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In science policy debates, there are increasing calls for the sustainable safeguarding and free accessibility of research data. An increasing number of public funding bodies expect that researchers make their data freely accessible.
EU project proposals, for example, must include a data management plan. Several publishers expect that research publications are complemented by the underlying research data which is to be made freely accessible.
The requirements from research funding institutions and publishers are described in the relevant "data policies" or other guidelines. Data policies typically focus on the safe storage, sustainable archiving, publication, identification, appropriate citation, and transparency of research data.
RWTH has published guidelines on the management of research data, which are available for download. Below, we present you with short summaries of the research data policies and requirements of selected publishers and funding bodies.
|Further Information
|German Research Foundation DFG
The DFG guidelines on research data management provide useful advice on project planning, the application process, and the provision and safeguarding of data.
|DFG Guidelines on Research Data Management (de)
|European Union
The European Commission has published the "Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020" and introduced a pilot measure for research data management, the so-called Open Research Data Pilot, which is relevant for seven research areas.
|Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020
|German Rectors' Conference HRK
The HRK has published recommendations for University executives, detailing how to give direction to the development of research data management. The brochure presents the developments and challenges from an organizational perspective and provides concrete instructions. Thus it offers guidelines for the development of RDM at universities and university consortia.
|Wie Hochschulleitungen die Entwicklung des Forschungs-datenmanagements steuern können. Orientierungspfade, Handlungsoptionen, Szenarien
Many publishers expect that academic journal articles are submitted – and published – together with the relevant research data. Typically, the publishers provide instructions for authors, such as the publication guidelines offered by the Nature Publishing Group.
|Publication Guidelines of the Nature Publishing Group
Funding Programs of the Federal and State Governments
Typically, the individual funding programs offer leaflets with information on desired or required research data management practices.
Checkliste zur Erstellung eines Datenmanagementplans in der empirischen Bildungsforschung (de)
BMBF: Empfehlungen zu Strukturen, Prozessen und Finanzierung des Forschungsdatenmanagements (de)
|German Council of Science and Humanities WR
In its recommendations on good academic practice, the German Council of Science and Humanities makes a case for a structured approach to the management of research data.
|Empfehlungen zu wissenschaftlicher Integrität (de)
|National Science Foundation
Since 2011, all NSF project proposals must include a so-called Data Management Plan, DMP for short. The applying researcher or institution must provide an overview of measures in place to secure an appropriate documentation, publication, and archiving of generated research data. For details, please refer to the NSF Data Sharing Policy.
|NSF Data Sharing Policy
Data Sharing
Unlike articles, book publications and conference contributions, research data are not always considered publishable. But there are several reasons to share research data:
Benefits for Reseachers
Transparency and visibility: if the published research data are clearly associated with a researcher, they draw attention to the researcher's output and, possibly, generate citations as well as requests for collaboration.
Follow-up use: The data can be used in the context of other research projects. Well-documented archived data allow efficient access and may provide the basis for new projects as well as synergy effects.
Further Informationen on Data Sharing
- Contribution in Deutschlandfunk: Wie Open Science die Wissenschaft verändert (de)
- Press Release of the European Commission: Commission Launches Pilot to Open up Publicly Funded Research Data


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That's why it's started offering consulting services on managing large volumes of data based on Apache's open source Hadoop. It has a package of services and Hadoop-based analytics that it calls BigInsights Core to enable companies to take the plunge in Internet-scale data volumes. It's also offering its own large volume, data management software, IBM BigSheets, using a large scale spreadsheet paradigm.
"Hadoop opens up a broader technology domain -- Big Data," said Bernie Spang, IBM director of information management product strategy, referring to the common appellation for masses of website, customer or RSS feed or Twitter message data, all of value to the business.
Hadoop makes no pretence of running transactions or functioning like a transaction-processing database system, with its stringent requirements for a two-phase commit. Rather, it specializes in filtering, sorting and managing either structured or unstructured data on a very large scale. After Hadoop has done its work, it's possible for data warehouses, business analytics systems and relational databases to work with a more manageable results set.
IBM made the announcement of Hadoop services at its Information on Demand conference in Rome May 19. These are not services from consultants at IBM Global Information Services but advisors from IBM labs and engineering. IBM is exploring how to help customers get a handle of information flows that can be measured in the petabytes, as opposed to mere megabytes, gigabyte and terabytes.
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Likewise, IBM said BigSheets, a browser-based data extraction, annotation and visualization system, was available May 19 in technology preview form. There is no date yet for when it will be a generally available, finished product, Spang said in an interview.
BigSheets was first announced Feb. 25. It is based on several open source components, including Hadoop; Nutch, a Web search and search indexing engine; and PIG, a high level language under development at Yahoo! for composing work that will be executed by Hadoop.
A key Hadoop brain trust, the start-up firm Cloudera, says IBM's entry into the Big Data field will have an impact on getting Hadoop adopted in the enterprise. "At Cloudera, we've seen incredible Hadoop uptake in mainstream enterprises… I see no end to the number of applications of this new technology. IBM's entry means more open source contributors will help expand the horizons for Hadoop," said Doug Cutting, Cloudera software architect and original author of Hadoop, while at Yahoo! He made the comments in an email message.
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Hyung Min Kim, who goes by Justin, is among a group of 14 students from South Korea that recently arrived at Central Washington University.
"People are so friendly," Kim said about the CWU community. "The professors are so passionate."
Kim plans to study mechanical engineering and eventually work in the aerospace industry. He hopes to land an internship with Boeing.
