'Who are academics and what is their role?' Palgrave prize-winner Mike Finn looks at the once 'remote and ineffectual don' and finds that, although academia has not lost its idealism, communicating intellectual vitality to the public is more the rage nowadays.
The academic community has forever been dogged by the contradictions between the old and the new. These manifest themselves in ways that are simultaneously banal and complicated; it is easy to juxtapose the Tudor court of Oxford or Cambridge with the bustle of a city university but perhaps more difficult to understand the sea-changes that have taken place in academic life during the past century. In history, the "old world" is fondly remembered by some as an era of certainty, of a method (loosely tagged "empiricism") that delivered results and interpretations objectively rooted in fact. Following the advent of postmodernism and the much-vaunted "linguistic turn", the sanctity of such an approach came gradually into question, and the theoretical debates that have riven the historical community into opposed camps during the 1990s are adequate testament to the power of the epistemological crisis.
But the theoretical debate history suffers from is at once rooted in a wider concern that is reducible to the formulation - "who are academics, and what is their role in society?" This is not an easy question to answer. In the old world, the classic academic was aloof, often wholly incompetent in financial matters, blessed with erudition and genius but nevertheless still "the remote and ineffectual don" that Hilaire Belloc satirised. Consumer society, however, will not have it so. Universities have changed spectacularly over the past 150 years; the 1870 Education Act began a long process of reform aimed at developing a school system capable of delivering a rising number of undergraduates. The repeal of the 1882 University Act removed the restriction of celibacy imposed on fellows, engendering a whole new breed of university "society", while in the past 20 years, the last of the exclusively male Oxbridge colleges opened its doors to women. The academic has also changed, though not by design. Now teaching new, "bang per buck" courses, lecturers find the old ethos of Educating Rita -style non-vocational learning for learning's sake has in some cases been subordinated to the desire to manufacture the next generation of BA-qualified golf course managers.
This leaves the academic in an abject identity crisis. Schizophrenically defined as both researcher and teacher, professional historians find themselves in a struggle to transmit the joy of learning in a world of research assessment exercises and peer review. The same problem filters down the chain. Graduate students, accustomed to formalised, syllabus-style modular BA courses, have to handle an even more abrupt disjuncture in the transition to the anachronistic master-apprentice system of PhD supervision. With league tables the order of the day, but fees and loans a constraining factor, their undergraduate counterparts shop around for the best deals. Academics in short, are in the shop window.
Few academic superstars yet exist, but their ranks are growing. An early prototype was A. J. P. Taylor, whose tenure at Oxford saw him both as a powerful figure in the academic community but also an unashamedly populist commentator whose televised lectures were one of the most significant hammer-blows to the sanctity of the ivory tower. In recent years, scientists such as brain expert Susan Greenfield have seized centre-stage, along with historians such as David Starkey. Every department wants a star, a communicator who can bridge the gap between the institution and the community, or put more prosaically, the market. The shop window consists of more than stars, however. The beleaguered history admissions tutor has to pluck more students from a dwindling pool, the webmaster takes time out from research and marking to whack up the latest updates in HTML, while at endless open days, sales pitches are honed as prospective undergraduates are fought for. It can be a vicious, tiring business.
However, to say that the new world and the old world constitute monolithic opposites would be to deny reality. The new world has brought greater accountability and standardisation, while the remnants of the old maintain for academia the "noble dreams" of the quest for knowledge, of the blessings of research and even the security of a vocation. Learning for learning's sake has not gone wholly by the wayside, either. In fact, lifelong learning and the university of the third age are becoming concepts that are more and more common to every campus, while mature student numbers at undergraduate level remain healthy. It is clear, however, that the future of academic life requires a less ambiguous blend, a resolution of the conflict of interests, in the interests of the wellbeing of staff and the further development of the humanities.
The humanities in particular face uncharted territory. While it may be possible for science faculties to embrace consumer society, with its principle of cash for results, the humanities' search (in Foucault's words) for the "power that the West since medieval times has attributed to science" is likely to be in vain. This is primarily because the humanities, and the social sciences, deal for the most part with what Foucault termed "discontinuous forms of knowledge". Quantitative tools and methods have lent a veneer of scientific credibility to economic history, for example, but as Emma Rothschild has recently reminded us in her study of Adam Smith and Condorcet, even economic events transformed into numbers are ultimately only the sum of human factors. Sociology likewise depends on the deployment of the "sociological imagination" to transform survey results into theories, data into interpretation. In essence, you cannot take the "human" out of the humanities.
That begs the question - why would you want to? Although on a level of mundane practicalities the academic community may be overburdened, underfunded and maligned by all, a synthesis of the old world and the new offers the chance for a genuinely new and innovative intellectual community in British universities and beyond. History, for example, has at times veered away from its dogma of systematic analysis and towards antiquarianism in its myopic pursuit of facts unintelligible (and by consequence unimportant) to a wider public. Big questions went out of fashion, and this is often blamed on the rise of postmodernists, caricatured as barbarians at the gates seeking to make history ungraspable. It does not have to be this way. The tools may have changed, but the vision to understand the past as it really was remains the same.
History is the common meeting place for all these concerns within the humanities. Sociologists and literary critics of necessity work in a historical framework; economists and economic historians work from historical precedent to establish trends. My own specific field, social history, the burgeoning sub-discipline of people's history that roared into popularity during the crusading period of the 1970s, is an uneasy amalgam of history and sociology. This hybrid status occasionally sees it come under fire (even from its own practitioners) for the unproblematic ways in which its adherents employ sociological concepts; but despite its shortcomings, it remains the most vibrant area of historical research today. It also remains, despite the cynicism often associated with the advent of postmodernism in the 1980s, a real force for the democratisation of education. Everyone is, on some level, a social historian, and the armies of genealogists and family history enthusiasts that outnumber the professional researcher in the archive bear witness to the level of commitment many feel to their particular interests.
It is also an area that encourages pluralism in terms of aims and theories. Here, traditional methods of evidence-gathering such as visits to archives and the citation of documents, can be supplemented by hands-on methodologies, including oral history. Social history emancipates the academic from the ivory tower by forcing him or her to confront living witnesses, who can range from Nazi collaborators to working-class housewives in Salford. The value of such research is immediately obvious; in a world where Holocaust denial (most famously represented in the Irving trial) is a real menace, the interrogation of participants in the Nazi imperial project is of real didactic value - a "warning from history" if ever there was one. Likewise, the Salford housewives interviewed by Andrew Davies in his 1992 book Leisure, Gender and Poverty shed light on how our perceptions of what working-class life was really like for our immediate forebears have been shaped by a combination of mythology and the retrospective construction of community. In the light of the recent racial violence in northern towns, it seems obvious that a better understanding of the nature of historical communities in industrialised society and their stories will be invaluable to any concerted attempt to build a multicultural Britain anew.
All this requires imagination, the skill most essential to the artist. This is why any fusion with science remains uneasy, but an open mind, supposedly the most vital quality of the empirical sciences, needs to be maintained here too. The academic's role then is not as a remote and ineffectual don of old, but an interpreter, trying to communicate something of that intellectual vitality of the old world to a wider (and hungry) public. It is a far cry from the days of the University Extension Scheme and the Worker's Educational Association, but no less idealistic. While the best of the academic communicators have recently found themselves in commercialised ventures, with all the paraphernalia that brings (book tie-ins, photo shoots), some have seen a more elevated purpose. As Greenfield argues for the sciences, without a community in contact with science, or a scientific environment for debates, the public become disenfranchised. The threat is no less real for the humanities and the social arm of the sciences.
The Marxist social critic Raymond Williams, in many ways a prototype of the community-conscious academic, identified this problem in a seminal essay many years ago. Arguing that culture is ordinary, Williams went on to write Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society . The book represented his attempt to offer a key to the closed door of knowledge, a knowledge trapped by language within the ivory tower, among such mantras as dialectic, naturalism and hegemony. All three feature on the cover. He sought to emphasise, through his autobiographical recollections, that culture really is ordinary. Foucault saw things the same way; pursuing an "archaeology of knowledges" - the knowledges of the non-academic world - which he saw as equally valid. This is not news; but two dead academics have emphatically thrown down the gauntlet to the present generation, which as The THES 's letters page frequently attests, suffers disillusionment and anomie in a changing academic world. The role of the academic at the beginning of the third millennium is to show the way through the threshold; to provide a link between the seeming certainty of the past and the real uncertainty of the future. As Greenfield notes, a scientifically illiterate society would be a terrible thing, but a society that knew neither its own history nor those of the cultures belonging to it, could be even worse. In that sense at least, perhaps it is time to forsake the monasticism of the academic life forever for a more socially conscious role that will both renew the idealistic visions of the old world in harmony with the urgent needs of the new.
Mike Finn is a graduate student in economic and social history at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This essay won the 2001 Palgrave/ THES Humanities and Social Science writing prize on the past and future of the university. The prize will be presented at the Institute of Historical Research conference on E. H. Carr on November 14.


