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British ports say they are not ready for Brexit customs checks
A string of British ports are urging the government to delay the next wave of Brexit red tape, saying that border checkposts will not be ready for the July deadline, while inland customs facilities being built are also behind schedule.
With the Brexit minister, Lord Frost, reportedly considering reviewing plans for full customs checks on all imported goods, pressure is building on ministers to push back their deadlines, and set out measures for scaling back controls.
Exports into the EU from the UK have been subject to controls since 1 January, but the British government decided to delay import controls until the summer to give traders time to prepare. From 1 July, however, ministers expect checks to take place at more than 30 designated border control posts (BCPs), where goods, plants and animals entering from the EU by sea, rail or air can be inspected.
"It's obvious not all of the facilities are going to be ready; how much of it will be is still up for debate," said Richard Ballantyne, chief executive of the trade body British Ports Association (BPA). "Our frustration with government is they are not willing to share what the plan B is."
With less than four months to go, construction has only just begun at ports including Portsmouth, Purfleet on Thames in Essex, and Killingholme on the Humber.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) is warning that livestock trades could grind to a halt, because no Channel port is planning facilities to check incoming farm animals.
And the location of some inland border checkpoints – such as Holyhead on Anglesey and in south-west Wales to serve the ports of Fishguard and Pembroke – has not even been announced yet, while the Kent site named White Cliffs, where goods arriving at Dover will be inspected, is described as a "muddy field".
Next to Portsmouth's container docks, works on the control post are underway, but it is far from ready. The 4,500-metre-square site still resembles a car park, and is half-covered in paving stones. A digger is preparing the ground before the building's foundations can be laid.
The port's owner, Portsmouth city council, says its contractors expect the facility to be constructed by mid-August, when it will have to be certified by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), as well as the Animal and Plant Health Agency, a process which could take several more weeks.
Port operators say the delay is partly the result of complications with the government's funding process for these multimillion-pound infrastructure projects.
A £200m taxpayer funded Port Infrastructure Fund was oversubscribed, leading the government to impose a 34% haircut on the grants provided to Portsmouth and 40 other successful applicants.
Portsmouth applied for £32m in funding, but only received £17.1m, leaving the publicly owned port with a significant shortfall, meaning it has had to scrap plans for a live animal inspection post.
The port, which contributes £8m a year to the UK economy, is a main point of entry into the UK for racehorses, and in total, 60,000 breeding animals, including pigs, sheep and cattle, enter and exit the UK through Portsmouth each year.
With other Channel ports unwilling to invest in the facilities, the NFU is warning that the livestock breeding business could grind to a halt.
"If we hadn't had our funding cut, we would have been able to accelerate the project and I am pretty confident we would have achieved it," said the director of Portsmouth International Port, Mike Sellers.
Border control posts might resemble industrial units or distribution warehouses from the outside, but the interior must be biosecure, so that inspection of live animals, meat and plants can take place without risk of contamination, with vets on hand to carry out the controls. They must also provide space for HGVs to park, all of which makes them costly and complex to construct.
In places where there isn't space for a checkpoint next to the terminal, such as Dover and Holyhead, the government has taken on responsibility for building 10 inland border facilities, or is working jointly with devolved administrations in Wales and Scotland.
Several of these facilities are far from finished and unlikely to be ready for July, and ports have written to ministers to warn them. The Guardian understands that government departments including the Cabinet Office, Department for Transport and Defra have been warned of delays.
"Even if they aren't willing to extend beyond July, or publicly say that, they must have alternative plans, and ministers and officials are being told this on a weekly basis," says Ballantyne. The British Ports Association is calling on the government to share its contingency plans.
The Welsh government said an announcement was expected shortly on the two BCPs in Wales, but added that "a consultation and planning process" would precede the start of construction.
A government spokesperson said it is "making significant preparations to ensure [ports] will be ready for staged introduction of border controls", adding that it was working closely with ports which have received funding.
Not everyone is behind. Southampton, Plymouth, Hull and Immingham, operated by the company Associated British Ports (ABP), are all expected to be ready on time.
Given delays elsewhere, the government has several options of how to proceed,: for example, checks on goods currently take place at their destination, and this could continue. But this is not considered a permanent solution, as it could leave the UK border open to fraud and smuggling.
Port operators are concerned about what would happen if vehicles would only be stopped at ports with finished facilities.
"It would be unfair from a competition point of view," said Ballantyne. "Hauliers and freight owners would seek the path of least resistance and use those routes".
Such action could distort trade flows, or cause overcrowding and delays at ports that do have completed customs posts.
"The context for this discussion is to ensure that supermarket shelves remain stocked, and that the fresh food on which the UK relies continues to reach those shelves," said Tim Reardon, head of EU exit at Port of Dover. "Infrastructure doesn't flex, therefore the process must."


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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
Catherine Raven
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
A memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a fox, for readers of Wild and H Is for Hawk.
Catherine Raven left home at fifteen, fleeing an abusive, disdainful father and an indifferent mother. More comfortable in nature than among people, she worked as a National Park ranger, eventually earning a PhD in biology. She built a house on an isolated plot of land in Montana, teaching remotely and leading field classes. One day, she realized that the mangy-looking fox who had been appearing on her property was now showing up every day at 4:15 p.m. She had never had a regular visitor before. How do you even talk to a fox? One day she brought out her camping chair, sat as close to him as she dared, and began reading to him from The Little Prince. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, but as she grew to know him, his personality revealed itself--and he became her friend. But friends cannot always save each other from the uncontained forces of nature. Fox and I is a poignant and dramatic tale of friendship, transformation, and coping with inevitable loss--and of how that loss can become meaning. It is also the introduction of an original, imaginative, stunning literary voice.
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C.J. Gable looked at a few reporters Wednesday afternoon with the same disdain he apparently holds for surgeons.
The USC tailback said he had indeed decided to have surgery to repair a groin injury that has affected him since offseason training and into this season, despite the fact he had gained 143 yards on 13 carries (11 yards per carry).
Gable, a sophomore, is hoping to have the operation now, receive a medical redshirt for this season and be ready for spring football in full health.
Coach Pete Carroll estimated that it could be eight weeks before Gable would be able to start rehabilitation.
Gable had met with the training staff before he brought the issue to Carroll.
"It was kind of like the unspoken topic," Carroll said. "He was afraid to talk about it. He kept saying he was OK, but the trainers knew that he wasn't and we could see he was dealing with it.
"He's done admirably everything he could possibly do. He's rehabbed everything he can do and it won't go away. To wait another week or two weeks or three weeks and hope it gets better, it's not happening.
Gable said he was not forced into the decision, either by the coaches or his mother.
The once-deep USC backfield has taken some hits as the No. 2 Trojans (4-0, 2-0 Pacific-10) prepare to take on Stanford (1-3, 0-3) Saturday at the Coliseum.
Leading rusher Stafon Johnson sat out practice again with a bruised foot.
Left tackle Sam Baker said he doesn't envy whoever gets to make the decision of which player to start at center if Kris O'Dowd returns this season from a dislocated kneecap. Senior Matt Spanos is holding the spot at the moment.
"That's going to be a tough decision, but I know they'll make the right one," Baker said.
Also on the line, Tiny Malu has been receiving most of the work at left guard in place of injured starter Chilo Rachal. Though he's a senior who has been in the program since 2004, he hasn't yet heard if he will start over redshirt freshman Zack Heberer (San Pedro High).
"All I know is I'm getting myself as ready as I can be and if they need me, I'll be ready," Malu said.
Cornerback Cary Harris (shoulder) was cleared to practice without hitting and worked out with the team. Whether or not he plays Saturday could be a game-time decision.
Cornerback Mozique McCurtis, who would replace Harris, sat out Wednesday to rest an old knee injury. Carroll said McCurtis would be ready to start if Harris doesn't.
Former UCLA basketball coach Steve Lavin, currently a broadcaster, was a visitor to practice.


