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Voici une liste des lauréats du Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie études et essais de langue anglaise.

1936 - T. B. Robertson, articles de journal
1937 - Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West
1938 - John Murray Gibbon, Canadian Mosaic
1939 - Laura G. Salverson, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
1940 - J.F.C. Wright, Slava Bohu
1941 - Emily Carr, Klee Wyck
1942 - Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country et Edgar McInnes, The Unguarded Frontier
1943 - John D. Robins, The Incomplete Anglers et E.K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry
1944 - Dorothy Duncan, Partner in Three Worlds et Edgar McInnes, The War: Fourth Year
1945 - Evelyn M. Richardson, We Keep a Light et Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord
1946 - Frederick Philip Grove, In Search of Myself et A.R.M. Lower, Colony to Nation
1947 - William Sclater, Haida et R. MacGregor Dawson, The Government of Canada
1948 - Thomas H. Raddall, Halifax, Warden of the North et C.P. Stacey, The Canadian Army, 1939-1945
1949 - Hugh MacLennan, Cross-country et R. MacGregor Dawson, Democratic Government in Canada
1950 - Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Saskatchewan et W.L. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada
1951 - Josephine Phelan, The Ardent Exile et Frank MacKinnon, The Government of Prince Edward Island
1952 - Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician et Bruce Hutchison, The Incredible Canadian
1953 - J.M.S. Careless, Canada, A Story of Challenge et N.J. Berrill, Sex and the Nature of Things
1954 - Hugh MacLennan, Thirty and Three et A.R.M. Lower, This Most Famous Stream
1955 - N.J. Berrill, Man's Emerging Mind et Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain
1956 - Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North et Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict
1957 - Thomas H. Raddall, The Path of Destiny et Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant
1958 - Pierre Berton, Klondike et Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney
1959 -  (aucun prix)
1960 - Frank H. Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism
1961 - T.A. Goudge, The Ascent of Life
1962 - Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
1963 - J.M.S. Careless, Brown of the Globe
1964 - Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds
1965 - James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada
1966 - George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell
1967 - Norah Story, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature
1968 - Mordecai Richler, Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass
1969 - (aucun prix)
1971 - Pierre Berton, The Last Spike
1972 - (aucun prix)
1973 - Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land
1974 - Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years
1975 - Marion MacRae et Anthony Adamson, Hallowed Walls
1976 - Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History
1977 - Frank Scott, Essays on the Constitution
1978 - Roger Caron, Go Boy
1979 - Maria Tippett, Emily Carr
1980 - Jeffrey Simpson, Discipline of Power: The Conservative  Interlude and the Liberal Restoration
1981 - George Calef, Caribou and the barren-lands
1982 - Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town
1983 - Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy
1984 - Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
1985 - Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
1986 - Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
1987 - Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album
1988 - Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room
1989 - Robert Calder, Willie-The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
1990 - Stephen Clarkson et Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times
1991 - Robert Hunter  et Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
1992 - Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
1993 - Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon
1994 - John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
1995 - Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
1996 - John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
1997 - Rachel Manley, Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
1998 - David Adams Richards, Lines on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi
1999 - Marq de Villiers, Water
2000 - Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly
2001 - Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap
2002 - Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
2003 - Margaret Olwen MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
2004 - Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
2005 - John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2006 - Ross King, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
2007 - Karolyn Smardz Frost, I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
2008 - Christie Blatchford, Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
2009 - M.G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India
2010 - Allan Casey, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
2011 - Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
2012 - Ross King, Leonardo and the Last Supper
2013 - Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
2014 - , The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
2015 - Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
2016 - Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
2017 - Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
2018 - Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
2019 - Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother
2020 - Madhur Anand, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
2021 - Sadiqa de Meijer, alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language
2022 - Eli Baxter, Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth

