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The monumental stylist has worked many runway shows and now serves as the Global Creative Director for Wella Professional.
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The BoF 500 is the definitive professional index of the people shaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry, hand-selected by the editors of The Business of Fashion, based on hundreds of nominations received from current BoF 500 members, extensive data analysis and research.
The east London born Hairstylist Eugene Souleiman, the current global creative director of care & styling for Wella Professional, has worked with fashion's finest photographers both editorially for over three decades. He has collaborated with them on campaigns for Calvin Klein , Balenciaga, Givenchy, Fendi, Jil Sander , Lanvin, Hermes, Yohji Yamamoto , Donna Karan , Alberta Ferretti , Guerlain, Giorgio Armani Cosmetics, Rimmel and the Gap.
After dropping out of art studies 1982, Souleiman's career took off through a job centre placement that set him on the path towards becoming apprentice hairdresser. He would soon learn the 'Sasson way' from Trevor Sorbie, and would work closely with Sorbie for nearly 10 years. Souleiman's career has seemn him work at many of hair's most successful companies. In 1998 Souleiman briefly worked with at Toni & Guy, which he would leave to become co-creative director of Bumble and Bumble in 1999, he was then approached to join the Vidal Sasson team as editorial director, where he would remain until his appointment as creative director fo Tecni.Art/L'Oreal Professionnel, before moving onto Wella Professional.
In addition, the hairstylist has created runway hair looks for Dolce & Gabbana, Dries Van Noten , Celine, Chanel, Chloe, Ann Demeulemeester , Louis Vuitton , Rick Owens , DSquared2, Kenzo, Lanvin, Issey Miyake, Stella McCartney , Viktor & Rolf, Valentino, and Hussein Chalayan, Jeremy Scott and The Row, among many more.
Souleiman regularly contributes to Dazed and Confused, i-D Magazine W, Harper's Bazaar, Another Magazine, Arena, Arena Homme Plus, Numero, Self Service , V Magazine, L'Uomo Vogue, Numero, Self Service , and the New York Times.
The hairstylist believes, "people should have fun with hair, it grows and changes all the time. And it's only hair, really" In his hands it isn't, it is much, much more.
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DESICO, a startup that is developing a security token infrastructure, started public offering on November 7, 2018, during which investors will be able to purchase DESI tokens which entitle token holders to platform's revenue.
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"Possessed of a certain glamor", reported Michael Steinberg in the Globe in 1964 of the BSO's new 32-year-old principal cellist Jules Eskin, who died today in Brookline, of cancer at 85. Of his debut, some months later, in the Brahms Double Concerto with concertmaster Joseph Silverstein: "Eskin's tone [is] warm…. His style is chamber-musical, rather quietly inflected…. He resisted all temptation to force or to inflate his playing, and it was in its quiet way playing of impressively sensitive responsiveness and intelligence".
Eskin played for five different BSO music directors, including Erich Leinsdorf, William Steinberg, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, and current music director Andris Nelsons, and performed as soloist on numerous occasions. He occupied the Philip R. Allen Chair, endowed in perpetuity. In addition to the Brahms, Eskin was featured with the orchestra in Strauss's Don Quixote, Bloch's Schelomo, Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Schuman's Song of Orpheus, and concertos of Barber, Dvořák, Haydn, Saint-Saëns, and Schumann. He participated in the orchestra's many tours, including the historic one in 1979 to China under Ozawa. Major repertoire in which Eskin served as principal under the direction of Nelsons included Mahler's Symphony No. 6, Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, and Shostakovich's Symphonies 5 and 10, the latter of which won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance last February.
He was a founding member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, which Leinsdorf established in 1964 and which was the only chamber ensemble made up of the principals of a major orchestra. With them Eskin toured throughout the world on numerous occasions, including the Soviet Union in 1967 and South America in 1998. He recorded extensively in repertoire ranging from Mozart to Gandolfi, most recently appearing on the ensemble's 2016 BSO Classics release of serenades by Dvořák and Brahms. The ensemble's Profanes et Sacrées: 20th-Century French Chamber Music, released in November 2011, was nominated for a Grammy. Eskin and the Chamber Players celebrated the group's 50th anniversary with a series of special programs during the 2013-2014 season.
Before the BSO, Jules Eskin spent three years as principal cello with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell (playing the standard-setting third-movement solo in their historic recording of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Leon Fleisher) and seven years with New York City Opera.
Born in Philadelphia in 1931, Eskin had his first cello lessons with his father, Samuel Eskin, an amateur, but by the age of 16 had joined the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Antal Dorati. Eskin studied with Janos Starker in Dallas and later with Gregor Piatigorsky and Leonard Rose at Curtis. In 1948 he was a fellowship student at the Tanglewood Music Center, performing in the TMC Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky. In 1954, Eskin was awarded first prize in the prestigious Walter Naumburg Competition and gave his New York Town Hall debut, leading to an extended concert tour in Europe. He also participated in the Marlboro Music Festival and played with the Casals Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico. In addition to concerts and recordings with BSCP, his chamber music collaborations included appearances with Isaac Stern and Friends, the Guarneri String Quartet, and others.
Eskin is survived by his wife, BSO violinist Aza Raykhtsaum, sons Alexander Eskin and David Eskin, and his stepdaughter Anna Raykhtsaum Tratt. An earlier marriage (to pianist Virginia [Rubottom] Eskin) ended in divorce.
An interview by Brian Bell is here.
We are all indebted to the BMINT staff for assembling this lovely biography and a bouquet of tributes in such a timely manner.
I had the great honor of playing with Jules on several occasions with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players at Jordan Hall. I will never forget our first rehearsal of the Brahms clarinet trio (with Bill Hudgins). When Jules, then aged 82, played that magisterial opening- which I'd played with countless others- my jaw dropped. I'd never heard such command, such expression, such tonal magnificence. He was simply definitive. He was a true legend. Many are called "legends", but Jules was exactly that. His life was spent in the successful pursuit of artistic excellence. I am much richer for having known him.
May his spirit take comparable wing and flight in his new home.


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Educato alla Culford School, McColl ottenne la nomina a sottotenente nel Royal Anglian Regiment nel 1973 e venne promosso tenente l'8 settembre 1974. Venne promosso capitano l'8 marzo 1979 e maggiore il 30 settembre 1984. Nel 1989 divenne comandante di uno squadrone nel 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, e promosso poi tenente colonnello il 30 giugno 1990, con funzioni di colonnello. Venne promosso al pieno rango di colonnello il 30 giugno 1995 e generale di brigata il 31 dicembre 1996. Detenne negli anni una serie di comandi militari prima di passare alla 1 Mechanised Brigade nel 1997. Nel 1999 divenne Assistente Capo dello Staf al Land Command e nel 2000 ottenne il comando della 3rd Mechanised Division. Nel 2001 venne nominato primo capo dell'International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

Nel 2003 divenne comandante e direttore del Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Nel marzo del 2004 venne impiegato come Rappresentante Militare britannico e Vice comandante Generale delle Multinational Force in Iraq ed alla fine dell'anno venne nominato Comandante delle Regional Forces al Land Command.

Nell'ottobre del 2007 divenne Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) col rango di generale, rimpiazzando in questo compito il generale Sir John Reith.

Venne nominato Cavaliere Commendatore dell'Ordine del Bagno in occasione dei New Year Honours del 2008.

Venne quindi prescelto per l'Afghanistan per il ruolo di inviato per le Nazioni Unite dopo il rifiuto di Paddy Ashdown. Ad ogni modo, il 7 marzo 2008, il diplomatico norvegese Kai Eide lo rimpiazzò come rappresentante delle Nazioni Unite per l'Afghanistan. Si ritirò dal ruolo di DSACEUR nel marzo 2011 e gli venne assegnato contestualmente il ruolo di Luogotenente Governatore del Jersey.

