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Het gerucht is een schilderij van de Nederlandse schilder Joop Moesman.

Het schilderij is gesigneerd waarbij het het jaartal 1937 bevat. Het met olieverf beschilderde doek heeft de afmetingen van ongeveer 1 meter breed bij 1,20 meter hoog. Afgebeeld in het werk is onder meer een naakte vrouw die over straat fietst met een viool op de bagagedrager. Aan het schilderij gingen diverse voorstudies vooraf. Verder gebruikte Moesman foto's waaronder een van zijn vader voor de bebouwing in de achtergrond.

Het gerucht is wellicht het bekendste werk van Moesman. Het werd in de jaren 1950 onder meer afgedaan als ...een min of meer onsmakelijk geval van een textielloze juffer... en op een Utrechtse tentoonstelling van Kunstliefde werd het op last van de burgemeester verwijderd, een lot wat ook diverse andere van zijn schilderijen trof. Het werk hing jarenlang in zijn woning aan de Utrechtse Oudegracht. De biermagnaat Freddy Heineken kocht het schilderij uiteindelijk in de jaren 1960 aan.

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Het gerucht met afbeelding op de website van het RKD

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As soon as the weather starts warming and the first sign of new growth emerges, so do aphids. All we need is one day of warm weather and that's enough for plants to start manifesting new growth. And that's a calling card for aphids.
Aphids are equipped with piercing mouths designed to slurp up juices from new growth. They especially like rose buds but will wreak havoc with all types of plants including citrus.
Aphids are little slobs. When they taste the sweet nectar of their prey they spit half of it out! Those poor table manners causes those juices to rot causing a condition called black sooty mold.
In turn, that black sooty mold becomes like caviar for ants. Now you have an aphid problem, black sooty mold problem and an ant problem.
To fix these problems all you need to do is wash the plants off with soapy water. It'll wash the ants and black sooty mold off while the soap scum clogs up the aphids so they can't breathe.


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SECI Extends Bid Submission Deadline for its 1.2 GW Wind Tender
SECI has also added two new clauses to this tender
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has extended the deadline for the submission of bids for its 1,200 MW wind tender.
The new bid submission deadline for the tender is December 5, 2019.
In September 2019, SECI had invited bids from wind power developers to develop 1,200 MW of interstate transmission system (ISTS) connected wind power projects under Tranche IX of the ISTS program. The projects are to be delivered on a build-own-operate (BOO) basis. Developers can submit bids for project sizes varying from a minimum of 50 MW to 600 MW.
Earlier, SECI had set a ceiling tariff of ₹2.85 (~$0.040)/kWh. In the amendment released on October 17, 2019, SECI revised the maximum tariff payable at ₹2.93 (0.04)/kWh for the full period of 25 years.
In this wind tender, SECI has also introduced two new clauses:
Adjusted Equity: This means the equity funded in rupees and adjusted on the first day of the reference month. This reflects the changes in its value due to depreciation and variations in the Wholesale Price Index (WPI). SECI has specified that an amount equal to the adjusted equity as on the day of commercial operation (COD) of the project will be the base adjusted equity and after the COD, the adjusted equity will be equal to the base adjusted equity, reduced by 0.333% at the beginning of each month after the COD. The reduction would be to the extent of 1% per quarter of a year. The amount will be revised to the extent of the variation in WPI occurring between the COD and the reference date of a month.
Debt due: This means the aggregate of the following amounts in rupees outstanding on the transfer date:
The principal amount of the debt provided by the senior lenders under the financing agreements for financing the total project cost, excluding any part of the principal that had fallen due for repayment two years before the transfer date
All accrued interest, financing fees and charges payable excluding any interest, fees or charges that had fallen due one year before the transfer date and any penal interest or charges payable under the financing agreements
Any pre-payment charges concerning accelerated repayment of debt except when these charges are levied due to utility default
Any subordinated debt which is included in the financial package and disbursed by lenders for financing the total project cost
SECI has further specified that if all or any part of the debt due is convertible into equity, it won't be considered as a debt due. Moreover, SECI has mentioned that the debt due on or after the COD cannot exceed 80% of the total project cost.
