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Each independent school has its own personality, much like individual people. Each one is uniquely different in its student body composition, size, location, and day/boarding ratios. However, one size does not fit all, which begs the key question: How do I find the right school fit for my child?
Different schools
A variety of independent schools exist from large and small day schools to schools that have both day and boarding students in a range of ratios. Single-sex schools offer learning that is specifically geared toward a certain gender making teaching and learning more productive. Students at single-sex schools enjoy weekdays free of social tension and are able to focus more easily on academics and extracurricular. There is a myriad of research that exists to support the value of single-sex schools. It is wise to consider both options. Many families dismiss the idea of a single-sex school without truly understanding the benefits. Consider exploring the concept before making a decision by default. Making an informed choice the educational future of a child and independent schools starts with considering all the options – day, boarding, coed and single-sex schools.
Academic milieu
The most important aspect of finding the right fit for a student is his or her academic needs. Each independent school caters to a specific cohort of learners. Some schools provide a highly competitive academic environment that can challenge the most capable students. Other schools offer a more academically supportive environment, helping all of their students reach their academic potential. And then there is everything in between. A more recent phenomenon in the independent school world is the increasing presence of "study skill centers." These centers provide additional tutorial support for students who have gaps in their learning, organizational issues, minor learning differences, and/or need subject specific help. A variety of learners at a broad range of schools can benefit from these kinds of programs.
Sometimes it is difficult to determine a school's academic niche. Websites and print material are becoming increasingly sophisticated, as are curricular offerings. One could consider entering and exiting standardized test scores, but that only tells part of the story. Some of the best and brightest will not score well on such tests, particularly if they are coming from a less traditional learning environment. The secondary school or college placement list can be a telling indicator, but one should not hang their hat on such a list. Keep in mind that college matriculation is often skewed by legacies, development prospects, recruited athletes, and financial aid need.
The best information about where a school fits on the academic continuum is through discussion with key personnel at the school starting with the admission director. This person above all knows the profile of the student that thrives in that particular school. He or she will also be able to identify the characteristics of a learner that historically have not been successful. I believe that students are best served when they enroll in schools where they have the ability to perform in the top quartile of a class. When students feel at ease in the classroom, they are more likely to ask questions and take risks. This is when real learning happens.
Special interests
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During a school search process, a family should also consider a student's special interests. Perhaps a particular student has had little exposure to extra-curricular activities and is looking for an environment where there is easy access to explore a variety of interests. Or, perhaps a student is highly skilled in a specific sport and wishes to pursue the highest levels of competition. Whatever the student's wishes or talents, there is a school that can accommodate them. As more and more families recognize the value of extra-curricular activities, enabling students to participate in activities is becoming more complicated. Independent schools help make that life challenge easier. Independent schools are all-encompassing with all offerings taking place within the program day; families are no longer required to juggle multiple activity schedules, ensuring that their student can participate in his or her activity of choice.
Feeding the passion of students is critical to their self-esteem and self-confidence. If learning is going to be a challenge in the classroom, then ensure that a student can be a rock star on the sports field or arts platform. This success will ultimately carry over to the classroom as the student matures and gains confidence. In an independent school, this process is compounded by the fact that teachers tend to have a variety of roles in the school community and are engaged in each student's life in a number of ways. Thus, the math teacher can be the soccer coach and/or dorm parent. Understanding and knowing a student in a variety of settings can help good teachers find the key to success much more quickly and efficiently.
Cultural atmosphere
The culture of a school tends to be less tangible than the academic profile or extra-curricular offerings of a school, but is part of the school's make-up whether it be a small or large school, a day, boarding or combination school, or a coed or single-sex school. These characteristics are going to have a big impact on the culture of a school. However, the only way to get a true feeling of a school culture is to visit the school. The culture of a school is its "personality," and families should not be afraid to follow their "gut" when considering an independent school. False rumors and mis-accusations about specific independent schools or in general are too easily cast about within communities. It is of vital importance to hear those opinions, but parents and students should be sure to create their own through first-hand research and experience.
It is imperative that the personality of the school fit that of the student. As with meeting new people for the first time, students will have a visceral reaction to a school community. It is not uncommon for students to struggle with articulating what it is they like or dislike about a school. These are intangible "gut" feelings that are essential, but they can often be scrambled by the feelings of others in the family, neighborhood or community at large. It is important to hear the reactions of others, but I caution giving them too much weight. The "parking lot chatter" can be highly charged, filled with personal agendas and confounded by rumors and misguided facts. Consequently, I often encourage families not to discuss their school searches with others. These decisions and discussions should remain between the individual families and the schools.
Geographical considerations
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Accessibility and safety have become primary concerns in recent years. Parents have become less comfortable with the idea of their children being further away, harder to access and less under their realm of control. When considering day schools, longer or multiple commutes to and from school can wreak havoc on a family. From a boarding school perspective, parents want very much to be able to attend games and take their children out for the occasional mid-week dinner. Families are tending to tether their boarding school searches within a two hour radius of home. As a parent, I am completely empathetic to this consideration. However, sometimes the best fit is a longer car ride or even a plane trip, which creates an extreme dissonance in the school search. Managing distance is a very personal decision. Weighing the pros and cons of commuting distance and school fit is a family consideration, and it should remain that way. Again, it is personal.
Where to start
The first step in the school search process is to consider a priority list including the four main topics discussed in this article — academic milieu, special interests, cultural atmosphere, and geography. Decide what kinds of schools you would like to explore – day, boarding, coed, single-sex. Research can begin by a look at two great guidebooks: Peterson's Guide to Private Secondary Schools and/or Porter Sargent's Handbook of Private Schools, just to name a few. You can get more information from internet Web sites: the National Association of Independent Schools (www.nais.org) or The Associate of Boarding Schools (www.boardingschools.com). Keep a look out in your community for a "school fair" where admission representatives will be present with information and a little time to chat. Visit individual school Web sites and request print material. From this research, develop a list of schools to visit – the most important aspect in getting to know if a school is the right fit for you. Lastly, if you feel that you need support in this process, consider an educational consultant (www.iecaonline.org). These professionals can be extremely helpful in navigating this process toward a successful outcome. The educational future of your child is of extreme importance. And this is a choice you cannot afford to get wrong.
Holly McGlennon Treat has been involved with independent school for the past 20 years in a variety of roles. She has served as the Director of Secondary School Advising at the Indian Mountain School and the Director of Admission and Dean of Students at The Ethel Walker School. She has also worked as the Associate Director of Admission at both Miss Porter's School and Miss Hall's School. She has a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University and she is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Middlesex School. Her goal is to join each student with the educational environment that best develops his or her potential. Ms. Treat is a member of the Independent Educational Consultant Association (www.iecaonline.com). For further information, Holly can be contacted at [email protected].
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Rape victim, 13, reveals her social worker LAUGHED when she found out she was being sold to Asian men for sex - while staff at her care home responded by putting her on the Pill
From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5528399/Woman-trafficked-Asian-men-sex-13-year-old.html#ixzz5AThcsFtc
A woman who was trafficked into prostitution by another teenager at her care home when she was just 13 has revealed how everyone around her - from police to staff to teachers and social workers - shockingly turned a blind eye.
Zoe Patterson's book Trafficked Girl is published today and details how she was sexually abused and raped by older Asian men while living at a Midlands care home, often being forced to have sex with multiple men on a nightly basis.
When she first admitted to a social worker what was happening, she was laughed at and the only real response from staff at the unit was to put her on contraceptives.
Now, Zoe says that society still finds it easier to blame vulnerable young girls rather than working to bring abusers to justice, as well as revealing her fears that young girls are still at risk in the care system despite high profile grooming scandals in Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford.
Speaking exclusively to Femail, Zoe, 30 who still lives in the Midlands said: 'I do have concerns that abuse like the kind I suffered is still taking place.
'The area where I was abused has reduced the size of its children's homes and closed down the larger homes, but this won't do anything towards changing the attitudes of some of the staff that run them and fail to protect the residents.
'I do think that society finds it easier to blame the victims than to delve into the horror of what's really going on in situations of abuse
'If society can turn its back on one person or group, it could turn its back on you too. So people think it's better not rock the boat and risk being thrown overboard.
'It seems that it is easier to point fingers and blame the vulnerable than admit that actually we are all vulnerable and would stand a much better chance of eradicating abuses like these if we could only see each other as equal and connect with each other and care for each other.'
