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André Raisonbefore 1650 - 1719 (Paris)
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André Raison (1640s – 1719) was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 1688 and 1714. The first contains liturgical music intended for monasteries and a preface with information on contemporary performance practice. The second contains mostly noëls (variations on Christmas carols).
The exact date and place of Raison's birth are unknown. He was born in the 1640s, possibly in or near the town of Nanterre (today a suburb of Paris). He was educated there at the seminary of the Church of St. Geneviève (today a commune of Paris). Raison's later life was evidently greatly influenced by the experiences at St. Geneviève. Writing in 1687 or 1688 (in the preface to his Premier livre d’orgue, published in 1688) the composer mentioned that he found the purpose of his life while studying at the seminary. Around 1665–66 Raison was appointed organist Abbey of St Genevieve in Paris, another place connected to St Genevieve and one that owned the land the Nanterre church stood on.
In Paris Raison first lived in a room in "The Guardian Angel", a house in Rue Saint Etienne des Grez, two city blocks away from the abbey. Apparently this was a very modest accommodation, yet Raison remained there for more than twenty years. After 1687–88 he moved to a much larger house at the intersection of the Rue Saint Etienne des Grez and of the Cholets. His life was improving steadily, and a tax register of 1695 places him in the top rank of Parisian organists, along with François Couperin, Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Nicolas Gigault, Nicolas de Grigny, and Louis Marchand. Finally, Raison's Second livre d'orgue, published in 1714, indicates that at that time he worked as organist at the church of the Jacobins at Rue St. Jacques in Paris. He died a few years later in 1719, and was succeeded at the Jacobins church by his most illustrious pupil, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault. Clérambault's Premier livre d'orgue (1710) was dedicated to Raison.
Although Raison was somewhat interested in politics (at least twice he produced pieces inspired by political events: an offertory from Premier livre d'orgue is dedicated to Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall on January 30, 1687, and several pieces in Second livre d'orgue commemorate the "long desired peace" that followed the Treaty of Utrecht), as far as the circumstances of his life are known, he seems to have been an exceptionally private and pious person. No record of Raison travelling or acting as organ consultant survives. His Premier livre d'orgue contains extensive instructions for inexperienced church musicians. He apparently never played at court and was not known by the associations there. His contacts with other organists were probably limited, and he was not mentioned in Évrard Titon du Tillet's famous Le Parnasse François, a 1732 book of biographies of famous French musicians. Lettres sur les hommes célèbres du siècle de Louis XV, a similar book by the son of organist and composer Louis-Claude Daquin, also doesn't contain any mention of Raison, even though Raison's pupil Clérambault is given due praise.
The first collection, Premier livre d'orgue of 1688, consists entirely of liturgical music: five masses (in order of appearance, in the first, second, third, sixth and eighth modes) and an offertory in the fifth mode. The offertory has a subtitle "Vive le Roy des Parisiens" ("Long live the King of Parisians"), referencing Louis XIV's entrance into the city hall on January 30, 1687. The collection features a long preface in which Raison explains that Premier livre d'orgue was composed to assist the musicians of secluded monasteries; for them he provides important instructions concerning style, ornamentation, registration and other aspects of performance practice. He also mentions that, since no pieces of the collection employ plainchant melodies, they can also be used as 15 Magnificat settings. A much quoted passage instructs the performer to carefully observe the tempo of each piece to understand which dance is implied by the texture.
All five masses follow the same standard scheme: 5 versets for Kyrie, 9 for Gloria, 3 for Sanctus, one Elevation, 2 Agnus Dei versets and a Deo Gratias. There are only minor variations: the first mass has an alternate version of Kyrie 1, the third provides one for Agnus 2, and the titles of Gloria settings are slightly changed in the 6th tone mass. The individual pieces are short versets in various typical forms of the French organ school: duos, trios, dialogues, fugues, récits, etc.; some are expressly labelled as such, others are not. Somewhat unusual for French music of the era are two ostinato variations – a passacaglia (Christe of the Messe du Deuxième ton) and a chaconne (Christe of the Messe du Sixième ton). Both are much shorter than their German and Italian equivalents. Some 20 years later Johann Sebastian Bach used the bass from Raison's passacaglia for his famous Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (the bass from Trio en chaconne was also possibly used by Bach for the same piece).
Many of the pieces are notable for their consistent employment of imitative counterpoint: for example, Fugue grave of the third mass is fully imitative, a strict four-voice fugue, and even the passacaglia begins with an imitative passage. Other notable pieces include Gloria: Tu solus altissimus from Messe du Sixième ton, which is a Cromorne-Cornet dialogue alternating between 3/4 and common time, and Autre Kyrie from Messe du Première ton, which is a five-voice piece. Willi Apel describes the overall style thus: "In their melodious, dance-like character these pieces follow Lebègue; others of a more organ-like and ecclesiastic approach are similar to Nivers'." An interesting feature, indicative of Raison's meticulous attention to detail, is the early use of double dot in French music of the period.
Deuxième livre d'orgue, published in 1714, commemorates the Treaty of Utrecht (or possibly the Treaty of Rastatt). To this end, the collection begins with a setting of Da pacem Nomine and a fugue on the same subject. Some more fugues and preludes follow, an offertory, an Ouverture du Septième en d, la, ré, an Allemande grave and a number of noël (French Christmas carols) variations. This collection was only discovered in the 20th century (whereas Premier livre d'orgue surfaced in 1897).
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KTR lunges at Modi for hobnobbing with Adani
Hyderabad: Minister for IT K T Rama Rao on Thursday launched a scathing assail on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led Centre, accusing it of crony , favouring Adani and “misusing” agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate to harass political party opposed leaders.
Rama Rao, who alleged that the in or near a center agencies have got puppets in the hands of the Modi government, claimed that several BRS leaders have got been targeted by the Centre.
The summons issued by the ED to his female sibling and BRS MLC K Kavitha in shifting from one transportation to another with a currency laundering showcase linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise insurance policy are “not ED summons but Modi summons”, he said.
KTR alleged that NDA government had synonymous with “unscrupulous rule” and “dishonest investigation agencies”, the BRS commander alleged a nexus between Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani.
“I am alleging directly that Gautam Adani is a proxy of Narendra Modi. The double engine he (Modi) talks about means that the economic engine is Adani and the political engine is Modi,” he said. The ‘stunt man locomotive’ Modi talks about is only either ‘Jumla’ ( promises) or ‘Hamla’ (attacks), he further alleged.
Though the Finance Ministry and NITI Aayog had raised redness flags about “giving six airports to Adani” on the land that a company can only group of things of the same kind that belong together up two airports as per the existing rules, the regulations were changed in act of gracious kindness of Adani Rama Rao alleged.
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He said, “The Sri Lankan government has clearly said Modi brought pressure on our President (Ranil Wickremesinghe) and got a Rs 6,000 crore project for Adani. Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister came to attend G20 meetings.
He clearly said the Rs 6,000 crore project given to Adani is a government to government deal,” he said. If he (Modi) has guts then come near or directed toward the front and narrate (everyone) that these allegations are not in accordance with fact or reality,” he added.


