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The Board of Cukunft Jewish Association prepares a year round operating program of all planned activities of the Association on an annual basis according to the Jewish calendar: from September/October to September/October of the following year.
At the end of each calendar year the Board of Cukunft presents and publishes a statement of merit on all activities of the Association, while annual financial statements are publised till 30 June, which are reported till July 10 every year to the IRS and NCR.
Annual financial report for year 2016 was approved by the General Assembly on 30.06.2015 and for Year 2015 on 26.06.2016.
Statement of Merit of the CUKUNFT Jewish Association's Board for Year 2016 was published 31.12.2016 and for Year 2015 published 31.12.2015.
You will find their full texts in a folder CONTACT.
In 2017, the Cukunft Jewish Association implemented numerous educational and socio-cultural projects – events, lectures and workshops for both Jews and non-Jews living in Poland, Germany and Israel interested in the Jewish culture and history of Polish Jews.
1) Sports and integration activities for all age groups – Hasmonea Jewish Sports Club – football, basketball, volleyball, bowling, sport shooting.
2) Organization of Jewish birthdays for members of Cukunft – Bis120! – Jewish Birthday.
3) 4 meetings for members of the Jewish community in Wroclaw – Jewish Cultural Club (JCC Wroclaw) – galleries, cinemas, Musical Theater Capitol + Grandmother and Grandfather's Days,
4) Workshops: "The Jewish Unity Day" – visits to small local Jewish communities and integration activities, Wroclaw-Walbrzych-Zary, 07-13/06/2017.
5) Organization of 4 Sabbath dinners as part of the 'Home-Made Sabbath' project.
6) The celebration of the Tubi Shvat, the Jewish New Year of Trees in Wroclaw.
7) Co-organization with TSKZ Zary Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashana, Chanuka, Purim, Pesach beMizvada: Pesach in a Suitcase, 14/04/2017.
8) Co-organization with TSKZ Walbrzych Jewish holidays: Rosh Hashana, Chnuk, Pesach beMizvada: Pesach in a Suitcase, 11/04/2017.
9) Co-organization in cooperation with Halal Panui (Israel) – Selihot Tel Aviv – a socio-cultural event in one of the abandoned synagogues, Tel Aviv, Israel, 22/09/2017.
10) Co-organization in cooperation with Halal Panui (Israel) – Hoshana Raba Tel Aviv – socio-cultural event in one of the abandoned synagogues, Tel Aviv, Israel, 10/10/2017.
11) Co-organization of Chanukah in the Jewish community and TSKZ in Bielsko-Biala, 14/12/2017.
1) Participation in Living Libraries in Wroclaw.
2) 5 lectures for the University of the III Century in Wrocław:
– Lecture: Pesach beMizvada: Pesach in Suitcase – Pesach and Seder holiday in theory and practice – conducted by: Aleksandra Wilczura, Firlej, 13/04/2017.
– Lecture: Calendar and Jewish holidays – conducted by: Aleksandra Wilczura, EWST, 21/04/2017.
– Lecture: Jewish humor and Autoironia – conducted by: Robert Chmielewski, EWST, 26/05/2017.
– Lecture: Gemilut Chasadim – Jewish Tracks for Volunteering – conducted by: dr Grzegorz Piekarski-Reifer, EWST, 16/06/2017.
– Lecture and Workshops: New Year's baking challot for Rosh Hashanah – conducted by: Aleksandra Wilczura, EWST, 08/09/2017.
3) Lecture: Contemporary Jewish Identity in Poland – conducted by: Aleksandra Wilczura, Institute of Polish Philology in Wroclaw, 20/04/2017.
4) Lecture: Cukunft's good educational practices – conducted by: Jan Kirschenbaum, Aleksandra Wilczura, Polin Museum, 11-12/05/2017.
5) Lecture: Kosher or what? On the concept of kosher in the Jewish tradition, conducted by: Moti Nowakowski, The Edelman Dialogue Centre in Lodz, 15/05/2017.
6) Lecture: Jewish holidays during the Night of Museums – Simchat Chajim Festival – conducted by: Jan Kirschenbaum, Aleksandra Wilczura, Jarocin, 20/05/2017.
7) Lecture: Jewish holidays – Simchat Chajim Festival – conducted by: Jan Kirschenbaum, Aleksandra Wilczura Krotoszyn, 21/05/2017.
8) Jewish cut-out workshops – conducted by: Joanna Matyjasek (Cukunft) – Jewish Culture Festival in Bialystok "Zachor – Color and Sound", Poland-Israel Center for Civic Education, Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw, 12/06/2017.
9) FARIDA – Female Activists Render Inclusive Democratic Agenda – a nationwide project of 11 minority organizations to strengthen their female leaders and promote equal opportunities for women from minority groups – financed by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), 01-30/08/2017.
10) Lecture: Signs of the zodiac in Jewish culture – conducted by: Aleksandra Wilczura, Pardes Festival, Kazimierz Dolny, 16/08/2017.
11) Jewish cut-out workshops – conducted by: Joanna Matyjasek (Cukunft), Pardes Festival, Kazimierz Dolny, 16/08/2017.
12) School and pre-school layettes for children from the Jewish Community in Łodz and Wroclaw – social action of Cukunft, 29/08/2017.
13) Educational and sport-rehabilitation materials for children from the Jewish Kindergarten in Lodz, 29/08/2017.
14) Lower Silesian Festival of Jewish Culture 2017, conducted by: Aleksandra Wilczura:
– co-organization with TSKZ Dzierzoniow, 22-23 / 09/2017,
– co-organization with TSKZ Zary – Performance of Reifer Sisters (Israel), 24/09/2017,
– co-organization with TSKZ Legnica 08/10/2017,
– co-organization with TSKZ Walbrzych, 07/10/2017.
15) Organization of Shabbos Project – Workshop of baking challah – Wroclaw, 27/10/2017.
16) Participation in 2017 Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights: Women's rights in turbulent times – participation: Jan Kirchenbaum, Aleksandra Wilczura, Brussels, Belgium, 20-21/11/2017.
