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What UCL does
Why UCL?
Where is UCL?
How UCL works
UCL faculties
We lead the field across our 11 faculties, and work together across disciplines to solve the world's biggest problems.
Click on the links below to visit each of the faculties' websites, find out more about what they offer and check their latest news.
Ranked 6th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2018), the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at UCL is recognised globally for both its teaching and research excellence.
Bartlett (Built Environment)
As one of the oldest but most radical faculties of its kind, The Bartlett has built a reputation for education and research that draws students and academics from across the world.
Brain Sciences
The Faculty brings together our expertise in psychology, psychiatry, prion diseases, ophthalmology and vision, language sciences, audiology, deafness and hearing, neurology and related basic neuroscience.
Engineering Sciences
We work across a broad range of disciplines, but everything we do brings discoveries closer to the people who need them. Proudly part of an open-minded home for arts and sciences, within a global city.
UCL Institute of Education (IOE) is a world-leading centre for research and teaching in education and social science - retaining world number one position for Education in 2020 QS subject rankings, for the seventh year in a row.
This faculty is one of the leading centres of legal education in the world, combining a strong theoretical foundation in the law with practical teaching from world-leading academics and practitioners.
This faculty spans an incredible breadth of scientific areas; from fundamental research into the origins of life and evolutionary genetics through structural, molecular and cell biology, developmental biology and neuroscience to ecology and biodiversity.
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
This faculty encompasses the logical, experimental and mathematical study of our universe. Front-line research feeds directly into our teaching programmes, and our students benefit from access to first-class laboratory facilities.
UCL is one of the top 10 Faculties of Medical Sciences in the World*, Number One for Medicine in London* and No 1 In Europe For Medical Technology* - educating doctors and scientists since 1834. (* QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019)
UCL's Faculty of Population Health brings together seven institutes whose common aim is to explore the underlying factors that cause ill-health, and innovate to improve health worldwide.
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Interactionism is a dualist position in the philosophy of mind which argues that (1) mind and body are separate, but that (2) there is causal interaction between the two.
Cartesian dualism, the position of René Descartes is the most famous example of interactionism.
Descartes was an interactionist, and a substance dualist who believed that the mind and body had a causal link. However, a problem arises when interactionalism and substance dualism are coupled — namely, how can an immaterial entity with no extension in the physical world cause changes in a physical body, and how can a physical body cause changes, moods or feelings in a non-physical mind?
Descartes at one point suggested that the pineal gland in the brain may be the link between the soul and the body, but later abandoned the idea admitting that he did not have an answer to the problem. Other followers of Descartes' tradition later suggested that the causal link between mind and body was occasion for divine intervention — that the apparent cause and effect were not direct, but that the hand of God was the actual cause of action in the physical world.


