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Making youth AI ready, responsibly!
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Among other things that will have an impact on our lives in the new, post-COVID world, the biggest and the largest will probably result from emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. A report by TEHELKA BUREAU
Giving the digital revolution due cognizance, the government, as early as 2017-2018 prioritized building AI capabilities and mandated NITI Aayog to start a national programme to direct efforts in this area. Consequently, National Strategy for AI — #AIforAll, was launched in June 2018. It focuses on leveraging Artificial Intelligence for inclusive growth in line with the Government policy of Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas. The approach is to leverage exponential technologies toward inclusive growth, develop population-scale AI solutions for societal needs and leverage India's unique position to be a global leader for inclusive technologies.
The National Education Policy 2020 further acknowledged the importance of Artificial Intellignce and emphasized on preparing students for an AI driven economy. The policy focuses on making education more experiential and future-oriented, building crucial skills such as data analysis, computational thinking etc. from a young age through teaching of contemporary subjects such as Artificial Intelligence.
The 2021 Government of India Union Budget also announced a 'Digital First Mindset' and the proposed National Digital Educational Architecture (NDEAR) will further help create a new approach in the education system and become a cornerstone for advancing digital education architecture and infrastructure.
An AI driven economy requires rigorous programs and interventions to address current and future AI skill gaps and empower a larger non-technical audience with AI social skills and tech skills for real world applications.
To address the requirements for being 'future-ready' and as part of its vision of a future which is Responsible, Inclusive and Sustainable, Intel has been working in close collaboration with governments world over. In India, Intel partnered with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, to help build AI readiness through various programs and initiatives.
These programs are designed to reach out to people, especially the youth across the country, and nurture an AI ecosystem empowering the next-gen to become
AI ready.
With CBSE, Ministry of Education, Intel India curated relevant content keeping in mind the needs of a digital future. This knowledge is being transferred by organizing hands-on skilling sessions for the youth pan India in the form of boot camps, in class teaching-learning, live session etc., where learners are taught the basics of
AI, its application etc.
These youngsters are then encouraged to look around themselves and find local problems to solve with the intervention of AI. They are offered one on one mentoring sessions with Intel coaches to develop social impact projects.
As an effort to nurture an AI ecosystem, a students' community known as AISC or Artificial Intelligence Student Community has been co-created by CBSE and Intel India. Young AI enthusiasts have taken a shine to it and the online community has 19,000 plus members who actively attend training, participate in debates, discussions and join guest lectures organized with industry experts from wide-ranging fields such as climate crisis,Social Development Goals, IPR, AI ethics, AI startups etc.
Another exclusive program 'Responsible AI for Youth' to provide opportunities to students from government schools pan India was launched in partnership with MeitY. Designed by National e-Governance Division (NeGD), and Intel India the aim of the programme is to empower youth to become 'AI ready' and help India become a talent hub for skilled workforce which would be hugely in demand within a few years.
The fact that India was among the very few nations which recognized the need to start skilling its people, 'Responsible AI for Youth' reached out to more than 52, 000 students in 35 states and UTs. Since January this year, after being chosen over a thousand others, 125 students have been working relentlessly on developing AI enabled indigenous solutions for community issues. In the next few months, a showcase may be planned to share these real time solutions.
Shweta Khurana, Director- Asia Pacific and Japan, Government Partnerships & Initiative, Intel, often reiterates Intel's aim to work with 30,000 institutions the world over to empower 30 million youth with AI to support United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Talking at an education forum recently, she re-affirmed the company's intent to aid government's efforts to demystify and democratize AI for All, "Digital readiness encompasses not only learning new skills, but also trusting emerging technologies like AI and its applications and building further on them for larger good".
As part of the CBSE-Intel MOU signed in February 2020, one of the areas of proposed collaboration had been to provide students with internship/ apprenticeship opportunities. A week-long virtual apprenticeship- a first-of-its-kind event was organized recently- in partnership with the National Youth Council, Singapore and the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore. For Indian students working and interacting with their peers from Singapore, and learning from the best in tech start-ups there, proved to be an enviable opportunity.
In tune with the Diversity and Inclusion policy of the nation and the tech giant, special focus has been given to skilling youth in North Eastern Region — Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim along with the Aspirational districts of Dahod in Gujarat, Yaadgir in Karnataka, Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Geysling in Sikkim
As a nation we will do well to remember that maybe few years down the line, not only will there be a profusion of jobs with technical aspects like a Data Specialist or an IoT Specialist but jobs with a non-technical inclination like that of a doctor or a teacher will also be augmented with AI fusion. So, it is time that we provide AI for All to ensure a successful human and machine partnership in a responsible environment, in the new economy.
On the first anniversary of the National Education Policy 2020, with the aim to raise awareness and demystify AI for the general public, CBSE, MOE and Intel launched AI for ALL. It is a 4-hour self paced micro learning programme which works to give a basic understanding of AI for everyone, be it a student, a stay-at-home parent, a professional in any field or a senior citizen. The program is divided into two sections: AI Aware, and AI
Appreciate. Each section includes images and interactive activities with a short and easy quiz. Every user who completes these quizzes, can download his/her own AI Aware and AI Appreciate badges and even share it on social media. It is available in 11 Indian languages, is compatible with various talkback applications to make it accessible for visually impaired citizens and is currently hosted on CBSE website.
Going forward any national AI policy has a bigger role to play as the world looks at automation along with reskilling and upskilling the workforces to revitalize and rebuild human capital. As we witness a digital commotion taking place around us, it is amply clear that in the post-COVID world, we will need to arm ourselves with human digital readiness based on creating skilled workforce, trust, responsible usage for all the emerging technologies, to make the best of this.
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Q: Docker:How to get exact time the Docker host receives the request & exact time the Docker container receives the request in docker? I have a Django application running inside docker container. But because of some reason my application became very slow. I want to use profiling to my application.
For that I check with Apache & nginx logs.Then want to get more picture on this.How to get the exact time the docker host receives the request & exact time docker container receives the request.
Any help will be awesome!!!

A: The way I have seen this work in the past is to add a custom header with the current timestamp including milliseconds to each request as you are reverse proxying the requests. In your case this would be done on your nginx config. Something like this
proxy_set_header X-Request-Start "t=${msec}";

Then on the Apache side before it process the request you can do the same thing.
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RequestHeader set X-Request-Start-2 "%t"

You could even record when the response is finished and have 3 points in time to compare.
