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\section{introduction}

For most classical systems with a large number of particles, adding or
decreasing one particle will not change the fundamental properties of the
system. For the quantum system of dilute Bose or Fermi gases in a harmonic
trap with a large number of particles, it is also widely believed that
adding or decreasing one particle will not change the thermodynamic and
dynamic properties of the system. For example, for a Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation within the
mean-field model, adding or decreasing one particle plays a negligible role
in the coupling parameter (which is proportional to the overall particle
number) for the order parameter. Recently, it is found theoretically that
for specific cold atomic system beyond the mean-field model, there is a
parity effect of the particle number which means that adding or decreasing
one particle would has different quantum effect. The parity effect has been
studied theoretically for the quantum decay of Josephson $\pi $ states \cite%
{Hat}, the Berry phase of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) \cite%
{Chen}, the tunnel splitting in the Josephson model \cite{Lu}, the
macroscopic superpositions of phase states \cite{Piazza}, and more recently
in the mesoscopic quantum switching \cite{Shch}.

To our best knowledge, the parity effect of particle number has not been
observed experimentally for cold atoms, although the parity-dependent
tunneling splitting was observed for magnetic molecular clusters \cite%
{Hal,Loss,Delft,Wern}. It is still an open question to observe the
parity-dependent effect for cold atomic system. For example, it is very
difficult for an experiment to observe the parity-dependent effect in the
tunneling splitting, because the tunneling splitting is extremely small \cite%
{Shch}.

The quantum interference between two condensates in a double-well potential
\cite%
{Andrew,Shin,Shin1,Schumm,Hoff,Hoff1,Ying,Chao,Wu,Hori,Burkov,Smith,Wang}
has renewed interest in the experimental and theoretical studies of the
macroscopic quantum coherence effect. In the last few years, there are
significant advances in the nonlinear self-trapping of weakly coupled
condensates \cite{Smerzi,Albiez}, long phase coherence time for two
separated condensates \cite{Jo} \textit{etc}. Stimulated by the remarkable
experimental advances of BECs in double-well potential, we find strong
parity-dependent interference fringes for ultracold bosonic gases released
from a double-well potential, based on the phase diffusion in two-mode
Bose-Hubbard model. For specific holding time of the double-well potential
to create the phase diffusion, we find that the center in the density
distribution is a dip for even particle number, while it is a peak for odd
particle number. This provides a way to display directly the quantized
characteristic of the particle number.

The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II, we consider the phase
diffusion of a condensate in a double-well potential, with the decoupled
Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. The parity effect of the particle number is
discussed based on the coherence property. In Sec. III, we predict strong
parity effect of the particle number in the interference patterns of the
density distribution. In Sec. IV, the influence of the parity effect due to
asymmetry fluctuations of the double-well potential and particle number
squeezing is studied. In the last section, we give a brief summary and
discuss the application of Feshbach resonance to observe more clearly the
parity effect.

\section{phase diffusion and coherence property of a condensate in a
double-well potential}

For a condensate in a double-well potential with negligible tunneling, the
system can be described by the following decoupled Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian.%
\begin{equation}
\widehat{H}=\sum_{i=1}^{2}\varepsilon _{i}\widehat{n}_{i}+\sum_{i=1}^{2}%
\frac{U}{2}\widehat{n}_{i}\left( \widehat{n}_{i}-1\right) .
\end{equation}%
Here $\widehat{n}_{i}=\widehat{a}_{i}^{\dag }\widehat{a}_{i}$ is the
particle number operator for the $i$th condensate. $\widehat{a}_{i}$ and $%
\widehat{a}_{i}^{\dag }$ are bosonic annihilation and creation operators for
the $i$th condensate. $\varepsilon _{1}-\varepsilon _{2}$ represents the
bias potential between two sites, while $U$ denotes collisional interaction
energy. The initial quantum state in this double-well potential is assumed as%
\begin{equation}
\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}=0\right) \right\rangle =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2^{N}N!}}%
\left( \widehat{a}_{1}^{\dag }+\widehat{a}_{2}^{\dag }\right) ^{N}\left\vert
0\right\rangle .  \label{initialstate}
\end{equation}%
The evolution of the quantum state is then
\begin{eqnarray}
\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\rangle &=&\frac{1}{\sqrt{2^{N}N!}}%
e^{-\frac{i}{\hbar }\widehat{H}t_{h}}\left( \widehat{a}_{1}^{\dag }+\widehat{%
a}_{2}^{\dag }\right) ^{N}\left\vert 0\right\rangle  \notag \\
&=&\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N}\sqrt{\frac{N!}{2^{N}l!\left( N-l\right) !}}  \notag
\\
&&e^{-\frac{iUt_{h}}{2\hbar }\left[ l\left( l-1\right) +\left( N-l\right)
\left( N-l-1\right) \right] }\left\vert l,N-l\right\rangle .
\label{quantumstate}
\end{eqnarray}%
We see that there is a phase diffusion \cite{Wright,Java,Castin,Imamoglu} in
the quantum state $\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\rangle $
because of the exponential factor. In addition, from the exponential factor
in $\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\rangle $, the time evolution
of $\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\rangle $ displays a periodic
behavior of $T=4\pi \hbar /U$. To give a clear discussion of the parity
effect, in getting Eq. (\ref{initialstate}), we consider the case of $%
\varepsilon _{1}=\varepsilon _{2}$.

The above evolution of $\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\rangle $
may be realized by first preparing two coherently separated condensates in a
double-well potential with large Josephson tunneling, so that the quantum
state can be described well by Eq. (\ref{initialstate}). The central barrier
is then increased non-adiabatically so that the tunneling between two
condensates can be omitted, while the quantum state of the system still
takes the form given by Eq. (\ref{initialstate}). This is similar to the
experimental studies of the collapse and revival of the quantum coherence of
the matter wave packet in an optical lattice \cite{Bloch}. This scheme was
also applied in Ref. \cite{Piazza} to consider the macroscopic
superpositions of phase states.

A direct way to display the coherence property of $\left\vert \Psi \left(
t_{h}\right) \right\rangle $ is to consider the time evolution of $K\left(
t_{h}\right) =\left\langle \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\vert \left(
\widehat{a}_{1}^{\dag }\widehat{a}_{2}+\widehat{a}_{2}^{\dag }\widehat{a}%
_{1}\right) \left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}\right) \right\rangle /N$, which
reflects the phase coherence and interference effect between two
condensates. From the expression (\ref{quantumstate}), we have%
\begin{eqnarray}
&&K_{12}\left( t_{h}\right) =\frac{\left\langle \Psi \left( t_{h}\right)
\right\vert \widehat{a}_{1}^{\dag }\widehat{a}_{2}\left\vert \Psi \left(
t_{h}\right) \right\rangle }{N}  \notag \\
&=&\sum\limits_{l=1}^{N}\frac{\left( N-1\right) !}{2^{N}\left( l-1\right)
!\left( N-l\right) !}e^{-\frac{iUt_{h}}{\hbar }\left( N-2l+1\right) }.
\end{eqnarray}%
The above equation can be rewritten as%
\begin{equation}
K_{12}\left( t_{h}\right) =\frac{e^{-\frac{iUt_{h}}{\hbar }\left( N-1\right)
}}{2^{N}}\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N-1}\frac{\left( N-1\right) !}{l!\left(
N-1-l\right) !}\left( e^{\frac{2iUt_{h}}{\hbar }}\right) ^{l}.
\end{equation}%
Based on the binomial theorem, we have%
\begin{equation}
K_{12}\left( t_{h}\right) =\frac{e^{-\frac{iUt_{h}}{\hbar }\left( N-1\right)
}}{2^{N}}\left( 1+e^{\frac{i2Ut_{h}}{\hbar }}\right) ^{N-1}.
\end{equation}%
In this situation, we have the following simple expression%
\begin{equation}
K_{12}\left( t_{h}\right) =\frac{\left( \cos \left( Ut_{h}/\hbar \right)
\right) ^{N-1}}{2}.
\end{equation}

From the above results, we have%
\begin{equation}
K\left( t_{h0}\right) =\left( \cos \left( 4\pi t_{h0}\right) \right) ^{N-1},
\label{Kth0}
\end{equation}%
where $t_{h0}=t_{h}/T$. For large $N$, by using the identity limit $%
\lim_{N\rightarrow \infty }\left( 1-x/N\right) ^{N}=e^{-x}$, the above
expression can be approximated very well as%
\begin{equation}
K\left( t_{h0}\right) \approx \sum_{n\geq 0}\left( -1\right) ^{n\left(
N-1\right) }e^{-\frac{N-1}{2}\left( 4\pi \left( t_{h0}-n/4\right) \right)
^{2}},
\end{equation}%
where $n$ is an integer. In this situation, the width of the peaks or dips
in $K\left( t_{h0}\right) $ is about $1/2\pi \sqrt{N}$. At $t_{h0}=0$, there
is ideal phase coherence between two condensates. As shown in Fig. 1(a) for $%
N=101$, with time increasing, the phase coherence disappears very rapidly
for $t_{h0}>1/2\pi \sqrt{N}$. With further time increasing, however, there
is a revival of the phase coherence. This behavior is understood from the
periodic behavior of the quantum state $\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h0}\right)
\right\rangle $.

