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"Centralized Admissions for Engineering Colleges in India," Surender Baswana, PPC, Sharat Chandran, Yash Kanoria, Utkarsh Patange (2019)
We designed and implemented a new joint seat allocation process for undergraduate admissions to over 500 programs spread across 80 technical universities in India, including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Our process is based on the well known Deferred Acceptance algorithm, but complex affirmative action seat reservations led us to make a number of algorithmic innovations, including (i) a carefully constructed heuristic for incorporating non-nested common quotas that span multiple programs, (ii) a method to utilize unfilled reserved seats with no modifications to the core software, and (iii) a robust approach to reduce variability in the number of reserved category candidates admitted, while retaining fairness. Our new seat allocation process went live in 2015, and based on its success, including significant and provable reduction in vacancies, it has remained in successful use since, with continuing improvements.
"Detecting Urban Markets with Satellite Imagery: An Application to India," Kathrun Baragwanath Vogel, Ran Goldblatt, Gordon H. Hanson, Amit K. Khandelwal (2019)
This paper proposes a methodology for defining urban markets based on economic activity detected by satellite imagery. We use nighttime lights data, whose use in economics is increasingly common, to define urban markets based on contiguous pixels that have a minimum threshold of light intensity. The coarseness of the nightlight data and the blooming effect of lights, however, create markets whose boundaries are too expansive and too smooth relative to the visual inspection of actual cities. We compare nightlight-based markets to those formed using high-resolution daytime satellite imagery, whose use in economics is less common, to detect the presence of builtup landcover. We identify an order of magnitude more markets with daytime imagery; these markets are realistically jagged in shape and reveal much more within and across-market variation in the density of economic activity. The size of landcover-based markets displays a sharp sensitivity to the proximity of paved roads that is not present in the case of nightlight-based markets. Our results suggest that daytime satellite imagery is a promising source of data for economists to study the spatial extent and distribution of economic activity.
"Growth, Openness and the Socially Disadvantaged," Megha Mukim and Arvind Panagariya (2011)
It's common belief that India's breakneck growth has left its poorest citizens behind. From 2001 through 2011, GDP expanded by 8.1 percent annually — an impressive rate by any measure over a sustained period. But the World Bank and other leading globe watchers worried that the benefits of growth weren't reaching the country's neediest people. "Given the recent record, it is simply not the case that continued rapid economic growth will automatically translate to commensurate improvements on human development outcomes," concluded the World Bank's 2011 Perspectives on Poverty in India. But in fact, the opposite is true, says Megha Mukim, formerly with the London School of Economics and now an economist with the World Bank. Mukim and Arvind Panagariya, a Chazen Senior Scholar, studied poverty rates across all of India's social and economic strata. Their paper shows that not only have these groups benefited from liberalized trade policies but that rising incomes among these groups are helping to narrow India's economic gaps. Read a summary of the research.
"Organized Retailing in India: Issues and Outlook," Rajeev Kohli and Jagdish Bhagwati (2011)
Like small retailers around the world, India's mom-and-pop shops fear being crushed by big-box stores. But contrary to popular belief, the arrival of international, multibrand retailers would actually benefit small stores, which make up 90 percent of the country's retail sector, according to research from Rajeev Kohli, a Chazen Senior Scholar and the Ira Leon Rennert Professor of Business, and Jagdish Bhagwati, a Chazen Advisor and the Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School. Read a summary of the research.
"Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: The Case of India," Amit Khandelwal and Petia Topalova (2010)
Abstract: This paper exploits India's rapid, comprehensive, and externally-imposed trade reform to establish a causal link between changes in tariffs and firm productivity. Pro-competitive forces, resulting from lower tariffs on final goods, as well as access to better inputs, due to lower input tariffs, both appear to have increased firm-level productivity, with input tariffs having a larger impact. The effect was strongest in import-competing industries and industries not subject to excessive domestic regulation. While we found no evidence of a differential impact according to state-level characteristics, we observe complementarities between trade liberalization and additional industrial policy reforms.
"Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India," Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Amit Kumar Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova (2010)
Abstract: New goods play a central role in many trade and growth models. We use detailed trade and firm-level data from India to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, imports of intermediate inputs, and domestic firm product scope. We estimate substantial gains through access to new imported inputs. Moreover, we find that lower input tariffs account on average for 31 percentof the new products introduced by domestic firms. This effect is driven to a large extent by increased firm access to new input varieties that were unavailable prior to trade liberalization.
"Multiproduct Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India," Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit K. Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Toplova (2010)
Abstract: This paper provides evidence on the patterns of multiproduct firm production in a large developing country, India, during a period that spans market reforms. In the cross-section, multiproduct firms in India look remarkably similar to the US counterparts. The time-series patterns, however, exhibit important differences. In contrast to evidence from the United States, product churning, particularly product rationalization, is far less common in India. We find no link between product rationalization and output tariff declines following India's 1991 trade liberalization. The lack of "creative destruction" is consistent with the role of industrial regulation in preventing an efficient allocation of resources.
"Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs," Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit K. Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Toplova (2009)
Abstract: In this article, we dissect changes in the composition of Indian imports following its 1991 trade liberalization to illustrate the potential scope for previously unavailable inputs to bolster the performance of domestic firms. The analysis reveals that trade reform spurred imports of previously unavailable products and varieties in many products that arguably can be characterized as important inputs for manufacturing firms. New imported inputs in large extent originated from more advanced countries and new imported varieties exhibited higher unit values relative to existing imports. These findings are consistent across narrow classifications of inputs and therefore indicative that India's trade liberalization relaxed the technological constraints faced by Indian firms under import substitution policies. This more descriptive analysis provides further confirmation of the importance of the extensive product margin in input trade.
Books & Book Chapters
"Creativity and Humor," Sarah R. Luria, John Baer, and James C. Kaufman eds. (2019, Academic Press) Chapter 9, "Creativity and Humor Across Cultures: Where Aha Meets Haha," by Jackson G. Lu, Ashley E. Martin, Anastasia Usova, and Adam D. Galinsky.
"Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and Lessons for Other Developing Countries," Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (2103, PublicAffairs)
"India's Tryst with Destiny: Debunking Myths that Undermine Progress and Addressing New Challenges," Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (2013, HarperCollins)
"Reforms and Economic Transformation in India," Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (2012, Oxford University Press)
"India: The Emerging Giant," Arvind Panagariya (2010, Oxford University Press)
"Sustaining India's Growth Miracle," Jagdish Bhagwati and Charles Calomiris (2008, Columbia University Press)
"In Defense of Globalization," Jagdish Bhagwati (2007, Oxford University Press)
"Variety In, Variety Out," Penny Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, in Reforms and Economic Transformation in India (2012, Oxford University Press). Download the chapter.
"Investment Opportunities and Financing Externalities: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral in India," S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan and Daniel Wolfenzon (2017)
Do business groups impose financing externalities on standalone firms in the local economy? We examine this question in the context of Indian business groups, specifically, using a recent large-scale highway development project as a shock to local investment opportunity. We find that business group affiliated firms invest more than standalone firms in response to upgraded highway connectivity. We show that the investment behavior of standalone firms is affected by the density of business groups in the local area. On the financing side, we find that the presence of business groups makes it harder for other standalone firms in the local economy to raise external finance. This business group externality works through the banking sector, when the banks associated with standalone firms share lending relationships with, and have large exposure to, firms affiliated with business groups. Overall, our study sheds light on a negative externality in the economy and documents the costs of conglomeration wherein business groups inhibit the growth of standalone firms due to lack of finance.
"Prices, Markups, and Trade Reform, " Jan De Loecker, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit K. Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik (2014)
This paper examines how prices, markups, and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization. We develop a framework to estimate markups from production data with multiproduct firms. This approach does not require assumptions on how firms allocate their inputs across products. We exploit quantity and price information to disentangle markups from quantity-based productivity, and then compute marginal costs by dividing observed prices by the estimated markups. We use India's trade liberalization episode to examine how firms adjust these performance measures. Not surprisingly, we find that trade liberalization lowers factory-gate prices and that output tariff declines have the expected pro-competitive effect. However, the price declines are small relative to the declines in marginal costs, which fall predominantly because of the input tariff liberalization. The reason for this incomplete cost pass-through to prices is that firms offset their reductions in marginal costs by raising markups. Our results demonstrate substantial heterogeneity and variability in markups across firms and time and suggest that producers benefited relative to consumers, at least immediately after the reforms.


