On 18 July 2019, Harness joined League One rivals Portsmouth.

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# Marcus Harness: Portsmouth sign Burton Albion winger

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Portsmouth have signed winger Marcus Harness from Burton Albion on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Pompey also have a further 12-month option on the 23-year-old Brewers academy graduate, who scored six goals in 39 games for Burton last season.

"He's got plenty of pace, can handle the ball and go past people," Pompey manager Kenny Jackett said.

"Marcus can play in any of those three positions behind the striker and is a really exciting signing for us."

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Portsmouth have signed winger Marcus Harness from Burton Albion on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Pompey also have a further 12-month option on the 23-year-old Brewers academy graduate, who scored six goals in 39 games for Burton last season.

"He's got plenty of pace, can handle the ball and go past people," Pompey manager Kenny Jackett said.

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# Marcus Harness: Portsmouth sign Burton Albion winger

Marcus Harness joined Burton as a teenager and went on to have loan stints with Ilkeston, Aldershot and Port Vale before establishing himself as a first-team player with the Brewers

Portsmouth have signed winger Marcus Harness from Burton Albion on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Pompey also have a further 12-month option on the 23-year-old Brewers academy graduate, who scored six goals in 39 games for Burton last season.

"He's got plenty of pace, can handle the ball and go past people," Pompey manager Kenny Jackett said.

"Marcus can play in any of those three positions behind the striker and is a really exciting signing for us."

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Mason played on with Souths for 3 more years.

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# Fur and Feathers Fly at the SCG - The Landslide of 1951

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Friday night's top of the table blockbuster at the Sydney Cricket Ground between the Rabbitohs and the Sea Eagles will no doubt be the centre-piece of round 22.

But it certainly isn't the first time that the two sides have come together on the holy turf of the SCG to exchange fur and feathers in what has proven to be one of the game's greatest rivalries.

As the competition's newcomers, Manly weren't expected to cause any real damage in their first few years of battle – the side having entered the top flight competition in 1947.

However after spending their first four seasons firmly anchored to the bottom of the ladder (finishing ninth and eighth twice out of ten teams), Manly were well and truly in the mix come 1951, finishing an impressive second – albeit a whopping 11 points behind South Sydney, a Club that had already won 12 Premierships by that point.

The men in red and green had returned to Premiership supremacy in 1950, defeating Wests in the Grand Final of that year, ending a drought of 18 years.

Names such as Jack Rayner, Bernie Purcell and The Little Master, Clive Churchill, peppered a talented group of players from Redfern.

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By the end of 1951, the real distance between Souths and Manly on the competition ladder would become apparent on Grand Final day, when Manly stepped out for their first ever decider, with the Minor Premiership winning South Sydney providing the opposition.

League publication of the day, The Rugby League News, said of Manly in the Grand Final program that "Manly's recent football has been first-class and the side is so evenly balanced that it is certain to make a bold showing."

However Manly were no match for a Rabbitohs side intent on defending their Premiership crown.

On Septmber 23, 1951, in front of 28,505 people at the SCG, Manly were comprehensively thumped by Souths 42-14, claiming their 13th Premiership in the process, and setting up Manly's early tag of being the competition's perennial bridesmaids – a tag they would continue to hold until 1972, when the side, aided by the acquisition of Rabbitohs Premiership winners such as John 'Lurch' O'Neil, and Ray Branighan, finally broke the hoodoo.

Winger Johnny Graves bagged four tries on the day, while Bernie Purcell managed to kick seven goals, bringing his season tally to 106 points.

The day was also significant given that 1951 marked the first year in which the J. J. Giltinan Shield was awarded to the year's Premiership winning team – the Rabbitohs earning the rare distinction of being the first to etch their names onto it.

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Mason began his first grade career in 1951.  That year, Mason won his first premiership with Souths as they defeated Manly 42-14 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.  Mason missed out playing in the following year's grand final against Western Suburbs due to injury.  He was a member of the Souths sides which won the premiership in 1953 and 1954, defeating St George and Newtown respectively.


Mason was not a member of the 1955 premiership winning side.

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# Fur and Feathers Fly at the SCG - The Landslide of 1951

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Friday night's top of the table blockbuster at the Sydney Cricket Ground between the Rabbitohs and the Sea Eagles will no doubt be the centre-piece of round 22.

But it certainly isn't the first time that the two sides have come together on the holy turf of the SCG to exchange fur and feathers in what has proven to be one of the game's greatest rivalries.

As the competition's newcomers, Manly weren't expected to cause any real damage in their first few years of battle – the side having entered the top flight competition in 1947.

However after spending their first four seasons firmly anchored to the bottom of the ladder (finishing ninth and eighth twice out of ten teams), Manly were well and truly in the mix come 1951, finishing an impressive second – albeit a whopping 11 points behind South Sydney, a Club that had already won 12 Premierships by that point.

The men in red and green had returned to Premiership supremacy in 1950, defeating Wests in the Grand Final of that year, ending a drought of 18 years.

Names such as Jack Rayner, Bernie Purcell and The Little Master, Clive Churchill, peppered a talented group of players from Redfern.

Get your tickets to Friday night's top of the table blockbuster at the SCG by clicking here.

By the end of 1951, the real distance between Souths and Manly on the competition ladder would become apparent on Grand Final day, when Manly stepped out for their first ever decider, with the Minor Premiership winning South Sydney providing the opposition.

League publication of the day, The Rugby League News, said of Manly in the Grand Final program that "Manly's recent football has been first-class and the side is so evenly balanced that it is certain to make a bold showing."

However Manly were no match for a Rabbitohs side intent on defending their Premiership crown.

On Septmber 23, 1951, in front of 28,505 people at the SCG, Manly were comprehensively thumped by Souths 42-14, claiming their 13th Premiership in the process, and setting up Manly's early tag of being the competition's perennial bridesmaids – a tag they would continue to hold until 1972, when the side, aided by the acquisition of Rabbitohs Premiership winners such as John 'Lurch' O'Neil, and Ray Branighan, finally broke the hoodoo.

Winger Johnny Graves bagged four tries on the day, while Bernie Purcell managed to kick seven goals, bringing his season tally to 106 points.

The day was also significant given that 1951 marked the first year in which the J. J. Giltinan Shield was awarded to the year's Premiership winning team – the Rabbitohs earning the rare distinction of being the first to etch their names onto it.

Capital Training Institute is the Rabbitohs Membership Partner.

Mason began his first grade career in 1951.  That year, Mason won his first premiership with Souths as they defeated Manly 42-14 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.  Mason missed out playing in the following year's grand final against Western Suburbs due to injury.  He was a member of the Souths sides which won the premiership in 1953 and 1954, defeating St George and Newtown respectively. Mason played on with Souths for 3 more years.


