Local councillors, and police have been invited.
Please come along and share your views.
Declarations of interest: Members of the council are invited to identify any disclosable pecuniary, other pecuniary or non pecuniary interests relevant to items on the agenda.
Minutes from the meeting held on 16th April 2013 & suggestions for discussion. To agree as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting and discuss matters arising from the last meeting, including: A discussion on the latest changes/relaxation of the permitted development allowances for residential and other development.
Public sessions - including ward sessions with local ward councillors.
Thank you to the speakers and all BHORA members that attended the AGM on Tuesday 11th June. Attendance was around 50.
It was an interesting evening of two parts the first had presentations from local groups including Pinkham Way Alliance, The Palmers Greenery, and Palmers Green Festival. Also in attendance was our GLA Representative Joanne McCarthy to respond to questions on local issues.
Elections for the Chair, Treasurer and Committee members were held in the second part of the meeting. Two nominations were put forward for the Chair, and members voted a majority in favour of electing Caroline Chénier as the new Chairperson. >> See the full news article.
BHORA covers a large area from (south to north) the Haringey boundary at Bounds Green up to Broomfield Park and from (east to west) Green Lanes over towards Arnos Grove.
There are a number of big local issues at the moment, take a look at our campaigns page. By communities working together our area will get better and better. Become a BHORA member and get involved.
Redevelopment of our area including the Area Action Plan.
AGM. The formal bit, includes election of committee members.
Please let us know what you would like discussed at this meeting. It's your AGM and we want to hear from you.
Election of officers. We have a small committee including Chair, Secretary, Membership Secretary, Treasurer, general committee members. If you would like to get involved in any way please get back to us. We need as many ideas as possible to help improve where we live.
By communities working together our area will get better and better. Join us and get involved.
We welcome your comments and feedback that may help us to improve this site. Let us know your views about this website.
This was an interesting meeting attended by local councillors, David Burrows, and 40-50 members (some newly joined). Two key discussions were 1) A406 road discussion including the traffic calming scheme on side roads.
2) What we want from a Residents Association. Read the draft minutes. We will keep you posted on our plans and activities.


But . . . but . . . I want to believe it's supernatural.
Hi there. I came across this because I was checking for anyone that had a similar experience as me. I lived in Lafayette, LA 14 years ago and Moved out breaking the lease on my house because it was haunted. When I moved in , I cleaned All the walls in the house. There was something that looked like blood splatter on the door to the laundry room. That is the only spot I didnt clean. Not sure why at the time. I cleaned the walls in the 2nd spareroom of what I thought was soda only to have it come back months later. I heard noises in my kitchen while I was the only one home and even ran in and looked outside to see if I could see anyone running away. Then we started noticing these oil crosses showing up avove the doors and closets. My daughter had 2 beds in her room and had a cross above each one. No one put them there. They were not there before when I washed the walls. One day I was home alone and sitting on the sofa watching tv. I decided to lay down on the sofa and when I did, there was one of those crosses above where my head had been. My daughter heard footsteps in the hall and felt something sit on her bed and had the tv come on by itself one night. My boyfreind and I were freaked out. He thought it was my kids dad mesing with the place but of course it wasnt. I woke up one night and he was standing at the foot of the bed with a knife in hand and pulling at my toes. Another night I had a dream that a bunch of preists were all around me as I slept and doing like an exorsism or something and I felt like this menthol feeling rush from my chest. We went up to the styic at one point and found an old bible that had a hand made cover on it and an old black and whote picture in it and tons of writing in it. I think someone died there. Im guessing a gunshot in or near the laungdry room as it looked like blood splatter in an upward motion. I called the landlord and asked if anyone died there and he said no. I said well the house is haunted and I am moving out. I would really like to know what all that means with the crosses. Was something trying to posess us and these preists or something was trying to protect us or what?


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Policy Advocacy Programme
Support by: The World Bank
Period: July 2002 – June 2003
The project was funded by The World Bank aimed to organise four national conferences in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The topics of conferences were; Good Governance and Accountability, Gender and Women Empowerment, Corruption and Transparency, Social Development and Role of Civil Society.
News Network successfully organized all the programmes and the media widely covered the events.
Ministers, government high officials, Ambassadors in Dhaka, the World Bank Country Director and officials, representative from different national and international organisations, representatives of foreign mission in Dhaka, economists, experts and members of the civil society attended and participated in the conferences.
Reports of the conferences were published separately and disseminated to important address and media.
The World Bank also provided support to News Network to prepare a progress report of all the then Small Grant Programme (SGP) funded projects which was completed appropriately in time.
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Always at the forefront of musical, digital and experiential innovation, Maisy Kay is using an avant-garde new technology to connect to her fans.
For her latest album, Disguises, Maisy has partnered with interactive content technology producer ROK Vision to create the first-ever music release that requires nothing but a phone camera and a dollar to unlock exclusive album content. All a fan has to do is point their phone at a predetermined visual target (for example, a dollar bill) to unlock and listen - they don�t even need an internet connection (or to spend the actual dollar) and they�ll be able to access bonus features from Maisy. Using nothing but the items they already have in their pocket, Maisy's followers can connect with her in an unprecedented way.
The use of ROK Vision in Maisy's release shows how this tech can be used by all artists or content producers to completely change the way fans interact with music, in the hopes of giving music lovers the deeper connection they so often crave to their musical icons.


Sunny Holiday-Late Night can be obtained through the Customization of Sunny Holiday-Day.
A black hat with a thin dark green bow around the brim.
Sunny Holiday-Late Night is part of an alternative version of the hidden suit London Holiday.
The other parts to this suit are Rosemary-Gold, London Holiday-Late Night, Leisurely Holiday-Late Night, Black Secret, Comfortable Shoes, Blue Earrings, and Easy Holiday-Late Night.


