my only hope that I can walk the Talk of my Teachers as I move forward into my dream."
"Roger is very eloquent with words, therefore able to teach in a manner which is tangible and easy to comprehend. I remained interested and enthusiastic about the material all throughout the days during the long weekend. His enthusiasm and knowledge is contagious! Thank you for everything, Roger!"
In this section of the Intensive training we enter into the fascinating study of a very important system based on Taoist Metaphysics and Cosmology. Used extensively by Feng Shui experts in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Four Pillars is an ancient system that reveals aspects of destiny, constitutional dynamics, and beneficial elements. This sophisticated method is as useful for deriving important and very personal Feng Shui information about Feng Shui clients as well as clearly revealing aspects of their character. Armed with superior knowledge of their clients and their needs, the practitioner can optimize the relevance and results of the consultation.
Four pillars is an ancient system of constructing a Horoscope based on the "Heavenly Stems" and "Earthly Branches" at the hour, day, month and year of birth. Interpretation is the result of examining the manner in which the elements and animal archetypes contained in the charts interact with aspects within the chart as well as conditions in the world.
Roger Green is a pioneer of Four Pillars in Western culture, having introduced these methods for the first time to thousands of students in Europe, UK, USA and Australia. He created the first effective protocols for 100% correct chart calculations, stressing the importance of determining correct local solar time and by developing the appropriate adaptation for calculating Southern Hemisphere charts. This has never been accomplished before in history.
Included with this course is an extensive step by step manual for calculating and interpreting Four Pillars; which is not available anywhere else and contains Roger's simplified technique for creating Four Pillars and Luck Pillars charts.
1. We combine the most vital aspects of Classical Feng Shui with the best from other traditions. Completely compatible and will enhance any previous training.
3. Emphasis on personal and professional development - Health, healing and relationships. Working with intention and attraction. Creating your dream business your way.
5. Knowledge and mentorship - working closely with Roger Green. Roger is a Legend in Feng Shui and related fields and is considered by many to be the most experienced and knowledgable teacher of these subjects.
This was the most comprehensive training a Feng Shui practictioner could get. We are prepared to offer clients a full spectrum of options when asked to enter their living or working space. I am grateful for the experience and encourages to choose the same path.
Roger Green, a pioneer of classical Feng Shui methods in the West, was one of the first to teach it in Europe, London and America in the early 1990s. He was one of the first to develop a western Luo-pan compass, and has also developed a unique system of Feng Shui for the Southern hemisphere.
Interestingly, despite the obvious differences between Northern and Southern hemispheres (for example, air and water currents move in different directions; the planets and stars seen in the night sky are different; the cold winds come from different directions; the sunniest side of a building is different) there is ongoing debate amongst some of the best known and credible Feng Shui practitioners and teachers worldwide as to whether to alter the various ancient formulas to suit the Southern Hemisphere.
We must keep in mind that Feng Shui is both an art and a science that has been developing over thousands of years. We cannot ignorantly assume that this knowledge has reached its full potential and will cease to grow. Indeed, we live in a rapidly changing world that introduces many new challenges in the way we live and work including dealing with modern technology and the electromagnetic fields this produces, producing and consuming new foods, chemicals and medicines with unknown side effects, etc. Feng Shui principles must be developed, or refined, to meet these challenges. This is what was done in ancient China where many formulae frameworks were developed and refined to meet changing conditions and different geographic regions.
It should be clear from the foregoing that the development and refinement of Feng Shui must be ongoing. This requires a scientific approach consisting of evidence-based research (live case studies and experiments). Fortunately, Feng Shui Masters such as Roger Green are conducting research.
We need to seek truth from the facts and be practical and realistic with our approach to the study of Feng Shui. Our conclusions should come from thorough analytical research and we should continue to refine our conclusions all the time. Traditional knowledge will only survive if we make it useful and relevant to our modern needs.
Be inspired, uplifted and energized through cutting-edge knowledge.
