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Aurora 17 – The message of a new Swedish defence
The Editorial Team	 18 October 2017
By Niklas Ylander
In September 2017, Sweden organized its largest military exercise in almost 25 years, Aurora 17. 19 000 men and women from the military defence, and 2 000 troops from other invited countries took part in the test to defend the Swedish territory from the Eastern threat. The Swedish political-military establishment clearly demonstrated the change of the national defence policy after the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
The neighboring Nordic countries were represented in Aurora, as well as Estonia, Lithuania, France and the US, all of them NATO members except for the non-aligned Finland. They took part in the exercise, which was organized in several locations around Sweden. The participation of other countries was important in order to test the ability to receive military support from foreign nations. The number of participating Swedish soldiers was significantly larger to any military exercise in Sweden before. Worth keeping in mind is that the amount of military personnel in the defence organization today is a tiny fraction of what it once was in the heydays of the Cold War. Many civilian state agencies were also engaged in Aurora. In the exercise scenario the threat came from what was clearly pointed out as Russia, but named "A-land" and "B-land".
At the same time, Russia and Belarus were conducting the Zapad exercise close to the border of the NATO members Lithuania and Poland. According to Russian officials, more than 10 000 personnel from the armed forces were going to participate. According to the New York Times, there were worries among the Baltic countries and Poland that as many as 100 000 troops would be deployed during the Zapad exercise. During Aurora no Russian provocations were reported and the total size of the Zapad exercise might have been exaggerated.
However, Russia has continued to increase its military activity in the neighbourhood after the annexation of Crimea: The continuation of the war in Eastern Ukraine, the bombings in Syria, violating the airspace of neighbors, increasing presence of advanced military units in the Baltic Sea region, conducting disinformation campaigns, and organizing large military exercises.
It was the annexation of Crimea three years ago that totally changed the European security order. Military warfare and territorial takeover was once again possible on the European continent. In Sweden the policy changed from contributing to international interventions (e.g. in Kosovo and Afghanistan) to the old-fashioned goal: defending the national territory. It was important for decision makers to talk about increasing military capabilities, in order to be ready to control your own territory. Yet limitations of the defence became obvious already before Crimea. In the beginning of 2013 the Swedish Commander in Chief famously portrayed the military defence as an "one-week defence". It would not be able to hold back an invader longer than that. Despite the change in political directives to its national defence, the military organisation lacks sufficient funding. Experts and center-right politicians are considering the necessity to increase the budget dramatically from one per cent of the GDP to two per cent.
The continuously aggressive Russian policy towards its neighbors has often been criticized by Sweden, and half of the Swedish population is afraid of Russia according to a recent study. The Swedish defense minister also repeatedly raised attention to the risk of Russian disinformation campaigns before the exercise. After Aurora he stated in the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet:
"[Aurora] strengthens the view that Sweden is serious about taking its part of the responsibility to protect our part of Europe."
The exercise has also gained a lot of attention in international media. Something is happening.
Aurora, and military exercises in general, are important for states for several reasons. It is a way to find gaps in a military apparatus and fix them, but also to send political signals to other states, both friendly and rival states, that the capacity exists to organize the military forces in complex circumstances, as well as the ability for the national sovereignty to be upheld. During Aurora, units from all defence sections interacted together, the first time since the beginning of the 90s, according to media reports. Exercises could also have offensive intentions, e.g. during the annexation of Crimea, where Russia conducted exercises along the border to Ukraine in order to put massive pressure on the newly installed administration in Kiev.
After the Crimean crisis, when Sweden was a constant opponent to Russian actions, other countries wondered how Sweden could demonstrate such confidence while having a virtually unusable military defense. Other states can now see the change in defence policy, which Aurora is concrete evidence for. The Swedish policy is more than having press conferences.
Aurora was criticized in the Swedish domestic political debate of having been organized as a NATO exercise. This would be problematic due to its status as non-aligned country. It would also, according to the critics, provoke Russia. In response, the Swedish government has firmly stated that Sweden will stay out of NATO and continue its status as non-aligned country. The political establishment has defended the country's right to increase its capability to defend its own territory. The military is also portraying Aurora as important to strengthening the national defence. And the military clarifies the organisational objective clearly stated on its website: "We defend Sweden and the country´s interests, our freedom and the right to live the way of our choice."
In 2016 Sweden joined the HOST-agreement with NATO which created the legal structure to invite foreign nations to bring armed forces to Swedish territory in the situation of war or catastrophes. Aurora is vital in order to test this agreement, according to the military defence. Yet the HOST-agreement is raising the question of how closely you can cooperate with NATO without actually joining the alliance.
Aurora 17 is thus a strong political message from the Swedish government and the military defence that Sweden has shifted from contributing to international interventions to defending its national territory. The post-cold war belief in the constant 'European peace' is almost forgotten. It is also a confirmation of the change of the European security order since Crimea, which states Russia as the main threat to upholding peace and security. However, the grand question regarding Sweden's possibility to successfully defend its national territory is still to be answered.
Niklas Ylander has a master's degree in political science with a special interest in Scandinavian politics. After his studies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, he is constantly wondering about the differences and similarities between the countries.
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Credit card companies make changes midstream
Reed Fujii
Harry Lopez of Stockton knew he had a clean borrowing record: making payments on time, never exceeding his credit limit - he'd even taken out a consolidation loan in 2008 and paid off all his credit cards.
Then he got a Chase Bank credit card that promised a zero percent interest rate for six months. Imagine his shock when Chase suddenly broke that promise and imposed interest on his outstanding balance and any cash advances, then later announced it was closing the account and would accept no further charges.
Lopez acknowledged he unknowingly hurt his credit by closing all his old charge accounts and that his credit report - which he checked only after Chase shut off his new card - contained erroneous negative information.
Still, he feels he was treated unfairly.
"Do you really want, as an unknowing public, to walk into a bank like this and do business with them thinking they're going to give you zero interest, then two months later jack you up to 18 percent and 23 percent. ... And then find some excuse later on and just close your account on you before you even know what's happened?"
A Chase spokeswoman, responding in an e-mail, said bank is constantly monitoring its credit account, as a regular part of doing business.
"When necessary, we make changes to pricing, terms or credit lines based on borrower risk, market conditions and the costs to us of making loans. These are factors we have always monitored and processes we have consistently followed," she said in an e-mail.
But Bill Hardekopf, chief executive of the credit card comparison Web site www.LowCards.com, said Chase and other lenders have greatly increased restrictions on credit card accounts in the midst of the credit market meltdown and recession.
"Issuers in general are trying to cut their risks," he said.
Banks had been generous in granting credit, both in issuing cards and in providing high credit limits, Hardekopf said.
"Then a year or so ago, the economy goes into the tank and ... life for the issuers suddenly changed," he said.
"They started to show all these losses, and they realized, 'Oh, my gosh. We need to make some changes.'"
As a result, a significant number of credit card customers have had their credit limits slashed, and issuers are also closing many accounts that are seen as risky or have been largely inactive, Hardekopf said.
It's a dramatic shift, according to banking analyst Meredith Whitney. She predicted in March that lenders would cut about $2 trillion in available credit card lines by year's end and $2.7 trillion by the end of 2010. That's half of the roughly $5 trillion in credit card lines that were available to consumers in the spring.
That will affect many credit customers, said Joseph Ridout, consumer services manager with Consumer Action.
"It's an enormous ratcheting down of credit availability for individual card holders," he said from his San Francisco offices.
Consumers may want to take steps to preserve and protect their credit lines should a card issuer decide to lower their credit limits, Ridout said.
That's because the so-called "utilization ratio" - the total amount of a borrower's debt divided by total available credit - accounts for roughly 30 percent of an individual credit score, he said.
So while Harry Lopez did fine in paying off his credit card debt, Ridout said, "Where he went wrong was in actually closing the accounts."
It also lowered the average age of his accounts, a factor that contributes about 10 percent to individual credit scores.
"It behooves you to think twice about closing existing credit card accounts," Ridout said. ... "The trend is lower credit lines and fewer credit cards to borrowers. There's no guarantee you'll get that back."
Consumers with more than one credit card might also seek higher credit limits on their other accounts, but they should be careful not to trigger a credit check or "inquiry" by the lender. Too many such inquiries in a short amount of time can be another negative mark, Ridout said.
"Another thing people can do to minimize their exposure to these kinds of unfair credit line changes ... is to make sure your credit report is accurate and dispute any incorrect information," he said.
Consumers may request a free credit report once a year from each of the three national credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
Requests may be made online at www.annualcreditreport.com; by downloading a form from that Web site and mailing it in; or by calling (877) 322-8228.
People may simply order all three forms once a year or, if they want to check more frequently, order a report from one credit bureau, in rotation, every four months.
"Credit card banks are closing many accounts. Even accounts of customers who have never paid late and been model customers," Ridout said.
"The reality is there will be fewer cards and lower limits available in the near term than they have been in the past."
Contact reporter Reed Fujii at (209) 546-8253 or rfujii@recordnet.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/blogs.


