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theSkimm's free calendar wants you to vote in this year's midterm primaries
By Meera Jagannathan
Published: Apr 24, 2018 11:58 p.m. ET
Plus, other voter outreach initiatives ahead of the 2018 elections
MeeraJagannathan
Read the ballot; don't just skim it.
theSkimm, millennial women's favorite news-condensing newsletter, rolled out a primary election calendar this week to notify users of key state primaries, issues and candidates. While the site's calendar features typically live behind a paywall, theSkimm said, this one comes free of charge.
"For when your friend says they're going to skip the polls this year…" read an item in Monday's dispatch. "No Excuses. It's an election year, and a lot happens before the November midterms. We made you a calendar so you know when all the major primaries are happening, and more about the candidates on the ballot. And we're making it free for all Skimm'rs."
The calendar, launched ahead of Arizona's special House election on Tuesday and first reported by Axios, syncs state primary election dates and details with users' Google or Apple calendars. (Each calendar event also comes accompanied by a state-specific emoji.) West Virginia's yellow tractor emoji-adorned primary on May 8, for example, distills info on the senatorial race and its implications into bite-sized bullet points.
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"Sen. Joe Manchin III (D) is up for re-election. Problem for Dems because President Trump won the state by a LOT, and the GOP is making heart eyes at his seat," the details read. "One of the Republican frontrunners is the anti-establishment businessman Don Blankenship. He's a former mining exec who went to prison for his role in a 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 people. Republican leaders in Congress are hoping one of the more mainstream candidates comes out on top."
theSkimm, whose colloquial current-events digest has a reported 7 million readers and targets a largely female millennial audience, has already made nonpartisan forays into politics over the past few years: Ahead of the 2016 election, theSkimm says, it registered more than 110,000 people -- among them 95,000 women -- to vote. The company more recently teamed up with Vanity Fair's The Hive and SurveyMonkey for a yearlong collaboration to study millennial women voters ahead of the midterms.
The daily newsletter company isn't alone in its outreach to younger voters: "Black-ish" star Yara Shahidi, who turned 18 on Feb. 10, last week launched an "Eighteen x '18" partnership with the media company NowThis geared toward her fellow first-time voters.
"If you're turning 18 in 2018, we want you," Shahidi said in a promotional video announcing the campaign. "Together we are activating young people to register and vote in the 2018 elections, which means that every month, I'll be taking over NowThis, talking about the upcoming and super important midterm elections. I really want everyone turning 18 to register to vote this year -- you only turn 18 once, so let's make it count."
Glam Up the Midterms, a celebrity-fueled effort launched in February by comedian Billy Eichner and Funny or Die, strikes a more irreverent tone -- panning the low millennial voter turnout during 2014's midterms as "embarrassing." The initiative held its first event this month in Oceanside, Calif., with Eichner in conversation with Will Ferrell as his "Anchorman" character, Ron Burgundy.
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"From the same team that brought you Between Two Ferns, Billy On The Street, and that Will Ferrell video where he gets cussed out by a baby, Glam Up the Midterms will work to convince voters under the age of 40 that America hasn't gone to s--t and that they should vote in November," reads a message on the site.
Current and future young voters have also mobilized around the issue of gun-safety legislation in the wake of February's Parkland, Fla., school shooting: School walkout organizers facilitated voter registration drives, while volunteers at the youth-led March for Our Lives gun-control rallies March 24 registered thousands to vote. Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' nonprofit, billionaire Tom Steyer's NextGen America and Everytown for Gun Safety this month rolled out a $1.5 million "Our Lives, Our Vote" initiative aimed at registering up to 50,000 people aged 18 and 19.
Plenty of other grassroots voter-outreach operations have taken root, as well: TurboVote, a voter-registration app that partners with nonprofits, colleges and universities, challenged participating campuses to "Ace the Midterms" by reaching 100,000 total TurboVote signups in 2018. And activists behind the Electoral Justice Project targeted screenings of "Black Panther," which boasted a majority black cast, for a #WakandaTheVote initiative geared at registering black voters.
Millennials -- the folks aged 22 to 37 who are poised to overtake Baby Boomers as the biggest population next year -- are the most Democratic and liberal of all the generations, per Pew Research, with 62% of registered millennial voters voicing preference for a Democrat congressional candidate this fall. But they gave an unimpressive showing in 2014's midterms: Just 19.9% of people aged 18 to 29 cast ballots that year, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, the lowest youth turnout rate in 40 years.
Also read: Half of millennials would give up their right to vote in exchange for having their student loans forgiven
It's unclear whether such efforts will have any tangible impact in this year's primaries or midterms. "I would suspect that voter turnout among younger voters would go up regardless of these efforts, because we know that in midterm environments, the President's party tends to suffer -- and among the opponents of the President are a lot of young people," Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, told Moneyish. "The party that is out of power tends to do pretty well in midterm elections."
"I don't how successful these groups are going to be, but I'm sure they'll take credit when youth turnout is perhaps up relative to 2014 -- even though that may just be a function of the electoral environment and not so much their efforts," Skelley added. "Not that I'm discouraging organizations from working to get people registered -- I just think it's difficult to say what effect they'll have."
"My sense is that the electoral environment and the issues that are important in the midterm election are going to play a much more significant role in pushing young people to the polls … than initiatives to facilitate or increase voter registration," added Jennifer Lawless, director of American University's Women & Politics Center. "That's not to say that (these efforts) aren't important -- I just don't think that there's a disproportionate impact on the youth vote."
But the potential here extends beyond young people, Lawless projected, citing the parents of millennials who have been galvanized by the gun-reform issue. "In a lot of ways, it's the parents of these young people that are really going to have the ability to affect these elections," she said. "It could be that by maintaining a focus on issues that are especially important to young people, there are also indirect benefits by motivating their parents."