Kim and the rest of his cohort will finish their four-year degrees at CWU as part of the school's new 1+3 agreement with Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. The agreement was arranged through the KORUS (Korea-US) Education Institute.
Chung-Ang University is much busier than CWU, said Kim, who described the Ellensburg campus as cozy and peaceful. He learned English as a 6-year-old thanks to his father's passion for the language and for studying abroad. "My family loves for me to have a new challenge," Kim said.
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The 14 Korean students arrived at CWU on January 3 and are in various fields of study, including accounting, theater arts, aviation, marketing, business, education, and psychology.
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Marilyn Levine, CWU's provost and vice president for Academic and Student Life, greeted the students in her office last week. Together they sang a Korean soccer song and enjoyed homemade cookies.
"It is a special honor and a special joy to welcome you," Levine told the group. "I am very excited to see you."
Levine visited the KORUS office and traveled to Seoul to help arrange the 1+3 agreement between CWU and Chung-Ang University. Launius, who speaks Korean, helped recruit Chung-Ang University students to come to CWU. Bang-Soon Yoon, professor and chair of the CWU Political Science Department, also met with Chung-Ang University students and their parents about the program.
International students pay full out-of-state tuition of about $19,400 per year. They support the local economy by shopping at Ellensburg businesses.
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The value of studying abroad is being realized more every year. During the 2012-13 academic year, schools in the United States enrolled a record number of international students—819,644 throughout the country, according to the Institute of International Education.
Washington State is ranked 11th in the nation in terms of its number of international students. The state hosted 22,877 international students who spent an estimated $643 million statewide in 2013.
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Gen-i and enterprise application software company SAP have today announced a partner agreement for the delivery of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions to New Zealand businesses and Government. This is the first strategic mobile management partnership for SAP in the Asia Pacific Region.
The partnership will add considerable momentum to Gen-i's growth strategy by significantly enhancing the company's mobility capabilities, an area of relevance and value to New Zealand business and Government as they move towards a mobile way of working.
The rapid surge in adoption of smartphones, tablets and cloud-based social applications is driving significant social change, with users expecting ready access to information and the ability to work, conduct business, socialise, shop and play – anytime, anywhere and on any device.
Mobile applications play a critical role in enabling this. When combined with high speed networks, mobile service management, and cloud infrastructure, mobile applications can truly mobilise an organisation, delivering greater customer insight, engagement, collaboration and productivity.
The partnership between Gen-i and SAP can benefit both private and public sector organisations by improving access to mobile software applications.
Gen-i CEO Tim Miles says: "In today's increasingly mobile and data centric environment, our clients are looking seriously at mobility solutions and the benefits they can deliver to their organisations. This new partnership will enable us to leverage SAP's expertise in applications technology and integration alongside our Smartphone Network and Cloud capabilities, to offer end to end mobility solutions that are relevant to our market, and deliver real value to our clients."
SAP President and Managing Director ANZ, Andrew Barkla says: "We are excited to be partnering with Gen-i to bring even greater value to our customers and our customers' mobile users. Together we are unwiring business and empowering entire organisations to reach new consumers, improve core business processes and boost employee productivity."
Available on a subscription basis and hosted in high resiliency, in-country data centres, the new MaaS service will provide Gen-i clients with ready access to about 300 mobile applications on the iOS, Android, Windows and BlackBerry platforms.
Gen-i will also provide a custom application service through the wider mobile apps development community, deploying comprehensive solutions quickly and inexpensively while integrating with clients' enterprise systems. Gen-i partner Infosys will provide specialist support for installation of SAP's managed mobile services into the Gen-i cloud, and systems integration where required.
Through partnership with SAP, Gen-i will offer a unique portfolio of mobile applications for a wide range of business scenarios, including employee productivity and workflow, complex business processes and business to consumer engagement. Users will enjoy anytime, anywhere access to view, edit, share, and collaborate on personal and business content, via easy-to-use, native mobile applications.
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Debo Band On World Cafe
The 11-member group from Boston known as Debo Band has a sound influenced by the traditional music played in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the late '60s and early '70s. This style, labeled "Addis swing," came about amid the cultural freedom of that period, before a military coup put an end to the era. Ethiopian-American saxophonist Danny Mekonnen, who was born in Sudan and grew up in Texas, founded Debo Band, which released a self-titled album in July.
Debo Band combines American funk, brass-band music, R&B and rock, all filtered through Ethiopian soul to produce a unique, jazzy mix. The group has toured Africa twice, appearing at both the Ethiopian Music Festival in Addis Ababa and Sauti Za Busara in Zanzibar — the largest music festival in East Africa. (The band is currently touring the U.S.) In this session of World Cafe, Mekonnen talks about the golden age of Ethiopian music, and Debo Band performs a few of its songs live.
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John Lamberton Harper. American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 347 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-83485-8.
Reviewed by Kevin R. C. Gutzman (Department of History & Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University)
Published on H-Diplo (July, 2004)
Against the Ideologues: Hamilton as Machiavellian
John Lamberton Harper's new book on Alexander Hamilton promises to examine the career of the notable American revolutionary and founder from a comparative perspective. The book's title oversells the point, however, as this is more a positive account of Hamilton's statesmanship than a thorough comparison of General Hamilton to the Florentine politician and political scientist.
