Looking for a job can be a challenging process, regardless of whether you're currently employed or are out of work. Of course, the advantage of being in the latter group is a little thing called time. Instead of trying to figure out how to sift through postings without your boss finding out or devoting nights and weekends to tailoring cover letters and resumes, you have the luxury of throwing yourself 100% into your search.
The downside to this is letting feelings of insecurity and anxiety over being unemployed take over. You might feel frustrated that you haven't found a job yet. Heck, you might be genuinely worried about how you're going to pay your bills next month, or you might be feeling like no one will ever want to hire you because if no one has by now, it's never going to happen.
In spite of any negative feelings you may be harboring over your job status, you need to set them aside if you want to present yourself as a viable candidate. 14 career coaches weigh in on the job search mistakes unemployed people make.
If you're unemployed, and have been for a long time, it's common and totally understandable to feel stuck, frustrated, and a bit desperate. But, the one thing to keep in mind is that employers hire to fill needs. They may need to increase profits, balance a team's workload, expand a department, etc. Stay laser focused on meeting the needs of your prospective employers and you'll be on the road to a new position in no time.
What attitude are you bringing to the job search? How are you networking and communicating your desire for work? I've noticed that in the past when I've come from a place of desperation others could sense it, and it definitely didn't do me any favors. Approach each and every connection from a place of service—even if you're feeling despair. Ask yourself how you can be of service, and your energy will automatically attract rather than detract.
When you're unemployed, your job is finding a job. It's legitimate in its own way. I encourage people to use the same dedication and discipline they demonstrate while employed. Make a plan, develop a schedule, create a routine each day, and set goals for yourself. Treat your days like workdays—keep up your good routines and be productive.
Walking around with an 'I'm not worthy' mindset is a huge problem and not one that's likely to escape the notice of hiring managers. When networking and interviewing, nothing is more important than demonstrating your strengths and possessing confidence—job or no job. If you haven't done the personal work to get there (affirmations, gratitude journal, channeling mentors), it's going to be difficult. So, do the work. You'll never convince someone you're hireable if you don't believe it yourself.
When you're an unemployed job seeker, you're going to want to do everything you possibly can to get a job, which can lead to emphasizing quantity versus quality. Instead of thinking about how many jobs you applied to or how many cover letters you wrote this week, focus on submitting top quality materials for roles you're truly interested in. Attempt to form connections with people at those companies.
Don't talk yourself out of applying for a role you really want just because the competition scares you or you're not 100% qualified. If you convince yourself you're not good enough for a position or think no one would ever consider you, you miss out on a lot of potential opportunities. Be willing to put yourself out there and risk the rejection that you're likely to experience as a result of the job-search process.
While confiding in professional contact about your job search struggles can be cathartic, more often than not you'll end up coming across as desperate. This isn't a good look and won't position you as someone who's capable and qualified. Instead of lamenting your situation, think of how you can show your value to your network. Save your personal frustrations for a close friend or family member.
Many people don't realize the emotional toll unemployment can take. Any significant loss—including being laid off or fired—can involve grief. Though you may go through emotional ups-and-downs throughout unemployment, it's important to realize that mourning is a natural process. Learning the five stages of grief is a great place to start to lift yourself out of an unemployment rut. It'll help you understand your thought processes and devise action steps to move through it more quickly.
If you're unemployed, you may think you have no leverage and have to take what you can get, but this is incorrect. Focus on your totality of experiences and practice speaking broadly about your strengths and skills in a way that brings your entire background into the conversation so you're not focusing solely on your most recent position. Do you have a side hustle that you've been building? Have you done meaningful volunteer work that's helped you build out a new skill set? Taken any continuing education or online class to gain fresh knowledge? Bring these into the discussion.
The job search is fraught with rejection, but the challenge is in not letting those failures influence your ability to succeed. In Michael Lewis' bestseller on behavioral economics, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, we learn that judgment is greatly influenced by our last impression, our last experience. Apply that insight to the job search, consciously letting go of each no so you can keep moving forward. Failing is a part of life and something to learn from, not something to hold you down.
When funds are running low, and panic starts to set in, leading you to apply for stuff that's way beneath what you're actually qualified to do—with a resume that indicates that you're not working—you're going to raise eyebrows. Hiring managers may assume that you're up to exactly what you're up to: scrambling to land anything you can get. You're wasting your time and theirs applying for roles that would've been a good fit 10 years ago.
I'm not of the mindset that looking for a job is a full-time job. I recommend spending four solid hours a day of concentrated, strategic effort in your search—researching positions, writing cover letters, and setting up interviews. Choose hours when you're at your most energetic and enthusiastic. Spend other time on indirect job-search actions including self-care, hobbies, and networking in all its many forms.
Despite their best intentions, friends and family can offer input that can lead you to feel overwhelmed and question your path. Because their advice is typically based on their values and experience, they may be unaware of your actual goals and aspirations. While they mean well, they may be getting in your head in a way that's hindering—not helping you.
Finding a job can be long and draining. It takes a lot of courage to continually put yourself out there, write a strong cover letter, update your resume, and send it off to someone in the hopes that they'll contact you. And when you're unemployed, it's really easy to become demoralized every time you don't hear back from someone, each time you receive a rejection. Keep perspective: This is temporary. Believe that your hard work will eventually lead to an opportunity.