Read Feng Shui for The Southern Hemisphere by Roger Green.


Join us for an open house on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, from 5-8pm, in the high school courtyard (beautified, courtesy of LHWHSPA) - we'll have signs to get you there.
Students can walk their schedules (they will not have the opportunity to walk their schedules at Orientation) and become comfortable moving around the building. Remind yours to bring a copy of their schedule, as no paper copies will be available.
See you on August 4! You can come when you can and stay as long as you like.
Will you be there? An RSVP to lhwhspa@gmail.com is appreciated.
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Criminal Probe Into Widespread Trump Election Meddling Moves Forward
Caleb Newton
Atlanta-area District Attorney Fani Willis is continuing to move forward with her criminal investigation of efforts by former President Donald Trump and certain associates of his to undercut the outcome of last year's presidential election in Georgia. Those efforts ranged from phone conversations that Trump had with certain officials in Georgia to false testimony that longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani provided to state legislators, to whom he attempted to make the case that fraud had swung the state to Biden. Now, CNN explains that investigators in Georgia "have been quietly conducting interviews, collecting documents and working to build a line of communication with congressional investigators" amid their probe of Trump.
Georgia criminal investigators are quietly conducting interviews, collecting documents, and working to build a line of communication with congressional investigators as they aim to build a case against Trump for his attempts to overturn election results. https://t.co/ALv6zMb3yP
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 18, 2021
Last week, Willis told reporters as follows:
'What I can tell you is that the Trump investigation is ongoing. As a district attorney, I do not have the right to look the other way on any crime that may have happened in my jurisdiction. We have a team of lawyers that is dedicated to that, but my number one priority is to make sure that we keep violent offenders off the street.'
Interviews that have so far been conducted have included officials working in the office of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, including "general counsel Ryan Germany, press secretary Ari Schaffer, chief operating officer Gabriel Sterling and external affairs director Sam Teasley," as CNN explains. Raffensperger, who is a Republican and supported Trump in the 2020 election cycle, has been among the few prominent conservatives willing to go against Trump's claims that the election was somehow rigged for Biden. He is one of the Georgia officials to whom Trump spoke on the phone amid his efforts to fraudulently stay in office. Specifically, Trump (among other things) implored Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to flip the state from Biden.
Meanwhile, officials like Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron have also spoken with investigators from Willis's office, with an apparent interest on the part of the district attorney's team in understanding the manner in which elections are conducted. Going forward, Willis said that she "hope[s] so" when asked if she intends "to strike a formal cooperation with congressional committees investigating the insurrection," as summarized by CNN. According to a source, "staff-level conversations have already begun between the district attorney's office and congressional committees," as also recapped by CNN. Read more at this link.
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How Online Communities Can Identify and Promote Quality News
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Lessons from WikiConference North America and the Wikipedia community
NewsQ Strategist Kate Harloe (at right) moderates a panel at WikiCredCon. Panelists, from left to right: Ivonne Lujano, Ambassador for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for Latin America; Benjamin T. Decker, researcher at Harvard's Shorenstein Center and Lead Analyst for the Global Disinformation Index, and; Melissa Zimdars, critical media studies scholar at Merrimack College. Photo by Nevin Thompson.
The NewsQ team recently participated in WikiConference North America, a four-day, 70-session conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that focused on information reliability and credibility. Here are just a few thoughts on the lessons we learned from the Wikipedia community.
In November 2019, WikiConference North America brought together Wikipedians from all over North America for discussions, collaboration and exploration.
Co-branded "WikiCredCon", the annual gathering for 2019 also included people from outside of the Wikipedia community, such as technologists, researchers, librarians, journalists and representatives from web platforms that are increasingly using relying on Wikipedia as a source of information, as well as a tool to assess the quality of information.
The NewsQ team were among these outside collaborators. We came to WikiCredCon hoping to discuss a number of questions that guide our work, including:
What are the indicators of quality for news sources?
