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Unconscious Bias and Inclusive Environment
The recent public debate around the portrayal of Serena William and Naomi Osaka by a Herald Sun's cartoonist has ignited conversation about racism and racial portrayal. Some argued that it's the job of a cartoonist to exaggerate physical features and be satirical, while others pointed to the long historical portrayal of African American that were (and continue to) intended to denigrate, disempower and dehumanise an entire population. It also sparked debate about free speech, artistic freedom, as well as artistic responsibility, race relations and social injustice.
Without getting involved too much into the debate, one thing is rather clear for me about the impact of unconscious bias on the way we perceive and portray others. As members of society, we are not immune from the historical past that continue to shape the way we see, feel, and think of others. There are many examples on how caricatures were intended to harm and marginalise a population, such as the way African American and Blackness have been portrayed, as well as the Jewish population, Indigenous Australians, and Chinese migrants in Australia to name a few. Such caricatures were, and continue to be, hurtful as it reaffirms the enslavement and inferiority of a specific group to justify the social, cultural, and political superiority of the dominant group that feed into social injustice.
Many people don't realise that such portrayal, representation, and caricature permeate our consciousness as we have been exposed and influenced by these images. Unconscious bias is the process whereby negative stereotypes are being applied to a particular group without a clear and rationale realisation. All of us are affected by unconscious bias, as our consciousness is shaped by the dominant ideology that exists in a specific society. It influences our first, 10 seconds impression of a particular individual based on their race, ethnicity, gender, appearance, ability and many more. It also has an impact in workplace policies, culture, and environment.
The challenge is to recognise our own biases and to ensure that we act accordingly. This discussion seems to be missing in the debates surrounding the infamous cartoon. Many people seem to not realise the influence of historical portrayal of race and gender that may have been unconsciously applied when drawing the caricature. Similarly, many people are often unaware the impact of unconscious bias on our day-to-day interaction. This could be in the form of the way we speak, our body language, our inner perceptions and our attitudes that have been influenced by social stereotypes.
Indeed, at Ananda Training & Consultancy, unpacking unconscious bias is key in understanding intersectionality and creating an inclusive environment. It is the first step to challenge our (mis)perceptions of others so they don't influence our policies, practices, behaviours and environment. It requires us to challenge our own biases and to understand the origin of these stereotype and its harmful intention. It can be a confronting exercise to do, but essential if we are to truly embrace diversity.
Whilst the conversation and debate about the portrayal of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka continue, it is an opportunity for us to listen and learn about historical and intergenerational trauma that minority groups have been experiencing through negative
portrayal and caricature. It is also a chance for us to unpack our own unconscious bias and ensure that we are not guided by it. It requires us to exercise caution, understanding, and safety to create a truly inclusive environment.
Let's stop the wheel of prejudice from keep on spinning.
Views reflected in this blog is drawn from personal observation and opinion.
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Currently, only one plaintiff remains in the case that was filed on behalf of the women by the nation's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2007. No trial date has been set in the case. Two years ago, the same judge refused to allow the EEOC to certify a class that included hundreds of potential pregnancy discrimination plaintiffs. At the time, Judge Preska stated the agency failed to demonstrate that a widespread pattern of discrimination existed at the company.
Judge Preska reportedly dismissed the numerous plaintiffs' claims after she accused the EEOC of mishandling the case. Despite that the lawsuit was initially filed six years ago, the judge also accused the agency of rushing to court and failing to make appropriate settlement attempts in her 181-page decision. Preska stated, "The court does not impose this severe sanction lightly and recognizes that certain … claims may be meritorious but now will never see the inside of a courtroom." A spokesperson for the EEOC said the agency is currently reviewing its options with regard to the judge's ruling.
Women currently account for about half of the nation's workforce and about three-fourths of employed females will become pregnant at some point during their working career. Regrettably, pregnancy discrimination at work occurs often. In 2012, the EEOC received almost 3,800 pregnancy discrimination complaints and recovered more than $14 million in settlements for the victims. If you believe that you suffered pregnancy discrimination in a New York workplace, you are advised to discuss your rights with a quality attorney.
The caring lawyers at Phillips & Associates have many years of experience representing the victims of pregnancy discrimination or workplace sexual harassment in New York City and surrounding areas. At Phillips & Associates, our knowledgeable attorneys are here to help you protect your rights at the municipal, state, and federal levels. To schedule a free, confidential consultation with a committed advocate, give our hardworking lawyers a call at (212) 248-7431 or contact Phillips & Associates through our website.


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Job Advice: Do Unsolicited Resumes Help or Hurt You?
Have you ever sent your resume blindly to everybody and anybody? You sent it to family, pals, associates, and potentially everybody in your social media in desperation hoping that somebody will see it and call you. I can understand this practice, but it is just the incorrect technique. You are just losing your time and theirs by just sending out a blind resume. Just the other day, an associate was ranting about this. That's what led me to compose on this subject.
Many job applicants are quite unaware of HR procedures and rules. Either they do not care or just don't bother — which I think holds true the majority of the time. My function is to assist you and help you direct your resume the proper way so you get real outcomes. The supreme objective is to obtain a call and an interview.
My associate John got an unsolicited resume from a job applicant, this was not in action to a marketed job opening but a canned "fluff" e-mail with an unclear resume. The job applicant asked John to evaluate his abilities and experience and see if it matched any open jobs. 'So what's incorrect with that?' you may ask.
Think of this … what do you do when you get unsolicited mail, whether it's general delivery or e-mail? The reaction is the same– spam! Generally, it is discarded. It enters the garbage because you never ever asked for it and are not thinking about it, right? The sender needs to have some quite smart marketing to make the receiver open it, read it, and really acquire the item.
The very same holds true when sending out a resume.
Do not waste your receiver's (employer's or employing supervisor's) time. More than that– why waste your own energy and time? Do not throw away your resume hoping that it will stick. We call this the shotgun method– you shoot and hope there's a hit. Is this a great use of your skill and resources? Most likely not. It is an 'exercise in futility'. Do not let this happen to you. All your effort and time enters into the garbage because the best info was not consisted of with your resume– info that is essential to the receiver and employing supervisor.
When sending out a resume to an employer or company, list a couple of information. This is sort of like a cover letter but less formal and stuffy. The body of the email ought to include essential and simple to check out details about you. Forget all the fluff in a cover letter with useless words, list the guts, the real essential things that will make them open and in fact read your resume.
What particular job titles you are certified to do– for instance, SharePoint Developer, Mechanical Engineer, CFO, HRIS, and so on. Inform them what you do, particularly.
Your wanted income variety. For instance, 70-90K. It has to be broad enough so there is some versatility. You do not wish to get require less than what you need to endure anyhow, so do not squander your time or theirs.
Call particular significant business you have actually worked for particularly if it is their rival. Yes, name-dropping, it works! J For example, if you are using with Honda Motor Manufacturing and you have actually operated at Kia, Hyundai, or Nissan– say so.
Keep in mind significant achievements like Master's degree, PhD, or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. Awards that make you stick out from the other prospects. No need to get to detailed here– leave that for your resume. This is just a taste of your qualifications.
You might think. "Well, if I get too particular this will put me into a narrow field and I might lose out on chances." Many people think they ought to leave their resumes broad and available to analysis. I understand that state of mind because I believed that way prior to being in the Hiring Manager's seat. The truth is that a Hiring Manager wishes to see more depth and less breadth– specifically less jobs, market particular experience, and specified abilities. They are looking for a skilled SME (topic professional)– not a jack-of-all-trades. So make your message short, accurate, and catchy.
Consider this– an unclear email states, "Please, please read me, I know you are hectic but can you do me a favor? I'm similar to everybody else out there tossing out resumes in hopes that a person of these will work." The point is, there is no difference in between you and 100 other resumes that just filled their inbox. A particular, plainly specified email with a short summary plainly states, "Yes, I'm your person, here's why …" The less HR needs to think regarding what you really do the simpler it is to select you. Keep in mind, when sending out a resume you compose it in your particular market terminology. Others, whether they are pals, employers, or working with supervisors, particularly from a different market, might not recognize enough to your way of speaking, terms, or jobs. Often, even very same market businesses call some abilities by different names or titles. For that reason, make it simple for the hiring supervisor. For instance, your resume title might check out Program Manager Leader. Rather, it needs to say Manufacturing Engineer, Industrial Engineer, or Continuous Improvement Engineer, Process Engineer, Lean, Six Sigma, and so on. Any of these is great. The latter represents "transferable abilities" and it is simple to understand.


