To use: Use the Homemade Baking Mix straight from the freezer in place of Bisquick. Or, use this to make our family's favorite Cinnamon Roll Biscuits. For other recipe ideas, check out a similar Homemade Baking Mix recipe from Kitchen Simplicity.


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Somi Shares Why She Was So Disappointed With Her "What You Waiting For" Comeback Stage
It was her first time on stage after over a year.
The special episode of Somi's "I AM SOMI" YouTube series was recently uploaded, and it followed her comeback for "What You Waiting For". "What You Waiting For" was her return to the industry after a year-long hiatus.
| The Black Label
In the episode, viewers follow Somi after her first comeback stage at M Countdown.
After the performance, she re-watched herself on her phone, disappointment clearly written all over her face.
Later that day, her mom comforted her as they ate dinner together. "When I saw you, it wasn't you dancing with joy and energy. I could feel that Somi is having a hard time singing".
Somi agreed with her mom and explained that she was nervous.
I was nervous when I was actually on stage. I had a hoarse throat before the stage because I started preparing from 2 in the morning. I came home and slept, so my voice got hoarse and was weak.
The episode then cut to Somi practicing tirelessly at home, singing "What You Waiting For" over and over again.
Her hard work paid off because she soon won her first No. 1 at a music show!
Somi didn't have a reason to worry because she always delivers.
You can watch the full episode below:
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Інформацíйна систéма () — сукупність організаційних і технічних засобів для збереження та обробки інформації з метою забезпечення інформаційних потреб користувачів.

За ДСТУ 2392-94: Інформаційна система — комунікаційна система, що забезпечує збирання, пошук, оброблення та пересилання інформації.

Закон України «Про захист інформації в інформаційно-телекомунікаційних системах» визначає інформаційну (автоматизовану) систему як організаційно-технічну систему, в якій реалізується технологія обробки інформації з використанням технічних і програмних засобів
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В українському законодавстві встановлені наступні визначення терміну:
 Інформаційна система — автоматизована система, комп'ютерна мережа або система зв'язку.
 Інформаційна система — організаційно-технічна система обробки інформації за допомогою технічних і програмних засобів.
 Інформаційна система — система, призначена для одержання, обробки, зберігання, відображення та/або реєстрації даних про технічний стан конструкцій, систем, елементів, їх властивості та/або функціонування.

Ролі, функції інформації в інформаційних системах
Спочатку під інформацією розуміли відомості, які передаються людьми усним, письмовим або іншим способом (за допомогою умовних сигналів, технічних засобів тощо). Нині загальноприйнято, що інформаційні взаємодії складають основу процесів керування у системах будь-якої природи. При цьому розрізняють синтаксичний, семантичний й прагматичний аспекти інформації. Синтаксична сторона інформації характеризує план її виразу, склад, структуру, складність, організованість. Семантичний аспект характеризує її зміст, значення. Інформація - це відображення чого-небудь, тобто вона цікава не сама по собі, а як представник об'єкта чи явища. Прагматична сторона інформації характеризує її здатність впливати на процеси управління у системі з точки зору її цінності, корисності або шкідливості (з точки зору інтересів того, хто займається творенням й дистрибуцією інформації). Прагматизм стверджує, що ідея істинна, якщо вона працює. Як наслідок, для визначення істинності, необхідно провести аналіз результатів. Сенс та правильність ідеї визначається при її застосуванні.

З телеологічної точки зору керуюча інформація є моделлю декотрого стану середовища, який є бажаним для споживача і який "неприродний", тобто не досягається самим середовищем шляхом збігу обставин без втручання ззовні (без управління). Нехай даний простір ситуацій , який утворюється параметрами середовища  Кожна точка цього простору визначає якусь конкретну ситуацію, яка склалася навколо суб'єкта управління. Через цей ситуаційний простір  суб'єкт й сприймає оточуюче його середовище й різні об'єкти. Нехай даний -вимірний простір  цілей  точками якого є цільові поняття, які описуються вектором , де кожний цільовий параметр  однозначно визначаються ситуацією  тобто  , функції  визначають зв'язок середовища та цільового параметра  У векторній формі цей зв'язок виражається у вигляді декотрої визначеної вектор-функції

Перетворення  інформації у форму  необхідне тому, що суб'єкт зазвичай формулює свої цілі у термінах та поняттях, пов'язаних із вимірюваними, але не тотожних їм. Наприклад, при управлінні температурним режимом об'єкта достатньо виміряти температуру, тобто  оскільки мета сформульована у термінах вимірів.

Інваріантність - властивість істотних для системи елементів, відношень, станів не змінюватись при її перетвореннях. Інваріантність, таким чином, є визначальним моментом структури системи. Виділення відношень інваріантності дозволяє розвивати структурний підхід до дослідження різних об'єктів, загалом до організації теоретичного знання. Поняття інваріантності є.важливим для розуміння ізоморфізму загальнонаукових принципів та категорій, пов'язаних з дослідженням систем та структур.

Математична модель є універсальною - одне й те саме диференціальне рівняння може описувати різні за своїм змістом процеси. Таким чином, вивчаючи одну математичну модель, ми вивчаємо відразу цілий клас описуваних нею явищ. Саме цей ізоморфізм законів, які виражаються математичними моделями у різних галузях наукового знання, штовхнув Людвіга фон Берталанфі на створення загальної теорії систем.

Це є істинним і для речень. Міркування може бути правильним, попри те, що твердження, з яких воно складається, є хибними. Тобто міркування може бути правильним в силу однієї своєї форми, незалежно від змісту, таким чином, констатується незалежність форми від змісту. Математична модель якраз і є такою формою.

Співвідношення ізотопів кисню є ізотопною сигнатурою для кожного тіла Сонячної системи. Кварц є носієм генетичної інформації у геології. Деревні кільця містять інформацію про кліматичні зміни у минулому. Камінь - імпресіоністський щоденник погоди, накопичений мільйонами років. Але він не лише минуле, він й майбутнє - у ньому є періодичність. Таким самим чином кодується майбутнє - приклад різних зерен (наприклад, яблуні та вишні), через які з приблизно однакового за хімічним складом ґрунту утворюються різні форми життя. Закон, за яким відтворюється форма (досягається поставлена мета), називається генетичною програмою. Зміна інформативно-регулятивних чинників тягне за собою зміну спадкових властивостей системи:

де  - інформативність,  - регулятивність,  - кількість інформованості системи. Співвідношення такого роду має вигляд   Відтворюючи необхідну архітектуру процесу, можна навчитися збуджувати породжуючу її енергогенну динамічну структуру, оскільки зупинка - це різновид накопиченого руху.

Інформативність можна представити як функцію виду  де  - продуктивність елементів по переробці інформації,  - швидкість запам'ятовування (запису) інформації,  - швидкість передачі (обміну) інформації по прямих каналах зв'язку,  - число прямих зв'язків між компонентами системи,  - безрозмірні коефіцієнти, які залежать від типу структури, значення яких визначаються методом моделювання. При однорідності елементів оптимальною по інформативності є сотова структура. Централістичні структури нерівномірні у розподілі інформаційного навантаження. У повнозв'язних й мережевих структурах зі збільшенням навантаження відбувається катастрофічний ріст кількості інформації, яка ретранслюється. Інформативність лінійних й скелетних структур є мінімальною. "Інформація є лише там, де є відмінності (тобто різномаїття, неоднорідність), і відсутня там, де їх немає. При цьому кількість інформації характеризує множинність відмінностей".  Інформація з'являється тоді, коли хоча б два "елементи" чого-небудь відрізняються один від одного, і вона зникає, коли вони ототожнюються. Аналіз за своєю суттю є виділенням відмінностей у чому-небудь. Відтак інформація не може існувати без носія, форма існування якого і є втіленням даної інформації. Зміна носія означає зміну інформації. З семіотичної точки зору інформація у вигляді структурованих знаків є ознакою, представником об'єкта. До певного віку діти не здатні уявляти предмети: при зникненні предмету з наочної ситуації він зникає із свідомості. При виникненні з настанням певного віку абстрактного мислення дитина здатна володіти вербальними значеннями і бути їх носієм, які є замісниками у свідомості реальних предметів.

Бінарне відношення  пов'язує об'єкти  із їхніми ознаками  й породжує відповідність Галуа між підмножинами множини об'єктів й підмножинами множини ознак. Формальне поняття визначається як пара множин  замкнених відносно відповідності Галуа. Відношення  породжує на множині об'єктів рефлексивне симетричне відношення толерантності, за якого об'єкти співпадають, якщо мають спільні ознаки.

