Pinch is back again! The fun and intelligent puzzle game has a new sequel with all new challenging puzzles that will make your brain work! For those who are unaware of the game, Pinch 2 HD is based on the exact same concept of Pinch: You are to combine, split, mix and match the different coloured norbs (the circular balls) to access different places within a particular level. The ultimate aim is to get the required amount of norbs into the finishing line. That comes with some thinking as each level consists of several puzzle elements such as switches, pit holes and so on! Read on for the in-depth review.
There are also 4 different medals or objectives to complete for each level. You don't have to complete all at once as it is almost impossible. These objectives are firstly a time objective; complete the level within a particular time. Secondly, the objective to get all norbs to the finishing line. Thirdly, number of pinches that you are allowed to use. Lastly, number of stars collected. It certainly gives some replayability for each level as you try to achieve as many objectives as possible.
I love how the pinching and multi-touch mechanisms within the game are all smooth and responsive. It really brings out the capabilities of the iPad touch screen. It is well implemented and definitely something that helps in improving the gameplay. The big iPad screen certainly helps in making the game more accessible than the first version. In my opinion it just feels nicer and easier to zoom in and out, drag the norbs and pinch them etc.
Graphics are improved from the first version. The norbs and the overall design and background of each level just looks much clearer and sharper. Like the title of the game, the graphics are of higher resolution that of HD like. It looks particularly well when stretched on the iPad. However with all that said, the graphics still don't stand out that much. As much as it is an improvement from the first version, it is nothing too much to get overly excited for. There is also some light hearted music and sound effects that keeps players from getting too overly stressed out should they fail to complete a particular level.
Overall Pinch 2 HD is a delightful sequel to a clever concept and fun puzzler. There is the ability for you to grab the first 20 levels for free but to unlock the full game, it requires you to fork out a sum of $4.99. It is rather expensive as compared to the first game and other games within the same genre. Furthermore, the replayability of the game is merely that of getting the fastest time possible once every level and objective is completed. Nevertheless, if you find that the 20 levels are fun enough, the $4.99 should be alright as it offers you 100 levels and more to come in updates.


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Free Running Game for Android: Adventurer Ice Bear Run
By Salman Khan on October 22, 2015 iPhone
Adventurer Ice Bear Run is a free adventure game for Android with a theme of frozen ice world. This game is quite similar to other running games for Android, the only difference is that in this game you have to guide the Bear across frozen tracks. You can achieve dozens of power-ups while exploring the amazing adventurous and frozen world. While playing the game, you can run, slide, and jump your way through the frozen tracks in order to reach the finish line. The main purpose of this game is to reach the Ice Bear home. In order to do so, you have to overcome all the obstacles in the tracks and complete all of the stages to reach the Bear's home.
If you love playing running games such as Temple Run 2 or Rail Rush, then you're going to love this one too, trust me on that. One of the most interesting features of this game is the ice water surfer, which can be used while running on the water surface. It is a classic running game with lots of challenges. As the level increases the challenges get more and more difficult.
The following screenshot shows the running Bear and the frozen tracks.
Note: This game is also available for iPhone and iPad, but I have only reviewed the Android version.
How to Play Adventurer Ice Bear Run with Frozen Tracks:
Download and install the game from the link given at the end of this post or from the Google Play Store.
How to control the Bear while running:
As soon as you start the game, you will be able to start running and guide the Bear through the frozen tracks. The controls are pretty simple and as follows:
tap or slide upward to jump the bear.
slide downward and hold to lay on the ground and cross the narrow lane.
when in air slide downward and hold to fall down quickly on the ground.
initially, you will have 4 lives for the Bear and after you lose them the game will be over.
The following screenshot shows the Bear which is going to jump on the air.
How to choose levels:
You have to complete all the levels to keep exploring the adventurous world of this game. Before starting the game, it will ask you to choose levels. You can choose among the unlocked levels and start running. Continue playing the game to unlock more levels. The following screenshot shows how to choose levels.
How to collect coins and boxes to score higher:
While running, collect all the boxes and coins to make higher score. You have to cross all the checkpoints in order to reach the finish line or destination. In between every checkpoint, you can collect coins and boxes which will make you score higher. Simply run the Bear through the coins and boxes to get them. The following screenshot shows how to collect coins and boxes.
My Final Verdict:
Adventurer Ice Bear Run is definitely one of the best running games for Android with nice frozen graphics. Start running the Bear across different tracks to accomplish the mission of reaching its home. Personally, I am a running game lover and I am definitely keeping this game on my phone.
Try this game from the link here.
Works With: Android
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GREECE AND ROME
Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association.
James Corke-Webster (Classics, Liberal Arts)
Another bumper edition, again by way of apology for absenteeism in the spring issue (though this time due to paternity rather than plague). We begin with the latest Beard blockbuster. In her Twelve Caesars, based on her 2011 A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Mary Beard turns her trademark combination of penetrating gaze and jovial tongue to the reception of the famed group of elite first-century ce Roman men who span a key moment in the transformation of ancient politics. Belying their importance for ancient historians and archaeologists, they have been rather neglected by art historians of later periods. With an extraordinarily wide lens, spanning from Alexander the Great to the 2017 modern art of Alison Wilding, Beard corrects that omission, demonstrating their central place in the history of Western art, and exploring not just how those emperors have been represented, repackaged, and reused, but what that says about the identities, worlds, and priorities of those who so mobilized them. The result is a tour de force of art and intellectual history. Not only is the reader presented with gloriously arcane anecdotes on almost every page, but their sum amounts to a sustained inquiry into the role that past power has played, and continues to play, in our history, politics, art, and culture.
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?
Corke-Webster, J., 6 Sep 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Past and Present.
Michael J. Hollerich: Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers, Christianity in Late Antiquity 11, Oakland, CA (University of California Press) 2021, S. XI + 316 pp. + 1 b/w illustration, ISBN 978-0-520-29536-0, $ 95,-.
Corke-Webster, J., 1 Aug 2022, In: Zeitschrift fur Antikes Christentum. 26, 2, p. 349-353 5 p.
Lactantius and Empire: Political Theology in On the Deaths of the Persecutors
Corke-Webster, J., 14 Dec 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Late Antiquity. 15, 2
Abishop's biography: Eusebius of caesarea and the life of constantine
Corke-Webster, J., 13 Jan 2021, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography. Oxford University Press, p. 267-280 14 p.
The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood
Corke-Webster, J. (ed.) & Gray, C. (ed.), 19 Mar 2020, Brill. 360 p. (Vigiliae Christianae; vol. 158)
The Didos of book 4: gender, genre, and the Aeneid in Propertius 4.3 and 4.4
Xinyue, B., 2018, In: GREECE AND ROME. 65
Authorial voice and theatrical self-definition in Terence and beyond: The 'Hecyra' prologues in ancient and modern contexts
Lada-Richards, I., 2004, In: GREECE AND ROME. 51, 1, p. 55 - 82 28 p.
Alcibiades' Speech: A Satyric Drama
Sheffield, F., 2001, In: GREECE AND ROME. 48, 2, p. 193 - 209 17 p.
Inspirational fictions: Autobiography and generic reflexivity in Ovid's proems
Gildenhard, I. & Zissos, A., 2000, In: GREECE AND ROME. 47, 1, p. 67 - 79 13 p.