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About Al -Ain
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Hope Hospital
Free Eye Camps
Hope for Humanity
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What is the Hope Hospital
About Hope Hospital
Hope Hospital, Mureed, Chakwal is a vision of two brothers Haji Murid Sultan (late) and Haji Taleh Mehdi. This dream is becoming a reality slowly but surely. When its foundation stone was laid on 19th June 2005 and work finally started in January 2006, after a detailed plan was laid out keeping in mind all the requirements of a modern and a well equipped Hospital.
Our Founder Trustee Haji Taleh Mehdi, is dedicating all his time and efforts to accomplish their vision. He has the utmost determination to alleviate the pain and suffering caused by preventable diseases that he himself has witnessed during his visits to the district of Chakwal.
Al-Ain is sponsoring Haji Taleh Mehdi to realise this vision until the project is complete. We have already been focusing our activities on realising this project. The land 7 Kanals (32,000SqFt) valued at Rs70Million (£350K) for the Hospital project was donated by Haji Taleh Mehdi alone, and further £150K toward the building of the Hope Hospital. Funding for the construction of the hospital is mainly covered through our commercial activities. Our policy is not to utilise any cash donation unless specifically donated to and for Hope Hospital Project.
Donations and grants provided by Al-Ain UK are mostly used to run the hospital, and to carry out free medical and eye camps in remote areas of Pakistan. We have a sister charity registered in Pakistan with the same name, and the funds are transferred directly from bank to bank. The sister charity in Pakistan has its own board of trustees, who oversee the running of the hospital and all other our projects including our camps activities.
Charity's vision is that no one has to pay for healthcare at the point of delivery. Lots of poor people often lose their loved ones because they cannot pay for medical treatment. All the trustees have endorsed this vision.
Artist impression of the Hope Hospital, Chakwal, Pakistan
A 40 bed facility (ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ ) is now operational. It includes two operating theatres; one dedicated to eye surgery, a pharmacy and a fully equipped laboratory providing a comprehensive list of Pathology tests. The Hospital is now fully equipped to cater for both primary and secondary eye care services. A routine weekly cataract removal surgery list is taking place at the hospital under the supervision of Eye Surgeon Dr Gulzar. We also run a General Practice clinic with qualified male and female doctors totally free for poor patients. Two ambulances and one community ambulance with 18 seats makes it easier for the poor to travel to Hospital; this ambulance routinely visits surrounding villages and provides cost-free transit to and from the hospital.
Our medical team routinely holds free medical camps in remote locations of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir allowing us to bring healthcare services to the doorsteps of people who do not have the means of transport.
Last year during our camps we screened nearly 5,000 patients; of which 2,800 had their sight tested, 2,200 patients had a health check and were provided with medicines; We performed 99 cataract surgeries; and gave out 385 reading glasses.
Similarly, ever since we opened the hospital, we have served over 60,000 patients and performed 1000s of cataract-removal operations and this number is continually increasing.
There is still a long way to go to create a modern health complex that can cover a wide arrange of services for poor patients, so we would have to refer them to other hospitals. We do thank our supporters from the bottom of our heart for their kind donations that are keeping the hospital running.
Free Eye Care and Primary Health Care Clinics
The pictures above are from the completed portion of the 40 bed facility (ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ ). It is providing daily Primary and Secondary Eye Clinics along with General Practice clinics totally free for poor people.
Currently, we are operating two clinics at the Hope Hospital, with the following objectives. No doubt (إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ) we will add other facilities as we develop the hospital in the future. Our next target is to create pre-natal care services.
Free Eye Care Clinic
"To provide free eye treatment and ophthalmology care to those with few resources and also to take these services to areas with little or no access to regular health care."
Free Health Care Clinic
"To provide 24 hours of emergency ambulance services across the district, free dispensaries, free wheelchairs, crutches and other services for the handicapped, family planning counselling and pre-natal services"
Message from our Chairman Haji Taleh Mehdi
"I'm very happy today that the Hope hospital is able to help so many poor people and this was all made possible with all your help and donations. I request to all my friends and family, to help Al-Ain, to keep their continuous support and we can together give a gift of good health to so many poor people - Thank you.
Ambulance Services:
3 Different type of Ambulances.
Small General Purpose Ambulance - The purpose of this is to carry a small number of patients from the surrounding villages. Due to their narrow streets it is ideal for picking up poor patients requiring cataract removal operations. Also used for hospital-related work.
Emergency Medical Ambulance - It is fully medically equipped to provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury, it allows us to take such patients to other hospitals providing secondary and tertiary care. It is provided free at the point of use, and a charge may be made to those who not entitled. Any income generated from our Ambulance services is put into Hope Hospital to support our free health care needy and less fortunate members of our society.
Community Ambulance - This is equipped with 16 seats, and is air-conditioned. It is primarily used to bring patients from far lung areas. This is where we have carried out free eye camps and identified a number of poor people needing cataract removal operations. It allows us to bring these people to our Hope Hospital free of cost. They will have a cataract removal operation at the Hope Hospital. They will then stay at the hospital overnight and following this they are taken back to their villages. Sometimes, we do local transport, but patients often find these very uncomfortable and inconvenient with recent surgery.
Within the developing countries, we see many private practices; nonetheless, they are very expensive and in most cases out of reach for poor people to have access to them. With the advancements of our commitment to aiding those vulnerable people, we have set up many Free Eye Camps in remote villages. This initiative is also strengthened by a mobile ambulance unit and a medical team of specialists, who routinely screen remote villages with an added referral pathway of transporting in-patients to be treated at our Hope Hospital, Chakwal, Pakistan.
Diagnostics Centre at Hope Hospital
The Hope Hospital Diagnostics Centre is fully operational and provides wide-range of Pathological Tests, including Haematology, Clinical Chemistry, Blood Gas Analysis and Microscopy And Culture.
Our eventual plan is to fulfil all the requirements of a 21st-century hospital and it will fully be equipped with the latest equipment required for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes for both adults and paediatric patients suffering from various problems.
Our plan includes introducing all of the following at a later date:
Cytology and Biopsy
Also, we plan to offer at the Hope Hospital a full range of Non-Interventional Procedures which include:
Stress Echocardiography
24 Blood Pressure Monitoring
Hope Hospital, provides a Pharmacy service with all the necessary drugs available and is run by a certified Pharmacist. As the hospital capabilities grow, we intend to make this service 24 hours.
Annual Health Mela at Hope Hospital
The nnual Health Mela is held at the Hope Hospital every year between March and August. It is fully financed by our Chairman Haji Taleh Mehdi with support of his two sons and grandchildren. Al-Ain charity does not pay for this Health Mela. It is solely funded by our chairman and his family.
The idea behind this Health Mela is to provide an opportunity for poor people to get a comprehensive health check free of charge. Their Blood Pressure, Sugar level, Cholesterol level, other blood chemistry tests and a free sight test. This health check is based on a similar standard to one provided in UK.
We usually treat 1000+ poor people during this event. It is a fantastic facility and provides valuable information and informs patient of the preventative measures for poor people to adopt a healthier lifestyle. The major aliment can be prevented before it is too late.
District Chakwal
The total population of the district has been recorded at 1,495,982 (1.5 Million**) with the total households of 266,109. As many as 1,212,042 (1.2 Million or 81%) people of the district live in the rural area with 217,586 (81%) houses and 283,940 (19%) people live in an urban area which has 48,524 households
Map of District Chakwal and location of the Hope Hospital, Mureed, Pakistan
Hope Hospital Construction
Hope Hospital is situated in the historical village Mureed of District Chakwal. The Hospital idea originated after a free eye camp held in village Mureed by Al-Ain. Initially, our plan was to establish a small Eye care clinic. However, with financial support from our current Chairman Haji Taleh Mehdi, who donated land to Al-Ain measuring 40,000 sq ft and large poultry farm building with a total value of Rs100 Million (£500K), a poultry farm building has been transformed into an outstanding hospital building with modern and state of the art eye and healthcare facilities. The hospital will have the facility for 100 beds once fully completed.
The Hope Hospital project is taking shape in small phases. Al-Ain's philosophy is to have healthcare functioning units as soon as economically feasible. Though, we envisage our long term goal to build a healthcare complex to encompass and cater for complete healthcare facilities for every underprivileged citizen of the district.
Our primary and secondary Eye Care Clinic, which is already operational and is serving people in the whole of the district Chakwal with 248 rural villages falling amongst the most deprived health facilities.
Technical Drawing of the Ground Floor.
Technical Drawing of the Ground Floor:
Health Mela 2019
This year Health Mela took place on 31st March 2019. At the Health Mela opening ceremony, we had the pleasure of hosting the Pakistan National Assembly Speaker
The highlight of Health Mela 2019 at the Hope Hospital:
1040 Patients Screened
770 Patients provided with a health check
89 Provided with reading glasses
18 Cataract surgeries
Along with His Excellency Speaker National Assembly of Pakistan - Mr Asad Qaisar. We were also honoured to have so many distinguished people here at the Hope Hospital's Health Mela:
Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan MNA Chakwal-I
Fauzia Behram MNA Chakwal-LS
Choudary Saliq Hussain MNA Chakwal-II
Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfraz MPA Chakwal-I (Minister of higher education)
Sardar Aftab Akbar - MPA Chakwal-I
Our relationship with His Excellency Speaker National Assembly of Pakistan Mr Asad Qaisar goes back many years. His first visit was back in 2005 when we began this project. Ever since he has supported Hope Hospital project and our organisation actively. Together, we have done many social welfare activities here in Punjab and KPK.
We were also grateful to all the above-distinguished guests, who attended the opening ceremony of Hope Hospital Health Mela 2019.
Having these distinguished guests present at the Health Mela provided ideal opportunity to emphasise the plight of the poor people, and we requested them to provide better health facilities within the District Chakwal. It gives them the first-hand experience of seeing so many poor people and their suffering.
Health Mela's Video - 31st March 2019
Future Plans for the Hope Hospital
Our plan is that Hope Hospital would become a general hospital catering both to indoor as well as outdoor patients. The hospital indoor facilities would include day services of a 100 bed in-patient department with a fully functional operation theatre capable of conducting major/minor types of surgeries. The outdoor facilities would include a diagnostic clinic consisting of a complete medical laboratory and a screening department.
It is envisaged over a few years we will add the following departments in the order they listed below as and when it becomes financially possible:
Pre-Maternity services
Diagnostics Centre
Dental Department
Surgical Consultancy
Medical/Fracture Consultancy
We are also looking into establishing paid consultant services for the general public to allow us to generate additional funds to help us support a greater number of poor people in the following fields at the Hope Hospital:
Gastroenterology Specialists
Paediatric Physicians
General Physicians (Chest & TB)
Diabetes & Endocrinologists
Along with video conferencing capabilities, the Hope Hospital is planning to introduce telemedicine services. Initially it will be operated on pre-paid requested appointments, at a later date we will add it into the Hope Hospital consultancy services. Patient's medical reports will also be sent to experts in the UK for consultation purposes. Thus not only will patients of the Hope Hospital receive the best care in Pakistan, but also from the UK.
