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North Korea Test Fires New Long Range Cruise Missile With Possible Nuclear Capability
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In its first major missile test in several months, North Korea successfully demonstrated the capabilities of a new long range cruise missile in the early hours of September 13th.
The Pyongyang-based Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) state media outlet stated regarding the test that the missile was "a strategic weapon of great significance" which flew flew 1,500 km before hitting its target and falling into the country's territorial waters.
Western analysts have since widely speculated that the new missiles could be intended as a delivery vehicle for nuclear warheads, which would complicate missile defence plans for the U.S. and its regional partners that are currently based around countering ballistic missile attacks. North Korea previously demonstrated major progress in cruse missile development in 2017 with the last tests of the Kumsong-3 system before it entered service.
The Kumsong-3 was a smaller anti-ship missile which deployed conventional warheads, and proved capable of performing complex waypoint manoeuvres and striking with a high degree of precision.
North Korea has reduced missile testing since 2017, with the new cruise missile being only the second test of a strategic weapon since then the first being the test of the Pukkuksong-3 submarine launched ballistic missile in early October 2019. Pyongyang notably hinted at tests to modernise its nuclear arsenal shortly after the new year in January.
North Korea's newly tested weapon represents its first cruise missile designated a strategic role, and could serve to heavily compensate for a modern air force with precision strike capabilities as a more survivable and cost effective alternative to purchasing strike fighters from abroad. Although conventional weapons can at times be considered strategic in their impact, the term is more often used to refer to nuclear weapons which has been interpreted as an indication than the new cruise missile has been designed for nuclear delivery.
As cruise missiles tend to carry smaller warheads than ballistic missiles, this could indicate significant progress by North Korea's defence sector in nuclear warhead miniaturisation. The U.S. Military's Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) strong criticised the new weapons test, stating: "This activity highlights (North Korea's) continuing focus on developing its military program and the threats that poses to its neighbours and the international community." North Korea and the United States have been technically at war for over 70 years, and the U.S. has consistently strongly opposed any steps by Pyongyang to modernise its military capabilities.
The new cruise missile test was reported by KCNA to have been carried out by the Academy of National Defense Science. The test had "strategic significance of possessing another effective deterrence means for more reliably guaranteeing the security of our state and strongly containing the military manoeuvres of the hostile forces," KCNA elaborated, with pictures of the new missile and its launcher released.
The launch vehicle appears to be derived from that used for new rocket artillery systems, which were first unveiled in 2019. The possibility of advanced cruise missiles being deployed from submarines or even from aircraft remains considerable in future. Jeffrey Lewis, a missile researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, stated regarding the weapons test: "This is another system that is designed to fly under missile defence radars or around them." The test closely follows celebrations of National Day in the East Asian state on September 9th, and could potentially be followed by further weapons tests in the coming months including strategic ballistic missiles - an kind of asset which has not been tested since November 2017.


