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Legislative elections were held in Macau on 17 September 2017 according to the provisions of the Basic Law of Macau. Out of a total of 33 seats, 14 were directly elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method, while 12 were voted on from the Indirect election, and 7 from nomination by the chief executive.

Background
Formerly a Portuguese colony, Macau has been a Special Administrative Region within China since 1999. As a Special Administrative Region it is entitled to a high degree of autonomy from the mainland Chinese legal system through the year 2050, although China represents the city on foreign policy matters. Macau's economy is based primarily on its status as a tech and financial sector, as well as its internationally famous casino industry.

The previous legislative elections took place in 2013. The pro-establishment camp ACUM, led by Chan Meng Kam, received 18.02% votes with 3 seats, and the next largest party, the pro-democracy camp ANMD+APMD, led by António Ng, received 15.73% of the votes with 2 seats while the pro-establishment camp UGM received 11.09% with 2 seats. Due to the characteristics of the Macau election system, only 14 members are directly elected. On 10 July 2017 twenty-five parties have submitted their nominations for the direct election including current incumbents (Ho Ion Sang, António Ng Kuok Cheong, José Pereira Coutinho, Leong Veng Chai, Song Pek Kei, Si Ka Lon, Wong Kit Cheng, Au Kam San, Angela Leong On Kei, Lei Cheng I, Melinda Chan Mei Yi, Zheng Anting, Mak Soi Kun) and new candidates.

Electoral systen

Macau's direct electoral system is based around proportional representation, with elections carried out through a closed party-list balloting system.  This means that each geographic electoral district has multiple members, with the number of its seats filled by each competing party determined by the proportion of the vote that party receives.  Parties nominate a slate of candidates (generally, one per seat in each district where the party is competing). After the election, party leaders decide who from the slate will fill the party's legislative seats.

Shortly before usual campaign period for the 2013 elections, the Electoral Affairs Commission of Macau banned the use of commercial advertising by election candidates. The new election rules stipulate that candidates should not carry out activities that could influence voters in the two-month period between their registration and the start of the campaign period on August 31. Commercial advertising is barred from most public areas, except those specially designated by the government. Even in areas where campaigning is permitted, it is still limited to a 14-day official campaign period. These restrictions are intended to limit the advertising advantage of wealthy business interests. However, they have been criticized for limiting the amount of canvassing candidates with less money can do, thus encouraging clientelistic bloc voting where parties simply strike deals with associations, business interests and community leaders to turn out assured votes in their favor. Working around the rules, candidates resorted to using loudspeakers to promote their campaigns.

Among the most powerful special interests in Macau are casinos.  Macau's casino industry has a long history of Triad and other organized crime connections.  Since laws around casinos were liberalized in 2002 to promote more foreign investment, the Triad has lost its stranglehold on Macau's casino industry (although it remains deeply embedded in it). Casinos have long played a major role in clientelistic politics in Macau, and since liberalization their influence has further increased.

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References

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Legislative
Elections in Macau
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Biografia
Era il quintogenito e secondo figlio maschio del duca di Bracciano Virginio Orsini e di Flavia Damasceni Peretti, pronipote di papa Sisto V (1585-1590), la cui famiglia contava numerosi altri prelati, tra i quali i cardinali Alessandro Damasceni Peretti, suo zio. Era cardinale anche Federico Sforza, suo cugino per parte di padre.

Papa Paolo V lo elevò al rango di cardinale nel concistoro del 2 dicembre 1615 e gli affidò la diaconia di Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

Nel 1616, Galileo Galilei scrisse una lettera privata a lui indirizzata per spiegargli il moto del flusso delle maree, il cosiddetto Discorso sul flusso e il reflusso del mare.

Papa Gregorio XV lo nominò legato pontificio di Romagna, inviandolo a Ravenna. Quando la città fu colpita da un'epidemia, si distinse per le iniziative di carità. Negli ultimi anni intraprese una pratica di austero ascetismo e chiese, invano, la dispensa dal cardinalato per entrare nella Compagnia di Gesù, alla quale rimase comunque particolarmente vicino.

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Collegamenti esterni

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Police Forced To Shoot Dead 'Aggressive' Dog After Horror Attack in Australia
After his family dog became mad and began biting him, his wife, and his kid at their Baldivis home on Sunday night, a man yelled at authorities, "Just shoot it!"
Stephen and Michelle Quail stated their three-year-old rescue blue heeler, named Ace, started attacking the family of three, resulting in what they characterized as a "bloodbath," leaving them "traumatized," with Mr Quail's injuries being so severe that he now needs surgery.
Ace, the three-year-old Blue Heeler.
Ace, a rescue dog with a "traumatic past," started attacking Mr Quail at random and lunging for his throat at 6.40 p.m. Ace had just returned from having his castrated.
The family, who have had Ace for approximately a month, claims that Mr Quail would have perished from the attack if it weren't for the cone the Blue Heeler was sporting.
The 50-year-old father claimed that "(Ace) opened me up under my chin during the vicious attack." His head, chin, and arm are all bandaged.
Their 18-year-old daughter fled the horrifying incident by hiding herself in an adjacent room after being bitten on the arm.
Soon after, someone phoned the police at the Vernon Gough Drive location.
It took "all my power," Mrs Quail cried, "to get Ace off my husband."
The three-year-old dog eventually turned around and attacked her by grabbing hold of her calf.
Ace was shot twice and then a third time to "euthanize the dog," according to the police, who confirmed the occurrence at the residence.
According to a statement, "because to the dog's extremely violent character, a police pistol was used twice to end the attack."
"A third shot was fired to euthanize the dog and stop it from suffering any further due to the injuries the dog received."

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Unmasked Women is a refreshing, much-needed exhibition that aims to explore and channel the experiences of Black British women through creatives such as Azzara Amoy, Gabriela Chase and Heather Agyepong. Nicole Crentsil kicked off the first Unmasked exhibition in September, focusing on mental health and showcasing a series of art, photography, live performances and discussion panels. The success of the exhibition has catapulted Nicole to feature Unmasked in prominent spaces such as the V&A and TEDxUCL Women, as well as featuring on panels herself, most recently at the Tate Britain. I had a chat with Nicole about what inspires her and what we can expect in future from Unmasked Women.
Nasim Salad: Why did you start Unmasked Women?
Nicole Crentsil: I saw a lack of conversation about Black women and their mental health, and decided to start this conversation through art and creativity.
NS: What inspires you? Are there any particular artists right now that resonate with you?
NC: Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a current favourite. Her work was recently showcased at Victoria Miro and has really captured her journey and retelling of a version of the Nigerian experience.
NS: You have worked with some incredible and inspirational creative women in relation to Unmasked. Is there anybody you would love to work with in the future?
NC: I would love to work with a whole host of creatives, the list would be really long but for now working with The Slumflower (Chiddy) would be my dream!
NS: How do you think creativity defines the Black British experience, especially in relation to mental health?
NC: I think creativity challenges the way we discuss the Black British experience. We have grown accustomed to our narratives being defined by others who haven't lived or shared our experiences and for once, through the use of personal self-expression, we are able to tell our story. Creativity is entirely subjective and has no right and wrong, so no one can tell us our experiences aren't real.
I've never been able to showcase my creative work simply because I never thought it was good enough. I designed the logo and website for Unmasked Women and swallowed my fear about putting this out for the world to see. I think in that respect, given that this project was centred on my initial experiences, the design element had to come from me. It took some time, but I eventually released the design and here we are today, with Unmasked as we know it.
NS: Do you think there are enough resources and facilities set up to for women seeking help with mental health issues in the UK?
NC: I think there are resources for women but not for Black women specifically – this is an area which needs to be improved on. We also need to create frameworks that disseminate information about mental health, especially in places such as schools and the workplace.
NS: How have you found your own experiences with seeking professional help regarding your mental health?
NC: In regards to my personal experience with health facilities, they have been limited. Even obtaining an appointment with my GP was a long process. Without any previous experience or ability to explain what I was going through, I found it hard to talk about my issues without feeling judged by the middle-class white male doctor in front of me. Having dismissed my reasoning for what I was going through, I was initially prescribed anti-depressant pills which I was told would "calm my nerves". I wasn't given the option of talking about my issues and taking a route that centred talk-therapy.
NS: How are you finding the recent momentum and interest surrounding your work?
NC: It's been great! I didn't expect this much of a reaction. This was just a little project to keep me occupied on the weekends and in the evenings and it seems to have blown up. It's amazing and I'm really proud of myself.
NS: Recently, you were part of a Gal-dem collective take over at the V&A. How did you find the evening and do you think conservative British art institutions are going to start opening their doors to Black British artists?
NC: It was amazing! I can't thank Gal-dem enough for allowing me to curate an exhibition at an institution as established as the V&A. The whole event was a success and seeing all those amazing talented Black British creatives in one space was something to tell the grandkids.
I definitely think creating spaces for Black Brits to do things like this is the way forward. We are finally being recognized for our abilities and it's amazing to see!
NS: Alongside the V&A, you also participated in TEDxWomen at UCL. Your speech was very emotive and personal and captured the hearts of the audience. As the evening focused on Intersectionality, did you feel as though your experiences and projects contributed to the diversity of the event?
NC: Yes, I hoped it would! With all the media attention this project has gotten, it was important for me to tell my story to really show how and why this all came about. I wanted to highlight the issues being presented not only through the artwork but through myself. This project was a very personal one, and it is almost an extension of me. I wanted this to be very real and honest.
NS: What can we expect from Unmasked Women in future?
NC: I would love to continue to collaborate with more creatives, work in new art spaces, more exhibitions, more talks and panels, more creativity. JUST MORE LIFE.
I would love to continue the conversation surrounding mental health, but also start working on exploring other experiences of Black British women and then extend this conversation further to include the experiences of Black British men.