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T.I. Taking His Daughter for Hymen Tests Is a Violation of Her Privacy
In this op-ed, Teen Vogue's identity editor Brittney McNamara explains why T.I.'s daughter being subjected to hymen checks is a violation of her privacy, and an enforcement of outdated patriarchal standards that exist to control women.
There are many ways society shames women and girls, and sexuality is right there at the top of the list. Rapper T.I. put that on clear display when he recently said on the podcast Ladies Like Us that he takes his daughter to the gynecologist every year to see whether her hymen is intact as a way to test whether she's had sex.
When asked whether he's talked with his children about sex, T.I. said on the podcast that he has, and that he accompanies his 18-year-old daughter to the gynecologist to see if she's had it. During these annual gynecological trips, T.I. said he asks the doctor to check his daughter's hymen to see if it's intact, which to him signifies if she's had sex or not.
"This is what we do. Right after the birthday we celebrate," he said. "Usually like the day after the party she's enjoying her gifts. I put a sticky note on the door: 'Gyno. Tomorrow. 9:30.' So we'll go and sit down and the doctor will come and talk and the doctor's maintaining a high level of professionalism. He's like, 'You know sir, I have to, in order to share information' — I'm like ... 'they want you to sign this so we can share information. Is there anything you wouldn't want me to know? See doc? No problem.'"
There are a few problems with this approach — aside from it being pretty gross. One is that the hymen's condition is not an apt indicator of whether or not someone has had sex, as it can tear during many activities that aren't penetrative sex. The other is that T.I. seems to be exercising the same kind of thinking that enforces a man's control over a woman's body and sexuality, ignoring her bodily autonomy and choice.
Let's tackle the science of it all first. The hymen is a thin membrane located just inside the opening of the vagina. While a very small number of people are born with a hymen that's completely closed up, most people have a small opening in their hymen already to allow things like menstrual blood through. Some people are born without a hymen at all. Many things aside from penetrative sex can "tear" a person's hymen, including horseback riding, tampon use, gymnastics, bike riding, or masturbation. T.I. admitted that when he brings his daughter to these checkups, the doctor tells him as such, but he chooses to ignore that.
"And so then they come and say, 'Well, I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding, and just other forms of athletic physical activity,'" he said. "So I say, 'Look, Doc, she don't ride no horses, she don't ride no bike, she don't play no sports. Just check the hymen, please, and give me back my results expeditiously.'"
In fact, there is no way to test whether or not someone is a virgin, largely because virginity is a social construct, and it is not a medical or scientific term or necessity.
T.I's willful ignorance of science is the least of the problem. The larger issue is that he seems to be playing into an outdated standard that puts men in control over women's bodies, defining their value in relation to whether or not they've had sex.
The way we treat girls and women having sex in the United States is laden with shame. Students in 29 states are taught sex education that stresses abstinence, and students in 19 states are taught that they shouldn't have sex outside the confines of marriage, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Often, people — girls specifically — who do have sex before marriage are compared to things like chewed gum: the analogy goes that you can't unchew a piece of gum, and once it's chewed it's ruined for everyone else. We talk about girls "losing" their virginity, or "giving it up" to someone, automatically putting them in a position of having a piece of themselves taken away. T.I.'s insistence on his daughter's virginity is the continuation of a patriarchal standard that determines women and girls' worth based on their so-called "purity."
In fact, having had sex says nothing about your character, and it doesn't make you any less worthy of anything. Sex is not a moral fault, it's a natural thing that most humans do, and marriage makes it no more legitimate. The World Health Organization, United Nations Human Rights, and United Nations Women said as much when they teamed up last year to put out an interagency report condemning virginity testing across the globe, calling it a human rights violation.
"[Virginity testing] further reinforces socio-cultural norms that perpetuate women's inequality, including stereotyped views of female morality and sexuality, and serves to exercise control over women and girls," the report says. "Virginity testing violates well-established human rights, such as the right to be protected from discrimination based on sex; the right to life, liberty and security of person (including physical integrity); the right to the highest attainable standard of health; and the rights of the child (when performed on a girl aged under 18 years)."
The report goes on to note that virginity testing can be painful and humiliating, all for a test that has no medical or scientific basis.
We don't know how his daughter feels about her father taking her to do this, nor do we imagine that she's thrilled that people are talking about this facet of her life on the internet. The point is that any girl's sexual history, or lack thereof, is not her father's business, nor his story to tell. No girl should be subjected to forcible tests that are seemingly meant to determine her value or integrity. Rather than bringing his daughter to do something that numerous world agencies have called a human rights violation, T.I. might better serve himself and his children by being more educated on sexual health, and empowering his children to make safe, healthy decisions that are right for them.
Some might argue that T.I. is trying to protect his daughter, something that's understandable for any parent to want to do. But it's unrealistic to think that young people don't have or desire sex, and it's a violation of privacy and bodily autonomy to subject someone to a physical exam to try to prove that they haven't. This kind of fear-based enforcement (because what happens if you fail the test?) isn't productive. Protecting your children could also come in the form of harm reduction, like teaching them how to use condoms and birth control, and what consent means.
That's the problem with this narrow focus on virginity. Policing someone's sexual activity, perhaps before they've even engaged in it, doesn't set them up for consensual, pleasurable experiences in the future. Instead, it creates a sense of shame and fear around sexuality, positioning it as something to be exercised in secret. If we aren't taught about our own bodies and we don't figure out what we like on our own, it makes us more vulnerable to bad — and even non-consensual — sexual experiences in the future. It doesn't seem too much to ask that we imagine more for girls and women, empowering and allowing them to make their own sexual decisions. This involves recognizing that our sexuality exists outside the realm of a man — and certainly outside the control of our fathers.
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Keith Baum is a self-described "undiagnosed entrepreneur" who has launched several companies over the course of his career. Baum started in the produce business at the age of 21, selling farm-fresh strawberries. But when sales began to decline after 14 years in business, the entrepreneur needed a new and fresh idea.
Looking outside of produce, Baum picked a product that he was very familiar with: pecans. He had grown up in a plantation home in Louisiana surrounded by fruitful pecan trees which he harvested every year for his grandmother. While looking into his next business venture, Baum came across her secret pecan recipe, and realized he had a winner on his hands. So, he began making the specialty pecans and selling them at local farmer's markets.
As the pecans' popularity grew, so did the business, which spurred Baum to officially launch Holiday Fried Pecans in 2013. The company was and still is a "fourth-quarter company" since the fried pecans are sold only as a seasonal product in small, local, and specialty shops, as well as through Holiday's website.
But after some time, it was clear that people wanted more access to the specialty nuts as distributors began asking Baum for a year-round product. In response, he formed Baum's Fried Pecans in 2018. These pecans are sold year-round to major distributors, including Bed Bath & Beyond.
Today the company operates both Holiday Fried Pecans and Baum's Fried Pecans out of Alexandria, Louisiana, and sells the specialty pecans in 48 states and in 4,000 stores, as well as online. But the journey from farmer's markets to major retail stores is one with a few twists and turns, especially with the pecan's packaging.
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In the early days, when Baum was selling the pecans at local farmer's markets, he was using store-bought bags and packaging the nuts himself.
"In the old days we were buying brown coffee bags with the clear windows and filling those up," explains Baum.
As the company grew, so did the operations. The company moved to buying stock pouches and stickers, with Baum and his team putting on each sticker on each pouch by hand. While it provided a better package overall, this process still had its shortcomings. Hoping to not only save time and money, but also gain a more professional look to the product, Baum began to explore the options for acquiring packaging for pecans.
"I was looking for automatic labeling companies, but after really looking into it, it didn't actually seem easier or cheaper. I realized within a week that we needed to be in custom-printed pouches," says Baum.
But finding the right supplier for fully custom pouches wasn't as easy as he had hoped. Baum originally hired a large conventional printer for his pecan packaging and soon felt a little lost in the shuffle.
"I was with a major competitor of ePac and felt like a very small fish in a large pond, and was treated that way," says Baum.
Baum was growing frustrated with the quarterly price increases and inconsistent invoicing. When ePac approached Baum with a better solution for his pecan nut packaging, he was all ears. With ePac's digital printing technology, there are no plates and the set up for each SKU is fast and easy. So, printing seasonal packaging, or customized and personalized packaging is simple and cost-effective. Hiring ePac in 2018 proved to be the packaging change Baum was waiting for.
"ePac offers us a great perk, no set-up fees! This is huge! It allows us to print seasonal pouches for Mardi Gras, Mother's Day, or just launch the pecans with different package designs. With other suppliers, we'd have to pay thousands in set-up fees," says Baum.
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Today, Baum utilizes ePac's fully custom, high-quality, stand-up pouches for both Baum's and Holiday Fried Pecans. The pecans are available in 4-, 8-, and 12-ounce sizes that feature a reseal zipper for easy snacking and storing. They also feature an easy open tear notch for consumers, and a hang hole for simple retailing.
"Packaging is very, very important. It has to be attractive, and functional for both the customer (retailer) and the user," says Baum.
ePac specializes in short runs, is competitively priced, and has offices throughout the U.S., including the Austin, TX office that Baum works with, which is only a few hours away from his operations. But the main difference between ePac and large conventional printers? ePac caters to small and start-up businesses, working alongside them to help them grow and succeed. From the start, Keith Baum knew that working with ePac was different than working with his former pecan packaging supplier.
"I feel like a medium fish in a medium pond now. The key is the no set-up fees, it's next to unheard of. I couldn't be happier so far," says Baum.
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Discussion in 'General Electronics Chat' started by xdrxs, Apr 1, 2014.
This is my first post so if I make any newb mistakes regarding forum protocol, please forgive me.
I am in the middle of one of my first electronics projects, which involves building my own IR controller for some multi-color LED bulbs that came with a remote to control color, brightness, and toggle on/off.
I hooked up 2 AA batteries in series to power circuit board, and then touched a piece of aluminum foil to the different contact points on the front of the board. The light bulb changed colors as expected when I completed the circuit, but not for all buttons.
None of the buttons on the right side of the remote worked, including "ON". All the other buttons not on the right column of the remote did work when I pressed the piece of foil to the contact point.
1. Why didn't ON or any of the buttons on the right side work, and how would you go about diagnosing further?
2. What is thing in the red circle on the back of the circuit? I think it's an IC, but there is a strange black covering on it that I can't peel off.
I can't tell you why, but I can tell you what. That black bump is a protective coating called, "glob top". Do not attempt to remove it or you will destroy the circuits.
Have you reassembled the remote to see if it's still working?
The buttons on the right might not have a function, or your testing was not able to detect the function.
You could have damaged the digital circuitry under the glob if you tried to remove it like #12 said, unless they didn't work from the beginning. But also it could be some open circuit trace in the board. You can test with a DMM on the ohmmeter setting. There are two separate traces that get connected when a button is pushed as you can see, so pick one, follow it as far a you can go, back to the blob if possible, and put one lead of the DMM there and the other back at the button for that trace (near the blob you need to push you sharp probe hard enough to cut through the resist). If it shows a resistance, very small, but something, then no short. But do it again for the exact same button for the other trace. If both are fine for all the right side buttons then it has to be the digital circuitry under the blob.
Most of those types of button use a sort of matrix style setup where say if you have 16 buttons, then you have four traces going horizontal and 4 going vertical, well they don't have to be that way on the circuit board, but that is the way it works. The digital logic or microcontroller will apply a voltage down each of the horizontal or vertical traces at a time then measure the opposite (vertical if voltage was applied to horizontal and vice versa) to see if the voltage appears. You see what I mean?
As an example it would start at the top horizontal trace and apply a voltage there, then see if there is a voltage at any of the four vertical traces one by one or all at the same time if it isn't a processor under the blob and just digital logic, if it doesn't find one, it moves down and applies a voltage to the second horizontal trace and then repeat the process until it finds where a voltage is measured and by knowing the row and column you know the button.
My whole point of explaining that above was that since the right side buttons don't work, maybe the trace is broken somewhere for the right column of the matrix. But I didn't look at the board close enough to see if this was the actual implementation. They could just as very well use two pins for each button, or several smaller matrices, etc. It's just that the matrix method saves some pins and traces and the description above is just one way they could do it. But really there should only be two problems, a broken trace somewhere, or a screwed up digital circuit under that glob. If it is the latter I guess you could cut it off and put a microcontroller on there and kind of rig it up, or make a new redesigned PCB the same size that will fit in the case, I don't know how far you want to take this project. But if it is just a broken trace, and you found where it is then you could scrape off the resist and solder a small wire over it.
Thanks for your detailed reply. I *kinda* see what you're saying, and if I hooked up a DMM to the circuit I might grok it more deeply. I just got my IR sensor in the mail, so I'm going to move on and get the IR signals and then duplicate them with my microcontroller and IR led.
I did reassemble the remote, but still the right side of buttons does not work so probably I damaged it somehow in opening it. I guess I'll leave it at that and move on with the project.
I've analysed the PCB photos. It is definitely matrixed in banks of 4 across, and the right hand column of 6 buttons is connected to one trace that goes to the IC blob.
That trace has a test point, at the very bottom left corner of the PCB in your second photo. You should check continuity of that trace back to the IC blob.
Also the conductive paint through-via might have failed (the white circle, also bottom left corner). They use that paint to make all the dark grey "tracks" on the front of the board (and the vias), there is only copper on one side.