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Q: In UWP, 'getHostEnvironmentValue' giving an exception by invoking via JavaScript In My UWP project, I am using a Javascript to get the os-sku value,
MainWindows.xaml.cs:
    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();
            //Load local html file using 'Navigate' method
            WebBrowserName.Navigate(new Uri("ms-appx-web:///HTMLPage1.html"));
            }

        async void WebBrowserName_ScriptNotify(object sender, NotifyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Value.StartsWith("SomeValue"))
            {
                Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog dialog = new Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog("Calling javascript function from C#");
                await dialog.ShowAsync();
            }
        }

        private  void Button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
                        WebBrowserName.InvokeScriptAsync("JSMethod", new string[] { "" });
        }

    }

and HTMLPage1.html:
<html>
<head>
    <script type="text/javaScript">
        function JSMethod() {
           external.getHostEnvironmentValue('os-sku'); //Exception Occured
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    "OSSKU :
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After deploying the UWP app and while running the above app, I am getting an,
Exception :

UWP 0x800a01b6 - javascript runtime error: object doesn't support
  property or method 'gethostenvironmentvalue'

I am not able to figure it out, what is going wrong.

A: As the getHostEnvironmentValue method introduction, this method is only available in Microsoft Edge. Even througn web view control embeds a view into your uwp app that renders web content using the Microsoft Edge rendering engine, but the UWP WebView is different from the Edge, moreover, the UWP apps run sandboxed, it has more security and resource access limitations. So, as the exception, this getHostEnvironmentValue method can not be used in UWP app, it is not supported.