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John Oliver Explains Canadian Politics to Show There Are Stupid Politicians Everywhere
By Michael Epstein
John Oliver wants Americans to know that the U.S. is not the only government plagued by ridiculous and sometimes offensive politicians.Today is election day in Canada. Citizens will elect their local government officials, whose representation will, in turn, influence who becomes the country's prime minister. On the eve of the election, Last Week Tonight highlighted some of the country's most interesting (appalling) parties and candidates, including a school board official who claimed she'd never heard of Auschwitz, and a local government candidate who got caught peeing in his customer's mug at his day job.
Oliver's primary target, however, is the country's current prime minister Stephen Harper, who has attempted to limit healthcare for refugees and has a tendency to "pander to Islamophobes."
To support candidates other than Prime Minister Harper, Oliver ended the segment with an illegal PSA (according to Canadian election law, election ads supporting or condemning a candidate must be made by Canadian citizens) with a guy in a beaver suit and Mike Myers dressed as a mountie to give Canadians one piece of advice: don't vote for Stephen Harper.

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Berlin Planning Director Dave Engelhart last Wednesday goes over plans with the Berlin Board of Zoning Appeals.
(April 11, 2019) The Berlin Board of Zoning Appeals on Monday approved a conditional-use exception that will allow three new apartments to be built over storage units on 305 Washington Street.
According to a conceptual site plan, the 13,512-square-foot building is zoned light industrial. The board of zoning appeals can grant exceptions for dwelling units in the district, provided they are for nonindustrial use, Planning Director Dave Engelhart said.
Owner Duane Maddy said the new "Bromley Place Commercial Condominium" would target furniture stores and moving companies, and that his company, Piney Island Builders Inc., would be one of the tenants.
He said the storage units would cost $800-$1,000 per month to rent, while the two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments would cost $1,500 per month.
Attorney Marc Cropper said the project is similar to one approved in the same complex in 2016 for Austin Purnell.
Commission member Woody Bunting, however, noted that case was slightly different, because Purnell was to become the tenant of that property.
Bunting said he had no doubt that the units would be nice, but worried about buffers between residential and industrial units in the area, which is also home to several other businesses.
Maddy said he's had numerous plans for the property over the years, including a 22,000-square-foot high-end storage unit.
"I was approved for a shooting range there at one time," he said. "I've been waiting for the right thing.
He added the entire property would be enclosed by a six-foot privacy fence and landscaped.
Maddy said he recently finished a similar project on Manklin Creek Road in Ocean Pines. In Berlin, he said Chuck's Vacuum was a potential tenant.
"I'm going to be very discretionary on who goes there," he said.
Board member Jay Knerr moved to approve the exception, which the board approved unanimously.


Leak - water pump? urgent reply needed.
Well xmas day my 96 isuzu bighorn 3.1td started pouring out coolant from underneath the crank pulley.
Seemed to be the waterpump as myself and family members thought, we have very basic knowledge of vehicles.
So I buy a replacement, and get to pulling it out.
It looks fine to my untrained eye.
All the fins are intact, gasket looks good. There is a tiny bearing noise when spinning it though.
Should I install the new pump now or is there something else I should look at behind the timing cover before closing it all up?
The fins don't mean anything. The seals go bad and it leaks through a weep hole under the pulley. Look for a coolant stain coming out of that hole. If it has any bearing growl at all, that's reason enough to change it.
The weep hole on the water pump itself is stained up with coolant, so is under the crank pulley.
Thanks for the fast reply, I'll get to installing now. Hope it all works as I'm meant to be driving just under 200km tomorrow.


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The performing arts enjoy a strong tradition within Scouting, with Scout and Guide Shows performed all around the country. Gang Shows, Showtimes and Revues are amateur productions involving Scouts and Guides and typically have a large cast of young people (sometimes up to 150!) The shows are lively variety theatre productions involving singing, dancing, acting and comedy. A production like this also requires many people behind the scenes, so Scout and Guide shows have an even larger group of volunteers who help out in areas such as backstage, orchestra, set-building, catering, promotions and production.
Scout Shows are a wonderful experience for cast members and behind-the-scenes volunteers alike. Participating in a large scale theatre production is a valuable training method for members as well as a whole lot of fun! Participants learn skills specific to the theatre, such as stagecraft and technical skills, along with contributing to personal growth and development. Many people with careers in the performing arts industry got their start and learned the ropes through participating in a Scout Show!
Along with annual performances by shows all around Australia, Gang Shows are also performed at each Australian Jamboree, gathering together Scout Show participants from around the country.
The origins of Gang Show date back to 1932 in London, when a Rover by the name of Ralph Reader, who already had a name for himself as a performer and choreographer on Broadway and in the West End, was asked to write a show to help raise funds for a Scout swimming pool. The first shows were well-received, and Lord Baden-Powell persuaded Reader to stage another production the following year. Since this start, Gang Shows and Scout shows have sprung up all around the world, and carry on the tradition of the Gang Show.
For more information on shows in your area and how to get involved (or go along and watch!), check out the links below.
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Time Series Based Pattern Recognition for Anomaly Detection from System Audit Logs

Pattern recognition is very important for the identification of anomalous patterns in log messages. This paper presents pattern recognition in time series log data for anomaly detection. The proposed method uses Seasonal Auto Regression Integrated Moving Average (Seasonal ARIMA) to identify deviations between actual and predicted values. The deviations beyond a defined threshold are identified as anomalous data points. Anomalous data points for the positively correlated data points are used to calculate the composite anomalous score. Finally, the approach is compared with Seasonal Extreme Studentized Deviate (ESD). The method calculates the anomalous score in the range of 0 to 100. This can be used to understand the security risk posture and thus prioritize the incidents associated with a given user.

