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FoxNews: Israeli court rejects Israeli nationality, saying it could undermine Jewish character
Categories: Politics, Religion
By Associated Press / FoxNews.com / October 4, 2013
Israel's population registry lists a slew of "nationalities" and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druse and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list: Israeli.
The national population registry lists a person's religion and nationality or ethnicity, among other details. Any Jew, no matter what his country of origin, is listed as a Jew. Arabs are marked as such and other minorities, such as Druse, are listed by their ethnicity.
Residents cannot identify themselves as Israelis in the national registry because the move could have far-reaching consequences for the country's Jewish character, the Israeli Supreme Court wrote in documents obtained Thursday.
The ruling was a response to a demand by 21 Israelis, most of whom are officially registered as Jews, that the court decide whether they can be listed as Israeli in the registry. The group had argued that without a secular Israeli identity, Israeli policies will favor Jews and discriminate against minorities.
In its 26-page ruling, the court explained that doing so would have "weighty implications" on the state of Israel and could pose a danger to Israel's founding principle: to be a Jewish state for the Jewish people.
Meanwhile in the U.S., Catholic priests in military face arrest for celebrating Mass.
Explain to me again how it is the U.S. and Israel are allies.
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Grants for vehicle safety standards
Home/Programmes/Road Safety Grants Programme/Grants for vehicle safety standards
In 2017, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) expanded its Road Safety Grants Programme to support advocacy for the strengthening of national vehicle safety legislation and its implementation for crash protection and avoidance. This is an important addition to the ongoing work on behavioural interventions supported through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries that was launched in 2010.
According to the World Health Organization, the global vehicle fleet reached 1 billion in 2010 and is expected to double between 2025 and 2030. This increase is largely taking place in low- and middle-income countries, which already account for nearly 90% of global deaths from road crashes. One important avenue for addressing this road crash epidemic is to improve motor vehicle safety.
The Road Safety Grants Programme is managed by the Global Road Safety Partnership, one of the eight implementing partners of the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, and supports projects to develop and deliver high-impact, evidence-based road safety interventions designed to strengthen road safety policies and their implementation.
Which countries are eligible to apply?
Applications addressing national level vehicle safety regulations reform and/or vehicle safety regulations implementation will only be accepted from Mexico and Colombia.
Who can apply for a grant?
Governmental and non-governmental organizations based in Mexico and Colombia can apply for grants within the following parameters:
Governmental organizations with relevant authority over motor vehicle safety standards development and/ or implementation. Road police and military agencies are not eligible to apply.
Non-governmental organizations (including but not limited to civil society organizations and educational institutions) with relevant advocacy experience on policy reform/and or its implementation.
Additionally,
Applicants must be registered legal entities in the country of project delivery, capable of entering into contractual arrangements, receiving foreign funds, and assuming legal and financial obligations.
Applicants cannot be recipients of financial support from alcohol, firearms, pornography, or tobacco industries.
The Road Safety Grants Programme does not fund individuals.
What kind of projects will be funded?
The Road Safety Grants Programme supports efforts to strengthen vehicle safety regulations and ensure that the following five safety regulations are applied to light duty vehicles:
Occupant protection in front collisions
Occupant protection in lateral collisions
Seat belts and seat belt anchorages
Pedestrian protection
Grant proposals must focus on one or both of the following:
Advocating for improved national-level motor vehicle safety regulations. Some approaches might include:
Increasing consumer awareness of and demand for vehicle safety
Conducting political mapping and analysis of support and opposition
Building a coalition of stakeholders to advocate for policy reform and implementation
Engaging in media advocacy
Communicating directly with policy-makers
Supporting the implementation of motor vehicle safety regulations. Some approaches might include:
Supporting a government-led effort to develop an implementation plan, which might include organizing a multi-sectoral coordinating committee; advocating for establishment and allocation of a budget that will ensure effective implementation.
What kind of projects will NOT be funded?
The Road Safety Grants Programme does not fund education programmes (school-based or otherwise). It does not fund basic research or academic studies, nor does it fund the purchase of equipment or funding of road infrastructure.
Systematic surveys of compliance of road safety policies as well as projects to strengthen health data collection are being undertaken separately with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies and are not funded through the Road Safety Grants Programme.
How much funding can a project receive?
Proposals can be submitted for grants up to a maximum amount of 120,000 Swiss francs (CHF) for a project of no more than 24 months.
Funding requests should be consistent with the scope and capacity of your organization. Cost reasonableness is a factor in the consideration of proposals.
How are projects selected for support?
Grants are awarded following successful selection of projects through a two-step application process. Each competitive round will follow these steps:
A Call for Proposals (CFP) is launched on the GRSP website.
The CFP will detail all criteria for a successful project concept note.
Concept notes fitting the eligibility criteria for organization and type of project are submitted using our online system.
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Orbital ATK, a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced that it has received orders totaling $76 million for .50 caliber ammunition from the U.S. Army. The orders were placed under Orbital ATK's supply contract to produce small-caliber ammunition for the U.S. government at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (Lake City) in Independence, Missouri.
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Q: Absolute positioned image not displaying correctly on mobile/iPhone I have an image that I want displayed over another image inside of a div.  The div has padding and margins.  I want to align the image to the top and left of the div without the padding of the div showing.  The div is relative position and image is absolute position.  This works correctly in all browsers on desktop but not on iPhone.
I have checked that all divs have a position assigned as relative.

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position: relative;
width:100%;
margin:auto;
padding:15px 0;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
justify-content: center;
align-items: top;
flex-direction: row;

}

.ccc {
position: relative;

}

.bbb {
max-width:350px;
position:relative;
color:#FFF;
flex-grow: 1;
padding: 15px 15px 50px 15px;
margin:15px;
text-align:left;
overflow:hidden;

}

    @media (max-width: 410px) {
            .bbb {
                position:relative;
                width:90%;
                margin:15px 0;
                height:auto;
                overflow:auto;
            }

            .bbb img{
                position:relative;
                width:100%;
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            .bbb a,
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            .bbb a:focus,
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.bbb a,

.bbb a:hover,

.bbb a:focus,

.bbb a:visited {
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
bottom:10px;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, 0);
transition: background 0.2s linear, color 0.2s linear;

}

Image should be flush with top and left of div.