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By Raluca Velker Availability and convenience of transportation plays a big part of any travel destination. And Haiti’s transportation system could seem as peculiar, if one does not plan ahead. If it’s your first time visiting Haiti, we’d suggest starting with transportation option #1 and option #2 on second or third visits, until you can … Continue reading “Transportation: Your Options for Getting Around in Haiti”
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If you've ever been to a health food store, you've probably seen the dozens of bulk bins filled with tiny seeds. Though they may look like bird food, don't turn your nose up at these little kernels of nutrition! Two of the most talked-about seeds arechia seedsflax seeds
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Per ounce, chia seeds have more fiber and calcium than flax seeds—plus, they are lower in calories and fat (137 calories and 9 grams of fat per ounce of chia seeds vs. 150 calories and 12 grams of fat per ounce of flax seeds). Chia seeds also don't have to be ground up in order for you to absorb their nutrients, unlike flax seeds. On the flip side, flax seeds contain more vitamin B1 and omega-3 fatty acids than chia seeds, and some studies have shown that they are high in cancer-fighting lignans. However, both seeds are great sources of fiber and heart-healthy fats, so eat them both in moderation!

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The chipheads at UBM Techinsights have disassembled the new Google Nexus 7 and provided 27 photos of the new tablet being disassembled. See the details: a 7-inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution, a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, not to mention all the shielding and component brand names. Is it a Kindle Fire killer? Can it stand up to the mini iPad?
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The Sardine Run in South Africa is one of the world’s top wildlife spectacles, and each year during May, through July vast shoals of sardines leave their normal cold-water home in South Africa’s temperate seas and travel northwards into the sub-tropical seas ofSouth Africa’s Wild Coast. Following the shoal is a caravan of predators, seabirds, sharks, game fish and marine animals with little else but sardines on their mind.
Thousands of common dolphins charge after the shoals, separating them into densely packed bait balls. Easy picking not only for them, but also for schools of hundreds of bronze whaler, dusky and black tip sharks which attack the bait ball from below. The aerial assault on the sardine begins when thousands of cape gannet begin their spectacular plunge diving display.
Join your host Eli Martinez and your skipper (fellow shark expert), Walter Bernardis, who will be one of your dive-guides on this wildlife spectacle.This is marine wildlife watching at its most spectacular, a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of something that many of the world’s top wildlife photographer and filmmakers consider the most intense and spectacular marine wildlife event in the world. Our host operator has 20 years’ of experience in the sardine run, don’t miss this opportunity of a lifetime.
Day 1: On arrival to Durban, you will be met by our local operator and transferred down to Mbotyi River Lodge which is an approximately a 5 hour drive. Pick up time will be between 11-12 noon, as we do not like to drive on the roads in the dark.
Once you will settle in, you can prep your gear for the next day’s action. Dinner will be at 7PM. After dinner we will discuss the next day’s plan with your skipper and Micro Light Plot. They will have a good idea of where and what the action has been and will make a few recommendations to choose from for the morning for us.
Day 2 – Day 6: We will spend the next 5 days in search of Sardines. The aim is to locate shoals of sardines to view the feeding activity of dolphins, seals sharks and migrating humpback whales. The launch is approx. 6:30 to 7:30AM (depending on the light and breakfast). You will return every afternoon to your accommodation for a hot shower, dinner and to share some photos and storytelling of the day’s action.
Day 7: Transfer you back to Durban International airport after breakfast for your journey home. Or elsewhere if you plan to extend your stay in Africa.
Mbotyi River Lodge, is a 3 star rated family hotel and holiday resort on the stunning Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Pondoland’s best kept secret is situated at the mouth of the tidal Mbotyi River nestled between the rolling hills, lush tropical forest and the warm Indian Ocean.
This unique Wild Coast hotel is the perfect place for a peaceful, tranquil holiday or for the more adventurous traveller wanting to experience the many amazing natural treasures like waterfalls and forests this coast has to offer.
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A rare sighting of a herd of argali was captured in Alxa Right Banner in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Argali are wild mountain sheep and their population has dwindled due to past droughts in the region. They are listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.
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2021 Martin County Business Awards nominations now open
The Business Development Board of Martin County (BDBMC), with its economic and community partners, celebrates businesses and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to Martin County’s economy and community. They are now seeking nominations by the community.
To participate visit their website to complete a nomination form and submit your online form(s) by Wednesday, September 8, 2021, for consideration.
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The condition of patients with chronic diseases improves significantly with the use of at-home tools like blood pressure and glucose monitors.
At-home telemonitoring may be beneficial for patients with hypertension, as well as other chronic diseases, according to the results of a joint study by Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft.
The pilot project provided patients with at-home blood pressure, heart rate, and glucose monitors, scales, or pedometers, depending on whether a patient had hypertension, diabetes, or heart failure. Hypertensive patients increased the number of days between their office visits by 26%, indicating “that patients had better control of their conditions.” While diabetic patients were also able to increase the amount of time between office visits, patients with heart failure actually went in for appointments more often, which the researchers said “indicates that patients were advised to see their healthcare provider in a more timely manner.”
The EMR system used by the Cleveland Clinic Hospital was paired with Microsoft’s online HealthVault service for the monitoring of patients’ conditions.
According to the researchers, nearly half of all Americans have been diagnosed with a chronic condition, which accounts for 75% of the nation’s healthcare spending. The results of the new study could provide a new option for decreasing these costs.
“Although more research is certainly needed, the results of this observational study are promising, suggesting that at-home medical devices can help patients and doctors better track chronic conditions, coordinate treatment schedules, manage medication regimens and schedule timely interventions,” said C. Martin Harris, MD, Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic. “Ultimately, such improvements make for more efficient healthcare, healthier patients and possibly a reduction in healthcare costs.”
The researchers also believe that this kind of technology, and the other forms like it that are in development, could eventually result in healthcare activities that are normally performed in a physician’s office being performed wherever the patient is.
“Making it easier for patients to more actively engage in their ongoing health and wellness is a necessary step in trying to manage the increasing onset of chronic disease worldwide and the costs associated with this alarming trend,” said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president, Microsoft Health Solutions Group. “The results of this pilot are promising and demonstrate how cost-effective and flexible technology solutions can support patients in better monitoring their chronic conditions from where they live and work.”

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Photo and article by Donna Iverson
It looked like sweet corn but it wasn’t. In fact, it was sorghum. And the person in the adjacent community garden bed was growing it. Like every curious home gardener, I wanted to know more. Why grow sorghum and what were they going to do with it? Nothing like a garden mystery to brighten my day.
So I eventually tracked down the grower, Peter Stoeckle of Muskegon and asked him.
Turns out, he grows something new every summer, something that he has never grown before. And sorghum was his latest experiment. It was definitely healthy and growing well.. over six feet tall and lording it over the surrounding veggie plants.
In fact, Stoeckle is in the vanguard of a new trend..as sorghum is undergoing a revival of sorts. The regenerative farming people are growing sorghum for its ability to thrive in poor soil and drought conditions. In drought conditions it goes dormant until revived by a rainfall. It has been called a “camel” crop ..a tough plant for tough times, according NPR garden commentator Dan Charles.
