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Specific challenge: Development and deployment of integrated, secure, permanent, on-demand service-driven, privacy-compliant and sustainable e-infrastructures incorporating advanced computing resources and software are essential in order to increase the capacity to manage, store and analyse extremely large, heterogeneous and complex datasets, including text mining of large corpora. These e-infrastructures need to provide services cutting across a wide-range of scientific communities and addressing a diversity of computational requirements, legal constraints and requirements, system and service architectures, formats, types, vocabularies and legacy practices of scientific communities that generate, analyse and use the data.
Scope: Proposals should address at least one of the first five (5) activities, or activities 6, 7 or 8 individually. Proposers are encouraged to leverage on prior work on open prototype services and to use discoverable service catalogues, common APIs, service-level agreements (SLAs) and transparent billing.
(4) Large scale virtualisation of data/compute centre resources to achieve on-demand compute capacities, improve flexibility for data analysis and avoid unnecessary costly large data transfers.
(6) Support to the evolution of EGI (European Grid Infrastructure) towards a flexible compute/data infrastructure capable of federating and enabling the sharing of resources of any kind (public or private, grid or cloud, etc.) in order to offer computing and storage services to the whole European scientific community. The proposal will address operations for supplying services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) at European level, engagement of and tailoring of services to new user communities and dissemination activities.
(7) Proof of concept and prototypes of data infrastructure-enabling software (e.g. for databases and data mining) for extremely large or highly heterogeneous data sets scaling to zetabytes and trillion of objects. Clean slate approaches to data management targeting 2020+ 'data factory' requirements of research communities and large scale facilities (e.g. ESFRI projects) are encouraged.
(8) Enable the creation of a platform and infrastructure for mining text aggregated from different sources/publishers that responds to the needs of users (researchers). This includes the definition of technical requirements (e.g. on interoperability, metadata standards and aggregation of new services) as well as addressing legal and contractual issues to serve the needs of text mining communities. The project should also provide consulting and counselling services to solve problems related with the legal framework and permissions to text mine collections, and to advise researchers on the benefits and practice of text mining. The development of the proposed platform and services should be informed by the studies on policy and licencing issues associated with Text and Data Mining that will be funded from the Call for "Developing governance for the advancement of Responsible Research and Innovation" in the "Science with and for Society" Work Programme (topic GARRI.3.2014 - Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Text and Data Mining). Therefore, the successful proposals in these two calls are expected to engage in a mutual dialogue and establish synergies in their work.
A maximum of EUR 8 million of the total budget for this topic is foreseen for activity (6).
This topic is complementary with topic INFRADEV-4-2014/2015, as it addresses services that are potentially transversal and generic, whereas INFRADEV-4-2014/2015 addresses interoperability of services and common solutions for cluster of ESFRI and other research infrastructure initiatives in thematic areas.
Increased availability of scientific data for scientific communities independently of them having already embraced or not e-science; this will be measured by cross-border data traffic over the research networks in Europe as a proxy.
Better optimisation of the use of IT equipment for research.
Avoiding lock-in to particular hardware or software platforms in the development of science.
Scientific communities embrace storage and computing infrastructures as state-of-the-art services become available and the learning curve for their use becomes less steep; this will be measured by the storage capacity available for pan-European use as well as by the number of users of EGI and other production e-infrastructures in this area.
Through the development of large pooled and interoperable text mining infrastructures, efficiencies of scale will reduce the overall costs, and more open licensing schemes will spread the use of such licenses and boost the exchange of text mining resources and practices.
 Research data include large datasets collected, developed or generated for/by research, integration of small distributed datasets, as well as data not originally collected for research, which may include environmental, social and humanities data.


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New BP oil spill plan
25 December 2020: 'Earth-based life can survive in hydrogen-rich atmospheres': MIT professor Dr Seager tells Wikinews about her research on organisms thriving in oxygen-less environment
15 December 2020: Conservative groups hold rally in Washington D.C. claiming U.S. elections were stolen from President Trump
26 November 2020: US federal agency announces plans to begin presidential transition process following Trump election loss
22 November 2020: Suspect in Kenosha, Wisconsin protester killings released from jail on US$2 million bond
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Controlled burns taking place in the Gulf of Mexico to reduce the amount of oil in the water
The British energy company BP will be attempting a "top kill" on the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil well by firing a mud and cement mixture into the blowout preventer on the sea floor later this week. If successful, the oil well will be closed off with cement. A backup plan in case of failure (there is an estimated 30–40% chance of failure) would be another containment apparatus.
BP has been using the oil dispersant corexit to disperse the oil film into small droplets which mix with the seawater. A riser insertion tube inserted into the largest oil leak site is collecting between 1,360 to 2,000 barrels of oil per day. Two relief oil wells are also currently under construction for what is hoped will be a permanent solution to the oil spill. This pair will take about 90 days to complete.
