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Scorsese preserves world's forgotten films through Criterion
Preston Barta // Features Editor
There's a reason why Martin Scorsese is such a celebrated filmmaker. It's not just because he has created some of the most iconic and acclaimed movies of all time like TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL and GOODFELLAS. It's also because of his awareness of other filmmakers' work and how he restores neglected films.
MARTIN SCORSESE'S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT NO. 2
Not rated, about 588 minutes.
Available Tuesday on Blu-ray and DVD through the Criterion Collection.
What started in 2007 as a leg of the Film Foundation has made its way into the Criterion Collection with MARTIN SCORSESE'S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT.
On Tuesday, the second volume of the collection — containing nine discs (both Blu-ray and DVD) and six titles — will release to those who are avid film collectors and appreciate a good lesson in culture through cinema.
You may ask, "Why would I want to watch these depressing movies with subtitles akin to the kind I fell asleep during history class?" I would argue it's a different time now. The world is changing, multiple movies are being cranked out each week and many profound works of art (like the ones in this collector's set) are being buried. The truth is you never know what kind of impact a film could have on you. If you keep watching the safe, easygoing blockbusters of today, how else are you going to find inspiration to create unique art of your own?
Olga Breno (Woman #1) in Mário Peixoto's 'LIMITE.' Courtesy The Criterion Collection.
The second volume gathers 1979's INSIANG (a Filipino film about a daughter who is raped by her mother's lover, but learns how to exact her revenge), 2000's MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (an experimental documentary that follows a film crew traveling across Thailand, asking people to contribute to a story in their own words), 1989's REVENGE (a Russian-spoken tale about a child raised in Korea to avenge the death of his father's first child), 1931's LIMITE (a black-and-white silent film that focuses on three lost souls who sail aimlessly while reflecting on their past), 1966's LAW OF THE BORDER (a black-and-white Turkish-spoken narrative that centers on an impoverished man trying to keep his ailing son alive by sneaking a herd of sheep across the border) and, finally, 1987's TAIPEI STORY (a Taiwanese film about people being stuck in the past and struggling to find hope of a promising future).
Each of the restored films looks and sounds as good as they ever will, considering they were filmed some time ago or under a limited budget. Not every film is something you'll find yourself revisiting; however, each title will foster a dialogue and encourage movie lovers to seek out more hidden gems such as these.
Extras: The dual-format Criterion release includes introductions to the films by WORLD CINEMA PROJECT founder Scorsese, interviews with historians and filmmakers, a restored digital soundtrack of LIMITE and a booklet featuring a series of essays.
All Special Features:
2K, 3K, or 4K digital restorations of all six films, presented courtesy of the World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural or 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks on the Blu-rays
Remastered digital soundtrack for LIMITE, created from archival recordings
New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
New interview programs featuring film historian Pierre Rissient (on INSIANG), director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (on MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON), director Ermek Shinarbaev
(on REVENGE), filmmaker Walter Salles (on LIMITE), film producer Mevlüt Akkaya (on LAW OF THE BORDER), and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edmond Wong in conversation (on TAIPEI STORY, which Hou cowrote and acted in)
Updated English subtitle translations
Three Blu-rays and six DVDs, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an introduction and essays on the films by Phillip Lopate, Dennis Lim, Kent Jones, Fábio Andrade, Bilge Ebiri, and Andrew Chan
Win a Copy of 'GET OUT' on Blu-ray!
Criterion's 'GHOST WORLD' release is the boo diggity
Preston Barta
Hello, there! My name is Preston Barta, and I am the features editor of Fresh Fiction and senior film critic at the Denton Record-Chronicle. My cinematic love story began where I was born: off planet on the isolated desert world of the Jakku system. It's there I passed the time scavenging for loose parts with my good friend Rey. One day I found an old film projector and a dusty reel of the 1975 film JAWS. It rocked my world so much that I left my kinfolk in the rearview (I so miss their morning cups of green milk) to pursue my dreams of writing about film. It wasn't long until I met two gents who said they would give me a lift. I can't recall their names, but one was an older man who liked to point a lot and the other was a tall, hairy fella. They got me as far as one of Jupiter's moons where we crossed paths with the U.S.S. Enterprise. Some pointy-eared bastard said I was clear to come aboard. He saw that I was clutching my beloved shark movie and invited me to the "moving pictures room" where he was screening the 1993 film JURASSIC PARK to his crew. He said my life would be much more prosperous if I were familiar with more work by the god named Steven Spielberg. From there, my love for cinema blossomed. Once we reached planet Earth, everything changed. I found the small town of Denton, TX, and was welcomed into the Barta family. They showed me the writings of local film critic Boo Allen. He became my hero and caused me to chase a degree in film and journalism. After my studies at graduate of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I met some film critics who showed me the ropes and got me into my first press screening: 2011's THE GREEN LANTERN. Don't worry; I recovered just fine. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was only four years away.


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A glance cast at the religious literature of the last decade will immediately reveal the emphasis laid on freedom of conscience. Never before have men gained such an unshakeable conviction that any form of coercion in the religious domain runs counter to the dignity of the human person. No doubt, this rests on a profound insight: man must freely assent to truth, and any pressure put on him not only is essentially opposed to his dignity but also defeats its own purpose. Indeed, a person forced to accept certain beliefs will act as if he actually endorsed them while, in fact, he will reject them in his innermost heart. This insight into the evil of religious coercion could be hailed as authentic progress if, alas, it were not gained at the cost of another truth which is just as important: man's duty to seek and love truth and to accept it fully and unconditionally as soon as it is presented to him. The history of philosophy offers abundant illustrations of the fact that a new or deeper awareness of a truth often goes hand in hand with a weakened perception of another truth—its concomitant. And yet, these two truths are so intimately interconnected that they can be validly apprehended only when perceived simultaneously.
Man's right to freedom of conscience is in proper focus only if man's duty to submit to truth is grasped with it.
In the past, the centrality of truth in religion was so much in the foreground of people's consciousness that it often led them to deplorable abuses, such as forcing men's religious conversions. Contrary as these practices were to the official teaching of the Church, they nevertheless crept into the mentality of some members of the Church's hierarchy. Granted that some of them may have been well-intentioned and were aiming at the good of those who were pushed into the Church, the fact remains that these practices were deplorable and must be severely censured.
They led—and inevitably so—to sham conversions, the effects of which were tragic, not only for the victims, living in duplicity, but also for the very religion they joined, weakened by the presence of purely nominal members.
But our concern lies in showing that in times past the crucial importance of truth in religious matters and the awareness that all should accept it was isolated from its concomitant: truth must be freely perceived and accepted; when truth is forced upon an individual, it is inevitably out of focus for the very person upon whom it is pressed.
The opposite mistake is made today: such emphasis is now put on man's dignity and his freedom that many men lose sight of the fact that this dignity precisely consists in man's capacity of freely submitting to truth, and not in man's doubtful privilege of making up his own truth. The very meaning of human dignity is perverted as soon as it is severed from man's basic orientation toward truth, and man's freedom is stripped of its authentic meaning when cut off from man's responsibility of seeking truth—and of submitting to it when found.
In fact, man cannot sincerely seek and love truth if he is unwilling to recognize and accept it gratefully when it is offered to him. No man can call himself a seeker after truth if he is so engrossed by the process of seeking that he is no longer interested in finding truth.
Just as in philosophy there are self-evident truths which impose themselves on the human mind; in religion, there is one absolute, indisputable source of truth: God's revelation. In these privileged cases, man is no longer in the position of seeking truth; he is called upon to receive it, accept it, and embrace it.
Moreover, true as it is that no man should be permitted to compel another to accept a truth, we should not forget that every single truth, however modest its content may be, speaks authoritatively to man with the awesome greatness of the voice of Being. Any apprehension of a truth is necessarily linked to the consciousness that it is not up to man to accept or reject it, but that he should accept it, whatever it is.
Granted that man has the doubtful privilege of rejecting truth, this possibility, far from testifying to man's freedom, points to the fact that he has become a slave of his pride.
The confusion between human coercion and the authoritative voice of truth itself is widespread, but the rejection of the former is justified only to the extent that the validity of the latter is fully acknowledged; for truth does dictate and should dictate what it is.
St. Augustine expresses this in saying, "This is our liberty, when we are subordinate to the truth" (On Free Will).
One wonders if the clamoring for freedom of conscience today is not, in fact, a cover used to conceal an attack on the authority of truth itself, and more particularly on religious truth as proclaimed and taught by the Divine magisterium of the Church.
The contemporary failure to perceive the "whole round of truth" explains why we can hear people gloat over the fact that "man is now free to worship as he pleases," implying thereby that the act of worship is to be governed not by the awesome authority of God, but rather the arbitrary will and mood of the individual.
In fact, the more a person perceives that coercion in the religious sphere must be condemned, the more should he understand the responsibility resting on his shoulders: to submit to truth.
Freedom implies responsibility. And yet, the way freedom of conscience is presented today seems to refer to freedom from any type of responsibility, which is a full endorsement of irresponsibility.

