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My TV Award Nominee: Q&A w/ Megan Hilty
Before we announce the winners of the 2013 My TV Awards, we're proud to present our annual Nominee Interview Series.
Broadway star Megan Hilty made her foray onto the small screen with NBC's starry but tumultuous Broadway-themed drama Smash. The show had some serious ups and downs but ask anyone who watched and they'll tell you that the big-voiced bombshell behind aspiring-Marilyn Ivy Lynn was the saviour of the show. Smash might be gone but it lasted long enough into 2013 for Megan to score a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role on the drama.
We got to talk to Megan about Smash, working with her idols, where she is now and the marquee-lit path she took there. (hint: Wicked, lots of Wicked).
Do you remember your first experience with theater?
Yeah. I mean, a little bit. I was really, really young and my aunts that came and stayed with us for the summers got us into a little youth theater and I played Bet in Oliver!. I had to kiss a boy, that's all I remember [Laughs].
Is that when you knew you wanted to be a performer?
Yeah, I mean I always knew that I wanted to be a singer from a very, very, very early age. I was always obsessed with music, so much so that I thought I was going to be an opera singer. I started to train classically, and then, I don't know, musical theater just kind of seemed to fit my personality a little bit better.
Have you always loved musical theater? What are some of your favorite shows?
My all-time favorite shows are Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods. I'm a big Sondheim nerd.
Why Sondheim?
Because it's complex, and specifically, I think Sweeney Todd is the perfect musical. If you follow the score, it is a perfect radio play. You get all of the emotion from all the orchestration, all of the words, everything. I just think it's written perfectly.
Would you consider yourself mostly an actress or a singer now?
Hopefully both [Laughs]. I don't know. I try to keep a good balance of the two. While I'm doing Sean Saves the World, I still go out on weekends and do concerts. My own concerts and symphony work on weekends, so I try to keep it balanced.
with Bernadette Peters on Smash
Who are some of the performers who have always inspired you?
I've always wanted to have Bernadette Peters' career, or Audra McDonald. Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel have been rocking it too. So, yeah, I've always looked up to them.
So what was it like then to have Bernadette play your mom?
It was so silly. When they said that she was going to be on the show, not only be on the show, but play my mom, I thought I was going to die. She's the loveliest women, and I'm so lucky to have so many intimate moments with her and to sing with her? That's crazy. Working with Bernadette Peters was a dream come true quite literally. I was pinching myself every day.
as Glinda in Wicked
You mentioned Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Wicked was one of your first big parts on Broadway, right? What was that experience like?
Well, I actually made my Broadway debut opposite Idina Menzel shortly after she won a Tony for it, because I was the standby right after Kristen left, and so my Broadway debut was with Idina, who was incredible. She was so awesome and so nice. You think that somebody like that would have an attitude or something [Laughs]. She just won a Tony and like, you're Idina Menzel and I'm just a little standby, you know? But she was so cool and she just wanted to make it our own whenever we were on stage.
And do you have a favorite Wicked memory?
Oh my gosh. I was in that show for about 4 ½ years, so there isn't one that sticks out. I feel like I grew up with that show; I went into it right out of college. To say that one moment that was more special than the next, it would be really hard to do.
Did you start out in the ensemble?
No, I started out as a standby, which is different. An understudy is in the ensemble, and then they also cover the lead. But a standby is the first to go on if anything should happen, and our only job is to hang out in our dressing room or in the wings in case something goes wrong [Laughs].
with Allison Janney and Stephanie J Block in 9 to 5
You also originated the Dolly Parton role in 9 to 5 when it went to Broadway. How did you go about finding that balance between imitating Dolly, who is so iconic, and creating a new interpretation?
I think Wicked kind of prepared me for that too. You know, because I was following in Kristen Chenoweth's footsteps and Jennifer Laura Thompson who I stood by for, who is a comedic genius, and I had to figure out really early on not to imitate them, but I still had to give that flavor. So, I think that's something that actually came from that job because in Wicked, everybody, the whole audience comes with a certain level of expectation, you have to hit these certain places, but you can't be like a robot and just do what the other person did exactly, because then it's not honest.
How did the role on Smash come about?
I was up in LA, it was pilot season, and I auditioned like everybody else. I almost turned the audition down, because I saw in the character description for Ivy Lynn that she was an incredible dancer, which I am not. So I just wanted to skip the embarrassing dance calls and stuff like that, but luckily my manager is a lot smarter than I am, and she said just go put yourself on tape, and we'll see what happens. And then the rest is history.
with Katharine McPhee on Smash
Having lived through the process of getting a new musical to Broadway, did you find that Smash was at least somewhat faithful to that experience?
Oh yeah, I mean a lot of that show was based in truth. I mean, it wasn't a reality show so they had to heighten some of it to make it interesting to watch, but yeah, it takes a really long time for things to get to Broadway and there's so many changes along the way during readings and workshops and out of town and stuff like that. And there's a lot of drama that goes along with it. You've got a lot of really big personalities- you have to have a big personality to be in the theater- and sometimes they collide and crash and burn. So it's not too far off the mark.
In what ways are you and Ivy similar and different?
I'm similar to her in my ambitions, certainly. I also know what it feels like to feel stuck in your job and feel like nobody can see your full potential. I think that's kind of a universal feeling. But where we differ is how far we're willing to go to achieve what we want [Laughs].
The show went through a lot of really big changes between season 1 and season 2. Was that something you felt as an actress? How did you respond to some of those changes story-wise?
Well, I was really excited for the changes in my character, because I knew they were trying to round her out a little bit, show the humanity and show a different side of Ivy Lynn, so I was excited about that. You know, change is inevitable. Unfortunately, in our business, people come and go all the time, myself included. It was unfortunate to lose a lot of really good friends from season 1 to season 2, but I made a lot of new ones in the next season too.
I wanted to ask you about the music on the show. Did you have a favorite song?
There were three I guess that were my favorite. 'Let's be Bad' was the most fun to shoot. And, 'Moving the Line' was the most fun to sing. And, 'Second Hand White Baby Grand' is just one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, so it just felt really lucky to get to do that.
How are you enjoying working on sitcoms (NBC's Sean Saves the World) now as opposed to the one hour drama? Do you have any plans to return to the stage?
It's so much fun. I really love doing something completely different from Smash. I don't want to get pigeonholed as the girl who sings. I mean, everybody's always like 'when are you going to sing on the show?', and I'm like 'that's the point, to not sing for a minute'. I don't always want to be the person who [Laughs] launches into a song, so it's great to do something new. And the schedule's awesome too.
Published: Wednesday, 2014/02/12 - 20:53
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As we all huff and puff and, through our links and writings, somehow imagine ourselves complicit in the blowing down of the house of Mubarak, perhaps a bit of self-criticism and cooling off is in order. Esther Penbassa gets us started with a a scathingly self-critical essay on Rue89, reminding us that Egypt hardly needed Western sponsorship or rhetorical support to accomplish its task, and that Egyptians, after all, led some rather vigorous anti-colonial movements in the mid-1950s. This was not a completely downtrodden people that needed some Western saviour to accomplish their task.
Unzählige Twittermeldungen werden mit einem Mausklick weitergereicht. Solidaritätsbekundungen werden ins Netz gestellt und angeklickt. 'Slacktivism' nennt Morozov diesen Aktionismus am heimischen Bildschirm, ein Wortspiel aus den Begriffen Slacker (Faulenzer) und Activism (Aktivismus). Für eine wirkliche Revolution muss mehr zusammenkommen – ein kollektiver Leidensdruck, nachvollziehbare Reformideen, Kampfwille, breite Organisationsstrukturen. In den Umwälzungen in Tunesien und Ägypten bleibt das Internet deswgen nur eines von vielen Werkzeugen.