Again, any funds generated will be invested back into the hospital to widen capabilities and provide better services to poor peoples.
Conference and Medical Training Centre
There is a training school for nursing planned which will give the hospital a constant supply of highly trained nurses. It will be a 3-year program with an emphasis on recruiting students locally and giving them the opportunity to become a specialist nurse. For this, A purpose built part of the first floor has been dedicated to the training. It has 3 lecture rooms and 3 discussion rooms along with a separate computer room and library.
Skills Lab / Training School
Training will be offered to medical professionals to enhance their skills by being updated about the latest changes and advancements in the field of medicine.
The Hope Hospital is where learners will have the opportunity to practice and master skills without putting patients at risk. The hospital will provide full-sized patient mannequins, infant mannequins and task trainers -all in realistic patient care settings on which critical care, surgical and resuscitation emergencies can be practiced.
Hope Hospital will also provide a huge collection of books covering clinical medicine, clinical surgery, biomedical research areas, allied fields and medical periodicals that meet the needs of doctors, nursing staff as well as for patients who are in the care of Hospital.
All the medical professionals working at Hope Hospital will have access to computers at all times.
Lecture Theatre
The Hope Hospital, Mureed hosts a 100 plus capacity Lecture Theatre which is linked to the OT and Cath Lab. Here, the state of the art projection system allows doctors and medical staff to watch an operation while it is in progress.
Not only will Hope Hospital be a place for medical care, but a beacon for learning and dialogue. Classes, lectures and video conferencing here will bring the Hope Hospital to the forefront of medical discussion.
Hope Hospital Story
Al-Ain International Hospital
The idea originated during a Free Medical Camp held at Mureed High School, District Chakwal, Pakistan in 2004. After hearing the sad news of a young pregnant lady passing away in the village due to lack of medical care.
Hospital is a vision of two brothers Haji Murid Sultan and Haji Taleh Mehdi. It began with an opening ceremony held on 19th June 2005. It was attended by the District Chakwal's MNA Major(r) Tahir Iqbal along with a host of other dignitaries.
Land and Building legally leased
Land and building were legally leased free of cost for 99 years to Al-Ain International Welfare Trust UK with an option to extend it to further 99 years. The work on the planning of the Hospital started.
Hospital Named - Hope Hospital
The name of the Hospital was collectively decided by Haji Murid Sultan(late) and Haji Taleh Mehdi. Also, the first draft of Artists Impressions of the Hope Hospital was created. This was later changed to the current version.
Hope Hospital - Health Clinic
Within 6 Six months on 1st Jan 2006, work completed. Al-Ain opened it's Primary Health Care Clinic on 28 Jan 2006. It consisted of 3 Examining Rooms, a waiting area and a small Masjid. It was felt that the Hospital project will take time to develop and we wanted to provide primary health care free of cost to the less fortunate people of district Chakwal.
First Camp at Hope Hospital Health Clinic
At the opening ceremony, we also held our first Medical Camp at the Hope Hospital site. Meanwhile, we continued to plan for the hospital building and also to raise funds needed to start the work. With the opening of the Clinic, we were able to provide primary health care services to poor people at the Hope Hospital. The opening of the clinic was the start of numerous camps here at the Hope Hospital site.
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Live Fire, Car Accidents, and a Search for Lost Hikers on Tap for Skyfire Consulting's Second Drone Conference
Press Release - updated: Feb 19, 2018
BURNET, Texas, February 19, 2018	(Newswire.com) - The second annual Skyfire Conference for public safety drone operators will be kicking off in Burnet, Texas on February 28, 2018.
The conference, focused on training firefighters, law enforcement officers and other first responders to use drone technology, is turning up the heat for its second year, doing a live-fire burn to demonstrate best practices for fire response.
"We are lucky enough to be hosting the conference at Reveille Peak Ranch this year," said Matt Sloane, CEO of Skyfire Consulting. "This 1300-acre property allows us to do things we can't do in an urban or suburban setting - like burning a structure down."
In addition to the live-burn, responders will train on simulated accident scenes, using drones to map out the area for evidentiary purposes and conduct search and rescue scenarios to find lost hikers.
"These tools can be used in so many different ways," said Sloane. "This is a chance for the people using the technology to practice all of it in one place.
Many new technologies will be on display, including some from Verizon, who will be on-site to debut the newest addition to its response fleet called Response Innovation.
"This technology enables an agency to expand its response fleet with highly specialized capabilities - off-road vehicles that can deliver emergency communications, autonomous vehicles that deliver medical supplies, and a 4D visualization software that provides a common operating picture between private sector and government agencies," said Vol Montgomery, Reveille Peak's owner, who will be hosting the Verizon team.
The conference will also feature classroom sessions, including a presentation from Tim Herlocker, former director of the emergency operations center for FDNY, and the man responsible for the department's drone program.
"Small drones have become a critical tool for first responders," said Herlocker. "Their safe and professional operation can help save lives and protect property. Training and collaboration is the key and I look forward to attending the Skyfire training conference both to speak and to learn from colleagues."
Herlocker, now a senior adviser for Hoverfly Technologies, will also sit on a panel with Rob Topping, Hoverfly's CEO, and Mr. Sloane to discuss how tethered drones are being used successfully in places like New York City for emergency response.
Additional speakers include Coitt Kessler, program manager for the Austin Fire Department's Robotic Emergency Deployment (RED) Team, who will discuss drone use during Hurricane Harvey; Gene Robinson and John Buell from DronePilot, who will share best practices from their decades of search and rescue experience; and Jon Wickersham, the emergency response program manager for Colonial Pipeline, talking about how drones are used to help industry and first responders deal with pipeline emergencies.
Rounding out the presenters is Trooper Michael Darrow from Michigan State Police's aviation wing, who will share his vast experience with large-scale accident scene mapping using UAVs; along with several other responders who use this technology regularly sharing their success stories.
Members of public safety agencies, educational institutions, search and rescue groups and commercial drone operators are invited to register for the conference by going to SkyfireConference.com.
Skyfire Consulting, a division of Atlanta Drone Group, Inc., offers drone equipment, public safety-focused training, FAA consulting, grant assistance and service/repairs to help the country's first responders develop and maintain in-house drone programs for their departments.
Atlanta Drone Group offers industry-leading drone services, including film and television aerial production, survey-grade mapping and emergency response aerial services.
Drone Pilot Inc. was founded in 2014 to assist Public Safety agencies with standing up unmanned aerial programs, conducting UA Public Safety Operations with our active and retired public safety/military flight teams. The DPI Eyes Overhead© UA Public Safety Training and Certification Program was built from experience. We have accurate information for public safety agencies looking for help with policies, laws, regulations, FAA/COA authority, deployment, and counter drone programs.
Source: Skyfire Consulting
Categories: Law Enforcement, Public Safety, Fire Department
Tags: fire drone training, fire drones, police drone training, police drones, public safety drone, public safety drones, skyfire conference, skyfire consulting
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Home » News » Journaling Appears to Improve Altruism
Journaling Appears to Improve Altruism
By Rick Nauert PhD
Technology in the form of brain imaging allow researchers to objectively evaluate how our actions affect the brain. A remarkable new imaging study suggests that the regular noting of feelings of gratitude in a journal, leads to increased altruism.
University of Oregon researchers say the study is one of the first to show that gratitude does more than help maintain good health. The paper, published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, sought to determine whether personal altruistic traits could be increased with a writing intervention.
Initially, participants were assessed through questionnaires and brain scanning by magnetic resonance imaging. During their first run through the MRI, the participants viewed transactions in which a sum of money was donated to a local food bank or routed to themselves.
"We found that across the whole group at the first session, people who reported more altruistic and grateful traits showed a reward-related brain response when the charity received money that was larger than when they received the money themselves," said Christina M. Karns, director of the Emotions and Neuroplasticity Project in the Department of Psychology.
Results of functional MRI, which measures the metabolism of oxygen in active brain cells, showed that altruism-related activity increased in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area deep in the brain associated with altruism in previous studies. (One of these studies, led by study co-author Ulrich Mayr, found increases in pure altruism as people grow older.)
To test the journaling intervention, the 33 women, ages 18-27, who participated in the study were randomly assigned to two groups. In one, 16 wrote daily in an online journal, responding to prompts with questions related to gratitude. The other 17 received neutral daily prompts not focused on gratitude.
Three weeks later, the participants returned for functional MRI scanning as they repeated the questionnaires and viewed transactions of money going to the food bank or themselves.
"We found that activity recorded in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex shifted in the people in the gratitude-journaling group," Karns said. "This group, as a whole, increased that value signal toward the charity getting the money over watching themselves get the money as if they were more generous toward others than themselves."
Research on positive thinking and practicing gratitude previously has shown benefits to improved health and general well-being, but the new research, Karns said, was designed to explore gratitude with a philosophical perspective. This perspective emphasizes more than gratitude's benefit to oneself, focusing on the downstream benefits of gratitude to others in society.
To do that, she used a variety of questionnaires to discreetly explore the participants' feelings about altruism, combining then with the transaction-viewing exercise developed by the co-authors for use in earlier studies.
The new study's results indicate, Karns said, that the part of the brain that supports feeling a reward is flexible, allowing for changes in values of a "neural currency" linked to feelings of altruism.
"Our findings suggest that there's more good out there when there is gratitude," Karns said.
Whether the changes brought about by gratitude journaling endure and are realized more generally are open questions, Karns said. For example, the study focused on only women to reduce variables related to gender.
"I would like to do a longer-term study with more people to see how this holds up in the real world," she said. "I would love to have a large enough sample to see if there are gender differences and how they manifest. Does this feeling last? How often do you have to journal to be most effective?"
Source: University of Oregon/EurekAlert
Rick Nauert PhD
Dr. Rick Nauert has over 25 years experience in clinical, administrative and academic healthcare. He is currently an associate professor for Rocky Mountain University of Health Professionals doctoral program in health promotion and wellness. Dr. Nauert began his career as a clinical physical therapist and served as a regional manager for a publicly traded multidisciplinary rehabilitation agency for 12 years. He has masters degrees in health-fitness management and healthcare administration and a doctoral degree from The University of Texas at Austin focused on health care informatics, health administration, health education and health policy. His research efforts included the area of telehealth with a specialty in disease management.
Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Journaling Appears to Improve Altruism. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 20, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/12/15/journaling-appears-to-improve-altruism/129986.html