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July 17, 2016 chicagojustice
How does Chicago report on Violence against Women?
We study a year of coverage of violence against women in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times to understand how closely the coverage resembles how the crimes occur in Chicago's communities.
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AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, IF YOU WILL
Making sense of the violence that occurs in our communities contributes significantly to the quality of life throughout our city. The press plays a pivotal role in how communities learn about the crime and violence that occurs in their community. Their coverage has the potential to either arm the public with the knowledge they need to appropriately respond to the violence, or to drive their fear of crime to levels that are disproportionate to risk of being victimized. Responsible media coverage of violence also involves communication with the pubic on how these crimes most often occur in their communities, and what appropriate steps we can take to limit our chances of being victimized.
Through our Community Listening Tour the Chicago Justice Project regularly engages with community members throughout Chicago and fields questions regarding the coverage of crime and violence in their neighborhoods. Many times, these questions focus on what community members feel is a disparity in coverage based on the race of the victim or offenders or in what community the crime occurred. We have also received feedback from our Community Advisory Board about what they believe to be a disparity between media coverage of violence against women and how those crimes occur in our city. This combination of complaints and feedback were the basis for CJP focusing our first annual report on analyzing media coverage of violence against women in Chicago.
This research project was conducted in partnership with The Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network and Rape Victim Advocates.
Collecting the Media Content
In May 2011 the first version of our Community Open Data Access Project (CODA) went live and started collecting published articles from the Chicago Tribune & Chicago Sun Times. Through a process called "scraping," CODA collects coverage that appears on both papers' websites. We confirmed with both papers that, during our study time of June 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012, both papers posted the articles that appeared in their respective print versions online as well. This enabled CJP to capture all of the content published by both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.
What RSS feeds did we capture to collect the content? Well, you can download our RSS document at the bottom of this report for a complete list of RSS feeds we captured from both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.
Coding the Content
The next step involved the creation of criteria that would guide our pool of volunteers as they reviewed the coverage and coded the content of the articles. These criteria included the following:
Crime, violence, and victimization that occur in Chicago regardless of whether or not a Chicago resident is the victim or perpetrator
Chicago residents who are the victims or perpetrators of crime regardless of whether it occurs in Chicago or across the nation
Specific content about criminal justice agencies as specified in the media-coding chart. This includes any coverage of the criminal justice agencies (Office of Emergency Management & Communications, Chicago Police Department, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Cook County Circuit Court, Cook County Jail, Cook County Sheriff's Police, Illinois Department of Corrections, Chicago Police Board, Independent Police Review Authority) whatsoever, whether or not it is specifically crime related. This could include such topics as change in management or new policies being put into place.
Our original set of volunteers included about a dozen community members throughout Chicago's neighborhoods. The volunteer pool was expanded to include paralegals from the law firms of Winston & Strawn and project assistants at Kirkland & Ellis. In total we have had over 50 volunteers that have participated in the coding. All of the original coding that has been completed has been verified by at least one if not more volunteers as the project has moved along. To date, our volunteers have provided close to 3,000 hours coding the content since September of 2011. The coding and validating continues to today as we have expanded since May of 2011 to now include an additional 19 media sources. Our next report will contain analysis of the reporting from many of these additional sources.
We also put together a chart with keywords associated with each of the topics. You can download a copy below.
A Year in Coverage: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in the Papers
We grouped the articles from both papers into a single data set and studied their contents as a single data set. In Chart A you will find the total number of articles from both the Chicago Tribune & Chicago Sun Times for the year we studied. Also, you will find the total number of unique incidents covered in those articles. As you will see there are incidents that receive repeated stories from both papers.
In Chart B we take a look at the race of the offenders in the domestic violence stories we captured. You will see that even taking in to account the "unspecified" category (in which no race was identifiable from the coverage), there is a significant disparity between the numbers of stories with black offenders when compared to the stories with white offenders.
In Chart C you can see similar demographic patterns when you take a look at the race of the offenders in the sexual assault stories that we captured.
Findings from offender race / ethnicity analysis in domestic violence incidents:
Readers of the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times are almost 5 times more likely to read about a domestic violence incident involving a black offender rather than a white offender.
Readers are also almost twice as likely to read about a domestic violence story if it involves a Hispanic offender then a white offender.
Readers are 2.5 times more likely to read about a domestic violence incident involving a black offender than a Hispanic offender.
Findings from offender race / ethnicity analysis sexual assault incidents
Readers are just over four times more likely to read about a sexual assault with a black offender rather than a white offender.
The number of stories involving Hispanic and white offenders are basically equal.
Readers are slightly over four times more likely to read about sexual assault incidents involving black offenders than Hispanic offenders.
We were unable to conduct an analysis based on the race of the survivor because the content of the articles did not contain that information on a consistent basis.
Over represented in the coverage?
In the 2010 census Chicago was almost evenly divided between blacks 32.9%, whites (non-Hispanic) 31.7%, and Hispanics 35.4%. Given the even distribution between these three categories, the disparity in coverage by the race and ethnicity of the offenders is noticeable. A superficial analysis would lead the reader to believe that our results clearly detail a racial bias in the coverage of the daily papers. While this might very well be true, we discuss further in this report a possible reason for this obvious disparity that may have less to do with an overt racial bias and more to do with another factor affecting coverage. Either way, it is clear that the output of the reporting when analyzed as a whole over the course of a year clearly details a disparity by race of the offender in domestic violence and sexual assault reporting at the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times.
Mapping the Coverage
Approximately 85% of the articles are mapped to a specific community where they occurred. The remaining articles are mapped to a general area of the city like "west side" or "south side" because that was all the information included in the reporting.
The maps are interactive. Please take the time to click on the markers to learn more about the incidents that were covered by the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times. Each marker represents an incident of domestic violence (on the first map) and sexual assault (on the second map). When clicking on a marker you will also get the urls to the stories about those incidents.
The map below details each of the domestic violence stories in the area of the city where they occurred. If you click around this map you will see that there is significant reinforcement of the disparity in coverage.
There is clearly an absence of reporting on domestic violence incidents that occur in white north side communities. If you start in the Loop – go directly west to Homan and then straight north to Roger's Park you have approximately 3 stories that appear from that huge swath of the city. The remaining 155 domestic violence stories that did appear both online and in the papers are spread across the remaining parts of the city, minus the communities of Hyde Park, South Chicago, and South Deering that also had no incidents reported on from their community. This geospatial disparity in the incidents covered reinforces the race / ethnicity analysis that uncovered the disparity of stories by the race / ethnicity of the offender involved.
The geospatial analysis of the sexual assault reporting follows much of the same pattern found in the domestic violence stories. In this case – minus a handful of cases in Austin, Humboldt Park, East Garfield Park, & Gale Wood – you can go straight west from the Loop and north to Roger's Park and see that there are only a handful of cases in this enormous swath of the city. There are indeed more reports on sexual assault in the north side communities than their specified portion of domestic violence stories, but even with these reports there is still an undeniable disparity geospatially.
From where are victims seeking services
We believe it would be enlightening to take a close look at what zip codes in Chicago victims of these crimes are calling the domestic violence hotline and also seeking services from domestic violence and sexual assault agencies. The Domestic Violence Help Line is run by The Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network and the data for the hotline is maintained by the organization. Domestic violence & sexual assault client service data is provided by Chicago victim service providers and hosted by Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority in their InfoNet database. Now, we know that sometimes there are significant gaps in time between when an individual is the victim of a domestic violence or sexual assault, or both, and when they seek services. Also, from where the survivor calls for services does not always correlate to where the assault happened, and occasionally the assault may actually occur out of state or out of the county. These maps are being offered to show the even distribution of calls to the helplines and from where people seek services across race, ethnic, and socio-economic boundaries in Chicago.
Red Heat Map – This map details where clients reside when they seek services from Chicago based domestic violence victim service providers. This shows only those that seek services from Chicago.
RED MAP HERE
Gray Heat Map – This is a map of where in the city that Chicago based survivors reside when calling the domestic violence hotline.
GREY MAP HERE
Green Heat Map – This map details where clients reside when they seek services from Chicago based sexual assault victim service providers. This shows only those that seek services from Chicago.
GREEN MAP HERE
The map of calls to the domestic violence hotline is far more evenly dispersed throughout the city than the reporting in the daily papers. The one noticeable disparity is that concentration of calls for services from the community Logan Square. If you take a look on the map of domestic violence reporting you will see that there is only 1 incident that was reported on from that community that was an extreme outlier to the routine domestic violence calls. This single incident involved a brother murdering one sister and wounding another
The west side communities of North Lawndale and Little village only see a single incident receiving media attention, yet you can see from the heat map of where people seek services of sexual assault agencies that there seems to be an increased level of calls from these communities when compared to the city as a whole. This disparity seems to be contrary to the race and ethnicity of the offender we covered earlier in this report. The single incident reported on from these communities was on the sentencing of a woman who ran a brothel and forced young girls in to prostitution. So while technically involving sexual assault, this incident does not really involve a recent assault of an individual in either of these communities.
