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Bollington Makes Hat-Trick of Motor Trade Appointments
Date: 10th March 2015 | Author: Mark Bowers
Bollington Insurance has made a trio of appointments to its motor trade team, in a bid to further bolster its position as one of the leading brokers in the motor trade insurance market.
Pauline Brookes joins as Commercial Development Manager, heading up the motor trade combined sales team.
And she is joined at Bollington by former FM Green account managers Gary Cotterell and Adrian Bridges, who rejoin Bollington after a six-year hiatus via Ernest R Shaw.
Brookes, who brings over 16 years of experience in motor trade insurance to Bollington, also arrives from E R Shaw, where she acted as New Business & Servicing Director for over a decade.
She will lead Bollington's nationwide team of motor trade account managers and maintain responsibility for driving ambitious new business sales growth in this division.
Cotterell has worked in insurance since 1980, and counts experience as a commercial development underwriter at General Accident amongst his roles before his previous stint at Bollington, who took over former employer FM Green in 2006.
Finally, Bridges brings 30 years of broking experience back to Bollington, having previously worked at the company until 2009.
These appointments follow hot on the heels of the arrivals of Leon Fung and Marcus Hewston on the motor trade account management team.
Commenting on her appointment, Brookes said, "It is great to join Bollington at a time of expansion for the group.
"I am confident that the addition of Gary and Adrian to an already strong team will help to advance business growth to the next level."
Bollington CEO Paul Moors added, "With the appointment of Pauline Brookes as Commercial Development Manager, we are cementing our reputation as a major motor trade insurance broker.
"And with Adrian Bridges and Gary Cotterell rejoining us, we are making a statement of our intent to further grow our motor trade business and ensure motor traders in all areas of the UK can benefit from high quality account management."

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Since our adventurous first week in Vietnam (read about it here), the fun has only continued. After Hoi An we caught the train along the Hai Van Pass to Hue.
The Hai Van Pass has been voted one of the most jaw-dropping stretches of road in Vietnam. Treating you to alcoves of deserted golden beaches, stretches of rolling green jungle and a fair few hair-raising vertical drops, a lot of backpackers choose to travel this route on a motorbike over a couple of days.
Once we'd arrived in Hue, it was all about uncovering the Chinese history and architecture of the city. Previously the capital of Vietnam during the Chinese rule, Hue has an intriguing history with a beautiful Citadel at its core.
We spent our first day wandering around the Citadel's Imperial City and its many ancient quarters. Doused in romantic, lily-pad-strewn ponds, intricately decorated residencies and peaceful, manicured gardens, it was interesting to see how the Chinese influence still remained in the country.
The next day we took a trip to Ho Thuy Tien, an abandoned water park my friend, Spence had told us about. Situated around 7km outside of the city centre, this intriguing park isn't a well-known sight in the city and therefore, seems to gain its visitors by the old school method of word of mouth.
On arrival, we skirted the tranquil lake the water park was built around before approaching a mammoth dragon protruding out of the water.
There was no doubt we'd found it.
As we tiptoed into the dragon's belly we had two thoughts. One – what the hell happened here?! Two – what an amazing party venue it would be!
We stumbled upon a pile of shattered thick glass scattered below old smashed fish tanks. We were in the old aquarium.
It was dark, glass crunched below our flimsy flip-flops, graffiti covered the walls (including one saying 'you're about to die' – great) and the silence added to our already paranoid state and creepy surroundings.
We ran up the spiral staircase towards the light and emerged in the dragon's mouth, which overlooked the glistening lake and the rest of the park.
Ah, a breath of fresh air.
It was quite the experience and one you don't come across often.
Next, we hopped on a bus to Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park.
This place blew us both away.
Offering jagged limestone cliffs draped in blankets of fluffy foliage, azure blue trickling rivers and ginormous caves boasting extensive and unique rock formations, Phong Nha's landscape was like a scene straight out of Avatar.
We spent the next couple of days cruising around the countryside soaking up the unbelievable scenery, exploring the fascinating Paradise Cave and trekking in the blissful Botanic Gardens.
It was the perfect end to our second week in Vietnam and was voted by both of us as our highlight of the country so far.
We are now moving further North to the capital, Hanoi and to Ha Giang, a province a stones throw away from the Chinese border!


Decades ago, my SE/30 caught a Mac Classic virus. There was a fine freeware antivirus app for the Mac then, maintained by an academic and Mac geek. I used that until OS X came along. After OS X there was no great need for antivirus software, and none worth using.
I suspect the last needs to be run on every user account, which is the sort of tedious job antiviral software was built for. So far I haven't found any problems.
I'll move my two Mountain Lion capable machines to the new OS later this summer, and I'll be watching to see what happens with OS X antiviral software. My Win 7 experience with antiviral software means I'll think hard before I take that road.
Update: Flashback may be the worst virus-specific malware infection ever.
Do you have any idea why Flashback has been mostly limited to the US?
No idea, I'd not realized it was US only. That is curious.
English-only might actually be a better explanation.