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Chloe Schueler and her parents Nici and Roger celebrated her bat mitzvah from their home in Singapore recently. Chloe was virtually called to the Torah at Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne. Click here to download and read the inspiring article published in #The Australian Jewish News.
David D Knoll AM and Brian Samuel OAM, co-presidents of the Union for Progressive Judaism, and Eric Lundberg, president of Mercaz-Masorti Australasia, issued a joint statement on the third anniversary of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
The UPJ is pleased to share a special announcement received from the World Union for Progressive Judaism announcing the appointment of Rabbi Sergio Bergman as President of the WUPJ.
The UPJ joins the WUPJ in thanking Ambassador Rabbi David Saperstein for his dedication as interim President, and looks forward to welcoming Rabbi Bergman to our region in the near future.
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League Two Betting Tips
December 09, 2022 at 5:28 pm GMT
13th and 18th will meet in League Two this weekend as Newport County play hosts to Doncaster Rovers at Rodney Parade with the two clubs separated by six points in the table ahead of the game.
It's been a topsy-turvy season for Newport with them scoring the third-most goals in the bottom half of the table. On the other hand, with only six wins in the league so far, they still have a lot to prove. The club have also lost 10 games this season and head into this one off the back a win against Crewe Alexandra in League Two.
On the other hand, with them losing to MK Dons in the Football League Trophy and Derby County in the FA Cup, they have not been in great form. However, in beating Gillingham, they have now won their last two league games.
Doncaster, however, are in terrible form across the past month. They lost 1-0 in the FA Cup to non-league King's Lynn Town, before beating Grimsby Town 3-1 in League Two. In the past two games, however, Rovers have lost 3-0 to relegation-fighting Colchester United and 2-0 to Walsall at home.
Doncaster are 13th in the league right now and have let in the most goals inside the top 13 teams with 27 conceded. They have, however, won eight games and have only lost to those below them in the table four times this campaign.
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The Flash movie's lengthy stay in development hell may be coming to an end in the very near future, however. The film has officially been titled Flashpoint, presumably becoming an adaptation of the popular comic arc of the same name. In that tale, Barry Allen wakes up in an alternate universe, wherein Cyborg is the foremost hero in the world, Thomas Wayne is Batman, and Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war with one another. The Atlantean/Themysciran war is ravaging the planet, and the Flash is tasked with saving the world. It's a wild ride, one that's particularly well-suited for a big screen adaptation.
Thanks to Instagram user Artoftimetravel, we have a better idea of what that story might look like in the DCEU.
It's to find a single knock on Artoftimetravel's creation here — it's some undeniably awesome Photoshop work. The only real concern may be whether or not the movie ultimately ends up actually happening. (We apologize in advance for beating this super dead horse, but…) The DCEU had a lot riding on Justice League's success. In fact, the Flashpoint movie was specifically mentioned to be among the projects waiting to see how the team-up performed. As you're well-aware at this point, Justice League underperformed in a major way. Both critically and financially, it fell well short of expectations, which has resulted in the entire future of the DCEU being called into question.
That said, some fans have assumed that a Flashpoint movie can simply serve as the reset button for the DCEU. The comic book pulled it off, so why can't the movie? The problem with that idea is that movie audiences are far less forgiving than comic readers. Generally speaking, they're less committed to these characters and stories than comic fans are. So if they sit down for a Flashpoint movie — where an average moviegoer is already trying to wrap his/her head around the idea of an alt-universe — and at the end of it, the previous events of the DCEU have been erased, everything's different, and maybe even a role or two has been suddenly recast? Yeah, that would super not work for casual fans.
Anyway, now that soapbox o'clock has come and gone… Are you psyched to see a Flashpoint movie hit the big screen? Let us know in the comments.


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President Barack Obama's speech this morning in Cairo did not just reiterate what the audience wanted to hear. Instead, Obama was forthright about the necessity for acceptance of the Jewish homeland in Israel and called for Palestinian abandonment of violence.
We praise Obama for reaching out to the Muslim world and for his commitment to Middle East peace. Similarly, we recognize his wisdom in speaking directly to the Muslim world about the need to abandon fantasies of destroying Israel and in reiterating America's unbreakable bond with the Jewish State.


