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Transferring Best Practices for Uganda Technological Innovation and Sustainable Growth
Document type: | Conference Papers |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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Author(s): | Joshua Mutambi, Joseph K. Byaruhanga, Lena Trojer, Kariko B. Buhwezi, Peter Okidi Lating |
Title: | Transferring Best Practices for Uganda Technological Innovation and Sustainable Growth |
Conference name: | 2nd International Advances in Engineering and Technology Conference of Makerere University, 31st Jan-2nd Feb, 2011, Entebbe-Uganda |
Year: | 2011 |
Pagination: | 256 - 262 |
Publisher: | Macmillan Uganda |
City: | Entebbe |
Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
Department: | School of Planning and Media Design (Sektionen för planering och mediedesign) School of Planning and Media Design S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/dsn/ |
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Language: | English |
Abstract: | Uganda, like many other African countries has not been developing primary science, technology and innovation Indicators and to make them accessible to public and private sector decision makers for social economic development and investment purposes. Indicators have not been given serious attention as engines of long-term development. This paper reports the results of a research undertaken to develop a set of relevant science, technology and innovation Indicators for Uganda. From a population of 7,336 firms, 300 firms were sampled for innovation surveys and 200 institutions for the Research and Development survey. The data collected were represented in tables and was grossed up. Data entry was taken in CSPRO and the analysis was done using STATA statistical software There is a global perception that businesses in developing countries like Uganda are generally dominated by Small and Medium enterprises; and that is where most innovations were happening. This paper will discuss the core indicators of Research and Development (R&D) and Innovation; the empirical data of the state of Uganda's Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators. The paper further explores the potential benefits and the best practices in incubation process. The major conclusions are; prioritizing science and technology policy will create more opportunities and build capabilities for innovations and technology. The monitoring of industry, government and university R&D programs is crucial to successful policy making and analysis. |
Subject: | Technoscience Studies\Innovation System and Development |
Keywords: | Business Incubation, Innovation Indicators, Research and Development Indicators, Triple Helix, Uganda |
Note: | In the Proceedings of the 2nd International Advances in Engineering and Technology Conference of Makerere University, 31st Jan-2nd Feb, 2011, Entebbe- Uganda |


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A media statement by Jem said some retailers on the third level and basement one of the Jurong East shopping centre were affected, and that a technical team attended to the power failure immediately.
The disruption occurred from around 7am to 6pm, according to Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao.
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Syllabification: burlPronunciation: /bərl/
1A slub or lump in wool or cloth.
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- Then the said third weft yarn preferably becomes a weft yarn situated between the successive pile burls, a number of advantages of which were mentioned.
- The worker depresses a pedal to start a machine that moves fabric over an inspection board, and scans and feels fabric for defects, such as burls, slubs, loose threads, mispicks, defective pile or soils.
- Presumably it was the plank on which the tucker laid the piece of cloth so that it could be inspected carefully and the burls or knots removed.
1.1North American A rounded knotty growth on a tree, giving an attractive figure when polished and used especially for handcrafted objects and veneers: she used warty burls to construct her pieces wooden coin banks made of elm burl [ as modifier] : a burl bowl
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- Illustrated in the book are other articles made in the Dominy shop for family use, such as a wooden bowl made of a burl from an apple tree and a swift to wind wool yarn.
- Veneers cut from burls also display the fascinating figure.
- Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
Late Middle English: from Old French bourle 'tuft of wool', diminutive of bourre 'coarse wool', from late Latin burra 'wool'.
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Pronunciation: /bəːl/
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Early 20th century: regional usage of birl.
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Keith is the brightest student on record in the history of Educational Station E-1077. he is best friend to Sam Houston. Keith aims to join the elite organization that leads humanity, The Members.
Keith was synthetically created by Mother Eliza in order to create a perfect human capable of leading mankind. Keith has no memories before he entered the Educational Station E-1077. During orientation he befriends Sam Houston. When a transport ship carrying new students collides with a military shim inside of the station Keith and Sam go to help when everyone else has decided to let the passengers die. After saving the passengers an explosion causes Keith to be ejected into space but Sam saves Keith. Mother Eliza rewards Keith's braves actions.
While on a test flight in space interference is received by the Mu and causes the ships to lose control. The message from jomy knocks out everyone and Keith is the first to reawaken to find that they are off coarse and in a collision path with a nearby planet. Keith acts quickly and takes controls of the other ships, saving the lives of the pilots.