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[Music] Donny Hathaway (1945-1979)
A tribute and exploration into the life and career of the late, great Donny Hathaway, one of the most important and poignant voices in soul music history with a truly timeless musical oeuvre.
Donny Hathaway was a singer, songwriter, arranger and pianist whose sound was most often forged from a sensual blend of traditional jazz, gospel and soul music with strong active links to the sacred African-American traditions that inspired them. His legendary recordings fused and weaved a moving mixture of soul, gospel, R'n'B, Jazz and pop influences.
A prolific master of soul, musically and spiritually, Donny Hathaway's career would see him work alongside the likes of Curtis Mayfield, Roberta Flack, Minnie Riperton, the Staple Singers and Aretha Franklin. His solo work is considered as foundational American soul music, influencing the likes of D'angelo, Common, Lauryn Hill and George Benson. David Ritz quotes Stevie Wonder as exclaiming: "When Donny sings any song, he owns it."
Despite his undeniable influence and immense levels of praise from a great deal of musical legends, his timeless catalog of work is often left out and overshadowed by popular music historians. Amy Winehouse once stated that Donny Hathaway was her favourite musician of all time, and she herself attempted to capture something of Donny's legacy in her hit Rehab, singing...
'Cause there's nothing / there's nothing you can teach me / That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway…'
These lyrics perhaps allude to Amy's difficult time at the BRIT school, her realisation that she was one of a very few musicians who would continue Donny's soulful musical legacy and the ensuing loneliness / rejection of normatively such an understanding can bring a young artist.
It speaks to the kind of essence that Donny was known for embodying throughout his intense and often rather troubled life. A universal empathy and joy, marred by the conditions of society and pushed to the brink by the mental instability that deep emotional perception often pertains to.
Born in 1945, Chicago, Illinois, Donny would begin vocal and piano training at the age of 3, his grandmother ensuring that he became an essential part of the local church's gospel choir. He became something of a child prodigy and by his late teens his piano chops won him a prestigious scholarship to Howard University in Washington DC. Here, he would meet his future wife Eulalah Hathaway, along with future musical partner Roberta Flack. However, Donny would ultimately never finish his degree; shortly before graduating, the music industry was already calling with offers he could not refuse…
By this time, the late sixties, Donny began working as a session musician, songwriter and producer for Curtis Mayfield's label Curtom records. Here he would arrange commercial soul hits like The Beginning of My End (for The Unifics) and quickly go onto work for the likes of The Staple Singers, The Impressions and Curtis Mayfield himself. In 69' he released his first single 'I Thank You Baby,' a duet with singer June Conquest. Soul strings and brass accompany a duo of emphatic vocals complementing each other in a classic soul duet style, as they chorus 'you really got a hold me, I thank ya baby…'
In '68 Donny married his wife Eulalah and they moved to Chicago, where Donny's work for Curtom records was based. Their circle of friends included Ramsey Lewis, Maurice White (of Earth, Wind & Fire), and Minnie Riperton. At home, they listened to gospel, classical, and jazz, and wrote countless commercial jingles together. Donny himself was reportedly influenced by soul legends such as James Brown, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, along with Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin amongst a host of other musical greats.
In late 1969, Donny would sign to Atco records (then a division of Atlantic records) after being spotted by King Curtis at a trade convention. He soon released his first single of commercial and critical acclaim, The Ghetto, Co-written by Leroy Hutson, (soon to be lead singer of the Impressions). The track features Hathaway playing a Wurlitzer electric piano and singing chants, ad libbing over lengthy, jazzy instrumentals underpinned by the distinctively Afro-Cuban beat of Congas. His wife Eulalah Hathway accompanies him on backing vocals. Opening with a deep bassline on the piano, it sweeps into Hathaway's first falsetto, before soul claps and fragments of speech kick in: "Leave her alone, man," someone says. Someone else says, "Pass the joint.", as the groove builds.
With a patiently soulful intensity the song vividly denies the two-dimensional image of the poverty stricken inner city that was pushed by American academics in the wake of urban riots in the sixties. Instead it hints that the ghetto was not at all what they told you, but rather a place of intricate emotion, unsung truths and unwritten rules. More representative of humanity than any million dollar mansion or penthouse high-rise could ever be...
The Ghetto, Pt 1 would feature on Donny's critically acclaimed debut LP, Everything is Everything (July, 1970). This nine track album was the start of Donny's legacy and included other socially conscious tracks like 'Tryin Times' and a lilting rendition of Nina Simone's To Be Young, Black and Gifted'...
His eponymous second studio album, Donny Hathaway (1971) consisted mainly of covers of contemporary pop, gospel, soul and jazz tunes. It features Donny's take on Leon Russell's 'A Song For You,' which is a prime example of a cover which goes so far as to surpass the original recording.
While studying at Howard University, Donny came into contact with Roberta Flack. She would become a lifelong collaborator. The third studio album from Donny saw the two record a number of duets, including the hits 'You've got a friend' and 'Where is the Love.' Flack wrote in an email "Donny was a tremendous talent… not only a singer, but an arranger, composer, conductor and teacher. His vocal quality was complex. In the studio, Donny and I had an artistic pairing unlike any other for me, before or since."
Roberta Flack would go on to have her own highly successful solo career, releasing a number of hits albums including her undeniable classic FIRST TAKE, featuring 'Compared To What,' 'The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face', 'Killing Me Softly.' and a rendition of Donny's Hathaway's Trying Times.
Hathaway's most influential recording was the '72 album Live, which was recorded at two concerts: side one at the Troubadour in Hollywood and side two at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. It includes personal favourite 'Little Ghetto Boy,' a searing exploration of a young man growing up surrounded by the dark side of the ghetto and the difficult choices he faces. Also featured is the beautiful 'You've got a Friend' along with covers of the classic Marvin Gaye song 'What's going on' and John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy.' Check out this chilling and powerful rendition of 'We're Still Friends'...
Throughout his life Donny suffered with severe bouts of depression and melancholia, it eventually became clear that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. Strong daily doses of medication were used in attempts to control his mental illness, however by the seventies his mental instability was wreaking havoc upon his personal life and repeatedly saw him hospitalized. The effects of this would drive a wedge between Donny and Roberta Flack's friendship and musical partnership and they would not reconcile until just before Donny's death.
His final studio album, Extension of a Man (1973) explored an eclectic range of styles, extending beyond his soul and gospel roots to include elements of Latin jazz, disco and honky-tonk. It included the classics 'Love, Love, Love' and 'Someday We'll All Be Free.' The extended symphonic styled instrumental piece 'I love the Lord, He heard my Cry' briefly explores Donny's classical influences. An incredible final album from the maestro.
On January 13th 1979, fellow musicians reported that Donny was behaving irrationally and acting extremely paranoid causing recording to be cancelled for the day. According to James Mtume, Hathaway said that white people were trying to kill him and had connected his brain to a machine, for the purpose of stealing his music and his sound. Hours later, Donny Hathaway was tragically found dead on the sidewalk, below the window of his 15th story room at a hotel in New York City. His death was ruled a suicide. Despite his repeated omission by musical historians, Donny deserves a place among the fallen greats, Joplin, Hendrix, Drake, Redding and much later his own spiritual student, Amy Winehouse.
Most people who had the chance to see Donny live will tell you that his true home as an artist was not the studio but the stage. Writer David Ritz stated "The live Donny was the most moving Donny, the most unadorned and direct Donny.' A retrospective book from Bloomsbury (Donny Hathaway Live, by Emily J Lordi) offers a unique insight into his life and work:
"This is the image of someone with a deep well of almost ancestral feeling; someone deeply vulnerable to love, struggle and musical beauty; someone who trusted himself as a musician; and someone who can seem, in retrospect, to have sensed that he wouldn't have much time to do his best work with and for his fans."
Donny Hathaway was driven by a kind of desire for musical freedom that allowed him to fuse his ideas and emotional perception in the lived moment, mesmerizing live audiences and thus making each performance a new act of artistic creation in itself. Just as he was able to view and explore the intricacies of human nature...
"When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know…" - Donny Hathaway
Here is a brief compilation of some of his other songs, please enjoy at your leisure until your heart's content ~ as Donny no doubt would have wished:
[Music/Science] The Kosmos of Isao Tomita (1932-2016)


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The Saint Mary's Columbarium and Memorial Garden is a special place set aside for the respectful interment of the cremated remains of deceased loved ones. It was established in 1957 and is situated immediately behind the church on the northern side. There is a boundary wall of niches in addition to a tranquil memorial garden. There is always visitor access available to the columbarium. People are also welcome to enter the church for quiet reflection and prayer when the church is open.


