Usually distilled from grain or potatoes, vodka is a neutral spirit "without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color" (27 CFR 5.22.a) . Vodka originated in the Slavic countries, where it was traditionally consumed chilled and straight. Its popularity in the United States is due to its versatility in cocktails—a characteristic that has enabled the rise of flavored vodkas. Since the nineteenth century, standard vodka has been manufactured at 80 proof.
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Quality vodkas are made both from grains and from potatoes. Vodka was first distilled from grains such as wheat or rye. The potato has also long been used in vodka production, dating to the root vegetable's introduction to Europe from the New World. Although grain and potatoes are the most common sources, vodka can in fact be made from almost any food high in starch or sugar, such as corn, grapes or honey.
Some impurities remain after distillation. These substances are removed through various filtration methods, some patented and secret, which vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. These include filtering through corn husks and filtering through charcoal.
Vodka manufacturers produce a wide range of vodkas mixed with flavorings, which may be added during or following distillation. These range from fruit and nut flavorings to cola, candy cane, birthday cake, and more exotic tastes.
Vodka is often distilled from grains, which contain gluten. Gluten-free vodka guarantees removal of gluten traces.
Higher-quality vodka, whether pure or flavored, does not generally contain added sugar. Gelatin in some form may be used in the filtration process; since gelatin is an animal protein, the term "gelatin free" indicates that the vodka is vegetarian friendly.
Premium vodkas have been distilled and filtered to the most exacting standards, eliminating most impurities. Premium vodkas are generally consumed chilled and straight and are described as having a smooth, mellow taste, without harsh or medicinal overtones.
Vodka is made through successive distillations that increase the purity of the alcohol. Smaller batches allow the distiller to have more control over the distillation process and tend to result in a higher quality of spirits. However, there are no specific rules governing the accurate use of this term.
Successive distillations increase the purity of the alcohol, leaving solids, acids, esters and other congeners behind. Three distillations are common for many brands, although some vodkas may be distilled fewer times, in order to capture a certain taste or mouthfeel, or many more times, in order to achieve a more tasteless and odorless spirit.
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Vodka dates back at least to the fourteenth century in Russia, and the cocktail that sparked the 1950s vodka craze in the United States was the Moscow Mule. Since vodka has a relatively recent history in the United States, there are few "classic" cocktails that contain vodka—but its versatility makes it easy to adapt in many classic recipes.


