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BA / BSc (Hons) Game Design and Development
Southwark Campus
Mode: Full-time
Game Design and Development - BA / BSc (Hons)
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Do you live and breathe video games? Come and learn all the key aspects of games development, game programming and game design from lecturers with more than 20 years' experience in the industry!
This award-winning, innovative course will give you the sought-after practical experience of working creatively and collaboratively at the forefront of tech advances. Real-world application of your skills is essential – and you'll have the opportunity to work with external clients and game publishers such as Bethesda and Ubisoft.
LSBU is a centre of excellence for virtual and augmented reality games research in London and also offers development experience in pervasive gaming.
We offer the opportunity for all undergraduate Home/EU students to undertake a work placement, internship or work experience while studying a full-time course starting in September 2021.
Why study Games at LSBU?
Ranked joint 7th in the UK and 1st in London for Graduate Prospects in Art & Design (Complete University Guide 2021)
Breaking boundaries: The course is a centre of excellence for virtual and augmented reality games research in London and also offers development experience in pervasive gaming.
Taught by professionals working in the games industry the course content anticipates and goes beyond industry trends in order that you graduate with cutting edge skills.
Take advantage of our Industry links, such as working on international game development projects with organisations like UNICEF.
Elephant Studios: multi-million pound studio facilities at the forefront of digital technologies and multimedia practice for creative students.
Work experience: Take advantage of volunteering opportunities with the game publishers Ubisoft and Bethesda – and our connections with Eurogamer, BAFTA, Sony, Eidos, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Nintendo, and video game magazine publishing houses including Future and Imagine.
Ranked 1st in London for graduate prospects in Art and Design (Sunday Times League Table 2020).
This course was previously called Game Cultures.
Key course information - ordered by mode
On this course you'll learn the essential skills required to work in the games industry, as well as developing your creativity under the guidance of passionate games industry experts.
You'll learn the technical side of making games and about the gaming industry too – acquiring the creative and organisational skills specific to game production and leadership roles. You can expect to create games for a wide range of gaming platforms: computer games, arcade games, gaming consoles, mobile games and online multi-player gaming. We'll cover: game and level design, life drawing and anatomy, character design, animation, sound design, scriptwriting, 3d modelling, motion capture – all culminating in a major independent project.
Methods of assessment for course overall: 83% coursework
2D Game design
Understanding the principles and practice of game design is a crucial first step in enabling you to build innovative games. In 2D Game Design you'll learn the key elements involved in videogame production by creating a digital game. As a group, you'll develop a game concept and then, in specialist production teams designed around key game industry roles (e.g. producer, artist, designer, sound engineer, programmer) and with an emphasis on QA, you'll realise their game vision. We'll familiarise you with professional skills crucial to the game development process: managing the game asset pipeline, strategies for meeting deadlines, game development project management techniques and, of course, team work. Assessment: group assessment of a game (50%), and an individual assessment of design/programming element taking the form of a level of the game, containing both play element and cut sequence (50%).
Art and sound design
In order to engage effectively in the process of videogame design and development, you need to understand how art and sound perform together as the fundamental building blocks of digital play spaces. In this module you'll learn design techniques and processes integral to art and sound design in videogames. Specifically, you'll learn to observe, record, express and represent both objects and sounds, and, in doing so, explore the interrelationship of the visual and audio in the context of videogame development. The skills you learn in this module will prove invaluable for the complementary 2D Game Design module, whilst also providing a bedrock for production work you take on in subsequent modules. Assessment: Character design—art: oral presentation supported by sketchbook (30%), Character design—sound: oral presentation supported by digital sound files organised in student's sound database (30%) and Cartoon strip/ storyboard cutscene, with an original soundtrack (30 seconds to 1 min) supporting character design. The soundtrack needs to incorporate voice, foley, soundFX and ambient sounds (40%).
Memory games (theory module)
Memory Games traces the rich cultural heritage of videogames. In this module we discuss pivotal events in videogame history and, along the way, pay homage to the designers, developers and players who have made the industry what it is today. During this module you'll take a personal journey, reflecting on the games you play, see why you began to play them and explore what it is about the games you play that makes you continue playing them. Central to this voyage of discovery will be recognising the crucial role the past plays in shaping the games they are going to create in the future. Assessment: 1,500-word videogame essay (75%), and an in-class exam (25%).
3D Modelling introduces the process of creating models in 3D. You'll explore the connections between 2D art and 3D modelling, examining issues such as: perspective, texturing, rendering and lighting. Skills acquired in the 3D Modelling module will prove invaluable for your second and third year production work. Assessment: 3D environment model(s), supported by accompanying workflow post-mortem (100%).
Industry and professional practice
The game industry is one of the most exciting and compelling creative industries to work in, but it is also one of the toughest. Not only is it hard for a young professional to get his or her foot in the door, but rapid technological developments and a lack of open exchange of information due to fierce competition between game companies, make it hard to keep ahead of the game. Industry and professional practice is a module designed to tackle both of these challenges. Through a series of innovative master classes you'll gain insight and knowledge from a diverse group of game industry experts. At the same time, you'll learn the professional codes and conventions of the game industry and develop the professional skills they need to get a job in the game industry. Assessment: game pitch (40%) and CV and portfolio (60%).
The creative industries
A lecture series with accompanying seminars on the topic of The Creative Industries, and visits to TechCity UK and other centres of artistic practice. Assessment: a 1,500-word essay (100%). You'll be given a small range of suggested topics, but you'll also be able to pick a topic of your own choosing, assisted by your seminar group leader.
Story design
All video games tell a story, even Space Invaders. In the twelve-week module Story Design, you'll learn the fundamentals of good writing regardless of intended medium, and then focus more closely on video game specific mechanics, with an emphasis on practical knowledge - how to work with a writer, what formats you need to understand and how to get a job in the first place. We'll strike a balance between the cinematic, high-production values of AAA fare and the more experimental, cutting-edge realm of bedroom development. Even if you have no intention of writing professionally, knowledge of dramatic interactive techniques can still be a fundamental principle of work in production, art and design, and can help you to work with writers in the future. Assessment: a 1,000-word project proposal (25%), and script extracts for beginning and end cut scenes together with the step outline diagram (75%).
Character modelling and animation
Character Modelling and Animation extends the core art concepts, skills and techniques covered in the first year. Here you'll embark on an essential game art task: creating an animated story. You'll learn advanced character modelling techniques and get to grips with the animation pipeline. You'll attend bi-weekly observational and life drawing sessions to support you develop of traditional drawing skills—an essential requirement for game artists. Assessment: portfolio (100%).
3D level design
Stepping up a gear, you will enhance your design skills by creating a game level in 3D using an industry-recognised game engine. The module not only provides you with the practical skills required to effectively create 3D levels, but introduces two key industry professional skills: pitching and writing design documentation. Prior to beginning level production you'll first "pitch" the 3D game your levels will be found in. Then, once green lighted, you'll produce effective written documentation to refer to whilst making your levels. You'll need to think consistently and critically about ideas of play and playing. Assessment: Part 1 - level design document, supported by a 1,000-word game pitch explaining the 3D level (25%); and Part 2 - a 3D level supported by development diary and video walk-through (75%).
Re:creation
Re:Creation marks the halfway point of your degree. Crucially, the Re:Creation module explores the requirements and expectations of two key level 6 modules: the 10,000 word dissertation and the Advanced Game Project. To this effect, you'll identify a potential area of interest for the dissertation, synthesize the various kinds of theory that you have encountered so far on the course and, conduct a literature review in their area of interest. This literature review will provide you with the necessary knowledge required to hone your dissertation ideas and prepare your dissertation proposal. The module also requires you to take an in-depth look at your own professional practice, while planning for the future. You'll prepare for year three's Advanced Game Project module by undertaking one of the most challenging formal communication tasks in the game industry: pitching a game concept. Assessment: 4,500 word dissertation proposal (50%), and a Game Project Pitch and accompanying panel interview (50%).
Every game requires coding. In this module you'll explore key concepts in programming and learn how to apply them to their own game project. Throughout the module sessions you will not only develop your understanding of the fundamentals of game programming, but also further develop your understanding of the game production processes you learned in year 1. You'll also be expected to schedule and accurately track game programming tasks. The module will not only provide you with a conceptual understanding of the programming of games, but will provide you with key project planning and management skills that you can then apply to next year's Advanced Game Project work. Assessment: game programming task (25%) , and a game project (75%).
Collaborative practices
One of the advantages of studying in the School of Arts and Creative Industries is that students have access to all of the student talent enrolled at the school. The Collaborative Practice module sees students across multiple creative media disciplines—film, photography, sound design, games, digital design-- working in development teams to create a compelling and marketable project from initial idea to completion. In doing so, you'll learn how to respond to a brief set by industry and gain essential knowledge about areas related to games. An added bonus is making contacts that you'll most likely keep for life. Assessment: portfolio 100%.
Advanced game project (triple module)
In this module you run a small game development in which you develop the game you pitched in year two. In doing so, you'll demonstrate your skills as a game designer and producer. Moreover, you'll further develop your particular game specialism (e.g. artist) by freelancing on other students' projects. During the module you define a clear brand for your company, plan carefully, protect your assets, manage freelancers and ensure that everything gets done on time. Further, each week you are responsible for demonstrating progress to and documenting feedback from a 'publisher' team comprised of industry specialists. Assessment: Pre-production documents including game concept, game requirements and game plan and business documentation (10%), a playable prototype game or game level(s) (15%), a professionally realised game or game level(s), delivered as a playable build (75%).
Tangible play
So far, you have learned to design and create games at the desktop. Now we move away from the screen and venture into the real world. In this module, you meet with an industry client who will set a game brief they need to respond to by producing both an innovative accessible game prototype and a unique hardware input device for playing the game they've designed. This module asks you to push the boundaries of play and innovation and to consider the everyday landscape as a limitless playground, whilst meeting the requirements of an external client. Assessment: portfolio assessment 100%.
Dissertation (double module)
University-level study involves high-level advanced thinking. This is one of the key factors that differentiates university study from general game training courses. In this module, you'll have the opportunity to conduct original research in an area of your passion or interest directly related to your chosen games specialisation. Drawing on the theoretical and practical understanding you will now have at this point in the course, you will explore a specific subject area of your choice under the guidance of an experienced supervisor. The final dissertation is seen as the expression of your intellectual development, but it's also a good way of demonstrating your ability to a potential employer. Assessment: one 10,000 – 12,000 word dissertation.
Modules are assessed through individual and group projects, development work related to industry roles (e.g. 3D model or game script), critiques, oral presentations and pitches, written reports and essays.
The UK was estimated to be the 5th largest video game market in 2017, where the country's 32.4 million gamers will spend $4.2 billion this year (Newzoo). There is also expanding cross-linking between the games and film industry globally. Read more about the UK games industry.
This course will set you up for a design-related career in the games industry, or game- related jobs in connected industries such as journalism and PR. Recent graduates have become designers, character and environmental artists, and scriptwriters.
Want to hear more about our graduates? Games alumnus Ari Shirazi shares his story of building a career in the games industry; from being a games-obsessed toddler to a Technical Designer at Sony – and on working on some of the world's most popular video games.
During the course we encourage you to engage with outside professional bodies as a means of increasing your profile and gaining experience. Our students have worked with TT Fusion, Crytek, THQ, Electronic Arts, Buena Vista (Disney's game development arm), Square Enix, Sega and PlayGen.
One group of our first-year students was commissioned by the BBC to produce freelance games content. And a group of our second-year students was successfully placed in the highly prestigious Dare to be Digital festival, sponsored by the BBC, Channel Four, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, the Scottish Executive and Rockstar.
Employability Service
We are University of the Year for Graduate Employment for the second year in a row - The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018, 2019.
At LSBU, we want to set you up for a successful career. During your studies – and for two years after you graduate – you'll have access to our Employability Service, which includes:
An online board where you can see a wide range of placements: part-time, full-time or voluntary. You can also drop in to see our Job Shop advisers, who are always available to help you take the next step in your search.
Our Careers Gym offering group workshops on CVs, interview techniques and finding work experience, as well as regular presentations from employers across a range of sectors.
Our Student Enterprise team can also help you start your own business and develop valuable entrepreneurial skills.
As one of the most established games courses in the UK, over the past ten years we've developed an exceptional international network of contacts. Our lecturers coordinate the London Chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and while on the course students' work on international game development projects with organisations such as UNICEF.
The 'out-of-school' perks of being on this course are great, like all the conventions and conferences we are able to attend or volunteer at. There are a lot of opportunities to experience the games industry, hands-on.
Melissa Larsson
We are also members of UKIE and TIGA, are part of the prestigious university games consortium BUGS, and the course director was one of the founders of the Digital Games Research Association and the London Game Research Group. Each year students have the opportunity to volunteer with the game publishers Ubisoft and Bethesda. Our course staff have strong connections with Eurogamer, BAFTA , Sony, Eidos, Ubisoft, Nintendo, and video game magazine publishing houses including Future and Imagine.
The course has an annual guest lecture programme and we host numerous game industry conferences throughout the year. Each year we host the annual IGDA videogame writing panel and Game Camp.
A selection of previous industry speakers:
Rudolf Kremers, Eufloria
Rhianna Pratchett, Tomb Raider, Heavenly Sword, Overlord, Mirror's Edge
James Swallow, Deus Ex 3, Maelstrom, Star Trek Invasion
Andrew S. Walsh, Fable: Legends, Prince of Persia, Harry Potter
Tom Jubert, FTL, Penumbra, Talos Principle
Mike Bithell, Thomas Was Alone, Volume
Dan Pinchbeck, Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Ed Stern, Splash Damage
Roisi Proven, Supermassive Games Ltd.
Rob Bartholomew, Bethesda Softworks
Josh Zammit, Electronic Arts
Mark Morris and Chris Delay, Introversion.
LSBU was shortlisted firstly in the category of best educational institution and secondly in the category of best education initiative & talent development. The latter nomination is for LSBU's collaboration with specialist-technology charity Lifelites, which provides games and game hardware designed by LSBU students to terminally-ill children in hospices.
The collaboration between LSBU and Lifelites is explained by GamesAid.
AIM Awards is the specialist awarding organisation for the Games, Animation and VFX Industries, chosen by major employers to develop this innovative Level 3 Extended Diploma in partnership with them, to prepare students for high level degree courses and Apprenticeships. LSBU currently offers guaranteed interviews to any AIM Awards student wishing to apply for VisualEffects who has successfully passed level 3 or Level 3 equivalent exams.
A dedicated Games studio, motion capture studio, green screen, sound studio, photography studio, specialist library resources.
The Game Design and Development modules are predominantly taught in a specialist Games Studio which features custom-built high-spec PCs and game consoles. Students have access to the Game Studio outside of teaching hours for playing games and working on game projects. You'll spend much of your production time planning, designing and prototyping games using applications such as:
The Unity Game Engine
3D Studio Max and Maya
Zbrush, Adobe Photoshop
The Unreal Development Kit
Oculus Rift SDK
Leap Motion VR SDK
Cubase, Logic, Sound Forge, Audacity, Audition and FMod.
Your Lecturers are leading practitioners in their fields, so everything we do is industry relevant. Inspiring guest speakers from publishers, production houses and creative studios will give you further industry insight and build your professional connections.
Your practical work will be supported by a team of Technical Demonstrators and you'll have access to cutting-edge facilities.
Our approach is grounded in the traditions of art and design, but informed by critical theories drawn from the established international field of Game Studies. You'll benefit from dedicated one-to-one guidance by our experienced lecturers who are active in Game Studies research. As a result, you'll have access to a substantial body of cutting-edge research that will help foster your own practical and intellectual development.
Percentage of time spent in different learning activities
Self-directed learning
Year 1 28% 72%
Year Tutoring
As an undergraduate Arts and Creative Industries student, you will be allocated a named tutor during your first three weeks at LSBU. The role of your tutor is to be your primary contact for academic and professional development support.
Your tutor will support you to get the most of your time at LSBU, providing advice and signposting to other sources of support in the University.
Your tutor should be the first person at the university that you speak to if you are having any difficulties that are affecting your work. These could be academic, financial, health-related or another type of problem.
You will have appointments with personal tutor at least once a semester for 30 minutes throughout your course. You can contact your tutor for additional meetings or support by email.
Dr Mark Simpson
A Level BCC or;
BTEC National Diploma MMM or;
Access to HE qualifications with 9 Distinctions 36 Merits or;
Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 106 UCAS points
Applicants must hold 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent (reformed GCSE grade 4 or above)
We welcome qualifications from around the world. English language qualifications for international students: IELTS score of 6.0 or Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C.
If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.
International (non Home/EU) applicants should follow our international how to apply guide.
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As well as applying through UCAS, international students (non-EU) may complete the LSBU Direct Application Form (DOC File 316 KB) and email it, along with scanned copies of supporting documents, to: international.admissions@lsbu.ac.uk. We need to be emailed scanned copies of the following documents with your application:
academic certificates and transcripts
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passport (photo and ID page)
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Chandler, H. (2009). The game production handbook (2nd ed.). Hingham Mass.: Infinity Science Press.
Salen, K.; Zimmerman, E. (2004). Rules of play : game design fundamentals: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.
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The fee shown is for entry 2020/21
UK/EU fee: £9250 International fee: £14470
AOS/LSBU code: 4989 Session code: 1FS00
Total course fee:
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International £43410
Year 3 FT Southwark SEPT BA
Year 3 FT Southwark SEPT BSc
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LSBU's Game Design and Development course recognised for excellence by TIGA
LSBU Head of Games set to receive Women in Games Award 2016
Blog: My experience of Welcome Week
This blog from Welcome Week was written by Carlos Evans-Godoy, who recently graduated with a BA/BSc in Games Design and Development.
Otavio Pliger, BA / BSc (Hons) Games Design and Development
BA/BSc Game Design and Development student Otavio Pliger shares how his course has encouraged him to pursue his dream career in the gaming industry.
Games Jam, bringing together Games Design and Informatics students to solve a real world challenge
LSBU Games Design and Informatics students collaborate on a unique inter-disciplinary Games Jam challenge to create accessible games
Ary Shirazi, alumnus, building a career in the games industry
Ary reflects on his 7 year career in the games industry; now Technical Designer at Sony, he's developed some of the world's most popular video games.
Melissa Larsson, alumna, BA (Hons) Game Cultures
A keen fan of video games from an early age, Melissa has found that studying the gaming industry at LSBU has helped her follow the perfect career path.
Roberta Saliani, alumna, winner of prestigious TIGA Games Industry Award
BA (Hons) Games Design graduate and gaming entrepreneur Roberta Saliani won a top award in recognition of her new gaming company Just a Pixel.
Ben Sharples, alumnus, BA (Hons) Game Cultures
Ben Sharples supplemented his existing experience in the video game industry with the BA (Hons) Game Cultures.


Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of performing at the wonderful, presitgious and souly dedicated cabaret venue in London of course it wasthe wonderful Madam Jojo's.
I has been fortunate to have been asked at Finger in the Pie's Cabaret's showcase which is on the first Sunday of each month.
I headed down to London rather early in a VoH dress .... what else would you wera on such a gloriously sunny day? I only wish I'd have had the time to have popped to the boutique to have seen the new season and get a new dress.
After finally finding my way to the venue using my phones handy gps I met one of my oldest burly friend Felicia Noir. It's been a while since we've seen each other and it was great to be on the same bill and also meant an impromptue shoot outside the venue.
Madam Jojo's was even more wonderful than I could have imagined, the exterior and interior was equisite! sadly I only got a rubbish dark photo before we started setting up in there. The stage was small but adequate and the audience space was unbelivable! on stage your literally up on a pedastal looking down at the crowed!
The backstage area was small but perfect as we had mirror and a nice changing area, makes a change from the small box rooms, kitchens, hall ways and toilets I've changed in over the last few years! we've all been there.
My signature balloon pop with champagne pour was chosen for the show and as it's a favourite of mine I wasn't nerveous at all, the audience seemed to enjoy it and I had a fabulous time taking my kit off and throwing champagne all over myself so in all in all top night.
I only wish I could have stayed to watch the other acts but I had to run across London to catch my train!
Last night was also the debut of the fabulous scattered rhinestone pasties Eliza Delite had made for me! They were terrific.
new pasties by Eliza Delite after I'd done my act!
It was most assuredly one splendid night and I hope to perform there again!
The next show is this Sunday at the Leamington Female Tattoo Convention! come along kittens I'm performing three times throughout the day!