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Inclusive Innovation | springerprofessional.de Skip to main content
2020 | Buch
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Evidence and Options in Rural India
herausgegeben von: Prof. Dr. Rajeswari S. Raina, Prof. Keshab Das
Verlag: Springer India
Buchreihe : India Studies in Business and Economics
Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"
This book discusses the role of inclusive innovation for development in rural India. It uses the evidence of innovation in the context of skewed or limited livelihood options and multiple knowledge systems to argue that if inclusive innovation is to happen, the actors and the nature of the innovation system need reform. The book presents cases of substantive technological changes and institutional reforms enabling inclusive innovation in rural manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, health services, and the processes of technological learning in traditional informal networks, as well as in formal modern commodity markets. These cases offer lessons to enable learning and change within the state and formal science and technology (S&T) organizations. By focusing on these actors central to development economics and innovation systems framework, the book bridges the widening conceptual gaps between these two parallel knowledge domains, and offers options for action by several actors to enable inclusive innovation systems. The content is thus of value to a wide audience consisting of researchers, policy makers, NGOs and industry observers.
Chapter 1. Inclusive Innovation: Changing Actors and Agenda
This introductory chapter presents the spaces, forms and norms of exclusion mainly in and of rural India. It lays the foundation for explaining the evidence on how some of these exclusions have been overcome or changed to enable inclusive innovation, and how many forms and norms of exclusion persist. Theoretically, the state with its organized policies and programmes, and the formal organized knowledge actors are the fulcrum in both development economics and innovation systems studies. When exclusion in its multiple and mutually reinforcing forms becomes invisible or part of accepted norms of development, the nature of these actors and their agenda demand specific attention. Drawing upon the findings of a research project, which was that inclusive innovation demanded reform or major changes in the innovation system components, this chapter explores the conventional dichotomy between public and private policies and decision making, the capacity of the state and the market to direct and operationalize innovation and the role of organized science and technology (S&T) in the spatial diversity and informality of rural India. The agenda setting framing of development driven by industrialization and the supply of technologies for industrialization from formal S&T derive from ex-post analysis and theorization in development economics. This makes it impossible for the key actors—the state and formal S&T organizations— to engage with the massive informality, diversity of livelihoods and knowledge and the multiple exclusions in and of rural India. The ex-post theorization of development and approaches to organize science and technology for innovation for industrialization pay little attention to the history of economic development in the West. The state was one among several actors in the West, a big enabler of multiple sources of incremental and revolutionary technological changes and several institutional innovations. This introduction also points out that contrary to received wisdom from development studies and innovation systems framework, organized scientific research and the institutionalization of public and private corporate science did not lead to but were the consequences of the first and much of the second industrial revolutions. The chapter details the organization of the book and the key evidence presented in each chapter, concluding with a demand for democratic decentralized innovation capacities fostered by communities, formal S&T and the state.
Rajeswari S. Raina, Keshab Das
Chapter 2. Crafts, Innovation and Exclusion: Challenges for Inclusion in a Terracotta Cluster, Rajasthan
The massive presence of craft clusters in rural India has not only been a source of local resource use and non-farm income generation but also of opportunities for innovation promising product diversification, reaching out to newer markets and networking between relevant business-state-research stakeholders. However, craft clusters, despite eulogising the craftsmanship and/or a culture of it, have suffered severe neglect in terms of inadequate policy attention that largely deprived the enterprises from participating as active entities within the regional or national systems of innovation. In addition to well-known supply-side constraints at the cluster level, the absence of or weak collective action by cluster constituents has been recognised as a major limitation of rural clusters to move up. The idea of inclusive innovation is a manner of recognising the exclusion of plaguing rural enterprises. Drawing upon primary survey-based findings in a terracotta cluster in rural Rajasthan, this paper interrogates issues in limits to innovation within an informal and poor economy context. It is observed that the specific context of production, labour process and business as a whole underscores a distinct approach in institutional innovation that would facilitate sustainable access to basic raw materials, skills and market channels. This is essential for ensuring inclusive innovation beyond the limited artefact-centric product or process innovation.
Keshab Das
Chapter 3. Factors Determining Innovation in Micro Enterprise Clusters
This paper argues that the primary drivers of innovation for micro enterprises in clusters are human factors sharpened through business processes (including learning by seeing and learning by doing), market sources (backward, forward and horizontal linkages) and market sophistication (size of the firm and nature of the buyer), in that order. Any change in or introduction of new processes, products or organizational arrangements has been considered as an innovation at the cluster level. It presents findings based on statistical analysis of primary data collected from 50 "innovators" in four clusters. Interestingly, factors related to the influence of institutional source and role of associations were found to be negatively correlated and insignificant in explaining the phenomenon, as these were mostly underdeveloped or absent in these clusters. Traditional horizontal active cooperation, the principal clustering process per se, was not a significant explanatory variable to promote innovation in underperforming underachiever clusters. Also, while market was a major mover of economic innovations, social and environmental innovations are found as a kind of push factors coming from backward linkages.
Tamal Sarkar, Nonita Yap, Geeta Vaidyanathan, Sangeeta Agasty
Chapter 4. Inclusion and InnovationInnovation Challenges in Handloom Clusters of AssamAssam
We study the dynamics of growth, innovation and inclusion in a silk handloom cluster and a silk yarn manufacturing cluster in Assam. The study is based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from 120 units in the two clusters. We observe a redistribution of production of silk handloom fabrics within and between the clusters whereby the artisans in the core areas of the cluster are increasingly specialising in premium products while subcontracting the low value handloom products to the weavers in the peripheral areas. While the reorganising of the value chain is without doubt providing weavers in the peripheral areas a foothold into the handloom market, it is happening under conditions which restrict their economic mobility due to their unequal access to policy incentives. We also note potentially stabilising role of innovation in the clusters which, though nascent and concentrated in the core areas, targets productivity improvement and reduction of drudgery in weaving activities. Our findings highlight the need for more equal distribution of policy driven incentives across space in the cluster to support not only growth and innovation but also improve the inclusion outcomes.
Priyatam Anurag, Keshab Das
Chapter 5. Informal Information-Exchange Networks in Rural Low-Tech Clusters
This chapter is about the role that knowledge exchanges through informal interaction play in innovation and learning in rural low-tech clusters. An empirical illustration based on a coir producing cluster demonstrates the significance of informal technological-information exchanges and the success of defensive strategies. We draw lessons from this and provide suggestions on how the policy discourse must appreciate and be sensitive to the role of informal learning. The findings and observations have implications not only for our conceptual understanding of learning in low-tech environments but also for pointers on technology prescription for rural low-tech clusters, to make innovation and learning a more inclusive process.
Anant Kamath
Chapter 6. Commodity Markets, Computers and Inclusive Development: A Study of Marketing and Price Formation of Cardamom with e-Auctions
The plantation sector plays a key role in fostering inclusive development in India. This chapter aims at locating the spaces and processes of exclusion in the marketing of cardamom, a major plantation crop in Kerala, and the bearing that e-auctions have in addressing them. In locating the spaces of exclusion, the study uses conceptual categories of social exclusion envisioned by Amartya Sen, like passive, active, instrumental and constitutional exclusion, to evolve new ones like subordinated or unequal inclusion, illusive inclusion and sustained exclusion. In the conventional auction system, active exclusion prevailed on account of the practice of taking a fixed quantity as a sample from all the lots regardless of its size and delay in payment along with the absence of title deeds for a large number of growers. The existence of wide variation in the price realized by different size classes of holders has been articulated as a case of subordinated/unequal inclusion. It is shown that the e-auction has been successful in addressing the subordinated/unequal exclusion. However, harnessing ICT through e-auction could hardly address the active, passive and instrumental exclusion that has been sustained over the years. This tends to suggest that in the absence of appropriate institutional innovations, the issue of social exclusion cannot be addressed only by technological innovations.
K. J. Joseph
Chapter 7. Modern Genetics as an Opportunity for Inclusive and Sustainable Agriculture
This paper argues that new knowledge and technologies need not always be exclusionary. By using the concepts of the National Systems of Innovation (NSI) framework, the present study explores the potential of 1) Hybrid Rice Technology (HRT) and 2) genomics-based Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS) technology to address a) Bacterial Leaf Blight (biotic stress) and b) drought (abiotic stress) to improve rice crop in India. Scientists involved in the development and the applications of these technologies were interviewed as part of a case study during 2011–2012. The findings suggest that there is a need to integrate MAS protocols with the HRT to not only expand the scope and success of biotechnology to be more inclusive but also to avoid the extremely rigid appropriation of genetic material by a few actors. At the level of policy, efforts should aim at evolving interlocking technological and institutional innovations.
Haribabu Ejnavarzala
Chapter 8. Turnaround in Maternal and Child Healthcare: Institutional Innovation and Interactive Learning
This paper examines the impact of institutional innovation in the healthcare delivery system in rural India. With the launch of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), the approach to healthcare delivery has changed from a top-down model to bottom-up and participatory system. The implementation of NRHM has resulted in an increase in institutional delivery and reduction in IMR and MMR substantially. The appointment of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and formation of Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNCs) and Rogi Kalyan Samities (RKS) have helped bring a behavioural change among the rural healthcare users. The circular flow of information between the health practitioners (innovators) and users (rural women and children) through ASHA, Anganwadi workers and ANM has facilitated interactive learning and further innovation in the healthcare delivery system. The new institutional arrangement for healthcare provisioning has brought a turnaround in healthcare use by the rural households. Analytically, the paper uses the innovation systems framework to explain the performance of the healthcare programme. It contributes to the innovation systems literature by (i) highlighting the need for and role of institutional innovation, and (ii) emphasising that institutional innovation that leads to transformation in innovation performance demands opportunities and spaces for interactive learning.
Amarendra Das
Chapter 9. Inclusion Problems and Prospects: Introducing Gender in Agricultural Research and Education
Inclusion of gender concerns in agricultural development has gained global recognition over the latter half of the twentieth century. Though India is committed to mainstreaming gender in agricultural development, the educational and research systems of agriculture in the country are quite slow and passive in accepting and including a curriculum for gender orientation and gender analysis competence. The related systems of rural development of late have started to consider the technological needs of women for poverty alleviation. But the need for a generic orientation on gender equality and human rights perspectives in agriculture among the personnel at the cutting edge, in the educational institutions and research, remains largely unattended. This chapter presents the initiatives in capacity building for gender analysis, technology development, technology transfer and curriculum development attempted by the Centre for Gender Studies in Agriculture and Farm Entrepreneurship Development of the Kerala Agricultural University. The analysis of these innovations illustrates the problems of and the potential for including gender in the curriculum and research agenda of agricultural universities in India. It points out policy decisions for inclusion required in this context.
P. S. Geethakutty
Chapter 10. Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Nurturing the Institutional Sine Qua Non for the Informal Sector
