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Global Vaccine Action Plan Lessons Learned II: Stakeholder Perspectives
Angela Hwang, Chantal Veira, Stefano Malvolti, Thomas Cherian, Noni MacDonald, Christoph Steffen, Ian Jones, Alan Hinman, Carsten Mantel
Introduction: The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), unanimously endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012, defined an ambitious strategy to improve immunization. At the end of the decade, significant progress has been made but four of the five GVAP goals are likely to be missed. This report describes a set of surveys and interviews relating to GVAP, conducted to inform the immunization strategy for the next decade. Methods: Three surveys and two sets of semi-structured interviews were conducted from 2017 to 2019. Respondents consisted of immunization stakeholders at global, regional, and country levels, and included individuals who had been involved in the development and implementation of GVAP or its monitoring, evaluation and accountability (M&E/A) process; national immunization managers; academics; and personnel from non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations. Results: The surveys and interviews gave consistent results. They highlighted the value of GVAP in increasing visibility for immunization and the benefits of the GVAP M&E/A framework. The main limitations of GVAP were identified as the limited ownership by countries and other stakeholders leading to incomplete implementation of the strategy and poor accountability for achieving GVAP targets. Discussion: These results informed the review of GVAP and the development of its successor strategy, the Immunization Agenda 2030. In addition, these surveys and interviews identified two challenges in assessing the value of GVAP: the need to rely exclusively on stakeholder perspectives and difficulties in attributing benefits. These challenges are inherent in evaluating an over-arching strategy such as GVAP and should be factored into interpretation of the results.
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Hwang, A., Veira, C., Malvolti, S., Cherian, T., MacDonald, N., Steffen, C., Jones, I., Hinman, A., & Mantel, C. (2020). Global Vaccine Action Plan Lessons Learned II: Stakeholder Perspectives. Vaccine, 38(33), 5372-5378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.048
Global Vaccine Action Plan Lessons Learned II : Stakeholder Perspectives. / Hwang, Angela; Veira, Chantal; Malvolti, Stefano et al.
In: Vaccine, Vol. 38, No. 33, 14.07.2020, p. 5372-5378.
Hwang, A, Veira, C, Malvolti, S, Cherian, T, MacDonald, N, Steffen, C, Jones, I, Hinman, A & Mantel, C 2020, 'Global Vaccine Action Plan Lessons Learned II: Stakeholder Perspectives', Vaccine, vol. 38, no. 33, pp. 5372-5378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.048
Hwang A, Veira C, Malvolti S, Cherian T, MacDonald N, Steffen C et al. Global Vaccine Action Plan Lessons Learned II: Stakeholder Perspectives. Vaccine. 2020 Jul 14;38(33):5372-5378. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.048
Hwang, Angela ; Veira, Chantal ; Malvolti, Stefano et al. / Global Vaccine Action Plan Lessons Learned II : Stakeholder Perspectives. In: Vaccine. 2020 ; Vol. 38, No. 33. pp. 5372-5378.
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30/09/2016 - Invited by the United Nations (UN), the National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI) will participate, from October 31 to November 3, in a discussion forum on best practices of cooperation between countries. "South-South Cooperation: Towards Innovation, a Strategy for the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030" will be the theme of the event "Global South-South Development", organized by the UN in Dubai. The debate will present effective solutions from institutions that contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The exhibition will bring together policy makers, global leaders, UN system institutions (including ILO and UNIDO), funders and implementers of cooperation projects, developing countries (mainly from Africa, Latin America and Asia) and similar institutions to SENAI.
The invitation to the event reinforces the recognition of SENAI by the UN as one of the three most important actors in the area of education in the Southern Hemisphere, according to SENAI's manager of international relations, Frederico Lamego. He points out that the UN identifies SENAI as an institution that stands out for its comprehensive performance. "The development of projects, which are not restricted to the Portuguese-speaking countries, shows the capacity we have to bring professional education to different cultures, like working in countries such as Jamaica and Paraguay." SENAI already has a partnership with the United Arab Emirates to support the formation of the competitors of that country and the organization of the WorldSkills Competition 2017, which will be in the capital, Abu Dhabi.
The centers of professional training of SENAI have already been implemented.
Training center of SENAI in Guatemala, Peru, Guiné Bissau, Paraguay, Cabo Verde, Jamaica, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and East Timor. The institution also maintains partnerships with 53 international institutions such as the British Council, from the United Kingdom, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from the United States, Swedish ICT, from Sweden, the German Fraunhofer Institute, among others. Each year, SENAI attracts more than 3 million students from developing countries, especially from Portuguese-speaking African countries.
To form labor outside Brazil, SENAI seeks new opportunities to attract international resources. "This event in Dubai will be an opportunity to be in touch with new funders, foreign cooperation agencies and UN agencies to identify initiatives that are in tune with the interests of the Brazilian industries and sustainable development goals. The economic development of any nation goes through the qualification of labor", says Lamego.
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The movement against the wartime bills has twice foiled the government attempt to enact them in the past two consecutive Diet sessions.
Nevertheless, the Koizumi Cabinet and the Liberal Democratic, Komei, and New Conservative parties are saying it is necessary to have the bills passed in the House of Representatives this month. They say that this will pave the way for the quick enactment of a bill enabling Japan to assist in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
The LDP-government is publicly supporting the U.S. war against Iraq which is killing many innocent children and destroying Iraq's land and infrastructure. It is also calling for urgent steps to be taken to help Iraq's reconstruction. How absurd the Japanese government's attitude is!
In Japan, TV screens are showing the footages of U.S. forces at war in Iraq, and mass media are reporting stories about "North Korean threats". Taking advantage of such coverage, the government is fanning the flame of people's uneasiness concerning emergencies so that the contingency bills will get enough support for enactment.
The ongoing U.S. war against Iraq, however, throws light on the real danger of the contingency legislation.
As you know, the United States has attacked Iraq although it were not attacked by Iraq, a so-called preemptive strike without a U.N. resolution. This is a flagrant violation of international law. The United States will make unilateral attacks on other countries based on an arbitrary judgment that there is a perceived threat to the United States.
U.S. wars which Japan is going to cooperate with under the contingency laws will be just such unjustifiable wars. The wartime legislation will allow the Self-Defense Forces to take part in wars even though Japan is not attacked or when an attack is just being predicted. How dangerous it will be if Japan exercises these bills by regarding such situations as a "situation of armed attacks on Japan!"
It is also serious that the government and the ruling parties, which are working hard to enact the contingency bills, expressed their support for the war.
Some governing party leaders denounced the anti-war movement for "benefiting the enemy". Japan's government circles are mechanically repeating U.S. officials' statements.
Debates in the Diet so far made on the war bills brought to light that key but still vague points in the bills will be decided and executed by the government, according to the provision of the bills. How can we give the government carte blanche despite the matter being so grave?
The U.S.-led war on Iraq is taking place at a time when Japan is strengthening the structure for its participation in such U.S. wars. Based on the "New Guidelines" for Japan-U.S. military cooperation adopted in 1997, Japan's government enacted the Law for Measures to Deal with Situations in Areas Surrounding Japan in 1999 and the Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law in 2001.
The Aegis destroyer, which the Japanese government dispatched to the Indian Ocean ostensibly to work with the U.S. forces in the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan, has been operating there to refuel U.S. warships and to collect information for them.
Japan's Constitution prohibits the government from sending the Self-Defense Forces abroad to engage in combat operations with the U.S. military forces or from mobilizing its citizens for U.S. war.
However, the wartime legislation, if enacted, will remove these limits and fully involve Japan in U.S. wars throughout the world. The U.S. government has urged Japan to enact the wartime legislation in order to complete their "New Guidelines" structure.
Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichiro always says, "Readiness is all." This is the pretext he uses in general terms to conceal the true aim of the contingency bills.
But the legislation not only conflicts with the Constitution which prohibits Japan from using force; it will allow Japan to be ready to respond to U.S. emergencies. The bills contain a grave provision that will allow the contingency laws to be invoked if an attack on Japanese ships in the high seas is "predicted" or even "perceived."
When the bills were discussed in parliament last year, the government was unable to give any clear definition of the term "predicted" or "perceived" in a convincing manner. Later, the government submitted to the Diet "amendments" to its draft. But the dangerous nature of the bills remains unchanged.
As for the proposed "personal information protection law," which is intended to restrict citizens' basic freedom and rights, the government has only published outlines. The full text of its draft will be published only after the enactment of the three contingency bills.
The draft bills are not ready for parliamentary discussion.
Public opposition to the contingency bills is increasing at the grassroots level because they will trample upon constitutional principles, including the war-renouncing Article 9 and the principle of local autonomy. More than five million signatures in opposition to the contingency legislation were presented to the Diet as of the end of January.
Cooperation is developing among broad sectors of people, irrespective of ideology or religion, with 20 organizations of land, sea, air, and port workers' unions and persons of faith united. Many municipalities, which will be forced into war cooperation under the planned bills, have expressed objection to the wartime laws. More than 600 municipal assemblies have adopted resolutions calling for the contingency bills to be scrapped or discussed carefully in the Diet.