Dr. Husseina Dinani will present a paper entitled, "Gendered Migrant Labour: Serial Monogamy and the Political Economy of Cash Crops and Wage Labour in post-WWII Southern Tanganyika," on February 8, 2018 at the Harriet Tubman Institute from 2:30 – 4:00.
My presentation examines how the expansion and intensification of a male dominated cash economy profoundly altered the sexual division of labor within households, strained marital unions, and created new insecurities for rural residents in Lindi district, (Lindi region, located in the southeast of Tanganyika) from the 1940s and onwards. I argue that the emergence of a lopsided gendered political economy that enabled men to engage in different types of work, but confined women to the household economy, resulted in men and women having different ideas about marriage, work and the quality of life they wanted; in the case of women, they increasingly approached marriage as a provisional resource. Taking advantage of the changing nature of conjugal relations and household economies, women pursued serial monogamy to enhance their security and craft unions that reflected their understandings of marriage.
Women's perennial mobility— travelling across and beyond the southern region to repeatedly re-create their lives in different (marital and kin's) households—illuminates their inventiveness to navigate a gendered political economy that created profound instability in their daily lives and marginalized their productive capabilities to the household economy. Additionally, women's itinerancy challenges prevalent understandings of mobility being solely a feature of wage labor economies and urbanization, or as being hinged on borders. In fact, one could argue that women's engagement in serial monogamy as a life strategy is a form of gendered migrant labor.
Dr. Husseina Dinani is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at University of Toronto Scarborough. She received her PhD from Emory University. She is currently completing a book manuscript–Women of Lindi: Gender, Nation-building and Resourcefulness in Tanzania (1945-1985)–which is a history of the early African postcolony from the perspective of rural women in Lindi district, Tanzania. She has published on this topic in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
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Chair of the Political Science Department at American Jewish University, and previously Director for Foreign Policy at the Israel National Security Council, Dr. Morag will speak about terrorism and Israel's counter-terrorism strategies, as well as the nature of the Iranian threat, placing Israel's options in both a practical and moral context.
Author of the award-winning "The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land", Donna Rosenthal's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Atlantic and The Jerusalem Post. A former Israel TV producer and Israel radio reporter, she is frequently interviewed on tv and radio about Israel, from CNN to ABC to NPR, and in a Publishers Weekly national survey placed in the Top Ten most popular speakers on Israel.
CNN has its perspectives. Al Jazeera very different ones. BBC has its versions. The New York Times theirs… but how does Israel look to Israelis?
Nicholas Goldberg Editor of the Op-Ed page for the Los Angeles Times since 2003, Nick Goldberg previously served as Middle East bureau chief for Newsday. From 1995 to 1998 Mr. Goldberg lived in Jerusalem, covering the Israeli-Palestinian peace process; the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; presidential elections in Iran; arms monitoring in Iraq; war in Lebanon and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia.
USA Executive Director of HonestReporting, an organization that monitors the media and exposes cases of bias against Israel so as to promote factual, impartial and fair reporting. Since 2000, HonestReporting has prompted hundreds of retractions, revisions and apologies from major news organizations such as CNN, Reuters and the Times of London.
Roz Rothstein is CEO and an original founder of StandWithUs, an organization born during the 2000 Intifada with the objective of challenging misinformation about Israel through education.
Active for many years in Israeli security, Yoram Doctori is CEO of Defender Security and Consulting, Inc.


SIn the last month the BIFOCAlps partners worked to finalize the work package WP3 and to deliver the remaining deliverables. The work package WP3 aims to provide a reference system to track effective improvements after transfer and adoption of enabling FoF-practices along the manufacturing value-chain.
According to the specific objectives, a framework was developed in the initial stage of the work package combining a qualitative maturity assessment with quantitative indicators on various levels, enabling an impact evaluation beyond financial figures. Applied continuously in companies, this impact indicator system offers a strategical management tool to support the path towards the factory of the future.
At the moment, the project partners are closely working together on the last work package WP4. WP4 aims at stimulating adoption and transfer of FoF practices and technologies among main innovation actors based on the results of previous thematic work packages. Main objectives lie in analysing national strategies and support programmes and to sensitize public authorities to existing challenges and critical fields of action in order to succeed the path towards FoF. In the beginning of WP4, each project partner was involved in identifying and presenting 3 to 4 existing programme/initiatives on country level. Altogether, 17 records from 5 countries were gathered and analysed.
The analysis of these initiatives revealed a number of critical insights. One of the crucial challenges related to Industry 4.0 and FoF is currently related to HRM aspects. Most programmes address the technological needs (e.g. Wireless communication, Automatization, ICT Security, Network Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Sensors etc.), but equally important are organisational needs (e.g. Risk management, Process/Production/Quality management, Training system etc.) as well as knowledge level needs (e.g. Competencies to develop FoF, Knowledge/networking ability, Understanding of a new transformation etc.). The matter is closely related to fruitful cooperation with the educational system, where additional, well-prepared and focused training of employees is essential. In addition, University programmes represent a crucial source of appropriate training. Therefore, Universities should be more flexible and responsive to needs of the industry.
Within the discussion in round table 1, the need to not only evaluate national educational programmes, but also revolutionise them was stressed. Form the kindergarten to university level. Also, a change of professors is a must.
The importance of user friendly (design management, anthropologists mixed teams…) was stressed additionally - as a balance to engineering aspects of R&D. Therefore, users have to be part of the R&D process. It is important, that representatives form ministry, companies and universities agree on this topic.
Future tools represent a big opportunity for companies. The participants highlighted, that only 5% of companies are interested in such technologies. They also stressed the difference between information and data. Companies often collect data but do not change them into information useful for business. There was a lot of interest and additional questions on ECQA in round table 2.
The representative of the Ministry of Slovenia, Ms. Tina Ušaj also asked the public (audience) what we expect from the Ministry. The Slovenian initiative of introducing topics of creativity and innovation into educational system was given. With the remark, that all the materials, studies, concept are already prepared according to national requirements. This suggestion was in line with the conference conclusions, that FoF competencies (e.g. critical thinking, creativity, innovation etc.) should be introduced in the educational system.
France: the French project partners ViaMéca and Grenoble INP organized the first national training workshop "How to make FoF-oriented support programs for SMEs more efficient in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region?". The event took place in Saint-Etienne on the 19th of June, 2018. The workshop successfully achieved its objective, aiming at sensitizing national policy makers to BIFOCAlps-outputs, identified gaps and strategical fields of action in order to support the path towards FoF.
Italy: the Italian project partners CNR, Polo Pn Centre and DPIA organized the national training workshop in collaboration with the SMARTSPACE project in Milan on the 29th of June.
The workshop was an useful opportunity to discuss with policy makers and industry representatives on supporting initiatives for the FoF, existing gaps and industry needs still to overcome, and arose fruitful exchanges among participants. In the event participated both delegates from the Innovation General Directorates of Lombardy and FVG regions.
The Austrian, German and Slovenian Policy Events will be announced soon.
The ICE/IEEE-conference, which took place in Stuttgart from 17.-20.5.2018, is a scientific conference, which deals with the topics "engineering", "technology" and "entrepreneurship". Within three days, contributions from all over the world were presented in Stuttgart. Combined with keynotes from outstanding speakers the conference provides its guest the state of the art in these key topics.
Within the conference, the BIFOCAlps project chaired a workshop session on the third day, which had a practical agenda and was addressed to companies. The topic of BIFOCAlps' workshop was "Simulating, Testing, Modeling – using a digital twin in manufacturing industries". The keynote in this workshop was held by Mathias Stach, CEO of ASCon Systems, a young and innovative company from Stuttgart providing solutions for digital twins. After the keynote, Jürgen Jähnert, CEO of bwcon GmbH held an expert interview with Mathias Stach to discuss and deepen further questions. In addition, the audience was invited to discuss with Mr. Stach and Mr. Jähnert what they did eagerly.
Besides the workshop, BIFOCAlps project results were also present in some paper sessions. In total. three project partners had the chance to introduce the conference-participants a to their specific outputs of the BIFOCAlps project.
During the Automatica Exhibition, ITALCAM in cooperation with the Cluster Mechatronik & Automation and CRIT (Center for research and analysis of technical and scientific information) organized several B2B meetings between Italian and German companies. Automatica is the annual trade fair for automation and robotics which takes place in Munich attracting every year thousands of visitors.
On the 21st of June at the M&A collective Cluster the pitching round was introduced by the presentations of M&A Cluster Project Manager Alexander Schäferling and of ITALCAM Project Manager Martina Agosti. They both emphasized the fundamental role of SMEs in the innovation process of the Alpine space. In this regard, Martina Agosti presented the European projects BIFOCAlps (Interreg Alpine Space), whose main objective is to foster the technological development of SMEs and the cooperation among them.
During the week of innovative regions in Europe 2018 (WIRE2018), which took place in Innsbruck (4-6.7.2018), the BIFOCAlps-project was presented by Quentin Courbon (Viameca) in the workshop "Cooperation between regional innovation ecosystems: inspiration from Alpine Regions".
This workshop focused on how to use EU policies and instruments in a coordinated manner, across governance levels, to support transformation towards resilient, inclusive and sustainable growth at territorial level. Practical examples on regional innovation ecosystems from Alpine Regions were showcased to highlight the importance of interregional cooperation and to make proposals for further synergy and better coordination between the different programmes and instruments.
We are delighted to announce you that the BIFOCAlps' Final Event will be organized on the 18th September 2018 in Dornbirn / Austria.
In this final event, the project partners will recap the BIFOCAlps project and provide solutions to successfully innovate towards a smart Factory of the Future.
We are looking forward to welcome you and to share and discuss project results and outcomes with you!


