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Worsening drought risk impacts 55 million people every year, says WWF report
The climate crisis is creating a drought crisis affecting tens of millions of people every year across the world as well as energy and food supplies, warns a new report from WWF Germany.
According to Drought Crisis: The Global Thirst for Water in the Era of Climate Change, the impact of extreme droughts is growing worldwide, including in Europe, putting increasing pressure on energy supplies, food production, wetlands and cities and impacting 55 million every year on average.
The report used available data and WWF's leading online water risk tool, the Water Risk Filter, to assess the drought risk for cities, maize, rice and wheat production, wetlands, power plant sites, and areas of water-related political conflict.
"Droughts destroy important ecosystems and endanger food security, fueling social unrest and political conflict," said Philipp Wagnitz, Freshwater expert at WWF Germany. "The international community must significantly increase its climate contributions in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees – otherwise the fatal drought spiral will continue worldwide."
In a world that depends heavily on water for its energy supplies – be it for cooling, transportation or hydropower – more frequent and more intensive droughts threaten energy production, warns the report. Almost half of the world's thermal power – mainly coal, natural gas and nuclear power – is produced in areas with a high risk of drought.
In Spain alone, over 50 percent of the 269 power plants recorded are exposed to a high to very high drought risk. In France, among the 27 power plants with a high drought risk are 4 key nuclear power plants, while 4 coal-fired power plants as well as the Altheim hydropower plant and the Kirchmöser gas plant are also exposed to a high drought risk in Germany.
"The construction of new coal, gas or nuclear power plants worldwide is ludicrous in view of the drought crisis. Hydropower is also not a green alternative in times of low water levels and because of its many environmental impacts. The plunging price of wind and solar energy means they are now competitive economically and must be given priority," demanded Wagnitz.
According to the WWF report, 22 percent of basic food crops such as wheat, are already grown in areas with a high to very high risk of drought.
Worldwide, 19 percent of cities with more than one million inhabitants are already located in areas with a high to very high risk of drought - a total of around 370 million people are affected. The list includes six megacities with more than 10 million inhabitants: Delhi, Cairo, Karachi, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro and Hyderabad. In Europe, in addition to Istanbul, Madrid and Lisbon, among others, are currently exposed to a high risk of drought.
"Other cities such as Rome, Naples, Athens and Munich could follow suit in a few years' time with the drought risk," said Wagnitz.
If the risk of drought increases, the probability of regional conflicts over scarce water resources increases. In politically unstable countries such as Syria, Lebanon or Palestine, droughts intensify existing crises. Particularly affected is the Middle East, where 90 percent of the land area falls into the highest risk category for droughts.
Drought risk is increasing worldwide, including in India
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Drought Risk: The global thirst for water in the era of climate change
Worldwide drought risk based on assessment by the WWF Water Risk Filter
© WWF Water Risk Filter
Drought Risk threatens people and nature


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Der Sächsische Livlandfeldzug vom Februar 1700 bis Ende Oktober 1700 bezeichnet die militärischen Operationen der Sächsischen Armee in Schwedisch-Livland zu Anfang des Großen Nordischen Krieges. Das Ziel des Feldzugs war die Eroberung der Provinz Schwedisch-Livland mit der Hauptfestung Riga. Es gelang den Sachsen lediglich einige untergeordnete Feste Orte zu erobern, während Riga erfolglos belagert wurde. Die unterlegenen schwedischen Kräfte verstanden es durch geschicktes Manövrieren die Sachsen immer wieder zum Rückzug zu zwingen. Zu einer offenen Entscheidungsschlacht kam es dagegen nicht. Der Feldzug wurde erst im Folgejahr mit der Schlacht an der Düna militärisch für Schweden entschieden.

Aufmarsch der Sachsen

Sächsische und dänische Unterhandlungen hatten im Vorfeld ein beiderseitiges offensives Vorgehen gegen Schweden abgestimmt. Während sich Dänemark das von Schweden abhängige Reichsterritorium Holstein-Gottorp aneignen wollte, plante der polnische König und sächsische Kurfürst August der Starke einen Einfall in Schwedisch-Livland.
Zunächst betrieben sächsische Diplomaten Täuschungsmanöver auf dem diplomatischen Bankett und beschwichtigten die sächsischen Truppenbewegungen mit allerlei Ausreden. Trotz der Zusage Augusts II. auf dem polnischen Sejm Ende Juli 1699 alle sächsischen Regimenter von polnischem Territorium abzuziehen, sagte er dem kurländischen Herzog 5000 Mann der Sächsischen Armee zur Unterstützung zu. Hierzu wurde Generalfeldmarschall Jacob Heinrich von Flemming betraut mit diesen Truppen nach Litauen zu marschieren und dort weitere Unterstützung abzuwarten.

Sächsische Artillerie wurde von Dresden nach Lübeck gebracht und von dort per Seetransport über Danzig nach Polangen in Litauen verschifft.

Die sächsischen Truppen marschierten derweil nach Janitski, das sich 12 Meilen vor Riga befand, und schlugen dort ihr Hauptquartier auf. Im Dezember 1699 gingen die bereits vorhandenen sächsischen Truppen in Kurland in die Winterquartiere. Die schwedischen Truppen in Livland unter Kommando von Erik Dahlberg begannen sich daraufhin zu mobilisieren und die Verteidigungsbereitschaft zu erhöhen. Dazu beigetragen hatten auch mehrere Briefe von sächsischer Seite, unter anderem von Johann Reinhold von Patkul an Dahlberg, den Stadtkommandanten von Riga, die offene Drohungen enthielten. Die Schweden kundschafteten nun systematisch die Grenze zu Kurland aus. Im Februar 1700 desertierten mehrere sächsische Dragoner und flüchteten nach Riga. Dahlberg weigerte sich die Überläufer auszuliefern, was die diplomatischen Konflikte vertiefte.

Beginn der Feindseligkeiten

Eine sächsische Kriegslist zur Einnahme Rigas mittels verdeckt eingeschleuster Soldaten im Februar scheiterte bereits im Ansatz. Mehrere Soldaten auf beiden Seiten wurden bei dem Vorfall getötet und die Stadtbesatzung von Riga rechtzeitig gewarnt. Das war gleichzeitig der Beginn der offenen Feindseligkeiten. Bereits einen Tag später am 22. Februar 1700 ließ Flemming seine Truppen auf Riga vormarschieren und überschritt die schwedisch-livländische Grenze ohne Kriegserklärung.

Die Truppen der Sachsen bestanden aus drei Infanterieregimenter (Garde, Königin, Bornstadt) mit je 2250 Mann Soll-Stärke und vier Dragonerregimenter (Weissenfels, Flemming, Sanosth, Wolffenbuttel) mit je 900 Mann Sollstärke und sechs drei Pfünder Feldkanonen. Zusammen waren das etwa 10.350 Mann von 18.000 Mann der sächsischen Armee die sich vor Riga befanden. In den schwedischen baltischen Provinzen standen im Februar 1700 viereinhalb Infanterieregimenter mit 6000 Mann und zwei Kavallerieregimenter mit 1000 Mann. Allerdings waren von diesen nur 20 Kompanien des Gouvernementsregiment Riga unter Dahlberg und dem Rigaer Garnisonsregiment unter Erik Soop mit insgesamt 3000 Mann in Riga selbst stationiert. Die weiteren Truppen verteilten sich auf die anderen schwedischen Festen Standorte Narva, Reval, Dorpat, Pernau, Nyland.

Zunächst richtete sich der sächsische Vormarsch gegen die Koberschanze, die sich auf der anderen Flussseite und gegenüber von Riga befand und einen befestigen Vorposten bildete. Das Fort war verfallen und bestand aus vier bis fünf Bollwerken mit 50 Mann Besatzung. Am 24. Februar wurde die Festung von 2000 Sachsen innerhalb von zwei Stunden im Sturmangriff genommen und mit 1000 Mann besetzt.

