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Topping it off: il modello proposto con i progettisti della Public SchoolDao Yi Chow e Maxwell Osborne che ha creato i tappi insieme all'etichetta New Era
Il modello ha sormontato lo sguardo con un tappo della nuova collezione che è una collaborazione da andare alla società sportiva caps New Era e New York design label Public School.
Mettersi in piedi con Martha era il collega Jacquelyn Jablonski, che indossava un look vestito di jeans leggermente ardito con un merletto semi-puro e una giacca di pelle.
In merito all'azione: Mentre il baseball non può essere il suo gioco, anche la star di calcio Victor Cruz ha partecipato all'evento
Anche l'evento è stato Kylie Jenner's bestiesJordyn Woods e Justine Skye.
Justine era certamente difficile perdere indossando pantaloni pieghettati a gambe larghe e una camicia tagliata in flanella di corrispondenza.
Mentre il baseball non può essere il suo gioco, anche la star del calcio Victor Cruz ha partecipato all'evento.
Ora che le celebrità sono state cancellate, l'artigianale di pizza servirà come un negozio pop-up dove i fan di moda possono ottenere le mani sul sicuro per essere cappelli a desiderare.
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'La nostra piccola principessa è stata così fortunata': la gioia del Padre come. Madre dell'attrice figlia raffigurata abbracciando una polizia femminile. Gran Bretagna sul blocco: l'esercito esercita 1.000 armati pesantemente. Le foto scrosciate di residui bruciati di bomber suicida Sceneggiatura di scene di cuore come madre di 15 anni Orrore sul M6: il conducente di autocarri viene arrestato dopo quattro anni Melania dice che pregherà ogni giorno per essere ricoverato in ospedale. Il negozio di burrito delle donne bianche è costretto a chiudere dopo. I turisti guardano in orrore come l'arresto dell'uomo di polizia armata, mentre il commediante Jason Manford elimina Twitter dopo esserlo. È trovato. 'Non ho dimenticato quello che hai detto!' Trump dice a Papa dopo. Melania e Ivanka indossano velature nere per incontrare il Papa a. La polizia armata arresta il sospetto della bomba di Manchester 'con' quasi lontano dalle lacrime ': il selfie finale dei genitori polacchi: la polizia armata ei soldati hanno attaccato il centro di Manchester.
Topping it off: il modello proposto con i progettisti della Public SchoolDao Yi Chow e Maxwell Osborne che ha creato i tappi insieme all'etichetta New Era
Il modello ha sormontato lo sguardo con un tappo della nuova collezione che è una collaborazione da andare alla società sportiva caps New Era e New York design label Public School.
Mettersi in piedi con Martha era il collega Jacquelyn Jablonski, che indossava un look vestito di jeans leggermente ardito con un merletto semi-puro e una giacca di pelle.
In merito all'azione: Mentre il baseball non può essere il suo gioco, anche la star di calcio Victor Cruz ha partecipato all'evento
Anche l'evento è stato Kylie Jenner's bestiesJordyn Woods e Justine Skye.
Justine era certamente difficile perdere indossando pantaloni pieghettati a gambe larghe e una camicia tagliata in flanella di corrispondenza.
Mentre il baseball non può essere il suo gioco, anche la star del calcio Victor Cruz ha partecipato all'evento.
Ora che le celebrità sono state cancellate, l'artigianale di pizza servirà come un negozio pop-up dove i fan di moda possono ottenere le mani sul sicuro per essere cappelli a desiderare.
Video più noti guardati EXCLUSIVE: aereo Ariana Grande arriva indietro negli Stati Uniti Uomo senza dimora descrive come ha aiutato dopo l'attacco di Manchester Occhio testimone descrive macchare l'attaccante di Manchester Moment bomba esplode al concerto di Ariana Grande L'uomo è arrestato dalla polizia al di fuori di Buckingham Palace Papa Francesco benedice FLOTUS Melania Trump rosario perline Taglienti enormi su M6 come polizia dopo il crash tra camion e auto Gli ufficiali forensi attaccano il bombardiere suicida di Manchester Sangue visto gocciolare dalla gamba vittima dopo il video di Manchester Sickening avverte di più attacchi dopo che Manchester Martyn Hett compare in serie una delle coppie Vieni a cenare con me La madre della vittima di attacco di Manchester Georgina Callander rilascia palloncini
'La nostra piccola principessa è stata così fortunata': la gioia del Padre come. Madre dell'attrice figlia raffigurata abbracciando una polizia femminile. Gran Bretagna sul blocco: l'esercito esercita 1.000 armati pesantemente. Le foto scrosciate di residui bruciati di bomber suicida Sceneggiatura di scene di cuore come madre di 15 anni Orrore sul M6: il conducente di autocarri viene arrestato dopo quattro anni Melania dice che pregherà ogni giorno per essere ricoverato in ospedale. Il negozio di burrito delle donne bianche è costretto a chiudere dopo. I turisti guardano in orrore come l'arresto dell'uomo di polizia armata, mentre il commediante Jason Manford elimina Twitter dopo esserlo. È trovato. 'Non ho dimenticato quello che hai detto!' Trump dice a Papa dopo. Melania e Ivanka indossano velature nere per incontrare il Papa a. La polizia armata arresta il sospetto della bomba di Manchester 'con' quasi lontano dalle lacrime ': il selfie finale dei genitori polacchi: la polizia armata ei soldati hanno attaccato il centro di Manchester.
Sona sweetens proposed capital repayment
KUALA LUMPUR: Sona Petroleum Bhd, which is making its second attempt at a qualifying acquisition (QA), has sweetened its proposed capital repayment that is conditional on shareholders approving its US$25mil (RM96.9mil) purchase of Stag Oilfield assets in western Australia.
The special purpose acquisition vehicle told Bursa Malaysia that under the revised plan from the management team, the proposed cash distribution had been fixed at 8 sen per share compared with 0 to 7.1 sen previously. This time the amount does not vary based on the level of share repurchase.
This means the total amount to be distributed will range from about RM68mil (in the case of 25% share repurchase) to RM90mil (without repurchase of Sona shares from dissenting shareholders) compared with 0 to RM80mil previously.
There is no share repurchase threshold condition unlike under the original proposal, whereby the capital repayment would not be done if total payment for share repurchase exceeds copy van cleef turquoise necklace RM60mil.
The source of funds for the repayment may not only be the remaining 20% of the trust amount. It may also include proceeds from the conversion of warrants by Platinum Autumn Sdn Bhd, the company owned by Sona management team.
The new plan requires at least an additional layer of approval that of the Securities Commission to exempt Platinum Autumn from the obligation to undertake a mandatory takeover offer on Sona.