The SECI has amended a clause in both the power purchase agreement (PPA) and a power sale agreement (PSA). The earlier clause stated that the parties agree that any modifications in the agreement due to the adoption of the tariff and approving the procurement of the contracted capacity as directed by the appropriate commission or DISCOMs will be binding on both parties to the agreement
Now, the clause is amended to say that, the parties agree that decisions about the approval and adoption of the tariff along with SECI's trading margin for procurement of contracted capacity, will be binding on all parties concerned, as contained in the Electricity Act, 2003 or any amendments.
According to Mercom India Research, SECI has auctioned 9.3 GW of wind projects under SECI's ISTS Tranche I to Tranche VIII program.
In August, SECI awarded 439.8 MW of wind projects in its auction. It was part of the tender floated by the agency for 1,800 MW of ISTS-connected wind projects under Tranche VIII. The auction saw the lowest tariff of ₹2.83 (~$0.0395)/kWh quoted by CLP India, which bid for a capacity of 250.8 MW. The other bidder Avikaran Energy (Enel) quoted a tariff of ₹2.84 (~$0.0396)/kWh to develop a capacity of 300 MW but was only awarded 189 MW. Together, the two bidders were allotted 439.8 MW of wind projects.
Before that, Mercom reported another wind tender floated by SECI for 1.8 GW of projects was left undersubscribed with bids totaling 551 MW only.
According to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), wind power accounted for 36.9 GW of the total installed power capacity and nearly 10.09% of the overall power capacity mix as of September 2019.
Rakesh is a staff reporter at Mercom India. Prior to joining Mercom, he worked in many roles as a business correspondent, assistant editor, senior content writer, and sub-editor with bcfocus.com, CIOReview/Silicon India, Verbinden Communication, and Bangalore Bias. Rakesh holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
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Strange Bedfellows? The ideological migration of UKIP voters to Labour in the 2017 General Election
At 10pm on Thursday 8 June, British voters faced yet another political shock. Despite an overwhelming 21 percent lead (YouGov), the Conservatives failed to win enough seats to form a majority government. David Jeffery and Keshia Jacotine discuss the results of the UK general election.
As the count unfolded, the reality dawned that Theresa May did not receive the landslide that she had gambled on. Instead her party had to enter a confidence and supply arrangement with the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). With Brexit negotiations kicking off on June 19, and rumours circulating that May is facing a mutiny from her own MPs, the 'strong and stable' government she promised now seems almost impossible.
One popular rough and ready way pundits and commentators used estimate the eventual Tory vote share in a given constituency was to take the 2015 Conservative vote share, add the 2015 UKIP vote share, and voila – Conservative majority! But, in reality, this did not prove to be the case.
How did it all go wrong?
There are a number of complex factors at play, but perhaps one of the more surprising outcomes has been the movement of former UKIP voters across to the Labour Party (as shown in a graphic from the Financial Times, here).
So how is it that a party commonly perceived as right-wing leaked votes to a party which is portrayed as the most left wing Labour Party in a generation? The answer lies in the economic views of UKIP members. Work by Bale, Webb and Poletti shows that strong party supporters of UKIP locate their party at 7.28 on a 0-10 left-right spectrum, whilst Labour voters placed their own party at 3.44. This gap of 3.84 suggests the two parties would be uncomfortable bedfellows.
However, subjective rankings might not tell the whole story. Bale, Webb and Poletti's 'objective measure' place Labour at 1.60, and UKIP at 2.62, on the left-right spectrum – a gap of just 1.02. Bale, Webb and Poletti explain this by arguing that on economic issues UKIP and Labour are not so different – UKIP's voters "are very possibly 'welfare chauvinists' with a populist (as opposed to class-based) antipathy toward big business."