How well does the reporting reflect reality?
In looking at the reporting on both crimes we can say that neither adequately reflects the way that the crimes most often occur in Chicago. Most notably, the reporting tends to cover either hyper-violent cases that include murders, near murders, or contain significant amounts of violence. When the stories do not reflect this level of violence they tend to be about one-off cases, like a woman throwing a cupcake at her husband and hitting him in the head in front of police officers. Neither the hyper-violent nor the one-off cases are how these crimes most often occur in the Chicago. This distinction is important because over-reporting on the extreme severity of these crimes will lead to a populace that is afraid of crimes that likely will not occur, and unequipped with the knowledge to deal with a situation far more likely to happen, such as intimate partner violence.
When you focus on the reporting on sexual assault, we know that nationwide social science research such as the National Crime Victimization Study has found consistently for decades that in approximately 80% of sexual assaults (rapes in most other states) the offender is someone known to the survivor and quite often an intimate partner. These crimes are called typically called acquaintance/partner rapes. The other 20% of these crimes are perpetrated by someone the survivor does not know; which are referred to as stranger rapes. Our analysis showed that 198 of the 207 stories about sexual assault were stories involving stranger rapes, or 96%, which stands in stark contrast to how these crimes occur in our communities. Of the remaining stories involving strangers 5 articles were on the same incident.
The domestic violence reporting tends to focus mainly on hyper-violent cases and strangely enough did not include one single case involving a white couple in an intimate relationship. When the Tribune or Sun-Times reports on domestic violence involving whites, the incidents usually involve a child or younger person attacking his parent or grandparent. While these crimes do occur and, like all domestic violence incidents are worthy of a response, they are outliers compared to how the crimes typically occur in our communities.
Criminal Justice Data vs. the Reporting
We have obtained victim gender & race data from the Chicago Police Department specific to the time period of our study. You will quickly notice the over representation of blacks and Hispanics in the domestic violence data. Also, you will find similar disparities in the sexual assault data.
cpd data here
In looking at the CPD data regarding domestic incidents (DI) and criminal sexual assault/abuse (CSA), we noticed that there were UCR codes of sex crimes in the domestic incidents data that were not reflected on the CSA data. We would have expected there to be overlap between the two, and therefore determined that the data request regarding sex crimes had not been comprehensive enough of all the possible sex crime charges.
Since we know that both domestic violence and sexual assault crimes cross all race and class boundaries, there must be an explanation for this disparity. We believe that the disparity found in the victim numbers has a contributing factors. First, the lack of community cohesion and resources available in the communities of color throughout Chicago leads to more females of color seeking solutions via the criminal justice system. Second, we believe that because women of color are more familiar e social service systems at higher rates than their white counterparts, they are more comfortable seeking police service when victimized. Neither of these answers is based on sound research so this is clearly an avenue that further social science research would be warranted.
One additional issue that needs to be addressed is the sheer number of cases that are detailed here. You will remember that the total number of articles involving domestic violence number 158. You can see that the Chicago Police Department data involves 58,009 victims. Also remember that not every victim makes a report to the police, so the actual number of victimizations should be considered to be significantly higher than the numbers detailed here.
On the sexual assault side there are 1619 victims detailed in the CPD data, of which 205 were covered by the Tribune and Sun-Times. We know that about 35%, or 3.5 out of every 10 victimizations for rape nationally are reported to the police, (Female Victims of Sexual Violence, 1994-2010, NCVS, 2013). This translates to there being 4,857 victimizations in Chicago annually.
Our analysis brings to the public discussion many evidence based questions regarding the coverage of violence against women from the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times. While CJP prefers trends over a longer period of time as the preferred evidence, we believe that our research is sound and should provide a significant starting point for a discussion of crime coverage and what responsibilities the press has to their audience. We understand that all of this has to be understood in the context of shrinking budgets and newsrooms for traditional media outlets. We also have to realize the market pressures from increased competition and the effect of the Internet on advertising rates.
The public must be informed about the crime and violence occurring in their community and city without the reports disproportionately increasing their fear being victimized. The reporting must also work hard to guarantee that media accounts adequately reflect how crime regularly occurs in the community, who the perpetrators regularly are, and who is most often victimized. Absent this type of reporting, it will be incredibly hard for advocates connect survivors to services, for policy makers to push for legislative changes, and for criminal justice officials to institute needed changes to practices. With accurate reporting from the local press all of these goals can be more effective and efficient and thus make our communities and our city safer.
John Nicholson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems, Austin Peay State University worked tirelessly for free over the last 2 1/2 years to create our first version of our CODA Project.
Darnell Little, Associate Professor, Medill, Northwestern University, offered his services free of charge to consult on the construction of CODA and the ongoing refinements that are still now being created.
Over the last 2 years CJP has been extremely honored to have been the recipient of approximately 3,000 hours of work from our extremely committed volunteers. The volunteers range from committed community members to paralegals from Winston & Strawn to legal assistants from Kirkland and Ellis.
Zach Hiner, volunteer extraordinaire, has been the silent back bone of much of CJP's efforts. His tireless support of CJP's efforts will never truly be recognized.
Without the generosity and commitment to CJP's mission of open data for communities from everyone listed here this report would never have been completed. We are honored by the in-kind donations of their time and expertise to support our efforts.
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Archaia: Yale Program for the Study of Ancient and Premodern Cultures and Societies aims to bring together faculty and students sharing an interest in antiquity and the premodern. It supplements the curriculum with seminars, conferences, and special lectures by scholars from Yale as well as visiting scholars, and offers a graduate qualification. Students with an interest in Archaia should apply to one of the University's degree-granting departments, and should meet the entrance standards of the admitting department. Departments and schools currently participating in Archaia are Anthropology, Classics, East Asian Languages and Literatures, History, History of Art, Judaic Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Religious Studies, and the Divinity School; students from other relevant units should contact the Archaia graduate coordinators.
The qualification program provides enhanced training to graduate students with wide-ranging interests in the ancient and premodern world to extend their studies beyond departmental lines. Program students are expected to fulfill the requirements of the home department, but their course of study is individually modified to allow for interdisciplinary work through classes, examinations, and guidance by faculty in several departments.
Graduate students who are enrolled in and funded by participating departments will earn a qualification upon satisfactory completion of the requirements. Students should apply to the department that coincides best with their backgrounds and their prospective areas of specialization, and they should indicate an interest in the interdepartmental program at the time of their application to that department. Students in participating Ph.D. programs earn the qualification en route to the doctorate. The qualification in Archaia is open to Yale Ph.D. students and to students at the Divinity School.
A program of study for completion of the qualification must include the Core Seminar—or, in special cases, an approved alternative seminar—introducing students to issues in the study of the premodern world. In addition, a minimum of three other courses plus a capstone project is required, the courses to be selected in consultation from offerings of advanced language study and seminars related to the premodern world at the graduate level. The course of study must be approved by a graduate coordinator of Archaia and by the director of graduate studies (DGS) of the student's home department, who together with the student will lay out a blueprint for completing the requirements, articulating a field of concentration and a direction for the capstone project, and identifying potential mentors.
A team-taught Core Seminar—or, in special cases, an approved alternative seminar—introducing students to issues in the study of antiquity and the premodern world, from a cross- and multidisciplinary perspective. Initiative students normally take the Core Seminar in the first year of study. Offered each year in the spring, the seminar is normally a team-taught class sponsored by two or more of the cooperating departments. There will be supplementary sessions in the Yale collections (e.g., the Yale Art Gallery or the Beinecke) and a required monthly colloquium component. Specific topics vary, but each seminar has significant interdisciplinary and comparative dimensions emphasizing the methodologies and techniques of the fields involved.
A minimum of three pre-approved courses, of which at least two must be seminar or seminar-type courses, chosen in consultation with Archaia's graduate coordinator and the DGS of the student's home department from courses offered across the University. These will in most cases be courses that also fill requirements for the student's home department, and must be at a level that would normally be accepted for graduate study in that department.
A capstone project that demonstrates the student's capacity to pursue independent, interdisciplinary research (the equivalent of 1 or 2 course units, depending on the scope), to be approved in consultation with a graduate coordinator of Archaia and the DGS of the student's home department (e.g., an exhibition, documentary, research paper, conservation project).
Regular participation in events hosted by Archaia throughout the academic year, especially the monthly meetings of the Ancient Societies Workshop.
Students who fulfill these requirements will receive a letter from the DGS of the Classics department, indicating that they have completed the work for the qualification.
A comparative exploration of the role the senses played in the performance of ancient and premodern ritual, drawing from a range of ancient traditions including those of Greece, Rome, and Egypt, and from cultural traditions of the Near East, India, China, and the New World. Placing particular emphasis on the relationship between art and ritual, we discuss the methods available for reconstructing ancient sensory experience, how the ancient cultures conceived of the senses and perception, and how worshipers' sensory experiences, whether visual, sonic, olfactory, gustatory, or haptic, were integral aspects in their engagement with the divine within religious ritual. This seminar incorporates material in the Yale Art Gallery.