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Fourth Street, in partnership with FCB Studios and Arkenford, prepared a Visitor Management Plan for Cliveden.
Cliveden is one of the most iconic properties within the National Trust's portfolio, situated on an elevated hillside overlooking the River Thames in Buckinghamshire.
For over 300 years the house and estate at Cliveden has seen a compelling mixture of pleasure, power and politics – epitomised by the infamous Profumo affair in 1961.
The estate was bequeathed to the National Trust by the Astor Family in 1943 and the house was subsequently leased as a hotel, and recently acquired by London and Regional.
The National Trust's attraction at Cliveden now centres on the designed landscape and annual visits have grown significantly over the last 10 years by more than 150% to over 400,000.
To cope with the pressures of increasing visitor numbers and to consider the long term needs of the estate, Fourth Street was commissioned with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio and Arkenford to develop a long-term Visitor Management Plan – specifically seeking to address: What do Cliveden's visitor facilities and visitor infrastructure look like in 5, 10 and 15 years' time?
This study continued Fourth Street's productive relationship with the National Trust, having previously advised on other properties including: The Giant's Causeway, Wakehurst Place, Quarry Bank Mill, Killerton House and Dinefwr Castle.


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The velocity of money is the rate at which the total supply of money (M3) is turned over in the economy (Gross National Product) writes Mike Cornips.
M3 is a measure of the supply of money that includes cash, short term deposits in banks and money market funds, large time deposits and other liquid assets. Think of it like a business. Your money supply is the amount of working capital you have employed in the business. To be profitable, you need turnover that working capital as many times in one year. If you have $1million in working capital and $5million in annual revenue, then you have turned over (ie Velocity) your working capital 5 times in the year. To increase your profitability, you need to increase the velocity of your capital.
The graph below clearly demonstrates that in both the United States and Australia, the velocity is in a remarkable downtrend, and more so for Australia.
To put it into context, back in the pre-money printing days, for a single dollar increase in the money supply resulted in a two dollar plus increase in the Gross National Income. To put it in another way, a dollar increase in working capital resulted in a $2 plus increase in revenue.
Currently in Australia, for 12 months to July 2016, M3 money supply increased by $107 Billion. For the same 12 months, Gross National Income only increased by $44 Billion. So, a dollar increase in money supply only increased national income by 41 cents. The increase in Money Supply mirrors the increase in total debt.
In the US, for every $1 increase in M2 (M3 is no longer published in the US), the Gross National Income increased by 65 cents.
In the US the velocity peaked in the late 1990's (dot-com crash), and in Australia it peaked during the recession in the early 1980's.
The graph shows that rapid deacceleration of Velocity (print more money relative to national income increases) coincides with an economic downturn – late 1980's, late 1990's to 2001, and the GFC in 2007-08.
The Keynesians amongst us would never have a problem more debt couldn't solve, but if I had to borrow $1 million to increase my revenue by 41 cents or less, I probably would say it was silly.


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The Prince of Wales is one of the most popular backpacker hostels in Singapore. They have multiple locations around town. It's a popular destination for European travelers on the "gap year".
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This was supposed to be Freddy Adu's time. Propped up 10 years ago as the long. arduous journey across Europe similar to a college student backpacking from hostel to hostel. He would spend year-lon.
In early 2014, we stayed a night in each of 15 Singapore hostels we selected from an original list of 30 we had carefully curated. From those 15 nights, we hereby present some of our favourite hostels in Singapore.We can't say these are the best, as with more than 100 hostels in Singapore in total, we haven't stayed in them all.
One Saudi traveler decided to do just that on a backpacker's budget. "I couch-surfed and stayed in hostels, getting to meet people and communicate. We don't do that often, as far as I could see. We.


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RAYMOND A. "SPECK" WHEELER, Typed Letter Signed, to Leslie R. Groves Jr., July 12, 1962, Washington, DC. Signed "Speck." 1 p., 8.5" x 11". Very good.
"Reading your book brings me keen enjoyment as well as excitement. As I was out of the country during your operations, it is most interesting to me to read the names of friends and others whom I know and the parts they played in this most dramatic project. I have looked forward each day with pleasurable anticipation to my evening's reading of your book. I haven't quite finished it, (I am however near the end) which is due to my having turned back the pages to reread two chapters of especial interest to me."
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Postscript by Virginia Wheeler:
"Since Speck had first call on your book, I've had to snatch it away when he wasn't looking. I'm still laughing over the anecdote of the DuPont refund of a portion of their $100."
General Groves published his account of the Manhattan Project as Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project in 1962.
In October 1942, the DuPont chemical company agreed to design and build the chemical separation plant the Manhattan Project needed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Groves obtained the services of the DuPont chemical company for the sum of $1 over actual costs. Still hurt by charges of wartime profiteering in World War I, DuPont pledge to stay out of the bomb business after the war and offered all resulting patents to the United States government.
Raymond A. Wheeler (1885-1974) was born in Illinois and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1911. He worked on construction of the Panama Canal and on engineering projects in Mexico. When the United States entered World War II, Wheeler was developing a transportation network of railroads and roads in the Middle East to ship munitions to the Soviet Union. In the fall of 1943, he was appointed to the South East Asia Command and directed construction of the thousand-mile Ledo Road from India to China to supply forces under Chiang Kai-shek who were fighting the Japanese. From February 1944, he was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander. From October 1945 to February 1949, Wheeler was the Chief of Engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers and managed projects including the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Missouri Valley Development. After retiring from the army in 1949, Wheeler was an engineering consultant for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He also directed the clearing of the Suez Canal of forty-five wrecked ships in four months following the 1956 Suez Crisis. His first wife Olive Keithley Wheeler died in 1954, and he married Virginia A. Morsey (1919-2011) in 1959.
Leslie R. Groves Jr. (1896-1970) was a United States Army General with the Corps of Engineers who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. Born in New York to a Protestant pastor who became an army chaplain, Groves graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1918 in a course shortened because of World War I. He entered the Corps of Engineers and gained promotions to major by 1940. In 1941, he was charged with overseeing the construction of the Pentagon, the largest office building in the world, with more than five million square feet. Disappointed that he had not received a combat assignment, Groves instead took charge of the Manhattan Project, designed to develop an atomic bomb. He continued nominally to supervise the Pentagon project to avoid suspicion, gained promotion to brigadier general, and began his work in September 1942. The project headquarters was initially in the War Department building in Washington, but in August 1943, moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer selected the site in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for a laboratory, and Groves pushed successfully for Oppenheimer to be placed in charge. Groves was in charge of obtaining critical uranium ores internationally and collecting military intelligence on Axis atomic research. Promoted to major general in March 1944, Groves received the Distinguished Service Medal for his work on the Manhattan Project after the war. In 1947, Groves became chief of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. He received a promotion to lieutenant general in January 1948, just days before meeting with Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower, who reviewed a long list of complaints against Groves. Assured that he would not become Chief of Engineers, Groves retired in February 1948. From 1948 to 1961, he was a vice president of Sperry Rand, an equipment and electronics firm. After retirement, he served as president of the West Point alumni association and wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, published in 1962.


