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(In this guest post, Ritwika Sharma examines one of the more contentious issues of the NJAC challenge – the "eminent persons" who will form part of the proposed judicial appointments commission)
As part of the new Article 124A, which details the composition of the National Judicial Appointments Commission, Article 124A(1)(d) envisages the presence of two eminent persons on the NJAC, who are to be nominated by the committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha (or the Leader of the single largest party Opposition Party, as the case may be). The proviso to this clause mandates that one of the eminent persons shall be nominated from amongst the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Minorities or Women.
Article 124A, insofar as it envisages the inclusion of two eminent persons in the NJAC, was repeatedly attacked for being vague and for the lack of any guidance regarding their selection. Further, the petitioners contended that the presence of the eminent persons on the NJAC would be violative of the independence of the judiciary insofar as the executive, with the support of the eminent persons might act as a structured bloc to block an appointment.
As a response to the petitioners' contentions, a three-pronged argument is being adopted to defend the presence of eminent persons on the NJAC:
First, the presence of eminent persons on the NJAC is intended to perform a specific objective. The argument that eminent persons would collude with the Law Minister is based on the supposition that the NJAC would function as an aggregation of three distinct blocs. Rather, the NJAC would function as a collective wherein a specific function is envisaged for each of its members. While the judiciary would be expected to assess legal acumen, the Law Minister would be best equipped to assess the character, conduct and antecedents of a candidate. Eminent persons would make significant contributions in the following manner in assessing the suitability of candidates:
1. The presence of eminent persons would bolster public confidence in the judiciary. They would ensure that perspectives of the citizenry, who are the ultimate consumers of justice, are also taken into due consideration, and that there is higher sensitivity to the issues of the public. That was the intended purpose for their inclusion in the NJAC, succinctly summed up in Mr. Parasaran's observation in the Rajya Sabha Debate on the Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill, 2014 (which was ultimately passed as the 99th Amendment):
"People, who are litigants before the court, are represented by two eminent persons."
A similar view was voiced in regard to the presence of "lay persons" on the various consumer fora under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. The Supreme Court, in Indian Medical Association v. VP Shantha, (1995) 6 SCC 651 placed reliance on a study by Prof. Robin CA White, In the Administration of Justice (2nd Edn.) where he observed that "apart from their breadth of experience, the key role of lay members would be in ensuring that procedures do not become too full of mystery and ensure that litigants before them are not reduced to passive spectators in a process designed to resolve their disputes." [as quoted in VP Shantha at para 34]
The Court further held in VP Shantha –
"In the matter of constitution of the District Forum, the State Commission and the National Commission, the Act combines with legal competence the merits of lay decision-making by members having knowledge and experience in dealing with problems relating to various fields which are connected with the object and purpose of the Act, namely, protection and interests of the consumers." [para 34]
Public confidence is imperative for our judiciary, particularly in light of its powers of judicial review which are largely unparalleled in the world. Eminent persons are intended to be members of the public, presumably detached from the rigours of the legal profession. Their presence on the NJAC creates a direct stake for the public in the appointment process and ensures to them that the judges so selected would be sensitive to their interests.
2. Eminent persons add relevant inputs to the NJAC which would be essential to assess various qualities expected in a judge. The qualities required of a judge are wide-ranging, not all of them bearing an impact on his role as an adjudicator of disputes. Judges are expected to have certain qualities with regard to their conduct in the public sphere as well, whereby they should be compassionate, conscientious and insulated from all kinds of class biases. It can be nobody's case that only judges are competent to asses such qualities in prospective candidates. Eminent persons can bring in necessary fresh perspectives in this regard. Additionally, the presence of eminent persons breeds diversity in the NJAC and by necessary implication, in the appointments made. Eminent persons facilitate a participatory appointments process and bring in plurality of viewpoints. The United Kingdom (UK) leads by example in this regard where the Supreme Court selection commissions are to consist of at least one non-legally qualified member, while the Judicial Appointment Commission (JAC) comprises 5 lay members. The presence of lay persons on selection panels finds justification in a report on Judicial Appointments, prepared by the House of Lords Selection Committee on the Constitution (2012):
"For the judiciary to be solely responsible for the appointments process would risk undermining the promotion of diversity and ultimately, public confidence in the judiciary. Furthermore, the appointments process is enhanced by the involvement of lay persons who can bring a different perspective to the assessment of candidates' abilities. It is therefore important that selection panels include a mixture of judicial and lay representation." [para 67]
Thus, diversity in a selection/appointment commission is expected to percolate into the appointments eventually made by such body. The importance of diversity has also found enunciation in Registrar General, High Court of Madras v. R. Gandhi and Ors. (2014) 11 SCC 547:
"Appointments cannot be exclusively made from any isolated group nor should it be pre-dominated by representing a narrow group. Diversity therefore in judicial appointments to pick up the best legally trained minds coupled with a qualitative personality, are the guiding factors that deserve to be observed uninfluenced by mere considerations of individual opinions. It is for this reason that collective consultative process as enunciated in the aforesaid decisions has been held to be an inbuilt mechanism against any arbitrariness." [para 16]
It is also indecorous to say that eminent persons being non-judicially or non-legally trained would be unable to assess candidates on the qualities requisite of a judge. It is reasonable to assume that these eminent persons would be ably guided by the Chief Justice and other judges on the NJAC in his functions. Yet again, the NJAC is to be viewed as a collective where each member would facilitate the other in assessing relevant qualities of the candidates placed before it.
3. Eminent persons will act as a check against arbitrary exercise of power by any of the other members on the NJAC. They would be truly independent individuals who approach the appointments process from a detached standpoint. It was repeatedly argued by the petitioners that the Law Minister with the support of any one of the two eminent persons can potentially block any appointment. On the contrary, their non-alignment with any of the other members on the NJAC would make them vigilant against any purported collusion to steer or block an appointment, acting as a much-needed check and balance.
Evidently, eminent persons would serve an important purpose on the NJAC, eventually bettering the quality of judges who would be appointed.
Secondly, the process for nomination of eminent persons comes with in-built safeguards and abundant guidance. Their appointment is to be made by a committee comprising high constitutional functionaries. In the Lok Sabha Debate on the Constitution (121st Amendment) Bill, 2014, Minister for Law and Justice, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad noted on the role of this selection committee:
"The Prime Minister of India, the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of the largest Opposition party cannot select the two best eminent persons! Trust their wisdom. Regulations are there, but trust their wisdom. I am sure, if a person is the Prime Minister of India, if a person is the Chief Justice of India, if the third person, the Leader of the Opposition – who knows it may be you as well on behalf of your party – ultimately decides to sit and exchange note, then let us trust their collective wisdom. This collective wisdom would reflect upon the quality of appointment being made…."
