In my PhD research, I look at sustainable energy transition from a landscape architecture perspective. Sustainable energy transition is shift from fossil to sustainable energy systems, which is characterized by renewable energy sources and efficient energy use. The transition requires adjustments in spatial arrangement and land use, as such influencing the landscape.
The mutual relationship between (renewable) energy and space makes landscape architecture a relevant discipline for the planning and design of sustainable energy landscapes. Stremke and Van den Dobbelsteen (2013) defined sustainable energy landscapes as "a physical environment that can evolve on the basis of locally available renewable energy sources without compromising landscape quality, biodiversity, food production and other life-supporting ecosystem services" (p. 4-5). However, we witness public resistance to renewable energy technologies (RET) which is, among others, due to landscape considerations. My interest is, therefore, in the niche for landscape architecture in sustainable energy transition, and especially how a narrative approach can help creating meaningful sustainable energy landscapes.
See also www.nrglab.net for an extensive overview of activities of the Landscape Architecture Group around the planning and design of sustainable energy landscapes.
reference: Stremke, S., & Van den Dobbelsteen, A. (Eds.). (2013). Sustainable Energy Landscapes. Designing, Planning and Development. Boca Raton: CRC Press.


A series of two interactive promotional websites for the Grammy award winning "Skin" album by Flume, made with Cassie Tarakajian. You can watch him play with it here. The first experience was a promotion for the release of the single "Never Be Like You". Using the artwork of Jonathan Zawada, we created a web app that allows the user to play the chorus of the song by either touching the flower petals, or using the keyboard. You can play with it here. The project was re-skinned for the release of the single "Say It", which can be viewed here.
In addition to the interactive web apps, we also created a Spotify Homepage Takeover. For 24 hours, anyone who opened the Spotify app would see our interactive ad. It was viewed by over 80 million people within the first 6 hours.


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Q: How to install pythonext extension in Firefox without creating FF application? pythonext doc at http://code.google.com/p/pythonext/ says: "The Python extension is downloaded and installed into a Mozilla application as a regular extension"
I don't have a Mozilla application. Just trying to get my .py code to run in FF browser.

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I downloaded pythonext-6.0.0.20110820-WINNT_x86-msvc.xpi for PythonExt 6 Windows with FF 6, but .xpi is not recognized by Windows 7, so not clear how to install it.

Go to the addon mananger and click on the gear button.
Then click Install addon from file.

A: Ehm... it's the first sentence under title: "This project provides Python Mozilla bindings (PyXPCOM) that enables Python to be used inside of Mozilla applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and XULRunner."
If you haven't yet noticed, Mozilla is "company" and their "products" are Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. So you can simply install that Pythonext and your scripts will work in Firefox, that's all to it..

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This is a fantastic place to buy games, and many of their board games are open, so that you can just walk in and play them free of charge. On the second floor, you'll find open tables where you and a few buddies can whittle away the hours crushing each other's armies. Jason and Tanner, two of the co-owners, are more than willing to help you learn the basics of some of the more intimidating war games, as well as give you some painting tips if you're in a more creative mood. Every Wednesday, there's a demo you can join in on, about the strategy game Warmachine, run by Shannon (who's a local foreigner and volunteer representative of the US-based parent company).
There's a great sense of camaraderie and community in the store, making you feel like chilling out and having fun without spending a lot of cash. So go down and pick up some dice, get a board game, paint some minis and get your nerd on.


High levels of TPH and TCE were detected on-site after a suspected cutting oil/degreasing solvent spill.
Remediation mandated after oil sheen observed in river adjacent to manufacturing facility.
In situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) paired with excavation to remediate site.
Tight treatment deadline met through the use of PersulfOx in 2,204-pound SuperSacks, which were delivered within a few days' notice.
An Illinois metal fabrication manufacturing facility has been in operation since the early 1900s and is still active today. The use of cutting oils and degreasing solvents lead to high levels of TPH and TCE on-site. The state of Illinois cited the facility for a violation when an oil sheen was observed seeping from the property into an adjacent waterbody. A mechanical oil recovery system was installed and absorbent booms were used to mitigate the oil from reaching the river. ISCO was selected as the remediation approach to address the contamination below the active facility through a series of applications. Additionally, the TCE area was treated with PersulfOx® via injection wells and a soil mixing application.
Prior to the start of remediation activities, the primary consultant was removed from the project and a new firm was brought in. The remediation firm placed a tight deadline (a couple of months) to complete the full scope of activities. REGENESIS was able to assist with keeping the project on-deadline through the delivery of 2,204-pound PersulfOx SuperSacks, which were delivered within a few days' notice. The consultant had a series of injection wells installed inside and outside of the building. PersulfOx was injected into these wells during three applications over a three-month period. Additionally, the TCE area was treated with PersulfOx through a soil mixing application using an excavator. The final step of the remediation plan is to treat the TPH-impacted soils outside the building through excavation, and Oxygen Release Compound (ORC®) Advanced Pellets will be used as a long-term oxygen source for enhanced bioremediation of the residual TPH.
ORC Advanced Pellets are a pelletized version of REGENESIS' widely used ORC Advanced and are designed specifically for direct application into excavations, tank pits and trenches. This pelletized, dry application material minimizes airborne dust while eliminating the need for specialized equipment and spray water required for powder-slurry applications.


Flight Base is the heartbeat of GAMAS. It is here that all missionaries come to be allotted their projects. While in transit they are fed, supplies that they need for their stay in the jungles are bought such as flashlights, hammock, mosquito nets and all tools needed for their stay and survival.
We support and care for our pilots and all staff. We provide towels, sheets, beds, toiletries and whatever the need may be to make their stay as comfortable as possible.
It costs us $25.00usd weekly per person to feed our misionaries.
It costs $300.00 usd per flight to take them into the interior.
Any assistance great or small would be greatly appreciated.
State what funds are for and for which project.
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Israeli soldiers shot, on Friday, five Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, at the western entrance of Silwad town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, during the funeral procession of a Palestinian who was killed by the soldiers a few hours earlier.
Local sources in Silwad said hundreds of Palestinians participated in the funeral of Eyad Hamed, who was killed by the soldiers at noon, at the western entrance of the town, after the army initially claimed "he attempted to attack the soldiers," and later retracted his false allegations.
The sources added that the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets, sponge-tipped bullets and gas bombs at dozens of Palestinians, and cars, participating in the funeral procession, five Palestinians were injured and many cars were damaged.