Quick post on Brunch at One at The Hazleton Hotel. Eggs and potatoes are simple and delicious. Lemon pancakes are good too but was not feeling the chocolate brioche french toast. Maybe it's supposed to be, but I found it really bitter. The maple cream syrup didn't seem to help. The restaurant itself is a nice relaxed atmosphere. I've been to dinner there and it's better. A bit too pricey for brunch.


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Skyline Park was designed in the 1970s by noted modernist landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. This Historic American Landscapes Survey, HALS-CO-01, was the first HALS documentation project in Colorado. It was also the first project nationally to document a mid-century modern landscape. The documentation, conducted during Skyline Park's demolition in 2003, was funded in part by grant awards from the State Historical Fund, a program on History Colorado, the Colorado Historical Society. This project has been recognized with a State of Colorado Stephen Hart Preservation Award.
Associate Professor Ann Komara presented the Skyline Park HALS documentation project at the eighth biennial DOCOMOMO conference held in New York City (2004). Her book Lawrence Halprin's Skyline Park (2012) was produced and published in collaboration with The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Princeton Architectural Press as the inaugural monograph in their Modern Landscapes: Transition and Transformation series.


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5-Year-Old Girl Died From a Flu Strain She Was Vaccinated Against
She's one of 56 children in the US to die from the flu this season.
By Brie Schwartz
Kiera Driscoll, a five-year-old girl from Nevada, recently passed away after contracting the flu.
According to KVVU her family took her to a walk-in clinic on Monday after she came down with a fever, however, her health worsened and she died on Tuesday.
"Life will never the same," Kiera's aunt, Laurel Beckstead told KLAS.
Her mother, Tiffany, told KLAS that Kiera loved "hugs, rainbows, ponies, kittens, princesses, purple, unicorns and everything magical. You would have never met a happier little girl."
Kiera's dad, Patrick said, "Every father thinks their little girl is special, and she was my little girl."
Kiera had been vaccinated earlier in the flu season for Influenza A, the same flu strain she was ultimately infected with.
Her family, who says there were no warning signs before she died, hope that Kiera's story will serve as a reminder to parents to take the time to show their children they love them.
"Don't ever lose that moment to take your child in your arms," Beckstead said.
At least 56 children across the US have died from the flu since September, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the organization, the 2014-2015 seasonal vaccine was effective only twenty-three percent of the time due to a mutation in the H3N2 strain of the virus. In past years, the vaccine's effectiveness ranged from fifty to sixty percent.
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What's New on Netflix: May 10th, 2019
by Kasey Moore @kasey__moore on May 10, 2019, 11:16 am EST
Pose season 1 is now on Netflix
Welcome to your look at all the new releases for May 10th on Netflix in the United States. In total, there were 17 new additions today on Netflix which we'll take you through below.
We hope you're ready as Netflix has some fantastic new additions today and while we can't give a proper overview for every title, there's plenty to watch and some excellent highlights too.
Don't forget, if you missed any of the daily additions this week, check out our new releases section for all the daily recaps. We'll be back tomorrow for a full weekly recap plus back on Sunday for the preview of the week to come.
Without any further delay, here's a look at what's new on Netflix for May 10th.
POSE (Season 1) .
Cast: Angelica Ross, Evan Peters, Mj Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson
Looking for a new musical series to watch? Then POSE is for you. The stylish series just dropped on Netflix but first premieres on FX. The series is set in the late 80s in New York and is about how the African American and Latino communities interact together.
The series comes from the creator of American Horror Story and Glee, Ryan Murphy. Ryan Murphy also recently signed an overall deal with Netflix so expect more of this on Netflix in the future.
If you loved Netflix's The Get Down (RIP) then you will absolutely adore this series.
Wine Country (2019) Netflix Original Movie.
Director: Amy Poehler
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Erskine, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey
Saturday Night Live fans of the 2000s will feel right at home with this ensemble comedy that features the likes of Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Tina Fey and many others.
It's the directorial debut for Amy Poehler which sees a group of friends meet up to relax and drink wine.
Harvey Girls Forever! (Season 2) Netflix Original Kid Series
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Cast: Lauren Lapkus, Stephanie Lemelin, Kelly McCreary, Grey Griffin
This series has a name you may not be familiar with as it's been renamed since season 1. It was called Harvey Street Kids before but is now titled Harvey Girls Forever!.
We've known quite a bit about season 2 for some time including what to expect. This season the adventures with the girls of Harvey Street continue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyHrOLjiphw
The Society (Season 1)
Genre: Teen, Drama
Cast: Gideon Adlon, Domenic Arduino, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo
If you love teen dramas such as Riverdale or Chilling Adventures of Sabrina or have been wondering where exactly Between season 3 got to, this is the show for you.
The series sees all the adults disappear from a small town and chaos breaks lose.
The Full List of New Releases on Netflix (May 10th)
9 New Movies Added This Week
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Q: Best approximation and an inequality Let $H$ be a Hilbert space. Let $E\subset H$ and $x\notin E$. Suppose that there exists $y^*\in E$ such that $$\|x-y^*\|=\min_{y\in  E}\|x-y\|$$ (i.e., $y^*$ is the best approximant of $x$).
I hope (from geometric intuition) that the following inequality is true.
$$\|x'-x\|^2+\|x'-y'\|^2\ge \|x'-y^*\|^2$$ for every $x'\in H$ and $y'\in E$.
Can anyone prove this?

