This Part gives a general outline of leave for ADF members and describes the various kinds of leave available.
Means a senior officer who meets all the following.
The senior officer previously held one of the following appointments or positions.
The senior officer undertook required activities that supported their resignation, retirement or transfer to the Reserves, immediately after ceasing their appointment in paragraph a.
The senior officer ceased service in the Permanent Forces, immediately after completing the activities described in paragraph b.
Means the period for a senior officer that is between the following two days.
The day after the senior officer ceases to hold one of the following appointments or positions.
The day before the senior officer becomes a senior officer who transitioned.
Each type of leave has conditions that accompany it, and these are described later in this Chapter.
Some leave accrues to a member in return for performing eligible service. Once earned it must be credited to the member, and cannot be removed by the ADF unless this Chapter allows for it. Members may apply for leave at any time, and approving authorities may grant or refuse it. On ceasing continuous full-time service, some leave types provide that any leave not taken (that has not lapsed) will be paid out.
Examples: Basic recreation leave, long service leave.
Other leave types only apply when the member meets some qualifying criteria. A member who meets the criteria may be granted the leave, but may also be refused. If refused, there is no right to take it at a later time. A later application will be assessed on its merits.
Examples: Leave without pay, compassionate leave.
Exception: Maternity leave is the only form of leave that cannot be refused.
Other forms of absence are not an entitlement. They do not accrue and are granted solely at management discretion.
Examples: Leave to be absent from duty for medical reasons (this is called a medical absence), examination leave, short absence following long or unusual duty.
Allowances that are provided under this determination may be paid during a period of leave. This is subject to the conditions for payment of the allowance in other Chapters. It is necessary to refer to the relevant provisions for each allowance.
Examples: Overseas living allowances, location allowances, uniform allowance, rent allowance.
The rate of salary payable to a member on a period of leave is set out in the following relevant provision of DFRT Determination No. 2 of 2017, Salaries.
Leave at full pay – subsection A.1.3.6.
Leave at half pay – subsection A.1.3.7.
Unpaid leave – section A.1.4.
The payment of allowances determined under section 58H of the Defence Act during a period of leave is set out in the following relevant provision of DFRT Determination No. 11 of 2013, ADF Allowances.
Leave at half pay – subsection A.1.7.4.
Unpaid leave – subsection A.1.8.8.
Key features of the major ADF leave types are set out in this table.
This table is a summary. For full details of each condition see the relevant part of this Chapter.
See: Part 4 Division 3 section 5.4.16 To compensate members for the effects of service over time in a remote location. Y It is automatically credited during eligible service.
Y The leave is linked to payment of an associated disability allowance.
See: Part 4 Division 6 Additional recreation leave for training is for a member who must take a break from a course and who does not have enough recreation leave credit to cover the absence. N This form of leave was formerly referred to as trainee leave.
See: Part 4 Division 2 Recreation leave allows a member time to rest for a substantial period each year or to attend to personal matters. A period of leave should help them remain efficient and effective in their duties. Y It is automatically credited to members.
To allow the member to provide direct care and support to a dependant who cannot be cared for because of another dependant's sickness. N It is granted at management discretion.
See: Part 9 Division 2 To deal with the death, very serious illness or serious illness of a close relative. N It is granted at management discretion.
See: Part 9 Division 5 To attend examinations connected with a course of study for which the member is given Commonwealth financial assistance for the payment of fees. N It is granted on occurrence.
See: Part 4 Division 4 To give a member time for rest after they perform arduous or prolonged hours of duty. Y It is credited at management discretion.
To provide for absence from duty where no other leave entitlement is sufficient or appropriate, in circumstances where the member wishes to continue to serve in the Defence Force. N It is granted at management discretion. It is generally regarded as leave of last resort. For a member with a flexible service determination it may be the means by which absences from the workplace are managed.
See: Part 5 To provide members who have served for 10 years or more with the opportunity for an extended period away from work. Some previous service may count towards this. Y Long service leave is automatically credited to members. It is a seven-day- week leave type. It is granted for a continuous period of calendar days, including weekends and public holidays.
See: Part 6 The leave recognises the physical aspects of the later stages of pregnancy, childbirth and recovery after childbirth. It also provides time for initial care of the child. N Maternity leave consists of paid and unpaid leave. An application cannot be refused for any reason. New members may not have access to the paid leave component. The leave includes a period of required absence.
See: Part 3 To provide the member with paid leave to be absent from duty when unfit for health reasons. N The member can be excused from duty for health reasons that include any of medical, mental health, dental and rehabilitation reasons.
To allow members to serve part-time in the Permanent Forces for a period, to meet family, study or other personal commitments.
N It is equivalent to part-time work in civilian employment.
See: Part 9 Division 7 To enable members proceeding on duty to prescribed areas overseas for at least six months to finalise their personal affairs and make their farewells immediately before their departure from Australia. N It is granted subject to operational requirements. Time limits apply.
See: Part 11 Division 1 To rest and recover. To attend to urgent personal circumstances that a member would not be able to deal with in some other way because of Service requirements. Other types of leave are to be used first. N It is granted at commanders' discretion. It is not a formal leave type and does not accrue.
See: Part 11 Division 2 To enable members to complete the variety of tasks associated with a removal. N It is granted at commanders' discretion. It is not a formal leave type and does not accrue.
See: Part 11 Division 3 To technically cover absence when a member is not required for duty. This includes nights, weekends and stand-down hours. N It is granted at commanders' discretion. It is not a formal leave type and does not accrue.
See: Part 9 Division 4 To provide the specified members with a period of leave equal to a period of recreation leave credits that have expired. N It applies to the CDF, VCDF and Service Chiefs only.
See: Part 9 Division 6 To enable eligible members to spend all the leave period granted at the leave destination, regardless of location. N It is granted on occurrence.
See: Part 8 To provide an additional leave benefit for members who were on warlike service, to allow them to adjust back to living in Australia and rest from the rigours of warlike service. Y War service leave is intended to be taken on return to Australia from warlike service. It must be taken before recreation leave.