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Ex-military find comfort, camaraderie in community garden
Dozens of free vegetable starts were given away by the veterans garden project on Monday for Veterans Day. A free plot for veterans at the Humboldt Community Garden is open for use by anyone who has served in the military and has proven extremely popular since its start in February.
By Ashley Gebb |
PUBLISHED: November 12, 2013 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: April 21, 2018 at 9:34 am
CHICO — After spending 11 years and most of her adult life in the Navy, when Chelsea Parker's military service ended two years ago, she found herself struggling to re-enter the civilian world.
It was difficult to relate to people, difficult to find a job, difficult to find her way in everyday life. She had left Chico at 17, with her mom signing her enlistment papers like a school permission slip, and spent the next decade-plus as a cryptologic technician, serving two tours in the Persian Gulf and going months sometimes without seeing land.
She returned to Chico to find her post-military foothold and though she still misses her service days, a garden plot for veterans at the Humboldt Community Garden has become a place where she enjoys the best of both lives.
"It's like our little piece of the world," she said. "I've come out here and just sat and known I can be a vet here."
On Monday, Parker was one of many veterans smiling and swapping stories as they came together for a Veterans Day seedling giveaway. They were offering free veggie starts of broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts to any veterans, and like participation in the garden itself, required no proof of service.
"It's not that you have to be a vet of this war or that war or even any war," Parker said. "It's our garden … It's like you walk into a room and know you can talk to everybody."
Marked at each corner with an American flag and with a picnic table in the center to congregate, the 60-foot-by-25-foot plot is a space for veterans, their families and veteran supporters to plant, water and tend raised communal garden beds.
The project has taken off like a weed since its February start. About 30 veterans regularly sink their fingers into the soil and an estimated 75 pay at least occasional visits.
This summer, participants grew 48 types of plants, from towering tomatoes to fabulous flowers, and they expect to grow 25 varieties this winter.
Cyndy Callahan and her family are familiar faces at the garden. The Coast Guard veteran and Corning resident had never been into gardening until recently and quickly discovered how much she likes it.
"It's soothing; it's a place where I've made new friends," she said. "It's just peaceful."
The garden filled a void Callahan wasn't really aware she had. From 1991 to 1998, her friends had all been military and she made few new ones after leaving. Now she recognizes people all over town.
"It's like 'I served, you served. I know what you went through, you know what I went through'," she said. "It's an instant bond. You can be 50 years different in age and instantly be friends."
The garden sprouted from a vision by Michelle Angela, a mental behavioral health nurse with Veterans Affairs. She recognized a need that could be met by spending time outside, with other veterans, in a positive environment.
Nine months after the project's inception, when people now come to the clinic seeking antidepressents or anti-anxiety medication, doctors often prescribe them to spend time at the garden.
"They get isolated and forget it's those little things that bring them joy," Angela said.
Veterans Affairs counseling groups and substance abuse groups also hold meetings at the garden, which is a project of the Butte Environmental Council and the city of Chico. The prolific produce is carted over in bowls and boxes to the Veterans Affairs office to share with those who may not have means or access to enjoy it otherwise.
The veterans garden project has become one of Tony Nicosia's happiest places. When the Vietnam veteran had car trouble Monday, he took the bus to make sure he could be there.
"I love it, getting down and getting dirty. I like fresh vegetables. I want to see those plants grow from a little sprout larger and larger," he said. "It makes my heart feel big."
A student studying agriculture and horticulture at Chico State, David Davenport had never gardened until he opted to participate in the veterans plot. It's become immeasurably helpful.
"I learned having a garden and growing stuff is therapeutic as far as PTSD," he said. "It's soothing. You get to take care of something."
After two Army tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, the garden is one of a few places Davenport can find people he can relate to. Even if they don't talk about their service, a trip to the garden never fails to lift his spirits.
"There's always happy people here," he said.
Reach Ashley Gebb at 896-7768, agebb@chicoer.com, or on Twitter @AshleyGebb.
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In trying to estimate how much a student might need, students should think about how much money they spend on campus per semester. Then they should realize that certain incidental expenses (coffee or a coke in a cafe, a movie, cosmetics, data plans, and so on) will most likely be more expensive abroad. In addition, students will spend more on things such as phone calls to the US, postage, gifts and traveling (trains, taxis, and so on). Students may be traveling much more during vacations than they would at home and thus incur other expenses.
Also take into consideration the dollar's value in the foreign currency. Try to make an educated guess based on these factors and have a back-up plan to get more money in a hurry.
CGIS suggests that students have at least $100 worth of the local currency with them before departing for their program. This local currency can be obtained in several ways. Foreign currency can be purchased at most banks in the US, but students should allow several days or even weeks for this transaction. Banks in Ann Arbor that have foreign currency are Bank One, First of America (South Main), and Comerica (North Main). Students are encouraged to call in advance to make sure the needed currency is available.
Avoid carrying more than a week's worth of money on their person at any given time.
Carry money in several places, preferably concealed beneath their clothing in a money pouch.
Use a credit card or bank card when possible.
Keep small denominations in a wallet and avoid flashing stacks of cash, a thick wallet, or large bills when paying for items. Replenish the wallet while not in the open to avoid attracting would-be thieves.
Students can use major credit cards (MasterCard, Visa, and to a lesser extent American Express) and cash cards to get cash from automated teller machines (ATMs) throughout the world. The two major networks, Cirrus and Plus, continue to add more countries to their member lists.
Students should inform their credit card company ahead of time that they will be overseas, since many companies now try to protect their customers from identity theft by refusing what they consider to be suspicious charges.
Students should ask their bank for a list of ATM locations for the countries they plan to visit. They should be sure to know their personal identification number (PIN) and request an international PIN, if necessary.
Even when students have taken all of the above precautions, they may encounter ATMs where their card will not work. Therefore, do not depend solely on ATM cards for cash. Students should be aware of fees their bank or credit card company will charge for overseas use.
In case of emergency, money can be wired to students, but this usually takes at least 5 days. Students can find out more about wiring money by calling Western Union at 800.325.4176 or American Express Moneygram Info at 800.543.4080. If an ATM is available, someone in the US can deposit money into a student's home bank account and the student should be able to use their ATM card abroad to access those funds.


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Christian Luiga leaves Telia Company
Via Telia Company
May 04, 2020, SWEDEN: Christian Luiga, Chief Financial Officer and previously acting CEO and President, has today submitted his resignation and informed the Board of Telia Company and the new CEO and President Allison Kirkby that he will leave Telia Company.
Christian Luiga has been working for Telia Company in various positions since 2009 and started as CFO in April 2014. Since September 2019, he has been the acting CEO and President. Christian Luiga will be at the company's disposal during his notice period to support the new CEO Allison Kirkby and assist with the hand-over of several ongoing projects. During the notice period, he will report directly to Allison Kirkby, but not be a member of the Group Executive Management. His last day of employment is September 15, 2020.
"Christian has been an important part of Telia Company's executive management for many years and has, with his strong leadership and business acumen, been a driving force for many of the changes that the company has done during this time. I want to direct a special thank you to Christian for his time as acting CEO; a task he has performed with big commercial focus and engagement says Lars-Johan Jarnheimer," Chair of the Board.
"Christian has done an excellent job throughout his time at Telia and during these last eight months as he steered the Company as acting CEO. I am especially grateful for his desire to ensure the CEO transition was handled in the best possible way, and I look forward to him helping me get off to the fastest possible start, during the next few months," says Allison Kirkby.
In a comment, Christian Luiga says: "Being part of leading Telia Company through these times of massive changes and challenges, first as CFO and then as acting CEO and President, have been a very rewarding experience. But all good things must come to an end, and after some time of deliberation I have concluded that this is the right time for me to leave Telia Company. It is with great confidence I hand over to our new CEO Allison Kirkby. I also would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our amazing employees for their hard work and support during this period."
A search process for a permanent CFO will start immediately and Douglas Lubbe will continue in his role as acting CFO for now.
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Sea level rise threatens Mediterranean UNESCO heritage sites.
Tunisia beckons us to visit – and with flights now operating from the UK for the first time since the 2015 – they are welcoming us with open arms.
A short two and a half hour flight with no time change at the moment (thanks to BST) sees you arrive at Tunis Carthage International Airport to the sun and warmth of this beautiful country.
However, even the sun cannot outshine the warmth of the people.
I was a little apprehensive about travelling here but from the moment you arrive, the genuine smiles of the Tunisians embrace you and make you feel instantly safe and secure.
French, Arabic and English are the spoken languages, and even if their English isn't good, they are desperate to learn and will try hard to speak it.
This trip was all about the capital Tunis, a bustling and vibrant city with over 2 million residents.
You'd be forgiven for thinking you have arrived in Paris due to the influence of French culture.
A former French colony until 1956, the architecture makes you believe you are strolling down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées when in fact you are on the main Avenue Habib Bourguiba.
"There's no place like home," Dorothy said in "The Wizard of Oz," and the phrase became an instant classic.
While nothing quite beats the feeling of coming home after a long day, every so often we find ourselves being overtaken by wanderlust. We'll catch a glimpse of an intriguing street while watching a foreign film, or fall in love with a particularly descriptive passage in a book, and before we know it we're researching late into the night, gazing at photos of far-off places and imagining what life is like in distant cities.
Luckily, these days you can check out what other parts of the world look like from the comfort of your home. We've compiled a list of 30 of the most stunning streets all around the world.
Keep scrolling to see how different streets can look in cities across the globe.
Marrakech is a vibrant city awash in color. Take a stroll through the Medina, a walled medieval center full of tourist-friendly souvenirs, flavorful food, and friendly locals.
After terrorist attacks scared away the sun lounger crowd, visitors to Tunisia are now rediscovering its rich Roman history.
"Carthago delenda est" – or, "Carthage must be destroyed" – was a favourite phrase of Roman orator Cato the Elder. It took until 146BC and an emphatic victory in the Third Punic War for his punchline to be delivered. Rome's vengeful legions levelled the city and sold its population into slavery.
Today, Tunisia is again reeling in the wake of violence, namely 2015's two terrorist outrages, in the Bardo Museum and on the beach at Sousse. In a country where tourism was focused almost exclusively in coastal resorts, the attack was well targeted, and has decimated the tourist industry. Cheap, all-inclusive beach holidays aren't a unique selling point; holidaymakers have fled elsewhere. Recent revisions in Foreign Office advice have changed things – Tui has, this month, put Tunisia back on its books for 2018 – but whether sun-and-sand tourists will return in their former numbers remains to be seen.
North Africa isn't as well known for its national parks as some other places on the continent. But that doesn't mean it should be discredited — some of the most stunning landscapes and biodiverse areas can be located within the countries that make up the majority of the Sahara. From lush wetlands, to rocky mountains, to sand dunes, North Africa has flora, fauna, and landscapes that can be found nowhere else in the world, let alone continent. Here are the 15 best North African national parks.
One of the most dramatic places on the African continent, Tassili n'Ajjer is a national park in the extreme south of Algeria noted for its breathtaking sandstone arches and prehistoric rock art.
Recent years have seen a rapid mushrooming of religious institutions across Africa as more people grow in their faith or start a new life as believers. While this may paint a picture of a newly religious continent, the truth is, Africa has long been a continent steeped in religion. This is not only evidenced by the indigenous beliefs found across the continent, but also by the historical places of worship that have stood the test of time to tell the story of the continent's beliefs in all its vibrant diversity.
Africa's famous sacred buildings are a source of great fascination. From the rich history to the unique architecture, there's a lot that lends allure to these structures.