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El proctoring es una técnica que permite la realización de pruebas de evaluación donde se encuentre el estudiante y que pueden ser monitorizadas y vigiladas desde diferentes lugares a través del empleo de recursos telemáticos.

Etimología
El término inglés proctoring significa supervisión de un examen presencial, mientras que la supervisión online se denomina online proctoring o bien e-proctoring. Sin embargo, al adoptar esta última expresión en castellano se omite el término online que queda implícito en proctoring, por lo que se viene a invertir su significado. En inglés, quien realiza la supervisión es un proctor, apócope de la palabra latina procurator, que se refiere a quien se cuida o se encarga de algo.

Contexto

Las pruebas en línea surgen con la finalidad de optar por métodos generalizados de evaluación que satisfagan los desafíos de la educación en línea. Sin embargo, fue la disrupción educativa provocada por la pandemia de COVID-19 la que impulsó su uso entre instituciones educativas que trasladaron completamente sus actividades a la modalidad en línea y remota.

Uno de los desafíos de este cambio repentino de modalidad consiste en asegurar la integridad académica. Posibles fraudes al momento de rendir exámenes en línea incluyen: suplantación de identidad, copiar y consultar a terceros y acceder a materiales no permitidos.

En este contexto, el software de proctoring hace frente a este desafío por medio de dos elementos principales: primero, valida la identidad y permite controlar el comportamiento del estudiante a través del uso de la cámara de la computadora y segundo, registra la actividad del estudiante en el computador y en internet. De esta manera, el profesor puede revisar las grabaciones de los exámenes e identificar posibles violaciones a las reglas del examen.

Tipos de pruebas que realiza
Las formas más comunes de hacer pruebas de evaluación proctorizadas son las siguientes:
 Prueba proctorizada en directo: se supervisa mediante cámara web y micrófono los cuales no pueden ser desactivados.
 Prueba grabada: el sistema graba la pantalla durante la prueba.
 Proctoring automatizado: el software vigila durante la prueba utilizando el reconocimiento facial, la imagen y el sonido y demás datos biometricos.

Aplicaciones del proctoring

Las aplicaciones actuales del proctoring son variadas:

 Para el reclutamiento en línea de personal.
 Como sistema de evaluación en los campus virtuales sirve para evaluar las competencias adquiridas en la formación en línea, incluyendo exámenes orales.
 Para la formación en áreas de dispersión geográfica y para facilitar la formación a lo largo de toda la vida.

Entornos de aplicación
Online Proctoring tiene sus inicios en Estados Unidos, por la necesidad de monitorear y vigilar las evaluaciones de forma remota como en el caso de los exámenes estandarizados SAT y GRE, y hoy lo usan todas las universidades del mundo; especialmente en los MOOC para asegurar la calidad y autenticidad de la evaluaciones; además, se han creado los MOOP o Massive Open Online Proctors. Estos combinan la inteligencia artificial con el crowdsourcing.

En Europa, la UOC está liderando el proyecto TeSLA (Adaptative Trust Based E-assessment for learning) para evaluar los exámenes y actividades de aprendizaje. Recientemente, se inició el uso de e-proctoring en combinación con dispositivos digitales vestibles (como Google Glass) y con robots para evaluar habilidades prácticas en ambientes simulados, especialmente en ciencias de la salud.

Ventajas
Entre las ventajas del empleo del proctoring se destacan las siguientes:

 Facilita los procesos de evaluación.
En educación superior, la supervisión remota se presenta como más sencilla y con menor costo que la organización de evaluaciones presenciales supervisadas.
 Se adapta a las nuevas formas de enseñanza, pudiendo realizarse los exámenes de manera global.
 Permite la adaptabilidad del propio examen.
La supervisión remota asegura la integridad académica de la educación en línea, la consistencia de la evaluación y su estandarización, dado que disuade de la utilización de medios de apoyo no autorizados.
 Los índices de revisión de materiales de estudio aumentan cuando los exámenes se anuncian como supervisados.

Algunos de los aspectos a tener en cuenta para un adecuado uso del proctoring será el de diseñar correctamente el examen para este tipo de evaluación, así como ofrecer una formación específica a los vigilantes y examinadores para que puedan atender eventuales dificultades telemáticas.

Limitaciones

 En estudiantes con ansiedad, los problemas de rendimiento son mayores cuando rinden exámenes supervisados con sistemas de proctoring.

 La ansiedad por problemas tecnológicos con cámaras, micrófonos, programas informáticos, batería, conectividad, etc. se agrega al común estrés de cualquier examen.
 Ante las limitaciones, el análisis de aprendizaje o learning analyltics surge como opción para identificar patrones de escritura de los estudiantes y corroborar así la originalidad de sus producciones en entornos virtuales, y es otra forma de control o monitoreo.

Controversia

Como consecuencia de la pandemia por la COVID-19 en 2020, las instituciones educativas tuvieron que replantear las formas de evaluación para adaptarlas al entorno virtual. Luego de la viralización de intentos de suplantación de identidad y múltiples denuncias por plagio en los exámenes, el proctoring se convirtió en la primera respuesta a la problemática. Sin embargo, grupos estudiantiles se opusieron alegando a las diversas realidades de los estudiantes y su posibilidad de contar con la conexión a internet y recursos necesarios, como así también a la violación de la privacidad.

Ante las reacciones impopulares, diversas instituciones decidieron que no emplearían proctoring, sino que en las plataformas de exámenes los alumnos deberían tener audio y video activo para la grabación. Nuevamente, recibieron críticas dado que se trataría, igualmente, de otro tipo de proctoring.

