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Q: WordPress admin sends empty response but frontend works All my WordPress installs suddenly have wp-admin inaccessible after installing. I've repeated the procedure several times, and in different locations to avoid caching issues.
Steps:
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*download WP from the official site
*do a fresh install in an empty database
*log in to /wp-admin
After logging in I get an ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE and in the console I see the error "crbug/1173575, non-JS module files deprecated." After this the admin section is completely inaccessible.
The site itself however works fine and I see the default Hello World post.
My existing WP install run fine, but any new ones I make behave as described.
I have tried rebooting and restarting Apache.
I am on MacOS, PHP 7.3.29.
A: This isn't exactly a solution, but doesn't look like anyone will be able to answer, so I'll provide the info I can in case this happens to someone else.
The problem happens when previously logged in and wp-admin is trying to "reauthorize" (the parameter "reauth" is present in the URL).
The issue seems to have to do with serving WordPress over MacOS's own Apache installation, but works fine when serving over a Mampstack installation. (I had previously gone over to the MacOS built-in installation because I needed MySQL and not MariaDB, I guess I'll have to run them in parallel.)
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Giovanni Pettenella (Caprino Veronese, 28 maart 1943 - Milaan, 19 februari 2010) was een Italiaans wielrenner.
Pettenella won tijdens de Olympische Zomerspelen 1964 de gouden medaille op de sprint en de zilveren medaille op de 1km tijdrit. In 1968 won Pettenella de bronzen medaille op de wereldkampioenschappen sprint bij de profs.
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Report: 2021 could brew perfect storm for new wave of migration from Central America
Natural disasters, U.S. recovery and immigrant-friendly talk from Biden could prompt people to make journey north, analysts say
by: Julian Resendiz
Honduras migrant Marcos Pineda, his wife Keysi Giron and their children Genesis and Ezequiel walk through San Luis Peten, Guatemala, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Early Saturday, hundreds of migrants who had entered Guatemala this week without registering were being bused back to their country's border by authorities after running into a large roadblock. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A perfect storm of pull factors could lead to a major new wave of migration from Central America to the U.S. in 2021, private intelligence analysts say.
Those include expectations raised by the immigrant-friendly rhetoric of the Biden campaign, a U.S. economy likely to generate lots of jobs during a recovery, despair raised by recent natural disasters and the calculation by some that it'll be easier to get a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States than in their Central American hometowns.
Ben West, senior global security analyst for Stratfor
"We're already seeing arrests and detentions at the border start to tick back up – not anywhere close to 2019 highs, but getting around to 2017-2018 levels," said Ben West, senior global security analyst for Stratfor, an Austin-based risk assessment firm part of the Rane Network.
Stratfor this month issued a report stating why border crossings are poised to grow in 2021. The principal pull factor is economic.
"The economic fallout from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic combined with back-to-back major hurricanes, has further worsened living conditions in the Northern Triangle (of Central America), especially for the poorer, marginalized segments of society that were already more likely to attempt the journey to the United States," the report states.
Hurricanes Eta and Iota slammed into Honduras and Guatemala in November flooding homes, farms, washing away roads and adding to the woes of communities already dealing with the loss of jobs brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this Nov. 6, 2020 file photo, a resident walking through a flooded street looks back at storm damage caused by Hurricane Eta in Planeta, Honduras. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez, File)
The natural disasters are "putting more pressure on people to leave and seek a better life in the United States," West said.
Punishing hurricanes to spur more Central American migration
The World Bank estimates that El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala will close out 2020 with negative economic growth of 8.7%, 7.1% and 3%, respectively. Meantime, the Federal Reserve this month said the U.S. economy could grow 4.2% in 2021.
"The expected fast timeline for the U.S. economic recovery will make the United States that much more appealing in 2021 to those seeking work," the Stratfor report says.
Politics are also lining up in favor of additional migration.
President-elect Joe Biden (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Individuals and families discouraged from following in the footsteps of thousands of countrymen sent back to Mexico by the Trump administration in 2019 and 2020 "will feel they have a better chance of entering and staying (in the U.S.) once Biden takes office," according to Stratfor.
Mexico, bullied by Trump into stopping migrant caravans from Central America and deploying troops to the border with Guatemala, likely will not face the same pressure from Biden. America's southern neighbor might decide to reassign National Guard elements from border immigration checkpoints to face more pressing security threats, such as the criminal organizations responsible for a record number of homicides and rampant fuel theft, the report says.
"Absent threats […] from the United States, Mexico is much less likely to stem migration along its southern border, especially if they know the majority of people will just be passing through," added West.
A National Guard soldier stands guard near Bavispe, Sonora state, Mexico, where family members of the extended LeBaron family were ambushed by gunmen last year. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Comprehensive immigration reform and massive U.S. foreign aid long have been touted by some as the magic bullet to check illegal migration. But as Biden takes office in 2021, neither is guaranteed to happen.
Advocates welcome Biden's willingness to address immigration reform, reverse Trump policies
Thus, the severity of a potential new migrant crisis in 2021 "depends on how quickly the Biden administration can work out a more strategic deal with Congress and Mexico on immigration," West said. "That remains to be seen because past administrations promised immigration reform and ultimately came up short-handed."
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California groups outline efforts to fight slavery and human trafficking
by Salvador Rivera / Jan 8, 2021
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Several advocacy groups, law enforcement agencies and other officials discussed steps they're taking to combat slavery and human trafficking along the border and across the United States.
Representatives from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigations as well as the mayor of San Francisco participated in the teleconference late Friday morning, which coincided with Monday's National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
Overriding defense-bill veto could bring state-of-the-art inspections to more border crossings
by Julian Resendiz / Jan 2, 2021
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – High-tech inspection systems are helping U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers detect more contraband while speeding up trade at some major ports of entry, a border congresswoman says.
But those systems also are needed at smaller border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico expanse, and that's where funding from the National Defense Authorization Act comes in, says U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-New Mexico.
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Q: Parse Issue: Expected Expression (Objective C) For what ever reason my xcode has decided it doesn't like me... I'm getting the error stated in the title on this line
- (void)tableViewSelectionDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification
{
NSInteger row = [_tableView selectedRow];
if (row == –1) //<---- this line
{
return;
}
NSString *selectedVoice = [_voices objectAtIndex:row];
[_speechSynth setVoice:selectedVoice];
NSLog(@"new voice = %@", selectedVoice);
}
I do believe that it has something to do with _tableView being befuddled because when I attempted to get the IDE to help me to type (you know when it guesses what you might what to finish your word with by doing an API lookup of available functions) it doesn't show selectedRow as a possibility :(
incase it's needed i've put the .m and .h in a pastebin to save some space on your screens... FYI I'm following the Coca Programming for Mac OSX fourth Edition chapter 6.10
A: In your line
if (row == –1)
the minus-sign is not the real minus-sign, but an "EN DASH" (Unicode U+2013). Perhaps you accidentally pressed the option-key together with the minus-key when typing that code.
Replacing that character with a minus-sign fixes the problem.
A: UITableView doesn't have a method called selectedRow.
Perhaps you should be using:
- (NSIndexPath *)indexPathForSelectedRow
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Home / Politics / Rape in India: Domestic and Global Politics
Rape in India: Domestic and Global Politics
By Soma Chaudhuri, Amita Chudgar, Meski Glegziabher, Julie Hagstrom, Sean Pue, and Karin Zitzewitz[1]
On January 23, 2013, the Asian Studies Center and the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University (MSU) organized a "teach-in" panel discussion on recent developments surrounding the tragic rape and death of a 23-year old woman in Delhi, India. The panel was led by Dr. Karin Zitzewitz (Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture) and moderated by Dr. Sean Pue (Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature), both of whom had been in Delhi during the protests. They were impressed by the energy and wide-ranging agenda of the protesters, as well as by the severity of the Indian state's response: water cannons on the first day of protests, blocking off the center of Delhi with riot police, and shutting off public transportation.
Upon returning to the United States, they decided to convene a "teach in" on the events. They brought together a broadly interdisciplinary group of people at MSU with relevant professional and research experience to discuss the U.S. domestic and global politics of the Delhi gang rape. The panel included students, research staff, and faculty from across disciplines who together reflected on the incident and its implications. Topics included a timeline of events on and after the December 16th gang rape; how the rape is yet another attack against women; how Delhi as an urban space creates a context that becomes conducive to sexual violence; some findings from the National Family Health Survey dataset in India covering twenty five states that explain how attitudes to gender inequality and related gender violence in India are deep and pervasive; and the similarities of rape and other forms of sexual violence in India with those in the United States.
Photo courtesy: ibtimes.co.uk
The timing of the panel was crucial. Later that evening (January 24th, morning in India), the Justice Verma Committee, a three-member panel set up to suggest amendments and recommendations regarding the existing sexual violence laws (particularly related to rape), presented its report to the Government of India. Along with offering many suggestions, the report criticized the government, the police, and public apathy towards rape in India. The report has been hailed as a manifesto for gender equality in India, and currently various groups in India are campaigning for immediate implementation of the recommendations.
In the United States, on the other hand, last year's election campaign reminded us how, in the world's most powerful democracy, women are still treated as second-class citizens. The campaign provoked discussions about abortion, the "legitimacy" of rape, contraceptives, and women's bodies. It became a campaign centered on "gender wars" and the "war on women." And then there is the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, a historic set of measures that was allowed to relapse this year, eighteen years after it was brought into effect.
In this forum convened especially for The Feminist Wire, we offer written versions of our panel presentations in order to bring forward the importance of why the fight for equal rights for women as citizens is far from being over both in the world's largest democracy, India, and in the world's most powerful democracy, the United States.
"A Timeline of Events in the Delhi Gang-Rape Case," by Karin Zitzewitz
"This Is War! Reflections on the Delhi Gang Rape," by Soma Chaudhuri
"Urban Spaces Are Conducive to Sexual Violence: The Case of Delhi," by Meski Glegzaibher
"If You Are Now Saying, No, Women Are Equal…," by Amita Chudgar
"Some Concluding Thoughts on Violence Against Women in the U.S. and India," by Julie A. Hagstrom
[1] All authors are listed alphabetically and have contributed equally to this piece. Sean Pue can be reached at [email protected]
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I have decided to offer my 16v for sale, after 8 years and about 40k miles of happy ownership. It's a black 1990 ph 2, first reg in Feb 1991, with Monza interior.
This car has been in daily use (as my work commute) until the end of June this year, when the MoT ran out. Tax runs out at the end of September. It has been properly maintained and annually serviced by B.L. Autos at Welwyn Garden City. Last service (with cam belt change) was June 2011. I have a full service record in my ownership, and a pretty good one from before.
The odometer reads 101,300 miles. The car has in fact done about 106k miles, as I have spent about half of the last 2 years with a broken upper speedo cable. When it recently broke for the third time, I decided to leave it, and use a TomTom to see my speed.
The car would need welding for the MoT at the front ends of the inner rear arches, seen when you open the rear doors. One side actually has a hole now, and I'm told it's too near the rear seat belt anchor point to pass as is.
I have twice before done big repairs to the body, and have run out of steam now, although it remains a decent car. Previous repairs were to the front suspension turret areas, and upper inner rear arches, above the exhaust and above the smaller fuel tank, so these areas are sound, and there is no rust round the front screen or in the A post/front door hinge areas.
There is a damaged area on the rear bumper, where I reversed into a low wall. It could be repaired, or I have another rear bumper available, though it would need to be painted.
There are lots of stone chips on the bonnet & front bumper, and on the rear wheel arch spats. It needs 2 new front tyres.
The front passenger window is sometimes lazy, I think there is a cracked wire in the loom as it enters the door. And.... the cables have just parted company from the handbrake lever, I will get the centre console off and have a look asap.
Otherwise it's all good! It certainly still drives well. Interior is pretty clean (Monza). Rear arm bearings have been done in my ownership, and the front struts were replaced before I bought it, at about 45k miles. The main lower engine mount, driveshafts and crank sensor have also been replaced by me. It has Belfast registration, which I kept when I bought it, as I thought it gave some identity without being a private plate.
The sunroof works, both tilt and slide, as does the central locking, with (only one) plipper.
It has a Thatcham category 2 Laserline immobiliser, professionally installed, plus Momo steering wheel (original with the car too), and sunroof deflector and front window deflectors, easily removed if not wanted. There are F & R correct Citroen rubber floor mats.
It would come with some consumable spares, namely 2 oil filters, F & R pads, new rear discs & good used front ones, plus a variety of used small electric bits (switches etc).
Lots of other (mainly used) spares are available separately, as I have taken bits off 2 scrappers in the past. I had a project idea of installing a higher ratio 5th gear from a BX diesel box, never got around to it but the potential donor box is available free if of any interest. I also have a new clutch & cable, available for a few bob extra.
It has let me down only once, with a burst fuel pipe under the car (it had corroded beneath a clip). Replaced with new.
Hopefully the link will give you some pics. The paint is not as shiny in real life (as always...). This car is not a basket case, and I'm looking for £650.
I'd like the car to go to an enthusiast, so as yet it's not advertised elsewhere. Viewing welcome, I'm in Rutland, 4 miles west of the A1 and Stamford.
Any questions, please ask away!
Best of luck with the sale. With a ticket and your issue addressed that's a £1200 car, or possibly more I would think.
Many thanks, Kitch. Those pics were taken maybe 4 years ago (guessing) at the CCC rally at Stratford.
We've met before - I sold you a set of SD1 alloys a while back, and I said if you ever put your car up for sale, I'd be in touch. Well, I'm now getting in touch.
My email is [email protected] - drop me an email and we'll talk about me picking up this car from you.
David Cowie wrote: Many thanks, Kitch. Those pics were taken maybe 4 years ago (guessing) at the CCC rally at Stratford.
OMG.... Has Queen Victoria died then?
The car is now sold, and I'm pleased to say has gone to an enthusiast so it will live on.
Many thanks to one and all who showed interest, and there was a lot!
This forum is excellent - one of the nicest I have encountered.
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Time's Arrow of a Quantum Superposition of Thermodynamic Evolutions
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A priori, there exists no preferential temporal direction as microscopic physical laws are time-symmetric. Still, the second law of thermodynamics allows one to associate the 'forward' temporal direction to a positive variation of the total entropy produced in a thermodynamic process, and a negative variation with its 'time-reversal' counterpart.
This definition of a temporal axis is normally considered to apply in both classical and quantum contexts. Yet, quantum physics admits also superpositions between forward and time-reversal processes, thereby seemingly eluding conventional definitions of time's arrow. In this talk, I will demonstrate that a quantum measurement of entropy production can distinguish the two temporal directions, effectively projecting such superpositions of thermodynamic processes onto the forward (time-reversal) time-direction when large positive (negative) values are measured.
Remarkably, for small values (of the order of plus or minus one), the amplitudes of forward and time-reversal processes can interfere, giving rise to entropy-production distributions featuring a more or less reversible process than either of the two components individually, or any classical mixture thereof.
Finally, I will extend these concepts to the case of a thermal machine running in a superposition of the heat engine and the refrigerator mode, illustrating how such interference effects can be employed to reduce undesirable fluctuations. | {
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We've all been there – starting at the half empty carton in the fridge. The eggs are about to go bad, and you're not sure what to do with them except throw them away.
Personally, I don't like tossing extra eggs if I can help it, and I've spent a lot of time researching and testing unusual ways to repurpose them.
And I've discovered that there's a LOT you can do with extra eggs!
In this article, I'm going to show you how, with a little bit of preparation, you can save extra eggs and reuse them in several ways in your home.
Use egg whites as a glaze for breads, muffins, and pastries. Adds a glossy sheen and helps keep toppings such as herbs or sesame seeds in place.
Add egg yolks to soups and sauces to thicken them. Wait until the soup is relatively cool so the yolks don't cook & scramble – unless you're making egg drop soup, in which case you want the eggs to cook!
Homemade mayonnaise tastes much better than the store bought stuff – and you can be sure it's made with fresh, organic ingredients.
Mix egg yolks with a blender, and gradually drizzle olive oil a few drops at a time while blending constantly. Add vinegar to taste until mayo is white and creamy. If you want to ferment the mayo for extra nutritional benefits, this article will help you out.
If your coffee mugs are stained from tea or coffee, use eggshells to remove tem. Grind up eggshells and sprinkle them in the mug. Add warm water until a slurry is formed. Leave to soak overnight. If the stains aren't fully removed by morning, repeat until the stains are gone.
Separate egg whites & yolks. Freeze egg whites to use in meringues or to shine bread as needed. Mix yolks with a pinch of salt or sugar to keep them moist when you defrost them (freezing tends to dry yolks out). Note which yolks have salt or sugar so you can use them in an appropriate recipe.
You can also freeze yolks and whites together (scramble them first), and use in recipes as needed.
Separate whites from yolks (or use the frozen whites from above!) and whisk with a ¼ tsp of water. Add your favorite nuts, coating them with the egg mixture. Remove nuts and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake at 250 degrees F for 45 minutes (keep an eye on them so they don't burn). Use a spatula to turn them regularly to they bake evenly. Enjoy!
Love smoothies? Want them to be even more smooth? Add egg whites! Whisk them until they're frothy and fluffy, and use up to 2 tablespoons per 8 ounces of smoothie. You'll have to play with it a bit to see what tastes best to you.
The egg whites will give your smoothies a silkie texture. You can also use them in alcoholic drinks.
Eggshells are an excellent source of calcium and other micronutrients. Add them to smoothies or other drinks to meet your daily calcium requirements.
To make eggshell powder, first spread the shells on a cookie sheet. Bake them at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes. Once they've cooled, process them until they're completely ground.
Store in the fridge and use within 3 weeks. Only use about ¼ tsp per 8 ounces of drink (20 or so shells will make about ½ to 1 cup of powder).
If you can't make it through all the powder in that time, you can add the remainder to your compost bin, your garden, or feed to your chickens. (For other animals such as dogs and cats, check with your vet first).
I make and cook French toast any extra gets cooked too. I put 1-2 slices into sandwich bags and freeze them. Since they are already cooked you can pop them into the toaster, and Walla breakfast!!
When looking for a way to use up both cherries and eggs I found a recipe for cherry clafouti, which we've been using ever since. It works for breakfast, snack or dessert.
I cook up whole eggs or my pups. The big dog gets two the smaller gets one. I mix them in with their kibble.
We scramble up the "extras" for our flock as a treat. We also use the egg shells to help clean our garbage disposal. (Once a month with 2 eggs). If there is still too many eggs, they get added in the garden to help fertilize the soil. | {
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Q: Is there a way to use regexpvalidator with input mask in qml textfield? I need to use input mask like that "#99\u00B099.9999\u2032" for latitude input.
At the same time I need to validate symbols with regex like that /^[\-\+]?((0|([1-8]\d?))(\.[0-5]{1}\d{1}\.\d{4})?|90(\.0{2}\.0{4})?)$/.
How do I use both at the same time?
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Brookhaven artists excel
By Chris Allison
Five Brookhaven College art students received awards at the 2013 League for Innovation Exhibition and Competition on Feb. 7. The competition, held annually at Mountain View College, features 10 entries from the seven colleges in the Dallas County Community College District.
This year's juror, Benito Huerta, gallery director and professor of painting at the University of Texas at Arlington, selected five entries from 70 to proceed to the national competition.
Of the five Brookhaven students awarded, Hong Hee Kwon was selected as one of five finalists to continue to the national phase of competition.
Albertina Cisneros' submitted photograph titled "Churros con chocolate" was purchased for display in the Mountain View permanent art collection. Allison Arnold, Tori Baker and Jim Tompkins were recognized with honorable mentions.
Visual art faculty and staff choose entries from the Fall Student Exhibition for the competition in early December. David Newman, visual arts coordinator at Brookhaven, said, "We try to be representative of the whole department." Newman also pointed out how helpful those meetings can be for the faculty in allowing them to have an overview of the visual arts program outside of their particular discipline.
The national level of the competition involves 19 community college districts throughout the country and will take place in the fall. The juror, often a prestigious artist, selects winners from images of the works, since the national exhibition exists only as a catalogued, virtual competition.
The exhibitions and competitions held throughout the year benefit students by preparing them for a career in visual arts. Newman said the critique process mirrors the real world as closely as possible and involves an external review of the students' work. Brookhaven students frequently place highly in these competitions, demonstrating the quality of the visual arts program.
Honorable mention recipient and Brookhaven student Jim Tompkins attributed some of his success to his art professors. "When it comes to making a piece, for me, it's more about getting it done," he said. "What the instructors have helped me refine is the attention to detail and the craftsmanship. I continue to struggle with it, but my awareness of it I attribute to them."
Despite his artistic talent and years of training, Tompkins said he sometimes needs a helping hand with his work. "My idea was refined through sketching and my discussions with Natalie Macellaio and Nick Hutchings," Tompkins said. "I would not have been able to construct this piece so meticulously without their assistance. The construction was challenging."
Tompkins echoed Newman's comments about the various exhibitions and competitions preparing students for a career in visual arts. "They have also helped me understand how best to present my work, which is important if you want to sell your work," he said.
The School of the Arts will also host the Spring Juried Art Student Exhibition from April 23 to May 3 in the Forum Gallery and Studio Gallery. For more information, readers can contact the School of the Arts office at 972-860-4385 or visit www. brookhavencollege.edu/instruction/bcsa for event schedules in both galleries.
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http://www.ThriftDiving.com - I found this French Provincial desk at the thrift store and knew it would look GREAT with a beautiful grey and white color combonation! I used Annie Sloan Paris Grey and Pure White, and kept the existing hardware. The back of it had some damage, so I repaired it with MDF boards that I had found on the side of the road in a trash pile. :) See the blog post for a lot more pictures of the whole process, along with my 3 "Lessons Learned" from this project :) Thanks!!
My thrift store French Provincial desk, perfoect for a little girl! Painted with Annie Sloan Paris Grey and Pure White! This desk was only $12!!
Ugly, dirty, but I saw its potential. For $12, it would have been a sin to walk away :) The top drawer was missing a knob.
Grey and white is such a fresh combination!
Love this! Gorgeous! I have the whole set when I was growing up in the 80s! I just purchased the desk on an online yard sale to complete, yay! How did you patch up the holes in the drawers? The desk I bought is missing a drawer pull but if I convert to one like you did, I do not need to buy another.
@Aarati S Nope, no sanding. Just be sure to use paint (like Annie Sloan Chalk Paint) which doesn't require sanding. Hope that helps! Good luck with your project! | {
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Q: Open Apple Maps for navigation with destination name set I am fetching location data (like the coordinates used below) from Google's Places API.
When linking to Apple Maps for navigation from my app, I am currently using:
https://maps.apple.com/?daddr=[latitude],[longitude]
When Maps opens, it presents the coordinates for a short amount of time before resolving to an address. What I want is for the name of the destination to appear instead of coordinates or an address. Since I am using React Native, I would prefer a javascript-only solution (knowing that this essentially restricts a solution to this question to a url).
I have tried combinations of other parameters listed here to no avail.
A: Try with this function, you only need to pass the coordinates and place name, this works, I use this in several projects
static func openMapsAppWithLocation(coordinates:CLLocationCoordinate2D,placeName:String)
{
let regionDistance:CLLocationDistance = 10000
let regionSpan = MKCoordinateRegionMakeWithDistance(coordinates, regionDistance, regionDistance)
let options = [
MKLaunchOptionsMapCenterKey: NSValue(mkCoordinate: regionSpan.center),
MKLaunchOptionsMapSpanKey: NSValue(mkCoordinateSpan: regionSpan.span)
]
let placemark = MKPlacemark(coordinate: coordinates, addressDictionary: nil)
let mapItem = MKMapItem(placemark: placemark)
mapItem.name = placeName
mapItem.openInMaps(launchOptions: options)
}
Hope this helps
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The Classics program at Agnes Scott is at the heart of the college's liberal arts program, educating students in the artes liberales (the "skills that liberate the mind,") and with the tools to implement those skills in a variety of disciplines and careers.
Classics at Agnes Scott offers a carefully stepped curriculum that fully integrates global learning and leadership development into the Latin and Greek sequences, civilization courses taught in English, and the majors and minor. The college's Summit initiative thus provides classics with a framework for highlighting key parts of our program-- critical thinking, a global perspective across time and place, research skills, oral communication, and informational fluency. Our additional focus on effective teamwork, critical self-awareness, and study abroad opportunities makes classics an ideal setting for exploring all that Summit has to offer.
Classics students learn to analyze a wide range of compelling textual and material remains using a variety of approaches-- anthropological, historical, and sociological methods, political theory, literary criticism and art history-- to examine ancient Greece and Rome. Of primary importance to this study is engagement with the classical languages and their historical context. Classics students learn Greek and Latin with a rigor that requires close attention to detail, cross-referencing of sources, careful synthesis, and critical analysis of texts and contexts--all skills that serve them well in a wide range of fields.
Classics provides an excellent starting point for students interested in areas such as law, medicine, education, creative writing, history, archaeology, art, philosophy, or linguistics, among many others.