Healthcare Organizations that Equip Employees to Shed Faster Will be the Ones that Survive and Thrive.
Millions of dollars and thousands of hours are lost each year due to the inability to get employees to move forward with healthcare changes. Why do 75% of all change efforts fail? Largely because people feel left out of the process and lack the skills, knowledge and motivation to adapt to the organization's new systems, processes and procedures.
Can you imagine what your organization would be like if everyone could lead and master change? Healthcare organizations that equip their people to SHED faster will be the ones that survive and thrive!
Are you living your life fully alive? Do you jump out of bed every day full of energy and can't wait to get to work? Do you feel like you're really living every day to the best? Most of us struggle at times with many of these. What is a healthy SHED? We know what we should be doing different but we can't seem to APPLY these changes consistently to our daily lives. Most of us give up before we hardly start. SHED the idea that many experts have told us – it takes 21 days to change a habit or 66 days to develop a new one.


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Q: How to prevent rsync from chown'ing remote users files I'm doing rsync /local/path/to/src user1@remote:/path/to/dest. dest belongs to user2@remote. How do I keep rsync from chown'ing dest to user1 after syncing?
Please note that I have already tried googling but the switches suggested have not helped and reading the man page has not given me any ideas too. So I'll appreciate your understanding.

A: --no-owner may or may not do what you want, depending on whether dest exists or needs to be updated. This is the negated version of --owner, which is described by the man page as:

This option causes rsync to set the owner of the destination file to be the same as the source file, but only if the receiving rsync is being run as the super-user (see also the --super and --fake-super options). Without this option, the owner of new and/or transferred files are set to the invoking user on the receiving side.

I'm not sure if a directory counts as "transferred" if anything within it changes. As far as I can tell there is no way to tell rsync to not chown updated files at all.

A: Don't pass the --owner flag to your invocation of rsync.  Note that --owner is implied by --all, so if you're using that option, you'll need to specify --no-owner to turn off that behaviour.

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The M18 Cordless 4-1/2 in. Cut-Off/Grinder provides speed, durability and ease-of-use to the industrial user. Built with a Milwaukee 4-pole motor, the 2680-20 delivers maximum power when cutting or grinding. The 2680-22 is the only cordless cut-off/grinder in the market to provide the user-preferred paddle switch for comfort and ease-of-use when operating in various positions. L-shape intake vents protect the cut-off/grinder by keeping harmful debris from entering the tool and damaging internal components.
I am trying to find out the rpm of the Milwaukee cut off grinder 2680-80 because I love my fuel grinder and want to know if I would like this better because the rpm is faster?
BEST ANSWER: The rated RPM is 10,000.
What kind off blades/pads does it use?
BEST ANSWER: Should hold any standard 4.5" blade, either for cutting, or grinding, metal or concrete.
What's the difference between the 2680-20 & the 2680-80?
Warranty. Am I reading the reconditioned warranty correctly? Any reconditioned tool can either have a 1 yr or 5 yr warranty? Can the client pick which one he wants or is it up tool the vendor? It also seems that the older tool has the greater warranty.
BEST ANSWER: The reconditioned Milwaukee tools warranty is a 1 year limited warranty.
BEST ANSWER: Milwaukee reconditioned tools carry a one year limited warranty.
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Tempo e Argumento (TeA) é uma revista trimestral de fluxo contínuo, criada em 2009, especializada em História do Tempo Presente e campos relacionados. É uma iniciativa do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina. Desde 2014, Tempo e Argumento ocupa o estrato Qualis A2 em História, uma das melhores posições na avaliação de periódicos promovida pela Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes).

História e objetivos

A revista Tempo e Argumento foi criada em 2009 com a finalidade de constituir um espaço de divulgação de estudos recentes, inovadores e de referência no domínio da História do Tempo Presente. O periódico, ao promover o intercâmbio de informações e experiências entre pesquisadores e instituições brasileiras e estrangeiras, tem estimulado a produção científica na área de Histórias e afins. Em função de seu escopo e das iniciativas adotadas, isso significa fomentar o debate de questões teórico-metodológicas referentes à área de História e possibilitar a circulação com acesso aberto de publicações, comentários, artigos, entrevistas e documentos de caráter historiográfico.

Nos últimos anos o periódico tem se destacado por buscar a produção qualificada e abordagens inovadoras nas discussões sobre História do Tempo Presente na América Latina, com especial destaque para países como a Brasil, Argentina, o Chile, o México e o Uruguai. São ainda constantes as relações com investigadores e investigadoras situados na Europa, com contribuições na forma de artigos e ensaios publicadas por portugueses, espanhóis, franceses, entre outros. Mais recentemente, a diversificação de abordagens e temáticas e a divulgação constante da revista tem possibilitado a ampliação de seu alcance e a recepção de contribuições de acadêmicos de países como Moçambique e Estados Unidos.

Desde 2021 a revista Tempo e Argumento adotou a publicação em fluxo contínuo, o que a insere no modelo mais atual e ágil empregado por diferentes periódicos científicos.

Qualidade
Na avaliação que se refere ao triênio 2013-2016 pelo sistema institucional Qualis, mantido e aferido pela CAPES, órgão do Ministério da Educação, a revista Tempo e Argumento está situada no estrato A2 na área de História, ou seja, no grupo de periódicos considerados de alto impacto e relevância científica. De acordo com o sistema de publicações científicas Ranking Redib, a Tempo & Argumento em 2020 alcançou a 45º posição no índice global e em 5º lugar entre os periódicos brasileiros na área de História.

Em maio de 2022 foi divulgado o índice bibliométrico SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) relativo ao ano anterior. O SJR apresenta um ranking dos periódicos que estão indexados na base de periódicos Scopus, da empresa Elsevier. Entre outras questões, mede o prestígio científico do periódico, a partir de indicadores como números de citações e redes de colaborações. Na área da História, a revista Tempo e Argumento é o segundo periódico mais bem colocado do Brasil e pelo terceiro ano consecutivo, a Tempo e Argumento, está no Q1 (quartil 1). Nesse quartil encontram-se os periódicos com melhor desempenho em sua categoria.

Desde a sua primeira edição, em 2009, a revista Tempo e Argumento publicou artigos de referência na área de História do Tempo Presente, promovendo debates sobre a atuação social do historiador e as múltiplas camadas que permeiam o tempo histórico. Entre alguns dos intelectuais que já publicaram na revista estão: Carlos Fico, Rodrigo Patto Sá Motta, Marieta de Moraes Ferreira, François Dosse, Henry Rousso, entre outros.