Zoe was placed in residential care home, which she has given the pseudonym Denver House, at the age of 13 after being removed from her violent, alcoholic parents. She was already drinking heavily and self-harming.
One evening, a girl called Abbie, 15, took her to a 'party' with three older Asian men, at least twice their age where she was raped by a man called Yasir and a second man.
She admitted to a social worker what had happened, but was laughed at and the only real response from staff at the unit was to put her on contraceptives.
Afraid of retribution from Abbie, she continued to attend 'parties', feeling as if she had no choice.
'I cannot imagine what Abbie's motives were when she sold me, apart from the obvious one of earning money,' Zoe said.
'I don't know if she acted out of fear or if she even considered any of the consequences of her actions. At the time, she certainly didn't give the impression that she was scared or that she had given any thought to what her actions would mean for me.
'I will never forget the way she smirked and laughed when she walked in and witnessed me being raped that first time. As you might imagine, I have had to deal with a lot of anger concerning Abbie.
'I believe that an action is its own reward or punishment. I came to this conclusion after many hours of soul searching, trying to make peace with what has happened to me and wondering about the word justice.
'Abbie chose to sell me. That action in my opinion is her punishment, whether she knows it or not. Whether she cares or not, I believe that her actions, however misguided or ignorant, have damaged a part of her soul and that that is something that cannot be undone, just as I cannot take away the fact that I was raped.
Despite staff at the care home, teachers, social workers and even police officers knowing what was going on, nobody did anything to intervene.
Soon Abbie was arranging almost daily meetings for Zoe with men she called her friends or with taxi drivers.
'I didn't want to have sex with any of the men and I never once went willingly to any of the places they took us.
'I did it because I was scared – of Abbie and of the men themselves – and because, having realised that the people who were supposed to be caring for me didn't actually care about me at all, I didn't have anyone else to turn to.
'People in positions of authority could make the effort to educate themselves about abuse, the victims and the perpetrators and then pass this knowledge on to others and use it to prevent and put a stop to abuse.
I know that my story is going to be used on a number of training workshops aimed at professionals who work with vulnerable children.
I hope that my story and others like it that are shared with the public will educate people enough so that if they suspect abuse, they will do something about it.
Abbie left the care home but then another girl, Natalie, forced Zoe to meet her 'friend' Pete, who would force Zoe to have sex with his friends.
It was only some time later that she realised Natalie and Pete were receiving money and she was being trafficked.
'Most of the time, life at Denver House followed what had become a normal pattern for me. I would get a phone call from Pete, or from one of his friends, telling me where and when I would be picked up, sometimes with Natalie, sometimes not.
'Then I'd be driven to a gloomy house somewhere, where I'd be given alcohol, cannabis and occasionally amphetamines. It was the drink I always looked forward to, because it helped to empty my mind before I was taken upstairs by the first of the men who were going to have sex with me that night.'
In desperation Zoe eventually went home to her parents' house where her mother hit her and sent her to school with vodka and she lived in fear of being sexually abused by her father.
After an incident where she brought a knife to school and threatened to kill herself, she was sent to a foster home but continued to struggle with alcohol and self-harming.
A stint in another residential home followed before she was moved to her own flat and attempted suicide.
'Even during the worst times, I've always had an idea at the back of my mind of, 'This can't be it. It can't just finish like this,' Zoe said.
Taking advice from the self-help book You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay, Zoe worked to take responsibility for her life.
At 19 she got a job in a warehouse as started pursuing her passion for boxing and fitness.
It took many years to conquer her dependence on alcohol, which she went back to many times during a tumultuous relationship with her ex-partner Jess.
However, she has since reached an out of court settlement with Denver House and is preparing to train as a boxing coach.
'I believe in love. I believe that this love exists within our spirit and connects us to the world around us, and with it we can overcome anything and make better choices for ourselves, even when we are afraid and alone,' Zoe said.
'I believe this love and spirit exist within everyone and although they cannot be changed or removed, they can be buried and ignored. It's not easy to feel love after experiencing pain. I am so very grateful that I am able to love.
In view of my beliefs, I now feel sorry for Abbie. I know that Abbie and the men who paid her to rape me succeeded in what they set out to do.
'Their actions have hurt me and have exposed me to a side of life that I would never have chosen to see. However, their actions did not change me for the worse. They did not damage my soul or dampen my spirit. I am unchanged in that sense.
'Their actions have nothing to do with me, but everything to do with them, even though they have caused me great pain and suffering. Their actions show them for the cowards they are.
'As a survivor, my actions show me for the person I am and the courage I have, and there cannot be courage without fear. It is only our choices that define and separate us.
Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back by Zoe Patterson and Jane Smith,


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In grade school, what did you do with the persistent bully or annoying kid that didn't like you and was always nipping at your heels? Remember back, I'm sure it sounded something like this:
"Ooh, look at junior's shoes, haha, did your mom dress you?" "You throw like a girl!" "My friends are waaay cooler than yours...."
All of us have been there, albeit a long time ago.
So what did you do with said bully? Take him head-on and fight at every point? Or just ignore him, which eventually made him go away.
Not Obama, no, no, no. The leader of the Free World thinks that a guy with a dead cat on his head is public enemy numero uno.
Here's video of Teh One from last night's
White House Correspondents' Dinner Useful Idiot Bobbleheads Mouthpieces for the Leftist Cause Dinner. One only has to go 10 seconds in to get the idea:
The Donald was taken aback (and laughing all the way to the bank) by the fact that Obama's speech was focused on his truly:
"Well, I really understood what I was getting into — I didn't know that I'd be virtually the sole focus," Trump said. "I guess when you're leading in the polls that sort of thing tends to happen. But I was certainly in a certain way having a good time listening. I don't think the American people are having a good time with $5 gas. ... I was thinking to myself as they were doing this, you know, the American people are really suffering and we're all" having fun at a gala.And....Obama plays right into Trump's trump-card hand, how genius of him and for the press to go along with it all.
Even George W. Bush -- for all of his faults and failures as President -- would have known better than to have attacked every one of his detractors as Obama has (Fox News, Chamber of Commerce, entrepreneurs, business, bitter-clingerers and The Guy With the Dead Cat on his Head who is most likely part of a giant conspiracy for Teh One's reelection...).
Obama's petulance highlights a man not comfortable in his own skin; someone that has never had to face criticism of any kind; a petulant man that tripped and stumbled into the presidency and has no clue what the hell he is doing.
Seriously, I'm no Trump fan but addressing him directly like this? So weird and Dear Leader-esque.
On a related note, I have been thinking about the entire Trump/birth certificate/presidential run/media attention deal and think that there is a high possibility that something beyond fishy is going on: Trump may be a Democrat plant, inserted by Soros and the ruling class and a Perot-like spoiler that runs on an independent ticket and keeps a genuine conservative from having any chance in the general election.
What do you think?
Added: The Donald shows up last night and is promptly booed by the lapdog Obama press (who are stupid enough -- all of them -- to go along with the whole charade):
Via Memeorandum, here, here.
Updated: Great analysis over at Scared Monkeys:
Barack Obama, the serious President once again shows the only thing that he is good at … being the "Clown Prince" in chief and attacking his rivals by making jokes. Isn't it just amazing that the individual who said he wanted to put an end to the "birth certificate" story, is the only one still talking about it. How appropriate though that Obama play as his official birth video footage of the 'Lion King' because we all know that Barack Hussein Obama is the LYING KING!
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John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO, On Food Co-ops, Meditation, And How To Turn Setbacks Into Success
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As the co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, John Mackey has shaped the American diet for the past three decades. After joining a co-op as a teenager, Mackey discovered a philosophy that would drive him to create one of the nation's largest and most beloved supermarkets, one that has changed the way we think about food—and what to expect from a grocery store. With a new book out this month, The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity, Mackey is looking to pass on the lessons he's learned from his career. As a mission-driven entrepreneur, it was amazing to speak candidly with John about the inspiration that sparked Whole Foods Market, the obstacles he's faced as a business-owner, and the values driving him forward as an entrepreneur.
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The launch edition of Africa Food Manufacturing (AFM), the largest cumulative exhibition dedicated to the food manufacturing industry in the region, will take place on 22-24 April 2017 at the Cairo International Convention and Exhibition Centre (CICC).
It is set to bring innovation to the food manufacturing sector. 'Smart Manufacturing' is official 2017 theme for Africa's leading food processing and packaging exhibition as new show concept takes shape.