Social enterprises (SEs) have sprouted in India over the past couple of decades, addressing several social and economic demands. But their emergence and evolution, partaking of the market and the state, has received little academic attention. Besides the compelling reason that the state has to and can play a major role in facilitating SEs that ensure inclusive development, there is an institutional imperative, a need to explore and explain the institutions (rules and norms) that are at the heart of social innovation and lead to the creation and growth of SEs. This chapter argues that the SEs embody a set of principles that are central to inclusive innovation. Here, the social entrepreneur's capacity to question existing norms, rules and ways of working and find alternative norms that ensure social value and prosperity for the 'excluded' become the game changer. The analysis leads us to question what scale means to the SE, and whether and how the Indian state can enable an appropriate ecosystem for fostering and upscaling SEs.
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Chapter 11. Learning from China: S&T and Innovation Policy Responsiveness
This chapter sees a strong role for governments in directing and promoting continuous interactions between the S&T organizations and policy actors for an inclusive and responsive innovation system. Different countries have depicted differences in the responsive and inclusive behaviour of their National Innovation System (NIS) providing invaluable insights to the understanding of innovation. This chapter examines India's policy responsiveness to foster inclusive and responsive innovation through the interactive NIS framework. It does this by drawing lessons from the Chinese experience of public intervention in S&T and innovation. The issues examined include linkages of S&T with other domains of the NIS, human resource and industrial research and the innovation ecosystem. While there are complexities involved in managing S&T and innovation in India, China has successfully transformed its institutions of knowledge and learning and engaged them in the growth process through an interactive model of innovation.
G. D. Sandhya, N. Mrinalini
The Options
Chapter 12. Inclusive Innovation: Realizing the Options
The options presented in this chapter address the derelict policy learning capacities in India. With respect to the excluded rural, the cases in Part II can be placed in three groups, (i) where the rural informal actors coevolve, learn and enable innovation, (ii) where they engage with the state and organized knowledge actors to confront prevalent exclusions and enable inclusive innovation and development outcomes and (iii) where the state and its formal knowledge actors learn and work towards inclusion and innovation. This chapter presents options for proactive learning, and institutional and technological innovation among diverse actors. By presenting a platter of options to diverse decision makers, it places the onus of choice and need for interactions and learning on them. The contents and processes of change are then ontologically different from policy makers receiving prescriptions from the S&T actors. Two strategic shifts seem necessary for inclusive innovation: (i) from artefact or input or technological innovation to ways of working, rules, norms and institutional innovation, in all the informal spaces in rural India; and (ii) from the user or beneficiary of the innovation (the rural poor) to the state and formal organized S&T as co-learners, guiders and shapers of both knowledge and the economy (its actors). The theoretically conditioned expectation in development economics and innovation systems, that policy prescriptions based on ex-post evidence will lead to innovation and economic performance, is a twentieth-century construct. Inclusive innovation demands ex-ante engagement and learning, with decentralized innovation capacities and nonhierarchical selection of innovation projects. These are projects that acknowledge and cultivate human resources with local knowledge and socio-cultural systems understandings.
Keshab Das, Rajeswari S. Raina
Prof. Dr. Rajeswari S. Raina
Prof. Keshab Das
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The Pieta ( 1498-1499 ) is a chef-d'oeuvre of Renaissance sculpture by the celebrated creative person Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter Basilica in Vatican City. It is the first of a figure of plants of the same subject by the creative person. The statue was commissioned for the Gallic central Jean de Billheres, who was a representative in Rome. The statue was made for the cardinal 's funeral memorial, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the eighteenth century. It is the lone piece Michelangelo of all time signed ( See History after completion ) .
This celebrated work of art depicts the organic structure of Jesus on the lap of his female parent Mary after the Crucifixion. The subject is of Northern beginning, popular by that clip in France but non yet in Italy. Michelangelo 's reading of the Pieta is alone to the case in points. It is an of import work as it balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism. The statue is one of the most extremely finished plants by Michelangelo.
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The construction is pyramidic, and the vertex coincides with Mary 's caput. The statue widens increasingly down the curtain of Mary 's frock, to the base, the stone of Golgotha. The figures are rather out of proportion, owing to the trouble of picturing a fully-grown adult male cradled full-length in a adult female 's lap.
Michelangelo 's Pieta, Figure 1.8
Much of Mary 's organic structure is concealed by her monumental curtain, and the relationship of the figures appears rather natural. Michelangelo 's reading of the Pieta was far different from those antecedently created by other creative persons, as he sculpted a immature and beautiful Mary instead than an older adult female around 50 old ages of age.
The Markss of the Crucifixion are limited to really little nail Markss and an indicant of the lesion in Jesus ' side.
Jesus 's face does non uncover marks of The Passion. Michelangelo did non desire his version of The Pieta to stand for decease, but instead to demo the " spiritual vision of forsaking and a calm face of the Son " , therefore the representation of the Communion between adult male and God by the sanctification through Jesus
Leonardo district attorney Vinci in likely one of the most celebrated creative person in the universe, in this work we will seek to picture who the adult male is through some of his life and some of his predominate plants such as The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Self Portrait. These plants and the adult male have been analyzed and critiqued over clip and we will try to see how his affect on us helped determine some of the art universe we live in today.
Da Vinci was an Italian polymath: painter, sculpturer, designer, musician, scientist, mathematician, applied scientist, discoverer, anatomist, geologist, map maker, phytologist and author. Leonardo has frequently been described as the original of the Renaissance Man, a adult male of " quenchless wonder " and " feverishly imaginative imaginativeness " . He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all clip and possibly the most variously gifted individual of all time to hold lived. Harmonizing to art historian Helen Gardner, the range and deepness of his involvements were without case in point and " his head and personality seem to us superhuman, the adult male himself cryptic and distant " . Marco Rosci points out, nevertheless, that while there is much guess about Leonardo, his vision of the universe is basically logical instead than cryptic, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his clip.
The Mona Lisa is a 16th-century portrayal painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo di ser Piero district attorney Vinci during the Renaissance in Florence, Italy. The work is presently owned by the Government of France and is on show at the Musee du Louvre in Paris under the rubric Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, married woman of Francesco del Giocondo.
The picture is a half-length portrayal and depicts a sitting adult female ( it is about consentaneous that she is Lisa del Giocondo ) whose facial look is often described as puzzling. ] The ambiguity of the topic 's look, the monumentality of the composing, and the elusive mold of signifiers and atmospheric illusionism were fresh qualities that have contributed to the go oning captivation and survey of the work. [ 1 ] The image is so widely recognized, caricatured, and sought out by visitants to the Louvre that it is considered the most celebrated picture in the universe.
Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy. Harmonizing to Da Vinci 's modern-day, Giorgio Vasari, " … after he had lingered over it four old ages, left it unfinished… . " It is known that such behaviour is common in most pictures of Leonardo who, subsequently in his life, regretted " ne'er holding completed a individual work " .http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
He is thought to hold continued to work on Mona Lisa for three old ages after he moved to France and to hold finished it shortly before he died in 1519. Leonardo took the picture from Italy to France in 1516 when King Francois I invited the painter to work at the Clos Luce near the male monarch 's palace in Amboise. Most likely through the inheritors of Leonardo 's helper Salai, the male monarch bought the picture for 4,000 ecus and kept it at Chateau Fontainebleau, where it remained until given to Louis XIV. Louis XIV moved the picture to the Palace of Versailles. After the Gallic Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre. Napoleon I had it moved to his sleeping room in the Tuileries Palace ; later it was returned to the Louvre. During the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870-1871 ) it was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal.
There has been much guess sing the picture 's theoretical account and landscape. For illustration, that Leonardo likely painted his theoretical account dependably since her beauty is non seen as being among the best, " even when measured by late Quattro cento ( fifteenth century ) or even 21st century criterions. " Some art historiographers in Eastern art, such as Yukio Yashiro, besides argue that the landscape in the background of the image was influenced by Chinese pictures, nevertheless this thesis has been contested for deficiency of clear grounds. [ 12 ]
Mona Lisa was non good known until the mid-19th century when creative persons of the emerging Symbolist motion began to appreciate it, and associated it with their thoughts about feminine mystique. Critic Walter Pater, in his 1867 essay on Leonardo, expressed this position by depicting the figure in the picture as a sort of mythic incarnation of ageless muliebrity, who is " older than the stones among which she sits " and who " has been dead many times and learned the secrets of the grave. "
The Last Supper was created when Leonardo district attorney Vinci was already a good known creative person when he created his chef-d'oeuvre The Last Supper. He painted The Last Supper on the back wall of the dining hall at the Dominican convent of Sta Maria delle Grazie in Italy. The ground this picture is laid out the manner it is is that Leonardo was seeking to " widen the room " , to do it look like Jesus and his apostles were sitting at the terminal of the dining hall. This picture became an instant celebrated work of art sing the spiritual facets of Christianity at the clip of its picture and is considered cryptic by some people to keep concealed messages about the life of Christ and his followings.
The Last picture of Da Vinci we will look at is his ain Self Portrait. The portrayal is drawn in ruddy chalk on paper. It depicts the caput of an aged adult male in three-quarter position, turned towards the spectator 's right. The topic is distinguished by his long hair and long wave face fungus which flow over the shoulders and chest. The length of the hair and face fungus is uncommon in Renaissance portrayals and suggests, as now, a individual of sagaciousness. The face has a slightly hooked nose and is marked by deep lines on the forehead and pouches below the eyes. It appears as if the adult male has lost his upper forepart dentitions, doing deepening of the channels from the anterior nariss. The eyes of the figure do non prosecute the spectator but regard in front, veiled by the long superciliums, with a sense of sedateness or disenchantment. If this is so a self-portrait of Leonardo, his attitude may reflect the fact that by this clip his calling was mostly behind him, and artistic manner was get downing to go forth him behind.
The drawing has been drawn in all right lines, shadowed by hatching and executed with the left manus, as was Leonardo 's wont. The paper has chocolate-brown " fox Markss " caused by the accretion of Fe salts due to wet. It is housed at the Royal Library ( Biblioteca Reale ) in Turin, Italy, and is non by and large viewable by the public due to its breakability and hapless status.
This is merely a little sample of the work and the life of one of the most celebrated if non the most celebrated creative person in the universe. All of his plants have captivated the art community for centuries. This adult male likely shaped and influenced some of the greatest and brightest people throughout history. He is one of the most darling creative person every bit good he was really homocentric in that it was non merely art in which thing he influenced but here we will merely speak about his art and how it helped determine the universe of today.
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In just over a year, the United Kingdom will formally depart the European Union. While this has obviously created a huge rift between Britain and the mainland, as Aristotle observed, "a common danger unites even the bitterest of enemies." Moscow's recent escalation of deadly Cold War spycraft in London should remind Britain and her European allies who their real friends and foes are, which may help smooth the Brexit process.
Depending what political bubble you live in, Brexit represents either a welcome restoration of sovereignty and democracy, or a disastrous revival of protectionism laced with ethnic nationalism. Either way, it's a unique opportunity to chart a new course for Britain. The result matters not just for Europe, but for the whole world. As US President Donald Trump escalates his assault on the international trade system, the way Britain redefines its relationship with Europe could create a new model for international trade agreements that lies somewhere between full-on globalization and rampant protectionism.
History may one day judge Brexit as a repeat of the Glorious Revolution in which Britons reasserted the supremacy of the ancient laws and liberties that Burke called the "rights of Englishmen." This revolution was a bloodless rejection of the Hegelian centralization and groundless metaphysical abstractions that are at the core of the modern European project.


