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Q: Jenkins managing/running THOUSANDS of jobs? My company's CI uses Jenkins at the core, configured to run about 100 jobs -- one job per one Visual Studio solution.
For some reason (I have yet to determine why), my manager is eager to move to a job-per-project (Visual Studio .csproj, that is) Jenkins configuration. This is essentially going to increase the number of jobs to thousands.
My immediate thought was: Even if Jenkins is capable of handling thousands of jobs, what would be the user experience of the folks looking at the Jenkins dashboard like?
Some mitigation could come in the form of using tabs (views) to make it easier on the eye and on navigation (e.g. view/tab per solution or per some other class). But still... 100 tabs?
My questions are:

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*What is your experience with Jenkins managing/running thousands of jobs?

*How did you solve the UX problem?

*Are there other issues? (I am assuming performance is not an issue because in principle I can employ slave machines if I run out of resources).

*What are the main benefits of running a job-per-project (vs. job-per-solution)

Partial answers/insights are very much appreciated as well.

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For past many days, this thing had been pinching me that why citizens of this country are not paying proper mark of respect to our defence personnel. I have noticed this happening especially in place where you find defence bases(units). People around such units find it very common to see any defence personnel. So their behaviour towards soldiers become very casual and they doesn't treat them well. Also, there had been many instances wherein even government servants deny to help defence personnel. There are enough videos available online to prove my statement. Recently, I saw a video in which TT of a train slapped a jawan. This video was very disturbing. Also, I was even more surprised when I saw many such videos on suggestion list of that page.
For all those who doesn't know much about defence life, our soldiers are never off duty. They doesn't crave for their respect. But it's our responsibility to great them well whenever we see them. We should help them in all ways possible. They should feel proud to see our response towards them. Eventually, they will be motivated by such acts and would feel proud to protect such citizens of this nation.
Very touching post from the author. What author said is right. We must learn to respect the soldiers or jawans and respect their dignity of labor towards the countru's security. Because they are vigil all along the night, we are enjoying peaceful sleep every day. So every citizen indebted to every soldier and give them the respect they deserve. When ever I happen to go through Secunderabad Cantonment and see any jawan or military officer walking , I volunteer to offer lift and they feel so elated for having understood their plight. The Defence record office in inside and there is no transport allowed inside nor autos would ply. So they have to walk long distance and many civilians going by scooter, motor cycle or car wont even have the time to see such soldiers walking on the side of the road. Therefore have courtesy, take a bow to their great service to the nation, speak good words and appreciate their every work.
"Eventually, they will be motivated by such acts and would feel proud to protect such citizens of this nation."
While I agree that they are always on duty, my view on this is different. They are already a motivated lot and their motivation comes from their love for what they do.
The men and women in uniform do what they do as a sense of patriotism and duty, with a sense of pride. I do not think that the respect that the civilians give them acts as a source of motivation. They do what they do because they are a dedicated and highly disciplined people. I know because I am married to one.
Yes, respecting and honouring them is good. It shows that you recognise what they do, for you and for the nation. They will continue doing what they do, irrespective of how you treat them.
There is a small issue here wherein we all are driven by the fantasies & so we all are less concern of the ground realities around us. Since our childhood days, we have been taught through the text books which are instigated with the material making us less proud of our cultural heritage or more or less dedicated to a one side of the phenomenon. In this process few of the aspects have always been ignored of. The certificate goes to any of the political parties who preferred the communal angle for winning the elections. In the latest, an Army Major and three soldiers were martyred on Tuesday in Gurez in north Kashmir while they were foiling an infiltration bid identified as Major K P Rane, hawaldars Jamie Singh and Vikramjeet and rifleman Mandeep.
But the whole nation was mourning the death of a politician.
I do not know why some people feel that the army personnel are not getting proper respect. Everyone in the country respects them. The military is doing its duty and they are respected for what they are doing. It is better not to bring the army into discussions. Let them do their duty.
Mr. KVRR, having respect & showing respect are two different aspects. I agree to the 100% that we all have respect for our soldiers but when it comes to showing respect to them than we find ourselves wherein we are coming up with the negligible contribution. Even with me, If I want to salute the soldier than there is some hesitation within me. May be it's my fault but we can be evident more of these with others too.
"They will continue doing what they do, irrespective of how you treat them."-----------This statement reflects the mentality of the majority of Indians. If we treat our soldiers shabbily, we can't expect greatness from them. If we can't honour them, then will the next generation want to become soldiers?
The Soldiers or Sailors or Airmen or the Officers of the three forces do not expect any respect from the public. They are the selfless disciplined people of our country who only think about their duty 24x7. The defence personnel in uniform are never disrespected by the public. Of course, while in civilian clothes, they are not respected much. Whether the public respect them or don't honour them, they are not affected at all. Because they have their brave hearts.
The soldiers are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the country. How many of us will be ready to sacrifice our lives if they pay us huge money also? During the service, they will be away from their family and they won't have any personal life when they are in their duty. As a common man, we should respect them for the sacrifice they are doing for the country. Whether we respect them are not, but they will be respecting the nation and serving the nation. That is the greatness of these people. I feel we should salute them for their commitment and patriotism.
As expressed by the author many people don't show the respect and behave differently from them. Such acts shouldn't be encouraged by the citizens and if somebody is misbehaving with them we should tell the people about the importance of these soldiers.
Mr. Partha K, I totally agree with your statement. The duty of a defence personnel is not effected by our response towards them. And citizens of this country know this very well. They know that whosoever they behave with a soldier, he is bound to do his duty. And that is why their way of treating them changes.
May I know what is the greatest motivation they have which makes them so bold? Why are they always fearless? As per as I am concerned, it is the "Bharat Ma" which is keeping them motivated. And Bharat ma is nothing but the citizen of this country. Soldiers of our nation, love their people. That's why they protect them. They certainly doesn't concern about our response towards them. Even if we don't great them well, they will still risk their lives for us. That is why we need to understand that whenever we get chance, we should help them out.
My intention was not to hurt anyone's sentiments. I have posted this to spread the awareness and remember what they are doing for us. We often get so busy in our lives that we forget their sacrifices.
Mr. Ved, the respect we show is to the profession but not to the individuals. The individual respect depends upon their behavior in the society. As a matter of fact, every individual is doing his duty towards the country by virtue of his vocation and is to be respected.
Mr. KVRR, when you do something for your company, you are promoted and given respect based on the designation you hold. But you are respected only by your company. Not by everyone. Similarly, defence forces are meant for protecting the country. Soldiers are serving our country, not any company. I am not demeaning any other job. However, I don't think there is any risk to life in other services. There are many in this country who agree with this statement. And that's why they respect them. Sir, I don't know what you think, but if tomorrow some soldier sacrifices his life saving mine, I would definitely not say that, "yaar vo toh apni duty kar raha tha, that's his job, he hadn't done something great"
Mr.Jitesh, I have made it very clear that military personnel are respected for the nature of duty they are performing. There is always a risk to the life of the personnel working in border areas. They know that risk very well and perform their duty under trying circumstances. If a soldier dies in the course of duty, we say so and so is martyred in the service to the country. We do not say that so and so died while doing his or her duty. That is the respect we give them. Your observation that the behavior of the people towards them in the areas where there are military bases is casual does not sound good. What you expect them to do? No one dares to disrespect them.
I do not want to have discussions on the military. Let them do their duty and be in the background under the government in power. There is no point in discussing the military and creating controversies. Already much damage has been done by vested political parties trying to cash in on their performance and by some criticising the Army.
"shabbily…we can't expect greatness from them".
"honour…will the next generation want to become soldiers?"
Are you casting aspersions on the devotion and integrity of our defence personnel, equating their service and sacrifice to a mere barter?
Unlike the civilians, they do not go on strikes or create a nuisance, no matter how difficult the conditions are. They continue working with utmost sincerity.
The service of the armed forces is unconditional, it's not based on incentives. They calculate their moves only against the enemy, they don't keep tabs on how they are treated and respond depending on that. Their greatness comes from a life of discipline and commitment.
I would be worried if the next generation considers the frills before deciding to join the Armed Forces. It is calling, and it has to come from within.
I am interested in knowing how you and the others want to honour and help them?
Most of the people are already paying respect to the army men. There have been some stray incidents where the Jawans were treated roughly but we should not give any cognizance to such minor acts.
Everyone knows that Jawans are giving their life for safeguarding of our country and there is great honour of Jawans in the eyes of public.