17) Organization of the 4th Tzedakah Day, the Jewish Charity Day as a part of the World Day of the Mitzvah (27/11/2017), in cooperation with JCC Warsaw, JCC Krakow, Junction, JDC, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Hanadiv Europe and Mitzvah Day 365 UK – coordination : Jan Kirschenbaum, Aleksandra Wilczura, Ewa Pacult, 19/11/-07/12/2017:
– collection of food, cleaning products, toys, books and school and office materials,
– donating blood to the Regional Blood Donation Center,
– organization of Hanukkah for children and parents in the City Library at Reja Street in Wroclaw.
18) Co-organization of the 2nd National Conference – Religion in Education – University of Wroclaw / Cukunft / EWST, 08/12/2017.
19) Debate 'Freedom of information and fake news' organized by the European Parliament – Information Office in Wroclaw, devoted to the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought – participation: Aleksandra Wilczura, DCF, 18/12/2017.
1) Training for members of Westbury Group Europe and grantees of Recognition Grants 2016 – participation: Aleksandra Wilczura, Vienna – Austria 15-17/ 01/2017.
2) 2nd workshop "Interfaith and inter-ethnic coalition-building to combat xenophobic and religious discrimination", National Democratic Institute, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – US Department of State, Warsaw, 11-13/02/2017.
3) 3rd workshop "Interfaith and inter-ethnic coalition-building to combat xenophobic and religious discrimination", National Democratic Institute, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – US Department of State, Krakow, 17-19 /03/2017.
4) Training for members of Westbury Group Europe and grantees of Recognition Grants 2016 – participation: Aleksandra Wilczura, Copenhagen – Denmark, 7-9/05/2017.
5) 4th workshop "Interfaith and inter-ethnic coalition-building to combat xenophobic and religious discrimination", National Democratic Institute, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – US Department of State, Warsaw, 8-9 /10/2017.
6) ROI 2017 Summit – participation: Aleksandra Wilczura, Jerusalem, Israel, 02-07/07/2017.
7) Participation in the AJDC (Joint) Lower Silesian Shabbaton for members of the Jewish communities from Lower Silesia, Polanica Zdroj, 24-26/03/2017.
1) Erasmus + MINS – a network of sports managers of European teams and sports clubs of religious, national and ethnic minorities.
2) Network of minority organizations associated in the coalition -INTERFAITH And Interethnic Coalition-Building To Combat Xenophobia And Religious-Based Discrimination – NDI Poland.
3) The Westbury Group Europe.
4) The Europe of Diasporas.
5) A coalition of Polish NGOs "Together Against Hate Speech".
6) "Wroclaw Welcomes Refugees" Coalition.
7) Membership in the Polish Network of Anna Lindh Foundation.
8) Membership in a network of Mitzvah Day 365 UK.
1) Anna Lindh Foundation,
2) Mitzvah Day 365 Charity Network,
3) The Westbury Group,
4) Rosa Luxembourg Foundation,
5) Humanity in Action,
6) Charles & Lynn Schusterman Foundation,
7) ROI Community,
8) Junction,
9) Paideia Project Incubator,
10) Nahum Goldmann Fellowship Program,
11) Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft,
12) Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre in Lodz,
13) Socio-Cultural Association of Jews (TSKZ),
14) Second Generation Association,
15) Children of Holocaust Association,
16) Tikkun Olam Jewish Primary School,
17) Szalom Alejchem Jewish Primary School,
18) The Middle East Studies' Magazine,
19) #CookJewishBeJewish Project,
20) Eat&Travel,
21) Dolnośląski Fundusz Małych Inicjatyw,
22) Fundusz Inicjatyw Obywatelskich (FIO).
Delfina Krieger-Czerepak, Aleksandra Wilczura


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28560 Miles Road, Solon, Ohio 44139
Vermont Cheese Co-op
The Cabot story reaches back to the beginning of the 20th century. In those days, the cost of farming was low and most farmers produced far more milk than they could market. So in 1919, farmers from the Cabot area figured that if they joined forces, they could turn their excess milk into butter and market it throughout New England. Ninety-four farmers all jumped on board – at the cost of $5 per cow, plus a cord of wood to fuel the boiler. The intrepid 94 purchased the village creamery (built in 1893) and began producing butter under the Rosedale brand name.
Over the next two decades, as the nation's population flocked to urban areas, Cabot's farmer-owners thrived by shipping their milk and butter south. While the national economy shifted away from agriculture, the Vermont economy was still largely based on dairy farming. In fact, in 1930 cows outnumbered people, 421,000 to 359,000. It was at this time that the company hired its first cheesemaker and cheddar cheese entered the product line for the first time.
By 1960, Cabot's membership reached 600 farm families, though the total number of operating farms around the nation was already in rapid decline. The trend continued into the 1980s when the total number of farms in Vermont sank below 2,000, less than one fifth of what it had been just a few decades earlier. By this time, Cabot had dropped the Rosedale name and was marketing high-quality cheeses and butter under the Cabot brand.
The company also began entering its cheddar in national competitions and in 1989 took first place in the cheddar category at the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest held in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 1992 was a pivotal year in the company's history as Cabot's farmer-owners merged with the 1,800 farm families of Agri-mark, a southern New England co-op dating back to 1918. Together, the combined companies boasted more than 1,500 farms, four processing plants and a large product line. Meanwhile, Cabot cheddars began an impressive run in awards competitions, winning every major award for taste over the next few years.
Today, Cabot blends state-of-the-art facilities and a savvy entrepreneurial spirit, with the timeless values of personal commitment to quality that comes from being 100% owned by the farm families.
Miles Farmers Market carries the following Cabot Cheese Products

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True love we see it everywhere movies, books , tv shows and the list goes on , yet is it real ? How can one human being be with the same person all their life how is this even possible ? We are constantly changing and maturing every year of our lives ?
We as humans , people , living everyday and experiencing a bunch of new things, milestones ! We are having children getting married changing jobs even careers , finding our life path ! Every time we achieve a milestone we change our perspective, every time we meet someone we change our thoughts our feelings . We are constantly changing and evolving into the people we want to be , we meet different people when we are in different places in our lives , people you probably won't talk to in year when you have changed yet again !
