Toni Calasanti, a professor in the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, has received the university's 2018 Alumni Award for Excellence in International Research.
Sponsored by the Virginia Tech Alumni Association, the Alumni Award for Excellence in International Research is presented annually to a faculty or staff member who has had a significant impact on international research at Virginia Tech. Selection is based on contributions to the internationalization of Virginia Tech, global impact, significance of the project, and sustainability of the project. Recipients are awarded $2,000.
Calasanti serves on the International Board of the International Institute on Ageing, United Nations – Malta, for which she serves as a consultant about issues of gender and aging for training programs in low- and middle-income countries.
In 1993, Calasanti introduced the first collection on feminism and old age in her coauthored essay in the Journal of Aging Studies. The essay positioned her as a founding scholar in what is now known as feminist gerontology. This resulted in her invitation to the Republic of South Korea, where she delivered talks at the Asia and Oceania regional meetings of the International Congress of Gerontology, attended by scholars around the world.
Her work has both provided a framework for understanding the experiences of men and women in old age and shown how these experiences are shaped further by social inequalities, such as race, class, and global position. As a leading expert in the sociology of aging and one of the first feminist scholars to introduce the gender lens to social gerontology, she is well known to European gerontologists.
In 2017, Calasanti was a guest professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tampere in Finland. Her many honors include the Excellence in Outreach and International Activities Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences in 2016.


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HUSKINS; Warren L., 90, of Port Mouton, Queens County, passed away suddenly at home on Friday, May 12, 2017.
Born in Beech Hill, Queens County, he was a son of the late LeRoy and Vera (Smith) Huskins.
Warren was a ornamental steel fabricator for many years in the US until he returned to Nova Scotia. He enjoyed doing carpentry and woodworking.
He is survived by his daughters Susan Huskins of Port Mouton, Karen Huskins of Weymouth, Ma. His son Roger of Upton, Ma. Seven grandchildren Melanie O'Neil, Renee Wilkie, Kimberly Huskins, Katherine Bernier, Randi Auger, Kerri Freitas and Renee Miller and 13 great-grandchildren. His sisters Harriet of Ontario and Agatha of Alberta and his brother Eric (Carol) of Brooklyn.
He was predeceased by his wife Claire, grandson Michael Besson, brothers Bruce, George, Arnold and Archie.
Sue so sorry to hear about your dad. I will never forget that night we took him to wrestling with all of us, how much fun we had listening to him complain. Rest in peace Warren.
Susan,I was so sorry to hear of your Dad's passing.Our condolences to all the family at this difficult time.
Susan and family….so sorry for your loss.
We were saddened to learn of the death of your father and extend deepest sympathies to you and all the family on his passing. He was a good neighbor and a fine person.
Sorry to hear about your dad Sue.
Our sincere sympathy to Warren's family. We will miss talking to him during our summer walks on Bell's Point Road. He seemed to have endless amounts of energy and ambition and we admired his carpentry ( and bush wacking) skills!!
David and I will miss our chats with Warren. He was a great neighbour. Thoughts are with you.
So sorry to hear about your dads passing he was a very nice man to talk too,even though i Only talked to him a couple of times he was a joy to talk too..my thoughts and heart go out to you all.
I did not know him. I felt I did. My heart is with you. I just found out & I am truly sorry.


(NORTH BAY, ONT.) – This Friday, Canadore College will be hosting Convocation Ceremonies its business and management; health, human care and wellness; language, access and preparatory studies; media, design and dramatic arts; and trades and technology programs.
Guest speaker Paul Robillard, founder and vice-president of Hard Hat Hunter, and operations manager at First North Enterprise will address 170 graduates and their families.
Born and raised in North Bay, Robillard embraced construction at a young age, under the guidance of his father, a residential building and renovation company owner. As operations manager, he oversees a crew of 125 employees to provide construction, residential development, forestry, trucking and concrete services to the region. Robillard also keeps busy as co-founder and vice-president of Hard Hat Hunter, a social network that facilitates nearly 1 million connections internationally, specifically designed for people who work in the skilled trades, construction and mining sectors. He holds degrees from the University of Ottawa and McMaster University.
Students who articulated from select Canadore programs into degree studies at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) in Ireland will also be crossing the stage. On Friday, four new articulation agreements between LIT and Canadore will be inked to further expand educational pathways between the institutions.
Canadore's ceremonies are being live streamed at http://www.canadoretv.com.


Second of the bosses we decided to skip in the start and dead it is on the first proper day of practice. Another very satisfying encounter, both thanks to very good design as well as some tactid adjustment that we figured out.
An execution type of an encounter this time, so not the sort where new gear made a great difference. Entertaining learning curve too, with the obligatory 1% wipe and some enjoyable fine-tuning of the tactic. Ironically enough, the kill wasn't the smoothest of the attempts we had with some avoidable early deaths. A kill nonetheless.


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From the Lab: Nanotechnology
A new lens allows optical microscopy down to 60 nanometers and faster plastic electronics – using an ink-jet printer.
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Superlens Crafters
Lens allows optical microscopy down to 60 nanometers
This story is part of our August 2005 issue
Results: A team from the University of California, Berkeley, has devised a silver "superlens" that could increase the resolution of light microscopy by about a factor of six. The lens doesn't diffract light like conventional glass lenses. Instead, it uses evanescent waves, which are produced when light hits a lens at such an angle that it bounces off instead of passing through. Evanescent waves emerge on the other side of the lens and add optical information to normal "propagating" light waves, but they decay very quickly over short distances. By capturing and amplifying these weak waves, the researchers obtained images with 60-nanometer resolution.
Why it Matters: High-resolution imaging methods such as electron microscopy can't image living tissue. Light microscopy can. Its resolution, however, is limited by the wavelength of the light used. And 400 nanometers is the shortest wavelength that doesn't damage tissue. Evanescent waves allow researchers to get around this limitation. The technique could eventually allow researchers to watch, in real time, biological processes such as protein interactions in samples of living tissue – events that can now be studied only indirectly.
Previous research has used evanescent waves to construct images in piecemeal fashion. The Berkeley team, led by Xiang Zhang, has shown that it's possible to take a clear and complete picture in one shot.
Methods: The researchers made a lens out of a 35-nanometer-thick film of silver. They chose a light source whose frequency matched the resonant frequency of the lens's surface electrons. The light shone through the word "NANO," inscribed in letters with a 40-nanometer line width on a piece of chromium through ion beam lithography. When the light hit the lens, the silver electrons resonated with the evanescent waves, boosting their energy. The superlens directed the waves onto light-sensitive material to capture the image.
Next Step: The superlens didn't spread out the evanescent waves enough that the human eye could see the image directly; it had to be observed with an atomic force microscope. Future research will curve the lens so that it can further spread the waves and pass them into, say, a fiber-optic cable. Superlenses might then be integrated into light microscopes. – By Stu Hutson
Source: Fang, N., et al. 2005. Sub-diffraction-limited optical imaging with a silver superlens. Science 308:534-7.
Nanoprinting
Ink-jet manufacturing for faster plastic electronics
Results: Using conventional ink-jet printing equipment, Henning Sirringhaus of the University of Cambridge in England and colleagues built organic-polymer circuits with switching speeds more than 100 times greater than those of existing polymer circuits. They printed circuit features that they estimated to be smaller than 100 nanometers, less than one-one-hundredth the size of the smallest features previously produced through ink-jet printing.
Why it Matters: Thin, flexible, and cheap plastic electronics could have many applications, from solar cells to radio frequency identification labels in product packaging. Ink-jet printing is an attractive manufacturing option because it deposits materials quickly and cheaply over large areas. But so far, it has yielded features no smaller than 20 micrometers, while the features of typical integrated circuits measure tens of nanometers. The Cambridge team seems to have broken the resolution barrier, making ink-jet printing viable.
Methods: The researchers produced their ultrasmall features using a homebuilt ink-jet printer. They deposited a conducting polymer "ink" as droplets on glass. They then chemically modified the droplets' surfaces so they would repel additional droplets. A second set of droplets was applied; these flowed off of the first set, landing a tiny distance away. That distance represents the smallest feature size this technique can achieve. The researchers laid out transistors: the closely spaced droplets formed electrodes, and an organic semiconductor filled the gap between them. The researchers estimated the width of this gap based on the performance of the transistors.
Next Step: The researchers are now using better-performing organic semiconducting materials. They are also producing circuits that involve hundreds of interconnected transistors. – By Corie Lok
Source: Sele, C. W., et al. 2005. Lithography-free, self-aligned inkjet printing with sub-hundred-nanometer resolution. Advanced Materials 17:997-1001.