A unique parity effect of the particle number is shown by the expression (%
\ref{Kth0}) of $K\left( t_{h0}\right) $. For specific holding time such that
$\cos \left( 4\pi t_{h0}\right) =-1$, we see that $K\left( t_{h0}\right) =1$
for odd particle number, while $K\left( t_{h0}\right) =-1$ for even particle
number. This parity effect is shown further in Fig. 1(a) and Fig. 1(b) for $%
N=101$ and $N=100$, respectively.

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth,angle=270]{Fig1.eps}
\caption{Shown is the time evolution of the phase coherence factor $K\left(
t_{h0}\right) $. Here $t_{h0}$ is in unit of $T$ in the text. Besides the
periodic behavior of $K\left( t_{h0}\right) $, we see significantly
different behavior in $K\left( t_{h0}\right) $ for odd and even particle
number.}
\end{figure}

\section{parity effect of the particle number in the density distribution}

The above parity effect can be considered further by overlapping two
condensates after switching off the double-well potential. After a holding
time of $t_{h0}$, the quantum state is $\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h0}\right)
\right\rangle $. Then, we calculate the density distribution after a time of
flight $t_{f}$ by switching off the double-well potential. In our
calculations, the initial wave functions of two condensates are assumed as $%
\varphi _{1}\left( x\right) =e^{-\left( x+d/2\right) ^{2}/2\sigma ^{2}}/\pi
^{1/4}\sigma ^{1/2}$ and $\varphi _{2}\left( x\right) =e^{-\left(
x-d/2\right) ^{2}/2\sigma ^{2}}/\pi ^{1/4}\sigma ^{1/2}$, respectively. In
this situation, the distance between two condensates is $d$. In the
following calculations, we will adopt the length unit $d$, energy unit $%
E_{d}=\hbar ^{2}/2md^{2}$ and time unit $T_{d}=\hbar /E_{d}$. After a time
of flight $t_{f}=t_{f0}T_{d}$, the density distribution of the system is
given by%
\begin{eqnarray}
n\left( x,t_{h0},t_{f0}\right) =\frac{N}{2}\left[ \left\vert \phi _{1}\left(
x,t_{f0}\right) \right\vert ^{2}+\left\vert \phi _{2}\left( x,t_{f0}\right)
\right\vert ^{2}+\right.  \notag \\
\left. 2\times \mathrm{Re}\left( \left( \cos \left( 4\pi t_{h0}\right)
\right) ^{N-1}\phi _{1}^{\ast }\left( x,t_{f0}\right) \phi _{2}\left(
x,t_{f0}\right) \right) \right] .
\end{eqnarray}%
For $N=100$ and $N=101$, in Figs. 2(a)-(f), we give the density distribution
for fixed time of flight $t_{f0}=1$ and different holding time $t_{h0}$. In
our calculations, $\sigma =0.1$. The factor $\left( \cos \left( 4\pi
t_{h0}\right) \right) ^{N-1}$ in the interference term of the above equation
gives several unique results:

\begin{figure}[tbp]
\includegraphics[width=0.75\linewidth,angle=270]{Fig2.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Shown is the density distribution for different
holding time $t_{h0}$ and fixed time of flight $t_{f0}=1$. The solid
(dotted) line is the density distribution of the particle number $N=100$ ($%
N=101)$. Clear parity effect of the particle number in the interference
patterns of the density distribution is shown in Figs. 2(c)-2(e).}
\end{figure}

(i) There are collapse and revival of the interference fringes in the
density distribution.

(ii) At $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$ ($j$ is a natural number), the density
distribution depends strongly on the parity of the total particle number. As
shown in Fig. 2(d), the center of the density distribution (solid line) is a
dip for even particle number, while the center of the density distribution
(dotted line) is a peak for odd particle number. This can be understood
further by noticing that $n=N\left\vert \phi _{1}-\phi _{2}\right\vert
^{2}/2 $ for even particle number, while $n=N\left\vert \phi _{1}+\phi
_{2}\right\vert ^{2}/2$ for odd particle number. For both situations, the
density distribution is symmetric, which means a clear parity effect about
the total particle number \cite{comment-smerzi}.

At $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$, the factor $\left[ \cos \left( 4\pi t_{h0}\right) %
\right] ^{N-1}$ in the interference term can be rewritten as $e^{i\pi \left(
N-1\right) }$. In this situation, the phase diffusion of the left and right
condensates is zero. However, there is a relative phase between two
condensates. This relative phase is quantized about the total particle
number. For even particle number, the relative phase is $\pi $, while the
relative phase is $2\pi $ for odd particle number.

Before the atomic cloud is imaged on a CCD camera, we do not know the parity
of the particle number. At $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$, the parity effect would lead
to a random behavior in the density distribution. Averaging the density
distribution in different experiments, there would be no interference
patterns. However, in a single experiment, there will be clear interference
patterns, and there is $50\%$ probability to observe a peak (dip) in the
center of the density distribution. This is significantly different from the
holding time of $t_{h0}=j/2-0.5$, where one would always observe the same
interference patterns in the density distribution.

These analyses at $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$ can be considered further by the
following density matrix%
\begin{equation}
\rho =P\left( N\right) \left\vert N\right\rangle \left\langle N\right\vert .
\end{equation}%
Here $P\left( N\right) $ is the probability to have $N$ atoms in the
condensate. It can be assumed as a Gaussian distribution about the average
particle number $\overline{N}$. The above expression can be rewritten as%
\begin{equation}
\rho =\sum\limits_{N=even}P\left( N\right) \left\vert N\right\rangle
\left\langle N\right\vert +\sum\limits_{N=odd}P\left( N\right) \left\vert
N\right\rangle \left\langle N\right\vert .
\end{equation}%
The ensemble average of the density distribution is then%
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\overline{n}\left( x,t_{h0},t_{f0}\right) =\mathrm{Tr}\left[ \rho \widehat{%
\Psi }^{\dag }\widehat{\Psi }\right]  \notag \\
&=&\frac{\overline{N}}{2}\left[ \left\vert \phi _{1}\left( x,t_{f0}\right)
\right\vert ^{2}+\left\vert \phi _{2}\left( x,t_{f0}\right) \right\vert ^{2}%
\right] .
\end{eqnarray}%
It is clear that there is no interference term in the ensemble average of
the density distribution. In a single-shot density distribution, however,
there would be interference fringes with random relative phase $\pi $ or $%
2\pi $.

\section{influence of the parity effect due to asymmetry of the double-well
potential and particle number squeezing}

As shown in preceding section, the density distribution depends strongly on
the parity of the overall particle number $N$. It is a natural problem
whether slight asymmetry fluctuations of the double-well potential will
destroy the parity effect. Generally speaking, the asymmetry fluctuations of
the double-well potential will lead to a random relative phase and
fluctuations of the average particle number in two sites. To consider both
effects, we study the following more general initial state%
\begin{equation}
\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}=0\right) \right\rangle =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2^{N}N!}}%
\left( \alpha \widehat{a}_{1}^{\dag }+\beta \widehat{a}_{2}^{\dag }\right)
^{N}\left\vert 0\right\rangle .
\end{equation}%
The normalization condition requests that $\left\vert \alpha \right\vert
^{2}+\left\vert \beta \right\vert ^{2}=2$. At a holding time $t_{h0}$, the
density distribution after a time of flight $t_{f0}$ is given by%
\begin{eqnarray}
&&n\left( x,t_{h0},t_{f0}\right) =\frac{N}{2}\left\{ \left\vert \alpha
\right\vert ^{2}\left\vert \phi _{1}\left( x,t_{f0}\right) \right\vert
^{2}+\left\vert \beta \right\vert ^{2}\left\vert \phi _{2}\left(
x,t_{f0}\right) \right\vert ^{2}\right.  \notag \\
&&+2\times \text{\textrm{Re}}\left[ \alpha ^{\ast }\beta \left( \frac{%
\left\vert \alpha \right\vert ^{2}e^{i4\pi t_{h0}}+\left\vert \beta
\right\vert ^{2}e^{-i4\pi t_{h0}}}{2}\right) ^{N-1}\right.  \notag \\
&&\left. \left. \phi _{1}^{\ast }\left( x,t_{f0}\right) \phi _{2}\left(
x,t_{f0}\right) \right] \right\} .
\end{eqnarray}

At the holding time $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$, the density distribution is then%
\begin{eqnarray}
&&n\left( x,t_{h0},t_{f0}\right) =\frac{N}{2}\left\{ \left\vert \alpha
\right\vert ^{2}\left\vert \phi _{1}\left( x,t_{f0}\right) \right\vert
^{2}+\left\vert \beta \right\vert ^{2}\left\vert \phi _{2}\left(
x,t_{f0}\right) \right\vert ^{2}\right.  \notag \\
&&\left. +2\left( -1\right) ^{N-1}\text{\textrm{Re}}\left[ \alpha ^{\ast
}\beta \phi _{1}^{\ast }\left( x,t_{f0}\right) \phi _{2}\left(
x,t_{f0}\right) \right] \right\} .
\end{eqnarray}%
We see that there is still strong parity effect about the total particle
number when the asymmetry of the average particle numbers in two sites is
considered. For $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$, $n=N\left\vert \alpha \phi _{1}-\beta
\phi _{2}\right\vert ^{2}/2$ for even particle number, while $n=N\left\vert
\alpha \phi _{1}+\beta \phi _{2}\right\vert ^{2}/2$ for odd particle number.