A constitutional trust attaches to the position of these functionaries and a presumption exists that they will come together to appoint persons of independence, integrity and competence. The principle of constitutional trust was applied in the context of appointments by the collegium in Mahesh Chandra Gupta v. Union of India, (2009) 8 SCC 273 in the following words, and the same should apply to appointments by the NJAC as well:
"….At the end of the day "trust" in the decision-making process is an important element in the process of appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court and the High Court, which, as stated above, is the function of an integrated participatory consultative process…." [at para 83]
Additionally, the presence of the Chief Justice of India is a sufficient safeguard to ensure that persons who will add value to the process of selecting the most appropriate candidates for judicial office would be selected as "eminent persons" on the NJAC. In fact, the argument that one of (or both) the eminent persons would collude with the Law Minister is in utter disregard of the constitutional trust attaching with the offices of these high constitutional functionaries. It proceeds on the assumption that a committee which also consists of the Chief Justice would choose a political appointee who is vulnerable to the influence of the Law Minister, thereby simultaneously casting aspersions on various branches of the government!
Lastly, and on a purely factual basis, it is argued that even previous reform proposals which have recommended a judicial appointments commission for India comprising "eminent persons" have done so without laying down any stated criteria for their selection. This is in response to the petitioners' contention that the 99th Amendment does not lay down any guidelines/criteria for nominating eminent persons. The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution (Venkatachaliah Commission) proposed an appointments commission comprising the Chief Justice of India, 2 senior-most judges, the Law Minister and 1 eminent person, a model which was advocated by the petitioners themselves on several occasions. The eminent person on this commission was to be appointed by the President in consultation with the Chief Justice of India. Notably, no criteria had been prescribed for the selection of such eminent person in this model, which was modified and adopted as the Constitution (98th Amendment) Bill, 2003. The same holds true for the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2013 which envisaged a commission with two eminent persons who were to be nominated by the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. These two reform proposals, along with others, were taken into due consideration by the Parliament while passing of the 99th Amendment. None of these prescribed any criteria for the selection of eminent persons on the appointments commission.
The 99th Amendment has clearly not devised a legislative innovation insofar it speaks about the presence of eminent persons on the NJAC. In any event, the 99th Amendment and the NJAC Act provide a skeletal structure for the establishment and constitution of the NJAC. Specific details with regard to the nomination, qualification, removal, et al of the eminent persons can be gradually formulated. A challenge to the 99th Amendment on the grounds invoked by the petitioners seems misplaced. In light of the above, it is argued that the presence of two eminent persons on the NJAC is not per se violative of the independence of the judiciary.
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Ramblings: Updates on Byfuglien, Jones, and Zuccarello; Kyrou and Fabbri; Muzzin Traded; Blue Line Production – January 29
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Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice told reporters on Sunday that Dustin Byfuglien hasn't resumed skating so to not expect him back this week. The Jets play their final road game of their broken-up trip on Tuesday night before returning home for three contests. We'll know more this weekend.
Taylor Hall was not skating in the game-day skate with the Devils on Monday morning.
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Mats Zuccarello was not on the ice for the Rangers on Monday. They have him listed as day-to-day with a foot infection but isn't expected to play Tuesday. He should be available later this week.
While I'm on the topic, the likely trade of Zuccarello is an interesting case of expectations. At present time, he has 24 points in 35 games but is playing on a very good top line and top PP unit for the Rangers, often cracking 20 minutes a night. Let's say he gets traded to somewhere like Calgary or San Jose, where does he slot? Does he get 18 minutes a game? 17? 15? What about his power play ice time? It could be a case where, fantasy-wise, having him stay put might be the best thing for his fantasy owners. Be careful what you wish for.
Shayne Gostisbehere was a late scratch Monday night, taking warm-ups and then leaving. He has a lower-body injury but it's not expected to be severe. He could be back in a few days.
As mentioned before the break, the Sens are expecting Colin White back in the lineup this weekend.
On the topic of the trade deadline, it appears that the Flyers are prepared to trade just about anyone. There are a lot of very good pieces on this team so hopefully Fletcher doesn't just blow it up.
The Lightning expect Tyler Johnson to suit up for the team on Wednesday, having missed the team's game just before the All-Star break.
Seth Jones was not at Columbus practice on Monday but is expected to play Tuesday night. Just in case he's not, Zach Werenski was on the top PP unit with Ryan Murray on the second unit.
We got a pretty significant trade during the games last night as defenceman Jake Muzzin was acquired by the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for prospects Carl Grundstrom and (unsigned) Sean Durzi, as well as Toronto's first-round pick this season. It appears he'll slot right alongside Morgan Rielly immediately.
You can read Dobber's take on the trade here.
It was a beatdown in Pittsburgh as New Jersey came flying out of the break for a 6-3 win. The game wasn't as close as even that score would indicate. Travis Zajac had a monster game with one goal and three assists. Blake Coleman chipped in a goal and an assist as well.
Zajac's huge performance aside, Coleman is having a great season in leagues counting hits. He's now up to 18 goals, 29 points, nearly three shots per game, and over 130 hits after posting seven in the victory over the Penguins. I wrote about him last offseason and why he was a gamble worth taking this year. All that was true then is still true now, just with a bigger sample to work with.
James van Riemsdyk continued his hot streak Monday night, scoring the insurance marker in Philadelphia's 3-1 win over Winnipeg. That makes eight goals and 10 points in his last 10 games. Be careful though: he's not shooting a lot just yet. He's only had 20 shots on goal in those 10 games, shooting 40 percent in the meantime. This is a guy who's averaged three shots on goal in multiple seasons, including just last year. It's a tricky situation for fantasy owners.
Carter Hart made 31 saves in the win.
Let's take a few minutes to review Jordan Kyrou.
Sunday night, Kyrou participated in the AHL All-Star skills competition, posting the third-fastest lap in the history of the fastest skater competition. I wasn't watching, but I saw the tweets and that led me to this thought:
quick fantasy hockey tweet: Jordan Kyrou is the guy you should be fishing for in dynasty leagues as the trade deadline approaches.