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Sunday, December 2, 2018 - Submitted by Athletic Dept
Windsor, ON- The St. Clair College men's volleyball wrapped up their first half schedule with a much needed 3-0 win over the visiting Sheridan Bruins on Sunday afternoon at the Sportsplex.
Set scores for the Saints were 25-21, 25-21 and 25-21.
Fourth year outside hitter Michael Knight (LaSalle; Sandwich Secondary) led the way offensively with 10 kills, 1 stuff block, 3 service aces and 9 digs. Rookie outside hitter Frankie Friesen (Staples; Tilbury District) had a great game as well with 9 kills on 20 attempts, 2 service aces, 1 stuff block and 11 digs. Setter Zach Draper (London; Saunders Secondary) spread the ball around well picking up 27 assists in the match.
With the win the Saints improved to 3-6 on the season while Sheridan fell to 3-6. The Bruins are currently ranked 9th in the OCAA.
The Saints are now off for the exam and Christmas break and will return to OCAA league action on Saturday, January 12 when they travel to Toronto to take on the Humber Hawks.
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Samuel Johnson: One Of My People
Samuel Johnson's reputation in the historical and literary world seems to follow the pattern of his personal life; first there is the awareness of a gruff, imperious surface that on greater acquaintance reveals deep, even tender, concerns. Born to a poor bookseller and his wife who were already past prime child-bearing age, he was sent to nurse with a local woman who unfortunately passed along a tubercular infection of the lymph glands known as scrofula along with her milk. This scarred him and left him with poor eyesight throughout his life, but he declared that what he lacked in acuity of sight he had to make up with precision of observation, and that this led him to his analytical turn of mind.
Despite this misfortune he grew up tall and strong, if ungainly, and like many children of older parents he developed a precocious intellect. After a few years in a "dame school", being taught to read and write, he became largely an autodidact, learning mostly from reading the stock in his father's failing bookstore. Under the influence and example of a rich, intellectual uncle, Cornelius Ford, he attended Oxford for nine months, but when the uncle passed away and money became tight he left without graduating. During the time of his education he was honored for being more learned than all his schoolfellows if a little lazy, and a habit of pride and independence that he had were only deepened by his obvious poverty among his collegiate fellows.
He returned home to further family tragedy. His only brother, Nathaniel, appears to have committed suicide, though this was hushed up for shame. Johnson puttered around at home, helping with the family business and trying to make a living with his pen, but the distance between his hometown of Lichfield and the cultural center of London made this difficult. At the age of 25 he astonished his family and history by marrying the widow Elizabeth Porter, who was 46. Monetary reasons have been adduced, but he himself declared that it was a "love match", and that "Tetty" as he called her saw past what he saw as his own failings and flaws to the worth underneath.
He used most of her money to establish a school at Edial with himself as the primary teacher; educational efforts have been the desperate fallback for learned people for a long time. The school was never very successful, and when it failed Johnson decided it was time to set off for London to try to earn a living by his pen in earnest. He set off walking (to save coachfare) accompanied by his favorite and last remaining pupil, David Garrick. Garrick went on to become the greatest actor of the age, and Johnson began the tough climb up the ladder of success as an author.
This was a particularly hard time for Johnson. When he first arrived and asked a prominent publisher for help and advice, he was told (as the man looked at his gigantic stature) to get a pad for his back and take a job as a porter, or moving man. Johnson took any writing job, mostly as a journalist, writing articles to supply grist for the weekly journals and digests. Many nights he didn't have the money for a room and walked the streets until morning. Tetty was established in a house in the suburbs and most of the money went to support her. Eventually Johnson landed the job of reporting on the speeches of Parliament; since rules at the time precluded anyone from outside being present, only the names of the speakers and the gist of their arguments were given him; he would then write up the speeches as they ought to have been, and many a Member was astonished to find the eloquence attributed to them that they scarce could dream of.
Essays for The Idler, poetry, biographies, all added to his growing fame. He still had sometimes to take purely practical jobs, and one was cataloging the contents of a vast private library that was going up for sale; when the broker who hired him found him reading one of the volumes to ascertain its value berated him for wasting time, Johnson in anger felled him with the weighty volume. His life on the street made him ever ready to defend himself physically as well as in debate; he often carried a cudgel as a walking stick through the streets in case he was set upon by hired ruffians from someone he might have angered.
His literary chops being established, he felt it was time to cement his position with some great work. And he settled on a project that had bedevilled the book world for some time: to produce the first complete general dictionary for the English language. It took him more than a decade to produce, with the aid of a dozen assistants and none of the patronage of the wealthy to encourage him. During the period of its' compilation Tetty died, his father and then his mother passed away (he wrote the short novel Rasselas to pay for her funeral); when Lord Chesterfield, to whom Johnson had applied for help and been ignored, tried to attach his name to the project, Johnson sent him a letter coldly rejecting any such connection as now unnecessary, since anyone he could have pleased by his success was gone, and "I am grown solitary." The age of patronage heard its' death knell, and "Dictionary" Johnson was born.
Coming soon (I hope), Part Two: Success and Boswell
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You know, we have often debated who would be best to portray Johnson in a biopic. Robbie Coltrane played him in Black Adder and did a pretty good job. He most resembles Tom Poston in that painting but not only would that be miscasting Poston is as dead as Johnson now. Maybe a bulked up Geoffrey Rush or Tom Wilkinson. I know this is a trivial pursuit but I can't help it. The go-to guy for "un-handsome" roles is Paul Giamotti and if he wasn't so scrawny I believe he could do it. There's someone perfect out there...
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University of Birmingham Primary PGCE...who's in?
Discussion in 'Thinking of teaching' started by Fern_H, Feb 9, 2011.
I received my conditional offer yesterday after a long wait (I had my interview in November) and I am so so happy. Can't wait to start. I wonder if all the information regarding CRB checks etc., will be sent to us in a letter some time soon?
There are a few other people on the student room website who have also been accepted and very excited.
I also received my conditional offer the other day-very excited!! Fern- My letter arrived today and it does contain information about all the checks we need to do. I think they send us the CRB form once we accept the offer on the GTTR.
I received my pack this morning too, when do we have to arrange the observation by? It seems a bit early to ask headteachers this far in advance doesn't it?
It doesn't seem to give a date, rather, just let them know as soon as you have secured a place. I volunteered at school for 6 months during 2009-2010 so I'm sending a letter to them asking if I can return to do my observation week there. I think that seems to be the best option rather than contacting a school who you are unfamiliar with, especially this far in advance.
I agree, but I was just wondering whereabouts everyone is planning to do their observation? I'm not from Birmingham so I think I might struggle to find a school there, however if this observation is meant to take place at the start of term then it might be expected that we do it in Birmingham. What is everyone else thinking?
So, I called my placement school who said they are happy to have me back there for observation week but because the term starts Thurs Sept 7th, Nursery won't be open until mid Sept and Reception won't have really kicked into teaching until the following week because the children are gradually brought into lessons with half days. The head advised me to call the university and ask if it would be possible to split my time between reception and year one but I don't think they will go for that.
I'm wondering if this will be the same in all bouroughs and schools?
Congratulation on your offer! Isn't it great to finally know?!
That's great I think I will be doing my placement back home now afterall.
Just to let you all know, I have set up a group on facebook for all of us starting the PGCE in September so please feel free to join. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm much better at facebook than TES!


