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The obvious way of reporting artistic research is by sharing the process and/or sharing the resulting artworks. Often you must, and sometimes you also want to, write about the research and the works as well. Many artists shun away from this “about” and try to find ways of writing next to or alongside the work, describing the context or other people’s work or ideas related to the topic of the research. This is understandable and can be useful; writing about one’s artworks can be tricky. I have never felt the urge to discuss the final artworks of a project in terms of meaning or interpretation, although I find it important to stick as closely to the work as possible while writing. So how do I do that? By speaking of the choices, decisions, strategies, and problems in making the work, for example. The choice of approach or style nevertheless remains a problem, for example, should I use the first-person mode in writing or not? In the beginning of the preface of a recently published book Performing and Thinking with Trees1 I felt the need to explain myself:
As is common in the context of artistic research, the project and the works described herein were created by the author. A first-person perspective is an important feature of much artistic research, which is here further accentuated by the fact that the artist-researcher also functions as the performer. Writing in first person singular “I”, rather than the academic “we” or a neutralized passive voice, might give the impression of wanting to emphasize a subjective interpretation or an explicitly personal account, or to engage in artistic self-absorption, even when that is not the case. In the following, I will nevertheless use that style of writing, honoring the feminist legacy of criticizing the illusion of the objective or detached and supposedly universal perspective and endorse the partial perspective of being entangled, embedded and enmeshed in and with a site and situation. (Arlander 2022, 9)
And I also admitted the choice of a report-like style:
The text is structured in three parts, following a somewhat unusual order. The introduction describes the plans and delineates the context. The second part, Performing with Trees, describes the practices, various methods and strategies employed. The third part, Thinking with Trees, discusses some theoretical approaches. This order emphasizes the practice-based nature of these reflections. Despite the report-like style – “I did this and then I did this…” – I hope these accounts will serve as examples of possible strategies and stimulate the reader to undertake further experiments. (Arlander 2022, 10-11)
If you begin with the practice, you are inevitably specific; the practice is tied to a situation, site or circumstance and probably to your personal experience as well. It is not a “practice in general”. Can the account of such a specific practice speak to or inspire somebody else, with a different practice, without first being abstracted and generalized; made quasi-universal in some manner? I hope and believe it can; in my own experience I can recognize specific strategies or problems and relate them to my own work, even if they stem from a completely different context or practice. If I write about the problems I have encountered in some particular cases, I assume my account to exemplify something that can be ‘converted’ by others to their own experiences, horizontally, such as the choice of using the first-person mode in writing.
Besides the choice of style and structure, another problem became evident with this book, related to publishing rather than writing, namely the problem of format. Should I aim for a printed book or an online publication or try to combine both, which poses new problems? In the two previous books related to the same projects the problems were less obvious, because they were either only printed or mainly online.
The picture book Att Uppträda med Träd / Performing with Trees2 published by SKH (Stockholm University of the Arts) in 2019 is available as a printed copy only and consists mainly of images, video stills or freeze frames from video works, one still of every single image, with only very brief textual descriptions of where and when the work was made. I called the book a picture book rather than a photo book, because of the image quality, although it is not that bad, while the layout focused on making the best of the video stills. And with hindsight I really regret not making a digital version of the book available online.
As a contrast, the online publication Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees in Johannesburg with Environs3 published by ARA (Arts Research Africa) at the University of Witwatersrand is available also as a print-on-demand version, an option that is secondary, because the publication is made with the online reader in mind. Some privately-made, printed copies revealed the problems with the print-on-demand layout, while the online version utilizes the possibilities available. For example, the descriptions, images and scripts of the works made during my residency in Johannesburg are combined with links to the actual video works on the RC (Research Catalogue).
The current book Performing and Thinking with Trees published by the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki was originally planned as a printed publication with text only. In response to peer review suggestions, images were added for each chapter or subchapter as supporting illustrations or vignettes of sorts. The choice of paper was originally made for a pleasurable reading experience and was not changed, with the knowledge that the image quality would suffer, although not fully realizing how much. With hindsight the pictures might have been better in black and white, at least for the print version. As I knew that a pdf version would be openly available online, and presumed more readers would encounter the book in that format, plenty of links to the actual works on the RC were added in footnotes. In the printed version they are nearly meaningless, while in the online pdf they provide the option to see for oneself. Providing a pdf version of a printed book online is of course not the same as a web publication, although better than nothing. In this case the combination of a printed and an online publication was a minefield of compromises, and it probably often is, unless you can afford double, or triple the work. The benefits of online publication are nevertheless obvious: accessibility, linking facilities, image quality and more.