Growing sorghum in your garden improves the soil ..it is nitrogen fixing. Next year’s veggie plants will benefit from the regenerated soil. It is also a weed suppressor and while sorghum does not produce cobs like corn, it can be made into sweet syrup or a gluten-free grain. Or if nothing else, the kernels can be used to make popcorn.
In the US, sorghum is a major source of feed for livestock like chicken and pigs and is also turned into ethanol. It is the fifth most commonly grown grain after wheat, rice, corn and barley, Sorghum, when turned into grain for human consumption, is gluten free and highly nutritious. It is high in protein, iron, magnesium, copper, calcium, zinc and potassium. It is not genetically modified, although DuPont is working on that. ..sigh.
Backyard gardeners and farmers mostly grow it to make a sweet syrup. To do this, you need at least four 100 foot rows of sorghum. In the fall, you will need to process it. An inexpensive hand-cranked press is available from www.grainmaker.com. Cooking down the syrup can be done over a backyard fire pit. Instructions are at motherearthnews.com/sorghum-production
And what is Stoeckle’s next experimental crop: buckwheat. If he makes sorghum syrup to go with buckwheat pancakes....I’m in.

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Summary UN Food Summit Science Days side event – SOLAW21: Sustainable, scalable and dynamic solutions in land and water management towards food system transformation
FAO, with the support of Griffith University, Australia, organized a UN Food Summit Science Days side event to discuss the upcoming FAO flagship report on the State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW21).
In this side event contributing to the UN-Food system Summit, the focus was on the DPSIR (driver, pressure, state, impact, and responses) assessment framework that was used for SOLAW 2021, and on how SOLAW 2021 data and information can bring new knowledge and focus on priority response actions, and whether they need to be scaled up for further investments.
Partners from the Philippines, including high-level representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Academia, Funding agency, and FAO Regional Officers, contributed to the lively discussion on the relevance of SOLAW21 and the DPSIR Regional framework in the reflection of regional and country challenges in land degradation and water scarcity, the added value of SOLAW21 in policy-making, the crucial role of data and information on land, water and soil as well as partnerships to support Sustainable Food Systems. The side event was attended by more than 100 people from different parts of world. This was the first in a series of events to present key components of SOLAW until the launch in December 2021.
Key Outcome and Discussion Points
SOLAW allows the dynamic assessment of challenges and solutions. SOLAW as a systematic, harmonized, authoritative and up-to-date reference informs policy making with the actual state of land and water resources, guides how they are being impacted by different driving forces such as population growth and mobility, economic development, social change, technology, and climate change. SOLAW provides a glimpse into the possible pathways into the future of food security, natural resource availability and degradation, and tells us what response options we have to deal with these, what actions decision makers can take in sustainably managing land, water and soil in an integrated manner; in making agriculture and food systems sustainable; and in being good stewards of our planet. It has something for everyone: governments, businesses, investors, civil society, communities, farmers, consumers, citizens.
The DPSIR (Driver -Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework used in SOLAW21 allows us to understand the challenges unique for each region and prioritize solutions at global, regional, country levels. With the inputs of FAO Regional and Country offices, several results of Regional DPSIR survey was showcased during the side event. It includes ranking of key drives, pressure, state, impacts as well as ranking of different responses connected to key elements of state of land, water and soil.
The discussion highlighted the need for updated, accurate, standardized data and information to support sustainable management and ensure food security and resilient livelihoods. SOLAW allows dynamic assessment of challenges and solutions. The DPSIR framework allows us to understand the challenges unique for each region and prioritize solutions at global, regional, country levels. Partnerships are key to join forces and enhance synergies across sectors and stakeholders and for setting investment priorities. Effective and integrated land-use planning supported by suitability analysis is needed at various levels to implement innovative solutions with the participation of relevant stakeholders and to consider climate change and variability. Examples highlighted the need for capacity enhancement and scaling out of sustainable land and water management options to support sustainable food systems. The discussion highlighted various opportunities to reverse the current trends and enhance sustainable management; this requires the integration of technical solutions with enabling environment and governance to support sustainability and transformation of our food systems.
Discussions in the side event suggested that immediate and complementing next steps following SOLAW 21 launch could be to anchor it to a near-real-time system of SOLAW (tentatively called SOLAW-Live), of dynamic compilation and incorporation of updates to the state of the resources, policy responses, implications of technological change and innovation, and bring in the regional and local perspectives in coherence with the global.
Principles of Engagement
How did you organize the Dialogue so that the Principles were incorporated, reinforced and enhanced?
The Dialogue was organised as interactive session with few keynote presentations and panel session, allowing for brainstorming discussion on land, water, soil conditions and innovative solutions for food systems transformation. FAO with the support of Griffith University, Australia organised a UN Food Summit Science Days side event to discuss the upcoming FAO flagship report on the State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW21). Over 300 individuals and partners contributed to the preparation and realization of SOLAW21.
In this side event contributing to the UN-Food System Summit, the focus was on the DPSIR (driver, pressure, state, impact and responses) assessment framework that was used for SOLAW 2021, and on how SOLAW 2021 data and information can bring new knowledge and focus on priority response actions, and whether they need to be scaled up for further investments.
Partners from the Philippines including high level representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Academia, resource partners and agencies, and FAO Regional Officers contributed to the a lively discussion inputs on the relevance of SOLAW21 and its DPSIR Global and Regional framework in the reflection of regional and country challenges in land degradation and water scarcity, added value of SOLAW21 in policy making, the crucial role of data, information on land, water and soil to as well as partnership to support Sustainable Food Systems.
Almost 150 participants from 76 countries attended the event. The speakers and the panels were gender balanced.
The dialogue was promoted in social media and the recording was made online to promote public viewing and discussion.
How did your Dialogue reflect specific aspects of the principles?
The Dialogue reflects several aspects of the principles, including the act of urgency. The discussion highlights that the need for sustainable and integrated management of land, soil and water has become a crucial determining factor for global food security through the maintenance and restoration of the ecosystem today more than ever before and is a necessary response to climate change impacts.
The Dialogue presented how to prioritize responses to accelerate the implementation of SDGs that address a sustainable trade-off between agricultural production and other ecosystem services in a complex socio-ecological system. Given that less than a decade is left for the achievement of major SDG targets, the dialogue highlights the need for a conceptual framework that strongly connects problem assessment with response assessment in a living manner and helps to prioritize responses towards a sustainable food system.
The Dialogue addresses complexity to identify suitable policy strategies to respond to such dynamic interacting systems. Different assessments of natural resource and environmental conditions and responses have generated a wealth of information along with motivation and public support for policy formulation and transformative change. Moreover, they have had a wide scope, including assessments of the current and future conditions of the land, water, and soil (IPCC, IPBES, LADA, UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative, JMP, UNESCO-WWAP, and LASOD). However, efforts to understand and assess the land, water, and soil resources and their interacting complexities on food production have been fragmentary at best. These have been often focused on particular “sectors” or resources, while, the challenges are indeed cross-cutting and interrelated in the domain and are multi-sectoral. They include the domains of food, land management, water security, economic development, carbon mitigation, climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. This fragmentation has arisen in part from the lack of a coherent framing, both in terms of understanding and in terms of monitoring and interpreting the observable phenomena and trends in integrated land, water and soil conditions.