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Son étoile primaire, désignée Gamma Bootis Aa, est de type spectral A7III. C'est une étoile variable de type Delta Scuti et sa luminosité varie entre les magnitudes +3,02 et +3,07 sur une période de 6,97 heures.

Le nom Seginus résulte de la latinisation de la forme arabe du nom grec de la constellation du Bouvier (Theguius). Le nom Haris provient du nom arabe de la constellation du Bouvier, Al Haris Al Sama, qui signifie « le gardien ». En astronomie chinoise, cette étoile correspond à l'astérisme Zhaoyao, représentant une arme (épée ou épieu) protégeant le roi céleste situé non loin (Dajiao, α Bootis). Seginus est le nom officiel adopté par l'Union astronomique internationale le 21 août 2016.

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I'm not a huge fan of area charts, especially stacked area charts. Much like bar charts, the axis for an area chart needs to start at zero, otherwise you're not showing the total area, thus defeating the purpose of using an area chart in the first place.
As an example, here's a recent chart from Chart of the Day about India's stock market.
Notice how they've started the axis at 2,600. This distorts the slope of the graph and also the area of the graph is not complete.
Contrast this to Yahoo!'s chart, which is executed perfectly.
Yahoo! is showing the entire scale and nice proportions. Without noticing these subtle differences, you might interpret a very different story. Moral of the story: always start the axis for area charts at zero.
Or, I don't know, use a line chart. The fill denotes nothing.
Great call out, Andy. Totally agree.
I also noticed the top chart changes the scaling of the y-axis despite common increments of 5,000 (except for the first of course because of the 2,600 start) - almost like a logarithmic scale. I would love it if stocks grew that way - wow!


Munich, the center for trade fairs right at the heart of Europe, has a superb transport infrastructure. Here you will find all the information you will need to plan your journey. The Munich Trade Fair Center is easy to get to, whether you are traveling to us by plane, car, train, or other means of public transport.
The trade-fair grounds are located directly next to the two subway (U-Bahn) stops Messestadt West and Messestadt Ost of the line U2.
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The trade-fair grounds are located directly next to the freeway A94. Reach it by taking either the exit Feldkirchen-West or München-Riem.
A dynamic traffic control system regulates the flow of traffic. It directs you the free and closest parking spaces.
There are enough parking spaces available for both exhibitors and visitors. During your event, our traffic-control system will guide you to vacant parking spaces. The parking lots at the open-air exhibition grounds and the parking deck (Parkhaus West) nearby the West Entrance and ICM open two hours before the event begins and close two hours after the event ends.
At Munich central station continue with busses, public transportation, taxis and rental cars.
On the website of Deutsche Bahn, you'll find all necessary information about travelling by train, including ticket information.
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After arriving at the Munich Aiport you have different possibilities to get to the INHORGENTA MUNICH.There are busses, public transportation, taxis and rental cars available for you.
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21436 Чаоічі (21436 Chaoyichi) — астероїд головного поясу, відкритий 31 березня 1998 року.

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The Campus Vista Historic District is significant as an excellent example of the type of small- and medium-scale FHA-Influenced (1935-1942) residential subdivisions that appeared throughout central Phoenix just before and after World War II. The district is comprised of six adjacent residential subdivisions (College Addition, Campus Vista, Mocking Bird Manor, Mulberry Place, Campus Manor and Aztec Place), and remnants of a seventh (East Mulberry Place), all of which were platted between 1939 and 1948. The Campus Vista Historic District furthers our understanding of trends and patterns of residential subdivisions in the years leading up to and following World War II. The district is particularly noteworthy for its mix of speculative and custom-designed Ranch or Transitional Ranch style houses and for its high degree of integrity.
Here you can view all the homes and real estate for sale in the Campus Vista historic district located in Phoenix, Arizona. Listings are updated daily from data we receive from the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service. Search detailed real estate info, see pictures of the neighborhood, community info, and new listings in Campus Vista. To learn more about any of these homes or to receive custom notifications when a new property is listed for sale, use the contact form or give us a call at 602-525-9964.