If we are constantly changing then how can one person be with the same other person for the rest of their lives ? You can't , when you met this person you were in this state in this mindset where both of you had common goals , similarities, once you start changing and learning and moving on from different things in life how can you be at the same place as the other since you are both two very different people ! So how are two people that were in synch stay in synch when life happens ? Maybe it's because you haven't met "the one" ! How do people do it , do you just declare forfeit and say hey this is what I get I'll just stay like this all my life and pretend to be happy for ever ! I know I'm sounding like I'm the one who's just really miserable , but in all honesty I do question these things ! How do you evolve with your partner at the same time and manage to have things in common for the rest of your life ? I use to admire people who were together for years now that I'm all grown up I don't get it , how can you be so sure , what if I want to butterflies in my stomach everyday or even the feeling of missing someone so much it kills me not to see them ! I want to love that person the way I did the first time I saw them , unfortunately it just all goes away after a while and then things change and your relationship becomes boring you do the same thing on a daily basis ,you don't talk anymore you don't laugh like you use too, you don't FEEL .
This is why I reflect this way about love because it's temporary for who you are now , until you find that person who makes you feel extraordinary every day of every minute of your existence,someone who wants to grow with you not apart from you ! Only then , you will know what true love is !
Thoughts by Tiffany !


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The Civil Engineering department at TJIT was established in 2012.
The department offers 4-year B.E program (8 semesters) in Civil Engineering which is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) and approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The department currently has an intake of 60 students.
To excel in training undergraduate students to become successful civil engineers of high ethics and to encourage involvement of students and faculty in research and community service.
To provide high quality technical education and soft skills training to students for a successful career in civil engineering and to provide service to the university,engineering profession and the public.To provide challenging, yet supportive and welcoming environment, that motivates students and faculty to achieve their best in a diverse community.
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design,construction and maintenance of the physically built structures like bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings etc. and also it will take care of naturally built environment.
Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline and it has several sub-disciplines including environmental engineering,
geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering,surveying, and construction engineering.
Civil engineering is the broadest of the engineering fields. Civil engineers build the world's infrastructure. It is an age-old profession and has been defined traditionally as a great art, on which the wealth and the well-being of the whole of society depend.
The department aims to teach students by laying a strong foundation through courses on Surveying, Building Materials, Construction Technology,Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics, Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering etc.
Each staff prepares a lesson plan and maintains a class diary that is uploaded into MIS software. Students as well as parents have complete access to the course file for the subject they handle.Course file includes syllabus, class plan, lesson plan, question bank, labmanuals, assignments and notes.
The Institute and Department are well connected through a campus Wi- Fi Network and have an access to an internet .
Long Term Goals
To encourage research activities in the department.
To establish and strengthen Industry-Institute interaction.
To offer Post Graduate Degree Programmes
Short Term Goals
To establish and strengthen the department infrastructure.
To offer customized programs to meet the needs of our students.
To conduct trainings for students to improve written and oral communication skills.
To encourage students to present technical papers in National Conferences, various other technical and extra-curricular activities.
To conduct faculty development programmes regularly for skill upgradation.
To arrange special lectures from eminent industry persons, conduct industrial visits.


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This year, we are putting extra effort in preparing the arrival of the international students from the LSC program, as well as their accomodation in Le Havre. Our student organizations (BDE,BDS,BDA) have done an amazing job and put forward a series of documents in English explaining all of their upcoming programs, so that English-speaking students can join the various activities during their stay.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 2 seconds I am now about sixty kilometers from Tokyo, in Ogawamachi, known as the "hometown of washi paper". Currently, the mulberry paper plant wood is being steamed. This is done once a year, during the cold season. The wood is steamed to remove insects and insect eggs as well as to make the bark easier to peel off. It is much easier to remove the bark after the wood has been steamed. To make it usable for an entire year, the wood is treated for insects and then the bark is peeled off.
Skip to 0 minutes and 54 seconds Next, let's look at the next stages in the production process.
First stage in the papermaking process
Let us learn about the papermaking process, from plant to finished sheet.
From this point on, we look at the various steps of the papermaking process. If you recall, the trailer for this course showed a very cold, wintry scene. The reason is that the washi papermaking process usually starts in winter. Look at the video to see the first stage in the paper manufacturing process.
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The old Chinese Book of Later Han ((Hou Hanshu, 5th century C.E.)) records how paper was made by its inventor, Cai Lun (50-121 C.E.). Let's trace together the basic process that he used.
fig.1. Book of the Later Han, Cai Lun is mentioned in the book
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First stage
The first stage was to turn the plants or clothes made from plants material into fibers. As raw materials, Cai Lun used tree bark, hemp, rags, and fishing nets and separated the fibers using a stone mortar. Through this process, the cellulose was first extracted from the raw material.
Second stage
The second stage was to immerse the fibers in water in order to favor hydrogen bonding between the fibers. To compose the fibers into sheets, Cai Lun used a flat sieve-like mat. The mat separates the fibers from the water and the fibers connect together to form a sheet.
Third stage
The third stage consisted in removing the excess wetness and allowing the tightly connected fibers to dry.
This three-stage process became the basic process to make paper. Once this initial process was devised, the methods and the materials continued to evolve giving rise to a great variety of different papers.
The papermaking process in Ogawamachi
The video introduced the beginning of the papermaking process in Ogawamachi. In Ogawamachi, the process comprises 13 steps divided into 3 stages:
The first stage: from plant to fiber
- Harvest the mulberry woods from the farm from November to January
- Steam the mulberry branches
- Peel the steamed mulberry branches, and dry the barks
- Scrape off the outer black bark
- Cook the barks in boiling water
- Soak the barks in the water
- Remove specks from the bark
- Pound the bark
- Beat the bark into a pulp
The second stage: making a sheet from the pulp
- Pound aibika (tororoaoi) with a wooden mallet
- Make paper from the pulp
The third stage: drying
- Compress the wet paper
- Dry the paper
Steps nos. 2 and 3 of the first stage are introduced in the video of this step; the second and the third stage will be introduced in the next Step.