A: Your markup doesn't contain any link (), yet, the only element in your CSS you applied position:absolute to is .bbb a (with various modifiers), but that doesn't apply to anything.

Let's go over the basics: in order to display 2 elements one on top of the other (which, admittedly, is what you want achieve), you need:

*

*a parent with position:relative

*one child without position or with position:relative (this will constitute the document flow: will fill and determine the size of the parent and, indirectly, will also size the other element).

*another child with position:absolute; + top, left, width and height (alternatively you can replace width:100%;height:100% with bottom:0;right:0), which will thus map itself to the dimensions of the parent, which, in turn, takes its dimensions from the normal flow (which only contains the other child). This element, being absolutely positioned, is not part of normal flow.

relative-parent {
  position: relative;
        font-size: 3rem;
}
normal-child {
        height: 180px;
        background-color: red;
        color: white;
}
absolute-child {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
        background-color: white;
        color: red;
        /* hide absolute child */
        opacity: 0;
        border: 1px solid red;
        transition: opacity .3s;
}
relative-parent:hover absolute-child {
        /* show absolute child on parent hover */
        opacity: 1;
}

relative-parent,
normal-child,
absolute-child {
  width: 100%;
        display: flex;
        align-items: center;
        justify-content: center;
}

/* all indented rules are irrelevant
   I basically added them to style the example */
<relative-parent>
  <normal-child>Normal child</normal-child>
  <absolute-child>Absolute child</absolute-child>
</relative-parent>

The above is the general principle. All the styling (unimportant) rules have been indented, so the ones I talked above remained prominent.
The entire construct takes its size from the size of the flow, which is the normally positioned child (in the example: height: 180px; width: 100%. If you change that element, you also change the parent and the other child).
It doesn't really matter what elements you use (they can be even custom elements, as I made them, provided you give them a block or flexbox level value for display). If you use
 as parent and s as children, you should give the one in parent flow display:block.

If you apply the above principle without any validation errors, it will work cross-browser/cross-device. It's CSS level 1.

A: I'm not sure to understand, why 2 pictures on a phone? I see the tags "a" in your CSS so I send you this.

