Bagnall Norton are planning for life in Division Two after sealing second place in the final round of matches.
But their winner-takes all clash against Endon didn't pan out as cricket lovers would have wanted.
Bagnall Norton started the day five points clear of their rivals, with the winners joining Norton in Hales in the promotion places. However, the inclement conditions forced the match to be called off, which left Justin Mould's men in second place.
Hem Heath seconds emerged victorious against Hanford in a match featuring two impressive centuries. Matthew Rogerson's 109 formed the cornerstone of Hem Heath's 219-6 declared, while Emrys Hunte added 50 not out. Arris Ziad claimed 3-61 for Hanford before seeing team-mate Talha Tufail compile 126 in reply.
But even though Chris Machin chipped in with 31, Hanford were bowled out for 188 as Khaled Ullah helped himself to 5-23.
Relegated Barlaston 2nd XI ended their season in fine style b y beating champions Norton in Hales by four runs. Sam Taylor (39) and Elliot Wilson (36) were in good touch to propel Barlaston to 176-9 declared. Jack Furnival took 3-25.
Norton in Hales went close in reply, aided by number 11 Simon Line's 58, but Mitchell Bromley (6-79) and Matthew Myers (3-82) left the home side 172 all out.
Oakamoor banked 25 points with an 83-run win against Crewe. Openers Tom Sherratt (48) and James Smith (33) impressed in Oakamoor's 175-8, despite Faisal Mahmood (5-52) doing his best to stem the flow of runs.
George Harding (25) and Mahmood (22) led the Crewe reply, but they were skittled for 92 as Paul Hammersley's 4-18 and 3-19 from Matt Wolff did the damage.
Moddershall & Oulton's second string ended up in fourth place thanks to a crushing 197-run win at Silverdale. Kashif Naveed (104) and Irfan Khan (101no) stole the show with the bat for the Modd men as they progressed to a formidable 259-8 declared. Matt Baker claimed 3-4 for the home side.
There was precious little for Silverdale to shout about in reply – Mick Moore's 31 not out side – as they were all out for 62. Tom Spruce took 5-27.
Stone seconds beat their Little Stoke counterparts by two wickets. Four wickets apiece from Jacob Ward (4-16) and Max Cuthbert (4-39) left Little Stoke 113 all out. George Boughey and James Sutherland shared six wickets in reply, but Stone crossed the line thanks to the efforts of Drew Chandler (36no) and Phil Cheadle (32).


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Report from Google EMEA Faculty Summit 8-10 February 2010
Submitted by aarne.ranta on 5 March, 2010 - 23:20
The Faculty Summit is a meeting organized by Google to gather Academic scientists and Google engineers together. ("Engineer" is the title of honour used by most of their scientists as well.) EMEA means Europe, Middle East, and Africa. This year's summit in Zurich gathered 99 Academics and a similar number of Googlers. The Academics were invited by Google; many of those I talked with could only guess why just they had been invited. But everyone had at least something to do with this year's four themes, one of which was Natural Language Technologies. Within this theme, we had an excellent representation from the MOLTO project, since also Lluís Màrquez from UPC was invited.
Most of the Faculty Summit programme consisted of Google engineers giving highlights of Google's ongoing research and future visions. This was highly interesting: of course we know what Google roughly is doing, and get impressed or puzzled by their innovations almost every day. But here we could hear something more, and even ask questions.
The top of the highlights for me was a talk by Franz Och about translation research at Google. Everyone knows Google translate, some people see it as a joke (or an inexhaustible joke generator), and almost everyone is impressed by it. The theoretical foundations are well-known from the works by people like Brown, Koehn, Ney, and Och himself - but all this leaves a lot of room for guessing how it really works.
One guess I had myself was that Google translate uses English as interlingua. This was first suggested by the translation of Swedish "jag är svensk" to German "ich bin Amerikaner", a joke that circulated in Sweden last summer. I tested this in various ways, and the hypothesis was confirmed by e.g. the neutralization of the plural "you": both "jag älskar dig" and "jag älskar er" produce "ich liebe dich" in German. Moreover, this makes sense, since there is probably much more data for Swedish-English and English-German than for Swedish-German, to train the statistical model. So I posed this question to Och, and the answer was: yes, in 99% of the cases, the only exceptions being language pairs like Croatian-Serbian and Japanese-Korean. The high percentage came as a surprise to me, but no-one else looked so surprised, so perhaps they knew it already.
In any case, this shows that an interlingua is a good idea when maintaining a growing number of languages (now 50-odd). At the same time, one may wonder how good English is as an interlingua - but probably it's the best one in the context of Google's methods, as there is so much English data.
Other interesting points in Och's talk were the "10 main challenges" for translation. My memory is that MOLTO addresses 5 of them:
translation from English to other languages (Google is at its best when English is the target)
morphologically rich languages (Google treats word forms as primitives, without further morphological analysis)
word order variations (where syntax rules seem to be the key)
sharing language models for different purposes: translation, information extraction, etc
and sorry, I don't remember now what the fifth one was. But maybe the talk will appear in YouTube like an earlier talk by him
On the other hand, it became even clearer than before that Google's definition of translation is different from MOLTO's. For Google, a translator is a program such that you can throw any document at it, and it returns a document in another language; there is no condition of semantic equivalence other than that the result is in some way useful and informative. This is actually quite like their search philosophy: there's no guarantee that the best results are returned, but the hope is high that they will be useful.
A related Google principle is that something is always better than nothing. A translation with some correct words is better than no translation at all. Google seems to apply this to software in general, very much in the spirit of the open source movement: release early and often, instead of keeping it to yourself until it's perfect. I really like this principle and follow it in many things I do; my former PhD student Björn Bringert, who is now a Google engineer, was always a good example of how to applying it.
Anyway, as it belongs to Google's definition of translation that you can throw anything at it, MOLTO is actually not doing translation at all! It was a slight disappointment to me to realize this, but after all it's just a matter of terminology. OK, we are doing something else than translation, but we want to render the original message unaltered and in grammatically correct language. If we can't do this, we just tell the user, "sorry we can't". And in the future we want to be able to do more than just say this, probably using statistical techniques. I also believe that the linguistic resources created in GF - morphology, syntactic combination rules - could be a useful addition to Google's fundamentally statistical model, but it remains to find out how exactly to use them. Both these grammar+statistics questions will be central in MOLTO.
Another interesting talk was Fred Jelinek's (Johns Hopkins) chronicle about the emergence of statistical speech recognition and machine translation. He confirmed explicitly what Per Martin-Löf once was the first one to point out to me, namely that the technique is based on Shannon's work on decryption just like the first attempts in machine translation in the 1940's. What Jelinek and his team had at IBM in the 1980's was, first and foremost, more computational power, so that they could apply the models effectively. Another interesting fact was that DARPA was always explicitly interested in translation from other languages to English, because this was what intelligence wanted. Hence it's no coincidence that almost all literature on statistical machine translation focuses on this direction. Another reason, I think, is that it is easier to get good quality in this direction, which was also one of the things pointed out by Och.
In the statistical translation business, it seems to be a rule of the game that the engineers should know as little about the languages as general. Knowing a language would be cheating. One good effect of this rule might be that the methods are not biased to particular languages, and can hence always be applied to new ones. On the other hand, many of the methods are really biased toward English (with its poor morphology and rigid word order), and I find it implausible that one can ever reach high quality without actually knowing how the languages work.
Outside the Natural Language programme, there were many interesting talks, and of course discussions with colleagues, both Academic and from Google. The event was extremely well organized. Taxis picked us up at Zurich airport on Monday morning and took us back there on Wednesday afternoon; buses took us from Google to the hotel late in the evening and back early in the morning (with an intermediate dinner stop at a nice restaurant on Tuesday). Google premises were a pleasure to stay in, and the food was really good. The only thing I regret personally was that we weren't really given any chance to walk the recommended 10,000 steps a day, which e.g. the Android pedometer uses as its default goal.
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Q: How to install specific gdb (or other) package version using apt-cyg in Cygwin? I am trying to install fresh version of gdb debugger on my cygwin (version that comes with cygwin is buggy). Since I need the newest version of gdb, I need to use apt-cyg to install it.
When I run apt-cyg install gdb=7.12 I get an error message: Unable to locate package gdb=7.12. I also tried 7.12.1-1 and 7.12.1, but same problem.
Does apt-cyg support version targeting?

A: When I run apt-cyg install gdb=7.12 I get an error message.
You won't be able to get this version until it is added to Cygwin.
The latest version integrated into Cygwin is gdb-7.11.1-2:

Source Cygwin Package Search

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I have a question about mana maze and going infinite with Isochron scepter. Does that mean I cannot cast dramatic reversal over and over? Or lightning Bolt for that matter?
April 7, 2019 2:57 p.m.
What's all of your thoughts on adding the new Expansion/Explosion card to this deck is seems pretty good.
April 4, 2019 2:26 p.m.