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Joachim De Weerdt is a development economist based in Belgium. He is Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp and Senior Research Fellow at LICOS (KU Leuven).
Joachim uses economics to improve our understanding of the lives of the poor in low-income countries. He draws inspiration from work outside of economics and strives to disseminate his findings across multiple academic disciplines. He has two decades of field experience in Africa and of engagement with policy makers and practitioners who fight poverty. Most of his research is based on data he has collected himself. In recent years his research focus has been on urbanisation in Africa, informal insurance through social networks, long-run effects of early childhood circumstances and measurement through surveys.
Joachim has dozens of scientific articles to his name and has published in top journals from different disciplines, such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Demography, AIDS and the International Journal of Epidemiology. A full list is given below.
Joachim lived and worked as an entrepreneur and as a researcher in Africa for 12 years. In 2002 he co-founded Economic Development Initiatives (EDI), a research institution based in Tanzania, where he served as Research Director till 2014. During that time the company grew from a small, two-person start-up to one of Africa's most respected research houses, with 40 core employees and frequently over 100 project-based field staff. Field operations later expanded across East Africa, while survey design and training services were provided across the globe.
In 2018 EDI was acquired by Mathematica, a US-based policy research company with over 1,200 employees. The new investor strengthened EDI with its extensive expertise, vast professional networks and financial clout. Today EDI continues on its growth path, operating independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mathematica.
Jump to Joachim's
"When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development" (with Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur). download.
"Rural labour productivity and urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa" (with Hanne Van Cappellen)
"Are Food Security Indicators Robust? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania" (with Hannah Ameye and John Gibson). download WP.
"The support role of rural areas" (with Luc Christiaensen and Bert Ingelaere)
"Migration Dynamics and Real Options: a mixed methods study". (with Danny Cassimon, Luc Christiaensen and Bert Ingelaere).
"Disentangling Networks: Defining and Analysing Cohesive Subgroups", mimeo, with Dirk Van de gaer (University of Ghent) - download pdf
"Insurance and Re-insurance Markets in Rural Tanzania", with Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) and Markus Goldstein (World Bank)
(some ungated in academic bibliography)
Ameye, Hannah and Joachim De Weerdt. 2020. Child health across the rural-urban spectrum. World Development (forthcoming) download.
De Weerdt, Joachim, John Gibson and Kathleen Beegle. 2020. What can we learn from experimenting with survey methods. Annual Review of Resource Economics 12:431–447. download.
Dillon, Brian, Joachim De Weerdt and Ted O'Donoghue. 2020. Paying More for Less: why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts?" World Bank Economic Review, lhz020, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhz020. download.
Kanbur, Ravi, Luc Christiaensen and Joachim De Weerdt. 2019. Where to create jobs to reduce poverty: cities or towns? Journal of Economic Inequality 17(4):543-564. download.
De Weerdt, Joachim, Garance Genicot and Alice Mesnard. 2019. Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks. Journal of Human Resources 54(1):225-254. download.
Christiaensen, Luc, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Ingelaere, and Ravi Kanbur. 2019. "Migrants, Towns, Poverty, and Jobs: Insights from Tanzania" in: Ravi Kanbur, Akbar Noman and Joseph E. Stiglitz (eds.) The Quality of Growth in Africa, New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, pp. 398-421.
Christiaensen, Luc, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur. 2019. Decomposing the Contribution of Migration to Poverty Reduction: Methodology and Application to Tanzania. Applied Economics Letters 26(12):978-982. download.
Cockx, Lara, Liesbeth Colen and Joachim De Weerdt. 2018. From Corn to Popcorn? Urbanization and food consumption in sub-Sahara Africa: Evidence from rural-urban migrants in Tanzania. World Development 110:140-159.
Ingelaere Bert, Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur. 2018. Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction – A Migrant Perspective. World Development 105:273-282. previous working paper versions here, here and here.
Arthi Vellore, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Amparo Palacios-Lopez. 2018. Not your average job: measuring farm labor in Tanzania. Journal of Development Economics 130: 160–172. download.
De Weerdt, Joachim, Kathleen Beegle and Stefan Dercon. 2017. Orphanhood and Self-esteem: an 18-year longitudinal study from an HIV affected area in Tanzania. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 76(3):225–230. (biomedical journal with impact factor 4.6).
Friedman, Jed, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and John Gibson. 2017. Decomposing Response Errors in Food Consumption Measurement: Implications for Survey Design from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania. Food Policy 72:94-111.
De Weerdt, Joachim and Kalle Hirvonen. 2016. Risk Sharing and Internal Migration. Economic Development and Cultural Change 65(1):63-86. download
De Weerdt, Joachim, Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson. 2016. The Challenge of Measuring Hunger through Survey. Economic Development and Cultural Change 64(4):727–758. download
Gibson, John, Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt and Jed Friedman. 2015. What Does Variation in Household Survey Methods Reveal About the Nature of Measurement Errors in Consumption Estimates? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 77(3): 466-474.
Christiaensen, Luc, Joachim De Weerdt and Yasuyuki Todo. 2013. Urbanization and Poverty Reduction – The Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns. Agricultural Economics 44:447-459.
Caeyers, Bet, Joachim De Weerdt and Neil Chalmers. 2012. Improving Consumption Measurement and other Survey Data through CAPI: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. Journal of Development Economics 98:19–33.
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt, Jed Friedman and John Gibson. 2012. Methods of Household Consumption Measurement through Surveys: Experimental Results from Tanzania. Journal of Development Economics 98:3-18.
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon. 2011. Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey. Review of Economics and Statistics 93(3): 1010–1033.
De Weerdt, Joachim and Marcel Fafchamps. 2011. Social Identity and the Formation of Health Insurance Networks. Journal of Development Studies 47(8): 1152-1177.
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon. 2011. Patterns of Migration in Tanzania. Chapter 2 in Jennica Larrison, Edmundo Murrugarra and Marcin Sasin (eds) "Migration and Poverty: Towards Better Migration Opportunities For the Poor", Washington DC: The World Bank.
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon. 2010. Orphanhood and Human Capital Destruction: Is there Persistence into Adulthood? Demography 47(1): 163-180.
De Weerdt, Joachim. 2010. Moving out of Poverty in Tanzania: Evidence from Kagera. Journal of Development Studies 46(2): 331-349.
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon. 2009. The Intergenerational Impact of the African Orphans Crisis: A Cohort Study from an HIV/AIDS Affected Area. International Journal of Epidemiology 38(2):561-568 (biomedical journal with impact factor 6.41).
Beegle, Kathleen and Joachim De Weerdt. 2008. Methodological Issues in the Study of the Socioeconomic Consequences of HIV/AIDS. AIDS, Vol. 22, Suppl 1, pp. S89-94 (biomedical journal with impact factor 6.25).
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon. 2008. Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS. Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(2): 299-326.
De Weerdt, Joachim. 2008. Field Notes on Administering Shock Modules. Journal of International Development, Vol. 20, pp. 398-402.
De Weerdt, Joachim, Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Alula Pankhurst. 2007. Membership-based Indigenous Insurance Associations. Pages 157-167 in Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Carol Richards (eds.), "Membership Based Organisations of the Poor" Londen: Routledge 376 pages. download pdf
De Weerdt, Joachim and Stefan Dercon. 2006. Risk-sharing Networks and Insurance Against Illness. Journal of Development Economics 81(2): 337-356.
Dercon, Stefan, Joachim De Weerdt, Tessa Bold and Alula Pankhurst. 2006. Group-based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania. World Development 34(4): 685-703.
Beegle, Kathleen, Joachim De Weerdt and Stefan Dercon. 2006. Orphanhood and the Long-run Impact on Children. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(5): 1266-1277.
De Weerdt, Joachim. 2004. Risk-sharing and Endogenous Network Formation. Chapter 10 in Dercon, S. (ed.) "Insurance Against Poverty", Oxford University Press, pp: 197-216. dowload pdf
POLICY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
February 2019. Video on Big City vs Small Town in Poverty Reducton: Insights from Tanzania.
February 2019. Policy paper for the European Commission on "Urbanization as a driver of changing food demand: evidence from rural-urban migration in Tanzania." JRC Technical Reports EUR 28756 (with Lara Cockx, Liesbeth Colen and Sergio Gomez Y Paloma).
December 2018. Policy paper published in advance of the UN's Global Compact for Migration on 10-11 December 2018 in Marrakech: Christiaensen, Luc, Joachim De Weerdt, Bert Ingelaere and Ravi Kanbur. 2018. "Migration, Growth and Secondary Towns in Tanzania" chapter 2 in: People on the Move. Advancing the Discourse on Migration and Jobs. JustJobs Network, pp. 29-42.
November 2018. A three part lecture series on the Economics of Growth and Development for staff of Belgium's International and European Financial Affairs administration (IEFA) at the Ministry of Finance, who follow up on the representation of Belgium in various international financial organisations, such as the World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, etc. (full list here).
29 June 2018. Keynote talk on "Urbanization and Rural Poverty Reduction: the role of small towns" at the International Conference on Planning and Development at the Institute for Rural Development Planning (IRDP), Dodoma, Tanzania.
30 June 2018. Roundtable discussion on "How to include rural areas in Tanzania's industrialization process" at the International Conference on Planning and Development at the Institute for Rural Development Planning (IRDP), broadcast live on Tanzania's national TV station (TBC), as well as various social media, like Michuzi Youtube Video Channel.
Father's day post: what does paternal death tell us about the importance of fathers? 20 June 2018. Development Impact Blog. World Bank. Co-authored with Kathleen Beegle and Stefan Dercon.
Happy Father's Day: Fathers and children's self-esteem. 20 June 2018. Africa Can Blog. World Bank. Co-authored with Kathleen Beegle and Stefan Dercon.
Monitoring Emerging Small Towns in Tanzania: a proof of concept study (London School of Economics through the International Growth Centre). Providing technical support to Tanzania's Prime Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG) to collect data and compile statistics on Emerging Small Towns (ESTs). PO-RALG estimates indicate that there may be as many as 800 ESTs, many of which are undocumented within the government system. PO-RALG has identified the lack of accurate and timely information on ESTs as a major obstacle to sound policy making and urban planning. This project is joint with Neil Chalmers (independent consultant) and Hanne Van Cappellen (University of Antwerp).
"Agriculture, poverty and malnutrition in Tanzania: enabling a focussed research agenda" (joint with Lara Cockx). Presentation at the "Expert Consultation on Focusing Agricultural and Rural Development Research and Investment on Achieving SDGs 1 and 2. A joint initiative of FAO, IFAD, ISPC/CGIAR and the World Bank, in partnership with the European Union." 10-12 January 2018, FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.
Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs: Insights from Tanzania, with Luc Christiaensen, Bert Ingelaere and Ravi Kanbur. Paper prepared for the Initiative for Policy Dialogue of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Africa Task Force Meeting on The Quality of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, held at Columbia University on 11-12 April, 2017. The Task Force is chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, Akbar Noman and Ravi Kanbur. Also appeared in January 2018 as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS8340.
"Secondary towns for migration and jobs", a three part blog series on the World Bank Jobs and Development Blog, co-authored with Luc Christiaensen, Bert Ingelaere and Ravi Kanbur:
Creating the action space (17 October 2017)
What makes a town a town and why it matters (19 October 2017)
The first move is different (24 october 2018)
Enhancing Food Systems for Improved Urban Food Security and Nutrition. 6 June 2017. Policy Event on "Food Security and Nutrition in an Urbanising World", organised by SNV, IFPRI and Welthungerhilfe in Brussels on the eve of the EU development days. Watch the YouTube Video of the entire panel (1h) or jump to my contributions here, here and here.
Mchango wa Miji Midogo Katika Kuleta Maendeleo na Kuondoa Umaskini Tanzania. 2017. IGC Policy Brief (with Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur).
Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania. 2017. IGC Policy Brief (with Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur).
Not Your Average Job: measuring farm labor in Tanzania. November 2016. IOB Analysis and Policy Brief 21. (with Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle and Amparo Palacios-Lopez)
Mesurer l'agriculture familial, un exercice délicat. Africa Can End Poverty Blog. World Bank. 12 November 2016. (with Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle and Amparo Palacios-Lopez)
Measuring family business is tricky business. Africa Can End Poverty Blog. World Bank. 12 November 2016. (with Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle and Amparo Palacios-Lopez)
How migrants in Africa maintain economic and social links to home villages. IFPRI blog. 12 September 2016. (with Kalle Hirvonen)
Meer middelgrote steden, minder armoede. Mo Magazine 15 August 2016. (with Luc Christiaensen)
YouTube Video Presentation "From paper to CAPI: what can we learn from field experiments?" Posted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the "Statistics at ADB Channel". 4 August 2016.
Not your average job: measuring farm labor in Tanzania. July 2016. Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM-LIC), Policy Brief No. 6. (with Vellore Arthi, Kathleen Beegle and Amparo Palacios-Lopez)
Decomposing response error to improve consumption survey design - Development Impact on 25 April 2016. (with Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson)
Urbanisation and poverty reduction. A position paper prepared for The Planning Commission, President's Office, Tanzania. 2016. (with Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur) - download original pdf or IOB Analysis and Policy Brief version.
Urbanisation, growth and poverty reduction: the role of secondary towns. 2016. (with Luc Christiaensen and Ravi Kanbur) - IGC blogpost and IOB project page.
De Weerdt, Joachim and Andreas Kutka. 2015. Urbanisation and Youth Employment in Tanzania. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS VI). Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística – IBGE. p. 575-585. download pdf
More to do on measuring hunger. 19 March 2014. Let's Talk Development Blog. (with Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson)
More to do on measuring hunger. 18 February 2014. VoxEU blogpost. (with Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson)
Challenges in counting the world's hungry. 23 January 2014. Development Impact Blog. (with Kathleen Beegle, Jed Friedman and John Gibson)
Mobility Pays. 2011. Rural 21. 01/2011: 18-20. download pdf
Measuring Risk Perceptions: why and how. 2005. Social Protection Discussion Papers Series No. 0533, World Bank, Washington, DC. download pdf
Extending Insurance? Funeral Associations in Ethiopia and Tanzania. 2004. OECD Development Centre Working Paper No. 240 (With Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold and Alula Pankhurst). download pdf
Dozens of CWIQ reports and briefs for districts in Tanzania written between 2004-2007; all available on-line from http://edi-global.com/publications/
Adoption of Superior Banana Varieties in the Kagera Region: Accomplishments and Constraints. 2004. Commissioned by Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC). download pdf
Community Organisations in Rural Tanzania: A Case Study of the Community of Nyakatoke, Bukoba Rural District. 2001. download pdf
Poverty in Tanzania. 1997. Policy Preparatory Report, BVO/97.2, DGIS, Brussels, 1997.
My colleagues and I have been at the source of many data collection efforts and some of these data sets are thankfully in the public domain. Here is a list with links:
KHDS
SHWALITA
Nyakatoke Network Data
Measuring Farm Labour
CWIQ
Institute of Development Policy (IOB)
Statute & functions
Zelfstandig academisch pers.
Internal mandates
bestuursorgaan bestuursmandaat
Gemengde Onderwijscommissie Sociaal Economische Wetenschappen (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)
Onderwijscommissie Instituut Ontwikkelingsbeleid (effectief waarnemend lid)
Onderzoekscommissie Instituut Ontwikkelingsbeleid (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)
Opleidingscommissie Master Political Sciences (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)
Opleidingscommissie master Intern. Betrekkingen & Diplomatie (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)
Raad Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (effectief stemgerechtigd lid)
mandaat sociaal mandaat
Noodplanhelper Kleine blusmiddelen (effectief titularis)