Innumerable Twitter reports can be spread with a click of a mouse. Expressions of support can be put up and clicked on the web. Author Morozov calls this 'Slactivism," a wordplay on the terms slacker and activist. For a real revolution, much more has to come together: a collective expression of anger, comprehensible ideas for reform, the will to struggle, and clear organizational structure. In the social upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt, the Internet therefore remained only one of many implements.
Of course, in the meantime, we can rejoice: after eighteen days, the Huanqiu Shibao, the g0-to official source for Chinese readers who don't read English and who don't want to leapfrog the Great Firewall, has really opened up a whole new vista by including photographs of actual protesters on its main page for news from Egypt. (The tab still talks of "chaos.") Of course, no comments on the stories are allowed, leaving us to grapple through keyboard patriots leaving their expressions of solidarity with Nationalist troops who executed Japanese war criminals in Shanghai in 1947. The people have spoken! And they support Chiang Kai-shek.
Good post. Rue 89. I should have persevered with my high school French.
The Net Delusion. Local library bought six copies and already placed my order for that kill the GFW and the people will be free cold shower. The only real Imagined Community is those arguments outlined by Benedict Anderson, which really explains the Tibetan situation. …. the emergence of literacy thanks to the PRC and the partial and subsequent development of national identity.
As far as auto-critique goes, I'm not indulging this week, since I anticipated BBC's John Simpson lite-on piece on why the Egyptian army didn't side with Mubarak govt: fear of the other ranks and junior officers breaking with army command and siding with the demonstrators. A repeat of the Nasserite ascendency and the fact that military service is by conscription, that the ordinary soldier in Tahrir Square was more than sympathetic with those demostrating folks.
For Egypt, the really interesting times are still ahead of them.
This is an interesting perspective on how much the internet really plays into involving the people into activism. The internet provides a safe place in a way for people to proclaim their views. People are able to speak their minds more freely without feeling the burden of an actual connection to another person since it is all online. Although the internet is not necessarily needed for conflicting thought and then acting on those thoughts, it provides a means for people who would not have spoken out about it in the first place to feel like they are doing something.
While facebook and twitter, tools of the newest generation of protestors worldwide, certainly play a role in promoting political (even revolutionary) action. These sites certainly do provide a forum for open discussion of political and social issues and allow connections to be made between individuals with disparate ideologies or philosophies that have a desire to achieve similar goals. However, in the case of Egypt, the government, headed by President Mubarak, was able to shut down the internet rather quickly in an attempt to quell the growing unrest. Nevertheless the Egyptian protestors were able to succeed in organizing and persuading the president to step down – all without the aid of the ubiquitous social networking tools. No matter how much effort nations such as China put into prohibiting mass social networking through the internet, it seems that even without these resources revolutionary sentiments are able to spread rapidly, especially in extremely populated areas; much as they have for thousands of years.


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X-Files, Dark Angel, X-Men 2: BC Hydro assets play starring role
In 2013 alone, BC Hydro's Grandview Substation was used a filming location for Supernatural, Arrow, The 100 and Almost Human.
Substations, dams and other BC Hydro locations have long history in film & TV
Turbines generating electricity bring movies and TV shows to life for billions of viewers all over the world. But did you know that BC Hydro's assets — dams, turbines, generating stations and substations — often appear in Hollywood films and TV series as well?
In the eyes of many film directors, our substations, plants, dams — and even our parking lots and warehouses — are ideal locations for movies, television, and commercials. Subject to meeting BC Hydro's operational and safety requirements, we enter into short term film licence agreements with major studios including Disney, Universal, MGM, Warner and Lions Gate.
"One of the major benefits derived from licensing BC Hydro facilities for filming is job creation for British Columbians," said Reagan Stinson, manager of property leasing and sales for BC Hydro. "A typical filming period (up to seven days) could employ up to 300 local, film-related workers.
"In addition, film companies often repair, paint and cleanup our facilities. The rental received is a good source of revenue for BC Hydro and can be used to offset property taxes and general maintenance costs."
History of filming at BC Hydro began in 1980s
Hollywood-based filming in the Lower Mainland began to take off in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Until that point, it was very occasional and took place mostly in scenic rural areas, such as the Rockies.
But once the Canadian dollar decreased relative to the American dollar, it became more cost-effective to film here. Filmmakers discovered that we had more to offer than the Rockies.
Links to filming at BC Hydro began in the early 1980s with two films shot at the then BC Hydro-owned Dominion Bridge property located in central Burnaby: Mother Lode (1981) and Runaway (1983). Over the past 20 years, production companies have filmed scenes at BC Hydro locations throughout the Lower Mainland for television shows and feature films, such as The X- Files, Dark Angel, Smallville, Sliders, and Alien vs. Predator.
Buntzen and Alouette Lake, the former Grandview Substation and the former Lower Mainland Control Centre properties are now on the radar of production companies, especially for action filming. Grandview filming projects in 2013 were: Supernatural, Arrow, The 100 and Almost Human.
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Wondering where you might have seen BC Hydro on film? Next time you're watching one of these, keep a sharp eye out for BC Hydro locations:
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Smallville episodes #621 — "Prototype," #622 — "Phantom" and #701 "Bizarro"
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MacGyver, Season 5, episode #8 — "Black Rhino"
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Annacis Island Substation
Fringe episode #404 — "Subject 9"
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Henry Pratt, a former BC Electric employee, later took on the stage name Boris Karloff and became best known for his role as the silver screen's most famous monster, Frankenstein.
While BC Hydro is decommissioning H-Frames in alleys around Vancouver, we are keeping some intact de-energized to serve as backdrops for the film industry.
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Edinson Yubanny Burbano Cordoba was slain when a police post was assaulted at the village of San Joaquin in the municipality of El Tambo.
"I've just been in touch with the police commander in Cauca and they're in control of the area. Unfortunately the death of a police officer is a great cause of sorrow to all of us in the region," provincial Gov. Oscar Rodrigo Campo said.
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As I'm sure we all know, Toys R Us has officially announced that they're closing doors. All 735 of the current stores are soon going to be shut down. The local store where I live, didn't specifically say that they're going out of business, but it does seems to be in liquidation mode as I saw some empty shelves while going there. So, I decided to go there and buy a few things.
The first I bought is a five-figure Ren and Stimpy set. I found it fitting to get something based off a 90s Nick property as one of the last things I bought from Toys R Us. Why? Well, remember Nickelodeon's Super Toy Run?
Second, is of course, Kirby Star Allies. I was going to buy that digitally, but it made sense to buy a video game from Toys R Us, as that was where I got some of my games from as a kid. Not to mention the poster they had for the SNES Classic gave me a nostalgic flashback, as it felt like an ad I'd see at a place like Toys R Us back in the day.
As for why Toys R Us shut down, some have pointed to e-commerce, and tablet devices as the main culprit. And while that may be a big part of it, the biggest reason is because of debt. In 2005, Toys R Us went through a leveraged buyout, where they shifted to being a private company, and were bought by Bain Capital Partners (which, by the way, was owned by former presidential candidate, Mitt Romney), Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and Vornado Reality Trust for 6.6 Billion dollars... all of which were paid through by loans. And when you make loans to buy a big company, or even a house payments, then you better be damn sure you have enough money to pay it off... hence where the debt comes from.
