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MES Professors Receive Awards, Fellowships
Four UW-Madison professors affiliated as core faculty of the Middle East Studies Program (MESP) were recently recognized with awards and fellowships.
Nevine El Nossery, MESP chair and associate professor of the departments of French & Italian and African Cultural Studies, has been selected for an appointment as a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance. It will provide summer salary support, as well as $12,500 in flexible research funds in pursuit of the faculty's scholarly activity.
El Nossery is working on her new book manuscript on Women, Art and Revolution about the Arab Uprisings.
Rachel F. Brenner is now the Elaine Marks Professor of Jewish Studies in the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. The title was awarded through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Named Professorship. It comes with $100,000, honor faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. Award recipients choose the names associated with their professorships.
Brenner has published widely on responses to the Holocaust in a variety of national literatures. Her current research focuses on responses of Polish intellectuals, writers and artists to the Jewish Holocaust.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Hutton, professor of classical Hebrew language and biblical literature in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, received the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes faculty up to six years past their first promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustee president H.I. Romnes, and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.
Hutton specializes in the social and linguistic contexts in which the Hebrew Bible was composed and edited. He is working on projects in several sub-fields of Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics, including the composition and reception history of the Book of Samuel; translation in antiquity; Palmyrene Aramaic epigraphy; and cognitive linguistic approaches to Hebrew semantics.
Finally, Katrina Daly Thompson of the African Cultural Studies Department has been selected by the Provost's office as a fellow for the 2019- 2020 Big Ten Academic Alliance-Academic Leadership Program (BTAA-ALP). Thompson's research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse, with specific projects in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, North America, and online.
As an ALP fellow, Thompson will be part of a small cohort of select campus leaders who, over the course of the academic year, will engage in a variety of activities and experiences to explore issues of academic leadership and personal leadership approaches. Fellows will attend three Big Ten seminars at other universities, supplemented and enriched by a UW-Madison program in which fellows will meet with campus and community leaders to discuss leadership paths and engage in conversations about trends in and issues facing higher education.
Congratulations to our core faculty!
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Батіжо́к (Козанка) — річка в Україні, в межах Балтського району Одеської області. Ліва притока Кодими (басейн Південного Бугу).

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Довжина річки 35 км. Долина порівняно вузька і глибока, з дещо вищими правими схилами, порізаними ярами і балками. Річище помірно звивисте, у верхів'ї влітку пересихає. Споруджено кілька ставків.

Розташування
Батіжок бере початок на північний захід від села Лісничівки. Тече переважно на південний схід і (місцями) на схід, у пригирловій частині — на південь. Впадає до Кодими в північно-східній частині села Гольми.

Над річкою розташовані села: Козацьке, Коритне, Пасат і Гольма.

 У долині річки розташовані природоохоронні території: ботанічний заказник Лісничівка і Коритнівський ентомологічний заказник.

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Джерела
 Екологічний паспорт Одеської області (2010)
 * Словник гідронімів України – К.: Наукова думка, 1979. – С. 35

Малі річки України
Річки Одеської області
Річки Подільського району (Одеська область)
Статті про річки Одеської області без зображення в картці

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Building code-directed snow loading generally apply to roofs of simple geometry. Roofs with complex shapes and profiles require further in-depth snow distribution study by the design team. This paper has proposed a generalized methodology whereby the designers can proceed to do so.
Analysis of long-term weather data for a given location gives a project designer insight into the variables of wind, temperature, and snowfall over many winter seasons. The designer can then empirically validate the proposed code-driven snow loads and establish design load values above code minimums as may be necessary. By making empirical judgments based on long-term weather data analysis, the designer can plot predicted snow distribution contour lines on a project's proposed roof design and estimate the unbalanced snow mass. Freeze/thaw cycles, sliding, and snow consolidation are then factored in, and composite roof snow densities are estimated. Once that has been done, potential snow loading can be derived and compared with the proposed design loads. Loads exceeding normal design practice can now be taken into account.
Although these methods of determining snow distribution (snow load) on complex roofs are not precise, they don't have to be. In snow country it is better to be conservative and over-design than to have damage or collapse due to that 50-year storm season coming next winter.
2. Tobiasson, W., Buska, J. and Greatorex, A., "Attic Ventilation Guidelines to Minimize Icings at Eaves," Interface, January 1998, pp. 17-24. Updated version from Issue 21 of Energy and Buildings published in 1994 by Elsevier Science S.A.
3. Mackinlay, I., Flood, R., "Roof Design in Regions of Snow and Cold ", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Snow Engineering. Trondheim, Norway, 19-21 June, 2000. Rotterdam, Balkema: 213 – 224.
by Ian Mackinlay FAIA and Richard S. Flood AIA/CSI.
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Are You Being Served? legend Mollie Sugden never discussed Mrs Slocombe's 'pussy' at home, reveal her kids
ARE YOU Being Served? icon Mollie Sugden never discussed Mrs. Slocombe's "pussy" at home, her children have revealed.
The late star was famed for her cheeky references in the BBC sitcom, with the running pun entertaining millions of Brits over the years.
Mollie played Mrs. Slocombe in the BBC sitcom
Mrs. Slocombe would regularly make bizarre comments that kept viewers' wondering, including lines such as: "I had to thaw my pussy out before I came in. It had been out all night."
And while many households up and down the country would discuss the innuendo as they chuckled at the show, it was never mentioned in the actress' own home.
Mollie lived with her husband William Moore at the time, as well as their twins sons Simon and Robin, now 56.
Discussing the joke, the men admitted that the family had a mutual understanding that they'd all "pretend" there was no rude double meaning.
Robin said: "We had to pretend to not really understand and my mum had to pretend not to understand it.
The character was known for her cheeky punCredit: Rex Features
But Mollie would never discuss the gag with her familyCredit: Rex Features
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"It was both parties going: 'We will both pretend it's just about a cat.'"
Mollie played the purple-haired character between 1972–85 - reprising the role in Grace & Favour seven years after the former went off air.
The beloved star passed away in July 2009 at the age of 86.