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Neal Ardley reveals tough love for in-form Notts County winger Enzio Boldewijn
The Dutchman has showed signs of being back to his best in the last three games after starring in the National League last season with the Magpies hoping he can inspire promotion push
Leigh Curtis
16:34, 4 DEC 2020
Updated 16:39, 4 DEC 2020
Notts County winger Enzio Boldewijn. (Image: Dan Westwell)
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Neal Ardley admits Enzio Boldewijn has had a "rocket and an arm around the shoulder" as he urged the winger to maintain his standards to help their promotion push.
The Dutchman has showed signs of being back to his best in recent games after a sluggish start to the campaign with the Magpies hoping he can inspire their promotion push.
Boldewijn made the National League team of the year last season but by his own standards has yet to reach the peak of his powers but was impressive in Wednesday's goalless draw against Dagenham.
Ardley says he has to give the former Crawley ace, who cost Notts more than £200,000 two years ago, some tough love in an attempt to get him firing on all cylinders again.
"As managers, it can't just always be arm around the shoulder," he said.
"Enzio has had the rocket and an arm around the shoulder. He's had a little bit of everything. He is a good lad and I've got a very good relationship with him.
"I feel like I can deliver that sort of news and feedback to him. And, at the end of the day, we're all here for a reason to try and bring success for this club and anybody that's not pulling their weight, it's my job to make sure that they know that.
"The old school way was just to rip their heads off and leave them out the squad.
"My way is to give them a rocket, but also encourage them, put an arm around them and give them the opportunity to show you that they're listening and they're trying.
"With Enzio that approach has worked. But he knows he can't let any standards drop because we've now signed Tom Walker."
Boldewijn has already scored three goals this season, two of which have come inside the box and Ardley wants him to take a leaf out of Chelsea legend Frank Lampard by getting into the area more.
"He's well aware that if he doesn't put the hard yards into being in positions that I'm going to be on his case," he said.
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"So players like Enzio and Cal Roberts, they're very good at doing work to get on the ball, because that's what they like, they like the ball at their feet.
"You look at say someone like Frank Lampard, who is Chelsea's top ever goalscorer.
"He put the hard yards in to be in the positions and when that ball dropped in the box, he finished them and the hard work is what people don't see.
"And that's what people like Enzio and Cal who while they like to have the ball at their feet, they also need to make they do the hard yards to get in the box to score the goals that that are more messy rather than the ones they normally do."

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Cat Dissections
There's no such thing as a quiet night in on Cat Dissections time. As Iggy Pop would say, Time To Go Nightclubbing. But are we what's happening?
Industrial godheads Ministry are in the midst of a resurgence with a Greatest Fits album and an appearance in the summer blockbuster, A.I. Kiran Aditham talks with Paul Barker about label politics, soundalike bands, and why Filth Pig is the band's greatest triumph.
Front 242, with Cassandra Complex, at Irving Center in New York City on September 28, 2000. Concert review by Kiran Aditham.
The Damage Manual
You could call it an industrial supergroup: Martin Atkins, Chris Connelly, Jah Wobble, and Geordie Walker bring together decades of experience in bands like Pigface, Killing Joke, Public Image Limited, Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, and more, and start a new project, the Damage Manual. drew West gets the story straight from Atkins himself.