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Monolith Software, Inc. (better known as MonolithSoft) is a Japanese game developer founded in 1999 by Hirohide Sugiura and Tetsuya Takahashi, who had left Square and acquired investing from Namco. On April 28, 2007, Nintendo acquired an 80% majority of Monolith, with Bandai Namco holding 16%. Monolith would become well known for the Xenosaga JRPG series on PlayStation 2, a successor to Xenogears, which Takahashi had produced at Square, in addition to the Baten Kaitos series on Nintendo GameCube. Currently, Monolith is best known for the Xenoblade series on Nintendo platforms, in addition to being an external development team for several Nintendo projects like the Animal Crossing series since Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Splatoon and The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild.
1st Logo (February 28, 2002-)
Logo: On a black background, we see a long, gray cubic monolith from an above and side view, its side ridged like a hair comb. Below we see "MONOLITHSOFT" in a modified Apollon Regular font, with the "I" replaced by a miniature of the monolith.
Until 2006, the text simply read "M.L.S.I."
On games from the company on Nintendo DS, the logo is more zoomed out.
An animated variant appears on Xenosaga: Episode I - Der Wille zur Macht, its first appearance overall. We see a view of a dark, cloudy sky which flashes, revealing several aurora-like ripples which move over it, until a streak of light moves down and draws in the monolith, with "M.S.I." appearing below.
On trailers for Xenoblade Chronicles, the logo is more zoomed in, and the monolith simply ripples in from left to right. The text is absent.
On Baten Kaitos Origins, we see only the "MONOLITHSOFT" text in black on a white background.
Technique: None, aside from the animated variant which uses CGI.
Availability: Common. Seen on Monolith's games since Xenosaga: Episode I - Der Wille zur Macht. Many of the studio's games after Disaster: Day Of Crisis have forgone using it as an opening logo, having an in-credit notice instead.
2nd Logo (December 1, 2017-)
Logo: We zoom out from a black screen to reveal the monolith from the previous logo on a background consisting of a purple-blue starfield with a large planet on the right and a bright sun-like star in the middle, standing on a watery surface reflecting everything. The ridges of the monolith swing to their normal position, as we see the letters of "MONOLITHSOFT" turned sideways. The perspective straightens and the monolith floats up, and the letters below turn to face us as the star illuminates the text. The background then becomes completely black, the logo becomes silver, then gains a scanline-like texture. The finished logo is shifted higher than usual.
Technique: CGI animation.
Availability: Current. First seen after the credits of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on Nintendo Switch. Has since appeared after the credits of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition as well.
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Jobs That Show Kindness
by Christine Bartsch
Kind nurses put the caring in health care.
Forget the old saying that "nice guys finish last;" there's no rule that says you need to be ruthless to make money in the workplace. While a job on Wall Street or the corporate world may demand cold-blooded cunning, there are plenty of careers where being kind is a top job qualification.
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Aside from excellent medical training, taking care of a vulnerable patient facing a health issue requires patience, good listening skills and compassion. The best health care professionals have an abundance of kindness in their bedside manner, but the medical field isn't the only healing profession in which kindness is an asset. The ability to be kind is a benefit in any career that works to heal the body and mind, including mental health professionals, massage therapists, veterinarians, dieticians, physical therapists and EMTs.
Whether you're teaching the alphabet to preschoolers or chemistry to college students, demonstrating kindness helps teachers to develop student rapport and to manage classrooms. Outside the traditional K-12 and college classrooms, learners benefit from the kindness of instructors who serve as tutors and workshop leaders. Those with a desire to kindly teach subjects other than reading, writing and arithmetic can educate youngsters and adults alike in any number of subjects, such as music, sports, fine arts, creative writing, and by teaching private lessons or becoming coaches.
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Everyone from policemen and firefighters to waiters and cashiers, can exhibit kindness by serving by others with a smile. The service industry offers a broad spectrum of job opportunities that incorporates a wide range of skills and interests. Civil servants such as policemen, firefighters and social workers show kindness while rescuing victims. Commercial service positions benefit from exhibiting kindness when handling customers, whether you're a realtor selling a house or a computer technician helping a consumer understand new technology.
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Kindness doesn't have to be reserved for people; there are plenty of opportunities for caring individuals who have a passion for saving the planet. Scientifically minded individuals who want to show kindness can steer their careers toward solutions and inventions that promote conservation. Lovers of the outdoors can consider positions that preserve nature, such as working for the National Park Service.
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El Cantó de Chalonnes-sur-Loire és un cantó francès del departament de Maine i Loira, situat al districte d'Angers. Té 5 municipis i el cap es Chalonnes-sur-Loire.

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 Chalonnes-sur-Loire
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 Rochefort-sur-Loire
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Beatrice Culleton Mosionier (born 1949) is a Canadian Métis author. She is most notable for her novel In Search of April Raintree.

Life and career
Mosionier was born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba, to Mary Clara Pelleter Mosionier. She is the youngest of four children.  Mosionier grew up living in several foster homes in Winnipeg as a ward of the Children's Aid Society. She attended St. Charles Catholic School, and Gordon Bell High School, completing Grade 11.

Mosionier met and later married Bill Culleton, and they have two children, Bill and Debbie.  The couple separated several times, living mainly in Toronto. There Mosionier worked as a watch inspector at a factory. She enrolled at George Brown College and later worked at Wahn, Mayer and Mith law firm, as a bookkeeper.  Later the couple returned to Winnipeg, where eventually they divorced.  The family then moved to Vita, Manitoba, and later Oakbank and St. Norbert.

At this time Mosionier began writing her first novel In Search Of April Raintree which was published in 1983.

In 1987 Mosionier  moved to Toronto, and in 1988 she married George Moehring. As of 2014 the couple live in Winnipeg.

In 2013 she addressed a crowd on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature as part of the Idle No More movement.

Writings

Novels

Mosionier's novel, In Search of April Raintree, was published in 1983.  The story of April and Cheryl Raintree, two Métis sisters growing up in foster homes in Manitoba, Canada, and chronicling their lives from childhood into adulthood, was based on the traumatic experiences from  Mosionier's own life, including sexual violence, the suicide of two of her sisters, and the search for her Métis identity. A revised edition of In Search of April Raintree, was published in 1984 entitled April Raintree. April Raintree (1984) is an expurgated version of the original, intended for young readers. Much of the original language in In Search of April Raintree (1983) i.e. profanity and graphic descriptions of sexual violence, including rape, was censored.

Mosionier's second novel, published in 2000, is titled In a Shadow of Evil. It is set in the Canadian Rockies, and follows the life of a young girl going through family trauma and foster care. The novel was inspired by Mosionier's molestation by a priest at age three.

Children's stories
Mosionier's first children's book Spirit of the White Bison (1985) is told from the perspective of a young white bison. It portrays a distinct part of Canadian history, the fall of bison herds and the European settlers.

Mosionier's story Christopher's Folly (1996) tells of a young man who is forced to understand his foolishness in a dream in order to earn respect for animals, and the world around him. It teaches children to respect their surroundings.

Her next book, Unusual Friendships: A little black Cat and a Little White Rat (2002) the story of an unusual friendship between a black cat and a white rat, refers to different Métis relationships. It symbolizes the difficulties that Métis persons experience through not being purebred. The white rat attempts to teach others the jig and together the cat and the rat stick together to get respect for who they are. The story was created with a rhyme pattern.

Memoir

In 2009 Mosionier wrote Come Walk With Me: A Memoir, which depicts all of her life events and she shares emotional details of the experiences that she has faced. The book has received a number of positive reviews.

Mosionier also contributed to the anthology Memoir of Manitoba, a collection of stories by native authors.