The 1955 premiership winning side defeated Newtown 12-11.

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Friday night's top of the table blockbuster at the Sydney Cricket Ground between the Rabbitohs and the Sea Eagles will no doubt be the centre-piece of round 22.

But it certainly isn't the first time that the two sides have come together on the holy turf of the SCG to exchange fur and feathers in what has proven to be one of the game's greatest rivalries.

As the competition's newcomers, Manly weren't expected to cause any real damage in their first few years of battle – the side having entered the top flight competition in 1947.

However after spending their first four seasons firmly anchored to the bottom of the ladder (finishing ninth and eighth twice out of ten teams), Manly were well and truly in the mix come 1951, finishing an impressive second – albeit a whopping 11 points behind South Sydney, a Club that had already won 12 Premierships by that point.

The men in red and green had returned to Premiership supremacy in 1950, defeating Wests in the Grand Final of that year, ending a drought of 18 years.

Names such as Jack Rayner, Bernie Purcell and The Little Master, Clive Churchill, peppered a talented group of players from Redfern.

Get your tickets to Friday night's top of the table blockbuster at the SCG by clicking here.

By the end of 1951, the real distance between Souths and Manly on the competition ladder would become apparent on Grand Final day, when Manly stepped out for their first ever decider, with the Minor Premiership winning South Sydney providing the opposition.

League publication of the day, The Rugby League News, said of Manly in the Grand Final program that "Manly's recent football has been first-class and the side is so evenly balanced that it is certain to make a bold showing."

However Manly were no match for a Rabbitohs side intent on defending their Premiership crown.

On Septmber 23, 1951, in front of 28,505 people at the SCG, Manly were comprehensively thumped by Souths 42-14, claiming their 13th Premiership in the process, and setting up Manly's early tag of being the competition's perennial bridesmaids – a tag they would continue to hold until 1972, when the side, aided by the acquisition of Rabbitohs Premiership winners such as John 'Lurch' O'Neil, and Ray Branighan, finally broke the hoodoo.

Winger Johnny Graves bagged four tries on the day, while Bernie Purcell managed to kick seven goals, bringing his season tally to 106 points.

The day was also significant given that 1951 marked the first year in which the J. J. Giltinan Shield was awarded to the year's Premiership winning team – the Rabbitohs earning the rare distinction of being the first to etch their names onto it.

Capital Training Institute is the Rabbitohs Membership Partner.

Mason began his first grade career in 1951.  That year, Mason won his first premiership with Souths as they defeated Manly 42-14 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.  Mason missed out playing in the following year's grand final against Western Suburbs due to injury.  He was a member of the Souths sides which won the premiership in 1953 and 1954, defeating St George and Newtown respectively. Mason played on with Souths for 3 more years. Mason was not a member of the 1955 premiership winning side.


Initially, the battalion was based at the Fort Osborne Barracks.

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# Manitoba Provincial Heritage Site No. 89

## Manitoba Agricultural College (Fort Osborne Barracks Site) 139 Tuxedo Avenue, Winnipeg

Designation Authority: Honourable Harold Gilleshammer,

Minister of Culture, Heritage and Citizenship

Present Owner: The Jewish Community Campus of Winnipeg Inc.

Here, in 1906, the Provincial Government established the Manitoba Agricultural College to educate students in the practices of farming.

It was the first college of its kind in Western Canada, and only the third in the country.

Samuel Hooper, the first Provincial Architect, designed the original College buildings, setting them in a formal Edwardian plan, in which the buildings were arrayed around a long oval drive.

By 1913 the College had outgrown this campus.

It was relocated to a new Fort Garry site, which later became the campus of the University of Manitoba.

From 1914 until 1917 this site was used by the Manitoba School for the Deaf, the first such institution in Western Canada.

In 1917 it was transformed into a military convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers returning from Europe.

In 1919 the army took over the entire complex, renaming it Fort Osborne Barracks.

It remained the primary army base in Manitoba until 1968, when new barracks were constructed farther south.

acquired the property and converted a number of buildings to house government departments.

The property was again sold, and in 1997 the site was redeveloped as the Asper Jewish Community Campus of Winnipeg, returning to its educational roots.

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The Wing comprises three squadrons and six schools; it also provides support to the Central Flying School. Excluding the three levels of government, 17 Wing is the fourth largest employer in the city. The Wing supports 113 units, stretching from Thunder Bay to the Saskatchewan–Alberta border, and from the 49th parallel to the high Arctic. 17 Wing also acts as a deployed operating base for CF-18 Hornet fighter-bombers assigned to the Canadian NORAD Region.
 There are two squadrons based in the city. The 402 "City of Winnipeg" Squadron flies the Canadian-designed and produced de Havilland CT-142 Dash 8 navigation trainer. The 435 "Chinthe" Transport and Rescue Squadron flies the Lockheed CC-130 Hercules in airlift search and rescue roles. In addition, 435 Squadron is the only Royal Canadian Air Force squadron equipped and trained to conduct tactical air-to-air refueling of fighter aircraft. For many years, Winnipeg was the home of the Second Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.


The Fort Osborne Barracks is now the location of the Rady Jewish Community Centre.

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# Manitoba Provincial Heritage Site No. 89

## Manitoba Agricultural College (Fort Osborne Barracks Site) 139 Tuxedo Avenue, Winnipeg

Designation Authority: Honourable Harold Gilleshammer,

Minister of Culture, Heritage and Citizenship

Present Owner: The Jewish Community Campus of Winnipeg Inc.

Here, in 1906, the Provincial Government established the Manitoba Agricultural College to educate students in the practices of farming.

It was the first college of its kind in Western Canada, and only the third in the country.

Samuel Hooper, the first Provincial Architect, designed the original College buildings, setting them in a formal Edwardian plan, in which the buildings were arrayed around a long oval drive.

By 1913 the College had outgrown this campus.

It was relocated to a new Fort Garry site, which later became the campus of the University of Manitoba.

From 1914 until 1917 this site was used by the Manitoba School for the Deaf, the first such institution in Western Canada.

In 1917 it was transformed into a military convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers returning from Europe.

In 1919 the army took over the entire complex, renaming it Fort Osborne Barracks.

It remained the primary army base in Manitoba until 1968, when new barracks were constructed farther south.

acquired the property and converted a number of buildings to house government departments.