As Platinum Autumn may exercise up to 193.5 million warrants to fund the proposed revised capital repayment, it proposes to vary the timing for the release of the moratorium securities 34% of the securities by Sept 30, 2016, and 66% by Aug 31, 2019 (the one year aniversary of the van cleef and arpel clover necklace knock off renewal of the production licence).
Sona shareholders had on March 30 adjourned its EGM that was supposed to decide on its proposed qualifying acquisition Stag Oilfield assets in western Australia after a request was made to the board to sweeten the proposed capital repayment,
On Wednesday, Sona also announced that the adjourned EGM would be held on April 26 or any further adjournment thereof.
For the deal to pass through, the company must obtain the approval of shareholders representing at least 75% of its issued shares.
This is Sona second attempt after having abandoned its earlier plan to buy a stake in London based Salamander Energy Plc Thai oil and gas blocks for US$281.2mil.
proposed revised capital repayment is intended to reward the company shareholders for their support to the company and the proposed acquisition in an equitable and transparent manner. It provides vintage alhambra necklace knock off upfront value to investors in the form of an immediate cash payment of 8 sen per share or about 17% return based on the share price of 46 sen per share, Sona said.
It added that the exercise of warrants by Platinum Autumn to facilitate the proposed revised capital repayment would involve additional financial commitment by Platinum Autumn, hence showing the management team commitment towards the company and the success of the proposed acquisition.
The proposed revised capital repayment is expected to be completed by the third quarter of this year, subject to all the relevant approvals being obtained and the completion of the proposed acquisition.
KUALA LUMPUR: Sona Petroleum Bhd, which is making its second attempt at a qualifying acquisition (QA), has sweetened its proposed capital repayment that is conditional on shareholders approving its US$25mil (RM96.9mil) purchase of Stag Oilfield assets in western Australia.
The special purpose acquisition vehicle told Bursa Malaysia that under the revised plan from the management team, the proposed cash distribution had been fixed at 8 sen per share compared with 0 to 7.1 sen previously. This time the amount does not vary based on the level of share repurchase.
This means the total amount to be distributed will range from about RM68mil (in the case of 25% share repurchase) to RM90mil (without repurchase of Sona shares from dissenting shareholders) compared with 0 to RM80mil previously.
There is no share repurchase threshold condition unlike under the original proposal, whereby the capital repayment would not be done if total payment for share repurchase exceeds copy van cleef turquoise necklace RM60mil.
The source of funds for the repayment may not only be the remaining 20% of the trust amount. It may also include proceeds from the conversion of warrants by Platinum Autumn Sdn Bhd, the company owned by Sona management team.
The new plan requires at least an additional layer of approval that of the Securities Commission to exempt Platinum Autumn from the obligation to undertake a mandatory takeover offer on Sona.
As Platinum Autumn may exercise up to 193.5 million warrants to fund the proposed revised capital repayment, it proposes to vary the timing for the release of the moratorium securities 34% of the securities by Sept 30, 2016, and 66% by Aug 31, 2019 (the one year aniversary of the van cleef and arpel clover necklace knock off renewal of the production licence).
Sona shareholders had on March 30 adjourned its EGM that was supposed to decide on its proposed qualifying acquisition Stag Oilfield assets in western Australia after a request was made to the board to sweeten the proposed capital repayment,
On Wednesday, Sona also announced that the adjourned EGM would be held on April 26 or any further adjournment thereof.
For the deal to pass through, the company must obtain the approval of shareholders representing at least 75% of its issued shares.
This is Sona second attempt after having abandoned its earlier plan to buy a stake in London based Salamander Energy Plc Thai oil and gas blocks for US$281.2mil.
proposed revised capital repayment is intended to reward the company shareholders for their support to the company and the proposed acquisition in an equitable and transparent manner. It provides vintage alhambra necklace knock off upfront value to investors in the form of an immediate cash payment of 8 sen per share or about 17% return based on the share price of 46 sen per share, Sona said.
It added that the exercise of warrants by Platinum Autumn to facilitate the proposed revised capital repayment would involve additional financial commitment by Platinum Autumn, hence showing the management team commitment towards the company and the success of the proposed acquisition.
The proposed revised capital repayment is expected to be completed by the third quarter of this year, subject to all the relevant approvals being obtained and the completion of the proposed acquisition.
Social Network Tools Have Two Edges
Officer Trey Economidy of the Albuquerque police now realizes that he should have thought harder before listing his occupation on his Facebook profile as "human waste disposal."
After he was involved in a fatal on duty shooting in February, a local television station dug up the Facebook page. Officer Economidy was placed on desk duty, and last month the Albuquerque Police Department announced a new policy to govern officers' use of social networking sites.
Social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter can be valuable assets for law enforcement agencies, helping them alert the public, seek information about crimes and gather evidence about the backgrounds of criminal suspects. But the Internet can also get police departments into trouble.
Public gaffes like Officer Economidy's his cynical job description on Facebook was "extremely inappropriate and a lapse in judgment on my part," he said last week in an e mail are only one of the risks. vintage alhambra necklace knock off A careless posting on a networking site, law enforcement experts say, can endanger an officer's safety, as it did in Santa Monica, Calif., last year when the Police Department went to great lengths to conceal a wounded officer's identity and location, only to have a retired officer inadvertently reveal them on Facebook.
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In an Arkansas case, a federal appeals court cited as evidence of a police officer's character photos he posted on MySpace showing him pointing a gun at the camera, flanked by a skull and the legend "the PUNISHER."
The problem is serious enough that departments across the country are scrambling to develop rules to govern what officers can and cannot do online.
"This is something that all the police chiefs around the country, if you're not dealing with it, you better deal with it," said Mark A. Marshall, chief of police in Smithfield, Va., and the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which has developed its own model policy.
Most social media policies try to balance a police department's interests against First Amendment protections for the officers. Many include prohibitions against posting any statements that could replica van cleef and arpels necklace clover discredit or reflect badly on a department, that illustrate reckless behavior or that disparage people based on race, religion or sexual orientation. Posting crime scene photos or other evidence from criminal cases online is also prohibited by most policies.
Others go further. Albuquerque's policy, for example, prohibits officers from identifying themselves as employees of the Police Department or posting van cleef and arpel clover necklace knock off photos of departmental insignia badges, uniforms, cruisers without permission. And a recent policy by the Police Department in Pueblo, Colo., bans gossiping online with outsiders about department affairs.
Police officials say that the courts have generally upheld restrictions on the speech of government employees when the speech is job related.
But David L. Hudson Jr., a scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, said the lower courts were still sorting out the implications of the Supreme Court's decisions involving job related speech.
"The question of when employees can be disciplined for off duty speech is hazy," he said. "Part of our core nature is what we do for a living, and to prohibit somebody from engaging in any kind of expression related to their job is arguably too broad."