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It is a common professional technique for today's radio and TV talk show hosts to attack a policy argument by finding its weakest or most extreme proponents and then focusing all their firepower on them. By avoiding the legitimate sources of the grievance, the show's hosts escape a cost/benefit analysis of the policy and misdirect their viewers through a manufactured sense of outrage.
…Fox News has slanted its coverage of the situation by focusing on the role of Al Sharpton instead of the fact that a young black teenager lay dead in the middle of the road for up to five hours.
Nowhere is this tendency more prevalent than on Fox News. In the recent scandals in Ferguson and now in New York City with Eric Garner, Fox News has slanted its coverage of the situation by focusing on the role of Al Sharpton instead of the fact that a young black teenager lay dead in the middle of the road for up to five hours.
Instead the coverage focused on Al Sharpton, Tawana Brawley and the fact that Sharpton owes millions in back taxes. This coverage avoids the very real grievances of black communities and their mistreatment by police departments around the nation. Instead, the hosts discuss Al Sharpton's role as a spokesperson, and they attempt to impugn the entire movement by depicting his role in it.
Admittedly, MSNBC occasionally pursues a similar tack with Rush Limbaugh, but in a much less pronounced manner, and they use him to illustrate policy instead of obscure it. Instead of focusing their outrage at the actions of individuals, Fox would do better if it made a policy argument to support the conservative viewpoint similar to the way George Will or Pat Buchanan marshall facts and observations. It's not guaranteed to convince everyone, but at least you can be informed by a different perspective on the matter.
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Colorado and Virginia Veterans Participating in SCCA Autocross Competitions this Weekend.
July 14, 2017 / VETMotorsports.org/ Peter Cline
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 14, 2017 – Through VETMotorsports, an award-winning, non-clinical outreach program that honors and empowers veterans with service-related injuries through active participation in motorsports, six United States veterans from Colorado and Virginia will be participating in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) autocross events this Sunday, July 16.
The VETMotorsports program was created to provide inspiration and motivation to post-9/11 veterans with service-related injuries by making them part of a new team and giving them a new mission. VETMotorsports recruits participants, embeds them with professional racing teams or puts them behind the wheel, and covers all expenses for them a caregiver to take part in the experience.
Competing with the Washington DC Region SCCA at FedEx Field in Hyattsville, Md., this weekend will be US Army and Purple Heart recipient Maj Brian S. from Stafford, VA; Marine LCpl Dylan A. from Manassas, VA; US Army Sgt and Purple Heart recipient Matthew W. from Dunfries, VA; and US Army Sgt David F. from Alexandria, VA.
Taking part in the SCCA's Rocky Mountain Region event at Front Range Airport in Watkins, Colo. will be Marine veterans SSgt Dean S. from Denver, CO; Cpl Tomas M.from Littleton, CO; and Purple Heart recipient LCpL Anthony T. from Lakewood, CO.
All were injured serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation New Dawn.
The events, which are open to the public, will feature timed competitions in which drivers navigate one at a time through a defined course. The veterans will be racing against the clock rather than other cars, and competing not only against themselves for their best time but 'civilian' drivers as well.
VETMotorsports' SCCA autocross program is being made possible through a grant from the SCCA Foundation. In addition to placing injured veterans inside the ropes and behind the wheel at select SCCA events, the program will create mentorship opportunities for them with SCCA members and staff.
The program kicked off in March in San Diego and will place veterans behind the wheel at events throughout the 2017 season.
"We are very grateful to the men and women who have served our country in defense of our freedom," said Howard Duncan, SCCA Senior Director of Rally/Solo. "Military service builds skills in leadership, teamwork, and dedication to task, all of which are applicable to motorsports. The SCCA Foundation is pleased to give back to our veterans through this program and welcome them to be part of the SCCA family in every community across the country."
"Losing 22 veterans a day to suicide is something we just can't abide," said VETMotorsports Founder and Executive Director Peter Cline. "Having the SCCA work hand in hand with us to honor and empower these brave service men and women is incredibly gratifying. We're looking forward to working hand in hand with them at this weekend's events."
VETMotorsports is an award-winning, non-profit, non-clinical outreach program that honors and empowers injured post-9/11 service members by embedding them with professional racing teams and putting them behind the wheel to race in amateur events. By placing veterans in hands-on, high-stress, team environments that mimic active duty, the organization gives them direction, empowerment and challenges that help them focus on ability and moving forward rather than disability and the past. Since its founding in 2012, VETMotorsports has helped more than 160 injured veterans participate in 60 motorcycle and auto racing events across the United States. More information about the organization is available at www.VETMotorsports.org.
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\section{Introduction}