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The United States has pledged to support the Sembrando Vida program from AMLO
Tony Joseph 1 year ago 2 min read
The United States Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, assured that the Joe Biden government would help implement the Sembrando Vida program promoted by President Andres Manuel López Obrador as part of the fight against climate change.
During the presentation of the program to the US delegation, Kerry said Mexico has "leadership in tackling climate change" and praised the deforestation initiatives.
Read more | AMLO considers a "responsible" policy in the face of climate change but calls for an increase in oil extraction to 38%
"We have to recognize that these forests of Mexico, as President López Obrador has already said, can be a source of prosperity for communities, a symbol of Mexico's leadership at a time when it is necessary to act on climate change.. In the name of President Biden, I want to tell you that you can count on us as part of the team to work with you in the future and I look forward to working with Mexico as a partner in this fight I am," said Kerry from Palenque, Chiapas.
The US official said Sembrando Vida is not only a reforestation program, but "focused on the possibility of being connected to the land as part of their future, on the lives of people, at work, where they live".
This, after last April, The Biden government rejected López Obrador's offer to fund the program in Central America, Where he also asked to grant work visas and even residency or dual nationality to those who participate in the reforestation scheme for three years or more.
See also Britain turns to military to meet shortage of medical staff in hospitals
On the other hand, this Monday, John Kerry said that the Mexican president "acts correctly when focusing on deforestation."
On the other hand, President López Obrador said that President Biden has "guarantees for the survival of all human beings, in the face of climate change and guaranteed lives. We are your allies in protecting the environment."
During the climate change summit last April, the Mexican president focused on the need to expand the Sembrando Vida program and order migration to Central America, but also defended national production of oil and gasoline for domestic demand.
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First Look at Milo Murphy's Law, From the Creators of Phineas and Ferb
Disneyland's Tower of Terror is Now Gone Forever
Ask anyone to name the most popular Disney Channel show of the last decade. The answer you're almost certain to hear is Phineas and Ferb. The hit animated show ran for four seasons and 222 episodes from 2007-2015. Now, the creators of Phineas and Ferb are back with a new Disney XD show called Milo Murphy's Law.
Introducing Milo Murphy
The new show follows the adventures of 13-year-old Milo Murphy. Milo is the great-great-great-great grandson of Edward A. Murphy, Jr., who originated the term "Murphy's Law."
Image Credit: Disney XD
According to Disney XD, Milo "is the personification of Murphy's Law, where anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
Famous parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic will provide the voice of Milo Murphy on the show. Girl Meets World star Sabrina Carpenter will play Milo's friend, Melissa Chase.
In addition, Milo Murphy's Law will boast an impressive number of recurring voice actors. The list includes Christian Slater, Sarah Chalke, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Vanessa Williams, Jemaine Clement, and Mackenzie Phillips.
Here's the official description for Milo Murphy's Law from Disney XD:
"Milo is always expecting the unexpected. No matter what goes wrong – and it constantly does – Milo is prepared for every possibility, armed with knowledge, a backpack of supplies, and an endless sense of optimism and enthusiasm that can turn any catastrophe into an adventure.
In each 22-minute episode, comprised of two 11-minute stories, Milo, along with his best friends Zack and Melissa, find ways to think outside of the box while enjoying life's obstacles."
A New Series From Two Legendary Animators
Milo Murphy's Law was created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Povenmire is a longtime veteran of the animation business. He worked on series such as Hey Arnold!, The Simpsons, Rocko's Modern Life, and Spongebob Squarepants. He was nominated for an Annie award in 2005 for his longtime work as a director on Family Guy. He left that show to create Phineas and Ferb.
Marsh is also an animation veteran, having spent six years on The Simpsons. In addition, he worked on King of the Hill, Rocko's Modern Life, Postman Pat, and more. Povenmire and Marsh originally created Phineas and Ferb in 1993, based on their childhood summer vacations. They spent 16 years pitching the show before Disney Channel finally picked it up.
On June 12, 2015, the series ended it's long run with the hour-long special, "Phineas and Ferb: Last Day of Summer," simulcast on both Disney XD and Disney Channel.
Milo Murphy's Law is Coming Soon
Povenmire and Marsh immediately moved on to begin work on Milo Murphy's Law. The new show will debut on Monday, October 3 on Disney XD. The premiere episode is titled "Going the Extra Milo." Here's the official synopsis for the first episode:
Zack Underwood, a new kid in town, meets Milo Murphy, the unluckiest kid in town. Because of Milo's misfortune, he and Zack both miss the bus for school, so Milo shows Zack a "shortcut" to school, while attempting to avoid wolves, bees, fire, and even an alien abduction. Meanwhile, Melissa Chase, a friend of Milo's, collects lunches as wagers from other students on whether or not Milo and Zack will make it to school before the bell rings.
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I suppose one way to demonstrate film artistry is to tell a predictable and somewhat saccharine story in such a way that it pleases both the audience and the critics. That's what Marcus Markou did with the 2013 movie Papadopolos & Son which he produced, wrote, directed, and distributed. The title character in this piece is Harry Papadopoulos, who emigrated with his family from Greece to Britain and made a fortune mass producing Greek food products. Harry lives in a mansion with his three children and an outspoken but indispensable housekeeper, Mrs. Parrington, referred to almost exclusively as "Mrs. P." The older son, James, likes horticulture and resists his father's nudges toward a business degree. The younger son, Theo, is a prodigy — a kind of European Brick Heck — with an almost frightening understanding of the stock market. The third child is 18-year-old Katie, a benign but spoiled fashionista. This family's life is marred by the fact that the wife and mother of the clan has died by the time we meet them.
Although his food business is highly profitable, Harry has a dream — an enormous commercial complex bearing his name. Inasmuch as he is not Rameses II, he has to leverage his holdings to raise the money for this monument. Timing is everything, and Harry's was bad. He is in debt up to his spanakopita when the world economy collapses and the bank calls in its markers. Harry can't pay, and he loses virtually everything. His only recourse, as he sees it, is to consult his brother Spiros, from whom he has been estranged for many years because of Spiros' profligate lifestyle. Spiros has no resources, but he wants to help. He suggests that He and Harry re-open what was once the family business — a fish-and-chips restaurant that was doing well until Harry moved on and Spiros spun out of control. Harry is not interested in this plan, but Harry also has no other options. The family still owns the London building in which the shuttered restaurant has been mouldering away, and so Spiros and Harry and the kids move in there and start fixing up the place even while Harry tries to find investors who will help him go back to being a baklava magnate.
A complicating factor is a kebab shop, run by Turks, directly across the street from the fish-and-chips emporium. The owner resents the Greeks for returning to the neighborhood and, to add insult to injury, putting kebabs on the menu. Meanwhile, the kebab merchant's son has eyes for Katie, and she reciprocates with eyes of her own.
Although the veteran moviegoer might be able to write the rest of this plot, the movie is more than the surface story line as Markou focuses on what motivates Harry and exposes darker aspects of the family's history. Although the issue of Greek-Turkish tension is introduced in the 'hood, as it were, Markou's interest here is in what family ties mean when the chips (no pun intended) are down. The film is well photographed — I especially liked the way Markou studies Harry's facial expressions — and the performances are, without exception, spot on. The cast includes Stephen Dillane as Harry; Georges Corraface as Spiros; James Dillane as Harry's elder son, Frank; Georgia Groome as Katie; Selina Cadell as Mrs. P; and Thomas Underhill as Harry's younger son, the stock wizard Theo.
This film was initially due for very limited theatrical exposure in England but word got out and public demand resulted in wider release. The movie has also been a success in terms of critical comment. My only complaint is that there are some moments, particularly at the beginning of the film, when the dialogue is hard to understand.
I did have to go back and re-read your review after I got to the end. The sign in the last photo has the family standing in front of the "Three Brothers Fish and Chips." That piqued my interest. Could there be a third brother lurking about in the darker corners of the family history?
I'll look for the film, and find out.
Three brothers, indeed, and that's an important fact that I deliberately didn't mention.
Hi – I just found this review by chance! I love it.
Thanks for letting me know. We're so fortunate now to have sources like Netflix and Amazon so that we can see movies we night otherwise have missed. I have recommended this one to anyone who would listen. Best wishes.


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Out of bounds is defined by the line between the course side points at ground level of white stakes and fence posts.
 A ball coming to rest in the club car park.
 A ball coming to rest on or beyond the road to the right of the 11th and 12th holes.
A player is penalised under Rule14.6 Stroke and Distance.
All roads, bridges, paths and shelters on the course even if not artificially-surfaced, are treated as immovable obstructions from which free relief is allowed under Rule 16.1.
All greens other than the hole being played are the "Wrong Green" and relief MUST be taken under Rule 13.1f.
 Within two club-lengths of the ball.
Ground under repair is defined by any area encircled by a while line. Relief MUST be taken in accordance with Rule 16.1b.
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Sixto (llamada oficialmente Santa María do Sisto)  es una parroquia española del municipio de Muras, en la provincia de Lugo, Galicia.

Otras denominaciones

La parroquia también es conocida por el nombre de Santa María de Sixto.