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     "1DASWPOxBomakPCdasd1d123au6" : {...},...}}

I am using default Security Rules for my DB:-
      {
       "rules": {
          ".read": "auth != null",
          ".write": "auth != null"

        }
      }

All i want is to increment a noOfTotalPost child node's value every time any user creates a post:-
I already have a workaround using observeSingleEventOfType.:
    let prntRef = FIRDatabase.database().reference().child("TotalPosts")
    prntRef.child("noOfTotalPost").observeSingleEventOfType(.Value, withBlock: {(totalSnap) in

        if totalSnap.exists(){

            if let tNo = totalSnap.value as? Int{

               prntRef.child("noOfTotalPost").setValue(tNo+1)//Working Fine

             }
          })
        }else{

            prntRef.setValue(["noOfTotalPost": 1])

        }
    })

But cant figure out why runTransactionBlock wont work!

A: As @Frank said in comments it's expected behaviour of runTransactionBloack to return NSNull initially , But if there already is a value in that location, it will get triggered again.And if there is a conflict in updating the value, It will trigger again.
Code:-
func updateTotalNoOfPost(completionBlock : (() -> Void)){

    let prntRef = FIRDatabase.database().reference().child("TotalPosts")

    prntRef.child("noOfTotalPost").runTransactionBlock({ (noOfPosts) -> FIRTransactionResult in
        if let totalPost = noOfPosts.value as? Int{

            noOfPosts.value = totalPost + 1
            return FIRTransactionResult.successWithValue(noOfPosts)
        }else{

            return FIRTransactionResult.successWithValue(noOfPosts)

        }
        }, andCompletionBlock: {(error,completion,snap) in

                print(error?.localizedDescription)
                print(completion)
                print(snap)
            if !completion {

                print("The value wasn't able to Update")
                }else{

                completionBlock()
            }
    })

}

For underlying concept:-
Data in transaction is null

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Q: Downloading pdf file doesn't work in node js I'm trying to download a pdf file from url but I encountered error :
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:443
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1141:16)
Emitted 'error' event on ClientRequest instance at:
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:426:9)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:310:20)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:92:8)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) {
  errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect',
  address: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 443
}

and here is my code:
const https = require("https");
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");

const url = #hidden#

const optionsStart = {
    uri: url,
    method: 'GET',
    encoding: null,
    headers: {
        'Content-type': 'applcation/pdf'
    }
}

const req = https.get(optionsStart, function(res){
    const fileStream = fs.createWriteStream("Testingpdf123.pdf");
    res.pipe(fileStream);

    fileStream.on("error", function(err){
        console.log("Error writing to the stream.");
        console.log(err);
    });

    fileStream.on("finish", () => {
        fileStream.close();
        console.log("Done!");
    });

});

I tried replacing optionsStart to just url but the file is blank. What's wrong with my code?
UPDATE:
I remove the method: 'GET' in optionsStart it creates a pdf file but empty then I check what's inside the file it says
<meta name="heading" content="Access Denied" />

A: You need to change yow port 443 is an encrypted or secure port you need to provide them ssl certificates  and stuff also use the http module instead of the https module.... for development on yow prod app the story is different


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Districtwide Safety & Emergency Management Plan
Emergency School Closing
Health Updates and Notices
Potassium Iodide (KI) Information
Fact Sheets and Newsletters
Water Testing Results
Home District Health and Safety Megan's Law
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification that a Level 3 sex offender is residing in Mohegan Lake, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Letter to Parents from Superintendent, Dr. Stone
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office that a level 2 sex offender is residing in the area in Garrison, NY. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a moderate risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Letter to Parents from Superintendent, Dr. Stone, click here.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the NYS Sex Offender Registry that a level 2 sex offender is residing in the area in Cortlandt Manor, NY. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a moderate risk of committing sexual offenses again.
More informationlink
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the "NYS DCJS Sex Offender Registry" that a Level 3 sex offender is residing in the area of Cortlandt Manor, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Yorktown Police that a Level 2 sex offender is residing in the area in Mohegan Lake, NY. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a moderate risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification that a Level 2 sex offender is residing in the area of Cortlandt Manor, NY. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Westchester County Police that a Level 2 sex offender is residing in the area in Cortlandt NY. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification a Level 3 sex offender is residing in the area in Mahopac, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Yorktown Police Department that a Level 3 sex offender is residing within the school district in Yorktown Heights, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Yorktown Police Department that a Level 3 sex offender is residing within the school district in Cortlandt Manor, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Yorktown Police Department that a Level 3 sex offender is residing within the school district in Mohegan Lake, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Westchester County Department of Public Safety that a Level 3 sex offender is residing within the school district in Cortlandt Manor, NY. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Letter to Parents from Superintendent Dr. Stone
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services that a Level 3 sex offender is residing in the 10524 (Garrison/Putnam) zip code area. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services that a Level 3 sex offender is residing in the 10579 (Putnam Valley) zip code area. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central SchoolDistrict has received notification from the Westchester County Police that a Level 2 sex offender is residing within the school district in the 10567 (Cortlandt Manor) zip code area. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a moderate risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Westchester County Police that a Level 3 sex offender is residing within the school district in the 10567 (Cortlandt Manor) zip code area. Level 3 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a high risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Westchester County Police that a Level 2 sex offender is residing within the school district in the 10598 (Yorktown Heights) zip code area. Level 2 sex offenders are those individuals who pose a moderate risk of committing sexual offenses again.
Letter to Parents from Superintendent Connolly
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Westchester County Police that a Level 2 sex offender is now residing within the school district. For more information, click below on the file named "Most recent notification (Level 2, August 2009) from the Westchester County Police."
Under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law), the Lakeland Central School District has received notification from the Westchester County Police that a Level 3 sex offender is now residing within the school district. For more information, click below for the notification from the Westchester County Police.
New York State Sex Offender Registry and the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA)


