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Home News Raducanu's Red Army: China tries to claim British tennis star as their own as her perfect Mandarin, her parents' 'communist country' heritage and grandmother in Shenyang wins her millions of Chinese fans
Raducanu's Red Army: China tries to claim British tennis star as their own as her perfect Mandarin, her parents' 'communist country' heritage and grandmother in Shenyang wins her millions of Chinese fans
Emma Raducanu's pitch-perfect Mandarin and admission her 'tough' parents' communist childhoods contributed to her self-belief and success could make her a billion-dollar star in China with the country already unashamedly trying to claim the British tennis player as their own.
President Xi and his party officials may even ponder giving the rare honour of naturalised status to the teenager from Bromley whose Chinese fans have already nicknamed her the 'Dongbei girl' - a nod to her mother's ancestral home 700 miles east of Beijing where Emma spends the summer with her grandmother.
The new US Open champion, whose father is Romanian and grew up under Ceausescu, has already been chosen as the new face of Tiffany jewellery in Asia and is in starry company with Beyonce and Jay-Z the other fresh ambassadors for the brand.
Billion-dollar behemoths such as BMW, Audi, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are said to be fighting for her signature because they see her as their best chance of making a bigger mark because she is Eurasian. She already has a trainer and clothing contract with Nike and a racquet sponsorship with Wilson, who are expected to be giving her a multi-million-dollar pay rise after Saturday's win in New York.
Dr Lingling Liu, managing director of China Sport Business Consulting in Beijing, said: 'Tennis is a very popular sport, and as a female with a multicultural background that ticks a lot of boxes, she could be very successful commercially,' adding she believes it could make her the world's first $1billion female sportswoman.
Dr Liu added it was no coincidence that she is represented by IMG agent Max Eisenbud, who helped Maria Sharapova become the world's richest female sports star and worked with Chinese tennis star Li Na. She told the Telegraph: 'The sky is her limit - she is in the good hands of IMG. People are talking about her mother's side, her language capabilities and the possibilities of whether she will be naturalised by the Chinese'.
Experts have said that her historic grand slam victory is 'big news' on China's state-censored channels, who have become obsessed with her love of Mandarin, her annual visits to see her grandmother in Shenyang, her work on the local municipal tennis courts as well as how she unwinds binge-watching Taiwanese TV shows.
The country's state-run press agency, Xinhua gloated that it was Raducanu's 'Chinese style of inner faith' that drove her to victory. The blanket coverage of her success also suggests that China's ruling Communist Party believe Emma won't damage its values and political ideas.
The clip where the teenager thanked her Chinese fans in Mandarin has been watched 600million times and shared millions of times on the social media platform Weibo. Speaking with a Dongbei accent, she said: 'Hi everyone, I'd like to say thank you to you all. I hope you enjoy watching my tennis. I'm so happy to win. Love you all.'
And describing her mother and her family from north-east China, this time in English, Emma said: 'They are so mentally resilient - it's like nothing can bring them down. I would say I take a big part of my inspiration from her. My mum has worked very hard'.
The media in China and south-east Asia have hailed the star as 'Chinese' while millions have also been posting about Emma on China's state-backed social network Weibo
Tennis sensation Emma Raducanu, 18, led the glamorous arrivals at the Met Gala last night as she wowed the crowd in a stunning black and white Chanel ensemble
Raducanu's parents Ian (top right) and Renee Raducanu (bottom left) have been hugely influential in their daughter's remarkable journey (pictured at Wimbledon). Romanian Ian and Renee, who is Chinese, were living in Toronto, Canada, when only child Emma was born, and the family moved to the UK when she was two. She admits their communist backgrounds were hugely influential
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Raducanu's home in a cul-de-sac in Bromley, south-east London when she was competing at Wimbledon this summer
She was just a little girl enjoying a tennis knock-about with her doting dad in a local Bromley park.
But there was something – even at the age of four – about the way Emma Raducanu was striking the ball that caught the eye of passing tennis coach Richard Whichello.
So 'unusually exceptional' was her potential that Mr Whichello, a former British junior No1 who once represented Britain in the Davis Cup, couldn't resist approaching her father, Ian, to say how talented she was.
Without that encounter, the world might never have heard of tennis's newest global superstar. If Mr Whichello hadn't struck up that conversation, the so-called 'Fairytale of New York' might never have happened.
For 14 years after that father and pint-sized daughter rally, Emma is celebrating making sporting history by winning the US Open – the first British woman to win a major title for 44 years since Virginia Wade lifted the Wimbledon trophy in 1977.
Here was an ordinary teenager with a rare talent from a humble three-bedroomed semi in one of the less scenic parts of suburbia who not only went to the winners' ball, but pocketed £1.8million in prize money and praise from all who witnessed her stunning victory – from the tennis greats to Her Majesty the Queen.
'Oh, I say!' as the late, great tennis commentator Dan Maskell might have said. And all this without losing her charming sense of wonder at her own meteoric success, even admitting she was so convinced she'd be knocked out in the first round, she'd booked a flight home two weeks before the final.
Indeed, she joked her original US Open goal was simply to win enough money to replace her lost Airpods, cost £109. She can afford more than 16,000 pairs of the wireless earphones now – possibly even more with talk of the multi-million pound deals expected to be laid at her nimble feet.
But it all started in that park with a young girl with raw talent, devoted parents determined to nurture it and the first of a series of tennis coaches and mentors who have never doubted her ability to reach the highest echelons of the sport.
Richard Whichello – Bjorn Borg's practice partner during the five-times Wimbledon champion's comeback in 1991 – is head coach at Beckenham Sports Club, Kent, where he teaches youngsters who all now want to emulate local girl Emma.
China has unashamedly claimed Britain's new queen of tennis Emma Raducanu as 'one of their own' following her historic win in the US Open.
The hashtag '18-year-old Chinese teenager wins the US Open' trended on social media platform Weibo, generating an astonishing 200 million reads within 24 hours of Raducanu's victory in New York.
Chinese pride in her achievement was led by Xinhua which wrote: 'This smiley half-Chinese girl once proudly said it's the Chinese style of inner faith that gave her the confidence.'
It also noted that Raducanu had received training at a sports academy in Shenyang, North East China, where her mother was born.
A headline on a state-owned Chinese television declared: 'Emma Raducanu: British-Chinese-Romanian tennis star smashes U.S. Open records.'
Taking to Weibo, one user gushed: 'She said she visits China regularly, and that one of her idols is Li Na. I'm so moved,' referencing a celebrated former Chinese tennis player.
Her mother Renee was originally known as Dong Mei Zhai and grew up in Shenyang, North East China, around an eight-hour driver east of Beijing. She then moved to Toronto, where she met her Romanian husband.
Her father, Ian, is the motor behind Emma's tennis drive and he grew up in Europe's most notorious communist system run by Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu until its collapse in 1989.
The family moved to Bromley when Emma was two and now live in a £345,000 home in a suburban cul-de-sac there.
Simon Chadwick, professor of Eurasian sport at the Lyon Business School, said: 'For foreign brands wanting to make a mark in China - maybe someone like BMW or Audi - she is undoubtedly a boon. Young people will want to be like her - she is a hugely valuable brand'.
But in a warning for the delicate path she will need to walk, he said: 'China is very complicated. Anyone thinking just because she can speak Mandarin she is going to make billions is not wholly understanding the Chinese market.'
Experts cite the case of former Arsenal footballer Mesut Özil, who tweeted his support for Uyghurs in 2019 and saw his endorsements in Asia vanish.
He was removed from video games and the two Chinese state broadcasters showing Premier League content refused to screen Arsenal matches and his profile was deleted online.
There has already been great interest in Emma in Beijing after her success at Wimbledon in July, when she put her success down to her parents Ian and Renee, from China, whose upbringing in communist countries drove her forward, not least because they have always been 'tough' on her.
Fans in China were also thrilled when she said that her focus and self-confidence was deep-rooted in her mother's culture - and Renee's insistence they speak Mandarin, which the Chinese proudly claim is most complicated of global languages to master.
Until the pandemic, Raducanu had travelled regularly to her mother's home city of Shenyang in north-east China to visit relatives including her grandmother and train at the Shenyang Institute of Physical Education. There, the teenager not only found her court feet, but even played table tennis with professional players to improve her reactions.