Hamilton is much in vogue among historians and political scientists these days, just as the supposedly conservative congressional majority considers removing his image from American currency. By Harper's account, Hamilton is a fit symbol of Republican realist foreign policy thinking, especially as contrasted with Democrats in the period from McGovern through Gore, and Harper thinks Machiavelli a close analogue to Hamilton in outlook and approach.
Why do I say, then, that Harper's account is sympathetic? Consider this: "Hamilton's ideas and achievements entitle him to a sustained revival of interest in his life, a rank second to none in the national pantheon, even a monument of his own" (p. 276). Other recent accounts of Hamilton, such as Karl-Friedrich Walling's fine Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government (1999), never reach quite this level of breathlessness despite their overall sympathy for their subject.
For Harper, Hamilton's opponents, particularly Thomas Jefferson, stand for reckless optimism, for ignorant wishfulness elevated to the status of principle. Hamilton, on the other hand, resembles Machiavelli in his reasonableness, in refusing to be bound by any dogma; in other words, Hamilton is anti-ideological.
The Hamilton of Harper's account is best captured by this evaluation of the Report on Manufactures:
"Overall, the report suggests that, aside from national security considerations (and despite the reading later given it by Friedrich List and others), Hamilton was not a doctrinaire, but a rather reluctant mercantilist and advocate of domestic manufacturing.... The context, as well as the content, of the Report clearly indicate [sic] that (with the important exception of arms and munitions) the West Indian emigrant [sic] viewed encouraging U.S. manufactures as a lever to push British policy in a more liberal direction, and to counter Jefferson's confrontational strategy, as much as an end in itself. The beauty of Hamilton's proposal was that it would bring pressure to bear on Britain gradually and indirectly, without unleashing the kind of devastating trade war that would follow from the Madison-Jefferson approach. Not only that--and the report was quite explicit on this point--the manufacturing areas of the United States would themselves constitute an emerging market for American food production. The agricultural South would find itself less dependent on foreign markets and less inclined to see its interests as being in direct conflict with those of Britain than was presently the case" (p. 96).
The Report on Manufactures, then, should be understood as a brilliant response to an array of problems, foreign and domestic, not as a predetermined outgrowth of its author's predilections. Hamilton, then, was a man of action, of deeds, not of the salon and the study (though he certainly excelled at theory as well as at action).
This version of Hamilton differs from Walling's in its roundedness. For Walling, Hamilton's overriding concern was with the United States' ability to defend itself; he shared this fixation with others, notably George Washington and John Marshall, who had slogged through the war underfed, poorly housed, and short of money. For Harper, on the other hand, Hamilton emerges as a far more thoughtful man, one willing and able to respond to the situation at hand. Jefferson, by contrast, seems both unusually prone to court military confrontation, for which the country is unprepared, and doggedly determined to see to it that lack of preparedness continues to be the government's leading attribute. The Sage of Monticello was thus, in Harper's apt phrase, "a gambler with an empty bank account" (p. 87).
Perhaps the account of 1790s American foreign policy most like this one is the now-classic Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1990) by Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson. Although that older volume's point of view is Jefferson's, its approach is distinctly Machiavellian/Hamiltonian, in Harper's sense. As Harper puts it, Hamilton was certain that the United States must ultimately be part of the European diplomatic system, like it or not. Not for him, then, the fanciful Republican agrarian idyll of the Virginia political elite. In the end, of course, as Henry Adams noted more than a century ago, the War of 1812 vindicated the Federalist approach to foreign policy, and thus Hamilton's statecraft, by exploding all the key Republican political nostrums. A new government capable of playing the Europeans' deadly game had to be patched together quickly, because other conflicts were bound to come, Hamilton believed; if the United States was found unprepared, the result might be humiliation, disaster, or both.
In several instances, Harper demonstrates that Hamilton took the prudent, Machiavellian course. Thus, in the Nootka Sound crisis, Hamilton counseled that, lacking the ability to prevent British forces from crossing American territory, the federal government must consent to their passage. Hamilton's counsel in this instance followed Machiavelli's explicit advice. Jefferson, on the other hand, would have refused any such request, despite the likelihood that national humiliation and British anger would follow, as a British government that made such a request seemed certain to cross American territory despite denial of permission. Harper's consideration of the American response to this episode clarifies the leading actors' roles nicely; one is left with the distinct impression that President Washington was wise increasingly to trust Secretary Hamilton's advice in the area of foreign policy, as in most else.
The book repays a reading, then, for a slightly different appraisal of Hamilton than has been published before. It is not shockingly novel, but its nuance is enlightening.
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'Grown Ups' take their places in Mass.
Town will be filled with "Grown Ups" for an extra day, as filming for the Adam Sandler comedy continues today near Pilgrim Congregational Church.
Funeral scenes being filmed for the Columbia Pictures movie, "Grown Ups" were expected to wrap by now, but producers have asked for an extension on their contract with the town.
Filming for the movie, staring Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Norm MacDonald and Salma Hayek, began last Monday. The movie is about high school friends who return home for their basketball coach's funeral.
After Southborough, filming will move to Essex, a Cape Ann town near Gloucester, where the actors will be shooting scenes until mid-August.
Selectmen last night met to extend a license and location agreement with Lakefront Productions for use of St. Mark's Street, a portion of the Town House parking lot and the island at the intersection of St. Mark's and Common streets through today, with cleanup slated for Thursday.
The town will get an additional $1,330 for the extra day of filming, a pro-rated amount on top of the $20,000 agreed upon for the company's original contract from May 11 to 26, said Town Administrator Jean Kitchen.