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VMS Projects
Gold Projects
Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Projects
Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders
Buchans Resources
Minco plc
Buchans Minerals
Minco Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
On December 1, 2015,	Posted by tempominco ,	With Comments Off on Minco Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
Financial Results for Interim Period September 30, 2015
Resignation of Director
December 1st, 2015 — Download this press release (PDF 265 KB)
Dublin, 01 December 2015 – Minco Plc (AIM – "MIO") reports that at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held yesterday in Dublin all the Resolutions proposed were duly passed with greater than 99% of the votes cast by proxy in favour of each Resolution. Details are reported below.
At the Annual Meeting Minco's Chairman, John Kearney, provided shareholders with an update on the Company's activities.
BUCHANS BASE METAL PROJECTS – Newfoundland Canada
During spring of 2015, Minco completed a drilling programme at Lucky Strike South at Buchans in central Newfoundland, less than 250 m south of the former Lucky Strike mine where previous operator Asarco, mined 5.6 million tonnes averaging 18.4% Zn, 8.6% Pb, 1.6% Cu, 112 g/t Ag & 1.7 g/t Au before closing the Buchans mine in 1984.
Minco's 2015 programme was undertaken to follow up of favourable results from drilling in 2014 and tested several mineralized stratigraphic horizons to explore for new high-grade massive sulphide deposits to depths of 300 metres.
Highlights included the intersection of widespread ore clast mineralization comprised of massive sulphide fragments hosted by volcanic breccias within a deeper stratigraphic horizon known as the "Ore Clast" horizon.
All eight holes designed to test the Ore Clast horizon intersected mineralized felsic volcanic breccia ranging from 1 to 23 metres in thickness, and containing massive sulphide and sulphide-rich clasts measuring up to 15 centimetres in diameter. Intercepts include 0.5 metres averaging 13.32% combined base metals (i.e., Cu%+Pb%+Zn%) in hole H-15-3493, as well as 1.0 metre averaging 6.16% combined base metals in hole H- 15-3497.
In light of these positive results, Minco expanded its programme of re-logging historic drill holes to assess potential for new high-grade discoveries within the Ore Clast horizon, below depths of previous mining. During 2015, Minco re-logged 156 historic surface and underground drill holes (13,418 m) southwest of the former Lucky Strike mine.
This re-logging work focused in on a small high-grade massive sulphide deposit, known as the West Orebody deposit, with reported base metal grades similar to Lucky Strike.
The West Orebody deposit was discovered by Asarco in 1940 at a depth of 300 m and consisted of a cluster of small but high-grade massive sulphide lenses. The small deposit and was partially mined during the mid- 1940's with an approximate aggregate tonnage of less than 100,000 tonnes.
While production records and other details are scanty, the West Orebody deposit has not been a focus of exploration since the 1940s when the deposit was tested by only short underground holes and a few widelyspaced surface holes. Previous underground drilling tended not to test the lateral extents of the ore horizon more than 50 metres beyond the developed orebody.
Re-logging and reinterpretation of archived drill cores by Minco now suggests this mineralization is located near the intersection of the Lucky Strike Horizon and the stratigraphically deeper, Ore Clast Horizon. It is further interpreted that the Ore Clast horizon is in part a structural feature or rift fault, active during formation of the Lucky Strike and West Orebodies deposits, and may have acted as a control structure for the generation of high-grade massive sulphides.
Minco is planning to drill 2,000 metres in 5 holes in its 2016 programme to further explore the West Orebody deposit and a 400 m section of the inferred mineralized trend.
MINERAL EXPLORATION AT NORTHERN PENNINES, ENGLAND
Minco's exploration project in the northern Pennines is centered on a 3.5 by 2.5 kilometre area in the vicinity of the village of Nenthead, the most prolific area of past production within the Pennines Orefield which covers a total area of approximately 350 square miles.
Over the period from late 2012 until the first quarter of 2015, Minco drilled a total of 7,555 metres in 31 holes, of which 17 intersected mineralisation. Twenty five holes were sited to explore the Great Limestone and six holes tested the deeper basal succession.
Minco's 2012-2015 drill programme has established a significant stratiform component to the mineralisation within the Great Limestone which had not been previously recognised. Intersections within the Great Limestone have demonstrated the potential for significant stratiform mineralisation adjacent to historic workings. The extent of the stratiform mineralisation discovered by Minco in the Great Limestone to date is encouraging. Similar mineralisation within the thicker basal succession would be economically significant.
The intersections of reasonable widths of lead and zinc mineralization at three different levels in two holes drilled on the Whitewood-Barneycraig-Williams fault/vein structure in Northumberland in early 2015, are considered to represent very positive results that indicate the mineral potential of this large WhitewoodBarneycraig-Williams fault/vein structure which was previously demonstrated by historic mining to be mineralized over a strike length of 3.5 kilometres.
A second phase of drilling is planned for 2016, subject to conclusion of land access agreements, to further explore the potential within both the Great Limestone and basal succession with the primary target for both being the Barneycraig-Whitewood fault complex.
LEAD-ZINC EXPLORATION, MOATE, COUNTY WESTMEATH, IRELAND
In November 2015, Minco was granted three new Prospecting Licences in Ireland by the Minister of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. The new licences, PLs 1228, 1229 and 3981, at Moate in County Westmeath, Ireland, are centered on a specific geological target identified by Minco, with potential for zinc-lead mineralization of Tynagh Mine type.
Minco's new Moate licences are located along the northwestern margin of the Irish Midland Orefield on the "Tynagh-Ballinalack Trend". All but one of the major Irish zinc-lead deposits of the Irish Midland Orefield lie along the margins of the Orefield. The Moate target lies mid-way between the former Tynagh Mine, located 50 kilometres to the southwest, and the similar styled Ballinalack deposit, situated 35 kilometres to the northeast.
The Tynagh Mine operated successfully from 1965 to 1981 producing 9,000,000 tonnes of ore, from both open pit and underground, at average grades of approximately 7% lead, 5.5% zinc, 0.5% copper and 2.6 ounces of silver per tonne.
Minco's studies of previous drilling have outlined a geological setting that Minco believes mirrors that at the former Tynagh Mine, where zinc-lead mineralization was hosted by breccias developed at the margin between the reef and off-reef limestone facies. The geology at Moate is also comparable to that at the smaller Ballinalack deposit.
The Moate area has seen intermittent exploration over the past fifty years following discovery in 1968 of the Moyvoughly deposit (125,000 tonnes averaging 8% zinc plus lead) located immediately to the east of Minco's new licenses. Exploration at Moate in the past, which includes nine kilometres of diamond drilling, has focused almost exclusively on the potential for Navan-type mineralization within the Moyvoughly Beds, initially at shallow depths in the footwall of the major (300 metre throw) Moyvoughly Fault and later to depths of 600 metres below surface in the hanging wall.
The potential for reef hosted zinc-lead mineralization of "Tynaghtype" at Moate has never been explored. Minco has planned an initial exploration programme consisting of six inclined drill holes for a total of 1400 metres of drilling.
Metal prices, and zinc and lead prices, in particular, play a very significant part in the affairs of Minco.
During the third quarter of 2015, zinc prices fell 18% from a high of US$0.92/lb. to approximately US$0.75/lb. by the end of the quarter and subsequently declining below US$0.70/lb. while LME and SHFE zinc warehouse stock levels rose 17% from near 686,000 tonnes to approximately 803,000 tonnes. Lead prices followed a similar, but less dramatic, pattern falling from US$0.84/lb. to US$0.76/lb. in the third quarter while LME lead warehouse stock levels fell from 220,000 tonnes to 165,000 tonnes.
According to recent research by analysts at Macquarie Commodities Research, the current situation of rising inventories and dropping prices is explained by a number of factors. The first is that the world GDP growth is slowing – recent figures show the world GDP is at its slowest rate of growth since 2013. The second factor is that industrial production, which is the key economic driver of commodity demand, barely grew at all during the second quarter of 2015. A rally in the US dollar has enabled continuing profitable production from marginal operations from emerging markets and China which, in part, led to increasing warehouse inventories for zinc.
Macquarie sees a number of positives for zinc. They state that a major chunk of the hidden stocks are now visible and the future threat level of additional stocks has been diminished. Furthermore, with the imminent closures of the Lisheen mine in Ireland and Century mine in Australia.
In November it was announced that China's top zinc smelters plan to cut refined metal output by 500,000 metric tons next year, according to a joint statement from 10 producers posted on the website of Shanghaibased consultancy SMM. The Chinese smelters statement called for strict control over new capacity and said that current market prices don't reflect fundamentals and create operational difficulties.
A similar picture appears for lead as there are only relatively low warehouse stock levels and output from Chinese mines has fallen resulting from more stringent environmental controls and the enforcement of many mine closures.
Despite the poor current circumstances, Macquarie suggests that China's push to support growth could lead to upside demand and notwithstanding the current weakness and volatility in most commodity prices, Minco believes that the long term outlook for the prices of both zinc and lead remains very favorable.
WOODSTOCK MANGANESE PROJECT
In July 2014 Minco completed a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") of its wholly owned Woodstock electrolytic manganese metal ("EMM") project, located 5 km west of the town of Woodstock and the junction of the Trans Canada and I-95 Highways in west-central New Brunswick, Canada.
Given the large capital investment required to build an EMM plant at Woodstock, Minco focused its efforts on attracting a development partner from one of the existing EMM producers in China. However, the global economic crisis has forced EMM producers, principally in China, to confront a host of difficulties that include a significant decrease in EMM prices, production over-capacity and rising costs of raw materials, electricity and labor.
These strained economic conditions have reportedly resulted in the closure of a significant number of Chinese EMM plants, dropping from 184 plants in 2011 down to only 23 plants in May of 2015. Despite the closure in a significant number of EMM plants, the industry is still faced with excess production capacity that is anticipated to continue exerting downward pressure on the EMM price until a balance is reached between production capacity and market demand.
In the meantime, Minco has initiated an internal screening level study to assess potentially reducing the capital investment required for the project by processing lower tonnages. In addition, Minco is investigating possible alternative measures to improve the project at lower processing rates that include:
The use of sulphur dioxide for leaching of the pre-concentrate material as a means of potentially reducing the capital investment for a fully-integrated sulphuric acid plant;
Production of electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) as an alternative to EMM;
Co-production of iron oxide pigment with EMM and;
Assessment of process equipment purchase cost saving that could potentially be realized by procuring the majority of the process equipment from Chinese equipment suppliers.
Among the many positive attributes of Minco's Woodstock EMM project, the key competitive advantages are that Woodstock is anticipated to have a project life of 40 years, excellent potential to increase the resource and extend the project life further, proximity to and ability to enter the U.S. market without being subject to the 14% import duty applicable to all other EMM producers in the world, and, most importantly, a projected operating cost that is anticipated to be amongst the lowest in the industry averaging US$0.68/lb EMM over the life of the Woodstock project.
For the nine month period ended September 30, 2015, Minco recorded a loss of $146,000 compared to a loss of $352,000 for the same period ended September 30, 2014. The loss for the nine month period ended September 30, 2015 included a foreign exchange gain of $503,000, compared to a foreign exchange gain of $568,000 during the same period in 2014.
For the three month period ended September 30, 2015, Minco recorded a loss of $225,000 compared to a profit of $135,000 for the same period ended September 30, 2014. The loss for the three month period ended September 30, 2015 included a foreign exchange loss of $47,000, compared to a foreign exchange gain of $503,000 during the same period in 2014.
Administrative expenses excluding foreign exchange for the nine month period ended September 30, 2015 amounted to $680,000 compared to $919,000 in 2014.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2015 Minco invested $870,000 on exploration of its mineral properties, of which the largest amounts were expended on the Buchans zinc lead project in central Newfoundland and on the Pennines zinc exploration project in northern England.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING VOTING RESULTS
Details of the proxy votes for each Resolution voted at the AGM are set out below:
Resolution Vote Type Voted Voted %
Resolution 1
Report and Accounts
Votes Withheld 34,690,222
0 100.00%
Re-elect Patrick Downey For
Re-elect Warren MacLeod For
0. 00%
Re-elect Danesh Varma For
Re-appoint Auditors For
Fix Auditors Remuneration For
Authorise Directors to issue securities For
Disapply Section 1022 (1) of Companies Act 2014 For
Amendment to the Articles of Association For
Proxies giving discretion to the Chairman have been included in the totals of votes in favour of each Resolution.
The full text of each Resolution was included in the Notice of the Meeting and Form of Proxy circulated to shareholders.
Minco Plc reports that Rowan Maule has retired as a director of the Company, effective as of the close of the Annual General Meeting held today. Rowan had been a member of board since 2012 and the Board of Directors acknowledges and appreciates his contribution to the Company during his term on the Board.
ABOUT MINCO PLC
Minco Plc, incorporated in the Republic of Ireland and listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange ("MIO"), is an exploration and development company currently engaged in zinc-lead exploration in Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and is also evaluating its Woodstock manganese project in New Brunswick, Canada.
Minco also holds an approximate 26% shareholding in Xtierra Inc., (TSXV- "XAG"), which holds mineral properties in Mexico, and a 2% NSR royalty on the Curraghinalt gold property in Northern Ireland, currently being explored by Dalradian Resources Inc. (TSX-"DNA").
Danesh Varma: CFO & Company Secretary
Peter McParland: Director – Ireland
Peter Tyler: Chief Geologist – Ireland and UK
Warren MacLeod: Director, President Buchans Minerals
John Frain: Davy (NOMAD)
Saif Janjua: (Corporate Advisor) (Broker, Beaufort Securities) +44 (0) 8452 606 034
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Date last updated November 2017.
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Stress er rsagen til manglende sexlyst.
This may cause your blood pressure to rise.
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As in other media markets around the globe, the advent of the Internet promised to diversify and democratise the media system in Mexico. However, things turned out to be different after almost two decades that the Internet started to be a place for media development. The Reuters Institute's 2018 Digital Media News Report contains a particular chapter that describes the Mexican digital media landscape. The results of the survey show that the top online media brands are part of legacy newspapers (eg, El Universal online, Reforma online, El Financiero online), national TV and radio holdings (eg, TV Azteca news online, Televisa news online, Imagen news online), and global media companies (eg, CNN.com, Yahoo! News).
In this ranking, there are only three native digital media: 1) Aristegui Online, which is run by the well-known journalist Carmen Aristegui; 2) Animal Político, which is one of the leading producers of investigative journalism not only in the online media landscape but in the whole Mexican media system; and 3) UNO TV, which is an online television channel owned by the telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim. If we only focus on native, digital media, the newspaper El Economista and the company ComScore, created a ranking of the most visited online digital news outlets. In this study, the most visited news site from smartphones is UNO TV, followed by SDP Noticias, Mediotiempo, Animal Político, La Neta Noticias, El Deforma, Aristegui Noticias, Nación 321, and so forth.