After the incident during the test flight Keith finds Shiroe and notices he is running from someone and needs medical attention. Keith takes him to his room and attends to his wounds. He finds out that Shiroe hates the command structure because the adult examination robbed him of everything he held dear and Keith wouldn't understand because he never took the exam, alluding to what he found out about Keith. Before Shiroe can tell Keith what he had found he was arrested. What Shiroe told Keith implanted doubts about his past.
The next day Keith finds out that no one remembers the incident during the test flight and the message from the Mu, he also finds out that Shiroe has also been erased from the memories of the students. Another message from the Mu is recived by all the students of the station, degrading their minds. During this time Mother Eliza, a computer program connected to Universal Control and counselor to the students, orders Keith to hunt down the escaped Shiroe. Keith finds him and begrudgingly shoots down the ship Shiroe is escaping in, killing him.
After taking down Shiroe and completing his education on E-1077 he has now been promoted to Members Elite of the National Knights. As his first mission Keith is sent to investigate the events around Silversteen Seven, known as Nazca by the Mu. He sees that Sam Houston was injured while in the area and promptly prepares for the mission. When Keith goes to the Soleid fleet to prepare for his mission he senses a young man watching him and notices that he is afraid. This young man Makka is assigned to take care of him. Keith tries to trick him by asking questions in his mind to see if Makka is reading it. Makka reacts to one and before Keith can act he is forced back but he is able to apprehend Makka who then cowers in fear. Keith shows compassion and decides to let Makka live after he determines that he is not a threat. On the ship he receives he finds only new recruits and not the best crew he had been promised. When they reach Nazca Keith descends to investigate, as he descends he loses control of the landing ship and sends a distress signal to Makka. The inexperience recruits aboard the ship panic and leave Keith behind. His ship crashes on the surface, he survives but is captured by the Mu. While unconscious his mind is probed for information about the location of Terra.
While imprisoned Jomy brings Karina and her small son Tony and pleas for peace for the Mu and to be able to live on Nazca. Keith tells Jomy that there will never be peace between them when the Mu have the power to stop the rotations of planets. Afterwards Tony comes back in order to kill him and causes an explosion which destroys Keith's prison. Keith severely wounds the child and takes Physis as a hostage, he escapes to the hanger and takes a ship. While escaping in the ship he sees something fast coming after him but hears Makka's voice who have come back to rescue him. Keith decides to self-destruct the ship and has Makka shield him from the explosion. After he gets away he confirms the Mu's location and orders a full scale attack and use of the Megiddo, the ultimate weapon capable of destroying entire planets.
After gathering the forces Keith commences the attack on Nazca with the Megiddo cannon but the shot is blocked by Soldier Blue and the other Mu. Keith commands for the cannon to be reloaded but is told that another fleet of ships are in the line of fire. Keith tells them to reload and fire because wiping out the Mu is more important and sacrifices must be made. Before another shot can be fired Soldier Blue infiltrates the Megiddo and makes his way to the core. Keith decides to meet Soldier Blue in order to stop him but is unsuccessful and the Megiddo is destroyed but Nazca is already destroyed. With Nazca destroyed the Mu retreat and Keith is unable to stop them.
Years later Keith visits Sam again with Suena. Suena tells Keith that E-1077 has been shut down and hands him a Shiroes copy of Peter Pan that was found in wreckage around the station. Keith threatens her not to dig deaper into what the Mu are. In the book Keith finds a memory card which Shiroe recorded while looking into Keiths past but is cut off before the truth is shown. Keith decides to go back to E-1077. While on the Station he Visits Mother Eliza whom shows Keith the path to the secret Shiroe searched for. He finds what appear to be clones of himself and Physis. Mother Eliza explains to Keith that he is different, he was born from a fully synthesized strain of DNA and is the result of countless failures which came before him. She also tells Keith that having the accident on the day of his arrival, having him meet sam and suena who both knew Jomy Marcus Shin, his encounter with Seki Ray Shiroe who had Mu factors...and having to terminate him...All those things were pre-programmed to bring him up properly. Keith goes on to destroy the other "clones" along with the station and Mother Eliza. Keith returns to Grandmother and is told to move forward with the Mu annihilation plan.


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by William Shakespeare, Directed by Greg Harris
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy about a cross-dressing, ship-wreck surviving, poetry-loving girl who finds herself at the center of a not-so-average love triangle.
Believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season, the play centers on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. The play focuses on the Countess Olivia falling in love with Viola (who is disguised as a boy), and Sebastian in turn falling in love with Olivia.
by Arthur Miller.
Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning play of 1949 is widely considered to a cornerstone of American letters. A caustic attack on the "American Dream" of materialism, Death of a Salesman is a three-act play (two acts and a "requiem"), centering on the main character, Willy Loman.
At age sixty-three, Willy has been a traveling salesman all his life. Despite his hard work and grueling schedule, the Lomans have always lived on the edge of poverty and Willy has always been an underling in his company. Yet Willy constantly tells himself and his family that the "big break" he deserves is just around the corner. He has raised his two sons, Biff and Happy, to also believe that somehow life has cheated them and insists that one day they will get their due. Linda, Willy's dutiful wife, lives under the thin veneer of denial that her husband has so long tried to keep from collapsing.
Willy finds that because of changing economic conditions the company has no further need for his services. Willy is devastated and is unable to understand how his employer could just cast him aside after so many years of faithful service. In Act 1, Willy states his work ethic clearly when he says that a man who makes his appearance in the business world is the man who gets ahead. Willy's old boss has died, leaving his son the company. The new owner sees Willy as having outlived his usefulness to the company. Willy is terminated and soon discovers that he is unable to find other similar employment.
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The 2011 Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge Begins Now
Posted By Mark Sisson On September 12, 2011 @ 8:57 am In Announcements | 1,734 Comments
If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, reduce stress, increase energy or just generally look and feel healthier you've come to the right place. Oh, and you can win lots of cool Primal gear, too. That's right, it's the annual Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge!
So what's the challenge? To get Primal, of course! I hold this 30-Day Challenge every year to encourage Primal beginners to give this way of eating, moving and living a try because I know it works, I know how empowering it is, and I know it changes lives.
I also do it to motivate those that have been dabbling with the Primal lifestyle for a while, but haven't fully committed or still have some room for improvement (myself included!), to go all in and resolve to finally tackle whatever it is they want to address in their lives.
The actual challenge itself is pretty straightforward. The details can be found in the image below. I recommend downloading the 30-Day Challenge flyer here [7], and clicking on the links to learn more about each of the topics. (And maybe print a few copies to hand out to friends!)
No sign-up required. Anyone can participate. Just commit to the challenge, and check back every day for motivation and guidance.
Above and beyond the challenge as outlined below, I encourage you to make your own personal challenges. Customize your goals to fit your needs and commit to 30 days starting now.
This 30-day challenge perfectly complements The Primal Leap [9]. The Primal Leap is my effort to provide one-on-one support and step-by-step guidance to those looking to lose weight, take control of their health and get Primal for life. If you would like expert feedback and be told exactly what to do and when to do it The Primal Leap is for you. Learn more here [9].
Just like last year, I highly encourage you to use the forum during the challenge. In it you can start a "Primal Challenge Journal" [10] to publicly state your goals and track your progress [11].
Create a journal to receive positive feedback, advice and help along the way from myself and the Mark's Daily Apple community.
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Dr. Deirdre Good, New Testament Professor at GTS, is the presenter
In Manhattan at the Episcopal Church Center. Bishop Chilton Knudsen, Preaching.
Free classes presented by the Suffolk County Department of Health
At the Cathedral of the Incarnation
This event has been cancelled.
Presiding Bishop's Statement: On Healing and Wholeness Reflecting on Thomas Palermo and Bishop Heather Cook incident.
Reflecting on Thomas Palermo and Bishop Heather Cook incident.
Bp. Provenzano, Province President
To remember and repent of the church's complicity in the sin of slavery and in the conditions that have followed.
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Development of a new and larger website is underway. Meanwhile, this interim website will keep you up-to-date with news from parishes and organizations across the diocese as well as from Bishop Provenzano and diocesan ministries.
We welcome your parish news and website suggestions.
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Saturday, March 21 at Camp DeWolfe.
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Saturday, APR 18 at The Mercer School. Register Now.
Myra Garnes Shuler said, "Bishop Larry and I are very excited to participate as a diocese in the 2015 Freedom Ride."
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A Reqiuem Mass will be held on Saturday, March 7 at 1:30 pm at Christ Church in Detroit, Michigan.
A Memorial Service will be held at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City on Saturday, March 21 at 11 am.
In Manhattan at the Episcopal Church Center, near the United Nations. No advance sign-up needed. Enter on 2nd Avenue.
