text:
6112 Ludolfschultz è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1981, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 3,1061248 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,2593626, inclinata di 14,25025° rispetto all'eclittica.

Collegamenti esterni

Corpi celesti scoperti nel 1981
Ludolfschultz

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Hahaha! His post is an amazing one on traffic in Beijing. This is a little similar to Bangkok, Thailand where there is massive jams. Quite a nightmare even if you're taking cab.
What's the best way to get around then?
I think you don't really appreciate the humor unless you've been either a driver and/or pedestrian in Beijing. The Left Turn explained by Henry B back in 2007 sadly still applies today. After returning to US from my 2 years in Beijing, my muscle memory is still traumatized by this chaos as gracious yielding drivers in US are puzzled at my reluctance at the cross walk.


In this video we're going to be examining long run trends in aggregate output.
in the United States since 1929.
the United States in terms of constant 2009 dollars.
the numbers on the axis are the logs.
rates in terms of percentages.
percentage as whether they're down here or up here.
the GDP per capita grew every year or between decades.
That was the great depression.
less a fixed trend for a long while until late 2000s.
a little bit down, but very close to that trend line.
Since 2008 things have changed.
The economy seems to be growing slower and far below that trend.
That gap has very important implications for the way the U.S.
economy has been operating for inflation rate and for the future of the economy.
this long period and what has gone wrong in recent years.
show you similar graphs for a number of other countries.
the GDP per capita of United States.
This graph goes further back than the previous one, we start from 1900.
And you can see that long term trend in the U.S.
economy and the slow down in recent years here.
but below the U.S. per capita income.
And at some points, like World War ll, when U.S.
GDP growth was high, Europe was going through a war and GDP dropped.
the distance between the U.S. and Western Europe declined.
2009, but Europe has basically stagnated.
Let's add Japan to this graph now.
That's Japanese GDP per capita since 1900.
And as you can see here, Japan was growing and trying to catch up with the West.
Japan right at the end of the war.
still much faster than the United States and Europe, until 1990.
And that was the turning point when Japan started stagnating.
Since then Japan has not grown that much.
In fact, in many years it has experienced a decline.
for which we have data, since 1950.
Developing countries are much poorer than Western countries and Japan.
especially since 1990, this period.
Let's examine the trend in Chinese GDP per capita growth.
capita since 1960s, when GDP per capita was around 4,600.
getting closer to the developed countries.
though it has not grown as fast as China in recent decades.
it has helped push the average developing country growth rate much higher.
have been stagnating in recent years.
but since 1980s its growth rate has been anemic.
There was a hopeful period in the 2000s, but in recent years growth has stagnated.
Another interesting case to examine is Argentina.
especially in the 1980s and early 2000s.
but since 2010 it has not been growing that much.
which was richer than the average developing country up to 1980.
But then, things started going in the wrong direction.
the economy has not grown all that much in recent years.
the sharp decline in the early 1990s and has stagnated ever since.
the average of developing countries in the 1950s and 1960s.
there is a sharp decline in GDP per capita of Congo and then a very slow recovery.
As you can see there's an interesting pattern around 1989, 1990 in Africa.
wars that broke out right after the demise of Soviet Union.
supporting them once its rival the Soviet Union was out of the picture.
Now let's look at the theory of what determines the long-run output.
Of course, long-run output has something to do with population.
Larger populations produce more output and GDP grows.
What is important to understand is what determines per capita GDP.
So let's focus on what determines per capita GDP in the long run.
It maybe good to start with the concept of production capacity for an individual.
Think about how many hours of the day you can work.
40 hours in a row or 45 hours in a row or something like that.
if you get exhausted, you won't be able to produce much in the long run.
The same concept can be applied to a firm.
the firm might be able to produce at different levels of output.
If it produces at the low level, then some resources are going to be idle.
If it produces at a high level, then it might be overusing some resources.
think about an airline company that needs to overhaul its aircrafts every so often.
it might actually postpone that overhaul.
some other problem with the aircraft.
exhausting yourself, and then crashing later on.
that the firm might be able to produce on a sustainable basis.
That's what we call production capacity.
We can use the same concept for an economy as a whole.
If it produces too much beyond this level, there will be signs of stress.
technology and institutional capabilities as I will explain in the next video.


Whatever your choice – a refined Saloon, spacious Sportswagon or eco-friendly Plug-in Hybrid – the All-New Optima's impeccable quality, unmistakable style and luxurious comfort will make every journey enjoyable.
The All-New Kia Optima Plug-in Hybrid is set to make a real splash. As an eco-friendly hybrid, it's low on fuel and emissions – but high on style.
Dynamic lines and sporty dimensions set the tone, and attention to every eye-catching detail ensures that it impresses from all angles.
The All-New Kia Optima Plug-in Hybrid boasts low running costs and minimal environmental impact, and it achieves up to 33 miles on a single charge, re-charging when in petrol mode. It is also easy to charge at home or any public charging stations.
Charging socket - with a standard EU charging socket. You can charge the All-New Optima Plug-in Hybrid with a 220V household socket or at a public charging station.
Stylish LED headlights - the headlights come with automatic levelling which acts as an additional active safety feature by automatically adjusting the positioning of the lights.
The thoroughly impressive All-New Optima Plug-in Hybrid proves that you can cut back on emissions – and still deliver on performance. Thanks to its advanced powertrain, it manages to balance efficiency with dynamics, providing a fast and smooth transition from electric mode to hybrid (petrol/electric) operation.
8" Touchscreen sat nav with European mapping shows information such as energy flow, driving style and efficiency Black cloth/faux leather upholstery adds to the stylish interior. 4.3" Supervision cluster with LCD TFT colour display offers useful information on current mode (hybrid mode, electric mode) and energy flow.
The driver-oriented interior of the Kia Optima keeps you connected with plenty of hassle-free, hands-free features. The Wireless Phone Charger keeps you switched on at all times, while the Harman/KardonTM sound system delivers premium-quality sound.


Olivan – For the best in cost effective marketing services.
At Olivan's core is our state of the art fulfillment, warehousing and distribution facility. From here we execute your daily marketing collateral and product fulfillment, seasonal promotions, rebates, loyalty programs and e-commerce transactions.
Complementary to this core are Olivan's Creative Services, Production Sourcing, Program Management and Supply Chain teams.
In other words: We design it, source it, warehouse it, sellit through a web store, ship it and manage the promotion or loyalty program itmay be associated with.
Take advantage of our full service offering, or order à la Carte. Whatever you choosewe'll keep you on target, on time and on budget!


Antique wall mirrors have been chosen by many to be hung on some of the walls inside their homes. Before you choose them, there are a few things that you have to consider especially since some could be quite expensive with their originality and authenticity.
Here are some of the things might that might be able to help you find the perfect decorative mirrors for the walls inside your home.
1.Determine the décor theme of your home. By determining the design for the Specific Room that you are going to place the mirror in, it would make it easier for you before you purchase them.
2.Form and shape of the mirrors. These are crucial especially because the shape of the mirror along with the size of the mirror needs to be chosen carefully before you place them inside your house.
3.Colors and materials of the mirror frame. The colors and materials of the frame that you are going to use could set the ambience and atmosphere of the room. Colors such as brown and gold are chosen a lot because they could be used nicely since they are considered as neutral colors that will be perfect for any kind of décor design.
4.Price and budget. These might be the last thing that you need to be considered yet it is highly crucial especially since most of these antique wall mirrors could be quite expensive with their designs. Hand-crafted frames could cost quite a lot which is why you need to make sure that you prepare for the budget to purchase them with.
Those are some of the tips that might be able to help you choose the perfect antique wall mirrors especially the ones for your home. Creating a beautiful home needs to be one of the many goals that you have to set especially to give a perfect home for your family.


Show your support for the latest "theory" on evolution - that evolution happened as scientists say it has, except during the Triassic Period. Inspired by "I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period", an article written by Stephen Joslser in The Onion in May, 2007.
Design can be printed with black or white ink on light or dark colored shirts. Designs are printed on 100% cotton t-shirts and 50/50 cotton/polyester sweatshirts.


House and Senate leaders struggled Monday to protect their complicated deal on the two-year state budget. The two chambers' budget chiefs clashed over whether a tax-relief package should rely heavily on rebates of a fee on electricity bills.
High stakes testing is a hot button issue in public education. State lawmakers are poised to scale back tests in high school. But some parents are worried about tests for younger kids — as young as kindergarten.
Capital-intensive businesses relocating to Texas or expanding here would face greater scrutiny to qualify for school property tax breaks under the Senate's version of House Bill 3390 that passed Tuesday night.
The "Protection of Texas Children Act," which provides for the creation of "school marshals," was approved Wednesday by the Senate, overcoming four Democrats' nay votes, and now awaits Gov. Rick Perry's signature.
End-of-session tension abated on Wednesday as lawmakers, after days of uncertainty, broke through a budget stalemate. The House and Senate each approved measures central to the two-year budget the Legislature must pass before Monday, the last day of the session.
The Texas House gave tentative approval to billions of dollars in bonds for campus construction projects on Monday. Senators already gave the go-ahead, but they will have a chance to revisit the proposal, because the House increased the total from about $2.4 billion to nearly $2.7 billion.
Is the road back for Democrats paved with education dollars?
Maybe this is what the road back looks like for Democrats.