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Die Schwarzrote Bulldoggfledermaus (Chaerephon jobimena) ist eine endemisch auf Madagaskar vorkommende Fledermausart der Gattung der Freischwanzfledermäuse.

Beschreibung
Die Kopf-Rumpf-Länge der Fledermaus beträgt 75 bis 79 Millimeter, der Schwanz ist 32 bis 51 Millimeter lang und ragt aus der Schwanzflughaut heraus. Die Farbe der Flügel und der Schwanzflughaut ist dunkelbraun. Das Rückenfell sowie der Halsbereich sind schokoladenbraun gefärbt, der Bauch ist hellbraun-grau. Es gibt eine zweite Farbmorphe, bei der das Fell rötlich gefärbt ist. Die obere Lippe hat 5 bis 6 Falten. Durch längere Ohren sowie einen v-förmigen Hautstreifen, der beide Ohren verbindet, lässt sich die Art von allen anderen madegassischen Freischwanzfledermäusen unterscheiden. Der schmale lanzettförmige Tragus ist durch den 5 mm hohen und 3 mm breiten Antitragus verdeckt.

Systematik & Verbreitung
Die Art wurde 2001 erstbeschrieben. Schwarz-rote Bulldoggfledermäuse wurden auf Madagaskar bisher nur im Süden in den Nationalparks Isaloa und Zombitse-Vohibasia, sowie im Norden im Nationalpark Ankarana  durch Fänge nachgewiesen. Durch ähnliche klimatische Bedingungen und Habitatstrukturen ist anzunehmen, dass das Verbreitungsgebiet der Art sich auch zwischen den Fangorten erstreckt.

Lebensweise
Schwarzrote Bulldoggfledermäuse kommen in Trocken- und Dornwäldern vor. Die Art wurde bis in Höhen von 870 m nachgewiesen, sie scheint an Habitate mit anstehendem Gestein, z. B. Kalkstein gebunden zu sein. Die nachtaktiven Fledermäuse beziehen in Felshöhlen Quartiere, es liegen keine Nachweise von Quartieren in anthropogenen Strukturen wie z. B. Brücken oder Häusern vor. Große Baumhöhlen könnten ebenfalls als Quartiere genutzt werden. Die Kolonien können aus bis zu 40 zusammen ruhenden Tieren bestehen.

Etymologie & Forschungsgeschichte
Der Holotypus wurde 2001 von Steven M. Goodman in der ehemaligen Provinz Antsiranana im Nationalpark Ankarana gesammelt und 2004 von Steven M. Goodman und Scott G. Cardiff erstbeschrieben. Der Artzusatz "jobimena" ist aus den Wörtern für "schwarz" ("joby") und "rot" ("mena") in Malagassi abgeleitet. In Malagassi wird bei der Zusammensetzung beider Worte aus dem "y" von "joby" ein "i". Der Name nimmt Bezug auf die zwei Farbmorphen (dunkelbraunes und rötlich-braunes Fell) der Art.

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Aufgrund des großen Verbreitungsgebiets sowie der präferierten Habitate wird die Art seitens der IUCN als nicht gefährdet ("least concern") eingestuft

