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Saving Cities: Learning from Melanie Griffith
December 19, 2012 June 29, 2013 admin
One of my favorite movie scenes is from Working Girl when Melanie Griffith explains while riding up the elevator with Trask and Indiana, how she came up with the idea for the corporate merger. It wasn't as if she had been thinking about anything even remotely related to it. Her insight derived from a chance juxtaposition perceived by a mind willing to learn and open to new possibilities. Read more →
Public History	Historic Preservation, Industrial History, Mohawk River, Schenectady, Schenectady County, Urban History	4 Comments
Peter Feinman On New Yorks Ruin Porn
Ruin porn is in. Ruin porn is hot. Ruin porn is sexy. Ruin porn is the term coined by Jim Griffioen, who writes a blog about his life as a stay-at-home dad in Detroit.
As part of that effort he periodically posts photographs he has taken of the more than 70,000 abandoned buildings in his city. Such images included (as reported in the New York Times) &#8220&#8216-feral' houses almost completely overgrown with vegetation- a decommissioned public-school book depository in which trees were growing out of the piles of rotting textbooks&#8221. The term has become a familiar one in the city not without some misgivings by the locals as they watch tourists take souvenirs of their city back home. Read more →
Uncategorized	Architecture, Historic Preservation, Hudson River, Industrial History, Labor History, Mohawk River, New Jersey, Peter Feinman, Staten Island, Tourism, Transportation, Urban History	3 Comments
A History of the Albany County Hall of Records
The following essay by Albany County Clerk Thomas Clingan is reprinted with permission from the Tivoli Times, the newsletter of the Albany County Hall of Records (ACHOR). ACHOR celebrated its 30th Anniversary in October.
Albany County can trace its records management program to a 1978 National Historical Publications and Records Commission ("NHRPC") grant of $9235 to inventory Albany County Clerk records, accepted by the Albany County Legislature in Resolution 99 of 1978. This first modern inventory was completed and printed in 1979. The theft and quick recovery of County Clerk's oldest Dutch record book in May 1980 increased public awareness of the need to safeguard these documents, and in January 1981, Resolution 10 of that year accepted a further $20,000 NHPRC grant to study the possibility of a joint city and county archives and records management system.
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James Howard Kunstler On Rescuing the American Townscape
The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) will present a lecture &#8220Rescuing the American Townscape from its Own Recent History&#8221 by author James Howard Kunstler.
James Howard Kunstler is a vocal critic of American architecture and urban planning which he describes as a tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities and ravaged countryside. For two decades, Kunstler has examined the growth of urban and suburban America. Read more →
Events	Historic Preservation, Lecture, Long Island, The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities	Leave a comment
New Exhibit: Photography of the Landmarks of New York City
On December 14, the New-York Historical Society will present The Landmarks of New York, an exhibition exploring the history of New York as revealed by its historical structures.
The exhibition's 90 photographs of landmarks are critical documents that chronicle the city's journey from a small colonized village to a city at the center of the world from the 17th through the 20th centuries and includes the newly acquired set of 30 photographs by Christine Osinski, Steven Tucker, Reuben Cox, Julio Bofill, Michael Stewart, Michael Stewart, Andrew Garn, Richard Cappelluti, Adam S. Wahler, Eric C. Chung and others. Read more →
Exhibits	Historic Preservation, New York City, New York Historical Society, Photography	Leave a comment
Roberta Brandes Gratz Recieving Landmarks Lion Award
The Historic Districts Council, the citywide advocate for New York's historic neighborhoods, buildings and open spaces, will present its annual Landmarks Lion Award on November 5 to advocate, author, journalist and urban critic Roberta Brandes Gratz.
Participating in the ceremony will be Ronald Shiffman, co-founder of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development, Richard Rabinowitz, president of the American History Workshop, and Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Center for the Living City. Since 1990 the Landmarks Lion Award has honored those who have shown outstanding devotion in protecting New York City's historic buildings and neighborhoods. Read more →
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NYC Documentary Film Screenings Set
The Historic Districts Council (HDC) of New York City will host a film series, "Across New York", that highlights stories from across the City's five boroughs on how the city came to be and the people who helped shape it.
All screenings will be held at the TRIBECA Film Center at 375 Greenwich Street, NYC- tickets can be purchased online. The cost is $5 per program for Friends of HDC, Seniors and Students, and $10 for the general public.
AT HOME IN UTOPIA
Thursday, November 1, 6PM
The acclaimed documentary At Home in Utopia. was written and directed by Michal Goldman. This film tells the story of the Eastern European, Russian and Polish garment workers who joined together to create a "Bronx Bohemia" known as the Coops. This cooperative apartment complex was built in 1925 on the corner of Allerton Avenue across from Bronx Park. The Coops were what some would consider the ideal community- based on the philosophies of communal living and designed with the ideas of a bucolic setting in mind, the Coops were a "dream home" to many. The residents wanted a design aesthetic that was uncommon in New York at the time- bright, airy and spacious, which was representative of the change that was sought to promote public health, safety and a sense of community. The residents of the Coops were also politically active as advocates for racial equality during a time of severe distress, violence and social injustice. Join us for this special screening and panel discussion of At Home in Utopia, where several of the former residents will discuss their lives in the Bronx. Directed by Michal Goldman, 2008, 133 minutes.
FLORENT: QUEEN OF THE MEATMARKET
Join the Historic Districts Council for a night of nostalgia as we view the documentary film Florent: Queen of the Meat Market. Florent, a 24-hour diner located in the Meatpacking District, was once the place to be. This legendary spot attracted artists, club-kids and the blue-collar workers who sought decent French-American cuisine at the wee hours of the morning, but who mostly flocked to
this space because of the energy the owner, Florent Morellet, exuded and brought to the establishment. Florent was also one of the leaders of the movement which successfully got the Gansevoort Market neighborhood landmarked in 2003. Florent was unfortunatelyforced to close down in 2008 due to rent increases and development in the area that would not allow for the business to sustain itself. Following the screening, Florent, will discuss his time owning his successful namesake business in an area that has drastically changed over the past twenty-five years as well as how he has remained an activist and leader within his community and beyond. Directed by David Sigal, 2009, 1 hour 29 minutes. This film is not rated.
Wednesday, November 14, 6PM
"Coney Island" is an award-winning documentary that delves into the extensive history of this seaside community, from its discovery in the 17th century to its ongoing and sometimes heartbreaking evolution. The film illustrates the affinity that the public had for Coney Island as a summer getaway, as evidenced by the 250,000 people that once populated its shores
on any given summer weekend. Also covered in the film is the development of the three major amusement parks (Steeplechase Park, Luna Park and Dreamland) that once inhabited Coney Island, along with the sometimes bizarre and fascinating stories that go with them. There will be a discussion following the film. Directed by Ric Burns, 1991, 1 hour.