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CENTRAL EUROPE – COOPERATION IN A COLD CLIMATE
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19 MARCH 1944 – A MOSAIC SELECTED FROM DIARIES, MEMOIRS AND HISTORIES – PART I
Gyula Kodolányi 2014.06.10.
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CHRONICLERS OF A VANISHED WORLD
As a teenager I was fascinated by Upton Sinclair's World's End, translated into Hungarian under the title Letűnt világ ("A World That Disappeared"). It was published in 1940, when Hungary
FAMILY MEMORIES OF HUNGARY
David Pryce-Jones 2014.06.08.
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Q: Suppose you are presented with two (apparent) options, A and B; and suppose that you choose A. Did you do so freely? Could you have chosen B?
First, it will allow us to distinguish between the different types of freedom of choice, and by assigning them to a continuum, we will be able to reconcile the works on the reading list and place them in relationship to each other.
Second, it will help us in our future work in establishing responsibility for one's action. It will be possible to choose a precise level of freedom of choice, that exists both in deterministic and in some non-deterministic worlds, so that if a person posses that level of freedom of choice, then we will hold that person responsible for his actions.
In order to have any kind of freedom of choice, I must first be an entity that is capable of making a choice. This means that in some states of the world, I would choose option A, and in some other state of the world (in which that which I am remains the same, e.g. my personal identity), I would choose option B. If regardless of the state of the outside world, I will always choose an option A, then I am not really an entity that is making a choice, but rather an entity that just goes for A no matter what, and that has no freedom of choice whatsoever, since it is not even capable of choosing (it is a degenerate case of freedom of choice).
1. I gave up my choice, and after that I have no more freedom of choice.
After my initial choice, every time I choose A, that choice is simply part of the bigger initial choice.
I am inclined to go with the second way of approaching this, and thus say that the level of freedom of choice under which I am operating is the one under which the original decision was taken.
If I sometimes choose A, and under some different circumstances, I choose B, then in that case I am indeed capable of making a choice, and I have this most basic level of freedom of choice, namely the ability to choose.
If I am an entity that is capable of making a choice (capable of sometimes choosing A under some circumstances, and of choosing B under different circumstances that preserve my personal identity), then I have a 1st level of freedom of choice, and I might be able to attain a second level of freedom of choice.
When I chose A, did I have any other choice except A? If A was the only choice, then clearly there wasn't really a choice to be made. You need at least two options in order to make a choice. If there was no other option, then my choice didn't have this second degree of freedom of choice (which again, is a degenerate case, since there is no choice to be made). If on the other case there was another option, let's say B for example, then my action was made under a second level of freedom of choice.
The third level of freedom of choice concerns the case in which you want to choose B, but somebody else compels you to choose A. For example, you wanted to get cocoa ice-cream, but a psychotic mass-murderer threatens to kill you unless you chose vanilla. In that case, your choosing of vanilla is not a free choice. It was still of course your choice, but it was made under constraint and externally imposed on yourself. If on the other hand no external agent compelled you to choose vanilla, and you would have gone ahead and chose vanilla according to what you wanted to get initially, then you have this 3rd level of freedom of choice.
At this level of freedom of choice we can include Hume's original definition of liberty (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, VIII, 73), that of being able to move if you so desire, or to stay in place if that is what you will, and also Ayer's contrast of liberty with constraint.
Of course, this clear-cut distinction will be hard to achieve in practice. For example, an addiction might make you rationalize your actions, and say that you are indeed a person who likes and craves for cocoa, so as to reduce the mental dissonance and to justify your actions to yourself and to others2. Still, I assume that will not be a permanent effect on your brain, and it will be most likely part of a back-and-forth struggle between the addiction and the person's actual personality. To simplify, we consider a decision to have the complete 4th degree of freedom of choice if and only if it was taken as a unified decision of all the mental processes of a person associated with his or hers personal identity. If that is not the case, then he can have at best only a partial 4th degree of freedom of choice.
So your choice of A was made based on what you consider to be your personal identity. Still, what caused you to be that way? Did you choose to become the person you are, or was that caused by factors outside of your control?
In order to ensure maximum freedom of choice, ideally, here we would be able to construct a causal chain of the personal self-identity of one moment deciding on the self-identity of the next moment ending in the self-identity that chose A. Still, this would be unreasonable, since external circumstances such as unexpected events shape our identity at every point in our lives. It is not just what we decide to be that shapes us. Still, let us grant this extreme case, that since we were born, we decided who we will become at each moment, and it was entirely our self identity at one point in time that shaped our future self identity at the next moment, for each given moment. In that perfect case, we can say we have a 5th degree of freedom, namely that the choice of A came from our personal identity and that personal identity was our past selves' choice.
What caused my first personal identity (i.e. who I was when I began existing? If I was somehow able to choose who I was when I began to exist (by creating a cyclical deterministic loop / by my decision somehow being the cause of my own existence, and so on), then I would be able to achieve one additional level of freedom.
This seems not to be the case with humans. For humans, the most reasonable assumption is that who we were originally (when we were born / conceived depending on when our personal identity chain starts) was shaped by the world, by our DNA, by our mother's womb, by our parents, etc. In that case, it was external entities that caused ("decided") your original personal identity, in which case you had no choice over your original personal identity, and you do not have this 6th level of freedom of choice.
Here we could fit Van Inwagen's argument, which if true, shows that we are unable to have the 6th level of freedom of choice, since who we initially were is determined by the state of the universe before our birth + the laws of physics (but under our model this does not exclude the possibility to have the first 5 levels of freedom of choice). Hume's view would also exclude being able to have this 6th level of freedom of choice, since nothing can be the cause of itself, so something else (external to ourselves) would have to have caused our original existence (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, VIII, 74).
In cases where your personal identity is modified against your will by an external entity, such as if you are mind-controlled by a perfectly skilled hypnotist, then by completely changing your personal identity, they are in effect temporarily (or permanently) killing you and replacing you with another person. That new person may then execute actions in accordance to one of the 6 degrees of freedom of choice.
III. If I chose A, then could I have chosen B?
Did you have more than one option? If no, then you could not have chosen B.
Are you capable of choosing anything else than A (in different circumstances that preserve your personal identity)? If not, then you could not have chosen B.
– In different circumstances, yes, you could have chosen B.
– My personal identity implies a level of randomness in all my choices and my brain physiology is such that it can truly make a random decision. I am a person who likes surprises, so for all of my choices, I have a 1 in 2 chance of choosing something a course of action at random.
– I am a perfectly rational person. In that case, if I do my analysis and I ended up with a 50% probability of getting what I want by choosing A, and a 50% probability of getting what I want by choosing B, in which case there is no reason to choose A over B. In that case, if my brain could contain a true random number generator (such as a decaying radioactive substance) and if the universe was indeed non-deterministic, than in that case I could have chosen B, even if the same circumstances were true.
– Some theories of personal identity might collapse this model and make it incoherent (such as for example personal identity being just a continuation of consciousness).
– Possible objection: At the 3rd level of freedom of choice (freedom from an external constraint), the choice you are making still comes from your personal identity (for example if you are threatened with a gun, you are basing your decision to obey on your personality that values survival over resistance to submission). In that case doesn't the decision have the 4th level of freedom of choice?
Answer: In a simple model, no, because you don't have the 3rd level of freedom of choice, so you cannot have the 4th level. In a more complex model, then yes it has the 4th level of freedom of choice. This is more intuitively obvious in cases such as this: a man compels you to commit a crime by threatening you with a gun, but you are Superman. If you obey him just because he has a gun and you are too drunk to realize that you could resist him, then you do so against who you are, in which case you go against your personal identity. In that case, you have neither the 3rd level of freedom nor the 4th level of freedom, which is worse than not having just the 3rd level (obeying him because you have to and because of who you are).
– Possible objection: Well in the end, if determinism is true, doesn't that mean that we have no freedom of choice at all? That all our actions are determined by events before we were born and the laws of nature? (or some other adaptation of Van Inwagen's argument).
Answer: Yes, it might be true that all our actions are predetermined, but that doesn't mean that they were not executed under certain freedoms of choices. There was still a choice being made, even if its result could have been foreseen by somebody with enough information. And the degree to which that choice was free, even if it wasn't completely free, is still of vital importance in ascertaining the responsibility of the agent.
1 The idea that an action is free if it stems from the personal identity of the agent is taken from the soft determinism approach presented by Theodere Sider.
2 Idea suggested in private discussion by Maria Androushko.