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As I've been writing the blog posts of the season premieres this fall, I've been intrigued with many of the new shows and have checked many of them out. A few show promise, while others are truly duds. If you haven't taken a taste of this season's new TV yet, my summary of the best new shows of fall 2015 provides a great starting point.
My favorite new drama this fall is Limitless. The main character Brian takes a pill called NZT which allows him complete use of all his brain. By doing so, he is essentially a human computer. The FBI believes that he is immune to the side effects of the drug and has taken him on as a resource. Little do they know that his immunity is provided by an injection from an outside source who has his own agenda. The surprises and subplots of this show make viewers keep coming back for more. Expect this CBS show to be picked up for the entire season.
Code Black is another favorite. The fast paced drama is reminiscent of Grey's Anatomy. Set in a super-busy ER which is constantly in Code Black – or beyond capacity – it follows the lives of interns and the seasoned staff members who are teaching them.
NBC's Blindspot has been picked up for the entire season as of October 9th. This show is about a woman with no memory found with new and mysterious tattoos covering her entire body. The tattoos provide clues to who she is. One of the tattoos is the name of a FBI agent, who is charged with deciphering the message found on her.
Quantico, the drama about FBI interns on ABC has been picked up for the entire season as of mid-October.
The Breakaway hit for this year, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, has already been picked up for its second season. The prequel to the major hit The Walking Dead was expected to do well and has delivered.
According to TV Guide, the 7 most popular shows only include 3 newbies: Blindspot, Limitless and Quantico. This speaks well for those shows and promises that they will be around for a while.
Grandfathered is easily the best new fall 2015 sitcom. This Fox show is about the developing relationship between Jimmy and the adult son (and granddaughter) he never knew he had. While the pilot left me wondering how quickly it would be canceled, subsequent episodes have been both funny and touching. A unique yet plausible spin on family, this comedy definitely has potential. And some great insider news – 6 additional scripts have been ordered for the show as of mid-October, which is definitely a positive sign for the new sitcom.
Another surprisingly funny sitcom is ABC's Dr. Ken. When it debuted on a Friday night, I was convinced this show would be short-lived. Being placed in a Friday or Saturday night lineup is pretty much the kiss of death. However, this show about a quirky doctor is showing promise and has viewers coming back for more.
Finding a new show that you love is always a little dicey. Often shows that appeal to viewers don't get renewed for one reason or another. It's a little sad when you start watching a new show just to learn that it's been cut. By starting mid-season, you can at least feel assured that a show is going to make it by checking out whether it's been renewed or not. Or like so many other TV lovers today, you can discover new shows by seeing what's popular and binge-watching to catch up.


The seven symptoms suggest that women are undernourished.
What are the symptoms of a person's blood and blood? It can be judged by looking at the individual's body.
1. First, you can see if a person's eyes are bright and shiny. People with adequate blood and blood are bright and clear and have a lot of god. The person with insufficient blood and blood is turbid and the eyes are white and yellow. If there is red blood in the eyes, and the eyes still have eye bags, the spleen is deficient. If the eye is still very dry, this is the condition of insufficient blood and blood, and you can also see the condition of a person's hair.
2. It can be judged according to the hair, if the hair falls a lot, and the hair is sparse. This indicates that the hair is dry and greasy, and it is also indicative of insufficient blood and blood. So a person's hair can also reflect a person's physical condition, if the hair is dry and the hair is dry should be noticed.
3. You can also observe the ear. Many people ignore the ears, but the human body is not able to have enough blood and blood to be reflected through the ears. If the color of the ear is white, the person will catch cold. If a person's ears are red and swollen, this person may have symptoms of fire. So if the ear has abnormal symptoms, it can indicate that the person is deficient in qi and blood.
4. Look at the temperature of a human hand. In fact, the temperature of each person's palm is the overall reflection of the person's qi and blood. It is warm in the palm of the hand, and the blood is cold and cold.
You can also look at the small crescent on your fingernails, which can also reflect your health. You can also look at the condition of a person's teeth, and if a person's teeth are loose and thinning, there is a problem with the person's kidneys.
6. You can also look at the gum condition. If the gum is receding, it means that the person has insufficient blood and blood. If the teeth are enlarged, you must also pay attention.
7. You can also see a person's sleep state, if the quality of sleep is good, can sleep to the natural wake when sleeping, and quickly into the sleep state indicates that this person has strong blood and blood. If you're talking in your sleep, it's a sign that the person's sleep is poor and that you're losing money.
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Douglas Nadjari is an accomplished trial lawyer concentrating in criminal defense, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and complex commercial litigation. Over the past 30 years, he has successfully tried dozens of criminal, civil, and administrative cases. He is widely recognized for aggressive representation of physicians and other health professionals.
A partner at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek P.C., he is a member of the firm's Health Law Regulatory Department, White-Collar Crime & Investigations Practice Group and Litigation Department.
Nadjari is best known for representing clients in criminal matters and before the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC), the Office of Professional Discipline (OPD), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in hospital medical staff proceedings, audits, claw-backs and demands for repayment made by Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurers as well as the defense of physicians and corporations in criminal, administrative and commercial disputes. Previously a partner at a major New York City medical malpractice defense firm, he also served as a supervisor in the Homicide Bureau and Deputy Chief of the Investigations, Felony Trial and Major Frauds Bureaus in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office where he spearheaded the investigation and prosecution of homicide cases, healthcare and other complex financial fraud cases.
Doug serves as co-chair of the Professional Discipline Committee of NYSBA Health Care Section, is chair of the Nassau County Bar Association, Health Law Committee, the New York State Medical Defense Bar Association, the Tulane University School of Law Criminal law and Procedure "Boot Camp" faculty, and the L.I. Energeia Partnership. He also serves as a Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Island Harvest Food Bank.
Hospital & Health Law Committee: Opioid Addiction: Navigating the New Legislative Landscape & Strategies for Compliance, September 2016.
Government Investigation of Controlled Substances: Representing Health Care Entities & Providers, Nassau County Bar Association June 2016.
Panelist Long Island Association Symposium Data Breaches: A Survival Guide, April 2015.
Moderator: RMF and HUB International: Data Security for the Healthcare Industry, June 2015.
Accomplice Testimony & Evidence Uncharged Crimes at Trial and Sentencing: The Prosecutor's Best Friend and Defendant's Worst Nightmare, Tulane University School of Law, January 2014 – 16.
Representing Physicians & Other Healthcare Professionals: Navigating the Clear & Present Danger Posed by the National Practitioner Databank, Nassau County Bar Association, May 2014.
Settlements Verdicts & The National Practitioner Databank, A Primer on Protecting Yourself and Your Clients, NYS Medical Defense Bar Association, June 2014 Verdicts.
Healthcare Today: A Minefield for the Unwary, Including Ethical Obligations, May 2012.
Defending Health Care Professionals Against Clear & Present Danger Posed by the National Practitioner Databank, Lawline 2010.
New York's Office Based Surgery Statute: A Practical Guide.
Physician Persecution, The Criminalization of Healthcare in the New Millennium.
Fraud & Abuse and Current OPMC Trends.
Practice Options & Contracting Issues for Graduating Medical Residents.
Managed Care and Managed Care Contracts The Scope of the Patient/Physician Relationship.
Medical Records & Coding Issue: A Primer for New Physicians and Medical Residents.
Legal Implications of the Physician Patient Relationship: A Primer for Medical Residents.
Successfully represented the CFO of a not-for-profit entity and avoided all charges in an investigation initiated by the Charities' Bureau of the NYS Attorney General's Office.
Coordinated HIPAA breach investigation, reports, responses and related government inquires for large multispecialty medical groups.
Obtained dismissal of 10 separate indictments brought against physicians and professional corporations in criminal matters brought by the Suffolk County District Attorney.
Following the completion of pretrial hearings, secured the dismissal of all criminal charges brought against a physician by the NYS Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
Successfully defended physician before the OPMC in investigation concerning controversial treatment of Lyme disease.
Successfully mediated civil dispute on behalf of healthcare employer charged with sexual harassment by employee.
Successfully defended physician facing multiple sexual boundary complaints investigated by the OPMC.
Represented several physicians charged by the NYS Attorney General with engaging in conspiracies to sell prescriptions for narcotic medications.
Using NY's Prompt Payment law, prosecuted a lawsuit against Fortune 500 health insurer on behalf of a gynecologist seeking payment for out of network services.
Successfully defended physician facing false allegation disability from the practice of medicine due to physical and mental disease investigated by the OPMC.
Successfully negotiated confidential separation from hospital system for surgeons facing allegations of research dishonesty and potential violations of federal law.
Represented multiple physicians in disciplinary proceedings brought by the New York State Department of Health, Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) including a recent matter that resulted in withdrawal of all disciplinary charges during the course of an ongoing hearing.
Represented several NJ podiatrists in unrelated prosecutions for Medicare fraud brought by the U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
Represented providers of durable medical equipment (DME) in a broad conspiracy indictment involving charges of money laundering and healthcare fraud brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
No charges lodged against a key corporate employee of a large hospital system in a bribery and public corruption investigation undertaken by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Successfully represented key employee of a large construction company in an investigation involving a crane collapse undertaken by the NY County District Attorney.
Successfully represented a well-known Ohio art dealer in a dispute with the Metropolitan Transit Authority concerning ownership of valuable artifacts.
Successfully represented various physicians in RICO cases involving fraud and allegations of corporate practice of medicine brought by large insurance conglomerates and litigated in the U.S. District Courts.
Represented podiatrists, social workers, chiropractors, dentists and physicians in prosecutions brought by the Queens, Brooklyn and NY County District Attorney alleging participation in money laundering and healthcare fraud conspiracies.


