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My tip: Discover modern & vibrant Rotterdam!
Rotterdam is one of the coolest cities in Holland, but you do need to know which spots you should visit!
Whenever I'm travelling, the exact details of the program depend on the destination, but I always want to absorb the local culture. I like to visit local festivals, events and museums, and I love strolling around for hours. As that requires quite a bit of energy, I make sure to stop and try all (local) food and dishes I encounter on my way.
Rotterdam is known, among other things, as a port city and because of its impressive, modern architecture. It has a lot of modern highlights (like the Euromast), but did you know that Rotterdam has the largest museum port in the world? Amble through the city center and you'll find the most extraordinary authentic ships!
If you wish to spend a night on the town, Rotterdam is one of the best places to visit. It has lots of old bars and many large clubs and concert halls. Apart from that, Rotterdam has a strong underground scene, countless festivals and events and many exceptional cocktail bars.
Rotterdam is also a true paradise for foodies. You can try special and fresh products in one of the local artisanal shops or by visiting the beautiful Markthal. There are also many delicious options for having a bite to eat. Rotterdam is also a true university town, so there are more than enough options for people with a tight budget!
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REUTERS: The Flydubai Boeing 737-800 that crashed in Russia last month was flown in a contradictory manner minutes before it hit the ground, a statement from investigators said, suggesting pilot error was to blame.
The 737 came down in the early hours of March 19 at Rostov-on-Don airport in southern Russia on its second attempt to land after flying from Dubai.
All 62 people on board were killed.
Poor weather conditions, including strong winds and rain, made landing difficult.
In a statement on Friday, the Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), which is investigating the crash, said the plane had been flown in a contradictory manner in the minutes before it crashed. It said the crew had decided to abort landing and circle round again. They had begun to gain altitude when the controls of the plane were abruptly pushed away, pushing its nose lower.That, combined with the angle of the tail fin, sent the plane into a steep dive which the pilots were unable to pull out of, the IAC said. It stopped short of saying the pilots were definitely to blame, noting they had the necessary experience and training, but said their condition and actions were being evaluated. The IAC said it now needed to complete work on deciphering the pilots' final conversations in the hours leading up to the crash before it could wrap up its investigation.
Unnamed sources have told Russian newspapers that an initial read-out of the plane's flight recorders had suggested the two pilots argued about the right course of action to take in the minutes before the crash.
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Finding music at Found Sound: Chicago
One of the summer's most intriguing musical events in Chicago took place Saturday (Aug. 13). The venue? Various porches, backyards, storefronts and balconies scattered around the West Town and Ukrainian Village neighborhoods. This was Found Sound: Chicago, billed as "a series of intimate music & audio art performances." I wasn't able to see it all, but I did catch the first three performances of the day.
At 1 p.m., the musician-artist Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave, was sitting out on his front porch on Winchester with a banjo, an amp, various effects pedals and an extension cord running up to a window a couple of stories higher. Some people, maybe 20 or so, wandered up and sat down near the sidewalk or stood nearby as Krakow created a droning wash of sound, sometimes tapping the body of his banjo, sometimes plucking or bowing it. A few passersby who didn't appear to know what Found Sound was all about paused to listen and watch.
Half an hour later, many of the people attending this performance walked a few blocks to a backyard, where the Lawrence Peters Outfit played some nicely old-fashioned country songs, including originals that Peters wrote for his band's brand-new debut album, What You Been Missin'. The sunny day turned dark and cloudy as Peters played, and as a rainstorm loomed and the wind started to toss around the overhead power lines, Peters played an appropriate tune, the lovely and understated closing track from his CD, "The Wind."
By the time when the third act of the day, Mark Booth, began his performance inside the Corbett vs. Dempsey art gallery, it was pouring rain outside. Some hail even tinkled against the windows. Booth used a laptop to create a sound collage that began with the antique sounds of a gramophone and melted into a variety of creaks, buzzes and hums.
What did I miss the rest of the day? Performances by Heartichoke, Andy Slater, the meme, Matthew Hale Clark, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan and Shearing Pinx, and Judson Claiborne. Kudos to Penny Duff and Michale Slaboch for creating Found Sound. Wouldn't it be cool if this sort of thing happened on a regular basis in places around the city?
Here's a video from the Found Sound: Chicago website with some of the days highlights:
Found Sound: Chicago | August 13th, 2011 from Found Sound: Chicago on Vimeo.


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Americans represented among Synod of Bishops experts September 25, 2012 CNA Daily News
Vatican City, Sep 25, 2012 / 03:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has appointed 10 Catholics from the United States as advisers and auditors for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops in Rome.
The gathering of 200 bishops from around the globe will take place at the Vatican Oct. 7-28 under the title of "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith."
The experts and auditors are not voting members of the synod but are available to give advice and help to the participating bishops. On Sept. 22 Pope Benedict nominated 45 such experts and 49 observers.
Among the five experts from the United States are Dr. Ralph Martin of Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit and Sr. Sara Butler of St. Mary of the Lake University in Mundelein.
Carl Anderson, the Supreme Knight of the global fraternal organization the Knights of Columbus, is one of the five American auditors invited to participate by Pope Benedict along with the founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, Curtis Martin.
This year's Synod of Bishops will also help launch Pope Benedict's Year of Faith which is aimed at rolling out the Church's "new evangelization" of the Western world.
Of the 94 experts and auditors appointed, 29 are female – a record number for a Synod of Bishops. Geographically, the majority are drawn from Europe.
The synod also marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the 20th of the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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"Give me your hand John walk with me"
John was a devoted family man, he really liked his wife Juliet, they both hung out together everywhere.
John was a recent medical graduate and Juliet was an accountant at a large accounting firm.
They had been married for about 2 years but were having fertility issues, couldn't have children, were exhausted from trying so hard.
"I will never be a mother, because God made me this I didn't hurt anyone to have this punishment" said Juliet in John's arms in tears that fell from his face and plunged into his open mouth in suffering and anguish.
John tried to calm Juliet, but he himself was desperate inside, he wanted so much to be a father that he even woke up at night when he was dreaming that he had his son on his lap rocking him to sleep.
The days went by, time didn't stop and the years went by.
John, the doctor, was increasingly desperate, he wanted so much to be a father and Juliet even thought that at the end of his life that suffering was enormous and they had already gone through two miscarriages that left deep marks on their human feelings.
A friend of John Derek's called him for a snack at the cafe around the corner and told John he had an idea.
"John to so many children wanting a home, a family and who are alone abandoned looking around with hope of being adopted because they don't give hope to one of these children."
John after so long smiled despite being a forced smile but it gave hope at that moment but the doubts of how Juliet would react will be that she would accept to adopt a child.
That day John left work early and went straight home where Juliet was waiting for him sitting on the big sofa in the living room she also wanted to talk to John.
"John, I have something to ask you" Juliet said with a smile on her lips after so many years.
"Juliet, I have something to ask you too, but tell me first I haven't seen you smiling like that in so long." said john
"John last night I had a dream and I wanted to tell you, I dreamed that we were both at a children's center to adopt a child and that this child was a boy with round brown eyes and curly hair who as soon as he saw us ran to hug us and call them to the parents"
"You want to adopt a child John" said Juliet with a smile, but at the same time with a tear that fell in the corner of her eye.
Juliet was exactly what I wanted to ask you, Derek was talking to me, and he gave me this idea and on the way I came full of fear that you wouldn't accept this idea of adopting a child but I'm happy, tomorrow we're going to a foster center without delay be a family me, you and our son.
John had a brother he hadn't seen in many years at birth John's father had been in a serious car accident and John had lost his parents very early, his brother and he were taken care of by an aunt of his but his brother named Peter was live with another aunt because the possibilities were few and that's why they had to separate when they were about 5 years old.
His last names were Smith and his brother was Peter Smith and he was John Smith.
It was around 8 am the next morning and John barely slept the night and Juliet didn't even close her eyes to go to the foster center early to deal with the process and adopt a child.
Very early, she rang the bell of an orphanage well known in the region.
A 50 year old lady came to the door with a wide smile and said good morning and invited John and Juliet in.
At that time there were already many children awake, some playing in the nurseries, and many still having breakfast, but everyone looked at John and Juliet with a smile in their bright eyes, feeling that it could be their turn.
On the way inside the orphanage John felt something hitting his legs it was a red ball that a boy with round brown eyes and curly hair had thrown, he must have been about 5 years old, Juliet immediately glued her eyes to that boy it was like the one in her dream .
Something in the boy's and Juliet's eyes touched and John felt something tighten in his heart.
"Juliet I don't know what I have my heart started to skip I don't know what this boy feels like a part of me something familiar something I feel." said john
They immediately went to the part of the records that the child would be their child they would be their parents.
Said the person in charge of the orphanage. "This child has a very sad story, he was orphaned very early and has been here for about 2 years, his parents died in an accident near his house when on a curve the car crashed he was the only survivor do you want to know his name? "
Juliet and John hand in hand nodded in a long affirmative sign and she said: "This child is named Jonathan Smith, his parents also had difficulties getting pregnant and after so much suffering, but unfortunately this accident has left this child orphan".
John shed a tear it sounded like his story but he folded it and asked the name of the child's biological father the person in charge of the orphanage and she said "Let me see in the records the mother is called Lara and the father Peter Smith he had a brother John Smith and lived with an aunt as a child."
"It's my brother, that child is my nephew" John said, sobbing in tears with Juliet holding his hands.
Juliet and John adopted the child who was her nephew, and in tears John asked the orphanage manager, "Do you know where my brother is buried?"
"Yes, I know it's in a small village in the Cotswolds where he used to live in a small house, it's in this village graveyard."
John took the child home and the next day he, the child and Juliet went to the cemetery where John's brother was buried among the long graves he saw a gleaming one with two huge vases and a marble stone inscribed with Lara and Peter Smith with your photos side by side.
João held the child's hand and Juliet's other and said: "Peter fate wanted your son and my nephew to have someone at home to take care of him and he joined me, I promise you and your wife Lara that I will be a good father to him, I know that if you were here you would also be a good father to him, your boy will not lack anything I will take care of him."
In tears John left a rose on his brother's grave and continued with his promise to father that child.
The fate that often separates us, also often brings us closer. Just believe that nothing is by chance.
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The purpose of the North Olmsted Community Council is to provide a forum for the exchange of information between member organizations and the promotion of overall community activities. It is noncommercial, nonsectarian, and non-partisan. North Olmsted Community Council shall serve it's membership by the provision of networking services, promotion of community events and hosting recognition or award ceremonies which strive to spotlight member organizations.
North Olmsted Community Council gives back to the community annually by way of scholarships and funding projects to improve the North Olmsted Community Park for our citizens.
The North Olmsted Citizen of the Year is recognized for contributions and services rendered to the North Olmsted Community.
The 2019 COTY will be announced on April 25th.
The annual Homecoming Festival is the premier event sponsored by NOCC. Four days in August the Park is transformed into a midway with food, rides, amusements, music, and more!
Come and join other philanthropic and non-profit North Olmsted organizations as we combine our forces to support our great city.


