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Turning video audiences into customers is challenging because of technology roadblocks.
Viewer fragmentation across screens.
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In honor of Earth Day which was April 22 and per the suggestion of our staff and attorneys… Avard Law made a donation to ECHO Farms in N Ft Myers (presented by Manager Robert Hicks).
For the 795 million people who are hungry today, the world is a challenging place, both in the cities and in the countryside. The urban poor face high prices and low incomes, making nutritious food unattainable. Rural families are often malnourished because of a lack of diverse nutrients in their diets, if they have enough to eat at all. In both cases, children suffer the most.
The world is a challenging place. Join ECHO and be a part of the solution!
ECHO is an knowledge hub for development practitioners around the world. We gather solutions from around the world that are solving hunger problems and disseminate them to our active network. These solutions promote sustainable farming techniques, nutritional plants, and appropriate technologies. They are well tested and proven to be successful over and over again.
Our purpose is to help those who are teaching farmers around the world know how to be more effective in producing enough to meet the needs of their families and their communities. They in turn teach others and the ECHO effect continues!
In 35 years of assisting development workers around the world, ECHO has become the "go-to" organization for challenges faced by individuals and organizations.
Since all of our funds come from caring individuals like you, we work very hard to keep our expenses low. Thanks to our efficient management and model, Charity Navigator gave us a Four Star rating.
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Green Tape, LLC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Green Tape LLC (and tagline) "We Make It Easy"
We help small business owners Identify, Capture and Achieve a pipeline of Government R&D and Services funding throughout the U.S.
As Government business development and management experts, GT is focused on winning new business for our small technology business clients at high industry success rates. We make it easy to cut through Government "Red Tape"!
We have an experienced consultant/founder at the helm, solid client services offerings, proven competitive strategies and a talented emerging workforce that will bring dynamic energy to the company and the business development process.
Our target audience is Masters or Ph.D. scientists and engineers who own or want to start a high-tech company utilizing Federal or State money as start-up funding. We work in the following industries (or technologies / markets):
Energy / Clean Technology
Healthcare / Life Sciences
Industrial Products
Information Technology
Innovations & Other Opportunities
Material Sciences / Nanotechnology
Services - Business, Financial, Consumer
We intend to be the preeminent service provider in our niche market and are looking for a striking dynamic logo that includes either:
1. our tag line "We Make It Easy" to fit the part, or
2. We would like to see if we could incorporate the message that we eliminate "Red Tape" in working with the Government, hence our "Green Tape" name.
We want something that is intellectually cutting edge, but not trendy. The whole idea behind Green Tape is that working with the government involves so much "Red Tape", but at Green Tape, we make it easy because of our expertise in the field.
We don't want red tape in our logo. Because of the name, Greet Tape is a requirement of the finished logo.
Our reasons for making a request for a new logo is to find a more cutting edge look and to create something versatile enough that it can be placed on something other than a white background, so having colors other than the green will be a definite factor. We have attached our current logo for reference, but don't want it to limit your creativity.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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The Common Market study
Illustration © The Estate of John David Roberts. Reproduced with the permission of the William Roberts Society. Catalogue information based on the catalogue raisonné by David Cleall. For this and full details of the exhibitions cited, see the links below.
The Common Market study, 1963
Pencil, squared, 18.6 cm x 23.2 cm
Some differences from the final version.
PROVENANCE: Estate of John David Roberts (held in Tate store, 2014)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: New York 1982, Cambridge 1985
Home page | Chronology | Bibliography | Collections | Exhibitions
News | Gallery | Auction results | The artist's house | Contact
List of works illustrated on the site
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Taylor makes U.S. National Freestyle Team; Sanderson named World Team assistant
Taylor makes U.S. National Freestyle Team; Sanderson named World Team assistant
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Nittany Lion wrestler David Taylor had an outstanding run at the 2013 World Team Trials June 21-23 in Oklahoma City. Taylor went 4-1 and took "true third" to earn a spot on the 2013 U.S. National Freestyle Team at 74 kg.
Taylor's four wins included two technical falls. He posted a 9-1 tech fall over Moza Fay and then dropped a close bout to second-place finisher Kyle Dake in the semifinals. He rebounded with a 4-2 win over Ryan Morningstar and a 4-0 win over Trent Paulson to earn a shot at true third vs. another former national champion, Andrew Howe.
Taylor posted a resounding 9-0 technical fall over Howe for true third and earned a spot on the U.S. National Team with Dake and National Champion (and Olympic Gold Medalist) Jordan Burroughs. Burroughs will represent the United States at the 2013 World Championships. Taylor will also join teammates Nico Megaludis (Murrysville, Pa.) and Ed Ruth (Harrisburg, Pa.) at University World's later this summer in Russia.
Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson has been named as an assistant coach for the 2013 U.S. World Team and was named last year's (2012) National Freestyle Coach of the Year (the award is always announced mid-season during the following competitive calendar).


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Recorded on Stovall Plantation in Clarksdale, MS by Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, these 18 tracks represent the first recordings of a sharecropper named McKinley Morganfield a.k.a. Muddy Waters. And, yeah, there's an unreleased track, and four interviews, but really, for something this historic the less said the better. Just listen.
Track List:
1. Country Blues (Number One)
2. Interview #1 (Previously Unissued)
3. I Be's Troubled (Previously Unissued)
4. Interview #2 (Previously Unissued)
5. Burr Clover Farm Blues (Previously Unissued)
6. Interview #3 (Previously Unissued)
7. Ramblin' Kid Blues (Partial: Previously Unissued)
8. Ramblin' Kid Blues
9. Rosalie
10. Joe Turner
11. Pearlie May Blues
12. Take A Walk With Me
13. Burr Clover Blues
14. Inerview #4 (Previously Unreleased)
15. I Be Bound To Write To You (First Version)
16. I Be Bound To Write To You (Second Version)
17. You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Number One)
18. You Got To Take Sick And Die Some Of These Days
19. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You
20. Country Blues (Number Two)
21. You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Number Two)
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Game 1: Farmingdale State - 5, Maritime - 4
Game 2: Farmingdale State - 10, Maritime - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State baseball team picked up a Skyline Conference sweep over Maritime College this afternoon in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams have won seven straight and improved to 12-6 overall and 6-0 in conference play.
In game one, Farmingdale State broke the scoreless tie in the top of the fifth with an RBI triple to center by junior left fielder David Zilnicki (Riverhead, N.Y.). After a Ryan McAllister (Miller Place, N.Y.) sacrifice fly, Terrence Bohonan (Patchogue, N.Y.) singled up the middle to score freshman second baseman Thomas Rydzewski (Franklin Square, N.Y.) to give the Rams a 3-0 advantage. In Farmingdale State's next at bat, senior catcher Frank Scarlato (Holbrook, N.Y.) doubled down the left field line scoring two runs to increase the lead to 5-0.
Trailing 5-0 in the ninth inning, Maritime (9-9, 2-4) plated four runs and had bases loaded with only one out. Junior centerfielder Joey Semler (Kirkland, Wash.) hit a ground ball back to the pitcher in Maritime's next at bat and freshman Michael Santagata (Brentwood, N.Y.) threw home to get the second out of the inning and keep Farmingdale State ahead 5-4. Santagata struck out the next batter to seal the victory for the Rams.