text:
Opening Bell: 02.16.12
Moody's Places Big Banks On Review (WSJ)
In the latest setback for investment banking, Moody's Investors Service placed the ratings of Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and three other global financial institutions on review for possible downgrade because it says the business' profitability will be diminished longer term. Moody's also said Wednesday it is reviewing J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Royal Bank of Canada for possible downgrade. Seven other financial firms' reviews were extended Wednesday as part of a separate ratings action on European banks, while four more had other negative reviews extended.
Greek Officials: Bailout Talks On Track (WSJ)
So that's nice.
Europe Demands More Greek Budget Controls (Bloomberg)
While "further considerations are necessary regarding the specific mechanisms to strengthen the surveillance of program implementation," Europe is set to make "all the necessary decisions" on Feb. 20, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said in an e-mailed statement after leading a conference call of finance chiefs late yesterday.
Falcone Seeks Spectrum Swap for LightSquared (Bloomberg)
Phil Falcone is seeking to swap spectrum owned by LightSquared Inc. with that controlled by the U.S. Department of Defense, a person with knowledge of the company said, in an effort to salvage his investment and save his hedge fund. Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners LLC has sunk $3 billion in LightSquared, a Reston, Virginia-based firm that plans to build a high-speed broadband network to serve 260 million Americans. The Federal Communications Commission said Feb. 14 it won't let the company begin service because it interferes with GPS navigation of cars, boats, planes and tractors. The hedge fund manager hired Moelis & Co., a New York-based investment bank, and other advisers to help study alternatives, said the person, who asked not to be named because the company is private. If the defense department is not interested in a swap, Falcone could try to sell the spectrum.
New Fine In Greenlight Case (WSJ)
The fallout from alleged insider trading at Greenlight Capital Inc. continued Thursday when the Financial Services Authority said it had fined former Merrill Lynch executive Andrew Osborne £350,000 (about $550,000) for allegedly disclosing inside information ahead of a significant equity fund-raising by pub operator Punch Taverns PLC in June 2009. Mr. Osborne, acting on behalf of Punch, approached Greenlight, a major investor and despite being told that the company didn't want to be given privileged information, or "wall-crossed," went ahead with a conference call with Greenlight owner and President David Einhorn during which he disclosed that Punch was within a week of a substantial fund-raising, the FSA said.
Health deparment declares that Sardi's can no longer host dinner for Westminster Dog Show winner (NYP)
A New York tradition more than three decades old ended yesterday when the Health Department declared that starting next year, Sardi's restaurant can no longer invite the winner of the Westminster Dog Show to a special dinner. "We can't be expected to just roll over for the champ. Our primary concern is making sure people and pets follow the doggone rules — ideally without whining or begging," quipped city Health Department spokesman John Kelly. Restaurant owner Max Klimavicius pointed out that his special guest was served in a private room on the second floor and said he was sorry to see the "ritual'' end.
UBS Suspends Traders in Libor Probe (FT)
People familiar with the investigation told the Financial Times that Yvan Ducrot, the co-head of UBS's rates business, and Holger Seger, the global head of short-term interest rates trading, are among a group of Zurich-based traders who have been suspended pending further inquiries into the bank's rate-setting processes.
Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach Retiring (Bloomberg)
James Gorman announced the departure of Roach, who has been non-executive chairman for Asia since 2010, in a memo to employees today. Roach, who has also taught at Yale University, will transition full-time into academia, according to the memo.
Zurich Is World's Costliest City (WSJ)
Zurich and Tokyo scored 170 and 166, respectively, indicating that they are about 70% and 66% more expensive to live in than New York. Geneva and Japan's Osaka-Kobe area tied for third place, according to the survey. Overall, the list of the 10 costliest cities is divided equally between Asia and Europe. The European cities are Oslo, Paris and Frankfurt, while Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore round out the Asian portion of the list. No North American city breaks the top 10. New York dropped 11 spots to a tie for 47th with Chicago and below Los Angeles.
Portugal Will Show That It Is Not Greece: Minister (CNBC)
The Delivery Guy Who Saw Jeremy Lin Coming (WSJ)
In May 2010, an unsung numbers hobbyist named Ed Weiland wrote a long-term forecast of Jeremy Lin for the basketball website Hoops Analyst. At the time, Lin was a lightly regarded, semi-known point guard who had completed his final season at Harvard. But Weiland saw NBA material. He emphasized how well Lin played in three nonconference games against big schools: Connecticut, Boston College and Georgetown. He noted how Lin's performance in two unsexy statistical categories—two-point field-goal percentage (a barometer of inside scoring ability) and RSB40 (rebounds, steals and blocks per 40 minutes) compared favorably with college numbers put up by marquee NBA guards like Allen Iverson and Gary Payton. Weiland concluded that Lin had to improve on his passing and leadership at the point, but argued that if he did, "Jeremy Lin is a good enough player to start in the NBA and possibly star."
Opening Bell: 9.7.17
The Gary Cohn Story is turning from comedy to tragedy; don't sleep on Milan post-Brexit; Dennis Rodman is going to straighten out this whole North Korea thing; and more.
Opening Bell: 7.22.15
Greece; Volcker; J.P. Morgan hack; Book an Airbnb van down by the river; "Despite Catfish Claims, Loch Ness Monster Hunter 'Not Quitting"; and more.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The genetic information in a kernel of corn could be a key to better understanding how normal cells become cancerous in humans, according to a recent collaborative study conducted by a team of Oakland University researchers including (from left): Catalina Kenney, Dr. Gerard Madlambayan, J. Paige Gronevelt, Dr. Randal Westrick, Dr. Shailesh Lal, and Amy Siebert-McKenzie.
The genetic information in a kernel of corn could be a key to better understanding how normal cells become cancerous in humans, according to a recent collaborative study conducted by researchers from Oakland University and the University of Florida.
"This is an exciting development as it suggests we can use plants as model systems to better understand human disease," said Dr. Gerard Madlambayan, an associate professor with the Department of Biological Sciences who specializes in cancer research.
According to Madlambayan, the link was discovered when Dr. Shailesh Lal, a professor of biological sciences at Oakland University who specializes in the molecular and genetic analysis of plants, identified a "regulatory" gene while studying the corn genome.
Because the corn gene is "46 percent similar" to a human gene with unknown function, Lal partnered with Madlambayan to determine whether suppressing the gene would have an effect on human cancer cells as well. The study is also being conducted with Dr. Randy Westrick, an assistant professor of biological sciences, whose research focuses on the genetic determinants of thrombosis (abnormal blood clot formation) and who has expertise in mammalian genome-editing technology. OU students involved in the project include Amy Siebert-McKenzie (Ph.D. candidate) of St. Clair Shores, J. Paige Gronevelt (M.Sc. candidate) of Lake Orion, and Catalina Kenney, an undergraduate student from White Lake.
This led the research team to suspect that this gene is a "master regulator gene," or one that controls the expression of many other genes.
With additional work from collaborators at the University of Florida (Dr. Brad Barbazuk and Dr. Mark Settles), the group is now starting to identify genes that are affected by the "master" gene.
It is Lal's hope that others learn from their discovery.
The work was supported by external grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as support from the Center for Biomedical Research at Oakland University.


The AICPA Financial Reporting Executive Committee (FinREC) on Wednesday issued another set of working drafts of accounting issues related to the implementation of FASB's new revenue recognition standard.
The working drafts released Wednesday are the latest in a series of such releases by FinREC, which has been seeking public comment on working drafts that provide industry-specific guidance for entities implementing FASB Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue From Contracts With Customers (Topic 606).
FinREC is collecting feedback on the working drafts as part of its ongoing work to develop a new revenue recognition guide.
Broker-Dealer Issue No. 3-4: Underwriting Revenues.
Telecommunications Issue No. 15-8: Determining the Transaction Price.
Comments are due by Jan. 2, 2018, and can be sent via email to Ivory Bare (Ivory.Bare@aicpa-cima.com) for the broker-dealer issue and to Desiré Carroll (Desire.Carroll@aicpa-cima.com) for the telecommunications issue.


Greetings once again Hero Players!
Our web team has informed us that the email confirmation system is back and in working order. We've tested it and can confirm that you may now confirm your account using our new email confirmation system.
Want Advertisements After The Last Post Removed? Create A Free Account!


text:
UBS's rogue trader
Collective responsibility
After the verdict against Kwekuu Adoboli, the Swiss bank now faces some repercussions of its own
by L.P.
A FEW days ago Kweku Adoboli, a former trader at UBS, discovered what it meant to have caused a $2.3 billion loss: he was convicted on two counts of fraud and faces up to seven years in prison. Now the bank has to digest repercussions of its own: regulators in Britain, where the losses were incurred, and Switzerland are sticking it to the firm.
Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined UBS nearly £30m ($48m) over the rogue trader—the third largest fine the regulator has imposed in its history. "UBS failed to question the increasing revenue of the desk and failed to ensure that there was a corresponding increase in the controls in place over the desk. As a result, Adoboli, a relatively junior trader, was allowed to take vast and risky market positions, and UBS failed to manage the risks around that properly," Tracey McDermott, the FSA's enforcement director, said.
Indeed, had he been properly supervised, Mr Adoboli could hardly have caused injury on such a scale. He lacked guidance after Mike Foster, who Mr Adoboli described as a mentor during his trial, chose to leave UBS in summer 2007. His successor, Ron Greenidge, allegedly failed to write down the risk limits for Mr Adoboli's trading desk, making it easy for him to exceed them. John DiBacco, who took over from Mr Greenidge in April 2011, doubled the risk limits. Mr Adoboli and a colleague, John Hughes, both in their 20s, ended up in charge of a trading desk with a $50 billion book.
Worse, an electronic system, designed to flag up exactly the type of trading Mr Adoboli indulged in, did not work. Had it been switched on, management would have soon noticed Mr Adoboli's unhedged trades and excessive risk-taking. As the FSA sees it, supervision was "poorly executed and ineffective" while systems and controls were "seriously defective".
Finma, the Swiss banking regulator, does not have the power to impose fines, but it will, among other things, subject UBS to an audit to ensure that the bank has taken the necessary measures to avoid such a gross lack of internal oversight from happening again. It may also ask UBS to raise capital backing for its operational risks.
All this seems reasonable. But one question remains: why didn't regulators push UBS to be more careful before financial disaster struck?
More from Schumpeter
The Schumpeter blog
And it's goodbye from us
How America is criminalising the company
The world's biggest shakedown?
Money talks: August 25th 2014
The politics of price