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Goodbye "Spring Ahead, Fall Back?"
I like the fact that it gets dark really early now. I find the months that it stays light and warm until 8:30 p.m. depressing. Does that make me weird? Maybe I'm weird.
Apparently there are residents of my state of Massachusetts who hold the opposite view. They want to get rid of Daylight Saving Time for good. A state commission wants to have Massachusetts join the Atlantic time zone, which means the state would be an hour ahead of the Eastern time zone. Farmers say this would help them, but at the same time, it would mess up things like shopping and TV-show watching. Also, it would be weird if not impossible for Massachusetts to do it alone, with the other New England states and New York staying on Eastern time.
One of the other reasons the commission wants to change the time is to attract millennials to Massachusetts, and supposedly millennials hate the dark and cold weather.
Yes, that reason is exactly as stupid as it sounds.
Rockwell Paintings Can Be Sold After All
A judge has ruled that a museum can sell iconic Norman Rockwell paintings, against the wishes of Rockwell's family.
Rockwell had donated the two works, including his famous Shuffleton's Barbershop painting, to the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The museum says that they are having financial troubles and want to sell the two paintings to raise money. They're looking to get around $50 million.
The Rockwell family, including Rockwell's grandson Tom, say that Rockwell donated the two paintings to the museum so the public could continue to see them forever. The family sued to stop the sale, but in a 25-page decision, Judge John Agostini ruled in favor of the museum.
YOU Get an Electric Toothbrush, and YOU Get an Electric Toothbrush!
It's November, and that means Oprah Winfrey has once again chosen her Favorite Things, those must-have items for Christmas. For the past few years she has teamed up with Amazon, which helpfully provides links to each of the items Oprah puts on her list. This year, Oprah appears at Amazon in a flowing blue–and-white dress, delivering beautifully wrapped gifts with the help of her sled dogs.
The items range in price from under $50 (notepads, hand cream, and jammies) to a lot more than that (a Samsung TV in a picture frame). In between, you'll find books, dog biscuits, a pizza oven, an electric toothbrush, puzzles, even a Greenberg smoked turkey.
You'll also find something called "Smooshpants." I don't know what Smooshpants are.
If It's Sunday, It's Meet the Press
Meet the Press is the longest-running TV show in history, having debuted on November 6, 1947 (CBS Evening News is second, having started six months later). NBC has set up a special web page that includes a history of the show as well as several clips from its most important interviews. The show's first moderator was a pioneering woman named Martha Rountree, and one of the early panelists was Edgar Allen Poe.
No, not that Edgar Allan Poe, this Edgar Allen Poe. The show's not that old.
The Return of Harold the Baseball Player
Something else celebrating 70 years is the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street, which just so happens to be my second-favorite film of all time, after It's a Wonderful Life. Miracle is set at Macy's department store and a major part of the plot revolves around the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. One of the parade balloons seen in the film, Harold the Baseball Player, is making a comeback in this year's parade. To honor his appearance in the film, Harold is being repainted black and white so he looks like he did in the black–and-white film.
You can watch the parade on NBC Thanksgiving morning (November 23) at 9 a.m. To really celebrate the 70th anniversary of Miracle on 34th Street and Harold, you should turn off the color on your television.
RIP John Hillerman
John Hillerman is probably best known for his role as Jonathan Higgins, the ex–British military man who took care of the Robin Masters estate on Magnum, P.I. Hillerman also had regular roles on Valerie, One Day at a Time, and The Betty White Show and appeared in movies like Blazing Saddles, The Last Picture Show, Chinatown, and Paper Moon. He died yesterday at the age of 84.
And no, for the last time, there's no way Higgins could really be Robin Masters.
Will Rogers Born (November 4, 1879)
The death of the American humorist, in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska, paved the way for another writer to take over his weekly syndicated column, even if she didn't particularly like to write.
"You Won't Have Nixon to Kick Around" Speech (November 7, 1962)
This was supposedly Richard Nixon's last press conference. He was angry at the media after losing the 1962 California gubernatorial race to Pat Brown. But if you recall, we did indeed hear from Nixon again.
This Week in Saturday Evening Post History: Cafeteria Dieter (November 10, 1956)
Cafeteria Dieter
Sometimes I like to look at a Post cover without knowing the title, to see if I can figure out what the cover is supposed to be about. I knew the title of this Constantin Alájalov cover, but if I hadn't, I could have guessed "Nosy Lady" or "Gossip Girls" or maybe "Older Lady Wishes She Could Eat Like All of These Younger Girls, Oh My God There's Even Dessert on the Chair." That last one isn't far off from the actual title.
The day is officially tomorrow, November 11, but because that's a Saturday, it is observed nationally today (if Veterans Day falls on a Sunday, it is observed on Monday). Here's a quick history of the day, and here's a piece by Post Archive Director Jeff Nilsson on America's early efforts to honor our veterans.
Monday Is National Indian Pudding Day
This is a New England favorite I don't think I've had in three decades. It's comfort food in a bowl, with its warm molasses, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Here's a classic recipe from Yankee magazine, another New England favorite. Takes about two hours or so.
It's often served with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, but you can probably skip that if you're a dieter, cafeteria or otherwise.
Next Week's Holidays and Events
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day (November 15)
I truly hope that you don't clean out your refrigerator only once a year, but if that's the case, the week before Thanksgiving is probably a good time to do it.
National Fast Food Day (November 16)
I know several people who celebrate National Fast Food Day every day. They call it "breakfast" or "lunch."
A Year in Review: The Top 10 Stories of 2012
It's been a great year for the Post, editorially speaking. We've covered a broad range of issues, from hot-button political topics like the wealth gap and social security to unique finds in our archives on mysterious crimes, the Titanic, and Rockwell paintings.
Amidst the trove of content we've provided our readers in the last 12 months, 10 stories had more traffic on our website and social media than all the rest. Here are the Post's top stories of 2012.
The Cholesterol Conundrum
Statin drugs benefit some people immensely but are taken by millions more. If you're at low risk for heart disease, taking drugs to lower your cholesterol may be doing you no good. Is it time we took a second look at statins?
Sharon Begley examines the pros and cons of the statin pill push, and finds that many doctors are staunchly against their widespread use.
The Boy in the Box: Still Unsolved after 55 Years
Despite a half-century of inquiry, the circumstances surrounding the death of an 8-year-old boy are still a mystery. What makes this case even more bizarre is that this boy, by all accounts, never existed. To this day his name, birthplace, and even his lineage are unknown.
Classic Covers: Rockwell Kids of the '40s
Thinking of taking the plunge? That's exactly why director Steven Spielberg keeps this Rockwell painting in his office.
Historian and archivist Diana Denny divulges interesting facts about the models, the climate of the era, and Rockwell himself.
From our Archives: How You Can Survive an A-Bomb Blast
This 1950 article claims that, in the event of an atomic bomb, "there are protective measures you can take—and proof that the blast is not always so fatal and frightful as you think."
The Organic Food Paradox
As consumers increasingly demand organic produce, and as massive industrial farms rise to meet their needs, will it spell the end of the family-run, lovingly tended, earth-friendly farm?
Barry Yeoman analyzes the challenges and pitfalls grocers and small organic farms alike face in the wake of the growing demand for healthier foods.
Rockwell: The War Years
In honor of Memorial Day, we gathered some of Norman Rockwell's most iconic art from both world wars.
The Inevitable Tragedy of the Titanic
One hundred years after the Titanic sank, we explore the Post's 1912 editorial on the great tragedy. Were the British and American governments to blame for the 1,500 deaths? Our coverage explored the oversights, shortcomings, and outrage in the wake of the ocean liner's horrific end.
You've heard the rumors. Here are the facts. The Post examines the timeline of social security from its advent, parsing why it was started, what it aimed to do, how it helped Americans, and why there's such a fuss about it in the current political climate.
America's Painful Divide
The country is polarized and embattled to the point of dysfunction. What will it take to bring us back together?
A self-described "one-time liberal atheist," Jonathan Haidt discusses the differences between conservative and liberal worldviews, how he came to understand the other side, and asks whether or not this country can find a tolerant middle ground.
America's Grand Hotels
Betsa Marsh took Post readers to the somewhat forgotten land of stately, grand hotels, where unlike today's varieties, the opulence comes from the resort's history and refined elegance, not its glitz and glamour. To stay at any of these lodgings is to venture back to another, more genteel time.
Classic Covers: Rockwell Behind The Canvas
You know these classic Rockwell paintings, but do you know the details behind them?
The Gossips—March 6, 1948
The Gossips by Norman Rockwell. March 6, 1948.
It seems Rockwell had a neighbor who started a disagreeable rumor about him. What can one do about a nasty gossip? Well, if you are a famous illustrator, you can paint a cover about it.
It started with just a couple of people, then it just grew, leaving Rockwell in need of more models. The result, said the editors, is that we see "almost the entire adult population of Arlington, Vermont." As he worked on the project, the artist worried that his friends and neighbors might be offended, so he included his wife and himself. Mary Rockwell is second and third in the third row, spreading the rumor via rotary phone. In the gray felt hat in the bottom row is, of course, the artist himself (you can click on the image for a close-up). You'll notice the lady at the end is the one at the beginning who started the rumor, and our friend Rockwell appears to be giving her a piece of his mind. Apparently, the neighbor who started the rumor in real life never spoke to Rockwell again. I have a feeling it was no great loss. The lesson here is: don't anger someone whose Saturday Evening Post covers are viewed by millions.
No Swimming—June 4, 1921
No SwimmingNorman RockwellJune 4, 1921© SEPS.
These boys sure are hightailing it out of there! Even the dog is hauling tail (okay, sorry). Rockwell expert Robert Berridge wrote about this cover in a recent edition of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. "Franklin Lischke—the freckle-faced lad in the middle," writes Berridge, was so taken with Rockwell's work, he ended up studying art himself, becoming a successful commercial artist.
The question remained for decades: what were the boys running from? "Could it have been the pond owner," Berridge asked, "an irritated bull, or a group of passing girls?" The model himself told Berridge. Answer at the end of this piece…
The Runaway—September 20, 1958
The RunawayNorman RockwellSeptember 20, 1958
"The Runaway" is one of everyone's favorite Rockwell covers. A neighbor of Rockwell's, Richard Clemens, just happened to be a Massachusetts State Trooper and gladly posed for the artist, along with young Eddie Lock. After posing for this now iconic cover in 1958, Richard and Eddie didn't see each other again until 1971 when they happened to find themselves sitting next to each other in an evening class (in logic) at a community college.
Besides the touching contrast between the large man and the little boy, there is a myriad of details Rockwell meticulously included: The old-time radio, the pies in the case, the coffee starting to perk and just turning brown, for example. The artist's "mania for detail" extends to the stools: they were "spring-loaded," causing the police officer's seat to sink lower than boy's. Even the chrome on the stools reflects the front of the diner.
By the way, the answer to the question of the running boys: why were they desperately trying to flee? They weren't fearing the land owner or trying to hide their bare bottoms from an unexpected visit by girls; they were fleeing a swarm of bees! Thank you, Robert Berridge, for answering that long-standing question!
Norman Rockwell: America's Artist
Norman Rockwell didn't create his celebrated images using only brush and paint. They often took shape first as scenes that Rockwell literally acted out, not only for his editors at the Post, but his real-life models, too. "It was strenuous," he once explained, "but I felt it was the best way to get across my meaning." And so he would enthusiastically play out his visions and ideas, a one-man show packed with just the right expressions, giving enough details of each persona in the scene to inspire his models and, more importantly, get his editors to buy his ideas.
Now, more than 30 years after his death, Rockwell is still acknowledged for deftly chronicling the best of 20th century American life with vignettes of simple emotions evoked by everyday people. This phenomenon is a resounding testament to Rockwell's prowess as a storyteller and is the subject of another kind of one-man show: the upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., titled Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. The exhibit, assembled from the private collections of these two popular film directors, will feature rarely viewed pieces of Rockwell's work, including George Lucas' favorite, Lands of Enchantment, which shows a youngster imagining himself as an armor-clad knight riding away with a beautiful girl. The point is not the boy reading, but how the book inspires the boy's imagination, taking him, in idealized form, to another time and place.
"It's a painting celebrating literature, the magic that happens when you read a story and the story comes alive for you," notes Lucas.
Lands of Enchantment
by Norman Rockwell
© SEPS.
And that's just one of the 50-plus images from the highly anticipated exhibit, which runs from July 2, 2010 through January 2, 2011. The exhibit will also explore the artist's elaborate creative process while spotlighting Rockwell's ability to capture the range of human expression and distill whole episodes of American life into single and broadly accessible moments by drawing upon a full arsenal of skills that would have served him well as a filmmaker.
According to Virginia Mecklenburg, the museum's senior curator, both Lucas and Spielberg were inspired by Rockwell's creativity and tender subject matter, as well as his warm depictions of America without cynicism.
"Both filmmakers grew up in the 1950s, enjoying Rockwell's illustrations on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post," says Mecklenburg. "They share the artist's sensibilities in many ways, and have sought to express similar values, such as loyalty, courage, and friendship, in their own work."
When working on Star Wars, Lucas said that he realized there needed to be a kind of film that expresses those values, as well as the mythological realities of life—the deeper psychological movements of the way we conduct our lives—that are evident in fairy tales. "Once I got into Star Wars, it struck me that we had lost all that—a whole generation was growing up without fairy tales. You just don't get them anymore, and that's the best stuff in the world," Lucas explains.
Like Lucas, Rockwell was an original. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, living in a rough-and-tumble New York boarding house. He quit high school to attend classes at the Art Students League in New York, and was already a working, if occasionally struggling, artist in his teens. But in 1916, when he sold his first cover to the Post, he began to carve what would become a unique niche in the American psyche. Throughout the course of 323 Post covers over the next 50 years, he would stoke and affirm our pride in who and what we are at our very best moments, even if most of us rarely experienced the fresh-faced version of the world.
"Storytelling was very important to Norman Rockwell," says Lucas. "Every image has either the middle or the end of a story, and you can already see the beginning even though it's not there. You can see all the missing parts of the story because he took that one frame that sort of tells you everything you need to know.
Knuckles Down
© 1939 SEPS.
"And, of course, in filmmaking we strive for that. We strive to get images that convey, visually, a lot of information without having to spend a lot of time at it. Norman Rockwell was a master at that—he was a master at telling a story in one frame," explains Lucas.
That concentration of information as well as emotion is something inherent in Rockwell's art. Emotion certainly spoke to Steven Spielberg when he first saw one of his favorite Rockwell paintings, High Dive, the August 16, 1947 Post cover that depicts a boy at the top of what must be (or so we imagine from the boy's expression) a towering diving board. He crouches high above a swimming pool, too afraid to either jump or climb back down. The painting hangs in Spielberg's office at Amblin Entertainment because it holds a great deal of meaning for the filmmaker.
"That painting spoke to me the second I saw it … and when I was able to buy it, I said, 'Not only is that going in my collection, but it's going in my office so I can look at it every day of my life.' We are all on diving boards hundreds of times during our lives. Taking the plunge or pulling back from the abyss … it is something that we must face. For me, that painting represents every motion picture, just before I commit to directing it—that one moment before I say, 'Yes, I am going to direct that movie,' " says Spielberg.
In the case of his Oscar-winning film Schindler's List, Spielberg remarked, "I lived on that diving board for 11 years before I eventually took the plunge."
Even in the creation of their work, Spielberg and Rockwell were more similar than is immediately evident. To create his meticulously detailed recollections of everyday American life, Rockwell worked much like a film director, not just acting out the scenes in his imagination, but scouting locations, casting everyday people from his town for particular parts, choosing costumes and props, and directing his performers to make them instantly familiar to the public. Little wonder then, that filmmakers like Spielberg and Lucas, as well as others, should be so inspired by his work.
In directing his own scenes, Rockwell had a specific focus, just not one based on the stark realism in which he grew up. Instead, Rockwell aimed to depict life in a kind of realistic fantasy. He later remarked in his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, "I paint the world not as it is, but as I would like it to be."
Rockwell\'s youngest son Peter (sitting by the marine) and oldest son Jarvis (the blond boy in the sweater) posed for this wonderfully narrative work, set in Benedict\'s Garage, a local hangout in Rockwell\'s home of Arlington, Vermont.
© SEPS
This desire to "make" the real world a better place, at least in his images, was a sentiment that Rockwell would voice throughout his life. Eventually, he sought something of the idealized world he imagined, when he moved out of the city, first to New Rochelle, New York, then later settling in Vermont with his family. Rockwell found new models in the form of neighbors, as well as his children.
"All of us, my brothers, my mother, and myself, as well as our friends, served as characters in my father's illustrations at one time or another," says his son Tom, himself a writer, perhaps best known for his popular children's book, How to Eat Fried Worms.
A study of Rockwell's creative process reveals that composing each of his simple-to-understand works wasn't simply a matter of grabbing whoever was handy and drawing them into a picture. In fact, each image was a highly involved endeavor requiring masterful ability as an illustrator and painter, as well as his unique skill to create "scenes" that would be instantly understood by the viewer.
"Everything I have ever seen or done has gone into my pictures in one way or another. The story of my life is really the story of my pictures and how I made them," Rockwell said. "I store up things in my mind, and when I need something for a picture—a feeling, a character, a wry smile—there it is. And I draw it out and paint it."
In the act of describing his work, Rockwell, the artist, embodied his characters, just as his work now embodies aspects of the American character that still strikes a chord, inspiring both other artists and Americans from all walks of life today.
The fact that Rockwell's canvases are populated with such real-looking people is likely what gives them such resonance, making them believable. Still, there is something in the facial expressions that Rockwell not only captures, but exaggerates—youthful enthusiasm, boyish eagerness, pride, yearning, determination, and more—that transcends location, time period, and situation and makes the works both easy to connect with and ripe for repeated rediscovery, generation after generation.
In this context, Rockwell becomes as significant as any American artist has ever been, and can arguably be credited not only with recounting the American experience but to a large extent, with constructing the collective "memory" of the good old days that we still yearn for, whether we ever personally experienced them or not.
"Everything I have ever seen or done has gone into my pictures in one way or another," Rockwell once said.
Rockwell's opinion of his work during his life was decidedly more humble, however. Certainly he was conscious of his role in the art world. He was an illustrator, not a modern artist or fine arts painter, and he had to satisfy not only himself, but his clients and audience alike. He needed to create scenes that people would get in a matter of seconds. He had to meet deadlines and stick to magazine proportions. And within those strict parameters, he wanted to convey this sense of idealized life. "I guess I had a bad case of the American nostalgia for the clean, simple country life, as opposed to the complicated world of a city," he explained.
Rockwell's insight and anything-but-easy process is itself the subject of a new, in-depth book, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, by author and historian, Ron Schick.
"In order to ensure that every detail was perfect, Rockwell first used models and drew from life. Eventually, though, he switched to photographing his subjects in a variety of poses and with varying props, locations, and models. Every minute detail was deliberate, a means of convincing the viewer that they were eavesdropping," says Schick, who describes Rockwell as a narrative artist with a Jeffersonian sense of America and its modest, everyday heroes.
"The world needed comfort, something to believe in, and Rockwell gave it to them in a way that people from all walks could understand," Schick says. Understand, yes, but also be emboldened. The moments of inspiration that the artist captured, the tacit encouragement to move forward and celebrate life with all its challenges, setbacks, and triumphs—these ultimately may be Rockwell's best legacy.
In a nation with cultures as disparate as ours, that Rockwell consistently managed to find patches of common ground for us to build on is a testament to his enduring work, not only for the generations of Americans who grew up seeing his art when it was new, but for future generations who are seeing Norman Rockwell's America for the first time.
For more information, check out our Post retrospective Norman Rockwell and American Idealist Art.
To purchase a copy of the March/April 2010 issue, order online at shopthepost.com.