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Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups: Wan'Dale Robinson, Gus Edwards, and Others Help During the Bye Week
With seven weeks in the books, here are some of the top Week 8 waiver wire pickups for fantasy football managers to consider.
Top Waiver Wire Pickups in Week 8
Daniel Jones, QB, New York Giants (28.9% Rostered)
Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, San Francisco 49ers (27.3% Rostered)
Gus Edwards, RB, Baltimore Ravens (16.1% Rostered)
D'Onta Foreman, RB, Carolina Panthers (35.5% Rostered)
Rachaad White, RB, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (20.1% Rostered)
Wan'Dale Robinson, WR, New York Giants (13.8% Rostered)
Parris Campbell, WR, Indianapolis Colts (2.8% Rostered)
Donovan Peoples-Jones, WR, Cleveland Browns (9.5% Rostered)
Van Jefferson, Los Angeles Rams (7.2% Rostered)
Greg Dulcich, TE, Denver Broncos (7.8% Rostered)
Irv Smith Jr., TE, Minnesota Vikings (31.7% Rostered)
Evan Engram, Jacksonville Jaguars (33.4% Rostered)
The NFL and fantasy football seasons are over a month into the year and not slowing down anytime soon. Fantasy managers are now adjusting and tweaking their rosters based on what we've seen through the league's first few weeks.
Working the waiver wire is the best way to better your team and find a weekly advantage. To aid in that, here are some of the top Week 8 waiver wire claims fantasy football managers should consider.
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Daniel Jones had his best fantasy outing of the season on Sunday, even though he only threw for 202 yards on 19 of 30 passing. Jones rushed 11 times for 107 yards with two total touchdowns to finish with 28.8 PPR points. Although he sure isn't Michael Vick, Jones is third amongst quarterbacks and rushing attempts (58), second in yards (343), and tied for third with three touchdowns.
Jones also has a favorable matchup in Week 8 against a Seahawks defense that ranks bottom 20 in both points per game and passing DVOA. Jones is a high-end QB2 that's out there in the majority of leagues.
Although they suffered a loss, it's hard to put much blame on Jimmy Garoppolo. His 303 yards were the first time he passed the 300-yard mark this year while completing 25 of 37 passing attempts for two touchdowns with one interception.
Just as crucial for fantasy, it was his third straight game with 17 or more PPR points as a top-10 finisher. In doing so, Garoppolo has joined Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow as the only QBs with 800 or more yards and six or more TDs over the last three weeks.
MORE: Week 8 Fantasy Football Start/Sit Recommendations
The Los Angeles Rams have been tough against quarterbacks, sitting eighth and points allowed (13.1 PPR). But this offense has too much firepower. Even if they try to take away Brandon Aiyuk or Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and McCaffrey are running around. It's an almost endless opportunity for cheap production.
Garoppolo is a waiver wire claim to make now that could pay off down the line as a weekly starter if you had been streaming the position.
The Gus Bus is back. Traditionally, I do not start players coming back from season-ending injuries. That bit me last week as Gus Edwards took full control of the Ravens' backfield, and I don't think it's going away anytime soon.
Edwards carried the ball 16 times for 66 yards with two touchdowns against a very soft Cleveland run defense. Coming into last year, Edwards had three consecutive seasons of 130+ carries and 700 yards or more. With J.K. Dobbins on IR and Kenyan Drake largely ineffective, Edwards is easily the top waiver wire claim for those who need a running back in Week 8.
Capitalizing on Chuba Hubbard's ankle injury, D'Onta Foreman led the team with 15 carries for 118 yards and added two catches for 27 yards against a reeling Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense. Although we don't know the extent of Hubbard's ankle injury, Foreman has the momentum, and we saw him play well last year when filling in for Derrick Henry.
While neither of these backs carries anywhere in the same stratosphere of upside as Christian McCaffrey, Foreman needs to be snagged off the waiver wire if you didn't do it when the Christian McCaffrey rumors began swirling last week.
The window to add Rachaad White, whether by waiver wire or by trade, is closing. White gained a career-high 24 yards on six carries and also caught an 8-yard pass. While that might not sound like much, the rookie from Arizona State led the Buccaneers in rushing yards and played a career-high percentage of snaps at just under 50%.
What is important is that all of his time on the field came when the game was tied or the Panthers had a lead, suggesting that when the Bucs needed to throw or go up-tempo, they trusted White to be on the field.
I am not saying he will usurp Leonard Fournette, but White is someone with the skill set to become an asset for fantasy managers. If something happened to Fournette, White would go ballistic. For now, White is at least worth the stash as Tampa Bay tries to figure out what is wrong with their team.
If there was one player I talked about everywhere to pick up before everyone caught on, it was Wan'Dale Robinson. Nothing has changed, except for we have more data suggesting he is legit.
Robinson built off his momentum and played on over 90% of the snaps in Week 7 while recording a team-high 27.5% target share and a near 97% route participation. The rookie caught six of his eight targets for 50 yards, and while he didn't find the end zone, there were a lot of positives to take away.
His upcoming schedule is fantastic, and I expect Robinson is going to move from the sleeper category and into the weekly WR3 range for fantasy.
I don't know about you, but I'm just glad to see Parris Campbell healthy. Although I've been on the side of Alec Pierce as the No. 2 for the Colts, Campbell has put together back-to-back games that are impossible to ignore.
Campbell's 12 targets in Week 7 give him consecutive double-digit target outings, and he now has 17 receptions, 127 yards, and two touchdowns over the last two weeks.
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But we now have a predicament in Indianapolis with Sam Ehlinger taking over for Matt Ryan, not only for this week but moving forward. It's hard to speak with any certainty regarding what this will look like, as we don't have really any information at all for Ehlinger. However, I am not all that confident in Ehlinger, who wasn't all that great in college.
But of the Colts' receivers, Campbell likely will be the easiest target as he works short to intermediate routes. I can see the logic in following the hot hand and streaming Campbell in Week 8 despite the change under center.
Outside of Amari Cooper and David Njoku, no one else has stepped up for the Cleveland Browns in terms of the passing offense. That's going to have to change after Njoku suffered an ankle injury that knocked him out of last week's game. That is why I like Donovan Peoples-Jones as a sleeper for Week 8 in fantasy.
A WR3 in scoring this week, Peoples-Jones caught all six of his targets for 71 yards against the Baltimore Ravens and has 70+ yards in three of his last four games. Although he is still looking for his first touchdown of the year, Peoples-Jones could be a Flex option against the Bengals in Week 8.
Van Jefferson has been on IR after undergoing knee surgery in early August, but we received some good news on Monday. The Rams are planning to activate Jefferson, with him ready to make his return in Week 8 following their bye.
Jefferson was the WR36 last year, despite being the Rams' third wide receiver, and had probably the quietest 50 receptions and 800 yards season you'll ever see. Allen Robinson II did give some of us believers a bit of hope, but I have more confidence in Jefferson becoming the No. 2 alongside Cooper Kupp than I do in Robinson maintaining starting caliber usage.
Did the Broncos lose? Yes. Are there lots of questions in Denver? Also, yes. But did Greg Dulcich look like one of the best players on the field for the Broncos? Absolutely.
After playing on 71% of the snaps with a near 80% route participation and 12% of the targets, Dulcich had another big game, catching six of his nine targets for 51 yards.
Whether it was Russell Wilson or Brett Rypien, Dulcich is going to be one of the top targets on this team and is everything we were hoping to get out of Albert Okwuegbunam. Dulcich is a high-end TE2 in Week 8 against the Jaguars.
Don't mind me, I'm just patiently sitting here waiting on Irv Smith Jr. to have a breakout game. A favorite breakout target amongst many, Smith is the TE20 on the season and sits 22nd per game, scoring at 7.3 PPR.
He has yet to record more than five receptions or 45 yards in a game, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel, which I really hope doesn't turn out to be a freight train.
Coming off the Vikings' bye week, I'm all in on Smith in Week 8 against the Cardinals. Death, taxes, and starting tight ends against the Cardinals. Chisel that in stone. Arizona has been obliterated by the position, allowing the most fantasy points per game and a league-worst nine touchdowns. It's time for Big Irv to swerve into the end zone and into your lineups as a Week 8 fantasy sleeper.
Evan Engram is who he is. He's as inefficient as it gets, but the volume is there to steady the ship. Engram finished as the TE9 on Sunday, scoring 10.7 PPR thanks to four of seven receiving for 67 yards. He's now running the fourth-most routes amongst TEs and had 275 receiving yards but has yet to find the end zone and sits 38th in YPRR and 47th in yards after the catch/reception.
With all that said, Engram is the TE15 on the year and has carried a 75% or higher snap share in five of seven games. His 16.4% target share is third on the team (11th in NFL), and he is seventh in air yard share at 16%.
Denver has been a middle-of-the-road matchup for TEs (10.66 PPR), and you could do worse for a waiver wire option than Engram. He's basically a more affordable Kyle Pitts with more production right now.