$500 million will be forthcoming from BP for the gulf spill's impact on the environment and damage to regional ecosystems as far as where water currents may spread the oil. BP also put forward a ten-year research plan to study the long-term effects of the oil spill on the environment.
Satellite view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on May 17, 2010
Controlled surface oil burns and skimming have removed some of the oil spill. It is estimated that 5,000 barrels of oil a day are leaking from the ruptured pipe 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below sea level. A Natural Resources Defense Council marine biologist, Lisa Suatoni, said that only about 7 to 10 percent of oil from the Exxon Valdez spill was cleaned up in 1989.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal wants an emergency permit for dredges which will contain the pollution. Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, is seeking viable options which may be more effective and better for the environment.
"I am angry and I am frustrated that BP has been unable to stop this well from leaking and to stop the pollution from spreading. We are 33 days into this effort, and deadline after deadline has been missed," said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
"This is a complex operation requiring sophisticated diagnostic work and precise execution. As a result, it involves significant uncertainties and it is not possible to assure its success or to put a definite timescale on its deployment." said BP. "We're doing things that have never been done before at that kind of depth, so it's very fluid. We're not going to do it until we're completely sure it's right."
The oil rig Deepwater Horizon suffered a gas explosion and sank April 22, 2010 off the coast of Louisiana resulting in 11 persons missing (and presumed dead) of the 126 on board. BP and its business vendors were completing a new oil well at the time, constructing a layer of cement in the well to reinforce it, which resulted in the blowout.
"Oil company BP to pay for Gulf of Mexico spill" — Wikinews, May 3, 2010
"Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico reported to have reached coast; offshore drilling ban announced by Obama administration" — Wikinews, May 2, 2010
"Gulf of Mexico oil spill expanding; submarines to try to stop leak" — Wikinews, April 27, 2010
"Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico sinks after explosion; eleven missing" — Wikinews, April 23, 2010
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Craig McMurtrie. "BP uncertain mud plug will stop leak" — ABC, May 25, 2010
"Only tiny part of oil spilled will be recovered: experts" — The China Post, May 24, 2010
"BP to study gulf spill effects" — UPI, May 24, 2010
Nathan VanderKlippe. "U.S. turns up heat on BP over spill" — The Globe and Mail, May 24, 2010
"Gulf spill: US to keep boot on BP's neck - Salazar" — BBC News, May 24, 2010
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'Mulholland Drive' Was the Film That Made Me Rethink Cinema
(And convinced me that I was a lesbian for a bit.)
by Roisin Kiberd
17 December 2014, 5:00pm
Halfway through Mulholland Drive Justin Theroux's character, film director Adam Kesher, is told: "It's no longer your film". The line might as well be directed at viewers, because Mulholland Drive is nobody's film except its own.
Mulholland Drive refuses to explain itself or even follow a single plotline. We're given two fragmented tellings of the same story with sudden character name changes, repeated scenes from different perspectives and incongruous forays into horror and comedy which completely rupture the plot. It feels like the film is fucking with you on purpose.
David Lynch famously declined to explain Mulholland Drive, and refused to release the DVD with chapter divisions to make things any easier. But the wonderful thing about this film – which I first watched as a very guileless, pretentious 14-year-old, is that, even with minimal engagement, it remains one of the most visually luscious, emotionally jarring things you'll ever see.
You don't need to understand Mulholland Drive to enjoy it.
Mulholland Drive is a film about cinema itself, set within the industry with Hollywood itself as the villain. Lana Del Rey's videos owe a lot to Mulholland Drive– her David Lynch obsession is what made me give her music a chance in the first place. There's that same Old Hollywood aesthetic, all jewel-tones, velvet and women with broken eyes. The film cycles through familiar noir tropes – the ingenue, the femme fatale, the doomed romance in a corrupt world – but spins them into something newly surreal.
Naomi Watts made her name in Mulholland Drive, parodying her own white bread looks as glassy-eyed cardigan wearer Betty Elms at a time when she was primarily known as Nicole Kidman's blonde understudy. Betty moves into an apartment where she finds an amnesiac brunette (Laura Elena Harring) in hiding after a mysterious car crash. She vows to help find the woman's identity, falling in love with her in the process. As they piece together events, Betty's vision of an idealised Hollywood life begins to strain. Things get stranger, seedier and more disturbing until the plot cannot hold up and apparently turns inside out, beginning a darker re-telling of itself in the final 30 minutes.