The property was again sold, and in 1997 the site was redeveloped as the Asper Jewish Community Campus of Winnipeg, returning to its educational roots.

previous | Provincial Heritage Sites Home | next

The Wing comprises three squadrons and six schools; it also provides support to the Central Flying School. Excluding the three levels of government, 17 Wing is the fourth largest employer in the city. The Wing supports 113 units, stretching from Thunder Bay to the Saskatchewan–Alberta border, and from the 49th parallel to the high Arctic. 17 Wing also acts as a deployed operating base for CF-18 Hornet fighter-bombers assigned to the Canadian NORAD Region.
 There are two squadrons based in the city. The 402 "City of Winnipeg" Squadron flies the Canadian-designed and produced de Havilland CT-142 Dash 8 navigation trainer. The 435 "Chinthe" Transport and Rescue Squadron flies the Lockheed CC-130 Hercules in airlift search and rescue roles. In addition, 435 Squadron is the only Royal Canadian Air Force squadron equipped and trained to conduct tactical air-to-air refueling of fighter aircraft. For many years, Winnipeg was the home of the Second Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Initially, the battalion was based at the Fort Osborne Barracks.


In 2016, he was named Co-Chair of the High Level Assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC).

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# A global coalition mapping and motivating decarbonization

A coalition of governments, oil companies, and other key parties works for climate action and carbon pricing

Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.15 EST

Diplomats, business leaders, World Bank staff, and strategic partners gather just before the inaugural High-Level Assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition.

Would it surprise you to learn that governments, oil companies, NGOs and major investors are coming together to map—and to motivate—the decarbonization of the global economy?

The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) is a policy-focused alliance of national and subnational governments, intergovernmental agencies, businesses and institutional investors, nonprofits and stakeholder networks.

It was launched on the first day of the Paris climate negotiations, and its mission is simple: to collaborate across borders, across sectors, sharing information, know-how and capacity, to build the most economically efficient tools for decarbonization into every nation's climate plan as soon as possible.

The Paris Agreement calls for non-state support for national climate action.

The 17th Sustainable Development Goal is devoted to partnerships that build capacity and speed implementation.

At the CPLC table, all of the partners are peers, and this takes the project well beyond the the conventions of global governance: honest and capable support for success is the shared focus, so governments and leading businesses work with intellectuals and policy advocates, to ensure no good thinking is left off the menu.

Asked why he sees this multi-sectoral collaboration as so crucial to success in combating climate change, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said "Putting a price on carbon pollution will cut emissions, improve people's health, and spur new investments in clean technology," adding that success "will have a clear impact on our efforts to end extreme poverty in the world in 15 years."

When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn joined the Carbon Pricing Panel last fall, he said his nation wanted to ensure it followed the most cost-effective route to leadership in the 21st century clean economy.

Last week, he said he aims "to build a climate-resilient green middle-income economy."

Ethiopia will also produce "recommendations on the role and possible forms of carbon pricing policies in Ethiopia, which might also be applicable to similar low-income developing countries."

On Friday, April 15, the CPLC held its first ever High-Level Assembly, a governance meeting bringing together leading diplomats, heads of government, and executive representation of all Coalition partners.

Ségolène Royal, Minster of Environment for France, and Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM, co-chaired the Assembly.

They were joined by Dr. Kim, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría, and Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan of Côte d'Ivoire.

In her opening remarks to the inaugural governing Assembly, Minister Royal called for carbon pricing that is "high enough, significant enough to have a clear and rapid impact on various behaviors, namely on investment choices."

Royal, who is now also President of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention, added that "This is the key element of the Paris Agreement."

Specifically, Article 4 of the Paris Agreement calls on all nations to "promote environmental integrity, transparency, accuracy, completeness, comparability and consistency, and ensure the avoidance of double counting" in designing policy strategies that track, limit or eliminate carbon pollution.

Article 6 outlines ways to transition market mechanisms developed under the Kyoto Protocol into a sharing of responsibility for climate action across borders, in fulfillment of new national climate action commitments.

As a venue to share policy aims, build new collaborative strategies, and work toward ensuring best practices are made available to all policy-makers, the CPLC has a real chance to ensure effective, efficient, and equitable strategies are part of every nation's climate action agenda.

Some approaches focus on covering one or more sectors of the economy—power generation, transport, agriculture.

Others prioritize rewarding early actors while limiting emissions overall.

But a simple fee applied to carbon-emitting fuels at the source with revenues recycled back into the economy can cover all sectors while adding day to day economic value at the human scale.

It is due to the already serious work being done between the CPLC partners that six heads of state, along with the leaders of the World Bank, IMF and OECD, were able to issue such a bold call to action on the day before the Paris Agreement was signed.

Their Vision Statement calls for an expansion in carbon pricing policies from covering 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions now to 25% by 2020, then doubling again to 50%within ten years.

Those targets are the framing of a 10-year vision for broadening carbon pricing coverage, deepening carbon pricing where it exists, and expanding and enhancing international cooperation, through a well-designed, diverse, multisectoral coalition of working partners.

This first-of-its-kind international policy collaboration is an effort to ensure we transition efficiently to climate-smart energy practices.

No community should suffer the degradation brought on by pervasive climate disruption, and all nations can and should be part of a new and inclusive economy of sustainable shared prosperity.

Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for the nonpartisan nonprofit organization Citizens' Climate Lobby, and serves as CCL's representative in Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition meetings.

After the merger, Sijbesma became the Director of DSM Food Specialties.
 In 2000, Sijbesma joined the Managing Board of Directors at DSM as the company shifted toward nutrition and biotech. In May 2007, he was named CEO of the company and Chairman of the Managing Board. As DSM CEO, Sijbesma transformed the company into a life science and material science company. The company sold its last petrochemical business in 2010 including its entire industrial chemicals and pharmaceutical units. During that time, Sijbesma also oversaw 25 major acquisitions for the company. Additionally, Sijbesma brought DSM into a partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance to locations like Rwanda and Kenya. In Rwanda, a partnership between DSM, the WFP, and the Rwandan government produced an Africa Improved Foods manufacturing facility. In 2010, Sijbesma was given the United Nations Humanitarian of the Year award.


The CPLC is organized by the World Bank Group.

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# A global coalition mapping and motivating decarbonization

A coalition of governments, oil companies, and other key parties works for climate action and carbon pricing

Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.15 EST

Diplomats, business leaders, World Bank staff, and strategic partners gather just before the inaugural High-Level Assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition.

Would it surprise you to learn that governments, oil companies, NGOs and major investors are coming together to map—and to motivate—the decarbonization of the global economy?

The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) is a policy-focused alliance of national and subnational governments, intergovernmental agencies, businesses and institutional investors, nonprofits and stakeholder networks.

It was launched on the first day of the Paris climate negotiations, and its mission is simple: to collaborate across borders, across sectors, sharing information, know-how and capacity, to build the most economically efficient tools for decarbonization into every nation's climate plan as soon as possible.

The Paris Agreement calls for non-state support for national climate action.

The 17th Sustainable Development Goal is devoted to partnerships that build capacity and speed implementation.

