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UK Renal Registry 11th Annual Report : Chapter 4 ESRD prevalent rates in 2007 in the UK : national and centre-specific analyses
Farrington, Ken
Hodsman, A.
Casula, A.
Ansell, D.
Feehally, J.
Introduction: This chapter describes the demographics of UK RRT patients in 2007. Methods: Complete data were electronically collected from 71 UK centres with the remaining 1 centre submitting summary data. A series of crosssectional and longitudinal analyses were performed to describe the demographics of prevalent UK RRT patients in 2007 at a centre and a national level. Results: There were 45,484 adult patients receiving RRT on 31/12/2007. The population prevalence for adults was 746 per million population per year (pmp) with an annual increase in prevalence of approximately 5% per annum. There was substantial variation in standardised prevalence ratios between Primary Care Trust (PCT)/Health Authority (HA) areas which were associated with geographical factors and differences in ethnicity with mean standardised prevalence ratios (SPR) significantly higher in PCTs/HAs with a high proportion of ethnic minorities. The median age of prevalent RRT patients was 57 years (HD 65 years, PD 60 years, transplant 50 years). Median RRT vintage was 5.3 years (HD 2.8 years, PD 2.1 years, transplant 10.4 years). For all ages, crude prevalence rates in males exceeded those in females, peaking in the 75–79 year age band for males at 2,506 pmp and in females in the 70–74 year age band at 1,314 pmp. The most common identifiable diagnosis was glomerulonephritis (15.3%) but in those over 65 it was diabetes (15.1%). The most common treatment modality was transplantation (46.6%), closely followed by centrebased HD (42.1%) in either the primary centre (25.2%) or the satellite unit (16.9%). The HD population has continued to expand, and the PD population to contract. HD was increasingly prominent with increasing age at the expense of transplantation. Conclusions: There were national, area and dialysis centre level variation in the prevalent UK RRT population. This has implications for service planning and ensuring equity of care for RRT patients.
Nephron Clinical Practice