— Michael Clifford (@SlimCliffy) January 28, 2019
As of right now, Kyrou is a point-per-game player in his rookie AHL season with 28 points as a 20-year old. What's even more special about that is how bad the San Antonio Rampage are: he leads the team in points despite playing 15+ fewer games than much of the roster, and the team being the sixth-lowest scoring team in the league. He has high-end speed, which isn't enough in itself, but he's a high-speed playmaker as well, and that separates him from a lot of players in my mind. He's needed every bit of that speed and playmaking to have as much success as he has on a team so devoid of top-end talent.
The question for me is where Kyrou fits once he sticks with the big club. They have Vladimir Tarasenko, Jaden Schwartz, and David Perron all locked up for at least two more seasons after this one. Perron is capable of playing the left side if they so choose. If they decide to leave Perron on the right, Kyrou might be stuck on the third line for the time being.
All the same, this is about the lowest you'll be able to pay for Kyrou for the foreseeable future, I think. He's in the AHL and has already had an unsuccessful stint in the NHL. Maybe the Kyrou owner in your deep keeper or dynasty league is frustrated, or maybe he/she is looking for help this year to push for a title. It's time to go fishing.
While on the topic of St. Louis wingers, don't give up on Robby Fabbri yet, either. It has been a brutal 2018-19 season for him with just five points in 23 games, often finding himself either in the bottom-6 or a healthy scratch. Let's be honest, though, it's been a bad year for almost anyone in a Blues uniform to this point. If you didn't draft Ryan O'Reilly or David Perron, you're probably disappointed with your Blues selections.
But let's not forget that over his first 123 regular season games from 2015-17, Fabbri had the same primary points per 60 minutes at five-on-five (1.37) as Mark Stone, and higher than names like Zach Parise, Patric Hornqvist, Tomas Hertl, and Jordan Eberle. It's his first season after missing a year and a half with knee injuries and he just turned 23 years old last week.
This is basically a lost season for Fabbri but it's also an important one. He's back on the ice and has avoided catastrophic injury. That's a win. Like Kyrou, his value will probably never be cheaper again in deep keeper/dynasty leagues than it is right now. It's worth at least checking in with the Fabbri owner.
In my Ramblings last week, I intimated that there would be a discussion on defencemen, and more specifically, production from defencemen. Let's start that discussion.
Production from the back end is something I've written about for years here on Dobber. It's mainly due to the changing nature of the game and the evolution of the position, even as recently as the last five years. Blue liners are required not only to defend their net and blue line, but start the attack, and do so by carrying the puck or passing to the correct outlet. The days of glass-and-out are long gone.
For reference on what I've written in the past, in these Ramblings from April I discussed shot shares, in this one we reviewed goal shares at five-on-five and on the power play, while a third one covered changes in peripheral stats. Those are just a few of the Ramblings that have pored over different types and different levels of fantasy production from the back end going back years.
I wanted to go over scoring from the back end again here today.
Let's start with something simple: how many 40-point defencemen have there been every season since the 2013 lockout campaign? It's an arbitrary cut-off to be sure but fantasy owners often use it as a barometer for who is and who is not useful for fantasy purposes. These are the tallies (all from Hockey Reference):
# of 40-point d-men
Season 2013-14 through 2016-17 didn't see a whole lot of change, with the number of 40-point defencemen hovering around 25, give or take a couple. That exploded last season to 30 rear guards, but that shouldn't be a huge surprise given that scoring in 2017-18 was the highest it had been in a decade. Given that scoring is up again this year, we'd assume more defencemen would crack 40 points, right? Well, as of Monday afternoon, we had 27 defencemen in the NHL with at least 40 games played this season and averaging 0.49 points per game (which is 40 points in 82 games).
So, are defencemen producing less from the blue line? Well, it's not so simple.
Again, as of today, we have 27 defencemen on pace for 40-point seasons (games played depending), which is fewer than we'd expect. However, we do have three defencemen on pace for point-per-game seasons: Morgan Rielly, Mark Giordano, and Brent Burns. Only one defenceman was a point-per-game blue liner over any of those five seasons in the table (Erik Karlsson had 82 points in 2015-16). So far this season, we have eight defencemen having played at least 40 games while averaging 0.85 points per game (70-point seasons). From 2013-2018, we had just six instances of a defenceman cracking 70 points, and the only guy not named Erik Karlsson or Brent Burns to do so was Victor Hedman in 2016-17 (72).
In summary, at least to this point of the season, we're seeing a decline in the number of players on pace for 40-point campaigns compared to 2017-18 (which was a five-year high) but we're seeing a big uptick in players at the upper-end of the production spectrum. Just think about it: if current paces hold, we'll have more defencemen crack 70 points this year (8) than in the previous five seasons combined (6) while having fewer 40-point defencemen (27) than last season (30) and as many as 2014-15. It's quite the paradox.
That's it for today on defencemen but this conversation is far from over. The reason for having higher highs from blue liners but fewer 40-point guys is confounding. I'm sure there's a logical reason for this but I want to be a bit more thorough so I'll continue on Thursday.
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"Distractingly Hot"
The sound of the door crashing shut came through the wall, followed by a muffled "oops". Morgan lowered their tablet and set it on their chest, then pushed themself up to a more proper sitting position on the couch. The stiffness in their back told them they had been slouching lower and lower this entire time.
Minsoo came into the room, still wearing his bag. "Hey, Morgan," he said cheerfully. "How was your day off?"
Morgan levered themself up to a proper sitting position as Minsoo plopped into the big stuffed chair. "Pretty good," they said. "I went to that big book sale by the Marina, got some ice cream." They paused. "Only checked my work e-mail once. Twice."
"You went to a book sale," said Minsoo.
Morgan squinted. "Yes…"
"You went to a book sale and now you're reading on your iPad."
Morgan laughed. "Yeah, yeah. Rub it in, but I was in the middle of this one already."
"I'm not saying anything." Minsoo held up his hands, "I'm just saying—"
"'I'm not saying anything but I'm just saying'?" Morgan laughed again.
Minsoo tried to glare but grinned instead. "Okay, fine." He finally pulled his bag off over his shoulder and set it on the floor next to the chair. "Are we still going to Kelly's thing tomorrow?"
"Hm." Morgan thought for a minute. "Yeah, I don't think I have anything going on."
"That's good," Minsoo teased, "considering you spent all of today doing nothing."
"Hey!" Morgan shot back. "I walked there."
Minsoo raised his eyes. "Really? I stand corrected." He grinned again. "I sit corrected."
Morgan groaned. They moved the tablet from the couch to the end table, then sat back against the cushions. "And how was your day?"