text:
Italy's Labelit develops new market business with help from Vetaphone surface treating
Originally established in 1992 as Etichettificio Salese, it was not until Marcello Busetto acquired the company in 2012 and changed its name to Labelit that the converter we see today in Santa Maria di Sala, near Venice, became one of Italy's leading manufacturers and suppliers of labels to the wine industry. The new ownership injected a spirit of innovation and adventure into the company, as well as investment in new technology that brought higher quality and 'added-value' processes.
PHOTO: (Left to right) Labelit Sales Manager Letizia Gambon, Owner and CEO Marcello Busetto, Vetaphone's Giuseppe Rossi and Labelit Production Manager William Zacchello with one of the company's corona systems at its plant near Venice.
"My focus has always been on improving the quality of our products, and I am constantly looking for challenges and projects that test our ability. Because we are supplying companies at the top end of their market sectors, we must meet their expectations in terms of cost and performance," says Busetto. This applies also to the company's choice of technology suppliers, and Labelit's production floor is tightly packed with a variety of machines from leading manufacturers including Omet, Nilpeter and Gallus, which combine to produce an annual sales total in excess of €12 million.
Being so prominent in the wine label business, where in Italy the tradition is for the more classic style paper labels, Sales Manager Letizia Gambon explains, "Output is currently split 70:30 in favor of paper to filmic substrates. But while the paper side is holding steady, we are seeing a growth in demand for film labels. Back in 2012 we were supplying labels almost exclusively to the food and personal-care markets with a variety of print techniques from rotary letterpress to flexo and offset." Today, Labelit has a spread of capabilities on web widths from 250 mm up to 420 mm, with a range of embellishing possibilities from foil to holograms. "This has allowed us to extend our customer portfolio and we now have a growing export business to Germany, the UK, Finland, and Turkey."
With this change in demand and the growth in film labels, came the need for surface treatment, and in 2015 Labelit began to investigate what the market had to offer. Marcello Busetto explained: "It became clear early on that Vetaphone was the premium brand and was the preferred supplier of both Omet and Nilpeter, whose narrow web presses we have here. When we researched Vetaphone's history and found they were the inventors and pioneers of corona treatment, the decision was easy to make, and we have had great support from them ever since on the six systems we have here in our plant". Most of the Vetaphone units at Labelit are the VE1A-A single-sided model, but there is a two-sided unit fitted to a Nilpeter press.
As with so many suppliers to the package print industry, Labelit has seen its business grow during the global pandemic of the past 18 months. With all places to eat and drink closed during lockdown, demand for food and beverages purchased through the retail trade grew rapidly, and with it the need for printed packaging. Interestingly, Letizia Gambon noted that quality and reliable delivery became more important than price during the period, as well as a marked increase in demand for more eye-catching labels: "We now print more colors than before and add features like foil, varnish, holograms, and Braille," she adds.
Today, a typical job at Labelit is 30,000 labels printed multi-color with added-value finishing, but run lengths continue to decline. This is partly because brand owners are reducing their stockholding and relying on JIT delivery, but also because of the constant revisions to Italian legislation regarding the information to be printed on packaging. It's a situation that Marcello Busetto does not foresee changing. "We need to be flexible and innovative to allow us to respond quickly to changes in market conditions, and we invest in the technology that allows us to do that," he says.
One example of this was highlighted by Giuseppe Rossi, Vetaphone Sales Manager in Italy, who has worked closely with Labelit since the Danish manufacturer's corona treatment technology was first introduced. "We think mostly of surface treatment being required for non-absorbent substrates like film and foil, but Labelit has been creative with the technology and by reducing the power level on its corona system has used it to clean a paper web, which gives the varnish applied a much higher gloss effect," he explained.
With an ambition to become Italy's leading wine label supplier, and a more pressing need to find larger premises for its extensive plant list, Labelit has laid firm foundations for its future success. The demand for printed packaging seems unlikely to stop growing anytime soon, which means the company's ongoing investment in the best technology will give it a head start in what is a very competitive market.
More info: www.vetaphone.com, www.labelit.it
Copyright © 2021 AIMCAL. All rights reserved.
The official publication of AIMCAL.


The Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team was supposed to have a storybook ending.
A 21-game unbeaten streak, the No. 1 PairWise rating, and a trip to Pittsburgh for the Frozen Four were highlights of the 2012-13 season.
Battling a squad in the 2013 NCAA National Championship that Quinnipiac outscored 13-3 on the season, the Bobcats were unable to nail down the final victory. In front of a crowd of 18,184 at the CONSOL Energy Center, Yale blanked Quinnipiac, 4-0, winning the national title for the first time in its history.
The win cements Yale's spot in the record books, as the Bulldogs are the first team since 1966 to win the national championship while finishing with less than 23 overall victories.
Yale goaltender Jeff Malcolm, who started against Quinnipiac only once this year, stopped all 36 shots, a season-high for his third shutout of the season.
There was no score until 19:56 of the second period, when Yale lit the lamp going into the second intermission. Before tonight, a national championship game had not gone scoreless for that long since 1968.
With time ticking off the clock in the second period, Eric Hartzell attempted to clear the puck from the Quinnipiac defensive zone. Gus Young collected and set up at the left point, before putting a soft wrist shot on Hartzell. Clinton Bourbonais then stood in traffic at the left dot, deflecting Young's shot across the crease for the one-goal lead after 40 minutes.
Yale continued to add to its lead early in the third, seizing control of the game. Charles Orzetti skated up the far side wing, firing a shot on Hartzell. Orzetti corralled his own rebound, snapping another shot through Hartzell's five-hole for 2-0 advantage.
Midway through the third, Yale captain Andrew Miller took notice of an unaware Quinnipiac defense. Using speed, Miller caught the defense out of position, skating onto a breakaway. Miller then wristed a shot again through Hartzell's five-hole, padding Yale's lead.
With 7:19 remaining in regulation, Quinnipiac decided to pull Hartzell for the extra attacker. Jesse Root followed with the dagger, grabbing the empty-netter just 21 seconds later.
Malcolm came up with two stops on Quinnipiac breakaways early in the second. Matthew Peca crossed over Gus Young in the offensive zone, only to be stuffed by Malcolm's left pad. Later, Malcolm stoned Samuels-Thomas with his right shoulder when the junior was in alone.


Your guests will be awe when they see this ancient teak wood base that is a complete root system of a fallen tree. Celebrate the beauty of nature and invite it into your home with this one-of-a-kind coffee table. Exclusive to Home Source Furniture in Houston.


text:
The Portuguese Podengo, also known as the Podengo Português or Portuguese Warren Hound, is a hound (sight and scent) breed from Portugal. As a breed, the Podengo is divided into three size categories that are not interbred: small (Pequeno), medium (Médio) and large (Grande). Their coats are either short and 'smooth', or longer and 'wired'. The smooth coated variety is traditional, whereas the wire coated variety is an outcome of the assimilation of various other breeds during the 20th century. In general, the breed is healthy; the Pequeno (small) variety has an average lifespan of approximately 15–17 years.

All Podengo types are hardy, intelligent and lively dogs, excelling at agility and making fine companions. Loyal and fearless, Podengos are also good house guards and are amenable to training by dog experienced people and those that enjoy  primitive (unrefined, "less domesticated") dog behavior.

Keen hunting dogs, the Podengo has an affinity for game regardless of size. Typically, the dogs hunt in a pack with their handler following. When game is found, they kill and retrieve it, or flush it towards the hunter to be shot. Each size category traditionally hunts game appropriate to their size and temperament. (Pequeno: rabbits; Medio: rabbits and wild boar; Grande: deer and wild boar).

Description
The Portuguese Podengo is bred in three size varieties, the Large, Medium and Small (in Portuguese the Grande, Medio and Pequeno). According to the Clube Português de Canicultura's breed standard states the Large stands  at the withers and healthy adults weigh , the Medium stands  at the withers and healthy adults weigh , and the Small stands  at the withers and healthy adults weigh .

General information

The Grande (large) was developed for deer and wild boar hunting. It will exhaust and hold down the prey and await the hunter's gun. The Grande is now very rare in its home country.

The Medio (medium) was developed for rabbit chasing, flushing, hunting and retrieval. Its hunting style includes catlike stalking and, similar to the Ibizan Hound, it often jumps above the prey before landing on or near it to flush it out of dense brush, rock crevices or burrows. It will dig if necessary to flush prey.

The Pequeno (small) was also developed for flushing rabbits from cover. It is also a good mouser.