Bibliography

 Come Walk With Me: A Memoir. Winnipeg: HighWater, 2009
 extr. in German: Komm, begleite mich. Erzählung, in Heute sind wir hier. We Are Here Today. A Bilingual Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Literature(s) from Canada - Eine zweisprachige Sammlung zeitgenössischer indigener Literatur. ed. Hartmut Lutz. Verlag von der Linden, Wesel 2009
 In Search of April Raintree. 1983
 transl. in German by Annette Kohl-Beyer: Halbblut! Die Geschichte der April Raintree. Roman. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1994
 In the Shadow of Evil. Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014 (Snippets only)
 Spirit of the White Bison. Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.
 Christopher's Folly. Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.
 Unusual Friendships: A Little Black Cat and a Little White Rat. Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014.

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P.M. 0.5 with Benjamin in 4:22, then 1.5 with Benjamin and Jenny - pushed Jacob in the single stroller for that part. Benjamin took off at the end, his 2 mile time was 18:07, Jenny ran her 1.5 in 14:05. Then 1.05 with Julia in 10:53, and 3 by myself, no stroller, in 20:59. Some interesting stomach issues. Burps, lots of gas, could not run longer than 1.5 without a serious bathroom break. However, all solid, and felt strong while running. Sarah and Jenny got some stomach issues as well.
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I'm there. Sorry I ask about times too much. I have a hard time even keeping track of what day it is sometimes with how busy things get.
Sasha, your mileage is goofy today. Better check your half marathon distance.
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Exhibitions Annual Emerging and Unsigned Artist Exhibition	Exploration 18 19th June 2018 - 14th July 2018
We are delighted to announce that the Winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award is Jasper Jacobsen!
Judges for Exploration 18 Award are Juan Ford (artist), Alfred de Bruyne (architect and collector), Claire Harris (Gallery Director).
The inaugural People's Choice Award winner is Brett Ferry!
FLG presents our highly anticipated annual showcase of emerging and unsigned artists. Exploration was created to provide a platform for emerging artists to successfully exhibit their art within a commercial gallery context.
Now in its 18th year, this tightly curated exhibition will showcase the art practices of nine talented artists from diverse backgrounds and working across various mediums.
Archie Barry
Archie Barry's practice incorporates both video and performance to articulate their research and concepts surrounding identity. Barry completed a Masters of Contemporary Art at the VCA in 2017 and was the recipient of the Fiona Myer Studio Residency in Berlin (for 2018), the Winner of the NAVA Ignition Prize for Professional Practice, and was twice the Winner of the Deans Award for Academic Excellence through the University of NSW. Most recently they were curated into the Here We Are exhibition at the State Library of Victoria, and also into the ground breaking group exhibition Unfinished Business by Max Delany staged at ACCA in November 2017.
Tatsache (2017) is titled after the German loan-translation for the English phrase "matter of fact", and is a devotional poem written for quantum field theory – a worldview that describes all matter as perpetually disintegrating and reforming. This idea has been embraced as a position from which to view psychological and physiological transgender states of becoming as a super-natural phenomenon, in alignment with the existing state of all material substance.
These elements are present across Barry's practice, which often returns to the tensions between quietude and articulation, self-portraiture and opacity.
Tiffany Cole
Tiffany Cole is an artist who explores her world through painting, and is currently living and practicing in Canberra, ACT. She focusses mainly in the field of still-life painting. Her work explores ideas about collecting, and the value we assign to objects in terms of their ability to hold memory and represent connections between people. Cole is interested in our bodily experience of viewing painting, and how materiality and scale can evoke sensations such as tactility for the viewer, which can make the painted world 'come to life'. Recently Cole has also been exploring ways to present her paintings as three-dimensional displays, using laser cutting to play with the boundary between represented space and actual space.
Tiffany completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with first-class Honours and the University Medal. Cole also won a number of prizes and scholarships at the end of her degree through the ANU EASS Scheme including the Canberra Contemporary Art Space Residency Award, and the Spanish Embassy Young Australian Artists' Travelling Scholarship. Cole was also the recipient of the QANTAS Foundation Encouragement of Australian Art Award in 2010, which took her research to South America and Northern Europe.
Cole has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in the ACT and NSW, and is currently a PhD candidate at the ANU School of Art.
Farnaz Dadfar
Farnaz Dadfar originates from Tehran, Iran, and there she completed her Bachelor of Painting in 2008 before completing a Grad Cert in Visual Art and a Masters of Contemporary Art from the VCA in Melbourne in 2017. She was a finalist in the Churchie Art Prize in 2017, and in the same year was also the recipient of the Galloway Lawson Prize from The University of Melbourne. She has exhibited widely between Tehran, Brisbane and Melbourne. She is currently returned as a research candidate in the Master of Fine Art (visual art) in VCA program.
Dadfar's work is comprised of kaleidoscopic and highly saturated imagery presented in psychadelic and ornamental symmetrical configurations. In offering the viewer unexpected visual correlations, Dadfar seeks to speculate upon the construction of new imaginary worlds.
Her work provides a playful ambivalence that oscillates between a visionary sublime, an apocalyptic spectacle, and a ridiculous fantasy. Such experiences demand a juxtaposition of expected and unexpected colour palettes—an oblique reference to the post-dialectical entanglement of Eastern and Western cultural values that is rapidly redefining the ground of human subjectivity in the twenty-first century.
Brett Ferry
Brett Ferry's paintings challenge the tradition of landscape, teasing viewers' perceptions and stimulating the imagination. His bold use of colour and unique style are both confronting and beautiful. His most recent work explores the "post-digital landscape" derived from observation, photography and digital manipulation. Using a variety of techniques, Ferry places high importance on traditional acts of drawing, printmaking and painting. "For me, these techniques provide a response to time and thought, and a discourse within art history. This enables me to build conceptual layers of ideas and meanings, within each piece of work." he states.
Brett Ferry has completed a Bachelor of Fine Art Printmaking at Victorian College of the Arts, and a Diploma of Education at The University of Melbourne.
He recently was curated into the 2017 NotFair Exhibition, and was a finalist in the 2017 Bayside Art Prize. Ferry is currently working within education, living and working in Melbourne.
Jasper Jacobsen- Winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award
Drawing upon a background in psychology and philosophy, Jasper Jacobsen's practice revolves around ongoing examinations of time, absence, memory and mortality. Utilising found elements as raw material, his conceptual sculpture renders the familiar as the foreign, with a quiet yet disquieting touch. Lost and forgotten objects resurface as precarious ciphers through subtle material intervention and fusion, with no simple reading immune from distortion, drift, or collapse. After studying philosophy and psychology at the Australian National University, Jacobsen received a Master of Contemporary Art in 2017 from VCA, University of Melbourne.
Rose Jiiwu Lee
Currently Rose Jiiwu Lee is exploring the idea of space within her work, with a particular focus on what constitutes the modern landscape. Traditional landscape painting conjures thoughts of sweeping plains, rolling hills and coastal views - and while that may have been the subject matter of Streeton and Williams - Lee seeks to more accurately present the modern, urban, world that we live in - a world of interiors, of technology. A world we long to escape from but rarely do.
The pieces in her recent work depict landscapes that are free from traditional expectations, and show the modern world through a crisp, clear lens. There are voids in her compositions, creating a delicate balance between the other elements that are at play within her structured environments. It also allows us as viewers the space to ponder these landscapes more deeply – where are we now, in this modern world we have created around ourselves?
Rose has exhibited in group exhibitions in London, Paris and Melbourne, and was a finalist in the Agendo Emerging Artist Award in 2017.
Mohsen Meysami
Mohsen Meysami is an Iranian artist who works between Tehran (Iran) and Melbourne (Australia). Meysami is interested in utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques to communicate complex political ideas. His artworks range from intricate bead-works on found Persian Kilims to digital illustrations and public art projects. Through his artworks, Meysami explores impacts of recent wars in the Middle-East and challenges people's indifference to the suffering of those whose lives have been affected by wars.
He completed a Master of Graphic Design at the Azad Art University Tehran, Iran, and was awarded the Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake a PhD. Currently studying at RMIT University, he is conducting a practice-based research project focused on portraying impacts of war using Persian traditional arts.
Mohsen Meysami's works have been selected as finalist in a number of awards including the Arte Laguna Venice 2018, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, and Incinerator Art Award. In 2017, he won the Footscray Art Prize 2017 Tertiary Award.
Claire Mooney
In her practice, Claire Mooney explores concepts relating to pattern and abstraction, creating vibrantly coloured paintings that make reference to text and textiles, encoding and craft, landscape and technology. Her most recent work explores colour, pattern and the landscape, weaving together geometric and organic structures to create dynamically fragmented compositions.
Mooney uses a form of collage as her starting point, employing print transfer methods to layer photographs of nature and geometric patterns onto to the surface of the work. These are then edited, partially erased, and painted into and around. The resulting splintered structure presents a collision in process, a clash of nature and culture, showing passages of harmony, intersection and interruption.
Mooney recently completed a Bundoora Nebula Artist Residency at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre and was curated into the 2017 NotFair exhibition. She has previously been a finalist in the City of Albany Prize, and the Substation Contemporary Art Prize.
In 2008 she was a recipient of a NAVA Janet Holmes a Court Grant, and in 2004 was the Winner of the Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Award.
Belinda Wiltshire
With a recent shift to a more expressive approach to form and colour, Wiltshire has sharpened the focus on her abstract sensibilities and is moving toward further bridging the gap between representational and nonobjective art.
Born in Geelong, 1980, Wiltshire is a visual artist working mainly as a figurative oil painter. After studying Costume Design and Clothing Industry, and with no formal art training, Wiltshire has been exhibiting in solo and group shows since 2002. She was a finalist in the 2004 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, the 2012, 2016, and 2017 Black Swan Prize For Portraiture, the 2015 Manning Art Prize, the 2014 Benalla Nude Prize, and a semi-finalist in the 2014 and 2017 Doug Moran Painting Prize. Wiltshire was also curated into the 2017 NotFair exhibition.
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Endurance by Brett Ferry 2018
oil and acrylic on linen
Swipe by Brett Ferry 2018
Glance by Brett Ferry 2018
Murrmer by Brett Ferry 2018
Linger On by Brett Ferry 2018
acrylic and oil on linen
Tatsache by Archie Barry 2017
single channel video loop
cm x cm 4.24 mins, repeated
Astral Arrangement Two by Belinda Wiltshire 2018
Astral Arrangement Three by Belinda Wiltshire 2018
Astral Arrangement Four by Belinda Wiltshire 2018
The Bridge by Jasper Jacobsen 2018
grave marker with aerial
130cm x 15cm x 2 cm
As The Palsied Universe Lies Before Us by Jasper Jacobsen 2018
32cm x 12cm x 12 cm
Gilding the Wound by Jasper Jacobsen 2017
tree branches, 3D printed resin, gold plated spirit level cannisters, liquid level
56cm x 159cm x 19cm. POA
The River by Jasper Jacobsen 2017
digital photographic prints, framed
112cm x 245cm ed. 10
Lamina (after the rain) by Claire Mooney 2018
acrylic and print transfer on plywood
100cm x 100cm framed
Field Charge by Claire Mooney 2018
After Again by Claire Mooney 2018
40cm x 40cm framed
Loam by Claire Mooney 2018
Folden by Claire Mooney 2018
Shiver by Claire Mooney 2018
Their Pain Our Gain by Mohsen Meysami 2017
bead work on found Persian Kilim
136cm x 115cm POA
There For You by Mohsen Meysami 2018
stitching on found Persian Kilim
Sorrow by Mohsen Meysami 2018
embroidery on Termeh
Vicious Circle by Mohsen Meysami 2016
Modern Landscape 1 by Rose Jiiwu Lee 2018
digital painting and acrylic on perspex
80cm x 100cm , framed
Uranium Cake for Peace 2 by Farnaz Dadfar 2017
Digital print mounted on 3mm Dibond
90cm x 69cm Ed. of 3
Delusionarium 1 by Farnaz Dadfar 2018
Digital print mounted on 3mm Dibond, ed of 3
digital print mounted on 3mm dibond,edition of 3
Delusionarium 6 by Farnaz Dadar 2018
61cm x 61cm Ed of 3
Season To Taste - Swans by Tiffany Cole 2018
24 carat gold, acrylic and oil on cherry wood
10cm x 18cm x 2 cm
Season To Taste - Flower Babies by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Holly Hocks by Tiffany Cole 2018
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Season To Taste - Lemons by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Blue Whales by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Lustreware Swans by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Sunflowers by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Horses by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - White Swans by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Pink Flowers by Tiffany Cole 2018
Season To Taste - Flamingos by Tiffany Cole 2018
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How Do You Maintain a Metal Roof?
There are lots of benefits to having a metal roof. A metal roof lasts much longer than shingles, is very weather resistant and energy efficient, and comes in a variety of options. But if you go with a metal roof, how do you maintain it? Believe it or not, metal roofs actually require minimal maintenance and upkeep as compared to other types of materials. Here's what you need to know to properly maintain a metal roof and get the most out of your investment.
Annually, it's important to clean the gutters, down spouts, and drains to make sure leaves and debris don't back up and cause any leaks or damage. A build up of leaves or dirt on top of the metal can also cause water to not evaporate or run off appropriately, leading to corrosion.
Keep tree branches and limbs trimmed back so that they do not touch the roof—they can damage the finish of the roof or do even more damage during a strong wind or storm.
An annual cleaning with some gentle detergent and a power washer can keep a metal roof looking like new without stripping the coating of the metal. A deep cleaning with stronger detergents should be done every three to five years, depending on the environmental conditions of your home.
Before using any cleaning products on your metal roof, be sure to check with the manufacturer's recommendations or directions for cleaning of the metal.
Working on a roof can be dangerous, so if you're not comfortable to—or experienced work—walk around on the roof, call in the professionals. A professional company can help keep your roof clean with an annual visit.