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You've been on a spiritual path for a while but still feel stuck and frustrated, at a standstill.
You're unsure how you can walk your path and fulfil your potential living a life of greater meaning.
You're looking for real freedom, greater perspective and guidance from your inner wisdom.
But you can't hear your inner voice.
They want clarity on their life situations so they can make decisions on the next steps that'll lead to a life of fulfilment and greater meaning.
This is the story of my path. Hunker down, it's a long one.
In my late teens, a friend introduced me to Darwin's theory of biological evolution. Coming from a Catholic school education and background I'd been told that humanity evolved from Adam and Eve.
In short, my mind was blown.
Realise that this was the early 1990s when not many people were online or had computers and if they did probably just played Pacman. Information just wasn't as easily available and social circles were often limited.
My friend introduced me to other mind blowing ideas and experiences; some of those substances and most of those illegal- depending on where you live.
I continued my mind expanding activities when I went to the UK for University and thought I'd be free from all the restrictions in my life and could do what I wanted to do.
As I made my way through a series of psychedelics, in my fervour to explore alternate realities and altered states of consciousness, I forgot to go to University.
In an overzealous attempt to open the doors of perception a la Aldous Huxley, I decided I would take psychedelics in what would best be described- using the words of Terence Mckenna- as a 'heroic dose'.
I wandered the streets of London in a dazed state going from friend to friend desperately seeking release from the torment of my constricted staccato feelings and crazy making thoughts.
It felt like there was someone watching and judging me in my mind and everywhere I went; an intrapersonal big brother that influenced the people around me. I was sure I was being mocked by friends, loved ones, even strangers on the London tube and through newspaper articles or TV shows. There was a plot to show me just what a bad person I was.
They were all directing one repeating message in various ways… who does she think she is? She deserves to be in the state she's in. She's made wrong selfish choices and this is what comes when you just think about yourself and are irresponsible.
I finally succeeded in blowing my mind completely.
Interestingly this was preceded by an incident of knowing a friend of mine had been arrested before anybody actually told me. In my twisted mind, because I'd known it, I was sure I'd caused it. I also had visions and insight into an underlying layer of awareness and existence where everything originated from a single source and was one.
Eventually, I made my way to my cousin's house to await the arrival of my family who'd decided to fly over to take me to get help at The Priory, a private mental health facility.
Disoriented, utterly defeated and out of options, I opened up cautiously to the man we consulted with at The Priory after he'd politely escorted my family out of the room so he could speak to me one to one. His manner was so disarmingly kind that it made me feel safe and reassured about the care I'd receive. I agreed to begin their in-house drug and alcohol treatment programme.
As my condition was deemed a result of the substances I'd taken, I was referred to this treatment unit instead of the sectioned wing of the hospital- where I might've been heavily sedated and the doctors would've focused on chemical imbalances in my body.
The programme I entered was a 12 step recovery programme based on spiritual principles and psychotherapy. Maybe it would've been different had I not been so paranoid that I'd actually shared what was going on in my mind, but even in my state, I knew how crazy it would sound.
This was one of the many instances of grace that peppered my life and made me feel there was hope even in the darkest and most desperate of places.
It also marked the beginning of a journey of redemption and awakening.
In this exclusive private hospital, I went through treatment with an actor, a very handsome successful musician, two Catholic priests and an eclectic mix of mostly upper-middle-class Londoners.
Being foreign and the youngest by far, I felt lost and out of place most of the time. I wished I was mute so I didn't need to talk. I really just wanted to be someone else, anyone else. I couldn't come to terms with how I'd lost control of myself and my life in such a public way that my family had to intervene to help me.
I hated myself and my life.
But I was relieved to be getting help.
At the end of six weeks, I didn't know where else to go to and was recommended to continue treatment at a halfway house on the South-West coast of England. The sandy beaches there and an Indian summer helped me to take this next step.
I stayed at the halfway house for a year and gained more insight into how our childhoods and life experiences mould us. I realised that being molested by an extended family member had led to my life going off the rails very slowly but surely and suicidal thoughts since the age of 12. I felt there must be something wrong with me and so ashamed about this secret that it tore away at the fabric of my relationships.
Psychedelic is a word that derives from the Greek words psychē which means mind and dēloun which means to make visible or reveal. Psychedelics have been shown to act on the brain in a way to improve communication pathways and reveal our subconscious minds through expanded inner and external visual perceptions. In short, they can give you a torturous or blissful experience, depending on what is happening inside you at the time.
What was inside of me when I first encountered psychedelics was self-hatred and deep shame along with the survival instinct of a lemming. This triggered an excruciating experience of a world that despised me and broke down my every last defence.
In the halfway house and 12 step meetings I attended, I met heroin and crack cocaine addicts who'd resorted to prostitution and crime to feed their habits. Hearing their life stories made it clear to me how universal trauma was in these communities.
I began to see how the pain of abuse and neglect is inextricably linked with drug use, alcoholism and mental health. The more severe and repeated the abuse, pain and neglect, the greater the devastation.
Toward the end of my time at the halfway house, we were encouraged to take on voluntary work to help us assimilate back into normal civilian life. I decided that I'd volunteer at an HIV charity.
At the charity, I met a shiatsu therapist and Reiki healer who both exuded an uncommon aliveness and passion for their work.
I knew I had to find out more.
Eventually, I figured if I learnt to help others like they did, I'd not only be doing work that was meaningful but also learning to help myself.
Around the same time. I met two yogis who were teaching yoga and meditation in a way that created a state of deep relaxation and inner calm I'd never experienced before.
Instead of going back to University, I decided to spend a year learning yoga and meditation with them. The yogis taught me about discipline and dedication to the path of awakening.
I worked with flower essences, aromatherapy, herbalism and natural remedies when I took on a job as a Natural Health Consultant to help pay the bills as I trained.
I completed yoga teacher training, attained certificates in Reiki I and II, diplomas in Zen Shiatsu (Devon School of Shiatsu) and Psycho-Spiritual counselling (Sacred Space Institute of Counselling and Psychotherapy).
My life took on new meaning when I combined my training and experience to offer Shiatsu Healing treatments.
I finally felt on course.
To further deepen my personal journey, I travelled to South America to encounter the sacred mysteries of the Kogi and Lakota shamanic paths by assisting in sweat lodges and plant medicine ceremonies.
Initially, I was terrified of triggering my experiences of the past and only went because I'd read that plant medicines could give you a direct experience of spiritual dimensions in a more balanced way to synthetic psychedelics. Though I'd been reading spiritual books voraciously and attending courses, I felt little depth of understanding and experience of the principles… so off to Brazil and Colombia I went.
That was another kind of mind blowing experience of oneness but this time being more mature, stable, having a clear intention and being in a sacred ceremony, my experiences brought restoration and evoked a sense of awe.
I saw how we're an infinitesimal part of a boundless existence yet by being a part of it, we're also boundless and infinite; nothing and everything.
In 2010, I noticed many of my clients were coming back to me for years because their issues and ailments were recurring. I found myself telling them the same things over and over again.
I realised they'd been coming to me to fix their bodies and wanted to feel better about their lives without making any inner changes or addressing underlying personal issues.
In an effort to find new tools to help my clients, I decided on life coach training with Dr Martha Beck. What I'd learnt from reading her books and doing the exercises in them had effectively supported me in creating this new freer life I was living. Also, she was referred to as "the best-known life coach in America" by USA Today and Psychology Today.
By George, I think I got it.
I certified as a life and master coach with the Martha Beck Institute in 2011 and 2014 respectively.
When I started coaching clients, I knew I'd found the work I was meant to do.
The clients who came for coaching wanted to make changes and were willing to take ownership of their lives. When we worked together they got meaningful results and immediate traction, both internally and externally.
But I was still on my own journey of unwinding from self-sabotage and old habits of being drawn to difficult life experiences and hurtful relationships that were familiar to me.
In 2012, I rebooted my meditation practice and appreciation of Buddhist dharma teachings at a two-week silent meditation retreat in a forest monastery in Taiping, Malaysia.
My experience of exploring inner realities and altering my consciousness through meditation brought with it clarity and peace of mind amidst the then chaos of my heart.
It dawned on me during that retreat that life is often messy and hard. Others can and do hurt us and we stumble, time and time again, but that doesn't have to inform our future or mean anything about our worth. In fact, if anything, it likely means that we feel things deeply and are brave enough to walk less travelled paths, facing our struggles head on instead of ignoring or suppressing them.
This realisation saved me because it helped me make life choices based on truth and faith, not fear or the need to fit in. Sometimes making the easy, safe choices is based on past conditioning or wanting to fulfil the expectations of others. Those decisions can subtly stifle and suffocate us because they're not what we truly want in our hearts.
I never did go back to normal civilian life.
Instead, I created a life on my own terms and it freed me.
I wake up every day knowing the purpose of my life and why I'm alive because I've learnt how to increasingly embody the path I consciously began when I was 20.
In 2014 I began a meditation practice group with a friend. Other people joined us who were completely new to meditation which led to me guiding them and unintentionally becoming a meditation teacher.
This prompted me to attend 10-day silent Vipassana retreat in 2015 so I could develop my practice further and be a better teacher.
Meditation is an integral part of my life and spiritual practice.
In the last two decades, I've walked the path of awakening as faithfully as I could and had the great fortune to meet and study with masters of oriental healing, counselling, coaching and leaders in the field of human potential.
They taught me what it actually takes to create and sustain peace, mindfulness and meaning in your life, career and relationships.
I paid close attention, faithfully practised and honed what I learnt with hundreds of clients, teaching them to connect with their inner wisdom and live from the heart.
After coaching with me, my clients consistently report feeling more calm, confident and experiencing significant advancement in their careers as well as improvements in their relationships.
If you feel called to live on purpose and are committed to taking action to make it into a reality, I have tried and tested tools that'll help you gain insight and purpose so you feel calm, content and at peace with yourself and in your life.
You'll have to walk your own path, but I'd be honoured to walk alongside you for a while.
Besides my one to one consultations, I speak publicly and have been featured at the Heart, Mind and Body Festival, interviewed by Connected Women, on WKRZ 91.3, 93.8 Live, Razor TV and Primetime Morning on Channel News Asia.
You can find my articles in iCoach magazine, Soulscape, Elephant Journal and What Therapy.
Michelle has great knowledge and is able to determine the individual abilities and needs of her clients. Her pleasant and positive attitude is a great asset to her willingness to work with clients at their own level. She instills confidence and encouragement to make you want to work further and apply her methodologies diligently.
'Yours is a pure and simple guidance to self improvement sans the commercial trappings. You don't create a dependency for people to latch upon your services. You are genuine about the fact that change/growth takes work and may involve discomfort. You're not some quick-fix motivator and you are honest with your clients about this. You are personable but don't take nonsense.


