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The trial of Michael Jackson's doctor for involuntary manslaughter. The new network TV season. (Why is it that Hollywood always resembles the birds on the telephone line, who all take off in the same direction when the first crow squawks "Mad Men"?) Doonesbury. New York Times op-ed columns; all of them. The latest Everton soccer match. (Oops. Better take that one back.)
The NBA strike. The Real Housewives of Anyplace. (Though if someone brings us "The Real Housewives of Riyadh" I might tune in. And perhaps "Keeping Up With the Pelosis," a perfect study in hypocrisy.) The latest press release from CAIR. Brett Favre's latest comeback plans. Anything by or about Lady Gaga. Nancy Grace's "wardrobe malfunction" on "Dancing with the Doofuses." (Doofi?) The latest low-carb diet. Deepak Chopra. Michelle Obama. Joe McGinness. The latest news out of Argentina. The League of Women Voters. Who shot J.R.
But one thing I do care about, a little: Facebook's confusing new format. Can't Obama do something about that?


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Simon McPhedran getting the FA
Problem of the week #6 - Raining Potatoes V5
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Problem of the Week #7 - All Along the Watchtower V7
The week's featured problem isn't in any of the guides yet, but we're working on the area and hopefully will have it ready to go this fall. In the meantime, this problem is just too good not to feature! That and I forgot to get any more footage this week and this is basically the only thing I could slap together, but let's go with the first reason. All Along the Watchtower is a unique feeling line: the first moves are delicate and tensiony and you have to stay very tight to avoid barn dooring
Problem of the week #5 - Swiss Miss V2
This week I've got an old classic for you, Swiss Miss at Eagle Pass. This was one of the first lines we cleaned when we started bouldering and I remember working on it for ages before finally sending. It's nice to come back to old climbs like this and remind yourself how much stronger you've got! The name is a nod to the Swiss born Manuela Arnold, who found the key beta using a small crimp to reach out to the arete that is the standard way to climb it for us now. Leave a comment if you have
Englishman Guide Updates
The Englishman guide has finally been updated with all the new problems and finished projects added at and in the aftermath of Rumble in the Jungle. To quickly summarize, we managed to add 14 brand new lines, and 4 standing projects were completed. Not a bad showing! The Englishman now sports 145 climbs total, and there are definitely still lines out there to be added. Make sure to head over to the area page to grab a fresh copy of the guide, and keep an eye out for updates coming soon at
Problem of the Week #4: Pearly Gates V8
We're back on track for featured problems! Sort of... I'm heading down to the Kootenays this weekend and just realized I hadn't prepared a video, so this one's going to be a lot less polished than normal. That being said, the problem itself is awesome, and is definitely one of my favorite V8's! The featured problem this week is Pearly Gates and the Victor Lake boulders. This problem climbs the very overhung downhill arete of the Heaven boulder, and was a sporadically worked on project for
Revelstoke Bouldering News #2
There's been a lot of action in the bouldering scene here in Revelstoke in the last couple weeks, so here's an update. Rumble in the Jungle The bouldering competition Rumble in the Jungle was held at the Englishman boulders on July 23rd and was a huge success. Despite some last minute rain the night before, the boulders dried off enough for pretty much everything to be climbable, and the 75+ participants got in 8 hours of solid bouldering. Groups came from Calagary, Canmore, Kelowna,
Problem of the week #3 - Last Spike V5
This week we're leaving the Englishman and heading somewhere that's brand new for me, and probably most of you too: Greely boulders. Developed in 2013 by John Maltais, this area consists of four huge blocks sitting on a mossy terrace on the bank of the Illecillewaet river. Similar to Victor Lake boulders, Greely is a small area of mainly hard, classic problems. I've still only sampled a few, but this week's feature, Last Spike V5, could be my favorite V5 in town.
Problem of the week #2 - Usul V8/9
This week we're going to showcase a harder problem: Usul V8/9 at the Englishman Boulders. This strikingly overhung arete was one of the last big lines to be developed due to the massive amount of work required to make the landing safe. Before the landing was built, the bank sloped steeply into the creek and you'd basically be swimming if you fell. Thankfully, the landing is great now, however the line remains very intimidating nonetheless. The hardest moves are down low where bad left hand
Revelstoke Bouldering News
Record breaking numbers of visiting climbers head to the Englishman boulders The Englishman saw record numbers of visitors over the long weekend as climbers from Kelowna and Kamloops flocked to town to escape the Okanagan heat. Around 25 climbers in total made the trip, which for us locals seems crazy! We're still surprised to see just one other party out bouldering, let alone numbers like this. Some seriously strong folks showed up as well, and a couple longstanding projects such as the Fang
Problem of the Week #1: Headbanger V3
This is the first installment in what I hope will be a weekly series highlighting classic problems in town that I think deserve a bit more attention. I'll try and showcase a range of grades and locations, and even some longstanding projects that we'd love to see sent. The feature problem this week is Headbanger, a classic V3 at the Englishman with a frustratingly difficult first move and some seriously technical footwork throughout. We originally called it a V1, following our usual pattern

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I setup XFCE in Spanish, and it looks pretty decent, except and the desktop Icons still appeared in English, and several of the apps also did not have any spanish translations. Like gnumeric (i think that was the name of the spreadsheet app) had no spanish translation files.
So getting to my point,
Please tell me how I can be of service in translating at least the basic desktop icons in to spanish. By the way the distribution I used to install was XUBUNTU.
I really like the clean look of the interface and how well it runs on machines with only 65 megs of ram.
Gnumeric is not an Xfce application, but you can probably use the Gnome's i18n project to help translating it. You can find more about translating Xfce here: http://i18n.xfce.org/
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I left London in the middle of January with no idea of what to expect, as I had never been to South America before, could hardly speak any Spanish and had never been away for so many months by myself before. However, I was very much looking forward to embracing a completely different culture. When I arrived in Cusco, about 40 hours after leaving London, I was met by one of the Projects Abroad staff who showed me around Cusco and the Sacred Valley.
I was then taken to my host family. I lived with my host mother called Gladis, grandmother called Abelina and brother Marco. There was also another volunteer who was my age from Switzerland who helped to translate for me at the beginning when I could not understand much. It was surprising how quickly one can pick up the language when you submerge yourself in the country and live with a local family.
Whilst in Peru I also had 30 hours of Spanish lessons during the first month to help with grammar but I felt that the most efficient and pleasant way of learning was sitting down with my very patient host mother and having conversations about everything and anything. I would usually start off a sentence, get stuck and she would help finish it off for me. As the days passed I got quicker and found it easier to construct sentences.
Nutrition Project
For a month and a half I worked in a nutrition centre in Ccotohuincho, Urubamba. I was only meant to work there for a month but I was enjoying it so much that I asked to stay for longer. Each morning I would get the bus from Calca which would take 40 minutes and I would often get squashed as more people would cram in.