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Fashion|50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever
50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever
Truman Capote's Black and White Ball
Lawrence Fried/Conde Nast, via Getty Images
By Guy Trebay
What if you gave a party and everybody came? That is precisely what occurred on the drizzly night of Nov. 28, 1966, when 540 of Truman Capote's nearest and dearest turned out for what the writer insisted on calling his "little masked ball for Kay Graham and all of my friends."
The evening survives on film and in the recollections of the guests who are still alive 50 years later. It was a party of a kind we are unlikely to see again, given that it allowed for a then unheard-of, but now more common, coming together of disparate social spheres.
"There will never be another first time that somebody like Andy Warhol could step into a room with somebody like Babe Paley," said Deborah Davis, the author of the 2006 book "Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball," referring to one of Capote's so-called swans — the socialite wife of William Paley, who built the CBS network.
Before the Black and White Ball, no one had ever imagined, let alone attended, a formal party with a guest list so wildly catholic that it brought into one room the poet Marianne Moore and Frank Sinatra, Gloria Vanderbilt and Lionel Trilling, Lynda Bird Johnson and the Maharani of Jaipur, the Italian princess Luciana Pignatelli (wearing a 60-carat diamond borrowed from Harry Winston) and the documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles.
When Capote summoned his pals for a night of dancing (and spaghetti and chicken hash at midnight), he was as famous as he would ever be, and flush with the profits from his critically acclaimed best-selling nonfiction book "In Cold Blood."
In the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza hotel, starting at 10 o'clock that night, European aristocrats rubbed elbows with novelists and scholars; social register blue bloods drank Taittinger Champagne with the denizens of Hollywood and Broadway; the stolid middle-class citizens of Garden City, Kan., who had played host to Capote during the years he had spent researching his masterpiece, danced to the Peter Duchin Orchestra alongside the photographer and film director Gordon Parks, who would later joke that he — along with Harry Belafonte and Ralph and Fanny Ellison — represented "the black of the Black and White Ball."
In the half-century since that Monday evening just after Thanksgiving, countless other parties have evoked, interpreted or outright copied Capote's ball.
The scene at the Plaza hotel.CreditElliott Erwitt/Magnum
"There are probably more Black and White Balls at this point than Civil War re-enactments," Ms. Davis said.
Most memorably, perhaps, the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs used the party as a template for a 29th-birthday wingding he tossed for himself in 1998, reportedly spending more than $500,000 to furnish Cipriani with a translucent monogrammed dance floor and Plexiglas go-go booths for the amusement of a collection of celebrities, among them Martha Stewart, Ronald Perelman, Sarah Ferguson and Donald J. Trump.
Now it is difficult to recall a time when the borders between society and celebrity were sharply delineated and seldom crossed. And in an era when many celebrities attend parties because they have been paid to do so (and post the evidence later on Instagram), it is startling to remember a time when people went to parties to have fun.
A certain indulgent pleasure can be had in reliving the innocent wonder that inspired Capote's Black and White Ball, a party its host had in some ways begun to plan as a precocious, lonely 8-year-old in Monroeville, Ala., but did not have the social power to pull off until the year of his huge literary success.
"Truman had always had a fantasy of the grand world, the smart world, the literary world, each of which was in some ways precious to him," said Robert Silvers, a founder and editor of The New York Review of Books.
"It was tremendously important to Truman to be a star in all of those worlds," he added, referring the elites of heredity and of accomplishment Capote cultivated with equivalent ardor. "The mixture of all those groups was so obviously an emanation of Truman's dream."
Even after a half-century, the party retains a dreamlike aura, one supported by photographs and newsreels that show the guests in black tie and monochrome couture dresses, masks by Adolfo and a young milliner who went by the single name Halston.
Truman Capote said that he paid 39 cents at F.A.O. Schwarz for the mask he wore at his Black and White Ball in 1966.CreditBarton Silverman/The New York Times
Sometimes buried in the retellings of the Black and White Ball myth is its guest of honor, Katharine Graham, whose family owned Newsweek and The Washington Post. After the suicide three years earlier of her husband, Philip Graham, Ms. Graham, who would go on to run the newspaper for two of the most noteworthy decades in its storied history, seemed thrust into a role for which she had little preparation, said one party guest, the psychotherapist Gillian Walker.
Raised in elite Washington circles, Ms. Walker was a childhood friend of Ms. Graham's children and thus had a singular perspective on how power was distributed in those pre-feminist years.
"For all those women, those swans, however fancy they were, or whatever, they were still wives," Ms. Walker said, referring to Ms. Graham, Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Gloria Vanderbilt and Gloria Guinness. "Because of the complexities of his own life, Truman as an outsider understood these women. And what he did for Kay was such a great thing, giving her this party that brought her into the larger world she had left behind when she met Phil."
The reserves of compassion that were characteristic of his best writing were deeply ingrained in Capote's nature. Or they were, at least, in the days before his big party, which some consider the writer's unintended swan song, a final golden moment before he began a descent into drugs and drink.
"People forget Truman was very gracious," said Ashton Hawkins, for decades the senior counsel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was a lawyer on the way up in 1966. He recalled the host taking him by the arm and steering him toward a corner of the ballroom, where Rose Kennedy was stranded alone.
"I thought that was fun, that you could sit down with the mother of the president," Mr. Hawkins said. "Everybody talked to everybody and just sat down where they wanted to sit."
The relatively loose atmosphere led the bandleader Peter Duchin to later characterize the ball as having "closed an era of elegant exclusiveness and ushered in another of media madness."
Although guests wore masks for the event, Capote had each person announced when entering.CreditBarton Silverman/The New York Times
"It was a marvelous party because there was such a mixture of people, all kinds, all ages," said the jeweler Kenneth Jay Lane, who, at 34, was among the younger attendees. The big moment of the evening for him, Mr. Lane said, was being walked to a gilded settee where the actress Tallulah Bankhead sat holding court and furiously smoking.
"I talked to her for about three minutes, but then could say I'd met Tallulah Bankhead," Mr. Lane said with a laugh. "In the old days, it wasn't a publicist society, and now it's all publicists. People then had publicists to keep their names out of the papers, and nobody'd ever been to Kardashia."
From the first, Mr. Capote had a canny understanding of fame and a prescient sense of celebrity's untapped potential. Limiting press attendance inside the party to four hand-selected journalists — including one, Charlotte Curtis, from this newspaper — he heightened its air of exclusivity while managing potential criticism about the affair's overall modesty.
European guests familiar with, say, the heady opulence of Carlos de Beistegui's 1951 masked ball held at the Palazzo Labia in Venice, were heard to snipe about Capote's modest supper menu and candles-and-balloons décor. Yet, in a sense, they were missing the point. Capote understood that the ball's true ornaments were its boldface attendees, even going so far as to provide The Times with a guest list, which the newspaper published the following day.
Never mind that some of those listed, like Greta Garbo, were not actually at the party. The effect had been achieved. Before The Times published a "List of Those Who Were Invited to the Party at the Plaza Hotel," that distinction had been reserved mainly for White House dinners and the like.
In many ways, the Black and White Ball served as a signpost pointing the way to Kardashia, that mythical land where accomplishment is largely optional and fame is an end unto itself. And it also served to help blur forever the lines separating public from private.
Of the attendees wearing masks, "There was something radically democratic in the notion of inviting these very famous people to a party and then telling them to hide their faces," Ms. Davis said. At the last minute, though, the canny host had someone announce each of the guests as they arrived.
Almost until that night 50 years ago, said the editor and publisher Jason Epstein, New York society observed the rigid caste-based system it had followed since the Knickerbocker days, one dominated by a handful of families not much different from those depicted by Edith Wharton and Henry James.
"Then here came this out-of-town gay fellow who conquered society to the extent that he gave that party," Mr. Epstein said. "Truman created this new class of talented, good-natured, funny people, and that lasted for quite a long time. Who really knows what is society in New York anymore?"
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HomeOrange WatchOrange Watch: The last time these two teams met, it was a different world
Orange Watch: The last time these two teams met, it was a different world
March 16, 2012 Brad Bierman Orange Watch
PITTSBURGH – If you are a 'Cuse fan 36 years old or younger, you only know Orange hoops under the direction of Jim Boeheim. The same coach, whose team nearly dropped its NCAA opener here Thursday afternoon against UNC-Asheville and nearly became the first top seed to lose to a 16th seed.
Who knows? The hoop boss might have conceivably coached his final game, as unbelievable as that may sound, with all that's transpired this year and just this week.
He's said himself he can start to see where retirement comes into the picture down the road, just how long that road is remains to be seen.
The Orange's (32-2) performance and survival on the court to advance to the round of 32 Saturday afternoon (12:15 CBS) against 8th-seed Kansas State (22-10) at the Consol Energy Center was practically ignored with all the news that developed after the game.
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You had both head coaches talking about who was or wasn't the better team. You had Boeheim diverting off course to clarify the record after being taken to school by the U.S. Secretary of Education, and ex-college basketball player, Arne Duncan concerning SU's Academic Progress Rate (APR) in a media conference call on Wednesday.
By the time Friday's off day media sessions were over, including Boeheim verbally jousting with ex-NBA star Reggie Miller who's part of the TV broadcast crew, it makes us want to say enough with sound-bite central, the Cuse has an obstacle test to get to Boston next week.
Up next is a familiar inter-sectional football foe (bowl opponents in 1997, 2001 and '11) in Kansas State. But when it comes to meeting the Wildcats in NCAA hoops, well… that goes all the way back to, believe it or not, when there was a time that Jim Boeheim was not the head coach.
To remember that you had to have been born in the mid 1960s or earlier.
It was 1975 to be exact when the Orangemen and 'Cats met in the East Regional Final at the Providence Civic Center, with Boeheim finishing his 6th season assisting Roy Danforth either as a graduate or full time assistant.
Two days earlier in the regional semi-finals the 21-7 Orangemen, known only as a regional program socked away in the upstate New York snow belt, had shocked the college hoops world by knocking off top-seed North Carolina (who shot 65% and lost) on a Jimmy Lee jumper with :05 left. How SU would go on to beat K-State was even more improbable.
With the 'Cats up two with :05 left, lighting-quick guard Jim "Bug" Williams took the inbound pass and dribbled quickly into the front court and found center Rudy Hackett floating into the lane. Hackett turned and hit a hook shot just as the buzzer sounded to force overtime, and a stunned KSU never recovered with the Orange hitting key outside shots to win going away by eight in OT.
History aside, Saturday's meeting with K-State is a chance for this number-one seeded team, now taking an us against the NCAA world approach, to let its play speak more loudly than any more off the court chatter.
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Now in his sixth decade of covering SU sports, Brad was sports director of WSYR radio for eight years into the early 1990s, then wrote the Orange Watch column for The Big Orange/The Juice print publication for 18 years. A Syracuse University graduate, Brad currently runs his own media consulting business in the Philadelphia suburbs. Follow him on Twitter @BradBierman.
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Create The Future ist ein solcher Wettbewerb, der von NASA Tech Brief seit 2002 ausgerichet wird und mit mehr als 10.000 Teilnehmern jedes Jahr zu einer echten Größe in der Szene geworden ist. Da wollen wir natürlich nicht fehlen und haben in diesem Jahr unser erstes Patent, die mobile Mini-Müllverbrennungsanlage µW2E, ins Rennen geschickt.
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Congratulations to Jennifer Fitzpatrick on her new appointment as Director of Partnerships and Sport Development for Rowing Canada Aviron. Read the full announcement here. The Board of Rowing BC is preparing to lead the search for a new Executive Director.
BC athletes had a busy summer full of racing!