Some light fun between the Diocese of Western New York
and the Diocese of Long Island
Saturday, April 11, at the Mercer School - Announcement from the Rev. Elisabeth Tunney, DCDI Coordinator
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New vicar of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Shelter Island
Bishop North "will have particular care for those people who cannot accept the ministry of women as bishops and priests in the church."
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Fed sent record $US88.4bn to US Treasury last year
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This Halloween, plenty of monsters and ghouls will show up on your doorstep. You might be accosted by vampires, ghosts, zombies, and werewolves. The real terrors, however, may already be lurking within your home. You could have something dark and horrible attacking the foundation of your home, gobbling up wood as hungrily as a vampire […]
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The most useful insight I gained as a hiring manager was that you almost never hire the only person who can do the job, but the one you feel will be the best choice among numerous qualified candidates.
Over the decades with a large corporation I hired quite a few people, and those who worked for me did too. What did we look for? What were the difference makers that helped us make these important decisions?
It's worth noting that many companies, of course, have a well-established, HR-managed screening process. So unless I wanted to review every resume for a certain position (which could easily number in the hundreds and I usually didn't have time for), most of the candidates who made it through the screener would share certain characteristics.
In broad terms, they'd often have a good academic record, a basic skill set appropriate for the position, and (unless it was an entry-level role) a solid history of prior job performance.
Occasionally a position would be so specialized, one particular candidate would clearly rise to the top in terms of having a precise, desired skill set. Or someone might have a perfect background, like coming from a key competitor and bringing with them useful inside information. But more often than not, the choice wasn't so clear. (Being an optimistic sort, I'd find myself liking all the candidates – not a very helpful position to be in!) In these instances, we'd end up relying on intangible characteristics, and intuition. These intangibles often involved a combination of qualities. With a tip of the cap to Twitter (which I love for the license it's given us all to think creatively about language), here are the three that stood out for me:
#Credibilityreliability – Most importantly, I needed to feel that a candidate was believable and trustworthy. (Sometimes my initial judgment was proven wrong over time, but at least this was my going-in perception.) Was this a person you could depend on to get things done even if a project were hard, boring or stressful? Any doubt on the trust front was a knockout.
#Teamplayerism – In an organization of any size, collaborative skills are essential. Did a person enjoy being part of a team, or would they rather fly solo? How were their social skills? In short, what was my "read" on how well they'd get along with others and fit into the organization's culture. The importance of "cultural fit" can't be underestimated; all too many talented people don't work out just because their personal style may clash with organizational expectations.
#110percentism – How motivated did the person seem? How much could you on count them to go above and beyond when you most needed them in a crisis, or on a tight deadline? Would they be self-directed enough, without a lot of hand-holding (as no one has free time in a crisis), to give 110 percent when you most needed it?
So these were three intangible qualities that always felt important in the hiring process. But I know other managers have their own favorites – their own predictors of success they'd be on the lookout for. I'd be interested to hear what they are…
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Tsukuba つくば | |||
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つくば市 · Tsukuba | |||
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Tsukuba | |||
Coordinates: 36°2′N 140°4′E / 36.033°N 140.067°E | |||
Country | Japan | ||
Region | Kantō | ||
Prefecture | Ibaraki | ||
Government | |||
- Mayor | Ken'ichi Ichihara | ||
Area | |||
- Total | 284.07 km2 (109.7 sq mi) | ||
Population (January 2008) | 207,394 | ||
- Density | 730/km2 (1,890.7/sq mi) | ||
City Symbols | |||
- Tree | Japanese zelkova | ||
- Flower | Hoshizaki-yukinoshita (Saxifraga stolonifera Curtis f. aptera (Makino) H.Hara) | ||
- Bird | Ural owl | ||
Website | City of Tsukuba | ||
Phone number | 029-836-1111 | ||
4741 Yatabe, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken |
Tsukuba (つくば市 Tsukuba-shi ) is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is known as the location of the Tsukuba Science City (筑波研究学園都市 Tsukuba Kenkyū Gakuen Toshi ), a planned city developed in the 1960s.
As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 207,394 and a population density of 730 persons per km². Its total area is 284.07 km². Tsukuba is sometimes considered part of the Greater Tokyo Area.
Mount Tsukuba, particularly well-known for its toad-shaped Shinto shrine, is located near the city. Also found there is the Tsukuba Circuit, a popular short racetrack which hosts the D1 Grand Prix and other motorsports events.
