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Fostering respect and innovation communication is key
Every science-based company has a set of values or a mission statement. Many talk about respecting employees and valuing innovation—two key criteria in Science's Top Employers Survey. But the top companies in Science's survey ensure that these abstract principles are embodied in concrete ways.
Great science forms the building blocks of any quality R&D-based company. But superb internal communication serves as the glue that binds those building blocks together and makes for a top employer, say managers with the top companies recognized by Science this year. The top employers in this year's survey all take pains to hear employees' concerns, recognize everyone's contribution toward overall goals, and keep staff informed of how external events—like last year's global financial crisis and climate of mergers and acquisitions—will or won't affect them.
Only two of the 2010 top 10 didn't make the list last year—Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (see Top Twenty Employers Table). However, Millennium made the list in 2007 and 2008. Over the last five years the composition has changed from less Big Pharma to include more Big Biotech—including perennial leader Genentech, a member of the Roche group, which has held the number one spot eight out of nine years (the exception was 2007, when Boehringer-Ingelheim claimed the lead).
In first place again this year, Genentech has consistently ranked high, as well as being recognized as a great employer by Fortune, Forbes, and other publications because it has a research focus emphasizing patients' needs combined with treating employees with respect, says Marc Tessier-Lavigne, executive vice present for research and chief scientific officer of Genentech. "Robert Swanson, one of the company's founders, always said, 'Our most important asset goes home every night in sneakers,'" says Tessier-Lavigne.
Research innovation and respect for employees remain the most important criteria for being a top employer, according to survey respondents. And, the top employers report that open communication is the best strategy for gaining employees' respect, fostering creativity, and navigating tough times.
Respect and listening
Creating a culture of respect requires true two-way communication between employees and managers. This year's top employers use a variety of communication strategies—from "town halls" to employee feedback about managers—to ensure that workers' concerns are heard. To be truly effective, the style of communication must reflect the culture of the company.
As Vertex approaches the commercialization of its first drug, the company faces many new communication challenges, including the tremendous growth across the organization. "We're establishing the company's first commercial function, which includes the hiring of our first sales force," says Lisa Kelly-Croswell, senior vice president, human resources. With currently more than 150 openings globally and having hired more than 200 employees in 2009, Vertex works on providing transparent communication during this rapid growth period by holding monthly town hall meetings and offering a two-day course on "The Business of Vertex," which helps employees understand business principles and addresses the many internal and external issues of being a public company, says Kelly-Croswell.
No question is "out of bounds" at town hall meetings, says Steve Gansler, senior vice president, human resources at Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, which holds the number four spot this year. They, too, encourage employees to share their opinions openly during monthly meetings, and afterward attendees receive surveys that ask whether the presentations met their needs, says Gansler. People keep returning to the non-mandatory meetings; Gansler suspects that their efforts for real two-way communication explain the high attendance.
"We try to keep hierarchy and bureaucracy to a minimum," Genentech's Tessier-Lavigne says. That means maintaining a true "open-door" policy to both hear employee opinions and explain the company's direction. "Not everyone's first choice will be the choice we go with," explains Tessier-Lavigne. "But we try to explain the rationale when we go in a particular direction, and how and why the decision was made."
The level of candor tends to be higher in smaller group settings, posits Alan Smith, senior vice president of Genzyme, which holds the eighth position. He "gauges the temperature" of employees through weekly lunches with six people from all around the company. Smith says Genzyme also holds town hall meetings, but "it's different from when it's six people at lunch." He and his lunch mates chat for about 90 minutes about company issues, and he goes through his decision-making process. "At lunch they feel freer to say what they like," explains Smith. This type of honesty fosters respect in an organization, he says. Constructive criticism of science is also a part of that honesty and openness. The company holds weekly "Science Peer Review Group" meetings, with that aim. "We remind the scientists that we are critiquing the data, not criticizing them," Smith says.
Syngenta, which moved up 13 places since last year's survey to seventh, recruits employee input for more than science and business. They aim to make two-way communication concrete—literally, says Michiel van Lookeren Campagne, Syngenta's head of global biotechnology. "When we moved into a new building in April this year, our employees helped with the design. Employees also help design our processes," he explains.
To engender respect, there needs to be accountability, but respect is an abstract quality. However, Vertex—which makes its first appearance on the top employer list this year at number three—turns it into a reality by evaluating employees not only on their performance, but also on how they measure up to the company's values. Those values include treating employees with respect—of which a large component is how to communicate with different kinds of personalities throughout the company, says Kelly-Croswell. To help employees meet this goal, Vertex requires all employees to complete a course called "The Art of Speed-Reading People," based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test. The course teaches people to understand what their personality type is and how they communicate and interact. It also helps employees recognize and interact with communication styles that are different from their own.
Appraisals can go both ways. Monsanto Company, which rose to number two this year after appearing fourth last year, has employees rate their managers in an annual survey called "leadership 180." This helps managers gauge their own performance through the eyes of their team, says Robb Fraley, Monsanto's executive vice president and chief technology officer.
Creating this culture of respectful two-way communication is taken seriously, says Bernd Kirschbaum, head of Global R&D, Merck Serono (Merck Serono and EMD Serono are part of Merck KGaA, which is ranked ninth). The company emphasizes the team over the individual, which means taking action when respect for either individuals or the team are lacking, he says. "We have discontinued contracts of people who have not embraced our values—for instance, managers who were rude or abusive to the employees they supervised," explains Kirschbaum. "If you ignore this as an organization and as a leader, you completely lose credibility. You need to say, 'This is unacceptable.' You need to follow up."
Encouraging innovation
Open communication builds respect and a harmonious work place, but letting employees know that their role in the company is meaningful, their research is cutting-edge, and that creativity is valued is how many of these top companies stay positioned at the forefront of scientific discovery and at the top of Science's survey.
With the look and feel of a university campus, Genentech has consistently created such a culture. But that culture is more than superficial. For instance, the popular postdoc program at Genentech fuels the innovative environment, both directly and indirectly. Postdocs make up about 10 percent of the company's research community. They are not attached to "pipeline" projects; rather, they are free to do basic research. Their goal is to do cutting-edge work that will merit publication in a top-tier journal. "It brings creative and energetic individuals into the organization," says Tessier-Lavigne. "They challenge the status quo." These types of positions allow scientists to follow their noses in more basic research areas, which might yield findings that the company can later capitalize on.
Challenging the status quo, for Genzyme, means seeking treatments for unmet medical needs. "We don't do 'me too [drugs],'" says Smith. The company recognizes that ideas will fail more often than succeed—what looks like a good idea on paper is not always a good idea in patients. "We're forgiving as an organization," Smith says. "We don't kill ourselves with angst over things that don't work." However, having high goals is a key component of being an innovation leader, says Roger Perlmutter, executive vice president of research and development at Amgen, which placed tenth this year. "We focus on grievous illness," Perlmutter says. "You could say 'of course you do.' But many companies seek modest improvements in existing therapies. We focus almost exclusively on programs where there have been few or no drugs developed."
Another way companies encourage innovation is by offering incentives. Several of the top employers use contests to up the ante. Merck KGaA actively solicits new ideas internally, says Kirschbaum. "The whole company is asked to provide ideas that they normally wouldn't get support for," Kirschbaum says. A committee picks the winners and the awardees get to run the project as if they were entrepreneurs. Vertex holds a company-wide contest for an "outstanding research award" of $10,000 to a person who is recognized by senior leaders and peers. And to encourage new thinking, Vertex started an internal exchange program last year that they call "step out". The winning applicant is able to explore a research area outside of their own expertise for three months. Millennium's "success share" program encourages innovation by linking a portion of employee bonuses to the achievement of annual corporate and individual goals, including product revenues and advancement of the pipeline.
Finding fresh ideas can go beyond internal contests to friendly competition. Roche, which rose to fifth place this year from seventeenth in 2009, has three independent pharmaceutical research and early development units in-house to lay the foundation for innovation through diverse approaches. "The way each of these units tackle challenges and the resulting outcomes can be very different," says Sylvia Ayyoubi, global head of human resources. However, Roche also searches outside the organization for ideas, with around 150 actively managed research partnership globally. Monsanto reaches into an even larger reserve of research collaborations—with over 1,500 partnerships between academic institutions and public and private organizations—for advances that always start with the concept that any new idea must help farmers better raise a crop, says Fraley.