Organización territorial

La parroquia está formada por tres entidades de población, constando dos de ellas en el nomenclátor del Instituto Nacional de Estadística español:
 Casas (Os Casás)
 Muruás
 Piocorto

Demografía

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Parroquias de Muras

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Q: Webpack: transpiling of assets transferred to dist directory using copy-webpack-plugin I am integrating an SPA built predominantly using d3.js into Webpack. I'm transpiling with Babel, and using the latest versions of everything..
Before integration, d3.js allowed me (event-driven) to inject scripts dynamically, entirely reusably, recursively and hence effortlessly into the served-up html file. The only thing I had to provide were the foundational JSON files.
For example (just for info, not critical to understanding the question), for a menu-building javascript file:
case "js":
  files_to_attach
  .insert("script") // --> inject into html file
  .attr("src", function() {
    return "frontend/" + filetype + "/" + menu_group + "/" + menu + "/" + filename + "." + filetype;
  })
  .attr("type", "text/javascript") // Also tried using type "module" here
  .attr("class", menu)
  .attr("id", menu_item);
break;

This approach was used across all loaded assets.
Webpack has it's own mechanisms for dynamic loading, but I chose (by importing all external scripts, then selecting, on-demand, from their assigned constant names) to stick with the above, again direct-injecting them into the dist/index.html file.
I did this so that these loading actions can, in the future, be easily converted to database calls.
To allow all this to happen, I had to transfer the scripts en bloc from the frontend (normally 'src') to the dist directory using the 'copy-webpack-plugin'.
This differs from the prescribed Webpack lazy loading approach in that these scripts are external to, rather than an integral part of, index.js.
The problem? These files still contain the untranspiled import statements, provoking the following:
SyntaxError: import declarations may only appear at top level of a module

These import statements lie, needless to say, at the head of each module.
The question, then, is:
Given the scripts are correctly injected into the final html, how do I ensure they are also (pre- or post-) transpiled?
The configuration is simple and the question a general one, so to show more code seems superfluous. I imagine there may be a few approaches to this.
SUMMARY THUS FAR
Webpack ruthlessly blocks all attempts at non-'import'-or-'require'-style file system access, but neither import nor require can return a direct reference to a file (as opposed to the file's contents). So import statements (which do lead to transpiling) cannot be leveraged to inject a script to HTML.
Script injections using libraries such as d3.js are simply left un-transpiled. Is there some means of 'force'-transpiling them?
The only documented means of script injection is effectively static, using multiple entry points. Furthermore, no plugin seems to exist that can assist with dynamic script injection. (The nearest I've found to a solution is inject-html-webpack-plugin, but the plugin's documentation is brutally terse, with no example of so-called 'transducer' use).
Truly dynamic, transpiled script injection into HTML seems blocked on all fronts.
No files copied using copy-webpack-plugin are transpiled, but do I see mention here of a tortuous workaround ("copy the files from the src files into the module, process them and then move the generated/processed files").

A: copy-webpack-plugin is literally a fs.move command. Since some plugins run first than loaders, specially in this case, they aren't being transpiled.
To do that you'll have to add the external files as a new entrypoint, where the source code is going to be generated and created at the end, and you can add them to index as well

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I went to a Crown Court yesterday morning, booked by solicitors. There were two co-accused, only one of whom spoke English. After the consultation they went in and I stayed outside the courtroom. A minute later my client's solicitor came out and asked me if I would mind interpreting as there was no ALS interpreter present. I politely explained that the courts chose to use only ALS contractors and I am NOT registered with them and have no intention of doing so. I said that because of ALS/Capita I am out of work, therefore I have no intention of helping them out by stepping in when they fail to provide an interpreter.
The solicitor went back in to pass the message. When they all came out, I approached the barrister and the solicitor for my client and tried to apologise for refusing to help them and to explain again my reasons. The moment I said "I'm sorry" the barrister stopped me and said he was fully aware of the situation, there was no need to apologise and that the current situation is "a joke". What's more, the judge told them to tell me that he was "very sympathetic" towards our cause and fully understands my decision!
We were then told that an interpreter would be there in 5 minutes. 15 minutes later, AT 12 O'CLOCK, a lady turns up. The judge asks her: "Madam Interpreter, did you experience some difficulties getting here today?" To which she replies that ALS only called her at 10.30 am that morning - even though the court booked one for 10 am! The judge did not look happy at all and told the legal advisor to look into it.
I also talked to the ALS interpreter when she finished. She was not happy because she didn't feel appreciated. She has to chase them for months to get paid and argue with them each time to be reimbursed for train fares. She's never spoken to the same ALS employee twice, it's a total chaos. At the end she said: "I hope it all collapses soon" – there we go, straight from the mouth of an ALS interpreter.


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from typing import Any

from django.db import connection

from zerver.lib.management import ZulipBaseCommand

def create_indexes() -> None:
    #  Creating concurrent indexes is kind of a pain with current versions
    #  of Django/postgres, because you will get this error with seemingly
    #  reasonable code:
    #
    #    CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string
    #
    # For a lot more detail on this process, refer to the commit message
    # that added this file to the repo.

    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
        # copied from 0082
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_starred_message_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_starred_message_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 2) != 0;
        ''')

        # copied from 0083
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_mentioned_message_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_mentioned_message_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 8) != 0;
        ''')

        # copied from 0095
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_unread_message_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_unread_message_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 1) = 0;
        ''')

        # copied from 0098
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_has_alert_word_message_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_has_alert_word_message_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 512) != 0;
        ''')

        # copied from 0099
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_wildcard_mentioned_message_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_wildcard_mentioned_message_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 8) != 0 OR (flags & 16) != 0;
        ''')

        # copied from 0177
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_is_private_message_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_is_private_message_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 2048) != 0;
        ''')

        # copied from 0180
        print("Creating index zerver_usermessage_active_mobile_push_notification_id.")
        cursor.execute('''
            CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS zerver_usermessage_active_mobile_push_notification_id
            ON zerver_usermessage (user_profile_id, message_id)
            WHERE (flags & 4096) != 0;
        ''')

        print("Finished.")

class Command(ZulipBaseCommand):
    help = """Create concurrent indexes for large tables."""

    def handle(self, *args: Any, **options: str) -> None:
        create_indexes()

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1 teaspoon of raw honey or other natural sweetener like maple syrup, stevia or agave syrup.
Add medicinal mushroom extracts to water and brew on medium heat for approximately 10 mins.
Let it cool down and add the sweetener.
Put in the fridge until the tea is completely cold.
Reishi cleanses the liver and destresses the mind while increasing focus capabilities.
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It's finals week at many colleges across the U.S., which means our bug-eyed and heavy-lidded crammers are most certainly weighing topical, etymological matters as they prepare for their final exams. It turns out, though, that the word exam is all about weight–and even bugs.
"Exam." Doodle by @andrescalo.
Exam is short for examination, of course. It comes from a Latin verb, examināre. Much like its English derivative examine, the verb signified "to consider critically." However, in its original usage, it meant "to weigh accurately" or "balance," from a noun, exāmen, the "the needle or tongue of the scale," "scale beam," or, more generally, a "means of weighing."
The language of thought can indeed be metaphorical–and many would argue much of thought itself is so. As we've so frequently seen here before, etymology helps us reveal these metaphors. For the Ancient Romans, a careful consideration–an examination–was likened to weighing an object on a scale, sizing it up through balance. English itself is already heavy with this metaphor; consider how we might weigh two choices against each other in making a decision.
Latin has given us other examples of this weight/consideration metaphor. At root of the word to deliberate is libra, a "scale," source of the abbreviation lb. and the astrological sign. It is also in equilibrium makes for an equal, or balanced, scale. A pound and to ponder are cognates. The former is from a Germanic root referring to a measure of weight; the latter ultimately comes from a Latin word for much the same. Both come from a common Indo-European root.
Other words for various modes of thought–to analyze or mull–yield yet other interesting metaphors, but we can treat those on a later occasion, as I imagine our midnight oil burners feel swarmed enough as it is. Indeed, the principal meaning of examen in Latin is "swarm," as in a swarm of insects.
Weights and swarms–is there a connection? Metaphor again comes to our etymological aid again. Upon closer examination, examen, with a proposed earlier form of *exagmen, derives from another Latin verb, exigere, "to drive out." The sense, as the Oxford English Dictionary aids me, may resemble a swarm of bees, say, driven out of a hive. This exigere is itself composed of the prefix ex– ("out of") and agere, "to do," "act," "drive." Both of these components simply litter the English language–and perhaps that they have changed little from their Proto-Indo-European roots, the former seen in *eghs- ("out") and the latter, ag– ("drive," "draw," "move,"), attests to their value. Very apt, students: drive those exams out.
Now, in English, examine could take on a very specific sense in its young days, among its other early meanings which closely parallel its meanings today. In the 14th and 15th centuries, it was the alchemist who was busy examining, which points us to our next post: test.
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Rii the Wordsmith says:
Whoa, pound and ponder are cognates? I never would have thought of it – or all of the other words all linked in to 'exam'.
John Kelly says:
Indeed! These are the little etymological finds that make me tick.
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Q: How does a (2 or 3) dimensional Fully connected layer work? I came across a Neural network which had the following configuration:(FCL = Fully connected layer)