This series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by Council members Margaret Chin, Inez Dickens, Daniel Garodnick, Vincent Gentile,
Stephen Levin and Rosie Mendez.
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William Seward Biographer Visting Sewards Hometown
Walter Stahr, author of a new biography on one of America's greatest statesmen, William Henry Seward, will be visiting Florida, NY (Orange County) on October 14. The visit will include a lecture and book signing at the school founded by William Henry's father, Samuel Sweezy Seward, which today still bears his name, the SS Seward Institute.
This will be Stahr's third visit to Florida. His first two visits took place while he was researching his latest book, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man, which took four years to complete. The biography, released in September, has already received highly favorable reviews. Read more →
Books	Abolition, Architecture, Civil War, Historic Preservation, Orange County, Political History	Leave a comment
Jay Heritage, County Reach Agreement on John Jay Property
Responsibility for the full restoration and long–term maintenance of the historic John Jay property in Rye, NY, the boyhood home of a Founding Father and the nation's first Chief Justice, will be turned over to the Jay Heritage Center (JHC), under terms of a license agreement announced late last week by Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino at a news conference at the site.
According to a statement issued to the press the agreement is designed to ensure the preservation of the nationally significant property and serve as a model of cooperative stewardship that can be emulated nationwide. &#8220It will also advance shared goals of New York State, Westchester County and non-profits like JHC to promote heritage tourism by making historic resources more accessible to the public,&#8221 the statement said.
"It has been over 20 years since the county, working with New York State, came to the rescue of the Jay property, saving it from demolition," Astorino said. "Now the county is stepping in again with an innovative public/private partnership to preserve it for future generations in a way that doesn't fall on taxpayers. In these challenging economic times, these are the kinds of solutions that are essential."
The property is located adjacent to the county's Marshlands Conservancy. Westchester County and New York State jointly own 21.5 acres of the site- the Jay Heritage Center owns the other 1.5-acre parcel, which contains the 1838 Jay House, built by Jay's son on the site where his father grew up.
The new license agreement will transfer oversight for the upkeep of the property and investment in significant capital infrastructures to the Jay Heritage Center, which will raise funds as a private 501(c)3 and also apply for grants. Tax deductible donations from individuals and corporations will be accepted to help restore the historic meadow, the gardens, the apple orchards and rehabilitate historic structures for public educational uses as lecture halls, classical music spaces and art galleries.
At a press conference at the site, Astorino was joined by Rye City Mayor Doug French and Suzanne Clary, president of the Jay Heritage Center (JHC), as well as New York State Parks Deputy Commissioner Tom Alworth to announce the agreement, which must be approved by the county's Parks Board, the Board of Acquisition and Contract, and the State Comptroller's Office.
The Jay Property was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 as part of the Boston Post Road Historic District. It was also named to the Westchester County African American Heritage Trail in 2004.
Most recently in 2009, it became 1 of only 100 Congressionally funded sites in the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area based on the importance of its architecture, its landscape and themes of freedom and dignity that its 10,000-year-old history embodies.
"This is an unparalleled opportunity for us to restore one of America's greatest landscapes and open it to the public at a time when families are looking for places of beauty and history to inform and inspire their daily lives," said the JHC's Clary.
Deputy Commissioner Alworth also praised the agreement, saying: "Partnership agreements such as this one have been highly successful in enhancing the quality of parks and historic sites for the visiting public. The Jay Heritage Center has done an impressive job restoring the historic house, and I'm confident they will continue their excellent stewardship of the site. This public-private partnership will ensure the John Jay property remains a valued recreational and cultural resource for Westchester residents and visitors alike."
The main terms of the agreement are:
· The county and state, as owners, will grant a 10-year license, which is renewable after the initial term, to the Jay Heritage Center for the use of the property. This will give the JHC the ability to raise funds to operate the park and make improvements.
· The county and state will have the right to approve or disapprove any physical alterations to the property.
· The property will continue to be operated and maintained as state and county parkland and will be accessible to the general public. The JHC may establish admission fees, subject to approval by the state and the county consistent with county fee structures.
· JHC will create and pay for a specific maintenance and restoration schedule detailed in the agreement, dealing with landscape, invasive plant removal and restoration of historic structures, among other things.
· The county will continue to police the property.
· The county will no longer spend approximately $25,000 annually to maintain the property, and JHC will be responsible for ongoing maintenance and the capital improvements that the property requires.
· The county will remain responsible for the costs of any environmental remediation that may be required on the property for conditions that existed prior to the license agreement. Any environmental remediation required as a result of JHC's restoration work will be the responsibility of JHC.
Photo:Top Row: JHC Board members Emma Hanratty, Jim Kelsey (JHC Vice President,) Lauren Lambert, Michael Kovner (JHC Vice President)- Bill Mooney, Senior Assistant to County Executive, Joe Sack ,Rye City Council
Second Row: Deputy County Executive, Kevin Plunkett, Frank Sanchis, World Monuments Fund and JHC Advisory Board, JHC Board member Cathy Rosenstock, Julie Killian, Rye City Council and Tom O'Handley, Audubon NY
Third Row: JHC Board Member Charlene Laughlin, Anne Van Ingen, Preservation League of NY State, Patricia Mulqueen, Con Edison Community Relations Westchester, JHC Founder, Kitty Aresty, Steve Otis, former Mayor of Rye
Front Row: Tom Alworth, New York State Parks Deputy Commissioner of Natural Resources, Suzanne Clary, JHC President and Rob Astorino, Westchester County Executive.
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Art and Preservation at the Park Avenue Armory
Armory Armoire. Carol Hepper
Architectural white elephants are a specialty of large urban areas, and armories form a particular subset of these: rife with possible new uses, dauntingly expensive to reclaim. In recent years New York City's Park Avenue Armory Conservancy has refurbished its 1881 building and turned it into an exciting new space.
Its theatre programs have featured amazing performances with audiences moving on rails for Die Soldaten, or viewing the vast Peter Greenaway multimedia interpretation of Leonardo's Last Supper. Dance companies, concerts and artistic programs are flourishing and a partnership with the Williamsburg, Brooklyn Art and Design High School gives high school students access to a historic preservation program. Read more →
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Q: Akka Future Response to a Sender I came across the following SIP:
http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/spores.html
As I was reading through, I came across this example:
def receive = {
  case Request(data) =>
    future {
      val result = transform(data)
      sender ! Response(result)
    }
}