One such agreement is a "yield and stress" collaboration with BASF, announced in 2007, where both companies jointly agreed to put $1.5 billion into developing crops that withstand various biotic and abiotic stresses and have higher yields. In July, both companies also committed to contribute up to another one billion dollars. Monsanto also uses grants and scholarships to fuel their innovation, including the $10 million Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program for research in rice and wheat that was announced last year.
Seeing the results of an innovative approach serves as the ultimate motivation for scientists, says Syngenta's Campagne. This year the company launched a new model for insect control developed from start to finish at its Research Triangle Park, North Carolina site and was recently approved by the FDA for use in the United States in 2011. Next year, Syngenta will launch a project to find ways to grow crops with less water. The knowledge that they are making a difference serves as excellent motivation. "People feel that we are contributing to making the world a better place," says Campagne.
It's easy to keep employees happy in periods of prosperity and stability—when products cruise through the pipeline, the stock market soars, and the company finds itself flush with capital. 2009 was not that time. But this year's top employers excel at keeping attitudes and innovation high in the face of adversity. The global financial crisis, mergers and acquisitions, uncertainties about the U.S. health care policy, and ongoing controversies about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were all factors that impacted which employers were rated highly in Science's survey. As with fostering an environment of innovation and creating an atmosphere of respect, these top companies also find communication key for heading off these challenges.
The financial crisis
The global blows that the stock market took in 2009 meant that some companies had less to spend on R&D and salaries. But communicating the problem and asking colleagues to help in the solution bolstered spirits at both Merck KGaA and Genzyme last year.
Merck KGaA's Kirschbaum says the company prides itself in putting 20 percent or more of its total revenue back into R&D. But last year, with revenues down, that goal was threatened. The company had to either to stop some development projects or come up with $80 million from somewhere else. "There was great solidarity from our commercial colleagues in the sales, marketing, and PR side of the company, who helped us find and invest money from their budget," Kirschbaum says. They decided that R&D was important for the long term health of the company and in the short term it should trump marketing, business development, and other commercial activities. "The support from the commercial side was very rewarding for the self-confidence of the R&D people."
Last year, Genzyme had to slow down its rate of recruitment, says Smith. "That is not something that anyone wants to hear; for junior faculty and junior staff, it's not welcome news," says Smith. Working to keep the lines of communication open, Smith had to let employees know that, "we simply can't afford to hire new people right now." However, he also reminds employees that there are ways to get the required staff if they are at a key point in a project. "If we decide that position is necessary, we try to transfer people to that project, or if someone has recently left the company then we may be able to hire a new staff member."
Mergers and acquisitions
There are multiple ways of dealing with a merger, whether you are the acquirer or the acquiree. Companies can become part of a new seamless entity, retain their independence, or just be mined for their scientific pipeline or technological tools. There are no right ways, but establishing a new culture or reinforcing an existing one is key, as is making the process as transparent as possible, so employees know how any realignment will affect them.
Roche's Ayyoubi says transparency, as well as fast and reliable information, help build trust and keep employees committed—especially in times of change such as during the merger with Genentech. "We tried to be very clear about the terms and conditions, and which sites would be affected." The company used an extranet, multiple town halls, and lunches with senior management to spread information.
When Roche made its bid in July 2008 to fully acquire Genentech, facilitated by a financial stake in the company since the early '90s, it announced that priority number one was to preserve the Genentech culture, says Tessier-Lavigne. As a result, both Genentech and Roche have their own autonomous research and early clinical discovery tracks. The head of Genentech Research and Early Development, executive vice president Richard Scheller, reports directly to Roche CEO Severin Schwan, not through Roche Research. Genentech's academic atmosphere, work hard/play hard culture, and strong postdoc program have all been preserved following the March 2009 acquisition. For these reasons, Science chose to list Genentech and Roche separately in this year's survey. "As a result of that pledge to allow Genentech to remain independent, not a single scientist has left the organization because of the merger," says Tessier-Lavigne. "And we have been able to recruit additional senior leadership through the merger." One exception, however, is Tessier-Lavigne himself, who will be moving to Rockefeller University in March 2011.
In Millennium's case, being acquired has meant more resources. Takeda Pharmaceuticals bought the company in 2008, but like Roche with Genentech, kept the company's culture intact. Since being acquired, Millennium has added more than 300 positions because the parent company recognized the Millennium's strength in cancer treatment R&D. "Takeda transferred its entire oncology program to us," Gansler says.
Unlike Genentech, Millennium has been more fully integrated, making researchers more likely to work with their counterparts at the parent company. "By being part of a larger organization, we have been the beneficiary of significant investment that perhaps wouldn't have happened had the acquisition not occurred," explains Gansler.
Other companies that have acquired smaller ones must work hard to ensure a seamless transition, while also reassuring their employees that they won't, in turn, be acquired. Merck KGaA, which recently completed its acquisition of Millipore, reminds its own employees that they will never be a part of an acquisition since the Merck family, which founded the company over 300 years ago, still owns 70 percent of it. "This gives employees a sense of stability," says Merck KGaA's Kirschbaum. Instead, Merck KGaA looks for complements to its existing R&D strategy. "The Millipore acquisition helps both the chemistry and pharmaceutical divisions," Kirschbaum says. He feels that acquisitions made when a company's pipeline dries up or blockbuster products go off patent are bad for morale. This appears to reflect a failure on the parent company's long-term R&D strategy. "We don't want to be put in that position where we have to buy another company because we have nothing in our own pipeline; it makes employees nervous."
Genzyme, too, has a history of making acquisitions to augment its own research efforts. "We have a way of embracing new ideas, new technology, and new staff," says Smith. Since his own position at Genzyme came about due to an acquisition, Smith can empathize with employees brought in when a company goes shopping for new technology. "I, myself, was at another company for four years (Integrated Genetics) when Genzyme acquired them," says Smith. "So I can say 'I know how you feel.'"
Genetically modified organisms
AgBio companies, three of which made the 2010 top 20 employer list including DuPont, Monsanto, and Syngenta, use genetically modified organism (GMO) technology to improve crop yield and decrease dependence on irrigation and pesticides. However, because some public skepticism remains about the use of GMOs, the company puts a lot effort into communicating, to both the public and their employees, why such techniques are both safe and necessary, says Fraley at Monsanto. Acceptance of GMO technology begins with the scientists in-house, says Campagne, at Syngenta, "Everyone who works in science knows that we have created safe and very good products that help sustainable agriculture," Campagne says. "The scientists working for us are 100-percent convinced that this is the right thing to do," he says.
The company also works to share this technology with parts of the world that are unable to afford it through partnerships with nonprofits. In 2008, Monsanto partnered with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation, CIMMYT (the international maize and wheat development center), and the Bill & Melinda Gates and Howard G. Buffett foundations for the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project. The goal is to help make drought-tolerant corn available to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa at approximately the same time as its commercial launch in the United States.
Healthcare reform
The exact cost of health care reform in the United States remains unclear—for both companies and consumers. Rather than worrying about it, some companies have taken an active role in advocating for it—letting both employees and customers know that the company cares about access to health care. "We took a leadership position on health care reform," says Amgen's Perlmutter. "It really is important that Americans have access to health care. We say this not because it will be a big profit center for us, but because it's the right thing to do."
Merck KGaA, too, became involved with health care reform. The company wanted to help shape the legislation, rather than just have to react to it, and contributed its global perspective to the dialogue, says Kirschbaum. "Different countries have different dynamics. We try to engage in a dialogue despite the challenges," explains Kirschbaum. "We have an ethical obligation to bring compounds to the market to help people with very serious diseases. But we need to make sure that this endeavor remains sustainable."
Effective communication, both in times of success and adversity, generates another kind of sustainability—quality employees who stick around and produce the innovative scientific discoveries that define top employers. Treating employees with respect and keeping two-way communication open during triumphs and challenges is perhaps the best way for employers to be respected—both by their employees and by their peers.
The top companies were identified through a web-based survey, conducted from April 13–30 by Brighton Consulting Group and Cell Associates. Fifty-seven percent of the total qualified survey respondents came from the initial e-mail invitation to 80,000 individuals worldwide. An additional 1,000 e-mails sent specifically to human resource contacts from the Science Careers sales database, comprised the remaining 43 percent of the qualified respondents.