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The University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design has been awarded a $2.5 million, 5-year grant by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to research antidotes for cyanide poisoning. The study, Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats: Countermeasures Against Cyanide, will be led by Herbert Nagasawa, Ph.D., Robert Vince, Ph.D., and Steve Patterson, Ph.D.
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STEPHEN HARPER: THE REAL THREAT TO CANADA
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. – Joichi Ito
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. – Noam Chomsky
THE WAR OF FEAR
Of what is Stephen Harper afraid? Why has he turned his back on the promises of honest, open, transparent, and good governance?
From where comes that mistrust of scientists, sociologists, scholars, jurists, and the idea that experts are not to be trusted and that he is answerable to no one. Does he believe it a sign of weakness to bend, to retreat, to seek advice, to hear others out, to admit to being sometimes wrong? If so, what kind of leader does that make him?
Harper may be successful as a politician and it is true he will certainly leave his mark on Canada, but it is difficult to believe him even a good, let alone great, leader. For some, he will most certainly be seen as a failure, a man of too much false pride and arrogant insubstantiality blinded by the belief of the inerrancy of his beliefs and goals however wrong, disastrous, and corrupt. He is too petty to be gracious, too vindictive to be forgiving, too mean-spirited to be empathetic, too suspicious to be trusting, and too intransigent to recognize and embrace the value of others especially his critics, preferring to listen to the sycophantic bleatings of toadies and "yes" men. He is a bully who abuses his majority privilege and is apparently untroubled by doing so perhaps because he is surrounded by others equally removed from the world where humaneness is considered a gift rather than a curse of weakness. Their behaviour is that of bullies and cowards, liars and knaves willing to do anything to keep that power even fomenting fear and even waging war against whole segments of society. For them, it is not enough to disagree. They must tar with sweeping generalizations, exaggerated claims, shameless self-promotion, apocalyptic warnings of terrorist activities, scapegoating of members of the Muslim community, gross misrepresentations of what the opposition offer, and impugning the patriotism of doubters opposing Bill C-51.
Harper apparently doesn't know what great, even good, leaders do: they not only are decisive and confident, they also possess character and integrity and the possibility of experiencing shame; they listen, and they listen to everyone, with an open, honest intent that permits them to be persuaded, to change direction, to stand firm when they must and to retreat when it is wise; he does not seek out credit for the successes not due him nor does he take it for himself when unearned; he does not shrug off responsibility nor, more importantly, does he blame others for his failures.
Good leaders become great when they seeks counsel, accept sound advice even if unsolicited, and are willing to listen to those who are knowledgeable in their fields, "experts" if you will. A leader of a nation is not influenced by special interests nor does he wage war against those who question his judgement; instead, he listens and works for every member of society and works even harder to enrich the lives of those less fortunate rather than for those to whom much is given. In Harper and his crew, I see very little of a leader, even less that is admirable.
THE DEFENDERS AND THE DAMNED
Far too often, we have been witness to the Harper gang's response to criticism. Opponents to frequent Conservative attempts to slip omnibus bills were smeared as "siding with pornographers" or by having their loyalty questioned. Joe Oliver, then environmental minster, slammed environmentalists as "radicals" accusing them of threatening "to hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda." This was in 2012. With that in mind, it appears Bill C-51 is aimed at setting this right and that is bad for Canadians. Not withstanding Harper's denials, the bill threatens the right of assembly, association and peaceful protest if he, CSIS, or any other government body determines such activities, say a blockade of trains transporting oil, poses an economic threat. C-51, under Interpretation, Part 1, Section 2 (2) states:
"The following definitions apply in this act.
"activity that undermines the security of Canada" means any activity, including any of the following activities, if it undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada or the lives or the security of the people of Canada:
a) interference with the capability of the Government of Canada in relation to intelligence, defence, border operations, public safety, the administration of justice, diplomatic or consular relations, or the economic or financial stability of Canada;"
That is vague language, and open to interpretation allowing this government the authority, if not the right, to shut down strike activities and perhaps even go after unions as economic terrorist threats. Just take another look at the Joe Oliver statement above and consider the Harper regime's fixation on the Oil sector, the XL Keystone pipeline project in particular. Harper and his gang, along with the RCMP, have labelled environmentalists as extremists. With such a mindset, could anyone doubt Harper and crew would not hesitate to employ C-51 against unions, strikers, activists or even peacefully protesting citizens blocking a highway?
A few lines following the above excerpt, is this proviso: "For greater certainty, it does not include lawful advocacy, protest, dissent and artistic expression."
A superficial reading of this may reassure some who believe critics to be alarmists. Not so. It is the use of the qualifier, "lawful", that becomes troublesome. Wildcat strikes, for example, while disruptive and not desirable, might be considered terrorist acts simply because they do affect the economy. To believe the best of this regime, to trust Harper and his crew to act only out of the purist motives, is not good enough especially since they have, in the past, proven themselves untrustworthy. This is a gang with a pattern of smearing and threatening folks they do not like. No one should forget what happened to Linda Keen, president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission who was fired by the Harper gang the day before she was to appear before a parliamentary committee to testify about why she shut down the Chalk River reactor for safety reasons. The government engaged in a smear campaign to discredit her. They did the same with Pat Stogran, at the time Veterans Ombudsman, when they quickly learned he took his job seriously. He became a target of anonymous email attacks and began to suspect his medical records had been leaked. The government side raised questions regarding his mental stability and cast doubts regarding his patriotism. Another vet, Sean Bruyea, was similarly targeted for his support of the Ombudsman and for his criticism of the government's handing of disability pensions for vets which, readers may recall, under Julian Fantino, at that time Veterans Minister, was changed from a monthly, tax-free, lifelong pension to a one-time lump-sum payment. And no one should forget the treatment of Kevin Page, when he, as Parliamentary Budget Officer, was stonewalled by Harper, Peter MacKay and the gang at every turn when he sought information regarding the purchase costs for a proposed 65 F-35 jets. As with Stogran and Keen, Harper and gang went after Page, accusing him of bias and questioning his credentials and his patriotism and, as they did with Stogran, refused to renew his term. Most recently, Daniel Therrein, Privacy Commissioner, has been denied the opportunity to appear before the Commons public safety committee to voice is concerns regarding C-51. This is shameful, shabby treatment of those men and women who were, and are being, punished for doing exactly what they were paid to do. Clearly, when one goes against the Harper gang, there can be no expectation of walking away unscathed. They are brutal and vindictive. That is not leadership; it is petulance.
It will be much easier for Harper and gang, or any government for that matter, to hide behind Bill C-51 to not only target terrorists, but also those they perceive as "enemies" real or imagined. If this bill goes through, and it will because the Harper gang has the majority vote, it will be a bad day for Canada. The Harper regime has allowed for limited debate of the Bill, until the end of March. That is window dressing, dominated by Conservatives who are allotted half the allowed time to ask questions but, thus far, have indulged in rambling monologues and offensive attacks directed at witnesses often running out the clock to deny opposition members on the committee opportunity to pose questions.
Ian MacLeod, writing in the Ottawa Citizen, reports how Tory MP Rick Norlock went after Carmen Cheung, senior counsel for British Columbia Civil Liberties Union, saying, "Is there any degree of checks and balances that would satisfy you? Are you fundamentally opposed to taking terrorists off the street?" The implication is clear and it is contemptible.
MacLeod also quotes LeVar Payne commenting to Greenpeace Canada executive director, Joanne Kerr appearing as a witness, "The purpose of the act is sharing information for national security threats, so it makes me wonder if your organization is a security threat?" He went on to say, "I see your organization is protesting pipelines, forestry projects, but I didn't hear anything to indicate to me that you were planning to bomb any of Canadian infrastructure or sabotage electrical grids, so I wonder if you consider yourself to be a national security threat and if you understand the definitions, that it won't apply to you as long as you don't commit any of these terrorist activities" (Ottawa Citizen, Ian MacLeod, March 14, 2015). I don't know about you, but I see a threat in there.
