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Presenting Reinvigorated Resident Coordinator System Plan, Secretary-General Urges Member States to Fully Support, Fund United Nations Development System Reforms
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Following are UN Secretary‑General António Guterres' remarks on the Implementation Plan for the Reinvigorated Resident Coordinator System, in New York today:
Thank you very much. I want to start by apologizing. It was absolutely my interest to stay until the end of the meeting as usual. Unfortunately, I have to go to Ghana later today and that has forced me to completely compress my agenda. So I will only be able to stay for the presentation. I will ask my Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed to be able to replace me, of course, an advantage for all present members of this meeting. I deeply apologize, but really, today, it became absolutely impossible to manage.
Thank you for this opportunity to present to you, the implementation plan for the reinvigorated Resident Coordinator system. You will receive a final copy of the plan before the end of this week. But I want to mention that today we reach another milestone in our journey to reposition the United Nations development system to meet the ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
As I stated from day one, reform is our joint endeavour — and I am grateful for your engagement on the Implementation Plan. Your feedback, ideas and scrutiny have helped create a solid plan that leverages the best mechanisms to take the development system to the next level.
We have been at work since the adoption of the resolution to operationalize all its mandates, including the critical issue of establishing a reinvigorated Resident Coordinator system. We have established a transition team to manage the change process in the Organization in a coordinated manner across all reform streams, headed by Under-Secretary-General Jens Wandel.
The team includes dedicated capacities for the repositioning of the United Nations development system, working under the guidance of the Deputy Secretary-General. It is largely the product of this group that is presented today, of course, in close dialogue with Member States and in very close cooperation with the leadership of the Organization.
The development team is focused on coordinating the overall implementation, setting targets and tracking progress towards the deliverables requested in the resolution, and ensuring minimal disruption to our work on the ground. It will remain a lean structure, staffed primarily from secondments from the system. This is to ensure not only strong buy-in, but also that we leverage the vast expertise across United Nations entities to get it right. It will be active for 18 to 24 months.
The transition team is working with the United Nations Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG) to move forward in a coordinated, smooth and swift manner. In gathering inputs for the Implementation Plan, we have also established a working group comprising of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Development Operations Coordination Office and the Department of Management.
This working group has reviewed all details of the Resident Coordinator system — including human resources, procurement, logistics and legal status — with an emphasis on ensuring business continuity as the functions of Resident Coordinators and UNDP resident representatives are separated. I am grateful for colleagues in this working group — and across the system — for going beyond the call of duty to ensure robust transition planning.
Allow me to underscore the basis and main elements of the Implementation Plan. Specifically, this Plan responds to the resolution and provides the building blocks for a new system that will:
One, strengthen accountability and transparency for system-wide results; two, provide greater incentives for integrated action; and three, enable United Nations country teams to deliver, and report on, country results at a scale that respond to national needs and national priorities.
To make it happen, the Implementation Plan outlines short- and medium-term actions needed for a smooth transition, with a time horizon of 18 to 24 months. It starts with immediate actions needed for the start-up phase of the new Resident Coordinator system model.
This includes the establishment of a funding platform to receive, consolidate, manage and account for all contributions and financial transactions of the reinvigorated Resident Coordinator system. A United Nations Special Purpose Trust Fund has been established and will provide the highest degree of transparency and reporting on the usage of funds.
The Plan also specifies arrangements to transition staff and operational support. In doing so, the Plan outlines a number of services that UNDP will continue to provide – now on a fee-for-service basis – to the new Resident Coordinator system. This is to ensure that we maintain the necessary flexibility for field operations and draw on the expertise and economies of scale of an entity with physical presence in all developing countries.
The Plan also covers the initial recalibration of functions and relationships at the country level, as well as in regions and at headquarters. This will help ensure accountability for results — from Resident Coordinators to national counterparts — and clear reporting lines between Resident Coordinators and the Secretary-General, and between United Nations country team members and Resident Coordinators.
The plan is clear about minimum capacities that need to be in place in January — even as the transition and progressive strengthening of the system unfolds through the end of 2019. These include: 129 Resident Coordinators with a minimum complement of 2 support staff and 3 national professional staff; a fully restructured Development Operations Coordination Office, to manage and support the new Resident Coordinator system, with enhanced capacities to ensure sufficient backstopping and oversight to Resident Coordinator offices and respond to the heightened demands of the 2030 Agenda; and an adequate funding base to ensure smooth and effective operations through our first year.
Looking to the medium-term, the Plan provides an overview of additional actions required to consolidate the transition, such as: Potential changes to the Resident Coordinator selection and training processes — and how to ensure we maintain full gender parity while also enhancing geographic balance; the implications for the Resident Coordinator system of the future reviews of the United Nations development system regional architecture and multi-country offices, new models of physical presence or the revised United Nations Development Assistance Framework guidelines; and the overall transition towards a new generation of United Nations country teams.
As we develop the institutional and operational details of the Implementation Plan, the spotlight falls on you — the Member States — to help us maintain the momentum.
The new Resident Coordinator system will cost $290 million. We have some distance to go to ensure predictability in funding and we are counting on Member States to act on the commitments made through the resolution.
I am pleased to note that all entities of the United Nations development system have indicated their readiness to step up by doubling their cost-sharing agreement. We welcome action by the Executive Boards in New York last week endorsing this decision — and look forward to similar action in Geneva, Paris, Vienna and Nairobi. Discussions are underway to operationalize the 1 per cent levy on tightly earmarked non-core resources that Member States have proposed in the resolution.
I thank all those who have shown readiness to advance this innovative idea, but, of course, these funds will not be immediately available, as implementation discussions and analysis continue.
We have also received funding commitments or soft pledges from 15 countries, amounting to a total of close to $75 million for the coming year. But — as you know — we need many more, and faster, commitments to guarantee success. We need to be sure we can underwrite personnel contracts and rental agreements from day one.
Let's be clear. A repositioned United Nations development system depends on a reinvigorated Resident Coordinator system. And a reinvigorated Resident Coordinator system depends on adequate resources. We now look to the other 178 countries that have yet to communicate their pledges to step up.
The Resident Coordinator system belongs to all of you – and the success of the reform is our shared responsibility. We must ensure that the new Resident Coordinator system is fully financed so we can scale up our response to the 2030 Agenda and ensure the world remains on track in making an impact on everyone's life, everywhere.
You can count on my firm determination to deliver on all mandates you have granted to the United Nations. We will spare no effort to put in place the empowered and impartial Resident Coordinator system we need by 1 January. I can assure you that transparency, inclusiveness and national ownership will continue to guide our work.
We are closer than ever to a reformed United Nations development system that responds to your expectations and people's aspirations. Let's finish the journey together. Thank you.
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We are excited to announce that we have begun a campaign to implement improvements at your Downtown Y. It is our hope that our Downtown Y members will embrace these proposed improvement projects and support this initiative. As I am sure all of you know, these improvements are essential to our ability to serve the loyal Downtown Y membership and also to position the branch to attract and retain new members.
As some of you have probably noticed, the Y has already initiated some long needed improvements Downtown. However, this is only the beginning. The Downtown Y Improvements Projects Committee, consisting of Drew Davis, Chair, Gary Lash, David Taggart, Mark Sealy, Connor Peterson and Darlene Hall, has spent an enormous amount of time interviewing members and gathering data and cost information and have identified the 6 projects identified below (the specific details of each project will be posted and made available to all members via link on our social media platforms). The Y has set up specifically designated accounts dedicated ONLY to the following projects so that our members can donate to the Downtown Y Improvements Projects or to a particular project and be assured that those donations go only for the specified project and no other. Except for the cardio equipment, all of the projects can be accomplished for approximately $60,000. If we are not able to replace all the cardio equipment then depending on the donor support, we can repair or replace specific equipment. Together, we can do this!
We cannot achieve this goal without your help. I am pledging today my personal pledge of $1,000 toward the Downtown Y Improvements Projects and am challenging our members, but particularly our loyal Downtown Y members, to join me in giving your additional pledge in support of these projects. All donors who do not request anonymity and who donate $1,000, or more, will be recognized publicly at the Downtown Y. Please consider supporting this campaign by making a donation that will directly serve this Downtown Y Improvements Projects Campaign. Your support is essential to our ability to accomplish all necessary projects.
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Can relatives come to the U.S.? It depends on how the family member is related.
Many people in the United States have family members living in other countries, and wonder whether they can bring them here. It's a myth that if one immigrant settles in the United States, that one can get green cards (permanent residence) for the whole extended family, and so on. The truth is both more limited and more complex.
Immediate Relative: Although the common meaning of this is a close family relation, it has a more specific meaning in immigration law. Immediate relatives are a category of prospective immigrants who include a U.S. citizen's spouse, minor children (under the age of 21), and parents (so long as the citizen is at least 21 years old). Immediate relatives have an immediate right to apply for U.S. permanent residence (assuming their U.S. family member agrees to start the process on their behalf) — unlike more distant relatives, they aren't subject to yearly limits on the numbers who can apply for permanent residence.
Preference Relative: An immigration term for certain people who may be eligible for U.S. permanent residence (a "green card") based on family relationships. Preference relatives include the married children of U.S. citizens, children over 21 of U.S. citizens, the spouses or children of U.S. green card holders, and brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens where the U.S. citizen is at least 21 years old. Preference relatives must usually wait to get a green card, because only around 480,000 are available to them in total each year. They must wait in line based on their priority date, which is the date when their U.S. citizen or permanent resident petitioner first filed a visa petition indicating willingness to sponsor the immigrant.
Notice who is not on this list: grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, parents-in-law, and other extended family members.
However, if allowed to immigrate to the United States, most of the people on the above list will be permitted to bring their own spouses and children with them. And it is true that once someone has a green card, they can sponsor other people on the list.
How Long Must Relatives Wait?
Immediate relatives can get green cards without worrying about waiting periods or numerical limits. Preference relatives may have to wait between approximately four and 23 years before being allowed to apply for their visa or green card.
Also, only a certain percentage of the green cards go to any one country each year. That means if a particularly high number of people from certain countries submit petitions — as is often the case with India, Mexico, China, and the Philippines — their family members end up waiting even longer than others.
Because of the annual limits on how many green cards (immigrant visas) are given out, and the unpredictability of how many people submit petitions each year, no one can say exactly how long each applicant will wait.
The longest waits are endured by siblings of U.S. citizens (4th preference) from the Philippines — currently a staggering 23 years.
The family member who you will sponsor will have to go through a multi-step application process. It's your job as a U.S. citizen or green card holder to start the process, by submitting a visa petition. Your family member can't enter the U.S. until both the petition and subsequent applications have been approved.
There are some important steps you can take to speed up your family member's progress toward a green card.
If you are a U.S. permanent resident, not a citizen, you can help by applying for citizenship as soon as you're eligible. That's usually five years after getting your green card. For more information, see my article Applying for U.S. Citizenship.
As soon as you're a citizen, your family members can move to a speedier immigration category. For example, your spouse would become an "immediate relative," and could apply for a green card right away. Your parents would go from having no immigration rights to being immediate relatives, and your children would become immediate relatives or move to higher preference categories, depending on their age and whether they are married.
Children who marry have it tough when it comes to immigrating. If you're a permanent resident and you have petitioned for an unmarried child, that child's marriage will destroy the right to immigrate under your petition. If you're a U.S. citizen and your child marries, that will drop the child down into the third preference category, meaning a long wait.
Make sure your children know these risks before they marry. It won't matter that they were unmarried when you started the immigration process for them; they have to be unmarried when they pick up their immigrant visa or green card.
Hopeful immigrants (beneficiaries) shouldn't pin all of their hopes on one petitioner. If something goes wrong — for example, the petitioner dies or divorces the beneficiary before the beneficiary gets a green card — the opportunity is, in most cases, lost.
There is no harm in having more than one U.S. citizen or resident file visa petitions for a waiting immigrant. For instance, both parents could file for a child, to insure against the death of one parent. Or a person married to a permanent resident could have both the resident and their U.S. citizen parent file a visa petition for them.