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QLDC employs almost double the staff of nearby councils
by Kim Bowden - Dec 19, 2022
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is employing almost double the number of staff per head of population than in Invercargill and Dunedin.
The QLDC team - 579 of them when this photo was taken earlier this month - get together in-person for the first time in a long time (Image QLDC social media).
The QLDC has posted on social media photos of its first all-in staff meeting following Covid disruptions and there's now 579 of them - and there's still 52 unfilled vacancies.
There's 101 employees earning more than $100,000 (that's according to the council's last annual report).
The staff get-together focused on celebrating successes, reinforcing staff wellbeing and building a "positive team culture".
It got Crux, and some of our audience, thinking about how that staff number compares with other councils around the region.
Answers from the QLDC to our follow-up questions reveal the 579 rate-payer funded roles have grown.
The headcount at the council's now 604 employees, whose hours together make up the equivalent of 442 full-time roles.
At last official count, on Census night 2018, the district's population was 39,153.
So that's approximately one full-time role for every 89 people living in the district.
Next door, at the Central Otago District Council, the ratio's one to 140, in Dunedin, one to 154, and in Invercargill, one to 173.
Here's the figures supplied to Crux by respective council spokespeople, with population data sourced from the 2018 Census night count-up.
The Central Otago District Council has 230 employees, who together make up the equivalent of 154 full-timers. The official population count is 21,558.
The Invercargill City Council has 432 employees, who together make up the equivalent of 312 full-timers. The official population count is 54,204.
The Dunedin City Council has 1,095 employee, who together make up the equivalent of 818 full-timers. The official population count is 126,255.
The QLDC has declined to comment on comparisons between its employee numbers and those of neighbouring councils.
But a local council academic cautions making direct comparisons between councils – it's not comparing apples with apples.
Andy Asquith says "it's bad practice" to play a numbers game and jump to conclusions.
"I'm a social scientist and I can provide numbers to prove anything."
He also says he wants to be pedantic about the wording of this story – as far as he's concerned every council across the country has exactly the same number of employees, and that's one.
Local government academic Andy Asquith says QLDC chief executive Mike Theelan's the only actual employee of the QLDC. But 604 people's job are funded by ratepayers.
Councillors employ just a chief executive – it's that chief executive who decides how many staff are needed to carry out the work of a council, and then gives the go-ahead to employ them, he says.
The number of ratepayer-funded workers at any council is dictated by the policies that that council wants to pursue, he says.
"You can have two councils side by side that could have identical populations, but the aspirations of one set of councillors may be vastly different to the aspirations of the next set of councillors."
Some councils "decide that they want to do as little as possible", therefore they require fewer staff.
On the other hand, you have councils that "want to do as much as possible in terms of the four wellbeings", and they'll need more staff to do that.
The other thing to consider in the mix is a council's reliance on external contractors, he says.
"There'll be some councils that will have few permanent staff…so, they can say to people 'we're a very efficient council, we have a very small headcount'.
"But that could mask the fact that they have to 10 permananent staff they have 5,000 temporary contractors, which may be more expensive.
"So there's a bit of smoke and mirrors here, and you need to be careful."
The QLDC does make available reports on supplier spend. However, the reports clump together spend on the sorts of contractors Mr Asquith references above with things like office furniture, levies to Local Government New Zealand, and grants to community associations.
In the year ending June 30, the QLDC total spend across all contracts and purchase orders, where the total was greater than $50,000 was approximately $233 million.