 In nonequilibrium dynamical systems there are usually no energy functions and their time evolutions are defined by dynamical rules. These rules can be divided into two groups, namely, inflow and outflow dynamics\cite{sznajd2006}. For inflow dynamics the center spin is influenced by its nearest neighbours. A well-known example of such dynamics, in nonequilibrium systems, is the majority-vote  model in social sciences   \cite{liggett1985, tania1991, oliveira1992}. On the contrary, for outflow dynamics the information flows from the center spin (or cluster of spins) to the neighbourhood. The Sznajd model \cite{sznajd2000}, which was introduced to describe opinion formation in social systems, falls on this category. It is based on the fundamental social phenomenon called social validation \cite{castellano2009}. Figure \ref{fig01} illustrates the flow of influence in a typical outflow dynamics where the central spins (circle) try to influence the opinion of their neighbouring counterparts (rectangles). We shall nominate the central set of spins by persuasive cluster spins (PCS), and we aim in this paper to consider the collective behaviour of the entire system with varying PCS size.  In short, the PCS will try to influence the neighbourhood and we might expect how large it is more power of persuasion it would have.

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\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=4cm,height=4cm]{fig01
\caption{Schematic representation of the outflow dynamics showing the central cluster of persuasive spins (PCS) and adjacent spins (squares).}
\label{fig01}
\end{center}
\end{figure}\normalsize

The present block voter model introduces long-range environment-behaviour interactions in the system by considering outflow dynamics. The range of the interaction is defined by the number of spins $N_{PCS}$ inside the persuasive cluster. In principle  the size of PCS can grow until to infinity (infinite range, mean-field limit). However,  in the limit $N_{PCS} \to \infty$,  in which every spin has the same strength of interaction  with each other spin on the lattice, the system's behaviour should be predict by the mean-field theory with classical critical exponents, namely, $\beta = 1/2$, $\gamma=1$, and $\nu = 1/2 $ \cite{ginzburg1960, stanley1971, nielsen1977}. Here we will not consider this limit and restrict the simulations to finite systems taking into account the relative sizes of PCS and the whole system, which limit the number of spins in the persuasive cluster.

The remainder of the paper is organized in the following way: In Sec. 2 we introduce the model and describe the methodology used in the simulations. In Sec. 3 we present a discussion of our numerical results along with a finite-size scaling analysis of the relevant quantities, and we conclude in Sec. 4.

\section{Block Voter Model}

The model system consists of a set of $N$ two-state spin variables {$\sigma_i$}, associated with the \textit{i}th vertex of a regular square lattice of linear size $L=\sqrt{N}$. Each spin can have two possible values $\sigma_{i}=\pm 1$ corresponding to the two opposite opinions in a referendum. The system's evolution starts from a completely ordered state with all spins point to the same direction. At each time step, a block of spins randomly chosen tries to influence the spins in the neighbourhood passing to them the opinion of the majority of its components. Moreover, all spins have some resistance for accepting such outflow  influence. So, independently, each spin adjacent of the $PCS$ agrees with the PCS majority state with probability $p_{agree}$ and adopt the opposite state with probability $q=1 -p_{agree}$. In terms of the noise parameter $q$, the rate of flipping for each adjacent spin is given by

\begin{equation}
 w(\sigma_{i})=\frac{1}{2}\left[1-(1-2q)\sigma_{i}S(\sum_{\delta = 1}^{N_{pcs}}  \sigma_{i+\delta}) \right],
 \label{eq1}
\end{equation}
where the summation is over all $N_{PCS}$ sites that make up the persuasive cluster, and $S(x) = sgn(x)$ if $x \neq 0$ and $S(0)=0$.  From equation \ref{eq1}, we notice that the block voter model shares features with the  majority-vote model \cite{tania1991, oliveira1992}; e.g., both models exhibit up-down symmetry and  are endowed  with spontaneous broken symmetry on the parameter $q$, having then an order-disorder phase transition. However  the majority-vote model is  a kind of inflow dynamics which takes into account only the opinion of the neighbouring spins of a selected node $i$. Here we consider the majority opinion of a block of spins of size $N_{PCS}$ with influence upon its neighbourhood.
The block model is a kind of outflow dynamics defined in terms of two control parameters: $q$ and $N_{PCS}$.