And the inevitable has arrived...it's Monday once again!
Now, don't start the week whining and complaining but instead, let's look at this another work week as an opportunity to work hard...so we can play even harder after! Besides, days go by so fast we won't even notice that the weekdays are again over. So get up on your feet, stretch, smile and be ready to face the day with energy and lots of positivity.
Enjoy the rest of the week, my loves!


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Mantra Devata
Definition - What does Mantra Devata mean?
Mantra devata is the specific universal force that a mantra is directed toward and what gives a mantra its power. From Sanskrit, mantra means "tool of thought" and devata means "godhead" or "divinity." It is believed by some that each mantra has a divine force that presides over it and is thought to be directed to that specific force when spoken aloud.
Yogis may wish to chant certain mantras to connect with the the spiritual forces or deities that preside over those mantras in order to influence a change in awareness or consciousness within themselves.
Yogapedia explains Mantra Devata
The specific mantra spoken by a yogi is connected to a mantra devata, the divine force that gives the mantra its spiritual power. It is believed that there are about 70 million mantras. Each mantra has its own sound and vibration, so when chanted by the yogi, he/she begins to vibrate within the frequency of that mantra. Some say that the vibrational power of each specific mantra is the power of the deity that presides over it. It is also said that the vibrations of the mantra can have healing effects, penetrating into the cells of the body and filling them with divine energy and strength.
Mantra yoga uses repetition and chanting of mantras to encourage the mind to enter into a meditative state, so that the chanter may begin to connect with the Divine within him/herself. It is said that in choosing to chant mantras, the yogi is changing his/her vibration and evoking a higher level of consciousness.
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 *   management
 */
import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from 'redux';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
import createLogger from 'redux-logger';
import { autoRehydrate } from 'redux-persist';
import rootReducer from '../reducers';

const { NODE_ENV } = process.env;
const isProd = NODE_ENV === 'production';
const useDevtool = typeof window === 'object'
                 && typeof window.devToolsExtension !== 'undefined'
                 && !isProd;

export default function configureStore(initialState) {
  const middlewares = useDevtool
                    ? applyMiddleware(thunk)
                    : applyMiddleware(thunk, createLogger());
  const store = createStore(
    rootReducer,
    initialState,
    compose(
      autoRehydrate(),
      middlewares,
      useDevtool ? window.devToolsExtension() : f => f
    )
  );

  if (module.hot) {
    // Enable Webpack hot module replacement for reducers
    module.hot.accept('../reducers', () => {
      const nextReducer = require('../reducers/index').default;

      store.replaceReducer(nextReducer);
    });
  }

  return store;
}

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Barb Jacobson works as a welfare advisor for a small charity in London. She has been organising for women's, housing and community rights since 1982. For the past five years she has been campaigning with Unconditional Basic Income Europe (ubie.org) and Basic Income UK (basicincome.org.uk).
Barb spoke at WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE on Thursday 6 September 2018 at 8PM. We hope to be able add a transcript of her talk soon.


World in Motion: Coca-Cola, "Red White and You"
Coca-Cola, "Red White and You"
With one of the biggest U.S Holidays behind us, here is a July 4th inspired post. Appropriately titled "Red, White and You" you would be silly if you didn't know the brand behind this old yet cheesy commercial. I thought we all needed a little bit of a throwback to start off your Tuesday. If anyone remembers this commercial being aired, remember to leave me your nostalgic comments below. In the mean time check it out, and hopefully I'll be back to posting on a more consistent basis from here on out!