The production company will be making a donation to the Woodward School for use of a portion of its facility and parking lot.
Superintendent Charles Gobron said the school is getting a $10,000 donation.
"On the whole, it's been a wonderful experience," Gobron said. "Lots of kids have seen the stars. They've been great."
Pilgrim Congregational Church, where scenes were shot outside and inside, is getting about $25,000, church officials said.
Tuesday, fans lined the stone wall on the eastern side of the Old Burial Ground cemetery, craning for views of the stars as scenes were shot outside the church.
Julie McHenry, 20, a Southborough resident who attends prep school in Newton, said she'd been coming to the set after school since filming started last Monday. She'd gotten a few pictures, but no autographs yet.
"I think it's cool they're filming at my church," she said. "It's my last week of school, so no homework - I have time to come down and hang out."
Dan McSweeney stopped with his daughter, Rylie, 3, to see if he could get a picture of some of the actors. McSweeney said he's driven past the area every day between his Framingham home and work at Verizon but had yet to stop until Tuesday.
"Having something like this is big for the town," he said. "Kevin James - he's probably the funniest out of all of them. If I get a picture, I get a picture."
Algonquin Regional High School sophomores Renee Roy and Alyssa Borelli, both 16, were hoping to get autographs. Borelli said she came to the set Wednesday through Friday last week and had gotten a picture of herself with Schneider.
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Forest nursery school in London lets kids explore
LONDON — In the heart of north London lies the ancient Queens Wood, a green forest hidden away in a metropolis of more than 8 million residents. The sounds of the city seem to fade away as a group of children...
LONDON — In the heart of north London lies the ancient Queens Wood, a green forest hidden away in a metropolis of more than 8 million residents. The sounds of the city seem to fade away as a group of children plays in a mud kitchen, pretending to prepare food and saw wood.
These aren't toddlers on a play date — it's an unusual outdoor nursery school, the first of its kind in London, following a trend in Scandinavia, Germany and Scotland. It allows local children to learn, and let their imagination run free, completely surrounded by nature.
"I knew it would be a really great environment for him and great for him to have focused time outdoors with teachers who are trained in forest school ideology." said Zoe Slotover, as she dropped off her 2-year-old son Hector.
The "Into the Woods" nursery was opened in April by primary school teacher Emma Shaw for children from two-and-a-half to five years in age. She said the natural environment works wonders.
"Children learn through movement and from doing things," she said. "So everything is practical and hands-on outside, so the learning comes a lot more naturally as we don't have to set up opportunities for them to problem-solve and risk-take because they are all here and they can set their own challenges, which boosts their self-esteem."
Each morning a group of children gather at the Queens Wood camp, which the nursery team prepares each morning before the children arrive. A circle of logs provides a place to gather for snacks, stories and songs. The mud kitchen provides an opportunity to make a proper mess and have a sensory experience, a rope swing provides some excitement and a challenge, and several tents are set up for naps and washing up.
In a clearing in the woods, a fallen tree trunk can be transformed by imagination into a rocket train, calling at the beach and the moon, with leaves for tickets.
A 2-year-old, Matilda, finds a stick — but in her mind it's not a stick. It's a wand. She says she is a magic fairy who can fly. Then suddenly the stick has become a drum stick, and a gnarled tree stump her drum. She taps away contentedly, the rhythm all her own.
The children attending the London school wear fluorescent reflective vests and are encouraged to use items they find in the woods like leaves, seeds and sticks to count and draw. The children will go out in most weather, except for high winds.
"In very cold weather the children will be dressed up warmly and remain active," the nursery's website says. "We do have the option of going indoors, with plenty of space to play and learn. But yes, mostly we will be outdoors."
London is significantly warmer than New England; the average temperature outdoors even in January is 43 degrees.
Forest schools are increasing in popularity in the United Kingdom, with many schools offering short courses for children to spend time outdoors, building dens, climbing trees and exploring.
University of Reading Professor Helen Bilton, who advocates more outdoor play, said the benefits are clear.
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Bristol Toyota moving to larger facility on Route 6 in Swansea
SWANSEA — Bristol Toyota is moving to Route 6, the better to serve Toyota owners in Fall River, Somerset and Swansea, owner Ed Veader said.
The dealership, now located at 706 Metacom Ave., Bristol, R.I., has begun work to relocate to the former Baker Tractor site, an 8-acre lot at the corner of routes 6 and 136 in Swansea.
"We are still waiting to get all the site work completed so we can go in and start the process for the permits we need," Veader said..
"We are hoping to get through the permitting process quickly. Once the permits are approved, we are told it will take six to eight months to build the facility."
Bristol Toyota is part of a realignment of the Fall River market that began with the closing of South End Toyota, the former Fiore Toyota, 1480 S. Main St., Fall River, late last year.
Toyota USA reassigned the market areas for local dealerships. Premier Auto, of Hyannis, which owns Newport Toyota, expanded that dealership and Bristol Toyota also got the corporate green light to grow.
"My new market area includes a portion of Fall River, Somerset and Swansea as well as my original market of Bristol and Warren," Veader said.
"This is a great spot for us. It is right off the highway and it is only 4 miles from our current dealership.
"It is convenient for all of our existing customers and will be convenient, too, for people in Fall River and Somerset."
Bristol Toyota/Scion is currently located on 3.5 acres in a 13,000-square-foot building with 10 service bays. All of that will be expanded, Veader said.
The new building will be about 40,000 square feet with 25 service bays and a larger service writing.