Now, let's go on over to the Republican side of the fence and do some more sacred cow tipping. I could pick on them for their mirror-image myopia on the same issues of environmental stewardship, but let's go for something more fun. Let's take the classic Republican relationship with tradition and history.
Republicans believe, with good justification, that freedom and prosperity grow from the same tree, and the roots of this tree are fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If you've never been a Republican or associated with them extensively, you're not likely to understand just how important history is to them. Right-wing Republicans have a profound respect for their received history and traditions. They learn from history that the kind of social order that allows freedom to flourish can be a fragile thing. Common criticisms to the contrary, they really do put an amazingly high premium on the value of human life – it's their respect for life and love of freedom that makes them ideologically amenable to militarism and capital punishment, and chilly towards abortion, stem cell research, and cloning. Republicans see clearly in history how human attempts to meddle in human biology have gone disastrously wrong, and assume a straight-line correlation between "eugenics was monstrous and resulted in untold suffering" and "therefore abortion, cloning, and embryonic stem-cell research must not be tolerated."
This recent opinion piece on abortion illustrates the point nicely, although the language is very religious and the whole essay is shot-through with magical thinking. Even removing those magical elements, the view articulated there holds true even for many Republicans whose worldview is primarily secular (yes, they really do exist).
Of course, this view of abortion doesn't just rest on religious authority, it claims to be rooted in a clear understanding of history and to take seriously the view that if we mess around with our biology we are playing God (a job we're not qualified for). A zygote is a living organism that, if left alone, will develop into a human, therefore abortion ends a human life, therefore it must be murder, and any ethical gerymandering to the contrary can't change that fundamental fact. Ditto for stem cell research, which destroys human embryos, or for hybrid experimental cloning, and for dozens of other biotech research techniques.
At first blush, that seems to be a pretty solid rooting in biology – but it's not. A true ethical grounding in biology has to contend with a few other facts that make the connections between point A and point B very tendentious.
The first problem is evolution: All life is made from the same stuff, and human life on a biological level is in no way distinctive. Human nature and human biology are subject to the same selective pressures as the rest of the biosphere, plus the internally imposed selective pressures of human culture. It's not impossible to make a case for human exceptionalism (I'm a human exceptionalist myself), but it's not axiomatic.
The second problem is embryology: only somewhere between 25% and 60% of all zygotes become viable pregnancies, and 8% of those that do fail to make it to term without any intervention. Not every conception results in a life – and most wouldn't even if medical abortion were never discovered. George Carlin had it right: If life begins at conception, then every sexually active woman who's had at least three periods is a serial killer.
The third problem is technology: Since the conception of a zygote creates a life, and if that life is seen to have value because it is a potential human being, then technology poses a new and frightening problem. A zygote has only a minority potential of surviving to birth – and so does a clone. Although cloning tech is still in its infancy, it is now possible to artificially split embryos in vitro, making every IVF procedure the potential ancestor of countless offspring in one generation. More importantly, it is now possible to take the genetic material from an adult skin cell and implant it in the nucleus of an ovum, throw a few hormonal switches, and have a viable zygote. With this the reality, every time I scratch my arm I've engaged in a holocaust of potential human beings.
The fourth problem is medical: We now know beyond any doubt that the seat of human consciousness is the central nervous system (i.e. the brain). You can argue about souls all you want – whether there is a ghost operating the machine or whether we are all machine – but the machine does not operate at all without a brain. Before the 22nd week of gestation, there isn't enough of a brain there to operate the machine. Any ghost that may exist can't have moved in yet. Citation.
These four problems are not the only problems with Republican attitudes towards biotech. There's also the question of those who die from potentially curable diseases if research is suppressed – are their lives worth less than, or more than, the lives of potentially viable zygotes and blastocysts?
Banning pre-viability abortions, banning biotech procedures, or banning government funding of either will neither reduce the number of murders in the world, nor will it reduce eugenics. It will not further respect for human life – in fact, as demonstrated in the book Freakanomics, an abundance of unwanted children leads directly to an increase in violent crime and a lessening of the social value of human life. Therefore here, as with the Democratic equation of "mitigate global warming by reducing energy consumption," the policy prescriptions will not – and can never – achieve the aims they are meant to achieve. And yet right-wing Republicans and abortion, just like left-wing Democrats and global warming, the prescriptions themselves are a matter of doctrine, not of reason, and it's a damn shame.
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Bruce Springsteen covers Johnny Cash with Social Distortion in Asbury Park: Watch
The Boss joined the legendary punk band for three songs
by Michael Roffman
on October 01, 2018, 8:29am
Social Distortion and Bruce Springsteen, 2018
No, that's not Ben Stiller: On Sunday night, New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen kept his state pride alive by doing the most Bruce Springsteen thing possible. He stopped by Asbury Park's own Sea.Hear.Now. Festival and jammed with Social Distortion.
Together, the bard and band banged on their guitars for three songs: "Bad Luck", "Misery Loves Company", and the D's flavorful cover of the late Johnny Cash's iconic hit, "Ring of Fire". Naturally, the crowd was hip to seeing their local hero, chanting, "Broooooooce."
Watch below.
Springsteen and Social Distortion have a history. In 2009, Ness joined the E Street Band for both "Bad Luck" and "The Rising" in LA, a favor The Boss returned later that year when he climbed aboard The Mike Ness Band during their Asbury Park gig of all places.
Currently, Springsteen is selling out Broadway and having the time of his life. Reportedly, he's been in his own Colts Neck, New Jersey studio with producer Ron Aniello and the E Street Band working on a follow-up to 2014's High Hopes. Here's hoping.
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The movie depicts the three months before Choong-nyung (the future Sejong the Great) becomes king. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, which follows the history of the Joseon Dynasty between 1413 and 1865, leaves out records of this crucial period. While future generations would come to know him as King Sejong, the legendary figure who created the Korean alphabet and advanced the country's scientific research and law, Prince Choong-nyung was originally dismissed as a reclusive bookworm. When his older brothers Yangnyeong and Hyoryeong fail to impress their father King Taejong, the king makes a royal command for Choong-nyung to become the next ruler of the kingdom instead.


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Q: Convert Midi Note Numbers To Name and Octave Does anybody know of anything that exists in the Java world to map midi note numbers to specific note names and octave numbers.  For example, see the reference table:
http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/Doc/table2.html
I want to map a midi note number 60 to it's corresponding note name (MiddleC) in octave 4.  I could write a utility class/enum for this, but it would be rather tedious.  Does anybody know of anything?
I'm specifically using this to write a Tenori-On/Monome clone in Java, so far so good...
Solution
This was what I ended up using:
String[] noteString = new String[] { "C", "C#", "D", "D#", "E", "F", "F#", "G", "G#", "A", "A#", "B" };

int octave = (initialNote / 12) - 1;
int noteIndex = (initialNote % 12);
String note = noteString[noteIndex];

A: In JFugue, the Note class has a utility method that does exactly this - see public static String getStringForNote(byte noteValue).
EDIT: As of JFugue 5.0 and later, the Note class has several utility methods for getting a string representation from a MIDI note value:

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*getToneString(byte noteValue) converts a value of
60 to the string C5

*getToneStringWithoutOctave(byte noteValue) converts a value of 60 to the string C

*getPercussionString(byte noteValue) converts a
value of 60 to the string "[AGOGO]"
These replace the original getStringForNote() method.