See also
 Dogs portal
 List of dog breeds

References

FCI breeds
Hounds
Dog breeds originating in Portugal
Rare dog breeds


Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive. Conservation ultimately comes down to people – their behaviors toward nature, their beliefs about its value, and their ability to protect it without sacrificing basic life needs. And so, conservationists must become as skilled in social change as in science; as committed to community-based solutions as national and international policymaking.
Over more than three decades, Rare has partnered with local organizations to run more than 400 behavior change projects in nearly 60 countries, promoting community-led adoption of solutions across sustainable coastal fisheries management, fuel-efficient cookstove use, reciprocal water agreements, regenerative agriculture, recycling and waste management, wildlife demand reduction, and more. Rare's largest current program, Fish Forever, is an innovative global movement to transform coastal fisheries in Brazil, Indonesia, Mozambique the Philippines and more. Rare launched the Center for Behavior & the Environment in 2017 to bring the best insights from behavioral science and design to tackle some of the world's most challenging environmental issues. Through partnership with leading academic and research institutions, we are translating the science of human behavior into practical solutions for conservationists worldwide.
Rare is looking for a creative, entrepreneurial and collaborative "do-er" to develop and manage communications and donor/investor relations for the Center for Behavior & the Environment. The Development and Communications Officer is a critical position that sits at the intersection of two fast-paced and execution-minded units: Development & Communications and the Center for Behavior & the Environment. Reporting to the Vice President overseeing all Individual Giving and Board Relations, and working closely with the Senior Director, Center for Behavior & the Environment, the Officer will embed within the Center for Behavior & the Environment, be a content expert on all Center-related initiatives and will work closely with external partners, senior leadership, and the Development team.
Internal – This cross-functional position reports to the Vice President overseeing all Individual Giving and Board Relations, and is embedded within the Center for Behavior & the Environment, maintaining a close working relationship with the Senior Director of that team. S/he interacts frequently with other members of the Center for Behavior & the Environment team as well as other Rare teams in the U.S. and abroad. The position involves relying upon the strength of internal relationships and on proactively engaging teams and individuals as and when needed.
External - This position works closely with the Center for Behavior & the Environment Advisory Council, donors, and other partners.


text:
Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy : a science and technology-based framework to assess and reduce nutrients to Iowa waters and the Gulf of Mexico (2012)
(2012) Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy : a science and technology-based framework to assess and reduce nutrients to Iowa waters and the Gulf of Mexico (2012). Natural Resources, Department of
NRSfull.pdf
File Size:4MB
On November 19, 2012, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey, Director Chuck Gipp from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Dr. John Lawrence of Iowa State University announced the release of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy for public comment. A two-month public comment period and several informational meetings allowed the public to provide feedback on the draft strategy. Updates and improvements were made to the draft based on the public comments. The final version of the strategy was released May 29, 2013. The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy is a science and technology-based approach to assess and reduce nutrients delivered to Iowa waterways and the Gulf of Mexico. The strategy outlines voluntary efforts to reduce nutrients in surface water from both point sources, such as wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, and nonpoint sources, including farm fields and urban areas, in a scientific, reasonable and cost effective manner. The development of the strategy reflects more than two years of work led by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa Department of Natural Resources and Iowa State University. The scientific assessment to evaluate and model the effects of practices was developed through the efforts of 23 individuals representing five agencies or organizations, including scientists from ISU, IDALS, DNR, USDA Agricultural Research Service and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. The strategy was developed in response to the 2008 Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan that calls for the 12 states along the Mississippi River to develop strategies to reduce nutrient loading to the Gulf of Mexico. The Iowa strategy follows the recommended framework provided by EPA in 2011 and is only the second state to complete a statewide nutrient reduction strategy. This strategy is the beginning. Operational plans are being developed and work is underway. This is a dynamic document that will evolve over time, and is a key step towards improving Iowa's water quality. The impetus for this report comes from the Water Resources Coordination Council (WRCC) which states in its 2014‐15 Annual Report "Efforts are underway to improve understanding of the multiple nutrient monitoring efforts that may be available and can be compared to the nutrient WQ monitoring framework to identify opportunities and potential data gaps to better coordinate and prioritize future nutrient monitoring efforts." This report is the culmination of those efforts.
nitrogen, phosphorus, streams, rivers, surface water, nutrient reduction, water pollution
Natural resources and environment > Water resources > Drinking water
Natural resources and environment > Water resources > Rivers and streams
Natural resources and environment > Water resources > Water quality
Timothy Skeers
http://publications.iowa.gov/id/eprint/23227


text:
Asterolasia nivea, commonly known as Bindoon starbush, is a species of weak sub-shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has leathery oblong to narrow elliptical leaves and white flowers arranged in groups of about three flowers with thick-centred, shield like, star-shaped hairs on the back of the petals.

Description
Asterolasia nivea is a weak sub-shrub that typically grows to a height of about . The leaves are narrow oblong, to elliptical, about  long on a short petiole. The leaves are covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of about three in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel up to  long and covered with thick-centred, star-shaped hairs. The petals are white, elliptical,  long with thick-centred, star-shaped hairs on the back that formed a shield over the flower bud. There are between fifteen and twenty stamens.

Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1980 by Paul Wilson who gave it the name Urocarpus niveus and published the description in the journal Nuytsia. In 1987, Wilson changed the name to Asterolasia nivea, publishing the change in the journal Nuytsia.

In 2017, Juliet A. Wege published a paper in Nuytsia suggesting that A. nivea is a white flowered form, and that the name A. nivea is a synonym of A. grandiflora. This change has been accepted by the Western Australian Herbarium but not as yet by the Australian Plant Census.

Distribution and habitat
Asterolasia nivea grows in gravel between New Norcia and  Bindoon in Western Australia.

References

nivea
Rosids of Western Australia
Plants described in 1980
Taxa named by Paul G. Wilson


Over the weekend, I attended a performance of the Tony-winning show All the Way, whose title political junkies (or readers of a certain age) will know refers to Lyndon Johnson and his 1964 presidential campaign. The play was entertaining and enlightening, depicting President Johnson as a funnier, more likable Frank Underwood—with the salty language and some of the paranoid tendencies of Richard Nixon.
That came to mind on Monday when I had the chance to ask former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about the mounting controversy over implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—a sixth- or seventh-generation descendant of L.B.J.'s Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Recall: On his way out of office in December, Duncan tried to make the case that ESSA represented a victory for the administration, even though virtually all analysts saw it as a repudiation of President Obama's and his own education agenda. In particular, just about everyone views ESSA as returning significant authority to the states and tying the hands of the federal Education Department. It's the predictable (some would say inevitable) reaction against what many saw as the federal and executive overreach of the Obama years.
So it was big news when Duncan told Politico that the repudiation thesis was misplaced because, "Candidly, our lawyers are much smarter than many of the folks who were working on this bill." Meaning that crafty attorneys at the Department of Education are a lot smarter than folks on Capitol Hill and would find ways to interpret the act to allow for a continuing, expansive federal role.
Fast-forward a few months and Duncan's successor, Secretary John King, seems intent on proving the point. In a draft regulation regarding ESSA's "supplement, not supplant" language, King's team posited that school districts around the nation would need to prove that they spend as much money on high-poverty schools, on average, as they spend on more affluent ones—even though Congress had explicitly debated that policy and rejected it.
It wasn't easy to pass a law. There were crocodiles at every corner of the pond.
One of those—and I see Senator Bennet here, and we had vigorous discussions over this—was the issue of "comparability." That's a provision that was put into the law first in 1970. It says school districts have to provide at least comparable services with state and local funding to Title I schools and non-Title I schools.
But the law also says that school districts shall not include teacher pay when they measure spending for purposes of comparability.
This committee has debated several times whether or not teacher pay should be excluded. Senator Bennet, for example: He not only felt very strongly about this, he had a proposal to change it. It wasn't adopted. I felt strongly about it, I offered an amendment to change it. It was defeated.
Ultimately, the United States Congress made two decisions about this issue, as reflected in the law we passed last year.
First, we chose not to change the comparability language in the law, so the law still says teacher pay may not be included in that computation.
And second, we added a reporting requirement—that school districts report the amount they spend on each student, including teacher salaries, so that parents and teachers could know what's being spent and could make their own decisions about what is fair and what is equitable, rather than the federal government mandating it.
One thing that the law that the president signed in December did not do was change the requirement that says teacher salaries may not be included when you're computing comparability.
But here's what your department did on April 1.
You tried to do what Congress did not do last year. And you tried to do it by regulating another, separate provision in the law.
In a proposed rulemaking session, here's what you proposed: forcing districts to include teacher salaries in how they measure their state and local spending. And to require that state and local spending in Title I schools be at least equal to the average spent in non-Title I schools.
If that were adopted, your proposal would require a complete, costly overhaul of almost all the state and local finance systems in the country, something we did not pass in the law.
I don't know whether that means the twenty-two senators on the committee, or all of the staff sitting behind us.
I am not sure how smart we are, but we're smart enough to write a law in plain English, and we're also smart enough to anticipate that your lawyers would attempt to ignore what we wrote and try to move around it.
So we included specific prohibitions in the so-called "supplement, not supplant" provision that would prohibit you from doing the very things you are proposing to do.
Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan offered to roll back a previous comment that the Education Department's lawyers are smarter than lawmakers on the Hill, but not before casting doubt on the true intentions of senators using his statement as a "smoke screen" this afternoon.
"Question: Without naming names of senators, how many times do you hear them talk about kids? How many times you hear them talk about equity? How many times you hear them talk about African American kids, and Latino kids, and special needs kids and English language learners?" Duncan said at a conference on school finance at Georgetown University.
"It's all adult drama. And we can have honest debate on lots of things, but where is your heart coming from? What's your true motivation? I doubt the motivations of some," he said.
Follow this line of reasoning and you observe that Duncan is—almost certainly without intending to—depicting Lamar Alexander as the reincarnation of Richard Russell: just another politician who is smart enough to downplay his true "motivations" and who relies on constitutional arguments to keep the arc of history from bending toward justice.
This is, to use technical terminology, total and complete BS. Former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has at least as much credibility on the topic of education reform, and on his commitment to poor and minority kids, as former Education Secretary Arne Duncan. But he also believes in the rule of law, the separation of powers, and the duty of the executive to "faithfully" implement the language that the people's representatives in Congress write.
In the same Georgetown talk, Duncan decried the "dysfunction" in Washington. But surely impugning the "motivations" of our political opponents doesn't help to add function. What might?
First, it seems that conservatives might usefully acknowledge the ugly history of some "constitutional" arguments, including the intermittent misuse of "states' rights." It's a fact that Southern politicians—nearly all Democrats in those days—used that rhetoric first to block and then to slow the march toward civil rights—the march to ending discrimination in education, public accommodation, employment, and more. We ignore that history at our peril, and we shouldn't be shy about deploring it.
Second, liberals should understand that just because constitutional arguments have occasionally been used to defend the indefensible, it doesn't logically follow that all such arguments are wrong. The Founders got a lot right, and we've benefited from their wisdom for more than two centuries. We are, in fact, a nation of laws. We have a Constitution that takes great pains to establish a separation of powers within government. Two separations, actually; one among branches of the federal government, the other between Uncle Sam and the states. Rather than attack the "motivations" of those who read a law like ESSA differently, liberals might agree to disagree with their opponents and not or try to outfox them.
Secretary Duncan returned to Washington this week and had the chance to turn down the temperature. Instead he threw another log on the fire of our white-hot partisan wars. All the Way.