Okay, let's just get it out of the way: it's f'ing cold outside. This polar vortex, or whatever they're calling it, is making me one miserable lady. Traveling to an 8 a.m. meeting downtown yesterday morning when it was 5 degrees outside (and feeling more like negative 50 to me with the wind) was pretty much the worst idea anyone has ever had. When it's this cold, we should all be bundled up inside with a hot cup of coffee, layers of blankets, and a fire. Life outside of the front door should be canceled for the day. Do you guys agree? Maybe we should protest?
I know. I'm kind of a baby. It's even colder in other parts of the country, and I should be grateful that I have a warm coat and a job and a heated home. I just need to keep repeating that. And also reminding myself that I WILL live somewhere warmer one day. Cold winters are simply not for me.
You know what does make me feel pretty warm and happy and grateful though, even in such unforgivable weather? This pasta bake. Filled with chicken, oven-roasted broccoli, herbs, and cheese. Topped with fresh mozzarella slices and baked to warm, melt-y perfection.
I made it this past weekend and fell in love with every bite... so much so that I was tempted to gobble up the whole thing in one sitting (with Ryan's help, of course). I'm so thankful that, instead, we enjoyed two hearty portions then froze the rest to have for dinner again tonight. I get to enjoy this baby again! In less than 12 hours! Knowing that, I can brave the bitter outside world today.
Yes, roasting the broccoli before adding it to the casserole is an extra step, but it's totally worth it. And easy. So do it! It adds that nice roast-y flavor to the bake and takes it to another level. And the fresh mozzarella slices on top? Perfection. Yes, you could use shredded mozzarella if it's what you have, but promise me you'll try it with fresh sometime! Cause it's awesome.
I didn't calculate calories or fat for this dish or anything, but it's definitely healthier than it tastes. There's no butter, and greek yogurt replaces more than half of the cream cheese to keep it light but still creamy. By using just a small amount of parmesan IN the dish and single slices of mozzarella on top, we cut down on the amount of cheese while still keeping each serving tasting super decadent. Use whole wheat or fiber-enriched pasta and you have a nutritious dinner filled with protein, healthy carbs and fats, and veggies. Win!
Chop about 12 ounces of broccoli into bite-sized florets. Place on a foil-lined baking pan and drizzle with 2 to 3 tbsp olive oil. Toss to mix, then spread out on pan. Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
Roast broccoli for about 20 minutes at 375, or until the broccoli is starting to brown. Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. Cook about 2 minutes less than you normally would, so that it is still extra al dente, because it will continue to cook in the oven. Drain. Then, in a large bowl, mix the cooked pasta, roasted broccoli, parmesan cheese, greek yogurt, cream cheese, milk, and spices.
Mix well until it's all incorporated and the ingredients and distributed evenly.
Spray a casserole dish with cooking spray. Pour the pasta mixture into the dish evenly.
Top with the 6 slices of mozzarella.
Bake uncovered at 375 for about 30 minutes, or until cheese is melted and it's starting to brown slightly.
-Line a baking sheet with foil. Lay broccoli down in a heap and pour 2 to 3 tbsp olive oil on top. Mix well, then spread out across the baking pan (be sure not to overcrowd). Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. Roast for 20 minutes, or until the broccoli is starting to brown. Remove from oven.
-Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. Cook about 2 minutes less than you normally would, so that it is still extra al dente, because it will continue to cook in the oven. Drain.
-In a large bowl, mix the cooked pasta, roasted broccoli, parmesan cheese, greek yogurt, cream cheese, milk, and spices. Mix well until it's all incorporated and the ingredients and distributed evenly.
-Spray a casserole dish with cooking spray. Pour the pasta mixture into the dish evenly. Top with the 6 slices of mozzarella.
-Bake uncovered at 375 for about 30 minutes.
yes yes yes and yes - can't wait to make this one - it's happening REALLY soon because it looks so delicious!!
oh my gosh this looks amazing!! can't wait to try it out!
Is there anything more comforting than pasta bakes?? Nope! I'm a total baby too. My winters are numbered before I move west! Can't take this weather at all.
Oh goodness gracious, this looks creamy and fantastic!
Love this, and that melty cheese on top looks absolutely scrumptious. Seriously - is anything better than melted cheese?!