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30 Jan 2015 | Commentary | News
Advocating for Drug Policy Reform at the United Nations
What is UNGASS 2016, and why does it matter?
In April 2016, the United Nations will convene a General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) specifically related to drugs. While the agenda has not yet been set, this UNGASS will be the highest-level debate on the international drug control system in recent history. As the highest policy-making and representative body in the United Nations, the General Assembly will serve to guide global drug policy cooperation and shape debate for the coming years.
What is WOLA working to accomplish at the 2016 UNGASS?
WOLA has been working together with our partners to ensure the discussions serve to advance human rights and public health, and reflect the growing global debate on the failures of current policies and the need to explore alternative approaches that are more effective and more humane.
The International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), a worlwide coalition of reform-minded drug policy organizations of which WOLA is a member, has outlined five key policy "asks" for the UNGASS. These reflect the broad and deep-seated problems with the prohibitionist model, and encourage member states to recognize the failures of past policies and adopt new evidence-based approaches that prioritize human rights and public health.
1. Ensure an open and inclusive debate
2. Re-set the objectives of drug policies
3. Support policy experimentation and
4. End the criminalization of the most affected
5. Commit to the harm reduction approach
To read more about the preparations for the 2016 UNGASS and our policy asks, click here.
Other commentary, analysis, and resources on the lead-up to the 2016 UNGASS
Global coalition of NGOs form "Stop the Harm" drug policy reform movement in advance of UNGASS
Stop the Harm seeks to rectify the catastrophic failures of the current global drug policy regime through campaigning for a new course firmly grounded in health, compassion, and human rights, and will highlight relevant events, actions, and campaigns advancing reforms.
Uruguay presents its document on the Impact of the World Drug Problem in the exercise of Human Rights
This document represents the Uruguayan contribution to the implementation of the resolution "Contribution of the Human Rights Council to the Special Session of the UN Assembly the World Drug Problem 2016.
IDPC recommendations for the "ZERO DRAFT" of the UNGASS outcome document
In the lead up to the negotiations of the UNGASS outcome document, IDPC has drafted this advocacy note with recommendations on the structure and contents of the "zero draft".
IDPC Drug Policy Advocacy Training Toolkit, Module 5: The 2016 UNGASS
This new module intends to guide participants through the processes of the 2016 UNGASS on drugs, to place the Special Session in the broader context of global drug policy, and to explore the various ways in which civil society can impact upon the UNGASS and its preparatory process. This is part of our Drug policy advocacy training toolkit, available here.
The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its special segment on preparations for the UNGASS on the world drug problem: Report of proceedings
This IDPC report provides an overview and analysis of the key debates and discussions that took place during this year's CND, in particular in light of the approaching UNGASS.
NGOs brief Member States on Health and Harm Reduction in Drug Policy
In advance of a high-level meeting on UNGASS, WOLA joined with 12 NGOs in sending a letter calling for policies that promote public health and harm reduction.
UN Human Rights bodies to actively participate in the UNGASS
In response to widespread calls from human rights groups and reform-minded nations to include a human rights focus in the drug policy debate, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution to contribute to the UNGASS in 2016. The UNHRC has requested the creation of a study on the impact of the world drug problem on human rights and will host a panel discussion on the topic.
To read more about WOLA's advocacy at the UNHRC with partner organizations, please click here. For the full text of the UNHRC resolution, click here.
Giving voice to drug policy reform at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
Countering what has long been a closed off process, WOLA's Coletta Youngers joined civil society colleagues in Europe to present alternatives to failed drug policies at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna. The CND is the primary location for the debate and planning leading up to the UNGASS, and encouraging a diversity of voices helps to ensure the UNGASS recognizes new approaches to drug policy.
To see how WOLA and our colleagues stimulated debate on alternative development, click here. To read the presentation on women and incarceration, click here.
Contributing to UN consensus on drug policy reform
The E-Book of Authorities, a joint creation of the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Transnational Institute, and Harm Reduction International, catalogues agreed UN statements and language on a selection of topics, to show the extent of existing international support for evidence-based drug policies. The objective of the E-Book of Authorities is to help inform international drug policy discussions, debates and negotiations.
To view the new tool, please click here.
Blogging the road to UNGASS
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the central policy-making body of the UN drug control system. Despite this key mandate, it chooses to work in secrecy – meetings are not webcast and reports of the meeting are very limited. The CND Blog is a project of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC, to which WOLA is a member) with the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care, Release and the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policies, and provides regular updates on the important debates that will define the 2016 UNGASS
Click here to follow the road to UNGASS.
Civil society advocacy at the United Nations in New York
WOLA is a member of the New York NGO Committee on Drugs (NYNGOC), which provides a platform for discussion of drugs and drug-related subjects and interfaces with the United Nations (UN) to collaborate on solutions to global drug problems.
To learn more about the NYNGOC's work, please click here.
Informal Drug Policy Dialogues
Since 2007, WOLA and the Transnational Institute (TNI) have conducted a series of Informal Drug Policy Dialogues between civil society and government officials to promote the open-minded exchange of information and strategies on a range of policy issues. These initiatives have allowed advocates and practitioners to share their views on current dilemmas in international drug policy and discuss strategies for promoting alternative drug policies that promote human rights and protect public health.
To read the rapporteurs' reports from these dialogues, please click here.
Modernizing the international drug treaty system
In a report with the Brookings Institution, WOLA's John Walsh analyzed tensions between international law and recent initiatives in the United States and Uruguay to legalize the recreational consumption of marijuana. The authors argue that the creation of legal regulated marijuana markets offers an opportunity to enact narrowly crafted treaty reforms to modernize the treaties that govern international drug law.
Click here to read the full report.
U.S. Drug Policy Disconnect: Starting Harm Reduction at Home, Deep Into 'Drug War' Abroad
27 Jul 22 Commentary
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6 Jul 22 Commentary
Colombia's Truth Commission Final Report: Meeting the Victims
28 Jun 22 Commentary
Analysis of the trend to legalize the non-medical use of drugs with an emphasis on cannabis
25 May 22 Commentary


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Ramphidium surinamense is een vlinder uit de familie van de snuitmotten (Pyralidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1880 door Möschler.

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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import models, migrations
import django.db.models.deletion
from django.conf import settings

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        migrations.swappable_dependency(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL),
        ('api', '0105_card_promo_link'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='ModerationReport',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(verbose_name='ID', serialize=False, auto_created=True, primary_key=True)),
                ('creation', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
                ('status', models.PositiveIntegerField(default=1, choices=[(0, 'Rejected'), (1, 'Pending'), (2, 'In Progress'), (3, 'Accepted')])),
                ('comment', models.TextField(help_text='If your report is accepted, the account will be marked as fake and will never appear in leaderboards. Provide proofs below.', null=True, verbose_name='Comment', blank=True)),
                ('moderation_comment', models.TextField(null=True, verbose_name='Comment', blank=True)),
                ('fake_account', models.ForeignKey(related_name='moderationreport', to='api.Account')),
                ('fake_eventparticipation', models.ForeignKey(related_name='moderationreport', to='api.EventParticipation')),
                ('images', models.ManyToManyField(related_name='report', to='api.UserImage')),
                ('moderated_by', models.ForeignKey(related_name='moderation_done', on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, null=True)),
                ('reported_by', models.ForeignKey(related_name='reports_sent', on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, to=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, null=True)),
            ],
            options={
            },
            bases=(models.Model,),
        ),
    ]

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è un brano musicale del gruppo musicale giapponese Arashi, pubblicato come loro quarto singolo l'8 novembre 2000. Il brano è incluso nell'album Arashi No.1 Ichigou: Arashi wa Arashi o Yobu!, primo lavoro del gruppo. Il singolo ha raggiunto la seconda posizione della classifica Oricon dei singoli più venduti in Giappone, vendendo 362.490. Il brano è stato utilizzato come tema musicale del dorama televisivo Namida wo Fuite con Yōsuke Eguchi, Yuki Uchida, Aya Ueto ed il membro degli Arashi Kazunari Ninomiya.

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CD Singolo PCCJ-00003
 Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi - 4:41
 Ok! All Right! Ii Koi Wo Shiyou - 4:02
 Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi (Karaoke) - 4:41
 Ok! All Right! Ii Koi Wo Shiyou (Karaoke) - 4:02

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Walter E. A. van Beek is a Dutch cultural anthropologist with a large field experience in West Africa. He performed fieldwork among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon and Northeastern Nigeria, and among the Dogon of Mali, for over four decades. On the religions of both groups he has published extensively. He held the chair of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University and is Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. In biblical studies his main interest is the Old Testament, for which his African experience is a major inspiration.
Walter contributed a chapter to As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture.


At the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, FX CEO John Landgraf announced that Fargo and Louie have both been renewed.
Louie, back for Season 5, will have a much shorter season than usual - just seven episodes, which will debut in spring 2015.
No timeframe was revealed for when Fargo would be back yet, just that it will once more be comprised of ten episodes.
FX also confirmed what we'd already heard would be the case if Fargo returned - Season 2 will feature an all-new cast of characters, a new time period and a new "true crime" story, and will not be a continuation of the storylines from Season 1. Though given how the first season ended up having stealth connections to the film, there will be plenty of speculation of how Season 2 will tie into the larger world of Fargo.
Executive Producer and Writer Noah Hawley will once more guide the second season of Fargo. Landgraf revealed there was already quite a bit of work done on the scripts for Season 2.
Update: Landgraf went on to say Louie: Season 5 will be "seven or eight episodes."
He also revealed Fargo won't be back until at least fall 2015.