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23 July, 2019 John Young
Evidence for policy, General, Research communication
A comprehensive approach to research uptake is needed for researchers, research donors and other stakeholders to maximize the usefulness and use of research, writes John Young, with thanks to Emily Hayter for providing her insight into this post.
When I worked for ODI, in the early years of the Research and Policy in Development Programme, we did some research which identified six lessons and six steps to help researchers to develop engagement strategies for evidence-based policy making. These steps included identifying policy objectives, key influencers and what evidence they need, as well as communicating the research, developing a plan for policy engagement and ensuring you are monitoring and learning to check how this is going
These steps have been further refined in the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach to Policy Engagement and Influence, and if you are a researcher wishing to influence policy and/or practice they remain substantially the same today.
But that is only one part of the process. Beyond researchers ensuring that their research is reaching policymakers, what can policymakers, research donors and civil society do to ensure research for development is useful and used?
That is what the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)'s Research Cooperation Strategy aims to address. The strategy has three components: 1) to strengthen the capacity of low-income countries to use research in the struggle against poverty; 2) to support international research of relevance to low income countries; and 3) to support Swedish research of relevance to low-income countries.
A couple of months ago I had the privilege of going to the Sida Science Days 2019 Conference in Stockholm. This meeting brought together nearly 200 people from 70 (or so) organizations that Sida funds to support and deliver its strategy. There were people there from universities in developing countries, people from Swedish universities, people from other international research organizations, and people from organizations supporting, rather than actually doing research – like INASP, SciDevNet, and African Journals Online. The purpose was to meet and share experiences and thoughts on how we can all collaborate and contribute to ensure that science improves the lives of the most vulnerable.
Putting research to use
On the afternoon of the first day I gave an introductory presentation as part of a session on how research can be put into use. I was followed by Fernanda Machungo from Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo who gave a great example of where research contributed to a change in the law on abortions in Mozambique. There were also a couple of presentations about the value of international research collaborations linking and capitalizing on research programmes across many countries. Beatrice Halpaap from the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at the WHO talked about action-research to develop health innovations, and Bruce Campbell who leads the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme in the CGIAR talked about research to support climate-resilient villages.
The overall conclusions from this session were that there is no magic silver bullet that always works. It is very rare that single pieces of research have much impact. But there is much evidence that long-term interdisciplinary programmes focusing on the key challenges that bring together national researchers, policymakers and practitioners can be very influential. This is sometimes called transdisciplinarity.
This concept fits very well with INASP's recognition of the importance of equitable knowledge ecosystems – "where diverse voices are recognized and those who commission, produce, communicate and use research and knowledge can work effectively together to bring the latest evidence to bear on the most pressing and intractable problems" – in building sustainable capacity for research production and use in developing countries.
A comprehensive approach
Transdisciplinary approaches, and an emphasis on research uptake are an important part of making sure research is useful and used, but, beyond that, we at INASP believe there are some key features that researchers, research donors and other stakeholders seeking to maximize the usefulness and use of research need to promote.
These are:
Inclusivity: Often it's a small group of 'the usual suspects' whose evidence influences policy. We need to consider whose voices are left out in the policy influence process, and ensure a diverse range of perspectives, including those from marginalized groups, feed into policy.
A wide definition of evidence: Research is not the only form of evidence that should influence policy; citizen evidence, practice informed evidence and statistics are also critical to inform decision making. We should encourage decision makers to make use of all of the available evidence that is relevant.
A thorough understanding of policymakers and users: Research uptake approaches must be informed by, and respond to, a nuanced understanding of the day to day realities faced by policy-making agencies—what is often called 'the demand side'. The Context Matters Framework, developed by Politics & Ideas and INASP, can help with this.
A strong emphasis on local actors: Local evidence producers usually have the best understanding of the local context and the kind of evidence that influences decision makers. Strong local research systems are essential for effective research uptake for development. The support that INASP's AuthorAID project provides to Southern researchers can help strengthen these local systems and help empower local evidence producers.
A holistic approach to capacity development: Developing capacity for research uptake is not only about strengthening individual skills of researchers, but also about building organizational capacities and cultures in research institutions which can enable research to have an impact on policy.
Adaptive, flexible and learning driven approaches: Like any other effort to influence change, research uptake approaches should adapt and respond to changes in the external context, as well as to learning from within the initiative.
INASP has a long history and strong foundations supporting researchers to produce and communicate the results of their research in academic publications, and working with policymakers and legislators to help them to use research. But working directly on research uptake is relatively new for us. Making the links – and supporting researchers, policymakers and others to make those links – is a logical progression for INASP and an important opportunity to help ensure that decisions are based on the best and most contextually relevant research and knowledge.
Executive Director, INASP
Supporting Ghana's Parliament to use data to achieve the SDGs
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With the US still largely closed for the Thanksgiving break, attention is set to remain very much on Brexit as the weekend break approaches, with Sunday's cornerstone emergency summit amongst EU leaders in Brussels. Yesterday, a draft plan for post-Brexit ties between the UK and the trading bloc had been agreed, although support in Westminster seemed rather lacking. The Pound may have jumped almost a cent against the Euro off the back of the news, but enthusiasm for the deal quickly ran dry and yet again, Theresa May's tenure is back in the spotlight.
The EU and the UK may have a form of words drafted, but these have to be agreed by Ministers from across the bloc in Sunday's meeting. Reports of increased levels of pushback from various member states are being seen, and the risk is that a whole range of 'riders' may now be brought to the table, such as questions over Gibraltar's future. The potential for further compromises to be made cannot be underestimated; although, with some careful management, these could prove to be net positive for the UK. As was seen yesterday, the prospect of emerging certainty over what lies ahead—rather than whether it's necessarily a good or bad deal for the UK—is being well received by the market. A successful summit on Sunday has the potential to buoy the Pound further, although the political risk—both for Theresa May's leadership and the will of Parliament to endorse the Brexit bill—will again serve to limit the potential for Sterling gains.
There's a flurry of Eurozone economic data due for release this morning, although attention is likely to focus on the bloc-wide Purchasing Managers' Indexes (PMI) which are scheduled for 9am GMT. There's been plenty of talk of the Eurozone economy bouncing back in the fourth quarter, so these preliminary prints for November will be closely followed. However, expectations point towards modest declines being posted which would once again call into question the European Central Bank's (ECB) ability to stick to its proposed schedule of monetary policy tightening. Such news would have the potential to push the Euro significantly lower.
Although many in the US will be making the most of the long holiday weekend, US PMI data is expected for release at 2.45pm GMT. Expectations for this print are broadly unchanged to slightly higher, so any deviation from this—combined with the fact the holiday weekend is likely to see volumes suppressed—could result in a meaningful breakout for the Dollar. The market is looking for signals that the Federal Reserve will need to reign in its pace of interest rate hikes next year, and any hints that such a situation may unfold have the potential to send the DXY Dollar index down to fresh lows for the month.
News of Brexit progress yesterday saw the Pound jump around one and a half cents against the US Dollar, although a modest retracement followed. Uncertainty over what happens next in Brexit, plus the absence of any US economic data left the pair in a tight range overnight.
The Euro has been posting very modest gains over the US Dollar since the middle of the week, but today's US PMI numbers could initiate a noticeable breakout in either direction.
Yesterday's notable gains for the Pound over the Euro underlined the market's desire to embrace anything looking like clarity over the UK's position post-Brexit. Further progress at the weekend's EU summit could see another move like this being posted. However, this needs to be balanced against UK political risk and the fact that Sunday's agenda could be clouded by fringe demands being made from other European states.


