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GIWA India Launched with Faith Leaders, UNICEF and Noble Laureate
Eminent leaders from across India joined hands this autumn to signify the launch of GIWA-India at a special press event hosted with the technical support of UNICEF-India. GIWA-India is the first country-level initiative of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, of which HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji is Co-Founder and Co-Chair.
During the launch event, leaders discussed the crucial importance of GIWA's special focus on India, a nation in which over 600 million people don't have access to toilets and millions further have no access to healthy water and hygiene.
Said Pujya Swamiji, "the suffering and deaths that result from poor WASH conditions are mostly preventable, making WASH a holy mission for which all leaders should join forces, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our environment, and for the sake of India's future."
Standing together for GIWA were:
Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh,
Archbishop of Delhi, His Grace Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto,
Chief Jathedar of Sri Akal Takhat,
Sant Giani Gurbachan Singh, National President,
Global Imam Council Maulana Luqman Tarapuri-a-Deobandi Alim,
Representative of HH the Dalai Lama, Mr. Tempa Tsering,
Nobel Laureate, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director General of TERI, Dr. RK Pachauri,
Jainacharya Acharya Dr. Lokesh Muni, Ahimsa Vishwa Bharati
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Secretary-General of Global GIWA and President of Divine Shakti Foundation
Sue Coates, Chief of WASH, UNICEF India
Caroline den Dulk, Chief of Advocacy and Communications, UNICEF India.
GIWA is the world's first initiative to engage leaders of many faiths to create a world where everyone has access to improved sanitation, safe drinking water and proper hygiene. GIWA was launched globally on 25 September, 2013 at UNICEF headquarters during the United Nations General Assembly week, sponsored by the Governments of the Netherlands and USAID. GIWA's mission is to save lives by initiating and accelerating WASH projects worldwide, beginning with India. Religious communities have a proven track record of success in promoting WASH globally.
The faith leaders expressed deep anguish at the fact that nearly 600 million Indians still defecate in the open. This results in high mortality, morbidity and environmental degradation. The worst affected by poor sanitation, hygiene and open defecation are the children and women. India has the world's largest number of diarrheal deaths among children under the age of five, and nearly 88 percent of the diarrheal deaths are mainly due to poor sanitation, unsafe drinking water and unhygienic practices.
Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji said, "It is great that we can send shuttles to space but let us also create space here for WASH. While government can make bills, interfaith leaders can change dills (hearts). Time has come that we not only worship the Creator but also its creation and interfaith leaders now must come forward to charter innovative ways of spirituality. The 'Worship to WASH' revolution is a powerful symbol of such a collective and innovative approach that will clean and purify not only our outer environment but our inner environment also."
Archbishop Dr. Anil Coutoji shared, "'Let us not only raise awareness on WASH one day but take time every week in our congregations to spread this message, again and again. Let us join hands to transform not just one corner but all corners of our nation into sacred places of worship. This can happen if we can come together, like Pujya Swamiji has brought us together, as one family with one goal, to serve the Creation as well as the Creator."
Maulana Luqman Tarapuriji of Gujarat congratulated Swami Chidanand Saraswati for launching this initiative. He said, "Every religion lays such great stress on internal and external cleanliness, purity and respect for nature, including water and soil. I also pledge to bring all Imams together to spread and share this vital message of WASH with our communities and in our homes."
Sant Giani Gurubachan Singhji said, 'Divine has given us heaven as our nation but we have polluted it and desecrated the land, due to our mistakes and our choices. Time has come that we not only join hands and hearts, pledge to spread this message in our communities but also start this revolution in our homes. Let us take our unity to the streets and villages of India and share this message of WASH so that our children are guaranteed a future in which they not only can survive but thrive.'
Dr. RK Pachauriji shared, "It is beautiful that GIWA has brought together such a diverse and revered group of interfaith leaders, it illustrates that there is indeed so much that binds us and so little that divides us. WASH is just a symbol of working together for our larger dharma, our human religion. The benefits of which have a direct impact on human dignity, ensuring that each human being can live in their fullest potential and that, in my opinion, is also the goal of spirituality and faith."
Acharya Lokesh Muniji shared, "WASH is directly related to health. Health is related to prosperity and prosperity plays a key role in strengthening our communities unity and oneness. Therefore by improving WASH we impact our whole nation. Therefore, today I pledge to inspire and motivate the entire Jain community to join GIWA and walk to share and spread this message."
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji said, "Nearly 595 million people lack toilets in India. Millions of girls and women fall prey to violence, threat of wild animals and basic indignity on a daily basis due to open defecation. In India we are emphasizing education for the girl child. This is a wonderful initiative, but if we don't simultaneously emphasize provision of proper toilet facilities, these same girls will drop out of school when they reach puberty. A tragically large percentage of girls' education ends when they start menstruating due simply to the lack of hygienic, private toilet facilities where they can keep themselves clean."
Mr. Tempa Tsering said, "It's important that we not only raise awareness but also encourage the creation of the appropriate facilities and infrastructure to improve WASH. Interfaith leaders can pledge not only to inspire their communities but encourage gram panchayats, MLAs, MPs, ministers and all governmental agencies to ensure facilities are provided for people to have improved WASH available to all."
Adding the UNICEF perspective, its India WASH Chief, Sue Coates said, "The engagement of faith leaders opens the way for millions of people to hear about good WASH practices as part of their accepted way of living through belief and religion."
Advocacy and Communication Chief, Caroline den Dulk highlighted that religion was an important influencer in India In this light, "Partnership with faith based organisations and faith leaders is critical to ensure change in social norms connected with sanitation and hygiene. There are powerful examples of partnership with them globally. They can be immensely powerful advocacy and change agents as was seen in the case of eradication of polio in India. Their taking up the WASH Revolution is likely to produce remarkable results for children in India."
Welcoming the launch of GIWA-India, Giani Gurbachan Singh, Chief Jathedar of Sikhism's supreme spiritual body, the Akal Takht, (Golden Temple) further expressed confidence that GIWA will not only give a strong platform for religious leaders to launch collective action on WASH, it will inspire other stakeholders and civil society too to contribute to the WASH Revolution. Seva (service) is one of the basic tenets of Sikhism and, therefore, GIWA will provide a new dimension to Seva to the community, he said.