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Can My Boss Keep My Tips? A New Trump Administration Rule Could Make Service Pay Way Worse
By Virginia Chamlee
Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Workers who earn tips already face an uphill battle: relying on customers to supplement their hourly pay, which is often less than minimum wage. A new rule implemented by the Trump administration would make life even more challenging. Not only does the rule allow restaurants to pool tips, the Department of Labor rule would let employers keep servers' tips.
The rule was proposed by the Department of Labor on Dec. 5 and, at face value, seems like a fairly straightforward way to enable tip-sharing. Restaurants would be able to pool tips, so they could be split among servers, dish-washers, and cooks. But, as written, the rule doesn't require that employers distribute those pooled tips to workers at all. In fact, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, the rule would allow employers to legally pocket those tips.
According to the report, tip stealing (wherein employers pocket the tips of their workers) is already a problem, and it's currently illegal. A 2009 study found that 12 percent of workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York have had their tips stolen by a supervisor. Legalizing the practice would likely exacerbate the problem in an industry in which many workers face financial struggles as it is.
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that, were the rule to go into effect as written, "employers would pocket $6.1 billion in tips earned by tipped workers each year" — nearly 17 percent of the estimated $36.4 billion in tips earned by workers each year.
Currently, the American federal government requires a cash wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees who receive at least $30 per month in tips. If wages and tips do not equal the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour during any week, employers must increase the worker's wages to compensate.
In the restaurant industry, there have been increasing calls to do away with the tipped wage altogether, as research has found it's unfair to women and people of color. According to a report by the Restaurant Opportunities Center United, 52 percent of all restaurant workers are women, but 66 percent of all tipped workers are women, meaning the lower minimum wage for tipped workers paves the way for "legalized gender inequity in the restaurant industry." Studies have also found that, in tip-based systems, nonwhite servers make less than their white peers for the same jobs.
Working for tips means that women are also often subject to sexual harassment in order to make a living. In other words, the workplace environment is already difficult enough for tipped employees — legalizing tip-stealing likely won't make things easier for workers.
While campaigning for president, Trump often promised that he would work for "the forgotten American worker" and would "bring jobs back and bring wages up." Already, the backlash to the proposed tipping rule has been swift, with critics saying the process by which the Department is aiming to pass the rule is "undemocratic and underhanded."
In a statement, the Department of Labor defended the rule, saying it would create more "freedom to allow sharing of tips among more employees" and "help decrease wage disparities between tipped and non-tipped workers."
But if employers were legally protected from giving workers fewer tips, those workers could find themselves at a considerable disadvantage. According to a 2014 report by the U.S. Department of Labor, servers are nearly three times as likely to experience poverty as other workers. A separate report, by the Economic Policy Institute, found that tipped workers rely on welfare programs at significantly higher rates than their non-tipped counterparts.

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Africa hamstrung by deadly flood of fake medicine
HealthJanuary 15, 2020
After he was struck down by malaria and typhoid, Togolese tailor Ayawo Hievi thought he was set to recover when he started taking drugs prescribed by his doctor.
But far from curing him, the medication he was given at the neighbourhood clinic made him far worse – eventually costing him one of his kidneys.
The drugs were fake.
"After four days of care, there was no improvement, but I started to feel pain in my belly," Hievi, 52, told AFP.
After two weeks of suffering he became unable to walk and was rushed into the university hospital in the West African nation's capital Lome.
"The doctors told me that my kidneys had been damaged… the quinine and the antibiotics used to treat me in the medical office were fake drugs."
Now, over four years later, he remains crippled by chronic kidney failure and has to go to hospital for dialysis regularly.
Weak legislation, poor healthcare systems
Hievi's horror story is far from unique in a continent awash with counterfeit medicines.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year some 100 000 people across Africa die from taking "falsified or substandard" medication.
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene estimated in 2015 that 122 000 children under five died due to taking poor quality anti-malaria drugs in sub-Saharan Africa.
Weak legislation, poor healthcare systems and widespread poverty have encouraged the growth of this parallel – and deadly – market.
Long story short, since 2013, Africa has made up 42% of the fake medicine seized worldwide.
The two drugs most likely to be out-of-date or poor, ineffective copies are antibiotics and anti-malarials, say experts.
And bogus drugs not only pose a risk to the patient – they also play a worrying part in building resistance to vital frontline medications.
Difficult to trace origin
In a bid to tackle the scourge, presidents from seven countries – the Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Uganda – meet Friday in Lome to sign an agreement for criminalising trafficking in fake drugs.
But even if leaders put pen to paper, the task of stamping out the flows of counterfeit medication is huge.
Medicines spread out on plastic sheets or offered at ramshackle stalls are for sale at markets across West Africa.
"It is very difficult to trace where the fake medicines come from," said Dr Innocent Kounde Kpeto, the president of Togo's pharmacist association.
"The countries which are mentioned on the boxes are often not the countries of origin or manufacture of these drugs. The manufacturers cover their tracks so as not to be identified".
It is estimated that between 30 and 60% of medicine sold in Africa is fake and Kpeto said most of it comes from China or India.
In mid-November, the police in Ivory Coast made a record seizure of 200 tonnes in Abidjan and arrested four suspects including a Chinese national.
Togo is one of the pioneer countries trying to stop the flow.
It changed the law in 2015 and now traffickers can face 20 years in jail and a fine of some $85 000.
In a show of force in July the authorities burnt over 67 tonnes of counterfeit pharmaceuticals discovered between Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with a market of 200 million people, is the number one destination on the continent for fake drugs and a showcase of difficulties being faced.
In September 2016 the World Customs Organization seized tens of millions of fake pills and medicines at 16 ports around Africa: 35% were intended for Nigeria.
'People die for nothing'
Across the vast nation there are tens of thousands of vendors selling the counterfeits.
Competition between traffickers is fierce and the official agency meant to combat the problem is overwhelmed.
In a bid to improve the situation, Vivian Nwakah founded in 2017 start-up Medsaf and raised $1.4m to help Nigerians track their medication from producer to user.
Medsaf works to ensure the quality control of thousands of products at over 130 hospitals and pharmacies in Nigeria. It looks forward to expanding deeper into Nigeria as well as Ivory Coast and Senegal.
The company uses technology, database management and analytics to monitor the movement of medications and verifies their official registration number, the expiry dates and storage conditions.
"Technology we use can help to solve most of the issues related to fake drugs," Nwakah said.
"People die for nothing. We can change that."
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Discussion in 'Switch - Emulation, Homebrew & Software Projects' started by seanrhodes05, Aug 4, 2018.
I was wondering the fastest way to drain your battery I need it to drain so I can callibrate the battery.
Then search for it. No one is going to help you after being so demanding.
Ok sorry will do. +plus that gbatemp member is a spy!
There is a battery calibrate for joy cons? My left joy cons battery weird.
For the love of all that is holy, don't "recalibrate" lithium batteries, there's a protection circuit in the unit already that keeps the cell within healthy parameters. If you feel that the battery reading is incorrect, run the it down by just turning a low-spec game on and keep running it until the system fully shuts down, then fully charge the system with an appropriate charger, preferably the stock one - that's all the calibration the system "needs", and you should avoid doing it unnecessarily as you're cycling the cell for no reason. You're not doing a lithium cell any good by draining it artificially, the safety circuit will shut it off when it's empty, but there's quiescent current to account for. Ideally you shouldn't keep your console discharged at any point.
They aren't discharging the cell, the payload runs code to tell the battery ic to soft disconnect the battery, otherwise the OP needs to open his switch and disconnect the battery terminals and then plug it back in.
If your trying to resynchronize the battery there is an option for that in hekate. Just draining it will do nothing.