On top of all that, the market of toys has been changing, as the world was shifting to smartphone apps and e-commerce. And because the suppliers needed to be paid to supply their products to Toys R Us, it was much harder for the company to do so. In other words, they were royally screwed.
But then, the part that I absolutely hate the most is that the executives are going to be receiving payout bonuses, despite them doing a very crappy job running Toys R Us. So in other words, they're receiving a golden parachute, including the CEO of the company, where they're basically fired from their jobs, but they receive millions of dollars to stay fired. Can you imagine working a 9-5 job, and you receive a bonus like that where you would never have to work another day in your life? Well, that's what the Toys R Us executives are receiving. And I guarantee you the average worker is barely going to get anything after Toys R Us is completely gone for good. But that's crony capitalism for you.
Either way, it's very sad to see Toys R Us go away. While I haven't shopped there a whole lot as a kid, I remember at the occasions when my parents would take me, it felt like a wonderful place to look around in. My biggest memory was probably when my parents got me this Fisher-Price house that I kept in my room for the rest of the time I lived in that old house, though I would later use it as storage.
You guys know the gal who created the Toys "R" Us jingle?
Expect me to mention the Nickelodeon toy run in my Toys R Us article. Also was the game on sale?
No, the game wasn't on sale. I'm not sure if anything was on sale. I just saw that the store seemed to be on clearance. How long my local Toys R Us will stay open, I'm not sure.
Unfortunately, I have no idea where a Toys R Us is even near me. I thought about going to one to pick up something for old times sake, but sadly that looks like that isn't even going to happen.
I worked at Toys R Us back in 2009/2010. Great place to work. Only reason I left was due to my mom's illness.. we were just talking about how screwed I'd be right now if I had stayed. Really hoping all the workers can find other work.
I have good memories of going to TRU like everybody else, but honestly, I'm not that upset about them closing down. It's not like toys themselves are going away forever, just a certain retailer.
I should stop by my local one, while I still have a chance. Maybe pick something up for old time's sake (to quote RAR).
There a few Toys 'R' Us buildings that are still open where I live, but sadly it's only a matter of time before they close for good. It's a shame, really, because I used to go there and buy Star Wars toys when I was a kid. It was fun while it lasted.
I worked at Toys R Us for approximately 2 days. This was back in 2008 or so, and even then the manager was explaining how TRU was trying to rebrand somethings, like making the "R-Zone" a Bestbuy like shopping ceneter for electronics. IMO, the reason they closed was because when you go to TRU it's strictly for buying toys. Where as you go to Wal-Mart you can get your groceries and toys all in one trip. I'm sure a lot of parents liked taking their kids to TRU but it was also probably an ordeal as well.
The term, "Can we go to the Toy Store" is now dead, that's so strange to me.
Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever been to a Toys "R" Us store, even though I remember seeing commercials for it on TV as a kid. I'm not sure if the reason was because there wasn't one close enough to us when I was a kid or if it was that because the closest one to us wasn't easily accessible by public transportation. My mom didn't drive until I was almost in high school, so most everywhere we went was by bus.
That's not to say I never visited a toy store as a kid. We visited Kay Bee Toys, which has long been out of business, quite frequently. Still, even having never been to a Toys "R" Us store, it is sad to see them go. It's just one more example of how the world is changing.
Toys R' Us is a nostalgia gold mine. It was my favorite store to go to as a kid and I have so many great memories of buying TMNT figures, Legos, Pokemon cards, and even video games in my teen years. Outside of a theme park, I've never seen a greater collection of Lego sets. Also, the Toys R' Us Christmas Catalog would be fun reading.
I would be interested to find out what toys were some of its best sellers in its final years.


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The Asian Restaurant & Takeaway Awards (ARTA) are a unique festival that celebrates the best of British Asian curry. Founded in 2017, the programme seeks to find and judge the best restaurateurs across the country, with the final winners awarded at a gala event in London with our champion of champions trophy. Our team works tirelessly in support of this goal, helping to highlight the extraordinary talent working in the industry and the culinary skill and expertise which is so often overlooked in the restaurant sector. For us, British Asian curry is indelibly embedded in the British identity and celebrating this mix of cultures is something amazing, powerful, and worth celebrating. But with 16000+ restaurants across the UK, choosing the best of these establishments is exceptionally challenging.


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NSE Hits A Century – 100th ETF Listed On The Platform3 min read
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One of India's largest stock exchanges NSE reportedly said that the number of Exchange Traded Funds listed on the platform has reached a century with a daily turnover of Rs. 265 cr in the current financial year.
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are innovative investment options that combine the features of stocks and mutual funds. Like stocks, they are listed on exchanges – NSE & BSE and can be traded through during open market hours. Similarly, like mutual funds, Exchange Traded Funds offers investors access to a diversified portfolio that spans across the strategic sectors of the economy.
As per the World Federation of Exchanges data, NSE is ranked ninth globally in terms of the number of trades in ETFs as of May 2021.
History Of ETFs And Its Key Growth Drivers
Benchmark Mutual Fund (now Nippon India Mutual Fund) was the pioneer in ETFs in India. In 2001, the country witnessed its first Exchange Traded Fund – the benchmark Nifty 50 ETF (Nifty BeES).
It got listed on the NSE and tracked the Nifty 50 Index. Nifty BeES was a revolutionary avenue at that time in the sense that with a single effort investors could gain exposure to the whole index and maintain a diversified portfolio without any active fund manager and at a very low cost.
The ETF was launched on the Nifty 50 Index, and Day 1 witnessed trading of around Rs. 1.30 crore on the exchange.
Growth of ETFs In India
Assets under management (AUM) of ETFs in India stand at Rs.3.16 lakh crore (end of May 2021), which is nearly 14 times increase in five years compared with Rs.23,000 crores (end of April 2016).
With the surge in the stock market and new investors, the number of investors transacting in ETFs on NSE has also gone up by 96% to 4.01 million in FY21 from 2.04 million in FY20.
As per the media reports, "The first three months of FY22 has already seen transactions by more than 22 lakh (2.2 million) investors."
Much of the ETF growth can be attributed to equity and debt ETFs as against Gold ETFs. The share of gold ETFs in the total ETF composition remained high from 2009 (51%) to 2013 (88%), while the other ETFs (equity & debt) were still gaining momentum (Source: AMFI data). The high levels of uncertainty plugged by the global credit crisis of 2008 made people pool most of their assets into gold ETFs as a safe haven.
From 2014 onwards, the share of other ETFs (equity & debt) picked up steam and went from 39% (2014) of total ETF AUM to as high as 93% in 2020. (Source: AMFI data)
The underperformance of over 90% of active mutual funds in the large-cap category as per SPIVA report 2018 has perked up investors' interests in passive funds.
Then, the extensive efforts of SEBI and AMCs towards spreading ETF education and awareness are growing a community of DIY investors who would be looking for wealth creation opportunities in ETFs.
Besides, the government's efforts to position an ETF like Bharat-22 as a tax-efficient avenue along with a core part of their divestment activities to raise capital would be the key tailwind for the growth of ETFs in the future. Nippon India ETF Gold BeES and Bharat Bond ETF, among others, are some of the largest ETFs in India.
If you are looking for low-cost passive investment options over the long term & face a paucity of time to track markets closely, then ETFs are good avenues to create wealth for achieving your financial goals.
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We live in unprecedented times of great digital advances and innovation. Technology is moving and changing rapidly across the world while connecting us in unforeseen ways. Today's youth are digital natives who are unaware of life without Internet access, instant communication, mobile phones and an abundance of on-demand information sitting in their pockets.