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Q: Codeigniter join 2 tables on a pivot table So I am trying to join Table A, and Table B by using a pivot Table C as the joining parameter. I am wondering how to do this in codeigniter. So for example
Table A has 3 fields and an ID
Table B has 3 different fields and an ID
Table C has 1 ID from Table A and 1 ID from Table B joining them.
Now normally a join in codeigniter would be
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('tableA');
$this->db->join('tableB', 'tableB.ID = tableA.tableBID');

This works, when Table B and Table A have a common ID to join, but when the only way to get to Table B is through Table C I do not know how to do it from CI. Any ideas?

A: If you the common ID in Table A can be found in table C then you can join Table A to C first then join Table C to B.
$this->db->select('*');
$this->db->from('tableA');
$this->db->join('tableC', 'tableC.ID = tableA.tableBID');
$this->db->join('tableB', 'tableB.ID = tableC.tableBID');


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Funders and Recipients: In Whose Best Interest Are Contracts?
Recently, I received an interesting phone call from a client who works for an Israeli based nonprofit organization who asked me the following question, "We just received a grant from the Chaya Foundation in Chicago. They want us to sign a contract that stipulates any legal disagreements will be settled in the State of Illinois. Should the organization sign this agreement with this specific clause?" (In order to protect the privacy of the foundation the name and state have been changed.)
When I heard this a red light went off in my head. I immediately thought of the nature of the relationship between the funder and the recipient organization. What goes into establishing the ground rules for receiving a grant from a foundation? What are appropriate requests that a funder can make of a recipient organization? What are the rules guiding the implementation of the grant and the running of the program? Are there limits as to what the foundation awarding the grant can request from the grantee?
These are all key questions and too often they are not considered by organizations that apply and successfully receive funding. Most nonprofit organizations know they are in a very competitive market. When they are notified that they have been awarded a grant they are so thrilled to receive the funding they do not always pay attention to the fine print in the contract. In this case, however, the recipient's staff member read through the letter of award and the attached letter of agreement between the Israeli based organization and the Foundation with attention to potential points of conflict. A great deal can be learned from this example and it behooves all of us to consider the lessons learned from this case example.
In order to understand the ground rules and requests when it comes to funding, I would first like to define some important terms. The most sought after form of support to the nonprofit organization is an unrestricted allocation or gift. Essentially what this means is the agency is free to use the money in any way it sees fit. This is the most valued form of support an organization can receive because it is up to the leadership of the organization how to use the funding.
In contrast there is the restricted contribution or allocation that must be used for a specific purpose. There are many forms of restricted contributions and they range from funding capital projects, such as buildings and providing subsidies for services to underwriting entire programs. What they all have in common is that the funder is very clear about how the support they are providing should be used. In most cases, a letter accompanying the contribution or a letter of award from a foundation will state very clearly how nonprofit is expected to use the funds.
Most organizations know that they have to follow the donor's wishes for both legal and ethical reasons. Since a Letter of Award is considered a binding contract, in most cases a separate written agreement between the donor and the recipient is not necessary. However, there are times when it is important to be very clear about the funder's intentions and the expectations they have of the nonprofit receiving their support.
In most cases, organizations will not abuse the funder's desires in regard to the use of the money. For obvious reasons, the nonprofit's leadership want to maintain a good relationship with the donor to ensure continued contact and perhaps continued funding. In most cases, there is the possibility of receiving continuing support for either the specific project or future unrestricted contributions.
Having said this, there are philanthropists and foundations that require a formal agreement to be signed between them and the recipient organization. When a contract is requested it does not imply that there is no faith or trust in the nonprofit organization. More often than not what this indicates is the foundation's desire to be very clear about how the funds are expected to be used and a way to prevent any misunderstanding between the two parties.
A nonprofit organization should take the opportunity to make sure their leadership is aware of the contract and has a full understanding of its implications before signing any agreement. Usually, the signing of the agreements signifies the board of directors' understanding of how the allocated funds are to be used and they accept the legal obligation for ensuring the funds are used as stipulated in the contract. It is not unusual for the chief executive officer or the president of the board to have the agency's lawyer review the agreement as a safety net against any issues that may be problematic for the nonprofit.
In the case of the Chaya Foundation mentioned at the beginning of this article, for example, which stipulated that any legal issues concerning the use of its funds would be subject to the law of Illinois, where the foundation is based, is not so simple. I recommended the recipient agency consult with a lawyer who was either familiar with the Illinois laws or was licensed to practice there.
The crucial question in this particular case is whether a disagreement between the foundation and the agency could be settled in a court in Israel or only in Illinois. Did the Illinois court have jurisdiction over a nonprofit organization in Israel? Did an Israeli court have jurisdiction over a foundation located outside of Israel? These questions and more should be considered by both the foundation and the agency before any agreements are signed.
When a foundation awards a grant it needs to understand the limits of what it can dictate and when a nonprofit organization agrees to accept funds it needs to understand the full extent of its responsibilities and, at the same time, what is within its legal rights. For both sides it is essential to both protect their separate interests and maintain goodwill. Unfortunately, while good intentions and goodwill are essential components to the funder-recipient relationship, they are still not sufficient when it comes to the fulfillment of fiduciary responsibilities.
Stephen G. Donshik, D.S.W., is a lecturer at Hebrew University's International Nonprofit Management and Leadership Program and has a consulting firm focused on strengthening non-profit organizations and their leadership for tomorrow. Stephen is a regular contributor to eJewish Philanthropy.
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Here is a humble tableware collection that is fully compostable and still, very elegant.
Conceived by top Japanese creative director, Shinichiro Ogata, Wasara is pure, textured and white. It's also very warm and nice to the touch.
Made from a new mix of biodegradable composite materials that doesn't include trees, the cups, plates, bowls and vases are made from a mix of agricultural waste including bamboo, reed pulp and bagasse.
Perfect for taking to a tea party or picnic at the park Wasara is extra light.
Designed to be fully compostable when finished with, it can be disposed of in an environmentally-friendly way.
Using compostable or biodegradable elements also saves on having to do a big wash up after a gathering, while avoiding the need for using nasty plastic containers that will take years and years to degrade, if they eventually do.
Wasara tableware replaces plastic and also wood pulp disposables while accentuating every dish you serve by adding an ephemeral aura.
Talking about its practicality, this tableware is suitable for cold and hot foods. It is oil and water-resistant and can be stored in the fridge and is super flexible and microwave-safe.
Designed from organic lines it fits comfortably in your hands but yet it is sturdy.
Wasara tableware is responsibly manufactured near the source of its raw materials and its factory recently achieved an ISO 9001 and 14001 certification.
The company has also designed disposable and compostable bamboo cutlery to go with the Wasara collection and they are in talks relating to producing them in biog badges, to be used as airline tableware in the future.
Disposable tableware should be used in counted occasions and not on a daily basis, of course. But if there is a special occasion that deserves this elegant tableware, biodegradable is a better choice than plastic!