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Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country. But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.
The 45-minute recording of the media-shy Heller shows a senator defending President Donald Trump repeatedly, breaking only delicately with the president on issues like trade and gun control. It's in line with the tightrope Heller has to walk to have any hope of winning reelection against a Trump-inspired Republican primary opponent and a highly touted Democratic general election challenger — in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.
Heller can't afford to lose conservatives by breaking with Trump, yet must keep a lane to the center open to win a general election. It's the trickiest political equation facing any GOP senator on the ballot this year.
Many Republicans credit the Supreme Court vacancy in 2016 with keeping the Senate in GOP control — and making Trump president. Heller went on to float Sen. Mike Lee for the job, calling the Utah Republican the type of conservative who could energize Nevada's electorate in the June 12 primary. Lee's office declined to comment.
"Mike Lee from Utah is probably on that short list of the next Supreme Court justice in our courts," Heller said during the Q-and-A session with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society in Las Vegas Friday.
But Trump was clearly most on Heller's mind. He dinged the president's "crazy" tweets about North Korea, before quickly crediting him with fostering better relations with its neighbor to the south. "North Korea joined South Korea and goes to the Olympics. And they say, the only reason they did that was because of President Trump," Heller said.
The Nevadan once declared that he was "100 percent against Clinton, 99 percent against Trump" and opposed early drafts of the GOP's plan to repeal Obamacare, much to Trump's annoyance. But now it's hard to get Heller to say a cross word about the president, whom Heller seems to view as an asset rather than an anchor.
Trump's comment last week that he would "take the guns first, go through due process second" turned Heller into the president's explainer-in-chief.
The senator declined to comment on his remarks.
Heller's efforts to yoke himself to Trump could backfire in Nevada, a state where Democrats are betting on a key Senate pickup by knocking off Heller in November. In an interview, Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) said that Trump is as much a drag on Republicans now as he was in 2016 when she defeated former Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.).
There may be no other way. Heck famously unendorsed Trump, then promptly lost to Cortez-Masto. Heller is leaning into the triangulation that made him the only incumbent GOP senator in a tough race to win reelection in 2012.
So when Heller was asked at the event about the special counsel investigation dogging Trump, he asserts that the probe should not be killed — before adding that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should appoint a second special counsel to investigate Democrats' efforts to compile damaging information on Trump.
He went on to fret about potential Russian interference in the 2018 elections, which includes his own race against Danny Tarkanian in the primary and, if Heller wins, Rep. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) in the general election.
Republicans say Heller is doing the best he can, given the tough hand he's been dealt running for reelection in the only competitive 2018 battleground that supported Clinton.
Heller aligned himself with Trump's criticism of the Senate's glacial pace and arcane rules, which have slowed the pace of confirmations and contributed to the failure to repeal Obamacare. Though some credit Heller's early criticisms of the GOP's plans to repeal Obamacare with significantly dampening the prospects of health care reform, Heller, in the recording, name-checked Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins for voting down the so-called skinny repeal.
Articulating a major complaint of the GOP base, Heller said he wants to change Senate rules to allow much speedier confirmation of judges, something Republicans are discussing privately but which needs bipartisan support. Heller also complained about the 60-vote threshold stymieing his party's progress on the budget, placing himself at odds with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who is often attacked by insurgent GOP candidates.
The 60-vote threshold blocked several immigration proposals last month. Heller voted for the president's plan, which failed to crack 40 votes. Heller supported comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, but said in Las Vegas last week that the two parties no longer see eye to eye.
The senator sounds resigned to inaction on immigration reform in his remarks, a difficult admission in a state that is more than a quarter Hispanic.