The faith leaders underscored the importance of water and the environment and proclaimed their commitment to these by offering water onto a globe in a sacred "Water Blessing Ceremony." Together, they then took a pledge to use the immense power of their respective faiths for promoting community health and wellbeing through WASH.
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The Legend That is…Sean Greene
Simi Olurin '19
If you live in the state of Delaware and the phrase "student athlete" means more than just an amusing meme in your mind, then there is a very good chance that you know the work of Sean Greene. The sportscaster who works at Delaware Sports Zone has cultivated an impressive status among high school athletes throughout the state of Delaware. In a slight role reversal for Greene, I had the pleasure of interviewing the legendary man behind the camera:
Which season is your favorite season of sports and why?
"I really like the spring because there's 11 different sports going on, so it's a different sport every day. It really mixes things up more than in the fall, where it's only 5 sports or winter, when it's pretty much just basketball or wrestling. In the spring I'm doing soccer one day, then baseball, then I'll have a lacrosse game. It keeps it fresh and exciting every day"
Does this mean that the spring sports are the most hectic to work out?
"Yes it does. There are 11 sports, but a couple of those sports get broken down into division, so it's more like 14 championships are going to be handed out. So over a course of 3 weeks, 14 different tournaments are going on, and I only have so many bodies. It can be very challenging to get my staff and myself to as many games as possible.
Tournament time is a hectic period for all sports across all seasons. Do you prefer working during the state tournament or during the regular season?
"The sports director side of me goes a little crazy because I have to make sure that I have enough staffing at all of the major games. But there's nothing better than a state championship game in any sport because they tend to be very good teams and very good games. It's the highest quality of whatever it is. In terms of being a sports fan and doing my job, I love it, but the logistics are certainly a challenge, specifically in the spring when there are so many titles at one time"
What is your opinion on schools requiring students to play 3 sports?
"Well that wasn't something that we had at Newark. I think it's an interesting way of doing physical education in the fact that it makes you really learn a sport. You're really focused, and you get the team aspects and the positive side of being on a team. Even if you're not a key player, you're rooting for your teammates and your senior teammates during practices and games. I think it's positive because it forces you to learn a sport, and hopefully it's a sport that you can take beyond what you're doing in high school and maybe become something that you enjoy in college.
Every high school athlete in Delaware knows the name "Sean Greene." What is the craziest story that has come with your celebrity?
"The craziest story was when DMA won their first girl's volleyball championship in 2015. After the game, they celebrated after winning the final point on the court, and then they raced over to their student section, where students were dressed in their military outfits for the match. It made for a really great picture, so I was getting out my camera as they chanted 'DMA!' and once I get my camera out and pointed it at them they start chanting 'Sean Greene!' over and over again. Parents are looking at me like "who are you, why are you here, and how do they know who you are, and we don't?" So that was the strangest for me."
Have you been a fan of the attention that has come with your job, or do you prefer to do your job under the radar?
"I never got into this for the attention. I got into it because I love sports and the competition. I'll put it this way, I never got that chance when I was in high school."
"I'm a fan of the attention because, when I'm in this business, I get paid by the amount of people viewing my stuff. I've been doing these highlights for 11 years, and I went from being a general reporter to focusing on high school about 3 years ago, so I spent about 8 years doing highlight packages, and generally people didn't know who I was. But through the combination of doing more games and Twitter, which has been very important in the fact that people are able to locate my stuff, the attention has been great. But I'm generally not the most outgoing person in the world, so the attention is certainly a little weird as well. It's not necessarily something I crave; really, I want people to see my stories and videos, and if I'm going to be out having a long day, I want people to enjoy my work"
What made you realize that you wanted a career in sportscasting?
"I've only wanted to be 3 things in my life: a meteorologist, a game show host, and a sportscaster. I've managed to do all 3 things. My first ever job was an online trivia host back when I was in high school. I covered hurricane Sandy down at the coast; I actually covered a college football game down in Alabama, got off the plane, then went down to a shelter down near Indian River high school to cover the storm. While reports from my football game were still coming up, I was filing reports down at the beach. The sportscasting started when I was in high school. I was asked to be a substitute talk show host on a sports talk show, and I did that show from that week until I graduated college in 2003, and that's where I got my passion. In college I also did play-by-play of every sport you can think of, from lacrosse to basketball to ice hockey. At least five out of seven days of the week, I was calling a game, and I just loved it."
Do you ever feel, as you're watching games, that you could effectively coach a sport?
"No. I'm lucky to work with a few very good analysts and those analysts know the sport themselves so much better than I do. I can describe the basics of what's going on, but the nuances of how to run a zone defense in football and how to fix it is just not my element."
What do you find to be the most difficult aspect of covering Delaware sports?
"Geography. While Delaware is small, I don't get to cover certain conferences as much as others. The state becomes a lot bigger when tasked with covering all schools and sports when there are about 45 high schools in the state"
Favorite sport?
"My favorite sport to watch is boy's lacrosse. There's hard hitting, there's a lot of running, and it just combines the best of many sports. The running is fast paced; you can get some of the most exciting goals when the players are diving around, and the hitting is as hard as football. It's a sport that's under appreciated, and it's just a great sport to watch."
As a small school like Tower Hill, how impressive is it that we are able to do so well in the tournaments as well as have a few athletes a year commit to play at the college level?
"It speaks to the quality of the student athlete that Tower Hill is able to attract. Good athletes see the success that Tower Hill has had in multiple sports and realize that it's a good fit for what they want to do athletically, and it certainly fits into what they want to do on the athletic side. You don't necessarily need to have a lot of sports if you're able to attract some of the top level athletes in whatever sport you're talking about, and Tower Hill has done a really nice job in several sports of getting those good athletes in. It certainly shows in the success they've had in lacrosse, field hockey, soccer, and several other sports. Even if they don't have a team that has the best record, they usually do have a few members that are contenders for first or second team all state."