"Our market area became larger, so the facility has to be bigger," Veader said. "We hope to sell a lot more cars and serve more customers."
Bristol Toyota employs about 45 people now, Veader said. The new facility will employ at least 60, possibly as many as 80, he said.
Veader bought the dealership 27 years ago. The business goes back almost 50 years, to when Toyota first began moving into New England.
"We've been a Toyota President's Award Dealer for 26 years," Veader said. "There are less than 10 dealers in the country that have done that. No one in New England has.
"So I'm not planning to make a lot of changes."
Veader said he hopes to get the permits completed and the facility built within a year. He hopes to be working from the new building by this time next year, he said.
"We are a little closer to where my father started out in the business, in 1951, at Seekonk Auto Sales," Veader said. Ed Veader Sr. taught the business to his son, Ed Jr. He is not the only Veader on the lot.
"This is a family business," he said. "My wife is here, and so is my daughter and my son. My grandson started here a few weeks ago, so we have four generations in the car business.
"In fact, 90 percent of the time, someone from our family is here at the business," Veader said. "We are all looking forward to the new facility."


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More than 50,000 people have already voted ahead of five federal by-elections being held on Saturday.
Early voting has been most popular in the Queensland seat of Longman, where 22,060 people have already cast a ballot, just days out from polling day – up 20 per cent on the same period at the 2016 federal election.
In the South Australian seat of Mayo, 13,003 people have already voted, with 6580 turning out in Tasmania's Braddon.
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Time for some trailer analysis! While we didn't get to see too much of the new Zelda, the short footage we saw was still jam-packed with small stuff that was easy to miss. I mean, let's be real, most of us were busy thinking about how amazing the grass looks now and such.
Thankfully, GameXplain has gone ahead and picked out all sorts of details from the trailer, including:
- How time of day/day cycles might work
- Small details in the initial footage, like villagers/villages, goat herders, pillars, windmill weather vanes, lookout points, lakes, forests (and what they might contain)
- How we might've already seen our first temple and Hyrule castle itself in the distance, as well as Death Mountain
- How it seems like there are destructible environments
- What we can learn about the big monster that attacks Link
- Inevitably, there's stuff here about how Link might be a girl, or at the very least not Link at all.
- What the footage potentially tells us about Link's origin in this game
- How you might have special horse moves, and how the horse might carry inventory
- What we can tell about this world's seemingly futuristic tech
- How the game seems like it takes some inspiration from Princess Mononoke (!) - so they theorize that perhaps Link also end up exiled and cutting off his ponytail.
The last point is obviously blatant speculating but they make a pretty good case for it. If nothing else, I'm certainly impressed by all the things they pick up on here. Eagle eyes!
Zelda Wii U - Trailer Analysis (Secrets & Hidden Details) [GameXplain]


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The Shorecrest bed & breakfast is known in many circles as the single most beautiful, centrally located, and relaxing country style inn in the state. Certainly the miles of pristine beaches, acres of farmland and close proximity to Orient Point State Park, Shelter Island , the Arshamomaque inlet and preserve, the Audubon headquarters and preserve and other parks and wildlife refuges have added to the allure of this location.
Not only does the Shorecrest offer world class four course dining experience with the gourmet breakfast served in the elegant formal dining room each morning but also difficult to top customer service.
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If you are looking for a quiet, cozy getaway with room to explore the natural settings and beautiful landscapes in the area, the Shorecrest bed & breakfast is the perfect destination. Bike and kayak rentals are available not far from the inn and along with that slower pace you'll find yourself swept back to another time where life moved more slowly, and you can savor the company of friends and loved ones.
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Loose Leaf
- AuthorBae, Wona & Lawler, Charlie
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Observe nature, be inspired by it and start experimenting. These are the tenets upon which Loose Leaf was created by botanical designers Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler. In their stunning book, Loose Leaf, they show us the many ways we can get creative with nature. It_s filled with ways to bring the beauty of nature into our homes and our lives. Each chapter is dedicated to design with different natural materials such as cut flowers and foliage, sculptural medium and living plants. 10 projects explore the full range of Wona and Charlie's unique sculptures and botanical installations. In each project they show us practical ways to get creative with nature, including how to make items such as seasonal wreaths, hanging gardens, organic sculptures as well as the secrets behind their signature Monstera chandeliers. Loose Leaf harnesses the belief that by bringing the outside in through design with natural material such as plants and flowers, you can realise the importance of nature and learn its nobility. It showcases earthy and inventive flower and foliage arrangements for your home with basic information on the types of vegetation that work together harmoniously. From your own backyard to urban roadsides and far-flung coastlines, Loose Leaf_s incredible botanical art will kick-start your own ideas and creativity.


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This past week, the Arizona State Bar Association (SBA) held its annual convention. It appears that the ban on my participation is still in effect.
It was exactly ten years ago that the session in which an academic paper I was scheduled to present on the application of international law in conflicts in the greater Middle East was abruptly cancelled just two weeks before its scheduled presentation at the 2003 convention. No one in the organization's leadership could explain anything objectionable in the paper, which they acknowledged they had not actually read, but were apparently convinced by a right-wing campaign that I was "anti-Israel" and "anti-American."
They have refused to allow me to give the paper at any of their subsequent annual meetings, including the one last week. It is highly disturbing that the level of intolerance and censorship in the post-9/11 political climate is still so strong that even a state bar association actively suppresses scholarly analysis that raises legal questions regarding the policies of the United States and its Middle East allies.