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For Valentine's Day Birth Boot Camp hosted a "Why I Loved My Natural Birth" contest. Here's my video talking about Nicole's birth (my youngest).
Did you know dates can help you in labor? No, not your due date, the fruit! Something as simple as eating six dates a day for the last four weeks of pregnancy had noticeable results in a study. We don't know why dates have a positive effect, but they caused women to have a faster first phase of labor, had their water break less often, and had less induction/augmentation. Not surprisingly, since it's a natural food, there were no negative effects.
This study also found dates being effective in preventing postpartum blood loss. Those women eating dates immediately after delivery lost less blood than those receiving Pitocin (a drug often given preemptively in hospitals to prevent hemorrhage). The calcium, serotonin, tannin, and glucose in dates are thought to have roles in slowing the bleeding.
I also would recommend dates in the last few weeks of pregnancy because the glucose (sugar) in them is the body's main source of energy. Muscles need glucose to function most efficiently, and the uterus is a large muscle, after all. Getting more carbohydrates from natural foods as labor nears can help you, especially in a long labor. If nothing else, dates might be a welcome healthy sweet treat after months of watching your diet!


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This should absolutely be the very first thing you do the moment you enter the Dilapidated Temple hub in Sekiro.
Before going off on your adventure, head to the right of the Sculptor's Idol to find a man standing next to a shrine and offering box. Defeat him in battle, and he'll essentially become your one-stop tutorial buddy for the entire game.
It's highly recommended that you go through all the fundamental training sections with him before even thinking about stepping into the open world. This will get you used to the regular deflect timings, and teach you how Deathblows work in Sekiro.
Long story short: all enemies can be killed with Deathblows, with the exception of bosses and mini-bosses, who will have Deathblow Markers in the form of red orbs above their health bar. If a boss has two Deathblow Markers, you need to land two Deathblows to kill them.
You can land a Deathblow by either breaking their Posture or depleting their health bar.
As you unlock more Shinobi skills later on, Hanbei will get more training options as well, allowing you to practice your new skills on him before testing them out on enemies.
Training with Hanbei is literally free and doesn't cost you anything, so make sure you do this first.


What do you do when you're already at "tilt" and you're handed a few more servings of "yikes"?
Know it or not… we all have a boiling point. I have a comfort level that's somewhere on the rainbow spectrum of chaos between "Code Green" and a bright "Code Yellow." I can handle a light orange for a while, but no one is comfortable when I'm at Code RED.
Chaos tolerance and mitigation is something I've spent a lot of time researching and respecting. (Be prepared to read a LOT more on the subject.) Normally, my house runs at a bubbly level of chaos, but not over-the-top crazy.
Chaos isn't all bad. Some chaos keeps things lively, keeps us learning. We just need to be aware of our limits, triggers, and mechanisms to get back to a level that works for us.
The scene. I just published a coaching workbook for parents. We're launching the Julz of Life Membership site this week. (My husband is in on it with me. He is my staff.) We virtually school our kids, so they are here with us, and we serve as their "learning coaches." My husband plows snow on occasion.
With the re-launch of Julz of Life, we've been working 16 hour days fairly non-stop since January began. Luckily, we work from home, so parenting and a smidge of self-care gets sprinkled in there throughout the day. We know that this is temporary, so we can choose a "new normal" for a season.
I handle the laundry, hub handles most of the dinners (he rocks!), and we share the dishes and fire stoking. This has kept our noses slightly above crazy waters and everyone is fed, clothed, and not freezing.
Not staying up past 1 a.m.
Last night, we were handed a double-whammy. My youngest had 4 new "portfolios" (read "big, bad projects") show up on her school planner that added to 2 already there. Tears. Her overwhelm was also causing physical distress manifesting itself into snot, so she requested to cancel her morning activity (request granted), and I put her to bed early. And then it snowed.
For most things, my hub and I tag team. When I freak out, he unruffles me and then vice-versa. This was one of those moments when we were both hit at the same time. Already, each of us had 300 "overdues" on our lists with glitches and rabbit holes galore, and stopping the day to flip into "teach mode" wasn't on either of our radars. And, although snow was on the literal radar, it's blown over the last 4 times it was predicted.
We're parents; contingency is what we do.
After several bouts of each of us slightly freaking out (then noticing, apologizing, and unruffling back to chill), we came up with our contingency.
Me: create a digestible plan/timeline with our daughter and discuss where she can go for resources.
Him: work on ads until the snow stops and he has to go push it around.
Added chaos, whammies of all sorts, have their way of putting things in perspective. For us, parenting is always #1 even when it's waiting in the wings for a moment. We know we're blessed to be healthy, and have capable, loving kids who step in when needed. We know this is a tiny blip, one that may not even register as "chaos" by others' definition (and for some, just the thought of being an entrepreneur or a parent might send them over the edge), but it's our current chaos. We adjust accordingly.
You'll be hearing more about chaos tolerance as my new book rolls out. For now, I'll feed you glimpses as they appear in real time.
Julie Ford is a certified life coach, author, speaker, facilitator and trainer. She helps organizations support their high performers through parenting transitions. With one-on-one and group coaching, she helps her clients to define what matters most in their lives, and to realize what is and isn't working. Collaboratively, they move through a customized plan to find more joy and less chaos in the everyday.


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Bristol Bay's remote landscape is punctuated by six major river basins, hundreds of lakes (including Iliamna Lake, the third largest lake in the U.S.), mountains, tundra, rolling hills, and volcanoes. The varied geography of Bristol Bay has captured the attention of scientists, naturalists, conservationists, and archaeologists.
The land and waters of Bristol Bay are home to nearly 300 wildlife species, including birds, fish and mammals.
Explore the geography of Bristol Bay, including native place names, with Bristol Bay Online, a mapping system that preserves traditional knowledge about hundreds of locations in the region.
Parks and Refuges
Since the creation of Katmai National Monument (later Katmai National Park and Preserve) almost 100 years ago, both the State of Alaska and the U.S. government have designated 11 specific areas in Bristol Bay as parks and refuges. This represents 37,763 total square miles (about the size of Indiana).
1. Alagnak Wild and Scenic River – This place name means "making mistakes" or "going the wrong way" in Yup'ik.
2. Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge – Its 3.5 million acres feature active volcanoes like Mt. Veniaminof, rugged coastline, and rolling tundra.
3. Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve – Home to a six-mile wide "caldera," or crater, left by a volcanic explosion nearly 3,500 years ago.
4. Becharof National Wildlife Refuge – Boasts a 35-mile lake that's been described as a "salmon factory."
5. Katmai National Park and Preserve – Here you'll find the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 40-square mile pyroclastic deposit created by the 1912 eruption of Novarupta, which was the largest volcanic eruption on earth in the 20th century. Katmai is also known for amazing salmon runs and an abundance of brown bears that feed upon them.
6. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve – Two active volcanoes (Iliamna and Redoubt) are found here.
7. McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge – Only 10 people a day can visit, but there's no limit for bears.
8. Togiak National Wildlife Refuge – Glacial ice carved the geographic features of this refuge, which consists of 4.7 million acres of roadless wilderness. 80 percent of the refuge consists of the Ahklun Mountains, rising high over glacial valleys and coastal plains.
9. Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary – Protects seven small islands south-west of Dillingham. Hot spot for viewing birds and sealife.
10. Wood-Tikchik State Park – At 1.6 million acres, it's the largest of its kind in the United States.
11. Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge – This 3.4 million acre area includes Bristol Bay island coastline and provides essential habitat for 40 million sea- birds (representing more than 30 species).


The merit of David Fowler's work lies in his quantitative approach to understanding the physical, chemical and biological processes which regulate the land–atmosphere exchange of gaseous and particulate pollutants (SO2, NH3, O3, NO, NO2, HNO3, CH4, N2O, aerosols and cloud droplets) and their effects on vegetation. Development of innovative methods to measure surface–atmosphere exchange at the landscape scale, and application of process-based models to quantify fluxes at the country scale, have been important focuses. The work has been widely applied in the development of effects-based pollution control strategies in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe.