Survey takers then rated the companies they had chosen on 23 driving characteristics. The top 20 companies were selected using a statistical process that calculates a unique ranking score for each company. Only companies that were rated by 30 or more respondents were eligible to become part of the top 20 employers.


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Welcome to the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2009 programme page
This page will provide you with all the info about whats on at this years bookfair – stalls, workshops & meetings, film & media workshops room, and vegan cafe.
You can download the full print version of the bookfair programme here (1.8mb pdf): bookfair-programme
You can also download smaller text-only pdfs with fuller descriptions of the workshops-and-meetings and the films-and-media-workshops And here's the stallholders-list
If you don't fancy pdfs then keep scrolling down and see it all as text!
Free Info
Active Distro
AK Press
Anarchist Federation
Bristol Anarchist Black Cross Prisoner Support
Bristol AntiFa
Bristol Animal Rights Collective
Bristol Co-Mutiny Convergence
Bristol EDO Decommissioners/Smash EDO
Bristol Housing Action Movement (BHAM)
Bristol No Borders
Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Bristol Queer Café & Feminist Infoshop
Bristol Radical History Group
Class War
Corporate Watch
Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN)
Dave Douglass
Dennis Gould (Stroud)
Haven Distribution Books to Prisoners
Industrial Workers of the World (Bristol IWW)
Kebele Infoshop
Kiptik (Zapatista solidarity)
Last Hours mag
Liberty & Solidarity
Natterjack Press
Polish Anarchist Federation
Solidarity Federation SW
South West Autistic Rights Movement (SWARM) (some info here)
The Commune
All start and end promptly on the hour unless stated.
ROOM 1 – ground floor:
11 – 12: From Peterloo to Captain Swing: Victims or Insurgents?
By Roger – Bristol Radical History Group
A BRHG talk on the hidden history of struggle in the 19th century. It focuses on how and why major struggles have been ignored or distorted by the left as well as the right.
12 – 1: Can't Pay, Won't Pay – Cancel all debt
by East Bristol Debtors Alliance & Bath Activist Network (Debtors Alliance Division)
An introduction to the work of EBDA and BAN, who will present the idea that all personal debt in the UK should be immediately cancelled, followed by an open debate.
1 – 2: Towards an anarchist parenting network
by Kebele Family Group
A discussion to consider the dilemnas of anarchist parenting – an opportunity to meet with other anarchist parents, identify issues and come up with ways we can support one another. If there is interest; aim to establish an anarchist parenting network. The group will be facilitated but please come willing to participate with your dilemmas, ideas, and resources.
2 – 3: Rethinking education
by Alice – Trapese Collective
How does education fit in to our work for radical social change? Can we work within the educational system as well as outside of it? And if so how can we build networks for popular education in Bristol and beyond? Including information about new resource sharing website/book project.
3 – 4: Anarchist movement conference 09 discussion
by some Bristol anarchists
After a 9 year break this conference brought together around 200 people from across the country and diverse sections of anarchist practice. What key themes ran through the event? Just a talking shop – or necessary encounter if anarchism is to grow? …and what about the masked anarcha-feminist intervention in the final session?
4 – 5: The disabled people's liberation movement – free our people!
by DAN/SWARM
An introduction to the Disabled People's Liberation Movement (including the Independent Living Movement) and its relationship to other minority liberation movements, and other radical social movements, discussing the Social Model of Disability and what it can contribute to a revolutionary libertarian socialism.
5 – 6: Taking on the military industrial complex
by Bristol EDO Decommissioners / Smash EDO
Smash EDO and Decommissioners combine to give an interactive workshop on anti-militarism, the Smash EDO campaign, direct action and how to win the argument for taming the military-industrial complex.
ROOM 2 – first floor
11.30 – 1: The tyranny of patriarchy in the struggle against the patriarchal economy
by The Laboratory of Futurefull Acts & The Mad Hatters
(Bookfair note: no links for organisers, but for info look at London anarcha-feminist kelektiv, No Pretence, or even this article)
Interactive workshop to create a space in which women, men and children can come together with the objective of trying to find ways to begin to practically and personally deconstruct and heal the problems of patriarchy in our own lives and networks. We believe that without this position of integrity we have no hope of confronting or changing social injustice on a wider scale. Come and join us. Feel free to step outside if you want to.
We define patriarchy as a social hierarchy, in which men have higher status and more privilege than women and children (class and colour must not be forgotten). This hierarchy of economic patriarchy operates through the status interaction (ALL interactions) between people and groups with the internalised behaviour patterns appropriate to their rank and roles in this system. These they act out unthinkingly, generation after generation in the home, the street, the school, the workplace, governmentaly and across borders. This social policing of self and others in this destructive manner leads to social inequality and mass psychological damage in children, men and women and creates a culture of disempowerment and fear which upholds the control of the ruling classes.
1 – 2: Workplace struggles
by a National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) activist
An introduction to the role & activities of the NSSN, a look at workplace struggles, and the role of trade unions today.
2 – 3: Dave Douglass – Geordies wa mental / Wheels still in spin
by Dave Douglass, NUM activist & member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Discussing his memoirs 'Geordies Wa Mental', this is a rare and not to be missed opportunity to hear Dave Douglass speak in the West Country. Dave came to attention as an NUM delegate through his celebrated pamphlet Come and Wet this Truncheon, a first-hand exposé of police violence during the 1984-85 Miners' Strike. He later famously appeared as a representative for Class War on Channel 4's Living with the Enemy during which he lived, and 'exchanged opinions' with, Tory peer Lord Rowallan. Never far from controversy, Dave has more recently put the case for coal to climate-change campaigners. An entertaining talk guaranteed!
3 – 4: Social crime – who makes the law, and who is it for?
by Steve Mills – union activist and Bristol Radical Historian
A talk followed by discussion, about the history of crime and the formation of the British legal system. Taking in social crime, the moral economy, smuggling, poaching, shoplifting and riots!
4 – 5: Will China save the world economy?
By Will Brown – world economy group
A talk about the progress of the economic crisis and the critical role China is playing in changing the world economy – from shutting down the Internet to factory bosses being beaten to death. With handouts and discussion.
5 – 6: The spirit of utopia today
by The Commune
With an environmental crisis, continuing poverty, recession & war, and the seeming collapse of alternatives to capitalism, we are living in dystopian times. This talk & discussion will explore the meaning of utopianism today and its importance for recovering our humanity in opposition to its systematic abuse for profit and power.
The Films & Media Workshops programme is co-ordinated by Bristol Indymedia collective. The Films and Media Workshops room is on the 1st floor, adjacent to Room 2.
10:30 – 12: Short films on activism.
12 – 1: Film: The potentiality of storming heaven (Greece, 2009, 32 minutes, colour, some subtitles)
Action footage, interviews and text, set to a rocking soundtrack, provide a background and understanding of the causes and dreams expressed in the Greek insurrection that started on 6 December 2008, after a fascist cop murdered a teenage boy in Athens. Inspiring and unmissable.
1 – 2: Bristol Indymedia presents: Citizen Journalism 'Become the Media'
What do the G20 protests, the Iranian elections and the recent Gaza conflict have in common? People-powered media. In each case the reporting of ordinary people in the thick of events defined the coverage, and not the state or mainstream media. Join in this informal discussion about citizen journalism &
democratic media – what it means, how ordinary people are creating a media revolution and how you can take part!
2 – 3: Bristol Radical History Presents: A Brief History of Corporations
A talk/discussion by Bristol Radical History Group member and expert on the Corporation, Dan Bennett. Dan will answer the questions 'What are Corporations?', 'Where do they come from? and 'How do they derive their power?'
3 – 4: Bristol Indymedia presents: Activist Film Making
What makes a good activist film, what are the main things to think about when shooting film. Find out some top tips for film making and what makes a good story, what you need to make a film and how to get it seen. Learn what you need to know to make your films count.
4 – 5: Bristol Indymedia presents: Capitalist Crisis and the Impact on the Media
The latest capitalist crisis has seen an intensification of cuts within media corporations, bringing into sharp relief the media's subservience to the economy. But what are we to make of these latest "threats" to corporate media giants? Might we be witnessing the final demise of the propaganda industries, or will the intensification of profit pressure tighten the corporate world's grip on our minds?