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"You need to get a handle on this very quickly, because this has the potential to damage the reputation of the organization and also adversely affect you in the courtroom," Chief Schultz said, adding that some social media sites appeared to be "like the bathroom wall of 20 years ago, except now the entire world can see it."
His department, he said, has hired a compliance officer to investigate the online presence of any police officer "who comes to the attention of the department," by examining social network pages and running the officer's name through Google.
Officer Trey Economidy of the Albuquerque police now realizes that he should have thought harder before listing his occupation on his Facebook profile as "human waste disposal."
After he was involved in a fatal on duty shooting in February, a local television station dug up the Facebook page. Officer Economidy was placed on desk duty, and last month the Albuquerque Police Department announced a new policy to govern officers' use of social networking sites.
Social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter can be valuable assets for law enforcement agencies, helping them alert the public, seek information about crimes and gather evidence about the backgrounds of criminal suspects. But the Internet can also get police departments into trouble.
Public gaffes like Officer Economidy's his cynical job description on Facebook was "extremely inappropriate and a lapse in judgment on my part," he said last week in an e mail are only one of the risks. vintage alhambra necklace knock off A careless posting on a networking site, law enforcement experts say, can endanger an officer's safety, as it did in Santa Monica, Calif., last year when the Police Department went to great lengths to conceal a wounded officer's identity and location, only to have a retired officer inadvertently reveal them on Facebook.
Continue reading the main story
In an Arkansas case, a federal appeals court cited as evidence of a police officer's character photos he posted on MySpace showing him pointing a gun at the camera, flanked by a skull and the legend "the PUNISHER."
The problem is serious enough that departments across the country are scrambling to develop rules to govern what officers can and cannot do online.
"This is something that all the police chiefs around the country, if you're not dealing with it, you better deal with it," said Mark A. Marshall, chief of police in Smithfield, Va., and the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which has developed its own model policy.
Most social media policies try to balance a police department's interests against First Amendment protections for the officers. Many include prohibitions against posting any statements that could replica van cleef and arpels necklace clover discredit or reflect badly on a department, that illustrate reckless behavior or that disparage people based on race, religion or sexual orientation. Posting crime scene photos or other evidence from criminal cases online is also prohibited by most policies.
Others go further. Albuquerque's policy, for example, prohibits officers from identifying themselves as employees of the Police Department or posting van cleef and arpel clover necklace knock off photos of departmental insignia badges, uniforms, cruisers without permission. And a recent policy by the Police Department in Pueblo, Colo., bans gossiping online with outsiders about department affairs.
Police officials say that the courts have generally upheld restrictions on the speech of government employees when the speech is job related.
But David L. Hudson Jr., a scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, said the lower courts were still sorting out the implications of the Supreme Court's decisions involving job related speech.
"The question of when employees can be disciplined for off duty speech is hazy," he said. "Part of our core nature is what we do for a living, and to prohibit somebody from engaging in any kind of expression related to their job is arguably too broad."
Newsletter Sign Up
Continue reading the main story
"You need to get a handle on this very quickly, because this has the potential to damage the reputation of the organization and also adversely affect you in the courtroom," Chief Schultz said, adding that some social media sites appeared to be "like the bathroom wall of 20 years ago, except now the entire world can see it."
His department, he said, has hired a compliance officer to investigate the online presence of any police officer "who comes to the attention of the department," by examining social network pages and running the officer's name through Google.
Surprise Cape Epic win for SCOTT
The SCOTT SRAM Young Guns crossed the line first in a time of 4:10.00,3 with Schurter and Stirnemann popping wheelies (almost into the fencing) right behind them.
"We are very happy and very surprised. When we looked at the stage, our main aim was just to survive," Frischknecht said.
"But this stage win is amazing; super cool. Riding with Nino and Matthias was great motivation, and when we managed the last sandy climb quite well, we started to think that we could take the stage. It was horrible (up the climb) but we made it."
Overall leaders Manuel Fumic and Henrique Avancini (Cannondale Factory Racing XC) finished third on the day, two and a half minutes off the pace. Their time was enough to retain the yellow zebra leader jersey, though.
Stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic was a 112km trek from Elandskloof near Greyton to Oak Valley Wine Estate in Elgin. It was a day that most expected marathon men Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy (Investec Songo Specialized) to make their move and knock the cheeky cross country kings off their perch.
Instead, it was cross country star Schurter who threw down the gauntlet, and in doing so helped guide his younger team of Frischknecht (the 2015 Swiss under 23 cross country champion) and Van der Heijden (the 2014 under 23 cross country world champion) to a surprise stage victory.
"We never ride with a plan, we just like to ride," said Schurter. "Today it worked out very well for both our teams, so that's fantastic. The last big climb was terrible, very sandy, but both our teams seemed to manage it best and we were able to get away."
The day started cool and overcast a relief for the riders who have baked in the high temperatures since van cleef and arpels frivole ring fake the Prologue but as has been the case since the start, the race pace was hot again. For most of the day, the elite bunch stayed togetheruntil the surprise leaders of Hector Paez and Max Knox (Kansai Plascon) emerged at the front of the pack. The pair appeared strong and three hours into the day's racing they had forced a gap of 45 seconds between them and the chasing pack.
The Botrivier Pass, though, had the final say in the matter, as teams took strain up the sandy climb. Both SCOTT teams managed the climb best, while once over the top Investec Songo Specialized suffered a torn sidewall.
Despite appearing to struggle in the latter half of the day, and finishing third on the stage, overall leader Manual Fumic was upbeat about Cannondale Factory Racing XC's ride.
"We thought Nino and Matthias would go for it today, so we just wanted to keep Susi and Jaro in check," he said.
"We managed to do that pretty well for most of the day, so we are happy again with the result. We weren't too worried with Scott making up time, we knew we had a decent gap on them.
"Today was all about managing the pace and keeping Investec Songo Specialized close. I would definitely say it's another good day for us. It's a long way till Sunday, so today we did not want to waste too much energy."
The pendulum in the Hansgrohe Women's category at the Absa Cape van cleef ring replica fake Epic swung a little more toward a victory for Esther Suss and Jennie Stenerhag (Meerendal CBC) on Thursday with the duo adding another three minutes 40 seconds to their lead after the stage.
The Meerendal CBC pair were able to take advantage of some bad luck at a crucial point in Thursday's race when Sabine Spitz sliced the sidewall of her front tyre and she and partner Robyn de Groot (Ascendis Health) were forced to let the race leaders ride off into the distance.
Ascendis Health's problems van cleef and arpels engagement ring price fake also allowed the young Hansgrohe Cadence OMX Pro team of Mariske Strauss and Annie Last to claim second position on the stage, three minutes behind the race leaders, and consolidate their third position overall.