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We depart from the first Hungarian shrine, Bodajk, which was often visited even by Saint Stephen I, first king of Hungary and his son Saint Emeric (Imre), and where several miraculous healing occurred in the last centuries. Going through the romantic Vértes Hills we get to the highlight of the tour: the Camaldolese Hermitage. Our walking ends near Tata, where we go by car. This town is one of the loveliest ones in Hungary, full of lakes and springs.
You can continue the pilgrimage on Mary's Way in our St Mary's Tour Section III. In this case the final destination is Esztergom, the medieval Royal Centre of the Kingdom of Hungary, and has been the archbishop's residence of the Hungarian Christianity to the present day.
A modest accommodation in the downtown of Oroszlány, classic example of the communist period architecture.
This luxorious hotel is one of the oldest in Hungary dating back to 1770. The hotel has a unique, 240 m2 wellness centre with a jacuzzi, swimming-pool and several saunas.
Of course you can also mix the two packages (e.g.: you want the basic package, but with a transfer from the airport and wine tasting). In this case please contact us, and we will calculate you the best price possible.
We will be waiting our guests at the bus stop in Bodajk (direct coach from Budapest) or at the railway station in Székesfehérvár in the previously agreed times, and then take them to their accommodation, where they can have lunch.
After lunch we go to Székesfehérvár, where we get to know the former coronation centre of the Hungarian kings with a tour guide (ruins of the coronation church, bishop's palace, cathedral, ecclesiastic museum, Cistercian Church). Late in the afternoon we go (back) to our accommodation in or around Fehérvárcsurgó.
Latecomers may join the program during the afternoon. Practically they are supposed to arrive at Székesfehérvár.
In the first section of this day, our way leads in the romantic Gaja-gorge valley, and after an hour walk we reach Bodajk. According to the tradition this is the first Marian shrine of Hungary, where Saint Stephen I, first king of Hungary, his son Saint Emeric (Imre), and his tutor Saint Gerard of Csanád came several times to pray 1000 years ago.
From here we go onwards to Csókakő where, after a small climb, we can take pleasure in the imposing ruins of the Csókakő castle, built after the Mongolian attack in 1241-42. Our accommodation is a little further, in Mór, to where we will arrive by car.
We will cover the longest daily distance of our pilgrimage this day, which goes through forests and hills all the way, far from civilization and roads. Therefore, it will not be possible to get into the escorting car during the day.
At the beginning of our pilgrimage we have to overcome a 300 meter level difference in order to go through Szentgyörgyvárpuszta and arrive in Oroszlány afterwards.
In the present day, the medieval settlement is mainly famous for its coal mines during the Socialist era, thereby having changed the previous identity of the village. The destination of our excursion is the Camaldolese Hermitage in Majkpuszta, where once the Camaldolese hermits, who made a vow of silence lived.
Our accommodation will be in a typical town from the communist time Hungary: Oroszlány.
After seeing into the secrets of the Camaldolese hermits, we advance through the hills where the Holy Roman Empire's army braking into the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary suffered a catastrophic defeat in 1051. Allegedly, the soldiers, while escaping, threw away their armors (vérts), hence the name of the Vértes.
During our trip we can catch a glimpse of the abandoned cemetery of Körtvélyespuszta, which is being slowly taken back into its possession by the forest. Then, after leaving behind the cliffs of the Mária-szakadék (Mary's gorge), we get to the intersection of Mary's Way where we take a turn towards Esztergom. We finish the day's section at Tatabánya (Felsőgalla) from where we get to our accommodation in the town of Tata by car.
We can get to know the historic monuments of Tata on the last day: the castle, built at the end of the 14th century and taken back by the Habsburg troops from the Turkish by using a petard in 1597. Then we have a walk in the city decorated with Baroque beads and built on the shore of a lake (Eszterházy-Castle (from outside), Parish Church, Calvary, Water Mill, English Park, Belfry, Capuchin Church).
We take our guests to the railway station anytime they want during the day.
I'm Balázs and I'll be your leader in the second section of our pilgrimage on the St Mary Way (In the Footsteps of Hermits and Royal Saints).
First we visit Székesfehérvár, where the Hungarian kings were crowned in the past. During our pilgrimage we discover the romantic Gaja-gorge valley and the oldest Marian shrine of Hungary at Bodajk. One of my favourite place is the Camaldolese Hermitage in Majkpuszta where once the Camaldolese hermits, who made a vow of silence lived.
At the same time we have great opportunity to contemplate during our pilgrimage walking across the deep forest and plashing streams of Vértes Mountains.
See you soon in Székesfehérvár!


The Old Oak Dojo is pursuing the world's most rigorous building standard, the Living Building Challenge (LBC), which challenges us to ask the question, What if every single act of design and construction made the world a better place? The building is made of locally sourced and salvaged materials, harvests and re-uses natural resources and supports more than 1,000 square feet of urban agriculture.
Our rainwater harvesting system diverts water in three directions: into rain barrels dedicated to the garden, into a cistern for indoor use, and toward the roots of the Old Oak, recharging the groundwater.
We relied as much as possible on natural light, positioning windows to include direct and reflected light. All electrical lighting is low energy and uses LED bulbs.
We combined passive ventilation with an energy recovery ventilator that harvests the energy and humidity from interior air and exchanges it for fresh air.
Indoor composting toilets are reliable, convenient and safe, and they convert human waste into useful fertilizer. Strange that it would take 12 months for our application to be approved, no?
The roof of the Old Oak Dojo has been designed to support growing vegetation over a waterproof membrane. This helps insulate the building, absorb rainwater and help lower urban air temperatures.
Today's buildings should be rely on renewable energy. Our site has no access to wind, geothermal or hydropower — and the Dojo is hidden from the sun by the Old Oak. What to do?


It was such a beautiful weekend--70 degrees in the middle of December!!! So, we took the opportunity to have church at a local park. We also had an impromptu photo op.
Later Sunday afternoon, my husband's employer had a Christmas party for the kids. We had a really fun time. It's the first time my kids have ever seen inside the building where my husband works.


Will Beeley comes to the end of the line on his ghostly new road song "U.S. 85," from his upcoming LP Highways & Heart Attacks. It's the Texas singer-songwriter's first new recording in 40 years.
To say Beeley's new album has been four decades in the making would be something of an overstatement. After releasing a pair of albums in the Seventies, 1971's Gallivantin' and 1979's all-too-appropriately-titled Passing Dream, the San Antonio native — having a young family to support — hung up his guitar and took up the life of a long-haul trucker. That may have been the end of the road for Beeley, had California label Tompkins Square not contacted him about reviving both long-lost albums a few years back.
"U.S. 85," named for a highway that runs from North Dakota to New Mexico, is one of several new songs that Beeley has finished since those two 2017 re-releases, and it bears the clear mark of his years spent behind the wheel. Spacious, spare and simmering, the song hums along with reverb-soaked guitar and a stuttering accordion while Beeley — referencing Marty Robbins' "El Paso" and Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" — sings of a border crossing that lies somewhere between the end of his route and the end of opportunity.
Beeley recorded Highways & Heart Attacks at Grammy winner Joe Trevino's Black Cat Studios in San Antonio, with Trevino serving as engineer and Jerry David DeCicca as producer. Among those appearing on the record are Mavericks' accordionist Michael Guerra and violinist Bobby Flores (Willie Nelson). Highways & Heart Attacks will be released June 14th by Tompkins Square.


Medicare's Bundled Payment Program–Does it Change Hospital Volume or Case Mix?
Response: Medicare's voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative for lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR) surgery has been associated with reduced episode spending and stable-to-improved quality. However, BPCI may create unintended effects by prompting participating hospitals to increase the overall volume of episodes covered by Medicare. This could potentially eliminate Medicare-related savings or prompt hospitals to shift case mix to lower-risk patients.
Among the Medicare beneficiaries who underwent LEJR, BPCI participation was not significantly associated with a change in market-level volume (difference-in-differences estimate . In non-BPCI markets, the mean quarterly market volume increased 3.8% from 3.8 episodes per 1000 beneficiaries before BPCI to 3.9 episodes per 1000 beneficiaries after BPCI was launched. In BPCI markets, the mean quarterly market volume increased 4.4% from 3.6 episodes per 1000 beneficiaries before BPCI to 3.8 episodes per 1000 beneficiaries after BPCI was launched.