At the CPLC table, all of the partners are peers, and this takes the project well beyond the the conventions of global governance: honest and capable support for success is the shared focus, so governments and leading businesses work with intellectuals and policy advocates, to ensure no good thinking is left off the menu.

Asked why he sees this multi-sectoral collaboration as so crucial to success in combating climate change, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said "Putting a price on carbon pollution will cut emissions, improve people's health, and spur new investments in clean technology," adding that success "will have a clear impact on our efforts to end extreme poverty in the world in 15 years."

When Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn joined the Carbon Pricing Panel last fall, he said his nation wanted to ensure it followed the most cost-effective route to leadership in the 21st century clean economy.

Last week, he said he aims "to build a climate-resilient green middle-income economy."

Ethiopia will also produce "recommendations on the role and possible forms of carbon pricing policies in Ethiopia, which might also be applicable to similar low-income developing countries."

On Friday, April 15, the CPLC held its first ever High-Level Assembly, a governance meeting bringing together leading diplomats, heads of government, and executive representation of all Coalition partners.

Ségolène Royal, Minster of Environment for France, and Feike Sijbesma, CEO of Royal DSM, co-chaired the Assembly.

They were joined by Dr. Kim, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría, and Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan of Côte d'Ivoire.

In her opening remarks to the inaugural governing Assembly, Minister Royal called for carbon pricing that is "high enough, significant enough to have a clear and rapid impact on various behaviors, namely on investment choices."

Royal, who is now also President of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention, added that "This is the key element of the Paris Agreement."

Specifically, Article 4 of the Paris Agreement calls on all nations to "promote environmental integrity, transparency, accuracy, completeness, comparability and consistency, and ensure the avoidance of double counting" in designing policy strategies that track, limit or eliminate carbon pollution.

Article 6 outlines ways to transition market mechanisms developed under the Kyoto Protocol into a sharing of responsibility for climate action across borders, in fulfillment of new national climate action commitments.

As a venue to share policy aims, build new collaborative strategies, and work toward ensuring best practices are made available to all policy-makers, the CPLC has a real chance to ensure effective, efficient, and equitable strategies are part of every nation's climate action agenda.

Some approaches focus on covering one or more sectors of the economy—power generation, transport, agriculture.

Others prioritize rewarding early actors while limiting emissions overall.

But a simple fee applied to carbon-emitting fuels at the source with revenues recycled back into the economy can cover all sectors while adding day to day economic value at the human scale.

It is due to the already serious work being done between the CPLC partners that six heads of state, along with the leaders of the World Bank, IMF and OECD, were able to issue such a bold call to action on the day before the Paris Agreement was signed.

Their Vision Statement calls for an expansion in carbon pricing policies from covering 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions now to 25% by 2020, then doubling again to 50%within ten years.

Those targets are the framing of a 10-year vision for broadening carbon pricing coverage, deepening carbon pricing where it exists, and expanding and enhancing international cooperation, through a well-designed, diverse, multisectoral coalition of working partners.

This first-of-its-kind international policy collaboration is an effort to ensure we transition efficiently to climate-smart energy practices.

No community should suffer the degradation brought on by pervasive climate disruption, and all nations can and should be part of a new and inclusive economy of sustainable shared prosperity.

Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for the nonpartisan nonprofit organization Citizens' Climate Lobby, and serves as CCL's representative in Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition meetings.

After the merger, Sijbesma became the Director of DSM Food Specialties.
 In 2000, Sijbesma joined the Managing Board of Directors at DSM as the company shifted toward nutrition and biotech. In May 2007, he was named CEO of the company and Chairman of the Managing Board. As DSM CEO, Sijbesma transformed the company into a life science and material science company. The company sold its last petrochemical business in 2010 including its entire industrial chemicals and pharmaceutical units. During that time, Sijbesma also oversaw 25 major acquisitions for the company. Additionally, Sijbesma brought DSM into a partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance to locations like Rwanda and Kenya. In Rwanda, a partnership between DSM, the WFP, and the Rwandan government produced an Africa Improved Foods manufacturing facility. In 2010, Sijbesma was given the United Nations Humanitarian of the Year award. In 2016, he was named Co-Chair of the High Level Assembly of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC).


Watt received the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award three times.

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# J.J. Watt wins Defensive Player of the Year award

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PHOENIX -- J.J. Watt is the most dominant defensive player the NFL has seen since Reggie White roamed the field.

On Saturday, Watt earned the hardware to prove it.

Watt was announced Saturday as the Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in three seasons at NFL Honors.

He's the first player to be unanimously selected for the award.

Only 25 years old, Watt joins only five other players in NFL history as two-time winners of the award.

Only Lawrence Taylor won the awards faster.

And it wouldn't surprise if Watt joined L.T. someday soon as the only defender to win the award three times.

Watt destroyed offenses so regularly that he has been a legitimate candidate to take home the first league MVP award for a defensive player since Taylor.

(We would have voted for Watt, but Aaron Rodgers took home the award.)

Watt's 13 MVP votes were the most for a defender since L.T. won the award.

Playing in a new defensive system under coordinator Romeo Crennel, Watt totaled a ridiculous amount of pressure on the quarterback: 21 sacks, 44 quarterback hits and 54 hurries according to Pro Football Focus.

To put those numbers in perspective, no other defender had more than 21 quarterback hits.

And this all came from a 3-4 defensive end position that isn't normally able to get sacks.

More than any player in the league, he looks like a man facing off against boys.

He's far too quick for interior linemen when he lines up inside.

This season he was on the outside more often and showed that his strength and bull rush can work from any position.

This is partly why Watt was a no-brainer for this award.

He is the rare defensive player who takes the average fan's eye away from the ball on every play.

We wait for ridiculous things to happen, and he delivers each week.

Watt's propensity for big plays included four forced fumbles and 29 tackles for loss, which easily led the league.

He also turned into the most efficient offensive weapon in the league; the Texans threw to him three times and he scored three touchdowns as a tight end.

Watt didn't win MVP, but this season will not soon be forgotten.

It was the most consistent display of dominance we've seen from any defender since White and Deion Sanders in the 1990s.

It's rare to know that a player is an all-time great so early in his career, but Watt breaks all the rules.

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Justin James Watt (born March 22, 1989) is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Texans with the 11th pick in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft, and played college football at Wisconsin.


Watt received the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award in his first five seasons.

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# J.J. Watt wins Defensive Player of the Year award

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PHOENIX -- J.J. Watt is the most dominant defensive player the NFL has seen since Reggie White roamed the field.

On Saturday, Watt earned the hardware to prove it.

Watt was announced Saturday as the Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in three seasons at NFL Honors.

He's the first player to be unanimously selected for the award.

Only 25 years old, Watt joins only five other players in NFL history as two-time winners of the award.

Only Lawrence Taylor won the awards faster.