One witness, Ihsaan Gardee, representing the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), was subjected to a harangue from Conservative Diane Ablonczy. Ablonczy wanted it noted her concerns regarding allegations the NCCM having ties to various groups supporting terrorists, including Hamas. Said she, "I think it is fair to give you an opportunity to address these troubling allegations. In order to work together, there needs to be a satisfaction that, you know, this can't be a half-hearted battle against terrorism. Where do you stand in light of these allegations?" Mr. Gardee's response was to the point. "McCarthyesque-type questions protected by parliamentary privilege and unbecoming of this committee" (Kristy Kirkup, Mar. 14, 2015). This was a deadly comeback but I suspect it was as if water off a duck's back. There was nothing fair in what Ablonczy was attempting to suggest or in how she was doing it. Mr. Gardee knew it and let her know he was unimpressed and not intimidated.
The performances of the Conservative members were a shameful display of partisanship and vile innuendo. Mr. Gardee's defence of himself was stalwart if wasted on the obtuse and absolutely nasty Conservative members on this committee who apparently believed they were participating in an inquisition rather than an attempt for a fair hearing. If so, in that, they were right, it was an inquisition. If anyone really doubted what the government expected from this committee, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney put that to rest when he went after the those opposing the bills referring to them as "so-called experts" who included, "former prime ministers, retired Supreme Court justices, eminent former politicians, national security legal academics and constitutional scholars" (Ottawa Citizen, Ian MacLeod, March 14, 2015).
The hearings will accomplish nothing, or very little at best. If there are changes, they will be modest, insignificant, but enough, perhaps, to convince an inattentive public that the government is listening. Don't believe it. The government's reason for not hearing from Daniel Therrein is that there is not enough time. Really? Perhaps the Conservatives on the committee should ask real and relevant questions rather than offer rambling monologues and accusations that are inflammatory and prejudicial and appear to question the loyalty of those appearing before them. It is clear from this government's behaviour that opponents of C-51 will be tarred along the lines of George Bush's, "You're either for us or you're against us." Hardly conducive for a serious, objective debate when you know that the government side has already determined that those witnesses opposing the bill are suspect. As for Daniel Therrein being blocked? Perhaps his open letter published in the Globe and Mail played a role (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/without-big-changes-bill-c-51-means-big-data/article23320329/).
So what does concern critics other than that the Act allows for warrantless search and seizure, denies the accused opportunities to face their anonymous accusers, allows for suspects to be held for longer periods without charge, allows CSIS to shut down online activities of those they deem a threat and to share information with other agencies and have the ability to put Canadians on no-fly lists? Well, the vague language for a certainty. There are no terms of reference in the Act. What makes a terrorist? This is a regime that has targeted environmentalists, unionists and scientists, scholars and jurists. This is the regime that has conspired with corporations to suppress wages of Canadian workers by wielding the Temporary Foreign Workers Program as a vicious club. What if unions push back? With this government, I can guess. Conceivably, anyone urging a massive public protest across the country against Harper and his crew, perhaps shutting down highways or main streets, could be prosecuted for advocating "economic" terrorism. I suggest the reader look at the open letter by 100 Canadian professors of law and related fields addressed to all Parliamentarians (http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/27/open-letter-to-parliament-amend-c-51-or-kill-it/).
HARPER LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND SEES A GENERAL
C-51 is simply bad legislation and will doubtless be struck down by the courts. But that will take time and by then we will have had the election and know if Harper's campaign of terror worked.
Meanwhile, the present war in Iraq and the flap generated by Zunera Ishaq's refusal to partake of her citizen ceremony by refusing to remove her niqab, allows the Harper establishment ample opportunity to continue to ratch up the rhetoric and isolate a whole community of Muslims with reckless language and disregard for truth telling. As face coverings are not a requirement of the Muslim faith, just of certain States, Saudi Arabia for one, I would prefer them done away with but I also believe if a woman chooses to wear niqabs or burkhas and are willing to allow themselves to be unveiled should they be required to do so for identification or security purposes they should be allowed to do so. That is not my preference but it should be their right. That Harper has turned this into an issue that is divisive and smacking of condescension is unworthy of any leader of a nation. He is appealing to the worst in us, to our fears, ignorance and intolerance. He has done the same with his changes to jail sentencing, his "life means life" homily and suggestions of "murderers walking our streets". It's loathsome stuff. It's all about bogeymen out there, ISIL barbarians pounding at the gates and the neighbour next door waiting to pounce to rape women and slit throats. C-51, draconian and mean-spirited, serves no purpose other than to bolster the image that Harper and gang are on top of the terrorist threat. Unfortunately, the threat posed by this legislation is directed against all targets, the innocent, the guilty, the ones this government decides are its enemies: that would be me; it could be you. Harper's inflating the dangers so that we are all quaking in our bedrooms and closets until Election Day is likely the best reason to not vote for him. This is irresponsible governance whereby he would seek to be re-elected solely on the basis of the politics of fear. Neither Harper nor his party can save us from the terrorist threat; they are it. Should he be re-elected, there will be no peace and harmony reigning over the land as he would have us believe. That is his myth. I tell you, it is chimera.
When Bill C-51 is picked apart piece by piece in the Supreme Court, and it will be, he will once again refuse to take responsibility for making bad legislation. Instead he will again blame the High Court and "activist" Justices and continue to work at whittling away the trust most Canadians hold for the institution and Supreme Court Justices.
That is not the behaviour of a leader but rather that of a man of low character and without shame, a child really, who is always pointing fingers elsewhere too cowardly to man up to his own failings. It's always the fault of someone else.
Yet, why is Harper so resistant to the idea of independent or Parliamentary oversight?
Now he and his gang have told us they have plenty of oversight in the form of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC). That is patently false. The agency cannot possibly adequately perform its mandate, particularly in this day, when its five members, all government appointees, meet only once a month and the executive director and fourteen staff are left to take care of the day-to-day affairs. Too, SIRC has been plagued by scandal with one time Harper Cabinet Minister Chuck Strahl forced to resign when exposed as a registered lobbyist for Gateway Pipelines and Arthur Porter, one time Chair, in a Panamanian jail facing Canadian charges for fraud, conspiracy, abuse of trust, money laundering, and accepting secret commissions. How confident can Canadians be that the agency is able to do the job effectively or objectively? Not very. So who will keep a non-partisan eye on the spies? No one.
When abuses do occur, and they most certainly will, Canadians will likely never know except, perhaps, years from now. Once the bill passes, as it will, we may occasionally hear faint voices of complaint, perhaps even cries for help, someone running to the media and telling a story of government abuses, false arrest, secret hearings. But we may never know. The government, if it's still the Harper gang, will shrug the stories off with blandishments and the public, if roused from its apathy, will merely shrug along with Harper and go back to sleep. And if the voices are heard, perhaps the only one who will listen and believe the stories will be the veterans, themselves subjected to so much abuse from this regime, and environmentalists and a few others who actually do believe in democracy and civil rights. The environmentalists will be dismissed as "radicals", "extremists", and those noisy vets thrown a few bones with the hope of silencing them at least until the next election.
For this gang, it is no longer their stewardship of the economy on which they rely to capture our vote. In that front, they have been peculiarly silence considering all the noise and bluster of their self-mythologizing over the years of themselves as economic wizards. The folks they have attempted to snow with that myth live the harsh reality of the emptiness of that particular Conservative promise. Instead, Harper and gang prefer these days to stoke the flames of panic by conjuring up terrifying images and creating a poisonous atmosphere that threatens to overwhelm the Muslim community.