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The 2008 election marked a significant change in the social, political and cultural lives of the American citizens. Rebecca Traister is a salon staff writer who wrote the book; 'Big Girls Don't cry' that covered the 2008 election for salon. She explored how the candidates, the campaigns and the media coverage of the race represented a sensitive moment for the history of gender in America.
Born in 1975 to a mother who was an English professor, she grew up in a society that did not regard women highly. Racial and social injustices surrounded her, but her father was a visionary and he kept giving her hope for change. She relates this story with her own story to the election by sharing how she started as Hillary Clinton's Detractor, but ended up supporting her at the end of the campaign.
The author's main agenda is to tell a story of change from a different time to the present using different perspectives of different people's lives. She talks of change to the country, to the democratic and republican parties, the women's movement and to the white house. She highlights the changes that have happened to the American citizen's perspectives and beliefs, social practices and politics over the past few years.
In this book, the author describes how the country and the people have come to accept new cultural changes. The fact that the new America can give her an avenue to air her voice through the book shows that the country has evolved to a democracy where everybody has the right to speak and be heard. The mass media has the liberty to follow up political stories using hasty comments and humor as opposed to the past, where they had to investigate and make carefully calculated reports. This marks significant growth on cultural acceptance. She portrays today's culture to be highly permissive as compared to the one in her teens, where women did not have a right to vote. As she writes this book, she is trying to show how cultural shifts have made it possible for the country to accommodate new political and social possibilities that were unexpected of in the past.
She talks of her goal to tell a story of women who participated in the 2008 elections and how that affected the perception of the whole world towards their participation. Her intention of this story is to prove that the notion of the 2008 presidential resulted in a failed feminism movement, was wrong. The fact that Hillary Clinton was the first woman to vie for the presidency seat showed progress on the feminist movement regardless of whether she won or not.
The support of Michelle Obama to the masses and to her husband proved stronger places for women in society. Sarah Palin was the first female Governor in Alaska is proof to the success of the feminist movement. The reaction to the success or failure of these women showed how far the society has come with their perception to women leaders and how far they are yet to go. Her goal in this book is to negate the notion that the failure of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton marked the fall of feminist activism.
The book investigates on the preparedness of the American citizens on the rapid cultural and political changes. Women have been fighting for leadership rights for a very long time, but when they got a real opportunity to support their own, they were not ready. There was significant let down on the female candidates as America is not ready yet for female leaders. Though the campaigns of Sarah and Hillary were unsuccessful, the cultural shifts and the arrival of Michelle Obama prompted revelations about the progress of the 21st century woman.
She gives hope to the female activists who are in the blink of a shut down due to the un-eventful losses of eminent female leaders in the past few years. Through her words of a promising future, she gives hope to the reader by describing how far the society has come and how far it is yet to go. She hopes for more stories to tell in the future of the female activism as portrays these women's strengths and their contribution to the movement. The author writes this book in support of the female activism to show that the movement has not seen the last of its activists, who through their strong opinionated views to the world will keep the movement going. She vows to continue with the support of women, even though sometimes they are hopeless as she gives the example of Sarah Palin.
The main argument in this essay is to negate the popular notion that there is proof that feminism failed after the 2008 elections. Political reporter Anne Kornblut wrote that the contest was a complete let down with damaging consequences to women. She claimed that this has set back the drive to equality in the political arena by decades. Similar reactions have been the experience since the end of the elections.
A particular blogger proclaimed that the year 2008 was when feminism, the women's liberation movement, ended up crashing. Claims have been made of people saying that the death of women's movement of the 1970s was because of the accomplishment of their set goals. Inequity is neither a concern nor a threat of the modern woman thus not giving much symbolic value to the possibility of having a woman in the presidential seat. This book is set to negate the fact that we live in a world in which gender inequality has been addressed.
In this essay, the author therefore, argues that the world has failed to recognize the fact that women have covered vast distances in defending and positioning themselves in leadership in the past few decades. She states "progress is not a straight line." Critics expected to see results instead of looking at the progress that women have covered over the past years.
She addresses the 2008 political turn out as a beginning of a new vision towards the new century female activism, as opposed to the death of the feminist movement. Failures of the two pioneers, Hillary and Sarah have not marked the end of the female activism, but the improvement of the same. Renewed conversations, arguments and attention to the topic has become more vibrant then before, hence birthing a new movement altogether. They have provided new career paths for critics and journalists as well as shaping the personal lives of the public. The first lady Michelle Obama who has beat the racism and stereotype claims is still representing strong female leaders.
There is proof that the movement is not dead, but it has taken a new turn. New reactions towards these women's participation in the 2008 elections have raised some bad and hopeful conversations. The author has used the casting of Geena Davis in the T.V show as the society's way of showing the acceptance of the idea of a female president. Her character in the show the fourth estate, though highly stereotyped with menopause jokes and children drama, led to a breed of open-minded viewers. She was a strong advocate for feminists all over the country as she attended their forums and commented on their blogs. Acceptance from the society of such a show promises progress and not death.
The obsession of the media towards Hillary and Palin are a clear indication of growth in interests. The media were constantly trying to acknowledge their difference in the way they talked, their dress code, their lifestyles and their ideologies. This shows that the world is in denial of how much they are interested to keep these women in the lime light even if they lack confidence in them as presidential candidates; they have affected the beliefs of society in a big way.
According to Rebecca, the world will only acknowledge success when it is a destination. The perception of Sarah Palin as a looser in the election fails to depict her as the first female governor of Alaska. She was also the youngest at the time in the history of Alaska, all this while being a strong mother of five. She is the first Alaskan and the second woman to run on a major U.S party ticket. The outcome of whether or not she won is not the important issue. The fact that she tried and went as far as she did is proof for major progress as discussed in Rebecca's book.
Hillary Clinton is the 67th United States secretary of state she was the first female chair of the Legal services corporation in 1978. She was a United States senator for New York for nine years, and was the first lady of the 42nd president of the United States Bill Clinton for eight years. She was a leading candidate for the democratic presidential nomination. Despite all her outstanding achievements, her failures were the highlight. Her candidacy, according to Rebecca was exiting to those who wrote about women and power. This arose many questions of sexism, generational difference, abortion, race, choice, class, the place of feminism in a democratic agenda and humor in a feminist agenda. This is more proof that the failures of these women do not mark an end to a feminist activism.
The first lady of the United States of America is currently one of the most eminent female icons in the world. Her help in the campaign for her husband made her a role model for many women in the world. She is the first African American first lady in the history of the United States. She is a notable advocate for poverty awareness, a mother of two and a fashion icon for women. The fact that she is a working mom with a postgraduate degree, following her two predecessors Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton and a genuine care for the people singes her out of the first lady stereotypes.
This is a crucial revolution for women since she has set new standards for the first ladies of the future. Throughout the campaign, the media often labeled Michelle as the angry black woman. She grew softer towards the end by showing empathy towards crowds and attending Ladies' home journal rather than appearing on T.V programs. She has become a part of popular culture as many women see her as a role model. Such is proof that feminists are continuing with their activism since she is in the list of the 25 of the world's most inspiring women.
The effect of Rebecca's argument is to add weight on feminism and its importance in the society today. She has not only concentrated on the treatment of Sarah and Hillary, but she has also included the success of Michelle Obama. She puts the most emphasis on the voters as she connects with the readers by airing her views and experiences as a voter. She puts herself outside all the common beliefs after the election results that race comes before gender in the Cultural Revolution by pointing out that she is in between the second wavers and the younger feminist bloggers.
She alerts the social double standards by discussing the media coverage of Hilary's crying episode and the negative reactions it attracted as most of the female voters did not see it as a problem. Her internal workings of the Republican and Democratic campaigns by looking at how Edwards and Barrack were able to use female bloggers to their advantage will stir a stronger attention to the feminist movement in the future. She has played a vital role in airing the voice of modern-day feminists to prove that they are still active.
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You can't sing, you can't dance, you look awful…you'll go a long way! (Childhood memories of early '80s pop).
The early 1980s were an odd time for pop music. There's a common train of thought that it normally chugs its way through the station marked "Craptown". But, I have to argue, it isn't all true. Now, before I continue, I have to say nothing with regard to music winds me up more than '80s revisionists. What was embarrassing and without worth in 1981 is going to be pretty much the same thirty years later, perhaps more so. Then again, some things have a kind of period charm (as they often do), like Toyah's haircuts and dress sense, for example. Alright, so you're not with me on that one, but you get the idea.
Now, there was some very innovative stuff going on in the post-punk era, no doubt about that. However, that's not to say a lot of commercial pop music in the early '80s was bloody awful; synthetic, irony free and badly written. Oddly these are some of the reasons why some of it is actually quite good, almost deserving respect due to its brash sense of the audacious. Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" couldn't be anymore crap if it called itself "Kids in Milton Keynes", but somehow it works. But some producers knew how to take cheese and add it to a really good omelette, so to speak. Giorgio Moroder springs to mind straight away. When he produced Blondie's "Call me" he had a good group and a good song to work with, so perhaps he was usually just lucky. It's also telling that there was something of a '60s revival in the early '80s, as well as this era being the aftermath of Punk. So what you got, quite often, was a bizarre combination of classic pop sensibility, to get clichéd, with often shockingly inappropriate and experimental electronics. Continue reading →
Categories '80s nostalgia, 1980s pop, Music, Music charts, Music fandom, One hit wonders
The forgotten pop of Susan Fassbender
The rubbish dump of pop's past is littered with almost countless lost artistes, forgotten careers and one hit wonders. There are as many fascinating stories to be found behind these perceived failures as there is behind the great chart successes. One such story that came to my attention recently is the tale of Susan Fassbender, who I believe warrants a second look and listen if only because for British TV viewers of a certain age, she'll be remembered for several appearances on Chegger's Plays Pop and The Multi-coloured Swap Shop. That at least gives some of us a nostalgic glow, but the sad irony is that despite this association with an innocent childhood past, a little digging reveals that Fassbender's life later took a darker path.
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Secularisme (Latijn saecularis, wereldlijk, tijdelijk) is de overtuiging dat religie en geloof geen invloed mogen uitoefenen op de maatschappij. De term werd bedacht door George Holyoake. Secularisme kreeg vorm in de negentiende eeuw als een expliciete aanval tegen de bevoorrechte positie van de Kerk van Engeland in het Verenigd Koninkrijk.