One could question the need for publishing books, since journal articles or contributions to edited anthologies are often more carefully peer reviewed and commented on by editors. And there are other ways of sharing your writing or making it public, such as blog posts or even transcribed vocal journaling shared as ‘ponderings’, which I have recently experimented with. Many artist researchers (like me) prefer to share their work and their writing online, on the go, as it were, immediately and alongside the work. While careful, though often slow, peer review is the benefit of publishing journal articles, private publishing modes like blog posts or shared RC expositions allow for more flexibility and the option to keep editing the text following new findings. The need of a fixed publication is often considered an academic institutional demand, not necessarily conducive to or supportive of an artistic research process. There is something special and rewarding, however, in gathering work into a book, a completed and fixed object, for good or bad, thereby considering the project closed. And many old-school artist researchers (like me) love to have the actual printed book in their hands, not instead of, but in addition to, an online publication. Today such love is perhaps not enough of an argument for the use of paper, though, especially if you try to do some thinking with trees…
Annette Arlander, DA, is an artist, researcher and a pedagogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. Former professor at University of the Arts Helsinki and Stockholm University of the Arts. At present she is visiting researcher at Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki and a member of the editorial board of JAR. Her research interests include artistic research, performance-as-research and the environment, especially trees. Her artwork moves between the traditions of performance art, video art and environmental art. See https://annettearlander.com
- 1Performing and Thinking with Trees, Art theoretical writings from the Academy of Fine Art 15, University of the Arts Helsinki. Downloadable online here: https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-353-431-5
- 2Att Uppträda med Träd – Performing with Trees. X-position n 6. Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola 2019. An unofficial pdf file of the final layout is added on the project page here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/316550/316551/26347/95
- 3Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees in Johannesburg and Environs Arts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2020. Downloadable on Wits’ repository, here: https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/30395 And also on the project page, here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/761326/761327/4/1708


Isadora Duncan's Dramatic Dance
Classes with Therese Anne Joseph
based on the Legacy of Isadora Duncan
|This is a dance of Beauty and Delight with a Spiritual component that
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|This Basic Language of Dance appeals to children and teens forming
|their individuality, young adults with interests in performing, and
women who are rediscovering their youthful exuberance.
|"Freedom, Flow, and Spontaneity are the keys to the quality of
|movement in the Duncan Dance. To achieve these qualities requires
self-discipline as well as a heightened sense of self-awareness." Duncan
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|Strength and Resiliancy are achieved through routines at the barre.
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Routing Protocol Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks The performance of Ad hoc protocols largely depends on the efficiency of the routingprotocol used. In wireless ad hoc networks, stations are free to move around. Togetherwith fact that the transmission range of mobile terminals is fixed results in adynamically changing network topology. As stations move around some network linksare destroyed while the possibility of new links being established arises. It is obviousthat such an environment cannot be served efficiently by routing protocols developedfor wired networks. This is due to the fact that in such networks the assumption ofstatic topology is made. Thus new routing protocols are needed for the dynamicallychanging ad hoc wireless environment. In these protocols, it is assured that all stations of the network have identicalcapabilities and employ the capability to perform routing related tasks such as routediscovery /establishment to other nodes in the network and route maintenance. Therouting protocols presented fall into two families table driven and on demand. Table driven routing protocols aim to maintain consistent up to date routinginformation from each node to all other nodes of the network, thus each network nodemaintains one or more routing table which is used to store the route from this node toall other network nodes. This knowledge regarding every possible route needs to bepresent in every node irrespective of the fact that some of these routes may not beused by network connections. When topological changes occur, the relatinginformation nodes up to date routing information. On demand routing protocols follow a different approach: route is established onlywhen required for a network connection. Thus when a source node A needs to connectto a destination node B, then A invokes a routing discovery protocol to find a routeconnecting it to B. Upon route establishment nodes A and B as well as intermediatenodes store the information regarding the route from A to B in their routing tables.The route is maintained until the destination is unreachable or the route is no longerneeded. Table-driven routing protocols obviously have the advantage or end to end delay since upon generation of a network connection request the route is alreadyestablished. However, their disadvantage is the fact that routing information isdisseminated to all network nodes leading to increased signaling however end to endconnection delay is increased, since upon generation of a connection request betweentwo nodes, the connection needs to wait some time for the link between the nodes tobe established. Table-driven Routing Protocols Destination Sequenced Distance-Vector (DSDV) Routing Protocol The DSDV routing protocol is an extension of the classical Bellman Ford routingalgorithm. The extensions incorporated in DSDV target freedom from loops in routing
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The CW Sets October Premiere Dates, Focuses on 'Flash'
The CW will roll out its fall schedule in October this year, again on the heels of another telecast for the iHeartRadio Festival.
Freshman drama The Flash also gets a great deal of fanfare, with repeats of last season's backdoor pilot airing during premiere week and encores for the comic book series' first two episodes getting special airings after parent series Arrow.
Following The Sept. 29 and 30 airings of iHeartRadio, network flagship The Vampire Diaries is the first to hit the schedule (with Reign) on Oct. 2. The Originals, The Flash, Supernatural and Arrow all debut the next week — with Jane the Virgin, America's Next Top Model and The 100 getting tiered arrivals over the following two weeks.
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PRODUCT ASSORTMENT, PRICING AND COLLECTION CALENDARS
Priced at 4,000 BDT (US $ 50) for their daily and officewear selections to 12,000 BDT (US $ 140) for their eveningwear pieces, August aims to cater to women of all ages.
“I categorise my pieces mainly based on the garment quality, rarity of the item and how many hours of work go into producing it,” Ambreen explained, adding, “There are highly professional individuals who have unique needs and choices, and every time I design an item, I ask myself: Who am I designing this piece for and for what occasion? I believe every piece of well-designed clothing you wear enhances your confidence to some extent.”
“Each of August’s pieces are different in style and colour from each other, which creates a unique market for the brand.”