Усе пізнається не лише варіюванням структури (пізнання у порівнянні) - схемами реляціонування  на топологічному просторі , але й фіксацією схем у часі (пізнання у зміні). Динамічна система визначається як математична структура, яка задовільняє наступним аксіомам:

 Простір станів  та множина значень часу  для яких визначена поведінка системи;  - топологічний простір.
 Дана множина  функцій часу, визначених на  і які є припустимими входами системи;  - топологічний простір.
 Кожний вхід системи є деяка функція виду ( - дійсна лінія):

 Майбутні стани системи визначаються посередництвом функції переходу станів:

 Функції  та  є неперервними відносно топологій, визначених на  та  й індукованих топологій добутку.

Інформація з математичної точки зору - це деякий клас відображень, або морфізмів. Множинність підходів до теорії інформації вказує на незалежність її понять від конкретного виду структур об'єктів. Єдиною математичною теорією, яка не накладає ніяких обмежень на природу об'єктів, є теорія категорій. Об'єктами категорії можуть бути множини, універсальні алгебри, топологічні простори. Якщо деякий клас систем описується математичними моделями, які припускають відображення одна в одну, о можна побудувати категорію таких моделей. Цілісність системи виражається у тому, що вона не є тотожною жодній із своїх моделей. Онтологічний характер об'єктів дозволяє називати їх системами. Категорний підхід відбиває цю специфіку систем: об'єкти категорії неподільні, але можуть бути представлені у вигляді множини морфізмів.

Історія
Інформаційні системи здавна знаходять (в тому чи іншому вигляді) досить широке застосування в життєдіяльності людства. Це пов'язано з тим, що для існування цивілізації необхідний обмін інформацією — передача знань, як між окремими членами і колективами суспільства, так і між різними поколіннями.

Інформаційні системи існують з моменту появи суспільства, оскільки на кожній стадії його розвитку існує потреба в управлінні. Місією інформаційної системи є переробка інформації, потрібної для ефективного управління всіма ресурсами організації, створення інформаційного та технічного середовища для управління її діяльністю.

Інформаційна система може існувати і без застосування комп'ютерної техніки — це питання економічної доцільності.

В будь-якій інформаційній системі управління вирішуються задачі трьох типів:
 задачі оцінки ситуації (деколи їх називають задачами розпізнавання образів);
 задачі перетворення опису ситуації (розрахункові задачі, задачі моделювання);
 задачі прийняття рішень (в тому числі і оптимізаційні).

Найдавнішими і найпоширенішими ІС слід вважати бібліотеки. І, дійсно, здавна в бібліотеках збирають книжки (або їх аналоги), зберігають їх, дотримуючись певних правил, створюють каталоги різного призначення для полегшення доступу до книжкового фонду. Видаються спеціальні журнали та довідники, що інформують про нові надходження, ведеться облік видачі.

Найстаріші (у моральному і у фізичному розумінні) ІС повністю базувалися на ручній праці. Пізніше їм на зміну прийшли різні механічні пристрої для обробки даних (наприклад, для сортування, копіювання, асоціативного пошуку тощо). Наступним кроком стало впровадження автоматизованих інформаційних систем (АІС), тобто систем, де для забезпечення інформаційних потреб користувачів використовується ЕОМ зі своїми носіями інформації. В наш час — епоху інформаційної революції — розробляється і впроваджується велика кількість найрізноманітніших АІСів з дуже широким спектром використання.

Етапи розвитку (механічних) інформаційних систем
У 1950-х роках з'явилися перші інформаційні системи у вигляді електромеханічних бухгалтерських рахункових машин. Вони виконували обробку рахунків та розраховували зарплати. Завдяки цьому зменшувалися витрати і час на підготовку паперових документів.

У 1960-і роки значення інформаційних систем збільшується. У періодичній звітності із багатьма параметрами застосовувалася інформація, отримана із цих систем. Тому почали створювати комп'ютерне устаткування із широким колом призначення, яке здатне виконувати безліч функцій, на відміну від інформаційних систем 50-х років. Найвідомішим устаткуванням став ряд програмно-сумісних ЕОМ IBM/360, який створила фірма International Business Machines.

Як засіб управлінського контролю інформаційні системи почали використовуватися у 1970-х — на початку 1980-х років, що допомогло пришвидшити прийняття рішень.

У кінці 1980-х років спосіб використання інформаційних систем змінюється. Вони стають джерелом інформації і застосовуються у різних профілях та на всіх рівнях організації. Інформаційні системи швидко і вчасно надавали інформацію, потрібну працівникам, допомагаючи знаходити нові ринки збуту, створювати нові товари та послуги та інше.

Починаючи з 1990-х років і до нашого часу, відбувається переосмислення сфери застосування інформаційних систем. Вони використовуються для глобалізації суспільства. Починають розвиватися цифрові телекомунікаційні системи, які з'єднують інформаційно-обчислювальні ресурси багатьох країн у єдину мережу. У різних сферах суспільної діяльності виникають нові технології, наприклад, дистанційна освіта. Також, швидкими темпами зростає роль Інтернету у житті людини і всього суспільства разом.

Структура ІС
Інформаційні системи включають в себе: технічні засоби обробки даних, програмне забезпечення і відповідний персонал. Чотири складові частини утворюють внутрішню інформаційну основу:
 засоби фіксації і збору інформації;
 засоби передачі відповідних даних та повідомлень;
 засоби збереження інформації;
 засоби аналізу, обробки і представлення інформації.

Класифікація

За ступенем автоматизації
В залежності від ступеня (рівня) автоматизації виділяють ручні, автоматизовані й автоматичні інформаційні системи.
Ручні ІС характеризуються тим, що всі операції з переробки інформації виконуються людиною.
Автоматизовані ІС частина функції (підсистем) керування або опрацювання даних здійснюється автоматично, а частина — людиною.
Автоматичні ІС усі функції керування й опрацювання даних здійснюються технічними засобами без участі людини (наприклад, автоматичне керування технологічними процесами).

За сферою призначення
Оскільки ІС утворюються для задоволення інформаційних потреб в межах конкретної предметної галузі, то кожна предметна галузь (в сфері призначення) відповідає свій тип ІС. Перераховувати всі ці типи немає змісту, оскільки кількість предметних галузей велика, але можна вказати, наприклад, такі типи ІС:
 Економічна ІС — інформаційна система призначена для виконання функцій управління на підприємстві;
 Медична ІС — інформаційна система призначена для використання в лікувальному або лікувально-профілактичному закладі;
 Географічна ІС — інформаційна система, забезпечуюча збір, збереження, обробку, доступ, відображення і розповсюдження даних;
 Адміністративні;
 Виробничі;
 Навчальні;
 Екологічні;
 Криміналістичні;
 Військові та інші.

За місцем діяльності ІС
Класифікація інформаційних систем за місцем діяльності:
 наукові ІС — призначені для автоматизації діяльності науковців, аналізу статистичної інформації, керування експериментом.
 ІС автоматизованого керування — призначені для автоматизації праці інженерів-проєктувальників і розроблювачів нової техніки (технології). Такі ІС допомагають здійснювати:
 розробку нових виробів і технологій їхнього виробництва;
 різноманітні інженерні розрахунки (визначення технічних параметрів виробів, видаткових норм — трудових, матеріальних і т. д.);
 створення графічної документації (креслень, схем, планувань);
 моделювання проєктованих об'єктів;
 створення керуючих програм для верстатів із числовим програмним керуванням.
 ІС організаційного керування — призначені для автоматизації функції адміністративного (управлінського) персоналу. До цього класу відносяться ІС керування як промисловими (підприємства), так і непромисловими об'єктами (банки, біржа, страхові компанії, готелі і т. д.) і окремими офісами (офісні системи).
 ІС керування технологічними процесами — призначені для автоматизації різноманітних технологічних процесів (гнучкі виробничі процеси, металургія, енергетика тощо).
Інформаційна система, як система управління, тісно пов'язується, як з системами збереження та видачі інформації, так і з іншої — з системами, що забезпечують обмін інформацією в процесі управління. Вона охоплює сукупність засобів та методів, що дозволяють користувачу збирати, зберігати, передавати і обробляти відібрану інформацію.

За функціональним призначенням
В залежності від функціонального призначення можна виділити такі системи:
 Керувальні (АСК ТП, АСКВ);
 Проєктувальні (САП);
 Наукового пошуку (АСНД, АІПС, експертні системи);
 Діагностичні, моделювальні;
 Система підготовки прийняття рішення (СППР).

Типи взаємодії інформаційних систем
Типи взаємодії інформаційних систем
 Довільна взаємодія між двома окремими комп'ютерами, наприклад по модему. Обов'язкова участь оператора на приймаючій і передаючій стороні. Можливий обмін в довільному, але заздалегідь обумовленому форматі;
 Інтерактивна віддалена взаємодія комп'ютера з інформаційною системою, наприклад по протоколу http. Оператор на передавальній стороні. Як правило використовується певна форма HTML документа. Прийняті документи обробляються автоматично;
Інтерактивна інформаційна система – інформаційно-обчислювальна  система, в якій передача та обмін інформацією відбуваються в режимі  діалогу. Є два типи інтерактивних ігор:  1. Тип таких ігор призначений для гравців, які активно взаємодіють з  ігровою системою, і ця система, у свою чергу, реагує на поведінку  гравців.  2. Тип інтерактивних ігор – це ігри, де гравці можуть пасивно  спостерігати за сюжетною лінією гри.