Are the Harper Conservatives racists? I don't know, but I know the language Harper uses is offensive and divisive. We have Conservative MP John Williamson in offering a critique of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program saying: "It makes no sense to pay 'whities' to stay home while we bring in brown people to work these jobs." Is he racist? Again, I don't know, but the language was certainly racist. Instead of attacking foreign workers, Williamson would have done himself some credit by criticizing Harper, Jason Kenney, and the government for abetting business in suppressing wages and in exploiting foreign, at the expense of Canadian, workers through the TFWP.
And, speaking of our new Defence Minister Kenney, once again he has proven himself absolutely unfit as a member of parliament. When he was minister of immigration, his office faked a citizenship ceremony on the late, unlamented, Sun Media by having six bureaucrats pose as immigrants. He refused to apologize. It was Kenney who banned the wearing of the niqab during the citizenship ceremony, which led Zunera Ishaq to fight back. Jason Kenney clearly likes the headlines, good or bad. As minister of employment, he had his fingers rapped for accepting gifts from lobbyists to his department. In 2011, Kenney also had his finger rapped for using government resources to fundraise for the Conservative Party. Nothing happened, no punishment. Last October, he tweeted news of the death of Cpl. Cirillo before the military had a chance to release the news. Again, no repercussions. Recently, we have him tweeting on International Women's Day: "On #IWD2015, thank-you to the @CanadianForces for joining the fight against #ISIL's campaign to enslave women & girls". Accompanying the tweet were three photographs. One shows a line of burkha-clad women in chains. Another shows four chained women, faces covered. The third shows the purported marriage of a child, hands bound, to an ISIL member. It's clear what we are to take from this picture. Unfortunately, Kenney fails to tell us that these pictures are not what they appear. It's a lie. Glen McGreggor (Ottawa Citizen, Glen McGregor, March 9, 2015) of the Ottawa Citizen reveals that the picture of the child marriage has been largely debunked. He also reveals that one photograph is a re-enactment of a 1300 years old event and that the other is a 2014 demonstration by Kurdish women in London protesting the sexual enslavement of women by ISIL. It was not a mistake; it was a deliberate attempt to mislead and to inflame the public using fake pictures to highlight legitimate and real concerns. It's dodgy and, as with the other issues, says much about the character of Jason Kenney. It's not flattering.
How low will these Harper Conservatives go? How confident can Canadians be that this government will not abuse C-51? Clearly these folks have no shame.
WHEN I LOOK AT HARPER, I SEE A PISSANT
The Harper gang have engaged in a pattern of behaviour that should not be forgotten nor forgiven. It is not just the routine lapses of ethics that is troubling, though that should be sufficient to toss them into the ash can of history. It is their targeting of people they don't like that is particularly worrisome. Everyone who opposes them is "the enemy". Because they hold that mindset, the have rigged the so-called Fair Elections act that threatens to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands unlikely to vote for them. As well, it is their abuses of their majority that clearly threatens to undermine democracy. They have rammed through bills without proper debate, in fact, invoking closure routinely. With C-51, disregarding the chorus of voices warning them against this step, the Harper crew have volunteered to wallow in filth with the politics of fear that threatens to ensnare all Canadians hurling gratuitous insults at the critics and questioning their characters, reputations and patriotism.
And it all appears to be working for Harper. Polls suggest 66% of Canadians believe we will be subjected to terrorist attacks in 5 years. 48% believe we are in danger now, 71% worry about their children being radicalized.
It is unbearable that ignorance and fear has taken such a hold of Canadians. Folks should worry more about losing their child or friend through drugs, alcoholism, or an accident.
In Ottawa, there is a debate raging about a proposed monument to the victims of Communism. It is called Tribute to Liberty. It is to stand on land near the Supreme Court. Land donated by Canadians. Have people forgotten Canada's own treatment of First Nations peoples? Have they forgotten the days when loyal Ukrainians, Germans and Italians, communists, and unionists were incarcerated during the war years? Does anyone remember the Japanese interment camps? Our hands are not clean.
Yes, by all means, let us recognize victims of totalitarianism. And also all victims of injustice. I would also include the victims of Capitalism: those unionist shot on picket lines by company thugs, those organizers hung from rail trestles, those workers trapped behind locked doors in burning or collapsed factories. Harper, however, has a worldview that doesn't allow for that kind of inclusivity.
There is real irony in Harper's support of this memorial. Even as he denounces a totalitarian system, he is working at legislation that threatens the security of every Canadian citizen.
Jack Layton wrote on his deathbed, "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."
Harper is deaf to that hope.
What do you think? Who should I really fear?
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. — Jose Narosky
They that can give up essential liberties to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
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Winners announced in the Pan-European Educational Contest on Space Exploration
European Project "Open Discovery Space"
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The top prizes were awarded to school teams from Slovakia, Greece, UK, Romania and Norway in recognition of outstanding effort and achievement in science.
The winners of the European educational contest, Odysseus, received their prizes at a ceremony held in Space Expo, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The winning teams from Slovakia, Greece, United Kingdom, Romania and Norway were invited in the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, where they enjoyed a guided tour in the astronauts training facilities, met with astronauts and learned all about the recruitment and training of ESA's astronauts for space missions. The next day the teams visited the Space Expo, where they discovered the world of space exploration and presented their projects.
Odysseus contest, which was co-funded by the European Commission, within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in the Space area was developed to challenge talented young people on science and to engage and inspire the European youth in discovering the answers to fundamental questions about the history of earth, the origin of life, the solar system and the universe. 119 teams of pupils between 14 and 18 years old from 18 countries competed in the Odysseus contest, which ran from July 2012 to February 2013. The contestants all developed a project, using their knowledge, creativity and critical thinking, in one of the three themes of the contest: Solar System, Spaceship global cooperation and Co-evolution of life.
The winning teams in the three themes were selected among the national finalists in each theme and after careful review and consideration by a panel of distinguished space experts, scientists and astronauts. One team who was voted by the participating teams as the participants' favourite entry and one team, who won the prize for the non-EU countries, joined the three finalists in the award ceremony.
"The purpose of the Odysseus contest" said Ms Elena Tavlaki, coordinator of the project and director of SIGNOSIS, "is to increase awareness of the importance of space exploration and to inspire pupils to consider space and science in their future career". "The contest also encouraged young students to collaborate with other students, teachers and the community and promoted a hands-on science approach that showed to students that space is fun, and relevant to everyone."
The winners in each theme category are as follows:
Solar system theme:
"lLost" team from the Gymnasium Hubeneho of Bratislava, Slovakia, with the project "An Abundance Comparison and Distribution of C, S, O and noble gasses He, Ar and Ne in the Atmosphere of Jupiter"
Co-evolution of life theme:
"Exoplants" team from Pelopium Lyceum, Greece, with the project "What colour would plants have on another planet?"
Spaceship – Global cooperation theme:
"Bay House School" team from the United Kingdom with the project "INTERcore"
Participants' Voting:
"ORION IMS" team from the Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science, Romania, with the project
"Orion Innovative Modular Settlement"
Non-EU countries:
"STRADO SPHERE" team from the Farsund Kristne GrunnSkole, Norway, with the project
"An exploration of the effects of extreme altitude on the harmonics of vibrating metal wires from a miniature violin."
See the ODYSSEUS Contest in full at http://www.odysseus-contest.eu/
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http://pr.euractiv.com/press-release/paneuropean-educational-contest-space-exploration-launched-26309
http://pr.euractiv.com/pr/2nd-european-conference-linq-2013-learning-innovations-and-quality-future-digital-resources-93118
http://pr.euractiv.com/pr/linq-2013-learning-innovations-and-quality-future-digital-resources-94095
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Mavor Moore
Born in Toronto in 1919, dramatist, actor, director, composer, producer, critic and teacher, Mavor Moore wrote more than 100 works for stage, radio and television. He was CBC-TV's first chief producer, first chair of the Canadian Theatre Centre, founding director of the Charlottetown Festival and Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and was the first artist to chair the Canada Council (1979-1983). He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and among other honours held the Molson Prize and the Canadian Conference of the Arts Diplôme d'honneur. Moore passed away in December 2006.
A collection of his plays, Six Plays by Mavor Moore was published by Talonbooks in 1989.
Six Plays by Mavor Moore