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HISTORIC MOULIN ROUGE SIGN RE-ILLUMINATED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Photo of the re-illumination of the Moulin Rouge sign at The Neon Museum.
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HISTORIC MOULIN ROUGE SIGN RE-ILLUMINATED FOR THE FIRST
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For the first time since arriving at The Neon Museum Boneyard, the iconic Moulin Rouge sign was re-illuminated during a private event for museum donors and VIPs on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Museum President and Chief Executive Officer Rob McCoy greeted guests and along with Councilman Cedric Crear, City of Las Vegas; and Claytee White, director, UNLV's Oral History Research Center told the history of the Moulin Rouge and what it means to Las Vegas.
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UK Launches Orphan Work Licensing Scheme, Misses Huge Opportunity To Make It Much Better
from the backroom-deals? dept
Wed, Nov 5th 2014 1:16am — Glyn Moody
Orphan works, that huge collection of older creations which are out of circulation and have no obvious owners, are more rightly called "hostage works," since they remain uselessly locked away by rigid and outdated copyright laws. Even when the issue is recognized by society, lobbyists hold so much sway over the political process that legislation crafted to "solve" the orphan works problem is often worse than useless. So perhaps we should give at least one cheer for a new UK licensing scheme that will make access to large numbers of orphan works a little easier:
A new licensing scheme launched today (29 October 2014) could give wider access to at least 91 million culturally valuable creative works -- including diaries, photographs, oral history recordings and documentary films.
Here's how it will work:
Under the new scheme, a licence can be granted by the Intellectual Property Office so that these works can be reproduced on websites, in books and on TV without breaking the law, while protecting the rights of owners so they can be remunerated if they come forward.
That's all well and good as far as it goes, but it turns out that it could have been so much better if other key legislation had been passed first. The UK's Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) explains what the issue is (pdf):
Provisions in the [UK's] Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act (ERRA) 2013 gave the government powers to amend the term of copyright for unpublished text based works, engravings and anonymous artistic works (except photographs) to life of the author plus 70 years [instead of until the fixed date of 2039, as at present.] This would bring the UK's copyright terms more closely into line with the harmonised regime across Europe, as intended by the Term Directive. However, implementation has been delayed. There is now a real danger that the issue of 2039 will be lost in parliamentary process before the [UK] General Election on 7th May 2015.
That's a problem, because it means all those ancient and unpublished works that would otherwise clearly be out of copyright, are now classed as orphan works until 2039; to use them under the UK's new orphan works licensing scheme then requires considerable effort:
In practical terms, because the duration of copyright in unpublished works was not dealt with at the same time that the Orphan Works solutions have been implemented, or at least implemented by March/April 2015, libraries, archives and museums will be expected to conduct due diligence searches (under the terms of the Exception) and also to pay an administration/licence fee (under the terms of the Orphan Works Licensing Scheme). This is a pointless waste of resources, for many of these works are within the scope of the reduction of term measures from 2039 in ERRA 2013.
That's part of why UK libraries, lead by CILIP, started the campaign Mike recently wrote about, with libraries displaying empty cases of orphan works that won't be released until 2039.
This will also have serious knock-on consequences across the whole of the EU and even beyond:
The 'Orphaned' unpublished works will remain in copyright in the UK and therefore Orphan, but be out of copyright in the rest of Europe. This will lead to the works that should be dealt with by the 2039 removal being wrongly registered as Orphans on the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) database, causing confusion across Europe and the world in relation to online projects such as Europeana, and more wasted public resources subsequently to put it right.
CILIP's fears seem justified. The UK government has just announced a consultation on "Reducing the duration of copyright in certain unpublished works." Since that closes on December 12, it is extremely unlikely that the necessary formalities will be completed to reduce the copyright term of unpublished works before the UK General Election next year. One issue that the consultation wants explored is "quantifiable costs to copyright owners." It's hard not to see that call, along with the unnecessary but critical delay to implementing the term reduction, as part of some backroom deal agreed with the publishing industry as the price of its acquiescence to the UK government's move to liberate millions of hostage works -- an idea that copyright maximalists hate.
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M. Alan Thomas II (profile), 4 Nov 2014 @ 11:25pm
As far as I'm concerned, a "hostage work" is one where we know exactly who the copyright holder is and how to contact them because they're busy demanding a ransom before they'll let the work go.
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Ninja (profile), 5 Nov 2014 @ 12:58am
I'd broaden the definition of "hostage works" to everything that is older than 14 years old and still locked behind copyright, specially if it's not easily and readily obtainable and/or that the copyrights were bought by a big corporation.
In any case, it makes no sense that creations that are over a decade old and you can't track their creators remain locked. Even if these creators do appear and claim rights you could make it so they have the opportunity to get their copyrights back while existing derivative works on such cases are deemed exempt from any obligations under copyright due to the fact they were orphan when such derivatives came to light.
Harry Payne, 5 Nov 2014 @ 1:49am
Cue outraged screams of "theft" in 3... 2... 1...
There's been a persistent and pernicious campaign against this ever since it was announced, generally on the lines of "all you have to do is remove the metadata and ALL THE PICTURES WILL BE STOLEN OH NOES". I wonder if they've even noticed this codicil.
PaulT (profile), 5 Nov 2014 @ 2:55am
In other words - instead of fixing the fundamental underlying problems that keep causing major issues, there's just a new licence fee to be paid (and presumably pocketed by some 3rd party if nobody ever comes forward to collect it).
No solutions for the issues at hand, just another cost to be paid by people who are trying to obey the law...
MadAsASnake (profile), 5 Nov 2014 @ 3:16am
And as usual, the people hoovering up that fee will be adding nothing at all of value and will not be passing them on to those whom it (under extreme copyright interpretation) is supposed is entitled to it.
It' all adding to the crap the supposes everything must be "owned" by largecorp, and largecorp must be paid. For some reason. Any reason.
qweras (profile), 5 Nov 2014 @ 3:48am
The 'Orphaned' sounds quite sad :(
Anonymous Coward, 5 Nov 2014 @ 4:16am
So, basically, it's just patent trolling?
sounds about right for the UK. they never could do anything completely right. if they did, there would be less for the various people to do who make these rules/laws. on top of that, the way they are being shafted by the USA atm, i'm surprised they even attempted to do the bit they have!
While this does little to solve the fundamental problems with copy protection laws (the main problem being that they are bought and paid for by a small group of interests and the politicians who see laws as being something that should be sold to those that grase their palms don't want to stop having their palms greased) at least this shows that more public attention is being given to these issues. When enough of the public gets involved the very few interests responsible for constantly expanding and extending and maintaining ridiculous IP laws against the interests of artists and the public will find it much harder to do so.
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Mapping the international mobility of political scientists
Pippa Norris was kind enough to share an advance version of the dataset she collected on academic political scientists around the world, which will be presented for the 50th anniversary of the European Consortium for Political Research. The datasets contains lots of variables about the education, place of work and career of political scientists employed at universities around the world. Because it includes information on the country where political scientists were born, where they got their degrees and where they work at the time of the survey, it is also suitable to visualise the international mobility of political scientists.
International mobility of political scientists
The first graph shows a network of political scientists who work in another country as the one where they were born: current country is the target, and country of birth is the source. I have restricted the data to individuals who hold a PhD, which results in a network of 445 individuals (the full dataset, which of course includes individuals who work in their country of birth, has 2446 entries). This variable is not able to differentiate whether people have grown up/studied in the country where they were born or not (we can gain some more information with the country of PhD as the source below). Moreover, the representativeness of this sample is not clear because of relatively low response rates for some countries, so we should be careful about generalisations.
Some interesting trends which correspond to intuition emerge, however. The United Kingdom appears as a central node in the network, mostly as a receiver of academics born elsewhere. The biggest exporters of political scientists to the UK are the United States and Germany, which has a negative migration saldo possibly due to the structure of the German academic job market (however, as mentioned below, the absence of academics with a German PhD working in the UK in the sample leaves a few doubts about the representativeness of the sample). The United States sends much more political scientists to Britain than the other way round; in contrast, the migration saldo between the UK and Australia is negative. Germany also sends a significant number of political scientists to the Netherlands, Switzerland and Scandinavia. What also comes out of the network is the centrality of Europe, North America and Australia in the mobility network.
Inflows and outflows of political scientists (country of birth-country of employment)
The data presented above uses country of birth as the origin of individuals. A different picture emerges if we take the country where they did their PhD as the origin, and the current country of employment as the target. This is what the second graph below shows. The nodes here are sized by out-degree: they are proportional to the number of outgoing PhDs . We can clearly see the dominance of the UK and the US in the network as the largest suppliers of PhDs for export. If we related this to the pattern presented in the previous network, this seems to involve essentially non-Brits obtaining their PhD in Britain and going elsewhere to work, possibly their country of birth. Italy occupies an interesting position in the network as a major exporter of PhDs, which can probably be accounted for by the European University Institute. There are some puzzling things in the data, however: strangely, there are only 3 political scientists in the dataset with a German PhD working in Britain, and none with a Dutch PhD. As mentioned before, the data should be taken with a pinch of salt; Ideally, this type of data could be collected from websites for completeness, as relying on surveys with variable response rates is bound to have a few problems.
Mobility of political scientists by where they got their PhD