An appropriate system thinking framework as outlined in SOLAW is needed to assess information relevant to sustainable and resilient rural livelihoods and emphasize social and economic dimensions of sustainable development at a relatively smaller scale while assessing environmental impacts of use and management of critical resources like land, water, and soil at global, regional and local scales. Such a framework would also propose effective, efficient and integrated response options (appropriate at different scales).
The dialogue also included discussions on partnership building and underlined the need of local and global partners working together to optimise approaches and scale them for impact. Such a partnership approach offers the opportunity to build trust and intentionally create a vision of solutions and listen to the perspective of different stakeholders.
Do you have advice for other Dialogue Convenors about appreciating the Principles of Engagement?
The principles of Engagement have helped to structure and organise this Dialogue. It has helped to be more focussed on solutions to the challenges in our food system, discuss system thinking and approaches and aligned the discussions to the main goal of UNFSS.
Our advice to other dialogue convenors will be to structure and organise the Dialogue according to the principles of engagement, and it will help to derive clear message and outputs.
Please consider commenting on how the event was curated as well as the reaction of participants to this curation. It may also be appropriate to comment on the facilitation in the Discussion Groups: were points of divergence and convergence both able to surface?
Were all voices heard?
The selection of the presenters and panel members and the invites took into consideration representing wide variety of stakeholders and actors from around the world. Special attention was given to reaction of participants during the dialogue. Participants were asked to have their questions on the chat window. Due to limited time all questions could not be answered, however, chat correspondence was recorded and answers to the questions were provided to the participants later through emails.
- Dialogue Focus & Outcomes
- A) Major focus
Please detail the focus of your Dialogue. For example, it could be (i) a comprehensive exploration of food systems, (ii) an exploration of one of the five Action Tracks or levers of change of the Summit, (iii) examination of links between one or more of the Action
Tracks and levers of change, (iv) or another specific theme.
Relevant Action Tracks-
Action track #3 boost nature- positive Production
Action track #5 build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stress
Governance, Policy, Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate
The Dialogue’s key focus was to identify global, regional and local approaches and integrated and multi-sectoral solutions in food system thinking that address complex and standalone problems with a well-balanced and interlinked ecosystem-livelihoods focus. The Dialogue explored the linkages between land, soil and water, and how targeted solutions elucidate the trade-off dilemma that policymakers face in addressing increasing food demand and the needs of their various constituents of ecosystem goods services.
The focussed discussions were on the current and future functionalities of the FAO flagship report on the State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW21), for instance, awareness of the status of land and water resources, highlight the risks to them, list the identified hotspots and challenges, and inform on related opportunities through a holistic and integrated approach, which is crucial to achieve food security.
Another key focus was methodological framework used for SOLAW21. This involved a global and regional DPSIR to describe the interlinkages and interdependencies between environment, socio economics, and sustainable agricultural production system and capture the complicated relationship and the ability to help in the framing of policy response that can mitigate and adapt to direct and indirect impacts.
Discussion were also on the relevance of SOLAW and its DPSIR Regional framework to address regional and country challenges related to land degradation and water scarcity, added value of SOLAW21 in policy making, the crucial role of data, information on land, water and soil to as well as partnership to support Sustainable Food Systems.
The crucial questions that was raised and discussed during the panel discussions include
- What is the added value of the SOLAW? How can we use state-of-the-art data inflows, harmonize data across different disciplines and challenge areas; and develop reliable links to real-time data flows to produce authoritative, standardized, transparent and modernized products?
- What is the crucial role of data, information on land, water and soil to support Sustainable Food Systems
- How do we create and support foundations of partnership to create impacts at scale, for instance in SOLAW
- How can we prioritize actions at different levels in Africa to create/drive appropriate changes to current non-sustainable practices?
- How can we use updated information on the state of land, water and soil, for instance, suitability, slope, elevation and soils maps to improve agricultural production at the farm level?
- How can we sustainably manage ecosystem inclusive of land, water, and soil to ensure food security in Asia Pacific?
- B) Main Findings
Please share your appreciation of the main findings (or conclusions) that emerged from your Dialogue. For example, your key findings might detail a) the need to establish new connections between certain stakeholders, b) an agreement on actions that stakeholders will take together (expressed as intentions or commitments), c) a decision to explore specific aspects of food systems
in greater depth
- SOLAW allows dynamic assessment of challenges and solutions. SOLAW as a systematic, harmonized, authoritative and up-to-date reference informs policy making with the state of land and water resources, guides how they are being impacted by different driving forces such as population growth and mobility, economic development, social change, technology, and climate change. SOLAW provides a glimpse into the possible pathways into the future of food security and resilient livelihoods, resource availability and resource degradation, and tells us what response options we have to deal with these, what actions decision makers can take in managing land, water and soil; in making agriculture and food systems sustainable; and in being good stewards of our planet. It has something for everyone: governments, businesses, investors, civil society, communities, farmers, consumers, citizens. This the first event in a series of events to present key components of SOLAW until the launch in December 2021.
- The DPSIR (Driver -Pressure-State-Impact-Response) framework used in SOLAW21 allows us to understand the challenges unique for each region and to prioritize solutions at global, regional, country levels. The regional DPSIR framework is based on an expert opinion survey, and its design is based on an extensive literature survey on responses.
Main findings of the Regional DPSIR
- Loss of agricultural productivity and efficiency, land degradation and reduced water availability and water quality are the major impacts caused by the unsustainable agricultural practices, increasing pressure of over-extraction of groundwater and surface water.
- Population is the one key driver influencing the sustainable land, water and soil system in the Asia Pacific, Central Asia, Near East and North Africa, while urbanisation is the key driving factor in Africa.
- Other important drivers affecting all regions are the uneven rainfall, recurrent flood and drought events which further put the agricultural system under pressure.
- The major pressure factors are unsustainable agricultural practices and continuous cultivation in Africa and the Asia Pacific.
- Over extraction of water is one of the major pressure factors in the Near East and North Africa, while in Latin America and in the Caribbean Islands
- Conservation practices and agriculture, Community Based natural resource management, Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded lands, Sustainable forest management (both planted and natural) are crucial responses to land degradation and loss of vegetation cover.
- Integrated groundwater and surface water management, modernisation of irrigation systems are a few of the top-rated responses to address water scarcity and groundwater depletion.
- To address agricultural productivity loss, we need multiple solutions ranging from diversification of farm income, government assistance in agricultural inputs and services to increased efficiency of nutrient cycling and applied inputs to improve soil fertility and yield (e.g., precision agriculture, adequate and balanced use of fertilizers).
- Emphasis on integrated approaches, for instance, to improve productivity in rainfed systems for adaptation to climate change and in crop-livestock management as well as integrated groundwater and surface water management.