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NGC 5242 est une entrée du New General Catalogue qui concerne un corps céleste perdu ou inexistant dans la constellation de la Vierge. Cet objet a été enregistré par l'astronome britannique John Herschel le .

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(en) NGC 5242 sur le site du professeur C. Seligman

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Seventy per cent of Norway's revenues come from the ocean.
The size of Norway's ocean area is six times the size of its land area. More than 200 000 jobs are directly connected to the ocean, primarily in traditional industries such as oil and gas, maritime and seafood, but also in future-oriented industries such offshore wind power and green shipping. Together these industries generate some USD 64 billion annually.
Selfa Arctic is the world's first fishing boat with an electric motor
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Here is an overview of some of the most exciting developments within sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, clean energy, and green maritime transport.
Sustainable aquaculture
Norway is the world's second largest exporter of seafood, after China. In 2020 Norway exported 2.7 million metric tons of seafood (both farmed and wild-caught) to the tune of some USD 12 billion. This corresponds to 36 million meals a day per year, or 25 000 meals per minute.
The Norwegian government is taking steps to ensure that fish is farmed within nature's limits. The environmental impact of the aquaculture industry was assessed in 2019 and will continue to be assessed every second year, with the aim of adjusting production capacity to a sustainable level.
Norwegian suppliers to the aquaculture industry are doing their share by developing solutions that increase production efficiency while improving fish welfare and minimising environmental impact. Sea Smart, for example, has developed a wireless sensor drone for monitoring aquaculture cages which collects data that fish farmers can use to improve feed accuracy, thereby reducing waste and increasing growth. FiiZK, meanwhile, delivers fully enclosed fish tanks offering complete protection from parasites and eliminating fish escapes and emissions.
Interesting in reading more about Norwegian technology for sustainable aquaculture?
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Offshore aquaculture holds great promise, as the open ocean offers more space, deeper waters and stronger currents. SalMar has installed Ocean Farm 1 – one of the world's first offshore fish farms – off the coast of Norway. The pioneering facility is the world's largest and can hold approximately 1.5 million Atlantic salmon. It is equipped with features cameras, oxygen sensors and other digital solutions to collect as much data as possible.
Environmental Vision Norway (EVN) has taken another approach and developed the Autonomous Offshore Fish Farming Vessel. The vessel can be anchored in unsheltered areas where fish grow faster due to naturally well-aerated water and ocean currents can lead nutrients back into the ecosystem.
Norwegian companies are also exploring possibilities for cultivating new marine resources, such as seaweed and microalgae.
Ocean Farm 1 is the world's largest offshore fish farm
Ocean Farm 1.
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Norway is known throughout the world for responsible and sustainable management of fish stocks and other ocean resources. In 2019, the government permitted the start of a new fishery, the commercial harvesting of the copepod Calanus finnmarchicus. The company Calanus has used this renewable resource to create a health supplement for humans, Calanus® Oil, as well as nutrient-rich aquaculture feed.
Digital solutions also help to keep fisheries sustainable. The company Maritech, for example, delivers software that can track and trace seafood products from their origin all the way to the table. This enables verification that seafood is sustainably and legitimately caught.
FossTech's automatic trawl sack expander reduces fish mortality
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Innovation in offshore wind and the ocean floor
Emerging ocean industries can benefit from technology transfer and know-how from Norway's offshore oil and gas industry.
Floating offshore wind power is one of these. Norwegian Equinor has been a pioneer, opening Hywind Scotland, the world's first floating offshore wind farm, in 2017. The company is now developing Hywind Tampen, the world's first floating offshore wind farm to power oil and gas platforms, which will be operational in 2022.
Costs are coming down for floating wind, which will make it more attractive, also internationally. A Norwegian supplier industry is taking shape. Origo Solutions, for example, develops SCADA systems floating offshore wind farms, and MacGregor provides mooring solutions for wind turbines. 4Subsea, meanwhile, delivers autonomous sensors and software to monitor floating and bottom-fixed offshore wind substructures.
Hywind Scotland/Equinor.
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Norway has decades of experience capturing CO₂ from oil and gas production and injecting it for storage under the seabed on the Norwegian continental shelf. In autumn 2020, the Storting (Norwegian parliament) approved the construction of a full-scale, integrated CCS system. The Longship project, as it is called, encompasses the entire value chain from carbon capture to transport and storage and is the first of its kind in the world. The project includes Northern Lights, a collaboration between Equinor, Shell and Total to build an open access infrastructure for transporting CO₂ from onshore industrial capture sources in Europe to an offshore storage location below the seabed of the North Sea. The Longship project also includes state funding of a full-scale carbon capture facility at Norcem's cement factory in Brevik. The government also intends to fund a carbon capture facility at Fortum Oslo Varme's waste incineration plant in Oslo, provided that the project secures sufficient own funding as well as funding from the EU or other sources.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is in the process of mapping mineral deposits on the seabed of the Norwegian continental shelf. This may lead to deep sea mining of manganese, metal sulfides and lithium – which are essential for production of smartphones, wind turbines and batteries for electric cars and electronics. Here, too, Norway's offshore oil and gas expertise and technology will give the country unique advantages.
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Green shipping and maritime transport
Shipping will continue to be critical for Norway as an ocean nation. The motorways of the sea are a sustainable alternative for both short and long-distance cargo transport.
The Green Shipping Programme was established in 2015, and is the result of a public-private partnership. The programme aims to strengthen Norway's position as a leading shipping nation and to find scalable solutions for efficient and environment-friendly shipping. Thus far, some 20 large-scale pilot projects have been launched for green ports, LNG/VOC/battery-power shuttle tankers, autonomous zero-emission vessels, and more.
In terms of passenger transport, stringent requirements for public procurement and industry focus on green high-tech solutions have led to a boom in environment-friendly ferries. By 2021, there will be about 70 all-electric or hybrid ferries in service along the coast – equivalent to over one third of the country's car ferries.
In addition to reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions, these developments will put the Norwegian maritime industry in a position to deliver the low and zero-emission solutions needed to achieve the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) the target of halving emissions from international shipping by 2050 – and the more ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement.
Did you know that the world's first electric ferry is sailing on a Norwegian fjord?
Fjellstrand designed and built the all-electric, battery-powered Ampere .
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International leadership role
Norway has taken on an international leadership role in maintaining the well-being of the ocean while sustainably using ocean resources. Prime Minister Erna Solberg is co-chair of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. Norway is also one of the main participant countries in developing the UN Global Compact Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business.