What's the one thing that every small business – retail or F&B – have in common?
Every business owner needs a machine to store money and process sales transactions – whether it's a traditional cash register machine, or a modern point of sale (POS) system.
Let's compare the two and find out!
Do you have a lot of products to manage?
Do you need help with remote employee management?
Will you be away from your store most of the time and will need real-time reports?
Do you want to run a loyalty programme?
Answering all these questions will give you clearer picture of what you need for your business at this point in time as well as in the future.
How much does a cash register or a POS system cost?
Expect to spend a little more time and money if you're just starting your business. There are things like hardware that you might need to buy or trainings you need to attend.
A cash register machine costs anywhere between RM400 – RM4,000.
A POS system with hardware (iPad or Android tablet + tablet stand + cash drawer + receipt printer) costs around RM2,000 – RM4,000.
You need to determine your budget and business goals before selecting either.
Keep in mind that the world is becoming more advanced as time goes on, and you now have access to smarter and cheaper all-in-one business management systems that can give you insights that will help you make better data-driven business decisions.
Data is king. You need to collect and analyse it to understand who your target market is, and how you can better sell to your new and existing customers. This helps you save time and money. Whoo!
Why does anyone buy anything? For its value, of course!
So, what can a cash register or a POS system do for you and your business?
While there seems to be a clear winner based on this list, you should still do your research and determine your business needs before making your choice.
Where to buy a cash register machine or POS system?
You can buy a cash register machine or POS system pretty easily.
Remember to take your time, do your research, and compare your options. Choose the best option that will help you easily manage and grow your small business.
After all, being an entrepreneur isn't easy, so your cash management system should be!