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General NPR: The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in America
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Each year, Americans waste 33 million tons of food. Dana Gunders, a scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and author Jonathan Bloom discuss the economic and environmental impacts of food waste, and what can be done to fight the growing problem.
Up next, some food for thought as you chomp your Thanksgiving leftovers. Recycling paper and plastic, as you know, is an effective way to save money and energy. So why not recycle all the uneaten food that goes to waste? And there is an awful lot of it.
Forty percent of the food in the U.S. today goes uneaten, which means Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion worth of food each year. But that's not all. Food waste, as it decays in landfills, also produces methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas.
So what can we do to cut back on food waste? Dana Gunders is a food and agriculture project scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. She's also author of an NRDC report published last month called "Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill." Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
The Ugly Truth About Food Waste in America
FireCat
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The news is hardly a surprise: Food are wasted "worldwide" yearly.
Slapshot136
Divide et impera
methane gets produced when food decomposes? but your body produces methane if it eats the food.. so why bother writing about that as a bad thing if it happens either way
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Maybe they didn't thought about that? lol
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Fatmankev
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Didn't read the actual article, but I'd assume if they're talking about the methane production from wasted food then they're probably suggesting that we be utilizing it as an energy source (biofuel) instead of letting it go out and mess with the ozone layer or whatever it does.
Edit: Or maybe not. Whatever, they probly are just reaching for anything.
phyrex1an
Staff Member and irregular helper
The alternative is to not produce the food in the first place. It's not like they are suggesting that americans should eat more food...
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phyrex1an said:
it's hard to predict how much food will be needed in the future, so farmers always over-plant, such that if a flood/drought/whatever happens, there will still be (enough) food - that means that most of the time there is a surplus, which is usually bought & destroyed (or distributed) by the government - the farmers have an incentive to over-produce because the government buys the surplus, and the government buys the surplus to prevent starvation (since that usually leads to a revolution)
another interesting alternative would be if Americans ate less (amount of calories needed depends directly on body weight, so if all the Americans went on a diet and became less fat
Don't go peggin' this shit on me, now...
Edit: Well now I can't even find what I quoted... so nevermind? I guess...
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Varine
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Fatmankev said:
The quote was bullshit that idiots who don't understand basic health say, so he was better off removing it.
rover2341
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can you imagine what American's would look like if they all ate about 40% as much.. people might start exploding.
According to... http://www.buzzle.com/articles/average-american-weight.html
about 175 between 20-50 years old.
now 40% more. Hmm...
People Should be like this....
People are like this...
What will they be like?????
Accname
2D-Graphics enthusiast
Reintroduce slavery. The average weight will sink drastically.
Accname said:
Productivity and exports will go up. From an economic standpoint it's a viable method to fix the problems.
Varine said:
I honestly didn't notice that he quoted me.. I couldn't word it such that it sounded right to me, so I gave up on it, and then noticed he quoted my WIP, suggesting I give up, so I left it like that
That isn't the problem. In 1998 the government basically changed the definition which added some 30 million people to the list, despite having previously been perfectly fine by the standards. And for the record obese does NOT mean fat. If you're 6 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds, you are obese. Which means your high school quarterback was probably obese and reported on these charts same as the guy that has a wheel chair because he weighs too much for his legs to support. And yet everyone wants to classify complex shit into this little tables so that the broader population can keep up, which leads to extremely prevalent ignorance and lack of appropriate knowledge in most any given topic.
You seemed to forget that there's another rule to being obese: Some certain levels of fat in your body. I seemed to forget what number it was, but that rule is used to separate strong, heavyweight champions and, well..., unhealthy individuals.
You would think so.
KaerfNomekop
Swim, fishies. Swim through the veil of steel.
If you worked out and the fat was converted to muscle, would you still be obese?
I think there are different definitions of obese. Over here it is measured by the amount of fat in every [insert measuring unit here] of your body.
That was it. I just don't know the number for it to call oneself "obese".
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The 2019 HEC O'Connor Cup was won by University of Limerick who defeated UCD by 2–16 to 1–10 in the final. Six teams were invited to take part in the competition. Queen's University and UCC reached the semi-finals while DCU defeated NUI Galway by 3–18 to 0–6 to win the Michael O'Connor Shield.

Group stage
Six teams were invited to take part in the 2019 O'Connor Cup. They were drawn into two groups of three. UCD, Queen's University and NUI Galway were placed in Group A while University of Limerick, UCC and DCU, were placed in Group B. Each group played three rounds of games during  February. The top two teams from each group qualified for the O'Connor Cup semi-finals. The two third placed teams played off for the O'Connor Shield.