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Zeus Ridge () is a heavily crevassed, steep-sided, ice-covered ridge, the main part rising over 1,675 m, extending northwest from Mount Francais between the Achaean and Trojan Ranges in central Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Zeus, the supreme Olympian deity. It was first climbed in 2019 as part of a traverse of the massif.

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Ridges of Graham Land
Landforms of the Palmer Archipelago


Who is God? Theism, Deism, Atheism, etc.
Logic would say that my teaching could be wrong and some other teaching correct. But, logic also says that not every teaching can be correct at the same time. So, somebody is right and somebody is wrong. It is possible to say my teaching is wrong and still be logical. But, it is impossible to say that all of these ideas (theism, deism, atheism, pantheism, panentheism) are all correct.


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Arabian Center is a premium shopping and entertainment destination. Supporting Arabian architecture with a modern look, the mall sprawls over a total site area in excess of 80,000 square meters and offers fun and leisure within a relaxed and elegant environment. The mall is home to 200 plus internally renowned retails stores, ranging from clothing to home furnishings, electronics, jewelry, perfumes, fashion accessories and family entertainment. The mall also houses the Lulu Hypermarket, which carries a wide variety of products fulfilling the daily needs of shoppers. With the first of its kind fully digital 8 screen cinema called Cinemacity, dine in restaurants, spacious food court, health and medical centers, children's nursery school and banks and the newest most modern bowling alley in town Funky Lanes – ARABIAN CENTER is a complete family destination for shopping, leisure and entertainment.


Newly released photograph clearly shows who appears to be Brian Williams serving as a witness to JFK's assassination. Williams was on the Grassy Knoll on the day of tragedy and government spooks are trying to keep him silenced.
It seems Brian Williams story goes much deeper than the world had previously expected.
Days ago, the decorated and seasoned Managing Editor for the NBC Nightly News grew ire after allegedly fibbing about his experience in Iraq. In an attempt to not downplay his experience in Iraq, Williams allegedly claimed his helicopter came under heavy RPG fire, when it turns out a helicopter ahead of his flight by 30 minutes actually suffered through enemy fire.
Williams told the story of his Iraqi valor since 2009, so it was questionable why suddenly global media is looking into the account and hanging Williams out to dry. Even Williams seems shocked about the story, which he retold with such clarity that it was never really questioned.
As it turns out, scientists now believe Williams is a victim of MK-Ultra government reprogramming. With just the utterance of a keyword into his direct microphone feed, secret government agents can make Williams do or say anything they want. By saying, "Improvise", they can make Williams claim he was on the Apollo moon mission or seated at the Last Supper with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
They can even make him misremember his experiences in Iraq, then confess to being a horrible newscaster who is delusional enough to think that if you were to lie about your experience in the Iraqi War, that taking a few days vacation from work will make the public suddenly trust your credibility again.
Williams' logic shows that he is being groomed to be a politician. It is only a politician who could perhaps lie tremendously about a war, plunge the country into a trillion dollar debt and recession then somehow gain popularity, be called the greatest president and even have a brother who is deemed 'even more conservative' retain a special place in the public's heart.
Sources deep in the government, the same who released the leading image from the Grassy Knoll, reveal that after Williams was there to report on Kennedy's day in Dallas, then accidentally was caught up into seeing the second shooter and knowing Oswald was not actually the assassin, he was immediately detained by the CIA, mentally reprogrammed to be an MK-Ultra that could be controlled, then set back to public life.
What was Brian Williams' name back then? Who knows? The government likely erased his true identity from the records. What we do know is they have prolonged his life and somewhere deep in his psyche, the truth is clawing to get out. Never in the old CIA's wildest dreams could they imagine an interconnected world where information can get place to place in nanoseconds and Brian Williams has the power of being a main newscaster whose news can instantly transform the course of history.
It was just too dangerous to have an increasingly aware Brian Williams becoming fully cognizant and remembering the events of that fateful day in Texas. So they are going to drag him through the mud and hope that if the truth does come out of him, it will be taken with a grain of salt.


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Q: JavaScript, jQuery - retrieving the item name in dropdown list I am trying to figure out how to get the name of the product selected label_method: :name as shown in the form. I can retrieve the id of the selected item as shown in the js section.
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<%= f.simple_fields_for :items, wrapper: false do |builder| %>

<%= builder.input :product_id, collection: Product.all,
    label_method: :name, value_method: :id, label: false,
    placeholder: 'Type or select item', input_html: { :multiple => true,
    id: 'select2-product' } %>

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$("#select2-product").click(function() {
 var selectedItem = $(this);
 console.log("selectedItem " + selectedItem);
 console.log("selectedItem.val() " + selectedItem.val());
});

console output
 selectedItem [object Object]
 selectedItem.val() 1

observation
selectedItem.val() gives the :id of the element selected in the dropdown list
selectedItem.text() gives all the items in the dropdown list. How would I get the one selected only? As answered by @Amir

A: This should work, actually you need to select the text and not the value, so text() get you the actual text of the item
console.log("selectedItem.text() " + selectedItem.text());

Live demo
$('selectedItem:selected').text() for the selected text specifically

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In fluid mechanics and hydraulics, open-channel flow is a type of liquid flow within a conduit with a free surface, known as a channel. The other type of flow within a conduit is pipe flow. These two types of flow are similar in many ways but differ in one important respect: open-channel flow has a free surface, whereas pipe flow does not.

Classifications of flow

Open-channel flow can be classified and described in various ways based on the change in flow depth with respect to time and space. The fundamental types of flow dealt with in open-channel hydraulics are:

 Time as the criterion
 Steady flow
 The depth of flow does not change over time, or if it can be assumed to be constant during the time interval under consideration.
 Unsteady flow
 The depth of flow does change with time.
 Space as the criterion
 Uniform flow
 The depth of flow is the same at every section of the channel. Uniform flow can be steady or unsteady, depending on whether or not the depth changes with time, (although unsteady uniform flow is rare).
 Varied flow
 The depth of flow changes along the length of the channel. Varied flow technically may be either steady or unsteady. Varied flow can be further classified as either rapidly or gradually-varied:
 Rapidly-varied flow
 The depth changes abruptly over a comparatively short distance.  Rapidly varied flow is known as a local phenomenon. Examples are the hydraulic jump and the hydraulic drop.
 Gradually-varied flow
 The depth changes over a long distance.
 Continuous flow
 The discharge is constant throughout the reach of the channel under consideration. This is often the case with a steady flow. This flow is considered continuous and therefore can be described using the continuity equation for continuous steady flow.
 Spatially-varied flow
 The discharge of a steady flow is non-uniform along a channel. This happens when water enters and/or leaves the channel along the course of flow. An example of flow entering a channel would be a road side gutter. An example of flow leaving a channel would be an irrigation channel. This flow can be described using the continuity equation for continuous unsteady flow requires the consideration of the time effect and includes a time element as a variable.

States of flow
The behavior of open-channel flow is governed by the effects of viscosity and gravity relative to the inertial forces of the flow. Surface tension has a minor contribution, but does not play a significant enough role in most circumstances to be a governing factor. Due to the presence of a free surface, gravity is generally the most significant driver of open-channel flow; therefore, the ratio of inertial to gravity forces is the most important dimensionless parameter. The parameter is known as the Froude number, and is defined as:where  is the mean velocity,  is the characteristic length scale for a channel's depth, and  is the gravitational acceleration. Depending on the effect of viscosity relative to inertia, as represented by the Reynolds number, the flow can be either laminar, turbulent, or transitional. However, it is generally acceptable to assume that the Reynolds number is sufficiently large so that viscous forces may be neglected.

Formulation

It is possible to formulate equations describing three conservation laws for quantities that are useful in open-channel flow: mass, momentum, and energy. The governing equations result from considering the dynamics of the flow velocity vector field  with components . In Cartesian coordinates, these components correspond to the flow velocity in the x, y, and z axes respectively.