The factor $\alpha ^{\ast }\beta $ includes a random relative phase if the
fluctuations of the bias potential $\varepsilon _{1}-\varepsilon _{2}$ are
considered. The bias potential $\varepsilon _{1}-\varepsilon _{2}$ between
two sites will gives a factor $e^{-i\left( \varepsilon _{1}-\varepsilon
_{2}\right) t_{h}/\hbar }$. Experimentally, to observe the parity effect,
this requests that the fluctuations of the bias potential should satisfy $%
\left\vert \Delta \varepsilon \right\vert t_{h}/\hbar <<\pi $. This request
can be satisfied in the present experimental technique \cite{Schumm,Jo,Jo1}.
These analyses show that slight asymmetry fluctuations of the double-well
potential would not lead to serious problem in observing the parity effect.

In the non-adiabatical increasing of the central barrier so that the
tunneling between two condensates can be omitted, it is possible that there
would be a particle number squeezing. In this situation, we consider the
following quantum state%
\begin{equation}
\left\vert \Psi \left( t_{h}=0\right) \right\rangle
=\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N}\gamma e^{-\left( l-N/2\right) ^{2}s^{2}/N}\left\vert
l,N-l\right\rangle .
\end{equation}%
Here $s$ is the squeezing factor, and $\gamma $ is a normalization factor.
For this quantum state, we have%
\begin{eqnarray}
&&K_{12}\left( t_{h}\right) =\frac{\gamma ^{2}}{N}\sum\limits_{l=1}^{N}\sqrt{%
l\left( N-l+1\right) }  \notag \\
&&e^{-\left[ \left( l-N/2\right) ^{2}+\left( l-N/2-1\right) ^{2}\right]
s^{2}/N}e^{-\frac{iUt_{h}}{\hbar }\left( N-2l+1\right) }.
\end{eqnarray}%
At $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$, we have%
\begin{eqnarray}
K_{12} &=&\frac{\gamma ^{2}}{N}\sum\limits_{l=1}^{N}\sqrt{l\left(
N-l+1\right) }  \notag \\
&&e^{-\left[ \left( l-N/2\right) ^{2}+\left( l-N/2-1\right) ^{2}\right]
s^{2}/N}e^{i\pi \left( N+1\right) }.
\end{eqnarray}%
At this holding time, we can also get%
\begin{eqnarray}
K_{21} &=&\frac{\left\langle \Psi \right\vert \widehat{a}_{2}^{\dag }%
\widehat{a}_{1}\left\vert \Psi \right\rangle }{N}  \notag \\
&=&\frac{\gamma ^{2}}{N}\sum\limits_{l=0}^{N-1}\sqrt{\left( l+1\right)
\left( N-l\right) }  \notag \\
&&e^{-\left[ \left( l-N/2\right) ^{2}+\left( l-N/2+1\right) ^{2}\right]
s^{2}/N}e^{i\pi \left( N+1\right) }.
\end{eqnarray}%
We see that at $t_{h0}=j/2-0.25$, even particle number corresponds to a
relative phase of $\pi $, while odd particle number corresponds to a
relative phase of $2\pi $. This means that the squeezing factor will not
destroy the parity effect in the interference fringes of the density
distribution. Of course, there is a request that the quantum state should
not be a Fork state in the extreme squeezing situation.

\section{summary and discussion}

In summary, a strong parity effect of the total particle number in the
density distribution of a condensate released from a double-well potential
is predicted in this work. The asymmetry fluctuations of the double-well
potential and particle number squeezing are discussed, and our studies show
that they would not lead to serious problem in observing the parity effect.
The parity effect is due to the quantized relative phase about the total
particle number for specific holding time of the double-well potential.
Another example of the strong parity effect about the total particle number
is the exchange effect for a complex of $N$ spin $1/2$ fermions \cite{Kohn}.
The parity effect of the complex lies in that it is a boson for even $N$,
while it is a fermion for odd $N$.

In this work, similarly to the phase diffusion considered in Ref. \cite{Java}%
, we ignore the phase diffusion in the increasing of the central barrier by
assuming that the central barrier is increased fast enough, and we also
ignore the phase diffusion in the time of flight. During the time of flight,
the interaction energy per particle will decrease rapidly, and thus the
phase diffusion may be ignored. In Ref. \cite{Piazza}, the phase diffusion
in the time of flight is also ignored. Nevertheless, overcoming these two
phase diffusions would contribute to more clear observation of the parity
effect. One way to overcome these two phase diffusions would be the
application of Feshbach resonance which has been used in atom interferometry
\cite{Widera,Fattori}. The scheme with the application of Feshbach resonance
would be: (i) One first prepares two coherently separated condensates in a
double-well potential. (ii) After turning the s-wave scattering length
almost to zero via a magnetic-field Feshbach resonance, the central barrier
is increased adiabatically so that the tunneling between two sites can be
omitted. (iii) Holding the double-well potential, one adiabatically
increases and then decreases the s-wave scattering length almost to zero so
that the condition $\int_{0}^{t_{h}}\frac{U\left( t\right) }{\hbar }dt=\pi $
is satisfied. (iv) Switching off the double-well potential, the ideal gas is
then imaged after a time of flight to display the parity effect.

\begin{acknowledgments}
We acknowledge useful discussions with Prof. Y. Wu, Prof. B. Wu, Prof. B. L.
Lv and Prof. L. You. This work was supported by NSFC under Grant Nos.
10875165, 10804123, 10634060, and NKBRSF of China under Grant No.
2006CB921406.
\end{acknowledgments}

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'Number of cats' found dead in Blackpool house fire
Another cat was found alive and received oxygen therapy while two people were treated at the scene by paramedics
Updated 19:45, 19 FEB 2021
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A 'number of cats' tragically died in a house fire in Blackpool, the fire service has sadly confirmed.
Two crews were initially called to reports of a fire on Grosvenor Street at 3.18pm today (February 18) along with an ambulance and rapid response vehicle.
On arrival, firefighters found a "well developed fire" on the ground floor of the property.
An extra three fire engines were called to assist with the incident and officers used breathing apparatus and two hose reels to bring the blaze under control.
A Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson has this evening confirmed that a 'number of cats' died in the fire.
Another cat was found alive and received oxygen therapy.
Two people were treated at the scene by paramedics but were not taken to hospital.
The cause of the blaze has not yet been disclosed.
LFRS said: "Firefighters have conducted a thorough search of the property to confirm all persons are accounted for.
"Unfortunately a number of cats have been found deceased and firefighters administered oxygen therapy to one cat who was found alive.
"The number of fire engines has been reduced to three. Firefighting operations are still continuing."
North West Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 15:22 and attended with an ambulance and rapid response vehicle. Two patients were treated but were not taken to hospital."
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The first published mention of pesto in the United States occurred in the 1940s, but it didn't become common in American households for many years since fresh basil wasn't readily available in grocery stores until at least the 1970s. While traditional pesto contains basil, garlic, Parmesan cheese, pine nuts and olive oil, you can substitute other nuts and greens to come up with delicious alternatives.
Altering the ingredients in your pesto will change the nutritional content as well as the taste. Using parsley instead of basil will make your pesto more nutritious. A cup of chopped basil contains 10 calories, 13 percent of the daily value for vitamin C, 45 percent of the DV for vitamin A and 220 percent of the DV for vitamin K. Parsley has more calories per cup, with 22, but also provides more essential nutrients with 21 percent of the DV for iron, 133 percent of the DV for vitamin C, 23 percent of the DV for folate, 101 percent of the DV for vitamin A and 1,230 percent of the DV for vitamin K. Iron and folate are essential for forming red blood cells, vitamin C helps heal wounds, vitamin A is important for vision and immune function and you need vitamin K for blood clotting.
While you can use the more traditional pine nuts, walnuts are often used when making pesto with parsley. Other alternatives include pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts, almonds and cashews, so experiment with the amount and type of nuts you include in your pesto to see which combination is most appealing to you.
Since you are already departing from the original pesto recipe by substituting parsley for basil, you may want to consider adding some other optional ingredients. Try adding lemon juice, sun dried tomatoes, jalapeno, avocado or olives when you want to change up your basic pesto recipe. Start with just a small amount since many of these ingredients are very strongly flavored.
Next time you have some extra leafy greens, consider mixing up a version of pesto since almost any green can work in this recipe. Try a combination of basil and parsley or use arugula, cilantro, spinach, mint, watercress, garlic scrapes, Swiss chard, kale, celery, oregano or broccoli rabe for the main ingredient in this flavorful dish, which can be used as a topping, spread or dip.
Bruso, Jessica. "Can You Substitute Parsley for Basil in Pesto?" Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/can-substitute-parsley-basil-pesto-9013.html. 27 November 2018.


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Jo Deseure is a Belgian stage and film actress.