"Really weird, actually!" Morgan raised their eyebrows at Minsoo's animated voice. "I had to talk with a coworker today that I'd never met before." Minsoo paused and Morgan looked over. "And I gotta say…she was hot. Like, to the point of being distracting while I was looking at her screen."
"'She'?" Morgan tilted their head in mock surprise.
"I know, right? It's not like this has never happened with guy coworkers, but this is the first time I've had it with a woman."
"First time ever?"
Minsoo absently rubbed his eye with the heel of his hand. "Not the first time I've ever been attracted to a woman, no. I mean, come on." He gestured in Morgan's direction. "It's not like I'm shocked or anything. It was just surprising. I haven't felt that way in a while."
Morgan shook their head. "Dude, why are you telling me?"
"Because she was hot?" Minsoo grinned.
"All right," Morgan said, getting up. "See you tomorrow then." They headed for the hall and heard Minsoo snigger behind them.
So Morgan being genderqueer has actually been known/planned all along. There's a common criticism of non-default characters being included in stories, that they're added as a "token gay/black/trans character" and aren't really people (i.e. full characters) in their own right. The fact that I deliberately chose to make Morgan genderqueer very early on in designing the character makes me at least partly guilty of this.
The reason I did it, though, was so that I, the writer, could practice using singular "they", not in an active sense of one character referring to another, but in the passive, background, unquestioned voice of narration. Calling Morgan either "he" or "she" would be incorrect, and "it" can't be used for sentient beings in American English. People have tried to come up with alternate pronouns, but none of them stick. Ergo, "they"; that's who they are.
(I've written about pronouns before, but it was before I even knew non-binary gender identities were a thing. Even then, however, "they" seemed like the inevitable choice.)
I'm at a point where I'm completely comfortable using "they" for an abstract person, like "the user should not have to enter their password" or "knowing when you have a good roommate: they make food for you". When it comes to a specific person, however, I still find it a bit awkward. So this scene was practice…and yes, it still doesn't quite feel natural. I kept finding myself using
normal binary pronouns for Morgan instead of "they", and "themself" still sounds weird even though there's not really anything better.
So, more practice necessary. If you tell me you prefer they/them, however, I will use they/them to refer to you from then on. And since I think it's the way we're going, and should be going, you can refer to me as they/them as well if you like.
Also, Morgan using they/them has been planned all along…but the two roommates didn't actually give me any more story ideas after the inaugural "Writer's Block". The point of making these characters reusable was so that I could practice using "they" in the narration, but that just didn't happen. So I'm glad I managed to get a bit of an idea before the end of NaCreSoMo.
Oh, and if you didn't figure it out there Minsoo generally identifies as gay, which is why him noticing a female coworker is unusual.
The part of the story that's actually story—Minsoo's part—actually happened to me today, though for me it was a man catching my attention.1 It was an interesting experience simply for being unusual; noticing a coworker this way has happened to me before but only with women.
Of course, attraction isn't a binary thing, something that should be obvious given people who identify as bisexual. (Or asexual, for that matter. Side note: "asexual" has the best nickname, "ace".) But even for people who identify as "straight" or "gay", some attraction outside of those boundaries seems entirely reasonable. Well, as much as you can apply "reason" to human attraction at all.
I remember being surprised when a friend who calls herself "lesbian" said she'd been on a few dates with men recently, but she pointed out that (a) the lesbian dating pool isn't necessarily that big, and (b) attraction isn't binary; she was sometimes attracted to men as well. In retrospect that matched my own experiences just fine.
(I don't want to say "attraction is a spectrum" because of people like Morgan. An awful lot of people fit into the Western gender binary; most of them are cis. But there are still people who don't, and pretending they don't exist would be wrong. And certainly people can be attracted to them.)
In conclusion, trans Pokémon.2
And no, this is not why middle school Morgan was wearing a hoodie, although maybe it should have been.
Part of NaCreSoMo 2015.
…when I'm generally attracted to women. At such a high ratio that I wouldn't (and don't) call myself bisexual. ↩
Originally seen on Twitter, drawn by thelilnan, reblogged in the Tumblr way to Pokemon Trans Version. ↩


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The current study is to investigate the aqueous humor lymphocyte subsets to aid in diagnosis of acute anterior uveitis.
In this study we collected aqueous humor sample through a limbal paracentesis under aseptic precautions in 25 patients presenting with acute anterior uveitis due to various causes which included viral anterior uveitis, presumed tubercular anterior uveitis, ocular sarcoidosis, idiopathic anterior uveitis and controls (senile cataract). Flow cytometric analysis was done on these samples to establish CD4/CD8 ratio.
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The NEUTRON-1 mission will measure low energy neutron flux in the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment in efforts to gather new science data. The data gathered by a 3U CubeSat platform can contribute to understanding the complex relationship between Earth and Sun through mapping neutron abundances LEO. In combination with data obtained by other spacecraft and ground-based measurement stations, we will evaluate the variability of galactic cosmic radiation as a function of solar variability.
We will pay attention to unusual neutron abundances in relation to solar flares, solar particle events, and disturbances of the Earthʻs magnetic field. We will also evaluate our neutron data for potential application in space weather characterization and radiation safety. The proposed neutron flux detector design is based on established detection methods, but will be miniaturized to fit within a CubeSat payload envelope. In addition to the science, this first mission can provide flight heritage for further development of CubeSat based neutron detectors.


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The Western Cape has been declared a disaster zone for the worsening drought and everyone is looking to save water in various ways. While residents are seeing their gardens brown and plants die from the lack of water, there are certain gardens that are just too important to wither.
These are the sustainable food gardens at various community projects across the Western Province that need the produce to feed those in their care.
One such project is Lily Haven Place in Bonteheuwel which relies on their vegetable garden to provide meals for the almost 120 elderly men and women they look after. Beetroot, cabbage and spinach are just some of the crops that Lily Haven can't afford to lose.
In partnership with Urban Harvest, a social enterprise which builds and sustains edible gardens, the Shoprite Group helped Lily Haven care for their garden by installing a grey water system.
The residents collect their bath water in a bucket after which it is sent through the purifying system. It then goes into another bucket and is drawn into the sprinkler system.
The water is audited by Urban Harvest to check the quality. The system works through three filters including a wetland filter which leaves the water clear and suitable for microjet irrigation and vegetables.
Xolela Mbilini, manager at Lily Haven Place, says the vegetable garden is vital as the organisation doesn't have enough funds for the meals they need to provide. The menu for the day is dependent on which of the garden's vegetables are ready to harvest.