Green $aves Green has published its March newsletter -- The Green Albemarle. Click here to read about green projects and initiatives in the Albemarle region.
Green $aves Green is a non-partisan, non-profit, all-volunteer local environmental action group. It believes that the Albemarle Region is uniquely positioned to be the model "Green Region" of the state. Its projects are designed to build community support for renewable energy, conservation, and environmental protection.
The ARC&D worked with volunteers in the Green $aves Green group to organize the first Green $aves Green Expo at the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City. Approximately 1,600 people attended the event with 60 sponsors and vendors. Three van tours carried people to see the Amazon Wind Farm. They also learned about ARC&D in-stream wetland projects and the partnership to restore the Little River Watershed. The ARC&D continues to work with the Green $aves Green group on new projects including water quality monitoring on the Little River.
The ARC&D began collaborating with the Albemarle Commission, Chowan-Edenton Environmental Group (CEEG), Green $aves Green Little River Keepers, Soil and Water Conservation Districts, and local governments to monitor water quality in rivers and creeks in the region. Citizen scientists are collecting water samples from key locations on the Chowan River, Potecasi Creek, Edenton Bay, and the Little River and sending them to a lab for analysis. Identifying nutrient hotspots and the sources of nutrients are key steps for developing an effective program to combat algal blooms.