After developing an interest in acting, Deseure enrolled at the Institut Supérieur des Arts in Brussels and graduated from there in 1984. She later began working in theatre and became a regular performer at the Compagnie des Bosons in Ixelles.

She made her film debut in Toto the Hero (1991), a drama film directed by Jaco Van Dormael. Since then, Deseure has appeared in My Angel (2004), Sister Smile (2009), Sans laisser de traces (2010), and Madly in Life (2020). The latter film earned her a Magritte Award for Best Actress.

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Living people
Belgian film actresses
Belgian stage actresses
Actresses from Brussels
20th-century Belgian actresses
21st-century Belgian actresses
Magritte Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Acer Nitro 5 AN517 review
Kshitij Pujari
"Acer is changing the affordable laptop game with its latest Nitro 5 AN517 laptop"
The segment of affordable gaming laptops has expanded a lot over the past few years for casual gamers with not very deep pockets. ASUS has been a pioneer in this field with its FX505GT series of laptops which were packed with specs and came at a compelling price. I'd like to think that the average gamer, such as myself, will not look to splurge on an RTX 2060 and get the overblown ray tracing experience when a GTX 1650 will do the job just fine.
Affordable gaming laptops have a lot of potential and companies such as Lenovo with its Legion Y540 (review) are exploiting it. Acer is no slouch when it comes to gaming, with its Predator lineup regarded as one of the golden standards. However, Acer is also grabbing eyeballs with its Nitro series, which essentially offers a respectable gaming experience under Rs 1 lakh. Armed now with the new 9th-gen Intel processors and the GTX 1650 GPU, the Acer Nitro (2019) series has the potential to pose strong competition to Lenovo's Legion and Asus' TUF and Strix lineups. I had the Acer Nitro 5 for review, and it is currently selling at prices starting from Rs 79,999. Here's why I think you should buy it.
Right off the bat, when you open the Nitro 5 you can see that it is not going to win any style points. But then again this, not a device that is being marketed to hardcore gamers. Aesthetics wise, you see a matte-black finish on the plastic unibody of the device, with red accents surrounding the keys and the trackpad. If looks are what you crave for in this segment of laptops, you would do well to consider the ROG Strix G which comes with a textured finish on the palm rest along with a U-shaped LED bar that lights up the bottom of the laptop.
The hinge on the Nitor 5 is quite ergonomic and easy to lift with just two fingers instead of using two hands, like with quite a few other laptops. The honeycomb textures on both sides of the lid and the bottom of the laptop along with the ventilation slots at the back provide for the only visually differentiating element over an otherwise bland design.
The device is not quite bulky or thick as I had imagined it to be although the massive 17-inch display does not help when trying to adjust the laptop inside my backpack. As far as budget gaming laptops go, the MSI GL 63 is currently the lightest of the lot and it also includes an optical disk drive which the Nitro 5 has opted out of.
The Nitro 5 does not have a MIL-STD-810G certification for durabilities like the Asus TUF-lineup which means that the former is not resistant against solar radiation exposure, high altitude, and temperature extremes. That's all right since you are most likely to use it in your home and not on the moon.
Display-wise, you get a 1,920 x 1,080 panel with 127 ppi and it's surrounded with narrow bezels giving you a higher screen-to-body ratio as compared to the previous Nitro 5. While generally, that laptop has a bright display, the Nitro 5 did give me slight trouble outdoors with the screen appearing a jarring black when sunlight hit the screen directly. Colours appeared to be quite good at first, although comparing the same video with my Asus Vivobook 15, I noticed slightly muted reds and yellows on the Nitro 5. However, this was not a deterrent to my gaming experience. I would've preferred a higher refresh rate display than the standard 60Hz screen you're offered, but I guess at this price point you can't have everything.
Connectivity options on the Nitro 5 include 3 x USB A, 1 x HDMI, 1 x Type-C, an Ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. There is no DisplayPort on the Nitro 5 and even the Type-C port does not support that standard. Speaking of which, some of the ports, in general, are too close to each other and an uneven distribution on either side would mean that the occasional clashing of cables would be inevitable. An example of this would be how close HDMI, Type-c and USB ports, while the Ethernet and HDMI ports are quite far apart.
Keyboard and trackpad
The Nitro 5 is retaining the same chiclet-style keyboards that the previous Nitro laptops have been privy to. The keys are 4-stage backlit and all the letters, numbers and symbols are red coloured along with the gamer-centric WASD and arrow keys which have an extra red outline. The backlight comes in handy as the red letters are hard to make out in ambient light. Unfortunately, there is only a single colour available for the backlight, unlike the Strix G which has an RGB option. The travel on the keyboard is quite low, with the input almost instantaneous as soon as I touch the keys. As a matter of fact, I'm writing this review on the Nitro 5 and the typing experience has been a breeze. The same can be said for gaming as well.
The trackpad sits flush with the rest of the laptop's body and has red accents all around it. In general, the response on the trackpad is good and it is also has a decent enough area. There were hardly any accidental touches during my usage and the finish on it was quite smooth, which made tasks like dragging items quite easy. This is, however, a gaming laptop which means that you will quite likely be using an external mouse with it anyway, but for the times you are not, the trackpad will function as per expectations.
The Acer Nitro 5 packs in the 9th-gen Intel H-series chipset which has translated to a considerable performance bump over the 8th-gen Intel processors housed last year in the Nitro 5. The variant which I have has the i5 quad-core chipset with eight threads, a base frequency of 2.4GHz which can be boosted to 4.10GHz under load. However, with such a large chassis, you could do with an i7 9th-gen version of the laptop as it has six cores, more threads and a higher Max Turbo Frequency at not such a significant increase in price.
The Nitro 5 is also not shy in the graphics department as well, with an NVIDIA GTX 1650 GPU which is a substantial improvement over the GTX 1050 on the previous Nitro 5. Again the i7 variant also has the added advantage of having the GTX 1060ti, which is comparatively better than the GTX 1650.
Acer Nitro 5 Benchmarks
In our benchmarking tests, the Nitro 5 holds up its own quite brilliantly. PCMark 10 saw a score of 4,813, which is impressive considering the Legion Y540 with its Intel's 9th gen Core i7-9750H processor had a tally of 5,590 points. Being a gaming laptop, some 3D Mark tests were also due and the laptop again came off pretty high as we see scores of 3,493 and 7,997 on Time Spy and Fire Strike respectively. Geekbench 5 also showed respectable scores of 1,087 for single-core and 3,748 for multi-core.
The Nitro 5 comes with the 256GB of fast PCIe SSD storage and a 1TB HDD, along with 16GB dual-channel RAM which can be expanded to 32GB. The Crystaldiskmark 7 test showed the sequential read and write speeds of 1,643 MB/s and 611 MB/s and this dropped to 384 MB/s and 340 MB/s respectively for 4K. Not too bad but not too good either.
But let's be real for a moment. Benchmarks are only a measure of how good the performance of a laptop is and quite a few times they don't tell the whole story. What you really want to know is how good the laptop is for gaming. Short answer, quite good. I threw a number of popular titles at the Nitro 5, a couple of them quite graphics-intensive, and came away with very favourable results. Low-key games like Counter-Strike Global Offensive, which don't strain the GPU much, ran buttery smooth at nearly 120 fps. More intensive titles like APEX Legends and PUBG ran smoothly at high graphics with anti-aliasing set at 8X. However, at Extreme settings, the shadows, higher anti-aliasing, and increased motion blur, the laptop, under increased load, started throttling the performance in just 15-20 minutes, resulting in a lot of frame drops. To that effect, the Nitro 5 does come with 'Nitrosense' which is a customised hub to adjust the fan speeds on the laptop. While usually under sustained load the fans on the Nitro 5 will rev up, you can speed them up even more with the max settings on Nitrosense. Mind you this is bound to disturb those sitting around you, as the laptop does produce quite a din. Complimented by CoolBoost technology, and customisable fan speeds on both the GPU and CPU, Apex and PUBG ran at the highest settings for more than 2 hours straight before the CPU started throttling the performance due to increased temperature. Talking about even more graphic intensive-games such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the benchmarks showed an average FPS of 49 which is reasonable to expect from GTX 1650 chipset.
The Nitro 5 packs in a 57 Wh battery and I have to say that the laptop's battery management is quite good. Although chances are quite low that your device will not be plugged in during usage, in my test of letting the laptop sit idle, with no background processes running, we get a figure of 12 hours and 32 minutes. Our standard Battery Eater test saw the laptop last a respectable 98 minutes before being shut down.
The Acer Nitro 5 AN517 is an intelligent purchase for the average gamer, as it offers respectable performance and good battery life. The thermal management seems to be at par with the competition, although one can make a point of MSI's slim profile in the GL63 9SC which makes it easier to carry around. However, at this price point the laptop delivers on almost all aspects. The Nitro 5 will be running all modern triple-A games thrown at it but understandably some of the latest titles will have to run on lower graphics settings. Can it be recommended over its true competition which is the Asus TUF FX505GT or the MSI GL 63? If you prefer Intel over AMD (in my opinion you should) and don't care about military-grade certification, then the Nitro 5 is a no brainer. The MSI offers a more portable package but sacrifices on storage by giving only 128GB option. An alternative to the Nitro 5 would be the Nitro 7 with the i7 9th-gen processors which would translate most likely to a 10-15 percent boost in performance with an asking price of Rs 10,000 more. The Nitro 5 is an affordable investment if you are into casual gaming under the Rs 1 lakh threshold but hardcore gamers will need to look elsewhere.
Editor's rating: 4 / 5
Commendable typing experience
Bland design
Thermal management could have been better
Port placement is not great
Acer Nitro 5
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REAPER is a great DAW with an extensive capability to be customized and extended with scripts. In this page I want to share some of the scripts I create and maintain. I hope you like them and support me with a VIP member donation(Paypal) if you consider it is interesting and helpful for your work. Additional paypal donations can also be sent directly. Thank you.
Thanks to many recent donations I've been able to assign more hours of development. This release fixes many things looks a bit better. Some default settings and theme settings have been changed. So maybe you want to try and reset all settings, or just check settings page, now the settings that are changed from default are underlined in red, or in yellow if it is a theme setting.
There is still a thing to fix to support different sizes for theme images which will make easier to use other themes. But for now, you have some new things to check.
This is rc1 version (Release Candidate) so no more new features to add, only bug fixes. New features are on a list for v1.5 :) .
+ Back button to return to original track when right clicking a send to go to send's track.
# fix: Make sure proper version (VST3 or VST2) of dpmeter is used.
# fix CTRL drag receives to fine adjust.
# fix CTRL drag sends and receives mouse outside script window.
# fix tooltip for toggle solo receive.
# Automation: additional buttons hidden by default. Enable them in Automation panel menu.
# do not show I-FX or Analysis chain button for Master track.
+ Setting tooltip: add default value if setting changed from default.
# fix: Load theme... fix default path on window.
# fix: add Last touched parameters buttons on FX panel if show parameters in FX panel is enabled.
# fix: better project change/load detection.
+ Settings: Draw overs line in color.
+ Settings: Draw reference line in color.
+ Settings: Grid line length factor.
Create a new tab. Select some tracks first and then press the + button. The new tab will have the selected tracks and locked by default. If you want to edit the tracks displayed in the tab, unlock it first, select the tracks you want, and lock it again.
Switch to a tab. Left click on the tab button. Or with the mixer window focused, press numbers 1 to 9 to switch between the first 9 ones.
Special Use MCP tab: This tab shows all tracks that are shown in REAPER MCP window. Right click and select Use MCP tracks. Be carefull to use it if you have many tracks and meter type set to RMS or EBUR128.
Refresh from MCP tracks: Right click tab and select Refresh from MCP tracks. This reloads the list of tracks displayed from the tracks displayed on MCP.
Lock/Unlock tab: Right click on the tab button, and uncheck/Check the lock menu.
Change meter type for the tab: Select Peaks/RMS/EBUR128 to change the meter type for all tracks in the tab.
Delete tab: Right click and select Delete tab. No tracks are deleted, just the tab configuration.
Another change is that the Global Settings options are now in a dedicated menu button on the top left, and now when you right click on a track, the menu has only the options that affect that particular track or tracks.
A fix to prevent faders to disappear if the gain value is lower than the minimum Remember ALT+mouse wheel to change the minimim dB with the window focused. When docked, click on the track numbers or names to focus on the window.
# Main menu for general settings and menu specific for each track on right click on track.
+ 4 Fonts and sizes and menu to change fonts. Font 1 default font. Font 2 db grid small, font 3 track names, font 4 track number and IL.
# fix: do not allow faders below threshold to avoid disappearing faders when -inf.
# Notes: show notes of all tracks is displayed as a normal panel.
# Notes: setting to show all notes or track notes is saved.
New font sizes adjustments and layout, bug fixes and new commands to create actions for Tags and FX groups. For now you have to be running Track Inspector for the actions to work but at least you can assign shortcuts to your favourite tags or fx groups.