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Home Of Egg and Chicken: A Report Back
Of Egg and Chicken: A Report Back
I'd heard hubbub about Symbiosis for almost a year, but I didn't quite get it. Was it just a bunch of people on the internet? What were they trying to do exactly? Why was their design so fly?
A couple months back I met a new friend who had been involved in some of the online organizing, and he had given me reason to believe that the Congress was going to be well worth attending, even though the whole thing was kind of confusing. The confusion first made sense to me when an organizer explained on a conference call for new member organizations that they were working with a "chicken and egg" problem: on the one hand they wanted to build a federation of municipalist organizations; on the other hand they wanted the meaning and organizational forms of that federation to be determined by the member organizations themselves. But in order to get those organizations to create the federation, they had to build enough of the federation to get them to join it… in order to build the federation. It is a hard problem, and it is a credit to the early organizers — let's call them the egg-builders — to have had the good sense to embrace this paradox.
Having had this problem explained to me, I communicated it to others and it relaxed a bit of the anxiety around the sense of confusion. It helps to learn that something is confusing not because you don't or can't understand it yet, but because the thing is in its very nature, necessarily confusing. It also added to the excitement: we weren't just joining on to something that is pre-made, we were being invited to help make it.
When we arrived to the Congress, held in the Hogwarts-esque halls of Marygrove College, we encountered well over a hundred people from across the continent. There was the usual spread of awkwardness and fast-friendships, and the first talk I made it to — delivered by spokespeople from Symbiosis, Cooperation Jackson, and the National Indigenous Council in Oaxaca — only contributed to my excitement. To be honest, it actually left me humbled. We in Carbondale can get pretty myopic about our project, and it is easy to inflate our sense of importance. Hearing from the spokespeople from Jackson and Oaxaca put our town's struggle in a much grander perspective.
The first sign of trouble began during the first assembly Friday morning. There had been breakout groups on various proposals submitted in advance, and I had participated in a good, though too brief, discussion on the proposal to create local research and mapping into the "race-capital nexus." When we were ushered into the assembly room, it was set up like a theater, with all chairs facing a screen upon which the agenda was projected. After a brief reminder about the prior-agreed-upon-decision-making-process — let's call it the "shell" — we immediately began going through proposals and moving toward votes on them.
Immediately, it felt way too fast. We had just arrived the afternoon before, and while we'd all had time to drink and chat, there hadn't been any intentional space where people from all these different projects around the continent could introduce themselves as member orgs, and where we could get a feel for who was in the room, what they were up to, and why they and their orgs thought it was a good idea to form a federation. And yet, here we were forming an international committee for an organization that we had been told it was the task of this congress to create. As a comrade put it later, "at least buy me a drink first." In retrospect, the situation is pretty clear: we were all in an egg that was trying to act like a chicken, without having yet gone through the process of hatching.
As it turns out, hatching is painful.
How to Hatch, in Three Steps: First, peck at the shell, or, revolt
What unfolded over the next 36 hours was the work of many people. There were multiple lines of initiative that began a gentle revolt by the incubating body against its shell. In what follows, I'll be tracing the line of development as I experienced it. In doing so, I hope to invite others to describe the narrative as they experienced it as well, so we can understand the complexity of a (tiny) process of social change. To say this another way: I understand the story I'm about to tell is utterly incomplete, and I would love to learn more about what unfolded by reading others' accounts.
For me personally, ground zero of this revolt was like this: I knew I wasn't liking what was happening, and I could tell from a glance that my fellow Carbondale comrades were not liking it. But maybe we were weird? So I started glancing around at the faces and body language of the room. After a few rounds of this, I caught eyes with a total stranger sitting a few feet away, who was also a person of the global majority (a phrase used by people of color at the Congress to more accurately describe their caucus). I asked: "Are you as repulsed by this as I am?"
The "yes" was emphatic. This was enough to confirm for me that it wasn't just some weird culture we have in Carbondale, but that people that we didn't even know were just as upset. So as the meeting was wrapping up, I made a process comment of sorts. I said something like, "if this is how this weekend is going to be, then we have a real problem. We haven't even gotten to know each other yet and we're already passing an international committee. So if anyone wants to do get to know each other and hear about our different struggles, we can meet at lunch." Someone shouted, "why don't we just do that now?" It was decided it would wait until after lunch.
Second, let some air in, or, reform
The second assembly on Friday was much different. It was clear to the organizers that something needed to change, but the facilitators were clear that whatever changes were to happen had to themselves be passed within the existing decision-making structures — the content had to change, but there could be no violence to the pre-decided form. In other words: the shell could not break. So even though it was obvious that most people just wanted to hear from each other and start talking about their projects and how they related to what Symbiosis might become, getting into that was frustrated by the need to do so through a cumbersome process — one which some people were adept at, while others found either confusing or simply irritating. I and my fellow Carbondale delegates did not want to spend an entire assembly focused on changing the rules to the assembly, when all we wanted to do was have a big conversation.
Amidst the talk about procedure, a proposal for how to spend our time was put on a white board, then edited and modified by about 6 people in real time, and then passed. Immediately people's bodies loosened up. A line formed and 3 minutes were given for people from member orgs to summarize their work and say why they thought being a part of Symbiosis was important. The highlight of the assembly was the compa from Oaxaca, who described the learning curve they had experienced through involvement with the National Indigenous Council. In the first year she said they had all gotten together and tried to pass all these declarations and use all these rules, and it was full of frustration. The second year, they loosened up a bit, but they were still driven by a sense of urgency to get something done and they didn't get much done. By the third year, they just listened to each other and managed to actually accomplish something. I'm summarizing, but that was the thrust of it.
For many of us, this was a serious validation of our desires, and reflected the way we already organize with our own group as well as comrades in other networks throughout the continent.
Personally, I framed the tension to myself and the many others I spoke with as a tension within the concept of "democracy" itself. On the one hand, democracy can be identified as a process by which a certain set of rules and procedures are deemed legitimate. The parliamentary scheme developed on the internet prior to the congress, the shell, was "democratic" in this sense: in principle anyone could have had a hand in shaping it, it had its own procedures internal to it for amendment, and it was ratified by all the people who voted for it prior to the congress.
But there is another sense that the word "democratic" invokes: the qualitative transformation in relationships. The feeling between people of mutual recognition and egalitarian partnership in constructing a common world. In the second assembly on Friday, we got a small taste of this transformation, and I stress that it was an affective change — something that is difficult to precisely define or plan for, but is a shared feeling. This was still happening within the shell, and it still felt a bit rushed, but there was still a shift. The question for me was whether we would continue to go deeper on that path, or whether the first sense of democracy would reassert itself.
It's worth saying that I think there are serious reasons to separate these two aspects of "democracy" in our minds, that is, to treat them as separate concepts altogether.(1) I won't get into it in detail here, but the tendency of the sense of democracy-as-procedure to continually swallow up the sense of democracy-as-experience-of-being-equal-together plagues movements of "direct democracy" continually. Personally, I think we should consider finding a new word for the qualitative experience of equality and emphasizing that as a value over and above "democracy," identified with a process of legitimizing a set of rules. The thing about being together as equals is: it requires no prior process of legitimization. It is self-grounding as a desirable way to be together. But this doesn't really make sense to people before they've had such an experience.
The different intentions were becoming clearer between the partisans of the shell and the partisans of the embryonic fluid striving to form itself. The former had come because they wanted to pass certain documents that would solidify the structure and the political identity of Symbiosis — most importantly, a "points of unity" document. The latter felt that honing down such documents was putting the cart before the horse, and that we needed to actually construct a unity among ourselves before any such organization could have substantial meaning. This and a million other things were discussed in a hundred tiny conversations throughout the evening. Certainly unity was being constructed, but in opposition to and in spite of the organizational forms meant to legitimize it.
Saturday morning after breakout groups specifically on points of unity proposals, we returned to assembly. We went through the language of the document, consolidating different points, changing the language — basically, imagine 80 people co-editing a document using a modified Robert's Rules of Order. On the one hand, I personally had no substantial objection to any of the points put forward. On the other hand, I felt that we hadn't discussed the strategic situation or sense of such a points of unity, and that there were substantial reasons to consider other approaches. The folks who were really pushing for a points of unity document, considering it to be of utmost importance, had assumed that importance was transparently evident to everyone. Me and other delegates from my town felt it warranted further discussion.
The problem was not with the points of unity, but that there was no space made for serious reflective discussion about it. It was all a matter of whether you agree or disagree with this or that abstract principle. There was no opportunity to turn an idea over, to think it through, to question whether it makes sense to put something out that basically occupies a niche market in the menu of Left organizations, or whether there was a different aspiration to which a federation like Symbiosis could aspire. It was also irksome that the same people continued to be most vocal with their amendments and their points of process, while others were once again feeling frustrated or bored.
It started to feel like every time an interesting or critical reflection was about to come out, the person uttering it would be cut off with a point of process. When the hell were we supposed to think together?
Third, break out, or exodus
Before the second assembly on Saturday, I learned that one of our comrades from Carbondale was done with it. She was going to check out D-Town farms and try to make contacts with people involved in the local food movement. I also learned that everyone from Cooperation Jackson was doing the same thing. Personally, I felt very invested in the course of the Congress, and decided I would try to stay for the second assembly.
Right from the beginning, we ran into a problem: assembly attendance had dropped substantially, and the number of delegates required for a quorum had to be revised again in order to adapt to that. At one point it seemed like we hadn't made the quorum. This got me thinking again about the concept of "legitimacy." Here you have a room full of people from around the continent, ready to work together and build something, but somehow the fidelity to a structure that only a slim number of them actually built was going to risk delegitimizing what was discussed or decided? As it happened, whether in accordance with the rules or not, the quorum was deemed met.
At the beginning of the assembly a friend from Carbondale got on the mic. I should note that those of us from Carbondale did precious little consulting with each other throughout this weekend. We didn't plan moves or anything, and I was often very pleasantly surprised when my own feelings were echoed by others from my crew. We were all feeling and thinking along similar lines, but not coordinating.
The comrade from Carbondale got up to question the nature of the points of unity document, and he was immediately processed to silence. This angered me. So I got up and said that the point of an organizational form was to facilitate the capacity of people to speak and think together, and that in fact the forms being used had annihilated that capacity.
Another comrade from Carbondale got up and pointed out that the majority of the comrades from the People of the Global Majority had left the room. I left after that and, along with three other packed cars, joined the exodus to D-Town farms.
The farm was a slice of paradise. By far the most beautiful and extensive urban farm project I've ever seen, we were lucky enough to have arrived on the day of a festival. Kids were learning traditional dances, pizza was being cooked in a cob-oven, and it was an explosion of sensuous joy. We took a photo together posing as escapees from the Symbiosis Congress.
I had never intended to leave the Congress for good. I was done with the assembly, but had met so many amazing people that I wanted to continue to spend time with. I later learned that a Carbondale comrade had given the impression that we were all going home.
I'm not sure what happened while so many of us were gone, but whatever transformations took place among the remaining Congress attendees strikes me as somewhat miraculous. Facing a large exodus of member organizations, Congress organizers had the courage to let the shell crumble.
I understand my account has been extremely Carbondale-centric. My apologies for this, because I know it is at best only a partial account reflecting my own interpretive biases. But I don't think any story of the Symbiosis Congress will be adequate without singling out one comrade who not only participated in the revolt from the very beginning, but also had the skills and grace to give living form to what remained after the shell was completely broken. "You-know-who-you-are" from Athens, if we manage to build what this federation into what it should become, it will be a result of your work. It should also be mentioned that the people who had the courage to invite Imani to exercise her skills, even if that meant breaking something they had spent almost two years building, deserve all of our respect and admiration. A number of people worked on planning this Congress like it was a full-time job for a very long time. You know who you are, as well.
We had arrived back at the Congress and were deep into socializing when a comrade came out and invited us to yet another assembly. We were told we would all sit in a circle and there would be no formal process. Against my first impulse, I decided to attend. What I experienced was beautiful.
It was simple: we were to see all of us and hear all of us. We were to listen to the reports from various working groups. And then we were to hear all of us again. There was an outpouring of relief and emotion in the circle, expertly facilitated by Imani. It was friendly, it was gentle, and it felt like finally, the day before we all left, we were actually getting started.
Among the many things said, I want to point to the final statement from one of the main organizers of Symbiosis who had initially introduced the idea of the "chicken and egg" metaphor at the start of the Congress. It was moment of parrhesia — of self-risking, public truth-telling. He said that it was hard not to feel a sense of failure, since he had his fingerprints all over the formal rules. But he had learned that he had to trust the process — which, he hastened to add, was *not* the formal procedures, but rather the process of collective wisdom unfolding among those in attendance. I didn't get to spend much time talking to this organizer over the course of the Congress, but he earned my admiration in that moment.
The second sense of "democracy," the qualitative change in our experience of being together, had triumphed. We ended with a song, and with a palpable sense of elation in the room.
Everything had changed. We had to explain this to comrades coming back late or who hadn't come to the Saturday night assembly. The shell was gone, the revolution had succeeded. We had become a chicken.
The next and final assembly was similarly in a big circle, with people reporting back from various breakout sessions in the center, fishbowl style. We took questions from everyone about the proposals from the breakout groups, and then had a chance to answer or modify them. In general, it felt like everyone had adapted to the idea that we were going to move more slowly, forming a points of unity working group, as well as other working groups to carry out concrete tasks to help build our relationships to make the federation grounded in substantial relationships among people and organizations, rather than about mutual assent to abstract concepts.
We had lunch before a final vote to ratify these proposals. While I was in the cafeteria, an announcement was made about needing more help with dishes. I had shamefully not lent a hand with dishes the whole weekend, and although a vote was coming up, I realized I felt completely at ease with missing it. I trusted the direction things were going, and I could actually focus on the real work of the revolution — the dishes. Shout out to Antonio: we are unstoppable, cleaner dishes are possible.
Crossing the Roads to Come
So what the hell happened last weekend? What does it mean? What are the lessons we should take from it as a newly pecking and scratching federation? I want to start by offering an historical hypothesis about how the process we experienced came about. Basically, Symbiosis was an encounter between the children of Occupy, separated at birth.
The Occupy movement marked a new wave of radicalization in the U.S., kicking off a process we are still within. Occupy was also a site of tension between, on the one hand, the partisans of direct democratic process — consensus process for Occupy — and, on the other hand, radicals who saw the encampments as spaces of encounter, places where people practiced communal relations and underwent radicalization through a temporary suspension of the logic of the state and capital.
These two tendencies within Occupy were in constant tension, and were one of the critical fractures which the movement failed to resolve. The process folks constructed a bureaucracy without any power, the autonomist folks failed to act in a way that could keep the movement building against its external challenges from the winter and the state. When the DSA went into hyperdrive after Bernie's campaign, the process folks helped form the Libertarian Socialist Caucus while bearing in mind their critique of Occupy's consensus process; the autonomist folks joined various DSA chapters and took them in a more action oriented direction, such as in Carbondale, where we created a Solidarity Economy Working Group that didn't spend much time focusing on the decision making processes of the larger body. A new round of people radicalized through the experiences of the last 5 years (Ferguson, Standing Rock, Bernie's campaign, Trump's election, and so on) were pulled into the various tendencies based on what was present where they were organizing and their own preferences and political beliefs.
So neither of these tendencies found during Occupy went away during the last 8 years, they just went in different directions and took different lessons from the experience. The process folks took the lesson that consensus process was undemocratic, since it allowed a single person to frustrate a whole group. They adapted their procedural understanding of direct democracy to a non-representative voting structure of recallable delegates. They created a shell.
The other folks, the anarchists and communists who have foregrounded "autonomy" in their strategic thinking, have spent the last 8 years organizing on a continental level without any articulated formal processes at all. No "decision-making": just discussion of the situation and the formation of autonomous groups to respond to common perceptions of what needs doing. This has been rewarding in many ways, but also limiting, because it is difficult to join up with and there are certain kinds of organizing — particularly across great differences — that may require clearer formal processes.
I know it may be easy to think I'm saying otherwise, but I am truly appreciative that the process folks created a shell. Shells aren't bad in themselves. They allow for the incubation of something new. But they have to be broken when the time is right.
The only trouble was, I think, that the shell-makers of Symbiosis lost track of the insight contained in their guiding "chicken and egg" metaphor. They forgot they were making a shell to be cracked, and thought they had made a form for the organization, for which member orgs were going to provide content. What happened in fact was that the "content" — the feelings, thoughts, experiences, and desires of the attendees themselves — struggled against the existing forms. The "we" that was being created couldn't be reduced to a bunch of proposals to be voted into a pre-determined structure. I don't fault the egg-builders for this, and certainly I'm not into holding any grudges. Honestly, I feel like the whole experience was better because they held so firmly to the shell. It allowed for the transformation we underwent together to feel meaningful in ways that it simply wouldn't have if the form had collapsed the moment someone pushed against it. Maybe the chicken learns an essential lesson in the struggle to get out of the egg.
Confession: I'm often confused about what "dialectics" means, but this weekend made a dialectical process viscerally clear to me. The form organizes the content, which then exceeds the form, which then finds a new form that reconciles the tension. We lived that this last weekend, and could feel the process unfold qualitatively. I ask folks who were there to really remember the shifting feelings they experienced, and to continue to reflect and interpret them in the weeks to come.
This process, I'm suggesting, was a re-encounter between the tendencies that were in tension during Occupy. Hopefully, our experience together is a sign that over the last 8 years we've learned enough to productively reconcile this tension for the struggles to come.
But what is this chicken that the dialectic hath wrought? If we don't have points of unity, what do we have? Well, we definitely have a lot of potential points of unity, and a working group that aims to continue that discussion. We also have a working group that aims to break out of its mundane heading as "skillshare," and begin building a strategic repository of experiences in actually engaging in municipal struggles. We also have an amazing and ambitious plan to adapt and expand the long-running "Detroit Summer" project, founded by Grace Lee Boggs, into a "Symbiosis Summer," which will allow us to work together on a deep, place-based organizing campaign. We have also, through the crucible of struggle, forged the beginning of a common history together, transitioning from a network into something that might meaningfully be called a "federation." We've begun to create a story of our common struggle. Honestly: not bad for a weekend.
As a conclusion, I want to remind myself that our work of building a federation of ongoing municipal struggles, and seeding new ones, has just begun. In a sense, the struggle we went through together was just catching the federation up to the insights and experiences that have been learned by movements around the globe since the 60s, and we landed with appreciation on the organizational forms of the anti-globalization movement — facilitated assemblies and spokes-councils, with a striving toward consensus. This was made possible because of the maturity and shared perceptions of the Congress attendees, who were all anti-authoritarian in principle, even if some of them clung to the authority of a process they perceived to be legitimate. But movements in our recent history have also hit walls with these forms as well, and if we are going to be something that is growing, living, and breaking new ground, then there will be new limits and growing pains we will encounter along the way. The next shell may be more difficult to perceive, since it will calcify around a form that emerged organically from a struggle.
As revolutionaries who are attempting to build municipal movements as a strategic front within a global attack on the ecocidal structures of capital, the state, Empire, hierarchy, whatever you want to call the enemy, we have to remain connected to the feeling that emerges when we are building a common life together, to remain prepared to be disappointed when what worked once does not work the next time, and to be constantly open to the surprising ways reality refuses to conform to our theories.
As our compa from Oaxaca reminded us, we make the road by walking. This means the roads that are already laid down must be crossed.
Why? Why cross the road?
To get to the other side.
(1) For an excellent analysis of the tensions within the concept of democracy, and implications of this for recent social movements, see Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom.
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of egg and chicken?
we already know what came first:
controlled fire.
that's what sent us down this un-vegan masculinist civ path
you can't make an omelette
you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs + controlled fire
I COOK EGGS IN THEIR SHELLS
I COOK EGGS IN THEIR SHELLS BURIED IN THE HOT SANDS OF DEATH VALLEY. I MAKE A SMALL HOLE IN THE TOP OF THE SHELL TO RELEASE STEAM AND LEAVE THIS JUST POKING THROUGH.
"Personally, I think we
"Personally, I think we should consider finding a new word for the qualitative experience of equality and emphasizing that as a value over and above "democracy," identified with a process of legitimizing a set of rules. The thing about being together as equals is: it requires no prior process of legitimization. It is self-grounding as a desirable way to be together. But this doesn't really make sense to people before they've had such an experience."
a new word? how about "anarchy"?!
also, no, not cleaner dishes. no more dishes.
dishes are civ, veggies and fruits don't require dishes for eating.
assemblies is where any
assemblies is where any vitality, curiosity, affinity, and spontaneity go to die
(that's not to say those who don't go have these by virtue of not going to assemblies)
That totally happened to me,
That totally happened to me, therefore anon, you must be A WITCH! Which is pretty cool.
then ur my cat! muahahahaha!
nah, come on, u know it's a common thing.
recently there were ones near me, and i didn't go.
i was kinda getting some FOMO* but then today i saw some very cringe* videos of what went down and i got a rush JOMO*
but really wish it wasn't like that tho
*annoying words i don't use, except for now
My experience has been some
My experience has been some wack organizing assembly starts up...lots of energy goes into getting everyone on the same page....very little actually happens...everyone then burns out and quits.
I much rather do projects with people I already have affinity with instead of repeating this cycle in the name of democracy.
the prompt says not enough 5 min 17 sec ago
you can't "build" a "network" 7 min 19 sec ago