Dahlberg brannte nun die Vorstadt von Riga ab, um freie Schusslinie für die Festungsartillerie zu erhalten. Die Düna war zu dieser Zeit zugefroren, so dass ein Vormarsch der Sachsen über den Fluss drohte. Flemming hielt aber seine Kräfte für einen Angriff auf die Flussseite der Stadtfestung für zu gering und unterließ einen Vorstoß. Die Bemühungen Patkuls auf livländischer Seite, einen Aufstand des alteingesessenen Adels gegen die schwedische Oberherrschaft anzuzetteln, scheiterten bereits im Ansatz, so dass die ursprüngliche Hoffnung der Sachsen, die Provinz im Sturm zu erobern, bereits zu diesem Zeitpunkt verflog.
Zwischenzeitlich begann ein begrenzter sächsischer Beschuss auf Riga mit den sechzehn Geschützen, die in der Koberschanze erobert wurden, vier weiteren schweren Geschützen und drei Mörsern. Die Stadt selbst erhielt Verstärkung von 400 schwedischen Dragonern.

Eroberung der Dünamünder Schanze

Riga konnte weiterhin von der See her Unterstützung erhalten. Ein paar Kilometer flussabwärts der Düna befand sich die Dünamünder Schanze. Sie bewachte die Flusszufahrt zur Ostsee. Am 16. März marschierten 2000 Sachsen vor die Schanze und begannen die Belagerung. Der erste Sturmangriff am 24. März wurde noch abgewehrt. Die Festung wurde dennoch am 26. März den Sachsen übergeben. Die Besatzung durfte nach Reval abziehen. Die Sachsen besetzten auch diese Schanze mit 1000 Mann.

Die Sachsen waren aber weiterhin nicht in der Lage die Stadt zu belagern und blockierten lediglich die Zugänge der Stadt. Die Bemühungen Augusts in Warschau eine Kriegsbeteiligung Polens und Litauens zu erwirken scheiterten. Der Adel lehnte eine Einmischung in den Konflikt mit Schweden ab und verhinderte eine polnische Unterstützung mit Waffen und Finanzen. Im sächsischen Armeekommando übernahm Patkul für den in Warschau verweilenden Flemming das Oberkommando über die Truppen. Seine Unerfahrenheit auf militärischem Gebiet wirkte sich negativ auf die Operationsführung der Sachsen aus. Er führte seine Truppen zunächst in das vier Meilen von Riga entfernte Kupfermühlen. Von dort aus marschierte er mit dem Armeekorps weiter an Riga heran nach Neumühlen, etwa 25 Kilometer nördlich von Riga und dann weiter nach Jungfernhof, etwa fünf Kilometer vor Riga.

Schwedische Offensiven
Inzwischen führte Generalmajor Georg Johann Maydell die schwedischen Truppen. Aus den sächsischen Truppenbewegungen entnahm der schwedische General eine fehlende strategische Operationsfähigkeit der Sachsen, so dass dieser eigene offensive Bemühungen durchführen konnte. Als Erstes griffen die Schweden die sächsischen Truppen in der Stadt Wenden an. Nach kurzem Gefecht räumten die Sachsen die Stadt und zogen sich zurück. Bei Jungfernhof stellten die Schweden am 17. Mai 1700 einige der sächsischen Truppen und griffen die gut verschanzten Sachsen an. Nach einem kurzen Scharmützel zogen sich die Sachsen auch von diesem Pass zurück. Die Sachsen standen durch die Bewegungen nun wieder auf ihrem Ausgangsgebiet zu Beginn des Feldzugs, so dass Riga wieder freien Zugang hatte. Die Sachsen erhielten weitere Verstärkungen und verschanzten sich entlang der Düna.

Im Juni traf der schwedische Gouverneur Otto Vellingk aus Narva mit mehreren Tausend Mann Verstärkungen in Riga ein und übernahm das Oberkommando. Damit erreichten die Schweden in etwa Kräfteparität zu den sächsischen Truppen. Dennoch erfolgten keine offensiven Unternehmungen der Schweden gegen das sächsische Lager auf der anderen Seite der Düna oder der Dünamünder Schanze, die weiterhin in sächsischem Besitz blieb. Erst Anfang Juli unternahmen die Schweden eine begrenzte Offensivaktion gegen die Sachsen als 500 Mann über die Düna gingen und zwei Verschanzungen der Sachsen angriffen. Dabei nahmen sie mehr als 80 Sachsen gefangen.

Eintreffen der sächsischen Verstärkung

Zur gleichen Zeit traf die sächsische Verstärkung unter Kommando von Feldmarschall Adam Heinrich von Steinau an der Düna ein. Sie setzte sich aus 11.000 Sachsen, 3000 Litauern, mehreren hundert Mann der polnischen königlichen Leibwache und 1200 Tataren zusammen. Ein sächsischer Versuch, die Düna bei Magnusholm zu überqueren, wurde von den Schweden vereitelt. Sie errichteten nun weiter flussaufwärts bei Jakobstadt eine Brücke. Die Schweden erhielten von einem Vorposten Kunde von den sächsischen Bemühungen und brachen nun am 27. Juli mit der gesamten Streitmacht von ihrem Armeelager vor Riga auf und marschierten den Sachsen bis Probstinghof (heute zu Lielvārde) entgegen. Zu einem Treffen beider Armee kam es aber nicht, da die Sachsen dem angebotenen Gefecht der Schweden auswichen. Am 31. Juli gingen etwa 150 Schweden über die Düna, um die sächsischen Stellungen auszukundschaften; dort kam es zu mehreren kleinen Scharmützeln mit leichter Kavallerie ohne Entscheidungscharakter.

Wenige Stunden später setzte die sächsische Armee über. Sie bestand nun aus 15.000 Mann und war der schwedischen Armee unter Vellingk, die 8000 Mann zählte, deutlich überlegen. Die Sachsen hatten nicht die Absicht, sich auf ein Gefecht mit der schwedischen Armee einzulassen, sondern wollten die günstig gelegenen Pässe bei Neumühlen und Smeising besetzen und so die schwedische Armee landseitig von Riga abschneiden. So kam es lediglich auf dem linken schwedischen Armeeflügel zu einem kurzen Aufeinandertreffen zwischen einigen schwedischen Schwadronen und den vormarschierenden Sachsen und lieferten sich ein kleines Gefecht, bei dem sich die Sachsen zurückzogen. Dabei verloren die Schweden 23 Tote und 10 Gefangene bei etwa gleichhohen Verlusten unter den Sachsen. Vellingk sandte nun den Großteil seiner Armee, etwa 5000 Mann zurück nach Riga und stellte den Rest der Truppen im Land auf, um die Streifzüge der in sächsischen Diensten stehenden Kosaken zu unterbinden.

Erneute Belagerung Rigas
Die sächsischen Truppen marschierten nun auf Riga zu und begannen erneut die Belagerung der Festung zum 7. August 1700. Kurz darauf begann das Bombardement der sächsischen Artillerie, allerdings ohne eine konkrete Wirkung zu erzielen. Am 19. September 1700 wurde die Belagerung überraschend durch die sächsische Armee aufgehoben. Etwa zeitgleich hatte Schweden mit Dänemark den Frieden von Traventhal geschlossen, wodurch Sachsen seinen wichtigsten Verbündeten im Kampf gegen Schweden verlor. Zudem drohte nun eine Invasion Schwedens in das Kurfürstentum oder ein Entsatz Rigas durch Karl XII. persönlich. Auf dem diplomatischen Bankett schlossen sich in den folgenden Wochen mehrere Austausche zwischen den europäischen Staaten an, die einen Frieden mit Schweden anstrebten. Allerdings verschärfte sich die Situation erneut, als die russische Armee in Schwedisch-Ingermanland einfiel und Narva belagerte.