font1 is used on small texts, font2 is the default font for all buttons and text, font 3 is used by plugin names and parameters and fader gain. Font 4 is used for the IL loudness meter. I find it good also to change the font4 to Impact or Bebas, for a bold narrow font number.
# fix: crash when using auto track tags in some cases.
# theme: some font adjustments. You may want to reload default 5 TI theme to see new default font sizes or reset all settings to default to reload all defaults.
+ theme: visibility options for Mastering/Mixing - Post/Pre - EBUmode buttons on meter panel on the meter panel menu.
# fix: dragging send fix do not open send when mouse release over send name after dragging a send bar.
This new 2.0 version of HeDaMixer will have more features that I have in mind but for now it has implemented the basic functions to support RMS and EBUR128 meters. To set the meters type you can find the option in the right click menu as all the options. These modes will increase CPU usage significantly if used on many meters because we have to use one instance of dpmeter3 for each track so be aware of that. This is nice to be used on some BUS tracks to have a better meter representation of the loudness of some groups of tracks. To reset the loudness calculation you can click on the IL number, or middle click to reset on all tracks.
# About page with changelog and links to VIP members and VIP donations.
Also worth mention, released HeDaMixer 1.0 final version for everybody, not only VIP members.
dpmeter3 update to 1.3.4 fixes a bug when updating parameters in VST2 version. So now you can use VST2 version. Since the parameters numbers in VST2 version change you have to check a setting in Track Inspector Settings page and restart Track Inspector in order to use the VST2 version parameters. If you install both VST2 and VST3 versions of dpmeter3, then REAPER will probably use VST3 version by default. But you can check in the hidden Track Inspector tracks which plugin is inserting. Since both VST2 and VST3 versions share the same plugin name "dpMeter3 (TBProAudio) (6ch)" you can rename the one that you don't want to use in REAPER FX Browser, so next time it will use the one that is named "dpMeter3 (TBProAudio) (6ch)"
Option to enable/disable adding Track name prefix and Parent Track name prefix if there is a parent track. The option is changed for each Region Track by right clicking on the region track name button, and check "Use Track/Parent names as prefix"
It separates prefix with a space by default, which you can change in preferences with a _ or with an empty string or whatever is needed.
+ option to add Track name prefix and Parent Track name(if any) to region names.
Small update to Track Templates VIP. To change colours in the them you still have to manually edit the included theme file. Ideally I should add an interface to change it more easily. The theme file is replaced on updates, so make sure if you edit it, to have a backup to copy the changes again to the new them file.
the other option added in this update is to prevent brackets being added to the folder names. I didn't add an interface for this either, so you have to manually edit the variable in the settings file "TT_Settings_1.cfg" This file is safe in the Track Templates VIP settings folder, and it is not deleted when updating so it remembers your configuration after updating.
# crash dragging FX chain to empty area belowe tracks, now it adds FX chain to selected tracks.
+ Set "folder_brackets" to 0 to avoid adding brackets [ ] to the folder names.
+ added variables in theme. "over_color" sets the color for the mouse over buttons for templates and "over2_color" for FX chains.
+ Big CPU optimization drawing only what is seen. Now we can have many tracks , as with the use MCP tracks option. Only visible ones in the window will be drawn.
# fix: mouse over bottom text label with custom width tracks draws lines with correct width.
# fix: bad string displayed when volume -Inf.
This new update mainly has to new features. An option to use all the tracks displayed in the REAPER default mixer (MCP). This was requested in the forum. But then I realized that there was a bug and I should only draw the tracks that are shown in the window. Because scrolling to the right was causing more and more slowness as more tracks were calculated. Now it is always fast.
Added a button to toggle the display of archived tracks in TCP. It is useful to quickly see all archived tracks and be able to select them to unarchive. Then click on the button again to return to display tracks as it was before.
Also a command in Tags menu to delete all tags in the project. To start fresh if needed to import another set of tags, etc..
+ Toggle Show archived tracks button.
# fix mute sends button overlapping with sends presets.
+ Tags menu: Remove all tags and tags presets in project.
# fix: graphic glitch peaks lines over all panels sometimes when stopped.
I am Hector Corcin (also known as heda on the REAPER forum), co-producer at Yidneth Studio with the fantastic artist Priscilla Hernandez.
REAPER is an excellent DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software used from amateur to professional users. One of the main features is its API that allows to customize and create scripts. Some are simple and can help automatizing tasks, and other scripts are complex, and can be more like an application extension integrated in REAPER, providing new functionalities and enhancing the user experience.
If you donate, your are supporting HeDaScripts helping me to invest more time and update them more frequently, adding new features, and create new ones. You get a VIP account as a reward, where you can download VIP versions of the scripts and pre-releases updates. Thank you very much!
Thank you very much to all VIP members that are donating to support the scripts.
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Successful meeting held in Chicago on "Why Study the Russian Revolution?"
By George Marlowe and Marcus Day
David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, continued his lecture tour on the Russian Revolution in Chicago, Illinois. A successful meeting was held on Sunday, November 12 at the University of Illinois at Chicago with an engaged audience of nearly 60 people.
Speaking to a group composed largely of students, youth and workers, North reviewed the global significance of the October Revolution in Russia led by the Bolsheviks in 1917. At the outset of the meeting, he noted the significant interest and intellectual ferment among youth on the question of the Russian Revolution and socialism today.
North examined the objective conditions that brought the October Revolution into being, including the imperialist catastrophe of World War I. The Russian Revolution of 1917 demonstrated the socialist alternative to capitalist barbarism. Led by the Bolshevik Party, the revolution transformed not only Russian society, but it also had an enormous impact on the struggles of the working class and the oppressed around the world.
The subsequent emergence of the police state under Stalin caused a tremendous amount of confusion about what the Russian Revolution was. North maintained, however, that Stalin and the bureaucracy came to power on the basis of the suppression of genuine Marxism. The most significant representative of the genuine traditions of international socialism and Marxism murdered by the bureaucracy was Leon Trotsky.
In the course of the meeting, North reviewed the impact of the October Revolution on intellectual, social and cultural life internationally, as well as the significant economic and social achievements made in the Soviet Union. These included enormous economic growth, the elimination of illiteracy within a generation, the Soviet defeat of the Nazis in which nearly 30 million Soviet citizens died, the space race innovations and more.
North spent the rest of the meeting reviewing the ways in which the history of the Russian Revolution is falsified, and the relationship of these falsifications to the growth of social inequality in the United States. Far from ushering a new age of capitalist flowering since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the staggering growth of inequality worldwide and a quarter century of wars has found global capitalism in the 21st century to be a complete failure.
Following the conclusion of meeting, there was a lively question-and-answer session. Reporters from the WSWS also spoke to those in attendance.
Molly, a student studying acting at Columbia College, said she thought the October Revolution "is really important. Personally, I was never really educated in the full significance of the Russian Revolution and how important it was for human history, and modern political history, and where the world is right now. Not to mention what it says the possibilities of what culture and society can be.
"For me, it really ties into the fact that there's just been so much suppression of leftist ideology that's been very purposeful by the powers-that-be, so that they can continue to be the powers-that-be. Right now it's important to me to search out that knowledge, to understand revolutions and the circumstances that allowed them to happen, so that we can figure out the best ways to organize and hopefully make it happen again."
Asked what she thought were the burning issues of the day, Molly said that she strongly opposed imperialist war. "Anti-imperialism is really, really important, and I think it's an issue that affects a lot of people. We don't want to be sending people off to kill other people instead of focusing on the problems we have here."
"I really liked his analysis of why the Russian Revolution is extremely important to study today," said Brian, who had recently graduated. "Because it's the biggest moment in history, where the working class actually takes control and ownership and power in a very organic way. And if we want a repetition of this act, we need to know more about it.
Brian also noted the danger of war and pointed to the promotion of militarism in the media. "I think that nowadays the threat of world war is not only inevitable, but would be the most destructive force, even more so than the previous world wars, because of the nuclear capabilities."
"David North did a really good job demonstrating not just how socialism can work," he continued, "but how it's the only force that will work for humanity, because it's a program centered on society."
Dylan, a student at Columbia College studying music, said he thought "the meeting was really good. Coming from what I've learned about socialist politics, I skipped over the October Revolution. I never really learned about the events in detail. My history classes in school would only have us read a paragraph on this monumental event that shaped the 20th century. I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture by David North.
"The reformist path has failed. Last year, I saw how the youth movement was put behind Bernie Sanders. But there's a growing disillusion with this question of reforming capitalism. It was the same idea with Obama. He never shut down Guantanamo Bay, or brought the troops home—we just had perpetual wars. It was a fundamentally a funnel for reformist politics to trap people back in the system. This is why I think it's really important for us to study the Russian Revolution."
Matas, a new IYSSE member, noted on North's lecture: "He has a very strong command of the material. It's really inspiring to see someone who has so embodied the whole history of Marxism, the history of the revolutionary political movement. It's really inspiring for a budding revolutionary.
"The panoply of responses he brought up in the evaluation of the revolution — 25, 50, 75,100 years—you see the real degeneration of academia. You see the outright rejection of the historical importance of the Russian Revolution. It was shocking to see talking points bordering on fascism. It was disgusting. And the statistics he brought up — where the bottom 90 percent in the last 30 or so years their wages have actually decreased by 0.17 percent while the top 10 percent saw their earnings grow by 1.4 percent per year! It was disturbing to see the statistical embodiment of what students see in the world around them everyday.
"I have long been looking for someone to also list all the deaths that capitalism has caused. He certainly exposed the imperialist wars of the 20th century in a very revealing light. That's not something you hear about in high school classes or in the news media in the US. They don't want to show us the wars that the US is responsible for.
"I came out of this lecture wanting to study more about history. Our task today is to build the revolutionary party. It's the fundamental task. We also need to bring this history to youth around Chicago and build new chapters of the IYSSE. We need to make sure as many people have access to this information that has been so thoroughly suppressed."
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SEP to hold public meeting in Canada to demand freedom for Julian Assange
Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE to hold public meeting on how to fight the new Rajapakse regime
Socialist Equality Party (UK) holds final general election rally in London
Seventy percent of US Millennials say they are likely to vote socialist
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Dorian Electra: The Genre-Bending, Gender-Bending Pop Star
"...if our idea of masculinity is being brave and courageous, then true masculinity would be being brave and courageous enough to open up and not be afraid to be vulnerable. "
Claire Fitzsimmons December 23, 2019 December 23, 2019
By Keryce Chelsi Henry
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You don't have to speak with Dorian Electra for very long before you begin to see the fluidity in everything in the world around you: gender, masculinity, strip clubs, whether the protagonist in their splashy seminal single "Career Boy" is a sub or Dom. This open-minded thinking is exactly what has led them to become a beloved underground pop icon, using their glitchy, glamorous pop as a sledgehammer to strike down cisnormativity and binaries.
"You can make people think, but then also make people dance and have a good time," they say over the phone from their native Houston. "It doesn't have to be explicitly educational, but if it makes somebody challenge their own ideas or thoughts about something, I consider that to be a good goal for me and my work." It's a refreshing take on pop music, which isn't typically seen as an academic tool in the mainstream. For Electra, it's an outlet for their impressive yearslong education in philosophy, history, and productive discourse, first displayed in a series of historical bops they created in 2016. "It was really cool to be able to directly apply all the stuff that I learned about Freud and the history of anatomy to pop music," they recall.
Since then, they've released back-to-back hits that apply different ideas to pop music; namely, gender fluidity and the gender spectrum, as well as rethinking cisnormativity. "Man to Man" reframes masculinity as vulnerability, "Adam & Steve" remixes the biblical story of the creation of man, and "Flamboyant"—the title track from Electra's July 2019 debut album, and arguably their most successful single—embraces a word that has been used as a weapon against the queer community. What's more, Electra makes it all look damn good, having established a lush, playful aesthetic for their visuals and wardrobe, with their pencil-thin mustache as the cherry on top.