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Fat, Sick, And Nearly Dead is a 2010 documentary that looks into struggle of Australian Joe Cross. Cross, who suffers from a debilitating autoimmune disease, has lost all hope in regaining his health. Is weight ballooned to 310 lbs. and his gut, as big as a beach ball. He was addicted to pills and led an extremely unhealthy lifestyle.
He was convinced that one of his foot in already in the grave and it's only a matter of time before he finally succumb to his disease.
However, under the care of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Nutrition Research Foundation's Director of Research, Cross went on a 60-day juice fast in order to drop the weight and achieve a healthier body.
Fat, Sick, And Nearly Dead chronicles Cross' journey towards regaining his health using unconventional medicine, juicing. The film also featured the story of Phil Staples, a morbidly obese man who is on the epic journey towards regaining his health too. The film was Joe Cross and Kurt Engfehr, the film offers a touching look into the story of two men whose world may be different but has come together to fight the good fight against obesity.


Deutsche Banker Robert Ebert has appeared in the media numerous times throughout his professional career. Most notably, he made an appearance on PraguePost, Patch, and European News. There, he discussed the importance of nanobots in advancing technology. As a matter of fact, he firmly believes in investing in the right technology that will help shape the future. He also discussed the importance of having diversity in the workplace. Doing so allows people from all types of backgrounds to learn from one another. Therefore, creating an innovative, friendly, and respectful environment. Robert Ebert Hong Kong has worked with people of all cultures and backgrounds.
In addition to appearing in articles publications, he appeared in interviews as well. He was briefly interviewed as well as featured on both Inspirery and Ideamensch. In these interviews, he discussed his life story as well as how he began his professional journey. As a matter of fact, Robert Ebert went in depth about how he began his professional career, his early struggles, as well as his current success.
Nanobots are currently one of the most researched tools in the world. Although most individuals are unfamiliar with the concept of these tiny devices, they can be quite powerful. In simple terms, they are robots that are built within one-nanometer body frame. That enables them to access areas that would otherwise be impossible to reach….
When you don't understand something find a way to locate the documentation or the literature about it that you can grasp. Things are moving so quickly and changing so fast that an understanding of the future possibilities of evolving technology is vital. Robert Ebert is a technology investor.
Robert Ebert is a technology investor and conservationist. Previously he was the Head of Equities at Deutsche Bank for Asia, Japan, and Australia, along with serving as its Co-Global Head of Equity Sales. Since 1996, Robert has held several senior roles throughout various divisions within Deutsche Bank, including in New York, London, and Tokyo.
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Northwestern Introducing Asian American Studies Major In Fall
by Keith Reid-Cleveland
Education, News
After a battle that Northwestern University students started more than 20 years ago, the Evanston, IL school will introduce an Asian American Studies major this upcoming fall, according to NBC News.
The Asian American Studies program was created almost 20 years ago after student protests, which included a 23 day hunger strike that started on April 12, 1995. Now, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is taking the next step and making the program available as a major for the first time.
"The passing of Northwestern's proposal for a major in Asian American Studies, it is the result of over two decades of student activism, faculty advocacy, and alumni involvement," Asian American Studies department chair Shalini Shankar told NBC News. "In Spring 2015, we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the student hunger strikes that eventually lead to the establishment of our program. This created a groundswell of momentum that encouraged us to reintroduce the proposal for a major."
Other institutions across the country are reportedly working to introduce Asian American Studies majors on their own campuses, such as Harvard and Yale.
"We see this as an unqualified victory and hope that it serves to motivate other Asian American Studies units engaged in similar kinds of programmatic building," Shankar said.
Many feel that ignorance directly leads to oppression and misunderstanding. Introducing programs like the one at Northwestern on college campuses will ideally play a direct role in educating the community and closing these gaps. Hopefully we'll see other campuses offer multiple programs like this in the future.
Asian American Studies, fall, major, Northwestern University, Shalini Shankar
Keith Reid-Cleveland is a proud product of Chicago's Southside and the Missouri School of Journalism. The Black Youth Project News Editor has written about politics, race and entertainment for multiple publications, such as Uproxx, The Undefeated, Black Nerd Problems, Comic Book Resources and more.
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Our course is taught by a prestigious group of specialized, interdisciplinary professors with proven track records and with the collaboration of NGOs and other institutions that participate actively in the field of international cooperation. The academic staff is also composed of researchers from the Community Based Urbanism research group at UIC where students can potentially continue on to do a PhD after graduating.
In addition to our official partnerships with UN-Habitat, RMIT University, and IFRC, we regularly collaborate with more than 30 other organizations that provide our students with quality internships. Our students have completed internships in more than 113 institutions all around the world, forming a diverse network that our alumni benefit from.
Carmen Mendoza Arroyo
Architect and PhD in Urban Design and Planning. Associate Professor at UIC School of Architecture. She is co-founder of the firm DAC Arquitectura, Rehabilitació i Urbanisme, which specialize in developing urban projects and the design of open spaces and social facilities. Her research is focused on the physical and social regeneration of degraded neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and informal settlements in South America.
Allison Koornneef
Allison is from Toronto, Canada and has a background in Environmental Design from OCAD University. As a graduate of our 2012-13 class, her thesis analyzed participatory data gathering processes in informal settlements, and during her internship with SPARC in Mumbai, India, she contributed to a sanitation survey using GIS mapping. She is passionate about water and sanitation, mapping, and participatory action as sustainable development.
Sandra Bestraten
Honorary Director & Committee Member
Founding member of the Master Program. Assistant professor at UIC School of Architecture and at ETSAB-UPC. President of University without Borders (USF), where she develops urban planning and social and educational facilities with social participation. Co-founder of Bestraten Hormias Arquitectura, which specializes in sustainable projects using ecological materials such as timber and rammed earth. Her research is focused on housing and cooperation in developing countries.
Emilio Hormias
Founding member of the Master Program. Associate Professor at EPSEB-UPC. Coordinator of the NGO University without Borders – USF. Emilio implements social and educational facilities and planning projects in developing countries and his research is focused on building restoration and low cost materials. He is also co-funder of the firm Bestraten Hormias Arquitectura SLP, in Barcelona.
Mbongeni Ngulube
Development practice & Diaspora
Architect and Urban Designer. Worked in South Africa and founder of MNA architects, Johannesburg. Master in International Cooperation in Urban Development (TUD, Germany) and in Housing, Urbanisation and Sustainability in Developing Contexts (UIC, Spain). Currently a Doctoral researcher in the Anthropology of Development and Urbanism at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), his research focuses on the impact of diaspora and social movements on development.
Apen Ruiz
Cultural heritage & Gender in development
PhD in Anthropology. Her PhD research examined the relations among anthropology and gender in Mexico. She has written various articles and a book on this topic. Her current research interests lie in the interactions between heritage and communities with a focus on how gender needs to be introduced in every phase of research, and the investigation of sexual violence and protocols to detect violence in research institutions. She is a member of Simref, a group of scholars interested in feminist qualitative methodologies, and has been advisor for students working with issues of gender and development, heritage and memory and the politics of development.
Pere Vall
Architect. PhD in Urban Design and Planning. Associate Professor at UIC School of Architecture. His research is focused on cultural landscapes and regional development. He is co founder of the Llobregat Colonies' River Park, an initiative of territorial revaluation based on cultural heritage, which has received several awards. In this field, he has developed projects and plans and he has also published several papers. He is currently working on the study of the sprawl repair through heritage networks.