The grey water system was a brilliant initiative because we need to find a way to keep the garden running without using precious drinking water. - Xolela Mbilini
Not only will the system help Lily Haven to adhere to level 4 water restrictions (instituted by the City of Cape Town) to save water, but reusing water for irrigation will also lower their monthly water bill in the future. According to Ben Getz, from Urban Harvest, the newly installed system has the capacity to reuse 4 500 litres of grey water per month, ideal to water the food garden.
The Shoprite Group and Urban Harvest also partnered to help with the installation of another grey water system at Iris House Children's Hospice in Stikland. Iris House care for special needs children with life-threatening illness and or life-limiting conditions and provides support to their families.
As part of the continuing effort to reuse grey water, Iris House is committed to using only biodegradable detergents.
Sue van der Linde, Founder of Iris House says:
We now have plenty of water for the vegetable garden. Children attending the hospice sessions enjoy the hearty meals cooked from the vegetables harvested from the garden. Leftover fresh vegetables (there are always plenty) are then sent out to our families in need. This is often the only source of fresh vegetables these families have.
For the Group, this is part of our commitment to being a business with heart and continuing to #ActForChange to support our communities. These food gardens are key to our sustainable solutions to fighting hunger.


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Recently, Nisha Katona posted one of her trademark YouTube video guides. This one involves the jolly lass stalking the aisles of a local Indian supermarket, demonstrating that, where the store is miles away from one of the 'big 5's anodyne outlets, this place earns its super-superlative on other merits. The chaotic space hums with life and shelves groan under the weight of their haphazard bounty – as Nisha points out, bindis butt against bhindi, sindoor succeeds saboodana.
And there's nowhere I'd rather shop. Whether it's a Bangladeshi butcher hacking up bhekti fish with a bandsaw, or a Mauritian guy measuring out my Maldives fish powder, all life really is here. I've seen children filching Amrood candies and crying out for kulfi, young newlyweds seeking succour in pre-made masalas just like Mum makes, and, most touching, an ancient Indian war veteran in a wheelchair chattering away in Hindi to his Memsahib.
An Indian supermarket makes your pulse race, particularly when you're shopping for said pulses. Tinned, dried, split, whole, powdered; these staple foodstuffs are cheap as chips and far, far more nutritious. Those ridiculous titchy jars of dusty spices that barely do a recipe's-worth are replaced with packets in weight denominations from hundreds of grams to multi-kilo sacks. A detective's eye and a rudimentary knowledge of names in Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi and Urdu is a Godsend.
The fruit and veggies are a loose bunch, their wanton nature working to your advantage as you snap up a smidgen of a strange squash or a singular specimen of some un-encountered oddity. I'm not usually a gambling gal, but more often than not my bets have paid delicious dividends. Neon-bright fresh turmeric – lemony, gingery and musky – lifts a dish and the spirits; earthy, broad papdi beans are now my favourite veg on Earth; and I'd not like to be without that Sylheti citrus, the shatkora.
Although the odd loser does end up languishing in the dark recesses of the kitchen. I've never come round to the alleged delight of the beautifully nubbly and awfully bitter karela, or found a use for a strange masala I bought purely for its esoteric ingredients. But I'm more than willing to be swayed and shown the way if you're game. Offset against regular procurement of vast bunches of coriander, methi and dill, four to the pound, the occasional bitter pill of failure is easy to swallow.
If you don't live within betel-spitting distance of one of these wondrous emporiums, I'll wager you're green with envy. Talking greens, I couldn't neglect to mention the forest of seasonal saags – mustard greens, cassava leaves, spinaches perpetual and arrowhead; bright green cardamom sharbat syrups; pistachio kulfi; fat, glossy chillies; bars of the essential Chandrika soap; fresh paan; burfi in rainbow hues. I can sing a rainbow, you can sing a rainbow, too, if you step though these doors.
Even in 'non-food' there's a meaty meal to be made out of eating up Bollywood gossip magazines, browsing for bright bangles, and digesting the latest DVDs. Forget L'Oreal, I get my red head from Royal's henna, 'cause I'm worth it. At the tills, check this out: this supermarket even functions as a gym. Balancing buckets of Basmati and carting ten-kilo tubs of yogurt onto the conveyor dispenses with any need for Superman-style workouts. Super. Now, what's for supper?
Anything I could care to conjure with the loot from my sensational supermarket. An orchard of fresh produce; meat prepared to my behest; seafood preserved in an icy coat; an ocean of ingredients spilling off newly-replenished storecupboard shelves… The world is my oyster. In fact, an oyster's about the only thing I don't have. Whilst I ponder, perhaps a paratha or a shingara from my pack of frozen snacks. Or two. Stuff Sainsbury's – that's how you go from mere market to sheer superpower.


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From left to right: The regimental inhaber Herr Colonel Heinrich von Heide along with his standard bearer and trumpeter. These are going to be a fun bunch of figures to paint and a nice change after all of that white-coated infantry last spring and summer.
Imagine! The nerve! So, obviously I have had a couple of hours to myself this evening. And what better way to spend that spare time than working on some RSM95 wargaming miniatures.
Just a little bit of painting on the first three figures tonight: green bases, the faces, and a quick coat of Liquitex black acrylic paint on the horses and tricornes. I like the blue-black of this particular color -- very suitable for noble cuirassier steeds. It dries quickly with a nice sheen and a stretchy surface, so it stands up well to handling and doesn't flake off of metal or plastic figures. An added benfit of Liquitex is that it helps prevent the black gesso undercoat from rubbing off the ears and muzzles of the horses plus the boot toes of the troopers before I finish everything and slap on a couple of protective coats of Future/Klear acrylic floor finish.
So, only about 60 minutes of work this evening while listening to Croatian Radio on shortwave -- in Croatian, English, and Spanish no less -- but it's really amazing what you can accomplish in a week's time if you make yourself sit down for an hour or two each evening. Marathon painting sessions can be very productive and a great deal of fun, and I certainly enjoyed them at 17 or 18, but I suspect that consistent regular painting is far more productive and produces faster results.