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Tokyo's Olympic organisers are smarter than the PR hustlers think
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You have probably noticed that there is something of a backlash underway against the free movement of money. In America and Europe, even people who were for it have looked at how the wind's blowing and are suddenly against it. Borders and barriers and sounding like you've read a Noam Chomsky book are in vogue. Free trade is being spoken of in tones usually reserved by conspiracy theorists for the Jesuits or the Bilderberg Group.
Some aspects of globalisation are likely invulnerable, though. However far the nations of the world opt to go in protecting their own industries against foreign encroachment, or in turning the screws on capital flows, the universal triumph of branding seems a fait accompli.
Branding has gone viral – in the way that pathogens are viral. It is both a pollutant and a parasite. Every organisation under the sun has been hoodwinked into adopting a "vision", and a "mission", and "values". It is all so much tumescent mumbo jumbo, but the hubris of the so-called creative industries has conquered the globe.
That is why when the PR and marketing monkeys mess up, it becomes news. On the face of it, this is what has happened with the Tokyo Olympic Games over the last year. First the British architect Zaha Hadid's winning design for a new stadium for 2020 was thrown over due to exorbitant costs and another bid hastily selected. Then along came a plagiarism controversy over the logo. I am not so sure, though: I think perhaps the Japanese organisers are smarter than all the PR hustlers competing for their largesse give them credit for.
The original winning proposal for the Games emblem, by Kenjiro Sano, was withdrawn late last year. A theatre in the Belgian city of Liege had said it must have been copied from their own logotype and threatened to sue. Sano's design, an assortment of shapes arranged to form a "T", certainly looked like something you had seen before. Quite possibly a "T". At any rate, it hardly rivalled Caravaggio in its originality.
A few days ago, a new design shortlist was revealed. The selection process had been opened to the public and the 15,000 entries received have been whittled down to four. Stressing their "outstanding" qualities, Ryohei Miyata, head of the Tokyo 2020 emblem committee, told journalists: "I'm proud to say that these are the best works at this point."
I have long believed having a sense of humour to be among the most vital qualities in a public functionary. Mr Miyata is therefore to be congratulated. Unkind appraisals of previous Olympic logos have likened them to drawings done by slightly backwards children. At least two of the four presented for public consultation by Miyata et al fall into this category, which may or may not be explicable by the fact that over a thousand Japanese schoolchildren entered.
In any event, the important thing is that throwing the contest open has irked the creative wallahs. The American Institute of Graphic Arts says the design profession has been "disrespected". I don't know; maybe they're miffed about the money. The emblem for the London Olympics, which looked like some pieces of broken glass, cost the British public £400,000 (HK$4.5 million). The winning design in Japan will be awarded ¥1 million (HK$70,000) and a ticket to the opening ceremonies of both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Same result, fraction of the cost.
The joke gets even better, though, when you consider the stress put on the committee's rigorous "international trademark verification procedures" to ensure that the designs were all original this time. According to a statement on the subject, applicants were referred to the Tokyo 2020 Games Vision and "key concepts" for inspiration.
Alas, there is nothing original whatsoever contained in these sources of inspiration. They tell us that the Games are "innovative". There is some drivel about diversity ("Accepting one another") and some equally nebulous stuff about legacy. And there is a derisory nod to actual sport: "Striving for your personal best". One could be reading about Kentucky Fried Chicken, or the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department of the Hong Kong government, or hell, who knows, the Bilderberg Group.
It's conceivable that I'm wrong about this but what I'd like to believe the Japanese are saying here is that all corporate emblems are rubbish, modern corporate branding is stupid and we hope you enjoy the Games, lol. As with the stadium, they're just not up for being rinsed financially. Fair play to them.
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The Romanian Government on Tuesday passed a normative act under which the companies hiring unemployed people will be granted a six-month exemption from social security contributions, Prime Minister Emil Boc reported at the end of a meeting of the Government on Tuesday.
'Romanian citizens' jobs are and will remain the main concern of the Government. We passed today a normative act under which companies hiring unemployed people will be granted a six-month exemption from social security contributions. We are expecting this measure to generate 50,000 jobs and keep unemployment within manageable limits and create new jobs,' Boc explained.
Boc mentioned that unemployment in February so far is at 8.1 percent, the same as in January. 'There has been no unemployment increase so far this month. The number of the unemployed is standing at 745,690,' said Boc, adding that there is a slight decrease in joblessness when stated in figures. The prime minister also said that the latest measure is thought by the Government to help the Romanian economy, companies and people find jobs easier.
'This is no isolated measure. It is part of a package of measures to support the Romania business milieu and the Romanian economy and to help them overcome the crisis while preparing them for economic recovery,' said Boc.


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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental
When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" based on Tim O'Reilly's four key elements of Web 2.0:
Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information.
Architecture of participation with network effects: each person who participates contributes something meaningful and lasting. Visitors' interactions allow them both to personalize their museum experiences and to engage with other visitors through their shared interests. The museum gets better the more people use it.
Perpetual beta: the museum is always in flux, incrementally releasing new versions, refining procedures, and responding to audience desires.
Flexible, modular support for distributed products: inviting people to plug-in their own creations, whether those be DIY audio tours, pop up events, or co-created exhibitions.
From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects.
But in the past year and a half as a museum director, I find myself increasingly interested in #3 and #4. In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. We're using #3 and #4 to achieve #1 and #2 in the Museum 2.0 playbook.
At first, our enthusiasm for incremental change and flexibility was a reaction to a tough financial position. When I started at the MAH last May, we had absolutely no money. We also had a vision to be a thriving, central gathering place for our community. The only way to reconcile our resources with our goals was to start doing whatever we could to start nudging in the direction of our dreams. We scrounged for free couches. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We designed events and interactive exhibits on ten dollar budgets. We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. We knew we weren't doing everything at the desired quality level. But we got it going anyway.
A year and a half later, we are in a much more stable financial position... and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. As things got better financially, as we learned more about what worked and didn't, we replaced furniture and enhanced our exhibitions. We upped the budgets and the scale of the projects while maintaining an iterative approach that relies on prototyping and low-tech experiments.
I feel strongly that as long as we have a social mission and a strong desire to fulfill that mission, we should do everything we can every step of the way to attack it, even if that means starting with something simplistic, messy, or uncertain. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. There are plenty of times I have silenced the exhibit designer in my brain who wanted everything just so, or the museum director who wanted to make our visitors happy all the time. If we're going to move forward, we have to be able to try things in a risk-tolerant environment.
One of the things that often made me uncomfortable as a consultant was the extent to which museums, and their funding vehicles, often make perpetual beta an impossibility. The exhibit is planned for years and must open perfect on day 1. The grant is for a three-year educational program whose curriculum has to be locked in from the start. If we can't have a perfect couch designed by Frank Gehry, we won't give visitors couches at all.
The result is damaging for museum professionals and visitors alike. For museum professionals, it creates a falsely elevated sense of risk and stress around projects that, let's face it, don't have to be perfect out of the gate. No one is going to die if you change a label a few days after opening. No one will be seriously injured if you invite a dance company in and they do something strange. No one will suffer if you put out a prototype--or two, or ten--before finalizing a design. We need to build experimentation into our work processes if we want our work to evolve over time.
For museum visitors, the damage is even worse. How many brilliant sparks of ideas never get to the public because we falsely assume it will take too many resources to get them off the ground? How can we show people that we truly care about making our institutions welcoming, or challenging, or fun, or creative, if we need two years and eight approvals to put out some couches and paintbrushes?
I'm not suggesting that museum professionals shouldn't strive for excellence. What I've seen--in Web 2.0 and elsewhere--is that real excellence comes from incrementally pushing towards a big audacious goal. If you can get it right on the first try or with the resources you have, then your dreams may not be big enough.
What are you working towards, and how you are iterating and experimenting to get there?
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This issue of the SAMHSA sponsored quarterly technical assistance bulletin has an article featuring PPC Project Director Denise Bulling where she answers the question: How can disaster behavioral health responders at the State and local levels use the techniques and tools of the Incident Command System (ICS) to target their response to and preparedness for disaster to work within the overall disaster response structure?
These guidelines were created to assist Nebraska hospitals in meeting the behavioral health needs of patients who are subject to in-patient isolation precautions. It provides background information related to stress and isolation precautions and guidelines for providing services to patients in isolation, their families, staff, and the community. The appendices include a template policy that can be adapted to meet the specific requirements of Nebraska hospitals and resources for use within hospital settings.
A report submitted to the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, Lincoln Metropolitan Medical Response System and Lancaster County Emergency Management.
Caroline Walles on Disaster Chaplains who provide Spirtual First Aid. Published in Plainviews, the e-Newsletter for chaplains and others Vol. 3 No. 16.
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center surveyed hospitals across Nebraska to evaluate behavioral health readiness in the event of a disaster, act of terrorism (including bioterrorism) or other mass-casualty incident. The survey also asked about hospitals' ability to effectively coordinate with other emergency service providers, such as law enforcement, in the event of a critical incident.