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April 12, 2017 April 13, 2017 Les Weil
by Phil Rossi
I was working undercover as a private investigator when the agency decided to strip my pay. Hank was the house manager in charge of the assignments, while I played gumshoe, digging up the mischief in a musty warehouse.
Scheduled to receive two paychecks for my dirty work as a mole. One from the warehouse, the second through the agency. That's when Hank decided to get cute with my earnings, ignoring the fine print of our agreement.
"The agency never sent this week's check," I phoned the office, calling out Hank.
"You're already getting paid by the warehouse. That's double-dipping, in case you didn't know," Hank said.
"I signed a contract with Reggie, who happens to be the owner of this agency and your boss. I'm done reporting until I get my money," I told Hank.
Forget the folklore surrounding those film noir and hard-boiled detectives from yesteryear. The ex-cops and office managers I've come across are far from noble. Hank called back to say Reggie settled the issue in my favor.
I returned to the post, decked out in my daily garb. Flannel shirt, blue jeans, and steel-tipped boots. After Reggie secured the assignment, I posed as a grunt to snoop around the warehouse.
Undercover is a tedious and lonely slog. It often takes weeks to settle into a position and tap the gold. Nobody better know of your agenda, because once they do, you're toast. If it's the owner spying on his employees, one slip and the company could face a sick-out or a union strike.
With this much tiptoeing about, you can't be too smart or eager. There's two jobs at hand, and to keep the mission afloat you need to juggle the act.
On this case, Arthur became Reggie's new client and golfing buddy. Arthur owned a nutraceutical and herbal supplements business. An ex-employee named Brad, ditched Arthur and his vitamins to begin his own start-up.
When I met Arthur in the agency's conference room, he claimed Brad invaded his data base, lifting Arthur's secret sauce and customer logs on his way out the door.
It remained Arthur's word against an unassuming Brad. Or maybe he did know. Expecting Arthur to run a power smash in the name of revenge and a torched ego. Barricaded in the rafters of his warehouse while building his brand, I hardly saw Brad.
I wondered how long the agency would milk this gig when Reggie oversold my expertise, getting me a two-week extension. I couldn't look for the swag anyway, too busy moping around the warehouse. A stalemate of loading, unloading, and stacking parcels, while the missing mother lode churned in the computer system.
Reggie couldn't give a duck's ass over my lack of progress either. Despite his plaques and citations, Reggie was a salesman first, then a private eye. More concerned with his incoming cash than his outgoing results. Along with the country club, time and patience made up his sales pitch.
On the flip, Hank was steamed to Hades. As the warehouse shut down for the weekend, an anxious manager tracked me down. When I explained the set-up, Hank bristled.
"I don't want this extension to expire. You need to earn your keep and show the goods," Hank said.
Fine. Maybe you and Reggie could do this bum work, and I could hold down a cushy surveillance, follow a cheating spouse, or tee it up on the links.
"What do you suggest?" I baited the know-it-all, armchair quarterback.
"Starting Monday, I want you to hack the customer base. Figure out a way to break into one of their computers. We need to produce the names this guy's doing business with, or we'll lose the job and bonus to another agency."
Not that I'd be seeing any of that bonus money, I web-searched Arthur, his company, and jaded ex-workers. I discovered a monster. Once I found a former employee, I'd troll their social media to read the lovely sentiment they all shared.
Many posted about being overworked, underpaid, and verbally abused. Some of the women insinuated there were sexual advances by Arthur himself, a married man. Voices in the chat rooms egged the ladies on to press charges.
Arthur was a predator, with a trail of targeting weak and vulnerable people. And here I sat, taking my cut of his filthy cash. My life's objective was to put a guy out of the game, who's only crime might be looking out for himself.
On Monday, the warehouse intercom paged my name. Riding the service elevator, it came to mind I might've been burned. While I mined the gunk on Arthur, a paranoid Brad, or somebody close to him could have done a background check on me.
As Brad worked the phone, he motioned for me to sit and wait my turn. While Brad chatted on his business call, I spotted the pictures of his wife and kids. Still lifes of ball games, barbeques, and vacations. This chap appeared my age with his act together. I admired the man for strapping himself in and chugging for the gusto.
When Brad hung up, he paused to study the guy across his desk. I was fried. He must have outed me and here it came. I felt it.
"Thanks for coming in," Brad started. I told him no problem–I was in the area. He didn't laugh.
"I'm hearing positive feedback about your performance on the floor. I want to give you a raise and promotion," said Brad.
"Great stuff–I'm all in."
"Starting next week, you'll be an assistant manager, in charge of shipping and receiving. It's a good job. You'll have computer clearance and access to the firm's customer base and all of our suppliers," Brad added.
"Looking forward to it. I won't let you down."
"Report to Joe after lunch. He's the department supervisor and he'll be expecting you. We're going to start your training right away."
When lunchtime came, I hopped in my car and raced for a fast food window. Protocol said to call Hank and brag about my fourth-quarter comeback. That would settle down the office and keep things moving. And once I struck the payload, Arthur could bulldoze Brad, his business, and his family.
Or, I could quit the agency and this sleazy business altogether. I had all I wanted with helping cannibals like Arthur while hurting guys named Brad. The rent and car payments were no longer worth it.
That's when I floored the gas, scrambling for the turnpike and my getaway. Once I zipped the toll plaza, the blob in my stomach dissolved. Free from this racket's cesspool, before its black tide crushed my soul beyond repair.
Phil Rossi
Phil Rossi is a fiction writer and short filmmaker from northern New Jersey, right outside New York City. His flash fiction has been long and shortlisted while appearing in various webzines and anthologies. http://www.phil-rossi.com/
I am a sucker for Chandleresque 'tecs like our protagonist. Liked the setting and the plot. Too many unnecessary characters for a short piece maybe, and the ending seemed flat. AGB
Peter Lingard says:
I had to read it twice to sort out the characters, but I enjoyed the atmosphere.


The care of the critically ill woman in childbirth; enhanced maternal care 2018 has been published today. The study summarises recommendations relevant to the care of pregnant or recently pregnant, acutely or chronically unwell women, who require acute hospital maternity and critical care specialist services. The development of this document has been led by the Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association (OAA). It is published jointly by the College, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives, Intensive Care Society, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and OAA.


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Creating a vision statement for Horsley School
The children, staff and governors have revisited the school vision and values statement over the past six months and evaluated its relevance to school today. The last vision statement was written over 15 years ago and whilst it has served us well in providing a "touchstone" for all that we aim to achieve in our school, it became clear that it was time to consider how we might refresh how we express our aims and desires, so that they are more "alive" in all that we do.
We began by asking the children. We wanted to know what they felt was most important for their learning and time at primary school, as well as how they saw their school in future years. Many children ranging from YR to Y6 took part and their views were captured on video and shared with governors and staff, who were asked to contribute their own thoughts during a workshop last summer. Common themes and key words were identified from this wide cross-section of suggestions and a working party was set up to take the work forward. It took three further meetings to put together, edit and agree our final vision statement. We are proud of the result and feel it more accurately reflects the school today.
"The children, staff and governors have worked hard to create a clear vision for the school and its future development. This is captured in the vision statement we now have. We very much hope that you as parents will share this vision with us and be able to support the school as it moves forward." Cathy Sane, Chair of Governors
"Having worked in advertising for many years, I love things like vision statements and logos. My professional eye and mind says that those chosen are just right for Horsley School! But, as Vicar of the Parish and also Foundation Governor I am doubly pleased to say that the Vision statement articulates what, for me, is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. Being a follower of Jesus is about discovering who we truly are and enabling us to develop into the best that we can be. That is the vision for the children at Horsley School and I heartily endorse these changes."
Rev. Mike Smith, Ex-officio Governor and Vicar of St. Martin's Church.
The vision is symbolised with an apple tree, with 'nurturing' forming the roots or foundations of the tree and the children's learning;
'To grow' is the trunk, or what drives the learning forward;
and 'to thrive' is the positive result or outcome, represented by the fruit of the tree.
We wanted our logo to reflect the spirit of our school, and to be striking and modern. The design incorporates our vision (the apple tree), the school (the oak front door) and our Christian values (the church tower).