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I spoke to Graham for a quick update this morning.
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Graham is waiting to hear whether Dorking's pitch has passed an inspection this morning. If so, he will be sending a young team there for tonight's Surrey Senior Cup tie, although the squad will include one or two players like Joe McNerney, who, Graham feels, need 90 minutes of football.
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Lukaku Shares Powerful Message On Instagram After Racial Abuse In Serie A Match
By Naveen Kelvin | September 2, 2019
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Over the course of the past months, incidents of racism in football have reached a shocking number. Players have been racially abused for missing penalties and delivering poor performances.
This was first seen in the Premier League when Chelsea's Tammy Abraham failed to score from the spot. A similar treatment was levied unto Reading's Yakou Meite when he missed a penalty.
Global media took a bigger notice when Paul Pogba was abused on social media after missing a penalty against Wolverhampton Wanderers. The week following that, his Manchester United teammate Marcus Rashford likewise failed to score in a game against Crystal Palace and was the subject of similar treatment.
These instances were largely condemned by the authorities and the larger football community across the globe.
However, another incident has come up wherein Romelu Lukaku was racially abused when Inter Milan recently played against Cagliari. The chants in question came from the Cagliari fans as the Belgian striker netted the winning goal in the 2-1 fixture.
This is at the back of another weekend encounter in the Premier League where Chelsea's Kurt Zouma was attacked for scoring an own-goal against Sheffield United.
Lukaku posted the following strongly worded message on Instagram as a result of the incident:
A post shared by Romelu Lukaku (@romelulukaku) on Sep 2, 2019 at 5:18am PDT
This aptly captures the reality of the situation and puts the entire affair into a strong light.
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Q: How do I fix missing Content-Length with php curl 7.68? Context:
    I'm a Roku developer that uses PHP to package my apps. My PHP code has been working flawlessly until I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. Once curl was upgraded to 7.68, my scripts broke. As I'm using curl to hit a hardware device, I don't have the option of changing the server code.
Problem:
When using PHP curl, I now get a HTTP 411 error, due to no Content-Length. But when I use curl command line, it works fine. How do I fix this for curl 7.68?
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function remove() {
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    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    if(!empty($digest)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $digest);
    }
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
    $errno = curl_errno($ch);
    if($errno) {
        $result = sprintf("cURL Error (%d): %s\n", $errno, curl_strerror($errno));
    } else if($info['http_code'] >= 300) {
        $result = sprintf("HTTP Error (%d): %s\n", $info['http_code'], httpStatusString($info['http_code']));
    }
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;
}

This returns:
*   Trying 192.168.0.246:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 192.168.0.246 (192.168.0.246) port 80 (#0)
> POST /plugin_install HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.246
Accept: */*
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Expect: 100-continue

* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Content-Length: 0
< WWW-Authenticate: Digest qop="auth", realm="rokudev", nonce="1590164871"
<
* Closing connection 0
* Issue another request to this URL: 'http://192.168.0.246/plugin_install'
* Hostname 192.168.0.246 was found in DNS cache
*   Trying 192.168.0.246:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 192.168.0.246 (192.168.0.246) port 80 (#1)
* Server auth using Digest with user 'rokudev'
> POST /plugin_install HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.246
Authorization: Digest username="rokudev", realm="rokudev", nonce="1590164871", uri="/plugin_install", cnonce="NjhiOGQyOGVmZDdiY2FiYTczNGI1ZDRjYmZjY2UzZDU=", nc=00000001, qop=auth, response="4d830af782cb25747f58a7df78a19ae0"
Accept: */*
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Expect: 100-continue

* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required
< Content-Length: 27
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Connection: close
<
* Closing connection 1

And here's my curl command line:
curl --digest -urokudev:$ROKU_PASS -v -X POST -F 'mysubmit=Delete' -F 'passwd=' -F 'archive=' http://$ROKU_DEV/plugin_install

And this is the result:
Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, POST is already inferred.
*   Trying 192.168.0.246:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 192.168.0.246 (192.168.0.246) port 80 (#0)
* Server auth using Digest with user 'rokudev'
> POST /plugin_install HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.0.246
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 0
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Content-Length: 0
< WWW-Authenticate: Digest qop="auth", realm="rokudev", nonce="1590102994"
<
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.0.246 left intact
* Issue another request to this URL: 'http://192.168.0.246/plugin_install'
* Found bundle for host 192.168.0.246: 0x55ae72f12c20 [serially]
* Can not multiplex, even if we wanted to!
* Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host 192.168.0.246
* Connected to 192.168.0.246 (192.168.0.246) port 80 (#0)
* Server auth using Digest with user 'rokudev'
> POST /plugin_install HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.0.246
> Authorization: Digest username="rokudev", realm="rokudev", nonce="1590102994", uri="/plugin_install", cnonce="ZjlhMjgxZDYxNjRiNWNjMTM4Nzc2YmUxMjM5NzcwNTI=", nc=00000001, qop=auth, response="8e7d0866953f033a3cf352aac96b62c7"
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 340
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------217b05bd89ebff16
>
* We are completely uploaded and fine
* Connection died, retrying a fresh connect
* Closing connection 0
* Issue another request to this URL: 'http://192.168.0.246/plugin_install'
* Hostname 192.168.0.246 was found in DNS cache
*   Trying 192.168.0.246:80...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 192.168.0.246 (192.168.0.246) port 80 (#1)
* Server auth using Digest with user 'rokudev'
> POST /plugin_install HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.0.246
> Authorization: Digest username="rokudev", realm="rokudev", nonce="1590102994", uri="/plugin_install", cnonce="ZjlhMjgxZDYxNjRiNWNjMTM4Nzc2YmUxMjM5NzcwNTI=", nc=00000002, qop=auth, response="e9c57a236d1516b4416aa8c5f1883ef1"
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 340
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------217b05bd89ebff16
>
* We are completely uploaded and fine
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< init_ca_bundle_stat: stat /common/certs/ca-bundle.crt: No such file or directory
< Content-Type: text/html
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
<html>
... Actual html removed ...
</html>


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An article in the Latin Business Chronicle looks at economic forecasts from the International Monetary Fund for countries in Latin America. El Salvador is forecast to finish last among the region's economies with growth of only 2% in 2011. The reasons for El Salvador's anemic growth are varied. The country is closely tied to the US economy, which is also struggling mightily. Investors avoid the country. The crime problem impedes business activity. Unfortunately, solutions have been few.
Here's a video with some catchy music and wonderful views of the beauty of El Salvador to make your day.
Today, September 15, is Independence Day in El Salvador. El Salvador and other Central American countries celebrate the 190 years since their independence from Spain in 1821.
An English language translation is available here.
President Mauricio Funes has a 65% approval rating. While it's still a strong rating, it does show ongoing slippage from the early days of his administration. Party preferences for the 2012 elections of mayors and the National Assembly show right wing ARENA and left wing FMLN each polling between 25 and 30%. No other party shows particular strength and most people are undecided. This has been the pattern in most recent elections.Salvadorans are equally divided on what to do with the case of the murder of the Jesuits. 43% say the case should be reopened and 41% say no.
Speaking of which, Damon mentioned that the pub we were sitting in, and pretty much "all" of them along this strip behind the Hotel Intercontinental, pay "rent" to the gangs. Except for one guy, he says. The guy who owns BILLY'S (pseudonym) doesn't play around. He even hires local police to work for him as 'vigilantes' (private security guards), even though the practice is prohibited. He pays them well and no one stops him.
According to a front page story in a Salvadoran newspaper, T-shirts bearing the likeness of Archbishop Romero are second only to those with the emblems of the most popular soccer teams in terms of sales in El Salvador, and the reporters were able to visit six factories churning out Romero tees for the local markets. LA PÁGINA, August 29, 2011. The article cited a merchant in a downtown market who said that, "The image of Archbishop Romero is imposing. It is rare these days to find a Christmas crèche that does not include his figurine. The people demand it." The story quoted an economist as saying that at least a thousand Salvadorans earn their living from working at NGO's bearing Romero's name. Read more here as well as much more about Romero by Polycarpio.