A: public static String getNoteName(int noteNumber){
    noteNumber -= 21; // see the explanation below.
    String[] notes = new String[] {"A", "A#", "B", "C", "C#", "D", "D#", "E", "F", "F#", "G", "G#"};
    int octave = noteNumber / 12 + 1;
    String name = notes[noteNumber % 12];
    return name + octave;
}

Explanation:

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*A0 in midi is the first note and its number is 21. We adjust the index to start from 0 (hence noteNumber -= 21; at the beginning). If your note numbers are 0 based, for example in piano from 0 to 88, then you can comment this line out.

*Note that in this solution, the note names in the array start from A to G.

*Octave is noteNumber / 12 + 1 (Or ceiling of num / 12).

*Note name index is noteNumber % 12.

A: I'm not convinced your suggestion is that tedious. It's really just a divide-and-modulo operation, one gets the octave, the other gets the note.
octave = int (notenum / 12) - 1;
note = substring("C C#D D#E F F#G G#A A#B ",(notenum % 12) * 2, 2);

In real Java, as opposed to that pseudo-code above, you can use something like:
public class Notes {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    String notes = "C C#D D#E F F#G G#A A#B ";
    int octv;
    String nt;
    for (int noteNum = 0; noteNum < 128; noteNum++) {
      octv = noteNum / 12 - 1;
      nt = notes.substring((noteNum % 12) * 2, (noteNum % 12) * 2 + 2);
      System.out.println("Note # " + noteNum + " = octave " + octv + ", note " + nt);
    }
  }
}

A: This is the shortest form without too many named constants. No need for any loops as well.
public static String getNoteFromMidiNumber(int midiNote){
    String[] note_names = {"C","C#","D","D#","E","F","F#","G","G#","A","A#","B"};
    return note_names[midiNote % 12] + ((midiNote / 12) - 1);
 }

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Farming without destroying the land that feeds Asia
October 04, 2016 19:00 JST
Smoke from slash-and-burn farming spreads near a palm plantation in Indonesia. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Efforts to reduce environmental destruction caused by agriculture are gathering pace in Asia, spurring more companies to consider sustainability.
Global population growth and ever-expanding demand for farm products are creating a serious sustainability challenge. Palm oil, a less expensive alternative to soy and other edible oils, is one focus. In key producers Malaysia and Indonesia, the obliteration of tropical forests and smoke pollution from slash-and-burn farming have become grave issues.
At the FT Commodities Asia Summit 2016, held in Singapore on Sept. 5, Olam International CEO Sunny Verghese spent half his 40-minute keynote speech on environmental problems. Olam, a leading agribusiness based in the city-state, deals in palm oil. Verghese's conclusion was that for businesses, getting serious about agricultural sustainability is a matter of survival.
Some big-name companies are doing just that. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a nonprofit organization in Malaysia, issues certificates for palm oil produced in a planet-friendly manner. In the U.S. and Europe, companies are keen to obtain RSPO-certified products, because the organization's seal of approval tells consumers they are conscious of the environment. Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate, Nestle of Switzerland and others have committed to using RSPO-certified products.
The certification has yet to catch on widely in Japan. Since the program is not well-known in the country, "it is extremely difficult to pass related costs on to product prices," an official at a fat and oil processor said.
RSPO certification enhance brands but bumps up product prices, due to the premiums paid to growers. In some cases, certified products cost about 5% more than uncertified ones. Many Japanese companies shun the certification for this reason.
But times are changing. Kao, which makes cosmetics and other personal care products, dropped Malaysia's IOI as a palm oil supplier because it failed to meet RSPO standards and was stripped of its certification.
IOI regained the certification in early August. However, Priscillia Moulin of Dutch environmental consultancy Aidenvironment said the suspension was lifted too early, since there are still problems with the company's environmental performance.
Kao, which chalks up some 40% of its total sales abroad and counts foreign investors among its shareholders, began procuring RSPO-certified oil before many of its Japanese peers. The company has said it will not procure palm oil from IOI until an RSPO-appointed inspection team signs off on its practices.
Nongovernmental organizations, meanwhile, continue to raise corporate awareness in Japan. On Sept. 26, six NGOs set up a website to guide companies on palm oil procurement.
(Nikkei)
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A
 Leonard Adleman
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B
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 Anita Borg
 Bert Bos
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 Frederick Brooks
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C
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 Ward Cunningham

D
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E
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 E. Allen Emerson
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F
 Jeffrey Friedl

G
 Bill Gates
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 Adele Goldberg
 Harry H. Goode

H
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 Wim Hartman
 Juris Hartmanis
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 Tony Hoare
 John Hopcroft
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J
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 Donald Knuth

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M
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 Marvin Minsky
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N
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 Harry Nyquist

O
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 John Ousterhout
 Mark Overmars

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 Tim Paterson
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 Ronald Linn Rivest
 Guido van Rossum
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S
 Adi Shamir
 Claude Shannon
 Joseph Sifakis
 Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
 Frank Soltis
 Richard M. Stallman
 Remmer Willem Starreveld
 Bjarne Stroustrup

T
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 Ken Thompson
 Ray Tomlinson
 Linus Torvalds
 Alan Turing