And it wouldn't surprise if Watt joined L.T. someday soon as the only defender to win the award three times.

Watt destroyed offenses so regularly that he has been a legitimate candidate to take home the first league MVP award for a defensive player since Taylor.

(We would have voted for Watt, but Aaron Rodgers took home the award.)

Watt's 13 MVP votes were the most for a defender since L.T. won the award.

Playing in a new defensive system under coordinator Romeo Crennel, Watt totaled a ridiculous amount of pressure on the quarterback: 21 sacks, 44 quarterback hits and 54 hurries according to Pro Football Focus.

To put those numbers in perspective, no other defender had more than 21 quarterback hits.

And this all came from a 3-4 defensive end position that isn't normally able to get sacks.

More than any player in the league, he looks like a man facing off against boys.

He's far too quick for interior linemen when he lines up inside.

This season he was on the outside more often and showed that his strength and bull rush can work from any position.

This is partly why Watt was a no-brainer for this award.

He is the rare defensive player who takes the average fan's eye away from the ball on every play.

We wait for ridiculous things to happen, and he delivers each week.

Watt's propensity for big plays included four forced fumbles and 29 tackles for loss, which easily led the league.

He also turned into the most efficient offensive weapon in the league; the Texans threw to him three times and he scored three touchdowns as a tight end.

Watt didn't win MVP, but this season will not soon be forgotten.

It was the most consistent display of dominance we've seen from any defender since White and Deion Sanders in the 1990s.

It's rare to know that a player is an all-time great so early in his career, but Watt breaks all the rules.

The latest Around The NFL Podcast previews Super Bowl XLIX and gives our picks for the big game.

Watch the entire show (and Wess eat his softball pants) on NFL NOW.

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 Justin James Watt (born March 22, 1989) is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Texans with the 11th pick in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft, and played college football at Wisconsin.
 Watt received the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award three times.


US Rights for the film were acquired by Kino Lorber.

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# Songbird Documentary 'The Messenger' Gets U.S. Release

Kino Lorber has acquired all U.S. rights to Su Rynard's songbird documentary "The Messenger" and will begin releasing the film in December.

"The Messenger" chronicles the struggle of songbirds worldwide to survive in turbulent environmental conditions brought about by humans as populations of hundreds of species have declined.

The film contends that their demise will signify the crash of the global ecosystem along with the disappearance of honey bees and the melting of the glaciers.

The film will open in New York at Cinema Village on Dec. 4 and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica on Dec. 11, followed by a release in over 30 markets nationwide and a subsequent DVD and digital release next year.

Producers are SongbirdSOS Productions Inc. and Films à Cinq/ARTE.

"The Messenger" won the prize for Best Conservation Program at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.

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Kino Lorber started a limited theatrical run beginning in December 2015.

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# Songbird Documentary 'The Messenger' Gets U.S. Release

Kino Lorber has acquired all U.S. rights to Su Rynard's songbird documentary "The Messenger" and will begin releasing the film in December.

"The Messenger" chronicles the struggle of songbirds worldwide to survive in turbulent environmental conditions brought about by humans as populations of hundreds of species have declined.

The film contends that their demise will signify the crash of the global ecosystem along with the disappearance of honey bees and the melting of the glaciers.

The film will open in New York at Cinema Village on Dec. 4 and in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica on Dec. 11, followed by a release in over 30 markets nationwide and a subsequent DVD and digital release next year.

Producers are SongbirdSOS Productions Inc. and Films à Cinq/ARTE.

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The novel is set between the 17th and 21st centuries.

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# Olga Tokarczuk of Poland Wins Man Booker International Prize

ImageThe prize of 50,000 British pounds is shared by the novel's author, Olga Tokarczuk, left, and its English-language translator, Jennifer Croft.

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LONDON — "Flights," a philosophical rumination on modern-day travel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, won the Man Booker International Prize for works of translated fiction on Tuesday night.

Ms. Tokarczuk shared the prize of 50,000 British pounds, around $67,000, with the book's English-language translator, Jennifer Croft.

The Man Booker International Prize is awarded by the same organization that gives the Man Booker Prize for fiction.

It is for a single work of fiction that has been translated into English and published in the United Kingdom in the last year.

In 2008 she won the Nike Award, Poland's highest literary accolade, for "Flights."

Ms. Tokarczuk won the award again in 2015 for "The Books of Jacob," a novel about the 18th-century Polish-Jewish religious leader Jacob Frank.

In a TV interview at the time, Ms. Tokarczuk said that Poland liked to think of itself as an "open, tolerant country" but would not acknowledge its poor historical treatment of Jews and other minority groups.

Ms. Tokarczuk's statement drew ire from nationalist critics and she received death threats.

In a review of "Flights" in The Guardian, the author and poet Kapka Kassabova said, "It is a novel of intuitions as much as ideas, a cacophony of voices and stories seemingly unconnected across time and space, which meander between the profound and the facetious, the mysterious and the ordinary, and whose true register remains one of glorious ambiguity."

The book had echoes of the writers W.G. Sebald and Milan Kundera, she added, but Ms. Tokarczuk "inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own."

Other books on the shortlist for this year's prize included the French author Virginie Despentes's "Vernon Subutex 1"; the South Korean author Han Kang's "The White Book"; the Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai's "The World Goes On"; the Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina's "Like a Fading Shadow"; and the Iraqi author Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad."

Last year's prize was awarded to the Israeli author David Grossman for his novel "A Horse Walks Into a Bar," translated by Jessica Cohen.

"Tokarczuk is a writer of wonderful wit, imagination and literary panache," Lisa Appignanesi, who led the judging panel, said in a statement.

In "Flights," she added, Ms. Tokarczuk "flies us through a galaxy of departures and arrivals, stories and digressions, all the while exploring matters close to the contemporary and human predicament — where only plastic escapes mortality."

A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Polish Author Wins Man Booker Prize.

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## Man Booker Winners Agree: Translating Jokes Is Hard

"Flights" is a fragmentary novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. It was originally published in Polish as "Bieguni". The book was translated into English by Jennifer Croft. The original Polish title refers to runaways (runners, "beguny"), a sect of Old Believers, who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil.


The novel is a "philosophical rumination on modern-day travel".

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# Olga Tokarczuk of Poland Wins Man Booker International Prize

ImageThe prize of 50,000 British pounds is shared by the novel's author, Olga Tokarczuk, left, and its English-language translator, Jennifer Croft.

CreditCreditJanie Airey/Man Booker Prize

LONDON — "Flights," a philosophical rumination on modern-day travel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, won the Man Booker International Prize for works of translated fiction on Tuesday night.

Ms. Tokarczuk shared the prize of 50,000 British pounds, around $67,000, with the book's English-language translator, Jennifer Croft.