Tsukuba is a twin city of Irvine, California, Milpitas, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts[1][2] in the United States of America.
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Tsukuba Science City represents one of the world's largest coordinated attempts to accelerate the rate of and improve the quality of scientific discovery. The city was closely modeled on other planned cities and science developments, including Brasilia, Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok, Bethesda, and Palo Alto. The city was founded by the merger of Ōho, Sakura, Toyosato, and Yatabe.
Beginning in the 1960s, the area was designated for development. Construction of the city centre, the University of Tsukuba and 46 public basic scientific research laboratories began in the 1970s. The city became operational in the 1980s to stimulate scientific discovery. Its constituent municipalities were administratively united in 1987. By the year 2000, the city's 60 national research institutes and two universities had been grouped into five zones: higher education and training, construction research, physical science and engineering research, biological and agricultural research, and common (public) facilities. These zones were surrounded by more than 240 private research facilities. Among the most prominent institutions are the University of Tsukuba (1973; formerly Tokyo University of Education); the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK); the Electrotechnical Laboratory; the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory; and the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research. The city has an international flair, with about 3,000 foreign students and researchers from as many as 90 countries living in Tsukuba at any one time.
Over the past several decades, nearly half of Japan's public research and development budget has been spent in Tsukuba. Important scientific breakthroughs by its researchers include the identification and specification of the molecular structure of superconducting materials, the development of organic optical films that alter their electrical conductivity in response to changing light, and the creation of extreme high-pressure vacuum chambers. Tsukuba has become one of the world's key sites for government-industry collaborations in basic research. Earthquake safety, environmental degradation, studies of roadways, fermentation science, microbiology, and plant genetics are some of the broad research topics having close public-private partnerships.
Tsukuba hosted the Expo '85 world's fair in 1985. A full-scale, working rocket in the city park commemorated the event.
Key reference: James W. Dearing (1995). Growing a Japanese Science City: Communication in Scientific Research. London: Routledge.
On August 24, 2005, a rail service called the Tsukuba Express, or simply "TX", opened. Operated by the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, it provides Tsukuba with a rapid connection to Akihabara Station in Tokyo. It takes 45 minutes to travel between Tsukuba Station and Akihabara Station.
The bus center, in the same area as the TX, offers intracity transport as well as travel to stations in nearby towns and to major stations throughout Kantō.
Tsukuba is also located on the Joban Expressway, the express tollway which runs between Tokyo and Mito.
The closest major airport is Narita International Airport; Tokyo International Airport is also accessible from the city via a bus that carries people daily from the airport to the city's center. A new domestic airport is being built in nearby Omitama, Ibaraki which will connect with Sapporo, Hokkaido, Naha, Okinawa, Osaka, Osaka, and Fukuoka, Fukuoka.
Research institutes in Tsukuba
- Geographical Survey Institute
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- National Food and Research Institute (NFRI)
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- National Institute for Environmental Studies
- National Institute for Rural Engineering
- Tsukuba Botanical Garden
- National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Museums in Tsukuba
Name in kanji
Tsukuba (つくば ) is one of a small number of hiragana cities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji (Chinese characters). When written in kanji, it is rendered "筑波."
- ^ "A Message from the Peace Commission: Information on Cambridge's Sister Cities," February 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
- ^ Richard Thompson. "Looking to strengthen family ties with 'sister cities'," Boston Globe, October 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1929 – United States of America 2005
1970 United States of America
sculptures, weathered steel
Technique: weathered steel
approx. 365.0 h x 1402.0 w x 609.0 d cm ; weight 8164.0 kg
cross section 152.25 h cm
Purchased 1973
Accession No: NGA 73.656
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Clement Meadmore began a career as an industrial designer in Melbourne, before starting to exhibit non-figurative metal sculpture in the mid-1950s. At first glance, Cross appears to be fashioned from precariously balanced heavy slabs of iron or bronze. Yet, what look like solid blocks are in reality hollow, like empty boxes with an exterior shell constructed from thin sheets of welded steel. The dark rough texture of the surfaces is a deliberate effect, an expressive gesture of being wrought by the hand of the artist.
Meadmore moved to Sydney in 1960, left for New York in 1963 and became an American citizen in 1976. He remains Australia's most prominent expatriate sculptor with major public sculptures in Australia and numerous commissions abroad. Virginia,dedicated to a fellow expatriate, the painter Virginia Cuppaidge, was commissioned for the National Gallery of Australia's sculpture garden, where it is now located with the work of other notable international sculptors.