What Can I Do With a Classics Degree? | {
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs violated the state Sunshine Law when trustees corresponded by telephone and email before sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rescinding an earlier letter by Chief Executive Officer Kamanaopono Crabbe. Then the board violated the law again when it refused to allow public comment before conducting a closed-door session discussing Crabbe's conduct. That's the finding of the state Office of Information Practices in a Nov. 7 opinion responding to a complaint by six Hawaii residents. West Hawaii Today.
President Obama will make a refueling stop at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam this weekend. Air Force One is expected to arrive early Sunday morning for just two hours, as the president's plane is refueled. Star-Advertiser.
Campaign Spending Commission Rejects Rep. Calvin Say Challenge. A review finds that it's legal for the former Hawaii House speaker to use campaign funds to pay for his legal fees. Civil Beat.
The National Center for Access to Justice released its Justice Index findings Thursday, and Hawaii ranks among the top five states in the country for "best practices of ensuring access to the civil and criminal justice systems." Civil Beat.
The State Department of Health can now test for cases of Ebola in Hawaii. A Pearl City laboratory has been approved by the CDC and the U.S. Department of Defense to test for the virus. KITV4.
The Hawaii State Department of Health's State Laboratories Division said Thursday that it can now test for the Ebola virus. Civil Beat.
Millions of dollars come to Hawaii each year to help law enforcement bust drug organizations. But behind the scenes of a White-House-backed agency that controls the cash, there are money troubles and internal upheaval that may lead to legal action. KHON2.
The Hawaii State Teachers Association is getting a new executive director. The union says Wilbert Holck is replacing Al Nagasako. Associated Press.
Honolulu city officials say a cleanup of homeless encampments Thursday in Kakaako is not related to a "Hawaii Five-0" filming session this weekend. Star-Advertiser.
Homeless Rousted from Kakaako as 'Hawaii Five-0′ Readies Shoot. WATCH A SLIDESHOW: Officials say the latest operation wasn't prompted by TV show's car chase scene, but some of the homeless and advocates are skeptical. Civil Beat.
Approximately 150 homeless people have been cleared from Kakaako encampments along Ohe and Ilalo Streets, and some believe a "Hawaii Five-0" shoot this weekend may be to blame. Hawaii News Now.
Five days a week, city workers hit the streets to conduct sweeps on Honolulu sidewalks. It's part of a controversial ordinance that went into effect last July, that allows officials to clear streets occupied by the homeless and their belongings. Hawaii Public Radio.
Honolulu's homeless don't usually die with dignity. Not only do they pass away at much younger ages than the rest of the population, but their demise is often the result of substance abuse, poor health or violence. Civil Beat.
The Honolulu City Council may vote on a bill that would ban sitting and lying down on sidewalks in neighborhoods beyond Waikiki. The council plans to take up Bill 48 Friday at noon. They say public testimony is complete and no new testimony will be allowed. Hawaii News Now.
The rail transit board Thursday authorized the payment of $48.4 million for change orders and other additional costs due to delays in the project. Dan Grabauskas, executive director of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, told board members that the latest price changes bump the total amount attributable to project delays to $165,771,851. Star-Advertiser.
It's unknown who will replace Lance Wilhelm, the man who's been responsible for overseeing Kiewit Hawaii's $556 million contract to build the first leg of the $5.16 billion Honolulu rail transit project since the company was awarded the work five years ago, after he leaves next month. Pacific Business News.
Lawsuit alleges overly aggressive security officers at airport. KHON2.
Kamehameha Schools and SunEdison Inc. got a green light from the state Land Use Commission on Thursday to establish what would be the state's biggest solar farm -- generating up to 115 megawatts -- on land in Waiawa previously approved for a master-planned residential community. Star-Advertiser.
Alexander & Baldwin Inc. has earned its biggest return yet selling one of 30 Kahala Avenue residential properties it acquired from Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto last year. The Honolulu-based firm sold two adjacent vacant parcels that include 132 feet of beach frontage for $19.4 million Thursday, according to broker Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties. Star-Advertiser.
It appears an invasive seaweed that has plagued the reefs of Kaneohe Bay for more than 30 years has finally met its match all quarter-million of them. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources recently put another 6,000 hatchery-raised sea urchins on selected reefs in the bay, bringing to roughly 250,000 the number of native collector sea urchins released so far in a program developed over the last decade. Star-Advertiser.
The new governing board of Halau Lokahi Public Charter School will lay off all 18 employees at the financially strapped school at the end of this semester and then quickly rebuild a smaller staff that the school can afford. Star-Advertiser.
Driving through Pahoa as lava continues to threaten the town became a little easier Thursday when police removed a roadblock where Post Office Road meets Highway 130. Tribune-Herald.
The state Department of Health set up three air-quality monitoring stations to warn of potentially dangerous conditions as a result of the lava flow threatening Pahoa. Tribune-Herald.
The front of the lava flow from Kilauea Volcano threatening Pahoa remained stalled Thursday as officials monitored active breakouts and air quality. Star-Advertiser.
Biotech companies, including Monsanto, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu challenging the voter-approved Maui County initiative for a moratorium on genetically modified organisms. Maui News.
A day after supporters of a Maui County moratorium on genetically engineered crops went to court in support of the new law, Monsanto struck back with its own lawsuit hoping to invalidate the voter-approved ordinance. Star-Advertiser.
Two leading developers of genetically engineered corn have sued Maui County to stop a new law banning the cultivation of genetically modified organisms. Associated Press.
Biotech companies Monsanto and Agrigenetics, an affiliate of Dow AgroSciences, have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to throw out Maui County's recently passed moratorium on genetically modified farming. Civil Beat.
All Maui County House representatives secured leadership positions for the 28th Legislature, which will convene Jan. 21. Maui News.
County officials announced that repairs to the Kealia Beach parking lot will begin on Monday. The project will be done in phases to allow the public access to the areas of the parking lot that are not being worked on. Garden Island. | {
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While luminescence is the emission of photons from a solid when excited by an energy source, be it light, electrons, current flow, etc., cathodoluminescence (CL) is the emission of photons, as light, when a material is specifically stimulated by high-energy electrons.
A meeting of optical emission spectroscopies and electron microscopy.
Cathodoluminescence microscopy is the analysis of the luminescence (emitted light or photons) from a material when stimulated by the electron beam of an electron microscope; the luminescence ranges from ultraviolet to infrared wavelength ranges (200 – 2,300 nm or 6 – 0.5 eV). The ability to focus the electron beam of an electron microscope to sub-nanometer length scales allows us to investigate optical properties of materials down to the nanoscale, far below the diffraction limit constraints of optical microscopes. Furthermore, the cathodoluminescence signal may be correlated directly with information gained from other signals.
CL in a scanning or scanning transmission electron microscope (SEM or STEM) is a unique tool to characterize the composition and optical and electronic properties of materials, while simultaneously correlating them with morphology, microstructure, composition, and chemistry at the micro- and nano-scale.
Although other techniques such as optical emission spectroscopies and photo- and electro-luminescence enable the characterization of optical properties, CL in the electron microscope holds distinct advantages due to the vastly increased spatial resolution available and the ability to correlate directly with structural information. Light microscopes are limited by fundamental physics to an approximate spatial resolution of 200 – 300 nm (approximately half the wavelength of the illuminating source). However, in an electron microscope, the electron beam can be focused to a very small spot potentially giving optical information with sub-nanometer spatial resolution. Furthermore, other emitted signals reveal morphological information, such as size and shape, as well as composition, chemistry, crystallography, electronic properties, plus much more. Thus, the volume of information from a specimen combined with the ability to correlate it directly with information from luminescence (spectroscopy) is what makes CL such a powerful characterization technique.
CL occurs because the impingement of a high-energy electron beam elevates the sample to an excited state, which can then induce it to emit a photon when the sample returns to the ground state. In a semiconductor, this excitation process will result in the promotion of electrons from the valence band into the conduction band, which leaves behind a hole. Therefore, when the electron and hole recombine, a photon will emit from the semiconductor; the photon energy (color) and the probability that a photon (not a phonon) will be emitted depends on the material, its purity, and the defects it contains.
In terms of band structure, classical semiconductors, insulators, ceramics, gemstones, minerals, and glasses can be treated the same way with luminescence resulting from energy transitions across the band gap or from mid-gap energy states. In metals, the excitation of the specimen may be by surface plasmons being launched, which when they decay can result in the emission of a cathodoluminescence photon.
The CL light emission may be defined by its distributions in wavelength (energy), angle (momentum), and polarization and may be measured from a single location (a point or small region of a specimen), or from an array of locations to form an image or spectrum image (depending on the distributions recorded). CL detectors permit analysis of the spatial distribution of one or more of the distributions; in some advanced forms of analysis, more than one distribution may be measured simultaneously. Analysis modes that select a single (or small range of) wavelength, angle or polarization distributions may be described as "-filtered" whereas the recording of an entire distribution may be described as "-resolved" e.g., distribution is dispersed (by some optical method) and the entire distribution is then measured in parallel.
Unfiltered signal: Where all wavelengths are present, e.g., no filtering or dispersion applied to the emitted light. The signal intensity is measured by a light-sensitive detector such as a photomultiplier tube (PMT) or solid-state diode (SSD).
Unfiltered map: The electron beam is scanned across the specimen surface and the emitted light intensity is recorded at each location and displayed as a (2D) map.
Sometimes referred to as panchromatic, polychromatic, or integrated intensity imaging.
Wavelength-filtered signal: Where a single - or small range of - wavelengths are present. The wavelength selection may be performed by an optical filter or by the exit slit of a wavelength dispersive spectrometer before the signal intensity is measured by a light-sensitive detector.
Wavelength-filtered map: The electron beam is scanned across the specimen surface and the emitted light intensity within the defined wavelength range is recorded at each location and displayed as a (2D) map.
Sometimes referred to as monochromatic imaging.
Wavelength-resolved CL spectrum: Spectroscopic analysis comes from collecting the emitted light and dispersing it so that intensity can be determined as a function of wavelength. Dispersion is typically performed by a diffraction grating-based spectrometer or spectrograph and detected by an array detector (e.g., a CCD). In some cases a wavelength-resolved CL spectrum may be captured by recording the signal intensity as the dispersed light is scanned over a wavelength-selecting exit slit of the spectrometer by (e.g.) a PMT.
Wavelength-resolved CL spectrum image: The electron beam is scanned across the specimen surface and a wavelength spectrum is recorded at each location and displayed as a (3D) data cube. An array detector may be used to collect a complete wavelength-resolved CL spectrum pixel-by-pixel.
Sometimes referred to as hyperspectral CL analysis or wavelength imaging.
Wavelength-filtered CL spectrum image: The electron beam is scanned across the specimen surface and a wavelength spectrum is recorded at each location and displayed as a (3D) data cube. A series of wavelength-filtered CL images may be recorded by a PMT or SSD with the wavelength measured stepped after each pass of the electron beam.
Angle-resolved (AR) CL pattern: The emitted light is captured as a 2D image where the information pertaining tot he a photon's emission direction is maintained; each pixel in the image within the image corresponds to a unique emission direction of the emitted light. Often, the captured image is transformed into an emission pattern taking account of the optical system employed in detection and displayed in the polar coordinate system with the emission resolved in the zenith and azimuthal angles.
Sometimes referred to as momentum spectroscopy.
Angle-resolved (AR) CL spectrum image: A 2D emission pattern is collected over an array of spatial locations generating a 4D data set.
Uses: To understand the emission pattern of light emitting devices and how light and matter interact far below the optical diffraction limit.
Wavelength- and angle-resolved CL (WARCL): The angle-resolved emission pattern is dispersed by wavelength using a diffraction-grating based spectrograph. Commonly, for higher spatial and spectral resolutions, a subset of the angular range is sequentially scanned collecting a full emission spectrum in each emission direction.
Sometimes referred to as energy-momentum spectroscopy.
Uses: Understand the wavelength distribution (color) of light emitting devices as a function of viewing angle and gain deep insight into how light and matter interact.
Electronics and optoelectronics – In semiconductors, you can measure the local electronic band gap and reveal the defect distribution at the micro- and nano-scale. This technique allows you to easily examine direct bandgap semiconductors with strong cathodoluminescences, such as GaAs or GaN, as well as measure indirect semiconductors that emit weak cathodoluminescence, such as silicon. In particular, you can use differences in luminescence between dislocated and perfect crystalline silicon to map defects in integrated circuits. To add, the high spatial resolution provided by the focused electron beam is particularly well suited for you to examine low-dimensional semiconductor structures, such as quantum wells or quantum dots.
Geosciences – In rocks and minerals, observation of trace element chemistry and geochemical effects enables you to reconstruct geological processes. An SEM fitted with a cathodoluminescence detector, or an optical cathodoluminescence microscope may be used to reveal internal structures not observable with other techniques to determine the composition, growth, and provenance of minerals.
Material science – New sensor and communication technologies are being developed based on the interaction of light with metal nanoparticles. You can determine these properties by surface plasmons and local surface plasmon resonance modes. Recent publications show that researchers use cathodoluminescence performed in electron microscopes to study surface plasmon resonance in metallic nanoparticles at sub-diffraction limit resolutions.
Organic molecules – Many polymers and pharmaceutical active ingredients are shown to be cathodoluminescent. The luminescence signature is dependent on the chemical structure of the molecule rather than sample composition; hence cathodoluminescence can be used to rapidly map the distribution of organic molecules with sub-100 nm spatial resolution.
When the electron beam excites the specimen, this causes luminescence to be emitted from the near-surface region of the specimen. To collect the cathodoluminescence emitted in the upper hemisphere, a mirror is often inserted between the specimen and the pole piece. The mirror is specifically shaped to couple the light out of the microscope vacuum chamber to a spectrograph or photon detector(s). For thin samples, such as electron transparent TEM samples, mirrors above and below the specimen may be employed to collect light emitted in both hemispheres.
When you scan the microscope's focused electron beam in an X,Y pattern then measure the light emitted with the beam at each point, you can obtain an optical activity map of the specimen. The primary advantages of this electron microscope-based technique are the ability to resolve features down to 1 nm and correlate the optical properties of an object with structural, compositional and chemical properties measured simultaneously or, at least within the same instrument.
Typical light levels emitted from a specimen can be extremely low and often require you to collect and detect as many photons as possible. Even in samples intended to efficiently emit light, it is important to optimize experimental conditions to collect and detect photons with the minimum of optical losses so you can attain the highest spatial resolution results.
To better understand the cathodoluminescence workflow, select the appropriate electron microscope to support you intend to use.
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Recently we have worked on a recovery case that included 8 disks of 146 GB from the HP Smart Array P400 controller. We were informed that a client used a RAID6 configuration; however, automatic RAID6 recovery did not bring the configuration.
We can see that Disk 4 and Disk 10 differ from the others: one of them is the first disk in the set and the other stores P parity given that we deal with a RAID6.
Having analyzed the number of zero sectors and entropy, we see that the disks really belong to the same RAID array. Furthermore, parity analysis shows that this is an 8-disk RAID6 array where P parity is calculated for 6 disks and Q parity is terminal since this scheme is the only possible which gives 1/N parity for any disk excluded. In our case it is 1/8=12,5%, and we see exactly this in the analysis result. You can read more on how to interpet parity abalysis at this page.
Then we launched the entropy analysis.
We see that the peaks look like RAID6: there are two plateaus and they rotate evenly. It proves again that we deal with an 8-disk RAID6 and the disk ring is 3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10.
However, we did not manage to recover the configuration so we stepped back and analyzed disks and configuration again. We remember that HP Smart Array controllers use delay, although in this case it is difficult to notice because the block size based on the entropy analysis is rather small - 256 KB. Nevertheless, usually delay includes 16 blocks, so we should try 256/16=32 KB block size.
The preview shows us the correct VHD file, which should start with "conectix" signature.
Conclusion: we convinced once again that if we recover data from the RAID created by HP Smart Array controllers, we deal with 16-block delay, even if it seems that the block size is too small for delay. If RAID configuration cannot be detected in the automatic mode (sometimes there is not enough data to get a statistically correct solution), you can try the options with the delay parity in the manual recovery mode. | {
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Fugitive Friday: April 10
8:15 AM EDT, Fri April 10, 2020
Every Friday, Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers shares information on four fugitives authorities need help finding:
1. Reynaldo Garcia-Silva – a Naples man who tried to run away from a DUI crash that left two people injured
2. Travon Goodman – a repeat offender wanted on burglary and grand theft-related charges
3. Hector Torres – on the run in Lee County from grand theft auto and heroin warrants
4. Austin Verbanac – a convicted felon accused of trafficking in stolen property
Anyone with information on these four is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-8477. All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward. Tips may also be made online here.
Travon Goodman
First up is Travon Goodman, a 19-year-old repeat offender wanted on burglary and grand theft charges.
At least two victims heard noises in their garages in the wee hours of the morning, only to find a suspect rummaging through their vehicles.
After getting caught red-handed, the young man took off, stealing cash, prescription meds, car keys, and a Smith and Wesson handgun. But what he left behind was the one thing detectives needed to pin him to the crimes – his fingerprints.
After spending a short amount of time behind bars for the crimes, Goodman was placed on probation and violated his conditions shortly after being released.
Despite his young age, Goodman is already a well versed felon, with his first arrest at age 15 for armed robbery and assault, followed by a string of burglaries at age 17 and weapons charges after turning 18.
Goodman is 5'9", 140 pounds and was last known to be living in Dunbar. And upon his arrest, he will be held without bond.
Austin Verbanac
Next up is Austin Verbanac, a convicted felon who worked in tandem with a friend to sell brand new, albeit stolen, golf carts for pennies on the dollar.
Investigators say Verbanac took possession of several golf carts, valued at around $10,000 each, which he knew were stolen. He then offered up the goods on social media for a few hundred dollars each, until he finally got caught.
Verbanac has spent the last 15 years on the revolving door of the justice system, with 16 priors for burglary, grand theft, trafficking in stolen property, evidence tampering, assault, hit and run and DUI causing property damage.
He is 5'11", 240 pounds and was last known to be living in Bonita. He has a tattoo of the word "Cracker" on his right arm, the names Nikki, Lynn and Norman on his neck, "B Town" on his chest and 239 written on his wrist.
Upon his arrest, Verbanac will be held without bond in the Lee County Jail.
Hector Luis Torres
Also trying to evade the law this week is Hector Luis Torres, wanted on grand theft auto and heroin-related charges out of Lee County.
This 26-year-old criminal registrant has been retaliating against the system since he was 15 and was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
As an adult, Torres has been booked 20 additional times on a long list of charges that include multiple counts of battery, drugs, violation of a domestic violence order for protection, contempt and aggravated battery on a pregnant victim, just to name a few.
Torres is known to have gang affiliations and a history of documented violence, detectives said.
He is known on the streets as Stress and Cito and has the words "war ready" and "sincere" inked on his face, a New York symbol with blood on his left arm, a star with wings on his neck and the initials GMB penned on his left hand.
Reynaldo Garcia-Silva
Last on the list this week is the man responsible for a devastating three-car crash with injuries – all caused as a result of him driving while drunk.
Reynaldo Garcia-Silva has been on the run since mid-March on charges stemming from the November 2019 crash. Garcia-Silva came barreling off the I-75 ramp at Bonita Beach Road and plowed through two cars parked at a red light, deputies said.
When Garcia-Silva's car finally crashed into a median, he jumped out of the car, removed the license plate and started to take off on foot, never even attempting to render aid to the drivers he crashed into.
Deputies quickly caught up with Garcia-Silva and administered a series of field sobriety tests, which he subsequently failed.
A breath test quickly showed that he was intoxicated at nearly twice the legal limit, despite the fact that he said he only had "a little bit" to drink.
After spending two days in lock up, Garcia-Silva was released, but has since violated those terms and with your help will be headed right back to jail.
This 38-year-old offender is 5'7", 170 pounds and was last known to be living in Golden Gate.
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Viettel 'Make-in-Vietnam' Cloud Computing To Gain Market Share at Home
HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viettel Group officially launched the Viettel Cloud Ecosystem, affirming its position as the largest cloud computing service provider in Vietnam and enabling enterprise clients globally with personalized and specialized solutions, to accelerate enterprise-wide cloud enabled transformations. This event confirmed Vietnam's determination to ride global trend of digital transformation.
In the digital economy development strategy, Vietnam sets a target to have 100 percent of government agencies using cloud computing by 2025, and 70 percent of Vietnam's businesses using cloud computing services provided by Vietnamese firms.
Currently, Vietnamese enterprises account for only 20% of the cloud computing market share while 80% belongs to foreign companies. Viettel Cloud can address the issue through comprehensive suite of cloud computing services with tightening cybersecurity.
Viettel Cloud has the largest data center infrastructure in Vietnam with 13 data centers, 9.000 racks and 60.000 m2 gross floor area. In 2025, Viettel Cloud will be invested over 400 million USD to expand the scale to 17.000 racks. Following the roadmap, in 2030, the total investment can reach 1.6 billion USD with 34.000 racks, meeting international standard.
Viettel Cloud proudly presents the ultra-wideband connection with the largest fiber optic backbone cable systems in Indochina, 5 international undersea cable routes and 500,000km of fiber optic cable covering 63 provinces.
Viettel Cloud offers most trusted end-to-end security meeting security requirements for E-commerce, and is the only company in Vietnam accredited by SOC 1,2,3 Certification of American Institute of CPAs.
Viettel Cloud applies cutting-edge technology with open-source codes such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Prometheus, Grafana, committing to the highest stability. Viettel engineers also directly build, own and deploy these open source codes.
Viettel Cloud unleashes an avalanche of offerings, with a total of more than 70 products and services ranging from server hosting, to AI platform and IoT platform.
This ecosystem includes 5 groups: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, Cloud Software, Consulting, Deployment & Operation, Colocation.
Looking ahead, Viettel Cloud will continue to enable industries through Infrastructure as a Service, Technology as a Service, and Expertise as a Service, to unleash digital with Everything as a Service and make cloud services accessible to everyone, build the cloud foundation for an intelligent world.
At the ceremony, Tao Duc Thang - Chairman and General Director of Viettel Group affirmed: "Viettel commits that every citizen, household, organization and enterprise will have a data warehouse on Viettel's cloud computing platform. Viettel is committed to universalizing cloud computing like the way we have universalized telecommunication services, bringing mobile phones to all Vietnamese."
Delivering speech at the event, Minister of Information and Communication, Nguyen Manh Hung, affirmed "The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) acknowledges Viettel's efforts in the "Make-in-Vietnam strategy" and highly appreciates Viettel Cloud's infrastructure. Viettel has accompanied the Government and the MIC in several digital solutions such as the National Immunization Information System, the PC-COVID application, the surveillance cameras for medical facilities, etc., contributing to Vietnam's successful battle against the pandemic. Viettel Cloud is not only about providing specific solutions but also fueling cloud adoption and digital transformation aspiration in Vietnam."
For more details, please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCYIy9rpWuY
About Viettel
Viettel has built a large 4G telecommunications infrastructure covering 97% of Vietnam population and has become a pioneer in forging a digital society in Vietnam. Viettel Solutions Corporation takes the lead in applying and providing the world's leading modern technology solutions for the government and businesses, making digital services safe and simples for all Vietnamese people and partners in the international market.
SOURCE Viettel Group
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Q: async function equivalent of a Promise I have a function that returns a promise like this:
let aFunction= function(){
return new Promise((resolve, reject){
someNodeApi(params, function(err, data)) {
if(err) {
return reject(err);
}
if(data meets certain criteria) {
someOtherNodeApi(params, function(err, data)) {
// handle conditions.
}
}
resolve(data);
}
})
}
I want to have an async function equivalent for this kind of function. In short, I need something like this:
let aFunction = async function(){
someNodeApi(params, function(err, data){
if(err) {
// reject condition
}
// resolve condition.
})
}
So what should be in above reject and resolve conditions so that all the places where I call the function like this:
aFunction()
.then(data=>{})
.catch(err=>{})
It should be unchanged.
EDIT
I have to clarify that my question is not about how to call the async function. But its about how to convert a function that returns a Promise to be able to use the goodness of async-await pattern without having to modify the way its called. (A very common scenario when you are dealing with pre async-await era node js code).
A: This is how I like to write async/await , makes it pretty straightforward. All of the code inside can be read as sync.
EDIT: await will work only if the API returns a promise object that is either resolved or rejected. await does not resolve promises.
function someAPI() {
return new Promise((resolve, reject)=>{
someNodeApi(params, function(err, data){
if(err) {
reject(error)
} else {
resolve(data)
}
// resolve condition.
})
});
}
async function aFunction() {
try {
const result = await someAPI();
return result;
} catch(err){
console.log(err);
}
}
aFunction()
.then((res) => console.log(res))
A: When changing to async/await, what changes isn't your promise setup, but rather how you make calls to your promises. For example:
aFunction()
.then(data=>{})
.catch(err=>{})
// becomes
try{
const data = await aFunction()
}catch(err){
// do something with err
}
Just bear in mind that the function that uses await needs to be set to async.