To simplify the final form of the equations, it is acceptable to make several assumptions:

 The flow is incompressible (this is not a good assumption for rapidly-varied flow)
 The Reynolds number is sufficiently large such that viscous diffusion can be neglected
 The flow is one-dimensional across the x-axis

Continuity equation
The general continuity equation, describing the conservation of mass, takes the form:where  is the fluid density and  is the divergence operator. Under the assumption of incompressible flow, with a constant control volume , this equation has the simple expression . However, it is possible that the cross-sectional area  can change with both time and space in the channel. If we start from the integral form of the continuity equation:it is possible to decompose the volume integral into a cross-section and length, which leads to the form:Under the assumption of incompressible, 1D flow, this equation becomes:By noting that  and defining the volumetric flow rate , the equation is reduced to:Finally, this leads to the continuity equation for incompressible, 1D open-channel flow:

Momentum equation
The momentum equation for open-channel flow may be found by starting from the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations :where  is the pressure,  is the kinematic viscosity,  is the Laplace operator, and  is the gravitational potential. By invoking the high Reynolds number and 1D flow assumptions, we have the equations:The second equation implies a hydrostatic pressure , where the channel depth  is the difference between the free surface elevation  and the channel bottom . Substitution into the first equation gives:where the channel bed slope . To account for shear stress along the channel banks, we may define the force term to be:where  is the shear stress and  is the hydraulic radius. Defining the friction slope , a way of quantifying friction losses, leads to the final form of the momentum equation:

Energy equation
To derive an energy equation, note that the advective acceleration term  may be decomposed as:where  is the vorticity of the flow and  is the Euclidean norm. This leads to a form of the momentum equation, ignoring the external forces term, given by:Taking the dot product of  with this equation leads to:This equation was arrived at using the scalar triple product .  Define  to be the energy density:Noting that  is time-independent, we arrive at the equation:Assuming that the energy density is time-independent and the flow is one-dimensional leads to the simplification:with  being a constant; this is equivalent to Bernoulli's principle. Of particular interest in open-channel flow is the specific energy , which is used to compute the hydraulic head  that is defined as:with  being the specific weight. However, realistic systems require the addition of a head loss term  to account for energy dissipation due to friction and turbulence that was ignored by discounting the external forces term in the momentum equation.

See also

HEC-RAS
Streamflow
Fields of study
Computational fluid dynamics
Fluid dynamics
Hydraulics
Hydrology
Types of fluid flow
Laminar flow
Pipe flow
Transitional flow
Turbulent flow
Fluid properties
Froude number
Reynolds number
Viscosity
Other related articles
Chézy formula
Darcy-Weisbach equation
Hydraulic jump
Manning formula
Saint-Venant equations
Standard step method

References

Further reading

 Nezu, Iehisa; Nakagawa, Hiroji (1993). Turbulence in Open-Channel Flows. IAHR Monograph. Rotterdam, NL: A.A. Balkema. .
Syzmkiewicz, Romuald (2010). Numerical Modeling in Open Channel Hydraulics. Water Science and Technology Library. New York, NY: Springer. .

External links

Caltech lecture notes:
Derivation of the Equations of Open Channel Flow
Surface Profiles for Steady Channel Flow
 Open-Channel Flow
Open Channel Flow Concepts
What is a Hydraulic Jump?
Open Channel Flow Example
Simulation of Turbulent Flows (p. 26-38)

Civil engineering
Fluid dynamics
Hydraulics
Hydraulic engineering


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Aryan Brotherhood gang member arrested in shooting of mail carrier
Local // Houston
Samantha Ketterer Jan. 2, 2020 Updated: Jan. 7, 2020 7:25 p.m.
Aryan Brotherhood gang member arrested in shooting of...
1of4Matthew Williams, a documented Aryan Brotherhood gang member, faces a slew of charges related to the back-to-back shootings Dec. 28 of a mail carrier in the Spring Branch area and a man at a nearby Costco gas station.Photo: Houston Police Department
2of4A postal carrier was shot and injured in the Spring Branch area on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019.Photo: OnScene
4of4Authorities investigate the shooting of a postal carrier in Spring Branch on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019.Photo: OnScene
An Aryan Brotherhood gang member faces a slew of charges related to the back-to-back shootings Saturday of a mail carrier in the Spring Branch area and a man at a nearby Costco gas station.
Police say Matthew Williams shot the mail carrier around 2 p.m. and drove to the gas station, where he allegedly attempted to shoot another man less than five minutes later.
Then, he sped out of the parking lot in a black Honda Fit — which he is accused of stealing the day before from an ex-girlfriend — collided into a vehicle and sped off without stopping, charging documents show.
Williams, who is a documented member of the white supremacy prison gang, is being held without bail after his arrest on Monday, according to court records.
The crime spree began on Friday, when Williams' ex-girlfriend called police to her home in Katy. She said Williams took the keys to her car and home, and had a handgun. At one point, he was outside of her house, yelling for her and claiming he would "kill her if he knows the police are coming." He said "the only way he's leaving the house is if there is a shootout," she told authorities.
When deputies arrived, the ex-girlfriend said that they should forget about what she initially reported.
Williams resurfaced at 2 p.m. on Saturday, when he allegedly shot a U.S. postal worker who was delivering mail on Cedardale Drive. Witnesses reported hearing as many as four gunshots, and officers on the scene said the carrier had bullet wounds to the back and stomach, the documents show.
The postal carrier, identified as 30-year-old Adrian Jackson, was taken to an area hospital in an unknown condition. He later told police that the gunman, a white man with facial tattoos, was driving a black hatchback
Just 1.5 miles away after 2:02 p.m., at the Costco gas station on 1150 Bunker Hill, a driver pointed a gun out of the window of his black vehicle and shot a Costco employee walking toward him, authorities said. The employee only suffered a scratch on his face, authorities said. The gunman tried shooting the man again, but he fled after his gun misfired or jammed, authorities said.
The elderly employee, who police say is black, told a gas station attendant that a white man with face tattoos aimed at him from inside his car.
Parking lot surveillance video showed the incident, as well as the gunman's attempt to flee . The driver, who police later identified as Williams, rear-ended a woman's car as she tried to exit the parking lot, according to court records. The woman took a photo of the vehicle - a black Honda Fit - which police tracked to Williams' ex-girlfriend.
High on drugs, he drove to his brother's house and confessed to shooting the mail carrier, the brother told police.
Williams was arrested Monday on five felony charges - felon in possession of a weapon, theft of a motor vehicle, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, violating a protective order set forth by the ex-girlfriend and aggravated assault against a public servant.
The 24-year-old, of Katy, also faces a misdemeanor charge that accuses him of failing to stop and give information after the wreck at the Costco parking lot.
Spokespeople with the Houston Police Department declined to comment beyond a news release issued Thursday. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the city police department participated in the investigation.
It's unclear whether the shootings are believed to be race-related. The mail carrier's race is unknown.
At the time of the shooting, Williams was out on bond on a terroristic threat charge related to his ex-girlfriend. He has prior felony convictions for criminal mischief, cocaine possession and evading arrest.
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Mystery Space Machines - Pt 14
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This newest segment in the continuing John Walson series of video images of objects in space, on the moon...and on Earth, comprises two parts. The first shows stills of more strange objects in space...in orbit above us right now. The remarkable detail of this unknown space craft is especially notable for the far right end close-up. What does this machine DO?
Here is a short video of the above stills...
For Larger View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRSDZlt5xF0&watch_response
Here is another spacecraft videotaped by Walson over the UK...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9KkPl9nnmw
And here is a closer, higher-resolution clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM79tOTNsek
UK ETs On Video NOT - And Other Important Clips
In the second part of this story, John Walson starts off by exposing a fraud. The beginning of the video footage, shot by John, shows figures at night under a bright light. This footage was reportedly taken by another UFO researcher and represented to a Hollywood producer as 'ETs walking around' in the dark.
The producer was duped and allegedly paid the researcher's airfare to LA, hotel and meals, and substantial cash, to view the purloined footage. The video, in fact, does not show 'ETs' walking around at all...the figures are white-helmeted firefighters at the scene of a small plane crash in the UK in the year 2000.
Here is part of the original news story of the crash...
Fatal Crash Probe Crash experts are trying to discover the cause of the accident.
The Goodwood Racing Company, owners of the airfield, said in a statement: "The Goodwood fire crew was on the scene of the crash Aerodrome director Tony Houghton said: "We are obviously deeply upset by this tragic accident and we extend our most sincere sympathy to the families and relatives....
Now, watch the video clip yourself and you will clearly see the alleged 'ETs' are actually Firefighters in white helmets. Following this opening segment in the following video, there are a number of intriguing clips from other Walson archives...
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GREENE COUNTY, AR (KAIT) - A proposed four-mill increase for the Greene County Tech School District failed by a large margin Tuesday, according to the Greene County Clerk's office.
In unofficial numbers, the vote failed by an 838-462 margin.
Earlier this year, district officials said they were hoping to cut back on staff reduction after passing a resolution for a millage increase that would help their operations and maintenance.
Superintendent Gene Weeks said earlier this year that the millage resolution was for a four-mill increase.
"The need is that the last two years, and upcoming two years, the state has cut back on cost of living for the schools in the state," said Weeks. "Traditionally we would get around a 2% cost of living but last year and the next two will be down to a 1% cost of living."
Weeks said with the millage, the district would have been able to replace that cut in costs of living.
"It is hard for schools with rising expectations, salaries going up, and maintenance on all of our facilities so it is hard to make budgets meet with a 1% cost of living," said Weeks. "Even with a 2%, we do not have much wiggle room so we would be able to benefit greatly off of the millage increase."
On Tuesday, Weeks said while district officials were disappointed in the results, they plan to regroup and move forward.
Weeks said the last time a millage was passed was in 2007 when the new high school was being built.
He said they have been very fortunate over the past ten years because of that millage.
"This will be another chance for the next generation to benefit off of this millage," said Weeks. "This will help maintain a good quality of education and everything, so I hope our patrons will see that. It will be up to local schools if they want to maintain programs and so forth."
Weeks said the passing of this millage will go a long way in the future.
"Hopefully someday, I will have children that goes to Greene County Tech and that they will have the same opportunity that the young people today are getting to benefit from," said Weeks.