A: Take
\begin{align}
H &= \mathbb{C} \\
E &= \lbrace 0, 4 \rbrace \\
x &= 1 \\
x' &= 3 \\
y' &= 4
\end{align}
Then $y^* = 0$, and the conjecture is proven false.

A: I assume $E$ is convex and $H$ is a real Hilbert space.
Wlog, $y^\ast = 0$.  Since $E$ is convex and $0$ is the closest point in it to $x$, we have $\langle y,x\rangle \le 0$ for all $y\in E$.
If $\langle x,x'\rangle \le 0$ then
$$
\|x'-x\|^2 + \|x'-y'\|^2
\ge \|x'-x\|^2
= \|x'\|^2 + \|x\|^2 - 2\langle x,x'\rangle
\ge \|x'\|^2
$$
as desired.
If $\langle x,x'\rangle > 0$ then decompose $x' = \lambda x + v$, where $\lambda > 0$ and $\langle x,v\rangle = 0$.  Note that $v$ is the nearest point in $x^\perp$ to $x'$, and that since $\langle x,x'\rangle > 0$, all points in $E$ are on the other side of $x^\perp$ from $x'$, so they are further away from $x'$ than $v$; so $\|x'-y'\|\ge\|x'-v\|$.  Also, $\lambda x$ is the nearest point in the span of $x$ to $x'$; so $\|x'-x\|\ge\|x'-\lambda x\|$.  Thus
$$
\|x'-x\|^2 + \|x'-y'\|^2
\ge \|x'-\lambda x\|^2 + \|x'-v\|^2
= \|x'\|^2
$$
again as desired.
(Incidentally, the problem is really two-dimensional; everything of interest happens in the plane through $x$, $x'$, and $y^\ast$.  So if you want, you can draw a picture and do everything with classical Euclidean geometry.)

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Power beyond borders
The climate crisis is the greatest act of systemic racism in human history, argues Cameron Joshi
July 7, 2019 · 6 min read
Storm damage in the Philippines, after Typhoon Ondoy caused heavy flooding in Marikina City, Manila, in 2009. Since then, an average of 21 million people a year have been displaced by extreme weather-related disasters. Photo: Greenpeace / Gigie Cruz-Sy
The ice caps are melting, temperatures are rising and wildlife is being eradicated at an alarming pace. Ever larger swathes of the earth are desertified and ever larger areas of biodiversity turned into wasteland. Vertebrate wild animal populations have declined by an average of 60 per cent in 40 years, according to the WWF's Living Planet Index, and the number of climate-related natural disasters requiring UN World Food Programme intervention has quadrupled over the same period.
Yet we show no signs of stopping. Still we burn more fossil fuels, extract more minerals and metals, cut down more forest and farm more intensively than at any time in history.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have barely a decade to cut our emissions and reverse these trends to avert the risk of runaway climate breakdown. This is serious – and urgent.
First and worst
Those living in the global south, or among the working and precarious classes of the north, suffer first and worst from the climate crisis. Most of them are black or brown, and most of them are women. The greatest emitters and most prolific consumers live in the global north.
Large tracts of the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa are expected to become too hot for human habitation over the next few decades. Many low-lying coastal areas and islands, including many areas of dense population, are likely to be lost to the sea. Bangladesh, with its population of 165 million, will be particularly hard hit, with an estimated 27 million people at risk from sea level rises by 2050, according to the IPCC. Tens of thousands have already been forced to move.
The climate crisis is the greatest act of systemic racism in human history, with corporate power right at the centre.
We're not just talking about the fossil fuel industry – the most profitable in history – but the large and powerful corporations extracting the earth's natural resources. Their vast extractive projects are responsible for 50 per cent of carbon emissions and an overwhelming 80 per cent of biodiversity loss. Their tax avoidance and profit shifting has looted billions from the global south.
Illicit financial flows lost Africa at least $1.2–1.4 trillion from 1980 to 2009, according to the African Development Bank, with more than $30 billion a year leaving the continent by the end of that period – three times what it received in development aid. Worldwide, developing countries have experienced a net outflow of more than $16 trillion on trade, debt repayments and other financial flows to the rest of the world since 1980.
This system is accompanied by real violence. More than 200 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2017, mainly in the south, according to monitoring by the Guardian in collaboration with Global Witness. The number of killings has almost doubled since 2014.
One of the best-known victims was the Honduran indigenous activist, Berta Cáceres, after whom the pink boat at the centre of the recent Extinction Rebellion protests in London was named. She was assassinated in her home in 2016 for her activism on a range of environmental and human rights issues, including a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder, Sinohydro, to pull out of a hydro-electric dam construction project on the Rio Gualcarque.
In the global north, too, black and brown people bear the brunt of climate-related problems and corporate extractivism. Black British people are 28 per cent more likely to be exposed to air pollution than their white counterparts, according to a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs impact assessment. In the US, a 2017 study by the University of Washington found that race mattered more than income in determining exposure to nitrous oxide pollution. More explicit violence against minorities has been used to crush indigenous environmental resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Coastal GasLink.
The power of large corporations to go where they want, extract what they want and brutalise who or whatever they want in pursuit of profit for the global north is neo‑colonialism and ecocide.
This freedom of movement is not extended to everyone. Since 2008, an average of 21.7 million people have been displaced each year by extreme weather-related disasters according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The Environmental Justice Foundation has estimated that global warming will force up to 150 million climate refugees to leave their home countries by 2050, with 600 million or more at risk of displacement.
People seeking safety in the global north face serious violence, including rape and often death, along the most dangerous migration routes in the world. In the Mediterranean alone, at least 14,795 people died between 2014 and 2018 as they tried to cross to Europe. Those who make it to the UK are faced with the 'hostile environment' policy to deter migration and can suffer indefinite detention while their cases are processed. Everything is designed to make life as hard as possible for migrants who are deemed 'illegal' by the government's oppressive immigration laws.
Border regimes have the primary purpose of preventing people from the global south from gaining fair access to the hoarded – and stolen – wealth in the north, and from fleeing the effects of the north's fossil capitalism. They are a key part of our extractivist and unequal economy.
Radical solidarity
As activists, our reaction to this must be radical solidarity. Climate justice requires that we stand with people who are suffering the most from the brutal racist logic that underpins climate breakdown. We have to forge links between movements, because a diverse ecology of groups is more threatening to corporate and state power, and more likely to succeed.
As migrants' rights and climate justice activists, we have to help each other, not only because we target the same structures but because we are part of the same fight for life and for justice. Together we can turn the tide against systemic racism and ecological collapse.
Reclaim the Power is organising the 'Power Beyond Borders' camp from 26 to 31 July in the south east of England. It will be a base for actions targeting both new fossil fuel infrastructure and the hostile environment. reclaimthepower.org.uk
Cameron Joshi is a member of Reclaim the Power and other activist groups. thearmyofthree.wordpress.com
Election 2019: An ambitious, agenda-setting and credible manifesto
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Asad Rehman talks to Ashish Ghadiali about why, across the political spectrum, Zero Carbon 2030 must become the rallying cry in GE2019.
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Taking on industrial agriculture
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It's time to add global justice to XR's demands
Extinction Rebellion must recognise the impacts of colonialism and capitalism, and demand a just transition for all, argues Aranyo Aarjan
Why we've joined the global climate strike
Landry Ninteretse and Ian Rivera share perspectives from Kenya and the Philippines and call for universal energy systems that are clean and renewable, public and decentralised