text:
Back to customer stories
BaubleBar chose Zendesk Support for its integration with Magento
BaubleBar has been wowing customers with unique and affordable jewelry since 2011. Now, they're wowing them with superior customer service with Zendesk Support.
Tickets/Month
One-Touch Tickets
Email Volume
Median First Reply Time
BaubleBar has been wowing customers with unique and affordable jewelry since 2011. Now, they're wowing them with superior customer service as well.
"Beautiful pieces and A+ customer service," writes one customer in an online review of the company. "Crazy good service!" exclaims another. "Fun jewelry, great prices and I love the SWAT team!"
The Service with Accessorizing Talent (SWAT) team is BaubleBar's way of offering personalized and accessible service to its customers. The SWAT team provides both styling and technical support about personal adornment for events of all magnitude. Whether it's for a wedding, a special night out or just around town, BaubleBar has you covered.
Headquartered in Manhattan, BaubleBar wants to make shopping online as easy as shopping downtown. "If you buy something on Fifth Avenue and you're making a return, that person should also be able to walk you back out onto the floor and help you with your next purchase," explained Nina Alexander-Hurst, BaubleBar's VP of customer experience and SWAT. "If they can't, then it's a missed opportunity. It's the same thing online."
As a result, BaubleBar trains all of its agents across all platforms. "We take the friction out of the online shopping experience and make it more like a brick and mortar experience."
BaubleBar utilizes multiple channels such as voice, live chat, email, and even video chat through an outside service, while also keeping up a vibrant Instagram presence. Agents use company Instagram accounts to share pictures of themselves wearing the jewelry they sell.
"Sharing why they love the jewelry is a lot more personal than just sending links to things on the site and saying, 'Check out these new arrivals,'" Alexander-Hurst explained. "If it's not personal, there's no relationship-building there. It doesn't feel like the agent knows the customer, and the relationship is what's important."
Before switching to Zendesk, support wasn't all smooth sailing. It was difficult to see order information alongside customer information, leading BaubleBar to switch Desk.com to Zendesk Support to take advantage of Support's integration with Magento. "You can just flip a switch and have the important information you need on the screen," Alexander-Hurst explained.
The product's support analytics were another key win. "It's changed so much of what we do. We're able to be much more efficient and effective, not only within the team but in the way we report information to other teams," Alexander-Hurst said.
"Honestly, at this point it's rare that I'll choose any partner that doesn't integrate with Zendesk Support."
Learn more about E-Commerce Integrations
Now that the team can follow the lifecycle of a ticket and access real-time reporting, data informs their support strategy and helps demonstrate the SWAT team's impact on the company at large. This was an advantage over Desk.com, said Alexander-Hurst, where "it was difficult to build meaningful reports and be effective."
"Honestly, at this point, it's rare that I'll choose any partner that doesn't integrate with Zendesk Support."
The team now includes upsell information in tickets so that they can track and measure conversions. They also tag customers or emails for personal follow-up, and filter using views, to let a customer know an item is back in stock, send a fun YouTube video, or to encourage a customer to complete a purchase before inventory runs out.
As BaubleBar grows, they've expanded their use of Support with "light agents." They use light agents to connect with every part of the company—from product development to production to fulfillment. Even the personalization team, handling signature nameplates, now use Support to process photos of actual signatures—formerly a separate process.
This means that every customer interaction shows up in Support, Alexander-Hurst said, and a single agent can follow a customer ticket from start to finish, across multiple interactions. "The workflow aspect of Zendesk Support has been really helpful, and our workflow has definitely improved," she said. This is without using time-savers like macros. "We're not relying on macros because we want our interactions to be incredibly personal. And the personalization that Zendesk Support allows, and how Support enables us to follow up with our customers, is so helpful. Because at the end of the day, it's still the people behind the technology that are the customer service experience."
"If you buy something on Fifth Avenue and you're making a return, that person should also be able to walk you back out onto the floor and help you with your next purchase… If they can't, then it's a missed opportunity. It's the same thing online."
– Nina Alexander-Hurst VP of customer experience and SWAT at BaubleBar
Zendesk Luminaries Program
Join the brightest community
The Zendesk Luminaries program is for leaders in customer experience. We'll put you in touch with our network, amplify your stories, and together, we'll light the way for others in our industry.


Have not had a good time of it lately, my knee has decided to be very uncooperative and has made it fairly tricky to get any decent running time in. That said, I finally managed to sneak a run in the other night and try out my headlamp in proper night time conditions. Brilliant little toy to have out for a run and almost grinds cars to a halt especially on some of those narrow country roads.
Managed to get a run of half an hour in with little or no niggle to the knee, but I imagine a trip to the physio may be the order of the day yet, just to ensure that everything is in working order for next season when it starts.
Tá na soilse sin iontach uilig gan dabht - tabhair aire do'd ghlúin asap!


text:
History_hdr_REV1.jpg
Faculty and Office Hours
Paul Monod, Chair
Axinn Center at Starr Library 330
monod@middlebury.edu
Diane Burnham, Coordinator
dburnham@middlebury.edu
Home » Academics » History » Faculty and Office Hours » Max Ward
Axinn Center 342
Max Ward
Associate Professor of History
Japan, East Asia, Social Theory
Email: maxw@middlebury.edu
Phone: work(802) 443-5682
Office Hours: Fall 2020: Please email. Zoom by appt.
Office Location: Axinn Center 342
Max Ward teaches Japanese and East Asian history, with special emphasis on social theory, ideology and political thought. He received his PhD from New York University in 2011 and his Bachelors from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999.
Ward's primary research focuses on the intersection between ideology and state power in modern Japan. His first book titled Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (Duke University Press 2019) analyzes the imperial state's policies to rehabilitate political criminals in the Japanese Empire during the 1930s. His second book project explores the transformations in police power in postwar Japan, including how policing was re-conceptualized, practiced by various institutions beyond formal police agencies, and represented in popular culture. In addition to his research on state power, he has also written/presented on a wide-range of topics, including postwar Japanese film, Kyoto school philosophy, Japanese imperialism in Korea, fascism as a global phenomenon, as well as postcolonial theory and the question of historical difference. His research has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Japan Foundation, Fulbright, and the Northeast Asia Council of the AAS, among others.
For CV and selected publications/papers please visit: https://middlebury.academia.edu/MaxWard
Course List:
Courses offered in the past four years.
▲ indicates offered in the current term
▹ indicates offered in the upcoming term[s]
FYSE 1376 - Postwar Japan in Film and Lit.
Postwar Japanese History in Film and Literature
In this seminar we will study the history of postwar Japan (1945 to the present), focusing on how literature and film have engaged the defining historical and political questions of this period. The seminar is organized around
specific themes, including: trauma and war memory, the Allied occupation, the cold war in East Asia, high economic growth in the 1960s, political protest, post-coloniality, and a resurgent nationalism. Students will learn postwar Japanese history while also considering the possibilities of persuing historical analysis through translated literature and narrative film. 3 hrs. sem. AAL CW HIS NOA
Spring 2020, Fall 2020
HIST 0235 / JAPN 0235 - History of Pre-Modern Japan
History of Pre-Modern Japan
In this course we will explore the social, cultural, and institutional history of Japan from the eighth century up through the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th century. The course is organized thematically to illuminate the different periods of Japanese history, including the imperial origin myth and Heian culture, the frontier and the rise of samurai government, localism and the warring states period, and finally the Tokugawa settlement and the paradoxes of centralized feudalism. Pre-1800. 3 hrs. lect/disc. AAL HIS NOA SOC
Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020
HIST 0236 / JAPN 0236 - History Modern Japan/1800-1952
History of Modern Japan, 1800-1952
This course reviews the major events and enduring questions of modern Japanese history beginning with the Meiji Restoration (1868) up through the Allied Occupation (1945-1952) following Japan's defeat in World War II. Through a variety of materials, including novels, philosophy, historical essays, and films, we will explore the formation of the modern Japanese nation-state, the "invention of tradition" in constructing a modern national identity, Japan's colonial incursions into East Asia, 1920s mass culture, the consolidation of fascism in the 1930s, and the transwar legacies of early postwar Japan. We will pay particular attention to the relationship between transformations within Japan and larger global trends. AAL HIS NOA SOC
Spring 2017, Spring 2018
HIST 0306 - Global Fascism
Global Fascism
What was, or is, fascism? How do we know it when we see it? Can fascism be understood as an exclusively European phenomenon, or did it become manifest in movements and regimes in other parts of the twentieth-century world? In this seminar, we will engage with such questions via a range of texts including manifestos, films, and scholarly works. The first part of the course will interrogate seminal theories of fascism, the second will examine historical instances of fascism with particular emphasis on East Asia, and the final part will engage with debates about the contemporary resurgence of authoritarian populism. 3 hrs. Sem. AAL CMP HIS NOA
HIST 0312 / JAPN 0312 - Tokyo Between History & Utopia ▹
Tokyo: Between History and Utopia
In this course we will explore the history of Tokyo—from its "prehistory" as a small castle town in the 16th century to the cosmopolitan metropolis of the 20th century—and trace how Tokyo has captured the imagination as a space of possibility, of play, and for many, of decadence. Through a range of sources, including films, novels, ethnographies, and historical essays, we will use Tokyo as a "site" (both urban and ideological) through which to explore broader questions related to capitalist modernity, the formation of the nation-state, cultural identity, gender politics, and mass-culture. 3 hrs. sem. AAL HIS NOA SOC
Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
HIST 0437 - Modernity and its Critique
Modernity and its Critique: A Global Survey
What do we mean when we refer to "modernity"? What are the defining processes and institutions of modernity? Is modernity universally experienced? And is modernity itself historical? In this seminar we will explore how a variety of thinkers from different regions and time-periods sought to understand the foundational institutions and processes associated with modernity, including the nation-state, colonialism, and ideology. Our exploration will follow two interrelated trajectories. First, we will interrogate key concepts associated with the modern experience; second, we will pay attention to how thinkers formulated these concepts to answer the pressing questions of their contemporary moment. 3 hrs. sem. CMP HIS SOC
HIST 0461 - Police Theory & History ▹
Police Power: Theory and History
As Egon Bittner once stated, the police are "at once the best known and the least understood" of the institutions of modern government. In this seminar students begin by reading introductions to theories of modern state power, and then turn to exploring how the police manifest this power at the local level. In the second half of the semester, we will read histories of police forces with special emphasis on the formation of the police in East Asia. We conclude by reviewing recent theories of the police for the twenty-first century. 3 hrs. sem. EUR HIS SOC
HIST 0500 - Special Research Projects ▲ ▹
Special research projects may only be taken during the Junior or Senior year, preferable after taking HIST 0600. Approval of department chair and project advisor is required.
Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021
HIST 0700 - Senior Independent Study ▲ ▹
Senior Independent Study
The optional History Senior Thesis is written over two terms, with the final grade applying to both terms. Approval is required. Students submit thesis proposals in the spring before the year that they choose to write their thesis. Students generally begin their thesis in the fall and complete it during winter or spring. Approval is required to begin the thesis in winter or spring. All students must attend the Thesis Writer's Workshops in fall and winter semesters and work with a faculty advisor to complete a 55-70 page paper. Please see detailed guidelines under history requirements.
HIST 0701 - Senior Independent Study ▲
With departmental approval, senior history majors may write a two-term thesis under an advisor in the area of their choosing. The final grade is applied to both terms. Students must submit thesis proposals in the spring before the academic year that they choose to write their thesis. They must attend the Thesis Writers' Workshops held in the fall and winter of the academic year in which they begin the thesis. The department encourages students to write theses during the fall (0700) and winter terms (0701), but with the permission of the chair, fall/spring and winter/spring theses are also acceptable. Under exceptional circumstances, the department may approve a thesis initiated in the spring of an academic year and finished in the fall of the following year. Further information about the thesis is available from the department.
HIST 1029 / JAPN 1029 - Police Aesthetic Japan Film
Police Aesthetics in Japanese Film
In this course students will consider theories of police power in modern society while analyzing its representation in Japanese cinema. Each week we will begin with readings about one aspect of police power, and will then consider this aspect when analyzing a set of Japanese films. The objectives of the course are for students: (1) to gain a more multifaceted understanding of the police function in modern society, (2) to learn the general history of the Japanese police system, and (3) to cultivate an appreciation of Japanese film and its possibilities for critical reflection. AAL HIS NOA SOC WTR
JAPN 0500 - Independent Project
Qualified students may be permitted to undertake a special project in reading and research under the direction of a member of the department. Students should seek an advisor and submit a proposal to the department well in advance of registration for the term in which the work is to be undertaken.
Fall 2017, Fall 2018
JAPN 0700 - Honors Thesis
Students write a thesis in English with a synopsis in Japanese on literature, film, or culture. The topic for the thesis is chosen in consultation with the instructor. (JAPN 0475)
Axinn Center at Starr Library
15 Old Chapel Road