And is it possible to increase the flow of quality news in a way that is economically viable, as well as sensitive to freedom of speech?
In particular, we wanted to discuss how effective blacklists or whitelists are in guiding readers to reliable sources of information. In turn, the NewsQ team learned valuable insights from about how communities collaborate to identify and promote quality news.
Community and Collaboration Help Build Tools that Target Misinformation
WikiCredCon was the direct result of a grassroots Wikipedia project aimed at tackling information reliability and credibility. Travelling to a hackathon at CredCon in Austin TX in 2018, Wikipedia community members Kevin Payravi and Josh Lim were looking for solutions to one of Wikipedia's biggest challenges: while the online encyclopedia allows anyone to edit and add factual information, the open nature of the platform means any can also propagate the spread of misinformation.
To address this challenge, Payravi and Lim came up with Cite Unseen, a tool that enhances Wikipedia citations to make them more useful at a glance. By making Wikipedia article citations more prominent, their tool also creates one way to prompt users to take a closer look at where their information is coming from through icons such as government sources, opinion pieces, blogs, and tabloids and more.
Although they developed Cite Unseen at the 2018 hackathon, it is still a work in progress. At WikiCredCon, Payravi and Lim asked the Wikipedia community and other conference attendees for ways to improve the tool and effectively crowdsource analysis of Wikipedia citations.
For NewsQ, Cite Unseen was a good example of how efforts to guide readers to reliable sources of information don't always need to be developed and implemented solely by platforms. Instead, grassroots communities can collaborate to develop and refine these tools.
The importance of community to the success of Cite Unseen also validates the importance the NewsQ project places on encouraging discussions about insights generated from a community of researchers and practitioners committed to news quality. Typically, tools are developed by platforms and institutions first, with community engagement and user education coming after that.
How Internet Archive Can Help Improve Information Quality on Wikipedia
In many of the sessions the NewsQ team was able to attend, Wikipedians and others repeatedly raised one also key challenge with Wikipedia citations: link rot. Since the link citations themselves often break as web sources disappear or are intentionally removed over the years, it can sometimes be impossible to verify information in Wikipedia articles, or ensure the citations will still be around in the future.
Also present at WikiCredCon, the Internet Archive offered a solution, pledging to not only to use its WayBack Machine to preserve outgoing links, but to also recognise book references and add links where they are available on the Archive. While this project is in its preliminary stages, once again, the lesson is community and collaboration can help promote news and information quality.
Addressing the Problem of Bias
Wikipedia and WikiCredCon also demonstrated that bias can complicate efforts to find a solution to disinformation and misinformation. Carwil Bjork-James of Vanderbilt University and a board member of Wiki Education presented on next steps for countering systemic bias in Wikipedia. In her session, she noted the demographics of Wikipedians drive imbalances of interest and therefore coverage, resulting in systematic misrepresentation along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, geography, indigeneity, and economic class.
In NewsQ's own panel discussion on the use of whitelists and blacklists as a tactic to disempower false information, bias was highlighted as a key obstacle, where biases of all kinds can easily be built into algorithms that were initially intended to surface quality news.
"Battling Fake News Has Been Wikipedia's Mission Since 2001"
The "principled design" of the Wikipedia community itself may provide lessons for how to surface quality news. In a 2018 essay recently republished on the Misinfocon blog, WikiCredCon participant Pete Forsyth argues that Wikipedia's design and governance, rooted in carefully articulated values and policies, serve to ensure information can be trusted.
One reason, Forsyth says, is that the Wikipedia experience is the same for everyone — unlike with Google, Facebook or other platforms where many people consume information, there is little personalization on Wikipedia. If there is personalization on Wikipedia, Forsyth notes the design of the algorithms is mostly transparent. On top of that, unlike most major platforms, Wikipedia does not collect, harvest or monetize user data.