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 James Hardy Wilkinson
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This is a completely different post to the one I had planned, but this weekend, we were in the car and the kids wanted to listen to some music. The only static-free station was Radio One so I settled down, preparing myself for an hour or two of music I no longer recognise...
Instead, I got a brilliant reminder on content creation - and how to do it really well! Let me explain...
1) Trending Topics
It turns out we were listening to one of Radio One's DJ's, Alice Levine. She was bright and chatty (a little too much for my slightly hungover state if I'm being honest...) and we tuned in as she began a topical rant about Black Friday (in case you're reading this months from now - that was last Friday).
LESSON ONE: Want to grab the interest of your audience? Talk about whatever is trending right now. Chances are that people will have some pretty strong opinions on it... just keep it relevant to your niche!
2) Familiar Feelings
She mentioned in particular the number of emails that she was getting as a result of all the bargains she'd bought and painted a picture that we're all too familiar with; your inbox overflowing with emails from companies you really don't want to hear from.
She described the inconvenience of it - the annoyance of all those notifications, the feeling of overwhelm when you see how many you have to sort through...The fact that frankly, we're all too busy for that nonsense.
LESSON TWO: A great way to engage your audience is to describe a familiar situation that they can relate to. It could be a frustration or annoyance as above, but it could also be hopes, dreams or shared experiences...
3) Stories Sell
At this point, Alice told us about how she'd been chatting to a colleague (one of the other DJ's) and discovered that his inbox had over 13,000 emails in it! She also mentioned how she had once bought a plant for her Mum and was still receiving daily gardening tips from the company concerned, despite having no interest in gardens.
LESSON THREE: Storytelling by its very nature, makes your content more interesting and memorable. If you can make your point by telling a story, then do it!
4) Be a Tease...
After all these tales of woe, Alice announced that she had come up with a solution to this universal problem... and that she'd tell us all about it after these songs...
LESSON FOUR: Your goal is to keep your audience reading/listening/watching until the very end. In order to do that, you need to create some suspense! Plan your content in a way which lets you tease your audience so that they can't put you down (ahem... so to speak..)
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5) If you want engagement - ask for it!
Before the music started, we the audience were asked to tweet or email our own experiences when it comes to overflowing inboxes. Alice may work for a national radio station, but she didn't leave it to chance, she gave us clear directions as to what we should do next to join the discussion.
LESSON FIVE: Don't assume that people will be moved to take the next step just by the power of your message. If you want them to do something such as comment, subscribe or even buy - ASK THEM! Lay it out as clearly as you can to leave no room for confusion.
6) Your audience wants to feel heard & understood
After the songs ended, we listened keenly for Alice to reveal her big solution... Before doing that though, she read out some of the tweets and stories that listeners had been sending in. She added her own thoughts and observations on each of them and encouraged people to get in contact if they hadn't already.
LESSON SIX: People are more likely to take action if they can see there's a point to it. If you've asked for comments - make sure you reply. If you're asking people to sign up for a freebie, make sure you deliver! You get the idea...
7) The art of selling
By now, we were already pretty eager to hear Alice's solution but she didn't tell us quite yet... She told us instead how this was going to change our lives - how we would no longer need to be stressed by that little notification sound as yet another email arrived in our inbox. She told us the solution would not only wipe out these problems (even for those with 1000's of unread emails like her colleague) but that it was SO simple, we could all do it together in just 10 minutes....
LESSON SEVEN: Don't be afraid to actually sell! It can sometimes feel a bit 'icky' to sell, but focus instead on how much your offering is going to HELP. Remind your audience of the problem you're solving, the way this problem makes them feel and then take their objections into account and overcome them. Here, Alice knew we all hate those unread notifications and she also knew that our inboxes get too full because we don't have the time to go and sort them out, so she focused on the simplicity of her solution.
8) Make it easy for people to do what you want
Before the big reveal, we were encouraged to actually take action and put Alice's solution into practice. Not at some vague point in the future - but right now! She called out in particular to those who were listening as passengers in the car (wow - that was me! How did she know???) and pointed out that this was the PERFECT time to take action.
She explained that after she had given us the solution, she would put three songs on (all related to getting rid, of course!) and we could all purge our inboxes together.
LESSON EIGHT: Often, asking isn't enough - you need to make it a no-brainer! Alice knew that a large proportion of her audience are listening while travelling and so she used this to help encourage people to take action. She also provided a set timeframe to stop people putting it off.
9) It doesn't need to be complicated
Finally, after ANOTHER lot of songs, Alice told us her big solution. Do you know what it was? This amazing new 'system' she'd come up with?
Unsubscribing.
That's it. Just going through and unsubscribing from everyone you don't want to hear from again.
What?? No fancy software or email feng shui?
And do you think that mattered?
LESSON NINE: People just want a solution to their problems. They don't want the most complex one or the one that takes most time. They actually want the opposite!
All too often we massively over-think the content we create for our audiences, whether that be blog posts, podcasts, video or email.
Great content does take planning, but it doesn't need to be complicated.
Alice Levine took the incredibly simple concept of overcrowded inboxes and how we can reduce them by unsubscribing and she turned it into around 45 minutes of entertaining radio.
It didn't feel planned or prepared but you can bet your Grannie's bonnet that it was!
She took us on a journey and each of the above elements put together helped to create something great from something pretty small and uninspiring.
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Plusieurs villes ou communes possèdent une rue des Teinturiers :

Rue des Teinturiers à Bruxelles.

Rue des Teinturiers à Amiens ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Arras ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Avignon ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Beauvais ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Dreux ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Lille ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Lyon ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Meaux ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Mérignac ;
 Rue des Teinturiers, une ancienne rue de Paris ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Périgueux ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Saint-Étienne ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Toulouse ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Troyes ;
 Rue des Teinturiers à Villeneuve-d'Ascq.

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Find out about the range of training and support available to school governors and clerks in Torbay.
We provide a variety of training courses for all governors, associate members and clerks. A training programme is offered on a termly basis through our subsciption service.
Subscribing schools have free access to all courses in the published programme including new governor induction and introductory courses on governing body responsibilities for personnel and finance. Additional bespoke sessions can be negotiated but this can only cover topics not included in the published programme.
We offer annual training to new and aspiring Chairs of governing bodies or committees, and regular update sessions for Clerks. Training for new clerks is available either in small groups or on a one-to-one basis.
We also will arrange briefing sessions, when necessary, and sessions on topical isses.
Schools subscribing to Governing Body Support are also offered the opportunity of subscribing to get online governor training at a much reduced rate. Here, governors can acccess a variety of modules covering a range of useful topics and further information on roles and responsibilites. Your clerk to governors will know if your school subscribes.
This course is free to all new governors and associate members from subscribing schools and sessions are arranged every term.
All new governors and associate members who have been recently elected or appointed are strongly encouraged to attend this training. The aim of the course is to properly equip goverrnors for their role by looking at how governing bodies work and to introduce them to their various responsibilities. It is intended to complement in-school induction by increasing knowledge and confidence, sharing good practice and providing plenty of opportunities to ask questions.
The new governor induction course is a two part course, all of which new governors should attend. Courses are offered as evening sessions and governors are encouraged to access this training very soon after appointment or election. Governors attending induction courses receive a certificate only after completing both induction modules.
Training for school governors for the Spring Term 2016.
Email govbodysupport@torbay.gov.uk or telephone 01803 207881 if you are a governor at more than one school, it is important that you indicate on behalf of which school you will be attending.


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Location of Equatorial Guinea
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is comprised of a continental region between Cameroon and Gabon and several volcanic islands including the Island of Bioko where the capital of Malabo is situated, Corisco, Elobey Chico, Elobey Grande, Annobon and Mbañe.
Equatorial Guinea has developed into one of the fastest growing economies in the world with a 20% growth in 2006 and a gross domestic product (GDP) of over $25 billion dollars. The population is steadily growing at approximately 2% per year. Schools are open, the country has its first local university and one of the best hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The people of Equatorial Guinea descend from tribal cultures. The Fang, Bubi, Ndowe, Anabonese, Bujeba, and Fernandino tribes occupy Equatorial Guinea's lands. These people have a history rich in tribal culture and art.
Equatorial Guinea is the Amazon of Africa with lush rainforests and incredible biodiversity. The tropical nation rises from the Atlantic Ocean in the Gulf of Guinea and climbs to over 3,000 meters at Pico Basile. Equatorial Guinea is home to 11 endemic species including primates, butterflies and frogs.