In the late 1960s, working in the United States provided Meadmore with opportunities to produce sculpture on an increasingly ambitious and monumental scale. There is an effortlessness with which the single massive form of Virginiahas been apparently twisted in the centre so that its ends float above the ground in defiance of gravity. The genesis for the creation of this visual perception of weightlessness can be seen in Meadmore's earlier work such as Cross. In fact, Virginia weighs over 8000 kilograms, or eight tonnes, and was fabricated at the pioneering Lippincott factory for large-scale sculpture in the United States, before being shipped to Australia in four parts and reassembled in Canberra.
Virginia is made from a particular brand of steel, known as cor-ten, whichthe artist has intentionally allowed to weather on the surface to a warm earthy rust-red. As is the case with most successful outdoor sculptures, Virginia engages in a sympathetic dialogue with the environment it inhabits.
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Today, Sailnet posted an article by Liza Copeland about the hazards of cruising.
The first third of the article was about navigation, wherein she declared that it was dangerous to "rely solely on electronic navigation." This is about the thousandth time I''ve heard this over the past few years.
In 20 years sextants will be rarer on boats than lubber lines are today. The reason: learning celestial navigation is a waste of time and money.
I have three GPSs on my boat. I didn''t buy three GPSs on purpose, but they''ve accumulated over the years. They never seem to fail, and the space required for the spares and spare batteries is tiny.
The problems with CN are: a it requires considerable skill and continuous practice to use it. It requires an extraordinarily expensive piece of optics to get even the fuzziest of fixes, it depends on a complex set of calculations, and -- here''s the topper -- a sextant is just as vulnerable -- in its own way as a piece of electronics. I''ve dropped my GPSs dozens of times (I guess eventually I''ll kill one); I wonder how many drops a sextant could take and still get a fix withing 1000 miles of position? If you drop it overboard, I guess the number of drops is 1. How many people can keep a spare $1500 sextant on board?
So, sorry to everyone that spent time mastering CN, and have dropped a lot of money on sextants. Your skills are no longer required. They might be needed some day, in some rare situation, and then you''ll be vindicated. But probably not. You''ll carry the damn thing around with you from now on, and keep looking at your GPS when you want to know where you are.
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The Anatolian hypothesis proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia. The hypothesis suggests that the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) lived in Anatolia during the Neolithic era, and associates the distribution of historical Indo-European languages with the expansion during the Neolithic revolution during the seventh and sixth millennia BC. The alternative and more academically favored view is the Kurgan hypothesis.
The main proponent of the Anatolian hypothesis was Colin Renfrew, who in 1987 suggested a peaceful Indo-Europeanization of Europe from Anatolia from around 7000 BC with the advance of farming by demic diffusion ("wave of advance"). Accordingly, most of the inhabitants of Neolithic Europe would have spoken Indo-European languages, and later migrations would at best have replaced these Indo-European varieties with other Indo-European varieties.[1]
The main strength of the farming hypothesis lies in its linking of the spread of Indo-European languages with an archaeologically known event (the spread of farming) that is often assumed as involving significant population shifts.