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Compte, L.,Taylor, C.M., and 40 co-authors. 2021. RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time-series as a currency for global change ecology research in riverine systems. Global Ecology and Biogeography,30:38-50.
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Taylor, C.M., Miyazono, S., Cheek, C.A., Edwards, R.J., Patino, R. 2019. The spatial scale of homogenisation and differentiation in Chihuahuan Desert fish assemblages. Freshwater Biology, 64(1), 222-232.
Taylor, C.M., Miyazono, S. Cheek, CA, Edwards, R.J. and R Patiño. 2019. The spatial scale of homogenization and differentiation in Chihuahuan Desert fish assemblages. Freshwater Biology 64 (1), 222-232
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Toukir, H., Gonzalez, R., Chipara, R., Materon, L., Persons, J., and Alcoultabi. 2021. Antibacterial activities of centrifugally spun polyethylene oxide/silver composite nanofibers. Polymer Adv. Technology 32:1-12.
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Kostiuk, B., F.J. Santoriello, L. Diaz-Satizabal, F. Bisaro, K.J. Lee, A.N. Dhody, D. Provenzano, D. Unterweger & S. Pukatzki. 2021. Type VI Secretion System Mutations Reduced Competitive Fitness of Classical Vibrio cholerae Biotype. Nature Communications, 12(6457). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26847-y.
Turner, J.W., J. Duran-Gonzalez, D.A. Laughlin, D. Unterweger, D. Silva, B. Ermolinsky, S. Pukatzki & D. Provenzano. 2021. Draft Genome Sequences of 13 Vibrio cholerae Strains from the Rio Grande Delta. Microbiology Resource Announcements 10(22) doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00308-21.
Provenzano, D. & S. Barrocio. 2021. Infectious Disease Transmission by Airline Travel. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research 35(5): 28074-28081. doi.10.26717/BJSTR.2021.35.005772.
Vidal, P., Martinez, M., Hernandez, C., Raj Adhikari, A., Mao, Y., Materon, L., Lozano, K. 2019. Development of chromatic biosensor for quick bacterial detection based on polyvinyl butyratepolydiacetylene nonwoven fiber composites, European Polymer Journal (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.eurpolymj.2019.109284
De la Garza, D., De Santiago, L.A. Materon, M. Chipara and M. Alcoultabi. 2019. Fabrication and characterization of centrifugally poly(acrylic acid) nanofibers. Applied Polymer Sciences. DOI 10.1002/APP.47480.
Akia, M.; Salinas, N.; Rodriguez, C.; Gilkerson, R.; Materon, L.; Lozano, K. 2018. "Texas sour orange juice used in scaffolds for tissue engineering." Membranes 8 (3).
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Garcia, I.; Calderon, F.; De La Torre, P.; St. Vallier, S.; Rodriguez, C.; Agarwala, D.; Keniry, M.; Innis-Whitehouse, W.; Gilkerson, R. 2021. Mitochondrial OPA1 cleavage is reversibly activated by differentiation of H9c2 cardiomyoblasts. Mitochondrion 57: 88-96.
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J.A. Mustard, E. Akyol, K.D. Robles, C. Ozturk, O. Kaftanoglu. (2019) Influence of sugar experience during development on gustatory sensitivity of the honey bee. Journal of Insect Physiology 116:100-105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.05.002
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Gilkerson, R. 2018. "A disturbance in the force: Cellular stress sensing by the mitochondrial network." Antioxidants 7 (10).
Garcia, I.; Innis-Whitehouse, W.; Lopez, A.; Keniry, M.; Gilkerson, R. 2018. "Oxidative insults differentially impact mitochondrial fission/fusion dynamics in cultured mammalian cells." Redox Rep. 23 (1): 160-167.
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Biddle, R., Ponce, I.S., Cun, P., Tollington, S., Jones, M., Marsden, S., Devenish, C., Horstman, E., Berg, K. S. and Pilgrim, M., 2020. Conservation status of the recently described Ecuadorian Amazon parrot Amazona lilacina. Bird Conservation International, 30(4), pp.586-598.
Berg, K.S., Delgado, S., Mata‐Betancourt, A., Krause, J.S., Wingfield, J.C. and Beissinger, S.R., 2019. Ontogeny of the adrenocortical response in an extremely altricial bird. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 331(10), pp.521-529.
Berg, K.S., Delgado, S. and Mata-Betancourt, A., 2019. Phylogenetic and kinematic constraints on avian flight signals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1911), p.20191083.
Radchuk, V., Reed, T., Teplitsky, C., Van De Pol, M., Charmantier, A., Hassall, C., Adamík, P., Adriaensen, F., Ahola, M.P., Arcese, P. Berg, K.S. and Avilés, J.M., 2019. Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient. Nature communications, 10(1), pp.1-14.
Perez, K.E., Noreika, N.**, Norris, C., Kelly, M., Lopez, M*., Ortega, C.*, Ruiz Sandoval, S.*, Gonzalez, S.*, Nowlin, W. 2022. Population density and reproductive seasonality of Tryonia cheatumi (Gastropoda; Cochliopidae), the phantom tryonia. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation. 25:82–90. (*student coauthor)
Perez, K.E., M. Spor Leal, H. Glover, R. Chastain, B.T. Hutchins, B. Schwartz. 2021. Two new species ofPyrgulopsis Call & Pilsbry, 1886 (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from springs in the Rio Grande watershed in Texas. Zootaxa 5071(3): 384-402.
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Kathryn E. Perez, Benjamin T. Hutchins, and Jeffrey C. Nekola "Poorly Vetted Conservation Ranks Can Be More Wrong Than Right: Lessons from Texas Land Snails," Natural Areas Journal 40(4), 309-317, (24 November 2020). https://doi.org/10.3375/043.040.0403
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Watts. S and Kariyat R. 2021. Morphological characterization of trichomes show enormous variation in shape, density, and dimensions across the leaves of 14 Solanum species. AoB Plants 13 (6), plab071