The 2017 theme of Smart Manufacturing sets the stage for innovation. Africa's increased demand on the food and beverage industry, fuelled by its growing population, calls for a focus on smart processes in manufacturing to improve and optimise production whilst reducing waste and downtime. The full Smart Manufacturing programme is scheduled to be announced in December and promises to include involvement from global experts in the field.
Another key show focus will be discussing ways to tap in to the global smart factory market, which was valued at nearly USD52 billion in 2014 and is expected to expand at over 13 percent annually in the next ten years according to Future Market Insights. Emerging markets, especially in the Middle East and Africa, are pegged as 'up and coming' territories for smart factory investment with the MEA region anticipated to see the fastest growth expansion in the coming years.
According to Simon Cole, Managing Director for Informa Exhibitions – Egypt, organisers of the event, the 2017 edition of AFM will be a perfect opportunity for the industry, both locally and internationally, to capitalise on the predicted up-turn in the market.
"This 2017 edition will prove that it is the go-to event for food processing and packaging professionals in Africa who are seeking innovation." Cole said.
"Next year we are set to attract the fast growing Food & Beverage industry from all over Africa, with a special focus on the Tripartite Free Trade Area, which was signed last year in Egypt and wrapped together 26 African nations with a population north of 600 million. Main markets to participate in AFM include Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo amongst other influential countries" said Cole.
Mohamed Abdelhamid, CEO of International Pack for Packaging Systems company, remarked: "We are always happy to participate in Africa Food Manufacturing on a regular basis, we have been exhibiting for five years to present our latest high quality products with suitable prices to meet the customers' satisfaction and approach potential clients. The exhibition shows great progress every edition in terms of organisation and number of participants which attract more visitors that help us achieve our business goals."
To further support the 2017 theme, the organisers are specifically targeting exhibitors who can offer a certain level of innovation to the market. For them, the upcoming edition is about making sure the exhibition provides cutting edge knowledge and product offerings to drive Africa's food manufacturing industry forward, elevate production, and to bring global technologies and insights to the forefront.
A number of innovative value added benefits have been created for all exhibitors to ease the existing reluctances that foreign companies have when considering to enter the African market. The packages include high value items such as up-to-date sector research reports and insight on how to do business in Africa's key markets, as well as on the ground personal customer relations and onsite translation services. The aim is to provide high value opportunities that will secure their return on investment.
In the lead up to the event in April 2017, the organisers will be announcing, in the coming weeks and months, further information about AFM's new direction including the Smart Manufacturing conference programme, new global partnerships and new VIP buyer programmes.


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We all know that Argentinian businessman/influencer (Uuyyy!) Nico Bolzico absolutely loves trolling his dear wifezilla Solenn Heussaff on social media. But there's another person in Nico's life who he loves to tease: his brother-in-law Erwan Heussaff.
We compiled the best IG posts where #Erco showed some "brotherly love." Get ready for major LOLs!
Nico's first trolling pic for Erwan aka "P*ssy Magnet" on his birthday in 2014:
Love this side-by-side of Nico and Erwan's twinning magazine covers!
Here's Nico teasing Erwan as Jean Claude van "Anne." LOL!!!
How can we forget Nico's parody of Erwan's French tutorial vid?! Pure genius.
And even when Nico called a truce, he still ended up shading Erwan:
But Erwan did try to get even with Nico a couple of times. Here's an edited version of the Spanish video with some HILARIOUS subs:
And Erwan's subtle IG hack on Nico's account. #idol
But we all know this is all out of love 'cause, really, it's #Erco forever. <3 (Sorry, Sos & Anne!)
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Radio One, Inc. 2016 Year End Results Conference Call
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Radio One, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROIAK; ROIA) will be holding a conference call for investors, analysts and other interested parties to discuss its results for the fiscal year 2016.
The conference call is scheduled for Tuesday, March 07, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. EST. To participate on this call, U.S. callers may dial toll-free 1-800-230-1074; international callers may dial direct (+1) 612-288-0337.
A replay of the conference call will be available from 12:00 p.m. ESTMarch 07, 2017 until 11:59 p.m. ESTMarch 09, 2017. Callers may access the replay by calling 1-800-475-6701; international callers may dial direct (+1) 320-365-3844. The replay Access Code is 416422. Access to live audio and a replay of the conference call will also be available on Radio One's corporate website at www.radio-one.com. The replay will be made available on the website for seven days after the call.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements represent management's current expectations and are based upon information available to Radio One at the time of this release. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond Radio One's control, that may cause the actual results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are described in Radio One's reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-3 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Radio One does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements.
About Radio One, Inc.
Radio One, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (https://www.radio-one.com/), is a diversified media company that primarily targets African-American and urban consumers. The Company is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies, currently owning and/or operating 55 broadcast stations located in 15 urban markets in the United States. Through its controlling interest in Reach Media, Inc. (https://www.blackamericaweb.com/), the Company also operates syndicated programming including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Russ Parr Morning Show, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Get up Morning! with Erica Campbell, the DL Hughley Show, Bishop T.D. Jakes' Empowering Moments, the Ed Lover Show, the Willie Moore Jr Show, the Nightly Spirit with Darlene McCoy and the Reverend Al Sharpton Show. Beyond its core radio broadcasting franchise, Radio One owns Interactive One (https://www.interactiveone.com/), the fastest growing and definitive digital resource for Black and Latin Americans, reaching millions each month through social content, news, information, and entertainment. Interactive One operates a number of branded sites including News One (news), The Urban Daily (men), Hello Beautiful (women), Global Grind (Millennials) and social networking websites such as BlackPlanet and MiGente. The Company also owns TV One, LLC (https://www.tvoneonline.com/), a cable/satellite network programming serving more than 57 million households, offering a broad range of real-life and entertainment-focused original programming, classic series, movies and music designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult Black viewers. Additionally, One Solution combines the dynamics of the Radio One's holdings to provide brands with an integrated and effectively engaging marketing approach that reaches 82% of Black Americans throughout the country.
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Dr. Panagiotis Symeonidis is an expert in environmental information systems, GIS and remote sensing. He is in charge of the Geoinformatics department of DRAXIS since 2005. He has participated in numerous European and National research projects related to environment, land use, management of ecosystems, climate change, sustainable development, risk management, information technologies etc. He is very experienced in development and integration of atmospheric environmental systems like emission inventories, dispersion models, meteorological modelling etc. He has more than 30 papers in scientific journals and international conferences.
Dr. Evagelos Kosmidis is a PhD graduate from the Physics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and he is an expert in database management, environmental informatics and environmental policy. He is experienced in related subjects through his involvement and participation in numerous European and national projects. He has designed decision support systems for environmental management as well as for industrial accidents and risk management for public bodies, research organizations and private companies. He is also involved in environmental measurements and remote sensing techniques. He has participated in several European projects and he has more than 30 papers in scientific journals and conferences.
Ms. Ioanna Pavlou is an Economist, with a BSc in Accounting & Finance and a Msc in Informatics & Management. She has great experience in financial project management, tax & business accounting,budgeting,financial reporting and internal auditing. She is the head of the Financial Administration Department of DRAXIS SA.
Mr. Stavros Tekes is trained as an Electrical and Computers Engineer with an MSc in Advanced Informatics and Telecommunication systems. He has many years of experience in researching, designing anddeveloping large scale IT systems, specialized in multi-tier applications both for desktop and the web. Hisexceptional problem solving skills have made him an excellent asset for the teams he has worked with. He isworking as an IT consultant for DRAXIS SA since 2007, and during this time he has participated innumerous projects, working actively as a project manager, analyst, developer and applications tester.
Mr. Pantelis Pekakis is an Environmental Engineer. He has experience in environmental technologies especially in Wastewater Management and counseling on environmental and energy issues. In the company he manages Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Studies for public and private projects and assists several projects related to Environmental Management.
Dr. Machi Simeonidou (Agroeconomist) has studied in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at the Department of Agriculture with wide experience in project preparation and implementation. In the company she has the position of the Project Manager with special duties in designing and managing financed projects.
Dr. Ioannis Boskidis (Environmental Engineer) with experience in Water Resources Management, Environmental Modeling and Environmental Planning. He has participation in several research projects and publications in international conferences and scientific journals. He works as Environmental Engineer responsible for Project Management and Environmental Studies.
Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research, University of Cologne (RIU)
Dr. Hermann Jakobs is working in the field of air quality modeling since more than 20 years. Specific fields of research are the development and application of complex CTMs for the short-term forecast of air pollution and hemispheric applications of the EURAD model. He also applied the model system for applications on urban scale with resolutions lower than 1 km grid size (e.g. Rhine-Ruhr area). He participated in numerous national and international projects (e.g. EUROTRAC, GMES-PROMOTE, COST Action ES0602, CityZen). At present he is working on several user driven research projects for national and international environmental agencies. He published more than 20 peer reviewed articles.
Dr. Michael Memmesheimer is working in the field of air quality modeling since more than 20 years. Specific fields of research are the interaction of dynamics and chemistry in the atmosphere, aerosols and coupling of emissions to complex CTMs. He participated in numerous national and international projects (e.g. EUROTRAC, VOTALP, CityZen). At present he is working on user driven research projects for the environmental agencies of North-Rhine-Westphalia (LANUV), in particular the Ruhr area and Germany (UBA) with emphasis on EU air quality directive regulations and the development of air pollution control strategies. He published more than 20 peer reviewed articles.
Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation-State Research Institute (IUNG-PIB)
Dr. Mariusz Matyka is a senior researcher in IUNG, working on modelling and forecasting of farm economics and farm organization including: horticulture, crop production and bioenergy.
Mr. Artur Lopatka is a junior researcher, dealing with hydrological modelling. He is developing new models and has experience in using existing models, including FAO56 model.
Dr. Jerzy Kozyra is a senior investigator in IUNG, dealing with adaptation of agricultural production systems to climate change, development and implementation of Decision Support Systems for agriculture, covering crop yield modelling, Agricultural Drought Monitoring, solar radiation, snow cover.
Dr. Rafal Wawer is a senior researcher in IUNG, dealing with soil science, spatial analyses and modelling. Hewas working in SADL, Belgium for 2,5 years dealing with ICT issues related to INSPIRE and SEIS.
Noveltis S.A.S.
Ph.D. in atmospheric physics, Dr. Jérôme Donnadille is an expert in dynamic meteorology focused on precipitation and its modelling. His Master thesis was devoted to the modelling of heavy precipitations. He excels in both multi-scale models and data assimilation techniques from remote sensing. A senior scientist at NOVELTIS since 2001, he is developing heterogeneous scene software suites for satellite imagery and performing weather prediction modelling for the internal needs of NOVELTIS.
Dr. Alexandra Hembury, Ph.D. in Science and Master Degree in Management and Marketing. Her expertise covers all the marketing and communication fields: strategic marketing, market study and benchmarking, competitive environment study, customer profiling, marketing mix, communication and marketing documents, international exhibitions, corporate communication, canvassing for customers, sales, customer follow up etc. As a scientist, she has managed her own research project in the field of molecular and cellular biology and has developed her skills in scientific writing and technical support. She has been working for many different business areas such as: environment and sustainable development; space; medical equipment; biological and medical research; press and media; IT; agrochemical business, etc.
Dr. Jean-François Vinuesa is an expert on boundary-layer processes and their representation in multi-scale atmospheric flow modelling. He (co-)authored 19 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and gave more than 50 presentations at international and national conferences. During the last ten years Dr. Vinuesa worked in several countries for international, multi-disciplinary research institutes and universities such as the the Joint Research Center of the European Commission (Italy), the University of Minnesota (MN, USA), the University of Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands), the TNO-Milieu, Energie en Procesinnovatie (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands), the French national center for research (CNRS, France). He is currently unit leader at NOVELTIS.
Dr. Alexander de Meij obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at the Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Currently he is employed as scientific engineer in the field of Air Quality and Meteorological modelling. Alexander has a strong background in air chemistry modeling, remote sensing products handling for air quality related projects and meteorological modeling. Before joining Noveltis, Alexander worked for different environmental consultant agencies and international research organizations in Europe.
Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, BioSense centre
Dr. Vladimir Crnojevic, Director of the BioSense Centre and associate professor at FTS, completed PhD in 2004 in Communications and Signal Processing. Main research interests: application of Wireless Sensor Networks and Remote Sensing to precision agriculture, image processing and pattern recognition field. Coordinator of the FP7 AgroSense and BalkanGEONet projects. Reviewer for some of the most eminent journals in the field. Authoredmore than 50 scientific papers, one US and one European patent.
Dr. Dubravko Culibrk received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA in 2006. He is an Assistant Professor at FTS. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, remote sensing, neural networks and their applications, data mining and artificial intelligence. He coordinates the QoSTREAM FP7 project and has published several journal papers, book chapters, over 50 conference papers and served as a reviewer for numerous journal and conference publications.
Dr. Dejan Vukobratović received the Dipl.-Ing. degree and Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2001 and 2008, respectively. Since 2008, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Power, Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Novi Sad. From June 2009 until December 2010, he was on leave as Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. He was recipient of EU Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship in 2008, and EU Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant in 2011, awarded by the EU Commission. His research interests include sparse graph codes, iterative decoding, fountain coding and network coding with applications in multimedia communications and wireless sensor networks.
Dr. Vesna Crnojevic-Bengin received Dipl. Ing. degree in telecommunications and electronics from the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia in 1994, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and microwave engineering from the University of Novi Sad, in 2006. She is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Novi Sad, where she is the leader of the research "Group for Artificial EM Materials and Microwave Engineering," GAME, and the co-founder of the multidisciplinary research center BioSense at the University of Novi Sad. She is the coordinator of several FP7 and EUREKA! research projects, as well as participant in many other FP7, COST and national research projects. She has authored or co-authored more than 70 conference and journal papers and two books. Her main research interests include microwave passive devices, artificial electromagnetic materials and design of sensors for agricultural and environmental applications. Dr Crnojevic-Bengin is the invited member of the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association, where she represents EuMA Topical Group MAGEO – Microwaves in Agriculture, Environment and Earth Observation. She is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Electronics, published by Taylor & Francis, member of several international Technical Program Committees, and reviewer for number of leading scientific journals. In 2010, she has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Innovation Fund, founded by the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development. Dr Crnojevic-Bengin is the recipient of the special award granted by the European Commission at ''Marie Curie Actions for an Innovative Europe: Excellence, mobility and skills for researchers'' in December 2010 in Brussels, Belgium, as well as the recipient of the Yugoslav Microwave Theory and Techniques Award for Scientific Contribution in 2005.
Dr. Cedomir Stefanovic received the Dipl.-Ing., Mr.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia. Since 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Power, Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Novi Sad. His research interests include distributed coding for wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, frame synchronization and synchronization sequence design.
Ms. Nikolina Jankovic is a researcher at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She received MSc degree from the University of Novi Sad in 2008 and currently is working toward the Ph.D. degree in the field of metametrials. Her main research interests are in the design of microwave passives devices and metamaterials. She has participated in six national and international research projects. Nikolina Jankovic has published eleven journal papers and conference articles.
Ms. Sanja Brdar is a researcher at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She received MSc degree from the University of Novi Sad in 2007.From June 2007 until September 2009, she had been working in Telvent DMSas software developer responsible for enterprise database design and development (Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL), development of ETL (extract, transform and load data) tools and implementation of signal processing algorithms.Currently, sheis pursuing her PhD at the Faculty of Technical Sciences. Her main research interests include machine learning and data mining (in particular the analysis of networks, clustering, ensemble techniques and predictive modeling) with applications in the domains of agriculture and environmental science, biology, medicine.In 2010, she was a visiting PhD student at the Bioinformatics Laboratory at the Faculty of Computer Sciences and Informatics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Mr. Goran Kitic is a researcher at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He received MSc degree from the University of Novi Sad in 2009 and currently is working toward the Ph.D. degree in the field of sensors. His main research interests are in the design of microwave sensors based on passives devices and metamaterials. He has participated in four national and international research projects. Goran Kitic has published six conference articles with applications in the domains of agriculture and environmental science, biology, medicine.
Mr. Vladan Minić is a researcher and system administrator in BioSense center at Faculty of technical sciences. His activities are related to local area network, web sites, mail server, digital image processing and wireless sensor networks. His expertise covers Linux and Windows system; Web developer – Joomla, PHP; Programming languages: C/C++ (OpenCV), Matlab; Databases: MySQL, MS SQL, SQLite; GIS tools: ArcGIS, ERDAS
Mr. Milan Narandžić is an assistant at Department for Communications and Signal Processing, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. He has Serbian national licence for designing of telecommunication networks and systems and participated in design of many propriatory radio-networks. From 2004 he actively participates in COST actions targeting radio-propagation and wireless communication aspects (273, 2100). He was research assistant at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany - working on European FP6 WINNER project. From 2008 he participates in framework Take OFDM - supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and works on topic "Distributed MIMO radio channel modelling".