The disaster happened about 85km into the stage near the beginning of the long 15km Botrivier Pass, the main climb of the day just as the leading teams were starting to make their push for victory.
"We had a really bad sidewall cut pretty much on the pressure point on the day," said Spitz's riding partner Robyn de Groot. "It was just really bad luck and our day changed from a matter of trying to gain anything we could on the leaders, to rather trying to limit our losses.
"The first portion of the climb was quite sandy with some sharp rocks and Sabine must have hit one at just the wrong angle. Her tyre was cut badly and went flat straight away.
"I don't know how much time we lost. We were just too busy trying to get it right so we did not have to stop again."
Stenerhag was content to take the win and even more pleased to have extended their overall lead to a solid 12 minutes 40 seconds with just three stages remaining.
"Obviously we are happy with the win," she said. "It is not that nice to win because of somebody else's bad luck, but it is all racing and we have to be happy with the win and extend our lead a little bit.
"The stage wasn't as hard as I expected. Almost all the ladies teams were together for the first 70km or something so it wasn't that fast. But then obviously at the end with all the climbing that was hard."
Although in a strong position with just three days of racing left, the Swede, who was forced to withdraw last year with health problems, is all too aware that things can still go wrong.
"We always want to win the stages and extend the lead as much as we can so we will keep riding hard tomorrow and not ride conservatively. It is mountain biking and you saw what happened to the others today, you are never safe."
The SCOTT SRAM Young Guns crossed the line first in a time of 4:10.00,3 with Schurter and Stirnemann popping wheelies (almost into the fencing) right behind them.
"We are very happy and very surprised. When we looked at the stage, our main aim was just to survive," Frischknecht said.
"But this stage win is amazing; super cool. Riding with Nino and Matthias was great motivation, and when we managed the last sandy climb quite well, we started to think that we could take the stage. It was horrible (up the climb) but we made it."
Overall leaders Manuel Fumic and Henrique Avancini (Cannondale Factory Racing XC) finished third on the day, two and a half minutes off the pace. Their time was enough to retain the yellow zebra leader jersey, though.
Stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic was a 112km trek from Elandskloof near Greyton to Oak Valley Wine Estate in Elgin. It was a day that most expected marathon men Christoph Sauser and Jaroslav Kulhavy (Investec Songo Specialized) to make their move and knock the cheeky cross country kings off their perch.
Instead, it was cross country star Schurter who threw down the gauntlet, and in doing so helped guide his younger team of Frischknecht (the 2015 Swiss under 23 cross country champion) and Van der Heijden (the 2014 under 23 cross country world champion) to a surprise stage victory.
"We never ride with a plan, we just like to ride," said Schurter. "Today it worked out very well for both our teams, so that's fantastic. The last big climb was terrible, very sandy, but both our teams seemed to manage it best and we were able to get away."
The day started cool and overcast a relief for the riders who have baked in the high temperatures since van cleef and arpels frivole ring fake the Prologue but as has been the case since the start, the race pace was hot again. For most of the day, the elite bunch stayed togetheruntil the surprise leaders of Hector Paez and Max Knox (Kansai Plascon) emerged at the front of the pack. The pair appeared strong and three hours into the day's racing they had forced a gap of 45 seconds between them and the chasing pack.
The Botrivier Pass, though, had the final say in the matter, as teams took strain up the sandy climb. Both SCOTT teams managed the climb best, while once over the top Investec Songo Specialized suffered a torn sidewall.
Despite appearing to struggle in the latter half of the day, and finishing third on the stage, overall leader Manual Fumic was upbeat about Cannondale Factory Racing XC's ride.
"We thought Nino and Matthias would go for it today, so we just wanted to keep Susi and Jaro in check," he said.
"We managed to do that pretty well for most of the day, so we are happy again with the result. We weren't too worried with Scott making up time, we knew we had a decent gap on them.
"Today was all about managing the pace and keeping Investec Songo Specialized close. I would definitely say it's another good day for us. It's a long way till Sunday, so today we did not want to waste too much energy."
The pendulum in the Hansgrohe Women's category at the Absa Cape van cleef ring replica fake Epic swung a little more toward a victory for Esther Suss and Jennie Stenerhag (Meerendal CBC) on Thursday with the duo adding another three minutes 40 seconds to their lead after the stage.
The Meerendal CBC pair were able to take advantage of some bad luck at a crucial point in Thursday's race when Sabine Spitz sliced the sidewall of her front tyre and she and partner Robyn de Groot (Ascendis Health) were forced to let the race leaders ride off into the distance.
Ascendis Health's problems van cleef and arpels engagement ring price fake also allowed the young Hansgrohe Cadence OMX Pro team of Mariske Strauss and Annie Last to claim second position on the stage, three minutes behind the race leaders, and consolidate their third position overall.
The disaster happened about 85km into the stage near the beginning of the long 15km Botrivier Pass, the main climb of the day just as the leading teams were starting to make their push for victory.
"We had a really bad sidewall cut pretty much on the pressure point on the day," said Spitz's riding partner Robyn de Groot. "It was just really bad luck and our day changed from a matter of trying to gain anything we could on the leaders, to rather trying to limit our losses.
"The first portion of the climb was quite sandy with some sharp rocks and Sabine must have hit one at just the wrong angle. Her tyre was cut badly and went flat straight away.
"I don't know how much time we lost. We were just too busy trying to get it right so we did not have to stop again."
Stenerhag was content to take the win and even more pleased to have extended their overall lead to a solid 12 minutes 40 seconds with just three stages remaining.
"Obviously we are happy with the win," she said. "It is not that nice to win because of somebody else's bad luck, but it is all racing and we have to be happy with the win and extend our lead a little bit.
"The stage wasn't as hard as I expected. Almost all the ladies teams were together for the first 70km or something so it wasn't that fast. But then obviously at the end with all the climbing that was hard."
Although in a strong position with just three days of racing left, the Swede, who was forced to withdraw last year with health problems, is all too aware that things can still go wrong.
"We always want to win the stages and extend the lead as much as we can so we will keep riding hard tomorrow and not ride conservatively. It is mountain biking and you saw what happened to the others today, you are never safe."
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Scotland's Arfield steps on Canadian soil for first time
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"I should probably lie, but I've not (been to Canada before)," Arfield, the 27 year old Burnley winger, born and raised outside Edinburgh in Scotland, said with a laugh Monday.
He looked around the near empty stadium, picturing the wild scenes to come in this penultimate round of CONCACAF qualifying.
"Now, I feel real Canadian," he said.
Just wait until kickoff.
Arfield was eligible for fake van cleef & arpels ring price Canada through his Toronto born dad, who has long been on his case to commit to Les Rouges.
That prodding, combined with a lack of interest from Scotland and plenty of encouragement from Canadian international David Edgar, an
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He called Edgar van cleef and arpels wedding ring fake "a driving force" behind filing his one time switch, having played U19s and U21s with Scotland.