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We don't live in a society where everyone is part of a civic association anymore. Without communities who can put their resources together to pursue common goals, neither our civil liberties nor our new technological abilities can fulfill their promise. This has left us dependent on either governments or corporations to wield that power on our behalf.
It's time to give the civic sector of our society the economic tools it needs to compete with our public sector and our corporate sector, and restore our civic life that has been crowded out of contention.
This year has felt like waking up with an unsettling feeling that something is deeply wrong. Lots of things are wrong, really. Economies in the developed world have been stagnating since the 2008 financial crisis—in some countries, even earlier. For many of us, our governments are functioning much worse than they have in the past. While the signs of stagnation and decline have been popping up for decades, watching societies fail to handle the challenges that 2020 has thrown our way has been the clearest red flag. We have work to do. But what is to be done?
To Marc Andreessen, a prominent venture capitalist, "it's time to build": it's urgent that we reorient our public sector and corporate sector around building things. He says that "we need to demand more of our political leaders, of our CEOs, our entrepreneurs, our investors. We need to demand more of our culture, of our society. And we need to demand more from one another." And for the public sector in particular, "we need to separate the imperative to build these things from ideology and politics. Both sides need to contribute to building." If we begin to build again, we can return to consistently feeling like our society is becoming more and more capable.
Ezra Klein of Vox takes issue with the idea that a lack of desire to build is the cause of our stagnation. To him, the root cause is that our institutions have become vetocracies: "The institutions through which Americans build have become biased against action rather than toward it." And the problem isn't just in our public sector, it's in our corporate sector as well. "If the market thinks whatever you're doing is going to cut quarterly earning for an uncertain payoff, it can punish you severely, and instantly, for trying." As our institutions get worse and worse at making critical decisions, they fall further out of sync with the problems of our time.
Both of these analyses are accurate, and we will owe a great debt to the citizens who succeed in reforming our public sector and corporate sector so we can build again. But what if they fail? Our public sector is a monopoly by design. In its pursuit of maximizing quarterly profits, our corporate sector often behaves as a monolith in practice. To ensure that we exit this era of stagnation, we need a plan B that doesn't depend on a strategy with binary outcomes. Reforms might produce well-functioning governments and corporations, but they might fail without any option to opt out of a broken system. To construct a reliable backup plan, we'll need to learn as many lessons as we can from our predecessors, who had to solve their own problems by necessity.
Civic Life Before Cyberspace
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville visited America from France to study American society, and compiled his observations in Democracy in America. He compared what he saw as a functioning democratic order in America to what he had seen in Europe, and concluded that the prevalence of voluntary associations is a crucial ingredient in a society of equals.
Americans of all ages, all conditions, all minds constantly unite. Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small; Americans use associations to give fêtes, to found seminaries, to build inns, to raise churches, to distribute books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner they create hospitals, prisons, schools.
Everywhere that, at the head of a new undertaking, you see the government in France and a great lord in England, count on it that you will perceive an association in the United States. … The more [government] puts itself in place of associations, the more particular persons, losing the idea of associating with each other, will need it to come to their aid: these are causes and effects that generate each other without rest.
Almost two centuries later, the America Tocqueville saw feels as foreign to me as it must have to him. We don't live in a society where everyone is part of a civic association anymore. Some say that cultural changes led to the decline in civic associations, others say technology caused the problem. Either way, we're not going back. But if we can learn how these associations got started, we might be able to rebuild a civic life that's compatible with modern conditions.
The Rotary Club and Kiwanis were both founded in the early 1900s. Paul Harris founded the Rotary Club in Chicago "so professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships." Allen S. Browne and Joseph C. Prance founded Kiwanis in Detroit "as a strictly fraternal club that only young professional businessmen could join." Both quickly transformed into service clubs with a charitable mission, and sprouted chapters in cities across the world. Service clubs were so integral to public life that companies would often pay for their employees dues to provide networking opportunities. Based on the stories of their founding, it may not be possible to build these types of clubs from the ground up to fund external goals. Appealing to the self-interest of early members with events and networking opportunities seems like the best strategy to get things started, followed by a shift to some level of broadly beneficial work.
In most areas of American life, membership in civic associations sounds like an anachronism, especially with subsidized dues. But there's one major exception: life on college campuses. Every rush week, you'll see fraternities and sororities trying to get the best new students to commit to join them for their whole college career. Every fall, you'll see tables lined up at the student activities fair with groups trying to get new students involved. In some cases, students have already been charged a fee to fund those groups, so they're throwing away money if they don't find a group to join. It might be difficult to visualize what civic life might have been like a century or two ago, but there are so many active examples of thriving civic life on campuses that we can refer to today. We can take these patterns from our past and our present, and adapt them to the conditions we find ourselves in during the latter days of the Digital Revolution.
Post-Independence Cyberspace
"I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us," John Perry Barlow wrote in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, a response to early efforts by the U.S. Government to regulate the internet in 1996. So many pioneers of the early internet considered the freedom to speak privately with anyone on Earth to be so profoundly empowering that it would reshape the world. And it did reshape the world: the internet's mob-dominated social order has spilled out into real life with terrifying consequences.
If Tocqueville saw the work of the French Revolution as incomplete without a vibrant scene of civic associations, we should see the Digital Revolution in the same way. New liberties and new technological abilities cannot fulfill their promise without communities who can put their resources together to pursue common goals. In their absence, we're doomed to depend on either governments or corporations to wield that power on our behalf. Barlow wanted the government out of cyberspace, and for good reason. But being left in the hands of unaccountable internet monopolies isn't quite the revolution we were promised either.
Building a vibrant civic life in cyberspace will complete the vision that was set out at the start of the internet age. But a digital-first civic life isn't a digital-only civic life. We already meet people in person we were connected to by an app. In the same way, we can begin to restore the civic life that we need to thrive, but adapted for the ways we connect with each other today. Each community you come across on Twitter or Reddit will have an array of clubs for you to choose from if you'd like to start working towards a goal together, or if you just want to be more connected. And as those digital communities grow their numbers while building strong social bonds, they'll start to spill out into real life as fulfilling face-to-face events.
Since Barlow's Declaration in 1996, our digital tools have drastically improved. We have the kinds of communication tools that were first used by gamers to form guilds to work closely with a tight-knit group of fellow players, and are now mature enough to have facilitated a boom in remote work. Digitally native civic associations can now be imagined by anyone who has a recurring Zoom call on their calendar.
We also have new economic tools that blockchain technology has provided. The historical pattern is that our society ends up being dominated by the organizations with the best economic tools: currencies powered the domineering industrialized governments that rose in the early 20th century in the same way that startup equity powered the rise of Silicon Valley. If we want the most powerful forces in our society to be based on voluntary association rather than winner-take-all politics or quarterly earnings reports, then we can't just leave these kinds of economic tools to the public sector or the corporate sector. The civic sector of our society has faded into the background because it hasn't had the tools to compete. This is the decade when we change that.
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Q: Is there a way to create a process which can be killed by anyone in Linux? For example, I would like to start running a process in the background SECRETLY on a Ubuntu server , but whenever anybody except me logins to the server, the process must be killed by that user. Is it possible to create a process like this?  (I have the sudo account and can modify /etc/bash.bashrc)
Thanks!

A: Please note that what follows may compromise your system security in various ways.
Create a script which takes care of killing that process of yours (let us call it process P). Then give all users permission to run this script in sudoers. Finally add suitable call for this script with sudo into /etc/bashrc.
Lets for the sake of example assume that you know your process is started from /usr/local/sbin/myproc and that you want to kill all those processes immediately someone logs in, so you'll going to use simple grep and kill strategy for killing them.
So, first put the following into /usr/local/sbin/killmyprocs:
#!/bin/sh

ps auxw|grep [m]yproc|awk '{ print $2 }'|xargs kill -TERM > /dev/null 2>&1

# end of file.

You probably want to so something slightly more sophisticated if you actually proceed and implement this. So make sure to create a script which traps appropriate signals and in general does things in a secure way.
Second give all users permission to run this script in /etc/sudoers by adding into it:
ALL ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/killmyprocs

Third, and final step, is to add a sudo call to your script in /etc/bashrc:
[ "`id -n -u`" != "<my_username>" ] && sudo /usr/local/sbin/killmyprocs

Replace  with your own account in order to avoid killing your "secret" processes when logging in yourself.
To sum it up: 1) create a script which produces no output but kills processes you wan to kill, 2) add appropriate entry to /etc/sudoers for every user on your system to be able to execute that script as root, 3) add a call to your script via sudo to /etc/bashrc (or /etc/profile).
A caveat: /etc/bashrc (or /etc/profile for that matter) get sourced only for interactive shells. This means it's rather easy for a user to do ssh yourhost 'ps auxw' and find your process from the process table, it will not get killed with the mechanism introduced above because shell initialization files are not consulted. There is a way around that, using ForceCommand in ´sshd_config` but that's left as an exercise for the reader.
To conclude I'd like to remind again that there are obvious security implications with this. This also sounds very much like trying to backdoor a system which you don't have a complete access to but that is not really my concern here (if you have to ask these things on Super User, you'll get caught soon enough anyway).

A: How do you mean "the process must be killed by that user"?
A) You want the user to kill your process that he/she doesn't own?
Make a script to kill the process, then set setuid with chmod u+s (this can be a huge security hole unless you know what you're doing.)
Or
B) You want the process notice a user logging in and kill itself?
Well that's what you would do.