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Bhutan is only slightly larger than the state of Maryland, but the predominantly Buddhist nation holds a powerful place both in history and the future. For centuries, the Kingdom of Bhutan remained independent and resisted colonization. Though the country joined the United Nations in 1971 and began facilitating foreign tourism in 1974, Bhutan's government has remained committed to its legacy of autonomy. In 2008, the country gained fame with its enactment of Gross National Happiness (GNH), a philosophy and an index which monitors collective well-being. These top 10 facts about living conditions in Bhutan show how quickly the country has developed since the first road was paved in 1961, opening the way to modernization.
Poverty rates are dropping every year. In 2007, 23 percent of the population lived in poverty. In just five years, the number fell by half, and as of 2017, only 8.2 percent of the population lived below the national poverty line. Extreme poverty is nearly nonexistent, affecting less than 2 percent of the population. Despite these achievements, there is a disparity between rural and urban areas. Rural areas have a poverty rate of 11 percent while fewer than 1 percent of urban dwellers live in poverty.
Bhutan's economy is consistently growing. While agriculture is the main livelihood for 54 percent of Bhutanese people, the economy is also based on forestry, tourism and the sale of hydroelectric power (mostly to India). The GDP has skyrocketed from $0.14 billion in 1980 to $2.51 billion in 2017, and the economy's average growth between 2006 and 2015 was 7.5 percent.
Unemployment hits youth the hardest. Though the country's unemployment rate is only 2.1 percent, 13.2 percent of youth (15 to 24 years old) are unemployed. Bhutan's growing economy is largely driven by the hydropower sector, but the industry does not guarantee enough jobs for the growing population. Institutions like the World Bank recommend that Bhutan invest more in the private sector in order to diversify the economy and combat youth unemployment.
Access to clean water is becoming a basic right. Over 98 percent of the population has access to improved drinking water, a huge success when compared to past decades. Improved water sources, however, do not always equate to safe drinking water. The Royal Center for Disease Control tested more than 5,000 water samples and found that only 44.3 percent were safe to drink. Still, the government remains committed to improving water quality for its citizens, and in 2016, developed the Bhutan Drinking Water Quality Standard.
Public healthcare is free. Healthcare is a basic human right in Bhutan. Life expectancy is now 70 years old, a stark difference compared to the 1960s when life expectancy was 37 years old and only two hospitals existed in the country. Bhutan now has 28 hospitals, 156 basic health clinics and 654 outreach clinics. Nine out of 10 women have their children in hospitals or healthcare facilities, and the child survival rate is 93 percent.
Seventy-six percent of the population is happy. According to the Bhutan Living Standards Report of 2017, more than 40 percent of the population is moderately or very happy. Every five years, 8,000 households are randomly selected to take a 3-hour-long happiness survey, with questions ranging from health, education, psychological well being, community vitality, etc. Participants are compensated for a day's worth of work, likely increasing happiness.
Education rates are low but rising. Bhutan has developed dramatically in the last decades, and education rates are reflecting this change. As of 2017, 95 percent of the population had completed primary school and 70 percent completed secondary school. Progress was slower because education is not compulsory, but primary and secondary education rates have drastically increased. In 1988, only 25 percent of the population had completed primary school, and still less (5 percent) got a secondary school education.
There are no McDonald's in Bhutan. Though it sounds funny, this fact is symbolic of Bhutan's commitment to protecting its cultural heritage and way of life. Bhutan understands that foreign influence is inevitable, but the country seeks to strike a balance between modernization, foreign investment and tradition. Consequently, Bhutan follows a "high value, low impact" tourism policy, which requires tourists to spend between $200 and $250 each day. This controls the influx of tourists and guarantees investment in the country.
Bhutan is the 27th least-corrupt country in the world. According to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index, out of 168 countries, Bhutan is one of the least corrupt. Bribes are almost nonexistent in the court system, and only 1 percent of companies feel that the courts inhibit business. Furthermore, as citizens of one of the youngest democracies in the world, Bhutanese people are guaranteed freedom of speech and of the press, which allows government corruption to be critiqued and exposed by the media.
Sustainable development and investment in health, education and happiness have set Bhutan up for a bright future. These top 10 facts about living conditions in Bhutan demonstrate the country's commitment to growth and collective well-being. There is still room for improvement, and by partnering with institutions like the World Bank and allying with local nonprofits like the Bhutan Youth Development Fund, Bhutan is addressing its development goals on all fronts.
Reflect is a new brand founded by young entrepreneurs in Istanbul who believe that what you wear tells a story. The Borgen Project had the opportunity to catch up with Ece Altunmaral, one of the founders of the organization, and asked her questions concerning the origins of their organization's story and what awaits them in the future.
How did the idea come up and what were you thinking of changing in the clothing industry?
"Reflect is a textile-oriented design studio, creating narrative products for both organizations and individuals. The studio operates with 'storytelling design' and 'responsible production' in its heart and relies on the power of stories that make feelings tangible and ideas memorable.
The idea came up as a reaction to the facts we heard about the dirty textile industry, and also as a realization that clothing is a great medium of communication and could be used for a good purpose. Although not widely known, the textile is the second most harmful industry to the environment, only after oil. The process behind our clothes is also kept opaque. We do not know where the fabrics of our clothes are sourced from, nor do we know how many people worked in the making of them.
Starting with the article "What You Wear Tells a Story," would you mind sharing with The Borgen Project the meaning behind the three articles you picked for your manifesto?
Article 1: What You Wear Tells a Story. Appreciating the value of involvement, engagement and different perspectives, we develop our products "together" with designers and brands. The design process starts with collaborative workshops, results in lacing the outcomes onto fabrics and turning them into narratives. Accordingly, we invite all of our clients to become a part of the solution by designing stories around "Sustainable Development Goals", which focus on environmental, political and economic problems that the world faces.
Article 2: Radical Transparency Establishes Trust. Embracing the worldwide movement of "slow fashion," we reject being part of the damage that the fashion industry causes on the environment. We guarantee an ethical and transparent operation from production to distribution while only producing internationally certified sustainable products and assuring long-term use.
How was the designing process of your first ever product "Solidarity?" What does it reflect about your organization?
What kind of impact do you aim to bring to life and clothing industry by showing people that what you wear tells a story? What is the outcome of the desired social and environmental impact of the "Reflect" so far?
What waits for the organization in the future?
"For our products to be made accessible worldwide. We want to help increase the number of individuals who care about social and environmental causes across the world with our strong corporate commitment to the realization of sustainable development goals. We want more people to buy garment products manufactured sustainably and become part of the solutions that address such challenges through directly impacting vulnerable groups with every purchase they made from reflect.
Reflect is doing its part to provide sustainable clothing to the mainstream market. The organization is also reaching out to communities around the world, working with refugee children, supporting sustainable sourcing and working for a better future for our planet.