Eroberung von Kokenhusen

Die sächsische Armee unter Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg setzte sich nun erneut in Bewegung und begann am 8. Oktober 1700 die rund 85 Kilometer von Riga entfernte Burg Kokenhusen im heutigen Koknese zu belagern, wohl mit dem Ziel, sich günstige Ausgangsbedingungen für einen erneuten Feldzug im nächsten Frühjahr zu verschaffen. Nach dreitägigem Beschuss kapitulierte die schwedische Besatzung unter Major Heinrich Hein vor den Sachsen. Die Sachsen ließen 600 Mann in der Burg zurück und zogen sich ganz aus dem Rigaer Raum zurück. Zuvor zerstörten sie die Laufgräben und Batterien. Zeitgleich vereinbarten die beiden Kriegsparteien einen örtlichen Waffenstillstand vor Riga für die Dauer von acht Tagen, damit die Sachsen ihre Artillerie über die Düna transportierten konnten. Sie setzte sich noch aus 103 Geschützen unterschiedlichster Art zusammen. Die Infanterie ging in Kurland in die Winterquartiere, die Kavallerie in Litauen.

Folgen

Im nächsten Jahr besiegte die Armee Karls XII. das sächsische Heer am 19. Juli 1701 in der Schlacht an der Düna. Sämtliche eroberten Festungen aus dem vorangegangenen Feldzug der Sachsen fielen in der Folge wieder an die Schweden. Diese setzten ihren Feldzug fort und drangen weiter in Kurland ein und besetzten dort in Folge alle festen Punkte.

Literatur
 Jöran Andersson Nordberg: Leben Carl des Zwölften, Königs in Schweden: mit Münzen und Küpfern, Johann George Trausold, 1745

Großer Nordischer Krieg
Rigaer Militärgeschichte
Sächsische Militärgeschichte
Schwedische Militärgeschichte
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Well, we had our student made, dorm-made thanksgiving dinner. I washed the rice; what an accomplishment! V-san was introduced, no, I was introduced to V-san, I don't know if it was Hさん's poor introduction, as she failed to mention my name, or the fact that the fact that I was a trojan that triggered no response from him. Not even a "Hey, welcome to UCLA!" Is it my face? *Hさん's keyboard's s key is tricky. What did I like? Talked about video games again. H?さん is a Neotokyo player. I've finnaly found one. Also an avid(if i have any idea how to use that word) MMORPG player. No games for him in college though. I brought my PS3 to school, but have only really been able to play recently, and just Assassins Creed II, with all the hype surrounding it's launch. Ubisoft at USC, the Lineage trailer, got me excited enough about the game that I didn't wait for the delayed PC version. I've loving the game, but the graphical capabilitie of the Playstation don't seem to be able to handle the field of vision well at all. Is it just my system? When the textures shift slightly, or objects appear before you as you close the distance between you and them, the "reality" of the game, the immersion that I expected (as i play with nearly no HUD), is broken.
So, what did I want to talk about? Oh, we had chicken. Yes, chicken, pre-cooked turkey was sold out ;_; On the boring side, list of events. I got off the bus at the right stop, after freaking out thiking i had gone all the way to Santa Monica, Then I couldnt find the small Le Conte cross-section, walked down to Westwood. The reliability of buses scares me. Epecially after that close shave in Irvine. Don't think the bus wa ever gonna come. *Wow this paragraph is really boring, but I'm putting down some reasons to learn to drive.
What I wanted to talk about in the post was my experience reading on MangaFox today. One Piece. Awesome. Bleach, scanlators left a "watermark" and it was unreadable. So I didn't read it. Naruto, nudging forward a bit. One Piece movie-prologue chapter? Double-awesome, reminded me of tons of characters, which I'm sure One Piece alreasy has. That nostalgia calls for some re-watching of One Piece, if not the entire series, whatever my sisters will.
This caught my eye. *Oh and there's so many topics in the post I wont know how to tag this.
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So, the title of the manga Need a Girl *translated from korean (여자친구만들고파!) caught my eye. Hey typical manga for teenage boys, I wanted to see how this one would hit the demographic, and its portrayal of women, and the art (actually, "any short-haired girls?"). It's a little too straightforward on the perversion. From the pages that I've read, lots of fanservice, fantasy, relations with classmates. But what really caught my eye was the use of popular Chinese idioms, wise sayings, phrases your parents or teachers would recite into your brain in an effort to encourage better, healthier behavior. At first, I had thought "The early bird gets the worm" would be the main theme of the chapter, but the idioms kept coming. I'm not on my computer right now, so maybe I'll edit this post with the idioms in Chinese later.
But, these were four-character idioms that I learned in Chinese Culture class, coming right back at me. I love it. I love the idea of applying those timeless sayings to a situation in a manga. However the schoolgirls are a tad bit too distracting.
How would this be taken in a game? Perhaps the interactivity would make the lesson stick, for the lack of a better term. Mostly, a choose your own adventure/visual novel with moral elements. Thoughts, thoughts?