The result, according to Forsyth, is that there is no effort on Wikipedia to anticipate what users will find interesting and then present results that could be tainted by political spin or advertising interests.
It's Critical to Address Bias
The NewsQ team came away from WikiCredCon having learned many valuable insights that will help inform our work surfacing quality news, as well as a lot of questions. Notably, it's critical to address bias when building tools and developing approaches to misinformation, and community and collaboration can help with that. How to do this all according to specific topics and communities is something the NewsQ team continues to discuss and reflect on.
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Next week we'll mark the 499th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 Theses, taking us right up to the verge of a quincentenary that has already inspired a great deal of reflection on the historical and contemporary significance of the Protestant Reformation.
Tal's the expert here, but not all Protestants make meaning of the Reformation in the same way. Dale Coulter, for example, wrote recently for First Thoughts about how Wesleyans understand its legacy.
If we Protestants are "reformed and always reforming," then commemorating the Reformation should cause us not so much to celebrate the past as to renew our mission and ministry in the present.
Some people today leave out the "Reformed" part or at least interpret it as "reformed" (little "r"): the church is "always being reformed according to the Word of God." This means that to be Reformed is simply to be reformed and to be reformed is simply to be biblical. All who base their beliefs on the Bible are therefore "reformed," regardless of whether their interpretations are consistent with the common confessions of the Reformed churches. However, this runs counter to the original intention of the phrase. Doubtless there are many beliefs and practices that Reformed believers share in common with non-Reformed believers committed to God's Word. We must always remain open to correction from our brothers and sisters in other churches who have interpreted the Bible differently. Nevertheless, Reformed churches belong to a particular Christian tradition with its own definitions of its faith and practice. We believe that our confessions and catechisms faithfully represent the system of doctrine found in Holy Scripture. We believe that to be Reformed is not only to be biblical; to be biblical is to be Reformed.
But as a non-Reformed evangelical who thinks that his largely Lutheran theology is nonetheless reformed (and always in need of further reforming), I'm going to claim Semper Reformanda for the other Christian tradition that Horton attaches to Lodenstein: Pietism.
A year after Lodenstein published his devotional, a German Lutheran pastor named Philipp Jakob Spener wrote Pia Desideria, a booklet offering six proposals that could bring about "better times for the church" — and for a world still reeling from the terrible consequences of post-Reformation religious warfare. Both works were representative of Pietism, a new religious movement within Protestantism that spanned northern Europe and even reached European colonies in Greenland, North America, the Caribbean, and India.
For Pietists, the Protestant Reformation was both an inspiring and cautionary tale: a religious awakening that never fulfilled its early potential.
By the end of this week, Mark Pattie and I will have submitted to InterVarsity Press our own version of Pia Desideria. In a manuscript tentatively titled Hope for Better Times: Pietism and the Future of Christianity, we draw from the history of the Pietist ethos — not just as it took form in 17th and 18th century Germany, but in 19th century Sweden and 20th century America — to offer six Speneresque proposals for the continuing reformation of the church. If all goes according to plan, the book will come out just in time for the 500th anniversary of the theses posted by Luther — who is quoted or mentioned 14 times in our manuscript.
To illustrate how Pietists try to live out the principle of "reformed and always reforming," let me share some highlights from our reinterpretations of Spener's first and second proposals — the two that most directly revisit the principles of the Protestant Reformation.
This much is certain, the diligent use of the Word of God, which consists not only of listening to sermons but also of reading, meditating, and discussion (Ps. 1:2), must be the chief means for reforming something… The Word of God remains the seed from which all that is good in us must grow. If we succeed in getting the people to seek eagerly and diligently in the book of life for their joy, their spiritual life will be wonderfully strengthened and they will become altogether different people.
But over time, the excitement of even "unlearned" Christians directly encountering the written word of God gave way to emphasis on competing Protestant interpretations of Scripture, as demarcated by confessions, catechisms, and other doctrinal texts that were more likely to produce "dead orthodoxy" than the "living, creative, active powerful" faith described by the early Luther.