To study the effect of the noise parameter $q$ and the range of interaction $N_{PCS}$ on the phase diagram and critical behaviour of the block voter model, we consider the magnetization $M_{L}$, the susceptibility $\chi_{L}$, and the Binder's fourth-order cumulant $U_{L}$\cite{binder1981}, which are defined by:
\begin{equation}
 M_{L}(q) = \left<\left< \Bigg| \frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}\sigma_{i} \Bigg| \right>_{time} \right>_{sample}
 \label{eq2}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
 \chi_{L}(q) = N \left[\left< \left< m^{2} \right>_{time}  - \left< m \right>_{time}^{2} \right>_{sample}\right]
 \label{eq3}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
 U_{L}(q) = 1 - \left< \frac{\left< m^{4} \right>_{time}}{3\left< m^2 \right>_{time}} \right>_{sample}
 \label{eq4}
\end{equation}
where $N=L^{2}$ is the number of spins in the system. The symbols $<\cdots>_{time}$ and $<\cdots>_{sample}$, respectively,  denote time averages taken in the stationary state and configurational averages taken over several samples.

We have performed Monte Carlo simulations on regular square lattices of sizes $L=100, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160,$ and $180$, for values of $N_{PCS}$ satisfying the following constraint between the size of the persuasive cluster and the whole system: $\frac{N_{PSC}}{N} \le 1\% $.
Time is measured in Monte Carlo step (MCS), and $1$ MCS corresponds to $N$ attempts of changing the states of the spins. So, for a given $PCS$ we consider two procedures:  For  \textit{asynchronous update} we choose randomly a spin adjacent to the $PCS$ and try to flip it with the  probability given by equation (\ref{eq1}). By repeating this procedure $N$ times, we have accomplished one MCS. In the case of \textit{synchronous update}, however, considering that for  a given $N_{PCS}$ we have $N_{adj}$ adjacent spins, we can  update simultaneously all theses spins  with the same probability [equation (\ref{eq1})]. One MCS is accomplished after repeating this procedure $\overline{N} = \frac{N}{N_{adj}}$ times.
For each kind of update, we waited $10^{4}$ MCS to make the system  reach the steady state, and the time averages were estimated from the next  $10^{4}$ MCS. In the critical region larger runs were needed, and we used $3 \times 10^{4}$ MCS to reach the steady state and $20 \times 10^{4}$ $MCS$ for time averages. For all set of parameters, at least $100$  independent runs (samples) were considered in the calculation of the configurational averages.

\section{Results and Discussion}

Figure \ref{fig02} shows the dependence of the order parameter $M_{L}$ and the susceptibility $\chi_{L}$ on the noise parameter, obtained from Monte Carlo simulations on square lattices with $L=140$ ($N=19600)$ and several sizes of the persuasive cluster spin, namely, $N_{PSC}= 4,9,16,25,36,49,64$. In Fig. 2(a) each curve for $M_{L}$, for a given value of $L$ and $N_{PCS}$, suggests that there exists a  phase transition from an ordered to a disordered state,  characterized by a spontaneous broken symmetry at a particular value of the noise parameter, namely, $q=q_{c}$. In the thermodynamic limit ($N \to \infty$), we should expect  that below the critical noise $q_{c}$ the system has a nonzero magnetization, whereas the magnetization vanishes for $q \ge q_{c}$. For finite systems, the value of $q$ where each curve for $\chi_{L}$ in Fig. 2(b) has a maximum is identified as $q_{c}(L)$ for the corresponding $N_{PCS}$. We note that the transition occurs at a value of the critical noise parameter which is an increasing function of the size of the persuasive cluster.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=11.5cm,height=6.5cm]{fig02.eps}
\caption{Magnetization and susceptibility as functions of the noise parameter $q$, for $L=140$ and values of $N_{PCS}=4,9,16,25,36,49,64$ (from left to right).}
\label{fig02}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

For each $N_{PCS}$, we can obtain the critical value $q_{c}$ by calculating the Binder's fourth-order magnetization cumulant $U_{L}(q)$ (Equation \ref{eq4}) as a function of the noise parameter $q$, for several lattice sizes $L$. For sufficiently large systems, these curves intercept each other in a single point $U^{*}(q_{c})$. The value of $q$ where occurs the intersection equals the critical noise $q_{c}$, which is not biased by any assumption about critical exponents since, by construction, the Binder's cumulant presents zero anomalous dimension\cite{binder1981, murilo2004}. In Figure \ref{fig03} we plot  the reduced  fourth-order Binder's  cumulant for lattice sizes $L=100, 120, 140, 160,$ and $180$ and four different values of $N_{PCS}$. From each set of curves,  we obtain the critical noise parameter $q_{c}$ as well as the critical value $U^{*}(q_{c})$.  As we can notice, there exists a strong dependence between the critical noise and the size of the persuasive cluster, i.e., when $N_{PCS}$ increases the critical noise also increases.
Despite the observed dependence between $q_c$ and $N_{PCS}$, the value of the Binder's cumulant at the intersection point $U^{*}$ does not depend on the size of the persuasive cluster: We obtained $U^{*} = 0.606\pm0.004$ (discontinuous horizontal line in Figure \ref{fig03}), for all $N_{PCS}$, which is in agreement with the result for the Ising model on the regular square lattice \cite{blote1993}.
In order to  construct the phase diagram for the block voter model, we have performed this analysis for several values of the parameter $N_{PCS}$.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=11.5cm,height=7.0cm]{fig03.eps}
\caption{A set of  fourth-order reduced Binder's cumulant as a function of $q$ for $N_{PCS}= 4,9,16,25$ (from left to right) and five values of lattice sizes $L$  ($L=100, 120, 140, 160$, and  $180$). The critical value $U^{*} = 0.606\pm0.004$ is shown by the horizontal line.}
\label{fig03}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=11.5cm,height=7.0cm]{fig04
\caption{The phase diagram of the block voter model, showing the dependence of the critical noise parameter $q_{c}$ on the size of persuasive cluster $N_{PCS}$, obtained from MC simulations using both synchronous (open symbols) and asynchronous (closed symbols) updates.}
\label{fig04}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

The phase diagram in the  $N_{PCS} \times q$ parameter space is shown in Figure\ref{fig04}. The curves were obtained using  both the synchronous update with all adjacent spins to the persuasive cluster being updated at the same time, and the asynchronous one when just a single spin  randomly chosen in the neighbourhood of the PCS is updated.  For both updates, there exists a phase transition only for values of $N_{PCS}>2$. Moreover, the critical noise parameter $q_c$ is an increasing function of the number of spins in the persuasive cluster. In other words, we can conclude that how large the PCS is more power of persuasion it has.