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Criminology • Faculty • Faculty Grants, Publications & Recognitions • Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences • Sociology • Top Stories
Professor Elected President of the International Sociological Association
Dr. Margaret Abraham, sociology professor and special advisor to the provost on diversity initiatives, has been elected president of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for a 2014-2018 term. Founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO, ISA is a non-profit association for scientific purposes. Its function is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion. ISA's membership spans 167 countries.
Dr. Abraham previously served as ISA vice president of research and as the American Sociological Association representative (ASA) to the ISA (2010-2014). Her teaching and research interests include gender, ethnicity, globalization, migration and domestic violence. She is, as described by Hofstra Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Herman A. Berliner, "the consummate professional who excels as a teacher, a scholar, a university citizen, and an international leader in her discipline. … On every level, she is an exemplary and extraordinary faculty member."
Evangelia Tastsoglou, Ph.D., past president of ISA Research Committee on Women in Society and professor of sociology and criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Canada, says Dr. Abraham "has a natural talent for inspiring people and bringing out the best in them. … She knows how to work across differences and to turn challenges into opportunities for learning and growth. Her feminist ethics and practices ensure a leadership inspired by inclusivity, equality and justice."
Bandana Purkayastha, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Sociology Department, University of Connecticut, and the American Sociological Association representative to the ISA, notes that Dr. Abraham's election to ISA president breaks color, as well as gender, barriers.
"She is the second woman in the history of ISA to reach these heights … She is certainly the first 'scholar-of-color' from the US to achieve this honor, Dr. Purkayastha said. "Within the ISA, Professor Abraham has been a leader in creating some of the structures – including digital spaces – that promote deeper engagement between sociologists from different countries. I look forward to her leadership of this truly global organization."
Dr. Cynthia Bogard, chair, Department of Sociology at Hofstra, said Dr. Abraham "… thinks globally about sociology and its relevance to policy and practice, she's worked hard and successfully to increase interaction between scholars in different countries and continents, and she still finds time to mentor colleagues and students alike. Maggie's vision of "action research" – research that directly contributes to social progress – makes her a wonderful choice for sociology's most prominent global position."
Another recent honor for Dr. Abraham was the 2013 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Activism Award for "exemplifying sociologists working for women in society." She also received the "Outstanding Community Advocate Award" by the Domestic Harmony Foundation of Long Island in Spring 2013 in recognition of her research and activism in the field of domestic violence in the South Asian Immigrant community.
Dr. Abraham has taught at Hofstra since 1990, and she served as chair of the sociology department from 2000-2003 and has also served as Director of Women Studies. Courses that she teaches include senior seminars on Violence Against Women; Globalization, Work and Citizenship; Women, Gender and Development; and Public Sociology. She has published in various journals including Gender & Society, Violence Against Women, Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Social Justice. She is the author of Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States (Rutgers University Press 2000), the first book on domestic violence within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Speaking the Unspeakable won the American Sociological Association: Section on Asian and Asian America Outstanding Book Award in 2002. She also co-edited, Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and the Practices of Citizenship published by Ashgate (Spring 2010); and Making a Difference: Linking Research and Action (Current Sociology Monograph: SAGE 2012). She is currently working on an edited volume under contract with SAGE on sociologists and social justice in the 21st Century.
Hofstra Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Civic Engagement Gregory Maney explains Dr. Abraham's impact on her colleagues. "She has been a mentor, role model, co-researcher, and trusted friend. Her active commitment to collaborative, action-oriented research with members of oppressed groups has helped to make public sociology a strong norm within our department."
Dr. Liena Gurevich, associate professor of sociology and director of Hofstra's criminology program, says Dr. Abraham "is representative of a true Renaissance personality with her exceptional abilities in teaching, research, mentoring, organizing and problem solving. In addition, she is a marvelous colleague, whose interactions with her peers and students are characterized by great deal of empathy and generosity.
Dr. Abraham has been involved in research and activism in the field of domestic violence in the South Asian immigrant community for over 20 years. She serves on the editorial boards of journals and has been an advisory board member and consultant on national projects related to issues on violence against women. She served on the Board of Directors of Sakhi for South Asian Women and the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) and Westbury Friends School in Long Island, New York. She has been honored for her community action research by several organizations including Sakhi for South Asian Women, Apna Ghar in Chicago, Domestic Harmony Foundation, Indus Women Leaders, the Indian American Kerala Cultural and Civic Center, and the Office of the Executive, Nassau County, State of New York. Her work has been profiled and quoted in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, India Abroad, Malayalam Pathram, India Today, Indiathink.com, and Rip Rap: The Academic Book Program.
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All it takes is a glance around the halls of Oswego High School to feel the pressure of attending a four-year college or university after graduating; classroom doors and bulletin boards are plastered with logos and posters. Looking around the auxiliary gym on the day of the PSAT on Oct. 16, almost every staff member in sight was sporting a T-Shirt of a four-year college. Even at PSAT/SAT College-and-Career Readiness Preparatory Sessions on Wednesday, Oct. 30, teachers implied that students should be motivated by the thought of attending a four-year college. However, there are other options that better match the needs of many OHS students, both financially and demographically. As the editorial staff of 42Fifty, we feel that OHS pushes four-year colleges too much, while not promoting community college or other post-graduation options enough.
The issue begins with the counselors at OHS, who push four-year colleges and universities to almost every student who meets with them. However, the financial status of most students doesn't make a four-year college easily attainable. The average income of one person in Oswego, Illinois, is $61,991, per Data USA, and the average cost of an out-of-state public university is $25,620 per year, according to College Data. An unfortunate situation, the income falls in a range that doesn't qualify for a significant amount of financial aid, leaving students struggling to afford their education. For many, community college is simply a better fit, as it is a way to complete general education classes at a fraction of the cost at top universities.
On average, a graduate of Illinois State University makes $49,000, according to College Simply. On the other hand, a graduate of Waubonsee Community College makes an average of $34,900 per year, according to College Simply. This may seem like a significant jump at first glance, but comparing the annual tuition makes an important point. The annual tuition for Illinois State University is $14,061, while Waubonsee Community College is $7,230, according to pages of both programs. At Illinois State, students are paying twice as much but making a fraction of that back post-graduation. Financially speaking, community college is the better option for most students at OHS, so why is it not presented that way?
Community college isn't the only option besides a four-year school, either. In a survey conducted by the OHS Student Services Department with students from the class of 2019, 6% went into the military, 1% chose a trade school, and 4% are working this year. A four-year college is only one of the many options available for students, and we believe that all should be presented equally.
It's difficult to be pushed into this expectation that students are meant to go to college after high school to further their education. Deciding what we want to do with the rest of our lives is a big step towards adulthood, and at the tender age of 16-17, is far too strenuous and complicated to handle. Instead of pushing this ideal that students go to a four-year college or university, why won't the school emphasize other options for the future? While college is a useful tool to prepare for life, it's not always necessary for everyone.