Tian Fangzheng, head of the club, described her as an 'outstanding' player. 'When all the other kids were tired, she was not,' he said. 'You can tell she has the movements of playing tennis when playing ping pong. She picked up the sport very quickly and you can tell she's a sports person.'
Raducanu has credited her Chinese and Romanian roots with keeping her grounded, which will become important after she scooped £1.8million in prize money at the weekend. Speaking to Vogue's October edition, Britain's new queen of tennis said: 'I think the confidence comes from just inner belief.
'My mum comes from a Chinese background, they have very good self-belief. It's not necessarily about telling everyone how good you are, but it's about believing it within yourself. I really respect that about the culture.'
Following her Wimbledon breakthrough, she said: 'My mom has always instilled a lot of the qualities, like discipline and respect for other people, into me, so I think having parents like I do, they always push me, they have high expectations, so I've always tried to live up to that. I would say I take a big part of my inspiration from her. She always shows me by example what 'hard work' means.'
Social media users in China have been celebrating Raducanu's heritage, with many on Weibo calling her a 'Dongbei girl' - a reference to her mother's ancestral home. One user wrote: 'She said she visits China regularly. I'm so moved.'
Experts believe the sky's the limit for Emma Raducanu, pictured in New York yesterday in front of her new Nike advert, with China jostling to claim the Briton as their own and could offer her the honour of naturalised status
Until the pandemic, Emma Raducanu had travelled regularly to her mother's home city of Shenyang in north-east China to visit relatives including her grandmother and train at the Shenyang Institute of Physical Education. There, the teenager (left) not only found her court feet, but even played table tennis with professional players to improve her reactions
While she may be the biggest tennis star in Britain at the moment, in China Emma was also known for her ping pong skills - the country's national sport
Emma is already a Vogue star (pictured), and became a millionaire overnight after winning in New York
Emma's mother Renee could be seen cheering and applauding her daughter in the crowd at Wimbledon
Ian Raducanu pictured with his daughter Emma Raducanu, who admits has been 'tough' on her but will be proud
Emma's army! Tennis star's Instagram following soars to 1.2 million as she gains over 500,000 new fans in less than 24 hours - after experts predicted she could become a 'billion dollar brand'
Emma Raducanu has seen her Instagram following soar to 1.2 million amid her sensational US Open victory in New York yesterday, beating Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3.
The 18-year-old athlete from Bromley, who became the first British woman to win since Virginia Wade's Wimbledon victory in 1977, saw her social media page explode last night as over 500,000 new fans flocked to her Instagram account to follow the youngster.
Emma's incredible performances in New York and at the SW19 tournament have seen her go from 366th in the world rankings to the top 25, increased her Instagram following to a staggering 1.2 million, and secured her first Vogue photoshoot, which appears in next month's issue.
It comes after popular culture and brand expert Nick predicted the teenager would become a 'billion dollar brand' and A-list sensation.
Chinese official media also celebrated her win and highlighted her roots. State-owned tabloid Global Times reported she was 'very interested in Chinese culture,' and that she visited Shenyang often to see her grandmother.
Footage was also shared of her playing table tennis, using China's beloved national sport to improve her hand-eye co-ordination.
President Xi sees sport as at the heart of political and economic power - with the Winter Olympics being held in the country next year and plans to host and even win the football World Cup by 2050.
And Beijing's interest in Emma is no coincidence, because Tennis has boomed in popularity in China in the past decade due to former world number two Li Na's success on the world stage, whose victory at the 2011 French Open was watched by 116million television viewers in China alone.
The Women's Tennis Association hosted nine events in China in 2019, up from two in 2008 - and by 2014, China had invested hundreds of millions of dollars to launch the Wuhan Open, a tennis tournament held in Li's hometown.
And even in becoming the first qualifier in history to win a grand slam with her stunning 6-4, 6-3 victory over Leylah Fernandez saw her pocket an astonishing £1.8million on Saturday night, she was humble in a way that would make her Chinese family proud, saying she planned to treat herself to some £109 Apple Airpods.
She also said she was happy to have managed to impress her 'tough' and 'hard to please' parents Ian and Renee, who watched their only child's match from the UK as they weren't able to travel due to Covid restrictions.
'I think that from a young age I've always sort of been brought up to have mental strength,' she said.
'My parents... were pretty tough on me when I was young, but I think now it's helping on the biggest stages in the world.
'It was really nice to talk to them after I won. They were just so happy and proud of me... [they're] my toughest critics and very, very hard to please but, yeah, I got them with this one. They couldn't resist.' She added that she had increased her endurance and mental strength during the tournament and described her exit from Wimbledon with breathing issues as 'more of a physical issue'.
She concluded: 'It's like almost natural selection, you know... if you don't [adapt], you lose so it was really fun to experience. I'm just super happy with the week, of course.'
Emma has just got her first $1million pay-day, and millions more in sponsorships are now guaranteed to follow for the teenager who is already the most successful female British tennis player in decades.
Raducanu poses with the trophy after defeating Leylah Annie Fernandez during the Women's Singles final match
Raducanu said it 'meant everything' to get a letter from the Queen congratulating the teenager on her astonishing US Open championship victory on Saturday and revealed she is planning on framing the note
She seems to have signed a deal to be a Tiffany ambassador. The company changed hands earlier this year and is now a part of the giant LVMH luxury goods empire. The first brief for the new management team is to grow the brand outside America – particularly in the Asian market.
Grammar schoolgirl Emma is 'quite capable' in Mandarin and couldn't be a better fit for Tiffany. She's in starry company – Beyonce and Jay-Z are also new ambassadors for the brand.
In her interview with ABC, Emma expressed delight over the letter she received from the Queen, which will also appeal to the Chinese love of history and authority.
From A Levels to A-Lister: New US Open champion Emma Raducanu, 18, takes her place among the stars for fashion's biggest night out at New York's Met Gala just 48 hours after sealing her place as Britain's new sporting hero
Tennis sensation Emma Raducanu led the glamorous arrivals at the Met Gala last night as she wowed the crowd in a stunning black and white Chanel ensemble.
The 18-year-old British tennis star has quickly gone from taking her A Levels to brushing up against A-listers after she was launched to fame following a dramatic rise up the ranks in tennis.
She scored an invite to the prestigious fashion event hosted by Vogue's Dame Anna Wintour after she won the US Open on Saturday and strutted the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art alongside some of the world's biggest stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Megan Fox and Kendall Jenner.
Many fashionistas and A-list stars went all out with bold, beautiful and some truly bizarre looks as they reveled in the spotlight, including a balaclava-clad Kim Kardashian.
The theme for the evening was In America: A Lexicon of Fashion and the event featured a heavy-hitting contingent of celebrity co-chairs: actor Timothée Chalamet, musician Billie Eilish, poet Amanda Gorman and tennis star Naomi Osaka.
It was no wonder Emma nailed it at fashion's biggest night of the year after already being dubbed a style icon with her tennis looks.
She arrived at the New York party days after claiming £1.8million cheque for her defeat of fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez, wearing a gorgeous Chanel handkerchief skirt paired with a stunning cropped camisole and oversized shirt in a matching floral print which stole the show.
While walking up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art she showed off the gorgeous pearl body jewellery the French design house gave her for the evening.
Emma strutted the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art alongside some of the world's biggest stars, including Kendall Jenner, Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian (l-r)
Many fashionistas and A-list stars went all out with bold, beautiful and some truly bizarre looks as they reveled in the spotlight, including actress Megan Fox, who wore a revealing scarlet encrusted gown
Emma Raducanu shines at Met Gala: US Open champion joins celebs
Emma Raducanu sends 'thank you' message to Chinese fans in mandarin
Raducanu's Red Army: China tries to claim British tennis star as their own as her perfect Mandarin, her parents' 'communist country' heritage and grandmother in Shenyang wins her millions of Chinese fans Reviewed by free heip on September 14, 2021 Rating: 5