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Purposeful Work
Community-Engaged Learning
Campus Construction Updates
Bates in the News
Live at Bates
Aaron Morse
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Doug Hubley
Emily Mcconville
Jay Burns
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Bates Magazine
Bates News
Stories about "graduate schools"
Bates, Bowdoin, Colby hold annual Graduate and Professional School Fair
Monday, October 26, 2009 4:35 pm
The annual Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Graduate and Professional School Fair takes place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.
Grad programs in health care accept 96 percent of Bates applicants
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 3:56 pm
Ninety-six percent of Bates College seniors and alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions for fall 2005 matriculation were accepted. Ninety-one percent of Bates applicants were accepted into medical or osteopathic schools, vs. a national average of around 49 percent, according to a report issued on Oct. 10 by the college's Medical Studies Committee.
Wall Street Journal cites Bates for 'elite' grad-school preparation
Thursday, October 2, 2003 11:15 am
Bates is included in a new Wall Street Journal ranking of 50 colleges and universities that "send the most students to elite grad schools."
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In the decades to come, success will go to the institutions that know who they are and how to engage effectively with the forces that are shaping our world. Bates intends to be among the vanguard.
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Traffic analytical tools can cause unintentional sensitive information disclosure.
Most of precisely targeted attacks on IT infrastructures are originated from outside of security perimeters of the victimized organizations. However, the security openings allowing cyber attackers to breach security mechanisms overwhelmingly originated either with unintentional help of insiders or disclosure of sensitive information.
Information disclosure might be a bigger threat then a not patched system. Organizations say that the biggest risk to their security is the disclosure of the internal information on social media. It is hard to employ technologies to detect such events and it may take a serious security specialist with anti-scouting skills to detect such disclosures.
Hackers use different techniques for cyber scouting and reconnaissance. IT organizations should be aware of some of them.
Example can be Google Analytics. Google Analytics java script picks up information from web pages and send it to Google. Then your analytical data is available to public.
Here is an example how Google unintentionally discloses its own emails through its own tools.
This image below shows how analytical tools pick up and disclose an email address.
Similarly analytical tools can disclose hashes, hidden information, email addresses, subjects of emails and other.
Digital Edge would like to thank Fred Legrand, who was a contributor on this subject, as an advanced marketing data analyst who uses unique techniques to provide his clients with information about online behavior.
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Responsible Care is the chemical industry's commitment to continual improvement in health, safety, security and environmental performance. It is a global initiative. In the UK, Responsible Care covers the whole of the chemical supply chain – from manufacturers, through to distributors and logistics companies. Compliance with Responsible Care is mandatory for all CBA member companies involved in the trading, distribution, handling, movement and storage of chemicals.
How does Responsible Care measure performance?
Since 1993, CBA has measured the chemical distribution sector's performance. This is a unique and valuable record illustrating the sector's year-on-year progress.
Member companies are required to provide Indices of Performance covering key aspects of their health, safety, security and environmental performance. Since 1993, this data has been collected annually, aggregated and published as the distributor Indices of Performance Bulletin. It aims to provide CBA members and their employees, local communities, regulators and other industry stakeholders with a benchmark against which to measure the sector's year-on-year performance.
In 2007, CBA launched a dedicated Logistics Index specifically to measure the health, safety, security and environmental performance of the growing number of logistics companies in CBA membership. Similar Indices of Performance data is also collected annually, aggregated, and then published as the Logistics Index.
Whilst subject to year-on-year fluctuations, both the CBA's Distributor Indices of Performance Bulletin and Logistics Index illustrate the long-term benefit of Responsible Care and its ability to deliver significant improvements in the industry's health, safety, security and environmental performance.
In addition to the Indices of Performance, each year individual Companies must also complete and return a Self-Assessment Questionnaire and an Improvement Plan designed to identify and remove any weakness in a member's health, safety, security and environmental management system. An alternative to this process is available for companies undertaking third party verification.
CBA's Responsible Care Awards recognise the achievements of member companies beyond basic compliance with the programme. Three Awards are presented annually at CBA's Annual Lunch at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London – for operational sites involved in distributing, manufacturing or blending; office-only distributor companies; and logistics companies. One of these companies receives the CBA's overall Responsible Care Award in recognition of its achievements. Since 2012, the Community Interaction Award has also been presented to recognise a major contribution to community interaction by a member company, one of its employees, or by a group of employees.
Third Party Verification (TPV) is the independent third party assessment of companies in the chemical supply chain.
CBA recommends SQAS (Safety & Quality Assessment for Sustainability), a pan-European system to evaluate the safety, security, quality, environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards of chemical distributors and Logistics Services Providers. It also offers a system of third party verification to Responsible Care.
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TPV offers additional benefits to companies handling high consequence dangerous goods – it allows them to benefit from 50% fewer inspections by the Department for Transport.
CBA has negotiated a landmark agreement with the Department for Transport (DfT) for member companies engaged in handling high consequence dangerous goods. This agreement is the first of its kind in the chemical sector and a major step forward for the industry.
To qualify for 50% fewer inspections by the DfT, companies must be compliant with relevant security regulations, be compliant members of the CBA's Responsible Care programme, and hold a current independent Third Party Verification (TPV) assessment recognised by DfT and CBA.
To help member companies moving towards TPV, CBA is offering a FREE expert pre-assessment review. Whilst this will not constitute a SQAS/ESAD assessment, which can only be undertaken by an accredited assessor, it is designed to help a company gauge its state of readiness for an assessment and will be undertaken by CBA staff experienced in the development of the ESAD questionnaires and guidance.
Click here for a listing of accredited TPV Assessors.
The winner of the Responsible Care Award for distributor companies with operating sites was WhitChem Limited. The company is one of the leading UK Chemical Distributors with a history dating back over 200 years. Operating from six UK sites, it provides UK wide distribution of both packed and bulk chemicals, primarily through its own network of sites and vehicles. Three of the sites fall under the COMAH Regulations and are classified as Low Tier. The company has been a member of the CBA since 1952 and certainly for the past 40 years have been an active participant in CBA's Committees and Council. The company was one of the first to adopt the Responsible Care Programme and continue to be fully committed to that programme.
The Chemical Business Association (CBA) has announced the winner of its annual Community Interaction Award.
The Award was presented at CBA's Annual Lunch at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, on 26 April 2017, before an audience of over 1,100 industry representatives and their guests by impressionist, comedian, and writer, Rory Bremner.CBA's Community Interaction Award aims to recognise an outstanding contribution to community interaction by a member company, or one of its employees, or group of employees.
The winner of CBA's Community Interaction Award was Dakram Materials Limited.
The Award reflects the strong involvement of the company, in working with young people in schools, colleges and universities, to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and providing many with workplace opportunities .


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Kathleen Petyarre
Kathleen Petyarre was born circa 1940, at the remote location of Atnangkere, an important water soakage for Aboriginal people on the western boundary of Utopia Station, 150 miles north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Kathleen belongs to the Alyawarre / Eastern Anmatyerre clan and speaks Eastern Anmatyerre, with English as her second language. Kathleen, with her daughter Margaret and her sister's, settled at Mosquito Bore, on Utopia Station near her birthplace. Kathleen now spends part of the year at her residence in Adelaide. Kathleen's mother and seven sisters have managed to hold onto their land near Utopia Station as a group, establishing a camp at Atneftyeye Boundary Bore.
Kathleen was one of the key Anmatyerre women involved in the successful claim for the freehold title, which led to the 1979 formal hand-over of the Utopia pastoral lease back to its traditional owners. Kathleen's inherited Dreaming stories from her father and mother are Mountain Devil Lizard, or Thorny Devil Lizard (Arnkerrthe), Women Hunting Emu, and Dingo (Atnangkerre) and all of her paintings directly refer to these "Dreamings" and the associated country around Utopia in the eastern central desert of Australia. A common theme of Kathleen's paintings refer to Arnkerrthe, Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard, (Moloch horridus) a small lizard which has spikes on its back and lives in the desert, crossing vast terrain and changing colour according to its environment like a true chameleon.
The enormity of his journeys can be felt in the landscape of Kathleen's works. This important clan country serves not only as a creation site, but a sacred place in which to reconnect with the Dreaming through ceremony, and in particular, initiation rites. Kathleen, continues to demonstrate her detailed, accurate knowledge and respect of country through her remarkable paintings that in turn give the viewer an insight into an ancient other world of endless beauty.
Selected Exhibitions: 1989 Coventry Gallery, Sydney; 1989, 1997, 1998 Tandanya, Adelaide; 1990, 1991 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland; 1990 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; 1990 Harvard University, Boston, USA; 1990, 1999 At Gallery of NSW, Sydney; 1992 Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Sydney; 1993 Moree Plains Art Gallery, Moree; 1994 Australian Embassy, Paris, France; 1994, 1997 Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 1995 Ludwig Forum fur international Kunst, Aachen, Germany; 1996 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; 1996 Old Parliment House, Canberra; 1996,1998, 2000 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne; 1996, 1998 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; 1996, 1998 Gallerie Australis, Adelaide; 1997, 1999 Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise; 1997 Museum PuriLukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia; 1997 National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta; 1997, 1998 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; 1997 "Dreampower", Adelaide; Mary P;ace Gallery, Sydney; 1997 Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney; 1998 Chapman Gallery, Canberra; 1998 Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA; 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; 1998 Japingka Gallery, Perth; 1999 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; 2002 Aboriginal Galleries of Australia, Melbourne; 2002 Gallerie Commines, Paris, France.
Selected Collections:Paintings Collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth 11 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA, Australia. The Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT., Australia. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A. Australia; Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, S.A. Australia; The Kluge-Rhue Collection, University of West Virginia, VA, USA; The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, CA., USA; The Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle, WA., USA; A.T.S.I.C. Collection, Adelaide, S.A. Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. Australia; Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia; University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, S.A. Australia; Riddoch Regional Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, S.A. Australia; Edith Cowan University, Perth, W.A. Australia; Collection de Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris, France; Peabody - Essex Anthropology and Ethnology Museum, Harvard University, Salem, Mass., USA.
Awards: 1996 3rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Commission Art Award (joint second prize), Canberra; 1996 Winner, 13th Telstra NATSIAA, Darwin; 1997 Overall Winner of the Visy Board Art Prize, Barossa Vintage Festival Art Show; 1998 Seppelts Contemporary Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW; 1998 finalist 15th NATSIAA
Source Includes: Aboriginal Artists, dictionary of biographies by Janusz B. Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg (This illustrated dictionary of 446 pages showing many photographs of artists and paintings is available from Doongal).