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where Lake Victoria waters feed into the Nile
Victoria, Lake, also known as Victoria Nyanza, lake in east central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. It has an area of 69,490 sq km (26,830 sq mi) and lies 1130 m (3720 ft) above sea level. The lake is 337 km (209 mi) long at its greatest length, and stretches about 240 km (about 150 mi) at its greatest width. Victoria is the world's second largest freshwater lake, after Lake Superior.
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It is drained by the Nile River, and its chief affluent is the Kagera River. While on an expedition to discover the Nile in 1858, British explorer John Hanning Speke became the first European to sight Lake Victoria. It was circumnavigated by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in 1875, and subsequently explored by him and others. Speke named the lake for Britain's Queen Victoria; the lake was formerly known to the Arabs as Ukerewe.
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Lake Victoria is economically important to the surrounding region, which has one of Africa's highest population densities. Fishing and boat building are the most significant economic activities. At the city of Jinja, Uganda, where the Victoria Nile flows out of the lake, the Owen Falls Dam was completed in 1954. The dam turned the lake into a large reservoir that produces hydroelectricity for the surrounding area. The dam also submerged Ripon Falls, the dramatic cataract flowing from the lake, which Speke named in 1862. The vegetation and flowers by post dam completion sprouted from a very rich soil bed along the lake shores.
fishermen on the Nile
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During World War I Lake Victoria was the scene of British and German military operations in 1915 and 1916, with both sides arming small steamers for raiding purposes. In June 1916 British forces captured Ukerewe Island, the largest island in Lake Victoria. All hostilities ended on Lake Victoria the following month, when the Tanzanian city of Mwanza fell to the British.
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site of the Ripon Falls, before the building of the Owen Falls
power producing dam, which was completed in 1954
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Roccagorga és un comune (municipi) de la província de Latina, a la regió italiana del Laci, situat a uns 70 km al sud-est de Roma i a uns 20 km al nord-est de Latina.

Roccagorga limita amb els següents municipis: Carpineto Romano, Maenza, Priverno i Sezze.

A 1 de gener de 2019 tenia una població de 4.358 habitants.

Geografia física
El terreny és principalment accidentat i muntanyós, amb un sòl ric en calci. Això ajuda a subministrar aigua a la zona durant tot l'any. El clima és mediterrani, amb estius secs i càlids i hiverns suaus i humits. L'agricultura de la zona se centra en el cultiu d'olives, afavorida pel clima mediterrani, el sòl calcari i l'exposició al sud de les muntanyes.

Història
Roccagorga es troba al Monte Nero, un turó al sud dels monts Lepins (Monti Lepini). Els seus orígens es remunten a les conseqüències de la destrucció de Privernum l'any 796 dC, tot i que no va ser fins a l'edat mitjana que es va començar a desenvolupar al segon cim de Gorga, al voltant de l'antic castell. Porta el nom de la matrona Gorga que, segons la llegenda, es va instal·lar al Monte Nero juntament amb els refugiats privernats.

Llocs d'interès
 Ermita de Sant Erasme (Sant'Erasmo).
 Museu ètnic dels Monts Lepins.
 Església de Sant Leonard i Sant Erasme (Leonardo ed Erasmo).
 Palau Baronial.

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If you look to the left edge of the picture, you can see a faint sun dog. There was one to the right, too,out of frame, but it was even fainter. One day I'd like to get both sides, and maybe one on top. It would be something to live for. In the meantime, however, still a very nice exit by my favorite star.
1. In the United States (at least), "Freedom of Speech" is a legal term of art, and means a specific thing. Please be aware of what it means. If you use the term incorrectly, you may be corrected, or thought ignorant and not qualified to argue the point. You probably won't like that.
2. Replace "Freedom of Speech" with "Censorship" in point one. Proceed forward.
3. If you conflate editorial standards and procedure with issues of freedom of speech and censorship, particularly when you are able to, say, post whatever you like on a web site you control, you may not be taken seriously. You may not like that either.
4. If you conflate the ability to say what you want, how you want, with an immunity from criticism or consequence of the speech, you are likely to be surprised. If you are not aware of, or refuse to seriously consider, that many people who might in times past have not publicly objected to your speech now feel free to do so and in no uncertain terms, you may become unhappy. If you choose not to treat those responses and criticisms seriously, your reputation may ultimately suffer. Your reputation today is highly contingent on what you do now, not what you've done in the past.
5. If a petition is created that you are asked to sign on to, it makes sense to do due diligence to make sure the particular issue that the petition is designed to address is, in fact, an actual issue. If it is not, you may eventually regret signing on to the petition.
6. Likewise, if you sign a petition because you believe the petition addresses a high-level issue of concern to you, but the text of the petition itself (including various publicly-accessible drafts) is poorly-written, offensive, and contains several basic errors of fact and logic, you should not be surprised when your name and reputation are attached to the worst parts of the petition, rather than the high-level issue you intended to address.
7. As a basic rule, petitions should be drafted by a competent writer who serves your agenda, not his own. If the job is handled by the person in the group least qualified to write, and with the most to gain by his association with the rest of group, be aware that he will not be elevated by his association with you; rather you will be dragged down by your association with him.
9. If in your rhetoric you deploy the existence of a friend with certain political/social/racial characteristics to shield you from criticism of your rhetoric, you should be aware that a) it doesn't work the way you intend, b) it makes your rhetoric more offensive, not less, c) your need to deploy this erstwhile friend to deflect criticism, likely without their consent, implicitly signals the weakness of your rhetoric. Others, particularly those with similar political/social/racial characteristics as your shield, will advantage their own personal experience more than your accounting of the alleged experience of your alleged friend, likely to your detriment. Consonantly, if a document you've signed onto is written by someone who deploys a "friend" in this way, remember point 7.
10. The ability to express one's self is ideally tempered with understanding that how one chooses to say a thing — and whether one chooses to say it at all — is often as important as the fact that one can say it. People of good will can and do have varied points of view; people of good will can and do argue and debate, sometimes strongly, about events and topics important to them. Choosing words wisely is not censorship or an impediment to free speech. What it can be is a way to make sure one's intentions are understood clearly and cleanly. Choosing words poorly, on the other hand, can signal that one has no intention of treating those on the receiving end of those words with respect. One of these has a happier outcome for everyone than the other.