Although this generation can navigate the digital world with ease, it is unreasonable to assume young people fully understand how to leverage technology for best possible outcomes. Research shows that most youth use the Internet to view media outlets and to communicate with friends through social media applications. Online, teens are not more digitally literate or skilled than adults. Most teens have not been exposed to the tools they need to boost their careers, such as writing, web design or content production. In addition, online security, legitimate dangers and potential digital footprint consequences are discussions yet to be had. As a society, it is our responsibility to ensure youth are fully aware as well as educated about digital citizenship. Education institutions, parents, community programs and youth organizations must make digital citizenship a priority to ensure our young leaders are on solid ground for a positive future. The call for teaching digital citizenship must no longer remain in question; it is a critical priority for youth, our communities and the nation.
How do you define digital citizenship?
Digital Citizenship is defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use; it can be broken down into eight strategic areas: etiquette, communication, literacy, commerce, law, access, security and rights and responsibilities. Digital Citizenship is more than just a curriculum to be taught in a classroom; it is an ongoing process to prepare youth for a society immersed in technology, personally and professionally.
Assisted by the convenience and constant access to information provided by mobile devices, especially smartphones, 92% of teens report going online daily — including 24% who say they go online "almost constantly." More than half (56%) of teens (ages 13-17) go online several times a day, and 12% report once-a-day use. Just 6% of teens report going online weekly, and 2% go online less often.
African-American teens are the most likely of any group of teens to have a smartphone, with 85% having access to one, compared with 71% of both white and Hispanic teens. Mobile devices have become a primary driver of teen Internet use: Fully 91% of teens go online from mobile devices at least occasionally. Among these "mobile teens," 94% go online daily or more often. By comparison, teens who don't access the Internet via mobile devices tend to go online less frequently. Some 68% go online at least daily.
As a result of these growing statistics, parents and education institutions are becoming more aware of digital citizenship while beginning to take an active role. However, because technology changes so quickly, it can be challenging to keep up.
Today, 60% of parents say they've checked their teenagers' profiles on social networking sites. However, a majority of teens (58%) have quickly learned how to obscure and confuse their parents online by changing content, using inside jokes and secret coded messages that only their friends can understand.
In the education system, digital citizenship is disseminated across the board, with no federal or state requirements in reference to a standard curriculum. In some educational institutions, technology is embraced and students have access to iPads and Internet use for research and projects. Some schools include cutting-edge technology programs that raise online awareness about digital opportunities as well as educating students about the real dangers.
Only a fourth of teachers say digital citizenship is taught at their schools.
This dichotomy among the education population can lead to lack of opportunities for youth in the digital space and for future employment in the STEM field.
By 2018, STEM jobs in the U.S. are expected to grow nearly twice as fast as other fields, resulting in more than eight million positions. Unfortunately, three million of these jobs in STEM may remain vacant due to the lack of required skills and technological exposure. The technology that has changed the world, ironically, also holds the greatest gap for future career opportunities.
Students not only need to be competent in how to use digital technology; they need to learn about different digital dimensions that will enhance their futures for employment. Some examples include coding, animation, web design, blogging, cyber-security and narrowing down information. Youth today must understand the digital world from a holistic picture in order to truly understand how the digital world works behind the scenes, and their roles as part of this platform.
As a result of the rapid changes in technology, all of us a society must be dedicated to playing a leading role to meet the needs of today's youth. This strategy not only recognizes the call to empower young people with digital tools they need for future success, but also runs parallel to the way students learn in the 21st century.
Together, it is our job to understand that digital citizenship is not only a priority today, but is also an ongoing concern that impacts young people from middle school through college and into the workforce. With these technological needs in mind, a global commitment must be made by providing mentors, resources and tools to those who need it most today while bridging the technological gap toward opportunities in the STEM field for tomorrow.
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Iris Andraschek-Holzer (née le  à Horn) est une artiste contemporaine autrichienne.

Biographie
Iris Andraschek-Holzer étudie de 1982 à 1988 à l'académie des beaux-arts de Vienne auprès de Maximilian Melcher. De 1986 à 1987, elle vient à l'école de fresque à Bolzano.

De 1997 à 2000, elle travaille pour le gouvernement de Basse-Autriche en tant que conseillère pour l'art public.

En 2008, elle devient membre de MAERZ et de la Sécession viennoise.

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Artiste contemporain autrichien
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Étudiant de l'académie des beaux-arts de Vienne
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Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. This is a historic event to share with our children.
Read books about Obama, plan a party, have a parade, and decorate your house. Hang streamers, and blow up red, white, and blue balloons.
– Dessert: Make patriotic cupcakes and serve Ben & Jerry's Yes, Pecan! Ice cream.
Make simple things like napkin rings, placemats, or noisemakers or for the advanced crafter make a white house out of Popsicle sticks. Find the project how-tos on the Amazing Moms and Kaboose.
The inauguration along with LOTS of other commentary will be aired on most of the networks, including MTV and Nickelodeon from morning until night.
If you would rather not watch this historic event alone here is a list of where to watch the Inauguration Live in Rhode Island on January 20, 2009. If you know of other venues, please tell us in the comments below.
Watch the inauguration on a big—screen TV at Providence Performing Arts Center Inauguration Watch Celebration.
The swearing-in ceremony for Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden is set to begin at 11:30 a.m.
The event will be in the Bell Area Rotunda.
Doors open at 10:30 a.m. for the ceremony beginning at 11:00 AM. It is free and open to the public.
Scholastic has a little website where kids can see what it's like to be president. They must choose their cabinet, make a balanced budget and then be interviewed by the press about their decisions. At the end it creates a newspaper article about their presidency with their own real quotes.
Watch videos of kids talking about what they'd like to see Obama do in office to make the world a better place, then vote for the ideas you think are best. Kids can also submit their ideas for Obama.
Read Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes and Barack by Jonah Winter. Children can learn more about the life of Obama from boyhood up to now.
There will be an Inauguration-related worship service at First Unitarian on Benefit & Benevolent streets at 7PM on inauguration day.
Books on the Square: 471 Angell St., Providence, RI – Bring a Bag Lunch and Watch this Historic Event. Starting tomorrow at 11:30!
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By Michelle Petrillo	June 16, 2016, 12:00 am Edit
Franklin Lewis Perlmutter, 57, of Sherborn, Mass., died June 3, 2016. He was born in Newark and grew up in Short Hills. In 1982 he moved to Madison, Wis., and to the Boston area after his marriage in 1983. He spent many summers at Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
Mr. Perlmutter and a friend, Geoff Palmer, cofounded Information Marketing Businesses, one of the nation's first enterprise workforce management companies. At IMB, he served as president for 15 years until SimplexGrinnell acquired the business. He was a vice president at SimplexGrinnell in the time recorder division for several years, playing an instrumental role in the company's eventual sale to Tyco Corporation. In 2002 he founded Pondview Capital, LLC, a boutique investment banking firm specializing in merger and acquisition services for both established and emerging companies.
He attended the Pingry School. While in high school, he was president of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun youth group and Jersey Federation of Temple Youth.
He graduated from Vassar College with a BA in psychology. He also studied organizational behavior and management at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
With his wife Liz, he became involved with the Dover-Sherborn School District. He served as president of the Sports Boosters for many years, striving to improve the school's deteriorating stadium. His fund-raising efforts provided the school with a turf field, stadium lighting, and a solid polyurethane track. He also worked with the school district to purchase additional land for practice fields adjacent to the high school. The road connecting the properties is officially called "Perlmutter Pass" in his honor. He established the Dover-Sherborn Triathlon, now in its 12th year, hosting thousands of participants. He mentored several athletic directors and coaches throughout his tenure, contributing to an increasingly competitive sports program and several state championships across multiple men's and women's sports.