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As For The Other Stuff...
I'll try to work through it over the next few days. It's up, it's down. It is what it is. And some of what it isn't.
But I keep thinking about love. The kind of love that lasts 38 years or 45 years. The kind of love that's just fleeting. The kind of love that makes people stay together despite miscegenation laws. The love of a mother for her child, or a father for his son. And the unconditional love a child will feel for his parent, no matter what that parent does.
I say frequently that I'm an Equal Opportunity Hater, and I am, because people annoy the crap out of me on a regular basis, and it doesn't matter if they look like me or don't. I show no preference. But underneath all that, I love passionately and deeply, and I love being around people who love each other. Sappy love stories always make me cry, which is why I never watch them.
I have to try to sort through all the various stories in my head. I hate when it gets like this, like a giant bowl of spaghetti. Several, very different things have happened over the last week and I've been mulling them over in my head, but the job is crazy, and if I sit down to write at night I'll never get to bed. I also have some freelance shit I REALLY ought to do. And it sucks. Cuz the thoughts and stories are tumbling over each other in my head like puppies... but the "sauce"... the thing that all these stories have in common is love, or the lack thereof.
I hope I get to write them...
Ros said…
Being around people who love each other:
One night He Who Shall Not Be Named and I were in Noodles & Co., about 8 on a Sunday night, so it was practically empty. Pretty much at the same moment we got quiet . . . we were both watching an elderly couple nearby. He was tenderly feeding her soup cause she couldn't feed herself. And the way the lighting was, it was almost like a spotlight focused on them, and time froze for a moment while *** said softly to me, "I wish I had my camera." I, of course, wished that *** and I would end growing old together like that. But still, that picture in my mind -- love that last 38 or 45 years.
I Miss Singing
I Knew It Wasn't Over...
Disturbing Idea of the Day
Monday October 17, 1977 ( Through October 22)
So Now, Where Was I...
Right This Very Moment
Sometimes You Get What You Ask For
Sleepless On The Rock Again
As For The Other Stuff... (pt. 2)
Still Muddlin' Through... (pt 2)
Still Muddlin' Through...
Big Bear Is Showing Her Work...
"Oh, No, No, NO, Mami!"
Goodbye, Mr. Kip