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Law of Contracts
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Creation of Agency: Types of Agency
ByAkash October 7, 2022
Creation of agency and types of agency contract has been provided under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. The modes of creation of agency are classified into two categories i.e. express and implied agency.
Types of Agency Contract
1. Express Agency
2. Implied Agency
Agency by Estoppel (Sec. 237)
Wife as Agent
Agency of Necessity (Sec. 188 & 189)
Agency by Ratification (Sec. 169 to 200)
By Holding Out
What are the methods of creation of an agency?
What is creation of an agency in contract law?
The contract of agency is created between the two parties, whereas one is the principal and the other is an agent. The agent is employed by the principal to work on his behalf of him and under the control and authority of the principal.
Creation of agency may be either an express contract or an implied contract. Further, consideration is not an essential element for the creation of an agency. Agency contract may also arise by the estoppel, necessity or ratification.
Types of agency contract are provided under the Contract Act in the following manner;
The contract of an agency may be created either orally or in writing. Most of the contracts of agencies come under this category.
A written contract of an agency is a document like the power of attorney that gives a right the agent to act on behalf of the principal in accordance with some terms and conditions.
The contract of an agency can be created by the conduct of the parties or the situation of parties or is necessary for the parties.
According to the partnership act, every partner is an agent of the firm as well as other parties. It is implied agency.
Agency by estoppel has been provided under section 237 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, as 'When an agent has, without authority, done acts or incurred obligations to third persons on behalf of his principal, the principal is bound by such acts or obligations, if he has by his words or conduct induced such third persons to believe that such acts and obligations were within the scope of the agent's authority.'
Therefore, estoppel arises when you have been represented as a fact, although it is not a fact.
A allows third parties to believe that B is acting as A's authorized agent, then he will be estopped from denying the agency with B if such third parties relying on it make a contract with an even when B had no authority at all.
Where a husband and wife are living together, then we presume that the wife has her husband's authority to pledge on the credit of the husband for the purchase of necessities of life suitable to their standard of living.
But, the husband will not be liable when the husband shows that;
When the husband had expressly warned the tradesman not to supply the goods on credit to his wife;
When the husband had expressly forbidden the wife to use his credits.
The agency of necessity has been provided under section 188 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 as a person who has been entrusted with another's property may have to incur unauthorized expenditure to protect the life. This is known as a contract of agency for necessity.
As per section 189 of the Contract Act, An agent has authority, in an emergency, to do all such acts for the purpose of protecting his principal from loss as would be done by a person of ordinary prudence, in his own case, under similar circumstances.
A sent a dog by railway, but there is no one at the station to receive the dog, therefore, the railway authority is bound to take reasonable steps to keep the dog alive, therefore, the railway authority is an agent of the necessity of A.
Agency by ratification is provided under sections 196 to 200 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. A contract of agency by ratification is created when the principal agrees or consents to the act of the agent to whom he has not given authority to do such an act.
As per section 196 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, the effect of ratification of the agency has been provided as a relationship of the agency will come into existence when the act of the parties is ratified and it will be if he had previously authorized the person to act as his agent.
The principal is bound by the act of the agent if on an earlier occasion he has made others believe that another person doing some act on his behalf is doing with his authority.
Y is X`s servant and X has made Y accustomed to bringing goods on credit from Z. On one occasion X has given an amount to Y to bring goods from Z in cash. B bought goods on credit as usually and runs away with the money. This is the agency holding out and therefore X is liable to pay the amount to Z.
The modes of creation of agency are classified into two categories i.e. express and implied agency.
Creation of agency may be either an express contract or an implied contract. Further, consideration is not an essential element for the creation of agency. Agency contract may also arise by the estoppel, necessity or ratification.
Creation of agency and types of agency contract has been provided under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. The modes of creation of agency are classified into two categories i.e. express and implied agency. Creation of an agency may be either an express contract or an implied contract. Further, consideration is not an essential element for the creation of agency. Agency contract may also arise by the estoppel, necessity or ratification.
Referred Books:
Law of Contract – Bare Act 2021 Edition Professional
The Indian Contract Act 1872 Bare Act 2021 Edition
Law of Contract & Specific Relief Dr Avtar Singh Latest Edition-2020
Pollock & Mulla – The Indian Contract Act, 1872
CONTRACT Paper I – By R.K. Bangia [Edtion 2019 – 2020]
CONTRACT Paper-II – By R. K. Bangia
NOTES ON INDIAN CONTRACT ACT 1872: BEST NOTES FOR LAW STUDENTS
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New operators of The Crossing youth treatment centre in Keremeos to focus on a collaborative approach | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source
New operators of The Crossing youth treatment centre in Keremeos to focus on a collaborative approach
FILE PHOTO - The main hall and administrative area of The Crossing near Keremeos is pictured in this file photo. The youth treatment centre, operated by Portage, closed suddenly Thursday, March 5. The new operators will present their plans to the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen board Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016.
PENTICTON - The new operators of a Keremeos youth addiction treatment facility expect to engage with all their partners in an ongoing basis as the group prepares to reopen the centre next year.
Operator Pacific Community Resources is a non-profit society that has been serving Lower Mainland communities since 1984, providing such services as housing, youth, education, family support, community outreach, employment and addictions services, according to a report to be presented to a Okanagan Similkameen Regional District board meeting tomorrow, Dec. 15.
The society says there will be continuous collaborative planning and engagement with the regional health authorities, indigenous groups, youth, family and other stakeholders when the facility, to be called Ashnola at The Crossing, reopens in January of 2017.
The Keremeos treatment centre, formerly known as The Crossing, was closed last year after an inability by the contractor to come to terms with the provincial government over licensing and budget issues.
The provincial health services authority and BC Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services have been working with regional health authorities for several months to select Pacific Community Resources Society as the new service provider for facility. The centre will reopen under a new provincial access model that meets all licensing requirements.
The facility will treat both genders of youth and young adults in the 17 to 24 year old range with substance use concerns, including those who have exhausted, or are unable to access substance use support resources locally, the report says.
Clinical programming will include one-on-one counselling, group counselling, relationships, relapse prevention and family therapy, using a wide range of treatment approaches. A nurse practitioner and physician services will also be made available.
The Pacific Community Resources Society will also work towards building healthy relationships supported by nature, spirituality and culture and values and interests. Fostering and support of family connections will also be stressed in the program, by providing arrangements for families to stay on-site and by providing opportunities for family involvement in recreational and leisure activities at the facility.
Four of the facility's 22 beds will be allocated to each Health Authority, with two prioritization beds for indigenous, pregnant or at risk clients, the report states. Those with limited or non-existent services within their home community will also have access.
Pacific Community Resources Society director of addictions services Steve Esau and Keremeos Treatment Centre operations manager Val Clement are scheduled to address the regional district board tomorrow.
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Scottish Government promises it will do all it can to protect threatened Aberdeen paper mill
by Stephen Walsh
June 7, 2019, 7:16 am Updated: June 23, 2019, 8:29 pm
Arjowiggins Fine Papers Ltd, Stoneywood Mill, Aberdeen.
The Scottish Government has pledged to do "everything that can possibly be done" to save an under-threat north-east paper mill.
Almost 500 jobs were plunged into fresh doubt after talks collapsed between Arjowiggins and a preferred bidder for the Stoneywood site.
But, in a last-ditch attempt to save the business, talks have started between the joint administrators and senior management team at the mill in order to try to secure a buyout.
Yesterday Business Minister Jamie Hepburn visited the mill to take part in discussions as the mill bosses attempt to find a way forward.
Meanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney also pledged that ministers would do everything they could to safeguard the site's future.
However he would not be drawn on whether or not the government would bail out the mill out through financial assistance when asked by Aberdeen Donside MSP Mark McDonald.
Mr Swinney said: "This is a profitable site and there is a skilled workforce here. In the government's view it is perfectly possible for a viable business proposition to be brought forward, which is why the business minister was in Aberdeen at Stoneywood this morning for those discussions.
"It is why Scottish Enterprise are deeply engaged in all of these issues and I give Mr McDonald and the chamber the assurance that the government is doing everything we possibly can do with our agencies to make sure that all possible support can be made available.
"We obviously have to operate within the normal rules and in a context with which Mr McDonald will be familiar. But I give him the assurance that absolutely everything that possibly can be done to safeguard the future of the plant will be done.
"It has been a disappointment that the discussions with the preferred bidder have concluded but there are active discussions about a management buy-out and the business minister will be happy to update parliament in due course about the steps that have been taken to resolve this situation and to give certainty to the workforce of the paper mill at Stoneywood."
The future of the mill was thrown into doubt when parent company Sequana went into administration at the start of the year.
A deal was put in place to sell it on, but negotiations failed in January, throwing the future of one of the north-east's last remaining paper mills into doubt.
Around a month later, administrators FRP Advisory said a buyer had been identified and all assets were to be sold as a going concern.
But on Tuesday it was revealed these negotiations had also fallen through.
Unite the union has said it is hopeful that a deal can be put in place to protect the mill from closing.
Shauna Wright, regional industrial officer, said: "The mill has a proud 250 years old history and the news of the buy-out option will be welcomed by the workforce.
"However, there is a lot of hard work ahead to get this offer over the line.
"Throughout this process, Unite will fully support our members and do all we can to ensure that all their terms and conditions, and ultimately their jobs are protected."
Meanwhile a north-east MP has made a fresh offer to step in and help management move forward with a buyout.
Colin Clark, MP for Gordon, has already offered to call on his contacts in the paper mill industry to help Stoneywood bosses secure a deal.
Back in January, he suggested that a group of local operators should be consulted on the future of the site.
They included former Inverurie Paper Mill owner Thomas Tait and former Donside Paper Mill managing director Ian Lakin.
Last night he re-iterated his suggestion after learning the sale had fallen through this week.
"It is disappointing to hear that this deal has fallen through," he said.
"I offered to bring together a team of local, experienced mill operators who have been through this kind of thing before to explore possible solutions.
"That is no slight whatsoever on the current management – in fact, they are a great team.
"But my offer still stands. I have led a management buy-out myself, so I do not underestimate the task, but Stoneywood is a viable business with a dedicated team.
"Whatever process is followed, I sincerely hope that the business and all of the jobs associated with it can be secured for the long-term."
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Q: Weil pairing on abelian varieties and etale Chern classes Given a line bundle $L$ on an abelian variety $A/k$, there is an associated Weil pairing $e_L\colon\bigwedge^2V_pA\to\mathbb Q_p(1)$, where $p$ is a prime different from the residue characteristic of the base field $k$ and $V_pA$ is the $\mathbb Q_p$-linear Tate module of $A$. This is usually constructed by explicitly constructing a pairing between $A[p^n]$ and $A^\vee[p^n]$ using the interpretation of the latter as classes of divisors, and then pulling back along the polarisation induced by $L$.
There is, however, another way to construct such a pairing, using the fact that $V_pA$ is dual to the etale cohomology $\mathrm H^1_{et}(A_{\bar k},\mathbb Q_p)$. Namely, the first etale Chern class $c^{et}_1(L)$ is an element of $\mathrm H^2_{et}(A_{\bar k},\mathbb Q_p)(1)=\mathrm{Hom}(\bigwedge^2V_pA,\mathbb Q(1))$, and we can just take the pairing corresponding to this element.
What I want to know (and ideally would like a reference for) is whether these two pairings are the same. In other words, is the element of $\mathrm H^2_{et}(A_{\bar k},\mathbb Q_p)(1)$ corresponding to the Weil pairing equal to the first etale Chern class of $L$?