 Контрольована потокова обробка, наприклад прийом з e-mail, файл містить HTML форму, запуск якої ініціює процес обробки документа або прийом оператором по e-mail електронних документів в обумовленому форматі і далі запуск програми обробки. Вимагає обов'язкового контролю оператора на приймаючій стороні;
 Повністю автоматизований процес прийому та обробки електронних документів в обумовленому форматі. Участь операторів не потрібно.

Автоматизована інформаційна система
Автоматизована інформаційна система — це взаємозв'язана сукупність даних, обладнання, програмних засобів, персоналу, стандартних процедур, які призначені для збору, обробки, розподілу, зберігання, представлення інформації згідно з вимогами, які випливають з цілей організації. Сьогодні, у вік інформації, практично кожна інформаційна система використовує комп'ютерні технології, і тому надалі під інформаційними системами будемо розуміти саме автоматизовані.

Чинники, що обумовлюють впровадження інформаційних систем

Основними факторами, які впливають на впровадження інформаційних систем, є потреби організацій та користувачів, а також наявність відповідних засобів для їх формування. Найсуттєвіше на розвиток інформаційних систем вплинули досягнення в галузі комп'ютерної техніки та телекомунікаційних мереж.

Причини, що спонукають організації впроваджувати інформаційні системи, з одного боку обумовлюються прагненням збільшити продуктивність повсякденних робіт чи усунути їх повторне проведення, а з іншого боку бажанням підвищити ефективність управління діяльністю організації за рахунок прийняття оптимальних та раціональних управлінських рішень.

Перша причина доволі прозора і для її реалізації достатньо впроваджувати стандартизовані системи обробки інформації. Успішне функціонування організації значною мірою залежить від вдалого керівництва, яке базується на обґрунтуванні перспективних концепцій розвитку згідно зі своєчасною, достовірною та повною інформацією, яку може поставляти відповідна інформаційна система. Основне завдання інформаційної системи управління полягає у підпорядкуванні всіх внутрішніх процесів головним цілям організації. Для цього необхідно скоординувати процеси, пов'язані з діяльністю організації таким чином, щоб вони максимально забезпечували виконання поставлених задач в єдиному інформаційному полі. Тільки таким чином інформаційна озброєність організації починає безпосередньо впливати на ефективність її діяльності.

До основних напрямків автоматизації інформаційно-управлінської діяльності в організаційних структурах відносять:
 автоматизацію обробки документів шляхом впровадження систем для обробки тексту, автоматизацію обміну інформацією через різноманітні види комунікацій (які включають АТС підприємства, відеотермінальні системи, локальну комп'ютерну мережу, телекопіювальні апарати, відеоінформаційні системи);
 автоматизацію діяльності менеджерів на базі комп'ютерних систем комплексних інформаційних систем, які надають допомогу в прийнятті рішень, та електронних секретарів, що дозволяє підвищити рівень організації праці менеджерів на якісно вищий щабель.

Впровадження інформаційних систем дозволяє менеджеру отримувати оперативний доступ до довільної нагромадженої інформації з тим, щоб надалі ефективно її використовувати для вирішення поставлених задач (у сферах аналізу маркетингу, фінансів, тощо).

Примітки

Див. також
 Інформаційні системи виробництва
 Інформаційні системи і технології в економіці
 Інформаційні системи обліку
 Законодавча термінологія
 Інформаційна система підприємства
 Корпоративна інформаційна система
 Конфігурація комп'ютера

Посилання

 Статті з безпеки інформаційних систем

Література

 Грицунов О. В. Інформаційні системи та технології. Навчальний посібник. — Х.: ХНАМГ, 2010. — 222 с.
 Методи та засоби мультимедійних інформаційних систем: навч. посіб. / Т. М. Басюк, П. І. Жежнич; Нац. ун-т «Львів. політехніка». — Львів: Вид-во Львів. політехніки, 2015. — 426 c. — Бібліогр.: с. 413—416.
 Гайдамакин Н. А. Автоматизированные системы, базы и банки данных. Вводный курс: Учебное пособие. — М.: Гелиос АРВ, 2002. — 368 с.
 Избачков Ю. С. Информационные системы: учебник : — 2-е изд. — СПб: Питер, 2008. — 656 с.

Інформаційні технології

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Remapping Cultural History
Tuff City
Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
Nick Dines
364 pages, 20 figures & maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-279-5 25% OFF! $120.00/£85.00 $90.00/£63.75 Hb Published (February 2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-911-8 25% OFF! $34.95/£24.00 $26.21/£18.00 Pb Published (March 2015)
"Nick Dines draws on over a decade of intensive interdisciplinary research—history, politics, cultural studies, social geography, and anthropology— …[and] does a fine job of weaving together the competing narratives to offer a penetrating analysis of the contestation over public space embedded in discourses about civility and citizenship. He…also addresses global questions about citizenship, urban renewal, the inequality of zoning, and the securitization of public space. As such, this book could serve as a model for the analysis, critique, and comparison of other urban renewal projects in cities around the global north because Dines methodically and subtlely makes the local speak to global questions." · American Anthropologist
"…this book offers a necessary contribution to the field: a recent take on a Mediterranean city that many people might rashly presume to know by reputation alone. Naples, the shameful, uncontrollable and uncontrolled metropolis is certainly prime fodder for anthropological study. At the same time, and helpfully for urban anthropologists, Dines seeks to dismiss Naples' exceptionalism, presenting it instead as an 'ordinary city'." · OAC Press
"Recognising Naples' uniqueness, Dines supplies theoretical and analytical tools for understanding urban regeneration…, thus fostering the kind of case study-focused ethnographic research that meets the urgent need to think across different urban experiences. Each case study presented in the book invites reflection upon the implications of political discourses about public space, as well as upon the rhetoric of participation and inclusiveness. Collectively, the case studies show the importance of considering different social groups' divergent ideas and uses of space when studying spatial conflict. Complexity thus becomes an element to be valued and acknowledged in the urban project—in Naples and in contemporary cities elsewhere." · Society and Space
"Naples must be one of the ethnographically most researched cities in the world. In this multi-method study of three areas of urban regeneration, however, Nick Dines breaks new ground by cross-cutting traditional methodological divisions to produce an intensely detailed and conceptually original analysis of a recent phase in Neapolitan history… By combining ethnographic observation over many years with both interviews and surveys, Dines breaks with narrow disciplinary habits, and contextualizes, historically as well as culturally, key events and movements that have shaped the city's present-day configuration." · Qualitative Research
"This is a perceptive book and worthwhile read for the true urbanist. It effectively demonstrates, and even showcases, the value of ethnography as a methodology, and any reader would be appreciative of the pointed detail of the archival research. The lessons it offers from Naples on the politics of public space will be of value to anyone studying the contemporary city." · The AAG Review of Books
"Nick Dines' painstaking study is a fitting and welcome contribution. Drawing on meticulous and extensive fieldwork conducted during the period of urban renewal dubbed the 'Neapolitan Renaissance', the book provides an extremely innovative perspective on Naples compared to the mainstream literature…From the outset, the study acts as a powerful tool of deconstruction of the discourses that have framed the city in the contemporary era. Atavistic backwardness, violent plebeianism, irresolvable passivity, unstoppable passion and an irreparable lack of civicness have been accorded varying levels of significance over the course of time but nonetheless remain a permanent feature of all narratives about Naples." · Il Manifesto
"…a well-written, lively and stimulating study… Current public debates on the so-called Neapolitan Renaissance of the 1990s have often been reduced to the simplistic refrain that 'it was all a question of image'. Tuff Cityinstead returns to the city's recent past to critically engage with the myriad changes that took place, including shifts in public discourse." · Il Matino
"This is an important book. In a whole series of ways this study of contemporary Naples will set a bench-mark for urban studies and the way urban history is carried out. It is a book about Naples and thus about the particularities and peculiarities of that specific city. However, this is also a book which goes way beyond Naples itself. It has a lot to tell us about the way the city can and should be studied – about urban studies methodologies – and in this area it is highly original and in some ways sets a new agenda for other researchers, historians, anthropologists, ethnologists, and those using cultural studies approaches." · John Foot, University College London
"This is one of the best books I have read: beautifully written and extremely well researched (a refreshing mix of archival research and participant observation) and superbly theorized, with an impressive knowledge of the range of urban theory, as well as meticulous historical contextualization." · Jo Labanyi, New York University
"…[A]n interesting and readable text. It is scholarly, ambitious in scope and well written." · Victoria Goddard, Goldsmiths, University of London
During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.
Nick Dines lived and worked in Naples for seven years. He is research fellow in Sociology at Middlesex University, London.
Subject: Urban Studies Sociology General Anthropology
Area: Southern Europe
LC: HT169.I84N3453 2012
BISAC: SOC026030 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Urban; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural; SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/General
BIC: JFSG Urban communities; JHBD Population & demography
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PART I: URBAN CHANGE IN AN ORDINARY CITY: NAPLES DURING THE 1990s
Chapter 1. The Centro Storico: History of a Concept and Place
Chapter 2. Between the General and the Particular: A Neapolitan Version of 'Urban Regeneration'
Chapter 3. The Left, the Politics of Citizenship and Shifting Ideas about Naples
Chapter 4. Public Space and Urban Change
PART II: THE MAKING OF A REGENERATION SYMBOL: HERITAGE, DECORUM AND THE INCURSIONS OF THE EVERYDAY IN PIAZZA PLEBISCITO
Chapter 5. Enter the Historic Piazza
Chapter 6. From Royal Courtyard to Car Park
Chapter 7. The Regeneration of Piazza Plebiscito
Chapter 8. Sous les Pavés, la Place! An Ethnography of the New Piazza Plebiscito
Chapter 9. Exit Piazza Plebiscito: Rethinking 'Civic' Space
PART III: DEPROVINCIALISING URBAN REGENERATION: PIAZZA GARIBALDI AND IMMIGRATION DURING THE BASSOLINO ERA
Chapter 10. Enter the Station Piazza
Chapter 11. Antechamber to the Southern Italian Capital (1860-1994
Chapter 12. Piazza Garibaldi as an Unregenerate Space (1994-2001)
Chapter 13. Mapping Immigrant Experiences in and of Piazza Garibaldi
Chapter 14. Exit Piazza Garibaldi: (Re)connecting Immigration and Urban Renewal
PART IV: AN ALTERNATIVE IDEA OF PUBLIC SPACE: THE CENTRO SOCIALE IN MONTESANTO
Chapter 15. Enter a Neighbourhood Park
Chapter 16. The Popular Neighbourhoods in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 17. Diego Armando Maradona Montesanto (DAMM): Collective Action over Public Space in Montesanto
Chapter 18. Exit DAMM: The Constitutive Role of Collective Action upon Public Space
Conclusion: Rethinking Urban Change in Late Twentieth-Century Naples
Glossary of Italian Terms


