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Ryanair pilots vote for strikes action leaving Holidaymakers with the prospect of mass disruption
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Holidaymakers face the prospect of mass disruption at multiple airports in August after Ryanair pilots voted for strikes that could coincide with walkouts by their counterparts at British Airways and by Heathrow ground staff.
The pilots' union Balpa said "decades of Ryanair refusing to deal with unions" had led to members voting for a 48-hour strike beginning on 22 August and a 72-hour strike from 2 September.Quick guide
What are your rights when flights are cancelled or delayed?
When an airline starts cancelling or delaying flights for more than three hours, passengers are entitled to compensation of €250-€600 under EU rules.
The cause of the problem has to be under the airline's control and not an "extraordinary circumstance". Lack of planes/staff, flight overbooking, a strike by the airline's staff or an IT failure are all considered to be within the airline's control – so compensation is payable.
Passengers on cancelled short-haul flights – up to 1,500km – are entitled to €250 or £230. For flights of 1,500km-3,500km duration, passengers are entitled to €400 (£370) or €600 (£555) for the longest flights (more than 3,500km).
Compensation is also payable in the event that the plane is delayed. The payments are the same but only kick in when the plane has been delayed three hours for short flights or four hours for the longer trips. The delay is calculated against the time the plane was due to arrive.
Passengers are also entitled to "assistance" under the EU rules. Short-haul passengers should receive food and water after two hours. Mid-distance passengers get help after three hours, while long-haul passengers receive it after they have been held in the terminal for four hours. If the delay is overnight, passengers should be provided with hotel accommodation but this often does not happen. This assistance should be provided irrespective of whether the delay is the airline's fault.
The airlines have fought these compensation rules since they were introduced and passengers have had to go to court to get their money. The airlines frequently blame delays on events outside their control. Freak weather events, or a last- minute strike by air traffic controllers are deemed to be outside their control. A lack of planes or staff is not.
The rules only apply to EU-based airlines or all flights that start in the EU on non-EU based carriers. What will happen post-Brexit is not yet clear. Miles BrignallWas this helpful?
"We have had no formal offer from Ryanair and it is imperative that we resolve this dispute urgently to avoid strike action," said Balpa's general secretary, Brian Strutton.
"No pilot wants to spoil the public's travel plans but at the moment it seems we have no choice."
Any disruption caused by walkouts at Ryanair could coincide with parallel action by BA pilots and Heathrow ground staff, who have yet to rule out their own stoppages.
Balpa is still locked in pay negotiations with BA , whose staff can strike at two weeks' notice if they do not accept the airline's offer.
A 48-hour strike by more than 4,000 security guards, firefighters, engineers and passenger service workers at Heathrow was called off, after the airport made a new pay offer. But more action is scheduled for the 22 and 23 August, the same day as the Ryanair walkouts, if staff do not accept the proposals.
The Guardian has approached Ryanair for comment.
Reporting by Rob Davies
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Fatima Bhutto is ecstatic that 'Zindagi Tamasha' is representing Pakistan at the Oscars
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Fatima Bhutto has expressed her delight over Sarmad Khoosat's Zindagi Tamasha being Pakistan's official nomination to the Oscar Awards 2021.
"Pakistan's greatest cultural strength isn't our diversity (we are diverse), range (lots of it), or style (brimming with it), but that our artists are daring & fearless," said Fatima in a tweet.
"I'm proud Zindagi Tamasha is representing us at the 2021 Oscars. The Academy is lucky to have this film," she added.
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Pakistan's greatest cultural strength isn't our diversity (we are diverse), range (lots of it), or style (brimming with it). But that our artists are daring & fearless. I'm proud #ZindagiTamasha is representing us at the 2021 Oscars. The @TheAcademy are lucky to have this film pic.twitter.com/MUS5XJYi4l
— fatima bhutto (@fbhutto) January 14, 2021
Meanwhile, Zindagi Tamasha has not yet hit cinemas. It was initially scheduled to hit screens on January 25, 2020, but immense backlash from religious circles forced the federal and provincial government to stop its release. However, in July 2020, the Senate HR committee cleared the film and allowed it to be screened post-COVID-19.
Later, in another tweet, Fatima questioned: "Is Zindagi Tamasha the first time a film that's banned in its home country makes it to the Oscars? I can't imagine but then."
Is #ZindagiTamasha the first time a film that's banned in its home country makes it to the Oscars? I can't imagine but then…
According to a press release, the film will be submitted for Oscar consideration in the 'International Feature Film Award' category for the 93rd Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will choose the final nominees for all award categories including International Feature Film in February 2021. The complete and final list of Oscar nominees will be announced on March 15, 2021, with the presentation show for the 93rd Academy Awards scheduled to take place on April 25, 2021.
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Q: Parsing a number throws: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string I am making an object oriented program that takes an array of object type Date and writes it to a file. But I am having a problem parsing a number. I can't see where my int and String variables are being mixed up:
public static Date[] createMe() throws FileNotFoundException
{
   Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
   System.out.print("please enter the name of the file: ");
   String fileName= kb.nextLine();
   Scanner fin = new Scanner(new File(fileName));
   int count = 0;
   while (fin.hasNextLine()){
      count++;
      fin.nextLine();
   }
   fin.close();
   Date[] temp = new Date[count];
   fin = new Scanner(fileName);
   while(fin.hasNextLine()){
      String line = fin.nextLine();
      String[] s = line.split("/");
      int month = Integer.parseInt(s[0]);
      int day = Integer.parseInt(s[1]);
      int year = Integer.parseInt(s[2]);
   }
   return temp;
}

I keep getting this error code and I don't know why:
please enter the name of the file: Track.java
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "Track.java"
    at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:580)
    at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:615)
    at Date.createMe(Date.java:49)
    at DateTester.main(DateTester.java:28)

I should be only inputting my string with my Scanner kb right? So why am I getting this error?

A: problem is in this line:
fin = new Scanner(fileName);

you are creating a Scanner from a String filename. Which is the path to file that you type in. Not the file itself. you created fin Scanner correctly a few lines above that. Just do the same again.

A: the problem is with your file. A java file does not begin with a number. Here is an example that works fine (I have added try( clause) to safely release file ressource) :
public static Date[] createMe() throws FileNotFoundException {

    try (PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter("filename.txt")) {
        out.print("3/1/12");
    }
    try (Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in)) {

        String fileName = "filename.txt";
        int count = 0;
        try (Scanner fin = new Scanner(new File(fileName))) {
            while (fin.hasNextLine()) {
                count++;
                fin.nextLine();
            }
        }
        Date[] temp = new Date[count];
        try (Scanner fin = new Scanner(new File(fileName))) {

            while (fin.hasNextLine()) {
                String line = fin.nextLine();
                String[] s = line.split("/");
                int month = Integer.parseInt(s[0]);
                int day = Integer.parseInt(s[1]);
                int year = Integer.parseInt(s[2]);

                System.out.println(month + " " + day + " " + year);
            }
        }
        return temp;
    }