The great love of my life, the fair Grand Duchess Sonja, and I are of to the Chicago suburbs tomorrow to visit. . . Yes! The fantastic mid-blue and yellow IKEA!!! Always a fun trip and after ABBA, Gustavus Adolphus, and our old grad school friend Helena up in Minnesota, possibly Sweden's greatest contribution to the world! ;-)
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For Our Veterans
Irvine's dual process for locating a Southern California Veterans Cemetery
By Mayor Christina L. Shea
Last July, the Irvine City Council directed staff to study two City-owned properties – the Amended and Restated Development Agreement (ARDA) site and the Golf Course site, located in the Orange County Great Park, for the location of the long-awaited and highly anticipated Southern California Veterans Cemetery. Both properties are within the historic boundaries of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station (El Toro MCAS). There is broad consensus this cemetery is needed and should be within these historic boundaries.
Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva's recent bill (AB 368), expressly designates the ARDA site as the only location the State of California will consider for this promised final resting place for Orange County veterans. This bill is in conflict with the dual site review process the City authorized; even worse, the bill caused the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) to refuse to take steps to analyze the cost and feasibility of any site other than the ARDA.
The ARDA site, according to the State of California's own Department of General Services (DGS), would require $91 million to remediate and to begin the initial phase of construction. In contrast, Irvine staff concluded the Golf Course site would require approximately $59 million or less to remediate and begin construction using the same costing methodology as that of DGS – a cost savings to California tax payers of approximately $30-40 million!
Since July 2018, both sites have been reviewed by the City of Irvine's Planning, Transportation, and Finance Commissions. City staff have shared major differences between the locations at the public Commission meetings. The ARDA site has 77 buildings requiring demolition and possibly environmental remediation – the Golf Course site has no structures. The ARDA site has acres of former El Toro MCAS concrete runways and taxiways that must be removed and appropriately disposed of – the Golf Course site simply needs to dispose of the already demolished runways and taxiways. The ARDA site has not been through the 12-18 month environmental review process – the Golf Course site has.
Notwithstanding, the demolition and environmental differences, the ARDA site is bifurcated with a major access road (Cadence Boulevard) between residential homes and Portola High School. This thoroughfare violates the guidelines of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, who the State of California expects will provide significant funding for the cemetery. We believe this concern needs to be resolved by CalVet before the City makes a determination on a final location. The Southern California Veterans Memorial Park and Cemetery should be a final resting place for California's veterans free of traffic disruptions.
The City of Irvine is willing and ready to partner with CalVet; however, all potential roadblocks should be resolved, all financial responsibilities should be identified, and full funding by the State must be guaranteed before any designation by the State is suggested.
I have invited Governor Gavin Newsom to come to Irvine and tour both sites at his convenience – this invitation is extended to any state legislator weighing in on this matter. Decisions affecting local government control should not be made blindly and without full transparency and disclosure.
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Yeah, it's early but then December is right around the corner so if you love getting involved in the COYER events well — December 1, 2019, to March 7, 2020, is now ready to take off!
You can access the sign-up page through that graphic over there <– OR using this link COYER WINTER WITH FRIENDS 2019.
Be sure to check out the rules in this year's event, there are a couple of additions, a bit of a twist so head over to that sign-up page to get all the details. I have so many books on my e-reader that easily qualify as free, under $2 (usually those 99¢ deals) that I just haven't found (read that as made) the time to get to… so this is the perfect time for me. I'll bet for you, too.
Hmmm… one book to recommend – cost, age of the book doesn't count for this one, but this is truly hard because there are so very many. Okay, I'm going to go with LOST AND FOUND SISTERS by Jill Shalvis. It's heartbreaking, heartwarming, a touch of real life, and that unique bond that sisters truly have (even when they don't think so). That's my choice.
I'll be putting together my list of the books on my Kindle that I really want to get read for myself and for this event. I'll update this post when I've got that list complete – accountability I'm finding is my friend, even if I'm only accountable to myself (and my written words). 🙂 Have fun with the COYER Winter with Friends event!


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Sutter, California's 'first dog,' dead at 13
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown's dog, Sutter, a fixture at the state Capitol used to soften Brown's image and promote his political causes, died Friday, Brown's office said.
The Pembroke Welsh Corgi was 13.
Sutter's death was widely expected after the discovery of cancerous masses in his intestines, lymph nodes and liver in October. But after being treated at a Sacramento-area animal hospital that month, he returned home and appeared with Brown around Sacramento in recent weeks, including on Election Day.
Asked about his dog by a fellow passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight in December, Brown said he was doing well despite a "belly full of cancer."
Brown adopted Sutter from his sister, Kathleen Brown, when Kathleen, a former state treasurer, moved out of state after Jerry Brown's election as governor in 2010. The governor's office referred to him as California's "first dog," promoted him on social media and used the animal in get-out-the-vote efforts.
Kathleen Brown told the Chicago Tribune in 2012 that Sutter "humanizes my brother, makes him more approachable."
Deborah Hoffman, a Brown spokeswoman, said in an email that Sutter's health deteriorated in recent days and that Brown and first lady Anne Gust Brown "made the decision that it was time to say goodbye." She said Sutter was laid to rest at the Brown family's Colusa County ranch.
Brown last year acquired another dog, Colusa "Lucy" Brown, the offspring of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and Border Collie-Pembroke Welsh Corgi mix.
The governor's office said Friday that Colusa would "assume (Sutter's) duties as First Dog."


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Hmmm. H4 isn't technically supported by Lore, but I don't see any problem with including it.
I'll try to merge this as soon as I can, but it might be a day or so.
Feel free to remind me if I don't have it done by the end of the week.
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ok…enough of the sappy shit..
Posted: June 21, 2010 at 7:39 am
the open house weekend is without a doubt the most physically and emotionally exhausting weekend of the entire year for all of us…we put everything we have into it and lay it all out for the public to share. it pretty much kills us by the very end of the last day…but saints does literally shine in almost every way on those very special days.
but now back to reality…we are still in the hiring process. angelina has left us and we are now short one very experienced staff member. this hopefully will be the week to fill that hole…i am back to my own job next week and need to get this done quickly but carefully.
soooo…i better get moving…but really, i just want to go back to bed.


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November 16, 2016
Longmeadow Country Club Wedding Featuring The Connection
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Data Changes: Participant Decisions
Eligibility, Enrollment & Participant Data Changes
Participant Decisions
Participants have decisions to make in four key areas:
- For plans with a 401(k) feature, do they want to contribute to the plan? If they do, how much do they want to contribute? (More information on contribution amounts is available in "Submitting Contributions and Loan Repayments" under Contributions.
- For participants in a 401(k) plan, do they want to make pre-tax or Roth 401(k) contributions?
- For participants in a 401(k) plan, profit sharing plan or money purchase pension plan, do they want to make voluntary after-tax contributions if this option is available?