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Windham Mountain has Big Plans for Summer, 2013-14 Season
Windham Mountain, Windham, NY (March 1, 2013) - On the heels of a successful winter, Windham Mountain will continue to develop as a four season destination with additions to both summer and winter offerings. Among the projects slated for Summer 2013 are the addition of Windham Country Club, terrain expansion with two new trails, installation of additional snowmaking and other significant snowmaking upgrades.
By month's end Windham Mountain expects to take ownership of Windham Country Club, officially adding the golf course and its amenities to existing summer events and activities. Plans for the Club include restoration of the golf course to its former glory by repairing damaged holes and improving existing holes. Additional improvements will be made throughout all aspects of the operation from the course itself to the clubhouse.
In preparation for the 2013-14 winter season, Windham Mountain will break ground on phase two of the Destination Windham project, which is highlighted by new beginner terrain. Part of the existing parking lots in front of the base lodge will be transformed into four acres of skiable terrain perfectly suited for those learning skiing and snowboarding. The new trail will offer beginners more space and will help to accommodate both private and group lessons during the 2013-14 season. Two surface lifts and snowmaking on the new terrain will enhance one of the most functional and attractive learning areas anywhere in the country.
The Whisper Run beginner area will be grass in the summer and dramatically change the appearance of the entry to the Resort in all seasons. Future phases of development include construction a 41 unit condominium building, a skier services building, an ice skating rink, expanded parking and other facilities to improve the overall guest experience. Construction of the area will bring an enhanced focused on beginners to the forefront of operations.
With the addition of a trail on the West Peak as well as the new beginner trail, Windham Mountain's total trail count will increase to 51 over the mountain's 1600 vertical feet. The new trail will offer a less intimidating route between double black diamond trails, reserved for the most experienced and adventurous Windham Mountain skiers and riders. The new trail will have snowmaking, as will expert trail Upper Wipeout. Additionally, all of Windham Mountain's snowmaking air compressors will be replaced, allowing for faster and more efficient terrain expansion during the winter months.


The total price including compulsory charges £197,65 (£181,71	(Accommodation) + £15,94	(Compulsory surcharges) ).
This price applies to a 4-person mobile home/caravan (max. 2 adults) Trekkershut, with the first arrival possibility on 22 April 2019, 2 Nights.
The total price including compulsory charges £133,41 (£77,87	(Accommodation) + £55,54	(Compulsory surcharges) ).
This price applies to a 4-person mobile home/caravan Pimpelmees, with the first arrival possibility on 9 May 2019, 3 Nights.
The total price including compulsory charges £260,61 (£205,07	(Accommodation) + £55,54	(Compulsory surcharges) ).
The total price including compulsory charges £249,07 (£181,71	(Accommodation) + £67,36	(Compulsory surcharges) ).


This project was completed in early February 2015.
This project which was completed in 2015 included renovations and/or relocation of Tim Hortons, the gift shop, the cafeteria, the front lobby and corridor, and the freight elevator. This phase also includes the replacement of the revolving front door and the installation of sprinklers.
This project created an environment that is welcoming, accessible, while still addressing operational efficiency, safety and security, infection prevention and control, and sustainability.
This project provided space for an additional mammography unit bringing the number of machines at the centre to three which will cut wait times.
Renovations to the pharmacy department addressd noise, congestion, and ventilation concerns and allow us to provide safe and effective care to our patients.
This is a five-phase project is now complete.
The sinks, counters and related mill-work were replaced to improve infection control for some of our youngest patients. Repairs to the floor were also completed. This project finished in April 2016.
This project is in line with GRH's commitment to remove accessibility barriers. This involved renovating an existing washroom to make it accessible.
In December 2015, renovations to one of our bunkers was completed which allowed for the installation of a replacement linear accelerator to provide radiation therapy.
To facilitate maximum use of the existing radiation treatment resources, an additional CT simulator was required. Construction for and the installation of the second CT simulator are now taking place.
Hospitals are responsible for planning infrastructure renewal activities to ensure that their facilities are in a good state of repair. Recognizing the need for the renewal of health care infrastructure, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) created the HIRF program. This program is intended to supplement a hospital's existing renewal program and to help address renewal needs on a priority basis. Annually the Ministry determines the HIRF allocation for all public hospitals in Ontario.
This project involved the replacement of asphalt including Parking Lot "O" as well as the main entrance areas.
This project involved the replacement of the deteriorating brick on the courtyard knee planter walls and some exterior walls.
This project involved the replacement of walkways that are aged and cracking.
This project involved the roof replacement on two of the out buildings (Old Powerhouse and the Gas Hut).
This project involved the installation of a refrigerant leak detector in the chiller room.
This project involved the replacement of lighting panels and exterior lights.
This project involved the first phase of the replacement of windows at 850 King Street.
This project involved the first phase of a larger window replacement project.
This project involved the first of a multi-phase replacement of worn flooring.