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College faculty set October 16 strike deadline Français
Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
TORONTO, Oct. 10, 2017 /CNW/ - College faculty represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) have set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. October 16 in contract talks with their employer, the College Employer Council.
"Today was another frustrating day of bargaining, during which our employer once again refused to consider key faculty issues. They have walked away from the table," said JP Hornick, chair of the union bargaining team. "The purpose of setting a strike deadline is to get negotiations moving – before it's too late."
OPSEU represents over 12,000 professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians working at 24 public colleges across Ontario. Union members include full-time permanent and "partial load" contract faculty who teach seven to 12 hours per week.
"Our union team has been clear about its goals since bargaining began in early July," Hornick said. "We have put forward concrete proposals to improve education quality by including the voices of faculty and students in academic decisions; we have made the case for strengthening the complement of full-time faculty; and we have called on the colleges to read the signals from Queen's Park and start treating contract faculty fairly.
"Unfortunately our employer is not moving forward on the issues faculty care about most – even in the case of no-cost items like academic freedom or longer contracts for contract faculty."
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas cautioned the College Employer Council to get back to the table and not wait until the last minute to negotiate.
"Students already have enough to worry about with their courses and exams and tuition fees," he said. "They don't need the stress and anxiety of not knowing if they will be in class next week.
"I encourage the colleges to get down to business now."
The OPSEU strike fund sits at $72 million.
SOURCE Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
For further information: JP Hornick, 416-806-9526; Mona Chevalier, OPSEU college faculty bargaining team (French only), 613-606-2238
http://www.opseu.org
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Jubilees & Masonic milestones reached by our members
in Craft and other Orders in our wider Masonic Family across this Province
Harrogate District Hospital opens a new family support room thanks to Freemasons £25k donation.
A family support room has been officially opened on Byland Ward at Harrogate District Hospital, thanks to generous donations from local Freemasons and the Friends of Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity.
from left are: David S Pratt, the Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Yorkshire West Riding; Chief Executive of Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Ros Tolcher; Matron Tammy Gotts; Paul Clarke, Assistant Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Yorkshire West Riding; Ian Wright, Provincial Grand Master Fund coordinator; Richard Stone and Michael Wrigglesworth, both from Knaresborough Priory Lodge.
The Masons Suite was officially opened by the Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Yorkshire West Riding, David S Pratt, following a £25,000 major grant from the Provincial Grand Master's Fund, and £5,000 from the Friends of Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity.
The new Suite will improve patient experience on Byland Ward for patients, including those with dementia and learning disabilities. It includes reminiscence features and mood lighting and will provide a comforting non-clinical environment for patients.
Tammy Gotts, Matron, who has coordinated the efforts to open to the Masons Suite, said: "The project has been two years in the making and we are delighted that the Masons Suite is now open.
"Our huge thanks go to the Masonic Province of Yorkshire, West Riding, and the Friends of Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity, for their generous donations. Without them, the project would not have been possible.
"The Suite will improve the experience of staying in the hospital for the patients on the ward."
David S Pratt, the Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Yorkshire West Riding, said: "It was my absolute honour to officially open the Masons Suite within Harrogate District Hospital's Byland Ward.
"The grant application to financially support this initiative was made by Knaresborough Priory Lodge, and in the coming years, it will help provide comfort and to countless people from the Harrogate district and beyond.
"In Harrogate and Knaresborough there are seven lodges, and all are active within the community. And it is through to the generosity of our members that we are able to fund initiatives such as this family support room with the hospital."


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Academic journal article Journal of Psychology and Theology
Assessing Families (Not Just Individuals) for Missionary Service
By Gingrich, Fred C.
The assessment of missionaries tends to focus on the adult members of the family unit being approved for service. Yet, the family is the one consistent relational network that missionaries are connected to throughout the prefield, on the field, and post-field phases of mission service. In addition, throughout the history of missions sending bodies have struggled to balance the needs of the missions context, the ministry gifts that the adult members of the family bring to the field, and the dynamics of their marital and family relationships. While the literature on missionary children has grown significantly, adopting a perspective that prioritizes the family unit as the unit being "sent" may result in helpful information regarding missionary attrition and longevity. Therefore, assessing missionary families, not only the individual members of the family, at the various stages of missionary service is warranted. Using concepts and techniques from systems theory, a model and logistical factors for assessing missionary families are presented, along with suggestions for whom to assess, what to assess, and how to conduct family assessment. Resources and possible assessment techniques are also provided.
One of the long-standing tensions in the mental health professions is between focusing on the health and pathology of individuals, versus focusing on the relational contexts that exist between people. This same tension exists in the task of the psychological assessment of missionaries. Is this person healthy and a good fit for international service, or do they have the relational networks of connection and support to sustain and thrive in cross-cultural service?
Since psychologists have historically emphasized formal assessment procedures, the bulk of the literature and available assessment instruments assume an individual focus regarding intelligence, personality, learning, behavior, values, abilities, and career. This article will challenge this tendency in the field and suggest that a more systemic emphasis may be helpful, particularly in the assessment of missionaries and their families.
In recent decades, mission organizations have embraced the value of assessment, and recommendations for appropriate and ethical uses of assessment, while also exploring potential misuses (Hall & Sweatman, 2002). However, the focus has been on individual and marital assessment, with little attention given to family and social system assessment.
It is important to note that the individual focus is both societally and theologically defendable. In Western society, the emphasis on individual well-being and achievement is extensively documented (e.g., Cushman, 1996; and in the church, Rah, 2009). The Protestant, evangelical belief system--the emphasis of many mission agencies and supporting churches--has been on individual salvation and discipleship (e.g., Ezek. 18:20; John 6:47). In contrast, the corporate perspective of the church as the body of Christ is downplayed. This systemic perspective, both in terms of theological and biblical support, is discussed in depth elsewhere (e.g., Balswick & Balswick, 2007; Grenz, 1998). Suffice it to say, psychologically, theologically, and culturally, the prevailing bias in mission organizations is towards individual assessment.
Individual assessment is valuable and often systemic issues can be identified in well-done assessments. However, the complexity of contemporary family structures (see McGoldrick, Preto, & Carter, 2015) suggests that family assessment may be increasingly needed. For instance, what if a couple chooses to serve but they have had a conflictual marriage regarding the roles in their relationship? Likely the most powerful factor in the effectiveness of a missionary couple will be the involvement and mutual support of one's spouse. What if the couple has children? To what degree will family members aid or detract from missionary effectiveness? …
Publication: Journal of Psychology and Theology
Publication date: Winter 2016
Gingrich, Fred C.
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Missionaries--Psychological aspects
Missionaries--Practice
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Bear Cubs get Human Help
April 15, 2016 smallanimalplanet Animals and Humans
Four bear cubs orphaned near Stateline, Nev., will have a chance to grow up near Reno, at least until next winter.
That's according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife which rescued the cubs last week after discovering their mother died, apparently of natural causes.
The cubs had been living under a walkway since their birth in January, according to a homeowner who reported the family of bears on her property.
NDOW officials visited the makeshift den in March and put a tracking collar on the mother, who they determined was about 18-years-old, which is an advanced age for a wild black bear. Black bears can live into their 30's in the wild but most die before reaching their early 20s.
Once the bear family awoke from hibernation wildlife officials continued to track the mother via the collar. On Friday they noticed she had stopped moving.
A biologist went to the area and found her deceased in the forest with no sign of trauma on her body.
Wildlife officials then used bait to trick three of the cubs into walking into a cage. They used a blowgun with a tranquilizer dart to capture the fourth. There were two male and two female cubs, which were also tagged. The cubs weighed about seven pounds each when they were taken into captivity on Saturday, according to NDOW.
Bear cubs orphaned near Stateline, Nev., will be kept at Animal Ark in Reno then released next winter. Courtesy NDOW
The cubs were transferred to Animal Ark, a Reno area wildlife refuge where they will be cared for through the summer and fall with a minimum amount of human contact. They'll be fed a diet of fish, pine nuts and vegetables and be kept away from public view in order to keep them as isolated as possible from humans.
"We want them to be wild," Animal Ark co-founder Diana Hiibel said.
Next winter as they're going into hibernation they'll be taken back to the forest and placed in an artificial den.
They will already be in hibernation when we go out into the wild and put them in the artificial den,"
When they awake in spring they'll be expected to survive on their own in the wild.
Since 1997 NDOW has rescued and sent 31 orphan black bear cubs to rehabilitation facilities. Of those, 25 have been released back into Nevada.
Including the recent batch Animal Ark has received 22 of the orphan cubs, 17 of which have been released. Only three of the bears released from Animal Ark have grown up to become "conflict bears," a term for bears that venture into human areas and need to be removed.
Animal Ark is supported by donations from the public. Hiibel said people who want to help the bears and others like them can contact the refuge to make a donation by calling 775-970-3431 or by email to mail@animalark.org.