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Will my salary be deducted if I interpret wrong sales forecasts?
Being a general manager I have to send many reports to headquarters in which sales forecast report is an important one. By chance it has been my luck that till date I have made right forecasts but will my pay be affected if I sometime predict wrong?
What is the percentage of PF that the company deducts from the employees monthly income?
Whether double deduction of salary is allowed during the notice period for the days not served?
Is the tax deducted from a salary is different every month?
Are days for salary are counted on monthly basis?
Re: Will my salary be deducted if I interpret wrong sales forecasts?
Hence don't panic and do your job whole heartly.
See as it is a forecast which can vary a little bit so you don't need to worry much.
As far as your pay is concerned till now you have been working fine so it should not happen if you do a mistake once a while.
This is human nature and sometimes errors can occur, you should not be stressed much.
Your management knows your value so they will treat you accordingly if you commit mistake.
other mistakes as that can increase your problem much.
What is the minimum salary for which PF will be deducted?


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Space Center University trains a growing crowd of aspiring astronauts
A five-day space education program hosted by Space Center Houston has been opening its doors to curious high schoolers since 2000. Now, the center is expanding enrollment to middle school students as well.
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Students with the Sussex Air Cadets, from England, and Les Maristes Toulouse, from France, observe a cold protection experiment during a Space Center University session on April 12, 2018 in Houston. The program runs year-round and focuses on STEM education.
By Alex Stuckey Associated Press
Zena Cardman shimmied into a white spacesuit beside the 6.2 million-gallon pool, NASA personnel by her side ensuring everything was sealed up tight.
The Houston Chronicle reports it was barely 8:30 a.m., but the bright-eyed Cardman was prepping to spend up to eight hours in the pool, known as the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, as part of her training to be an astronaut.
At least 20 feet above her in the visitor's gallery, a group of high school students – usually quick to moan at such an early hour – were just as bright-eyed as they watched the newbie astronaut suit up.
They had a perfect view of what is much more difficult to see at ground level: Within the 40-foot-deep pool sat a mock-up of the International Space Station, providing astronauts a training ground for spacewalks because of the environment's likeness to zero gravity.
One especially giddy boy watched in wonder as the process unfolded.
"I'm applying," he said.
It's exactly the reaction officials hoped for from students at Space Center University, a five-day program at Space Center Houston that was recently expanded to include middle school as well as high school students.
Similar to Space Camp in Alabama, students are exposed to the rigors of astronaut training, as well as science, technology, engineering, and math fields that could land them a job at NASA one day. They conduct experiments, go behind the scenes at the Johnson Space Center, and even get a chance to scuba dive.
The program, started in 2000, brings students from around the world to Houston each year. With the expansion to middle school students, participation in the program has almost doubled to 2,000 so far this year.
"It's exciting to see the growth of the program," said Kaci Heins, the education manager at Space Center Houston's museum. "We're trying to inspire the next generation of explorers early on by showing them this is exactly what they do across the street."
Space Center Houston, typically teaming with visitors speaking countless different languages, was a ghost town when the group of 36 high school students from Great Britain and France recently strolled up to its front doors.
It was the group's fourth of five days participating in the program, and so far they'd built mini-Mars habitats, a launchable rocket, and a cryo-capsule to protect egg-stronauts – astronauts made of eggs – from minus-321 degrees, a similar temperature to what astronauts would experience on Mars.
It was only 7:30 a.m., but there was not a yawn in sight as the students prepared for arguably the most exciting of the five-day program. This day, they were getting a crash course in scuba diving, a key component for participants between 15 and 18.
The diving experience is the best way to show them what it's like to be an astronaut – which is the goal of the whole program, said Dave Brown, program coordinator.
Initially, the five-day program was limited to students ages 15-18 and available 50 weeks of the year, though officials usually fill only 26-28 weeks. The programs for 11- to 14-year-olds were added this year with activities tailored to a younger audience.
Along with building rockets and habitats and scuba diving, students also meet an astronaut and tour NASA's Houston facilities, such as Mission Control and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.
Emily Rowe, an 18-year-old from Great Britain who participated in the early April group, found the STEM activities most beneficial. She dreams of being a mechanical engineer after college, and the program "is just another STEM building block on the path toward my goal," she said.
Depending on the number of students enrolled each week and whether hotel, transportation, and food is included, the cost of the program ranges from about $616 to $1,046. Students can apply in groups or as individuals on the museum's website. Some scholarships are available.
"We're trying to inspire them ever earlier on, so they can learn what courses to take in high school and show them the pathway so then they're on their way," Ms. Heins said.
Even in early April, the air in the Williams Pool building was thick with humidity and chlorine.
The aluminum walls were rusting, the paint was peeling, and the bleachers were old and crumbling. The pool had clearly seen decades of use.
But it doesn't have to be pretty to help scuba-certify the men and women headed to space. NASA has been using William's Indoor Pool, about a 20-minute drive from the Johnson Space Center, as a training ground for astronauts since 2008. Each astronaut must be a certified scuba diver so they can practice spacewalks in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.
Space agency officials are able to make the area resemble zero gravity through a combination of flotation devices and weights, making the astronauts appear to "hover" under water. The name – Neutral Buoyancy Lab – refers to a state in which an object is just as likely to sink as it is float, according to NASA.
Though astronauts can still feel the weight of their suits – unlike in zero gravity – and some tasks are easier or harder than in space, the pool "is currently the best method available by which astronauts train for spacewalks," according to NASA.
About an hour after astronaut Cardman took her turn in the pool, the Space Center University students were suiting up for a scuba session taught by a former lab diver.
The students' shouts of glee and splashing of diving fins echoed throughout the building as they painstakingly learned how to breath underwater through their oxygen masks and keep themselves close to the bottom of the pool.
Despite their best efforts, some struggled to breathe only through their mouths, while others continued to float to the surface. But eventually, the students were ready for the next step: putting together PVC pipes underwater, an activity that gave them a sense of what it's like to work in zero gravity.
"We wanted to get as close as possible as what they would see in space, in a 4-foot-deep chlorinated pool," Mr. Brown said.
For Andrew Paterson, a 21-year-old instructor with the group from Great Britain, the diving activity showed him once again that becoming an astronaut was what he wanted to do.
Space Center University, he said, "showed me that I want to move forward ... and focus my mind on things I need to do to become an astronaut."
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A 'cohesive and self-critical academic community': an ideal under threat
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An article in Times Higher Education on 2 March collected suggestions from a 'panel of university administration experts' on the best way to frame a job advertisement. Wondering where suitably qualified and 'excellent' teachers are going to be found to staff an ever-expanding English higher education system as the TEF evolves, I have been exploring such advertisements in recent months.
If institutional autonomy is to remain a fundamental of higher education provision, with new providers trusted to set and maintain standards, what does that imply for the recruitment of a provider's academic staff? Among the Government's background papers published in connection with the Higher Education and Research Bill is the Factsheet on Degree Awarding Powers and University Title (January 2017). It explains that the proposed:
reforms are aimed at removing unnecessary barriers that may currently stand in the way of providers that can demonstrate that they have:
the ability to design and deliver high quality HE degree courses,
the ability to set and maintain academic standards, and
their teaching is informed by scholarship and research.
So it is recognised that having academic staff of sufficient quality remains fundamental to justifying the institutional autonomy of new providers as much as to satisfactory 'teaching performance' in the TEF.
A teacher at higher education level has traditionally been expected to have academic qualifications over and above those needed to teach to A-Level GCE (Level 3 of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) ). These are defined by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in line with Government guidance for the grant of degree-awarding powers and university title. The guiding principle is that lecturers in higher education should be qualified to teach at the level of the award offered, with research degrees therefore requiring research-active staff. The Government guidance was revised in September 2015 and further revision is expected to be needed under the provisions of the Higher Education and Research Bill s.40 and following.
The range of subjects in which it is possible to gain a degree has expanded hugely in recent years and so have the modes of study. 'Workplace learning', apprenticeship degrees, the need to meet the accreditation requirements of professional and regulatory bodies, vocational courses, frequently call for non-traditional teaching staff. 'Vacancies' advertisements for academic staff now often include terms such as 'professional qualification' or 'experience' as alternatives to the possession of even an undergraduate degree.
There is a further longstanding expectation, going beyond recruiting suitably-qualified academic staff piecemeal. This is that an institution's academic staff will form a 'self-critical academic community' in setting and maintaining standards. In 1985 the Lindop Report (2.5) said that:
Traditionally the university degree was an acknowledgement, by the self-governing community of scholars which constituted the university in its wider sense, of academic attainment such as to warrant full membership of the community.
Sir Keith Joseph, then Secretary of State for Education and Science, added in a House of Commons Written Answer 17 March 1986:
The Government share the [Lindop] committee's view that the most effective safeguard of an institution's academic standards is the existence within it of a strong, cohesive and self-critical academic community. In future, the main purpose of external validating arrangements must be to foster the development of such communities.
Kenneth Clarke, as Secretary of State for Education and Science, maintained the principle in the House of Commons, 16 December 1991, speaking of
Criteria for Degree Awarding Powers
The principal criterion would be that any institution seeking degree awarding power for taught courses would need to be a self-critical, cohesive academic community with a proven commitment to quality assurance supported by effective assurance and enhancement systems.
Jo Johnson, in the House of Commons Higher Education and Research Bill Committee, 15 September 2016, reiterated the expectation that a university is: expected to be an institution that brings together a body of scholars to form a cohesive and self-critical academic community that provides excellent learning opportunities for people, the majority of whom are studying to degree level or above. We expect teaching at such an institution to be informed by a combination of research, scholarship and professional practice.
This expectation that providers with degree-awarding powers or university title will be entitled to autonomy because they employ a critical mass of appropriately qualified academic staff therefore remains fundamental.
The Factsheet gives three Case Studies, describing scenarios in which a new provider might apply successfully for degree awarding powers, all making that assumption. In all three the key element is the presence of a group of 'experienced academics'. One is a company wishing to set up a new specialist provider. It 'employs a group of experienced academics'. Another is an existing 'world-renowned' US provider wanting to set up in England and offer English degrees. It sends across the Atlantic 'an experienced team of academics'. A third is a 'spin-off' from a 'top-ten University' initiated by 'a group of leading academics'.
But in the real world much has changed in the patterns of recruitment of academic staff. Advertisements mentioning research as an 'essential' requirement now cluster in the older universities, though a number of the newer providers say the possession of a doctorate or a willingness to seek one is 'desirable'. There is a visible trend towards increasing the number of teaching-only contracts even in 'research-intensive' universities. Where the degree is in a vocational subject the job advertisement may be adjusted accordingly. Bought-in and externally assessed courses such as Pearson-Edexcel HNC and HND courses at levels 4 and 5 may plausibly be delivered by teachers without the traditional qualifications of a member of the academic staff envisaged by Lindop and the policy-makers who continue to quote him.
The range of types of employment contract on offer in higher education has been broadening in the direction of the 'insecure', though in what proportions it is hard to quantify exactly. Data provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency includes information on fixed-term contract numbers, but does not make visible in detail the numbers or proportions of staff on hourly-paid or zero-hours contracts. (Some individuals may of course seek a zero-hour contract because of its flexibility, but the wording of job advertisements suggests it is rarely a matter of choice):
UCU has always been clear that those people returned by universities as atypical academics only represent a part of the real hourly-paid workforce. The rest are concealed within fixed-term contract data.
This pattern of recruitment undermines the expectation that providers will maintain an established 'community' of academic staff.
There seems to be a need for some joining-up of ideal and reality to ensure that before the OfS grants degree-awarding powers or university title, the new providers warrant the institutional autonomy they will gain if they succeed by showing that in their lecturers they have that 'critical community' of academic staff.
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Lamontichthys filamentosus (LA MONTE, 1935)
Sturgeon Catfish
June 23rd, 2013 — 10:08pm
This species is relatively common in the aquarium hobby but is not easy to maintain and recommended only for experienced aquarists.
It can be told apart from all congeners by specimens larger than 60 mm SL possessing an extended pectoral-fin spine forming an extremely long filament that may be more than four times the length of the first branched pectoral-fin ray (vs. not possessing such a filament in other species of Lamontichthys).
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Hypostomus sp.
June 23rd, 2013 — 9:05pm
Supposedly exported from the upper Amazon region in Peru but precise details are lacking.
It's unclear whether this unidentified species is conspecific with the similarly nameless congener L266 or not.
Peckoltia sp.
Wild specimens are probably omnivorous foragers but with a preference for aquatic invertebrates and suchlike.
In the aquarium it does best when offered a varied diet comprising sinking dried foods, frozen Daphnia, mosquito larvae, chironomid larvae (bloodworm), and prawn/shrimp, for, example, plus some fresh fruit, parboiled potato, etc.
Panaqolus sp.
Not difficult to maintain under the correct conditions; we strongly recommend keeping it in a tank designed to simulate a flowing stream with a substrate of variably-sized rocks, sand, fine gravel, and some water-worn boulders.
This can be further furnished with driftwood branches, terracotta pipes, plant pots, etc., arranged to form a network of nooks, crannies, and shaded spots, thus providing broken lines of sight.
Peckoltia oligospila (GÜNTHER, 1864)
L006, Brown Dot Peckoltia
This species can be distinguished from all congeners except P. bachi and some specimens of P. furcata by possessing only faint spots and saddles on the body.
It can be told apart from P. bachi by possession of narrow (vs. wide) pelvic-fin spines, having the eyes positioned high (vs. low) on the head, and distinctly round (vs. appearing more as a mottling) spots on the body.
Pseudacanthicus cf. leopardus
L114, LDA007, Demini Leopard Cactus Pleco
Mostly collected in the in the rio Negro basin, Amazonas state, Brazil, and in particular the rio Demini, a northern tributary flowing into the central Negro in the municipality of Barcelos.
P. leopardus was described from the Rupununi River in Guyana and the identity of this fish thus remains unconfirmed.
This 'species' is also traded simply as 'leo…
Peckoltia bachi (BOULENGER, 1898)
L146, L232, LDA030, Bola Pleco
This species has had several L-numbers assigned to it, with L146 collected from an unspecified locality in Colombia and L232 from the Río Putomayo/Içá.
It's exported for the aquarium trade under a number of different generic names including Hemiancistrus, Sophiancistrus and Peckoltichthys.
Following Armbruster (2008) it can be to…
Megalancistrus sp.
L234, Dragon Hi Fin Pleco
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L234 was previously applied to M. paranus, which has also has the L-number L113 assigned to it.
However M. paranus is native to the Paraná, Paraguay and Uruguay drainages, whereas L234 is collected in the rio São Francisco so appears to represent an unidentified species.
M. barrae and M. sp. 'LDA097' are also exported from the São Francisco system.
June 22nd, 2013 — 4:58pm
L076 and L099 appear to be the same species with the former exhibiting a darker diurnal colour pattern than the latter, though both appear similar at night.
Pseudohemiodon laticeps (REGAN, 1904)
Giant Whiptail Catfish
A paternal 'lip brooder' which has been bred in aquaria.
Post-spawning the male carries the eggs attached to his labial barbels for a period of 12-14 days after which the fry hatch with a large yolk sac attached, this being absorbed over the next 48 hours or so.
During incubation the behaviour of the male i…