Références

Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
études et essais de langue anglaise
Gouverneur général : études et essais de langue anglaise
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Marissa Mclaughlin is known for being the sibling of the reality TV star, Tyler McLaughlin, who is famous for his National Geographic show, Wicked Tuna.
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Marissa Mclaughlin was born on April 17, 1990, in Rye Beach, New Hampshire, the USA to her father, Marty McLaughlin. She is 30 years old as of 2020. Her father Marty is the president of McLaughlin Transportation which was established in 1973. She has an older brother, Tyler McLaughlin. She is of American nationality while her ethnicity is white.
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Will the creation of the crime of ecocide at the international and national level hold those who cause severe and irreversible harm to the environment liable?
Author Faculty of Business and Law | Posted on 16 January 2023 16 January 2023
By Harry Muir, Third Year LLB student
Earth is at the precipice of an environmental catastrophe that could result in the mass extinction of life as we know it.[1] Yet, corporate and government leaders are still committing and condoning acts that have a detrimental effect on the environment for profit and personal gain.[2] Although these leaders have the power to change their practices, little is being done to do so.[3] Arguments have therefore arisen that by using existing legal mechanisms, a crime could encapsulate these destructive acts to the environment and climate;[4] this crime is known as ecocide.[5] Ecocide has developed substantially since first being discussed after the use of 'agent orange' during the Vietnam war[6] and today, more discourse is taking place that a crime of ecocide could become a tool to save the earth[7] on a fast track to environmental collapse.[8]
This blog post will critically discuss that whilst the introduction of ecocide at a national level could act to hold those who cause severe and irreversible environmental damage accountable, the proposed international crime of ecocide would potentially be far better at achieving this goal.
Ecocide: discussion at the international level
At the international level, there is currently no crime that specifically prosecutes ecocide.[9] In response to this, academics such as Higgins have targeted the International Criminal Court (ICC) to recognise the crime of ecocide as a fifth 'missing crime against peace'[10] under the Rome Statute[11] especially as ecocide was included in the draft Rome Statute.[12] Critical opinion has focused on the ICC's existing legal provisions not being sufficient enough; for instance, their only reference to the protection of the environment is in relation to harm caused in wartime[13] which ignores ecocide committed in peacetimes such as severe deforestation[14] or oil spills.[15] An ICC policy paper in 2016 outlined environmental damage could be considered in relation to existing crimes[16] which Mwanza notes, demonstrates a 'green shift' at the ICC.[17] This green shift is apparent as a petition against President Bolsonaro for his 'crimes against humanity' explicitly references ecocide in relation to the mass deforestation of the Amazon[18] and therefore could be seen as a method to hold those who cause ecocide liable and protect the environment. Pereira is however critical about this shift as the other 'crimes against peace' have high mens rea requirements[19] and difficult evidential burdens[20] proving a hindrance to the actual prosecution of environmental harm. Therefore, an international crime of ecocide would be far better suited at holding those who cause destructive acts against the environment liable than existing provisions.
In response to the lack of environmental protections in the Rome Statute, a historic legal ecocide definition was drafted by an independent expert panel (IEP)[21] specifically for the Rome Statute[22] which is as follows:
'"Ecocide" means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts'[23]
An element of this definition that has been the focus of academic debate has been the 'wanton' element which will be discussed. Wantonness arguably imports an 'anthropocentric element' which contradicts the entire 'ecocentric' nature of the crime of ecocide commented on by Minkova.[24]The implications of this element, according to Keller, mean severe, irreversible, and long-term damage to the environment can be committed[25] so long as there is a good enough reason for it.[26] Thus, corporate and government actors could argue they have committed ecocide for the public benefit therefore limiting accountability if they have the resources to argue their way out of liability.[27] Mehta would however disagree as the crime is still mostly 'ecocentric' in a predominantly 'anthropocentric' legal system.[28]
It is however argued that deterrence would be a powerful mechanism behind this international crime of ecocide at the ICC.[29] It is important to note that, in order to change the Rome Statute to include ecocide, one signatory must bring an official proposal[30] and only two-thirds of ICC signatories must agree to enable amendment.[31] This proposal however has the possibility of being effectively 'timed-out' when the proposal is not brought within a specific time frame as seen with Bangladesh, Samoa and Vanuatu's ecocide proposal[32] even so, actual implementation potentially could take up to 5 years.[33] These strict time limits and lengthy implementation dates are of a significant hindrance as again the world is in need of immediate environmental protection to safeguard the future. This being said, as corporation CEO's want to keep a 'clean' reputation,[34] they understandably do not associate with an equivalent crime to genocide or war crimes[35] as this could be detrimental to their business stock price and profit.[36] Academics predict that ecocide's recognition at the ICC would act to immediately instigate a change in corporate business practises causing ecocide[37] by creating a duty for governments and corporations to not disregard the environment and therefore encouraging the adoption of a green economy.[38] Deterrence would therefore serve as an immensely powerful mechanism to combat crimes of ecocide immediately long before the expected 5-year amendment process into the Rome Statute. These however are only predictions and in the meantime as Greene proposes, national provisions could be created and implemented immediately as an alternative to international provisions.[39]
Ecocide: discussion at the national level
A crime of ecocide in national legislation however comes with enforcement and implementation difficulties which will be critically discussed in light of current national provisions in relation to government and corporations who commit ecocide.[40]
Both Russia[41] and Ukraine[42] criminalise ecocide in their respective criminal codes and in the current context of the war facilitated by Russia, Putin's acts have constituted ecocide.[43] However, although these provisions exist, they are only as powerful as the countries' legal system and their respect for the rule of law as commented on by Schwegler[44] which likely means Putin will not be held accountable under existing national provisions.[45]
There has also been difficulty holding corporations accountable under national provisions[46] which is critical as they significantly harm the environment with their actions.[47] A country who has taken a step to hold corporate actors accountable is Guatemala for example, who have recognised an ecocide law which held a palm oil corporation liable for ecocide for causing severe damage to the waterways and the surrounding eco-system.[48] As Greene however illustrates, enforcement of this ruling created difficulties especially as the corporation has now gone back to polluting the river again constituting an act of ecocide[49] arguably not having the predicted deterrent effect discussed earlier.[50] It is therefore no surprise that the implementation of an international crime of ecocide was outlined as the next logical step in response to this ruling.[51]
The UK has been reluctant to criminalise ecocide at a national level with recent proposals to include ecocide as a crime punishable with 30 years' imprisonment in The Environment Bill[52] being removed after arguments prevailed that economic activity would be severely impacted due to environmental criminalisation.[53] The UK sees ecocide as a barrier rather than an opportunity as they have the resources to be a pioneer and utilise existing green technologies to thrive with nature[54] enabling the development of a 'green' economy.[55] France, on the other hand, recently recognised ecocide as an offence punishable with up to 10 years imprisonment or a 4.5 million euro fine.[56] Ecocide was changed from a criminal to a civil offence due to the potential stigmatisation of businesses' economic activity;[57] however, the prison penalty associated with the crime should still act as a deterrent[58] in protecting the environment.
In light of the arguments presented, criminalisation of ecocide in the Rome Statute would be the best option for holding those who severely damage the environment accountable due to its predicted deterrent effect as a 'crime against peace'. In comparison, although national ecocide provisions could act immediately to protect the environment, difficulties in enactment and enforcement are major drawbacks to accountability and environmental protection.
[1] Tim Lindgren, 'Ecocide, genocide and the disregard of alternative life-systems' [2018] 22 International Journal of Human Rights 525, 528.
[2] Rob White, 'Ecocide and the Carbon Crimes of the Powerful' [2018] 37 University of Tasmania Law Review 95, 102.
[3] Vanessa Schwegler, 'The Disposable Nature: The Case of Ecocide and Corporate Accountability' [2017] 9 Amsterdam Law Forum 71, 81.
[4] Polly Higgins, Damien Short and Nigel South, 'Protecting the planet: a proposal for a law of ecocide' [2013] 59 Crime Law and Social Change 251, 252-254.
[5] Sailesh Mehta and Prisca Merz, 'Ecocide – a new crime against peace' [2015] 17 Environmental Law Review 4.
[6] Saloni Malhotra, 'The International Crime That Could Have Been but Never Was: An English School Perspective on the Ecocide Law' [2017] 9 Amsterdam LF 49, 52.
[7] Jojo Mehta, 'Ecocide: a crime against the planet' [2021] 66 Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 24, 25.
[8] D Carrington, 'World close to 'irreversible' climate breakdown, warn major studies' The Guardian (27 October 2022)
[9] E Trigt, 'A Legal Definition of Ecocide' (Peace Palace Library, 15 July 2021) <https://peacepalacelibrary.nl/blog/2021/legal-definition-ecocide>
[10] Polly Higgins, 'Seeding Intrinsic Values: How a Law of Ecocide will Shift our Consciousness' [2012] 1 Cadmus Journal 9.
[11] The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court art 5
[12] Saloni Malhotra, 'The International crime that could have been but never was an English school perspective on the ecocide law' [2017] 9 Amsterdam Law Forum 49, 53.
[13] The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, art 8(2)(b)(iv)
[14] Danilo Urzedo and Pratichi Chatterjee, 'The Colonial Reproduction of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples for Land Development' [2021] 23 Journal of Genocide Research 302, 304.
[15] Ricardo Pereira, 'After the ICC office of the prosecutor's 2016 policy paper on case selection and prioritisation: towards an international crime of ecocide?' [2020] 31 Criminal Law Forum 179, 196.
[16] Office of the Prosecutor, Policy Paper On Case Selection And Prioritisation, 15 September 2016, <https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/policy-paper-case-selection-and-prioritisation>
[17] Rosemary Mwanza, 'Enhancing Accountability for Environmental Damage under International Law: Ecocide as a Legal Fulfilment of Ecological Integrity [2018] 19 Melbourne Journal of International Law 586, 598.
[20] Ibid, 211.
[21] Haroon Siddique, 'Legal experts worldwide draw up 'historic' definition of ecocide' The Guardian (London, 22 June 2021)
[22] Jojo Mehta, 'Ecocide: a crime against the planet' [2021] 66 Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 24, 24-25.
[23] Stop Ecocide Foundation, 'Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide' (June 2021) <https://www.stopecocide.earth/legal-definition>
[24] Liana Georgieva Minkova, 'The fifth international crime: reflections on the definition of "Ecocide"' Journal of Genocide Research (forthcoming).
[25] J K Heller, 'Fiddling (With Ecocide) While Rome (and Everywhere Else) Burns' (Volkerrechtsblog, 18 February 2022) <https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/fiddling-with-ecocide-while-rome-and-everywhere-else-burns/>
[26] J K Heller, 'Skeptical Thoughts on the Proposed Crime of "Ecocide" (That Isn't)' (OpinioJuris, 23 June 2021) <http://opiniojuris.org/2021/06/23/skeptical-thoughts-on-the-proposed-crime-of-ecocide-that-isnt/>
[28] Jojo Mehta, 'Ecocide: a crime against the planet' [2021] 66 Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 24, 25.
[31] K Mackintosh, J Mehta and R Rogers, 'Prosecuting Ecocide' (Project Syndicate, 31 Aug 2021) <https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-icc-should-recognize-ecocide-as-an-international-crime-by-kate-mackintosh-et-al-2021-08>
[32] K Surma, 'A plea to make widespread environmental damage an international crime takes centre stage at The Hague' Inside Climate News (Pittsburgh, 7 December 2021)
[34] Vanessa Schwegler, ''The Disposable Nature: The Case of Ecocide and Corporate Accountability' [2017] 9 Amsterdam Law Forum 71, 98.
[35] R Killean, 'Could criminalising ecocide increase accountability for environmental harm in conflicts?' (Conflict and Environment Observatory, 22 April 2021) <https://ceobs.org/could-criminalising-ecocide-increase-accountability-for-environmental-harm-in-conflicts/>
[38] Polly Higgins, Damien Short and Nigel South, 'Protecting the planet: a proposal for a law of ecocide' [2013] 59 Crime Law and Social Change 251, 261.
[39] Anastacia Greene, 'The campaign to make ecocide an international crime: Quixotic Quest or Moral Imperative?' [2019] 30 Fordham Environmental Law Review 1, 46.
[40]Rob White, 'Ecocide and the Carbon Crimes of the Powerful' [2018] 37 University of Tasmania Law Review 95, 102.
[41] The Criminal Code of the Russia Federation No. 63-FZ of June 13, 1996, art 358.
[42] The Criminal Code of Ukraine of September 1, 2001, art 441.
[43] S Smith, 'This is ecocide': Ukrainians hope to rebuild greener country after Russian war ravages environment', The Independent (19 March 2022).
[45] R Killean, 'Legal accountability for environmental destruction in Ukraine' (Conflict and Environment Observatory, 7 March 2022) <https://ceobs.org/legal-accountability-for-environmental-destruction-in-ukraine/>
[48] B Whitford, 'Court ruling advances case for ecocide law' (Positive News, April 22 2016) <https://www.positive.news/environment/court-ruling-advances-case-ecocide-law/>
[49] Anastacia Greene, 'The campaign to make ecocide an international crime: Quixotic Quest or Moral Imperative?' [2019] 30 Fordham Environmental Law Review 1, 21-22.
[52] Environmental HL Bill (2019-21) 16, cl 133
[53] HL deb 14 July 2021, vol 813, col 1900
[56] No. 2021-1104 of August 22, 2021, Climate and Resilience Law, art 231-233.
[57] L Alderman and C Meheut, ''Going Green, or Greenwashing? A proposed climate law divides France' New York Times (19 May 2021)
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Bitdegrees - The future for higher education?
Love it or hate it, believe in it or distrust it, Bitcoin has disrupted the very platform on which modern economies are built - currency. This cryptocurrency with its non-traceable, outside of government control approach has rocked the financial world in recent years. Blamed for fundingillegal industries, banned by some countries while lauded by free market activists, and even adopted by some countries as their new currency, it hasn't gone away. If anything it has resulted in an explosion of cryptocurrencies with some seeing cryptocurrencies as the currency of the future. A similar situation currently exists in higher education.
Degrees are simply a fiat currency for trading (buying/selling) in the job market, just as money is a fiat system for trading good and services. Fiat money, like the dollar, is a currency without intrinsic value. It only has value because governments say it has value and attempt to maintain this perceived value by getting those who use it to agree to its value. However, if the value is questioned or another system arises, like Bitcoin, the fiat system is threatened.
In like manner, if people are prepared to use another fiat "currency" for trading employees in the job market, the original currency, the Degree could lose its value. In fact, the fiat value of degrees is even more astounding than fiat currencies. As Kevin Carey puts it, degrees " are universally recognized and never expire" and they are " golden keys to the parts of the labor market most worth entering." A never expiring, valuable currency for buying entry to the job market - no wonder they continue to exist.
But, what gives a degree its value? There are a number of elements that contribute to the value of degrees.
They are simple and internationally understood.
They are supported, funded and endorsed by governments.
Most importantly, they are accepted by employers as a proxy for knowledge and ability.
However, as Kevin Carey puts it, we don't buy drills we actually buy holes. It's not the degree that is important, it is what the degree says the holder is able to do. Yet ironically degrees provide little evidence of what students actually know or can do. In fact many organisations acknowledge this, and expect to put all new employees through their own induction training. The university of the 21st century in many ways is really the workplace. Organisations are buying drills that need to create holes knowing that that drill is the wrong size and will have to be re-engineered before it can work.
and those who do finish and are employed are often not the "product" employers want.
It seems highly probable that education's Bitcoin moment is imminent.
What is needed to create a "Bitdegree" - a qualification "currency" that exists outside of traditional university structures, is internationally understood and accessible, and accepted by employers as evidence of knowledge and ability? One thing - employers who accept it as equivalent to a traditional qualification, just as merchants accept Bitcoins in place of Dollars. The next question then is what will cause this shift to take place?
International - While degrees from A-list universities are internationally accepted, the vast majority are only locally recognised. As such there is a need for more access to "degrees" that are internationally accepted.
Private - The value of degrees from non A-list universities is far from stable and is often linked to the political and economic conditions within countries. As such there is a need for "degrees" that are outside of the ravages of local economic and political conditions.
Access - The vast majority cannot access even local universities either because of the cost or enrolment limits. As such there is a need for the "undegreed" to be given access to degree equivalent qualifications.
Technology - For the first time in human history technology provides a way to not only share content everywhere, but also to give students real-time access to teaching.
Content Providers - Quality, traditionally recognised (at least to begin) content providers need to make their content available for free to everyone. This has already begun. Many top universities have been making their content freely available online through platforms such as EdX, Udacity, MITx, etc. The content is in place and is growing rapidly.
Curators - Unlike traditional degrees, the content in Bitdegrees will come from a range of providers and could vary in the number of units that have been completed. As such it will be important to have some form of curated content that is deemed to be a Bitdegree. It's here that new providers will enter the market who help students curate baskets of learning content, and additionally support their learning and credentialing journey.
Credentialing - This is the key element, the fiat value imbued on the piece of paper that allows it to be used to "buy" entry into employment. Currently sites like Credly and Badgr provide credentialing services that trace learning outcomes across institutions and platforms, in a standardized, evidence-based way that is also open to public scrutiny. These sites belong to the Open Badges foundation that is attempting to provide a standard that describes a method for packaging information about accomplishments, embedding it into portable image files as a digital badge, and establishing an infrastructure for badge validation.
And so why haven't we seen the rise of a new form of higher education? Knowledge and power. Employers haven't yet officially endorsed alternative education as being equivalent knowledge to traditional education. Governments still want to control the knowledge economy and be its gatekeepers.
Thus, it's not surprising if we find new innovative education models coming up against legislation - just as cryptocurrencies have. However, these laws are likely to be as unsuccessful at stopping advancement as the Red Flag law was at stopping the rise of the modern motor vehicle - a law that required a person to walk in front of the car carrying a red flag so it didn't go faster than the horse and carriage. Not many horse and carriages around today!
Clark Kerr, the former University of California President stated that out of the 85 human institutions that have survived for the last 500 years, about 70 are universities. However, we now find ourselves at a pivotal point in the evolution of higher education. For the first time, these ancient bastions of knowledge are under threat by the very technologies their knowledge helped create.
The concept of a Bitdegree could represent more than simply the next iteration of higher education, it could represent a major leap forward in higher education. In addition to be recognised, the current core tenet of a degree, it could be universally accessible, economically and politically secure, independently verifiable, and most importantly, transparent. Employers will for the first time be able to see evidence of what the holder knows.
However, even if content is provided, the learning is curated and credentialed, these Bitdegrees only have value if organisations recognise their legitimacy. What will cause this tipping point is unknown, but what is clear is that the conditions are perfect for an inevitable change in higher education. And what may be even more surprising, when the Bitdegree becomes an accepted fiat for knowledge and ability, is that the drills will produce the holes employers bought them for with no need for re-engineering.
Technology distracts me. There's an app for that!
We live in a distracted world. Our ability to focus on a single task or activity is dwindling, even though many people insist they're good multi-taskers. Neuroscientist Earl Miller says these people are "deluding themselves". All we are really doing is dividing our brain's processing power between tasks as we switch from one to another. We are actually increasing the cognitive load on our brain.
Despite knowing all of this, I have checked my email at least ten times while writing this article. I've Googled references and then followed links down "interesting" rabbit holes. I've felt my phone buzz and checked to see what the message was.
But if the innovations of our digital age are largely to blame for our decreasing attention spans, don't they also hold possible solutions? There are thousands of apps that suggest this is the case. Apple's app store has an entire category dedicated to "productivity" apps.
Combining gamification with a focus routine is one potentially promising way of improving focus in our modern world. The principle has been built into a range of approaches (as well as apps) that help people break the cycle. I've used some, and my students have used some. They work.
The Pomodoro technique is based on what's called a pomodoro: a 25-minute work period followed by a 5-minute break. After three or four "pomodoros" you take a longer break. The one essential element is that during a pomodoro you commit to focus entirely on the task at hand. That means no checking email or Whatsapp, and even resisting the urge to watch an ant walking across your desk. It takes a little bit of getting used to and the first few pomodoros are often littered with errant wandering thoughts demanding a dopamine fix.
However, you quickly learn that it's actually easy to do this for just 25 minutes and before you know it you've done some really productive work which itself generates dopamine, reinforcing a new habit of focus. And of course, there are digital versions. Pomodoro timers can be downloaded from several app stores.
Discovery Health gamifies exercise and driving. Google has also gamified the submission of employee expense claims, reportedly resulting in 100% compliance.
Gamification can also be used to help you focus. There's Forest, an app that gamifies the Pomodoro approach by encouraging you to plant virtual trees. If you use your phone while the app is working, though, your tree dies. Seeing trees growing helps users to visualise their time and effort.
There's even a group mode where multiple people commit to "focus" times. If any person in the group uses their phone, everyone's trees die.
Elsewhere, in an attempt to address these issues, Apple's soon to be released iOS 12 will include new distraction assisting tools and settings. These new features allow users to view phone usage activity reports, set time limits on app usage and schedule Do Not Disturb times when all notifications are muted.
My favourite high risk, high return focus app is The Most Dangerous Writing App. This app asks you to choose a time period – 3 or 5 minutes, or longer if you're brave, and then click "Start Writing". You're presented with a blank screen and you begin writing. However, if you stop for just a couple of seconds you lose everything. Even my most distracted students are totally focused.
So, go ahead, plant your trees. Challenge yourself. Challenge your friends. Use whatever tools you can to make focusing a little easier. It's a survival skill we all desperately need to sharpen in this digital age.
//Well done if you read this entire article. You've just concentrated for approximately five minutes.
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Perspectives make all the difference in life, and this is also true when it comes to using technology for teaching and learning. A simple change in perspective can cause a radical change in outlook. See it in action below!