This list is in response to all the suggestions in the comments on the Top 10 Sci Fi Inventions that Shouldn't be Invented. While there are tons of inventions that have various dangerous aspects there are many that would benefit the human race with hardly any dangers.
Interstellar space travel is unmanned or manned travel between stars. The concept of interstellar travel in starships is a staple in science fiction. Interstellar travel is tremendously more difficult than interplanetary travel due to the vastly larger distances involved. Imagine being able to travel to distant worlds, discover new horizons and colonize space, all in the blink of an eye.
Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping) is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth in order to make it habitable by humans. This must become a reality if there is to ever be interstellar colonization. But isn't the ultimate dream for humans to propagate and colonize the entire galaxy?
Ecosynthesis. This is a term used to describe the use of introduced species to fill niches in a disrupted environment, with the aim of increasing the speed of ecological restoration.
A space elevator is a proposed structure designed to transport material from a celestial body's surface into space. The term most often refers to a structure that reaches from the surface of the Earth to geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and a counter-mass beyond. This device would facilitate construction in space, launching of satellites and space travel (via the "slingshot effect").
Typically, energy shields are some form of force field designed to protect against weapons or elements by deflecting or absorbing their impact. The field is projected along the surface of, or into the space around an object. They usually work by absorbing or dissipating the energy of the incoming attack; prolonged exposure to such attacks weakens the shield and eventually results in the shield's collapse, making the protected area vulnerable to attack.
Can it be done? This one is a toughie. Scientists are toying with the possibility, but a number of obstacles must be overcome before it could ever be conceived.
Energy. The cost of the projection of such a shield would be phenomenal, to say the least.
The panacea is a remedy that would cure all diseases, and prolong life. It is the ultimate cure for cancer, aids, viruses, everything. For millennia it has been thought of as simply a pipe dream, but as medical science advances the idea of a panacea is coming far closer to reality.
Antigravity is the idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. It does not refer to countering the gravitational force by an opposing force of a different nature, as a helium balloon does; instead, anti-gravity requires that the fundamental causes of the force of gravity be made either not present or not applicable to the place or object through some kind of technological intervention. The practical applications of antigravity range from reduced transportation costs, to gravity manipulation in space.
Bionics is a term which refers to flow of ideas from biology to engineering and vice versa. Hence, there are two slightly different points of view regarding the meaning of the word.
In technology, Bionics refers to the development of specific technologies which mimic biological adaptation to the environment. Examples include a ships hull that mimics the thick skin of a dolphin, or sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating the echolocation of bats.
Municipal Wi-Fi is the concept of turning an entire city into a Wireless Access Zone, with the ultimate goal of making wireless access to the Internet a universal service. This is usually done by providing municipal broadband via Wi-Fi to large parts or all of a municipal area by deploying a wireless mesh network. The typical deployment design uses hundreds of routers deployed outdoors, often on utility poles. The operator of the network acts as a wireless internet service provider.
A transatlantic tunnel is a theoretical tunnel which would span the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe and would carry mass transit of some type—trains are envisioned in most proposals. Using advanced technologies, speeds of 300 to 5,000 mph (500 to 8,000 km/h) are envisioned. The implications of such a tunnel are massive. Imagine being able to go from New York to London in less than an hour. Or shipping goods overseas at a fraction of the cost and time.
Ocean colonization is the theory and practice of permanent human settlement of oceans. Such settlements may float on the surface of the water, or be secured to the ocean floor, or exist in an intermediate position. Advantages of ocean colonization include the expansion of livable area and expanded resource access. Many lessons learned from ocean colonization will likely prove applicable to space colonization. The ocean may prove simpler to colonize than space and thus occur first, providing a proving ground for the latter.