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BACKGROUND With the advent of new and more efficient anti-androgen drugs targeting androgen receptor (AR) in breast cancer (BC) is becoming an increasingly important area of investigation. This would potentially be most useful in triple negative BC (TNBC), where better therapies are still needed. The assessment of AR status is generally performed on the primary tumor even if the tumor has already metastasized. Very little is known regarding discrepancies of AR status during tumor progression. To determine the prevalence of AR positivity, with emphasis on TNBCs, and to investigate AR status during tumor progression, we evaluated a large series of primary BCs and matching metastases and recurrences. METHODS AR status was performed on 356 primary BCs, 135 matching metastases, and 12 recurrences using a next-generation Tissue Microarray (ngTMA). A commercially available AR antibody was used to determine AR-status by immunohistochemistry. AR positivity was defined as any nuclear staining in tumor cells ≥1 %. AR expression was correlated with pathological tumor features of the primary tumor. Additionally, the concordance rate of AR expression between the different tumor sites was determined. RESULTS AR status was positive in: 87 % (307/353) of primary tumors, 86.1 % (105/122) of metastases, and in 66.7 % (8/12) of recurrences. TNBC tested positive in 11.4 %, (4/35) of BCs. A discrepant result was seen in 4.3 % (5/117) of primary BC and matching lymph node (LN) metastases. Three AR negative primary BCs were positive in the matching LN metastasis, representing 17.6 % of all negative BCs with lymph node metastases (3/17). Two AR positive primary BCs were negative in the matching LN metastasis, representing 2.0 % of all AR positive BCs with LN metastases (2/100). No discrepancies were seen between primary BC and distant metastases or recurrence (n = 17). CONCLUSIONS Most primary (87 %) and metastasized (86.1 %) BCs are AR positive including a significant fraction of TNBCs (11.4 %). Further, AR status is highly conserved during tumor progression and a change only occurs in a small fraction (4.1 %). Our study supports the notion that targeting AR could be effective for many BC patients and that re-testing of AR status in formerly negative or mixed type BC's is recommended.


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US Using Export Control Tools to Sanction Chinese Company SenseTime Group
By Juliet Wei | December 11, 2021
Juliet Wei covers China news and U.S.-China relations and has worked as a correspondent with Senate and House Correspondent Credential at Washington DC. She holds an M.A. in Specialized Journalism from the University of Southern California.
U.S. White House (Image: Vision Times/Juliet Wei)
On Dec. 10, the White House released a "Joint Statement on the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative" that commits "to use export control tools to prevent the proliferation of software and other technologies used to enable serious human rights abuses."
The announcement was made on Human Rights Day, just as Biden's Summit for Democracy was ending.
According to the statement, "authoritarian governments increasingly are using surveillance tools and other related technologies in connection with serious human rights abuses, both within their countries and across international borders, including in acts of transnational repression to censor political opposition and track dissidents."
On the same day, the U.S. Treasury added Chinese artificial intelligence company "SenseTime Group Limited", based in Hong Kong, to a list of "Chinese military-industrial complex companies," accusing it of developing facial recognition programs that can determine a target's ethnicity, with a particular focus on identifying ethnic Uyghurs.
As a result, the company will fall under an investment ban for U.S. investors. SenseTime is close to issuing 1.5 billion shares in an initial public offering (IPO). After news of the Treasury restrictions earlier this week, the company began discussing the fate of the planned $767 million offering with Hong Kong's stock exchange, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
U.S. Treasury added Chinese artificial intelligence company "SenseTime Group Limited", based in Hong Kong, to a list of "Chinese military-industrial complex companies," accusing it of developing facial recognition programs(Image: U.S. Treasury)
As U.N. experts and rights groups estimated, more than a million people, mainly Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities, have been detained in recent years in a vast system of camps in China's far-west region of Xinjiang.
China denies abuses in Xinjiang, but the U.S. government and many rights groups say Beijing is carrying out genocide there.
According to the Fact Sheet of Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative launched at the Summit for Democracy in July, the United States Government has added to the Commerce Department's Entity List entities located in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that have been enabling human rights abuses against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang, where the PRC continues to commit genocide.
This action prevents the entities from gaining access to U.S. technology.
In mid-October, the United States Government released an interim final rule establishing controls on the export, re-export, or transfer of certain items used for malicious cyber activities. The proposed rule will target custom-made hacking tools, which have legitimate law enforcement and intelligence applications.
U.S. officials are also considering discussing a Defense Department proposal this month to close regulatory loopholes that have allowed Chinese chipmaker SMIC to buy critical U.S. technology, the WSJ reported.
New restrictions have been placed on SMIC exports since September 2020. The United States concluded that SMIC 's chips may be used by the Chinese military.
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Hong Kong Police Adopts Marching Style of Authoritarian Regimes
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Chinese Pop Star Denise Ho Arrested by Hong Kong's National Security Police Along with 6 Others
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JERUSALEM, June 14 — Palestinian civil servants stormed the parliament building in the West Bank on Wednesday demanding back pay and chanting "We are hungry!"
Fistfights broke out as protesters hurled plastic water bottles at legislators from Hamas, the militant group that controls parliament, forcing the speaker to flee the building.
It was the second violent protest this week at parliament, in Ramallah, and underscored growing pressure on the Hamas government on several fronts.
Much of the Western aid that had been used to run the Palestinian Authority has been withheld since Hamas took over the government after winning January elections. Many Muslim nations had pledged their support, but international banks, most tied to the American system, have refused to transfer money from other donors.
So on Wednesday, the Hamas foreign minister, Mahmoud Zahar, crossed over into Gaza from Egypt carrying what Palestinian officials said was $20 million in cash in his suitcases. He was returning from a long trip to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Pakistan, Iran and Egypt.
Hamas, responsible for many of the deadliest suicide attacks against Israel, has refused to renounce violence or recognize the Israeli state since it won control of parliament in January.
Though a substantial sum, the $20 million is a fraction of $120 million the Palestinian Authority needs each month just for the salaries of its 165,000 employees, most of whom have not been paid for four months. Its current budget would require an additional $45 million for all costs other than salaries.
A power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, the party it ousted from power, continues to worsen. About two dozen people have been killed in recent weeks in factional fighting, including a Hamas gunman in southern Gaza on Wednesday. The protesters at the parliament, which was also attacked Monday night along with two cabinet buildings, were reported largely to be loyal to Fatah.
"We deplore and regret these incidents," Ismail Haniya, the prime minister and a top Hamas leader, said after the death of the gunman, The Associated Press reported. "The government is going to carry out its responsibilities along with the security branches in order to maintain law and order."
To defuse the tensions, Mr. Haniya and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and a member of Fatah, have agreed to a series of talks, which continued on Wednesday.
Mr. Abbas, a moderate, has been pressing Hamas to accept even implicit recognition of Israel, a move aimed at freeing up foreign money and restarting peace talks with Israel. Barring that, Mr. Abbas has said he will schedule a referendum next month calling for a Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders, a proposal that polls indicate most Palestinians support.
Hamas's leadership strongly opposes the referendum as illegal and an effort to undermine the party's election victory.
But there were indications on Wednesday that the two sides might have made progress on the difficult question of the Hamas militia, which is still outside government control. Fatah officials said Hamas had agreed to steps to integrate about 3,000 fighters into the security forces, though no timetable was given. Hamas has already agreed in principle to such a move.
Mr. Zahar was allowed to bring his cash into Gaza on Wednesday. Since the international banks refused to transfer funds to the Palestinians, at least two other Hamas leaders have been stopped at the border between Egypt and Gaza carrying large amounts of cash.
The earlier shipments, totaling some $5 million, had been confiscated but then released, supposedly to the Palestinian government. Some employees received part of their back pay a week ago, but some Palestinians suggested that the money might not have gone to the Finance Ministry but instead was used by Hamas to pay its loyalists.
The conflict between Palestinians and the Israeli military was largely quiet on Wednesday. The Israeli military reported that Palestinians had fired a rocket toward Israel from Gaza, but that it landed in the desert without hitting anyone.
In recent months, the number of rocket attacks has increased significantly, to nearly 100 this month alone. Last week, during an Israeli retaliatory attack, seven members of a Palestinian family were killed on a beach in Gaza, causing Hamas to call off its 16-month truce.
On Tuesday, however, the Israeli military contended that an internal investigation showed its munitions had not been responsible, a finding rejected by the Palestinians.
The deaths, and 10 more in Gaza on Tuesday, among them 8 civilians, came at a sensitive time, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made his first trip in office to Europe. He met Wednesday with President Jacques Chirac of France, trying to persuade Mr. Chirac to accept Israeli plans to withdraw unilaterally from parts of the West Bank in the absence of a peace with the Palestinians.
"The realignment plan is inevitable," he told reporters in France. "It will be implemented."