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While VFR pilots are always responsible for seeing and avoiding other aircraft, ATC can provide a helping hand through the use of radar advisories, also known as flight following. On a workload permitting basis, ATC will call out the position of nearby traffic, aiding the pilot with his/her job of not crashing into anyone. The controller will also assist you in locating your airport, if need be.
How/when do I get flight following?
Aircraft departing, arriving or transitioning Class B fields (LAX, LAS, SAN) and Class C fields (ONT, BUR, SNA, SBA) are provided with radar advisories while they remain inside that airspace. Leaving the airspace, however, ATC will ordinarily terminate the service unless the pilot indicates he/she would like to continue such service in advance.
Aircraft outside of Class B/C airspace should contact the appropriate approach/center controller, stating their aicraft type, location, and request (who you are, where you are, what you want.) For example, "Socal approach, Cessna 132KT, 20 southwest Long Beach, request flight following to John Wayne."
The controller will issue a discrete beacon code so he can locate you on radar. "Cessna 2KT, Socal, reset transponder, squawk 0432"
Once you enter the code, and once the controller has time to find you (remember, this service is provided on a workload permitting basis, and ATC's primary responsiblity is to keep IFR aircraft from banging into each other), you'll hear "Cessna 2KT, radar contact 19 southwest Long Beach, John Wayne altimeter 29.92"
You will now receive basic radar service from the controller until you explicitly cancel the service, or the controller notifies you that radar services are terminated. The latter can happen you leave the controller's airspace and the next controller isn't available, or is unwilling to provide the service. It can also happen in the real world if you enter an area with poor radar coverage, although that is not an issue on most online networks.