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History by the River March 18
26 February 2018 By Editor
History by the River is a monthly panel event with a social buzz for lovers of books, history and good beer. It's a chance to get together with fellow readers and authors to hear about the best new historical writing, then discuss it all over a drink afterwards.
With the hottest historical debut talent of the year, Stuart Turton, Imogen Hermes Gower and Beth Underdown (Winner of the HWA Debut Crown 2017). Chaired by Anna Mazzola.
The Blue Anchor
13 Lower Mall,
Hammersmith, W6 9DJ
Get your tickets on eventbrite.
Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a freelance travel journalist who has previously worked in Shanghai and Dubai. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is his debut novel. He is the winner of the Brighton and Hove Short Story Prize and was longlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition. He lives in West London with his wife.
A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'
It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.
But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.
The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath…
Imogen Hermes Gower
Imogen studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History at UEA's Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts before going on to work in museums. She began to write small pieces of fiction inspired by the artefacts she worked with and around, and in 2013 won the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship to study for an MA in Creative Writing at UEA.
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a mermaid.
As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on… and a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course, on which they will learn that priceless things come at the greatest cost.
Where will their ambitions lead? And will they be able to escape the destructive power mermaids are said to possess?
In this spell-binding story of curiosity and obsession, Imogen Hermes Gowar has created an unforgettable jewel of a novel, filled to the brim with intelligence, heart and wit.
Beth Underdown
Beth Underdown was born in Rochdale in 1987. She studied at the University of York and then the University of Manchester, where she is now a Lecturer in Creative Writing.
The Witchfinder's Sister is her debut novel, and is based on the life of the 1640s witch finder Matthew Hopkins.
She first came across him while reading a book about seventeenth-century midwifery. As you do.
The Witchfinder's Sister
When Alice Hopkins' husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex town of Manningtree, where her brother Matthew still lives.
But home is no longer a place of safety. Matthew has changed, and there are rumours spreading through the town: whispers of witchcraft, and of a great book, in which he is gathering women's names.
To what lengths will Matthew's obsession drive him?
And what choice will Alice make, when she finds herself at the very heart of his plan?
Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2017, and a Spring 2018 Richard and Judy Book Club pick, this beautiful and haunting historical thriller is perfect for fans of Sarah Waters, The Miniaturist and Burial Rites.
Your Chair – Anna Mazzola
Anna Mazzola is a writer of historical crime fiction and, probably due to some fault of her parents, is drawn to peculiar and dark historical subjects. Her debut novel, The Unseeing, published in July 2016, is based on the life of a real woman called Sarah Gale who was convicted of aiding a murder in London in 1837.
Her second novel, The Story Keeper, is about a collector of folklore and missing girls on 19th century Skye and will be published in July 2018. She also writes short stories.
Anna studied English at Pembroke College, Oxford, before accidentally becoming a human rights and criminal justice solicitor. She lives in Camberwell, South London, with two small children, two cats and one husband.
Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: Anna Mazzola, Beth Underdown, History by the River, Imogen Hermes Gower, March 2018. historical fiction, Stuart Turton


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L'échelle des symptômes positifs et négatifs ou en  (PANSS) est une échelle médicale utilisée pour mesurer la sévérité des symptômes chez les patients atteints de schizophrénie. Elle a été publiée en 1987 par Stanley Kay, Lewis Opler et Abraham Fiszbein. Elle est largement utilisée dans l'étude des traitements neuroleptiques.

Le nom provient de deux types de symptômes dans la schizophrénie, comme définis par la Société américaine de psychiatrie : les symptômes positifs qui se rapportent à un excès ou une distorsion des fonctions normales (par exemple les hallucinations) et les symptômes négatifs qui représentent une diminution ou une perte des fonctions normales.

La PANSS est un test relativement court à réaliser qui requiert de 45 à 50 minutes. L'examinateur doit être formé à un niveau standardisé de fiabilité et validité.

Notes et références

Liens externes
 The PANSS Institute
 The Positive And Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia

Échelle en médecine
Sémiologie psychiatrique
Test psychopathologique
Schizophrénie


ein schlichtes, graues Jerseyshirt und ein paar Plexiglaswedges! So sieht das Ganze direkt casual aus und ich muss sagen, der Look gefällt mir richtig gut! Ist mal was anderes! Ich behaupte sogar man kann den Rock sogar ganz gut zu Sneaker kombinieren um ihn noch alltagstauglicher zu machen.
How to combine a midi-skirt so it does not look too much like you're grandma's style? – Well, that is indeed not so easy. One way to counter against the grandma-effect, is that you buy a midi skirt that is special or has some freaky features in the first place. When I got that lace-midi skirt I thought that the problem was solved, but in fact I had to face a new problem. The skirt kind of reminded me of stuff you would wear at a funeral. Great – how to combine a black midi-skirt so that it does not look too much like going to a funeral? My new solution was combining it with a simple grey jersey shirt and cool plexiglas wedges! I even think you could wear that skirt with sneakers to make the look even more casual.
How do you like that oufit?
wow der rock ist grandios!
Sehr schöner Rock! Gefällt mir richtig gut!
Ich liebe deine Texte, die bringen mich immer wieder zum lachen :) Hast du doch gut hinbekommen und es sieht weder nach Großmutter noch nach Beerdigung aus. Gefällt mir sogar echt gut, ist mal was anderes!
Ws für ein heißes Röckchen :) Sieht richtig, richtig klasse aus!!!


Tuna salad, so familiar and simple, is often watery, chalky, and/or bland. To achieve a moist and flavorful tuna salad, we first thoroughly drain chunk tuna and dry it with paper towels. We enlist the microwave to quickly cook some onions in oil and then stir the now-flavored oil together with some mayonnaise for texture, lemon juice for tang, and the tuna. The addition of curry powder and grapes provided a smoky, warm flavor profile and a welcome pop in texture. Be sure to use tuna packed in water for the most control over the flavor of your salad.