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2019 by alexandre afonso.
Um mapa das relações familiares no Governo de Antonio Costa
Nas ultimas semanas, os jornais relataram um numero impressionante de relações familiares no governo de António Costa: casais, primos, irmãos a assumir cargos públicos em vários ministérios e secretariados de estado. Este artigo no Jornal Economico aponto a existência de uma rede de 50 pessoas e 20 famílias, todas elas ligadas ao governo e ao partido socialista.
Mesmo se o artigo do Jornal Economico é muito detalhado, é difícil ter uma vista global de esta rede. Isto é matéria ideal para uma análise de rede social (SNA). O mapa acima mostra a
rede de relações familiares no governo de António Costa usando o artigo do Jornal Economico. O que fiz concretamente: fiz uma lista de indivíduos e entidades governativas mencionadas no artigo e o tipo de ligações entre elas. As ligações familiares (e em certos casos amigáveis) estão indicadas em vermelho. Os indivíduos estão em vermelho e as entidades em cinzento. E possível aceder uma versão alta resolução se clicar na imagem.
Os dados utilizados para construir esta rede estão aqui. E possível eu ter esquecido algumas ligações, por isso é possível comentar na lista para adicionar indivíduos e entidades.
É importante clarificar que todas as relações no mapa não são necessariamente ilegais ou mesmo relacionadas com nepotismo. Acontece que quando se está envolvido na política, há uma grande probabilidade de este fato estruturar o resto das relações sociais (incluindo a escolha de cônjuge). Também é normal pessoas das mesmas famílias partilharem as mesmas ideias políticas. O que se torna problemático (para a democracia) é se ter ligações familiares torna-se uma condição para aceder certos cargos públicos. Finalmente, este mapa não implica que não há práticas semelhantes em outros partidos que estiveram no poder ( ver aqui.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Portugal, redes sociais on April 6, 2019 by alexandre afonso.
Mapping Preferences over Brexit in the House of Commons
In the graph above (zoomable version here), I have mapped the votes of British MPs in the 8 options given to them on March 27 (a couple of hours ago) in indicative votes. This is a 2-mode network linking MPs and options for Brexit. The network graph shows how different options are related to each other: they are closer if a greater number of MPs have voted for them. Their size shows the number of favourable votes for each option (none of them obtained a majority. The graph show the high level of polarisation over these different options, with two clear poles: the "Hard Brexit" pole with a number of MPs for whom the only option is No Deal, or a preferential trade arrangement, and the Soft Brexit-No Brexit pole, linking the Customs Union, Labour's Plan and a Second Referendum/Revocation of article 50. The EFTA/EEA and Common Market 2.0 options link the two poles, but there seems to be very few MPS that could be rallied in the middle.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2019 by alexandre afonso.
Visualising the world's 20 richest countries, 1800-2016 in one minute.
I made this animation using John Burn-Murdoch's code and data from the Maddison Project Database.
Academic hierarchies in US political science
In a number of recent projects (see e.g here), I have been interested in the structure of the academic job market, how it is organised in different countries, and how it may shape the ideas that it produces (see here for a comparison of economists in the US and Germany). Something that we highlight in the latter paper is how concentrated and hierarchical the field of US economists is compared to Europe. Most top US economists are affiliated with a pretty small number of elite universities (Harvard, MIT, etc.). Is it different for other disciplines, for instance in political science? My hunch was that it isn't.
I have just come across this paper by Kim and Grofman published in January 2019 on the "Political Science 400", looking at the top-cited political scientists currently employed in US universities. The online appendix has some interesting data on these 400 top US political scientists, especially where they work now and where (and when) they got their PhD. This can give some interesting insights into the structure and hierarchies in US political science.
In the graph below, I have used this data to build a network of universities where each arrow represents a flow of political scientists in the top 400 linking the institution where they obtained their PhD (the source) and the institution where they worked in 2017 (the target). The size of the nodes represents the out-degree (the number of individuals who got their PhD from that institution) and the size of the arrows represents the number of academics
Network of US political scientists, 2017
What does the data show? First, we can see a "core" of prestigious universities who are fairly closely connected with each other: Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, University of Chigago, Yale. In fact the top-5 granting institutions alone (Harvard, Berkeley, Michigan, Yale and Stanford) account for 40% of all the political scientists in the top-400. Harvard alone supplies 49 of the 400 top political scientists. The structures that comes out is indeed hierarchical: the "inner circle" of universities at the top mostly recruit from within the top-circle, other universities outside the circle recruit from the top, but there is fairly little "upward" mobility: few top universities recruit people from outside the top circle. Finally, access to the upper tier of US political science (and probably the whole field) is not very open to academics with a foreign PhD: only 22 (5.5%) of the top-400 have a PhD from a foreign institution.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2019 by alexandre afonso.
Assigning podcasts as assignments to students
In my course on Global Challenges, I ask students to submit a policy podcast. Here are the guidelines that I give to students, and an example of what students have done.
Purpose of the assignment
The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate the ability to use the theoretical tools provided in the course by a) analysing a concrete global challenge, and b) formulating policy proposals drawing on the theories discussed in the module. We ask you to put together a policy proposal podcast dealing with one out of three policy problems. You are expected to carry out some level of research on the problem at hand and collect the relevant data, analyse the causes of the problem, and formulate policy proposals to deal with the problem, by drawing on the lectures, the seminar discussions, and the readings of the module. The policy proposals should be grounded in the theories discussed in the module, but the language should be directed to a lay, informed audience.
Three policy problems
You need to answer one of the following three questions:
1. Recently, the Italian government had decided to refuse entry to boats crossing the Mediterranean with migrants. How could we imagine a system where migrants seeking asylum are allocated fairly across European countries, in a way that is accepted by local citizens?
2. Donald Trump has announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accords signed in 2015. What kind of mechanism should we adopt so that large economies accept to reduce their carbon emissions?
3. How should we address the backlash against democracy and democratic norms in many parts of the world, including Europe?
You are asked to submit 1 audio file and the script of your audio.
Your audio podcast should contain the following sections:
(1) an introduction presenting the problem
(2) an analysis of the problem which makes use of frameworks discussed in the module,
(3) a policy recommendation proposing concrete measures to solve this problem, and a discussion of the main alternatives,
(4) a brief analysis of the pros/cons of the measure proposed
(5) a conclusion/opening
The podcast should be last no more than 10 minutes. This should correspond to ca. 1800 words of script (https://www.thevoicerealm.com/count-script.php)
Data and evidence
Someone reading your script should know your sources of data (literature or people) and the alternatives you considered as well as your final recommendation. However, you do not need to reference explicitly in spoken word. The reader should also learn enough about how you did your work to make an informed judgment on how seriously to take its recommendations. Ask yourself "Is this credible?" "Why would they take my advice seriously?" This also relates to the use of sources: make sure that you use reputable sources. While there is a wealth of information on blogs and websites, a policy recommendation relying only on this type of sources may not appear totally reliable.
The podcast should be written in the style of a real piece of policy advice designed to influence a (busy) policy-maker, so it should be clear, concrete and to the point, but without jargon.
The assignments will be assessed by drawing on the elements in the table below. Use concise, clear language. Note that writing for the document should be readable, so please keep margins and font sizes reasonable. Make sure that the document has a narrative flow: the policy analysis tells a story, and should not just be a shopping list of points under a series of headings. This should be something that a policy-maker can read and understand fairly easily, and which will aid him/her in the decision-making process. In the real world, overly dense, jargon-filled, poorly researched, sloppily written and badly presented documents would be handed right back to you to be fixed (at best).
Clarity, coherence and feasibility of policy proposal
Link to concepts & issues handled in class
Creativity (effort to make podcast interesting, fun, entertaining; evidence of creative thinking)
Format & Quality (delivery)
A note on the format
You are allowed to use music or effects in the podcast, but you do not have to. You will not be assessed on the technical aspects of the podcast as such (audio quality, etc), but making it exciting and interesting will enhance the appeal of your policy proposal.
Resources for making podcasts & examples
Nuts and Bolts of making podcasts
How to start a podcast completely for free
How to write script for podcasts
One way to understand the rationale for the policy podcast: it is an audio version of a Ted Talk. Here are two podcasts/talk dealing with the universal basic income:
Rutger Bregman: Why we should give everyone a basic income
Institute of Economic Affairs: Is a basic income a good idea?
How to edit a podcast with audacity
Some tricks to get better audio (you do not need to use a microphone to make a good podcast, but in general try to record as close to the sound source as possible; the microphone of your headphones is probably better than the one of your phone lying on a table.
Podcast from previous years
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2019 by alexandre afonso.
Migrant Workers or Working Women? Comparing Labour Supply Policies in Post-War Europe
Forthcoming in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (access article)
Why did some European countries choose migrant labour to expand their labour force in the decades that followed World War II, while others opted for measures to expand female employment via welfare expansion? The paper argues that gender norms and left power resources were important structuring factors in these choices. Female employment required a substantial expansion of state intervention (e.g childcare; paid maternity leave). Meanwhile, migrant recruitment required minimal public investments, at least in the short term, and preserved traditional gender roles. Using the contrasting cases of Sweden and Switzerland, I argue that the combination of a weak left (labour unions and social-democratic parties) and conservative gender norms fostered the massive expansion of foreign labour and a late development of female labour force participation in Switzerland. In contrast, more progressive gender norms and a strong labour movement put an early end to guest worker programs in Sweden, and paved the way for policies to promote female labour force participation.
Keywords: labour migration; female employment; Sweden; Switzerland; comparative public policy
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2018 by alexandre afonso.