Group A

Final table

Group B

Final table

O'Connor Cup Weekend
The O'Connor Shield play off, the two O'Connor Cup semi-finals and the final all formed part of the O'Connor Cup Weekend which was hosted by DIT GAA and the GAA Centre of Excellence in Abbotstown. The final was streamed live by TG4 on their YouTube channel.

Semi-finals

O'Connor Shield

Final

References

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The most impactful meta-change in iOS 11 is the relaunch of the App Store as a heavily curated storefront. With its tenth anniversary on the horizon, the App Store is leaving its iTunes Store legacy behind to grow into something bolder and, to an extent, riskier: a collection of stories about apps and games, updated daily.
For years, the App Store followed a music-like approach in highlighting noteworthy releases and emphasizing top charts. The App Store's weekly refresh and prominent placement of charts were relics of the iTunes Music Store which, both in terms of infrastructure and executive decisions, predated the App Store and provided most of its foundation. Lessons from the music industry, however, don't necessarily apply to the app economy as well. Given the cultural and economic impact of apps on our society, treating the App Store as a mere extension of the iTunes Store is unwise and shortsighted.
Apple realized this and put Phil Schiller in charge of the App Store in late 2015. Under his tenure, the App Store and iTunes Connect teams have shipped major improvements such as renewable subscriptions for all apps, developer responses to customer reviews, more control over TestFlight betas, and they bumped the App Store's refresh cycle from once a week to multiple times per week. This assiduous release schedule was an acknowledgement of the App Store's longstanding limitations, providing the context to evaluate the complete reimagination of Apple's record-breaking digital store in iOS 11.
There are some key concepts behind the new App Store. First, Apple is doubling down on curation and editorial recommendations. Second, they're recognizing the significance of games by giving them a separate front page, splitting them from apps (which also get a dedicated space). Third, there's a deeper emphasis on the elements of modern iOS apps, such as standalone In-App Purchases, preview videos, subtitles, and reviews. Lastly, a fresh design language inspired by other Apple services creates a superior hierarchy and presentation in the App Store. Together, these serve as the building blocks for a new app shopping experience and, potentially, a remarkably better way to discover apps and games.
The Today tab is the App Store's new home. In this daily updated page, Apple wants to showcase editorial recommendations with articles, videos, and galleries that present a narrative around the best apps and games. Every day, the Today tab refreshes with new cards that can be expanded to read the story behind an app, get some tips on how to play a hot new game, or check out the latest App and Game of the Day. This is a massive change for the App Store's editorial team, who are committing themselves to producing original content about apps and app culture every single day.
The App Store's new Today tab.
Apple calls the modules in the Today tab "stories" – a name that reflects their nature as miniature blog posts. Think of the Editor's Choice blurbs from the old App Store – Apple's new stories are an extended, richer version of those, enhanced with beautiful full-screen graphics and a healthy dose of personality.
The story format has allowed Apple to experiment with multiple layout options. Some stories are simple posts with a gallery of apps embedded at the bottom, which you can use to download the editor's picks; others are lists of games, such as 15 Inspired Indie Games; App and Game of the Day are usually the richest modules in terms of graphics, with edge-to-edge artwork, large screenshots, and other media embedded in the body of the story. Unlike the old App Store, the fluid structure of the Today tab enables Apple to play with multiple types of stories at once. Combined with the modern design language used throughout the new App Store, the result is a lively, colorful homepage that feels new and captivating every day.
Apple's bet with the Today tab is that instead of opening the App Store for a few seconds to see what's trending in the top charts, users will read, watch, and interact with recommendations made by human editors. Thanks to stories' eye-catching visuals and embedded download buttons, users should easily jump from a story directly to a new game available on their Home screen.
Examples of stories from the iOS 11 App Store.
As someone who's been advocating for more editorial curation on the App Store for years, I think the Today tab is exactly what the App Store needed to move forward. Apple had already increased the amount of editorial recommendations under Schiller in 2016, but iOS 11's App Store works at an entirely different scale: it's as if Apple is producing a mini tech/lifestyle blog, which is going to be updated every day, localized in multiple regions, and read by millions of people.
Apple now has the ideal avenue for explaining why a specific app deserves everyone's attention, rather than just featuring its icon on the front page. With algorithms out of the equation, human editors will get a chance to feature apps big and small, putting large companies and indie developers on the same playing field for the sake of one underlying idea: helping iOS users discover and download quality apps and games.
Elk, an indie currency converter, is featured alongside a story about modern transportation and a collection of book reading apps.
There are some challenges for Apple. It is somewhat odd, for instance, that recommendations or interviews don't come with bylines for individual editors. Understandably, Apple wants to establish a "voice of the company" with Today, but I wonder if the lack of identification with editors (and their particular taste and writing styles) could be problematic in the long run. Mostly though, I'm curious to see if the App Store team will be able to keep up with a daily update pace for several months in a row without decreasing the frequency of stories or slimming down the format to easier collections and lists of apps.
When it comes to creative work, there usually isn't enough money to throw at the problem of writer burnout. Can the App Store produce stories every day of the year, in multiple countries, all while keeping recommendations timely and culturally aware? And how well can Apple's stories appeal to both App Store novices and more demanding pro users? It's going to be tricky for the company to balance all this, but I'm feeling optimistic about the initiative.
As the past two months have demonstrated, Apple has been able to ramp up the Today tab from monthly to weekly, then daily updates. Stories have always been fun and informative, with a good mix of apps and games, lesser known titles and tips for popular hits, and fascinating behind-the-scenes articles on apps I wasn't familiar with. I don't doubt Apple's ability to craft unique stories with a mass-market focus that can also appeal to more sophisticated App Store customers. My only question is whether this will continue for years to come, or ultimately fizzle out.
Editorial curation was always the best way to explain the richness of the App Store ecosystem. If Apple keeps it up, the Today tab can entice users to learn more about apps, explore more, and create a better App Store platform for all of us – both app developers and users.
The separation of apps and games in the App Store has been a long time coming, and Apple is delivering with iOS 11.
Apps and Games are now two tabs in the App Store, each with its own front page and carousel of featured titles, charts, and collections. As a result, each page is richer and more focused as Apple doesn't have to account for two product types at once.
Separate front pages for apps and games.
In addition to featured sections, Apple is including app previews with auto-play on both front pages; videos (which have sound disabled by default and can be set to not auto-play in Settings ⇾ iTunes & App Store67) bring the App Store's front page to life; they're a great way to showcase a diverse group of titles.
Because apps and games are two separate entities in the iOS 11 App Store, categories and top charts don't depend on each other anymore. Top charts for apps are useful again as they're not inundated with games: it feels like we're back in 2009, when an interesting app could be discovered in the Top Paid charts without scrolling down to #150.
Top Categories on the Apps front page.
Categories are presented on the front page as Top Categories accompanied by new custom icons. The overall disposition of sections on the front page is similar to the old App Store, but because games are no longer intermixed with apps, each page is richer and optimized for the content it showcases.
Years ago, I argued that Apple should have considered a Games Store to give apps more room to breathe. That idea is coming true in iOS 11: technically, apps and games are still part of the same App Store, but distinct front pages and dedicated curation should incentivize different kinds of customers to browse and download more of what they typically look for on the App Store.
The App Store's new design covers product pages as well, which now pack more information about apps and games than ever before.
Large titles and various elements borrowed from Apple Music's interface define the sections that make up an app's product page in iOS 11. Reviews, ranking, and age ratings have been moved to the top of the page to give you an idea of the title's popularity. The What's New changelog box has also been bumped higher in the page: it sits above video previews and screenshots, making it easier to spot apps that are frequently updated with new features and fixes.
The App Store's new product page design.
The top of the product page reveals two of the changes for developers in the iOS 11 App Store: app titles are limited to 30 characters, and the App Store now supports subtitles to succinctly describe an app. Moreover, developers can take advantage of a promotional text box that allows them, in 170 characters or less, to write anything they want about an app without having to submit an update. Expect developers to advertise special deals, upcoming features, and other direct communications in this section.
In iOS 11, developers can feature up to three video previews for a single app. Switching from 30 seconds of footage to a minute and a half across three previews is a fantastic way to understand the functionality of an app before committing to a download. Developers can also localize video previews.
As the App Store sprawls across several device families, Apple has improved the display of supported platforms. Below screenshots and previews, you'll find a summary of all the versions an iPhone app includes, such as iPad, Apple TV, iMessage, or watchOS counterparts. This section can be expanded to view screenshots for all platforms in one place.
Developer profiles have been redesigned too. Now when you tap on a developer's name from an app page, you'll be taken to a revamped profile where apps are organized by platform and the latest release is showcased at the top. This makes it easier to browse profile pages of developers who make a living on the App Store with multiple apps.
A better organization for apps from the same developer.
Ratings and reviews have received a bold new look with a large average score and swipeable boxes to read what other customers say along with developer responses to them. You can press a review box with 3D Touch to mark it as helpful or not, as well as report a concern with it.
As you scroll further down the product page, you'll notice a revamped Information panel with more details that can be expanded inline. In a nice touch, iOS 11's App Store displays the app's icon and download button persistently in the title bar, so you can decide to download it at any time while reading the product page without scrolling back to the top.
The lower end of the page is dedicated to Wallet and Family Sharing details, more apps by the same developer, and suggestions for similar apps you may like. In contrast with the old App Store, every section is clearly laid out and buttons are rounded, outlined, and comfortable to tap.