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*Input Layer - 1 dimensional with 100 units

*1st layer   - 1 dimensional FCL with 512 units

*2nd layer   - 3 dimensional FCL with aXbXc size

Now as far as I know, a fully connected layer means that each of its units is connected to each of the units of its previous layer. If that is actually true, how are the connections made with the 2nd FCL which is not single dimensional.
I'm very confused as to how this multi dimensional FCL is working.

A: aXbXc doesn't mean that the dense layer has 3 dimensions. It is just a single number obtained by multiplying a, b, and c together to obtain the size of that dense layer.
According to the provided link:
model.add(Dense(dim * dim * depth))

if dim is 10 and depth is 20 then the result is 10 * 10 * 20, which would be the
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Oh this one has me a little bit rage-y, so you'll forgive me if I'm a little intemperate with my words, and a bit profane. How the hell do you think that when caught texting while driving a metrobus, even after the "no tolerance" policy has gone into effect, that you could possibly try to get your job back? The driver has filed a grievance with his union and Metro and is insinuating that he should not have been fired for breaking DC law.
I mean, I know that unions exist to protect workers from dangerous working conditions, but in this particular case, they seem to be here to protect the incompetent and the criminally stupid. Ah, the ATU 689, standing up for asshats that text while driving a bus full of people up the busy streets of the city.
Where does the Riders Union file their grievance?
Another public transportation worker who was texting while in control of the vehicle directly caused his own death and that of twenty four other people. This happened in Los Angeles, 2008, on the Metrolink commuter train. (See link below.) The DC bus driver should remain fired. The union should not defend this indefensible and outright dangerous behavior.
To be fair, just because s/he's filing a grievance doesn't mean the union will support or advocate the grievance. It's his right to do so, but the union doesn't necessarily have to stand up for him on this one.


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Sometimes, I grow hopeful that boardgaming is starting to gain more and more mainstream acceptance.
I see Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan on the XBox. I see Purple Pawn's regular "Game Pimping Roundups" which are lists of mainstream articles about hobby games. I see that my readership is up 40% over last year - mostly due to Google searches for specific games. This means that more people are using Google to look for some of these games.
Then I see articles like this. Purple Pawn linked to it on the 8th, and it's been picked up by several other hobby sites (including BGG) as well.
Purple Pawn summarized their reviews as follows:
•Loopit: Grade A. "Loopit is like Scrabble, only for people who don't want to fight with their relatives over a word choice."
•Clue: the Office: Grade A. "The weapons are all inside jokes for those who watch the show and kept us laughing."
•WordQuest: Grade B. "Attractive, easy to learn and play."
•Pandemic: Grade C. "Pandemic is too complicated. Just setting up the board took half an hour the first time, thanks to multiple sets of cards, cubes, tokens and pawns."
•Pop the Pig: Grade D. "A few minutes of entertainment for smaller children."
•Incan Gold: Grade F. "Our 16-year-old was writhing on the floor with frustration because after 25 minutes, we still couldn't figure out how to start the game and play the first round."
•Ticket to Ride: Grade F. "Unnecessarily complicated. There are no dice or "action" modes."
When I read the summaries, I wanted so very badly to believe that the writers over at Purple Pawn were exaggerating. Sadly, they weren't. If anything, these summaries understate some of the original descriptions of the game.
I disagree with the vast majority of these grades. Well, on the games with which I am familiar. I don't know Loopit or Pop the Pig.
That said, however, the response from the gaming community has been exactly the sort of response that will keep us a niche hobby. Gamers have responded by attacking the writers, including attacks suggesting that the Goliath Games were rated highly because of writer bias. In fact, it has become the target of a great deal of "Nerd Rage." While some of the comments were genuinely calm and reasonable, many of them were not. And some of the calm posts contained subtle attacks.
Even people who I generally like and respect posted attacks on the reviewers. The most beautiful attack1: "There's a reasonable chance that this is the most misinformed review of anything ever." The rest of the comment is fine - but the attacking opening sentence means that the original writers are unlikely to ever see it.
To grow the hobby, we need to be seen as a welcoming group. Eight pages of (mostly) attack comments and mockery do not make us seem very welcoming.
1 There is a specific reason for this phrasing. If you don't get it, it's not aimed at you.
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James Geluso 4:52 PM
Someone reading that article might think, "Wow, that Ticket to Ride game sounds terrible." But if they then click and see that the comments savage the article, they are more likely to disregard the article.
No, they won't think "nerd rage!" because board games are not commonly thought of as a nerd activity, unlike, say, Star Trek.
Eric Franklin 5:20 PM
I disagree, Jim.
Board games are lumped into the category of "things my kids do" by the general public. And the only adults who do kid things are geeks and nerds, as far as the general public is concerned.
There are exceptions in the boardgaming world - Wargames. Wargamers are nerdy because wargames are nerdy, again according to the general public.
There is a huge difference between trying to inform someone that you feel they are in error and flaming them for being morons. If there were more polite comments, even these negative reviews might grow the hobby in that area (which is very close to where BoardGameGeek's servers are, by the way).
There are a few comments that are inviting and welcoming - one person invited the writers to their game store to try these (and other) games out. One person suggested a few games that they might like without sarcasm or attacking. But there aren't enough polite comments. There aren't enough nice gamers who had something to say.
Most of the other comments are obvious and blatant attacks on the intelligence or integrity of the writers, which means that the writers (and probably their regular readers) will probably never give the games a fair shake, because - clearly - gamers can't handle a little criticism (another trait of nerds, by the way).
O Falainothiras 5:32 AM
The general feeling of reading the article in question and the comments by its readers is that the reviewers are clueless when it comes to in-depth board gaming and that there's a bunch of infuriated people with the reviewers.
What do I mean:
The general "non-geek" public, as all geeks know, is certainly limited to games like Monopoly and other "light" boardgames that have been under heavy advertisement. If you ask someone, that is not a geek, the definition of a boardgame, my understanding is that his answer would be connected with a staple and generally recognized boardgame. What this review does is actually bad since it appeals exclusively and specifically to the general public who has no idea that other more complicated boardgames exist and what it actually does by its own (no comments) is to push people back to the simple, staple and over-advertised games that they are already aware of without need of this review. BUT. When someone, who is really interested in broadening his scope of boardgames and is not a geek to know about the specific market, reads the review with those horrible trollish comments, he actually pauses to think, mainly about the number of negative comments. That, in my opinion, adds to the objectivity overall of the article since it subtly provides a person two options:
A. I like Monopoly so I'll stick to the reviewers' opinion since he seems to be more close to my experience in board gaming, I'm not really interested in spending much of my time in this kind of activity anyway.
B. It seems those nerds are flaming the reviewers for being clueless. Seems that there is a community for this kind of thing. If I'm sufficiently interested in making boardgaming a part of my activities I'll search for other reviews. I'm playing with my friends anyways, **** those flaming nerds.
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13. What steps the Government is taking to ensure successful prosecutions for child abuse. (901524)
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We are taking action across the Government to bring about a step change in the response to the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, including the commencement of the roll-out of recorded pre-trial cross-examination for vulnerable witnesses in Crown courts in January 2017. Further roll-out for vulnerable witnesses, which includes child victims of sexual abuse, will continue in the autumn.
It takes tremendous courage for children to come forward in such cases. The process of giving evidence is often extremely harrowing. They deserve justice, and when that does not happen they are left deeply disillusioned with the system. It is something I have seen in my own constituency. What further steps can the Government take to ensure that justice is done? In particular, will the Minister look at the operation of the criminal injuries compensation scheme to ensure that child abuse victims are treated fairly?
Dr Lee
It is an important point that the nature of grooming can make signs of abuse particularly challenging to detect. That is something that CICA—the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority—has to address. That is why it has consulted with experts and charities to produce recently published new guidance to ensure every victim gets the compensation to which they are entitled.