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Waxman Still after Fitz's FBI Files
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Well, it turns out that Waxman has been no happier than we are about Bush obstructing justice pardoning commuting Libby's sentence. Turns out he asked Fitzgerald for his FBI files (that is, testimony not before the Grand Jury and therefore not subject to secrecy laws) back in July, not long after the commutation. But Bush won't let him have the files. So now Waxman has sent Mukasey a letter asking for some help getting the files.
I'll update this shortly, once I make sure the new digs are working…
[Shew, they're working]
So here's the key detail from Waxman–defining what he wants, and what he has already gotten:
Transcripts, reports, notes, and other documents relating to any interviews outside the presence of the grand jury of any of the following individuals:
Vice President Dick Cheney
Andrew Card
Stephen Hadley
Dan Bartlett
Scott McClellan
Since the Committee's letter was sent on July 16, Mr. Fitzgerald and his staff have cooperated with the Committee's investigation and have produced a number of responsive documents to the Committee. Among the documents that Mr. Fitzgerald has produced to the Committee are "FBI302 reports" of interviews with CIA and State Department officials and other individuals.
So, let's see here. George Bush won't let Waxman get the details of the (rumored to be contentious) interviews with Dick and Bush. Nor will he let us have evidence of Karl Rove's first story–before it became his second story and then his third story. And Stephen Hadley, who was definitely in the middle of things the week of the leak (you know–he's the guy who told Libby that Bush "was comfortable" with the response to Wilson after they had begun to leak Valerie Wilson's identity)? Well, Bush doesn't want Waxman to have that either.
But I'm just as interested that Fitz already has turned over the CIA and State files. That means Waxman–and surely Tom Davis, no stranger to leaking if it suits his political agenda–have already seen Richard Armitage's first interview with the FBI. Haven't heard any triumphant details of that interview leaking out, somehow.
Two names are notably absent from this list. Ari Fleischer, and David Addington. I think in both cases, there was no substantive interview until we got to the grand jury stage. In Ari's case, it's because he shut up until he knew he could incriminate Libby and probably others. In Addington's case, I think it's because no one realized he had substantive testimony about Bartlett telling him that Cheney was forcing Scottie McC to exonerate Libby publicly until much later in the process.
Two more points.
First, understand the scope of this. As Waxman explains, he's only asking for details of interviews not conducted in front of the grand jury. Anything conducted in front of the grand jury is protected by grand jury secrecy; anything before that (like early FBI interviews) or not conducted before the grand jury (like Dick and Bush's interviews in June 2004, after both had lawyered up) is "fair game." There's a delicious irony in this last bit, since it means that the deference Fitz showed to Bush and Dick–by letting them avoid the stress of a grand jury appearance–is precisely what would make their interview transcripts accessible here.
Also, remember the logic to Waxman's inquiry. He's investigating how it was that Valeie Wilson's identity was leaked, but none of things that are supposed to happen happened–like internal investigations and the removal of the security clearance from those who have not fulfilled the terms of their Non-Disclosure Agreements (Rove would qualify, as would Armitage). So his request is going to be somewhat more narrow than it might otherwise be, since he claims to be interested primarily in why BushCo just sat on its hands after Valerie Wilson's cover was ruined.
Blend exclusive: interview with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin
Waxman Requesting Documents From Patrick Fitzgerald
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Blogging has become occasional in the work load of the college. Telangana agitation had made students not to attend the classes for a month, in that view college management added one hour per day for the normal working hours increasing the workload! Along with teaching, departmental work seems to be never ending one after the other. I was not having patience at the end of the day to type and post, making me off from posting regularly. In the mean while had applied for joining the IndiBlogger community.
I applied to IndiBlogger community twice, in the first attempt didn't know what was the problem my account was not proved. Giving a break of almost one month or so again tried, that time also I had the fear of rejection. It took almost a week for my account to get approved. Even I forgot about it checking once or twice about its acceptance but one fine day received the confirmation from IndiBlogger confirming my blog being added to the community of bloggers and on a personal note I was happy that I joined a community exclusively dedicated for bloggers.
Submitted posts one after the after the other to the IndiVine (till now 12). IndiBlogger helped me to get the audience to my blogs. Every blog received liking of some senior bloggers on the community who may be blogging before I knew the words 'blog' and 'blogging'. Learnt a lot of things about the community and fellow bloggers.
As mentioned earlier I couldn't blog frequently but I submitted the posts to the IndiBlogger receiving good number of hits on my page. IndiBlogger is helping in getting wide audience and also providing a platform for the bloggers to know each other and their blogs. Hope to meet the bloggers in any drives or meets organized by IndiBlogger. Thanks to team IndiBlogger and fellow bloggers.
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War or is any conflict involving the organized use of armss and physical force between countries or other large-scale armed groups. Warfare is the conduct of war.
Normally, warfare is mortal, which is to say that lives of the combatants may legitimately be deliberately taken by enemy forces, and the continued existence of a losing group as an entity is in doubt. In view of this, rules for the conduct of war are unenforceable. A person faced with death, or an organisation faced with extinction, both have little incentive to obey rules that are about to produce this result. If they can only survive by breaking the rules they are likely to do so, and some would argue justified.
Nevertheless, International law has attempted to reduce the mutually destructive results of war. The signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and the development of the United Nations System have succeeded in discouraging the description of any specific instance of warfare, by its participants, as a war. This process has been aided by such terminologies as
"armed conflict",
"state aggression by armed force", or
"crime against international peace."
See Articles 2(3), 2(4) and 2(7) of the United Nations Charter.
Carl von Clausewitz wrote in his classic text, On War: "Der Krieg ist eine blo�e Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln" ("War is merely a continuation of politics by other means") and "War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will."
Wars have been fought to control natural resources, for religious or cultural reasons, over political balances of power, legitimacy of particular laws, to settle economic and territorial disputes, and many other issues. The roots of any war are very complex - there is usually more than one issue involved.
1 Types of war
1.1 First generation warfare
1.2 Second generation warfare
1.3 Third generation warfare
1.4 Fourth generation warfare
2 Laws of war
3 Statistical analysis
Types of war
Sometimes a distinction is made between a conflict and the formal declaration of a state of war. Those who make this distinction often restrict the term "war" to those conflicts where the countries have formally declared such a state. Smaller armed conflicts are often called riots, rebellions, coupss, etc.
When one country sends armed forces to another allegedly to restore order or prevent genocide or other crimes against humanity, or to support a legally recognized government against insurgency, that country sometimes refers to it as a police action. This usage is not always recognized as valid, however, particularly by those who do not accept the connotations of the term.
A war where the forces in conflict belong to the same country or empire or other political entity is known as a civil war.
War is contrasted with peace, which is usually defined as the absence of war.
Another approach to classifying warfare divides it into four "generations" of war.
First generation warfare
First generation warfare reflects tactics of the era of the smoothbore musket, the tactics of line and column. Operational art in the first generation did not exist as a concept although it was practiced by individual commanders, most prominently Napoleon.
Second generation warfare
Second generation warfare was developed in response to the rifled musket, breechloaders, barbed wire, the machinegun, and indirect fire. Tactics were based on fire and movement but they remained essentially linear, with defenses still attempting to prevent all penetrations and attacks laterally dispersed along a line advanced by rushes in small groups. Second generation tactics remained the basis of U.S. doctrine until the 1980s, and they are still practiced by most American units in the field.
Third generation warfare
Third generation warfare was first developed by the Germans in World War I, to compensate for their inability to match their enemies' industrial output. Its tactics were the first truly nonlinear tactics; attacks rely on infiltration to bypass and collapse the enemy's combat forces rather than seeking to close with and destroy them, and defense was in depth and often invited penetration to set the enemy up for a counterattack.
Fourth generation warfare
Fourth generation warfare is widely dispersed and largely undefined, with a blurred distinction between war and peace and few clear battlefields or fronts. Indeed, it may be difficult to even identify which organizations and individuals are actively participating in the war. Actions will occur concurrently throughout all participants' depth, including their society as a cultural, not just a physical, entity.
Laws of war
A number of treaties regulate warfare, collectively referred to as the Laws of war. The most pervasive of those are the Geneva conventions, the earliest of which began to take effect in the mid 1800s.
Treaty signing has since been a part of international diplomacy, and too many treaties to mention in this scant article have been signed. A couple of examples are: Resolutions of the Geneva International Conference, Geneva, 26-29 October 1863 and Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 75 U.N.T.S. 135, entered into force Oct. 21, 1950.
The statistical analysis of war was pioneered by Lewis Fry Richardson following World War I. More recent databases of wars have been assembled by the Correlates of War Project [1] and Peter Brecke [2].
List of wars
Military, Military technology and equipment, Military history, Military strategy, Military tactics, Just war, Frontline, Military-industrial complex, Weapon, Laws of war, Medieval warfare, World war, war profiteer, Attacks on humanitarian workers.
Correlates of War Project -- http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/
Peter Brecke's article -- http://www.inta.gatech.edu/peter/PSS99_paper.html
Current Military News, News Sources, and Links.
anshu's e-corner-security related issues (Anshuman Gaur is an Indian expert on International security) -- http://anshumangaur.tripod.com
The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation
For the 1970s funk band, see War (band).
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The Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is a national program started in the 1970's to help low-income households cope with rising fuel costs. Since then, it has become the nation's leading residential energy efficiency program. The goals of the program are Energy Conservation and Healthier Living Conditions for low-income residents who either own or rent their homes.
The Vermont program is administered by the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the weatherization services are provided by local agencies such as SEVCA.
SEVCA Weatherization serves Windham and Windsor counties, by providing state-of-the-art energy audits, insulation and sealing, heating system improvements, and other energy-saving measures, all at no cost to residents who meet the income guidelines.
You can receive Weatherization services if you are an owner or a renter (with the landlord's participation). Contact our client representative at 800-464-9951 to find out if you are income eligible. Limits for gross household income from July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023 appear below:
Household size
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Windham/Windsor $51,968 $59,392 $66,816 74,240 $80,180 $86,119 $92,058 $98,997
Households whose total gross income durihe prior 12 months is less than the amounts shown above are generally eligible for the program.
Once eligibility is established:
A certified energy auditor visits the home to complete a thorough analysis of its energy efficiency and prescribe appropriate cost-effective measures.
A team of our highly trained technicians is scheduled to make the needed improvements which may include insulating attics and walls, installing weather-strips to doors and caulking air leaks in the home.
Once all of the work is complete, a Quality Control Inspector ensures that everything was done properly and workmanship is of the highest quality.
The Weatherization improvements to the home will result in increased energy efficiency and decreased fuel costs for both heating and cooling, enhanced indoor air quality, improved health and safety, and a higher comfort level. The weatherization and energy efficiency improvements may increase the value of the home, and will last for many years to come.
You can download a copy of the Weatherization application HERE. You will also need to complete our Employment Income Verification Form HERE.
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We lucked out with some really mild weather on last Sunday's ride in Oakland and Sidney, and we had a great group of 15 riders turn out - a welcome diversion from the turbulent week prior. Will we have further respite this Sunday in Vassalboro and China? Well we will certainly get to ride with friends! (Unless it's raining - rain cancels in November. Watch for a follow-up email on Sunday morning around 8 am if the weather is questionable.) Hopefully the weather holds and we'll see you on Sunday!
"All the Tea (or Coffee) in China" - a delightful tour over the hills and dells of Vassalboro and China.
START: 10:00 AM at the Vassalboro Historical Society parking lot just north of the China Lake boat landing on Rt. 32 in East Vassalboro (not the boat landing in South China).
TERRAIN: moderate, with some hills and flat sections.
HIGHLIGHTS: a selection of great, scenic rural Maine roads with great views of China Lake and surroundings, and a possible stop at the Green Bean Coffee Shop.
For more information on the Kennebec Valley Bicycle Club, contact Jim Merrick at 293-3784 or hjmerrick@gmail.com, and check out the club's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/KennebecValleyBicycleClub.