App product pages in iOS 11 reflect the essence of the new App Store: everything's larger, more colorful, and legible. iOS 11's design language perfectly fits the App Store's new goals.
There are some other interesting tidbits and optimizations to the App Store worth noting.
In-App Purchases can be promoted everywhere. With iOS 11, Apple wants to make In-App Purchases more discoverable and accessible for users, and in the process help developers sustain their apps with an easier way to sell additional content. To do this, they've turned In-App Purchases into standalone items that can be browsed directly from product pages, search, and the Today, Apps, and Games tabs.
Promoted subscriptions and In-App Purchases.
Developers have been given a lot of control here. They can choose to promote up to 20 In-App Purchases on a product page; each In-App Purchase can have custom metadata and artwork attached to it. Because with this system an In-App Purchase might be bought before the user even installs the main app, Apple created an API that can continue an In-App Purchase transaction inside the app only after it's been downloaded. If it wasn't clear that Apple thinks developers should consider In-App Purchases, there's very little doubt now.
Richer search. The App Store in iOS 11 can search for more types of content: in addition to apps, you'll be able to find revamped developer profiles, editorial stories, curated collections, and In-App Purchases directly in search.
I've long wanted Apple to make their editorial collections searchable, and I think this is the right move. Unfortunately, one of the major issues of App Store search remains: if a new app has just launched, it still takes a few hours for it to show up in search results.
A new purchase dialog. The App Store's purchase dialog has been redesigned to look like an Apple Pay confirmation sheet.
On one hand, the more "serious" look of the dialog might discourage some purchases, but I also appreciate the clarity of the breakdown provided in this UI. However, I'm surprised that the App Store still doesn't offer Apple Pay as a payment method.
Pull to refresh for updates. If you're anything like me and keep automatic app updates disabled but have always wanted an easier way to manually check for new versions – rejoice! You can now pull to refresh on the Updates tab to see what's new and waiting to be installed.
View iPad and Mac apps on the iPhone App Store. You still can't buy iPad or Mac apps while browsing the App Store from your iPhone (nor can they be searched), but at least iOS 11 allows you to open a non-iPhone app's product page and read more details about it.
Viewing a Mac app on the iOS 11 App Store.
Share stories. While the Today tab won't have a web presence, you can copy links to individual stories and share them with friends. On other iOS 11 devices, these links will open in the App Store.
iOS 11's new App Store is the achievement of a team that doesn't want to look back. With an all-encompassing redesign, Apple is both bringing a fresh look to app discovery as well as highlighting new business models and technologies. In-App Purchases, app previews, subscriptions, multi-platform apps – developers who will consider and incorporate these elements in their apps will have a higher chance of finding success in the modern App Store.
Apple has changed the conversation around the App Store by giving more resources and attention to what makes it unique: their editorial team. More than a storefront, the goal of the Today tab is to provide Apple with an editorial voice, leveraging curation as a differentiator from other mobile app stores. No other company can handpick titles from such a vast pool of quality software, and in a wide range of prices and formats. If the Today tab succeeds – and it looks like it just might – it'll reshape the way developers and users think of app premieres, exclusives, and the simple act of checking out what's trending on the App Store.
The new App Store is a risky bet: Apple is making drastic changes to a well-oiled machine that, by all accounts, has been a runaway success for the company. But if it pays off, the entire iOS app ecosystem will be better because of it.
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Many people own a beautiful piece of ceramic art but unfortunately the very nature of ceramics makes it a fragile medium and accidents will happen. When your beloved sculpture is broken it is not necessary to throw away the shards but instead you can have a new piece created for you.
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The legacy of Covid-19: Five ways in which 2020 could change farming
Cornish Mutual's Jeremy Oatey discusses the current and long-term impact of the pandemic on farming
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Pete and Len Olds of Cornhill Farm near Camborne have been selling more eggs from their farm gate over the last few months (Image: Jim Wileman)
Jeremy Oatey is chair of the board of directors at Cornish Mutual and managing director of Agricola Growers in South East Cornwall. Here, he considers five ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has changed farming and what it could mean for the future.
Given the Covid-19 pandemic, some challenging weather conditions, and uncertainty over Brexit, I suspect most people will be glad to put 2020 behind them. However, there are reasons to be optimistic and I think some benefits will come out of the challenges that we've faced this year.
While there is uncertainty about the future, I believe the events of 2020 will have a lasting legacy. Here are five of the future trends I think we could see.
1. More support for local food
There was turmoil when lockdown started in March, but after the initial panic buying of food, the demand settled down and, thankfully, we didn't have shortages.
During the early weeks of the pandemic, many people started using the shops around them because it was the only option they had and, as a result, we saw a surge in interest in local trade and farm shops. I hope the crisis has brought about a greater appreciation for our farmers, producers and retailers across the region and that people's new shopping habits stick.
2. A commitment to overcoming farm labour challenges
The pandemic highlighted the challenge of farm labour for the South West, where we are reliant on migrant workers for harvesting seasonal crops like cauliflower and daffodils.
As we prepare to leave the EU, this has raised some important issues about how we will harvest our crops in the future. While there is a sense in Government that we shouldn't be quite so reliant on migrant labour, robotic harvesting is still 10 or 15 years away and the pandemic has shown that we probably can't expect to fill the void with a local labour force. We do somehow need to overcome this challenge. We don't yet have the answers, but the crisis has highlighted the issue.
Lydford Farm Shop, Devon (Image: Jim Wileman)
3. A greater appreciation for agricultural shows
A big difference this year for the farming community has been missing out on the agricultural shows. We have some fantastic shows here in the South West, including many local shows all over the region.
These are key social events for the rural community and the showcase for the livestock sector, selling pedigree cattle and sheep. You don't realise how important they are until they're not there. Sadly, some of the events have been badly hit so I think it's important that we try and support them as much as we can to keep them alive. While there have been a number of virtual shows, we need to get back to the real thing and hope the shows can function again in 2021.
4. A higher profile for food security
I believe the pandemic has made the politicians focus more on food security and moved the issue up the agenda. The UK is going to be in charge of its own food policy going forwards, which perhaps gives us a little bit more control and influence.
Short supply chains seem to work best in times of adversity and if we rely too heavily on imports, they can very easily fall apart. Having strong local businesses makes us better able to cope with shocks along the way because we can be much more responsive.
5. A reminder of what we can (and can't) control
As we look ahead to 2021, we don't yet know how Covid-19 will continue to impact us and are not yet clear on what changes Brexit will bring. However, this pandemic has reminded us that although we like to think we are in control, in reality, we are not.
We don't have answers to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, but rural communities are good at adapting and working together. Because they are so connected to the land, agricultural communities are used to fluctuations in weather so tend to be resourceful.
In uncertain times, the key is how well you manage your business. It's about being realistic, thinking about what you want in life and planning for how you're going to get there. After all, you can only control what you can and that is what we need to concentrate on.
To find out more about Cornish Mutual and how they can help you, visit the website.
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Our silver-plated weather station consists of a thermometer, hydrometer and clock, and cleverly folds away into a cylinder. A perfect gift for anyone who is fascinated by the weather, or simply an elegant statement piece for your home or office.
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#ETC18 Divisional Preview – Senior Mixed
Senior Mixed Division – ETC18
Countries entered: England, France, Ireland, Middle East, Spain
Defending Champions: England
Those present on the side-lines of Field One at the 2016 European Championships will vividly recall the spectacle of the Senior Mixed final and the dramatic victory for England versus Ireland in a Drop Off. Fast forward 2 years and the Senior Mixed Division promises to be full of quality and drama once again.
Once again, Ireland and England have entered very strong squads for the 2018 European Championships and both teams have their sights set on glory; however, the French Senior Mixed team have prepared themselves through playing in the domestic season in England and certainly have the strength in depth to ensure they will have a say in the final standings. Spain and the Middle East also have very strong teams and will look to showcase their potential against the experience of England and Ireland throughout the 4 Days.
The Senior Mixed Division gets underway at 13:20 on Wednesday 18th July. The Gold Medal Game will take place on Saturday 21st July at 14:00 on Field One.
Keep track of all of the results here: https://www.internationaltouch.org/events/euros/2018/mixed-30/
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What do you want I m napping!
I think I left the iron on.
Mom, I m mad at you for leaving. Why can t you work from home.
Sunday= cat naps all day.
Mom, you found my hiding spot. GO AWAY!.
Waiting for dad to get home like.
Say whaaat, Mom and Dad! You re leaving me to go to Chicago this weekend.
I love when my momma goes grocery shopping, because I can hide in the bags.
Check back next week for pics of my summer haircut.
Pink to match my strawberry nose and charcoal for my stripes.
Can we do this all day, thanks.
Happy Halloween furriends!. I dressed up as a fatty witch for Halloween!. What did you dress up as.
Thanks for the new hat meowmsy.
Just having a bit of a relaxing sit.
She fell asleep in the middle of me taking a photo.
Meowmsy stop filming me I m trying to play with my toy.
I like to hide in this tunnel sometimes.
Rough night. Poked myself in the eye with my own foot. Slightly embarrassed Hopefully when I wake up my eye s fully open again since I hate the vet!
No, you can t make the bed, I m comfy here!
Thank you all so much for 2.1k!
That moment you hear the wet food can open.
You put your left paw in.
I may look innocent, but tonight I decided to knock down mom s mirror Thanks.o for the cute bow tie!
Hi guys! I m back and will be posting again!
Sometimes I am so fluffy my mama thinks I am a little bear.
CoCo the bunny in the bottom of the cat castle, about to devour a romaine leaf. I didn t want to get the flash in her eyes, so it s a weird angle.:p.