I have the paid licenses for PCMATIC and have already used 3. Each time that I attempt to add a license to netbook Acer AspireOne, the Login tab is cut away. As you know, it is at the bottom left corner... and when I move the window up all there is is a very narrow grey band. Could the powers that be move it up under the Minimize/Maximize/Close option, so that it is more accessible to the smaller screens?
In the mean time, how do you suggest that I add this PC?
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This should resolve the immediate problem. We are working on a permanent fix for this issue and expect to have it completed within 30 days.
Thank you... the taskbar solution worked!
How do we put PC Matic on this lap top.? We have used 1 of the 5 we ordered.
And Ray...please DO NOT use the Report button to draw attention to your post/topic. Thanks!
cant load my version...every time I left click the download to run it dissapears! Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks!
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Having arrived at Granny's home in the woods Little Red notices that Granny doesn't seem to be herself with big eyes and so on. The next thing she knows is that granny is in fact a wolf, the real granny tumbles out of the closet bound and gagged and a big woodsman leaps in wielding his axe. Then the police arrive including detective Nicky Flint who questions each of the suspects to try and work out what happened and all is most definitely not as it first seemed.
Is there anything more annoying than a clever idea for a movie which feels undervalued by a production which leaves you struggling to enjoy the movie as much as you should? That is how I feel about "Hoodwinked!" a refreshing idea to take the classic fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood and give it the Rashomon treatment by showing us the same story from each characters perspective. Even with it being another animation which does a fairytale of course it makes you think of "Shrek" especially as it tries to deliver the same sort of fairytale in jokes but the idea of Rashomon-ing up Little Red Riding Hood is enough that it should stand on its own two feet.
The sad thing is that whilst "Hoodwinked!" has a good idea and in fairness twists the classic fairytale in some entertaining ways the final product is less than spectacular. Part of the reason is because it feels safe, I can't remember a single joke which was borderline for a U certificate movie and you sort of want it to be a bit naughty and deliver something which will make adults or at least teenagers laugh more than oblivious young children. The other reason is that whilst there is a decent collection of well known names including Anne Hathaway and Glenn Close to voice the parts most of them are forgettable. In truth the only one which really worked for me was Patrick Warburton whose deep John Wayne-esque tones was perfect for the Wolf.
But in truth the thing which is really wrong with "Hoodwinked!" is the look and rather feeling like I was watching an animation it felt like I was watching a computer game. The characters move in that slow clunky style which looks cheap and sadly the attention to detail especially when it comes to the background is lacking. Maybe for young children the cheap looking animation won't be an issue but for grown ups it will. And that leads me to another issue as with the Rashomon style storyline it feels like this should appeal more to grown ups but that visual style is purely for children.
What this all boils down to is that whilst I loved the idea behind "Hoodwinked!" the end result disappointed me. It also left me confused as to who the target audience really is and as an adult the look really let the movie down.
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Todt family remembered at candlelight vigil in Colchester
Chrissy Caplet, center right, sister of Anthony Todt, and her husband, Tim, during the vigil Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, for Megan Todt and her children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11, and Zoe, 4, on the Colchester town green. Police say Anthony Todt has confessed to killing the family in Florida. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
Jennifer Goodine, left, and her husband, Ryan, second from right, with their children Sophia, 14, second from left, and Liam, 11, right, friends of the Todt family, during the vigil Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, for Megan Todt and her children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11, and Zoe, 4, on the Colchester town green. Police say Anthony Todt has confessed to killing them in Florida. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
From left, Tim Caplet, Chrissy Caplet, Alicia Schmidt and Kelly Ball, family members of the Todts, during the vigil Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, for Megan Todt and her children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11, and Zoe, 4, on the Colchester town green. Police say Anthony Todt has confessed to killing them in Florida. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
People listen to the speakers and music during the vigil Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, for Megan Todt and her children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11, and Zoe, 4, on the Colchester town green. Police say Anthony Todt has confessed to killing them in Florida. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
Published January 24. 2020 9:37PM | Updated January 24. 2020 9:54PM
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Colchester — Hundreds of candles glowed in the hands of mourners Friday night as crowds gathered on the town green to honor the memories of Megan, Alek, Tyler and Zoe Todt and their dog, Breezy.
Residents of the town have for weeks been trying to comprehend how a well-liked physical therapist in town who coached dozens of children on the local soccer team became a man accused of killing his family.
Police say that Anthony Todt, who goes by Tony and owned two Family Physical Therapy practices in Colchester, confessed last week to killing his wife, Megan, their children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11 and Zoe, 4, and their dog in a home the family rented in Celebration, Fla.
The family was found decomposing in a second-floor bedroom of the home on Jan. 13. Megan, their sons and the dog had been stabbed, preliminary autopsy results revealed Thursday. There was no evidence of injury to Zoe.
Todt was still working full time at his physical therapy practices, where Megan had previously worked as a physical therapist, as well.
Erin Dobek, a physical therapist who worked with the couple, helped organize the vigil, which was attended by Todt's sisters, brother-in-law, Megan's aunt and uncle, and several other family members.
Todt's sister Chrissy Caplet of Bozrah said she had no comment on what happened to her family, but wanted the night to "be about Meg and the kids."
Normand Rioux, a second-cousin of Megan's, attended the vigil with his two sons, ages 4 and 11.
Rioux said he grew up with both Megan and Todt in Montville — he had known Megan his entire life and met Todt in middle school. He became visibly emotional, fighting back tears as he described the Todts as "the perfect family."
"None of this makes sense, they were just both loving devoted parents, they appeared to have the perfect family," he said. "It's just unthinkable and we're still all in shock."
Rioux said he remained in contact with the couple over the years, mostly through social media since their move to Florida, and most recently saw them a few years ago at the funeral for Megan's grandfather.
At the funeral, Rioux said he told Megan how much he enjoyed watching her kids grow up through pictures on Facebook, and how it reminded him "of the wonderful childhood we had growing up together in Montville."
Rioux said he has been spending extra time with his two boys since he heard about the Todts. "It's really important to come home every night and hug them tight and remember what's important in this life," he said.
During the vigil, Elizabeth Campbell, sister-in-law of Megan's aunt, held a sign with a photo of Megan and the children that read "Remember them with love." She said she made the sign because she wanted "people focus on warm memories they had with them and not their last day."
"That day is for police to figure out," she said.
Jamie Riebschlager also attended the vigil with her husband and their three young children, ages 5, 3 and 1.
Riebschlager, who lives in Waterford, said that she and her family knew members of the Todts' extended family and came out to show their support. "It's heartbreaking, especially since I also have two boys and a girl, it all feels very heartbreaking," she said.
As mourners gathered with their candles, Dobek read a statement by Fiona Lefebrve, a colleague from Family Physical Therapy who could not attend the vigil.
The statement addressed mental illness, listing signs people can look out for and urged people to "keep an eye on your happy friends as well."
Mental health support services were available at the vigil.
Father Richard Breton from St. Andrew Roman Catholic Church in Colchester led the crowd in prayer and asked for comfort for the family in this time of "shock and horror."
Dobek played a video recorded by Avery Wrobel, a teen who used to live in Colchester who also now lives in Florida. Wrobel was friends with Alek Todt, and was scheduled to perform with him at a music competition in May. Alek was going to play piano while Wrobel sang.
In the video, Wrobel held up a tablet with a video of Alek playing "Amazing Grace" on piano and sang along. She said that since she would no longer be able to perform the song with her friend, she wanted to sing it for him.
Linda Akerman, who knew Todt for years, also attended the vigil, recording it for members of the Todt family.
Akerman said she first met Todt when he treated her for a back injury and her sons for sports injuries. She and Todt then developed a friendship through their mutual involvement coaching youth soccer in Colchester.
She said she hadn't stopped thinking about the deaths since she first heard the news. In Colchester, she said she thinks members of the community have gone from shocked, to angry.
"For a while it was very mixed feelings — to those who didn't know him, he was a monster, that's it. Others like us that were friends with him still held out hope, and now that's shifting," she said. "So it's mourning the loss of a friend but also realizing what he did, and how do you square with that?"
Akerman said she thought the vigil would help the town heal. "Everybody needed this," she said.
During the vigil, donations for the family's funeral expenses were being accepted. A GoFundMe page set up to help raise money for funeral expenses by Friday had raised just under $20,000 of a $50,000 goal.
Bracelets — light blue with dark blue writing that said "Sweet Memories" and listed the names Megan, Alek, Tyler, Zoe and Breezy — were being sold for $1 at the vigil, with proceeds to go toward the funeral expenses.
The family plans to bury the four in Connecticut but the bodies have not yet been released from the medical examiner in Florida.
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By Samantha Schwab July 17, 2018 at 08:48PM
Nicola Jones discovered a fire in a neighboring garden after her foster pet, a senior Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Bailey, alerted her by barking and refusing to move.
"At about 3 o'clock he woke up and started barking and sniffing the air," Jones told Friends of Dogs, Wales. "He seemed anxious and unsettled."
Jones had brought Bailey back to her home in St. Mellons as a foster pet just a few hours earlier.
After noticing his unusual behavior, Jones took Bailey for a walk. "We walked along my road towards the path leading to Hendre lake—I intended to take him in the opposite direction but he insisted he wanted to go that way!" Jones said. "As we approached the end of the road Bailey stopped dead in his tracks and started barking again."
At that point, Jones noticed a fire blazing in her neighbor's backyard that was quickly approaching her own house. She called the fire department immediately.
"Imagine my horror when I saw smoke, then what was clearly a fire blazing in someone's backyard," she said.
In the fire, a pagoda, shed, pergola, fence and bushes were destroyed, but luckily, no one was harmed. "If the fire fighters had not responded so quickly the conservatory and house would have gone up in flames," Jones said.
Bailey was being taken care of at the Newport City Dogs Home before being temporarily placed in Jones' home. Bailey initially arrived at the shelter after being found tied to a lamppost in the city.
According to the Facebook page, Bailey, now a proclaimed hero, is still up for adoption.
Bailey's heroism occurred just a couple days after Pet Fire Safety Day on July 15—a day dedicated to raising awareness of pet fire hazards.
Image via Friends of the Dogs, Wales/Facebook.com
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DAY 4: ATHENS – Day at leisure. You may choose to take an optional tour or go on a shopping spree to nearby Ermou Street or to the fashionable Kolonaki square. Do not miss a ride with the funicular on to Lycabettus Hill where you get the most spectacular view of the city. Athens overnight. (B)
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To achieve an inclusive, food-secure and sustainable future for all: move women in agribusinesses up the food security and climate action agendas
By Ludmila Azo
Agriculture · Women Empowerment · Human Rights
The past two months have been marked by three key events: the celebrations of the World Food Day on the theme "Leave no One behind", and of the Rural Women's Day, on the 15th and 17th of October, respectively, and COP27 in November.
As a true international development professional who loves to build bridges, you can rightly expect that I will associate the notions deriving from these three events - Food security, Women, Climate change - and make associations. While happening during relatively the same period, the three events are not inherently linked. The mere coincidence they happen to represent rather served as a reminder for me that women are both victims and powerful actors in addressing food insecurity and climate change.
A reminder of the urgency to address food insecurity and gender inequality
Women account for a substantial proportion of the agricultural labour force, and yet, their role is often not adequately recognized and remunerated, and they face higher risks to access training, finance and technology and innovation. Women, in particular rural women, are at the centre of our food systems, and they must be adequately supported if we truly aim for inclusive and sustainable development, especially in Africa.