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From senatehouselibrary.ac.uk:
As we are keen for as many books to be made available to Library users as possible, we are holding a one-month book amnesty throughout August. This means that if you have an outstanding fine, you can – throughout August – bring back your overdue books, and you will not be charged.
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Lake Moogerah Caravan Park Qld
Lake Moogerah Caravan Park
Lake Moogerah Caravan Park offers friendly staff and an amenities block that is faultlessly clean, considering how busy the camp spot gets.
The camp kitchen is pretty basic and the bbq's were very dirty, owing to people not cleaning up after using them.
If amazing bird life and beautiful views are what your after then Lake Moogerah Caravan Park won't disappoint, but be warned serenity can quickly change once the lake starts getting a work out with it's water sports draw cards.
It set along the beautiful Lake Moogerah an hour's drive from Brisbane. The surrounding area is very beautiful.
Lake Moogerah Caravan Park offers a great opportunity to have fun on the water while camping right next to a stunning lake. If your after peace an quiet over the weekend you may want to look elsewhere (through the week is fine), but if your after a place to ski swim and enjoy water sports this may just be your nirvana.
Lake Moogerah has been stocked with Australian Bass, Golden Perch, Silver Perch, Mary River Cod and Saratoga, although the stocking of Saratoga seems to have failed at this stage.
* A Stocked Impoundment Permit (SIP) is required to fish at Lake Moogerah.
There are no boating restrictions on Lake Moogerah.
There is a no boating / fishing zone around the dam wall.
Two concrete launching ramps are provided however in recent times Moogerah Dam has suffered from low water levels for extended periods. This hasn't effected the fish too any great extent, however it makes launching difficult when there is no water on the ramps. A 4X4 is recommended when water levels are low. *Caution should be used when navigating on Lake Moogerah due to the large amount of standing & submerged timber in the water.
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VoIP provider Vonage is up in arms about a certain telecom carrier apparently attempting to block customer access to their services. See this Washington Post article for the details.
Before everyone runs to the FCC asking for broadband regulation, let me offer a few thoughts on this matter…
1–First, how many carriers are really engaged in any form of blocking? There were a few cable companies that initially had some fairly stupid language in their Terms of Service (TOS) contracts or Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) regarding device attachments (and VPNs in particular) but: (a) they almost never followed through on the threat of blocking, and (b) as far as I can tell, that language has been excised almost universally from those contracts. (Yes, I have actually downloaded and read through all these boring TOS and AUPs documents! Most of the remaining language in those documents related to device connectivity involves theft of service threats related to the attaching wi-fi devices and then sharing the service with everyone in your neighborhood. I think that's a fairly rational concern and probably should be forbidden.)
2–Second, let's think seriously about this supposed blocking threat for a moment. Any carrier that is stupid enough to try to block Internet or device connectivity is a carrier that is doomed to lose customer allegiance and be the subject of intense public / media ridicule. There is just no way in our media-intensive age that any carrier is going to be able to take the heat associated with repeated attempts to block basic services. Bloggers, newsgoups, websites, and other media outlets will be all over them. It will be a PR nightmare for them. Moreover, should certain carriers persist and try to play such games, smart rivals will use it as an opportunity to differentiate themselves as more of an "open network" or "dumb pipe" provider that won't block services / connectivity in a similar fashion.
3–Finally, there is a serious threat associated with enshrining those connectivity principles into law as I have pointed out in this piece on Net Neutrality regulation. Namely, the real threat here is that these "anti-discrimination" rules ultimately devolve into a cumbersome regulatory regime that also prohibits rational, beneficial forms of price discrimination for broadband pipes. The last thing we want is a set of connectivity principles that ultimately impose price controls on the pricing of the pipe. But I have no doubt that is exactly where we are heading. The real question is this debate is not whether carriers will try to block access to various service or devices. The vast majority will not attempt to do so. However, carriers might attempt to price access to the pipe differently in response to the added burden some applications might impose. They might even use metered pricing schemes in the future. As soon as they do so, some people are going to cry foul and run to the government for regulation. If Net neutrality rules are on the books, someone will try to use them to prevent such beneficial forms of price discrimination too.
I have recently completed a piece for the Journal of Telecommunications & High-Technology Law that elaborates on these points. The piece is entitled: "Are 'Dumb Pipe' Mandates Smart Public Policy? Vertical Integration, Net Neutrality, and the Network Layers Model." If anyone is interested in seeing it, e-mail me and I will forward a draft copy.


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HFMD virus found on supermarket trolley and child rides in Penang
Unlike normal viruses which can be easily washed off with water, the HFMD virus stays on a surface until a proper cleanser is used to remove it.
Penang is a popular holiday destination for Singaporeans. Its proximity means that we can even go there for a weekend getaway. However, Penang has recently been affected by a severe HFMD outbreak. With the recent outbreak, many schools, nurseries and daycare centres have been closed down as a result.
HFMD is a viral infection which can affect both adults and children. However, young children below the age of five are more susceptible to it because they do not have the immunity to ward off the disease.
The HFMD virus can spread through contact with bodily discharge from an infected person ( i.e. saliva, fluids from a rash, nasal discharge and faeces). It can also remain on contaminated surfaces and objects as well, resulting in the virus spreading like wildfire.
HFMD Virus on Trolleys and Child Rides
While investigating the main cause of the outbreak in Penang, officials found traces of the HFMD virus on trolleys and child rides in malls. But that was not all. The Sun Daily also reported on Monday (Jul 23) that even toys and chairs in malls were found to be contaminated with the HFMD virus.
Just imagine the hundreds and thousands of families that frequent the mall every day and the parents who put their children in trolleys every time they go grocery shopping.
Think about how many rotations these trolleys go through, only to be cleaned at the end of the day. How about children who frequent lifestyle shops and start touching all the soft toys there? Or how many tired children who sit in the chairs to have a rest. The transfer of the HFMD virus through trolleys, child rides, benches and toys is just endless!
Authorities have since advised all shopping malls to disinfect these items to prevent the disease from spreading even more. Shopping malls will still remain open. For now, the State Health Department has no plans of closing public playgrounds and amusement centres. So ultimately it is up to us parents to be aware of the dangers of this virus and how it lurks in shopping trolleys, playgrounds and other public amenities.