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ESL One New York 2016
Prize pool $250,000
End date Oct 3, 2016
Prize pool - $250,000
1. $125,000 USD 5-6. $8,500 USD
2. $50,000 USD 7. $5,000 USD
3-4. $25,000 USD 8. $3,000 USD
Fnatic G2 Esports
Team Liquid Natus Vincere
SK Gaming Virtus.pro
Astralis OpTic Gaming
One group of eight teams each
Swiss-format
Best-of-one series
First four teams go straight to the semifinals
Bottom four teams are eliminated
Single-Elimination
Best-of-three series
Location: New York City, United States
Regional qualifiers
Top 1 team advance to Main Event
Sep 29, 2016 Go to tournament
Playoffs - Playoffs
Round 1 - Round 1
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Sep 4, 2016 Go to tournament
ESL One New York 2016 North America Qualifier
ESL One: New York 2016 - Natus Vincere are the champions
The grand final of ESL One New York saw Na'Vi defeating Virtus.pro 2-1 after a nail-biting over-time on the decider map, Mirage.
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ESL One: New York 2016 - Virtus.Pro to Grand Final
Virtus.Pro have secured a victory over SK Gaming in a best-of-three series, their next stop is facing the CIS mix of Natus Vincere in the Grand Final of ESL One: New York 2016.
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ESL One: New York 2016 - Na'Vi to Grand Final
Natus Vincere have secured their placement in the Grand Final of ESL One: New York 2016 after defeating Team Liquid in a best-of-three series.
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ESL One: New York 2016 - Day two recap
Day two saw a total of seven matchups, which concluded with all four semi-finalists of the event decided.
ESL One: New York 2016 - Day one recap
The first day of ESL One: New York is in the books. Here's a look at what happened.
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OpTic Gaming qualify for ESL One: New York 2016
OpTic Gaming have secured a placement at the upcoming ESL One: New York 2016, after outperforming none other than Cloud9.
CS:GO 9/28/16, 7:03 PM Aleksei.L
ESL announce closed qualifiers for New York
ESL announce information regarding the two remaining spots for the $250,000 LAN event held in New York, USA this October.
CS:GO 9/2/16, 1:47 AM Aleksei.L
Fnatic announced as sixth invite to ESL One New York
The majorly reformed Fnatic roster are confirmed as the sixth team at ESL One New York.
CS:GO 8/23/16, 8:05 PM gnohmchild
Na'Vi to ESL One: New York
Natus Vincere have received an invite to participate at ESL One: New York held at the Barclays Center this October.
CS:GO 8/11/16, 12:43 AM Aleksei.L
Virtus.Pro announced as fourth invite to ESL One New York
Shortly after their invite to IEM Oakland, Virtus.Pro were announced as the fourth invite to the second big tournament this fall in the United States.
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Our governing body of 12 councillors focuses on the big picture and on region-wide strategic decisions. Following the local government elections in October 2016, a council of part-elected, part-appointed members took office, replacing Government-appointed commissioners who had been in place for six years.
I am delighted to be in the role of Chairman of Environment Canterbury. It is not a role that I take lightly, as it comes with significant responsibility for the future of our region. Prior to becoming an elected member of the Environment Canterbury Council, I have been closely involved with the Canterbury Water Management Strategy at both a local and regional level, and I bring this experience to the Council table to help address the two top priorities of this Council: freshwater management and biodiversity (or biological diversity).
Climate change is also a major focus for me as Chairman. Not in isolation, but as an integral consideration in all the decisions that the Council makes. Our role is in helping the region to adapt to the impacts that a changing climate will bring about. We are already dealing with the consequences of a warming planet, and I undertake to keep climate change front and centre of future thinking.
Another passion of mine is to see sustainable, low-carbon, wi-fi enabled public transport system that reflects the needs of the community.
I am proud to be leading a Council of diverse, well-informed elected and appointed members, who can represent the communities often contrary views. From having different standpoints represented on Council comes good debate and robust decisions. Restoring and maintaining the balance between cultural, social, economic and environmental imperatives is a long- game and I am pleased to say that we are making progress.
I bring to the role of Deputy Chairman the balance of a thorough understanding of farming in this region, and a deep appreciation of the resources we need to protect. My family has been farming for a number of generations and it is exactly because of my agricultural background that I care so deeply about how we treat the environment. The South Canterbury economy depends on its highly developed farmland, but over the past two decades, some of our most precious assets have been poorly allocated. I am passionate about getting the balance right – so we can all continue to benefit from the productive use of our land while protecting the environment for future generations.
I have been involved with the Canterbury Water Management Strategy since 2008, and I bring years of experience to my role on Council. My South Canterbury roots mean I am also closely involved in urban winter air quality work, particularly in the Timaru airshed, where great progress has been made towards cleaner air.
My governance experience includes Chair of the ACC, Chair of the Electricity Commission, Chair of the Education New Zealand Trust, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Official Statistics, Deputy Chair of the Commerce Commission and Board member of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.
In 2011 I led the panel established to review the operation and effectiveness of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, and from 2010 to 2016 I was an appointed Commissioner for Environment Canterbury.
I served three terms as a Christchurch City Councillor and six terms as a Member of Parliament, holding Ministerial portfolios in Health, Trade and Industry, and Finance, before reverting to the law as a partner in Buddle Findlay.
I bring a background in politics at both local and national levels as well as governance experience. My work in the electricity sector is occasionally relevant when working through the issues of water allocation.
Iaean's whakapapa is to the Kāti Irakehu, Kāti Kurī and Kāti Makō hapū of Kāi Tahu. He is self-employed and the director of Puaka Ltd. He has been involved in the restoration of Te Roto o Wairewa and its surrounding takiwā. He was a member of the CWMS Banks Peninsula Zone Committee from inception.
He lives in Ōtautahi with his wife and their two children.
Iaean is passionate about the protection and restoration of waterways, particularly as it relates to mahinga kai species and practices, and is also heavily involved in competing in, organising and promoting waka ama (outrigger canoeing), recently competing at the World Championships in Tahiti.
Rod is concerned about the significant and ongoing degradation of Canterbury's waterways and is well qualified for that - possessing a unique set of business and environmental skills.
He is a qualified Lawyer and Accountant, with wide experience as a senior executive in business. As General Manager of North Canterbury Fish & Game he has a unique understanding of, and passion for, our environment. With the dramatic deterioration of our waterways and habitat, he believes land use intensification has come at too high a price. The state of our waterways is not given priority. The severely reduced flows of water in our rivers and streams are not just the result of lack of rainfall - irrigation has been over allocated. Nutrient pollution and poor compliance monitoring are also issues that need to be addressed. Rod believes our waterways must be swimmable, not wadeable, that water is a finite resource and must be sustainably managed.
Elizabeth Cunningham (Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Mutunga) was appointed in August 2015 as a representative of Ngāi Tahu.
She has a wide variety of business and governance experience, including business consultancy and managing health research at the University of Otago. She also had an extensive career in Maori health management for the Canterbury District Health Board's previous entities, the Southern Regional Health Authority and the Health Funding Authority, and was a ministerial appointed member of the Canterbury District Health Board from 2008–13. Elizabeth Cunningham was an elected member of Environment Canterbury for three years from 2004.
Elizabeth comes from Port Levy and is a director of Koukourarata Development Corporation, is a registered Resource Management Act Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, a life member and president of the Rapaki Branch Maori Women's Welfare League and the Chair of the South Island Maori Cancer Leadership group.
I bring a long history of involvement in farming politics and with the farming sector, and was National President of Federated Farmers from 2002-2005. My close association with the development of the Opuha Water Storage Dam developed the experience I bring to Environment Canterbury, with an in-depth understanding of the economic and environmental benefits of good water management and a collaborative community process.
I farm a 415-hectare dairy farm at Pleasant Point, South Canterbury. I am a director of Opuha Water Limited and a former Chancellor of Lincoln University. I have been a trustee of the Todd Foundation, Motu Trust and Hikurangi Ākina Foundation.
I have a diverse range of skills and experience with a background as a veterinarian, farmer and business owner, and latterly the Canterbury Water Management Strategy.
I strongly support the Canterbury Water Management Strategy and its collaborative processes around the key issue of balancing social, cultural, and economic values with responsible environmental objectives as a vital plank in the work of Environment Canterbury.
I seek a common-sense approach to regulations, with achievable timeframes for practical solutions to be implemented. This will drive outcomes that result in a healthy environment for us all. However, every Canterbury citizen has a responsibility to consider the impacts of their actions on the environment and has a part to play in ensuring a sustainable future.
You will find I am approachable, committed to transparent and consultative engagement and problem solving that achieves fair and constructive results.
I am very keen to see a strong Regional Governance that "builds bridges", by developing a greater degree of trust and respect between the Council, the ratepayers, stakeholders, and the public of Canterbury.
I want a united Canterbury that stands proud as one.
I am a freshwater ecologist who believes that putting the health of our people and planet above short-term considerations will enable our society and economy to thrive.
I am founder and trustee of a charitable organisation called Working Waters Trust, that works alongside farmers, schools, Runanga and community groups across Canterbury, Otago and Southland to restore the habitats of New Zealand's most endangered native freshwater fish.
Clean waterways and swimmable rivers aren't simply a "nice to have"; they are essential to healthy communities. We need greater enforcement on resource consent breaches and stronger policy to ensure our polluted waterways get cleaned up. This will help create a thriving, resilient Canterbury economy based on high value goods and services and a genuine "clean, green" New Zealand brand.
I'm committed to policy that provides for the needs of future citizens, which means addressing climate change and investing in modern, world class public transport, and I am working to deliver an environmental legacy we can all be proud of.
This council exists to represent you. Talk to us, inform us and engage with us to ensure we're making the best possible decisions for Canterbury.
Kia ora! I am delighted to serve as one of your councillors. Since being elected in October 2016 I feel very privileged to be in the governance role and contributing to shaping the direction of the organisation.
When I stood for election I was keen to improve outcomes for indigenous biodiversity in Canterbury through using my training (PhD UTAS; M.Appl.Sci Lincoln) and experience as a Science Advisor for the Department of Conservation, running an ecotourism business and my years in teaching and educational management at what was then called Christchurch Polytechnic.
With such a positive response from staff and councillors I am optimistic that this goal will be realised and start to gather momentum. The new Canterbury Regional Pest Management Plan 2018-2038 is a positive sign of this direction as it encompasses more biodiversity pests.
My guiding principles include a commitment to working as a Treaty Partner, valuing people - particularly staff, living sustainably, collaborative decision-making and kaitiakitanga/environmental stewardship.
As an ECan councillor I enjoy the challenge of being part of a team that works to find smarter and sustainable environmental approaches to managing the region's land and coast, its biosecurity and biodiversity, its water quantity and quality, clean air and transport needs.
Peter Robert Skelton is a former Environment Court Judge. He is currently an Environment Canterbury Councillor with portfolio responsibilities for all planning and resource management processes. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Group appointed by the Government in 2011 to review sections 6 and 7 of the Resource Management Act 1991 and to advise on improved legislative provisions for natural hazard planning.
From 2000 to 2005 he was the Associate Professor of Resource Management Law at Lincoln University and on retirement from that position he was appointed an Honorary Professor. He was the first Chair of the Environmental Legal Assistance Advisory Panel and is an Honorary Life Member of the Resource Management Law Association; and the New Zealand Legal Research Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. In the 2001 New Years' Honours List he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to Environmental Law. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Natural Resources by Lincoln University, and in 2017 he was made a Life Member of the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI).
I am a third generation farmer from Leeston, coming from a family with a long record of involvement in the community. Throughout my career, I have maintained this tradition through operational and administrative roles within St John Ambulance in Selwyn Central, as well as participating in and leading many other sports and community groups.
More recently I have been a Selwyn/Waihora Zone committee member and an integral part of the community engagement that has led to the development of the Selwyn/Waihora sub regional chapter. Through this engagement, I have developed an enhanced understanding of both the emotional attachment people have with water and a very good understanding of the science.
My strong community focus along with an extensive knowledge of water management and agriculture will enable me to be a strong governor representing Mid Canterbury.
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Verjneviliuisk () es una localidad urbana ubicada en el centro-oeste de la república de Sajá, Rusia, a la orilla derecha del curso medio-bajo del río Vilyuy —el más largo afluente del río Lena—. Su población en el año 2010 era de 6500 habitantes.