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Good nickname for a Sky forme Shaymin?
I'm looking to give my Platinum Shaymin a good nickname, but my mind is completely blank.
Do you have any Pokémon that you think suit their nicknames perfectly, or have good nicknames? If so, post them here. I love to read what people have named their Pokémon.
I also named one of my Eevees Eeveeon, its an Espeon now, but the nickname is still the same.
A Nominon, Doo Doo, De Do Do!
Flick? Sorry if it's dumb, I don't nickname pokemon unless it's easy or funny. Abomasnow Obamasnow.
Thank you Pikazapper for the Kirretress and Shiny Kirretress images. You rock.
If the Forest God actually had a name in the movie Princess Mononoke I would say to name it that. Other than that I am drawing blanks.
The nicknames i gave my pokemon are in my sig.
Thanks to BurningLeaf for the Floss/Cotton Candy Hydreigon!
Thanks to The Guardian of Light for the Red, White, Black Aggron!
Thanks to Ruki for the War's Bane Userbar!
Thanks to Sir Swagalot for the Shadow Hydreigon!
i have a Pikachu named Muis and a Nidorino named Rongeur. they seem to fit those nicknames very well.
I would name it Sora!
Making the world a better place, one Chikorita at a time!
I very much like this one.
Actually, Sora is pretty good. If you're familiar with the Mystery Dungeons games you would probably know about Explorers of the Sky. Well its Japanese name is Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai. Shaymin is also the mascot of said game. A name homage if I do say so myself.
Skymin also works as that is what mostly everybody calls Sky forme Shaymin.
"For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the world, and loses his own soul?"
Click the Eggs/Pokémon to make them hatch and grow respectively.
But Skymin is plain. Then, would you name a regular Shaymin Landmin?
Yea, Sora means sky and would be a very fitting name for Sky forme Shaymin, but it's very overused, mostly thanks to the Kingdom Hearts games, and I like to have unique names for my Pokémon.
I wish Sora wasn't so overused though, I do love that name.
Super high-level high school fanfic author!
As for perfect nicknames, my Zapdos is Voltaire.
add me to your pal pad for daily clicks!
hablo un poco de español & je parle un petit peu de français!
Soraji is quite cool, although it reminds me of Romaji, from the Ghibli films. o.o He looked like Eggman, it was creepy.
Voltaire is a pretty awesome nickname for a Zapdos. xD I approve.
I wouldn't have a Sky Forme shaymin, I really dislike it. I love regular shaymin, though, and I named mine Pum.
I would say "Sky Rider" for Sky Form Shaymin.
I named my Ponyta "Waliya", don't ask me why, though.


The image of wild horses on a scrub brush plain stirs the spirit of rampant Western freedom. Just as we broke free from old England, the ancestors of these animals broke free from Spain hundreds of years ago, and they have since become a symbol of the West. A symbol only means so much, however, and the volatile population growth of wild horses over the last decade has created a mire of policy issues, only escalating in recent years.
Starting Oct. 10, more than 713 wild horses to date have been rounded up by wrangler and helicopter in the eastern corner of California. The population control effort in Devil's Garden Plateau in Modoc National Forest has a final goal of 1,000 horses to be reached by Nov. 16. Roundups like this occur regularly across the West, but this one is unique in that it will be the first time in over 40 years that "sale without limitation" of federally managed horses is on the table — meaning that 300 older horses not adopted within 60 days can be sold for any purpose, including slaughter. It's one of the last-ditch efforts to respond to an issue that has grown steadily worse over the last few years due to overpopulation, the influx of invasive plants in formerly forageable terrain, increased development, and drought.
After receiving federal protection in 1971, wild horse populations across the country have been growing at extreme rates — as much as 20 percent a year for some herds, and the entities responsible for managing them say it has taken a significant toll on the landscape.
"We have somewhere around 3,900 adult wild horses on the territory right now, so we're an order of magnitude 10 to 20 times the carrying capacity that the land can support," said Ken Sandusky, public affairs officer for the Modoc National Forest, noting that the Appropriate Management Level (AML), or population the Devil's Garden management plan has determined the area can support, calls for a maximum of 206 to 402 adult wild horses on a total area of 232,520 acres. The horses are intended for adoption, but the last resort of sale without limitation is in response to a tight budget that has been increasingly strained in attempting to address the issue.
Sandusky noted in response to this that the horses are far more destructive than the cattle, due to a difference in oversight. Livestock are closely managed; their owners are fined and the stock are relocated if they are found to be damaging an area — an occurrence he said "happens all the time." Two grazing allotments have actually been pulled back in the past year according to Sandusky, who stated that the land had become too sparse for cattle to graze. He also added the horses often target sensitive riparian areas, trying to avoid inedible invasive plants such as medusahead grass that have overrun much of the formerly forageable land in the area.
While opposing the extremity of the AMLs, Roy at the AWHPC agrees that horse populations do need to be managed, but she disagrees on the method. She opts instead for birth control techniques as opposed to gather and sale. The BLM spends about 68 percent of its $81 million wild horse and burro management budget on herding, short- and long-term holding and placement into private care for horses. This is compared to $144,551 allocated to population growth suppression in the 2017 fiscal year.
For the Virginia Range herd of 2,951 wild horses on the outskirts of Reno, Roy says the AWHPC used birth control techniques such as the porcine zona pellucida (PZP) and GonaCon vaccines for mares to great success, but the project was eliminated last year. The Virginia Range herd is one of the few in the country not under federal ownership or protection, and the campaign had a contract with the controlling entity, the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA), to manage its horses until the agreement was dissolved last year.
"We had a team of volunteers and about a $50,000 budget and we have vaccinated more mares with the birth control vaccine than the entire BLM did with an $80 million a year budget the year before," Roy said of the project. According to the campaign, their volunteers darted 494 horses with PZP and delivered 462 booster shots, compared to the BLM's 452. After terminating its agreement with the AWHPC, stating the campaign had not fulfilled the terms of its agreement, the NDA board voted 8 to 1 to transfer the herd to private ownership and sent out a request for proposals to potential buyers on Jan. 30. After five months passed without applications, the NDA withdrew the request in June and the fate of the horses remains uncertain.
Lisa Dearing, who has a history of professionally photographing the Virginia Range horses, says things have been rough for the herds over the last few years, with the effects of climate change exacerbating the problem.


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Q: Neo4j advanced mapping SDN WE have been using basic neo4j SDN repository.save() for saving a large number of entities in one shot using bolt driver. However, it is taking more time than we anticipated. JUst came across the same queries in StackOverflow and found "advanced mapping with neo4j" is faster. Can anyone explain or provide some links for the same?
save method of CRUDRepository is very slow?
Spring Data Neo4j: why save method takes so long?

A: figured out one reason that made graph DB queries slow,
We were using @Transactional for the method that involved "lock" operations. ANd that made slow
Execution time w/o @Transactional: 30 seconds
Execution time with @Transactional: around 4 mins
We then implemented manual locking strategy! still, 30 seconds is so much for a single graph DB query. Looking forward to some inputs to optimise further.