This is supported by Wheatley, who plotted the ideological location of party supporters based on two scales – an economic left-right scale, and a social conservatism open-closed scale. Interestingly, whilst in both 2015 and 2017 the median UKIP voter was a 0.2 on the closed-open scale (more closed than open), they were 0.4 on the economic left-right scale (economically left of centre). The median Labour voter, however, was around 0.7 on the open-closed scale in both elections (more open than closed), but on economics moved slightly from about 0.25 in 2015 to 0.2 in 2017 (economically left-wing).
So, we see a situation whereby economically the median UKIP and Labour voters are not very far away at all, and there is considerable overlap in the area covered by both parties in Wheatley's graphs on that axis – the real gap is on the closed-open axis.
The key issue in this election: Brexit
One of the key issues in this election was, obviously, Brexit. With both Corbyn and McDonnell committing themselves to a form of Brexit which does not include freedom of movement, they were able to effectively satisfy a segment of UKIP voters. This neutralised the closed-open gap between the two parties on the big issue of the day, and allowed for UKIP voters who had ideologically similar economic views to Labour to move over – and in many cases move back – to Corbyn's Labour.
The argument laid out above is not to suggest that Labour wooed more UKIP votes than the Conservatives did – this was patently not the case. Instead, it is to show how some UKIP voters could, ideologically, migrate to Corbyn's Labour Party and – perhaps – have denied Theresa May the majority she was so sure of winning.
This article first appeared on 12 June 2017 in Pop Politics Aus.
David Jeffery is a PhD Candidate at Queen Mary, University of London and Keshia Jacotine is an MPhil Candidate at Monash University.


Listen Now. Join us as Fr. Chris speaks with Marilyn Gardner about her book, Passages Through Pakistan: An American Girl's Journey of Faith. Fr. Chris then speaks with Deacon Gregory Ealy, Music Director at St. Mary Orthodox Cathedral in Minneapolis, MN about a music project from the choir there.


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The Railway Innovation Hub: a new Open Innovation initiative with no precedents!
28 May 2018 /in News, Spanish /by Francisco Velasco
An interesting new global initiative has emerged to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the railway sector and industries alike worldwide, with its neural operation center based in the Andalucía Technology Park (Malaga, Spain). The newborn "Railway Innovation Hub", is the result of jointed efforts across some of the key leading corporations in Spain representing the whole value chain of the railway industry, and aims to promote collaborative R&D, technology transfer and acceleration, as well as becoming an contact point for industry solutions.
This initiative dates back to 2017. Following several years of recurring collaboration on R&D projects among key players in the railway and construction sector, a group of 10 visionary companies decided to design a joint initiative to empower the sector, and founded The Railway Innovation Hub. The founding members, namely Ferrovial, Abengoa, MRI, Telice, Siemens, Vias, Deimos, Comsa, Thales and Azvi, have built a collaborative framework capable of trespassing individual interest for the achievement of a better joint goal, which may be writing a new chapter in the Spanish innovation logbook.
The Hub has now over 50 members, and is building key institutional relationships to promote public-private collaboration, having recently signed agreements with both the Spanish and Andalusian governments, to enable the definition of specific technological and scientific challenges, so that member companies can build innovative solutions to improve Spanish railway technology. The governance model has been designed to enable a democratic but efficient decision-making process, which will be a challenge in such large partnership structure.
I am truly happy to see this kind of initiatives emerging in Spain. Let´s observe over the evolution of this new venture!
See related news (in Spanish):
https://www.railwayinnovationhub.com/category/general/
https://www.railwayinnovationhub.com/el-ministro-de-fomento-inigo-de-la-serna-suscribe-un-protocolo-entre-adif-y-the-railway-innovation-hub-spain-para-impulsar-la-innovacion-de-la-tecnologia-ferroviaria-espanola/
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The ZipDX conferencing platform aims to be as versatile as possible, allowing you to schedule a virtual conference with your group in a variety of ways that suit your needs and available technology.
Online: Schedule via the ZipDX Web Portal.
Calendar: Use your email calendar whether that's via Outlook or Gmail (Google Calendar).