5 – 6: Film: The Angry Brigade – the spectacular rise and fall of Britain's first urban guerilla group (Gordon Carr, UK, 1973, 60 minutes, colour/B&W)
Newly released version of this classic documentary, with an introduction by Stuart Christie. The film traces the roots of the Angry Brigade in the revolutionary ferment of the 1960's, follows their campaign of attacks & propaganda against capitalism and the state, and culminates with the police investigation and subsequent trial of the 'Stoke Newington 8', the longest criminal trial in British legal history. "You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks" – AB Communique No.8
Is run by Kebele Social Centre's Cafe Collective volunteers. The food is vegan, cheap, and delicious. There are meals, snacks, hot & cold drinks, and yummy cakes. Proceeds from the cafe help fund the bookfair. Please note there is no bar at the event.
- Thanks to the ArtspaceLifespace collective for hire of their amazing venue, right here in the centre of Bristol. Please respect the venue by not smoking inside, clearing up your own rubbish, and not entering those areas that are not part of the bookfair.
- We want the bookfair to be accessible to all, whatever their age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity or ability. The ground floor is wheelchair accessible.
- We ask people to respect each other's opinions and allow the free flow of ideas, even when you disagree. BUT note we will not accept any racist, sexist or other abusive or oppressive behaviour – you will be asked to leave.
- We discourage people bringing animals to the event, except guide dogs, as it is unfair to the animals and disruptive to others.
- Lastly there will be no photos or recording at the event without prior agreement with the organising collective.

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Level: Intermediate
Someone asked me a question yesterday about exporting data from the Power BI Service into Excel. There are a few options to do this however they all have their problems (these problems are not covered in great detail in this post).
- Power BI has an inbuilt export data feature (there is an export limit of 30k rows for a free account and 150k rows for a Pro account. Plus the connection cannot be refreshed).
- Analyze in Excel (can only view the data in Excel via a pivot table, not a table of records).
- Download the Power BI Desktop file to your PC and use DAX Studio (you have to download the entire model just to get the records you want, besides it may not even work at all).
I started to think that I may be able to connect directly to Power BI Service using DAX Studio and then use the techniques I cover here to extract the records. I tried this but couldn't get it to work (please let me know if you find a way to do this). I started searching and found this old article I wrote in 2015 that uses a technique I learnt from Marco Russo. l have used a similar approach to create a direct query of a Power BI Data Model and extract the records directly into a Table in Excel.
Edit: 11 Jan 2017 – see the bottom of this post to see how Chris Webb recommends to do this task – it is much easier :-). But read on for some interesting learning.
Create a Link to PowerBI.com
The first thing I did was to select my dataset from the Power BI Service, clicked the Ellipsis (1 below) and then Analyze in Excel (2 below).
This downloads an ODC file to the downloads folder. Mine was called Adventure Works.odc
Note: there have been many updates to the Analyze in Excel connectors since its launch last year. If you haven't updated the Analyze in Excel connectors for a while you would be well advised to do that first before attempting the rest of the procedure that follows. This can be done by logging into Power BI, clicking Downloads (shown as 1 below) and then downloading and installing the connector software (2 below).
Edit the ODC File to Make it a Query
I then edited the ODC file using Notepad. It looks like this originally
It is a bit hard to read the file as is, so I cut and paste the contents into an HTML editor to improve the readability, (as shown below) then pasted the formatted text back into Notepad.
As you can see above, the default command is "Cube" and the default text is "Model". The trick is to change the command to be "Query" and replace the text to be any valid DAX Query.
I changed lines 19 and 20 below as follows:
<odc:CommandType>Query</odc:CommandType> <odc:CommandText>Evaluate Sales</odc:CommandText>
The Command Text I used above is one of the most simple DAX Queries you can write. All queries must start with the EVALUATE statement followed by any valid DAX code that returns a table of data. The simplest way to do that is just specify an existing table (Sales in this case). If you are doing this, you can use any table name in your data model.
I then saved and closed the ODC file.
Open the ODC in Excel
To open the ODC file in Excel, I then simply double clicked on the file. This opened Excel and gave me the following security warning
I clicked enable, and there appeared the entire Sales table from my Power BI data model directly in a table in Excel.
Now that the connection has been established, the file can be saved and refreshed as needed in the future. To refresh, simply open the file, right click on the table and click "refresh".
Change the Query
So far this is pretty boring albeit maybe useful for some people. Much more interesting is to be able to extract a subset of the data to Excel. To do this you need to learn a bit of the DAX Query Language. I am not going to go into the DAX Query Language in detail in this post, but below I show how to edit the current query and change it to a new query – in this case a query that will return the Total Sales by Invoice Number.
To edit the existing query, I simply right clicked anywhere in the table (1 below), then selected Table (2 below), then Edit Query (3 below).
This brings up a dialog that can be edited as needed.
For my demo, I replaced the command text with my new DAX Query as follows
After clicking OK, this query then returned a table of all invoice numbers and the total value of sales for those orders. Interestingly the number formatting for Total Sales did not flow through to Excel as I expected it to.
Chris Webb's Trick
Edit 11 Jan 2017. Chris Webb tweeted an alternate approach that is faster to execute. Simply create any pivot table using Analyze in Excel, drill through to the underlying table and then edit the query as before.
Further Learning
I blogged about DAX as a Query language in a series of 3 articles.


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Dylan was spurred to action not just out of his own experiences, but because he'd read about so many kids and adults who had committed suicide as a result of being bullied. The clincher was a story in the US about a bullied teenager who had been fatally hanged on the back of a school toilet door by his tormentors.
"I wanted to try and get the message out to say no to bullying, and I am trying to get people to speak up if they are being bullied and not sit back and be quiet about it," Dylan says, explaining his motivation to start a Twitter campaign.
Dylan set up his account @DylanRaven16 on 25 March, and tweets with the hashtag #saynotobullying. So far he has attracted the attention of Channel 9, and has had an interview with reporter Ben Fordham on Sydney talkback radio station 2GB. His goal is to collect 1,000 followers before his 17th birthday on 31 July this year.
His efforts are already getting results.
"After some people at school saw what I was doing a few of them came up to me and said 'I'm sorry for what you went through, I didn't know but I do now'. They were really apologetic," says Dylan. "And I received one message from a teen boy on Twitter – 'you're the only reason I get out of bed and go to school every day'."
"I received one message from a teen boy on Twitter – 'you're the only reason I get out of bed and go to school every day'"
Dylan is looking forward to these school holidays and having the odd dinner out with his friends, including one girl, an old friend who has been away at boarding school. He doesn't play sport, but he walks for an hour each morning and evening with his singing teacher and her mother. He uses the computer, mostly for Twitter and for catching up with news – "I've wanted to be a journalist since I was about 5 or 6 years old," he says. "I'm hoping to get accepted into one of the unis in Adelaide because my aunty and uncle both studied journalism at Adelaide."
His parents, family and friends are very proud, and his current school Principal is very supportive.
"I'm so overwhelmed because I wasn't expecting how successful it would be," says Dylan. "It makes me feel really happy knowing that I'm doing something about bullying."
Dylan's message for bullied kids:
My goal is to raise awareness about bullying, to get people to say no to bullying, and to encourage victims to speak out. If your school isn't willing to help, then please take the issue to the Department of Education and/or the police.
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The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) met at Age UK in London to translate scientific evidence on social engagement and brain health into actionable recommendations for the public. GCBH issue experts from around the world came to consensus on a definition for social engagement, an explanation of social connections and networks, and the evidence on the relationship between social engagement and better brain health as we age. The GCBH outlined 15 recommendations to maintain relationships as we age and to build new connections throughout life. These recommendations offer a variety of ways to stay engaged relevant to people from all over the world at any age. The report was refined over several months within the GCBH, reviewed by other experts in the field and finalized by the GCBH Governance Committee.
The report emphasizes that positive relationships, maintained over your lifetime, support well-being and brain health. The report explores current scientific research on the effect social engagement has on brain health. It discusses numerous aspects of social engagement including digital connections, purpose in life, pets as companions, close personal or romantic relationships, and sense of community. It also identifies knowledge gaps. To complement the GCBH's report, AARP surveyed more than 3,800 adults age 40 and older to understand the factors that influence social engagement, isolation and loneliness and how these issues relate to people's brain health and mental well-being as they age. Survey results can be found in the section below.
As a result of these deliberations, the GCBH Governance Committee approved the following recommendations on social engagement and brain health for people as they age.