Have you given more Badges or received more Badges? If you don't know: me.deviantart.com/badges/ and look at the amount of Badges sent and received.
63 deviants said I have given more Badges than I have received.
37 deviants said I have received more Badges than I have given.
1 deviant said I have given and received the exact same amount of Badges.
I don't know, but when ever I watch someone I give them a llama too, and I have watched alot of really good artists out there.
I've given out 52 and received 31. Probably cause I always give badges back in return, after receiving one lol.
Yeah, for being a non-artist whose only been really active in the past 3 months without using llama groups. I'm happy with it.
More Llamas are always good!
The received number is catching up, I can't let it win!
Your stats say: 383 Badges sent, 183 Badges received. So indeed!
Why people don't give llamas back?!
I feel you there! Even in groups where people ask for Llamas I often don't get them back. It's sad!


Marlene Bailey Burns was born in North Bay, Ontario. She was the daughter of W. J. and Annette Bailey. She was a graduate of Laurentian University. She was the wife of Dr. George E. Burns, and the energetic mother of three children, Jennifer, Cheryl and Gregory.
She pursued a successful career in figure skating over a twenty year period. She was Director of Marketing Research at MCTV. Marlene held various executive positions, and chaired several different committees in numerous organizations in Sudbury including CFUW and the Sudbury Business Professional Women's Club. Over the years, Marlene was particularly interested in establishing both mentoring and networking relationships for women and in raising funds in support of education for women.
She passed away at the age of 51 years after a long standing struggle with breast cancer.
Helen Mary Byrnes was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She spent her childhood and youth in Parry Sound where she developed the keen interest in outdoor sports which she was to carry into her teaching career and which were to bring her continued enjoyment throughout her adult life. She was an enthusiastic skier, skater, swimmer and golfer.
She graduated from the University of Toronto, St. Michael's College, with an Honours BA in Latin and French. She attended the Ontario College of Education in 1939 - 1940 qualifying for a Permanent High School Certificate. Her continuing interest in physical education and sports prompted her to return to the University of Toronto during summer sessions to obtain a Specialist Certificate in Physical Health and Education. During her teaching career, she not only taught physical education and health but coached the girls' basketball and volleyball teams. Interest in the students with whom she worked later led to completion of the requirements for a Guidance Certificate.
Appointed to the staff of the Sudbury High School in September 1940, she taught French, Latin and Physical Education. Her enjoyment of the students and life in Northern Ontario kept her at Sudbury High School until deteriorating heath forced her to accept an early retirement in June 1973.
Helen was one of the 65 charter members of the Sudbury University Women's Club, and a loyal supporter of all its activities. She was especially interested in the projects undertaken to raise funds for scholarships for Sudbury district students.
She died in October 1977 at the age of 61 years.
Grace Hartman was a social activist and politician in Sudbury who became the city's first female mayor on October 5, 1966. In addition to the distinction of being the first woman to serve as mayor in the City of Sudbury, Hartman also shares the distinction with Dr. Faustina Kelly Cook of being one of the first women to serve on Sudbury City Council. She served on council until 1954, when she was elected the city's comptroller. Hartman was also a president of the Ontario Municipal Association, a board member of the Royal Ontario Museum, and a chair of several social service and community organizations in Sudbury. In 1975, Hartman was named one of the 25 leading women of Ontario.
Grace was a founding member of CFUW Sudbury and the first president. In 1955 she was a founding member of the YWCA chapter in Sudbury and later served as President. She was an honourary Life Member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Sudbury. Grace organized the Sudbury Folk Arts Council and the Sudbury Ethnic Groups Programs presenting singing and dancing depicting their cultural life. Grace Hartman accepted an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Laurentian University and a lifetime achievement award from the city's business and professional women's association.
CFUW-Sudbury took the lead and worked collaboratively with four other community groups to have the Bell Park Amphitheatre re-named in her honour in 2001. Creating the amphitheatre had been one of Hartman's key projects during her city council term.
Click here to read a more thorough biography.
Margaret Fyfe-Orange was the daughter of Joseph Fyfe, a long-time Superintendent of Inco, and Mary Fitzpatrick, an infectious disease nurse. She was born on August 8, 1918 in Cobalt, Ontario. Upon completion of her elementary schooling, she moved to Sudbury where she attended high school. She graduated from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto in 1941 with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages. She attended the Ontario College of Education and later did post-graduate studies in French at McGill University, as well participated in a University of Western Ontario's summer programme at Trois -Pistoles, Quebec. Before her marriage to Dr. Robert Orange, a widower with three children, she taught French, English, History and vocational Guidance at Sudbury High School. She and Dr. Orange had three children in addition to his three children.
She devoted herself to community service through various organizations such as the Marymount College Auxiliary, the St. Charles College Guide, and the Newman Club Alumni of Sudbury. She was a founding member of the Board of Regents for the University of Sudbury and in 1978 received an honorary degree from Laurentian University.
She played a very important role in CFUW Sudbury. She was a Charter member of the Club, She was its third president from 1952 – 1954. She was very involved in CFUW at the provincial, national and international levels. As well as serving as President of the Sudbury Club, she was Ontario Vice-President, CFUW National President (1967 – 1970) and elected fourth Vice-President of IFUW in 1977 at the conference held in Stirling, Scotland. In 1968, during her CFUW presidency, briefs were presented by CFUW to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and favourably received. She was also a member of the 1966 IFUW delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women in Geneva and she led the Canadian delegation to the 16th Triennial IFUW Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1968.
Margaret Fyfe-Orange died on May 1, 1987.
Doris Thompson Lane was born in Toronto. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Modern Languages from University College, University of Toronto in 1906. While at university, she played violin in a string quartet that performed classical music at Hart house.
Following graduation from Hamilton Normal School, she taught at Wellesley St. Public School in Toronto until December 1912.
She married Frederick C. Lane, Sudbury's first municipal engineer in December 1912. She came to Sudbury in January 1913. She had five sons. Two sons who were commissioned officers in the Air Force died during World War II. This was the one great disappointment in her life. She was a Silver Cross Mother by virtue of the loss of her sons in the war. She was active sewing for the Red Cross during the war.
She was an original member of the Toronto chapter of Alpha Phi Sorority. She was a devout Anglican, a life member of the Anglican Church Women and an honorary member of the Altar Guild of the Church of the Epiphany. She was interested in current events, music and history. She was active all her life. She continued to enjoy walking and swimming into her late 80s, as well as being a hostess to large family gatherings. Doris was an early member of the University Women's Club in Sudbury, the precursor of the Canadian Federation of University Women – CFUW Sudbury. For many years, she was the oldest member of CFUW. When CFUW Sudbury celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1973, she was honored as the member with the longest service and the scholarship was created in her name. Doris was present when it was announced.
She was in her 92nd year when she died in 1976.
Eleanor Milliken graduated from the University of Toronto in 1954. She taught Physical Education in Toronto and Sault Ste. Marie before moving to Sudbury in 1967. In Sudbury, Eleanor was the head women's basketball official. She organized and trained the officials for the women's secondary school basketball league as well as officiated at the college and university levels. She worked many years as a supply teacher in our secondary schools.
Eleanor Milliken was a dedicated member of CFUW Sudbury for almost 50 years. In her second year, Eleanor accepted an executive position and has held every executive position in the club. She was president from 1974 – 1976. Apart from assuming leadership roles, she was active on a continuing basis on many committees, such as this Club's Awards Committee.
In addition to being an active member of CFUW Sudbury, she was Regional Director for Ontario North from 1992 – 1996. She was president of Ontario Council and vice-president of CFUW National from 1996 – 1998. She attended CFUW meetings across the country. She was vice-president of CFUW national from 1996 – 1998. She was on the 1998 National AGM planning committee for the AGM in Sudbury. She held the position of National Coordinator of International Relations and a member of CFUW nomination committee. She also was very involved with the Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund, which is affiliated with IFUW and grants globally to locally generated projects that advance the rights of women and girls. In 2001, she volunteered at the IFUW meeting in Ottawa and helped with Boot Camp registration.
Eleanor Milliken promoted the club and represented us at various levels. She was very welcoming to new members and was a true inspiration to many CFUW members in Sudbury and throughout the north.
Grace Hartman was the first president of CFUW Sudbury. She is shown here, in blue, at 92 years of age.