What does collectivism home have to do with anything we have discussed. And yes, private property rights, but who is stopping you from inviting anyone to your home?
You know "if all men were angels", there would be no need for borders or government, sadly that is not the case with humanity. If that were the case, we'd be in complete agreement, but until then borders are necessary. Maybe in heaven things will be different.
PS I claim no party, I firmly believe in Individualism.
I didn't miss it at all. I said that this isn't Cuba where people see the entire nation as a collectivist home. Socialism is not the heritage of the US. our nation is not a collectivist home owned by the government. It is instead a nation consisting of privately owned properties. Each owner has the right to invite whoever he wants into his home or business. That's what freedom and private property rights are all about.
I agree with what you said about our human rights but you missed the analogy of your house versus our house. Our house is our country, our land. Also you didn't mention anything about your locks on your doors, your windows.
My house belongs to me, not to you, not to the government, and not to society. I have the right to leave it locked or unlocked. I also have the right to invite anyone I want into it, to eat, to visit, to work, or to live. Remember: It's my house (and my money).
The same goes for you. It's your house. You can refuse to invite anyone you want. You can lock yourself into it and never interact with anyone.It's your right. It's your house and your money.
You don't have the right to interfere with how I live my life, and I don't have the right to interfere with how you live your life.
Finally, this is not Cuba, where the government owns everything and the nation is considered to be a collectivist home, one that the government controls entry and exit to. This is the United States, a nation that is supposed to be based on private ownership of property, one in which people are free to own (and control) individual homes as their private property.
By the way, I'll be on Stossel on Sept. 18 at 9pm on Fox Business making the case for open immigration. It's really the only concept that is consistent with liberty, free markets, and private property. Immigration controls are nothing but a socialist concept, which is why they produce chronic crises and chaos. Who wants to be a socialist?
Sorry I am so late to respond back, but I have one lingering question regarding this subject.
Being that you believe in open borders, does this mean you never lock your car, and never lock your house doors and windows? How do unlocked doors and windows protect your rights?
I have the right to hire anyone I want and to associate with whomever I want and to invite into my home anyone I want. These are fundamental rights--freedom of association, liberty of contract, and economic liberty. It's my money, my business, my life, and my home. No one has the legitimate authority to take these rights away from me. You have the right not to associate or hire anyone you don't want to hire or associate with. Open borders protects your rights and mine. Closed borders infringe upon such rights.
How does open-borders promote and protect our rights and liberty? Protecting our rights is the most fundamental responsibility of government.
Open borders don't bring peace and harmony but rather are consistent with peace and harmony. The U.S. had open borders for more than 100 years after the Constitution called the federal government into existence. At Ellis Island there was a cursory TB inspection and that was it. Anyone could enter. On the southern border, no controls whatsoever, especially after Polk stole the northern half of Mexico in the Mexican War. Also, check out Argentina--open borders in the late 1800s and early 1900s, until Peron got it and rejected it, just like FDR. During the open border period period, Buenos Aires was a booming city--second largest on the eastern seaboard.
Nice idea, but where in history has open borders brought about peace and harmony?