"It was actually a passing comment about two years ago," said Arfield. "I said my dad was born in Toronto and David got in touch with Benito (Floro, Canadian coach) and Morgan (Quarry, team manager).
"Obviously it was a long journey from the decision to now and I'm delighted to be here."
He'll be welcomed, of course, just like other recent dual national debutantes Junior Hoilett, Fraser Aird and Steven Vitria.
You can pick apart how each of those decisions went down, but after years of being Plan B for some players, Canada's feeling like a destination of choice.
There's momentum. There's belief. There's hope.
There's also a huge test in front of them in Mexico, the world's 22nd ranked team. Canada has a home win over Honduras and a tie in El Salvador through two games. Mexico is 2 0.
The top two countries after the final round of games in September will advance to the last round of CONCACAF qualifying, known as the Hex.
"It's my first time training with the boys, but when you see the depth, it's impressive," said Arfield. "They say this is the best (Canadian) squad they've ever been in, and when you've got people like Jules (Julian de Guzman) and Atiba (Hutchinson) saying that, I think it stands you in good stead.
"We've got a fantastic opportunity to (qualify for the Hex). Hopefully this game can be the one that will kick start us."
Arfield's added to that depth he speaks of. Like Hoilett, he gives Canada a new threat out wide. That's been a rarity for Canada, who've long relied on defensive structure, heart and grit, and teamwork and will continue to, but with a sprinkling of flair and counter attacking ability.
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Burnley's sitting top of the Championship standings, unbeaten in 14 games and on pace for automatic promotion to the Premier League, where Arfield played for them in 2014 15, scoring in the season opener against Chelsea.
This season, he has seven goals third best on the team and a team high six assists in 38 league appearances.
Floro could hardly have asked for a better time to bring Arfield in, although the coach said he'd have to ponder Arfield's involvement carefully.
"It's a special situation because he's a very good player who is playing a lot of games at his club," said Floro. "But we need to balance this, because we play according to several tactical matters and we need to realize (that this takes time to learn) in training, for Scott to achieve the good movements according to other players.
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"I should probably lie, but I've not (been to Canada before)," Arfield, the 27 year old Burnley winger, born and raised outside Edinburgh in Scotland, said with a laugh Monday.
He looked around the near empty stadium, picturing the wild scenes to come in this penultimate round of CONCACAF qualifying.
"Now, I feel real Canadian," he said.
Just wait until kickoff.
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"Obviously it was a long journey from the decision to now and I'm delighted to be here."
He'll be welcomed, of course, just like other recent dual national debutantes Junior Hoilett, Fraser Aird and Steven Vitria.
You can pick apart how each of those decisions went down, but after years of being Plan B for some players, Canada's feeling like a destination of choice.
There's momentum. There's belief. There's hope.
There's also a huge test in front of them in Mexico, the world's 22nd ranked team. Canada has a home win over Honduras and a tie in El Salvador through two games. Mexico is 2 0.
The top two countries after the final round of games in September will advance to the last round of CONCACAF qualifying, known as the Hex.
"It's my first time training with the boys, but when you see the depth, it's impressive," said Arfield. "They say this is the best (Canadian) squad they've ever been in, and when you've got people like Jules (Julian de Guzman) and Atiba (Hutchinson) saying that, I think it stands you in good stead.
"We've got a fantastic opportunity to (qualify for the Hex). Hopefully this game can be the one that will kick start us."
Arfield's added to that depth he speaks of. Like Hoilett, he gives Canada a new threat out wide. That's been a rarity for Canada, who've long relied on defensive structure, heart and grit, and teamwork and will continue to, but with a sprinkling of flair and counter attacking ability.
Arfield's also coming into this week in great form van cleef and arpels alhambra ring fake for a Burnley team that's flying in the English Championship. That can only help.
Burnley's sitting top of the Championship standings, unbeaten in 14 games and on pace for automatic promotion to the Premier League, where Arfield played for them in 2014 15, scoring in the season opener against Chelsea.
This season, he has seven goals third best on the team and a team high six assists in 38 league appearances.
Floro could hardly have asked for a better time to bring Arfield in, although the coach said he'd have to ponder Arfield's involvement carefully.
"It's a special situation because he's a very good player who is playing a lot of games at his club," said Floro. "But we need to balance this, because we play according to several tactical matters and we need to realize (that this takes time to learn) in training, for Scott to achieve the good movements according to other players.
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Crawford had many positive things to say about raising kids in the city, and I decided to reach out to my other friends who've committed to staying here to see what they had to say.
The Times story and many other stories focus on the the parents who pick up their kids and run for the Marin hills. But what about those parents who stay? What's their story? Here's what some of those committed to the city have to say.
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In numbers, the mass exodus translates into a city with only 13 percent of its population under 18 years old. By comparison, youth make up 21 percent of the population in New York and 23 percent in Chicago.
As a mother of three kids in San Francisco, I'm familiar with this trend because my years of parenting have been filled with heartbreak over saying goodbye to fleeing families we grew close to through playgroups, preschool, the neighborhood.
We hugged our preschool friend Amelia goodbye before her family relocated across the Bay in Albany. My daughter and I cried our eyes out as we watched the moving van drive away from Alex, Izzy and Sammy's house on our block.
I was elated when one of my dearest friends finally had a baby, but crestfallen when she decided to move to Lafayette before her son started preschool. I'd assumed her son would grow up with my kids. Same thing happened with another best friend who fled for Mill Valley.
My heart eventually numbed to the the mass exodus and I now approach new copy magic alhambra necklace friendships in the way an Army brat might at her third high school. I'm eager to meet new people but hesitant to get too close to protect myself from future partings. mom who had only one toddler at the time, wrote about the same anguish she felt losing many friends to the suburbs. parents for weeks because so many could relate to the unnerving feeling of raising kids in a community where everyone was leaving or talking about leaving and constantly questioning whether the city was a suitable place to raise children.
I decided to circle back with Crawford as I knew she stayed in the city and I was curious how she was feeling about family life in San Francisco. Crawford now has two kids, ages 11 and 19, and she and her husband run Urban Putt, the Mission restaurant serving up a unique combination of pub grub and miniature golf. parents feel raising kids in the city, especially in the early years, and then typically once your child enters kindergarten, your friends start to stick around.
"Once people can commit, have a house, are able to find an OK school, then those suburban dreams might subside," Crawford said. "Of course, we're talking about a specific socioeconomic subset of San Francisco."
For Crawford, the parenting thing really started to click when her kids became tweens.
"Once your kid, reaches 12, you are free," she said. "You're no longer the permanent Uber driver. They start getting to ride public transportation and they become independent."