Result of the program :
please enter the name of the file: 3 1 12

Have a nice day

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winkball May 24, 2018
Musk Tweetstorm Targets Media
Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk criticised "holier than thou" and "hypocritical" media companies in a series of tweets last night. He claimed the media had lost the public's trust and proposed a website, which he plans to call Pravda, to enable readers and viewers to rank the press according to commitment to truth and credibility.
While 85 percent plus of Musk's Twitter followers supported his idea of a credibility ranking system for news, reporters challenged his accusations, and he was compared to President Donald Trump for his vocal disdain for the press.
The holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies who lay claim to the truth, but publish only enough to sugarcoat the lie, is why the public no longer respects them https://t.co/Ay2DwCOMkr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018
Thought you'd say that. Anytime anyone criticizes the media, the media shrieks "You're just like Trump!" Why do you think he got elected in the first place? Because no ones believes you any more. You lost your credibility a long time ago.
Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn't advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world's biggest advertisers.
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
Musk's Tweetstorm follows (and appears to be partly inspired by) a spell of negative news stories for his clean energy and auto firm Tesla. Tesla doesn't advertise in the traditional sense and instead relies on word-of-mouth and media coverage which have been largely positive.
A lot of this is down to Musk's charisma. His Space X company wows viewers with dazzling rocket launches (and, even more dazzlingly, landings), he plans Mars colonisation and drilling Hyperloop networks under California. He delighted geeks by naming Space X assets after spacecraft from cult science fiction novels. More than anyone else, he made electric cars desirable (so much so that's it's difficult to get one). He's even made a global audience pay attention to the trucking industry – the first time truckers have been cool since 1978.
That was when the tech news cycle was positive. The fortunes of hardware like electric vehicles shouldn't necessarily be tied to press concerns about social media like Facebook and Twitter, but when tech titans ride the news cycle upwards, it's not surprising when they're dragged down when the media turns on the tech industry.
Donald Trump's election appears to have been a turning point. Prior to that, critics of tech and social media in particular were fringe voices. Readers – and reporters, and their publishers – were more interested in Mark Zuckerberg the youthful billionaire philanthropist than Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of a rather sinister global corporation that generates addiction, depression and privacy violations, while allowing users to be bombarded with mind-altering "fake news."
Trump's election came as a series of other tech doubts went mainstream in the press. Issues of sexual harassment and lack of diversity in the industry made the headlines of tech blogs. Twitter struggled with reports of trolling and extremist content. Big tech tax shenanigans inflamed hard-pressed citizens. The collapse of blood-testing firm Theranos and the decline of media corp Yahoo! added to tech scepticism. Snap's IPO cast doubts on the value of privately held "unicorns", the focus of numerous fawning profiles through to 2016.
Facebook and Google's domination of the digital advertising industry may have been more keenly felt by the news business. The media had pivoted to video on Facebook's command; entire operations followed a distributed content model to reach the billions of readers on social. But by 2018, nearly every new dollar spent on digital media advertising was going to Facebook or Google. Revenues for publications were crashing. Jobs looked precarious.
Musk's leadership meant Tesla was less affected by souring sentiment than others. Certainly, growing numbers of the Tesla faithful worry about delivery dates for their Model 3s. Tesla is the most shorted stock on the US market. Concerns about Tesla accidents – with and without human drivers – hit the headlines in ways other vehicles don't. Reveal, an investigative news site, claimed Tesla played down the number of worker injuries in its factory. Consumer Reports refused to give the Model 3 a recommendation.
Yet while there's no shortage of comment about the toxicity of Facebook or Twitter – even to the point where lawmakers are suggesting Facebook be broken up – who really wants Tesla to fail? Or Space X, or even The Boring Company? Musk has built his recent career on critics saying "you can't do this" and proving them at least partially wrong. People root for him.
Being vocal is part of Musk's style. He engages with his followers on Twitter. He contributes to philosophical blogs. He appears persuadable, arguing the case for remaining on Trump's advisory industrial council before leaving when he felt unable to square the President's withdrawal from the Paris accords with his environmentalism.
On the other hand, it's going to be difficult to persuade the media that Musk's tweets aren't the petulant complaints of a rich man who's discovering he can't always bend reality to his will. Trump-like outbursts aren't likely to win him friends in the media, and the "Elon Musk is the New Donald Trump" accusations are coming thick and fast.
Criticising the left-wing investigative website that broke the story on Tesla's safety record isn't going to make him popular on the Bay Area dinner party circuit:
No, they're just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously
(Tesla has previously described Reveal's investigation as "an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.")
So, Musk and Tesla investors can brace themselves for more bad press. Musk's team has already registered a company called Pravda – in October, though it's not clear if it was intended as a news review business (commentators are enjoying the Russian connection).
What would a ratings system for journalism look like?
Facebook is already working on ranking news by "Trusted Sources" in an attempt to flush out fake news. It uses fact-checking site Snopes to investigate questionable stories (and Snopes itself gets checked and accused of bias in return).
Ranking journalists isn't a great way to prevent abuse. Online polls are easily fiddled or gamed. Social media makes it easy to organise campaigns against publishers you find offensive – see the recent campaign in the UK that marshalled Twitter users to persuade advertisers to withdraw advertising from conservative newspapers. It's not difficult to envisage a similar campaign to downvote press campaign groups disapprove of. News sources could urge their followers to upvote them, even if their content is more inflammatory than trustworthy.
If Elon Musk is unhappy with the media – and he's still online as we post, taking on comments from all comers – then he might be better advised to fund a news site rather than rank others. That said, his suspicions of media bias and corruption are likely to be confirmed by the poll he's running: With more than 550,000 votes, almost 88 percent support the idea of a ranking system for the press.
Create a media credibility rating site (that also flags propaganda botnets)
And that's despite hundreds of news stories, from the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph down, attacking Musk for his tweets.
We'll be interested to see what conclusions Elon Musk draws about the media once this storm has subsided. What we, the public, learn about social media might be more pertinent.
Social media like Twitter exists to catch you saying stupid things. There is pressure to engage with others – the public or celebrities – and react to news you find offensive. We're led to generate more content to keep our profiles buoyant and growing. Public figures stay in the public eye by posting – it's a career for some social media influencers and controversialists. We generate so much content we're certain to post something stupid, or something false, or that can be construed by some observers as offensive. And there's always someone out there to call you out on it when you do. In Musk's case, he took on the US and international press. His fans think he has a case, even if media sentiment is turning firmly against him.
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July 29, 2020, Canton, MI – Last night, the Canton Board of Trustees approved the reclassification of two Deputy Director positions as a means of restructuring of the Public Safety Department following the retirement of the former Public Safety Director earlier this year. Chadwick Baugh is now the Director of Police Services – Police Chief, and Christopher Stoecklein is now the Director of Fire Services – Fire Chief.
Director Baugh will oversee all operations of the Police Department. Baugh started his career with Canton in 1996, and has been in a leadership role with the department for the past 12 years. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University's Police Staff & Command School; he also has a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Madonna University, and a Master's Degree in Technology from Eastern Michigan University.
Director Stoecklein will oversee all operations of the Fire Department. Stoecklein started his career with Canton in 1996, and has been in a leadership role with the department for the past seven years. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University's Fire Staff & Command School, and has a Bachelor's Degree Public Safety Administration from Sienna Heights University.
Over the past several months, the Township's Leadership Team has been reviewing and evaluating the operations of the Public Safety Department and its need for a Director position to oversee both Police and Fire. The Leadership Team, Merit Commission, and Township Board have agreed the Township can be better served at this time by the reclassification of these two positions.
"We realize this is a major change in the structure of the Public Safety Department, dating back to 1987 when the first Director position was created to oversee both the Police and Fire Departments," said Township Supervisor Pat Williams.
"The former organizational structure has served the community well, but these past few months have provided insight and opportunity to take the department in a new, fiscally-responsible direction, with zero impact on the exceptional police and fire services the community is accustomed to receiving," Williams added.
Funds for the salaries of these reclassifications will be redirected in the budget from the vacated Director of Public Safety position.
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May 30 Birthday, list of celebrities from all over the world. Paresh Rawal, Krushna many personalities from different countries.
List of all celebrities from all over the world, having Birthday on May 30. Know the birth date, occupation, place, and more information about your favorite celebrity. The list contains people from different fields.
List of famous celebrities having Birthday on 30 May.
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Idina Menzel.
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1. Paresh Rawal.
Born: 30 May 1955.
Occupation: Actor and producer
Place: Bombay, Bombay State, India.
Paresh Rawal is an Indian actor, comedian, and film producer. He is a notable person for her role in all kinds of movies. Some of his comedy movies include the Hera Pheri series, Bhagam Bhag, and Welcome which are hit of all time. In 1985, he made his film debut in a supporting role with Arjun. In 2014, he was awarded Padma Shri.
2. Jennifer Winget.
Occupation: Actress.
Place: Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
Jennifer Winget is an Indian film and television actress. Winget started as a child artist, who started his acting career at the early age of 12. In 2000, she made her debut with the film Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya. She also gets fame with many television shows including Saraswatichandra, Bepannah, and Beyhadh. Winget gets married to Karan Singh Grover on 9 April 2012, but they get separated within 2 years.
3. Kirti Kulhari.
Kirti Kulhari is an Indian actress and model. In 2002, she made her acting debut with the movie Dharini, which is an Odia language movie. Some of her work in Indian cinemas is The Girl on the Train, Mission Mangal, and Pink.
4. Krushna Abhishek.
Occupation: Comedian, dancer, and actor.
Place: Mumbai, India.
Abhishek Sharma is mainly known by his screen name Krushna Abhishek, who is an Indian actor, dancer, and comedian. Krushna predominantly works in Hindi and Bhojpuri language films. Bollywood Superstar Govinda is his maternal uncle. In 2002, he made his film debut with Yeh Kaisi Mohabbat Hai, After which he worked in a lot of films including Bol Bachchan, Entertainment, Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 and television shows The Kapil Sharma Show and Comedy Nights Bachao.
5. Allu Sirish.