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A series of new and experimental works by Margaret Aull (Te Rarawa, Tūwharetoa / Fiji), Leilani Kake (Ngāpuhi, Tainui / Cook Islands) and Ema Tavola (Aotearoa / Fiji) probe the charged territory of race, racism and cultural safety in Aotearoa New Zealand.
In paint and pixels, the three female artists have been inspired by shared experiences of racism and othering, colonial regulations and systemic inequality, research into migration, exploration and belonging, and the politics of representation and stereotypes. The discourse surrounding these themes is personal and agitating; there is a perpetual flux between the embodied histories of coloniser/colonised and conscious decolonisation.
Poedua Addict (2017) by Ema Tavola
Kare (2017) by Margaret Aull
Margaret Aull's confident signature painting style combines bold colour and the symbolism of taonga, ancestors, mana and migration. Leilani Kake, who works predominantly in video installation, has been immersed in readings on the colonial mechanisms of a British oath of allegiance used in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in the 19th century. In a series of watercolour and ink paintings, Ema Tavola re-imagines John Webber's 1785 painting of Poedua, said to be the first great portrait of a Pacific Island woman made for a Western audience.
The exhibition has been made site-specifically for Olly, a new gallery-café in Auckland's Mount Eden. Olly co-founder, Chlöe Swarbrick, ran for the Auckland Mayoralty in the 2016 Local Government election and mobilised a substantial community of Aucklanders to participate in the democratic process with her fresh and conscious leadership.
All the works in The Perpetual Flux of Transitional Otherness are for sale and the exhibition runs from 6 March – 2 April 2017. Olly is open from 7am – 3pm, Monday to Friday and located at 537 Mount Eden Road, Mount Eden, Auckland
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Why Modi Wanted To But Did Not Declare India Free Of Manual Scavenging
RADHIKA BORDIA & YOGESH PAWAR
20 Apr 2021 12 min read Share
The government is eager to declare India free of manual scavenging, ignoring those of the forefront of this outlawed practice: thousands of Dalit women who clean human faeces with their hands in rural homes and for the government, especially the Railways.
A manual scavenger with her bucket/SUDHARAK OLWE
Jalaun, Delhi, Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi picked Gandhi Jayanti, 2 October 2020, as the day he would declare India "manual scavenging free".
When Bezwada Wilson, convener of the Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA), an advocacy group, learnt of the decision, he submitted data to the government on manual scavengers, who, even after Swachh Bharat, were still cleaning dry and insanitary latrines.
In September, at a meeting, chief secretaries from various states were asked if it was still feasible to declare India free of manual scavenging, the outlawed practice of cleaning sewers, septic tanks, railways tracks and other receptacles of human and other waste.
That was when Wilson told the officials "to imagine a TV screen, split in the middle, on the one side the PM declaring India manual-scavenger free, on the other the side the images of women, working as manual scavengers". Faced with the evidence collated by Wilson, the government decided to postpone its declaration.
The ease with which the government chose to look away from the reality of manual scavenging in much of rural India is because it is work that is taken for granted. While the work of cleaning choked sewage chambers and gutters is usually assigned to men, the cleaning of dry toilets and the ferrying of excreta is usually the work of women.
This is the last of a five-part series that explores how manual scavenging, primarily a profession for Dalits and tribals, endures in India despite being outlawed in 2013. These are the first, second, third and fourth parts.
There is a term for manually cleaning and carrying faeces in almost every Indian language—maila dhona in Hindi, in Kannada maila baachivavru, in Marathi, maila vahanaare, in Malyalam tho-otti.
Across rural India manual scavenging remains the most degrading of practices, as women from Dalit castes continue using their hands to clean and scrape faeces and carry it away from upper-caste homes. The other major employer of women as manual scavengers is the Indian Railways.
A woman cleaning an insanitary latrine/M PALANI KUMAR, PEP COLLECTIVE
The government has not released specific data on women manual scavengers. Their overall figure—66,692—has already been challenged by activists who call it a denial of reality. According to Wilson, the Railways alone employ five times this number and the overall figure exceeds one million.
He based his claim on figures collated by the SKA which The Supreme Court, has in the past recognized the importance of the data collected by the organisation.
Six months after Modi's date for the end of manual scavenging in India, tens of thousands of women continue to be engaged in the practice of manually cleaning dry and insanitary latrines.
This is the story of three of them.
Guddi Devi, Kurseda Village, Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh
Wishing away reality, govt officials refuse to register the existence of manual scavenging.
30 December 2017—a day Guddi Devi and her family find hard to forget. The prospects of change swept into their life briefly and vanished just as soon.
At 40, Guddi Devi had spent 25 years of her life working as a manual scavenger, going house to house, cleaning filth and excreta from the toilets. The toilets were often "dry latrines", without water.
Kurseda is a village typical of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh. Amidst the scrub landscape, water is scarce, and embedded caste hierarchies are the basis for unequal land holdings. Guddi Devi and her family from the Valmiki Dalit caste owned no land but her work took her to the estates of large zamindars, with anywhere from 30 to 60 acres. Her daughter Anjali would accompany her. The work was meant to be passed down to her, as it was passed down to Guddi from her mother.
Over the years, people had tried to modernise their toilets or construct new ones. But in these badly designed toilets with flushes that rarely worked, faecal material still had to be cleaned by hand, except that clearing wet faeces was harder than picking it up dry.
"I don't need to explain that, it is quite evident what happens when you've got liquid faecal material piled up in the bucket on your head—it begins to drip on to your face," Guddi said. In the many testimonies of manual scavengers, this recurring detail underlines the repulsive nature of their daily work, unchanged for centuries.
On that date in December, three years ago, Guddi and Anjali skipped their rounds to work at the home of a zamindar, a landlord, hosting a triyodarshi, a ritual feast, held on the 13th day after a relative's death. As a large number of guests had been invited, Guddi and others from her community spent the morning sweeping, cleaning utensils and toilets.
Guddi (in sari) with her family and a team member from Bundelkhand Dalit Adhikar Manch in 2017.
Just as she was returning to her house, one of the village's biggest zamindars, Deep Singh Sengar, accosted her. Angered she had not come to clean the toilets on his estate that day, he began beating her. Villagers who had gathered there saw Sengar pick up buckets full of the excreta and throw it at Guddi and her daughter who was just 13 at the time.
Kanpur's Dainik Aaj reported the Guddi's story then.
Senger managed to drag Guddi and her daughter to his house where he forcibly made them clean the latrines, abusing them throughout and then thrashing them again until some villagers intervened. None of those villagers wanted their identities revealed, not then, when a local reporter filed a story on the incident, and not now, three year later.
A team from the Bundelkhand Dalit Adhikar Manch (BDAM), a network of youth organizations working on constitutional and Dalit rights in 700 villages in the region, conducted a detailed fact-finding report on the incident.
Thirty-one-year old Kuldeep Kumar Baudh, convenor, remembered the extensive conversations they had with villagers, witnesses and Guddi's family, "We were shocked at the brutality and convinced Guddi to file a case under the Manual Scavenger Act, 2013." (The Prohibition of Employment of Manual Scavengers And Their Rehabilation Act or PEMSRA).
Guddi agreed and a complaint was filed at the Gohan police station naming Dilip Sengar and his accomplices. A week later, she withdrew the application. She had been threatened and intimidated. "You will leave but I have to stay in my village," she told Kuldeep and his colleagues.
Kuldeep said this was a "turning point". Members of the BDAM began an exhaustive process of identifying families still engaged in manual scavenging. Their first study, completed in January 2018, identified as many as 276 people still engaged in manual scavenging, in just the two blocks they had surveyed—Mahewa and Kaduara.
All were women, all were Valmikis.
When the findings were shared with the Jalaun district magistrate, he summarily dismissed them. "He told us there was no manual scavenging as Swachh Bharat had removed dry latrines," recalled Kuldeeep.
Kuldeep and his team decided to use clauses in the 2013 Act which allowed manual scavengers to self-declare. The Act set up a survey committee in every district to track cases of manual scavenging while the National Safai Karamchari Finance and Development Corporation (NSKFDC) vet each application.
Once the declaration was found valid, NSKFDC was responsible for rehabilitation, beginning with Rs 40,000 given to each manual scavenger followed by skill training for new employment with a stipend of Rs 3,000 a month for at least two years.
Of the 276 people Kuldeep's team identified as manual scavengers, only 93 wanted to self-declare. The others said they feared repercussions. Incredibly, the district administration found only one self-declaration form to be valid.
"This was unbelievable for us, there were forms with details, there was even photographic evidence, and the local media had captured so much of this work visually," said Kuldeep. "We knew we would have to protest."
Over the next few months the BDAM and the women scavengers took their protests to Lucknow. On World Human Rights Day, 10 December 2018, The protest was widely covered by the state media. It led to three self-declaration camps being held across Jalaun by the government on a single day in 2019.
More than a 1,000 women came forward, evidence in hand, to self-declare themselves as manual scavengers. The administration accepted 629 claims and gave 40,000 rupees to each of the families. No other follow-up of any kind was done.