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The PH Chronicles December 15, 2021
This post from Rosario, La Union Government has gone viral, as of this writing this has already garnered 157K likes, 8.6K comments and 17K shares.
For our readers, we are quoting the said in full:
Spain dominated the Philippines for 333 years. For 48 years, Americans conquered the nation, and for 3-4 years, Filipinos were under Japanese control. There are numerous human rights violations, extortions, and other crimes against humanity committed to the country and the Filipino people.
Filipinos' response: "We must forgive them and live peacefully in a borderless world."
The same hypocrites who cannot forgive Pres. Ferdinand Emmanuel E. Marcos despite the dismissed cases and charges against him due to lack of evidence.
We should remember that President FEM and Mrs. Marcos were charged with almost 1000 civil and criminal proceedings in New York, branded the "Trial of the Century," but they WON because they defended the truth by presenting 350,000 pieces of evidence and 95 witnesses.
This is supposed to be a CASE CLOSED, but because the Liberal Party is so desperate for power, they continue to condemn the Marcos family via all possible means, such as media, publications, and so on.
As a result of defeat, exile, and death, the father's voices were muffled. The wave of rage and vengeance had washed away the significance of his victories. History written from the perspective of the victors reinforced the unpleasant and difficult features of his rule in the popular perception.
In 2022, the son will soon rectify the history that Cory Aquino (an inexperienced widow) and her minions in the Liberal Party rewrote in order to advance their propaganda . The son will soon rise above all forces to tell the world that his father is the reason why the Philippines has become a solidly built house. That after WWII, we have anything (infrastructures, systems, etc.) that has surpassed the achievements of POST-EDSA presidents.
Bongbong Marcos together with Mayor Inday Sara Duterte will soon be labeled as one of the best Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Philippines.
The #UniTeam2022 will soon be declared triumphant if us supporters do not allow fraud, such as that seen in the 2016 VP elections, to occur again. Let us work together to combat the bad influences emanating from pinklawans who do nothing in the nation but promote their dimwitted thinking and unjustified whinings on social media in support of their best bet, the queen of all photoshoots, VP Leni Robredo.
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In From Me to We personal and social systems change expert Bob Doppelt reveals that most people today live a dream world, controlled by false perceptions and beliefs. The most deeply held illusion is that all organisms on Earth, including each of us, exist as independent entities. At the most fundamental level, the change needed to overcome our misperceptions is a shift from focusing only on 'me' – our personal and organizational wants and desires – to meeting our needs by always prioritizing the broader 'we' – the many ecological and social systems each of us are part of that make life possible and worthwhile. Research shows that by using the techniques described in this book this shift is possible and not that difficult to achieve.
From Me to We offers five 'commitments' that can help you change your perspective and engage in activities that resolve today's environmental and social problems. Not coincidentally, making the commitments can improve the quality of your life as well.
From Me to We can be purchased directly from the publisher at greenleaf-publishing.com, from amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and through all major booksellers.
Watch Bob talk about the need to build social resilience at the Garrison Institute in 2013.
Listen to Bob Doppelt's talk with the Berkeley Insight Meditation Community's Sangha on February 7, 2013, about the Buddhist Dharma principles involved with the shift "From Me to We".
Watch Bob Doppelt present "From Me to We: How to Rescue the Planet" at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability.
Hear Bob Doppelt talk with Tropical Current's Joseph Cooper on WLRN: Public Media for South Florida about the importance of "laws of interdependence, cause and effect, moral justice, trusteeship, and free will."
Listen to an interview with Bob Doppelt on the EcoCentric radio talk show (March 20, 2012).
The future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, government and everyday life.
This revolutionary book tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind.
It provides proven "staged-based" methods for transforming thinking and behavior, beginning with the reader's own cognitive patterns, then moving to how individuals can motivate other people to change, and finally to how teams and organizations can be motivated to change.
A growing stream of research shows that the adoption of environmental and socially sustainable technologies and practices are, at a minimum, cost neutral and often save private companies and public agencies substantial sums of money while increasing market share, reducing risk, increasing employee productivity and stakeholder commitment. It is no surprise then that an increasing number of organizations have embraced the idea of sustainability in the last decade. However, despite lengthy discussions about what to do and which new technologies and policy instruments to implement, many of their initiatives have failed, leading to wasted resources, frustration, and cynicism.
Based on Bob Doppelt's three years of research on both private and public organizations in the U.S. and Europe, LEADING CHANGE TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY:A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government, and Civil Society (Greenleaf Publishing, October 2003) is an easily readable book on how to transform organizations to successfully embrace sustainable development programs. Crammed with recommendations, case examples, interviews, and checklists, Doppelt demystifies the sustainability-change process by providing a theoretical framework and a methodology that senior executives, agency directors, low and mid-level staff, and community leaders will be able to use to craft and implement a practical, achievable, and inspiring plan to set their organizations on a path toward sustainability.
According to Doppelt, implementing sustainable business practices is about much more than the technical, financial, or political—it's about the human factors. Doppelt found that the key missing ingredient in the adoption of sustainability measures is organizational and cultural change. Sustainability measures require a paradigm shift from the traditional linear "take-make-waste" economic model to a circular "borrow-use-return" system. The shift in production model requires a transition from a mechanical, patriarchal management style to an integrated, whole systems approach to management. These fundamental changes in operations and organizational design often require substantial changes in culture. Doppelt found that in most organizations achieving culture change toward sustainability requires interventions in two key areas— governance systems must be altered and exemplary leadership must be provided.
"Few of today's laws or policies address the interactions among the elements and processes of ecosystems or the interrelationships between ecology, commerce, communities and culture," writes Doppelt. LEADING CHANGE TO SUSTAINABILITY is an important tool in understanding what is sure to become a more urgent problem in the 21st century.


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Q: What makes be intransitive? How to tell one meaning from the other? The STATEMENT MADE BY NATIVES:

be is not transitive, that's why "Whom can he be?" and "Who can be
him?" are wrong.

If it's true, why is this correct?

I don't want to be him.

My first language is not English and the two makes perfect sense in my language and mean different things.

1 Who can be him?  = (Who is able among all these people to be him?)
2 Whom can he be? = (Which person (whom) of all these people is he
able to be?)

Do you confirm that 1 and 2 are wrong? If you do confirm that, then we are left with these:

Who can be he? – who is the subject. (Who can be Jack?)
Who can he be? – he is the subject (Who can Jack be?)

Do you agree that the difference in meaning should be conveyed through the word order if the objective case of pronouns is not allowed to be used?