As the fashion industry continues to bombard us with new styles every season, Ambreen tries to break the monotony by striving to create a new line of designs for each season that reflects the natural colours and aesthetic of that particular season. Sales are maximum during the period of the two Eids, Pujas, Bangla New Year, Victory Day (observed on 16th December) and Ambreen’s in-house team of tailors and master craftsmen put in extra hours of work to meet up with the market demands.
At present, August comes through two collections per year, namely, the Eid collection and the Winter collection. Ambreen also participates in various exhibitions twice each year and at each exhibition, she creates over 80 to 100 garments under August.
What stands out in these collections is that each piece is different in style and colour, which creates a unique market for August. This in turn aids August to stand in the market as it places the label ahead of the game when it comes to other existing brands in the market.
MANUFACTURING AND SOURCING
One of the pre-dominant materials that go into creating August’s pieces are Bangladesh’s traditional fabric of muslin, which the brand outsources from a manufacturer based 270 kms north of the capital in Rajshahi.
Ambreen incorporates some of the finest materials within her collections, such as zardozi and dobka, as embellishments. She also uses fabrics such as pure cotton, handmade silk and varieties of georgette. The finished item could be anything from officewear, partywear to informalwear– you pick your style and the label allows you the flexibility to customise your piece accordingly, without delay.
“Dhaka is a megacity that is lacking in infrastructure, so the hubs that we are talking about are scattered around the city in such a way that not every hub is accessible easily,” Ambreen highlighted, adding, “I work mainly from the Dhanmondi area, where we also stock our inventory. One of the nearest hubs for sourcing raw materials for the label is Islampur– a bustling core of the old Dhaka city where hundreds of fabric traders are hustled into a very small area.”
“To build up this capacity of instant expertise I had to work very hard,” Ambreen said, adding, “Headhunting skilled people is a tough challenge in the Bangladeshi society. I had to spend a lot of time in order to find out responsibly skilled people.”
These skilled kaarigars hail from humble backgrounds. Ambreen’s company provides them with medical and other related support in addition to their wages. “What I get from them in return is immeasurable sincerity. Our team is made up of 10 people in my workforce, working for the company. Among the 10 people, we have two female workers, who are in-charge of embroidery and needle work; four men who are engaged in tracing, cutting and sewing; and three young riders who do our deliveries within the city. For the distant places in the country, we use national courier services,” Ambreen explained.
Ambreen’s small but efficient factory is situated on the bank of the river Buriganga, a 10-minute drive from her house situated in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Currently, all of August’s production is based entirely in-house and the label does not have any retail outlets other than its own online portal and its partner online portals that it collaborates with.
GOING THE DIGITAL WAY
Commenting on her designing and post-production process, Ambreen told Apparel Resources, “I start doing indoor/outdoor photoshoots before publishing the collections on the internet as our main goal is to reach out to our customers and audience on Instagram and Facebook. I mainly started using digital platforms in order to enhance my business and expand the horizon of my designs to mass public.”
Social media is the easiest way to breakthrough into the fashion market as it’s a highly competitive and saturated field. One sees women entrepreneurs who are benefiting from e-commerce that allows businesses such as August’s to have flexibility to reach out to the public.
“During my experience in this sector, I have met younger school-going students selling cakes, university kids selling gadgets, women selling handicrafts online and I would say that the online space is an exceptionally good arena to promote and make a name for yourself. It’s inspiring how women are rising in their careers in today’s day and age,” Ambreen stated.
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE LABEL
COVID-19 attacked humanity so suddenly that no one was prepared for this deadly virus and the ramifications it brought with it. The lockdown in Dhaka was intense.
Corroborating the same, Ambreen said: “My workers fled the city in the dark of the night, but as soon as they arrived at their villages, they phoned me back to say how villages were much safer than the cities. One of them was even ready to travel to Dhaka to carry all the raw materials back to the village and complete the orders that had piled up during the Eid. Locked down at home, I remember I was in constant touch with my workers working from the comfort of their villages. We never missed a single order.”
All finished goods were brought back for delivery in the city prior to the biggest Islamic holiday. The delivery men also did a marvellous job during the height of the pandemic.
Currently, August merchandise is available for purchase via the label’s social media handles on Instagram and Facebook, and via Grand Boulevard’s e-commerce retail platform.
Owing to the label’s success in the Bangladesh market, Ambreen has received several knocks from different international platforms based in Sydney, New York, Geneva and Toronto.
Ambreen is currently working on plans to open her own store in the near future.

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Reactions among Clark County’s state legislators to new COVID-19 restrictions are split along party lines, with Democrats largely supportive of Gov. Jay Inslee’s measures and Republicans criticizing the stricter approach as out of step with science.
Inslee announced new limitations on gatherings and public spaces over the weekend, a measure aimed at slowing the spike of new coronavirus cases he called “more dangerous than any we have seen before.”
Shortly after the announcement, Sen. Lynda Wilson, R-Vancouver, issued a statement claiming that Inslee’s decision “has her questioning whether he truly understands the depth of the economic and personal damage they will cause.”
“It’s disheartening how the governor’s words and actions don’t match up. He claims the ‘science’ is driving this new round of restrictions when the data simply don’t support it,” Wilson said.