Anne is one of our sales coordinators and delights her colleagues in that department with constant humming and singing – occasionally in tune. She has single-handedly improved punctuality here at Peli. Every member of staff has taken to arriving at work before 8:30am so that they can be entertained by Anne's parking – a manoeuvre which normally takes 15 minutes on a good day, but can take as long as half an hour in adverse weather conditions (cloudy, or winds over 5mph, or rain, or mist, or simply too bright).
Anne's exuberance for suggesting different ways in which we can improve as a company and as members of the team rapidly brought her to the attention of our CEO who has now taken to locking himself in his office any time Anne is in the building. Which is good news for all.
A final insight into Anne's unique personality: she has a camper van called "Bongo", and a mountain bike with a bell on it.
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UPDATED: Cambridge man charged after pulling knife on jogger for not properly social distancing
Editor's note: This article was updated April 30 at 5:20 p.m. after Cambridge Police Department made an arrest in the case.
A Cambridge man has been arrested on the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly pulled a knife on a jogger for not properly social distancing, according to police.
Officers responded to a report of a man with a knife April 20 around 5:17 p.m. in the area of Putnam Avenue and Magee Street.
The jogger, a 29-year-old Cambridge man, told officers he was running on Putnam Avenue toward Massachusetts Avenue when he saw a man, later identified as Michael Nichols, 43, of Cambridge, with two young children walking on the same side of the sidewalk. The jogger said he had planned to run into the street, around the three, to allow for proper social distancing, but before he moved off the sidewalk, Nichols allegedly pulled out a knife and told the guy to �get the f*** on the other side of the street.�
The jogger said he complied and then called police, telling them he had been approximately 30-40 feet away from Nichols and the two children when the knife was pulled.
Officers located a man matching the description of the suspect, walking with two children and a dog on Dodge Street by Western Avenue. Nichols said he had told the jogger to cross the street but had not pulled out a knife. He consented to a pat down and no weapon was found.
Officers searched the area and reportedly found a black pocket knife with a silver blade approximately 4 inches long on top of yard waste two houses away from where police approached Nichols.
The jogger did not pursue charges, however, after a follow-up investigation, Cambridge Police arrested Nichols on the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
"We had probable cause from our investigation to secure an arrest warrant," said Jeremy Warnick, communications director for CPD, on April 30.


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Law Web: Whether party can be permitted to produce photocopy of documents on record?
"13. Thus reference in CPC to documents, except in Order 13, Rule 1 is not necessary to the original documents and includes copies within the document. Thus the contention of the counsel for the defendant of Order 7, Rule 14 or Order 8, Rule 1A of the CPC requiring originals to be filed is not found to be correct.
14. Even otherwise "document" is defined a Black's Law Dictionary 8th Edition inter alia as something tangible on which words, symbols or marks are recorded.
17. Document is also defined in Section 3(18) of the General Clauses Act as including any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks or by more than one of those means which is intended to be used or which may be used for the purpose of recording that matter.
19. From all the aforesaid definitions of document found by me, a photocopy or a copy would also be a document. Thus it cannot be said that the provisions of the CPC for filing of documents necessarily relate to original documents. The legislature has used the word original only in Order 13, Rule 1 of the CPC."
6. The aforesaid decision has been subsequently followed with approval by the Delhi High Court in the matter of Promila and others v. Hazi Gulam Rasool, MANU/DE/4850/2012.
7. I am in respectful agreement with the view expressed by Delhi High Court in the aforesaid cases and held that photocopy can be taken into record under Order 8, Rule 1-A of the CPC.
1. By way of instant writ petition, the petitioners/defendants have called in question the rejection of their application in part by the trial Court declining to take photocopy of the documents on record. Shri Hari Agrawal, learned counsel for the petitioner vehemently contented that photo copy of the documents can be taken on record under Order 8, Rule 1-A of the CPC. He placed reliance upon the decision of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Aktiebolatgetvolvo and others v. R. Venkatachalam and another, MANU/DE/1690/2009 : ILR (2009) VI Delhi 233 in support of his case.
2. Per contra, Shri Amit Sharma, learned counsel appearing for the respondent/plaintiff would submit that photo copy of the documents is not at all admissible in evidence and it cannot be exhibited in evidence.
3. I have heard learned counsel appearing for the parties and perused the order impugned with utmost circumspection.
[1-A. Duty of defendant to produce documents upon which relief is claimed or relied upon by him.- (1) Where the defendant bases his defence upon a document or relies upon any document in his possession or power, in support of his defence or claim for set-off or counter-claim, he shall enter such document in a list, and shall produce it in Court when the written statement is presented by him and shall, at the same time, deliver the document and a copy thereof, to be filed with the written statement.
8. Consequently, the writ petition is allowed subject to cost of Rs. 5,000/- payable to the respondent/plaintiff on the next date of hearing before the trial Court. Photo copies of the document are directed to be taken on record. However, the plaintiff is entitled to take defence that photocopies of the documents are not admissible in evidence. No order as to costs.