Predeceased by his father, Milton, and his father-in-law, Robert R. Robins, he is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Ann (Robins); two sons, Michael and Andrew; his daughter, Julia; his mother, Harriet (Krichman); a sister, Genesia Kamen; a brother, David; and his mother-in-law, Luann Robins.
Services were held June 8 with arrangements by George F. Doherty & Son's Funeral Home, Wellesley, Mass. Memorial contributions may be made to Boston Children's Hospital.


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Wictor and Latz perform genre-bending takes on popular music
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Pat Wictor and Deborah Latz will perform genre-bending improvisational takes on Phil Ochs, Ornette Coleman, The Beatles, Irving Berlin, as well as perform original compositions, at Voices Cafe at The Unitarian Church in Westport June 8.
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When an acoustic singer/songwriter guitar/slide guitarist meets a jazz singer from the performance art scene at a Bobby McFerrin workshop at the Omega Institute you wind up with Pat Wictor and Deborah Latz performing genre-bending improvisational takes on Phil Ochs, Ornette Coleman (with Wictor's lyrics), The Beatles, Irving Berlin and others, as well as original compositions.
The pair will perform at Voices Cafe at The Unitarian Church in Westport Saturday, June 8.
Coming from two different musical realms they clicked over their shared love of melody, poetry and possibility, according to a news release.
Wictor first became known for his slide guitar playing and innovative re-imagining of traditional and contemporary songs. He spent most of the last seven years touring all over North America as one third of the acclaimed harmony-driven trio Brother Sun.
New York-based jazz singer, songwriter, arranger and actress Latz can move from a deep and soulful ballad, to scatting on a bebop tune, to trading fours with a hip-hop artist.
An American by birth, Wictor's early years were spent in Venezuela, the Netherlands, Norway, England and East Texas. His time abroad gave him the perspective of a world citizen, and set him on a journey to understanding America — and his own American-ness — through music. Through these early experiences, he gained an appreciation for taking different paths to arrive at the same destination, according to the release.
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Latz trained extensively as an actress and has worked in dramatic and musical theater both in the U.S. and abroad. Her theater credits include the off-Broadway comedy "High Infidelity" and her own one-woman show, "Travels With Ma Own Self," which opened in New York and toured in Europe. She continues to travel the globe as a performing artist, in addition to performing regularly in New York.
Voices Café at The Unitarian Church in Westport, 10 Lyons Plains Road. Saturday, June 8, 8 p.m. $25. Seating is cabaret style (at tables) and table reservations (minimum four people) are accepted. David Vita at 203.227.7205 x 14, voicescafe.org


Goal #2 of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture by 2030. This calls for innovative agricultural solutions worldwide, in order to feed the projected 8.5 billion people for the referred year. Different agricultural development models have been tested and used globally, including the green revolution. However, the current trends tend to encourage farming models that use low chemical inputs, relying on biodiversity and natural products.
Throughout history, humankind has largely relied on plants for foods, medicines, and other services. Many of these plants have undergone domestication, while an even larger proportion remained in the wild state and were never cultivated. Humans started to domesticate plants and animals nearly 12,000 years ago (Gepts and Papa 2002). Trends also indicated that 50% of today's domesticated land plants and animals were so since 4,000–5,000 years before present (Duarte et al. 2007). Overall, greater domestication efforts were made by first humans, most plausibly as a result of the changing environment (Zeder 2015).
Besides, it is estimated that out of the 391,000 plant species that have been identified, so far 30,000 of them are edible, and about 5,538 have been cultivated or collected to meet food needs by humans throughout history (FAO 1998; Kew 2016). However, only four plant species (rice, wheat, maize, and potato) provide 60% of the world's food energy supply today. This is a consequence of modern agriculture characterized by uniformity of production, resulting in extensive land conversion and concomitant agricultural biodiversity loss (Sunderland 2011). In fact, the ever-increasing demands for foods and other services, combined with new global challenges (e.g. climate change), have led contemporary civilizations to put more emphasis on developing high-yielding and pest- and disease-resistant varieties, for a very narrow set of selected crops. This option has proven effective in achieving food security in many parts of the world, while its efficiency in reaching adequate nutrition, healthy lives, and sustainable agricultural and food systems is disputed (Khoury et al. 2014). In fact, high-yielding varieties, often hybrids, are high inputs demanding (chemical fertilizers and pesticides) that the smallholder farmers in developing countries can hardly afford. In addition, there are arguments that biodiverse and multifunctional farms and landscapes, especially by including and managing landraces and wild edible plants, enhance resilience of the agroecosystems to extreme weather and reduce risks of crop failure (Antofie and Sava Sand 2018; Jarvis et al. 2012; Sunderland 2011). Indeed, the presence of these crop landraces and wild relatives in the agroecosystems for centuries increased their adaptive capacity, as they have evolved with the changing environment. In this respect, wild food and medicinal species are continuously introduced, evaluated, and maintained in agroecosystems by smallholder farmers. However, national and global agricultural policies promoting new bred varieties and regulating international trade may negatively affect efforts of the smallholders to maintain and increase agricultural biodiversity for sustainable food and nutrition security.
The current paper reviews the contributions of plant domestication for improved food security.
Scholarly literature on plant domestication, its objectives, principles, and benefits to humans in terms of climate change adaptation and mitigation and strengthened food and nutrition security was reviewed. Data were retrieved with CABI and Google Scholar search engines. Data search terms were domestication, climate change, resilience, and food security.
Several authors have attempted to explain the Neolithic Revolution that brought domestication and agriculture. The most plausible explanation is that domestication is a response to the unbalance between supply and demand for foodstuffs (Gepts and Papa 2002). The food shortage in this context can be either due to population increase or to climate change or both. Thus, domestication aimed to supplement this shortage in food by developing new and reliable food sources. By domesticating new crops, human increases the availability of food products and other non-food stuffs they need to maintain their lives. Nowadays, domestication of new crops is more seen as diversification strategy in order to increase the resilience of both food and nutrient security and the agricultural ecosystems.
The core principles for successful plant domestication are the intrinsic characteristics of the species that should let them adapt to cultivation environments and management practices, and these traits must be highly heritable. This is known as the domestication syndrome (Gepts and Papa 2002). The more plastic characters are, the more "domesticable" are the species. The highly adaptative plastic types can be easily produced in different environments. The most important of such traits include the ability of seed to quickly loose dormancy, ability to retain seeds upon maturity, increase in seed size, etc. (Jarvis et al. 2016). Other traits concurring to the success of plant domestication are the growth habit (compact), the pollination system (self-pollination), and the amount of toxic compounds (low) in organs.
It is admitted that domestication has transformed human societies. The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture was an important revolution in human's history. In fact, by developing new crops and producing enough food reserves, it allowed for specialization of groups in society. Food production has led to technology explosion where sedentary living allowed for the accumulation of heavy technology (Diamond 2002). Indeed, domestication continues to affect humankind by providing alternative resources and strengthening resilience of food and agroecosystems. For instance, domestication of indigenous tropical fruit trees (Dacryodes edulis (G.Don) H.J.Lam, Irvingia gabonensis (Aubry-Lecomte ex O'Rorke) Baill., Ziziphus mauritiana Lam., etc.) increased farmers' income and enhanced agroforests' functions (Tchoundjeu et al. 2006; Leakey et al. 2003).