Imaxdi Real Innovation S.L.
Ms. Marta Alonso Fernández has graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in 2002. She has participated in several Spanish R&D projects funded by the EC and private groups as a software engineer. She has significant experience in decision information and real time systems used in communications and control applications. Her current research activities are focused on ubiquitous mobile systems assisted by sensors.
Mr. Miguel Moure Alonso graduated in Computer Technology Engineering in 1995, is the General Manager of IMAXDI. He is specialized on research and development of ubiquitous systems, as well as implementation of architectures to be re-used on security and encoding IP services. He has been main researcher in 4 Spanish RTD projects, and participated in more than 10, including 2 under FP7.
Dr. Javier Alvarez Osuna is PhD on Pharmacy by University of Santiago de Compostela (1997), graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (2004). He is a specialist on signal processing and computer assisted modeling of complex systems. He is professionally linked with IT companies since 1997, where he has initiated and conducted, as main researcher, in more than 15 Spanish RTD IT projects, and participated in more than 20,including 2 European projects. He collaborates regularly with several scientific publications, and has published various whitepapers about sensor networks. Main RTD lines performed are focused on system modelling and complex network architectures ("always on – always connected").
The Cyprus Institute
Dr. Manfred A. Lange (PhD) is the founding Director of the Energy, Environment and Water Research Center of the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus. Professor Lange's main research focuses on the assessment of climate change impacts through integrated assessment models and the specification of possible mitigation and adaptation strategies with a particular focus on natural resources and ecosystem services (e.g., water). He has been a coordinator for numerous projects under the EC's FP4 and FP5 such as Sustainable Use of Water on Mediterranean Islands (SUSTAINIS) and Towards sustainable water use on Mediterranean Islands (MEDIS). Professor Lange has also co-ordinated numerous ESF projects such as the Regional Climate Modelling and Integrated Global Change Impact Studies in the European Arctic (CLIMPACT), and currently coordinates various nationally funded research projects. Previously, he is a full professor in Geophysics and was the Director of the Environmental Research Center at the University of Münster, Germany. He has also served as the Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, where he started various initiatives related to global change impact research in the European Arctic. Prior to his tenure in Finland, he was the Director of the German Global Change Secretariat.
Dr. Adriana Bruggeman joined the Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of the Cyprus Institute as Research Scientist in hydrology and water management in September 2009. She enjoys working on esoteric, hydrologic monitoring and modeling activities as well as on solving applied research problems in cooperation with various scientists and stakeholders. She has worked as an agricultural hydrologist for the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, based in Aleppo, Syria from 1998 to 2009. In that capacity she contributed to and led numerous research, capacity-building and development projects throughout the West Asia and North Africa region. She has an MSc in Hydrology and Water Management from Wageningen University, The Netherlands (1988) and a PhD in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, USA (1997). At Virginia Tech, she worked as Research Assistant and Associate on non-point source pollution research projects to assess the effect of best management practices on surface water and groundwater quality in Virginia. Her research interests are: Monitoring and modeling of hydrological processes; isotope hydrology; climate change; sustainable use of groundwater resources; agricultural water management; water quality; water, wind and tillage erosion; integrated natural resource management in arid and semi-arid environments; stakeholder participation.
Mr. Hakan Djuma joined the Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre (EEWRC) of the Cyprus Institute in January 2012. He received a Master of Sciences in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. His thesis was titled "Anaerobic biodegradation and bioavailability of Deca-brominated diphenyl ether (fire retardants) in Rotterdam Harbour sediment". He also worked one year as geohydrological and geotechnical engineer in the Netherlands. His research interests are: sustainable water management in semi-arid and arid regions; Fate of pollutants in soil and sediment; Environmentally-friendly land management practices to reduce soil erosion.
Ms. Katerina Charalambous joined the Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre (EEWRC) of the Cyprus Institute in November 2010 as a Research Assistant. She received a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from Queen's University Belfast in 2010 and a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Civil Engineering from the University of Ulster in 2009. Her undergraduate research project was titled 'Sustainable Water Management in Mediterranean Islands' and her MSc thesis 'Urban Water Balance and Management' using Limassol as a case study. In September 2011 she joined the CyI graduate school.
University of Patras
Dr. Eleni Katragkou is Lecturer (appointment pending) in the Department of Meteorology and Climatology in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been involved in 15 funded projects, mostly European (GEMS, MACC, MACCII, PROMOTE, PASODOBLE, CECILIA etc) related to monitoring atmospheric composition and climate, regional climate modeling and validation of atmospheric model products. She has 16 publications in peer-review scientific journals.
Dr. Ioannis Kioutsioukis (Lecturer – appointment pending, MSc, PhD in Environmental Physics) is a computational physicist. His principal interests in Scientific Modelling focuses on Atmospheric Physics and Chemical Weather. Further, he has extensive knowledge in Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of model output. He has been involved in over a dozen EU funded research projects and was the primary researcher in three of them. He has been the author of more than 20 scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Ms. Efterpi Nikitidou studied in the Physics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued her studies in the Master's program of Environmental Physics at the same department. She is a PhD student at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, at the Physics Department of the University of Patras. Her research activities are related to the effect of aerosols and clouds on the incoming solar radiation, based on ground measurements, satellite estimations and weather forecasts.
Dr. Andreas Kazantzidis (Assistant Professor, MSc, PhD in Environmental Physics) has been actively involved in more than 20 EU-funded projects, related to the effect of several atmospheric constituents, derived from model and satellite estimations, on radiative transfer of solar radiation. His areas of interest include the synergetic use of radiative transfer models and forecasts of cloud optical properties for the estimation of solar radiation. Since 2010, he participates (member of the Management Commitee) in COST ESSEM Action 1002, entitled « Weather Intelligence for renewable energy».
Institute of Earth Sciences (SUPSI)
Dr. Jürg Hammer is a civil engineer ETH Zürich, MSc. in Engineering Hydrology and a PhD in hydraulic and energy engineering. His professional experience covers the design of hydraulic structures (hydrology, intake and transportation structures, dams, irrigation networks), safety of dams and natural hazards management.
Ms. Monia Elisa Molinari is an environmental engineer. Her expertise covers LiDAR applications to environmental problems using open source technology, high resolution terrain models, hydro-geological modeling for the generation of dynamic risk scenarios, and the development of web processing services.
Dr. Massimiliano Cannata is an environmental engineer with a MSc. in Georesources and a PhD in Geodesy and Geomatic on hydraulic models and GIS. He's the head of the geomatic division at the IES and his experience is surveying, geo-data and sensor-data management, risk assessment, and Web services.
Dr. Mauro Veronesi holds a MSc in biology (ETH Zürich/EAWAG) and a PhD in microbiology (University of Zürich). His field of competence ranges from applied limnology to ecotoxicology and acidification of aquatic ecosystems.
Dr. Sebastian Pera is an hydrogeologist, with a PhD on Environmental Sciences. He is the head of Hydrogeology and limnology division at IES. His field of expertise is groundwater resources management and protection, by applying geophysics, geochemistry, and mathematical modeling.
Mr. Maurizio Pozzoni is an environmental engineer. His expertise covers water resourses management, including monitoring, data acquisition and validation. His background covers conceptual hydrological modeling, natural hazards management and modelization (particularly flooding and debris flow).
Ms. Linda Soma has a master's degree in natural resource management. She specializes in monitoring of natural hazards, mapping and spatial data analysis. Her background covers crop requirements (water, nutrients, soil) analysis and soil classification.
Teknoset Ltd.
Mr. Cengiz Bayazit, founder and CEO of TEKNOSET, holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University (USA), where he is also an alumni in the Department of Computer Science. He has worked in many large projects ranging from IT infrastructure investments of multinational companies (e.g. SCO Unix and JPMorganChase Bank, where he designed software management practices for over 25 development groups and 2500 software developers) to consulting under United Nations contracts for government organizations (e.g. Turkish Petroleum Inc., SDIF (Security Deposit Insurance Fund), and National RSHC laboratories, etc)
Unisoft Romania S.A.