Occupation: Actor.
Place: Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
Allu Sirish is an Indian actor, who mainly works in Telugu films. In 2013, he made his debut with the film Gouravam. He is the brother of well-known Telugu actor Allu Arjun. Some of his other movies are Okka Kshanam and Kotha Janta.
6. Avantika Mishra.
Place: New Delhi, India.
Avantika Mishra is an Indian actress and model, who works in Telugu and Tamil films. She started her career as a model. In 2014, she appeared first time on-screen with the Telugu film Maaya. She also worked in Meeku Meere Maaku Meme.
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Occupation: Actress, and Singer.
Place: New York, New York, United States.
Idina Menzel is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is also known for her mezzo-soprano voice. Menzel started her theatre in 1995, after which she continues to many films, television shows and became a popular singer. Some of her movies include Enchanted and Ask the Dust.
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Occupation: Singer and Actress.
Place: Daerim-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
Im Yoon-ah is a South Korean singer and actress. She started her acting career with a minor role in 2007, after which she appeared in many other television dramas including Love Rain and The King in Love. Yoona also worked in many films includes Exit and Confidential Assignment. Some of her title songs are "To You" and "Summer Night".
3. Sean Giambrone.
Place: Michigan, United States.
Sean Giambrone is an American actor and voice artist, known for his role in The Goldbergs and Kim Possible. He gave his voice in Solar Opposites and Clarence. Giambrone started his acting career at the early age of 9.
4. Ailee.
Occupation: Singer.
Place: Denver, Colorado, United States.
Amy Lee is also known as Ailee is a Korean-American singer. In 2012, she released her debut single "Heaven", for which she won the award. Ailee also released the Japanese version of this song. She judged the television reality show Vocal Play and Superstar K 2016 (K8).
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Occupation: Actress and Writer.
Place: Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Jenny Mollen is an American actress and writer. Mollen is two times New York Times best-selling author. Mollen is known for her role in the television series Viva Laughlin and Chicago Fire. She appeared in many films includes Life Happens and Off the Ledge.
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Record Of Fly Fishing
Fly fishing is really an ancient Activity, with information of Romans in 200 Advertisement applying flies to catch trout and the greater complete heritage of fishing in England and Scotland starting within the seventeenth century. The Japanese kind of line casting, Tenkara, is traced into the nineteenth century, but Japanese anglers are tying flies for many hundreds of several years. American fishing deal with production within the 19th century developed from primitive rods with horsehair line created by hand by means of early line.
Lots of credit history the first recorded utilization of an artificial fly to the Roman Claudius Aelianus close to the close of the 2nd century. He described the exercise of Macedonian anglers on the Astraeus River:…they've planned a snare for your fish, and acquire the greater of them by their fisherman's craft. They fasten crimson wool spherical a hook, and match on to the wool two feathers which develop less than a cock's wattles, and which in color are like wax. Their rod is 6 toes prolonged, as well as their line is similar duration. Then they toss their snare, and also the fish, captivated and maddened by the color, comes straight at it, imagining from your pretty sight to get a dainty mouthful; when, however, it opens its jaws, it truly is caught through the hook, and enjoys a bitter repast, a captive.
The main e book regarding fly fishing was created by Dame Juliana Berners. The Treatise on Fysshynge by having an Angle is found in The Boke of St. Albans which was revealed in 1496. It involved techniques for generating flies, rods and lines. Fly fishing slowly became a lot more popular all through the eighteen hundreds in Fantastic Britain.
In 1653, Isaac Walton wrote "The whole Angler" is usually a ebook which contained quite a few chapters on fly fishing. All data contained During this guide demonstrate that fly fishing is well known in England and Scotland. Lots of golf equipment in fly fishing arrived during the 1800s England and this has enabled this popular sport to broaden to the best way it truly is right now.
In Scotland, many anglers also favoured soaked fly fishing, where by the procedure was additional well known and widely practised than in England. One among Scotland's major proponents in the moist fly from the early to mid nineteenth century was WC Stewart, who revealed "The sensible Angler" in 1857. In Scandinavia and The usa, attitudes toward methods of fly fishing were not practically as rigidly described, and the two dry and soaked fly fishing ended up shortly adapted.
Scotland is entire world renowned for its loch design custom of making use of not less than 3 flies per line which, right until now, has generally been permitted while in the championships. Scotland is likewise the home of competitive fly fishing, With all the oldest fly fishing contest in the world held on Loch Leven on July 1, 1880 when most anglers employed four flies. In September, anglers is going to be awarded 100 details for every fish.
A study of fly fishing background indicates which the earliest hooks were made out of bone about 3000 a long time ago in southern Europe. They may be of an easy design and they are not dissimilar to modern day hooks.
Early references to fishing with rod and line can be found on historical Egyptian tomb paintings.
The initial flies were being produced after male learned, much to his surprise, that covering the hook with feathers fooled the fish into believing that what was actually a bit of sharpened bone was a good tasty fly. The initial references to fishing with flies originated in England through the 13th century. The fly was described as a hook tied with feathers and was utilized for fishing trout and grayling. These early flies were being accustomed to catch fish for foodstuff.
The technique used by these early fishermen was to simply 'lay' the synthetic fly over the water's surface area, much like dappling the fly as Employed in Scottish loch type fishing currently.
Early fishing traces have been simply lengths of uniform segment horsehair and it wasn't until eventually the arrival of the 1st reels that individuals realised that the strains might be tapered. This discovery led to traces of different tapers staying developed which designed them easier to use plus more exact.
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While it can be convenient to think of human health and the environment as unrelated silos, they are in fact closely related. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) recently released a report underscoring this point especially for Africa, where large numbers of people are directly reliant on natural resources for their livelihoods.
In the Africa Environment Outlook 3: Our Environment, Our Health, UNEP found that a full 28 percent of Africa's disease burden is a result of environmental factors like contaminated water, which causes diarrheal disease, and air pollution, which causes respiratory illness.
The report builds off the first two Africa Environment Outlooks – the first was a general environmental survey, and the second looked at the links between the environment and development. It also serves as a guide for policymakers, identifying key interventions which target environmental risks to improve health throughout the continent.
The assessment goes into great detail to show the linkages between the environment and health in Africa.
Take malaria, one of the biggest environmentally related causes of mortality on the continent. The disease thrives in warm climates and is spread as individuals are bitten by infected mosquitos. Its range has historically been fairly well defined but it's now spreading into the cooler highlands of countries like Kenya and Rwanda which have little previous experience with it.
The link between growing malaria prevalence and climate change is well established. Malaria is spread only by a specific type of mosquito, and only when the mosquitos live long enough to allow the parasite which causes malaria to fully mature. Warmer temperatures allow this kind of mosquito to spread and lengthen its lifespan.
The report also discusses the role of deforestation in the spread of the disease, noting that "deforestation raises sunlight, temperature, and surface water availability," allowing mosquitoes to breed more easily.
A broader range for malaria is bad enough, but on top of that some of the efforts to curb the spread have created health problems of their own. Pesticides like DDT are used for malaria prevention in 13 countries, but such chemicals "have been implicated in a range of terminal and chronic ailments," like cancer and reproductive health problems. Some countries, like Mauritius, spray DDT at their ports to prevent the disease from entering the country, but since the chemical is poisonous, it can destroy fragile ocean ecosystems and subsequently impact the nutrition and food security of coastal inhabitants.
The report notes that lack of access to adequate clean water, sanitation, and hygiene accounts for 10 percent of the disease burden in Africa and that many of the affected are children. Only 19 of Africa's 54 countries are on target to meet the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of the population without access to basic water and sanitation.
For many African countries, the quantity of water is just as crucial as quality. Overall, Africans have access to less water than the global average (4,008 cubic meters annually vs. 6,498) and scarcity is increasing in many regions. Africa is projected to account for three out of every four people added to world population over the next century, which means more people are drawing on the same scarce resources, and urbanization clusters many of these people closer and closer together. Meanwhile, Africa is expected to bear some of the most damaging effects of climate change, including more irregular rainfall patterns.
Air pollution is another common cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa. Outdoor air pollution contributes to an estimated 40,000 deaths in Africa each year, exacerbated by rapid urbanization and the poor infrastructure that often accompanies it. Indoor pollution is even more deadly. It contributes to respiratory infections which kill between 352,000 and 484,000 African children under the age of five every year. The report noted that use of solid fuels in traditional cooking stoves results in concentrations of pollutants between 10 and 30 times the safe levels defined by the World Health Organization.
UNEP notes that laws controlling outdoor pollution are unevenly enforced, but tighter controls are possible. Reducing indoor pollution, on the other hand, requires cultural and lifestyle changes, as well as investment in new technologies, like cleaner-burning stoves.
The report also remarks that African countries will face other significant changes apart from environmental shifts over the coming decades, from "drastic demographic shifts" to political shifts like liberalization and decentralization. At the same time, these countries will have to adjust to global changes like technological and medical advances. To continue "business as usual" is risky given these changes, says UNEP.
The report does a good job explaining the linkages between natural resource management, environmental stewardship, and human health. It even recommends some specific environmental interventions (early warning systems for extreme weather, mapping groundwater, and actively monitoring coastal areas to protect marine resources. But while UNEP discusses the general health benefits of addressing environmental challenges, it does not recommend specific health interventions to achieve those benefits, nor does it mention the benefits of an integrated approach which targets both health and the environment. Perhaps specific health sector recommendations are outside the scope of an environmental report, but they would be worth including, especially since interventions like clean cookstoves, access to reproductive healthcare, and encouragement of sustainable livelihoods directly and simply address some of the dual environment and health pressures the report describes.
Adapting to the future requires "anticipatory thinking," says UNEP. Countries need to begin to plan for environmental changes to protect the health of their citizens. But "simply agreeing on new policy directions is obviously not a panacea for moving towards a sustainable future." Instead, they urge policymakers to take decisive action, compile data, and engage stakeholders on environmental issues.
Sources: UN Millennium Development Goals, World Health Organization.
Photo Credit: Fisherman on the White Nile, Khartoum, Sudan, courtesy of the Arne Hoel/World Bank. Map Credit: UNEP.