She added: And of course, everything the city has to offer and all the culture is a huge plus. I think there's so much going on in the city and it can distract kids from drugs. I've heard there are drugs everywhere in the suburbs."
Crawford had many positive things to say about raising kids in the city, and I decided to reach out to my other friends who've committed to staying here to see what they had to say.
The Times story and many other stories focus on the the parents who pick up their kids and run for the Marin hills. But what about those parents who stay? What's their story? Here's what some of those committed to the city have to say.
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We live in SF and have no desire to move. mom
Not considering leaving and I don't feel like I'm "sticking it out," because of the tremendous benefits of living in the city. I grew up in the suburbs and I'm happier in the city. mom
The city offers the kids: 1. An exposure to true diversity as the suburbs tend to be a bit more homogeneously organized per area. 2. The city offers engaging activities. As an example I live in the mission where I've taken my kid to Dance Mission, ODC Dance, Red Poppy for theater, et cetera. 3. Contrary to thinking that kids will be more exposed to drugs in the cities, I think that because they are more engaged with interesting activities such as the ones mentioned above, they less likely to do drugs. 4. You don't have to drive everywhere so you get a chance to exercise and explore the city on foot with your kids. 5. Kids will leave in cities why not then growing comfortable with them. I could keep on going. I love the countryside and we like to do so as much as we can and would love to have a place in the countryside but for me a suburb is an in between in which you have to drive a lot. mom
We will never leave SF. There is no other city, town or country that has the beautiful and ever changing diverse landscape of our city. The rest are dead and dying. dad Kevin Chanel
I had a very interesting ski lift conversation with a man who thought it shocking and appalling that I would raise my children in the city. I was raised in San Francisco and feel proud to be raising a second generation of San Franciscians. It's one thing to teach your children about diversity, the LGBTQ community and having choices. I think growing up in this city you are exposed to a visual cultural landscape that forms you and makes you more liberal than any textbook or conversation can. mom Cary Cronholm Rose
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Data are increasingly used to govern science. Research evaluations that were once bespoke and performed by peers are now routine and reliant on metrics1. The problem is that evaluation is now led by the data rather than by judgement. Metrics have proliferated: usually well intentioned, not always well informed, often ill applied. We risk damaging the system with the very tools designed to improve it, as evaluation is increasingly implemented by organizations without knowledge of, or advice on, good practice and interpretation.
Before 2000, there was the Science Citation Index on CD ROM from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), used by experts for specialist analyses. In 2002, Thomson Reuters launched an integrated web platform, making the Web of Science database widely accessible. Competing citation indices were created: Elsevier's Scopus (released in 2004) and Google Scholar (beta version released in 2004). Web based tools to easily compare institutional research productivity and impact were introduced, such as InCites (using the Web of Science) and SciVal (using Scopus), as well as software to analyse individual citation profiles using Google Scholar (Publish or Perish, released in 2007).
In 2005, Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, proposed the h index, popularizing citation counting for individual researchers. Interest in the journal impact factor grew steadily after 1995 (see 'Impact factor obsession').
As scientometricians, social scientists and research administrators, we have watched with increasing alarm the pervasive misapplication of indicators to the evaluation of scientific performance. The following are just a few of numerous examples. Across the world, universities have become obsessed with their position in global rankings (such as the Shanghai Ranking and Times Higher Education's list), even when such lists are based on what are, in our view, inaccurate data and arbitrary indicators.
Some recruiters request h index values for candidates. Several universities base promotion decisions on threshold h index values and on the number of articles in 'high impact' journals. Researchers' CVs have become opportunities to boast about these scores, notably in biomedicine. Everywhere, supervisors ask PhD students to publish in high impact journals and acquire external funding before they are ready.
In Scandinavia and China, some universities allocate research funding or bonuses on the basis of a number: for example, by calculating individual impact scores to allocate 'performance resources' or by giving researchers a bonus for a publication in a journal with an impact factor higher than 15 (ref. 2).
In many cases, researchers and evaluators still exert balanced judgement. Yet the abuse of research metrics has become too widespread to ignore. Its ten principles are not news to scientometricians, although none of us would be able to recite them in their entirety because codification has been lacking until now. Luminaries in the field, such as Eugene Garfield (founder of the ISI), are on record stating some of these principles3, 4. But they are not in the room when evaluators report back to university administrators who are not expert in the relevant methodology. Scientists searching for literature with which to contest an evaluation find the material scattered in what are, to them, obscure journals to which they lack access.
We offer this distillation of best practice in metrics based research assessment so that researchers can hold evaluators to account, and evaluators can hold their indicators to account.
Ten principles1) Quantitative evaluation should support qualitative, expert assessment. Quantitative metrics can challenge bias tendencies in peer review and facilitate deliberation. This should strengthen peer review, because making judgements about colleagues is difficult without a range of relevant information. However, assessors must not be tempted to cede decision making to the numbers. Indicators must not substitute for informed judgement. Everyone retains responsibility for their assessments.
2) Measure performance against the research missions of the institution, group or researcher. Programme goals should be stated at the start, and the indicators used to evaluate performance should relate clearly to those goals. The choice of indicators, and the ways in which they are used, should take into account the wider socio economic and cultural contexts. Scientists have diverse research missions. Research that advances the frontiers of academic knowledge differs from research that is focused on delivering solutions to societal problems. Review may be based on merits relevant to policy, industry or the public rather than on academic ideas of excellence. No single evaluation model applies to all contexts.
3) Protect excellence in locally relevant research. In many parts of the world, research excellence is equated with English language publication. Spanish law, for example, states the desirability of Spanish scholars publishing in high impact journals. The impact factor is calculated for journals indexed in the US based and still mostly English language Web of Science. These biases are particularly problematic in the social sciences and humanities, in which research is more regionally and nationally engaged. Many other fields have a national or regional dimension for instance, HIV epidemiology in sub Saharan Africa.
This pluralism and societal relevance tends to be suppressed to create papers of interest to the gatekeepers of high impact: English language journals. The Spanish sociologists that are highly cited in the Web of Science have worked on abstract models or study US data. Lost is the specificity of sociologists in high impact Spanish language papers: topics such as local labour law, family health care for the elderly or immigrant employment5. Metrics built on high quality non English literature would serve to identify and reward excellence in locally relevant research.
4) Keep data collection and analytical processes open, transparent and simple. The construction of the databases required for evaluation should follow clearly stated rules, set before the research has been completed. This was common practice among the academic and commercial groups that built bibliometric evaluation methodology over several decades. Those groups referenced protocols published in the peer reviewed literature. This transparency enabled scrutiny. For example, in 2010, public debate on the technical properties of an important indicator used by one of our groups (the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands) led to a revision in the calculation of this indicator6. Recent commercial entrants should be held to the same standards; no one should accept a black box evaluation machine.