Migration & Self-organizing urbanization
Architect, urban researcher and curator. PhD in Urban Planning from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Professor of International Urbanism at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt between 2013 and 2018. Currently professor at the UIC and visiting professor at different Peruvian universities. Author of numerous publications, among them co-author of the book "John F.C. Turner. Autoconstrucción. Por una autonomia del habitar" (FAD Award in Thought and Criticism 2019). Member of the Academia Europaea and of the Institut dels Passats Presents of Barcelona's city council. Her research focuses on urbanization processes and migration, Latin American urbanism, housing policies, structural change of urban societies, postcolonial urbanization, non-formal urbanism and place-making strategies, public space and urban memory.
Hug March
Political ecology & Economy of urbanization
PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 2010. Hug is a research fellow at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. His research is focused on the political ecology and economy of urbanization and has contributed to debates around urban water infrastructure and water provision. He has contributed to over 20 publications to journals in the fields of Geography, Environmental Studies/Sciences, Urban Studies and Economics, among other disciplines.
Marta Benages
Suburban spaces & Collective identity
PhD in Architecture, UIC Barcelona (2015). Assistant professor at the School of Architecture UIC Barcelona. Marta's research focuses on qualitative methodologies and access to communities' experiential knowledge, working within urbanism, landscape planning and environmental psychology. In this field, she studies the process of appropriation of open spaces in metropolitan areas in order to recognize people-place bonds and citizen engagement to landscapes of collective identity.
Lorenzo Chelleri
Urban sustainability & Resilience
PhD in Urban Geography. He is currently a Postodctoral Research Fellow at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI Cities), and founder member and coordinator of the Urban Resilience Research Network. He has worked for the European Environment Agency, and has been involved in different European and international projects on climate resilience and urban sustainability. His main research interest is around the social implications of urban transitions.
Visiting Professors & Collaborators
Isabelle Anguelovski
BCNUEJ
Social scientist. PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research is situated at the intersection of environmental policy and planning, social inequality, and development studies. Her recent research has examined environmental mobilization and revitalization in low-income and minority neighborhoods in the Global North and South. She has worked for international development organizations and consults for NGOs on indigenous peoples' rights, urban and environmental planning, gender policy, and urban climate mitigation and adaptation programs.
Nerea Amorós Elorduy
Creative Assemblages
M.Arch, PhD (UCL). Alumni of our masters program. Nerea is an architect and researcher with experience in refugee assistance, education, and health projects with emphasis on community participation in East Africa and in post-conflict environments. She contributed to create the School of Architecture at the University of Rwanda and co-founded ASA Studio based in Kigali. Her PhD research focused on mapping the built environment elements that affect young children's learning living in long-term refugee camps in Southwest Uganda, Rwanda, and Northwest Kenya. She is the founder of the interdisciplinary studio Creative Assemblages in Kampala, Uganda.
Veronica Sánchez
Architect and independent researcher. Verónica has been working with various organizations in the Humanitarian Aid field and is an expert in the development of human settlements in Third World countries, as well as in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in international development and emergencies. She is the co-director of Proceso de Proyecto Atelier and co-founder of n'UNDO, which advocates a different way of doing architecture. Her research includes refugee camps and informal settlements, and she currently is writing her PhD investigation thesis about Ebola Management Centres.
Alejandro de Castro
Latin Lab, GSAPP Columbia University
Architect with a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York and a PhD in Architecture, he coordinated GSAPP's Latin Lab from 2010 to 2016 and has taught at Harvard University, the Pratt Institute and the Technical University Darmstadt, among others. Alejandro's work explores the rhetorical dimension of planning and architecture in marginalized communities to propose spatial practices that are sensitive to both form and policy.
Melissa García Lamarca
Melissa holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development from University College London, a Graduate Diploma in Community Economic Development from Concordia University and a BA in Geography and Economics from McGill University. She is explores the structures and channels through which political economic processes generate urban inequalities, as well as how collective urban struggles can disrupt the inegalitarian status quo and open up new alternatives.
Alejandro Haiek
LAB.PRO.FAB
Architect, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Co-Founder and Director of LAB.PRO.FAB (Laboratory of Design and Fabrication), a cross-disciplinary practice focused on the renewal and resuscitation of inactive landscapes and degraded social contexts with a strong focus on reuse, recycling and the application of local intelligence. He is a professor and member of the academic committee of design at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad Central de Venezuela, won the The International Award for Public Art in 2013 for the ongoing project Tiuna El Fuerte Cultural Park, and has published research papers in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru.
Nabeel Hamdi
Oxford Brookes University
Architect. He is Professor Emeritus of Housing and Urban Development at Oxford Brookes University, where he set up the highly successful Masters in Development Practice in 1992. He is a teaching fellow at The Development Planning Unit, University College London, has been an Arup Fellow at the University of Cape Town and is adjunct professor at the National University of Technology, Trondhiem, Norway. An advocate of small-scale change at grass-roots level, Nabeel has consulted on participatory action planning and upgrading of slums in cities to all major international development agencies, and to NGOs worldwide. He is the author of several landmark publications, including Small Change and Housing without Houses.
Sergio Palleroni
Architect. MSArchS in History Theory & Criticism from the MIT. Co-founder of BaSiC Initiative, he has worked on housing and community development in the developing world since the 1970's, both for not-for-profit, governmental, and international development and relief agencies such as the United Nations and the World Bank, and the governments of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, India and Taiwan. He is Professor and Fellow of the new Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices at Portland State University and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious AIA Latrobe Prize in 2011.
Andreas Schiffer
WASH & Logistics
Andreas has over 25 years experience in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflicts. He has worked with NGOs such as MSF, Acción contra el Hambre and Intermon Oxfam as a logistician, coordinator, WASH expert, consultant, trainer and researcher in numerous countries around the world. Since 2006 he works as a freelance consultant and trainer, organizing courses in humanitarian logistics and WASH with his enterprise FLASH, dedicated to strengthening the impact of humanitarian actors through practical, technical and bespoke training for NGO staff and other professionals looking to improve their impact in the humanitarian field.
Marta Peña
Architect, specialized in construction by ETSAM. She has worked as an architect for seven years in Spain before working in international cooperation with the Red Cross in 2005. Since then she has coordinated emergency shelter response and post-disaster reconstruction programs in Sri Lanka, Peru, Senegal, Haiti and the Philippines. She is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland, working with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Shelter & Settlement department as the focal point for training and support operations.
Esteban Leon
Chief Technical Advisor of the City Resilience Profiling Programme of UN-Habitat. He has a background in economics, finance, shelter/housing and settlements program design and management, capacity building, as well as building construction and reconstruction projects in post-crisis situations and urban resilience building. He has worked in the private sector (banking, microcredit and microfinance projects in Argentina and Bolivia), NGOs (slum upgrading, building constructions and reconstruction programmes in Bolivia and Kenya) and has been working for UN-Habitat since 2002 globally but based in Nairobi, Geneva, Panama and Barcelona.
Clara Irazabal
Columbia University GSAPP