Senior pitcher Chris Phelan (Patchogue, N.Y.) earned the win after allowing two earned runs on five hits in 8.1 innings of work. Santagata picked up the save after recording the final two outs of the game.
The Rams were led by Bohonan who was 2-for-4 at the plate with a run scored and an RBI, while Scarlato had a hit and 2 RBI.
In game two, Farmingdale State scored two runs in the first and five in the third inning to quickly lead 7-0. The rams added three more runs in the sixth inning en route to the 10-0 victory and a sweep of Maritime.
Bohonan was 4-for-4 at the plate with and run scored and 2 RBI, while Scarlato and freshman shortstop Anthony Alvino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) each had two hits, a run scored and an RBI. Junior first baseman Ron Remi (Massapequa, N.Y.) was 1-for-3 with a run scored and 2 RBI.
Senior pitcher C.J. Bula (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.) threw a complete game shutout allowing only two hits for Farmingdale State.
The Rams next will travel to Oneonta State for a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday, March 27th at 1:00 p.m.


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61 pop-up exhibitions await you across Chiswick, Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush. 82 artists will be delighted to welcome you to their houses, studios and flats, to view paintings, glass-making, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, photographs, textiles, and jewellery.
This is an exciting chance to discover new original work for your home and to talk to artists about how they create. A fun and lively event with many regular addicted visitors. If you've never been before, make this the year you visit.
Browse the artists you can discover on the find art page and learn more about Artists At Home in the section about the event, or use our interactive map of all studios.
Proudly supported by Horton and Garton, independent estate agent
at the heart of the community in Hammersmith, Chiswick and Shepherds Bush
"Nice to see work in friendly, intimate surroundings, a delightful way to spend an afternoon or a morning"
"I always look forward to Artists at Home, it's good enough to go back and back"
"I enjoy chatting to the artists who made the work and always come away feeling inspired"
"Better than buying from a gallery"


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Prefer to see the vinyl LP?
Dreaming of a Night Mango is the mysteriously titled 4th album from the well travelled Tim Guy. A laid back intimate recording, Guy chose to keep the elements as raw as possible and the result is a 10 track long player reminiscent of little waves lapping a shoreline.
Inspiration for Dreaming of a Night Mango came whist Guy spent time at a friends house in northern New South Wales, where balmy nights were spent on the balcony by the Tweed River listening to records. Heading back home to Melbourne Guy recorded from within his home studio, looking out over the old Pentridge Prison wall. We lived there for one year with the sole purpose to make an album. The wall is a massive imposing figure and definitely provided a backdrop for the album. During the days, birds would dip down inside the walls, and in the night the moon would loom large shooting its light through the old watchtowers.
1) Many People I Know 2) Riding Dinosaurs 3) Fire Goes Out 4) Armour Weight 5) Battlefield 6) Little Brother 7) River I Been 8) Strangers 9) Domino 10) Everyone But Mes Got a Radio Song


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One of the most frequent questions The View from Fez receives is "how safe is Morocco for women travellers travelling by themselves?" - Our response has been that it is safe if you dress and behave in a sensible manner. Now we can bring you a point of view of a woman who has been travelling solo in Morocco.
KJ is the author of a fascinating blog Global Socialite - A one woman expedition to discover the world. And KJ is not just another travel blogger. She studied International Relations for years, has worked at the UN and other international development institutions, and thrives on travelling (often on her own) to the places in the world where the action is happening. Here is KJ's report on travelling as a solo woman in Morocco.
Morocco is really a pretty safe place for a woman on her own, as well as being a fairly easy place to get around. The buses between cities (supratours and ctm) are a darn-sight better than anything you'd find in the UK, the people in hotels and riads are really helpful and full of advice on where to go and what to do, and it can be really easy to meet other travellers, particularly if you book on a tour or stay in one of the hostels/budget riads (I loved Riad Fantasia in Marrakech and the 3 day group desert tour was brilliant for meeting people).
However, let's not kid ourselves. There is sadly a bit of a stereotype about Western women which does not do us any favours when it comes to travelling in North Africa and the Middle East. You are female, on holiday, and therefore some men will think it is totally legitimate to persistently try their luck. Therefore, you're likely to get some attention.
Now, when balanced against the amazing landscapes, great food and incredible value for money, having people regularly approaching you to buy stuff / chat you up might not seem like such a big deal. However, while I should probably have a thicker skin by now, there were times when I did find this attention pretty annoying. Luckily, there are a few simply steps you can take which will help to minimise the attention you get, so you can walk down a street without feeling on your guard and get on with having a wonderful time.
1) Dress like you live here
Now, I'm not saying you need to don a kaftan. To be honest you'd probably look a bit silly if you did and may actually end up getting even more attention than you bargained for. But I am saying leave the 'holiday wardrobe' at home. Those little summer dresses and tube tops might work wonders on the beach, but will turn you into a moving target in the medinas. Jeans / over knee skirts and long sleeved tops / shirts are your best bet; and although t-shirts are broadly ok, I noticed a significant increase in cat calls on the days I didn't have my arms covered.
You might also want to try out a headscarf. It's by no means obligatory and many Moroccan women don't wear them, but it does send a signal that you're a woman giving (and deserving of) respect, as well as being a fairly useful way of keeping the sun off your head. I got very little chat on the days I bothered wearing one.
2) If you don't feel like laughing it off, accessorise
If you can just find it all a bit amusing, then you're onto a winner. However, for those moments when it gets a bit much, try the following (not necessarily at the same time) : dark sun glasses, ear phones, pretending to talk on your mobile. All of these things send a signal that you're otherwise engaged and not open to every invitation. Obviously they are not always practical – you'll look a bit silly wearing your Ray Bans at 10pm – but all can be useful to have on hand if you feel the need to get from A to B hassle free.
3) Walk with confidence
Being confident and walking with purpose makes people think that you know the city/town well and you have somewhere to be. They can therefore deduce that perhaps you might not be in the mood to peruse ceramics. However, if you don't know where you're going it can also be a sure-fire way of getting lost, quickly, so use with caution.
4) Respond or not to respond
Really this one's your call. A lot of people will say you should just ignore any advances and keep walking, which works perfectly ok, but to me it just felt a little rude and made me feel even more on guard as the calls of 'hello, excuse me, how are you?' followed me down the street in every language known to man.
I found it was better to simply say hello back, to keep on walking, and just say 'maybe tomorrow' to whatever request might be presented to me. It felt less rude and sometimes led to some mildly amusing exchanges.
And last but not least…
5) Go out at night; but stick to the well lit areas
Not so much to do with hassle this one, but really just a note to say you do not need to hole yourself up in your riad at night time just because you're travelling alone. The main square in Marrakech was as bustling at night as in day time and I felt perfectly fine having dinner on my own in one of its restaurants/street food stalls after dark.
However, I did find it was incredibly easy to meet people in Morocco, whether from your riad or on a tour, so finding a group to go out with was never much of an issue. Plus, most riads will provide an amazing dinner for you, so you don't need to run the gauntlet if you don't feel like it.