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The discography of pop girl band Feminnem consists of three studio albums, one compilation and 17 singles. The most popular singles are "Volim te, mrzim te", "2 srca 1 ljubav", "Call Me", "Sve što ostaje", "Lako je sve" and "Sve što ti nisam znala dati".

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Singles

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Promotional singles

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Myanmar should treat Chinese loggers in lawful, reasonable and sensible way
Category: Forestry Science & Education
BEIJING, July 23, Xinhua -- Myanmar should consider the actual situation of a group of Chinese nationals, who have been sentenced for illegal logging in the Southeast Asian country, and deal with the matter in a lawful, reasonable and sensible way.
A file photo shows Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang held a regular press conference on June 15, 2015. (Xinhua/Li Mingfang)
A district court in northern Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced 152 Chinese loggers to 20-year imprisonment for violating a 1963 law against destroying public properties, according to the Chinese Embassy to Myanmar.
Besides, one person was sentenced to 35 years in prison while two minors were each given a 10-year jail term.
China respects laws and customs of other countries and always asks its nationals not to break local laws when they stay abroad.
But it is abnormal to impose heavy sentences on such a large number of foreigners for the same offense, and the Myanmar court's one-size-fits-all approach toward the Chinese loggers raises questions on its impartiality.
In fact, those Chinese nationals, arrested in raids on illegal logging that began earlier this year in Myanmar's conflict-stricken northern Kachin State, may hardly know the illegality of their activities before being brought to the country.
As those people might be duped and misled into the country for illegal logging, the indictment against them should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.
Chinese nationals, believed to be involved in illegal logging, arrive at a court in Myitkyina, capital of Kachin State in the north of Myanmar, July 22, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Moreover, it is noteworthy that Western media have always played a contemptible role in sowing discord between China and its neighbors, by using specific cases and numbers to create the impression that China is causing severe damage to Myanmar's natural resources and environment.
As a matter of fact, the Chinese government is opposed to illegal logging, illegal mining and illegal wildlife trade, and the country has been committed to strengthening cooperation with neighboring countries, including Myanmar, to tackle illegal activities and protect natural resources.
Regarding its neighbors as a foreign policy priority, China has been striving for years to achieve common development of the region, with various initiatives under such frameworks as ASEAN and the Greater Mekong Subregion.
And it is undeniable that China's economic success has brought enormous opportunities for the development of neighboring countries, including Myanmar, which has seen tangible changes in its infrastructure network and visible socioeconomic development in recent years.
As the case can be appealed to the Kachin state judiciary and then to the country's supreme court after Wednesday's verdict, it is hoped that the Myanmar authorities will take every factor into account to protect the Chinese nationals' legitimate rights and interests.


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Drought In Southern Africa Points To Urgent Need For Climate Change Plans – Analysis
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By Kennedy Dzama and Tawanda Marandure*
It is expected that temperatures in Southern Africa will rise to between 1.5°C and 3°C due to climate change by the year 2050. This is likely to cause heavy fluctuations of weather patterns and more frequent severe weather events like droughts and floods. Agriculture will be severely affected.
In turn, many economies in Southern Africa which are dependent on agriculture will feel the impact. The effects of climate change are already being felt. The 2015 agricultural season in Southern African was considered the driest in 35 years.
Five countries in the region – Swaziland, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Zimbabwe – declared national drought disasters. Eight of South Africa's nine provinces and the southern and central areas of Mozambique declared partial drought emergencies.
Massive crop failures were experienced across the region. This led to a deficit of 9.3 million tons in cereal crop harvests. On top of this 643 000 cattle were estimated to have died in the drought. Because of these agricultural failures, food insecure populations increased by 31%. This implied that more than 40 million people needed humanitarian assistance.
This is a massive problem for the region. It requires adaptation and mitigation strategies to cope with the changing climate.
Adaptation and mitigation
Southern Africa is home to a large number of livestock species estimated at 64 million cattle, 39 million sheep, 38 million goats, seven million pigs, one million horses and 380 million poultry. A large proportion is indigenous or varied degrees of crossbreeds that are kept by smallholder traditional farmers.
To develop effective and appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies it is crucial to understand the impact of climate change on different livestock and crops. For example, overall warmer temperatures are likely to cause heat stress in cattle raised on natural pastures and in feedlots.
And hotter conditions as well as low rainfall will reduce the quantity and quality of forage and crops. This in turn will reduce growth performance and poor meat quality of grazing livestock.
Intensive livestock production systems will also be affected. Increased temperatures will:
make feed more expensive,
reduce reproductive performance,
reduce milk yield,
increase incidence of diseases and high livestock mortality rates.
Strategies to cope
As a mitigation strategy farmers should make use of livestock species or breeds that are heat and drought tolerant, disease and parasite resistant.
Some species, such as goats and sheep, are likely to adapt to hot and dry conditions better than cattle, for example. Goats and sheep can use low quality forage and browse more efficiently. They use less water because of well developed retention systems in their kidneys. They could therefore be a sustainable substitute for cattle in some instances.
When it comes to cattle, some breeds will manage better than others. Indigenous Sanga cattle breeds like Nguni, Tuli and Tswana are known for their good mothering ability, longevity, high fertility, disease and parasite resistance. They're also able to utilise low quality low quality feeds.
These breeds can be used as female lines in crossbreeding programmes, for example Angus bulls vs Sanga cows. Crossbreeding is used to improve the efficiency of meat production in indigenous breeds or to increase the adaptability of exotic breeds.
How farmers are adapting
Several mitigation strategies are already being used in both intensive farming environments as well as among smallholder farmers. For example, mechanical cooling including forced ventilation, evaporative cooling and shading (natural and artificial) are being used under intensive production systems in the commercial sector.
Alternative supplements, which can reduce the effects of heat stress, are also recommended. These include minerals like potassium, sodium and chlorine and the replacement of rapid fermentable carbohydrates, like maize, with saturated fatty acids.
And farmers are beginning to use commercial dietary supplements like poultry litter, urea blocks/licks, cultivated pastures (rain-fed or irrigated) and conserved forages like silage, hay and crop residues.
There are also prospects for using novel feeds from various sources like horticultural crop residues and byproducts from the wine industry to provide alternative sources of protein and energy.
Other steps farmers have taken to cope with drought and long dry spells include:
reducing livestock numbers,
changing livestock composition,
diversifying and altering the timing of operations,
introducing rotational grazing and multi-species grazing, and
reseeding natural pastures with improved grass and legumes.
Surprisingly very few countries in the region have national climate change policy frameworks in place. Malawi is an exception. It has adopted a national climate change response framework and also has a climate change investment plan in place.
In South Africa the Western Cape province has adopted a climate change framework and implementation plan. But clearly countries have a lot of catching up to do to help farmers manage.
*Kennedy Dzama is a distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University and Tawanda Marandure is a PhD student Theoretical Production Ecology, Agricultural Philosophy, Animal Science at Stellenbosch University.This article was first published in The Conversation.
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Park City is well-known for its stark, impressive, and beautiful mountain terrain, hosting the best slopes in all of Utah. Home to some of the most important skiing and snowboarding events in the 2002 Winter Olympics (as well as the United States Ski Team), Park City's local ski resorts of Park City Mountain and Deer Valley have an extensive network of impressive trails, with the over half of them rated as intermediate difficulty. Read on to learn all you need to know about skiing in Park City, Utah!
While Park City is most ideally suited to intermediate skiers, there are still a fair number of trails for beginners and experts as well.
Beginner trails comprise just under twenty percent of Park City's skiing terrain, including First Time, Drift, Claim Jumper, Ripsaw, Chicane, Doc's Run, two dedicated slow zones, and several terrain parks that cater to a variety of skill levels.
Intermediate trails (rated as blue or double-blue) make up over fifty percent of Park City's ski trails, providing the most variety. The Georgeanna and Tycoon runs are known for having the best snow quality, while Keystone has great views and a peaceful, quiet ambiance. Other blue trails include Sunrise, Hidden Splendor, Upper Crowning Glory, Power Alley, Sandman, Snow Dancer, and Gotcha Cut-Off.
Those who have more advanced skills will find that Park City has a number of traditional black-rated runs on the lower parts of the mountains, with signature runs groomed on a periodical basis. Motherlode Meadows provides more of a challenge with its gladed area; even though it's rated as double-black, it's not a steep ride. Other more advanced Park City ski runs include those off of the Thayne and Motherlode lifts, the Blue Slip bowl, and the double-black gladed area of Black Forest.
Expert skiers will find that though McConkie's Bowl has gained quite a reputation, the nearby trail called Molly's provides as much fun, without all of the traffic. Be sure to wear a helmet, though! Chimera, Red Pine Chutes, Jupiter Bowl, P-Zone, Puma Bowl, 94 Turns, Magic Line, Constellation, Portuguese Gap, and Pinecone Ridge are also extremely challenging and fun.
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The crisis of newspapers and the crisis of blogs. On the one hand, the difficulty of paper and digital integration and the problem of interpretation and integration of social media. On the other hand, the economic sustainability and the journalistic efficiency of independent blogs. A contrast that can be overcome by integrating mainstream media and independent blogs. This is the case of the Isola of Cassintegrati, which in November 2012 became a partner of the Italian weekly L'Espresso and the first Italian example of an independent blog that has become part of mainstream media. A discussion around this case and an evaluation of the tools which might permit other websites to repeat the experience.