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"Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favorites are Oakley's, Ray-Bans and Wiley's, which are worn by the U.S. military".
What Ross Kemp opined is absolutely true about sunglasses, like watches, sunglasses are an obsession for men and women. It's true that people like to wear sunglasses, some of us are interested in anonymity and some in familiarity – whatever may be your concern, sunglasses are a fashion statement.
Sunglasses have long been used to block the UV rays from the sun, thereby reducing the damage and discomfort caused to human eyes by extremely visible light. You might be already using sunglasses, but want to buy a stylish frame or this may be the first time you are going to order a sunglass. Whatever may be your intention behind buying one – you are in the right place.
But before that, I want you to know some basic information regarding sunglasses. Sunglasses are used globally, hence, all its manufacturers are global. The top sunglass brands include Fastrack, Ray-Ban, Oakley, MTV Roadies, Tommy Hilfiger, Fila, Flying machine, Pepe Jeans, IDEE etc.
Additionally, you will come across many types of frames– Aviator, Wayfarer, Square, Rimless, Semi-Rimless, Round, Wrap, Rectangular, Pilot, Oval, Oversized, Cateye, Shield, Butterfly, and Google are to name a few. While many shapes and styles are available, only Aviator and Wayfarer are popular.
Here, let us see some of the best Aviator styled frames from top sunglass brands.
Aviator style of sunglasses was originally developed for pilots and for military purpose by Bausch & Lomb in 1936. Even today, this is the most popular style for its lighter, thinner, and elegance design. Aviator style became popular when General Douglas MacArthur was seen wearing a sunglass in the Philippines during World War II and newspaper photographers snapped several pictures of him that became a lasting image.
There's no doubt that all Fastrack accessories are a fashion statement. Fastrack, with its sub-brand Titan, is an Indian company started in 1998. Within less than two decades of time, it has spun its presence in fashion industry targeting urban youth.
When it comes to sunglasses, the only brand that comes into mind is Ray-Ban. Ray-Ban is a brand of sunglasses started by the American company Bausch & Lomb in 1937. It has gained ground as the best brand for Aviator and Wayfarer lines of sunglasses.
Fila is sportswear and accessories manufacturing company with its headquarters at Seoul, South Korea. By providing superior quality products, it has become synonymous to fashion. With its global presence, it now supplies sportswear to men, women, and children.
Frame size: Lens width - 57 mm, nose-width - 15 mm, temple length - 140 mm.
Discover the trends of Pepe Jeans around the world. Whether you are at work, home, outdoor or with your friends, you can find inspiration and set trends with Pepe Jeans. Pepe Jeans is a London based casual wear, jeans, denim and accessories manufacturing company.
When it comes to choosing the best sunglasses, IDEE is the best brand, you can opt for. IDEE is an eyewear brand that has established its mark with lot of designs and frames. Their frames range from Polycarbonate, plastic and steel. Aviators from IDEE comes in a series of colors – pink, black, blue and maroon etc.
100% UV protection and is ideal for men and women.
Oakley is an exclusive lifestyle and accessories manufacturing company based in California. Its products include sunglasses, optical frames, goggles, sports visors, ski/snowboard watches, apparel, backpacks, shoes and other accessories. All of its products are developed with extensive testing in the field – including extreme conditions.
This is a non-polarized eyewear with mirrored lens technology.
The frame color is satin black.
Plastic lens material with Jade Iridium as lens color.
MTV Roadies is an extremely popular TV show with its adventurous, cutting-edge and competitive programs. With its popularity, MTV has entered into lifestyle segment with its focus on eyewear – MTV Roadies. Its collection has models and designs that are chic and cool. Its range of sunglasses are as popular as its show MTV Hero Honda Roadies.
Tommy Hilfiger is an American multinational corporation founded in 1985. It manufactures and designs apparel, fashion accessories for men, women and children. Its sunglasses are sun-seeker essentials, especially Aviator style of sunglasses. Its Aviator sunglasses are effortlessly modern in style with their sleek profile. Tommy Hilfiger gives you many options – you can choose vintage-style frames, latest lightweight frames, sports frames.
Ideal for men and women, 100% UV protection.
Polaroid is the world's first company to use polarizing material in eyewear for commercial use, in 1929. It is known to manufacture polarized sunglasses, polarized lenses, optical frames, reading glasses, and clip-on lenses. Its eyewear are designed to deliver high performance blended with clear vision and optimum protection.
Flying Machine chooses to be a trendsetter and this mark is reflected in its clothing and accessories. All its products are driven by technology and innovation. Its portfolio includes mesmerizing sunglasses that suits today's millennials. The Stylish eyewear from Flying Machine besides adding glamour to your look, it protects your eyes from harmful UV rays. Designed to enhance your style, its sunglasses help you to personalize your fashion statement.
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7. Pseudorandom number generator

7.1. Creating a generator

7.2. Using a generator

7.3. Using a generator

This toolkit is an implementation of two fast and high quality pseudorandom number generators:
* a Mersenne twister generator,
* a Complementary-Multiply-With-Carry generator.
CMWC is faster than MT (see table below) and has a much better period (1039460 vs. 106001). It is the default algo since libtcod 1.5.0.

Relative performances in two independent tests (lower is better) :

      Algorithm
      Numbers generated
      Perf (1)
      Perf (2)

      MT
      integer
      62
      50

      MT
      float
      54
      45

      CMWC
      integer
      21
      34

      CMWC
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      32
      27

For python users:

Python already has great builtin random generators. But some parts of the Doryen library (noise, heightmap, ...) uses RNG as parameters. If you intend to use those functions, you must provide a RNG created with the library.

For C# users:

.NET already has great builtin random generators. But some parts of the Doryen library (noise, heightmap, ...) uses RNG as parameters. If you intend to use those functions, you must provide a RNG created with the library.