- A comprehensive framework of response assessment (CFRA) with counterfactual analysis was presented to compare technical, institutional and policy responses that will help to inform the process of identifying the priority and sequence of responses.
- Climate change is affecting the Philippines more severely than some other locations, as it lies in the path of typhoons developing in the Pacific Ocean. There is a need for improved rice varieties which are resilient to climate change related events such as flooding, drought and saline intrusion, are needed.
- Research and development are important to enhance knowledge of technical and social-economic constraints for extending sustainable land management.
- Capacity building of resource users, managers and other development actors is important for scaling up and scaling out of innovations.
- There are diverse and often competing users of land and water. To strengthen land and water resource management institutions, it is essential to have integration of efforts across different levels from national to the community.
- C) Discussion Topic Outcomes
Please share the outcomes that relate to each Discussion Topic. The outcomes detailed here will include participants’ views on actions that are urgently needed, who should take these actions, ways in which progress could be assessed, and challenges that might be anticipated as actions are implemented. You are welcome to feedback about a maximum of 10 Discussion Topics.
- SOLAW could provide substantial value by identifying characteristics of risk areas as well as possible responses, and also prioritising those responses. It could also provide critical information on interlinkages between activities and sectors to support sustainable management. One of the great merits and benefit of SOLAW21 is that it captures very well the specificity of regional characteristics in terms of key challenges in soils, land and water matters and identifies potential responses to drive appropriate positive changes in land, soil and water management. Information from SOLAW can help to increase resource use and productivity, align with the SDGs, and coordinate with government policy at multiple levels, including local, regional, and international scales. These policy options can then be combined with innovative funding strategies to overcome constraints.
- Immediate and complementing next step is to anchor SOLAW to a near-real-time system (tentatively called SOLAW-Live), of dynamic compilation and incorporation of updates to the state of the resources, policy responses, implications of technological change and innovation, and bring in the regional and local in coherence with the global. SOLAW-Live could provide added depth to the regional, sub-regional and country-level assessments by linking to SOLAW’s global suite of response options. In other words, it will have multi-layered functionality with the ability to overlay contributing factors to sustainability and resilience water, land and food factors. This would be extremely powerful to be able to identify the real hotspots where multiple factors co-exist to cause food insecurity, and at the same time as this will be live and updated frequently, one could monitor for improvements and impacts using these set of measurable factors – to demonstrate in a live capacity where real multi-factorial change for the better or worse is occurring.
- Efforts at all levels are needed to make assessments more meaningful and impactful and solution oriented and for that we need connections between scales-on farm problem assessment as well as solutions assessment on farm. We need a dynamic framework that connects the two and delivers usable products like investment mapping, prioritise investment making in near real time conditions with the support of Data foundation, co design, capacity development and contributing to SDG implementation.
- Advisory services need knowledge informed by science to pass on to farmers. If SOLAW could provide these data in an easy to understand format it would be ideal and could be significant for setting investment priorities.
- Data and information on land, water and soil that is not easily accessible, in a format that is easy to process/understand, delivered in a timely manner is crucial to support sustainable food systems. If SOLAW21 can continuously provide these very crucial data in the form of a database system, developing nations like the Philippines will greatly benefit in transforming our food system.
- Partnership is key to join forces and enhance synergies across sectors and stakeholders and for setting investment priorities.
- Effective and integrated land use planning supported by suitability analysis are needed at various levels to implement innovative solution with participation of relevant stakeholders. Examples highlighted the need for capacity enhancement and scaling out of sustainable land and water management options to support food systems. The discussion highlighted various opportunities to reverse the current trend and enhance sustainable management, this requires the integration of technical solutions with enabling environment and governance to support sustainability and transformation of our food systems.
- D) Areas of divergence
Please share the areas of divergence that emerged during your Dialogue. An area of divergence is an issue where participants held diverse views, different opinions, and/or opposing positions. For example, this might be related to a) strengths and vulnerabilities within food systems, b) areas that need further exploration, c) practices that are needed for food system sustainability, d)
stakeholders whose interests should be prioritized.
Note: Please do not attribute any views to named individuals
- On the use of Theory of Change instead of DPSIR Framework
DPSIR was originally developed by EEA more than 10 years ago, and a participant raised why not the Theory of Change could be used instead of DPSIR Framework. However, it was clarified by the speakers and panelists that the DPSIR (drivers, pressures, state, impact, and response model of intervention) is a causal framework for describing the interactions between society and the environment with an ecological and systems perspective. It has been used widely for environmental assessment. But the theory of change, a very useful tool, is used to evaluate implementation of program and project success and to determine its pathway and it does not necessarily lead to the analysis of the “state” of land and water. The theory of change is used widely in the development sector and describes if a particular project has worked or how it is expected to work. DPSIR has been used in SOLAW21 following successful application in similar assessments like LADA and GEO.
- On the land use rights in encouraging people for developing a feeling of ownership to their land and invest in it.
One of the participants commented that investments, nowadays, do not occur in the form of better farming but instead they either move to urban areas while leasing the land to others who will be just farm workers on the owner’s behalf and will not be in a position to care and invest in the land or what is worse open it to settlement developers through rental or sale of land esp. in touristic areas.
It was clarified by the panelist that it is true that securing land tenure and formal recognition of land rights increase incentives to invest and boost productivity in land, while protecting the environment. This happens to the majority of landholders, especially smallholder farmers who has agriculture as the main source of income and main source of living. It is true that few landholders may decide to lease their land and go in cities to look for other source of income.
To be able to stabilize farmers in rural areas, ensuring formal land rights is paramount, but there is also other important enabling environment that policy makers should put in place like, putting in place rural or agricultural banks that facilitate farmers to get affordable financial support, enact laws that facilitate farmers to get inputs at lower prices, facilitating them in alleviating taxation to agricultural products, tax free imports of agricultural inputs and material, granting subsidies for instance. An example from Rwanda was illustrated these trends. Farmers, youth in rural areas of Rwanda have incentives that allow them to invest in agriculture by facilitating access to productive services, such as credit, trainings and markets. National Institutions were created to support them.


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possible to justify democratic procedures by relying exclusively on a set of “purely procedural” values ( Dahl 1998 ; Estlund 1997 ; Fabienne 2007 ; Habermas 1994 ; Rawls 1993 ; Shapiro 2003 ; Urbinati and Saffon 2013 ). For the purposes of this
Grounds for a Purely Procedural Defense of Majority Rule
A Case Study of German History Textbooks
Lucas Frederik Garske
has turned into the “subject of ‘historical thinking.’” 6 Within this new subject of historical thinking, scholars and teachers alike have differentiated between “substantive” and “procedural” concepts, with the former referring to the “content of
Ehsan Nouzari, Thomas Hartmann, and Tejo Spit
The underground provides many spatial planning opportunities as it offers space for structures, but also functions as a resource for energy. To guide developments and use the capabilities the underground provides, the Dutch national government started a policy process for the Structuurvisie Ondergrond (a master plan). Stakeholders are involved in the policy process because of the many interests linked to underground functions. However, past policy processes related to the underground dealt with lack of stakeholder satisfaction. This article explores a quantitative approach by focusing on (a) statistical testing of four criteria of interactive governance and (b) using said criteria to evaluate the satisfaction of stakeholders in a policy process. This article highlights the usefulness of a more quantitative approach and provides new insights into the relation between interactive governance and the procedural satisfaction of stakeholders. It also provides insights that help to improve interactive governance in terms of process management to achieve greater procedural satisfaction.