Some people feel at home wherever they are. Others spend their whole life looking, wandering hither and thither, longing for a place to put down roots and eventually come home to. But what exactly is home?
On the road is visual, dancing and energetic theatre. A show as as score consisting of individual notes, which gradually harmonize with each other and in the end become music. After Über-Ich, which was awarded the 2015 Mu-ze-um prize by the Theater Aan Zee youth jury, director Michai Geyzen sets to work again with the same actors, because together they make a fantastic team.
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Cars are an incredibly important part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Chances are that you will pass several cars in a day, whether they are parked in a neighbour's driveway or you are passing them on the road. After all, cars have proven themselves to be useful in a variety of situations. Of course, cars are wonderful for getting place to place in an efficient manner, but cars can do so much more than that. Cars can serve as a way to travel with friends and family, with room to talk and chatter while you wait to arrive at your destination. Cars can also serve as a means to move cargo, such as furniture or luggage as well, making it easier to prepare for certain situations.
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'Tough day at the office' says Kerr after horror smash at King's Lynn
Published: 10:50 AM July 6, 2018 Updated: 3:13 PM October 10, 2020
Lewis Kerr is recovering after another big injury scare Picture: Ian Burt - Credit: Archant
King's Lynn Stars rider Lewis Kerr sustained a fracture of his left leg and a broken right foot in three places on what he described as 'a very tough day at the office'.
Kerr is recovering from Wednesday's crash during the meeting against Leicester Tigers at the Adrian Flux Arena.
It's another awful blow for Kerr's career after he sustained life-threatening injuries following a horrific track crash in 2015.
And the 28-year-old admitted: 'It's a pretty bad one.
'I've got a long spiral fracture on my left tibia and broken several bones in my right foot.
'I've got more scans to come to see if there's any further damage.
'It's a very tough day at the office to say the least, but I'd like to thank all the fans for their kind messages, it means a lot.'
The Stars also lost Kasper Andersen, who suffered a broken shoulder and concussion.
The meeting had to be abandoned following the need for a new ambulance after Kerr's crash in heat six.
After a lengthy delay, the crash involving Anderson happened at 10.15pm and no chance for the meeting to continue at such a late stage.
Now the club has to patch up their squad before going to Somerset on July 11.
Ty Proctor says the Stars must re-group and stick together.
Proctor said: 'It was a difficult night for the club. No one wants to see crashes and injuries like that to their team-mates or rivals.
'I feel for Buster Chapman and the management. They did their best to get the meeting on but it was exceptional circumstances.
'You just can't predict two big incidents like that. It's just one of those things, it's a dangerous sport. We have to accept that.
'Buster had produced an excellent track. Considering how hot the weather has been, it was in brilliant condition and there was little or no dust whatsoever.
'It was a bit grippy and that caught a couple of the guys out, but nothing out of the ordinary.
'I spoke to Lewis on the phone today and he agreed it was just a racing incident, nothing to blame in any way.
'We just need to re-group and stick together as a club.
'The senior riders and the management spoke after the meeting and we agreed it's important to stay strong.'


"My parents taught me that I should never judge people. Everyone is equal and everyone is a person."
My parents taught me that I should never judge people. Everyone is equal and everyone is a person.
My dad is the reason why I have a strong interest in these issues. He is a student and is studying Social Work. I love to go with him to talks and meetings about dealing with race and religion issues. It teaches me how to be open-minded and I feel that it makes a good impact on me.
It all started before I was born. My aunt told my mom that she was ruining my life. I am mixed. I'm Mexican and American. My aunt believed that I wouldn't be accepted by my Mexican or my American sides. The only reason she came to see me after I was born was because I looked white; not mixed.
As I've gotten older, I think she has changed her views. She doesn't see me as anything other than a person. Even though we don't talk as much, I hope to eventually have a conversation with her about these things. But if not, I still love her even if she made those bad decisions and choices. I will always love her; she is still my aunt.
My friends at school accept me. A lot of my friends are of mixed race.
When we talk about racial or religious issues at school, we like to educate each other instead of fighting each other about it. We learn that it's better to learn the right things about each other instead of believing the wrong things.
When I reflect on certain issues, I like to think about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because he wanted everyone to be treated as a human being regardless of their skin color. One thing I believe could help ease racial and religious tension is just everyone having a civilized meeting about issues going on around the world. I want them to be able to talk about everything without violence and hatred.
When I grow up I think I want to be an animator–drawing for video games. I think through my drawings and games I could set an example on being open about different cultures and ethnicities.
I want to teach people that they shouldn't judge others. I want to show people it's okay to be themselves.