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Auburn Tigers wide receiver Eli Stove (12) is tackled by Ole Miss linebacker Jarrion Street (20) at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. on Saturday, October 7, 2017. (Bruce Newman, Oxford Eagle via AP)
Ole Miss' focus, not schemes, needs adjustment from the start
By Davis Potter
Published 6:01 am Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Win or lose, teams are always looking for ways to improve. Come up on the wrong end of games that are essentially over by halftime, and everything is re-evaluated.
Ole Miss' coaches and players pored over film together from the Rebels' latest blowout loss — a 44-23 setback to Auburn that Ole Miss made appear closer than it really was with a couple of fourth-quarter touchdowns. The Rebels trailed by more than four touchdowns at halftime for the second straight week because of more explosive plays given up by the defense and the offense's inability to either finish drives or sustain them.
Coaches reviewed the film, assessing everything from personnel to alignment to if a change in scheme to the Rebels' spread offense or 4-2-5 defense may be needed to help Ole Miss early heading into Saturday's game against Vanderbilt (2:30 p.m., SEC Network). But interim coach Matt Luke said scheme has nothing to do with the Rebels' struggles, particularly on defense.
"I think it's just focusing in and playing with the energy and the focus it takes to win in this league," Luke said. "You can't give up explosive plays. When we sat down and watched the whole tape together as a defense, it was one guy here and one guy there. You can't have those and expect to win on the road in this league."
The Rebels were outscored 70-6 in the first half of their last two losses to Alabama and Auburn with those teams running for a combined 691 yards — 339 of those yards coming in the first half. Ole Miss, which gave up four scoring plays of 17 yards or more last week, is allowing an SEC-worst 5.6 yards per carry.
Defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff said he'll continue to evaluate the plays he's calling, but the film is showing more human error than anything schematic.
"When we looked at it, it was just one guy breaking down in every defense," McGriff said. "We had a heart-to-heart at halftime and I just told them there were no magical adjustments. There's nothing different that we can call. You're not going to get a magical speech. You've just got to go out and play football."
The Rebels did that better in the second half, scoring three touchdowns and not allowing Auburn to reach the end zone as Ole Miss outscored the Tigers 20-9 in the final two quarters. The focus was sharper defensively while execution was crisper on the offense's part, particularly along an offensive line that provided a much cleaner pocket for Shea Patterson, who was sacked just once by Auburn after being taken down 10 times the previous two games.
"We just challenged (the offensive line) to play better and they did," Luke said. "They played their best game as a whole. It's not anybody in particular. They all played pretty well as a unit."
It's small consolation for a team riding a three-game losing streak against Power Five competition, but Luke is hopeful it's a confident step in the right direction.
"We want to build on it, walk out there with confidence, and just building on the positives I saw," he said. "Obviously the results are not what we wanted, but we have to build on those positives moving forward. I think that's what we'll do this week."
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Vocal artist Sinha and drummer Chase respond to the sounds of the museum, sculpting a space for listening within the cavernous skylight atrium. Queens Museum, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona. 2 p.m.
A screening of Jodie Foster's film as part of A Better Jamaica's Classic Film Fridays. Free. Rufus King Park, vicinity of Jamaica Avenue and 153rd Street, Jamaica, 8:20 p.m.
Take a tour of the land of musicians, degenerates, and dentists, otherwise known as Forest Hills. See the birthplace of the Ramones. Hear firsthand accounts of the group's upbringing and years on the road from Ramones accomplice and tour manager Monte Melnick. The tour then hits a bus to a Punk Rock concert at the Low Tide Bar at the Beach 97th concession in Rockaway Beach. It begins at the Ramones exhibition at Queens Museum, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Join tour at the Queens Museum, grab a ticket for the bus, or meet at the beach. 2 to 9 p.m.
Dora Sofia Caputo showcases floral photographs of dahlias and sunflowers in the gallery as these real flowers bloom in the garden. Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38th Ave., Flushing, This event runs through Oct. 9.
This documentary focuses on people who fish in New York City. Free. Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, LIC. 1 p.m.
The Weeping Meadow, 6:30 pm. Screened as part of a retrospective on Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, "Voyage to Cythera" follows a successful middle-aged filmmaker who looks on as his father returns from exile in the Soviet Union to find his village being expropriated by capitalists who want to turn it into a ski resort. The Weeping Meadow takes place in 1919, after the newly formed Soviet Union has exiled Greeks from Odessa. $15. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District. 3 p.m.
Learn how to harness a rubber band's elasticity to create a propeller-powered car. $5 per adult/child pair, plus museum admission. New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St., Corona, 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
This is an educational day of Colonial arts and crafts for students with special needs. Make Cornhusk dolls and learn about their history in the lives of children from the past. $15. Queens Historical Society, 143-35 37th Ave., Flushing, 10 a.m.
Watch a cover band play hits from the 1960s to today as part of the Katz Concert Series. Free. Fort Totten, Cross Island Parkway and Totten Avenue, Bayside. 5 p.m.
This group performs Mexican folk dances as part of the Summer Sundays in the Park series. Free. Travers Park, 78th Street between 34th Avenue and Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights. 4 p.m.
A workshop and reading that explores history, motion, and place, using the museum as inspiration. Participants draw from Latimer's life and career as well as from articles inside his home, the home's architecture, and the encompassing neighborhood. Lewis H. Latimer House. 2:30 p.m.
This group combines New Orleans funk and R&B with Hip Hop and Afro-Beat. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. 3:30 p.m.
All are invited to this competitive storytelling event whose theme is "neighborhood." $10. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. at 8 p.m.
These Hip-Hop groups perform hits from their debut albums Enta Da Stage and Dah Shinin, respectively. Free. Queensbridge Park, vicinity of Vernon Boulevard and 21st Street, LIC. 7 p.m.
The New York Exceptions Band does Doo Wop as part of the 2016 Juniper Valley Park Summer Concert Series. Free. Public space at 80th Street and Juniper Boulevard North, Middle Village, 7 p.m.
A Reggae/Ska band performs as part of the Live at the Gantries series. Free. Gantry Plaza State Park, between 49th and 50th avenues along the East River, LIC, 7 p.m.
The Garden Creativi-TEA series offers workshops and delicious iced tea on consecutive Tuesdays through Aug. 9. This date's activity involves painting and planting. $3/$6 per family. Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38th Ave., Flushing,1 p.m.
This Grammy-winning jazz vocalist shares the stage with DJ Greg Caz, who has been spinning since the 1990s. Free. Queensbridge Park, vicinity of Vernon Boulevard and 21st Street, LIC, 7 p.m.
A film about British earthworks artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses twigs, grass, mud, ice, water, leaves, stones to fashion delicate labyrinthine objects that transform over a period of hours or days, or self-destruct within moments of reaching their pinnacle of perfection. Plus, food from Max Bratwurst und Bier and music from Emily Wolf. Free. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., LIC, 7 p.m.
Take a guided tour with official Queens historian Jack Eichenbaum. Check out Woodside Avenue, which traverses a 19th century cityscape near the LIRR, spans Roosevelt Avenue's diversity, and ends in the Asian neighborhood in Elmhurst. Expect a recycled trolley terminal structure, a five-story Thai Buddhist temple, Romanian and Burmese churches, a hidden railroad, and an antebellum farmhouse. $15. Meet on the south side of the Northern Boulevard subway stop for the M and R trains. More information at jaconet@aol.com. The tour will start at 6 p.m.


GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) � It doesn't matter whether Shane Larkin is passing the ball or taking it from the other team. The Miami point guard always wants to keep his teammates involved.
Larkin scored 15 of his 20 points after halftime to help the ninth-ranked Hurricanes pull away and beat Boston College 69-58 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Kenny Kadji added 15 points and Trey McKinney Jones finished with 12 for the top-seeded Hurricanes (25-6), who got a serious scare from eighth-seeded BC (16-17) before advancing to a semifinal matchup Saturday with fifth-seeded North Carolina State, which beat Virginia in another quarterfinal.
Miami let an early 13-point lead disappear, then shot nearly 70 percent in the second half while making all the plays down the stretch to avoid becoming the ACC's first No. 1 seed to lose its tournament opener since 1997.
And the Hurricanes � who have won at least one ACC tournament game in eight of their 10 seasons in the league � have Larkin to thank for their latest escape.
Patrick Heckmann finished with 15 points for the Eagles, and his 3-pointer with 3� minutes left tied it at 55.
Durand Scott put Miami in front to stay with two free throws with 3:01 left, and Larkin took over a few moments later. He came up with a key steal from Olivier Hanlan, then buried a momentum-shifting 3 off an inbounds pass to make it 60-55 with 1:49 left.
After Brown swished a pretty hanging jumper with 57.6 seconds left, and Kadji added a free throw to make it 63-55, BC didn't get closer than five points the rest of the way. McKinney Jones punctuated the victory with a dunk with 17.2 seconds left.
Larkin also keyed the defensive effort on Hanlan, who a day earlier set an ACC tournament record for freshmen with 41 points in the first-round win over Georgia Tech.
Hanlan finished this one with 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting, missing 5 of his final 6 attempts after making 16 consecutive shots over two days. His streak ended when his 3-pointer over Larkin hit off the rim with just under 14 minutes left, and Larkin also forced him into four turnovers.
Ryan Anderson also had 14 points for the Eagles, who had their ACC-best four-game winning streak snapped and were denied their first semifinal appearance since 2007.
They lost twice to Miami during the regular season in vastly differing ways: The Hurricanes romped by 32 points in Coral Gables a few weeks after holding on for a one-point win at BC.
And for a while, this one looked like a repeat of that blowout � at least until BC dug itself out of a double-digit hole for the second straight day.
After rallying from 15 points down to beat the Yellow Jackets in the first round, the Eagles spotted Miami a 21-8 lead before closing the half on a 19-4 run and took their first lead when Anderson's layup with 4 seconds left made it 27-25. That coincided with a brutally cold spell for Miami, which missed 14 of its last 16 shots of the half against a BC team that started pressing the Hurricanes and defending them with a zone.
BC stretched its lead to 30-25 on Heckmann's 3-pointer 20 seconds into the half. Miami eventually countered with an 11-2 run and took a 48-44 lead on Larkin's deep 3, and things remained tight until Larkin and the Hurricanes finally pulled away.


I interrupt the flow of postings on cartoons to report on my adventures in sporting enthusiasm, in particular for teams in the World Cup. In the current round, I had three favorite teams: Mexico (how can you live where I do without supporting Mexico?), Switzerland (the land of my father's family), and of course the U.S. Everybody lost, though the games had stirring moments.
I'm not up at all on the fine points of soccer, but I enjoy the spectacle.
And now, back to language.
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Julie is a painter who is very much inspired by nature. She likes to visit certain places, significant to her, and truly experience them. She takes pictures and studies the location into great detail. Capturing the experience into journals and later on, sketches. She describes eventually transferring her inspiration onto the canvas as "an entirely new experience, almost an emotional response."
Besides being a painter, Julie also teaches art, part-time. She tells us that although she would miss teaching, she would give it up for the benefit of her life's purpose: being a full-time artist.
Interested in learning more about Julie? A full account of our meeting with Julie in her studio in Wolverhampton, UK is available to you in our Meeting the Artist Blog pages.
Like Julie's style, but not finding what you are looking for? Julie would enjoy working with you on that special piece for your wall. Please contact us for more information.
Born in 1970 in Lancashire, Julie Edwards is based in the UK, where has been working from her studio at Eagle Works Studios and Gallery since 1998. Unlike so many of her contemporaries, Julie has been working steadily ever since. Progressing from large semi-abstract paintings that often took on an aerial view of both the industrial and natural landscape, towards a more sophisticated and personalized, semi-representational format. Julie introduces herself as a semi-abstract landscape artist whose artwork is very much influenced by the natural world around her; places she visited and experienced become images in her mind and inspiration for a new painting.
Born in 1970 in Lancashire, Julie Edwards is based in the UK, where has been working from her studio at Eagle Works Studios and Gallery since 1998.
Unlike so many of her contemporaries, Julie has been working steadily ever since. Progressing from large semi-abstract paintings that often took on an aerial view of both the industrial and natural landscape, towards a more sophisticated and personalized, semi-representational format.
Julie introduces herself as a semi-abstract landscape artist whose artwork is very much influenced by the natural world around her; places she visited and experienced become images in her mind and inspiration for a new painting.