We turn now to the finite-size scaling (FSS) theory \cite{fisher1972, brezin1982} that allows us to extrapolate the information available from  finite-system simulations to the relevant one in the thermodynamic limit.
The critical behaviour of the block voter model is given by:

\begin{equation}
 M_{L}(q) \sim L^{-\beta/\nu}\widetilde{M}(\varepsilon L^{1/\nu}),
 \label{eq5}
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}
 \chi_{L}(q) \sim L^{\gamma/\nu}\widetilde{\chi}(\varepsilon L^{1/\nu}),
 \label{eq6}
\end{equation}

 \begin{equation}
 U_{L}(q) \sim \widetilde{U}(\varepsilon L^{1/\nu}),
 \label{eq7}
\end{equation}
where $\varepsilon=(q-q_{c})$ is the distance from the critical noise. The exponents $\beta/\nu$, $\gamma/\nu$, and $\nu$ are, respectively, associated  to the decay of the order parameter $M_{L}(q)$,  the divergence of the susceptibility $\chi_{L}(q)$, and of the correlation length ($\xi \sim \varepsilon^{-\nu})$.
The universal scaling functions $\widetilde{M}(\varepsilon L^{1/\nu})$ and $\widetilde{\chi}(\varepsilon L^{1/\nu})$ depend only on the scaling variable $x=\varepsilon L^{1/\nu}$.

\begin{figure}
\vspace{5mm}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=11.5cm,height=7.0cm]{fig05}
\caption{Log-log plot of the size dependence of $M_{L}(q_{c})$ for PCS sizes $N_{PCS} = 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49,$ and $64$ from top to bottom. The slopes of the solid lines, obtained from the best linear fits to the data points,  yield estimates for the exponent $\beta /\nu$ in good agreement with the exact value $0.125$.}
\label{fig05}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=11.5cm,height=7.0cm]{fig06}
\caption{The same as in Fig. \ref{fig05}, but for the dependence of  $\chi_{L}(q_{c})$. The slopes of the straight lines give the exponent $\gamma /\nu$ close to the exact value $1.75$.}
\label{fig06}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

The correlation length exponent $\nu$ can be obtained from the derivative of the Binder's fourth-order cumulant with respect to the noise parameter, namely, $U_{L}^{'}(q_{c})$.
Moreover, we can check our estimates for the critical exponents considering the hyperscaling relation derived  from the  Rushbrooke and Josephson scaling laws, namely:
\begin{equation}
 2\beta/\nu + \gamma/\nu =  d,
 \label{eq8}
\end{equation}
which is valid for Euclidean dimension $d$ less than the upper critical dimension $d_{u}$ \cite{yang2008}.

\begin{table}\ref{fig04}
\vspace{3mm}
\caption{\label{tab:table1} Results for the critical noise $q_{c}$, the critical exponents $\beta/\nu, \gamma/\nu, 1/\nu$ and the effective dimensionality $D_{eff}$ for the Block Voter Model on regular square lattices considering different sizes of persuasive cluster spin $N_{PCS}$.}
\begin{indented}
\lineup
\item[]\begin{tabular}{@{}*{6}{l}}
\br
 $\0\0N_{PCS}$&$q_{c}$&$\beta/\nu$ &$\gamma/\nu$&$1/\nu$&$\0D_{eff}^{\rm a}$ \cr
\mr
 $\04$        &$0.0846(2)$       & $0.130(2)$          &$1.72(4)$               & $1.05(2)$                         &$1.98(4)$ \cr
 $\09$        &$0.2080(1)$       &$0.124(4)$           &$1.76(3)$               & $0.98(1)$                         & $2.01(4)$ \cr
 $\016$      &$0.2680(1)$       &$0.114(2)$           &$1.73(1)$               & $0.96(2)$                         &$1.95(2)$ \cr
 $\025$      &$0.3130(4)$       &$0.132(1)$           &$1.74(1)$               &$0.95(2)$                          &$2.00(1)$  \cr
 $\036$      &$0.3406(3)$       &$0.130(3)$           &$1.70(3)$               &$0.96(3)$                          &$1.96(4)$   \cr
 $\049$      &$0.3630(1)$       &$0.113(3)$           &$1.70(2)$               &$0.96(2)$                          &$1.96(3)$ \cr
 $\064$      &$0.3790(2)$       &$0.118(2)$            &$1.71(4)$               &$0.96(3)$                          &$1.95(4)$ \cr
\br
\end{tabular}
\item[] $^{\rm a}$ Obtained using $D_{eff}=2\beta/\nu + \gamma/\nu$.
\end{indented}
\end{table}

Figures \ref{fig05} and \ref{fig06} show the dependence of the magnetization and susceptibility on system size $L$, at $q=q_{c}$, when different values of $N_{PCS}$ are considered. From the scaling relations (equations \ref{eq5}) and (\ref{eq6}), respectively, for a given $N_{PCS}$ the corresponding straight lines in these log-log plots have slopes equal to the exponents $\beta/ \nu$ and $\gamma/ \nu$.  This analysis yields exponents very close to the two-dimensional Ising exponents, namely, $\beta/\nu=0.125$ and $\gamma / \nu = 1.75$. Similarly, from the slopes of the resulting straight lines in the log-log plots of the  derivative of the Binder's cumulant with respect to the noise parameter, at $q=q_{c}$, we determine the exponent associate with the correlation length in good agreement with the exact value $\nu=1.0$. Finally, we have checked whether the calculated exponents satisfy the hyperscaling relation (equation \ref{eq8}) with $D_{eff}=2\beta/\nu + \gamma/\nu$. For all PCS sizes considered we obtained $D_{eff}=2$, within error bars. Our results are summarized in Table I.