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Blog | November 6, 2019
Accelerate Your Workday ROI with Prism Analytics
Author Alexander MacDonald
If you're not all in, you haven't bought in. That was the message projected in unison by product owners, keynote speakers, and breakout presenters alike during October's Workday Rising, the 2019 edition of enterprise giant Workday's annual North American conference.
For those unfamiliar with the company's "Power of One" mission statement, Workday set out in 2005 carrying the torch for a unified HR information system and has been making strides to follow through ever since. At the time, that meant a singular hub for the key processes that drove recruiting, hiring, benefits, and dozens of other modular HR functions. Today, it's grown into a robust cloud platform with capable reporting and analytics to boot that duels a Bay Area giant for the top spot on Gartner's Magic Quadrant every year.
By the measure of adoption, Workday's ability to execute on its vision of a wide platform of modules has been largely successful, to the tune of an advertised 40% customer share of the Fortune 500 index. So, what's next in the chess match to capture the next wave of customers and retain its loyal base?
It's all about the data. If you belong to the 63% of HR leaders who aren't making data-driven decisions, this probably makes sense.
Some of the ways that Workday is poised to enable you to capitalize on the breadth of information that you've been building for years, include native Worksheets (no more "export to Excel"), Data Discovery (a built-in Tableau-like experience), and Prism Analytics, the data catalog and integration engine that I had the opportunity to present about at Rising as a customer speaker alongside Prism's Head of Product, Matt Hunt.
With the right API source configuration, Prism enables you to import external data directly into Workday, perform GUI-based transformations and joins to Workday data, and publish clean result sets for power users to consume. Diving into how we're using Salesforce integrations to both empower our staffing team to make better people decisions and equip our executives with a full financial picture to better predict the firm's overall performance, we were able to connect our audience with real life applications.
With announcements like Workday's investment in Automation Anywhere, its acquisition of Adaptive Insights for its Planning module, and its full-on effort to reshape the platform's user experience on a foundation of machine learning with People Experience, the platform is uniquely positioned to deliver with data. So, where is your platform? If you're using Prism to integrate relevant external data - operational, legacy, or otherwise - you're ahead of the game. If not, the time is now and according to Fortune, you're aboard the right ship (again).
It's time to unlock Workday's full potential, and the key is Prism Analytics.
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Kessiah Gaches. They married 30 Dec 1823.
Children all born in and around Wisbech/Murrow Cambs.
who married Wm Gaches (her 2nd cousin), Ann, Sarah Jane.
Some of these children are on the 1841 census and some names I got from a web site by Alan Gresley.


Here is the quick look at how the Font Selector looks like now. And its not just for the gnome-tweak-tool, its for all the places for font selection. I really loved it. So intuitive to use and amazingly good to look. This is what a good design and thinking can do. Kudos to Gnome team for coming up with this.
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Australian Open: Victoria's secret out in Melbourne
Updated on: 25 January,2023 10:53 AM IST | Melbourne
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Former champion Azarenka recalls feeling lost and surviving panic attacks as she stuns third seed Jessica Pegula 6-4, 6-1; to play Elena Rybakina in semis
Victoria Azarenka returns to Jessica Pegula during their quarter-finals in Melbourne yesterday. Pics/AFP, Getty Images
Victoria Azarenka reached her first Australian Open semi-final since winning the title in 2013, then opened up on Tuesday about overcoming "anxiety" and "fears of failing" on court. The Belarusian, who won back-to-back Australian Opens in 2012 and 2013, knocked out third seed Jessica Pegula 6-4, 6-1 on Tuesday.
The 24th seed outlasted her American opponent in a marathon 64-minute first set before running away with the second to set up a last-four encounter against Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina at Melbourne Park.
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Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina stepped up her bid for a second Grand Slam title with a ruthless 6-2, 6-4 win over Jelena Ostapenko. Asked about her battles with nerves and anxiety, Azarenka detailed what she had been through in recent years and how it had held her back from winning another major.
"I don't think you recognise it right away. I think it builds up until you hit kind of a pretty bad spot where nothing kind of makes sense," she told reporters. "You feel kind of lost. I was at the point where I couldn't find anything that I feel good about myself, not like even one sentence."
Asked what her biggest worries were, Azarenka gave a blunt answer. "Fears of failing is a big one. To not be able to do what I want to do," she said. "I've had panic attacks before." The Belarusian said she now has a process to cope when the nerves rear up, and she has cut a noticeably calmer figure at Melbourne Park this year. "I kind of tried to take it more simple. Kind of working through it," said the 33-year-old Azarenka.
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"I'm pretty happy that the process that I'm going through makes me feel confident about myself, happy about myself, and helps me to be more open, be more accepting, be compassionate. "'Compassionate' was a very hard word for me to understand."Pegula was in her third Australian Open quarter-final and had never reached the semi-finals of a Slam in four previous attempts, failing to win a set in any of them.
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I'm sure that the fluffiest jumpers are food for the soul. Feeling the softest tickle on your skin and the wonderful bubble of warmth held in the air pockets is a sure way to keep you as warm as can be. You can barely see my fluffy blue oversized jumper in these pictures as I was wrapped up nice and toasty with my knitted hat, tartan scarf and padded denim jacket. That jacket was a good buy - around 3 or 4 years ago I think I bought it on ebay. Little did I know that I'd wear it hundreds and hundreds of times, I'd be lost without it! I've even worn it with jeans before, but that's our little secret.
Navy tights for a change, it's rarity for me. In fact since then I got dressed in bad light (no it's mean to say I look like I get dressed in the dark) and thinking I had a pair of black tights on I was pleased how beautifully soft and new they felt, only to discover later they were my nearly new navy pair. An anecdote I could dine out on for years to come.
Jumpers are completely good for the soul!
Double denim? Sophie I'm surprised at you!


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Miravan apre la tomba dei suoi antenati è un dipinto di Joseph Wright of Derby, terminato  nel 1772.

Descrizione
La storia di Miravan illustrata da Joseph Wright ha origine da un'opera di John Gilbert Cooper, Lettere sul gusto pubblicata nel 1755 . Cooper afferma che la storia è persiana, ma la fonte originale non è nota.

Joseph Wright era noto per i suoi studi su un tipo di illuminazione insolita e questo dipinto li combina con uno stile che è stato definito neo-gotica e che Wright utilizzava anche nel suo dipinto Democrito studia l'anatomia . Questi due quadri mostrano anche una buona familiarità dell'artista con l'anatomia umana.

Il dipinto mostra un nobile, Miravan, che ha scoperto una delle tombe di un suo antenato e spinto dall'avidità ordina che il sepolcro sia aperto dopo aver letto che l'epigrafe sulla tomba recita che "tesoro più grande di quanti Creso ne ha mai posseduti" è lì all'interno. Il dipinto rappresenta la repulsione di Miravan nel compiere l'atto sacrilego e la sua angoscia quando capisce che è stato ingannato. Il suo antenato gli dice che non potrà godere del riposo eterno perché ha disturbato uno dei suoi progenitori .

Storia
Il dipinto fu inciso nel 1772 da Valentine Green e come molte altre opere di Wright sue aree forti aree di buio e di luce lo rendevano ideale per una mezzatinta. In questo caso l'immagine è illuminata da una singola luce a olio assommata al chiaro della luna. Il dipinto fu acquistato nel corso della vita di Wright dal signor Milne (che poteva forse essere di Wakefield). Il dipinto è entrato in possesso del Derby Museum and Art Gallery nel 1935 dopo essere stato acquisito da privati grazie al finanziamento statale.

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Some of our celeb moms and dads faves used Saint Patrick's Day to dress up their little ones in festive green and share online.
Kate Hudson's daughter Rani Fujikawa looked so adorable; meanwhile Andy Cohen's 5-week old son Benjamin Allen was not having it.
Stormi Webster was while toddling around in a green romper in her mom Kylie Jenner's Insta story. As was Mariah Carey's twins Rocco and Monroe.