On September 29, 2014, ISS released the results of its annual global voting policy survey. In the release, ISS noted that it intended to implement a "balanced scorecard" approach to evaluating compensation plan proposals that gives weight to various factors under three categories related to the proposal. These factors would be (1) cost, (2) plan features, and (3) company grant practices. The release also provided survey findings that stated with respect to how the plan cost category should be weighed in a scorecard: 70 percent of investors indicate weights ranging from 30 to 50 percent, with a 40 percent weighting cited most often. Sixty-two percent of investors suggested weightings from 25 to 35 percent for plan features; and 64 percent indicated weights ranging from 20 to 35 percent for grant practices. Separately, with respect to executive compensation, the release also said that "pay limits relative to company performance resonate with investors" and that when "asked whether there is a threshold at which the magnitude of CEO pay warrants concern even if the company's performance is positive (e.g., outperforming peer group), 60 percent of investor respondents answer in the affirmative". The survey provides many other details along with quantifying and summarizing the responses to the specific survey queries.
Additionally, on October 15, 2014, ISS issued a news release in which it announced the launch of its 2015 benchmark voting policy. ISS solicited views on its draft voting policies for 2015 and requested that any comments be provided to them by email before 6:00 p.m. EDT on October 29, 2014. One such new draft voting policy is the "Equity Plan Scorecard" ("EPSC") as mentioned above in the earlier news release. If implemented, the EPSC would be utilized by ISS in their process for making vote recommendations with respect to equity compensation plans that have been submitted for shareholder approval.
The EPSC would be a "scorecard" model that would consider various factors, rather than the current ISS current voting policy which entails a series of "pass/fail" tests to evaluate equity compensation plan proposals. Currently, the pass/fail tests look at the company's historical "burn rate" relative to ISS prescribed burn rate limits, whether the company has problematic pay practices which can include performance/pay misalignment or egregious plan provisions, and whether cost of the plan is too high as measured by ISS' shareholder value transfer ("SVT") model. In lieu of the pass/fail tests, going forward, the "total EPSC score will generally determine whether a "For" or "Against" recommendation is warranted".
1) Plan Cost: The total potential cost of the company's equity plans relative to industry/market cap peers, measured by the company's estimated SVT in relation to peers.
minimum vesting period for grants made under the plan.
The EPSC further provides that scorecard factors and weightings will be keyed to company size and status: S&P 500, Russell 3000 (excludes S&P500), Non-Russell 3000, and Recent IPOs or Bankruptcy Emergent companies. And, burn rate benchmarks will be calibrated for respective index groups: (a) S&P500, (b) Russell 3000 (excluding S&P500), and (c) Non-Russell 3000; the relevant GICS industry classification will be used within each index group.
Notwithstanding the scorecard approach, ISS noted that certain "highly egregious features will continue to result in negative recommendations regardless of other factors (e.g., authority to reprice options without seeking shareholder approval)".
As noted above, ISS solicited comments on its draft voting policies and companies may want to provide input to ISS. In this regard, with respect to the EPSC, ISS specifically requested feedback on whether certain factors outlined in the EPSC should be more heavily weighted and whether there may be any unintended consequences from shifting to a scorecard approach.
In any event, companies will want to monitor the development of the EPSC (ISS said that it expects to issue its final 2015 voting policies on or around November 7, 2014 and which would be applicable for shareholder meetings occurring after January 2015) and review their own equity compensation plans and grant practices in light of the EPSC to determine what if any changes it may wish or need to implement in the future.


Simple way of building a video-wall or mounting several screens in a row. Suitable for screen approx 37"-65", Max load: 100 kg/screen.
Place large screens really close to the wall – without extraordinary costs.
A cost-effective and simple way of building a video wall or mounting several screens in a row.
The solution can be used with screens from approximately 37", right up to 65". Simply choose as many modules as you need. Each module is supplied as a complete package with all necessary components, and can be set up in three easy steps.
The solution makes it easy to place the screens exactly in line and allows edge-to-edge mounting. The final result lies closer to the wall than most other products on the market.
100400 mm vertically. No limitation horizontally.


TGS Baltic drafted an agreement of manufacturers of medicinal products with the National Health Service on including of innovative medicinal products in the list of reimbursable medicinal products pursuant to the requirements set by the Cabinet regulations No.899 "Procedures for the Reimbursement of Expenditures for the Acquisition of Medicinal Products and Medicinal Devices Intended for Out-patient Medical Treatment".
TGS Baltic provides day-to-day legal assistance to a manufacturer and distributor of medicinal products in Latvia, including regarding discounts for medicinal products offered to hospitals through public tenders and donations of medicinal products to hospitals, clinical trials, safety reporting, suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions, scientific services, M&A and corporate, employment, data protection, bribery and competition law issues.
TGS Baltic advised Novo Nordisk on the reorganization of its supply chain for medicinal products in the Baltic States, and prepared the relevant documentation.


Millennials carry more than their fair share of weight when it comes to FMCG spending - they already shell out more per trip than any other generation.
Therefore, capturing their attention and understanding their spending habits is of growing importance.
According to the latest Nielsen Category Shopping Fundamentals study, as detailed in its recent Millennials on Millennials report, 60% of US consumers' FMCG decisions are still made at the shelf. However, Millennials are more active on social media than older generations, and this affects the way they look for information as they shop.
But online isn't just for research. It's also fast becoming a viable shopping channel - even for fast-moving consumer goods. In fact, Millennials are driving the growth of online shopping for FMCG products, with 61% saying they buy FMCG products online.
Millennials are more likely than other generations to consider e-tailers that offer subscription services. In fact, three out of the five top FMCG categories they buy online are subscription-based.
It's also important to know how Millennials get online. Notably, they're highly mobile, and their smartphones are increasingly becoming their go-to devices when it's time to shop. They make just under 50% of their online purchases from a desktop/laptop, less than all older generations, and they make 40% of their purchases via mobile phone, which is a full 10% higher than Gen-Xers. And despite industry buzz around smart devices, they have yet to catch on with consumers for shopping.
Despite being heavily influenced by on-shelf options, Millennials are much more comfortable searching online and consulting social media when researching products to purchase. They're also the heaviest adopters of online FMCG purchases and subscription-based services, driving home the importance of keeping up with current trends to remain both relevant and competitive.
Millennials are willing to pay extra for sustainable offerings. When Nielsen surveyed Millennials in 2017 about the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to their purchasing decisions, significantly more Millennials responded by saying that CSR is extremely or very important than the broader population.
And as a result, Millennials are more likely to purchase from socially responsible brands, as 70% indicated that they would be more likely to purchase from a brand if it handled a social issue well.


This project is being performed by the Iowa DOT. It will include adding a third lane to the highway from SE 37th Street (NW 54th Avenue) to highway 44 (NW 70th Avenue). Lane closures during the project should be expected. The closures should be done during hours not to effect the morning and evening commutes. During the lane closure times, there will be a detour routes through Johnston as well as Grimes. Notification will be sent out by the DOT and will be also shown on this page.
The DOT has submitted a Traffic Incident Management Plan to be used during construction.


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Large low-shear-velocity provinces, LLSVPs, also called LLVPs or superplumes, are characteristic structures of parts of the lowermost mantle (the region surrounding the outer core) of Earth. These provinces are characterized by slow shear wave velocities and were discovered by seismic tomography of deep Earth. There are two main provinces: the African LLSVP and the Pacific LLSVP. Both extend laterally for thousands of kilometers and possibly up to  vertically from the core–mantle boundary. The Pacific LLSVP is  across, and underlies four hotspots that suggest multiple mantle plumes underneath.  These zones represent around 8% of the volume of the mantle (6% of Earth). Other names for LLSVPs include "superswells", "thermo-chemical piles", or "hidden reservoirs". Most of these names, however, are more interpretive of their proposed geodynamical or geochemical effects. For example, the name "thermo-chemical pile" interprets LLSVPs as lower-mantle piles of thermally hot and/or chemically distinct material. LLSVPs are still relatively mysterious, and many questions remain about their nature, origin, and geodynamic effects.

Seismological constraints
LLSVPs were discovered in full mantle seismic tomographic models of shear velocity as slow features in the lowermost mantle beneath Africa and the Pacific. The boundaries of these features appear fairly consistent across models when applying objective k-means clustering. The global spherical harmonic degree two structure is strong and aligns with its smallest moments of inertia along with the two LLSVPs. This means, by using shear wave velocities, the established locations of the LLSVPs are not only verified, a stable pattern for mantle convection emerges. This stable configuration is responsible for the geometry of plate motions at the surface due as well as mantle convection. Another name for the degree two structure, a roughly  thick layer of the lower mantle directly above the core–mantle boundary, is the D″ ("D double-prime" or "D prime prime"). The LLSVPs lie around the equator, but mostly on the Southern Hemisphere. Global tomography models inherently result in smooth features; local waveform modeling of body waves, however, has shown that the LLSVPs have sharp boundaries.
The sharpness of the boundaries makes it difficult to explain the features by temperature alone; the LLSVPs need to be compositionally distinct to explain the velocity jump.
Ultra low velocity zones at smaller scales have been discovered mainly at the edges of these LLSVPs.