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Vaccinations Wed for first batch
Ensuring at least 80 per cent of all adults in Malaysia are vaccinated is very important to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19, said Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic).
The Prime Minister said herd immunity would directly curb the spread of Covid-19, preventing the situation in the country from worsening.
Malaysia's first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme rolls out on Wednesday, with Muhyiddin and Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah being the first to be inoculated.
The first phase, conducted between February and April, would also be for frontline workers, including healthcare practitioners and security forces, involving approximately 500,000 people.
The second phase (April-Aug 2021) would involve the elderly aged 65 years and above, high-risk groups and the disabled, involving 9.4 million people in total. Phase three (May 2021-Feb 2022) would be for 13.7 million Malaysians and foreigners aged 18 and above.
Muhyiddin urged those scheduled to be vaccinated in phases two and three to be patient and continue supporting the government's efforts in carrying out the vaccination campaign while the first phase is being conducted.
"Therefore, I also hope that all of you who are eligible to be vaccinated will sign up once registration is opened soon, and be vaccinated as scheduled.
The long-awaited Covid-19 vaccine arrived in the country on a special aircraft which landed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Sunday.
Flight MH604, bearing the Jalur Gemilang livery to symbolise the vaccine is for Malaysians, landed at 10.07 am with the first batch of 312,390 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The Passenger-to-Cargo (P2C) flight used an Airbus 330-300, operated by MAB Kargo Sdn Bhd (MASkargo), the cargo arm of national carrier Malaysia Airlines Bhd.
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
Upon landing, the process of transferring the vaccine, which was placed in the unit load device (ULD), from the cargo section of the aircraft to a truck belonging to logistics company DHL was carried out at the Advanced Cargo Centre (ACC) of KLIA.
Among those present to witness the historic moment were Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba, Coordinating Minister for National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme Khairy Jamaluddin and Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
After the transfer process was completed, the truck was then escorted by police to a designated vaccine storage location as a safety measure.
The vaccine's journey from the Pfizer plant in Belgium was handled by pharmaceutical company Pfizer and DHL, a leader in the logistics industry, under a joint partnership for the international transportation of the vaccine.
The vaccine left Puurs in Belgium and was in transit at the Leipzig Halle Airport in Germany, before continuing on its journey to Singapore for distribution to Asia-Pacific countries, including Malaysia.
The Health Ministry (MOH), on behalf of the Malaysian government, had entered into an agreement with Pfizer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd on Jan 11 this year for the purchase of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The arrival of the vaccine will kick-start the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme, the largest vaccination programme ever in the country.
As one of the earliest countries in Southeast Asia to use the vaccine, Malaysia, with a population of 32 million people, is hopeful that the immunisation programme will expedite the country's efforts to revive its economy and improve the lives of the people. The vaccine has been certified effective and approved by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) of the MOH.
The immunisation programme is divided into three phases, with the first scheduled from Feb 26 to April for frontline personnel, including from the MOH, Malaysian Armed Forces, Royal Malaysia Police, Civil Defence Force and Malaysian Volunteer Department (Rela).
The MOH has identified and prepared about 600 vaccination stations nationwide, among them health clinics as well as government and private hospitals. Each station is to have seven vaccinators.
The second phase is scheduled from April to August for senior citizens aged 60 and above and vulnerable groups with morbidity issues, as well as persons with disabilities.
The third phase is to be from May to February 2022 for those aged 18 and above.
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is expected to receive the vaccine on the first day of the immunisation exercise, on Feb 26, along with several of the frontliners.
The agreement with Pfizer (Malaysia) involves the procurement of 12,799,800 doses of vaccine, covering 20 per cent of the population, with two doses per person.
The vaccination programme, themed 'Protect Oneself, Protect Everyone', is a government strategy to ensure that as many Malaysians as possible are vaccinated to break the chain of infection.
Since the first COVID-19 infection was reported in Malaysia on Jan 25, 2020, a total of 1,051 deaths related to the virus have been reported as of yesterday.
A total of 280,272 people have been infected so far but 244,753 have recovered.
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8:30 am22 Feb 2010
Nowhere to Run…or Bike
Good day for a ski
Heading out to the towpath this weekend, I didn't expect to see it plowed. But I was surprised to see it wasn't packed down. In some areas, like near Fletcher's Boathouse, there is plenty of loose snow not suitable for running or biking, and not all that easy for walking, either. (Hint: Snowshoes ROCK.)
The Capital Crescent Trail there doesn't look much better. Nearer Georgetown, so many large trees are across it that people have blazed a winding path. (See recent reports.) Sure, it's pretty for a weekend hike, but what about training for that upcoming 10K — or more importantly, biking on it to work? Especially when the roads are a mess?
The WashCycle has plenty to say about the matter. Saturday's The Ice Storm post talks about why the trails aren't plowed, then requests that people contact trail managers and ask The Post's Dr. Gridlock to address the issue in his chat today at noon.
Paul McCray of Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority says in the comments the W&OD trail staff will start clearing snow this week. The upcoming rains also may wash away a lot of it.
Did you hit the trails this weekend? If so, what did you find?
An area resident since 1997, Donna C. is a DC outsider. When she's not running her writing and Web business, she's running around the city, exploring the great outdoors, or trying to figure out how best to go green. See why she loves DC.
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14 thoughts on "Nowhere to Run…or Bike"
Phil on February 22, 2010 at 8:38 am said:
Roosevelt Island still has plenty of snow on the trails to go with the fallen trees and large branches. The boardwalk over the marsh is not plowed and has about half a foot in places.
iEatDC on February 22, 2010 at 10:26 am said:
Ya'll, I've been hitting the sidewalk instead of Bethesda–>DC section of the Cap Crescent. Even the sidewalk is tricky though, with some parts covered in packed down snow, and the snow-induced narrowness making it difficult to dodge pedestrians. Wisconsin is mostly good, but Massachusetts and Nebraska near AU are spotty.
Jake on February 22, 2010 at 10:36 am said:
Anyone have any idea how the Mt. Vernon Trail looks around Rosslyn and Crystal City?
Jan on February 22, 2010 at 10:54 am said:
I spoke with Montgomery County Parks and with National Park Service this morning, regarding clearing the Capitol Crescent Trail in both DC and Maryland.
Mont. Co: They have no plans on clearing the CCT trail at all. I do suggest people call them at 301-495-2595 and speak with a person and let them know you'd like them to change their current policy and start clearing the snow after snowstorms. They took my name and address and will register this as maintenance issue and policy change at a future date. If more people don't voice their opinion, then things will never change. In the past, Mont. Co Parks has put up many terrible reasons not to do anything. See http://www.thewashcycle.com/2010/02/the-ice-storm.html
NPS: Spoke with the head of the maintenance for that part of the park (mainly in DC), and he indicated they are in the process of purchasing a new snowblower attachment that could hook up to one of their smaller tractors. This would speed up snow removal for the trail. They have been busy assessing damage to their buildings and clearing NPS parking lots up to now. There is quite a bit if snow and tree debris clearing that will have to occur. The person I spoke with seemed genuinely interested in clearing the trail as soon as they can with the equipment they have, or may have soon.
Jessica on February 22, 2010 at 11:07 am said:
I've just been running down low-traffic streets (ha!). Tried the trails on Saturday; no go. On Sunday I stayed on the streets. It's a little dangerous, but what else is there to do?
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dan mcweeney on February 22, 2010 at 12:00 pm said:
I tried to jog this weekend on the paths along Beach Dr / National Zoo in Rock Creek Park. They surely weren't plowed or even salted, although there was a fair bit of foot traffic certain sections were nearly impassable. Even worse, the section of the trail from the zoo looked plowed till you got 1/2 down it and found shin deep snow the rest of the way and a locked get to get back to Beach Dr.
Donna C. on February 22, 2010 at 2:51 pm said:
Thanks for all the great feedback! Looks like we can wait for a melt, wait for a magical snowplow to appear, or squeeze in some more snowshoeing.
Jake, a pic from yesterday on http://www.thewashcycle.com looked like it was taken from the bridge near the airport. Loads o' snow.
Jake on February 22, 2010 at 2:55 pm said:
Craptastic. Oh well, looks like treadmill time for another week, *sigh*. Thanks for the update, Donna!
Sure! I too would love a long run without dodging traffic, but walking in the snow can be a pretty good workout. At least I keep telling myself that.
Greg McElhatton on February 22, 2010 at 5:25 pm said:
W&OD is still a disaster.
NPS has finally plowed out all three miles of Hains Point, which is better than nothing.
Aloy on February 22, 2010 at 9:41 pm said:
Today seems to be the first day where almost all the roads in Woodley Park are runnable without ice everywhere
Only took 2 weeks…..ugh
I just got an email from Mike Seibert at NPS, and they are going to try to start plowing the Capitol crescent trail today.
Go, Jan!! Can you call them again, say, Friday morning after our next batch arrives?
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At this stage it is unknown if the lows are in for the bounce towards the 110.60's. In the case not, then lower limit of the demanding zone comes at 107.50's from where the bounce could start unfolding. Ideally Short attempts around 110.60's and long attempts for the bounce at current zone, 109.00's with invalidation new lows and lower around the 107.70's zone.


Each year America celebrates Constitution Week and Constitution Day, when 39 members of the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution in 1787. On that day the world changed …. for the better. That precious document was driven by powerful ideas: rights are natural and are endowed by a Creator and protected by, not provided by, government. Any power ceded to that government could only be given willingly to that government by those whose rights were to be protected by that government. Government would exist at the consent of the governed as insisted on by the Declaration Of Independence. In 1787 those ingenious ideas became the law of the land. The Constitution provided a mechanism to make changes or additions and the Bill of Rights and other important amendments followed.
This new federal government would put an emphasis on those things that only government can do well, including: protect its citizens and their property from foreign invaders, protect its citizens and their property from the criminal actions of other citizens, and resolve disputes between citizens arising from honest disagreement. In other words, the government would protect the rights, property and lives of the citizens it governed.
The individual was sovereign. The government would serve.
The means to accomplish this was contained within simple but powerful words; and, to the extent we have followed the original intent of those words, America has flourished. Whenever we have strayed from original intent America has become weaker. By 2011 we have strayed quite far. America suffers. Her people worry. The future seems dim. The country races toward potential ruin in the face of great loss of individual rights and a creeping socialism that strangles our economy.
The preamble to the constitution includes, in part, these guiding words, "In order to …. secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." What an awe-inspiring and honorable objective. Our government would exist to secure the blessings of liberty for its citizens and their descendants for all time. No wonder so many have given so much to protect this great country.
The blessings of liberty graced this land and her citizens in all the ensuing years. Through good times and bad, peace and war, great leaders and great pretenders …. the blessings of liberty inspired amazing things from the common man. And America grew stronger.
"It's the economy, stupid" became the catch phrase for Bill Clinton's successful campaign against George H. W. Bush in the early 1990's. It sounded intelligent and pithy; but it was wrong. Once again the economy is struggling as our national debt grows ever-more near disaster. But it's not the economy that's the problem; the economy is the symptom. Any doctor will tell you if you only focus on the symptoms and not the underlying cause the patient may never get well.
Our country has strayed too far from that original objective of the constitution, to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." In its place we have stripped great portions of the citizenry of their right and their desire to live responsible and independent lives. We have regulated business almost out of existence. We have let government destroy education. Through a maze of unintelligible code, we have taxed ourselves into submission. And the government grows bigger and bigger, taking with it our freedoms, our money, our ability to design our own lives.
Liberty drives capitalism and capitalism drives human progress. And they are both running out of gas. But there's no mystery. It is not ambiguous. We see the symptoms and we know the underlying cause.
We have strayed from the genius of those words that should still be guiding us. If we return to that blessed document provided by the founders, if we once again accept the Constitution of the United States of America as the law of the land, if we limit the federal government to those things that only government does well, if we defeat socialism and remove the death-grip of its razor-sharp claws from the life-blood arteries of our beloved America …. in the unfolding of time, the economy will right itself. In the unfolding of time individual responsibility will become normal again. In the unfolding of time America will regain the greatness it has lost.
And the blessings of liberty will once again be secure.