Democracy and Democide in the Weimar Republic and Beyond
That all democracies have, by their very nature, the potential to destroy themselves is a fact too rarely documented by the acolytes of democracy. Indeed, in the brief decades since Joseph Goebbels, then as Reich Minister of Propaganda, reminded the world that it 'will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed', democrats have quickly forgotten just how precarious a thing democracy can be. The objective of this article is to entertain the underexplored notion that democratic failure is a possibility that remains very much entrenched within the idea and ideal of democracy itself. Using the breakdown of democracy during the Weimar Republic as a brief illustrative example, the article first describes the process through which a democracy can self-destruct before offering a theoretical explanation of why this is so - one which draws its inspiration from the dual notions of autonomy and tragedy. By doing this, it will hope to have shown just how a democracy can, in the course of being democratic no less, sow the seeds of its own destruction.
Magnus Boström, Åsa Casula Vifell, Mikael Klintman, Linda Soneryd, Kristina Tamm Hallström, and Renita Thedvall
The synergies and trade-offs between the various dimensions of sustainable development are attracting a rising scholarly attention. Departing from the scholarly debate, this article focuses on internal relationships within social sustainability. Our key claim is that it is difficult to strengthen substantive social sustainability goals unless there are key elements of social sustainability contained in the very procedures intended to work toward sustainability. Our analysis, informed by an organizing perspective, is based on a set of case studies on multi-stakeholder transnational sustainability projects (sustainability standards). This article explores six challenges related to the achievement of such procedures that can facilitate substantive social sustainability. Three of these concern the formulation of standards and policies, and three the implementation of standards and policies. To achieve substantive social sustainability procedures must be set in motion with abilities to take hold of people's concerns, frames, resources, as well as existing relevant institutions and infrastructures.
Dannica Fleuß and Gary S. Schaal
The article analyzes the (often implicit) understanding of democratic theory that is presupposed by scholars who engage in this practice and provides an answer to the question: “What are we doing when we are doing democratic theory?” We flesh out the core features of this scholarly activity by relating it to and differentiating it from assessments made from the perspective of political philosophy and political science. We argue that democratic theory aims at proposing institutional devices that are (a) problem-solving approaches and (b) embodiments of normative principles. This two-faced structure requires democratic theorists to engage in feedback loops with political philosophy on the one hand and empirical political science on the other. This implies that democratic theorists must adopt a dynamic approach: democratic theories must “fit” societal circumstances. In consequence, they must be adapted in case of fundamental societal transformations. We exemplify this dynamic character by referring to digitalization-induced changes in democratic societies and their implications for democratic theorists’ practice.
the necessary requirement that responsibility ought to be recognised and, as a result of this recognition, that some reparations be made. This payment of reparations can be related to retributivism, as well as to distributive and procedural justice
Procedure and Substance in Direct Democracy
introduced in the initial wave of deliberative democracy theory: as aggregative institutions, these mechanisms would all implement a purely procedural view of democracy incompatible with the deliberative democratic ideal. On the question of procedure and
Jacob Grimm on Blood Money and Concrete Quantification
received ample recognition ( Renner 2012 ; Schmidt-Wiegand 1999 ; Wyss 1979 ), their metrological core remains under-studied. Grimm approaches the monetary sphere in a remarkably procedural way. In the rural settings he investigates, measures are
Helen A. Robbins and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma
(NAGPRA) in 1990. 5 The purpose of the NAGPRA legislation was both ideological and procedural. As a form of reconciliation, it was meant to redress historic wrongs by promoting cultural and religious renewal in Native American and Native Hawaiian

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All he wanted to do was give feedback that the floor of his maintenance storeroom was wet.
But as technician Kathaiyan Sakthivel approached the building's cleaning supervisor, he found himself on the receiving end of a horrific beating.
The attack, which happened in December last year, was captured on closed circuit television (CCTV).
The footage shows him being punched in the face and chest.
As he shielded his face and tried to flee, his attacker picked up a dustpan and hit him repeatedly until it broke.
The assault ended only after Mr Kathaiyan, a 42-year-old Indian national, dropped to his knees, sobbed and begged for his life.
It left Mr Kathaiyan, a work permit holder who works for electrical servicing company A@risco Services, with a bleeding lip and a swollen face.
And he was not the only A@risco Services worker who was assaulted on the job last year.
His colleague, Mr Balu Petter Sam, was punched and kicked by a security guard in another building in May last year.
The security guard and cleaning supervisor were employed by companies contracted by Ascendas Services (Singapore), a property management company that also contracted A@risco to maintain the electrical works of its buildings.
Ascendas Services is a subsidiary company of Ascendas, a business space solutions provider that operates in countries such as Singapore, China and India.
Ascendas Services CEO Jeffrey Chua told The New Paper that disciplinary action had been taken by the respective companies against the errant employees.
A State Courts spokesman said Mr Balu Petter's assailant was jailed for six months on Dec 1 last year.
The police said a report was made about the attack on Mr Kathaiyan.
Last week, A@risco managing director Adiel Tan recounted the incidents to TNP.
"We felt it was time for us to act and share this with the media because we find it very hard to provide our services to Ascendas when our workers' safety has been threatened time and again," she said.
Ms Tan also provided CCTV footage of both incidents.
Mr Kathaiyan, who has been working in Singapore for 18 years, also recounted what happened to him at the Aztech Building at 31 Ubi Road, where he was stationed, on Dec 31.
He said: "I saw that the floor of my maintenance storeroom was wet after the cleaners washed the stairs and floor.
"I just wanted to tell the cleaning supervisor about it because I had wiring and other equipment inside.
"I even suggested putting up signs."
Mr Kathaiyan said he did not speak in a provocative manner but the next thing he knew, he was punched in the face and chest.
The CCTV footage shows the attacker beating Mr Kathaiyan with a dustpan until it broke.
"I didn't know how to react. All I could think of was to protect myself and not to fight back," said Mr Kathaiyan, who feared for his life while he was being hit with the dustpan.
"I couldn't stop myself from crying. I knelt down, kept saying 'sorry' and begged him to stop hitting me."
When his assailant eventually stopped hitting him, Mr Kathaiyan said he fled the building and informed his employers.
He later went to Changi General Hospital to treat his bleeding mouth and swollen face, as well as pain on his chest and back.
He was given four days of medical leave.
"I told my wife who is back home in Tamil Nadu and she cried upon hearing what had happened. She told me to take care of myself," he said.
Mr Kathaiyan, who earns about $1,200 a month, said he is now afraid to go back to the Aztech Building to work and is doing basic office work in A@risco's office at Ang Mo Kio.
His colleagues described him as a gentle man and a practising vegetarian who "would not even hurt a fly".