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Le manoir de Pakankylä (en ) est un manoir situé dans le quartier Röylä de la ville d'Espoo en Finlande.
Le manoir de Pakankylä est une ancienne ferme équestre.
Les manoirs de Pakankylä, d'Oittaa et de Bodom sont trois manoirs historiques construits autour du lac Bodom.

Histoire
L'histoire du manoir remonte au XVIIe siècle, lorsque les quatre fermes qui existaient déjà au siècle précédent ont été réunies.
Le premier propriétaire connu du manoir est Erik Michelsson dans les années 1540.

À partir de 1757, le propriétaire de la ferme est Anders Kurtèn, le scribe de la paroisse, et on pense que les parties les plus anciennes du bâtiment principal ont été construites à cette époque.
Le bâtiment principal est à son emplacement actuel depuis au moins dès les années 1860.

À partir de 1918, le manoir appartient à l'ingénieur et homme d'affaires Ernst Felix von Freymann, dont le père Otto était un citoyen russe.
En tant que citoyen russe, Ernst aurait dû être extradé vers l'Union soviétique en 1944, en conséquence la famille a fui en Allemagne en 1945.

L'architecte Jarl Eklund a conçu l'apparence actuelle du bâtiment principal.
Les changements ont été apportés en 1937-1938.
L'épouse de Freymann était la traductrice de Tolkien d'origine autrichienne Ebba-Margareta von Freymann.
Leur fils Kaarlo et leur fille Thelma ont de nouveau visité le manoir en 2012-2015.

La fondation des dons civiques de Kaisa Kallio a acheté le bâtiment principal et six hectares de terrain en 1957 avec l'intention d'y déplacer la maison de repos pour femmes de Kauniainen.
L'opération a commencé dans les nouveaux locaux en 1958, et elle s'appelait l'hôtel du manoir et plus tard le manoir de l'aide sociale ou .

La ferme a été une ferme expérimentale pour la Fondation de recherche sur les machines agricoles et, en 1976-1978, elle était la propriété de l'industriel Asser Uusi-Jaakkola.

En 2018, La société Backby Kalliomaa Oy a acquis le manoir dont le nom a été changé en Manoir de Backby en 2019.

Depuis 1979, le musée de l'automobile d'Espoo est installé dans une grange en pierre grise du manoir.

Références

Voir aussi

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Bâtiment à Espoo
Röylä

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How Spain made the leap
There are a number of nations who did well at the European Beach Ultimate Championships. Russia, Great Britain and Sweden all go home with golds in two divisions, while Latvia entered only one division and took home a medal – a nice strike rate. The country which had the best week here in Portimao, though, was undoubtedly Spain. The Spanish entered seven divisions and took home an incredible six medals. Only the mixed team finished out of the medals, and even then, they finished fifth in what was probably the most competitive division here. Spain's average finishing position was 2.4, the best of any nation at these championships. They made a leap into the next level as a nation, becoming a truly competitive player on the European stage.
Spain has a long history on the beach and has some of the best beach club teams around, but this kind of dominance is new – they didn't medal in any division at WCBU in 2017 or 2015, nor at what was then called ECBU in 2013. How is it that they've improved so much in a short space of time?
The impact of Catalonia
Catalonia is the area of Spain with the highest concentration of teams, and according to Spain men's masters player Pedro Padilla it's an area of critical importance for Spanish Ultimate.
"Catalonia is the area with the most beautiful and established projects with secondary schools. Other parts of Spain work with schools and universities but the energy is more sporadic. About 60 or 70 per cent of the men's and women's teams here started in schools in Catalonia. They have been working regularly to improve with the schools, and at the start it was maybe something that people thought could help us. Now, we are seeing the results of the energy that was put in seven or eight years ago. Some of these players, like Aina Perez, are the future for the national teams."
The man responsible for igniting the spark in the area was Oriol Santana, who moved to Catalonia from the Canary Islands and started a project with players from Peixets to develop the sport in the area. Now that it has been going for some time, Pedro explains, it is self-fulfilling, with the younger players taking an active role in keeping the development going.
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Beach is free
Another reason for their success here is that most Spanish Ultimate players play on beach as much as, if not more than, on grass. The reason is simple; money.
"The beach is free," says Pedro. "It's difficult to get grass fields in Spain. If you want to get artificial grass it's harder on the joints. The clubs don't have the money to pay for the fields, every week €80 for two hours. A lot of the players are students so it's not possible."
As a result, much of the development of players is done on beach, so players become comfortable there. "Beach is where we feel comfortable," adds Pedro's teammate Javi Perez. Both also say that the Spanish federation has been doing good work in recent years by putting energy into developing the sport and securing sponsorship for kit. "This is the first time that I have received the kit for free. This is a big step I think, because young people do not have the money for all the new kit. Everything like this helps."
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The influence of the Canaries
Another area rich in Ultimate history in Spain is the Canary Islands, where the sport started in the country when a resident of Gran Canaria brought back some discs from a holiday to California after seeing people play there.
"At the beginning, there were four teams in Spain and three in the Canary Islands," says Pedro when emphasising how important the region has been for Ultimate in his country. Guayota, a team based in Tenerife, is the best men's team in Spain and has recently caused some waves in European Ultimate too. Work done with young people at the University of La Laguna led to many players who have gone on to play for national teams.
"The Canary Islands have had a big influence. Every team here has some Canary Islands players in it, two or three or four. They are the best teams on sand."
Providing focus
Finally, Pedro points to the ability for Ultimate to help people focus on something to help them in their lives.
"Ultimate can be a tool to focus," he says. "Sometimes people are lost in life and are looking for a different thing, a different sport to football with respect and beauty. Ultimate is different."
He's confident that Spain can continue on this path.
"For sure Spain will continue to improve. I was speaking to Ru Veitl [German mixed coach] about Spain, and he said next time that there is a beach championships Spain will be in the top two. A lot of young players played in the finals here. We lost all of the finals other than the masters, but the finals is another thing, a different psychology. The players will learn from this. I am sure that Spain will be there in the future."
Javi adds that Spain has been developing in a similar way to Russia over the last 10 years, and that this development has all been aimed towards getting the nation to a more competitive level. "It's important for Spain to be competitive, but it's also important for the sport to develop. The nation is growing and players have seen we can make it all the way to the top. There is a lot more motivation for the next years to keep this project going."
Pedro has belief that the processes put in place in the last decade will lead to a bright future for Ultimate in his country, particularly with the abilities of the young players who gained vital seasoning and motivation here in Portimao.
"I believe in them," he says. "They are going to be at the top."
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Q: ¿Management Studio para SQL Server en edición Express incluye el Profiler? En caso que no, ¿qué alternativas hay? He leído que el Management Studio edición Express para la versión 2016 viene con un mayor conjunto de herramientas a comparación de las ediciones anteriores, ¿eso incluye el profiler? En caso que no, ¿qué alternativas hay para evaluar los cuellos de botella de mis procesos de base de datos que trabajan con SQL Server?