If your someNodeApi call was already setup for promises, then the result would still be exactly the same, you simply wouldn't need aFunction at all. For example, if you used a promisifying library on your api, then you don't need aFunction at all.
someNodeApi(params)
.then(data => {})
.catch(err => {})
// or
const data = await someNodeApi(params)
if(data meets certain criteria) {
const otherData = someOtherNodeApi(params)
}
A:
Snippet1 : Here, you can see the usage of async-await
let fn = async function(a) {
let val = 10;
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
if(a > val) {
resolve("+++++Resolved");
}
else {
reject("++++++Rejected")
}
})
};
(async () => {
try {
let result1 = await fn(20);
console.log(result1);
let result2 = await fn(5);
console.log(result2);
}
catch(err) {
console.error(err);
}
})();
Snippet2 : Here you can see that using .then.catch will not harm or break any of your code.
let fn = async function(a) {
let val = 10;
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
if(a > val) {
resolve("+++++Resolved");
}
else {
reject("++++++Rejected")
}
})
};
fn(20).then(response => {
console.log(response);
});
fn(5)
.then(response => {
console.log(response);
})
.catch(err => {
console.error(err);
})
It does not break your code if you use fn().then.catch pattern on a Promise returning async fumction.
However, using await makes it more elegant.
Feel free to refer a detailed article that I have written on basics of
async-await and why async-await compared to .then.catch pattern, pros
and cons here: https://github.com/cskru/asyncAwaitSimplified
I have included code snippets which you can directly copy paste and try out.
PS: I have used async IIFE in the above snippets.
This is because awaits can be made inside async function/context only.
I'd also recommend you to check this article to get a solid foundation wrt async-await.
Happy learning!
Cheers,
Kruthika
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Online testing to resume in Palm Beach County after system failure
Technical errors brought system down
Updated: 5:41 PM EST Mar 4, 2015
Tory Dunnan
The Palm Beach County School School District will resume Florida Standards Assessment testing Friday.Click here to watch reportThe delayed start comes after the online portion was plagued with technical errors, causing frustration statewide. The county suspended the computer-based writing portion of the test this week after 10 district-operated and charter schools reported problems logging into the state's portal.Superintendent E. Wayne Gent said the glitch occurred at the state level, but county officials have assured that all kinks are out of the system and it should be working.But he questioned whether the state was prepared to manage such a wide-scale standardized testing. "We've had those concerns the last two years. We've made those concerns known," he said. "(We) had serious concerns about how this was going to be rolled out." The decision to resume testing for eighth ninth and 10th-graders didn't come easily, but the district is moving forward after getting promises from the state."We knew the stakes were really, really high for (students) and it would be unfair to put them in a situation where this would have any effect on their graduating," Gent said. The superintendent said officials are monitoring other school districts that are doing the testing so that they'll have some sort of heads up if something goes wrong.
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. —
The Palm Beach County School School District will resume Florida Standards Assessment testing Friday.
Click here to watch report
The delayed start comes after the online portion was plagued with technical errors, causing frustration statewide.
The county suspended the computer-based writing portion of the test this week after 10 district-operated and charter schools reported problems logging into the state's portal.
Superintendent E. Wayne Gent said the glitch occurred at the state level, but county officials have assured that all kinks are out of the system and it should be working.
But he questioned whether the state was prepared to manage such a wide-scale standardized testing.
"We've had those concerns the last two years. We've made those concerns known," he said. "(We) had serious concerns about how this was going to be rolled out."
The decision to resume testing for eighth ninth and 10th-graders didn't come easily, but the district is moving forward after getting promises from the state.
"We knew the stakes were really, really high for (students) and it would be unfair to put them in a situation where this would have any effect on their graduating," Gent said.
The superintendent said officials are monitoring other school districts that are doing the testing so that they'll have some sort of heads up if something goes wrong. | {
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Book #15 — The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem, by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan — Like their book about Christmas, I liked this for the kinds of details about history and exegesis that inspire new ways of thinking about familiar texts. I don't feel these books are readable straight through, though, and that's a detriment. I wish they were. I know I will return to this one in a future Holy Week and am glad to have it on my shelf.
Book #16 — A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire — I read this one on my Kindle (and I just discovered I can get to those books via an iPod Touch application, in case I am ever traveling *really* light), and it made my flight to Phoenix, well, FLY by. Such an engaging book. It's the third in the Wicked series, and in it Maguire expands the Oz universe further. I must admit I hoped for a different sort of ending, but perhaps this volume is intentionally transitional. I wonder what's coming next?
Book #17 — Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel, by the Rev. Dr. Wilda C. Gafney — This served as a reminder that my academic muscles haven't been stretched for a while. Wil Gafney made a dynamic presentation of the book at the Big Event 2.0, and I am glad to have it on my shelf.
I've got a mystery on my Kindle and a couple of good and current books on religious topics in hard copy to start reading. What's on your bedside table?
I just finished a spy novel called Secret Asset. Very good.
I got halfway through Hungry Woman in Paris by Josefina Lopez and decided I didn't like it enough to continue.
And I've started Revolutionary Road on the recommendation of a friend.
On my plane ride home from the BE I broke the 11th commandment, "Thy shall not covet thy nieghbor's kindle." The passenger who sat next to me had a kindle and was willing to show it off to me. Now I want one.
It was good to see you at the BE.
I'm reading Ellen Frankel's The Five Book of Miriam, Caitlin Matthews Sophia, and Joan Chittister's The Rule of Benedict. Frankel's book is incredible and really good reading.
I am guilty of 11th commandment too. WANT. KINDLE. NOW.
*The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, *Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by BBTaylor (can't bear to finish it because then it will be over.) and Dorothy Soelle's autobiography, Against the Wind.
I'm currently reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and LOVING it. Wish I had more time to read, but by the time the girls are in bed and I'm calm enough to read, I'm also calm enough to sleep, and sleep wins these days.
I am still jealous of your Kindle!
Scott, I adored that book and did not want it to be over.
Walt Whitman is on my bedside table now. Just nibbling a little bit. | {
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Jacob Claesz. van Utrecht (Utrecht?, ca. 1480 - ca. 1530) was een Nederlands kunstschilder. Hij werkte voornamelijk in Antwerpen en Lübeck. Hij vervaardigde religieuze werken en portretten en signeerde zijn werken meestal met de naam Jacobus Traiectensis (Traiectum was de Romeinse benaming voor Utrecht) en soms ook met 'Claesz' of 'Claez'.
Over het leven van de schilder is weinig bekend. Hij wordt in 1506 vermeld als vrijmeester van het Antwerpse Sint-Lucasgilde. Hij zou hier gewerkt hebben tot zeker 1512.
Vervolgens ging hij naar het Duitse Lübeck, waar een eerste vermelding plaatsvindt in 1519. In 1523 staat hij in een plaatselijke oorkonde genoemd als 'Meester Jacob van Utrecht'. Hij vervaardigde hier onder meer een altaarstuk voor de Marienkirche. Werk van de schilder is verder te vinden in onder meer de Berlijnse Gemäldegalerie, het Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Keulen, het Louvre in Parijs, het Rubenshuis (Antwerpen) en de Hermitage in Sint-Petersburg.
Externe links
Nederlands kunstschilder
Zuid-Nederlands kunstschilder (voor 1830)
Persoon in de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw
16e-eeuws schilder | {
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All religious and faith communities have a vital role to play in addressing the issue of domestic violence. There are a growing number of resources for faith leaders to utilize both within their own faith denominations and in interfaith collaborations across faith communities. By growing their knowledge on this important issue, faith leaders will not only help to promote healthy relationships and families but, most importantly, help to save the lives of victims and children who are relying upon them for assistance. | {
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Home Business Exchange Tender Providing Mandap & Other Facilities for the Celebration of Republic Day / Independence Day & Other Govt. Function in Kheda Dist.
Name of Work: Providing Mandap & Other Facilities for the Celebration of Republic Day / Independence Day & Other Govt. Function in Kheda Dist. | {
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Conversations with Nick Cave: An Evening of Talk and Music Oct 10 @ 8:00PM | Massey Theatre | New Westminster
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Bearded Collie - Devoted to Bearded Collies — from breeders to owners and those who just generally love this Scottish herding breed.
Devoted to Bearded Collies — from breeders to owners and those who just generally love this Scottish herding breed.
We have been owned by Beardie, Neardie and Italian Spinone for about 20 years. The next generation is about to join us.
Dozens of pictures with captions describing an extraordinary Bearded Collie. | {
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Homewood-area road closures Saturday: Baltimore Marathon
/ Published Oct 16, 2015
Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff:
The Baltimore Marathon takes place this Saturday, Oct. 17, and runners will pass near the Homewood campus early in the race and again with just a few miles to go.
You are invited to come out and cheer for the competitors, but you should also note that some roads in the vicinity will be closed at points throughout the day. Your ability to drive to or from campus will be affected.
Resources available online include a course map, a street-by-street, turn-by-turn rundown of the course, information on street closings and parking restrictions, and an [estimate of when runners will be at various points on the course]
(http://www.thebaltimoremarathon.com/race-resources/community/road-closure-info).
The course's closest approaches to the university are between mile markers 5 and 6 and between mile markers 23 and 24. The highest concentrations of runners in our area are expected from 8:25 a.m. to 9:51 a.m. and, later on along the course, from 9:55 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Parking will be restricted from 5 to 10 a.m. on Wyman Park Drive from Remington Avenue to Art Museum Drive. There will also be parking restrictions from 4 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the west side of Howard Street between 23rd and 28th streets and on 33rd Street from Hillen Road to Guilford Avenue.
We would expect that Wyman Park Drive, Art Museum Drive, and the northern end of Howard Street will close or experience lane closures from 8:25 a.m. to at least 9:35 a.m. Also, 28th Street from Howard to St. Paul will have closures from about 8:30 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. St. Paul will be affected from 28th Street south from about 8:35 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.
Farther along on the course, 33rd Street from Lake Montebello to Guilford Avenue will be affected from about 9:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., Guilford from 33rd to 29th will be closed from about 9:50 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., 29th from Guilford to Howard will be closed from about 9:55 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., and Howard Street south to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will have closures from about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Cross streets are likely to be affected throughout the closure periods.
Dennis O'Shea Office of Communications [email protected] | {
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Energy executives push back against government intervention
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Executives from major energy companies are pushing back against increasing government intervention in electricity and gas markets.
Writing in an opinion piece for the Australian Financial Review, Kevin Gallagher, Managing Director and CEO of Santos, expressed his concern that "sovereign risk is rising fast" after the Australian Labor Party announced in early September 2018 that a federal Labor government would curb LNG exports if domestic prices ran too high.
"The major political parties, strongly supported and urged on by minor parties of the right and the left, are embracing policies of price controls, export controls and, recently, in the government's case, forced divestiture of assets legally created or acquired.
"If governments continue to escalate their interventions to change the rules after investments have been made in export projects, they increase the prospect of investors assessing Australia as being just too risky a destination for their funds.
"The foreign investors that Australia relies on need reassurance from governments that export contracts will be honoured, Australia will remain committed to competition and free trade, and that it will allow its vast undeveloped gas resources to be unlocked on stable and internationally competitive terms to service growing Asian and Australian demand."
EnergyAustralia managing director Cath Tanna voiced similar concerns about price controls, arguing that the majority of the retailer's customers would be worse off if a default retail power price was imposed.
The default price proposal, which would introduce a capped retail price that must be lower than standing offers, was recommended by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in July and endorsed by the government at the end of August 2018.
The default price mechanism is expected to be a key topic in discussions being held between Energy Minister Angus Taylor and retail executives throughout September 2018.
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The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) is the unified organization of those activities at NYU Abu Dhabi that govern the safety and welfare of human research participants in accordance with the ethical principles of the Belmont Report (PDF) and all applicable country law, institutional policies, and federal law and regulations.
At NYUAD, all research involving human subjects (funded or not funded) must be reviewed and approved by the University's Institutional Review Board (IRB) before being carried out. The NYUAD IRB is authorized to review and approve research involving human subjects through a Federalwide Assurance, an agreement with the US Department of Health and Human Services, through the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).
At the institutional level, the HRPP — under the jurisdiction of the Vice Provost of Research Administration and University Partnerships — includes: the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Research Ethics Committee (REC), the Administrative Support Staff, the investigators and their research teams, research study sponsors (where applicable), and the research participants themselves.. The written procedures of the NYUAD HRPP plan fully describe the IRB membership and operations, IRB administrative support, and other matters pertinent to the conduct of research involving human subjects at NYUAD.
In its Federalwide Assurance (FWA), NYUAD assures that all research involving human subjects will comply with the ethical principles of the Belmont Report (PDF) and that all federal regulations governing research involving human subjects will be followed for research funded by US federal sponsors.
Ensuring that all research involving human subjects receives the required approvals before research activities are initiated.
Creating an environment at the University of respect for, and understanding of, the rights and welfare of research participants.
Providing professional administrative support to the University's Institutional Review Board (IRB).
Educating the University community about the ethical principles of the Belmont Report, University research regulations, policies, and practices pertaining to human subjects protection, and applicable governmental law and regulations.
Conducting activities to enhance compliance with the requirements of the HRPP.
Determine if your work must be reviewed and approved by the NYUAD IRB.
Understand local regulations, federal regulations, and the NYUAD procedures concerning human subjects in research.
Prepare an application for review and approval to the NYUAD IRB.
Respond to any concerns or requested revisions the NYUAD IRB may request after the initial review.
If you have any questions or concerns for the Office of Research Administration, please feel free to contact us. | {
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Overcast with a chance of flurries. A high of -2C with a windchill of -13C in the morning is expected.
Today will be mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of flurries in the morning. However, clearing late in the morning. Winds coming from the northeast at 20 km/h and gusting to 40 early in the afternoon.
We can expect a high of -2C with a wind chill of -13C in the morning and -8C in the afternoon. The UV index will be 3 or moderate.
Tonight we will have a few clouds with increasing cloudiness overnight. Winds from the east at 20 km/h and gusting to 40. The low will be -12C with an overnight wind chill of -20C. | {
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I was born centuries ago in a leaky canoe where I was instantly orphaned and then raised by a flock of giant birds called tittleswinks. Unfortunately, tittleswinks are now extinct because I ended them. The birds were very cruel and tortured me daily by making me eat their regurgitations. This went on for years until I couldn't take it anymore and used my powers of abstract thinking to destroy them.
I don't know my own name, so I call myself Truckles, and I love mammals because they are not birds. Enough about me, though! Let's meet our guest.
"I suppose that's a good way of looking at it. But I'll be honest here. Sometimes when I see a heavy zoo patron or a sickly child, I feel the wildness within me and I imagine jumping over the exhibit wall and seeing their eyes bulge with terror before ripping into their tender necks and tasting their blood warm in my mouth. I hope I'm not disclosing too much information! Hahahaha!
"Not at all! I've thought that exact same thing before. Hahahaha! Now tell me this, Kolmården Wildlife Park is the largest wildlife park in Scandinavia and also home of Sweden's only dolphinarium. As you probably know, humans unreasonably favor dolphins over other mammals. Do you ever feel jealous of the attention the dolphins get?
"That's a great question, Trunkles. If I can be honest here, sometimes I do get a little pissed off that this aquatic animal is so arbitrarily beloved. What does it have that the gray wolf doesn't? Aren't we cool? Have you ever seen a pack of wolves devour a cow before? It's freaking awe-inspiring, and I just don't get why we aren't more popular. In fact, sometimes I get so angry, I imagine leaping right into the dolphin tank with my buddies and savoring the the flippered freaks' squeals as we tear into their rough necks and turn the exhibit into a literal blood bath. Oops! Did I say too much again? Hahahaha!
"It doesn't feel great, Trunkles, not great at all. Did you know I speak four languages? I've composed several symphonies and eaten countless kilos of raw meat but those feather haired, leather skinned, smarmy mouthed tourists can't get over the fact there are other mammals out there named Adolphus. Sometimes it makes me want to listen to the blood gurgle in their throats as their life slowly slips away from them….oops I did it again! Hahahaha! Sorry about that—blood on the brain you know!
Adolphus is all talk. Sure, he goes on about leaping fences and dragging down children, but I have it on good authority that the only "call of the wild" he answers is to get up to get another beer during commercials on his favorite show "Man vs Herring".
Look, Adolphus is a civilized gray wolf who likes his creature comforts, including the occasional television show and beer, but that's not to say that deep down he longs to sink his fangs into a live being. There are some nasty rumors out there. | {
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"Many students have heard that financial aid money is out there, but figuring out how to get it seems more like a mystery for The X-Files than something they can do. That's why the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators uses February, Financial Aid Awareness Month, to help connect its members with students and demystify the financial aid process," Associations Now reports.
This year, for Financial Aid Awareness Month, NASFAA launched a social media campaign designed to get students to connect with local financial aid administrators, who could give them practical information on applying for and getting aid." | {
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Emanuel Santos
Born in January 1975, in the city of Porto, Emanuel Augusto Meneses dos Santos holds a degree in Architecture, Urban and Territorial Planning, completed in 1999 at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon.
In 1998 he began his professional internship at Barreiro City Hall, a period dedicated to the development of the project that would lead to the POLIS program, on which he also participated.
In 2007 he was named Coordinator of the Municipal Project for Strategic Actions and Projects and appointed in 2011 as Head of Multidisciplinary Team, being directly involved in actions such as the Urban Regeneration of the Center of Barreiro and 1º de Maio Market; the project for Passeio Augusto Cabrita; the Urbanization Plan for Quimiparque Territory and Surrounding Area; The REPARA program - Regeneration of the Riverbank Area of Alburrica; the projects for the construction of the Footbridges in Alburrica; among other actions.
In 2011, he won the 1st place in the "Business Environment Development" category, and was responsible for preparing and submitting an application for the European Entrepreneurial Award 2010/2011, with the work of Urban Regeneration of the Center of Barreiro.
In 2013, he is appointed, through order no. 223/2013 of the Councilor for Urban Planning, to carry out technical follow-up and represent CMB in the absence of the Councilor, in the work group for the Valorization of Barreiro's Railway Heritage, created by dispatch no. 7201/2013 of the Secretary of State for Public Works, Transport and Communication.
In 2015, he begins his PhD research in Urbanism at the Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon under the theme: Metropolitan Urban Void as a Foundation for the Qualification of the City. Morphological recognition and tools for its management and integration.
In the same year, he became a member of the Plataforma2830 civic movement.
Also in 2015, together with the team he coordinated, he sees the Alburrica Footbridges awarded the Honorable Mention by the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation - IHRU, in the Rehabilitation and Re-qualification of Public Space;
In 2016, he completes the Specialized Training Course in Local Government and Local Development, by the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences - ISCSP, University of Lisbon;
In 2017 he became a Collaborating Researcher of the Center for Research in Architecture Urbanism and Design - CIAUD, Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, and elected Member of the Municipal Assembly of Barreiro by the Socialist Party;
In December 2017, he is invited to assume the position of Director of CMB's Department of City Management. In 2018 he was invited to head the Department of Planning, Territorial Management and Equipment, which he has held up to the present time. | {
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Art and Australia : Vol 25 No 2 Summer 1987
208 CharleS Summers Memorial, had fou r Aboriginal figures, one at each corner of the plinth on which the sculpture stood, These were not included in the final design, but Summers made terracotta maquettes, and had photographs taken of them,2 Only one of these figures has been found in a private collection, although it is thought that three others were once in the possession of Summers's descendants. The first Aboriginal male figure existed in two versions, both of which show the influence of Michelangelo, They are, in fact, black Davids One version, known only through a photograph, shows a young man with a club grasped in his right hand, while his left is raised to his chest, quoting its source, The head is turned to the left and the eyes stare out aggressively. The small female figure crouched behind a shield behind the man's left leg stares out in apprehension. Summers's respect for MiChelangelo went as far as attiring himself to represent the sculptor at the Mayor of Melbourne's fancy dress ball in September 1863. The second version shows the influence of Michelangelo's David, but some modifications from the first version were made. The right leg carries Ihe weight of Ihe figure and the left is bent. The club in the first version is replaced with a boomerang, and the crouching female figure is nol present Both figures have long torsos and legs, and appear to have been designed to be viewed in an elevated pOSition, Through the influence of Michelangelo, the analogy goes back to images of Hercules. Hellenistic influence can be seen in the musculature of the chest and the semi-circ le of Ihe rib-cage. The second male figure has two sources, CoIoure<j plasler i<nown only on P/>OIQgrapl'l ,nStH DONATELLD ST GEOI'IGE Or San Mlct>ele, flo<ence one Ihe Borghese Ares, and the other the Donatello St. George, formerly placed in a niche on the outside wall of Or San Michele in Florence, The pose of the Ares is reversed and that of the SI. George repeated. There is Ihe same til! of the head and left shoulder and the same stern gaze. The Donatello figure once held either a lance or a sword in his right hand, and the Aboriginal figure holds a boomerang. Both St. George and the Aboriginal figure hold shields in their left hands across the body, the slight change by Summers necessitated by the design 01 shields normally carried by South Eastern Australian Aboriginal people. As can be seen both these Aboriginal male figures show influences from Greek and Renaissance | {
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These days it is more common for a person to own a cell phone (or two) than not. More and more people are choosing to do away with their home telephone service in favor of their cell phones for convenience and affordability.
Your cell phone can be your life line. It's the way you communicate with the rest of the world. Email, text and voice call are all done on that one device. So, what happens when you drop it and the screen shatters? What happens when you're texting from the bathtub and it slips right out of your fingers and into the water? Trouble! And, even worse trouble is when you realize that your phone does not have a warranty.
The question that runs through the forefront of your mind is: What to do? Out of Warranty has the answer. In a few hours to a few days, they will have your cell phone repaired and back in your hands. There isn't a more convenient or affordable solution to your cell phone repair. Whether you have a cracked screen or the damage is something internal, contact www.outofwarranty.com today for a fast and easy repair. | {
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Ridgefield Floral has been hand-delivering premium floral arrangements and gift baskets to help strengthen relationships, give love and support, and celebrate life's special moments since 1996. From birthdays to anniversaries to commemorating a loved one, and every little "just because" moment in between.
With FREE* Same Day Delivery in the Ridgefield, WA area, we are dedicated to helping you find the perfect flowers to deliver your message and enhance your special occasion. Our stunning arrangements will allow nature's beauty to inspire your special moment. And because we are a local florist dedicated to your satisfaction, you can always expect your needs to be treated with all the attention to detail they deserve.
Choosing our Florist's Choice Bouquet gives your gift that personal touch. Once we have expertly handcrafted your order, we will ensure it arrives at its destination on time, hand-delivered. Impress your friends, family, and loved ones with a heartfelt gift from Ridgefield Floral.
Ridgefield Floral is a quaint little Flower & Gift shop in the heart of downtown Ridgefield. I'm Teri Paterson and I'm the owner of this cute shop. I wandered into the shop one day to order a corsage for my daughter's homecoming dance and saw a "For Sale" sign on the counter. Right then and there I knew this was something that I wanted to do. What could be happier than being around such beautiful and wonderfully smelling flowers! So.... with the help and inspiration of my daughter Kelli, we are making people happy everyday with the beautiful flowers and lovely gift selections we carry.
Of course we couldn't do it without our fabulous staff. We have three very talented designers, Tammy, Tami & Jane who make the most incredible arrangements. Between them we are able to offer many, many years of quality service. We hear almost daily how beautiful our arrangements are. And Rodger, our delivery driver makes sure to get your arrangement delivered safely to your door.
In addition to the wonderful flower arrangements, we offer many different gift basket arrangements... with more to come. We also have many gift items that we can also deliver for you. We're also happy to ship gift items out of the area. Here are a few of the gift items that we will carry all the time. Library of Flowers collection of perfumes, lotions, bath salts, candles & soaps, these smell incredible and the packaging is fantastic. Fire & Light hand poured glass items in the most beautiful colors. These include beautiful candy dishes, vases, jewelry cache's, soap dishes, candle holders & more. Lijah Hanley photography. Lijah is a local photographer with an incredible eye. His prints are a must see! Local (Battle Ground) chocolate by Whimsey in salted caramel assortments, & various flavors of truffle assortments, Holly Yashi jewelry in incredible colors, A full line of Lavender products, Homemade candles by a local Ridgefield company The Ship Chandler. The scents are heavenly... and we carry a wide variety. The packaging is super cute too! Victoria Emerson wrap bracelets, and many more items. Just give us a call and we can chat about what type of gift item to deliver for you. And.... if you're local, please come in and take a look!
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Foreign investors may soon lose various tax exemptions, as the government is studying ways to amend the investment law to possibly eliminate some tax incentives, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Wednesday.
Hun Sen said the government needs to generate more revenue from the commercial sector while it continues efforts to increase Cambodia's competitiveness to attract more investment.
"Tax incentives alone will not attract investment unless there is a positive overall environment for investment," the premier said at the third government-private sector investment forum at the Chaktomuk Conference Hall. The meeting was attended by hundreds of representatives from businesses and international donor organizations.
Although it is unclear how the amendment would affect Cambodia's investment climate, private sector officials cautioned that it would further discourage foreign investors from coming here.
Tan said the cost of investing in Cambodia is already high and bureaucratic red tape hinders the investment process.