Sommige secularisten willen dat religie een privézaak is en ze vinden dat de staat er geen mening of beleid over hoort te hebben. Ze willen ook de cultuuraspecten die uit religie afkomstig zijn, verwijderen. Vandaar dat populaire christelijke feestdagen zoals Kerstmis en Pasen in toenemende mate geseculariseerd zijn, en is het gebruikelijk voor mensen van elk geloof, of zonder geloof, om deze feestdagen te vieren.

Het scherpe onderscheid tussen kerk en staat in de Amerikaanse constitutie is nog een voorbeeld van secularisme; op staatsscholen wordt bidden tijdens schooltijd niet toegestaan.

De evolutietheorie in de westerse opvoeding wordt soms gezien als een ander voorbeeld van secularisme, vooral wanneer alternatieve mogelijkheden van kosmische schepping worden uitgesloten.

De scheiding tussen kerk en staat is een belangrijk principe in veel westerse staten. Er is geen verstrengeling tussen religieus gezag en overheidsmacht (ofwel wereldlijk gezag), maar dit sluit niet uit dat er een religie kan zijn die een bevoorrechte positie heeft.

Seculiere staten gaan een stapje verder: de staat tracht zich neutraal op te stellen tegenover alle religies, voor zover deze de burgerlijke wetgeving integraal erkennen en respecteren.
Deze staten beschermen hun onderdanen ook tegenover eventuele religieus gemotiveerde inbreuken op hun rechten.
In radicaal seculiere (dus secularistische) staten (zoals Frankrijk en het laïcisme aldaar) worden de meeste vormen van religie zelfs verbannen uit het staatsleven. Religieuze overtuiging mag daardoor enkel binnen de private levenssfeer geuit worden. Degenen die de religie zo sterk uit het maatschappelijke leven willen weren, worden door sommige van hun tegenstanders ook wel verlichtingsfundamentalisten genoemd.

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Het secularisme vindt zijn oorsprong in de verlichting, waarin bepaalde filosofen zoals Voltaire zich afkeerden van een godsbesef en beweerden louter binnen de menselijke kennis en wetenschap een antwoord te kunnen vinden op existentiële vragen.

Secularisering is de toenemende oriëntatie van de mens op deze wereld, het aardse. De interesse in, het belang van, en de betrokkenheid op projecties in een transcendente werkelijkheid boven de dagelijkse realiteit neemt af. De secularisatietheorie is niet onomstreden, integendeel, het is wellicht niet alleen het meest centrale maar ook het meest betwistbare begrip binnen de godsdienstsociologie.

Een vroege voorloper is wellicht het middeleeuwse antisacerdotalisme dat in de twaalfde tot veertiende eeuw veel aanhang kende in de grote Belgische en Nederlandse steden, bijvoorbeeld Tanchelijn in Antwerpen.

Begripsverwarring
 Secularisatie is, strikt genomen, het onteigenen van bezit van de Kerk. Het gaat hier dan meestal om het bezit van land en kloosters dat overgaat van de Katholieke Kerk op de staat.
 Ontkerkelijking is het proces waarbij de kerk als instituut invloed verliest in de maatschappij en het aantal kerkleden sterk daalt. Hieronder valt de trend dat steeds minder mensen de kerk bezoeken, en ook de scheiding van kerk en staat. Ook het specifiekere begrip secularisatie zou hieronder geschaard kunnen worden. Maar secularisatie wordt tegenwoordig soms ook wel meer algemeen gebruikt als synoniem voor ontkerkelijking.
 Secularisering is de neergang van het belang van religie als levenshouding in een maatschappij. Ontkerkelijking zou onder dit brede begrip geschaard kunnen worden. Secularisatie wordt vaak met secularisering verward: soms wordt dan ook wel secularisatie gebruikt als eigenlijk meer algemeen secularisering bedoeld wordt.
 Secularisme is de stroming die zich beijvert voor secularisering van staat en maatschappij: secularisten proberen de invloed van kerk en religie terug te dringen. Hier tegenover staat de stroming van het confessionalisme (politiek-ideologisch).
 Binnen het christendom staat het begrip seculier (wereldlijk) tegenover regulier (van een kloosterorde). Een seculier priester is een geestelijke die niet is aangesloten bij een reguliere orde, dan wel geen kloosterling is. Zie bijvoorbeeld Seculiere kanunnik versus Reguliere kanunnik.