Architect. Master in Architecture and Urban Design and Planning. PhD in Architecture. Former head of GSAPP's Latin Lab, she is directs the Latina/o Studies Program and is Professor of Planning in the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning + Design at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She has worked as consultant, researcher, and professor in South America, Europe, Asia and the US. She explores social justice struggles manifested in processes of transformation of urban space and how markers of minoritized identity and their intersections with one another are negatively impacted by planning processes, when the supposed mandates of planning urge respect, celebration, and nurturing of diversity.
Ebru Gencer
Ph.D (2007) and MPhil from the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University. Founding Executive Director of the Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R), a non-profit research center based in New York City. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University; Co-Chair of the Urban Planning Advisory Group (UPAG) to the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction; and a member of the Steering Committees of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign and the Global Alliance for Urban Crises.
Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán
Jesuit Refugee Service International
Gonzalo has worked for the last eleven years organizing, managing and implementing emergency projects in refugee and IDP camps in Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad and Ethiopia. He is also a regular tutor and lecturer for the International Diploma on Humanitarian Assistance at Fordham University, New York, and for the Humanitarian Cooperation Masters at Comillas University, Madrid. He has published extensively on African Geopolitics and Humanitarian Assistance through articles and books.
Gaja Maestri
Political Sociologist and Human Geographer, PhD at Durham University (UK). Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Aston University (Birmingham, UK). Her work addresses questions of migration and civil society organisations, with a specific attention to the urban dimension. Her recent research has focused on solidarity towards refugees in Europe and on housing access of migrants and Roma groups, with a particular interest in how political initiatives and mobilisations intersect with the making of spatial inclusion and exclusion. She has been involved with NGOs and think tanks working on racist discrimination and gender.
Rossana Poblet
Ecological Infrastructure & Nature-based solutions
As an urban-environmental specialist with over 20 years of experience, Rosanna has been actively involved with informal urban transformation processes in contested and post-conflict regions in the Americas, Africa and Europe. As an architect and urban planner, Rossana has joined applied-research projects integrating socio-cultural-political aspects with environmental concepts like ecological infrastructure, nature-based solutions and water sensitive urban design. Her expertise focus on co-designing socio-environmental strategies to revert environmental injustices in the so-called global South. She is a visiting lecturer in different global universities, a CIM-GIZ expert and lives between Berlin and Lima.
Gonzalo Lizarralde
Université de Montreal
Specialist in planning, management and evaluation of international architecture projects. He is the holder of the Chair Fayolle-Magil Construction in architecture, construction and sustainability and also the director of the IF Research Group (grif) at the Université de Montréal, which studies the processes related to the planning and development of construction projects. He is the leader of the Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction Research Alliance, a scientific research program funded by the Quebec research funds (FQRSC) and a founding member of i-Rec, an international network for improving post-disaster reconstruction.
Teddy Cruz
Originally from Guatemala Teddy Cruz a Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He is known internationally for his urban research on the Tijuana/San Diego border, advancing border neighborhoods as sites of cultural production from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing, and public space. Recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1991, his honors include representing the US in the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, and the 2013 Architecture Award from the US Academy of Arts and Letters.
Nathaniel Corum
Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative
Architect with degrees from Stanford and the University of Texas at Austin, Nathaniel is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Rose Architectural Fellowship. Previously the Head of Education Outreach at Architecture for Humanity and a Senior ECPA Fellow under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State, he is Design Director at SNCC and collaborates with international teams and tribal communities on planning and design/build projects. Author of Building a Straw Bale House, his work has featured in Architect Magazine, Humanitarian Architecture, and The New York Times.
Reena Tiwari
Architect. Masters in Urban Design. PhD in Urban Studies. Reena is Associate Professor in the Departments of Urban & Regional Planning and Architecture at Curtin University of Technology Perth, Australia. Her expertise is in Urban Design and Urban Theory and has a global perspective and wide ranging experience on city growth and development. Reena received Australian National Award for her outstanding contribution to student learning for developing a cross-disciplinary and integrative approach to teaching urban theory and design, blurring boundaries between class room and the 'real world' experience.
Paul Cabrera
MSF - Spain
Architect. Master in Architecture, Urban Planning and Technologies for Developing Countries (Politecnico di Torino). Building Design and Engineering Approaches to Infection Control Course (Harvard School of Public Health). He worked an architect and urban planner in the Balkan region after the war, supported MSF's medical projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Liberia and is currently a technical referent for Construction and Sheltering at the MSF Spain Headquarters. He participates actively in the emergency phase and strategic planning of reconstruction of emergencies such as the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Fonna Forman
Fonna Forman is a Professor of Political Theory and Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. A theorist of ethics and public culture, her work focuses on human rights at the urban scale, climate justice in cities, and equitable urban development in the global south. She serves as Vice-Chair of the University of California Climate Solutions Group, and on the Global Citizenship Commission (advising UN policy on human rights).
Eric Cesal
Eric is a designer, writer and post-disaster expert, having led on-the-ground reconstruction programs after the Haiti earthquake, the Great East Japan Tsunami, and Superstorm Sandy. He has been called "Architecture's First Responder" by The Daily Beast for his work leading Architecture for Humanity's post-disaster programs from 2010 to 2014, and is currently working on his second book about how foreign and economic policies of the developed nations aggravate the conditions that lead to catastrophic disasters. He currently works as the Special Projects Director for the Curry Stone Design Prize and co-hosts Social Design Insights, a weekly podcast with the leading voices of the social design movement.
Aditya Kumar
United Nations Relief and Works Agency
Aditya has a master degree in Architecture MR+D (Metropolitan Research and Design) from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, in Los Angeles. He work focuses on supporting communities living in poverty stricken slums in Southern and Eastern Africa, with a strong focus on South African slums, townships, housing and backyard communities. He has an outstanding work which comprises among others the reconstruction of Nahr El Bared Palestinian refugee camp, and is Head of the Design and Planning Unit of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Tripoli, Lebanon.
Torange Khonsari
Co-Founder and Director of the art and architecture practice Public Works, an inter- disciplinary practice working on the threshold of participatory and performative art, architecture, anthropology and politics. Her projects directly impact public space, working with local organisations, communities, government bodies and stakeholders. She is course leader of the Design for Cultural Commons Masters at The Cass (London Metropolitan University). She has taught at international universities such as UMA school of architecture in Sweden, unit leader at Royal College of Art - London as well as a visiting professor at Barbican and Guildhall school of Music and Drama.
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I've served as a visiting faculty in this program for over a decade, and I've seen impressive progress in all aspects of it, from curriculum development, to administration and the quality of the students' work. It is an excellent program I feel very proud and honored to be a part of.
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An excellent and unique course that is internationally recognized, and recently referenced at a presentation at Harvard University as exemplar of good teaching, organization and content.
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Dr. Yolanda Mageto, MD, MPH, Baylor, will discuss the Microbiome, Inflammation, and Lung Health. Janea Woodruff, RN, MSN/Ed, MHA, AE-C, CCE, CTI, IPF Clincal Educator for Boehringer-Ingelheim the manufacturer of OFEV, an important drug used in the treatment of IPF, will discuss treating IPF with OFEV. Please contact Bill Vick at ipfwarrior@gmail.com or 972.612.8425 for more information.