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CMU Wind Symphony Presents World Premiere of Commissioned Work
This December, the Colorado Mesa University Wind Symphony presents the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by guest composer Paul Dooley.
This special event is coming to the Robinson Theatre at the Moss Performing Arts Center on Friday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. According to a press release from CMU's Department of Music:
The new piece, titled The Spellbook, is a sonic tale inspired by Dooley's larger orchestral work, The Conductor's Spellbook, which is a narrated symphonic story that is a cross between Peter and the Wolf and Harry Potter. The Spellbook opens with the haunting sounds of the lowest clarinet instruments and contra bassoon, and winds its way through an exciting story told through contemporary harmonies and intense chromaticism.
The world premiere is part of CMU's Best of the West Music Festival. The event is possible due to the generous support of Karen Combs, and brings in three guest conductors, a guest artist and a composer-in-residence each year.
According to the CMU press release, the guest artist for Best of the West 2019 is Joe Burgstaller, trumpet professor at Arizona State University and former member of the Canadian Brass. Burgstaller will perform a recital Thursday, December 5 in the Moss Center's Love Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
How does the Best of the West festival involve students? Over 260 high school students will be in attendance at the three day festival and will be placed in three bands conducted by guest conductors Emily Moss of California State University – Los Angeles, Katie Zdanowski of Montezuma-Cortez High School, and Mike Perez of Kinard Middle School.
The high school bands will perform a concert at 3pm on Saturday, December 7 in the Robinson Theatre. That concert will be free and open to the public. For more information regarding the Best of the West festival, check out the CMU website.
Over the years, I've attended several performances during the Best of the West festival. They are always fantastic. The world premiere of commissioned works are particularly exciting. Don't miss the opportunity to be on hand when a CMU ensemble debuts a new composition.
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sugar is hidden EVERYWHERE. We often think of sugar as cakes, sweets, table sugar, but forget to think about the amount of sugar in things that we see as 'savoury' items.
Most worryingly are the items that are billed as 'healthy'. When things are described are 'low fat', sugar is almost always added to improve the taste after the fat is removed. Take a Starbucks Green Tea Matcha Latte; we know the benefits of green tea and matcha and so it would easy to think this might be a healthy drink, but this latte is packed with 32 grams of sugar – that's the equivalent of drinking a full fat can of Coca-Cola.
To cut down on sugar we must first find out where it hiding, so always read the label. Rule of thumb is that if it comes in a bottle, carton (fruit juice is the worst), jar, can or packet and has a shelf life of more than 3 days then it's probably got sugar in abundance. Aim to eat organic and fresh produce as much as possible.
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Rule of thumb is clearing out your naughty cupboard because we all know that when a craving really hits, no amount of reasoning can stop our hand reaching into that cookie jar. Instead, fill your fridge with healthy alternatives, such as vegetable crudites with hummus. And love Herbal tea - Liquorice and Cinnamon Tea because it tastes sweet and warming and feels like a treat without any of the guilt.
It is a lot easier to stick to something when it has a timeline. So, if you decide you want to see if you can give up sugar for a month, put a date in your diary a month from now so your subconscious can work towards that date. You can write a little diary to show how you feel each day, it only has to be a sentence but it will really help you to see your journey. It might say something like 'today was hard but I feel really proud I succeeded' or 'I woke up feeling amazing today because I slept so much better last night'.
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Remember, this process is about loving yourself and nourishing your body, it's not about depriving yourself or punishing yourself.


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Die Rhein-Main-Universitäten (RMU) sind eine strategische Allianz der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und Technischen Universität Darmstadt.

Studium und Lehre
Bundesweit einzigartig sind die von den RMU  eingeführten Kooperationsstudiengänge und das zum Wintersemester 2020/21 angestrebte RMU-Studium. Die kooperativen Studiengänge sind Studiengänge, die von zwei der Partneruniversitäten angeboten werden und aus Lehrveranstaltungen an beiden Universitäten bestehen. Damit entstehen Studiengänge, die vorher nicht alleine von den Universitäten hätten angeboten werden können. Die Studenten sind dann an beiden Universitäten eingeschrieben. Das RMU-Studium stellt eine Erweiterung neben einem eigenständigen Studiengang dar und soll den Studenten der Universitäten erlauben, an Lehrveranstaltungen der anderen Universitäten teilnehmen zu können. Eine Anrechnung der Credit-Points soll auch erfolgen. Dazu werden die Studenten an alle Universitäten eingeschrieben.

Forschung
Innerhalb der RMU existieren rund 30 gemeinsame Forschungsverbünde und Forschungsnetzwerke (Stand: März 2020). Die RMU haben zur Förderung gemeinsamer Forschungsaktivitäten den RMU-Initiativfonds Forschung aufgesetzt. Der RMU-Initiativfonds fördert Projekte in zwei Förderlinien. Die Förderlinie I dient der Förderung von etablierten Verbundforschungsprojekten und die Förderlinie II der Anbahnung von Verbundforschungsprojekten.

Kurzübersicht
Zahlen zu der Allianz sind:

 15.600 Absolventen (Wintersemester 2018/19)
 1.700 Promotionen (Wintersemester 2018/19)
 22 Außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen (2019)
 526 Mio. Euro an Drittmitteln (2018)
 21 Sonderforschungsbereiche (2019)
 14 DFG-Graduiertenkollegs (2019)
 41 ERC-Förderungen (2019)