Schneider Electric, the leader in energy management and automation, will be showcasing the latest innovations in its Ringmaster series at All Energy 2019 at the SEC Glasgow between the 15th and 16th May.
The latest developments in the Schneider Electric Ringmaster series, including the RN2d Ring Main Unit, will be on show. This fourth generation of the Ringmaster series, launched at the end of 2018, boasts improved resilience, safety and reliability. They feature smart connectivity, with fully automated wireless control when paired with the T300 Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), which will also be on display at stand J40. Demonstrations of the two products working together, with wireless remote control via an iPad, will be ongoing throughout the day for attendees to watch.
The Schneider Electric range of Ringmaster products is ideal for medium-voltage applications and is designed to deliver optimal performance in harsh climatic and environmental conditions. Applications of the RN2d in the utilities sector include distributing power in factories and power plants, as well as servicing the energy needs of package substations.
The Ringmaster series is currently being deployed by a range of utilities stakeholders in 18 countries, from end users to electricity network operators.
Other Schneider Electric technologies on show at All Energy 2019 include the EVlink electric vehicle charging station and the Genie Evo series of medium voltage switchgear.


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Nairn Book & Arts Festival – Sat 14th Sept
10.00-11.30am Discovery Film Festival Shorts for Wee ones & Boy in the Bunnet (U) – Short films from around the world for some of the youngest audiences at the festival – this year we journey to France, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and the USA. All these short films are in English or are dialogue free. These magical tales will delight children age 3+.
12.00-1.15pm	Scottish Documentary Institute Shorts (PG) – a selection of the best shorts from SDI's flagship training scheme Bridging the Gap. Established in 2004 Scottish Documentary Institute have produced over a 100 films, screening in 60 countries worldwide, garnering international recognition as being at the cutting edge of documentary.
1.30pm-3.00pm From Scotland with Love (U) – an amazing journey into our collective past which explores themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play set to a soundtrack created by Fife's finest folk songsmith King Creosote.
3.15pm-4.00pm The Shutdown with Alan Bissett (PG) – An autobiographical film written and narrated by Alan Bissett about an industrial accident at the Petrochemical plant in Falkirk where his father worked. The film explores Bissett's relationship with his hometown and the industry that surrounds it.
5.00-5.45pm Prince Achmed Soundtrack Workshop with Chris Davies – A hands on, fun experience on how to create music and atmospheric sound for film and theatre using instruments, body and voice.
6.00-7.00pm The Adventures of Prince Achmed (PG) (with live soundtrack by Chris Davies) – Join us for a very special screening of the world's first feature length animation. Handmade by Lotte Reiniger in 1926 the film is reinvigorated by Chris Davies' new Composition and live performance which uses a spectacular array of musical instruments from around the world to breath new life and meaning into Reiniger's spectacular film. **This screening is supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI's Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.**
8.00-10.00pm Restless Natives (PG) – Two bored Edinburgh youths decide to add a little excitement into their lives by donning masks and calling themselves 'The Clown and the Wolfman'. They use their disguises to retain their anonymity as they hijack coaches, but don't prove particularly threatening, and in fact become a tourist attraction in this classic Scottish comedy.
10.00pm-12.00am Figure (U) – an experimental film about boys growing up without fathers. Through a dynamic fusion of physical theatre and hip-hop dance, FIGURE follows two young men as they search for answers both outside and inside themselves.
Untouchable (15) – this French comedy drama charts an unusual friendship. Paul (François Cluzet), a rich aristocrat and habitual thrill-seeker, becomes quadriplegic after a paragliding accident. Alone in the world and unable to care for himself in even the most basic ways, Paul employs young Senegalese émigré Driss (Omar Sy) as his carer. Despite their very different backgrounds and outlooks on life, the two men quickly form a strong bond, teaching each other important life lessons about acceptance, respect and the true meaning of friendship.
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So, the weekend came and went and we had a wonderful outing at Birmingham on Saturday and went out Indian grocery shopping on a foggy and chilly Sunday. I went a little cold with all the cold and shivering obviously. I will share more on the trip later this week and about a funny little incident.
I have had this obsession come and go, but it came to the fore with this class again and I jumped at my Pinterest board.
Here are some looks I found super inspiring, which would be lovely to practice for this class.
And this beautiful Dior skirt is a dream.
So I am gonna give it a try and keep you posted on the progress I make. As it usually happens I go down a rabbit hole to a slew of videos on watercolor painting. Here is a particularly adorable one painting loose flowers. I was pretty scared at the beginning thinking this going to turn out awful, but miraculously the artist turns it into something worth to look at. And the narration is adorable.


Annotation: THE BETA PROGRAM FOR JUVENILE FIRST-TIME MAJOR PROPERTY OFFENDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., IS DESCRIBED AND EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT.
Abstract: THE PROGRAM IS A 'LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES' OR DETERRENCE MODEL WHICH IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE FIRM, FAST, AND FAIR CONSEQUENCES FOR PROPERTY OFFENDERS. MALES BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 AND 18 ENTER THE PROGRAM BY WAY OF A COURT DISPOSITION FROM HENNEPIN COUNTY'S JUVENILE COURT. THE EVALUATION SHOWED THAT BETWEEN THE STATE OF THE PROGRAM IN AUGUST 1976 THROUGH DECEMBER 1977, AN AVERAGE OF 16 JUVENILES PER MONTH (TOTAL: 268) WERE ADMITTED, AND THAT AN AVERAGE OF 44 PERCENT OF THE PROGRAM'S CAPACITY WAS USED PER MONTH. THE TYPICAL RESIDENT WAS 15 YEARS OLD, HAD A SCHOOL ATTENDANCE PROBLEM, PERFORMED BELOW AVERAGE IN CLASSES, AND CAME FROM A TWO-PARENT HOUSEHOLD. IN ORDER TO MEASURE THE PROGRAM'S EFFECT ON RECIDIVISM, A SAMPLE GROUP COMPOSED OF THE FIRST 77 PARTICIPANTS WHO WERE RELEASED AND WHO HAD RECEIVED A DISPOSITION FOR THE PROGRAM ALONE WAS COMPARED WITH A SIMILAR GROUP OF 100 OFFENDERS RELEASED PRIOR TO THE START OF THE PROGRAM, AND TO A GROUP OF 94 SIMILAR OFFENDERS WHO RECEIVED OTHER DISPOSITIONS AT THE TIME OF THE PROGRAM RELEASE. THE RECIDIVISM RATE FOR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS WAS ONE-THIRD OF THAT FOR MEMBERS OF THE OTHER GROUPS. A FOLLOW-UP PHONE SURVEY OF 54 FORMER PARTICIPANTS SHOWED A 15 PERCENT GAIN IN THE NUMBER OF JUVENILES WITH NO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE PROBLEM. FINALLY, THE NUMBER OF MALE BURGLARS REFERRED TO JUVENILE INTAKE DECLINED DURING THE PERIOD OF PROGRAM OPERATION: FROM 826 (16 PERCENT OF ALL MALES REFERRED TO INTAKE) IN 1975, TO 670 (15 PERCENT) IN 1976, TO 671 (12 PERCENT) IN 1977. SINCE A HIGH NUMBER OF RECIDIVISTS WERE FROM A RACIAL MINORITY GROUP, HAD A HISTORY OF BEING PLACED ON PROBATION, AND HAD A SCHOOL ATTENDANCE PROBLEM, THE STUDY RECOMMENDED THAT THE PROGRAM SHOULD BE MODIFIED TO ACCOMMODATE THEM. A TABLE WITH RECIDIVISM DATA IS INCLUDED, BUT FOOTNOTES OR REFERENCES ARE NOT PRESENT.