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Greece receives first batch of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
Athens [Greece], February 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Greece has received the first batch of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and will begin vaccinations on February 15, the country's Health Ministry Secretary General for Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous said at a ministry briefing.
"We received 45,000 doses yesterday, the first 45,000 doses from AstraZeneca, and we expect more in the coming days," Themistokleous said.
According to him, the national vaccination committee, like other countries of the European Union, has decided to allow vaccination with this vaccine among people under 65, and the main reason is that there is not enough scientific research on vaccination of people over this age. (ANI/Sputnik)
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The Cranberries' singer-guitarist Dolores O'Riordan, who died at the age of 46 on January 15, wrote one of the greatest protest songs of the modern-rock era.
"Zombie" was the Irish musician's response to the Provisional IRA's second bomb attack of Warrington in Cheshire, England, within the space of a month in 1993. The bombing, in a busy shopping area on March 20, caused the deaths of three-year-old Johnathan Ball, and, five days later, of 12-year-old Tim Parry. Of the 54 other people injured, 32-year-old mother of two Bronwen Vickers had to have a leg amputated.
The Cranberries—O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler—were making a transition to a darker, harsher sound when they recorded "Zombie," which became their finest 5 minutes and 6 seconds. Noel Hogan plays mostly rhythm guitar on the song, building the eerie, grungy soundscape, and it is O'Riordan who punches out the riffs.
It's a song ablaze that—unlike other songs about the Irish Troubles, such as Stiff Little Fingers' "Alternative Ulster" (1979), The Police's "Invisible Sun" (1981), and U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (1983)—offers no palliatives and no closure. It's all the more powerful for suggesting that a society that can't prevent the military murders of children is a society of zombies.
The song instantly sets a mood of fear. A few seconds of downbeat electric strumming, which sound as if they were recorded in an echo chamber, are interrupted by a hiss, a flick across the cymbals, and a thunder of drums that ushers in a wash of fuzzy guitars covering a barely audible sullen riff. As the wall of sound thins, O'Riordan picks out a guitar line—slow, sinister, a bit scratchy—that amps up the ominousness. She starts to sing, or half-chant, in a honeyed undertone, a little coy, like a child singing of a wonder, as if she has been possessed by the dead children she's singing about.
The "violence-silence" rhyme, which O'Riordan repeats later on, forces "silence" awkwardly into the song. It could be the silence of the dead or the aghast silence of those mourning them. "Who are we mistaken" should be "why are we mistaken?"—for sanctioning violence.
O'Riordan's becomes shriller when she sings, "But you see, it's not me/ It's not my family/ In your head, in your head, they are fightin,'" She's examining her and our conscience, asking us to empathize with the mourners even though it is not her family that has been bereaved. The phrase "in your head" here refers to her head, in which she can't explain what justifies sectarian violence and the killing of children as collateral damage.
Certainly O'Riordan holds her head—gold wig and gold-painted face—in anguish in the song's video, which combines Northern Irish images of the band performing on a piece of wasteland, slogan-daubed walls, boys playing and fighting, and British soldiers on patrol, with a baroque religious tableau of O'Riordan and teenage cupids standing before a wooden cross.
Conventional tanks weren't deployed by the British in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, only Centurion AVRE demolition vehicles and armored cars like Alvis Saracens and Humber Pigs. "Tanks" invokes bigger 20th century conflicts; O'Riordan could be singing about the battles of the Somme or the Bulge. The point she's making is that wars go on and on and on, almost monotonously, no matter how barbaric and insane they are.
The chorus follows—O'Riordan shouting "in your he-a-a-d, in your he-a-a-d…" She's not singing about anyone's head anymore, but the whole wide world—and it could be in flames. Then comes a punch in the gut. With the grungy anthem-ness of the song at peak loudness, O'Riordan snarls the word "zombie" three times; the word first comes out of nowhere after a minute and 40 seconds. She doesn't pronounce it "zombee," but "zomb-ih;" it's not the only word in the song that's arrested or mangled because of the singer's incomprehension. Some kind of inner disintegration is taking place.
After asking the combatants the rhetorical question, "What's in your head?", O'Riordan sings "zombie" a fourth, fifth, and sixth time, when it comes out as "zomb-ih-ih-ih-ih-oh"— a foreshadowing of the agitation that swallows her vocals for good another minute and 40 seconds later.
Why "zombie"? The video ends on a shot of a face of boy who may be dead on the streets of Belfast after his and his friends' war game goes wrong. The song, you could argue, reanimates the children whose deaths inspired O'Riordan to write it. More likely, she's singing "zombie" with sardonic fury, targeting the people who carry out killings as duty, as if they haven't got consciousness or wills of their own, like the Irish and British hitmen who mechanically carry out routine assassinations throughout Alan Clarke's 1989 short film Elephant.
After the chorus, there's a lull, The Cranberries putting the song's own violence on hold, pending the next dulcetly-sung verse and the next ferocious onslaught. O'Riordan chants "du du du du" four times—it sounds like she's imitating a pipe organ—and then repeats the original sinister guitar line as a warning.
Like the first verse, the second verse expresses its sentiments clumsily. In its awkwardness, "Another mother's breakin'/ Heart is takin' over" echoes the first verse's "Another head hangs lowly/Child is slowly taken." The lines "When the violence causes silence/ We must be mistaken" sound at first like a too obvious thing to say this far into the song.
In her posthumous comments on O'Riordan on National Public Radio, the rock critic Evelyn McDonnell allowed that The Cranberries' leader had a certain naivety. She was right, but that naivety serves a song that's an unfiltered reaction to a tragedy. It goes with "Zombie"'s primal fury; slicker lyrics would have diluted the song's rawness.
Next comes a history lesson. In the second pre-chorus, O'Riordan is weary and plaintive when she sings, "It's the same old theme/ Since nineteen-sixteen/ In your head, in your head, they're still fightin.'" She is saying that the 1916 Easter Rising—the week-long rebellion of Irish nationalists against the the British government, during which at least 485 people died—is still being fought during the Troubles, which began in 1968 and continued for four years after The Cranberries issued "Zombie" in September 1994. Dead: 3,532. Injured: over 47,500.
O'Riordan is done with the singing—she's exhausted and she's all out of words and ideas and patience—but there's still a minute and a half of the song to go.
A little spent, the grungy guitars continue on for a moment, but just when you think the band has emptied itself out, Mike Hogan's bass fills the void, the chords sounding like footsteps—the footsteps, perhaps, of the assassins stomping to the cars where they shoot the occupants in Elephant.
It ushers in the sinister guitar line, played for the third time by O'Riordan. This time it doesn't slip away because drums larrup it into an extended metallic riff—bleak, bellyaching, scorching—a little like the solo at the end of Radiohead's "Lucky" (1997), only murkier. It's "Zombie"'s crescendo, and it intensifies the notion that the song is a dirge—albeit one full of drama.
When the riff's done, the bass picks up the slack again and the song rumbles on with more thudding "footsteps" backlit by tambourine and percussion. It sounds like they may never end, but as a piercing note rings out (it could be feedback), Lawler plays a concluding rataplan on his drums, and "Zombie" halts.
Except that, for hours, weeks, years after you've stopped listening to it, you might find that The Cranberries—"in your head, in your head"—are still playing it.