I was contacted recently by an enthusiastic young man, a skilled tradesmen who'd put in many hours to gain valuable experience and now wanted to set up a new company with a vision for the future. Obviously he required a new identity to get things underway. He had approached a signage company, van livery was an important element of his business, and they 'created' a logo for his new vision. He was, not surprisingly, underwhelmed by the result but savvy enough to realise that, good sign makers as they were, they weren't designers. He understood the importance of a strong cohesive identity and was willing to invest in it. I was impressed, not everyone get's it.
Yes the computer is a great tool that most people can use but it is just that a tool; no substitute for vision, experience, empathy and understanding not to mention creativity. Graphic design is not a hobby, it's a profession.
A good designer is not just someone who can draw a bit and do the nice colouring-in on the iMAC. Instead they take the time to understand the culture of your business, drill down to who your target market is and work with you to develop a strategy to reach out to that market.
I've come across many clients who have admitted that they are embarrassed to hand out their business card and reticent about sending customers to their terrible website. That's just crazy. All your marketing materials should be the best they can be, that doesn't mean expensive, it means being designed appropriately. Do they reflect you, project your company's values when you're not there to sell it yourself and speak directly to your audience? No? They should.
There's been many times when I too have been guilty of thinking "That's an easy fix, what's so difficult, I can do that, save the pennies" The leaking tap, hanging wallpaper, putting up the shelves - again all with predictable results. I'm not a plumber, decorator or joiner. I've no experience, not industry trained and the best I can hope for is a mediocre job that has to be redone. Yup should have got a professional in the first place.
A professional designer won't just come up with the logo, their expertise will determine how it's used through a suite of marketing materials: in print, online, signage as well as a developing a strategy for colour and typography. A professional will reinforce your brand identity with a consistency that your customers recognise, helping to build essential confidence and trust. In this fast moving world you only get one opportunity to make an impression - make it the right one.
All said and done, a professional designer should save you time, money, grief and increase sales – seems a no-brainer. So next time your best mate's half cousin offers to design your logo, think carefully and invest wisely. Because you're worth it!


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EI blog / Uncategorized / The role of "emotion" in learning and why it matters!
Would you agree if I said, "Emotion is essential to learning."?
I am in conversation with Shekhar Hardikar – the Academic Director of the ASSET Summer Programme (ASP). I tried to understand the relationship between emotions and learning from his perspective, and based on his observations at ASP as well as his extensive experience as an instructor of gifted students.
In her book titled "Emotions, Learning, and the Brain" Dr Immordino-Yang talks about how emotion is where learning begins, or, as is often the case, where it ends. Put simply, "It is literally neurobiologically impossible to think deeply about things that you don't care about," she says.
Social-emotional learning or SEL is the process through which teachers prepare students to go beyond being just "job ready" and instead focus on making them "life ready". The idea that students should be able to apply their knowledge in achieving personal goals, maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Dr Immordino-Yang believes that the "E" in SEL or "emotion" is where learning begins, or, as is often the case, where it ends. Shekhar has seen this in action at the ASSET Summer Programme; as students participate in courses and activities that challenge them and have an emotional impact on their learning.
In his observation, this rule holds true even across subjects and disciplines, for example, even in academic subjects that are traditionally considered unemotional, such as physics, engineering or math, deep understanding depends on making emotional connections between concepts.
As a teacher, he can confidently claim he knows what an emotionally engaged student looks like on the outside, as well as what he/she should look like on the inside as he/she experiences emotionally charged learning!
During his time at the ASP, the academic team which involved the instructors, teaching assistants and advisors were aware that the best and most durable learning happens when a course's content sparks interest, when it is relevant to a child's life, and when the student forms an emotional bond with either the subject at hand or the teacher in front of them. Meaningful learning happens when teachers are able to create an emotional connection to what might otherwise remain abstract concepts, ideas or skills.
Creating this emotional connection is indeed a daunting task, but based on his experience and from the research in this field "creating emotion" as a tool of learning for any course is the core of education for gifted! This has shown that the time, energy, course structure, planning, and other investments reap huge dividends in the form of increased learning and better retention of the concepts.
The girl actually dreamt of becoming a researcher in pure sciences and wished to work with a noble laureate and everyone around her felt that her dreams were irrelevant. Her dreams took shape when she was exposed to the "emotion" element in content at a high school credit course dealing with Chemistry!
This story is a perfect example of what emotional connection in academics can do to a student even when experienced for a short period of time like at a summer school/programme.
While there are no golden rules in education, "emotional engagement" and "personal relevance" are important tools that have become the backbone to providing enriching experiences to all stakeholders at ASP!
So now would you agree now that emotions are integral to learning? Do you have any personal examples of how your own emotions or those of your students resulted in better learning outcomes?
Share them with us – we would love to hear about them!
Truly, emotion plays a great role in learning. Very informative article.
Informative article Medha, Really valuable information on emotions in educational system.
As you said emotions are really important in studying, the affection or inclination towards depends the education and improvement.