text:
You are here: Home / News / New book exposes media's Nazi past
New book exposes media's Nazi past
Norwegian historians and newspaper officials have downplayed the role of the Norwegian press in spreading anti-Semitism both before, during and after World War II, claims the author of a new book provocatively entitled Det Norske Jødehatet (The Norwegian Hatred of Jews). The current editor of Norway's biggest newspaper, Aftenposten, agrees, and has responded with a full-page editorial and a lengthy news story that admit how they let their readers down.
This new book is shining a highly critical light on how Norwegian newspapers served Nazi interests during World War II, and published anti-Semitic articles before the war as well. ILLUSTRATION: Res Publica
"We must answer for our own history," editorialized Aftenposten in its Friday morning edition. The newspaper's current editor-in-chief Espen Egil Hansen also stated that "Aftenposten left both the foundation of democratic ideals and journalistic openness in tatters during this entire period of the newspaper's history."
When the war ended, the newspaper owners and editors also seemed complicit in a cover-up of their operations from 1940 to 1945. Even though a public prosecutor's committee concluded that Norwegian newspapers "served German interests ahead of Norway's," there was no day of reckoning. Aftenposten itself wrote Friday that in cooperation with other newspapers that had continued to publish and had no interest in turning the spotlight on themselves, they "succeeded in sweeping it all under the rug."
Aftenposten editorialized Friday how it's especially important to be conscious of what it called "the darkest chapter" in its history now, "at a time when a frightening form of nationalism in many countries is again in the process of becoming politically fashionable. Hatred of Jews is once again surfacing, also in Norway." The newspaper described the new book, subtitled Propaganda and the press under occupation, as "important."
Penned by an expert
Author Bjørn Westlie worked for three decades as a journalist at both newspapers Klassekampen and Dagens Næringsliv (DN) and has written extensively about issues tied to the Nazi German occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1945. He won Norway's prestigious Brage Prize in 2008 for his book Fars krig, a personal history about his own father who fought for the Germans on the eastern front. In 1995, while working for DN, Westlie wrote a lengthy landmark article about how Norwegians looted Norwegian Jews' property and businesses after most had either fled the country or were rounded up and deported to Nazi death camps. The few who survived and returned to Norway after the war were never compensated but Westlie's revelations played a major role in the establishment of Norway's Holocaust Center at Bygdøy in Oslo, and in official apologies.
Author, journalist and university lecturer Bjørn Westlie PHOTO: Wikipedia
Now Westlie has published new revelations of anti-Semitism through his examination of how Norwegian newspapers complied with Nazi occupiers during the war years to spread propaganda, and earned millions for it, without being held accountable later. Newspaper owners who cooperated with the Nazis mostly avoided having to publicly come to terms with their betrayal of the public's trust, with Aftenposten quickly switching from publishing Nazi propaganda to covering the joyous return of King Haakon VII from exile in London when the war finally ended in the spring of 1945.
While some newspapers shut down during the war years, refusing to bow under to the Nazi occupiers, Westlie writes that 114 continue to publish. They included both national papers like Aftenposten and Nationen and large regional papers like Bergens Tidende and Adresseavisen in Trondheim. After Nazi German occupiers made it a crime to own radios and ordered households and businesses to turn theirs in, Westlie notes that "the newspapers were the Nazis' most important propaganda channel during the war years."
They were also used to spread Nazi hatred of the Jews, according to Westlie: "Their intention was for Norwegians to hate Jews and for Norway to become free of Jews." In some cases, the Nazis could simply build on what can only be described as anti-Semitic reporting in Aftenposten during the 1930s as well. As the paper's current editor noted on Friday, Aftenposten's editors were so afraid of communism at the time that they went to great extents "to understand, defend and explain away what was happening in Hitler's Germany."
Anti-Semitic grafitti on a storefront during the war claimed that "the Jewish parasite created April 9 for us," referring to the day Nazi Germany invaded Norway in 1940. PHOTO: Riksarkivet
In addition to the full-page editorial on Friday, Aftenposten devoted three full pages of news coverage to Westlie's book and its findings. Not only did Aftenposten publish warnings as early as 1933 about alleged "Jewish influence" on European culture, it also wrote about "the Jewish problem" both before and during the war as well. "The newspaper was not opposed to nurturing prejudice, conspiracy theories and, yes, hatred of the Jews," Hansen stated.
Westlie writes that newspaper Nationen, tied to Bondepartiet (the farmers' party that became today's Center Party), went even farther than Aftenposten with its German-friendly articles and anti-Semitism. Westlie is particularly surprised that its editor Thorvald Aadahl, who was charged in court after the war, was acquitted. The court found that Aadahl "hadn't acted any worse or more capitulatory than the average of the other editors."
Neither Hansen nor Westlie buys the argument that the papers were forced to publish Nazi propaganda by Nazi occupiers, and that all complied. "That's no comfort," Hansen wrote, for how the newspapers owners and editors who stayed in their jobs took on the role of distributors of national socialist propaganda and earned well on carrying out the occupiers' errand. Most of the newspapers also printed content provided by the Nazi-controlled Norsk Artikkeltjeneste (NAT), literally the Norwegian Article Service. Its content regularly referred to Jews as "parasites, bloodhounds and rodents" who were undermining Norwegian society.
Historians also criticized
Westlie earned a PhD last year based on his work that also has revealed how the Norwegian state railway (formerly NSB, now Vy) used German prisoners of war as slave labourers during the war, not least to build the German-ordered extension of the train line into Northern Norway (Nordlandsbanen). In addition to highlighting how Norwegian newspapers operated during the war, Westlie also criticizes how Norwegian historians have largely glossed over it. "It amazes me that this theme (of promoting anti-Semitism) hasn't sparked more interest among Norwegian press historians," Westlie told newspaper Klassekampen on Friday.
Westlie writes that most historians have believed that the Nazi propaganda didn't have much effect on either newspaper readers or Norwegians in general. "That can't be documented," Westlie said. He further noted that research now shows how the media has an effect on readers, so "the probability is high that it also had an effect during the war."
He also cited a Gallup poll from 1947 questioning Norwegians' attitudes towards Jews two years after the war ended. When asked whether it was right or wrong for Norway to take in 600 Jewish refugees, 27 percent of those answering were negative. "These were Jewish refugees who survived the holocaust," Westlie said. "That tells me that the propaganda had an effect."
Filed Under: News Tagged With: anti-semitism, media, World War II
Ex-minister's partner guilty as charged
Search resumes for more slide victims
Norwegian ends its long-haul service


The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA; P.L. 108-173) requires the Medicare Board of Trustees to provide in its annual reports an expanded analysis of Medicare expenditures and revenues (§801 of the MMA). Specifically, if the Medicare Trustees determine that general revenue funding for Medicare is expected to exceed 45% of Medicare outlays for the current fiscal year or any of the next six fiscal years, a determination of excess general funding is made. If the determination is issued for two consecutive years, a funding warning is issued, which triggers certain presidential and congressional actions related to the introduction and consideration of legislation designed to respond to the warning (§§802-804 of the MMA).