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What Was Your Most Memorable Breakup?
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11:55 AM / April 25, 2016
When Checking Your Boyfriend's Email Ends Your Relationship
Over the weekend, prompted by examples of memorable breakups from readers in the TAD discussion group, we asked readers to submit their own stories. The first comes from a woman who prefers to stay anonymous, and her brief story is enough to give anyone nausea:
I was with a guy for almost five years, four of which we lived together. We had the conversation about settling down, having kids, etc., and started taking steps towards that, but he soon began acting strangely and our relationship started to dissolve. It felt like sand slipping through my fingers; no matter what I did, we couldn't seem to get to a good place.
We decided to separate but stay friends in the hopes we would reconcile. Unfortunately, we were stuck in a lease together, so we had to cohabitate for four months.
Never do that.
I signed the lease on an apartment once he was able to find someone to take over. The day I signed it, I did something I never thought I would do: I snooped on his computer. He was a very sexual person, to the point of addiction, but he hadn't tried to touch me for months. When I opened his Gmail, I saw that every message—every single one—was arranging sex from Craigslist or porn messaging sites. And these messages went back a year.
I was devastated. I'd supported him emotionally and financially for two years after he'd been kicked out of grad school. I'd put my career, my family, and myself second to him. I told him that he was dead to me and we never spoke again.
While I'll never be proud that I snooped, I'm glad I did, because despite the heartache and pain it caused me, it was the breaking point. It took a long time for me to emotionally recover from that relationship, but I wouldn't change a thing because it made me the badass woman that I am today.
10:30 PM / April 23, 2016
That's the question a reader recently posed in TAD, the nickname for a discussion group launched and moderated by a handful of Atlantic readers and former members of the Horde. Here's Lizzou:
I'll start. I had just finished uni, dating a boyfriend of three months. I'm living in NoVA and he's back home in WI. He calls me late one night, drunk and crying: "My mom says I'm too young to be in a relationship and she doesn't like Italians..." (He was almost 22 years old.)
My reaction:
1. Tell that b*tch of a mother you have that I'm f*cking Sicilian, not Italian. And, are we living in the 19th century or something?
2. Can you call me back when you're not drunk so we can have an adult good-bye conversation?
He never called me back. I was fine; he didn't break my heart or anything, but I was just soooo pissed off at how he broke with me. Now I think it's hilarious.
Anywho, it spurred me to get a teaching job, sell my car to finance airfare and student loan payments for a year, and move to Slovakia three weeks later. Best decision ever.
She got reassurance from another reader: "You dodged a bullet—and avoided an Annie Hall family dinner!" Like so:
Speaking of New Yorkers:
My most memorable breakup was when I was living in NY and dating a lawyer. I moved in with him and two months later discover he had a wife and two kids. That was fun.
Still mourn that apartment.
This story is pretty bleak:
I was very young, 20 or 21. I had been living with a guy for about six months. We were relatively happy but I was changing. Growing up. He could feel it. He asked me to marry him. I waited for him to go to work. Packed my stuff. Wrote a note on scrap paper and hung it up with a refrigerator magnet:
"Sorry. I love you but this isn't a forever thing."
I drove to my girlfriend's and crashed on her couch until I could find a place. He tried to find me but I avoided him. I didn't want to let him suck me back in. I was cold about it, but I felt like I had to be in order to escape. I never talked to him again.
This next reader can't really relate to memorable breakups:
I never had much heartbreak. My relationships tended to end naturally and I had relatively few before meeting my wife. Growing up I wasn't much of a relationship guy—mostly sex and hooking up.
I broke up with someone we'll name Stacy. She wanted something more and I wasn't providing, it hurt because she was one woman I could roll with. We would get high, relax, chill, and just enjoy each other's existence. Idk what happened to her; she deleted her FB after college.
I had a one night stand with a French woman. We f*cked each other's brains out. Then she never texted me back. This actually inspired me to work out more and find a new job. I kept thinking I had to prove myself to her, but idk why I let one woman I f*cked once have this effect on me. We're friends on FB and she seems to be happy with her Italian bf, so ah well.
Or as Bob Dylan would say, "Don't think twice, it's all right":
Have a memorable breakup to share? Drop me an email.
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Montgomery native Deason fights to continue pro golfing career 42-year-old tries to keep pro golfing career alive Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/2017/07/21/montgomery-native-deason-fights-continue-pro-golfing-career/500297001/
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Chad Collins tips his hat to the crowd during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on July 21, 2017. Collins finished the second round at -15. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
Chad Collins tees off on hole 18 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on July 21, 2017. Collins finished the second round at -15. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
Chad Collins hits an approach shot on hole 18 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on July 21, 2017. Collins finished the second round at -15. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
Chad Collins putts on hole 18 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on July 21, 2017. Collins finished the second round at -15. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
Chad Collins holds his ball off after completing the second round during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on July 21, 2017. Collins finished the second round at -15. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
Chip Deason tees off on hole 1 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on Friday, July 21, 2017. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
Chip Deason walks hole 1 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on Friday, July 21, 2017. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
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Martin Flores tees off on hole 17 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on Friday, July 21, 2017. Albert Cesare / Advertiser
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Chip Deason was born at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. He lived in Wetumpka with his family, where his dad was a dentist, until age 3.
He attended Bibb County High School in Centreville and played golf at the University of Alabama where he was a All-SEC first-team selection in 1997. He graduated with a sports management degree in 1998.
His life since then has been pursuit of a professional golf career with more lowlights than highlights, but he's kept at it for two decades.
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Another stop in road for the 42-year-old came this week at the PGA's Barbasol Championship on the Robert Trent Jones Trail in Opelika.
He earned a spot in the field by shooting a 5-under par 67 in Monday's qualifier at the Auburn University Club.
He missed his son Walker's seventh birthday celebration that day in Evans, Georgia, near Augusta, where he lives with his wife Summer and daughter Spencer.
Spencer turns 4 next Tuesday, but her party is this weekend.
Chip Deason walks hole 1 during the PGA Barbasol Championship in Opelika, Ala., on July 21, 2017. Collins finished the second round at -15. (Photo: Albert Cesare / Advertiser)
"You hate to miss it," Deason said. "But you spend a lot of time on the phone and with FaceTime and when I'm in town you make the most out of the time that you have together. But there's no doubt it's tough."
Deason opened the tournament Thursday with a 2-over-par 73 and needed to shoot at least 4 under in Friday's second round to have a chance at making the cut — and getting paid this week for his efforts.
"I played a practice round here Tuesday and have some pretty good memories of playing at this facility throughout the years," Deason said. "The greens Thursday were a touch quicker than they were in the practice round and I had trouble matching my speed to the greens.
"I hit the ball well, but didn't take advantage of it. You can't really go out there and think about making cuts. I just go out there and play and add them up when I'm finished. If you set a number you limit yourself. What happens if you get it going? Who knows how low you can go?"
Deason shot a 1-under 70 on Friday with a double-bogey on the par three 17th hole to miss the cut by three strokes.
In June, Deason grabbed a spot in the St. Jude Classic by gaining one of the final two spots in the Monday qualifier in a six-person playoff.
His official tournament score was "Made the Cut Did Not Finish" at 3 over through three rounds which was worth $12,352.
Deason has made two career PGA cuts with the first coming in 2008.
He qualified for two Web.com Tour events this season, in Panama in February and South Carolina in May. He missed the cut at both.
"Obviously, the PGA Tour is where you want to be," Deason said. "I go around to Monday qualifying and sprinkle in some mini-tour events along the way. I never would have this opportunity without an individual sponsor. It's allowed me the opportunity to keep trying.
"It's tough to do without a sponsor. The amount of money that it takes to do this is expensive with entry fees, hotel and airline … Having a sponsor to believe in you and try to see you get there is awesome."
To help defer expenses this week, Deason is staying with his friend Jimmy Green, who played collegiately at Auburn, including winning the 1991 SEC title, and played on the PGA Tour in 1997 and 1999-2001.
Green's currently the general manager at the Auburn University Club.
"I stopped playing tournament golf when I was 35-36 years old in 2004 and 2005," Green said. "Chip is 42 and he's a great player, not a good player, a great player. And, in golf one week can change your life.
"I went through the same things that he's going through. It's tough. It's a decision at some point that only he can make. Think about it. You start competing at a young age and you are competing for 30 years and at some point the lights goes out or the light stays on.
"I know people that are out there trying it that have had nowhere near the success as a player that Chip has had. Golf is a game of confidence. Say he makes the cut and finishes in 20th place and makes $45,000 … there are people who work a whole year and don't make $45,000.
"It's a double-edged sword because then you have to go out and do it the next week. You're back at it. It's a tough life. Even when you are playing good it's a tough life."
But while Deason is away, his wife is "holding down the fort." She sells medical supplies as well as taking care of Walker and Spencer.
"I have a strong wife to do this while I'm out of town," Deason said. "She gets them to school every morning, cooks dinner for them and has her own job. It's tough on her and them while I'm away.
"That's the fact and price you accept if you still want to do this."
Deason said he goes home in between qualifying events and several tournaments that he gets into each month. Deason practices and plays out of both Jones Creek and Bartram Trail Golf Club in Evans.
He's seen improvement this year working with new instructor Doug Cameron at Jones Creek, whom he calls "my extra set of eyes … or my Yoda."
"The career is just being able to play golf and to meet great people and lifelong friends and I know without a lot of highlights," Deason said. "But I look for the opportunity. I know I don't hit the ball as far as I used to but I'm a lot smarter. The score you post is the score you post … the golf ball does not know how old you are."
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Lawson, RM, Pedreschi, R, Ogden, RG and Grubb, PJ (2006) Developments in light steel composites in floors and roofs Structural Engineer, 84 (21). pp. 44-50.
Light steel construction is often designed to maximise the benefits of interactions with other materials and this paper reviews examples of composite applications of light steel components in flooring and roofing. New forms of steel-timber composite 'plyweb' floor joists and 'open' roofing systems, and steel-gypsum composite floor joists are investigated. Design recommendations are presented for lightweight floors, as influenced by interactions with boards, which include both static and dynamic criteria.