There was a description below in that article:
>     Capturing sender in the above example is problematic, since it does not return a stable value. It is possible that the future's body
> is executed at a time when the actor has started processing the next
> Request message which could be originating from a different actor. As
> a result, the Response message of the future might be sent to the
> wrong receiver.

I do not fully understand about this line "Capturing the sender in the above example is problematic...." Isn't that the case where in each request to the Actor (Request(data)) would create a Future block?
The creating of that Future block is synchronous which would mean that the sender reference is known at that time. It is only that the execution of that Future block is somehow scheduled to happen at a later point in time.
Is my understanding correct?

A: def receive = {
  case Request(data) =>
    future {
      val result = transform(data)
      sender ! Response(result)
    }
}

Imagine that the line sender ! Response(result) is executed after 300 ms, exactly at the same time as the enclosing actor is handling another message, let's call it M. Because sender is a def, not a val, it's evaluated every time it's used. This means, that inside the future you've got the sender of the M message! You've responded not to the sender of the original message that created the Future, but to some other guy. To mitigate this problem you need to close over the value of the sender() def at the time of creation of the Future. Compare the original code with this:
def receive = {
  case Request(data) =>
    val client = sender()
    future {
      val result = transform(data)
      client ! Response(result)
    }
}

You have remembered the original sender, so everything is correct.
It's of utmost importance to NEVER execute any methods that depend on time (like sender) or change the actor's state in an asynchronous manner. If you need to change the actor's state in response to some asynchronous computation, you should send yourself a message from the future block.

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The EU's recently adopted Digital Single Market strategy will hopefully end geo-blocking among EU nations, while consumers can legally purchase more content. The removal of geo-blocking will make it legal for 100 million Europeans to access content they own in other countries - a major development, with Europeans taking more than 270 million cross-border trips that last at least one night.
"Today, we don't have a Digital Single Market in the European Union," Ansip said.
"We have 28 relatively small markets and for small European companies it's practically impossible to understand those 28 different [sets of] regulations. Today, the four basic freedoms in the EU - free movement of people, goods, services, capital - it's a reality in a physical [world] but it's not reality in the online world."
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Five weeks out of hip replacement surgery and the bees swarmed. A potential disaster that is shaping up to be just fine.
I saw the swarm just after finishing my "1 to 2 mile walk though the forest with the pack goats and dogs while doing my exercises " part of my recovery program. OK, the doctors know nothing about the forest, pack goats, or dogs, but it's where I live and I don't walk without the "family".
On the plus side the ladies had decided to land low, amid a stack of bee boxes and frames that are waiting to go to storage. (I still have a 25-pound limit on what the medical folks want me to lift). Thank goodness no ladders were involved.
Off I go to the hayloft to pick up some cardboard nuc boxes. On return I realized there were way too many bees to go into one box.
It was then I realized they had begun to set up house in one of the boxes in the stack. OK. Back to the storage area for a bottom screen and hive top.
Being mindful of all my post-operative precautions: don't lean in certain ways, don't extend left leg, watch how you bend down… I gently pulled the 2 stacks of bee boxes apart to I could get to the portion of the swarm still on the outside of the boxes. These I brushed into my nuc box, covered and set to the side.
Then, again being careful, I really don't want to go though that hip operation again, I pulled off the top boxes in the stack to get to the main box they had chosen. Happily, they had gone for the stack of cleaned frames and boxes that had already been sorted. (I don't keep frames over 5 years old).
I put their primary choice of boxes on the bottom screen and pulled 3 frames to make hole. Then I started to brush bees who were exploring other boxes and frames into the primary box. By the time they were brushed in, I realized that until they settled down there was no room for the bees in the nuc box.
Through the entire process I kept muttering: "I hope I have the queen", "I hope I didn't kill the queen", and "Hey, I'm enjoying the heck out of this". What with the bad hip, and the operation I have not been able to work bees this year, and I've really missed it.
As I walked back to the house in the twilight, I realized that I had 1) not hurt myself and 2) had become so engrossed in what I was doing I was walking without my stick/cane. See, beekeeping is good for you.
I also realized that if I missed the queen I would get to do this all over again in the morning, if they were still around.
The dawn showed I had the queen. Everyone was in place and low enough in the new bee box to add the bees who did an overnight in the nuc box.
The new nuc was strapped up and ready to move to another bee yard. I can't take it to the one here at the farm, because the bees would, of course, just fly back to where I found the swarm (the old move them 2 feet or 2 miles…).
They are now in their new bee yard with a second box on top, and although the photo was taken before I finished, with a collar on top that has a feeder and a pollen patty in it, and a mouse guard on the front (the one seen lying on top of the hive).
It is so late in the bee year here that these bees will need feeding. Fireweed is blooming, but that nectar run will be well over before they can store up winter supplies.
I am grateful to the bees for swarming low and for setting themselves into a nice box. It's the first time any swarm of mine has swarmed to a box.
That's the news from Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Maple Falls, Washington, where this beekeeper is looking forward to being allowed to lift 40 pounds next week. Only 7 more weeks of recovery to go.
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I have followed your posts with interest as I have purchased my 1st nuc last November. I am learning about bees all the time. I am a member of the local BeeKeepers Club here in the Wairarapa New Zealand.
So far the nuc has grown to need housing in 2 x 3/4 boxes and are Wintering well. Today I noticed that the bees where gathering pollen even though its the middle of our Winter. As I live in a small country town called Carterton there is always something flowering. We do get frosts to -2 but the days usually warm to about 11 to 14 degrees c this time of year.
I hope you continue to recover well form you surgery.
Hi Don – sounds like things are going well down your way. You're past your winter solstice, when the queen usually starts laying again – not a lot, but some. I envy your winter weather that is warm enough for the bees to emerge even come back with pollen and nectar for the hive. Around here early pollen doesn't have much protein, but that's alders…I'm hoping your plants have for "goodness" in them for the hive.


Calling all lovers of brunch, this blog post is for you.
TGFB (Thank Goodness for Brunch). Have you heard of this acronym before? Brunch is a late morning meal eaten instead of both breakfast and lunch. No longer do you have to be deprived of your morning coffee or mimosa. Enjoy some over easy eggs, bacon and a side of avocado toast with some of our biggest local MVPs. Whether you are going with a group of friends or a significant other you can't go wrong with the establishments listed below.


DENMARK's Maersk Line has started calling at the port of Bushehr in Iran, providing shippers with an alternative to Bandar Abbas for transporting cargo, including reefers for perishable products, to and from the Middle East nation.
While Bandar Abbas is located near the Strait of Hormuz, Bushehr is located further up the Persian Gulf and is a short distance to Qatar, Bahrain, as well as certain ports of Saudi Arabia, reported American Shipper.
"Bushehr is the largest and most important port for transportation of commercial goods within the Bushehr province in Iran. With a total throughput of seven million tonnes, this port is capable of offering services for all containerised cargoes, and most significantly refrigerated products," said Maersk.
The port features 400 reefer plugs and cold-storage warehouses with a total capacity of 5,000 tonnes for refrigerated and temperature-sensitive cargo. Freight moving to and from Bushehr is transshipped through Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates.


I have four regions on OSgrid, all hosted on a single PC. I am not able to keep the PC running 24/7. After having been offline for approximately 24 hours, all of my regions were taken by someone else.
How long can a region be offline before the spot is made available to someone else?
Did you use the quit command to shut them down? That removes them from the grid. If you just close the window, they will stay registered on the grid. They won't be accessible of course, but you won't loose your spot.
First, thanks for the response. So, in the Opensim console, don't use the 'quit' command. Does that apply to the 'shutdown' command as well? Also, if I just close the console window without utilizing either command, that won't cause any problems with the databases or other settings?
Good point Dan. I use backup before closing the application all the time.
I've never used the shutdown command but I'd day yes, it's probably the same as quit.
Thanks for the advice. It's appreciated.
Using cross or kill the simulator are not proper do you kill your computer with the power of your tower i do not think opensimulator is same ... a proper shutdown or quit are needed opensim are a software !
Again all peoples complain about tp fail, kill region or pid ( linux ) is exactly the problem all users have during tp !!!
I'm glad you posted this....I have tried 3 times now to setup my first region, and all fail, usually ending with "region not found" or a timeout error message. How do we close the console window/OS program when we are done then? (I am going to use my region only for myself or when others are invited when I am online for the time being...). I am fine with leaving the console window up and using backup command, but things happen and would hate to lose progress in the future!
TY for the help & sorry for leeching off this post lol.
IMHO we need a better solution to people keeping their spot on the grid than crashing their sim. As Pae said, dead sims persist on the grid map and cause a patchwork of bad TP destinations which is a real deterrent to exploration using the map. I run 24/7 now, but whenever I have run on a home pc and shut down on a daily basis, I always just picked a really isolated spot for my sim. If you are living in the middle of nowhere virtual miles from anybody there is much less chance of losing your spot.