Zie ook
 Seculier humanisme
 Wereld (christendom)
 Ontzuiling

Liberalisme

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The National Volunteer Police Cadets is a programme for young people aged 13-18 that aims to:
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Tracey Fuller, a police officer from Devon and Cornwall Police, has been working for two years to develop a curriculum for this fast-growing uniformed organisation. The course is accredited by ASDAN under our customised programme. It is based around a record of service achievement book, which records the development and progression of a cadet on a five-year journey from recruit to senior cadet.
Tracey said: "Our work with ASDAN has been a milestone in the recognition of the cadet workbook and we look forward to our continued relationship."
PS Nick Healey of Devon and Cornwall Police, the National VPC programme manager, added: "The development of the cadet curriculum has taken the programme towards achieving a nationally recognised standard of police cadets across the UK."
Each cadet unit is based around the following principles:
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Gallery endorses Phaidon's love of East Asian architecture in forthcoming show The Japanese House
House NA, Sou Fujimoto, 2011, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture. From Jutaku
As you've probably gathered by now, we've long believed that Japanese houses include some of the most creative, beautiful and downright startling works of architecture in the world. Last year we published Jutaku, our small but perfectly formed, 400-page overview of this beguiling built environment. Now, it appears we are not alone in our appreciation.
London's Barbican Gallery has just announced that on 23 March 2017 it will open its spring exhibition, The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945. The three-month-long show will examine the way that country has consistently produced some of the most influential and extraordinary examples of modern and contemporary design since WWII.
House Atelier Bow-Wow, 2008, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Prefecture, from Jutaku
Though this is essentially an architectural display, The Japanese House will take in wider economic and social influences, to show how financial boom and bust, falling birth rates and exacting planning laws have shaped the country's streets, and will demonstrate how, alongside well-known examples of Japanese domestic architecture such as House NA (top), cinema, photography and art can shed new light on the country's domestic culture.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of the leading Japanese architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow, whose work features in our book, is serving as an adviser on the show, which will also display works by Sou Fujimoto and Toyo Ito among others.
For more on Sou Fujimoto by this book; for more on Ito get this one; and to discover more about the wild side of Japan's houses well ahead of this show get Jutaku.
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Jessica Zahedi (* 1. August 1978 in Heidelberg) ist eine deutsche Fernsehmoderatorin und Journalistin mit iranischen Wurzeln.

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Zahedi absolvierte 1997 ihr Abitur am Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Mainz und studierte von 2003 bis 2007 an der Fernuniversität in Hagen Politikwissenschaften (Abschluss: Bachelor of Arts). Später war sie bei Radio RPR tätig und machte dort von 1999 bis 2001 ein Volontariat. Nach der Mitarbeit an einem Online-TV-Projekt des 1. FC Kaiserslautern und als Reporterin wirkte sie 2003 bei der Einführung der Jugendwelle bigFM in Rheinland-Pfalz mit. 2005 ging sie nach Hamburg, um bei Scholz & Friends in der Werbung zu arbeiten. Danach kam sie nach Mainz zurück. Seit 2006 ist sie beim ZDF in der heute-Redaktion tätig.

Zahedi hat zwei Kinder (* 2012 und 2016).

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Arizona Wildcats begin best-of-three Super Regional today at Auburn
Posted on May 28, 2016 by Javier Morales in Arizona Softball, U of A
Arizona pitcher Danielle O'Toole has faced three of the SEC's top teams this season (Alabama, Tennessee and LSU). In 32 2/3 innings pitched, she has posted a 0.64 ERA. In those five games, O'Toole is 4-1 with three shutouts, a .145 batting average against, 33 strikeouts and just eight walks.
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Arizona is two wins away from reaching its 23rd Women's College World Series, but those two victories will be hard to come by. The Wildcats (39-19) travel to fourth-seeded Auburn (52-9) to play in the best two-of-three series for the right to advance to Oklahoma City. The Wildcats have not been an unseeded underdog in a Super Regional since the program's first national championship in 1991.
The Wildcats have now advanced to super regionals of the tournament for the 11th time in the 12 seasons since the NCAA Super Regional round was created in 2005. Arizona is attempting to become the second unseeded team since 2009 to advance to the Women's College World Series while winning on the road for both regionals and super regionals. The Wildcats swept the Knoxville, Tenn., regional last week, beating Ohio State and then host Tennessee (seeded No. 13) twice.
Arizona is trying to become the first team to win at SEC-hosted regionals and super regionals to advance to the WCWS. Since 2009, just four unseeded teams have made it to the Women's College World Series.
Both Arizona and Auburn went 3-0 in the regional, although Auburn had a less treacherous road, defeating Jacksonville State twice and USC Upstate at home to advance to the super regionals.
The Wildcats advanced past Ohio State and Tennessee posting a 0.95 team ERA behind the pitching of ace Danielle O'Toole, a .989 fielding percentage and the scoring 10 timely runs, nine of which occurred in the fourth inning or later, in three close, low-scoring games.
O'Toole pitched 19 1/3 innings of Arizona's 22 innings, 16 of which occurred in a 31-hour stretch between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. She threw a two-hit shutout vs. Ohio State to open the regional before throwing a one-hitter vs. Tennessee in Game 2 in which she retired the final 21 batters of the game. O'Toole posted a 1.09 ERA and a .109 opponent batting average.
NCAA SUPER REGIONAL
ARIZONA (39-19) AT AUBURN (52-9)
Game 1: Today (3:30 p.m.)/ESPN2
Game 2: Tomorrow (11:00 a.m.)/ESPN
Game 3 (if necessary): Tomorrow (2:00 p.m.)/ESPNU
QUICK HITS:
— The Wildcats have advanced to 11 of the 12 super regionals since they began in 2005, with their only miss coming in 2013. Arizona is 12-11 in the round and has advanced out six of its previous 11 trips, but none since 2010.
— Arizona is 0-8 in its last four super regional appearances.
— Mandie Perez has double digit doubles (11), home runs (11) and stolen bases (12). She is the first Wildcat in the 10-10-10 club since Brigette Del Ponte in 2012.
— Fifth-ranked Auburn (52-9, 16-7 SEC) is coached by former ASU coach Clint Myers, who was an assistant under Mike Candrea at Central Arizona College.
— The Tigers rank second in the NCAA in scoring (8.31 runs/game) and 16th in ERA (2.15) \
— Auburn's 79 home runs are eighth most nationally and the Tigers have three players with more than 10 homers
— Kasey Cooper (.431 avg, 17 2B, 19 HR, 75 RBI), Emily Carosone (.406 avg, 11 2B, 12 HR, 58 RBI) and Tiffany Howard (.404 avg, 11 SB) lead one of the nation's top offenses.
— Auburn lost four of its final five regular season games, including two run-rule defeats to Tennessee, which was swept in two games last week by Arizona at the Knoxville Regional. The Tigers rebounded from the poor finish to win the SEC Tournament Championship.
Listen to what @CoachCandreaUA had to say about this weekend's games in Auburn.
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Very Rough Interview Notes, mostly my questions.
you have alzheimers. How is your early stage Alzheimers affecting your work?
question about whether the Alzhiemers may have a connection to the visions and dreams he's had that have had a major influence on the book.
The disease may be making more of his brain available to mystical experience.
You've written, "Intimacy can swallow you; make you lose yourself. Yet, it is only in this death that we truly know our eternity. " And I wonder if the way the disease is forcing you to let go it's opening you up.
Burl's writings are great and can be found at www.opednews.com/burl
If Sophia's Web is successful, what does it do?
everything is related-- a cooperative system, rather than competitive capitalism
What is your vision of the holographic web of life?
Tell me a story that you tell in the book or that's related to the book.
Dream from age five of goddess
Can you talk about archetypal feminine wisdom and how it relates with patriarchal, masculine culture?
How would the planet be different if feminine wisdom took a greater role in our culture, on our planet? Sophia-- divine feminine goddess, patriarchy
Can you talk about your thoughts on Spirals. I've come to believe that that's the way we go through the world, in spirals.
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He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization (more...)
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Usually, when we think of Gucci print, we don't think of books. But in this instance, the Italian luxury fashion label is embracing print in a whole new way.
Gucci Wooster, the brand's recently opened experiential store located in the Soho neighborhood of New York City, has opened a bookstore within their storefront. Because what's a better accessory than a book?
Reported by Laird Borrelli-Persson over at Vogue, the bookstore's curator is David Strettell of Dashwood Books, the NoHo indie bookstore specializing in photography. Carrying 2,000 titles, both new and out-of-print, the Gucci bookstore will mostly feature avant-garde art and photography books. Borrelli-Persson writes that "within these broad subjects, space is made for local artists, Italianate themes, and publications featuring the work of 'friends of the house,' including Martin Parr, Petra Collins, and Ryan McGinley." Shoppers can also find a selection of niche magazines, including the Gucci zine Le Palace. The price point for items in the bookstore ranges from $20-$1,000.
This isn't Gucci's first book collaboration – the brand's designer has incorporated literary elements into his fashion collections, paying homage to Jane Austen with purses and sweaters inspired by her books.
According to a report from Emilia Petrarca at The Cut, Gucci has even hired a chief librarian and official "Book Worms" to oversee the store. Perhaps they can help you find some books to put in your $1,450 Gucci backpack.