To find out more about how social connections affect your brain health, see this article by Beth Howard.
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Johns Hopkins University
Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Harvard University
Chiba University and National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
North West University, South Africa
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Global Council on Brain Health. The Brain and Social Connectedness: GCBH Recommendations on Social Engagement and Brain Health. Washington, DC: Global Council on Brain Health, February 2017. https://doi.org/10.26419/pia.00015.001
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Vigilante Duo Impersonates Cops, Busts Guy for Picking Up Hooker
Whoa! This duo is dumb. Impersonating a police officer is quite possibly the dumbest thing you can do.
With red and blue lights flashing, watch these two morons pull over a pickup truck and make the driver lay on the ground. Apparently, the man may have picked up a hooker so these idiots wanted to teach him a lesson.
Not smart!
The worst part? We are so conditioned to do what we're told by police, so all it takes is a few shouting commands, red and blue lights and boom, we're in a super vulnerable position. Crazy man, crazy.


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In a recent Teacher Leaders Network column, Bill Ferriter writes that, despite their appeal, class-size reduction efforts aren't always in the best interests of students or the teaching profession. He says that, if not accompanied by larger reform initiatives, they can exacerbate teacher-supply and facilities problems and place more students in classes with underprepared educators. "Class-size reductions are ... political smokescreens," he writes, "allowing decision-makers to ignore the more costly and complex task of attracting, developing, and retaining highly accomplished teachers for America's classrooms."
What's your view? Are class-size reduction efforts ultimately helpful or harmful? What's been your experience?
Disrupting Instructional Inequities Is Essential for Student Success
Using Data to Inform Writing Instruction: Addressing Learning Loss Caused by COVID-19 Disruption
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Of the considerable number of spots to work in a home, the basement can be the most problematic. Of the considerable number of periods of a development venture in a basement, the basement plumbing stage can be the hardest to achieve for various reasons. In the first place, any waste water by and large, for the most part must be pumped out. Furthermore, basements have a tendency to be exceptionally unforgiving with regards to releases, even extremely minor ones.
The most effective method to maintain a strategic distance from Issues
Fix floor squeaks with a few drywall screws. While a second person waits below in the crawl space or basement, walk over your floor and locate where the squeaking is occurring. Signal to the person below where the problem is. They can insert a drywall screw through the sub floor and into the flooring to stop the squeak.
One approach to evade most of the issues that a basement can exhibit for a plumber is to not plumb in anything that will require a pipe, for example, a sink, can or a shower. Furthermore, more issues can be maintained a strategic distance from by not pluming anything in cement, for example, the floor or solid side dividers.
Purchase a Complete Unit
When it comes to home improvement, take your current space into consideration before adding on with new construction. It may be much more cost effective to convert either an attic or basement into living space. Added costs come into play when you have to add more to your foundation or roof area.
This implies all that you will be basement plumbing is the sump waste system. On the off chance that this is the course that you are going to take, then the best exhortation that you can get is to purchase a totally contained sump pump system that arrives in a "module bowl unit". Attempting to fix together your own framework can wind up costing you more for a system that isn't as dependable as you would get in prepared fabricated unit.
Careful discipline brings about promising results
Making sure that your basement is weatherproof is the first step to creating a living space in there. If your basement is dry and never leaks or floods, it is a great way to save money on your renovation. However, if your basement is perennially flooded or damp, it not only makes way for mold, but also makes the space uninhabitable. Make sure to weatherproof your basement before beginning your remodeling project.
Another great tip for trying plumbers that are planning basement plumbing anything in their home is to get a little practice in before they begin in on the genuine thing. That implies that you need to take your light, some copper pipe and weld into the back yard and blockhead with it until you realize what you are doing.
Utilize the Right Paste Glue and Pipe Dope
Basements rarely have any natural light available. Plan your basement well so that it gets enough light coming in. Does your basement have walls that come up from ground level? If this is the case, putting in windows might be an option.
Continuously ensure that you are utilizing the right materials when you are sticking any pipes. This implies you should never substitute anything for pipe dope or paste for PVC or any kind of metal or plastic pipe. Likewise, ensure that you weight test everything after you are done and regardless of how little a hole is, you should track it down and settle it.
Step by step instructions to build a Basement Bathroom – What to Know before You Start
If you feel your home is too small, consider a basement renovation. In many cases, a basement can be turned into a second living room or climate-controlled storage space. If your basement has exterior access, you could even renovate it into an apartment for rental income or a mother-in-law suite for family members and other visitors.
One theme that gets a lot of consideration is how to manufacture a basement bathroom. Numerous individuals end up thinking about whether completing their basement will increase the value of their homes and enhance their living space. By and large, the answer is yes. A home with a completed basement, including a basement bathroom, includes lots of decent square footage without a huge expense. In the event that you have a basement and you'd like to make it some place that merits living, you'll be cheerful to realize that completing it and including a bathroom can be shockingly basic and economical. You simply need to realize what to do and you need to have a decent arrangement.
What's the different between a completed basement and a redesigned basement? Completed basements change an exposed territory into a precisely developed living space, regularly with isolated room and every one of the conveniences you'd expect in the upper parts of a house. A basement rebuilding is normally a much bigger task that requires more exertion and cash.
Finishing a project involving a basement is a good investment to start. By renovating your basement, you will surely add an extra room that your family could use. You can also get the material from a discount outlet. Finishing your basement can improve your homes value upwards of 30%.
Numerous older finished basements, finished with low quality materials or those that are out and out wrong, can transform into rebuilding ventures. You have to know ahead of time what you're doing and what strategies you're going to utilize. Knowing how to construct a basement bathroom plumbing legitimately ahead of time is one key to keeping yourself from remodeling it again later.
This implies keeping natural materials out of your basement bathroom and basement completing tasks. Numerous non-natural materials are additionally helpless – stay away from common divider board for dampness safe board, for example. You'll be willing to manage the additional cost when you understand that utilizing a dampness safe board as a part of your new basement bathroom and in whatever is left of the basement will keep you from dealing with buildup and mold. All things considered, you just need to construct your basement bathroom once!
When doing home improvement projects on your house, sometimes remodeling unfinished areas offers the most affordable opportunities to increase the value and functionality of your home. Refinishing the basement of your home not only increases the amount of usable living space in your house, it also will give your home better market value.
In case you're not certain how to manufacture a basement bathroom, or you know how to do a percentage of the work however not every last bit of it, stop. That doesn't mean you can't get into your fantasy completing venture. It means that you ought to enroll the assistance of an expert to get past the parts of your task that you don't know how to manage. Making it up as you go is a surefire approach to wind up with a basement that needs work not far off!
You'll have to ensure that your basement bathroom has the right plumbing and wiring, great deck that won't twist or delaminate, divider materials and paint that will oppose moist and buildup, and installations that are suitable for use in a basement. Be sure to hire a quality plumber and electrician for this. Ensure that your bathroom is sufficiently bright and very much ventilated, as well. You'll be more content in the event that you construct a room that is charming to use and also pragmatic and basement rooms can regularly seem cave like. Great style and design can help counteract this inclination. In the event that you figure out how to manufacture a basement bathroom before you begin, you'll have a vastly improved shot of a successful finishing task.
If space is at a premium in your home, consider remodeling the attic or basement. These areas offer a cost-effective way to gain extra square footage without resorting to constructing an addition. If the area already has a floor, roof, and walls your project will move along quickly and you'll be enjoying your new space in no time.
A Final Note on Basement Remodeling Contractors
Keep in mind to get your basement renovating contractual workers to give you an estimate in writing and to framework what work they will do. That path both of you can feel secured ought to a sudden issue in the building development emerge. You will have the able to obviously see what expenses will be additional to finish the basement rebuilding and what expenses are structural issues that in the long run would have cropped up.


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If you missed yesterday's post, check out my book review of Oscar's Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, by Lisa Rivero. You won't want to miss this one. Ms. Rivero has graciously donated a paperback copy for my readers. Click here for giveaway details.
Before reading Oscar's Gift, I was not familiar with Oscar Micheaux. What inspired this story?
I stumbled on to the historical figure of Oscar while doing research on the area where I grew up so as to understand the background of family diaries that I am transcribing. From the beginning, Oscar's life fascinated me, in part because of his experience as an African-American homesteader (a part of the homesteading era I hadn't known much about) and in part because of his later literary career. He took hold in my mind, somehow, and I knew I needed to find a way to write about him.