The western diet includes high-calorie, processed and fast foods that are void of nutrients; consequently, weight-gain becomes amazingly easy. Some of the additives are often addictive and similar to cocaine addictions, these chemicals in food cause the brain to send out constant hunger signals urging more unhealthy food.
Fortunately, there are natural substances that can help control your food cravings and can even help with weight loss. While most fat burners out there simply don't work. There are a few, like Apple Cider Vinegar and Forskolin Extract, that can provide real weight loss results.
Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) is a super-food produced from raw apple juice that goes through a fermentation process. Beneficial enzymes and other nutrients remain intact to boost your immune system.
The acidic acid content inside of apple cider vinegar helps lower insulin levels and stabilizes blood sugar. Since insulin levels affect weight gain and weight loss, normal regulated insulin is important.
Losing excess weight is successful when nutrition is a priority. Super-foods like apple cider vinegar are rich in health-restoring vitamins and minerals like potassium, iron, calcium, and manganese.
Manganese helps control blood sugar levels and normalizes insulin secretions in diabetics allowing for a more normal lifestyle. The anti-microbial properties clean the blood and regulate metabolism. For once, you feel good and have additional energy to exercise.
Apple cider vinegar in your food or diluted in your water glass helps you get into the "keto zone" where hunger shuts off. The cells switch from burning sugar as fuel to actually burn fat. Believe it or not, using fat as a fuel source instead of sugar is much better for the body.
As you already know, every cell needs a vast supply of nutrients in order to perform daily maintenance and make repairs to damaged cells. When you are able to go into ketosis your body can utilize vitamins and nutrients much more efficiently. Not only will you have increased energy but you will feel a lot better as well.
The health benefits of adding raw, organic apple cider vinegar to your diet are many. Avoid processed ACV as it loses many nutrients through the heating processes used for distillation, filtering and pasteurizing.
Look in health-food stores for the raw, organic form that contains bits of cloudy materials called "mother." One of the most popular brands of apple cider vinegar is Bragg's Organic Raw Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar. Honestly, you really can't go wrong going with Bragg's ACV. You can find Bragg's at Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and pretty much any supermarket store out there.
Start by adding a teaspoon daily diluted in one glass of water and continue over an extended period of time until you are using up to two tablespoons a day in the water. Your body will let you know how much is acceptable.
You might have heard apple cider vinegar taste awful. Well, that's not true! It tastes HORRIBLE but let's be real you aren't drinking it because it tastes good. You are drinking it to become healthier. After a couple times you will get used to the taste.
Forskolin Extract is taken from the roots of a plant found in Nepal, India, and Thailand. Surprisingly, this plant extract has been used by native people for hundreds if not for thousands of years to treat a variety of ailments.
It wasn't until recently that scientists were able to research and study Forskolin in-depth. They were able to find many health benefits that it was long suspected to provide. Forskolin became very popular when Dr. Oz revealed that it has some pretty amazing weight loss abilities.
Besides weight loss, Forskolin Extract has many more health benefits. It can treat a whole host of health problems. It's a little surprising that a powerful fat burner can also improve heart health and provide asthma relief. Forskolin gets many of its health benefits from its active ingredient called cyclic AMP (cAMP).
The way that Forskolin Extract helps produce weight loss results is very unique. Dr. Oz even referred its fat burning ability as "Lightning in a bottle." The main way it helps with weight loss is that it increases the body's metabolism. When our body's metabolism is increased it can burn off calories a lot easier.
As you already know, losing weight is a simple math equation. If you burn off more calories than you eat then you will lose weight. Since Forskolin is also an appetite suppressant it will help reduce the amount of food (calories) that you will be able to consume on a daily basis.
Forskolin's combination of appetite suppression and metabolism boosting effects is a one-two punch that will help you accomplish your desired weight loss goals. For most people, Forskolin is the perfect solution to help them stay on track with a healthy diet and exercise program.
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If you want to get the most out of Forskolin Extract then you can combine it with apple cider vinegar. This fat burning duo has proven to be one of the most effective weight loss methods around. It has increasingly become more popular in health-conscious circles. Health experts and advocates have been praising the many health benefits that you can get from this combo.
These two superfoods will improve your lifestyle by giving you more energy and an increased sense of wellbeing. Losing weight is an added benefit that you can get from using Forskolin Extract and apple cider vinegar together. These two fat fighters will immediately start working together to get you slimmer.
To maximize the weight loss effects from both of these natural substances. Add an exercise routine that you will enjoy. Try doing exercises that are low-impact aerobics like walking or biking. This will propel you to the next level. Even doing meditation can help alleviate stress and will help you achieve better results.
When taking both of these natural ingredients make sure that you are drinking plenty of water. It will ensure that your body will be at its peak performance. Plus dehydration contributes to premature aging. Thus, drinking more water will cause you to look (and feel) younger.


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This board provides interface for 16 digital phones to an existing Samsung Officeserv 7100, 7200, and 7400 phone system.
This board provides interface for 8 digital phones to an existing Samsung Officeserv 7100, 7200, and 7400 phone system.
Provides an interface for 8 additional Analog Single Line Phones or Devices like a Fax Machine or an Analog Cordless Phone to an existing Samsung OS 7100, 7200, or 7400 phone system.
Provides an interface for 16 additional Analog Single Line Phones or Devices like a Fax Machine or an Analog Cordless Phone to an existing Samsung OS 7100, 7200, or 7400 phone system.
Provides interface of a T1/PRI to an existing Samsung OS 7100, 7200, or 7400 phone system for systems with lots of incoming lines or the need of doing DID's (Direct Inward Dials).
The 8TRK board provides 8 analog CO/Trunk or In Coming Line ports and an existing system.
The 16TRK board provides 16 analog CO/Trunk or In Coming Line ports and an existing system.
This card provides interface for 8 analog or single line phones plus 8 digital phones.
The 4ATRM provides 4 CO / Trunk Incoming Line Ports to an existing Officeserv 7100 phone system. This daughterboard that mounts onto an existing UNI board and takes up an available slot.
Officeserv7100 4-Port Digital Station Daughter Board. Supports up to 4 telephones. This daughterboard that mounts onto an existing UNI board and takes up an available slot.
Officeserv7100 4-Port Analog Station Daughter Board. Supports up to 4 analog, single line phones or a fax machine. This daughterboard that mounts onto an existing UNI board and takes up an available slot.
The Modem allows for remote dial up administration for system programming. This daughterboard that mounts onto an existing UNI board and takes up an available slot.
The 4SWM board s a 4-port 10 / 100 Base T LAN switch daughter board that mounts onto an existing MP10 processor card.
Samsung OfficeServ 100 6-Port Trunk Card. The S6TRK card provides three Caller ID-compatible loop start C.O. interfaces to an existing Samsung Office Serv or 1DCS 16 phone system.
Samsung OfficeServ 100 8-Port Single Line Station Card This card provides 8 SLI Single Line Interface ports for the addition of analog phones, a fax machine, or cordless phones and can be installed in any universal slot.
The Samsung 8-port digital station card provides 8 1B+D DLI Digital Line Interface ports to add digital telephones to an existing OfficeServe system and can be installed in any universal slot. KDb's cannot be used with this card.
The Samsung OfficeServ 100 2 X 4 SLI card provides two Caller ID-compatible loop start C.O. interfaces and four SLI single line telephone ports for industry standard single line telephones and the ability to provide a loop disconnect signal. This card can be installed in any universal slot.
Samsung OfficeServ 2 X 4 Card Supports 2 lines & 4 Digital Phones The 2 X 4 DLI card provides two Caller ID-compatible loop start CO line interfaces and four 1B+D DLI digital station ports. KDb's (daughter boards) cannot be used with this card. This card can be installed in any universal slot.
Provides an additional 2 digital station ports to an existing Samsung OfficeServ 7030 phone system. A maximum of 8 digital phones can be added.
Provides an additional 4 digital station ports to an existing Samsung OfficeServ 7030 phone system. A maximum of 8 digital phones can be added.
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J.J.H. and L.J. contributed equally to this work.
The impact of glycemic variability on brain glucose transport kinetics among individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) remains unclear. Fourteen individuals with T1DM (age 35 ± 4 years; BMI 26.0 ± 1.4 kg/m2; HbA1c 7.6 ± 0.3) and nine healthy control participants (age 32 ± 4; BMI 23.1 ± 0.8; HbA1c 5.0 ± 0.1) wore a continuous glucose monitor (Dexcom) to measure hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and glycemic variability for 5 days followed by 1H MRS scanning in the occipital lobe to measure the change in intracerebral glucose levels during a 2-h glucose clamp (target glucose concentration 220 mg/dL). Hyperglycemic clamps were also performed in a rat model of T1DM to assess regional differences in brain glucose transport and metabolism. Despite a similar change in plasma glucose levels during the hyperglycemic clamp, individuals with T1DM had significantly smaller increments in intracerebral glucose levels (P = 0.0002). Moreover, among individuals with T1DM, the change in brain glucose correlated positively with the lability index (r = 0.67, P = 0.006). Consistent with findings in humans, streptozotocin-treated rats had lower brain glucose levels in the cortex, hippocampus, and striatum compared with control rats. These findings that glycemic variability is associated with brain glucose levels highlight the need for future studies to investigate the impact of glycemic variability on brain glucose kinetics.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/db18-0722/-/DC1.