From Monday to Wednesday I would work in the centre doing activities with the mothers and their young children teaching them about basic nutrition. Projects Abroad created games which got everyone involved with learning about the different food groups and vitamins and minerals. Many of the mothers and children would draw pictures to express a healthy lifestyle, as some of them could not write, and we would decorate the walls with them alongside the nutrition posters.
We held an event to promote the awareness of anaemia by cooking food that contains iron-rich pig's blood as it is much cheaper than meat. I tried some of the blood burgers and they were surprisingly not bad at all! On the Thursday and Friday I went on house visits with a nutritionist and we would explain about health to mothers who lived too far away from the centre in Urubamba. It was strange entering someone's house as I felt like I was intruding but they were always very kind and would listen attentively to my broken Spanish.
Summer School
During the first month I worked with five to twelve year olds teaching in a summer school. We mainly did arts and crafts, but as there were up to 40 children we generally split them into two groups and took some outside to play. There were two other volunteers but no teachers so we had to come up with all the lesson structures but that meant that we could be as creative as we liked.
The day started at 8am and finished late with a break in between so we would have two classes each day. We taught the older children basic English including numbers and animals. Some items they made during activity time were papier-mâché hot air balloons, flags of South America and a rainbow using tissue paper. We also had lots of obstacle courses using skipping ropes, balls and hula hoops and they had great pleasure playing with a colourful parachute.
My Care Project
The first centre I worked in, in Lamay, was a short bus journey away. I looked after children between the ages of one to three years old. We fed them during meal times and helped clear up as there was always food that had been thrown on the floor!
The second was in Calca, where I lived, with three to five year olds and was more of a kindergarten, where there were two teachers and we would play games, puzzles, sing songs and teach them colours in Spanish and English.
Travelling around Peru
After over three months of volunteering I left Cusco and took a 20 hour bus to Lima to meet a friend and start travelling for two months. We went up the north coast of Peru visiting Huanchaco to see the city of Chan Chan. We then crossed the border to Ecuador where we spent two weeks. Our first stop being the beautiful colonial city of Cuenca, then the very remote town of Chugchilan in order to see the breath-taking Lake Quilotoa.
We continued onto Quito where we did some day trips to the Equator and the artisan market of Otavalo. Our final destination in Ecuador was Vilcabamba where we could admire the scenery on horseback. We spent a couple of long journeys on the bus to get back to Lima where we then continued down to the south of Peru calling at Paracas, Huacachina and Nazca where we had a boat trip to see a variety of marine life, went sand-boarding and dune buggying, and flew over the mysterious lines.
In Arequipa we looked around the stunning Monastery, spent a couple of days exploring the Colca Canyon and admiring the condors. We then travelled to Puno and stayed a night on Amantani, one of the islands of Lake Titicaca, with a host family where we got to try their traditional dress and learn some of their dancing. We also saw the reed islands of Uros and learnt about their way of life.
We traversed the border to Copacabana, Bolivia where we went to the island of the sun where the first Incas were meant to have appeared. The next cities were La Paz and Cochabamba then we headed down to Uyuni to do a three day tour of the salt flats. Our last stops were Potosi and Sucre where my friend and I separated then I got four buses in order to get back to Cusco.
I stayed with my host family again for a few more days in Calca and experienced the festival of the sun before I got my flight the next day. I felt ready to return home after travelling but when I returned back to my host family I had such mixed feelings as I felt that Calca was partly my home having lived there for a few months and they had cared for me as if I was their own daughter.
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New timer pill cap only releases opiates on patient's schedule
Could this pill bottle cap be a key to curbing opioid abuse?
CVS Pharmacy designed special caps to help patients keep track of their pill-taking, and the caps can be used for any medication, not just opioids.
"(They're) called 'timer caps'. They're like a stopwatch for your pill bottle," said Meghan Barry Bissonnette, a pharmacist at CVS. "This cap lets you know the last time you closed your pill bottle. So say you take a medication once a day, you take it every morning. And all of a sudden it's noon and you go, 'Did I take my medication today?' You can go back and look at that bottle and it counts up the number of hours since your last dose -- since you last closed the bottle."
Bissonnette said the caps may also spur patients to talk with their health care providers if they find themselves turning to their prescription sooner than they should.
"Sometimes our minds can trick us into when we last took our medications, when we're due; did we take them? Did we not? Can I take my next dose? So this is a visual reminder that's incredibly simple to use. There's no setting," she said. "It's just close your cap like you would your normal pill bottle and it counts up."
The timer caps have a child-safe seal, but don't lock. Nor do they prevent users from taking out too much at once.
But the timer feature could indicate if someone else is also opening the medication.
"The most important thing for this cap is it just tells you the last time it was closed. So it will count up from that time. It's mostly used for the patent, but it will show you the last time the bottle was closed," she said.
The caps come in three sizes and can be reused after being reset.


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Record Turn-out For Fall Career Fair
SOCORRO, N.M. September 27, 2012 – The Fall 2012 Career and Graduate School Fair had the largest student turn-out and one of the largest number of exhibitors.
'Meet the Recruiters' was a new event designed to allow students to interact with recruiters in a casual atmosphere.
Intrepid Potash of Carlsbad has a strong relationship with New Mexico Tech, hiring graduates regularly -- and attending Career Fairs faithfully.
The line-up of events also expanded this year, with a new "Meet The Recruiters" social hour the night before the Career Fair, "Flash Resume Reviews," and various workshops. More organizations this year conducted interviews on campus after the Fair, with 15 interviewing on September 20 and 21. Six more will return in October to interview students.
"Most students seemed to have positive experiences at the fair, which I believe can be attributed largely to preparation," Anthony said. "Many employers commented on being impressed with Tech students, noting that they were particularly well prepared and engaging. Several stated plans to bring students to their sites for second interviews."
Anthony said student satisfaction was at an all-time high this fall, with more than 80 percent of students reporting being satisfied with the Career Fair. She encourages students to continue to search out and prepare for new opportunities by utilizing the Career Services Career Connect system and attending upcoming events, like the Etiquette Dinner in November, noting that, "There are always things you can do to improve yourself and stand out."
The Spring Career and Graduate School Fair will be on February 7, 2013, also in the third floor ballrooms of the Fidel Center.
The spring event is great for students who will graduate in May and are still looking for positions, as well as students looking for summer internships and jobs.
Employer registration for the event will open in early November, and students should watch for updates on the Career Services website.
Esterline Defense Technologies from Coachella, Calif., was a first-time presenter at New Mexico Tech.
|Freeport-McMoRan is a longtime supporter of New Mexico Tech in many ways, including hiring graduates and supporting the Mineral Engineering Department.
Macey Scholar Hannah Sullivan chats with a representative of Honeywell.
|Los Alamos National Laboratory has many relationships with New Mexico Tech in academics and through hiring.
Microsoft returned to New Mexico Tech after about a decade.