Sam DeAngelis came out to Santa Ana from New Jersey for Blading Cup. He bladed. He filmed. He helped the homies at Lux Armour… and he took these photos documenting the event. From day to night, personality to action, competition to party, Sam captured a selection of moments that immortalize the experience of being on 4th Street on that November day, watching blading's best turn out for the cause.
View from the top (of the box).
Drew Bl00d, Baller and the Bales.
Wake shows his duck face.
Make it out to C.A.S.H.
Can you deal with this?!
The champ with his trophy.


Something dark and angry had been stirring in Vaughan Williams's music throughout the 1920s and early '30s. Even so, nobody was quite prepared for the volcanic eruption of the Fourth Symphony in 1934. It wasn't just the violence, the savage humour and glimpses of desolation; there was a new ferocious concentration.
The lyrical expansiveness of his London and Pastoral Symphonies seemed light years away. Answers were sought: was the Fourth Symphony a response to a world in turmoil – to a Europe once again intent on pressing the self-destruct button? In public Vaughan Williams denied it, but privately he hinted that the Symphony might be a reflection of 'unbeautiful times'.
However, the composer insisted that he did find it beautiful. That's the paradox: for all its delight in dissonance, its convulsive urgency, its sardonic wit, the Fourth Symphony is a thrilling, invigorating experience, an emotional and intellectual white-water ride – and one of its composer's highest achievements.
Vaughan Williams was the first to admit his limitations as a conductor ('I've told you before – don't follow me!'), but under the right conditions, in his own music, he could galvanise an orchestra like no one else. That's what happened in Abbey Road Studio 1 in October 1937.
It's a breathtakingly fast performance – the entire Symphony is dispatched in under half an hour – but one never gets the impression that important details are being skated over. It's remarkable how much of the music stands out in sharp relief. For sheer voltage there's no performance like it, but the quieter passages too are riveting: the first movement's eerily calm ending and the Andante's strange restless processional (with its original ending) linger in the memory even after the finale has administered its brutal coup de grâce.
It's the humour in the Scherzo and Finale that really stand out. Vaughan Williams confessed to having 'cribbed' the crescendo transition between the two movements from Beethoven's Fifth. What this performance reveals is that it's really a colossal send-up of what was then the totemic German symphony: it isn't light that emerges from darkness, but something grotesque, strutting, ultimately destructive.
The mono sound doesn't have the range of good modern stereo, but it's startling how much does emerge clearly and authoritatively. Here, you feel, you're really being told 'how it is'.
Sharply etched and bristling with energy, this is the modern version that comes closest to the composer's own in terms of physical impact and sweeping momentum. Hickox misses something of Vaughan Williams's own hectic intensity in the final Epilogo fugato, but only there, and his firm control ultimately brings its own rewards.
Hickox has a strong and compelling overview: the Symphony's formal originality and strength comes across powerfully – as does its (for VW) unprecedented rhythmic boldness. Especially effective is the way the headlong first movement collapses into the icy calm of its coda.
Hickox then takes the Andante slightly slower than usual, thus emphasising its role in the drama. The recording is superbly immediate – make sure you're sitting in a secure place before sampling the opening bars.
As pianist Alfred Brendel put it, 'Great music is greater than it can ever be played'. There are times where Handley makes one wonder if Hickox – and perhaps even the composer – missed something in this music. The opening is suitably arresting, but when the second theme sweeps in a note of passionate lament is heard.
This grows towards the end, intensifies in the Andante and reaches its peak in the Finale's central quiet episode – a passage that often suffers in the more ruthlessly driven kind of performance.If Hickox's version is the most demonic, this is the most human.
There's some beautiful solo playing too – few performances have such an expressively 'featured' quality. The recording serves this very well, bringing out voices and strands in a texture than can often sound like an inexorable tide of magma.
If there is one recording above all that could convince doubters that this is a work of international rather than merely national significance, it is this. By 1956 Mitropoulos had had the Fourth in his repertoire for a decade, and it has a remarkably 'lived in' quality.
Like the composer in 1937, Mitropoulos uses the slow movement's original ending, but that's a minor issue beside the noble, searing gravity he brings to this music – the real heart of the work in this performance.