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The practice has now become more popular in the twenty-first century, due to the increase in surgical patients being cared for in private clinics, higher drug costs and shortages of some medications. Consumers who are interested in receiving personalized medicine are also drawn to having their prescriptions prepared by a compounding pharmacist.
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In 2012, there was an incident where an infection was linked to a drug mixed by Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. This pharmacy was reportedly filling medications for customers without having the required prescriptions. We here at The Compounding Pharmacy of America always require a prescription prior to creating and providing any compounded medications to our clients. By not cutting corners, it helps keep our clients safe.
Compound pharmacies are licensed and regulated by State Boards of Pharmacy. We get our ingredients for medications from suppliers that are both registered and inspected by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Any foreign suppliers are registered by the FDA.
Based on the number of prescriptions filled annually, compounding pharmacies are considered safe for consumers. Precautions are taken to protect consumers, just as they are for pharmacies where medications are not being prepared on an individualized basis. For some patients, having prescriptions filled by a compound pharmacy may be even safer than going to a traditional one.
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IMF chief calls on global cooperation to control pandemic, support economic recovery
Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Monday called on global cooperation to control the COVID-19 pandemic and support economic recovery as the new Omicron variant has spread to over 40 countries around the world.
"The global economy has continued to recover, but the recovery faces many risks, including the uncertain path of the pandemic amid the arrival of new variants, and the outlook on inflation," Georgieva said in a statement at the conclusion of the sixth "1+6" Roundtable convened virtually by the Chinese authorities.
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Kaleb, a young boy, dreams of death and destruction to find a day later his home, the village of Little Rock, devastated, destroyed by fire.
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Out this week is the graphic novel of The Boy Who Conquered A Mountain from Heavy Metal Entertainment. Printed under their Virus imprint, and available online at the Heavy Metal website, the graphic novel is by Jonathan Chance and Emilio Utrera and is an adventure story set in 1600s Japan.
"This is a classic adventure story set in 1600s, Japan—a great time of magic and fantasy. It's also a tale of true courage," Chance said in a statement sent to AIPT. "We all have it within us to be something great. To become 'someone' great. Perhaps even greater than we imagined." Starring a young man named Kaleb, Chance said it's a story filled with grief with a protagonist who lacks confidence. "But therein upon this challenge lies his transformation."
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"Artist Emi Utrera and I put a lot of love into it so we can't wait to see what people think of it," Chance added, "This book is dedicated to my son and the allegorical mountain he may have to climb. A mountain we all have to climb at one point. Mine was a few years ago in a personal tragedy…this story is also my story."
"In The Boy Who Conquered a Mountain, you will find adventure, action, martial arts, and a strong team spirit, Utrera said. "In the words of the great writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld, he said this about 'the collective hero': 'the only valid hero is the hero in a group, never the individual hero, the hero alone.'"
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Choosing an attractive financing solution for identity programs
When a public authority is considering how to manage its budget as efficiently as possible, how to take advantage of the expertise of the industry, or in cases where the governmental calendar demands urgent implementation, it may conclude that calling on the private sector delivers better value for money.
The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model that has delivered countless projects in transportation, health and education is also an attractive option for ID programs. Along with avoiding large-scale investments up-front, governments can take advantage of the industry expertise and the latest technology, while having their new system up and running more quickly.
IDEMIA has a proven track record in delivering PPPs for a range of identity management projects, from national electronic ID cards to driving licenses and passports. Typically, these projects take the form of a concession, where the infrastructure is delivered and operated by IDEMIA for a set period, oftentimes 7 to 10 years.
The most popular model for such concessions is known as BOOT, as the contractor will Build the infrastructure; Own and Operate the service by enrolling citizens, managing the ID database and delivering the documents; and then ensure a smooth Transfer of the system to the public authority at the end of the concession.
As with any partnership, good teamwork is the key to success. Governments call upon a private partner such as IDEMIA to finance and operate all or part of the identity framework, operations and service delivery. In so doing, the public authority benefits from more flexibility to manage its budgets and can focus on added-value operations and strategic choices. It benefits from IDEMIA's innovation mindset, state-of-the-art technology and expertise.
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A Public-Private Partnership with IDEMIA allows the state to deploy an ID project without an up-front investment, protecting the national budget.
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Governments control all the legal and ID entitlement decisions in a PPP project with IDEMIA, and take full ownership of the system at the end of the concession.
IDEMIA has successfully delivered concession-based ID projects to national authorities around the world, building on its relationships with over 100 governments.
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If you're not old enough to be familiar with the "Water Wars" of the early 20thCentury, look it up. The 1974 movie, China Town (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway), although a dramatized, Hollywood version of the events that took place, was selected in 1991 by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for films that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and it is frequently listed as among the best in world cinema.
Owens Valley today. Bone dry due to Los Angeles insatiable thirst for water.
Owens Valley paid the ultimate price for unfettered growth of the "Southland", becoming a dried up desert region in order to quench the thirst of Los Angeles developers.
A new era of Water Wars is currently underway. Most people are currently unaware of the historic consequences any more than they are concerned about future consequences.
On Feb. 9th, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported that this past week, the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed an appeal of a lower court ruling that effectively stripped the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) of water rights for its controversial pipeline from eastern Nevada.
In 2013, Senior District Judge Robert Estes ruled that the state's chief water regulator failed to adequately support a decision two years earlier to allow the authority to sink its wells in four lonesome valleys in Lincoln and White Pine counties. In an unpublished order, the SNWA was ordered to recalculate and probably reduce how much the authority should safely be allowed to pump from Spring, Cave, Dry Lake and Delamar valleys to avoid draining the basins and causing conflicts with other water rights holders there and elsewhere.
If you've reviewed your Water Wars history, does this sound familiar? Yet, this story is one that has gone relatively unnoticed by the vast majority of the population of the US Southwest.
"The chances of a 35-year or longer "megadrought" striking the Southwest and central Great Plains by 2100 are above 80 percent if the world stays on its current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and Cornell University report in a study published Thursday in the new open-access journal Science Advances." In 2100, my baby granddaughter will be close to my age. What kind of world are we leaving her and her peers.
In our area of Northern Nevada, the results of climate change are being felt right now as the high today, in mid-February, is expected to exceed 70 degrees, again. This is the 4th winter in a row that the snow pack is well below average. Depressing for the ski industry, but this lack of snow pack, which translates to extremely dry and fire prone summers, looks to be a trend we will have to get used to for the foreseeable future. Even if you are one of the very few arguing the scientific reasons for this change in weather patterns, the results are not deniable. The future is here.
Should be throw up our hands in helpless resignation? My hope is that in support of the common good, lifestyle changes can be enacted now that will make the devastating effects of this drought cycle a bit more livable.
Although most of California and Nevada have be enacting the most minimal water use restrictions of some type or another (i.e. Odd-Even watering days, prohibitions on watering drive and walkways) Grey water recycling is a simple way to recycle and reuse our most precious resource. My question to our community planners is, "Why aren't we requiring personal grey water recycling systems to be installed on all new construction?" In some areas, health departments actually prohibit systems to be used for individual residences.
If you're interested becoming part of a water planning solution, contact the Long Now Foundation. Long now is a non-profit foundation established in 1996 by an eclectic group of Bay Area intellectuals, Long Now searches for "the long view" to a society increasingly distracted by its own rapid advancement.
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Raja Ampat SEA Centre is a conservation initiative dedicated to conserving Raja Ampat's marine life through Science, Education and Awareness, and supporting sustainable development. Working with collaborating scientists and local community members, SEA Centre serves as a platform to conduct valuable scientific research into the marine ecology and environment in the region.
Raja Ampat is one of the last strongholds on Earth where coral reef systems still thrive. This archipelago shelters an incredible abundance of life, and forms what is currently thought to be the most biodiverse marine system on the planet, which in turn supports the livelihoods of many local communities. Yet sadly, numerous reefs were destroyed by destructive fishing practices in the 80s & 90s, and to this day, they have not yet recovered. Additionally, the current rapid expansion of tourism in the region brings with it new impacts upon the marine environment such as coral damage (anchoring, breakage from divers) and pollution.
SEA Centre currently contributes to the restoration, maintenance, and conservation of the area reefs their Yaf Keru coral garden project.
SEA Centre also offers citizen science tourism opportunities for any guest at Papua Explorers Resort, through their annual Coral Explorers trip and through their immersive Divemaster Marine Ecology internships. These opportunities are suitable for any diver, snorkeller or nature lover that wants to learn more about the amazing ecology of coral reefs. For more information please contact info@seacentre.org.
Based in Colombia, Corales de Paz promotes "Buceo con propósito", which translates to "Meaningful Diving". They currently lead large-scale coral restoration on Colombia's reefs, and have created sustainable eco-tourism initiatives as a mechanism for protecting reefs against future degredation.
To achieve large-scale impact within the region, Corales de Paz involves many stakeholders, including local diving centers, fishing communities, and volunteer divers in the construction, installation, stocking, and monitoring of coral nurseries.
Corales de Paz is also the Reef Check coordinator for Colombia, which is the official coral reef monitoring program of the United Nations. Interested divers from around the world can become Reef Check certified and join a Reef Check EcoExpedition with Corales de Paz to participate in studying, monitoring, and restoring coral. For more information, please contact info@coralesdepaz.org.
Coral Guardian is a French non-profit international solidarity organization dedicated to the conservation of coral ecosystems, raising awareness, scientific research, and the enhancement of marine ecosystems. Coral Guardian aims to promote innovative approaches to marine conservation and encourage sustainable development models by deploying multiple angles of action.
Coral Guardian currently works on conservation projects in Indonesia, Colombia, and New Caledonia. Projects are aimed at protecting and repopulating damaged reef areas, but are also aimed at empowering local communities to participate in sustainable management of coral ecosystems, creating local and sustainable jobs as well as sustainable fisheries that support local communities.
For interested visitors, Coral Guardian offers Eco-Volunteer tourism opportunities on the beautiful islands of Komodo and Nusa Penida, Indonesia. For more information, visit: coralguardian.org/en/volunteer.
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When it comes to corporate innovation, it's easy to focus on metrics such as ideas captured by an idea challenge, the number of prototypes developed or experiments run.
But with most corporate innovation initiatives quickly degenerating into theatre, failure rates are running high (eg. 80-90% of innovation labs fail). Such failures ultimately lead to senior stakeholders withdrawing their support while intrapreneurs become increasingly dissatisfied and leave the organisation to seek out greener, more innovative pastures elsewhere.
This really hurts a company's prospects for innovating in the long-term - something few companies can ill afford in today's climate.
Therefore you need to focus on the right innovation KPI metric.
Corporates need to get more adept at identifying and monitoring the metrics that matter when it comes to their innovation programs if they are to avoid such pitfalls.
Startups searching for product-market fit today do so by rapidly testing a large number of assumptions underpinning their solutions and business models - essentially the lean startup philosophy at its core. They take this approach because when we're developing something completely new, you won't have all the answers and the surest way to figure them out and give yourself the best chance of surviving long enough to do so is to take small bets across these assumptions.
Figuring out how to innovate at a large bureaucratic, siloed, process-oriented, steering committee leaning organisation that has little track record of exploring disruptive innovation is also fraught with uncertainty and untested assumptions.
As such, such companies can benefit from viewing the development of their innovation programs through a similar lens as startups developing something new with different approaches to innovation to see what works for them.
But a ship without a lighthouse to direct it to shore is likely to crash.
OMTM is a concept popularised by Ben Yoskovitz in his book Lean Analytics. Ben says that "it doesn't mean that there's only one metric you care about". It does, however, mean that at any given time, there's one metric you should care about above all else.
He says in order to determine your OMTM, determine what kind of company you are, what stage you're in and who your audience is.
For a corporate innovation program, the company type is mostly redundant but the stage your innovation program is in and and to a lesser extent, the audience, matters.
Ben breaks down the stages into attention, problem validation, solution validation, feature optimisation and business model validation.
We can map these stages to the development of a corporate innovation program which can then help us identify which metric matters most at that particular stage of our development.
Based on this, we can shortlist some potential OMTMs for each stage of the innovation program's maturity or focus.
In the early stages of an innovation program, where you're literally just focused on raising awareness and getting people to engage in innovation initiatives, then your OMTM might be the aforementioned input metrics such as 'number of ideas' raised or 'percentage of workforce participated in initiative X'.
Eventually you might move into focusing on output measures such as prototypes built and experiments run.
However, like a startup making its way to product market fit, eventually you will be looking at hard metrics such as business model validation and revenue generated.
But is there a risk of focusing on a OMTM at say the Awareness or Engagement stage of an innovation program at the expense of longer term metrics that we're working towards?
The NSM is a term coined by Sean Ellis of GrowthHackers.com and is a powerful concept that has emerged in recent years from Silicon Valley companies with breakout growth. It helps teams move beyond driving fleeting, surface-level growth to instead focus on generating long-term retained customer growth.
When applied to corporate innovation, it helps keep teams focused not just on today's metric that matters, but working towards tomorrow's too, towards long-term sustainable growth.
Ash Maurya kindly reminded me in this episode of the Future Squared podcast, the risk of focusing on one metric only is that it can often come at the expense of others.
For example, if Airbnb only focused on nights booked and not nights returned, it may soon find that most of its customers have such a lousy experience that the well eventually runs dry. A focus on sub-metrics is key. In this case, Airbnb would focus on sub-metrics such as nights returned, amongst others.
So what might the ultimate NSM be for corporate innovation programs be?
The Growth Gap represents the gap between the organisation's growth objectives and existing revenues. For example, based on extrapolating out our existing revenues to say, the year 2020 (adjusting for factors like inflation and new revenue not attributable to innovation efforts) what might the forecast gap be?
One might forecast revenue of $5B and based on extrapolating out adjusted revenue from existing products and services we might be on track for $4.5B in revenue, providing economic, social and political factors don't forsake us. The gap is therefore $500M. That is the growth gap that needs to get plugged with new revenues to meet our growth goals.
When we think about what long-term sustainable impact and growth looks like for an innovation team we could focus on obvious metrics such as revenue, number of ideas to market, new customers generated and all would have some validity.
But revenue and new customers can come from anywhere and there have been countless ideas implemented by companies around the world that tanked (hello Zune!).
Innovation programs are set up, or should be set up, with the objective of helping companies survive and thrive in an era of rapid change. They should be tied to strategic objectives and growth targets. This is why using a metric such as the Growth Gap makes more sense than Revenue Growth alone and unlike most metric, we're concerned with decreasing it, not increasing it.
All the ideas and good vibes in the world generated by a design sprint or a hackathon won't matter if, after a number of years, the growth gap isn't plugged, which basically suggests that the innovation program delivering any long-term sustainable, measurable, tangible value that your audience - I'm guessing senior executives and shareholders - care about.
For example, are new revenues coming at the expense of something fundamental to the company's sustainability - such as customer service, reputation and compliance with regulation?
By defining and communicating your North Star Metric from day one, you are aligning the team's long-term expectations and focus, and can monitor it on at least a quarterly basis in the early stages of your program, objectively answering questions such as "how likely it is that product X, Y or Z is going to materially plug the gap in 1, 3 or 5 years?".
By using a combination of NSM and OMTM, you'll decrease the risk of support for initiatives being withdrawn early but it will help avoid the possibility that you don't find yourself five years in with all sorts of noteworthy input and output measures to report on but not having moved the needle on what matters most, plugging the Growth Gap.