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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Regains Commercialization and Distributions Rights in Europe for LYMPHOSEEK®
May 11, 2020 11:30 UTC
DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NAVB) ("Navidea" or the "Company"), a company focused on the development of precision immunodiagnostic agents and immunotherapeutics, is pleased to announce that the Company has regained the commercialization and distribution rights in Europe for LYMPHOSEEK® (technetium Tc99m tilmanocept) injection from Norgine B.V. ("Norgine"). Navidea and Norgine have decided, by mutual agreement, to end the existing license agreement ("Agreement") between the two companies.
The Agreement was originally entered in March 2015, and provided Norgine with the exclusive rights in Europe for LYMPHOSEEK. As a result of today's transaction, Navidea has regained all the rights, economics, and intellectual property of LYMPHOSEEK in Europe.
Per this new agreement, both companies will cooperate to complete a seamless transfer of regulatory marketing authorizations back to Navidea. Through the transition, Norgine will remain responsible for the continued commercialization and distribution of LYMPHOSEEK in Europe for a period of six months.
Jed Latkin, CEO of Navidea, commented, "We would like to thank Norgine for our legacy partnership and initiating the commercialization and distribution in Europe. I am delighted that LYMPHOSEEK's European rights and economics are now fully in the hands of Navidea. We are excited about the potential for this asset in Europe and will work to mirror the product's successful and broad-based commercial adoption in the United States."
Management plans to address the new agreement during the Company's First Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call, scheduled for Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. (EDT). Conference call and webcast details can be found below.
Additionally, the Company has finalized the previously announced $4.2 million financing related to the judgement by the Ohio Court of Common Pleas (the "Judgement"). Navidea has agreed to issue Keystone Capital Partners, LLC, an existing shareholder, up to $4.2 million of mandatory redeemable preferred shares. These preferred shares are guaranteed by a portion of the proceeds of the Judgement.
Event: Q1 2020 Earnings and Business Update Conference Call
U.S. & Canada Dial-in: 877-407-0312
International Dial-in: +1 201-389-0899
Webcast Link: https://webcasts.eqs.com/navidbioph20200514/en
About LYMPHOSEEK
LYMPHOSEEK® (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) is approved in Europe for imaging and intraoperative detection of sentinel lymph nodes draining a primary tumor in adult patients with breast cancer, melanoma, or localized squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. LYMPHOSEEK® is designed to locate the sentinel lymph nodes and map lymph node drainage from these cancers.
About Navidea
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NAVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision immunodiagnostic agents and immunotherapeutics. Navidea is developing multiple precision-targeted products based on its Manocept™ platform to enhance patient care by identifying the sites and pathways of disease and enable better diagnostic accuracy, clinical decision-making, and targeted treatment. Navidea's Manocept platform is predicated on the ability to specifically target the CD206 mannose receptor expressed on activated macrophages. The Manocept platform serves as the molecular backbone of Tc99m tilmanocept, the first product developed and commercialized by Navidea based on the platform. Navidea's strategy is to deliver superior growth and shareholder return by bringing to market novel products and advancing the Company's pipeline through global partnering and commercialization efforts. For more information, please visit www.navidea.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends affecting the financial condition of our business. Forward-looking statements include our expectations regarding pending litigation and other matters. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, among other things: our history of operating losses and uncertainty of future profitability; the final outcome of any pending litigation; our ability to successfully complete research and further development of our drug candidates; the timing, cost and uncertainty of obtaining regulatory approvals of our drug candidates; our ability to successfully commercialize our drug candidates; dependence on royalties and grant revenue; our ability to implement our growth strategy; anticipated trends in our business; our limited product line and distribution channels; advances in technologies and development of new competitive products; our ability to comply with the NYSE American continued listing standards; our ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting; the impact of the current coronavirus pandemic; and other risk factors detailed in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other SEC filings. You are urged to carefully review and consider the disclosures found in our SEC filings, which are available at http://www.sec.gov or at http://ir.navidea.com.
Investors are urged to consider statements that include the words "will," "may," "could," "should," "plan," "continue," "designed," "goal," "forecast," "future," "believe," "intend," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," and similar expressions, as well as the negatives of those words or other comparable words, to be uncertain forward-looking statements.
You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, any of which could turn out to be incorrect. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise after the date of this report. In light of these risks and uncertainties, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this report may not occur and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements.
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Sushi is an all time favourite of mine, I haven't had it in ages... and I have no idea why. Matt sent me one of these photos during a iChat conversation earlier today, and I have been thinking about eating some of this good stuff ever sense. They are actually from a trip that he and my boss took up to the Arctic a few months ago. Yes, I said Arctic.
Oh- and I have to show love for being showed the light that is sushi; I'm grateful that I got on this train.
Freshly caught Arctic Char sushi at Arctic Watch. Somerset Island Nunavut 2010.


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Domo Stock Options in High Demand After Forecast Flop
Domo options volume is pacing for an annual high
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Sep 6, 2019 at 10:07 AM
DOMO stock is headed for its biggest one-day drop ever
The shares of cloud-based software company Domo Inc (NASDAQ:DOMO) are taking a nosedive today, after the firm slashed its full-year revenue guidance and forecast a larger-than-anticipated adjusted per-share loss. This is offsetting the company's slimmer-than-expected second-quarter loss of 96 cents on in-line revenue of $41.7 million. DOMO stock is down 36.3% at $16.06.
This drop not only means a new 2019 low for DOMO, but could also signal its biggest one-day drop on record, should these losses hold through the close. The stock has been on a downward trajectory since its all-time high of $47.08 in March, with its 40-day moving average successfully squashing several rally attempts, and more recent pressure emerging at its 20-day moving average. Now, the equity is nearly 66% off this March peak.
Analysts have been quick to chime in with bear notes. So far, Cowen, J.P. Morgan Securities, and Credit Suisse have all issued price-target cuts, while Credit Suisse also downgraded the stock to "neutral" from "outperform." Even more negative analyst attention could be on the horizon, too, considering the majority of those in coverage still maintain a "buy" or better rating on the equity, while the average 12-month price target of $32.33 is double DOMO's current perch.
Options traders are in overdrive, too. Already today, 3,175 calls and 2,422 puts have changed hands -- six times the average daily volume, and pacing for a new annual high. The September 17 call is most active, and it looks like new positions are being purchased here. By doing so, call buyers are betting on a bounce back above $17 by front-month expiration by the close on Friday, Sept. 20.