Looking along the packed shelves in bookshops recently, I was struck by the number and variety of books that offered ways to avert memory loss. Many of these were specifically aimed at 'older people' and most offered some form of challenge. These were usually in the form of puzzle-solving with the expressed value that tackling such challenges would help to avoid 'mental decline' and 'keep the mind active'. They included tasks such as answering Mensa questions, addressing Sudoku-type problems and both word search and crossword-solving activities. Some even suggested that addressing 'mental workout' on a regular, usually daily, basis could offset dementia.
I have long been skeptical of such claims, as I could find no scientific evidence that such activity alone could have these desired, and desirable, effects. Now recent research from Scotland showed that although people who regularly do intellectual activities throughout life have higher mental abilities from which to decline then non-participants, they decline any slower. This research was undertaken by Roger Staff at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the University of Aberdeen and published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) towards the end of last year. Using a control group of about 500 volunteers (all born in 1936 and who had taken part in a group intelligence test at the age of 11) they found that engagement in problem solving did not protect an individual from decline.
On the plus side, the researchers did find that engaging in intellectually stimulating activities on a regular basis was linked to level of mental ability in old age. And while some previous studies have found that cognitive training can improve some aspects of memory and thinking, particularly for people who are middle-aged or older, no studies have shown that brain training alone prevents dementia. Instead, as a report from the Global Council on Brain Health recommended, and what has been recommended by longlifelearning.co.uk over many years, is that people should take part in stimulating activities such as learning a new language of musical instrument or taking up knitting or take up cooking or gardening rather than just brain training to help their minds to continue to function well into later life. Such activity though should be accompanied by other life-style choices such as keeping physically fit (eating a healthy diet, not smoking, drinking in moderation and keeping within recommended weight limits), engaging in social activities and maintaining wellbeing by being involved in a volunteering or other altruistic activities. We now know what to do to keep our brains functioning well into later life and it requires much more effort than just doing the daily crossword puzzle.
Consistent reports from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate the rapid ageing of the population in the UK, which mirrors the trend in the world as a whole. At the same time, as clearly stated on the National Health Service (nhs) website, frailty among this growing cohort of older adults is also growing. Frailty is often described as 'a state of physiological vulnerability with diminished capacity to manage external stressors'. Such frailty can affect people's ability to carry out everyday activities, can have a negative impact on quality of life and can increase the risk of other health problems including illnesses and falls. The website goes on to say that studies estimate frailty affects around half of people above the age of 80.
The question raised by such a situation is how to provide effective care and support once people have been identified. Now a study by researchers at the University of Dublin has been undertaken to answer this question by reviewing 46 individual studies on the effectiveness of different interventions for frailty. The studies were highly varied with interventions ranging from different forms of physical activity to medication, education and nutrition supplements. Published in the British Journal of General Practice, the findings showed conclusively just how much older people benefit from increased strength or resistance training by working their muscles and increasing their protein intake, even through drinking protein shakes. The benefits were so noticeable that they recommended that GPs should prescribe it. They go on to say that 20 to 25 minutes of activity, four days a week at home, with an emphasis on a high-protein diet, is probably ideal.
Such an approach was one advocated some time ago by Chris Crowley and Dr. Henry Lodge in their book Younger Next Year first published in 2004. They stressed the value to older people of carrying on with, or taking up, resistance training in later life. However, they tried to put this advice in perspective for older people saying that although weights are satisfying, even mildly addictive for some, they are not fun for most people. Instead they advocated finding a strength sport that you like such as bicycling, skiing, tennis, squash or canoeing.
Throughout their book, Crowley and Lodge advocate both aerobic and strength-building exercise. Unfortunately, they say, only a minority of older Americans claim they do regular aerobic training and even less, only 10% of Americans at the time of writing, claim to be doing any form of strength training regularly. Their advice: carry out strength training two days a week throughout the life span and such an approach should have a positive effect on combating the onset of frailty. They summarise their advice by saying that 'aerobic exercise saves your life: strength training makes it worth living'. Advice, you might say, well worth building on.
A recent BBC survey on loneliness, carried out by Radio 4's All in the Mind programme, asked about ways of combatting loneliness, which 'had worked for you or people you know'. Two of the nine suggestions involved finding distracting activities or dedicating time to work, study or hobbies while some people suggested joining a social club or taking up new social activities. The reasoning being that if loneliness is caused by not meeting people in the community, this might help.
Much research over recent times has identified the cognitive, psychological and social benefits to be accrued from learning in later life and this survey suggests those suffering from the negative effects of loneliness could benefit too. Loneliness, of course, differs from being alone - people choose, and can often enjoy, time alone with themselves to act or to think while loneliness is an often unwanted condition affecting those who wish to be more social. It might be argued that not only does this survey support educational gerontology (learning in later life) but also gerontological education (learning how to understand and manage ageing). For example, the survey goes on to identify other suggestions to combat loneliness such as changing negative thinking to make it more positive as on measurement, lonely people were found to have social skills as good as everyone else's but might need help to cope with the anxiety of situations. It also suggested such people should start a conversation with anyone as a significant first step. The idea of this isn't to build a deep friendship but just to feel more connected to other humans. One other strongly supported idea to overcome loneliness was to look for the good in every person you meet as people who feel lonely have, on average, lower levels of trust in others.
However, there is a role for groups of such people to come together and to learn or re-learn how to act on such suggestions and perhaps gain the skills and confidence to do so. There is an assumption that we know how to cope with the often-novel situations many people find themselves as a result of ageing with loneliness, caused by loss of a partner or friends, the moving away of family or conditions negating participation ,such as ill-health, being just one of them. All these symptoms are more likely to affect those in later life more often and more strongly. So let's not just promote learning in later life (educational gerontology) but also learning about ageing well (gerontological education) if older people are to participate fully in life and enjoy themselves doing so with others too.
According to the associate professor of neurobiology at Columbia University, Maura Boldrini, the lead author on a newly released study, healthy older people continue to produce new brain cells. These findings contradict other studies, including one published in March this year. The work of the researchers at Columbia involved carrying out autopsies on 28 healthy brains, which had been donated by people who had no neuropsychiatric disease or treatment affecting the brain. The identification of neurogenesis, the process by which neurons or nerve cells continue to be generated in the brain, as people get older means researchers are better able to understand why things can go wrong, like with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, as we age.
No previous study has looked at neurogenesis in humans who had no neuropsychiatric disease or treatment at time of death, and previous studies, carried out with mice, had shown that neurogenesis declines after middle age. Humans, however, have much more complex learning abilities and emotional responses than rodents, both of which may depend on neurogenesis. New neurons in the hippocampus part of the brain are necessary for memory and emotional responses to stress. Our brain keeps making new neurons throughout our lifespan, and this is unique to humans. These neurons might be important for humans to transmit complex information to future generations or integrating complex memories and information.
Professor Boldrini believes that previous negative studies have come about as a result of a few factors. One is the availability of only portions of the hippocampus, so the total number of cells could not be calculated accurately. Secondly, not knowing the subjects' disease and treatment history, which affect neurogenesis, can make it difficult to evaluate results. Finally and positively, the research team concludes that with a healthy lifestyle, enriched environment, social interactions, and exercise, we can keep these neurons healthy and functioning and sustain healthy ageing.
According to a major study into the impact behaviour has on lifespan, people who stick to five healthy habits in adulthood can add more than a decade to their lives. Using lifestyle questionnaires and medical records, researchers at Harvard University worked with 123,000 volunteers to understand how much longer people lived if they followed a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke.
The scientists compared people who adopted the healthy habits to those who did not and noticed a dramatic difference in average life expectancy, Men and women who adhered to all five, compared with people who adopted none of the habits, saw their life expectancy at 50 rise from 26 to 38 years and from 29 to 43 years respectively. This equates to an extra 12 years for men and 14 years for women. The researchers were surprised how huge the effect was.
The researchers performed the analysis in the hope of understanding why the United States, a country that spends more on healthcare as a proportion of GDP than any other nation, ranks only 31st in the world for life expectancy at birth. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), life expectancy at birth in 2015 in the US was 76.9 and 81.6 years old for men and women respectively. The equivalent figures for Britain are very similar at 79.4 and 83 years old. The study, published in the journal Circulation, suggests poor lifestyle is a major factor that cuts American lives short. In fact, only 8% of the general population followed all five healthy habits.
The five healthy habits were defined as not smoking; having a body mass index between 18.5 and 25; taking at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, having no more than one 150 ml glass of wine a day for women or two for men and having a diet rich in items such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains but low in red meat, saturated fats and sugar.