A: Let's be clear about one thing.  Latin and Greek are strongly inflected languages.  Their nouns and adjectives have different forms not just for plural and singular, but for the roles of subject (nominative), addressee (vocative), possession/origin (genitive); interest (dative); and agent/cause/source/origin (ablative -) Latin only (represented by genitive in Greek.  Most of these have disappeared from most modern European languages (except Latin, preserved in the aspic of the Vatican).  In English, some pronouns inflect slightly, and the usage has loosened in my lifetime.  Even now it has not stabilised.
The reason why you find inconsistency is that language, as ever, is evolving through the reproductive process of usage.  Just like cell division, so with words, mistakes get made.  Some of these do not matter and so can carry on, others die out.  That process is accelerating.  This is because the English language is no longer a function of the forces of the church, school, university and editing.  Now just about anyone can 'publish', and in the process conversational language enters the written language.
So now my answer "It is I" your "who's there" sounds foolish or snobbish.  The so called nominatives, 'I/he/she' look weird anywhere but immediately in front of a verb.  Why?  Because nobody uses it anywhere else.  'Whom' seems to be moribund except after a preposition.  Even there, the growing preference for delayed prepositions may well be an instinctive 'whom'-avoidance mechanism.
All this is happening while governments (especially the British one) are pressing teachers to put the language back into some kind of regulated grammar box.
It makes like particularly hard for learners of English as a foreign  language, because of the ubiquity of exceptions and special cases .  But to our shame they manage far better with our rebellious tongue than we do with theirs.

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The STATEMENT MADE BY NATIVES:

Be is not transitive.

This part is correct. Be is certainly not a transitive verb; be is an auxiliary verb.

that's why "Whom can he be?" and "Who can be him?" are wrong.

This may be a statement made by some natives, but it's wrong. And not all natives say it. So forget that part. And ignore those failed examples. They're wrong to start with, and don't exemplify anything.
So, the reason why I don't want to be him is correct is not because be is transitive, but rather because him is the basic form of the 3rd person singular masculine pronoun. This may be surprising; many people have been told that he is the pronoun and him is for objects only. This is no longer true, if it ever was.
He is a special form used only for subjects of tensed clauses; any other (non-possessive) use gets him (similar remarks for the pronoun pairs me/I, her/she, us/we, and them/they). These used to be case-form variants, like German pronouns, but unlike German, English doesn't have cases for nouns at all, and they've pretty much disappeared in English pronouns, too.
That's why Him and me are gonna go together is a normal thing to say. Neither I nor he is really comfortable in a conjoined NP, so me and him pop up naturally. Similarly, when a pronoun is a predicate nominal, you get him, as in I wouldn't want to be him.
Of the examples given, neither (1) nor (2) are correct; (2) is ungrammatical, and (1) doesn't make sense unless the predicate be him is taken metaphorically, to refer (for instance) to an actor playing some historic figure:

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*What about Hitler? Who can be him?
The rest of the question is unclear; it makes too many assumptions.