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Sharon has advanced certifications in Chinese Herbal Medicine. Sports/ Medical Acupuncture, and Women's Health. She has practiced in New York, California, Vermont, and Massachusetts and has been on faculty at Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine teaching at the graduate level.
Sharon's introduction to acupuncture was through injuries she experienced as a professional modern dancer. Once her dance career ended, she embarked on the study of Chinese Medicine and never looked back, graduating from both the New England School of Acupuncture in Boston and Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz, California. She has kept one foot in the studio by teaching Pilates for the past 20 years, and has found it to be an unparalleled tool for maintaining strength and flexibility, postural health, and resistance to injury. She lives with her partner of 41 years, whom she met in a dance class, and her son, a member of American Ballet Theater in Manhattan (who should be touring the world, but instead is grounded, and stuck at home with his parents), their labs, and one very patient kitty.
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Naked and Proud: This Is What It's Like to Be a Life Model
"My willy just shrivelled right up." It takes courage to strip off in front of a room full of people, but life models are baring it all in the name of art. Words by Louise Benson
Life drawing by Lily Holder
Picture this. You're naked in a room full of clothed people, who are all staring at you intently. It might sound like a nightmare scenario, but at life drawing classes across the UK, nude models are stripping off for up to 200 participants at a time—all in the name of art. Life drawing, named for the study from life of the human figure, has grown in popularity in recent years, with classes taking place everywhere from nightclub venues like the Village Underground to the Royal Academy and National Gallery, alongside local community centres, schools and adult education centres.
Life drawing encourages creative expression in a sociable atmosphere, where phones are put to one side for a few hours, and classes can offer respite from the distractions of modern life amidst a likeminded community. Life models are increasingly in demand, and teachers will often seek a range of body types for their students to study. Models range from eighteen to upwards of seventy years old. While life modelling is well paid, it is rare to pursue it as a full-time career, and most will work on evenings and weekends.
"When I reached fifty, I was looking to do something that was a bit out of the ordinary," Sarah Lowndes, now fifty-five, recalls. She posed on Folkestone beach for American photographer Spencer Tunick, best known for his nude mass photographic events. Here she met a number of body painting models and life models, and soon became involved in the community. With their encouragement she began to life model, and has gone on to model regularly at the Mall Galleries in London and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Lowndes has continued her career as a building surveyor while making space for her new passion after-hours. "Fifty is a big landmark in your life, and I have found something that I really love doing. I like seeing the artworks that people produce, I like talking to the artists, I collect all their drawings and put them up on my Instagram. It really gives me a lot back emotionally, and I've gone from just working for one group once a fortnight to doing it three or four nights a week. It has really changed my life quite dramatically."
For Boyko Grigorov, who teaches disabled students to use assisted technology in his day job, his involvement in the scene has had a similarly transformative effect later in life. He is soon to celebrate his seventieth birthday. "It's a great relaxer and a great way to unwind, I meet great people and I have fun. I don't see it as work." Grigorov's first experience as a life model was in his native Bulgaria as a student during the 1970s. "My then-girlfriend was a student at the art academy, and she got me into it. I had the face of a brave man but it was not easy. It was difficult at the start but I got used to that."
He resumed modelling in London over thirty years later, working at venues such as the Mall Galleries and the National Gallery. "If you imagine fifty or sixty people turn up on a miserable evening, cold and rainy, after a long day at work, they go onto a room and they spend two or three hours drawing instead of going home and sitting on the sofa. It's fun for everyone, for the artists and the models."
"When I came in, I could tell that the room was really cold. My willy just shrivelled right up, and I was like, okay, this is not ideal"
Not all models take to the work so instinctively. "It was basically exactly as nerve-racking as you would imagine it," Angus MacDonald, who had his first experience of life modelling aged nineteen while at university, remembers. "I don't think I'm any more or less exhibitionist than the average person. When I came in I could tell that the room was really cold, but with a few space heaters pointed at me. My willy just shrivelled right up, and I was like, okay, this is not ideal." Male life models are less common than their female counterparts, a disparity that can partly be put down to gendered expectations of "male" versus "female" creative pursuits. There is also a residual shyness around depictions of the male nude form, and it only takes a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Louvre to see that the naked female form dominates throughout art history.
"I also get underarm sweat from nerves, so I'm in this dressing gown that's not mine, my willy's shrivelled up, and I have this slightly pungent sweat," MacDonald, now twenty-nine, wryly continues. "Then, before you know it, they're telling you to take the gown off. And what are you going to do, not take it off?" It did get easier, although he recalls the "reveal moment" as a recurring source of anxiety. "After that, it's just a case of letting the situation take over. You just zone out; it's quite meditative. I really remember the scratching of charcoal on paper—it's like a whisper."
MacDonald admits that the experience has helped him to feel less shy to be naked. Body confidence is an inevitable theme of life modelling, as the fears that come with disrobing are enough to scare many away. To the uninitiated, the impulse to willingly strip off in front of a room full of strangers can seem alien, and it is a common misconception that models must feel entirely at ease with their physical appearance. "Like many people, I don't like my own body particularly. I don't stand in front of a mirror and stare at it," the sixty-nine-year-old Grigorov reflects.
Life modelling can offer an opportunity to confront these negative feelings. "People like to look in the mirror and compare themselves with the best or someone who they admire. Our imagination works based on the images we get from the media, where everything is not real," he continues. Sarah Lowndes agrees: "I like working with school children, aged sixteen to eighteen, because I feel that it's important for them to see what real women look like. They all say, 'How can you do this, aren't you embarrassed?' And I say, 'No, I'm not.'"
Prudish attitudes to nudity can come as a surprise. One model, who poses for a number of sixth form colleges, was asked by a Catholic school to wear skin-coloured underpants. A colleague recalls her discomfort: "She felt weirdly sexualized in pants, far more than when she was completely naked. It just looked weird and sexy."
"I recently started doing poses where you could see my vagina. I'm not trying to make some sort of feminist statement"
Grigorov has also had to overcome stigma around nudity and sexuality. "If I tell people that I model nude, they often seem to feel that I've touched on something that I shouldn't. Instead of being curious, they just shut up—as if this is taboo. We're not talking about my sexual life, it's a completely different planet, but still there are some people who absolutely don't understand the idea of life drawing."
Francoise, a performer and contortionist who runs her own life drawing classes, sets out to challenge these attitudes. "I recently started doing poses where you could see my vagina," she explains. "Most models choose poses where they cover it up—it's seen as weird if you sit there open-legged. I'm not trying to make some sort of feminist statement, it's more like, 'Hey, this is also part of my body, can we normalize it?' It's not a rebellious act." The desexualization of the body is a difficult line to tread, and models must protect themselves against unwanted attention. Several who I spoke to described feeling violated when they had been photographed against their wish—in one case, a passer-by stuck their phone through the door and took a snap before legging it away from the venue.
Occasions like this are rare however, and classes are run with careful respect for the boundaries of the model. For many, and particularly for female models, the experience can be surprisingly refreshing. As Lowndes describes, "People aren't looking at you in a sexualized way, they are not there to be titillated, they're there to learn something and improve their skills as an artist—and that's very different to everyday life and how you perceive women."
While it can be intimidating, posing naked also has the potential to offer a self-esteem boost. Lily Holder, who teaches regular classes alongside modelling, reflects on her changing relationship to her own image: "It's been a gradual shift for me; I'm still a human being, and so my relationship with my body and my identity is not perfect, but I know it's so much better than it would have been if I hadn't started modelling. I feel comfortable, I feel confident, and I feel happy in the body that I'm occupying, so I can get on with other shit."
For a pursuit that focuses so heavily on the human body, the question of disability is often overlooked. Indigo, a non-binary disabled life model and artist, runs life drawing classes that challenge the able-bodied status quo. Holder, a friend of Indigo's, explains that they are part of a growing number of people in the scene who are trying to change the way that we look at figurative art and the body. "There have been a lot of academic, slightly boring takes on life drawing, but there are so many classes these days of a huge variety," she says. "They're asking, 'How do we change the role of the model so that they are no longer silent and passive in the room?'"
"My relationship with my body and my identity is not perfect, but I know it's so much better than it would have been if I hadn't started modelling"
Undoubtedly, the experience of life modelling is an intensely physical one. Poses can last up to six hours, leaving models aching all over, while even shorter poses of one or two minutes can be highly demanding. "You learn quite quickly which poses don't require you to hold or tense something. For the quicker ones, you can hold an arm in the air," MacDonald reflects. "Sometimes you just pick a really awkward pose, and you're regretting it within thirty seconds, and you know you have another four minutes to go."
It is also a unique challenge to sustain the silence and stillness that comes with the job. "In a long pose you have to consider, 'How do I keep this up mentally?'" Holder asserts. "That's a long time to sit with yourself, and for a lot of people that might be their complete worst nightmare. It has a lot to do with the relationship that you have with yourself, and being comfortable with your own thoughts, because there's nowhere to hide."
So, what does it take to disrobe in front of a room full of people? Shyness stops many from taking the plunge, but it is important to consider the wider societal factors at play. In a culture often geared towards shame rather than openness, of modesty over baring all, life modelling can feel as frightening as it is liberating. "If you put a real naked body in a gallery you get such uproar, but there are paintings of naked women throughout. There's such a disparity between the real body and the representation of the body," artist and model Paul Kindersley reflects. A bigger shift in attitudes towards nudity is needed, and a deeper conversation around the often unhealthy relationship that so many have to their own body. Models must be physically and mentally strong. As Lowndes concludes, "There's more to being a good model than just sitting still."
All images © Lily Holder