"I am not angry. I want to go back to work to support my wife and two children but I am afraid to do so," he said.
Ms Tan said Ascendas has since terminated the services of A@risco.
Ascendas confirmed that its contract with A@risco had been terminated but said it "is not in any way connected with the case".

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text: Heart failure (HF) is associated with high rates of depression. In turn, depression is associated with reduced heart rate variability (HRV), a marker of parasympathetic dysfunction and poorer cardiac outcomes. Cognitive impairment—especially executive dysfunction—is also highly prevalent in HF, but it is unknown whether executive function (EF) impacts the depression-HRV relationship. The primary objective of this paper is to examine whether EF moderates the relationship between depression and HRV in HF. Participants were 109 HF patients. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Beck Depression Inventory-II. EF was assessed using a composite of age-adjusted T scores on the Frontal Assessment Battery, Trail Making Test B, and Stroop Color Word subtest. Parasympathetic function was assessed using resting high frequency HRV (HF-HRV). Multiple hierarchical regression was used to conduct BDI × EF moderation analyses. BDI scores were associated with reduced resting HF-HRV (p < .05). No main effects were detected between EF and resting HF-HRV (p > .05). However, EF moderated the relationship between BDI scores and resting HF-HRV (β = 0.59, p < .01). Simple slope analyses revealed that among participants with poorer EF, higher BDI scores were associated with lower resting HF-HRV (p < .001). Structural brain changes common in HF may contribute to lower EF, increased depression, and poorer autonomic functioning. Alternatively, the results may indicate that individuals with intact EF engage in self-care strategies that negate the detrimental impact of depression on autonomic function. Additional work is needed to clarify these possibilities and the potential benefits of treating depression in HF patients with different cognitive abilities.


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A team of researchers has tested how each gene within the genome of rice—one of the world’s most important staple crops—senses and responds to combinations of water and nutrients.
A team of researchers has tested how each gene within the genome of rice—one of the world’s most important staple crops—senses and responds to combinations of water and nutrients. Its findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, potentially point to ways to engineer crops in soils around the world that are currently too dry or lack the nutrients needed to sustain crop growth.
“Changes in nutrient dose have dramatic effects on gene expression and plant growth,” explains Joseph Swift, a doctoral candidate in New York University’s Department of Biology and the study’s lead author. “One outstanding question is whether organisms respond to changes in absolute nutrient amount versus its concentration in water. This question is particularly relevant to plants, as soil drying can alter nutrient concentration without changing its absolute amount.”
Since the nutrients that plants absorb from the soil are always dissolved in water, previous studies could not determine whether organisms sense the total amount of nutrient available or, rather, its relative amount dissolved in water.
In the Nature Communications study, the scientists, working in NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, addressed this matter by exposing rice seedlings to an experimental matrix varying nitrogen and water conditions, which could parse out the different effects water and nitrogen—a key plant nutrient—have on rice growth. Through computational analysis of the responses of the more than 50,000 genes found in the rice genome, the team found that while some plant genes were controlled in response to either the amounts of nitrogen or water individually, others were specifically responsive to their combination.
The researchers then wanted to investigate if these findings, obtained in lab-grown rice seedlings, affect rice production in a real agricultural setting. To do so, the team went to the Philippines and collaborated with researchers at the International Rice Research Institute to conduct rice field trials over two growing seasons. In the field, they found that the genes responding to both nitrogen and water simultaneously were associated with the amount of grain produced by rice crop.
“These genes may assist in developing crops that require not only fewer nutrients to grow, but less water, too,” observes Gloria Coruzzi, a professor in NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and the paper’s senior author. “This could potentially lead to allowing many marginal soils around the world—those that are too dry or nutrient poor for crop production—to be more agriculturally viable. Moreover, it is especially crucial to develop crops that produce grain yield in the face of global warming and climate change.”
The research was supported, in part, by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF-DBI-0445666, NSF-IOS-1840761) as well as by the Zegar Family Foundation and the Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program.


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With the arrival of a new president, federal policy takes center stage. However, this year also is a major year for state policy; only in odd years does every state legislature in the country convene. This year, we are working on state legislation with partners in Arizona, California, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
In working with state legislatures, we can design laws that meet the particular needs and context of an individual state. The pace is fast, and solutions are pragmatic. For example, back in 1869, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote. The state passed “Chapter 31” in its very first legislative session, largely as part of a campaign to attract more women settlers to the territory. It took the federal government 50 more years to pass the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote across the nation.
Today, Wyoming is taking the lead again. We are joining forces with a coalition of energetic, strategic community agencies, schools and young people to pass a state law to help unaccompanied youth. The inability of unaccompanied youth under 18 years old to manage their own affairs can make it impossible for them to receive services that keep them safe and help them along the road to independence. In Wyoming, our team drafted a bill to allow unaccompanied homeless minors to obtain their own birth certificates, consent for housing and services, get a job, buy a car, and sign up for college. We crafted language that makes sense in the context of Wyoming’s state laws and the reality of youth homelessness in that state. Republican and Democratic legislators co-sponsored the bill, and earlier this week, a legislative committee heard testimony from community leaders, the state McKinney-Vento Coordinator, a school district McKinney-Vento liaison, and a young woman who has experienced homelessness. The bill passed unanimously out of this first committee and is on its way to its next vote.
You can track this Wyoming bill at https://legiscan.com/WY/bill/HB0159/2017. Many other states have taken steps to empower unaccompanied youth, and there are many tools available to help advocates, including model state laws from the American Bar Association; a how-to manual on state legislative advocacy for unaccompanied youth; a state-by-state review of laws affecting unaccompanied youth; and a field guide to state requirements for obtaining IDs and birth certificates. We will continue working with others to craft laws that meet the real needs of young people and help ensure that children, youth and families can access state and local services.
Does your state have a great law you would like to share? Would a little legal and policy expertise help you move legislation in your state? Contact Patricia Julianelle at email@example.com. We’ll be glad to share your models and help you make change in your state.

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What's the deal with the binary RPM packages since 1.6.0 - no more sources? No more plain and simple tarballs? Just curious, because all the other components are still available that way ... RPMs? Binary? On my Slackware system? No way! 8-)
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Gorgeous card!!! I ♥love♥ that BasicGrey paper (I've been hoarding mine!!).Fabulous take on Kazan's 2s4y sketch this week!
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Still a beginner when it comes to photographing in the dark. These four was taken today (yesterday) with a tripod and insanely long shutter times. It was snowing and blowing so I was happy to get some shots without the lens distorted by the snow. Place is – as often – that nearby church. A country side oasis very close to the city.
Beautiful photos! I have yet to start experimenting with long exposure times, but your photos are very inspiring!
Your photographs are always so soothing & relaxing to look at.
Thank you, Lady T! :)
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And the median amount of retirement savings for working-age families in the U.S., those between 32 and 61 years old, is just $5,000. That's a far cry from the recommended $1 million needed to sustain yourself in retirement.