Then in your logs, or django, or in your metrics gathering system, you can compare the time between the points to find out how long it takes to go from nginx to Apache, and that is the request queue time. It should be pretty fast, but if Apache isn't tuned correctly it is possible the requests are getting queued while waiting for others to get processed.
You can use something like new relic who can scope out all the details of the request and show you the results in a pretty graph. They even have a free version that does what you are looking for, and they support docker.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has been appointed to a group that advises the White House on homeland security and national defense issues.
Ducey was appointed by President Donald Trump to join the Council of Governors. It's a bipartisan group of 10 governors, representatives of the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the president's advisers, the Coast Guard and the National Guard Bureau.
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Bell Inn, Nottingham
A medieval proverb claimed that if the abbot of Glastonbury married the Abbess of Shaftsbury, they would have more land than the King. Apparently, this was true. Henry VIII was enraged. The clergy had more money than he did. Much more. To fatten the royal purse, Henry sacked almost all monasteries, priories, and nunneries in England.
The Whitefriars Priory of Nottingham was spared. As a refectory built around 1420, it made a great alehouse in 1539. Henry may have disliked friars, but he didn't mind ale. An Angelous bell hung outside the building, so it was named "The Bell Inn." Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem and Ye Olde Salutation Inn and the Bell Inn are the oldest pubs in town.
The pub main entrance leads to the Snack Bar in the old flagstoned stables. There are the leprosy windows in the entranceway where customers had their fingers counted before entering. The Tudor Room bar and Lizzie's Bar date from 1437. The upper floor houses The Belfry restaurant and The Crown Post Room. The Belfry is also used for private functions.
The honeycomb of caves beneath the Inn date back to Norman times. There are two old wells and a network of blind tunnels going in all directions. Tours of the caves can be arranged, but watch your step and ask about hardhats.
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AASW Senate submission strongly backs social workers on Nauru
President Professor Karen Healy says that the treatment of the 10 Save the Children staff removed from Nauru was appalling.
'They were effectively made scapegoats for the unrest on Nauru which was caused by the Minister's issuing of a confrontational video and poor management by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection,' said Professor Healy.
'The AASW's submission highlights that the abuse and neglect of children on Nauru were not isolated incidents but integral to the way the detention centre has been established.'
Professor Healy says the immigration detention centre on Nauru is designed to be oppressive and the human rights of children and adolescents are being violated.
'The centre should be closed,' she said. 'While Nauru remains open, the oppressive conditions substantially increase the likelihood of child abuse including sexual abuse.'
The fact that professional social workers consistently reported allegations of abuse on Nauru was also brought to the attention of the Senate, in contrast to the Minister's claims, Professor Healy said.
'Serious allegations were reported by the social workers in Nauru to Save the Children Australia, which then passed the information on to the Government in line with their agreement.
'That makes it difficult to believe that the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection only knew of the sexual abuse allegations when he asked Phillip Moss to conduct an inquiry.'
'The violation of human rights in an offshore detention centre from which the media and the Australian Human Rights Commission is excluded makes the conditions on Nauru extraordinary,' Professor Healy said.
'The AASW strongly supports the obligation of its members to legitimately report child abuse and neglect on Nauru, and to advocate on the human rights of children and the most vulnerable. The Government's attempt to restrain the ability of professionals on Nauru to speak out, by including secrecy provisions in their contracts and threatening persecution under the Crimes Act, is inappropriate and a breach of ethical responsibilities.'


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Autistic boys and men show notable differences in brain development, according to magnetic resonance imaging scans taken over a 16-year period.
The results, published in NeuroImage in April, build on an eight-year study of some of the same people and add two more time points to the previous three.
"With the addition of these time points, we now see that these non-uniform regional volumetric differences really persist into very late childhood," says co-lead investigator Brandon Zielinski, associate professor of pediatrics and of neurology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
He and his colleagues scanned the brains of 105 autistic and 125 non-autistic boys and men at up to five time points from 2003 to 2019. Participants ranged in age from 6 to 45 years at the first scan. Although the researchers recruited some new participants over the course of the study, 73 percent of the original autistic participants and 50 percent of controls underwent all five scans.
Autistic boys tended to have more gray matter early in childhood but a similar volume to that of controls by age 12, the researchers found. Conversely, their ventricles, which produce and transport cerebrospinal fluid throughout the brain, started out the same size as controls but tended to expand by age 21. The corpus callosum, a band of nerve fibers that connects the brain's two hemispheres, tended to grow more slowly and ended up smaller than that of controls by age 36.
Many of the findings replicate previous research, says Eric Courchesne, professor of neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego.
"But they've done it a different way. They've improved it," he says. "And that shows the process of science."
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At the new, fifth time point, the researchers divided the autistic participants into two subgroups — 61 people who still met the diagnostic criteria for autism, according to their scores on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, and a group of 17 of people who no longer did.
Those who continued to meet the diagnostic criteria tended have a smaller corpus callosum than those who did not, the team found.
Finding this sort of structural difference within the autism group was unexpected and "really interesting," says study investigator Molly DuBray Prigge, a research associate in Zielinski's lab. "Now we're wanting to look back and see, how stable are these individuals [who no longer meet the diagnostic criteria]? If we brought them back in two years, would they also still no longer meet criteria for [autism]?"
Prigge also did not expect to find that ventricle size appeared increase with age at a greater rate in the autism group than in the controls, she says.
Previous studies have found enlarged ventricles in autistic adults, but the greater rate of increase is a new finding, made possible by this study's longitudinal design, the researchers note.
Most imaging studies in autism research are cross-sectional, meaning they compare single scans from participants of different ages, Prigge says. But longitudinal studies such as this one enable researchers to examine an individual's development over time, providing insight that a cross-sectional study would not.
"Looking at those within-subject changes is really important," says Carrie Bearden, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study. "It's so hard to get these long, multiple-time-point studies."
The study design also enabled the team to look at developmental trends across a broad age range in less time than would be possible in a traditional longitudinal study, in which all participants would be similar in age, Zielinski says.
Still, the results do not explain why the differences exist, and the findings may not apply to girls and women.
Different scanning techniques may offer additional insights, Prigge says, noting that the group also uses functional magnetic resonance imaging. And so might additional scans: They have since scanned many of the same participants a sixth time to see if the development patterns they have observed continue.
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Better Communication for Better Partnerships
September/October 2020, Volume :26 Number 5 , page 512 - 513 [Free]
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As local and state governmental public health agencies seek to address the root causes of health inequities and deficiencies in their communities, they must go beyond their own sector to find answers. Community-wide change cannot happen without strong partnerships between public health, business, education, health care, housing, and other sectors. But many public health officials are not at the table for important discussions and decisions that will have a direct impact on the health of their community and its residents. Starting new partnerships starts with new conversations, which means public health professionals need to be better at communicating what public health is, what public health professionals do, and the value of public health.