Building a walk-in cooler or freezer can be like buying a car — perhaps a bit daunting at first. You have multiple makes, models, accessories, add-ons and customizations you'll need to determine. Any good car salesperson will ask a few questions before you choose a car: what do you need the car for? How long is your commute? What features are must-haves? Similarly, there are three important factors to consider before building a custom walk-in cooler or freezer that will inform the rest of your decisions.
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If all this information sounds overwhelming, don't worry! Our dealers or consultants will discuss your situation and help you make decisions about what options are best for your particular needs. Their experience and training allow them to quickly assess your circumstances to ensure success.
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This is the first time when very beautiful & popular Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be seen on the show Comedy Nights with Kapil for the promotion of her forthcoming film Jazbaa. CNWK is the most popular TV show in India and also the primary medium for celebrities to promote their films. So Aishwarya is also doing the same and will be seen on the show along with her co-star Irrfan Khan.
The episode is going to be telecast today (4th October) at its usual timing 10 pm on Colors. Promos of the episode are already out & increasing the excitement level of audience. Kapil Sharma is also very much excited to have Aishwarya on his show and especially for the day he has donned an avatar of Devdas.
Jazbaa is a forthcoming action drama Indian film , directed by Sanjay Gupta and jointly produced under the banners Essel Vision Productions, Viiking Media & Entertainment and White Feather Films. It is featuring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & Irrfan Khan in lead roles, along with Jackie Shroff & Shabana Azmi in pivotal roles.
Jazbaa is an official remake of South Korean film Seven Days that was released in year 2007. Official trailer of the film was out on 25th August and created huge buzz among audience. Aishwarya is one of the most favorite actresses in Bollywood and has huge fan following. Irrfan Khan is also a renowned actor best known for his versatility. Their fans are very much excited to the watch the film, releasing on 9th October.