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CIMC Vehicles announces joint venture
Staff Writer August 3, 2021, 4:51 pm August 3, 2021 0
Trailer builder, CIMC Vehicles, has partnered with Shaanxi Automobile to produce special vehicles in Western China.
This partnership aims to build an influential special vehicle production base by giving full play to the advantages of CIMC Vehicles in advanced technology and global operation, and the powerful brand strength and channel resources of Shaanxi Automobile Group, driving the Chinese special vehicle industry in China to move toward complete vehicle delivery and high-end manufacturing.
The opening ceremony for CIMC Vehicles (Shaanxi) Automobile Co., Ltd. (CIMC Shaanxi), jointly invested by CIMC Vehicles and Shaanxi Automobile Group, was held in Baoji, Shaanxi, on 28 May 2021.
The event was attended by relevant leaders, including Wu Tie, Deputy Secretary of Baoji Municipal Party Committee, Wang Ninggang, Member of the Standing Committee of Baoji Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor, Li Guiping, CEO and President of CIMC Vehicles Group and Chairman of CIMC Shaanxi, and Zhou Xiangqiang, Holding Deputy Secretary of CPC and General Manager of Shaanxi Automobile Holding, as well as relevant responsible persons and over 100 customer representatives.
The establishment of CIMC Shaanxi symbolised that China's automotive OEMs and special vehicle superstructure manufacturers will develop deeper cooperation, which is of great significance to improve the quality of Chinese special vehicles and promote the high-quality development of the special vehicle industry.
At present, thanks to the strong impetus from 'new infrastructure' and 'Belt and Road', the demand for special vehicles at home and abroad has increased dramatically.
Coupled with such driving factors as 'oversize and overload' management, 'Winning the Blue Sky War', replacement of China Ⅵ emission standard, intelligent application, and new energy development direction, legal and compliant lightweight special vehicle products have ushered in a window period of 'upgrade'. Located along the New Eurasian Land Bridge, Shaanxi Province is an important node in the construction of the 'Belt and Road', with favourable location advantages and strategic opportunities.
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The Role of Psychological Support for Medical Personnel towards Anxiety Control of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Patients Undergoing Self-Isolation at Home
Rizkie Woro Hastuti
rizkie.hastuti@gmail.com (Primary Contact)
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung, Semarang, Indonesia
Elly Noerhidayati
Warsiyah
Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung, Semarang, Indonesia
Introduction: This study aims to assess the role of psychological support for medical personnel for COVID-19 patients in controlling patient anxiety and the success rate of healing patients in self-isolation at home.
Methods: This study is an analytic observational study with a cross-sectional design. A total of 30 research subjects participated in this study. This study focuses on knowing the anxiety of patients with confirmed COVID-19 as the dependent variable using the Zung-Self Anxiety Rating Scale (ZSAS) instrument with 25 valid anxiety questions using a Likert scale.
Results: Characteristics of respondents based on gender showed that most of the adults were female (75%). Psychological support shows a role in improving the anxiety level of COVID-19 patients, where there is an improvement in the anxiety level of about 10% of COVID-19 patients.
Conclusion: Psychological support provided by medical personnel plays a role in reducing the anxiety level of COVID-19 sufferers and survivors.
COVID-19 Psychological support Survivor Anxiety
Hastuti, R. W., Elly Noerhidayati, & Warsiyah. (2022). The Role of Psychological Support for Medical Personnel towards Anxiety Control of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Patients Undergoing Self-Isolation at Home. Scientia Psychiatrica, 3(4), 298-301. https://doi.org/10.37275/scipsy.v3i4.151


Plans for a giant Chinese wholesale market in Kalmar have been put on ice. Chinese company Fanerdun, the driving force behind the project, has agreed to give back half of the proposed site to Kalmar council amid concerns about the project's financing.
Building work was brought to a formal halt after a meeting on Sunday between Kalmar council and the owners of Fanerdun, Sveriges Radio reports.
Some 40 of the 130 construction workers who came to Sweden from China three months ago have already been sent home, with the rest set to follow. They are owed 10 million kronor in unpaid wages.
Fanerdun CEO Jinxing Luo told Sveriges Radio that he was unhappy with building firm Xin Xin and was looking for a replacement. He also said that currency exchange red tape had delayed the introduction of major investment, but he was confident that the issue could be resolved in the near future.
The Sweden-China Commodity Wholesale Market aims to match up thousands of Chinese exhibitors with European retailers who wanted to get a piece of China's growing, and cheap, consumer product market.
"This is going to be a trading place between China and Europe. China is a large market, and there's a huge demand for Chinese products," the chief executive of the Swedish division of Fanerdun, Peter Fust, told AFP in an interview earlier this year.
The main exhibition hall – a former chocolate factory – was intended to offer 1,400 stands or 21,000 square metres (226,000 square feet) of exhibition space when completed in March 2008.
A later phase was to see the construction of another 1,400 stands, providing a total of 80,000 square metres of exhibition space or the equivalent of 13 football pitches.
Fanerdun hoped the project, also known as the China Europe Business and Exhibition Centre (CEBEC), would ultimately draw some 2,000 visitors a day, or several hundred thousand buyers a year.
But minor scandals have dogged the project from the beginning. In addition to delays, the Chinese construction workers were not paid their wages and safety regulations were not initially followed at the site.
But all of that was eventually sorted out, and Kalmar's councillors are hoping the market will bring an economic boom to a town which has seen industry after industry shut down.
It was Fanerdun's chief executive, Jingxing Luo, who chose the south eastern town and approached local officials, who jumped at the idea.
The city sold land to Fanerdun for 18 million kronor, and had earmarked 9.5 million kronor for marketing of CEBEC.