Communicating the functions and value of public health is challenging even for seasoned practitioners. Professionals are further hindered by a lack of tools and resources that specifically address the barriers to effective communication between public health and other sectors. Despite such complications, public health professionals do want to connect with sectors outside their own. In the most recent Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), 38% of state and local government public health workers identified cross-sector partnerships as an important training need. To open the door to effective partnerships and communication, public health professionals need to understand what matters to other sectors and fill identified needs.
Tools for Improving Communication
The de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute's Health, Medicine and Society Program created Public Health Reaching Across Sectors (PHRASES) to identify and overcome communication gaps between public health and other sectors.
As part of PHRASES, the FrameWorks Institute interviewed public health officials and conducted in-depth research with leaders in 4 other sectors-business, education, health care, and housing. Their findings revealed major differences in perceptions of public health and cross-sector partnerships. Leaders in these sectors had differing views about collaboration, the competencies of public health professionals, and health as a general concept. These gaps in communication undermine cross-sector collaboration and indicate that public health has an opportunity to facilitate better conversations and explain its value to people outside the field.
By examining the cultural models that show how leaders from other sectors view public health and the gaps in communication, the FrameWorks Institute created framing recommendations for public health professionals, which the de Beaumont Foundation and the Aspen Institute used to create practical tools. Forming the foundation of the tools are 2 metaphors (the Foundation of Community Health and GPS Navigation) and a value statement (the Value of Investment) that make public health concepts simple for others to understand. These metaphors and value statement were designed and tested specifically to close gaps in understanding between public health experts and professionals in other sectors. In multiple settings and with multiple audiences, they were shown to be effective.
When making new connections with potential partners, public health leaders may be more effective by using 1 or more of these tested approaches in framing their messaging.
Community Health Depends on a Strong Multisector Foundation
The Foundation of Community Health metaphor helps people understand that achieving good health relies on a solid foundation, which includes quality education, safe and affordable housing, employment opportunities, and access to health care. In building the Foundation of Community Health, public health practitioners are not the architects calling the shots; rather, they work with other community leaders to build a strong foundation that supports good health for all.
The metaphor is an effective way to talk about the social determinants of health without using insider jargon. As the public becomes more cognizant of the role of equity in community health and well-being, social determinants are at the forefront of these conversations, although most people do not use that term. Describing the conditions that influence health and well-being as the foundations of good community health is more likely to resonate with people outside public health.
Public Health Works Like GPS Navigation
Just as GPS helps people visualize and navigate complex terrain, public health professionals draw on a wealth of data to chart out routes for where their community wants to be. The GPS Navigation metaphor illustrates how public health uses data from a range of sources to help guide decisions and improve community health. When using this metaphor, it is important to note that public health is not in the driver's seat, nor is it giving directions. Instead, public health can help partners map out an effective route to success when addressing their own challenges. With plenty of data-driven recommendations at its disposal, public health processes the input from multiple sectors and offers numerous options for getting from point A to point B. Along the way, public health keeps these sectors informed of potential roadblocks, shortcuts, and other considerations that may alter the course.
Public Health Is a Smart Investment
Public health professionals work with other sectors to save money in the short term when possible and make wise long-term investments to support community health, increase efficiency, and reduce unnecessary costs. Sectors such as business, education, health care, and housing all need to consider both short- and long-term organizational goals. Public health professionals can help other sectors identify opportunities to reduce costs and inefficiencies while also promoting community health. Showing that cross-sector collaboration is mutually beneficial makes this value statement particularly useful in building enthusiasm for nontraditional partnerships.
Details are critical when explaining the Value of Investment. Public health practitioners can make their point more effectively by offering a realistic timeline for the return on investment and presenting a dollar figure when possible. When these factors are present, the Value of Investment statement helps public health practitioners tell compelling success stories about cross-sector collaboration.
The PHRASES tools can serve as a useful starting point for public health professionals seeking to connect with the many sectors that influence the health of their communities. Equipped with the tools to engage in productive discussions that lead to effective partnerships, public health practitioners can engage with other sectors to lay the groundwork for improving health for all.
For more information, visit http://PHRASES.org.


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Fred Bartlit, a renowned trial lawyer with 60 years of experience, explains the science behind exercising to combat sarcopenia. During this discussion with E. David Crawford, MD, he summarizes the main points of his book Choosing the StrongPath: Reversing the Downward Spiral of Aging.
Bartlit became interested in fitness and physical wellness in his 50's. During a gym session with his girlfriend at the time, she outperformed him, squatting 225 pounds for eight repetitions. Since then, he has dedicated himself to spreading knowledge about exercise physiology. Additionally, he is determined to flip the pessimistic and resigned outlook toward sarcopenia.
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By Thomas WalkomNational Affairs Columnist
Mon., Aug. 28, 2017timer3 min. read
The controversy over history has finally targeted John A. Macdonald. It was only a matter of time.
The only question now is which prime minister will be next.
Perhaps it was appropriate teachers pulled the trigger on Macdonald. The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, a union, went public last week with its call to strip the name of Canada's first prime minister from any schools using it.
There are at least three public schools in the Greater Toronto area named after Macdonald and at least nine in Ontario as a whole.
He's generally credited with being the key force behind the 1867 Confederation deal that created modern Canada.
But Macdonald was also very much of creature of his times. That meant, among other things, that he did not possess what today's world would call enlightened views on the place of Indigenous people in Canada.
To Victorians like Macdonald, native North Americans were troublesome remnants of a people whose time had come and gone.
They were also viewed as a real military threat. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which warriors inspired by Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated U.S. forces led by George Custer, occurred when the new Canada was only nine years old.
A few years later, in 1885, Macdonald sent Canadian troops to put down the Indigenous uprising in Saskatchewan known as the second Riel rebellion.
So perhaps it is not surprising that when it came to Indigenous people his main concern was to pacify and assimilate them through institutions, such as residential schools.
Not nice perhaps, but not surprising.
Should such a man be honoured by having his name attached to public schools? Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says no. Bellegarde may be right.
The problem is that Macdonald is not the only historical leader whose behaviour would fail to pass muster today.