What kind of research did you have to do to recreate this time in Oscar's life and place him in an authentic setting?
The setting was the easiest part to write about because it's where I spent the first eighteen years of my life. The geography of the Great Plains is a part of who I am, even more so the longer I live elsewhere. The research for Oscar's life and the time period happened slowly over the span of a couple of years. I read biographies of his life, analysis of his movies, and two of his novels, which are semi-autobiographical. Some of the other aspects of the story specific to the time period (for example, the 1904 issue of The Youth's Companion) were little gifts that popped up along the way.
I especially enjoyed the character of Tomas. He was an excellent way to "see" and "hear" Oscar, but he was also an unforgettable character in his own right. How did his creation come about?
I'm so happy that the character of Tomas came alive for you! He's the part of the story whose origin I can't quite explain, except that he was inspired by several young people I've known and worked with, all of whom were sensitive and curious and idealistic in the best possible way. Tomas was my first experience with a character's leading me through what was supposed to happen in a story, rather than the other way around.
Is this your first work of fiction? What other titles have you written?
This is my first published work of fiction, and I have a lot of other in-progress pieces lying about. I've written two previous non-fiction books about homeschooling (Creative Home Schooling, Great Potential Press, 2002, and The Homeschooling Option, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and two non-fiction books about intense, creative, and otherwise gifted teens (A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens and Smart Teens' Guide to Living with Intensity, both 2010 Great Potential Press books). I also blog for Psychology Today.
And lastly, list some of your favorite books and authors.
There are so many! Here are a few titles and authors, in no particular order and from varying genres:
The Voyage to the Bunny Planet Trilogy, by Rosemary Wells
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, by Kathleen Norris
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Anything by Willa Cather or Eudora Welty
Dubliners, by James Joyce
What the Dog Saw, by Malcolm Gladwell
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
Lisa, thanks so much for taking the time to answer my questions, and thank you also for your book donation. I've no doubt the winner will enjoy it as much as I did.
Click here for your own copy of Oscar's Gift.
Lisa's website: http://www.lisarivero.com.
If you missed yesterday's post, check out my book review of Oscar's Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, by Lisa Rivero. You won't want to miss this one. Ms. Rivero has graciously donated a paperback copy for my readers. Click here for giveaway details.


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Online commodity trading provides an opportunity for portfolio diversification from the conventional securities. Successful commodity traders invest in commodities as a way of shielding themselves from unusual stock market volatility. Commodity trading can also be done long-term, for physical commodities such as oil and gold to generate wealth.
What is commodity trading?
Commodity trading is an investment strategy that involves trading of physical goods as opposed to stocks. The most traded commodities in the world include metals such as gold and silver and minerals such as oil. Agricultural commodities such as soybeans are also widely traded commodities. With the invention of the internet, traders can now open and operate an online commodity trading account.
Commodities can be bought in an exchange market such as the New York Mercantile Exchange for an equivalent value of the commodity in monetary terms. Then, the trader gains or loses depending on whether the commodity increases in value or loses it. Regulatedbrokers.com is a website that offers excellent forex guides and forex broker reviews. Forex and commodity trading are related. Knowing the best broker to trade with is the starting point of a successful commodity trading.
What commodities are traded?
The commonly traded commodities in the financial markets include:
- Coffee: the commodity has a huge global demand. It has a huge supply as well and generates an excess of 1.6% of GDP value in the US.
- Corn: it is useful in livestock and human feeding and has an industrial application in the manufacturing of ethanol fuel. It is also added to soft drinks as a sweetener. The demand for food and energy is high and this means the commodity will remain significant in the commodity market.
- Soybeans: The oil obtained from soybeans is used in the preparation of bread and cakes. Crushed soybeans provide livestock food. Soybean oil is also a product used in biofuels. As demand for fuel and food products increases, soybeans demand will also increase.
- Wheat: wheat has been an important food crop globally for a long time. The prices of wheat are compared to its substitutes including corn, oats or barley. Variation in the relative prices of wheat and its substitutes determines the variation in demand between them and soybeans.
- Crude oil: It has the most weighed impact on the entire world economy. Oil is a commodity extensively used in the transportation industry. It is also used in industrial production of synthetic textiles, computers, cosmetics e.t.c. The demand for this commodity is therefore very high.
- Natural gas: has industrial and commercial uses. It is used in electricity generation and is a clean source of energy.US and Russia are the two main producers of this commodity.
- Gasoline: It is the product of refined crude oil. It is mainly used in fueling cars and has an inelastic demand. Crack spreads are traded by commodity traders for the difference in the pricing of refined oil products and crude oil.
- Gold: it has a high demand due to speculation around it. It is conceived as an alternative to paper currency. It has negative correlation movements to dollar currency. It is also useful in making jewelry or electronics.
- Silver: It is weaker than gold but attracts massive speculation from traders. It is compared in form of ratios to gold to determine its relative strength. Has an industrial application in making jewelry e.t.c.
- Copper: The metal has a significant indication on the overall global GDP strength. It is widely used in infrastructure building. Its use signifies a bullish speculation on global GDP.
What are the main trends of commodities trading?
Risk mitigation: Risk analysis has become essential for commodity traders to enable them to make wise trading decisions. Risk analysis has become a critical tool for the effective control of commodity market default risk.
Liquidity: With the invention of the internet and online trading, commodity trading has become widespread in the exchange markets. More traders now find it easier to trade which generates a higher liquidity for the global commodity exchange markets.
Complex Market Data: The market data for commodity prices has become diverse and voluminous. Therefore, timely data interpretation and management has become critical for successful commodity trading.
Consolidation: The exchange companies for the futures and other commodity products are becoming global through mergers or acquisitions. For instance, Tokyo Commodity Exchange established collaboration with Dubai Mercantile Exchange for the facilitation of energy products exchange.
Deregulation: The commodity market industry is increasingly becoming deregulated to allow for a global trade. This process has enhanced growth of commodity trade and creates good future prospects for growth.
What is the influence on this market?
The influence in the commodity markets is driven by the forces of demand and supply. Demand defines how much value of commodity traders are willing to buy at a given price. Supply is the availability of the commodity based on how much of the commodity a market offers. A shortage in supply drives demand up and vice versa.
World commodity traders are finding it easier dealing in commodities due to the invention of digital commodity trading platforms. With such a trend, commodity trading remains a viable business as long as the demand and supply factors continue to fall in place.


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As a buyer, a home inspector:
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The main aim of Junior Diplomat Initiative is to create a platform enabling the students of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies to confront their theoretical knowledge with the real practice of the contemporary world of diplomacy. Junior Diplomat Initiative aims to bring the aspiring junior diplomats close to the reality of their potential future in the world of diplomacy through interactive events, discussions with interesting guests.
The vision of Junior Diplomat Initiative is to develop students' skills and knowledge through interaction between the students, diplomats and international relations experts.
Background Information & Goals
The Junior Diplomat Initiative Switzerland (JDI Switzerland) was established at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva in September 2013. JDI Switzerland is a partner organization of JDI in the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic and JDI in Sciences Po in Paris, France.
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Welp, it finally happened: Dave Tanimura has put the super-bitchin' Morris Bros./SO-CAL Speedshop roadster up for sale. Now, make no mistake –– this is one of the few chances you'll ever get to own a car with so much deep California race history. This thing ran just about every type of 4-wheel racing available over its 50-some year career. And though it ran a bunch of different motor/tranny combos, paint schemes and trim, Dave restored it to its late Forties/early Fifties look. With some amazing original equipment and a new, period-correct flathead, the guy did an amazing job.
We've ridden in it, stood next to it when Dick Morris (half of the two-brother team that built the car, originally) finally laid his eyes on it after a thousand years, drank beers sitting on the rear tire in Dave's garage and have just generally loved this car for years. Like all the old ebay screws say, "Bid with confidence."
Bookmark the auction (here) and bid the hell out of this thing. You're not gonna find another one like it on the planet. And that's a fact.


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Discussion by: Confucian Witcher
This is an interesting question that I thought of when I was reading my philosophy textbook on truth. The chapter dealt with answering whether truth is a concept that exists outside of human thought or whether it is merely a product of our senses. Instead I thought maybe to apply this question to logic. Does logic exists outside of human consciousness?