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She received her Dental Assistant Radiographer's License in July 2002, and continues to take continuing education courses. She also has her Healthcare Provider CPR & AED certification.
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POLITICAL THEATRE IN SCOTLAND. WRITTEN BY WOMEN.
Is theatre something that happens inside a box, called "organisation" OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT SERVES TO CONSTRUCT THE BOX ITSELF?
WHO NARRATES? WHO IS ENTITLED TO NARRATE? Inside the BOX narrators position their own relationship to dominant ideologies and they themselves decide what these dominant ideologies are going to be.
constructed, then ideologies are the nucleus around which people orient themselves to form recognisable truths.
THEATRE is a COMING-OUT story.
THEATRE is a rhetorical attempt to justify one's life.
Not all self‐transformation stories are either recognized or accepted. Simply producing an utterance does not ensure that its recipients will accept and ratify it. Your utterance is open to all manner of challenge and resistance.
Your utterance may never be recorded.
Your utterance may be deleted from history.
Entitlement is privilege. Privilege determines the position from which one speaks.
A position is a situation.
A situation is a location.
A location is (usually) discursively dangerous.
A lady is not (usually) advised to partake in danger.
A neutral voice is not possible.
All ladies have a voice.
All voices are prone to reveal secret little truths.
Little truths are (usually) rather ugly.
LADIES are (usually) not advised to reveal little truths as ugliness does not (usually) behove them.
Ladies who seem ugly to the eyes of some are (usually) the most powerful presences in world history.
In poetics and in politics LADIES are still NOT written into HISTORY.


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The History of Mitcham Golf Club
Golf on the Common dates back to the early 1890s when the Board of Conservators charged with looking after Mitcham Common agreed to let an 18-course be constructed - provided it did not enclose the land and deprive the borough residents from exercising their "common rights" to walk or exercise.
The Princes Golf Club was formed in November 1891 and Lord Arthur Balfour, who was to go on to become British Prime Minister nine years later, was elected the first president.
The link to the House of Commons was a strong one with many parliamentary members of the aristocracy escaping the pressures of Westminster with a seven-mile train journey to the common and a relaxing round of golf.
Indeed after one or two legal wrangles, Princes was purchased by Mitcham Court MP Harry Mallaby-Deeley for £8,000, and it became an exclusive club in the pre-war era for City gentlemen, provoking resentment from the local residents who felt their common was being taken away from them.
As the social climate changed Mitcham Village Golf Club was created, in 1907, to allow locals access through 10-shilling permits, saw Prince's exclusivity wane, and Sir Harry handed the club back to the Conservators in 1924 - two years after being knighted - with 7 years remaining on the lease. In doing so he established Mitcham Golf Club and nominated three trustees to run the course and care for the golfers' part of the common. After Sir Mallaby-Deeley's death in February 1937 the number of Trustees increased to four - and carried on that tradition syill today.
Ironically, the proximity of the Victoria line and the Croydon tram service still allows golfers to escape from central London to this honourable oasis with their clubs carried courtesy of Thameslink Trains.
The legendary Tom Morris, who won four Opens, approved the Common as being suitable for golf and Tooting Bec pro Tom Dunn laid out the original course measuring 6,325 yards on land straddling the Croydon Road. It cost thousands of pounds with swamps having to be drained and filled in, with tons of soil shifted to fill in the unregulated gravel workings which had dominated the land before.
Ironically, the latter gave rise to the legend of Mitcham's greens with the land's gravel base helping drainage. The greens were never laid to modern USGA standards - and in fact were constructed to hold water during the dry summer months. But despite the winter weather of recent years, the putting surfaces have survived the onslaught of three very wet seasons in remarkably good shape.
They are a testament to the Head Green keeper and his staff who have worked tirelessly on creating new drainage ditches across the course to feed the seasonal ponds that dot it.
Today the course has lost the land "over the road" and the Princes Ladies club - which was founded on land south of Mitcham Junction in 1894. Sadly the clubhouse from the Royal Navy Exhibition at Chelsea built on land leased from the railway company around that period - and which offered an upper deck view from the lounge and restaurant over the common - burned down in 1933, and was replaced by a more up to date one, which still stands today!
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[ARCHIVED] Kenosha County Administration Building now closed to public
In a further effort to protect the public and county staff from the COVID-19 virus, the Kenosha County Administration Building is now closed to the public 24/7, the building's elected officials announced today.
Some services from the county clerk's, treasurer's and register of deeds' offices remain available by phone or online.
This includes issuance of marriage licenses, which County Clerk Regi Bachochin's office is continuing to offer by appointment only, for Kenosha County residents only. For more information, please call 262-653-2552 or send an email to [email protected].
County Treasurer Teri Jacobson's office is continuing to accept tax payments by mail or online at https://kenoshacounty.org/589/Treasurer. For more information, please contact the office at 262-653-2542 or at [email protected].
Register of Deeds JoEllyn Storz's office is continuing to record documents and handle applications submitted through the mail and online through VitalCheck. For more information about accessing records by mail or online, please call 262-653-2444 or visit https://www.kenoshacounty.org/522/Register-of-Deeds.
The elected officials' satellite office at the Kenosha County Center in Bristol also remains closed.