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It has been said that no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Here at Newington Parks and Recreation, we couldn't believe this to be truer. To emphasize this and recognize those in our community who perform acts of kindness, we are adopting a new movement called Kindness Counts. We would like to encourage members of our community to perform acts of kindness for their fellow Newington residents and, in return, be recognized as outstanding and thoughtful individuals. Some examples of acts of kindness include: helping with your neighbor's lawn/leaves, baking them a pie or bringing them a hot meal, giving them a ride, and any other selfless demonstrations of kindness. The recipient of this act of kindness can then call the Parks and Recreation office at 860-665-8666 or fill out a Kindness Counts Nomination Form, which can be found below, nominating the kindness provider and describing the act performed. Once received, volunteers from the Parks and Recreation Department will drive to the provider's home and place a green and white sign in the front yard, indicating that this person has demonstrated an act of kindness and recognizing the generosity displayed. Our hope is that other residents who see these signs will be inspired to perform an act of kindness and the whole movement will become infectious, covering the town with our attractive signs in a short period of time to recognize the importance of being kind to others.
Anyone of any age is able to contribute to this movement. Kindness Counts provides dozens of teachable moments for parents to deliver positive messages to their children about doing good and being kind. Hopefully Newington will set a trend for doing good and being kind.
The program will begin on May 16, 2019 and end on July 18, 2019. To culminate the two month movement, we invite all residents that proudly host a Kindness Counts lawn sign to Mill Pond Park on Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. during the Bring Your Own Cheese Party (BYOC) to enjoy a night of fun and town-wide recognition. A live concert will feature the band "What It Is", an eight-piece party and dance band.
We encourage all Newington families and residents to get involved. Let's help bring more kindness to the world and make Newington a better place to live, work, and play. Together we can make a difference and continue working towards "Building a Strong Community".
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Day 2 – Sunday 30 August – Hoek van Holland to Bamberg.
Was woken at 5:45UK time to give us an hour's warning for disembarkation of the ferry. Pippa and I rescued our bikes, although a woman in a car gave me evil looks as I moved my trike around, even though I didn't touch her car. We cycled up the middle of the row of cars for a bit until we found some nicer people to chat to whilst we waited for disembarkation.
We cycled the 300 metres to the railway station at Hoek van Holland where there was a train waiting.
TRAIN 1 – Hoek van Holland to Rotterdam Centraal.
As I wheeled my trike towards the Sprinter train, the conductor said, "that won't fit on there!" I replied, "it did last time!" so he said, "OK" and let me put it on. Phew. The half hour journey was fine.
TRAIN 2 – Rotterdam Centraal to Venlo.
Rotterdam has enormous lifts so it was easy for both Pippa and I to move our bikes to the correct platform. It was easy to get the trike on this train and so Pippa and I sat near the bikes and read our books for this journey of almost two hours.
Some very helpful staff at Venlo told us we had 15 minutes until the train so we got ourselves a cup of tea and sandwich. They escorted us across the track (so we didn't have to take the stairs) and even helped us get the trike on the train. It was the same Deutsche Bahn train as last time, so the conductor (or in this case the chap from Venlo station) have to undo a metal grab-rail between the doors so I can get the trike on OK. Once the trike is on there is plenty of room.
After one stop a young lad and young woman got on with bikes and sat opposite us as we were eating our sandwiches. As the train moved off an ordinary-looking chap came over to them and asked them for ID, showing them some of his own. They both showed him their Ausweises, then he looked through their bags and searched the young chap. Most odd! Then the man went away.
A minute later we noticed an alsatian dog, that had been at the other end of the carriage, was walking up to our end with his owner. The owner let him off the lead and he bounded over to the young lad, sniffing and wagging his tail. The penny dropped that he was a drugs dog. Evidently he didn't find anything and the handler put the dog back on the lead and began to demonstrate the dog's trick of rolling over on command. They all got off at the next stop. None of them had seemed at all interested in us.
When we arrived at Mönchengladbach after about 45 minutes the conductor didn't appear to remove the pole from the train. Pippa got off and went looking, I looked forlorn and a chap who had been on the carriage helped me lift the bike out on its side (bashing the mirror of course!). I ended up a bit oily but that's what one expects.
The train to Koblenz was across the platform so this was a very easy transfer. As we got onto it the bicycle space was filled with a wheelchair. The chap saw me coming and got off the train – I didn't realise I looked that scary! The helpful chap who had assisted me to get the trike off the previous train was on this one and he spent a fair while staring at our bikes and at us, asking us occasional questions. It was a bit odd being peered at all the time! He got off after an hour. We also saw some Japanese people photographing themselves standing in front of both bikes. Odd!
This was a long journey (nearly three hours) but was along the Rhine for a fair way so we got to see some of where we will be cycling back along.
Koblenz was our long lunch stop, although initially we got excited about an earlier train that we hadn't got on our lists… until we discovered it doesn't run at weekends. So we had a nice pizza outside the station, although there were some rather persistent wasps.
We got back to the station in plenty of time for our next train to Frankfurt – especially as I had to carry my trike up a flight of stairs to get to the platform. As we went to the bicycle area of the train we saw some peopletaking their bikes off; they explained that there had been a problem on the track and that the train didn't go all the way to Frankfurt but stopped on the way and there were rail replacement buses. Argh! I asked the driver and he confirmed that (it seems there was a suicide on the track) and that bikes aren't allowed on replacement buses. Argh!
We found the other cyclists again who suggested we took a train to Mainz (an hour and a half journey time) and from there to Frankfurt -that was what they were doing. This was another 50 minute wait and on another platform so once again I carried my trike down and then up stairs again. I chatted with the other cyclists,they were very friendly – and then the guy gave us a large bottle of mineral water as he said they didn't need it and we had a long journey ahead. Very nice of him!
I didn't fancy the 45 minute S-Bahn journey but it was the easiest train to get on and off, level with the platform and with a large bike area. More and more people got on, however, so it was choc-a-block by the time we reached Frankfurt. We had only 9 minutes for our connection to a different part of the station but fortunately the lift worked and it wasa quick walk. We had time to buy some drink and food before jumping on the next train.
This train had a HUGE bike area. Pippa and I settled down in comfy seats overlooking the carriage and were a bit abashed to discover a couple having a particularly fond farewell. We buried our noses in our books and ignored them in the best British fashion. The chap got off the train before it left an theladymoved into the seating area of the carriage, so we were alone until a chap got on with a bike just before the train moved off. He got into a conversation with me asking if I were married and where we came from. Then we ended up in a long political discussion as it turned out he was Iranian and thought George W Bush was brilliant. He was very insistent that Iran was making an atom bomb and that Obama was too Muslim to mind. Fortunately he got off after half an hour.
On this train it seemed to get dark very quickly as we pootled alongside the Main, the route we would shortly be cycling. I phoned the Hotel to say we were delayed and would arrive between 11pm and Midnight which they said was fine.
This train had very narrow doors and Pippa and I had to do some trike wiggling to get it on. I then sat on it for this final journey of an hour -we had by now been travelling for fourteen hours and were REALLY looking forward to getting to our destination. A random man came to talk to us about where we were cycling, although I could barely understand his Bavarian accent, but he gave us a map of Bavarian Cycling Routes from a bag of touristy stuff he seemed to randomly have.
We arrived at Bamberg at 22:40,cycled to the hotel, locked the bikes up and found our rooms which were very nice indeed. Showered and washed the clothes, pegged them up on the line and then fell into bed exhausted!


Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri resurfaced over the weekend after months of hiding and questions over his health; releasing a five-minute video that called for a new "jihad" against the United States and its western allies.
The video, titled "Tel Aviv is Also a Land of Muslims" slammed the Trump administration for its decision to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem, saying the Americans were "clear and explicit" in their "modern crusade" against Muslims across the world.
"[Americans] are the first enemy of the Muslims, and swore that it will not dream of security until it is lived in reality in Palestine, and until all the armies of disbelief leave the land of Muhammad," he added.
Zawahiri took control of the global terror network after US forced killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, choosing to avoid the spotlight after the United States shifted its anti-terror efforts to focus on ISIS in Syria and Iraq.


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Sustainability and the environmental impact of food continue to be key talking points in the media over the summer months, with consumer activism continuing to demonstrate the need for brands to put the future first. Here's what we've been reading…
The Australian government's marine park authority has found under-regulated fishing along the Great Barrier Reef is putting the world's biggest coral reef system at further risk as it deals with repeated mass bleaching events.
While climate change is recognised as the reef's greatest threat, the marine park authority has said "over-fishing and illegal fishing can compromise the long-term sustainability of stocks and impact the resilience of the marine ecosystem."
According to the Guardian, the Queensland government's rollout of major fisheries reforms designed to tackle the issues along the reef has stalled.
Vegan milk brand Oatly has faced backlash from customers and environmental activists after it sold a stake in the company to a private equity firm accused of contributing to deforestation in the Amazon.
Oatly defended its decision when responding to comments on Twitter, stating: "we need to move global capital in a sustainable direction if we're to see real change. If we just shut out the companies that may make less sustainable choices, we won't give them the chance to improve and make more sustainable choices, so global capital will keep being steered in a less sustainable direction."
China is focusing on reducing waste to help ensure food security. The initiative launched last month by President Xi Jinping has been dubbed 'operation empty plates' and aims to tackle the estimated 18million tonnes of annual food waste, which is enough to feed about 40million people. Concerns about food security have worsened in the country due to factors such as the coronavirus pandemic, floods and trade tensions.
An alternative protein firm based in New Zealand, Sustainable Foods, is aiming to launch a locally-grown hemp-based meat analogue in 2021. This will be processed using a private hydroelectric power plant.
Sustainable Foods Co-founder Kyran Rei, said: "Health and sustainability and good flavor need to be affordable to enable a wide uptake and make a meaningful difference – people need to be able to afford to buy it."
At present, current food regulations mean the firm is limited in the markets in which it can expand in to but is looking at options in the Asia Pacific region, according to Food Navigator.
High-end restaurants in Europe could be serving 3D printed steak by the end of the year.
Alternative protein start-up, Redefine Meat which creates faux beef from soy, pea protein, coconut fat and other vegan ingredients, claims its steaks have the same taste, texture, and bleeding qualities of meat produced from cows.
Redefine Meat's CEO said alternative protein is: '…the best way to fight climate change, to deliver healthier solutions and food to the entire population of the planet.'
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Heron now accepting new board member applications for 2022
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The San Antonio Heron, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt news organization (EIN 83-1163274), is seeking applicants for its board of directors now through Dec. 31.
Those interested should have a passion for nonprofit, independent journalism, and align with our mission of informing the people of San Antonio about downtown growth and the ripple effect it has on inner city neighborhoods. In our 3½ years of online publishing, we at the Heron have built a brand on making our readers feel better informed through journalism that is as unbiased as humanly possible. Our goal is to deepen our understanding of how the world works, then share what we've learned with our readers in ways that are easy to understand.
In 2022, we are looking to get back to our explanatory journalism roots, while making a collective push toward being self-financed, a milestone that is in our sights for the next calendar year.
We need an expanded board in order to accomplish these goals.
Fill out the Heron board of directors application here.
Currently, our board consists of myself, publisher and editor, Crystal Darby, a business advisor at the UTSA Small Business Development Center, and Roman Sandoval, CEO and founder of Allosense, Inc., an advanced tech startup.
In the fall, Sandoval replaced Taylor Watson, business relationship manager for cybersecurity firm Kamin Associates, who left the Heron board after she was appointed to the Zoning Commission by District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez.
We want to thank Taylor for her service, and for her continued support. Her insight has been invaluable as we continue to think of ways to grow organically, while maintaining our editorial independence. It's worth noting that while we are not yet self-financed, we are solvent as an organization holding no financial liabilities.
Future Heron board members will be voted on by the current board. A full FAQ will be emailed to those who apply. We are hoping to fill these seats in late December or early January.
We are looking to add two board members for a total of five positions, but we are open to more if this call yields more candidates who are good fits at the Heron.
We seek candidates who can bring their unique expertise to our organization, while serving the community in two-year terms.
For more about the Heron, visit our About Us page.
If you have questions, please email me at ben@saheron.com.
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Join us for a free public tour highlighting themes of storytelling through art. This tour will be led by IU Art Museum docent Patty Callison. Please meet in the first floor of the Thomas T. Solley Atrium. This tour is free and open to the public.