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All eight Benford Analysis Tests work in the same fashion.
From the SmartAnalzyer ribbon select Select & Run.
From the Audit Test Navigator select - IS Fraud Tool Kit - Benford Analysis.
You will then have the list of the eight tests available. Select the tests you are interested in. For this example I will use the Benford 1st Digit Test.
The first step is to tag the fields that will be used in the test. Each test will use certain fields for the analysis, in the case of the Benford tests you will need an amount and a client (vendor) field.
Click on the No to select your fields. You will now have the option to define your tags.
In the column called Field to Assign you can select the fields that correspond to the Tag Name, in this case Amount and Client Field.
Once the fields have been selected click on the green check mark to exit the dialog. The tagged will now change to Yes.
If the test needs additional input it will be indicated with Required. Select the Required link and you will get the following dialog.
These dialogs will be different based on the test. For the Benford tests you have several options that must be selected. The first is the minimum number of transactions per vendor, the default is per the recommendations found in the IDEA documentation but can be changed if needed. The tests can only be performed on Positive or Negative number, not both at the same time, so you must select one or the other. Finally there is an option to create an Excel spreadsheet. This will contain the summary data and graph for each client that meets the minimum number of transactions. Once you have finished making changes click OK to exit the dialog.
The status will change to a start button and the assigned database will be shown. Once you have the start button you can run the test.
The test will show its progress.
Once the test is complete you can view the results.
The file starting with the @ is the SmartAnazlyer result file. So in this case there are 324 records in the result. By clicking on the 324 you can bring up the transactions. The file is also saved as an IDEA file automatically.
VENDORNUM - this is the file you selected for the client.
FIRSTDIGIT - Shows which digit the results are for.
ACTUAL - The actual number of times the first digit shows for this client.
TOTAL_RECORDS - The total number of records for this client.
EXPECTED - The expected number of times the first digit should appear.
LOWERBOUND - This is the lower boundry of the range in which the predicted result should fall.
UPPERBOUND - This is the upper boundry of the range in which the predicted result should fall.
DIFFERENCE - This is the difference between the actual and expected.
PERC_DIFFERENCE - This is the percent difference between the actual and expected.
MAD_RESULT - This is the Mean Absolute Deviation that indicates whether the data conforms to the Benford's test.
MAD_CONCLUSION - This is the MAD conclusion. There are three results: Nonconformity, Close conformity and Acceptable conformity.
If you select Excel a spreadsheet will be created (assuming you have Excel installed) that will give a table for each client along with a graph.
You are then able to review the spreadsheet and show graphically which clients do not conform and should be looked at closer.
I am currently using Benford's to do some analysis on AP data. We are running for each plant. In shortening the process, I'm trying to put together a script that will loop. I was able to use the history for the IDEAscript of Benford's. However, my issue is that it does not create the MAD when using the script provided in the history tab, even when I've checked the box to calculate the MAD in my example plant.
I have attached an image comparing when I run manually (on the left) and when I run using the script (on the right). You will see the 'Create MAD Conclusion' on the left image is TRUE and on the right is FALSE. The IDEAscript portion is the same, so I'm wondering if there is an additional line of code I could use to create the MAD?
Would you be able to help in calculating the MAD through IDEAscript, or is the MAD only able to be calculated when running Benford's manually?
I think I got the calculation for the MAD out of one of Mark Nigrini's books, if you haven't heard of him he is one of the leading experts on Benford and has several books out on the subject. I will have to check my code for this script tonight to see how I calculated it. I will get back to you.


For too many Americans, insecurity starts in childhood.
A startling report, Homeland Insecurity, by the Every Child Matters Education Fund,4 pointed out that as of 2007 (before the current recession made things even worse), 8 million American children were without health insurance, nearly 2 million had parents in prison, and 13 million lived in poverty. More than 3 million were abused and neglected each year. The United States' child abuse death rate is the highest among rich countries, three times as high as Canada's and eleven times as high as Italy's. According to the report, the effects of child abuse cost American taxpayers more than $100 billion annually.
Those states included Wisconsin, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and top-ranked New Hampshire, with Nebraska being the sole "red" state in the group.
Blue states were defined as those that voted Democratic in the 2004 presidential election, while red states voted Republican. All ten of the states with the worst outcomes were "red" states: Wyoming, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and, in last place, Mississippi.
"Blue" states also tend (with significant "red" exceptions, such as egalitarian Utah and the Dakotas) to have much smaller gaps between rich and poor, a subject we return to in chapter 7. They generally score higher in such key measurements of quality of life as life expectancy, educational levels, and freedom from violent crime, often approaching and sometimes even surpassing western European levels of success.


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Kistapolca – wieś i gmina w południowej części Węgier, w pobliżu miasta Siklós, niedaleko granicy chorwackiej. Administracyjnie Kistapolca należy do powiatu Siklós, wchodzącego w skład komitatu Baranya i jest jedną z 53 gmin tego powiatu.

Historia
Nazwa Kistapolca po raz pierwszy została wymieniona w 1904.

Zabytki
 Kaplica z 1783.