"That was the end of the matter when it should have been the beginning. What is Rs 40,000 in itself going to achieve?" asked Kuldip. Those who could not make it on the one day the camp was held, gave their forms to Kuldeep and his team to post to the district office. A year and a half later there has been no response.
"How can a law work when the agencies meant to execute it become its violators?" asked Kuldeep. The 2013 act requires block level officials to monitor and identify illegal practices. "Forget using the act to prosecute or punish, there is no will to actually accept and act on manual scavenging," he said.
Kuldeep's organisation has verifiable evidence that over 2,000 women are still engaged as manual scavengers in Jalaun district. The actual figure is likely to be much higher. He feels, even more strongly now, the need to keep doing work that links people to government welfare schemes and makes them aware of the laws.
Even as he forced the government to acknowledge the reality of what was happening, he remained haunted by the fact that Guddi Devi was not among the 629 people acknowledged as manual scavengers by the government.
Still living with fear, Guddi Devi wants no media attention, does not want to be spoken to, does not want her picture taken.
Lokamma, Tumakaru, Karnataka
They cannot leave their caste behind when they leave their village.
Fifteen years ago, when M Lokamma was 25, she and her husband Hari moved from Averahalli village to Tumakuru town, about 70 km from Bengaluru, hoping to leave behind their lives as Dalits from the Madiga caste.
"In the village we would be ordered to clear carcasses, clean drains, gutters or sweep the open defecation spots on the outskirts of the village. Often we weren't paid any money, only given left-over food, perhaps rarely a small portion of rice." Lokamma recalled. "We are not allowed to even enter upper caste homes through the front door. We are served water or food in dented plates and glasses kept outside especially for us."
In Tumakuru, the couple rented a room in a Dalit slum colony near the Siddiganga Muttha, a prominent Lingayaat muth that draws many devotees from across the state.
But the stigma of their caste followed them here too.
"My husband and I are not literate and when people know we're Madiga, if we are given work, it is usually that of cleaning toilets," Lokamma told Article 14. Her husband cleaned clogged gutters, sewers and septic tanks while Lokamma felt relieved to have got a regular salaried job cleaning toilets at a girl's hostel in Tumakuru's Danah Nagar.
Between her monthly wages of Rs 2,500 and Hari's earnings they were able to manage until the sudden lockdown, announced by Modi in March 2020. The girl's hostel was closed, the students sent away and Lokamma laid off.
The couple struggled, living on subsidised grains and food distributed by welfare organisations. Work finally began to pick up only by November 2020. According to Lokamma, "A lot of other migrant workers had not returned so there was a backlog for us. The savukaar (upper caste) people don't do dirty work."
On 17 January 2021, Lokamma was called to clean a toilet which had been left dirty through 10 months of the pandemic, "I told the owners it would require cleaning with machines since the toilet was coated with hardened excreta but they began yelling. They brought a bottle of acid and insisted I clean it."
She described how the fumes from the acid reacted with the faecal waste and filled the bathroom. Her eyes stung but the upper-caste men and women stood outside the toilet yelling at her to finish the work. "At one point the bottle in my left hand tipped over and burnt my hand," she said. "The pain was so much that I keeled over but they mocked me for making excuses. Only when I broke down, showing them my blistered darkened hand did they reluctantly allow me to go."
She was not paid for the work, "They said not a single paisa as I had not completed the work, though not much was left to do."
The past three month have been a struggle. The treatment for the arm continues, eating into their paltry savings. Unable to work, Lokamma needs help with even having a bath or tying her hair.
In theory she should have had several legal options.
Under the stringent provisions of the PEMSRA, anyone forcing an individual to undertake manual scavenging can be fined a sum of Rs 10 lakh, face a prison sentence of five years or both. The slurs directed at her by those who employed her also count as a serious violation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
Lokamma.
The Safai Karamchari Kavalu Samithi (SKKS), that works on rehabilitation of manual scavengers in Karnataka, helped Lokamma draft a complaint that was submitted at the Tumakuru police station on 17 January. After repeated follow-ups by the SKSS team, the police finally accepted the complaint on 25 January.
"They're treating this as an accident, refusing to register the offence under the Manual Scavenger Act. We have been writing to all district and state authorities to follow-up," Rakshita, coordinator for SKSS at Tumakuru, told Article 14. "Though the Act clearly delineates the chain of responsibilities, government agencies keep passing the buck."
It took Rakshita a long time to counsel the couple to file a complaint. Lokamma and Hari, for good reason, had little expectation from the system, "When we were in the village, our thatched roof had collapsed so we had gone to the district office to apply for a Indira Awas Yojana. The official there told us to get lost, said he'd put us in prison as we were lying. We are nothing to them so why will they rehabilitate us?"
D Mohanna, Erode Junction, Tamil Nadu
Government-owned Indian railways is the biggest violator of the manual scavenging law—and the law sanctions this violation.
Erode Junction in Tamil Nadu is one of the busiest railway junctions on the Southern Railway, with 265 mail, express and passenger trains passing through each day
The station has four platforms, 12 tracks, and railway authorities estimate it caters to more than 40,000 people a day. Only 45 people have been employed to ensure cleanliness and hygiene at the station. Thirty of them are women, all from the Arunthatiyar community, a Dalit caste traditionally tasked with manual scavenging.
Among them is 47-year-old D Mohanna, who has been working as a contractual manual scavenger since 2010. "I was earlier working in upper-caste homes as a domestic help. Someone who wanted my job revealed my caste and I was forced to leave. At least here, as a manual scavenger, no one will make me leave just because I am Dalit," she said, with a touch of the dark humour that has kept her going through hardship and personal trauma.
D Mohanna.
Before his death, Mohanna's father had also been a manual scavenger and it was through his acquaintances that she found the job. The initial experience of cleaning faeces and muck from blocked drains, toilets and the tracks left her nauseous. "I had no choice but to make peace with it since this is what ensures we don't go hungry," she said.
She earns Rs 9,000 a month, though her husband, a violent alcoholic, usually drinks a few thousands away, "People see the money I earn, no one's bothered about the work involved or how it marks us as sub-human."
On paper her work timings are 7 am to 5 pm but in reality, the length of her shift is decided by train arrivals and departures. If a particular train is delayed, the contractor makes them wait to ensure the tracks are cleaned after the train departs. "We hear the threat that our contracts can be terminated at any point," she said. "It's a way to ensure we do hours of overtime without a squeak of a complaint, which is what we do."
In early 2000 the Indian Railways, starting with the Eastern sector, began to outsource sanitation work to private contractors. Karuppu Samy, a coordinator with Rights Education and Development Centre (READ), who has worked with manual scavengers in Tamil Nadu since 2001 said, "The contractual system allows the Railways to deny they are employing manual scavengers." Having seen up close how women like Mohanna work in railway stations, Samy called it "nothing more than manual scavenging with an apron".
Some of the daily toll of this work is visible on Mohanna's body–bruises, scratches and a stubborn fungus infection which has discoloured her skin all the way up to her knee. The boots the women were given to work were ill-fitting and difficult to wear with saris. When the women complained, the contractor simply took them away, leaving them to wear their chappals, which brings them in close contact with garbage and excreta.
The Railways have long promised to mechanise the cleaning process. An early step was the introduction of high pressure water jets to clean the tracks. This has since been used by officials to argue that their workers are not "manual scavengers".
Mohanna mocked the claim. "Tell them the water jets don't often work and even when they do there's no pressure intense enough to get some of the shit off the tracks," he said. "You have to bend down, brush it out, collect and then dispose of it."
Bio-toilets are the other key element in the Railways' proposal to fully mechanise the process. The Railway claim to have introduced 68,000 by June 2020. SKA's Bezwada Wilson contested the figures. "They haven't even fitted a 1,000 of the 175,000 plus bogies with proper biodegradable toilets," he said. "So who is cleaning all the faeces? Thousands of women, of course."
The Safai Karamchari Andolan has been battling the Railways on this issue in court, since 2003. Wilson has repeatedly pointed out a problem in the 2013 act, which banned the practice but allowed the government to exempt certain departments from its purview. "They stall, they deny but Railways continues to be the largest employer of manual scavengers. They employ over 5 lakh people as manual scavengers," he said.
Mohanna isn't aware of the laws. Her only concern is to keep her job secure. "That is the insidious nature of how manual scavenging works," Karuppu Samy said. "Without political will and rehabilitation, the state is in effect preying on the economic insecurities of women like Mohanna, holding out the threat that if the practice of manual scavenging ends so will their jobs."
Series concluded. You can read the first, second, third and fourth parts here, here, here and here.
(Radhika Bordia is a journalist and Director, Global Programme, University of Missouri School of Journalism, USA. Yogesh Pawar is a journalist based in Mumbai.)
This reportage was supported by the Thakur Family Foundation. The Thakur Family Foundation has not exercised any editorial control over the contents of this report.