The Man Booker International Prize is awarded by the same organization that gives the Man Booker Prize for fiction.

It is for a single work of fiction that has been translated into English and published in the United Kingdom in the last year.

In 2008 she won the Nike Award, Poland's highest literary accolade, for "Flights."

Ms. Tokarczuk won the award again in 2015 for "The Books of Jacob," a novel about the 18th-century Polish-Jewish religious leader Jacob Frank.

In a TV interview at the time, Ms. Tokarczuk said that Poland liked to think of itself as an "open, tolerant country" but would not acknowledge its poor historical treatment of Jews and other minority groups.

Ms. Tokarczuk's statement drew ire from nationalist critics and she received death threats.

In a review of "Flights" in The Guardian, the author and poet Kapka Kassabova said, "It is a novel of intuitions as much as ideas, a cacophony of voices and stories seemingly unconnected across time and space, which meander between the profound and the facetious, the mysterious and the ordinary, and whose true register remains one of glorious ambiguity."

The book had echoes of the writers W.G. Sebald and Milan Kundera, she added, but Ms. Tokarczuk "inhabits a rebellious, playful register very much her own."

Other books on the shortlist for this year's prize included the French author Virginie Despentes's "Vernon Subutex 1"; the South Korean author Han Kang's "The White Book"; the Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai's "The World Goes On"; the Spanish author Antonio Muñoz Molina's "Like a Fading Shadow"; and the Iraqi author Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad."

Last year's prize was awarded to the Israeli author David Grossman for his novel "A Horse Walks Into a Bar," translated by Jessica Cohen.

"Tokarczuk is a writer of wonderful wit, imagination and literary panache," Lisa Appignanesi, who led the judging panel, said in a statement.

In "Flights," she added, Ms. Tokarczuk "flies us through a galaxy of departures and arrivals, stories and digressions, all the while exploring matters close to the contemporary and human predicament — where only plastic escapes mortality."

A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Polish Author Wins Man Booker Prize.

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## Six Books Shortlisted for Man Booker International Prize

## Man Booker Winners Agree: Translating Jokes Is Hard

"Flights" is a fragmentary novel by the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. It was originally published in Polish as "Bieguni". The book was translated into English by Jennifer Croft. The original Polish title refers to runaways (runners, "beguny"), a sect of Old Believers, who believe that being in constant motion is a trick to avoid evil.
 The novel is set between the 17th and 21st centuries.


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Veteran television news correspondent Bob Abernethy is the executive editor and host of RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, which he developed and created for PBS in 1997 and is now marking its 10th season on the air.

The half-hour newsmagazine has been widely praised by critics and won numerous awards for its thoughtful and insightful coverage of all religions, all denominations and all expressions of spirituality in American life, as well as for balanced presentation of the profound moral issues facing the nation.

Abernethy's original proposal for the program grew out of his longtime interest in religion and in response to widespread criticism of American television's lack of attention to religion news.

Currently, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY airs on more than 250 public stations nationwide with a weekly audience of 570,000 viewers.

Abernethy is also the co-editor, with William Bole, of "The Life of Meaning," published in 2007 by Seven Stories Press in New York.

It is a collection of edited excerpts from some of the many insightful and eloquent observations made by those interviewed for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY.

Before launching RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, Abernethy served as a correspondent for NBC News for more than four decades, reporting from Washington, Los Angeles, London and Moscow – between 1989 and 1994 – where he covered the end of the Cold War, the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, and the struggle to create a new political and economic system.

In 1984, he took a one-year leave from NBC to study theology and social ethics at the Yale Divinity School.

Abernethy is an alumnus of Princeton University where he received bachelor's and master's degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Abernethy has also received the 2003 "Distinction in Ministry Award" from the Alumni Association of Yale Divinity School and honorary doctorates from Knox College in Illinois, San Diego University and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.

Abernethy is married to the former Marie Cheremeteff Grove and has two daughters, one stepdaughter and three stepsons.

He lives in Washington, D.C. and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and is a member of the United Church of Christ.

Abernethy is married to Marie Cheremeteff Grove. They have two daughters, one stepdaughter, and three stepsons.


They currently live in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

Abernethy is married to Marie Cheremeteff Grove. They have two daughters, one stepdaughter, and three stepsons. They currently live in Washington, D.C.


They are ordained members of the United Church of Christ.

Abernethy is married to Marie Cheremeteff Grove. They have two daughters, one stepdaughter, and three stepsons. They currently live in Washington, D.C. They currently live in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.


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In addition to their focus on world-class education, a number of internationally renowned universities also attract students, sightseers and investors because of their aesthetic appeal.

With their mix of grand architecture, green open spaces and rich historical significance, it's no wonder some of the UK's top campuses also enjoy a reputation as the world's most beautiful universities.

From Glasgow and Edinburgh to Belfast, Greenwich and Royal Holloway, the United Kingdom is home to universities that capture the imagination of art and culture lovers around the globe.

Standing head-and-shoulders above the rest are two of the most prestigious universities in the country – namely Cambridge and Oxford

The Rich Historic Appeal of Oxford University

The University of Oxford was ranked first in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017 and 2018.

It also made THE's list of the most beautiful universities in the UK.

Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

Instead of one main campus, it's made up of 38 colleges and other buildings throughout the city of Oxford.

Some of Oxford University's most beautiful features include:

The Bodleian Libraries, the largest university library system in the UK and one of Europe's oldest libraries.

The Radcliffe Camera, part of the Bodleian Library complex; an iconic circular building built in the English Palladian style.

The stately neoclassical Clarendon Building, which used to house the Oxford University Press printing presses.

The Sheldonian Theatre, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

The Sheldonian is the university's official ceremonial hall and features a magnificent ceiling fresco painted by Robert Streater.

Hertford Bridge, a beautiful skyway joining two parts of Oxford's Hertford College.

It is nicknamed "the Bridge of Sighs" because it resembles the original Bridge of Sighs in Venice.

The University of Cambridge was established in the 13th century and is known for its English Gothic stone buildings and stained-glass features.

Cambridge came in second in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and also made it onto their "most beautiful" list.

Cambridge is made up of 31 colleges and also comprises eight museums and a botanical garden.

Some of Cambridge's most appealing attractions include:

Queens' College, which features the most complete medieval buildings of all colleges in Cambridge.

It's also home to the famous Mathematical Bridge, which was built without any nails and relies on mathematical calculations for its strength.

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden, which spans 40 acres and includes 8,000 species of plants from around the world.

Pembroke College, which features a famous chapel also designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

Cambridge has its own "Bridge of Sighs", a covered bridge at St John's College, which crosses over the River Cam.

King's College Chapel is an architectural dream, with 16th-century stained glass windows, a lavishly carved wooden organ screen, and a beautiful altarpiece, Rubens' "Adoration of the Magi".