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Q&A: Bringing community energy to Ireland
For the emerging Irish community energy sector, the title of a 2015 article by Kate Ruddock of Friends of the Earth perhaps best summed up the issues. 'Why does Ireland make community energy generation so difficult?', she asked. In 2017, the situation hasn't changed much.
To find out why, we spoke with Michael Phillips, Principal Consultant with renewables consultancy Dulas, about the issues involved with Ireland's nascent community energy sector and what is being done to grow it.
Decentralized Energy: What is the current state of community energy in Ireland?
Michael Phillips: Overall, the community energy sector in Ireland could be described as being in its nascency. There is one 4.6 MW community energy wind farm in County Tipperary, wholly community-owned, and a couple of emerging solar farms through Claremorris & Western District Energy Co-op. There's one microgrid and one renewable district heating project at an early stage. The primary focus is on energy demand reduction and energy efficiency measures for communities.
[Pictured: Templederry Community Wind Farm in County Tipperary]
Ireland is driven not just by the EU 2020 target on renewable energy, but also by subsequent targets. They have to be very cautious about how renewable energy is subsidized or supported, because obviously they can't engage in preferential treatment for one energy form over another, which might be considered anti-competitive. Any subsidy arrangement has to be subject to state aid review. We know the EU is driving member states to avoid or step away from feed-in tariff (FiT) or Renewables Obligation support and go for an auction arrangement – and this is likely in Ireland.
The difficulty with the auction is that it's very difficult for community energy schemes to understand the bidding process, to know what kind of fees they need to bid in with. They will be very disabled in a competition with a standard developer-utility network. So there are some difficulties with EU regulations and state aid rules as to how community energy would be able to be driven and advanced sufficiently within an auction arrangement.
I don't see the Irish government backtracking on its commitments under renewable energy targets. There has been large deployment of wind over the last few years, and hopefully community energy would be realized to help achieve those targets. There is a ripe opportunity if the right structures and guidance and support are in place to enable the sector to drive itself forward.
DE: What has Dulas been doing in the community energy sector?
MP: We're involved in projects across the UK and Ireland. While the mainstay of our work is in the commercial sector for developers and utilities on the large-scale development of renewable energy, we also have worked historically on quite a raft of community energy projects across the UK, with wind, solar and hydro.
We have a particular interest in community energy because several of us within Dulas are also associated with [Welsh] Bro Dyfi Community Renewables (BDCR). We operate two community wind turbines above the Dyfi valley with 200 shareholders, the majority in the local area. I'm also a recent past director of Community Energy Wales.
We have a good track record of designing and consenting our own community turbines; we worked on the well-regulated Awel Aman Tawe community scheme near Swansea as one of the last FiT schemes.
The ethos that drives several of our team members is to try to open up the energy sector into community ownership in the same way it's been embraced in certain parts of Europe, and to raise awareness of its associated benefits.
DE: What are the issues involved in bringing more community energy to Ireland?
MP: There are two elements: firstly, consultation on regulatory support and subsidy arrangements; the other is around grid connection codes.
There is an astonishing amount of new solar projects that are subject to grid request offers, akin to up to 4.7 GW recorded through applications to ESB Networks (the grid operator in Ireland). There's a huge pipeline of potential projects but a lot are applying for grid connections around the same substations; the capacity is overloaded and only a certain number of schemes will be able to be connected. This would fulfil Ireland's obligations in terms of EU targets but the limitations are there on the grid. The consultation is a necessary prerequisite, but it has been delayed and delayed and delayed.
[Pictured: Michael Phillips]
[Irish grid operator] Eirgrid has lots of investment ongoing, but ultimately it will fall to successful developers who go through an auction arrangement (which is expected) and deliver their sites. It will be down to them to pay for electricity infrastructure upgrades. With solar farms we're talking around a 1-3 km underground grid connection to the nearest substation.
Substations have been a locational driver for solar farms in Ireland. In terms of financial and economic feasibility and viability, solar projects need to be as close to the honeypot of the substation as they possibly can – but only to those substations which have excess capacity and the right voltage arrangements; some don't because of the weakness of the grid. Not all schemes will be able to connect to the grid. The grumblings I get from developers are that their margins on these schemes are going to be very slim – they can't afford to outlay too much by way of good connection costs, for example.
Developers have been, at least in my experience, averse to engaging with the community energy sector in Ireland because if they take on a further partner then that will further reduce their returns on projects. So there's a very sluggish interface between developers and the community energy network in Ireland currently.
There has now been a succession of papers since 2015 that have accentuated the desire for a greater inclusion of community energy as part of the energy mix for Ireland. So again, very much like our experience here in Wales, we have very good policy support and good messages coming from the government, but sadly at this stage there is very little evidence that there will be a community energy strategy broadly across Ireland, and no evidence yet to say that community energy projects would benefit from preferential treatment.
Ireland has had a chequered history on renewable energy, mostly around large-scale wind, and there's been a public backlash. The public have stronger powers of appealing decisions on new energy projects than they do in the UK, for example. A lot of schemes got bogged down because of public disenchantment with the energy strategy itself. Eighty-nine per cent of Irish people are in support of decarbonization and the renewable energy agenda; the difference is that they see large-scale utilities coming in and harnessing the resource with lip-service payment to local communities. There's no form of engagement or sense of inclusion for communities or the broader public. So there is disenchantment and difficulty in making progress.
[Pictured: Aran Islands Energy Co-op]
Ireland gets 9.2 or 9.3 per cent of its energy from renewables. The 2020 target is 16 per cent. Everyone recognizes that the developer community will obviously be responsible for financing and bringing through a large pipeline, but community energy groups and the public more generally need to be engaged in the process.
And inclusion is not just matter of bringing it down to the community benefits package. There are a couple of initiatives the developer community can take through community ownership models, and looking at JVs with communities to allow local communities to invest in projects directly and draw benefits from projects. Also, there's a big driver from Ireland's sustainable energy association and other parties.
There is a proclamation by nearly 100 organizations in terms of what's required for community energy ownership across Ireland. They're interested in a national community energy investment fund where members of the public can pay into the fund and benefit from share interest payments based on generation and revenue.
If the Irish government is to enable community energy to really happen, it needs to evolve a strategy that includes ownership models, includes a pan-Ireland investment fund and, where possible, can provide some sort of preferential treatment to community energy schemes. It might be, for example, that there is an additional premium available to the subsidy if you have community ownership, or more tax-efficient structures that can be put in place to allow projects to get a better return.
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Adam and John are featured in this profile together as they both graduated from our department and went on to create their own company based on their mutual interests in 2010 (blythandbathe.com). Blyth and Bathe Inc. is a specialized consulting firm with primary interests and expertise related to archaeology, biology, traditional land use, and environmental education. They specialize in resource conservation, planning, management, assessment, and mitigation services to private-sector resource development projects, all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, and Aboriginal groups.
Adam Bathe has worked throughout northwestern Canada, Alaska, and Greenland on projects ranging from traditional land use studies to alternative energy feasibility studies. The majority of Adam's experience has been in the field of environmental impact assessments. His experience has been in collaborative projects working with multiple First Nations to locate and document sites for the purpose of informing mitigation strategies and negotiations.
Recently, Adam has been working with community-based monitoring projects in the Inuvialuit and Sahtu settlement regions of the NWT and in northern Alberta, teaching field skills through the Environmental Monitor Technician Coordinator Program as well as offering other specially designed courses. Adam is currently doing his MSc in Natural Resource Management, through the University of Iceland as well.
John Blyth has a propensity for exploration in both his work and regular life. Having worked in every region of the NWT and parts of northern Alberta and BC, as well as in Nunavut, he has a depth of background experience and is very knowledgeable and adaptable in northern working conditions. John's professional background stems from anthropology and archaeology. Due to the deep interconnectedness of culture and the environment in the North, his work has expanded to be closely associated with a diversity of fields in the environmental sciences such as biology, hydrology, and the regulatory and assessment fields.
John: The time I spent a couple weeks working on an archaeology project at the mouth of the Maguse River north of Arviat, Nunavut.
Adam: The social life at University of Calgary is something that I often reminisce about. Having a core group of friends, many who I met in UofC 101, to bounce challenging ideas off helped me get through my undergrad and inspired me to greater things as an alumnus.
John: The bouldering wall in the basement of the Outdoor Centre.
Adam: The bouldering wall for blowing off steam. For studying, one of the upper floors of the library, with the views of the mountains to the west.
John: If you are interested in pursuing work in the consulting field, invest time and energy in understanding the ecology and natural environment of Canada. This is important, as your work will be intertwined heavily with the environmental sciences.
Adam: If I had known how important report writing was going to be for my career, I'd have taken a technical writing course.
What was your favourite ANTH/ARKY/DEST class and how did it help your education?
John: My archaeology department field school at Fish Creek. The course has the most practical experience, and I learned skills that would be applicable in my work post graduation.
Adam: I wish I could have taken my Arky field school in my first year! In those few week, I learned almost everything I need to get a foothold in the CRM world.
John: I transitioned from archaeology proper into more of an anthropology based career. I've applied my skills as an anthropologist into the work I do in the environmental science consulting, as well as local wilderness safety training/guiding work I do.
Adam: After spending a summer working with John on a Traditional Land Use Study in Northern Alberta, I returned to Calgary and was hired to by a consulting company to do CRM and EIAs. After a few years of doing that work, I moved back to the NWT and started to teach Environmental Monitoring at the local College.
We started our company in 2010, with the idea that we could continue to teach part time but could consider other types of work. Almost immediately, we got a Arky contract with Wood Buffalo National Park, and haven't slowed down since.
John: The time and freedom to develop new skills and explore new opportunities.
Adam: Freedom. We can pretty much choose when and where to work. In the last 6 years, we have worked almost every community in the NWT and have seen much of the circumpolar region.
John: Near the end of my degree I had the opportunity to focus more on northern issues. This allowed me to then return home to the north and apply my skills up here. After a series of moves from working with a local first nation to the government of the Northwest Territories, Adam I and ultimately created our own consulting company.
Adam: The experience that I had at the U of C, was the perfect jumping off point for my career. The contacts I made helped me transition into the workforce and the academics inspired me to be a lifelong learner.