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These four 'Eyes First' Windows games could do for...
These four 'Eyes First' Windows games could do for eye tracking what Solitaire did for the PC's mouse
Is eye tracking an assistive technology or just convenient? Either way, Microsoft would like you to become more familiar with it.
Mark Hachman (PC World (US online)) on 20 June, 2019 04:38
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Microsoft Research has published four "Eyes First" games, designed to help make eye tracking more of a mainstream technology for Windows 10 users.
The Eyes First games—Tile Slide, Match Two, Double Up, and Maze—aren't much in terms of actual games, as they're just twists on existing apps. The difference, though, is that they can be played with eye tracking, using hardware from Tobii and others that tracks your gaze as you look at the screen. You'll obviously need an eye tracker, but also a PC running the Windows 10 April 2018 Update or newer.
Microsoft's Eyes First games.
PCWorld has tracked eye tracking since 2016, when Tobii's eye-tracking hardware was originally pitched as a sort of "eye mouse," then later as a technology for improving PC gameplay. In 2017, Microsoft began building eye tracking into the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update as an assistive technology for those who were physically unable to mouse. Meanwhile, eye tracking began to be featured within laptops as well as VR headsets.
Within Windows, Microsoft's eye tracking is known as Windows 10 Eye Control, and developers can take advantage of the Windows 10 Gaze Interaction Library to develop games that use eye tracking as a control mechanism.
Microsoft originally designed its addictive Solitaire game to ease Windows users into becoming familiar with a mouse. Later, Minesweeper played a similar role. Eyes First uses the same playbook. "Playing these games is a great way to get familiar with using eye control, learn the skills to apply to other eye gaze-enabled assistive technologies, and simply to have some fun," the Eyes First page notes.
It's not clear whether eye tracking will enjoy the same ubiquity as a mouse, or even the relatively high penetration of touchscreens. But whether it's an assistive technology or merely another way to interact with your PC, Microsoft's clearly interested in developing the technology further.
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By Julie Vasquez published 20 February 19
Using data analytics to improve how commercial airlines operate
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When a flight takes off later than planned, the pilot will often apologise over the intercom and say, "we'll try to make it up on the way." While passengers might end up landing on time, this approach is inefficient for fuel consumption. It involves the pilot accelerating during the flight, and thus burning more fuel than anticipated to make up for lost time.
A recent Honeywell report found that 73 percent of airline carriers believe fuel efficiency to be extremely or very important to their investment plans. High jet fuel prices can put massive bottom-line pressure on the world's airlines. Although prices dropped in January of this year, the unpredictable nature of fuel prices means that airlines cannot simply sit back and relax.
According to IATA, global airlines' fuel costs are estimated to account for a quarter (24.5 percent) of their overall expenditures in 2019. If a global carrier could cut these costs by just one percent, the savings would be in the multi-millions and would help them keep up with international targets for greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Connectivity can help airlines achieve this. The incredible amount of data generated during flights can be harnessed to help pilots make on-the-go decisions that will save fuel. Through a mixture of big data and advanced analytics – coming from real-time flight data and ground-based analytics systems – carriers can make better strategic decisions to optimize fuel usage. Airlines such as Lufthansa, Aer Lingus and Thomas Cook are already turning to fuel efficiency technologies to save on fuel.
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Improved fuel efficiency
There are fuel efficiency solutions available that come as a subscription model, with four main components: data collection, data quality assurance, analysis and communication. The best of breed of these solutions collect, monitor and analyze data from different airline systems, then compare this information with data from past flights.
This approach helps airline operators identify new ways to reduce fuel costs. Because the solution works in real time, it gives pilots customized and actionable information about how to best optimize fuel consumption at exactly the time they need it. By monitoring current fuel usage and identifying opportunities for savings, these solutions significantly reduce overall operational costs and carbon footprint for airline operators in three ways:
Help pilots find shortcuts: Harnessing data analytics allows pilots – before or during a flight – to look at historical flight trajectories for a flight path. Pilots can then request suggested shortcuts from the solution in real time to save fuel and shorten journeys.
Ensure planes take optimal taxi routes: Pilots can view historical information about airports to help them make informed decisions regarding fuel-saving initiatives – like using a single engine to taxi out to the runway.
Reduce fuel waste: Data analytics allows airlines to better calculate the amount of fuel a plane needs for a journey. Without the software, the calculation for fuel is more of a rough estimate, and pilots may load up to 5 or 10% of contingency. It takes 3-4 kilos of fuel, for each flight hour, to carry 100 kilos. This means that, when aircraft are flying with excess fuel weight, they are paying a carriage penalty. By cross-checking fuel slips, operators and pilots can get a better idea of the amount of fuel a plane should carry.
It's important to remember that the fuel saved through these solutions not only helps airlines cut costs, but also helps them meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
Last year, International Airlines Group – the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, LEVEL and Vueling – deployed the GoDirect Flight Efficiency software across its fleet of more than 500 aircraft to reduce carbon emissions and optimize fuel usage. Similarly, as part of their goal to cut carbon emissions, IAG invested in this technology so its airlines could further optimize fuel consumption by analyzing aircraft performance and sharing best practices across the group.
Other forward thinking airlines are also turning to this software for economic benefits and to meet carbon emission targets.
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Otakar Štáfl (30. prosince 1884 Německý Brod – 14. února 1945 Praha) byl český malíř a ilustrátor.