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Zimnicka, Iwona
Iwona Zimnicka
Iwona Zimnicka, born in 1963 in Warsaw. In 1987 she took her M.A. degree, Norwegian philology, at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. 1989-2000 Norwegian teacher and 1990-2004 secretary at Polish-Norwegian Friendship Society. Since 1991 translator at the District Court of Justice in Warsaw and the Ministry of Justice. Since 1992 she has been translating Norwegian and Danish literature into Polish.
Member of the Polish Translators' Association (belles-lettres division). In 1996 awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King of Norway Harald V. On IBBY Honour List 2000 for translation of Jostein Gaarder's book "Hallo? Er det noen her?" In 2002 awarded Silver Cross of Merit by the President of Poland for popularisation of Norwegian culture in Poland.
Translated, among others, books by Jostein Gaarder, Roy Jacobsen, Lars Saabye Christensen, Per Petterson, Atle Næss, Åsne Seierstad, Jo Nesbø, Anne Holt, Peter Høeg, Karen Blixen, Christian Jungersen, Carsten Jensen, Jonas T. Bengtsson.
My, topielcy (Translation of "Vi, de druknede" from Danish)


At Intermot Motor Show, Yamaha announced the concept tricycle Yamaha 01GEN. The Japanese manufacturer classifies it as a three-wheeled crossover with two wheels in front and one behind. According to the Japanese, the bike can be used off-road and on the special stages, and it is suitable for aggressive driving.
The suspension is almost the same as scooter Tricityhas. It has front wheel lean in corners, aggressive design with two front wings that resemble claws insect.


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July 3, 2008 | FDD's Long War Journal
Pakistan pulls punches in Khyber operation
Bill Roggio
Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal
The Pakistani government continues to claim success during the current operation against extremist groups operating in the tribal agency of Khyber. The military and government claim the Taliban threat to provincial capital of Peshawar has been relieved.
The operation is said to be directly targeting the Ansar-ul-Islam, Lashkar-e-Islam, and Namdar's forces. The government has refused to name the specific targets of the operation, but Ansar-ul-Islam, Lashkar-e-Islam, and Namdar's group have been officially banned by the government.
The Pakistani military claimed its forces detained 22 "militants" on Tuesday and 30 on Wednesday. No "untoward incidents" have been reported, while the military has leveled some homes of extremist members as seized vehicles and other equipment.
But reports from Pakistan indicate the Pakistani military is pulling punches in Khyber. The government and military have been clear the operation was limited in scope and a "show of force."
Haji Namdar, the leader of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice group allied with Mangal Bagh's Lashkar-e-Islam, was seen riding along with the Frontier Corps, Pakistan's paramilitary group assigned to conduct operations in Khyber. "He was taken along to ensure that encounters with militants were kept to a minimum," the Asia Times reported.
On the same day, Maulvi Omar, the spokesman for the movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, narrowly escaped a blast at one of Namdar's offices. Seven people were killed in the attack, which Namdar subsequently blamed on a US strike. The Pakistani military denied attacking the office. The US may have attempted to sabotague negotiations between Namdar and Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.
Omar was meeting with Namdar's representatives to iron out an agreement between Baitullah's Taliban organization. Hakeemullah Mehsud, Baitullah's deputy in Khyber, tried to kill Namdar in a suicide bombing in April after Namdar purportedly turned on the Taliban.
Ansar-ul-Islam, the rival to Lashkar-e-Islam, said it supported the government operation and criticized it as "eyewash." "We favor the operation, but it should not be limited only to razing houses and offices of religious outfits in the agency, it should be purposeful," said Haji Muhammad Amin, a leader in the extremist group.
Lashkar-e-Islam has offered to conduct peace talks with the government. A tribal jirga has been dispatched to conduct negotiations. Bagh denied his group had designs on taking Peshawar.
Baitullah said talks are back on
The seriousness of the government operation in Khyber can be gauged in Baitullah's posture towards the current negotiations with the government. Just several days after ordering the Pakistani Taliban to suspend peace negotiations and existing peace agreements, Baitullah did an about face and said negotiations should proceed. Baitullah had previously threatened wage "jihad" and turn the provinces of Sindh and Punjab "into a furnace."
Meanwhile, fighting between Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansar-ul-Islam took place in the Tirah Valley, far from the scene of the current operation. Seven were killed and 16 wounded during heavy clashes. Eighty-nine were killed and 110 were wounded during 12 days of fighting between the two groups, Daily Times reported. More than 500 Pakistanis have been killed during ongoing fighting between the two groups over the past two years.
Read in FDD's Long War Journal


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Presidential politics from Fort Lee to Benghazi
The same Democrats steadily bitching about California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa's insistence on continuing to pursue the truth of what happened in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, are positively chortling over N.J. Democrat Assemblyman John Wisniewski's heavy-handed push to investigate the George Washington Bridge lane closure he suspects was political retaliation on behalf of Gov. Chris Christie. And well they should.
The governor will get no E-ZPass on this deal, especially now that his two political appointees to the Port Authority have up and resigned from their posts, albeit without any apparent reason. The suspicion is that the Port Authority's unannounced three day closure of two New York-bound lanes on the George Washington Bridge, and the traffic chaos that ensued, was retaliation against Fort Lee's Democrat Mayor Mark Sokolich for refusing to endorse Christie in last year's re-election campaign.
Fort Lee is the town we sit in while waiting to cross the GW into New York. Reportedly, on the days those two lanes were closed — ostensibly to conduct some as yet undefined "traffic study" — lots and lots of folks sat stranded in Fort Lee waiting to squeeze down into the remaining open lanes to cross the bridge. It was, according to Fort Lee-ans, an absolute nightmare.
Now really, who would do such a petty thing as to arbitrarily close busy bridge lanes for mere political purpose? And in New Jersey, even! Well sir, Mr. Wisniewski, a devout anti-Christie-an, believes that person to be none other than our second-term governor, the bombastic Mr. Christie. His is a conclusion in search of a rationale, and so he will convene N.J. Assembly committee hearings intended to burrow deeply into the morass, hoping he'll discover the governor's fingerprints somewhere on the bridge approach.
Lest you think this some tempest in a teapot, be advised that Democrat West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller wants to hold federal hearings as well, and the Associated Press sits nearby, clearly salivating.
This is all fascinating political theater, particularly in contrast to Mr. Issa's pursuit of the figurative smoking gun that might settle the blame for the real smoking guns that blazed through Benghazi and killed four Americans that fateful night. It is certainly not to suggest that the inconvenience of a North Jersey traffic jam is in any way akin to four murdered Americans. Rather, it is in the context of the closer-than-you-think 2016 presidential election that the two pursuits collide.
Chris Christie sits at the top of the leader board predicting the Republicans' 2016 presidential nominee, and he has been running hard for the office for 18 months or more. If it's discovered that the GW was not a bridge too far for his political machine to manipulate, he will be seen as nothing more than a petty politician (pardon the redundancy) burnishing his bully image at the expense of everyday commuters in retaliation against a perceived enemy. You would think that would disqualify him from the presidency, though the current White House occupant has certainly significantly lowered that bar.
Meanwhile, back in Benghazi, congressional investigators sift through the rubble in hopes of defining then-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton as, at worst a cover-up co-conspirator, at best an inattentive, laissez faire resume builder happily hopping about the globe while ignoring the warning signs of trouble on the Libyan horizon. Mrs. Clinton is her own party's presumptive presidential candidate, and any substantive evidence of her complicity in a Benghazi cover-up would probably torpedo her candidacy as well. Her congressional testimony screech in response, "What possible difference does it make!" may one day surpass "I never had sex with that woman, not once." as the top Clinton family quote of all time.
Could it be, then, that sometime between now and November 2015, both current front-runners will be wistfully watching from home as a bunch of also-rans competes for Top Gun? Or have our standards fallen so low that, even if both are found culpable, half the country will accept the bully for the pulpit, and the other half will still go gaga over the liar?
Francis Reilly, the writer of Wryly Writ, is president of Reilly Communications Inc. Email him at freilly@comcast.net.