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Medication can lower some women's risk of breast cancer
By Will Boggs MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with a high risk of developing breast cancer can lower that risk by taking certain medications, according to updated recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
"The Task Force encourages women to talk about the benefits and harms of medication with their clinicians so they can make the best choice for themselves, based on their personal values and preferences," USPSTF Task Force member Dr. Michael Barry from Harvard Medical School in Boston, told Reuters Health by email.
Drawing on findings in more than 5 million women who participated in 46 studies, USPSTF issued two main recommendations in its 2019 updated statement.
First, women with no personal history of breast cancer but at a high risk for developing it should consider taking medications to reduce their risk of breast cancer, especially if they have a low risk of developing unwanted side effects.
Figuring out whether you're one of those high-risk women is not straightforward. The Task Force statement mentions a couple of risk assessment tools but stops short of endorsing them because evidence shows they're not accurate for all women. Instead, the Task Force suggests that women with at least a 3% risk for breast cancer in the next 5 years are likely to benefit from risk-reducing medications and should be offered them if their risk of harm from the drugs is low.
Second, the USPSTF recommends against using such medications for women who don't have an increased risk of breast cancer (including women younger than 60 years with no additional risk factors for breast cancer), because the likelihood of side effects from the medications (like blood clots, endometrial cancer, and cataracts) probably outweighs the potential breast cancer prevention benefit.
The previous recommendation, in 2013, included tamoxifen and raloxifene as risk-reducing medications. The 2019 update includes those and adds a class of medications called aromatase inhibitors (including exemestane and anastrozole) to that list. They note, however, that aromatase inhibitors are not currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for reducing the risk of breast cancer.
The Task Force recognizes that women with mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 and women who previously received chest radiation face an increased risk of breast cancer, but there is not enough evidence on the benefits and harms of these medications to make a sound recommendation for these women.
"Additionally," Dr. Barry said, "we also need more evidence to better understand the lifelong benefits and harms of these medications and how they can reduce risk in specific populations, such as African-American women who are more likely to die of breast cancer."
"While the Task Force encourages women to talk to their clinicians about their likelihood for developing breast cancer, the evidence did not clearly demonstrate a specific frequency for this assessment," he added. "Women might repeat risk assessments with their clinicians if there is a change in their risk factors, such as if a family member is newly diagnosed with breast cancer."
"The Task Force continues to recommend that women who are concerned about their chances for developing breast cancer talk to their clinician to decide if preventive medications are right for them," Dr. Barry said.
Dr. Heidi D. Nelson from Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, who co-authored the evidence review that supports the recommendations, told Reuters Health, "Various risk criteria were used to enroll women into trials of risk-reducing medications. These criteria usually included family history of breast cancer and previous benign breast biopsy, particularly atypical hyperplasia. Results of the trials may be most applicable to women with similar risks as the trial participants."
Dr. Lydia E. Pace from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, co-authored an editorial related to this report. She told Reuters Health by email, "I have cared for patients who do really well with risk-reducing medications and feel good about their decision to take them. I have other patients who have not tolerated them and need to stop after a short time. And I've had patients who strongly don't want to take a new medication every day for 5 years and don't feel the potential benefit is worth it."
"Decisions about these medications are often not clear-cut and I try to convey that, as long as women are informed, all of these decisions are okay," she said. "It's also important for women to remember that there are other important ways that they can reduce breast cancer risk, including reducing alcohol intake and maintaining a healthy weight."
The complete recommendation statement, evidence review, editorials, and patient page appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
SOURCE: bit.ly/2NJnOJ7, bit.ly/2NTQL5f, bit.ly/2NKL2OZ, bit.ly/2NMTsFB and bit.ly/2NIDxbk6 Journal of the American Medical Association, online September 3, 2019.


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The dramatic shift from print to digital media, one of the big marketing stories in our lifetimes, happened to coincide with the Great Recession that lasted from 2007 to 2009.
Marketers were more careful with dollars coming out of the Recession and for good reason. There were fewer of those dollars. Cheaper was appealing. And what better way for wary marketers to spend their dollars then on areas where they would be able to see the impact of their spend.
Last week we showed you five amazing photo finishes—to inspire you to meet your year-end content marketing deadlines with style and flair—and show you how collaborating with Hammock can help you cross the finish line in an award-winning fashion.
Today's inspiration comes from the realm of basketball—the buzzer beater. You probably have a favorite—that last-second dunk or half-court shot drained right as the shot clock expires and the buzzer sounds. It's that fraction of a second when a long-shot contender knocks off a No. 1 seed and grabs the championship. A "buzzer-beating" finish is pure excitement—but it takes a smart, talented, hard-working team to set up those winning shots.
As part of our countdown to year-end projects, we thought we'd share a few of the ways we have been able to speed up our processes in ways that can help our clients meet their important goals and deadlines.
For various reasons, the deadlines of marketers and content managers are often the first day of January. Over the past 26 years, Hammock has learned that crunch-time, fast-approaching finish lines can't be crossed alone—it's a collaborative effort involving not only our clients and our on-staff team, but also a network of talented creators, editors, producers and other supplier partners. It also takes a burst of virtual adrenaline that comes from working together to make it across the finish line in an award-winning fashion. It's similar to the bursts these five amazing winners found in incredible photo finishes.
Helping our clients finish year-end content and media projects reminded me of some of my favorite last-minute sports finishes. Of course there are many incredible moments, but these are five of my favorites—including one I witnessed in person.
But here's a cautionary note: Don't wait until the last minute to start your year-end projects. It's amazing what collaborative teamwork can accomplish, but the process works best with a cushion of a couple of months. Or, as we're saying this year, it's amazing how many types of content projects you can accomplish by January 1 if you begin on November 1.
Posted in Content Marketing, by Hammock Inc.
During the hectic fourth quarter of each year, we help companies and organizations with those must-do content and media projects they need to deliver by year's end. For the last 25 years, we've developed processes and resources that enable us to complete major projects by January 1 if we begin by November 1. Here's how.
When you compare a corporation's website from the early web era (the late 1990s) to the same company's current website, you can easily recognize the DNA of the early site in the 2017 model.
For example, if you use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to view the 2001 version of Ford.com you'll immediately be blown away by the dramatic changes in aesthetics and "wow" factors.
Successful marketing and sales to healthcare providers—and building enduring relationships—requires helping your customer along a journey from problem to solution. Developing lead generation content is the first stage in the customer journey, but an enduring relationship with customers goes far beyond this first stage.
Learn this and more by downloading Using Content to Support Sales to Healthcare Providers, the first in the Hammock Healthcare Media series, A Healthcare Marketer's Guide to Enduring Customer Relationships.


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Sustainability-oriented housing innovation: Using the Solar Decathlon as a knowledge source
Yeganeh Baghi, University of Wollongong
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
The Solar Decathlon competition started in 2002. Since then, Solar Decathlon has acted as a showcase and source of innovation in the field of sustainability for housing and for the construction industry at large. This thesis has utilised data from Solar Decathlon competitions to understand the nature of innovations involved with progressively building and refining the technology required for sustainable housing. As such, the focus and drive of this thesis is to present an image of the Solar Decathlon competition as openly creating and synthesising new knowledge about sustainability-oriented innovation. It can be stated that understanding the precise factors that make innovation happen can be convoluted in nature. The Solar Decathlon portrays these characteristics, is internationally recognised as the premier competition for prototyping sustainability-oriented innovation, and demonstrates the human features involved with progress in the field of sustainable housing. The thesis is original in that it is the first that addresses innovation and its management through human-centred design, and describes its processes, that can be henceforth taken up by the building industry.
Utilising the experience of the Innovations Coordinator of Team UOW (University of Wollongong), this thesis describes and analyses the nature of innovation involved with the Desert Rose house (UOW Solar Decathlon entry), including knowledge of how innovation happened in real time during its construction. This thesis asks the question: What is the nature of innovation involved with sustainable housing? The answer to this question is not resolved simply through experiencing the construction of the Desert Rose, or through an objective analysis of the available Solar Decathlon data sets. Rather, this thesis proposes that the answer can be obtained through comprehensive multi-disciplinary research, including: (i) analysis of available innovation related Solar Decathlon data sets from leading houses, (ii) the development of an innovations management framework for sustainability-oriented technology, (iii) a case study of the Desert Rose Solar Decathlon entry in 2018 in the broader context of design, construction, innovation and sustainability, and (iv) tracing innovation through development of a specific sustainability-oriented technology from Desert Rose.
Baghi, Yeganeh, Sustainability-oriented housing innovation: Using the Solar Decathlon as a knowledge source, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, 2022. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/1486
091305 Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering, 091599 Interdisciplinary Engineering not elsewhere classified, 120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design), 150307 Innovation and Technology Management