Castel di Sangro is a tiny town situated in the Abruzzo region of Italy, and has a population of around 6,000 people. In the mid 1990's, the townsfolk and supporters of A.S.D Castel di Sangro Calcio experienced a journey which saw them come within touching distance of what was – during that period – the greatest league in the world, Serie A. To put it into perspective, a team whose stadium capacity (7,000) was bigger than their population were just one promotion away from brushing shoulders with legends such as Roberto Baggio and Gabriel Batistuta.
Castel di Sangro's incredible rise from obscurity even prompted an American writer, Joe McGi nniss, to spend an entire season with the club in 1996. While living and eating with the squad on a daily basis he penned his book, The Miracle of Castel di Sangro.
From humble beginnings, the club was founded in 1953 and battled in the regional amateur leagues before reaching the professional ranks of Serie C2 in 1989. This rise was funded by owner Pietro Rezza and club president Gabriele Gravina.
The Giallorossi continued to defy the odds in Serie C2 but it wasn't until the appointment of experienced manager Osvaldo Jaconi that the 'miracle' happened. Jaconi steadied the ship and in the 1994/95 season, he led his side to promotion to Serie C1. Expectations were low given the jump in class from C1 to C2, but Il Giallorossi took the division by storm and finished second.
This secured the Sangrini a spot in the play-offs and after squeezing past Gualdo in the semi-finals, Jaconi's men found former Serie A side, Ascoli, between them and a place in Serie B. The game was a tedious affair and after 120 minutes passed without a goal, a penalty shoot-out was beckoning. However, Jaconi had a trick up his sleeve. As extra-time ebbed towards its conclusion, he brought on substitute goalkeeper Pietro Spinosa. Spinosa went onto to save the decisive spot kick and promotion was secured in the most dramatic of circumstances. The substitution proved to be a Jaconi masterstroke, although at the time it was considered a moment of madness, especially given Spinosa had not seen one minute of playing time all season.
This amazing story continued throughout their debut season in Serie B. Events off the field, however, threatened to conspire against them. For the first-half of the season they had to play their home games in Chieti (a mere 64 km away) while their ground, Lo Stadio Teofilo Patini underwent major work to bring it up to Serie B standards. Then tragedy struck as two players, Danilo di Vincenzo and Pippo Biondi, died in a car crash. The saying goes 'bad luck come in threes' and shortly afterwards defender Gigi Prete was arrested in connection with a drug smuggling ring. The defender was later cleared however it goes without saying these tribulations made Castel di Sangro's survival mission that much harder.
Thankfully, amidst all this, some football was played and it was on the field that the Giallorossi excelled. Against the odds, they won 12 games that season, beating some established and historic teams like Torino and Genoa. A 2-1 victory in the penultimate game of the season guaranteed the unlikeliest of survivals and the 'miracle' was complete.
For anyone who has read the book, Joe McGinniss, is left scandalised by the controversial fashion in which the season ends. During the team's trip to Bari for the last game of the season, the American author overhears players discussing the logistics of letting the opposition win 3-1, with Castel scoring a penalty. Low and behold the final score was 3-1 to Bari, and Castel did indeed score from the penalty spot.
After the accomplishment of staying in Serie B, the following season sawCastello come crashing back down to reality. Players were sold, Jaconi was sacked and the team inevitably failed to live up to the highs of their magical debut in Serie B. Second season syndrome hit the club hard and they were relegated back to Serie C1. Although it was short lived, their return to Serie C1 wasn't all doom and gloom after the club defeated Serie A sides Perugia and Salernitana in the Coppa Italia, earning them a glamorous quarter-final against Inter. But that was as good as it got for the Giallorossi and after dropping back into Serie C2, Castel di Sangro Calcio eventually folded in 2005 due to financial problems.
That same year, the club reformed as Pro Castel di Sangro and started life in the Promozione level of Italian football, or the sixth tier of the league system. The club endured promotion and relegation under its new guise but once again their story had an unhappy ending after they failed to register a team for the forthcoming season in 2012. Over sixty years of history and tradition had gone and it appeared no football club would be associated with this picturesque town, encircled by the Apennine Mountains.
Luckily though, as one club perished a new one rose from the ashes. Castello 2000 were formed during the same year Pro Castel folded and they currently ply their trade in Girone Abruzzese B. It's a long way from the dizzy heights of Serie B and the 'miracle' that was Castel di Sangro but the footballing tradition lives on in this remote town. That can perhaps be considered a mini 'miracle' in itself.