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JAKARTA – In a discussion entitled "2 Years of Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin: False Promises of Eradicating Corruption" held by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), on Tuesday (19/10), Lalola Easter from the Legal and Monitoring Division of ICW assessed the eradication of corruption in two years. The first government of Joko Widodo (Jokowi)-Ma'ruf …
FBI raids homes in Washington and New York over Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska
FBI agents on Tuesday (Oct 19) raided a residence in Washington, DC and one in New York City linked to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with ties to the Kremlin and Paul Manafort, who was the former head of Donald Trump's campaign team in October. 2016 United States (US) presidential …
Haqqani, US wanted Taliban leader, praises suicide bomber
The acting Taliban interior minister, who is on the US list of terrorists, has held a ceremony in Kabul to honor the suicide bombers responsible for killing thousands of US and allied troops in Afghanistan. Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is a US fugitive in exchange for $10 million for any information …
Cambodia's Internet Gateway Causes Silence of News
A radio reporter Khut Sokun said he was doing less coverage this year. The reason is the fear of Cambodia's national internet gateway system, which allows the government to monitor all online activities. Internet service providers in Cambodia are given until February 2022 to divert all cyber traffic through a …
No Third Country Has 'Veto' Over Ukraine's Aspiration to Join NATO
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said no third country has a veto power over Ukraine's aspirations to join the NATO military alliance. "Ukraine … has the right to decide its future foreign policy. We hope they can do so without outside interference," Austin said during a visit to Kyiv on …
UK Investigate US Company Takeover of Aerospace Group
The UK government has launched an investigation into the takeover of aerospace parts manufacturer Meggitt by US technology firm Parker-Hannifin Corporation, citing national security concerns. The UK commerce department on Monday evening (18/10) announced the referral to the UK competition watchdog. The recently announced deal is worth $8.7 billion. In …
Homebuilding Activity in the US Drops
Homebuilding in America fell unexpectedly in September and permits to build homes plunged to their lowest level in a year, amid acute shortages of raw materials and labor. That reinforces forecasts that economic growth slowed sharply in the third quarter. A report from the US Commerce Department on Tuesday (19/10), …
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Robert Bolaño's Epic 2666 Is Now a Five-Hour Play
by Melissa Ragsdale
In a surprising move, Chilean author Robert Bolaño's mind-bending masterpiece 2666 has been adapted for the stage and will be premiering in Chicago at the Goodman Theater this February. If that's not enough to ignite your curiosity, the project is being funded entirely by a fund actor Roy Cockrum created after winning $153 million dollars from Powerball.
At a whopping 898 pages, 2666 is a behemoth of a novel, encasing so many dimensions that just summarizing it is a challenge, let alone adapting it into a full play. Any lover of long, difficult literature will empathize with the play's director, Robert Falls, who became "weirdly obsessed" with the novel years ago. "The process of staging it is part of trying to figure out what it is I personally respond to," he told The New York Times. "I still don't quite know."
Published posthumously in 2004 and then translated to English in 2008, the novel is a resounding exploration of the 20th century, with a narrative that spans nearly 80 years, dipping in and out of internal stories. Centered around the city Santa Teresa, the plot includes academics searching for a reclusive German author, a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment, and the unsolved murders of 300 women in Juarez.
The play adaptation is (as one would expect) epically long, spanning five hours total, with five distinct parts and three intermissions. A cast of 15 actors play nearly 80 roles. The production also features video projections and even a full-fledged movie, projected on a screen that lowers over the entire stage. Director and playwright Seth Bockley (who's partnered on the project with Falls) has compared the play to "binge-watching" Bolaño.
"The challenge we took on wasn't to be confusing and experimental and wild," said Bockley, "but to ask, how do we do what Bolaño did, only in the time-based, 3-D, actor-driven medium of theater?"
Falls and Bockley narrowed the content down to its essential characters and plot lines, though they do occasionally foray into the stories within stories that make 2666 such an intense read. Each part was designed with its own distinct style, meant to compare to the literary genres Bolaño drew from: fairy tale, hard-boiled crime novel, academic satire, lyrical short story, and "Don Quixote"-style picaresque.
An ambitious project for sure, fans of Bolaño, literature, and theatre have plenty of reasons to be excited about this new way to experience 2666. For me, the project has awakened a hopeful question: if Falls and Bockley can successfully adapt 2666, what can't we adapt? Infinite Jest? Gravity's Rainbow? Anything seems to be possible.
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0:13Skip to 0 minutes and 13 secondsWe have seen in the last sequence that the Universe is in expansion, that because the velocity of light is finite, the further one observed, the earlier in time. And in fact, one is observing the Universe in a slice of spacetime.
0:33Skip to 0 minutes and 33 secondsNow, one of the basic properties of the Universe at large, in its largest distances, is the fact that the Universe is homogeneous. So let me try to explain what I mean by that. We have here a map of the distant galaxies. And you see that if I divide this map into four identical parts, basically I see in the four identical parts, I see the same distribution. So this expresses the fact that the Universe is homogeneous. That means, in particular, that the density of energy, which is defined as the energy divided by the volume, is constant. So it is the same in the four different parts.
1:24Skip to 1 minute and 24 secondsNow, you might think that this definition of homogeneity depends on the observer. For example, from the fact that we are observing from the Earth. Now, the point is that if we take different observers in the Universe of course, the immediate surroundings will be different. We are in the galaxy, other observers might be in a different galaxy. But if they look at the largest scales, the largest dimensions of the Universe they will basically see the same. We will basically measure the same kind of map of distant galaxies as the one I've just shown.
2:02Skip to 2 minutes and 2 secondsAs the Universe expands, the energy density, that is, the energy per unit volume, decreases. In order to understand that, let me return to our model of Universe So this is my inflated balloon with, you see, different galaxies in this Universe And now, let me inflate this Universe Let it expand.
2:39Skip to 2 minutes and 39 secondsSo you see that the average energy per unit volume is decreasing, just because the size of the balloon is increasing. And so, in this way, the energy density is decreasing as the Universe expands. Now, let me get rid of our Universe and turn to another aspect, which is the fact that, again, with expansion, the temperature and the energy is also decreasing. Correspondingly, the temperature of the Universe decreases. This is not surprising, because I remind you that the temperature is understood at a microscopic level as the agitation of molecules. And for example, if I assume that these balloons are molecules, then depending on the energy, agitation, you see, will be increasing or decreasing.
3:41Skip to 3 minutes and 41 secondsNow, because the energy of the Universe is decreasing, the molecular agitation is also decreasing, and so the temperature of the Universe is decreasing. You may understand this phenomenon by looking at this diagram, where you have on the top molecules in a box. So you see that they hit very frequently the wall of a box. Now, the box's size is expanding. And so you see that on the bottom the box has expanded. And so the molecules are hitting the walls of the box less frequently, and so there is less agitation. The temperature has been decreasing.
4:25Skip to 4 minutes and 25 secondsWe will be describing the different epochs of the evolution of the Universe using either energy or temperature. But before I do that, let me tell you which units I'll be using for these quantities. As far as temperature is concerned, I will not be using the traditional Celsius degree. I'll be using the Kelvin. Now, remember that we defined temperature as a molecular agitation.
4:55Skip to 4 minutes and 55 secondsNow, there is a temperature, which corresponds to minus 273 Celsius, which corresponds to no agitation at all. This is called the absolute zero. This corresponds to 0 Kelvin. Now, as you can see on this table, the absolute zero corresponds to minus 273 degrees Celsius. This is 0 Kelvin. Correspondingly, 0 degrees Celsius corresponds to plus 273 Kelvin, and so on. Now, regarding energy units, we will be using particle physics units. So those used in accelerators. We will be using the electronvolt. The electronvolt is the energy of an electron, which is submitted to a voltage of one volt.
5:53Skip to 5 minutes and 53 secondsNow, since we'll be using heavily powers of 10, maybe this is a time just to refresh your memory and discuss precisely these powers of 10. So remember that when I say 10 to a certain number, that means 1 followed by this number of zeros. So 10 to the 3 is 1 followed by three zeros is 1,000. 10 to the 6 is 1 million. 10 to the 9 is 1 followed by nine zeros, 1 billion. For example, in the case of electronvolts, as I was just discussing, then 10 to the 6 electronvolt is what we call the Mega-electronvolt, or MeV. 10 to the 9 electronvolts, so 1 followed by nine zeros electronvolt, is what one calls a Giga-electronvolt, or a GeV.
6:49Skip to 6 minutes and 49 secondsNow, similarly, we can discuss also negative powers of 10. So for example, 10 to the minus 3 is 1 over 10 to the 3, 1 over 1,000. So for example, a millimetre is 10 to the minus 3 metres. 10 to the minus 6 is 1 over 1 followed by six zeros, so one millionth. And 10 to the minus 9 is 1 over 1 followed by nine zeros, one billionth. So for example, a nanometer is 10 to the 9 metres.
7:31Skip to 7 minutes and 31 secondsSo we will describe the different epochs of the evolution of the Universe using energy or temperature. We have seen that this is somewhat equivalent. We could also use the spectral redshift. We have seen that, because of the expansion of the Universe, there is a Doppler shift of the frequencies of light. So that measures distance, but in a way, distance is related with time because of the finiteness of the velocity of light. And of course, we might use time itself in order to describe the different epochs. And so you see on this slide a sort of summary of the evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang until today.
8:14Skip to 8 minutes and 14 secondsAnd you may notice that the most of the events take place between the Big Bang and the first three minutes. And so, in a sense, the time is not a very good variable.
8:35Skip to 8 minutes and 35 secondsIn order to help you understand why time is not such a good variable, or useful one, at least to discuss the very early epochs of evolution, let me take the example of a roller coaster. You certainly have been on a roller coaster. And you may remember that time is sort of flying when you are in the very steep first fall. And then time seems to run more slowly as, little by little, you get to the end of the roller coaster. Of course, this is not physical time. But that shows you that sometimes the evolution is so fast, that one has to use a different measure of time.
9:20Skip to 9 minutes and 20 secondsIn the case of a roller coaster, you could use the height, which is of course much more important in the first fall. In the case of the Universe, instead of talking of the first 10 to the minus 35 seconds, ten to the minus 18 seconds, ten to the minus 3 seconds, we'll be preferring to use the energy or the temperature to describe the different epochs of these very early stages of the Universe.