Pietists understood the Bible to be 'an altar where we meet the living God.' Far from simply being a receptacle for information — even God-inspired information — the Pietists held that the Scriptures are primarily a God-inspired gift for transformation. They taught that when we reverently approach the Bible, inviting the Holy Spirit to open our minds and hearts and lives to the Word of God, the Scriptures are the powerful means by which God can equip us to live out the good we were created to accomplish. They have the power to transform us by the renewal of our minds, as the Apostle Paul urges, so that we will not be conformed to this world, but rather able to discern and, by God's grace, do the will of God (Rom 12:2).
Christian vitality has not always been maintained by the majority. It has, in fact, often been found only in small minorities. Such minorities have no voice where conformity to "official" interpretations is required. Unless we wish to stifle all emergent spiritual vitality, we must be sure that people within our fellowship will be free to express themselves in ways which are different from the majority position without the fear of being labeled as disloyal.
Here too, however, Protestants after Luther had fallen back into a traditional pattern that was both hierarchical and enervating. By the late 17th century, laments Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom, "the practice of faith was so limited to the clergy that not only did this bifurcate the common priesthood, it also became nearly impossible for the church to experience what Luther and Spener referred to as an enlivened faith" (Angels, Worms, and Bogeys, p. 66).
American Christians like me tend to conform ourselves to the values of our economy, rather than living out the counter-cultural values of the kingdom of God…. It means that we're liable to have megachurch pastors who act like CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations and church planters who act like tech-sector entrepreneurs. It turns laypeople from full participants in the mission of the Church into fickle consumers and idle spectators.
So seeking the common good is itself a prod for the reformed to keep reforming, since we must constantly reexamine if we are meeting the fast-changing needs of a world being reshaped by economic, demographic, technological, political, and other forces. The time-fixed preferences of those within the church must always give way to the more urgently aching needs beyond our doors.
when he announced his Great Commission, Jesus didn't wait until all of his disciples' doubts and questions had been resolved. He didn't wait until their theology was in order. He didn't wait until they wouldn't make mistakes, embarrass him or one another, or let him or each other down. He just said, "Go!" and "I am with you!" and sent them out to participate in the gracious work of God in the world.
Horton argues that Semper Reformanda, rightly understood, "keeps us from making tradition infallible but equally from imbibing the radical Protestant obsession with starting from scratch in every generation. When God's Word is the source of our life, our ultimate loyalty is not to the past as such or to the present and the future, but to 'that Word above all earthly pow'rs,' to borrow from Luther's famous hymn." And he suggests that "always being reformed" is more accurate than "always reforming," since it is God doing this work — not a gathering of humans convinced of their own power, or so enraptured with present-day fads that they instinctively recoil from the foolishness of the past.
So I don't mean to sound more progressive than I am.
But I do hope to sound as radical as I think Protestants should be.


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Alex Cruz Stands Down As British Airways CEO
1 Move from Vueling to British Airways
3 Tackling low cost competition
4 Making up for lost time on long haul business class
5 Bitter union battles
In an unexpected announcement on Octobr 12th Alex Cruz, who became Chairman and Chief Executive of British Airways in 2016, is stepping down to be replaced by Sean Doyle, currently CEO of Aer Lingus, who previously spent 20 years at BA.
I have known Alex Cruz since he was CEO at Click Air, a low cost subsidiary of Iberia, which merged with Vueling, another low cost airline, where he subsequently also became CEO.
Alex Cruz Steps down as Chairman and CEO of British Airways (Photo by Geoff Caddick – WPA Pool/Getty … [+] Images)
At that time, I came to know an energetic boss who led a dynamic, growing and profitable airline, held in high regard by his young team.
Move from Vueling to British Airways
Moving to British Airways, Cruz had a clear remit to bring his skills in low cost management to further improve the airline's own efficiency as it faced not only growing low cost short haul competition, but emerging threats from long haul low cost airlines, such as Norwegian.