HFMD Prevention
The control and prevention of infectious diseases, including HFMD, require all parties to play an active role. And it should start with yourself and at home.
- Always maintain high standards of personal hygiene by washing your hands after going to the toilet, changing diapers, or touching blisters.
- To contain the disease, waste and diaper disposal should be done properly.
- Clean and disinfect toys and surfaces using household bleach.
- Make sure your children's schools run screenings before they are allowed to enter.
- Keep a lookout for HFMD symptoms like fever, rash or blisters on the palms and soles. Isolate infected ones immediately.
Singaporean Families Heading to Penang
Parents might think that using hand sanitiser often on their kids is enough to protect them from HFMD. This is not necessarily true because the HFMD virus is a more resistant virus that is difficult to remove and kill. Ordinary alcohol sanitisers are insufficient.
The HFMD virus is a type of virus which is more resistant to water and regular cleansers. Unlike normal viruses which can be easily washed off with water, the HFMD virus stays on a surface until a proper cleanser is used to remove it.
The outer structure of the HFMD virus provides the virus itself with resistance against detergents and alcohol. Despite this, experts agree that hand washing is still key to controlling the spread.
It is probably best to avoid crowded areas if you're heading up to Penang. While there, remember to practice extra caution. Do heed the possibility of HFMD virus on trolleys and child rides, toys and even mall benches. Reduce the risks, by ensuring that your children jack up their personal hygiene standards and continue to wash their hands more frequently when they are out.


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- If you haven't already, download the TrackingTime Button Extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trackingtime-button/fglmkdhomaklnckgbjfnfmbfmlkjippg
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- Now, go to the Todoist web app. You'll see the TrackingTime button appear right next to your to-dos when you hover your mouse over them.
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Pursuant to regulation 20 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Minister for Primary Industries, after complying with the requirements set out in regulations 18 and 19 of those regulations, gives the following notice.
1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Declaration of mātaitai reserve
This notice is the Fisheries (Declaration of Waitarakao Mātaitai Reserve) Notice 2014.
This notice comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.
The Minister declares to be a mātaitai reserve (to be known as the Waitarakao Mātaitai Reserve) the area encompassing the following fisheries waters:
(a) Washdyke Lagoon:
(b) all streams, tributaries, and canals that flow into Washdyke Lagoon that are east of the railway line and south of the private road off Meadows Road:
(c) the canal that enters the northern edge of Washdyke Lagoon running northeast to a lagoon located just south of Beach Road.
Dated at Wellington this 30th day of June 2014.
Hon Nathan Guy,Minister for Primary Industries.
This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This notice, which comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, is made under the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 (the regulations). This notice declares the area described in clause 3 to be a mātaitai reserve. A mātaitai reserve is an identified traditional fishing ground managed by the tangata whenua through Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki. Commercial fishing is generally prohibited in a mātaitai reserve (with exceptions specified in regulation 24 of the regulations). The Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki of a mātaitai reserve may authorise any individual to take fisheries resources for customary food gathering purposes from within the whole or any part of the mātaitai reserve.
The Minister's appointment of the Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the Waitarakao Mātaitai Reserve is to be notified by the Director-General of the Ministry for Primary Industries in accordance with regulation 22 of the regulations.
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.
Date of notification in Gazette: 10 July 2014.
This notice is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.


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Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
Multidisciplinary artist Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (b. 1979) considers his work to be a basic research in realities.
Working within the domains of imaginary & physical sound as well as other non-sonic media, NLL seeks to stimulate new ways of approaching reality. This can be heard in his work with sonic potentiality and music for the inner ear - an imaginary kind of music only hearable for the inner ear of the listener, or in the SOUND X SOUND series where he works with multiplication of sound as a method of investigating music instruments.
Løkkegaard is interested in music instruments not only as sources of sound but also as cultural markers embedded within different systems and hierarchies. This being a driver in Løkkegaards work has led into compositions of music that can be performed by musicians as well as non-musicians - all revolving around the focus on how to dissolve shame or trauma connected with a particular music instrument and the act of performing music in general.
"I try to reinvent the instrument from a constructive zero. Create new music and create new ways of listening, and I work with multiplication of sound as a way to make the wellknown sound dissolve and reappear as a new sound". (NLL)
Working with physical sound
Over the recent years Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard has experimented with creating music that lets the instruments transcend their inherent sonic norms and reappear as new, untouched sound. In the work series SOUND X SOUND he explores this by way of multiplication. He has written and recorded the seven pieces of SOUND X SOUND from 2013 to 2016 – a series of works multiplying one instrument a number of times: One piece is written for 9 pianos, another for 18 clarinets, 10 hi-hats and so on.
The multiplication brings out new timbral phenomena, interference of sound waves and vibrations, and brings out what Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard calls the sound's potential of transformation. He describes this as the quality in a musical piece, when you no longer hear recognisable instruments, but instead the individual sound, as well as the individual musician, is dissolved into the collective sound.
A sonic as well as human synthesis.
He explains the concept of this sound as follows:
"Imagine you enter a room with vibrant acoustics, such as a cafe full of people having conversations, and when you're close to those conversations you hear the language and understand the words. If you step away from the tables, however, and stand in the doorway, you begin to loose the ability to distinguish the words from one another. Now instead of hearing the individual conversations, melts all the conversations together, and transform into a one new sound. A sound of people without words and language. Just as when you hear a group of geese squawk, or the wind in tree tops, a kind of nature given sound of people. Once the language is dissolved and the words stop making sense, what is left, is the sound."
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard points out that usually when we listen to music, we automatically search for a melody, a chord or a rhythm, but music can be much more than that, and approaching his music one should instead listen in the same way as you listen to the waves breaking at the seashore, or even, as in some of his latest work, imagine the sound ourselves, by listening and creating music using our inner ear.
The SOUND X SOUND pieces do not have clear narratives but rather they possess sculptural and repetitive qualities.
Working with imaginary sound
Løkkegaard is composing imaginary music only hearable for the inner ear of the listener, where written stories about sound manifest themselves as imaginary pieces of music or soundless sound installations evokes inner soundscapes within the listeners mind. A kind of music in which the listener also becomes the composer, and a kind of music that unfolds itself in a utopic space -a space of potentiality.