Behind the famed Renaissance hotel by the Powai lake is a small, homegrown village called Paspoli which is home to the workforce of the hotel.
From a small Italian village, to a city like Milan, to a metroplis like Chile and finally to Dharavi, Francesco finds similarities and differences among the different scales.of habitats.
Similarities between urban villages in Mumbai and Italy.


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Carles Alberola (Alzira, Ribera Alta, 1964) és un actor, director i dramaturg valencià.

Biografia
Titulat per l'Escola Superior d'Art Dramàtic i Dansa de València (1983-1986). A la dècada del 1980 fou actor en diverses companyies valencianes. Va impartir classes a les Escoles Municipals de Teatre. A partir de 1989 començà a simultanejar l'escriptura, la direcció i la interpretació. En l'etapa dels anys 90 (1989-1999), Alberola estrenà 14 comèdies, de les quals en va dirigir tretze i en va interpretar sis. L'any 1994 fundà la companyia Albena Teatre, de la qual és director.

El 1999 inicià una nova etapa, en la qual li arriba el reconeixement i l'èxit de crítica i públic. Amb l'obra teatral Besos, Alberola aconsegueix un gran èxit a Madrid i a Barcelona.

Els darrers anys ha desenvolupat una intensa carrera televisiva a Canal 9 i Apunt Media en sèries com Socarrats, Autoindefinits, Maniàtics o Açò és un destarifo, totes produïdes per Albena Teatre.

Obra
En una primera etapa Carles Alberola treballa amb Ferran Torrent, després amb Pasqual Alapont i en l'última etapa amb Roberto García. Carles Alberola és autor de les següents obres:

 L'aneguet lleig, 2015
 Ficció, 2014
 M'esperaràs?, 2014
 Que tinguem sort!, 2011
 13, 2006
 SPOT, 2002
 Besos, 1999
 Joan, el Cendrós, 1998
 Mandíbula Afilada, 1997
 Per què moren els pares?, 1996
 Estimada Anuchka, 1995
 Nit i dia, 1995
 Currículum, 1994
 O tu o res
 Hau!, 1993

Vegeu també
 Albena Teatre

Enllaços externs
 Web Albena Teatre
 Muestra de Teatro Español de Autores Contemporáneos
 Diario Las Provincias - Entrevista a Carles Alberola
 Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Alzirencs
Actors de teatre valencians
Directors de teatre valencians
Actors de sèries de televisió valencians
Artistes de la Ribera Alta

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Dutch second divsion team Fortuna Sittard have threatened to take former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh to court, if he fails to provide evidence of his allegations against the club.
As we reported, Sunday Oliseh, yesterday, took to Twitter to accuse the foreign owner of the club fired hiim because he refused to partake in an what he termed "illegal activity."
Oliseh, who was appointed in December, 2016 wrote on twitter: "Due to my refusal to participate in Illegal activities at Fortuna Sittard and violate the law, I have been suspended from my duty as coach by the foreign owners of Fortuna."
The club have now denied the allegation and have asked him to substantiate the allegations or face legal actions. In a statement released on their official website, the club said: "Fortuna wants to fight the accusations made."
"In this context, the club will also take the necessary legal follow-up steps. Fortuna does not recognise itself at all in all these accusations, which were not highlighted by Sunday Oliseh internally."
"The case will be presented by Fortuna Sittard to the arbitration committee of the KNVB (the Dutch Football Association) an independent body, which will now make an assessment of whether there is sufficient grounds to terminate the emplyment contract of Sunday Oliseh."
The club also added that would "take the appropriate legal countermeasures. If there are any questions from the side of the KNVB in this respect, Fortuna Sittard is fully open to internal investigations to show that the accusations are completely unfounded."
The club have since announced the appointment of their youth coach, Claudo Braga, as the caretaker coach until a replacement is found.


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Home›Travel›7 best places to visit in Bangalore
The capital city of Karnataka, Bangalore or Bengaluru is not only known for IT development. The city is rich in culture, dramatic history, and has some surreal sites to visit too. The city has been tagged with many names including Silicon Valley of India, Pub Capital of India, Air Conditioned City, and City of Gardens. Before becoming IT blaster, it was known as Pensioners' Paradise. The city is a crazy blend of dramatic past and tech-savvy present. This rare mix makes this city such beautiful and unique. So, if you are looking to visit Bangalore, here are some of the best places to visit here:
Lalbagh Botanical Garden
Lalbagh Botanical Garden is one of the best gardens in India and one of the best places to visit in Bangalore. The garden was built in 1760 after the ruler of Mysore, Hyder Ali commissioned the development it. Spread over an area of 240 acres of land, you get to see more than 1,800 species of flora in here. Also, the garden has some rare species of flora from Persia, Afghanistan, and France. Head to the Glass House in the garden which is built based on Crystal Palace in London. A flower show is organized every year on Independence Day and Republic Day at the Glass House.
Bangalore Place
Bangalore Place is one of the most visited places in Bangalore and is situated in the heart of the city. Built by Rev. J. Garrett, the palace construction was completed in 1944 and is spread over an area of 454 acres. Later, it was bought by the Maharaja of Mysore, Chamarajendra Wodeyar X in 1887. The palace is built in Tudor style of architecture and is famously known for its wooden carved work. The walls are decorated with the paintings of the 19th century. Main attractions to see include an open square courtyard with granite seats, a ballroom, the Durbar hall, stools made of elephant feet, vases of the elephant trunk, and trophies of elephant hunting.
Tipu Sultan's Palace is one of the most important places for the people of Bangalore. Also, known as Tipu's Summer Palace, the palace was used as a summer retreat by the Sultan. The structure of the palace is similar to the Daria Daulat palace of Srirangapatnam. Depicting the Indo-Islamic style of architecture, the palace is built of teak wood, mortar, stone, and plaster. The inner walls and ceilings are decorated by beautiful floral motifs. The palace now has a small museum showing the achievements of Tipu's kingdom. The art gallery inside the palace is another point of attraction with thousands of photos and artifacts of Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan and other famous people of the time.
Dedicated to Lord Krishna, ISKCON Temple is another place of interest in Bangalore. It is one of the largest ISKCON temples in the world. Inaugurated in the year 1997 by Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India at that time, this temple was built to honor Sri Prabhupada who was the founder of the ISKCON. This huge complex houses temples dedicated to Sri Radha Krishna, Sri Krishna Balarama, Sri Nitai Gauranga, Sri Srinivasa Govinda, and Sri Prahlada Narasimha. Built-in 7 acres of land, the temple depicts the Dravidian style of architecture.
Kaigal Waterfalls
Kaigal falls is one of the most visited places near Bangalore. Also known as Dumukurallu Waterfalls, this waterfall brings water from the height of 40 feet and is splashed with full force down. The best season to visit this place is the Monsoon one. There is one pond below the falls and is the main point of attraction. It is a great picnic location for people. Near the falls, there is a shiv linga which people trend to visit and every Maha Shivratri, the huge crowd goes there to seek blessings from Lord Shiva.
St. Mary Basilica
St. Mary Basilica is the oldest and only church in the city with Basilica status. Built by Abbe Dubois in 1818, it was first built as a small chapel. Later, it was rebuilt and got the status of Basilica in 1973. Also, it was the sixth basilica in India. Built in Gothic style, this basilica has elegant arches, ornamental motifs, and stained glass windows. On September 8th every year, Virgin Mary's feast is celebrated here and an annual car procession is held. You can apply for Travel Sales Consultant jobs to know about this field.
Kemp Fort Shiva Temple
Also known as the Shiva Temple, the Kemp Fort Shiva Temple is a must visit. It is a religious holy place for Hindus. Dedicated to Lord Shiva, this temple has 65-feet-tall Lord Shiva idol. Inaugurated in 1995 by Sri Shankaracharya of Sringeri, it is a popular tourist place in Bangalore. Thanks to the 65 feet high Lord Shiva's statue seated in Lotus position, this temple attracts a huge crowd. Also, you can see Lord Ganpati's Statue which is 35 feet tall. the whole complex features Navagraha temple, Pratyaksh Ling, a replica of Mansarovar Lake, and Upchaar Patthar.
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Q: RabbitMQ - How to save message for new consumer Working on a new chat project, We want to use RabbitMQ to transfer our message.
So can RabbitMQ save all the message in queue or some other place,  when an new people(consumer) comes, the RabbitMQ can flush the saved message to the new people?