The latest restrictions ban indoor service at bars and restaurants, allowing only to-go orders and outdoor dining with tables seating no more than five people. Gyms, theaters, bowling alleys, museums, zoos and aquariums must close, while retail stores — including grocery stores — must limit their capacity to 25 percent.
The restrictions additionally limit outdoor gatherings to five people and ban indoor gatherings with members of other households unless participants quarantine for 14 days, or pass a COVID-19 test and then quarantine for seven days. That piece, Inslee acknowledged over the weekend, is unenforceable, but he said he hopes people voluntarily follow the guidelines.
The new rules will remain in place for four weeks, potentially influencing Washingtonians’ Thanksgiving plans.
Wilson pointed to data from Clark County Public Health that indicates food establishments were likely responsible for just 10 of the 1,265 cases traced last month (the data on tracing is very limited, according to Public Health, and relies on a voluntary interview process). The same data indicates that 299 cases in October likely came from a household member, and another 126 contracted COVID-19 from private social gatherings.
“If the statistics from his own Department of Health say people are at the greatest risk in their own homes, and the hospitality industry is connected to only 1 percent of the COVID infections, why is he going after the restaurants again?” she asked.
Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, echoed Wilson’s sentiment.
“As a former science teacher I’m puzzled by Gov. Inslee’s brand of ‘science.’ The latest data about the spread of COVID-19 in our state suggest it’s become safer to be seated inside a restaurant or shopping in a grocery store than it is to be at home,” Rivers said. “In that sense it would seem the governor is making people less safe by prohibiting them from indoor dining and limiting the number who can be inside a retail establishment.”
Sen. Annette Cleveland and Rep. Monica Stonier, both Democrats representing west Vancouver, expressed support for the new measures. Both also acknowledged the strain that the restrictions will put on businesses still recovering from the initial shutdown eight months ago.
“This is not where any of us want to be. The bottom line is that if people could find a way to be more diligent about limiting their exposures in their personal circles in their homes — in their adult Halloween parties, in their family and friends’ barbecues and dinner parties — we would not be seeing the spike that we’re seeing right now,” Stonier said.
She and her extended family, some of whom have health conditions that make them vulnerable to the virus, are planning to play a trivia game via video chat on Thanksgiving, she said.
“We’re responsible as elected officials for the health and safety of the public,” Stonier said. “We sometimes have to make tough choices.”
November isn’t yet over, but it’s already the worst month for new COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations in Clark County. County Deputy Health Officer Dr. Steven Krager said this week that he believes Halloween parties contributed to the spike.
Data that shows cases are spread at home, Stonier pointed out, is partially a result of the in-home gatherings that took place over Halloween and will likely continue into the holiday season unless people take the governor’s guidance seriously.
“The riskiest place for people to be in their homes with other people who are coming into their homes in close spaces,” Stonier said. “The reason it’s the most dangerous place right now is that people are not distancing themselves or quarantining before they gather.”
Rep. Larry Hoff, R-Vancouver, said that the virus is real and serious but that it’s presumptuous for the governor to try to tell families how to celebrate their holidays.
“Who’s the governor to suggest that Joe or Jane Citizen can’t open their household to the rest of their families or neighbors?” Hoff said.
“I don’t have a problem with individuals following their heart and celebrating their family traditions as they have a desire to,” Hoff continued.”If they decide to be safe and sound… that’s certainly not a bad option. But it’s their option. It’s their house.”
Hoff said Inslee’s decision to close or limit the capacity of certain types of businesses shows he’s out-of-touch.
“He can’t possibly understand what the effect is on these small businesses. He’s continuing to get paid,” Hoff said. “These businesses are shut down and scratching to survive.”
Cleveland, the chair of the Senate Health Care Committee, said in a written statement that the best way to get the virus under control and resume life as normal is to commit to the precautionary measures in the meantime.
“The way to get through this isn’t through half-measures or pretending we can do business as usual and that the virus will magically disappear. The shortest, straightest line to recovery for our businesses and our households is by controlling the virus,” Cleveland wrote. “If we don’t do that, we’ll be in a perpetual state of lockdown as we react to new outbreaks.”


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Carlisle's league cup dreams ended for another season when Tottenham proved too strong for them at Brunton Park on Wednesday night in the third round of the Capital One Cup.
Had Carlisle managed to get through to half time level, against a much changed Spurs side, perhaps they could have pulled off an upset but a goal from Jan Vertonghen (37) just before the break meant Spurs went into this break one-nil up.
A killer second came shortly after the interval when Andros Townsend (53) made it two.
The hosts had there chances, both before the second goal and after it, but couldn't manage to convert any of them with a late minute goal from Gylfi Sigurdsson (89) wrapping up a 3-0 win for the Premier League side to earn them a place in round four.
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It amuses and repels Peter Carey, but above all stirs his angry empathy, to remember that his country was founded in a cruel experiment. The first citizens of what came to be known as Australia were mainly convicts and paupers, tossed from Britain starting in the late eighteenth century, shipped to an unfathomable land of crumbling stone, and forced into labor. Starvation was a periodic threat. So must have been grief, paranoia, and bleak feelings about the murder of aboriginals that from this distance are hard to imagine. Rum figured prominently in these early years. When Captain Macarthur rose up against Captain Bligh and took control of the rum supply, Carey relates in his idiosyncratic 2001 travelogue 30 Days in Sydney (a travelogue because Carey has lived since the early 1990s in New York, and wrote as someone returning), he might as well have commandeered the national mint.