In 2019 Løkkegaards Symphony No. 1 was released - an entire symphony written in prose. The Symphony inhabits multiple states at the same time - being in constant fluctuation between alphabet, word, language and meaning - & between book, score, written text and imaginary music. The ancient cycle of sounds transforming into words transforming back into sounds is summed up by Marshall McLuhan who said that "Man was given an eye for an ear", and Løkkegaard is hoping to give back an ear for an eye.
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaards interest in how stories about sound can be accepted as being sound detached from any physical manifestation and how the narrative meta-sphere can be a space for artistic action in what could be described as curatorial times, has also lead Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard into creating Curatorium, a curatorial non- event that celebrates sound on an annual basis. Curatorium is a story about a sound-art festival that never takes place - a festival in between realities. Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard raises the question: When does something actually exist?
The work of NLL has been presented at a variety of different venues and museums such as MoMA (NY - as a part of the René Magritte exhibition The Mystery of the Ordinary, 2013), Imaginary West Indies (Overgaden Copenhagen, 2017), ISCM (Vancouver, 2017), Radiophrenia (Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2017), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, 2017), Roskilde Festival (2017), Harpa (Reykjavik, 2017), G((o))ng Tomorrow Festival (Copenhagen 2016, 2018), Nordic Music Days (Norway, 2019), Akusmata (SF, 2020) and his works has been released on labels such as Hiatus (DK) and Important Records (US). NLL is associate professor at RMC in Copenhagen, and has given lectures at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Artistic Research Forum (N), Goldsmiths University of London a.o.p. NLL has been awarded with several prizes a.o. from the Danish Art Foundation and the Sonning Foundation.
Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard was educated from the RMC in Copenhagen and the School of Architecture at The Royal Danish Academy of Art.
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Jacob Kirkegaard, Malte Iverson, Carolina Bittencourt, Per Lyhne Løkkegaard, Karolina Zapolska, Mike Højgaard, Thomas Dyrholm.


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From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions
22. aprile 202122 aprile 2021, 12:00
WSL Birmensdorf, Hörsaal
Organizzato da:
Anna Hersperger, Robert Pazur, Simona Bacau
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Cities and urban regions are among the most dynamic land-use systems in the world, with dramatic consequences for the provision of ecosystem services and the livelihood of people. Planning is a multifaceted activity with extensive experience in the management of these urbanization processes. However, our understanding of planning's contribution to shaping urban land use, form and structure is still incomplete, with serious consequences for the efficacy of urban planning and land change models.
This international conference aims to bring together the community of scholars working on planning evaluation and urban modelling. The participants are offered the opportunity to present their current research and to discuss how theoretical developments, data sources, comparative studies and modelling approaches might advance the field.
The conference is financially supported by the CONCUR project and sustained by Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.
Further information
Registration and Abstract Submission OPEN AGAIN!
Abstract Submission
All accepted abstracts will remain valid but you now have the opportunity to update your abstract or withdraw it.
The conference fee is 230 CHF. Students pay a reduced fee of 150 CHF.
The conference fee includes coffee breaks, lunches Monday until Thursday, icebreaker and conference dinner.
Keynote Speakers
Dena Kasraian is Assistant Professor of Urbanism and Urban Architecture at the Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology. She has experience in the fields of architecture, urbanism and transportation and is interested in conducting multidisciplinary research between these fields. Her research interests include investigating long-term transport-land use interactions, determinants of travel demand and urbanization, and the role of spatial policies, using geographic information systems and quantitative spatial analysis.
Stefan Siedentop is Professor for Spatial Planning at the Technical University of Dortmund and Managing Director of Research in the ILS-Institute for Regional and Urban Development (ILS). He graduated in spatial planning at the University Dortmund and started his academic career as a research assistant and project manager at the Leibniz-Institute of Environmental and Regional Development (IÖR) in Dresden. In 2007, Stefan Siedentop was appointed as a full professor of spatial and environmental planning at the Institute of Regional Development Planning, University of Stuttgart. He headed the institute until 2012 before taking up his current position in Dortmund. His research addresses the analysis of urban spatial structure and urban change at different spatial scales as well as policies of urban growth management and sustainable land use.
Peilei Fan is a Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at Michigan State University. Focusing on urban environment, sustainability and innovation, her research has been funded mostly by NASA and NSF. She has been the Secretary General of International Association of Landscape Ecology (2019-24), a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations (2019-20), and a Fulbright US Scholar in Taipei and Shanghai (2017-18).
Angelus Eisingeris a historian of urban planning. Since 2013 he is director of RZU (Planungsdachverband Region Zürich und Umgebung), a Zürich based think tank on spatial planning. From 2008-2013 he held the Chair of Metropolitan History and Culture at HafenCity University in Hamburg. He habilitated at the ETH Zürich and published multiple books and research papers on urban transformation and the impact of planning.
How to get to WSL
By public transport
Plan your trip online via SBB.
In Zurich main station take the S-Bahn line S5 to Birmensdorf (final destination: Zug) or S14 (final destination: Affoltern am Albis), travel time ca. 20 minutes.
From Birmensdorf train station take postal bus no. 350 for two stops to Sternen/WSL.
Alternatively, walk about 25 minutes.
By tram/postal bus: Take the tram no. 14 to the final destimation (Triemli). On the opposite side of the road you can take either postal bus no. 350 or 220 to the WSL (stop: Sternen/WSL).
By car
Coming from the direction of Berne...
On the motorway Bern-Zürich follow the signs St. Gallen/Flughafen from Limmattaler Kreuz then Flughafen/Zürich-Nordring/Urdorf in the lane for Urdorf. After the tunnel «Honeret», leave the motorway at exit «Urdorf-Süd» (exit 28) and continue straight on in the direction of Birmensdorf. Right after a Shell petrol station turn left at the traffic lights and go uphill for about 2 km. The WSL is on your left right after a gas station on the right.
Coming from the direction of St. Gall...