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Hochschulnetzwerk
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
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Tadic seeks quick formation of a new government to limit ultra-nationalists' power.
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It is not clear if the UN report, which is expected to be given to diplomats involved in the Kosovo status negotiations, will be immediately made public.
"The so-called Democrats cannot agree on anything, let alone the new government"
Bozidar Djelic, considered most likely to become the prime minister in a coalition government of pro-Western reformist parties, warned that releasing the UN report before the formation of a new government would only serve the ultra-nationalists.
The ultra-nationalist Radicals won 28.3 per cent of Sunday's vote, the state electoral commission said Monday.
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Why are we so terrible in nail biters?
"Pressure is a funny thing" said Steve Waugh in the wake of Australia's ground breaking triumph in the Caribbean in mid-1995.
"It causes you to do things you don't think you would do (good or bad)."
Cricket is full of different pressure-type situations which can even vary from format to format, while also remaining fundamentally the same.
A batting side grimly holding on trying to force a draw on the last day of a Test they cannot possibly win is different to a defending team in a one-day match exploiting the chasing team's need to score quickly in order to dismiss their batsmen.
Then there's a team just containing the others so that when they run out of overs they do not have enough runs, remembering obviously that a draw is not an option in the abbreviated one innings form of the game.
I do not have the precise statistics, nor shall I search for them unless this Covid Crisis sees me out of work for years to come, but I remember vividly, during the Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting eras, as well as to a lesser extent the Michael Clarke era, and even during Mark Taylor's brief stint in charge of the one day team, the phenomenal frequency that Australia would prevail over small, even single figure run margin victories sealed in the dying overs of the run chase in limited overs matches.
This being the case, why then is our record in similar nail biters in the purer form of the game so abysmal in my near 40-year career as a follower of the international game?
Since 1981, there have been 18 Tests involving Australia that have been decided by less than 20 runs or only two or one wickets – and Australia have been the vanquished on 15 of those occasions.
What has proved a repetitive heartbreak for those of us willing them on is that they always fall prey to the same twist in the script time and time again.
We have only prevailed on a mere three occasions – and two of those were against the Saffies during their choker era – and one of them was a dead rubber. The third occasion was against an emerging nation of the time, Sri Lanka in 1992.
Marnus Labuschagne plays a cover drive. (Photo by Stephen Blackberry/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Why do we always get so near and yet so far?
Here is the statistical breakdown from those 15 losses from 18 nail-biter games since 1981.
Of the 15 chokes, ten involved us chasing, of which six featured a significant partnership for either the last or second-last wicket after we had been all but dead and buried and nowhere near the target.
Of the five where the other country was chasing, four also involved a significant partnership for either of the final two wickets, the difference being that when we were chasing we fell over at the final tiny hurdle, whereas on the occasions the opponents were chasing we were not able to induce them to do the same.
I do not have the answer to the forlorn question 'why?', but I aim to provide a brief summary of the 18 matches in question in chronological order.
I am not so interested in the match scores, or whether someone followed on, or who made centuries but will merely provide the venue, the year, the opposition (for games in Australia) as well as the result in runs or wickets.
The only other thing I will provide is the occurrence, if applicable, of a significant partnership for the final or second last wicket in the chasing team's innings. This didn't actually occur in any of the three nail biters that we won in the 39-year period under scrutiny.
The ones we lost
Headingly 1981
Lost by 18 runs
Melbourne 1982-83 v ENGLAND
Lost by 3 runs
Last wicket stand of 70 when 74 more were needed (for victory)
Adelaide 1992-93 v WEST INDIES
Lost by 1 run
9th wicket stand of 42 when 84 more were needed followed by a 10th wicket stand of 40
Sydney 1993-94 v SOUTH AFRICA
9th wicket stand of 35 when 42 more were needed
Karachi 1994
Lost by 1 wicket
Last wicket stand of 57
The Oval 1997
Bridgetown 1999
9th wicket partnership of 54 when 60 were needed
Lost by 2 wickets
Edgbaston 2005
Mohali 2010
9th wicket stand of 81 when 92 were needed
Hobart 2011-12 v NEW ZEALAND
Last wicket stand of 34 when 42 were needed
Trent Bridge 2013
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The ones we won
Colombo 1992
Won by 16 runs
Port Elizabeth 1997
Won by 2 wickets
Officially won by two wickets but it was a virtual one-wicket victory given that Justin Langer was never going to bat in second innings.
That victory in Johannesburg was also a dead rubber. Of the losses already listed, there was only one 'pure' dead rubber – The Oval 1997 – while Melbourne 1998-99 was a virtual dead rubber in the context that England could still square the series, but Australia had already retained the Ashes.
It is interesting that all three of the wins came during Australia's great era that began in the twilight of Border's career and ended pretty much with the retirement of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. However, eight of the 15 losses under consideration also came during this same period.
Shane Warne of Australia (Photo by Hamish Blair/Getty Images)
To finish off, it should be recognised that such narrow margins of victory or defeat are far rarer in Test cricket than one day cricket (I am not interested in T20). Test cricket, as the ultimate form of the game, brings with it considerable other types of pressure situations that make a team great or simply break them or even something in between.
For example, Steve Waugh might go in on the first morning at 3 for 30 and halt the rot before fighting his way back on top and Australia might go on to win convincingly by 100 runs or more.
Or conversely, a team batting first might be skittled for 170 and then fight back to have the side batting second 4 for 40, only for a vital catch to then go down which ultimately proves costly as a huge partnership is subsequently built that paves for way for a comprehensive innings victory or even ten-wicket triumph.
That is ultimately what superiority is about in Test cricket.
However, it does not hide the white elephant in the room that we simply suck in Test matches that go right down to the wire.
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Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (UK) is pleased to announce its inaugural Undergraduate Essay Prize in Japanese Art History. The Prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate student paper in Japanese art history or related field and will recognize the author's exceptional academic promise and scholarly potential.
We welcome submissions from undergraduate students from any university worldwide.
The winner will receive an award of 500 GBP, and the runner-up of 250 GBP, and they will have an opportunity to present their work to the academic community of the Sainsbury Institute and the Centre of Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia. In addition, the winner will be offered a scholarship of half of domestic tuition fees for the MA course in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies (University of Easy Anglia, https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/postgraduate/ma-interdisciplinary-japanese-studies).
Submissions should include:
- an abstract of 250 words
- essay of up to 5000 words (Times New Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced)
- illustrations and references
- current CV
Please submit all documents as a single PDF file (not to exceed 10 MB) per email to sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org. All submissions must be in English. Submission deadline is May 31, 2022, and the winner will be announced by the end of June.
We are looking forward to your submission!
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, PhD
Lecturer (assistant professor) in Japanese Arts, Culture, and Heritage
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
64 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH, UK
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UN Climate Boss Resigns in Scandal, Says Mission Is "Religion"
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Indeed it is a cult. — jtl, 419
by Alex Newman via The New American
As if to confirm the widespread view among skeptics of man-made climate-change theories that global-warming alarmism is akin to a religious cult, United Nations "climate science" boss Rajendra K. Pachauri admitted in his resignation letter this week that his crusade to purportedly save the planet from CO2 is more than just a mission — it is his "religion." The chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to step down this week after 13 years on the job amid accusations and court proceedings surrounding alleged sexual harassment, stalking, and criminal intimidation of a female researcher.
Perhaps more important than why he is stepping down is the explosive revelation contained in his resignation letter hinting at the true nature of his radical cause. "For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission," Pachauri wrote. "It is my religion and my dharma." According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, the term dharma in Hinduism is a "fundamental concept" that refers to "the order and custom which make life and a universe possible, and thus to the behaviors appropriate to the maintenance of that order." It was traditionally associated with sacrifices to the Hindu gods.
Of course, critics and skeptics of the UN IPCC — who have pointed out the UN's failed alarmist predictions and its increasingly outlandish pronouncements — have long contended that anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW) theorists are a cult. One of the primary reasons for the association is that despite observable evidence discrediting virtually every falsifiable forecast offered by the UN-backed alarmist camp (warming and cooling), AGW believers continue to cling to their theory. For example, there has been no global warming in almost two decades, as Pachauri admitted, despite UN IPCC predictions of accelerated temperature increases. Too, there have been record-high levels of sea ice in recent years, again defying alarmist forecasts.
Like a cult, the alarmists defend the theory with increasing extremism, even calling for skeptics to be re-educated, imprisoned, and executed. Pachuri himself publicly wished in 2010 that skeptics of his theory would "apply asbestos to their faces every day." Citing those trends, just last month, MIT Meteorology Professor Emeritus Richard Lindzen publicly compared the alarmist movement to a religious cult. "As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart, instead of saying, 'oh, we were wrong,' they get more and more fanatical," he said. "I think that's what's happening here. Think about it…. You've led an unpleasant life, you haven't led a very virtuous life, but now you're told, you get absolution if you watch your carbon footprint. It's salvation!"
During the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, Christ the Redeemer — Rio de Janeiro's most famous landmark, a massive statue of Jesus Christ on top of Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio — was illuminated using bright green lights. AGW skeptics at the radical UN confab told this reporter that the stunt was a fitting symbol for the controversial summit in more ways than one. Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy advisor to former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and one of the most well-known opponents of the UN's supposed environmental agenda, called it "a kind of childish message that the environmental religion is now replacing Christianity." Attending the conference made that clear as well.
According to Lord Monckton, those who have lost the "true faith" nevertheless felt the need for religion and a common bond between themselves — and thought they had found it "in the spurious nostrums of Marxist environmentalism." Indeed, shortly before the UN "sustainability" summit began, green legend James Lovelock — the scientist and environmentalist who first came up with the whole Earth-as-goddess "Gaia" concept — warned that the "green religion" was now "taking over from the Christian religion." Numerous experts, Christians, and scientists have made similar arguments in recent years.
Two years before the UN Rio+20 sustainability summit, meanwhile, a UN "climate" summit in Cancun began with UN climate-policy boss Christiana Figueres offering a prayer to the ancient Mayan jaguar goddess known as Ixchel. Describing the mythic entity as a goddess associated with the moon, reason, creativity, and weaving — while carefully omitting Ixchel's association with war, human sacrifice, and cannibalism — Figueres called on Ixchel to "inspire" the climate delegates.
"May she inspire you, because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools," Figueres said in the opening speech. "Excellencies, the goddess Ixchel would probably tell you that a tapestry is the result of the skillful interlacing of many threads…. I am convinced that 20 years from now, we will admire the policy tapestry that you have woven together and think back fondly to Cancun and the inspiration of Ixchel." More recently, Figueres admitted the UN was seeking to transform the world's economic system and claimed the godless Communist Chinese system was better suited to fight "global warming" than the U.S. Constitution and the government it created.
With Pachauri's admission that his zeal to supposedly save the planet from humans and their essentially insignificant CO2emissions — a fraction of one percent of the greenhouse gases naturally in the atmosphere — is actually a religious calling, critics say it is time for a major overhaul of the "missionary" UN IPCC. Among the voices calling for reform was the Global Warming Policy Forum, which has long warned that the IPCC leadership was losing scientific objectivity and adopting environmentalism as a missionary cause.
During Pachauri's tenure, the GWPF said, the world has witnessed a "near-complete shutting down of open scientific debate, militant hostility to any questioning of the claims or assertions of the IPCC, and the zealous promulgation of costly and irrational energy policies with inadequate regard for the balancing of human costs and benefits." "It is clear that a missionary environmentalist mindset has been embedded at the highest levels of the IPCC, and we reiterate our concerns that it has been spreading throughout the organization, with the full support of the leadership," the forum continued in its statement about Pachauri's admission.
"We call upon policymakers to begin asking some overdue questions about this organization upon which they rely so heavily," the GWPF concluded. "In particular, we are left to wonder how Dr. Pachauri's extreme biases have affected the work of the IPCC in recent years and the advice it gives to governments."
Climate Depot editor Marc Morano, meanwhile, suggested that Pachauri's departure would offer a big boost to the IPCC, but that it should have come years ago. "If Pachauri had any decency, he would have resigned in the wake of the Climategate scandal which broke in 2009," Morano said in a statement, referring to the infamous e-mails showing "climate scientists" conspiring to unlawfully mislead the world about their theory. "Climategate implicated the upper echelon of UN IPCC scientists in attempting to collude and craft a narrative on global warming while allowing no dissent. Or Pachauri could have resigned when he … conceded that the IPCC was at the 'beck and call' of governments."
"There were so many opportunities to do the right thing and fade away," added Morano, a former staffer for current Senate Environment Committee Chairman and prominent AGW skeptic Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.). "But it took the proceedings of the Indian court system over the allegations of sexual harassment to finally bring Pachauri down. Things can only be looking up for the UN IPCC now that it has ridded itself of this political and ethical cancer."
Fiddling with the data and pumping out unwarranted alarmism have become par for the course at the UN. Apparently, though, sexual harassment is common at the UN as well. A 2009 Wall Street Journal report noted that the outfit has been struggling to deal with "an embarrassing string of sexual-harassment complaints within its own ranks." In addition to widespread sexual harassment, UN "peace" troops have been exposed systematically raping and sexually exploiting civilians and children from the Ivory Coast and Somalia to Haiti and Cambodia. In just one Ivorian town, a survey of minor girls revealed that eight out of 10 admitted to regularly being raped and forced into sexual acts by UN soldiers.
Of course, Pachauri is not the only top-level AGW theorist to be accused of sexual harassment, either. Former U.S. vice president and self-styled climate expert Al Gore, for example, in addition to being embarrassingly wrong on his outlandish predictions, has been accused of sexual assault by multiple alleged victims. Some commentators even suggested that Gore, who has profited handsomely from the alarmism he promotes, would be a good candidate to take Pachauri's job.
A better proposal, though, would be for the U.S. government to withdraw from the UN and defund its religious climate charade. After all, the First Amendment prohibits Congress from making any laws respecting an establishment of religion. If Pachauri's resignation letter is to be believed, funding the IPCC and the UN's climate hysteria with U.S. tax dollars is promoting a (pseudo-)religion and therefore, unconstitutional by definition.
Photo of Rajendra K. Pachauri: Marshall.niles
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Environmental & Natural Resource Economics: The Austrian View
Dr Jimmy T (Gunny) LaBaume
Is now available in both PAPERBACK and Kindle
Murray N. Rothbard was the father of what some call Radical Libertarianism or Anarcho-Capitalism which Hans-Hermann Hoppe described as "Rothbard's unique contribution to the rediscovery of property and property rights as the common foundation of both economics and political philosophy, and the systematic reconstruction and conceptual integration of modern, marginalist economics and natural-law political philosophy into a unified moral science: libertarianism."
This book applies the principles of this "unified moral science" to environmental and natural resource management issues.
The book started out life as an assigned reading list for a university level course entitled Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: The Austrian View.
As I began to prepare to teach the course, I quickly saw that there was a plethora of textbooks suitable for universal level courses dealing with environmental and natural resource economics. The only problem was that they were all based in mainstream neo-classical (or Keynesian) theory. I could find no single collection of material comprising a comprehensive treatment of environmental and natural resource economics based on Austrian Economic Theory.
However, I was able to find a large number of essays, monographs, papers delivered at professional meetings and published from a multitude of sources. This book is the result. It is composed of a collection of research reports and essays by reputable scientists, economists, and legal experts as well as private property and free market activists.
The book is organized into seven parts: I. Environmentalism: The New State Religion; II. The New State Religion Debunked; III. Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; IV. Interventionism: Law and Regulation; V. Pollution and Recycling; VI. Property Rights: Planning, Zoning and Eminent Domain; and VII. Free Market Conservation. It also includes an elaborate Bibliography, References and Recommended Reading section including an extensive Annotated Bibliography of related and works on the subject.
The intellectual level of the individual works ranges from quite scholarly to informed editorial opinion.
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Breaking the fourth wall is a cardinal sin of comic writing. This is the only time I've ever done it, and will likely remain the only time.
This strip specifically was an apology to my readers at the time it was published; I was finishing up my Bachelor's degree at SCAD, and my updates had grown rather sporadic over time.