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Definition of Pahlavan.
Pahlavan is a title, it is the combination of the English words Champion and Hero; it can designate someone really strong. Yet the strength is not measured physically only.
A Pahlavan is expected to be able to cross mountains, deserts, and waters (physically and emotionally). Not only strong in body they are expected to be be pure in spirit and courageous in character.
Honest in words, righteous in action and loyal helpers to those in need; they symbolize the epitome of [hu]manhood.
One does not refer to oneself as a Pahlavan, it is a title bestowed based on merit and character.
A prime example is Jahan (World) Pahlavan Takhti, an Olympic gold medal holder and winner of multiple wrestling world championships. He would not attack the injured side of his opponent during a title fight. He lost the match, but showed that he valued honorable behavior more than reaching victory. He is also known to have walked the streets going door to door to raise funds for earthquake victims in Iran.
These characteristics originate from traditional values of Zurkhaneh, a kind of heroic behaviour epitomizing chivalrous qualities; so called Javanmardi in Persian.
To learn more about what makes a Pahlavan and the art they practiced to develop their senses come to our Free Open Day Workshop this Sunday at 10am at the Customs House in Circular Quay. For more details DM or visit: http://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/16902-zurkhaneh-persian-martial-arts-performance-and-workshop http://ow.ly/i/1L3nl
Boteh Jegheh - The Paisley
The Paisley (Boteh Jegheh in Persian) is a Zoroastrian/Iranian symbol of life and eternity.
A Pahlavan and Zurkhaneh practitioner is expected to be most of all humble and pure in thoughts, words and deeds.
The Paisley has come to symbolize the spiritual qualities of a Pahlavan as it 'bends it's head' in humility.
Zurkhaneh - The earliest known private gym.
Zurkhaneh is made up of 2 words in Persian; Zur meaning Strength/Power and Khaneh meaning Home/House. Today it is used to designate the place for practicing Pahlavani Sports i.e. Koshti (Wrestling) Pahlavani and Martial Arts Conditioning which include Yoga like flexibility postures combined with heavy strength and endurance exercises using tools such as the Persian Meel (Clubbell), Shena (Push-up board) and Sang (Heavy Shield).
In the past there were no fitness centers as we know of today; the Zurkhaneh fulfilled that function in the Iranian society much like the Akhara did in the Indian society.
The Zurkhaneh is the earliest known form of privately operated fitness centers that were open to the general public, much like the fitness centers operated by Kaveh Akbari and Amir Fazeli here in Sydney, they were established by a Morshed (Guru) who understood and could teach principles of physical conditioning.
The Zurkhaneh is one manifestation of the importance that is placed on holistic health and wellbeing (Tandorosti in Persian) in the Persian culture.
Zurkhaneh & Noruz
Doroud va shaad bad dar in ruz'e no.
Hail and may you have a joyous new day.
Up until the rule of the Qhajar Dynasty in Iran Noruz was celebrated in the capital with large festivities which included the Pahlavans performing in Koshti Pahlavani (Pahlavani Wrestling) and Zurkhaneh Sports in the presence of the Shahanshah (King of Kings).
The Pahlavai Dynasty tried to revive these customs and the tradition is still observed in some rural areas of Iran.
With best wishes of holistic health (Tandorosti) and happiness to you and your loved ones. Happy Persian New Year from Zurkhaneh Australia.
Be tireless in this new day and every coming day.
The Benefits of Outdoor Fitness Training
Picture this – the sun is shining, the sky is clear and there's a slight breeze coming off the water. You're hanging out with a group of like-minded people chatting and having a laugh. The only indication that it's not a picnic is the fact that you are doing push ups or performing squats and you are sweating. No, it's not a picnic … welcome to group outdoor training!