So finally…
Don't listen to those people who might warn you off travelling on your own to Morocco. With a bit of preparation and decent a sense of humour, you'll have a fine old time.
If you are still unsure about travelling by yourself, it is possible to join other women on women only Moroccan tours such as: Roam Like Queens


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Homemade Pasta Salad
I like to serve this colorful salad over a bed of leafy green lettuce for a pretty look. With its rich dressing of sour cream and dill, it makes a great change-of-pace pasta for picnics. —Julie Wilson of Chetek, Wisconsin
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 2 cups uncooked tricolor spiral pasta
- 1 cup fat-free sour cream
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon dill weed
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
- Dash pepper
- 1/2 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup cubed fully cooked lean ham
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 small sweet red pepper, chopped
- 1/2 cup cubed reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- Leaf lettuce
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, for dressing, combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, dill, garlic salt, mustard and pepper in a bowl; set aside. Rinse pasta in cold water and drain well; set aside.
- Cut the tips off six asparagus spears; chop the remaining asparagus. Place chopped asparagus and tips and water in a microwave-safe dish. Cover and microwave on high for 1-2 minutes or until crisp-tender. Rinse with cold water; pat dry. Set aside asparagus tips for garnish.
- In a large bowl, combine the pasta, chopped asparagus, ham onion, red pepper and cheese. Add dressing and toss to coat. Refrigerate until serving. Serve in a lettuce-lined bowl; garnish with asparagus tips.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 293 calories, 9g fat (2g saturated fat), 22mg cholesterol, 684mg sodium, 36g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 4g fiber), 16g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 starch, 1 lean meat, 1 vegetable, 1 fat, 1/2 fat-free milk.
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Was looking for something that was light, healthy, different and EASY. This hit all the marks I omitted the ham since I was using this as a side dish. Second version was again omitted ham but put chicken breast and changed the dressing. I used Kraft Extra Virgin Olive Oil Greek Vinaigrette with Feta Cheese & Oregano dressing. Added some sliced Greek olives and it was wonderful as a main meal.


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Our project "Jarro Negro" began in 2005 during the Technical Option
"Mantenimiento a sistemas de microcómputo".
We meet a couple of friends and Prof. Raul Gonzalez Alzaga and decided to create a GNU\Linux distribution.
Throughout these years of development we have given lectures in various parts of Mexico and
Latin America, with the help of different national and international agencies; and GUL'S.
The project also has received several awards from domestic and foreign institutions.
Among which we can highlight:
In 2007 CCN Expansión mentioned us in the report
"La tecnología mexicana ... ¡existe!
Our distribution was listed in 2011 as one of the "10 grandes contribuciones mexicanas a la ciencia" por CNN México.
In 2014 we participated in a conversatorio con Richard Stallmanen la Universidad Distrital, transmitido por la televisión pública de Bogotá, Canal Capital.
In 2014 it was mentioned in "La gran lista tecno-mexicana" by the magazine Tomorrow's Technology Today (T3 México).
Within Free Software:
JarroNegro is listed as a Mexican GNU\Linux Distro in LWN.
We're members of the OpenInventionNetwork.
JarroNegro appears in "GNU\Linux Distribution Timeline" since 2005.
Contact Us and we'll give a solution to their problems!


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Trees are absolutely vital to life here on Earth, but they are also being destroyed at an alarming rate. So many of the choices we make throughout the day when we're shopping, eating, or even driving, are powered by deforestation. Trees are cut and burned down for a number of reasons. Forests are logged to supply timber for wood and paper products, and to clear land for crops, cattle, and housing. Other causes of deforestation include mining and oil exploitation, urbanization, acid rain and wildfires. And according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the 33 million acres of forestland that are lost annually around the globe are responsible for 20% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Deforestation also contributes toair and water pollution, a loss of biodiversity, erosion, and climatic disruption.
So what can you do about deforestation?
One easy way to combat deforestation is to plant a tree. But you can take it one step further by making sure the choices you make at home, at the store, at work, and on the menu don't contribute to the problem. Here's what you can do about deforestation.
- Plant a tree.
- Go paperless.
- Recycle and buy recycled products.
- Look for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification on wood and wood products.
- Eat vegetarian meals as often as possible.
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Wild Dogs With X-Ray Eyes (Initial). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
The Who's legendary bassist comes to life in The Ox.
Afterglow (Landslide Records). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Performance Art for the quarantined.
Wayback Machine (Electro-Fi records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
When I Was a Writer (Pravda). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Forever Man . Review by Stacey Zering.
A fight to the finish…with makeup…on Netflix's Glow Up!
Remember You (Edgeout Records/UME). Review by Michelle Wilson.
Local Honey (Lesser Known Records). Review by Andrew Ellis.
A Thin Veneer (Courier Sounds). Review by Carl F. Gauze.


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Cabo Drilling Corp.
20 Sixth Street, New Westminster, B.C., Canada, V3L 2Y8
Cabo Drilling Corp. is an international mineral and specialty drilling services provider serving the mining and exploration industries from Canada, Albania, Panama, Colombia and the United States. Cabo Drilling offers drilling services to major, mid-tier and junior mining and exploration companies and provides expertise in projects ranging from early-stage reconnaissance drilling through to resource definition and advanced stage mining.
Having grown into one of the industry's larger mineral drilling services companies, Cabo Drilling has the knowledge and experience to offer its clientele a variety of drilling services, including surface and underground coring, and directional, reverse circulation and geotechnical drilling. By consolidating within the mineral drilling industry, Cabo Drilling has gained a competitive edge through efficiency, productivity and scale.


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Everyone has heard about Tempur-Pedic mattresses. The famous Tempur-Pedic mattress is known for its design in the way that it curves and shapes around the sleeper's body. Tempurpedic King Price in Sunninghill the brand carries different models and designs for different preferences. A lot of research has been put into these mattresses to ensure the quality and effectiveness of a great mattress. Because of the advanced research and design of the mattress, Mattress Pedic Foam the pricing on them can be much higher than most people expect to pay for a mattress. The key to being able to afford a Tempur-Pedic mattress is to look for a Tempur-Pedic mattress sale.
Sales allow consumers to purchase these mattresses for lower than retail prices. This also makes it so people that wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it can afford a mattress that is comfortable and state of the art. The first step I would take in looking for a Tempur-Pedic mattress sale is by collecting store ads as they come in the mail. Furniture and mattress stores often mail out flyers and catalogues of their store items and display current or upcoming sales. These catalogues can prepare you to know about the sale and to also price shop based on the different store ads you receive.
Beds: Smart Buying Tips
The first step in finding the most comfortable price for you for your mattress is by visiting a store and ensuring this is the mattress for you. You should also see which of the types of Tempur-Pedic mattresses you prefer, as well if you are interested in any of the extras they offer. Once you have decided to purchase this mattress, you should be prepared to wait for the best sale to come around. Do you research online, Tempurpedic Cost Queen and then purchase the newspapers with the stores ads in them. Do some comparisons and when the best deal comes around – be sure to jump on it.
Tempurpedic King Price in Sunninghill ?