In Africa, the number of people facing food insecurity at a moderate or severe level raised up from 512 million in 2014 to 794.7 million people in 2021 (the majority in East Africa) – almost 60% of the continent's population. Can we safely say that Africa is off track to meet the food security and nutrition targets of Sustainable Development Goal 2? I think, yes. It would not be wrong either to say that this situation is also jeopardizing prospects to achieve gender equality. Despite playing a crucial role in the production of food, the 2022 FAO report on the state of food security in the world showed that women (32 per cent) have been experiencing greater food insecurity (both moderate and severe) than men (28 per cent) over time (from 2014-2021), widening the gender food insecurity gap from less than 2 per cent in 2019 to more than 4 per cent in 2021 and supporting the growing recognition that gender inequality and food insecurity are strongly correlated.
Despite the progress achieved over the past decade, the journey to reach zero hunger by 2030 remains a daunting challenge. There are less than 8 years to go, and yet, today, the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet around the world increased by 112 million – to reach 3.1 billion in 2020. By 2050 there will be more than 9.7 billion people on the planet, more than two billion additional mouths to feed by mid-century.
The world is facing a polycrisis that further imperils chances to advance climate action, gender equality and food security
Ending hunger is not only a supply related problem. In fact, there is enough food produced every day to feed every single person on the planet. Over a third of all food produced (nearly 2.5 billion tons) is lost or wasted each year. Part, if not most of the solution lies in the radical transformation of current food systems and making them resilient and sustainable. However, the current global landscape is not helping countries in defining and implementing necessary solutions. Global food systems have been battered by overlapping crises, starting with the Covid 19 pandemic, ongoing conflicts and international tensions, as well as rising prices, persisting inequality and Climate Change.
Like most countries in the Horn of Africa, Kenya is facing and fighting a particularly severe drought. These droughts… let's not call them what they are not: natural disasters. They are squarely caused by the climate emergency and are leading to the ever-repeating humanitarian crisis of famine in this region. They are making soils and crops fail, livestock die, and food supplies dwindle, and in result, sending food prices skyrocketing, leaving poor families and women unable to generate a stable income for themselves and afford even basic necessities. Our sister agency, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), announced in August 2022 that 22 Million people in the Horn of Africa - Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia - were facing the potential of starvation following its unprecedented four failed rainy seasons.
The food insecurity crisis is likely to be further worsened. Despite hosting more than half of the planet's arable land – roughly 600 million hectares, Africa remains a net basic food importer (Sub-saharan Africa where worrisome food insecurity rates are prevailing, only produces 10 percent of its agricultural output), with more than 80% coming from outside the continent. This dependency further exacerbates many African nations vulnerability to unstable and unpredictable global food markets:
Fertilizer prices have more than tripled since January 2020, resulting in a 12% drop in national maize yields in 2022 in Kenya.
The war in Ukraine continues to distort global patterns of trade, production and consumption of commodities in ways that, the World Bank says, will keep prices at high levels through the end of 2024 exacerbating food insecurity and inflation; and
As global supplies become constrained, traders' preference will go for larger markets, imperilling access to smaller farms across Africa, which provide for 70 per cent of the continent food production.
Drawing from the large share of women active in the food systems, we can easily estimate the disastrous impact of these crises on gender equality-related targets.
The need to support MSMEs and women-led agribusinesses
In these gloomy predictions, there is a silver lining: the work SMEs and agribusinesses in Africa are doing to advance the Zero Hunger and No Poverty goals while at the same time curbing the rippling effects of climate change and promoting inclusive and sustainable development.
When supporting MSMEs, notably women-led ones in their journey to a food-secure and sustainable future for all, it is important to remember among other best practices or recommended approaches, that:
There is not a one-size-fits all approach and interventions should always be localized and gender-sensitive. Private-public dialogues, including in the context of the UN Food Systems Dialogues, should drive the design of such interventions.
Actions should focus on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, in particular for women
Innovation, including digital technologies are critical in providing solutions that will make farming affordable, profitable, efficient and environment friendly,
Both public and private finance are needed: Adequate availability of strategic investments, notably growth-stage / bridge capital to both men and women led agribusinesses are essential, in particular specific gender sensitive financial solutions,
Suitable market access solutions should be provided.
Against Global crisis, global solutions and collective actions
Ultimately, the impact of climate on smallholder farmers and rural women in Kenya, Eswatini, Bangladesh or in a country you may have never visited before is an everyone problem. We are living in a globalized world where our populations, cultures, economies are interconnected more than ever; and this year's World Food Day's theme of Leaving No One Behind reminds us that our world is a chain and if a single person is left behind, the chain is broken. The resulting domino consequences will spare no one.
This is a global crisis that needs global solutions, requiring strong cooperation from at least these four main groups of stakeholders: Governments, Private sector including agribusinesses, international community (donors and development partners) and Consumers.
Efforts to design adequate solutions should reflect a thorough understanding of the types and magnitude of the challenges, the actions and corresponding investments needed at a given moment based on the country's maturity level, as well as of the role that each stakeholder is best positioned to play.
Because economic growth from agriculture is 11 times more effective at reducing extreme poverty than any other sector in sub-Saharan Africa, it is critical that we continue empowering agribusinesses and women led ones to contribute to the much-needed food systems transformation, building upon the various advancements (and there are quite a few) achieved by African countries and international partners in this regard. This is one of the few chances to effectively advance the UN SDGs and the AU Agenda 2063 and related Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme.
Ludmila Azo is Country Manager at the International Trade Centre (ITC). Prior to joining ITC, Azo worked in the Energy sector at the Africa Mini-grids Developers Association (AMDA) in Kenya. She has also worked with the UN Department of Political Affairs on coordinating peace and security efforts in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
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Edmonton Police Services tactical officer Scott Innes was driving away from a raid at a suspected drug house when he realized something was wrong.
Innes was set to lead a group of officers into the home. Instead, he found himself outside, patting down and searching a suspect with his bare hands. He had no idea the biggest threat he would encounter that day was one he could not even see.
Alone in southbound traffic on Wayne Gretzky Drive, he realized one of the powerful synthetic opiates that have become notorious for their lethal strength was taking hold. A colleague responded to his call for help, jumped into his truck, and rushed him to the nearest hospital.
Medical staff needed to know what they were dealing with as soon as possible. A phone call to investigators prompted a field test of the items Innes pulled out of the suspect's pockets.
"It tested for fentanyl right away," Innes said.
Fentanyl is a powerful prescription painkiller about 100 times more toxic than morphine. According to the RCMP, two milligrams of the uncut drug, about the size of four grains of salt, is enough to kill the average adult. Unintentional contact through touching or inhaling can cause death.
He's resolved to never leave his gloves behind again.
Nicole Wetsch, an occupational health and safety consultant with the Edmonton Police Service, said officers are receiving more safety gear, including respirators, gloves, eye protection, special masks to limit exposure during CPR, and nasal spray Naloxone to treat exposure incidents.
Edmonton Police Service drug expert, Det. Guy Pilon, said Innes' exposure is a reminder of the importance of continuous safety training.
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'When' not 'If' For Sub Two
Written by runABC Scotland on Wed 26 Sep 2018
Surely now it's not of case of 'if', but 'when?' Eliud Kipchoge's incredible world record run of 2:01:39 in Berlin this month was a giant leap closer to one of sport's seemingly impossible barriers - the sub two-hour marathon.
In lopping a chunky 1 minute and 18 seconds off the previous record, the Kenyan - who as Olympic champion and multiple marathon major winner has surely now cemented his place as the greatest ever - took us within 100 seconds of the iconic landmark.
Kipchoge had already covered the distance even faster, albeit in an unofficial environment for record purposes. In Nike's Breaking2 project in Monza, Italy last May, he clocked 2:00:25 aided by a lead car and pacing athletes employed in and out of the race – illegal tactics that precluded any IAAF official ratification.
Nonetheless, the project made 'sub-two' much more of a realistic goal mentally as well as physically for athletes, coaches and the wider running community.
The sub-two debate gathered pace in 2003 when Kipchoge's fellow countryman Paul Tergat ran under 2:05 to break the world record on the same Berlin course. At that point, the schools of thought were spilt on whether it was ever actually possible. Many held firm that sub two was an impossibility. Those voices have grown notably quieter over time.
Surely now it is inevitable?
The trajectory now is such that the sub two hour marathon could easily come in the next decade. Could it be Kipchoge himself?
At 33, probably not. But his trailblazing has paved the way. Kipchoge is a former World 5000m champion and he only stepped away from the track and onto the roads when he was no longer able to make the Kenyan Olympic team.
Having struck a rich vein from 2014 onwards, he was signed by Nike and given the best in sports science support to aid his evolvement.
With the magical barrier now in tantalisingly close proximity, an emerging athlete of similar talent and more immediate access to the latest in sports science will surely make the breakthrough? Berlin 2028 anyone?
Chris Broadbent
Sub Two
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Welcome to language-easy.org! Well, as you have clicked on this article, I suppose that you are ready to enter the depths of German verbs – and learn everything about German separable and inseparable verbs. Although you might think that a simple type of German verbs can not be of such a high importance – They definitely are. Well, just imagine the bunch of German words that consist of prefixes and their stem. So, in most cases, they meaning changes, depending on which prefix you put there. And that's why you should dominate this topic – in order to understand these variety of different verbs and, of course, how to build them by yourself.
In the following, I'd like to give you a short idea of what German separable verbs and inseparable verbs actually are. After that, we will have a shot look at a list of some German separable verbs and inseparable verbs. Finally, there is a third group: Verbs that are both.
By the way, in case you'd like to have some background information about this topic – just have a look at this article on Wikipedia. Hopefully, it will provide you with all the additional information you are looking for.
And now, let's not lose too much time and go straight to the first topic of this article: A short list of German separable verbs. Auf geht's!
What are German Separable and Inseparable Verbs?
Was sind trennbare und untrennbare Verben im Deutschen?
So, first of all, let's clear up what German separable and inseparable verbs actually are. Well, try to keep in mind the following description.
German separable and inseparable verbs are verbs whose meaning is altered by the addition of a prefix.
Of course, these prefixes are are separated from their verb in the conjugated forms. Whereas, inseparable prefixes cannot be separated from their verb. So, the prefix determines whether a verb is separable or not.
Well, as already mentioned, whether a verb is separable or inseparable depends on its prefix. So, in the following I'd like to present to you a short list of prefixes that make verbs separable.
Of course, there are also some rules that come with German separable verbs. Well, as the short list of prefixes of separable verbs, please try to keep the following rules in mind, too.
First, in the finite form, these verbs are separated from their prefix, which usually comes at the end of the sentence.
Second, in the past participle, we add "ge-" between the prefix and the verb.
So, let's come to the next point of this article about German separable verbs, a short list of inseparable verbs.
So, in this part of this article I'd like to talk about the German inseparable verbs. Well, as in the part before, I'd like to show you the prefixes that make a verb inseparable. Of course, it is very important that you keep these prefixes in mind.
Luckily, there are also some rules in the context of German inseparable verbs. Well, you will see that it can be really useful to remember the following rules.
First, some verbs with these prefixes are always separable.
Some other verbs with these prefixes are never separable.
Some verbs with these prefixes can be either separable or inseparable. In this case, the separable verb and the inseparable verb have two different meanings.
By the way, we stress the prefix in separable verbs and the syllable after the prefix in inseparable verbs.