Transportes

La ciudad cuenta con un aeropuerto.

Clima
El clima de Verjneviliuisk de tipo subpolar con inviernos extremadamente fríos, veranos cortos y precipitaciones escasas, si bien en verano son superiores a las otras épocas del año.

Referencias

Localidades de Sajá
Localidades a orillas del río Vilyuy

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Artists Hans Richter
German Painter, Graphic Artist, and Filmmaker
Movements and Styles: Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism
Born: April 6, 1888 - Berlin, Germany
Died: February 1, 1976 - Minusio, Locarno, Switzerland
"The life we led, our follies and our deeds of heroism, our provocations, however 'polemical' and aggressive they may have been, were all part of a tireless quest for an anti-art, a new way of thinking, feeling and knowing."
Summary of Hans Richter
A cosmopolitan figure, Hans Richter's very career embodies the history of modern art from World War I to the 1960s, Dadaism to Constructivism, Surrealism, and Fluxus. As editor of the seminal journal G, he created a vital link between Western European art and the Soviet avant-garde in the 1920s. Even more importantly, he was a pioneering filmmaker, among the first to make purely abstract cinema, and a mentor to American directors of the 1950s and beyond. Personally, Richter experienced the 20th century's political nightmares first-hand, from combat in World War I in which he was severely wounded, to persecution by the Nazis and artistic censure in the Soviet Union. He never saw his art as separate from the conflicts and sufferings of humanity, but instead devoted his art to the creation of a better society.
Profoundly influenced by music, Richter was able to capture the rhythmic nature of abstract forms in paintings, drawings, and films, and to synthesize the oppositions of dark and light, and organic and geometric shapes by using counterpoint like a musician. Richter also collaborated with major composers of his time and considered their scores essential to his films, pioneering the fusion of image and sound in cinema.
Though Richter made both representational and abstract art, he created an abstract visual language that was universal, able to convey not only aesthetic experience but revolutionary political ideas as well.
He transcended 19th century concepts of painting through film, setting static shapes into visual movement. This dynamism of film, made possible through new technology, for him embodied modernity itself.
Richter used a synthesis of abstract forms, Dadaist collage, and the ancient medium of scrolls to create epics of contemporary history, despite the fact that many modernist artists considered history painting to be outmoded.
Richter was born in Berlin into a prosperous Jewish family, one of six children. Richter began to draw in his early high school days, producing several portraits of his schoolmates as well as sketches from nature and urban life. Richter's mother, Ida Gabriele, was an accomplished harpist and pianist and instilled a lifelong love of music in her son. After graduation, Richter decided on a career in art, but his father, Moritz Richter, insisted that he train as an architect. In preparation for a career in architecture, Richter endured a two-year stint as a carpenter and joiner's apprentice in his father's business, the "Mississippi Grass Twine Company" of Berlin.
Hans Richter's childhood, life, career, and various anecdotes Read Hans Richter's Biography
And, the artists and movements that built upon Hans Richter's art Read Hans Richter's Artistic Legacy
Important Art by Hans Richter
The below artworks are the most important by Hans Richter - that both overview the major creative periods, and highlight the greatest achievements by the artist.
Self Portrait (Visionary Portrait) (1917)
Artwork description & Analysis: This self-portrait is one of eleven Visionary Portraits that Richter exhibited at the Dada exhibition 'Die Neue Kunst' ("New Art") in Zürich in 1918. Employing an Expressionist style, Richter painted the works in this series at twilight with no artificial lighting. His intention was to paint when colors were 'indistinguishable' to the eye on the canvas. He claimed that this would provoke an expression of spontaneity, still governed by chance. (Richter had been deeply influenced by the experiments in chance carried out by his close friend and fellow-Dadaist, the artist Hans Arp, one of whose most famous works is the 1917 Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance.) Richter recalled that to produce the Visionary Portraits he put himself into an: "auto-hypnotic trance... thus the picture took shape before the inner, rather than the outer, eye allowing color to freely flow and the hand to work almost unguided.") Richter's use of automatism and his search for a deeper reality beneath the everyday anticipate the concerns of the Surrealist artists of the 1920s, whom Richter later claimed had "swallowed and digested Dada." Like many major modernist artists in Germany, Richter's use of strong colors and expressive brushstrokes would change in the aftermath of the First World War and throughout the 1920s to a more linear, objective, geometric style.
Oil Painting - Museo d'Arte di Lugano, Switzerland
Dada Köpfe (Dada Heads) (1917-1920s)
Artwork description & Analysis: Richter's series of Dada Heads are some of the most recognized works to emerge from the Zürich period of Dada. This series of drawings and woodcuts explored the limits of portraiture, often going beyond all recognizable representation of the subject to achieve pure abstraction. Many of the drawings have a free, gestural quality, quite liberated from traditional portraiture. The Dada Heads series as a whole records Richter's experiments with structure, composition, and counterpoint. "More and more of the object," Richter wrote, "got lost in the necessity to balance the black with the white (paper), to establish a simple polar relation."
Richter felt a struggle with structure, composition, and counterpoint. His intention was to experiment with oppositions - black and white, positive and negative. But in the process Richter found himself stuck and not knowing how to proceed. Seeking inspiration, he found it in a chance meeting with the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni, who customarily held his intellectual salon at the public fountain outside Zürich train station. While a strong supporter of experimental music and often seen as a precursor of Futurism, Busoni was also deeply committed to the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Richter told Busoni of his dilemma in trying to balance black ink with white paper. Busoni suggested that Bach's use of musical counterpoint might help Richter solve the problem. He advised Richter to study the preludes and fugues that Bach had composed for his wife Anna Magdalena. Richter, who loved music and could play piano, explored the pieces as recommended. It proved a revelation Richter found in the music, "the up and down... strong and weak, a movement and countermovement. I used the paper like a musical instrument." This drive for the abstraction and simplification of form, and the obsession with positive and negative are both motifs which will emerge in Richter's later film experiments.
India ink pen and brush drawing - Private Collection
Rhythmus 21 (1921)
Artwork description & Analysis: This incredibly influential early abstract animation was the result of Richter and his partner Viking Eggeling's foray from the static canvas to a moving one. Lasting only 3 minutes, the film shows squares and rectangles moving across and within the flat plane of the screen in a mesmerizing rhythm. They move forward, backward, vertically, and horizontally. The theme is of contrast - of size, light, and angle, of positive to negative, from black to white, foreground to background, and of change - the forms grow, break apart, and finally fuse together into pure light. Everything is interaction, there is no narrative to speak of, though the ceaseless interplay of forms does have a dramatic quality, like a cosmic clash, with one shape seeming to dominate. The forms have a striking similarity to Russian Suprematist painting, such as The Black Square (1913) by Kazimir Malevitch. When Malevitch came to Berlin in 1927 (accompanied by a Cheka agent to prevent his defection), he proposed collaborating on a film with Richter that would explore Suprematist form and theory. Though Malevitch produced a script, the film was never made.
Theo Van Doesburg in the influential journal De Stijl saw this work as an attempt to surpass "the static nature of easel painting." Theo Van Doesburg showed Rythmus 21 during various lectures he gave in Paris in 1921-1922. Audiences at one venue were so outraged that they allegedly beat up the pianist accompanying the silent film.