Mosaic Potash in Carlsbad is a steady employer of Tech grads.
|Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has become a solid employer of Tech grads in recent years.
|Rene Kafka of the Mineral Engineering Departmen talks to Peabody Energy, which consistently hires Tech students as interns and graduates as engineers.


text: Despite its age, Lacoste has always had its finger on the pulse of modern day youth. Always changing with the times and being fashionably relevant is why the brand is beloved by each new generation. Although Lacoste is a lifestyle fashion house, the most cherished apparel piece in the brand is T-shirts. Lacoste hit a hole in one when it debuted in 1933 producing high-end simplistic polo T-shirts displaying the iconic crocodile logo. The heritage piece is still produced today, but going along with its successful recipe, Lacoste offers plenty of intriguing graphic T-shirts perfect for adolescents.


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Having heard the story about President Bush's needling of the vision-impaired reporter for wearing sunglasses as he asked a question during yesterday'a press conference, I sympathized with President Bush and admired the reporter for making nothing of it. Today I was shocked to learn that the reporter was Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times. I have had the occasion to speak with Peter in his professional capacity by telephone on several occasions and always been impressed both by his doggedness and his fairness.
Peter was the reporter, for example, who discovered and broke the story that "Buckhead" — Rathergate's Paul Revere or Deep Throat — was Atlanta attorney Harry McDougald. See our posts "Hurricane Dan: Get serious" and "Meet Buckhead." In any event, I want to take the opportunity to salute Peter publicly by name for his class and for the example he has set.


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Gurock Software announced the release of TestRail 2.2, a new version of their web-based test management software. TestRail helps software development teams and QA departments to efficiently manage, track, and organize their software testing efforts. TestRail 2.2 introduces improved issue tracker integration and comes with full support for Jira, FogBugz, Bugzilla and other tools.
While TestRail can already be integrated with most web-based bug tracking and project management solution, the new defect plugins improve the workflow of testers considerably as they don't need to leave the application to accomplish common tasks. TestRail 2.2 ships with ready-to-use defect plugins for Jira, FogBugz, Bugzilla, Trac, YouTrack and Gemini.
The improved integration support allows testers to push bug reports from TestRail to third-party issue tracking tools while reusing the entered test results and test case details. Testers can now also look up bug reports, issue details and defect statuses in TestRail without having to access the bug tracking tool


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The Obama administration is deliberately leaking information on US cyber-attacks against Iran in order to portray itself in a favourable light to voters, Senator John McCain has alleged.
In a Senate speech and media interviews, McCain referred to sensational claims made by journalist David Sanger last week that the Stuxnet worm attack uncovered in 2010 was part of a longer-term, organised software campaign to undermine Iran's nuclear and military capability.
"With the leaks that these articles were based on, our enemies now know much more than they even did the day before they came out about important aspects of the nation's unconventional offensive capability and how we use them," McCain told the Senate.
"Such disclosures can only undermine similar ongoing or future operations and, in this sense, compromise national security. For this reason, regardless of how politically useful these leaks may be to the president, they have to stop."
Stuxnet has long been assumed to be part of a US-Israeli campaign against the country but the detail revealed by Sanger still surprised a lot of people acclimatised to an era of 'plausible deniability'.
Far from being an embarrassment, McCain alleged that drip-feeding information on cyber-operations was politically useful.
"They're intentionally leaking information to enhance President Obama's image as a tough guy for the elections. That is unconscionable," McCain later said in interviews.
The leaks were part of a wider tendency to "boast" about operations, including attacks on anti-Western militants in Afghanistan and elsewhere, which removed the mystique of such actions.
The FBI has apparently opened an investigation into the alleged leaks, which are both detailed and yet, paradoxically, still unconfirmed. How details of the Stuxnet 'Olympic Games' programme were leaked, by whom and with what purpose is perhaps the last unsolved mystery.
Some see an investigation as absurd. If McCain's characterisation of the leak as being deliverate is correct, Sanger's Stuxnet story must have had some level of approval from senior officials so what is there to investigate? The White House has not responded to McCain's allegations.
The affair contrasts markedly with the UK's modus operandi where special forces operations and cyber-warfare are rarely referred to and as a matter of official policy otherwise neither confirmed nor denied.
Normally the Stuxnet revelations would be just another interesting security story but they arrived in the week a new and previously unknown piece of apparent cyber-malware called 'Flame' attracted huge attention. That too is now being widely blamed on the US as part of its anti-iran activities. Some now worry that the US's actions - not to mention the appearance of gloating - might set a bad precedent for other states undoubtedly wielding cyber-weapons of their own.


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A jazz pianist from Connecticut will be among talented performers getting the 12th annual Evergreen Jazz Festival into full swing this weekend.
Jeff Barnhart will play piano accompanied by his wife, Anne, a flutist, as the Ivory and Gold duo during the three-day event, which runs Friday through Sunday at various venues in Evergreen.
Jim Reiners, one of the founders of the Jazz Festival, said he was excited about Barnhart's appearance and also about a new venue at this year's event, the Stagecoach Sports Grill.
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|Article Index
|UNRIC Library Newsletter - May 2013
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Yearbook Express
Debuting on the website of the Yearbook of the United Nations, the authoritative reference work on the annual activities of the UN system, is the multilingual Yearbook Express. The Yearbook Express features chapter introductions and table of contents from the most recently published Yearbook in the six official UN languages. It was produced by teams of online volunteers from the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) working directly with the Publishing and Editorial Section of the Outreach Division.
UNRIC Info Point & Library now on Facebook
Are you looking for the latest Security Council resolution or the full text of a new UN report discussed in the press? Would you like to find out what human rights reports relevant to your country have just been published? Do you need to keep up-to-date on new UN research tools?
Then check out our new UNRIC Info Point & Library Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/UNRICLibrary
Democratic Republic of the Congo – Guiding Principles
English & French: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/main/activities_by_region/africa/pid/24261
The United Nations Envoy for Africa's Great Lakes Region proposed on 21 May 2013 a set of principles to guide immediate peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while voicing concerns over renewed fighting in the eastern part of the country.
Related UN News Centre Stories:
English: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44957&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo#.UZxveZxF1CM
French: http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=30374&Cr=RDC&Cr1=#.UZxvoJxF1CM
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
English: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/minusma/
French: http://www.un.org/fr/peacekeeping/missions/minusma/
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established by Security Council resolution 2100 of 25 April 2013 to support political processes in that country and carry out a number of security-related tasks.
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations – Fact Sheet: 31 March 2013 (DPI/1634/Rev.143, April 2013)
English: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/factsheet.shtml
French: http://www.un.org/fr/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/factsheet.shtml
United Nations Political and Peacebuilding Missions – Fact Sheet: 31 March 2013 (DPI/2166/Rev.117, April 2012)
English: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/documents/ppbm.pdf
French: http://www.un.org/fr/peacekeeping/documents/ppff.pdf
Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals (World Bank/IMF)
The report provides an in-depth analysis on urbanization as a force for poverty reduction and progress towards the MDGs in the developing world. With less than 1,000 days to go before the MDGs expire, the report highlights the need to accelerate efforts to improve the lives of the poor in both rural and urban areas.