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Health Benefits Of Drinking Green Tea
There are Many Reasons Why You Should be Going Green
This relaxing beverage has been brewed in the East for medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Black tea is most popular within the U.S.A., England, and Canada while green the most commonly consumed in Eastern countries.
Black, green, white, and Oolong tea are all made from the leaves of the Camellia Sinensis plant. It is the method in which the green variety of the beverage is processed which makes it so different from other teas. Less caffeine yet more antioxidants, more Catechins, and more health benefits.
There are many advantages to adding the health benefits of green tea into your daily regimen. The antioxidant rich leaves have much to offer. Studies show that green tea may have the power to extend life expectancy by providing protection from cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
These are just a few of the many reported health benefits that sipping a few cups each day can provide. There are many more reasons why you should sip a cup of this nutritious beverage every day.
Loaded with Antioxidants it is a Beverage Well Deserving its Reputation
While the Black and Oolong varieties lose many of their antioxidants when they are processed, the green and white tea are processed so as to maintain their rich composition of antioxidants. The high antioxidant level of green tea is why this beverage has a health advantage over the black or Oolong varieties.
It is how Green Tea is processed which make this beverage so much healthier a drink for us to consume. The leaves are steamed rather than fermented which is the method most others are subjected to. This process is what allows the Polyphenols within the green leaves to remain at a higher level than black or oolong.
These polyphenols are super antioxidants. Green Tea contains up to five times more polyphenol than black or Oolong do which means that there is a definite advantage to drinking the green compared to the standard black leaf.
Black, Oolong, Green, and White tea are made from the Camellia sinensis plant.
Catechins are Powerful Anti-Aging Antioxidants Within It
The powerful antioxidants levels of green tea may have the ability to extend your life expectancy. An eleven year study conducted in Japan followed 40,530 adults who drank varying amounts of green tea.
The study showed that those individuals who drank five or more cups of Green tea daily had a significant increase in their life expectancy.
The study results showed that if you are a woman and you consume five or more cups of Green Tea per day then your risk of dying can decrease by an an amazing twenty-three percent. If you are a man drinking five or more cups of green tea per day can reduce your odds of dying from any cause by up to twelve percent.
The study showed that men who drank five or more cups per day reduced their odds of dying from cardiovascular disease by a possible twenty-two percent. Women in the study group reduced their risk by thirty-one percent.
Catechins are a powerful antioxidant which reduce the number of free radicals within the body. They are believed to largely be the reason for the amazing health benefits of green tea. By reducing the number of free radicals roaming within your body the antioxidants may effectively reduce your risk of developing heart disease and other age related illnesses.
One of the most powerful antioxidants within Green Tea, Epigallocatechin-3-gallate prevents damage of heart muscle cells from inflammation. Catechins also act as a blood thinner which helps to prevent unusual blood clotting from occurring.
Relaxing at Any Time of Day
Still Confused on What a Catechin is
Catechins are powerful antioxidants which are extremely efficient in repairing free radicals which are unstable cells within our body.
Catechins are plant polyphenols that are also known as Tannins. These catechins, or polyphenols, are largely responsible for the bitter tart taste in a strong cup of tea or glass of wine so also bring a bit of a bitter grassy taste to this beverage as well.
It is important to brew this beverage in a specific manner to help reduce the potential bitter bite that can accompany its creation.
Did you know that green tea has powerful antibacterial properties? The antibacterial properties make it a soothing bath spa ingredient. Seriously it really isn't just for sipping anymore, now you can simply pop a green tea bag into your bathwater to receive the wonderful heath benefits from this amazingly healthy plant.
So Will it Help Me Lose Weight?
Drinking five or more cups of Green Tea per day may help you lose that extra weight that you have been carrying around with you.
The catechins within this beverage are super antioxidants that are able to speed up the body's metabolism as well as the body's fat burning capabilities. These catechins seem to focus their fat attack on the extra weight that gathers around the waistline. So sipping a cup of two of a green leaf tea just may actually help you to burn belly fat.
The results of studies involving green tea found that consuming 690mg of catechins per day over 12 weeks did serve to reduce body fat. The studies therefore indicate that catechins may indeed be useful in the fight against obesity if you are willing to sip at least 5 cups of this antioxidant rich beverage per day. The caffinated variety was found to work best in the weight loss achieved.
The facts are that this beverage contains four basic types of catechins: gallocatechin (GC), epigallocatechin (EGC), epicatechin (EC), and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG).
The most efficient of these catechins is EGCG which acts as a very powerful antioxidant.
So Why Would this Beverage Help You Lose Weight?
There are Many Health Advantages to this Beverage
Statistically speaking green tea is a healthy drink and there is no controversy to this fact. If you are a man drinking five or more cups per day you can possibly reduce your odds of dying from a stroke by about forty-two percent.
If you are a woman drinking this same amount daily then you can possibly reduce your risk of dying of a stroke by about sixty-two percent.
Green tea dilutes the blood and so can prevent unusual clot formation from occurring. The antioxidants within it also help to promote heart health by destroying the free radicals that are causing damage within the body.
It is believed that Green tea is also an aide in preventing cancers from forming. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate fights cancer. It is a powerful antioxidant that is believed to actually seek out and destroy cancer cells. This compounds help prevent the formation of new cancer cells so it may be able to slow down the course of some forms of cancer.
Research shows that a few cups daily will help in our fight against breast cancer, colon cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and tumors within the brain. Which is a kind of nice aspect of drinking this relaxing beverage.
Herb teas are unique in that they are blends of selected herbs, spices, fruits, or other plants, and generally do not contain caffeine. Herb teas are not made from the Camellia sinensis plant as are oolong black white and green tea.
Exactly How Do These Antioxidants Protect Me?
Green Tea is loaded with polyphenols which are powerful antioxidants. They combine with the free radicals within the body to make them stable, and unable to do cell damage, and this can reduce the effects of everyday aging.
Antioxidants are complete molecules that no matter whether, or not they donate one of their electrons to another molecule, they remain stable. Whereas free radicals are those molecules within our body that for one reason or another are incomplete. The free radicals desperately try to become complete by stealing electrons from complete molecules. Unfortunately when they do this, they then cause the donating molecule to become unstable and to in turn go off trying to make itself complete.
As this molecule steals an electron from another complete molecule, it is part of a chain reaction of damage among the molecules of cells which eventually results, in the death of those cells. The resulting death of human cells is how our aging process occurs. The more cells that die then the more our bodies show the effects of age and the more susceptible we become to age related illnesses like cancer, heart disease, arthritis and stroke.
Antioxidants slow this process down. When a free radical becomes stable by picking up an extra electron from an antioxidant, the chain of damage stops because the antioxidant molecule remains complete even after it has donated one of it's electrons. The aging process that would otherwise have occurred, does not.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
© 2008 Lorelei Cohen
Now That You Know the Facts Will You Drink it More Often?
I have tried several times to get in the habit of drinking green tea because of its many health benefits but could never get past the grassy taste. Thank you so much for letting me know about flavored green tea and for suggesting using an herbal tea to adjust the flavor!
I have always wondered how antioxidants work and why. That was an excellent explanation. Thank you so much!
Green tea is amazing, I definitely need to drink more of it. Thanks for sharing this lens!
Great product to tighten your waist up. Leaves you feeling a little bit tired in the morning, so be sure to take it for energy as soon as you get up!
That's why I love my green tea! Fantastic lens! Sundae ;-)
I love green tea. It's nice to know how healthy it is.
Very informative lens on green tea. I love tea and especially, green tea. BTW, I love your teapot collection...beautiful :)
I have begun drinking several cups of green tea on a daily basis and the heartburn I once had is gone! Also, I have fibromyalgia and many of the symptoms are either greatly reduced or have disappeared alltogether!
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I've never been a tea drinker, but I keep hearing all these great benefits from green tea. I really need to learn to like it.
I love green tea with honey and lemon. Been hearing about the benefits of drinking it for years. It doesn't have be expensive to get a cup of something that's healthy for us. Great article as always.
Never drink tea as I prefer cold drinks or coffee. However, I keep reading about green tea and its benefits, so am very tempted to try it.
I first tried green tea ordering chinese food, and I liked it. We never had green tea at home, mu mother was a big fan of the Earl Grey variety. I strill like green tea better, and have solid reasons for that now.