Hun Sen didn't go into details of how the government will raise more tax revenue from investors or "rationalize" incentives. But he said that about $170 million could have been generated in revenue if certain businesses did not receive tax breaks. The garment industry accounted for about $163 million of the exemptions, Hun Sen said.
The garment industry is the largest single industry in Cambodia, accounting for about 90 percent of the country's total exports. Last year, the garment industry exported $950 million worth of goods, mostly to US and European markets.
According to the investment law adopted in 1994, various tax exemptions are given to investors in the fields of high-tech industries, export-oriented investment, tourism and agro-industry. The corporate tax can be exempted for up to eight years, and import duties are not imposed on a host of items and sectors, including: construction materials, equipment, raw materials and spare parts for export-oriented projects, tourism, labor-intensive industry, agro-industry, infrastructure and the energy sector.
In addition to these incentives, the government this year started to repeal the 1 percent minimum tax. That tax is imposed on a company that did not make a profit, so it has to pay the tax equivalent of 1 percent of its revenues, instead of paying the required 9 percent profit tax.
Hun Sen said repealing the 1 percent minimum tax will cause the government to lose about $7 million—equivalent to a 20 percent salary increase for civil servants.
Despite the tax incentives offered by the government, Cambodia has failed to attract foreign investors in recent years.
According to figures from the Council for the Development of Cambodia, pledged private investment declined to $270 million in 2000, a 43 percent drop from the previous year. The figures were the lowest in the last six years, and only one-tenth of the country's peak investment year of 1995.
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Keat Chhon said in other countries in the region, tax revenues make up around 20 percent of the gross domestic product, but in Cambodia, the revenue from taxation represents only 8 percent of GDP.
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At once brazen and terrified, Sarah Maria Griffin's beautifully written memoir, Not Lost: A Story About Leaving Home, opens a doorway into the interior life of the Celtic Tiger Cubs who have left Ireland to escape the recession and in search of prosperity. Thrown into life 5,000 miles away from home, Sarah's tale echoes that of many of her generation forced to forge new lives and build new homes on distant shores. She describes in open, honest, detail her experience of her first year in San Francisco, a year of struggle and strife, of newness and oddness of adventure and excitement, of loneliness and despair, but also of incredible happiness and joy. Not Lost is a book about growing up, about friendship, about love, about life and living it well. It is by turns heartbreaking, funny, tender and gutsy, it is assured but never cocky and marks Sarah Maria Griffin as one of the major voices of her generation.
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18. Chrubasik S et al. Effectiveness of Harpagophytum procumbens in treatment of acute low back pain. Phytomedicine, 1996, 3:1–10.
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Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award 2022
Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award
Athens Photo World, after the expressed wish of Yannis Behrakis and with the donation of Stavros Niarchos Foundation, is organising for the fourth consecutive year the annual "Yannis Behrakis" International Photojournalism Award.
Over three decades Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis , (1960-2019) bore witness to some of history's most iconic moments and documented the mass movement of people in three continents, driven by his desire to show the world what was happening in war zones and countries in crisis.
The Award in his memory contributes to the promotion, encouragement and upgrading of the work of photographers and photojournalists, so that they can continue to produce their dedicated work and vision. The 15,000€ cash prize will be awarded to a full-length photojournalism or documentary work created after January 2018. The awarded project will be exhibited at the next Athens Photo World at an individual exhibition of the photographer.
A new jury is appointed every year under the permanent chairmanship of Elisavet Saridou Behrakis. For 2022 the committee consist of Corinne Dufka, Yunghi Kim and Dusan Vranic.
Those interested are requested to submit a portfolio of up to twenty-four (24) photographs, an explanatory text and a brief bio note. The winner of the "Yannis Behrakis" International Photojournalism Award for 2022 will be announced by Elisavet Saridou Behrakis, at the closing event of APW 2022 on May 29, 2022 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
More information on Terms and Conditions and the Frequently Asked Questions, below. Participation in the "Yannis Behrakis" International Photojournalism Award contest is free.
PRIZE DETAILS: The winner will receive €15,000.
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Het witschouderelfje (Malurus alboscapulatus) is een vogel uit de familie van de elfjes (Maluridae). De vogel is een endemische vogelsoort van Nieuw-Guinea.
Beschrijving
Het mannetje is in de broedtijd glanzend zwart gekleurd met op de schouders een witte vlek. De poten, snavel en de ogen zijn donkerbruin tot zwart. De staart is korter van bij andere soorten elfjes. Het verenkleed van het vrouwtje verschilt naar regio. Er worden zes verschillende ondersoorten onderscheiden. Zo is het vrouwtje van het witschouderelfje in het Sepikgebied donkergrijs van boven en bijna wit van onder, met een schoudervlek, net als het mannetje. In het gebied ten zuiden van de Fly is het vrouwtje van boven bruinig, zonder schoudervlek en van onder wit.
Verspreiding en leefgebied
Het witschouderelfje heeft een groot verspreidingsgebied door heel Nieuw-Guinea, zowel in West-Papoea (Indonesië) als in Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea en op het eiland Fergusson. Het is de enige soort elfje dat voorkomt in graslanden. Het is een van de meest voorkomende vogelsoorten in graslanden. Echter, het elfje heeft een verborgen leefwijze. De soort houdt zich op in dichte begroeid nat of droog grasland, savannes, valleien in de bergen, tuinen en moerassen op een hoogte van zeeniveau tot 1500 meter daarboven.
De soort telt 6 ondersoorten:
M. a. alboscapulatus: Vogelkop in noordwestelijk Nieuw-Guinea.
M. a. aida: noordwestelijk en het noordelijke deel van Centraal-Nieuw-Guinea.
M. a. lorentzi: westelijk en zuidelijk Nieuw-Guinea.
M. a. kutubu: het zuidelijke deel van Centraal-Nieuw-Guinea.
M. a. moretoni: zuidoostelijk Nieuw-Guinea.
M. a. naimii: oostelijk Nieuw-Guinea.
Elfjes
Endemisch dier uit Nieuw-Guinea
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A popular staple at many ski resorts, the Adirondack ski-chair makes a comfy place to perch and a pretty cool conversation piece. With some thrift shop hunting or garage rustling, old skis get new life with this great DIY project.
Download the supplies list and cut sheet and get started: DIY Adirondack Ski Chair Cut Sheet.
An easy way to approach this project is to use an Adirondack chair as a model. We used a pre-built chair and masked out our cuts using masking tape and construction paper. If you don't have an Adirondack chair, no problem. Let your imagination run wild and make your own thing. The focus of the chair is in the angles; that's what makes an Adirondack chair so comfortable. Refer to the cut sheet below for the angles we used.
We started by attaching the wide support back legs to small front support legs. Make sure you watch the angles on the front support legs. We went with a 77-degree angle on both of our front legs at 22 inches high.
Once the front legs are set, we set the bottom brace for the back support—this created the initial shape of our frame and set the level for the legs (make sure your legs sit flush with the floor before setting your screws).
Finally, we set the upper back brace with back legs to complete our initial frame for the chair. It should be noted here that it would be wise to grab a helping hand and place your loose cuts in position before setting your screws. This elevates a lot of the guesswork when locking things into place.
This step is pretty straightforward. If you've got the design eye and want to show off your aesthetic chops, measure your ski selections for the back of the chair and varied lengths to create a small arch for the crown.
and your hacksaw or handsaw to cut through the center.
We used the ski tails to construct the seat of the chair, altering cut direction based on ski shape and thickness, as your seat would be a little tilted if all the cuts were laid and set in the same direction. We started with the front of the seat and worked our way back. We'd recommend loosely setting your back support skis with one screw first, starting in the center and working your way out.
Find more do-it-yourself (DIY) projects here.
Hello, what size/length skis and snowboards did you you use or would you recommend d.
Great question! We grabbed what our local thrift store had. The snowboards were around 150cm and the skis were 170 to 190cm. Are you making one?
I like the project idea, but the link in paragraph two for the cut sheet isn't working. Can you please check on it?
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Q: Indexing position of 1s in matrix using R apply Given a 0/1 matrix, I am trying to generate a list of the index positions of the 1s in each row. I can do this using a for loop:
B <- matrix(sample(c(0,1),100,replace=T),nrow=10,ncol=10)
ones <- list()
for (row in 1:nrow(B)) {ones[[row]] <- (which(B[row,]==1))}
The resulting object ones is what I want. I assume using apply() will be slightly faster, but I'm having trouble translating the loop into apply. This doesn't yield the same result:
alt <- apply(B, 1, function(x) which(B[x,]==1))
I'd appreciate any advice on how to correct apply so it yields the same result as the loop approach. Thanks!
UPDATE -
I accepted @TarJae's answer because it works, only requires one line, and is fast. @Ronak's approach also works, but is slower than either of the other options. Here's a comparison of the three methods:
library(rbenchmark)
B <- matrix(sample(c(0,1),1000000,replace=T),nrow=1000,ncol=1000)
benchmark(
"loop" = {
ones_loop <- list()
for (row in 1:nrow(B)) {ones_loop[[row]] <- (which(B[row,]==1))}
},
"apply" = {
ones_apply <- apply(B==1,1, which)
},
"split" = {
ones_split <- which(B == 1, arr.ind = TRUE)
ones_split <- split(ones_split[, 2], ones_split[, 1])
},
replications = 500
)
test replications elapsed relative user.self sys.self user.child sys.child
2 apply 500 17.211 1.000 15.068 2.111 0 0
1 loop 500 19.466 1.131 16.778 2.349 0 0
3 split 500 40.291 2.341 33.757 6.150 0 0
A: You could use apply this was way: Gives the same result as the loop:
apply(B==1,1, which)
> apply(B==1,1, which)
[[1]]
[1] 4 6 7 8 10
[[2]]
[1] 1 4 5 10
[[3]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 7 9
[[4]]
[1] 2 3 4 5 9
[[5]]
[1] 2 4 8 10
[[6]]
[1] 4 5 7 8
[[7]]
[1] 1 2 5 8 9 10
[[8]]
[1] 1 3 4 7 8 9 10
[[9]]
[1] 1 2 4 5 6 7 10
[[10]]
[1] 1 3 4 6 7 10
A: which(matrix, arr.ind = TRUE) as suggested by @Henrik provides you all the necessary information needed. If you need to have a list output as the for loop you can use split.
set.seed(123)
B <- matrix(sample(c(0,1),100,replace=T),nrow=10,ncol=10)
mat <- which(B == 1, arr.ind = TRUE)
split(mat[, 2], mat[, 1])
#`1`
#[1] 2 6 8 9 10
#$`2`
#[1] 2 3 4 5 7 9 10
#$`3`
#[1] 2 5 7
#$`4`
#[1] 1 4 9 10
#$`5`
#[1] 2 4 9 10
#$`6`
#[1] 1 6 7 8 9
#$`7`
#[1] 1 2 3 6 8
#$`8`
#[1] 1 3 5 10
#$`9`
#[1] 6 8 9
#$`10`
#[1] 3 4 8
A: We could use asplit
lapply(asplit(B == 1, 1), which)
-output
[[1]]
[1] 1 10
[[2]]
[1] 3 8 9 10
[[3]]
[1] 1 3 6 7 8 9
[[4]]
[1] 2 5 6 7 9
[[5]]
[1] 1 2 4 5 7 10
[[6]]
[1] 2 8 10
[[7]]
[1] 1 2 6 7 8
[[8]]
[1] 3 7 9
[[9]]
[1] 1 2 4 5 6 7 9 10
[[10]]
[1] 1 4 6 7
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and we have gotten to know some really amazing people on this journey that want to step into that need.
to go on mission trips, to adopt, to sponsor, to give.
all of those things require money.
I hear about it all the time & this past week I heard from several good friends about the money they need to raise. $3500, $11411, $5500, $7000….money! to adopt. to go on mission.
this is where I try to fix everything & be the one stop shop.
I feel burdened. I wish I had all the money in the world to give to them.
While I don't have all the money in the world, I know the One who does.
He really is a God of abundance.
I was trying to take it all on. Feeling the need to give, to fundraise for them, to help come up with ways to reach their fundraising goals.
but only one thing was required.
I was feeling this burden to DO SOMETHING and happen to be sitting in my car waiting on someone & opened up my Jesus Calling app.
this is what it said that same day…..
So I will do that 1 thing. I will remember that He is a God of abundance.
I am going to trust in Him.
I am going to pray expectantly for what He is going to do.
I am going to thank Him in advance because I know He will provide.
so many stories of Gods faithfulness to provide. here. here.
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Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay - the story of three British detainees
Today the Guardian publishes extracts from a 115-page report based on lengthy interviews the 'Tipton three' gave about their treatment by US and UK officials and military.
Tania Branigan and Vikram Dodd
Tue 3 Aug 2004 19.34 EDT
The Britons Rhuhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul were detained in northern Afghanistan on November 28 2001 by forces loyal to the warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum. The three, from Tipton in the Midlands, were handed over to US forces before being sent to Guantánamo Bay as suspected terrorists.
The "Tipton three" were released from Guantánamo in March this year, and after being flown back to Britain they were released without charge.
Today the Guardian publishes extracts from a 115-page report based on lengthy interviews they gave about their treatment by US and UK officials and military.
When released, they took payment from the media for interviews in which they alleged ill treatment. Their accounts were dismissed in some quarters, but since the revelations about the abuses at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq, there has been renewed questioning about how far the US is willing to go in the "war on terror".
The report, Detention in Afghanistan and Guantánamo, has been compiled by the three men's lawyers, and is being released in the US today. It makes new allegations and gives extensive details about the treatment they suffered, which led them to make false confessions about their involvement in terrorism.
The Guardian paid no money to the three men or any of their representatives to publish these extracts from the report.
Arriving at Guantánamo
The terror, despair and anxiety of prisoners is laid bare by the released Britons, who describe their fear "that we might be killed at any minute" after their detention by US forces.
Their two-and-a-half-year ordeal has also left them with serious physical problems including knee and back pain - because of the positions in which they were shackled - and, in the case of Rhuhel Ahmed, permanent eye damage.
Their capture by the Northern Alliance was followed by a gruelling journey through Afghanistan in lorry containers, which only 20 of the 200 captives survived. It left all three suffering from "cold, dehydration, hunger and uncertainty" as well as dysentery and injuries.
US forces allegedly kicked and beat prisoners following the handover.
"One of [the soldiers] said 'you killed my family in the towers, and now it's time to get you back'," said Mr Iqbal.
"They kept calling us 'motherfuckers', and I think over three or four hours ... I must have been punched, kicked, slapped or struck with a rifle butt at least 30 or 40 times," he said.
Two weeks later Mr Iqbal and Mr Rasul were flown from Kandahar to Cuba, to be followed a month later by Mr Ahmed. Before their removal, they were hooded and forced to strip, then left naked.
"I could hear dogs barking nearby and soldiers shouting, 'get 'em boy'," said Mr Rasul. "I was taken ... for a so-called cavity search ... told to bend over and then felt something shoved up my anus. I don't know what it was but it was very painful."
The men alleged that the forced cavity searches were used to degrade and humiliate them, that they were systematically deprived of sleep and that they were kept on a restricted diet to weaken them.
Despite slightly better physical conditions in Cuba, they remained "at a high level of fear" throughout their detention.
"When we first got there the level was sky-high. We were terrified we might be killed at any minute. The guards would say, 'Nobody knows you're here, all they know is that you're missing and we could kill you and no one would know,'" they allege.
"After time passed, that level of fear came down somewhat but never vanished ... Not only could they do anything to any of us, but we could see them doing it to other detainees. We thought that we would never get out."
Mr Iqbal, who believes he suffered a breakdown after spending months in isolation and on a block with non-English-speaking detainees, believes that authorities deliberately fostered mental anguish - "they had thought carefully about the best way to punish me and break me."
Conditions in the camp
The treatment of prisoners worsened dramatically after the arrival of the US commander Major General Geoffrey Miller, the report alleges. Gen Miller ran Guantánamo for 18 months until last April, then going on to manage prisons in Iraq.
The report paints a disturbing picture of the rat, snake and scorpion-infested cages in which the men lived, exposed to blistering daytime temperatures, freezing nights and torrential rain.
It details alleged abuses and deliberately inhumane practices - such as sleep deprivation, shackling in painful positions and sexual humiliation - implying that these were deliberately used to encourage detainees to cooperate.
"We had the impression that at the beginning things were not carefully planned, but a point came at which you could notice things changing. That appeared to be after Gen Miller [arrived] around the end of 2002," said Mr Rasul.
"That is when short-shackling [when detainees are chained into a squatting position] started, loud music playing in interrogation, shaving beards and hair, putting people in cells naked, taking away people's 'comfort' items [eg towels] ... moving some people every two hours, depriving them of sleep, the use of a/c [air-conditioned, cold] air.
"Before, when people would be put into blocks for isolation, they would seem to stay for not more than a month. After he came, people would be kept there for months and months and months.
"Although sexual provocation, molestation did not happen to us, we are sure it happened to others ... One detainee came back from an interrogation crying and confided in another what had happened. That detainee told others and then other detainees revealed that it had happened to them."
This year, the camp's original commander, Brigadier General Rick Baccus, told the Guardian that military interrogators were angered by the conditions he granted to prisoners. After his departure, the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, gave military intelligence control over all aspects of Guantánamo.
The Washington Post reported that under Gen Miller a system was instituted which allowed hooding or keeping prisoners naked for more than 30 days, threatening by dogs, and extreme temperatures.
After Gen Miller took control of Iraqi prisons in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, he banned some practices, such as hooding, while defending others such as sleep deprivation.
But General Janis Karpinski, whom he replaced, claimed that he had earlier told her: "This place [Abu Ghraib] must be Gitmo-ised ... [prisoners] are like dogs." The US military refers to Guantánamo Bay as Gitmo. Gen Miller has denied the allegation.
Detainees cracked and gave false confessions under pressure from interrogators who did everything from showing them photographs of Donald Duck to beating them and holding guns to their heads, the men allege.
After months of questioning in coercive conditions, Mr Rasul admitted meeting Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Atta, one of the September 11 hijackers, in Afghanistan in 2000. In fact, he was working in a Currys store in the West Midlands.
"Eventually I just gave in and said, 'OK, it's me' ... because of the previous five or six weeks of being held in isolation and being taken to interrogation for hours on end, short shackled and being treated in that way," he said.
"I was going out of my mind and didn't know what was going on. I was desperate for it to end." He was cleared when M15 produced evidence showing the three were all in England at the time.
The report describes the extraordinary techniques employed by military interrogators. Mr Iqbal described US soldiers holding a gun to his head and beating him during interrogations in Afghanistan.
He added: "An American ... shouted at me, telling me I was al-Qaida. I said I was not involved in al-Qaida and did not support them. At this he started to punch me violently and then when he knocked me to the floor started to kick me around my back and in my stomach."
Interrogations at Guantánamo Bay were less violent but frequently involved physical stress - often in intense heat or cold, with detainees chained into painful squatting positions. On one occasion, Mr Iqbal recalled, "I was left in a room and strobe lighting was put on and very loud music. It was a dance version of Eminem played repeatedly."
Mr Rasul described being shown "photographs of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Rugrats, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Jackson, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Osama bin Laden and famous people from different countries."
At other interviews, he was asked: "If I wanted to get surface-to-air missiles from someone in Tipton, who would I go to?"
Role of British officials
The report suggests British officials made repeated visits to Guantánamo to question Britons who had been subjected to alleged ill-treatment by the US.
Consular officials, who visited at least six times, were supposed to ensure the welfare of the Britons, yet were always accompanied by MI5 officers.
Mr Iqbal claims that the embassy official once acted like "a third interrogator", asking him not about his welfare, but about other matters.
Mr Ahmed says he was interrogated in Kandahar by both a Foreign Office official and an MI5 officer, who told him the other two Britons had gone home because they cooperated. In fact they were on their way to Guantánamo.
During an interview with Foreign Office staff and with an MI5 officer present, Mr Ahmed says he confessed to every allegation put to him, including going to Afghanistan to fight jihad at the expense of the al-Muhajiroun group.
He had eaten next to no food for weeks and was suffering from sleep deprivation and extreme cold. He said the British officials "did not seem to care or even ask him about the conditions."
British officials saw all three men within three days of their arrival in Cuba. Mr Rasul says he was interviewed under armed guard by someone who said he was from the British embassy in Washington and someone from MI5.
He said: "The MI5 officer told me in no uncertain terms that if I did not cooperate they could make life very difficult for me."
He was told if he admitted going to Afghanistan for jihad, he could return to England. Mr Rasul says he was interviewed twice by MI5 in Camp X-ray, and Mr Ahmed once. Mr Iqbal says British intelligence questioned him four times over three months. His first interrogation by MI5 lasted between six and eight hours.
One MI5 interrogator told Mr Rasul that he would stay in Guantánamo for the rest of his life. During one interview, he says, he noticed that he was being filmed.
During his fourth interview, Mr Iqbal says he refused to answer questions put to him by US and UK interrogators. Both left the room and then a British embassy official entered. He said Mr Iqbal should tell him about his grievances. Mr Iqbal stayed silent until he was shown letters from his family and told if could only have them if he cooperated.
"I was desperate to get some letters from my family, so I started to speak," Mr Iqbal said.
He "remembers clearly" that the official wrote down his list of grievances for the first time.
These included infections he was suffering from untreated wounds caused by iron leg shackles; being led naked to and from the showers; poor food; disrespect shown to their religion; and sleep deprivation. The complaint ran to two pages. Mr Rasul says he complained to a British embassy official called Martin, telling him that he had been kept in isolation for three months. Again, nothing seemed to happen.
The report concludes: "It was very clear to all three that MI5 was content to benefit from the effect of the isolation, sleep deprivation and other forms of acutely painful and degrading treatment, including short shackling."
The men expressed considerable anger that "there was never any suggestion on the part of the British interrogators that this treatment was wrong".
Prisoners' mental illness
There have been "several hundred" suicide attempts, many more than suggested in official accounts, according to the report.
Camp authorities recorded around 32 attempts by prisoners to kill themselves before they stopped counting them and created a new category of "manipulative self-injurious behaviour", for which figures are not disclosed.
But the report suggests that attempted suicides are just the tip of the iceberg. It describes in vivid detail the deteriorating mental health of prisoners, including Britons, and alleges that guards have assaulted men who have serious health problems.
The men said that a high percentage of detainees were on anti-depressants and that at least 100 were observably mentally ill, as distinct from being depressed about their situation.
They added: "For at least 50 of those their behaviour is so disturbed as to show that they are no longer capable of rational thought or behaviour ...
"It is something that only a small child or animal might behave like ... These people were obviously seriously ill and yet we understand [from the military police] that they still get interrogated, and if they say someone is from al-Qaida then that information is used."
The men claimed to have witnessed the beating of one man who suffered from mental illness - Jumah al-Dousari from Bahrain - for impersonating a female soldier.
Eight soldiers repeatedly punched Mr Dousari, smashed his face into the concrete floor until his nose was broken, and kicked him in the stomach.
"When they took him out they hosed the cell down and the water ran red with blood," Mr Rasul said in the report.
In another incident, a Saudi Arabian prisoner allegedly suffered irreversible brain damage when guards beat him up after he tried to kill himself.
The account raises particular concerns about the mental state of British residents and citizens, in particular Jamil el-Banna, a Jordanian refugee who lived in London.
"Mentally, basically he's finished," Mr Rasul said.
"They told him he was going to be sent back to Jordan and he was extremely scared ... [it] meant to him the end of his life. He knew that he would be tortured or killed there."
The report also says that Feroz Abbasi, from Croydon, "was getting a very hard time" and that guards reported Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, to be "in a very bad way".
Guantánamo Bay
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Q: Why allocate space for this variable? I found this and I wonder why there is a memory allocation on the the variable in the loop (.... 0x20;). It looks like the variable is simply filled up with spaces. But why would one do this when we initialize the byte variable with the size ?
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A: The obvious answer is: because the programmer wanted to have it filled up with spaces. Initializing it with the length means you get a lot of 0 bytes. Why did the programmer want spaces? I have no idea. The whole thing is bad cargo-cult programming (meaning somebody did it because he saw somebody else doing it, without understanding how it works or what it does).
You should either use a stream or use the return value of that method. If your quality guideline is "good programming", then that loop has to be deleted and replaced by either of the above solutions.
My preference would be the stream (could be a MemoryStream) so that you get rid of all that byte-counting and buffer shifting and return-value-checking. That is what the stream abstraction was made for.
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So it's the El Nino that might just eat west Los Angeles, or as one NOAA forecaster put it, the "Godzilla El Nino."
"Every since he let that slip, it's given everyone a chance to talk about it on the front page," noted Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken. "My take is that I know that El Nino is something that interests people every year — anything that you can try to hang your hat on to project more than two months in the future is something that's of great interest to a bunch of forecasters."
Doesken said he's a little hesitant to make an overall state forecast in terms of snowfall, but there are a number of things that all of us could take under consideration, beginning with the overall strength of this El Nino event.
How strong is this El Nino?