A group of political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison issued a statement condemning the 21-year jail sentence issued for Ahmad Montazeri, son of the late Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri.
"The unjustified and questionable ruling issued by the special clerics court against Mr. Ahmad Montazeri for publicizing a sound bite of Ayatollah Montazeri regarding the massacre of political prisoners back in the summer of 1988 is truly a huge crime," the statement reads.
"At a time when Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani and his corrupt judicial minister deviously talk about freedom of speech, issuing such a criminal ruling, completely in contrast to all international legal standards, shows the completely shaky status of the mullahs' establishment. This also reveals the regime is utterly terrified from a new wave of revelations made by various personalities regarding the summer 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
"They fail to understand that the regime has lost its opportunities. It must now face the reprimands of all the tortures, executions, terror attacks, unknown crimes of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, the nuclear program, massacring people in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon, all the plundering, corruptions and embezzlements in the billions, and suspiciously murdering political prisoners. This is what history has in store for all dictators.
Hail to the 48,000 college students who have lost their lives for the new Iranian revolution, from 1981 to this day, and especially the college students and youths massacred by the criminal mullahs' regime during the 1988 massacre.
We, like other college students across the country, support the PMOI's call for protests on December 6th marking Students Day.
This regime has reached its last days and last breaths. Iran is the home of many uprisings. Many protests have already taken place in Khuzestan, Isfahahn, Pasrgad, Urmia, Tabriz and across the country.
In this regard college students and youths across the country are invited to increase their protests and take advantage of every opportunity possible. They should not allow Khamenei's paramilitary Bassij transform campuses into their own grounds.
We also support the justice movement demanding those responsible for the 1988 massacre be held accountable.
We must turn each campus into a center for major student protests.
A group of stockholders, who have suffered major losses after investing in the Caspian Financial Institute, held a rally on Thursday in the city of Ardebil, northwest Iran. These protesters are demanding answers as their investments were plundered and are now seeking the return of this money, according to reports received from inside Iran.
It is worth noting that a group of these protesters had also staged a similar rally on Tuesday, November 29th.
A group of Ghashghaie community locals held rallies in the cities of Isfahan and Shah-reza, central Iran, protesting a regime official insulting Ghashghaie women. This picket line was held outside the regime governorate office in these two cities.
Sadegh Zibakalam, a close affiliate to former Iranian regime president Akbar Rafsanjani, had recently insulted Ghashghaie women in a TV program.
"Zibakalam made a huge insult on a TV show. He used a phrase to describe Ghashghaie women, while also insulting another minority group… All human beings have rights and other people's different lifestyles gives no one the mandate to insult them… It is crystal clear that Zibakalam intended to make an insult in his remarks," one protester said.


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Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Rothlesberger sits, Mason Rudolph to start against the Cleveland Browns
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Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that Ben Rothlesberger He will not play Brown this weekend, with Mason Rudolph Instead it starts in Cleveland.
Tomlin admitted that the Steelers (12-3), who already clinched a play-off spot and North Asia title, may comfort more rookies on Sunday, but so far, only Rothlisberger has mentioned him.
"It doesn't change our intentions regarding going to Cleveland this weekend," Tomlin said. "Football is our game. Our mission is to win. We intend to do our job. We intend to prepare with this mentality. In the end, we lead us to this destination. We are not looking for comfort. We are not setting ourselves on a curve."
"This game is on schedule and so the players who will be on the field will represent us in the standard that the Pittsburgh Steelers will be the standard."
Tomlin confirmed that while two other players may rest before the qualifiers, Sunday's meeting with Brown will not include a team made entirely of backups, due in part to health concerns. Instead, he said, they'll likely work in a rotation that limits surprising numbers for some beginners, while giving healthy backup opportunities to play.
"This is not a pre-season game where we are playing backups, as we have a player from 54 to 75 to evaluate and things like that," he said. "We have one football team in the NFL. This soccer team is going to play, except for Ben and maybe another player or two. I don't want to get any more use from it than it is from this perspective."
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Rudolph's start comes a year after a battle marred the end of the two teams' match in Cleveland. Brown star Miles Jarrett Suspended by tearing and swinging Rudolph's helmet, hitting the midfielder in the head with it, with seconds remaining.
And with Jarrett being suspended and Rudolph on the bench for the rematch last year, Sunday will be the first time the two have played against each other since the accident.
"I haven't had a chance to talk to him about it," Tomlin said of Rudolph's return to Cleveland. "But I'm sure he's excited to have a chance to start, for sure."
Cleveland (5-10) could qualify with their win on Sunday, but Tomlin said his team is not necessarily driven by the possibility of keeping Brown from post-season.
"Motivation, intentions and all these things," Tomlin said, "This is good fodder for a water cooler and I understand it." "This is a scheduled game. Our job is to win. We will prepare with this mentality. That will not change in terms of how we deal with it. … I know what our mentality will be. I know what our intentions will be. We will go play football."