Green Economy & Trade: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities (UNEP)
The sets out the main trends, drivers and requirements for trade in a green economy, and identifies specific challenges and opportunities for developing countries. It provides analysis of green trade opportunities in six sectors: Agriculture, Fisheries, Forests, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy and Tourism.
The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation and Disintegration (UNCTAD)
The report reflects on the historical and political context of East Jerusalem, examines the evolution of the economy, the structure of labour force, the problems of poverty and living standards, the state of health and education services for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. The targeted is to revive East Jerusalem so that it can resume its historical role as the centre of Palestinian economic and cultural life.
Patents and Clean Energy Technologies in Africa (UNEP/EPO)
Less than 1 per cent of all patent applications relating to clean energy technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, according to a new United Nations study, which also highlights the opportunity for the continent to leapfrog existing fossil-fuel energy sources and, in the process, cut greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health. Africa has a huge untapped potential for generating clean energy, including enough hydroelectric power from its seven major river systems to serve the entire continent's needs, as well as enormous potential for other energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal, according to the study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Patent Office (EPO).
The Prevention of Occupational Diseases (ILO)
English, French, Spanish and Italian: http://www.ilo.org/safework/info/WCMS_208226/lang--en/index.htm
Occupational diseases cause huge suffering and loss in the world of work. While much progress has been made in addressing the challenges of occupational diseases, there is an urgent need to strengthen the capacity for their prevention in national OSH systems. With the collaborative effort of governments and employers' and workers' organizations, the fight against this hidden epidemic will have to feature prominently in new global and national agendas for safety and health. This report for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work outlines the current situation concerning occupational diseases and presents proposals for addressing this serious Decent Work deficit.
Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment (ILO/UNCTAD)
This new book, which resulted from research coordinated by UNCTAD and the ILO and financed by the European Union, urges that higher policy priority be given to farming. It is based on a collaboration between UNCTAD and the ILO, as well as on a technical cooperation project entitled, "Assessing and addressing the effects of trade and employment," managed jointly by the European Commission and the ILO. The findings from the project show a strong link between poverty reduction, on the one hand, and effective agricultural production and trade, on the other. They also emphasize that farming has a key role to play in the economy when it comes to employment creation.
Update – UNAIDS Special Report: How Africa turned Aids around
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has released this new report on the AIDS response in Africa on 21 May 2013, as the African Union (AU) begins its 21st summit in Addis Ababa. It documents the remarkable recent progress against HIV on the continent. The number of people in Africa receiving antiretroviral treatment increased from less than 1 million in 2005 to 7.1 million in 2012, with nearly 1 million added in the last year alone.
World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour (ILO)
Report & Summary in English: http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Informationresources/WCMS_178184/lang--en/index.htm
French: http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Informationresources/WCMS_178446/lang--fr/index.htm
Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Informationresources/WCMS_178449/lang--es/index.htm
This new ILO says that social protection policies can play a key role in the fight against child labour, which currently affects some 215 million children worldwide. The study reviews relevant research on how different types of social protection measures can help combat child labour. These include cash transfer schemes, social health protection and income security in old age.
Report of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office on Human Rights Violations perpetrated by Soldiers of the Congolese Armed Forces and Combatants of the M23 in Goma and Sake, North Kivu Province, and in and around Minora, South Kivu Province, from 15 November to 2 December 2012
English: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/ZR/UNJHROMay2013_en.pdf
French: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/ZR/UNJHROMay2013_fr.pdf
Serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law were committed in November 2012 during fighting between government forces and rebels of the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) over the town of Goma in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and during the subsequent retreat of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) to South Kivu province, a UN report has found. The report by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) details victim and witness accounts of mass rape, killings and arbitrary executions, and violations resulting from widespread looting. It noted that particularly systematic and violent abuse was committed by some FARDC elements as they retreated from the towns of Goma and Sake in North Kivu province and regrouped in and around the town of Minova in South Kivu.
Who Will Be Accountable? Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda (OHCHR)
Any new global review mechanism for post-2015 development commitments should explicitly refer to international human rights treaty standards, and should ensure rigorous independent review, effective civil society participation and high-level political accountability. The data generated by the review mechanisms for post-2015 global development goals should feed systematically into international human rights review and reporting processes.
Actions for Children and Youth Resilience: Guide for Governments (UNICEF)
English: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Actions%20for%20Children%20and%20Youth%20Resilience%20Guide%20for%20Governments.pdf
Spanish: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Acciones_Resiliencia_Ninez_y_Juventud-UNICEF.pdf
Considering the increase of natural and social risk factors to which the general population, and children and young people (children and youth) in a particular way are exposed to, the purpose of this guide is to provide directions for Governments for the development and implementation of public policies for the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) under a multi-sectorial approach (specifically in the areas of protection of children and youth , Education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene-WASH and Health and Nutrition) to secure their rights in all circumstances
ERF - Emergency Response Framework (WHO)
The purpose of this Emergency Response Framework (ERF) is to clarify WHO's roles and responsibilities in this regard and to provide a common approach for its work in emergencies. Ultimately, the ERF requires WHO to act with urgency and predictability to best serve and be accountable to populations affected by emergencies.
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: From Shared Risk to Shared Value; The Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Report in English, Pocket GAR in English & French, Press Kit in English, French & Spanish: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2013/en/home/download.html
The third edition of the GAR is a biennial global assessment contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA) through monitoring risk patterns and trends and progress in disaster risk reduction while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community.
Guide to Resources on Disaster Prevention
Developed as a collaborative project of several United Nations System libraries, this guide directs researchers to UN entities and documents concerned with disaster prevention, to relevant materials in each library's print and electronic collections, and to key sources of information from other organizations. It is the first research guide developed in collaboration between United Nations librarians across several duty stations.
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The other shoe dropped Wednesday afternoon as the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would extend the time frame during which those with health insurance plans that don't comply with Obamacare can keep their plans.
There was one surprise, however, as HHS said that deadline would be extended by two years, not one as had been expected. President Barack Obama had said last fall that health plans consumers wanted to keep that didn't comply with provisions of the Affordable Care Act could be extended by a year through 2014. It was reported earlier today that could extend into 2015.
Now, any small business or individual health policy that begins on or before Oct. 1, 2016, can remain in effect. That means non-compliant plans could be in use through the end of September in 2017.
The policy was announced by senior administration officials on a conference call with reporters. The officials asked not to be identified, but denied their motivation for extending the deadline was political. They said that consumers and small businesses that would be affected by the change are in need of a longer phase-in period in order to transition to Obamacare public exchange policies or other plans.