Aazeen stood there in front of the helicopter in the garden. She was still in uniform. Both General Azlaan and Aazeen had come to 'Hedusha' — headquarters of Ali Brothers yesterday. They had come to meet Ali Abbas who would soon be coming home to 'Hedusha' after a long time.
Ali Mohammad was standing close by in front of a tree talking to someone on his cellphone. General Azlaan and the rest of them – Ali Hasan, Ali Hussain and Saqib were standing close to the building discussing something.
"Why did you come here?" asked Ali Mohammad now. He had finished talking on the phone and was facing Aazeen now.
Aazeen looked at him with a sad look in her eyes. 'What could she do to set things right between them again?' She thought on this seriously for a few seconds, before she got a call from the General to come to him. She looked up at Mohammad, "I had my reasons for doing what I did. But I understand your pain. I wish something could be done to solve this thing between us." Saying so she walked back to the General.
As everyone went back to their closed enclosures, Saqib stood in front the switch panel pressing some buttons. He started asking questions, which everyone could listen and anybody could answer.
Q: Why would Ali Abbas want the ring first thing once he comes to Medusha?
Ali Mohammad: The ring has been with him for generations. He has to remain connected with it as he gets a sense of security and strength from it.
Q: Why did you, Ali Mohammad hide the ring in the tree trunk?
Q: Why was Ali Hasan relieved that the ring was out of reach of everyone?
Ali Hasan: Since the ring was very powerful, all remaining Ali Brothers wanted to try out, even though they knew that doing so could be painful.
Q: Why was Ali Mohammad surprised by Ali Hussain's visit to Medusha despite being not traceable for so many months?
Ali Mohammad: I had started thinking that Ali Hussain will never return to 'Medusha'. He has always been an important member of Ali Brothers.
Q: How long will this take? This question was asked by Aazeen, who had no clue what was happening around her in Medusha, especially in this underground room.
Before Saqib could answer anything, the General and Aazeen walked out of the Thought Room. Ali Mohammad, Ali Hasan, Ali Hussain and Saqib kept watching them climbing the stairs and going into the glorious sunlight.
This entry was posted on March 20, 2016 by Raza in Ali Brothers - A novel and tagged novel.


text:
Curry Public Library provides the public with access to quality materials and services to meet recreational, informational, and educational needs, and to promote reading and lifelong learning for all.
CPL - Home > About the library > Governance
Library Board of Directors
Curry Public Library is a special taxing district that provides library services to approximately 5,000 people in central Curry County. The district has a permanent property tax levy of $.6609 per thousand of assessed property value. The district is governed by a 5-person publicly elected board of directors. Public board meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month at 4:00 pm. Details can be found on the library calendar. Board communications should be emailed to board@cplib.net.
Board Images
Library learning center plan
The architect's plan for the library learning center addition, which was completed in 2018.
Library view
Plaque dedicating the opening of the library learning center in 2018.
Library lobby
Artwork by Clara Herbage and a Port Orford cedar gallery bench designed and fabricated by Brodey Carpenter of Dredge Design.
Library board recognition
Recognition of Curry Public Library's support of school programs by Central Curry School District. Left to right: school board chair, Scott McNair; library board member, Tim Scullen; library director, Jeremy Skinner; and library board chair, Sandy Grummon.
Library atrium
2017 groundbreaking
Library board members, John Harper, Alan McGuiness, Sandy Grummon, Jerry Herbage, and Tim Scullen at the groundbreaking ceremony for the library learning center addition.
About the Directors+
Sandy Grummon
Board Position #2
Kelly Margolis
Vacancy appointment September 17, 2021
Jerry Herbage
Alaina Pepin
Tim Scullen
Jeremy Skinner
Ex Officio, Library Director
Meeting Minutes 2020-21 FY+
no meeting in July 2020
5-Year Strategic Plan+
During the fall of 2019, the Library Board completed a 5-year strategic plan for Curry Public Library.
Download our plan.
Budget Documents+
Curry Public Library adopts a annual budget with citizen input in accordance with Oregon's local budget laws. Please contact the library director for more information about the library budget and its budget process.
FY 2020-21 Budget Summary
FY 2020-21 Supplementary Budget Resolution September 17, 2020
FY 2020-21 Supplementary Budget Hearing Notice February 19, 2021
FY 2020-21 Supplemental Budget Resolution – February 19, 2021
Annual Audit Reports+
The library is subject to an annual independent financial audit, which is filed with the Oregon Secretary of State.
Most Recent Auditor's Report:
2019-2020 FY Auditor's Report
Other past reports can be found at the Oregon Secretary of State website:
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/muni/public.do
Operations Policies+
Library Board Policy
Policy document describing the roles and procedures for the library board of directors.
Policy document describing how the library selects materials for its collections.
Mandatory Reporting Policy
Employees of Curry Public Library as defined under Oregon state law are obligated to report abuse either on or off duty. This policy outlines that process.
Emergency and Safety Policies
Protocols to ensure the safety of library employees and the public are outlined in this policy.
Public Information Requests+
The Library Board's meeting and records are matters of public information in full compliance with Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.410-192.505 and such restrictions as are set by federal and pertinent court rulings.
How to Make a Request: In order to facilitate the public's access to records in the library's possession, and to avoid unnecessary expenditure of staff time, persons requesting access to public records for inspection or copying, or who submit written requests for copies of public records, shall specify the records requested with particularity, furnishing the dates, subject matter and such other detail as may be necessary to enable Library personnel to readily locate the records sought.
The library shall permit inspection and examination of its non-exempt public records during regular business hours in the Library. The Library Director will coordinate all public records requests.
Copies of non-exempt public records maintained in machine readable or electronic form shall be furnished, if available, in the form requested. If not available in the form requested, such records shall be made available in the form in which they are maintained. ORS 192.440(2).
When a request is submitted in writing, the library must respond within five business days acknowledging the receipt of the request. The library will then have an additional 10 business days to fulfill the request or issue a written response estimating how long fulfillment will take. The district is not subject to this response timeframe if it is awaiting a response from the requester seeking clarification of the inquiry or if the requester has not agreed to pay for the records, provided that the cost is $25 or more. Other considerations that apply are:
Complicated requests
Large volume of requests
Requests involving documents not readily available or if the necessary staff are unavailable to fulfill the request
Please make all requests in writing to: currylibrary@cplib.net with the subject line Attn: public records request.
Fees for Public Records: Fees are limited to no more than $25.00 unless the requestor is provided with a written notification of the estimated amount of the fee and the requestor confirms that he/she wants the public body to proceed. In order to recover its costs for responding to public records requests, the following fee schedule is adopted by Curry Public Library:
Copies of Public Records; Certified Copies: Copies of public records shall be 25 cents per copy for standard, letter size copies. Copies shall be certified for an additional charge of $5.
Copies of Sound Recordings: The Library does not record its meetings.
Copies of Maps and Other Nonstandard Documents: Charges for copying maps or other nonstandard size documents shall be charged in accordance with the actual costs incurred by the District.
Research Fees: If a request for records requires District personnel to spend more than 15 minutes searching or reviewing records prior to their review or release for copying, the minimum fee shall be $16 per hour and additional charges shall be in ¼ hour increments. The District shall estimate the total amount of time required to respond to the records request, and the person making the request shall make payment for the estimated cost of the search and copying of the records in advance. If the actual time and costs are less than estimated, the excess money shall be refunded to the person requesting the records. If the actual costs and time are in excess of the estimated time, the difference shall be paid by the person requesting the records at the time the records are produced.
Additional Charges: If a request is of such magnitude and nature that compliance would disrupt the District's normal operation, the District may impose such additional charges as are necessary to reimburse the District for its actual costs of producing the records.
Reduced Fee or Free Copies: Whenever it determines that furnishing copies of public records in its possession at a reduced fee or without costs would be in the public interest, the Board or District Manager may so authorize. ORS 192.440(4).
Authorization Required for Removal of Original Records: At no time shall an original record of the District be removed from the District's files or the place at which the record is regularly maintained, except upon authorization of the Board of Directors or Manager of the District.
On-Site Review of Original Records: If a request to review original records is made, the District shall permit such a review provided that search fees are paid in advance in accordance with the Fees for Public Records section, above. A representative shall be present at any time original records are reviewed, and the charges for standing by while the records are reviewed shall be the same as the charges for searching or reviewing records.
Unauthorized Alteration, Removal, or Destruction of Records: If any person attempts to alter, remove or destroy any District record, the District representative shall immediately terminate such person's review, and notify the attorney for the District.


text:
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
How the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 laid the groundwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Documented Sep 14, 2020
Introduced in August of 1995 by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the nearly 300-page Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 detailed significant changes to Title 8 of the United States Code, which governs immigration and nationality. The stated goal of the bill was "to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States" by increasing enforcement resources, expanding the definition of who was considered deportable and instituting harsher penalties for illegal immigration, among other methods.
A version of the bill was eventually passed by both chambers of Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. Scholars and immigration attorneys consider it — along with the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which was passed the same year — to be the catalyst behind the modern system of immigration enforcement. Both acts made deportation much more commonplace and laid the groundwork for harsh interior enforcement that would characterize Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency created seven years later.
Among its more consequential impacts, the law made it much more difficult for people living in the country illegally to obtain legal status by requiring they prove their deportation would cause substantial hardship. The law also instituted 3– or 10–year bans on re-entry for those who had been in the country illegally for longer than six months and one year, respectively.
The law also increased border security, leading to a surge of apprehensions at the border. It made many legal immigrants, including longtime legal permanent residents, suddenly vulnerable to deportation if they had committed any one of an expansive list of crimes, some of them non-violent.
Documented
@Documentedny
To ask questions and give suggestions on what stories to cover.