Here, Electra reflects on how they came to merge gender fluidity with academia and pop, what personal experiences inspired Flamboyant, and, yes, whether Career Boy is a sub or Dom.
The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.
I'd love to start with your introduction to music. Tell me a bit about how and when you started creating your own music.
My dad introduced me to a lot of rock bands and would take me to concerts from a really young age, and my mom did musical theater and sang in a band when she was younger. So music was always a big part of my life in that way. I did musical theater myself as a kid, then, when I got to high school, I started getting more interested in actually playing music and trying to learn stuff on the keyboard. I had a bunch of friends who were also into music, and we started producing songs on GarageBand and different programs, and getting really into synths. And I would always do projects and book reports in song form and video form. Summarizing info that I was learning about in school, in a song—I feel like that's where all that started for me.
…if our idea of masculinity is being brave and courageous, then true masculinity would be being brave and courageous enough to open up and not be afraid to be vulnerable.
Dorian Electra
It sounds like your family laid a solid foundation for you to pursue all these different interests, and to explore your identity, too.
I just feel so lucky. My parents have also been supportive of my friends, especially queer friends that don't have necessarily like the most supportive family backgrounds. So many of my friends throughout high school would always hang out at my house. I feel like we opened up our whole family to be that for my friends, too.
Your music and videos are known for being thought-provoking. Why is it so important for you to have such an informed take in your music?
It's just really cool to be able to blend academic ideas or philosophy with something that's really accessible like pop music. It's taking those ideas out of the realm of an academic context and making it fun. You can make people think, but then also make people dance and have a good time. It doesn't have to be explicitly educational, but if it makes somebody challenge their own ideas or thoughts about something, I consider that to be a good goal for me and my work.
How would you say that applies to Flamboyant? What are the thoughts you sought to inspire or inform within people who listen to the album?
It was a really interesting personal exploration for me. I had this desire to explore these different masculine characters in the music as a way to explore myself. It wasn't always as academic or heavy as people write about, or that I'm able to talk about after the fact. When I was making the songs, I was just like, "I want to write a song about me being a person that wants to be castrated, and make it a pop song." It can be analyzed him after the fact: "Oh, that's a critique of toxic masculinity." It is, but also as an artist, it's important to just have the personal exploration be the initial driving factor in [your work]. It doesn't have to be, "I'm going to teach people about this or that;" sometimes it's just subconscious. And that's kind of the place I am at now where I'm thinking about the new music I'm going to start making soon.
But I definitely want to challenge ideas of toxic masculinity, make people think about gender, and challenge norms in pop music by switching up pronouns and [creating] more unexpected combinations of music—be gender-bending and-genre bending. And also tell people, "It's okay to be yourself. It's okay to be uncool. It's okay to be weird and flamboyant."
[Masculinity is] not, "I'm not gonna back down"…but rather, "I'm going to have enough confidence in my own ideas to openly doubt them and hear out others that are saying the opposite of me."
You mention the album is somewhat of a personal exploration, so what personal experiences inspired the message behind the title track?
I think a lot of it came from when I first moved to L.A. I'm talking around early 2018. I was seeing all these other people doing this, like, minimal pop that they thought they were supposed to do because it was going to pop off on Spotify. I loved all of that music, but I felt pressured to make music like that. Then as I was making more music and working with people, and playing shows, I realized that what makes me unique is my strength as an artist. I was feeling self-conscious about needing to tone myself down, or make myself into something that was more palatable or appealing. I put like "Career Boy" out, then I did "VIP" and "Man to Man," and realized that people were gravitating towards me. I was so surprised by the amazing reception and how much people loved it. I thought people were going to write ["Career Boy"] off as some goofy thing or they weren't going to get it, but then seeing people's reaction to it, especially from the queer and trans community—with me being this masculine-presenting, nonbinary person doing pop music—it is so validating. Other people have expressed that they feel validated by the fact that there's an artist out there like me, but it was just as validating for me to get the reaction from the audience. So I feel like that gave me the confidence to be one hundred percent myself. I'm not going to tone it down or turn it down for anybody or anything.
To what extent did working at a strip club in the past inform your definition of masculinity as it's expressed in songs like "Man to Man"?
It definitely did inform so many of my experiences. I wasn't a stripper on the pole, but I did private and topless lap dances, and sold shots—I don't want to take away from people that are pole dancers because that's a whole skillset I do not have and wish I did. [Laughs] I definitely saw some instances of toxic masculinity for sure, but I also saw a lot of really tender moments. There were really emotional, beautiful experiences where people were really just coming in and looking for human connection in any form: somebody to talk to, somebody to be close to. There were some really touching experiences that really exceeded my expectations, and things I just could have never predicted. That was the majority of the experiences I had more so than really negative ones. It definitely taught me a lot about the dynamics of masculinity and femininity. It also really shaped me and made me a lot more comfortable with my body too, as a performer. It gave me confidence because people were actually paying to come see me and my body. It was sexy to me and arousing in that way, too. I think that like helped open up a lot of things that I'd been so uncomfortable about with my own sexuality as well.
It's funny: you're known for the way you reframe ideas in your music, and here you are doing it naturally in conversation. But all of that considered, how do you define masculinity? Based on "Man to Man," you see a vulnerability in it.
With "Man to Man," what I'm trying to say is that if our idea of masculinity is like being brave and courageous, then true masculinity would be being brave and courageous enough to open up and not be afraid to be vulnerable. That's my bite-sized definition of the positive form of masculinity. But I also feel it's so abstract and kind of hard to talk about, too. I talk about in almost every interview but then I'm like, "Well, what does this mean again?"
So what does it mean specifically for your own identity? How does that positive form of masculinity play a role in who you are?
As a kid I've always identified more with masculine things in a way, from my heroes and people I looked up to, to traits that I identified with: being outspoken and assertive, and those things that are traditionally viewed as masculine things. But then, in high school, I had a lot of experience with Socratic dialogue and was on the debate team. I actually wasn't very good at debate, but my interests then became more about dialogue. I was learning about dialogue and how to have peaceful civil discourse where people can come to mutual understandings and really hear each other's ideas out. That was a big part of my life. Even the college that I went to was dialogue-based. It's why I chose to go there. No lectures or textbooks, just reading original source texts and discussing it together as a class with the teacher. So when I'm thinking about my kind of masculinity, in a positive way, it's not, "I'm not gonna back down" or being aggressive or those those things that are sometimes associated with masculinity, but rather, "I'm going to have enough confidence in my own ideas to openly doubt them and hear out others that are saying the opposite of me." It's being able to have patience with someone that's being combative with you.
I definitely want to challenge ideas of toxic masculinity, make people think about gender, and challenge norms in pop music by switching up pronouns and [creating] more unexpected combinations of music—be gender-bending and-genre bending.
Switching gears to talk about your visuals: I know you're pretty hands on with them, and you have a signature style. How did you develop your directing skills?
I have been directing videos since high school, just for fun or school projects. I started working with my partner Weston Allen and Mood Killer in 2013 or something, when we were in college. We've done so many videos together, for my stuff and for Mood Killer's and Weston's stuff as musicians, for other bands, and educational projects. Weston edits all the videos, Weston and I co-direct, and I style my own videos. We do all of the roles ourselves. At first it was out of necessity, like many small productions where you're doing all of the aspects of it because you don't have another option or you don't have the budget. But now, we're still operating in that same way, even though it might look like it's a bigger production. I produce the videos: I get the crew together, rent the space, rent the gear. It's really just a community of our cinematographer, Taylor Russ, that works with us, and a few other key people that just really make it happen. It's that kind of DIY spirit that has enabled us to develop our own style. Even when I'm in the studio writing songs, I'm oftentimes thinking about, if I were to do a music video for it, this is what I'd be wearing, and this would be the color scheme. My mind is very visually oriented, so I tend to think of the visuals like as I'm thinking of the music, too. I always want to tell a story that's bigger than just the music alone.
Makeup is very much so a huge part of that story as well, but it seems as though it's a lot more than something cosmetic for you. What value does makeup have for you?
Throughout my life I've had a mixed relationship with makeup. I was into it as a kid, loved playing around with my mom's makeup, and then when I was older, I used it because I was really self-conscious about my skin. I'd also draw on beards and huge lips for funny little characters in videos. Later I started feeling like if I wore a ton of makeup, I'd feel too feminine. I got more involved with the drag community and started to see makeup as a means of self-expression that was beyond covering up or feminizing. I saw it as this whole avenue for creating some alien creature version of yourself. I was also hanging out Chicago club kids and was super influenced and inspired by them. And then I started drawing the mustache.
How did the mustache make you feel that first time you drew it on?
Amazing. It looked incredible. I felt like I could put on tons of makeup and still feel like it's grounded by this masculine element. That just allowed me to explore all kinds of super feminine makeup that I actually really love, but then feel like it's grounded by this mustache. I like to be playful with it and subvert expectations, and make people think. It's really fun.
It's okay to be yourself. It's okay to be uncool. It's okay to be weird and flamboyant.
Being that you're so open about your identity, a lot of outlets refer to your music as "queer pop." What's your take on that?
On one hand, I think it's really cool because it's highlighting queer artists and I think that that's really the most important thing: giving a voice to people. Queer and trans people of color are making amazing art, and to make sure to highlight their voices, especially, is super important. Ideally, we're moving towards all of those artists being just artists and held in the same regard as other artists. But in the meantime, it is important to specially acknowledge these people's art. It's actually cool because in a way it groups together all these people that share something in common, but the music styles itself can be really different. I see people grouping together artists like King Princess, Kim Petra and Dorian Electra, and that's really cool.
Let's get into the questions from our Salty Members. Nina asks: As a landscape architect, I'm very interested in how outdoor spaces can reflect, support, and nurture freedom of identity and creativity, and ways of living. What would your fantasy public park or your own garden be like?
Oh, that's cool. I've thought about this a lot. In the past, I was into architecture and had a bunch of friends on the same campus as me that were studying architecture in Chicago. I like the idea of having physical spaces where communities can come together and have dialogue that aren't consumer-based. People can gather at the mall but the purpose there is to shop. It's not like having like public parks where people can come together to do yoga or play sports or have a reading group outdoors. Or even live shows and music concerts, having outdoor space for that. That's really important for creating community. The school that I went to, we didn't have desks but we had work areas for groups. We also had these big community meetings where there was electrical tape in a circle or square on the ground. Every morning, that's where we'd do our lessons. Everybody's facing each other and engaging with one another.
I thought people were going to write ["Career Boy"] off as some goofy thing or they weren't going to get it, but then seeing people's reaction to it, especially from like the queer and trans community…is so validating.
Finally: Is Career Boy a sub or Dom?
There's a classic sub element in there, for sure, in terms of getting whipped and wanting to be a slave to the work and all of that. But I also like the idea of erasing that binary between sub and Dom. Even though people do fall into those categories, even as tops and bottoms, I feel like it can be the same way that saying "masculine" and "feminine," or "man" and "woman" can close your mind off to other possibilities and ways of being. I've found that I like to try to approach those things as fluidly as I can to keep options, identities and experiences open to myself.
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Today some time else, rather in the poetry slam style.
While I've enjoyed your words from the start?
Or maybe you don't dare.
It's true, I hoped I could dwell.
But the heavy-load loads his burden upon my shoulders as well.
Too deep I could see what's within.