For those just coming to terms with the terminology, Alt Coins refers to 'Alternative Coins', ie: alternatives to the mainstream coins which could probably currently be summed up as Bitcoin, LiteCoin, Ethereum and Dash. Those are the four big ones that most cryptocurrency investors aim to grab and hold if they are looking for the long-term profits that, in my opinion, will undoubtedly come. It's just a matter of when, and what your appetite for risk is like.
Other coins may be more speculative but could have great long-term benefits.
If you buy alt coins during their ICO (Initial Coin Offering), there is actually very fast profit to be made. For example, Authorship Tokens (their name for their coins), are offering an initial value of $0.15 per token, but per Ethereum you contribute, you will probably get 11,000 of their token coins.
The thing is that one Ethereum will cost you probably around $350. So when Authorship goes live soon (they've already raised over $2,000,000) for the cost of one Ethereum, you get tokens worth $1650.00. And that would buy you around 4.7 Ethereum. It's a reward for backing them at this initial stage of their venture.
It makes sense to me, and if they don't reach the $3m mark, you actually get more. So I'm in! If it all goes pear-shaped, the $350 is not a lot to lose. However, most ICO initial values go up fairly quickly, so these tokens are something I'll be holding onto long-term. If you do decide to go for them, you can also get a bounty of 75 tokens for anybody you refer to them, through this link.
Is it worth the effort? If this is your first venture into alternative coins, then it will be a learning experience, and everything we learn, we can put to use later. Well, that's what I do.
That said, they are based on the Ethereum ERC20 blockchain model, so you should be able to exchange your tokens for basically any other crypto coin.
Remember that in ICOs he or she who hesitates loses out. But as always, don't invest what you can't afford to lose. Because if you lose what you cannot afford to lose, you'll have to start again at your beginnings, (and never breathe a word about your loss).


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Q: How to detect tapped word in WebView? I have a simple WebView and would like to know which word in it was tapped. For example if a user taps on any of the words in the article on the picture, such as "balloon", I would like to capture that.
Here is the code and the render.
export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{top:100, height: 500, backgroundColor:'red' }}>
        <WebView
          source={{uri: 'https://www.reuters.com/article/us-art-banksy/we-just-got-banksy-ed-balloon-girl-painting-self-destructs-at-sale-idUSKCN1MG0B4?feedType=RSS&feedName=artsNews'}}
          style={{height:"200", marginTop: 20}}
        />
      </View>

    );
  }
}

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This is how I got WebView to communicate back the JS events based on @pritesh answer.
<WebView
          source={{uri: 'https://www.reuters.com/article/us-art-banksy/we-just-got-banksy-ed-balloon-girl-painting-self-destructs-at-sale-idUSKCN1MG0B4?feedType=RSS&feedName=artsNews'}}
          style={{height:"200", marginTop: 20}}
          javaScriptEnabled={true}
          injectedJavaScript={`document.body.addEventListener('click',
        function(e){
          window.postMessage("Message from WebView","*");
          console.log(e);
        })`}
          onMessage={e => console.log("message", e)}
        />

A: On top of my head one approach you can try is by using the injectJavascript or injectedJavascript props of WebView.So you can register some kind of listener on the body and the use it to detect what is being pressed, like:
<WebView
    ref={c => this._webview = c}
    javaScriptEnabled={true}
    injectedJavaScript={`document.body.addEventListener('click', function(e){
        console.log(e)
    })`}
/>

But you check to research how to pass the callback from Webview to React.

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Home Music News Germany Is Starting To Hold Drive-In Raves
Germany Is Starting To Hold Drive-In Raves
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Mankind has always found ways to innovate during abnormal times. With the dance music universe at a complete standstill, a new 'drive-in rave' concept has emerged in Germany. A series of these raves have been organized by the World Club Dome community in Dusseldorf. A new one in this chain is scheduled to take place later this month. Denmark has seen a few of these raves happening as well, according to Forbes.
Local promoters have also started throwing their hats in the ring. One such rave occurred on Friday night in Schüttorf in Lower Saxony, close to the German-Dutch border. Holger Boesch, owner of a venue in the town called Club Index, was the man behind this one. A full soundsystem accompanied the festival stage at Club Index's car parking. A dedicated lighting rig was implanted as well.
A maximum of 250 cars were allowed, with no more than 2 people per car permitted. Nitefield, MarvU and Devin Wild were among the DJs to grace the stage. The audience were provided with two options: they could listen either to the soundsystem on-stage, or tune into a broadcast of the music over the internet. All of this happened while ensuring social distancing rules applied as well.
"Some people from the 'crowd' started to push their horns, which gave us great feedback and from that point we knew how to communicate with them and we could turn this event into something really personal."
DJ Nitefield
Exciting times ahead? This certainly might be an indication!
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Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas in the body that controls the glucose level in the blood.
People who cannot make insulin in their bodies, or who make it but their body cannot use it properly, have the disease diabetes. When blood glucose levels fall below a certain level, the human body begins to use stored sugar as an energy source through glycogenolysis. This process breaks down the glycogen stored in the liver and muscles into glucose which can then be used as an energy source. Insulin is a central metabolic control mechanism. Insulin is also used as a control signal to other body systems (such as amino acid uptake by body cells). In addition, it has several other anabolic effects throughout the body. Insulin affects vascular compliance and cognition.
Human insulin is a peptide hormone composed of 51 amino acids and has a molecular weight of 5808 Da. The islets of Langerhans in the pancreas produces insulin. The name comes from the Latin insula for "island". Insulin's structure varies slightly between species of animals. Insulin from different animal sources has different effects on the human carbohydrate metabolism process. Porcine insulin is especially close to the human version. So, people with diabetes can take in insulin extracted from pigs instead of producing their own insulin.
Nicolae Paulescu, a Romanian professor of physiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, was the first to isolate insulin. He did that in 1916. He called it pancrein. He isolated it by developing an aqueous pancreatic extract which, when injected into a diabetic dog, proved to have a normalizing effect on blood sugar levels. He had to interrupt his experiments because of World War I. In early 1921 he wrote four papers about his work carried out in Bucharest and his tests on a diabetic dog. Later that year, he detailed his work by publishing an extensive whitepaper on the effect of the pancreatic extract injected into a diabetic animal, which he called: "Research on the Role of the Pancreas in Food Assimilation", with the paper received the 22 June 1921 by the "Archives Internationales de Physiologie"[1][2] , with the photocopy of the article available in the Gerstein Science Information Centre.https://insulin.library.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/insulin%3AT10137
Dr. Frederick Banting, a general practician, who was also teaching orthopaedics and anthropology part-time at the University of Western Ontario in London at the time of Paulescu's published research regarding the already developed aqueous pancreatic extract and Charles Best, a a 22-year-old medical student at the University of Toronto who worked at the time as an assistant to the surgeon Dr. Frederick Banting also did similar experiments while trying to find a cure for diabetes. In these experiments they used as well dogs.
They first knew insulin would control diabetes in a person when they injected some insulin into a 14-year-old boy named Leonard Thompson[3] who was dying of diabetes. After the injection he survived. Banting won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with John Macleod, for the discovery of insulin. Best and Paulescu were not honored at that time.
The first genetically-engineered, synthetic "human" insulin was produced in a laboratory in 1977 by Herbert Boyer using E. coli.[4][5]
↑ Paulesco, N.C. (1921, August 31), "Recherche sur le rôle du pancréas dans l'assimilation nutritive.", Archives Internationales de Physiologie 17: 85–103
↑ Lestradet, H. (1997), "Le 75e anniversaire de la découverte de l'insuline.", Diabetes & Metabolism 23 (1): 112, http://www.em-consulte.com/en/article/79613
↑ "Leonard Thompson Biography". dLife. http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent/inspiration_expert_advice/famous_people/leonard_thompson.html. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
↑ "First Successful Laboratory Production of Human Insulin Announced". News Release. Genentech. 1978-09-06. http://www.gene.com/gene/news/press-releases/display.do?method=detail&id=4160. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
↑ Tof I (1994). "Recombinant DNA technology in the synthesis of human insulin". Little Tree Publishing. http://www.littletree.com.au/dna.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
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Once a month for 6 months out of the year you will find the Red Door Theatre full of lively youngsters performing on stage side by side with seasoned actors as elves, astronauts, dwarves, princesses or monkeys. Tiny Tales is an audience participatory performance series specifically designed for children between the ages of 3 and 8. Throughout each show children are invited up on stage to take an active part in the production. Those who choose to stay in their seats are also included as they provide sound effects and hand motions that enhance the story. From the classic retelling of popular fairy tales to more modern stories, each production is chosen with the young child in mind.
The series runs from October through May and all tickets are $6.00. Reservations are strongly recommended as the shows are often sold out.
Show times are 9:30 and 11:00 am.