Simplicity is a virtue in an indicator because it enhances transparency. But simplistic metrics can distort the record (see principle 7). Evaluators must strive for balance simple indicators true to the complexity of the research process.
5) Allow those evaluated to verify data and analysis. To ensure data quality, all researchers included in bibliometric studies should be able to check that their outputs have been correctly identified. Everyone directing and managing evaluation processes should assure data accuracy, through self verification or third party audit. Universities could implement this in their research information systems and it should be a guiding principle in the selection of providers of these systems. Accurate, high quality data take time and money to collate and process. Budget for it.
6) Account for variation by field in publication and citation practices. Best practice is to select a suite of possible indicators and allow fields to choose among them. A few years ago, a European group of historians received a copy van cleef and arpels turquoise alhambra necklace relatively low rating in a national peer review assessment because they wrote books rather than articles in journals indexed by the copy van cleef long necklace Web of Science. The historians had the misfortune to be part of a psychology department. Historians and social scientists require books and national language literature to be included in their publication counts; computer scientists require conference papers be counted.
Citation rates vary by field: top ranked journals in mathematics have impact factors of around 3; top ranked journals in cell biology have impact factors of about 30. Normalized indicators are required, and the most robust normalization method is based on percentiles: each paper is weighted on the basis of the percentile to which it belongs in the citation distribution of its field (the top 1%, 10% or 20%, for example). A single highly cited publication slightly improves the position of a university in a ranking that is based on percentile indicators, but may propel the university from the middle to the top of a ranking built on citation averages7.
7) Base assessment of individual researchers on a qualitative judgement of their portfolio. The older you are, the higher your h index, even in van cleef fake butterfly necklace the absence of new papers. The h index varies by field: life scientists top out at 200; physicists at 100 and social scientists at 20 30 (ref. 8). It is database dependent: there are researchers in computer science who have an h index of around 10 in the Web of Science but of 20 30 in Google Scholar9. Reading and judging a researcher's work is much more appropriate than relying on one number. Even when comparing large numbers of researchers, an approach that considers more information about an individual's expertise, experience, activities and influence is best.
8) Avoid misplaced concreteness and false precision. Science and technology indicators are prone to conceptual ambiguity and uncertainty and require strong assumptions that are not universally accepted. The meaning of citation counts, for example, has long been debated. Thus, best practice uses multiple indicators to provide a more robust and pluralistic picture. If uncertainty and error can be quantified, for instance using error bars, this information should accompany published indicator values. If this is not possible, indicator producers should at least avoid false precision. For example, the journal impact factor is published to three decimal places to avoid ties. However, given the conceptual ambiguity and random variability of citation counts, it makes no sense to distinguish between journals on the basis of very small impact factor differences. Avoid false precision: only one decimal is warranted.
9) Recognize the systemic effects of assessment and indicators. Indicators change the system through the incentives they establish. These effects should be anticipated. This means that a suite of indicators is always preferable a single one will invite gaming and goal displacement (in which the measurement becomes the goal). For example, in the 1990s, Australia funded university research using a formula based largely on the number of papers published by an institute. Universities could calculate the 'value' of a paper in a refereed journal; in 2000, it was Aus$800 (around US$480 in 2000) in research funding. Predictably, the number of papers published by Australian researchers went up, but they were in less cited journals, suggesting that article quality fell10.
10) Scrutinize indicators regularly and update them. Research missions and the goals of assessment shift and the research system itself co evolves. Once useful metrics become inadequate; new ones emerge. Indicator systems have to be reviewed and perhaps modified. Realizing the effects of its simplistic formula, Australia in 2010 introduced its more complex Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, which emphasizes quality.
Next stepsAbiding by these ten principles, research evaluation can play an important part in the development of science and its interactions with society. Research metrics can provide crucial information that would be difficult to gather or understand by means of individual expertise. But this quantitative information must not be allowed to morph from an instrument into the goal.
The best decisions are taken by combining robust statistics with sensitivity to the aim and nature of the research that is evaluated. Both quantitative and qualitative evidence are needed; each is objective in its own way. Decision making about science must be based on high quality processes that are informed by the highest quality data.
Data are increasingly used to govern science. Research evaluations that were once bespoke and performed by peers are now routine and reliant on metrics1. The problem is that evaluation is now led by the data rather than by judgement. Metrics have proliferated: usually well intentioned, not always well informed, often ill applied. We risk damaging the system with the very tools designed to improve it, as evaluation is increasingly implemented by organizations without knowledge of, or advice on, good practice and interpretation.
Before 2000, there was the Science Citation Index on CD ROM from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), used by experts for specialist analyses. In 2002, Thomson Reuters launched an integrated web platform, making the Web of Science database widely accessible. Competing citation indices were created: Elsevier's Scopus (released in 2004) and Google Scholar (beta version released in 2004). Web based tools to easily compare institutional research productivity and impact were introduced, such as InCites (using the Web of Science) and SciVal (using Scopus), as well as software to analyse individual citation profiles using Google Scholar (Publish or Perish, released in 2007).
In 2005, Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, proposed the h index, popularizing citation counting for individual researchers. Interest in the journal impact factor grew steadily after 1995 (see 'Impact factor obsession').
As scientometricians, social scientists and research administrators, we have watched with increasing alarm the pervasive misapplication of indicators to the evaluation of scientific performance. The following are just a few of numerous examples. Across the world, universities have become obsessed with their position in global rankings (such as the Shanghai Ranking and Times Higher Education's list), even when such lists are based on what are, in our view, inaccurate data and arbitrary indicators.
Some recruiters request h index values for candidates. Several universities base promotion decisions on threshold h index values and on the number of articles in 'high impact' journals. Researchers' CVs have become opportunities to boast about these scores, notably in biomedicine. Everywhere, supervisors ask PhD students to publish in high impact journals and acquire external funding before they are ready.
In Scandinavia and China, some universities allocate research funding or bonuses on the basis of a number: for example, by calculating individual impact scores to allocate 'performance resources' or by giving researchers a bonus for a publication in a journal with an impact factor higher than 15 (ref. 2).
In many cases, researchers and evaluators still exert balanced judgement. Yet the abuse of research metrics has become too widespread to ignore. Its ten principles are not news to scientometricians, although none of us would be able to recite them in their entirety because codification has been lacking until now. Luminaries in the field, such as Eugene Garfield (founder of the ISI), are on record stating some of these principles3, 4. But they are not in the room when evaluators report back to university administrators who are not expert in the relevant methodology. Scientists searching for literature with which to contest an evaluation find the material scattered in what are, to them, obscure journals to which they lack access.
We offer this distillation of best practice in metrics based research assessment so that researchers can hold evaluators to account, and evaluators can hold their indicators to account.