Ecotricity do not feel we are in a position to participate in the Green Deal given the current design and cost of the scheme. We believe our time and our customers money is better spent turning bills into windmills where profits are used to build new sources of green electricity and gas.
By helping to wean Britain off imported fossil fuels and onto homemade and sustainable sources of green energy energy will be cheaper for everyone in the long-term.
Dont energy companies have to participate in the Green Deal?
To ensure small energy companies are able to continue to compete against the Big Six energy companies, the Government have allowed energy companies with less than 250,000 customers to opt-out of the Green Deal because it would involve a huge investment that would be an unfair burden on small independent suppliers.
Does Ecotricity not think that energy efficiency is important?
Being efficient with energy is equally as important as making green energy they are two sides of the same coin. Ecotricity is in favour of the Green Deal scheme in principle if it was being done in the right way.
The Government has introduced the Green Deal in a bid to encourage energy efficiency measures to be installed into peoples homes, but Ecotricity believe there are elements of the Green Deal that are not well designed or cost-effective.
What parts of the Green Deal are not cost-effective?
Firstly, a major principle of the Green Deal is the Golden Rule, whereby any energy efficiency measures that are installed should not cost more than the savings they provide on energy bills.
The problem with the Golden Rule is that its based on estimates that are prone to big margins of error because of that for a lot of people the Golden Rule wont be upheld.
Secondly, the people providing the energy efficiency measures want interest payments and this just makes it more difficult to deliver the Golden Rule (I.e. The energy efficiency measures should not cost more than the savings on energy bills). Worse still, those interest payments are higher than traditional forms of finance such as bank loans.
When the Green Deal was thought up two years ago, the financing did stack-up. The interest rates available to finance the cost of insulating a house were far more (around 11%), but now you can actually get finance for around 6-8% which could turn out to be cheaper than using the Green Deal.
What parts of the Green Deal are not well designed?
The middlemen providing the Golden Rule estimates are often the same people that are selling the kit such as insulation. Yet theyve got no obligation or responsibility long term if the energy efficiency measures installed dont work to the level promised. This is a recipe for miss-selling.
Yet it is the energy company that takes on the risk of default for Green Deal payments not the middle-men that organise the energy efficiency measures. So Ecotricity doesnt make money from the Green Deal yet becomes liable for the debt.
How much would the Green Deal cost Ecotricity?
For a small energy company, like Ecotricity, the administrative cost of implementing the Green Deal would be immense, with the computer systems costing hundreds of thousands of pounds (up to half a million), yet the only return on this investment would be an annual fee of £7.30 per Green Deal customer.
The Green Deal is far more costly and complex to manage than, for instance, the Feed-in-Tariff system for solar panels. Yet the annual fees to administer FiTs (which only just about covers the cost) are four times higher that of the Green Deal.
We believe our time and our customers money is better spent turning bills into windmills where profits are used to build new sources of green electricity and gas.
I understand why Ecotricity is not participating in ECO and Green Deal but surely it is not all bad and some projects must be worth supporting.