Photos taken after a lorry was involved in a crash with parked cars show the extent of the damage caused by the collision.
Police were called to Pampisford Road, which runs between Purley and South Croydon, shortly after 5am on Wednesday (April 11) following reports of a crash.
When officers attended the scene, they discovered that a HGV had been involved in a crash with multiple parked cars.
A grey Suzuki Swift and blue Ford were two of the cars which took damage, with the Suzuki's boot folding in and bumper falling off.
Photos taken in the wake of the incident show that the Ford's boot sustained dents and a telephone pole was hit.
A Met Police spokesman confirmed officers attended as well as London Ambulance Service (LAS) paramedics with the driver of the HGV treated.
LAS said an ambulance crew was sent to the scene and one person was taken to hospital.
Officers cordoned off the road for more than four hours in both directions while the incident was dealt with and vehicles involved were safely moved to the side of the road.
While the cordon was up, Transport for London put its 405 and 455 bus routes on diversion.
The cordon was removed at about 9.30am and police have not made any arrests in connection with the crash.


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The Vancouver Canucks are acquiring forward Jason Dickinson from the Dallas Stars, the team announced Saturday.
The Stars will receive a 2021 third-round pick in the deal.
Dickinson, 26, has spent his entire NHL career in Dallas. Last season, he recorded seven goals and 15 points over 51 games.
Over 221 career NHL games, the centre has posted 25 goals and 63 points.
The Georgetown, Ont., native was the No. 29 pick in the 2013 NHL Draft.
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November 6, 2014 . Press Release
Leading scientists identify research strategy for highly intertwined "pillars of aging"
Scientists who have been successful in delaying mammalian aging with genetic, dietary and pharmacological approaches have developed a research strategy to expand Geroscience research directed at extending human healthspan. The strategy comes at a critical time, given the dramatic increase in the elderly population and a growing recognition that aging is the greatest risk factor for a majority of the chronic diseases that drive later-life disability and death. The strategy is set forth in a commentary published in the November 6th edition of Cell.
The scientists took part in the first summit of the NIH Geroscience Interest Group (GSIG) held last year on the NIH campus. The National Institutes of Health is made up of 27 different components called Institutes and Centers. Each has its own specific research agenda. The GSIG is aimed at promoting new pathways for collaboration, both within the NIH and with its funded researchers, specifically within the context of aging. The NIH was created and organized long before scientists began seriously exploring the possibility of altering the aging process.
"We have high hopes that our research strategy will help move collaborative efforts to the next level," said Brian Kennedy, PhD, President and CEO of the Buck Institute and the lead author of the commentary. "What has come out of our work is a keen understanding that the factors driving aging are highly intertwined and that in order to extend healthspan we need an integrated approach to health and disease with the understanding that biological systems change with age."
The "Pillars of Aging" and research goals are detailed in the following table:
The group focused on a limited set of short-and intermediate-term scientific goals that would accelerate Geroscience and launch novel approaches to reduce the impact of the healthcare burden associated with the chronic diseases of aging. The scientists call for Geroscience to be merged with ongoing research on human chronic disease states; an expansion of interventions that extend lifespan and healthspan; an elaboration of environmental and random factors driving aging; an integration of human genetic and epigenetic studies with animal models; a comparison and contrast of inflammation in aging and disease; and the development of new animal models of aging.
"The trans-NIH GeroScience Interest Group (GSIG) and this Geroscience initiative hope to mobilize the research community about considering prevention of multiple age-related chronic conditions by targeting common mechanisms underlying these conditions, rather than improving the management of diseases one by one," notes Felipe Sierra, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Aging Biology at the NIH's National Institute on Aging.
"Our current approach to researching and treating chronic diseases is inadequate and fragmentary," said Kennedy. "By the time chronic diseases are diagnosed, much damage is done and undoing it is difficult." Pointing out that 46 percent of Medicare spending is for people with six or more chronic conditions, Kennedy added, "Targeting aging may allow early intervention and allow us to maintain vigor and activity, while offsetting the economic burdens of a burgeoning aging population hampered by multiple chronic diseases."
Citation: Aging: a common driver of chronic diseases and a target for novel interventions
. Cell, November 6, 2014
Additional authors include: Shelley L. Berger, Penn Epigenetics Program; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology; Department of Genetics and Department of Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Anne Brunet, Department of Genetics, Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Judith Campisi and Gordon J. Lithgow, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA USA; Ana Maria Cuervo, Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Institute for Aging Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; Elissa S. Epel, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Claudio Franceschi, IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, Italy, C.I.G., Interdepartmental Center 'L. Galvani' for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics, and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, DIMES, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Richard I. Morimoto, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA; Jeffrey E. Pessin, Department of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; Thomas A. Rando, Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305; Center for Tissue Regeneration, Repair and Restoration, Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA USA; Arlan Richardson, Donald W Reynolds Endowed Chair of Aging Research, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK USA; Eric E. Schadt, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, New York, NY USA; Tony Wyss-Coray, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305; Center for Tissue Regeneration, Repair and Restoration, Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA USA; and Felipe Sierra, Division of Aging Biology, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA.