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Report Shows Wide Variation in Financial Management Across Defense Agencies
Military branches were among the worst-performing entities on the department's first comprehensive audit, analysis finds.
Courtney Bublé
The Defense Department's first-ever comprehensive audit shows great variation of performance among the Pentagon's entities, according to a report released Tuesday by a watchdog group.
Truth in Accounting, which released the report, used seven criteria to evaluate how entities within Defense did on the audit, all of which had different weights: auditor's opinion (35%), ability to access the entities' annual financial report and auditor opinion (20%), Notices of Findings and Recommendations auditors issued to identify weaknesses (10%), number of re-issued notice of findings and recommendations (10%), weaknesses in internal control of financial reporting (10%), non-compliance with laws and regulations (10%) and how long after the fiscal year ending the auditor's opinion letter was sent (5%).
The report found that the four entities of Defense that had the best performance in its audit were: Military and Retirement Fund, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Defense Contract Audit Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Among the worst performing entities were the main branches of the military: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. "They are also among the largest entities, posing significant financial management challenges," the report said. "But we believe good accounting systems are even more important for the large military branches, and challenge them to rise in the rankings next year."
The 2018 audit, released in November 2018, marked the first time the agency was audit-ready since Congress made government audits a requirement in 1990. According to the Defense Inspector General, this was one of the largest financial statement audits in history, with a total cost of about $413 million.
Bill Bergman, director of research at Truth in Accounting, said the report took about two months and was designed to look at Defense entities that performed well, in addition to weaknesses. The group did not "just want to bang the drums on how bad it is," Bergman said.
TIA's rankings show each department entity's overall rating as well as marks in specific areas, so they know where improvement is needed. Bergman said he was surprised to see there "were some good performing entities." Specifically, he noted, the Army Corps of Engineering.
The watchdog report release coincides with the Senate Armed Services hearing Tuesday to examine the nomination of Mark Esper to be secretary of Defense. Bergman said he is interested to see if and how finances and auditability within the department are stressed during that hearing. "We believe it should be a high priority," he said.
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J.-ren Chen, Eine ökonometrische Untersuchung über die Auswirkungen der Importhemmnisse der Industrieländer für die Industrieerzeugnisse der Dritten Welt auf die ökonomische Entwicklung der Entwicklungsländer: eine Fallstudie Taiwans, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 97, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1980.
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A. Ostmann, On location conflicts and their fair solution concepts, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 77, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
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W. Albers, et al., Projekt Standortspiele, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 74, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
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J. Rosenmüller, Selection of values for non-sidepayment games, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 75, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
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H.W. Gottinger, Markovian decision processes with limited state observability and unobservable costs, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 68, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
R. Selten, Limited rationality and structural uncertainty, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 70, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
J.-ren Chen, Energieversorgung, Industrialisierung und Entwicklung einer Dualvolkswirtschaft mit aussenwirtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 71, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
J.-ren Chen, The effects of stabilization policy under controlled flexible exchange rates, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 64, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1978.
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R. Selten and W. Güth, Macht Einigkeit stark? Spieltheoretische Analyse einer Verhandlungssituation, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 58, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
R. Selten, Coalition probabilities in a non-cooperative model of three-persons quota game bargaining, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 61, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
R.W. Scholz, Sequential two person zero sum games with incomplete information and incidental sequence of moves, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 54, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
J.-ren Chen, Ein Aussenhandelsmodell für die "Hard Core"-Entwicklungsländer von 1960 bis 1975, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 56, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
J.-ren Chen, Die Entwicklung der "Terms of Trade" der Entwicklungsländer von 1960 bis 1975: eine ökonometrische Untersuchung, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 52, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
H.W. Gottinger, Complexity and social decision rules, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 59, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
K.-P. Kistner and R. Subramanian, Regenerative Eigenschaften von Modellen der Zuverlässigkeitstheorie, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 60, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
H.W. Gottinger, A Markovian decision process with hidden states and hidden costs, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 62, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
R. Selten and W. Güth, Risikodominanz in einem Markteintrittsspiel, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 63, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
R. Selten, A model of oligopolistic size structure and profitability, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 55, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
H.W. Gottinger, Simple decision procedures: an expository paper, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 53, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
R. Stoecker, Altruism and performance in Bertrand duopoly experiments, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 57, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1977.
J.-ren Chen, Ein makroökonometrisches Modell für Taiwan. Kapitel I - V, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 42, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
J.-ren Chen, Ein makroökonometrisches Modell für Taiwan. Kapitel IV - X, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 43, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
P. Rice, A note on the Hicks theory of strike bargaining, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 49, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
A. Zauberman, Planning under indeterminancy, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 51, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
D. Bitter, The kernel for the grand coalition of the four person game, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 41, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
S. Brune, On the regions of linearity for the nucleolus and their computation, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 47, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
R. Selten, A simple game model of kidnapping, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 45, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
P. Rice, A solution theory for the finite negotiation problem, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 44, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
A. Zaubermann, Note on assimilation of optimal control theory and ramifications in economic planning theory, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 50, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
R. Selten, The equity principle in economic behavior, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 46, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
S. Brune, Computation of the nucleolus for superadditive 4-person-games, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 48, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1976.
C. Hillinger, Real income, the cost-of-linving and consumer surplus: a unified approach to their conceptual foundation, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 28, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