Zobacz też
 podział administracyjny Węgier

Bibliografia
 Węgierski Urząd Statystyczny

Powiat Siklós
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Dr. Barry SampleOSHAQuest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index
Post-accident positivity climbs among American workers
Our scientific experts have analyzed and published annual workplace drug testing data and insights since 1988 in the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index™ (DTI). After the initiation of drug testing programs by employers in the 1980s, overall positivity rates began to decline. Employers saw how the power of drug-free workplace programs deterred employee substance abuse and discouraged job applicants who use drugs from applying at their companies. These positivity declines were also reflected in post-accident drug testing.
It has been several years since the Drug Testing Index reported on trends for a specific reason for testing. In the latest release, Dr. Barry Sample, Senior Director of Science and Technology, Quest Diagnostics, noted that over the past five years, there have been small increases in post-accident positivity rates in urine drug testing that have collectively led to dramatic changes. When reviewed cumulatively, the data shows a significant increase in positive post-accident drug tests for both the federally-mandated, safety-sensitive and U.S. general workforces.
According to DTI data, post-accident drug testing:
Is up 6.2 percent in 2015 in the general U.S. workforce when compared to 2014 (6.9% versus 6.5%)
Increased 30 percent since 2011 (5.3%) in the general U.S.
Rose 22 percent during a five-year time period (2.8% in 2015 versus 2.3% in 2011) for the safety-sensitive workforce
"Year-over-year positivity for post-accident testing was trending down in the 2000s. Yet, consecutive increases in the last five years should give employees pause to think about the potential impact of drug use and its threat to workplace safety," said Dr. Barry Sample.
Also referred to as "post-incident testing," post-accident drug testing is performed after an employee has been involved in a workplace accident and is used as an aid to assess if drugs were a factor in the incident. Post-accident testing is an important resource for companies, especially those focused on workplace health and safety.
For more information about drug testing, visit our website.
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By the Numbers By the Numbers: Customer support
By the Numbers The cost of not drug testing: calculate the savings of implementing a drug testing program
By the Numbers National Survey paints an optimistic picture
By the Numbers Too many lives lost to drug use
By the Numbers By the numbers: Drug users avoid working for employers who test
By the Numbers Rising methamphetamine use in the U.S. workforce
By the Numbers Half of Americans tested misused prescription medications
By the Numbers New data shows 1 in 10 Americans use drugs
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By the Numbers Mapping drug use in the U.S. workforce
By the Numbers Cocaine continues upward trend
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By the Numbers Data shows escalating drug use in the U.S. workforce
By the Numbers By the Numbers: Heroin positivity continues to rise

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Polly Higgins obituary
Lawyer who abandoned a courtroom career to campaign for an international crime of ecocide
Jojo Mehta
Thu 25 Apr 2019 13.44 EDT Last modified on Wed 1 May 2019 11.24 EDT
Polly Higgins was named as one of the world's top 10 visionary thinkers. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
What would it take to create a legal duty of care for the Earth? That is the question the Scottish barrister Polly Higgins found herself asking 15 years ago; a question that led her to abandon her courtroom career and embark on a quest to establish an international crime of ecocide. Such a crime would render persons of superior responsibility (such as company chief executives and government ministers) liable to prosecution for causing or contributing to large-scale ecosystem destruction.
Polly, who has died aged 50 of cancer, had begun to see the climate activist movement take up her call in the weeks before her death, with Extinction Rebellion actions demanding that ecocide law be established around the world.
Polly's early research revealed that the Rome statute, the governing document of the international criminal court (ICC), had originally included an atrocity crime of ecocide, but that it had been dropped at the final drafting stage. Determined to see this "missing" crime reinstated alongside genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of aggression, she submitted a proposal to the UN Law Commission in 2010 that defined ecocide as "extensive loss, damage to or destruction of ecosystems of a given territory, such that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants has been or will be severely diminished". This led to a mock ecocide trial at the UK supreme court in 2011 (Michael Mansfield prosecuting), which demonstrated the legal viability of such a crime and brought Polly to international attention.
Polly's first book, Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (2010), won the 2010-11 People's Book prize and set out her full proposal, while her second book, Earth Is Our Business (2012), included a draft Ecocide Act and indictments that had been used in the mock trial. She became a sought-after speaker and delivered the 50th anniversary Rachel Carson Memorial Lecture in 2012, in London and in the Netherlands. She was named one of the world's top 10 visionary thinkers by the Ecologist magazine, and a 2015 documentary featuring her work, Advocate for the Earth, was produced by the Dutch broadcaster VPRO.
Polly discovered over time that big NGOs and grant-giving bodies were reluctant to support her proposal, perceiving it as too high-risk or too controversial; and that governments in wealthy developed nations were too enmeshed with polluting industry to consider taking it forward. She therefore shifted her attention to small climate-vulnerable states with the biggest incentive to propose an ecocide amendment to the Rome statute, and in 2017 founded a trust fund to enable her legal team to assist those states in doing so.
Polly attended the annual meetings of the ICC's management oversight and legislative body (the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute) for four consecutive years – with increasing visibility and amid growing interest from Pacific island states. Among these were Vanuatu, whose foreign affairs minister, Ralph Regenvanu, publicly acknowledged Polly's work in December 2018 after global climate change talks failed to result in the support his islands were looking for in the face of climate breakdown.
During the 2018 assembly, Polly's team launched an "independent preliminary examination into climate ecocide" to look at whether the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, Ben van Beurden, and the CEO of Shell Nederlands, Marjan van Loon, could be prosecuted for ecocide, if such a crime is ever put in place. Since then the team has been preparing a test case file for submission to the ICC, to discover whether prosecutions for climate ecocide can in any case be investigated under existing legal provisions.
Born in Glasgow to Nicholas Higgins, a dentist, and his wife, Monica (nee McGarvey), an artist, Polly was the eldest of three children. Showing a strong awareness of injustice from an early age, she was excluded from her art class at St Aloysius, a private Jesuit school in Glasgow, at 16 for punching the teacher.
She went on to achieve a degree in cultural history from Aberdeen University, a diploma in semiology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and a postgraduate degree in fine and decorative arts from Glasgow University before moving to London, where she worked for an art gallery and later set up a catering business to fund her way through bar school. She was called to the English bar in 1998 and gained a pupillage at the chambers of Baroness (Patricia) Scotland. She was subsequently offered a tenancy at Bridewell Chambers in London, where she met Ian Lawrie, now a judge, whom she married in 2002. After quitting court advocacy she became co-founder of a solar energy company, Desertec, before devoting herself full-time to ecocide law in 2010.
She is survived by Ian, by her mother, her brother, Nicholas, and her sister, Monica.
• Pauline Helène (Polly) Higgins, barrister and climate change activist, born 4 July 1968; died 21 April 2019


Hughes has some experience, competing in youth and junior world championships before and finishing fourth last year at the U21 with Summer Ross, but 17-year old Claes made her international debut in Porto.
The tall blocker stood her own though, when the Polish girls, who came nowhere near their usual level, managed to come back from 20-16 to 20-19 at the end of the second set. Claes finished the game with one of her big spikes.
The key to winning was "being big, swinging hard, playing our own game", Claes said.
The girls felt that playing in the first elimination round, unlike the Polish who got a bye as pool winners, helped them a bit. "It was on court 4 and we really felt in our element because it was windy and that's what we are used to. It gave us a little bit more advantage", Hughes said.
They are up for another tough match in the quarterfinals, when they meet Nina Betschart, who won the U21 in 2011 and 2012, and her partner Nicole Eiholzer from Switzerland.
Hughes and Claes lost to the Swiss girls in the pool on Friday. "But, we will go for the gold now", said Hughes.