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Q: USB HDD not visible in nautilus/nemo The HDD is visible in the 'disks' utility. I can mount the one and only partition on that drive using mount. gvfs-mount Recognizes the disk:
$ gvfs-mount --list
...
Drive(2): 750 GB Hard Disk
Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)

dmesg looks like this:
[25081.614627] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[25081.747814] usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=125f, idProduct=a93a
[25081.747826] usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=2
[25081.747834] usb 2-6: Product: Portable HDD SH93
[25081.747840] usb 2-6: Manufacturer: ADATA
[25081.747846] usb 2-6: SerialNumber: 000000000078
[25081.748425] scsi15 : usb-storage 2-6:1.0
[25082.744264] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ADATA    HDD SH93              PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[25082.746361] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[25082.749729] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/698 GiB)
[25082.751350] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[25082.751365] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[25082.751826] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[25082.751834] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[25082.754559] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[25082.754561] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[25082.783022]  sdc: sdc1
[25082.785984] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[25082.785995] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[25082.786002] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

The disk isn't visible in nautilus' "Devices" category. Other USB disks are visible and I can mount them with nautilus. That particular drive used to work with nautilus two months ago.
The only partition on that disk is formatted with vfat. I tried rebooting and it hasn't helped.
Edit: the drive is also invisible in dolphin, so there seems to be some underlying issue.

A: Well, it is a bit late but for others....
You can probably look up in the udisks2.rules in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks2.rules and remove anything or all which comes after
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Devices which should not be display in the user interface

as your disk probably triggers one of those conditions. Alternatively, try removing some parts at a time.

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Business / Manufacturing
Gruelling Gemini challenge pays tribute to Shropshire businessman
by News team · Published January 17, 2020 · Updated January 29, 2020
A sport-mad Shropshire businessman who died last year is to be honoured and remembered this month when two of his close friends take on one of the UK's most gruelling endurance challenges.
Norman Carter, Business Development Manager at Telford firm Fabweld Steel Products and former army fitness instructor, died at The Severn Hospice in August last year.
This month would have marked his 70th birthday. To honour and celebrate the occasion, two of his close friends and former army colleagues Charles Wilkinson and Richard Salmon, both aged 66, have signed up to complete the formidable Fan Dance – not just once but twice – in an effort to raise vital funds for the hospice.
Now 50-years-old, the Fan Dance is an exercise used to determine whether UK soldiers have the mental and physical determination required to join the Special Forces. It involves trekking 24km across rough terrain whilst carrying a rucksack weighing 35lbs.
This Saturday January 18, Mr Wilkinson and Mr Salmon will undertake the extraordinary challenge across the Brecon Beacons. The following day, Sunday, January 19, they will then attempt to repeat the same event to complete what has become known as the Fan Dance – Gemini Edition.
The challenge is set to push the former soldiers to their absolute limits but will be a fitting tribute to Mr Carter, who himself was a Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor (QMSI) in the Army Physical Training Corps and loved sport.
He was no stranger to undertaking a challenge or two having completed the 300 mile London to Paris cycle ride at age 64.
Mr Wilkinson said: "The aim of this challenge is to honour our brother Norman in a way he would live and pay tribute to his wonderful life. Additionally, we want to provide support on behalf of Norman's family to the Severn Hospice which cared for him so well in his final days."
FSP Managing Director Richard Hilton added: "This is a particularly gruelling challenge to embark on but a tremendous way to remember Norman. We wish Charles and Richard the very best of luck and we hope as many people as possible will get behind them to raise funds for Severn Hospice.
"We are so lucky here in Shropshire to have such a remarkable facility on our doorstep. It does an amazing job supporting people and their families."
The team at FSP are also planning to take part in various other events throughout the year to celebrate Mr Carter's remarkable life, the sports he loved and to encourage others to step out of their comfort zone.
James Benting, special projects manager at FSP, is planning to climb the Matterhorn whilst FSP product developer Nick Ralph will be attempting the London to Paris bike ride.
Mr Carter's son Wayne, who is also operations director at FSP is planning a solo kayak expedition from his birth place in Tywyn to his home town in Clynnog-Fawr on the north coast of Wales.
Mr Carter's grandson Tristan will round of the challenges by competing in his first boxing match.
Anyone wishing to sponsor Mr Wilkinson and Mr Salmon to help raise funds for Severn Hospice can visit: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/normans-crossed-swords?fbclid=IwAR3MLOsJML5aar3qJW4uR0JSbOf7CIfWQlXXccqOS7TnwzsGs4Rt9v74P3k&utm_id=124
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Innovative Games Company Rabble to Raise Funds with Sports Investment Partners
Join the Rabble Ltd (Rabble) has teamed up with Sports Investment Partners (SIP) to raise funds in support of its planned growth over the next 12-18months. Having established its core business model around the gamification of exercise the company is now looking to bring in capital as it expands its licensing model to meet the needs of an underserved population.
This is the first company to be listed on the SIP platform in partnerships with Envestry and is continued evidence of the new thinking and creative approach entrepreneurs are taking to the wider sports industry.
The SIP platform was established to serve the growing band of companies that service the sports industry who have moved beyond the accelerator or friends and family stage and have demonstrated an ability to produce a product or service that further enables the sports eco-system.
Michael Broughton, Partner at SIP explains; "Charlotte and the Rabble product are a perfect example of the type of company we have been looking to partner with. She has demonstrated an ability to get the business off the ground and to pull in customers. She and her team are to be commended for the work they have done to date, and we are excited to be a part of the next step in their journey."
According to Rabble whilst a significant proportion of the population would like to be active they fail to meet the minimum requirements. One of the core issues is that exercise is seen as a chore and signing up to a gym membership can be daunting. The Rabble solution has been to provide a fun experience that is accessible to everyone and which takes place in a social environment.
"As a former athlete I have always enjoyed being active and can see the benefits from the lifestyle. I founded Rabble because I realised that there were many more people who were scared off from exercise. We have focused on generating games that bring people together, build a community and find a way to make more people active almost without realising it," stated Charlotte Roach, CEO and Founder.
She continues, "We have seen our initial success and are keen to build on these early foundations and take the lessons we have learnt into the licensing model so as to expand more rapidly and bring our games to a wider population. The inbound calls from potential licensees both here and abroad give us great confidence we are on the right track. This fundraise with SIP is part of our strategy to bring our IP, platform and licensing model to a wider audience and get more people off the sofa. Whilst we have worked hard to get here we know we are just at the very beginning of this journey."
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package com.belatrix.events.utils.fcm;

import com.belatrix.events.BxEventsApplication;
import com.belatrix.events.domain.interactors.RegisterDeviceInteractor;
import com.belatrix.events.domain.model.Device;
import com.belatrix.events.utils.cache.Cache;
import com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceId;
import com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdService;

import javax.inject.Inject;

import timber.log.Timber;

public class EventsFirebaseInstanceIDService extends FirebaseInstanceIdService {

    @Inject
    Cache cache;
    @Inject
    RegisterDeviceInteractor registerDeviceInteractor;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        ((BxEventsApplication)getApplication()).getComponent().inject(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onTokenRefresh() {
        final String refreshedToken = FirebaseInstanceId.getInstance().getToken();
        cache.saveDeviceToken(refreshedToken);
        registerDeviceInteractor.registerDevice(new RegisterDeviceInteractor.CallBack() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(Device device) {
                Timber.d("onSuccess: Token was registered: " + refreshedToken );
                cache.saveDeviceId(device.getId());
            }