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Pete McMartin: Adriane Carr: The green trying to take root
Adriane Carr, Vancouver city council's lone Green Party representative, enters the coffee shop bearing a gift: a bottle of homemade blackberry champagne. (It is politely declined.) Picking blackberries is how she de-stresses, she explains — all she thinks about when doing it, she says, is not getting pricked. She gets enough bloodletting in politics.
Pete McMartin
Adriane Carr is the sole Green Party member on Vancouver city council. Photo by wayne leidenfrost Wayne Leidenfrost /PNG
Adriane Carr, Vancouver city council's lone Green Party representative, enters the coffee shop bearing a gift: a bottle of homemade blackberry champagne. (It is politely declined.)
Picking blackberries is how she de-stresses, she explains — all she thinks about when doing it, she says, is not getting pricked. She gets enough bloodletting in politics.
Pete McMartin: Adriane Carr: The green trying to take root Back to video
The bottle was a bit of a prop. Her campaign publicist had proffered the interview in the hopes it might show Carr in a friendly, less doctrinaire light — that Carr was just folks, that she contradicted the stereotype of Greens as Birkenstock-wearing, kale-eating vegans intent on disassembling the modern industrial economy. A list of little-known factoids of Carr was emailed, which, along with her hobby of making blackberry champagne (and why do that to champagne, or blackberries?) included that she paid her way through UBC teaching piano; that when 12, she travelled the world with the Elgar Choir as its youngest member, whereupon she got lost in Helsinki; that she is a master seamstress who sewed a new outfit every weekend through her teens and 20s; and that she once saw The Who as the backup band to Herman's Hermits at Kerrisdale Arena.
Fascinating — especially for the fact we once lived in a world where The Who could be the backup band to an act as saccharine as Herman's Hermits. (And it would tell me more about Carr to know which band she had gone there to see, The Who or Herman's Hermits.)
The question is, why does the party feel the need to humanize her at all? Carr has more than enough credentials for a seat on city council. She's smart and tireless. She is principled. She did her MA at UBC in urban geography under the tutelage of Walter Hardwick, the esteemed former city councillor who was the driving force behind the redevelopment of False Creek. She taught urban geography at Langara for over a decade.
So it says something that blackberry champagne has become a campaign strategy. It says that one of the Greens' bigger problems is the impression they are doctrinaire, and dangerously so; that their policies, while admirable, are airy-fairy and incompatible with a modern economy.
And that, Carr says, is nonsense.
"Until you get elected, it's really hard for people to break the myths and see through the myths that have surrounded the Green Party. Our opponents have been good at messaging that we're against development, when it isn't true.
"Wherever Greens have got into power, they haven't hampered the economy; they've boosted it. When the Greens in Germany formed a coalition government (in the mid-2000s), they had key points in their platform, one of which was to phase out nuclear energy and ramp up renewable energy. People said it would be a disaster, that they would lose jobs. But within the first year of implementing that program, more jobs were created by the ramping up of that renewable energy than there were in the old energy sectors." (The Greens presently hold 10 per cent of the seats in the federal Bundestag.)
"Greens are all about a new economy, an economy that actually supports sustainability of our society, the sustainability of the economy itself. If the Greens had been in power, for example, we wouldn't have fished out the cod stocks. You know, decisions get made by the current economic models that are incredibly boom-and-bust oriented. Things go along well for a while and, then, disaster. But we would have policies that sustain not only the present economy but that of our children and future generations."
Carr's biggest problem?
Distinguishing her policies from those of Vision Vancouver's. Despite being the first Green ever elected to council, her profile remains low. Mayor Gregor Robertson's environmentalism eclipses hers: He has avowed to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world; he bikes to work; he campaigns against oil pipelines and coal trains. Carr insists that Vision is "faux-green rather than real green," that its environmental policies are Green Lite. But even if that were so, how many municipal voters would or could make that distinction?
Her one advantage?
Unlike federal and provincial elections with their first-past-the-post system, Vancouver's at-large system allows voters to elect 10 councillors. In the last election, Carr came in 10th, squeaking in by 91 votes. In this election, the Green Party of Vancouver is concentrating its efforts and running only three council candidates — Carr, lawyer Cleta Brown, and graphic designer Pete Fry — and in an ideal world, two or three seats could wield influence on a split council. Carr's best hope is public disaffection with Vision.
"With this at-large system," she said, "people have the chance to be able to elect some Greens and others and create a more collaborative council. What I'm hearing on the street is this: People are tied of majority rule."
Carr is 62. She has been at this a long time, she said, and would probably not run again if defeated. Otherwise, November will bring a reason to break out the blackberry champagne.
pmcmartin@vancouversun.com