Ashley Bickerton challenges the popular global construction of the tropics as perfection, where surfing, drugs and parties in beachside tourist villas provide a homogenised experience of the exotic. Living on the island of Bali, he parodies this drunken myopia in his photocollages and sculptures, presenting such glut and excess as an artifice. Just as Gauguin 'sampled' Polynesian exotica, so do Bickerton's caricatures 'perform' ideas of the tropical. An introductory essay by Nick Stillman highlights these themes in Bickerton's work, while the artist's conversation with artist, curator and writer Harland Miller explores the idea of the island as man, home and retreat.


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The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet was one of the most enduring family-based situation comedies in American television. This is the only collection available with the original commercials exactly as broadcast on ABC. The commercials are just as much fun to watch as the shows. This awesome collection includes 60 episodes plus a special bonus, the full-length movie "Take It Big" starring a young Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hillard from 1944.
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet aired on ABC from October 3, 1952 to September 3, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their young sons, David Nelson and Eric Nelson, better known as Ricky became synonymous with the 1950s ideal American family life.
The Ballet, The Bowling Alley, The Orchid and the Violet, Pancake Mix, The Boy's Paper Route, New Chairs, David's 17th Birthday, The Suggestion Box, The Initation, Be On Time, The New Neighbor, The Bird's Nest, The Odd Bolt, A Day in Bed, Ball of Tin Foil, The Car Mix-Up, David Picks Up The Tab, The Banjo Player, Ozzie's Double, The Duenna, The Reading Room, The Road Race, Triple Banana Surprise, The Bachelor, The Magic of Three, The Bridge Group, Rick's Riding Lessons, The Motorcycle, Ozzie And The Space Age, Jealous Joe Randolph, The Little Black Box, David – The Law Clerk, David, The Sleuth, Father's Night at Frat House, Rick Gets Even, Ozzie Keeps a Secret, No News for Harriet, A Sweater For Ricky, David's Almost In-Laws, The Girl At The Emporium, The Little House Guest, A Lawnmower For Ozzie, David Hires a Secretary, Dave's Golf Story, Manly Arts, A Question of Suits and Ties, The Barking Dog, Ricky, The Milkman, The Special Cake, A Lamp For Dave and June, Little Handprints, June and The Great Outdoors, A Wife in The Office, A Letter About Harriet, The Petition, A Painting From The Past, A Rose a Day, Kris And The Queen, Dave's Other Office, Bedtime Story, Bonus Movie – "Take It Big" (1944).
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PennyMac executives will review the quarter's results in a recorded presentation. The recording and accompanying slide presentation will be available on the Company's website concurrently with the news release.
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The article PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust Announces Date for Release of First Quarter 2013 Results originally appeared on Fool.com.