He will then arrive at a true joy, as follows: In order to comfort his heart in double measure, let him — in the wake of the above words of truth concerning his lowly spiritual stature — tell himself the following.
The comfort is dual: not only is his depression eliminated, but he will also attain a joy which he would never experience were it not for his earlier depression.
Let him say to his heart: "Indeed, without a doubt, I am far removed, utterly remote from G‑d, and am despicable, contemptible, and so on.
But all this is true only of me — that is, my body and the animating soul within it.
Yet within me there is a veritable 'part' of G‑d, which is present even in the most worthless of my fellows, so that even if I am no better than he, I still have this 'part' of G‑d within me, namely, the divine soul and the spark of G‑dliness itself clothed in it, animating it.
It is only that when the body and animating soul are in such a lowly state, the divine soul is in exile within them.
the deeper in exile is my divine soul, and all the more is it to be pitied.
i.e., as it was before being clothed in my body, when it was completely absorbed in G‑d's light and united with Him.
"Now too will it likewise be absorbed and united with Him once again, when I concentrate all my aspirations on the Torah and the mitzvot, in an effort to clothe therein all [of the soul's] ten faculties; i.e., by applying my mental faculties to Torah study, and my emotive faculties to the performance of the mitzvot with the vitality lent them by the love and fear of G‑d, as explained above in ch. 4. Thus will my divine soul be reunited with G‑d.
This denotes the "good deeds" which one does with the intention of returning the soul which is part of G‑d, to the [Divine] source and root of all the worlds.
This, then, should be one's lifelong aim in the service of G‑d with great joy — the joy of the soul upon leaving the loathsome body, and returning, during one's study of the Torah and service of G‑d through prayer, to "her father's house as in her youth," i.e., to the unity with G‑d that it enjoyed before it descended into the body.
This corresponds to the statement of our Sages 11 that one ought to engage inteshuvah throughout his life.
However, teshuvah as explained here, returning the soul to its source, is something in which one may well engage throughout his life — whenever he studies Torah or performs a mitzvah.
and who then goes free to the house of his father, the king.
Such a prince, descended from the Supreme King, is the soul — and by means of the Torah and the mitzvot it is redeemed from the captivity and degradation imposed on it by the body.
since the essential character of the animal soul has not been transformed to good, so that it might be absorbed into the realm of holiness.
Yet, let his divine soul be more precious to him than his loathsome body, so that he rejoices in the soul's joy at its liberation, through the observance of the Torah and themitzvot, from the exile of the body, without letting the sadness on account of the lowly state of his body interferewith or disturb the joy of the soul.
12. Cf. Shoftim 16:21; Rashbam on Shemot 11:5.
13. The term "serpent" refers to the three utterly impure kelipot. The body of a Jew, which derives its vitality from kelipat nogah, is thus the "skin" – the "outer shell," so to speak, of the "serpent." The subject is explained at length by R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (author of Tzemach Tzedek) in his Sefer HaChakirah, p. 136.