These findings are very welcome and point the way to having a longer life. What they do not do, however, is address the cognitive and psychological aspects that make life worth living. These five habits can all have a positive affect on helping to ensure the brain is less likely to loose its 'power' but activities such as learning can in fact help to strengthen brain power and, if ailments such as dementia arise, enable the brain to better resist their debilitating effects. At the same time, observing the five habits in isolation or living with negative feelings may not help people to live well and thrive. Therefore, the five habits may help people to live longer but without cognitive development through, say, learning and supportive health and wellbeing activities through, for example, social engagement, they may not be enough. After all, remaining alive is not the same thing as being able to enjoy living.
Recent medical research has shown that as we mature our brains operate a more organised system of networks with improved communication between different regions of the brain. Those regions deep in the brain are fully operational significantly earlier than the more sophisticated centres such as the prefrontal cortex. Consequently there is an uneven balance, tilting behaviour more towards immediate reward and risk as the still underactive prefrontal cortex will not apply the 'brake' to the immediate reactive 'go' signal firing off in more primitive areas.
This behaviour is evident in children and teenagers where the brain is still 'maturing' but, according to Susan Greenfield, in her book A Day in the Life of the Brain, it can persist into adulthood too. It has long been a characteristic of schizophrenic patients who never appear to lose aspects of the immediate brain. Both childhood and schizophrenia, then, conjure up a sense of living in the moment rather than a more thoughtful and proactive take on life.
However, according to Professor Greenfield, there is a third and unexpected group of people with an underactive prefrontal cortex who are characteristically reckless; those with a relatively high body mass index (BMI), namely the obese. For the significantly overweight, the press of the here-and-now environment is once again, as with children and schizophrenics, unusually paramount. After all, such people know the long-term consequences of eating unhealthily yet the immediate pleasure of the taste wins out over everything else and they choose to do so anyway.
It is interesting to think of how this new information could shine a spotlight on the behaviours of adults in, for example, voting patters. Is it possible that the significantly overweight would opt for choices offered for immediate gain, real or imaginary, over those offering benefits only in the long-term? Could this be characterised as making choices for their own immediate gratification over the future benefits for others or society as a whole? After voting has taken place, the results are often analysed to identify which groups of people, females, the rich, the elderly etc., have voted in which direction or another. Perhaps, we should do this by weight, as the consequence of such votes can be 'heavy'.
A recent announcement by Jane Austen College in Norwich that it was stopping setting homework for their pupils raised quite a few eyebrows, especially in certain sections of the press. After all, this was a 'flagship' Free School with a strong work ethic and not a failing school that could not get their pupils to do the homework to start with. The reason given was that the pupils already worked hard enough, that such work should be covered in extended school time and that evenings should be spent with family.
There is much to admire in this stance. Anyone who has ever been to school will have found that homework merely reinforces what the teacher already knows the pupils in their classes can and cannot do. Far better to have additional time in schools (Prep, perhaps?) where the teacher can work more individually with pupils than to set them off to face the unequal resources in their homes and the uneven support available from parents and others. Such work is then judged in isolation afterwards – whoever has actually done it !
This also set my mind to thinking about later life learners. In schools, teachers have the benefit of seeing their pupils everyday and, in most subjects, a few times per week. There is plenty of time for reinforcement and the correction of errors. Older learners, and especially those in informal learning, turn up to sessions once a week (if they can) for about and hour or two. They then have to remember the following week what they had done before and, if possible, enhance their learning further at a time when short-term memory can wane.
What is needed is some task to do between sessions that can provide the repetition we know aids memory, reminds each of the learners about the language and thinking involved and, if done with other learners or family members, can better embed such learning in their minds. Children don't need homework to learn in their regular, structured and supported school careers. However, older people need such help to get the best out of learning in later life. So let's not waste homework on children; homework is for adults !
Those old board games, lying and collecting dust on the top of the wardrobe or under the stairs, could in fact bring remarkable benefits. Not only are such games very entertaining, especially when played with others, they also offer a lot more than just entertainment. In fact they can impact on a player's mental and physical health and their wellbeing whatever age they are.
First of all, board games are good for maintaining and improving mental health. Playing games help to use and develop important cognitive skills including memory and analysis. The analytical part of the brain, the hippocampus, is particularly exercised during decision-making. At the same time, board games help the brain to build and retain cognitive associations, which are very beneficial in old age. Keeping your mind engaged in this way, even focusing on manipulating small playing pieces, means players are exercising it and making it stronger. Such a stronger brain has a lower risk of losing its power. Research has also shown that participants who regularly play games have speeded up responses compared to those that don't.
Playing board games, as with many hobbies, is fun to do and can help to reduce stress. Taking part helps players to unwind and to relax especially where the focus is more on taking part than winning at all costs. Such enjoyment often involves laughing, which itself helps to increase the body's supply of endorphins - chemicals that promote the feeling of happiness. They also help muscles to relax and blood to circulate resulting in the lowering of blood pressure. It is well known that high blood pressure is associated with greater risk of artery damage, heart disease and strokes.
Finally, board games such as Monopoly, chess, Game of Life or draughts, provide ideal opportunities to connect with family members or friends. They are social occasions, helping to build bonds, especially with children and grandchildren, and strengthening relationships at a variety of levels. Board games are particularly good at helping children to develop logic and reasoning skills and improve critical thinking too. The laughter and enjoyment taking place can help to boost a person's immune system helping brain cells to live longer and be more able to fight disease. Therefore, playing board games such as Cluedo, the game of mystery and 'murder', is not only an enjoyable thing to do, it could help to prolong your life!
The 'Paradise Papers' are a huge leak of financial documents that throw light on the top end of the world of offshore finance. They mainly come from Appleby, a law firm with outposts in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, who provide the structures to help clients to legally reduce their tax bills. The documents reveal the lengths that some people go to in order to avoid paying tax. Whatever the rights and wrongs, legally and morally, of such actions what is clear is that it is those people who already have a great deal of wealth who are seeking to retain more. In doing so, however, they deny governments of funds to support everyone in their societies including the poorest.
One way of ensuring that those in need in the world receive the 'service' they require, a basic tenant of Rotary ethos, is for individuals not to grasp too much for themselves. The Swedes appreciate such a concept and, in fact, have a word for it. It is 'lagom'. Kathleen Bryson, an evolutionary anthropologist at University College London, described the Swedish 'lagom' as a state of having 'not too much of one-or-the-other, but more a Goldilocks 'just right'.' Elliot Stocks, the co-editor and creative director of Bristol-based magazine Lagom told the publication that 'Lagom is an overarching concept behind your life in general. Rather than fitting a bit of lagom into your day, it's more about your approach to your life as a whole,' he added.
Over the last six months, the search engine Google has seen a steady increase in the number of UK searches for the term 'lagom' and, unsurprisingly, the word has inspired several consumer companies to jump on the terminology to make life easier, more enjoyable and inexpensive. For example, Swedish furniture store IKEA has created its own project 'Live Lagom' to teach people how to make life more sustainable. IKEA products are designed and produced to help them conserve energy, save water, reduce waste, and live a healthier lifestyle – all in keeping with the concept of 'lagom'.
For many years, and for many people now in later life, the driving force has been to accumulate money and possessions for themselves without necessarily caring about the consequences that doing so may have for others. This new movement of valuing sufficiency itself so there is enough for all chimes with the ancient Greek phrase 'moderation is best'. It may just be that those people named in the Paradise Papers have more wealth but by not embracing the 'lagom' way of living, they may not have the 'best' life.
It was pleasing to read that recent research has found that simply having a 'sense of purpose' as you get older can help you live a longer and healthier life. It has been well know that keeping fit, eating well and avoiding smoking are all helpful in having a longer life but experts have now shown that just by living a purposeful life – whether it is helping others or having an absorbing hobby – are just as important. People with the greatest sense of wellbeing after the age of 65 are almost a third less likely to die in the next eight and a half years. This means they will live on average two years longer than those who feel they have no satisfaction or companionship in their life.
Professor Andrew Steptoe, Director of the University College London Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, who led the research said: "A healthy lifestyle is important, as are relationships with family and friends. Finding things to do that give a sense of purpose is also important. They don't have to be very grand aims, but might include things like gardening and hobbies, or helping out a neighbour.
The study, looking at thousands of people with an average age of 65, was conducted by researchers from UCL, and US universities was part of a special series on ageing published in the Lancet. After eight and a half years, nine per cent of people in the highest wellbeing category had died compared with 29 per cent in the lowest category. Once all other factors were taken into account, people with the highest wellbeing were 30 per cent less likely to die.
So simply being a member of altruistic organisations such as Rotary, with its friendship groups, opportunities to learn new things and chances to volunteer to help others, are not only good for those we serve but good for ourselves too.
For a long time I have been interested in graphology – how a person's handwriting can tell you a lot about their personality and character. It is based on the premise that as the brain guides the hand, so your handwriting becomes a 'picture' of your 'complete self' - the person behind the pen. Therefore, graphology uses the analysis of handwriting to identify the traits, talents and the emotional energy of the writer.
The earliest example of systematic writing is the Sumerian pictographic system found on clay tablets around 3200 BC. At the same time the Egyptian system of hieroglyphics began as a pictographic script and evolved into a system of syllabic writing. The Greeks and then the Romans adopted the Greek alphabet and developed Latin writing and cursive or informal handwriting.