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CHP investigates two suspected food poisoning clusters
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is today (May 28) investigating two suspected food poisoning clusters affecting 10 persons, and reminded the public to maintain personal, food and environmental hygiene to prevent food-borne diseases.
The first cluster involved five males aged 16 to 17, who developed abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever about 31 to 42 hours after having dinner at a restaurant in Causeway Bay on May 25.
Another cluster involved one male and four females, aged 27 to 50, who developed similar symptoms about seven to 38 hours after having dinner at the same restaurant on May 22.
Eight of the affected persons sought medical advice and none required hospitalisation. All affected persons are in a stable condition.
"We have alerted the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department to the incident and investigations are ongoing," a spokesman for the CHP said.
To prevent food-borne diseases, members of the public are reminded to maintain personal, food and environmental hygiene at all times. When dining out:
Patronise only reliable and licensed restaurants;
Avoid eating raw seafood;
Be a discerning consumer in choosing cold dishes, including sashimi, sushi and raw oysters, at a buffet;
Ensure food is thoroughly cooked before eating during a hot pot or barbecue meal;
Handle raw and cooked foods carefully and separate them completely during the cooking process;
Use two sets of chopsticks and utensils to handle raw and cooked food;
Do not patronise illegal food hawkers;
Drink boiled water;
Do not try to use salt, vinegar, wine and wasabi to kill bacteria as they are not effective; and
Always wash hands before eating and after going to the toilet.
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Victoria, meet the Vikings: so much more than wild men killing people
Vikings exhibit at Royal B.C. Museum opens on Friday
Richard Watts May 14, 2014 10:29 PM
Wednesday: Visitors check out the exhibits during a sneak preview of Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends, which opened Friday and continues to Nov. 11 at the Royal B.C. Museum.ADRIAN LAM
Fictional Vikings are plundering TV audiences, movies and books but the Royal B.C. Museum's newest exhibit brings to life the historical people behind the gory entertainment.
Cable television series, such as Vikings, or the 1958 movie with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis, focus on warfare, raiding and violence during the Viking age, which spans roughly 750 to 1100.
But the travelling museum exhibit, Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends, includes more than 500 artifacts, jewelry, weapons, tools and clothing to bring nuance to the story of a complex people. The exhibit opens Friday and continues to Nov. 11.
Kent Andersson, of the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, producer of the show, said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes people who see the exhibit will leave with a more in-depth, human perspective of the Vikings.
"They are so much more than wild men from the North killing people and priests," said Andersson, in Victoria to help set up the exhibit. "The archeological sources show a much more complicated picture."
For example, much of today's fiction and entertainment depicts Vikings holding to a religion of numerous gods, such as Thor and Odin and Freyja. They also depict it as a religion opposed to Christianity.
One artifact in the exhibit is a small, silver pendant representing the hammer of Thor, God of Thunder. But the tiny hammer is covered with crosses, indicating a blending of Christian religion with Norse tradition. It also demonstrates the Viking willingness to adopt and even create new gods.
Other artifacts are proof of the great distances the Vikings travelled, setting up colonies in Greenland, Iceland and Canada. They also travelled and settled Russia and traded in the Middle East.
The exhibit has a small bronze statue of Buddha. It was found in a Viking archeological dig in Sweden but analysis traced its origin to India. "Travelling that distance and time spent away, that changes people. They must have changed when they met other people and took new wives and brought them home," said Andersson.
Erin McGuire, an assistant professor at the University of Victoria who teaches Viking history, said the fascination with Vikings has been around for a long time. But in the past few decades it has grown larger, via TV shows and books.
McGuire said she couldn't watch the Vikings TV series because she became impatient with inaccuracies, such as the women's costumes. But she has historian colleagues who are enthusiastic about the show. They say the stories are very Viking in their characters and plots, so she will give it another shot.
McGuire said she believes modern humans are going through a time of wistful longing for old-style, simple heroes. "It's about looking for heroes but maybe not the tech heroes of our modern age," she said.
"I think it's a bit of nostalgia for a simpler time."
She has heard history buffs tell stories of their heroes and talk about living lives that are worthy of stories. "And that was very big in the Viking age, that you are the kind of person people will tell stories about," McGuire said.
Jack Lohman, head of the Royal B.C. Museum, said he hopes the Viking exhibit will be able to draw on the fascination with Vikings.
The exhibit will demonstrate how new display designs, such as low-level cases for children, touch-screen computers and video, can make history accessible to a wide audience. "We have family audience for the museum but we also have a very educated audience," Lohman said. "I want this to be a hallmark of new exhibit design."
Paul Nursey, head of Tourism Victoria, said the museum has had blockbuster exhibits in the past. The Leonardo DaVinci exhibit in 1999, while not a natural fit with British Columbia, drew nearly 300,000 out-of-town visitors.
The Vikings exhibit can be the extra draw to encourage people to put Victoria on their travel map, Nursey said. "And when something is here for only a limited time it can move that trigger from 'must go someday' to 'we have to go now.' "
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A new prison scheme could enable him to close Gitmo.
Mona Charen had a characteristically great column Tuesday about President Obama's illegal welfare policy. The president purports to be unbound by federal welfare law, which imposes work requirements on welfare recipients. The Washington Times reports that "such activities as motivational reading, housework, weight loss, and journaling" will now qualify for exemption from work requirements.
To take yet another example, Congressman Steve King of Iowa observes that Obama has serially flouted the federal law that requires the president to submit a plan to address Medicare's fiscal health if, as long ago happened, the program's trustee issues an insolvency warning. The president does not even deem himself obliged to follow the health-care law he famously championed, imperiously issuing numerous "waivers" to excuse non-compliance. He asserts executive privilege frivolously to stonewall Congress's investigation of his Justice Department's Fast and Furious program. In addition, he flouts the Constitution's requirement that Congress actually be in recess before a president can make recess appointments.
I could go on, but you get the point. Now, the Constitution provides Congress with powers to rein in a lawless president. Congress can cut off funding to the executive branch. It can impeach if the lawlessness is serious enough.
The current Congress, however, has partisan Democrats running the Senate. They just encourage Obama's skirting of the law because they agree with his policies. The House, on the other hand, is run by Republicans, but they are afraid to use their "power of the purse" to pressure the White House into lawful behavior. The Constitution requires all revenue bills to originate in the House, a requirement the House has traditionally construed to extend to all spending bills. Republican leadership would have you believe that out-of-control government spending is on autopilot. GOP leaders want you to think that, when an executive agency like the Justice Department goes rogue, they are simply powerless to start slashing its budget. But the spending and the taxes necessary to support executive malfeasance can happen only with the House's complicity. Lawmakers have the power to stop this stuff, they just lack the will.