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Nvoga organises first Costa del Sol real estate webinar during Covid-19 crisis
Nvoga showed its innovative thinking when the company hosted the first webinar of the Costa del Sol property sector in April.Lead by the company's founder and CEO, José Carlos León, the event brought together leading industry professionals in the form of property developers, constructors, architects, lawyers, financial experts, marketers and bankers to discuss the current situation created by the Covid-19 crisis.
Marbella, 8th April 2020. José Carlos León, CEO of Nvoga Marbella Realty started a live chat at 11.00 am among the professionals of the real estate sector in Marbella, to know the point of view of each one of them in these moments of uncertainty. Once again, not only the property sector and the Costa del Sol, but the entire world, is experiencing a period of uncertainty as large sections of it are in enforced lockdown in an effort to overcome this unexpected health threat. The economic implications will be profound everywhere, and José Carlos León discussed the situation with:
Juan José González (President of CIT Marbella), Tomás Gasset (CEO URBANIA INTERNATIONAL, promoter), José Manuel Zorrilla (WINDUP, agency specialized in digital MK), Rodolfo Amieva (Estudio de Arquitectura GONZALEZ & JACOBSON), Bonifacio Solis (CEO Constructora B. SOLIS), Miguel Manzanares (MANZANARES ABOGADOS) Charly Simon (CHARLY SIMON PHOTO), Emma Polo (Director of the Marbella OP BANCO SANTANDER), Bernard Fay (UHY FAY & CO, a firm of multidisciplinary professional services, consultancy and advice)
Effects of the crisis on the real estate sector and how it is expected to recover
Looking at how the crisis has affected the local Marbella market up to the present moment and how it is likely to recover in the mid to longer term, the business professionals used previous economic crises as a point of reference. Overall, the tone was upbeat, as this is seen not as a classic economic recession or financial crisis, but an unexpected global situation that will prompt strong recovery for those businesses, professionals and even sectors and countries that use the opportunity to adapt, modernise and reinvent the way they do things. Put differently, the present situation is a catalyst for accelerating change that was underway in any case, and those who embrace it will not only survive the crisis but be able to build upon new foundations.
For many there will therefore be a new beginning, but of course there are immediate challenges to overcome first, and representatives from the tourist sector indicated that due to the international travel restrictions that will limit foreign tourism to Spain this summer, the main drive will be focused upon the national market, and it will have to be specially adapted to the current conditions. In this way, the tourist season of 2020 will serve as a period of survival that will help to safeguard the industry once restrictions are lifted and things gradually return to normal.
Highlights and conclusions of the webinar
During the talk, the professionals on the panel analysed how the crisis is affecting their companies so far and how the recovery is expected in the medium or long term. Likewise, a comparison was made with previous financial crises that affected the real estate sector.
Most of the responses have been positive; it is time to reinvent ourselves, to look for new formulas and alternatives.
Those involved agree that support measures are needed from the authorities, facilities in the lines of credit and above all a reduction in taxes or a change in the regulation of property taxes in Andalusia, which make other regions or countries more attractive for tax investors.
The tourism sector points out that the tourism that should arrive this summer will be the National, in view of the uncertainty of the exit of the crisis of other countries that are also being affected, as it is the case of United Kingdom, and of the doubt in the reactivation of flights in the next months and that the government allows the entry to tourists of affected countries.
More than four hundred viewers have followed the talk live and have intervened with messages and questions, and more than a thousand people have seen the talk that is available on the youtube channel of the real estate agency NVOGA.
Connection with the Costa del Sol Hospital
At the end of the symposium, we connected live with the Hospital Costa del Sol, with Rafael Barrios, head of nursing in the area of Urology and Nephrology, which has now become a COVID plant, informing us of the current situation regarding the patients affected, the reorganization in the hospital to attend the various emergencies that have been attended, differentiating now two entries of emergency (respiratory and non-respiratory), the work of health personnel and the management of the Hospital that is being impeccable, which will begin to submit to the protocol of detection test of the disease and above all, although being cautious, sharing positive news regarding the number of daily cases of contagion of the disease and patients discharged. Mention was also made of the extension of the Costa del Sol Hospital, a project that has been paralysed for so many years and which we citizens now miss so much.
The conference ended with José Carlos León thanking all the colleagues and professionals in the real estate sector for their dedication and work, and all the spectators for their interest, comments and questions, and wishing that this situation would end as soon as possible and that we could meet again in person.
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Washburn is a city in Washburn Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States. The current town encompasses the sites of two communities formerly known as Keetsville and O'Day and is named for local pioneer Samuel C. Washburn. The population was 435 at the 2010 census.
Keetsville 1850?-1868
Located along the historic Trail of Tears and on the Old Wire Road, Keetsville traced its official settlement to Georgia native John Cureton (1795-1853), who had served as a judge in Washington County, Arkansas before settling on the Washburn Prairie about two miles north of current day Washburn in 1840 and then procured the location of the town. In 1853, Cureton died and ownership of the land transferred to the Englishman James T. Keet (1818-1863), who then laid out the town of Keetsville. The 1850s saw the first real establishment of the town with Keet establishing a store at the site. The growth of the town would be interrupted by the Civil War, as a February 1862 skirmish, a predecessor to the much larger Battle of Pea Ridge the next month in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, would result in the destruction of the fledgling town. Following the war, the town was rebuilt between 1867 and 1869 and in 1868 it was renamed Washburn in honor of an early pioneer to the area Samuel Washburn, who had lived in the area about ten years, before moving to Texas where he was killed in 1838.
O'Day 1880-1892
In the winter of 1879 and 1880, the Atlantic and Pacific Railway — at that time a franchise of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway — built a railroad line between Pierce City and Seligman, Missouri. This line ran about a half mile west of what was then Keetsville, but soon to be renamed Washburn.
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NGO Shipbreaking Platform: Use of 'Polluting' South Asia Scrap Yards Accelerating
Ships on the beach of the Hong Kong Convention-compliant Shree Ram yard in Alang, India circa 2016. Photo credit: Maersk
A total of 862 ships were dismantled worldwide in 2016, the vast majority of which ended up in South Asia on the beaches of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform said Wednesday.
The Platform, which has compiled and analysed a comprehensive list of all ships dismantled worldwide, said the figures show no sign that the shipping industry has improved its management of end-of-life vessels. In 2016, a total of 668 vessels were broken on tidal beaches of South Asia, which is as much as 87% of all tonnage dismantled globally, the Platform said.
European ship owners topped the list of global dumpers in 2016, the Platform said, with Greece and Germany sending the most ships to be dismantled on "polluting and unsafe" South Asia beaches.
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, created in 2005, is coalition of environmental, human and labour rights organizations whose goal is to prevent toxic end-of-life ships from being beached in developing countries, particularly in South Asia where ships are dismantled within the tidal zone.
"The shipping industry is nowhere close to ensuring sustainable ship recycling practices. Last year, we saw not only an increase in the market share for dangerous and dirty shipbreaking, but also a record-breaking number of EU-owned vessels on the South Asian beaches. A jaw-dropping 84% of all European end-of-life ships ended up in either India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Beaching yards are not only well known for their failure to respect international environmental protection standards, but also for their disrespect of fundamental labour rights and international waste trade law," says Patrizia Heidegger, Executive Director of the Platform.
The Platform also tracked accidents and fatalities as best they could. The Platform said 2016 saw the worst catastrophe in the history of the industry in November when at least 28 workers were killed and more 50 suffered injuries when a tanker beached in Gadani, Pakistan exploded and caught fire. The Platform said it also documented 22 fatalities and 29 serious injuries in Bangladesh yards in 2016. In Alang, India, the Platform said it was informed of at least two fatal deaths, although accident records in Indian shipbreaking yards are kept secret, it notes.
Overall, the dismantling of ships accelerated last year amid pressure to scrap due to prolonged low freight rates and too many ships, particularly among container ships and bulk carriers. In 2015, just 768 large ocean-going vessels were sold to the scrap yards last year, including 469 which were broken on beaches in South Asia.
"It is scandalous that the burden to deal with Europe's profit-greedy shipbuilding boom is shifted to communities and workers in South Asia: first the shipping industry creates a large overcapacity on the market, and then it fails to find responsible solutions for its obsolete ships," says Heidegger.
One of the most talked-about shipbreaking stories of 2016 was Maersk Group's decision to once again send end-of-life vessels to Alang for recycling, but only to specific yards complying with company's internal policies as well as standards set forth in the upcoming Hong Kong Convention, aimed at ensuring that ships due for recycling do not pose any unnecessary risk to human health and safety or to the environment. At the time of its decision Maersk said it could save $1 million to $2 million dollars per ship by sending them to Alang, where Maersk argues that its investment will improve conditions and provide the shipping industry with more scrapping capacity.
"This move to boost profits does not only help to rubberstamp the beaching method, but, very regrettably, it is also stalling real progress and innovation in India to move ship recycling to the next level – off the beach – to modern ship recycling facilities," argues Heidegger.
At least five yards located in Alang are now fully compliant with the Hong Kong Convention, and the number seems to be increasing.
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform is particularly critical of ship owners' continued use of cash buyers for end-of-life vessels and the practice of reflagging end-of-life vessels to flags of convenience.
"Looking at the flags used at end-of-life, it is clear that legislation based on flag state jurisdiction will not be able to bring substantial change to the current practices: who believes that a non-compliant flag and a cash buyer benefitting from the worst conditions will enforce improvements in shipbreaking yards?," says Ingvild Jenssen, Policy Director and founder of the Platform. "The global shipbreaking crisis can only be solved through measures that go beyond flag state jurisdiction. That is why we call on the EU to demand a ship recycling licence from all vessels visiting EU ports."
In late December, the European Commission published and adopted its first version of the long-awaited European List of approved ship recycling facilities, which will have exclusive access to EU-flag ships being sent for scrap as required under the EU Ship Recycling Regulation, entering into force no later than December 31, 2018. The first version of the list however only included 18 located in Europe only. The European Commission plans to expand the list to include non-EU yards later this year, but the big question is whether or not the the EC will include yards where the beaching method is still used.
As the Platform points out however, European ship recycling facilities dismantled small-size vessels in 2016, with just 22 vessels totaling 38,839 gross tonnes scrapped. Meanwhile India scrapped the most ships in 2016 (306), but Bangladesh broke most in terms of gross tonnage, indicating that it was the preferred destination for the larger vessels.
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform's full comprehensive list of ship breaking in 2016 can be found HERE.
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Three mariners were rescued from a disabled barge off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island on Wednesday after their tug sank. The U.S. Coast Guard reports that watchstanders at...