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You know you're nearly in Leicester when the train slows by the cemetery on the outskirts of the city. One day I'll have to get off there, or somewhere like it. For a moment, I feel quite downcast at the thought of mouldering underground, but then I'm cheered by the prospect that there's always a chance I can be brought back from the dead.
The Tories have done just that with Michael Howard, which gives a whole new meaning to Ann Widdecombe's description that he had "something of the night" about him. Remember Michael Howard? Thanks to him abolishing the right to silence, there's no escape from Andrew Marr, the BBC's political correspondent.
Anyway, I'm a little surprised that a party that prides itself on looking backwards couldn't find a more suitable corpse to revive. What about Edmund Burke? All it takes is a strand of DNA. At least that's what they did in Jurassic Park . Still, the Tories have to tread carefully. One slip and there would be Benjamin Disraeli asking why the party still hadn't healed the rift between the two nations.
New Labour doesn't want to bring back the dead because it has put the past well and truly behind it. Neil Kinnock is now in a nice residential home on the south coast entertaining the other inmates with how he successfully steered composite motion 24, sub-paragraph six, through the conference in 1991. Having spent her life in a packing factory, one of the other residents, Edith Wilson, thought she knew everything there was to know about boredom. But as she now says, she was wrong.
No, new Labour has waved goodbye to all that equality stuff. According to Peter Mandelson, a man who has come back more times than the evil dead, the government is "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich" and is not at all worried about the increasing number of people falling into poverty or debt. Quite the opposite, in fact. So concerned is new Labour at the level of debt that the Office of Fair Trading has just launched a campaign aimed at helping people who don't owe money to get themselves in hock. It's called "hire education". You don't do history or anything like that, it's got to be something useful such as weapons manufacture.
You see, new Labour just doesn't want to be reminded of the past, particularly its own; it would only show the party up. And what would Marx have to say about its achievements? Imagine if we found a hair from his beard floating around the British Museum and we used it to return him to life. He'd no doubt feel very satisfied that much of what he said has come to pass.
University lecturer is just the latest in a long line of occupations that have had "their halos stripped away". Those who work in higher education are being proletarianised in the same way that weavers were in the 19th century, their "specialised skill rendered worthless by new methods of production". And what is the government doing by privatising the public services if not proving that the business class is indeed "no longer compatible with society"? I don't suppose the Tories are any more either, but at least they've got the word "party" in their name. new Labour is just, well, new Labour.
Its members are so busy dismantling civil liberties that they have no time to take sexual ones, like normal politicians. What is the matter with these people? No one expects them to make the world a better or even a safer place, but they could at least brighten up our lives by behaving badly in the bath with someone else's spouse. This must be the first government in history to show that power is not necessarily an aphrodisiac. New Labour's idea of fun is to bring over Uncle George to entertain us. But it's no joke when he starts accusing the neighbours of stockpiling garden tools and threatening to blow up their borders.
Who knows? This might be the spark that ignites the revolution. Having increased the gap between rich and poor, new Labour has brought class war one step closer. What an opportunity, should the weather prove fine and there be nothing on the telly, to, in the words of that old Chartist hit of the 1840s, "shape the frame of things entire nearer to the heart's desire".
For, if I do have to come back again, I'd like to find Britain a little better than it is now - banning Boots' Christmas adverts would be a good start.
Which is why the next time I fill out a template I'm going to write "new Jerusalem" when asked to describe module outcomes. Mind you, to achieve that means persuading the students to turn up every now and then. And that can be much harder than trying to raise the dead.
Gary Day is principal lecturer in English at De Montfort University.