Upcoming: D.R.I., Neon Indian, LCD Soundsystem, Texas Tornados, Etc.
The American Heist, Hell City Kings, Blackmarket Syndicate, All At Sea: Sat., Sept. 4. Walter's on Washington.
Atlanta Rhythm Section: Sun., Nov. 14. Dosey Doe Coffee Company.
Best Coast: Sat., Nov. 6. Fitzgerald's.
Blitzen Trapper: Tue., Oct. 12. House of Blues.
Bring Me The Horizon, August Burns Red, Emarosa, Polar Bear Club, This Is Hell: Sun., Nov. 7. Warehouse Live.
Bullet For My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Black Tide, Drive A: Sat., Sept. 18. Warehouse Live.
Candye Kane: Thu., Sept. 30. Continental Club.
Circa Survive, Dredg, Codeseven: Wed., Oct. 27. House of Blues.
The Cynics, The Ugly Beats, Weird Party,: Fri., Sept. 10. Rudyard's.
Devin The Dude: Wed., Nov. 24. Warehouse Live.
D.R.I.: Sun., Feb. 13. Numbers.
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Sat., Oct. 9. Warehouse Live.
Eli Young Band: Sat., Oct. 23. The Showgrounds @ Sam Houston Race Park.
"GhoulsFest" With Bad Brains, Daniel Johnston, ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, We Are Scientists, Fischerspooner, Black Congress, Roky Moon & Bolt, Fat Tony: Sat., Oct. 30, $35. Tom Bass Park.
Gorillaz: Tue., Oct. 19. Toyota Center.
The Gracious Few (ex-Live): Sat., Nov. 13. Warehouse Live.
Helmet: Fri., Oct. 29. Scout Bar Clear Lake.
Interpol: Fri., Oct. 29. Verizon Wireless Theater.
Iwrestledabearonce, Sky Eats Airplane, The Chariot, Vanna: Thu., Oct. 21. Warehouse Live.
Jonsi, Mountain Man: Wed., Oct. 27. Verizon Wireless Theater.
Jose Luis Rodriguez: Sat., Oct. 30. Arena Theatre.
LCD Soundsystem, Sleigh Bells: Fri., Oct. 8. Verizon Wireless Theater.
Loretta Lynn: Sat., Sept. 11. Arena Theatre.
Los Lonely Boys: Sat., Nov. 27. House of Blues.
Sara Van Buskirk & Valarie Young, The Melissa Savcic Band, TenPrettyGirls, Nick Joseph: Sat., Aug. 14. Shady Tavern.
Mike Stinson, Robert Ellis & The Boys, Lynda Kay: Sat., Sept. 11. Continental Club.
Mushroomhead, Stygian: Sat., Oct. 16. Scout Bar Clear Lake.
Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, Miniature Tigers: Wed., Oct. 6. The Warsaw.
Raul Malo: Sat., Oct. 2. The Bronze Peacock Room @ House Of Blues.
Richie McDonald: Sat., Oct. 30. Verizon Wireless Theater.
Sara Bareilles, Greg Laswell, Javier Dunn: Mon., Oct. 4. House of Blues.
Sheryl Crow, Colbie Caillat: Fri., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., $20-$95. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.
Stone Temple Pilots, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Sun., Sept. 19. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.
Texas Tornados: Thu., Sept. 23. Discovery Green Conservancy.
Travie McCoy: Thu., Aug. 19. Rich's Houston.
Vanilla Ice: Fri., Aug. 20. 2016 Mainstage.
Young Girls, The Watermarks, The Live Lights, Mobley, Skandalon: Fri., Aug. 20. Mango's.


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Ned MacKay
Ned MacKay is one of California's greatest ambassadors to parklands. As a 15-year member of the volunteer Trail Safety Patrol, he has spent more than 7,500 hours providing assistance of any kind to those in need, ranging from guiding them to safety, directions, water or interpretive information about parks. He is best known at the East Bay Regional Park District, where he is one of only a handful to have hiked all of the district's 65 parks. MacKay has also participated in hikes of all levels, from easy strolls to ambitious backpacking trips across Yosemite National Park and much of the Sierra Nevada, and beyond across the Western U.S. With a group of friends, he has rafted rivers in California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Alaska. His outreach to the public includes writing stories in many regional newspapers that detail park programs and natural history. While MacKay's scope of travel ranges far, his own accomplishments in the outdoors come second to him: He seeks always to help anybody in need, and in turn, he has shared his love for nature and wild places with countless thousands.
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Video: Turning AIDS Stereotypes into a call to Fund the Global Fund | December 18 2018
GFAN members Friends of the Global Fund Europe and Osservatorio AiDS, in collaboration with AIDOS, and the theatre company Bluestocking, launched, earlier this month, a short video highlighting the most common stereotypes on HIV/AIDS in Italy. The video uses ironic messages to shape the audiences' understanding of the portrayed clichés and highlight the critical role of the Global Fund in addressing the global reach of AIDS. Many of the stereotypes portrayed in the video are common in other countries and they wanted to share a version with English subtitles of their video.
The video was initially launched in Italy on World AIDS Day. Two similar videos on tuberculosis and malaria will be released in the upcoming months.
The video is part of a joint information campaign to make the Global Fund better known in Italy ahead of the next replenishment.
To view the video please visit also:
http://www.afmeurope.org/video-italienne/
https://www.osservatorioaids.it/
GFAN Report – Key Populations and the Global Fund: Delivering Key Results
Take action this World TB Day!
Information Note on the Global Fund's Partnerships Forums for the 2017-2021 Strategy


What is social work supposed to be trying to achieve - and how should we go about it?
What ideas or theories do in fact - or should - underlie social work practice?
On what basis should - or do - social workers make decisions about how to respond to different situations?
What techniques are available to social workers?
How does social work relate to other professional groups who may work with the same service users?
How do social work values relate to theory and practice?


MyVirtualHome is a 3D home design app that takes its inspiration from the visual language of base-building video games. You can use it to choose and deploy standard room blocks then modify them by adding new furnishings changing colour schemes and more. Once you've created the design you can take a virtual tour of it from first-person perspective to get an idea of how it looks. You can also modify the exterior of the building adding features to the garden.
just click on them and a menu will pop up showing you their palette and other options. Similarly you can move pieces around your design by clicking and dragging. As with any home design software the main limitation is the availability of the pieces you want. The app has a reasonably varied list of features but if something you want isn't included you can also use its menu to search for examples online and download them into the model. Because this software is designed for the Australian market technical support can be hard to reach in UK business hours.
An easy to use, fully functional home design program.
MyVirtualHome allows you to easily create your dream home or apartment. You can import a plan or create a design from scratch. Choose from thousands of real products to place in your design and then walk around it in amazing real time 3D.
MyVirtualHome uses a simple and intuitive menu system that will get you started fast. Most people can learn the basics in 10 minutes and are creating a full design in less than an hour. The software also features an incredibly accurate lighting model that lets you set your lat/long and time of year for amazing shadow and real time lighting effects.
Easy click to place home design program. I have used MyVirtualHome since I received a free copy with the Better Homes and Gardens magazine many years ago. As a frustrated Architect I have designed many a dream home using this product. I have had the occasional glitch over the years when it refuses to load but I just download a new copy. I would like to see more adjustable components like kitchen cupboards, furniture sizes and more decor items but overall this is an easy to use program with great graphics.
One click to make a room, no fiddling around making walls.
click to place item in rooms.
More control when adjusting size of rooms.
better/more choice for fabrics, wallpaper, kitchen appliances.
What do you think about MyVirtualHome? Do you recommend it? Why?


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Džijúka (japonsky 自由花; jiné používané čtení je džijúbana) je termín označující jeden ze směrů aranžování ve stylu ikebana. Džijúka znamená v překladu "volná vazba". V Japonsku je termín používán také ve smyslu liberalizace ve školství a výuce.

Jako směr japonského umění aranžování květin ikebana snaží vytvořit harmonii lineární konstrukce, rytmu a barvy, zdůrazňuje linie díla. Ikebana věnuje pozornost váze, stonkům, listům a větvím stejnou měrou jako květům. Celá struktura japonského aranžování květin je založena na liniích alegorizujících nebe, zemi a lidstvo. Ikebana tyto linie používá jako tři osy aranžování. Ve stylu džijúka tyto osy nemusí být respektovány jako nezbytné linie a způsob výrazu.

Džijúka je styl zcela volných úprav na určité téma. Nedodržuje tradiční pravidla. Může být použít libovolný rostlinný materiál, ale také výrazně upravený. Neživé dřevo a nekvetoucí, nerostlinný materiál může být použit také, a všechny druhy upevnění jsou povoleny. Zvláštní význam pro styl džijúka má barva a tvar nádoby, což je třeba je třeba zohlednit v aranžmá. Mezi formální pravidla patří jen uspořádání barev, hmot a linií.

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