The complex nature of clean energy transitions requires monitoring a suite of indicators. Doing so can help identify key opportunities for enhanced action – that is, "levers" that can be pulled to accelerate transitions. The IEA has developed a set of key indicators that reflect the most important short-term actions that policy makers can focus on to drive long-term transitions. These indicators create an accessible and comprehensive tracking framework, and can help inform effective and well-coordinated policies.
Download an overview of the high-level indicators for each sector (PDF).
Aggregate indicators of clean energy transitions show that we are off track for meeting long-term goals.
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Global fuel combustion emissions are the product of economic, technological and demographic factors. A set of indicators beyond emissions is needed to unpack the underlying drivers of change in energy supply and demand. These driving factors indicate the aggregate progress in clean energy transitions and the potential for future improvement.
Simultaneous change in all of these drivers is needed for the clean energy transition to be effective. For instance, increasing the electrification of end uses needs to go hand in hand with reductions in energy sector carbon intensity to achieve emission reductions.
Global emissions need to peak soon and decline steeply after 2020, dropping by 2.6% on average annually until 2040.
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Global energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.6% in 2017 after three flat years, reaching a historic high of 32.6 gigatonnes (Gt). The increase in carbon emissions in 2017 was the result of weaker energy efficiency efforts and robust global economic growth of 3.7% fuelling the increase in energy demand. With current and planned policies, including the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement, energy-related CO2 emissions are set to gradually increase to 34.6 Gt by 2030 and will continue rising thereafter.
In order to reach long-term climate mitigation targets, emissions need to peak around 2020 and decline steeply after that, requiring a rapid reversal of last year's rebound. The IEA's Sustainable Development Scenario (SDS) shows that annual CO2 emissions will need to be 46% below the current levels by 2040 in order to be on track with the Paris Agreement.
As of 2017, the world's energy supply was almost exactly as carbon intensive as in 2000. Energy sector carbon intensity needs to decline by 47% by 2040 from current levels.
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The energy sector carbon intensity indicator (ESCI) tracks the amount of carbon emissions from fuel combustion (expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide) per unit of total final consumption (tonnes of oil equivalent).
It shows the net impact of policy changes, shifts in investment and technology developments on CO2 emissions in the energy sector and gives a measure of how "clean" the global energy supply is from a climate perspective.
Unfortunately, this indicator has changed very little over the last 30 years. While the indicator has been on a declining trajectory since a peak in 2013, showing tentative signs that the global energy supply has been getting a little cleaner in recent years, but the 2017 emissions increase put a halt to this trend. To meet the SDS target, carbon intensity needs to decline by 24% to 2030 and by 47% to 2040.
The share of electricity in final energy consumption would have to reach 28% in 2040 to meet the SDS targets.
The electrification of end-use sectors is an important option for decarbonizing the energy sector, when combined with increasing the share of low-carbon power generation.
Increasing shares of electricity are being realised in transport (uptake in electric vehicles and freight) and buildings (cooking, heating and appliances), but in industry more challenges remain. The share of electricity in total final energy consumption is therefore a useful indicator of progress, in addition to power sector decarbonisation.
The share of electricity reached almost 19% in 2017, incrementally increasing each year since 2000. It is estimated that electrification is on an upward path even with current policies, but its pace needs to more than double to achieve the SDS target of 28% in 2040.
Global energy intensity improved by only 1.7% in 2017; the average rate of energy intensity improvement needs to accelerate to 3.4% annually.
The energy intensity indicator tracks total primary energy demand per unit of GDP. In 2017, global energy intensity improved by 1.7%, a decline from the 2.3% improvement in 2016.
Reaching the SDS target requires speeding up improvements in energy intensity to 3.4% annually, with the total primary energy demand barely growing over today's level.
As an aggregate indicator, energy intensity is affected by changes in both energy efficiency and structural changes in economies. Falling energy intensity was the main factor behind the flattening of global energy-related CO2 emissions from 2014-2016, offsetting three-quarters of the impact of GDP increase.
Sectoral analysis of energy efficiency below shows that while policy coverage continues to expand, the rate of increase over the past few years has been slower than in early 2010s.
Energy efficiency has improved by an estimated 13% since 2000, without which, both energy use and CO2 emissions would have been around 12% higher in 2017.
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Global energy efficiency improved by 13% overall between 2000 and 2017, and has been the main driver for the decoupling of economic growth and energy consumption. Without it, the world would have used just over 12% more energy in 2017, increasing emissions by the equivalent of nearly 4 Gt of CO2.
Government policy has been key to achieving these energy efficiency gains, but a recent weakening of energy efficiency policy – on both coverage and stringency - contributed to the slower rate of global energy intensity improvement that was observed in 2017. Considerable room for policy action remains, with around 66% of global final energy consumption still not covered by mandatory efficiency codes and standards.
While IEA member countries report energy efficiency indicators as a part of their annual energy data collection, estimates are used in other regions. Building capacity and institutions to better collect and analyse energy efficiency data would equip all countries for effective domestic energy use policy making.
The share of overall clean energy investment in 2017, covering both low-carbon power and efficiency, declined to 32%, breaking the upward trend since 2014. In the SDS it needs to rise to 68% in 2040.
Note: Clean energy investment comprises renewables, nuclear and end-use efficiency.
Tracking energy-investment decisions provides a preview of the type of technologies that are about to be built or are being developed. Tracking the share of clean energy investment gives an indication of the trajectory for clean energy technology deployment into the future, and the extent to which investment flows are shifting towards clean energy technologies.
In 2017 the share of overall clean energy investment, covering both low-carbon power and efficiency, declined to 32%, breaking the upward trend since 2014. In the SDS, total energy investment increases by 98% from today's level by 2040, with a marked shift towards clean energy: the share of clean energy investment in the energy sector increases to 68% in 2040, with the share of fossil fuel investment in the energy sector falling to 16% from 51% today.
While the absolute level of electricity network investment in the SDS increases, its share in total investment remains relatively stable at 16% in 2040 due to the substantial increase in energy efficiency investment.
It is important to highlight that SDS shows that achieving the Paris Agreement's objectives would require only 15% more investment in the energy sector up to 2040 than what would be needed if countries were to stay on the current course of existing and planned decarbonisation policies. However, much more capital needs to be allocated towards end-use efficiency and clean energy technologies.
Public and private investment in clean energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) is a critical indicator for tracking overall clean energy transition trends, especially for long-term progress. Many clean energy technologies are now cost competitive, but there are further innovation needs in a wide range of possible clean energy solutions.
Public investment in clean energy RD&D is estimated to have grown by 13% to USD 22 billion globally in 2017, after several years of decline or stagnation. Government funding for low-carbon energy R&D in 2017 accounted for four-fifths of total public funding for energy R&D (including fossil fuel extraction and supply).
Reported R&D spending by companies active in clean energy areas is estimated to have increased by 5% to USD 58 billion in 2017, close to the average 6% rate of growth of the past five years. Low-carbon energy may account for as much as two-thirds of total reported corporate energy R&D spending.
Venture capital funding for clean energy start-ups was USD 2.1 billion in 2017, down from the 2016 value of around 4 billion, and for the major part driven by investments in clean transportation.
Sub-sector indicators are also needed to obtain metrics that can be used for design and implementation of policies and measures for specific energy sectors. Such indicators can serve as tools to monitor progress as well as provide insights on how to target policy interventions. A set of key sectoral indicators is available for power, buildings, transport and industry.
Tracking against Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is also critical given the level of political recognition of the importance of energy to development.
The IEA is the lead custodian agency for tracking global progress in substantially increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix and doubling on efforts in energy efficiency (SDG 7.2 & 7.3) and co-leads the Global Tracking Framework report to assess progress towards achieving SDG 7. IEA is also the custodian for tracking the rationalization of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies (SDG 12.c), another important lever for achieving the energy transition laid out in the SDS.
The gender-clean energy nexus is also important in driving the clean energy transition and can be used by policy makers to design and monitor effective policy responses. See the IEA's gender tracking page for more information.
In developing the SDS, the IEA recognised the importance of the SDGs in energy transitions. The SDS combines effective action to combat climate change (SDG 13), ensure universal access to modern energy by 2030 (SDG target 7.1) and improve air quality (SDG 3). Other SDG 7 targets are also over-achieved: SDG 7.2 (increasing substantially the share of renewable energy by 2030) and SDG 7.3 (doubling the global rate of energy efficiency improvement by 2030).
See the IEA's SDG 7 tracking page for more information and the latest statistics.