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Walmart staffs coronavirus drive-thru testing unit in Georgia
Nation's largest retailer suggested that more mobile testing units could be in the works in the state
By Cortney Moore FOXBusiness
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As the state of Georgia partially reopens, Gov. Brian Kemp has announced a mobile coronavirus testing unit that will be partially staffed by Walmart health workers.
The nation's largest retailer suggested that more mobile testing units could be in the works in the state.
Walmart Public Affairs Director for Georgia Glen Wilkins said the company is "committed to supporting the state of Georgia's efforts to expand COVID-19 testing, especially in communities that have had limited access to testing."
He added, "We are grateful to our pharmacists and associates who are supporting these testing sites, and to [clinical service network] eTrueNorth and local officials as we work together to open sites that will help Georgians access timely testing."
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Starting Monday, drive-thru testing stations will be placed in Augusta (Hephzibah), Milledgeville, and Tifton on a rotating basis.
WALGREENS EXPANDS CORONAVIRUS DRIVE-THRU TESTING SITES ACROSS 7 STATES
"Serving Augusta, Milledgeville, Tifton, and the surrounding regions, this mobile unit will be a game-changing step in our efforts to ensure access to COVID-19 across Georgia," said Kemp in a press release. "Increased testing is critical as we continue the measured process of safely reopening parts of our state, and I am grateful to our many partners with Walmart, eTrueNorth, and in these communities which provided support to get this operation online."
The mobile unit will test residents of Georgia who are exhibiting coronavirus symptoms. Health care providers and first responders who are on the frontlines and face coronavirus patients or at risk of exposure will be able to get tested even if they are not exhibiting symptoms.
People wait in line outside to enter the Walmart Supercenter in Miami as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 5, 2020. (David Santiago/Miami Herald via AP)
Appointments can be scheduled online at www.DoINeedaCOVID19test.com or in-person at the testing facility. Appointments made online will be screened to ensure individuals meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's eligibility for testing.
RITE AID TO EXPAND CORONAVIRUS TESTING SITES ACROSS 7 STATES
The tests will be administered in a drive-thru fashion with patients self-swabbing their nasal cavities in the comforts of their own car while trained medical professionals watch. No walk-ups will be welcome "for the safety of all those on-site."
LICENSED PHARMACISTS CAN NOW CONDUCT CORONAVIRUS TESTING
Once testing is completed, patients will seal their sample in a container and drop it off in a designated area.
The U.S. has well over 940,000 infections as of Sunday, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard.
All tests will be processed by eTrueNorth, a contractor approved by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The company will also relay testing results to patients and applicable departments of health.


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