Wilfrid Laurier, the Liberal prime minister whose government famously urged Eastern European "men in sheepskin coats" to settle the West, was in the broadest sense pro-immigration. But he also did his best to keep the Chinese out of Canada.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, the long-serving prime minister who steered Canada through the Second World War was, in the mid-1930s, a secret fan of Adolph Hitler's labour relations policies.
Under King, Canada was extremely reluctant to take in Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler.
J.S. Woodsworth, the first leader of what is now the New Democratic Party, was a fierce advocate of workers' rights. But his 1909 book on immigration, Strangers Within our Gates, uses race-based language that would get him expelled from today's NDP.
Robert Borden is generally regarded as a nation-builder who steered Canada through the First World War and into international prominence. But he can also be seen as a nation-buster, whose decision to introduce conscription fanned animosity between English and French Canada.
Even modern politicians are complicated. Pierre Trudeau was at one level a civil libertarian whose efforts led to Canada's constitutionally entrenched charter of rights and freedoms.
Yet he was also the man who, during the FLQ crisis of 1970, casually suspended civil rights, a move that led to the arrest without charge of almost 500 innocent people.
So who deserves to be honoured? Father of Confederation Hector-Louis Langevin apparently doesn't. His name was removed from a prominent federal building earlier this year because, during one of Macdonald's administrations, he had been put in charge of the residential school file.
Neither, it seems, does Clara Brett Martin. In 1989, an Ontario government building was named after Martin, the first woman admitted to the bar in the British Empire.
But a year later, her name was removed from the building. Someone had found a 1915 letter she wrote in which she made anti-Semitic slurs.
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For now Macdonald is safe. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has pledged not to strip his name from any schools. But I'd be surprised if any new government buildings were named after the first prime minister.
In fact, it might be less controversial to avoid naming anything after anybody. At least until we can find someone who will remain flawless for all time.
Thomas Walkom appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday.


Guided Tours - What's Good About Them?
Going on guided tours when you're visiting a new city is an option for every traveler - and there are so many tours available it's sometimes mind staggering.
For travel writers, these tours seem to get a bad rap. I have some travel writer friends who do all their travel independently. They would never consider taking a tour, and this camp of writers look down on tours with disdain.
On the flip side, I know some travel writers who only go on guided tours when they travel, without doing any exploration on their own.
I've read travel articles by writers in both camps. Strangely enough, I've enjoyed all the travel stories. What's more, I can't tell which of their travel stories were written from independent exploration of a place versus a tour. Perhaps the successful telling of a travel tale lies with the skill of the writer, not how they traveled.
We took this tour bus to Milford Sound in New Zealand. It's a long trip with winding, mountainous roads. We were happy to leave the driving to someone else!
I'd like to weigh in on the guided tour versus independent exploration issue, because I use both methods of exploring to good effect. I believe each method has its advantages.
For the travel writers who hold guided tours in contempt, I'd like to point out the advantages of taking these types of tours. They have more benefits than you might imagine!
If your time is limited. Guided tours cover the most exciting and interesting sights at a destination in a time efficient manner. Because of this, they're ideal for the travel writer with limited time at a destination.
Make it easy on yourself. Tours eliminate hassles with planning an itinerary and transport arrangements. It's all taken care of for you.
Quickly learn about a destination. Tour guides know enough about the sights to keep most tourists satisfied. As a travel writer, if you need more information you know how to research the attraction or destination before or after the visit, anyway. But don't underestimate their knowledge - many tour guides have a wealth of knowledge.
They do the driving. On a tour, your bus or van driver deals with the inevitable heavy traffic in large cities—one less stress for you to deal with.
They speak your language. You can find English speaking tour guides (and many other languages) even when you're in a country that doesn't speak your language. If you're lucky, they'll teach you a few words of their language, too.
Get free advice. Tour guides are happy to give you advice on other nearby sights, what you'll find there and how to get to out-of-the-way places. Sometimes they can help you plan other tours, group or individual.
They can provide bargaining basics. Your guide may help you barter in shopping markets, and tell you if what you have negotiated is a fair price. They can also tell you in advance how to bargain so that you don't offend anyone, and so that you can negotiate wisely.
Guides answer all types of questions. Tour guides are happy to answer questions about the local culture - and they never make you feel stupid no matter what you ask. Tour guides have answered all sorts of questions I've asked, like where the locals shop for bargains, what's the average wage, where's the best food away from the tourist traps, and much more. They're happy to answer practically any question and do it patiently and kindly.
Safety. Guided Tours are safer than exploring on your own. Just about every city in the world has shady and dangerous areas. Your guide knows where they are and how to avoid them. A good tour guide will watch for problems and intervene if you find yourself in strife.
Once on a tour of Beijing I was surrounded by an aggressive group of hawkers who would not leave me alone or let me out of their circle. The tour guide rescued me very quickly, told them off with a few quick words, and escorted me back to the bus. I would have had to literally push through them to escape their clutches if my guide hadn't helped.
There's potential to customize. All of the above points assume that a bunch of people signed up for a tour and you're in with the herd. But, tours may also provide you with an opportunity to customize your tour when you're the only one on the tour.
I've had some great customized tours when I was the only person who signed up for the tour. You might feel lonely initially when you meet your guide and find out you're the only one on the tour. But then you can use it to your advantage.
On a back country tour in New Zealand, our tour guide stopped on the side of a mountain and served us tea and biscuits (cookies) while we took in the scenery.
In addition to giving me the standard planned tour information, she told me a lot about herself. She was in her final year at University, she told me what she was studying, about her religion, and that her mother owned a restaurant in a small town 100 miles away. She told me about her life in South Korea.
She was also happy to spend more time at places I found interesting. She took photos of me along the tour route, and even escorted me to an English bookstore after the tour.
On another tour in Phuket, Thailand, when I was the only customer, my guide was quite happy to take me to a Cobra Snake Show instead of the Orchid Gardens that we were scheduled to visit.
When you are the sole tourist, you have some freedom to customize the tour route if your guide is amenable to it - and most of them are happy to do this. Don't be afraid to ask.
And, since they know you, they won't mind if you want to cut short a visit to an attraction, or spend more time at one. Always accept offers from friends and family to show you around when you visit their part of the world.
Not enough time for exploration of interesting places. If you find something particularly interesting, you might not be able to spend as much time there if you're on a tour. You generally can't make spontaneous explorations of interesting places you stumble across on a guided tour. The solution? Make a note to return to that place on another day, when you're free to explore on your own.
You're locked in with a herd of other tourists, some of who may be totally obnoxious. And there's usually one tourist who's late back to the bus, keeping everyone else waiting. (Don't let it be you!).