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IT Woman: What Kind of Girls Create IT of Lviv Today?
Concerning "woman's face of IT" there are a lot of myths and secrets. Is a woman in IT beautiful, successful, and active? Is it easy? How do they manage to create one of the leading industries of the world? Lviv.com breaks stereotypes and offers you a cocktail of beauty and intelligence.
Kateryna Zolotariova
SEO-specialist, currently developing her agency
"I have come to IT" by chance. I worked as a psychologist after graduation of the university. At some moment I realized that work with people exhausted me very much. I remembered that since school I liked studying structure of sites, it was very interesting how they function. So, on the quiet, I learnt SEO-advance and optimization. And I got a position in a cool agency right after the first interview. Since then, SEO and internet-marketing have been my one love.
Zhanna Yuskevych
Mobile lead, Solutions Architect in Teamvoy
In autumn 2009, studying on the third course of Applied Mathematics in I. Franko LNU, I heard from someone I know that Java developer for a small mobile application is needed. I decided to apply for this. Thus, I started working, combining studying, work and extramural studying at the Academy of Arts.
After the first project, I got others. Technologies were changing, but specification of mobile applications was not. So far, my arsenal has included over ten completed projects, moderating community of iOS-developers of ObjC, Fans, guidance of several start-ups, and a platform for writing short poetry and prose – http://asphalte.io/.
Maryana Solop
QA Team Lead in RocketRoute
It has been already four years since I began my career in IT, from a functional tester to a manager of QA team. I went to QA, because I liked to break things, but now I am more interested in helping young specialists learn to think outside of the box. And it is cool to improve at one level with developers. It is never boring in QA.
Ivanna Herasym
QA in Symphony Solutions
"I came to IT when I met my boyfriend, a programmer. He encouraged me to complete a course of software testing and to become QA. And as I have already dreamed to work in IT, so I decided to go to this sphere. Therefore, having graduated from a law faculty, I became not a lawyer, but an "IT-woman".
Viktoriia Yatsentiuk
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I knew about Innocode from someone I know, who used to tell me about this company during our lunches. I got interested in it. By the moment when I realized that I wanted to be a programmer, I had already had a Diploma of an Accountant. That is why, I got into self-education. I have been studying day and night. Actually, I doubted that I would get in IT, because of not having technical education. But fortunately, in this sphere they focus more on knowledge rather than having a diploma.
At the moment, there are all conditions for my development, and I am very happy about it.
Yuliia Kryval
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After returning from a training exchange in Berlin, I realized that my Ukrainian Interpreter Diploma would unlikely become my bread-and-butter. So, with all enthusiasm of youthful maximalism, I asked the teacher, who at that moment was working at SoftServe Marketing Department, to take me for a free exploitation for a month. Just to gain experience outside a starter pack #Iamalinguist.
After the first month they asked me if I would be interested in permanent employment as a content specialist. I have been in the team for almost three years so far. Since then I have become a Digital Marketing Manager. Currently I control development of the site and other digital assets and communications of the company at the external market.
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Engagement Manager in SoftServe
My story of the beginning of my career in IT demonstrates various work opportunities in this area. Almost five years ago I was attracted by an unordinary vacancy of an adviser in career issues (Career Advisor). I did not pass an interview due to absence of HR experience.
But soon afterwards, I was invited for an interview for a position of a Training Coordinator. Thus, I started working in the company organizing internal and external trainings for our employees. After the first year and a half on this position, I moved to the Department of Sales of Outsourcing Services as an Engagement Manager, where I work so far.
Viktoriia Martsynkiv (Kotova)
BA in Zuman
I have been in IT not for long, for almost a year. I am a jeweler artist by education. I have never thought that I would work in IT. I have always considered that it is boring and uninteresting to sit at the computer all day. But thanks to my work as a model and contacts with people, I was offered to work in IT. At first, everything was incomprehensible, but gradually this office life involves you. People with whom you spend every day, become a family for you. Now I have a dream to learn Ruby.
Halka Aleksandrova
Senior Test Engineer Consultant in GlobalLogic
#IhavebeeninIT already for about three years. This area turned out to be a pleasant surprise for me, its people, approaches to task solutions, career opportunities, in particular. The atmosphere itself encourages you to develop.
I was starting from the level of QA Trainee. In GlobalLogic I have learnt everything that I deal with now. Although, before this I had not had a technical basis. I was taking the information as a sponge, and I wanted very much not to be different from more experienced colleagues. In several years I managed to advance to QA Lead. Now I am a mentor for newcomers.
Olesia Manko
HR, currently a free-lancer
My first meeting with IT specialists took place in the context of Lviv Freelance Forum. I was so excited about the atmosphere and frankness of people, that it became a push to get interested in the area. I had had an experience of working with children, but having worked as HR for a year, I can say that it is easier with children!
People in IT are straightforward and frank, and this is what I like about it, and in general, it is very valuable. There is something to learn from the people I meet here, they inspire. And also, in IT sphere I like challenges to the present, innovations and destroying the framework.
Kseniia Kobryn
Agile office Lead in Symphony Solutions, founder of Agile space platform
My way in IT began from studying in Karlsruhe University of Technology (Germany). It was a thorny way, with many days spent in the library.
During the last ten years I have been working with scrum teams and I have been organizing Agile space in IT organizations. All this is in combination with being a mother of two little princesses.
For me, Agile is a lifestyle. This is a transparency, trust, real-life communication and a rapid adjustment to changes. They are my principal values at home and at work. So, we try to cooperate as one team in our working and family life.
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I have always wanted to be an athlete since a very young age, but growing up in a traditional Chinese family, school always came first and there was only just enough room to do sports recreationally. It always makes me proud to see how Asian athletes are making a name for themselves in their respective sports. They have the powerful ability to inspire many more kids, including other Asians to start young. Here are my top 10 Asian athletes of all time that I think have been very influential.
As the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five major championships, she was ranked number 1 in the Women's World Golf Ranking for 109 consecutive weeks. Tseng has cemented herself as one of the best female golfers in the world.
The first and as of yet the only female Asian tennis player to win a grand slam, she is considered to be one of Asia's most successful tennis players in history and currently the richest retired female athlete in the world.
Widely regarded by most cricket fans both in India and internationally as the greatest batsman of all time, he holds nearly 100 records in the sport and is also considered to be a national treasure. As the highest run scorer of all time in international cricket, his nicknames include: God of Cricket and master blaster.
Lee ended Malaysia's 12 year Olympic medal drought with 3 silver medals in badminton. Although he could not win a gold medal, he is already considered to be the most successful Malaysian Olympian in history.
The captain for his South Korean national team, Park is definitely the most decorated Asian soccer player and still the only Asian player to have won the UEFA Champions League Trophy. He amassed 19 goals in 134 appearances for Manchester United.
Not just a popular baseball player for an Asian, Suzuki is one of the most popular baseball players overall. A 10 time MLB all star, MVP and rookie of the year, even at age 43 he is still active in the league and still producing numbers for his team. He is well on his way to the Baseball Hall of Fame once he retires.
Being one quarter Thai and one quarter Chinese, I consider Tiger Woods to be Asian which is why he's on this top 10. Despite his scandal, his professional achievements still make him the greatest golfer of all-time. Being one of only five golfers to achieve a modern day grand slam three times and the only to win four majors in succession, he has successfully brought the game of golf to the masses.
While not as impactful as Yao, no one can forget the two weeks he had playing for the New York Knicks that shot him into fame, earning the nickname "Linsanity" and kickstarting his career. Even after the craze he remains a very skilled basketball player, good enough to be on the starting lineup for the Brooklyn Nets. With Yao retired, he is now indisputably the NBA's new ambassador across the Pacific.
With no background in college basketball at all, he became the first Asian basketball player to be drafted first overall in the NBA. At a time when most experts predicted that he would fail in the league, he exceeded all expectations and was selected as an NBA all star 8 times. He has been a global symbol of basketball since then and had a phenomenal influence on the NBA expansion in China.
Considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, with 10 world titles and numerous records broken, Pacquiao's accomplishments in boxing are staggering. Being this good at the sport as an Asian has definitely helped fight the stereotype of the fragile Asian man.