When you think that you might want a new mattress for your bed you should first ask yourself if you really need a new mattress. To determine this, you should determine if your sleep is being interrupted constantly and the body aches that your body experience each time that you arise in the morning then you may very well need a new mattress.
The newest types of mattresses on the market and are very popular are the mattresses that are made from memory foam. There are numerous websites on the Internet that offer the Tempurpedic mattress. These mattresses are the best known of all of the mattresses that are made from memory foam that are currently available.
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I have some lecture notes from Demailly on Kahler geometry where he talks about "variétés Kahleriennes simples", which are defined as Kahler manifolds $X$ such that for very generic points $x_0$ in $X$ there exists no irreducible submanifold $Y$ of $X$ of dimension $0 < \dim Y < \dim X$ which contains $x_0$.
Examples of these kinds of manifolds are very general complex tori and quotients thereof, and they're interesting because they give counterexamples to the Hodge conjecture in the analytic category.
I thought I'd take a look at these things, but I can't find any mention of "simple Kahler manifolds" either here or on google. Did I get the name wrong? Do any of you know what I'm talking about and know of some references?


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800,000 Yuan? Li Na Is Not Impressed
Has anyone ever looked so unhappy to receive $132,000?
Chinese tennis hero and newly crowned Australian Open champion Li Na stepped off the plane in her home province of Hubei on Tuesday, three days after winning her second Grand Slam title, to find a delegation of provincial officials waiting for her with extended hands and a great big red check for 800,000 yuan.
A screenshot of Ms. Li holding the check and looking deeply unamused while standing next to Hubei Communist Party chief Li Hongzhong promptly went viral online, with social media users wondering why officials were giving taxpayer money to a woman who had no need for it and, based on her previous relationship with China's state sports system, almost certainly didn't want it.
"Li Na's expression says it all," wrote one user of Sina Corp.'s Weibo microblogging service. "This is the people's money. Li Na plays tennis well. She's a professional athlete who doesn't need the public to give her anything."
In a comically honest victory speech Saturday described by some as the funniest in the history of major tennis events, Ms. Li nodded toward the wealth her success had brought her by thanking her agent, Max Eisenbud, first. "Max, [my] agent, [you] make me rich, thanks a lot," she said. Mr. Eisenbud secured endorsement contracts for Ms. Li worth at least $42 million following her victory at the French Open in 2011, and her win in Melbourne—in addition to earning her 2.65 million Australian dollars (US$2.3 million)— looks set to add to her marketability.
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Nor is China's most successful tennis player, who famously left the state sports system in 2008, particularly eager to be seen as an object of patriotic chest-thumping. Unlike other Chinese athletes, Ms. Li has conspicuously failed to thank the motherland in her victory speeches and has repeatedly said she represents only herself. As Foreign Policy noted on Monday, however, that hasn't stopped China from thanking itself on her behalf.
Ms. Li's success, said a Xinhua commentary citied by Foreign Policy's Liz Carter, "would not have been possible without her time on the national team."
Chinese tennis fans have largely rejected such arguments, instead lauding Ms. Li for achieving success on her own and directing their ire at Hubei officials for wasting money in an attempt to ride the athlete's coattails with public money.
Asked to comment about the cash controversy Tuesday, an official in the Hubei provincial propaganda office said he didn't know where the money had come from.
"Li Hongzhong tried to use taxpayer money to buy a smile. Alas, she didn't give it to him," wrote one Weibo user.
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|Loves Me? Loves Me Not? (Relationship obsessions)
By Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
"I really care about my wife," my new patient Ed told me, "but I just can't get this idea out of my head that I don't actually love her." Ed was a fifty-one year old successful businessman and entrepreneur. Over the last two years he had been increasingly troubled by repetitive thoughts about his wife not being "the right one" for him, that he would never be happy with her, and that unless he left her, he would forever feel trapped in this unhappy relationship. He would stare continually at other women as a way of double-checking, to see if he found them more attractive than his wife. As he looked, he wondered, "Do I have to leave her because she isn't attractive enough for me, or because these other women look more attractive?" This staring had gotten him into difficulties on several occasions. He and his wife had two children and their marriage had always been a generally happy one. He felt very isolated with these thoughts, and had never shared them with his wife.
Another patient, Maria, was having a somewhat different experience. The thirty-two year old school teacher, related, "I can't stop thinking about my fiancée's last girl friend. I keep asking him over and over if she was mean to him, and also about why they really broke up. I have this idea that I don't have the whole story. I can't stand not knowing." Maria had been relentlessly hounding her boyfriend to discuss these topics day and night. She had no hesitation about calling him at 3 a.m. to question him yet one more time. This had led to an escalating level of arguments, and a refusal on his part to discuss the subject with her any further. They were on the verge of breaking up when she decided to go for help. She felt distressed that she could not prevent herself from constantly bringing up these nagging questions, even though she realized what the consequences were.
Finally, there was Henry, a twenty-two year old graduate student. Things had gone a bit further in his case, and in a not particularly good way. Henry's girlfriend, a fellow student, had broken up with him two months previously following an eight-month relationship. At the time, she explained that she just didn't think he was her type, even though she thought he was "a nice guy." Unfortunately, this was not enough for Henry. As in the case of Maria, he believed that there was more to the story than his girlfriend had told him. He wondered if perhaps she had broken up with him over a simple misunderstanding, which if corrected, would fix everything. He began calling her on the phone several times per day to ask the same questions, and when she began to screen her phone calls, he started to show up at her classes and hound her with the same questions. He also asked her friends some of these questions. Unfortunately for him, she complained to campus security about this, and he soon found himself in the dean's office to explain his behavior. Only the threat of expulsion from his school forced him to stop, and he resolved to quit before it was too late. His good intentions didn't last more than about two weeks. He then began to wait for her outside her house. This resulted in her obtaining a legal order of protection from a judge, and a threat of arrest if he called her on the phone, or came within one hundred yards of her or her home. The word "stalker" was mentioned. "This just isn't me," he told me emphatically. "I really want to stop, but these doubts just eat away at me. It's like they just won't leave me alone. I have to have answers."
These people were not simply wrestling with relationship problems. What they were dealing with was another form of problem altogether. All three were subsequently diagnosed with OCD, known in former times as "the doubting disease." This is not simply ordinary doubt. It is doubt raised to the level of a serious disturbance. An obsessive thought can be very insidious and persistent. It is like a severe and maddening itch that cannot be scratched. Why OCD picks on particular topics remains a mystery. It may be something previously important to the sufferer, or not. At times, it does seem to have an uncanny way of interfering with whatever the sufferer cares about the most. When OCD intrudes into relationships, the effects can be severe. Often, the sufferer doesn't realize that OCD is really the underlying problem they are just too close to what is happening. The partner on the receiving end is equally mystified, and cannot comprehend what has happened to a person that they thought they knew. Problems such as these can build up gradually over years, or may begin suddenly. Sometimes, in looking back over past relationships, a sufferer can begin to see a pattern of smaller occurrences, though perhaps not as severe.