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If there was one dish that featured a lot in my childhood, it would have to be paprikaš. A stew that was traditionally made in a kotlich (cast iron pot) supported by a tripod hanging over a fire. Joints of chicken, rabbit – or from the Slavonian region that my parents are from – a more soupy fiš paprikaš.
As a kid I found fish paprikaš had way too much chilli in it, but over the years my palate learned to deal with the heat. This deliciously hearty stew is always served over wide pasta and with loads of crusty white bread. My mum even went as far as making the pasta from scratch, allowing it to dry ahead of time.
I'm a little surprised that I haven't made and featured it here, but all in good time.
What I have done is goat paprikaš, a red meat that takes slow cooking really well; especially when soaking in rich tomato and paprika juices. I've put my own touch on the stew by roasting the tomatoes and chillies, before whizzing them up and adding to the sautéed goat. Much more depth to the flavours if you do it this way.
A hearty and deliciously rich dish loaded with tenderly stewed goat meat.
Place the tomatoes and chillies onto a small baking tray, drizzle with the olive oil and bake for 20 minutes. Remove the stalks and process until smooth. Set aside.
Heat a large skillet or saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and lard and sauté for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the pancetta and garlic and sauté for 3 minutes more.
Increase heat to high. Add the goat, paprika and paprika flakes and sauté for 5 minutes. Add the tomato/chilli purêe, Vegeta, bay leaf and enough water to cover the meat. Bring to the boil then reduce the heat as low as possible. Cook for 2 hours, stirring occasionally, until the meat is very tender.
To serve, boil the pasta in plenty of salted water. Drain well, place onto a large platter then scoop the paprikaš over the pasta and gently mix it together.
Garnish with parsley and serve with lots of crusty bread.
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Chris Dziadul Reports: HbbTV in CEE update
September 7, 2018 07.34 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul
2018 has been a year of interesting developments in HbbTV in Central and Eastern Europe.
Many, though by no means all, have taken place in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Just this week we saw the Czech ad tech company R2B2 launch content targeting on HbbTV in Slovakia, having already offered this in the Czech Republic for nearly a year. At the same time, it introduced a type of programmatic advertising that allows the targeting of viewers by TV brand and model. Significantly, the DTH platform Skylink has already become the first company to adopt it in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
HbbTV is now well established in both countries. Research undertaken by the Czech national commercial broadcaster FTV Prima and published last month shows that there are 1.06 million receivers in the Czech Republic connected to HbbTV, or double the number a year ago. What is more, over 2 million viewers now use HbbTV.
Cooperation between leading industry players is undoubtedly a big plus point in the Czech market. Already this year we have seen TV Nova start to work with the national transmission company CRa and FTV Prima with O2.
With the transition to DVB-T2 also under way, HbbTV's future in the country looks promising.
In Slovakia, the country's leading broadcaster Markiza began using commercial HbbTV at the end of last year, while publicly owned RTVS introduced a service this May. Meanwhile, the national transmission company Towercom has launched an HbbTV service on DVB-T2 in partnership with TV Joj.
Elsewhere in the region, we have seen progress in Croatia, where in 2017 the broadcaster TV Nova launched an HbbTV app in cooperation with the Czech company Mautilus. This year we have seen Skyworth Digital begin the production of HbbTV STBs, using SERPAHIC's browser, aimed specifically at the Croatian market.
In Hungary, the MinDigTV platform operated by Antenna Hungária has launched HbbTV interactive advertising platform, in partnership with TV2Media and (now Beenius-owned) Castoola, while in the Estonia Levira has enhanced its HbbTV service HybridTV.
This is only the tip of the iceberg and there have almost certainly been many more developments in the HbbTV sector in CEE this year. It is clearly a positive picture and bodes well for the future.
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Network Rail is electrifying one of Britain's oldest railways in the country. Built in1838 by Victorian engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he chose the route on the Chilterns side of the Goring Gap through Goring where the terrain is less hilly than across the river on the steeper escarpment of the North Wessex Downs. Pollution was not a major issue then, but now it is and everyone accepts greener alternatives are necessary and desirable.
Now, the GWR is providing more reliable journeys and improving connections across southern England and South Wales: London and Bristol, including Newbury and Oxford, by 2016 and to Cardiff by 2017.
Once the electrification is completed, the new Japanese Hitachi 800 high-speed bi-mode (electro-diesel) trains will provide more capacity and shorter journey times for passengers, in addition to reduced carbon emissions.
The plans for electrification of the line can be viewed here and in NR's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) in 'Documents and Downloads'.
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Director General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of First Global Refugee Forum held in Geneva
Director General of World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of First Global Refugee Forum held in Geneva.
DG Tedros appreciated efforts by Pakistan to eradicate polio virus and assured cooperation by the WHO in this endeavor. The Prime Minister underscored the special focus of the Government on ensuring universal health coverage to the people of Pakistan. He also discussed the Government's initiatives to counter malnutrition and stunting. DG(WHO) commended Government's efforts in this regard.
Prime Minister also apprised him of his Government's holistic poverty alleviation programme including through the Ehsaas Programme.
The Director General recalled his visits to Pakistan and reiterated his office's full support to the Prime Minister in his endeavors. He said he looked forward to visiting Pakistan early next year.