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Q: I need to store and retrieve an group of form elements with each group being stored as an array of form elements I have a form that is made up of groups of elements that I store in a db table.
I use the table to build out the form pre populated with the data from the table I then can make any edits to any of the fields. If changes were indeed made then I reload the data to the table based on the form that was submitted. This works great for the most part by simply giving the name of the fields an array name like
<input  type="text" name="phone[]" value="123-123-1234"/>

for every element. When the form is submitted I read the arrays and load the data
The problem arises when I want to use a radio button which is normally stored that way as it needs to identify the options of the radio as an array turning one on and the other off and then storing the answer in the name given in the radio element so
YES<input  type="radio" name="choice[]" value="YES"/> NO<input  type="radio" name="choice[]" value="NO"/>

give you the option for each iteration. So when I store the data from all these groups I need the individual options for each of the choice arrays to match up with the other elements in each group of elements
I tried doing something like this with not much luck
        echo'   Yes <input type="radio" name="type'.$c.'[]" value="IT" checked="checked"/>';
    echo'   No <input type="radio" name="type'.$c.'[]" value="NON"/>';

inside of a loop that iterates $c so I end up with type1[], type2[] type3[] etc where the number matches the element in the phone array as well so phone[$c] is in the same group as the choice of YES or NO store in type$c[0] this works great in the form as each group radio button element turns to yes or no independently of the others without the type.$c it combines them all into a single block of radio buttons with only a single option being able to be selected.
Maybe I am overthinking this and just so focused on this approach that I can not see a simpler one. If I am indeed missing the KISS solution please do not bash me too much and possibly supply me with the answer.

A: Well I found the resolution I was overthinking it
The answer was to use this structure in the radio element of the form
    echo'   Yes <input type="radio" name="type['.$c.'][]" value="IT" checked="checked"/>';
echo'   No <input type="radio" name="type['.$c.'][]" value="NON"/>';

and then when parsing the forms parameters read the radio value like this
$choice=$type[$c][0]---while incrementing $c
so I was close