As a travel writer, if you did your advance research, you might know as much as the guide - or more. Keep it to yourself. You don't want to embarrass your guide or annoy fellow tourists with your knowledge.
That's my take on the advantages and disadvantages of guided tours.
For travel writers, most tours won't cover all the places you need to see for your assignments, so some independent exploration may be essential to complete your discovery and understanding of the place.
On my first day in a city, I generally take a guided tour. Doing this lets me get over any jet lag or travel fatigue while I learn the lay of the land. Then on subsequent days I'll switch to self-guided tours to spend more time at places that interest me, or where I have assignments, and the places I haven't yet visited.
You'll get the best of both worlds when you decide when it's worth it to join in on a guided tour or when it's better to head out on your own. Before you travel to a place, give some thought about when a tour will make your life easier, and then use them to your advantage when you get there.


As I prepared to observe the Orionid Meteor Shower last October 22, a nice celestial pairing of the waning crescent Moon (22% full) and the tiny planet Mars greeted my view. These two were roughly 8 degrees apart during this conjunction and were located just slightly above "the Sickle" in Leo. Unfortunately, the glow from the light-polluted city made the 1.2 magnitude Mars (on the upper left of the image) difficult to notice with the naked eye.
Mars appears to be like a plain bright red star right now that rises in the east during the wee hours after midnight. In the months ahead, Mars will brighten and will also rise earlier at night. By December 2011, this planet will climb over the eastern horizon before midnight. In January 2012, it'll be up by mid-evening, and even sooner on February 2012 evenings.
Mars will come closest to Earth in March 2012. It will be out from dusk till dawn, shining about nine times more brightly than it does at present. Even so, Mars won't be nearly as bright as the planets Venus or Jupiter.
Last Jan. 25, Saturn, Spica and the Moon formed a beautiful triangular celestial grouping. During the following days, early risers can watch the waning crescent Moon pass bright Venus, with Antares and Scorpius looking on. Check southeastern sky a few hours before sunrise.
Heavy smog caused by the cold, foggy weather and smoke generated by firecrackers and fireworks from the New Year's Eve celebration blanketed our suburban place during the early morning of January 1st. Despite this, I was still lucky enough to have witnessed even just the nice pairing of Venus and the Moon in the Eastern sky, a few minutes before sunrise. Below are some of the images I took using my point-and-shoot Kodak C813 8.0 megapixel digital camera. Images were a bit blurry because I didn't use a tripod.
A thin old Moon to the lower right of the planet Venus (1/1/11 at 5:47 AM) Mercury, the red star Antares and Saturn were difficult to see because of the smog. Click on the images to enlarge.
Philippine nights will be longer as the Sun approaches the celestial equator. Autumnal equinox will occur on September 23 when day and night will have approximately equal length on Earth.This point is also called as First point of Libra.
The rich band of constellations and stars along the Milky Way from the constellations Cygnus, the Swan, in the north to Sagittarius and Scorpius in the south, begin to give way this month to fainter constellations, many of them with watery associations such as the constellations of Capricornus, the Sea Goat, Aquarius, the Water Bearer and Pisces the Fish. The famous asterism Teapot in the sky in the constellation of Sagittarius can be observed at about 40 to 47 degrees above the southern horizon, an hour after sunset as shown below.
Also, flying high in this month's sky is the mythical winged horse Pegasus. Although one of the largest constellations in area, it boasts no bright stars. Its most noticeable star pattern is the Great Square of Pegasus: four second magnitude stars marking the body of the horse. Ironically, the brightest of those stars, Alpheratz, isn't even an official member of the Pegasus constellation, being part of the neighboring constellation Andromeda. The brightest star in Pegasus isn't part of the Square: it is Enif, the Arabic word for "nose." It marks the head of Pegasus, off to the west.
As you look further south, you can see Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish, with the only bright star in the region: Fomalhaut. Fomalhaut, which is 25 light-years from Earth, made headlines in 2008 as one of the first stars to observed to have a planet that was directly imaged with telescopes.
To the east of Fomalhaut is another huge dim constellation, Cetus the Whale, with the only other brightest star in the area, Deneb Kaitos, which means the tail of the whale. Cetus also contains the variable star Mira. Currently this star is too faint to be visible with the naked eye, but over the next few months it will start climbing in brightness until it becomes one of the brightest stars in this constellation.
Normally this sea world is a dim and mysterious place, with only one bright star, Fomalhaut. But this year it is enlivened by a visit from the giant planet Jupiter, right on the border between Pisces and Aquarius.
The tight grouping of Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Spica ends its spectacular run this month. All four are low in the western sky at nightfall as September begins, but Saturn drops from sight early in the month. Mars and Venus are still in the sky by month's end, but they shine for only a little while before dropping below the horizon. By that time, however, the night sky's next-brightest object, the planet Jupiter, is climbing skyward in the east, and will shine brilliantly throughout the night.
Mercury will shine brightly at magnitude -1 as it reaches its greatest elongation west on September 20 (18° from the Sun). For early risers, Mercury makes its best morning appearance of the year on the second week of September. Look in the constellation of Leo the Lion near his lower foot star, Rho Leonis. The two objects are 20 arcminutes apart on September 16 and 17.
Venus continues to be prominent in the evening sky, though also low for northern hemisphere observers, at around magnitude -4. The crescent Moon, less than 3° away on September 11 will make an attractive pairing. On the 24th, Venus will reach its peak magnitude of -4.6.
Mars is now shining very low in the evening twilight sky. This month +1.5 magnitude Mars starts a few degrees to the upper right of brilliant Venus. Though the planets will slowly move apart they will stay within 7° of each other all month long.On September 11, the Moon will pass with 5° of the planet.
Giant planet Jupiter is now top target for planetary observers, dominating the night sky and rising in the east as it is getting dark at a bright magnitude of -2.9 in Pisces. The planet is putting on a show for those with reasonable sized telescopes, having lost one of its prominent dark belts and with its two red spots in close proximity. On the 21st, Jupiter will be at opposition,means it will be visible all night long, rising in the evening, reaching its highest elevation around midnight and setting during dawn.
Saturn is located low in the west during evening twilight. By month's end the +1.0 magnitude planet will be too close to the Sun to be seen easily by most observers. On September 9,the Moon will be within 7° of Saturn.
Uranus will lie within one degree of Jupiter in Pisces between September 12 and 25, making the giant planet a good signpost to finding its more distant cousin. On the 22nd, it will also be at opposition. If given a clear dark sky and no moonlight, it can be spotted with the unaided eye at magnitude of 5.7.