The Initial Banning
In December 2010, I was invited by Steve Doncaster, chair of the World Peace through Law section of the SBA, to present a paper for their panel at the SBA's annual convention in June the following year on the topic of the application of international law to contemporary conflicts in the greater Middle East, which I accepted. As a political scientist specializing in international relations of the Middle East, I have put considerable attention on important questions of international law in that volatile region.
I became aware late that spring that some right-wing ideologues in Arizona started spreading – through e-mail and other means – the false accusation that I was somehow "anti-Israel" and should therefore not be allowed to present my paper at the SBA. (Concern was also expressed about another participant on the panel, Palestinian-American attorney Joseph Abooleely, who was preparing a paper regarding Israeli violations of international humanitarian law in the occupied territories.) I did not respond, however, since the charges against me were so ludicrous that I did not imagine that a prestigious body like the SBA could possibly take them seriously.
I was apparently wrong, however. Rather than bringing these concerns to my attention and inviting me to respond, it appears that outgoing SBA president Ernest Calderon blindly accepted these preposterous charges as true.
Just two weeks before the scheduled convention, Mr. Calderon demanded that the panel be reconstituted to include, in his words, at least two "pro-Israeli" speakers. Mr. Doncaster – in consultation with other members of the WPTL section – refused, noting that it was never the intent of the program to be focused on a debate about Israel to the exclusion of the many other important issues that were to be addressed. No one I have contacted at the SBA has been able to tell me of any other time when an SBA president has demanded that a section leader reconstitute a panel on political grounds.
In response to Mr. Doncaster's refusal to politicize the panel, Mr. Calderon cancelled the panel. This was after I had bought my plane tickets, arranged accommodations and significantly altered my summer schedule in order to take part. The SBA board approved the president's decision the following week, so I was unable to present my paper at the SBA, for which I had taken many hours out of my busy schedule to prepare.
The charges that I was "anti-Israel" seemed rather bizarre since I had long supported Israel's right to exist in peace and security with its neighbors. A simple search of the Internet would have revealed that I have been frequently subjected to criticism by individuals who really are anti-Israel and I have even been heckled at speeches and lectures by those who accuse me of being a "Zionist."
My paper prepared for the SBA convention did identify violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention as well as non-compliance with a series of UN Security Council resolutions by the government of Israel in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. However, the paper also identified similar violations by Moroccan occupation forces in Western Sahara, Turkish occupation forces in northern Cyprus, and U.S. occupation forces then occupying Iraq. The section on Israel was no more than 20% of the paper and it addressed the issue solely from the perspective of international law, not of the controversial political or ideological questions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There are certainly differing interpretations of international law as there are of Constitutional law or anything else, but my analysis was well within the mainstream of international legal opinion. Despite this, they were apparently were convinced it would be some kind of anti-Israel polemic. The only written work of mine regarding Israel of which the SBA leadership was apparently aware when they decided to bar me from speaking was a small excerpt from an analysis on U.S.-Israeli relations that someone circulated as supposed proof of my "anti-Israel bias" in which I noted the growing controversy over U.S. support for the Israeli government in the face of well-documented violations of international humanitarian law. In that same article, I discuss Israel's legitimate security needs and ways to more effectively counter the threat from terrorism, yet this was not mentioned in the email circulated among the SBA leadership.
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I do not single out Israel for criticism on the subject of international law or anything else. I was then completing my book on Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony and the subject to a landmark 1975 decision by the International Court of Justice. I had recently had chapters included in two edited volumes on the subject of Indonesia's brutal 24-year occupation of East Timor and I had organized a major conference on the topic in San Francisco in 1997. I had recently spent time in Cyprus and was well aware of the humanitarian impact and legal implications of that island's partition by Turkish occupation forces. Just months before that year's SBA convention, I was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Tibet Justice Network, a San Francisco-based organization led by human rights attorneys, where I addressed the importance of international solidarity for those struggling against China's oppressive occupation of that Buddhist nation.
I have no bias against Israel or any other country. I do admit, however, to a bias in favor of international law and in opposition to the invasion, occupation and colonization of one country by another. That would not seem to be an unusual or inappropriate bias to have for participants in a panel organized by the World Peace through Law section.
The SBA's Rationale
The SBA justified banning me from speaking at their annual convention on the grounds that its by-laws state that section panels must not be "political or ideological in nature." However, despite subsequently sending copies of my paper to the SBA board and officers and repeated requests for feedback, no one in the SBA has ever been able to cite anything about it that was political or ideological in nature. It is also important to note that it was the SBA president who demanded that the WPTL panel be reconstituted to include additional participants whose roles would be not to analyze the application of international law in Middle Eastern conflicts, but to defend the policies of a particular government. In other words, it was the SBA that insisted the panel become politicized, not me.
The SBA's acting executive director Robert Van Wyck told me that their cancellation of the seminar was "not meant to imply anything about the nature of your planned presentation, your credibility or your scholarship." This fails to explain, however, why the SBA president insisted that the panel add at least two "pro-Israel" speakers to the panel. Since the third panelist, Professor Leslie Rose of the Golden Gate University School of Law, was presenting a paper on Afghanistan and did not even mention Israel, that left only Mr. Aboleely and me. If Mr. Aboleely's presentation was the only problem, and the SBA was really concerned about "balance," Mr. Calderon could have insisted upon Mr. Doncaster adding only one "pro-Israel" speaker to the panel.