Music was an important part of Richter's films. Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith, Paul Bowles, and Robert Abramson are among the many composers with whom Richter collaborated throughout his film-making career; indeed Richter saw his films in musical terms, noting: "I made my paper rectangles and squares grow and disappear, jump and slide in well-articulated time-spaces and planned rhythms." It was visual music as Richter put it: "the articulation of time instead of the articulation of form."
More Hans Richter Artwork and Analysis:
Influences on Artist
Artists, Friends, Movements
Influenced by Artist
Interactive chart with Hans Richter's main influences, and the people and ideas that the artist influenced in turn.
View Influences Chart
Theo van Doesburg
Years Worked: 1916 - 1962
Content compiled and written by Jen Farren
First published on 02 Jun 2016. Updated and modified regularly.
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Retired in 2009 and replaced by the Air Force CV-22 version of the V-22 Osprey, helicopters of the MH-53 PAVE LOW series are extensive modifications of the CH-53 Sea Stallion used as a heavy transport helicopter by the United States Marine Corps and the HH-53 search and rescue helicopter. PAVE LOWs, in the MH-53J or M versions, can fly long-range, very low level, special operations missions in night or day, and in adverse weather, as single aircraft or in formations.
MH-53 formation
Their main role is infiltrating, exfiltrating, and resupplying special operations forces on the ground, but they have also led more heavily armed AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to their targets. Ground forces carried typically have special reconnaissance, direct action for raids, or unconventional warfare missions. PAVE LOWs can be air refueled, especially by MC-130 COMBAT TALON aircraft with even more advanced C3I equipment; one or more MC-130s may shepherd a formation of MH-53s, as well as other mission-specific aircraft such as AC-130 fire support aircraft.
MH-53 air refueling
Sensors and avionics
The basic suite includes terrain-following/terrain-avoidance radar, forward-looking infrared (FLIR) viewing, inertial navigation coupled with GPS, and a moving map display. Flight crew can wear night vision goggles.
When earlier aircraft, such as the HH-53 or MH-53E were upgraded to version M, the major enhancement was the Interactive Defensive Avionics System/Multi-Mission Advanced Tactical Terminal (IDAS/MATT). This system greatly enhances present defensive capabilities of the Pave Low. It provides instant access to the total battlefield situation, using near real-time electronic Order of Battle updates. It also provides a new level of detection avoidance with near real-time threat broadcasts over-the-horizon, so crews can avoid and defeat threats, and replan en route if needed. Additional communications gear, including the AN/ARC-210 SINCGARS-compliant and AN/ARC-187 HAVE QUICK II compliant radios, has been added.
In the M model, the defensive electronics build on those of the J model. There are now active electronic (e.g., jamming) and infrared defensives. To improve situational awareness, all the threat and countermeasure information is on a single display. The software will give immediate recommendations for avoiding or countering the threat.[1] The infrared countermeasures was not limited to flares, but directed energy from the AN/ALQ-157 system.[2]
Cued by the AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning system and an AN/ALR-69A(V) direction-finding radar warning receiver, the PAVE LOW began with an AN/ALE-37, upgraded to an AN/ALE-47 Countermeasures Dispenser System (CMDS). The ALE-47 is a "smart" dispenser that can integrate with defensive avionics such as radar warning receivers, radar reflector (i.e., chaff) dispensers, radar jammers, as well as helping the pilot with situational awareness of the threat. [3]
Operational capabilities and future
M models can carry up to 37 troops or hook load a charge of up to 20,000 pounds.<GS-MH53M). The Air Force plans to replace them with the CV-22 special operations variant of the Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Confusingly, United States Marine Corps Ospreys in the regular combat transport role are designated MV-22, the "M" being the prefix for special operations aircraft, while the Air Force models, assigned to Special Operations, have the "C" prefix for cargo aircraft.
Primary Function: Long-range infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces in day, night or adverse weather conditions
Contractor: Sikorsky
Power Plant: Two General Electric T64-GE-100 engines
Thrust: 4,330 shaft horsepower per engine
Rotary Diameter: 72 feet (21.9 meters)
Length: 88 feet (28 meters)
Height: 25 feet (7.6 meters)
Speed: 165 mph (at sea level)
Ceiling: 16,000 feet (4,876 meters)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 46,000 pounds (Emergency War Plan allows for 50,000 pounds)
Range: 600 nautical miles
Armament: Combination of three 7.62 mini guns or three .50 caliber machine guns
Crew: Two pilots (officers); two flight engineers and two aerial gunners (enlisted)
Date Deployed: 1981
Unit Costs: $40 million (fiscal 2001 constant dollars)
Air Force Inventory before retirement: Active force, 2 MH-53J's, 20 MH-53M's; Reserve, 0; ANG, 0
↑ Globalsecurity.org, MH-53M Pave Low IV
↑ BaE Systems, AN/ALQ-157(M) infrared countermeasures system
↑ NAVAIR Electronic Warfare Software Support Activity (EWSSA), System Support: ALE-47
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Vivienne Westwood began designing in 1971 along with her then partner Malcolm McLaren in London. At the time they used their shop at 430 Kings Road, London, to showcase their ideas and designs. With their changing ideas of fashion came the change of not only the name of the shop but also the décor. It was in 1976 when Westwood and McLaren defined the street culture of Punk with Seditionaries.
By the end of the seventies Vivienne Westwood was already considered a symbol of the British avant-garde and for Autumn/Winter 1981 she showed her first catwalk presentation at Olympia in London. Westwood then turned to traditional Savile Row tailoring techniques, using British fabrics and 17th and 18th century art for inspiration.
1989 was the year that Vivienne met Andreas Kronthaler, who would later become her husband and long-time design partner, as well as Creative Director of the brand. In 2004 the V&A hosted a Vivienne Westwood retrospective exhibition to celebrate her 34 years in fashion –up until that point, the largest exhibition devoted to a living British fashion designer. In 2006, her contribution to British Fashion was officially recognised when she was appointed Dame of the British Empire by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2007 was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Fashion at the British Fashion Awards in London.
Vivienne Westwood is one of the last independent global fashion companies in the world. At times thought provoking, this brand is about more than producing clothes and accessories.
Westwood continues to capture the imagination, and raise awareness of environmental and human rights issues. With a design record spanning over forty years, Vivienne Westwood is now recognized as a global brand and Westwood herself as one of the most influential fashion designers, and activists, in the world today.
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Robert Gero's work – both built and written - is grounded in the practical and theoretical intersection of art practice, philosophy and socio-environmental systems.
He hold's an M.F.A. in sculpture and an M.A. in philosophy/aesthetics from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in philosophy of art/ art theory from the New School for Social Research in New York.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally, selected exhibitions include the 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Artist Space, New York, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, Tom Solomon's Gallery, Los Angeles, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, NY, Makor Gallery, New York, UICA, Grand Rapids, Lab Gallery, New York, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA. He has recently been awarded an Art Matters grant, NY (2011).
In addition to his studio work he writes about art and curates. He is the curator of the "Killing Time" exhibition currently showing at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, this follows an exhibition he curated at the Kemper Museum titled Performativity and Performance in Contemporary Art (2011-2012). He also curated Freewaves, the work of Jennifer Steinkamp at The Santa Monica Museum of Art CA, among numerous other exhibitions. He is currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.