Ms. Ruxandra Margineanu has been working for Unisoft Romania since January 2006, and her activity within the company covers the following aspects: customer services – hotline for Unisoft software applications, sales activities as: contract renewals, offers, presentations, new customer's approach. She has also been involved in the FP6 European Project Panda. In this project, her tasks mainly covered the reporting area and the documents management. She has a Bachelor Degree in Financial Management and a Master Degree in Sales and Marketing.
Mr. Kypros Christofi has a very large activity within the ALTEC Group, first inGreece, and afterwards as a General Manager of UnisoftRomania. His activities in Unisoft cover the customer relationship development, dealers relationship management and company management as a whole. He has a diploma in Electronic Engineering
Mr. Liviu Buligan is the founder of UnisoftRomania and currently holds the Executive Manager position within the company. He has previously held the Sales Manager position, and has also performed in the R&D department for several years. His expertise covers the sales area, but also the software development aspects, business analysis and implementation. He has diploma in Mechanical Engineering.
Ms. Liliana Luca has been with the company since 1999, and her tasks mainly cover the following aspects: software development and implementation, as well as business analysis. She has been involved in many large UNISOFT projects, covering both business analysis and implementation aspects. She is dealing with various customers that operate in a very wide range of domains. During the years that she has been with UNISOFT she has gained an exquisite expertise regarding the business analysis and software development and implementation.
Q-PLAN North Greece Ltd.
Mr. Dimitrios Daskalakis (MEng in Mechanical Engineering, Founding Partner and Director of Q-PLAN N.G.). His fields of expertise\ include implementation and auditing of management systems according to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, OHSAS 1801 etc., as well as project and quality management in several environmental R&D and support projects.
Ms. Evangelia Tsagaraki (MEng in Chemical Engineering, MSc in Food Science and Technology, Senior Consultant, Q-PLAN NG Ltd) is appointed with the design and implementation of quality management and food safety management systems (ISO 22000, BRC, IFS, Codex Alimentarius, ISO 9001, ISO 17025 etc). She has also participated in the project management team of various EU-funded international collaborative activities.
Mr. Kostas Bougiouklis (MEng in Electrical & Computer Engineering, MBA, Head of Development Department, Q-PLAN NG Ltd). He has a wide experience in the elaboration of EU projects and Studies. Agent Responsible(Coordinator) of the DG INFSO ERA Study and Coordinator, WP leader, or Exploitation Manager, in the design and implementation of more than 15 European (FP6-FP7, etc) and national RTD and support projects. Reviewer on behalf of EC (e.g. FP6 Integrated Project 'MYCAREVENT' (IST-04402)) and Evaluator for SMEs investment plans under the development law 2601/98 at General Secretariat of Industry of the Greek Ministry of Development.
Public Water Management Company "Vode Vojvodine"
Ms. Jelena Vojvodić holds a BSc degree in Finances and a MSc degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (Management of Investments).
She has vast experience in fields of finances, project management, strategic and business planning, strategic and business analyses, analyses of productivity of resources and measuring company's performance.
Since 2006, she has been engaged within several EU funded projects, as a person responsible for financial management.
Mr Janoš Mičkei holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture (Reclamation, Irrigation and Drainage) and has been working in the field of water management since 1977. In the current position as a Head of Development Department in PWMC Vode Vojvodine based in Novi Sad, he works on the activities such as development planning, cooperation with scientific research institution and responsibilities in water resources management.
Since 2005, he has been involved in EU funded projects (CARDS, Interreg, IPA, SEE) regarding development of water management, water use and flood control with the aim to improve the cross-border cooperation with neighbouring countries.
Mr. Ratko Bajcetic (1965) holds MSc. degree in water management in agriculture and is currently at the position of Head Engineer – GIS Developer in Public Water Management Company "Vode Vojvodine". Complete work experience of more than 19 yaers he has worked in the public sector of water management area. He has worked on a large number of worldwide and national projects. He published a 20 scientific papers and he is currently working on his PhD Thesis in the branch of decision support in water management. Member of: ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers and JISA Unique National Information Association.
Ms. Vanja Barisic Jokovic (1975) is a Master of Arts in philology and has another Master degree in state management with specialization in PR in environment protection (La Sapienza University, Roma, Italy). Currently, she is Head of PR department in Public Water Management Company "Vode Vojvdoine" where she has worked for 6 years. She has wast experience in internal and external PR projects. Also, she worked as PR consultant for different clients, such as University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Institute for Public Health, Norwegian Institute for Water (NIVA). In 2009. She won a special prize as Leader of tomorrow from Holland Government and during her carrier many other prizes for projects and scientific work. Ms Barisic Jokovic is member of EUPRA European PR association and DSOJ, Serbian PR association.


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Look to the Lord and His strength;
seek His face always.
—1 Chronicles 16:11
What should we do when we pray and then we don't understand what happens next?
What if situations in our lives seem confusing, even though we have prayed about them?
God's thoughts are not ours and His timing is not our timing.
His understanding of every human heart is beyond our comprehension.
No matter what happens to us, we are to look to God and His strength.
We need to always be seeking Him.
He knows what is best.


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Medda's Phoenissae brings to 13 the number of Euripidean plays that have now appeared in the BUR collection. Several of these have been edited by the distinguished senior Hellenist Vincenzo Di Benedetto or by his students. Each volume contains a Greek text with facing Italian translation, an extensive introduction, notes beneath the text and translation, and more specialized notes on problems of textual readings and authenticity collected at the end. The level of scholarship is very high, and these editions are in general much fuller than the Loeb (constrained, as it is, by its format) and more ambitious than many of the entries in the Aris & Phillips series of Euripidean plays. Medda himself is one of a group of fine Hellenists trained during Di Benedetto's long career at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Università di Pisa. He co-authored with his teacher a magisterial study of stage conventions and dramatic technique, La tragedia sulla scena: la tragedia greca in quanto spettacolo teatrale (Torino 1997), and just five years ago produced an excellent BUR edition of another particularly challenging play, Orestes.
The Introduzione has nine sections. The first, "Arcaismi e innovazioni," touches briefly on the conscious intertextual dialectic of recall and contrast Euripides creates between his play and Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, and reviews the chief points of Euripidean innovation or creativity in the refashioning and complication of the story. In the second section Medda explicates the various effects of the teichoskopia (Phoen. 88-201) and the ways its details play off against both Homer and Aeschylus. The next part, "Il coro straniero," provides a detailed appreciation of the contributions made by the chorus of foreign maidens, a chorus that both evokes the rich mythic background of the day's events and embodies a voice that is relatively remote and aloof, more often that of an internal spectator than of a emotionally-engaged partner of the characters. The great agon (Phoen. 469-585) is the subject of sections 4 and 5: the first analyzes the moral and political dimensions of the arguments of Polyneices and Eteocles, while the second emphasizes the "democratic" significance of Jocasta's praise of equality and justice. Like most modern critics, Medda recognizes (in section 6) the central importance of the Menoeceus-scene to the themes of family and city and to the working out of the tangled complex of early causes and events referred to by the chorus and Teiresias. In the following two sections we find a very perceptive analysis of the battle narratives in the two messenger-scenes, with good observations on the differences from the Aeschylean treatment and on allusions to and reshaping of Homeric passages. A nice example is his treatment of the Homeric comparison of a falling warrior to a diver (Iliad 12.385-86 as well as 16.742-50). At p. 58, Medda relates this to what he perceives as the more "democratic" portrayal of the battle for Thebes in Euripides (as against the epic tradition and Aeschylus): "the most interesting point to note, however, is the displacement whereby the image of the diver, applied in Homer to the death of a single warrior, is transferred by Euripides to the mass of anonymous warriors who lose their lives falling from the wall. The tragic poet, in the very moment in which he adorns his narrative with an epic element suited to heightening its stylistic level, bends it to the new requirements of a narrative in which it is not the feats of prowess of the commanders that are to determine the outcome of the battle" (58). The ninth and final section is "Una riflessione sull'esodo," in which Medda concisely presents his opinion on the much-disputed final scenes of the play. He argues well for the appropriateness of the lyrics of Antigone and Oedipus and the theme of Oedipus' exile to the structure and themes of the play. He admits more uncertainty about the motifs of Polyneices' burial and Antigone's marriage to Haemon, explaining how they fit well with previous themes and developments, but admitting that he sees much to doubt in various details of the text. He is thus, with all due caution, generally aligned with editors and critics like Wilamowitz, Pearson, Conacher, and myself as against those who have rejected large portions or all of the exodos (Page, Fraenkel, Diggle, etc.). Like all except the most conservative critics of this text, he considers the lines from 1737 to the end definitely inauthentic. More details of his judgment on these problems are provided in the notes to the text and the notes at the end of the volume.