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Bernard Schoenburg: Groups formed to advocate on taxes, other issues
Bernard Schoenburg Political Writer @bschoenburg
Feb 13, 2019 at 7:07 PM Feb 14, 2019 at 11:30 AM
As the fight over Illinois' tax structure heats up, a couple of new groups hoping to impress the public with their arguments have been formed.
Think Big Illinois, with a name seeming to draw on a theme of Gov. J.B. PRITZKER's campaign, is, according to a news release last week, "committed to fighting for progressive policies and supporting the changes necessary to help repair the state."
Its executive director is QUENTIN FULKS, based in Chicago, who was deputy campaign manager for Pritzker. Among things being pushed are a $15 minimum wage and a progressive income tax, as well as women's rights, investing in infrastructure and seeking a "fair and equal criminal justice system."
"We plan on communicating using a variety of manners, including television, digital spending, social media and grassroots organizing to accomplish our goals," said LARA SISSELMAN, communications director. "The organization will be well-funded," she added, and Pritzker is among donors.
Just Wednesday, Fulks announced the group "will be voluntarily disclosing our donors to the public when we file our annual nonprofit tax returns."
Meanwhile, Ideas Illinois also was launched last week. It is an initiative of the Coalition for Jobs, Growth and Prosperity, which like Think Big is a 501c4 not-for-profit group. It will advocate for "a stronger Illinois business climate," and will argue against a progressive income tax, which it calls a jobs tax.
GREG BAISE, former CEO of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association and co-founder of the prosperity coalition, is chairman of Ideas Illinois. JASON HEFFLEY of Springfield, who was campaign manager for Republican ERIKA HAROLD's run for attorney general and worked in the administration of then-Gov. BRUCE RAUNER in roles including policy adviser for energy and environment, is executive director of the new group.
Just Wednesday, Ideas Illinois issued a news release, based on speculation that there may be a move for a temporary income-tax increase, that any lawmaker should release full personal tax returns before supporting such a plan.
"Our organization will attempt … to frame what a progressive income tax is about," Baise said Wednesday. "It's really a jobs tax, I think. Illinois has suffered enough hits on its economic situation in the last few years."
He also said that while talk of a progressive income tax has it targeting the wealthy, it may dip down to add taxes to plenty of people — he used the example of a married couple including a teacher and firefighter, or a small business person running an independent insurance agency.
Baise remains president of a for-profit arm of the IMA that does political work including polling.
KENT REDFIELD, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield, said the more people know about who is funding political speech, the better they can evaluate the message.
Baise said that while the jobs coalition will continue to not disclose donors, it advocates for issues, not candidates — like many other nonprofit groups.
Seal reminder
Candidates for city offices in the April 2 election got a reminder they can't use the city seal in campaign literature — thanks to a misstep by mayoral candidate FRANK EDWARDS.
As reported on WMAY, Edwards took responsibility for his campaign printing a flier that included the seal and the message that he has "The experience to get Springfield back on track."
Edwards said he discussed the prototype within his campaign and was told it was OK.
"It's my fault for not checking it further," he said. He said he got an email from City Clerk FRANK LESKO, along with the city ordinance stating concerning the seal.
That ordinance states the corporate seal is only to be used for official business.
"Incidental reproductions of the corporate seal in photographs or videos is not prohibited, but the corporate seal shall never be reproduced in a manner which implies an endorsement of the City of Springfield …" it states in part.
Edwards, who is running against Mayor JIM LANGFELDER in the April 2 election, said his campaign had printed 3,000 or 4,000 copies.
"We'll just destroy those," Edwards said. "We don't want somebody to be making a mistake and passing them out."
He said a revised flier without the seal was in the works.
Lesko said he sent emails to all city candidates to remind them of the ordinance.
AG was there
The Statehouse office of Sen. STEVE McCLURE, R-Springfield, includes some original art concerning the law. I wrote about the prominent location of the office recently, and this week, the office of the architect of the Capitol confirmed the space in the past housed the attorney general's office.
One picture affixed to a wall of the office is of a seated person with a sword and shield, and is called "The Power of the Law." Another picture on a facing wall, with a seated person reading a book, includes the caption "The Wisdom of the Law."
The architect's office was able to pinpoint that Room 218 was the attorney general's office in 1900. The attorney general now inhabits an office building across Second Street from the Statehouse.
McClure, now with the job of making laws, is a lawyer who was an assistant state's attorney before getting elected to represent the 50th Senate District.
Municipal expert
LARRY FRANG knew an amazing amount of Illinois cities and the laws that affected them.
Frang started work for the Illinois Municipal League as a college intern in 1974 and made a long career of it, including serving as executive director from 2007 to 2014. He died Sunday at HSHS St. John's Hospital. He was 70.
"He was well known for having a broad historical reference on any point," said BRAD COLE, a former Carbondale mayor who became IML executive director after Frang. "Even legislators would call and say, 'What was it that happened back in 1983 on this issue? And he could give the full rundown and … enjoyed doing that. He certainly knew our communities and the issues that affected them and many of the people that were involved with them."
Frang also "cared deeply about the people he worked with and definitely left a lasting impression on the organization, so he will be missed," Cole said.
Contact Bernard Schoenburg: bernard.schoenburg@sj-r.com, 788-1540, twitter.com/bschoenburg.