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Production is the application of reason to the problem of survival.
"What Is Capitalism?"
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 195
Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions — and you'll learn that man's mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.
But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made — before it can be looted or mooched — made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
"The Meaning of Money"
For the New Intellectual, 89
Whether it's a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one's own eyes — which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification — which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.
"The Nature of an Artist"
For the New Intellectual, 115
Every type of productive work involves a combination of mental and physical effort: of thought and of physical action to translate that thought into a material form. The proportion of these two elements varies in different types of work. At the lowest end of the scale, the mental effort required to perform unskilled manual labor is minimal. At the other end, what the patent and copyright laws acknowledge is the paramount role of mental effort in the production of material values.
"Patents and Copyrights"
The root of production is man's mind; the mind is an attribute of the individual and it does not work under orders, controls and compulsion, as centuries of stagnation have demonstrated. Progress cannot be planned by government, and it cannot be restricted or retarded; it can only be stopped, as every statist government has demonstrated.
"The Anti-Industrial Revolution"
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 281
Economic Good
Physical Force
Productiveness
Pyramid of Ability
Statism


Building on the success of last year, SEAI will be holding the 3rd annual Sustainable Energy Communities National Event on Saturday 8th September in Athlone IT. The event, which is expected to attract over 250 people from 200 Sustainable Energy Communities (SECs), aims to facilitate learning and networking between communities from all across Ireland. This year's event will provide more opportunities to learn, plan and do.


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Greenpeace blasts EU over precaution paper
NGO claims Commission paper will "undermine purpose" of precautionary principle
The European Commission will "undermine the very meaning and purpose" of the precautionary principle when it issues a policy statement on the issue next month, Greenpeace has charged. In a letter addressed to all EU commissioners this week, the lobby group predicted the Commission would publish operational rules for using the principle that "almost entirely match those set out by [European chemical industry association] Cefic".
The Commission started formulating rules on how to apply the precautionary principle last spring (ENDS Daily 26 April 1999). The paper should have been published before the end of the year (ENDS Daily 5 October 1999) but is now expected to emerge on 2 February. Its eventual conclusions have already been publicly fought over between EU industry groups (ENDS Daily 15 October 1999) and environmental groups (ENDS Daily 15 December 1999).
According to Greenpeace, the paper will fail to define the precautionary principle strongly enough in three ways: by relying on risk assessment, by requiring cost-benefit analysis and by saying that precautionary action should be temporary.
On chemicals, a key area where the EU will apply the principle, Greenpeace alleges that assessment of "existing" chemicals has been "completely paralysed by its reliance on risk assessment". Maintaining the requirement for risk assessment before action can be taken would "prevent [the principle] from performing the very function for which it was initially formulated," the group says.
Requiring cost-benefit analysis before applying the principle will also damage the ability to take truly precautionary action, Greenpeace argues. "A requirement for [an analysis] will, in reality, deteriorate into a purely economic evaluation of costs, putting the interests of environmental protection at a severe disadvantage." Cost-benefit analysis should instead be used only after a decision has been made to act, as a tool to decide on which course is best.
Applying the principle on a temporary basis, until firmer scientific knowledge emerges, is not justified in most cases, Greenpeace says. It would risk leaving the Commission in a "stalemate" position, "unable to put any decision behind it and focus attention on moving forward". It would also "fail to give a clear direction to the producers and users of hazardous chemicals and technologies, or a clear message to the public".
The group also attacks the Commission over a lack of transparency in preparing its precaution paper. Not only have environmental groups not been consulted, Greenpeace complains, but they have also been "denied any information about the Commission's deliberations".
Greenpeace EU unit, tel: 280 1400; European Commission, tel: +32 2 299 1111.