There is rising voice on the potential of biodiversity in addressing problems of malnutrition (Burlingame and Dernini 2012). Agricultural diversification involves the combination of several crop varieties and/or species in the farm plots. With the increased uncertainty induced by climate change, there is increased recommendation to diversify the farming systems in order to enhance their resilience (Remans et al. 2015; World Economic Forum 2018). Most often, the neglected and underutilized species (NUS) dominate these "diversified fields." These comprise many stress-tolerant crop landraces or varieties that support harvest security under climate stress and variability. In fact, these NUS crops are usually recently domesticated or still undergoing the domestication process which farmers continue to breed in their farms. They have evolved with the changes of the environment and enable agroecological interactions that mitigate the effect of climate change (e.g., reduced evaporation, enhanced soil fertility, and reduced pest and disease pressure). Such species include fonio (Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf), many of the traditional leafy vegetables (Cleome gynandra L., Crassocephalum spp.), and indigenous fruit trees (Vitellaria paradoxa C.F.Gaertn., Vitex doniana Sweet). Development of new crops from the currently non-cultivated ones can increase the overall food supply (Rubatzky and Yamaguchi 1997). However, diversification alone does not lead automatically to a reduction in climate vulnerability or improved nutritional status of people. This should be developed around the complementarities of species and landraces/varieties based on current and future climatic and socioeconomic conditions. This should also be informed by the awareness on dietary inadequacies of households' food patterns and cultural norms and enabling policies and appropriate institutional supports, for instance, in the form of incentives to support farmers' conservation efforts.
The ultimate aim of sustainable agriculture is to develop productive and profitable farming systems that are likely to conserve the natural resource base, protect the environment, and enhance health and safety and to do so over the long term (Parr et al. 1990). The approach focuses on the cultural and management practices. According to Pretty (2008), the concept of sustainability encompasses both those of resilience (the capacity of systems to withstand shocks and stresses) and persistence (the capacity of systems to continue over long periods). In the face of the challenge of feeding nearly nine billion people by 2050, recent development indicated agroecology-based farming system as the unique system that can boost food production and improve the situation of the poorest (Altieri et al. 2012). Agroecology-based production systems are intrinsically biodiverse, resilient, energetically efficient, and socially just and comprise the basis of an energy, productive, and food sovereignty strategy. It has been reported that farmers employing this production system have developed good coping and anticipative strategies toward climate change. The agroecologically sound production system is based on a number of principles including (i) the integration of biological and ecological processes into food production, (ii) the avoidance of the use of environmentally harmful inputs, (iii) the efficient use of the knowledge and skills of farmers, and (iv) the productive use of people's collective capacities to work together to solve common agricultural and natural resource problems, such as pest, watershed, irrigation, forest, and credit management. In this system, the importance of agroforestry and tree-based system for the sustainability has been largely recognized (Scherr and McNeely 2008). Tree species undergoing the domestication process, from the simple on-farm conservation to the proper cultivation, hold the potential to diversify the agricultural system and thus to increase the farming system resilience. For instance, in countries such as Malawi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, and Cameroon, the association of on-farm conserved fast-growing and nitrogen-fixing shrubs (e.g., Calliandra spp. and Tephrosia spp.) with maize enhanced maize production by 62.5% compared to a maize mono-cropping system. Similarly, in Malawi, maize yields were increased by up to threefold in the zone under the tree canopy compared with the zone outside the tree canopy (Altieri et al. 2012). Apart from their direct contribution to production, tree species under domestication also contribute to nutrient recycling through dead leaves that participate to enrich the soil. The re-greening of Maradi and Zinder regions of Niger through the establishment of woodland trees over five million hectares represented another important example of the contribution of species domestication (through farmer-assisted natural regeneration) to the agricultural system's resilience (Sendzimir et al. 2011).
Conservation of plant genetic resources through in situ conservation of the species in their native habitat, circa situm conservation through species management in agroforestry and cultivated systems, and ex situ management through conservation in gene banks and field banks are fully part of biodiversity conservation (Dawson et al. 2013). These three approaches require optimization for biodiversity sustainability. In parallel, domestication is a long-standing process starting by the simple gathering followed by incipient domestication (under all its forms) strategies and ending by a clear breeding of utmost interesting traits. Domestication ultimately resulted in the mastering of species attributes. Each of the above-detailed domestication processes contributes to some extent to optimize and/or increase the conservation of biodiversity. In the earlier gathering stage of the domestication, diverse resources (mainly seeds from fruit or flower) are collected from different places and shifted to new ones and then contribute to an unplanned enrichment of the local biodiversity. In the following stage of incipient domestication, its contribution to biodiversity increase is higher. Incipient domestication is expressed as the on-farm maintenance and management of species either in home gardens or in agroforestry systems and is widely applied by local communities (Msuya et al. 2008). Home gardens are considered as the first place of domestication experimentation by local populations (Watson 2002), where planting materials especially seeds and cuttings are gathered and planted or introduced with the expectation to help diversify household food diets (Gautam et al. 2009). Home gardens often encompass a high number of species, from various genera to families. In Nepal, for instance, a study across 4 localities of Hill and Terai Plain (Gulmi, Ilam, Jhapa, and Rupandehi) revealed a total number of 342 species recorded in home gardens (Gautam et al. 2009). In Benin, roughly 300 species belonging to 200 families were recorded in home gardens, out of which 20 were wild crop relatives (Salako et al. 2014). More importantly, there was a very low similarity among the species diversity in those home gardens, across the major phytogeographical areas of the country. What was initially considered as planting attempts quickly became a center of huge mini-biodiversity favored by natural mating among crops and artificial selection. Incipient domestication through home gardens largely contributed to biodiversity creation and increase. By so doing domestication offered the possibility to populations to extract a large part of their needs (e.g., foodstuffs) from these home gardens, rather than exerting pressure on protected areas designed to favor in situ conservation. On other hand, the on-farm conservation of tree species expands the magnitude of the exploitation of useful species by populations without relying on species under in situ conservation. This then helps maintain the evolutionary trend in these latter species, thus allowing new variation to be generated in the gene pool that will allow the species to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Incipient domestication also helps take plant species out of pressure or extinction. For instance, out of the 300 species recorded in home gardens in Benin, 12 species were classified as threatened. In the same vein, Vodouhè and Dansi (2012) indicated that the species Caesalpinia bonduc (L.) Roxb. (a red-listed species in Benin) would have completely disappeared in that country if it has not been incipiently domesticated and maintained in their home gardens by local communities. Another strong illustration of the contribution of domestication to biodiversity creation was exemplified by Salick (1992). The author indicated that for the species Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal, the Yanesha indigenous people of central Peru took advantage of maternal inheritance and used successive selection schemes to create 35 new fruit types (combining shape and size). Likewise, from 1986 to 1999, there has been a 90% turnover in the diversity of Manihot esculenta Crantz cultivars used by the same Yanesha people (Salick et al. 2000). When it comes to active and advanced domestication stages, development of cost-effective propagation techniques, a better understanding of the seed physiology, the reproductive biology, and development of production packages will help maintain and increase diversity. Understanding seed physiology and development of appropriate propagation technics help identify the best ex situ conservation approaches (living collections, botanical gardens, tissue culture, and gene bank storage) and maintain existing diversity. As far as a clear knowledge on the reproductive biology and of the genetic variation are concerned, they would help increase biodiversity through crossing and mutation induction, while development of appropriate agronomic techniques is of foreground importance in sustaining the biodiversity created.