            @Override
            public void onError() {
                Timber.d("onError: Token was not registered");
            }
        }, RegisterDeviceInteractor.Params.forRegisterDevice(refreshedToken,cache.getCity()));
        super.onTokenRefresh();
    }

}

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For the randomized, double-blind, placebo (PBO)-controlled phase 1/2a clinical trial, investigators evaluated the effectiveness of orally administered SYNB1618 versus placebo (PBO) in single- (SAD) and multiple-ascending dose (MAD) cohorts of HVs.
In both the SAD and MAD cohorts, the activity of SYNB1618 was assessed in fasted individuals following administration of a standardized breakfast drink with a defined amount of protein. Solid food with an equivalent amount of protein was replaced with the liquid meal at 1 dose level in the SAD portion of the study. A labeled Phe tracer (D5-Phe) was also orally administered.
Over a subsequent 6-hour period, blood and urine samples were collected, and several metabolites were measured, such as Phe and SYNB1618-specific biomarkers of Phe metabolism, TCA in blood, and HA in urine. In the SAD cohorts, these methods were conducted on the day of dosing, and in the MAD cohorts, on day 1 (baseline) and day 7 (the last day of dosing).
The 24 individuals in the SAD cohort, which included the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) was 2 x 1011 CFU and a total of 24 individuals, were not found to experience any drug-related significant adverse events (SAEs). Nausea and vomiting were the most common moderately severe AEs, and all reported AEs ranged from mild to moderate in severity.
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I think I'm in. I'll deliver an entry as long as I get to decide for an artist to mimic.
I might enter too, if I find time to compose.
I dunno about decent outcome sry couldn't resist.
Ok, I have a question about the mimic part. Would it be OK to just pic one or 2 songs from someone and do the same style, or the same "flow" if you will? All the people I want to do make all kinds of music. It wouldn't be a remake of the song or anything like that, just the same flow of the song using the same style.
A remake would not be ok, since the point is to recreate a certain style not a certain song. The problem i'm having is that my song sounds nothing like it's supposed to sound. You really need to copy the style.
OTOH i suppose the last place would be mine for sure.
i suppose the last place would be mine for sure.
I've chosen to mimic Atlantis!
Atlantis? Is it very irregular not to have heard about them?
Atlantis is one of our fellows. He used to write in this forums quite a lot. He has stopped making music to devote himself to mixing and mastering, which he thinks are activities for which he is better suited. He is Dutch, but he lives in New Zealand.
(Hey, I should start charging to write Artist descriptions).
By the way, it would be good if everyone said who they are mimicking, right?
At least it will be so much easier to judge.


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COVID-19 pandemic puts environmentally friendly urban plan in fast lane
By Reuters Published: Jan 12, 2021 05:18 PM
One of Barcelona's largest parks, named after Spanish painter Joan Miro, is just a stone's throw away from the busy crossroads between Consell de Cent and Rocafort streets, but here you could be mistaken for thinking nature is a million miles away.
That could be about to change under an ambitious new 10-year plan, unveiled by Barcelona City Hall in November, aimed at drastically cutting traffic and expanding green spaces in the central district of Eixample.
A view of the Casa Batllo, in Barcelona, Spain on April 23, 2020 during the coronavirus emergency Photo: AFP
The 38 million euro ($46.5 million) plan aims to turn one in three streets in the densely populated residential and commercial area into green zones.
It responds to longstanding problems of air pollution and cramped living conditions in the Spanish region of Catalonia's main city, brought to the fore by COVID-19, said Janet Sanz, Barcelona's deputy mayor for ecology, urban planning and mobility.
"From an environmental and feminist perspective, the city needs to be different - to be liveable, healthy - and the pandemic has made this more urgent," she told Reuters in a phone interview.
The new urban design aims to put at its center groups that have traditionally been excluded, like children, women and the elderly, she added.
The results of a tender for the design work are due early in 2021, with construction set to begin in early 2022.
Several crossroads in Eixample - built on a grid system in the 19th century to provide additional housing in the crowded city - will be turned into public space so that no resident is more than 200 meters from a square or small park.
"At these crossroads, where now you only see cars, you will see an urban forest, a square for children - you'll see how we can get rid of the tarmac and have better-planted trees, which help cool down the city," said Sanz.
Lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 made urban residents realize how important nature is to them personally and to their wider communities, said Josep M. Pages, secretary general of the Belgium-based European Nurserystock Association (ENA), a professional body for plant growers and traders.
"People living in cities have seen the importance, the need, to have plants nearby - and are demanding more trees, shrubs and all types of plants in the streets, parks and gardens," he told Reuters.
Landscape architects too are thinking "more and more outside of the box to transform, naturalize and to add green to their plans," he said, noting cities can have vegetation almost everywhere, including on roofs, facades and streets.
The ENA launched a campaign in 2018, funded by the European Commission, to make European cities greener by boosting public awareness and influencing policymakers through social media, advertising and events, which will now run for two more years in 13 EU countries.
Pollution dangers
Green spaces can be useful not only to cool urban areas but also to reduce flooding in colder, wetter climates like those of Northern European cities, said Kjell Nilsson, director at the Nordic Council of Ministers' research institute, Nordregio.
"A dense city with only hard surfaces can be quite vulnerable, especially when it comes to flooding and rainstorms," he said. "The water has nowhere to go but the pipeline system, and when that's full, you have problems."
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A Harvard University study, published in April 2020, found people living in parts of the United States with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 than those in less-polluted areas.
Barcelona, which has one of the worst levels of air pollution among European cities, has been trying to cut back on traffic for years, reducing parking spaces and introducing in 2020 a low-emissions zone to keep out old, dirty vehicles.
Since 2016, it has also piloted a radical "superblock" scheme that redirects cars around selected inner-city zones and reclaims streets for residents, the majority of whom live in flats with very little outside space.
The COVID-19 pandemic gave city authorities the chance to accelerate experiments with traffic-quietening initiatives, including closing some roads at the weekend, extending cycle lanes and creating new pedestrianized zones.
A December report said official air quality measurements from 26 Spanish cities showed nitrogen dioxide levels dropped 38 percent between March and October, compared to the 10-year average, as a national lockdown cleared the streets of cars.
"We took advantage of the pandemic to accelerate a number of measures that are cheaper," said Barcelona Deputy Mayor Sanz.
She described this as "tactical urbanism," an approach that allows local governments to test out methods before embarking on a larger, costlier plan. Superblocks, based on groups of streets that create a local area where cars are largely restricted and roads re-purposed into public spaces, already exist in several neighborhoods in Barcelona but the Eixample plan is a change of scale, said Sanz.
"We wanted to have a leap forward in the city as a whole," she said.
Competition for space
Pages said European cities are becoming greener in line with global trends but must grapple with limited space and history.
"It is a more difficult challenge to add green to an old European city than a less dense, relatively new American one," he said.
"In the most dense cities, green must compete with parking lots, private and public buildings, roads and so on, which aren't easy to transform," he added.
Some Nordic cities - which tend to be less compact than many in southern Europe - are moving towards incorporating more wild areas into their centers, said Nilsson.
Financing is another barrier to urban greening, said Pages.
"A grey pavement produces nothing but has no maintenance costs. A green area has maintenance costs that some city managers find expensive," he said.
To counter this argument, planners should aim to measure the improvements green spaces bring for the health and wellbeing of their citizens and the environment, he added.
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Antonio Gates announces retirement from NFL
Antonio Gates announced his retirement from football on Tuesday, ending his career with Hall of Fame-calibre numbers.
Gates, 39, signed with the San Diego Chargers in 2003 as an unrestricted free agent after playing college basketball, not football, at Kent State. He remained with the organization through 2018 but did not play in 2019.
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— Antonio Gates (@AntonioGates85) January 14, 2020
"I never dreamed that I would play this game of football so long or how fortunate I would be to play it with just one organization," he wrote on Twitter. "I want to thank the Chargers organization, the National Football League, [Chargers owner] Dean Spanos and the Spanos family for the opportunity to live out a dream and play the game I love."
Gates added in his announcement that he would remain with the Chargers in a community relations role.
He played in 236 games (190 starts) in his career, amassing 955 catches for 11,841 yards with 116 touchdowns. He's the all-time leader among tight ends in touchdown receptions, and his catches and yards rank him third at the position behind Tony Gonzalez and Jason Witten.
Gates was named first-team All-Pro three times and to eight Pro Bowl teams.
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Q: SQL Get current month I have table1 with data
file  Startdate
A     2020-05-01
B     2020-06-01