Recently, research using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging have identified that the simple, and underused, art of handwriting benefits motor skills and the ability to compose ideas. Researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes and can improve idea composition and expression. Some physicians say handwriting could be a good cognitive exercise for those in later life to keep their minds sharp as they age. Studies suggest there's real value in learning and maintaining this ancient skill, even as we increasingly communicate electronically via keyboards big and small. Indeed, technology often gets blamed for handwriting's demise but in an interesting twist, new software for touch-screen devices, such as the IPad, is starting to reinvigorate the practice.
Virginia Berninger, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, says handwriting differs from typing because it requires executing sequential strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding involves selecting a whole letter by touching a key. She says pictures of the brain have illustrated that sequential finger movements activated massive regions involved in thinking, language and working memory—the system for temporarily storing and managing information. So writing of all kinds can be good for you, handwriting is even better and it also provides a way of revealing more about you – whether you mean to or not.
Much good work is done in the world, and many people helped, by those who volunteer. From the eradication of polio through the raising of funds to the keeping of local hospices operational, volunteers can do everything from adding value to saving lives. It is a way of people helping others, whether directly or indirectly, and displaying the best of humanity locally and wider. It really does add the rich icing to the fabric of society's cake.
Research has also shown that there are significant benefits to those who volunteer too. Often the main benefit that volunteers claim is the satisfaction and rewarding feeling that they receive from helping someone in need. This can really enhance their feelings and wellbeing. Some volunteers can also gain a specific experience and skill set that can help them to remain mentally active in later life. For younger people, such experiences and new skills can be an asset when seeking employment or further learning opportunities.
Academic studies have also concluded that, on some level, certain voluntary work can help promote an individual's physical and mental health, especially for the more elderly generations. Feeling useful and having a productive role in society can often offset the negative feelings that can come with retirement from work or the loss of caring duties, either for a family or for others in need. Finally, conducting voluntary work often broadens a person's horizons too and helps them to grow in both social intelligence and awareness.
Therefore, it is clear that there is much good that comes from volunteering both for those in need and those volunteering to help. It has become a significant and welcome part of the fabric of British life. This is especially true for those in later life who volunteer in great numbers and benefit greatly as a result. However, in doing so, it is worth asking the question whether that participation enhances the provision or whether it replaces it altogether. It may not matter in the short term, when people's needs are most urgent, but it may be significant in the longer term, Volunteering is already shaping the way many communities and societies work and not always for the better.
As people get older it is harder to run marathons and race up and down the swimming lanes. However, we do know that exercise helps older people to keep healthy and keep unhelpful weight at bay. For many, such exercise itself is simply not enjoyable and for others not possible. However, such strenuous pastimes are not the only way to keep fit and burn calories. Housekeeping and gardening can also help you keep off the pounds. Here are some calorie-burning home and garden chores, with estimated hourly calorie-burn rates for an average person. They are only estimates, of course, as each person dusts, cleans or mows at a different pace and burns a different number of calories.
Digging and raking leaves not only burn a lot of calories but also can help tone muscles in arms and legs. Indeed, 30 minutes of digging in the garden can burn about 315 calories, the same amount burned by 45 minutes of bicycling on a flat surface. Weeding for 30 minutes can burn 115 calories, the same amount burned in 15 minutes of weight training. Raking leaves for 30 minutes can burn 225 calories with the resistance offered by leaves making this task a type of weight training. Simply washing your own car, or helping others to wash theirs, works our abdominal muscles and every 30 minutes of car washing can burn 143 calories.
Housework also helps to burn calories. For example, scrubbing the bath or bathroom tiles for 30 minutes can burn 200 calories and carrying shopping bags for 30 minutes can burn 190 calories, more if the bags are particularly heavy. Making beds for 30 minutes can burn 130 calories, the same number used if you jogged on a treadmill for 15 minutes. Cleaning windows for 30 minutes can burn 125 calories, the same number used in 20 minutes of power yoga while vacuuming for 30 minutes can burn about 90 calories, the same amount burned in 15 minutes of kick-boxing. Finally, simply climbing stairs for 30 minutes can burn about a significant 285 calories.
The calories burned while you're doing household chores can really add up in terms of calories burned. So if you don't have time to pump weights at the gym, or attend Pilates classes, or even have the inclination to do so, then substitute them with everyday household tasks or jobs in the garden. As people get older, there is a natural inclination to employ someone else to do such tasks but there are significant benefits from do such work yourself if you can. It can stretch and tone your muscles and can burn up to 315 calories an hour - that's more than twice as many as we would burn up sitting in front of the television.
The report produced following the national review of public libraries conducted by William Sieghart on behalf of the government makes interesting reading for later life learners. The outcomes have been widely welcomed and it is hard to argue with too much of what it says and suggests. However, the question is, will the proposed changes make things better for those in later life?
While not acting against the current cuts to public sector funding, it commits itself to a thriving service and suggests it remains in the hands of local authorities as now rather than as a national service as in many countries. It does, however, propose greater collaboration and co-operation between them although this would be on a voluntary basis. It passionately states that, "the library does more than simply loan books. It underpins every community." with which most people would whole-heartedly agree. However, it does little to suggest how that situation might be preserved or enhanced in the future.
The report goes on to stress the need for digital upgrades in libraries including installing wifi, involving ebooks and elending and training staff in their use. Although vital, some commentators have seen this as a way of saving money on books and other types of resources and some fear it might mitigate the need to visit libraries in person. The report also looks at communities, charities and not-for-profit companies as future leaders of libraries and praises the use of volunteers. It does so, however, in a balanced way and recognises the question of the long-term viability of using such organisations and people.
Much of the media led with the suggestion of putting in coffee bars but this is only one small aspect albeit one to consider. We already have many coffee bars – what we lack are places for people in later life to go to learn. In fact, overall, there is a lack of emphasis on learning. If learning is thought of as just reading books, then books are plentiful being either cheap in charity shops or free through other organisations. It is learning that will sustain wellbeing and mental capacity into later life and this is best done communally, thoughtfully and actively. So let's start with libraries as the 'centre for learning for all' with all staff trained in effective learning techniques across the age range; and if that involves reading books or drinking coffee as well, that's' fine.
When in office, it was reported that the then Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, was red-faced after forgetting the name of a Labour Party business supporter in an interview with BBC Newsnight. "His surname has just gone from my head, which is a bit annoying," he said at the time. He described Bill Thomas, the person who aided the drawing up of the party's small business policies, as simply "Bill" and when pressed could not give his surname.
This is understandable as everyone forgets things from time to time, at any age, and especially in relatively stressful situations such as an interview. I remember thinking at the time that what is not understandable, nor forgivable, is that a day later Mr. Balls tweeted to excuse his memory slip by stating, "It's an age thing!"
This is exactly the ill-informed and lazy approach to later life, and those in it, that leads to such stereotyping of older people. It would not, perhaps have been 'acceptable' for Mr. Balls to say he was 'stressed' or 'overworked' or 'tired' as these may be construed as signs of weakness. However, he sights getting older when there is no evidence that unless you are suffering from specific conditions or illnesses that you should not retain a good memory.
For Mr. Balls to state such a thing at the tender age of 47 is inexcusable. What does it say about his understanding of the ageing process and especially about those still working or holding positions of responsibility way beyond his comparatively young age? His remarks may not been meant to be taken too seriously but words spoken in such a way often reveal underlying prejudices and can have more serious consequences.
I suggest he is honest with himself and others about the effects on memory of the workload associated with his life and position and has a serious discussion about work-life balance and reasonable expectations. He should also apologise to those 'of an age' for being condescending and instead celebrate the great contribution they make. Really, it's an honesty thing !
A century ago, scientists were only really able to study the brain when it was non-living. In other words when it had been removed following a post-mortem. However, scientific progress has been rapid since that time and many great discoveries and inventions have happened, especially in the last 50 years. Now we have developed a range of instruments and techniques to enable us to study the human brain when it, and the body it's in, are both living.
Most of these tools are based on the principle that brain cells transmit information in the form of 'electrical impulses'. When they 'fire' they send a signal that can be detected and recorded as images. The first use of such techniques occurred using probes on the brains of volunteers undergoing open skull surgery to cure epilepsy. This is possible because the brain contains no pain receptors and so the patient can be kept awake feeling no pain. It was found that stimulating small regions of the brain affected different senses and actions and even the recalling of vivid memories from childhood.
However, more non-invasive ways of evaluating brain activity have now been created. One way is using the knowledge that the electrical impulses, as they move in brain cells, generate magnetic fields. These can be measured outside the head and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners use magnetism to look at the different magnetic properties of various parts of the brain. Other techniques use radioactive 'tracers', which are chemicals injected into the bloodstream. As the radioactive blood travels around the brain it emits positrons, invisible radioactive emissions, which PET (positron emission tomography) scanners outside the head can detect. In the last 15 years techniques have also been developed to measure the amount of oxygen regions of brain cells are using as they function (using functional MRI scanners) and for the first time scientists can actually see the brain at work.
It sounds complicated but for those people who's brains need attention, and for all of us who may need such instruments in the future, it is fortunate and reassuring to live in a time of such human ingenuity and scientific discovery.