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Yeah, the ones they sell at the food court are good, but these are the frozen ones that come out of a box. They never turn out well, and if you don't eat them fast enough they turn to stone.
Since we were sort of "celebrating" last night, we went out for Southern food.
That looks so good... dunno about the collard greens bit, but the rest... yum!
Tried one of those new Doritos taco bell taco things... not that impressive.
Delicious pizza bagels. I took a picture but my phone is being stupid.... well Facebook is being stupid actually.
But yeah... it is comprised of pizza bagels from my work (it has herbs inside, and sauce and cheese baked on top), with basil pesto, mozzarella cheese, and grilled chicken (plus some Italian seasoning). SO GOOD!
Just made a meatloaf. Had it with barbecue sauce. There's still half left. I just hope my dad doesn't come home and go, "All right, no going out tonight. We've got dinner right here!"
A little meatloaf is great. Too much makes me want to kick puppies.
Creamy potato, cheddar, and bacon soup on a cold, rainy day. As good as it gets.
Digiorno Meatball Marinara pizza... quite tasty indeed, but still not as good as Deli News in Long Beach.
Chicken parmesan with butternut squash risotto. Oh, I love you too, Fresh & Easy.
I miss Fresh & Easy.
Last night was corned beef with potatoes, carrots and onions cooked in Sam Adam's in a crock pot. It was good, but I would have enjoyed it better if the potatoes had been done separate.
This morning I am thinking of finishing off the leftover chicken and egg noodle marinara dish from the night before. Cold breakfast doesn't appeal to me and I am tired of bagels.
Yeah, I've got leftover Chinese food and seafood fettuccine and half a pattymelt from a week ago to work through.
On top of that there's all this cheese that Stitch and I bought in Palo Alto that I'm slowly starting to break into while he's away. Still leaving enough for him when he gets back.
Meatballs and potatoes au gratin... best. comfort food. ever!
Better fresh, but reheated is still very yummy.
Made a sourdough bread bowl of black bean jalapeno soup with a mountain of pepper jack cheese on top for dinner. Good stuff.
Hot Pocket now, diarrhea later.
Bought some squash blossoms at the farmers market, stuffed them with ricotta and fried them up.
So I have to ask, just what does a squash blossom taste like?
Well, when we were eating them with the ricotta I could taste more of the flower, which, oddly, had almost a banana-like flavor to it. It's kind of sweet.
When I made them with the chevre, there was so much more flavor and they were amazing and the cheese was so much more manageable than the messy ricotta, which wasn't holding the flowers shut. But you couldn't taste the flower.
We did Shakespeare in the park last (they did "Macbeth"), and as usual, we had our little selection of meats and cheeses. This time from Trader Joe's. We discovered the awesomeness that was a blueberry vanilla chevre on challah. That was a real dessert.
Nilla Wafers and chocolate milk = SSS Combo.


Who I'd Recommend to: Fans of fractured fairy tales, and the Whatever After series.
Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it's up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him ...except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they're in danger. With only the help of the ragtag group of Goldilocks, Jack, Red Riding Hood, and Mother Goose and her gander, Lester, the Bailey twins discover the Masked Man's secret scheme: he possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness of Wonderland, and beyond. Can Alex and Conner catch up to the Masked Man, or will they be one step behind until it's too late? Fairy tales and classic stories collide in the fourth adventure in the bestselling Land of Stories series as the twins travel beyond the kingdoms!
My Thoughts: First of, best cover yet! Second of all, this book was too short. (I know, I know, it was 432 pages, but let me explain). There was only one chapter spent (for the most part, minus King Arthur and Robin Hood) in each story. Plus, I also disliked how un-Alexy Alex is becoming - she doesn't even appear as horrified as the two books before at her powers - and the Ungodmothering was a little too abrupt. One last thing I disliked was the absence of Froggy and Jack and Goldilocks (they were in this book a little bit, just for the first few chapters).
Moving on, everything else I loved. I loved Alex and Arthur, and how Colfer brought Bree and Emmerich back into the story. I'm very curious to see what will happen with Bree and the witches, and if Arthur will try to find a portal back to Alex. The last sentence was also a cliffhanger, so I'm really excited to see where Colfer goes with that in the next book.
Another thing that I love about this series is the fun writing style Colfer has. I've read reviews that complain that his writing needs some work, which is understandable, but I disagree. (I recently saw an interview with Colfer where he said that he's been working on this idea since age seven (!).) The writing feels exciting and I've never had a boring spot - something always seems to be happening.
Overall, just one of the many amazing books in this series, and I'm excited to read more.


Bicycle Accidents Category Archives — Miami Injury Lawyer Blog Published by Miami, Florida Personal Injury Lawyers — Gerson & Schwartz, P.A.
Bicycle injuries are common across the world, and despite regulations and rules regarding bike safety, it does not appear that accidents have lessened. A recent case in Ireland is an example of how a cyclist can fight for his or her rights and obtain the compensation deserved following an accident. While not all cyclists have a case, if a bicycle accident was caused by another motorist, it may be wise to consider some type of personal injury lawsuit. This could help cover medical fees along with any other expenses related to the accident.
If you or a loved one have experienced a personal injury related to a biking accident, you may wish to seek an attorney that will help you obtain the compensation you deserve. The Miami personal injury lawyers at Gerson & Schwartz, PA provides a FREE initial consultation to discuss your case. Simply call (305) 371-6000 or toll free at (877)-475-2905. You can also contact us online at info@gslawusa.com.
We discuss causation (sometimes called proximate cause) often in this blog, and for good reason. It's usually the most difficult part of an injury lawsuit to prove, and defendants often challenge proximate cause vigorously at trial. Additionally, the concept of causation is often so vague that different courts may appear to rule differently in every factual scenario.
Just as it sounds, proximate cause asks whether the defendant's negligence actually caused the injury. By way of example, assume a car rear-ends a vehicle driven by a person with a heart condition. Two days later, that person dies of a heart attack. Did the accident cause the death, or the heart condition?
Early this month, a young couple, Rob Lemon, 25, and Hilary Michalak, 25, were struck by a motorist while riding their tandem bike on the Memorial Causeway in Clearwater, Florida. According to reports, the force of the impact shattered the bike and threw the pair over 50 feet. Although both individuals were wearing helmets, Lemon later died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa and Michalak fell into in a coma.
The vehicle that struck Lemon and Michalak did not stop, however, two days after the incident, Christopher Patrick Weed, 29, of Clearwater, came forward and admitted he may have been involved. According to police, Weed claimed that he had blacked out on the way home from and didn't remember hitting anyone.Upon seeing news coverage of the incident, Weed went to police, who later discovered Weed's vehicle had a missing windshield and damage to the front end. Weed was arrested on two felony charges of leaving the scene of a crash.
According to those close to the victims, both were aware of the danger posed by bicycling on Florida's roadways. Both Lemon and Michalak always wore helmets and usually rode their bike on trails to avoid the dangers posed by traffic. Lemon also wore an anklet engraved with his father's name and phone number so that he could be identified and family contacted if he was ever seriously injured.
Florida legislators are considering measures that would repeal Florida's No Fault Benefits, also referred to as Personal Injury Protection. Under the current law, Florida drivers are required to carry up to a total of $10,0000 in coverage. The benefits pays an insured's medical bills and expenses regardless of fault. Currently, the PIP covers up to 80% up to $10,0000 of medical bills and hospital related expenses and up to 60% of wage loss. Once the 10,0000 has been exhausted, accident victims must find other sources such as making a claim against the at fault party. Of course, that assumes the driver of the other vehicle also has coverage for bodily injury. In Florida, unlike many other states, bodily injury coverage is not legally required. Just recently, Florida's PIP laws were changed. Prior to January 1, 2013, there were not as many limitations on personal injury benefits such as who can claim them and under what circumstances. Now, the PIP laws require that injury victims seek medical attention within 14 days of an accident to receive maximum benefits. Other changes to the law require the diagnosis by a medical doctor that an accident victim sustained an "emergency medical condition", among others. The new laws also placed limitations on the types of medical providers that could get paid under PIP. The law now excludes massage therapists and acupuncture all together. The changes, of course were the direct result of insurance companies claiming that the system was being taken advantage of by medical providers and others in car accidents. Attorney referral services and other marketing companies that advertise for car accidents have also been under scrutiny by the Florida Bar. The "savings" argument was that the changes in Florida PIP laws would allow for future lower insurance premiums for all, and that savings would then be passed on to Florida consumers drivers. Of course, that logic and reasoning is now being questioned. In the midst of the new "Affordable Healthcare Act" ready to take effect, law makers are beginning to wonder if personal injury protection benefits will be necessary. Most states, require motor vehicle operators to carry bodily injury insurance. If PIP is repealed in Florida, Florida law would likely require all vehicle owners to carry bodily injury protection as well. Miami, Florida injury attorneys at Gerson & Schwartz, PA believe changes to existing Florida No Fault Laws are a good thing. Since bodily injury coverage is not required in Florida, many accident victims are left with little legal recourse if there is no insurance coverage available. The latest news is that the Florida Senate is considering a bill and other law makers are considering other legislation to address the issue. The bill that is in the works, would repeal Florida's No Fault Benefits. It appears that it may have a chance of being passed by both the house and senate as it appears it has gained much public attention and support.