The main measure of any El Nino, or the opposite La Nina event, is the Southern Oscillation, the difference in barometric pressure between Darwin, Australia and Tahiti. When the oscillation is positive, higher in Darwin, it means strong Pacific trade winds and a La Nina event, but a negative number means weak winds, allowing warmer waters to pool near the Americas.
That's the easiest way to think about an El Nino event. Warmer ocean surface temperatures near the Americas.
Normally, the difference between La Nina and El Nino events, is about 3 degrees Celsius, or five to six degrees Farenheit. This year it promises to be about 4 degrees Celsius.
While there is no direct correlation, that 25 percent increase in temperature during this event is very, very significant, both in water vapor available for storms, as well as the convective energy from the ascending water vapor.
"That's a lot of potential — tons of water vapor and energy a very big big area. It's a big deal," Doesken said.
So what does that mean for forecasters?
Well, obviously there's a lot more water available for this winter's storms, meaning that a lot of rain or snow could fall. But where it falls pretty much depends on how the storms track, which will follow the atmospheric jet streams. The weak west-to-east winds usually mean, in North America, a split jet stream.
This is why forecasters love a strong El Nino event, it makes their job just a little easier with that split jet stream.
"In in the case of a really strong El Nino event, or the reverse, that's usually the only time that it gives you more than the flip-of-the-coin change," Doesken said.
"In a split flow, the subtropical (lower latitude) flow cuts across the southern border of the United States, where the main channel jet stream tends to go well north of the U.S. border. That tends to shunt the cold rather to the north, and toward the eastern United States."
The split stream, therefore, means that wet storms are more likely in the southern states, while mild temperatures could hold sway over much of the Rockies and MidWest. Colder temperatures will stay above the border falling down on northeastern states, where they will undoubtedly deflate footballs late in the NFL season.
In southern Colorado, which saw a bit of relief from drought this year, precipitation increases could be significant.
So what does that mean for this winter in northern Colorado?
"I am bullish on thinking we won't have really cold temperatures, at least in the western and probably the northern parts of the state," Doesken said. "I used to be more bullish, but the older I get the less likely I am to go out on a limb."
The split jet stream has particular significance in the northeastern Colorado. Far fewer arctic blasts should occur, where temperatures can easily fall to less than zero for days, and the Chinook winds of winter and early spring are expected to be far less severe.
"It's hard to say why there were so few strong Chinook events last year," Doesken said. "But we did have three very significant periods of arctic blasts."
On the other hand, there is one aspect of El Nino events that seems to be harder to predict — early winter storms. The 1983 El Nino is a good example of what this can mean — almost 3 feet of snow fell in early September.
Given the strength of this year's El Nino, Doesken (perhaps inadvertently) put himself out on a bit of a limb.
"The wild card is the statistic that says there are improved chances for a fall or early winter snowfall in the Front Range or eastern Colorado," he said. "Look out for an early snowstorm before Thanksgiving."
What about next spring?
"Now the question is, was El Nino just ramping up last spring (which saw heavy rains) and will the El Nino be ramping down? I think the prevailing opinion is we should still expect a wet spring," Doesken said.
El Nino springs can bring significant precipitation to northeastern Colorado, in fact the 1983 event did just that. If the prevailing conditions hold until spring, there is a very good chance of spring Four Corners lows being created, which create very wet upslope conditions in northeastern Colorado — multi-day events that are very favorable to winter wheat crops.
"The prevailing idea would be don't expect cold waves or stronger winds this year," Doesken said.
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Christina King, Ken Parr, Patricia Zanuck
Business Office Administrative Assistant
Christina holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Cal State Long Beach. She has been a part of the Carlthorp School team for nineteen years, spending a majority of that time as a teacher's assistant in the science lab. As well as working in the business office, she is responsible for the after school clubs. Christina has two children, both of whom graduated from Carlthorp. Her daughter currently works at Carlthorp as a teacher's assistant.
Ken Parr
Santa Monica native, Ken graduated from Sonoma State University in the fields of Finance and Philosophy and has been a part of the Carlthorp School team for over a decade. His responsibilities include managing the business office, the school's finances, advancement, payroll and human resources, and the overseeing of the physical plant.
Patricia Zanuck
Business Office Associate
Patricia was a public elementary school educator for several years. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Middlebury College (Vermont) and a Master's degree in Education from University of Southern California. Born in Oslo, Norway, she spent her childhood years moving back and forth between Norway and the United States before settling in Los Angeles after college graduation.
Maureen Pollack, Nhung Truong, Karen Gwartz
Institutional Initiatives
Karen Gwartz
Karen is a native Califonian who grew up in Van Nuys. The 2018-19 school year marks her 29th year at Carlthorp School as an Administrative Assistant. She is excited to be working alongside such a friendly and warm faculty and staff. In her spare time she likes to watch movies, spend time with her family and curl up with a good book.
Maureen Pollack
Director of Strategic Advancement & Communication
Maureen '90 is a native of Santa Monica and a proud Carlthorp School graduate. The daughter of a former Carlthorp School teacher, Mrs. Dowling, Maureen has been connected to the school for decades. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Boston College in the fields of English and Communication. Prior to working at Carlthorp School, she worked in Advancement at Brentwood School and as Marketing Director at Two Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills. Maureen has two young daughters who keep her on her toes in her spare time.
Nhung Truong
Head of School Assistant
Nhung Truong is entering her 3rd year at Carlthorp School. For her, the best part of being at Carlthorp is being a part of such a dynamic family of caring and dedicated professionals. She is a graduate of San Diego State University.
In addition to California, she has lived in Michigan and Texas. That upbringing is where she developed her love of the four seasons and Dallas Cowboys football. When not at work, she enjoys cooking, game nights and spending time with friends. She lives in Irvine with her husband, 3 year old daughter, two cats and dog.
Marcelline Cattani, Kelly Kuolt, Nadia Shields
Curriculum, Instruction, & Service Learning
Kelly Kuolt
Director of Service Learning
Kelly originally hails from Renton, Washington and attended Gonzaga University for her undergraduate studies followed by Pepperdine University where she earned her Masters degree in Education with certification in K-6. Kelly's eight years of teaching experience include a wide variety of schools and grade levels, including five years at Carlthorp School. Kelly co-led the evolution of service learning during her five years at Carlthorp School by developing the program from a three month in-class experiment into a year-long project-based approach in the 6th grade. Highlights from this experience include planning and participating in service work on the ground with students in conjunction with organizations such as Save the Children, KidUnity, Sustainable Works and Florence for Youth in Action. Kelly believes in developing the whole child by providing each student with authentic academic experiences that also allow for the development of social and emotional skills. She is an avid reader and chocolate lover!
Marcelline Cattani
Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Marcelline Cattani is a native of Pennington, New Jersey and graduated from Princeton University with an honors degree in Psychology and a certificate in Teacher Preparation. At Princeton, she was a member of the Varsity Women's Crew team that won the NCAA National Championship.
Marcelline has extensive classroom teaching experience. She taught 3rd Grade for two years in New Jersey public schools before earning a Master's degree from Columbia University's Teachers College. While pursuing her Master's, she taught 1st and 5th Graders and served as a Literacy Specialist at schools in Chelsea and the Upper East Side of New York City. She then joined the faculty of the Success Academy Charter Network's school in the South Bronx where she taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Graders. As a fellow in the Columbia Literacy Specialist program, Marcelline worked on interactive, curriculum-based learning and she has since presented her work at professional conferences and seminars. Marcelline went on to become the Middle School Literacy Manager for the entire Success Academy Charter Network. More recently, she joined the KIPP New Jersey Charter Network as their first Director of Literacy Achievement and Curriculum. In this role, Marcelline served as the network's curriculum content expert for all of the network's elementary schools in Newark and Camden.
Marcelline is honored to be a part of the Carlthorp family as Director of Curriculum and Instruction and enjoys working with teachers, students and families.
Dr. Nadia Shields
Support Teacher (K-6)
Nadia grew up in a military family and lived in Europe, Asiaand throughout the United States. This fueled her interest in geography and other cultures. Teetering between science and pre-law, she graduated from the University of California with majors in History and Russian Literature and a minor in Science. Harkening back to her days in elementary school when she set up a classroom in the garage and paid her sisters and their friends out of her allowance to sit through her Saturday lectures about why "ph" actually makes an "f" sound and the myriad ways to begin a composition, she realized that the classroom is what she loved. She taught for 13 years in Northern California. She also found time to earn a Master's of Science in Counseling and an Administrative Credential at California State University, Sacramento. A few years after moving to Southern California with her husband, the Reverend Dr. Charles Shields, and two young daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth, she earned her PhD in Administrative Policy from UCLA. Dr. Shields has been a teacher at Carlthorp School since 1991. Her passion for the classroom remains unabated. In her spare time, she teaches Sunday school, sings in her church choir, jogs, travels, reads, writes, dances, and bakes. She also loves going to movies.
Maya Mulvihill, Lynn Wagmeister, Elaine Hobert, Sara Hankins, Stephanie Harris
Maya Mulvihill
Maya is the Front Office Manager and has worked at Carlthorp School for seven years.
She is a Los Angleles native who received her Bachelor's degree in Anthropology
from the University of Hawaii. With her multi-ethnic background, Maya has a strong
interest in learning and understanding other cultures, which has contributed to her
interest in diversity and inclusion. She not only serves Carlthorp with administrative support as the front line, but also helps in admissions, and co-chairs the Diversity, Inclusion and Excellence Committee. Maya's free time is filled with her passion for performing and competing in Polynesian Dancing. She also enjoys the outdoors and stays active by hiking, outrigger canoeing and traveling.
Elaine Hobert
Admissions Associate
Elaine is from Chicago, Illinois and moved to Los Angeles to attend USC. She double-majored, earning Bachelor's degrees in Humanities and Piano Performance, and later, her Master's degree in Education. Elaine spent most of her formative years playing piano. At age 11 she performed Rachmaninoff's 1st Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and in 1996 she had the distinction of being the only US finalist chosen to compete in the Chopin International Piano Competition for Young Artists in Moscow. For the last fifteen years, Elaine has enjoyed working with young children as both a piano teacher and an elementary school teacher. She taught in LAUSD for many years before joining Carlthorp's 2nd grade team in 2011. Elaine looks forward to bringing her educational background into her new position in Admissions this year!
Sara Hankins
Sara earned her Bachelor's degree in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard College. As an undergrad, she managed the Harvard Men's Basketball team and supervised 800 undergraduates in the University's largest student-run business. Prior to joining Carlthorp School, Sara worked in Development at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Sara was born in Anchorage, Alaska and grew up on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. She is a culinary aficionado who also enjoys exercise classes and the horror/sci-fi genre.
Stephanie Harris
Stephanie retired after 33 years of service in Southern California's public schools, and she is now excited to bring this experience to the Carlthorp School community. Her professional experiences include 1st – 9th grade Teacher, Assistant Principal, Instructional Coordinator, and Principal. She was the Principal at Short Avenue School when it became California's highest performing Reading First School as well as Principal of Melrose Math Science and Technology Magnet which was recognized as a California Distinguished School, an Apple Distinguished School, and a Magnet Schools of America School of Excellence. She is passionate in her pursuit of educational excellence in all student populations. Proudly, Stephanie is the first in her family to earn a college degree holding a Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral Sciences from Cal State Dominguez Hills and a Master's Degree in Educational Technology from Cal State San Bernardino. In her spare time Stephanie enjoys walking and hiking for exercise, traveling, and spending time with her friends and family.
Lynn Wagmeister
Lynn holds a Bachelor's degree from Occidental College in Organizational Psychology. She is also a graduate of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, Executive Program. As the daughter of an American diplomat, Lynn was raised all over the world before settling in Los Angeles. She has three sons, each of whom is a Carlthorp School graduate, and she herself is a former member of the Carlthorp School Board of Trustees. In Lynn's limited free time she enjoys traveling, reading, taking walks on sunny days, and spending time with friends and family.
Jose Portillo, Vilma Zavaleta, Chad Hellmuth, Julio Penado
Jose Portillo
Jose has worked at Carlthorp School for 5 years in the Facilities Department. Born in El Salvador, he has two children. In his spare time he loves to spend time outdoors playing soccer and other sports.
Vilma Zavaleta
Vilma has worked at Carlthorp School for 34 years. Born in El Salvador, she is the mother of two children. She loves spending time with her grandchildren, at her church and shopping.
Chad Hellmuth
Chad graduated from California Lutheran University with a BA in Communications. He is certified as a Facility Management Professional by the International Facility Management Association. He manages the campus grounds, building, facility staff, vendors and building projects at Carlthorp School. Before coming to Carlthorp, Chad worked in visual efx at Sony Imageworks where he ran the internship program and worked in artist management. He is a 2018 inductee into the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame and has one son.
Julio Penado
Julio has been working at Carlthorp School for 21 years in the Facilities Department. Born in El Salvador, he has two children and one grandchild. In his spare time he loves to run, walk and spend time outdoors.
Lonnie Wittenberg, Peggy Inadomi, Nikki Edwards
Parent Programs and Community Service
Lonnie Wittenberg
Director of Parent Programs and Special Events
Lonnie graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies. She holds a Master's Degree in Education from Lesley University. She is also a graduate of the Director's Guild of America-Producer Training Program, and worked for many years as an Assistant Director in Film and Film Television Production. She has four children, all of whom attended Carlthorp School. Her hobbies include snowboarding, skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, reading, traveling, and seeing movies.
Peggy Inadomi
Peggy holds a Bachelor's degree from UCLA in Psychology. Prior to working at Carlthorp School, she worked as the Assistant to the Director of Development at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and as a Marketing Director at Estee Lauder. She is the parent of two Carlthorp graduates and resides in Santa Monica. She enjoys bicycling and walking around Manhattan.
Nikki Edwards
Community Service Coordinator
Nikki has coordinated community service for seven years, leveraging her prior experience as a parent volunteer with the program while her three sons attended Carlthorp. She also served as a school trustee for five years. She believes engaging students in meaningful, enjoyable service activities helps promote a lifelong commitment to helping others.
A graduate of Southampton University with degrees in economics and accounting, Nikki is a Chartered Accountant and worked many years as a management consultant for Price Waterhouse in London and Los Angeles. A keen athlete, Nikki played on the British national lacrosse team for ten years, and continues to enjoy coaching, soccer, and mountain hiking with husband Tracy.
Sal Cortes, John Wallace
Sal Cortes
Sal is a native California resident. He attended Pierce College, where he was the Student Body President, and Cal State Northridge University in the nearby San Fernando Valley.
He has nearly 25 years experience as a law enforcement professional with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department including work in private security, executive protection and private investigation.
He was an accomplished high school and collegiate wrestler competing and representing the United States in tournaments in Greece and Japan. Sal is also an avid fisherman. When he's not at school, he's usually out on the water or spending quality time with his family.
Director of Security
John is a former LA County Deputy Sheriff and has an advanced P.O.S.T. Certificate with over 33 years of combined law enforcement and executive protection experience. John attended LA Valley College and received a football scholarship to attend Prairie View A&M University of Texas and Carroll College of Montana. John has worked at Carlthorp school for 14 years, has a wife Donna, two sons and a Daughter. John has one dog and four cats. (All Rescued!!!)
Robert Moriarity, Saul Rivas
Robert Moriarity
Robert has more than thirty years of industry experience in information technology. Starting in the early 1980's, he developed and managed computer-controlled satellite communication systems for the United States Army. Before coming to Carlthorp School in 2010, Robert held the position of Director of Information Technology for Disney Interactive Media Group. In his spare time he cooks Italian food, makes wooden furniture, sails, backpacks, and sculpts.
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Effective January 2019, cancellation actions may be filed against registered trademarks which are not being used in Uruguay.
On October 7, 2014, Decree No. 277/2014, regulating Sections 187 to 189 of Law No. 19.149 (Accountability and Balanced Budget Execution Act) regarding mandatory use of registered trademarks in Uruguay, was published in the Official Gazette. The INTA Bulletin reported on passage of the law at the time. Five years have passed since the mentioned modification to the Trademark Act and Decree, and now use is mandatory in Uruguay.
As of January 1, 2019, any individual or legal entity with a direct, personal, and legitimate interest will be entitled to file a cancellation action against a registered trademark that has not been used for a period of not less than five years from its date of registration or last renewal.
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"5 Minutes Alone" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1994 album Far Beyond Driven. The song also appears on the band's live album. The song was released as downloadable content for Rock Revolution and Rock Band 3 and can be heard during a cut-scene in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
Meaning
Speaking about what the song is about, Pantera's drummer Vinnie Paul said:
"The story behind this song is we were opening for Megadeth, and there was a guy that was flipping us off the whole show and so we stopped the show. And I was like, 'Listen, in case you haven't noticed there's 18,000 people who really dig what we're doing. You're the only one doing that stupid shit without even having to egg the crowd on.' Ten guys just jumped the guy and beat the shit out of him. His dad called the manager after all the lawsuits and this and that, and basically said, 'Give me five minutes with that Phil Anselmo guy. I want to whup his ass.' "
Pantera's vocalist Phil Anselmo spoke about what the song is about saying:
"There are always gold-diggers out there. The way I remember it was there was this kid that swore that I jumped off the stage and beat him up. Well, that was bullshit. That did not happen at all. When the father asked for five minutes alone with me, our manager responded aptly and perfectly: 'No, you don't.' [Laughs] 'I really doubt that,' and basically hung up on the guy. But once that story was conveyed to me, it actually made me angry because it wasn't fucking true. I basically plucked out those words from my agitator's mouth and yeah, man, 'five minutes alone,' fucking bring it."
Reception
Upon release, the song had an immediate impact on the band's fanbase, quickly becoming one of Pantera's most popular songs.
Metal Hammer ranked "5 Minutes Alone" number six on their list of the 50 best Pantera songs.
Covers
"5 Minutes Alone" was covered by the bands Lamb of God, Ill Nino, DevilDriver, Soilwork, and Killswitch Engage in Dallas, Texas on December 8, 2007 on the 3rd anniversary of Dimebag Darrell's death. It featured 3 vocalists, 5 guitarists, and 3 drummers.
The song was covered by Nonpoint for the Metal Hammer tribute album Getcha Pull! A Tribute to Dimebag Darrell as a downloadable bonus track. Nonpoint then released the song on their 2010 studio album Miracle.
Texas deathcore band Upon a Burning Body recorded the song as well. It can be said as another bonus track for Getcha Pull! A Tribute to Dimebag Darrell.
Florida deathcore band Traitors covered the song as well, and is posted on their Bandcamp.
Charts
References
External links
Official music video
1994 singles
1994 songs
Pantera songs
Songs written by Dimebag Darrell
Songs written by Vinnie Paul
Songs written by Phil Anselmo
Songs written by Rex Brown
Song recordings produced by Terry Date
Music videos directed by Wayne Isham
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After reading Jeanne Marie Laskas great article "Breeding the Perfect Bull" published in the Smithsonian Magazine, I wondered whether a 1031 tax deferred exchange would make sense when selling prize Red and Black Angus, Simmental, Charolais, Hereford, and Senegus bulls. The article is about "Donnell Brown and his fellow cowboys combining modern science with their decades of experience with cattle ranching to create the perfect specimen named Revelation." Why would a rancher sell a top breeding bull like Revelation? Some of the reasons include genetics, age, injury and the price offered. Ranchers can take advantage of 1031 tax deferred exchanges when selling their animals and purchasing cattle of equal or greater value.
The R.A. Brown Ranch located near the small town of Throckmorton, in East Texas is not your average cattle ranch. Like 97 percent of U.S. cattle ranches, it is also family-owned and operated, passed down to a fifth-generation rancher in a $76 billion beef production industry comprised of about 750,000 independent "cow-calf operations" with fewer than 50 heads. The Brown Ranch operates a 2,000 head farm specializing in breeding. Such ranches are known as "seed-stock providers" representing the beginning of the beef production cycle where genetics determine the qualities of filet mignon, sirloin and steak burgers.
A top breeding bull can sell for $100,000 once their offspring are proven to be prime calves.
Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming do not impose a state capital gains tax.
Half-blood heifers for three-quarter-blood heifers.
Before selling or buying in a reverse exchange, talk with your accountant to confirm the estimated capital gains tax. Once you decide to move forward in an exchange, contact a Qualified Intermediary (QI) to ask questions about the exchange and its mechanics. It is important to discuss where the exchange proceeds will be held, if interest will be earned on the account, and what security measures will be in place such as the use of a qualified escrow account and personal identification number to protect the account.
Once the QI is engaged, let them know the contact information of the sale or purchase, perhaps the auctioneer. The QI will prepare exchange documents for the first leg. Exchange funds will be wired to the escrow account under the taxpayer's tax identification number.
By the 45th calendar day, the replacement property will need to be identified by providing information on the bull(s). The value of the replacement property must be equal to or greater than the net sales price; otherwise a tax is triggered on the difference.
Contact the QI to let them know the details of when you are closing on the replacement bulls. The QI will prepare exchange documents for the second leg wiring the exchange proceeds to the closing.
Excellent to see your info on other uses of 1031 exchanges especially with a hefty tax rate like you have shown for Kansas. Glad to have this to share with our cattle and livestock producer clients.
I grew up walking feed lots and barns in the Midwest with my Dad who is a veterinarian. 1031 exchanges apply to productive livestock held for sport, breeding, draft and dairy purposes.
Nice info, always nice to have another option available. Here in GA at a UGA Bull Test Sale un-proven year old bulls sold for as high as $10k last week.
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The Chinese New Year is the most significant festival among all holidays and festivals in Chinese culture. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the festival lasts for fifteen days. This calendar starts between January 21 and February according to the Western calendar and changes between the years. If you are looking to participate in the celebrations, here is how to go about it.
The Chinese believe that you will keep the accumulated bad luck away if you clean your house at this time of the year. If you clean your house, you will be preparing it for good luck to return to your home. You should also keep hygienic and fresh, including a haircut. But be sure not to clean your home after the New Year starts since you will be sweeping away the good luck that you have obtained. Ensure you don't wash your house within the first two weeks of the New Year.
In Chinese culture, red is the symbol or color of good luck and is usually utilized in New Year decorations. You can also use number eight, which means wealth and good luck. Paste paper cutouts on the window to elaborate scenes from Chinese mythology or rural life. Put them up on north and south facing windows. You can also decorate with Chinese New Year artwork and paintings. According to the Chinese tradition, these displays contain images of bounty and health, including fruits and animals. Include an image of a door god on your door to bless your house and fight the evil spirits. Additionally, you can decorate with couplets. Purchase red paper printed with Chinese calligraphy or write spring-themed couplets. Moreover, remember to put up paper lanterns. They are usually made from red paper and are one of the most popular decorations during the Chinese New Year. Don't forget to paint your window panes, door, and doorframe red to change the pace.
In case you have traditional Chinese clothes, this is the ideal time for wearing them. You can also purchase outfits in Chinatown, such as stunning silk clothing. Go for clothes with red color, which is associated with joy, good luck, good fortune, wealth, and happiness. Gold is also a perfect color to wear and can be combined with red. Keep away from black clothes since the color symbolizes death and bad luck.
Chinese celebrators usually visit temples to pray for fortune and good luck during the celebration period of the New Year. In the temples, they burn incense sticks before having their fortunes told. A majority of the temples welcome all participants, including those who are not Chinese. You can get the fortune stick tube close to the temple's entrance. Pose a question and shake the tube to drop a numbered stick. It will be interpreted by one of the fortune tellers.
Set off fireworks when the New Year starts at midnight. The firecrackers utilized in Hong Kong and China are banging and loud fireworks that are usually lit on the ground. The loud noises are believed to chase the bad spirits away and prevent them from causing bad luck. Numerous people continuously set off fireworks for the full fifteen days while others do so for the initial four to eight days prior to returning to work. Expect plenty of excitement and noise if you reside in a Chinese community. However, personal fireworks are prohibited in some nations and regions. But you can watch an official display of fireworks.
The major feast is normally held on the eve of the New Year before the beginning of the holiday at midnight. There are multiple traditional dishes, but some foods have unique symbolism. Longevity is symbolized by daikon, a Chinese radish, and Jiu, an ancient hard liquor. While rice means harmony, red chilies symbolize good luck. Chicken and other small animals are served whole and sliced at the table to show prosperity and unity.
Whether you are Chinese or not, these six tips will help you participate in this critical festival of the Chinese tradition. Prepare the house, dress appropriately, follow food traditions and more. | {
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Ashima Shiraishi Net Worth, Biography, Career & Personal Life
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We'll review Ashima Shiraishi net worth, career summary, biography facts, and personal life.
Ashima Shiraishi is a professional rock climber from American. One of the world's most promising climbing talents, Ashima Shiraishi, began scaling heights at an early age, specifically at the age of six.
Just after beginning climbing, young Ashima Shiraishi showed so much promise in climbing that she began to attract attention after climbing notable challenging routes for her age.
Now 20, Ashima Shiraishi is set to mark her footprint indelibly in the sands of climbing history.
Her immense climbing accomplishments, such as being the second person and first female climber to ascend Japan's Mount Hiei, Horizon, rated V15, have earned her accolades from the media.