A: If you use a persistent queue, rabbitmq can store the messages (the messages are stored in the same mnesia-db path).
So suppose that each user has a own queue, when the user gets on line can download the messages.
Anyway I don't think it is a good idea use rmq to push messages for chat. There are others appropriate technologies, like MQTT, XMPP.
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using rabbitmq in android for chat

A: Please read the tutorial to understand what RabbitMQ is.

RabbitMQ is a message broker: it accepts and forwards messages. You can think about it as a post office: when you put the mail that you want posting in a post box, you can be sure that Mr. or Ms. Mailperson will eventually deliver the mail to your recipient. In this analogy, RabbitMQ is a post box, a post office and a postman.


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Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available?
Five academics detail how taking leave of the grind has turbocharged their work – but can everyone get a break?
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A year focusing on research without the interruption of departmental meetings, lecturing commitments and workplace politics sounds like nirvana to many academics. Luckily for them, they have chosen a profession that values intellectual space and knows the merits of sabbaticals that allow them time away from the daily grind.
Sabbaticals offer academics the chance to explore new cultures, to learn how higher education works in other parts of the world and to immerse themselves in a project.
But that coveted care-free leave, once seen as a drawcard of a career in the academy, is changing. Its open-ended nature is being constrained. Some universities now require certain outcomes while academics are away from their teaching and administrative duties, and at others, a break to focus on research is not guaranteed and academics must compete to win a sabbatical.
The sabbatical is deeply entrenched in the history of the academy. Michael Miller, a professor of higher education at the University of Arkansas, says that early US colleges first used them as a tool to attract faculty members in the 1800s: as part of their benefits, academic staff were granted leave once every seven years.
By the early 20th century, public institutions in the US began to offer similar programmes focused on research, and by the 1960s, career development had become central to the practice: academics applied for sabbaticals with specific projects in mind, such as improving their teaching or working with industry, Miller explains.
Thomas Docherty, professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Warwick, argues that although the sabbatical is an "integral" part of academic life, it no longer exists in its true form. In the UK, an increasing number of universities, Warwick among them, now refer to it as "study leave", which in practice does not give people the time and freedom to rest, relax and re-engage with their discipline, he argues.
Study leave requires academics to state up front what they will produce during their time away from teaching and administration, he says. An example could be completing a specific publication for the next research excellence framework. But Docherty believes that sabbaticals should be viewed as unstructured time in which an academic cannot predict the outcome of his or her research.
Money, university league tables and a "false idea of efficiency" based on productivity are behind the changes, he believes. As a result, far from being periods of reflection, sabbaticals or study leave can become "quite stressful" as promises need to be fulfilled in a specified time and "there is no possibility of surprise".
Maureen Spencer, principal lecturer in the School of Law at Middlesex University, accepts that the sabbatical has become "heavily managed". But, she believes, institutions do have a responsibility to funders to ensure that academics make good use of the time. "It is reasonable to expect a definable research output – but perhaps this could be treated more imaginatively," she suggests.
Spencer has published several research papers on the sabbatical, focusing in particular on their use in the disciplines of law, history and business. She has found that institutions tend to place an "overemphasis on output and quality" during sabbaticals, and that universities tend to prefer outputs in the form of journal articles rather than books. But she adds that if an academic does not achieve the expected outcomes, the sanctions that a university can apply are "limited".
Approaches to sabbaticals vary by discipline. In her studies of the strategic use of sabbaticals in history departments and business schools at UK universities, Spencer found that history departments tended to have a "less utilitarian view" of them than business schools.
According to a paper co-authored by Spencer, "A comparative examination of the use of academic sabbaticals", published in The International Journal of Management Education, history departments use sabbaticals to retain good staff and to help them develop new skills and knowledge. Business schools, in contrast, "are less conscious of the social mission of education in a broader sense", Spencer observes.
Her work also identified inequalities in the provision of sabbaticals: they are more likely to be available in pre-92 universities than in post-92s, a hangover from their days as teaching-focused polytechnics. Change is afoot, however. Spencer's research on law schools suggests that sabbaticals are becoming more popular in research-focused post-92s. "The distinction between post- and pre-92s…does seem to be blurring – but it is taking a long time," she adds.
Neither the University and College Union nor the Higher Education Statistics Agency collects data on the availability and take-up of sabbaticals or study leave in UK universities. But Rob Copeland, policy officer at the UCU, says there are concerns about a lack of openness in the granting of sabbaticals. Policies at some universities are not transparent, and some higher education institutions do not even have guidelines on the process, he says.
Anecdotal accounts suggest that men are more likely to be awarded sabbaticals than women, and that those who have been included in a university's REF submission may be considered more favourably for time away, says Copeland, although he is careful to admit to a lack of "hard evidence".
"Any policy a university has should be transparent and should be open to all, regardless of types of contract and subject area," Copeland argues.
Sally Sambrook, professor of human resource development at Bangor University, says that, in her experience, study leave is "now almost entirely linked to the REF". For business school academics, this means publishing in journals ranked 3 and 4* by the Association of Business Schools, she explains. "The feeling is: if you haven't published in ABS-listed 3 and 4* journals, or – more importantly – the organisation's REF strategy deemed you weren't submittable, don't bother requesting study leave."
As universities place more emphasis on teaching, however, it will be "interesting to see" whether institutions begin to use sabbaticals to reward academics who do well in this area, Sambrook says. "Anecdotally, [sabbaticals] are more available to research-active academics…The recent focus on National Student Survey scores – and renewed spotlight on teaching and learning – might serve to redress this disparity."
To discover how universities differ in their sabbatical policies, Times Higher Education surveyed higher education institutions and received 34 responses. Five post-92 universities and the London Business School did not offer their academics sabbaticals or study leave, or did not have an explicit policy on them.
The terms and conditions of the 28 institutions that provided details of their policies varied hugely. At some universities, academics earned the automatic right to apply for a semester of sabbatical or study leave for every two to four years of continuous service (at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London, for example). At others, time away from regular duties was awarded on a competitive basis via an application process (such as at the universities of Bath and Northumbria).
Some institutions said that the awarding of breaks depended on the predicted outcomes from an academic's leave. One – St Mary's University, Twickenham – explicitly mentioned its REF 2020 submission.
The length of sabbatical allowed also varied, but the most common period was one of between a single term and a full year. Researchers at 18 institutions remained on full pay for the duration of their leave, whereas those at four – Bucks New University, the University of Northampton, Royal Agricultural University and Bath Spa University – had to forgo their salaries during sabbaticals.
Also notable were big differences in the number of staff typically awarded a sabbatical each year: from a single person at the University of Chichester (in the past 12 months) to about 80 people at the University of Leicester, according to the information provided.
