The local agricultural community exchange: outcomes and lessons learned from a public-private initiative to revitalize a downtown community

This brief describes a revitalization project in Barre, Vermont, led by a public-private partnership involving the Agricultural Community Exchange, the Central Vermont Community Action Council, and the private businesses that operated out of the storefront. The Nancy Nye Fellowship, through the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, supported the evaluation of the project from 2007 to 2010. After four years of operation, the market, café, and Gallery closed due to economic hardship. Author Michele Schmidt, the 2008 recipient of the Nancy Nye Fellowship, examines the impact the initiative had on community revitalization and economic development, and she cites the recommendations offered by the staff and vendors

Milwaukee County-Funded Parks and Cultural Institutions

The Public Policy Forum's role in the Audit of Greater Milwaukee's Regional Cultural Assets was to examine the fiscal condition of those cultural assets owned and/or funded by Milwaukee County: the Milwaukee Public Museum, Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee County War Memorial Center, Milwaukee County Historical Society, Charles Allis Museum, Villa Terrace Decorative Art Museum, Milwaukee County Cultural Artistic and Musical Programming Advisory Council, Milwaukee County Zoo and Milwaukee County Parks

Galaxy-CMB Cross-Correlation as a Probe of Alternative Models of Gravity

Bekenstein's alternative to general relativity, TeVeS, reduces to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) in the galactic limit. On cosmological scales, the (potential well overdensity) relationship is quite different than in standard general relativity. Here we investigate the possibility of cross-correlating galaxies with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to probe this relationship. At redshifts of order 2, the sign of the CMB-galaxy correlation differs in TeVeS from that in general relativity. We show that this effect is detectable and hence can serve as a powerful discriminator of these two models of gravity.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, revised version re-submitted to Phys. Rev.

Radical Access: Textiles and Museums

This presentation discusses recent initiatives at Glenbow and Nickle Galleries that endeavor to provide new, radical levels of access to textile collections as a means to build community and affect creativity. While locking textiles away in environmentally controlled rooms and minimizing handling are useful methods for preservation, they are less effective in building vibrant communities or creating future relevance form museum collections. This paper, building on Hemming’s post-colonial textile theory, as well as Onciul’s theories on decolonizing engagement, challenge the apparent dichotomy between access and preservation. It argues that preservation without radical access, without shared community meaning making, without respecting the inherent kinship of museum textiles, is unattainable. This apparent stalemate is a relic of museums’ colonial past where institutional priorities have tended to exclude consideration of source communities’ needs. With textile collections, their physical well-being has been prioritized over their ongoing relationships with cultural groups. The concept of radicalizing access is an approach that both the Nickle Galleries and Glenbow are exploring in order to transform their relationships with the communities they serve. Schmidt will discuss how Glenbow is taking responsibility for previously stripping culture from Indigenous people and how connecting community members with textile collections is affecting reconciliation. A recent project involves connecting Indigenous foster children with textiles, enhancing their awareness and experience of Indigenous Culture. Hardy will discuss ongoing teaching efforts with the Nickle’s Afghan textiles, enhancing awareness of refugee’s experiences of war. Other initiatives involve connecting artists and the Nickle’s textile collections, fostering new creative research. Both sets of examples illustrate how radical access can shift the balance of power between museums and source communities and enable shared meaning making or abrogating that right-enhancing the relevance and ongoing preservation of textiles and communities of textile users

An Economic Approach to Article 82

This report argues in favour of an economics-based approach to Article 82, in a way similar to the reform of Article 81 and merger control. In particular, we support an effects-based rather than a form-based approach to competition policy. Such an approach focuses on the presence of anti-competitive effects that harm consumers, and is based on the examination of each specific case, based on sound economics and grounded on facts

An Economic Approach to Article 82 - Report by the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy

This report argues in favour of an economics-based approach to Article 82, in a way similar to the reform of Article 81 and merger control. In particular, we support an effects-based rather than a form-based approach to competition policy. Such an approach focuses on the presence of anti-competitive effects that harm consumers, and is based on the examination of each specific case, based on sound economics and grounded on facts.Competition Policy; Abuse of Market Power; Article 82

Multifocal High-Grade Pancreatic Precursor Lesions: A Case Series and Management Recommendations

Background: The risk of developing invasive cancer in the remnant pancreas after resection of multifocal high-grade pancreatic precursor lesions is not well known. We report three patients who were followed up after resection of multifocal high-grade pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN)-3 or intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia (IPMN), two of whom eventually developed invasive carcinoma. Presentation: 1) 68-year-old woman who had a laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy for multifocal mixed-type IPMN, identified as high-grade on final pathology, with negative surgical margins. During semiannual monitoring, eight years from the first surgery, the patient developed suspicious features prompting surgical resection of the body with final pathology revealing invasive ductal adenocarcinoma in the setting of IPMN. 2) 48-year-old woman who had a distal pancreatectomy for severe acute/chronic symptomatic pancreatitis, with final pathology revealing multifocal high-grade PanIN-3, with negative surgical margins. Despite semiannual monitoring, two years from the first surgery, the patient developed pancreatic adenocarcinoma with liver metastasis. 3) 55-year-old woman who had a Whipple procedure for symptomatic chronic pancreatitis, with multifocal PanIN-3 on final pathology. The patient underwent completion pancreatectomy due to symptomatology and her high-risk profile, with final pathology confirming multifocal PanIN-3. Conclusion: Multifocal high-grade dysplastic lesions of the pancreas might benefit from surgical resection

An Economic Approach to Article 82

This report argues in favour of an economics-based approach to Article 82, in a way similar to the reform of Article 81 and merger control. In particular, we support an effects-based rather than a form-based approach to competition policy. Such an approach focuses on the presence of anti-competitive effects that harm consumers, and is based on the examination of each specific case, based on sound economics and grounded on facts.competition policy; abuse of market power

Economia circular aplicada a estoque de produtos acabados: Estudo de caso em uma empresa de confecção de vestuário esportivo

TCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Campus Blumenau. Engenharia TêxtilO atual mercado competitivo requer que as empresas adquiram agilidade para enfrentar mudanças no cenário econômico, desenvolvendo estratégias que viabilizem uma redução de custos e aumento de lucro. Um desafio comum em empresas é manter o estoque compatível com a demanda real. Neste contexto, realizou-se um estudo de caso em uma empresa de confecção têxtil com o objetivo de propor sugestões e estratégias para a recirculação de produtos acabados estocados na cadeia de valor da empresa. Através de pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo, conceitos e princípios que se adequassem às necessidades da empresa foram aprofundados. Dentre as propostas de mudança encontra-se o conceito de Economia Circular (EC), que busca a circularidade de ativos como um novo modelo de negócio. A EC estimula novas práticas de gestão e descortina novas oportunidades criando valor às organizações. Assim, propôs-se a implantação da EC atrelada a conceitos de gerenciamento de estoque para redução de 32% da área total do setor de estoque de produto acabado, design de moda para agregar beleza a estes produtos em uma nova coleção, previsão adequada de venda para evitar novos acúmulos de produtos, estratégias para conquistar clientes e ter sucesso nas vendas, e iniciativas gerencias para alavancar o crescimento de forma dinâmica da empresa no futuro. Desta forma, pretendeu-se iniciar uma pesquisa que permita em trabalhos futuros a construção da implementação e benefícios efetivos da EC no contexto da empresa estudada