These appealing features, combined with a proven track record of excellent educational standards, continue to attract talent in the UK and on an international level.

Oxford is currently ranked fourth in the world by academics and third by employers, while Cambridge is ranked second in the world by both academics and employers.

Many of the buildings in Oxford and Cambridge are Grade I listed, which means they are "buildings of exceptional interest".

These are just some of the treasured historical buildings in the United Kingdom.

Beautiful universities like Oxford and Cambridge don't only appeal to students from around the globe; they also attract a variety of companies and investors.

Listed properties like those at Oxford and Cambridge are extremely popular with business owners, and a Heritage Lottery Fund study has even shown that businesses operating in these beautiful buildings tend to be more productive and lucrative than those in less inspiring surroundings.

Clearly, the aesthetics of Oxford and Cambridge play a big role in attracting investment to the "OxBridge" area.

Bidwells agents are proud to work with clients including the National Trust, the Imperial War Museum and Cambridge University colleges.

We help clients who own historic buildings to preserve these unique assets and also explore their long-term value.

Bidwells clients appreciate our respect for, and understanding of, the UK's architectural heritage.

We continue to be inspired by the most beautiful universities in the UK and provide expertise on historical properties in the OxBridge region and beyond.

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In addition to their focus on world-class education, a number of internationally renowned universities also attract students, sightseers and investors because of their aesthetic appeal.

With their mix of grand architecture, green open spaces and rich historical significance, it's no wonder some of the UK's top campuses also enjoy a reputation as the world's most beautiful universities.

From Glasgow and Edinburgh to Belfast, Greenwich and Royal Holloway, the United Kingdom is home to universities that capture the imagination of art and culture lovers around the globe.

Standing head-and-shoulders above the rest are two of the most prestigious universities in the country – namely Cambridge and Oxford

The Rich Historic Appeal of Oxford University

The University of Oxford was ranked first in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017 and 2018.

It also made THE's list of the most beautiful universities in the UK.

Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

Instead of one main campus, it's made up of 38 colleges and other buildings throughout the city of Oxford.

Some of Oxford University's most beautiful features include:

The Bodleian Libraries, the largest university library system in the UK and one of Europe's oldest libraries.

The Radcliffe Camera, part of the Bodleian Library complex; an iconic circular building built in the English Palladian style.

The stately neoclassical Clarendon Building, which used to house the Oxford University Press printing presses.

The Sheldonian Theatre, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

The Sheldonian is the university's official ceremonial hall and features a magnificent ceiling fresco painted by Robert Streater.

Hertford Bridge, a beautiful skyway joining two parts of Oxford's Hertford College.

It is nicknamed "the Bridge of Sighs" because it resembles the original Bridge of Sighs in Venice.

The University of Cambridge was established in the 13th century and is known for its English Gothic stone buildings and stained-glass features.

Cambridge came in second in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and also made it onto their "most beautiful" list.

Cambridge is made up of 31 colleges and also comprises eight museums and a botanical garden.

Some of Cambridge's most appealing attractions include:

Queens' College, which features the most complete medieval buildings of all colleges in Cambridge.

It's also home to the famous Mathematical Bridge, which was built without any nails and relies on mathematical calculations for its strength.

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden, which spans 40 acres and includes 8,000 species of plants from around the world.

Pembroke College, which features a famous chapel also designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

Cambridge has its own "Bridge of Sighs", a covered bridge at St John's College, which crosses over the River Cam.

King's College Chapel is an architectural dream, with 16th-century stained glass windows, a lavishly carved wooden organ screen, and a beautiful altarpiece, Rubens' "Adoration of the Magi".

These appealing features, combined with a proven track record of excellent educational standards, continue to attract talent in the UK and on an international level.

Oxford is currently ranked fourth in the world by academics and third by employers, while Cambridge is ranked second in the world by both academics and employers.

Many of the buildings in Oxford and Cambridge are Grade I listed, which means they are "buildings of exceptional interest".

These are just some of the treasured historical buildings in the United Kingdom.

Beautiful universities like Oxford and Cambridge don't only appeal to students from around the globe; they also attract a variety of companies and investors.

Listed properties like those at Oxford and Cambridge are extremely popular with business owners, and a Heritage Lottery Fund study has even shown that businesses operating in these beautiful buildings tend to be more productive and lucrative than those in less inspiring surroundings.

Clearly, the aesthetics of Oxford and Cambridge play a big role in attracting investment to the "OxBridge" area.

Bidwells agents are proud to work with clients including the National Trust, the Imperial War Museum and Cambridge University colleges.

We help clients who own historic buildings to preserve these unique assets and also explore their long-term value.

Bidwells clients appreciate our respect for, and understanding of, the UK's architectural heritage.

We continue to be inspired by the most beautiful universities in the UK and provide expertise on historical properties in the OxBridge region and beyond.

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Historic Building Restoration & Conservation

In addition to their focus on world-class education, a number of internationally renowned universities also attract students, sightseers and investors because of their aesthetic appeal.

With their mix of grand architecture, green open spaces and rich historical significance, it's no wonder some of the UK's top campuses also enjoy a reputation as the world's most beautiful universities.

From Glasgow and Edinburgh to Belfast, Greenwich and Royal Holloway, the United Kingdom is home to universities that capture the imagination of art and culture lovers around the globe.

Standing head-and-shoulders above the rest are two of the most prestigious universities in the country – namely Cambridge and Oxford

The Rich Historic Appeal of Oxford University

The University of Oxford was ranked first in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017 and 2018.

It also made THE's list of the most beautiful universities in the UK.

Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

Instead of one main campus, it's made up of 38 colleges and other buildings throughout the city of Oxford.

Some of Oxford University's most beautiful features include:

The Bodleian Libraries, the largest university library system in the UK and one of Europe's oldest libraries.

The Radcliffe Camera, part of the Bodleian Library complex; an iconic circular building built in the English Palladian style.

The stately neoclassical Clarendon Building, which used to house the Oxford University Press printing presses.

The Sheldonian Theatre, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

The Sheldonian is the university's official ceremonial hall and features a magnificent ceiling fresco painted by Robert Streater.

Hertford Bridge, a beautiful skyway joining two parts of Oxford's Hertford College.

It is nicknamed "the Bridge of Sighs" because it resembles the original Bridge of Sighs in Venice.

The University of Cambridge was established in the 13th century and is known for its English Gothic stone buildings and stained-glass features.

Cambridge came in second in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and also made it onto their "most beautiful" list.

Cambridge is made up of 31 colleges and also comprises eight museums and a botanical garden.

Some of Cambridge's most appealing attractions include:

Queens' College, which features the most complete medieval buildings of all colleges in Cambridge.