A: It seems that one of the pairings is the negative of the other (in char 0 this assertion is actually Lemma 2.6 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.01440.pdf ).

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Ghost stories with Claire
This Halloween, we decided to catch up with our former ghost tour extraordinaire Claire Finn to see whether she had any spooky stories to tell. As it turns out, she has plenty, so we thought we'd share her experiences just in time for our brand new CONDEMNED tours, which launch on Saturday 24th October. Read on to see what she had to say…
'I have very fond memories of working at the museum. The staff truly go above and beyond to preserve this historical Nottingham gem for all the public to enjoy. It's a rare heritage site that contains truly horrific tales of incarceration, punishment and death. So it seems fitting for me, with Halloween around the corner, to share a spooky tale of a time I performed one of the ghost tours. I was given the opportunity to create a new adult and kids ghost tour, and I wanted to collect people's experiences of anything supernatural they may have encountered whilst at the museum. I heard everything from dark figures appearing in the exercise yard to levitating Henry hoovers terrifying the cleaners. I also spoke to the professionals, including our former in-house medium. She was only slightly taller than the medium from Steven Spielberg's 'Poltergeist' and she didn't have the squeaky voice.
"Bad energies remain here, particularly down in the dark cells. You need to stay as spiritually grounded as possible to protect yourself from these energies."
She said, staring intensely at me, as she dunked her hobnob into her tea. It was 5.45pm on a Friday evening in the staff room and I was about to enter the reception to collect my first tour group of the night. Sometimes I would have my Friday night regulars enthusiastically waiting to begin the tour (I even had one regular bake me a cake. I didn't have the heart to tell him I was gluten free). Others were die hard fans of 'Most Haunted' and bought their own 'ghost hunting' equipment. However, most were general members of the public out for a laugh.
After snaking our way through the courtroom, my group and I arrived at the dark cells. This is when things became interesting. A few members of the group felt as though they were being watched. One women suddenly felt her arm had been pulled and was so terrified she insisted on staying outside in the exercise yard. I thought it best not to tell her about the bodies buried underneath. A man suddenly said he felt a huge pressure around him, so I decided to lead the group outside to the exercise yard, as the atmosphere was getting tense. When I asked if everyone was ok, the same man showed me his arm to reveal several scratches. He was convinced something had attacked him in the cell. As the tour came to an end I could tell the group was unnerved, so I reassured them they were all safe and far away from the dark cells. I returned to the reception area to collect my next tour and standing there was our medium, staring intensely at me (this time sans hobnobs). She walked over to me and said "you really need to practice your spiritual grounding."' – Claire Finn
Claire Finn is a professional actor from Nottingham who worked at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham from 2012-2017. Claire continues to work as a freelance Education Facilitator at the National justice museum's London site, the Royal Courts of Justice.
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Tours, events, and displays are planned throughout October in the culmination of months of research into Black presence at the historic site
National Justice Museum opens call out for object donations from Black Legal Professionals
The National Justice Museum is looking to expand its collection to reflect the diversity within the legal profession, and to share the lived experiences and the contributions made by Black legal professionals.
National Justice Museum announces judges for Freedom photography competition
World world-renowned photographer, writer and director Brian Griffin leads a panel of judges for the National Justice Museum's open call photography exhibition on the theme of Freedom. Griffin, along with fellow judges Amanda Sinclair and Ofilaye, will choose from hundreds of applicants to award a creative residency at the National Justice Museum in 2023 with £1,000 budget for the lucky winner.
National Justice Museum Wins 2022 Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award
National Justice Museum today announced it has been recognised by Tripadvisor as a 2022 Travellers' Choice award winner. The award celebrates businesses that have received great reviews from travellers around the globe on Tripadvisor over the last 12 months. As challenging as the past year was, National Justice Museum stood out by consistently delivering positive experiences to travellers.
Rolls Building Art and Education Trust & The Technology and Construction Court Art Competition
2023 is the 150th anniversary of The Technology and Construction Court (TCC), a major specialist Court that deals with disputes about building, engineering and all kinds of technology including software. The TCC is based in the Rolls Building, a spacious and modern courthouse in London's legal heartland.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, there will be a competition for young artists. Entries can be 2D artworks in any medium (except exclusively photography) and relate to the themes of Construction or Technology.
National Justice Museum opens submissions for photography exhibition with a £1,000 prize at stake
The call out is open to photographers from around the UK, from professionals to amateurs
National Justice Museum to receive £362,900 in fund which helps safeguard nation's cultural heritage
The National Justice Museum in Nottingham has been awarded a grant of £362,900 by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports, delivered by Arts Council England.
The National Justice Museum publishes Letters of Constraint
The newly released book is an intimate collection of letters and diary entries from lockdown
National Justice Museum wins Best Museums Change Lives Project at Museums Change Lives Awards 2021
The National Justice Museum has been awarded the Best Museums Change Lives Project at this year's Museums Change Lives awards for our Make it Yours: Workshops in an Envelope project.
Welcome back S.H.E.D!
For two weeks in August 2021 summer, the National Justice Museum hosted a variety of exciting events, film screenings, talks and activities as part of S.H.E.D - the Social Higher Education Depot.
'Freed Soul' letters
For Women's History Month 2021, we're sharing a collection of Charlotte Bryant letters from our archives.
Justice week 2021
An interview with His Honour Judge John Burgess about the impact of COVID-19 on legal proceedings in Nottingham.
We catch up with our former ghost tour extraordinaire Claire Finn to see whether she has any spooky stories to tell.
Autism and me
Michael, one of our educational facilitators at the National Justice Museum tells up about the positives of being Autistic.
Staying proud
With so many changes within legislation and human rights, the question has emerged in recent years; why is Pride still relevant?
Ultimate travel list
We're delighted that the National Justice Museum has been chosen as one of the 500 top experiences and hidden gems in Great Britain.
The 'Bloody Code'?
The Bloody Code imposed the death penalty for over 200 offences – many of which were surprisingly trivial.
Sandford award
Nottingham's National Justice Museum has received a prestigious Sandford Award for Heritage Education.
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DeMarcus Cousins shines in win as the Warriors clinch tie-breaker vs. the Denver Nuggets
With five games remaining, the Golden State Warriors have extended their lead to 2.0 games for the West's top spot and also clinched the tie-breaker vs. the Denver Nuggets.
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Five Warriors players scored in double figures and Draymond Green was at his playmaking best as Golden State cruised past the Denver Nuggets at the Oracle Arena.
In the process, the Warriors extended their lead at the top of the Western Conference to 2.0 games and clinched the tie-breaker against the Nuggets with just five games remaining.
DeMarcus Cousins scored a season-high 28 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, recording his eighth double-double of the season.
#DubNation@boogiecousins records a season-high 28 PTS with 12 REB & 5 AST in the @warriors win! pic.twitter.com/eN2cBcKbI7
- NBA (@NBA) April 3, 2019
Although the Warriors led for a majority of this game, the contest was eventful.
With 8:21 to go in the third quarter, Kevin Durant picked up two quick technicals and was ejected from the game, taking his
Stat discrepancy. ESPN's had Durant at 14 technicals entering the night, but official NBA stats had him at 13. So he's only up to 15. Won't be suspended. https://t.co/GkEvAVSDVa
- Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 3, 2019
">tally to 15 technicals for the season.
Video of Kevin Durant's ejection. pic.twitter.com/HsBVyBwEFW
- 95.7 The Game (@957thegame) April 3, 2019
After the game, Steve Kerr shared his thoughts on KD's ejection:
Steve Kerr on the KD ejection: "Thought he deserved the first technical. Didn't think he deserved the second technical...But I think Zach Zarba is one of the best referees in the league...We move on."
Despite the ejection, the Warriors were cruising past the young Nuggets, leading by 30 at one point.
In the fourth quarter, before he sat down for the rest of the game, Stephen Curry passed Chris Mullin on the franchise's all-time scoring list with his final bucket of the game.
In typical Curry fashion, he did with a three-pointer:
A walking bucket 🔥 pic.twitter.com/lAokEgNsl5
- Golden State Warriors (@warriors) April 3, 2019
With the Warriors getting contributions all all the way down the roster, Curry only attempted 11 field goals, finishing with 17 points, five assists, four rebounds, and three steals in 30 minutes of action.
Despite 24 turnovers for the game, the Warriors prevailed courtesy of their superior shooting - 54.3% from the field (Nuggets - 37.5%) and (13-of-34) 38.2% from beyond the arc, while the Nuggets connected on just 7-of-30 (23.3%) from three.
Among the remaining five games, Golden State plays three on the road, including one in Los Angeles against a LeBron-less Lakers squad. The Clippers are the only playoff team of the Warriors' remaining opponents.
On the other hand, the Nuggets play three of the five at home with four of the fivecoming against playoff opponents.