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Here are some more comments from Jay Cross about Shift Happens!
A high level of threshold would be evidenced when such planetary indicators of balance and vitality can be observed as the increasing rate at which hunger, poverty, and violence are decreasing.
What I see the next important step is not as much defining it, but designing a co-creative, generative, multi-stakeholder conversation in which indicators and criteria for each level can be jointly developed and brought into the public discourse.
Today, looking around in blogosphere, I have certainly more trust in the possibility of the kind of co-creative, generative, multi-stakeholder conversations about the tipping point criteria than I had when the web has just started and we have not yet had blogs.
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Impact of Brexit on Cross-Border Litigation
Julia Dodds
What are the options for cross-border litgation post-Brexit? The UK Government planned to accede to the Lugano Convention 2007, which states which national courts have jurisdiction in cross-border civil and commercial disputes and ensure that judgements taken in such disputes can be enforced across borders. However, its now too late for the UK to join the Lugano Convention by 1 January 2021. So what are the UK's options and what do businesses need to consider regarding cross-border litigation?
With less than a month to go until the end of the Brexit transition period, it seems increasingly likely that the EU rule book that helps provide certainty on cross-border litigation in Europe could be tossed on the Brexit bonfire. This will, in the government's own words "result in a lack of legal certainty and higher costs for those involved in cross-border civil and commercial disputes, and an increased complexity and cost of proceedings to both litigants and the courts."
At the moment, what is known as the Brussels Recast Regulation governs many issues in cross-border disputes such as where a party should be sued, which court has precedent if there are conflicting proceedings and the upholding of choice of court clauses. Most of the rules are mandatory and the Regulation therefore has the great benefit of creating certainty across the EU member states.
From 1 January 2021 the Regulation will cease to apply in litigation as between parties in the UK and EU member states. The Withdrawal Agreement simply provides that the Regulation will cease to have effect, except in proceedings that were instituted before the end of the transition period. There are no provisions for any replacement system in place in the Withdrawal Agreement and Parliament is unable to legislate to cure the problem because any system requires reciprocity as between the UK and EU.
It had been hoped that this situation could be rescued by the UK's accession to the Lugano Convention. The Lugano Convention contains a similar set of rules to the Regulation, but its membership extends to a number of non-EU member states including Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. The UK is presently bound by the Lugano Convention courtesy of its membership of the EU. Once the UK leaves the EU it will cease to be a member. The UK has applied to rejoin the convention as an individual member, but its accession requires the consent of all other signatories.
The EU has not provided its consent. Furthermore, even it were to consent to the UK's accession before the end of the year, the Lugano Convention would not take effect until three months after the EU's approval and the UK's deposit of its accession document, neither of which has taken place.
At minimum, therefore, there may be a lacuna in the application of any European rule book. It may be that we are all pleasantly surprised and the promised trade deal sneaks in a clause whereby the EU agrees to the UK's accession to the Lugano Convention, with a nifty work-around for the three-month accession period. Optimism, however, may be misplaced. Even if a deal with the EU is secured, it may not include accession to the Lugano Convention. The UK government clearly has accession on its agenda and took the step in mid-November of laying the Lugano Convention treaty before Parliament. However, in a revised notice published at the end of August, setting out how it is envisaged matters including choice of law and jurisdiction would be determined post-Brexit, the European Commission, rather pointedly, makes no reference to future application of the Lugano Convention.
No deal Brexit or no Lugano Convention?
If we have a no-deal Brexit or a trade deal that does not include admission to the Lugano Convention, what then happens?
The Hague Convention on the Choice of Court Agreements will assist where the dispute relates to a contract with a choice of jurisdiction clause in it. The UK was also a member of the Hague Convention via its EU membership, but has applied to rejoin this convention independently and importantly the EU has no veto. The Hague Convention will therefore to apply from 1 January 2021. It gives effect to exclusive choice of court clauses, as well as mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments of the courts designated by those choice of court clauses.
The Hague Convention, however, will not be a universal panacea to the loss of the Regulation and Lugano Convention, not least because it has no application if the basis of the dispute is not contractual but, say, tort or fraud.
In these circumstances, in England, the common law regime that already applies in cross-border disputes between UK parties and parties in other non-EU states will apply. Many of the common law principles are similar to the existing European regime, but the courts have greater discretion in their decision-making and many processes that are presently streamlined, such as obtaining permission to serve out of the jurisdiction and enforcement of judgments, will be more laborious and more expensive.
The resulting uncertainties will mean that, more than ever, parties involved in cross-border litigation will need detailed advice and guidance. We will be writing in more detail about the consequences of Brexit on the European litigation landscape, but issues that businesses will need to consider carefully in drafting future contracts include:
Preferences on where to issue claims
Whether jurisdiction clauses are liable to challenge
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Where enforcement of any judgments might take place.
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A seamless transition is much more than just a technical term in the post-production process. It cuts to the heart of contemporary animation and storytelling with CGI. How to hold a viewer's interest, while segueing as naturally as possible from one scene to the next?
At PlusOne we always put a lot of effort in this. Needless to say we are very proud of being featured in this issue.


Walter D. Ward is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He studies the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean and Near East during antiquity and the early medieval period, focusing on the role of the Roman Empire in the Middle East. He is the author of The Mirage of the Saracen: Christians and Nomads in the Sinai Peninsula in Late Antiquity, published by the University of California Press. His next book, Comparative Urbanism in the Greco-Roman and Early Islamic Near East, will be published by Routledge in 2018.


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WPI-AIMR Summer School of Materials Science, Tohoku University, Japan
The 2012 WPI-AIMR Summer School of Materials Science (ASSM2012)
-Advanced Materials to Build a Better Future-
July 23rd to July 29th 2012
WPI-AIMR's top-class international researchers are adding new dimensions to the burgeoning field of materials science, as well as developing innovative functional materials and devices. The interdisciplinary research vigorously conducted there is based on atomic and molecular control. WPI-AIMR was established at Tohoku University in 2007 under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)'s World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI).
The WPI-AIMR Summer School offers a one-week graduate level summer program focusing on a given theme, such as "Materials Science." The program was designed to inspire and challenge graduate level students in the fi eld of physics, chemistry, materials science, electrical engineering, precision engineering, mechanical engineering, etc. from all over the world. The program provides young professionals with lectures by world-leading researchers and laboratory courses at WPI-AIMR in accordance with the theme, and all instruction is performed in English.
Morning lecture sessions
AIMR world-leading researchers will give a three-hour lecture (including break time) for four days and teach the fascination of Materials Science.
Afternoon laboratory sessions:
Candidate students will select from 20 research fi elds (laboratories) at the time of application, and they will be separated into 15 groups in advance.
There are two students per group in principle
AIMR researchers will supervise the students in their laboratories for four days.
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In addition, ASSM 2012 provides various activities that expose students to the attractiveness of Materials Science and enrich their academic experiences.
To apply for this program, candidate students need to submit the following documents via email.
Application Form for ASSM 2012
Copy of your passport (PDF)
Copy of registration certifi cate at your university (PDF)
Applicants must be graduate students enrolled in full time graduate degree programs at their home universities. This program requires students to be fluent in English.
Participating students are required to take four lectures and laboratory courses in WPI-AIMR, which equate to 50 hours. On completing this requirement, the 2012 WPI-AIMR Summer School of Materials Science (ASSM 2012) should be two ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)* credits. These credits are not conferred at WPI-AIMR. Students who require credits for this program should inquire at their home universities.
Note: ETCS credits are values allocated to course units to describe the student workload required to complete them. In ECTS, 60 credits represent one year of study (in terms of workload)
Number of Places: 30 graduate students
Location: WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Zao Royal Hotel, Zao-cho, Miyagi. Japan
Accommodation and Expenses
Accommodations will be provided, travel expenses (round-trip economy class airfare and rail fare for Shinkansen) will be covered, and costs of stay will be supported by WPI-AIMR.
Application Deadline: May 7, 2012
Please send us the necessary documents by e-mail.
If you do not receive a confi rmation of receipt from us, please let us know.
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Your application will be evaluated mainly based on your description of "4. Academic Details" and "5. Statement of Motivation" in the application form. We may contact your supervisor as the need arises.
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Free (incl. tuition and fi eld trip)
Travelers insurance, and daily expenses should be paid individually
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List of Laboratory Courses at WPI-AIMR
Bulk Metallic Glasses
B-1 Making nano-sponge metals
B-2 Preparation of superalloys (metallic glasses)
Materials Physics
M-1 Angle-resloved photoemission spectroscopy of Dirac-cone electronic states in layered functional materials
M-2 Tranmission electron microscopy of thin fi lms and nanoparticles
M-3 Making new materials from heteroepitaxy
M-4 Fluorescence Microscopy of Bio-Nanosystems.
M-5 Fabrication and measurements of organic transistors
M-6 Introduction to advanced Molecular Dynamics (MD) or Monte Carlo (MC) methods
M-7 Introduction to numerical simulation of scanning probe microscopes (choice: STM, AFM, KPFM)
M-8 Derivation of a density functional and its implementation to a first-principles calculation program
M-9 Implementation of a method for the physical property which you want to evaluate using a fi rst-principles calculation program
M-10 Dynamics and structure of molecular liquids in confined systems: based on classical molecular dynamics simulations
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S-1 Fabrication and catalytic properties of nanoporous metals
S-2 AFM-based Elasticity Mapping on Soft Materials
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S-4 Synthesis and Characteristics of Nanoparticles
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D-3 Fabrication of hydrogels for cells encapsulation and drug delivery
D-4 Preparation of stable single layer graphene oxide solution
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