American outdoor magazine, Outside referred to her as a "young crusher," while American weekly magazine, The New Yorker, hailed her as "a Gretzky of the granite." The climbing genius has well earned these accolades.
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Full Name: Ashima Shiraishi
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Occupation: Student, rock climber, sport climber
Discipline: Bouldering, Lead climbing
Net Worth: $1-5 Million
Born to a family of immigrants in 2001, Ashima Shiraishi's interest in climbing began at six, thanks to her father, Hisatoshi "Poppo" Shiraishi, a Butoh trained dancer.
As young as age six, Ashima Shiraishi began climbing in Umpire Rock, located in Manhattan, with her parents. She will later advance to climbing at Brooklyn Boulders in Brooklyn.
About a year after young Ashima Shiraishi embraced climbing, she began competing competitively under the tutelage of accomplished climber Obe Carrion.
Under the guidance of Obe Carrion, Ashima Shiraishi's climbing prowess improved significantly, which led her to scale the Power of Boulder, a V10 boulder problem located in Hueco Tanks, Texas, at the age of 8.
As she advanced in age, she consistently climbed more challenging boulder problems, such as her Roger in the Shower (rated V11) climb at age 9, notably her Crown of Aragorn (V13) ascent.
Ashima Shiraishi's ascent of the V13 Crown of Aragorn boulder problem made her the youngest climber to ascend the height and one of the very few female climbers to ascend a confirmed V13 route.
By age 11, Ashima Shiraishi had her sights in lead climbing. In October 2012, she ascended Red River Gorge's Southern Smoke 5.14c (8c+) sport route.
Her ascent of the sport route made her the youngest climber ever to ascend a route of that difficulty.
That year, she parted ways with her coach, Obe Carrion, following a dispute between her father and Carrion. Her father, thus, took over her training.
Between 2013 and 2015, Ashima Shiraishi continued to excel as she engaged in bouldering and lead climbing while creating multiple records, such as being the youngest climber to ascend a 5.14d/5.15a (9a/9a+) router after she scaled the Ciudad de Dios.
In 2015, Ashima Shiraishi emerged victorious in the IFSC World Youth Championships Female Youth B category for Lead climbing and bouldering.
She complimented that accomplishment with her successful ascent of Mount Hiei Horizon (8C/V15) in March 2016.
That ascent made her the youngest climber and the first female climber to ascend the router.
Ashima Shiraishi continued to climb competitively as she emerged winner at the 2017 USA Climbing Sport & Speed Open National Championships Female Sports category.
That year, she made her Climbing World Cup debut as an adult after finishing second place at the USA Climbing Bouldering Nationals (ABS nationals).
Ashima Shiraishi net worth is estimated to be between $1 – $5 million in 2021.
Ashima Shiraishi was born in New York City to immigrant parents.
Her father dropped out of fashion school to become a Butoh dancer, even going as far as forming his own dance group. Her mother graduated from fashion school.
Ashima Shiraishi considers actor Ansel Elgort, who she met at a climbing gym while she was a kid and entrepreneur Jeff Staple as her mentors.
She handles her press obligations herself with the guidance of her mentors.
Ashima Shiraishi regularly clads herself in Gucci jackets.
Ashima Shiraishi is sponsored by climbing and outdoor brands, Evolve, The North Face, Petzl, and other notable Nikkon and Coca-Cola Japan brands.
In regards to her love life, she is single and very private about her personal life.
Shiraishi is prominent among climbing enthusiasts on Instagram via @ashimashiraishi and youtube on Ashima Shiraishi.
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Leo'nidas I.
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(*Lewni/das), king of Sparta, 17th of the Agids, was one of the sons of ANAXANDRIDES by his first wife, and, according to some accounts, was twin-brother to Cleombrotus (Hdt. 5.39-41; Paus. 3.3). He succeeded on the throne his half-brother Cleomenes I., about B. C. 491,his elder brother Dorieus also having previously died [DORIEUS]. When Greece was invaded by Xerxes, the Greek congress, which was held at the Isthmus of Corinth, determined that a stand should be made against the enemy at the pass of Thermopylae, and Leonidas had the command of the force destined for this service. The number of his army is varionsly stated: according to Herodotus, it amounted to somewhat more than 5000 men, of whom 300 were Spartans; in all probability, the regular band of (so called) ἱππεῖς selected by the Hippagretae, τοὺς κατεστεῶτας τριηκοσίους, as Herodotus calls them (comp. Müller, Dor. book 3.12.5). The remainder of the Lacedaemonian force was to follow after the celebration of the festival of the Carneia. Plutarch affirms that funeral games were celebrated in honour of Leonidas and his comrades, before their departure from Sparta; according also to him and Diodorus, it was said at the same time by the self-devoting hero, that the men he took with him were indeed few to fight, but enough to die; and, when his wife, Gorgo, asked him what his last wishes were, he answered, " Marry a brave husband and bear brave sons." All this, however, has very much the air of a late and rhetorical addition to the story; nor is it certain that Leonidas and his band looked forward to their own death as the inevitable result of their expedition, though Herodotus tells us that he selected for it such only as had sons to leave behind them, and mentions an oracle besides, which declared that Sparta could not be saved from ruin but by the death of her king. When the Greek army was assembled at Thermopylae, there was a prevalent desire on the part of the Peloponnesians to fall back on the Isthmus, and make their stand against the Persians there; and it was mainly through the influence of Leonidas that the scheme, selfish at once and impolitic, was abandoned. The sayings ascribed to him before the battle by Plutarch are well-known and characteristic enough of a Spartan, but are probably the rhetorical inventions of a later age. When it was known that the treachery of the Malian Epbialtes had betrayed the mountain path of the Anopaea to the Persians, after their vain attempts to force their way through the pass of Thermopylae, Leonidas, declaring that he and the Spartans under his command must needs remain in the post they had been sent to guard, dismissed all the other Greeks, except the Thespian and Theban forces. Then, before the body of Persians, who were crossing the mountain under Hydarnes, could arrive to attack him in the rear, he advanced from the narrow pass and charged the myriads of the enemy with his handful of troops, hopeless now of preserving their lives, and anxious only to sell them dearly. In the desperate battle which ensued, Leonidas himself fell soon. His body was rescued by the Greeks, after a violent struggle. On the hillock in the pass, where the remnant of the Greeks made their last stand, a lion of stone (so Herodotus tells us) was set up in his honour; and Pausanias says that his bones were brought to Sparta forty years after, by one named Pausanias; but if he was the same who commanded at the battle of Plataea, " forty" must be an erroneous reading for " four" (see Larcher, ad Herod. 7.225). The later story of Leonidas and his followers perishing in a night-attack on the Persian camp is unworthy of credit. (Hdt. 7.175, 202-225; Paus. 3.4, 14, 7.15; Diod. 11.4-11; Plut. de Herod. Mal. 32, Apoph. Lac.; Strab. i. p.10, ix. p. 429; Ael. VH 3.25; Just. 2.11; C. Nep. Them. 3; V. Max. 3.2, Ext. 3; Cic. de Fin. 2.19, 30, Tusc. Disp. 1.42, 49; Simon. xv. Anthol. Graec. vol. i. p. 61, ed. Jacobs.) In the reign of Leonidas we arrive at an exact chronology (says Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. p. 209), which we have gradually approached in the two preceding reigns of Anaxandrides and Cleomenes I. | {
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The stop cigarette smoking shot offers hope to people who smoke as the "holy grail" of all cures – a vaccine. Could this really become a actuality? Find out much more in this article.
L-Glutamine is an amino acid current in everybody's body in little amounts. Research have proven that L-Glutamine enhances self-hydration, boosts your immune system, increases growth hormones by over 400%25 with just a 2 gram dose, is great for your intestines, assists decrease ulcers and safeguards your muscles. It has no side-effects as lengthy as you stick within the suggested dose with ranges from two-3 grams. If you more than do it, you can get an upset stomach or even headache. L-Glutamine will not only alleviate your tension, but can help you produce a sensation of alertness and rejuvenation without a crash as you would experience with sugar or caffeine. You can get it at any dietary shop.
Homeopathy – Homeopathic treatment options are diluted portions of numerous herbs which can be good natural remedies for stress assaults. The vast majority of these remedies are made out of a answer of a lot of flower essences that are combined. These have produced it simpler for quite a great deal of people to see a nice reduction from their panic or anxiety attacks. Some are created specifically to assist calm individuals who are having difficulties with panic or trauma. Also be searching for mixtures which are meant to help with the anxious system. Especially when it's pressured by be concerned or anxiety.
Make it a point to do exercise each working day. If you don't work that body, you will lose it. The movements you make are what gets the energy flowing. Bodily exercise relieves your muscles of the limited power, tension and aggravation. An hour at the fitness center is just enough for the working day. You can always start sluggish to steer clear of straining your muscles. Victims of arthritis have benefited from regular physical exercise lessons.
Infertility reiki healing treatments – This is the best all-natural treatment if you are not getting expecting because a lengthy. It is far much better than all the healthcare remedies with no feasible aspect results.
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This is the reason hypnosis can perform an effective function in changing the way you think about cigarette smoking. This powerful technique can reinforce your willpower so that you don't automatically attain out for a cigarette. Hypnosis can also recognize the underlying leads to of smoking habit. Such as family problems, psychological stress, trauma and so on. This method will increase your capability to concentrate on a more healthy way of life and will flip your lifestyle around so you are not influenced around other smokers. Although hypnosis is by no means a fast repair instrument, it can be practiced in two sessions or much more depending on the individual. And the price can be reduced by purchasing self hypnosis tapes to assist you along the way. | {
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1. J. R. Cannon, W. T. Ford and A. V. Lair, Quasilinear parabolic systems, Journal of Differential Equations 20 (1976), 441-472. MR 53 #1028.
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This Island County webpage http://www.islandcounty.net/planning/ZoningMaps/camano.htm has more detailed clickable plat maps.
Below is the January 2005 Island county assessors data, for all the Whidbey Island parcels within Range 2, Township 34, Section 32. The last column is the previous assessed value, and the second to the last column is the latest (January 2005) assessor values.
Below are the well reports for this section of Whidbey, from the February 2005 Washington State Department of Ecology Well log website. Included below is who the well was drilled for, the well depth, and when the well was drilled. At the well log website, http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/welllog/ more detailed information is available, like the well drillers name, water temperature(sometimes), and soil profile depths.
Click on the below Whidbey section map numbers, to go to a page with aerial photos, 1/4 section property parcel maps, assessor and well data.
Below are the house and land sales for this section of Whidbey for the years 2003 and 2004.
Above are the house and land sales for this section of Whidbey for the years 2003 and 2004. | {
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Q: ReactJS: Make a table editable using react-table I'm using react-table npm package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-table) for generating my table:
<ReactTable
data={ tableData }
columns={ tableColumns }
showPagination={ false }
defaultPageSize={ tableData.length }
/>
The table is shown as expected. But now I would like to make this table editable. So I need to use input fields with data value instead of just text data values.
How do I have to do that? I do not understand the docs for this point... So I need some help.
A: First you need to edit the Columns props
Check render: props => <input value={props.row.name} onChange={onChangeFct} />
For example:
const onChangeFct = () => console.log("onChange usually handled by redux");
const tableColumns = [
{
header: 'Id',
accessor: 'id'
},
{
header: 'Name',
accessor: 'name',
render: props => <input value={props.row.name} onChange={onChangeFct} />
}
]
<ReactTable
data={ tableData }
columns={ tableColumns }
showPagination={ false }
defaultPageSize={ tableData.length }
/>
A: You can use text in place edit plugins like react-x-editable plugin to make table editable as it provides both modes: inline and popup.
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The gleaming new convention center where the formal ceremonies marking Hong Kong's handover are to be held Tuesday was built by Chinese laborers, and with Hong Kong taxpayers' money.
But it was designed by the Chicago firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, in partnership with a Hong Kong firm.
It is perhaps an appropriate commentary on Hong Kong's hopes for the future that this landmark moment in its history should take place in a landmark designed in part by Americans.
Jutting into Hong Kong's harbor like a giant pier, the building faces north, to the Chinese mainland where Hong Kong's future lies.
But although Hong Kong is about to become a part of Communist China, it intends to remain rooted in the capitalist traditions that turned it into one of the world's greatest international trading cities, an east-west melting pot of commerce, entrepreneurship and ideas.
That is why U.S. companies, defying the simplistic logic that Communism is bad for business, remain stubbornly optimistic about the future of Hong Kong under Chinese rule.
A recent American Chamber of Commerce survey found 95 percent of American companies based here believe Hong Kong will be a "favorable" or a "very favorable" place to do business over the next five years.
It was that spirit of confidence in the future that the convention center, whose swooping, curving roof has drawn comparisons with a bird, was trying to capture, said Larry Oltmans of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, one of the buildings' lead designers.
"It's about the ascendancy of Hong Kong into a new realm and its about soaring, with connotations for the new millennium," he said. "It's meant to convey the dynamic spirit of the people, which is what Hong Kong is all about."
There are more than 1,200 U.S. companies with offices in Hong Kong, including 90 from Illinois, and they have investments worth $14 billion in businesses ranging from burgers to banking, from manufacturing semiconductors to designing buildings.
With U.S. exports to Hong Kong totaling $14 billion last year, Hong Kong is America's 13th-largest trading partner, while the U.S. is Hong Kong's second-largest trading partner, after China.
Business optimism is high because of China, not in spite of it. The receptionist at the Hong Kong office of Caterpillar Inc. answers the phone with a cheery "Caterpillar, China,"--even though this will not technically be part of China until next week.
Caterpillar has headquartered its China operations here since 1992, running its four joint-venture plants in China not from Beijing or from Peoria, but from the city that served as a gateway to China long before it was officially due to be reunited with the mainland.
For Caterpillar, there is no business to be done in Hong Kong, a tiny market of 6.3 million people. Virtually all of Hong Kong's manufacturing sector has shifted to mainland China now, and 84 percent of its economy is services based.
But it is those services--the banks, courts, lawyers and consultancies--that make Hong Kong the logical place from which to run the firm's China operations, said Kevin Thieneman, Caterpillar's Asia-Pacific counsel. Not only because of the quality of the services themselves, he said, but because of the climate in which they operate.
"If you're in China, and there's a negative article published, it won't get circulated in Beijing," he said. "If they restricted the free flow of information here, it would be very negative for Hong Kong."
Under the "one country two systems" promise to leave Hong Kong's way of life untouched for 50 years, there is no reason to believe Hong Kong will change significantly under Chinese rule, said Don Dempsey, McDonald's managing director in Hong Kong.
"The Western press has been exaggerating the threat to Hong Kong," he said. "What people forget is that for 150 years Hong Kong has been under British rule, and when did they start to allow elections? A couple of years ago."
"If China came in and reduced personal freedoms by removing the right to travel or raising taxes, then it would become an issue," he added. "But for 92 percent of the ordinary Hong Kong Chinese, I don't think it will be an issue."
Rather than worry about potential threats to Hong Kong's freedoms, business has its eye on a different outcome.
"If, as a result of the return of Hong Kong, China really begins to understand how a market economy works, how a capitalist system runs, what the rule of law really means and the advantages of vigilance against corruption, it would be very good indeed from a business perspective," said Caterpillar's Thieneman.
It is the hope that Hong Kong will influence China more than the other way around that spurs much of the optimism, said Pam Bouldinger of the US-Chinese Business Council in Hong Kong.
The vast majority of businesses in Hong Kong are here for one reason only, and that is China, she says. "If you believe China is going to keep growing, then you have to believe Hong Kong is going to be in good shape."
But Hong Kong's growing reliance on China for its significance could also prove its undoing, some analysts say. As China continues to modernize and develop, the need for Hong Kong as a springboard into China could start to diminish.
Already, some U.S. companies are skipping Hong Kong altogether and locating directly in China, such as John Deere and Ameritech, both relative latecomers to the China market, said Norman Li, managing director of the State of Illinois' Far East Bureau in Hong Kong.
Shanghai is pouring billions of dollars into a new financial district and has proclaimed ambitions to turn itself into the next century's regional financial capital. New ports being built along the Chinese coast will gradually reduce Hong Kong's role as a trans-shipment point for exports into China.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's high cost of living already is undermining its role as a base for the region. Caterpillar shifted its Asian headquarters to Singapore, leaving behind only its China operations in Hong Kong. Companies like Sara Lee, which does little business in China, have their regional headquarters in Singapore.
The high cost of office space has become the biggest single complaint of U.S. companies doing business in Hong Kong, said Li.
Two years ago, the state occupied a plush office suite in the heart of Hong Kong's central district, but it had to move to more cramped quarters several miles away in Causeway Bay because of the high rents.
A square foot of office space in Hong Kong costs more than almost anywhere else in the world, and 8 to 10 times more than in Shanghai, where acres of space are scheduled to come on stream in the next few years as its massive building spree ends.
To sustain its competitiveness, it will therefore become even more important for Hong Kong to hold onto those advantages which set it apart from China, such as freedom, transparency and the rule of law, said Glen Steinman, president of Seema International Ltd., a Hong Kong-based U.S. consultancy which advises on China investments.
These are routinely cited by executives as their top priorities. A company with offices in Hong Kong can make decisions about the China market on the basis of information that would not be allowed to be published in China, and sign contracts that will be guaranteed in fair and open courts.
"It's incredibly important that transparency is maintained," he said. "What we all have to hope for is that transparency only gets enhanced in the future, and that it's Hong Kong that influences China, and not the other way around."
Hong Kong has one other significant advantage over China's other major cities. "Hong Kong is a much more enjoyable place to be than any part of China," he said. "People much, much prefer living here."
"But Hong Kong's got to remain an international city. It's got to retain its international spirit to remain an international draw."
If it doesn't, the 410,169 square feet of new exhibition space designed to hold international trade shows could be rattling empty after President Jiang Zemin and Prince Charles complete their handover ceremonies there this week. | {
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Every nurse is a leader, regardless of title or position within an organization. In this course you will learn to develop your voice and skills in order to lead teams of people who care for persons in need of any type of medical care.
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Q: Executing cd in a bash function called by subshell causes extraneous output Consider the bash function:
func() {
cd /;
echo test;
}
Calling it does what you'd expect:
~:>func
test
/:>
But when called from a subshell (eg using backticks or $()) it performs very strangely.
~:>func() { cd /; echo test; }
~:>echo $(func)
test Saving session... ...saving history...truncating history files... ...completed.
~:>
This issue does not appear if cd is not executed in the function:
~:>func() { echo test; }
~:>echo $(func)
test
~:>
This is causing issues with some scripts that rely on certain output behavior, eg CLASSPATH=$(func) where func is complex and requires the use of cd.
What's strange is that this worked fine before. It did not start to happen until recently, but I don't know what would have caused it.
Note: alias cd reports "alias: cd: not found" and which cd returns /usr/bin/cd which is a script that is identical to another Mac which does not have the problem.
A: There seems to be something odd going on as cd is not defined to behave as you are seeing it. Evidence suggests it's definition is being over-ridden somewhere.
It is possible that your cd command is aliased somewhere. The alias command with no arguments will display a list of aliased commands on most shells. A workaround for an aliased command is to preface the command with a backslash (\cd). That quotes the first letter of the command and defeats any alias processing by the shell.
It is also possible that it is a shell function. declare -f should list the defined functions, at least in bash, and you can see if cd is being defined as a function.
With luck, your which command may support short-cut ways to do these checks. Check out this on-line man page for how one implementation of which can be used to check functions and aliases, then see if your which operates in a similar manner.
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I was walking the dog down at Balcombe Creek this arvo and found a shimano raider bream 762 rod sitting on the bank with the top section snapped off. The bottom section was still in good nick apart from being a bit dirty.
I've never had to replace a section before, anyone know how much it would roughly cost to get a new top piece?
Buy one. Take the broken one in a week later with the receipt and claim under warranty?
drewb wrote: I was walking the dog down at Balcombe Creek this arvo and found a shimano raider bream 762 rod sitting on the bank with the top section snapped off. The bottom section was still in good nick apart from being a bit dirty.
I snapped the top section of my rod that I got for Chrissy and just took it down to the tackle store and they gave me a top section off a different rod for $5 and glued it on for a total cost of $10. can't tell the difference between before and after other then the rod being slightly shorter.
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What is the Survey and Evaluation Unit?
The Survey and Evaluation Unit oversees the identification and evaluation of historic districts, buildings, structures, objects and sites in New York State. The statewide inventory of historic resources, along with historic preservation planning at the local and regional levels, supports New York State's historic preservation efforts. This unit provides technical assistance, training, and supporting resource materials for the preparation of historic resources surveys.
What is a Historic Resources Survey?
A Historic Resources Survey is the principal tool for identifying historic properties and placing them in the local, state and/or national historic context. A survey provides the means by which we identify and document historic resources and evaluate their significance.
Surveys provide an inventory of the built environment by systematically documenting historic properties by geographic location (e.g., entire village, rural landscape or specific neighborhood) or theme (e.g., historic schools of NYS or properties associated with the Underground Railroad). They are tailored to fit the needs and goals of a project.
Why conduct a survey?
Surveys are fundamental to sound preservation planning. By defining the location and importance of historic resources, a survey enables planners to make decisions about which properties ought to be protected and how to incorporate preservation goals into community planning efforts. Surveys achieve the following objectives:
establish priorities for preservation projects;
identify historic properties that may benefit from National Register listing (which can qualify properties for certain tax credit and grant programs) and/or local designation;
create a body of background information for project and land-use planning;
help meet specific environmental review requirements (Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and Section 14.09 of the New York State Historic Preservation Act of 1980);
increase public awareness and appreciation for properties that reflect local, state and national history, and
gather information for educational and promotional purposes.
The Survey Process
The essential first step in the survey process is defining the geographic or thematic area of the survey. The process includes planning, research, fieldwork, data collection and organization, evaluation, and reporting.
Historic resources surveys fall into two general types: reconnaissance-level surveys and intensive-level surveys. A reconnaissance-level survey is a first step in the survey process that identifies those areas and properties worthy of further study. Reconnaissance surveys establish broad historic and architectural contexts necessary in understanding an area's past. Because reconnaissance-level surveys do not typically include detailed information on each property, they generally do not provide sufficient information for making informed evaluations of historic or architectural significance. Intensive-level surveys include historical research on the surveyed properties that provides the information needed for determining which properties (both individual properties and historic districts) are eligible for historic designations.
What are the products of a survey?
Surveys produce varying levels of information depending on the level of survey (reconnaissance or intensive) and the intended use. A completed survey generally consists of a written report summarizing the history, development patterns and physical character of the study area, an inventory of historic properties accompanied by maps and photographs, and recommendations. Evaluation results are included in intensive-level surveys.
Who can sponsor a survey?
Anyone can sponsor a survey: local and state governments, historical societies, academic programs, and individuals.
How can I get help with historic resources surveys?
For inventory forms, technical advice, survey standards, and sample surveys please go to our Territory Assignment Map section to find contact information for the Survey and Evaluation Program Representative for your county.
Step-by-Step Instructions for CRIS Data Entry for Independent Survey (pdf)
Many historic resources identified in surveys have been added to the NYSHPO's computerized statewide historic resources inventory. Basic information about these properties can be accessed via NYSHPO's online resources in the SPHINX (State Preservation Historical Information Network Exchange). Since basic survey data is accessible to federal, state, regional and local planning officials, it can be referenced when making decisions regarding planning issues.
In addition, more than 100 survey reports of historic and architectural resources are on file at the NYSHPO. The surveys include: statewide surveys and context studies; county-wide surveys and studies; regional surveys and studies; and surveys prepared for cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods.
The National Park Service has a number of helpful publications on surveying and evaluating a wide variety of historic resources. Two publications may be particularly useful:
Guidelines for Local Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning
Researching a Historic Property
Funding Sources for Surveys
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drive cycles for AVs that are both theoretically-grounded and based on empirical driving conditions.
The Main Proposal Narrative describes the current state of knowledge in this area; the research gap is that studies to date have considered neither the theoretical conditions under which faster travel speeds may be possible (or slower speeds may be required) on the basis of both vehicle kinematics and legal/liability considerations, nor the empirical distribution of the likely changes to speed profiles arising from them.
The theory underpinning the colloquial concept of defensive driving is known as Assured Clear Distance Ahead. ACDA-compliant driving strategies were initially implemented for AVs (in the specific context of queue discharge at signalized intersections) in research recently undertaken by the study team.
Addressing this gap in knowledge regarding AVs' speed profiles will require extending the application of the ACDA concept to cover a broader set of representative contexts. This will lead to the first major contribution of this research, in the form of novel algorithms for AVs' car-following and gapacceptance behavior that are grounded on the standard ACDA criterion which human drivers are also required to observe.
The algorithms will then be implemented in a representative empirical context, in order to generate the empirical drive cycles which are the second major product of this research. This requires a representative road network (we will use the enhanced version of the standard Sioux Falls network abstraction), building footprints (available in GIS format), digital elevation map (DEM), and traffic demands. The Sioux Falls network contains a diversity of roadway Page 2 of 2 environments (arterial and freeway), and has been widely-applied by researchers on network-analysis problems beginning in the mid-1970s. ArcGIS software will be used to generate sight lines, and the road network will be coded in VISSIM traffic microsimulation software.