When I first saw Mulholland Drive I was desperate to educate myself about cinema. I would go down to my local film rental shop every Friday after school and pick out something from the "independent" shelf (Laser DVD, RIP – long gone are the days where shops keep a death mask of Alfred Hitchcock on the wall and a life-sized Stormtrooper from Star Wars behind the till). That year I'd worked my way through Hitchcock's and Billy Wilder films. Not though Wim Wenders, though – I tried to borrow Paris Texas while still wearing my school uniform and was refused.
When I brought it home, I was nervous that one of my parents would walk in during the sex scenes between the topless Laura Elena Harring and Naomi Watts. At 14, the film left me deeply confused about my sexuality. This may have also been due to a dearth of boys at school and the influence of my other favourite film at the time, Heavenly Creatures, and the few feverish episodes of Fingersmith that I saw late at night on the BBC.
But there were other reasons to watch Mulholland Drive alone and uninterrupted. The film has a drowsy, feline pace which demands contemplation. It follows its own dream-logic and only really starts to make sense after the film is over. The protagonist becomes progressively less reliable until you're left questioning what is past and present, what is reality and what is a dream within a dream.
Aside from narrating its own story twice, Mulholland Drive is complicated by a series of non-sequiturs – some foreboding, others absurd. Studio execs in shadowy rooms toy with fate. A hapless criminal is foiled by a vacuum cleaner. We see Theroux attack a car windscreen with a golf club and have a standoff with a waxy-faced cowboy. Billy Ray Cyrus makes a cameo appearance, his mullet still intact, as the pool boy lothario who steals the director's wife.
And then there's that scene in Winkies, reportedly modelled on 'Big Boys' diner where Lynch ordered the same coffee and chocolate milkshake every day for years. We meet two men who want to investigate the back of the restaurant. The agonisingly slow, jittery camera leads them outside, turns the corner and fixates on a gurning, androgynous monster who apparently lives in the bins (described in the script as a man, but interestingly, played by a woman). This early scene is where Mulholland Drive sets its cards on the table: the lurch you feel when you see that creature is only a taste of a greater foreboding yet to come. The man says he wants to "get rid of that god-awful feeling", but that god-awful feeling is only about to get worse.
This is also where Mulholland Drive begins to reveal its subtext. Inside Winkies, aspiring actresses do shifts as waitresses, while out in the car park failed ones prostitute themselves. The monster represents the street dweller, the unwashed underside to the Hollywood dream. Further uncomfortable truths start to show through: Betty acts opposite an older, tanned male lead in a spectacularly creepy audition, introducing the possibility of sexual abuse in her own past. A woman performs a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison's 'Crying', a single tear glittering on her cheek. But she isn't crying: the tear is drawn on like a gang tattoo. She's not singing either: halfway through she collapses and is dragged from the stage, her voice still playing.
"No hay banda", says the compere. "There is no band."
Mulholland Drive is a hymn to artifice, but is critical of it, too. Lynch examines Hollywood's underbelly the same way he raked the dirt underBlue Velvet's suburban lawns. He confirms your suspicions that no soul as innocent as Betty's could survive here.
The film has been interpreted as a radical retelling of The Wizard of Oz, already referenced in Lynch's Wild at Heart, where Betty is "not in Kansas anymore" and in thrall to a wizard's showmanship. And while Dorothy wakes up safely in her bed surrounded by family, Betty wakes up alone to pill bottles and blacked-out windows.
Which is what leads me to see Mulholland Drive as a film about the injustice the Hollywood system inflicts, and to women in particular (timely given the recent Bill Cosby accusations, and others).
On the wall in Betty's apartment hangs a painting of Beatrice Cenci, a 16th century Italian noblewoman who was the victim of sexual abuse, who died at 22and became a symbol of revolt against the corrupt aristocracy. The singer Rebekah del Rio is billed as La Llorona de Los Angeles, the mythical "weeping woman" who drowned her children for a male suitor only for him to betray her. La Llorona suffers, trapped between the spirit world and the real one, much as Betty finds herself trapped between fantasy and reality. All three are the victims of a patriarchal system: they are seized upon for their youth and looks, then used up and forgotten.
This film's sympathies rest with the disposable women of Hollywood and, to a wider extent, with the marginalised hispanic residents of LA (Del Rio's performance of 'Llorando' is the emotional heart of the film, and Harring's Mexican accent becomes noticeably stronger as the film progresses). Amnesiac Rita says "I don't know who I am", fittingly taking a new name from a vintage poster of Rita Hayworth which reads :"There never was a woman like Gilda". This is quite literally true, because Gilda – and Hayworth herself – were constructions of the studio system, conjured up from cosmetic surgery, corsetry and a woman originally named Margarita Carmen Cansino.