Each of these three individuals had eventually found their way to treatment. Ed insisted at the first visit that his wife not find out. Maria actually brought her boyfriend to her second session so that he could learn about what she was dealing with, and that her urge to question him wasn't her fault. Henry, like Ed, came alone, but hoped to find out enough about the disorder to be able to eventually write his ex-girlfriend a letter and send some OCD pamphlets so she would understand that he was not a "crazy" or hostile person.
Treatment options for all three consisted of a type of behavioral therapy known as Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP) together with medication in the form of SSRI-type antidepressants. Ed opted for behavioral therapy alone, while Henry and Maria resorted to both. Obsessions are intrusive, repetitive, doubtful thoughts that suggest that harm may come to the sufferer or others in some way. Compulsions are any mental or physical activity performed for the purpose of relieving the anxiety caused by obsessions. In E&RP, sufferers are gradually exposed to those things that bring on their fearful obsessive thoughts, so that they may gradually build up a tolerance to them, and not feel the need to question, check, or perform other compulsions in order to relieve the anxiety. Those who practice this diligently find themselves getting better over time, rather than worsening, as they might have at first predicted. Although all three believed that the answer to their doubts had to be out there somewhere, it was explained that this was really an internally generated problem that had to be confronted rather than avoided. Their attempts to escape their obsessions by getting more information had only led to more doubt and thus, further difficulties. They were all forced to accept that they had gone as far with their compulsive checking and questioning activities as they could safely go, and it was clear that they would never resolve their doubts in these ways. Their solutions had ironically become their problems.
Now, their problems had to become their solutions. That is, the things they had been avoiding would now be used to help them. Please note that the following descriptions of their therapies are only simplified summaries. There is actually a lot more to behavioral therapy than can be described in this article.
Ed listened to tapes and did writing assignments about how he would remain "trapped" and miserable in a loveless marriage. He also watched videos and read books on similar themes. He was assigned to look at pictures of attractive women and, discreetly, attractive women he saw in public places, while telling himself how much happier he would be with them instead.
Maria also listened to tapes and did writing assignments. Her exposure centered on the theme that there were a great many things she would never know about her boyfriend's past. that she would never really understand him, and he would never tell her about any of these things. She was assigned to look at pictures of her boyfriend's former girlfriend, posted on her walls with question marks drawn all around them. She was also forbidden to question her boyfriend about any of her pet subjects. Fortunately, her boyfriend was willing to cooperate with her therapy, and whenever she slipped and asked him a question (no one gets well perfectly), he was directed to say to her "Sorry, you know I'm not allowed to tell you." If she told him "You're not helping me, he was also directed to say "I am helping you. I'm helping you to recover.
Henry, of course, was assigned to stay as far away from his ex as possible, and was forbidden to call her or her friends. His audiotapes and writing assignments exposed him to his obsessive thought that he would never really know why his ex broke up with him, that he would live out the rest of his life without that information, would never get back together with her, and that it would no doubt harm his future relationships. He read books and watched movies about breakups. He was directed to post signs around his apartment that said such things as "You'll never really know," or "She's hiding the truth from you."
In these particular cases, things turned out well. All three experienced anxiety at first, but over time they eventually lost interest in their particular subjects. They discovered after repeated exposure that they could not feel bored and anxious at the same time. At the infrequent times when their obsessive thoughts did occur, they now provoked little or no reaction. Maria and Henry both felt the medication had given them an edge, as it had reduced the frequency and intensity of their thoughts. All eventually came to see that their fears could not simply be avoided or neutralized, and that there was no true escape other than facing them.
Although these three individuals were fortunate enough to get help, there are, no doubt, many others out there with similar stories who do not even understand what they are up against, or that others suffer in similar ways. They may believe that they only have some kind of relationship problem, and are not aware that help is available. Some have lost important relationships, and may even have had tangles with a justice system that simply didn't understand them. If your story is similar, don't wait until there are serious consequences. Get help as soon as possible.
If you would like to read more of what Dr. Penzel has to say about OCD, take a look at his OCD self-help book, "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com
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Totality from the 1914 eclipse over Sweden.
(Credit: N. Nordenstrom)
An astronomical mystery came our way this past week.
If you're like us, you're gearing up to meet the shadow of the Moon in just 10 short days. While interest in the August 21st, 2017 total solar eclipse crossing the United States runs high, we wondered: what's the oldest video of an eclipse featuring totality that is readily accessible online?
After numerous challenges and queries to the astronomical community, we came up with this old film seeming to show the total solar eclipse of August 21st, 1914 over Sweden.
Unfortunately, the team hosting the site declined to share the video with us for YouTube and a wider audience… on YouTube, the oldest video including totality seems to be this fine footage featuring the January 24th, 1925 total solar eclipse over New York City courtesy of British Pathe:
Now, video technology dates back to the 1880s… surely, someone must have tried to capture totality during solar eclipses in those early decades? More than likely, those early efforts have yet to be digitized, or are poorly indexed on ye ole web. Searching total solar eclipse of YouTube currently yields a flood of videos running the gamut from astrology and conspiracy theories to actual real science, a tough challenge to sift through to find anything of true historical value.
Back to the Swedish 1914 video. This eclipse occurred over war torn Europe during the opening months of World War I. We actually wrote about this eclipse and how the war foiled early efforts to measure Relativity from Crimea. Sweden was neutral during the war, and witnessed a fine spectacle just past local noon.
Now, there's a cryptic statement at the end of the description of this video, claiming the eclipse of this film is a fool in any case. We ran this by a Swedish friend of ours in the event that Google translate was missing a nuance, and this does indeed seem to be the case…
The trouble is, if it is indeed a fake, it's a good one. To the experienced eye, the footage showing totality and the corona of the Sun does indeed look real. Note the similarity of the 1925 footage above and the 1914 video in question. Also, timings given for the partial phases of the Sun are correct.
Plus, it's tough to shoot totality, as exposure times drop dramatically when the Sun is eclipsed. More than likely, the very first attempts to make a video of totality weren't successful. A sequence towards the end of the clip does show the partial eclipse superimposed over the crowd viewing it… is this what the commentator is alluding to?
Or perhaps, the totality footage is spliced from a different eclipse. There were indeed total solar eclipses over Europe in 1912 and 1905 leading up to 1914. Apparently, video was indeed shot during the April 17th 1912 total solar eclipse over Costa Lobo, Portugal, though it hasn't made its way to the web…
The book Catchers of the Light mentions astronomer Nils Nordenmark (also listed in the opening credits of the video) and his successful attempt capturing the 1914 eclipse.
Another thing worth noting is the solitary sunspot seen on the disk of the Sun during partial phases of the eclipse in the video. Any sketches of the solar disk from or around August could cinch this… tantalizingly, Mount Wilson observatory didn't start doing daily sunspot sketches until a few years later in January 4th, 1917.
So for now, the title of oldest eclipse video featuring totality remains a mystery, an enigma that I'll open up to the larger audience. It'd be great to put this one to bed in time for the Great American Eclipse… any takers?


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(AP) -- President Barack Obama may have to decide this year whether to use military force to fulfill his vow to prevent Iran from being able to build nuclear weapons, foreign policy experts say.