According to Grinstein's conjecture \cite{grinstein1985}, all equilibrium models with up-down symmetry on regular lattices have Ising-like critical behaviour. This conjecture has also been verified for several nonequilibrium model systems\cite{costa2005, bennett1985, wang1988, marques1990}.  Moreover, by considering the universality of the critical exponents for arbitrarily large but finite range of the interactions (see, e.g.,  \cite{binder1993, binder1996} and references therein), we actually should not expect even such a small dependence in the calculated exponents with the number of persuasive spins $N_{PCS}$.  In fact, the critical behaviour of the present nonequilibrium  Block Voter model and the equilibrium (finite-range interaction) Ising model are described by the same critical exponents.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=12cm,height=7.0cm]{fig07}
\caption{Data collapsing of the order parameter and of the susceptibility  for five different values of $L=100, 120, 140, 160,$ and $180$ with $N_{PCS}=9$. The universal functions are consistent with Ising exponents: $\beta/\nu = 0.125$, $\gamma/\nu = 1.75$ and $1/\nu = 1.0$.}
\label{fig07}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

In order to quantify the above statement,  we shall consider a more accurate analysis that consists of obtaining the universal curves for the magnetization $\widetilde{M}(x) = M_{L}(q)L^{\beta/\nu}$ and for the susceptibility $\widetilde{\chi}(x) = \chi_{L}(q)L^{\gamma/\nu}$ with $x = (q-q_{c})L^{1/\nu}$, which follows  from equations \ref{eq5} and \ref{eq6}, respectively, and represent the data collapsing for fixed $N_{PCS}$ and different sizes $L$ of the system. It is worth to note that the universal curves are obtained once the correct values for the exponents are used. Figure\ref{fig07} shows the data collapse for the case of $N_{PCS}=9$ and five different system sizes $L=100, 120, 140, 160,$ and $180$, using the following exponents: $\beta/\nu = 0.125$, $\gamma/\nu = 1.75$ and $1/\nu = 1.0$. A similar analysis applied to other values of $N_{PCS}$ supports the conclusion that the present model is in the same universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model.

\section{Conclusion}

In this paper, Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling theory was used to study a medium-ranged interactions version of voter model with outflow dynamics. The model is defined in terms of two parameters, the size of the persuasive cluster of spins ($N_{PCS}$) and the noise parameter $q$ associated with the resistance that every spin has for accepting such outflow influence. Considering  both synchronous and asynchronous updates, the resulting  phase diagram in the $N_{PCS} \times q$ parameter space indicates that the region where there exists an ordered phase increases with increasing range of the interactions, meaning that how large the persuasive cluster is more power of persuasion it has. The calculated critical exponents for different sizes of PCS support the well-known criterion of universality class, stating that medium-range interactions models with up-down symmetry exhibit Ising-like critical behaviour for all arbitrarily large but finite range of the interactions.

\ack{C.I.N. Sampaio is supported by CNPq. The authors acknowledge partial support from CNPq, FINEP and FACEPE.

\section*{References}

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While being able to offer a top-notch golf course as an amenity has certainly benefited these two resorts, the manner in which the management teams planned ahead and made adjustments well before the economy tailed off is the primary reason both not only survived, but continue to flourish.
"Customers demand more value," explains Circling Raven Director of Golf Tom Davidson, who was honored to be named Merchandiser of the Year in the PGA Northwest Section for a second straight year, the fourth time since the course's first full season in 2004. "One saving grace is that we were already well positioned in the value category, thanks to the golf course, which made it a little easier to keep the integrity of our rates intact."
The expansion project at the CDA Casino Resort will add to the property's opulence with nearly 100 new hotel rooms, including two wings overlooking the golf course. Other elements of the project include more casino space, a fitness center, a gourmet steakhouse, a centerpiece bar, a 15,000 square-foot spa and a vast "front yard" that will offer a natural amphitheater for concerts and other outdoor events. The Coeur d'Alene Tribe – which is already one of North Idaho's largest employers – is set to hire an additional 200 workers after the expansion project is completed.
Of course, building and expanding during a recession is a dicey proposition, for sure. But McChesney points out that Sweetgrass became a reality because the resort started to plan for a recession a lot sooner than others in the industry.
"We anticipated that a downturn was coming," says McChesney, who has been with the resort for 14 years. "We took some steps to tighten our belts well over a year ago. We downsized and made it a lean operation well before we had to and that was one of the keys that has helped us sail right through the tough times."
The casino made it a point to take the employees that it retained and re-train them with a focus on customer service. It also increased its advertising efforts rather than backing off, and it marketed itself as an "entertainment venue" rather than simply a "gaming venue." It offered concerts in a new 1,300-seat showroom with fewer acts that cost less, but still drew big crowds, such as REO Speedwagon, Grand Funk Railroad and Rick Springfield. It also took full advantage of its brand-new golf course by offering special "Stay & Play" packages, which have seen an 83 percent year-to-year increase in 2010.
Equally important, according to McChesney, the casino concentrated on keeping the customers already on its gaming floor, while still trying to attract new ones from both within and outside of its market area.
"We want our existing customers to know how important they are to our success," says McChesney, whose marketing team estimates that 57% of its customers come from Wisconsin-Illinois markets, a third of which stay at least one night in the 275-room hotel. "I think a mistake a lot of casinos make is to concentrate all their efforts trying to get new customers and they take their existing ones for granted. Our philosophy has always been to highly value the customers you have and to cherish each new one."
And if those customers happen to be golfers, all the better.
"Circling Raven is already well-established as one of the premier golf experiences in the United States," says CDA Casino Resort CEO David LaSarte Meeks. "Now we can complement its success and acclaim with the expansion and the added amenities, which will allow us to market nationwide and overseas.
"Yes, these are difficult and uncertain times with the economy, but our expansion moves forward to complete a true destination resort, all with expectations that the economy will improve and that opportunities here will continue to grow."