Accounts from the front lines of urban gun violence. This week: A turbulent Miami neighborhood where pushers sell guns and illegal concealed carry licenses at swap meets.
One September night last year, a hail of bullets descended on a crowd of children and teenagers at an underage nightclub in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City. Fifteen people were shot; the youngest victim was 11. The suspects in the shooting were 16 and 17.
Liberty City, a six-square-mile zone dotted with blighted, sun-bleached buildings, patchy lawns, and row after row of low-slung housing units, is no stranger to bullet sprays from high-powered weapons. Separated from swanky South Beach by two bridges that span the Port of Miami, the area is overwhelmingly black. The median household income of its 51,000 residents lags $8,000 behind the rest of the city. Hometown rapper Luther Campbell has likened the neighborhood to Iraq.
While the area has been plagued by gun violence since the 1980s, residents tell The Trace that shootings have ramped up considerably in the last decade, particularly among young teenagers. Since May, students at Miami Northwestern High School — known for producing 15 NFL players — have lost three of their classmates to gun violence. Within the 2-mile radius around the neighborhood's infamous Liberty Square housing complex, there have been 47 shootings during the past six months, according to the Miami Police Department.
Liberty Square is in many ways the heart of Liberty City. The facility was the first public housing project for blacks in the Southeast, constructed with New Deal funds in 1937. The 753-unit complex, now nicknamed "Pork 'n' Beans", was at the time one of the few in the country with indoor plumbing and electricity. It was also walled off from Miami's adjacent white neighborhoods along 12th Avenue; residents needed permission to pass in and out. Though most of the wall was demolished during the 1950s, remnants are still visible today.
Despite the segregation, the neighborhood became a middle class haven for Miami's blacks. But in the 1960s, the construction of Interstate 95 cut straight through the neighboring community of Overtown, sending its low-income residents into Liberty City — and affluent black residents to North Miami. The resulting population was beset by economic inequality and racial tension as an influx of Cuban refugees who were accused of "stealing" black residents' jobs. This resentment came to a head in 1968, when the Republican National Convention came to town just in time for a race riot, prompting President Richard Nixon to announce from the convention floor that the turbulence in Liberty City demonstrated the need for "law and order" in the United States. A more devastating riot visited the neighborhood in 1980, sparked by the acquittal of four white Miami-Dade police officers who beat a black insurance broker to death with a flashlight. Eighteen people died and more than $100 million worth of property was destroyed. A wave of businesses fled, never to return.
Liberty Square is set to be razed next year and replaced with a mixed-use, mixed-income public housing complex built partially with private funds. Residents will be relocated in phases to make way for construction, but if similar projects in other cities are any indication, many of them won't return. Miami is watching to see whether gentrification wipes clean the neighborhood's problems, or simply moves them a few streets over.
As part of a weekly series, The Trace shares the stories of three people living amid Liberty City's gun violence.
Nathaniel Wilcox, 61, is the executive director of P.U.L.S.E.: People United To Lead The Struggle For Equality. He went to high school in Liberty City.
"My church is right on the outskirts of Liberty Square, and you see bullet holes in the walls and buildings and you hear about the shootings. It's just terrible, it's horrific. A lot of the stuff that's going on is petty stuff. John beat up Jim, but John said something about Jim and made him look bad, so now it's a gunfight. It's a bunch of foolishness. A lot of people that's being killed in Liberty Square do not live in Liberty Square. They feel that that's an area they can come and do criminal things and basically get away with it because they have the people living in fear.
One of the young men in the area, a couple years ago, his mother was having issues. She was in her early 30s and had two sons, 15 and 17, and her sons hung out in Liberty Square. The mother was begging her sons, 'Don't go into Liberty Square! You don't live over there.' They lived about five, six blocks away. But they went, they got into a beef, and the younger one ended up dead. They'd been gunning for his brother. The father was in jail and telling his surviving son there's got to be an eye for an eye. The son was acting all — just off the chain. Our goal was to get him out of town and back to the Bahamas, where he was originally from. We wanted him to come to the realization that his brother's dead, but he's doing stupid stuff, and you're going to go over there and get killed. But he was just determined to go over there and engage them. We had people visiting him, trying to encourage him, 'Don't do what your daddy wants you to do.' His dad hadn't even made it past the 8th grade. The kid ended up not retaliating. But he ended up in jail. He was caught with a firearm. But we did manage to save his life.
Shanks Rajendran, 29, is a documentarian from Melbourne, Australia, who was drawn to Liberty City after reading about it in the news. The film that resulted is Liberty City, Miami: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
"I was going to go on holiday to South Beach in November of 2012, and while I was still in Australia I Googled 'Liberty City' after a rapper who was from there named Bizzle died. I ended up spending most of my time in Liberty City. People were so welcoming to me. I started walking around like a little kid — I wasn't aware of how things were, which is pretty bad. I was walking around with a $9,000 camera. This one guy, Chris, who I met while walking around a gas station in Brownsville, he introduced me to people and took me to places, and he was very scared. Not for me, but for himself. We went to the Pork 'n' Beans and he didn't want to step out of the car to film. And he was born and bred there.
While making the film, I flipped the camera and let the people talk, and it's interesting how they just start letting things out. There's so much oppression in Liberty City. People are hurting there. A lot of them are really mad — they try to get jobs, and it all goes well until they're asked if they speak Spanish. It's like a double whammy — first they see the Liberty City address. All for a job to move boxes at a warehouse. The dream here is to be a football player or a rapper, but meanwhile, drugs are dealt out in the open.
Agnes Strange, 59, is a lifelong resident of Liberty City and the receptionist at Mount Calvary Baptist Church, where her brother is the pastor.
"Mount Calvary is right across the street from the Pork 'n' Beans project. We're at the heart of Liberty City. We basically see it all. I was raised right here in this area, and when I grew up, you didn't hear about gun violence. My grandparents lived in the Pork 'n' Beans but it was nothing — nothing — like it is now. It was a respectful place. You were at liberty to walk the street as you pleased. Now, you'd better be really, really careful.
The gun violence started getting bad in 2000, 2005. I have not a clue what happened. And then again I do, because God said each generation would get weaker and wiser. And I know there is a tremendous change in the generations. I am close to 60, but I went to Miami Northwestern Senior High School, which is right up the street. Never gun violence as it is now. We went through physical fights, that's it. May the best man win, and that's just how it went. But now? They will actually come and shoot up one's family members' houses.
The young guys here need something positive to do. I know they do like riding dirt bikes and things of that nature. The type of fun that we had, it didn't cost anything. Probably the only thing that cost was our Union 5 skates. Other than that we made our own fun: we did jump ropes, we did jackstones, we did springboard, where you put a brick in the middle and you put a long piece of plywood over it and someone on either side jumps and you see who jumps the highest. We created our own activities. Now it's a different era. The kids are into the designer clothing and the sneakers and the tattoos.