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*/
import { HttpClientModule } from "@angular/common/http";
import { waitForAsync, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from "@angular/core/testing";
import { FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule } from "@angular/forms";
import { RouterTestingModule } from "@angular/router/testing";

import { NewDeliveryServiceComponent } from "./new-delivery-service.component";

import { Protocol } from "../../models";
import { TpHeaderComponent } from "../tp-header/tp-header.component";

describe("NewDeliveryServiceComponent", () => {
	let component: NewDeliveryServiceComponent;
	let fixture: ComponentFixture<NewDeliveryServiceComponent>;

	beforeEach(waitForAsync(() => {
		TestBed.configureTestingModule({
			declarations: [
				NewDeliveryServiceComponent,
				TpHeaderComponent
			],
			imports: [
				FormsModule,
				HttpClientModule,
				ReactiveFormsModule,
				RouterTestingModule
			]
		})
		.compileComponents();
	}));

	beforeEach(() => {
		fixture = TestBed.createComponent(NewDeliveryServiceComponent);
		component = fixture.componentInstance;
		fixture.detectChanges();
	});

	it("should exist", () => {
		expect(component).toBeTruthy();
	});

	it("should parse Origin URLs properly", () => {
		component.originURL.setValue("http://some.domain.test:9001/a/check/path/here");
		component.setOriginURL();
		expect(component.deliveryService.orgServerFqdn).toEqual("http://some.domain.test:9001", "http://some.domain.test:9001");
		expect(component.deliveryService.checkPath).toEqual("/a/check/path/here", "/a/check/path/here");
		expect(component.deliveryService.displayName).toEqual("Delivery Service for some.domain.test", "Delivery Service for some.domain.test");
		expect(component.displayName.value).toEqual("Delivery Service for some.domain.test", "Delivery Service for some.domain.test");
		expect(component.step).toEqual(1, "one");
		expect(component.deliveryService.protocol).toEqual(Protocol.HTTP_AND_HTTPS, "HTTP_AND_HTTPS");

		// check other protocol setting
		component.originURL.setValue("https://test.test");
		component.setOriginURL();
		expect(component.deliveryService.protocol).toEqual(Protocol.HTTP_TO_HTTPS, "HTTP_TO_HTTPS");
	});

	it("should set meta info properly", () => {
		component.step = 1;
		component.displayName.setValue("test._QUEST");
		component.infoURL.setValue("ftp://this-is-a-weird.url/");
		component.description.setValue("test description");
		component.setMetaInformation();

		expect(component.deliveryService.displayName).toEqual("test._QUEST", "test._QUEST");
		expect(component.deliveryService.xmlId).toEqual("test-quest", "test-quest");
		expect(component.deliveryService.longDesc).toEqual("test description", "test description");
		expect(component.deliveryService.infoUrl).toEqual("ftp://this-is-a-weird.url/", "ftp://this-is-a-weird.url/");
		expect(component.step).toEqual(2, "two");
	});

	// it('should set infrastructure info properly', () => {
	// 	component.step = 2;
	// 	component.cdnObject.setValue({ name: 'testCDN', id: 1 } as CDN);
	// 	component.dsType.setValue({ name: 'testType', id: 1 } as Type);
	// });
});

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Torrefiel és un barri pertanyent al districte de Rascanya (districte 15), a la ciutat de València, País Valencià. El codi identificatiu del barri segons l'ajuntament de València és el 15.2.

És un barri obrer de classe mitjana-baixa. Disposa de tres col·legis de primària, els CP Professor Sanchis Guarner, el CP Torrefiel i l'Antonio Machado. També hi ha un mercat, situat a l'extrem nord.

Geografia
El barri de Torrefiel forma part del districte de Rascanya, a l'extrem nord de la ciutat. Se situa entre els barris de Benicalap i els Orriols, i al sud-est rau el del Tormos; al nord, fita amb el barri del Poble Nou. Té una forma irregular, que corre des de l'avinguda del Doctor Peset Aleixandre fins a l'Avinguda de Germans Machado, i des de l'avinguda de la Constitució fins al camí de Montcada i a l'avinguda de Joan XXIII. D'altra banda, és un barri compacte però ample, sense cap gran vial o barrera arquitectònica que el dividisca.

Història
Si bé van existir diverses alqueries a la zona des de l'antiguitat, el núcli de l'actual barri sorgeix a partir de principis del segle XX. El primer cens es realitzà el 1901 i cap a la dècada de 1920 es conformà l'actual barri, proper a l'antic municipi d'els Orriols. Posteriorment, a la dècada de 1950, també es construïren grups d'habitatge social econòmic per als afectats de la riuada de 1957.

Demografia

Transport

Torrefiel disposa de bons accessos a la Ronda i a Tavernes Blanques, i alhora amb la segona ronda de circumval·lació a través de l'avinguda del Doctor Peset.
 Empresa Municipal de Transports de València (EMT)
 Línies: 6 (Torrefiel-Hospital La Fe) - 12 (Ciutat Fallera-Plaça d'Amèrica) - 26 (Montcada/Alfara-Porta de la Mar) - 60 (Avinguda de l'Oest-Torrefiel) - N2 (Estació del Nord-Primat Reig/Tavernes Blanques)
 Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV)
Tossal del Rei (Metrovalència)

Referències

Torrefiel
Rascanya


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Q: SQLite Driver available with R's rgdal:writeOGR? Does anybody know how I can get OGR's SQLite Driver to work with R's rgdal package?
When listing the drivers in R with the ogrDrivers() command the SQLITE driver is missing..


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Q: Export table mysql data with retaining data-types? I have a table which has int and string data types in them. I need to export the data and need to retain the data-types. The method I am using to export the data rightnow puts the quotation marks around all of the data
SELECT * FROM passwd INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/tutorials.txt'
    -> FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
    -> LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';

I want the double quotes to be around the varchar?

A: How about
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'

If you specify OPTIONALLY, the ENCLOSED BY character is used only to enclose values from columns that have a string data type (such as CHAR, BINARY, TEXT, or ENUM)
Ref https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/load-data.html