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Major Crimes Facebook Chat Recap with Jonathan Del Arco & James Duff
Jonathan Del Arco, who plays Dr. Morales on Major Crimes, joined the shows co-creator, producer and writer, James Duff for his weekly on-season Facebook Chat.
It seemed like James spilled more information this week and here's what we learned:
After seven years of watching Dr. Morales but never hearing his first name, we'll find it out in a court scene later this season. Jonathan has asked that it be anything but Spike, but who knows if James will honor that request.
We'll meet Amy Sykes' love interest later this season.
The Flynn & Provenza focused episodes are among Duff's favorites - not a surprise since they are among our favorites as well.
Jonathan and James first met playing a game of Murder.
Provenza will get a love interest in the winter season of Major Crimes.
Next week the show gets more serious again.
Here's the recap of the rest of James' answers. It doesn't include the questions because as this chat gets more and more popular, they stack up too fast to match them up. James does a good job of putting the question inside the answer most of the time.
James Duff Shirley V. - I'd love to see a movie special with Flynn and Provenza, too. And the dead aunt was played by the great genius of the Los Angeles film and theatre community, Carole Cook. Goodnight to all of you and see you again next week.
James Duff Gregory E. H asks why The Closer is not on Netflix. I have no idea, really. But I think it's on Amazon Prime!
James Duff Gail S says tonight's episode is very different from the others, and wants to know if we got new writers. Not really, Gail! We do at least one Flynn & Provenza episode every year, where they get involved in the...lighter side of crime fighting.
James Duff @Marea D H asks if we use any true crimes for the show? Yes, we do sometimes take something that happened in life and turn it around to make it a Major Crime. This story, for instance, was suggested by a real life instance where someone left a minor fortune to a pet.
James Duff Holly Michelle B wants to know if Sykes has lost her relationship because she's dressed back in a professional manner. Not at all! She is playing it cool.
James Duff Just Smile asks if plan on adding any new younger characters. Tune in to episode 307, Two Options, where we introduce another whole division of the LAPD.
James Duff I don't want to say how the story resolves, because it's part of our ongoing exploration of the them of expectations. Tonight is all about the consequences of thinking you should always have a second chance at the ball.
James Duff Samantha R asks what rights Rusty has. The kid has turned eighteen, so legally, he's an adult as long as he's not in a bar by himself. So he does not need to be adopted for reasons of guardianship. But there are other reasons he might want to supersede the relationship with his mom.
James Duff Jennifer S asks if Rusty will ever become a police officer? The answer is probably not. But maybe! I can't say, really, what would bring him into the LAPD. But he has a big change coming up this summer. A very big change. And one that will take all his concentration to overcome.
James Duff This is our ninth Flynn and Provenza episode over the ten seasons of The Closer and Major Crimes. And they usually end up being one of my favorites of every years.
James Duff Sophie O asks if we could have anyone guest star on the show, I guess I would have to say either Jeff Bridges or Oprah Winfry. I just want to meet them! And there's no reason either one of them should ever talk to me!
James Duff Yes, the show is about the Maltese. Falcon. On Twitter, there are folks asking!
James Duff Debbie M asks if Sharon would adopt Rusty if she could. I think adoption takes both parents to agree. And Sharon is still married to her husband Jack. I think she has some decisions to make in that regard.
James Duff Holly Michelle B hopes that Jonathan doesn't have to do an autopsy on the dog. Actually, his autopsy tonight is much, much worse!
James Duff Jonathan had a hoot doing it.
James Duff Jon Tenney is hilarious in real life. And he tells the best jokes, too, and normally I don't really like jokes so much.
James Duff Trinity D KT wants to know who the funniest actor is in the morgue. The answer would be the same from every actor on the show, I think. Because everyone thinks Jon Tenney is the funniest
James Duff Debbie M asks what it will take for Rusty to see Sharon as his true mother. If you want to know the answer to this question, tune in next week. Because we answer it!
James Duff She L wants to know if we're going to expand the part of Buzz. His role gets bigger every year! And he would agree with you that he should have more to do. But all the actors say that!
James Duff Peggy H asks how Jonathan develops his character. Jonathan responds that he learns his lines as well as he can, and then tries not to scream at the dead bodies.
James Duff Andrew D, who plays Dick Tracy in this ep, is one of the greatest talents in the acting profession
James Duff Kimberlee T ask if we have already finished shooting this season. No! I wish! No! We still have half all the winter season to go.
James Duff I should say, Sanchez has shown anger issues several times before
James Duff Lots of people asking about Sanchez anger issues. All will be revealed during the summer. And no, I am not planning on having him leave the show! He's one of my best friends. And he's a fantastic actor!
James Duff Ilona Arcari Asks how Jonathan feels about the morgue. Jonathan is death-a-phobic! He gets freaked out by the dead bodies. All the time. And I'm not kidding!
James Duff @Jenean Johnston V M asks if I ever thought Major Crimes would be as successful as it's become. I wasn't sure, of course, but I know how good our actors are and how hard working and talented our writers are, I was betting on success.
James Duff Funny to recollect now, but Jonathan and I met during a game of Murder!
James Duff Stephanie P wants to know if Rusty's Mom is going to be a long running storyline this season. She is a kick off point. I love Ever Carradine, and I'm glad to be working with her. She and Graham do a great job in next week's episode.
James Duff RJ F wants to know what happened to Nadien V. and if he can get her contact information. The answer is, she will come back later in the season and No! You cannot have her contact information, though I will tell her you asked about her.
James Duff But we will be giving Provenza a love interest. This winter!
James Duff Jane P asks if there will be a love interest for Provenza. Jonathan says we've already done a show about a nursing home, which is really rude!
James Duff Brittany T wants to know who Sykes is dating. Watch episode five of this season, two weeks from tonight. I can't just tell you. This is a mystery show!
James Duff Elizabeth C asks she is uncertain what Rusty meant when he said to Provenze in the premiere, "And that other thing? That you think you know? I'm not ready to talk about that at all."
James Duff Ilona Arcari asks if Jonathan has a preference for Dr. Morales first name. All I can say is Jonathan has asked me not to name him Spike. You will get to hear Dr. Morales's first name the next time he testifies in court. Which is not too far away.
James Duff Dina S asks what are the hardest episodes to watch, for me personally. I think Jonathan and I would both agree, they have to do with the murders of children. I always get upset when I see them. And yet, they happen so often in life that not to portray them would un inauthentic
James Duff Shelby M asks if Sharon and Flynn are ever going to get together? I don't know the answer to this. I just know they have good chemistry!
James Duff Laura U Asks who my favorite character to write for is! Normally, I don't answer questions like that, but since he's sitting right next to me, I'll say Jonathan Del Arco and take all the grief that comes after.
James Duff Before we go, Jonathan wants to thank all of you for warming up to him after joining us in the middle of season three of The Closer. He's been working on some version of the show for seven-and-a-hlaf years, which is his longest gig in his career. And to those of you who remember him fondly as Hugh from Star Trek, he thanks you! It was one of his favorite roles of all time!
James Duff Thanks everyone for having us in your homes this evening. We'll be back next week with a more dramatic entry into our summer series.
Posted by Deborah Lacy at 8:41 PM
Labels: Major Crimes
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Supporters who know Pete Buttigieg vouch for the Democratic primary candidate
by Catherine M. Odell
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Pete Buttigieg announces his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for the presidency April 14 in South Bend, Indiana. (Wikimedia Commons/Gary Riggs, CC by-SA 4.0)
South Bend, Indiana — In the middle of the second round of national debates among Democratic presidential candidates, millions of Americans have been increasingly curious about that mayor with the strange last name from South Bend, Indiana.
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg, 37, is a two-term mayor who was first elected in South Bend in 2011 as the second youngest mayor in its history. In almost eight years as mayor, he worked to lure tech companies to the city struggling to move beyond its dying industrial base. He led a successful campaign to reclaim 1,000 deteriorating or abandoned houses in 1,000 days. He's acquired necessary funding for expensive public works projects that had been put on hold.
South Bend reelected him for a second term in November 2015 with 80% of the vote. And that landslide came after he'd announced the previous June in the South Bend Tribune that he is gay. Buttigieg took that risky step, stating he wanted to be transparent with the people of the city.