In response to the criticism following the cancelling of my presentation, the SBA claimed it was because I had not submitted by support materials for my paper prior to the deadline. However, at no point did I receive any indication that not getting my support materials in sooner would prevent me from speaking at the conference. Indeed, I was explicitly told that the only implication of turning them in late was that I would be responsible for copying and distribution. In any case, to my knowledge no other speaker at any SBA convention has been barred from presenting their paper because they submitted their support materials late.
In the period between Mr. Calderon's initial decision to bar me from speaking and the meeting of the executive committee of the SBA board reviewing the decision, I sent a detailed letter to the board members outlining my paper and challenging accusations that I was anti-Israel and that my presentation was political or ideological in nature. The SBA board, however, like the SBA president, apparently was not interested in what I was actually planning to say at the panel, but simply wanted to take the word of some right-wing zealots who falsely claimed that I would be giving some kind of anti-Israel polemic and voted to bar me from speaking.
The World Peace through Law Section ended up renting a room in the resort complex where the convention was being held, but the SBA director informed me that my presentation could have no affiliation with the State Bar or the World Peace Through Law Section, that the SBA would not cover my airfare or other expenses and that I had to clearly state that the presentation was not affiliated in any way with the State Bar and the World Peace Through Law Section. Under such conditions, I refused to take part.
Each year subsequently, I have requested that I be allowed to finally present my paper, or an updated version thereof, but to no avail. The SBA only allows presentations under the auspices of recognized sections, however, and the chastened World Peace through Law section apparently now considers me too controversial to include in their seminars.
It appears, then, that the State Bar Association of Arizona has effectively determined that it cannot tolerate any speakers at its annual conventions raising legal questions regarding the policies of the United States or its allies in the Middle East. A precedent has now been established that individuals with a right-wing ideological agenda can launch a campaign to defame a scheduled panelist at a state bar association convention and the bar will accept their characterization of the participant and his/her presentation without giving the target of such attacks an opportunity to respond.
It is extremely disturbing that a state bar association, which presumably has an interest in defending the right of free expression, would prevent me and the other panelists from presenting our papers at its convention because of their presumed political content. For if raising legal concerns about certain policies of Israel's right-wing government can be interpreted by a prestigious body like the State Bar of Arizona as being "anti-Israel," it would follow that raising legal concerns about certain policies of the of U.S. administrations would therefore be "anti-American." In other words, the justification for canceling this panel is based upon the false presumption that challenging the legality of particular policy decisions by a government is rooted in an ideologically-driven bias against the country and its people as a whole.
Indeed, one of the e-mails circulated about me just prior to the SBA's decision to ban my participation quoted some excerpts from a commentary I had written for an on-line publication expressing my opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq and challenging the official rationales from the Bush Administration. The e-mail demanded that I or another panelist be replaced by someone who can "explain why the United States fully complies with international law" or otherwise supports U.S. foreign policy.
This raises the possibility that the decision by the SBA to ban me from speaking at their convention was not because of anything I might say that would be "anti-Israel," but that by allowing a paper to be presented where the analysis was based on objective international legal criteria, the fallacies and double-standards utilized by the Bush Administration and, subsequently, the Obama administration, in their attempts to legally justify its policies and the policies of its allies would become apparent. Perhaps the SBA felt it was important to make sure that the legal community in Arizona not be exposed to information that might question the legal basis for U.S. policy in Middle East.
Even more disturbing is that when the SBA president cancelled the panel and prevented me from giving my paper, he told Mr. Doncaster that he was doing so in response to demands from the "Jewish community." Ironically, I have given a number of talks before "the Jewish community" at meetings of national and local Jewish organizations, in synagogues, and campus Hillel chapters, and have generally been well-received. I am on the advisory board of the predominantly Jewish Tikkun community, have led workshops on combatting anti-Semitism, and have been invited by a number of prominent rabbis and other Jewish leaders to speak before Jewish audiences.
This raises the rather disconcerting possibility that the SBA is falling into the old anti-Semitic tactic of "blaming the Jews" rather than take responsibility for its decision to ban a paper because it raises questions regarding the legality of certain policies by the U.S. government and its allies.
Those who are uncomfortable hearing about violations of international law by the United States and its allies in the Middle East should work to convince these governments to change their policies, not silence those who point them out. Otherwise, it is simply a case of "killing the messenger" to ban those who want to analyze important contemporary issues of international law. These need to be part of the public debate within the legal community, even if some people with ideological affinities toward certain right-wing governments do not like these questions being brought out into the open.
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In a really perverse way, first impressions were not unlike the opening lines from Will Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure game on the PDP-11. But rather than those impressions being this …
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.
.. my first impressions were this …
You are standing in a gap between concrete buildings south of the equator. The sun beats down. Around you is a mass of similar buildings with corrugated iron roofs. A small stream flows in a gully between the buildings. The stream is made up of water and human waste. A river tries to flow nearby, but it's blocked by tons of rubbish and what water there is is black and bubbles noxiously. The smell is overpowering and overwhelming. People live here.
But this isn't a game and this place really exists. It's called Tandale and the polite way of referring to it is an unplanned development. Tandale is almost a city in its own right. It occupies a small area to the North West of Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam. Tandale is an enclave, surrounded by the growing suburbs of Dar es Salaam. In 2002, a census showed there was a population of just over 45,000 people living here. Now, towards the end of 2012, the number must be much much higher.