Tayal, M and Kariyat R. 2021. Examining the Role of Buzzing Time and Acoustics in Pollen Extraction of Solanum elaeagnifolium. Plants10 (12), 2592
Kasper, S., Chavana, J., Sasidharan L., Racelis, A., and Kariyat R.R. 2021. Exploring the role of soil types on defense and fitness traits of silverleaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium), a worldwide invasive species through a field survey in the native range. Plant Signaling and Behavior 16 (11), 1964163
Arias, M., Kariyat, R. Wahl, K., Mendez, S., Chavana, J., & Christoffersen, B. 2021. Do early-successional weeds facilitate or compete with seedlings in forest restoration? Disentangling abiotic versus biotic factors. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2, e12095. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12095
Chavana, J, Singh S, Vasquez A, Christoffersen B, Racelis A, and R. Kariyat. 2021. Local adaptation to continuous mowing makes the noxious weed Solanum elaeagnifolium a superweed candidate by improving fitness and defense traits. Scientific Reports11 (1), 1-15.
Watts, S and R Kariyat. 2021. Picking sides: Feeding on the abaxial leaf surface is costly for caterpillars. Planta 253 (4), 1-6
Singh, S.; Kaur, I.; Kariyat, R. 2021. The Multifunctional Roles of Polyphenols in Plant-Herbivore Interactions. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 1442.
Kariyat, R.R. et al., 2021. Inbreeding alters floral volatile emission in horsenettle (Solanum carolinense; Solanaceae) with adverse effects on pollinator visitation. American Journal of Botany 108 (1), 74-82.
Jia, Y. and Vega, C. 2022. Biochemical and computational approached to understand venon toxin-toxin interaction. Toxicon 216:11-14.
Jia. Y., Kowalski, P., Lopez, I. 2021. Using yeast two-hybrid system and molecular dynamics simulations to detect venom protein-protein interactions. Current Research in Toxicology, 2, 1-6.
Jia, Y., Lopez, I., Kowalski, P. 2020. Toxin transcripts in Crotalus atrox venom and in silico structures of toxins. Journal of Venom Research, 10: 18-22.
Jia, Y., Olvera, P., Rangel, F., Mendez, B., Reddy, S. 2019. Rapid identification of phospholipase A2 transcripts from snake venoms. Toxins 11:69-79.
Olvera, P., Jia, Y. 2018. Snake venom phospholipase A2 and its antibacterial potential. Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2: 9
Jia, Y., Villarreal, J. 2018. Phospholipases A2 purified from cottonmouth snake venoms display no antibacterial effect against four representative bacterial species. Toxicon, 151, 1-4.
Watts, S, I Kaur, S Singh, B Jimenez, J Chavana, and R.R Kariyat. 2022. Desktop scanning electron microscopy in plant-insect interactions research: A fast and effective way to capture electron micrographs with minimal sample preparation. Biology Methods and Protocols (7 (1), bpab020
Nekola, J.C., B. T. Hutchins, A. Schofield, B. Najev, K.E. Perez. 2019. Caveat comsumptor notitia museo: Let the museum data user beware. Global Ecology and Biogeography, Early Look, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12995 .
Price, R.M., and K.E. Perez. 2018. Many paths towards discovery: a module for teaching how science works. Journal of College Science Teaching 47(3):78-87.
Patoka, J., Magalhães, A., Kouba, A., Faulkes, Z., Jerikho, R., Vitule, J. (2018). Invasive aquatic pets: failed policies increase risks of harmful invasions. Biodiversity and Conservation, 27 (11), 3037-3046. doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1581-3 10.1007/s10531-018-1581-3
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John Butler, VP and Head of Wealth Services at Goldmoney, looks to the future of hard currencies in a discussion on the possible technological advancements such as cryptocurrencies that would allow monetary policy to move towards a gold-backed system.
I don't trust this man; he has the mannerisms of a politician. Has a few good points but are they exclusively his? I doubt it. Wouldn't surprise me to see him being investigated by the SEC a few years from now, hehe.
I think that is unfair (if you intended it to be taken seriously). Politicians speak well but say nothing. John speaks well and knows precisely what he is talking about. In fact, he is so good at explaining things that he could have his own TV show.
Good interview. Butler vs Dent would be interesting.
Strongly agree with Kirk. Have watched the past few interviews which Ned-Naylor-Leyland conducted. He is such a terrible interviewer. Please have him changed.
Bitcoin addresses this already, just a lot better and proven of course. We'll let you put gold ownership on the Bitcoin blockchain....the one and only true blockchain.
Good interviwee; awful interviewer. Rathet than just leading the conversation, the interviewer babbles on, making the conversation unnecessarily confusing.
I am old enough to remember Banker's Acceptances which he alluded to. Funnily he seems to be describing an electronic based returned to BA's.; only the 'banks' aren't in the middle.
Be aware that BitCoin and BitGold have nothing in common but their name. Also, to understand the practicality of BitGold view their payment tutorials on YouTube.
RV should interview Roy Sebag. BitGold is a pivotal development as it represents the return of commodity money on a global basis. Its interface with fiat is a beautiful idea.
Thank you for bringing on board a bit gold discussion. Always keeping us on the leading edge of financial developments.
John always makes the confusion and fuzziness of the world economy past and present, to come about in a clear and easy way to understand. Quite a sharp mind indeed.