With mid-term elections in November, Democrats in the House and Senate that are vulnerable to Republican challenges faced the prospect of losing votes from those whose health policies had been cancelled. HHS officials said, however, that only roughly 500,000 individual policyholders and another 1 million working in small businesses will benefit from this change.
HHS and Treasury officials made the announcement along with outlining a number of policy standards. Among them:
-- The open enrollment period for 2015 extends to Feb. 15 of next year, instead of Jan. 15. Enrollment for next year starts Nov. 15 of this year.
-- States that want to run their own insurance marketplace in 2015 will have a later deadline for filing a blueprint for doing so. That new deadline now is June 15 of this year. That deadline will apply for subsequent years; states that want to start running an exchange in 2016 will need to file by June 15, 2015.
-- The threshold has been lowered for reinsurance to kick in on high-cost claims.
-- Changes in temporary risk corridors to stabilize individual and small-group premiums while insurers sort out costs stemming from the extension of the deadline for non-compliant programs.
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Rural areas like northern Wisconsin continue to experience challenges when it comes to gaining high-speed Internet access. Some people call this the 'digital divide,' meaning that there is a difference between rural and urban areas when it comes to access to Internet services.
"Access to broadband in rural areas is limited, which impedes economic growth and in some cases eliminates northern Wisconsin as an option when companies are seeking a place to locate" observes Jack Sroka, Lincoln County's Economic Development director. "Broadband is similar to other basic infrastructure like highway access. "Companies need broadband to stay competitive and grow," he says.
Jim Kumbera, who directs Oneida County's economic development efforts, agrees. "My primary concern with the lack of broadband connectivity in the area is that the next generation of companies and their employees won't be here because they need broadband to be competitive." Kumbera also says that broadband is essential to attracting employees to the area. "People are attracted to the Northwoods for a wide variety of reasons, but access to broadband is important enough to be a deal breaker if it isn't there."
Local communities are becoming more aware of the issue and the importance of broadband service. The city of Antigo has invested heavily in a wireless broadband system to make the community more attractive. The Three Lakes Town Action Group has made the issue one of its top priorities, and the Lakeland Times recently reported that 150 residents in Minocqua petitioned the town board to find ways to improve broadband connectivity.
But like many infrastructure issues, developing broadband connectivity might require collaboration across counties.
A regional economic development organization called Grow North intends to address the problem by facilitating a broadband feasibility study for the Grow North region that includes Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida and Vilas counties. The study will develop a business model designed to bring broadband connectivity to the entire region.
Nick Gilbertson, who co-chairs the committee Grow North that was formed to look at broadband connectivity, thinks the study will yield positive results. "A number of rural areas have successfully brought broadband into their region by using feasibility studies to demonstrate that broadband connectivity in rural areas can be profitable," Gilbertson says. "Although broadband companies tend to invest in areas where there is a concentrated population, new wireless technologies and a variety of state and federal incentives make rural areas like ours good candidates for increased broadband service."
Grow North intends to hire a company called Excelsio Communications to conduct the study. Excelsio has conducted similar studies in other Wisconsin counties with good results.
"The primary advantage Excelsio brings to the table is the business planning component, which will allow companies interested in developing a regional broadband system to see the actual numbers in terms of investment and returns," says Gilbertson.
Grow North has researched broadband connectivity in the Northwoods and plans to move forward with the feasibility study this spring. The group recently submitted a grant application to the Wisconsin Department of Commerce to fund part of the study, but Grow North will need to do some fund raising in order to cover the cost of the study.
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Although many gaming regulations are made at the state and local level, the federal-level influence of the casinos/gambling industry has grown through both campaign donations and lobbying efforts.
Much of the motivation for this increased spending is the desire to minimize federal regulations that will impede the industry's growth on a national scale. Influencing legislation attempting to stem the rise of Internet gambling is also a factor. The casinos/gambling industry includes a subcategory of Indian gaming, which is federally regulated.
During the 2014 election cycle, contributions by this industry reached nearly $23.4 million, with 51 percent going to Democrats (though that was down slightly from the record $71.6 million given in 2012, a presidential year). People and political action committees associated with this industry have usually donated more money to Democrats over the past two decades, though the top industry contributor to candidates and parties during the past two election cycles was Las Vegas Sands (around $1 million) -- the casino empire run by GOP donor Sheldon Adelson. He was followed in 2014 by the Chickasaw Nation (around $734,000); the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community ($633,000); and Gila River Indian Community (nearly $582,000).
Lobbying by the casinos/gambling industry was higher in 2014 than in any other year but one, with the top spenders being the Gila River Indian Community ($3.65 million), Caesars Entertainment (over $2.8 million), the American Gaming Association (nearly $1.7 million) and Tohono O'Odham Nation (almost $1.6 million).
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This Video is produced as a result of UN-Habitat in collaboration with Malteser International and funding from ECHO implemented a project to construct cost-effective disaster resistant houses. It provides a guidance to community builders, local authorities, and other stakeholders to reconstruct resilient houses as well as water supply and sanitation destroyed by the 2013 flooding in Siem Reap and Battambang Provinces of Cambodia.
At the same time, cities and towns are heavily vulnerable to climate change. Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold. In fact, many major coastal cities with populations of more than 10 million people are already under threat. Climate change may also negatively impact infrastructure and worsen access to basic urban services and quality of life in cities.
In addition, most of the vital economic and social infrastructure, government facilities, and assets are located in cities. The most affected populations are the urban poor – i.e. slum dwellers in developing countries – who tend to live along river banks, on hillsides and slopes prone to landslides, near polluted grounds, on decertified land, in unstable structures vulnerable to earthquakes, and along waterfronts in coastal areas.
Despite these risks, many cities have not yet addressed climate change. The reasons include a lack of relevant city policies and action plans; existence of regulations on urban planning and environment which have not been adjusted to manage climate change; slow response to climate disasters due to lack of capacity and resources; and lack of public awareness on climate variability and climate change-induced hazard mitigation. However, when properly planned, capacitated, and managed through the appropriate governance structures, cities can be places of innovation and efficiency. Together with their local authorities, they have the potential to diminish the causes of climate change (mitigation) and effectively protect themselves from its impacts (adaptation).


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When Daimler split with Chrysler in 2007, Dodge lost its Sprinter commercial van, which was little more than a rebadged Mercedes. However, now that Fiat owns Chrysler, the Ram brand will now offer a new commercial van in the U.S. called the ProMaster which is based on the European-market Fiat Ducato. This week, the 2014 Ram ProMaster officially went into production in Coahuilla, Mexico and will go on sale in late summer 2013.
The ProMaster should prove to be a competitive entry into the full-size commercial van segment in the U.S., going up against stalwarts such as the 2013 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana, as well as the relative newcomer, the 2013 Nissan NV and the all-new 2014 Ford Transit due later this year.