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From 1996 to 2020, Every year, Resident Evil is exciting us with a new release, let it be a movie or a game, Resident Evil has always gained them tons of love from views as well as audiences. And now it is expected that the Resident Evil is soon coming with its successor Resident Evil 8[ Game Series] and fans lost their control over patience and want to know more about this upcoming game version.
Resident Evil Franchise is created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara, Developed and Published by Capcom, and it is available on various platforms:
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Resident Evil 7[Game Series] has already gained enough fans, which will profitably boost the release of its sequel. On Steam Resident evil seven is rated at 9/10, which is immensely great, and not only this but also 93% of Google users liked this video game and now eagerly waiting for the upcoming sequel.
So, honestly, there is no announcement made by the production and Resident Evil franchise about the Resident Evil 8[game series] yet. But there are many rumors on the internet, which says the upcoming game will gonna be released soon by the starting month of 2021. But nothing is confirmed yet.
As per the Rumours, the upcoming sequel will also be the First-person shooter mode alike Resident Evil 7, as it was highly appreciated by video game players, and It will showcase some new features. It might come up with new weapons and arms and might be more horrific than the previous version, and one can expect something new in Resident Evil 8[Game Series] like magic, hallucinations, and more updated effects, which will definitely win million hearts.
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Raja Raveendra Wimalasiri (born 19 August 1969) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and umpire. He stood in his first One Day International (ODI) on 23 July 2013, between Sri Lanka and South Africa. He stood in his first Twenty20 International (T20I) on 2 August 2013, also between Sri Lanka and South Africa.