Though it will be more difficult for older Americans to catch up, young people still have time on their side. The best thing you can do — to work toward milestones like buying a home and also ensure you have a sufficiently funded retirement — is to start saving early and take advantage of compound interest, in which any interest earned accrues interest on itself.
How much should you have saved by the time you hit 30? Here's what the experts say.


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Dan Caine is ambient/post rock musician from Merseyside, England. A pioneer in the movement, Caine uses powerful, layered guitar melodies to create an atmosphere of an intense range of thought and emotion as he explores the depths of the human psyche. His music is a free-flow of subconscious urge and instinct; a deep dive into the unhindered world of the Id. Much like a fine wine, these meditative works expose more and more of their depth with each listen, and like a mood ring, they morph and change to reflect the state of the listener perceiving them. Caine’s music is also richly melodic and is layered with vibrant textures, created primarily from his collection of guitars, producing brooding atmospheres and serene sonic landscapes.
The Jackson Pollock of ambient post-rock, Caine is a master of breaking music down to its most basic elements, and arranging them in a work of abstract purity. This enables the listener to explore their own connections to the sound and engage with the piece less as a listener, and more as an observer of aural art. His music is broad and guiding, yet flexible and undemanding, allowing the observer a space with which to process their own humanity within it.
The sixth solo album from the prolific ambient/post rock guitarist, Dan Caine, Transitions is an exploration of progressive melodies and beautiful chords layered over down tempo, yet energizing beats. The sense of mounting joy and positivity in this introspective piece is subtle, but impossible to ignore. The album is a journey through one man’s emotional evolution, from one phase of life to another, and each of the seven tracks is a uniquely expressed facet of that process.


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Budgerigars, commonly known as “budgies,” are small parrot species native to Australia. These colorful birds are popular as pets due to their charming personalities and ability to mimic human speech. In this article, we will explore the physical characteristics, behavior, natural habitat, diet, breeding, and health of budgerigars. Additionally, we will provide essential information on these birds’ care, training, and socialization.
|Budgerigar or budgie
|Melopsittacus undulatus (wild), Melopsittacus undulatus domestica (domesticated)
|Seed-based diet supplemented with fruits and vegetables
|Average Life Span
|5-10 years (wild), up to 15 years (domesticated)
|18 cm in length
Budgerigars are small birds with an average length of 18 cm (7 in) and a weight of 30-40 grams. The males typically have a blue cere (the fleshy area above the beak), while the females have a brown or beige cere. Budgies have a variety of colors, including yellow, green, blue, and white. Their feathers have a unique pattern that distinguishes them from other birds. Budgerigars have long, pointed tail that helps them balance while flying.
Behavior and Personality
Budgerigars are social birds that love to interact with their owners. They are intelligent, curious, and can quickly learn tricks, including mimicking human speech. Budgies are active birds and love to play and explore their environment. They are also vocal birds and will chirp, whistle, and sing to communicate with their owners and other birds. Budgies are relatively easy to care for and make excellent pets for beginners and experienced bird owners.
Natural Habitat and Distribution
Budgerigars are native to Australia and inhabit many habitats, from arid grasslands to forests. They are most commonly found in the dry, inland regions of the continent. Budgies are social birds that live in large flocks and have a natural affinity for water. Wild budgies feed on seeds, grasses, and fruits.
Captivity and Care
Budgies are popular pets worldwide and are relatively easy to care for. They require a spacious cage with enough room to fly and play. The cage should be placed in a well-lit area away from drafts and direct sunlight. Budgies also require a variety of toys and perches to keep them entertained and mentally stimulated. Their diet should include a high-quality seed mix, fresh fruits, and vegetables. Budgies need fresh water daily and should have their cage cleaned regularly.
Diet and Nutrition
Budgies are herbivores and require a diet rich in seeds, fruits, and vegetables. A high-quality seed mix should be the primary component of their diet. Fresh fruits and vegetables, including apples, carrots, spinach, and broccoli, should also be provided regularly. Budgies require fresh water daily, and their water should be changed frequently.
Budgerigars are relatively easy to breed and can breed year-round in captivity. Breeding pairs should be housed in a large cage with a nesting box. The female budgie will lay 4-6 eggs, hatching in about 18 days. The chicks will leave the nest after about four weeks and should be fed a protein-rich diet, including egg food and sprouted seeds.
Health & Common Conditions
Budgerigars are generally healthy birds but can be prone to various health problems, including respiratory infections, mites, and feather plucking. Common signs of illness in budgies include lethargy, loss of appetite, and changes in behavior. Regular check-ups with an avian veterinarian are essential to ensure the bird’s overall health and well-being.
Like many other species of birds, Budgerigars can have mutations that affect their physical appearance. These mutations are genetic variations that can result in a wide range of colors and patterns in their feathers.
One of the most well-known mutations in budgerigars is the lutino mutation. Lutino budgerigars have yellow feathers instead of the usual green, with red eyes. Other common mutations include the albino mutation, which results in all-white feathers, and the blue mutation, which gives the bird a blue hue instead of green.
While mutations can make budgerigars more visually appealing, it’s important to note that they can also have health implications. Some mutations, such as the pied mutation, can cause skeletal abnormalities and other health issues. Therefore, it’s crucial to ensure that any budgerigars you purchase have been bred responsibly and do not have any underlying health problems.
Training and Socialization
Budgerigars are intelligent birds and can be trained to do various tricks and behaviors. However, starting training and socializing them from a young age is essential. This will help them bond with their owner and be more receptive to training.
One popular training technique for budgerigars is target training. This involves teaching the bird to touch a target (such as a stick or your finger) with its beak. Once the bird has mastered this, you can use the mark to teach them other behaviors, such as turning in a circle or stepping up onto your hand.
Socialization is also essential for budgerigars. They are social birds and thrive when they have a companion or are part of a flock. If you have only one budgerigar, spending time with them and providing plenty of toys and activities to keep them entertained is essential. If you plan on getting a second bird, it’s crucial to introduce them slowly and monitor their interactions to ensure they get along.
Budgerigars are fascinating birds with a rich history and a wide range of physical characteristics, personalities, and behaviors. They make excellent pets for those willing to invest time and effort into their care and training.
From their physical appearance to their natural habitat and diet, there is much to learn about these beloved birds. Understanding their needs and providing them with a safe and stimulating environment can create a happy and healthy life for your budgerigar companion.
FAQs about Budgerigars
- What is the lifespan of a budgerigar?
Budgerigars typically live between 5-10 years in the wild and 7-15 years in captivity.
- What is the best diet for budgerigars?
A balanced diet for budgerigars should include a high-quality seed mix, fresh fruits and vegetables, and occasional treats such as millet or cuttlebone.
- Can budgerigars talk?
Yes, budgerigars can mimic words and phrases, although not all budgerigars will develop this skill.
- How often should I clean my budgerigar’s cage?
Budgerigar cages should be cleaned thoroughly at least once weekly, with daily spot cleaning as needed.
- How can I tell if my budgerigar is sick?
Signs of illness in budgerigars include lethargy, loss of appetite, fluffed-up feathers, and difficulty breathing. If you suspect your bird is sick, it’s essential to seek veterinary care immediately.

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