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Stenopus est un genre de crevettes nettoyeuses (crustacés décapodes) de la famille des Stenopodidae.

Liste des espèces
Selon  :
 Stenopus chrysexanthus Goy, 1992
 Stenopus cyanoscelis Goy, 1984
 Stenopus devaneyi Goy, 1984
 Stenopus earlei Goy, 1984
 Stenopus goyi Saito, Okuno & Chan, 2009
 Stenopus hispidus (Olivier, 1811)
 Stenopus pyrsonotus Goy & Devaney, 1980
 Stenopus scutellatus Rankin, 1898
 Stenopus spinosus Risso, 1827
 Stenopus tenuirostris de Man, 1888
 Stenopus zanzibaricus Bruce, 1976

Références taxinomiques

Notes et références

Genre de décapodes (nom scientifique)
Stenopodidae


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A Welcome Addition to the Baseball Stat Bookshelf
Posted on June 10, 2020 June 12, 2020 by metbaseball
In the 1950s, when Topps became the leading baseball card company, card-collecting gained popularity among kids. The cards were interesting to look at and easy to understand.
Among their main draws were the stats on the card's back. By quantifying a player's performance they strengthened our connection to the game.
Henry Louis Aaron's 1954 Topps card, his rookie card, contained the following column headings: Games, At Bat, Runs, Hits, Doubles, Triples, Home Runs (H.R.), Runs Batted In (R.B.I.), Batting Average (B. Avg.), plus Putouts (P.O.), Assists, Errors, and Fielding Average (F. Avg.) Given that it is his rookie card, the numbers are for his minor league play.
Only two calculations were required, one for batting average, the other for fielding average. Both calculations were easy for kids to do and all the card's were easy to embed in arguments with friends about who was the better player.
That's no longer the case.
Here are the statistics on Mike Trout's 2020 Topps card.
MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD
LEAGUE LEADER IN ITALICS. TIE*
H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SLG OPS AVG WAR
Notice the absence of the three fielding stats and the additions of SB, BB, SLG, OPS, and WAR. Two of those stats are new to this era: OPS and WAR.
If you are unfamiliar with OPS or WAR or want to learn more about them, a good starting point is Anthony Castrovince's book, A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics. Subtitled "Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball." Castrovince dives deep into its statistical subjects without making readers want to run for a hyperbaric chamber to replace the oxygen that the effort required to progress through the content.
Here is a taste of what Castrovince has to say about OPS, which is the combination of On-Base Percentage (OBP) and Slugging Percentage (SLG):
OPS tells us how well a player gets on base and how well he hits for power. Now, while it has some major flaws in relaying that information (we'll get into those in just a sec), it's still a major step forward from batting average and RBIs. (57)
To understand OPS, you need to know about both SLG and OBP. SLG has been available for years, but OBP has yet to show any gray hairs. SLG is a hitter's total bases divided by at bats, where total bases is the sum of a batter's hits + doubles + triples (times 2) + home runs (times 3). The OPS calculation is a bit more complex, but it involves just addition and division.
OBP = Hits + Walks + Hit By Pitch / At Bats + Walks + Hit By Pitch + Sac Flies
Source: A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics, p. 43
In a nutshell, OBP reveals how often a batter got on base from a hit, walk, or hit by pitch. Further, for each statistic, Castrovince introduces it by sharing this information:
What it is not
How it is calculated
[Gives an] [e]xample
Where you can find it
Back to OPS: The highest OPS since 1884, according to stathead.com, for batters appearing in at least 100 games is Barry Bonds' 1.422. In fact, two of the top three spots belong solely to Bonds. However, because Bond's substance abuse issues affect the credibility of his numbers, I consider the OPS of the player who tied Bonds for third to be more valid.
In 1920, in his debut season as a Yankee, Babe Ruth's OPS of 1.379 matched Bonds' third-best, but the Babe did it in 11 fewer games. Further, Ruth's career OPS of 1.164 is MLB's best: Bonds is in fourth place with 1.051 behind both Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig.
The book does not begin, fortunately, with the latest stats. Instead, it starts with discussions of baseball's old-timers: batting average and RBIs. After pushing both of them off the top of the baseball mountain where both had reigned for years, Castrovince attacks one of America's most cherished words: "win" in the chapter "WINNING ISN'T EVERYTHING." I knew that — but not what its subtitle stated: "How the Win Came to Be Baseball's Most Deceptive Pitching Stat."
America had brainwashed me into believing that "winning is everything," starting with my last Little League manager, who pulled me from a game because I had tried to stretch a double into a triple — and failed. As I slid into the bag, the third baseman's gloved hand was waiting for me, the ball I had socked down the third-base line locked in leather.
Though it was not a game-changing play, it was a life-changing one. The manager, who also coached third base, removed me from the lineup because I had failed to see his efforts to get me to stay at second base. What worsened my embarrassment was that game was the only one in which my father was able to see me play. He and I left before the game ended, which my team won.
Though my team, the Fairyland Flyers — sponsored by a small amusement park — won the League's championship that season, each player rewarded with a plastic trophy and the opportunity to get sick for free on the park's rides, the most significant lesson I learned is that how you play a game is much less important than winning the game.
You can be a loser even in a game your team wins.
The win stat has lost even more.
Castrovince states, "The win stat died—effectively if not officially—on November 14, 2018." That was the day that Jacob deGrom, the Mets best pitcher since Tom Seaver, won the National League Cy Young Award though for that season he won only 10 games. Before then, no starter with fewer than 18 wins ever won the award in either league.
Castrovince does a decent job arguing that the win stat does not deserve its long-held reputation, labeling the stat as fatuous. His conclusion: "it is far too unreliable to be taken seriously."
Was I convinced that it is "far too unreliable"? No. I am convinced that the win stat is not as reliable an indicator of a pitcher's skill as I was before I read Castrovince's thoughts about it.
In conclusion, his book's content increased my knowledge about baseball stats, both old and new. His writing style is readable, his expertise is evident — he writes for MLB.com, and his anecdotes and examples are well chosen.
The book now serves as one of my go-to resources about baseball statistics. Though it does not discuss every stat — one of my favorites, RE24, is not mentioned, it gives enough information about the ones it covers to justify its acquistion.
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Tag Archives: Wheaton
Posted on December 21, 2019 by Pat Coleman
In other Division III sports, we often get to see schools experience the national championship event for the first time, and often get to see them come away a winner. In football, however, we haven't had too much of that. Mount Union, UW-Whitewater and Mary Hardin-Baylor have combined to win the previous 14 Stagg Bowls.
But on Friday night in Shenandoah, Texas, we got something new, something decidedly less purple, as North Central brought a new program to the Stagg Bowl, with new back stories and histories. And the Cardinals came away emphatically as champions, defeating UW-Whitewater 41-14.
In this podcast, Pat, Keith, Frank Rossi and Greg Thomas wrap up the game and wrap up the season. You can hear the debate and how we arrived at giving our three year-end awards to members of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. Plus, you'll hear the emotion in a proud dad's voice, a son who wanted to get his dad to hold the trophy, and a most outstanding player who tried to give his trophy away.
Plus, who should be No. 2? UW-Whitewater? Mount Union? Wheaton? Pat and Keith and Frank and Greg discuss that and more in Podcast 270. It's the final podcast of 2019.
Theme music: DJmentos. d3photography.com photos by Caleb Williams, Doug Sasse, Tom Nettleton, d3photography.com file.
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Quick Hits predicts the quarterfinals
Posted on December 6, 2019 by Greg Thomas
Eight teams remain in the chase for the Walnut and Bronze and those eight teams are ranked 2-9 in our Top 25. Maybe the best quarterfinal round ever? Our panelists predict winners and bring back their takes this week for each of Saturday's quarterfinals.
Our regular crew is Keith McMillan, Ryan Tipps, Pat Coleman, Adam Turer, Frank Rossi and Greg Thomas.
— Greg Thomas (photo by Dan Harris, d3photography.com)
UW-Whitewater at Mary Hardin-Baylor
Keith's take: UMHB 21, UW-Whitewater 17. The offenses aren't loaded with playmakers like classic Crusaders and Warhawks teams, but the defenses remain elite, so expect a low-scoring slugfest.
Ryan's take: Mary Hardin-Baylor 21, UW-Whitewater 17. This will be the hardest either of these teams have had to work all season to find the end zone. And that's no surprise, since matchups between these two teams have been historically low-scoring affairs. UHMB, though, has been nearly flawless all season, and UW-W hasn't quite shown this year that it can get off to the hot first-half start it needs to against top-tier teams.
Pat's take: Mary Hardin-Baylor 24, UW-Whitewater 16. Picturing a low-scoring game, and it could be even lower-scoring than this. But expect the Cru to get the job done up front on both sides.