We have today is 2020-06-01 and I could use Select and where startdate ='2020-06-01'
But I try this query and not get 2020-06-01
select file from table1
where
 startdate >= dateadd(month, -1, datefromparts(year(getdate()), month(getdate()), 1))
         and startdate < datefromparts(year(getdate()), month(getdate()), 1)

Please correct me. Thank you

A: You're looking for
select [file] from table1
where
 startdate = datefromparts(year(getdate()), month(getdate()), 1)

This'll returns
file  Startdate
B     2020-06-01

UPDATE:

I mean not just 2020-06-01 but if I add 2020-06-02 then should get 2 records for 2020-06-01 and 2020-06-02

SELECT [File]
FROM Table1
WHERE StartDate >= DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(GETDATE()), MONTH(GETDATE()), 1)
      AND
      StartDate <= EOMONTH(GETDATE());

A: datefromparts clutter it, it's much easier to write and understand it like this.
Mysql
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(getdate(), "%Y-%m-01");

MSSql
SELECT CONVERT(NOW(), varchar(8),120) + '01'

A: select * from table1
where StartDate= cast(getdate() as date)


I've been eating a few more carbs than usual these days. Not an excessive amount, but just more than usual. Carbs tend to wreak havoc with my weight, but I've actually lost a little with the higher carb count these past couple of days. Of course, I'm still eating at a calorie deficit.


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When I first moved into Mountaineering Man's apartment, he was very forthcoming about the unfortunate realities of his neighborhood. He insisted I never go out on my own after dark – even to the corner shop – and be very aware of my surroundings when walking around during the day.
The area, known as The Coombe, does have its dodgy aspects. But lately I've really warmed to the neighborhood and its surrounding districts and have even discovered a few gems. About a month ago I started walking to my gym, which exposed me to a little nook in the area full of bustling shops and street vendors I'd never seen up close before. Now, instead of noticing the abandoned buildings and strung-out junkies I see the beautiful cakes in bakery windows and the sweet old Polish ladies who warm the shop stoops sharing gossip over tea.
Walking down Meath Street is always a sensory delight; there are aproned butchers hauling whole carcasses on their shoulders, smells of fresh-baked bread wafting down the street and the sing-song sales calls of the ladies hawking a variety of cheap accessories at tables along the footpaths. Get your Flossies here, now half-price! they call out, referencing the colorful cotton shoes that are a hot item among the local street vendors right now. On the same table there is an odd variety of items including chocolates, candles, toothpaste and greeting cards – all at bargain prices.
The businesses here are all small mom-and-pop type places. There's the Chinese hair salon, which is always packed with petite, lavender-haired grannies. There's a Polish food shop that has a million types of pickled cucumbers and dry-cured sausages, and there are a few quirky clothing stores that specialise in cheap, frilly frocks – especially over-the-top sequined numbers. It's fun to window shop and there's always lots to see.
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When you love do it without regard to the past or the future. Feel the feelings of love because it feels natural and it feels good. Love, love, love.
What are 5 FEELINGS you choose to feel today that will express feelings of love?
Here are mine: unlimited, non-discerning, abundant, plethora, excess.


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MIZ / SAIGON: IN CONCERT
the Musicals by ALAIN BOUBLIL and CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG
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ALAIN BOUBLIL
HERBERT KRETZMER
RICHARD MALTBY JR
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The next best thing to seeing a Broadway show is the "Broadway Concert Series" experience.
Enjoy the talents of top Canadian musical theatre performers singing highlights from Les Misérables and Miss Saigon in a classy and visually engaging production. You will not want to miss this one!
Les Misérables & Miss Saigon are sung-through musicals with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and original French-language lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, alongside an English-language libretto with accompanying English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer (Les Misérables) and lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby for Miss Saigon.
Les Misérables is based on the Victor Hugo Novel and Miss Saigon is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly.
Ma-Anne Dionisio (Kim, MISS SAIGON, Diana, NEXT TO NORMAL Toronto), Jeff Madden (Frankie Valli, JERSEY BOYS and COME FROM AWAY Toronto), David Silvestri (LES MISERABLES, COME FROM AWAY Toronto), George Masswohl (Mayor, COME FROM AWAY Toronto, FIDDLER Stratford), Cailin Stadnyk (COME FROM AWAY Toronto, MAMMA MIA, Aquarius), Franc-Anton Harwart (Engineer, MISS SAIGON L.A.) and Emily Roitman (singing Castle on a Cloud) with Robert Graham on Piano.
Saturday Sept 7, 2019
Matinee Tickets
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Toronto Centre For The Arts
Act 1 Song List (Miss Saigon)
The Movie In My Mind
Why God Why?
The Telephone Song
Morning Of The Dragon
If You Want To Die In Bed
I Will Give My Life For You
Bui-Doi
Now That I've Seen Her
The Confrontation
Act 2 Song List (Les Miz)
Castle On A Cloud
Love Montage
Dog Eats Dog
Empty Chairs
Javert's Suicide
Bring Him Home
Ma Anne Dionisio
Kim/Eponine
Ma-Anne Dionisio is best known for playing the title role 'Kim' in the Canadian Premiere of Miss Saigon. Some of her other credits include 'Eponine' in Les Miserables in the West End London, 'Bertrande' in Martin Guerre, 'Maria' in West Side Story at Stratford, and 'Grizabella' in Cats Toronto.
David Silvestri
John/Valjean
David is thrilled to join this amazing cast, bringing once more this incredible music to the stage. Selected credits include: KinkyBoots/Mirvish (Hooch/US Don), Sousatska, world premiere (current), Prom Queen, world premiere (Lonni Wynn), Les Miserables/Mirvish(Combferre/ US Valjean), Les Mis in Concert (Valjean), Fiddler On the Roof(Mordcha us/Tevye), Guys and Dolls(Big Julie), Too Many Cooks(Shirly), Kiss of the Spiderwoman(Valentin), Little Shop of horrors(Orin Scrivello DDS), A Funny Thing Happened…(Milos Gloriosus), Falsettos(Marvin), Into the Woods(WolfPrince), Sweeney Todd in concert(Sweeney), Aladdin the Panto(Abanaza), Noises Off (Frederick Fellows), Death of a Salesman(Biff), The King and I(King), Julius Caesar(Marcus Brutus),
Stratford Festival: 42nd Street, Pirates of Penzance
Disney: Toy Story the Musical(Buzz Lightyear), Hercules the Musial(Hades), Beauty and the Beast(Gaston), Twice Charmed a Cinderella Story(The Grand Duke)
David Sings with Jennifer Hudson
Jeff Madden
Chris/Marius
Cailin Stadnyk
Ellen/Fantine/Cosette
Franc-Anton Harwart
Engineer/Thenardier
After 7 years as an Army instructor Franc hung up his combat boots for dance shoes which has taken him all over the world. His extensive performance credits include television commercials (The Food Network, Footlocker, Labatts, Adidas), luxury cruise lines (Royal Caribbean, Holland America), Canada's Wonderland and The Charlottetown Festival in PEI. Professional stage credits include Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Baker/Levi), The Buddy Holly Story (Ritchie Valens), Into The Woods (Wolf). For the role of the Engineer in Miss Saigon, which he has played in Canada, the US, and Germany, Franc was the winner of the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Lead Actor in a musical. Also an avid sports fan, he has had the honour of singing the national anthems at the Skydome in Toronto and Giants Stadium in San Francisco. His greatest role is daddy to his 4 little girls Emilia, Keira, Renee, and Jacqueline.
George Masswohl
Javert
Emily Roitman
Robert Graham is a Toronto based Canadian/Australian pianist, singer and songwriter. He has worked as a professional pianist, accompanist, vocalist, music director and vocal/repertoire coach – including two UK tours with Canadian roots supergroup "Tanglefoot". Robert is an award winning songwriter – and together with his eclectic band The Fairest and Best www.thefairestandbest.com), he has generated several contracts for TV and film.
His most recent MD role was "Echoes – A New Musical" at the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival. www.robertgraham.org
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Oskeruše u Radostic roste na úpatí vrchu Ovčína přibližně 500 m jižně od osady Radostice místní části obce Vchynice. Roste na okraji lesního porostu, při cestě  jdoucí ze Vchynic na Košťálov.