What kind of society grows from such a bizarre start? What kind of individuals grow up in such a society? These are the questions Carey asks in much of his fiction. For the fallout appears to live on, like factory dust that has penetrated the cloud layer, transforming the weather itself. Two of Carey’s most acclaimed novels, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang, take place a few generations after the colony’s founding, in the punitive Victorian era, when recent Irish immigrants were much oppressed, and play up the clash between propriety and private compulsion, official legalism and civic neglect. In works set in later periods like Illywhacker and Bliss, Carey combines unusual powers of description with a behaviorist’s eye to show how Australians flirt, work, love, and disappoint each other, and define ethics and culture for themselves in a country with fraught legacies of tradition and freedom. He gives us puffed-up provincials who exploit their arbitrary good fortune, wives with chapped hands who endure and women who flee so that they might do more than endure, inarticulate men who tinker with engines, bullshit artists, and variants on the Tall Poppy, a familiar national type who strives to succeed in the outside world. Australia is no longer a mere imitative appendage of England—as if that had ever been possible. But it is not yet the hip global destination with the sleek opera house and strategic proximity to Asia that the country advertises itself as today.
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Mark Ronson is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated producers of the last decade. With epic tunes such as 'Uptown Funk' with Bruno Mars as well as classics such as Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie', his music is simply loved by everyone. With Global Awards, BRITs and GRAMMYs under his belt, there's not many producers who are on a level with Ronson!
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Scientists harnessed quantum entanglement and time reversal in a crystal that could solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries.
What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't understand it?
“The difference between having a sensor only a millimeter away... from the conventional superconducting sensors that are centimetres away, is gigantic."
In the latest advance towards a quantum internet, scientists entangled "memories" located in separate labs.
Scientists have measured the smallest gravitational field yet, which has big implications for future research into dark matter, quantum gravity, and the possibility of extra dimensions.
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Classical Earth observations are reaching their limit, so scientists are probing fundamental physics in space to understand our planet's complexity.
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October 27, 2021 – CARE International in Vietnam, in collaboration with the Red Cross Society of Quang Tri Province and Plan International in Vietnam (CARE), organizes an inception workshop to introduce the project ‘Forecast Based Early Action in Southeast Asia – FBEA SEA’ to delegates from provincial, district and commune authorities.
The FBEA-SEA project is implemented in four communes in Huong Hoa district, Quang Tri province and Ham Thuan Bac district, Binh Thuan province and three wards in Ho Chi Minh City until Dec 2022. Tentatively, the project is expected to support more than 6,500 people to improve their capacity to manage disaster response and prevention plans. Actions to reduce the damage of extreme weather events, including floods, droughts and heat, are designed following the framework of the early warning-based action mechanism. The project is being implemented by Plan, CARE and World Vision and their partners, with financial support from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Agency (ECHO).
At the workshop, project partners and stakeholders will spend time learning about the objectives, expected results and proposed innovative approaches to disaster response through early warning and early action.
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- Enhancing ethnic minority women’s position in the coffee value chain
- Ireland supports especially disadvantaged community groups in Quang Tri and Hoa Binh provinces
- New Zealand supports the recovery of Vietnam from the Covid-19 pandemic with NZD2 million
- Breaking the silence around gender based violence among ethnic minority communities in Dien Bien
- A new project to support livelihood and adaptation to climate change for ethnic minority farmers
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What bass for around £700? Help please :)
I am looking for a replacement to the old squier p/j thing, and i should have about 700 pound to play with. I don't really fancy buying used, as having a warranty and a shop to hand would give me some peace of mind. I play mainly jazz and blues with my big band and function band now, although do a bit of mucking around with rock-y stuff sometimes :)
I have looked at the G&L tribute L2000 and M2000 but thought that they would be a bit over the top for what i am doing, and I thought about a Mexican Fender Jazz Deluxe, but I am now fairly sure that I want an MTD KZ4.
I'm goin' backwards, like this...
The L2000 is the most versatile axe among the three: yes, you got a chunky, almost "old Precision"-wise neck, but also opportunity to go from active to passive (the sound is always coherent, yet different) from serial to parallel: with highs knob rolled off and passive with serial switch on, you can dial in an almost raggae tone; with both highs and lows knobs at full, in active with highs enhancer and wired parallel, you get modern jazzy sound, then everything in between
The Fender MIM Deluxe active Jazz is the most versatile shape
Ceramic Noiseless pickups are great, I'm serious
But you can't wire it passive and no parallel/serial option
The Kingston is a bass I somewhat dig in, but too "hifi/modern"
This! Great sound and for around $500 great bang for your buck.
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Petland CEO fights pet shop bans
CHILLICOTHE – Since 2007, nearly 50 cities throughout the U.S. have effectively outlawed retail pet shops in response to growing concerns that puppy mills are feeding their inventory.
Petland, the nation’s largest chain of stores that sell puppies, has been biting back at animal rights groups that push for local bans in communities across the country.