A: Ya se encuentra disponible SQL Server 2016 también, a partir de esta versión la herramienta de administración, SQL Server Management Studio, es una descarga separada, es independiente de la edición que utilices (Express, Developer, Standard, etc.) e incluye el profiler.
Puedes descargarla aquí: https://msdn.microsoft.com/es-mx/library/mt238290.aspx

A: No, no lo incluye
Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2014
busca en el link "Profiler" y veras que indica que no esta incluido
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ExpressProfiler
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This week on Lake Okeechobee the fishing has been fantastic. The winds have been form the North North/ East most of the week and the water temp is in the low 70's. The water clarity is still muddy down on the south end and the East end of the lake, but the North and West end is very fishable.
The best bait is wild shiners and I have been catching them up to 10 lbs. On the artificial side the best bait is Rattle Traps, Topwater, and Senkos. Good areas to fish are the Pass, Tin House, 4th point and the Lake port area of the lake. The water level is a 16.49ft and they have slowed down the pulling of the water. You can check the water level of Lake Okeechobee at www.okeechobeejust4bass.com. Here is a picture of a couple good fish that I caught this week.


Shelly, Wyrack, Beauregard, and Mr. Nak took part in the book Iron Man. Shelly is really honest and open to everyone because she always listens to human beings and trys to enable them with their difficulties. She is also very kind and trust worthy because she will listen to most people and no tell any of their secrets. When everyday people have a big conflict Shelly is very helpful on trying to make it better. Wyrack is very competitive and mean because he will do anything to win he would even hurt somebody. He is selfish and short tempered because if he doesn't win he will get real mad and start to go crazy. Because of all these charteristics he is very hard working in order to be the best. Beauregard also known as a Brewster is extremely determined and hot tempered because if he doesn't get to the goal he is trying to achive he easily becomes mad. When it comes to athletics Brewster is an achiever and very athletic because he always trys to be the best. Even thoe he seems to be a "tough guy" he is very sensitive when it comes to his family. Mr Nack is determined and helpful because he listens to kids problems all day and always tries his best to facilitate them. He is also honest and open because when kids tell him their stories he always tries to give out the best solution. Most of all, Mr. Nack is a very kind because he devotes his whole day to helping children and his family.
The setting of this book compares to Williamsville today. It also has teenagers struggling with the same conflicts as we do today. The teenagers growing up all have different cultures and backgrounds just like a normal society.


All Project Management Offices (PMOs) try to build and support better processes for managing projects.
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Companies seeking more efficiency and tighter monitoring of IT projects are opening project management offices (PMO) in growing numbers.
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One of the value propositions to deploying common project management processes is the ability to reuse processes, procedures, templates, prior examples, etc.
However, the ability to reuse documentation does not come about like magic. To facilitate process and document reuse, the PMO needs to establish and manage a Document Repository. This could be as easy as setting up a directory structure that everyone in the organization can access.
It might also be more elaborate and multi-functional, like a tool specifically designed for document management.
At the end of every project, the project manager, team and major stakeholders should get together in an end-of-project meeting. During that meeting the discussion should turn to lessons learned.
As the PMO collects more and more key learnings, they may start to see patterns emerge in the lessons learned.
At some point, lessons learned from projects can be raised from the level of a best practice.
A best practice statement implies that the benefit can be gained for all projects, not just the few that reported it.
All companies have a process to staff projects. Since the PMO is a focal point for all project management-related activities, it is the right place to manage these common resource pools.
Document reviews can be offered to help ensure that project managers are utilizing the standard templates as they were intended and that they are completed clearly and consistently.
The PMO is not "approving" the document, but they are providing feedback on the content, format and readability of the specified document.
Most companies utilize contractors for some portion of their workload. The question is how best to utilize contractors and how best to utilize employees.
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Many companies are finding that they must build project management capabilities if they are going to meet business challenges in the future. Many companies give this responsibility to one or more people in a Project Management Office (PMO).
If the PMO is established with a clear vision, strong sponsorship and a solid approach, it can be a vehicle for creating a tremendous amount of value for the company.


The shorter the timeframe you are trading, the more time you need in front of the charts.
If you're a day trader, since you're entering and exiting trades throughout the day, you need to be glued to the screen the whole time.
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Q: Plot daily time series I have a time series of 20 obs (date, price). I'm trying to plot the series through ggplot with the code: ggplot(timeseries, aes(x=date, y=price)) + geom_line(col="indianred", size= 1)
I want to ask: how can I include every single day in the x-axis? I had only three days in the x-axis.

A: If the date breaks are 1 day, you can use scale_x_date(date_breaks = "1 day") as below to include every day. (you can also try strings like "2 days" or "1 week" as needed.)
lol <-tibble(date=c(Sys.Date()-7,Sys.Date()-6,Sys.Date()-5,Sys.Date()-4,Sys.Date()-3,Sys.Date()-2,Sys.Date()-1),price=c(1,23,21,9,6,2,32))

ggplot(lol, aes(x=date, y=price)) + geom_line(col="indianred", size= 1) + scale_x_date(date_breaks = "1 day")