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Today my mother and sister will come to see me. My sister is leaving very soon, back to Saudi Arabia. We will spend the day together, they are going to take me and the girls out to lunch and then we will sit looking out at the Palouse. I will check in here and there but wont be around much today. Have a great Tuesday!
treasure the moments with family; it comes and goes so quickly.
Have a wonderful day with your sister!
It is interesting how similar you and your sister are with your life course. I don't have a sister but I watched the interaction between my mom and her sister. Bonds with brothers can be formed but they are never the same, I believe. Will your sister be working or living in Saudi?
She introduced me to my spouse back in college. She married a Saudi and they lived next door to him. He is Palestinian. She has lived there for 30 years and has 4 kids that live there as well.
Interesting. These Middle Eastern men are very charming.
Yes, I was amazed to learn the other day of a colleague who recently married a Middle Easterner leaving her husband. I was very surprised as she was a former debutante.
An adorable picture. Has your sister embraced Saudi culture or does she chafe under it?
She is married to a Saudi, where he is Palestinian. It is way easier if your spouse is actually Saudi, you have many privileges. She has 4 kids and they all live there and will most likely always live there. So I think being with her kids is so important to her.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I hope you had a good visit with your sister.
That photo is beautiful Lynn and I hope that you have a great visit with your Mom and Sister. Your Sister lives in Saudi Arabia? Does she like it there?
30 years wow! Yes she must be fine with it.
To be honest I think its still hard!
Have a wonderful day with your sister and family – it sounds like just a great way to spend the day!
What a lovely day you are having Lynn. I enjoyed the old photo. It puts me in mind of one of me and my little sister. Hugs.
Have a wonderful day Lyn! Enjoy every moment! It is probably going to be hard to say goodbye to your sister when she leaves! Hugs!
Hope you had a great day with your Mother and Sister. It's always hard to say goodbye when big distances are involved.
Have wonderful day with your mum and sis. If I recall correctly, your sis has had a good experience living in Saudi. Grateful for her and you and your whole family.
I hope you had a wonderful visit!
I hope you all had a wonderful day, Lynn! Blessings to all!
I'm glad to hear that and you're very welcome!
what lovely picture, thank you for sharing and hope you had a good visit!
Such a distance between you all!
You and your sister are precious!!
Love those old photos! Happy for you to spend time with your Mom and Sister. Safe travels to your family.


A dogged and determined performance earned Livingston a point against Scottish Championship leaders Rangers.
Rangers enjoyed the bulk of possession and went ahead through Jason Holt when he pounced on a loose ball.
Livingston had few opportunities of their own, but crucially took one of them - Miles Hippolyte beating Wes Foderingham from just outside the box.
Rangers pressed for a winning goal, but the home side held firm.
The slip-up from Mark Warburton's side allows Hibs to draw level on 37 points at the top of the Championship, though Rangers still have a game in hand and boast a healthier goal difference.
Livingston had shown during the week against Hibernian they would not be steam-rollered and so it proved in the early stages against the league leaders.
Rangers' dominance of possession was converted into something tangible, though, when Holt edged them in front with his third goal in his last five league matches.
The midfielder's arrival into the penalty area was perfectly timed to pick up on a loose ball after Declan Gallacher had cut out Barrie McKay's pass intended for Martyn Waghorn.
Holt made the most of his good fortune by coolly slotting the ball low past goalkeeper Marc McCallum.
Livingston did not buckle, however, and claimed strongly for a penalty when Jordyn Sheerin's shot looked to have struck Rob Kiernan on the arm.
Having survived a curling McKay shot off a post, the home side should have been level on the stroke of half-time when Jordan White headed straight at Foderingham from point-blank range.
However, they did not have to wait for long after the break to tie things up. Ben Gordon was allowed to step out of defence and advance on the Rangers goal and though his shot was blocked, Hippolite - much like Holt earlier - was ideally positioned to gather and guide a shot past Foderingham.
That was reward for Livingston's industry and organisation and those traits continued to serve them well, though Rangers did force McCallum into good saves to deny Andy Halliday and Kenny Miller.
Waghorn, McKay and Miller all had further chances to win it for Rangers, but all were disappointed.
Match ends, Livingston 1, Rangers 1.
Second Half ends, Livingston 1, Rangers 1.
Substitution, Livingston. Ross Millen replaces Myles Hippolyte.
Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Martyn Waghorn (Rangers).
Kieran Gibbons (Livingston) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Livingston. Liam Buchanan replaces Jordan White.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Ben Gordon.
Attempt blocked. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Morgyn Neill (Livingston) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gedion Zelalem (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Morgyn Neill (Livingston).
Substitution, Rangers. Dean Shiels replaces Andy Halliday.
Attempt blocked. Martyn Waghorn (Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Kenny Miller (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Livingston. Gary Glen replaces Jordyn Sheerin.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Scott Pittman.
Foul by Myles Hippolyte (Livingston).
Myles Hippolyte (Livingston) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jason Holt (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jason Holt (Rangers).
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Marc McCallum.
James Tavernier (Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Rob Kiernan (Rangers).
Jordyn Sheerin (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rangers. Kenny Miller replaces Nathan Oduwa.
Attempt missed. Nathan Oduwa (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Kieran Gibbons.
Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Declan Gallagher.
Attempt missed. Scott Pittman (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Goal! Livingston 1, Rangers 1. Myles Hippolyte (Livingston) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Second Half begins Livingston 0, Rangers 1.
First Half ends, Livingston 0, Rangers 1.