“Retail bans are essentially a feel-good effort that does little to nothing to address substandard breeders,” said Joe Watson, CEO of Petland, which is based in Chillicothe.
Cori Menkin, senior director of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ Puppy Mills Campaign, disagrees.
“Unless and until the breeding industry feels real pressure to change, it’s going to remain the status quo. There’s not going to be systemic change to the industry until the public sees what’s going on and that’s what these bans do,” Menkin said. “If retailers won’t push (puppy) mills to treat their dogs more humanely, then it needs to come from the consumer side.”
The ASPCA defines a puppy mill as a “large-scale commercial dog breeding operation that places profit over the well-being of its dogs — who are often severely neglected — and acts without regard to responsible breeding practices.”
Petland counters that groups such as the ASPCA are painting commercial breeders with a broad brush and driving consumers toward breeding operations that are unregulated. Citing previously published statistics by the ASPCA, Watson said as few as 2 percent of all puppies are purchased in pet stores.
“The math is pretty simple,” Watson said. “If every pet store selling puppies closed tomorrow, not a single breeder would go out of business. Even at as few as 2 percent of all sales, retail bans aim to close the only regulated distribution channel for puppy sales in America.”
Petland defends its sourcing of puppies, saying they come from U.S. Department of Agriculture-licensed breeders and distributors, with no direct violations on their latest inspection report; hobby breeders, who raise their dogs in a humane manner; and local adoption pets that have been checked by a veterinarian. In addition, Petland said it sends its employees to visit USDA-licensed breeders to make sure certain standards are maintained.
“USDA licensure, while it sounds great, doesn’t amount to the assurance that puppies and their parents are not living in poor conditions,” Menkin said.
The federal Animal Welfare Act, which outlines minimum standards of care and treatment for certain animals bred for commercial sale, allows for dogs to be kept in stacked, wire-floored cages that are only 6 inches wider than the dog in each direction and to be bred at every heat cycle, she said.
Asked about the use of the phrase puppy mills, Menkin said: “I don’t think it’s semantics. I think we just define it differently at this point. Petland and others, in my estimation, are saying certain practices are OK, and we don’t think they’re OK.”
A majority of the retail pet sales bans already in effect are concentrated in Florida, California and New Jersey. Toledo is home to the only ban in Ohio. Large cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and Phoenix have enacted local ordinances barring pet stores from selling animals, primarily puppies.
Statewide bans have not been as successful. One was up for debate in Connecticut, but the end result was a task force. A similar push in Illinois gained momentum at one point but was ultimately tabled, Menkin said.
The ASCPA and other groups have focused their efforts on local legislation.
Mike Bober, vice president with the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, said he would prefer to see the debate unfold in state legislatures rather than city councils and county boards of commissioners.
“I think we’re better served by debates taking place at a higher level, because if you look at a list of communities that have enacted these bans, about two-thirds of them didn’t have pet stores in their jurisdiction,” he said. “Once you’re in a place where you’re actually affecting people’s lives, legislators are more likely to let the people who are affected state their case.”
Petland has not closed a store as the direct result of a retail pet ban, but in testimony Watson gave to the Cook County (Illinois) Board of Commissioners, which passed a ban in April, he said such an ordinance would likely force the closure of Petland stores there.
“We can’t change our business model and succeed against Wal-Mart,” he said.


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See Also: Toxicological Abbreviations Heptachlor (EHC 38, 1984) Heptachlor (HSG 14, 1988) Heptachlor (PIM 578) Heptachlor (FAO Meeting Report PL/1965/10/1) Heptachlor (FAO/PL:CP/15) Heptachlor (FAO/PL:1967/M/11/1) Heptachlor (FAO/PL:1968/M/9/1) Heptachlor (FAO/PL:1969/M/17/1) Heptachlor (AGP:1970/M/12/1) Heptachlor (WHO Pesticide Residues Series 4) Heptachlor (WHO Pesticide Residues Series 5) Heptachlor (Pesticide residues in food: 1991 evaluations Part II Toxicology) Heptachlor (CICADS 70, 2006)

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A lifelong resident of the Valley and Austintown Fitch High School graduate, John earned a bachelor’s degree from Youngstown State University in 1987. In 1989, he began working for Prudential Insurance and was promoted to staff manager of its Alliance office from 1990 until 1992. From there, he moved back to Boardman and worked as a trainer for Prudential’s Youngstown-Warren district until 1993.
In 1993, he went to work for Cailor Fleming as an independent agent, focusing on life, property and casualty insurance. In 1999, he earned his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation from the American College. In 2000, John decided to venture out and created his own financial agency – Palmer Insurance and Financial Services, Inc.
In 2004, John purchased the Mayflower Insurance Group and then renamed his financial agency to Mayflower Financial Services. A year later, John received his Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation from the American College.
Following the merger of Mayflower Insurance Group and Wollam Insurance Agency in 2008, Mr. Palmer renamed his financial agency to Mayflower Wollam Financial Group. The Mayflower Wollam Financial Group is now located in Cortland, Newton Falls, and North Jackson.
As company president, John brings a strong knowledge of both insurance and financial products to better serve his clients.


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Greta products, so tasty and easily digested, love the recovery and protein powders and what makes this even more special is the nutrition knowledge from the team too. Massive thank you.