AV driving behavior algorithms developed previously by the study team will be combined with those developed in the earlier phase of the present study, and will be applied in VISSIM using VISSIM's "COM" developer's toolkit. Simulations will be undertaken subject to a detailed experimental design. Results (drive cycles of AVs under a range of varying assumptions/inputs) will then be generated via statistical analysis of the vehicle trajectory data.
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Kattklo-unkaria (Uncaria tomentosa) är en växtart i släktet unkarior och familjen måreväxter. Den beskrevs av Karl Ludwig Willdenow och fick sitt nuvarande namn av Augustin Pyrame de Candolle.
Arten är en lian som förekommer i tropiska Amerika, och har traditionellt använts som medicinalväxt.
Beskrivning
Kattklo-unkarian är en lian som kan bli över 30 meter lång och flera centimeter i diameter. I Peru är den känd som uña de gato (kattklo), vilket syftar på de små böjda tornarna som sitter vid bladfästena. Arten är nära släkt med Uncaria guianensis.
Utbredning
Arten förekommer i de tropiska delarna av Amerika från Belize och Guatemala i norr till Amazonas i söder.
Användning
Kattklo-unkarian har i Sydamerika traditionellt använts för flera åkommor, bland annat för att läka sår och behandla artrit och magsår. Man använder innerbarken eller roten. Det finns emellertid inga kliniska tester som visar på några effekter mot sjukdom.
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National Human Rights Institutions as Gateways to Remedy under the UNGPs: The Romanian Institute for Human Rights (Part.3) - By Alexandru Tofan
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Editor's Note: Alexandru Rares Tofan recently graduated with an LLM in Transnational Law from King's College London where he focused on international human rights law, transnational litigation and international law. He is currently an intern with the Doing Business Right project at the Asser Institute in The Hague. He previously worked as a research assistant at the Transnational Law Institute in London on several projects pertaining to human rights, labour law and transnational corporate conduct.
The Romanian Institute for Human Rights ('Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului', hereinafter RIHR) was established on 30 January 1991 on the basis of Law No 9/1991. It is an independent public body that has as its main purposes the promotion of human rights education and the monitoring of compliance with human rights in Romania (see Art. 2). The duties of the institute include carrying out research, disseminating information, organising events and conferences for capacity-building and awareness raising, advising the legislative branch on human rights aspects of new enactments, and reporting on compliance with human rights (see Art. 3). The RIHR's status as a national human rights institution is currently being transferred to the People's Advocate Institution (see here), which is an ombudsman institution with general jurisdiction. The process for obtaining accreditation from GANHRI is currently in its incipient stages pending the approval by the Senate of Law 382/2018 concerning the amendment of the law governing the People's Advocate Institution. In view of this development, this article undertakes a forward-looking approach by analysing RIHR's current efforts on business and human rights as well as any foreseeable changes.
This article analyses two types of actions in order to observe the extent to which the RIHR has assumed its role in promoting access to remedy in business and human rights cases. According to the 2010 Edinburgh Declaration of the International Co-ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), the participation of NHRIs in the remedial process may be either direct or indirect. As stated above however, the RIHR lacks a complaints mechanism. For this reason, this article will adopt a forward-looking analysis by looking at the complaint mechanism of the People's Advocate Institution (PAI) to ascertain whether this new procedure complies with the vision for NHRIs under the UNGPs. As will be shown, the field of business and human rights has not been at the top of the RIHR's agenda. Worryingly, the forthcoming transfer of NHRI status to PAI may in fact represent a step back in this sense.
The Paris Principles (PP) dictate that national human rights institutions may directly participate in providing access to justice by hearing and considering complaints. While this does not fall in the competences of the RIHR, it is interesting to analyse whether its successor's complaints mechanism is aligned with the PPs in its current form. According to the current legislative proposal, the PAI would have the authority to decide over complaints alleging any violation of human rights but only to the extent that the respondent is a public authority, including public companies (see Art. 11 (c)). Should it satisfy itself that a right has been breached, it may request the public authority to take compensatory measures and it may award reparation.
Restricting the complaints mechanism's jurisdiction to cover only public authorities severely limits its usefulness in business and human rights cases. It means that victims of corporate human rights abuses by private companies will not able to enjoy a routinized alternative to instituting legal proceedings. This limited jurisdictional reach also obstructs the fulfilment of the institution's role as a mediatory or conciliatory body in business and human rights cases. While it is commendable that the PAI may handle cases alleging violations of any human rights, the ratione personae jurisdiction is too limited to foster the achievement of its envisioned purposes under the UNGPs. Extending the scope of the complaints mechanism to cover private persons as offenders would enable its alignment with both the Paris Principles and the UNGPs. It would also in all likeliness lead towards the bettering of its accreditation status under the GANHRI (the RIHR was previously given C-status).
As to indirect participation, the RIHR has only marginally addressed the field of business and human rights in its activities. For instance, in 2014 and 2015, it has conducted research and organised debates based on the UNGPs, the European Strategy for CSR and the Action Plan of the European Network of NHRIs. These debates included talks of a national action plan in which to set out the priorities of the Romanian government in this field. The RIHR has further held separate conferences on business and human rights (such as the one held together with the UNESCO Office for Human Rights, Democracy, Peace and Tolerance) or as part of its annual conferences (see the 2016 conference where business and human rights was treated as a new challenge to the field of human rights). The RIHR is also a founding member of the CLARITY project alongside eleven other national human rights institutions from the EU. This project aims to raise awareness and enhance the general public's knowledge about their fundamental rights and related enforcement mechanisms. Since March 2018, CLARITY has begun work on a project focusing on access to remedy improvements in business and human rights cases. On the other hand, the activities of the People's Advocate Institution do not currently encompass the field of business and human rights at all. This means that the sporadic involvement of the Romanian NHRI in the field of business and human rights will in all likelihood diminish in the future.
To conclude, the field of business and human rights has not been at the top of the RIHR's agenda in its almost thirty years of activity. Nor is this likely to change under the auspices of its successor – the People's Advocate Institution. The latter institution does not have a mandate to handle human rights complaints against private companies, and the field of business and human rights is not in its sight. This forthcoming transfer of responsibility may therefore, at least in the short run, not be a good news for access to remedy in business and human rights cases in Romania.
National Human Rights Institutions as Gateways to Remedy under the UNGPs: The South African Human Rights Commission (Part.2) - By Alexandru Tofan
The South African Constitution provides in Chapter Nine for the creation of several institutions meant to strengthen constitutional democracy. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is one of these institutions. Its constitutional mandate grants it authority to promote, protect, monitor and investigate non-compliance with human rights in South Africa (see s.181 (1) (b) jo. s.184 (1)-(4)). Alongside this constitutional basis, the SAHRC enjoys a legislative mandate in that it was established by the Human Rights Commission Act No 54 of 1994. This act was later repealed by the South African Human Rights Commission Act No 40 of 2013 ('the Act'), which entered into force on 5 September 2014 and which currently governs the Commission jointly with the constitution. This act details the Commission's functions and powers in sections 13 and 14. The SAHRC is empowered to make recommendations to state organs for the adoption of measures for the promotion and observance of human rights, undertake studies, request information, develop and conduct educational programmes, review and propose government policies and legislation relating to human rights, monitor implementation and compliance, and undertake investigations into allegations of human rights violations inter alia (see s.13 and 14 of the Act). The SAHRC is based in Johannesburg but it has regional offices in the other eight South African provinces as well.
This article analyses two types of action in order to observe the extent to which the SAHRC has assumed its role in promoting access to remedy in business and human rights cases. According to the 2010 Edinburgh Declaration of the International Co-ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), the participation of NHRIs in the remedial process may be either direct or indirect. As will be shown, the South African Human Rights Commission has adopted a far-reaching and comprehensive approach to both direct and indirect participation in the provision of access to remedy.
As to direct participation, the SAHRC's mandate to receive, investigate and provide redress for human rights violations is governed both by the constitution and the Act. Section 184 (1) (b) of the Constitution dictates that the Commission must promote the protection of human rights while Section 184 (2) (a)-(b) states that it has powers to investigate and to take steps to secure appropriate redress where human rights have been violated. The Act further details that the Commission may resolve any dispute or rectify any act or omission emanating from or constituting a violation of or threat to any human rights (see s.14 (a) and (b)). It can do so by mediation, conciliation or a negotiation endeavour. The SAHRC published its updated complaints handling procedures on 1 January 2018. These reaffirm the Commission's broad mandate in that they state that the SAHRC is competent to investigate any alleged violation of human rights whether upon receipt of a complaint or ex officio (see Article 3 (1)). Complaints may treat businesses as the offender without limitations as to the type of company or violation. The SAHRC may also institute legal proceedings in its own name or on behalf of a person or a group or class of persons (see s.13 (3) (b)). The case load of the Commission averaged 4633 complaints per year between 2012/13 – 2016/17 (see Table 1).
Under the UNGPs, NHRIs are supposed to offer an alternative to instituting legal proceedings. This is reflected in the practice of the SAHRC, which focuses on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms such as mediation, conciliation and negotiation. A trends analysis by the Commission has revealed the fact that ADR mechanisms have a high rate of successful resolution. For the period 2016-2017, 90% of the complaints addressed through ADR mechanisms were successfully resolved (see here at page 42 and 43). For this reason, the SAHRC's approach to handling complaints relies first on negotiation and conciliation, and, if these fail, the Commission attempts to mediate the matter. Making use of the South African courts becomes in this sense the last resort. Moreover, the Commission has taken a preventive approach to the handling of grievances by conducting targeted investigations on systemic issues (see, e.g., the SAHRC's national hearing on the underlying socio-economic challenges of mining-affected communities in South Africa). This extensive report does not only identify and analyse the underlying issues, but it also includes concrete recommendations as to what stakeholders could do to ensure access to remedy. For instance, the report states that it is worrisome that some mining companies do not have complaint monitoring and resolution mechanisms in place as per the UNGPs (see the Report on page 79). This practice resonates with the vision for NHRIs under the UNGPs, which note that gaps in the provision of remedy could be filled by mediation-based, adjudicative or other culturally appropriate and rights-compatible non-judicial mechanisms. Alongside its complaints procedure, the Commission further promoted access to remedy by acting as an amicus in various business and human rights cases (see for instance the case of University of Stellenbosch Legal Aid Clinic and Others v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others).This, paired with its far-reaching complaints mechanisms, shows that the SAHRC plays a much wider role than the Dutch NHRI in providing direct access to remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses.
As to indirect participation, the South African Human Rights Commission is mandated to promote respect for human rights, monitor and assess the observance of human rights, carry out research and educate inter alia. In terms of business and human rights, the Commission has comprehensively grappled with these duties. The SAHRC participated in multiple international conferences devoted to discussing the role of NHRIs in the field of business and human rights. For instance, the Commission was one of the institutions that participated in the Global Alliance of NHRIs' 2010 conference on the role of NHRIs in business and human rights. Similarly, in 2011 the Commission participated in the Network of African NHRIs in business and human rights, which resulted in the Yaoundé Declaration. This affirmed the collective commitment of NHRIs to strengthen their capacity on business and human rights and to address related human rights abuses. Nationally, the SAHRC carried out multiple awareness raising and educational initiatives. These include the hosting of the 2013 Business and Transparency Forum, the 2015 roundtable discussion on 'Children's Rights and Business Principles', the 2016 conference 'Access to Justice: Creating Access to Effective Remedies for Victims of Business Related Human Rights Violations', and the 2018 'Business and Human Rights Dialogue'. The SAHRC focused on business and human rights as a key strategic focus area both in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 (see here at page 10). In March 2015, the SAHRC together with the Danish Institute for Human Rights published the 'Human Rights and Business Country Guide for South Africa', a highly comprehensive guide tackling all aspects of this field in South Africa. This guide notably includes information under each rights area about the remedy mechanisms available to redress violations and how these mechanisms can be bettered. In sum, the SAHRC's indirect participation in the provision of access to remedy is quite extensive. It has been undertaking capacity-building exercises, educational programmes and it has established itself at the forefront of the business and human rights field in South Africa.
In conclusion, the South African Human Rights Commission has fully assumed the role envisioned for it under the UNGPs. As an NHRI, the Commission provides a holistic complaints procedure that functions on the full spectrum of human rights and regardless of the type of company. Alongside this, it has undertaken numerous educational programmes, published reports and conducted awareness raising initiatives that have shone a light on business-related human rights abuses in South Africa.
National Human Rights Institutions as Gateways to Remedy under the UNGPs: The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (Part.1) - By Alexandru Tofan
The national human rights institution of the Netherlands is the College voor de Rechten van de Mens (i.e. 'the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights'). It was established on 1 October 2012 with the entering into force of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights Act of 24 November 2011 as supplemented by the Explanatory Memorandum (EP). It is an independent public body whose mission is to promote, monitor and protect human rights in practice, policy and legislation (see NIHR Act s.1 (3)). For these purposes, it enjoys a wide competence that spans the full breadth of human rights whether stemming from national or international legislation (see EP at page 7). The Institute's duties include conducting investigations, reporting and making recommendations, advising, providing information, encouraging research, pressing for the observance of internationally recognised human rights, and assessing any complaints alleging violations that it may have received (see NIHR Act s.3). The types of complaints it may entertain are nevertheless rather limited – the Institute may only investigate claims alleging discrimination or unequal treatment (see NIHR Act s.10 (1)).
This article analyses two types of actions in order to assess the extent to which the Institute has assumed its role in promoting access to remedy in business and human rights cases. According to the 2010 Edinburgh Declaration of the International Co-ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), the participation of NHRIs in the remedial process may be either direct or indirect. As will be shown, the Dutch NHRI is envisioned as an institution that leans more on indirect rather than direct participation in providing access to remedy.
In terms of direct participation, the complaints procedure of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights has a rather narrow scope. Section 10 of the Act stipulates that the Institute may conduct investigations into allegations of violations in so far as they relate to discrimination or unequal treatment under the Equal Treatment Act, the Equal Treatment (Men and Women) Act or Article 646, Book 7 of the Dutch Civil Code. Although the complaint may be submitted against any type of Dutch-based company (see S. 10 (2) (a)–(e)), the limited subject matter jurisdiction prevents the Institute from being a one-stop shop for business-related human rights abuses. This is especially true for transnational corporate misconduct, which normally entails cross-cutting/intersectional human rights abuses. In the same vein, the Institute may only bring a legal action before the courts if this claim relates to discrimination under the aforementioned legislation (see S.13). The Memorandum attached to the Act explains that '[…] [g]iven the legal protection already available in the Netherlands and the possibility of lodging a complaint with an ombudsman the government sees no good reason to give the Institute its own jurisdiction to hear legal actions in the broad field of human rights […]' and that '[…] [i]n response to a complaint, the National Ombudsman may investigate whether or not the state has acted properly […] To prevent overlapping it is therefore undesirable for this responsibility to be given to the Institute […]'. The National Ombudsman may nevertheless only exercise authority over public bodies (see Article 1a). In turn, this means that complaints lodged against private actors arguing violations of human rights other than discrimination escape both the Institute and the National Ombudsman. While it is true that the general legal protection available in the Netherlands would apply in those cases, the role of the NHRI as a complementary grievance mechanism is in this way restricted. Under the UNGPs, NHRIs are supposed to offer an alternative to instituting legal proceedings. The rationale behind this is that bringing a legal action may involve many obstacles for the victim such as prohibitive costs, imbalance of expertise between parties, lack of standing for foreign nationals, and protracted duration. Conversely, an NHRI complaints mechanism is perceived as more accessible, expeditious and culturally-appropriate.[1] The limited subject matter jurisdiction of the Institute in handling complaints may therefore be seen as impeding its full direct participation in providing access to remedy.
As to indirect participation, one of the main tasks of the Institute is to promote and monitor human rights (see S.3). The Institute has a rather robust presence in the area of business and human rights in the Netherlands and performs an important role in promoting human rights in this policy area. For instance, the Institute drew up a comprehensive response to the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights put forward by the Dutch government in December 2013. This response entailed an in-depth examination of the plan's compatibility with the UNGPs as well as advice and recommendations for its improvement. Notably, it included a rights-based approach in that it looked at the issue of access to remedy from the victims' perspectives. The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights further advised the government on the proposed law on child labour in supply chains, the human rights implications of the new model bilateral investment treaty, and it partook in the discussions regarding the national sector covenants (e.g. the Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile). It further participates in the annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights alongside other stakeholders. Furthermore, the cross-cutting nature of business-related human rights abuses means that they permeate the Institute's work in other policy areas. For instance, the Institute's work on the right to housing implies the usage of the UNGPs as a framework to ascertain the human rights responsibilities of housing corporations. In the same vein, one of the four themes from the Institute's Strategy Plan for 2016-2019 is discrimination and stereotyping in the labour market. This necessarily involves an assessment of the human rights obligations of corporations. The Institute has therefore assumed a firm standing in terms of indirect participation in the implementation of the UNGPs. It promotes education, monitors human rights implementation, undertakes capacity-building exercises, advises and issues recommendations. Nevertheless, one cannot help but notice the absence of business and human rights from the Institute's Strategic Plan for 2016-2019.
To conclude, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights seems to have only partially assumed the role envisioned for it under the UNGPs as a national human rights institution. On the one hand, it did establish itself as a focal point for expertise on human rights issues in the Netherlands and has taken important steps to promote and advise on issues of business and human rights. On the other hand, a broader mandate would conform more to the second leg of the Paris Principles and to the spirit and aim of the Third Pillar of the UNGPs – the protection of human rights by receiving, investigating and resolving complaints.
[1] UN Human Rights Council, 'Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises – Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights' (7 April 2008) A/HRC/8/5 at page 25.
National Human Rights Institutions as Gateways to Remedy under the UNGPs: Introduction - By Alexandru Tofan
Human rights require meaningful enforcement mechanisms. This idea stands at the foundation of the United Nations' approach to handling corporate human rights abuses.[1] An individual that has suffered a human rights harm must freely enjoy access to justice in order to seek the reparation of that harm. The third pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) focuses exclusively on this need to secure access to effective remedy for victims. The remedial process described therein comprises both the procedural aspects of obtaining a remedy for an adverse human rights impact and the substantive outcome of those procedures. This process demands the involvement of all actors including governments, corporations and civil society.
The commentary to Principle 27 of the UNGPs notes the particularly important role that national human rights institutions (NHRI) play in providing access to effective remedy. In his 2008 Report, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights referred to them as the 'lynchpins' of his framework's entire system of grievance mechanisms. The reasons justifying this optimistic outlook are not difficult to uncover. NHRIs are state-based but independent institutions that have a constitutional or legislative mandate to protect and promote human rights.[2] They are focal points of expertise on human rights and they enjoy a presumption of neutrality and objectivity. Their unique positioning at the crossroads between governments, corporations and civil society further enables them to behave as crucial links between these actors. In terms of providing access to remedy, the 2010 Edinburgh Declaration envisions the participation of NHRIs as either direct or indirect. Direct participation refers to the handling of complaints relating to business and human rights cases. An NHRI may for instance assume the role of an investigator, mediator or conciliator. Indirect participation on the other hand refers to promoting education, monitoring, capacity-building, advising and issuing recommendations inter alia. In this sense, the NHRI becomes a centre for expertise on human rights and a hub for the exchange of information. The question nevertheless remains if and to what degree NHRIs have in practice assumed this role in the context of business and human rights.
This five-part series looks at the extent to which the the Access to Remedy Pillar of the UNGPs has been fulfilled through the daily practice of the Dutch, South African, Romanian, Australian and Indian NHRIs. Ultimately, this series hopes to unravel whether the chosen NHRIs have assumed the role envisioned for them under the Principles and the differing ways in which they may have done so.
[1] Jonathan Drimmer and Lisa J Laplante, 'The Third Pillar: Remedies, Reparations, and the Ruggie Principles' in Jena Martin and Karen E Bravo (eds), The Business and Human Rights Landscape: Moving Forward, Looking Back (CUP 2016) 318 and op. cit. 12.
[2] UNDP and UN OHCHR, UNDP-OHCHR Toolkit for Collaboration with National Human Rights Institutions (2010) 2.
Doing Business Right – Monthly Report – November 2018 - By Shamistha Selvaratnam
5. December 2018 Antoine Duval (0)
Editor's note: Shamistha Selvaratnam is a LLM Candidate of the Advanced Masters of European and International Human Rights Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands and an intern with the Doing Business Right project. Prior to commencing the LLM, she worked as a business and human rights solicitor in Australia where she specialised in promoting business respect for human rights through engagement with policy, law and practice.
This report compiles all relevant news, events and materials on Doing Business Right based on the coverage provided on our twitter feed @DoinBizRight and on various websites. You are invited to contribute to this compilation via the comments section below, feel free to add links to important cases, documents and articles we may have overlooked.
CHRB
On 12 November 2018, the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark released the results of its 2018 ranking of 101 companies operating in the apparel, agricultural products and extractives industries. The results show that implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in these sectors is still weak (following the 2017 results) with the average overall score for 2018 being 27% (an increase of 9 percentage points from last year), demonstrating a lack of respect for human rights. The Report identifies that due diligence is a key weakness of the companies that were reviewed, with 40% of companies scoring no points with respect to the due diligence indicator. Other issues identified were the lack of a strong commitment to ensuring that there are 'living wages' paid to those working in company operations and supply chains and the failure to meet expectations with respect to preventing child labour in supply chains. Read the 2018 Key Findings Report here.
Australian MSA passes both houses of Parliament
On 29 November 2018, the Modern Slavery Bill 2018 (Cth) passed both houses of the Australian Parliament. Once enacted, the Act will require Australian entities and entities carrying on a business in Australia that have a consolidated revenue of at least $100 million to prepare a Modern Slavery Statement covering mandatory criteria. Criteria that such entities will have to report on include the risks of modern slavery practices in their operations and supply chains and the actions they take to assess and address those risks, including due diligence and remediation processes. It is likely that the Act will come into effect on 1 January 2019 and accordingly the first Modern Slavery Statements will be due by 1 January 2021. More...
The Proposed Binding Business and Human Rights Treaty: Summary of the Fourth Session of the Working Group - By Shamistha Selvaratnam
5. November 2018 Antoine Duval (0)
Editor's note: Shamistha Selvaratnam is a LLM Candidate of the Advanced Masters of European and International Human Rights Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Prior to commencing the LLM, she worked as a business and human rights solicitor in Australia where she specialised in promoting business respect for human rights through engagement with policy, law and practice.
From 15 to 19 October 2018, the fourth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights took place in Geneva. 92 UN States participated in the session along with a range of stakeholders, including intergovernmental organisations, business organisations, special procedures of the Human Rights Council and national human rights institutions. The focus of the session was on the zero draft of the proposed binding business and human rights treaty (from herein referred to as the 'treaty').
This blog sets out the key views and suggestions made by those in attendance with respect to the treaty during the session.[1] Issues and areas of concern raised at the session generally aligned with the critiques raised by commentators on the first draft of the treaty (which are set out in a previous blog). More...
The Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on Human Rights: Changing the Paradigm from 'Opportunity to Affect' to 'Responsibility to Respect' – By Benjamin Thompson
24. August 2018 Antoine Duval (0)
Editor's note: Benjamin Thompson is a PhD candidate in business and human rights at Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. His PhD research deals with the effects of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights' endorsement of operational level, non-judicial grievance mechanisms and their role in improving access to remedy. He recently published an article for Utrecht Law Review's Special Issue on Accountability of Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Abuses which discussed the roles the new Dutch multistakeholder initiative with the Dutch banking sector might play in improving banks' performance with respect to human rights.
In November of last year the Asser Institute offered me the opportunity to take part in a roundtable on the Dutch Banking Sector Agreement (DBA), as part of their Doing Business Right Project. Signed in December 2017, the DBA is a collaboration between the banking sector, the government, trade unions and civil society organisations (CSOs), all based within the Netherlands: the first of its kind. It focuses on banks' responsibility to respect human rights, as stipulated in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (OECD Guidelines), within their corporate lending and project finance activities. The DBA has been something of a hot topic in business and human rights circles. However, it has not yet published a public monitoring report, making any evaluation of its performance at this stage difficult. During the roundtable, we discussed the role of the DBA as a potential means to improve the practices of Dutch banks with respect to human rights. A key challenge identified from this discussion, as reported here, was the various 'interpretive ambiguities inherent in the UNGPs'. A key conclusion was that 'further dialogue is required... to ascertain what conduct on the part of the banks is consistent with international obligations'.
This is not a unique conclusion to arise from multistakeholder discussions on banks and human rights; the discussion often focuses on what financial institutions are required to do to meet their responsibility to respect human rights under the UNGPs. So much so that questions concerning implementation or evaluation are often left by the wayside. As a result, when presenting my research on the DBA for the Utrecht Centre of Accountability and Liability Law's Conference on 'Accountability and International Business Operations', published here, I decided to focus on how the DBA had responded to those key points of friction where there is the greatest disagreement between how different stakeholders conceive banks' human rights responsibilities. This blog post seeks to build on this previous entry, hopefully without too much repetition. More...