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Moeen Ali can't wait to captain hometown Birmingham Phoenix
Mat Collis
Birmingham Phoenix captain Moeen Ali admits he can't wait to lead his hometown side and he hopes to do so in front of a packed, partisan Edgbaston crowd.
The coronavirus pandemic halted The Hundred, with the fast-paced 100 ball competition postponed until 2021.
Ali, who was retained as a captain alongside women's skipper Sophie Devine, is incredibly proud of his Second City roots and believes the opportunity is 'right up there in terms of his career'.
Having played at Edgbaston for England, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the all-rounder is well aware of the home advantage the stadium brings.
"Birmingham is my city and captaining my home team in The Hundred is right up there in terms of my career," said Ali.
"I was born, raised and my life is still based in Birmingham, so to be the first-ever men's captain of Birmingham Phoenix is very special for me.
"Edgbaston has one of the best atmospheres in the world – it's a place that has so much history and players always have memories and stories of playing there.
"Even when I'm talking to the foreign players, especially where I am now in the IPL, they talk about Edgbaston very highly.
"It's an amazing ground, with fantastic facilities and the stadium has got everything you need.
"Leading Birmingham Phoenix out on to the field at Edgbaston, with the whole community behind you will be an amazing feeling."
Ali is currently playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, but it's fair to say he always has one eye on The Hundred and his role as skipper.
The 33-year-old added to his Vitality Blast Finals Day triumphs with Worcestershire when he became the first Muslim to lead the national T20 side after standing-in for England captain Eoin Morgan this year.
The World Cup winner is certainly no stranger to franchise cricket and he's constantly talking to Birmingham Phoenix Head Coach Andrew McDonald and other players that he meets around the circuit.
"We had a chat a couple of days ago about what we're trying to do moving forward and how we start to put some plans in place," said Ali about his conservations with McDonald.
"There's a lot of work to do before the season starts and we keep in touch regularly.
"When I see him at grounds when we're playing in the IPL, we try to have a quick chat about things and we're both really excited for The Hundred next year."
"People are very intrigued and looking forward to playing especially with the hype around it and the build-up," Ali concluded.
"It's all brand new so you're curious about that. It was disappointing it didn't go ahead this year, but I think that adds to more enthusiasm this year to try and make it a massive competition.
"As players, we're trying to make it the biggest thing we've had in cricket in this country."
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Audi RS6 Avants Are Already Getting Flipped, But Maybe You Should Avoid Those Cars Anyway
Mercedes Streeter
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The Audi RS6 Avant is the longroof of dreams, and being a hot new car in high demand opportunists are already circling to make a quick buck. Dig into the sales history of some of the low-mile examples now available, though, and you'll learn something surprising: It's not just lone-wolf predators playing the market. Canadian dealers are in on the flipping game, too.
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No wonder the flippers are on the case. The RS6 Avant, an autobahn stormer and occasional track toy, packs a 591-horsepower V8, quattro all-wheel drive and Audi tech into a package that raises your heart rate just looking at it.
As Road & Track found out, Canadian dealerships were among the first to get stock of the RS6 wagon. Some of these dealers decided to flip them in auctions. Those wagons, now technically used cars, were sent across the border to U.S. dealers. The practice seems pretty clever — the Canadian dealers made their profit without any haggling from a customer.
Check Cars.com for used RS6 Avants and you'll see plenty advertised for more than sticker. Some of these cars have so few miles that you'd think their owners drove them home and immediately put them up for sale. But CarFax checks will reveal that many of these cars were first registered in Canada before ending up at a dealer in the States. Take this beautiful example for sale in Wisconsin:
Photo: Kearns Motor Car
Its CarFax indicates two previous owners in Ontario despite having only 154 miles on its odometer.
Note that buying a recent vehicle that originated from Canada may bring some headaches. Even though these are the same cars that you can buy here, they sometimes have VINs that won't come up in a DMV system. Some dealerships won't even touch cars that come from Canada, Car and Driver reports.
While Canadian dealerships' flipping RS6 Avants probably made sense at launch, it doesn't now. Tick the New box at Cars.com and you'll find more new cars at around sticker than these used ones. So there's really no reason to buy a low-mile, but still technically used, RS6 Avant that's had two or three previous owners.