For those lucky enough to be granted a sabbatical, it can be life- and career-changing. Here we hear from five academics who took the plunge into new research directions and new cultures.
'It is one of the best things I have ever done'
The day that Malcolm von Schantz left Brazil, after a year's sabbatical leave there, was a sad one. At the airport, a passport official picked up on his mood and encouraged him to return to the country soon.
Luckily for von Schantz, a reader in molecular neurobiology at the University of Surrey, he has already had the opportunity to go back to Brazil. The time he spent at the University of São Paulo in 2014 has blossomed into a fruitful research collaboration funded by Brazil's National Council for Scientific and Technical Development. Return trips to the country he grew to love so much are now on the cards for the next three years.
Surrey and São Paulo share a postdoctoral researcher who is continuing von Schantz's work in Brazil and Surrey under the universities' joint supervision. "For me, that really adds tremendous value to the sabbatical," he says. "Luckily, I have built an exciting new direction in my research, and I have also found the wherewithal to sustain it."
Von Schantz found that the funding available in Brazil, and São Paulo in particular, has a huge impact on the "dynamic and exciting" atmosphere in the country's universities. "It is an environment where, if you have a good idea, you have a good chance of getting funded.
"There is an excitement and a joy to the whole scientific endeavour [in Brazil] which in Europe and North America is tempered by the huge efforts we have to [make] to get funding for good research."
Von Schantz's sabbatical came after four years of working as associate dean for international relations at Surrey, the last six months of which he served as pro vice-chancellor. In this role, von Schantz helped to set up a partnership with North Carolina State University and the University of São Paulo - and through this he discovered a "very exciting potential research link" in his field of sleep and circadian rhythms at São Paulo.
Armed with a visiting professor's grant from the University of São Paulo to cover his travel and accommodation expenses, his regular salary from Surrey, and with the majority of his teaching responsibilities covered, he set off for South America in January of last year.
He joined a research project at the university's Heart Institute, which studies a unique population of the small town of Baependi in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, where locals have a traditional, conservative lifestyle governed by the rising and setting of the sun. His work looks at the genetic markers found in people with preferences for mornings and evenings, and takes in sleep disorders. "It is a novel sample for me, and I get my teeth into big data and work with genome-wide association studies," he says.
The experience exceeded all of von Schantz's expectations, and he "loved every aspect" of it. "It really is one of the best
things I have ever done." A sabbatical affords "a chance to focus on the points of the job that you enjoy the most – so it probably doesn't matter where you are".
"I came back with a very different attitude. I [still] feel energised and excited, and I have more of a perspective on my research. I am approaching a lot of the topics that I teach in a different way," he notes.
Von Schantz was also intrigued by cultural differences he observed. One of the most striking was faculty greetings – the norm in Brazil being to exchange kisses with female colleagues and hugs with male ones. "The tactile style that comes naturally to Brazilians would make an Anglo-Saxon human resources department run for cover," he jokes.
'It has turned into a really meaningful, collegial engagement'
One thing Alex Smith learned a lot about during his sabbatical was basketball. That had nothing to do with his research; it was more that he spent six months at the University of Kansas – where the sport was popularised by its inventor.
"The academics take it seriously," observes Smith, a senior Leverhulme research fellow and assistant professor of sociology at the University of Warwick, who notes that sport is not always held in the same high esteem in the UK academy.
Smith was an early career researcher, and had completed his PhD, when he took his family to the college town of Lawrence, Kansas, to complete fieldwork as part of his research fellowship into American democracy. At the time, he was a Leverhulme early career fellow in the now-defunct sociology department at the University of Birmingham.
The practicalities worked out nicely. He was sponsored as a visiting scholar by the department of political science at Kansas to get the necessary visa. As well as continuing to draw his salary, he received a grant from Leverhulme to cover his fieldwork costs. A grant from Birmingham covered the cost of a rental car and other minor items. And during his time in Kansas, he house-sat for a local law academic who was also on sabbatical, so he only had to cover payment of the utility bills.
Smith was "pleasantly surprised" by the quality of the research he encountered and by the commitment to writing books among his US colleagues. In the UK, "with the research excellence framework, a lot of emphasis is placed on getting articles done; but I think there is a real commitment in American academia to the monograph as a significant intellectual contribution. I was really excited when I met lots of other academics who are passionate about writing books."
Towards the end of his six-month stint in the US, the university's sociology department invited him to present a paper about his work. "It was one of those funny little moments when you meet your audience and these people just instinctively understood what the project was about and why it was important," he says. Many were interested in the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism, which is in line with the theoretical interests of his work.
The department offered Smith a position as an adjunct assistant professor alongside his Birmingham position, and since then he has built up a project about democracy and religion and has returned once or twice a year for fieldwork. "It has turned into a really meaningful…collegial engagement."
He also sits on a PhD advisory board at Kansas and has sponsored several Kansas scholars to visit the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study.
Smith views the links that he has built in Kansas as "crucial" to his research. Colleagues from Kansas were able to put him in touch with "really useful gatekeepers" high up in the local political scene. "I could have done a version of what I am doing without them, but the study would have been impoverished had I not benefited from those links," he explains.
Taking his family with him on his sabbatical also paid unexpected dividends. His daughter, who was then 11, attended a local elementary school and there befriended the daughter of the state's attorney general. "He'd come and pick [his daughter] up, and we'd have a beer in the lounge while they finished playing. I'd talk about my research and he'd offer help. It was just brilliant." Smith's wife, meanwhile, took a period of unpaid leave from her job at a further education college in the UK and volunteered at the local hospital and homeless shelter in Lawrence.
But the highlight of his trip was the "hospitality and intellectual companionship" that he found in Lawrence.
On one occasion, a professor of political science at Kansas invited Smith and his family to his home for Thanksgiving dinner. This led to another lasting effect of his sabbatical - an aversion to pecan pie. Smith was the only one of the 20 or so gathered who ate it and subsequently developed food poisoning. "I've never been able to eat it since," he says.
'The main thing I got was confidence. I learned so much'
It basically changed everything," Alan McNally, a reader in microbial genomics in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University, says of his sabbatical. "I know that sounds very evangelical," McNally says, but he insists that the time he spent in 2012-13 made "a huge difference" to the trajectory of his research career.
The reason for his enthusiasm is that McNally's sabbatical steered him into a new area of research. When he made his application, he was a senior lecturer working in the area of classic bacterial genetics, and he had a PhD student who was working on genome sequencing techniques - an area that McNally felt he could learn more about.
"I started to feel that, as a supervisor and a principal investigator, my skill sets weren't where they should be," he says. "I felt that if I were going to do this work properly, then I really needed a good working knowledge of the methods that were used."