Základní údaje
 název: Oskeruše u Radostic
 výška: 16 m
 obvod: 286 cm (2009)
 šířka koruny: 11 m (2007)
 věk: 100 let (2009)
 zdravotní stav: silně poškozen

Stav stromu a údržba
Kmen se větví ve 2 metrech na čtyři terminály, které vytvářejí 11 metrů širokou korunu.

Přírodní zajímavosti v okolí
 Košťálov (přírodní památka) - chráněné území s výskytem vzácných rostlin a 600 druhů motýlů.

Památné a významné stromy
 Košťálovská babyka
 Košťálovská oskeruše
 Radostická lípa

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Košťál
 zřícenina hradu Košťálov

Radostice
Památné stromy v okrese Litoměřice
Památné stromy v Českém středohoří
Památné stromy v CHKO České středohoří
Vchynice
Památné jeřáby v Ústeckém kraji

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De RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, RMS: Royal Mail Steamer, ook wel alleen QE2 genoemd, was meer dan 30 jaar het vlaggenschip van de Cunard Line. De Queen Elizabeth 2 maakte zijn eerste reis in 1969 en was een van de laatste grote trans-Atlantische passagiersschepen. Met een lengte van 293,5 meter en een topsnelheid van 32,5 knopen is het ook een van de grootste en snelste passagiersschepen die er zijn.

Geschiedenis
Op 30 december 1964 werd het contract getekend met scheepsbouwer John Brown Shipyard in Clydebank in Schotland. Daar werd met de bouw begonnen op 5 juli 1965. Na de tewaterlating op 20 september 1967 werd het schip gedoopt door koningin Elizabeth II. Op 19 november 1968 begon de Queen Elizabeth 2 aan de proefvaarten onder leiding van kapitein 'Bil' Warwick. Vanaf 26 november 1968 werden er proefvaarten gehouden in de Ierse Zee. Op 22 april 1969 werd een kleine maidentrip gemaakt naar Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Op 2 mei 1969 begon de officiële maidentrip naar New York. In 1975 werd de eerste cruise gemaakt rond de wereld. In mei 1982 werd de Queen Elizabeth 2 gevorderd voor troepentransport voor de Falklandoorlog. Op 12 mei 1982 zette het koers naar Zuid-Georgië met 3.000 manschappen aan boord.

Op 11 juni 1982 kwam het veilig terug in Southampton. In oktober 1986 werd in Duitsland begonnen met het vervangen van de stoomturbines door een dieselelektrische voortstuwing. In 1987 won de Queen Elizabeth 2 de prijs voor exportprestaties van de koningin. Op 7 augustus 1992 liep de Queen Elizabeth 2 op de rotsen bij Vineyard Sound, deze rotsen stonden niet op de zeekaart.

In december 1994 vond een uitgebreide herinrichting plaats. Op 11 september 1995 werd de Queen Elizabeth 2 in orkaan Luis op weg naar de Verenigde Staten geraakt door een golf van 29 meter. Op 2 januari 1996 tekende de Queen Elizabeth 2 de 4 miljoenste zeemijl op in het logboek. In 1996 ging na de verkoop van Trafalgar House aan Kvaerner het eigendom van Cunard Line ook naar deze Noorse maatschappij. In mei 1998 verkocht Kvaerner Cunard Line aan het Amerikaanse Carnival Corporation. Op 29 augustus 2002 tekende de Queen Elizabeth 2 de 5 miljoenste zeemijl op in het logboek.

Op 18 juni 2007 werd bekend dat de Queen Elizabeth 2 voor bijna 100 miljoen dollar werd verkocht aan Dubai World om aan een van de kunstmatig gemaakte eilanden voor de kust van Dubai te worden afgemeerd. Op 7 januari 2008 begon het aan de laatste wereldreis. Het schip voer op 11 november 2008 voor het laatst uit vanuit de thuishaven in Southampton. Na enkele verbouwingen, waarvan de laatste in 2018, doet het schip nu dienst als luxe hotel en museum dat de 39 jaar dienst van QE2 in kaart brengt. Het schip ligt permanent aan de kade van Port Rashid. De motoren werken niet meer en de reddingsboten zijn verwijderd. Het heeft 1000 hotelkamers. De kamers hebben donkerhouten lambrisering zoals in de jaren zestig, en sommige hebben nog de originele patrijspoorten.

Faciliteiten
Aan boord van dit passagiersschip bevinden zich onder andere de volgende faciliteiten.

 5 restaurants en 2 eetcafés
 3 zwembaden, tot de ombouw in 1994 waren dat er 4
 nachtclub en verschillende bars
 bioscoop met 481 zitplaatsen
 casino
 winkelcentrum en een filiaal van Harrods
 fitnessclub
 schoonheidssalon
 bibliotheek
 ziekenhuis

Trivia
 Mike Oldfield noemde zijn in 1980 uitgebrachte album QE2 naar de Queen Elizabeth 2.
 In 1993 werd op de Queen Elizabeth 2 een aflevering van de serie Keeping Up Appearances opgenomen.
 Friedensreich Hundertwasser overleed in 2000 op 71-jarige leeftijd aan de gevolgen van een hartaanval aan boord van de Queen Elizabeth 2 in de Stille Oceaan ter hoogte van Nieuw-Zeeland.

Externe links
 QE2 videoclips

Schip gebouwd in het Verenigd Koninkrijk
Schip op naam
Cruiseschip
Trans-Atlantisch schip
Cunard Line
Passagiersschip
Dieselelektrisch voertuig


Have you ever considered creating an online portfolio? An online portfolio is not only important but is becoming increasingly popular. They not only used for businesses, but also for individuals. Such portfolios are worth creating because they allow you to show future employers what you are all about, and what kind of businesses you would like to be employed in. In this article, we will have a look at five reasons why you should create an online portfolio.
With the current economic environment, landing a job is not easy. The job market has become very competitive. Almost everyone today has a degree certificate. Additionally, the number of people who hold a masters certificate continues to increase exponentially. It is common to find yourself applying for the same position with someone with several academic credentials. Therefore, you need to know how to design your application documents, in order to catch the eye of the recruiting officer.
Recruiters' attitudes vary extensively, depending on the industry. A candidate applying for a job requiring creativity, such as an interior design firm may have it easy landing an interview using an online generated resume, as they come in various attractive templates from which to choose. Other recruiters, however, are more comfortable going through a resume that has been written from scratch. A basic background research will help a potential candidate to land the dream job they are seeking.
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2 in 3 Consumers Consider It A Risk to Give Personal Information to Companies
About 9 in 10 consumers are concerned about the privacy of their data, and 80% report they are more concerned about the privacy of their data than they used to be. Indeed, in a survey [download page] of more than 1,000 US adults, Yes Marketing found that 6 in 10 agreed that in today's world, where seemingly everything is connected, privacy doesn't or can't exist.
There is some inconsistency or misunderstanding when it comes to people's views of the lack of data privacy – and how their data is put to use by brands. Although fewer than one-fifth (17%) of respondents disagreed that in today's connected world privacy doesn't exist, 57% of all respondents are still alarmed when they see an advertisement for a product on social media after searching for it online.
Findings from a Pew Research Center survey show that the majority of Americans feel that their personal information is less secure than it was a few years ago. Nonetheless, expectations for data privacy reman high, with 83% of consumers agreeing that they expect companies they do business with to keep their data secure. And, while many brands say they have made respecting and securing personal data a priority, almost two-thirds (63%) of the consumers surveyed by Yes Marketing consider it a risk to give companies their personal information, such as their full name, email address and phone number.
Other Key Findings
While all generations trust Financial Services providers most with their personal data, older consumers (ages 55+) trust this industry far more than they trust Health Insurance Providers, Tech Companies, or Email Providers.
Although more than half (54%) of consumers report having used a voice assistant such as Alexa, Siri or Google, half (50%) of those surveyed by Yes Marketing say it's not okay to trust these services with sensitive information.
Consumers appear to feel less secure when using their desktop computers, with 46% saying they are more careful using this device to share sensitive information than they are when using their mobile device or an app-based program.
More than half (56%) of consumers restrict their use of social media due to concerns about privacy.
Most consumers have "no clue" what CCPA or GDPR are when it relates to data security.
The full report can be downloaded here.
About the Data: Findings are based on a survey of 1,072 US adults fielded in September 2019.
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