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The first day I was in town for STLFW, I flew in, got to the hotel, met my lovely roommate, and then we got ready to head out for our first night of festivities. There was a blogger dinner planned at Basso, which was right next door to the hotel, so we grabbed a few outfit photos and then headed down for dinner. The dinner was amazing and the restaurant was an underground, den-like venue, which made for a nice, intimate setting, despite there being about twenty of us. It was fun meeting the group of bloggers for the first time and filling up on amazing food and drinks. There was a happy hour planned for after dinner, but we had the option of attending the Project:Design! runway show, so Jackie and I decided to skip the happy hour and go out to the show instead. I'm glad we did, because no one else decided to go to happy hour anyway and we ended up getting front row seats to the show!!
You can see the collections from the show in their entirety here, but I also grabbed some shots of my own and wanted to share a few of my personal favorite looks and designers from the night.
My favorite designer from the Project:Design! show was probably Lauren Bander. The first look with the crop top and maxi is just perfection. The collection had a sophisticated bohemian vibe to it, just right for spring/summer. I would totally rock that bottom look too. So breezy and fresh.
Another favorite was Abaya Dake. I loved his use of bright colors, geometric patterns, and the incorporation of bold, ethnic prints. Overall, it's just a really fun collection that has a playfulness that isn't too self aware or pretentious.
Black by Maria Silver was in my top three favorite collections. There were fun, "fashion-y" pieces mixed with a lot of super wearable pieces. This first look is definitely very wearable, and I'm dying over the last look. I want that crop top like whoa, mostly because I have high waisted black jeans that would complete the look perfectly.
Which collection is your favorite? Click through for a few more collections from Project:Design!


EAW035654 ENGLAND (1951). The River Thames, Festival of Britain South Bank Site, Waterloo Station and environs, Lambeth, from the west, 1951. This image has been produced from a print.
Title [EAW035654] The River Thames, Festival of Britain South Bank Site, Waterloo Station and environs, Lambeth, from the west, 1951. This image has been produced from a print.


Since South Korea issued the first sovereign Panda bond — bonds from foreign issuers sold onshore in China — in 2015, plenty of borrowers have followed.
The Canadian province of British Columbia issued two Pandas totalling Rmb4bn ($600m) in 2016 and 2017. Hungary visited the market twice in 2017, raising Rmb3bn. Poland and the Emirate of Sharjah brought deals last year.
Now, Italy is said to be looking to price its own Panda debut as it courts the Belt and Road Initiative — China's international trade and infrastructure development programme.
But other than raising a pot of renminbi for the borrower, what do these deals achieve?
In many cases, sovereign and sub or quasi-sovereign Pandas look like souvenirs following high-level state visits.
One example is the lesser spotted Panama Panda. The deal was announced in November 2017, after Panama's president, Juan Carlos Varela, met with Chen Siqing, chairman of Bank of China. Four months later, Dulcidio De La Guardia, the finance minister, said that a $500m Panda would be launched by the end of 2018.
But so far the Panama Panda has proved appropriately elusive, the deal suspended because of diplomatic hurdles, GlobalCapital understands.
Panama is not the only issuer to have volunteered a deadline for issuing a Panda bond. Italy on March 20, following the state visit of Chinese president Xi Jinping, promised its state investment bank Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) would issue a Rmb5bn ($745m) Panda "in the coming weeks".
"Good luck with that," was the response from one onshore debt capital markets banker on hearing the news.
Sovereign Pandas are not the sort of deals that do what government bonds do in many other markets: set a benchmark to attract more issuance from that country's corporate issuers.
Sovereigns care more about their relationship with China than the timing of a deal it seems. But corporate borrowers looking for a benchmark need reliability of execution. When bilateral relationships with China cool, it appears Pandas hibernate. Corporates need a sovereign that is out in all weathers.
But even those sovereign Panda deals that do make it do not seem to open the door for corporates from the issuing country. Or if they do, the corporates do not seem to pass through it.
None of the five sovereign, quasi or sub-sovereign Panda issuers has attracted compatriot companies to follow their paw prints.
Conversely, issuers such as Air Liquide of France, Rusal of Russia and Germany's Daimler have not needed to track a sovereign deal to price their own.
The sovereign bonds that have come have not succeeded in educating Chinese investors about their countries or the way international credit rating works either.
For example, Baa3/BBB/BBB rated Hungary priced its most recent Rmb2bn three year Panda at 4.3% in December. But A3/BBB+/- rated Emirate of Sharjah had to sell a Panda of the same size and tenor at 5.8% back in February 2018, simply because the emirate is not as well-known a name among Chinese investors. Both are rated AAA by domestic credit rating agencies.
A source at one of those agencies admitted that some Belt and Road countries pondering a Panda print do not have "pretty enough" international ratings. The domestic ratings, always above AA, are there to comfort onshore investors.
A boost for foreign corporate issuers would be for their governments to nurture good relationships with the Chinese Ministry of Finance, it has been said.
Another sticking point for corporates, that sovereigns do not have to endure, is the requirement to match Chinese accounting standards. This has proved a tricky negotiation with China's Ministry of Finance for international issuers.
The Panda market has not flourished as a source of capital for most corporate issuers even though many are likely to have a growing need for Rmb in the coming years as China opens up its economy.
If China wants its Panda bond market to blossom into a genuine global funding alternative it must find ways to boost its fertility for borrowers. This means making market access easier for corporates among other things, but also it means ensuring that sovereign Panda bonds become reliable benchmarks.
Or to put it another way, that they offer more than something that might look appealing but that would have died out were it not for governments whose primary purpose was making friends with each other.


Lost In The Warp: Rhulic Rampage 5 - It aint easy being Green!
Rhulic Rampage 5 - It aint easy being Green!
So when last we left our stunty hero Gorten and his mechanised brute squad, I was preparing to finish the chipping on the rust layers followed by a layer of testors dullcote to seal it all together.
Something else I learned in this process. More hairspray=easier chipping. Dont skimp. Let it dry. Also, while I am glad I did the two rust coats for the practice and experience of doing it, one would likely have been sufficient considering how much shows through the paint... and i could have done done chipping in that coat as even with the addirional seal I found more came off with this round of stripping as well. Overall I amd very pleased with how this all came out! Next up is to add chipped and worn numbers to this layer so that it will all be weatered in the following steps along with the rest of the surface paint.
With this done it was time to seal it one more time, put away the airbrush, remove the tape and get the paintbrushes back out! My finish isnt as realistic as the one from the AK site but I am rather pleased with the overall outcome and am looking forward to taking it even further with some additional techniques and a HUGE STACK of new products that I have been dying to try! - Tune in to see just what I use and how it is done!
NEXT: DETAIL WEATHERING AND NEW PRODUCTS!