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Free trade wrecks environment and communities – report
A free market economy might be what makes the world go round, but it must also shoulder its share of blame for trashing it, according to a report published this week.
Published 15th December 2005
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Campaign group Friends of the Earth claims in a new study, The Tyranny of Free Trade, that the current WTO trade negotiations in Hong Kong present a real and present danger to people and their environment.
The danger that current WTO trade negotiations pose to people and their environment is exposed in a new report `The Tyranny of Free Trade', published today (8 December 2005) by FoE International.
The report presents a series of case studies from the Seychelles to Indonesia exposing the environmental and social impacts of current "free" trade policies in including damage to forests, fisheries, food, minerals, water and biodiversity.
It presents evidence suggesting that intensive agricultural practices and liberalised international trade are leading to social disruption, environmental damage and even hunger, particularly in developing countries.
It argues that small-scale farmers are particularly vulnerable to market opening pressures and often forced from their land when it is converted to plantations or planted with crops for export.
FoE's trade campaigner Eve Mitchell, said: "The mounting evidence from the World Bank, United Nations, World Resources Institute and our own research shows that the current system is making poor people poorer.
"Instead of basing trade on sensible resource management, it puts profits for big business first. The UK Government fully supports proposals at the WTO that take us in the wrong direction, despite promising us otherwise. This can't continue."
Her colleague Ronnie Hall, one of the report's authors, said: "The myth of unfettered free trade as a solution to poverty needs to be exploded.
"Regional and bilateral trade agreements running in parallel are as un-transparent and as harmful as the WTO.
"What we need now is a halt to trade liberalisation negotiations and an urgent review of the impacts of international trade rules on poor people and the environment."
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The net-zero transition needs the circular economy transition – so how do we communicate the link?
Give nature the same priority as net-zero, post-Brexit environment watchdog tells UK Government
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A league source who has dealt with Grigson called his departure "a big loss to the Eagles." He said Grigson was a "low-ego guy" who was "very bright" and could recite a scouting report on a player off the top of his head.
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Chinese Farms Generate More Water Pollution than Factories
February 10, 2010 /10 Comments/in Agriculture, Asia, China, Pacific, Water News, Water Policy & Politics /by Brett Walton
Comprehensive government study shows agriculture to be the country's biggest water polluter.
China's government released its most in-depth domestic water pollution study Tuesday, showing discharges in 2007 to be twice as high as previous estimates, the New York Times reports.
This was the first time the Chinese government included agricultural effluent in the survey. Previously the Ministry of Environmental Protection calculated water pollution from a narrower list of sources that did not include fertilizers or pesticides, according to the NYT.
The two-year study analyzed 1.1 billion pieces of data from six million sources of pollution to create the most complete picture of China's pollution problem to date. Sources surveyed included factories, farms, homes and pollution-treatment plants.
"Fertilizers and pesticides have played an important role in enhancing productivity but in certain areas improper use has had a grave impact on the environment," said Wang Yangliang of the Ministry of Agriculture at a press conference for the study's release, the Guardian reports.
"The fast development of livestock breeding and aquaculture has produced a lot of food but they are also major sources of pollution in our lives."
The study showed that chemical oxygen demand-–a key pollution indicator-–more than doubled when farm runoff was taken into account. Agriculture contributes 43 percent of China's chemical oxygen demand, 67 percent of phosphorus and 57 percent of nitrogen discharges, according to the study.
Sources inside the Chinese government said the report's release was delayed by the agriculture ministry, which had insisted that farming contributed little pollution, according to the Guardian.
The study has provided a new perspective of water pollution in China. But old figures will still be used to evaluate the government's success in meeting pollution targets, said Zhang Lijun, vice minister of environmental protection, according to the NYT.
"Current results of the census will not be linked to environmental performance," he said at the press conference.
The Chinese government has a stated goal of reducing chemical oxygen demand by 10 percent between 2005 and 2010. Data from the study shows a decrease of 3 percent from 2006 to 2007, if agricultural effluent is excluded.
Reducing agricultural pollution will be difficult, says Ma Jun, director of the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.
"When it's millions of farmers, it's more difficult to bring it under control," Ma told the NYT.
The government report supports the results of a study released earlier this year by Renmin University in China and Greenpeace, which found that Chinese farmers use 40 percent more fertilizer than necessary.
Source: New York Times, Guardian
Read more about Chinese water issues in Circle of Blue's special report Hidden Waters, Dragons in the Deep
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Tilahun Almaw says:
Realy I am surprised on the news. Because I didnot expect this much pollution from the agriculture sector eventhough the sector is the highest water user sector interms of water quantity.
The news is very important for others who neglected or give lesser attention for the contribution of water pollution from agriculture
Gary Moore says:
Runoff from farm fields which have been subject to the over application of farm chemicals can "pollute" surface and groundwater. However, the NYT should make it clear the typical agriculturally-derived pollutant is not the same as your typical industrial one, e.g., metals, chlorinated organic compounds, dioxins, etc. Simply not a valid comparison.
Really comes down to how "pollutant" is defined. A definition and ranking system for pollutants based on relative risk (expose duration and dose/concentration) to humans and the environment makes sense to me.
The details are important here and statistics and generalizations can produce unrepresentative and misleading results.
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Le bois de Staneux est une étendue boisée, située  en Wallonie dans le sud-est de la Belgique, au nord de Spa et à l'est de Theux. Couvrant une superficie de 846 hectares, le bois de Staneux peut être considéré comme l'un des plus grands bois isolés de Belgique et rivalise avec la forêt de Soignes.

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Divisées sur quatre larges collines axées est-ouest, la forêt est quadrillées de petits chemins notamment depuis Spa, dont des plus larges sentiers suivent les courbes de niveaux. Les fortes précipitations et le relief ont engendré de nombreux ruisseaux et lacs, comme le lac de Chawion. Ce bois débouche dans le centre de Spa sur une colline appelée "Colline d'Annette et Lubin". De l'autre coté, le bois débouche sur le Château de Franchimont.

Description
Cette forêt est principalement une hêtraie à Luzule mais possède aussi des futaies de type chênaies-charmaies ou chênaies-frênaies.

Histoire

Mythes

Une légende raconte qu'entre le Wayai et Hoëgne, dans le bois de Staneux au nord, vit la Bête de Staneux.

Le sagittaire, est représenté par un centaure tendant un arc.

Articles connexes
 Étang du Chawion
 Wayai
 Hoëgne
 Jalhay
 Lac de la Gileppe

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Forêt en Wallonie
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Whatever. Since I'm not officially a NaBloPoMo participant, I'm gonna cheat a little. It's technically Monday, as it's a little after midnight. I just got home and have had very limited time to post this weekend. Possible review of highlights during my lunch break. Now, I'm going to bed. I have to get up extra early this week to see this dog on my way to work.


Do 'out of stock' strategies work to increase sales?
Placing products with the label 'out of stock' is one of the booming actions to increase the conversion of some e-commerce. The objective is the key: using the principle of urgency, nothing better than telling the customer that the product they are thinking of acquiring is almost out of stock. But does this out of stock strategy really work to boost sales?
The reality is that yes. The out of stock is a growing strategy thanks to the good results it achieves, especially in certain sectors, such as the sale of electronic products or fast fashion. However, it is essential to know how to carry it out correctly to achieve the expected objectives.
One of the main reasons why this type of strategy does not work in many e-commerce is that it is not applied to the correct products. The first thing that must be taken into account, if it is wanted to be proven effective, is the urgency of the consumer and how to create this, therefore using basic products, that can easily be acquired in other e-commerce, will not work.
This said, it is safer to use exclusive products from the e-commerce catalogue or unique brand products.
On the other hand, it is important to know under what conditions it should be applied, especially when it refers to the temporality of the depleted units. While a product simply labelled as 'out of stock' can carry out a customer's search for other options in stores outside of our website, if we place them as 'temporarily out of stock` it keeps up the hope that they will be replenished in a short space of time. In fact, this is the key moment to request a potential customer´s email address that we can send an alert to when this product becomes available. Is there a simpler way to capture leads and identify them according to their interests?
Following the wake of the lead capture, the "out of stock" strategy is a tool that can be key in detecting purchase trends and analysing the interest aroused by certain products. How to know if a new product will achieve the expected sales? Measuring the interest generated through the possibility of reserving or the number of clients requesting notifications when they become available again.
Regardless of the prices market studies that are used before launching a product, this is an alternative to discussion groups as an experimental tool to analyse whether their presentation is appropriate or the price is as expected.
And if the product stock has actually been exhausted? So, the first thing is to look for is the option to replace them as soon as possible - to prevent, it is always advisable to use an intelligence catalogue tool that allows you to manage the ecommerce stock correctly; the second is to carry out the same plan of action as prior to a planned strategy: not to eliminate the product card, not to redirect to other pages to escape the hole or show unfinished information about the time foreseen to restore the offer.
In any case, it is essential to optimize each of the steps taken in the conversion, for example, take advantage of the moment to make an up-sale or cross sale indicating options to purchase similar or related products.
In addition, including the 'out of stock' strategy study in the monitoring of the competition allows to take advantage of the moments, in which the rest of the electronic commerce have hung the "out of stock" poster in some of their products, to boost the sales of our online store. Comparing the availability of products in the e-commerce catalogue is vital to be able to make the right decisions in the pricing strategy.


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Q: IIS6 configuration for WCF/Silverlight I am trying the simple senario of running a WCF service to return Active directory information on a user. (http://rouslan.com/2009/03/20-steps-to-get-together-windows-authentication-silverlight-and-wcf-service/)  using Silverlight 4 & .net 4
However, I am being driven insane by trying to set this up in IIS. Currently I have my solution working in VS, but when I try to run the service in ISS a debug window tries to open... (and I can't get rid of it, is is complaining about the WCF call).
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My next step is to install Server2008 on a test machine and try IIS7... as all the various walkthrough's I have found just dont seem to work in IIS6.
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A: It all worked fine with my 2008 server, it also worked fine when I set up another developer box.
So there was something weird happening in my dev environment.