H.W. Gottinger, Existence of a utility on a topological semigroup, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 25, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
J.-ren Chen, The world cotton market (1953 - 1965): an econometric model with applicatons to economic policy, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 32, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
L.H. Nitz, J. Dawson, and J.L. Phillips, Machiavellianism and competitive social contacts in a limited information convention game, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 29, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
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H.W. Gottinger, On a problem of optimal search, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 37, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
T. Marschak and R. Selten, Convolutions, inertia supergames, and oligopolistic equilibria, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 40, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
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H.W. Gottinger, Decomposition for a static stochastic hierarchical system, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 26a, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
H.W. Gottinger, Sequential analysis and optimal stopping, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 31, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
J.-ren Chen, The effects of an increase of the energy price on macroeconomic activity: a comparative static approach, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 35, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
A.C. Hoggatt, et al., Bargaining experiments with incomplete information, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 39, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
L.H. Nitz, Ameliorative coalition behavior and individual strategies, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 34, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
K. Binder, Portfolio selection: empirische Untersuchung für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 36, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1975.
J.C. Harsanyi, Nonlinear social welfare functions or, Do welfare economists have a special exemption from Bayesian rationality?, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 21, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
R. Selten, Reexamination of the perfectness concept for equilibrium points in extensive games, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 23, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
C.C. von Weizsäcker, Substitution along the time axis, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 14, preliminary version., Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
J.-ren Chen, Abwertungs- und Aufwertungseffekte in einer Volkswirtschaft mit besonderen Aussenhandelsverflechtungen, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 24, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
R. Selten, Bargaining under incomplete information: a numerical example, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 20, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
J.C. Harsanyi, A further note on Rawls's theory, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 22, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
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J.C. Harsanyi, The tracing procedure: a Bayesian approach to defining a solution for n-person noncooperative games. Part II, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 16, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
R. Selten, The chain store paradox, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 18, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
J.-ren Chen, Produktion, Konsum und Markt des Nahrungsmittels Reis in Taiwan: ökonometrische Untersuchung und Prognose, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 17, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1974.
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H.W. Gottinger, Some measures of information arising in statistical games, Working Papers. Institute of Mathematical Economics, vol. 10, Bielefeld: Center for Mathematical Economics, 1973.
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Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts Appoints Hicham Najdi as Hotel Manager of Angsana Lang Co.
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Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts announced the appointment of Mr. Hicham Najdi as Hotel Manager of Angsana Lang Co, Central Vietnam. In his new role, Mr. Najdi will be accountable for leading the hotel's team to ensure delivery of Angsana's vibrant hospitality as well as overseeing the daily operations of the hotel, including business plans, recruitment and training, and food and beverage. A seasoned leader of multi-national hotel teams, Mr. Najdi is responsible for delivering Angsana's high service standards alongside an exciting program of activities, ensuring guests have a memorable stay.
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A Moroccan national, Mr. Najdi has a degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management from the Moroccan Institute of Technology and a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Quebec.
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United Methodist Church To Debate LGBTQ Clergy And Same-Sex Weddings
St. Louis Public Radio | By Shahla Farzan
Daron Smith, left, and his husband, Chris Finley, right, worship at a Sunday morning service at Lafayette Park United Methodist Church in St. Louis, Mo. Smith, a lifelong United Methodist, said he feels hopeful ahead of a vote on LGBTQ ordination and same-sex weddings in the church.
United Methodist Church leaders are meeting in St. Louis beginning Saturday to decide whether to lift a ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings.
The topic has become increasingly contentious in recent years, as more United Methodist clergy have come out as gay. United Methodists are among the last mainline Protestant denominations to address the issue, and some worry it could cause a major rift in the church.
"It's a little nerve wracking for a group of people you don't really know to make a decision about you," said Daron Smith, who's gay and a lifelong United Methodist in St. Louis.
This weekend, more than 860 delegates from across the world will convene for a four-day conference, where they'll debate and likely vote on one of three proposals.
One would allow same-sex weddings and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy — while also giving church conferences outside the U.S. the power to prohibit these practices.
We've tried to do our best due diligence [and] offer models that would allow us to remain together as a united church.
Another more conservative plan would maintain current church policy and cut ties with regional church conferences that don't comply.
A third proposal would reorganize the church into three "values-based" groups and let each group make its own rules.
"We've tried to do our best due diligence [and] offer models that would allow us to remain together as a united church," said United Methodist Council of Bishops President, Ken Carter.
The United Methodist Church has more than 12 million members spread across the world. In the U.S., membership dropped to 6.9 million in 2016, down from 7.2 million in 2014. But globally, the church is growing, especially in African nations.
The broad diversity of church membership has made discussion around human sexuality more challenging, said Carter.
"In some nations of the world, homosexuality is a taboo subject, or it's against the law," he said. "So it's a more complex conversation for us, to try to develop a church law that can be open to all people."
According to church estimates, 58 percent of delegates at the St. Louis conference are from the U.S., while 30 percent hail from African countries. The remaining delegates are primarily from Europe, Asia and the Philippines.
For S. Jewell S. McGhee, a student at Eden Theological Seminary, the U.S. should not be the "unquestioned leader" of the discussion.
"I feel like the message that American Christians have given too often is that the rest of the world doesn't matter as much," McGhee said. "That is a message that is against the message of Christ as I see it."
The United Methodists are part of a long line of Protestant denominations that have grappled with the issue of human sexuality in recent years, including Lutherans, Presbyterians and Episcopalians.
The difference, said historian of American religion Marie Griffith, is that United Methodists have held together a vast and disparate coalition longer.
"Some lean very progressive on the issue, some lean very conservative," said Griffith, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. "It's very hard to know how you're going to hold people — especially people at the edges of that spectrum — together."
Regardless of the outcome, it may be months or years before any changes to church policy go into effect, particularly if they involve constitutional amendments.
But in St. Louis, Daron Smith and his husband Chris Finley aren't giving up hope.
"If the decision doesn't go our way this time, we'll keep fighting," he said. "The church belongs to everyone, not just a select few."
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