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Home News Poll: Support For Black Lives Matter Protests Plummets Amid Riots
Poll: Support For Black Lives Matter Protests Plummets Amid Riots
The public's support for protests against police brutality has plummeted after months of riots that have caused billions of dollars in damage to major American cities.
A poll released Wednesday by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that public support for protests that broke out after the death of George Floyd in May has declined drastically to 39% from 54% in June. The poll shows that 44% of Americans disapprove of the protests.
The poll was conducted on Sept. 11-14. Surveys were given to 1,108 adults online and over the phone. The margin of error for the poll results is +/- 4.0 percentage points.
Among black Americans, support for the protests has dropped 18 points from 81% in July to 63% on Wednesday. A similar drop has taken place among white Americans whose support for the protests has fallen from 53% to 34%.
The poll found that the percentage of adults who consider the protests to be mostly peaceful or a mix of peaceful and violent has fallen several points while the number of adults who consider the protests to be mostly violent has jumped eight points from June (22%) to September (30%). The percentage of Americans that believe police violence against the public is not a significant issue has jumped eight points from June (21%) to September (29%).
Protests over the death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman, in March erupted in Louisville on Wednesday after charges were announced in the case. Police officers killed Taylor during a raid on her apartment after Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at the officers who had just broken down the front door, hitting one in the leg. The officers returned fire and Taylor was hit eight times.
Grand jury charges were announced against one former officer involved in the raid on Taylor's apartment. Former police officer Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for allegedly firing off 10 shots "wildly" into the apartment after shooting broke out. Two other officers who fired shots were not charged over the incident, and no charges were brought relating to Taylor's death.
As The Daily Wire reports:
Hankison was fired from the department three months after Taylor's death. Then-Police Chief Robert Schroeder wrote that Hankison violated standard operating procedure when his "actions displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life" when he "wantonly and blindly fired ten (10) rounds" into Taylor's apartment.
"The result of your action seriously impedes the Department's goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible," he wrote. "I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department. Your conduct demands your termination."
Some have suggested that the lack of charges over Taylor's death is a cover-up led by Kentucky's black attorney general Daniel Cameron to protect police officers. Retired Los Angeles police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, who is also black, attacked Cameron in an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, saying he is "skin-folk" but not "kinfolk."
Cameron said in a press conference on Wednesday that though Taylor's death is a tragedy, the facts of the case do not support criminal charges against the officers who killed her. The officers did not execute a no-knock warrant and police and witness testimony shows that the officers announced themselves before breaking down the door to the apartment, Cameron said.
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No Power Tussle Among Abia APC Leaders — Nyerere Anyim
Politics By Ifeanyi N. Aug 20, 2021 Updated: Aug 20, 2021 No Comments3 Mins Read
Dr. Nyerere Anyim, former governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the 2015 election in Abia State and current representative of the Southeast zone in the National Pensions Commission, has insisted that there is no power tussle in the party as insinuated in some quarters.
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Anyim spoke in a telephone interview with the media on Thursday over rumours of a power tussle among political leaders in the state following the controversies that trailed the outcome of the just concluded APC ward congress.
InfoStride News recalls that the Hon Donatus Nwankpa-led Caretaker Executive Committee of the APC in the state alleged that the national electoral committee assigned to the state to oversee the ward congress absconded from the exercise and worked in favour of a faction of the party that held a parallel congress.
But Anyim described the Abia APC as one of the most peaceful and organized parties in the southeast, maintaining that there is no existence of faction or leadership power tussling over the control of the party's affairs in the state.
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According to the former Southeast National vice chairman of APC, "the issue of power tussle does not exist no matter how you look at it. It is when you are aggrieved that there will be power tussle whether you agree or not, you will now see it as power tussle. The point is straight, the entire southeast or Nigeria in general, Abia APC is one of the most peaceful and organized parties. We have one executive led by Hon Donatus Nwankpa, and there is no other executive as I'm talking to you.
"So, the issue of power tussle, I don't know where it comes from. But, I am not unmindful, because there is nothing you will not see in politics. In politics, you see all sorts of intrigues from people coming out one way to another to claim they are this or that. That does not justify or legalize whatever obnoxious claims or opinions or assumptions there may have.
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"What I am trying to say is that, in Abia state, we recognize one executive, and that is the executive committee led by Nwankpa. Until their tenure elapses, and a new executive emerges. But for now, if I may use the word, there are no factions in APC in Abia state.
"Unless if you want to talk about some group of people out of ignorance or stupidity, who have failed woefully to truncate the successes of the party in the state. All I want to tell Abia people, they should ignore those distractions, and then focus on how to move the party forward, " Anyim concluded.
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Analysis: Vietnam shifts gears on arms trade as it loosens ties with Russia
December 7, 20225:18 PM GMT+7
By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh Vu
T-72 B3 tank operated by a crew from Vietnam fires during the Tank Biathlon competition at the International Army Games 2022 in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia August 16, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
HANOI, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Vietnam is eyeing a major defence shift as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Russian arms and launch a push to export locally made weapons, officials and analysts said, with possible buyers in Africa, Asia – and potentially even Moscow.
The Southeast Asian nation is one of the world's 20 biggest buyers of weapons amid on-and-off tensions with China, with an annual budget for arms imports estimated at about $1 billion and set to grow, according to GlobalData, a provider of military procurement intelligence.
Most of that money has historically gone to Russia, which was for decades Vietnam's main supplier of weapons and defence systems. That made Vietnam one of the top buyers of Russian arms, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which tracks global military expenditures.
But that is changing as Vietnam strives to become more self sufficient, obtain advanced gear that Russia can't provide, and faces Western pressure to reduce arms purchases from Moscow amid its invasion of Ukraine, analysts said.
Instead, Vietnam is turning to suppliers from Europe, East Asia, India, Israel and the United States, diplomats, officials and analysts said. It has also boosted its domestic military industry with support from Israel and other partners, and hopes to export weapons, analysts and officials said.
Nguyen The Phuong, Nguyen The Phuong, formerly a defence researcher at Vietnam National University and now at the University of New South Wales, Australia, said there had even been internal discussions in October about whether the country should sell weapons to Russia – although no decision on that was seen as imminent.
The Russian embassy in Hanoi and Vietnam's defence and foreign ministries had no comment.
Starting Thursday, the country will host its first large-scale international arms trade fair, for which more than 170 companies from 30 countries have registered, the defence ministry said.
They include Western companies such as U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin and France's Nexter, and defence groups from Israel, India, Japan and the United Arab Emirates.
The three-day event in Hanoi will help Vietnam "diversify procurement channels and sources of technologies to produce military equipment for the country's armies and for exports," the ministry said in a statement in November.
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The country's defence industry produces armed vehicles and light weapons, such as anti-tank rockets, grenade launchers and machine guns, Phuong said.
He added that Vietnam had started to develop more high-tech systems, including drones, radars and anti-ship missiles, often in partnership with foreign firms.
The Defence Ministry referred questions about the country's defence industry to the Foreign Ministry, which did not respond to requests for comment.
Last week the defence ministry in its official newspaper said Vietnamese state-owned Z111 military firm would exhibit pistols, machine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles at the arms fair, with the aim of exporting them.
Dozens of Vietnamese defence firms, including army-controlled Viettel, will also showcase their wares. The government and military companies do not publish data on sales.
Siemon Wezeman, senior researcher at SIPRI, said Vietnam's known production capabilities were very limited, with only small reconnaissance drones having been delivered in the last decade – although the country has increased its capabilities for assembling radars, missiles and ships designed by foreign partners.
Possible buyers for small arms would most likely be Vietnam's neighbour Laos and African countries, where Vietnam could offer competitive prices, said Ha Hoang Hop, a military procurement expert and visiting fellow at Singapore-based ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Phuong said Latin American countries and other Southeast Asian nations are other potential customers.
A half-dozen Russian defence firms are registered for the Hanoi fair, including Rosoboronexport, the state agency that imports and exports weapons.
Hop said Vietnam was negotiating possible deals to import satellites and other dual-use products from partners other than Russia.
That would accelerate a downward trend in imports of Russian weapons, whose value fell to just $72 million last year (30% of overall imports) from a 2014 peak of $1 billion, which that year was nearly 90% of the total, according to SIPRI.
Imports from Russia have dropped every year since then, except last year, when they slightly recovered after the 2020 nadir. That year, the COVID-19 pandemic reduced Vietnam's military imports to only $32 million, of which $9 million worth were Russian arms.
Vietnam has in recent years bought military gear from new suppliers, including the United States, Israel, the Netherlands and South Korea, SIPRI data show.
With the war in Ukraine, which Russia calls a "special operation", Vietnam appears to have sped up diversification.
India, Israel and Eastern European countries are better positioned as alternative suppliers because they can provide weapons compatible with the Russian systems that still account for 80% of Vietnam's arsenal, analysts said.
For more advanced systems, manufacturers in the West or East Asia may also be potential suppliers, said Carl Thayer, an expert in Vietnam diplomacy at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra.
Additional reporting by Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen; Writing by Francesco Guarascio. Editing by Gerry Doyle
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President Obama issues declaration allowing FEMA to provide emergency relief to the archipelago.
By Chad Blair / April 29, 2016
Presiden Barack Obama has declared a state of disaster in the Marshall Islands, as the nation suffers its worst-ever drought.
"The disaster declaration, which follows a request from Marshallese president Hilda Heine on 1 April, will allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency relief to the archipelago, which is suffering one of its worst-ever droughts," The Guardian reports.
Water is being "carefully distributed," with residents in the capital of Majuro "given an allocation once a week for a four-hour period."
Poverty is widespread in the Marshall Islands, as seen on Ebeye.
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The Marshalls rely on consistent rainfall for its water supply, but strong El Niño conditions have led to severe drought conditions.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is one of three Micronesian nations party to a treaty with the U.S. that allows for easy immigration to America, especially Hawaii.
As Civil Beat has reported, global warming is a serious threat to the survival of the Compact of Free Association nations and could lead to a mass exodus.
The Marshalls were one of the most vocal nations calling for a 1.5 celsius limit to the global temperature increase at the Paris climate talks last year.
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Portland Orthopaedics Wins US FDA Approval to Market New Primary Hips
First US sales order expected within weeks
Sydney, July 27, 2006 --(HSMN NewsFeed)-- Portland Orthopaedics Limited (ASX:PLD) has been granted US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the company's new M-COR primary hip in the US. The company will now ramp-up its manufacturing in preparation for delivery of its extended orthopaedic range to its exclusive US distributor, Plus Orthopedics Inc.
Portland's M-COR primary hip has the advantage of modular design and a distinct neck component, that improves the fit and adjustability of a primary hip replacement and which can lead to increased longevity of the implant. The M-COR primary hip is fixed in the thigh bone (femur) with a traditional hammer and nail method that is very familiar to orthopaedic surgeons, but has unique and patented methods for assisting the surgeon to obtain ideal fit for each person's anatomy.
"This is a major regulatory milestone for Portland. It is a green light for Portland to sell and implant its most important hip product throughout the US. The hybrid design of the M-COR includes some of the innovative features of Portland's revision hip while keeping the familiar interference fit method. This product is based on four years of market experience and has attracted significant interest from Plus and a small sample of US surgeons." said Mr David Sekel, Managing Director of Portland Orthopaedics.
"Portland will now be equipped to service revision hip replacement surgery as well as mass market primary hip replacements. Importantly, this makes Portland much more attractive to global hip and knee distributors as now we have a more complete suite to offer."
The product and instrumentation was principally designed by Portland's US Clinical Advisory Panel but will be manufactured in Sydney, Australia.
About Portland Orthopaedics : Listed on the ASX in December 2005, Portland (ASX:PLD) is a developer and manufacturer of specialist hip and knee joint replacements. Portland's first product, the DTC Hip, was conceived in 1991 as standard hip implants proved inadequate in cases with substantial bone loss especially where a hip implant had already been inserted. Portland's first hip implant was trialled in 1997 and so far more than 1,700 implants have been sold, the majority in the US and Australia.
Portland has regulatory approval to sell a range of primary, revision and tumour hip replacement products in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Israel.
Portland is expanding its business from a single product focus into a multi-product orthopaedics company. The Equator Plus cup and a second and complementary range of primary hip replacements are due for market launches in 2006. A fourth product range of total knee replacement products is due for release in 2007. The core technologies are all patented and future applications include shoulders, ankles and other joints.
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Dutch duo visit Sheboygan to bring to life the story of one of Lake Michigan's deadliest shipwrecks, the Phoenix
Maya Hilty
SHEBOYGAN - On an evening walk around Christmas 2020, Joske Meerdink stopped at a large monument in a cemetery in her hometown of Winterswijk, in the Netherlands, and began to read the story of the Phoenix.
She walked home and Googled the story for about four hours straight.
"I was immediately captivated by the story," she said.
Meerdink set to work on a year-long podcast about the sinking of the steamship and teamed up with Dutch filmmaker Diny van Hoften, who is making a documentary on the story.
The Phoenix was carrying more than 225 passengers, a majority of whom were Dutch immigrants headed for Sheboygan, when it burned to the water line on the early morning of Nov. 21, 1847, only miles from shore, according to the monument on Sheboygan's North Point.
The disaster killed all but about 45 people on board — becoming one of the deadliest shipwrecks on Lake Michigan, said Sheboygan Falls genealogist and historian Mary Risseeuw.
Meerdink and van Hoften visited Sheboygan in late July to interview people of Dutch descent in Sheboygan and Manitowoc counties, including descendants of people who survived the sinking of the Phoenix.
Dutch immigrants came to Sheboygan seeking 'a better life'
Meerdink and van Hoften's podcast and documentary will not only tell the story of migration from the Netherlands in the mid-1800s, personal stories of passengers on the Phoenix and accounts of the ship's sinking but explore connections among descendants of survivors.
After beginning her work on the podcast — with the help of Risseeuw, an expert in 19th- and 20th-century Dutch immigration to the Midwest — Meerdink discovered she is related to six of the 10 survivors from her hometown in the Netherlands.
"So my podcast is also about my search for family members who are still alive," Meerdink said, standing at Sheboygan's North Pier in late July. "I'm talking to them this week."
Van Hoften does not have a personal connection to the story but has long been interested in Dutch migration.
"Stories about immigration to the U.S. fascinate me because I can't imagine doing it — leaving all your family behind," van Hoften said.
"Most people didn't choose a better life for them, but for their children," she said. "What's fascinating about the Phoenix is people were wanting to give their children a better life, but a lot of children died on the Phoenix, so it's a really tragic story."
One factor driving Dutch emigration in the late 1840s was a potato famine in the country. Crop failures were making it incredibly difficult for farmers to make a living, Risseeuw said.
The desire for religious freedom, after a split in the Dutch Reformed Church called the Secession of 1835, also drove people to immigrate to the U.S., she said.
"The immigrants who came specifically to Wisconsin did not come with a minister in the same way they did to Michigan and Iowa, but for many of them (a reason for immigrating) was religious freedom as well," she said.
Colonists organized Sheboygan County around 1838 and the county grew rapidly in the 1840s, from 133 white settlers in 1840 to more than 1,600 by 1844. The first group of Dutch settlers arrived in the county in 1846, according to a 1920 clipping of the Sheboygan Press.
More:Cedar Grove Holland Festival honors Dutch culture with events this weekend.
More:Sheboygan native Tim Jacob was part of the expedition that found Ernest Shackleton's sunken ship, the Endurance, off Antarctica.
People have kept the story of the Phoenix alive for 175 years and counting. Here's why that matters.
In 1997, around the 150th commemoration of the Phoenix's sinking, a Dutch TV station made a six-part documentary about the disaster, Risseeuw said.
The documentary and podcast now being created for the 175th anniversary of the sinking of the ship are significant because they show a new effort is being made to keep the story alive, she said.
"A new, younger generation that potentially hasn't heard the story will now know it, and hopefully there will be new people to carry it on," she said.
Some younger people in Sheboygan said they only knew about the Phoenix because of the monument on North Point, Meerdink said.
"I thought, 'That's the same way I know the story also, by a monument,'" she said. "The challenging thing is to spread the story to a new generation so it didn't get lost."
Some people wonder why it is necessary to keep telling the story.
Risseeuw's response is there are a lot of people out there, some of whom may not have even been born 25 years ago, who may not know the story of the Phoenix is part of their own history.
Risseeuw lectures periodically about the ship and has heard from people that, for one reason or another, only recently found that they were descendants of survivors from its sinking.
"They're beside themselves that they are part of that story," she said. "And they get to find out more information about it."
The name of the Phoenix is interesting considering its end, Meerdink said.
"We end up putting our own spin on it," Risseeuw said. "You think about, you know, a phoenix rising from the ashes. One way to look at the name and its relationship to the story is the people who rose out of the ashes of that burning ship and lived were able to create lives in Sheboygan County."
"I sit with a smile from ear to ear after enjoying a trip to Sheboygan, Wisconsin USA," Meerdink recently posted on Facebook. "For 9 days we were away from home, almost 6500 kilometers away, but it felt like coming home."
The first episode of the podcast and documentary will both be released around Nov. 21 through Omroep Gelderland, the provincial broadcast station where Meerdink and van Hoften work.
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Reach Maya Hilty at 920-400-7485 or MHilty@sheboygan.gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @maya_hilty.