After years of struggle, he said, he understood that his sexual orientation was "just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am."
Now, as the youngest Democratic candidate, he is the focus of national interest.
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The Rev. Brian Grantz (William E. Odell)
"The person you see on TV is the same person I know. And that is the highest compliment that I can pay a politician. He is who he appears to be," the Rev. Brian Grantz, rector of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. James, and the mayor's pastor for the past decade, told NCR.
According to Grantz, the mayor began to attend the cathedral on Sundays soon after moving back after college to South Bend, where he was born and raised. "He just sat in the back with some of the younger folks in the congregation and stayed with it, even throughout his whole mayoral campaign."
The mayor's parents, Joseph Buttigieg and Anne Montgomery Buttigieg, were both professors of English at the University of Notre Dame. Joseph Buttigieg was the director of the Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program, an initiative to help scholarship students develop as leaders. Both parents retired a few years ago, but Joseph, 71, died last January after a brief illness, and just a few months before his son launched a campaign for the presidency.
The Buttigiegs, friends report, had their only child baptized as a Catholic. Joseph Buttigieg was a native of Malta, a very Catholic island nation in southern Europe, where he studied for the priesthood at a Jesuit seminary. When Buttigieg was ready for high school, his parents sent him to St. Joseph High School.
He won an early acceptance to Harvard. After Harvard, Buttigieg won a Rhodes scholarship and went on to graduate school at Oxford. While studying in England, he began to attend Christ Church Cathedral. He later explained to CNN that by the time he returned to South Bend, he "felt more or less Anglican."
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg, speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore, CC by-SA 2.0)
Grantz doesn't really know what drew Buttigieg to the Anglican Church and then into the Episcopal Church back home. It may have been the authority structure of the Episcopal Church, which incorporates a bicameral structure where doctrinal decisions are voted on democratically by a House of Bishops and a House of Deputies. In the United States, Grantz says, bishops are elected and "the Episcopal Church is a bottom-up organization."
Grantz says he was happy to preside at the marriage of Buttigieg to Chasten Glezman in June 2018, after the Episcopal Church had approved the blessing of same-sex marriages for those in life-long and committed relationships.
Like Grantz, Julia Chismar has been a South Bend friend and supporter of Pete Buttigieg for many years.
Chismar was an economics teacher and the Fed Challenge coach at St. Joseph High School when she first met Buttigieg. Also the director of admissions, she taught or interacted with hundreds of students over the years. But, some things that she saw in this teenager stood out.
One was his amazing intellectual curiosity, she said.
"One day," she recalls, "he poked his head inside my office, since his locker was nearby. He told me that he wanted to learn a language from each continent! He said he was starting with Korean since a girl in the senior class was from Korea." Though he didn't get too far with Korean, Chismar said, she later discovered that Buttigieg had actually learned Spanish, Italian, French, Maltese, Arabic, Dari Persian and some Norwegian.
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Julia Chismar (William Odell)
One school day, while rushing to get to another classroom, one of her students, a boy with learning disabilities, intercepted her in the hallway. Chismar remembers that the boy was trying to explain something to her in great and exhausting detail. But, he was difficult to understand. "I was anxious to get to my next class and was aware that I needed to move on."
Then, Buttigieg walked by and picked up on the situation. He knew the boy well and began to engage him in conversation, liberating his teacher to move on.
"I watched Peter for a while. He didn't hurry him. He just stood there, listening. High school can be cliquish," observed Chismar. "But, Peter was not. He moved between groups and related to everyone. He was senior class president and was attentive to everyone."
Both Grantz and Chismar say that in recent weeks, they've done a number of interviews about the mayor. Questions often focus on the mayor's religious views and his frequent references to the Bible.
"I think Pete's sense of duty and his sense of justice is all informed by faith and values. And you hear that in his campaign."
— Rev. Brian Grantz
When talking about the separation of migrant children from their parents at the border, the mayor recently referenced the parable of the good Samaritan. He reminded his audience that Jesus was trying to explain how neighbors should care for each other.
"He is so knowledgeable on such a wide array of things," Grantz said. The mayor's pastor recalled that he has had many discussions with him over the years about moral and theological issues.
"He really thinks very deeply in a broad array of areas. So, his faith is integrated into his positions which you hear. His faith informs his politics and all of it informs his actions and his priorities," he added. "I think Pete's sense of duty and his sense of justice is all informed by faith and values. And you hear that in his campaign."
Pete Buttigieg's autobiography, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, gives readers a close look at his childhood, education, political campaigns and moral compass.
In 2007, according to his book, Buttigieg was campaigning for Barack Obama before the primary in Iowa, when he discovered how many lower-income young men there were joining the military during the Iraq War. The future presidential candidate, then 25, felt it was unjust that defending the nation was a burden borne by only certain segments of the population. "The more I reflected on it, the less it seemed I had any good excuse or reason not to serve," Buttigieg wrote.
He entered the Naval Reserves and trained for Naval Intelligence after becoming mayor. Because he spoke Dari, the language spoken in Afghanistan, he was particularly valuable. In 2014, he was deployed for seven months to Afghanistan, where he worked with a unit assigned to disrupt terrorist financial networks. He was also an armed driver — a "military Uber," as he called it — for the local commander who traveled often over dangerous roads into Kabul.
"This is what I'm coming to understand about Peter," said Chismar. "That moral compass. … He follows that compass and aims to be useful. ... It's his sense of duty. I think that's what drives him. He believes in it. It's authentic."
[Catherine M. Odell is a freelance writer and editor and the author of 14 books, including one co-authored with Margaret Savitskas, Angels of the Lord: 365 Reflections on Our Heavenly Guardians (Our Sunday Visitor, 2016).]
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Have you ever wanted to drink cocktails on the balcony of the Cardinal's Palace whilst chatting with Animal Planet's Snake Boss, Julia Baker?
Have you ever wanted to hang out with the devilishly mischievous Real Housewives of Sydney stars - Lisa Oldfield and Athena Levendi?
Have you ever had a hankering to listen to the spellbinding voice of award-winning soprano, Phoebe Humphreys, of Opera Australia whilst sipping on a Lemon Lime and 'Critters'?
Or wished for the opportunity to bid on a dinner cooked by the one-and-only David Oldfield who has trained under world-renowned chef, Marco Pierre White?
Or dreamt of being the winning bidder of a one-of-a-kind skateboard signed and painted by Johnny Depp?
Well, if any or all of this sounds like a truly spectacular and exciting evening, don't miss out on your chance to buy a ticket to the Go Wild Gala - hosted by Sydney Wildlife and MC'd by Channel 7's Sydney director of news, Jason Morrison!
Why are all these amazing celebrities helping Sydney Wildlife?
Well, we are frantically raising funds to buy and custom-fit a van which will become a Mobile Clinic for treating injured, sick and orphaned wildlife.
The van will be stationed in different parts of Sydney every week to assist with wildlife in distress.
It may also be deployed to areas affected by natural disasters such as bushfires, floods and soaring temperatures causing heat-stress events.
The van will be staffed by veterinarians who offer to volunteer their time to help our wildlife. It may be a wonderful training centre for our veterinary students and a huge asset to our community.
All these wonderful celebrities believe in our pioneering vision and are willing to donate their time and celebrity status to bring our vision to life.
We are a 100% volunteer-run organisation dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing any sick, injured or orphaned Australian native wildlife.
We receive no Government funding and we need YOU to help us!
Why do our wildlife need help?
The biggest danger our wildlife face is a lack of interest in their welfare.
In addition - habitat loss, vehicle strike, disease, predation and injury from introduced species, dealing with man-made obstacles such as netting, litter and fences and natural disasters are among the many perils they face daily.
How far are we with our goal?
The cost of the van, the custom fit-out, the medical equipment and medications needed to get the Mobile Clinic on the road we estimate to be around the $200K mark.
So far we have raised $72K.
Yes, it's an ambitious project.
Yes, it's a pioneering project.
"There is a first for everything.