In short, President Obama has sized up Capitol Hill and knows full well that he is not going to be reined in. The welfare-law "waivers" are only the latest result. Unless you are dealing with a person who feels a moral obligation to conduct himself lawfully, the rule of law obtains only when it is demonstrated that lawlessness will not be tolerated. That is not the case here.
This is worth considering for a wide variety of reasons. The one I want to focus on at the moment is the jail in Thomson, Ill.
You may recall Thomson as a white-elephant state prison outside Chicago. Democrats in Obama's home state spent a king's ransom on it even though it was patently not needed. It is thus a virtually empty "state of the art" prison. That should surprise no one, since influential Illinois voices — such as community-organizer-turned-politician Barack Obama and terrorist-turned-academic Bill Ayers — have spent much of their time arguing that felons should not be sent to prison, anyway.
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Sorcha Mullan (Athletics)
At the start of this year Sorcha helped Northern Ireland to a third placed finish at the Celtic Under-17 Girls' Home International Cross-Country event; she claimed a bronze medal in the Girls' Under-17 1,500 metres at the NI and Ulster Indoor Age Group C'ships and helped Omagh Harriers ladies team win the Intermediate title at the NI and Ulster Cross-Country Championships where she finished an amazing fifth place overall against competitors, some of whom were at least twice her age. Sorcha also earned a place on the NI and Ulster Mountain Running team at the World Under-18 Cup in Italy.
Emmett McNabb (Gaelic Football)
Emmet was man of the match as Dromore Under-21s made history when annexing the highly prestigious Ulster Under-21 Club Tournament. The talented attacker weighed in with six points as his side accounted for Down's Carryduff 1-9 to 0-8 in a gripping decider, which followed earlier commendable victories over Clann Eireann and O'Donovan Rossas. He also played a pivotal role in St Dympna's Seniors League success later in the year and in another football code helped Tummery Athletic to the Mulhern Cup title before making the switch to the Championship with Dergview FC.
Angus Fyffe (Cycling)
Angus returned to form following a tough 2018 with an impressive victory in horrendous conditions at the Cycleways Cup in Co Meath. After 115 kilometres of challenging racing, he arrived at the finish on his own, swooping across the line in the midst of a snow flurry. That victory kick-started an excellent season for the Caldwell Cycles man, who claimed two National Road Race Series victories at Mullingar and Cork, while he also won the the Shannonside GP. Alongside those four victories, he recorded podium finishes, was placed in the mid-20s at the National Road Race Championships and represented Cycling Ulster at the Manx International.
Richard Clarke (Soccer)
When Richard accepted the captain's armband at Ballinamallard following their relegation from the Premiership he couldn't have imagined that come May he would be leading the Ducks out for a first ever Irish Cup final appearance against Crusaders at The National Stadium. As expected the Crues spoiled the party but, with Clarke at the helm, the Mallards run to the final had been a remarkable one. Following wins over the PSNI and Carrick Rangers, they defeated Dungannon Swifts on penalties to set up a last four showdown against Warrenpoint Town where Clarke again played a starring role in a dramatic penalty shootout triumph.
Lauren Armstrong (Hockey)
The Omagh Academy student has a burning ambition to one day follow in the footsteps of a certain Shirley McCay who has enjoyed a sparkling international career. For Lauren that's quite a tall order but so far so good for the captain of the school's 1st XI. In May she captained Ireland U17s in a four-team tournament in Mannheim Germany and upon her return the gifted midfielder played for Ulster U18s against Wales in a three-match series at Lilleshall, England. Lauren, who currently plays top flight hockey with Dungannon Ladies, previously helped Omagh Ladies to win the Senior League One Cup for the first time in the club's history and more recently helped Ulster U18s to inter-provincial glory and Omagh Academy to the semi-finals of the Schools Cup.
Kelan Grant (Mountain Bike Racing)
Kelan was thrilled to regain the Irish Enduro Championship title. The Team Chain Reaction Cycles Mavic racer, who won the crown for the first time back in 2017, was in inspired form in County Louth, beating fellow professional racers like Greg and Killian Callaghan in the process. Kelan went on to win the Vitrus First Tracks Enduro Championship title, finished 36th overall in the World Series and led Ireland to 16th place at the inaugural Trophy of Nations in Italy during an impressive 2019 season that saw him retain his place with the Chain Reaction team ahead of the 2020 World Enduro Series, which gets underway next month in South America.
Cathal McShane (GAA)
The 24 year old Tyrone star from Owen Roes emerged as the top full-forward in the Country in 2019 wreaking havoc for defences across the season. Firmly established as the lynchpin of the Red Hand attack the former All-Ireland U21 winner registered a magnificent personal scoring tally of three goals and fifty points in the Championship, displaying a high level of consistency throughout which helped land him a National All-Star Award. All those with a vested interest in Tyrone GAA were therefore relieved last month to see Cathal commit to the county cause again this season having been courted by leading Aussie Rules side Adelaide Crows.
Niamh McEvoy (Showjumping)
Niamh helped Ireland to a European title before winning a National Championship crown just a week later. The Loreto Grammar School was a member of the GAIN Irish U16 (Pony) Show Jumping team who earned a sensational gold medal success at the 2019 European Championships at Strzegom in Poland. She was back in action the following weekend in Mullingar at the National Championships, where she regained her crown by beating her Ireland teammate John McEntee. She went on to ride alongside McEntee for Ireland at the Longines Masters of Paris and was 5th at the Tanzan Grand Prix.
Aaron Johnston (Motorsport/Rallying)
The Fintona man partnered Norwegian rally sensation Oliver Solberg to the Baltic Rally Championship title at the first attempt. In September they claimed victory at Lõuna-Eesti Ralli in Estonia before, two weeks later, guiding their Subaru Motorsport USA Impreza to the Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally title in Pennsylvania. Prior to those successes, Aaron and Oliver had lit up the European rally scene with victories in the the opening rounds of the Baltic Championship and won Rally Liepaja on their European Rally Championship debut. They have since joined Skoda for the 2020 season of World Rally Championship 3.
Rory Brennan (GAA)
The Trillick man enjoyed a stand out season for both club and county. Now an integral part of the Tyrone defence the 25 year old showed all his leadership qualities as he played a starring role in St Macartan's eighth Tyrone Senior Championship title victory in the Autumn. Having impressed throughout a tough campaign in which they faced some of the county's heavy hitters, he saved the best to last turning in a man of the match display in a nervy final against Errigal Ciaran at Healy Park. His maturity and determination were vital in helping steer a youthful 'Reds' line up to the winning line.
Jude Gallagher (Boxing)
Just over a month after turning 18, the Newtownstewart man was crowned Irish Senior Elite 52kg champion. He defeated reigning Irish Intermediate champion, Sean Kavanagh, 5-0, in the last eight, before recording a similar triumph over reigning champion, Adam Hession to set up a final clash with last year's 49kg title holder, Regain Buckley, who he also defeated 5-0. He also won his final Irish underage title in the summer, fought at the European Youth Championships and was selected to represent Ireland at a Multi-Nations in Bulgaria before illness ruled him out.
Trevor McGlynn (Athletics)
Trevor was named Athletics NI Community Coach of the Year to cap twelve months of sensational results in a variety of disciplines. As an athlete in his own right, McGlynn won two National titles, set three Irish records, claimed six Northern Irish gold medals and a new provincial record and earned a host of other accolades. As a coach, he helped Mark McConnell to two Irish titles and three Northern Irish Championship gold medals; Orlagh Colton to a Northern Irish gold medal and a provincial record, as well as an Irish title, while Mark McBrearty and Colly Harkin both earned medals at the Donegal Championships.
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