Mulholland Drive is about the loss of self that occurs when you're willing to give anything for your obsession. "This is the girl," the execs say – and that girl will never be you. Again and again, Lynch gives us that nighttime driving shot lit only a few meters ahead. We are feeling our way in the dark and are, ultimately, powerless. It perfectly summons the queasy feeling of life spiralling beyond your control, one I could relate to as a teenager with delusions of some darker other world, but a face too childish to even let me rent Paris Texas.
The most poetic thing about Mulholland Drive, though, is that it nearly never existed, falling prey to the same studio system it criticises. It was intended as a TV series, but Lynch clashed with ABC network executives and the set was shut down – as happens to Kesher's film-within-a-film. Watts and Harring were also rejected, apparently, on the basis that they were too old to be convincing TV stars.
This is what ultimately makes the film so transgressive. It's not the monsters, the topless scenes or the world's most miserable portrayal of female masturbation (a scene that, depressingly, now streams on several porn tube sites). It's that the Mulholland Drive acts as a beautiful, disorientating middle-finger to a system which tried to suppress it.
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Little brown bats in a bat house. © Heather Kaarakka, Wisconsin DNR.
Below are some commonly asked questions about bats. This is not an exhaustive list. If you still have questions about bats or the bat program in Wisconsin, please feel free to contact the program by emailing DNRbats@wisconsin.gov.
I have bats living in my home, what do I do?
Little brown bats and big brown bats are commonly found roosting in buildings and do find their way into attics and walls of homes. In order to get the bats out, an eviction or exclusion should be completed as bats in Wisconsin are protected and it is illegal to kill them. Eviction involves installing one-way doors that allow the bats to leave but not re-enter the building. One-way doors can be made of plastic or screening but must not cause harm to the bats.
More information on conducting an exclusion yourself
There are many nuisance animal control operators in the state who will do bat exclusion for a fee if you cannot or don't wish to exclude the bats yourself.
Also note that exclusions may not be completed June 1 through Aug. 15 every year to protect flightless baby bats.
I need to exclude the bats from my home during the non-exclusion period (June 1-Aug. 15) because I feel the bats pose a health or safety risk to me or other residents in the home.
Cave bats in Wisconsin (including little brown and big brown) are listed as state-threatened and covered under a Broad Incidental Take Permit/Authorization (BITP/A). All bat exclusion activities are automatically covered under this BITP/A except those occurring June 1-Aug. 15. However, if the landowner deems the bats in the home are posing a health risk (bats routinely entering living space, for example), the landowner may conduct the exclusion provided they fill out and submit the Health Exemption Form. The landowner must complete and submit the form within five days of start of exclusion work. This is not an additional permit, and no response from bat program staff is required once the form is submitted.
*Having trouble viewing the Health Exemption Form in your internet browser? Save it to your desktop by right-clicking the link and then choosing "Save target as..." or "Save link as..." Then open the desktop file by right-clicking the icon and selecting "Open with," and then choose Adobe Reader. You can also try opening the form in a different browser, like Internet Explorer.
I have a live bat flying around my house, what do I do?
Bats occasionally find their way into living spaces, especially in late summer as bats born in June learn to fly and find their way into odd situations. Bats do not want to be flying around inside your home. The safest course of action is to close the bat in a room with a window or door to the outside. Leave the door or window open and allow the bat to leave on its own. If the bat does not leave on its own, wait until it tires and lands. Wearing gloves, use a cardboard or plastic box to cover the bat. Gently slide a piece of paper or cardboard behind the bat and enclose the bat inside the container. Take the container and bat outside and place the container on its side at the base of a shrub or other protected area. Allow the bat to leave on its own. Never throw a bat into the air to encourage it to take flight. Removing a bat from your house
A possible bat-human interaction occurred and I need to know what to do about possible rabies exposure.
If you believe a possible bat-human or bat-pet interaction has occurred, please visit this CDC webpage – Coming in contact with bats.
Bats are roosting under my eaves at night and leaving guano. Is there a way to discourage them?
Bats leave their day roost each night in the summer to forage for insects. After feeding for several hours, they use warm, protected areas to rest and digest for some time before foraging again. These temporary roosts are called night-roosts. Unfortunately, it is difficult to exclude bats from these areas because there is no small opening where the bats come and go. A number of deterrents can be tried to discourage bats from roosting in the area. See Bat Conservation International [exit DNR] for more information. Pet-repellents, balloons, fans or bright lights may be tried provided they are installed when the bats are not present.
Any attempts to discourage the bats must not cause harm or death of the bats.
I found a dead bat, do you want to know?
Yes, dead or sick bat reports help the Wisconsin DNR bat program track population trends in bats. The bat program coordinates a sick/dead bat reporting system where we are automatically alerted to submitted reports. Report a sick or dead bat
Never handle a sick or dead wild animal without proper protection. Instructions on dealing with dead bats are available on the sick/dead bat reporting form.