Ten principles1) Quantitative evaluation should support qualitative, expert assessment. Quantitative metrics can challenge bias tendencies in peer review and facilitate deliberation. This should strengthen peer review, because making judgements about colleagues is difficult without a range of relevant information. However, assessors must not be tempted to cede decision making to the numbers. Indicators must not substitute for informed judgement. Everyone retains responsibility for their assessments.
2) Measure performance against the research missions of the institution, group or researcher. Programme goals should be stated at the start, and the indicators used to evaluate performance should relate clearly to those goals. The choice of indicators, and the ways in which they are used, should take into account the wider socio economic and cultural contexts. Scientists have diverse research missions. Research that advances the frontiers of academic knowledge differs from research that is focused on delivering solutions to societal problems. Review may be based on merits relevant to policy, industry or the public rather than on academic ideas of excellence. No single evaluation model applies to all contexts.
3) Protect excellence in locally relevant research. In many parts of the world, research excellence is equated with English language publication. Spanish law, for example, states the desirability of Spanish scholars publishing in high impact journals. The impact factor is calculated for journals indexed in the US based and still mostly English language Web of Science. These biases are particularly problematic in the social sciences and humanities, in which research is more regionally and nationally engaged. Many other fields have a national or regional dimension for instance, HIV epidemiology in sub Saharan Africa.
This pluralism and societal relevance tends to be suppressed to create papers of interest to the gatekeepers of high impact: English language journals. The Spanish sociologists that are highly cited in the Web of Science have worked on abstract models or study US data. Lost is the specificity of sociologists in high impact Spanish language papers: topics such as local labour law, family health care for the elderly or immigrant employment5. Metrics built on high quality non English literature would serve to identify and reward excellence in locally relevant research.
4) Keep data collection and analytical processes open, transparent and simple. The construction of the databases required for evaluation should follow clearly stated rules, set before the research has been completed. This was common practice among the academic and commercial groups that built bibliometric evaluation methodology over several decades. Those groups referenced protocols published in the peer reviewed literature. This transparency enabled scrutiny. For example, in 2010, public debate on the technical properties of an important indicator used by one of our groups (the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands) led to a revision in the calculation of this indicator6. Recent commercial entrants should be held to the same standards; no one should accept a black box evaluation machine.
Simplicity is a virtue in an indicator because it enhances transparency. But simplistic metrics can distort the record (see principle 7). Evaluators must strive for balance simple indicators true to the complexity of the research process.
5) Allow those evaluated to verify data and analysis. To ensure data quality, all researchers included in bibliometric studies should be able to check that their outputs have been correctly identified. Everyone directing and managing evaluation processes should assure data accuracy, through self verification or third party audit. Universities could implement this in their research information systems and it should be a guiding principle in the selection of providers of these systems. Accurate, high quality data take time and money to collate and process. Budget for it.
6) Account for variation by field in publication and citation practices. Best practice is to select a suite of possible indicators and allow fields to choose among them. A few years ago, a European group of historians received a copy van cleef and arpels turquoise alhambra necklace relatively low rating in a national peer review assessment because they wrote books rather than articles in journals indexed by the copy van cleef long necklace Web of Science. The historians had the misfortune to be part of a psychology department. Historians and social scientists require books and national language literature to be included in their publication counts; computer scientists require conference papers be counted.
Citation rates vary by field: top ranked journals in mathematics have impact factors of around 3; top ranked journals in cell biology have impact factors of about 30. Normalized indicators are required, and the most robust normalization method is based on percentiles: each paper is weighted on the basis of the percentile to which it belongs in the citation distribution of its field (the top 1%, 10% or 20%, for example). A single highly cited publication slightly improves the position of a university in a ranking that is based on percentile indicators, but may propel the university from the middle to the top of a ranking built on citation averages7.
7) Base assessment of individual researchers on a qualitative judgement of their portfolio. The older you are, the higher your h index, even in van cleef fake butterfly necklace the absence of new papers. The h index varies by field: life scientists top out at 200; physicists at 100 and social scientists at 20 30 (ref. 8). It is database dependent: there are researchers in computer science who have an h index of around 10 in the Web of Science but of 20 30 in Google Scholar9. Reading and judging a researcher's work is much more appropriate than relying on one number. Even when comparing large numbers of researchers, an approach that considers more information about an individual's expertise, experience, activities and influence is best.
8) Avoid misplaced concreteness and false precision. Science and technology indicators are prone to conceptual ambiguity and uncertainty and require strong assumptions that are not universally accepted. The meaning of citation counts, for example, has long been debated. Thus, best practice uses multiple indicators to provide a more robust and pluralistic picture. If uncertainty and error can be quantified, for instance using error bars, this information should accompany published indicator values. If this is not possible, indicator producers should at least avoid false precision. For example, the journal impact factor is published to three decimal places to avoid ties. However, given the conceptual ambiguity and random variability of citation counts, it makes no sense to distinguish between journals on the basis of very small impact factor differences. Avoid false precision: only one decimal is warranted.
9) Recognize the systemic effects of assessment and indicators. Indicators change the system through the incentives they establish. These effects should be anticipated. This means that a suite of indicators is always preferable a single one will invite gaming and goal displacement (in which the measurement becomes the goal). For example, in the 1990s, Australia funded university research using a formula based largely on the number of papers published by an institute. Universities could calculate the 'value' of a paper in a refereed journal; in 2000, it was Aus$800 (around US$480 in 2000) in research funding. Predictably, the number of papers published by Australian researchers went up, but they were in less cited journals, suggesting that article quality fell10.
10) Scrutinize indicators regularly and update them. Research missions and the goals of assessment shift and the research system itself co evolves. Once useful metrics become inadequate; new ones emerge. Indicator systems have to be reviewed and perhaps modified. Realizing the effects of its simplistic formula, Australia in 2010 introduced its more complex Excellence in Research for Australia initiative, which emphasizes quality.
Next stepsAbiding by these ten principles, research evaluation can play an important part in the development of science and its interactions with society. Research metrics can provide crucial information that would be difficult to gather or understand by means of individual expertise. But this quantitative information must not be allowed to morph from an instrument into the goal.
The best decisions are taken by combining robust statistics with sensitivity to the aim and nature of the research that is evaluated. Both quantitative and qualitative evidence are needed; each is objective in its own way. Decision making about science must be based on high quality processes that are informed by the highest quality data.
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Migration can have positive and negative effects on the areas that "export" people and the areas that "import" people. Below are two tables explaining the positive and negative effects for both the country losing migrants, and the country gaining immigrants. by Turkish "guestworkers" (gastarbeiter) in the German car industryLoss of young men creates an unbalanced population structureReduces pressure on jobs and resourcesLoss of working age peopleLoss of those most likely to have education and skillsDivision of familiesElderly population remains, so there's a higher death rate
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