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Giovanni Gravina and Sipei Li Receive Graduate Student Teaching Awards
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Mathematical Sciences Ph.D. candidate Giovanni Gravina has been honored with the 2019 Hugh Young Graduate Student Teaching Award.
"Giovanni takes his teaching extremely seriously and our students really appreciate him," wrote William Hrusa, professor of mathematical sciences and associate department head, in nominating Gravina. "He has been an outstanding citizen around the department."
"His office hours were always well attended, and our students often mentioned his name with a tone of camaraderie, as if Giovanni was someone they felt very comfortable with," Associate Teaching Professor Dana Mihai wrote about her experience teaching with Gravina in 2015. "Throughout the class I came to rely on Giovanni with confidence that everything will be done well."
Several of Gravina's former students also wrote letters attesting to Gravina's teaching prowess.
"His thoughtfulness, respect for students and genuine interest in helping us learn still stand out to me," wrote junior Meredith Wong about Gravina, who taught her 2017 Differential Equations course.
Sipei Li
Chemistry Ph.D candidate Sipei Li received the 2019 Guy C. Berry Graduate Student Research Award.
"He is the most creative and collaborative student I have had during my career at Carnegie Mellon," Li's co-adviser, J.C. Warner University Professor of the Natural Sciences Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, wrote in nominating Li for the award. "Sipei is the pioneer in the field aimed to marry polymer chemistry, especially controlled radical polymerization, to battery science. His work brings immense opportunities for the development of next-generation high energy density rechargeable batteries."
Li's early research at Carnegie Mellon focused on synthesizing functional polymers with controlled functionality and topology. He later branched out to the field of energy, where he invented a liquid-like lithium metal anode that has improved the lifespan of solid electrolytes. In his five years at Carnegie Mellon, Li has published more than a dozen papers, many in high-impact journals and eight as first author, with more on the way.
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Whether you believe there's a guiding intelligence to our lives or not, we're constantly going to be looking for signs that our conscious selves extend beyond what we know and experience here. With each new wave of science and discovery the same age-old questions of mortality and morality are dug out. Source Code closes with many lingering questions about what it really means to interact in the here and now, especially when we have so much evidence thanks to modern science that "here" and "now" may be some of the most subjective parts of our existence.
It's an exciting film, filled with ideas that are dealt with as directly as possible in an action/science-fiction film like this. The director, Duncan Jones, has proved with this and his previous film, Moon, that he is capable of using film to push the collective subjective experience we have when watching a movie into new directions. More so, his curiosity about science and those moral quandries that come up when new developments intersect with consciousness are profoundly fascinating. In Moon it was with biology and cloning, and in Source Code it's with quantum physics.
Of course quantum physics is probably involved when you have the problem that Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has. A flash of white light envelops his vision, and he comes to on-board a train surrounded by strangers and thrust into a conversation with Christina (Michelle Monaghan). He tries to figure out what's going on when he takes a look in the mirror and doesn't recognize the man staring back at him. Before he can figure out why he's suddenly taken residence in someone else's body, a bomb detonates on the train and Colter flashes back through the white, cast more as a thick web now, and into a small compartment in the middle of nowhere.
I loved the cluttered, hastily assembled look of Colter's pod.
Colter, it turns out, is part of an operation to figure out who it is that detonated that bomb because it was a warning shot threatening a larger-scale attack that will be taking place in hours. When Colter flashes back he is entering the "Source Code" of the life of a passenger that was on the train, able to relive the minutes and final experiences of his life but taking control over what happens. Colter's only contact to the outside world is Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farminga), who uses riddles and stories to bring him back to reality each time. Because of the way the mechanism operates, Colter is kept separate from everyone and can only speak to her through a special computer monitor. But with each trip Colter finds the grain of white seeping further into his vision and he can't keep the cold weather outside of his bay out for long.
Fans of thrillers will probably be able to deduce at this point that things aren't exactly as they seem. But while the implications of Moon applied mostly to Sam Rockwell's space worker, the implications of the story in Source Code affect not only Captain Colter, but the whole of human experience. If this is Duncan Jones' way of casting the net a little wider, I'm all for it. The questions he raises have to do with our sense of consciousness and that there is no such thing as a "virtual" reality. However we are choosing, or are forced to choose, to experience our surroundings is "real" to whomever is experiencing it. No one person should get to say how the other experiences life, a point made late in the film by some economically silent choices made by Colleen on behalf of Colter.
Though certainly bolstered by keen intellects, movies aren't just thought pieces or articles about quantum mechanics, they're pieces of entertainment. One of the ways Source Code manages to sneak in these ideas so effectively is by blending them seamlessly with a thriller that does not stop moving. Both Colter and the army outside are working against the clock, Colter with his eight minutes and the army with the need to eliminate the threat against Chicago. Duncan Jones works between the two levels seamlessly, propelling the action in Colter's chamber, the "virtual" world of the train, and the "real" world of the army all together to a surprisingly optimistic and affecting conclusion.
Michelle Monaghan and Jake Gyllenhaal manage to carve out specific characters for themselves despite the constant timeline disruptions.
Duncan Jones' technique has a lot to do with the effectiveness here and he makes great use of the limited space between each environments. He chose to film in a 1.66-1 ratio, flattening the world around Colter and company while reinforcing the "virtual" mean by which everyone is communicating with one another. Then there's the matter of that "Source Code", representing (for lack of a better term) the human soul as a white web that stretches out across time. His flashes to and fro show how much is affected by one being as Colter's vision begins to extend the white membrane to those he touches most directly.
Because of the nature of the picture this is mostly Duncan Jones' show, but not a single performer slacked off. Michelle Monaghan and Jake Gyllenhaal are two of the only characters that really share screen time with one another and despite the time jumps, establish an easy and sweet chemistry. Gyllenhaal proves an effective lead yet again, but I want to give some special praise to Vera Farminga's performance. There are reasons for her flat affectation, but she does some remarkably sympathetic acting with her eyes and slight vocal quivers throughout Source Code. Despite Colter's actions, it's Farminga's character that forms the moral core of the movie, and suggests much of the moral weight she has on her shoulders through barely saying anything but showing all.
In many ways, Source Code is the movie that Inception promised but failed to deliver. It's got excitement aplenty, stays consistent with the terms and rules of it's world, and provides an immensely satisfying moral core at the end. If anything, the success of both movies (and I pray Source Code is successful) indicates that we're slowly moving beyond the pessimistic core on how we look at science and life. I came eagerly to Source Code then left thrilled and wonderfully thoughtful, which is not a bad way to start off the day.
Directed by Duncan Jones.
Written by Ben Ripley.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farminga.
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Paul (2011)
Arthur (2011)
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011)
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Lim, Lee, and Tang. 2013. Design Principles of Regulatory Networks: Searching for the Molecular Algorithms of the Cell. Molecular Cell. 49: 202-212.
Auslander and Fussenegger. 2013. From gene switches to mammalian designer cells: present and future prospects.Trends in Biotechnology. 31:155-168.
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Sentman, C. L. (2013). "Challenges of creating effective chimeric antigen receptors for cancer therapy." Immunotherapy 5(8): 783-785.
Park, T. S., S. A. Rosenberg, et al. (2011). "Treating cancer with genetically engineered T cells." Trends Biotechnol 29(11): 550-557.
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Last December, nearly a year after my husband's death, I realised I had turned a corner: a friend mentioned this paper's online dating service, Guardian Soulmates, and I thought, "I could do that." Barely three weeks later, I was meeting you and your puppy on my favourite beach.
I knew right away that we'd hit it off: we talked nonstop and I felt totally at ease. You had also been widowed within the past year, and although your marriage was blissfully happy, whereas mine was more complicated, we talked openly about the searing pain of bereavement. We laughed and smiled a lot, too. As your mad puppy jumped around, causing me to repeatedly move to the other side of you, I found that I kept touching your arm.
We went to a nearby pub and continued to talk without pause. It was obvious that we shared a great deal in terms of values, beliefs and sense of humour. I told you I was having a lovely time, and you smiled the smile that I have since come to love and told me that you were, too. After four hours, which barely felt like one, I had to go. We walked to my car and you kissed me. I was astonished, enthralled, charmed. It was clear that this was not going to end here.
We spoke that evening and agreed to meet again a week later. We spoke several times every day in the interim. I astounded myself by suggesting we spend a weekend near that same beach a few weeks later. On our second meeting, there were instant fireworks: an explosive combination of emotional connection, physical attraction and a huge liking for each other. We continued to spend as much time together as we could and, 17 days after meeting, we rather crazily booked a holiday abroad.
Three months on, I am happier than I thought possible – I did not expect, in my late 50s, to feel like this. You have turned my life around. We make each other laugh all the time and your capacity for physical affection is unending. You tell me I am gorgeous and are unfailingly kind. You talk about what you see as my talents and encourage me to develop them (even at this late stage). There have been many magical moments: dancing round my kitchen in each other's arms; walking, crying and laughing on that beach where we first met; sitting in a cafe and grinning broadly at each other at the sheer, wonderful craziness of it all.
This feels like something that could last for ever. Whatever happens, you have shown me that, even after the very worst has occurred, unbelievable happiness can make a new appearance. For that, my love, I truly thank you.