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Hasna BENHASSI
01 JUN 1978 ATHLETE'S CODE
Seasons Bests
Focus on Athletes Biography
Results Score
400 Metres 52.74 Tivoli (ITA) 05 SEP 2002 1098
800 Metres 1:56.43 Olympic Stadium, Athina (GRE) 23 AUG 2004 NR 1227
1000 Metres 2:33.15 Nice (FRA) 17 JUL 1999 NR 1194
1500 Metres 4:02.54 Stadio Olimpico, Roma (ITA) 11 JUL 2003 1185
One Mile 4:32.99 Linz (AUT) 05 JUL 1998 1098
4x400 Metres Relay 3:39.59 Vila Real de Santo António (POR) 30 MAY 2010 1059
* Not legal.
800 Metres 1:59.33 Birmingham (GBR) 14 FEB 1999 1197
1000 Metres 2:37.89 Stuttgart (GER) 07 FEB 1999 1156
1500 Metres 4:04.48 Dortmund (GER) 11 FEB 2001 1192
Latest Active Season: 2011
800 Metres 2:02.34 Bottrop (GER) 15 JUL 2011 1121
1500 Metres 4:27.40 Vila Real de Santo António (POR) 29 MAY 2011 995
2007 55.06 Albufeira (POR) 26 MAY 2007
2002 52.74 Tivoli (ITA) 05 SEP 2002
400 Metres Outdoor
2011 2:02.34 Bottrop (GER) 15 JUL 2011
2010 2:01.02 Huelva (ESP) 09 JUN 2010
2009 1:59.03 Madrid (ESP) 04 JUL 2009
2008 1:56.73 National Stadium, Beijing (CHN) 18 AUG 2008
2007 1:56.84 Nagai Stadium, Osaka (JPN) 26 AUG 2007
2006 1:58.24 Pontaise, Lausanne (SUI) 11 JUL 2006
2005 1:58.41 Stadio Olimpico, Roma (ITA) 08 JUL 2005
2004 1:56.43 Olympic Stadium, Athina (GRE) 23 AUG 2004
2003 2:01.08 Trikala (GRE) 24 JUN 2003
2000 1:58.47 Nürnberg (GER) 25 JUN 2000
1998 1:58.47 Nice (FRA) 16 JUL 1998
1997 2:00.48 Stockholm (SWE) 07 JUL 1997
1996 2:07.12 SIAC Homebush, Sydney (AUS) 21 AUG 1996
1994 2:14.72 Algiers (ALG) 07 JUL 1994
2007 2:34.35 Huelva (ESP) 13 SEP 2007
2004 2:41.48 Torrevieja (ESP) 10 APR 2004
1998 2:43.70 Santiago de Chile (CHI) 25 APR 1998
1000 Metres Outdoor
2011 4:27.40 Vila Real de Santo António (POR) 29 MAY 2011
2009 4:07.80 Rabat (MAR) 23 MAY 2009
2006 4:20.86 Valencia (ESP) 28 MAY 2006
2004 4:04.42 Paris (FRA) 23 JUL 2004
2000 4:14.28 St. Antonio (POR) 28 MAY 2000
1999 4:05.29 Athina (GRE) 30 MAY 1999
1998 4:32.99 Linz (AUT) 05 JUL 1998
One Mile Outdoor
4x400 Metres Relay
4x400 Metres Relay Outdoor
2009/10 2:01.87 Velódromo Luis Puig, Valencia (ESP) 13 FEB 2010
2005/06 2:00.34 Olimpiyskiy Stadion, Moskva (RUS) 12 MAR 2006
2000/01 1:59.86 Birmingham (GBR) 18 FEB 2001
800 Metres Indoor
1998/99 2:37.89 Stuttgart (GER) 07 FEB 1999
1000 Metres Indoor
2002/03 4:06.72 NIA, Birmingham (GBR) 21 FEB 2003
2000/01 4:04.48 Dortmund (GER) 11 FEB 2001
Honours - Olympic Games
2. 800 Metres 1:56.43 Olympic Stadium, Athina (GRE) 23 AUG 2004
3. 800 Metres 1:56.73 National Stadium, Beijing (CHN) 18 AUG 2008
8. 800 Metres 1:59.27 Olympic Stadium, Sydney (AUS) 25 SEP 2000
Honours - World Championships
2. 800 Metres 1:56.99 Nagai Stadium, Osaka (JPN) 28 AUG 2007
2. 800 Metres 1:59.42 Olympic Stadium, Helsinki (FIN) 09 AUG 2005
Honours - World Indoor Championships
1. 1500 Metres 4:10.83 Atlantic Pavillion, Lisboa (POR) 11 MAR 2001
3. 800 Metres 2:00.34 Olimpiyskiy Stadion, Moskva (RUS) 12 MAR 2006
5. 800 Metres 1:59.57 Green Dome, Maebashi (JPN) 07 MAR 1999
8. 1500 Metres 4:09.03 NIA, Birmingham (GBR) 16 MAR 2003
Honours - African Championships
1. 800 Metres 1:59.01 Algiers (ALG) 14 JUL 2000
2. 800 Metres 2:01.24 Dakar (SEN) 20 AUG 1998
3. 1500 Metres 4:20.15 Radés (TUN) 10 AUG 2002
Honours - World Athletics Final
1. 800 Metres 2:01.42 Stade Louis II, Monaco (MON) 19 SEP 2004
3. 800 Metres 1:59.44 Gottlieb-Daimler Stadion, Stuttgart (GER) 10 SEP 2006
Honours - Golden League
1. 800 Metres 1:59.06 Boudewijnstadion, Bruxelles (BEL) 25 AUG 2006
1. 800 Metres 1:58.41 Stadio Olimpico, Roma (ITA) 08 JUL 2005
Honours - Mediterranean Games
1. 800 Metres 2:03.70 Bari (ITA) 17 JUN 1997
Honours - Pan-Arab Games
1. 800 Metres 2:06.29 Beirut (LBN) 16 JUL 1997
Honours - World Military Games
1. 400 Metres 52.74 Tivoli (ITA) 05 SEP 2002
Honours - African U20 Championships
3. 4x400 Metres Relay 3:57.42 Algiers (ALG) 08 JUL 1994
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28 MAY 2011 Vila Real de Santo António ECCC Group A, Vila Real de Santo António POR D F 4. 2:10.97
15 JUL 2011 Bottrop Internationales Meeting, Bottrop GER E F 3. 2:02.34
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Hasna BENHASSI, (benHASSsee), Morocco (800m, 1500m)
Born: 1 June 1978, Marrakech.
Hasna Benhassi was already among the greatest Moroccan women athletes in history even before her silver medal 800m performances in the Athens Olympics and the Helsinki World Championships. She had won gold at 800m in the 2000 African Championships and at 1500m in the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon, becoming only the second female Moroccan athlete, after Nezha Bidouane, to win a World Championship title. But she has remained very much in the shadow of her brilliant compatriot, Hicham El Guerrouj. She hopes continued medal winning performances, including this year in Moscow, will finally enable her to emerge as a star on her own.
She began running for the Sidi Youssef Ben Ali track club in Marrakech. Following good results in high school, she was enrolled by the city's leading club, Kawkab (The Star) and was later spotted by talent scouts from the Institut National d'Athlétisme of Rabat. She entered the Institute in 1996. "From then on, I knew I'd turn into a champion," she says. That same year she took part in the IAAF World Junior Championships in Sydney, where she reached the semi finals of the 800m.
Her ambition was soon rewarded with a gold in the 800m at the 1997 Mediterranean Games in Bari and another at the Pan-Arab Games in Beyrouth. At the Athens World Championships one month later, her lack of experience hurt, as she failed to reach the semi-finals. The following year, she took the silver medal at the African Championships in Dakar. While her 1999 performances on the European track circuit (1:57.45 in Lausanne) showed her to be a leading contender for the Seville World Championships, she was sidelined by a fractured shinbone that required surgery and long months of therapy.
Hasna wasn't discouraged, however. After a modest 8th place at the Sydney Olympics, she captured her first major global title with her victory in the 1500m at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Lisbon.
A few months later, Hasna (which means "charming") took a break to have a baby. She and her husband, Mohssine Chéhibi (4th in the 800m at the Athens Olympics), named their daughter Farah ("joy ").
Following her sabbatical year, Hasna began competing again, and after a rather low key 2003, she was clearly back in fine form in 2004—nine races at 800m leading up to the Olympics, never finishing worse than 3rd, and six times going under 2:00. She cruised through the early rounds of the 800 in Athens, and in the final fell just short of besting Kelly Holmes' stretch drive, coming 2nd by 0.05 in 1:56.43, and breaking her own national record. Boldly doubling in the 1500, she looked comfortable enough in the heats and semi-final to bid for a second medal, but the effect of her six tough races became evident in the 1500 final as she faded to 12th in 4:12.90.
In 2005, Hasna confirmed her star status with another silver at the Helsinki World Championships. Each time, though her excellent results have been overshadowed, first by Hicham El Guerrouj's historic 1500m-5000m double in Athens and then by Jaouad Gharib's successful defence of his marathon title in 2005. After achieving her early dreams, Hasna Benhassi is now eyeing a Beijing 2008 gold medal to crown her career.
Yearly progression 800/1500: 1996 - 2:04.6/ 4:22.0; 1997 - 2:00.48/--; 1998 - 1:58.47/ 4:05.15; 1999 - 1:57.45 NR/ 4:05.29; 2000 - 1:58.47/ 4:14.28; 2001 - --/4:04.48i NR; 2002 - --/ 4:05.28; 2003 - 2:01.08/ 4:02.54; 2004 - 1:56.43 NR/ 4:04.42 (Paris GL, 4th); 2005 – 1:58.41
Championship record:
Silver medal, 800m, World Championships, Helsinki, 2005
12th 1500m, Olympic Games, Athens, 2004
Silver medal, 800m, Olympic Games, Athens, 2004
8th 1500m, World Indoor Championships, Birmingham, 2003
Bronze medal, 1500m, African Championships, Tunis, 2002
Gold medal, 1500m, World Indoor Championships, Lisbon, 2001
8th 800m, Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000
Gold medal, 800m, African Championships, Algiers, 2000
5th 800m, World Indoor Championships, Maebashi, 1999
Silver medal, 800m, African Championships, Dakar, 1998
Semi-finalist, 800m, World Championships, Athens, 1997
Gold medal, 800m, Mediterranean Games, Bari, 1997
Semi-finalist, 800m, World Junior Championships, Sydney, 1996
Prepared by Mohammed Benchrif for the IAAF. © 2006 IAAF.
Latest Hasna BENHASSI News
18 DEC 2005 General News Gharib and Benhassi keep Athletics at top in Morocco
27 DEC 2004 General News Hicham El Guerrouj and Hasna Benhassi named Moroccan Athletes of the Year


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