Bernadotte was the son of Gustav Adolf VI, king of Sweden and brother of Ingrid, queen mother of Denmark. As a young man he wanted to become an actor but his father and grandfather didn't approve so he studied art history at Sweden's Uppsala University. He attended the School of Decorative Arts in Stockholm and became committed to designing practical, useful things that were stylish and beautiful not beautiful ornamental things with no purpose.
At the age of 23, he began to design for the Georg Jensen Silversmithy. His designs were a departure from what was thought of as the Jensen style. He introduced clear cut disciplined forms common in modern Swedish taste to the Danish Silver tradition. His elegant and distinguished designs show a preference for geometrical figures, spheres, cylinders and funnels enhanced with engraved lines, profiles and soldered parallel fluting.
After leaving the Georg Jensen Silversmithy, Bernadotte created industrial designs and in 1950 he formed a partnership with the architect Acton Bjorn, Bernadotte & Bjorn Industridesign. The firm designed many different products ranging from calculators to office refrigerators. In 1964, an offshoot of the firm, Bernadotte Design with Sigvaard Bernadotte at its head was created and it became the largest design consulting firm in Northern Europe.


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Response of highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) 'Spartan' to gibberellic acid and CPPU applied at various rates and timings
H. Fujisawa, Y. Kawai, K. Ishikawa
Experiments were conducted in 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2016 at an experimental field of Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan, with highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) 'Spartan' to determine the effects of varying the concentration and timing of treatment with gibberellic acid (GA) or CPPU, and to clarify the effects of the combined application of both growth regulators on fruit size and quality. During the initial three experimental seasons, GA was applied at 50, 100, and 200 mg L-1 and CPPU at 5, 10, and 20 mg L-1 on bearing shoots at 0, 5, 10, and 20 days after blooming (DAB). Both GA and CPPU applications led to increases in fruit size, fruit weight, and the number of seeds per fruit compared to untreated controls. Fruit produced on shoots treated with 100 mg L-1 GA was larger than on shoots treated with 50 or 200 mg L-1 GA. GA application was most effective when applied at 5 DAB and was less effective when applied at 0, 10, or 20 DAB. Higher rates of CPPU application resulted in larger fruit. However, malformed (wavy) leaves were observed following CPPU application at 10 and 20 mg L-1. CPPU application was most effective when applied at 10 DAB and was less effective when applied at 0, 5, or 20 DAB. On the basis of these findings, the combined application of 100 mg L-1 GA at 5 DAB and 10 or 20 mg L-1 CPPU at 10 DAB was tested in 2014 and 2016. The treatment resulted in a 1.4- to 1.5-fold increase in mean fruit weight compared to the control, while the soluble solid content and acidity of the fruit were not significantly affected by the treatment. The combined application was considerably more effective than application of GA or CPPU alone in increasing fruit size.
Fujisawa, H., Kawai, Y. and Ishikawa, K. (2018). Response of highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) 'Spartan' to gibberellic acid and CPPU applied at various rates and timings. Acta Hortic. 1206, 183-188
acidity, GA, forchlorfenuron, fruit size, fruit weight, number of seeds, soluble solid content


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School Summary
Strategy Map
Wheatland Colony School
District: Maple Valley Public School District
Costs Per Pupil
NDDPI is providing data on how much money is spent per student for all K-12 public schools in North Dakota. This information shows how much money of the total per-student spending comes from Federal funding sources and how much comes from State and Local funding sources. Additionally, the public might find it helpful to compare student spending at the school to the district and state level data made available for reporting. The per-pupil expenditure report includes both personnel and non-personnel expenditures.
Total Cost per Pupil
The total cost that was spent per pupil at the school, district, and state by year.
Federal Funding per Pupil
The total cost that was spent per pupil at the school, district, and state by year from federal sources.
State and Local Funding per Pupil
The total cost that was spent per pupil at the school, district, and state by year from state and local sources.
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Online Dates: Feb. 28th-March 19th Online Book Fair FLYER or click on our Groovy Photo to go to our online Book Fair.
BY Monday, March 7th: Students need to bring in a plain white T-shirt (K-8). Classrooms will be tie dying shirts Next week will be able to wear those Tie Dyes on a Friday, March 18th. Please write your child's name in permanent marker on the tag part of the shirt or the hem at the bottom of the shirt.
Friday, March 11th: Woodstock, Our Groovy Book Fair Mascot will make a special appearance. Students will be able to Preview Books. Parents welcomed from 2:45-3:15pm or Pop in during the day.
Clifford the Big Red Dog will make Special appearances during our Lunch for Loved Ones and in the mornings. Photos will be available.
LUNCH TIME: EVERYDAY: We would especially love to see you during your child's lunch time when our school hosts "Lunch with Loved Ones". Please check in the office before having lunch with your child(ren). You are welcome to bring your child(ren) a lunch. Please RSVP online or below so we can plan and organize tables.
BREAKFAST with BOOKS: Come Join us for a Donut, coffee, or juice and early bird Shop on Friday, March 18th from 7am-8am. Please RSVP online or below so we can plan how many donuts to purchase.