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Trang chủBáo chí nói về Y5cafe
Online portal boosts coffee farmers' knowledge
Thanks to a free Internet website launched by a local farmer earlier this year, coffee growers nationwide no longer have to pay to get crucial information on coffee market prices.
The website www.y5cafe.info, created by 23-year-old farmer Nguyen Cong Thinh from Lam Dong Province in the Central Highlands, aims to update coffee growers on the latest coffee prices as well as provide them with a variety of useful information, from cultivation techniques to tips on harvesting and trading the product.
With up to 3,000 visits daily, mostly by Central Highlands farmers, the online information channel has served as a handy tool for coffee farmers to improve harvests and avoid being undercut by traders.
"During last year's harvest season, I was really upset to learn farmers in Di Linh and Bao Loc districts in Lam Dong Province had to pay millions of dong to buy information from some coffee traders," said Thinh, who also serves as the website administrator. "I couldn't just stand and watch hardworking farmers pay such unreasonable costs."
He initially launched a coffee blog on January 1, before setting up a website three months later.
In the early days of its founding, Thinh said he had to work alone day and night to search for proper information on the world's coffee market before writing reports to analyze and forecast the global and local market.
"Luckily, I was later supported by economics students, individuals working in import and export sectors as well as coffee experts," he said. "We also formed an association for y5cafe's members, where we can exchange valuable experiences in cultivating and trading coffee."
Thinh said updated information was necessary for modern farmers because the coffee market is a sensitive one.
"Coffee prices are supposed to experience drastic changes. Recently, some farmers from Quang Tri Province phoned me to check the updated price, which was between VND5,000-6,000 (US$0.30-0.36) per kilogram. They said they were offered less than half of that range.
It's not easy for the farmers to have a good harvest and they should be paid adequately," he said.
Simple layout
Thinh said he has to try his best to make the website easy to understand from layout to content.
"The site is supposed to relate to farmers' knowledge rather than sophisticated computer technology," he said. "I had to make everything simple, for example, putting coffee prices immediately on the front."
From simplified price charts with market analyses to tips on planting and harvesting, the website offers comprehensive information related to the crop.
The site administrator also offers additional support to visitors via telephone, email and online chat.
With backing from friends, the website has become a familiar tool for a number of local farmers, who have in turn helped to promote it.
"I might have closed the website without strong support from other farmers," Thinh said. "I didn't intend to build the page for profit, I just wanted to help local farmers."
The founder said a farmer from Dak Lak Province had printed a banner promoting the website and hung it in front of his house to introduce it to others.
Many internet shops in Central Highlands provinces have also set www.y5cafe.com as their computers' homepage.
"Several times, farmers have phoned to thank me for launching the useful website," he said. "Many farmers ask their children to access information from the page and relay it to them because they didn't know how to use computers."
Thinh said he and his friends would maintain the website to serve its initial purpose, which is to facilitate the highest profits for coffee farmers by providing them with updated information and limiting intermediary traders.
In the future, the site may be developed into an online marketplace to promote coffee products from local farmers.
"Farmers could save a few hundred Vietnamese dong per kilogram by skipping an intermediary step," he said.
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Kai Chresten Winding (Aarhus, 18 mei 1922 - Yonkers, 6 mei 1983) was een uit Denemarken afkomstige Amerikaanse jazztrombonist.

Biografie
Windings familie emigreerde in 1934 naar de Verenigde staten. Hij begon in 1940 zijn muzikantencarrière en speelde eerst bij Sonny Durham en Alvino Ray (1941). Na verbintenissen in de bands van Shorty Allen, Benny Goodman (1945–46), Stan Kenton (1946–47), Charlie Ventura (1947–48) en Tadd Dameron (1948–49) leidde hij een combo met Buddy Stewart en was hij betrokken bij Birth of the Cool-opnamen van Miles Davis, om vervolgens te werken met Gerry Mulligan. Na een optreden bij de radio en televisie werkte hij van 1954 tot 1956 met J.J. Johnson als tweede trombonist in het kwintet, dat zeer populair werd. In de Jazz Composers Workshop van Charles Mingus speelden vier trombonisten (bijkomend nog Willie Dennis en Bennie Green) met een ritmesectie, bestaande uit John Lewis, Charles Mingus en Art Taylor.

Midden jaren 1950 formeerde hij een septet met Carl Fontana, Wayne Andre, Dick Lieb en een ritmesectie, bestaande uit Roy Frazee, Kenny O'Brien en Jack Franklin. Later werkte hij als studiomuzikant in New York. Tijdens deze periode hield hij zich al bezig met de inzet van elektronische hulpmiddelen in een blazersensemble. In 1962 werd Winding muzikaal leider van de Playboy Clubs van Hugh Hefner. Geadviseerd door producent Creed Taylor nam hij tijdens deze periode enkele albums op met jazz-georiënteerde popmuziek, zoals More met de titelmelodie voor de film Mondo Cane in arrangement van Claus Ogerman. Diverse albums uit deze tijd kunnen ook worden geclassificeerd in het genre easy listening.

Begin jaren 1970 nam hij deel aan twee tournees met de Giants of Jazz (Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Thelonious Monk, Al McKibbon en Art Blakey). Eind jaren 1970 vormde Kai Winding samen met de trombonisten Bill Watrous, Albert Mangelsdorff en Jiggs Whigham de band Trombone Summit, waarmee hij in 1980 voor het Duitse label MPS Records een plaatopname maakte. In 1980 speelde hij in een combo met Curtis Fuller.

Winding was een van de eerste trombonisten, die succesvol aansloten op de bop. Hij bleef echter steeds toegewijd aan de swing en was anderzijds op zoek naar uitbreidingsmogelijkheden in de modernjazz. In vergelijking tot J.J. Johnson is zijn geluid op de trombone ruwer. Hij nam ook op met Neal Hefti, de Kirby Stone Four, de Anita Kerr Singers en Chubby Jackson.

Overlijden
Kai Winding overleed in mei 1983 op 60-jarige leeftijd aan de gevolgen van een hersentumor.

Discografie
 1952–1954: Kai and Jay with Bennie Green and Strings (OJC)
 1955/1956: Trombone for Two/Trombone Sound (Collectables)
 1955: Nuff Said (Rhino) met J. J. Johnson, Dick Katz, Tommy Potter, Al Harewood
 1957: Jive at Five (Status) met Carl Fontana
 1980: Bon Appetit: The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions (Black & Blue) met Curtis Fuller, Hank Jones, John Clayton, Jimmy Cobb
 2008: Jazz for Playboys: Kai Winding (Jazz Club/Verve/Universal)
 2012: verscheen in de serie 'Jazzplus' (Label Verve Records) een cd, die in totaal 24 nummers van twee van zijn platen samenstelt resp. opnieuw uitbrengt, namelijk van Soul Surfin'  en van Mondo Cane

Literatuur
 Bielefelder Katalog 1988 & 2002.
 Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8e editie. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9.

Amerikaans jazztrombonist