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Create Streets has had real impact on opinion-formers and on government:
In November 2018, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire MP welcome our in-depth report on the future of the English planning system, co-published with the Legatum Institute, More Good Homes. He said: "This paper asks important questions on how we maintain an efficient and collaborative market to build the type of homes that people like, whilst maintaining popular and political support. We have strengthened the rules-based approach to planning through the publication of our updated national rule book, but I welcome the challenge on what more we should do to provide greater clarity and certainty. Building more homes better and faster to meet our country's needs is our absolute priority."
Create Streets' research into public preferences was cited in a House of Commons debate on November 30th on the importance of beauty in the built environment by John Hayes MP. Speaking in the same debate, the Housing Minister Kit Malthouse MP's response echoed very many of our own points: "We are therefore supporting high-quality, high-density housing such as mansion blocks, mews houses and terraced streets, typical of the English urban townscape and rural context with which we are all familiar."
In the October 2018 Budget review on Planning Reform our policy recommendations on the use of design codes and permitted development were cited, as well as two of our reports: Create Boulevards, and Better Brownfield
In October 2018 the Centre for Social Justice Housing Commission published its interim report. Our director, Nicholas Boys Smith, is a member of the Commission which was chaired by Lord Best.
In July 2018 the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published which gives a new centrality to design, to early engagement with residents and design codes. From our first publication five years ago some of our key suggested policies, process and priorities are now at the very heart of the English planning system (though there remains much more to do). More detail will follow shortly….
The Policy Exchange publication Building More, Building Beautiful echoes closely many of the key Create Streets arguments about the importance of popular support for new buildings and beauty in design, as well as the use of community codes to achieve both of these outcomes.
In the May 2018 Local Elections in Kingston, London, the Liberal Democrats included a commitment in their manifesto to 'work with others, such as Create Streets, learning from them, to make sure Kingston gets high quality, low rise, suitable density developments that create homes, rather than the current developments of tall luxury tower blocks.' The party won control of the council.
On Wednesday April 25th, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government held a 'Design Quality' Conference, attended by two government ministers. The shift towards high-level and high-profile discussion of quality in design and how to achieve it is in line with Create Streets' arguments that improved quality will lead to increased support for new housing.
The new Neighbourhood Planning funding arrangements, announced on March 15th 2018, follow on from the new NPPF (and our research and arguments) with much more focus on the allocation of sites and design codes. They also use the BIMBY toolkit of which we are a partner
The new draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published on Monday 5th March 2018. It contains many welcome steps that very strongly reflect and appear to be influenced by Create Streets' research, work and arguments. Our response can be read here
The Sunday Times British Homes Awards Readers' Choice Awards are for terraced housing. The brief and coverage is strongly influenced by our argument and research
The draft London Plan, published in December 2017, requires that new plans should be 'street-based with clearly defined public and private environments.' (Policy D1) Beautiful street-based design with clear fronts and backs underpin much of our research into great and popular places.
The draft London Plan also supports the greater use of Design Codes. 'All outline applications referred to the Mayor should be accompanied by thorough design codes' and boroughs will be required to prepare area-wide design codes on small sites, to 'promote good design and to proactively encourage increased housing provision.' Create Streets have frequently argued for the increased use of Design Codes in the UK planning system to increase certainty and lower 'barriers to entry' to SMEs and self-builders. This addition to the London Plan is a potentially significant change to how planning works in London – though the codes will need to be worked to be worked up with communities not at them.
In September 2017, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn used his speech at the party conference to call for councils to hold ballots of tenants and leaseholders before pursuing estate regeneration; and also for people living on estates to be given a home on the same site and on the same terms. These are both things that Create Streets have advocated.
In September 2017, co-design, which Create Streets have consistently argued is preferable to mere consultation, was discussed by the Mayor's Design Advocates at their first meeting.
In September 2017, the Mayor's Draft Housing Manifesto was published. Much in it supports Create Streets' argument, particularly section 5.3 which seeks 'Community support for homebuilding.' The Draft Manifesto states that the Mayor will 'support Londoners to be involved in planning and delivering new homes,' and community-led development where 'the community is integrally involved in key decisions, such as what kinds of homes are built, where, and for whom,' as well as a 'Community-led Housing Hub' to empower residents. There was also a focus on 'quality' of new homes and 'well-designed' new homes and new neighbourhoods, and support for 'mid-rise residential' typologies.
In September 2017, Create Streets and our research were cited in a British House of Commons debate on New Housing Design by MPs from both sides of the house including the Conservative Neil Parish MP and Labour's Luke Pollard MP. Neil Parish MP also wrote widely about the need for good design in winning support for new homes, in Politics Home, the Mid Devon Gazette, and Conservative Home.
In August 2017, the inaugural report from London pressure-group, London YIMBY, Yes In My Back Yard: How To End The Housing Crisis, Boost The Economy And Win More Votes, cited our work and ideas frequently: 'Nicholas Boys Smith of Create Streets is right: making new buildings more attractive is a crucial part of increasing consensus for new housing'
In June 2017 the Housing & Finance Institute cited our work and argued that 'Government should champion a change in planning to immediately move away from high rise to low and mid-rise architectural solutions, such as those put forward over many year by global leading architects Farrells as well as Create Streets, Sir Mark Boleat and others'
In June 2017 Create Streets and our ideas were reflected in the manifestos of both the main parties for the British General Election. The Conservative manifesto stated their support for: 'high-quality, high-density housing like mansion blocks, mews houses and terraced streets.' The Labour Housing Manifesto promised to 'build the homes and neighbourhoods that local communities want.
In March 2017, Housing Minister Gavin Barwell made a speech echoing our points on the importance of good design and the politics of new housing.
In February 2017 the Government's Housing White Paper reflected much of our research, publications and policy suggestions into popular co-design – you can read our essay on the White Paper Eleven Pipers Piping… here.
In December 2016 the Government's Estate Regeneration Strategy reflected much of our research and advice – particularly in the Good Practice Guide which also cited our book, Heart in the Right Street. Our Director was one of the members of Lord Heseltine's panel.
Officials in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have recommended that plans lodged to demolish the Affinity Sutton Estate in Chelsea should be rejected. This was because they do not include enough replacement social and affordable housing, and the proposals are of insufficient high design quality and would not positively contribute to the surrounding townscape. Congratulations to the campaigners on the estate. We wrote about the estate previously, outlining how the proposed plans actually reduced the overall amount of housing on the site.
In November 2016, London's Deputy Mayor for Housing, James Murray, echoed one of our core arguments in an interview with the Evening Standard: "We need to decide what high-density accommodation will look like. At the moment we tend to think about towers but you can actually get very high density with six, eight, 10 storeys — like the terraces you see in Kensington."
In November 2016, Transport Minister John Hayes MP, made a prominent speech calling for more beauty in design and citing our 2014 research, What People Want, for the Prince's Foundation for Building Community that '84% of those asked want new buildings to reflect historic form, style and materials.'
On 10 July 2016 we were named as one of the 2016 New Radicals, one of the "50 radical-thinking individuals and organisations changing the UK for the better" by Nesta and The Observer.
On 27 April 2016 at at the Mayoral Assembly London Mayoral candidates signed up to London Citizens' Good Development Standard reflecting Create Streets principles of co-design.
On 8 April 2016 an op ed by Ed West in the Evening Standard cited and supported our research at length arguing for a more conventional streetscape and citing our survey for Save Oval where, as the article puts it: "92 per cent of 147 residents preferred "Kennington"-style Victorian architecture over "Vauxhall"-style tower blocks."