On the motorway Zürich-Bern, before reaching Zurich, follow the signs Zürich/Flughafen and then the signs for Transit/Flughafen/Zürich. Change to the left-hand lane when the sign for Bern/Basel/ Zürich-Nordring appears. When the lanes fork, keep left to Bern/Basel/Zürich-Nordring (Flughafen to the right). Continue following Bern/Basel/Zürich. Immediately after the «Gubrist» tunnel, take the left-hand lane to Zürich/Urdorf (straight on is marked Bern/Basel). After a few meters follow the sign for Urdorf. After the tunnel «Honeret», leave the motorway at exit «Urdorf-Süd» (exit 28) and continue straight on in the direction of Birmensdorf. Right after a Shell petrol station turn left at the traffic lights and go uphill for about 2 km. The entrance to the WSL is on your left right after a gas station (on the right).
Coming from the direction of Sargans...
At the bifurcation 32 on the motorway A3 follow the signs «Westring – Basel» through the Uetliberg tunnel. Leave the motorway via exit «Uitikon» (exit 29) and go straight in the direction of Zürich. After the next traffic light the entrance to the WSL is on your left right after a gas station (on the right).
You find guest parking spots (for a fee) behind the main building after passing the main entrance.
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Dr. Silvia Tobias
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A$AP Rocky is charged with assault for violent actions at Made In America festival.
Picture: ASAP Rocky aka Rakim Mayers - Special Performance By Rap Artist ASAP Rocky At TAO Nightclub at The Venetian Resort and Casino - Las Vegas,...
The rapper known as A$AP Rocky has been charged with misdemeanour assault after slapping a female fan, according to TMZ
The female who attended the Made In America Music festival claims to have been slapped by the 24 year old as he was walking through a crowd of fans and that she is suffered whiplash from the unprovoked attack. The rapper is said to have become agitated by several fans trying to rip his t-shirt off.
The alleged victim, made a formal criminal complaint with the District Attorney's Office on Wednesday. A spokeswomen for the Attorney's office confirmed that yesterday the charges in the complaint were approved, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.
This isn't the first time A$AP- AKA- Rackin Mayers has allegedly slapped a female concertgoer. On his first Australian tour this summer, the MC was caught on camera apparently slapping a fan during a show in Sydney, the video has since been removed from the internet. Billboard reports that "a female fan in a tier above him taps the artist on the head to get his attention. She then greets him by blowing a kiss. He responds with what appears to be a slap to the face".
A$AP also caused a lot of attention after the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25th 2013. After the event the rapper was caught on camera trying to pick a fight with MTV's top flight security, as we reported at the time of the incident.
A$ASP Rocky has yet to comment on the recent incident as more details of the assault have yet to emerge.
The young rapper has reportedly assaulted a female fan
A$AP Rocky has attracted nevative attention to himself several times this year.
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I'm trying to work on a GoogleDocs Excel type spreadsheet and am a little stuck with a calculation. (It does seem to be able to do most of the things that Excel can do, but not everything.)
I'm trying to have one sheet for each month of the year and another "main" sheet.
Each monthly sheet pulls the users from the main sheet, and shows the points that each user has accrued for the month. The method that points are added to the sheet is by pasting the result of a script - but as sometimes there are new users from one month to the next, and some users aren't on the subsequent month, this isn't likely to be in the same order as the previous month/s...
What I'm looking to do is have the 'main' sheet review the other sheets and add all of their points into there, so that they can see where they stand in the group.
Here's an excerpt of the headers from the 'main' sheet, in case it helps:
Username | Rank | Points
I might also want to sort out a %age change from one month to the next, but I know how to do that already...
I was thinking about doing a DSUM type thing, but considering that there are hundreds of users this doesn't seem like it would work without a lot of manual adjustments - and then I was thinking about the VLOOKUP formula instead, but IDK how to put that...
Any help gratefully accepted..!
As you have the data in the order Name ... Nickname, VLOOKUP will not work for returning a Name for a given Nickname.
VLOOKUP always looks for a match in the first column of the lookup range and returns a result from a column to the right.
You could try a combination of Match and Offset
Match returns the number of rows down the list that it finds a match, and then this number is used as a row offset, for the Offset function, and -1 is the column Offset.
If there is no match, then you get an #NA error, so use this:
=IF(ISNA(MATCH(B7,Sheet1!$C$2:$C$61,0)),"No match",OFFSET(Sheet1!$C$1,MATCH(B7,Sheet1!$C$2:$C$61,0),-1))
Knowing nothing about the Google docs spreadsheet, but based on your comment that it's like Excel:
If you have created and maintain a full list of usernames on the sheet named "main", and the names are in column A, starting at A2,
and if your 12 monthly sheets are named "M1", "M2" etc.
Then in cell B2 this formula will add all the points for the person named in cell A2:
You will need to extend this to all 12 months - I just did a few as an example
Change the range on the monthly sheets to match the actual columns of names and points, and the likely number of rows that will be used.
When correct, drag the formula down on the main sheet alongside all the usernames.
I looked at Google docs spreadsheet help and SUMIF is a function that is available, and different sheets are referenced using the ! character, as in Excel. Single quotes around the sheet names seems to be acceptable - and required if there is a space in the sheet name.
(The order of usernames on the monthly sheets does not matter)
I note that you mention DSUM - DSUM is the equivalent of SUM (in Excel) when you have setup a database - it's a particular structure in Excel and DSUM should only be used with the database structure (there are other database equivalents such as DCOUNT in place of COUNT). the database equivalents require additional parameters such as field.
Thanks for that, I think I forgot to mention that I've already got a column on the 'main' sheet that added the totals from the other sheets. I've modifried the formula you gave to:
Above is for the month of July (in case you were curious), but I've adjusted it to suit each of the other months too. Users are listed in column C on the main sheet, and in B on the others*. Works a charm.. :)
Next up, if I can be bothered would be to generate a chart to show the overall/combined changes for the total number of points.
I had a bit of a mission getting the count function to work on the users list, but that's obviously something within GoogleDocs as when I downloaded a copy it worked fine in Excel (2007) - but it doesn't really make too much difference, as we can just use the row number..
Thanks for your help.!