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Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza (Greenhills Town Center)
We were so excited to try this new wings+pizza place in Greenhills Town Center and I am happy to say, they did not disappoint.
We were all crazy with the onion rings (Php 120). Even the kids loved it because these were huge and crunchy and sweet. A must-order indeed!
Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza is so thoughtful. They even provide disposable gloves. Now you may enjoy eating with your hands without getting them dirty 🙂
I love wings. There was this restaurant in Illinois called “B-Dubs” (short for buffalo wild wings – dubs for double W) and they serve these amazing buffalo wings in different ranges of hot sauces. Red Buffalo’s wings (Php 165, 5 pcs) come pretty close. The kids enjoyed the parmesan garlic while we all fought over the last piece of original hot buffalo flavor. If you want to challenge yourselves, get Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza’s spiciest wings, the original buffalo suicidal flavor! :p
Best way to enjoy Red Buffalo Wings? Of course, pair those fiery wings with an ice cold beer. If you fancy an imported beer, go ahead and indulge yourselves!
We also loved their refreshing juices – premium lemonade (Php 60), kiwi lemonade (Php 70), strawberry lemonade (Php 70) and house blend iced tea (Php 55).
Steak and Cheese Pizza (Php 395) – steak strips, mushrooms, bell peppers, white onions and melted cheddar overload.
RB’s Special (Php 395) – pepperoni, Italian sausage, ham, ground beef, black olives, mushrooms, bell peppers, white onions.
“Great tasting food takes careful preparation. We serve food that is made fresh everytime.” – Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza
Expect your orders to be served within 10-20 minutes – it’s definitely worth the wait 🙂
Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza owners Jethro Tonee Mediarito, Cheska Guia Zamora and Jopet Balane did not limit the menu to just wings and pizza.
We super loved their flavorful pastas as well:
Chicken Alfredo (Php 195) – creamy alfredo sauce topped with seasoned chicken fillet and fresh basil
Spaghetti and Meatballs (Php 215) – home-style huge meatballs served over chunky marinara sauce
Other specials served at Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza:
All-American Cheeseburger (Php 155) – quarter pound of pure beef patty grilled and sandwiched with cheddar cheese, onions, tomatoes, pickles and Romaine lettuce.
For those who want to eat healthy, there’s the Garden Salad (Php 135) – crisp Romaine lettuce tossed on a medley of carrots, onions, tomatoes, black olives, eggs and ham, served with Caesar dressing.
But wait, there’s more! They also serve Hickory Baby Back Ribs (Php 375). This is my favorite, together with the spicy wings. They should have named the restaurant Red Buffalo Wings and RIBS instead!!! It’s a must try when you go here.
The kids finished their food and behaved so well. They deserve these sweet and frosty milkshakes (Php 140). I wanted to get my share too but then again, it was gone in seconds.
WHEN IN MANILA and craving for wings or ribs, bring the whole family to Red Buffalo Wings and Pizza and enjoy good food, imported beer and more.
RED BUFFALO WINGS and PIZZA
Greenhills Town Center
#2 Granada St., Brgy. Valencia, Quezon City
Telephone Number: 654-6997
Sunday – Thursday: 11 AM – 12 Midnight


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Twenty years ago, Sister Souljah's debut novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, became a bestselling cultural phenomenon. Fans fell in love with the unforgettable Winter Santiaga, daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family, who captivated her lovers, friends, and enemies with her sexy street smarts. For two decades, fans have begged for answers about what happened to Winter. Now all is revealed in Sister Souljah's page-turning sequel, filled with...

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Netflix said it will discontinue a “small-scale test” informing users via browser messages when their broadband provider’s network is congested as of June 16.
The announcement Monday via a Netflix blog post came after Verizon Communications issued a cease-and-desist letter to the streamer last week demanding that the notifications stop.
Netflix started a test in early May to inform consumers that their experience is “degraded due to a lack of capacity into their broadband provider’s network,” VP of communications Joris Evers wrote in a blog post.
The test is being conducted across the U.S. “wherever there is significant and persistent network congestion,” Evers said. The test is scheduled to end on June 16 after which “we will evaluate rolling it out more broadly,” he wrote.
Netflix will continue to post its monthly ISP Speed Index ranking the average connection speeds its users experience. For May 2014, Verizon FiOS fell two spots, with an average of 1.9 megabits per second — behind DSL providers Frontier Communications and Windstream Communications, according to Netflix.
Verizon is in the process of directly connecting its networks to Netflix, under the companies’ interconnection agreement reached in late April. Netflix, which accounted for some 34% of all downstream bandwidth used on North American broadband networks in March 2014, has a similar deal with Comcast.
Netflix has tried to conflate its disputes over paid-peering deals with net neutrality, describing such deals as a “toll” on content companies that it should not have to pay. Internet service providers and the Federal Communications Commission have said the two issues are separate.


My teaching depends on the student. I want to teach younger people, such as middle school, elementary school, or freshmen students, and who are beginner or intermediate violinists striving and working hard to become better. My lessons will include working through their repertoire, or giving them more, and also working on their technique. My goal, is not only to make the musicians better, but also have fun with their instrument and learn how to practice well and efficiently. I have not taught before, but everyone has something to learn. As I am in high school, I will be available to teach almost anytime on the weekends, and after 4:00 on Wednesdays.