If you find and report three or more dead bats found at a single time, you may be contacted and asked to save one or more of the carcasses in the freezer for testing the cause of mortality.
Note that bats awaiting submission for rabies testing must be refrigerated, not frozen. Any possible exposure to the bat (bat flying around and injured/killed by a pet, for example) should be discussed with your pet's vet if the pet was exposed, or your physician in cases of any possible human exposure.
There is a bat still at my summer roost in late fall, should I do anything?
Normally, bats leave their summer roost sites starting in August, and the colony will have moved to winter habitat by October. Occasionally, if the weather remains above 40 degrees during the day, big brown bats may stay active into November and even December. If you observe a bat roosting or an active bat in late fall or early winter, it is most likely still taking advantage of warmer weather before going into hibernation. It is usually best to let wild be wild in these situations, and not disturb the bat. If conditions are below freezing consistently and the bat is still roosting, please contact DNR Conservation Biologists at dnrbats@wisconsin.gov (email preferred) or (608) 294-7025 for further information.
I have a bat hibernating in my attic, what should I do?
One species of bat in Wisconsin, the big brown bat, is known to form very small colonies that hibernate in buildings in winter. Big brown bats are hardy and can tolerate cooler and drier temperatures than other species. As a result, individuals or small colonies are sometimes found hibernating in attics, insulated barns and garages. If possible, leave the bat alone to continue hibernating until spring. The bat is in torpor and will not usually be active unless disturbed by a change in conditions. If the bat must be removed, please contact DNR Conservation Biologists at dnrbats@wisconsin.gov (email preferred) or (608) 294-7025 for further information
Bats are returning to my bat house in January, or I found a large number of dead bats outside in winter.
Large numbers of dead bats in winter or bats returning to summer bat roosts such as bat houses can be signs of the deadly bat disease white-nose syndrome. White-nose syndrome causes abnormal behavior in bats and they are sometimes seen flying onto the landscape in mid-winter and during the day, or dying in large numbers as they leave the infected hibernaculum in winter.
If you encounter either of these behaviors, please submit a sick/dead bat report or contact bat program staff for the next steps. Depending on your location, you may be asked to save some of the carcasses in the freezer for further testing for the disease.
I have heard about a bat disease, what is it?
In 2006, a fungus was discovered growing on the muzzles and wings of hibernating bats. As the fungus spread, it left in its wake a massive number of dead bats. The disease caused by the fungus is called white-nose syndrome (WNS), and it causes mass mortality in hibernating bats. Up to 99% of bats can die in an infected hibernaculum. The fungus is genetically identical to one found growing on bats in Europe, so it is thought that the fungus crossed the Atlantic Ocean. The exact mechanism of mortality is unknown; however, infected bats have low body weight, damaged wings and are dehydrated when they die. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has estimated over 6 million bats have died from the disease since it was first discovered in 2006, and the regional extinction of the little brown bat is expected in several areas. WNS was first confirmed in Wisconsin in March 2014 and has since spread to eight counties. Learn more about white-nose syndrome
Why should we protect bats?
Bats in Wisconsin are insectivorous and are major predators of night-flying insects including agricultural and forestry pests. A single bat can consume up to 1,000 mosquito-sized insects in an hour, and a pregnant female can consume her weight in insects every night. It has been estimated bats save farmers in North America over $22 billion every year in pest control services.
Bats are long-lived, slow to reproduce and often concentrate in large numbers in summer and winter. Bats can live over 25 years and usually have only one baby, called a pup, per year. As a result of this life history, bats are very susceptible to drastic population decline such as that caused by white-nose syndrome. Recovery to pre-WNS population levels may never occur.
What is Wisconsin doing about white-nose syndrome?
For over seven years, the DNR bat program has been inventorying and monitoring bat populations across the state. This is done through a combination of volunteer effort, surveying summer bat colonies, conducting acoustic surveys and on-the-ground fieldwork of bat program personnel. Thanks to these efforts, Wisconsin has baseline information about where bat populations are, what population levels are normally found at each site and what is considered normal bat behavior prior to WNS. This information helps the bat program track WNS as it spreads through the state, provides the opportunity to study the disease and possible treatment options and helps further the understanding of the true impacts of WNS.
Is there anything I can do to help?
Yes, there are several ways to help conserve and monitor bats in Wisconsin. The bat program coordinates two citizen-based monitoring projects assessing bats in the summer – acoustic and roost monitoring. Learn how to become a volunteer
Acoustic monitoring involves being trained to use an ultrasound detector that records bats as they navigate and forage. The recordings can be analyzed in the office and just like a bird can be identified to species by its call, bat species can be identified by their echolocation sonograms. This project helps assess species distribution in the state and look at the relative abundance of bats in different habitats.