by Cherrie Zhang – Thanks to my first job after I finished school in 2003, I have a large passion for cars. At that time, I worked at Mercedes-Benz in China, which brought me into this dynamic and powerful industry. At the very beginning I knew nothing about cars, but I knew what I wanted – to work hard and make myself a professional first-class business woman one day, just like a Mercedes-Benz car. I wanted to have a solid knowledge about my job and how cars work, being trustworthy to people who know me and always try to improve my skills and competencies. The company gave me ways to reach this by providing me with various tasks, working from project management of dealerships, network establishment and expansion, to leading customer-marketing experiences. I have learnt so much along the way.
In the pursuit of enhancing academic knowledge and experiencing a foreign country's dynamic culture, I quit my job and everything else in 2008 and flew to Denmark to study. 4 years later after graduation, I returned to China and I am currently in Shanghai working in the field of Business Development Consulting on Analysis & Reporting at JATO Dynamics, an international automotive business intelligence services and consulting company. This job also enabled my career transition in the auto industry from the previous B2C to now B2B field, as my main work is focusing on the Car Markets and Vehicles Analysis & Reporting projects to our clients – international and national automakers.
Increasing challenges come while working and competing in such a male-dominated industry, but I still feel good especially at times when I can talk with colleagues, managers and external clients expertised in vehicles about engines, transmission, technical data and so on.
The automotive industry is a very large and globalized industry. The international big OEMs has already made a strong foothold in many developed and fast-growing countries, meaning no one single OEM is completely independent in operations in one single country and the business activities are already spread into multiple countries. For example, while my French and Italian colleagues presented a Russian project, I also presented one sample report I created about the Russian auto market as well as the US auto retail market report, which focuses more on new car dealership network in the States. What's more is that I'm now also creating a Nordic auto markets report featuring the differences and similarities of each car market through the tight comparison of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland and I feel like I have a lot to say and analyse, thanks to my experience with living in Denmark. Such work makes me very happy.
The 4 years, I was living and studying in Denmark was a very delightful and meaningful journey in my life. However, this experience also made me struggled somewhat after I got back to China. The power of the social environment can influence you a lot, especially on your mind of thinking.
The typical Danish flat management and communication style, makes me feel very comfortable. While I had some to say, I just felt free to speak out in the class to the teacher and to my classmates and they welcomed it. While I interned at Mercedes-Benz Denmark, I could just knock at the Director's office door and he was open to listen to my ideas and support me. But when it came to work in China, without my consciousness I did the same thing, but I was suggested to talk through the reporting line. A couple of emails and calls later, I found that my idea was finally passed to the receiver. Not easy, I'm Chinese and I know my home country's hierarchical culture, I don't like that but have to adjust myself to adapt to it because I alone can't change the social environment. I encountered many similar circumstances like this. What I'm saying is not to judge a country's culture. Culture is not right or wrong thing. I thus have to balance and adapt to my comfortable and uncomfortable zones in China.
During my internship in Denmark, one Monday morning I joined a brief meeting. I was so surprised and asked myself 'Is this a real work meeting?' I saw colleagues brought in cakes and juices and we sat in the meeting room talking about work while eating breakfast. Yep, it is a meeting and the work talk went very effectively. I never knew the so-called blue Monday morning could be so enjoyable and cozy in the office. What's happening in a Chinese Monday meeting? Nervous air clouds the whole room and just reporting one by one.


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I'm passionate about raising the standard of marketing globally. In our digital world, there is no excuse for wasted marketing spend and communication that does not have an impact. It's my mission to study, test and share best practice. I've collated here some of my thoughts and significant findings so far. My hope is that you find them interesting, thought-provoking, but most of all, useful.
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healty winter food for your chickens: sprouts!
« First Spring Salad with …. Weeds !
During winter time it is not always easy to provide your chickens with essential fresh green feeds. An easy solution for this problem is sprouting. Sprouts are more alive than dry seeds and have plenty nutrionaly advantages. Sprouts are extremely high in enzymes, which help catalyze all bodily processes from digestion to elimination. They are an exceptional food and provide a great amount of easily available nutrients to the body for physical maintenance, endurance, and vitality. Sprouts provide quick energy through the enzymatic process of converting their own proteins, fats, and starches into amino acids, fatty acids, and simple sugars that are easily digested. The nutritional value of sprouted foods increases by as much as 300 percent in available minerals and vitamins!*. You can sprout for instance seeds of sunflowers, alfalfa, clovers, broccoli and other crucifers, buckwheat, radishes, beans, corn and peas as well as any small grains.
- You will need 5 (food grade) plastic buckets. One is the soak bucket, the others are the draining/sprouting buckets. You will have to drill holes, in the bottoms and halfway up the sides, in these draining buckets. The size of these holes is important: they must permit the flushing through of dusty debris but not get blocked by a grain of wheat or oats.
Day 1: measure the grains, any mix you like, into the soak bucket and cover with water.
Day 2: dump the soaked grains into one of the drain buckets and rinse thoroughly; then allow to drain while measuring another batch of grains and covering with water in the soak bucket.
Day 3: repeat the dumping of the soaked grains into a second drain bucket, rinsing, and starting a new batch of grains in the soak bucket. Rince the sprouting grain in the first drain bucket as well.
Day 4 and thereafter: now you're rolling. Each day, dump the soak bucket into an empty drain bucket and start a new batch of grains - and each day, rinse the sprouting grains in all active drain buckets. The daily rinsing is necessary to prevent growth of molds in the sprouting grain.
My chickens and myself (for heapier and healthier chickens, thus healthier eggs, thus a healthier family) are grateful for the sprouting inspiration which was given to us by Harvey Ussery, who wrote the very inspirational book : "The Small - Scale Poultry Flock, an all-natural approuch to raising chickens and other fowl for home and market growers (2011).


I work at a specialist children's unit or community hospital, do we need to participate?
Yes, we will be covering all centres that see children and young people, although the degree of input will vary. We will be in touch with you over the coming months, but in the meantime if you do not currently submit data to NCEPOD then please either call us on 0207 251 9060 or email us at info@ncepod.org.uk – with the reference of 'child health', to register your details.


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2 children killed, 4 hospitalized after SUV crashes with go-kart in Kaufman County
November 23rd, 2020 |Accidents
Two children died and four children were hospitalized after an SUV collided with their go-kart Saturday afternoon in College Mound in Kaufman County, officials say.
College Mound firefighters were dispatched to the crash about 12:30 p.m. in the unincorporated community about 40 miles east of Dallas.
The go-kart was carrying six children, ages 7 to 12. Their names were not released.
A 7-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. The other five children were taken to hospitals — three were airlifted and two were driven.
A 12-year-old died later at a hospital, Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Kyle Bradford said Sunday. Details about the condition of the four surviving children were not released.
The SUV's driver, whose name was not released, was not injured, officials said.
Troopers targeting dangerous drivers in AustinSeveral men detained after fatal wreck that ejected, killed woman in Harris County


James Clemens outfielder Jordan Anderson was selected in the 40th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft by the Texas Rangers. Jordan has signed to play baseball for Mississippi State and plans on pursuing college baseball at this time. Jordan is the first James Clemens Jet to be selected in the draft. He was a Huntsville All Region and Class 7A 2nd team All State selection this season after compiling a .348 batting average with a .422 on base percentage with 7 doubles and 11 stolen bases. Congrats to Jordan!


Ooh goody! The cast of Bedbugs!!! has been invited to perform at my favorite cabaret night, Broadway Sessions with Ben D!
We'll be performing TOMORROW NIGHT at 11pm. And -- get this -- the accompanist (the musical genius Joshua Stephen Kartes) and I worked together back in the day in Chicago! I'm talking about 6 years ago or so. Small world!
Can't wait to belt out a tune! For more info, visit their facebook page HERE.


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Amnesty International calls on Northern Ireland to allow same-sex marriage
Naith Payton April 27, 2015
The human rights organisation Amnesty has urged Northern Irish Politicians to push for same-sex marriage.
Politicians in Stormont are due to debate same-sex marriage today. Northern Ireland remains the only part of the UK where same-sex marriage is not currently possible.
The governing party, the DUP, have notoriously refused to back LGBT equality. They also proposed a "conscience clause" that would exempt religious people from following equality laws.
Amnesty International's Northern Ireland Programme Director, Patrick Corrigan, said: "By their words and actions, too many of Northern Ireland's politicians are making gay people second-class citizens in their own country.
"That must now end. This vote in the Assembly is a litmus test for politicians' commitment to make Northern Ireland an equal place for all.
"Those opposing equality for gay and lesbian couples are on the wrong side of history. According to the last Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, people here now support a change in the law to allow same-sex marriage by a ratio of two-to-one and that number is increasing every year.
"Marriage should be available to same-sex couples in Northern Ireland, just as it is in Scotland, England and Wales and may soon be in the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland is being left behind as a discriminatory backwater for gay and lesbian people.
"Politicians must not allow personal bias to infect public policy-making on the issue of civil marriage, as we have already seen with the blood donation ban, attempts to block adoption by same-sex couples, and the discriminatory 'conscience clause'."
The DUP's Jim Wells resigned as Health Minister today after making anti-gay remarks.
More: Amnesty, amnesty international, civil partnership, civil union, equal marriage, Gay, gay weddings, lesbian, lesbian wedding, marriage, marriage equality, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, same sex weddings, stormont, Union, wedding