McNally worried over this for about a year before he received a departmental email soliciting sabbatical proposals. He replied with a proposal involving his spending a year learning about the processes involved in genome sequencing, arguing that it would allow him better to supervise his students and also strengthen the department's research.
Nottingham Trent uses some of its quality-related research funding for a sabbatical scheme that buys out the teaching duties of selected staff so that they can concentrate on research, McNally explains. During his leave year, he went on training courses and spent time at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, with which he had worked before.
He also spent some time in Germany in the laboratories of collaborators at the University of Münster and at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, a publicly funded research institute.
McNally is married and has a young son. He arranged his sabbatical schedule to spend only relatively short periods away from home so that he did not miss too much family time. The nature ofthe work meant that he could continue to do a lot at Nottingham Trent, he adds.
The sabbatical allowed him to dive into an exciting new research area, but, he says: "I think the main thing that I got was confidence. I learned so much in the year. I built up a huge number of new collaborators and got access to lots of new datasets, and as a result of the analysis that I did that year we published five new papers on genome sequence analysiswhich then got me invited to a couple of really big microbial genomics conferences where I got to present."
He adds that his "publication trajectory has just improved no end, and I am finding it much easier to go to the leading people in the field and ask them if they would like to collaborate on grant proposals and papers. My research profile just totally changed as a result."
McNally secured a promotion to reader last year, and he is "convinced" that the effects of his sabbatical made all the difference. His advice for others thinking of taking one is to "just do it".
'It was almost cathartic to have the mental space to complete things and to think'
Sonia Livingstone enjoyed being able to think things through and set her own "intellectual direction" while on her two‑year sabbatical. "If I imagine myself doing that, I am probably sitting in a cafe somewhere in America. You just take your laptop; nobody can reach you, you can just concentrate – and someone keeps bringing you more coffee."
She was disappointed by the lack of similar establishments when she returned home. "When you finish your coffee in London, they look at you like, 'Time to go!', and you can't get out your laptop because there is not enough space on the table," says Livingstone, professor of social psychology at the London School of Economics.
But there was not always time for quiet contemplation over a coffee; Livingstone finds academic life a "juggling" act, and her sabbatical spanning 2012-14 was no different.
It came after a three-year stint leading the LSE's department of media and communications. At the LSE, those who have been head of department "earn" one semester per year served to concentrate on research, a "vital" perk to help the transition back into research from administration, Livingstone says.
But the second year of her sabbatical was exceptional, and the additional time was cobbled together from a mixture of teaching relief for serving on a research excellence framework subpanel, teaching buyout for her work on a European Commission project and a secondment to Microsoft in Massachusetts.
In fact, she was away on sabbatical so long that, on her first day back at the LSE, she got lost. The institution had acquired a new teaching building, and she went to the wrong place for a class.
The two "completely wonderful" years away form a "landmark" in a "rushed" career, she says. "There was something almost cathartic in having the mental space to really complete things in a way that I felt satisfied with, and in having the opportunity to think about what I wanted to do when I returned."
She began her sabbatical with three weeks in Venice Beach "decompressing" and getting her "mind back into writing". She was visiting the LSE's partner institution, the University of Southern California, which put her up in Santa Monica.
Over the two years, Livingstone spent a large chunk of her time writing a book about how digital media are shaping the lives of teenagers. The ethnography of 28 13-year-olds is based on research she did while head of department.
Without the sabbatical, Livingstone says, the quality of the book and her ability to meet other commitments may have suffered. "I don't think it would have been as well written and thought through if I was writing it in bits and pieces…which would have sold the whole project short."
Also consuming her time was the conclusion of the EU Kids Online project, European Commission-funded research that involved 33 countries and began in 2006. As director of the project, she was responsible for writing the final report, budgets and making presentations to policymakers. Without the break, she notes, presenting the findings would have been very difficult to fit in because policymakers do not respect teaching timetables.
She also spent three months at Microsoft's social media laboratory. During this time, she familiarised herself with related research going on at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which are close by.
Livingstone remembers mathematicians swarming around the whiteboard in a public area of the Microsoft laboratory and scrawling equations all over it. "I would think, 'Well, I can try to enter this conversation and be multidisciplinary, but I may have reached my limits!'."
But her time at Microsoft "shook" her up and allowed her "to think differently", she says. "You can become a little too focused on just putting one foot in front of the other… I feel a new impetus – not only energy but [also drive] to do the best work that I can," she adds.
'At the end, I could see that work in a very clear and very different way'
Tim Darvill is something of a veteran when it comes to sabbaticals: the professor of archaeology at Bournemouth University has taken three.
The most recent, which he describes as "very valuable", was focused on writing up fieldwork reports after an excavation at Stonehenge.
In archaeology, sabbaticals also afford academics a vital opportunity to spend time at historical sites and to visit excavations and museums to examine recently discovered material, he explains, which helps to inform both teaching and research.
Darvill's favourite moment came while working on pottery from the Neolithic period. "The ability to get all the pottery out from one of the excavations and spend some time with it and understand it…was very fulfilling.
"At the end of doing that piece of work, I could see that pottery assemblage in a very clear and very different way than…if I had done it in a very mechanistic, time-pressured way. The value and the delight was an opportunity to have a piece of work that I could do at my own pace."
During the year-long sabbatical in 2009-10, half of which was spent at Bournemouth and the other half at the University of Oxford, he also enjoyed finding the time to read documents that "would have been left on the shelf in the priority of day-to-day activity normally".
His previous sabbaticals were shorter, lasting three months each, and took place 10 to 15 years ago. One was based around a project to set up a system for recording archaeological work, and the other involved a survey of "at risk" monuments for English Heritage.
"So many things are crowded into one's timetable that, in order to make time for research and professional practice, a sabbatical is almost essential," Darvill argues. He hopes to apply for another "before too long".
A lift for mind and body: how to make the most of a study break
A collaboration that began in 1896 with the sabbatical of a young American biologist, Marcella O'Grady, in the laboratory of German biologist Theodor Boveri eventually led her to translate his monograph on the chromosomal theory of cancer, which introduced it to the world – and the pair also got married.
This story highlighting the transformative power of a sabbatical is cited in a paper by Thomas Erren, a professor at the University of Cologne, and Melissa Nise, titled "How to have an effective academic sabbatical: recommendations for what to do and what to avoid".
Before embarking on sabbatical, they advise, academics should define their goals, including setting realistic research objectives and thinking about how the break might bring new impetus to their teaching.
The timing must be chosen carefully. It's also worth considering family companionship, which can be a "significant asset of a sabbatical", says the paper, published in Neuroendocrinology Letters.
While on sabbatical, it is important to take control of one's time and work, and keep schedules flexible. Academics should also limit contact with their home institution and give themselves time to relax, the authors advise.