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Ancient Free and Accepted Masons versus Free and Accepted Masons
From 1751 to 1813 there were actually two Grand Lodges in England. The difference in A.F. and A.M. vs F. and A.M. states in the United States goes back to a disagreement between these two Grand Lodges in London at that time.
One group was called the "Moderns," but was actually the older of the two English Grand Lodges. The other group was called the "Antients," which became the "Ancient" in A.F. & A.M. The reasons for these separate grand bodies were numerous and would take many pages to explain. The differences centered around perceived changes to ritual work and the inclusion or exclusion of the degree work that is now contained within the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, an appendant body.
Due to this disagreement, the two groups broke into separate Grand Lodges. The disagreement was later healed around 1880, but by that time, there were lodges and Grand Lodges all over the United States that were descended from one group or the other, and so each group kept their coreesponding initials with which they were formed, (this is also the reason for which there are small differences within different states' ritual wording and Grand Lodge By-Laws and procedures).
Most Grand Lodges in the U.S. recognize each other and treat each other's members as valid Masons.
Also, all of the U.S. Grand Lodges recognize (and are recognized by) the official Grand Lodges of England, Ireland, Scotland and the Grand Lodges in most of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Thailand, India, etc.
So, what is the difference between Ancient Free and Accpeted Masons, and Free and Accepted Masons and the members of Accepted Free Masons states and Free and Accepted Masons states? They few intrinsic differences are minimal.
While both A.F. & A.M. and F. and A.M. states exist, along with A.F.M. and F. A. A. M. in the District of Columbia, (with small differences in ritual wording, some officer titles, etc.) in essence, these minimal differences are not as important as the shared brotherhood between all of these groups within the fraternity.
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons:
The 25 A.F. & A.M. states include: CO, CT, DE, IA, ID, IL, KS, MA, ME, MD, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, OK, OR, SD, TX, VA, WV, and WY.
Free and Accepted Masons
The 24 F. & A.M. states include: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, HI, IN, KY, LA, MI, MS, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, UT, VT, WA, and WI.
Ancient Free Masons
There is one A.F.M. state: SC.
Free And Accepted Masons:
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Forward. Pacy wideman signed as a free agent in September 2018, penning a contract until the end of the season, after a spell training with the Hatters.
Having started his career at Newcastle United, where his older brother Lomana had previously starred, the Congolese attacker had loan spells at Doncaster Rovers and Brighton & Hove Albion, before joining the latter permanently in 2011 and helping them win promotions from League One and the Championship.
The 28-year-old previously worked with manager Nathan Jones on the south coast, where he spent seven years and made the bulk of his 228 appearances in a career that has also included two loan spells with Queens Park Rangers. Left the Amex in January 2018 to sign for Sunderland, but left the Black Cats after their relegation from the second tier in May.
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EU Foreign Ministers Discuss Obama Administration
By Sylvia Poggioli
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host:
This is Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.
And I'm Renee Montagne. After eight years of mostly chilly relations across the Atlantic, European foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss how to work with the new American administration. As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, Europeans are realizing it will be much harder to say no to President Obama than his predecessor.
SYLVIA POGGIOLI: President Obama's inaugural speech was received enthusiastically throughout Europe. His world view is seen as long overdue. Addressing the French parliament, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon laid out what Europe is now demanding from the new administration.
POGGIOLI: (Through Translator) We expect President Obama to recognize that unilateralism has been a failure and that it must now give way to multilateralism.
POGGIOLI: Divided over the war in Iraq and feeling shunned by the Bush administration, European governments had begun to focus on their own national interests. But now with the sharp change of course in Washington, Europeans will have to adapt to that change. French political analyst Dominique Moisi imagines the first thing President Obama will tell Europeans.
WERTHEIMER: Well, I know you have voted massively for me. I thank you for that very deeply. Now, what will you do for me? Your votes in symbolic terms were great, but I need your actions in very concrete terms.
POGGIOLI: French Defense Minister Herve Morin says France has already sent enough troops to Afghanistan and is overstretched in missions from Kosovo to Africa. Countries such as Italy and Spain also have troops in other international missions such as Lebanon. And German political scientist Yan Tekow(ph) says the troop issue is particularly sensitive in Germany, which holds elections later this year.
WERTHEIMER: In Germany we have a very, very strong prevailing pacifist mood in the society, which makes it very, very difficult for any government to move on security issues, especially deploying troops - which is politically, it's a suicide issue for almost any politician.
POGGIOLI: NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has urged the allies to offer at least more development and reconstruction aid and finally fulfill their commitments in what are considered vital areas, such as Afghan police training. The area where there was perhaps the widest divergence between Europe and the Bush administration was how to deal with a newly assertive and oil-rich Russia. Lucio Caracciolo, editor of the Italian foreign policy journal Limes, says the Bush administration's major focus was the creation of a Western front to contain Russia.
WERTHEIMER: This is exactly the opposite approach of Western Europe - say Germany, France, Italy, Spain - which have the best possible relations to Russia and which have built in the recent years a very strong interdependence as far as energy is concerned. So we have a clash of interests in this area.
POGGIOLI: The contrast came to a head at a NATO summit in Bucharest last year where for the first time in alliance history America was rebuffed. The allies resisted President Bush's pressure to grant NATO membership to Georgia and Ukraine, an expansion vehemently opposed by Moscow. Political scientist Yan Tekow says that in all of Europe, Germany has perhaps developed the closest relations with Russia.
WERTHEIMER: The Eastern orientation was always very strong with Germany. This is why still today we're only partially a Western country. We have Eastern instincts, the only major country in Europe that has Eastern instincts. This is why Russia plays such an important role for us, also because we have business interests and security interests.
POGGIOLI: Europeans are looking to the new Obama administration with great expectations and a dose of anxiety. Commentators wonder whether the new president will be a multilateralist miracle worker or whether he'll focus exclusively on American national interests, forsaking a stronger partnership with Europe. In any case, the French daily Le Monde writes, President Obama's popularity in Europe is so great that European leaders will find it harder to turn down his requests. Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Jagdeo's 56-day election deadline to Granger unworkable – Elections Commissioners
Posted by: Denis Chabrol in Constitution, Elections, News, Parliament, Politics March 5, 2019	0
Governing coalition-backed GECOM Commissioners: Desmond Trotman, Vincent Alexander, Charles Corbin.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo's plan to wrest general elections within the next 56 days from President David Granger is already being regarded as impractical even if there was an acceptable voters' list, the ruling coalition-backed elections commissioners said Tuesday.
However, opposition People's Progressive Party (PPP) elections commissioner Robeson Benn still has his eyes set on general elections within the constitutionally-mandated 90-day time frame after the no-confidence motion was approved on December 21, 2018.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday dispatched a letter to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon laying down several conditions for meeting with President David Granger on Wednesday, the chief one being setting an election date before the expiration of the voters' list on April 30.
"I, therefore, am proposing that the meeting focus exclusively on the date for these elections. Further, I believe that my proposal to hold general and regional elections before April 30, 2019 is reasonable and feasible with a claims and objections period, provided that GECOM acts in good faith and in conformity with its mandate and the Constitution. This proposal will ensure that the Constitution remains intact and prevents our nation slipping into a constitutional crisis," Jagdeo said.
But governing coalition elections commissioner, Charles Corbin said at least 126 days are required to prepare for general and regional elections even if a valid and acceptable voters' list is in place. "If the list is ready and you agree that you will use the existing list, you still have to spend a hundred and something days so. For instance, the preparation of staff itself requires 126 days before election day," Corbin told reporters after the three PPP elections commissioners walked out of Tuesday's statutory meeting.
Corbin reflected that the 123 days' preparation period for staff is the shortest presented since 2001.
On the money side of things, Corbin said Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield has informed the seven-member Commission that immediately after approval is given for holding general and regional elections, GYD$98 million is required "instantly".
Against the background of two successive walkouts by the PPP elections commissioners from meetings, resulting in a lack of a quorum, Corbin cautioned that the longer GECOM takes to make decisions, the possible election date would be pushed back. "The longer we push back our offset date, it is the longer time that we will be able to deliver so I would want to say that while one is saying one thing, one is going through a specific motion to place us in a problem," he said.
Another one of the coalition elections commissioners, Vincent Alexander noted that Jagdeo's demand was clearly the PPP's insistence that the elections must be held with the existing voters' list which the coalition and its commissioners have insisted are bloated with names of dead persons and emigrants. "The other aspect is this insistence to use the extant list. This seems to be the crux of the matter now – use the extant list and there are those of us who feel the extant list cannot provide for a free and fair election and, therefore, you need as quickly as possible to do the house-to-house to get an election as quickly as possible," he said.
Alexander said GECOM's established best practice is that there must be house-to-house registration every seven years, but this list is more than 10 years old because monies had not been previously available. GYD$3 billion has been allocated in the 2019 National Budget to fund house-to-house registration.
"The need for work on the list has never been contentious until now when it is not convenient for some to not use the list. It has never been contentious. The same people who are now arguing to use the list were in fact more strident in their argument for doing work on the list," Alexander added.
PPP GECOM Commissioners: (left to right) Sase Gunraj, Robeson Benn and Bibi Safora Shadick
He also echoed similar concerns by Corbin that the list of things that must be done would make it practical for elections to be held before next month-end.
For his part, elections commissioner Benn deflected questions about whether it was possible to hold general elections before April 30 to the PPP Leader. "You speak with the Opposition Leader about his position that he is taking… He doesn't have to consult with me or us. He has to consult with himself or his people," he added.
Benn reiterated yet again that there was a conspiracy to delay the holding of general elections in keeping with the no-confidence motion that was passed 33-32 in the 65-seat National Assembly. He assailed GECOM Chairman, James Patterson for leap-frogging efforts by advertising for house-to-house registration staff, saying that it reinforced concerns about "his partisan nature and his placement". "The Commission has been captured and is being directed otherwise by one side of the bipartisan political spectrum that we have," he added.
GECOM's next statutory meeting is scheduled for next week Tuesday.
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