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Q: How to change zimbra login screen logo height? I have prepared a login image for my new e-mail system (Zimbra). Then I have changed hhe contents of file /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/skins/_base/base3/skin.properties
...
90 LoginH1 = margin:0 0 30px 30px;
91 LoginAppName = display:none;
92 LoginLabelColor = @TxtC@
93 LoginButton = @ButtonShadowDefault@ border:1px solid @ButtonBorderColor@;
94 LoginBannerImg = @LogoImgDir@/LoginBanner.png?v=@jsVersion@

//95 LoginBanner = @img(, LoginBannerImg, 450px, 36px)@ //old
95 LoginBanner = @img(, LoginBannerImg, 450px, 90px)@ //new

96 LoginFooterColor =  color:@darken(AppC,55)@;
97 LoginErrorPanel =  background-color:#FF9; padding:5px; @roundCorners(8px)@
...

Eventhough I have changed the value 36px to 90px at line 95, it shows my custom login image at 36px height still. It is shown well on Internet Explorer, the image's whole view is not showed on Mozilla Firefox.
After page loads I have this CSS code at file /css/common,login,zhtml,skin.css?skin=serenity&v=131203105340 :
.ImgLoginBanner{
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    background-image:url(/skins/_base/logos/LoginBanner_white.png?v=131203105340);
    width:450px;
    height:36px;
 }

A: I have restarted the server. It is ok now.

A: Just for ease - instead of restarting the server, this would have done the job immediately:
zmmailboxdctl restart