Život a dílo
Narodil se 30. prosince 1884 v Německém Brodě (dnes Havlíčkův Brod). Jeho otec Josef Štáfl byl místním řezbářem, mimo jiné vyřezal i známého brodského Hnáta. Od roku 1897 studoval na místním gymnáziu, které však s nesouhlasem rodičů v roce 1903 opustil. Odešel do Prahy věnovat se své zálibě – malířství. Kreslit a malovat začal již v mládí. V Praze byl přijat do krajinářské školy Ferdinanda Engelmüllera. Už jako žák získal za akvarely vystavené v Rudolfinu první honorář. Svou pilnou prací si postupně získával vážnost a jméno v uměleckém světě. Kreslil pražská zákoutí a roku 1907 je vystavil v Počátkách. Perokresbami zdokumentoval Chrudim pro knihu profesora Mušky O staré Chrudimi (1907). Velké množství jeho obrázků, převážně s architektonickými motivy, bylo publikováno téměř okamžitě v časopisech Český svět, Zlatá Praha a jiných uměleckých časopisech té doby.

Roku 1910 se oženil s dcerou ředitele nakladatelství Politika Václavou Brychtovou. V tomto nakladatelství získal zaměstnání jako grafik a navrhoval plakáty. Na vídeňské výstavě Ex libris v roce 1913 byly velmi úspěšné jeho knižní značky. Jeho fantazie a láska k přírodě se nejvíce projevila v knižních ilustracích, zejména pro děti a mládež. Kresbou, dřevorytem i akvarelem ilustroval desítky knih.

Za první světové války organizoval humanitární akce ve prospěch sirotků a válečných vdov a angažoval se ve veřejném životě rodného města. Po válce se zasloužil o vybudování pomníku Karla Havlíčka a o vznik Havlíčkova muzea. V roce 1917 se rozvedl a v roce 1927 znovu oženil s Vlastou Koškovou, v té době známou spisovatelkou pohádek a dívčích románů.

Od 1. dubna 1929 byli manželé Štáflovi nájemci chaty u Popradského plesa v Tatrách. Iniciovali vznik Symbolického cintorína u Popradského plesa pod západní stěnou Ostrvy, kde mají také od roku 1947 pamětní tabuli.

Nejproslulejší je jako malíř Tater, kde prožil značnou část svého života. Jejich krásu zachytil nejen v nesčetných akvarelech, ale i v monumentálních olejích. V roce 1928 vyšel tiskem cyklus 120 akvarelů z Vysokých Tater. Dva obrazy s motivy z Vysokých Tater byly dokonce vydány na poštovních známkách.

Štáfl nemaloval jen Tatry. Nezapomínal ani na svou rodnou Vysočinu. Mezi jeho nejoblíbenější patřily vršky mezi Zbožicí a Horní Krupou, ale i v Havlíčkově Borové, na Humpolecku a Chotěbořsku. Zde všude maloval nejvíce v posledních letech svého života, za druhé světové války.

14. února 1945 byl jeho ateliér na Vinohradech zasažen bombou spojeneckých letadel. V troskách domu manželé Štáflovi zahynuli. Z jejich velké umělecko-historické knihovny zbylo pouhé torzo. Dnes je uložené v muzeu v Havlíčkově Brodě. V Brodě, v jeho rodném městě, mu byl v roce 1957 otevřen památník. Umístěn byl do obranné věže středověkého opevnění, která stojí v těsné blízkosti místa, kde stávala rodná chalupa Otakara Štáfla. V této "Štáflově baště" najdeme šest z původních osmi plastických obrazů ze života Karla Havlíčka.

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The 7th arrondissement of Paris (VIIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as septième.
View of the Eiffel Tower and the Invalides.
The arrondissement, called Palais-Bourbon, includes some of the major and well-known tourist attractions of Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, the Hôtel des Invalides (Napoleon's resting place), the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, and a concentration of such world-famous museums as the Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin, and the Musée du quai Branly.
Situated on the Rive Gauche—the "Left" bank of the River Seine—this central arrondissement, which includes the historical aristocratic neighbourhood of Faubourg Saint-Germain, contains a number of French national institutions, among them the French National Assembly and numerous government ministries. It is also home to many foreign diplomatic embassies, some of them occupying outstanding Hôtels particuliers.
The arrondissement has been home to the French upper class since the 17th century, when it became the new residence of French highest nobility. The district has been so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg—referring to the ancient name of the current 7th arrondissement—has been used to describe French nobility ever since. The 7th arrondissement of Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine form the most affluent and prestigious residential area in France.
Construction of Hôtel de Salm, 1787. Paris, Musée Carnavalet.
During the 17th century, French high nobility started to move from the central Marais, the then-aristocratic district of Paris where nobles used to build their urban mansions (see Hotel de Soubise), to the clearer, less populated and less polluted Faubourg Saint-Germain.
The district became so fashionable within the French aristocracy that the phrase le Faubourg has been used to describe French nobility ever since. The oldest and most prestigious families of the French nobility built outstanding residences in the area, such as the Hôtel Matignon, the Hôtel de Salm, and the Hôtel Biron.
After the Revolution many of these mansions, offering magnificent inner spaces, many reception rooms and exquisite decoration, were confiscated and turned into national institutions. The French expression "les ors de la Republique" (literally "the golds of the Republic"), referring to the luxurious environment of the national palaces (outstanding official residences and priceless works of art), comes from that time.
During the Restauration, the Faubourg recovered its past glory as the most exclusive high nobility district of Paris and was the political heart of the country, home to the Ultra Party. After the Fall of Charles X, the district lost most of its political influence but remained the center of the French upper class' social life.
During the 19th century, the arrondissement hosted no fewer than five Universal Exhibitions (1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, 1900) that have immensely impacted its cityscape. The Eiffel Tower and the Orsay building were built for these Exhibitions (respectively in 1889 and 1900).
The land area of the arrondissement is 4.088 km² (1.578 sq. miles, or 1,010 acres).
The 7th arrondissement attained its peak population in 1926 when it had 110,684 inhabitants. Because it is the location of so many French government bodies, this arrondissement has never been as densely populated as some of the others. In 1999, the population was 56,985, while the arrondissement provided 76,212 jobs.
Hôtel de Boisgelin (Rue de Varenne, Paris), historic building, home to the Italian embassy in Paris.
Air Liquide, Alcatel-Lucent, and Valode & Pistre have their head offices in this arrondissement.
Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian international school, maintains two campuses in the arrondissement. The American University of Paris, a private liberal arts university, maintains several buildings near the Quai d'Orsay.
The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Education have their head offices in the arrondissement.
The arrondissement hosted the equestrian events for the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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^ "Mentions légales." Ministry of Agriculture. 8 June 2007. Retrieved on 6 May 2011. "Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation, de la Pêche, de la Ruralité et de l'Aménagement du territoire 78, rue de Varenne - 75349 Paris 07 SP"
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@protocol BrowserObserving <NSObject>
- (void)browserDestroyed:(Browser*)browser;
@end