- How do they want to invest employee (if applicable) and/or employer contributions among the investment options offered by the Program?
- Who should they name as beneficiary or beneficiaries?
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When selecting investment elections, participants will be given a choice of either the "typical approach" where they only need to make one election that will apply to all contribution types (employer and employee) or the "advanced approach" where they can choose different investments for employer contributions than employee contributions.
Definitions of Contributions
- Employer contributions are made on an employee's behalf by the firm. This includes profit sharing and pension plan contributions, as well as employer matching, qualified matching (QMAC), qualified non-elective (QNEC), 401(k) safe harbor matching, 401(k) safe harbor non-elective and rollover contributions.
- Employee contributions are made by the employee to the plan, such as 401(k) elective salary deferral, Roth 401(k) elective salary deferral and voluntary after-tax contributions.
Online Enrollment through Payroll/Administration
If you have established Payroll/Administration through Sponsor Web – the online administrative tool – and enroll participants online, you will need to have the participant complete a Change of Investment Election form instead of an Enrollment Form, as the participant's initial investment elections will automatically be your plan's default investment option. However, you should still provide the participant with an Enrollment Package for New Participant.


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The Miracle Cleanser
Okay, so for those of you having a hard time cleaning lip brushes or eyeliner brushes with your ordinary cleanser, I have NEWS for YOU!!!!! Since lipstick and most liquid liners are gel/wax based you need something to prep them before disinfecting with your cleanser. You'll need:
- Any olive oil you have in the house
- A paper towel or cloth (best) to deposit color
- A dirty lip or liner brush =)
Put just a DrOp of oil on the rag and clean brush back and forth (avoid circular motions) till most color is gone. Add another drop if needed and repeat process. After color is out of brush cleanse normally with your home made brush cleanser or any cosmetic cleanser you have.
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A stolen vehicle with a child safely inside was located within approximately 15 minutes by Saskatoon police on Tuesday.
Officers responded around 2:15 p.m. to a report of a Kia Forte, with a four-year-old girl in the backseat, being stolen from the parking lot of a mall in the 100 block of Primrose Drive, according to Saskatoon police.
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Four-year-old girl in backseat found minutes after vehicle stolen in Saskatoon parking lot Back to video
Lawson Heights Mall is the only mall located in that city block.
Saskatoon police issued a news release within 10 minutes of receiving the report. Approximately five minutes later, a second release was issued announcing the vehicle and girl were both located. The child was found to be safe, police said.
According to a Saskatoon police spokeswoman, the vehicle with the girl inside was located in the 100 block of Cree Crescent — a few hundred metres from Lawson Heights Mall.
Police are investigating the incident.


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Flights from Cleveland (CLE) to Detroit, MI (DTW)
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If you are an Air New Zealand Airpoints™ member you can now spend your Airpoints Dollars™ on Crane Brother's Gift Cards at the Airpoints Store.
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05 July 2016
Southern leadership: Our goals and events at the International AIDS Conference 2016.
24 June 2016
Activists in more than 100 cities around the world will take part in the Global Day of Action on or around 26th June this year.
23 June 2016
Link Up in Ethiopia has shown how confident, young women who sell sex can also be community role models providing HIV advice and support
23 June 2016
The fourth United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS has set back the global fight against the AIDS epidemic
23 June 2016
People most at-risk from HIV (key populations) in Cambodia are the subject of the latest research findings from KHANA.
10 June 2016
New UN declaration fails key populations: progress in ending AIDS is put at risk.
07 June 2016
A list of side events at the UN High Level Meeting (HLM) that the Alliance is involved in organising or includes Alliance speakers.
01 June 2016
Javier Hourcade Bellocq on his role on the Stakeholder Task Force for next month's UN high-level meeting on AIDS.
31 May 2016
HIV prevention and care for men who have sex with men: What works best in four African countries.
06 May 2016
We contributed to the Human Rights Council's special session on behalf on 52 civil society organisations.
19 April 2016
The Alliance response to the Outcome Document endorsed and agreed today by the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs in New York.
18 April 2016
A global learning and skills building programme for people who want to learn more about drug use and HIV is accepting applications.


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JCOM Special Issue on Citizen Science
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce publication of the first issue of JCOM for 2016.
We are delighted to publish the first in a two part series exploring Citizen Science. Following a call for papers, Bruce Lewenstein and Emma Weitkamp received 37 manuscripts. Following review, it was clear that we would need two issues to accommodate the many worthy submissions. This newsletter introduces the essays and research papers that form part one of the Special Issue. April will see the publication of part two, and the final papers accepted through the call. We thank all the authors submitting manuscripts and the many reviewers contributing their time to peer review papers.
Can we understand citizen science?
Bruce V. Lewenstein
Citizen science is one of the most dramatic developments in science communication in the last generation. But analyses of citizen science, of what it means for science and especially for science communication, have just begun to appear. Articles in this first of two special issues of JCOM address three intertwined concerns in this emerging field: The motivation of citizen science participants, the relationship of citizen science with education, and the implications of participation for creation of democratic engagement in science-linked issues. Ultimately these articles contribute to answering the core question: What does citizen science mean?
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The Power of GIS and SMS Alert Services
The Power of GIS and SMS Alert Services
Written by ASM_Admin, Asian Surveying & Mapping, Thursday, 23 December 2010 09:34
Communicating important messages can be triggered through geographic information systems (GIS) activities. Using mobile devices, short message service (SMS) occur as text messages and often originate automatically. Deteriorating weather forecasts, tsunami alerts, flood events and pollution impacts are examples of events that can be communicated to mobile devices to warn and inform people. These messages tend to be short and are intended to cause immediate action. Short message services are more commonly known as SMS messages. It was recently reported that over 2 Trillion of the these of these messages are sent through mobile devices around the globe daily, often forming part of the basic communication between two parties either close together or sometimes around the world. The advantages of SMS are speed, lower cost and easy-of-use. …
Full text of the article via The Power of GIS and SMS Alert Services.
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- What is SMS? (brainz.org)
Less Nerd, More English!
While the difficulties of communicating climate science has been a hot topic in the news lately, professionals in geospatial science and technology also would benefit from improving their communication skills, particularly when interacting with policy makers.