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#pragma once

#include <functional>
#include <future>
#include <map>
#include <memory>
#include <mutex>
#include <optional>
#include <string>
#include <thread>
#include <utility>
#include <vector>

#include "../core/state/nodes/MetricsBase.h"
#include "../core/state/Value.h"
#include "core/state/UpdateController.h"
#include "controllers/UpdatePolicyControllerService.h"
#include "C2Payload.h"
#include "C2Trigger.h"
#include "C2Protocol.h"
#include "io/validation.h"
#include "HeartbeatReporter.h"
#include "utils/Id.h"
#include "utils/MinifiConcurrentQueue.h"
#include "utils/ThreadPool.h"
#include "utils/file/FileSystem.h"

namespace org {
namespace apache {
namespace nifi {
namespace minifi {

namespace c2 {

/**
 * Purpose and Justification: C2 agent will be the mechanism that will abstract the protocol to do the work.
 *
 * The protocol represents a transformation layer into the objects seen in C2Payload. That transformation may
 * be minimal or extreme, depending on the protocol itself.
 *
 * Metrics Classes defined here:
 *
 *   0 HeartBeat --  RESERVED
 *   1-255 Defined by the configuration file.
 */
class C2Agent : public state::UpdateController {
 public:
  static constexpr const char* UPDATE_NAME = "C2UpdatePolicy";

  C2Agent(core::controller::ControllerServiceProvider *controller,
          state::Pausable *pause_handler,
          state::StateMonitor* updateSink,
          std::shared_ptr<Configure> configuration,
          std::shared_ptr<utils::file::FileSystem> filesystem,
          std::function<void()> request_restart);

  ~C2Agent() noexcept override {
    delete protocol_.load();
  }

  void start() override;

  void stop() override;

  /**
   * Sends the heartbeat to ths server. Will include metrics
   * in the payload if they exist.
   */
  void performHeartBeat();

  std::optional<std::string> fetchFlow(const std::string& uri) const;

 protected:
  /**
   * Check the collection of triggers for any updates that need to be handled.
   * This is an optional step
   */
  void checkTriggers();

  void configure(const std::shared_ptr<Configure> &configure, bool reconfigure = true);

  /**
   * Serializes metrics into a payload.
   * @parem parent_paylaod parent payload into which we insert the newly generated payload.
   * @param name name of this metric
   * @param metrics metrics to include.
   */
  void serializeMetrics(C2Payload &metric_payload, const std::string &name, const std::vector<state::response::SerializedResponseNode> &metrics, bool is_container = false, bool is_collapsible = true);

  /**
   * Extract the payload
   * @param resp payload to be moved into the function.
   */
  void extractPayload(const C2Payload &resp);

  /**
   * Enqueues a C2 server response for us to evaluate and parse.
   */
  void enqueue_c2_server_response(C2Payload &&resp);

  /**
   * Enqueues a c2 payload for a response to the C2 server.
   */
  void enqueue_c2_response(C2Payload &&resp) {
    requests.enqueue(std::move(resp));
  }

  /**
   * Handles a C2 event requested by the server.
   * @param resp c2 server response.
   */
  virtual void handle_c2_server_response(const C2ContentResponse &resp);

  void handle_clear(const C2ContentResponse &resp);

  /**
   * Handles an update request
   * @param C2ContentResponse response
   */
  void handle_update(const C2ContentResponse &resp);

  /**
   * Handles a description request
   */
  void handle_describe(const C2ContentResponse &resp);

  enum class UpdateResult {
    NO_UPDATE,
    UPDATE_SUCCESSFUL,
    UPDATE_FAILED
  };
  /**
   * Updates a property
   */
  UpdateResult update_property(const std::string &property_name, const std::string &property_value,  PropertyChangeLifetime lifetime);

  void handle_transfer(const C2ContentResponse &resp);

  C2Payload bundleDebugInfo(std::map<std::string, std::unique_ptr<io::InputStream>>& files);

  /**
   * Creates configuration options C2 payload for response
   */
  C2Payload prepareConfigurationOptions(const C2ContentResponse &resp) const;

 private:
  utils::TaskRescheduleInfo produce();
  utils::TaskRescheduleInfo consume();

  bool handleConfigurationUpdate(const C2ContentResponse &resp);
  void handlePropertyUpdate(const C2ContentResponse &resp);
  void handleAssetUpdate(const C2ContentResponse &resp);

  std::optional<std::string> resolveFlowUrl(const std::string& url) const;

  std::optional<std::string> resolveUrl(const std::string& url) const;

 protected:
  std::timed_mutex metrics_mutex_;
  std::map<std::string, std::shared_ptr<state::response::ResponseNode>> metrics_map_;

  /**
   * Device information stored in the metrics format
   */
  std::map<std::string, std::shared_ptr<state::response::ResponseNode>> root_response_nodes_;

  /**
   * Device information stored in the metrics format
   */
  std::map<std::string, std::shared_ptr<state::response::ResponseNode>> device_information_;

  // responses for the the C2 agent.
  utils::ConcurrentQueue<C2Payload> responses;

  // requests that originate from the C2 server.
  utils::ConcurrentQueue<C2Payload> requests;

  // heart beat period.
  std::chrono::milliseconds heart_beat_period_;

  // maximum number of queued messages to send to the c2 server
  size_t max_c2_responses;

  // time point the last time we performed a heartbeat.
  std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point last_run_;

  // function that performs the heartbeat
  std::function<utils::TaskRescheduleInfo()> c2_producer_;

  // reference to the update sink, against which we will execute updates.
  state::StateMonitor* update_sink_;

  // functions that will be used for the udpate controller.
  std::vector<std::function<utils::TaskRescheduleInfo()>> functions_;

  std::shared_ptr<controllers::UpdatePolicyControllerService> update_service_;

  // controller service provider reference.
  core::controller::ControllerServiceProvider* controller_;

  state::Pausable* pause_handler_;

  // shared pointer to the configuration of this agent
  std::shared_ptr<Configure> configuration_;

  std::shared_ptr<utils::file::FileSystem> filesystem_;

  std::mutex heartbeat_mutex;

  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<HeartbeatReporter>> heartbeat_protocols_;

  std::vector<std::unique_ptr<C2Trigger>> triggers_;

  std::atomic<C2Protocol*> protocol_;

  std::shared_ptr<core::logging::Logger> logger_ = core::logging::LoggerFactory<C2Agent>::getLogger();

  utils::ThreadPool<utils::TaskRescheduleInfo> thread_pool_;

  std::vector<utils::Identifier> task_ids_;

  bool manifest_sent_;

  const uint64_t C2RESPONSE_POLL_MS = 100;

  std::atomic<bool> restart_needed_ = false;
  std::function<void()> request_restart_;
};

}  // namespace c2
}  // namespace minifi
}  // namespace nifi
}  // namespace apache
}  // namespace org