In October 2019, he was appointed as one of the twelve umpires to officiate matches in the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. In January 2020, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup tournament in South Africa.

See also
 List of One Day International cricket umpires
 List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires

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This detached villa with garden and private pool located in a quiet location in the village Marčana, which is only about ten minutes from the airport and fifteen minutes drive from the center of the popular tourist resort of Pula. The private property is 100 meters from the main road.
Bright House is colorfully decorated. It offers on 130 m² all the modern comforts with functional design for five people. It has two color harmoniously designed bedroom with a double bed in the first and a double and a single bed in the second room. there is a closet between the two rooms. One of the two bathrooms has a shower, toilet and washing machine. In the second bathroom there is a whirlpool, a double sink with storage and a toilet and a bidet. The spacious air-conditioned living room gets through the large windows much brightness. It consists of the seating area with sofas in front of the TV, the modern dining area with glass table and the open kitchen, which is fully equipped with all modern appliances.
In front of the living room, the equipped with comfortable wicker furniture terrace adjoins. An awning provides shade when needed. DC front is the 6 x 4 meter large private pool. On the lawn next to the pool sun loungers are available for guests. On the other side of the garden a small playground is set up for the children. Furthermore, there is a small outbuilding with a fireplace, which can be used in winter for barbecues. In summer here is the game room, where a kicker is. For grilling you can then use the outside barbecue.
The property consists of two plots: the land on which the villa for holiday guests is and a second land on which lives the owner of the house. Both properties have separate entrances, allowing guests to enjoy complete privacy, however, be able to address the owner if necessary.
In the district on the other side of the main road, which is just a ten minute walk, the center lies with small shops, market, grocery stores, post office and ATM. In the local bar, there are also Internet. Only five minutes drive to the very good restaurants Luna or Vesna, producing its owner delicious Istrian cheese. Since there are only a ten minute drive to the nearest motorway junction, you can explore the Istrian peninsula also great from the villa. Worth seeing are the old town center of Pula or the Brijuni National Park. The nearest beach of Duga Uvala, take fifteen minutes. The beautiful beaches of Pula invite you to sunbathe and swim. In the summer months of July and August many festivals around.


If you're going to have a successful year, you need to get organized. If you want to really crush it and don't like keeping your life in a phone calendar, and prefer old school planners, I've seen this one in a few different places on social media lately and it looks pretty good. The Panda Planner claims to be the "best daily calendar and gratitude journal to increase productivity, time management, and happiness." Wow. That's a pretty hefty claim. This is an undated 3-6 month calendar that lets your review your morning and evening, lists your priorities, and helps you break down your projects and goals into manageable chunks.
I think it would be super helpful if you have a lot going on and really need to drill down into certain aspects of your day – and if you wanted to spend some time really reflecting on how you use your time.
Next up, and in relation to getting organized, you might be in the market for a new desk on which to do your studying (or pretending to study, whichever the case may be). This is a desk my middle-schooler has picked out in anticipation of getting her own room when her older brother moves out of the house in a couple of months (God willing).
She has this whole white-grey-rose gold aesthetic look going lately. (Sister is going to have to get herself a job to afford the lifestyle she wants, is all I'm saying.) Actually, these pieces aren't terribly expensive and would make a nice-looking set if you're in the market for such things.
Here's something I thought was very cool and handy for those mornings when you just can't decide if you should wear that new scarf or not. The Amazon app has a feature for Prime members called Outfit Compare that lets you take a photo of 2 different looks, and send them to a fashion consultant who will tell you which look is better for you. For example, let's say you got some cute new skinny jeans and you can't decide if you should wear a flow-y tunic or a form fitting tank top with them…take the pics, send them through the app, and soon your fashion consultant will tell you which one looks better on you. I haven't used this feature yet, but I think it's a great idea because sometimes your BFF might have forgotten to charge her phone and you're stuck in a dressing room trying to find the right suit to wear to an interview and you'll be in that dressing room FOR-FREAKING-EVER trying to decide and you'll be all sweaty and frustrated and you don't understand WHY she doesn't text you back already…Anyway, with this feature, you'll have your answer…well I don't know how long it takes to get an answer, but probably a lot faster than your BFF with her dead phone will take.
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Seriously, some of these look like handbags that I would carry instead of a carrier for a sandwich!
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I think I really like that square striped tote with the flower the best. Might just have to order that for m'self.
And since I was on Amazon Back to School page, I noticed they have a deal where your teen can get their own log in, shop for what they want, and get it approved by you via text message. This means they can do their own Back to School shopping while you sit in your favorite chair, sipping your favorite beverage, and feeling so happy that you no longer have to remember the Pythagorean theorem because you are an adult who already did her time in school. Here's where you can get more info.
Well okay then! This turned into kind of a long post but I hope you found it helpful and maybe found something you could treat yo'self with *coughKateSpadeLunchTotecough*, even if you aren't in school.
I had to laugh at your lunch "box" comment. Both my kids have metal lunch boxes now. Sophie has a Beatles lunch box she bought in Canada last year. And Luke as a Mario lunch box he got for Christmas (it came with a set of controllers or something, I think). Neither of them will take their ancient bland slouchy lunch "totes" anymore. Of course Sophie rarely eats lunch so I hardly ever send anything for her anyway, but that's another issue…. All you back to school shopping is fun! Mine was just a misery bc I waited too long and everything was gone. Kids have been back in school for a week here already. And they're already exhausted, lol.
Lunch boxes were so not cool when I was going to school. Everyone was brown bagging back then. Of course it was the 70's & going green was just starting.
I actually do remember taking my lunch in a bag – prob early 70s, but I can remember getting a lunch box in…2nd grade maybe? But I do remember that EVERYBODY had a lunch box in grade school.
Dang, those lunch totes are gorgeous! I used to love getting a new lunchbox every year. And usually dropping the thermos and hearing the insides break soon after – oops!
I saw so many cute notebooks last night when I took my girl shopping for school supplies. I showed great restraint in not buying all of the pretty pretty notebooks!! There is so much potential in a clean, unused notebook that I can hardly resist!!!


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When was the Northern Ireland Foundation established?
Why was the Northern Ireland Foundation established?
During the negotiations that led to the St Andrews Agreement, there was concern expressed by the business, voluntary and community sectors that the policy "A Shared Future" would be dropped. Over the course of a year, representatives of numerous organisations met to discuss how to promote this and other initiatives for a better Northern Ireland. The consensus was to establish a Foundation with a participatory Advisory Board.
Where is the Northern Ireland Foundation registered?
The Northern Ireland Foundation is a company registered in Northern Ireland (Company Reg. No. 068079)
Is the Northern Ireland Foundation a charity?
The Northern Ireland Foundation is recognised in the UK as a charity by HM Revenue & Customs (No. XT11435)
Does the Northern Ireland Foundation provide grant funding?
The Northern Ireland Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications for grant funding. Rather, the Foundation directs its financial resources to its own programmes. Much of this is achieved through strategic partnerships. If you are seeking a donation or financial assistance, we would encourage you to approach one of the many philanthropic organisations established for that purpose.
Where does Northern Ireland Foundation funding come from?
The Northern Ireland Foundation is a private and independent non-profit organisation. Funding is provided by individual philanthropic contributions and from services provided. We are not reliant upon any public funding, nor serve as an intermediary funding body.
Where does the Northern Ireland Foundation operate?
Northern Ireland is the focus of our operations. This includes working with local community groups, universities, councils and other government agencies. As the Northern Ireland Foundation has an international dimension, we have partnerships that brings our work abroad, e.g. the Forum for Cities in Transition and institutional links with Princeton University.
The first way of getting involved is to sign up to our mailing lists and/or social media sites below, to be kept informed of Northern Ireland Foundation and other relevant activities. We also welcome volunteer involvement, for us directly or for any of the community organisations we support. Whatever your interest is, we'd love to hear from you.
121 Donegall Road
BT12 5JL
Registered in Northern Ireland: NI 068079
HMRC Charity Ref. XT11435
info@northernireland.foundation