Auntie Vera, You are one of the strongest and bravest person I have known. I will always remember your smile :). Even now when I think of you it brings a smile to my face! When I was young you would pick me up and sit me on your lap and I would play with your earrings while you gave me a cuddle. Once I had children of my own and Grandchildren, you were always so happy to see them when I would stop for a visit. You made us feel special spending time with us and having tea parties with the kids. We will miss you so much.


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By craigstock
The Federal Reserve: Trump's Biggest Threat
The Federal Reserve. The Central Bank of the world, and the most important non-governmental institution in the United States. It has guided America through the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and the wreckage of the 2008 Financial Crisis, with its impact reverberating across the global economy. Shielded from the tentacles of the White House, politics is barred from permeating the hard economic data that the Fed uses to ensure strength and stability in the US economy. But it is under attack. President Trump has quarrelled with just about every institutional opponent he can think of, but this one is unique.
"My biggest threat", this is how President Trump declared that sees Fed.
The size, the scope, the power of the Federal Reserve make it a formidable opposition; one for which Trump must tread carefully, or risk ravaging the economic miracle that he believes he created.
As millions of loans were called in, the immovable banking behemoths began to crumble and dark clouds rose above the US economy in October 2008, the Federal Reserve was there to save it. Dark memories of the 1930s lingered in the fears of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Yet by orchestrating the $700bn Troubled Asset Relief Programme to save the banks, slashing interest rates from 4.5% to 0 and implementing emergency credit programmes to calm the turbulent credit markets, the Fed prevented total financial destruction. Recession did not become Depression.
As the Presidential race heated up, Trump turned his fire towards the ultra-low monetary policy of the Fed; a decade on from the crisis, Chairman Janet L. Yellen was attacked for supporting Obama through her obstinacy towards interest rate hikes. The economy was booming, 15 million jobs had been created and out of the wreckage, America's financial system had grown stronger. Yellen should be "ashamed", Trump scolded, for keeping stock markets buoyant on cheap credit to bolster Obama's image – and so began the pressure on the Fed to raise rates.
But such an attitude has changed. The economy has continued to strengthen in the first 2 years of the Trumpian era. But all of a sudden, the President wishes Yellen had never left.
Last Thursday the Fed raised rates by a further 0.25% on their path to recovery from the unprecedented lows that history had never before seen. Setting in chain a sequence of events culminating in Mnuchin calling the 6 biggest US banks to calm their fears, stock markets collapsed. Trump hit out at the Fed as "the only problem our economy has" as stock markets tumbled towards their worst December since the depths of Depression in 1931. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones suffered their worst Christmas Eve declines in history. After previously venting of Obama's political stranglehold on the Fed, he now wished he had such a weapon at his disposal.
Trump has attacked and scapegoated almost every potential opposition he can think of, from the Supreme Court to Wall Street to Mexico. But what makes the Federal Reserve different is its impact on The Donald's holy grail, the one reliable source for which he could always turn when political turmoil arose, the one omnipotent force that has defined the success of the Trumpian era: the stock market.
No President has ever tied themselves closer to the markets than Trump. Having tweeted about the stock market buoyancy 63 times from his election to February 2018, the President has claimed this asset market victory for himself. Isaac Newton's symbolic acknowledgement that his discoveries were achieved by 'standing on the shoulders of giants' has been all but lost in Trump's masquerading belief in his own self-importance. He, alone, has been the divine spirit that has marched the markets to soaring heights. In fact, it was the solid economic foundation provided by Obama that provided confidence to investors to return to the stocks they frightfully abandoned during dark times a decade ago.
Trump has also lead himself down a seriously dangerous road; spreading the myth that stock markets are a perfect indicator of the US economy. They are not. Markets do reflect economic fundamentals, but they are lost in an ocean of algorithmic traders, market jitters and foreign currency movements. This supposed special relationship between the markets and the economy worked well in the early period of Trump's reign; now it has come to haunt him. No longer are the markets only a measurement of economic success; they are now a measurement of his success.
And that is what makes the Fed an opponent like Trump has never faced before. He can attack the Clintons, the Supreme Court and Capitol Hill. But just one tweet has sparked uproar that the integrity of this historic institution, smoothing markets and the economy for the past 105 years, has been consumed in the wave of Trumpian destruction. Whilst Trump may endear to his godly stature that has created American economic success, there is only one god which market investors watch with eagle-eyes: the Federal Reserve.
Back in 2016, Trumps was symbolised by his hatred for the establishment. Troops of die-hard supporters rallied on his path to destruction to create a new world order, crushing all institutions in its wake. But the financial system will never be tamed by the President. Operating within their own separate world, a credible central bank can stabilise even the most volatile political events. Bashing the Fed will not win supporters, but only drive markets further towards their doom. Trump has always revelled in his omnipotence, transforming the world economy through his trade wars and shutting down government in response to Democrat obstinacy against funding the Mexican Wall. But now, at last, he has found an enemy that he cannot beat. Trump must tread carefully against the Federal Reserve; if not, stock markets will tumble ever further, and he will crumble with them.
Craig Stock
Second Year Economics Undergraduate at Warwick University.