But America's economic and military realities argue intensely against attacking the Islamic republic and for muddling through by, perhaps, further tightening sanctions that have cut deeply into Tehran's economy.
Americans are weary of war after more than a decade of military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. economy, while recovering from the Great Recession, still is weak. The military could face deep cuts this year as Congress considers massive reductions in government spending.
What's more, Iran is far stronger militarily than either Iraq or Afghanistan and would undoubtedly strike back by hitting Israel and attacking U.S. soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan. Also, Iran has put much of its nuclear program deep under ground, making it uncertain how much damage could be done by American airstrikes.
Beyond that, the prime advocate for attacking Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just suffered a significant setback in elections and is in a weakened position. Even before the Israeli election, Obama had rebuffed Netanyahu's calls for an attack, saying there's still time for a diplomatic solution.
But time is running out. Experts say Iran has uranium enriched to 20 percent, a level from which it can be converted to weapons-grade fairly quickly. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency says the Iranians are preparing to install faster centrifuges that would speed the process.
"Many people think 2013 is the year of decision as to the question of whether to go to war or strike a conclusive deal to end Iran's nuclear ambitions," said Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
A new report by scholars at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank warns that "the current limited crisis ... may well escalate to a major conflict or a new form of Cold War."
During Obama's first term, the U.S. and its allies imposed damaging economic sanctions on Tehran, but so far the leadership there has shown no willingness to talk seriously about altering a uranium enrichment program that could provide fuel for nuclear weapons. Iran denies it wants to build a bomb, insisting it is creating fuel for electricity-generating reactors and medical research.
Iran has been reluctant to engage, refusing to set a location for a new round of talks that were to have taken place in January, until it announced it would meet on Feb. 25 in Kazakhstan with the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany. That group is known as the P-5 + 1, short for the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany. It has been trying to convince Iran to give up its nuclear activities.
Israel, which Iran has vowed to wipe off the map, sees a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to its existence and has threatened to unilaterally launch a first strike again Tehran's nuclear facilities. Such an attack would almost certainly draw the United States into another military conflict in the region. But Obama and most Americans have shown no appetite for another war, a fact shown by the president's reluctance to act militarily now and his refusal to involve U.S. forces in the Syrian civil war.
Syria has proven a major distraction for Tehran. If President Bashar Assad is driven from power, Iran could lose its foothold in the Arab world. It uses Syria to funnel arms and money to the anti-Israeli Hezbollah organization that controls southern Lebanon along Israel's northern border and Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip on the south.
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But Israel's Netanyahu is also distracted after last month's elections, which saw moderate politicians replace some right-wingers in parliament.
"I think that Netanyahu has been sufficiently weakened so that he won't be able to successfully lobby the United States for a green light to attack," said Chris Dolan, a political scientist at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania.
Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Israeli pressure is no longer, if it ever was, driving Obama's decision-making.
"Our policy toward Iran's nuclear program has been defined by Obama's red lines, not Netanyahu's, meaning that the U.S. isn't likely to use military force unless and until it's clear that Iran is taking active steps to weaponize its program," he said. He was referring to Netanyahu's U.N. speech in September in which he said Iran had already crossed the red line that required military action.
Also, Obama realizes that Iran will have a new president after elections in June, a fact that possibly is causing Iran to drag its feet. The next president will replace hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denies the World War II Holocaust in which Hitler's Germany killed 6 million Jews.
But in Iran, real power is in the hands of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Students of Iran believe that Khamenei is undecided on using the country's nuclear fuel to build a nuclear weapon. He has said such a weapon was in conflict with Iran's Islamic foundations.
Any future talks will hang on Iran's demand for specific guarantees about easing sanctions in return for dialing back its nuclear program.
Sadjadpour said the outlines of a deal are clear to both sides. He said the unspoken U.S. position is: "You can have a nuclear program which includes uranium enrichment, but not a weapon. If you don't go for the bomb, we won't bomb you."
But, he said, sanctions will not be eased without meaningful compromises. "The problem is that there remains a very large gap in our respective definitions of the word
And that could be very dangerous, said Maloney, should there be a deal that goes bad. If that happens, Obama "will be forced to put his money where his mouth is," meaning he would be forced to launch a military strike to make good on his vow to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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It has been an exciting and hectic three days here at Planet Under Pressure where we have been covering a huge array of topics in depth: from paradigm & values shifts, the developing concept of ecosystem services, principles of governance, participatory methods enabling collective intelligence to foster voluntary collective actions (rather than individual actions), ecological & engineering constraints of last-resort measures such as geo-engineering, through to Social Media For Sustainability. Prior to the conference it was difficult to say what the response from our online communities would be but after three days I can say that we are pleasantly surprised and extremely gratified by the huge response and engagement that we have experienced so far.
In fact, the latest analytics indicate that we have connected with over 1 million people on Twitter via the #Planet2012 and Hashtag. Some of our Superstar tweeters who have helped us to spread the word include: @NewScientist, @CGIAR, @Revkin, @Oxfam, @SciDevNet, @pdjmoo & @NigelCameron, thank you to all of you and many others for your contributions and engagement.
Furthermore, thousands each day have watched us live from places as far away as Ghana, Thailand and Australia. Over the course of three days, we have received questions numbering around five hundreds via the online webcast, SMS and Twitter via #AskPlanet.
The number of questions received has been hugely valuable even if we have only been able to answer a small percentage of them during the plenary. Based on our analysis, we have identified six broad themes of ideas that people have expressed as being critical in building 'knowledge towards solutions' as we attempt to understand global environmental change and how we might shift to a more sustainable world. Each theme will be introduced along with some examples of questions and comments that were received.
1. Institutional/Political Change:
This first theme that emerged out of the questions is focused on many of the structural components of the system that make it either more difficult or amenable to change. At the conference we have heard from Institutional Scholars such as the Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and the world renowned International Regime theorist Professor Oran Young. One Interesting question that came in from Ben Ramalingam drew on the insights of Ostrom's work to ask:
What promising examples of scalable innovative 'sustainable commons' institutions do the panel see 'out there'?
Of course as important as institutions are for changing behavior, they only represent one part of the puzzle. Another aspect of this is the changing face of participation in governance processes at the international level, well articulated in the following question by Xin Yiang of the UN Rio+20 conference Executive coordinator office:
How to connect the virtual world in the negotiation room with the real world (say the civil society) ?
2. The Global, the Local and the Glocal:
The second very strong theme focused on the interaction of the local and the global and recognized the challenge of addressing cross-scale interactions. This theme revolves around the question of where is the best 'place' or scale to focus action and change. two questions clearly articulate these concerns:
Bhopal Pandey from kings college London – How do you think centralised or top down approach in effective governance such as reforestation in china and community or bottom up approach in Nepal and India doing the same thing. Which is more effective in terms of good governance?
How can we empower people in Africa and Asia to create solutions for themselves? From Mark, University of Reading.
I think this question is particularly interesting because it gets at the issue of how the top down can empower the bottom up and how bottom up change is able to scale and create wider impacts.
3. Specific Tools and Actions to Drive Change:
The third theme of the questions represented the desire of many at the conference and watching online for practical solutions that can be implemented, if not immediately then certainly within the near future to drive change.