In a shorter section entitled "Premessa al testo" Medda deals efficiently and persuasively with chronology, details of role-assignment and staging, and the transmission and manuscript tradition. After a bibliography of previous editions and critical studies of the play, the text and translation follow.
As a textual editor, Medda is thorough in deliberation and cautious in his approach, closer to the approach of my own edition (Teubner 1988) and commentary (Cambridge 1994) than to the editions of Diggle and Kovacs, editors who take a more interventionist approach, accepting more emendations and bracketing a greater number of lines as spurious. Medda's text in fact uses that of my 1994 edition as its basis,1 but he alters it with a number of different choices of readings and brackets more passages. Among examples of such differences may be cited: (1) passages where he retains the reading of the mss (21 δοὺς instead of Markland's 'νδοὺς; (2) passages where he marks a corruption or marks a larger stretch of text as corrupt than I do (186-89, 361, 646-48, 792-93, 1730); (3) places where he accepts an emendation I mentioned only in apparatus or commentary (235, 1028-30, 1195, 1694); (4) places where he accepts a different emendation from the one I chose, usually in places where such disagreement is very much to be expected (748, 846, 1232). So far as I can judge the Italian style, the translation seems quite clear and forceful, and it is highly accurate (I mention a few quibbles below).
In the matter of bracketing lines as inauthentic, Medda deletes more often than I, but the only substantial passage on which we disagree is lines 1104-40, the catalogue of the seven Theban attackers in the first messenger speech. Among the passages I defended or left unbracketed in my edition, this is certainly the one passage of extended length I myself felt and feel least tenacious about. In his rejection of the passage Medda puts considerable weight on his view (related to one argued earlier by Mueller-Goldingen) that Euripides is radically revising the battle narrative in a more "democratic" direction by emphasizing the anonymous mass of fighters on both sides and reducing the role of the traditional epic champions on each side. His explanations for the "exceptions" made for particular treatment of the heroes Parthenopaeus and Capaneus (pp. 59-62) are suggestive, and he is again very good on the way Euripides refashions Homeric passages in the lines about Parthenopaeus. But I remain doubtful that the effects of the battle narrative should be viewed in such a clear either-or light and that there is a necessary contradiction between attention to the champions and attention to the masses of ordinary soldiers. There are several shorter passages which Medda joins Fraenkel, Diggle, or other editors in bracketing: 376-78, 438-442, 548, 974, 1183, 1369-71, 1582-83, 1688-89, 1703-7 (the notes indicate his strong suspicion of 1233-35, but not quite enough for the use of brackets). At 51-52, he rejects deletion of the pair of lines (Leutsch, Fraenkel), but deletes 51 rather than 52.
The annotation is, as mentioned above, on a fairly ambitious level. As well as some needed explication of mythological persons and places, there are excellent remarks on many aspects of dramatic techique, on uncertainties of interpretation, and on textual difficulties and questions of possible interpolation.
The most interesting innovation in Medda's text is his adoption of Di Benedetto's view that Creon's scene at lines 1308ff. is genuine, but that Creon departs from the stage at the end of 1353, with the chorus-leader speaking 1354-55, the invitation to the messenger to give his full account of the events he has just reported in brief. In RIFC 130 (2002) [2005] 386-405, Di Benedetto has presented this interpretation at length, prefacing the discussion with the publication of two letters written to him by Eduard Fraenkel in September 1961 that clarify the genesis of the suspicion of Creon's presence at this part of the play. Previous scholars had noticed the unusual length of Creon's silence from 1356 to 1584 in the transmitted text, and Di Benedetto himself had pointed out to Fraenkel a few years earlier that Creon is nowhere acknowledged as an addressee in the messenger's rheseis and that he has no lines at the end of the messenger's report. Di Benedetto posited that Creon was not present during the speeches. Fraenkel added to this anomaly the fact that Creon's intervention at 1584f. is a typical entrance-motif. In his first letter of 1961 Fraenkel reminds Di Benedetto that he (F.) had tried out the hypothesis that between 1353 and 1354 some original lines had been lost in which Creon said that he had to return at once to his own home (perhaps to deal with the prothesis of Menoeceus). Rudolf Pfeiffer, however, had convinced Fraenkel that such a departure would be entirely anomalous as well, and so Fraenkel felt himself at an impasse. In the second letter, a few days later, Fraenkel tells of his new thought, that Creon never appeared at all, that is, that lines 1310-1331 and 1339-53 are not by Euripides, and this is view that he eventually published in his 1963 monograph (in this case, 1308-1309, which announce Creon's arrival, also have to be deleted). Di Benedetto now makes it clear that he himself never originated or endorsed the view that Creon did not appear at all in 1308ff. He discusses thoroughly the scenic conventions relevant to the problem and makes some justified criticisms of several arguments I used in my commentary. I cannot do justice to his analysis in a short paraphrase, but in essence he argues that Euripides gives Creon a sung response to the messenger's news in the preliminary section (what Di Benedetto calls the "anticipo"). He suggests that if Creon had stayed until the end of the report, he would have had to appear insensitive, or he would have duplicated and pre-empted Antigone's lament. In the text so reconstructed, Creon's lyrical section is an exceptional procedure, invented by Euripides to avoid what Di Benedetto regards as an "unmanageable situation." But this is not very satisfactory. Creon's departure after 1353 would be, in my opinion, a very startling anomaly in terms of dramatic technique (as Pfeiffer already argued to Fraenkel, who accepted Pfeiffer's view). In the end, as in many disputes related to possible interpolations or to alternative stagings where arguments are based on rules of dramatic technique, there is a problem involving how we deal with anomalies. One solution is eliminate all anomalies by extensive deletions (Fraenkel's final solution here). If one is unwilling to follow that course, then one must ask what dramatic effects are gained by the playwright's adoption of an anomalous procedure. If the anomaly we accept is Creon's departure, I do not find convincing an inferred psychological explanation of this departure (that is, one unsupported by an explicit statement by Creon himself in the text at the point of departure). The washing and preparation of Menoeceus' corpse is not, by any known Greek custom, such a matter of pressing urgency that it would require Creon to avoid spending a few more minutes to hear the full messenger speech and await the arrival of the corpses of his own sister and nephews. But one still might consider accepting the anomaly by asking what advantages there are to the playwright, that is, to the emotional and thematic course of the drama, if the playwright actually created this anomaly. Alternatively, the lack of address to Creon in the messenger's rheseis and Creon's extended silence until 1584 are also anomalous, but the same question should be asked about the possible advantages of doing something in this unusual way. If we are going to accept one anomaly or the other, which is more glaring, which more understandable?
Finally, a few comments on specific details:
p. 14, note 15: Medda believes that a criticism of Euripides underlies a corrupt passage in the sch. Phoen. 88 (I.261, 7-8 Schwartz) ἐνόμιζε γὰρ διὰ τὸν πάσης τῆς πόλεως κίνδυνον δεῖν τὴν τῆς κόρης ἀμελεῖσθαι ποιεῖν εὐταξίαν, and suggests the original sense was something like "he [identity unclear] believed that because of the danger to the entire city it was necessary to show no concern for the girl and to prepare an effective arrangement" ["riteneva (il soggetto di questo verbo è obscuro) che a causa del pericolo per la città tutta fosse necessario disinteressarsi della ragazza e preparare uno schieramento efficace"]. That requires a καὶ between the two infinitives and the change of τὴν τῆς κόρης to τὴν κόρην. The previous lines of the scholion, however, are apparently written as a defense of Euripides against a criticism of impropriety. It is much more likely that this final corrupt sentence continued (note γὰρ) the foregoing praise of Euripides' portrayal of the careful guarding of Antigone. The previous sentence is "Therefore he [sc. the old servant] comes out with her in no careless way, but only after checking for the absence of witnesses." As Valckenaer already saw (his suggestion is not even recorded in Schwartz's too austere edition), a logical continuation would arise by restoring a negative and deleting the superfluous ποεῖν (also absent in the ms Mn). Valckenaer added οὐ before δεῖν, but better idiom and sense can be obtained by adding οὐδὲ after γὰρ: "for he [sc. the old servant, or possibly the poet] believed that not even because of the danger to the entire city should the proper comportment of the maiden be neglected." εὐταξία here is not that of the military forces, but quite properly Antigone's, as this word is sometimes associated with σωφροσύνη as a desirable trait of women as well as men (cf. Plut. Mor. 142A).