Some suggest that cost cutting was his only objective, but this neither matches reality nor recognises the achievements which he has delivered whilst at the airline.
There have certainly been difficulties over the past four years. Several IT failures hit the airline and a data breach compromised customer information. To blame Cruz for these is simply lazy. In part legacy systems, which arguably should have been upgraded or replaced years earlier, failed by chance on his watch. A data breach, whilst far from acceptable, is not unique to BA nor to other airlines or indeed other industries. Alex Cruz is highly tech savvy and interested in technology, if anything he was upping BA's game in this arena and moving it more fully into the digital arena.
Tackling low cost competition
UK media lambasted his decision to take off complimentary catering on short haul flights and to introduce a buy on board product for food and drink. The reality is that what catering remained prior to this move, had already become very limited, as BA had to respond to low cost carriers taking the lion's share of short haul traffic with lower fares. Cruz recognised the need to fight like with like, low prices supported by a reduced cost base. Surprise surprise traffic went up and short haul routes, traditionally loss makers, became profitable. But this was not simply a "dumbing down" exercise as is sometimes claimed. For those willing to pay, BA improved its European business class and added it to domestic services, something it had not done for decades.
Making up for lost time on long haul business class
On long haul, critics argue BA's product had become inferior to that of many competitors, especially the Gulf carriers. In my view the airline had its eye off the ball for several years here, having failed to invest and it fell to Cruz to make up for lost time.
He made the case for the product specification including new seats, lounges and much superior catering, but putting right something of this magnitude has a long gestation. The fruits of these efforts, along with a significant cycle of new aircraft deliveries, would have become increasingly evident in the years ahead and maybe still will, had the Covid-19 crisis not intervened.
Bitter union battles
With the airline virtually grounded and haemorrhaging millions of pounds a day, the crisis dictated further action to cut costs, resulting in fierce battles with unions. An initial lack of recognition of the long term seriousness of the crisis by some unions led to a high profile campaign against the airline rather than getting quickly to the table to negotiate a way forward. This led to further criticism of Cruz which he was only able to rebut and to explain the magnitude of the challenge, in an appearance before UK MP's at the Commons Select Committee on Transport in September.
I believe it will only become apparent at some future point exactly how significant Alex Cruz's time at British Airways was in protecting both the airline's future and the livelihoods of a large number of its staff in what are tumultuous times for the whole industry.
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Everyone's been going mad for tracey lately. Oh well why not, let's just think of her as an artist for a moment. The start of her show at the Hayward is stunning. Quilts on the wall with their cries and slogans, like feminist 70s art or community projects. They are double hung next to the beach hut on a pier which gleams in the light of her neons. All three parts are direct, engaging, and visually beautiful pieces of art. They connect emotionally to the audience, and that is one reason why Emin is very popular. Thyey have humour and skill to describe how it feels to be alive.
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Yes Tracey is an annoying Tory, perhaps as a kind of final provocation to the liberal classes, her views are wrong, her art has much to recommend it.


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Social Advocacy and Politics: Twitter to the Rescue - A Social Advocacy Success Story
Alan Rosenblatt @DrDigiPol
For many years I have been pushing my colleagues to more fully integrate social media into their advocacy campaigns. While many were using social media to raise awareness about their issues and mobilize activists to take action (with both direct social media appeals and peer-to-peer appeals to send emails to Congress), none were using social media itself to deliver the messages to lawmakers.
In 2010 I trained some of my colleagues to use social media to deliver messages to lawmakers, encouraging them to pass specific legislation. That resulted in the ENOUGH Project successfully passing two pieces of legislation that year by mobilizing its activists to post directly on key legislators Facebook pages.