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With ISIS Threat, Some in GOP Want Defense Cuts Repealed
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By David Francis
For years, Pentagon officials have publicly grumbled that sequestration, combined with the removal of some $600 billion from the defense budget over the next decade, would decimate the military's ability to confront enemies around the world. Now, with Russia and Ukraine on the verge of war and as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria plunders the Middle East – and presents a bold new challenge to the U.S. in the wake of its brutal murder of American journalist Jim Foley – some in Congress are buying into their argument.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) revealed that he and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would attempt to repeal the defense cuts mandated by sequestration.
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In a broad critique of President Obama's strategy to confront ISIS, McCain said that he and Graham would make the "repeal of defense sequestration … our first goal, hopefully in September."
McCain's comments are the first to indicate that budget cuts, the culture change and the shift from a large-war model to a smaller one that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was brought in to implement are not set in stone. For months, DOD brass, including Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno, have been warning the cuts would make the military unable to deal with global threats. Now, he has an ally on Capitol Hill.
Other Republicans are also now demanding a more comprehensive strategy to confront ISIS – suggesting everything from greater support for the Kurdish Peshmerga to partnering with moderates in Syria.
"A containment strategy is not going to cut it," Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) said on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday morning. "We need a strategy that's going to expand the airstrikes, support the Kurds further…[and offer] more support and enhancement for the moderate opposition in Syria to deal with the sanctuaries in Syria. We have to do that if we want to defeat ISIS."
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"What I want to hear from the president is that he has a strategy to finish ISIS off, to defeat ISIS," added Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a potential contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nod, on Face the Nation. "I would reference the fact that [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin] Dempsey [said] that to do this correctly, Syria is going to have to be part of this equation."
Not all critics of the Obama administration's current policy are partisans. Retired Gen. John Allen echoed the Republican concerns.
"It's going to take more than what we're doing right now, There's just no question of this," Allen said on ABC's This Week. "We need to give the American public more clarity in terms of our commitment solely using the terms 'boots on the ground.'"
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that if the White House did not do more to confront ISIS, the group would attempt to strike the west.
"It's about time now to assume the worst about these guys rather than underestimating them — they're not the JV team anymore," Graham said on CNN's State of the Union. "They're the most prominent terrorist organization in the world, but they're not the only one. They're in competition with the other jihadist groups, and the gold medal will be awarded to the group that can hit America."
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Each year, more than 600 Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors receive services through our agency, ranging from case management to access public benefits and entitlements to in-home support, including handyman and housecleaning visits, holiday food package delivery from teen volunteers, and critical new support for advanced care planning as the large majority of our survivors near the end of their lives. The provision of a comprehensive program serving our most frail population enables the agency to be in the right place at the right time to serve as the safety net when one of our clients is in crisis.
Recently, one such client faced insurmountable challenges as a result of her apartment building becoming infested with bedbugs. Forced to dispose of her infected furniture, including her bed and sofa, she had no choice but to use her rent money in order to purchase temporary fixes like an inflatable mattress until she could figure out a better solution. Loathe to depend on others, Bella, a 92-year old émigré from Kiev who was a high school principal earlier in her life, finally felt that she had no choice but to ask for help in her time of need. Arriving for the first time at the J in 1999, Bella was an active member of the J's social clubs for Holocaust Survivors, until she became homebound as her health began to deteriorate. Bella is no longer able to get to the J on a regular basis, but we come to her, in the form of regular telephone reassurance calls by our volunteers, in-home case management visits from our social worker as needed, and holiday food package delivery by our teens. Aiding homebound Holocaust survivors is a top priority for the agency. The help is not episodic; it is part of our comprehensive approach to serving survivors, which includes support from UJA-Federation of New York, NYC City Council, the Blavatnik Foundation, the Ivker family and friends, many of you, and most recently, a sizable grant from the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA.) The new grant from JFNA provides education and support for advanced care planning, including spiritual support to enable survivors and their family members to talk about end of life concerns, empowering survivors to retain control over their decision making as long as possible. It's never easy to talk about death and dying, and for our survivors, their time is too near. Supporting survivors and their family members to talk about how they wish to live the remainder of their lives enables them to live those days in dignity and with the respect they deserve.
For Bella, this week we're providing cash assistance. For another survivor, we're making a home visit in order to help them remain connected to community in the face of their inability to leave their home. For others, it's a conversation about healthcare proxies and durable powers of attorney, empowering survivors to express their wishes for how they want to be cared for as they approach the end of their lives. Bella and so many survivors like her pride themselves on their ability to remain independent. Our work is to develop trusting relationships through which they can ask for help when needed, and to be there when they need it. In the wake of her crisis, Bella received a one-time emergency grant to help cover the cost of not only her rent, but for the purchase of a new mattress as well. We welcome any of our supporters who wish to join a home visit to a homebound Holocaust survivor in our community to be in touch with us today.