Roost monitoring involves finding and monitoring a summer bat roost by counting the bats as they emerge in the evening to forage. Bats often congregate in bat houses, bridges, barns and other buildings and are reported to the bat program by volunteers or landowners. Conducting emergence counts of these colonies helps the bat program assess population levels at each site and investigate roost behavior and roost conditions of bats. The bat program can still use reported information about roost locations even if the landowner is not monitoring. You can report a roost by emailing DNRbats@Wisconsin.gov.
Donate to the bat program to help continue research and mitigate habitat loss of bats. There are two ways to help the bat program continue to work preserving and monitoring bats in Wisconsin – donate to an endowment or donate to an immediate-use fund. The endowment fund was created by Dave Redell and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin to help fund bat preservation work in Wisconsin in perpetuity. The immediate-use fund is managed by the DNR's Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation and is used to help current work such as disease surveillance, gate and bat house installation and bat research. Donate to support bat conservation in Wisconsin
Build a bat house! Building and installing a bat house on your property is a great way to offer alternate habitat and encourage these beneficial animals to take up residence. Bats need warm protected areas to rest during the day and raise their pups. Learn how to build a bat house
Spread the word about how interesting and important bats are. One of the main threats to bats is misunderstanding. There are many myths and misconceptions about bats, and most are negative, leading to fear and disgust of bats. By educating and talking to people about bats, we can slowly change the way people think about these critical animals.
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Pacific Media Unity Against Corruption
by Island Times Staff September 17, 2021 September 17, 2021
PINA Media chief executive officers (CEOs) and owners met in a virtual one and half day conference hosted by the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) on 15-16 September at the Tavanipupu Island Resort.
The September 2021 summit is the second convening of Pacific Media CEOs and Owners after the inaugural conference in Auckland, New Zealand in February 2019. At that meeting in Auckland, media CEOs identified anti-corruption and investigative reporting as one of the six important issues for PINA to pursue and build media actions and partnerships around the issue.
Therefore, with funding support from the United Nations Pacific Regional Anti-Corruption (UN-PRAC) Project through the Pacific Anti-Corruption Journalists Network (PACJN), PINA organized the second CEOs summit with MASI as a Knowledge Sharing Session on Integrity and Anti-Corruption for Pacific Media CEOs and Owners.
PINA Media CEOs and owners acknowledge both the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, the Honourable Manasseh Sogavare, and the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Mr Henry Puna, for sharing their perspectives and priorities on combating anti-corruption in the region, through the Teieniwa Vision. Prime Minister Sogavare reminded media leaders of the 'vital and pivotal role' they hold as the fourth estate in democracy – appealing for 'fair and accurate' reporting in exposing corruption and integrity issues. The Forum Secretary General reminded the media that holding up the spotlight on corruption and integrity provided an opportunity apply values for transparency, strong governance and clear rules for reporting, 'on ourselves and on each other'. He said the challenge sits with the media. He challenged Pacific
Media Leaders to, "Don't just go for keeping our Pacific informed. Please, keep them engaged. Keep them talking – long after you leave them, about the issues and decisions already shaping their lives and our common one Blue Pacific future."
At this Summit, Pacific Media CEOs and Owners recognised the following:
The media (including social media) has an important role in the fight against corruption as it can demand accountability and transparency from the public and private sectors;
The media, and in particular investigative journalism, plays a crucial role in exposing corruption to public scrutiny and fighting against impunity;
For media reporting and journalism to play an effective role in corruption detection, the media has to be free and independent. Freedom of information (FOI) and whistleblower protection laws are important in exercising the role of the media in detecting and reporting on corruption;
The need to provide leadership in promoting and delivering anti-corruption reporting in line with the Teieniwa Vision, developed at the first Pacific Regional Leaders Conference on Corruption in Kiribati in 2020 and then adopted by the Pacific Island Forum Leaders on 3
February 2021; and
The media needs further support of partners and donors to continue building its capacity to monitor and report on corruption.
Pacific Media CEOs and Owners at this Summit commit to:
Understand the role of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 16) in boosting anti-corruption co-operation and promoting the advancement of the Teieniwa Vision;
Share experiences and challenges reporting on anti-corruption;
Discuss ways for further co-operation including with potential support from UN-PRAC, PACJN and PINA in reporting on corruption prevention, in line with UNCAC, SDG 16 and Teieniwa
Vision commitments;
Support advocacy around robust FOI and whistleblower protection legislation and implementation across the Pacific;
Provide leadership in promoting and delivering anti-corruption reporting in the Pacific;
Increase the capacity of media to monitor and report on corruption;
Further strengthen PACJN to build the capacity of Pacific media to enhance its role to monitor and report on corruption and promote good governance;
Increase investigative reporting including with analysis on how corruption impacts on women, youth and marginalised communities
Increase media working with civil society to tackle corruption in the Pacific;
Reaffirm media's vital role in supporting informed public discussion, while also promoting the basic tenets of fairness, balance, truth and accuracy;
Support partnerships that offer opportunities such as more content sharing across the network, improved coverage of events, and knowledge sharing; and
Advocate for due exercise of the right to public information across the Pacific, and greater recognition of the right to personal privacy, including information on a person's digital data and how it is used.