Clinical implications of atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance, favor endometrial origin.
Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance: cytologic predictive value for glandular involvement in high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions.
The evaluation of the patient with atypical glandular cells in her Pap smear demands caution and the experience of experts.
9%) cases had atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS).
While syncytial HSIL is characterized by hyperchromatic crowded groups, typically composed of epithelial cells exhibiting nuclear hyperchromasia associated with variations in nuclear size and shape as well as irregular nuclear membranes, invasive adenocarcinoma is typically characterized by syncytial/3-dimensional groups, as well as single atypical glandular cells with vacuolated cytoplasm and enlarged pleomorphic nuclei with macronucleoli.
Clinical utility of adjunctive high risk human papillomavirus DNA testing in women with Pap test findings of atypical glandular cells.
When asked which interpretive rates were felt to not be useful, most comments included relatively rare but significant interpretations such as atypical glandular cells, atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (ASC-H), and cancer.
4%) responded that only HSIL+ or adenocarcinoma in situ+ prompt a 5-year review, while 15% of laboratories also rescreen Pap tests from patients with atypical glandular cells.
1% (164 of 264) remark on atypical glandular cells (AGC) or cancer on a biopsy when the Pap test result is NILM (Table 5).
Other serious abnormal LBC results, such as atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude HSIL (ASC-H) or atypical glandular cells, accounted for another 9%.
Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS): Interobserver reproducibility in cervical smears and corresponding thin-layer preparations.


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BMW 1-series is coming. For real this time. Just don't ask when.
Nov 21st 2006 at 7:51AM
For those of us looking for the spiritual successor to the BMW 2002, we've been waiting patiently as the folks across the Atlantic were able to walk into their local BMW dealer and order up a 130i. BMW's excuses for not importing the 1-series to North America centered on the weak dollar and a supposed lack of interest in hatchbacks ( MINI anyone?), but we've been told that's about to change.
Way back in January of this year, BMW's CEO, Tom Purves, was quoted by Automotive News as saying that the 1-series, "is absolutely coming" and up until now, that's the last we've heard.
Now, in another interview with AutoNews, Norbert Reithofer, BMW's newest CEO, says, "We will definitely bring the 1-series to the United States, but it will not be a hatchback." Instead, we should expect a coupe, sedan and station wagon (although we're not quite sure how that's different from the image above) in the future.
We're not ready to hold our breath, but it's nice to know that the possibility is still on the table.
[Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req.]


RTÉ News understands that a review of the procurement process for the National Broadband Plan does not find that it was undermined by contacts between former minister for communications Denis Naughten and the businessman leading the only remaining consortium bidding for the strategy, writes Mary Regan.
The review by Independent Auditor Peter Smyth has been given to Minister for Communications Richard Bruton and is expected to be published within days.
It was requested by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in October after details emerged of a number of contacts between Mr Naughten and businessman David McCourt while the procurement process was continuing.
It is understood the report's findings pave the way for the Government to proceed with the normal process of evaluating the bid which Mr Bruton has said will be concluded by Christmas.
The Attorney General has advised that the review should be sent to the individuals named in the document before being published.
The spokesperson also could not say whether those individuals named would be given an opportunity to respond to the report's findings before it is published.
The spokesperson said: "On the advice of the Attorney General, those people who are mentioned in the report must be consulted on the contents of the report. The minister will publish the report in the coming days."
Responding to Labour leader Brendan Howlin during Order of Business in the Dáil this afternoon, Mr Varadkar acknowledged that some parts of the report may have to be redacted for commercial reasons.
He said that the people named in it have to be given an opportunity to comment or reply to it.
He added that he anticipated the report will be published "as soon as we possibly can. I would anticipate that being in a matter of days, rather than a matter of weeks."
Among the meetings was a dinner, organised and attended by Minister of State Pat Breen, which took place in Mr McCourt's home in Co Clare in 2017 and was not minuted.


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Police officer for Cheyenne River laid to rest
Eagle Butte, South Dakota (AP) October 2010
Law enforcement officers from across western South Dakota have paid their respects to a tribal police officer killed last weekend in a car crash.
Television station KEVN reports more than 100 cars joined last week's procession for Merrill Bruguier, a 14-year veteran of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation's police force. A former Marine, Bruguier was laid to rest in Black Hills National Cemetery.
Police have said Bruguier was killed last week in a one-vehicle accident at the junction of S.D. Highway 63 and U.S. Highway 212. He was on duty at the time.


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Q: enable Chrome flags from the command line I want to enable a flag (enable-token-binding) while launching chrome.
I can do that using chrome://flags page. but for running tests I need to do it from command line.
I tried
chrome --enable-features=token-binding
chrome --enable-token-binding
None of them worked.

A: *

*go to chrome://version

*Find the command line arguments:

Command Line    /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --enable-audio-service-sandbox --flag-switches-begin --enable-features=CookiesWithoutSameSiteMustBeSecure,SameSiteByDefaultCookies --flag-switches-end --enable-audio-service-sandbox
Run the above command with all the arguments and your chrome instance would have all the settings preset.

A: Try --flag-switches-begin --enable-token-binding --flag-switches-end.
The patter is --flag-switches start and ends capping the flags. Then the names of the flags provided as the parameters within with -- prefixed to them.

A: Token Binding was removed in Chrome release 70
see https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5097603234529280
mayankSinha's answer works for the flags he mentions. Note the changed naming convention though: "lower case split by -" convention gets changed to CamelCase.
i.e. same-site-by-default-cookies (as shown in chrome://flags) becomes SameSiteByDefaultCookies


For the estimated 90,000 Electric Daisy Carnival fans at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday night, there were very few things that could have kept them from hearing their favorite DJs. It appears that one of those things was blustery desert winds, however.
Around 1 a.m. last night, Electric Daisy's promoters and Las Vegas public safety officials decided to send all festival-goers off the field and into the stands as a safety precaution, given the high winds and the large temporary stages and structures that filled the infield. At 2:45 a.m., promoters decided to keep them in the stands for the rest of the night out of safety concerns, effectively cancelling much of the experience for ticketholders.
Fans arriving around that time were turned away at the gate by police, and those already inside could stay in the bleacher area until 5:30 a.m., around the time of the last listed sets. Sets by major headliners including Avicii and Tiesto were affected by the field-clearing, which promoter Insomniac said they only undertook with "an abundance of caution and with fan safety in mind."
The full statement from the promoters below, and we will update this post as we learn more about what happened.
Las Vegas, June 10, 2012 – At 2:45 a.m. Insomniac, the producer of Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas, in consultation with public safety officials, made the decision that due to extremely high wind conditions, the crowd would be cleared away from the stage areas. The decision was made out of an abundance of caution and with fan safety in mind.
Fans inside the festival may stay until 5:30 a.m. and enjoy music from temporary sound systems located on the infield grass of the stadium.


The SK-HD1800's progressive-scan, CMOS imagers (with global shutter) are ideally suited to environments where LED lights or large LED displays are used. The advanced 1080p sensors combine with Hitachi Kokusai's digital signal processing and low-noise circuit technology to deliver pristine visual quality with superior sensitivity, excellent color fidelity and a remarkable 62dB signal-to-noise ratio, according to the company.
John J. Humphrey, Vice President of Business Development, Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd., said features like a remotely operated, motorized filter wheel have made the SK series of cameras a preferred choice for remote and mobile productions. The new SK-HD1800 combines with the CU-HD1300 family of camera control units (CCUs) to flexibly support High Dynamic Range (HDR), 4K and IP-based workflows.The camera supports the HLG (Hybrid Log-Gamma) and HPQ HDR formats, which is compatible with the HDR10 open standard for consumer TVs.
Pairing the SK-HD1800 with a CCU from Hitachi Kokusai's CU-HD1300 series CCU system supports both SMPTE fiber and digital triax connectivity, and can be combined with a dedicated fiber or triax CCU or with Hitachi's dual-cable CU-HD1300FT.
An optional 4K output module for the CU-HD1300 transforms natively acquired 1080p video from the SK-HD1800 to 4K/UHD resolution and outputs the result over single-link 12Gbps SDI or quad-link 3G-SDI connectivity. Meanwhile, a SMPTE ST 2110 option for the CU-HD1300 enables seamless integration of the SK-HD1800 camera system into next-generation IP-based production workflows, supporting broadcasters' transition from traditional baseband video infrastructures to more flexible media networks.