The rapid rise in the implementation of technology in businesses, has given rise to innumerable number of opportunities, for an existing employer, a potential employer as well as an employee. More so for a potential employer or a startups company that is commissioned by founders or entrepreneurs, in search of a scalable business model. Having said that, there is innumerable number of challenges, any startup company faces, right from its inception stage. To quote a few, there is competition, risk management, financial planning, sustainability, culture and leadership. But the biggest and toughest of all challenges, Startup Companies face is recruitment or finding the right mix of talent for the right job.
The recruitment process, also called as the process of hiring the right candidate, is a difficult process, not only for a startup, but even for established bigger organizations, when they think about expanding their business horizons. You don't build business; you build people who in turn build the business. This statement augurs well more for startup companies as they begin from the scratch. Hiring the best is the most important task for a startup as hiring a wrong candidate can make or break any startup.
Why is the recruitment process important for a startup company?
As discussed a little earlier in the article, recruiting has always been challenging and tedious process start-ups. Read on to find why this process is so critical.
The most important and crucial factor for a startup is to develop a proper a complete company profile. In addition to this, since the Internet plays a crucial role in decision making, in any type of a scenario, the presence of a startup company, online is of paramount importance. These two factors, i.e. the online presence and a strong public profile, can be very influential, in a giving the startup company, that all important momentum.
Parallely, aspiring employees also tend to find out more about, the idea your start up is advocating. Hence, as a start-up, the best chance for the organization to generate that all important first impression and build a strong and positive employer brand is at the very beginning itself. It is not only easier to do starting with a clean slate, but an employer brand brings about many benefits for your company as well.
A proper and complete hiring process helps in creating that all important identity for the startup company, in the market. Other than hiring new employees, recruiting is also definitely a form of publicity and marketing strategy. The market presence can have an immense effect on the chances of a startup and hence a startup should take this chance to focus on recruiting and indulge in building a brand that will be well-liked. One way to do so would be to be transparent about the company's recruitment process with potential candidates.
It is of paramount importance that a startup hires individuals who have a strong will to perform, under any given circumstances. Given that it is a startup, challenges cropping up in the beginning can never be under-estimated.
The recruitment process should be an attractive process with an innovative selection process which can motivate a potential employee to choose to work for your organization. According to a report, 46% of new hires fail within 18 months. A start-up should ensure they do not fall under this category. Inadequate recruitment at first would lead to inadequate recruitment in the future. Hence, the initial hire should be flawless and set a good example for the future recruitment.
With an understanding of why startups need a proper recruitment process, it would be interesting to know, how startups exactly do that. Read on to know more.
There is no greater intelligence than the use of common sense. The skill factor plays an extremely important role in finding out whom you need and in which position. Most of the startups depend upon employee referrals, professional networks and finally on recruitment agencies, in that sequence. Amongst these methods, the process of hiring through employee referrals, gains more prominence as it brings a certain degree of certainty, to close the positions available. This way, the startup company do away with seeking prominent references which is a common step followed by all organizations, during their recruitment processes.
More often than not, it is considered that technical skills are the deciding factor, for any startup, to finalise the right candidate. In reality, that is not exactly the basis on what a startup company, finalises any candidate. For a startup, work experience is considered as the top factor in hiring, followed closely by cultural fit and then, education.
Startups look to people who can adapt to their culture. Moreover, a candidate who can fit into a startup scheme of things is more preferred than the one, who quotes a corporate background as his back up.
Though a decent salary is the ultimate objective of any potential employee, in choosing a Startup company, it is a surprising factor that only 10% of the startups rely on this basic and prime necessity while recruiting. Instead a majority of the startup companies have begun to rely on interesting and challenging tasks, a strong team and corporate culture flexible hours and the most attractive of all, remote working flexibility.
It's not just about hiring the best for startups. It's also about retaining the right talent which, by in itself, is an even greater a challenge.
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Q: R: How to write a function that gets the levels of column in a data.table Some data:
require(data.table)
set.seed(123)
DT <- data.table(factor = c("a", "b", "c"), num = rpois(6, 30))
DT[["factor"]] <- factor(DT[["factor"]])
levels(DT[["factor"]])
# [1] "a" "b" "c"

I'm trying to write a function that gets the levels of the the DT. Here's what I've attempted so far:
get_levels <- function(data, factor){
  data = substitute(data)
  factor = substitute(factor)
  factor_levels = levels(data[["factor"]])
  print(factor_levels)
}

get_levels(DT, factor)

get_levels2 <- function(data, factor){
  data = substitute(data)
  factor = substitute(factor)
  factor_levels = levels(data[[factor]])
  print(factor_levels)
}

get_levels2(DT, factor)

get_levels3 <- function(data, factor){
  data = substitute(data)
  factor = substitute(factor)
  factor_levels = levels(eval(data[[deparse(factor)]]))
  print(factor_levels)
}

get_levels3(DT, factor)

I'm getting this error:
Error in data[["factor"]] : object of type 'symbol' is not subsettable

and this one:
Error in data[[deparse(factor)]] :
  object of type 'symbol' is not subsettable

As i don't have much experience programming i don't know exactly what's the purpose for the functions used for passing variables in functions: substitute, deparse, eval, parse. I've been reading the documentation and i'm not finding it very clear. So it would be interesting if someone could provide a clearer use for each function or perhaps point to resources to learn more about it.

A: If you're not experienced with R (or programming in general) avoid substitute, deparse, eval, etc. They are rarely necessary.
DT <- data.table(f = c("a", "b", "c"), num = rpois(6, 30))
DT[["f"]] <- factor(DT[["f"]])

get_levels <- function(data,fac){
  levels(data[[fac]])
}

get_levels(DT,'f')

And don't call your column factor. That's a function, and it's just confusing.

A: The following prints out the level number per factor columns in the data set:
sapply(sapply(DT[,sapply(DT, is.factor)], levels), length)

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Q: Scraping name(values) from attributes in rvest R I want to scrape following webpage (it is allowed..):
https://www.bisafans.de/pokedex/listen/numerisch.php
the aim is to extract a table like following:

number
name
type1
type2

001
Bisasam
Pflanze
Gift

002
...
...
...

I was able to scrape the number and name of the table but I have problem to extract the types since they are hidden as an image title:
>img src="https://media.bisafans.de/f630aa6/typen/pflanze.png" alt="Pflanze"<

How can I extract the name after alt? I already tried it with extracting the whole table, which only extracts numbers and names. Another approach was the html_attr(), but doesn't work either.
Does someone know how I can achieve this?

A: First read in the html:
library(rvest)

res <- read_html('https://www.bisafans.de/pokedex/listen/numerisch.php')

Now extract the table:
tab <- res %>% html_table() %>% `[[`(1)

Get rid of the ??? entries at the bottom of the table that don't have any Typen images:
tab <- tab[tab[[2]] != '???', ]

Use xpath to get the nodes containing the first image for each Typen and extract their alt attribute, then insert that into the Typen column in tab
tab$Typen <- res %>% html_nodes(xpath = "//td/a[1]/img") %>% html_attr('alt')

This gives you:
tab
#> # A tibble: 908 x 3
#>      Nr. Pokémon   Typen
#>    <int> <chr>     <chr>
#>  1     1 Bisasam   Pflanze
#>  2     2 Bisaknosp Pflanze
#>  3     3 Bisaflor  Pflanze
#>  4     4 Glumanda  Feuer
#>  5     5 Glutexo   Feuer
#>  6     6 Glurak    Feuer
#>  7     7 Schiggy   Wasser
#>  8     8 Schillok  Wasser
#>  9     9 Turtok    Wasser
#> 10    10 Raupy     Kaefer
#> # ... with 898 more rows

A: Here is an alternative. This wasn't easy as rvest only extracts text by default and this is hard coded into the function. But since we know exactly how the table should look, we can iterate over the row xml nodes and place each item into a column:
library(rvest)
library(tidyverse)
# read html
html <- read_html("https://www.bisafans.de/pokedex/listen/numerisch.php")

html %>%
  # select tr nodes aka rows
  html_nodes(".table tr") %>%
  # map_df applies the function to each row and binds the results into
  # one data frame
  map_df(function(x) {

    # first exctract text
    text <- html_text(x, trim = TRUE)
    # this comes out as one string so let's split it into cells
    text <- strsplit(text, "\\n")[[1]]

    # next extract alt descriptions
    type <- html_nodes(x, "img") %>% html_attr("alt")
    # if there is more then one, collapse them into one string,
    # removing empty ones
    type <- paste0(type[type != ""], collapse = ", ")

    # combine text and alt into a vector
    out <- c(text, type[type != ""])
    # transform it to a data frame
    tibble(
      Nr = out[1],
      Pokemon   = out[2],
      Typen = out[3]
    )
  }) %>%
  slice(-1)
#> # A tibble: 912 × 3
#>    Nr    Pokemon    Typen
#>    <chr> <chr>      <chr>
#>  1 001    Bisasam   Pflanze, Gift
#>  2 002    Bisaknosp Pflanze, Gift
#>  3 003    Bisaflor  Pflanze, Gift
#>  4 004    Glumanda  Feuer
#>  5 005    Glutexo   Feuer
#>  6 006    Glurak    Feuer, Flug
#>  7 007    Schiggy   Wasser
#>  8 008    Schillok  Wasser
#>  9 009    Turtok    Wasser
#> 10 010    Raupy     Kaefer
#> # … with 902 more rows

Created on 2022-03-25 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

A: This is nice and easy with the right css selector lists and processing data as a list of table rows inside nested map_dfr(data.frame()) calls.
Inside data.frame() you can leverage the fact NA is returned when a css selector list does not match in the DOM to ensure equal column lengths. Specify a selector list for each possible column entry.
library(tidyverse)
library(rvest)

rows <- read_html("https://www.bisafans.de/pokedex/listen/numerisch.php") %>% html_elements(".table tbody tr")

df <- map_dfr(rows, ~ data.frame(
  `Nr.` = .x %>% html_element("td:first-child") %>% html_text(),
  `Pokémon` = .x %>% html_element("a") %>% html_text(),
  `Type1` = .x %>% html_element("td:last-child > a:nth-child(odd) > img") %>% html_attr("alt"),
  `Type2` = .x %>% html_element("td:last-child > a:nth-child(even) > img") %>% html_attr("alt")
))