By using the solid Earth tide, the density of these regions has been determined. The bottom two thirds are 0.5% denser than the bulk of the mantle. However, tidal tomography cannot say exactly how the excess mass is distributed. The overdensity may be due to primordial material or subducted ocean slabs.

Possible origin
Several hypotheses have been proposed for the origin and persistence of LLSVPs, depending on whether the provinces represent purely thermal unconformities (i.e. are isochemical in nature, of the same chemical composition as the surrounding mantle) or represent chemical unconformities as well (i.e. are thermochemical in nature, of different chemical composition from the surrounding mantle).

If LLSVPs represent purely thermal unconformities, then they may have formed as megaplumes of hot, upwelling mantle. However, geodynamical studies predict that isochemical upwelling of a hotter, lower viscosity material should produce long, narrow plumes,  unlike the large, wide plumes we observe in LLSVPs.

The current leading hypothesis for the LLSVPs is the accumulation of subducted oceanic slabs. This corresponds with the locations of known slab graveyards surrounding the Pacific LLSVP. These graveyards are thought to be the reason for the high velocity zone anomalies surrounding the Pacific LLSVP and are thought to have formed by subduction zones that were around long before the dispersion—some 750 million years ago—of the supercontinent Rodinia. Aided by the phase transformation, the temperature would partially melt the slabs, to form a dense heavy melt that pools and forms the ultra low velocity zone structures at the bottom of the core-mantle boundary closer to the LLSVP than the slab graveyards. The rest of the material is then carried upwards due to chemical-induced buoyancy and contributes to the high levels of basalt found at the mid-ocean ridge. The resulting motion forms small clusters of small plumes right above the core-mantle boundary that combine to form larger plumes and then contribute to superplumes. The Pacific and African LLSVP, in this scenario, are originally created by a discharge of heat from the core (4000 K) to the much colder mantle (2000 K), the recycled lithosphere is only fuel that helps drive the superplume convection. Since it would be difficult for the Earth's core to maintain this high heat by itself, it gives support for the existence of radiogenic nuclides in the core, as well as the indication that if fertile subducted lithosphere stops subducting in locations preferable for superplume consumption, it will mark the demise of that superplume.

A second proposed origin for the LLSVPs is that their formation is related to the giant-impact hypothesis, which states that the Moon formed after the Earth collided with a planet-sized body called Theia. The hypothesis suggests that the LLSVPs are fragments of Theia's mantle which sank through to Earth's core-mantle boundary. The higher density of the mantle fragments is due to their enrichment in iron(II) oxide with respect to the rest of Earth's mantle. This higher iron(II) oxide composition would also be consistent with the isotope geochemistry of lunar samples, as well as that of the oceanic island basalts overlying the LLSVPs.

Dynamics
Geodynamic mantle convection models have included compositional distinctive material. The material tends to get swept up in ridges or piles. When including realistic past plate motions into the modeling, the material gets swept up in locations that are remarkably similar to the present day location of the LLSVPs. These locations also correspond with known slab graveyard locations mentioned in the origin section. These types of models, as well as the observation that the degree two structure of the LLSVPs is orthogonal to the path of true polar wander, suggest these mantle structures have been stable over large amounts of time. This geometrical relationship is also consistent with the position of the supercontinent Pangaea, and the formation of the current geoid pattern due to continental break-up from the superswell below.
However, the heat from the core is not enough to sustain the energy needed to fuel the superplume(s) located at the LLSVPs. There is a phase transition from perovskite to post-perovskite from the down welling slab(s) that causes an exothermic reaction. This exothermic reaction helps to heat the LLSVP, but it is not sufficient to account for the total energy needed to sustain it. So it is hypothesized that the material from the slab graveyard can become extremely dense and form large pools of melt concentrate enriched in uranium, thorium, and potassium. These concentrated radiogenic elements are thought to provide the high temperatures needed. So, the appearance and disappearance of slab graveyards predicts the birth and death of an LLSVP, potentially changing the dynamics of all plate tectonics.

See also
 Superswell
 Low-velocity zone
 Ultra-low velocity zone
 Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis
 Dzhanibekov effect
 Inner core super-rotation
 Intermediate axis theorem

References

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Geophysics
Structure of the Earth

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Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects
Occasional Paper Series, 11 (2007), 32; 1-33. https://doi.org/10.3326/ops.32
Urban, Ivica
Urban, I. (2007). Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects. Occasional Paper Series, 11. (32), 1-33. doi: 10.3326/ops.32
Urban, Ivica. "Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects." Occasional Paper Series, vol. 11, br. 32, 2007, str. 1-33. https://doi.org/10.3326/ops.32
Urban, Ivica. "Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects." Occasional Paper Series 11, br. 32 (2007): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.3326/ops.32
Urban, I. (2007) 'Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects', Occasional Paper Series, 11(32), str. 1-33. doi: 10.3326/ops.32
Urban I. Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects. Occasional Paper Series [Internet]. 31.01.2007. [pristupljeno 31.01.2023.];11(32):1-33. doi: 10.3326/ops.32
I. Urban, "Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects", Occasional Paper Series, vol. 11, br. 32, str. 1-33, Siječanj 2007. [Online]. Dostupno na: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:242:394546. [Citirano: 31.01.2023.]
Naslov (engleski) Progressivity of personal income tax in Croatia: decomposition of tax base and rate effects
Autor Ivica Urban
This paper presents progressivity breakdowns for Croatian personal income tax (henceforth PIT) in 1997 and 2004. The decompositions reveal how the elements of the system – tax schedule, allowances, deductions and credits – contribute to the achievement of progressivity, over the quantiles of pre-tax income distribution. Through the use of 'single parameter' Gini indices, the social decision maker's (henceforth SDM) relatively more or less favorable inclination toward taxpayers in the lower tails of pre-tax income distribution is accounted for. Simulations are undertaken to show how the introduction of a flat-rate system would affect progressivity.
Brojčani podaci vol. 11, br. 32, str. 1-33


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De regenboog heeft maar acht kleuren is een boek van Peter Pohl. Het is eerst als boek voor volwassenen en later als jeugdboek uitgegeven. Het gaat over Henrik, die als jongen van vier met z'n Zweedse moeder van Hamburg, Duitsland naar Stockholm, Zweden komt.

De regenboog heeft maar acht kleuren is vertaald uit het Zweeds. De oorspronkelijke titel is Regnbågen har bara åtta färger. De eerste druk is van 1986. In 1995 kwam bij Querido de Nederlandse vertaling uit. Behalve in het Nederlands is het in 1993 ook in het Duits vertaald, onder de titel Der Regenbogen hat nur acht Farben.

Het is het eerste boek uit de regenboogserie. Het gaat over Peter Pohl zelf. Pohl schrijft op zijn website dat het boek waar gebeurd is.

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  Peter Pohl over Regnbågen har bara åtta färger

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Die Bayerischen A III waren Lokomotiven der Königlich Bayerischen Staatsbahn.