Not so many people are aware that poverty exists in almost every place in the world, and not so many people realize what it means to be living in extreme poverty. Most commonly pictured is a group of poor, dirty people who are noticeably hungry and ill in their thin stature.
The sobering truth is, though, that many of the poorest people in the world actually live this kind of life. In order to improve such conditions, it is necessary to include environmental contributors to methods of sustainable development.
The standard of living generally entails compilation and analysis to self-reports on the overall satisfaction of life, wealth and health statuses. A multitude of people living in extreme poverty report that they are unsatisfied with their living conditions. Around 25 percent of respondents to a survey said that a family member was in need of medical attention. Rates of people working more than one job, not having desired personal possessions and electricity were also gloomy.
Various ailments among those living with the lowest standards of living exist hand-in-hand with the state of that environment. For example, treating a patient for diarrhea is not too draining of a process, but finding the cause of diarrhea within that individual's environment and eliminating that cause requires a higher amount of patience.
In the text below four examples of environmental inadequacies that exist in most areas of extreme poverty are presented, each with their own issues. Along with them is a key to moving forward in the sustainable development of these communities.
Contaminated drinking water, poor hygiene and lack of sanitation are common water-related issues for people in many parts of the world. Unsafe water leads to many issues such as diarrhea, nausea, cramps, dehydration and other gastrointestinal related illness.
In order to implement safe water into sustainable development, proper infrastructure needs to be taken into consideration. Plumbing is a basic necessity to transport and store water safely.
World Vision is an organization that helps communities in need get working wells. SODIS is a solution that gives people a way to become self-reliant in preparing their own safe drinking water.
Air in homes or commercial areas unsuitable for breathing is frequently caused by the burning of solid fuels, smoke or other toxins. These conditions lead to respiratory infections, chronic pulmonary disease, asthma and even cancer. Such conditions lead to around 1.6 million deaths each year around the world.
Burning of safer (liquid) fuels would be the most effective and sustainable development solution to this condition. Other changes to occur would include ventilation systems and changes in heating and cooking appliances.
Inadequate monitoring of dangerous pesticides has become an issue mostly only for underdeveloped areas. Due to the lack of regulations or means to enforce any regulations that are in place, struggling countries are ill-equipped to fight this battle. Contact with some of the most dangerous pesticides or contamination of foods, soil and water is poisoning people, causing as many as 335,000 deaths per year.
The most important way to combat this challenge is to educate policymakers and landholders in these areas of danger and offer a safer solution, such as approved pesticides.
Insufficient agriculture techniques, overhunting and deforestation all lead to disaster for those involved. When people are struggling for survival, sustainability becomes a luxury. When land is overused to degradation, there becomes an even more severe shortage of resources to compete for, meaning hunger and chronic malnutrition all can lead to a plethora of health issues.
Implementing more sustainable development for farming and agricultural can make a huge difference in this area. Programs such as the Global Food Security Act have been put into place to directly aid in global hunger.
Campaigns like The Borgen Project exist for the good of recognizing and reducing global poverty. Developed nations around the world have policies for foreign aid. Sometimes the goal is empowerment, education, improved health, decreased hunger or helping a nation enter the international market.
Every part of these goals is important to end poverty, and another concept of incorporating environmental awareness with health policies is becoming more popular when addressing sustainable development.
There is a multitude of treatable issues in undeveloped nations. For example, if people had access to vaccines for a given disease, then that disease could be directly managed by simple preventative care. Even though difficult health problems exist, undeveloped nations are making steady and sure progress towards truly improved health care.
The Aral Sea was once a large saltwater lake located in Central Asia. With Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south, both countries bordered the body of water. Fishing communities in the countries prospered for years, yet a decisive change in the 1960s led to the demise of these towns. The two countries experienced drastically different outcomes, all due to developmental aid around the Aral Sea.
In the 1960s, the Soviet Union decided to redirect the water in the Aral Sea for agriculture, predominately for cotton. Previously, the sea was replenished by the water that rivers returned, making it a reliable source of income for neighboring fisheries. Over the past four decades, the sea has retreated about 93 miles, losing a surface area the size of Maryland. With salinity levels continuing to rise to more than seven times the normal amount, a once plentiful resource has run dry.
As the sea dried up, so did jobs. A reported 60,000 jobs disappeared in direct relation to Aral fishery shutdowns. Dust storms that swelled within the barren seabed contained various chemicals from the agriculture in the surrounding areas and caused irrevocable harm to citizens. Diseases related to poor air quality were rampant. Even the food produced in the area contained hazards for consumers, which forced thousands from their homes. Those that chose not to leave, despite the water and air pollution, were left living in poverty.
In 2005, the World Bank intervened with a plan for developmental aid around the Aral Sea and partnered with the Kazakh government to install a dam. The plan cost $86 million and was designed to improve irrigation along the rivers and restore the sea. The dam primarily prevented water in the northern regions from flowing south. Additional measures to improve irrigation along the Syr Darya River made sure enough water flowed back into the North Aral Sea. Previously, as much as 40 percent of water was lost due to poor irrigation.
In 2006, the Kok-Aral Dam was constructed and saw quick success. As the surface area of the sea expanded, fish stocks were reintroduced. The replenishment of local resources meant that the economy, once built on fishing, could flourish and grow to its previous grandeur. The water and air quality also improved, meaning that residents no longer needed to move away from the area.
In 2006, the ports handled around 2,000 tons of fish and houses in the area were no longer empty; about 17 homes were occupied as opposed to eight. As the local fish diet improved, so did the ability to grow vegetables. The changes to the ecosystem led to more rainfall and fewer sandstorms. Life was reintroduced to the region.
A very different story played out in neighboring Uzbekistan, where government leaders are still insistent that cotton production is their "white gold". The country ranks 12th in highest value of cotton exported in 2017. The enterprise brings in around $850.4 million and accounts for 1.6 percent of total exported cotton.
However, similar health risks and impoverishment are seen in areas previously home to fisheries. Many people migrated to agricultural regions to make a living farming and picking cotton. Conditions around cotton production in Uzbekistan remain questionable, with allegations of forced labor becoming rampant.
Although both countries experienced high levels of poverty at the height of the Aral Sea's reduction, the current state of poverty in the two countries is quite different. In 2005, 31.6 percent of the country lived in poverty in Kazakhstan, while in 2016, only 2.6 percent of the population lived in poverty. This reduction is directly related to developmental aid around the Aral Sea.
In Uzbekistan, the decline is much slower. From 2012 to 2016, poverty decreased from 15 percent to 12.3 percent. This progress is promising, yet slow compared to its neighbors. When the World Bank asked the Uzbek government if it wished to participate in developmental aid around the Aral Sea, like that in Kazakhstan, it declined.