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'Teen Wolf' Recap | "The Dark Moon" Has Risen
"Just give us Derek. You don't want him anyway. Haven't you noticed what a downer he is? No sense of humor, poor conversationalist."
Welcome, welcome! The time has come...
We have officially begun Season 4 of Teen Wolf. The wait was long, but believe me when I say that it was worth it. Viewers were gifted an interesting and well-paced introductory episode that ended with one Hale of a surprise! (Do you know how long I've been waiting to use that pun? Too long.)
I am more than excited to break this episode down, so let's get to work.
Previously on Teen Wolf
A "Divine Move" was made. The evil nogitsune that was possessing Stiles in Season 3B was defeated. Also, we left behind four beloved characters: Allison and Aiden (both deceased), as well as Ethan and Isaac (both have left town indefinitely). In their stead, we got two new regulars--Kira Yukimura and Malia Tate--as well as a plethora of supporting newbies.
And then, when we thought the roller coaster ride was over and that everything had calmed down, Jeff Davis said "No, no, no, put your seat belts back on, because I'm bringing back Kate Argent, Allison's crazy aunt from Season 1 who you guys thought was dead". So, we got back on the ride, and we waited months for it to start up. Last night we finally got rolling, and let me tell you: we were moving fast...
We're Here For The Party
"The Dark Moon" takes place approximately two months after the end of Season 3B and in unfamiliar territory. The desert environment and the Spanish-speaking civilians that surround Lydia and Stiles help viewers infer that our characters are a long way from home--Mexico to be exact!
Stiles and Lydia are on-screen arguing about their "plan". Lydia says that their plan sucks and that they are going to die. We'll have to wait a while to figure out what that plan is.
Day turns to night, Stiles and Lydia have been walking for a while. They arrive at a building that is guarded by two men. "Estamos aquí para la fiesta," Lydia tells them. But, they aren't allowed inside until Stiles reveals a card to a camera that watches them, and the door buzzes open.
Stiles and Lydia walk down a hallway and enter a dance club full of gyrating, sweaty men and women and a certain Mexican hunter named Severo who spots them upon their entry. Stiles and Lydia make their way over to the bar where two shots of alcohol are set before them. Severo appears behind them and tells them that the drinks are on the house. People typically don't accept things, especially drinks that could be laced with poison, from their enemies, so Stiles and Lydia do not partake of the beverages. Lydia drops a shell casing into her shot glass and Severo knows that she means business.
We cut to a meeting room of the club, where Stiles and Lydia now sit with Araya, the Matriarch of the Calaveras family of hunters. You may remember her from episodes of Season 3B like "More Bad Than Good" and "Echo House". This meeting with Araya is reminiscent of The Godfather, or in this case, The Godmother.
Stiles and Lydia's plan starts to unravel when Lydia admits to Araya that they are there for Derek Hale. They set money on the table in exchange for Derek--$50,000. Where on earth did they get this money? I believe this is where that question that we've seen all over the promos comes in: Who is the Benefactor?
Unfortunately, Araya is not the kind of woman who is going to be easily bought. She tells Stiles and Lydia that it was not smart that they came alone. "What makes you think that we came alone?" Stiles asks. Of course he and Lydia are smarter than that--I mean, they're freaking brilliant.
Cut to a beautiful introduction of three of our favorite supernatural characters: Malia, Kira, and Scott.
Araya is not pleased that a wolf has been brought into her home. But, Scott isn't just any old wolf; he's an alpha. So, that should be okay, right? Not.
"Dance With Me Dumbass"
The Calaveras send word to their guards that there are supernatural creatures in their midst. Malia and Kira start to get curious gazes (likely because they're American), so they try to blend in on the dance floor. However, Kira's dance moves are terrible and she probably would have been better off trying to blend in standing in line for the ladies room or something.
Malia pulls Kira close to help her out. I must admit that there is something very sexy about these two dancing together. And, oh, what was that sound? The sound of another ship setting sail. What will Kira and Malia's ship name be? Kalia? Mira? Malira? Who knows...
Back in the meeting room, Araya tells Stiles and Lydia that they have poor timing and asks them if they know what the dark moon is. According to Lydia it is the "part of a lunar phase when the moon is least visible in the sky". But, it is also a time of reflection on grief and loss. Our characters have been through a lot in the past season, having lost many people they love. So, Araya is curious as to why they would set themselves up for more loss, especially to save someone like Derek Hale.
Let the fandom tell YOU something Araya: Derek Hale is absolutely worth saving! He is a big, lovable, adorably grumpy hero.
A voice comes in over Severo's walky, confirmation that there are no problems in the south region of the club. But what about the north region? We see Scott pick up the walky of a man who is laying on the ground. "Stiles," he says, "take ten off the table". Stiles removes $10,000 from the the $50,000 before him. The offer for Derek has just dropped to $40,000.
If I were Araya, I would take the money and go on a shopping spree or 2 or 10... I have a problem. However, Araya is not willing to take the deal. Stiles drops one of my favorite lines of the episode, which is featured at the beginning of this recap:
GIFs via Qhuinn
Well, Araya doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humor either. She tells Severo to show these American kids how the Calaveras negotiate.
Meanwhile, back on the dancefloor, Kira and Malia have been made and are approached by two guards. Both guards are easily taken down. Kira does some fancy and impressive work with a pair of glowing nunchuks. Scott takes down a guard as well. These guys are kicking butt and taking names--must have been practicing these past two months.
Scott, Kira and Malia are walking down a hallway toward the meeting room when a gas that is now being sprayed throughout the club starts to fill the air, creeping towards them all. Scott allows himself a few wiffs of the gas before he regrets it, realizing that this is Wolfsbane. He urges Kira to get away, although I'm not sure why? This gas seems to have no affect on her.
A guard sneaks up on Kira, coming out of the fog undetected, and takes her down. Araya arrives in the hallway. She tells Scott that he should be more careful when he is dealing with a hunter of 40 years. Scott tells Araya that they just want Derek. At this point, viewers may realize that Araya has never confirmed that she has Derek. She's just been giving Scott and the Pack a hard time. Scott has a revelation--the Calaveras don't have Derek and they don't know where he is. Araya tases Scott before he has the chance to ask anymore questions.
"Rules of the Wild Kingdom Don't Apply to Friends"
When we arrive from commercial break, we see a flashback of the moment Scott, Stiles and Lydia realized that Derek is actually missing. Scott hasn't heard from him in weeks, he isn't returning his texts. Everything at the loft looked undisturbed besides the bullet casings Scott found all over the floor. Each casing has the Calaveras' family mark on it.
So, the question remains: is Derek dead?
They utilize Lydia's banshee powers to find the answer to this question. She picks up the casings and drops them on the table. As they fall, she hears gunshots, the shots that were fired during the break-in at Derek's loft at the end of Season 3B. Lydia tells them that Derek isn't dead, but she's not sure that he's alive either. Something's not right.
Back in Mexico, Scott wakes up inside of an enclosed room. Malia, Stiles, and Kira are there, too. It has been confirmed that the Calaveras don't have Derek. But now they have Lydia. Scott tries to open the door to the room but doesn't have any luck. Malia suggests that when the doors to the room open again, they take down whoever is standing there and run. She doesn't care whether they've retrieved Lydia or not.
I absolutely LOVED this moment where Stiles is kind of scolding Malia. It's so cute. It's like she's a Kindergartner, learning the fundamentals--Sharing is Caring--and Stiles is the teacher.
The door to the room opens and Severo comes in with a taser and two other guards.
Lydia sits outside (the sun is out, so we can assume that the commercial break took us into the next day) with Araya, having tea. Araya is curious about Lydia's banshee powers and thinks Lydia underestimates them. Lydia tells the lady that she would probably have more luck getting information from tarot cards than from her. Araya decides to put Lydia to the test. "Tell me," she points to two of her guards standing before them, "which of these men is about to die?"
How do Lydia's powers work? How close to death does someone have to be before Lydia can predict it? Araya picks up a knife and throws it at one of her guards. It plunges directly into his heart. Lydia doesn't scream until after the fact. What does this woman want from her? She wants to know about Scott, about what kind of Alpha he really is.
Turn the Dial on the Alpha
Lydia, Scott and Kira have been taken into a separate room from Stiles and Malia. Scott is chained to a chair, and Lydia is seated beside him. Severo has his grip on Kira's arm. Severo explains the situation.
Scott is going to answer some questions. Since Kira is immune to electricity, she cannot be subject to the torture the Calaveras have in store. So, Kira is going to turn the dial on Scott if he doesn't answer their questions correctly. And, by "turning the dial" we mean "to electrocute". If Kira doesn't turn the dial on Scott, Severo will turn the dial on Lydia. And, we know that unlike Scott, Lydia does not have the ability to heal. Scott does not want Lydia to get hurt, so he encourages Kira to turn the dial; he can take it.
Araya asks Scott where Derek is. Well, obviously he doesn't know the answer to that question or he wouldn't have come to her and be STRAPPED TO AN ELECTRIC CHAIR RIGHT NOW! But, Araya is not pleased with that answer. She tells Kira to turn the dial to 1. Volts of electricity are sent through Scott's body.
Meanwhile, Stiles and Malia are still in the other room. Stiles is trying to get Malia to concentrate so that she can hear what is happening to Scott next door. She leans forward and kisses him, and this helps her hone her senses. This scene is very reminiscent of the Stydia kiss in Episode 11 of Season 3, "Alpha Pact". If you recall, Stiles was having a panic attack and trying to get in control of himself, and Lydia kissed him. And now, he's the one helping Malia control herself.
This is romantic character development, people! Stiles used to be absolutely enamored by Lydia, and he thought he needed her. But now, he has matured and moved on from that young-obsessive-love phase, and he is the one who is needed on a deeper, more emotional level. Love it! Just love it!
Now Malia can hear what is going on in the next room, what the Calaveras are doing to Scott. "They're killing him".
Araya is still asking questions of Scott that he doesn't have the answers to. She thinks Scott doesn't know who has Derek because he hasn't figured it out yet. Call me crazy, but although this lady has Scott chained to a chair and is shocking the hell out of him, it seems that maybe, possibly she...believes in him?
"Who had a vendetta particular to the Hales? Who could have taken him? Who had the power of a shapeshifter? Someone who could have turned without [Scott] knowing? Turned, but not by a bite?"
Scott tells Araya once again that he doesn't know. She tells Kira to turn the dial to 10. Scott screams, and his eyes flash red. And, suddenly he remembers overhearing a conversation between Chris and Kate Argent at a lacrosse game. "Can you get turned by a scratch?" Kate had asked. "If the claws go deep enough."
Scott has his answer. Kate Argent has Derek.
We cut to Kate, standing in an underground room. Behind her, there is a carving on a wall. And, on the other side of that wall?
La Iglesia: Not a Place You'll Find God
Araya lets Scott and his Pack go. Apparently, she sent four men out to a location where Kate was seen and they didn't return. Now she's sending Scott and his friends. Maybe they'll have better luck. She tells him that she knows what kind of Alpha he is now, and where his next step lies. "When you take the bite of an innocent, when you make a wolf of your own, when you do that then I will cross your border and come knocking at your door". That sounds like a threat to me.
But, Araya is even kind enough to give Scott a guide to Derek's location: Braeden. Remember her? She saved Isaac back in "Tattoo". And, she saved Peter and Derek back in "More Bad Than Good". Now the mercenary is back and she's guiding Scott and the Pack to La Iglesia, which translates to "The Church". But, she informs them that this is not a place where they'll find God.
On the way to La Iglesia, Scott, Lydia and Stiles give Kira and Malia the 411 on Kate Argent. Let's rehash this for old time's sake:
Of course, Kate Argent is Allison's aunt. She is the hunter who was responsible for setting Derek's family on fire. Cora survived the fire, and so did "a very angry Peter" who bit & turned Scott, attacked Lydia and awakened her Banshee powers, and eventually found Kate and "killed" her...or so we thought.
But, Scott and Stiles saw Kate buried. (Remember that episode, where they were hiding in the graveyard, watching from afar, only to get caught by Papa Stilinski?) Scott clarifies that they saw the casket. They didn't see her in it. And, that 's because she wasn't in it.
Apparently, the Calaveras took a visit to the morgue after hearing about the manner of Kate's death. They wanted to make sure that she wasn't turning. But, she was. So, they switched out the bodies, taking Kate with them.
When a hunter is bitten, they must kill themselves before they Change, as Allison's mother did in Season 2. That's what the Calaveras were forcing Kate to do. They treat the code as law and consider it their job to enforce it. They held Kate in the same room we saw Scott and the Pack held in earlier in the episode. Severo gave her a knife and left her to her last moments. Later, guards came back to check on her, and she was face-down on the ground, a pool of blood formed around her. Assuming she was dead, two guards entered, prepared to do away with the body. But, Kate was not dead. She leapt to her feet, took both men down, and presumably many others as she escaped.
So, is Kate a werewolf? Scott's not sure, because there is a saying that sometimes "the shape you take reflects the person you are".
"What kind of shape is a sociopathic bitch?" Lydia asks. Hah!
At this moment, the Jeep jerks wildly and Stiles pulls over. Stiles isn't sure what's wrong with the truck, but it felt like they hit something.
Braeden tells Scott that they have to get to La Iglesia by night because it will be too dangerous otherwise. So, Scott decides to leave his friends behind--they'll catch up later.
Kira tells Scott to be careful and hugs him. He takes off on the back of Braeden's motorcycle. Stiles is investigating his truck with the hood up. Malia stoops down and reaches behind the wheel. She pulls out what looks like a dagger made of bone. The truck didn't hit something, something hit the truck.
"You Should Have Kissed Your Girlfriend"
Braeden and Scott arrive at an abandoned, earthquake-leveled town where only a church still stands. Braeden tells him that it is believed that the church still stands because it was built atop an Aztec temple, sacred ground. The temple belonged to the Nahual who were shapeshifters, were-jaguars. Scott and Braeden make their way to La Iglesia.
Meanwhile, Stiles, Lydia, Malia and Kira are still stranded. Lydia and Stiles are arguing like a married couple which is really cute. "Maybe we should just walk," Lydia suggests. "Hey! I will never abandon this Jeep. Do you understand me? Ever," Stiles says.
While Stiles and Lydia are arguing, Malia's spidey-senses are tingling. She tells Stiles to work faster because there is definitely something out there with them.
Night has fallen by the time Scott and Braeden reach the doors of the church. Scott, eyeing Braeden's gun, asks what she's going to do if she finds Kate inside. Braeden says that she would take Kate back to the Calaveras as they paid her to do, and she is not concerned with what they do with Kate. "If you were paid enough, would you kill her?" Scott asks.
"If the money was good, I'd kill you." Braeden is so badass. LOVE her.
They head inside of the ruined church. Scott tells Braeden that he senses something in there. Something not human.
In the middle of nowhere, Stiles and Lydia are still arguing adorably because Stiles thinks that Lydia isn't holding the flashlight straight enough, and she's upset that they're stuck because his raggedy Jeep broke down and she's scared. GIVE ME MORE STYDIA ARGUMENTS! Stiles rips a piece out of his truck and hands it to Lydia. "What's this?" she asks. "I don't know, I'm hoping it's not important," he says. I didn't realize how much I'd missed the humorous, sarcastic Stiles until I saw this episode. So happy that he's back to his old self.
Malia and Kira are looking out at their surroundings, trying to see if there is anything out there, but it's too dark. Kira uses her sword to reflect the light of the flashlight further out. Malia catches a glimpse of something moving, and she goes after it.
Stiles wants to go after Malia, but Lydia makes him stay where he is so that he can keep working on the Jeep. Kira takes off after Malia instead.
With her sword in hand, ready to fight, Kira heads after Malia. We get a very suspenseful, horror movie-esque moment where we are just waiting for something to jump out a Kira. Someone does come up behind her, but it's Malia, and she's been injured. She tells Kira that whatever is out there, "it's big and fast and it cuts deep". We hear Stiles' Jeep start up, and the girls take off running in that direction.
Scott and Braeden have made it underneath the church and it is very eerie down there. There are cobwebs everywhere, skeletons, ya know, all the creepy gross things you wouldn't want to be near.
Braeden asks Scott why he didn't kiss Kira, his girlfriend. He tells her that she isn't his girlfriend. But, Braeden tells him that if he dies down there (and, if he does, it will be her fault because she's talking so damn loud), he's going to regret not having kissed her. "You should have kissed your girlfriend."
We get yet another horror movie-esque scene as Scott and Braeden continue forward under the church. There is that ominous music that swells, letting you know something bad is about to happen. There are furtive glances over shoulders. And, there is some weird creature moving in the shadows. I can't even describe it, because I can't tell what it's even made of. It doesn't have fur. Rather it's made out of bones and metal maybe? Is it a Transformer? Haha. Just kidding.
Suddenly, there are footsteps, the sound of something running. And, we catch a glimpse of the creature hurtling towards Scott and Braeden. "Get ready!" Braeden yells at Scott. The fandom braces itself, and then, a commercial break.
Ughhh, why do they always do that???
One Hale of an Ending
In the Jeep, Stiles is scolding Malia once more, telling her never to run off again. Do you not love this relationship? I have a lot of feelings about this. He admits that he thought she was leaving, that she wouldn't come back.
How cute is that? I'm not a huge Stalia shipper, but I do like Malia, and I loved this moment. I loved how surprised Stiles was that Malia said she wouldn't leave him. He isn't used to requited love, and I'm glad that Malia is that for him.
Malia admits that she would leave Kira and Lydia, but not Stiles. How sweet...in an odd, rude way.
And, Lydia's in the backseat like "dis bitch":
I mean, is it just me, or do you get the sense that Lydia is a little jealous of Stiles and Malia's front-seat flirtations?
Malia tells the others that she didn't see the thing that attacked her, but she smelled it and it smelled like death. Ew.
Braeden is shooting blindly at whatever creature lurks in the dark surrounding she and Scott. Scott says that he doesn't see anything. But, they can hear it coming nearer. Braeden orders Scott to get behind her, but he doesn't. Instead, he does this:
And then it's quiet. He managed to scare whatever the hell that thing was away. The force of Scott's roar causes rocks behind he and Braeden to tumble down and reveal the carving in the wall that we saw behind Kate Argent earlier in the episode. They go over to it.
Apparently this carving is of Tezcatlipoca, the Nahual jaguar god.
They realize that Derek is in there, and Scott punches through the wall.
A hand reaches out to them in the darkness, but oddly, we aren't shown Derek's face. This, along with Scott saying "Oh my God" should give viewers an immediate clue that something is up.
Stiles pulls his Jeep up to the front of the church just as Braeden and Scott are exiting, supporting someone in between them. The figure looks like Derek, but the head is down, so we can't be entirely sure...
Everyone gets out of the Jeep. Stiles has a stunned look on his face. And, I can't put the rest of this into words. I'll let the gifs speak for themselves.
I really liked this episode. I think it was a great set-up for Season 4, and yet I feel like we haven't even skimmed the surface of the action and the problems we are going to see this season.
I was surprised by the ending. Were you? There were a ton of people on my Twitter saying that they had seen a spoiler and already knew that was going to happen. I'm glad I wasn't spoiled, though.
Also, yay for the return of Baby Derek! He's so cute:)
Let's Get Talking in the Comments
-Where did Stiles get all of that money? Who is the Benefactor?
-How the hell did Derek become Baby Derek?
-Let's be honest: Do you think Braeden is going to survive the season?
-Are you liking Malia?
Looking forward to hearing from you guys.
See you again next Monday!
All of the photos and gif sets used in this recap belong to MTV unless otherwise stated.
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RECAP: Mason Phillips's NCAA provisional qualifying mark gives Northwood a strong start to the early indoor track and field season at Tiffin Saturday (December 1).
Sophomore Mason Phillips got his season off to a fast start, clocking an NCAA provisional qualifying mark in the 60 meter dash in his season debut. Phillips ran 6.80 in the prelims and 6.79 in the semifinals before clocking 6.76 seconds in the finals to win the event in dominating fashion.
His mark ties the school record of 6.76 seconds set by Matt Jackson (2000) and Will Fulton (2009). It is also a new personal best after running 6.84 last season at the GLIAC Indoor Championships and just shy of the 6.72 NCAA automatic qualifying mark.
On the women's side, freshman Debra Wallace had a strong collegiate debut in the 60 meter dash, posting a time of 7.80 seconds in the semifinal and 7.89 in the preliminary rounds. She then earned a fourth-place finish with a time of 7.81 seconds in the 60 dash finals.
Wallace's time is also the fourth-best performance in school history in the event.
The full indoor track and field team will head to Saginaw Valley Friday (December 8) for the SVSU Holiday Open. The meet is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.