// Observer that bridges Browser events to an Objective-C observer that
// implements the BrowserObserver protocol (the observer is *not* owned).
class BrowserObserverBridge final : public BrowserObserver {
 public:
  // Creates a bridge which observes `browser`, forwarding events to `observer`.
  // This class will handle ending observation after forwarding BrowserDestroyed
  // calls to the Objective-C observer.
  BrowserObserverBridge(Browser* browser, id<BrowserObserving> observer);
  ~BrowserObserverBridge() final;

  // Not copyable or moveable.
  BrowserObserverBridge(const BrowserObserverBridge&) = delete;
  BrowserObserverBridge& operator=(const BrowserObserverBridge&) = delete;

 private:
  // BrowserObserver
  void BrowserDestroyed(Browser* browser) override;
  __weak id<BrowserObserving> observer_ = nil;
  base::ScopedObservation<Browser, BrowserObserver> browser_observation_{this};
};

#endif  // IOS_CHROME_BROWSER_MAIN_BROWSER_OBSERVER_BRIDGE_H_

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require 'fileutils'

# Injectable file storage module to use instead of S3File in specs
class MockFile
  TMP_PATH_PARTS = %w[tmp mockfs].freeze
  private_constant :TMP_PATH_PARTS

  NAMESPACE = 'bulk_processor'.freeze
  private_constant :NAMESPACE

  # Use this to manually clean up after each spec that creates a file
  def self.cleanup
    FileUtils.rm_rf(base_dir.join(*TMP_PATH_PARTS, NAMESPACE))
  end

  def self.base_dir
    Pathname.new(BulkProcessor.config.temp_directory)
  end

  def initialize(key)
    @key = "#{NAMESPACE}/#{key}"
  end

  def write(contents)
    dir_path = self.class.base_dir.join(*TMP_PATH_PARTS, *key.split('/')[0..-2])
    FileUtils.mkdir_p(dir_path)
    File.open(full_path, 'w') do |file|
      file.write(contents)
    end
    full_path
  end

  def open
    raise 'File does not exist' unless exists?
    with_temp_file do |local_file|
      File.open(full_path, 'r') do |file|
        local_file.write(file.read)
        local_file.rewind
        yield local_file
      end
    end
  end

  def exists?
    File.exist?(full_path)
  end

  def delete
    FileUtils.rm_f(full_path)
  end

  private

  attr_reader :key

  def full_path
    self.class.base_dir.join(*TMP_PATH_PARTS, *key.split('/'))
  end

  def with_temp_file
    file = Tempfile.new('test_file_storage', self.class.base_dir)
    yield file
  ensure
    file.close if file && !file.closed?
    file.try(:unlink)
  end
end


Storm water runoff is the rainfall or snowmelt that runs off permeable surfaces or impervious surfaces like roads, buildings, sidewalks or compacted ground surfaces.
Storm water can flow directly to streams and lakes or it may be transported by municipal storm drain systems. Unlike sanitary sewers, storm drains do not lead to treatment plants, but drain directly into our streams and lakes.
And according to a six year study conducted by EPA, urban storm water contains concentrations of pollutants that are equal to or larger than non-urban runoff.
As communities grow, they often experience more storm water runoff problems due to their increasing impervious surface areas. Rainfall and snowmelt that would normally infiltrate into the soil becomes runoff. This increases both the volume and rate of runoff, which leads to flooding, streambank erosion, and potential damages to public and private property and water quality.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is working in a variety of ways to improve storm water quality. Certain activities and specific municipalities and universities must obtain permits with requirements that are intended to reduce the impact of storm water on our lakes and streams. In addition, DNR and its partners have developed a number of storm water "tools" to assist developers, builders, cities and individual Iowans.
Traditional storm water management strategies focused on conveyance and detention. Storm drains were designed to move storm water off urban landscapes to detention basins to reduce downstream flooding. The Iowa Storm Water Management Manual provides storm water management strategies that compliment the storm drain network and flood control efforts of the past. The manual provides information on runoff and stream flow changes with urban development, uniform sizing criteria, low impact development alternatives and design guideline for practices that protect water quality and reduce stream corridor erosion.
Historically, 90 percent of annual rainfall has been from events that are less the 1.25 inches. A primary focus of the manual is to provide design guidelines for practices that infiltrate small runoff events to protect water quality. The manual also provides design guidelines for stream corridor protection, which is important because stream corridor erosion causes up to 70 percent of sediment loading in urban areas. These practices provide significant water quality benefits, and protect pipelines, sanitary sewers and other infrastructure. Adding water quality and channel protection practices to traditional storm drain network and flood control practices will make our storm water management strategies more holistic and effective.


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