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Photocatalytic methods for amino acid modification
Thomas A. King, a Jiyan Mandrup Kandemir, a Stephen J. Walsh a and David R. Spring *a
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Amino acid modification plays an important role across several fields, including synthetic organic chemistry, materials science, targeted drug delivery and the probing of biological function. Although a myriad of methods now exist for the modification of peptides or proteins, many of these target a handful of the most reactive proteinogenic amino acids. Photocatalysis has recently emerged as a mild approach for amino acid modification, generating a sizable toolbox of reactions capable of modifying almost all of the canonical amino acids. These reactions are characterised by their mild, physiologically compatible conditions, greatly enhancing their usefulness for amino acid modification. This review aims to introduce the field of photocatalytic amino acid modification and discusses the most recent advances.
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CS00344A
Tutorial Review
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021,50, 39-57
T. A. King, J. Mandrup Kandemir, S. J. Walsh and D. R. Spring, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2021, 50, 39 DOI: 10.1039/D0CS00344A
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Homegrown Revolution
Fight climate change in your own backyard
September 10, 2019 jgerber123	1 Comment
Posted in Yes Magazine and written by Deonna Anderson
By 1944, nearly 20 million victory gardens produced about 8 million tons of food.
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During World War I, Americans were encouraged to do their part in the war effort by planting, fertilizing, harvesting and storing their own fruits and vegetables. The food would go to allies in Europe, where there was a food crisis. These so-called "victory gardens" declined when WWI ended but resurged during World War II. By 1944, nearly 20 million victory gardens produced about 8 million tons of food.
Today, the nonprofit Green America is trying to bring back victory gardens as a way to fight climate change.
That's according to Jillian Semaan, food campaigns director at Green America, who added that the organization wants "to allow people to understand shifting garden practices towards regenerative agriculture and what it means for reversing climate change and sequestering carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back into the soil."
The organization is doing that through an educational video and a mapping project. Recently, more than 900 people added their gardens or farms to the Climate Victory Garden map that tracks U.S. agricultural activities that use regenerative practices.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said—and continues to reiterate—that carbon sequestration accounts for a large portion of global agricultural mitigation potential. Globally, agriculture accounts for 11 percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans, according to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. But a movement called regenerative agriculture is pushing for farming practices that improve, conserve, and build up soil (and soil carbon). Experts say that practices that increase soil carbon—known as carbon farming—could curb emissions.
Over the next two years, Green America plans to educate people on the benefits of regenerative agriculture through its Climate Victory Gardens campaign. It is producing videos that will explain regenerative practices, and staff members will attend conferences to encourage gardeners and farmers to join the movement. By 2020, it hopes to have at least 5,000 gardens and farms on its map.
In its recently released campaign video, Green America describes five ways to make "climate victory gardens" using regenerative practices—such as ditching chemicals, covering soil, and encouraging biodiversity.
In addition to helping reverse climate change, regenerative practices also produce healthier soil that in turn produces healthier food.
"Soil health is so powerful, and we as a society, we as a people, need to understand what we're putting in our bodies, and it all starts with the soil," Semaan said. "It all starts with what we are about to eat, but we can't have healthy food if we do not have healthy soil."
This article was funded in part by a grant from the Surdna Foundation.
Reposted with permission from our media associate YES! Magazine.
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Allan Marble says:
Great video; short, clear and to the point. The gardens are also valuable in that they inspire expanded conversations about what we (as individuals) can do about climate change while improving our own health.
A great book about composting (and the value of mulching) is "The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book" published in 1971 (Rodale Press).