There really is a river running through the centre of Tandale and it really is full of rubbish and waste, both industrial and human in origin. There's also a thriving market and a massive open rubbish tip where children play and chickens and goats wander. That a market exists in the midst of Tandale is impressive enough but makes sense, after all, people have to eat. But when you then consider that Tandale market supplies food to a significant amount of the city that surrounds and encloses it. Tandale and Dar es Salaam as a whole have a uniquely symbiotic relationship. There is much irony here.
Surrounded by parts of Dar es Salaam which show no sign of moving out of the way, Tandale has very fixed borders and is growing by the day. It has nowhere to grow but inwards. So the buildings edge ever closer to the river and the rubbish tip. Look closely and you can see plastic bags and other pieces of trash poking out from underneath the buildings and you soon realise that the rubbish tip used to be much much bigger and Tandale is cannibalising itself, building on the only open land there is. The rubbish tip itself.
Tandale really exists and my descriptions over the last few paragraphs aren't in the abstract, formed from impressions gleaned from second hand conversations and research on the interwebs. Those descriptions are real, first hand experience, because at the end of November 2012 I stood in the heart of Tandale, letting all of these impressions wash over me.
There's an old cliche about a life changing experience, but cliches end up as such because they're often based in fact. I can say hand on heart that visiting Tandale was one of those very life changing experiences and not, as you might first think, in a bad way at all.
I stood in the middle of Tandale because I'd been asked by Mark Iliffe and The World Bank to be a judge at the Sanitation Hackathon in Dar es Salaam, or
#BongoSafi as the event's Twitter hashtag described it. Bongo Safi is Swahili for Clean Tanzania, but more about that in a later post. The Hackathon had a strong community theme and a strong mapping theme and was aimed at tackling several problems that places like Tandale suffer from, one of which is what is politely termed open defecation. As a judge, Mark thought it would be a good idea if I actually saw with my own eyes the problems that the Hackathon would be trying to solve. A good idea. That is possibly the understatement of the decade.
You see, most houses in Tandale don't have toilets, let alone a sewerage system to connect the toilet to. In fact, most houses don't have a water supply. Fresh water arrives inside the sort of tanker you'd be more used to seeing used to carry petrol in British or in the US and from the tanker, the water ends up in massive black plastic tanks where people can buy fresh, clean and safe water.
There are some public latrines, but like most things in Tandale, they've come to be in an ad-hoc, organic, unplanned fashion. But there's not enough of them by a long long way.
There are also some wells, but they too have come to be in an ad-hoc fashion. They're either too close to the latrines but even if they weren't, the ground water is so polluted and contaminated that the stuff that comes out of the wells may have a composition that's high in water, but you can't drink it. It's an opaque liquid that, if you're lucky, doesn't smell too bad. But as drinking water costs, this grey water, as it's locally called, is what you wash in; your clothes, your eating and cooking utensils and yourself.
And that open defecation? That's what happens when there's not enough clean and private places to perform that most basic of human function and that's why there's rivers and streams of very human origin running in the open air between the buildings.
Tandale opened my eyes and broke my heart in so many places. There were so many examples of things which were just so damn foreign, but the one that I think will live within me forever, is seeing two of the most beautiful children I've seen, who were roughly the age of my children, sitting together playing. Squeals of delight echoed off of the walls that surrounded them and as I approached, they both looked up and smiled big, warm, welcoming smiles. Their toys? The remains of what looked like a broken bottle.
I mentioned earlier that there's an immense amount of people living in Tandale. It's these people that not only broke my heart but also made me fall deeply in love with the place. The warmth and welcome that I received from everyone I met was at once an amazing and humbling experience. Whilst I'm sure that my guided tour around Tandale meant that I didn't meet the less desirable members that any society has, but from early in the morning to late at night, not once did I feel unsafe or insecure. I was certainly regarded with curiosity but never once felt that that curiosity was backed up by anything that could be construed as a threat.
As an unplanned settlement, Tandale has now been mapped. It needed to be. You don't need to be familiar with the tale of John Snow tracking down the source of a cholera outbreak in London's Soho in the 1850's to realise that the combination of contaminated groundwater, building on a rubbish tip and unplanned latrines and wells in close conjunction to each other is a recipe for human suffering on a scale we simply don't see where I live in London or even in the United Kingdom as a whole.
But as Tandale is unplanned, it keeps growing, keep changing and keeps morphing. This means that the map of Tandale is a never ending, growing living thing and with help, Mark and the Tandale Mapping community keep doing just that.
This isn't so called crisis mapping in the strictest sense of the term. Tandale doesn't have the high profile media coverage that Kibera in Nairobi and Haiti have been the beneficiaries of.
Maybe chronic mapping, community mapping or just humanitarian mapping is closer to the spirit of what is trying to be achieved in Tandale.
Tanzania and Dar es Salaam in general opened my eyes. Tandale changed my life, thanks to Mark and Msilikale Msilanga. I want to go back and do what I can to help the humanitarian effort in that corner of the Tanzanian capital. I hope it won't be too long before I can do just that.
This post has been over two weeks in the writing and it's still not right. But I don't think it ever will be. I beg your indulgence for the slightly rambling discourse that you've just waded through; I'm still trying to process what Tandale is and what it's done to me and probably still will be, right up until the moment I set foot there again.
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Hi Gary
You have opened my eyes, you can't imagine I am living in Dar es salaam since 2006 but believe me I have never been in Tandale before. It is realy a sad news for all of us, especially I am about to become a public health officer soon after completing my MPH program in 2014, here in Brunei.
Thank you for being part of sanitation improvement in my country Tanzania.
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