In partnership with World Bank, the Kazakh government provides an example of successful developmental aid around the Aral Sea. Currently, the World Bank is working with the Uzbek government to implement projects around horticulture. As new enterprises are explored, such as oil drilling in the south Aral Sea by Uzbekistan, avenues to combat poverty will vary. For Kazakhstan, working to reinvigorate a previously plentiful resource was the key to poverty alleviation.
This triumph in poverty reduction provides a hopeful message to those wanting to see a drastic drop in poverty through developmental aid.
A common complaint about pro-environment actions is the cost they pose to the economy. But worldwide, eco-friendly measures combat poverty in new and sustainable ways. A clear link exists between environmental degradation and poverty, as a feedback loop is created between the two circumstances: by focusing on the environment, the world's poor can also benefit. Several strategies have already been implemented with proven results that demonstrate that environmentalism can benefit the impoverished.
Green energy provides new jobs and opens up markets that were previously not beneficial. Additionally, according to The World Bank, pollution "stunts economic growth and exacerbates poverty and inequality in both urban and rural areas." Poor people often feel the effects of pollution most severely since they cannot afford measures to protect themselves. Green energy lessens pollution and can provide relief to suffering communities.
More than 1 billion people worldwide depend, to some extent, on forest-based assets for their livelihood. Low-income countries feel the effects of environmental problems more intensely, as environment-based wealth accounts for 25 percent of total wealth in such areas. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, warring parties depleted natural resources so that, according to the U.N. Security Counsel's 2001 discussion, "The only loser in this huge business venture is the Congolese people." Eco-friendly measures combat poverty in these cases by ensuring a community's source of income does not disappear.
Globally, cooperatives have arisen that have produced organic food for markets everywhere and "revitalized traditional agricultural systems with new technologies." Low-income communities producing organic and fair-trade coffee like this have created a rapidly growing niche market that is both sustainable and environmentally conscious. Additionally, many industries can create sustainable jobs for lower-income individuals by focusing on the environment. A Madagascar shrimp processing company created 1,200 permanent new jobs and focuses on keeping those jobs long-term by ensuring that the shrimp population in the area remains healthy. Such policies benefit all parties involved: the company, the environment and the impoverished.
A substantial concern in impoverished countries is developing ways to reuse scarce resources such as water. 99 percent of the time, death due to not enough water or unsafe water takes place in developing countries. In India, the company Banka BioLoo is placing more than 300,000 eco-friendly toilets in low-income areas, which creates jobs and eliminates harmful waste while providing desperately needed sanitation. The by-products of their system include water for gardening and methane gas for fuel. This innovative design is just one of many examples of how eco-friendly measures combat poverty and can improve human health.
Governments can play a big role in combating poverty and protecting the environment with just one action. Corruption can often lead to inter-country conflict, which harms both the environment and the poor. Access to information and legal frameworks, as well as sanctions imposed by organizations like the U.N., can improve the situation in areas plagued by corruption.
These efforts require the non-poor and poor to work together. Since the non-poor have higher consumption levels, the degradation of the environment by poor people is often "due to the poor being denied their rights to natural resources by wealthier elites and, in many cases, being pushed onto marginal lands more prone to degradation." However, the situation promises hope for the future; by working together, wealthier people have the ability to reduce environmental threats, and poor people often have the technical ability to manage resources. Together, these eco-friendly measures combat poverty.
On May 18th, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Village Enterprise announced that it would be forming a coalition with the African Wildlife Foundation as part of its 'graduation program' in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The new partnership will focus on alleviating poverty in the DRC while simultaneously conserving the Bonobo population in the area.
Bonobos are a type of great ape that can only be found in the DRC and are the closest living biological relatives to the human species. They are known for their peaceful lifestyles and female-led societies; unfortunately, Bonobos are currently endangered and on the brink of extinction.
You may be wondering, what does alleviating poverty in the DRC have to do with the endangerment of Bonobos? Surprisingly, quite a bit. The reason Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife Foundation decided to cooperate on this issue is because the alleviation of poverty in the DRC may very well be a saving grace for the Bonobo population.
The primary threat to Bonobos' survival is poaching. As of 2018, 90 percent of the people living in the DRC can only afford to eat one meal per day; as a result, many people turn to hunting wild animals for food. Even though it is technically illegal to hunt Bonobos under current DRC law, many are so desperate that they are willing to do whatever it takes to keep from starving to death.
Impoverished people have also taken to selling Bonobo meat in the marketplace. As they are increasingly rare, Bonobo meat is becoming increasingly more valuable, meaning people who are in a tough financial situation may find law-breaking and Bonobo extinction worth the risk if it means providing for their families.
Since there are so few Bonobos already — and they have a relatively slow reproduction rate of 4-5 years — the population is decreasing rapidly and will continue to do so if economic conditions in the DRC remain the same.
The new partnership hopes to get to the root of the issue by utilizing Village Enterprise's expertise in entrepreneurship to train the African Wildlife Foundation how to successfully start businesses throughout the DRC. In a press release detailing the goals for the new alliance, Village Enterprise stated that it expects the African Wildlife Foundation to open 240 new businesses by the program's end.
If this strategy works as planned, the increased employment opportunities — and subsequent economic stimulation — would mean that approximately 720 less households would live in extreme poverty (surviving on $1.90 or less per day). Alleviating poverty in the DRC could mean creating less of a need to hunt Bonobos to sell or feed one's family.
Sixty-three percent of the DRC's population currently lives below the poverty line, making it the poorest country in the entire world. The Congolese people are in desperate need of an intervention such as that done by the Village Enterprise and the African Wildlife Foundation. Though the preservation of Bonobos is undoubtedly important, this program will hopefully have a much broader effect: providing relief to a country in crisis.


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Q: How to Use IMAP through a proxy? Currently I am using RHEL8 server which has not internet connection to it. In that server I have implemented a Jupyter notebook and I have used following code to connect with IMAP.
  import imaplib

    imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap-mail.outlook.com',995)
    # authenticate
    imap.login(username, password)
    imap.select()

I am having following error.
OSError: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol

Can someone explain whether this error is occurring due to unavailability of internet or any other reason? How should I create a proxy and pass this through it?
Here I have implemented a proxy and checked the connectivity as follows. Now I need to connect this to IMAP. But I couldn't identify the correct method to do that.
http_proxy  = "http://10.48.250.90:3128"
https_proxy = "https://10.48.250.90:3128"
ftp_proxy   = "ftp://10.48.250.90:3128"

proxyDict = {
              "http"  : http_proxy,
              "https" : https_proxy,
              "ftp"   : ftp_proxy
            }

# setting up the URL and checking the conection by printing the status
url = "https://imap-mail.outlook.com"
#url = 'https://www.google.lk'
page = requests.get(url, proxies=proxyDict)
print(page.status_code)
print(page.url)
#print(page.text)