"We're so glad you could join us at our Thank You event and if you were unable to be there with us, I'd like to extend a thank you to you for your support over the eight and a half year journey.
I couldn't have dreamt we would be where we are today as we embarked on this journey on the eve of the Beijing Games.
Together we have truly transformed the lives of thousands of young people facing disadvantage across the UK and supported hundreds of world class athletes to succeed in their lives beyond sport.
View the inspirational video we showed on the evening.


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Informing, advocating, mobilizing
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network promotes the human rights of people living with, at risk of or affected by HIV or AIDS, in Canada and internationally, through research and analysis, litigation and other advocacy, public education and community mobilization.
We envision a world in which the human rights and dignity of people living with HIV or AIDS and those affected by the disease are fully realized and in which laws and policies facilitate HIV prevention, care, treatment and support.
The work of the Legal Network is rooted in a number of guiding values:
The centrality of human rights in the response to HIV and AIDS;
A focus on the rights of marginalized populations;
Ensuring the meaningful participation of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS in our work and in defining and implementing policies and programs;
Ensuring the meaningful engagement of both francophones and anglophones in our work and the accessibility of our work on domestic issues is accessible in both of Canada's official languages;
A commitment to action and activism for human rights;
Accountability to the communities we serve and to donors, including transparent reporting and effective use of resources;
A commitment to global responsibility and engagement; and
A commitment to excellence in all areas of our work.
2017-2022 strategic plan summary: respect, protect, fulfill: a human rights response to hiv
2017-2022 STRATEGIC PLAN: RESPECT, PROTECT, FULFILL: A HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSE TO HIV


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Cristianização, na política brasileira, é a situação em que um candidato em uma eleição perde o apoio do seu partido político, que passa a apoiar outra candidatura com mais chances de vitória. A palavra é derivada de Cristiano Machado, que se candidatou à Presidência da República em 1950 pelo Partido Social Democrático (PSD). Ao longo da campanha eleitoral, embora formalmente apoiado pelo PSD, Cristiano viu-se abandonado pelos principais líderes, que passaram a defender a candidatura de Getúlio Vargas, do Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB), que acabou vencendo a eleição.

Exemplos
Para além da situação de Cristiano Machado em 1950, outros exemplos de cristianização foram:
 Em 1985, Paulo Maluf era o candidato do Partido Democrático Social (PDS), que detinha maioria no Colégio Eleitoral. No entanto, grande parte do partido apoiou Tancredo Neves, do Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB), que assim venceu a eleição indireta;
 Em 1989, o Partido da Frente Liberal (PFL) deixou de lado seu candidato oficial, Aureliano Chaves, e apoiou Fernando Collor, assim como o PMDB, que havia lançado a candidatura de Ulysses Guimarães;
 Em 2010, houve uma "cristianização cruzada": enquanto o Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB) de Minas Gerais, liderado por Aécio Neves, não se esforçava pela campanha presidencial do paulista José Serra, adversário de Dilma Rousseff, o Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) abandonava a chapa oficial formada por Hélio Costa e Patrus Ananias, abrindo caminho assim para o tucano Antonio Anastasia e criando informalmente a chapa "Dilmasia".
 Em 2022, também em Minas Gerais, o Partido Liberal (PL), que tinha como o candidato Carlos Viana, se dividiu entre apoiar Viana e o atual governador Romeu Zema, do NOVO. Por outro lado, Zema e o NOVO de MG também se dividiu para apoiar um candidato a presidência, com Zema fazendo acenos para o presidente Jair Bolsonaro, ignorando o candidato do partido, Luiz Felipe d'Avila. Essa indefinição ainda causou um voto casado com Zema e Lula (PT) para presidente. No final da eleição, Zema terminou com 56,18% dos votos, vencendo em primeiro turno, e Carlos Viana com apenas 7,23%, ficando em terceiro lugar. Para presidente o quadro em Minas Gerais, no primeiro turno, ficou: Lula 48,29% em primeiro, Bolsonaro com 43,60% em segundo e d'Avila com apenas 0,82%, terminando em quinto lugar, se saindo melhor do que no quadro nacional onde terminou em sexto e com 0,47% dos votos.

Ver também
 Fidelidade partidária
 Política do Brasil

Ligações externas

Política do Brasil
História política do Brasil
Terminologia política
Partido Social Democrático (1945)


to accept the other officer's return in favour of their opponents.
The tenements in question were the manor of Ludgershall, carrying with it the nomination of the returning officer, which Selwyn, a friend of Walpole's, had acquired from the Treasury in June 1733.3 Thenceforth Selwyn had complete control of the borough, nominating his brother and nephew as Members in 1741 and his son and brother-in-law in 1747. The 2nd Lord Egmont in his electoral survey, c.1749-50, describes Ludgershall as 'totally in John Selwyn'.
1. CJ, xviii. 37, 425-6.
2. 'Diary of John Capps', Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxi. 328.
3. Cal. Treas. Bks. and Pprs. 1731-4, p. 449.