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A: The support is there, see https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/security/enhancements-7.html:

Server Name Indication (SNI) for JSSE client: The Java SE 7 release
  supports the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension in the JSSE
  client. SNI is described in RFC 4366. This enables TLS clients to
  connect to virtual servers.

However, it is implemented in a different way. For example https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1119 discusses this. The relevant quote might be

Java 8 has a completely different SNI API provided out of
  javax.net.ssl package

So yes, you won't have that class with Java 7, and you will "have to use Java 8 API to use SNIServerName class", like you asked.
For discussion on how to use SNI with Java 7, see this thread.

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Q: Button is null object reference (Android Studio) I have a recyclerview and view holder to list all my data from firestore. Each data will have a delete button to be deleted. But whenever I put the delete button on admin class, it show me void android.widget.Button.setOnClickListener(android.view.View$OnClickListener)' on a null object reference. But if i put delete button on view holder class it work. So how can i put the delete button on my admin class?

admin class
package com.example.sossystem;

import android.Manifest;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.core.app.ActivityCompat;
import androidx.core.content.ContextCompat;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

import com.firebase.ui.firestore.FirestoreRecyclerAdapter;
import com.firebase.ui.firestore.FirestoreRecyclerOptions;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnCompleteListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;
import com.google.firebase.database.ChildEventListener;
import com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseError;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseReference;
import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;
import com.google.firebase.database.Query;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.CollectionReference;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.DocumentReference;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.FirebaseFirestore;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class admin extends AppCompatActivity {
    Button  gotoRegister, deletebutton;
    FirebaseFirestore db =  FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();

    RecyclerView mFirestoreList;

    CollectionReference query = db.collection("Users");
    //recycler options
    FirestoreRecyclerOptions<SosRecords> options;
    FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<SosRecords,MyViewHolder>adapter;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_admin);

        deletebutton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.delete_button);

        gotoRegister = findViewById(R.id.gotoRegister);
        mFirestoreList = findViewById(R.id.firestore_list);
        mFirestoreList.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(getApplicationContext()));
        mFirestoreList.setHasFixedSize(true);

        //register button click event
        gotoRegister.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                startActivity(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), RegisterOfficer.class));
            }
        });
        ReadData();

    }

    private void ReadData() {
    options = new FirestoreRecyclerOptions.Builder<SosRecords>().setQuery(query,SosRecords.class).build();
    adapter=new FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<SosRecords, MyViewHolder>(options) {
        @Override
        protected void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull @NotNull MyViewHolder holder, int position, @NonNull @NotNull SosRecords model) {

            holder.email.setText(model.getEmailAddress());
            holder.name.setText(model.getFullName());
            holder.phone.setText(model.getPhoneNumber());
            holder.position.setText(model.getPosition());

            deletebutton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {

                    FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
                    DocumentReference noteRef = db.collection("Users").document(model.getFirebaseUid());
                    noteRef.delete().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Void>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onComplete(@NonNull @NotNull Task<Void> task) {
                            if(task.isSuccessful()){

                                Log.d("TAG","delete"+model.getFirebaseUid());
                            }
                            else{
                                Log.d("TAG","error");

                            }
                        }
                    });
                }
            });

        }

        @NonNull
        @NotNull
        @Override
        public MyViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull @NotNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
            View  view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.list_item_singleofficer,parent,false);
            return new MyViewHolder(view);
        }
    };

    adapter.startListening();
    mFirestoreList.setAdapter(adapter);

    }

    public void logoutAdmin(View view) {
        FirebaseAuth.getInstance().signOut();
        startActivity(new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Login.class));
        finish();
    }

}

Viewholder class
package com.example.sossystem;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnCompleteListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseUser;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.DocumentReference;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.DocumentSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.FirebaseFirestore;
import com.google.firebase.firestore.QuerySnapshot;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    TextView name,phone,email,position;
    FirebaseAuth fAuth;
    FirebaseFirestore fStore;
    public MyViewHolder(@NonNull @NotNull View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        //firebase auth instances assign
        fAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
        fStore = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
        name=itemView.findViewById(R.id.name_text);
        phone=itemView.findViewById(R.id.surname_text);
        email=itemView.findViewById(R.id.email_text);
        position=itemView.findViewById(R.id.position_text);

    }

}

XML for single item
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.cardview.widget.CardView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="190dp"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:padding="20dp"
    app:cardCornerRadius="10dp"
    app:cardElevation="8dp">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">s

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:text="Email : "
                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/email_text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="20dp"
                android:text="gasg"
                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:text="Name : "

                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/name_text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="20dp"
                android:text="gasg"
                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:text="Phone : "

                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/surname_text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="20dp"
                android:text="ga"
                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/buttonCall"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="40dp"
                android:text="Call"
                android:translationX="70dp" />sg

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:text="Position : "

                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/position_text"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="20dp"
                android:text="ga"
                android:textSize="17sp"
                android:textStyle="bold" />

        </LinearLayout>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/delete_button"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:onClick="delete"
            android:text="Delete Account"
            android:translationX="125dp"
            app:backgroundTint="#B84B4B" />

    </LinearLayout>

</androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

A: In Admin Class your delete button is inside onbindViewHolder you need to write it as
holder.deletebutton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick (View v){
                //delete
            }
        });