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 * This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the License
 * which accompanies this distribution in the file LICENSE.txt
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package com.archimatetool.export.svg;

import junit.framework.TestSuite;

@SuppressWarnings("nls")
public class AllTests {

    public static junit.framework.Test suite() {
		TestSuite suite = new TestSuite("com.archimatetool.export.svg");

		suite.addTest(PDFExportProviderTests.suite());
		suite.addTest(SVGExportProviderTests.suite());

        return suite;
	}

}

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Charter a specialist race yacht for the inaugural Antigua to Bermuda Race when it gets underway on Friday 12th May 2017.
The Antigua to Bermuda Race is proving to be extremely popular. The varied fleet ranges from modern and classic superyachts to high performance multihulls and more than 40 yachts have already expressed interest.
The debut race coincides with the 50th edition of the Antigua Sailing Week and the 35th America's Cup, taking place in Bermuda, and is designed to offer an exciting passage to the island-chain in time for the iconic sporting event.
Starting off Fort Charlotte in Antigua, the 900-mile race course runs along the island's spectacular south coast before blasting into the Atlantic Ocean. Ocean currents and local weather will keep tacticians on their toes, and Bermuda will deliver a fantastic welcome for all competitors.


The Bull Dog pistol was found by officers with two bullets in the chamber.
A sawn-off shotgun was also found in the car along with 263 cartridges.
This black handgun and ammunition will now also be forensically examined.
FOUR firearms including a shotgun and a loaded 'Bull Dog' revolver have been taken off the streets in Coventry and Solihull in the space of 12 hours.
A car seized from the Stoke area of Coventry for being un-taxed was searched by police yesterday (January 31).
Officers found it contained the silver pistol – with two bullets in the chamber – alongside a sawn-off shotgun and a small black handgun.
And in the early hours of this morning armed West Midlands Police raided a flat in Oxford Grove, Chelmsley Wood, where a man was arrested after a handgun was found hidden under his bed.
The 30-year-old remains in police custody for questioning while firearms experts examine the weapon – suspected of being a converted blank-firing pistol – to determine if it's been transformed into a viable firearm threat.
Detective chief inspector Ian Ingram said: "These are some really notable seizures… firearms and ammunition that at the very least could have been used to threaten but potentially kill. These recoveries may well have saved lives.


Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 17.6, IBM's Deep Learning as a Service program, Intel's nGraph, and more in today's top stories around machine learning, deep learning, and data science news.
Azure Database Services are now generally available for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Microsoft announces the release of SSMS, SQL Server Management Studio 17.6.
IBM rolls out Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) program for AI developers.
Intel AI open sources nGraph, a framework-neutral Deep Neural Network (DNN) model compiler. With nGraph, data scientists can focus on data science rather than worrying about how to adapt their DNN models to train and run efficiently on different devices.
Read more on the Intel AI Blog.
Databricks introduces a new millisecond low-latency mode of streaming called continuous mode in Apache Spark 2.3, now available in Databricks Runtime 4.0 as part of Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.
Read more on the Databricks Blog.
IBM announces the launch of IBM Watson Data Kits, which are designed to accelerate the development of AI applications. Watson Data Kits will provide companies with pre-enriched, machine-readable, industry-specific data for building AI projects.
DeepL introduces DeepL API, as part of DeepL Pro. DeepL API is an interface that allows other computer programs to send texts to DeepL servers and receive high-quality translations.
Read more on the DeepL Blog.
The Altair 2.0 release candidate is now available, with full support for interactive Vega-Lite visualizations in Python. Features a declarative grammar of interactions for building sophisticated interactive data views from easy-to-understand building blocks.
Read more on Altair Github.


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The Gallery's Acknowledgement of Country, and information on culturally sensitive and restricted content and the use of historic language in the collection can be found here.