Third Culture Theatre is a fiscally sponsored entity, meaning we operate like a 501-c3 Non-profit organization and are beholden to the same expectations of supporting and benefiting the communities we serve. We serve the community through producing high-quality, affordable art to the public; providing education opportunities; and stimulating community growth and development through artistic partnerships, cultural stimulation, and developing cross-community relationships which enrich the quality of life in Los Angeles.
To help support our goals, please make a tax deductible donation through our sponsor, Fractured Atlas by clicking here!


Most members of the Rustmonster Pirate Band came from a previous band entitled Funk Toast. Funk Toast has decided to throw a reunion concert and has put up a site all about it. For the most recent news about Rustmonster, visit funktoast.com.
We know it has been a long time since you have heard any new pirate music from Rustmonster. We apologize. The band has been busy perusing other adventures. We promise to get back to our third pirate themed album soon.
Kaysville, UT, October 3 – Veteran Pirate Rock Band Rustmonster has decided to go head to head against Wasasquatch, a band of Bigfoots, in a musical duel for the Halloween season. The Pirates vs. Bigfoots event aims to be a family friendly Halloween party with high appeal for kids.
If you have never seen Rustmonster, this is the show not to miss.
Time: Doors open at 5PM. Show starts at 6PM.
Cost: $8 for adults $5 for kids 3 to 12. Kids 2 and under get in free.
We are excited to welcome Kieth Moon to Rustmonster. Kieth is an old friend who played with us many years ago. Now he's back. Actually, he's been playing with us for about 8 months now, rehearsing the Wasasquatch show.
Just wanted to update you all on the progress of the band. Unfortunately, we have had to temporarily delay the third album in our book of pirate tales. We will be getting back to the project later this year.
Rustmonster had a great time playing the Utah State Fair. Check out this video of the band's opener, Hempin' Jig.


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Anne-Marie Danneels (Knokke, 28 februari 1962) is een gewezen Belgische atlete, die gespecialiseerd was in de lange afstand en het veldlopen. Zij veroverde op vier onderdelen in totaal vijf Belgische titels.

Biografie
Danneels behaalde na enkele ereplaatsen pas in 1994 haar eerste Belgische titel, dit op de 3000 m. Het jaar nadien behaalde ze de titel op de 10.000 m. Op de 5000 m kon ze zich dat jaar met een persoonlijk record op de Nacht van de atletiek plaatsen voor de wereldkampioenschappen in Göteborg. Ze werd vijfde in de reeksen en miste daardoor net de finale.

Tussen 1995 en 1998 nam Danneels driemaal deel aan de wereldkampioenschappen en viermaal aan de Europese kampioenschappen veldlopen. Haar beste resultaten waren een veertiende plaats op de EK van 1995 en een vijfendertigste op de WK van 1996. In dat seizoen werd ze ook Belgisch kampioene.

Danneels behaalde in 1997 en 1998 nog twee opeenvolgende titels op de 5000 m.

Clubs
Danneels was aangesloten bij Olympic Brugge en stapte nadien over naar AV Toekomst.

Belgische kampioenschappen

Persoonlijk records

Palmares

1500 m
1992:  BK AC – 4.21,20

3000 m
1992:  BK AC – 9.25,24
1994:  BK AC – 9.12,89

5000 m
1995:  BK AC – 15.50,50
1995: 5e in reeks WK in Göteburg – 15.33,70
1997:  BK AC – 15.46,11
1998:  BK AC – 16.05,93

10.000 m
1995:  BK AC – 34.19,64
1997:  BK AC - 33.08,50
1998:  BK AC - 33.02,05

10 km
 1997:  Coenecooploop in Waddinxveen - 33.07
 1998:  Coenecooploop in Waddinxveen - 33.37

15 km
 1997:  Wolphaartsdijk - 52.18

halve marathon
1998:  Leiden Marathon – 1:14.11
1998:  halve marathon van Deurne - 1:13.38

veldlopen
1995:  BK AC in Waregem
1995: 66e WK in Durham
1995: 14e EK in Alnwick
1996:  BK AC in Monceau-sur-Sambre
1996: 35e WK in Stellenbosch
1996: 34e EK in Monceau-sur-Sambre
1997:  BK AC in Averbode
1997: 70e WK in Turijn
1997: 22e EK in Oeiras
1998: 23e EK in Ferrara
1999: 5e BK AC

Belgisch langeafstandsloper
Belgisch veldloper
Belgisch marathonloper


Also there will be nice wood surfaces you can pick up for a small donation!
We now have our own Facebook page!
Theme for 2019 is "Life at the Lake"
Thank you for being a part of our Chapter and stepping up to Volunteer-your help- helps to keep us strong!
To view more info about a certain day- just click on that day on the calendar below and another window will pop up with more information- like what you'll need to bring for that class, etc.
Click on the Newspaper to view the current Newsletter.
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Q: Batch file can't immediately see environment variables created by InstallShield script We use InstallShield 2008 for our product installation. Product consists of several components. When a component is installed, a batch-file with some post-install routines specific to this component is executed.
The problem: post-install batch files use some environment variables that are set during the installation of the product through InstallScript. But it seems that batch-files can't see immediate changes in registry (and newly created environment variables).
Is there a way to accomplish installation without a system reboot?
Potentially useful information: target system - Windows XP, currently logged in user is in Administrators group.

A: I had the same problem with an earlier version of InstallShield. Here's the way I solved it (quick and dirty code).
#define HWND_BROADCAST          0xffff
#define WM_SETTINGCHANGE        0x001A
function UpdateEnvironmentVariable(szKey, szValue)
  NUMBER nResult;
  STRING szEnv;
  POINTER pEnv;
begin
  nResult = RegDBSetKeyValueEx(szKey, "PATH", REGDB_STRING, szValue, -1);

  szEnv = "Environment";
  pEnv = &szEnv;
  SendMessage (HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, pEnv );
end;

The key is to use SendMessage.
Hope it helps.