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Q: how to installation suggesion for mvc4? In my system i have mvc2 and Vs2008(licensed version).I am trying to learn mvc4. if i intall using this link [link][1] will it overwrite my VS 2008 to Vs 2012?  I am still middle of some project with MVC2. basically i want another installtion seperatly vs2012.any suggesions?

A: VS2012 & VS2008 will run along side each other; You'll just get two VS folders in your applications folder (and a VS2012 Projects folder added to My Documents).
The only thing you need to be careful with is opening the project up in VS2012 (as it will want to up-convert it). but there is an option to make a backup usually (or you can do so yourself before trying it).


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Home › News › HSA applauds government announcement on new training spaces for OT and PT
HSA applauds government announcement on new training spaces for OT and PT
The BC government is increasing the number of training seats for occupational therapy and physiotherapy, with new seats coming to Prince George, Vancouver and Fraser Valley.
HSA applauds this announcement. These new training spaces are an important step forward to addressing the growing skills shortage in these professions. HSA has been advocating for increased training opportunities in these and other health science professions to ensure our health care system can deliver robust, team-based, and timely care to all British Columbians.
The government news release states:
"The Province is providing $2.2 million to UBC for startup and planning to expand a master of physical therapy program in the North in partnership with UNBC, with the anticipated first intake of 20 first year students in September 2020. The physical therapy program is also expected to expand with 20 first-year seats in the Fraser Valley by September 2022. Physical therapists are often referred to as physiotherapists.
"The Province is providing an additional $1.1 million to UBC to work toward expanding its master of occupational therapy program in the North in partnership with UNBC, with 16 first-year students in September 2022. The occupational therapy program will also expand by eight seats at UBC Vancouver in September 2020."
The Ministry of Health's Workforce Strategy identified OT and PT as priority professions, acknowledging the important role these professionals play in the delivery of modern health care in BC.
HSA also welcomes the expansion of these training opportunities outside Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. The shortage of health science professionals is being experienced across the province, and providing training opportunities in Prince George will help support the health care needs of the region in the long-term.
Read the government's full news release here: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019AEST0039-001047
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Today's post is about the trunk show I made for Velvet Oak, it was a lot of hard work as PR but at the end everything was worth it! I get to meet a lot of talented people such as the spanish stylist of the VO add campaign Gerard Angulo, Paulina Canales editor of Cosmopolitan México, Alfredo Martinez fashion designer, Lorenza Luquin runway coordinator and finally in person one of my oldest blogger friends Sofia Lascurain from My Philosophie.
The trunk show took place at the Velvet Oak flagship store in León, all our VIP guests were amazed by the colorful Spring collection, and finally we had an exquisite brunch with refreshing champagne mimosas, canapés and macaroons.
My beloved friend Pau Torres, sister of Stylescrapbook. She rocks!
Vanessa Claudio, Miss Black Book and My Philosophie wearing Velvet Oak with Paulina Canales from Cosmopolitan México and Gerard Angulo the stylist of VO add campaign and VOGUE, Marie Claire editorials.
*** El post de hoy es acerca del trunk show que hice para Velvet Oak, fue un montón de trabajo duro como PR, pero al final todo valió la pena! Tuve la oportunidad de conocer a un montón de gente talentosa, como el estilista español de la campaña de VO Gerard Angulo, la editora de Cosmopolitan México Paulina Canales, Alfredo Martínez diseñador de moda, la coordinadora de pasarelas Lorenza Luquin y finalmente en persona a una de mis más viejas amigas bloggers Sofia Lascurain de My Philosophie.
El trunk show tuvo lugar en la tienda insignia de Velvet Oak en León, todos nuestros invitados VIP quedaron sorprendidos con la colección de primavera llena de colores. Finalmente tuvimos un brunch exquisito con mimosas refrescantes, canapés y macarrones.


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Leaders ask: New ways to relate?
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Amid controversy over the licensing of a lesbian pastor, leaders from across Mennonite Church USA asked the Executive Board to explore new models for relationship among area conferences and congregations.
Eighty-four members of the Constituency Leaders Council met March 20-22 at Bethel College. Their discussions were not open to the media but were summarized in a news release.
Court hears religious rights case
A Mennonite-owned cabinet-making business in Pennsylvania was part of a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on March 25 at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lancaster to re-evaluate relationship to MC USA
The Lancaster Mennonite Conference Board of Bishops has called for the conference to re-evaluate its relationship to Mennonite Church USA.
MC USA members speak out to director
NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Ervin Stutzman has received hundreds of emails from people across the range of opinion on homosexuality.
Do companies have religious rights? Supreme Court to rule
WASHINGTON — When two corporations owned by Christian families, one of them Mennonite, filed suit over the Affordable Care Act, they described their complaint in simple terms: The government is forcing them to either break the law or betray their faith.
Modern 'Mirror'
GOSHEN, Ind. — A Congolese pastor who forgave the armed men who had forced him to dig his own grave.
Origins is a topic of tremendous importance. Where did the human race come from? How did we get here? Are we the product of an all-powerful God who designed our amazing bodies and souls and created us for a purpose? Or are we the product of chance combinations of substances over millions of years with no purpose?
Opinion pieces appearing in Mennonite periodicals today include exhortations for patience as the church transitions from believing homosexual intimacy to be a sin to rejecting that belief. As I read I Cor. 5:9-13 I'm not sure Paul would agree with Glenn Balzer's suggestion that "leaving, or expelling, is the sin that should concern us most" ("Don't Leave the Table"). But regardless of whether we should take Paul seriously, thus far there have been few, if any, proposals for accommodating both views of homosexuality in the same body. I would like to encourage practical suggestions for ensuring that both sides get heard to see if that is even possible. I'll start off by suggesting that if congregations or conferences decide homosexual intimacy is not a sin, members with a dissenting viewpoint will be able to periodically announce during services or conferences that it is a sin (of course, other behaviors could also be announced as sins). If unity is going to be our highest priority, we need to start seeing some practical solutions.
It is difficult to understand why the Mennonite Church USA Executive Board cannot trust the Spirit to work in congregations and conferences that do not agree with it. Board members seem to think "the church's organizational structure and official agreements" are more important than "Mountain States Mennonite Conference's work to discern the voice of the Spirit" and the conference's "sincere desire to follow Christ" (quotes are from the board's official statement). Do they think congregations and conferences cannot be trusted to discern God's will? That is sad — and perhaps not very Anabaptist.
Board hears conference leaders' concerns
Leaders of several Mennonite Church USA conferences have expressed concern to the denomination's Executive Board about issues related to homosexuality.
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November 1996 was the eleventh month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Friday, ended on a Saturday after 30 days.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from November 1996.
Al Jazeera, known as a multi-language news channel, begins regular service in Doha, Qatar.
A devastating category 4 cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 people die. 95% of the crops are completely destroyed.
All 141 people on board a Nigerian-owned Boeing 727 die when the aircraft crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while approaching Lagos airport.
13 are killed and 70 wounded in a bomb blast in a Moscow cemetery during a service for veterans of the Afghanistan war.
Queen Elizabeth II leads a Remembrance Day service in London to honour Britain's war dead.
United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali renews his plea for military intervention to save starving in Zaire.
Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76 in New Delhi, India, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.
State Street in Chicago is re-opened to pedestrian traffic.
Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
The scoreboard at Buffalo's $127,500,000 HSBC Arena falls to the ice just hours before a National Hockey League game; no one is injured.
A bomb explosion in Kaspiysk, Russia, kills 32 people.
Bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole, for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring.
Frederick Chiluba is re-elected as President of Zambia.
The 1996 Garley Building fire occurred in Hong Kong, resulting in 41 deaths and 81 injuries.
A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33 people.
Demonstrators in Zagreb demand the survival of Radio 101.
The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola.
An ice storm strikes the U.S., killing 26 directly, hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts Florida; winds gust to 90mph.
The U.S. stock market, especially the Dow Jones Industrial Average, gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 Presidential election. It gains ten days in a row during the month.
The APEC Summit opens in the Philippines.
The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas is imploded to make way for the Venetian Hotel.
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