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Seriously spice up your hot dawgs with this devilishly tasty relish. Use it on hot dogs, BBQ or as a delicious side to add some kick to your day.
Sorry out of stock til BBQ season!
the smokey taste of Mexican chipotle mingles with the kick of chilli in this to-die-for sauce. Superb on grilled meat or try it on scrambled eggs for a breakfast fit for Clint Eastwood.
Not too hot not too sweet but just right for the everyday dinner table. Spice up your soups with a splash of Cayenne pepper, add it to a chicken wrap to add bite to your sandwich or stick it in the slow cooker with beef and creme fraiche for mid week easy dinner.


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March Budget 2016 summary
Peter Legge 16 Mar 2016
A sweetener for many businesses...despite the sugar tax
In his eighth Budget announcement to Parliament on Wednesday 16 March, The Chancellor, George Osborne delivered a Budget which included a number of changes to the current tax rules.
The Chancellor indicated he wanted to "back small business" and his speech did deliver a number of positive tax measures. At Grant Thornton, we see the importance of the mid-market to the UK and particularly the Northern Ireland (NI) economy and support the positive incentives announced today which should allow firms to invest, grow and boost productivity.
The business community here in NI is likely to welcome that there were a number of tax rate reductions.
restricted relief for corporate interest expense from April 2017 coupled with a reduction in the rate of corporation tax to 17% from April 2020;
capital gains tax to be cut from 28% to 20% from April 2016, with the exception of gains in respect of residential property and carried interest; and
changes to the rates and bands applicable for stamp duty land tax on commercial property effective from midnight 16 March 2016.
Refocusing Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
One of the themes of today's Budget has been to differentiate between gains realised on different categories of assets. Gains made as a result of investing in entrepreneurial business will suffer reduced rates of tax as compared to gains made from pure investment assets. For example, the government is extending entrepreneurs' relief to outside investors in unlisted trading companies investing in newly issued shares purchased after 16 March 2016. Provided the shares are held for at least 3 years from 6 April 2016, they will benefit from a 10% rate of tax with a separate lifetime limit of £10 million of gains.
There has been a reduction in the higher rate of CGT from 28% to 20%, with the basic rate falling from 18% to 10%, in relation to disposals made on or after 6 April 2016. Types of property that do not qualify for the reduced CGT rates include residential property and 'carried interest'. Such a move should help to encourage investment and paradoxically it may also increase tax yields by making tax less of an issue in the context of selling investment assets.
At the same time the government has listened to representations that the changes made in Finance Act 2015 went too far, unnecessarily limiting the availability of entrepreneurs' relief to retirement from or sale of businesses. A number of changes are proposed to change this retrospectively and also in a way that seeks to protect the exchequer. A number of measures have been introduced, designed to protect the tax base and discourage planning measures that the government considers to be undesirable.
Finally, the government is introducing measures to focus and cap reliefs as a result of reducing CGT rates. This includes introducing a lifetime ceiling of £100,000 on gains treated as being exempt under the Employee Shareholder Status rules, which from an employment law perspective prevented NI businesses benefiting, however, may impact upon individuals who reside here but work in Britain.
Similarly, whilst investment managers are able to pay CGT at 28%, instead of income tax at up to 45%, on their performance related carried interest returns, in order to do so the fund must undertake investment activity with horizons in excess of 3 years.
Corporation tax - size matters
Large companies were heavily targeted in today's Budget with a number of measures being introduced that aim to raise nearly £8 billion from large companies and multinationals over the course of this Parliament.
Not unexpectedly, and in line with the OECD's recommendations under the BEPS Action Plan, new rules will apply from 1 April 2017 to restrict the tax deductibility of corporate interest expense, for both third party and intragroup borrowing, based on a 30% fixed ratio rule subject to a supplementary group ratio rule. There will be a £2 million starting threshold and specific rules for private finance for public infrastructure projects.
The Chancellor also confirmed rules implementing the BEPS recommendations to address hybrid mismatches, in order to prevent multinationals avoiding tax through the use of cross-border business structures, will be introduced from 1 January 2017.
Anti-avoidance measures to require tax to be withheld from a wider range of international royalty payments have been introduced with effect from midnight.
Significant reforms to loss relief will be introduced from April 2017 providing greater flexibility for using losses against other income sources and in group entities while restricting relief for carried forward losses to 50% of profits over £5 million in a year to ensure some tax is payable.
The business tax road map, published alongside the Budget, indicates that the government intend to consult on potential reform of the Substantial Shareholding Exemption, applicable for corporate capital gains.
There was some good news for companies of all sizes, albeit longer term, with the announcement of a further reduction to the corporation tax rate to 17% from 1 April 2020. While from a Northern Ireland perspective, this may reduce the 'cost' of implementing a reduced rate of 12.5% it equally means that corporation tax in itself is less of a differentiator in seeking to attract FDI to Northern Ireland. The potential question then arises as to whether the Northern Ireland Assembly should consider a further reduction in the CTNI rate, to say 10% in the near future?
Taxing times for property investors
The Chancellor announced further changes aimed at discouraging residential property investors, with the aim of assisting first time buyers to get on to the property market.
The 3% increase in stamp duty land tax on second homes and buy to let properties, announced in the Autumn Statement and coming into effect from 1 April 2016, is now being extended to larger scale investors who were originally excluded from the increased charge. In addition, capital gains on the sale of residential properties will not benefit from the reductions in the main rates of capital gains tax rates from 6 April 2016 that were announced today.
The desired outcome of these measures, as well as the previously announced restrictions on interest relief for buy to let investors, is to reduce the incentive for investing in UK residential property rather than in companies creating wealth and jobs. However, our concern remains that the additional cost of the changes will simply be passed on to private tenants, further penalising them compared to those already on the housing ladder.
Also in the Chancellor's firing line are those using offshore structures to trade in or develop UK land in order to minimise tax on the profits generated. New legislation is to be introduced to ensure that all economic profits from trades involving dealing in or developing UK land are fully taxable in the UK.
The Chancellor also announced changes to the rates of stamp duty land tax on non-residential property, which is part of the government's plan to support smaller businesses and will result in lower stamp duty land tax on acquisitions of premises below £1.05 million. This is effective from tonight and will be welcomed by many businesses and entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland at a time when many businesses are seeking additional space for expansion.
Pensions and savings
Following the Chancellor's announcement before the Budget that the taxation of pensions would not be reformed in this Budget, speculation grew rapidly that he would instead remove the current relief from employer's Class 1 National Insurance Contributions (NIC) for employer contributions to employees' pensions funds; a relief recently reported by the government to be worth some £14 billion a year. This would effectively have ended salary sacrifice arrangements in respect of pensions.
While potentially raising revenue in the short-term, this could have had a serious negative impact on pension savings.
We are pleased to confirm however, that the Chancellor made no mention of salary sacrifice arrangements in his speech, but the Budget publication confirms that employer's NIC relief will continue for pensions savings through salary sacrifice arrangements (as, indeed, will the tax and NIC relief on childcare and health-related benefits provided under salary sacrifice arrangements).
We are also pleased that changes to tax relief for pensions have been abandoned; a stable but flexible environment encourages a vibrant economy in which individuals and employers are incentivised to make appropriate pension provision for the long term. The younger generation will then have the opportunity to follow in a similar manner.
On that basis, we also welcome the Chancellor's announcement of a new flexible lifetime ISA that can be opened from 6 April 2017 by those aged between 18 and 40. Those eligible can save up to £4,000 each year and until the age of 50, receive an additional 25% bonus from the government. Savings, including the government's bonus, can be accessed to buy a first home and in retirement. In the latter instance, if the funds are withdrawn after the age of 60, they will be entirely tax free.
This arrangement appears similar to the Pension ISA idea that some thought the Chancellor was going to introduce to replace the current pension regime. Its appearance as a Lifetime ISA may be indicative that the Chancellor had indeed planned to do so. He may still do so, of course…
Whilst the devil is invariably always in the detail, many of the announcements today appear to support business.
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Loughborough Men's Rugby team compete in RFU National One and will once again be looking to showcase their student talent in the third tier of English rugby.
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The advantages and disadvantages of induction furnaces: known inductor with vertical electromagnetic flow and new (proposed in 2013) electromagnetic horizontal electromagnetic flow. A comparison of the key design and operating parameters of the melting process and furnace. Identified common and distinctive features. The use of furnaces of both types will expand the scope of induction melting.
Keywords: Coreless induction melting, induction furnaces with vertical electromagnetic flow, electromagnetic furnace with horizontal flow.
It is considering possibility of using Al-Cu-Ti complex master alloy for cast aluminum alloys, cuprous silumin as example. Microstructure and mechanical properties of alloy is comparing and also advantages and disadvantages of methods of producing.
Keywords: Aluminum, master alloy, complex master alloy, microstructure, silumin, cuprous silumin.
Based on the belief that the processes in the world, there are effective treatments, is its controlled change in the metal. Found that purging the melt with steam and preparing the alloys Al–20...40% Si in an atmosphere of water vapor have a strong modifying effect and reduces the thermal expansion coefficient at 50...150°C. The prospects of obtaining new light deformable high-silicon aluminum alloys of different purposes.
Key words: Steam, Al–Si-alloys, thermal expansion, mechanical properties, melt processing.
Discussed are low-alloy copper alloys and possibility of improving their processing properties by alloying them. Effect of addition of various elements on the improvement of their castability and scab formation has been studied.
On the basis of reference information there has been conducted a statistical analysis of mechanical properties of bars made from lead brass of Russian grades, based on which their correspondence to DIN grades is established. There have been worked out and implemented in commercial scale manufacturing regulations for profiles from these alloys that are effectively used in machinebuilding industry.
Key words: Lead brass grades, cold-drawn profiles, foreign customer, statistical analysis of mechanical properties, manufacturing regulations, output of commercial lots of products.
A liquid-phase technology of making composite zinc alloys reinforced with intermetallide phases has been developed. A 10 to 12% lower friction coefficient and 85 to 90% higher wear resistance as compared to the matrix alloy ZA27 at adding 3.5% Ti have been established.
Key words: Сomposite zinc alloys, liquid-phase technology, tribotechnical properties.
There has been discussed, technologically and economically justified, and implemented in practice the progressive trend of moving away from cost-intensive pressing and rolling processes and changing over to horizontal continuous casting of small cross-section stock intended to drawing semi-finished items in a wide range of grades and sizes that are successfully used in various spheres of machine-building industry.
Key words: Wire and rod, horizontal continuous casting plant, continuous-cast stock, semi-finished products.