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Shanghai Biennale Names Cuauhtémoc Medina as Curator for 2018
By Alex Greenberger
Alex Greenberger
Senior Editor, ARTnews
Cuauhtémoc Medina.
COURTESY POWER STATION OF ART
The Shanghai Biennale has appointed Cuauhtémoc Medina, the chief curator of Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporanea in Mexico City, as curator of its 2018 edition. Alongside the announcement came news of two other appointments: Shi Hanato will be the biennial's chief coordinator, and He Huanhuan will be its head of administrative affairs.
Medina curated the ninth edition of Manifesta, in 2012, and Teresa Margolles's Mexican Pavilion for the 2009 Venice Biennale, and has been an associate curator of Latin American art at Tate Modern. He is currently a full-time researcher and lecturer at Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is recipient of the Menil Collection's Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement
In a statement, Medina said, "Biennales are large-scale exhibitions that, beyond offering a certain perspective on the potential of art and culture today, inscribe a city and an event as a provisory and symbolic artistic world center. That Shanghai hosts an exhibition of that kind is most appropriate, for it provides a clear image of the current decentering of our cultural narratives and the significance that China and Asia have in the cultural and economic circuits of today."
Cuauhtémoc Medina
Shanghai Biennale


This article explains what you need to know about modifying page layouts for contact scoring and syncing it.
In the quick find area, type 'contacts'/'leads'/'person accounts', click Page Layouts and then Click on Edit next to the required page.
Select 'Section' from the 'Fields' area.
Drag and drop it into the 'Contact Detail'/'Lead Detail' area.
In the 'Section Properties' box, give the section the name 'Scoring' and then click OK.
Select the five fields 'Engagement Score', 'Latest Score Evaluation', 'Overall Score', 'Score Label' and 'Suitability Score' from the 'Fields' area.
Drag and drop them into the new 'Scoring' section.
Click on the 'Properties' spanner icon, set all of the contact scoring fields to 'Read-Only' and click OK.
This completes the required 'Contacts', 'Leads' and 'Person Accounts' page layout modifications.
By default, the sync setting will be manual only.
In order to activate contact scoring, you'll need to set it to perform a daily sync. This coincides with the fact that Engagement Cloud itself performs a calculation of contact scoring every 24 hours.
After the first sync is complete, you'll see the new fields populated for your contacts, leads and person accounts.


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Turkey Turkey Have No Fear Your Ancient Pal Israel Is Here!
October 25, 2011 / Editor / 0 Comments
Turkia Have No Fear! The Jewish Country is here!
It is no big deal. You know. Offering assistance to countries who seek to place sanctions on you. And it really puts world politics in perspective. People come first. Then governments. Then schwarma.
Recently, the Turks were rocked by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake, according to their seismology center. The quake occurred in the east of the country in a town known as Ercis which sits on a geological fault line and may have killed and injured upwards of 1,000 people, and collapsed 45 buildings. 10 other buildings have fallen in the city of Van.
Emergency teams were trying to rescue people believed to be trapped in a building in Van, near the Iranian border, state-run news agency Anatolian said. It said 50 injured people had been taken to hospital in Van, but did not give details on how serious their injuries were.
The Kandilli Observatory said the earthquake struck at 10.41 GMT and was 5km (3 miles) deep. The U.S. Geological Survey earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6. Television pictures showed damaged buildings and vehicles, crushed under falling masonry, and panicked residents wandering in the streets.
Turkish media said phone lines and electricity had been cut off. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was heading to Van to see the damage, media reported. Aftershocks continued after the initial quake, whose epicentre was at the village of Tabanli, north of Van city, the agency said.
In Hakkari, a town around 100km (60 miles) south of the city of Van in southeastern Turkey, a building could be felt swaying for around 10 seconds during the quake. There was no immediate sign of any casualties or damage in Hakkari, around two and half hours drive through the mountains from Van, around 20km from the epicentre.
Major geological faultlines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than 20,000 people in northwest Turkey. Two people were killed and 79 injured in May when an earthquake shook Simav in northwest Turkey.
Despite recent animosity between these two governments it is Israel to the rescue, as it was recently when natural disasters occurred in countries such as Japan and Pakistan.
Note however, Turkey offered its aid to Israel during a massive wildfire that consumed a formidable chunk of Israel's Carmel region late last year, and sent firefighting aircrafts.
Ehud Barak said Israel is offering to aid the Turkish government in any way it can. The Geophysical Institute of Israel said the quake was also felt in residential high rises in central Tel Aviv. Barak instructed the head of the Defense Ministry's diplomatic-security bureau, Amos Gilad, to contact Turkish officials and offer them "any aid that they may need." The Foreign Ministry officials have also initiated contact with Ankara in order to estimate the extent of aid required, if at all.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said in a statement that, following orders by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, he contacted Turkish authorities, saying "Israel's embassy in Ankara had already issued the offer to Turkish officials."
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has ordered the IDF's Home Front Command to prepare for the possible launching of a special delegation to the Turkish disaster zone.
In other news, the following report is from yesterday's NYTimes:
ISTANBUL — More than 49 Kurdish insurgents were killed in the first two days of a new Turkish military offensive against P.K.K. rebels in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, the military said Saturday.
The military began the operation, involving heavy air support and more than 10,000 troops, on Thursday, a day after an attack by the P.K.K., or Kurdish Worker's Party, killed 24 soldiers and injured 18 in the province of Hakkari, in one of the deadliest single-day attacks in recent years.
Part of the operation has extended into the autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, a mountainous border area where P.K.K. militants often take shelter. Turkey has staged cross-border operations or bombardment several times in recent years, and it is a thorny issue in Turkey's relationship with Iraq.
Now that the United States is leaving Iraq, trumpeting triumphantly in foreign policy, DebkaFile reports:
The eight-year US military presence in Iraq ends therefore leaving Iran sitting pretty on its two key strategic goals:
1. The exit of American soldiers, whose presence in Iraq since the 2003 invasion was deemed in Tehran a continuous threat to its borders. US military involvement in Afghanistan is seen in the same light.
2. A weak Shiite-led government in place in Baghdad, heavily dependent on Tehran's will. Torn by strife among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, Iraq is in no state to obstruct Iran's hegemonic plans for the Persian Gulf and Syria.
The Iranian regime's right hand for achieving those goals was – and is – Al Qods commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the man also accused by Washington of masterminding the assassination plot.
Washington is well aware of Soleimani's capacity for interfering with American interests. Indeed he crows about it.
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Managing Director @ Impact Consulting
Robyn`s years of experience working across different countries and spanning a broad cross section of disciplines ranging from Brand Strategy and Implementation, Sales and Marketing, Operations, Project Leadership, Change Management, Innovation at a leadership level provide a strong foundation for her to help individuals and companies achieve their full potential.
Prior to forming Impact Consulting she was Vice President and Brand Leader of W Hotels, Le Méridien, the Luxury Collection and St. Regis for Starwood Hotels & Resorts' Europe, Africa, & Middle East (EAME) division. In this role, she combined her expertise in hotel marketing and operations with innovation and change management skills, to guide these four dynamic brands within Europe, Africa and the Middle East. She was instrumental in successfully launching the W brand in Europe with the launch of W Barcelona in 2009. In addition to her role as Brand Leader, she led the EAME Brand Operations team across all of Starwood's nine hotel brands, where she was responsible for activating each brand's core values within more than 250 hotels throughout the EAME division.
Robyn's career with Starwood Hotels & Resorts began in 1987 when she joined the company's Catering Team at Sheraton Brisbane Hotel and Towers. As a former Restaurant Owner and Hotel General Manager, Pratt had a strong platform from which to springboard her career into a global hotel organisation. In her 24 years with Starwood, she held a diverse range of positions across all levels of the company throughout Asia Pacific and EAME, including Food & Beverage, Divisional Sales and Marketing, Operations, and Hotel General Management.
In 1997, she took on the role of General Manager of the five-star Sheraton Noosa Resort in Australia. During this time she successfully opened Cato's restaurant which just one year after opening won Best New Hotel Restaurant in the Australian Restaurant and Catering Awards. Three years later, she transitioned to Starwood's EAME Division, where she led the development and implementation of the company's transition to the Euro, an effort that was eventually recognised by the European Central Bank as a Best Practice.
Following this great achievement, Robyn was asked to lead the Division's Six Sigma and Operational Innovation program, where she leveraged her strong leadership and communications skills to integrate the Blue Ocean Innovation process, a strategy that promotes creating new market space rather than competing in an existing industry, into the organisation.
Robyn is the recipient of numerous professional and personal awards, including:
"Queensland Business Woman of the Year" for her leadership role in her General Manager position; and
Woman Chiefs of Enterprises – International for her contribution to the Australian Tourism Industry.
Robyn is the author of the book To Build a Lifetime and studied in Australia.