In the years since, "social advocacy" has become more common, though still not pervasive. But when it is used, it yields great results. Recently, I heard a story about yet another successful social advocacy campaign from a friend and long-time advocacy organizer Shelley Moskowitz. I asked Shelley to share her story:
I was a twenty-something when I began my public interest advocacy career in the late 1980's. I was lucky to be mentored by some of the best progressive vote-counters in DC. We cultivated face to face relationships on Capitol Hill, ran grassroots lobby campaigns and worked in broad-based coalitions to help advance human rights and economic justice. Back then, facsimile machines and the internet were new-fangled inventions. My first fax used long rolls of thermal paper that faded over time and our noisy dial up internet access was limited to less than an hour a day. As antiquated as it sounds now, these were the cutting edge advocacy tools of the day. It enabled us to quickly receive and transmit information and allowed us to jam up Congressional fax machines with grassroots communiques. It was fun, easy and effective.
Fast forward to 2015. Blast faxes are passé and email inboxes are full and overflowing. Sadly, most messages are ignored as the next flood of information pours in. Add a dysfunctional Congress to the mix and you have very few bills being considered and even fewer becoming law. But when you do human rights work, it is really hard to give up even when you know the odds are against you.
One particular bill that was close to my heart almost made it through the legislative process but it languished and died at the end of the 112th Congress. My colleagues and I vowed to learn from the experience and not let that happen again. We spent months working with the lead sponsor and key committees so that the reintroduced bill was able to swiftly move through the House with bipartisan support. At first, Senate Committee staff indicated that the bill might continue to move fast. We held off on planning a lobby day because everything was going so well behind the scenes. Then the staffers decided they wanted to put their fingerprints on the bill. It took months, but we kept lines of communication flowing with House counterparts and the result was something I had rarely seen before. Our bill actually got stronger as it went through the legislative process! All was going well until suddenly the Senate committee staff went "radio silent." No one would return calls, emails, or set visits. Other legislation took priority and it looked like our bill would once again die. We did what we could. We pulled together a CEO-level organizational sign on letter and got an op-ed in the Huffington Post. It was good, but maybe not enough.
That's when we decided to try Twitter. Since few of my DC-based colleagues knew the difference between a hashtag # and an @ sign, we needed a mini-tutorial from allies with communications staff. I know, everyone else in the world had been using Twitter for a while, but it never made sense to me until I saw its power at work. We launched what we called a "Twitter-fest" with the support of about 8 organizations in our coalition. It was fun, easy and as it turned out...effective. Not long afterwards, our bill began to move. It passed through committee and in the final days of the session, it passed on the Senate floor. Another few days and it was signed into law by President Obama! We celebrated the victory and wondered what exactly made the margin of difference. Many months later, we got an answer. A key committee staffer told a colleague in confidence that besides our general persistence, it was the Twitter action that got the bill moving again. By generating a significant (but far from trending) number of tweets to @SenatorXX, our message caught the attention of the political staffers back in the Senator's home state. They contacted the committee staff to see why so many groups were tweeting about this bill and asked if there was any reason for it to be stalled. The committee staff said they actually liked the bill but were tied up with other bigger and more controversial issues. Evidently the politicos urged them to move the bill and that's exactly what happened. Twitter gave us an end-run around the over-extended policy staff and created new incentives to pass a good bill.
I chose to share this story without being specific about the bill because the staffer's statement about the impact of Twitter was made in private. Any violation of that confidence would be wrong and could impact future work together. The real moral of the story is that advocates, young and older, should always be on the lookout for the next big technological breakthrough so that we can make the difference we are here to make.
What makes Shelley's story so interesting is that it was the legislator's political staff that picked up on the Twitter campaign and pushed the legislative staff to move forward on the stalled bill. But whether it is the political team or the legislative team that responds, using social media to complement the delivery of your campaign message by other channels will increase your chances of success.
Social Advocacy and Politics is a bi-weekly column by Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy at turner4d. Find it here on Social Media Today every other Tuesday. And read past columns by Alan here.
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