"This is 'a time for renewal, reflection and rejuvenation', not a 'pack-as-much-as-you-can-in-a-sabbatical' vacation," argue Erren and Nise.
On returning to normal working life, researchers should share what they have learned with their colleagues and nurture the contacts they have made. And they should not forget to thank those who granted and made possible the "special gift of a sabbatical".
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Building sustainability into investment decisions
"Capital investments made by organisations result in the commitment of significant resources to projects expected (in most cases) to enhance the value of the organisation and/or provide shared community benefits over time."
An Australian study reveals trends in incorporating sustainability impacts when making capital investment decisions
The past decade has seen the emergence of significant interest in the way in which financial markets respond to environmental and social factors. Part of this trend has emerged out of the socially responsible investment movement, designed to offer investors the capacity to both positively and negatively screen their portfolios based on the responsibility characteristics of particular companies and their products. Impetus was added by the global financial crisis and responses to climate change.
As such, there is now a relatively high level of understanding on the availability of resources enabling the channelling of financial capital based on environmental and social risk and opportunity. The other significant flow of capital occurs within companies themselves, predominately through their capital investment strategies. Here our level of understanding is less developed. It is thus important to explore the extent to which established methods of capital investment appraisal are being adapted, or supplemented, to aid management in their decision-making across a widening range of financial and non-financial performance factors.
Capital investments made by organisations result in the commitment of significant resources to projects expected (in most cases) to enhance the value of the organisation and/or provide shared community benefits over time. Capital investment decisions are usually long-term and require significant resources. As yet minimal research exists to demonstrate how sustainability-related impacts are included in everyday capital investment appraisal. Indirect sustainability investment is where the sustainability impacts of routine capital budgeting projects are understood as 'indirect' to the proposal, but can be isolated in analysis. These are contrasted with direct sustainability investments when there is a deliberate choice to invest in sustainability assets. Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) of Australia has been able to explore indirect sustainability investment practice from the perspective of management decision-making and the use of associated tools.
Similarly, we do not know to what extent traditional or alternative sustainability-focused models are currently being used by companies. Little is known about the extent to which professional boundaries are drawn when sustainability-related expertise is required.
Most studies reveal the popularity of particular techniques and tools developed over decades. These show that corporations prioritise discounted cash flow techniques, such as net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR). Good practice guidance suggests discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis is the more appropriate tool from which to evaluate an organisation's capital expenditures. More sophisticated capital budgeting techniques being used include real options, the Monte Carlo simulation, decision trees, and sensitivity analyses. When cash flow projections or risk profiling is challenging, it is argued that 'real options' theory may offer flexibility over DCF techniques alone.
With the view to developing a fuller understanding, CPA Australia, in collaboration with the International Federation of Accountants and HRH The Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Project, undertook a survey of current practice in 2012. The study forms the platform for further investigation, by way of case studies, both in Australia and internationally.
A sample was selected to reflect organisations where sustainability-related issues are more likely to be present. As a result, two databases were combined to generate the sample. These were the Australian Stock Exchange top 300 companies (ASX300) and the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) register, which includes organisations that meet threshold levels of emissions as required by the Australian government. The project had 139 respondents commence the survey and complete at least portions of it, representing a 23% response rate. Some 69 respondents completed the majority of the survey (a response rate of 11.5%). Most respondent organisations were either private companies (40%); publicly listed (33%) companies or government entities (14%). The more dominant industry classifications were manufacturing and automotive (22%), transportation (20%) and mining (14%).
As with other studies, CPA Australia's study notes the use of multiple methods for capital appraisal. The most widely used method (76.8% of respondents in this study) is net present value, which is shown to be the preferred tool in similar studies. This study shows less use of internal rate of return (55%), accounting rate of return (58%), payback (58%) and sensitivity analysis (43.4%). The second most used method for capital appraisal is cost–benefit analysis (61% of respondents), which interestingly has not featured prominently in previous studies. Other contemporary methods also used in the appraisal process are life cycle costing (29%), real options (24.6%), decision trees (17.4%) and economic value added (EVA) (17.4%). The least used methods are Monte Carlo simulation (8.6%) and marginal abatement curves (1%).
For each appraisal tool, respondents were further asked to identify its use in a range of investment decisions. For strategic and operational/replacement investment decisions, respondents adopt a multifaceted approach, not only using capital appraisal tools that rely on quantitative data but also incorporating qualitative analysis through the use of cost–benefit analysis, life cycle costing and sensitivity analysis.
Turning to some of the more specific sustainability related findings:
In building an understanding of the role of sustainability in decision-making, respondents were asked whether systems flag when sustainability-related data are required. Only 16% of respondents agreed that they used screening techniques to flag requirements for sustainability-related data collection. Similarly, there were mixed views on whether the financial effects of sustainability initiatives were specifically tracked (32% agreed, 33% disagreed). It appears that the major hurdles to the inclusion of sustainability-related impacts in capital appraisal are measurement difficulties, coupled with the lack of available data, cost of external expertise, and the cost of data collection.
Respondent comments also suggest that organisations are in the early stages of sustainability-related data collection and are currently building up the necessary resources and skills. One possible explanation for not including sustainability-related impacts in capital investment appraisal is that sustainability-related issues may be viewed more as a corporate-wide issue rather than specific to individual projects. This is partly supported by the 45% of respondents who report that they treat sustainability-related issues as corporate-wide rather than individual project overheads.
The decision type seems to have some influence over the use of different appraisal tools. Some differences occur in the prominence of using appraisal tools, whether the decision is more strategic or related to operational/replacement, occupational health and safety (OH&S) or to some other regulation. The decision type also seems to influence the extent of the use of qualitative data – and the mix between quantitative and qualitative data – in capital investment appraisal. Key sustainability-related items that are included in capital investment appraisal include OH&S compliance, employee health and well-being effects, the impact on brand and reputation, and clean-up and remediation costs.
Some final insights into the changing role of professional accountants, in Australia and, we believe by implication, internationally. Accounting staff seem to hold a more traditional view of accounting than we might otherwise expect, yet play a relatively minor role in initiating sustainability-related factors for consideration. They have a slightly greater role in verifying sustainability data and are slightly less involved than others in dealing with qualitative data.
John Purcell is Policy Advisor in Capital Corporate Regulation, CPA Australia
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