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PLANO EAST
BRIAN GRUNKOWSKI
BRIAN.GRUNKOWSKI@PISD.EDU
Beginning his 21st year teaching, Mr. G grew up in Frisco and attended Frisco schools graduating in 2000. He received a Bachelor's degree from UTD in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Educational Psychology. He began his teaching career as an elementary teacher for fourth and fifth grades while he pursued his MAT in Science Education from UTD. In 2007, he was named Texas Science Teacher Mentor of the Year. He joined his high school theatre teacher as a teaching team in 2003 where they qualified to UIL OAP Regionals for seven years and went to state in 2007 with David's Mother. In 2009, he became the first theatre director at Heritage HS in Frisco ISD. During his tenure at HHS, he was a five time UIL OAP regional qualifying director and coached both the UIL Poetry Interpretation State Champion and UIL Technical Design Set Design State Champion (2013). He loves working at PESH Theatre, it's truly been a dream! When not at PESH Theatre, Mr. G enjoys his favorite number one job- being Jaxson's dad.
ZA'KEIJIA WRIGHT
ZAKEIJIA.WRIGHT@PISD.EDU
Za'Keijia Wright grew up in Plano Tx and graduated from Plano Senior High School in 2014. After high school, she went on to West Texas A&M University where she earned her Bachelors of Arts emphasis Performance in 2018. She is passionate about the arts and is so thankful that she can share her knowledge of theatre with other young artist. She is excited to be apart of the wonderful legacy that is Plano East Theatre.


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Like most companies these days, MerlinOne incorporates video into our web presence. If you visit our product video page, you can find different presentations of our products. When you watch them, what you're looking at is Flash video. Unfortunately, Apple's mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad do not support Flash. For that reason, I started on a quest for a solution that worked on all devices. That quest led me to HTML5 video.
Recently there's been a lot of buzz surrounding HTML5 video as an alternative to Flash. What I had originally read sounded so promising – video that could play on any device without the need of any additional plug-ins or proprietary codecs (we'll get into codecs later). It sounded so easy – native HTML tags would allow the video to load and play with built-in controls. As I read further, the excitement faded away.
I was looking for a "one size fits all" solution and as I looked deeper, HTML5 video lost its luster. At the time of this writing, you will need to have a different codec and/or container for playback, depending upon what browser you use. In order to support everyone, we would have to encode the video to multiple formats including non-HTML5 video formats for those browsers (Internet Explorer, for the most part) that do not support HTML5 at all.
If I've lost you, don't feel bad; it's not all that easy to follow. Here's a quick primer on how digital video works. When working with portable video files you're essentially dealing with three components – a container as well as video and audio streams.
The container is a package that keeps the separate video and audio streams together. One source of my research (diveintohtml5.org by Mark Pilgrim) compared the container to a ZIP file – a single file that contains multiple individual files. The container you choose for your website depends entirely on who you anticipate your audience to be. We initially went with Flash Video as a container, because the Flash plug-in has the highest penetration in browsers (www.statowl.com). Although there are a lot of video container formats out there, some of the more popular include MPEG 4 (.mp4 or .m4v), Flash Video (.flv) and Ogg (.ogv).
To get an illustration of this video component structure, load a movie into the QuickTime Player and look at its Properties. The movie file itself is the container and the different streams and codecs are listed inside. In our illustration (image to left) the container is an MPEG 4 video (.m4v) that includes a video track using the H.264 codec and an audio track using the AAC codec. As HTML5 stands now, the example we've illustrated will work in Safari, Chrome and their respective mobile devices, but not much else. To date, this H.264/AAC/MP4 combination will not work with Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera and unfortunately these browsers deliver too many viewers for us to neglect. Want to see which is the most popular browser; check out www.w3schools.com/browsers/.
Because there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution, I guess we'll have to resort to using code to detect the browser and serve up the appropriate video format. That's too bad, I had such high hopes for HTML5 video.
If you're using HTML5 video, we'd love to hear from you – drop us a comment (we'd love to hear from you even if you're not using HTML5 video).


The Dawson was first designed for narrow, inner-city Brisbane allotments and has proved very popular because of its practicality. Convenience and affordability were the guiding principles in adapting the original to suit the Classic range. In addition to all the features most families need in the home itself, there is lots of extra room underneath for future development.


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EU states commit to ending wildlife crime, but critical measures missing
by WWF -- last modified 21 June 2016
EU Environment Ministers endorsed Monday an ambitious EU Action Plan to boost the region's collective efforts to end wildlife trafficking, but the absence of some key commitments could weaken its overall impact and effectiveness.
The Action Plan was developed to strengthen the EU's response to the global poaching and illegal wildlife trade crisis and was adopted by the European Commission in February. WWF warmly welcomed the plan but hoped that ministers would support it by endorsing additional concrete commitments on financial resources, national legislative amendments, and reporting – all of which are missing from the final conclusions.
"EU Environment Ministers have demonstrated their desire to crack down on wildlife crime by signing up to this wide-ranging action plan, but they should have been even bolder," said Sally Nicholson, Head of Development Policy & Finance at WWF European Policy Office. "Ministers failed to pledge the necessary financial and human resources to back up their words and prove they are really serious about fighting wildlife trafficking."
The EU Action Plan as well as other international commitments requires Member States to legally recognise wildlife trafficking as a "serious crime" and to review relevant national legislation on money laundering. However, not all Member States have taken these steps, so they must do so urgently to ensure that organised wildlife trafficking is punishable by a minimum sentence of at least four years imprisonment.
"Weak punishments are part of the reason wildlife trafficking has become one of the world's most widespread transnational criminal activities," said Sally Nicholson. "Increasing sanctions, tackling corruption and making sure wildlife crime is a high priority for law enforcement at EU and national levels are of paramount importance to deter criminals."
The Environment Minsters' conclusions do acknowledge that the EU plays an important role not just as a transit point and end market but also as a source region for the trafficking of endangered domestic species. This refers in particular to the European eel and Danube sturgeon species. WWF also welcomes the recognition of the critical role of local communities and civil society in the conservation of wildlife, and the need for their involvement.
With 30,000 elephants being poached in Africa last year as well as a record 1,338 rhinos, EU leadership is critical in the fight to end wildlife crime in Europe and around the world, which threatens not only species but also security and sustainable development.
Member States now need to make sure they fully implement the EU Action Plan and report back on the progress made, especially for the actions to be delivered by the end of 2016. In particular, the EU has an important role to play at the largest ever Conference of the Parties of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Johannesburg in September. There it will be lobbying for a number of measures that are part of the plan, including better regulation of trade in hunting trophies and measures to address corruption.
The European Policy Office contributes to the achievement of WWF's global mission by leading the WWF network to shape EU policies impacting on the European and global environment.