Neptune will be found among the background stars of the constellation Capricornus, the Sea-Goat and will be standing 42 degrees above the east southeastern horizon at around 7:00 PM (PST) on the 19th of the month. A modest size telescope will be needed to observe the bluish planet.
Sporadic meteors are not part of any known meteor shower. They represent the background flux of meteors. Except for the few days per year when a major shower is active, most meteors that are observed are Sporadics. This is especially true for meteors observed during the evening. During September, 10-16 or so Sporadic meteors can be observed per hour from a dark moonless sky.
Minor showers produce so few meteors that they are hard to notice above the background of regular meteors. Information on most of the minor showers will be provided on a weekly basis by Robert Lunsford's Meteor Activity Outlook this month.
Additional information on these showers and other minor showers not included here can be found at the following sites: Wayne Hally's and Mark Davis's NAMN Notes, and the International Meteor Organization's 2010 Meteor Shower Calendar.
The brightest star in Pegasus isn't part of the Square: it is Enif, the Arabic word for "nose." It marks the head of Pegasus, off to the west.
The planet Venus has reached its greatest eastern elongation, or its maximum angular separation (visual distance) from the Sun as observed from the Earth, last August 20. The inferior planets, Venus and Mercury, are best viewed during their greatest elongation. On that night, Venus appeared higher and brighter in the evening sky.
During this appearance, I and my fellow UP AstroSoc member, Andre Obidos saw our nearest planetary neighbor hanging about 20 degrees above the western, an hour after sunset. For comparison, your fist held at arm's length covers roughly 10 degrees of the night sky.
We were really amazed by its dazzling display during that night. 😀 One may not easily tell that it was indeed a planet. Shining at -4.22, it was the brightest object then, aside from the waxing gibbous Moon. Unfortunately, fainter Mars and Saturn which were lying about a few degrees from Venus were not easily visible.
Below are the images which Andre took.
Last year, Venus, the planet named after the Goddess of Love, reached its peak of brightest just after Valentine's Day 2009.
If observed through a telescope, it can be noticed that Venus was one half lit by reflected light from the Sun and the other half in dark.
Just like the Moon, Venus has phases. It can be full, gibbous, half or a crescent. These phases occur for the same reason that Moon phases do. One side of Venus is sunlit (the "dayside"). The other side is dark (the "nightside"). As Venus orbits the Sun it turns one side, then the other, toward Earth. At the moment, Venus is turning its nightside toward us. We can see only a sliver of the dayside–hence the crescent.
By October 2010, Venus will end its reign as it goes lower and lower in the sky. It will reach its peak magnitude of -4.6 on September 24, about 23 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star. But in mid-October, Venus will dim to -4.3 and will set with the sun until it passes inferior conjunction on Oct. 28. In November, it will enter the dawn sky as the "Morning Star".
it will be brightest in early autumn as it heads back down toward the sun, reaching its peak brilliance for this apparition on Sept. 23 at an eye-popping magnitude of –4.8. That would make it 23 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star. Venus then quickly fades, vanishing from view in mid-October, and passes inferior conjunction on Oct. 28.
The night sky on August 26 will be dominated by Jupiter and the waning gibbous moon. They can be seen in the east by mid-evening, after brilliant Venus has disappeared beyond the western horizon. Rising just an hour or two after sunset, Jupiter and the moon can be viewed for the rest of the night among the faint stars of the constellation Pisces the Fish.
With a bright moon passing near them, Pisces' dim outline might not be visible except from very dark locations. Still, a prominent asterism – or noticeable pattern of stars – can be glimpsed near Jupiter and the moon on that night. It's called The Circlet in Pisces.
Jupiter, is slowly increasing in brightness as it heads towards its opposition and closest approach to Earth in 12 years just next month, September 21 . This time is the best chance to view and photograph Jupiter and its moons. The giant planet will be as big and bright as it gets in the night sky. A medium-sized telescope should be able to show some of the details in Jupiter's cloud bands.
The brightest planet in the solar system, Venus will appear especially prominent because it will climb to its highest point in the evening sky upon reaching its greatest elongation. It will lie 47° from the Sun, its maximum distance for this appearance.
Also on this night, the planet Mars will lie just 2° above Venus. (That's approximately the width of one finger when held at arm's length.) Using binoculars will help bring it to view because it glows less than 1 percent as Venus. The planet Saturn lurks approximately 10° to Venus' right and the star Spica in the constellation Virgo sits 10° to Venus' left. Both shine a little brighter than Mars but fall far short of dazzling Venus.
Although naked eyes and binoculars offer the best views of the evening scene, anyone with a small telescope will get a thrill from targeting Venus. At greatest elongation, Venus looks like a miniature version of a First Quarter Moon, with one half in sunlight and the other in darkness.
On the other hand, the planet Neptune will be in opposition (opposite the sun in the sky and closest to Earth) and will be highest in the sky at local midnight. This opposition is special because Neptune will be returning close to the spot where it was discovered in 1846, marking its first complete trip around the sun since its discovery.
To find Neptune, look for the large but faint triangle of Capricornus, to the left of Sagittarius and the Milky Way around 1 a.m. this week. The two stars at the left end of the triangle point the way to Neptune, just a little bit short of and above the star Iota in the neighboring constellation Aquarius.
In a small telescope or even binoculars, Neptune will look just like a star; what gives it away is its distinctive blue-green color.
The University of the Philippines Astronomical Society (UP Astrosoc) invites everyone to its public observation of the spectacular Perseid Meteor Shower and planetary grouping of Mars, Venus, Saturn and Mercury on August 13th (Friday) from 6pm to 6am of the following day at the PAGASA Observatory Sun Deck in the University of the Philippines Campus, Diliman.
Likewise, the UP-Los Banos Astronomical Society (UPLB Astrosoc) will hold an Astronomy Camp entitled "Astra La Vista: The First Encounter" also on the 13th at D.L. Umali Hall in UP Los Banos, Laguna. Aside from observing the Perseids and the planetary grouping, this event will be its launching activity as well.
So don't forget to mark your calendars on this date, list down your wishes and watch these events from your local areas.


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Mikaeel Kular happily eats ice cream at Nandos - hours later he was beaten to death by mum
His mother Rosdeep Adekoya, 34, admitted she "lost her temper" when the three-year-old was repeatedly sick following a visit to Nando's
Just a few hours after this video was taken tragic Mikaeel Kular (circled in the video) was being beaten so badly his injuries would prove fatal.