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Matt Tifft Joins Prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022
December 3, 2021 by News
Live Fast Motorsports co-owner Matt Tifft's career took a bit of a detour over the past few years, seeing the 25-year-old transition from the driver's seat, after battling back from a brain tumor to defeat the odds back into NASCAR in 2016, to the owner's chair following an epilepsy diagnosis in 2019.
While that may have not been the long-term vision during his on-track come-up with top organizations like Kyle Busch Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing before a season in the Cup Series with Front Row Motorsports, it seems to be paying off — Tifft was named to Forbes Magazine's prestigious '30 Under 30′ list for 2022.
The annual list, released on Dec. 1 each year, recognizes "600 of the brightest young entrepreneurs, leaders and stars," according to the outlet, and features fellow honorees among the sports category such as NBA shooting guard Devin Booker, NFL quarterback Dak Prescott and MLB first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
"To be recognized in this year's Forbes 30 under 30 Class of 2022 is absolutely surreal," Tifft told NASCAR.com. "Looking at the list of people I am involved with here is so incredible, but makes me want to prove myself even more and strive for even greater achievements. The NASCAR community has given me so much in my life from being a fan, a driver, and now an owner. I can't put to words about how much I appreciate everything and everybody this great sport has done for me."
This past season marked Tifft's first as an owner — NASCAR's youngest — with co-owner BJ McLeod piloting the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Ford in 28 of 36 Cup races in 2021. McLeod earned the team's first top 10 in the regular-season finale at Daytona.
See the full entry on Tifft's accolade over at Forbes.com.
You can find Tifft on social @matt_tifft and his team @teamlivefast across most platforms.
For press: contact matt@teamlivefast.com
Source: Live Fast Motorsports
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The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc) says it will "provide fire support" to the army offensive against rebels.
A long-threatened DRC offensive against rebel leader Laurent Nkunda began on Monday with the army retaking several rebel-held villages in the east.
The army has been shelling Mushake, a rebel town 40km north-west of Goma, all day and is moving up reinforcements.
Up to now, the UN has restricted itself to offering only logistical support.
Monuc spokesman Kamal Saiki told the BBC's Focus on Africa that the UN was now ready to "provide fire support, including artillery and close air support" as a last resort.
Towards nightfall on Tuesday, the BBC's Arnaud Zajtman who is 7km from the front line said he could still hear the sound of heavy artillery echoing over the mountains.
He said army reinforcements were moving towards rebel positions and were confident they would recapture the town of Mushake within 24 hours.
There has been no word on casualties but our correspondent says he understands that 30 wounded government soldiers were taken to hospital.
Mushake looks over a key road that links the regional capital, Goma, with valuable tin mines and rich farming land further west.
Gen Nkunda claims he is defending his own Tutsi community against Rwandan Hutu rebels responsible for the Rwandan genocide in 1994, who have been active in the east of DR Congo ever since.


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