Adam's take: Mary Hardin-Baylor 30, UW-Whitewater 14. The Warhawks' offense is not inspiring as much confidence in recent weeks as the Cru's is. Home field advantage makes a big difference at the Cruthedral. Since surviving against Hardin-Simmons, UMHB has outscored opponents 285-37. The Warhawks' offensive inconsistency ends Whitewater's run in the quarterfinals.
Frank's take: Mary Hardin-Baylor 24, UW-Whitewater 21. The CRU seem unstoppable on defense — with statistics better than the Warhawks' numbers in many categories. With a relatively inexperienced QB behind center for Whitewater, I give the slight nod to UMHB.
Greg's take: Mary Hardin-Baylor 15, UW-Whitewater 8. This one shapes up as a defensive grinder with neither team willing to take big chances on offense. The Cru have an advantage athletically, and I think a big play from Jonel Reed on offense or Keith Gipson on special teams will be the difference.
Consensus: Mary Hardin-Baylor are our unanimous pick, mostly in a low-scoring, single score margin.
St. John's at Wheaton
Keith's take: St. John's 42, Wheaton 41. The Thunder bandwagon ran out of available seating once people realized that team beat the team that beat Mount Union by two touchdowns. And the Johnnies have been beatable at times over the past month. But I don't think Jackson Erdmann and pals are going down without a fight. At the very least, it's a shootout.
Ryan's take: Wheaton 38, St. John's 28. If the "defense wins championships" statement is true, we should be seeing a lot more of Wheaton this December. When you're undefeated and your narrowest margins are 14-point wins versus North Central and Illinois Wesleyan, there's not really a chink in the armor that St. John's can viably exploit on Saturday.
Pat's take: Wheaton 45, St. John's 28. It feels weird predicting Wheaton to score fewer points than Aurora did on SJU, but not weird to predict SJU will score points.
Adam's take: St. John's 35, Wheaton 31. On paper, Wheaton looks like the most complete team still standing. If anyone can crack this defense, it's Jackson Erdmann and the Johnnies. The reigning Gagliardi Trophy winner is on a mission to finish his career with a championship. If any Wheaton team is going to get over the hump, it's this one. But to do it, they'll have to shut down Erdmann and that's a big ask.
Frank's take: St. John's 37, Wheaton 31. Jackson Erdmann seems to be getting better in the playoffs, and that's trouble for the Thunder. I think St. John's is more equipped to win a shootout like this, so I'm going with the Johnnies.
Greg's take: Wheaton 35, St. John's 33. Elite offenses can and do score against elite defenses and I think St. John's will get their points against Wheaton. Wheaton's less heralded offense has been balanced and prolific all season and will be good enough to get the Thunder through to the semis.
Consensus: Even split! The panel agrees the winner will put up a lot of points.
Muhlenberg at Salisbury
Keith's take: Salisbury 28, Muhlenberg 27. I have no earthly idea who to pick here, since both teams have been smashing everything in their path for weeks. I find it hard to believe the Sea Gulls get shut down, but the Mules haven't given up a point since the regular season.
Ryan's take: Muhlenberg 34, Salisbury 21. There's little question that this is the Mules' toughest test of the season, but even with Salisbury bringing more balance to its offense, it doesn't seem likely to unhinge a clamp-down defense like Muhlenberg's.
Pat's take: Salisbury 41, Muhlenberg 35. Could be even higher-scoring, but hard to suggest Muhlenberg allows 0, 0, > 41 in three games.
Adam's take: Muhlenberg 24, Salisbury 18. The Mules defense hasn't allowed a point this postseason. The Sea Gulls offense has scored nearly every time it's touched the ball. Jack Lanham proved that the Sea Gulls can win a shootout, even if they have to pass. But it's doubtful that he can outduel Michael Hnatkowsky. The Mules defense will be up to the challenge of slowing the triple option attack.
Frank's take: Muhlenberg 17, Salisbury 10. The key to beating Salisbury: take them out of their comfort zone. While Sea Gulls QB Lanham can pass, his passing success is helped by the defense being lured into a rush-mode with the triple option. Muhlenberg's defense is equipped for this game and for taking Salisbury out of that zone, and will force the pass more in the second half — leading to turnovers and a lower score.
Greg's take: Salisbury 35, Muhlenberg 31. We've got an unstoppable force versus immovable object situation here. I see a lot of offense early from the Sea Gulls, the Mules settling in and adjusting, but running out of possessions to complete a comeback.
Consensus: Another evenly split panel predicting a close game covering all levels of scoring.
Delaware Valley at North Central
Keith's take: North Central 35, Delaware Valley 14. The Aggies have been an elite defense all season, but they'll need their best performance of the year by far. Against an offense that just gained 699 yards, DelVal folks can dream it, and maybe live it, but I hope they understand why we wouldn't predict it.
Ryan's take: North Central 41, Delaware Valley 17. After Wabash hung around in the Round 1 game against NCC longer than they should have, I started to question some things about the Cardinals. Last week dispelled that doubt (obviously!), and now I'm even starting to wonder about the possibility of an all-CCIW Stagg Bowl. DelVal's run ends here.
Pat's take: North Central 41, Delaware Valley 20. On record on Pod 265 as to what it will take for Del Val to win this game.
Adam's take: North Central 38, Delaware Valley 24. Lost in all the excitement of the Cardinals' historic win in the second round is the fact that North Central allowed 52 points. Delaware Valley wins with defense, and forced six turnovers to pull away from Wesley. The Cardinals' offense will likely suffer from a relative letdown after last week's fireworks, but will still have enough in the tank to maintain momentum into the semifinals.
Frank's take: Delaware Valley 27, North Central 25. Last week's shocking victory by North Central might have been as much a reminder that the Mount Union defense hadn't been battle-tested much this season. DelVal's defense has had some challenges — twice against Wesley, and against some offensively-adept teams in the MAC. Slight edge to DelVal in a letdown game for North Central.
Greg's take: North Central 44, Delaware Valley 20. I'll echo whatever my fellow panelists have said about the inevitable exhale from North Central this week. North Central's offense coming back down to Earth is still good enough to hang 40 on just about anybody. I don't think the Aggies can count on six turnovers this week and the tournament's road warriors bow out in Naperville.
Consensus: 5-1 in favor of North Central, generally by multiple scores.
We invite you to add your predictions in the comments below. Download the Around the Nation podcast on Fridays, where Pat and Keith review the Quick Hits that were prescient, and the Quick Misses that were terribly off base.
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Clijsters and was fined a record $82,500.
Because of the injury, Williams is missing the entire World Team Tennis season with the Washington Kastles. Her team said she cut the bottom of her foot and needed stitches.
"Hey guys I'm doing better," Williams tweeted Monday. "Thanks for all the love."
On Sunday night she tweeted: "can't wait to get out of bed & back on the courts & do what i do best!"
Ranked No. 1, Williams won her fourth Wimbledon crown and 13th major title July 3. The injury occurred shortly thereafter in Europe and at first was not believed to be serious.
After hurting her foot, Williams played in an exhibition in Brussels on July 8 against Clijsters before a world-record tennis crowd of 35,681.
Williams attended a WTT match the next night in Glen Falls, N.Y., and did not play but briefly discussed her injury with reporters. When asked how she was able to play against Clijsters, Williams said, "Those Belgian doctors and waffles."
Clijsters said she knew before the exhibition that Williams was hurt pretty seriously.
"I saw her before we started but she didn't go into how it happened," Clijsters said. "I told her how much I admired her for coming out there. A lot of players in her situation wouldn't have done it."
Williams subsequently withdrew from upcoming tournaments in Istanbul, Cincinnati and Montreal. The last of those, at Montreal, begins Aug. 16, and the U.S. Open starts Aug. 30.
"You want the best players to be out there, especially at the U.S. Open," Clijsters said. "It would be sad not to have Serena there."
After winning the Australian Open at the end of January, Williams was sidelined through April because of an injured left knee.


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Applications are now open for the 2018 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme.
The sixth ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 12 to 16 November 2018 and hosted by RMIT University. The theme of this year's programme is "Leadership for Urban Sustainable Development".
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Successful applicants in this year's programme will have the opportunity to develop leadership skills in the context of the United Nations' New Urban Agenda as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They will receive teaching and training on the United Nations' sustainable development platforms and how they link to municipal settings, research and policy communication, as well as numerous other insights into urban sustainable development and how to lead on this issue from dynamic examples of local leadership in Melbourne.
For those who wish to participate in this year's programme (application is open to all professionals from public, private, and civil society sectors working in the Asia-Pacific region), please visit the ProSPER.Net website for details. The deadline for applications is 12 September 2018 (11:59 PM, Japan Standard Time).