I am a junior in high school, and have been very committed to playing the violin for the past 9 years. My teacher currently is Fred Lifsitz, the second violinist of the Alexander String Quartet, in San Francisco. In the past, I have played in a full orchestra for 5 years, and I went to Interlochen Arts Camp this past summer for six weeks of experience in orchestra playing, chamber music, and development in my solo playing.
I give my first lesson for free! The distance to my house is relatively far to places such as Redwood City or San Francisco, so I charge less overall. Also, my rate does not increase as the level of student increases, it only depends on the time we spend together in a lesson.
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Monocyte gene-expression profiles associated with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes and disease risk: a study of identical twins.
OBJECTIVE: Monocytes in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes show distinct gene expression. We hypothesize that monocyte activation in monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs discordant for childhood-onset type 1 diabetes could reflect ...
Glycotoxin and autoantibodies are additive environmentally determined predictors of type 1 diabetes: a twin and population study.
In type 1 diabetes, diabetes-associated autoantibodies, including islet cell antibodies (ICAs), reflect adaptive immunity, while increased serum N(ε)-carboxymethyl-lysine (CML), an advanced glycation end product, is ...
Genetic risk scores in adult-onset type 1 diabetes.
First Genome-Wide Association Study of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults Reveals Novel Insights Linking Immune and Metabolic Diabetes.
(American Diabetes Association, 2018-09-25)
OBJECTIVE: Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) shares clinical features with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes; however, there is ongoing debate regarding the precise definition of LADA. Understanding its genetic ...


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After more than 10 years of collaboration with Russell Crowe, veteran director Ridley Scott has gotten used to late-night phone calls.
“Sometimes with Russell, you’ve just gone to bed, maybe had too much to drink, and it’s about quarter to one in the morning and the phone goes. And I go, ‘Oh, s---, it’s Russell,’” Scott says with a grin. “He usually calls from Australia and says, ‘All right? I hope it’s not too late.’ And I say, ‘Well actually, it is.’”
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It was just such a phone call that spawned their latest film — their fifth together — Robin Hood. During one particular late-night call, Crowe presented Scott with an idea.
“He said, ‘I’ve got this Robin Hood thing.’ And I said, ‘All right, let me read it.’ So we got into it, and I said, fundamentally, with deepest respect to the chaps who wrote it, it needs a lot of work,” Scott remembers. “And that’s what we did. We got into the reworking of it.”
That reworking ended up taking more time than expected, Scott admits, as the Hollywood writers’ strike brought their rewriting to a halt. One thing that needed to change, Scott knew, was the title.
“At the time it was called Nottingham, which I think threw everyone into a tizz thinking, ‘How cool.’ And I hate that word, 'cool,'” Scott sneers. “Because what does ‘cool’ mean? All it is is you’re going to call a film Nottingham, and you’re going to spend half your marketing explaining why you’ve called it Nottingham and not Robin Hood. So I said we should just call it Robin Hood and start again.”
With the new, simpler title in place, the film is ready to premiere tomorrow at the Cannes Film Festival — something Scott hadn’t anticipated. “I know the Cannes festival tries to protect itself by being only about high-brow thinking in movies, but I think they’ve changed,” he says.
“They’ve realized that actually commerce does come into it. But you don’t put a high-budget movie in Cannes in competition. I wouldn’t do that. But they saw the movie and said they’d like to open the festival with it, which is really nice.”
The director also admits he thought his Robin Hood might cause a bit of a stink in Cannes, since the French don’t fare very well in his film.
“I didn’t realize we were going to be opening the film in Cannes,” he admits. “The French, who hate to be beaten at anything, are going to hate it. When it was run for the committee, the eight guys watched it, and I said, ‘And?’ And I thought they were all going to say, ‘But, you know you kick our ass at the end?’ And they said, ‘It’s fine.’ And I said, ‘Um, were you watching it?’”


Horizon Fuel Cell has
issued a press
release about the successful maiden
flight (YouTube video) of a zero emission UAV prototype powered by
hydrogen. The fuel cell powered flying robot, called the HyFish
designed by Germany's Deutsches Zentrum
fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR - aka the German Air & Space Center). A
special fuel cell was developed for the UAV, providing 1.3kW of power
from an 800g cell. The result is a new power density record of 1.5W/gm.
The fuel cell system is expect to allow flight times of 15 to 30 hours.
The zero emission aspect is also helpful in that it may reduce the
amount of greenhouse gas resulting from aviation, which now accounts for
up to 9% of the total. The HyFish UAV will be on display to the general
public at the Hannover Fair
April 16 to 20, Stand G 32/1, Hall 13. More info, including an x-ray
image of the UAV can be found on the DLR
HyFish news release (German language). An older 3D
structural rendering is also available.


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Gov. Scott Walker pledged Thursday to cut income taxes in the state budget he signs this summer, calling it the best way to spark the economy. But he also said the reduction would be phased in over a number of years.
"For us, one of the biggest bangs for our buck is dropping the individual income tax rate, putting more money back in the hands of consumers and small business owners out there so that they in turn can invest that money, they can take out loans, they can move forward and put people to work. We're committed to doing that,"
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