A: After many trials, was able to get both the Typen for a given Pokemon
First we shall write a function to go through xpath of each pokemon and get necessary info.
f1 = function(n){
xx =  paste0('//*[@id="content"]/section/div/table/tbody/tr[', n, ']')

Pokémon = res %>% html_nodes(xpath = xx) %>% html_nodes('a') %>% html_text() %>% str_subset(".+")

type = res %>% html_nodes(xpath = xx) %>% html_nodes('a') %>%
  html_nodes('img') %>% html_attr('alt')

dat = data.frame(Pokémon, type)
return(dat)
}

Then we shall use lapply to go though all xpath and get a list. Due to ??? we shall use tryCatch to skip them.
df = lapply(1:912, function(x){
  tryCatch(f1(x), error=function(e) NA)
  }
)
#convert to dataframe
df = do.call(rbind.data.frame, df)

Finally, to get desired output we shall use pivot_wider,
    df %>% group_by(Pokémon) %>%
  mutate(n = row_number()) %>%
  pivot_wider(
    names_from = "n",
    names_prefix = "type_",
    values_from = "type") %>% select_if(function(x) !(all(is.na(x)) | all(x=="")))

# A tibble: 909 x 3
# Groups:   Pokémon [909]
   Pokémon   type_1  type_2
   <chr>     <chr>   <chr>
 1 Bisasam   Pflanze Gift
 2 Bisaknosp Pflanze Gift
 3 Bisaflor  Pflanze Gift
 4 Glumanda  Feuer   NA
 5 Glutexo   Feuer   NA


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La crítica a la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo día incluye observaciones hechas sobre las enseñanzas, estructura, y prácticas o desacuerdos teológicos de varios individuos y grupos dentro y fuera de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día.

Principales críticos
Uno de los primeros críticos más prominentes de la iglesia fue D. M. Canright, un dirigente temprano del movimiento de finales del siglo XIX, quien apostató, se retractó, y finalmente se convirtió en pastor bautista.

A mediados del siglo XX,  el evangélico Walter Martin y el Instituto de Investigación cristiana concluyeron que la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día  es un cuerpo cristiano legítimo, con algunas doctrinas heterodoxas y declararon, «son sólidas  en las principales doctrinas del Nuevo Testamento. incluida la gracia y la redención a través de la ofrenda vicaria de Jesucristo de una vez por todas». Sin embargo, otros eruditos. como el teólogo calvinista Anthony A. Hoekema, que no estaba de acuerdo con la opinión adventista de que la teología de Jacobo Arminio estaba alineada con el adventismo, creían que el adventismo estaba basado en una corriente de teología wesleyana/arminiana, y agruparon al Adventismo del Séptimo Día con el Mormonismo, los Testigos de Jehová y la Ciencia cristiana en su libro Los Cuatro Cultos Importantes.

En los debates con respecto a la inspiración de Ellen White durante la década de 1970, los adventistas Walter T. Rea[4] y Ronald Numbers[5] escribieron material que algunos percibieron como crítica de Ellen White.

La crítica más reciente y completa de Ellen G. White es un libro de abundantes fuentes y bien documentado, Ellen G. White, una Psychobiography, por Steve Daily, un historiador de la iglesia y psicólogo autorizado. Este libro describe la patología de Ellen G. White, la "profética" cofundadora de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. En referencia a este volumen explosivo, John Dart, un veterano editor de religión de Los Ángeles Time, escribió «un trabajo devastador. Lo que Numbers y Rea empezaron, este libro lo acabará.»

Doctrina de la Iglesia

Puntos de vista sobre el Trinitarismo
Algunos críticos cristianos del Adventismo sostienen que la visión adventista sobre la Santísima Trinidad no es ortodoxa y/o constituye un Triteísmo.

Varios eruditos adventistas del Séptimo Día han reconocido que la visión adventista de la Trinidad tiende a diferir en algunos aspectos de la heredada visión cristiana tradicional de la doctrina. Según el Dr. Jerry Moon, profesor emérito en el Seminario Teológico Adventista del Séptimo Día, Ellen White, la cofundadora de la iglesia, enseñó que el Padre, Hijo, y el espíritu Santo es tres seres distintos, pero están unido como uno en la Deidad.

Moon explica que Ellen White fue educada como trinitaria, pero adoptó una visión diferente de la tradicional, y sostiene que los escritos posteriores de White sobre la Trinidad no son iguales que los rechazados por los primeros adventistas.

El crítico A. Leroy Moore sostiene que los adventistas rechazan el punto de vista ortodoxo, y que su punto de vista, probablemente habría sido calificado como arriano por los ortodoxos.

Cristología
El Instituto de Investigación cristiana sostiene que el adventismo enseña que Cristo tenía una naturaleza pecaminosa. Según los adventistas, Cristo vino como hombre plenamente, y aun así, como plenamente divino, y cubriendo la naturaleza de Cristo declaran que Jesucristo heredó la naturaleza caída de Adán, que ha sido transmitida a toda la humanidad, pero no pecó.

Juicio investigador y salvación
La doctrina del Juicio investigador se define en la lista de creencias fundamentales de la Iglesia. Al revisar esta doctrina, única y característica de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día, los críticos no adventistas señalan que no es una enseñanza bíblica.

Los adventistas replican que esta doctrina no trata sobre geografía celestial, sino que es un juicio de obras, compatible con el evangelio

Véase también
 Juicio investigador

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ministerios de Garantía de la vida
 Culto o cristiano:  Séptimo-día Adventism Enseñar la Trinity?
 exAdventist Outreach
 Dejado Nos Razón
 Oliver, Timothy (1996) Séptimo-día Adventist Perfil de Iglesia, El Watchman Expositor, Vol. 13, Núm. 1, Watchman ministerio de Camaradería
 Catholic.com
Crítica a la religión
Crítica al cristianismo
Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día


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In the majority of of the the western world like United states where availability of labor regarding odd employment is very lower you need to shell out huge amount of money if you require for this. I know you are going to now be thinking of disposing the particular waste by yourself and not extending its love to hire labour for the task.
Waste material which can be separated can be sold for money, provided, or in the situation of home appliances and some cabinetry -- given to a charity such as Habitat regarding Humanity. Metropolitan areas across the country now put second-hand stores constantly in place and you can give away your used materials to help Habitat in which they are offered and then the money is used for the particular charity's ongoing initiatives. Dumpster rentals are crucial to this sort of an operation since just throwing everything into a big heap and either shedding it a masse, as well as having the the top of the pile crush everything below it, serves no one's purpose.
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Our first imagined is that to obtain the job effectively done it is only going to take a week or we can easily do it simply over a 7 days end. Then it hits anyone that there are numerous things that will be rare to find rid of. Things such as odd pieces of lumber as well as that old exhausted kid's bicycle. There are many things like this you can't release with your normal garbage. Our modern methods of rubbish collection and recycling possess helped the particular ecology tremendously. But then we hit the particular stumbling block of the number of restrictions that are today in place of which limits and restricts just how much and type connected with miscellaneous rubbish that we could possibly get rid of by means of normal stations.
Whether you are a person homeowner or the head of an construction corporation, the first thing to manage on the "to do" listing should be a Rent a Large Dumpster in Hubbard, TX. If you are an person, then renting the particular dumpster yourself preserves a lot of money on your home renovation project. First comes the test, then the reconstruction. In the meantime, there must be a good destination for a keep every one of the old substance which has been stripped away from a making.