The puppy had reportedly been crying for help for two days.
The rescuer put together a device that is primarily a combination of a drone and a robotic claw.
Milind Raj, the rescuer, has since adopted the puppy and named him 'Lifted'.
Not all superheroes wear capes, and a great example of such a hero is Milind Raj who took it upon himself to help a puppy that had been stuck in a filthy drain for two days.
We spoke to the 27-year old from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, learning the details of what happened.
While on a walk, Milind heard the desperate cries of the poor creature and upon investigation located the source of the distress which was a filthy drain.
Upon further inquiry, the people who lived in the area told him that they have been hearing these "loud cries" for over two days, suggesting that he just leave the puppy where it is, as rescuing it would be an impossible task. The drain would be both unsanitary and unsafe for humans to enter.
Lucky for the puppy, Raj is an innovator and tech-entrepreneur, and owns a company called Tech Monda. He decided to put his technical prowess to test by quickly putting together a device that will help him get the animal out of there. He knew this has to be done fast.
In his lab, he put together a device that is primarily a combination of a drone that he built two years back and a robotic claw, which he built from scratch just to rescue the puppy. Incidentally, the drone was launched by the late President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. The AI-enabled claw helped him monitor the puppy's heart rate, so that he could tell if it has grasped too hard. In fact, after the incident, he is now working on a claw that would automatically loosen the grip. It took him six hours to build the device.
Needless to say, it worked perfectly.
Once the emaciated puppy was out, it threw up a gross black liquid twice - the contents included plastic pan masala packets.
Raj has since adopted the puppy and named him 'Lifted'.


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The central plaza of San Juan Ostuncalco.
National observers en route to their assigned communities.
A local woman receives her ballot in the community of Las Gardenias.
A young girl leaves her thumbprint in the registry of participants as a member of the local development committee prepares the acta, or official community document in which the results will be recorded. Las Gardenias.
Young women line up to vote in the community of Las Barrancas.
A view of the mountains from the voting center in Las Barrancas.
Member of the Permanent Council in Defense of Natural Resources and coordinator of the community referendum José Gómez (right) converses with community leaders in the village of Buena Vista.
A coordinator of the referendum interviews a national observer in the village of Buena Vista. Throughout the day, numerous community radio stations broadcast covered the voting process.
A community member votes in Buena Vista.
Community leaders take refuge from a rainstorm in Buena Vista. The vara, or ceremonial staff, is a symbol of community authority.
A local teacher works a voting table in Buena Vista.
A long line formed at the school in Buena Vista just before the voting closed.
Posters on the front gate of the private high school Candelaria in the urban center of San Juan Ostuncalco.
Coordinators of the referendum address the public in the urban center of San Juan Ostuncalco.
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I guess everyone has to learn to say good bye at some point in their lives. Judy and I arrived on Galveston Island by ferry boat. Our first ferry ride!. But the time has come to say goodbye to the Gulf.
I've prowled and stalked the campgrounds from California to Florida but saying farewell to the Gulf in Galveston Texas made me hang my head with sadness. I live in the moment yet I'm aware that leaving the Gulf means Judy and I are heading west. My cat radar tells me we are nearing home, back to responsibilities.
No more stealing through tall grasses and sniffing wild scents that make my hair stand on end. I've tested my hunting skills in the bayous and swamps, and though I've caught nothing, I was close so many times.
Heading home means saying good bye to my travel routine. Travel days begin in the morning, outside, surveying the campsite one last time while Judy stows away my food and water dishes with the fishes painted on the bottom. When it's time to roll I take my perch on the dash and watch the scenery pass from the rear view mirror and disappear. After about fifty miles, when the campground is only a memory, I seek out my napping spot where I will occupy the rest of my day until we stop for the night. I have many places but this basket is my favorite at the moment.
When we are settled at the next campsite, the rest of my day is spent hunting, stalking, rolling in the dirt and contemplating nature until sundown. While Judy packs her day with sightseeing, I sleep. When she returns she fills me in with the details of the places she's visited and the folks she' met.
The remains of hurricane damaged Oak trees which may have said good bye but are now everlasting eagles.
Did Judy really ride an alligator?
On her return from touring, Judy presents me with a souvenir mouse stuffed with catnip. I have mice which have scurried on the boardwalk of Tombstone Arizona, through the saw grasses of the Everglades in Florida, across the white sands of the Gulf and a special one that Judy told me rode in the Apollo 13.
Traveling is better than any of my catnap dreams. My paws twitch just thinking about traveling. When I gazed out on the waves of the Gulf, the power of the surf churned my insides with a yearning to climb the tallest tree and fly like the gulls across the water. The sand pipers dancing in the sand, poking for food, egrets poising on spindle legs like alabaster statues, and Camerons spreading their wings like a Buddhist worshipping the sun …these scenes ground me,.. This journey exposed me to adventures no cat could ever imagine. These escapades are not fantasies dancing in my mind. They are real. I have experienced them to the level that they have stirred my wanderlust and made me yearn for even more.
How am I going to be satisfied when I return home? Will I be like Tony the tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop on I-10 who paces back and forth?
But good byes are exits to new roads. I'll pace, but with expectations. The "Hello Ma'am's," the "Howdy's," and the Hi y'alls are greetings as Judy and I pass through doors, or ferry across water ways to new adventures. But first we have to say goodbye.