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New Democrats Bringing Anti-Semitism And Hatred Of Israel With Them.
Posted by Timothy Benton | Feb 10, 2019 | featured, Opinion, Right | 0 |
The last two days I have written, I did not write on Saturday, on our two new representatives, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, both are Muslim Congresswomen, one is Somalian, the other brings her "Palestinian" American racism with her as well. They are now splitting the DNC with their rabid anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel.
Rashida has never hid her hatred of Israel and the Jews, but Ilhan ran telling the Jews that she did not support BDS, then the day she took the oath of office did a roundabout and changed her stance to supporting BDS. I am not sure why Jewish people in Minnesota were surprised, it is not like she had hid this in the past, just made promises needed to pull off the election, then showed her true face.
The movement, BDS, launched more than a decade ago and modeled on the 1960s movement to pressure South Africa over apartheid, calls for people and groups to sever economic, cultural and academic ties to Israel, and to support sanctions against the Jewish state.
The supporters claim there is apartheid in the land, and there is, but it is not with Israel, Israel allows free voting of their Arabs, they allow them to serve in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, to access the same courts. In the Disputed areas, such as Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, the people did vote, the fact that Abbas is in year 14 of his 4 year term, that is not by Israel's hand, it is by the leaders the Arabs there voted into power.
In Gaza they voted with over 97% turn out, they voted overwhelmingly with international observers, including our ex-President Carter, to keep Hamas in power, the frequency of the elections is not on Israel, rather the Arab leadership, but facts matter not to these people. In regard to the claims of apartheid, suggest you look to the article IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE? This puts this question to rest, there is apartheid, but only in the Arab controlled area's where they demand to be Jew-free.
Back to the subject of BDS, for Israel partisans — including many Democrats and Republicans in Congress — BDS smacks of anti-Semitism and poses a threat to Israel.
Tlaib, 42, has Palestinian roots and represents a district of suburban Detroit, Michigan that is home to thousands of Muslims.
She argues that BDS can draw a focus on "issues like the racism and the international human rights violations by Israel right now."
As is stated by Cyril Julien of AFP:
Omar, 37, is the daughter of Somali refugees who was elected to represent a Minneapolis, Minnesota district with a large Somali population.
She accuses Israel of discrimination against Palestinians akin to apartheid, but denies that she is anti-Semitic.
Her remarks in January to Yahoo News however sparked anger among the large pro-Israel contingent in Congress, the powerful, largely Democratic US Jewish community, and Israel itself, where BDS is seen as a national threat.
"When I see Israeli institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it, and we still hold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle," she told Yahoo News.
"Because I know that if we see that in another society we would criticize it — we do that to Iran, any other place that sort of upholds its religion."
Cyril Julien
What we see is as President Trump has moved to strengthen even more our ties to Israel, we have a movement that is threatening to split the younger Democrats from the more older established ones in regards to Israel.
Many on the left are ignorant to the facts; they like the far right fringes share their hatred of all things Jewish, thus turn their hate towards Israel and the Jews. Facts don't matter, all they see are victims and perpetrators, the fact that the victims bring this on themselves by firing over 17,000 rockets and mortars, stabbing, car ramming, and suicide bombings does not matter to these people.
This schism has left the left vulnerable to charges of Anti-Semitism.
To fight that, prominent party members formed the Democratic Majority for Israel in January , touting themselves as "The Voice of Pro-Israel Democrats," which for some came across as a rebuke of Omar and Tlaib.
After Omar joined the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to The New York Times, Jewish committee Chairman Eliot Engel privately made it clear that he would not ignore any "particularly hurtful" remarks she might make.
"There is obviously a serious fight going on within the Democratic Party with respect to how to deal with BDS and some within their party who advocate for it," said Alvin Rosenfeld, who directs the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University.
"Should the party swing to the far left and appear to be way out of line with America's traditional ties to one of its strongest allies, Israel, the party will surely suffer at the polls," he told AFP.
Amy Elman
Amy Elman, a political science professor at Kalamazoo College, said anti-Semitism should not be used as a "political football by any party."
"Democrats should care less where the charges of anti-Semitism come from. What matters is if the accusations are valid," she said.
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Combining liposuction with scissor removal of the deeper fat in the abdomen.
Internal "quilting" sutures that make the use of a drain far less likely.
Precision in trimming the fat at the incision line to prevent an uneven or lumpy scar.
These matters should be discussed with the surgeon who will be doing your revision later this month.


Happy New Year!! As a former jewelry appraiser and gemologist, my past formal training taught me to do necessary "tests" to determine if certain gemstones were indeed genuine. Genuine is not an imitation or a synthetic replica. Genuine is something not false or copied; real. Genuine is truly authentic.
The beginning of a new year is genuine in its promise to us. Turning over a new calendar, commencing a brand new year, gives us time to look ahead, set goals, and look forward to new beginnings. January gives everyone, all across the planet, a clean slate. A new year is indeed a fresh beginning, for all, at the exact same time. Some of us are thoughtful in using this time to make specific resolutions. Some of us do not.
Yes, in the past, I have made resolutions only to break them by March. I promised to have "no sugar" in my diet one year. In my own strength, the yummy birthday cake was just too tempting to pass up several weeks after I had made the requisite resolution. I had failed. I was now a person who could not keep resolutions; did not make them anymore.
I offer up not resolutions, however, something to ponder as one goes forth in 2015. My hope for the coming year is to be my authentic self. To always be honest with my genuine self and well as finding more balance to spend time with those who I love and need me. I desire in striving to show more empathy and compassion to those who are going through a difficult time. I hope to ask more questions and have a sense of wonder for nature instead of taking sunrises and sunsets for granted. I hope to learn more about myself by embarking on writing my own memoir in discovering my life's theme as well as a possible journey into self-discovery; to have my own authentic voice. Simply put, to explore my creative side a bit more. To pick one or two new interests to change things up and do something different. It may be preparing a certain ethnic food, learning a new sport, being more civic-minded, taking on advocacy for something important, or simply spending more time in prayer and meditation. Just to embrace at least one thing different for 2015.
I truly believe everyone has passions, desires, and dreams. Everyone has something that typically motivates them. My hope is to be motivated to be an authentic light force; an encouragement to others in 2015. It is true, words of encouragement and affirming words can change someone's day for the better. Yes, simple words such as, "Happiness was standing next to me in this grocery store line" or "Happiness was sitting next to me on this plane flight" is a powerful affirmation. Try it sometime! I can guarantee, the person receiving such affirming words will never forget it.
So, in keeping with my recent trip to beautiful Paris, I end with "Que la force." May the authentic bright force in each one of you shine forth to energize and fill others throughout 2015.
Like many of you I am contemplating what lessons I learned in 2012 and what my priorities are for 2013. This leads to the major challenge of identifying the one word that sums up my focus, both personal and professional, for the year. After much introspection and herbal tea, I have finally recognized the perfect word ( drum roll…..) 2013 is now officially the year of "Mindfulness".
Mindfulness was originally associated with Zen Buddhism, now it's intrical with all types of meditation used in psych, Yoga and other wellness practices. However, if you are anything like me, the idea of practicing meditation translates to a daytime nap. And I feel the same way about naps that I did at 5 – at my core I know I need it, but Maaaaaaaaaaama all the other kids are up and I've got things to do.
As you can imagine, my 20 year journey from corporate suit to a neuromuscular therapist has led me to become much more in touch with the components of mindfulness in my treatment room. My beloved yet spotty yoga practice has upgraded my awareness even more and brought those components into by personal arena. Now life has exposed to me some amazing women who walk the talk and (despite my best efforts) have been a good influence on me. So this is the year I am going to up the ante.
A semi official description of mindfulness comes from John Kabat-Zinn : "paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally " Mindfulness, like a lot of concepts, can be incredibly complicated and interpreted in a wide variety of ways. For me it means to spend a lot less time on auto-pilot. The trick is how to make it happen simply, consistently and meaningfully.
Practicing these components will help bring me to the beauty of the present moment. And can't we all do with a little more beauty in our lives? My wish for you and me is a year full of beautiful moments that we are mindful enough to recognize.
Kelli Lene' is the owner of Time Well Spent, a consulting and professional development company primarily serving the wellness industry. She has been involved in professional education since 1981 when she began her career as an adult educator specializing in customer service and client relations for the retail/ hospitality industries. Based on a need for personal fulfillment, she embarked on a new direction – as a massage therapist and spa technician. Eventually, due to her corporate background, she had the opportunity to merge the her two worlds – as a spa owner, consultant and eventually as a massage/spa program director.
Time Well Spent is a culmination of all these experiences. The company offers neuromuscular services, corporate wellness programs, special events, professional education and consultation. Since 1994 Time Well Spent has worked with schools, manufacturers, spas, and therapy centers. As an acknowledged industry expert she has participated in all aspects of professional development including publishing, curriculum development, trade shows, and workshops.
Kelli has a passion for her chosen career and is devoted to combining her experience in education with her love of wellness in order to contribute to her community. That is why she is currently working towards her next project – a personal and professional retreat called Spa Kamp.


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