Human Rights Protection and the FIFA World Cup: A Never-Ending Match? - By Daniela Heerdt
27. June 2018 Antoine Duval (0)
Editor's note: Daniela Heerdt is a PhD candidate at Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. Her PhD research deals with the establishment of responsibility and accountability for adverse human rights impacts of mega-sporting events, with a focus on FIFA World Cups and Olympic Games. She recently published an article in the International Sports Law Journal that discusses to what extent the revised bidding and hosting regulations by FIFA, the IOC and UEFA strengthen access to remedy for mega-sporting events-related human rights violations.
The 21st FIFA World Cup is currently underway. Billions of people around the world follow the matches with much enthusiasm and support. For the time being, it almost seems forgotten that in the final weeks leading up to the events, critical reports on human rights issues related to the event piled up. This blog explains why addressing these issues has to start well in advance of the first ball being kicked and cannot end when the final match has been played. More...
International Arbitration of Business and Human Rights Disputes: Part 2 - Advantages and challenges - By Catherine Dunmore
13. December 2017 Antoine Duval (0)
Editor's Note: Catherine Dunmore is an experienced international lawyer who practised international arbitration for multinational law firms in London and Paris. She recently received her LL.M. from the University of Toronto and her main fields of interest include international criminal law and human rights. Since October 2017, she is part of the team of the Doing Business Right project at the Asser Institute.
At the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights from 27-29 November 2017 in Geneva, discussions focused on the central theme of Realizing Access to Effective Remedy. With an increasing focus on this third pillar of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a working group of international law, human rights and conflict management specialists (Claes Cronstedt, Jan Eijsbouts, Adrienne Margolis, Steven Ratner, Martijn Scheltema and Robert C. Thompson) has spent several years exploring the use of arbitration to resolve business and human rights disputes. This culminated in the publication on 13 February 2017 of a proposal for International Business and Human Rights Arbitration. On 17 August 2017, a follow-up Questions and Answers document was published by the working group to address the principal questions raised about the proposal during the three-year consultation with stakeholders. Now, a drafting team is being assembled, chaired by Bruno Simma, to prepare a set of rules designed specifically for international business and human rights arbitration (the Hague International Business and Human Rights Arbitration Rules) in consultation with a wide range of business and human rights stakeholders. Once drafted, the rules will be offered to the Permanent Court of Arbitration and other international arbitration institutions and could be used in arbitration proceedings managed by parties on an ad hoc basis.
Part 1 of this three-part blog series gave an overview introduction to the proposal for international business and human rights arbitration. This Part 2 focuses on (1) the potential advantages of using international arbitration to resolve such disputes, as well as (2) the substantial challenges the proposal will face in practice. Part 3 will then provide a case study of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh's binding arbitration process. More...
International Arbitration of Business and Human Rights Disputes: Part 1 - Introducing the proposal - By Catherine Dunmore
Part 1 of this three-part blog series will give an overview introduction to the proposal for international business and human rights arbitration. It will discuss particularly (1) considerations for the drafters of new arbitration rules for business and human rights disputes. Part 2 will focus on the potential advantages of using international arbitration to resolve such disputes, as well as the substantial challenges the proposal will face in practice. Part 3 will then provide a case study of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh's binding arbitration process. More...
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Leptopelis viridis es una especie de anfibios de la familia Arthroleptidae.
Habita en Benín, Burkina Faso, Camerún, República Democrática del Congo, Costa de Marfil, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Níger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leona, Togo y, posiblemente, República Centroafricana, Chad, Malí y Sudán.
Su hábitat natural incluye sabanas secas, sabanas húmedas, zonas de arbustos tropicales o subtropicales, áreas arbustivas, praderas tropicales o subtropicales a baja altitud, praderas húmedas o inundadas en alguna estación, marismas de agua fresca, tierras de pastos, jardines rurales, estanques y canales.
Referencias
Rödel, M.-O. & Schiøtz, A. 2004. Leptopelis viridis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Consultado el 22 de julio de 2007.
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New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2023: Recovery and Resilience
The 11th international scientific conference "New Challenges of Economic and Business Development – 2019: Incentives for Sustainable Economic Growth" organized by the Faculty of Business, Management and Economics (University of Latvia) will take place in Riga (Latvia) between the 16th and 18th of May, 2019.
The conference is devoted to the incentives for economic growth. Effective incentives including business incentives, financial or non-financial benefits, state and local tax incentives etc. can help to stimulate sustainable economic growth of economy. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform/opportunity for scholars, researchers and professionals from different disciplinary backgrounds to meet, exchange ideas and discuss challenges and prospects for economic and business development.
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Contemporary Management and Business Innovations
Data Challenges in Business and Economics
Financial Services, Accounting and Finance
Human Development and Efficiency
Industries and Productivity
International Economics and Globalization
Labour Markets and Mobility of Labour
Life Quality and Income Inequality
Marketing and Brand Management
Regional Development and Public Governance: Europe's Economic Future
Conference Organizing Committee
Chair: Dr. Inna Romanova, Vice Dean for Research, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Gundars Berzins, Dean, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Andrejs Cekuls, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Margarita Dunska, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Janis Priede, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Ramona Rupeika-Apoga, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Biruta Sloka, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Dr. Erika Sumilo, Professor, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Evija Ansonska, Public Relations Manager, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Liene Berzina, Public Relations Specialist, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Sofija Kristele, Executive Director, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Kristine Liepina, Dean Assistant, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, University of Latvia
Chairperson, Dr. Inna Romanova, Associate Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Jean David Avenel, Professor, University Paris-Est Creteil (France)
Dr. Signe Balina, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Alan Barrell, Professor, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Dr. Frank Bezzina, Associate Professor, University of Malta (Malta)
Dr. Gundars Berzins, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Andrejs Cekuls, Associate Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Rasa Daugeliene, Associate Professor, Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)
Dr. Vida Davidaviciene, Professor, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania)
Dr. Tomasz Dorozynski, Assistant Professor, University of Lodz (Poland)
Dr. Ksenija Dumicic, Professor, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Dr. Margarita Dunska, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Nicolas Gavoille, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Latvia)
Dr. Simon Grima, University of Malta (Malta)
Dr. Arto Haveri, Professor, Tampere University (Finland)
Dr. Mihails Hazans, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Gundars Kaupins, Professor, Boise State University (USA)
Dr. Jan Koernert, Professor, University of Greifswald (Germany)
Dr. habil. Natalia Kuznetsova, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia)
Dr. Pierpaolo Marano, Associate Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
Dr. Marco Menichetti, Professor, University of Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Dr. Eda Merisalu, Professor, Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia)
Dr. Josef Neuert, Professor, University of Salzburg (Austria)
Dr. Tiiu Paas, Professor, Tartu University (Estonia)
Dr. Gunnar Prause, Professor, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Dr. Janis Priede, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Alari Purju, Professor, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Dr. Trond Randoy, Professor, University of Agder (Norway)
Dr. Jurgita Raudeliuniene, Professor, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania)
Dr. Ramona Rupeika-Apoga, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Lilita Seimuskane, Assistant Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Bruno S. Sergi, Professor, University of Messina (Italy), Harvard University (USA)
Dr. Biruta Sloka, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Baiba Savrina, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Ligita Simanskiene, Professor, Klaipeda University (Lithuania)
Dr. Irina Solovjova, Associate Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. habil. Inna Steinbuka, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Erika Sumilo, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr. Eleftherios Thalassinos, Professor, University of Piraeus (Greece)
Dr. Osman Titrek, Professor, Sakarya University (Turkey)
Dr. Inesa Voroncuka, Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia)
Dr.habil. Renata Walczak, Professor, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Keynote speekers
Prof. Dr. Marco J. Menichetti
University of Liechtenstein
Marco Menichetti is a full university professor at the University of Liechtenstein since 2001. He holds the Chair in Business Administration, Banking and Financial Management at the Institute for Finance, the position of the Academic Director of several study programs (MSc in Finance, EMBA in International Asset Management & MBA in Corporate Finance & Accounting) as well as the Chair of the University Senate. Furthermore he is active in accreditation agencies and was Project Coordinator of numerous Erasmus Mobility Projects.
Prior he was Assistant-Professor at the Department of Money and Finance at the University of Trier (GER, 1995 - 2000). He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in International Financial Management at the University of Constance (GER). Marco Menichetti's research and teaching expertise includes Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Exchange Rate Risk Management as well as Sustainable Finance. In these fields, he is a popular speaker on conferences. The combination of own practical experience and academic knowledge allows him to serve as a board member, as a management coach and consultant to various institutions. Marco Menichetti profits from a substantial network with many universities and corporations in Europe and Asia.
Prof. Tamar Almor
College of Management Academic Studies
Prof. Tamar Almor is the Dean of the School for Behavioral Sciences and the Dept. of Psychology at the College of Management Academic Studies. Previously, she established and ran the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the School of Business Administration where she also served as Vice Dean. Subsequently, she served as Dean of Students for about 12,000 students and in this capacity founded the Centre for Academic Accessibility, established to advance students with special needs, special groups, and people who need extra help and attention to earn a degree. As a result, the College of Management has become one of the leading academic institutions in Israel on accessibility.
Her research focuses on international business strategy and global entrepreneurship, subjects which she teaches at the School of Behavioral Sciences, the School of Business and the School of Design and Innovation. She has more than 25 years of experience in teaching courses and programs in Israel and overseas related to international strategy, global innovation and entrepreneurship. She has taught these subjects as a guest lecturer at several institutions in Singapore, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands. She also works as a consultant and coach for executives at top Israeli and foreign companies.
She publishes extensively in leading journals such as Management International Review, International Business Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Research Policy, the Journal of International Management, and Thunderbird International Business Review among others. She has been cited according to Google Citations over 1,400 times. She is a member of various Editorial Boards, including Management International Review, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Competitiveness Review: An International Business Journal, and the Journal of Knowledge Management.
Prof. Tamar Almor earned her Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University in International Business. She has an undergraduate degree in Social Work and a graduate degree in Organizational Behavior.
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10:00 – 15:00 The Conference Forum INTERFRAME (in Latvian)
Faculty of Business, Management and Economics,
Aspazijas bulv. 5, Room 324
15:00 – 17:00 Registration for the conference (University of Latvia, Jelgavas Str.1, 7th floor)
16:00 – 18:00 Plenary session (University of Latvia, Jelgavas Str.1, 7th floor)
18:00 – 20:30 Welcome cocktail and networking
Venue: University of Latvia, Jelgavas Str.1, 7th floor
Venue: University of Latvia, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, Aspazijas bulv. 5
From 09:00 Registration
09:30 – 11:00 Parallel sessions – Part I
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break, Room 324
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel sessions – Part II
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Cafeteria
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel sessions – Part III
14:00 – 17:00 The Research Workshop in Business and Finance, Room 322
16:00 – 17:30 Parallel sessions – Part IV
18:00 – 21:00 Reception (by invitations)
Venue: BIBLIOTĒKA №1 Tērbatas street 2, Riga
Field trip to Jūrmala (10.00 - 17.00) will start and end at Faculty of Business, Management and Economics, Aspazijas blvd. 5.
Meeting time 10.00
11:00 Jūrmala Open-Air Museum
This is the largest and the most inviting museum in Jūrmala. Located at the foot of the dune "Ragakāpa", the Jūrmala Open Air Museum is an attractive way to discover the daily life of fishermen at the turn of the 20th century. Here, you can climb on the decks of two authentic fishing boats and visit authentic houses of fishermen.
12.00 Jūrmala sightseeing (walking excursion)
13:00 Kristaps Morberg's Summer Cottage
The house was built around 1883 and belonged to the largest building contractor, the architect and patron Kristaps Morbergs. The summer house is a monument of neogothic wooden architecture. It was expanded and improved up until 1914.
The current owner of the building is the University of Latvia. A tour through the restored property of the building contractor gives information on the history of the summer house, and the talent and the heritage of its owner.
14:00 Lunch, Restaurant Simmer
16:00 Bus to Riga
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Piyush Goyal says, India as an economy in 2047 can be seen as powerhouse driving global growth
News Agencies | Updated on: 11 September 2022, 9:35 IST
Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.
Assessing the impact of the foundational changes and structural transformation that has happened in the last few years, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimated that India in 2047 will be a USD 35-45 Trillion economy, taking the country into the league of developed nations, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said on Sunday.
India as an economy in 2047 can be seen as a powerhouse driving global growth, Goyal said as he invited the business community of Southern California to invest in India.
"Accessing the impact of the foundational changes and the structural transformation that has happened in the last few years, preparing India to rapidly grow. CII estimates India in 2047 to be a 35-45 trillion economy, taking us into the league of developed nations, a prosperous country, a country that cares for every single citizen of the country," Goyal said while addressing the business community of Southern California.
Goyal said, "We are proud to be the mother of all democracies. We are proud to have a vibrant judiciary, rule of law, robust media, and transparent government systems. India as an economy in 2047 can be seen as a powerhouse driving global growth."
"I can see an economy which at least on a business and social case, a 30 trillion USD economy, possibly as, CII estimated recently. Working on the foundation that has been prepared over the last few years," he said.
Union Minister invited the business community of Southern California to invest in India calling it a golden period and the next 25 years of amritKaal as a crucial time for the country.
"As we embark on our journey towards making India a developed nation, it is an important time for us to reflect on where we see India in the next 25 years," he said.
Goyal went on to say that the next 25 years of Amrit Kaal, as articulated by PM Modi, are going to define India's growth story.
India has the advantage of demographic dividend. Our youth, the aspirational people that we have in India is the biggest opportunity & each one of them is connected to the world with access to the Internet.
"This is a golden time to invest in India. I invite you all to be a part of India's journey towards becoming a developed nation. I urge you all to resolve to gift Made in India products, to gift handlooms, handicrafts, khadi made by the artisans of India," Goyal said calling the business community to be a part of the nation's journey towards being a developed country.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal is on a six-day visit to San Francisco and Los Angeles to attend the first Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ministerial meeting.
The IPEF ministerial summit in Los Angeles concluded on Friday with a consensus from the partner countries on ministerial statements for each of the four IPEF pillars: Trade; Supply Chains; Clean Economy; and Fair Economy.
"Fruitful discussions had been held over the course of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Ministerial meeting to bring together a group of like-minded, rules-based, transparent countries with a shared interest in an open Indo-Pacific region," said Goyal after concluding the meeting.
Secretary of Commerce Gina M Raimondo and United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai hosted counterparts from the 13 Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) partner countries - representing over 40 per cent of the global economy - at the first official in-person Ministerial meeting.
IPEF, a group of 13 countries, is a multilateral economic framework. Since its launch in May launch, IPEF countries have engaged in intensive discussions to scope out each pillar of the Framework.
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) was launched jointly by the USA and other partner countries of the Indo-Pacific region on May 23, 2022, in Tokyo.
India joined the IPEF and Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the launch event along with US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and other leaders from partner countries. Previously, virtual Ministerial Meetings were held immediately after the launch on May 23 and thereafter from July 26-27, 2022.
India is committed to a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific Region and would work towards deepening economic cooperation among partners for the growth and prosperity of the region.
The framework is inclusive and allows flexibility to partner countries to associate with pillars based on their respective priorities, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in a statement.
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India nuclear deal sparks debate
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Bob Moon: There's been a raucous debate playing out the past several hours at the Indian parliament in New Delhi:
Indian Official: Would you keep quiet! Your leader will be speaking, let him take up his points!
Critics are pushing for a no-confidence vote against the Indian government sparked by a controversial nuclear deal with the Bush Administration. The pending deal would open India's potentially lucrative reactor market to American companies.
Reporter Mehul Srivastava joins us from the Indian capital. Why has this risen to the level of a no-confidence vote for the government?
Mehul Srivastava: Well, the government here in India was a coalition government. It was joined by its communist allies, who had about a tenth of the seats in Parliament. And the communists in India decried this as a way for the Indian government to fall into what they call American imperialism. The Indian government would be dependent on the American government for continued uranium for its nuclear reactor — something that they opposed.
Moon: Do they see this as American companies trying to monopolize the nuclear trade with India?
Srivastava: Well, they definitely see this as an opportunity for American companies to get involved in something that's incredibly sensitive and very central to India's energy and national security. So that's part of the distrust.
Moon: Is there a chance that U.S. companies might be shut out if this vote turns out to be a no-confidence vote?
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Moon: Mehul Srivastava in New Delhi. Thanks for joining us.
Srivastava: Yeah, thanks for having me.
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A pin-happy Vernon Hills, led by Garry Gurevich, and Max Accettura, rolled over host Maine West, 54-30, Friday night in Central Suburban League wrestling action in Des Plaines inside the Warriors' new field house.
The Cougars received 6-point pins throughout their lineup, plus a forfeit, to claim the CSL season opener over the Warriors (0-3-0, 0-1-0), who were even with their guests at one time (30-30) before coach Jesse Wolter's team took control for good with four consecutive falls.
"We didn't know what to expect after losing three starters from a year ago, two of which were potential state qualifiers, and another who had a very good chance of bringing home a state medal," began Wolter. "But we did so much better at our own Thanksgiving 15-team tournament, finishing second overall, with Gurevich and Accettura each winning their weight class, and two others earning second-place medals.
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Q: Cannot install 64 bit Microsoft Visio 2013 after uninstalling Office 2010 32 bit I have Windows 7 64 bit. Few days ago, I installed 32 bit Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visio 2010.
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You are here: Home1 / Latest News2 / News3 / Human sperm is not anything like it was previously believed
11/27/2020 /in News /by Redaccion Marketing
Human sperm is not anything like it was previously believed. This is, at least, what emerges from a study published by the prestigious journal Science Advances, specialized in making known the latest findings of the scientific community.
A work that in Spain we knew few days ago thanks to an article published in the newspaper 20 minutes. A media which has remained attentive to these updates from the scientific field.
News that we want to share with our users because of how relevant they are to understanding our own nature.
The study referred to in the article was carried out by three researchers. On the one hand, Hermes Gadelha, staff of the University of Bristol; and, on the other, the tandem made up of Gabriel Corkidi and Alberto Darszon, both researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The main conclusion these three researchers have reached after years of work is that human sperm do not swim by wagging their tails. Not as had been thought up to now. A statement issued three hundred years ago by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. A scientist who used one of the first microscopes to describe the composition of human sperm. And that he had assimilated the movement of this substance like that of an eel.
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Apparently, this movement that had since been assigned to the sperm is only an optical illusion and does not obey reality. Dismantling this claim has been possible thanks to mathematics and the use of state-of-the-art 3D microscopes. Tools that have made it possible to verify, in a direct and real way. Then, they saw that sperm only move their tail on one side but that they do so in a completely different and much more complex way.
And it is that the use of a high-speed camera (capable of recording more than 55,000 frames per second) and a microscope stage equipped with a device to move the sample from top to bottom at a very high speed revealed a reality completely different from what was believed.
This is specified in that if a sperm wants to swim straight what it must do is turn its head and not move the back of it. This movement in two directions occurs simultaneously and is much more complicated than it seems. Thus, the head of the sperm rotates at the same time as the tail does in the direction of swimming.
3D microscopes have been used in sperm research.
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Thanks to these types of findings, we can learn more about the real behavior of sperm. And apply the knowledge gained to fertility treatments performed around the world. And it is that the behavior of the tail, according to the researchers of this study, could give a clue as to which are healthy and which are not.
Hence, as the aforementioned group of researchers conclude, this finding is only the tip of the iceberg. And there are many issues that still remain to be resolved. Especially, those that are related to the combination between the sperm and the female reproductive tract. Therefore, in the coming years, we may have new news that advantages the development of assisted reproduction.
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GMB Gets Smokey Classrooms Fixed
GMB Campaign Wins Solution To Smokey Classrooms In Bexhill High Academy.
Since bringing the story to light last year GMB has heard from numerous local residents also concerned about the smoke.
GMB, the union for school support staff, welcomed the news that Bexhill High Academy is to rebuild faulty chimney stacks that have been allowing smoke to re-enter the school building since 2010. And that action must be taken to clear up the problem.
Rachel Verdin, GMB organiser, said, "Following a GMB union campaign and collective grievance academy chain Prospects has agreed to rebuild the problem chimney stacks. This will ensure that the health and safety of everyone working and learning at the school is put first as staff and pupils have been suffering the effects of the bio-mass boiler emissions since the school opened in 2010.
Neighbours reported being unable to let their children play in the garden for fear the fumes would aggravate their asthma.
Prospects academy Trust is now tendering to have the chimney stacks redesigned and replaced with a new extended height by the summer of 2014.
Prospects was not originally at fault, but with the 'duty of care' under the Health and Safety at Work act 1974 they have the responsibility to sort out the problem.
An invitation was made to ESCC and Kiers who originally commissioned and built the school to attend the last grievance meeting but they refused to accept the invitation. It has been a three year struggle to get to this point and hopefully with the redesigned chimney stacks this will be the last of this particular matter and Bexhill High's pupil, staff and neighbours will be able to breathe again."
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Up to 600 Troops Now Set to Remain in Syria Indefinitely, Top General Says
American soldier mount the U.S. flag on a vehicle near the town of Tel Tamr, north Syria, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) -- Military.com
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
Some 500-600 U.S. troops will remain in Syria indefinitely to prevent a resurgence of ISIS, Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley said Sunday.
The U.S. commitment to preventing Afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base for attacks against the U.S. will also require a U.S. troop presence for at least the next several years, Milley said on ABC-TV's "This Week.
In addition, the buildup of forces in the Gulf region to counter threats from Iran will have to remain in place until a diplomatic settlement can be reached, Milley said.
Milley's remarks appeared to signal that U.S. national security interests would continue to require backup from the military despite President Donald Trump's oft-stated desire to take the U.S. out of the "endless wars" of the Middle East.
On Syria, Milley said "the footprint will be small but the objective will remain the same, the enduring defeat of ISIS."
He said that "less than a thousand," — probably in the range of 500-600 — U.S. troops would remain to secure oil wells and continue to partner with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces for the defeat of ISIS.
"We're not going to go into specific numbers because we're still going through the analysis right now," Milley said in his first TV interview as Joint Chiefs chairman.
"There are still ISIS fighters in the region, and unless pressure is maintained, unless attention is maintained on -- on that group, then there's a very real possibility that conditions could be set for a reemergence of ISIS. So we're committed to do that," he said.
The daring U.S. raid earlier this month that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had a "very significant disruptive effect on the organization as a whole," although the threat remained, he said.
ISIS has since announced that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi was the new "caliph" and issued a warning to the U.S. uploaded on the Telegram app: "Do not be happy."
ISIS has "apparently replaced [Baghdadi] with another leader" and "we do have a considerable amount of information on that individual," Milley said.
"And we'll see in the days ahead and the weeks ahead and the months ahead if he's able to piece together his organization or not," he added.. "We'll pay close attention to him and where opportunities arise, we'll go after him as well."
The U.S. had an estimated 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria when Trump last month ordered small contingents withdrawn from outposts in the northeastern part of the country.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan then ordered his military and accompanying irregulars to invade northeastern Syria with the stated goal of creating a safe haven for the return of Syrian refugees. Erdogan is expected to meet with Trump at the White House Wednesday.
U.S. troop convoys began withdrawing from Syria into Iraq but U.S. troops, including mechanized forces, were later ordered back into Syria to secure oil fields and guard against an ISIS resurgence.
On Afghanistan, Milley said the U.S. had an enduring commitment to ensure that the country will "never again be a safe haven" for terror groups aiming to attack the U.S. and its allies.
"That mission is not yet complete," Milley said. "I suspect it will be ongoing into the future for several more years."
Another dilemma in the region is posed by Iran, Milley said. "Iran's been a challenge for the United States, you know, since the revolution in 1979," he said. "We hope diplomatic efforts will resolve the nuclear issue, the development of nuclear weapons with Iran, and we place our faith in the diplomatic efforts."
However, "we'll make sure that we maintain appropriate levels of military capabilities in the region to defend American interests if required."
In recent months, the U.S. has deployed an aircraft carrier battle group and additional troops to the region, along with Patriot anti-air missile batters to defend Saudi Arabia.
"Our government has chosen not to react militarily at this time" to provocations from Iran, Milley said, "but we have the capability to, and we've added some capability just as recently as last month, and we'll see."
"It depends on the scope, scale and nature of any kind of provocation that Iran does or any kind of threat they do against U.S. forces in particular, or against U.S. interests or our friends and allies in the region," Milley said.
— Richard Sisk can be reached at [email protected].
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Where are Ireland's Construction Workers?
The Central Bank of Ireland has published a signed article from the second Quarterly Bulletin of 2018, published on 12 April 2018.
The article, 'Where are Ireland's Construction Workers?' by Thomas Conefrey and Tara McIndoe-Calder, considers the decline in construction sector employment in Ireland during the economic and financial crisis that began in 2008. One in every two workers who lost their jobs in Ireland between 2007 and 2012 had previously been employed in construction. However, while there has been a strong recovery in employment in other sectors, the numbers in construction employment as at Q1 2017 was 46% lower than in 2007, although the 2007 level of construction employment should not be considered sustainable.
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