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Singapore will form a consortium of universities and research institutions to deepen its expertise in data science and analytics, as part of its efforts to become the world's first smart nation.
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NRF CEO Low Teck Seng said the consortium would bring together public agencies, data scientists and companies in the data science ecosystem to tap into knowledge generated by NRF's research efforts. "It is through this synergy that we create solutions that have direct relevance to meeting industry needs or in addressing our national challenges," he said.
Separately, the NRF is also investing up to S$150m (US$107m) over five years in a national programme called AI.SG to enhance adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), not only to solve business problems, but also to address major challenges that affect society and industry, such as greater healthcare demands from Singapore's rapidly ageing population.
The Singapore government is pitching to make the city state a centre for the development of smart city and internet of things technology.
Singapore government merges its ICT and media agencies in recognition of their overlapping responsibilities.
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Paris was really lively and open and it was very easy to meet people, and I talked about the jigsaw puzzle work a lot, but I never told [André] Breton about them. I was much too shy. I didn't tell any of those guys about my jigsaws. You know, frankly, very few people paid any attention to what I was doing at that time. I was a) young, and b) a woman.
On 26 September 2018 I visited the artist Liliane Lijn in her studio in north London. The purpose of the visit was to interview Liliane about some enigmatic and tantalising lost early works that she made in Paris between November 1958 and March 1959.
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I love this. Kathy Acker's novel Don Quixote as the lead title in the launch list of one time Collins imprint Paladin's new mass-market paperback fiction list.
This ad was on the Guardian newspaper's book page (singular, as it was then) of 1 May 1986.
There's also a great review by Robert Nye of Michael Moorcock's novel The City in the Autumn Stars that week – see larger image below.
I've posted the image before, but it would have been Acker's birthday yesterday (18 April), so I'm posting it here again in honour of that.
The ad turned up while I was researching my 2012 Chernobyl novella Dicky Star and the Garden Rule in the British Library's newspaper collection in the old reading rooms at Colindale, north London. Dicky Star (for short) was written using a mandated vocabulary so turned out to be a test piece for The Fountain in the Forest.
Both a thrilling crime mystery and a dizzyingly unique novel of unparalleled ambition.
When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a Covent Garden theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. But as Rex explores the crime scene further, he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead. Who, more importantly, is Rex King?
Moving from Holborn Police Station, to an abandoned village in rural 1980s France, and the Battle of the Beanfield at Stonehenge, The Fountain in the Forest explores a decisive moment in recent British social history through the lens of the French Revolutionary Calendar and reveals something extraordinary, in a profound yet playful meditation on liberty.
A perfect, bright London afternoon in February saw me leading what I was calling 'a one-off repeat performance' of The Fountain in the Forest guided walk, in aid of the Resonance FM fundraiser 2019. The walk took in locations from the novel, from Queen Square and the former offices of Faber and Faber, to Lamb's Conduit Street and the historic Holborn Library, via the Great Ormond Street site of Wyndham Lewis's Rebel Art Centre of 1914. The walk was interspersed with readings from the novel, anecdotes, and local history.
We also tried to divine the exact location of Sir William Lamb's conduit, after which – of course – Lamb's Conduit Street is named. Lamb dammed the Fleet River and built a cistern from which open wooden pipes carried fresh water to Snow Hill in the City of London. Additionally, at or near the cistern itself was a pump or fountain from which local households could draw water. Lamb supplied 120 buckets to local women for this purpose.
A map of 1752 shows the exact location of this fountain, a few feet north of the stable yard passage, between two buildings that once fronted onto Lamb's Conduit Street itself. Those particular buildings are long gone, but the passage remains. I was stunned to discover that this is now the site of the popular and bustling Italian restaurant Ciao Bella!, so it is still a celebrated watering hole and gathering place, and the site of many a Faber dinner. Astonishing!
Since Friday, a number of people have got in touch to ask if or when I'll be doing the walk again. And I would love to do so if possible, so watch this space. As ever, if you'd like to be notified of any future walks or other gigs, do please sign up to receive invites to my launches and events.
Thank you to Bronac Ferran for sending through these great photos.
Last summer, The Culture Capital Exchange commissioned me to devise a guided walk of Holborn locations featured in my novel The Fountain in the Forest. The walk – for about a dozen participants – was part of the programme for 'Refresh, Reboot, Retool: new imaginaries for challenging times', TCCE's summer symposium 2018 at the historic Art Workers' Guild on Queen Square.
Now I'm going to be doing the guided walk again on 15 February from 3–5pm, with all proceeds going to trail-blazing London arts radio station Resonance FM's annual fundraiser 2019.
Join me, starting at the memorial to the Zeppelin attack of 1915 in Queen Square (and probably ending in a local pub). The walk takes in many of the landmarks of 'Rex King Country', including the site of Wyndham Lewis's Rebel Art Centre of 1914 on Great Ormond Street, Sid's (a.k.a. Conduit Coffee House) on Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn Police Station, and the celebrated fish and chip shop Fryer's Delight, interspersed with anecdote, local history, and readings from The Fountain in the Forest.
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On December 11, 2010 March 15, 2016 By Shaaban Fundi, Ph.D.In Environment
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Once Upon a Water Source
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30.11.09 – Musoma>Tanzania
She's tending to her shamba, her farm, the farm is still here, but…a little discoloured in places, some banana trees and pineapple plants have wilted, some are fruiting, but she can't eat them, or rather, she won't eat them.
Susanna Solomon, 55, is slim and shy mother of 12 from Nyangoto village, situated in the rural Tarime district on the eastern side of Lake Victoria. She has been farming here for a long time and continues to do so even though she can't use her produce.
"I was farming rice before," she said, "but I can't anymore because of the chemicals."
The area we're talking about was contaminated by a leakage from Barrick Gold's North Mara Mine in May this year.
In large sections the grass has completely died, and plants and some vegetation have off-coloured stalks. The stream running from the mine site (just 100 or so meters away) has a green moss covering it, there is no sign of insects, tadpoles or frogs, and some crystallised plants stick out of the water, as if frozen or covered by salt.
"I was advised not to eat the vegetables I'm growing," she said, "because you can be affected. I am still cultivating the land because otherwise I will lose it; so I am just here to hold the land.
"I am still waiting for compensation, but they haven't said anything about (it)."
Monitoring by Barrick at the time of the seepage detected pH levels of 4.8 in the Tigithe River, which is far too acidic for fish to live in, and far under Tanzanian drinking water standards.
According to the local community the contamination has caused surrounding crops and animals and fish to perish. Many villagers have also complained of health problems, such as skin irritations and stomach pains as a result of drinking and bathing in the water.
Although some 700-1000 heads of cattle have allegedly died since the incident occurred, no one was able to back the statement up with evidence. Barrick claim that the accident happened only as a result of villagers stealing the PVC lining from the leach ponds on several occasions, to use as roofing for houses and shops. However, in the areas I visited, the lining was not evident.
Walking along the path to the river are many people, mostly women and children going to collect water from the Tigithe; from upstream though.
"We have always collected water from here, we live nearby," says Esther Dustin, amongst 5 other women from the area. "Most people depend on the river for everything; for bathing, washing, drinking, and for cattle.
"We have been complaining about the water sine 2005, but this year was the worse. We have to use the water, because there is no other source, the Mara River is too far from here."
Many villagers have visited health centres in the region complaining of skin irritations due to bathing in the Tigithe River, the results of their tests have yet to materialise.
Chacha Ochibhota is young, he's 21 years old, he has a skin pigmentation covering his face, his eyes are bloodshot, he speaks quietly and moves slowly. His medical examination states that on the 1st of July, he claimed to 'have used acidic water, contaminated by the mining project – sustaining burns on the face…' Referring him to the Tarime District Hospital for further investigations.
"I started feeling the problems in May this year," he said. "I have a farm near the Tigithe River. When it was hot and sweaty I would bath in the water and wash my face and body to cool down.
"It felt different, when I tasted the water, it didn't taste normal, it was a salty taste, and it was the feeling of rubbing salt in wounds…
"I was referred to the district hospital, but because I had no money, I didn't go.
"For me," said Chacha, "I need only treatment, so I can do work. Now I can only lie in bed, or do soft work…"
The community state that Barrick are not compensating people fairly, if at all – and Barrick state that they are compensating people "handsomely".
Gerhard Hermann, the Production manager for NMGM Ltd. says "We compensate them for their land, for crops on their land and also for any structures.
"We pay as if their entire property was planted with bananas (even if it's not), we call that the 'full banana concept'."
No sick or displaced person appears to be taking direct action against Barrick.
"No one has laid any charges against us as far as I'm aware," said Hermann. "(Because)…they have to have a case, and the fact that they're not doing anything, makes you question if they really have a case or not."
Barrick were not able to replace the lining completely until August this year; due to manufacturer delays, meaning that between May and August acidic liquid was soaking into the earth and leaking out into the environment unstopped.
"This is where we want to dig a trench, so if we ever have breach of the liners again we can pick up the seepage in a nice deep liner here and then pump it back into the ponds," said Hermann
Currently, the water flowing from directly below the containment pond is at a pH level of about 4-4.5. Tanzanian drinking water standards are between 6.5 and 7.5.
According to Barrick, 10 meters downstream from where polluted water enters the river, the pH is back up to normal because of dilution.
Barrick claim to be operating on a zero-discharge policy, meaning that no water from the waste or leach ponds will enter into this environment. This process was explained to me while standing next to the leach pond looking up at the massive wall of the waste dump containing Potentially Acid Forming (PAF) material (sulphuric acid).
"Basically what it is, is an impervious layer, right at the bottom of high dense polyethylene plastic, 1mm thick, dense plastic, which the acid cannot penetrate through, we have a drainage system on top of that, and on top of that a waste dump.
"So any water percolating through the waste dump can only report to one place and that's the pond, when it hits that liner, it can't go anywhere else, the only place water from there can go from there is into the drainage pipe, and the only place those drainage pipes go to is a lined leach pond…once it reaches the leach-pond it is also completely contained."
Unless of course something breaches it, which is what is said to have happened.
"They are trying to put the blame on the community," said Chacha Wambura, the executive director of Foundation HELP, an NGO based 100 km away in the town of Musoma. Wambura has been working to expose environmental issues around the NMGM and running awareness-raising and capacity building campaigns for the national community.
"People are not cooperating because they want justice to be done.
"The community can be aggressive, but the company (and the government) are not trying to alleviate problems.
"The government are backing Barrick 100 percent, without knowing it they are fueling their own graves; because this water flows into the Mara River, and discharges into Lake Victoria, and so many animals and humans will be affected by that."
Foreign Aid is Fuelling Poverty.