Food and nutrition security exists when all people at all times have physical, social, and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, and is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services, and care, allowing for a healthy and active life. The concept of food and nutrition security was one of the hottest topics in the research and development initiatives during this last decade. It encompasses the main dimensions of availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability and was discussed at four main levels: global, national/regional, household, and individual level (Sassi 2018; Biesalski et al. 2017). In this section, the interplay between plant species domestication and the food and nutrition security at the household and individual level was analyzed. Although there is still debate around unifying the definition of the "crop domestication" concept (Rindos 1984), due to conflicting approaches used, there was however agreements that domestication ultimately ends up in a certain phenotypic differentiation in the domesticates compared to wild forms. There is also an increase in the frequency of favorable allele underpinning traits of interest through successive selection pressure imposed by domesticators herewith referred as human. Worldwide, smallholder farmers often viewed as resources-limited people relied to a large extent on the intensive, but rationale use of wild diversity for various purposes. In Europe, roughly 600 edible plant species were wild-collected for consumption (Schulp et al. 2014). On the same continent, the benefit generated from wild berry and fruit collection in 12 countries in 2005 amounted €42 million (MCPFE et al. 2007). Similarly, a study conducted on 7 Mediterranean species indicated that more than 400 wild plants species are gathered and consumed (Hadjichambis et al. 2008). In Africa, a total of 165 wild edible plant species were reported consumed by local population of Turumbu, Mbole, and Bali in the district of Tshopo in Congo (Termote et al. 2011), whereas in Ethiopia 56 wild fruit species were reported to be collected for consumption and/or for sale by the local population of 3 districts in the Amhara region (Fentahun and Hager 2009). Moreover, these wild resources are reported to be highly nutrient-rich and then hold the potential to correct the nutrient deficienc in local population and reduced cost associated with a balanced diet (Termote et al. 2014). There is evidence from Mali that the smallholders with higher natural capital (improved crop varieties, landraces, and wild managed species) were more food secure (N'Danikou et al. 2017). More importantly, wild plant resources are reservoir for useful genes for cisgenesis and transgenesis, especially to cope with climate change adverse effects. However, a frail aspect in these wild resources exploitation is the random pattern in their availability and their low production that hampere their potential to sustainably contribute to food and nutrition security. For a long time, three major cereals (rice, wheat, and maize) have constituted the basis of the world's food security. These cereals have led the green revolution and this is a result of domestication. For instance, wheat and rice that hold an important role in the green revolution and that still remain major food resources for smallholders saw their productivity drastically increased through genetic introgression of the dwarfing genes (e.g., Rht-B1b and Rht-D1b for wheat and Sd1 for rice) (Hedden 2003). However, with the rapidly growing world population coupled with the adverse effect of climate change, the ability of these few cereals to meet future quantitative and qualitative food demand is threatened. Indeed, predictions indicated that the world food need will increase in average by 85% by the next 30 years, while production of these cereals is stagnating with low progress at certain places and qualified unsustainable for other places (Wei et al. 2017). In addition, the importance of food nutrient density for the food and nutrition security has been raised (Troesch et al. 2017). All these call for the necessity to look or to work for increased food availability and for alternative and augmented food nutrient sources. In this vein, wild resources represent a naturally available options which potential is to be unlocked by introducing them into an active domestication process. Domesticating wild plant species will increase the diversity of food sources, increase their productivity, enabling a better valorization of their nutritional potential, and enhance their contribution to smallholders' income. As illustration, strawberry is a recent domesticated crop, and its production has expanded, while its nutritional potential is better exploited to meet human needs (Diamond 2002).
Although domestication holds the potential to improve food security worldwide and to increase resilience of the farming systems, its realization is challenged by several issues, including among others the national and international agricultural policies. The general tendency of world's agricultural policies is the homogenization of production systems, with increased subsidies for hybrid crops and monoculture. This undertaking jeopardizes domestication efforts in general and the displacement of local cultivars by improved, high-yielding crop species. By doing so, the different policies of modern agriculture have promoted intensification at the expense of systems diversification.
Several initiatives have been led by indigenous farmers to cultivate a range of wild food plants. However, very few of these have led to full domestication because of the pull by national policies toward monoculture. For instance, several farmer-developed crops – also termed local cultivars or landraces – have been neglected by scientific research which should take them to the stage of modern crops. As shown by Duarte et al. (2007), 90% of today's crops were domesticated more than 2,000 years ago. In the same line, global data indicated that while our knowledge of the world's plant diversity continues to improve, the diversity of food plants is drastically shrinking (Fig. 1) (FAO 1998; Kew 2016). The data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations about 10 years ago indicated about 30,000 edible plant species, of which 7,000 have been used for food in human's history (FAO 1998). Recent updates indicate only 5,538 food plants (Kew 2016). This decline is the consequence of genetic erosion of the diversity of food plants, as a result of our agricultural models. Despite the increased awareness on the importance of these neglected and underutilized species for food and nutrition security, they have not yet received the deserved attention. There is lack of characterization, breeding, and evaluation information on the species for their improvement (Padulosi et al. 2013).
Economic reward is one of the most important incentives for a successful domestication. While very few species have attracted niche markets, several others have low commercial values. Therefore, they are not competitive with other crops, and thus farmers lacked incentives to continue to maintain and breed for new domesticates (Padulosi et al. 2013). This has led to changes in land use with the replacement of species ongoing domestication by commercial crops. Urbanization, migration, and the lack of adequate awareness on the nutritional values of the species also have a bearing into the slow domestication pace. These contribute to the loss of indigenous knowledge on the species and changes in local diets, as there is increase in the perception of low status of some of these species not widely cultivated.
Nonetheless, there are cases where adequate institutional support and promotion have led to increased interest by the populace and great contribution to local economies and to food and nutrition security. This is the case for African eggplants (Solanum spp.), fonio (Digitaria exilis), and Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.), though there is still the need to organize the seed supply systems and improve agronomic practices. Other species such as Ceratotheca sesamoides Endl., Cleome gynandra, and Vitellaria paradoxa still require important investments and support.
Accelerating plant domestication is not an option but a priority for ensuring a sustainable food and nutrition security. To achieve this, the following actions identified by Padulosi et al. (2013) for NUS also apply to indigenous species under domestication.
There is need to change the imbalance between agricultural policies and practices, currently skewed toward selected few commodity crops. In this line, it is important to support indigenous farmers to conserve and use local agricultural biodiversity. Scientists and decision-makers need to be aware of the economic, nutritional, and cultural values of these species and for the resilience of present and future agricultural systems.
Scientists especially the young generation need to develop their skills and capacities to support the work by custodian farmers. Policy and decision-makers need to understand the role and benefits of plant domestication. This will ease the institutional support and investments into research and development plans and programs to promote the development of new crops. Several underutilized species such as fonio need breeders and other specialists to improve the crops and agronomic practices. Capacity development also calls for enhanced skills and capacities across the value chains and investing in infrastructure and institutions (research, education, development, markets, farming communities, etc.).
Strengthening global collaboration is vital to advance the agenda on new crop development and agricultural diversification. Through scientific and technological collaboration, skills will be developed on advanced molecular techniques (e.g., genomics) to speed up the discovery of traits associated with domestication, also known as "domestication syndrome" (Jarvis et al. 2016). For example, molecular characterization, particularly the quantitative trait loci (QTLs), is being used as a major technique for understanding the genetic basis of plant domestication. QTLs are multiple genes that affect a particular phenotypic feature. The genome editing technology was also reported to complement and enhance breeding and selection strategy (Francis et al. 2017). This was used on wild tomato (Solanum pimpinellifolium L.) to develop progenies resistant to salt and to the bacterial spot disease (Li et al. 2018). However, very few research institutions are so far involved in sequencing the genome of the neglected and underutilized species, and this needs to change.