Dr Mike Slattery from the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth asked:
We have 1 billion without electricity and 2 billion on the way: if we have to shut down coal and are not going to engage in hydraulic fracturing, how do we move forward on supplying energy to a growing, ever consuming world?
The energy question, which provided a lot of questions is of course central to any debate around addressing the feasibility of a shift to a more sustainable world and how to mitigate the current impact of the fossil fuel based energy system on global environmental change.
Another set of questions about specific actions revolved around lifestyle changes, Vicki Hird of the World Society raised these concerns with the following question:
Can the panel say if they would support new measures to reduce and improve meat consumption and if so what clever new measures? Given that this issue keeps being avoided…
The Bridges to the Future Series of Participatory sessions at #Planet2012 made great progress on considering many new interesting approaches to moving forward, here is the information about the topics and methods: http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/participatory_sessions.asp
4. Mental Revolutions and Shifting Paradigms:
The 'Paradigm Shift' was a very strong theme that came out of an analysis of all the questions. People clearly understand that with all the knowledge gathered by scientists and others in understanding the challenges we face and the solutions that exist, something deeper is required to drive long-term transformative change. A couple of questions illustrate this eloquently:
Steffen Bauer of the German Development Institute said;
We know a lot about biophysical tipping points, but how to approach social tipping points that need to be reached to avoid the biophysical ones in a timely and equitable way?
Also the mysterious Fitz stated that we need to change the nature of the obsession of modern society, which builds on the points made by Professor Wilkinson on equality being a key ingredient to sustainability:
How do we change our fundamental obsession away from consumption. i.e. towards an obsession with equality?
This fundamentally about changing the conception of the good life rather than framing sustainability as Austerity, sacrifice and reduction.
5. The Science of the Anthropocene:
The Next theme comes from the recognition that something is fundamentally unique about the now, we are in a new era which requires not only new knowledge, governance and technology but a different kind of science.
One important set of questions by a number of people asked:
How in concrete ways could science engage more directly with arts and culture in order to move towards redefining the good life?
This is something that in most cases, Science has not done well but as such it represents new field of endeavour for communicating in a deeper way that is able to create emotional connections and consideration of values through two very different but equally creative fields.
A different angle was presented by Christian Schweitzer of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany when he asked:
What is considered as an appropriate approach to integrate complex scientific results in policy discussions/decisions? And how do you communicate this more complex, interdisciplinary and integrated science?
Two questions does not do this theme justice when it is very much at the heart of #Planet2012
6. The Role of Business in Sustainable Transformation
Business has a somewhat complicated role with respect to sustainability being simultaneously responsible for a fair amount of environmental damage now evident at the global scale but also responsible for astonishing innovation, for raising many millions of people out of poverty and providing many dearly loved and necessary goods and services. This dualism was evident in the questions that were received.
A really interesting question was raised by 'J.S.' that focused on business innovation and the potential for sustainability:
You say clean energy and biodiversity has a potential market of billions of dollars. Private companies of similar size like Apple and Google have transformed our way of life, what do you think is preventing such change in terms of the environment even though the potential is huge?
This is a key issue. Colleagues at the Resilience Centre have been developing the concept of Social-Ecological Innovation to try and articulate what innovation actually means in a human dominated world.
A second component of this theme focuses more on the potential for knowledge sharing between science and business. After all, collectively business holds a huge amount of resources and information that could assist us to collectively better understand the challenges we face and how to develop and implement solutions. One such question was phrased as follows:
How do we see the role of business in contributing new knowledge to respond to a planet under pressure + how academia should work with business to generate solutions?
Business must be involved as part of the solution but they like science must transform to deal with a rapidly changing world.
Concluding Comments:
This overview of the questions and themes that have been raised at #Planet2012 in no way does justice to the 500 or so questions we received in only three days. It is encouraging though that many people are thinking about the challenges we face and the potential solutions across multiple dimensions and then connecting these dimensions as we together begin to start thinking more about systems amidst the recognition that there are no silver bullets, Panaceas or golden rules. It is going to be extremely difficult but humanity has never shied away from challenges and #Planet2012 plays an important role of facing these challenges head on.
And to conclude, here are collages of words coming from the collective questions people asked from all over the world, day by day, for your perusal…


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Metsä2013 Joint session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the FAO European Forestry Commission
9 - 13 December 2013
Rovaniemi, Finland
Contact Point for the joint session: Paola Deda
The joint session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the FAO European Forestry Commission took place on 9-13 December 2013 in Rovaniemi, Finland. The event was called Metsä2013, "metsä" meaning forest in Finnish.
A second European Forest Week was organized during Metsä2013. The week focused on the contribution of forests and forest products to a green economy. The week brought together a variety of stakeholders from forest and non-forest sectors. Side and Parallel Events were organized as part of the celebrations of the European Forest Week in Rovaniemi.
To see the preliminary programme for Metsä2013 click here and to see an overview of the week including a list of side/parallel events, please click here. For more information, please see the Metsä2013 Handbook.
Report of the joint session
Annotated Provisional Agenda for the joint session
Draft Market Statement on Forest Products in 2012 and 2013 ECE/TIM/2013/3−FO:EFC/2013/3
|FAO's report on follow-up activities to the recommendations and requests of the 36th session of the Commission ECE/TIM/2013/4−FO:EFC/2013/4
|Implementation of the new structure and modus operandi of the Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds ECE/TIM/2013/5−FO:EFC/2013/5
|The New Strategic Framework for FAO ECE/TIM/2013/6−FO:EFC/2013/6
|Annex to the New Strategic Framework for FAO ECE/TIM/2013/6−FO:EFC/2013/6
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|Strategic Evaluation of FAO's Role and Work in Forestry: Management Response ECE/TIM/2013/7−FO:EFC/2013/7
Contribution to FAO Governance - Input to the Committee on Forestry and the Regional Conferences ECE/TIM/2013/8−FO:EFC/2013/8
|Biennial evaluation plan of the Forestry and timber subprogramme for 2014-2015 ECE/TIM/2013/9−FO:EFC/2013/9
|Draft programme of work of the Forestry and timber subprogramme for 2014-2015 ECE/TIM/2013/10/Rev.1−FO:EFC/2013/10/Rev.1
|The UN Development Agenda Beyond 2015: Sustainable Development Goals ECE/TIM/2013/11−FO:EFC/2013/11
|Draft [ECE/FAO] Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy ECE/TIM/2013/12−FO:EFC/2013/12