A 2003 analysis of "87 languages with 2,449 lexical items" found an age range for the "initial Indo-European divergence" of 7,800–9,800 years, which was found to be consistent with the Anatolian hypothesis.[2] In 2006, the authors of the paper responded to their critics.[3] In 2011, the same authors and S. Greenhill found that two different datasets were also consistent with their theory.[4] An analysis by Ryder and Nicholls (2011) found that: "Our main result is a unimodal posterior distribution for the age of Proto-Indo-European centred at 8400 years before Present with 95% highest posterior density interval equal to 7100–9800 years before Present." which was found to support the Anatolian Hypothesis.[5] A computerized phylogeographic study published in 2012 in Science, using methods drawn from the modeling of the spatial diffusion of infectious diseases, also supported the Anatolian hypothesis.[6][7]
Against the Anatolian hypothesis stands the argument that PIE contains words for technologies that make their first appearance in the archaeological record in the Late Neolithic, in some cases bordering on the early Bronze Age, and that some of these words belong to the oldest layers of PIE. The lexicon includes words relating to agriculture (dated to 7500 BCE), metallurgy (7500 BCE), stockbreeding (6500 BCE) the plow (4500 BCE), gold (4500 BCE), domesticated horses (4000–3500 BCE) and wheeled vehicles (4000–3400 BCE). Horse breeding is thought to have originated with the Sredny Stog culture, semi-nomadic pastoralists living in the forest steppe zone in present-day Ukraine. Wheeled vehicles are thought to have originated with Funnelbeaker culture in what is now Poland, Belarus, and parts of Ukraine.[8]
Many Indo-European languages have cognate words meaning axle; for example: Latin axis, Lithuanian ašis, Russian os' , and Sanskrit ákṣa. (In some, a similar root is used for the word armpit: eaxl in Old English, axilla in Latin, and kaksa in Sanskrit.) All these are linked to the PIE root ak's-. The reconstructed PIE root i̯eu-g- gives rise to German joch, Hittite iukan, and Sanskrit yugá(m), all meaning yoke. Words for wheel and cart/wagon/chariot take one of two common forms, thought to be linked with two PIE roots: the root kwel- "move around" is the basis of the unique derivative kwekwlo- "wheel" which becomes hvél (wheel) in Old Icelandic, kolo (wheel, circle) in Old Church Slavonic, kãkla- (neck) in Lithuanian, kyklo- (wheel, circle) in Greek, cakka-/cakra- (wheel) in Pali and Sanskrit, and kukäl (wagon, chariot) in Tocharian A. The root ret(h)- becomes rad (wheel) in Old High German, rota (wheel) in Latin, rãtas (wheel) in Lithuanian, and ratha (wagon, chariot) in Sanskrit.
Most estimates from Indo-Europeanists date PIE between 4500 and 2500 BC, with the most probable date falling right around 3700 BC. It is unlikely that late PIE (even after the separation of the Anatolian branch) post-dates 2500 BC, since Proto-Indo-Iranian is usually dated to just before 2000 BC. On the other hand, it is not very likely that early PIE predates 4500 BC, because the reconstructed vocabulary strongly suggests a culture of the terminal phase of the Neolithic bordering on the early Bronze Age.
Reacting to criticism, Renfrew revised his proposal to the effect of taking a pronounced Indo-Hittite position. Renfrew's revised views place only Pre-Proto-Indo-European in 7th millennium BC Anatolia, proposing as the homeland of Proto-Indo-European proper the Balkans around 5000 BC, explicitly identified as the "Old European culture" proposed by Marija Gimbutas. He thus still situates the original source of the Indo-European language family in Anatolia around 7000 BC. Reconstructions of a Bronze Age PIE society based on vocabulary items like "wheel" do not necessarily hold for the Anatolian branch, which appears to have separated from PIE at an early stage, prior to the invention of wheeled vehicles.[9]
According to Renfrew (2004), the spread of Indo-European proceeded in the following steps:
Glottochronology has been used by some linguists to attempt to date languages by the changes in their lexicon over time. The method has been much criticized because of the assumption of a constant change rate. More recently phylogenetic methods have been used by scholars such as Russell D. Gray and Quentin D. Atkinson which allow variable rates on different branches. They dated PIE to a period which would fit Renfrew's hypothesis.[10]
However the finding was disputed. A revision of glottochronology by Sergei Starostin allows rate variation with time and dates the earliest PIE to 4670 BC, prior to the breakaway of Hittite, and the later PIE (origin of all other IE languages) to 3810 BC.[11]


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Coordinates: 7°9′39″N 3°20′54″E / 7.16083°N 3.34833°ECoordinates: 7°9′39″N 3°20′54″E / 7.16083°N 3.34833°E | |
Country | Nigeria |
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Abeokuta is the largest city and capital of Ogun State in southwest Nigeria. It is situated on the east bank of the Ogun River, near a group of rocky outcrops in a wooded savanna;[1] 48 miles (77 km) north of Lagos by railway, or 81 miles (130 km) by water. As of 2005, Abeokuta and the surrounding area had a population of 593,140.