Feeding a forecasted nine billion people in a context of changing climate will require innovative solutions in the agricultural sector, especially in smallholder farming communities. It is discussed in this entry the importance of domestication as a farmer-led innovation to increase agricultural biodiversity and resilience of agroecosystems in general. In addition, development and introduction of new crops from existing local biodiversity increase food availability and help maintain local food cultures. Many indigenous species have been developed into new crops in the tropics and have tangible contribution to meet food and nutritional requirements in smallholders' households. An important number of these new crops have attracted niche markets and have a substantial impact on household revenue. It is also demonstrated that domestication enhances biodiversity conservation, especially for threatened species. Overall, domestication could be the innovative solution of the millennium to increase and sustain ecosystem services and promote sustainable agriculture. However, access to these benefits will require important interventions in order to address the key challenges that were identified, importantly the need to develop research capacities and global collaboration on new crop development suitable to the changing environment.
Lastly, it is worth mentioning some limits of this paper, and an important one is that the examples given in the current review are limited to plant domestication. Although the development of new animal breeds can increase productivity and food security, one can hardly find examples where animal domestication is used as a strategy to increase resilience of agroecosystems and nutrition security.


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Shell to Sea challenge Ministers to dismantle illegal Shell pipeline
Shell to Sea members have challenged Ministers Ryan and Ó Cuív to ensure the dismantling of 92 metres of pipe which has been laid onshore at Glengad without any planning, as stated by An Bord Pleanála [1]. They also called for the resignation of Bob Hanna of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), within Eamon Ryan's Department, for his completely inappropriate attempt to unduly influence the board at a time when the application is under consideration and the board is not accepting submissions.
Yesterday afternoon, Wednesday February 3, members of Shell to Sea met Ministers Eamon Ryan and Eamon Ó Cuív in Leinster House to discuss issues arising from the An Bord Pleanála letter of November 2, which exposed huge safety issues with Shell's application for an onshore pipeline.
This follows on from Tuesday's extension of the deadline for Shell to submit further information to An Bord Pleanála, which has been condemned by campaigners as facilitation of Shell, who received the extension despite their clear inability to provide the board with a safe design for their onshore pipeline.
Press Release: An Bord Pleanála integrity under scrutiny - Ryan's Dept attempts to influence board
An Bord Pleanála today granted Shell E&P Ireland a 4-month extension to the previous deadline for submission of further information on Shell's application for an onshore pipeline in Erris, Co. Mayo. The deadline had previously been February 5, and has now been extended to May 31. This marks a continuation of efforts by the board to facilitate Shell and their Corrib gas project against the wishes of the local community, and despite huge concerns over issues of safety and the giveaway of Irish natural resources.
Campaigners have reacted angrily to these developments, which are seen as further efforts to enable Shell's construction of the onshore pipeline.
In other news, it has emerged that officials from Minister Éamon Ryan's department have written to An Bord Pleanála stating that they have concluded that 'the Corrib gas pipeline meet[s] all relevant safety standards and codes'[1]. This marks a clear attempt to intimate that An Bord Pleanála are failing by not following the Technical Advisory Group's (TAG) opinion, and allowing permission for Shell's onshore pipeline, and to influence the board to ignore the potentially massive repercussions of an accident during their deliberations.
Shell asks for more time to resolve Corrib gas issues
Lorna Siggins - Irish Times
SHELL EP Ireland has asked An Bord Pleanála for more time to resolve issues relating to the Corrib gas pipeline.
The lead Corrib gas developer was given a deadline of next Friday for revised information, following An Bord Pleanála's direction that up to half of the proposed onshore route was unsafe.
The company was also required to submit a revised environmental impact statement by Friday.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0201/1224263502431.html
An Bord Pleanála and The Garda Ombudsman criticise Shell and the Gardaí respectively
Michael McCaughan - Village Magazine
An Bord Pleanála (ABP) has rejected the proposed route for the Corrib pipeline as "unacceptable" on safety grounds. The ruling was unequivocal: houses along the route were "within the hazard range of the pipeline should a failure occur", while "design documentation" and "risk assessment" fail to "present a complete, transparent and adequate demonstration that the pipeline does not pose an unacceptable risk to the public". The decision also noted the Shell failed to include part of the onshore pipeline route in its application. The ruling vindicated a ten-year campaign which has seen local residents become experts on complex, technical aspects of gas production, while they also learnt a thing or two about state persecution and political treachery.
While An Bord Pleanála's statement clearly dismissed the project in its current form, it also contained a disturbing conclusion, that "provisionally" the board would "approve the proposed onshore pipeline development should certain 'alterations' be made".
Shell must respond by February 2010 but their options are limited as the company has already discounted alternative routes on financial and environmental grounds.
Human rights group calls for suspension of Corrib gas project
Human rights organisation Afri is calling for a suspension of all work on the Corrib gas project pending an independent and comprehensive investigation of its safety, human rights, economic and environmental dimensions. Afri is asking people to sign a petition to that effect, which will be delivered to the government next month. The petition was launched by former UN assistant secretary-general Denis Halliday this week.
Dennis Halliday, Benny McCabe & Andy Storey (Photo - Michael Gallagher - http://www.myspace.com/libertypix)
Sign the petition online here: http://petitions.contact.ie/content/suspend-work-corrib-gas-project-pend...
http://www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/21367


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Participation in the workshop is open to a limited number of registered attendees of the concurrent AIBS annual meeting. If you are registered for the AIBS annual meeting and would like to participate in the NEON workshop please contact Rina Aviram, .
Note: You must have paid and registered for the AIBS annual meeting (online at http://www.aibs.org/annual-meeting-2004/) in order to be eligible to participate in the NEON workshop.
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is intended to be a continent-wide research platform, composed of networked state-of-the-art analytical and communication technologies. As part of the development process it is important to describe the network's scientific, technological, and financial requirements to the research community and targeted funding agencies. This workshop, convened by AIBS as part of the IBRCS project, is an effort to describe those requirements for the invasive species component of NEON.
One way to describe the scientific, technological, and financial requirements of a project is to generate a reference design, or a preliminary description of the major components of a proposed large-scale facility or other infrastructure construction project. A reference design articulates the scientific questions to be explored and details how the facility or, in this case, the network, can be used to address the questions. It should paint a sufficiently detailed picture of a project to justify support from the research community to be served and targeted funding agencies.
The goal of this workshop is to begin to create the reference design for the invasive species component of NEON. Workshop participants will approach the design task by developing scientific questions and targets related to invasive species. Several of these questions and targets will form the topics of breakout sessions during which participants will explore design requirements. The need to define the specific scientific and societal gains expected from NEON increases as the NEON initiative advances. This meeting begins a longer-term effort to fully design the invasive species component of NEON and also will provide a model for the design of its other scientific components.
The first step in developing a reference design for NEON is to articulate the scientific questions and targets that NEON will help to address. The questions and targets should (1) relate to invasive species, (2) be big, important open questions with high scientific and/or societal value, and (3) require a US-wide distributed biological research platform. The questions may focus at regional and/or continental scales. They may relate solely to invasive species or incorporate multiple focal areas. Questions may span the spectrum from applied science to basic science, and they may require expansion of existing research capabilities, or require novel approaches and instruments.
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