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More info on Ex-situ conservation
Ex-situ conservation: Map
Ex-situ conservation means literally, "off-site conservation". It is the process of protecting an endangered species of plant or animal by removing part of the population from a threatened habitat and placing it in a new location, which may be a wild area or within the care of humans. While ex-situ conservation comprises some of the oldest and best known conservation methods, it also involves newer, sometimes controversial laboratory methods.
Colony relocation
Normally the best method of maximizing a species chance of survival (when ex-situ methods are required) is by relocating part of the population to a less threatened location. It is extremely difficult to mimic the environment of the original colony location given the large number of variables defining the original colony (microclimate, soils, symbiotic species, absence of severe predation, etc.) It is also technically challenging to uproot (in the case of plants) or trap (in the case of animals) the required organisms without undue harm.
An example of colony relocation in the wild is the case of the endangered Santa Cruz Tarweed, a new colony of which was discovered during a mid 1980s survey at the site of a proposed shopping center in as western Contra Costa County. Once the city of Pinole had decided to approve the shopping center, the city relied on a relocation plan developed by Earth Metrics scientists to remove the entire colony to a nearby location immediately east of Interstate Highway 80 within the Caltrans right-of-way
Human care methods
Zoos and botanical gardens are the most conventional methods of ex-situ conservation, all of which house whole, protected specimens for breeding and reintroduction into the wild when necessary and possible. These facilities provide not only housing and care for specimens of endangered species, but also have an educational value. They inform the public of the threatened status of endangered species and of those factors which cause the threat, with the hope of creating public interest in stopping and reversing those factors which jeopardize a species' survival in the first place. They are the most publicly visited ex-situ conservation sites, with the WZCS (World Zoo Conservation Strategy) estimating that the 1100 organized zoos in the world receive more than 600 million visitors annually.
Endangered plants may also be preserved in part through seedbanks or germplasm banks. The term seedbank sometimes refers to a cryogenic laboratory facility in which the seeds of certain species can be preserved for up to a century or more without losing their fertility. It can also be used to refer to a special type of arboretum where seeds are harvested and the crop is rotated. For plants that cannot be preserved in seedbanks, the only other option for preserving germplasm is in-vitro storage, where cuttings of plants are kept under strict conditions in glass tubes and vessels.
Endangered animal species are preserved using similar techniques. The genetic information needed in the future to reproduce endangered animal species can be preserved in genebanks, which consist of cryogenic facilities used to store living sperm, egg, or embryos. The Zoological Society of San Diego has established a "Frozen zoo" to store such samples using modern cryopreservation techniques from more than 355 species, including mammals, reptiles, and birds.
Showy Indian clover, Trifolium amoenum, is an example of a species that was thought to be extinct, but was rediscovered in 1993 by Peter Connors in the form of a single plant at a site in western Sonoma County . Connors harvested seeds and grew specimens of this critically endangered species in a controlled environment.
The Wollemi Pine is another example of a plant that is being preserved via ex-situ conservation, as they are being grown in nurseries to be sold to the general public.
Ex-situ conservation, while helpful in man's efforts to sustain and protect our environment, is rarely enough to save a species from extinction. It is to be used as a last resort, or as a supplement to in-situ conservation because it cannot recreate the habitat as a whole: the entire genetic variation of a species, its symbiotic counterparts, or those elements which, over time, might help a species adapt to its changing surroundings. Instead, ex-situ conservation removes the species from its natural ecological contexts, preserving it under semi-isolated conditions whereby natural evolution and adaptation processes are either temporarily halted or altered by introducing the specimen to an unnatural habitat. In the case of cryogenic storage methods, the preserved specimen's adaptation processes are frozen altogether. The downside to this is that, when re-released, the species may lack the genetic adaptations and mutations which would allow it to thrive in its ever-changing natural habitat.
Furthermore, ex-situ conservation techniques are often costly, with cryogenic storage being economically infeasible in most cases since species stored in this manner cannot provide a profit but instead slowly drain the financial resources of the government or organization determined to operate them. Seedbanks are ineffective for certain plant genera with recalcitrant seeds that do not remain fertile for long periods of time. Diseases and pests foreign to the species, to which the species has no natural defense, may also cripple crops of protected plants in ex-situ plantations and in animals living in ex-situ breeding grounds. These factors, combined with the specific environmental needs of many species, some of which are nearly impossible to recreate by man, make ex-situ conservation impossible for a great number of the world's endangered flora and fauna.
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
List of animals that have been cloned
Captive breeding
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Asiatic Cheetah
Gary Deghi, C. Michael Hogan et al., Final Environmental Impact Report of the Pinole Valley Shopping Center, City of Pinole, Earth Metrics Incorporated, California Environmental Clearinghouse (1986)
Connors, P. G. (1994) Rediscovery of showy Indian clover. Fremontia 22: 3–7
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arcata Division, 1655 Heindon Road, Arcata, Ca.
Ex situ conservation
The Pros and Cons of Cloning (and Other Reproduction Techonology Techniques)
Cloning to revive extinct species, May 28, 2002, By Grant Holloway "CNN"
Reproductive Technologies and Conservation of Endangered Cats
Louisiana's frozen ark
The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The Convention on Biological Diversity
Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, IUCN
African Wild Dog Conservancy
Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, IUCN: CBSG "PHVA" Reports (Population and Habitat Viability Assessment)
IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group
ONLINE BOOK: "In situ conservation of livestock and poultry", 1992, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme


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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 7 Hansard (4 June) . . Page.. 1892 ..
MS DUNDAS (continuing):
the Assembly from close to 1,000 Canberra residents calling for immediate action regarding the need for a community facility and library in Kippax.
This area has been under much debate for many years, and I hope that this government does not continue the practice of sweeping it under the carpet and hoping it will go away because it is not in an area that is able to attract a lot of interest-again, such as the inner north, inner south or Gungahlin. We will be watching the government quite closely to see how they deal with the issues facing Kippax and West Belconnen. The concerns of the community are quite real and do need close attention.
As I have stated, while there are a few concerns about the variation to the Territory Plan and how it will impact on the Kippax area, I do not believe that these concerns are at the core of what needs to happen at Kippax and I do not think disallowing the variation will address the community concerns. The land is all gazetted as either a or b, and to many in the community these are just semantics. What they are looking for and what they have been asking for for over a decade is a commitment to the community in the West Belconnen area both in terms of community facilities and a library and in terms of having their concerns listened to and an outcome at the end.
This is a great opportunity to again raise these issues under this disallowance motion, but I cannot support the disallowance. It is a matter of pure detail and semantics, and what is needed is a broader approach to fix the issues in West Belconnen.
MRS DUNNE (6.29), in reply: I can do numbers; I know when I am beaten. But I would like to put on the record, first of all, that I acknowledge the block/section mistake-mea culpa-but I won't move an amendment to fix it because it would be a waste of time. It is not the first time, and it won't be the last.
I acknowledge the now expanded undertaking of the minister in relation to Kippax and, like Ms Dundas, I will be watching closely to ensure that those commitments are kept. I would like to see, like Ms Dundas, a revivified commitment from the Department of Urban Services and the Minister for Urban Services to get the library under way.
In relation to Calwell, the minister spoke about the "uncontrolled development" of housing. I would like to put on the record, from the meeting that we had together about the subject, Minister, the strong support from PALM for this so-called "uncontrolled development" and the interesting notion that, when we are confronted with the variation and the disallowance process, somehow one is not allowed to consult with community as to whether they are satisfied with the final outcome. This issue arose when I went to the community and said, "Have a look at it. Are you happy with it?" And this is what came up. So perhaps the lesson for the day is: don't bother to consult over a variation. I regret that this won't pass, but I can face the inevitable.
Question resolved in the negative.
Conduct of members
MR SPEAKER: Members, during question time today, the issue of acknowledgment of the chair was raised in the Assembly. Since, I have been reminded of page 476 of House of Representatives Practice, which I quote in part:


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Q: Ejecutar consulta mysql cuando este seguro de que no hay otro registro con el mismo codigo estoy teniendo un pequeño inconveniente. Tengo el siguiente codigo:
function RandomStringN($length){
    $characters = '123456789';
    $charactersLength = strlen($characters);
    $randomString = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i<$length; $i++) { $randomString .= $characters[rand(0, $charactersLength - 1)]; } return $randomString;
}

Lo que hace este script es que por medio de RandomStringN(4) me devuelve un numero aleatorio de 4 digitos.
Tengo una tabla en mysql que lleva un registro ID, Codigo, Nombre. Quiero realizar un Insert en esa tabla con datos por ejemplo. ID => 1, COD => 1425, Nombre => Tal nombre. Pero antes de realizar el INSERT quiero comprobar que el codigo aleatorio que se esta generando por medio del RandomStringN(4) no se encuentra asignado a ningun registro de la tabla.
Lo he intentado con:
$cod = RandomStringN(4);
$cons = mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tabla WHERE cod = '$cod'"));
if($cons>=1) $cod = RandomString(4);
$inst = mysql_query("INSERTAR REGISTRO");

Eventualmente ingresa codigos duplicados y es lo que quiero evitar.
Muchas gracias por su ayuda y atencion.


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Census of Agriculture shows continued decline in number of US farms
Published Thu, Apr 11 20196:58 PM EDT Updated Thu, Apr 11 20196:58 PM EDT
Jeff Daniels@jeffdanielsca
The 2017 Census of Agriculture released Thursday shows the amount of total land devoted to agricultural use continues to decline in the U.S. and the number of farms is declining.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms and ranches in the U.S. in 2017, down more than 3% from 2012.
Out of the total value of production of $389 billion in 2017, two-thirds of it came from farms making $1 million or more.
Corn grows on a farm on July 13, 2018 near Amana, Iowa.
Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms and ranches in the U.S. in 2017, down more than 3% from 2012. It said the land devoted to agriculture declined by about 2% to 900.2 million acres from 914.5 million acres in 2012.
"We had really high levels of acreage in the 1980s, and then we ended up putting away 25 million to 30 million acres into the Conservation Reserve Program," said Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and a former chief economist at the USDA.
The census shows the average size of farms in 2017 was 441 acres, slightly above 434 acres in the 2012 census. The report indicated 96% of farms and ranches in the nation are family-owned.
Also it shows there were about 273,000 small farms, of 1-9 acres, in 2017, representing just 0.1% of all farmland in the U.S. It added that 85,127 large farms, of 2,000 or more acres, made up nearly 60% of total farmland.
There were 76,865 farms making $1 million or above in 2017 and another 1.56 million operations generating under $50,000. Out of the total value of production of $389 billion in 2017, two-thirds of it came from farms making $1 million or more.
Finally, the average age of agriculture producers was 57.5 in 2012, up 1.2 years from 2012. The latest census also indicated 36% of all producers are female.


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Q: Django Error: No module named engine I'm trying to implement this code but getting Error: No module named engine
http://github.com/robstyles/Massive-Coupon---Open-source-groupon-clone
Any thoughts?

A: You probably don't have any module named "engine" on your PYTHONPATH anyplace. Either the installation went in the wrong location, or your Django setup was not set to include that path.

A: In the github directory you point to, there's a module named "engine".  The folder containing this module needs to be available on your python path.

A: Check follow steps

*

*is PYTHONPATH  pointed to
massivecoupon project parent path?

*is your proejct named massivecoupon?
if y go 4 else go 3

*change your project to massivecoupon

*make sure all sub folders and parent
folder have __init__.py