Telephone: Schedule a conference the old fashioned way, right from your mobile phone or landline.
In this video you can view a sample meeting setup process. In this example, the user is scheduling a multilingual conference with English and French Speakers.
All of the conferencing and administrative functions are handled by logging into www.ZipDX.com using your email address and PIN.
When you log in, you will be on the HOME tab. Here you will see in-progress meetings and pending meetings (scheduled for the future), if any.
You will also see your conference "templates". Conference templates allow you to save various meeting parameters for easy reuse in the future. Every organizer using ZipDX starts out with one template called "Meeting." This is used for "simple" meetings – a regular conference call with no interpretation.
For the purposes of scheduling your first multilingual conference call you will use the basic "Meeting" template. In the process of working through this tutorial you will add the details necessary to create a multilingual conference.
Note: For the purposes of this exercise let us stipulate that this call will involve English and Spanish.
Invite people to the conference, using their email address, one at a time. Remember to add the interpreter(s) as well as the hosts and attendees.
If an attendee is not already in the database, you will see an indication reporting "Not Listed" and a link that says "Pre-Register". Click on Preregister.
On the pre-registration pop-up screen, enter the person's first and last name, set their proper time zone, and enter their company name.
Enter the person's telephone number, INCLUDING "+" and the COUNTRY CODE. If you would dial 011-52-13344556677 to dial from your regular phone, then enter +5213344556677.
If the person is a Spanish-speaker, select Spanish as their preferred language.
Click SUBMIT preregister the participant.
If after preregistering a participant you want to add additional numbers, for a person, click "Update" once you have completed the initial pre-registration step; the new form will let you add another number.
The configuration of the multilingual settings are at the bottom of the Audio Features section of the page. The default multilingual setting is Not Enabled.
To enable the multilingual capability select "Over the phone" as the conference type. This will cause various other settings to be displayed.
"Talk-through" allows the current speaker to be heard mixed under the interpreters voice. This provides assurance that the interpreter is in fact following the speaker.
"Feedback" is some of the interpreters delivery mixed into the room with the current speaker. This gives the current speaker confidence that the interpreter is following them well. In the case of a formal presentation it can also give them a sense of timing, allowing them to adjust the pace of their presentation in order to accommodate the interpretation.
Both Talkthru and Feedback are adjustable in five steps from "Off" to "Loud." The default is "Soft" which should be satisfactory for most situations.
Next, select the number of languages (2-8) involved in the conference. Then enter the list of languages. Languages are specified using ISO standard two-letter language codes.
For example, the following images shows how to create a conference in three languages; English, French & Spanish.
…defines a conference with two languages in use; French (FR) and Japanese (JA).
ZipDX uses ISO 639-1 standard two-letter language codes. While there are dozens of such codes possible, the current ZipDX multilingual implementation supports the following languages.
Each of these are valid when setting up a ZipDX multilingual conference call.
With the multilingual settings now established, the final step is to assign roles. As the conference organizer you are a Host by default, but there can be more than one person with host authority in the meeting. All others are assigned to the default role of Participant.
The interpreter MUST be assigned to the role of Interpreter.
If other people on your team will be serving as chairman or moderator, mark them as Host so that they can also access the on-line dashboard during the meeting.
Click SAVE and your meeting will be set up; all the participants will receive email notification. As the ORGANIZER, by default you will NOT receive an email.
There is a link on summary page to send yourself an invitation. That message includes a calendar attachment so you can add the conference to your own calendar.
At work you live in your email inbox all day, whether you want to or not. So, what better way to schedule a ZipDX virtual conference then directly from your email client's calendar.
Here are instructions fro two of the most popular platforms, Outlook and Gmail.
In Outlook go to the Calendar view.
Setup the meeting as you would for any normal meeting.
(1) Add the meeting participants To: the proposed meeting.
(2) Give it an informative Subject.
(3) Set the Start Date & Time.
(4) Set the End Date & Time.
(5) In the body of the message put whatever information would be helpful to the meeting participants.