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Jean Nicolle (19 July 1614 - 12 April 1650) was a French Norman painter and musician.

Jean Nicolle was born in Louviers in 1614, the fourth child of Louis Nicolle and Marguerite Coyplet. Both his father Louis and his uncle, Marin Nicolle, also painted. He discovered painting at a young age and showed an early talent, painting Saint Adrien, en costume Henri IV for the hospice in Louviers at age 10. On 22 November 1639 he married Anne David (born 1617), with whom he had nine children.

He found a patron in Claude Baudry of Piencourt, the abbot in nearby La Croix-Saint-Leufroy. Some of his paintings decorate the choir of Notre-Dame de Louviers, while others are at the City Museum.

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17th-century French painters
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Q: chrome history db access is locked I am creating an application where I need to access chrome's history but whenever i try to connect with that history db i get the following error:
c.execute(sql)
sqlite3.OperationalError: database is locked
here is the code:
 `data_path = os.path.expanduser('~')+"/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default"
files = os.listdir(data_path)
history_db = os.path.join(data_path, 'history')
conn = sqlite3.connect(history_db)
c = conn.cursor()
sql = "SELECT url FROM urls"
c.execute(sql)`

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c.execute(sql) sqlite3.OperationalError: database is locked

This error occurs when you try to access the sqlite3 db while chrome is running. You should close it before accessing the db.

A: Another way around this if you dont want to close your browser is to simply copy the history data into new location and then read it.
here is the code:
import sqlite3
import shutil

source_file = 'C:\\Users\\{username}\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\History'
destination_file = 'C:\\Users\\{username}\\Downloads\\History'

time.sleep(30)# wait to update the history file
shutil.copy(source_file,destination_file)
con = sqlite3.connect('C:\\Users\\{username}\\Downloads\\History')
cursor = con.execute("SELECT * FROM urls")

Now you can see the Chrom browser history without closing your Chrom Browser.


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The final chapter in the story of Theseus, the Minotaur, and all the other people that have gotten swept up in this drama spanning decades. We'll learn exactly what the Delphic Oracle meant by her prophecy, and how you can use a spool of thread to kill a giant monster.
On the creature of the week, it's a very literal tiny dancer.
That was such an amazing episode/series of episodes! I actually shed a few tears toward the end. Theseus is definitely one of my favorite Greek mythology characters now. Can't wait to see him appear in more stories.


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Q: The probability of having rain is 1/4. The probability of having a test is 5/6. a) What is the probability of having no rain but having a test?
b) What is the probability of having rain or having a test?
How would I go about solving these questions? Do I just multiply the fractions? (eg. No rain = 3/4, test = 1/6, 3/4 * 5/6) Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: These are independent events.

A: Let $R=$ event such that it rains; let $T=$ event s.t. you have a test.
Assuming $R$ and $T$ are independent:
$$\Pr\underbrace{[R^c \cap T]}_{\text{(not rain) and test}}=\underbrace{\Pr[R^c] \times\Pr[T]}_{\text{as they're independent}}=[1-\Pr(R)] \times\Pr[T]=?$$
Also, $\Pr[R \cup T]=\Pr[R]+\Pr[T]-\underbrace{\Pr[R \cap T]}_{\text{What do we know about this, given R and T are independent?}}=??$

A: You omitted the critical condition that rain and test are independent!
If we assume independence, we can use the standard formulas like
$$P(\text{test} \& \text{rain}) = P(\text{test}) \times P(\text{rain})$$
(which is, in fact, the definition of independence).
Now you can use the Inclusion–exclusion principle for part b.

A: P(test or rain)=P(test)+P(rain)-P(test and rain)


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It was during the Achaemenid period that Zoroastrianism reached South-Western Iran, where it came to be accepted by the rulers and through them became a defining element of Persian culture. The religion was not only accompanied by a formalization of the concepts and divinities of the traditional Iranian pantheon but also introduced several novel ideas, including that of free will.[87][88] Under the patronage of the Achaemenid kings, and by the 5th century BCE as the de facto religion of the state, Zoroastrianism would reach all corners of the empire. The Bible claims that Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to return to their homeland after decades of captivity by the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. During the reign of Artaxerxes I and Darius II, Herodotus wrote "[the Perses] have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the gods to have the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine." He claims the Persians offer sacrifice to: "the sun and moon, to the earth, to fire, to water, and to the winds. These are the only gods whose worship has come down to them from ancient times. At a later period they began the worship of Urania, which they borrowed from the Arabians and Assyrians. Mylitta is the name by which the Assyrians know this goddess, to whom the Persians referred as Anahita." (The original name here is Mithra, which has since been explained to be a confusion of Anahita with Mithra, understandable since they were commonly worshipped together in one temple). From the Babylonian scholar-priest Berosus, who—although writing over seventy years after the reign of Artaxerxes II Mnemon—records that the emperor had been the first to make cult statues of divinities and have them placed in temples in ma
y of the major cities of the empire (Berosus, III.65). Berosus also substantiates Herodotus when he says the Persians knew of no images of gods until Artaxerxes II erected those images. On the means of sacrifice, Herodotus adds "they raise no altar, light no fire, pour no libations." This sentence has been interpreted to identify a critical (but later) accretion to Zoroastrianism. An altar with a wood-burning fire and the Yasna service at which libations are poured are all clearly identifiable with modern Zoroastrianism, but apparently, were practices that had not yet developed in the mid-5th century. Boyce also assigns that development to the reign of Artaxerxes II (4th century BCE), as an orthodox response to the innovation of the shrine cults. Herodotus also observed that "no prayer or offering can be made without a magus present" but this should not be confused with what is today understood by the term magus, that is a magupat (modern Persian: mobed), a Zoroastrian priest. Nor does Herodotus' description of the term as one of the tribes or castes of the Medes necessarily imply that these magi were Medians. They simply were a hereditary priesthood to be found all over Western Iran and although (originally) not associated with any one specific religion, they were traditionally responsible for all ritual and religious services. Although the unequivocal identification of the magus with Zoroastrianism came later (Sassanid era, 3rd–7th century CE), it is from Herodotus' magus of the mid-5th century that Zoroastrianism was subject to doctrinal modifications that are today considered to be revocations of the original teachings of the prophet. Also, many of the ritual practices described in the Avesta's Vendidad (such as exposure of the dead) were already practiced by the magu of Herodotus ' time.


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Derostenus trjapitzini är en stekelart som beskrevs av Alex Gumovsky 2003. Derostenus trjapitzini ingår i släktet Derostenus och familjen finglanssteklar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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