I came by this book by accident. Found it laying on a seat in a coach going to the Italian Alps. I decided to give it a try for two reasons. Firstly, I've heard about the book and it struck me it was the finalist of the Pulitzer Prize. Secondly, I noticed increasing difficulty in maintaining attention while reading myself. What I hoped to be a winter romance, ended up as a single serving friend, leaving rather mixed feelings.
In the history of mankind, there were three inventions that overhauled the way we think: the clock, the print, and the web. The human brain is neuroplastic and flexible – the most often we use any particular area, the more it grows its neural connections. Additionally, in case of emergency (accident, surgery), some parts can take responsibility for the others. Because of the amount of information we receive nowadays (study from 2009 showed about 34GB a day) we can notice a shift in the way of thinking. We tend to move from deep, focused and thoughtful sessions to multitasking and information skimming. This drove us toward difficulty with maintaining attention in situations that take more time and don't flourish with stimulation ex. reading longer text forms. Finally, we started treating smartphones as extensions of our brain. It lets us store data, notifications, dates, guide us through a new town and much more. Since it reliefs brain from those tasks, it has a side effect of decreasing neural connections, which leads to difficulty in memorization, disorientation etc.
And there it is… I admit Carr did the homework and well documented every theory with convincing levels of example, mostly scientific research. Surely the way people interact with the Internet has changed and treating it as air, from which we breathe information may result in creating a shallower form of intelligence. The curse of abundance – too much data, too quickly, too divergently, too distractedly, too unassociatively, and with too much finality.
Reading The Shallow in 2019 surely won't open your eyes. The theories became facts. So does the book became obsolete? Yes and no. Yes, because most of the information depicted in The Shallow as shocking is now taken for granted. And no – it's more actual than ever as we tend to integrate stronger and stronger with mobile devices, constantly being attached to the web. Is this a bad thing though? It doesn't make much sense to answer that question, it's just inevitable.
Welcome to the second part of the tutorial, in which I'll show you how to deploy a LAMP stack on your droid smartphone. Here's the link to the previous part.
As far as I'm concerned there are three ways to launch a web server on the android device.
First and the most challenging is to install Linux natively. This would require native drivers for your smartphone, as the android layer would be wiped out totally. I've seen some examples of such ports of HTC devices, however, I was unable to find any materials for my Xperia or other brands. If you've heard about such projects, don't hesitate and let me know.
Alternatively, you can install one of the web server apps, that emulate the environment and let you use the AMP stack such as PAW Server, KSWeb, BIT Web Server or any other. The advantage of this solution is that you don't need to root your device. You can have a preconfigured environment waiting for deployment in a blink of an eye. The downside is that you don't have the flexibility of Linux machine, ability to install any additional software, get the latest version of PHP, Apache2, SQL. Also, it lacks configuration options.
The third option and the one I went for is to use rooted device along with Linux Deploy, Busy Box (you'll have this one already installed if you followed the first part of this tutorial) and Remote VNC for streaming the Linux desktop. Basically, it lets you create a virtual machine running a distribution of Linux of your choice. It seems to be the best of two worlds: you can use everything Linux has to offer and don't have to worry about the drivers. Surely it won't run so smoothly as a native installation would, but the performance is ok for most of the needs.
First install BusyBox – it gives your phone access to the Linux commands required by the Linux Deploy virtual machine. Once you install it, you do not have to worry about it.
Open Linux Deploy and make sure it has administrator privileges. Now press the small download button in the top or bottom corner of the screen. This will take you to the options menu. Most of the settings here can be left as they are, you can choose the Linux distribution. Everything is here – from Debian and Ubuntu to Kali Linux, Gentoo, Fedora and others. Each distribution has its own quirks and fans. One difference worth noticing is that there are two packages standards – DEB and YUM. In most cases it's not a huge difference, however unless you own a Snapdragon 835 or newer, your software packages will be limited to the ones based on x64 libraries. For the sake of this tutorial, I went for Ubuntu which uses apt manager for DEB packages.
Next you should choose an installation directory and set the size of virtual machine image. This is important because by default the image size is set to 2GB, while the system files can take up to 1.6GB, leaving you with 400MB for your experiments. In case you use fat32 file system on your device/sdcard the max size you can use is roughly 4GB. If you're lucky and your device is able to read ext4 cards, then you'll be limited to 16TB per image or rather the card capacity.
Next under the GUI category tick enable under GUI to ensure you have a graphical interface to work with and check out the GUI Settings. Choosing the resolution is up to you. I'd suggest to set it to either your smartphone default resolution in case you'll display it on a smartphone or to the native resolution of any external screen you want to use. Set your username to 'root' to give yourself privileged access and make a note of the password.
Now click the menu that looks like three dots and click 'Install'. This will take a little while but will install the entire Linux distro on your device. Click the 'Start' button to run it in 'chroot' – essentially a small sub-compartment on your device. Finally, you'll use VNC Viewer in order to actually view the GUI. Load it up and set the address to 'localhost:5900'. Then enter the password that you set earlier. You can either install VNC on your smartphone or desktop just as you'd use any remote desktop. In case you'd want to stream the Linux desktop to your smartphone directly, you need a USB to MicroUSB OTG cable and a set of keyboard and mouse for convenience.
The -y flag tells apt to go ahead and update the system without prompting you. Next you'll need some kind of text editor. Personally I used nano, but actually any is going, to be fine. It's up to your preference.
…or any other mentioned catalog in the log. If that doesn't help, try setting the access rights by running CHMOD -R 777 for given directory and gradually decrease the rights.
Check if you have any free space on the partition, if you do and the error persists, try changing the owner of the catalog recursively as in the previous example.
My journey with the Coderslab coding boot camp is coming to an end. For the final project, I've decided to design an online film database parser, implementing RESTful API and turn it into a simple website. If you're interested, please follow this link to Github, where you'll find both project source files and detailed description. It should offer only a single functionality – option to select a random movie matching chosen criteria (been ever wondering what to watch this evening?). To spice it up slightly and make myself an opportunity to implement some SQL performance tuning, I decided to deploy the website on an experimental architecture.
My first thought went to Raspberry Pi due to its incredible fan base and an immense amount of high-quality tutorials. Then I remembered that I have a glossy orange Sony Xperia Z3 Compact in my drawer, which works perfectly fine despite screen issues. Android system is based on Linux, so I thought while being more challenging, turning the phone into mobile, waterproof (almost!), the battery-powered web server would be also more satisfying.
In this piece, I'd like to have a quick look at the book-based learning in 2017 and why it's a good idea to always reach out for the original pieces rather than localizations, even if it does require a bit of a stretch.
I've spent several years working on technical translations in various fields, including IT. In general, the content is sent to translation/localization for one main reason. The idea of expanding and reaching the new audience. However, the situation with the handbooks, especially in IT doesn't quite fall into this category. In a few steps, I'll try to convince you why it's much better to reach for the books written originally in English.
While sorting the array in ascending order we set the first loop and the first element in the array as a minimum.
We set up a second loop with a range of the second till the last element, as it doesn't make much sense to compare the first element with itself.
If any of the remaining elements in the array is lower than the first, we set it as a minimum.
As a final step, the lowest value is swapped with the first value (at 0 index).
The loop continues with j+1 element as a minimum and j+1+1 as the remaining range.
The first and second elements (4 and 2) are compared and swapped if out of order. Then the second and third elements (4 and 5) are compared and swapped if out of order and so on. The algorithm consists of two loops. In each iteration a single value is set in the right place. This sorting process continues until the last two elements of the array are compared and swapped if out of order (the last iteration doesn't swap any values).
I'd like to share my thought regarding the developers' boot camps and help you answer the question: "should I sign up for a coding bootcamp?" from a camper perspective. According to all indications coding boot camps still seem to gain momentum. Though it's not a new term worldwide, it was not until 2016 when the industry stopped being locally sterile. When new opportunities appeared in Cracow, I was a skeptic at first. I started self-studying by following the freecodecamp front-end path, accompanied by Pluralsight and Udemy video courses. Almost all of these are free or cost next to nothing compared to any boot camp. The price is one of the main no-go factors, but we'll talk about it in a second.
Every blog has its first post, this is the one. I'd like to begin with a short introduction. I'm 28, based in Cracow, working full time as a translator and trying to dive into the ocean of programming. The idea of software development has been circling around my mind for several years. Although I gave it a try few times, it yielded no success. I bet started in a similar fashion as many of you, dear readers – looking around and trying to figure out what the hell should I begin with.
Does "Thinking in Java" rings a bell? Few years ago I thought it was a great idea to grab it pair with some online course. The choice fell on "Java for complete beginners" by John Purcell. The knowledge was substantial yet somehow, lacking IT background, I couldn't wrap my mind around it and… no offence John, I must admit to something. The mix of low tone voice accompanied by a classical intro took stronger effect than a sleeping pill. This phenomena still astonishes me – I started fresh just to feel drowsy after 6 minutes, and after the 12 minute mark I could fall asleep anywhere, anytime, literally.


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Vanderbilt's Scrap Metal Battery Stores Renewable Energy
John N Nov 17, 2016 at 5:15 am GMT
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Given the steady growth of renewable energy sources, Ray Kurzweil has predicted that solar energy could be the number one energy source within a decade. Despite its likelihood, the biggest impediment to solar dominance is the ability to efficiently store the energy collected.
In order to solve the storage issue, researchers at Vanderbilt University suggest using scrap metal.
"Imagine that the tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide energy storage for the renewable energy grid of the future," says Vanderbilt University assistant professor Cary Pint, "instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment."
Faced with millions of tons of annual brass and steel waste, the Vanderbilt researchers began exploring different ways to best utilize those materials in order to develop a viable battery to store renewable energies.
The team drew inspiration from the "Baghdad Battery," a controversial discovery of ancient metals inside a clay pot found with traces of electrolytes. While most experts assert that the pot and metal rods were used to store sacred scrolls, the Vanderbilt students used it as a model for a simple, elegant battery.
The team of mechanical engineers "Vanderbuilt" the first steel-brass battery capable of storing as much energy as a conventional lead-acid battery.
More than its comparable capacity for storage, the charge and discharge rates for the junkyard battery were equivalent to the those of the latest, most state-of-the-art supercapacitors.
The secret to these impressive specifications is anodization, or a chemical treatment that gives aluminum its sturdy, polished finish.
Scrap steel and brass were anodized using readily available, common household chemicals. Then, the anodized metals were given an electrical current. The researchers discovered that the metal surfaces were restructured into nano-sized networks of metal oxides that, when allowed to react with a liquid electrolyte, could store and release energy efficiently.
"The scrap metal battery is not only energy dense but also delivers power at supercapacitor speeds."
Scrap steel and brass were anodized using readily available, common household chemicals. Then, the anodized metals were given an electrical current.
The researchers discovered that the metal surfaces were restructured into nano-sized networks of metal oxides that, when allowed to react with a liquid electrolyte, could store and release energy efficiently.
Like the discovery itself, the superior performance of the battery was unexpected: the metal oxides were also responsible for they battery's stability, allowing the design to withstand more than 5000 charging cycles while retaining more than 90 percent of its original capacity.
Power up!
Most conventional batteries require a tradeoff between capacity and charging speed.
The new scrap metal battery, on the other hand, is not only energy dense but also capable of delivering power quickly at supercapacitor speeds. These two characteristics could potentially make steel-brass batteries the most efficient form of energy storage on the market.
Market demand is surely there, and with this proof of concept, the team is now tasked with is creating a startup, a commercially viable prototype and locating investment opportunities to help bring their impressive yet simple design to market.
The junkyard battery not only potentially solves the problem of efficient energy storage, but also creates a solution that promotes circular economies to more efficiently leverage waste.
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