line 330: "sempre vivo" is an almost unique instance in the translation where Medda seems to have added something not in the Greek; ἀεί here simply indicates that Oedipus is always mourning for the troubled situation of his family.
line 588-89: with "sinora abbiamo perso del tempo" Medda prefers the retrospective rather than prospective sense of χρόνος οὑν μέσῳ, and it is unclear whether he is thus translating present ἀναλοῦται (the emendation in all modern texts, and printed here) or prefers Elmsley's ἀνήλωται (ἀνάλωται is transmitted).
line 796-97bis: in this textually uncertain passage, Medda takes the army that is object of κοσμήσας as the Argives, with κατὰ λάινα τείχεα as "sotto le mura di pietra"; I prefer to take it as the Thebans (cf. Kovacs' translation "whom you have decked in bronze along the battlements of stone") but if the other view is adopted, then κατά with acc. would more precisely be "over against" (cf. Craik).
line 1016: Medda translates διέλθοι as "spendesse"; I remain convinced that this is not a paralleled sense of the verb and a different translation is needed (Kovacs: "examine it thoroughly"). Since, however, we agree the passage is interpolated, it is always possible to say the author of the line is using the verb in an unexampled or "incorrect" way.
line 1450: Polyneices asks for burial in his native soil "anche se ho distrutto la mia casa"; rather, in view of the traditional form of Oedipus' curse about the inheritance of his sons (they will get not the estate and the kingship, but only enough Theban soil to be buried in), "even if I have lost my house" (that is, failed to get the inheritance and power I fought my brother for).
lines 1747-50: in this passage that Medda and I (with many others) regard as post-Euripidean, Medda prints Diggle's line order (1749[emended]-1747-1748-1750) and says he prefers that in his textual note, but the translation still reflects the lines as printed in my edition (1747-1750-1749[unemended]-1748).
There are very few typographic errors, and none will cause difficulty except for ἐν by mistake for ἕν in the last line of note 134 on p. 201. And textual critics will be intrigued by the psychological error by which on p. 125 note 20 there is an interchange of kinship terms so that Adrastus is described as husband of Eriphyle, sister of Amphiaraus, rather than as brother of Eriphyle, wife of Amphiaraus (the correct relationships are recorded in p. 136 note 43).
In conclusion, this is a very fine work of scholarship, and students and scholars of tragedy who can read Italian should avail themselves of this helpful resource, and indeed of the whole series of BUR Euripides volumes.
1. When I agreed to review this volume, I was not yet aware that the text was based on my own.


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Iceland is one of those places which you really can't understand until you go there. But in the meantime, through the eyes of a true photographer is an excellent alternative. Hope Kahn brings her unique perspective to Iceland with a series of hand painted photographs – titled Ancient Terrain – which will be featured as part of the Center for Creative Education's "Passenger: A Global Journey."
About Hope:
Hope Kahn has been a professional photographer for the last 25 years.
She has studied photography at University of the Arts in Philadelphia as well as workshops throughout the country. She holds a BS degree in Education and has taught photography to children in under privileged urban settings.
Hope has been utilizing and exploring alternative photography with a concentration on pinhole and plastic cameras. Her focus has been on the figure in the landscape, utilizing human and birds as her subjects.
Her work can be found in many public and private collections including Glaxo Smith Kline, Kerner & Kerner, The Rittenhouse Hotel, Sterling Drug Company, Price Waterhouse, Hoyle Morris & Kerr Attorneys, The Logan Hotel, and Numerous Private Collections.
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When we first started weaning Finn we started with traditional purées both homemade and with the odd jar and pouch for convenience. I soon realised I hated making the purées, I thought it was silly making loads of separate things when I always cooked from scratch for us anyway and it was a massive pain when we were out and about for days out or on holidays.
I started to read about Baby Led Weaning after hearing about it at my baby matters class. There's a massive divide on this, people say you aren't doing true baby led weaning if you spoon feed as well. I didn't take this approach at all as there was food Finn loved like porridge and yogurts that I just wasn't going to let him loose on until he was better with a spoon. Also the whole idea for me was to make our lives easier so I didn't want to be tied to one thing. Overall it worked perfectly for us and I loved the fact Finn could join in with family meal times and if we were out all day I could just pick up some food for him. It was also perfect when we were on holiday as we could just let Finn have bits of our food.
I loved the Gill Rapley books on Baby Led Weaning especially about the theory behind it, I love reading so like to get a book on anything new. I also found loads of useful information online and on other blogs. Generally I just adapted whatever we were eating just watching things like salt and spice ( although I only like mild spice so I would give this to Finn and just put things like yogurt in chilli).
A product I found really useful when we first started Finn on solids was the Nuby Garden Fresh Steam and Mash, I've recommended this to everyone as its really handy when out and about to mash bits of your food. It was also brilliant for our holiday to Fuerteventura as we were all inclusive so could just pick bits of food from the buffet.
When we first started I just gave Finn any bits of what I was eating that were suitable, but some thing Finn loved and were easy for him to eat were: cucumber sticks, wedges of nectarine, sweet potato wedges, baked cod fillets crumbled into smaller pieces, mini corn on the cob, broccoli florets, omelette cut into strips, pasta (the bigger tube types were best), chunks of banana and chopped up cherry tomatoes. The list really is endless though, I just started with bigger pieces and as Finn's pincer grip and co- ordination improved I made the pieces smaller. As it was winter we were having a lot of things like curry, chilli, stews, pasta sauces etc.. So I just made sure the veg and meat were in bigger chunks than normal and gave him this. I gave him a fork and spoon early on but just left it near his food and he is slowly getting the hang of it.
Finn really is an adventurous eater there's nothing he won't eat including olives, plenty of veg and much stronger tastes. When we have been on holiday he is really happy to try any food. It also means I can just do one shop for the family and don't have to buy different foods for him. When we eat out there's always something on the menu he will love. I'm hoping because we incorporated baby led weaning Finn will continue to love all foods and be willing to try anything.
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Travis Scott, born in Houston, has had an especially eventful last few days.
On May 12th, Travis Scott performed "Goosebumps" fourteen times in a row. Bill Board states "Goosebumps" went platinum in March. He was performing in Oklahoma. As the show progresses, he asks how many times he's performed the song already. The crowd yells for him to make it more. They seem to only get more lively. On top of that, Travis Scott makes sure to mention beating the record set by "Niggas In Paris". According to NME, Kanye played "Niggas In Paris" twelve times at a show in the French capital in 2012. He also agreed to visit OKC again and perform for free- "everybody invited".
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Perhaps it was general manager Glen Sather's "I don't think we're going to get that one done" declaration to The Post a week ago Friday night that gave Brandon Prust the strong hint the Blueshirts would not meet his asking price on the free-agent market.
"I really wasn't sure [when the season ended], I thought there was a chance we would get a deal done, but that kind of changed over the last little while and I realized my time as a Ranger was done," Prust said last night on a conference call after signing a rather staggering four-year, $10 million deal with the Canadiens.
"I understand that from the Rangers' side too that it's a business. I had a lot of good times [in New York] the last three years, I made a lot of friends, I love the organization and the way they treat us, I love the city.
"It's a sad, crazy, mixed-emotional day."
Prust played an extremely important role in the development of the Rangers' Black-and-Blueshirt identity, displaying an unending willingness to sacrifice his body on behalf on his teammates and drop his gloves against the league's heavyweights even as a 6-foot, 190-pound middleweight.
But management simply could not justify spending that type of money on a player who spent much of last season on the fourth line getting 11:56 of ice per game and whose role as a penalty killer diminished to a degree upon the development of Carl Hagelin.
It is believed the Rangers offered Prust a deal in the neighborhood of $6 million over three years.
"I talked to Torts [yesterday]," Prust said, referring to coach John Tortorella, who had said of Prust on breakup day, "I love the guy."
"I didn't talk to [Sather], but my agent did," Prust said. "I know we like each other and I wanted to come back, but in the end, Montreal showed a lot more interest and that's why I made this decision."
The Blueshirts responded to losing Prust — who tied for the NHL lead with 20 fighting majors last season despite playing the final two months with a torn tendon in his right ring finger he sustained in a bout with Zenon Konopka — by signing 34-year journeyman Arron Asham and 26-year-old pugilist Micheal Haley.
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