|Draft Integrated Programme of Work 2014-17 for the Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the European Forestry Commission ECE/TIM/2013/13−FO:EFC/2013/13
|Proposed Terms of Reference for the ECE/FAO Joint Working Party and the ECE/FAO Teams of Specialists ECE/TIM/2013/14−FO:EFC/2013/14
|Review of 2013 activities and planned activities for 2014 ECE/TIM/2013/15−FO:EFC/2013/15
|List of ECE/FAO Publications for 2014-2017 ECE/TIM/2013/15/Add.1−FO:EFC/2013/15/Add.1
|Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox ECE/TIM/2013/16−FO:EFC/2013/16
|Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring ECE/TIM/2013/17−FO:EFC/2013/17
|The FAO Fire Management Umbrella Programme ECE/TIM/2013/18−FO:EFC/2013/18
|Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forestry ECE/TIM/2013/19−FO:EFC/2013/19
|Preparations for the XIV World Forestry Congress ECE/TIM/2013/20−FO:EFC/2013/20
|Regional input to the United Nations Forum on Forests ECE/TIM/2013/INF.1 - FO:EFC/2013/INF.1
|Review of the effectiveness of the international arrangement on forest and role of forests in the post-2015 development agenda ECE/TIM/2013/INF.2 - FO:EFC/2013/INF.2
|Proposed list of activities from the Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy to be carried out by ECE/FAO ECE/TIM/2013/INF.3 - FO:EFC/2013/INF.3
|The State of Conservation of the World's Genetic Resources ECE/TIM/2013/INF.4 - FO:EFC/2013/INF.4
|The Global Timber Forum
|Forests and Food Securitiy: Follow-up to the conclusions of the International Conference ECE/TIM/2013/INF.6 - FO:EFC/2013/INF.6
Agenda item
Official opening
|Poem, Henry Cuyler Bunner
|Vera Chapchikova
|300 years of scientific forestry: forests in the next 300 years
|Jürgen Blaser
|Future of Russian Forests
|Alexander Panfilov
Forest Product Markets
Market discussions
|European forest products market overview
|Antti Koskinen
|Spotlight on Turkey's fores product markets
|Ramazan Bali
|Russian Federation forest products market overview
|Vladimir Styazhkin
|North American forest products market overview
|Gordon Culbertson
Engaging the private sector
|Plum Creek Timber Comany, forestlands and wood products, United States
|Mike Jostrom
|Quebec Wood Export Bureau, Canada
|Sylvain Labbé
|European Sawmill Organization, Belgium
|Kimmo Jarvinen
|European Panel Federation, wood-based panels
|Isabelle Bross
|Stora Enso, wood construction, Finland
|Matti Mikkola
|Architecture specializing in wood construction, France
|Bernard-Yves Capelle
|The Confederation of European Paper Industries, Belgium
|Bernard de Galembert
|Domsjö Fibre - wood pulp for textiles, Sweeden
|Martin Forsén
|UPM - biorefining of wood fibre, Finland
|Stefan Sundman
Measuring and communicating
|Global green economy initiative and indicatiors
|Ivonne Higeuro
|The Swiss experiences in measuring and communicating sustainable development
|André de Montmollin
Measuring progress of the forest sector towards a green economy: some proposals
|Christopher Prins
European Forestry Commission Matters
|Follow-up to the decisions of the 36th session
|Dominique Reeb
|Activities of the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia
|Norbert Winkler and Ekrem Yazici
|Working Party on Mountain Watersheds
|Thomas Hofer
|New Strategic Framework for FAO
|Eduardo Rojas-Briales
|Recommendations for the 29th session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe and 22nd session of COFO
|Peter Csoka
Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry Matters
|Matters arising from the 65th session of the ECE
|Paola Deda
|Matters arising from the last COFFI session
|Paola Deda
Outcome of UNFF10 and implications for the ECE region
|The role of forests in the post 2015 agenda
|Eduardo Rojas-Briales
|Review of the effectivness of the international arrangement on forests (IAF)
|Jürgen Blaser
Joint Committee/Commission Matters
|The new EU forest strategy, blueprint for EU forest-based industry
|Steve Smith and Jeremy Wall
|Development of the Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy
|Arnaud Brizay
|ECE/FAO Integrated Programme of Work 2014-17
|Arnaud Brizay
|Review of 2013 activities and planned activities for 2014 and list of publications
|Dominique Reeb
|Communication activities for the International Day of Forests and the European Forest Week
|Nina Peeva and Maria de Cristofaro
FAO Global Activities on Sustainable Forest Management
|Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toobox
|Thomas Hofer
|Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
|Thomas Hofer
|The FAO Fire Management Umbrella Programme
|Thomas Hofer
|Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forestry
|Tiina Vähänen
|The State of Conservation of the World's Genetic Resources
|Christophe Besacier
|The Global Timber Forum
|Tiina Vähänen
|Outcome of the International Conference on Forests for Food Security
|Peter Csoka
|Preparations for the XIV World Forestry Congress
|Tiina Vähänen
To see more photos from the meeting please visit IISD webpages.
Side & parallel events
In parallel to Metsä2013, more than 35 Side Events and Parallel Events were organized as part of the celebrations of the second European Forest Week at the meeting venue, Hotel Santa Claus.
These meetings allowed partners to benefit from exchanges with delegates present in Rovaniemi and brought under the same 'roof' a wide range of stakeholders to discuss forest related matters.
To see an overview of the Week including the list of these events, please click here. Should you have any questions contact the Secretariat at email@example.com.
Field Trips
A pre-meeting excursion took place on Monday, 9 December. Two field trips took place on Friday, 13 December. More information is provided below.
Monday, 9 December
On Monday, 9 December, a 5 hour pre-meeting excursion was organized by the Federation of Finnish Forest Industries.
Friday, 13 December
All METSÄ2013 participants were invited to attend field trips on the final day of METSÄ2013. Field Trip Day on December 13 consists of two exciting excursions: there will be an outdoor field trip in the morning and a factory visit in the afternoon.
"Arctic Forestry Winter Safari"
Morning Field Trip - 13 December - 8:00-11:30
This trip took the participants to the middle of Boreal forests, where they witnessed a forest management show in the woods. They also had the chance to observe the traditional ice fishing in the arctic conditions of Lapland and enjoyed a typical Finnish outdoor lunch by the lakeside.
"Playful Wooden Manufacturing in Lapland – a visit to Lappset production facilities"
Afternoon Field Trip, 13 December - 13:30-16:00
Lappset Group Ltd welcomed METSÄ2013 participants to visit its production facilities in Rovaniemi on Friday 13 December 2013.


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Olive oil is one of the healthiest and delicious oils around. It's at the core of the Mediterranean diet, and it's been produced for thousands of years. But here's a question for you: How is it made? Do people just squeeze the olives and oil comes out? If not, where does the oil come from?
In order to make olive oil, fresh-picked olives are ground into a slurry, traditionally by using millstones. (Modern factories utilize a more gentle process to prevent friction from elevating the slurry to above 80 degrees F; if kept below this threshold it can earn the coveted title of "cold-pressed."). Once finely ground, the paste is layered between dozens of round woven hemp mats; a hydraulic press then puts pressure onto these mats, which squeezes the oil out of the pulp and into an awaiting container below. Some modern factories use a high-powered centrifuge instead of mats for this process, but the end result is the same: The oil is squeezed out of the pulp.
This pure, unfiltered oil is, obviously, the most valuable type of olive oil there is; this oil is usually filtered and bottled in green glass (to filter out harmful UV rays) before making its way to the supermarket and being sold as extra virgin olive oil. If the oil doesn't meet the exacting specifications to be called extra virgin, it's refined until it's lighter and nearly flavorless and then mixed with a small amount of the good stuff and labeled simply "olive oil." You can find plenty of more interesting facts about this super-healthy oil here.