* = I've had to delete what was column A on the other sheets (a count of the number of users, but was blank if there was no user) in order to reduce the number of formulae on the other sheets, as it took me to the limit of formulae that GoogleDocs will allow you to use on a spreadsheet... LOL
The previous response (from Humar) worked a treat, albeit with a few minor modifications that they wouldn't have know about...
I have stumbled on a slightly different (one-off) issue now, where I need to be able to to get the user's name from their nickname, but I can't get the VLOOKUP to work properly. I can get it to bring up their username if I put their username (not very useful) and I can get their nickname if I put in their username, but I'm trying to use get the username from the nickname.....and that's in both GoogleDocs and Excel..
Columns are as follows, just to save confusion:
Monthly sheet, where the formula will be:
Name | Nickname
Main sheet, where the master list of users is:
[blank] | Name | Nickname
So far, the closest I have been able to get, in my Excel test spreadie is:
[[B7 = random user's name, result: same user's name - in this example, that is User7]]
[[B9 = random user's name, result: same user's nickname - in this example, that is also User7]]
Unfortunately those don't work, but it is at least a little more useful than the result of either of the following formulae - which just bring up "#N/A":
[[B6 = random user's nickname - in this example, that is Nick3]]
[[B8 = random user's nickname - in this example, that is Nick3]]
I did try to make the search area wider, to try to get it to pick up the correct column, but that just seems to have thrown an error straight off the bat..
From this VLOOKUP example page ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/e... ) I'm trying to get the formula in Column A to pick up the adjacent cell's entry (Column B) and find it in the other sheet, then give me the correlating Username for that....but I can't manage to tweak the formula/e to get it to work..
Anyone here have any suggestions..?
As you have the data in the order Name ... Nickname, VLOOKUP will not work for returning a Name for a given Nickname.
VLOOKUP always looks for a match in the first column of the lookup range and returns a result from a column to the right.
You could try a combination of Match and Offset
Match returns the number of rows down the list that it finds a match, and then this number is used as a row offset, for the Offset function, and -1 is the column Offset.
If there is no match, then you get an #NA error, so use this:
=IF(ISNA(MATCH(B7,Sheet1!$C$2:$C$61,0)),"No match",OFFSET(Sheet1!$C$1,MATCH(B7,Sheet1!$C$2:$C$61,0),-1))
With a bit of minor tweaking, to suit the actual columns in the GDocs spreadie, it worked perfectly..!
Here is the final version:
=OFFSET('Master Sheet'!$C$1,MATCH(B2,'Master Sheet'!$C$2:$C$582,0),-1)
Thank you so much.!


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In this tutorial, I am going to explain the syntax and usage of Excel DATE function in Microsoft Excel.
The Excel DATE function returns the date in the Excel recognized serial number format that represents a date. It returns the date based on individual year, month and day components you specify. It is one of the main functions to calculate the dates in Microsoft Excel.
The DATE function is very useful when you need to supply dates as inputs to other Excel functions. There are chances that the supplied date in text format might not recognize by some of the Excel functions. Since DATE allows you to supply all three components (can be a cell reference or result of formulas) separately, assembling them together returns the valid Excel date that guarantees the correct outcome.
For example; =DATE (2018, 4, 30) returns a serial number that represents April 30th, 2018.
DATE (year, month, day)
- year: A number up to 4 digits that represent the year of a date.
- month: An integer value that represents a month of the year, from 1 (January) to 12 (December).
- day: A number representing the day of the month, from 1 to 31.
Examples: Excel DATE Function
Let's take a few examples to understand the use of DATE function in different situations. `
Return a serial number of date
One of the most obvious uses where you want to simply return a date, but you don't know the valid system date format or you enter the date in a format which is not considered a valid date by the system that may result in returning an unexpected result.
In the above-given example, the system accepts the valid date in 'M/D/YYYY' format whereas initially the date was supplied in 'D/M/YYYY' format (left image) that resulted in swapping the day value with the month.
So, it is always better to supply the date using the DATE function that returns the serial number of the valid excel date.
=DATE (2018, 5, 9) returns the serial number 43229 corresponding to May 9, 2018.
Return a serial number of the 1st day of the current year
In the previous example, all three arguments provided directly into DATE function, however, you can avoid supplying date components directly to a DATE formula as the all or any of three components can be retrieved using other Excel date functions.
Let's say you want a function to always return the serial number for the 1st day of the present year. So, if the excel file will be opened after two years in 2020, it should display the date of the 1st day of 2020, i.e. January 1, 2020.
The formula, =DATE (YEAR (TODAY() ), 1, 1) will always return the serial number representing the 1st day of the current year.
Get the date after 2 years and 5 months from given date
Suppose, you want to add the certain number of years, months and/or days to a particular date given in excel. As the same can be done using other excel methods. Also, I am going to show you how can you use DATE function to get a date after adding years, months, and/or days value to any date.
In the example above, after extracting all three date values using YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions, I have simply added a number 2 and 5 to year and month values respectively and upon execution, DATE returned the serial number '43983' representing 1-Jun-2018.
Additional Notes: –
- If year argument is:
- from 1900 to 9999 inclusive, Excel uses the exact value for the year. For example, =DATE (2018, 4, 1) returns April 1, 2018.
- from 0 to 1899, Excel adds that specified value to 1900 to calculate the year. For example, DATE (118, 1, 1) returns January 1, 2018.
- is less than 0 or greater than 9999, DATE returns the #NUM! error.
- If month argument is:
- greater than 12, Excel adds month to the first month in the specified year.
- less than zero, Excel subtracts the magnitude of that number of months, plus 1, from the first month in the specified year. For example, DATE (2018, -3, 1) returns the serial number representing September 1, 2017 (3 months subtracted from January 1, 2018)
- Same as like the month argument, day argument can be positive or negative. If day argument is:
- greater than the number of days in the specified month, Excel adds that number of days to the first day in the specified month.
- less than or equal to zero, Excel subtracts the absolute value of the day, plus 1, from the first day of the specified month.
I hope the examples and other additional information taken in this tutorial, helped you to have the understanding of DATE function. I will bring more examples of DATE function with other Excel features.


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