The youngster can be seen happily tucking into ice-cream during a visit to a city restaurant - sparking off a chain of events that would lead to his death.
His mother Rosdeep Adekoya, 34, admitted she "lost her temper" when the three-year-old was repeatedly sick following a visit to Nando's in Edinburgh's Fountainbridge.
In our footage Mikaeel appears happy and enjoying his dessert while a little girl plays next to him.
But just a few hours later he was repeatedly smacked and struck on the head and body with a clenched fist for being sick.
When the youngster was sick for a third time, evil Adekoya dragged him to the shower by his arms and "beat him heavily" on his back as he lay over the bath edge.
Over the next 24 hours Adekoya inflicted fatal damages on the frail youngster and refused to seek medical help due to bruising.
Chillingly she posted this footage on her Instagram account while hundreds of people from across Edinburgh and the Lothians searched for her son whom she knew was already dead and buried in a shallow grave in Fife.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard Mikaeel died on the night of Tuesday, January 14 from injuries inflicted the previous Sunday.
Over the next few days his condition worsened and he was kept of nursery. He was assaulted again on Monday after being sick and became 'listless'.
The court was told his mother did not take him to a doctor because of the bruising. Prosecutor Alex Prentice said: "It's likely that the internal damage was inflicted during this last beating."
By Tuesday night, Mikaeel was said to be "quiet" and was giving a "limited" response to his mother's questions.
Police search for Mikael Kular
Mr Prentice said: "He would have been in significant pain but was put to bed.
"The pain would have increased significantly while Mikaeel became dangerously ill and finally dying as a result of the injuries inflicted upon him by the accused.
"It was during that night that he died.
"The accused discovered his body on the floor when wakening the children in the morning."
After discovering her son's body, Adekoya took his twin sister to nursery before driving straight to Fife.
Mr Prentice said: "At the time, it appears that the accused had placed Mikaeel's body in a suitcase and put him in the boot of her car."
Masts captured her mobile phone travelling from Edinburgh across the Forth Road Bridge.
Adekoya's internet history showed searches including "I find it hard to love my son", "I love all of my children except one", "Why am I so aggressive with my son" and "Get rid of bruises".
Despite knowing her son was already dead, Adekoya kept up the pretence of being a worried mother fearing for her missing child by posting pictures and videos of him on social media websites.
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Bacteria could mop up naturally-occurring and man-made leaks of natural gases before they are released into the atmosphere and cause global warming - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
"Methane is a potent greenhouse gas which is released from natural sources such as wetlands, as well as from human activities including waste management, the oil and gas industries, rice production and livestock farming. Globally, it is estimated that more than half of methane emissions are man-made.


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Dancing Crazy
by Miranda Cosgrove
Album: High Maintenance (2010)
Charted: 100
This is the first single from American singer and actress Miranda Cosgrove's second album. Max Martin, his songwriting colleague Johan Shellback and Avril Lavigne wrote the song. Both Martin and Lavigne previously worked with the iCarly star on her debut LP Sparks Fly, the Swedish hitmaker co-penning "Oh Oh" and the Girlfriend star, "Daydream."
Miranda said of this tune during an interview on The Ralphie Radio Show: "It's a really fun song. I kind of just wanted to do a song that like, people could just drive around with their tops down and just put it on and have a really good time."
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There was a rumor in the Soviet Union that The Beatles had secretly visited the U.S.S.R. and given a private concert for the children of top Communist party members. They believed the song "Back In The U.S.S.R." was written because of the concert. Actually, some fans still believe so.
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Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side" tells the story of real people who were part of Andy Warhol's "factory," including Holly Woodlawn and Candy Darling.
Mr. BojanglesThe Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Texas songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker wrote "Mr. Bojangles" after a weekend in jail where a fellow inmate told him his life story.
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and UnderstandingElvis Costello
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" was written by Nick Lowe in 1974. The original version with his group Brinsley Schwarz was kind of somber, but Elvis Costello made it a classic with his 1978 uptempo take.
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Jim talks about the impact of "The Middle" and uses a tree metaphor to describe his songwriting philosophy.
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How well do you know your protest songs (including the one that went to #1)?
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The 2011 Artist of the Year at the Dove Awards isn't your typical gospel diva, and she thinks that's a good thing.
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P.F. was a teenager writing hits and playing on tracks for Jan & Dean when he wrote a #1 hit that got him blackballed.
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Q: How to handle the primary key of different types of user tables? I am currently working on a project where we have 2 types of users.
I have a general Users table for their User_ID, user_name, etc all the data that is similar for both users.
I looked online and found that its common to make 2 separate tables and just have the differences in these tables.
Since now I have two tables (A and B), my primary key cannot be the same as my User_ID as I have 2 databases. If User 1 created account A it would match, but if User 2 created account B, the User_ID is 2 while the primary key in the table would be 1.
Is it best to manually set the primary key to be the same as the user_ID?  Or what is the best way to handle this?

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I looked online and found that its common to make 2 separate tables and just have the differences in these tables.

I'd be surprised. That's not a normalized schema.
I think you should just have a single table with nullable columns, or else as per this answer here, or else (madly) go the whole hog: normalize fully and have three tables: a UserID table, and a phone-no+address table and an email table, both with UserID foreign keys, which is clearly major overkill. If you use secondary tables you just do joins on UserID from the UserID table.
You should certainly not have two user tables of equal standing where a new UserID can be inserted into either. That's not normalized.


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Social distancing skills, environmental concerns and Moomins in Korea: Finland in the world press
Installation view of "Moomin Original" at Ground Seesaw Seongsu, northern Seoul (Media & Art)
International news outlets this week highlighted how Finnish citizens have adapted well to social distancing, attributing their positive attitude towards isolation to a culture that values personal space.
The Finn's natural propensity for solitude, coupled with the country's low population density and remote location has aided in its fight against COVID-19.
Prisoners are driven through Helsinki – but not even cable ties can be used
The basic rights of a prisoner prohibit handcuffing during transport. Amendment to the prisoner law, which would enable the chaining of prisoners or prisoners on remand by cable ties or handcuffs during transport, is currently being processed at the Parliament. At the moment, chaining is permitted during transports only if it is suspected that there is a risk of escape or violence.
Professor criticises energy solutions: "Finland should rid itself of nuclear power"
Finland should develop energy self-sufficiency without nuclear power, says Professor of Global Politics Heikki Patomäki. He thinks that Finland should participate more eagerly in developing new innovations in energy production.