Gautam is only in her second year at Geneseo, but already she's seen and experienced more culture than many people will in their entire lifetime.
Originally, Gautam said she was born in India, where she and her family lived until she was five, when they moved to Stockholm, Sweden. They stayed there until she was about 11, before moving again due to her father's engineering job - this time to Tokyo, Japan.
Despite the drastic moves, Gautam said she had a relatively stable education, studying at English-speaking schools in both countries and growing up with a supportive family.
Gautam said that the student body she was involved with was in constant influx, which made it difficult to keep in touch with old friends.
Of course, the schooling was only one of the differences between the cities. Gautam said she remembers the toughest cultural transition was from Stockholm to Tokyo.
"The cultures are very different," Gautam said. "Sweden is a very open country - they have a very laid-back culture, but Japanese culture is unlike any I've ever seen.
Surprisingly, although Gautam is well versed in four languages and she and her family have been based in Japan for the last eight years, none of them speak any Japanese.
Despite her language abilities and cultural prowess, however, Gautam consistently shrugs off her extraordinary background.
A sense of new beginning is one of the reasons Gautam said she came to Geneseo and why so many international students come to the United States in general.
In the coming years, as she begins to look for graduate schools, Gautam knows that she most likely won't stay around Western New York and said she expects to keep traveling in the future.


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DBU Pokalen 2013-14 er den 60. udgave af DBU Pokalen.

Deltagere
108 hold er med i DBU Pokalen. Alle divisionshold fra sæsonen 2012-13 er automatisk med i pokalturneringen, mens tilmeldte seriehold spiller kvalifikationskampe for at komme med.

Det seriehold fra sæsonen 2012-13 som når længst får 100.000 kr.

Første runde
I turneringens første runde er holdene opdelt i en vest- og øst pulje. I vestpuljen deltager 50 hold, der igen er opdelt i tre puljer, "Nord-puljen", "Midt-puljen" og "Syd/Fyn-puljen". Østpuljen består af 46 hold, der er opdelt i to puljer "Fyn/Sjælland/LF-puljen" og "Sjælland/København/Bornholm-puljen".

Kampene i første runde afvikles den 13. og 14. august 2013.

Kampe

Vest

Nord-puljen

Midt-puljen

Syd/Fyn-puljen

Øst

Fyn/Sjælland/LF-puljen

(Sjælland/København/Bornholm-puljen)

2. runde

3. runde
Tredje runde har deltagelse af de 28 vindere fra 2. runde samt de fire højest rangerede superligahold fra forrige sæson.

4. runde
Fjerde runde har deltagelse af de 16 vindere fra 3. runde.

Kvartfinaler
Kvartfinalerne har deltagelse af de 8 vindere fra 4. runde.

Semifinaler
Semifinalerne har deltagelse af de 4 vindere fra kvartfinalerne. De spilles over to kampe.

 26.03.2014 FC København – FC Nordsjælland, 1 – 0
 27.03.2014 AC Horsens – AaB,	1 – 3
 09.04.2014 AaB – AC Horsens, 2 – 1
 10.04.2014 FC Nordsjælland – FC København, 1 – 1

Finale

Kilder / eksterne henvisninger
 Dansk Boldspil-Union

Noter

Fodboldsæson 2013-14
2013-14

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Q: python bottle framework maximum recursion depth exceeded I am trying to add a path for my web app but for some reason maximum recursion depth error occurs
def runSQL(sql):
    db = sqlite3.connect('zadanie.db')
    c = db.cursor()
    c.execute(sql)
    data = c.fetchall()
    db.commit()
    c.close()
    return data

def Subjects():
    sql = "SELECT (here is my query)"
    data = runSQL(sql)
    return data

@app.route('/subjects')
def Subjects():
    sub = template('look4.html', rows=Subjects())
    return sub

I have tried to set recursion limit to higher number, but then error segmentation fault 11 occurs.
I would be grateful for any debugging suggestions :)

A: The problem is not with the recursion depth. As you can see you define two functions named Subject.
As a result Python will override the first one with the second. Now the second one has a call to (what you think is) the previous one. But since Subjects is overriden, it will redirect to that function again so:
@app.route('/subjects')
def Subjects():
    sub = template('look4.html', rows=Subjects())
    return sub
Will get stuck in infinite recursion. The solution is to simply rename one of the two (probably it is better to rename the first one), and change the call, like:
def subjects_query():
    sql = "SELECT (here is my query)"
    data = runSQL(sql)
    return data

@app.route('/subjects')
def subjects():
    sub = template('look4.html', rows=subjects_query())
    return sub
Also the convention is that functions in Python are lowercase with underscores, so you better rename the second one to subjects (like I have done here).


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Prof. Gussenhoven, C.H.M. (Carlos)
Prof. C.H.M. Gussenhoven (Carlos)
Professor emeritus - Centre for Language Studies
Research Fellow - Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Professor emeritus - Department of Language and Communication
Chair: General and Experimental Phonology
carlos.gussenhoven@ru.nl
Carlos Gussenhoven studies sound systems of languages and their functioning in the grammar. Setting out with a focus on English and Dutch, his current research has a wider, typological orientation. In addition to vowels and consonants, it concerns word stress as well as tones, of the word, as in tone languages, and of the sentence, i.e., intonation. He has contributed descriptions of a wide variety of languages spoken in different parts of the world, within a 'Laboratory Phonology' tradition, including Nigerian English, Yucatec Maya, Shiwilu, Shanghai Wu, Yuhuan Wu, Libyan Berber, and Nubi. His work on the integration of word tones and sentence tones began with analyses of a number of Limburgish dialects, notably those spoken in the cities of Venlo, Roermond and Maastricht.
Tags: intonation, phonetics/phonology, Limburgish, tone languages, phonology
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2015 - 2020 • 2015 - 2020 Composition of the Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, with 49 chapters written by 123 authors, with Aoju Chen (Utrecht). • 2000 – 2022. Spectral properties as a function of f0 in adjacent stressed voiceless fricatives in Zouarah Berber (Libya), with Wei-rong Chen (Haskins). • 2015-2025. Prosody in the lab: (i) question intonation in Cantonese, (ii) the co-existence of variants of the final low tone in Kaifeng Mandarin, and (iii) Yuhuan Wu tone realization by members of the same family, with Louis Hendrix (Edinburgh), Marco van de Ven (Radboud), Lei Wang (Tongji, Shanghai), Victoria Reshetnikova (Utrecht), Lu Wang (SISU, Shanghai), en Yang Yang (GDUFS, Guangzhou). • 2022-2024. Preparing the fifth edition of Understanding Phonology and managing the Chinese translation, with Haike Jacobs (Radboud). • 2023-2025. Revision of the interactive course Transcription of Dutch Intonation and the creation of an English version. More information


Drawing inspiration from the literature on social imaginaries and cultural models, this study explores contending perspectives on energy and sustainability, moving beyond a simplistic understanding of support or opposition to specific energy developments. With a comparative study in three regions of Canada, we use Q methodology to identify five key discourses on energy issues: (1) climate change is a primary concern, (2) maintain the energy economy, (3) build on the resilience of nature and local energy systems, (4) markets and corporations will lead and (5) renewable energy sources are the path forward. We find several under-examined perspectives on energy and society – one discourse that attempts to balance growth in the energy economy with environmental concern and another discourse that promotes the resilience of natural and local energy systems. We also find a proclivity towards science, ingenuity and technological innovation as a strategy to resolve contemporary challenges in the energy sector. This study helps to elaborate energy policy conversations beyond the common environment versus economy tropes. The study also reveals opportunities to forge common ground and mutual understanding on complex debates.