RackN is attending next week's Container World in Santa Clara, CA and looks forward to talking not just Containers, but image-based provisioning, immutable infrastructure, DevOps, and other topics. Rob Hirschfeld and Shane Gibson are attending and speaking on Wednesday in two sessions (see below).
We are interested in meeting and talking with fellow technologists. Contact us this week so we can setup times to meet at the event.
Rob and Shane are also presenting next Wed the 28th at the Downtown San Jose DevOps Meetup at 6:30pm. The topic is Building Immutable Kubernetes Clusters.
Keeping up with patches has never been more critical. For hardware, that's… hard. What if servers were deployed 100% ready to run without any need for remote configuration or access? What if we were able to roll a complete rebuild of an entire application stack from the BIOS up in minutes? Those are key concepts behind a cloud and container deployment pattern called "immutable infrastructure." It's called immutable because the servers are deployed from container images produced by CI/CD process and destroyed after use instead of being reconfigured. It's a container and cloud pattern that has finally made it to physical.
In this talk, we'll cover the specific process and its advantages over traditional server configuration. Then we'll dive deeply into open tools and processes that make it possible to drive immutable containers into your own infrastructure. The talk will include live demos and will discuss process and field challenges that attendees will likely face when they start implementation at home. We'll also cover the significant security, time and cost benefits of this approach to make pitching the idea effective.
What are the implications for one vs. the other relative to application portability?
Role of immutable infrastructure in managing services and software deployments in the context of security.
Is there an automation strategy that makes the portability question moot, or is it still an issue?
Security via policy and automation and how do we achieve that automation?
How it impacts to portability? Is it better than, or an alternative to automation?


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The lost waterfront
The former waterfront at Collyer Quay is certainly one place which exemplifies how Singapore has transformed over the years, discarding much of what made Singapore a Singapore which was full of character and flavour, to the sea of glass, steel and concrete Singapore has become today.
The waterfront we inherited from our colonial masters was one of wonderfully designed buildings which might have rivaled Shanghai's Bund. Even in 1971 after the Overseas Union Shopping Centre (see image above) did spoil some of that flavour, it still retained much of its original character. Then, the three "skyscrapers" that came up in the 1950s: the modern looking 15 storey Shell House (1959); the Bank of China Building (1954); and the Asia Insurance Building (1954) (out of picture), still dominated. It was however the grand looking edifices – several of them attributed to architecture firm Swan and MacLaren which designed many notable buildings from our past, which would have been noticed. This included the Maritime Building (former Union Building) with its tower and the HongKong Bank Chambers (1924) next to it. The Fullerton Building (1928) which housed the General Post Office also wouldn't have been missed.
The beginning of the end for the old waterfront came at the end of the decade with the demolition of the HongKong Bank building notable not just for its English Renaissance style design, but also for its stained glass skylight over its main banking hall and huge bronze entrance doors, in 1979. The Maritime Building, built originally for the Union Insurance Society of Canton and which once housed the Far East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, soon followed in the early 1980s. What we do see today is a towering skyline of glass and steel against which the surviving "skyscrapers" of the 1950s are now dwarfed. The buildings along old waterfront which did survive are the Fullerton Building (Fullerton Hotel), Clifford Pier (part of Fullerton Bay Hotel), Bank of China Building, Customs House, and the Asia Insurance Building (Ascott Raffles Place).
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Categories : Architecture, Architecture, Collyer Quay, Forgotten Buildings, Forgotten Places, Marina Bay, New Singapore, Reminders of Yesterday, Singapore


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