(6) Finally, add ZipDX to the meeting by inviting meeting@cal.zipdx.com to the meeting.
Send the meeting invitation to all participants.
And remember, it's very important to add ZipDX as a "Meeting Participant." Adding ZipDX as a meeting participant is the part that makes Outlook and ZipDX work seamlessly together.
In Google Calendar click on the Create Button to begin the process.
(1) Give it an informative Subject.
(2) Set the Start Date & Time.
(3) Set the End Date & Time.
(4) In the Description put whatever information would be helpful to the meeting participants.
(5) Add the meeting participants using the Add guests tool.
Click SAVE to create the meeting.
You'll be prompted about sending invitations as shown below.
Be sure to click on Send so that everyone, including ZipDX, receives a meeting invitation.
Again, it's highly important to Add ZipDX as a "Meeting Participant"Adding ZipDX as a meeting participant (#6 above) is the critical part. It's that step that makes Google Docs and ZipDX work seamlessly together.
This one couldn't be simpler and is nearly self-explanatory.
You can schedule your virtual conference from any phone whether you're in your office or on the go with your mobile phone.
Additionally if you're dialing in from your phone to join a conference you can do that using any of our 50+ access lines.
When you call in for your conference and your telephone number has already been added to your profile (Auto-ID) the system will automatically recognize you and place you into the conference.
If you're calling from a telephone number that isn't in your profile you'll be prompted to key in your PIN before joining the conference.
How do I create a conference via the ZipDX web portal?
The ZipDX audio conferencing experts help solve people's conference calling challenges every day. No challenge is too big and your consultation is free so, click here to schedule your virtual conferencing consultation today.


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Editors' Picks: 19 of the Best Things to Do in Vermont!
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
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Locally Social Coffee, Saint Johnsbury, VT
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This cool little park in Lyndonville, a small town in northeast Vermont, is simple but functional. The main feature of the park is a concrete bowl. From there it flows into a small street area with a…
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Fairbanks Museum, Planetarium, and Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT
Founded in 1889 by industrialist Franklin Fairbanks, the museum houses 75,000 natural science specimens, 95,000 historical artifacts, and, perhaps most impressively, Vermont's only public…
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The so-called "best-kept secret in the NEK," Miss Lyndonville has been around since…
Village Sport Shop, Lyndonville, VT
John Hibshman established Village Sport Shop in 1978 to offered a vast selection of sporting goods to be sold by a knowledgeable staff with a first-hand experience with the products. The store motto,…
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Cecilia Knapp
Cecilia Knapp is a poet, playwright and novelist.
She has shared her writing extensively in the UK and internationally including residencies and performances in Johannesburg and Paris. She's a former resident artist at The Roundhouse and a Ted X speaker. She was guest curator of Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2016. Commissions include The Tate, The BBC, The Guardian and Puffin Books and she has written for The Huffington Post, Dazed and The Stage. She has been featured in Vogue as one of the UK's young writers to watch.
She was shortlisted for the role of London Laureate in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2020 Outspoken poetry prize. Her poems have appeared in Magma and Bath magazine and anthologised. Her theatre pieces Finding Home and Losing the Night both opened to sell out London runs at The Roundhouse before touring the UK.
Her debut novel is forthcoming. She is a regular contributor to panels and discussions on the value of creativity and she teaches creative writing in a variety of settings. She was resident poet at Great Ormond Street Hospital for two years and is lead tutor for the Roundhouse's prestigious poetry collective. She is an ambassador for the mental health charity CALM.
Being a First Story writer in residence for two years has been such a joy. I am hugely proud of the young women I've worked with at Fulham Cross for creating books full of brave stories of their identities and experiences, full of courage and fight, protest, honesty and imagination. I really believe in the power of creative expression and I've seen first hand how my students have grown in confidence and how their personalities have shone because of the boost that creative writing gives them, the permission to celebrate their own lives and express themselves. Each week in the classroom there is a new opportunity to discuss writing, to read new things, to debate, discuss, challenge, laugh and experiment. It's a true privilege to be in their company and help them create their magic.