On 6 April 2016 the Evening Standard editorial wrote: "As Zac Goldsmith has pointed out, there also needs to be a focus on high-density, medium-rise housing in central London. London could accommodate far more people, as Paris does, by dint of building apartment blocks, like mansion blocks, which house large numbers of people without impinging on the skyline. How we build matters." We think that means they are supporting us!
In March 2016 Sadiq Khan and Zac Goldsmith launched their Manifesto and Housing Manifesto respectively.
Sadiq Khan has proposed intensifying estates with a mixture of 'in-fill' development and estate regeneration where 'there is resident support, based on full and transparent consultation, and that demolition is only permitted where it does not result in a loss of social housing or where all other options have been exhausted, with full rights for displaced tenants and a fair deal for leaseholders.' Amen to that.
We were delighted to see that Zac Goldsmith has really engaged with our work and the issues of direct planning, community consent and the need for rules and processes to change in order to deliver that.
Pointing out that 'there is a huge disconnect between what gets built and what most Londoners actually want', he has promised to 'work with government to reduce the nonsensical planning rules that make it harder to build the homes London loves', referred to the popularity of conventional streets and promised to 'help communities co-design development' – and speed up planning approvals for developers who follow these locally-led rules. It is great to see a politician profoundly taking on the importance of community consent, consultation and co-design. And it is really encouraging to see (we like to think) the influence of our work in these policies: 'As the organisation Create Streets has argued, the complex planning system in London has created ugly blocks designed by committee rather than the human-scale streets for which there is greater popular demand.'
On 17 February 2016 the Centre for Social Justice (chaired by member of Create Streets network John Moss) published Home Improvements, a Social Justice Approach to Housing Policy. In reflecting the importance of design and of co-design for estate regeneration, this picked up on much of our research and evidence.
On 9 February 2016 our director joined the Prime Minister's Estate Regeneration Advisory Panel chaired by Lord Heseltine to 'look at how the layout of estates can be best used to deliver more quality homes that people can buy and rent'. The panel met for the first time at the York Road Estate in Battersea.
On 5 February 2016 The Mayor's Design Advisory Group published their report, Growing London. Importantly, for the first time in a GLA document, this conceded that 'policies in the London Plan and associated Supplementary Planning Guidance' might have unfortunate unintended consequences on what we build including 'poor quality street frontage [and] the "poor door" phenomenon.' Much more to be done but a very welcome step in the right direction…(We gave evidence to the Advisory Group last year)
On 29 January 2016 GLA Planning Committee report Up or out: a false choice reflected our arguments on role of terraced streets, cited our work and even used one of our pictures!
On 26 January 2016 Lord O'Shaughnessy spoke in Housing and Planning Bill Debate: 'a trade-off between allowing more freedom to build homes and giving authorities more powers to ensure local design principles are met might be one way to deliver the homes we so desperately need …Residents are much more amenable to new homes if they conform to the aesthetic norms of the area.'
On 25 January 2016 London Citizens' Housing Manifesto 2016 called for "a decision-making steering group made up of local people affected by a development must be included to work alongside the developer." We were delighted to sit on the independent panel that fed into London Citizens' manifesto.
On 25 January 2016 the Barnet Labour Housing Commission chaired by Nicky Gavron ALM supported our policy to 'involve residents on regeneration estates in the co-design and planning of their new estate from the outset' and cited our research.
On 11 January 2016 Savills published their report to the Cabinet Office, Completing London's Streets to which Create Streets contributed urban design and policy analysis
On 10 January 2016 David Cameron announced the Government's plans to "announce that some of the country's most run-down housing estates will be replaced with attractive and safe homes" with an article in The Sunday Times. We were particularly pleased that he identified issues with 'pointless planning rules' preventing progress and the need for 'binding guarantees for tenants and homeowners so that they are protected.'
On 25 November 2015 the Government's Autumn Statement pledged to "regenerate more run-down estates."
On 23 November 2015 mayoral candidate, Zac Goldsmith MP, supported our argument for community-led regeneration on public sector land and estates and for "low-rise, high-density, street-based developments that people actually want to live in."
On 20 November 2015 the Direct Planning (Pilot) Bill received support from Labour and the cross-benches in the House of Lords and passed to Committee Stage. Thank you to Lord Lexden for his support and to the Government for offering to discuss next steps.
On 27 October 2015 Create Streets was delighted to be a partner organisation to the BIMBY (Beauty-in-my-back-yard) toolkit for local communities alongside the National Trust, the Local Government Association, Civic Voice and others and to speak at its launch. Read more about this project here.
On 8 October 2015 and alliance of architects and place-makers announced their support for the Direct Planning Bill we are promoting in House of Lords.
On 28 September 2015 mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith MP, supported our plans for community-led regeneration in London. He repeated this support in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference on 6 October 2015.
On 17 September 2015 our proposals at Mount Pleasant for the Mount Pleasant were supported by Labour's London mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan MP and shortlisted Conservative candidates Zac Goldsmith MP and Andrew Boff ALM.
On 17 September 2015 our research was cited in evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee for National Policy for the Built Environment.
On 17 September 2015 we gave evidence to the GLA Planning Committee on estate regeneration.
On 9 September 2015 Nick Hurd MP cited our research in a parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall.
We have attracted support for our ideas from a wide range of London mayoral candidates in hustings and debates.
On 3 June 2015, Lord Lexden introduced the Direct Planning (Pilot) Bill into the House of Lords. We have been working with on this Bill which is an attempt to give communities greater workable influence on the quality of what is built. Read more here
.In March 2015 Lord Adonis (Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and advisor on housing to Tessa Jowell) published City Villages with the IPPR which took on board some of our points and cited our research.
In March 2015 the Chair of the London Assembly Planning Committee, Nicky Gavron ALM, cited our work in a letter to the Mayor of London.
In December 2014 we were asked to join the Government's Design Panel alongside Sir Terry Farrell, Quinlan Terry, Roger Scruton and RIBA, RTPI, the Prince's Foundation for Building Communities and the Design Council.
In October 2014 Lord Lexden cited our research in a House of Lords debate kindly calling us 'highly regarded.'
In September 2014 the London Labour mayoral candidate, David Lammy, called for 'innovative ways of building high density but high quality housing in the form of Victorian-style terraces or low-rise blocks' and cited our analysis. (p.15).
In September and July 2014 our work and the issue of streets vs. blocks was discussed in the London Assembly by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson who agreed with some of our analysis on the impact of rules on built form. You can see the videos here.
In April 2014 the Government commissioned Savills to calculate the potential of our estate regeneration proposals.
In March 2014 the Budget followed our suggestion and created a £150m fund to help finance estate regeneration. The prospectus was published in June 2014. It follows many Create Streets principles as well as mentioning Create Streets by name (p.6).
In March 2014 we were cited in the Farrell Review into Architecture and the Built Environment (p.78) and gave evidence to the London Assembly Planning Committee on density and design in London.
In December 2013, the GLA funding prospectus for London's housing investment programme followed our suggestion and relaxed standard 3.2.5. It is no longer recommended: 'for buildings entered from communal circulation at the first, second or third floor where lifts are not provided, space should be identified within or adjacent to the circulation core for the future installation of a wheelchair accessible lift.'
The London Mayor's 2020 Vision echoed our point that "it is simply not the case that good quality high density housing must always involve tower blocks."


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The Global Dock and Yard Management System Market has been divided into type, application, and region.
On The Basis Of Type: , Transportation Management Systems (TMS) & Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
Dock and Yard Management System (Volume, Value and Sales Price) table defined for each geographic region defined.