More than 100 youth-led organizations made important contributions to the text negotiated by Member States. The youth-led groups that participated, called for more inclusive citizenship, as well as strengthening partnerships with youth to jointly address the serious difficulties young people face.
About 50 UN and senior government officials, national youth delegates, civil society organizations and private sector representatives participated actively in two panel discussions. The discussions were held consecutively on the first day of the meeting, addressing two themes: "Strengthening international cooperation regarding youth and enhancing dialogue, mutual understanding and active youth participation as indispensable elements of efforts towards achieving social integration, full employment and the eradication of poverty," and "Challenges to youth development and opportunities for poverty eradication, employment and sustainable development."
The Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development and Under-Secretary General of the UN conference on Sustainable Development, Sha Zukang, said that the challenges that are facing youth development – such as poverty, low-quality education and unemployment are interrelated. He also added "these challenges must be addressed through cross-sectoral policies and programmes that are holistic in nature. Our approach should be respectful of the rights of youth to inherit a healthy planet, and sensitive to youth needs in employment and youth diversity. In short we need to foster sustainable development for youth and their future".
The panel co-Chairs presented summaries of the discussions at the plenary closing session. Themes that were highlighted in the closing session consisted of strengthening international cooperation for youth, as were other ways to support the eradication of poverty, full employment and social integration. Participants were also reminded to better integrate youth issues in national development agendas, help strengthen national youth institutions and organizations of young people, and promote efforts to enhance inclusion and the effective participation of youth.
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