Law allows publishing Muhammad pictures in Finland
Publishing Muhammad pictures from the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, is allowed in Finland, says Doctor of Jurisprudence and former state prosecutor Mika Illman for Sunnuntaisuomalainen. According to him, distributing the pictures would not bear hallmarks of hate crimes. In contrast to other EU countries, Finnish law regarding breaking religious peace is in force. According to the law, shaming a religious community publicly can lead to a verdict for blasphemy.
Nursery kids already sit too much
According to a new study, the physical activity of children consists mainly of low-efficiency activities, such as sitting, standing or walking.
Anne Soini studied three year olds for her dissertation, and found that they spent only two per cent of their time in the nursery at moderately straining play. Her study showed that only a few of those who took part in her study actively exercise two hours a day, which is the quantitative recommendation of Varhaiskasvatus' (early childhood education's).
Twenty MPs at risk of being voted out of the Parliament
Twenty MPs seeking re-election are at risk of being voted out, says a new study predicting a large change in the distribution of the Parliament's seats.
Up to one third of the Parliament's members might be replaced as the citizens elect the new MPs in April. Until now, 30 MPs have made public their intentions of leaving their seats free-willingly. Based on a new report, approximately twenty are at risk of not being re-elected.
Soini: "Immigration cannot provoke a row"
According to the chairman of the Finns Party Timo Soini, variation in support for a party is normal. In an interview for Lännen Media, Member of the European Parliament Jussi Halla-aho (Finns Party) recently critisised Soini and his party for avoiding immigration issues, which he claims has caused a decline in support of the party. Furthermore, Halla-aho claimed that the party betrays its voters if it doesn't alter its policy visibly.
One per cent would increase regulation; three out of four say there are too many
According to a poll, a clear majority of Finns think the current amount of regulations is excessive.
A dominant 74 per cent of Finns estimate that Finland has too many restrictive rules, orders and instructions, reveals a poll by Kunnallisalan kehittämissäätiö (The Foundation for Municipal Development) KAKS. Furthermore, 78 per cent estimate that too many things are regulated too meticulously. With regards to the functioning of the society, the amount of regulations was seen as adequate by only 18 per cent of respondents.
Citizens dismiss the government's economic policy completely
The government has a poor grasp of Finland's economy, estimate citizens who responded to a poll by MTV News. An overriding 83 per cent of them see the economy as managed either poorly or extremely poorly.
"Lunch vouchers not to be discontinued on light grounds"
Suomen Yrittäjänaiset (The Women Entrepreneurs of Finland) objects to the tax office's plans to discontinue the use of lunch vouchers.
"Discontinuing the use of lunch vouchers would reduce the amount of lunches bought in restaurants, increasing unemployment in the catering business and decreasing tax revenue," the chairperson for Suomen Yrittäjänaiset Seija Estlander states in the organisation's bulletin.
Minister Paatero on additional cuts at Yle: "An incomprehensible idea"
A guest at Yle's TV programme Ykkösaamu, the Minister of Development and Corporate Governance Sirpa Paatero (SDP) said additional cuts planned by the Committee of State Finance were unbelievable. The budget report on 12 December published by the Committee of State Finance proposed cuts from the development cooperation funds amounting to three million euros. The savings would be used for improving the representation network of the ministry for foreign affairs.
Priests inaugurated notably less than previously
Aarnio finally in the courtroom
Metropolitan area proposed to become subordinate to one government
Foreign Minister John Kerry greets Finns: you are an inspiration to others
Russia's media: Finland invests despite sanctions
Statistics reveal that Finland burns recyclable waste
Selfie stick – this year's Christmas hit?
Green youth: The next step is recognising the third gender
Sipilä: we have wanted to change conversational culture
Textile industry relocates its manufacture from Asia to Europe – even Finland


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Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, says there is no need for apprehension over the health of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday.
He explained that Buhari's absence at the Federal Executive Council (FEC), meeting on Wednesday was a last minute decision; otherwise, the cabinet and the public might have been alerted in advance.
"President Buhari himself, on his return to the country, made Nigerians aware of the state of his health while he was in London.
According to him, in spite of the President's lack of visibility, Nigerians should be rest-assured that Buhari has not abdicated his role as Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria.
"The President receives daily briefings on the activities of government, and confers regularly with his Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
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East Helena School District leaders are still planning to open their new high school building in the fall of 2020, but they're now planning to start their first class of freshmen one year before that.
The district is now aiming to keep this year's eighth-graders at East Valley Middle School next year, as the East Helena high school's first ninth-grade class. They will use five new classrooms that were added to the middle school over the summer.
Superintendent Ron Whitmoyer said they only recently realized they might be able to move the high school's start date up. The district added classrooms at East Valley to prepare for future growth in the student population, but they aren't currently being used. Whitmoyer said East Valley principal Dan Rispens suggested, if they reorganized their class periods, they might have enough space to host an additional grade level next year.
"Once we established that there was room, the very next conversation was with the school board, and the school board said 'Let's move that forward,'" said Whitmoyer.
The district expects about 125 students to be part of the first freshman class, starting in August 2019. While they will remain in the middle school building, Whitmoyer said they will be administered separately, as the new high school. He expects to start hiring high school teachers this spring, as well as possibly hiring a principal or assistant principal.
Whitmoyer said East Helena residents like the education their children are receiving now, and they voted to support that when they approved building a local high school. He said starting the high school at East Valley will allow the new staff members to learn about and maintain that existing school culture.
Once the high school building is finished in 2020, two grades will move in. The other two grades will move one year at a time, as previously agreed with the Helena School District. The first class will graduate in the spring of 2023.
Whitmoyer said that on September 24, district teachers and staff will hold a meeting where they'll start discussing how to put together a full four-year curriculum for the new school.
"To be ready for 2023, this school district has to launch its research and begin its planning now," he said.
Helena Public Schools Superintendent Tyler Ream confirmed Thursday that he has discussed the East Helena district's new plan with administrators. He said they won't be able determine exactly how Helena schools will be affected until later in the school year, when students officially decide whether to attend the new high school or remain in the Helena School District. However, he doesn't expect the change will affect his district's overall staffing.
Ream said he's confident in what the Helena School District offers, but that he expects the East Helena School District will also put together a quality program.
"It's a tough choice for kids and parents, and that's when kids and parents win," he said.
Whitmoyer said he hopes the East Helena and Helena school boards can work together over the coming months. He said his district has a lot to learn from Helena about how to operate a high school.
"We don't want to be Helena High East, but at the same time, what we want to do is cherry-pick the very best practices at Helena High and emulate those in East Helena," he said.