Offering estimated best-in-class fuel economy from an available 3.0-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder engine, the Ram ProMaster starts at $28,630 excluding destination and will be available in 1500,2500, and 3500 cargo van models with two different roof heights, three wheelbases, and four body lengths. Chrysler's 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 will also be available, as well as cutaway chassis models. Unlike the competition, the ProMaster is front-wheel-drive, which Chrysler says allows for more cargo capacity, lighter weight, and a lower load floor.
Following Chrysler's strategy, Ford will also be bringing its European commercial van offering, the Transit, to the U.S. within the next year. Although Nissan shook up the segment by becoming the first import competitor to the domestic vans a few years ago, this move by Ford and Chrysler to offer their European-market vans here marks an important shift in the commercial van segment. We'll see how this plays out over the next year as the 2014 Ram ProMaster and 2014 Ford Transit battle it out for the first time on U.S. soil to give businesses and fleets a new take on the commercial van.
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"Breaking down Enterprise boundaries through open collaboration"
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'Ascent Journey 2016 – Enterprise without Boundaries' produced by Atos looks at how trends in demographics, trust, economic sustainability and globalisation will impact innovation and create new business models
Atos, an international IT services company, today publishes its latest trends report – Ascent Journey 2016. Building on the original Journey 2014 report that was published in 2010, Ascent Journey 2016 explores how a new set of major trends including the birth of the total data economy, a cashless society, social and shared innovation will start to reshape business and society by 2016. It showcases IT innovation that can bring the new efficiencies, relationships and ways of doing business necessary to revive the economy.
Researched and written by the Atos Scientific Community, a global network of around 90 of the best business technologists within Atos, Ascent Journey 2016 identifies that economically sustainable relationships underpinned by trust will be key to pulling the economy out of recession. Changing demographics, as digital natives challenge established practices; globalisation and the disruption of ever-shifting technological advances will result in new ways of working where traditional boundaries no longer exist, either between businesses or between businesses and their customers.
With more than 1.5 billion people having access to a smartphone or tablet; more than a billion sharing information through private social networks and more businesses looking to enterprise social networks to support collaboration we are rapidly moving towards the most open, connected and transparent world we have ever seen. By enabling new types of services and new business models, this advancement will be key to stimulating growth and reviving the economy.
Thierry Breton, Chairman and CEO at Atos said, "Innovation through IT is having an enormous impact on both business and society. We are in a time of fundamental change and we must embrace the opportunities it brings. This is only possible through a new contract with consumers based on trust, and open and honest business practices. Ascent Journey 2016 illustrates the huge opportunities this will bring."
The journey to a world of enterprises without boundaries will require further openness in how we live, work and interact. There are clear examples of how new relationships built on trust are changing how we behave in and out of work:
- The growth in trust between organisations that lead to Open Innovation will outdate the patent wars of 2012 and mean that companies learn to share skills to counter rising research costs and shorter product life-cycles. The growth of Generation-Y in the workforce will speed the adoption as they have grown up sharing across social networks.
- The trust of consumers to divulge ever more personal information in the digital world, the increase in sensor data and the strong push to store all generated digital or digitized data, will lead to a Total Data economy where Pattern Recognition Strategies and Data Analytics will enable organisations of all sizes to improve their services and better predict future needs and opportunities.
- The trust between consumers and business to share information in return for better services will lead to the emergence of an Economy of Internet Applications based on products being available without cash payment benefitting both parties.
- The growing trust of consumers to make payments for books, games and magazines over mobiles and tablets evolving into a total acceptance of cashless payments in traditional stores and retail outlets bringing the Zero Cash Society ever closer.
A digital world based on trust and mutually beneficial relationships will create the new services and business models needed to stimulate growth but will require careful brokering and management.
In 2010, Atos published Journey 2014 – Simplicity with Control – and we have already seen the vision of Journey 2014 coming to fruition in numerous domains such as Connected Cars for smart mobility, Canopy for cloud, Zero E-Mail™, and blueKiwi for Social Enterprise Networking.
Ascent Journey 2016 – Enterprise without Boundaries presents a new set of major trends and challenges, building upon the original thesis and already supported by a further seven White Papers.
By making this vision available to our clients and by investing in areas related to the findings, we enable our clients to anticipate these trends and stay ahead of their competition.
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10 Best Designed Buildings in the World From Top Architects
1. HARPA Concert Hall and Conference Center
ReykjavÍk, Iceland
Henning Larsen Architects and Batteríið Architects
Even before its official opening, this gemlike venue breathed new life into the Icelandic capital's once-sleepy harbor, captivating locals and luring visitors with its kaleidoscopic façade of multicolor glass. The crystalline shell, conceived by artist Olafur Eliasson, wonderfully complements the structure's aggregate of jagged, geometric volumes. At night, exterior LED strips activate, transforming the waterfront landmark into a shimmering beacon of beauty.
2. Burj Khalifa
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Rising a dizzying 2,717 feet above the desert, this spectacular supertower reigns as the tallest structure in the world. Its 162 floors contain offices, residences, restaurants, an Armani hotel, and an observation deck, 124 stories up. The strength of its design stems not only from its awe-inspiring verticality but also from its sleek silhouette. Wrapped in a glass curtain wall with steel mullions that catch the Arabian sun, the building tapers gradually from its Y-shaped base, with setbacks culminating in a 700-foot spire.
3. Gardens by the Bay
Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Grant Associates
Side-by-side parabolic conservatories of glass and steel anchor this cutting-edge botanical garden in Singapore's booming Marina Bay district. Named the 2012 building of the year by the World Architecture Festival, the Wilkinson Eyre–designed structures replicate distinct climates—one dry, the other humid—allowing for diverse attractions like a flower meadow and a misty mountain forest.
No less extraordinary is the adjoining grove of vertical gardens by Grant Associates. Visitors can stroll an elevated walkway connecting the "supertrees," some of which are fitted with photovoltaic cells to harness solar energy.
4. Linked Hybrid
Steven Holl Architects
Composed of eight connected towers, this mixed-use complex represents a compelling vision for 21st-century urban development. To combat the isolation often associated with luxury residential buildings and gated communities, the architects placed wide, open passages at ground level, ushering pedestrians into a series of public spaces that include gardens, shops, restaurants, and schools.
High overhead, glass-and-steel bridges also contain retail spaces and a café, providing another sphere for community-fostering encounters between visitors and neighbors.
5. The Shard
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Familiar to watchers of last summer's Olympic Games, this 72-story skyscraper—the tallest in Western Europe—has transformed the British capital's skyline, rising arrestingly on the southern banks of the Thames. Inspired by church steeples, the structure comprises eight angled glass façades that variously reflect the surrounding city and sky and offer crystal-clear glimpses inside. Intended by Piano to act as a vertical village, the multifunctional building includes offices, apartments, restaurants, and a hotel—all crowned by a recently opened observation platform, which affords stunning views up to 40 miles in every direction.
6. Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Morphosis Architects
Architect Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize–winning founder of Morphosis, is famous for breaking the mold, and his latest building is no exception. Sheathed in panels of textured concrete, it consists of a five-story cube, fractured at one corner and set atop a sweeping plinth planted with Texas grasses. Slashed across the cube's exterior is a dramatic glass-enclosed escalator, which whisks visitors to the top-floor entrance to the exhibits.
7. Parrish Art Museum
Water Mill, New York
Herzog & de Meuron
Topped by a double-gable roof of white corrugated metal, the Parrish's strikingly horizontal new home melds brilliantly with its setting, nodding in form to both the traditional barns and the cottagelike artist studios that have long been associated with Long Island's East End.
Inside the poured-concrete structure—devised by architect Ascan Mergenthaler, a senior partner at the Swiss firm—inviting galleries joined by a central spine are warmed by natural-wood ceilings and abundant skylights.
8. Guangzhou Opera House
Guangzhou, China
Zaha Hadid Architects
China's building boom has produced some audacious projects, and few are as eye-popping as Zaha Hadid's performance center for the southern industrial city of Guangzhou. The venue consists of two dynamic fluid-form structures, the larger housing an undulating, gilded 1,800-seat hall and the smaller home to a more intimate 400-seat space.
Both buildings are clad in great expanses of steel-framed glass and granite panels—the complexity of which led to challenges during construction and in ongoing maintenance. But the futuristic complex is an emphatic statement on the ambitions of 21st-century China.
9. Metropol Parasol
Seville, Spain
J. Mayer H. Architects
When excavation for a parking garage unearthed Roman artifacts in Seville's Plaza de la Encarnación, city officials opted to commission this welcoming landmark instead.
Some 90 feet high and nearly 500 feet long, the billowing timber pavilion is part pergola, part urban parlor. Viewing platforms are perched atop the organic forms, which also shelter restaurants and an archaeological museum.
10. Absolute World
Mississauga, Ontario
MAD Architects
These residential high-rises strike a voluptuous profile in Toronto's largest suburb. With continuous balconies and elliptical floor plans, the 50- and 56-story skyscrapers appear to shimmy and twist, each around its own axis.
Such creative formmaking is the focus of the young Beijing firm, whose design was executed in coordination with Burka Architects. Founded by Yansong Ma in 2004, MAD has earned a reputation for innovative edifices such as Inner Mongolia's Ordos Museum. Like that project, the Absolute towers offer a refreshing take on a familiar building type


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As is true with many subjects, delve a little deeper into the history of the law and one is sure to unearth the unexpected, the controversial, the little-known, and the theoretically fascinating.
All of these facets of legal history were on display on April 13 as the Columbus School of Law hosted the annual "D.C. Legal History Round Table," an informal gathering of legal historians from around the country.
Organized by Catholic University law professors Geoff Watson, Ken Pennington, Cara Drinan, Megan LaBelle, and Sarah Duggin, the event drew about 25 participants and featured four presentations. In past years, most of the presenters have been local academics. This year, the D.C. Roundtable seemed to evolve into more of a nationwide attraction.
The guest speakers included:
Brad Snyder, assistant professor of law, University of Wisconsin Law School. Presentation: "Pop goes Felix: Frankfurter as Popular Constitutionalist." Snyder argued that Justice Frankfurter's jurisprudence has been unfairly criticized by progressives. He asserted that Frankfurter emerges as a principled "popular constitutionalist" in three decisions for which he is often criticized – his supposed vacillation on Brown v. Board of Education, his dissent in West Virginia v. Barnette and his dissent in Baker v. Carr. Professor Watson served as the respondent.
Victoria Saker Woeste, visiting associate professor of Law and American Studies, Indiana University. Presentation: "Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle against Hate Speech." Woeste's presentation focused on Ford's distribution of anti-Semitic periodicals, and on lawsuits that attempted (unsuccessfully) to shut the papers down. Professor Lewis Grossman of American University's law school gave the response.
Danaya C. Wright, professor of law, The University of Florida Levin College of Law. Presentation: "Is The Trope of Separate Spheres Useful in Post-Modern Family Law History? A Question, an Excursus, and a Hypothetical." The most theoretical of the four presentations, Wright traced the development of what she described as "patriarchy" pervading family law and the legal system generally.
Caroline R. Sherman, assistant professor, The Catholic University of America's Department of History. Presentation: "Jacques Godefroy's Florilegium and its Afterlife." Godefroy was a 17th-century French jurist whose handbook on aspects of Roman law was disseminated widely in Europe and, to some extent, beyond – and whose "modifications" of Latin maxims sometimes amounted to distortions or fraud or worse. Professor Ryan Max Rowberry of Georgia State University offered commentary in response.
"All in all, it was a very stimulating conference. The event gave our guests a favorable impression of CUA," said Professor Watson. "I hope we get a chance to host it again."


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Yamaha Tenori-on Displayed for Audiences during Björk Tour
LONDON – Björk's current world tour uses some of the most cutting edge on-stage technology out there. Björk's band includes Damian Taylor whose rig resembles the bridge of the Starship Enterprise and includes a Yamaha Tenori-on, which is displayed on large plasma screens to the wide-eyed crowds during the track "Who Is It?." "Björk felt it would be cool to feature the gear," says Damian, " to make it part of the stage set rather than using abstract pre-recorded visuals and projections."
Björk's live shows are always something to behold both visually and sonically, but for her current world tour she has devised a way to further enhance the visual feast, revealing all of the cutting-edge technology used on three large plasma screens so that the audience can see exactly what's happening on stage. Yamaha's groundbreaking light sequencer has fitted in perfectly with the visual ethic. Damian adds.
"What was really cool was its 'all in one' approach. I like the way it's really immediate. And it's great to use a hi-tech music device without a computer monitor that encourages you to use your fingers! It's fresh, built on new ideas."
"We thought it would be fun to try it live," he continues. "Who Is It? has lots of spiky and intricate vocal parts on the multitrack which weren't yet represented in the existing brass arrangement so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take advantage of the Tenori-on's sample playback capabilities. I grabbed a whole bunch of "doops" "boops" "Oooos" and random vocal sounds off the multitrack and loaded them in. The sonic characteristics of the sampled vocals sat perfectly around the warm, heavy brass arrangement and Björk's lead vocal, and then just jamming with the on-board sequencer gave us musical progression and dynamics – plus a really nice bunch of imagery for our video guy, Anthony Cairns, to use on screen."
So what's Damian's favourite aspect about the Tenori-on approach to music making? "I think probably the 'switch on and go' factor," he replies. "It's more like having an instrument than a sequencer, just turning it on and making music. It's a great 'instant' gratification thing for musicians, electronic or otherwise. In the same way you can just pick up an acoustic guitar, or sit at a piano, you can grab the Tenori-on and play. You don't need to boot up a computer, switch on your speakers, set up your mixer, initialize a MIDI track in a sequencer… It has that distilled but fun and usable interface, it's straight up and immediate, compact and sel- contained."