One way to define a gauge theory is that whenever the Lagrangian is invariant under some local transformations, we say these local transformations are local gauge transformations and the theory is a gauge theory.
However, I think a better way to understand gauge theory is not about the local symmetry of the Lagrangian, but about the structure of the Hilbert space: a gauge theory is a theory where all states in the Hilbert space are invariant under the local transformations. This constraint on Hilbert space already encodes that the Hamiltonian or Lagrangian should be gauge invariant, otherwise under time evolution a gauge invariant state may become a gauge non-invariant state. Also, I think in principle one can have a theory which does have a local symmetry but it is not a gauge theory. For example, we can take the electromagnetism Lagrangian without imposing gauge equivalence, namely, $A_\mu$ and $A_\mu+\partial_\mu\chi$ label different states. This theory has a Lagrangian that is invariant under a local transformation, but it is not a gauge theory. Of course, this theory does not describe relativistic massless spin-1 particle since it has more degrees of freedom than required.
Now here is a question: is the global gauge transformation a symmetry transformation (a transformation acting on states and mapping one state to another)? Suppose the global gauge transformation is a special case of local gauge transformation, as it seems to be, it should not be a symmetry transformation.
On the other hand, according to Noether's theorem, a symmetry of the Lagrangian, which may or may not be a symmetry of the theory, leads to local conserved current. However, Weinberg-Witten theorem states that there is no gauge invariant conserved current in non-Abelian gauge theory, although the total charge is conserved. Is this related to the observation that a global gauge transfomation is also not a symmetry transformation? And why does this theorem only apply to non-Abelian gauge theories?
I don't quite agree with your premises.
1. Given an abstract Hilbert space, what do you even mean by "local transformations" on states?
2. Are you suggesting there are no classical gauge theories?
Thank you for your comments and sorry for any confusion. The two questions you asked are related, so let me answer them once.
The canonical way of thinking about the Hilbert space in a quantum field theory is to first solve the classical equation of motion and identify the eigenmodes, after that, we construct one-particle and multi-particle states in the eigenmodes. Remarkably, for a translational invariant system, momentum eigenstates are always a set of eigenmodes of the equation of motion. Then doing a Fourier transformation, we see that position eigenstates are also such eigenmodes. However, if we want to construct one-particle and multi-particle states in a gauge theory, we have to keep in mind that different modes connected by a gauge transformation are identified, this makes the Hilbert space of a gauge theory very non-local, in the sense that it is not a tensor product of local Hilbert spaces, instead, we need to modulo gauge equivalence classes. So by local transformations on states, I presume a prescription of labeling states by modes and I do the transformation on modes. Since it is assumed that the modes label the states, I am also doing a transformation on states. For classical gauge theory, I just do the transformation on a mode without saying anything about the quantum states associated with it.
Gauge theory with continuous gauge group in continuous space may be confusing to think about, to have a concrete example, one can just think about a lattice $Z_2$ gauge theory. For detailed discussion, please see Wen's book Quantum Field Theory of Many-Body Systems. One may also want to think about toric code, where the ground state of the deconfined lattice $Z_2$ gauge theory is written in a gauge invariant way (meaning without doing a gauge fixing).
In that sense, a global gauge symmetry is also not a symmetry transformation. Then this bring me to the question of local conserved current.
I see, I wrote a partial answer.
I see(after your clarification in comments), then your description is indeed a valid way of phrasing gauge theory and it highlights the saying "a gauge symmetry is actually a redundancy in description of the theory", but I'm afraid your rejection to the local symmetry vocabulary is unfair. As long as your local symmetry is not too trivial, it almost always gives rise to redundancy. I touched the issue briefly in my exposition article "Semantics in Gauge theory". A more complete account can be found in the lucidly written textbook "Classical and Quantum Dynamics of Constrained Hamiltonian Systems".
In particular, a global gauge transformation is not a special case of local gauge transformations. A local gauge transformation--to qualify as a "change of redundant labelings"--must preserve initial or boundary conditions of the system, while a global gauge transformation almost always breaks initial/boundary conditions.(Of course they both preserve the Lagrangian hence the equation of motions).
I don't know anything about Weinberg-Witten, I'll leave it to others.
Thank you for your answer. I looked up your notes and I like the point that a global gauge transformation is not a gauge transformation because it almost always (not really always, for example, the "global" $Z_2$ gauge transformation in lattice $Z_2$ gauge theory preserves boundary conditions) changes boundary conditions, thank you for pointing it out.
However, I do not quite see why local symmetries always induce redundancy. Taking lattice $Z_2$ gauge theory from Wen's book as an example, there we identified different link configurations which are related by gauge transformations. With this in mind, we reach the Hamiltonian. But we do not have to identify those link configurations while still write the same Hamiltonian to describe a system (which is not really $Z_2$ gauge theory). Here we still have the local symmetry of the Hamiltonian but there is no redundancy, so in this sense we can say that local symmetry is not a local gauge symmetry, which is in fact not a symmetry. I think the crucial difference between these two ways of defining a gauge theory is, in a real (fake) gauge theory, determined by the nature of the system to be described, the Hamiltonian have to (can but have no responsibility to) be gauge invariant.
In fact the relation from this discussion to Weinberg-Witten theorem is just my "random" thought, and I was just trying to understand the theorem intuitively.
@Mr.Gentleman, I don't know anything about $Z_2$ lattice gauge theory. But I did use the qualification "almost" for "it almost always gives rise to redundancy". In fact some not so trivial-looking local transformation may become trivial after the equations of motion are imposed, such local transformation does not lead to redundancy. But I suspect it is not the issue with $Z_2$ lattice gauge theory, and I don't understand what a fake gauge theory is.


Sometimes, just one quote says it all and offers encouragement to the soul.
And No Country for Old Men is loaded with such words of wisdom. If I manage to soak in and remember even half of the aphorisms that the story contains, I'll be able to turn my life around for the better.
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You're right. Movies rarely do justice to books on which they're based. As they say, movies just show you the tip of the iceberg!
But now that I've read the book, I'd definitely like to see the movie. Just for fun, you know.
I haven't seen the movie, I've read the book. It's good too!
The book is usually better, but Javier Bardem was amazing in the movie.


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