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Building on previous work by Castells, and Adler and Brenner, I explore the public character of a lesbian concentration in the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts. From the late 1980s this area has gained national media attention for its lesbian population. Using a number of data sources I examine how lesbian residences and services are distributed in the Valley. I find a strong service core in the small city of Northampton, but residences, while showing some clustering around Northampton, reach well into a rural hinterland. In these rural towns lesbians live at low physical densities while forming relatively high proportions of the towns' populations. Unlike previous studies of gay male and lesbian space that have tended to focus on center cities, this paper starts to chart this space on the low‐density, semirural edge of a metropolitan area. Previous studies of residential concentrations of gay and lesbian persons have also found highly visible gay male territories ‐ sometimes with a lesbian minority ‐ but showed lesbians forming social networks or somewhat underground concentrations. Several parts of the Valley area are different; comprising a visibly lesbian space. This paper contributes to analyses of diverse populations in contemporary metropolitan and exurban regions and to discussions of methods in research on lesbian and gay populations.

Discusses the economic and political situation in Uzbekistan. Some say the Fergana Valley is a hotbed of extremism. But Russia and Eurasia Programme Manager James Nixey found it exciting for quite different reasons. Adapted from the source document.

Kiam is frustrated in that his life appears to be going nowhere. He is a city boy, but is then confronted with the opportunity to inherit an abandoned farm in a remote tribal district. Will it be a new beginning or a disaster? What will the Valley of Weeping hold?The novel explores the cultural differences and the racial polarization that was typical of South Africa before 1994, and portrays the climatic and geographical qualities of this part of the world

"Warum Blockchain?", ist eine der am häufigsten gestellten Fragen. Diese und viele weitere Fragen werden in diesem Buch über Blockchain einfach und verständlich beantwortet. Die Autoren, Michael Lewrick und Christian Di Giorgio, arbeiten mit Unternehmen, Investoren, Start-ups und anderen Akteuren im Krypto-Valley, Schweiz. Mit "Live aus dem Krypto-Valley" geben sie einen einmaligen Einblick, wie neue Business Ökosysteme gestaltet werden, für welche Vorhaben sich ICOs eignen, und wie neue Marktopportunitäten und Wachstumsmärkte mittels Blockchain-Technologie erschlossen werden können. (Verlagstext)

• Opsomming: Die afbrand van plase en die vernietiging van eiendom gedurende die Tweede Anglo-Boereoorlog het talle boere en veral bywoners sonder heenkome gelaat. Om die konsentrasiekampe te sluit en rantsoenering te staak, is die Relief Works Department in Julie 1902 in die lewe geroep. Met die bou van besproeiingsdamme op regeringsplase is werkgeleentheid geskep waar verarmde Afrikaners 'n vasgestelde loon kon verdien. Een van hierdie onderstandskemas, naamlik Mushroom Valley in die Winburg-distrik, word in meer besonderhede behandel deur aandag te gee aan die lewens- en werksomstandighede, huisvesting, onderwysfasiliteite en kerklike bearbeiding. Die onverwagte beëindiging van die onderstandswerke en die oordrag van die gedeeltelik voltooide skema aan die landnedersettingsraad het tot gevolg gehad dat 'relief works' 'n verdere twispunt tussen die Afrikaners en die koloniale owerheid geword het. ; • Summary: Farm burning and the destruction of property during the Second Anglo-Boer War left many farmers destitute, especially the 'bywoners' or squatters. In July 1902 the Relief Works Department was constituted to provide employment for indigent burghers and to assist in the closing of the concentration camps. The relief works consisted mainly of the building of irrigation dams on government farms, enabling poor whites-to earn a wage. Mushroom Valley relief camp in the Winburg district is discussed in more detail, with regard to the working and living conditions, housing, educational facilities and the ministration of the church. The abrupt cessation of the relief works and the transfer of the partially-completed irrigation schemes to the Land Settlement Department became a matter of contention between the Afrikaners and the colonial government.

Energie ist seit der Wende zum 21. Jahrhundert wieder zu einem großen Thema geworden. Die stark gestiegene Nachfrage nach Energie in Asien hat zu einer Explosion der Energiekosten geführt. Die Verbindung dieses Kostendrucks mit der Finanzkrise harrt noch der genaueren Untersuchung. Nach der Reaktorkatastrophe in Japan versucht man in Deutschland und Bayern, eine schnelle Wende hin zu erneuerbaren Energien zu realisieren. Die Energiewende ist ein ehrgeiziges Ziel Deutschlands, das nur gelingen kann, wenn Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft eng miteinander zusammenarbeiten. Die TU München hat mit der Gründung der Munich School of Engineering (MSE) ein integriertes Forschungszentrum geschaffen, um Forschung über die Grenzen der Fakultäten hinaus zu initiieren und zu koordinieren. Mit TUM.Energy Valley Bavaria verfügt die MSE über ein Forschungsvorhaben, das sehr konkrete Herausforderungen der Energiewende angehen kann. Um diese Herausforderung aber in der ganzen Breite angehen zu können, fanden drei verschiedene Organisationsformen der Forschung Anwendung: die Interfakultäre Zusammenarbeit, die Förderung von Nachwuchsgruppen und SeedFunding-Projekten. Das interfakultäre Projekt "Flexible Kraftwerke" soll zuerst die Anforderungen an zukünftige klassische Kraftwerke in einem zunehmenden erneuerbaren Erzeugungsmix identifizieren, um dann auch in experimentellen Arbeiten Möglichkeiten aufzuzeigen, wie diese Kraftwerke in Zukunft gebaut werden können. Die Nachwuchsgruppen in den Bereichen "Smart Cities", "Organische Photovoltaik" und "Control of Renewable Energy Systems" sollen insbesondere die ungehemmte Kreativität junger Wissenschaftler frei setzen. Die Seed-Funding-Projekte dienen insbesondere dazu, die verschiedenen Wissenschaftler an der Universität für neue Projekte zusammenzubringen, um erst wesentliche Fragestellungen zu identifizieren und dann in neue Projekte umzusetzen. Das Projekt zeigt insbesondere die ungeheure Breite der möglichen Energieforschung an Universitäten und damit einen der Wege, wie die Energiewende langfristig zu einem großen Erfolg werden kann.

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener--stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry's shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand. --

Since the turn of the millennium, the landscape of development in Africa has undergone a dramatic shift. China has significantly expanded its foreign aid and investment in the region, decentering the West as Africa's main development partner. What is largely missing from China-Africa scholarship, however, is attention to how the new Chinese presence in Africa is both embedded in and altering everyday social relations. This article examines these issues in a rural setting in Uganda that is in the midst of a large-scale transformation into a China-funded industrial park. It reveals that the complex new politics of Chinese development assistance are intertwined with, and often exacerbate, existing social inequalities based in politics, class, ethnicity, and race. More conceptually, these dynamics demonstrate the need to rethink how we frame development as a transnational field of social practice. China is more than an outlier within the global field of development and instead should be viewed as pursuing its own form of development, what I call "developmental pragmatism." As this case study illustrates, this developmental pragmatism often turns on synergies between the business-focused development approach of the Chinese and the priorities of more authoritarian governments—synergies that require much greater critical attention.