A: InstallShield users using InstallShield 2010 or later.
Important: The InstallScript Engine has changed since Version 2010 for Unicode.
So using POINTER pEnv; will no longer work. You must use WPOINTER pEnv; instead. I personally use InstallShield 2013 and everything I found suggested the "POINTER approach", but this a piece of legacy code that does not translate to later versions.
I use the following InstallScript function in InstallShield 2013:
// Flush the NT registry to all applications.
function RefreshEnvironment()
    STRING szEnv;
    WPOINTER pEnv;
begin
    szEnv = "Environment";
    pEnv = &szEnv;
    SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, pEnv);
end;

And for my defines I use:
// defines
#define WM_SETTINGCHANGE 0x001A
#define HWND_BROADCAST 0xffff

So the key here is broadcast WM_SETTINGCHANGE to all top-level windows. This way they are aware that a system-wide change has been made.

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in San Francisco. Our students have developed a civic project to collect food for the needy and work with community resources to distribute what we collect.
We have been working on this project for weeks and we were all so excited to meet Dr. Goodall. I mean really! It is a once in a lifetime event and for our kids to have this experience it was too much! I was over the moon for them (and okay, I will admit it, for me too).
We were scheduled to go on Wednesday, October 11th. Then the fires in Napa and Sonoma hit. The air quality in our area was really bad and school was canceled for the 11th. No school, no field trip, Students and parents were disappointed. Mrs. Solis and I were disappointed as well. There was nothing to be done about it.
Working with the Roots & Shoots coordinator, we will have access to the video of Dr. Goodall's speech and we will be receiving the badges we would have received at the event. Small tokens for the kids to let them know that they were missed. This made me happy for them though; I know that they will be happy to have this recognition.
I am not going to lie though, seeing the photos of other students with Dr. Goodall brought tears to my eyes as I thought about how this event would have affected our students.


Great service, great welliesThe service was quick and informative, the shoes/wellies arrived on time and in great condition. I would highly recommend easy wellies and have passed on their details to other members of my family and extended family. great service !


Radioactive contamination due to massive accidental release of nuclear material from the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power plants (NPP) in 2011 has a large geophysical impact and hence is a multi-disciplinary geoscience problem involving inter-alia, (i) Atmospheric Science (emissions, transport, pollution, ions); (ii) Hydrology (surface water, ground water, soil-water interaction); (iii) Oceanology; (iv) Soil Soil System; (v) Forestry; (vi) Natural Hazard (warning system, risk assessments including geophysical variability); (vii) Measurement Technique (e.g., analyses of multipoint data); and Ecosystem (natural removal/migration of radionuclides). Not only as the polluting materials that are hazardous to human society, the radioactive materials are also an ideal marker in understanding dynamics in the environment.
Together with the knowledge from long-term monitoring data Chernobyl Accident in 1986, new data from the Fukushima Accident from dense measurement networks by the most advanced instrumentation in history will improve our knowledgebase on both the behavior of radioactive materials and its environmental contamination. These knowledges should also be used in developing improved monitoring systems including emergency time, acute sampling/measurement schemes, and remediation schemes for a future accident.
We also invite contributions of updated observations, new theoretical developments, methods or tools which could improve our predictive capabilities during eventual future nuclear emergencies. Studies evaluating existing tools at the example of past nuclear accidents and/or other data sets (e.g., tracer experiments) are welcome as well.
Public information: It has been 5 year from the Fukushima Accident and 30 years from the Chernobyl Disaster. We gather all geophysical data and models that are relevant to the transport of radionuclides from these accidents, and discuss the implications.


The powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) bypassed on Wednesday the nomination of Sheriff Manimbayan Abas as Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman and the appointment of John Rualo Castriciones as Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) secretary as it goes into a three-week Lenten break starting Thursday.
Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, concurrent CA chairman, said Abas could continue working as Comelec chief because he was nominated to the post by President Duterte.
The Comelec-Employees Union stated that it embraces Abas as the first Comelec chairman from Mindanao, the first Muslim chairman, the youngest Comelec chief and the first Commissioner to become chairman of the Comelec.
A nominee can continue working in his official capacity without the need of re-appointment by Malacañang after being bypassed by the CA, Pimentel told The Manila Bulletin. But this is not the case of Castriciones, who needs to be reappointed because his is an ad interim appointment, he said.
An ad interim appointment loses its effectivity after a bypass, the Senate chief pointed out. Pimentel said the official function of Castriciones ended at midnight last night.
Castriciones needs another re-appointment from Malacañang to able to resume his official functions, he added.
The CA confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of lawyer Manuel Antonio Javier Teehankee in the current second regular session of the 17th Congress.
The CA, during the first two years of the Duterte administration, has rejected the appointments of Perfecto Yasay as Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) secretary, Jean Paulyn Ubial as Department of Health (DOH) secretary, Gina Lopez as Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secretary and Rafael Mariano as DAR secretary.
Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, a CA member, said the CA constitutional commissions and offices committee, was not able to call Abas to a public hearing leading to Abas' bypass.
He, nevertheless, expressed optimism that both Abas and Castriciones would be called by the appropriate CA committees when the constitutional bicameral body resumes conducting public hearings.
"It is just a matter of time for these two to be confirmed," he said.


Black Dog Longboards is a team of fun loving longboarding fanatics and we believe in living life to the fullest. We are dedicated artists and craftsmen building high quality, handmade, custom longboards that we love to ride and believe you will too.
Duane Boschee is a master craftsman and also an owner of Black Dog Longboards.
Duane's skateboard experience started with a wood shop special with clay wheels in 1974. He then moved on to a plastic banana board from a local hardware store.
His home park with Tri-City Skate Park in Kennewick, Washington, which opened in 1978 and was buried in 1980. The park had a 16' deep pool that was 40' across, 4' vertical and tiles with coping. It was sweet, but he skated everything – old pools, reservoirs. He and his friends would race slalom and downhill on their park boards.
By 1978, Duane was building his own decks in wood shop. He'd build a deck during the week and try to break it over the weekend. Duane spends his free time snow skiing, longboarding, surfing and enjoying time with his dog. Musically, he is into Jerry Joseph and the Jack Mormons, The Tragically Hip and Widespread Panic. When it's time to unwind, his favorite brew is Rainier Beer….mountain fresh!
Duane believes it's not the years you have lived, but the mileage and experience you have gained that really matters. He builds longboards because he simply can't stop doing what he loves!


I am trying to create a submit button that stands alone. Not with the contact form. I wish them to read a paragraph. Then hit the submit button after doing so. Is that possible in web builder?
What is the function of this button suppose to be? Acknowledgement that they read it? Take them to another section or part of your site?
Acknowledge that they read it, which will send me and email.
I put in a button. Found the part where I add the submit button behavior. But it will not attach.
Do I need to link the button first? And then add behavior?
Or is this not possible.
That isn't something that would really work to just have a button. There would be no information to tell you who read your paragraph, but to have a submit button you need to have at least one field in the contact form. You can have them put their name and submit, but they will still need to do the captcha. The only other recommendation would be to get HTML to provide this function.
I am trying to log in to my web builder, but it keeps taking me to sitebuilder plus. I've tried restarting, loggin out and back in again. I've rebooted my computer. I've also tried not going to my bookmark and trying from my browser Firefox.
It's done this to me before a couple of times, but have always just tried again and it seemed to work. This time, not happening.


high availability loadbalanced apache cluster: does it handle sessions?
Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by tiny, Aug 27, 2007.
Does this loadbalancer session aware, does it route client with session to appropriate sever?
Does this setup also handle SSL?
I believe the term is SSL reverse proxy?
If they don't is there an option to make this happen?


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