OK, after a wk of the flu and a computer that has crashed it is time to get back on the bike and ride...There is an organized ride out of Velocite Bike Shop in Seekonk, MA...We will be leaving the Bike shop on Sunday 10-27 at 8am. We are trying to organize women riders of every level.
Address: 150 Highland Ave., Rte 6, Seekonk, Ma. It is a small plaza across from the Staples Plaza. Phone: 508-336-3397. I hope to see you there!


Please be informed that carrying of satellite phones by foreigners while on a tourist visa in India is banned. Under all circumstances for others, the carrying of such devices needs to be duly authorized by appropriate Indian authorities.
Visa applicants (other than those from Embassies and International organizations) should submit their visa applications ONLY at the India Visa Application Centres at Brussels, Antwerpand Luxembourg (for visa application form and procedures please visit the website of India Visa Application Centre, Brussels at http://in.vfsglobal.be ) With effect from 25th July, 2011 a new online visa application form is required to be filled up by all visa applicants.Please visit the home page of India Visa Application Centre, Brussels (http://in.vfsglobal.be) and carefully go through.Important News & Notices and All about Visas. Thereafter, click on Submit your application. You will then be redirected to the Electronic Visa application form after reviewing and agreeing to the terms and conditions of application.Each applicant must apply himself / herself.
Please note: the validity of a visa begins on the day it is issued by the Embassy of India and not on the date of departure.
Please carefully note down the Temporary Application ID number (15 characters) consisting of numbers and alphabets, which will be displayed immediately on the Government of India Online application form. This can be saved to retrieve your application and continue in case you wish to complete part of the application on a later date.
Complete the application online and save the form.
Print the application and put your signature on the form.
Attach two photographs of 2 inch x 2 inch dimension (50mm x 50 mm). Photographs which do not meet these specifications will not be accepted.
Submit the form with photographs, documents specified in the checklist of the required visa category and specified fee at India VAC, Brussels or Collection Centres at Antwerp and Luxembourg.
Visa applicants from Embassies, European Commission / Union / Parliament, UN organizations etc., who are applying for a GRATIS OFFICIAL/DIPLOMATIC VISA may complete the Electronic Visa application form from the link http://indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa/ . Kindly note down the Temporary Application ID number which would enable you to save and continue with your application on a later date. Save the completed form, print it and append your signature on the form, attach two photographs of 2 inch x 2 inch dimension (50 mm x 50 mm). Photographs which do not meet these specifications will not be accepted. Submit the form with photographs and a NOTE VERBALE from your organization, directly at the Embassy (for address and timings, please see under General Information). Please translate the Note Verbale in English if it is in any other language. Applicants who do not have a NOTE VERBALE (e.g., those visiting India on private visits / tourism etc.) may complete the online visa application form from the website of India Visa Application Centre, Brussels at http://in.vfsglobal.be as given in the preceding paragraph and, thereafter, submit their application at the India Visa Application Centre at 19, Avenue Emile De Mot, 8th Floor, 1000, Brussels. http://in.vfsglobal.be/contactus.html may be referred to for detailed explanations.


text:
AECOM secures five contract wins with Highways England
30 January 2017 – Global infrastructure services firm AECOM has secured five contracts with Highways England to deliver highway design services across five separate schemes. The contracts, with fees totalling more than £25m to AECOM, are part of the Roads Investment Strategy announced in 2014 and will deliver maintenance, improvements and upgrades to motorways and major 'A' roads across the country. The contracts highlight the breadth of AECOM's highways expertise and include a wide range of multidisciplinary services that will be delivered by a number of teams simultaneously.
A38 Derby Junction Improvements
The first contract is for the delivery of multidisciplinary services for the A38 Derby Junctions scheme. The project involves improvements to three existing junctions on the A38 in Derby at Kingsway, Markeaton and Little Eaton, which suffer from heavy congestion. All currently at-grade junctions, the options taken to public consultation include new underpasses at Kingsway and Markeaton and a flyover bridge at Little Eaton to allow traffic to flow through the area uninterrupted. As lead design consultant, AECOM will develop the scheme up to submission of a Development Consent Order application.
A47/A11 Thickthorn Junction Improvement and A47/A12 Junction Enhancements
AECOM has also extended its remit on two contracts to help improve traffic flow on the A47 as part of the A47 corridor improvement programme. The company has been involved with previous development stages of both schemes and the new contracts allow the project team to continue design work it started in 2016. Under the first contract, AECOM is delivering design services for the A47/A11 Thickthorn junction improvement, a congestion hotspot on the key route into Norwich. The second contract is for the delivery of design services for the enhancements of a number of junctions on the A47/A12 near Great Yarmouth, which regularly cause congestion. On both schemes, AECOM is refining earlier design work to finalise the optimum options which are being selected to take to public consultation, before considering all relevant factors and selecting the preferred routes. With significant growth predicted in the area, the proposed improvements will help support a number of major new developments planned along the A47.
Operations Directorate East Capital Delivery – Package 1 East
Under a further contract, AECOM has been appointed as the Lot 1 Consultant for Design Package 1 in Areas 6 and 8, which cover East Anglia and the East of England. Procured through Highways England's collaborative delivery framework (CDF), the contract is part of a new programme based delivery model for all capital investment works in Areas 6 and 8. AECOM will deliver asset management design services to take projects in Design Package 1 through scheme development, detailed design and construction. Design Package 1 includes more than 50 asset maintenance projects on the M1, A1 and A5. Under the two-year contract, AECOM will work with CDF Lot 2 Contractors on an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) basis to identify opportunities and efficiencies within the designs for each scheme that could be brought forward into the construction phase.
M62 Junctions 10 – 12 and M6 Junctions 21a – 26 Smart Motorways
These contracts follow AECOM's recent appointment to develop the designs for the M62 junctions 10 – 12 and M6 junctions 21a – 26 smart motorway schemes. The company was appointed as part of Highways England's latest tranche of smart motorway consultancy packages and with its sub-consultant Mouchel, will deliver operational assessments, engineering design and traffic technology services for both schemes.
Dave Beddell, Highways Director – Europe, AECOM, said: "These latest contract wins highlight the breadth and capacity of the multidisciplinary services AECOM is able to bring to vital highway maintenance and improvement programmes. With the majority of work delivered from offices local to the project locations, our teams will work collaboratively with Highways England and our supply chain partners to provide long-term benefits for road users across the country."
AECOM will deliver a range of multidisciplinary services for the schemes, including highway, structural and geotechnical engineering, environmental and planning consultancy services including public consultation, traffic and economic forecasting and traffic technology services.
Rachel Brierley
Telephone: +44 (0) 7920 533 198
Email: rachel.brierley@aecom.com
About AECOM AECOM is built to deliver a better world. We design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organisations in more than 150 countries. As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across our global network of experts to help clients solve their most complex challenges. From high-performance buildings and infrastructure, to resilient communities and environments, to stable and secure nations, our work is transformative, differentiated and vital. A Fortune 500 firm, AECOM companies had revenue of approximately $17.4 billion during the 12 months ended September 30, 2016. See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com and @AECOM.


You don't need to battle wild animals and wander in the wilderness to enjoy an American tradition. Some of the country's best RV campsites are located close to big cities. Here's a rundown of our favorite urban camping spots from coast to coast.
A 15-minute drive from the Big Apple, Liberty Harbor is the nearest RV park to NYC. Open year-round, the park offers nearby waterfront views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, easy access to lower Manhattan via ferry, tour bus or subway, and 24-hour security.
Located on the Columbia River, and just seven miles from downtown Portland, Jantzen Beach RV Park is open year-round and offers breathtaking views of Mount Hood, great amenities, and proximity to Washington Park's famous Rose Test Gardens and Japanese Garden.
Greenbelt Park – Washington, D.C.
Located just 12 miles outside the District of Columbia in Greenbelt, Md., Greenbelt Park (run by the National Park Service) offers year-round reservations, scenic trails, and easy access to popular D.C. attractions like the National Mall and Lincoln Memorial.
Enjoy a free wagon tour, take a walk along the nature trail or fish in the 30-acre private lake at Oakland Plantation. Located on the grounds of a real antebellum plantation and next door to Blackbeard's Cove Family Fun Park, this park is a wonderful base for exploring historic Charleston.
Urban camping doesn't get more urban than the St. Louis RV Park, the only RV park located in downtown St. Louis. Open year-round, this location is the perfect base to explore area attractions like the Gateway Arch and Museum, Forest Park, and the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Before you hit the road to these big-city destinations, make sure your home-away-from-home is covered with quality RV insurance from GEICO. Get a fast, free quote today.
Read more: Looking for a camping trip a little less urban? Try these 5 Unconventional But Epic Camping Trips.