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Happy Eastertide! The Resurrection Story Has Just Begun
Did Easter Sunday inspire you? At First UMC Middletown, the Easter celebration's not done - join us for Eastertide joy!
What a joyous Easter celebration we had - and what a joyous Eastertide we're in! That's right, Easter isn't just one day - it's a season of renewal, in which we celebrate the resurrected presence of Jesus on this earth. Jesus taught and lifted up his disciples for forty days before ascending into heaven, preparing them for God's Holy Spirit to take hold of them fully on Pentecost. (see Acts 1) So if the celebration of new life through faith in Jesus Christ got a hold of your heart on Easter Sunday, why stop there - Jesus didn't!
We invite you and your friends and families of all kinds to continue our Easter celebration through April and ending on May 1st. Come and grow the spirit of Easter joy through original music, prayers, great creative Bible story-telling, Sunday school for children, warm fellowship, and more. God's wants God's story to be our story, so that God can change life here and now, for you, for our community, and for the world. Please join us Sundays, 10AM, at 44 Maynard Street to enjoy the continuation of the joy-filled Easter experience with us.
Easter Joy! A Warm and Uplifting Sunday of Worship
With lots of stimulating sights and sounds for family, friends, returning members and visitors, Easter worship at First United Methodist Church, Middletown was an exciting and memorable experience. Our altar was graced with beautiful flowers, a colorful new banner, and a symbolic empty stone tomb. Our musical offerings from Music Director Eric Buggie included a rousing rendition of his original song, "I Have Seen the Lord" (see video clip below), and our youth choir sang "He Rose" for our offertory. There were reminders from Pastor Barbara Marks that the grave no longer defeats us - we can turn from "peekers" into the Easter miracle to full seekers of transformative life in Christ. And, of course, those great Easter treats afterwards! Jesus lives! More photos and video below.
Celebrate Easter with First UMC Middletown!
Whether you're ready to shout out a full-bodied "Alleluia!" or just peeping in to see what Easter is all about, there's a place for you in our Easter worship this Sunday, 10 AM, 44 Maynard St. in Middletown, CT. Easter is the celebration of new life on this earth. In faith, we can trust in God's promises through the resurrection and eternal life of Jesus Christ - proof of God's desire to love us no matter what, to bring us back in to the wholeness of God's way on earth. Even death will not separate us from this love - on Easter, we celebrate the death of death!
There will be beautiful music, warm fellowship, and the presence of God to invite us into lives transformed through faith. Families and singles of all kinds are welcome to join us every Sunday, but especially on this joyous day when we can lift up our voices and our hearts in celebration of everything that life brings us through a God who loves us through all time.
Tenebrae at First UMC Middletown - Reflective and Moving
Holy Communion, dramatic readings of the Passion of Christ from the gospels by First UMC Middletown members, and stirring music were important elements of our commemoration of Maundy Thursday in our parsonage. As each member finished a reading, the candle before them was doused, leading to near total darkness at the end of the service. Our Music Director Eric Buggie made the worship service complete with a closing original song, "Can Any Good Come From Death?" As we approach Easter in somber and humble gratitude for the love of God offered to us in Jesus Christ, we can reflect on this service of Tenebrae as a moment of consecration for ourselves, our renovated parsonage, and our church. Easter worship will be at 10AM, 44 Maynard Street. We hope to see you then to celebrate with great joy the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
Tenebrae Service, Maundy Thursday
This Thursday, 7PM at our parsonage, First UMC Middletown will be honoring Maundy Thursday with a Tenebrae service, a moving enactment of the Last Supper of Jesus and his disciples. The service will include the sacrament of Holy Communion, which all are invited to receive, and readings from the gospel that tell the story of Jesus' love in spite of his betrayal. Do you want to draw closer to God during Holy Week? This is a great time to do so. 221 Ridge Road in Middletown - you're invited!
Palm Sunday: Passionate Worship, Heartfelt Performances
Our Palm Sunday worship service featured First UMC Middletown members of all ages enacting the dramatic and spirit-moving story of Jesus' last days, as told in the Gospel of John. The enactment brought to live the seven major symbols of Jesus' Passion -the palm leaves of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the jar of ointment poured upon Jesus, a bowl of water and towel used by Jesus to wash the disciples' feet, the bread and cup of the Last Supper, the thirty pieces of silver paid to Judas for Jesus' betrayal, the cross and nails of Jesus' crucifixion, the linen cloth used for Jesus' burial. Our members were moving and moved by these performances, and also by music from guests Tim and Josh Pfeiffer, who performed "Were you There, a bassoon solo by Stephanie Buggie, a full choir, and two original songs performed by Eric Buggie, our Music Director. This worship service was living proof that disciples living the story of Jesus are the heart of the church - no matter where the church decides to be the church. More photos below. Our thanks to all for their dedication to Christian faith.
Hosannah! Palm Sunday at First UMC Middletown is Coming
"Hosanna!" They shouted as Jesus entered Jerusalem on a young donkey - "Save us, please!" Cries of joy and of promise will sound at our worship service this Sunday, 10AM, 44 Maynard Street in Middletown. Special songs by Eric Buggie and vocal performances by Tim & Joshua Peiffer will add special grace to our Palm Sunday celebration. Come join us!
First UMC Middletown Joins Refugee Resettlement Coalition
First United Methodist Church, Middletown had a strong showing at the latest meeting of the Middletown Refugee Resettlement Coalition meeting Wednesday night at the Russell Library. The coalition is a volunteer efforts being managed as a collaborative volunteer effort between several churches in the Middletown area, with financial support contributed both from private and public donations.
The coalition is preparing to sponsor three refugee families expected to arrive in the next few months, from war and terror zones such as Syria and Iraq, or from other regions as required. Each family is likely to have at least two children, so the needs that they will have to have addressed are many. In conjunction with IRIS, a New-Haven-based refugee resettlement organization, the three families will be given several months of support to help them to become self-supporting residents of the U.S.
First UMC Middletown has joined a team to support one of the expected families, but the skills required to support all of the families will overlap, and may come in use for each of them, since they will all be arriving at different times. Specific needs that will have to be addressed and that require skills and resources include:
Family contact coordination
Clothing and household items
Education/ESOL (for children and adults)
Hospitality/Acculturation
If you would like to learn more about this effort, please contact Pastor Barbara Marks via the church office, or email us at outreach@fumcmiddletownct.org.
Fifth Sunday in Lent
"Overwhelmed"
Pastor Barbara Marks
Children's Sermon by John Blossom
Philippians 3:4b-14
'IF' - New Study Series. Continues this Sunday and runs through March 20th. Join us at the parsonage following worship. Make this YOUR Lenten commitment! Our Church has made a decision to move forward...to set the wheels in motion. This series will help encourage us! Wrestling with regrets? Let God take your "if onlys" and use them as a springboard to a future filled with great possibilities! With his trademark enthusiasm and joy, Mark Batterson helps us embrace a confident, ready-to-conquer attitude based on the astounding question posed in Romans 8: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Please join us on Sunday.
Rehearsal for ALL the readers of the Palm Sunday service will be held at the Parsonage Saturday, March 19th at 9 a.m.
Palm/Passion Sunday Service will be a service Drama of Symbolsnext Sunday at 10 a.m. Come to celebrate the Palms and experience the Passion! Invite a friend or neighbor as part of your outward Lenten discipline.
Maundy Thursday Service of Tenebrae will take place March 24that the Parsonage at 7 p.m. Journey with Jesus in his final hours.
Easter Service - Sunday March 27th at 10 a.m. The Resurrection of Christ- He is Risen Indeed!
Amazing Grace Donations can now be brought to church anySunday. In addition to tuna and cereal, they are looking for donations of oatmeal, coffee and soup. The Missions committee will collect these items every Sunday and deliver to Amazing Grace. Please contact Marsha Judson with any questions at 860-346-0005.
Our mailing address has changed! All mailings should now be sent to First United Methodist Church at 221 Ridge Road, Middletown, CT 06457. Thank you!
We have a Facebook page! Help spread the word about the church by "liking" the church page and "sharing" posts. (http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-United-Methodist-Church/109638702407308
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As stated herein before, we should leave forming letters and numerals until kids are ready. Their hands and fingers need to develop so they can hold a pencil in a relaxed manner when it's time to write. That comes from play. Scribble, yes. And provide any other stuff that leads to picking it up, holding, moving, pushing or squeezing it with thumb and index finger.