2006 (printed 2009)
Montalbetti + Campbell
type C photograph on paper	(sheet: 82.0 cm x 68.0 cm, image: 61.0 cm x 48.0 cm)
Matthew Reilly (b. 1974) is a successful writer of popular fiction novels characterised by suspenseful narratives and futuristic scenarios. Inspired by the urgent pacing of graphic novels, action movies and video games, they have been published in more than twenty countries and have found a strong readership amongst young males. Born in Sydney, Reilly wrote and self-published his first novel Contest in 1994, when he was a law student and drove a Celica. Copies placed in a Sydney bookshop quickly sold out and gained the interest of a major publisher. Since then Reilly has written at least fourteen novels of which nearly 8 million copies have been sold. A fan of Hollywood action and fantasy cinema, he has collected movie memorabilia including props from the Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Star Wars series.
Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell produced a deliberately slick image that alludes to Reilly's passion for cars – including a DeLorean DMC 12, about which he has written ruefully and affectionately, and an Aston Martin Vantage (his favourite).
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
© Montalbetti & Campbell
The National Portrait Gallery respects the artistic and intellectual property rights of others. Works of art from the collection are reproduced as per the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). The use of images of works from the collection may be restricted under the Act. Requests for a reproduction of a work of art can be made through a Reproduction request. For further information please contact NPG Copyright.
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Artist and subject
Matthew Reilly (age 32 in 2006)
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1. Miranda Otto, 1997. 2. Miranda Otto, 1997. 3. Miranda Otto, 1997. 4. Andrew Ettingshausen, 1996. All Montalbetti + Campbell.
The Companion
Permanent collection catalogue
Café and shop
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. The Companion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store.
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney talks with Montalbetti+Campbell about their photographic portrait of Australian astronaut Andy Thomas.


Ice skating is a rough-and-tumble antidote to the bubble-wrapped childhood, and at Flynn Rink they drive home that idea very quickly. The main entrance, a side door, is guarded all winter by two orange cones, calling attention to no particular obstacle. As families enter, younger children favor the side of the entrance furthest from the ice while the more experienced skaters hug the inside corner, eager to start this week's ninety minutes. Flynn parents jam funny shoes with outsized blades onto the feet of their bundled charges. Some wrap their children in kneepads and face masks, others just tighten a bicycle helmet and expect to see bruises by the end of the day.
December is the start of the season for Flynn Rink, so the family rink's ice is packed daily with first-time skaters. Instructors play games of follow-the-leader and redlight green-light with packs of nervous tykes, stumbling and squatting as though learning to walk all over again. It's a rare moment when everyone on the rink is standing at once. Falls are expected and even practiced so tears are rare, even though some nine-year-olds with NHL aspirations may toss a frustrated sidelong glance at their parents in the stands.
Those parents often offer a more interesting perspective onto the workings of the rink. They gossip behind the Plexiglass, some switching rapidly between English, Spanish and Portuguese. Some sit and chat idly in the heated concessions room, leaving the care of their children to their teachers for the afternoon, while others sit on the wooden benches, wrapped up in winter wear, staring intently to try and see something new. Some just look to make sure their kids are having fun, some look to see if their kids have potential in hockey or figure skating like they themselves did years ago. One mom watches the entire rink in search of material for her parenting blog.
Some dad says to a friend, "That's one of the things I love about this sport: hockey tires kids out." And he's right — as his daughter exits his lesson, she walks in her skates over to him and collapses in a stupor of happy exhaustion.
This story was a final project for the Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice at Tufts University, under the direction of Samuel James.


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At present, there are many styles of ornamentation design for customers to choose. They will be able to shop more according to what lifestyle they prefer in creative and unique way. Today, our De Life team will introduce you to the ornamentations of 2 well-known brands creating a different design among fashion ornamentation field. We believe it will be pleasant to a lot of people.
Let's take a look at the ornamentation where Thai identity is designed to become contemporary, but Thaily beautiful. Thai silk ornamentation, Ornaments & L"or brand, is rewarded DEMARK AWARDS 2016 from Department of Export Promotion and GOOD DESIGN AWARDS 2016 from Japan.
Aom-Supatjana Limwong, the owner of Ornaments & L"or brand, stated that "The beginning of this brand was my own desire; but still had no idea of what to do or which way to go. Once I got to know Thai silk shop where clothes are tailor-made, I thought that I wanted to create the ornamentation as it is related to the field I have studied. I started with the parcel experiment; checking which forms the parcel can become. Then, I finally developed them to become Thai silk ornamentation.
Every 3 months, our brand will introduce new color and design of all items; necklaces, earrings, rings. Even though the target group for Thai silk is normally adults, our target group we set is going to be teenagers until working people.
Aom-Supatjana added that "I want this brand to become more well-known. At present, we have focused on consignment with some orders mostly from the tourists whom I want to convince how beautiful and valuable Thai materials are. This is because some Thais have some bias over Thai silk because they think silk is for old people. For myself, it is not just silk as we can design other materials to become more interesting".
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