It's also home to the famous Mathematical Bridge, which was built without any nails and relies on mathematical calculations for its strength.

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden, which spans 40 acres and includes 8,000 species of plants from around the world.

Pembroke College, which features a famous chapel also designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

Cambridge has its own "Bridge of Sighs", a covered bridge at St John's College, which crosses over the River Cam.

King's College Chapel is an architectural dream, with 16th-century stained glass windows, a lavishly carved wooden organ screen, and a beautiful altarpiece, Rubens' "Adoration of the Magi".

These appealing features, combined with a proven track record of excellent educational standards, continue to attract talent in the UK and on an international level.

Oxford is currently ranked fourth in the world by academics and third by employers, while Cambridge is ranked second in the world by both academics and employers.

Many of the buildings in Oxford and Cambridge are Grade I listed, which means they are "buildings of exceptional interest".

These are just some of the treasured historical buildings in the United Kingdom.

Beautiful universities like Oxford and Cambridge don't only appeal to students from around the globe; they also attract a variety of companies and investors.

Listed properties like those at Oxford and Cambridge are extremely popular with business owners, and a Heritage Lottery Fund study has even shown that businesses operating in these beautiful buildings tend to be more productive and lucrative than those in less inspiring surroundings.

Clearly, the aesthetics of Oxford and Cambridge play a big role in attracting investment to the "OxBridge" area.

Bidwells agents are proud to work with clients including the National Trust, the Imperial War Museum and Cambridge University colleges.

We help clients who own historic buildings to preserve these unique assets and also explore their long-term value.

Bidwells clients appreciate our respect for, and understanding of, the UK's architectural heritage.

We continue to be inspired by the most beautiful universities in the UK and provide expertise on historical properties in the OxBridge region and beyond.

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### Time to bring policy agenda for 'later living housing' out of retirement

### Let's not rely on miracles to build this Arc

### Cambridge's best kept secrets, Trumpington

### Cambridge's best kept secrets, Queen Edith's

##### Help us find an exact match for your search.

Bidwells LLP is an independent property consultancy. Bidwells LLP is currently managing over £5.2 billion in property assets.


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# Walmart Ads for NBC's "Sound of Music" Will Sound Just Like the Show

## NBC creates special Walmart ads that use the famous play's tunes - in moments just after the songs appear in the show

Tonight on NBC, some of the ads will be alive with the sounds of "The Sound of Music."

As the Peacock makes an attempt to draw eyeballs this evening at 8 p.m. ET with a live broadcast of the famous 1959 musical, retail giant Walmart will air customized ads featuring the Brooks family of Gardner, Kansas, which has 12 children, all doing activities to the strains of the popular tunes from the play.

Indeed, Walmart will air five thirty-second ads in all, each timed to run just after the song being featured in each spot has been sung in the show.

NBC hopes the show will bring families together and "kind of wanted this to enhance the excitement," said Dan Lovinger, exec veep of entertainment ad sales at NBCU.

"The idea is to create these customized vignettes around this real-life family that correspond to and mirror what is going on in the show."

The ads will use oft-sung tunes such as "My Favorite Things," "So Long, Farewell," and "Do-Re-Mi" – all featuring the Brooks clan using products from Walmart.

In one ad, the family will be shown cooking in the kitchen while a bag full of groceries purchased at Walmart is on display.

The last spot of the evening will feature the parents trying to get the kids to sleep as they all use electronic devices available for purchase at Walmart.

"So Long, Farewell," will play as the scene unfolds.

NBC was not able to say whether the Walmart ads will run immediately after the broadcast cuts to an ad break – where they would have the most relevance – or deeper in the mix of promotions that run in each commercial interruption.

Viewers will be told at the outset of the program that the live broadcast of "Sound of Music" is being presented by Walmart.

NBC created the ads internally, Lovinger said.

Walmart showed interest in the program after NBC announced it would run a live broadcast of the play featuring singer Carrie Underwood in the lead role during its upfront presentation to advertisers last May.

NBC actually went out and found the family after a four-day casting effort in September.

NBC and Walmart have teamed up previously on family-friendly fare: In 2010, the retailer and Procter & Gamble joined with NBC to create a TV movie, "Secrets of the Mountain," that aimed to offer an alternative to what the advertisers viewed as an increase in risqué fare on the boob tube

After "Mountain" ran in April, a similar effort, "The Jensen Project," aired in July of that year.

Broadcasts of the films featured both ads from each company as well as placements of their products and logos in the content itself.

The three-hour live broadcast of "The Sound of Music," set to take place from a soundstage on Long Island, N.Y., is an ambitious project for the Peacock in the weeks before Christmas.

It is one of a number of live "spectaculars" being mounted by TV networks in an attempt to draw in the broad audiences that have become more difficult to find as viewers use new technology to watch the programming that interests them at times of their own choosing.

Discovery Channel found success earlier this year with a live broadcast of aerialist Nik Wallenda walking a tightrope over a gorge in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon.

The soundtrack for the live broadcast has been pre

recorded and the commercials afford the show, produced by Craig Zadan and Craig Meron, a comfort zone of sorts for costume and set changes.

Walmart's ads would be hard to use in any other program, but marketers have demonstrated an increasing interest in crafting commercials for very specific occasions, when the circumstances warrant.

During ABC's 2010 broadcast of the series finale of "Lost," for example, Target ran commercials that played off popular elements from the enigmatic series.

One Target spot made reference to the popular "smoke monster" that inhabited the island at the center of the drama, then reminded viewers a smoke detector at Target cost as little as $10.99.

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He also praised the involvement of Underwood as the star of the production, believing that she was a quick learner, and "has all of the qualities of Maria." Greenblatt was highly supportive of the project, as he was, in the words of Zadan, a "passionate devotee of theater". Zadan considered the production to be "one of the profoundly complicated, amazing experiences we’ve ever had", noting the additional challenges created by the live broadcast.
 Promoted by NBC as a "three-hour holiday event", "The Sound of Music Live!" was aired as part of a push by NBC to air more live entertainment specials. Among its most popular programs in recent years have been those with live components (such as "The Voice" and "Sunday Night Football"); NBC's Jennifer Salke believed that the increased level of social network interaction possible in a live broadcast, along with the feeling of being part of an "event", would encourage viewers to watch the special live instead of on-demand or from a recording. NBC's previous attempt at event television, "The Million Second Quiz", was met with mixed reviews and viewership, but NBC did indicate that Subway's advertising throughout the series brought a higher level of awareness to the brand. The television special was also the first live musical special in almost fifty years on NBC. Retail chain Walmart served as the presenting sponsor for "The Sound of Music Live!". NBC also produced five themed Walmart commercials to air throughout the special, featuring scenes of a family using products from the store set to songs from "The Sound of Music".