I love green tea and drink it daily (besides eating raisins *!* ) it's good for your health, and occasionally use the tea bag for cleansing my face.
Hello. I have been an adid white tea drinker for about 2 years. Thanks you for taking the time to make this lense sharing the benefits of green tea with others.
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For All the World to See Exhibit Now on Display
In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till of Chicago was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta. He was beaten, shot, and dumped in the river after reports that he had flirted with a white woman in the Delta town of Money. At the teenager's funeral in Chicago, his grieving mother insisted on an open casket so that all could witness the brutality of his murder, saying "Let the world see what I've seen." The publication of a black-and-white photo of Till's mutilated corpse in Jet magazine was a turning point in the American Civil Rights Movement. It was an image that sparked outrage on a national scale, a catalyst for an era of protests, political campaigns, and racial conflict.
The exhibition For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights examines the influence of visual culture and images like that of Emmett Till in shaping and transforming the struggle for racial equality by showing the world the realities of segregation and racial violence, inspiring activists, and fostering African American pride and the Black Power movement.
Supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other sources, For All the World to See was organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Curator Maurice Berger has brought together 250 objects—including photographs, posters, television and radio clips, political buttons, comic books, and toys—that track the development of the civil rights movement from the 1940s to the 1970s. Visitors can see images of Ku Klux Klan meetings and the historic Selma march, examine early issues of Ebony and Jet, and trace the evolution of the portrayal of African Americans in popular culture from Aunt Jemima advertising paraphernalia to the 1970s television show, Julia.
This exhibit will be on display January 28 through March 16, 2017.
For Tour information, call Amy Donohoe at 903-792-8681.
Some of the content in For All the World to See shows the graphic consequences of violence and racism. The graphic photograph of Emmett Till's open casket and some of the images may be disturbing to viewers of any age, and parental discretion is strongly advised.
The images are included because they were vital to the success of the modern Civil Rights movement.
You and your child will encounter sensitive encounter sensitive and graphic content as you explore the exhibit. Find the For Parents/Guardians guide for helpful conversation starters and reflective questions. To begin, consider these basic guidelines for approaching tough subjects:
- Use open-ended questions. Help your child find their voice.
- When confronted with a tough question, take your time. It is okay to say "I don't know" or "Let's find out together." Be sensitive to the fact that your own experiences with race and racism will play a part in how you answer questions.
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The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is leveraging space-based information to support government and humanitarian agencies in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region with timely information for flood early warning and inundation mapping. The efforts, which consist of developing a streamflow prediction system for flood early warning and of providing near real-time flood maps for disaster... read more
According to the International Disaster Database, floods and other hydrological hazards have claimed 15,000 lives and cost an estimated USD 396 million in Afghanistan between 1980 and 2015. Earlier this year, flash floods following heavy rains killed at least 60 people in the country's eastern province of Badakhshan.
United Nations/Islamic Republic of Iran Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Dust Storm and Drought Monitoring in the Middle East Region
International Charter and Copernicus Emergency Management Service activated for earthquake in Afghanistan
A joint project between DigitalGlobe and many volunteers has helped in the eradication of polio through mapping of villages in developing countries during vaccination campaigns. The mapping of the often isolated settlements was complicated and apart from analysing big data captured by satellites, DigitalGlobe had to rely on volunteers and crowdsourcing based on the Tomnod programme. The final result is a map covering 285,103 villages in Nigeria, Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
These maps are used to ensure that vaccination campaigns have the required data to search for everyone who needs to be immunized against the illness and know the amount of medical doses and human staff that ought to be sent. In the past two months polio was finally eliminated from the whole African continent after it disappeared... read more
An agreement signed by all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) states (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and India) is underway to promote a rapid response to natural disasters.
A Saarc monitoring system including tools for early warning system and risk... read more
In 2004 the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS) began working in partnership to rebuild the country's geologic science capacities. The goal is to monitor Afghanistan's water resources by applying modern techniques using global positioning systems, hydrology, water sampling and development of water resource databases.
During the first year of this partnership over 150 wells were inventoried creating a data subset. Today, the programme is successfully installed and 102 ... read more
UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office in Pakistan supported emergency response efforts following the massive landslide in Afghanistan on 2 May 2014. The experts prepared impact and damage maps for Ab Barek in the Province Badakhshan.
The maps depict an analysis based on SPOT 5 satellite imagery from 17 January 2014 received at SUPARCO's Satellite... read more
The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) made an appeal for greater support for disaster risk reduction efforts in the country.
As UN-SPIDER reported, the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters was activated over the weekend due to mudslides in the Province Badahkshan. Officials expect the death toll to reach over 500 people, 4000 are displaced.
Environmental degradation and the proximity of villages to landslides-prone area were the major factors influencing the scope of the disaster. "What happened over the week end in Argu is a lesson learned for all of us who are working to reduce disaster risk," said Mohammad Ajmal Karimi, ANDMA... read more
The International Charter: Space and Major Disaster was activated on 29 April 2014 by UNITAR/UNOSAT on behalf of UNOCHA. Heavy rain in northern Afghanistan caused flash flooding on 25 April, killed over 120 people and tens of thousands were evacuated.
In the provinces of Jowzjan, Faryab and Sar-e Pol at least thousand homes were destroyed, infrastructure and agriculture were severely affected. The area is particularly prone to flood.
Images and data products are already available on the International Charter's website.
For the first time, about 70 percent of a country has been mapped using an advanced remote sensing technique known as hyperspectral imaging. In order to assist Afghanistan in understanding their abundant natural resources, in particular the development of an economically viable minerals market, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations led an effort to fully map Afghanistan with hyperspectral data.
Airborne hyperspectral sensors measure light reflected from the earth. The... read more


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As well as providing the stupidest global warming solutions, we have also decided to include a list of global warming's deadliest effects.
#3 Offseting
The environmental equivalent of buying indulgences or paying for penance, offsetting is a misleading beast. Here's why:
• It is used to shift the emphasis onto others, who would never produce the equivalent carbon footprint.
• It's unregulated – you might be funding "carbon cowboys"
• It relieves you of feeling guilty, without actually making a difference, but hey we've all done it!
#2 Steorn's Orbo
A bit of background is needed. Environmental Graffiti reported how last year, Steorn, an Irish technology company made the claim that they developed a free energy technology. In August of 2006, Steorn placed an ad in the Economist to attract the world's leading scientists to try and disprove their technology. Several thousand scientists stepped up to the plate, yet only 22 scientists were chosen to prove its claims wrong.
However, at the first planned live viewing the supposed free and clean energy machine failed to work. Pretty lame, almost as bad as their name!
#1 Mimicking a volcanic eruption a.k.a. Chucking mounds of sulphur into the atmosphere
The idea is so crazy, that initially we thought it was a hoax, concocted in some watering hole, somewhere. However, we discovered the controversial theory in the National Geographic.
The idea is to pump particles of sulfur high into the atmosphere—simulating the effect of a massive volcano by blocking out some of the sun's rays and is idiotic for two main reasons:
• As well as reducing rainfall, the particles would cause a global drought aka environmental disaster!
• It would make the world smell of rotten eggs and look like the Matrix – yuk!
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WebV: Favicons no longer work in IE
- Article Type: Known Issue
- Product: Voyager
- Product Version: 7.1.1
- Relevant for Installation Type: Dedicated-Direct; Direct; Local; Total Care
* Internet Explorer cannot render favicons from pages served by VWEBV
Defect Status
Issue 16384-16897 / VYG-262 is resolved for Voyager 8.1.2 and higher.
Replication Steps
Using Chapter 15 of the WebVoyage Architecture Overview and Configuration Models "How Do I Display A Favicon?", attempt to add a favicon to WebVoyage:
1. Upload the favicon.ico file attached to this issue to your system, under /m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/ui/<skin>/images/
2. Edit frameWork.xsl (/m1/voyager/xxxdb/tomcat/vwebv/context/vwebv/ui/<skin>/xsl/pageTools/) and add the following two lines of code under the <head> section (line 72):
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{$image-loc}favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" href="{$image-loc}favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon " />
3. Save and close this file
4. Go to the OPAC in Firefox and/or Chrome, you'll see the favicon display when the page loads
5. View the same page in Internet Explorer, no favicon is displayed, but the blue "E" is shown in its place.
Category: OPAC
- Article last edited: 3/10/2015