Abẹokuta lies in fertile country of wooded savanna, the surface of which is broken by masses of grey granite. It is spread over an extensive area, being surrounded by mud walls 18 miles in extent. Palm-oil, timber, rubber, yams, rice, cassava, maize, cotton, other fruits, and shea butter are the chief articles of trade. It is a key export location for cocoa, palm products, fruit, and kola nuts.[1] Both rice and cotton were introduced by the missionaries in the 1850s and have become integral parts of the economy, along with the dye indigo. It lies below the Olumo Rock, home to several caves and shrines. The town depends on the Oyan River Dam for its water supply, which is not always dependable.[2]
Abeokuta is the headquarters of the Federal Ogun-Oshin River Basin Authority, which is responsible for development of land and water resources for Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo states. Included in this are irrigation, food-processing, and electrification.[1]
Local industries include but are not limited to fruit canning plants, plastics, breweries, sawmills, and an aluminum products factory. South of town are the Aro Granite Quarries.[1]
Abeokuta is connected to nearby Lagos by a railway that was completed in 1899, 48 miles (77 km). Roads connect it to Lagos as well as Ibadan, Ilaro, Shagamu, Iseyin, and Ketou.[1]
Sodeke first settled Abeokuta (meaning literally "the underneath of the rock"[citation needed] or indirectly "refuge among rocks")[1] in 1825 as a place of refuge from slavehunters from Dahomey and Ibadan. The village populations scattered over the open country to take refuge among the rocks surrounding the city. Here they formed a free confederacy of many distinct groups, each preserving the traditional customs, religious rites and the names of their original villages.
The original settlers of Abeokuta were of the Egba nation,[3] fleeing from the Oyo Empire, which was collapsing.[1] Later, some members of other Yoruba clans came to the settlement. Baptist and Anglican missionaries from Great Britain began to serve the area in the 1840s,[1][3] in addition to Sierra Leone Creoles.
Due to the fact that Abeokuta was in a key location for the palm oil trade and because it was the so-called capital of the Egbas, Dahomey soon became hostile. In the 1851 Battle of Abeokuta, the Egba, with assistance from missionaries and armed by the British defeated King Gezo and the Dahomey incursion. They again beat back the Dahomey military in 1864.[1][3]
The 1860s also saw problems arise with the Europeans, namely the British in Lagos, which led to the Egba first closing trade routes, followed by the expulsion of missionaries and traders in 1867.[1] Between 1877 and 1893 the Yoruba Civil Wars occurred, and Abeokuta opposed Ibadan, which led the king or alake of the Egba to sign an alliance with the British governor, Sir Gilbert Carter. This occurred in 1893, which formalized the Egba United Government based in Abẹokuta which became recognized by the United Kingdom.[1] In 1914, the city was made part of the colony of Nigeria by the British.[1][3]
In 1918, the Abeokuta Riots took place which was related to the levying of taxes and the policy of indirect rule by Lord Frederick Lugard, the British Governor-General.[1]
In 1976, Abeokuta became the capital of the newly created Ogun State.
Abeokuta was a walled town and remnants of the historic wall still exist today. The Ake, the traditional residence of the Alake, along with Centenary Hall (1930). There are secondary and primary schools and the University of Lagos Abeokuta Campus opened in 1984.[1] This campus specializes in science, agriculture, and technology. This has since been changed to an independent full-fledged tertiary institution, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) in 1988.
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So, let's see. Options. LEOs involved go to jail. Yeah, when donkeys fly. Next option. A civil suit.
In our present society there aren't too many do overs, and mistakes aren't usually forgiven by the law. Wish it were different. I really do believe in forgiving people and giving second chances.
HOWEVER, punishment serves an important purpose. Deterrence. If we want to stop gangster tactics of the kind described here twice in 24 hours, we need to punish those who behave badly; or in this instance, punish those who trained them and ordered them to behave in that manner. Stuff like that doesn't start at the bottom. As the old saying goes, "the fish rots from the head." That is why a civil suit is entirely appropriate. And if the OP was telling us the truth, there is plenty of justification for one.


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These weapons we tout aren't futuristic; they announce our lack of a future. But everywhere around us, we can spot people who are volunteering to live simply so that others can simply live.
She traveled without money, slept outdoors and relied on the charity of others for food. When she was not on the road, Peace Pilgrim gave lectures and gathered signatures for several peace petitions, one of which was a plea for immediate peace in Korea.
Who should be the ones to care when Korea's territorial integrity and its national sovereignty are threatened? First and foremost, it should be Koreans.
By redbaiting SPARK as a communist, pro-North organization, the South Korean government is trying to taint the Jeju naval base resistance and send a message to others that if they are or become involved, they too will be branded and targeted.
What happens when a profession becomes obsolete? Or when no one wishes to carry on a tradition? A tiny community of skin divers in the Korean Strait constitutes the last generation that will earn its living underwater.
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Source: Atlas 159, 1885.
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Staten Island, Plate No. 28 [Map bounded by New, Division Ave., Simonson, Shore Rd., Cottage Pl.]
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