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Николай Викторович Линченко (род. 30 мая 1977, Ленинград, РСФСР, СССР) — российский государственный деятель и управленец. Вице-губернатор Санкт-Петербурга с 23 января 2019 года.

Начальник аппарата вице-губернатора Санкт-Петербурга А. И. Вахмистрова c 2000-го по 2009-й. Глава администрации Адмиралтейского района Санкт-Петербурга (2011—2012), заместитель директора Департамента промышленности и инфраструктуры Правительства РФ (2012—2019).

Действительный государственный советник Санкт-Петербурга 2 класса.

Образование
В 1994 году окончил школу с золотой медалью.

В 1999 году окончил Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет экономики и финансов (ФИНЭК) с отличием. Специализация — «финансовый менеджмент».

В 2009 г. получил диплом о профессиональной переподготовке Северо-Западной академии государственной службы по специальности «юриспруденция».

Кандидат экономических наук

Карьера и трудовая деятельность
С 1999 по 2000 год — финансовый аналитик — главный специалист СПб ГУ ЦРКБ (Центр по работе с клиентами банков).

С 2000 по 2009 год — начальник Аппарата вице-губернатора Санкт-Петербурга А. И. Вахмистрова.

С августа 2009 года — первый заместитель главы администрации Приморского района Санкт-Петербурга.

С февраля 2011 по октябрь 2012 года — глава администрации Адмиралтейского района Санкт-Петербурга.

С 2012 года по январь 2019 года — заместитель директора Департамента промышленности и инфраструктуры Правительства РФ.

Действительный государственный советник Санкт-Петербурга 2 класса.

С января 2019 года — вице-губернатор Санкт-Петербурга.

Трудовую деятельность начал в 1998 году экономистом в государственном предприятии «Топливно-энергетический комплекс Санкт-Петербурга». Через год перешел в Санкт-Петербургский Центр по работе с клиентами банков. Достиг должности финансового аналитика, а затем и главного специалиста.

С 2000 года на протяжении девяти лет работал в Аппарате вице-губернатора Санкт-Петербурга Александра Вахмистрова став в итоге начальником Аппарата.

В августе 2009 года занял пост Первого заместителя главы администрации Приморского района Санкт-Петербурга. Вскоре, 25 февраля 2011 года назначен главой администрации Адмиралтейского района Санкт-Петербурга.

В середине октября 2012 года был уволен с поста главы Адмиралтейского района по собственному желанию. В том же году занял должность заместителя директора Департамента промышленности и инфраструктуры Правительства России.

Временно исполняющий обязанности губернатора Санкт-Петербурга Александр Дмитриевич Беглов 21 января 2019 года направил в Законодательное Собрание города на согласование кандидатуру Николая Линченко на должность вице-губернатора Санкт-Петербурга.

Государственная деятельность
В 2000—2009 годах работал в аппарате строительного вице-губернатора Александра Вахмистрова. На своем посту занимался непосредственно налаживанием коммуникаций между властью и строительным бизнесом. Позже был заместителем главы администрации Приморского района.

С января 2019 года — вице-губернатор Санкт-Петербурга, отвечает за решение вопросов капитального строительства и реконструкции объектов недвижимости, архитектуры и градостроительства (за исключением вопросов формирования архитектурного облика Санкт‑Петербурга), выявления, учёта, сохранения популяризации и государственной охраны объектов культурного наследия в Санкт‑Петербурге.

Непосредственно координирует и контролирует деятельность:

 Комитет по градостроительству и архитектуре
 Комитет по государственному контролю, использованию и охране памятников истории и культуры
 Комитет по строительству
 Служба государственного строительного надзора и экспертизы Санкт‑Петербурга

Семья
Женат, имеет троих детей (два сына и дочь)

Награды и звания
 Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством» IV степени (1 октября 2021 года) — за большой вклад в социально-экономическое развитие Санкт-Петербурга и многолетнюю добросовестную работу
 Медаль «В память 300-летия Санкт-Петербурга» (2003 г.)
 Медаль «В память 1000-летия Казани» (2005 г.)
 Действительный государственный советник Санкт-Петербурга 2 класса

Примечания

Вице-губернаторы Санкт-Петербурга
Кандидаты экономических наук


The municipality of Koufalia stands 40 km away from Thessaloniki, on the northwest section of the city, very close to the river Axios. The inhabitants here are mainly immigrants from Eastern Romylia who settled in this location in 1919. Though Koufalia is rather a small community, the history of the place is very rich and in many cases unexplored. Remains of prehistorical civilizations have been found in the locations Mikri Tumba, Tumba Tavas, Tumba Livaditsas and Trapeza Prohomatos. The area was also very active during the period of the Macedonian struggle, as many important events and fights took place here. Not far away from Koufalia, at Thessaloniki bridge is the exact spot that the Ottomans handed Thessaloniki to the Greeks. Apart from the historical value of the location, Koufalia is also a place of environmental interest. Here laid the lake Yannitson, which when it dried out became a cultivating area that produces rice and tomatoes. The river Axios which is close by is very important for the cultivation and the natural value of the whereabouts. Several spots on the bank of the river have been turned to entertainment spaces, giving the visitors to enjoy the natural scenery. At the center of Axios river there is a part of land called "the island" and is under the protection of the program Natura 2000. The verdulous vegetation makes it the perfect sanctuary for birds. Hunting is prohibited as well as the passage on the island. But since the river is navigable at this point, touring is allowed and the traveler can enjoy the scenery and the sounds this part of the world has to offer.


Budding authors from Pool Academy have had their work published in a new anthology.
Ten talented students from Year 8, 9 and 10 put pen to paper earlier this year to enter a creative writing competition, called Wonderland.
They were required to create a mini saga about other worlds in less than 100 words.
It was recently revealed their work has been selected to be published in a book entitled Welcome to Wonderland.
Before entering the competition, the students took a trip to Goonhilly Earth Station to find inspiration for their pieces.
While they were there they met Paula Bolton, the station's resident artist, who took them on a tour of the site, sharing stories, facts, ideas and her own prints.
Students also learnt about the history of the site, its future, deep space communication and even the hunt for alien life.
Dawson Merrett, one of the Pool Academy students who got their poems published.
Dawson Merrit, Year 11, said: "My poem was about a guy who lives in a place where outsiders go. We went to Goonhilly to get the ideas for our writing. It took me a while to write as I was trying to put different words and oxymorons in.
Lucy Humphreys, former Pool Academy Librarian, said: "I am just so proud of them all.


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