Their Own Worst Enemies: Why scientists are losing the PR wars.
by Sharon Begley, Newsweek, March 18, 2010
It's a safe bet that the millions of Americans who have recently changed their minds about global warming—deciding it isn't happening, or isn't due to human activities such as burning coal and oil, or isn't a serious threat—didn't just spend an intense few days poring over climate-change studies and decide, holy cow, the discretization of continuous equations in general circulation models is completely wrong! Instead, the backlash (an 18-point rise since 2006 in the percentage who say the risk of climate change is exaggerated, Gallup found this month) has been stoked by scientists' abysmal communication skills, plus some peculiarly American attitudes, both brought into play now by how critics have spun the "Climategate" e-mails to make it seem as if scientists have pulled a fast one. …
For full text of the article, visit Why Scientists Are Losing the Public-Relations War – Newsweek.
Related Resources
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath
- Don't be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
- A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media by Richard Hayes and Daniel Grossman
- Am I Making Myself Clear: A Scientist's Guide to Talking to the Public by Cornelia Dean
- Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science edited by Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, and Carol L. Rogers
- Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter by Nancy Baron
- Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work by Dennis Meredith
- Working with Congress: A Practical Guide for Scientists and Engineers by William G. Wells
- Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum
RFF Value of Information Workshop Report Released
The Value of Information: Methodological Frontier and New Applications for Realizing Social Benefit
by Molly Macauley and Ramanan Laxminarayan, Resources for the Future, Published August 2010
This report highlights the major conclusions and outcomes from a workshop held June 28–29, 2010 at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, on methodological frontiers and new applications of valuing information and its social benefit. The participants provided answers to a series of questions: What is meant by "value of information"? When does information have value? What are state-of-the-practice methods to ascribe value to information? Participants also identified steps to ascribe, measure, and communicate value.
The workshop was distinctive in serving as the first multi-day, in-depth meeting to convene experts in the two disparate communities of social science and Earth science to identify and critique state-of-the-practice methods for ascribing value and societal benefit to information. The workshop outputs include specific recommendations and actions to enhance and further demonstrate the value of information from public investments, particularly those in Earth science applications.
A main finding is that investment in Earth observations confers many benefits but a lack of tools and resources has caused these benefits to be less well measured and communicated than warranted. The report includes suggestions attendees offered as next steps to enhance modeling, evaluation, and communication of the array of benefits.
Report PDF can be found at: http://www.rff.org/Publications/Pages/PublicationDetails.aspx?PublicationID=21266
Interestingly, one participant of the workshop remarked on "the difference between public and private sector perspectives. In the public sector (and academia), the primary questions seem to concern the overall value of information. To be useful in the private sector, such questions must be augmented by knowledge of how that value is allocated throughout the supplier-customer chain."
For commentary by one of the workshop's steering committee members, Bill Hooke, visit his blog posting Knowing What the Earth Will Do Next? Priceless.
**Also, check out the comment posted by Bill Gail, another workshop steering committee member, by clicking the comment link right under the title at the very top of the post.


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text: JEREMY LOOPSwith MATT JENNINGS and KEVIN FLUEGEL Monday, June 15, 2015 at 7:30pm$12.00 advance$14.00door18+Venue: First Avenue7th St Entry Info TabsDetails PerformersPerformer: JEREMY LOOPS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDJuxtaposing booming city rhythms with lilting folk, Jeremy Loops perfectly captures the duality of his South African life. The extremes aren't new to the singer, who by day travels to the furthest corners of Africa to battle deforestation through his organization, Greenpop, and by night resumes as raconteur for raucous fans around the world. In a whirlwind 2014, Loops debuted at #1 on iTunes in South Africa, headlined major festivals, and maintained #1 on the three most prominent radio stations in Southern Africa with "Down South", his breakout single. Read more about JEREMY LOOPS Special GuestsSpecial Guests: MATT JENNINGS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERSOUNDCLOUDMatt Jennings' latest album H.O.P.E. was released in the summer of 2014. With sparse instrumentation consisting of nylon-string guitar, ukulele, bass, and percussion (all played by Jennings), the sound could be described as flamenco reggae. The songwriting on H.O.P.E. is concise and honest, coming from a place of sincerity and hope. Read more about MATT JENNINGS KEVIN FLUEGEL FACEBOOKTWITTERBANDCAMPSOUNDCLOUDMusician, designer, and student based in Minneapolis, MN. What started as a solo acoustic project has formed into a 4-piece rock group. From coffee shops, to support for acts such as Jeremy Loops and Matthew Mayfield, I play for the love of playing. Read more about KEVIN FLUEGEL


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European and Cameroonian scholarship on ethnicity and the making of identities in Cameroon: colonial and post-colonial trails
Afrika Focus. 2011;24(2):33-52
Journal Title: Afrika Focus
ISSN: 0772-084X (Print); 2031-356X (Online)
Publisher: Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug
LCC Subject Category: Agriculture | Social Sciences
Country of publisher: Belgium
Language of fulltext: English, French
Full-text formats available: PDF
Yenshu Vubo, Emmanuel
Time From Submission to Publication: 20 weeks
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Relations between colonial and post-colonial studies in and on Cameroon have been both continuous and discontinuous. As reflected in the domains of historiography and social anthropology, this has impacted on ethnic self-representations and popular labeling. This paper examines contrasting drives that have led to a replication of colonial redefinitions of ethnicity and how this informs current discussions on ethnicity in Cameroon. The argument is that certain research works have informed or substantially influenced the identity question when one aknowledges that the colonial period is a bench mark epoch in the establishment of certain categories of ethnic perception. Although substantially deconstructed at the scientific level, these categories have survived and continue to influence social categories of perception that become common sense intrusions (what Bourdieu called doxa) into social science.


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Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
(II Samuel 7:4-17; Mark 4:1-20)
In an appeal for simplicity, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," a song John Denver made famous, calls life "a funny, funny riddle." In a similar way Jesus in today's gospel explains that the secrets of life are revealed in parables.
Jesus' usage of parable seems strange, even inimical. At first hearing he makes them sound like riddles that are told so that people would have trouble understanding. On the other hand, parables are known today as comparisons to help the simple-hearted believe in the mercy of God. Which explanation is correct? Unsurprisingly, both are. The parables are indeed meant to help simple people trust in God. Sophisticated people also may interpret them correctly. But if sophisticates are driven by the thirst for power, pleasure, or prestige, they will dismiss parables as foolish folk tales and be unmoved by their wisdom.
Jesus is asking that we prepare ourselves to be receptive ground for the word of God. He wants us to make its understanding our priority in life, preferable to watching television, making money, or going to the gym. To accomplish this goal we must read the word it slowly, ponder it carefully, and pray to God to enlighten its meaning.


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