Bei diesen Fahrzeugen experimentierte man nochmals mit einem kurzen Kessel und der Expansionssteuerung der Bauart Meyer. Da auch die zusätzliche Vergrößerung der Heizfläche durch zusätzlich eingebaute Rohre nicht verbessert werden konnte, wurden je zwei zu B I und C I umgebaut. Ansonsten war die Bauweise dieselbe wie bei den Maschinen der Baureihe A II.

Sie waren mit einem Schlepptender der Bauart 2 T 4,2, später nach dem Umbau 2 T 5 ausgestattet.

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Dampflokomotive Achsfolge 1A1
Dampflokomotive Achsfolge B1
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Groupthink is a phenomenon that occurs when a group of people gets together and starts to think collectively with one mind. The group is more concerned with maintaining unity than with objectively evaluating their situation, alternatives and options. The group, as a whole, tends to take irrational actions or overestimate their positions or moral rightness.
There have been periods of history when large groups of people, so invested in a particular goal and so convinced of their own righteousness, have collectively lost sight of reality, often with tragic results.
The larger the group, the less responsibility individual members will shoulder for their own actions. Responsibility for individual wrongdoing is diffused or "shared" by the members of the group. Because "everyone" takes responsibility, no one ultimately takes responsibility.
America's left, Democratic politicians, the mainstream media and those who receive their news from the mainstream media, have become radicalized over their hatred for Donald Trump. Their unwillingness to accept the result of a fair election directly clashes with the principles upon which America was founded.
In the wake of last week's uproar over former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's plea deal, I would like to remind them of some of their own vulnerabilities.
Have you forgotten about the Obama campaign's offer of $150,000 to Reverend Jeremiah Wright to shut him up during the 2008 campaign? Rev. Wright, whom Obama met in the late 1980s, preached a very incendiary form of Black Liberation Theology. How can we forget the clip of Rev. Wright's sermon given the Sunday following 9/11 when he said the attacks were payback for all of America's misdeeds?
Ed Klein, in his May 2012 book about Obama's White House years, entitled "The Amateur," details his interview with Rev. Wright. Wright revealed that he had received a bribe from a friend of Obama's during the 2008 campaign.
Klein spoke to Sean Hannity when the book was published.
What happened is that after ABC's Brian Ross broadcast the audiotapes --videotapes of the Rev. Wright God damning America and slamming whites and slamming Jews and America, he was contacted by one of Obama's closest personal friends, a guy who travels on Obama's plane, who plays basketball with him, who goes on vacations with him.
I didn't name him in the book, but I can tell you who he is. His name is Dr. Eric Whitaker. Dr. Whitaker is the vice president of the University of Chicago Medical Center and he's a member of Obama's very tight inner-circle. And he sent an email to a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ [Wright's church].
Whitaker sent an email to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, offering him $150,000 to stay quiet and not do any public speeches until after the election in November 2008.
Chicago politics is one hand feeds the other, as you know. And Eric Whitaker, a very close friend of the Obamas, sent an email to a member of the church saying that the Rev. Wright could get $150,000 if he would shut up and not criticize Obama anymore.
Then, after Rev. Wright said, 'no thank you,' Obama himself paid a personal call on the Rev. Wright. The face-to-face meeting took place in March 2008, 10 days after Obama's famous "race speech" took place.
Now, we know that this is true, not only because the Rev. Wright told me so, but also because the Secret Service logs, logged in this meeting. So we have confirmation that it actually took place.
There are no reports of a paper trail for this 2008 payment, but Rev. Wright did indeed shut up. Prior to this bribe, Obama's association with the anti-American, anti-Semitic pastor nearly sank his campaign. Surely, this provided a benefit to Obama's campaign.
It is well known that, when members of Congress are accused of sexual harassment by interns, staffers or anyone else, they can count on a taxpayer-funded "slush fund" to pay for non-disclosure agreements, "hush money," from their victims.
Certainly, these payments provide a benefit to the campaigns of the accused. They also have probably saved several marriages.
The online fact-checking website, "Snopes," considered this question: Did Congress Use a 'Slush Fund' to Pay $17 Million to Women They Sexually Harassed? They concluded this was false.
Their reasoning may surprise you. The statement is false because the fund is completely legal. It is "not secret" or "utilized for illicit purposes." So, as long as they are transparent about it, it's fine.
Unlike a "slush fund" which would be off the books, the fund is a line item and every year its activity can be viewed by the public in Treasury reports.
The total amount paid out annually ($17M has been paid out over the last 20 years) is made public, but the specifics of individual transactions remain confidential.
Why aren't taxpayers allowed access to the details? Why are members of Congress allowed privacy while the President is not?
Why wasn't the money paid for the dossier by the Hillary Clinton campaign or the DNC that she controlled listed as a campaign contribution? To say that it provided a benefit to the campaign would be a gross understatement. Instead, they ran it through a law firm and billed it as a legal expense.
This bogus dossier has become the most consequential political document in recent memory. It has passed through many hands, not the least of which were Bruce Ohr's. Inquiring minds want to know what role he played in this soap opera. Is it possible that he may have composed portions of it as it is rumored? Why doesn't the Mueller team schedule a pre-dawn raid on his home and office so we can find out?
Michael Cohen was Trump's attorney. When we retain the services of an attorney, an accountant, or any other professional, we state our goal and leave it to the attorney to execute the plan.
They are the trained professionals and we are the clients. Most of us don't question their methods. We assume our lawyers know what they're doing.
If a lawyer makes a mistake, intentionally or otherwise, it is his or her own responsibility. "Well, my client directed me to do it" is not a valid excuse for wrongdoing.
And also, because of such a thing as attorney/client privilege, we should feel we can speak frankly to our lawyers. Do we now have to worry that our conversations with lawyers might be recorded?
Why wasn't the office and residence of Hillary Clinton's attorney or her IT professional raided? Why don't we try to prosecute some of Hillary's closest aides? What about the IT employee who tried to bleach bit subpoenaed documents and destroy the hard drive? She was the subject of an FBI investigation. It would have been fair game.
The fact that the left has been able to thrust this farce upon the President is nothing short of incredible. It is a textbook example of the contagion of the contagion effect of groupthink. In the meantime, the more obvious and truly criminal offenses of Hillary Clinton and other governmental officials remain unscrutinized.
The only thing that will end it – declassifying the necessary DOJ/FBI documents, unredacted please – is the one thing that Trump has been, so far, reluctant to do. Perhaps he is simply waiting for the right time. Maybe he's planning an October surprise to achieve maximum impact. I certainly hope so.
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Kenneth Bean is an instructor and conductor in the Philadelphia area, as well as an active freelance trumpeter. He earned a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music Education from Jackson State University. He has taught at many festivals and schools, including The School District of Philadelphia, St. Francis de Sales School, The Premier Orchestral Institute of the Mississippi Symphony, Luzerne Music Center and Kinhaven Music School where he currently teaches trumpet and serves as Conductor of Chorus and Orchestra for Junior Session.
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Q: How to write strings in Math Equations in Jupyter Notebook I want to write the next equation (only the first part)

in a Jupyter notebook.
When I tried with this code
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I get this:

A: This is how you can embed text in LaTeX:
\text{Some text with spaces}

So in your case, it could look like this:
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The Collaborative Summer Library Program, established in 1987, is a consortium of states working together to provide high-quality summer reading program materials for children, teens, and adults at public libraries across the country. The goals of this program are to help young children build reading and language skills, to motivate teens to read and discuss literature, and to encourage adults to experience the joy of reading. You can find more information about the program here: http://www.cslpreads.org/.
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