And Damian is not the only person in the Björk camp to have experimented with this new approach to making music. "Björk had a good play with it when we first tried it out and she really likes it," says Damian. "She's into the fact that it makes the brain work in a different way, breaks routines and habits. I have a feeling she'll get more into it after the tour when she heads back to the studio. In the meantime she keeps one in her suitcase for whenever the mood strikes, and she makes a point of mentioning the Tenori-on in my list of instruments when she introduces the band towards the end of our sets."
So how does it feel for Damian to be on such a high profile outing with some of the most cutting edge gear out there? "I do have to remind myself that it's pretty unusual for any band to have a set-up even remotely like this! You can definitely see the crowd reacting to these new things – when I fire up the Tenori-on, for example, they kind of go 'wooh, what's that?' I wind up with a bunch of emails after each gig from people who have tracked me down online, demanding an explanation.
Using the Tenori-on and the other gear is really exciting and fresh for me after all those years in the studio too. I got so used to always using a computer, a mouse, some faders and knobs. Now it's playing music with all these different interfaces, graphics, feedback, tactility – plus thousands of people responding to it. The Tenori-on is a real winner because of its 'one box' approach. Anyone can just chuck it in a bag and hop on the train or drive to a gig, or fire it up anytime in the back of a tour bus as we did."
Damian is also keeping himself busy with recording projects including producing a new artist from New York called Atarah Valentine and his own musical outlet Stone Lions. Mainly, though, he's very excited about working with Björk in the studio again to further develop and explore the methods and lessons they learned from these new instruments in her live shows. "I'm looking forward to burying myself in my little studio in Canada to find more and more cool ways to use them."
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Olympic snowboarder Shaun White has issued a public apology for his "unwise choices" following his drunken arrest in Tennessee on Sunday.
The sportsman has been accused of allegedly trashing his suite at a Nashville hotel and setting off several fire alarms in the building following a confrontation with management staff.
He tried to make a hasty exit, but slipped and fell, sustaining a cut to his head, and was subsequently arrested by police on suspicion of public intoxication and vandalism.
White has now opened up about the incident in a post on his Facebook.com page, admitting he behaved badly after drinking too much while celebrating the wedding of his musician pal Patrick Carney on Saturday night.
Expressing regret over his actions, he writes, "I want to apologize for the unwise choices I made over the weekend and for any inconvenience it caused my family, friends, business partners, the hotel and their guests. I was celebrating a happy occasion with a ton of family and friends and got carried away. I'm truly sorry for my poor behavior."
Black Keys drummer Carney wed Emily Ward on Saturday in the backyard of their Nashville home.


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Sopcawind, a multidisciplinary tool for designing wind farms (w/video)
|(Nanowerk News) The SOPCAWIND tool is a piece of software that facilitates the design of wind farms, bearing in mind not only the aspects of energy productivity but also the possible impact the wind farm may have on the environment, radars or other telecommunications systems in the vicinity. It also assesses acoustic noise, the effect of shadow on nearby housing, and applies criteria for heritage protection or clearance from transport networks and certain facilities. The EWEA 2014 Annual Event, the most important trade fair in Europe in the area of wind energy, was the framework in which the SOPCAWIND software tool was presented recently ("Impact analysis of wind farms on telecommunication services"), and in which the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country's Signal Processing and Radiocommunications Group (TSR) participated.
|The development of a wind farm is a process in which various factors need to be taken into consideration to ensure that the resource is properly used and that appropriate planning is carried out to minimise the effects it could have.
|"The fundamental parameter to take into account when designing a wind farm is the wind or wind potential. Another very important factor is the orography of the land," explained David de la Vega, a member of the Signal Processing and Radiocommunications Group (TSR). "Apart from these two main factors, the environmental factor and perhaps not such obvious factors like the telecommunications services (weather radars, air traffic control radars, radionavigation aids, television, data radio links, etc.) also feature," added la Vega. What happens in many cases is that the telecommunications service may not located next to the farm, and "although interference is not common, a wind farm can alter a radar signal that is 10-20 kilometres away," stressed the researcher in the Signal Processing and Radiocommunications Group (TSR).
|Thanks to the European SOPCAWIND project, the UPV/EHU's TSR group is participating in the development of a tool to facilitate the design of wind farms, bearing in mind not only the aspects of energy productivity but also the possible impact they could have on the environment, radars or other telecommunications systems.
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|SOPCAWIND is the first software tool that integrates into a single application a complex, multidisciplinary database that accommodates all the data needed for the above-mentioned criteria, apart from the algorithms needed to carry out these studies. With all these functionalities, the tool facilitates the design work of the wind farm developer and makes it possible to ensure that all the above-mentioned aspects are taken into consideration in the wind farm design process, thus avoiding any trouble.
|"Thanks to this tool, firstly the design process of the wind farm is much more fluid, and secondly, the developer knows in advance if there is any trouble and can include modifications in the wind farm in order to avoid it, which is a key aspect,"pointed out Daniel de la Vega.
|The UPV/EHU's Signal Processing and Radiocommunications Group (TSR) has contributed mainly with the algorithms that enable possible impact on radars, air navigation system aids and other telecommunications systems to be evaluated.
|"We have developed the algorithms to find out the impact caused by wind farms on telecommunications systems (TV, data radio links, radars and air navigation aids) and we have incorporated them into the tool," xplained de la Vega.
|"Because these impact studies are conducted before the wind farm is built, they allow potential interference to be detected if it does in fact exist, and so the wind farm developer will be able to include modifications in the design of the wind farm in order to prevent that trouble," pointed out de la Vega. That way, the impact studies allow the wind energy to be developed without degrading the existing telecommunications systems.
|The SOPCAWIND project has been supported by the European Union within the FP7 programme (FP7-ICT- 2011-SME-DCL Grant Agreement 296164), and has been developed by a European consortium comprising Tecnalia, UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, GeoX (Hungary), 3E (Belgium), Anemos (Germany) and Eurohelp (Spain).
|The research group
|The Signal Processing and Radiocommunications Group (TSR) belongs to the Department of Communications Engineering of the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao. The research group is led by Dr Juan Luis Ordiales-Basterretxea and comprises 11 lecturers, 3 post-PhD researchers and various PhD students and engineers on contracts. The main subject of the group's research is digital radio broadcasting. Within this subject there are various lines of research and one of them is based on characterising the possible interference on telecommunications systems (TV, data radio links, radars and air navigation aids)which can be caused by wind farms.
|By means of field measurements, the research group characterised the signal emitted by wind turbines over the UHF waveband and evaluated its influence on the quality of the television signal. The results were presented at the International Telecommunication Union, the regulating body of international telecommunications, and were included in the process to draw up a new recommendation. Should this process meet with success, the results of the research carried out at the UPV/EHU could form part of the international regulation in this matter.
|Source: University of the Basque Country
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