In recent years Scotland has firmly cemented her position as a leading destination for travellers. With initiatives like the North Coast 500 and "best destination" accolades from a wide range of sources: sailors, cinema-fans, and a recent vote as the most beautiful destination in the world, people are increasingly viewing this small nation as a must-visit location. A major reason for this is the incredible scenery, wildlife and nature that call it home. Here we explain how these stunning natural assets have brought in visitors to areas of Scotland that were once considered too remote to be profitable, bringing important economic benefits to one of the most peripheral areas of Europe.
Scotland has always attracted wildlife enthusiasts. Originally these were a dedicated few, willing to put up with long journey times, occasionally obstructive landowners, and fewer subjects to photograph or spot. As gamekeepers waged war against the very species tens of thousands of people now travel to see, and tree cover was removed through overgrazing or to make way for larger grouse moors, Scotland almost lost some of her most iconic creatures. It was through tireless hard work and education that visitors can now see birds such as the osprey — extinct in the UK before returning through natural recolonisation in 1954 and then fiercely protected to prevent criminals stealing the eggs. All this hard work resulted in greater public perception of the benefits of natural habitat and allowing wildlife to live alongside other land use options. It has also brought in generations of tourists who travel to Scotland to experience wild places and the animals and birds that inhabit them.
The famous Royal Society for the Protection of Birds site at Loch Garten, close to Aviemore, has attracted around two and a half million visitors since it opened in 1959, with many people returning year after year. There are no figures that specifically cover tourism attracted to Scotland because of the wildlife, but Loch Garten serves as a good case study. As infrastructure was updated, with road, rail and air links all vastly improved in the last decade of the 20th century, more people began to visit Scotland. Each of these spends money locally, on accommodation, food, and entry to attractions, for example, then there is also the money spent directly on nature tourism.
During the last decade digital photography and editing tools and techniques have become readily available and it has become increasingly possible for everyone to take incredible photographs of landscapes and wildlife. Scotland began to see elevated numbers of visitors whose primary focus was to hunt for wildlife, a trophy hunting of the 21st century; with the goal being to snap a photo of a red squirrel, deer, orca, dolphin, wildcat or any one of the other magnificent creatures found in Scotland. An industry developed around this, with photography tours normally associated with exotic destinations providing employment and benefits to the local economy. In 2010, a landmark study by Scottish Natural Heritage examined the available data and determined nature-tourism to be worth a staggering £1.4 billion ($1.9 billion), a figure that keeps growing year by year. Wildlife watching tours have also boomed, with both land-based safaris and boat trips available across the nation. Accommodation options are regularly marketed and advertised with wildlife viewing in mind and other activities, such as skiing, hiking, cycling, bushcraft courses, or kayaking are booked with the goal of getting close to the natural world.
However, with this increase in visitor numbers comes a greater level of responsibility. Wild areas require delicate handling and conservation; for example, many feet can erode pathways, too many loud voices can scare nesting birds, visitors need new accommodation options, too many vehicles on narrow single-track roads can have a negative impact on traffic and farm and estate access. Scotland is lucky that these issues have been identified early enough to be controlled and managed, with several excellent charities, companies and government agencies working together to control any problems arising from increased footfall in wild places.
The future for nature-based tourism in Scotland is strong and bright. The country draws more and more visitors each year, some travelling many thousands of miles, others simply driving north from England or Wales, or catching a ferry across from Northern Ireland. As land use alters in Scotland, with several estates already realising they stand to make a sizeable and sustainable income from attracting visitors armed with a camera, or even just a smartphone, rather than hunters with guns, so too does the opportunity for wildlife to flourish increase. The recent reintroduction of beaver and ruling that the species is now protected by law is a prime example, as are the plans to reintroduce the lynx. As ecosystems become more natural, with balance restored, so too does the potential to attract further numbers of visitors grow, with Scotland's already stunning scenery becoming even more beautiful, full of birdsong and the wildlife that should be there.


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Libby expresses her concerns about the dangers of cell phone towers
Hon. Tony Clement
Industry Canada
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
Hon. Leona Aglukkaq
Dear Ministers,
RE: Cell Phone Towers
I am writing on behalf of constituents who have contacted me about their concerns about cell phone towers in their neighbourhood. I am including a letter from Janice Evans, who articulates the neighbours' concerns, for your background. Theirs is a widespread and growing problem across Canada, and I respectfully request that your respective offices investigate this matter.
Specifically, the concerns are threefold:
•First, the primary concern is the health effects of the towers, especially on children; and the risk of placing them in residential areas, especially near schools.
•Second, visual blight created by the towers compromises views and property values for homeowners.
•Third, local municipalities must be included in the decision making on this issue.
In all these cases, improved regulation is necessary, to ensure that health is not compromised; community consultation is mandatory; and that there is municipal oversight.
With regard to health effects, it has been commonly accepted that the radiofrequency radiation (RFR) from the towers is too low to cause adverse health effects. However, rapid change in cell phone technology, coupled with the furious growth in cell phone towers to meet the demand of cell phone users, leaves serious questions as to whether there is a link between certain health problems and cell phone use and/or living near a tower. Despite the assurances on Health Canada's website, there are genuine worries because scientific examination has lagged behind this proliferation. In short, the research upon which Health Canada bases its findings is outdated.
For example, the findings on long term exposure to low level rates of RFR, and absorption rates are "sparse and contradictory" according to the well regarded article by B. Blake Levitt and Henry Lai, "Biological effects from exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell tower base stations and other antenna arrays" (November, 2010).
In fact, our own parliamentary report by the Standing Committee on Health, "An examination of the potential health impacts of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation" (December, 2010) states in five clear recommendations that the Government of Canada must do more to address the gap in scientific research between health effects and EFR (page 11).
This report drew attention to the effect of wireless technology on children, and how scientific results on adults cannot necessarily be applicable to children. As we have learned from tobacco and asbestos, the negative effects are not necessarily evident until after long terms of exposure.
In addition to the unknown health effects of cell phone towers, there is a secondary concern, the visual blight that they create. Municipalities from across the country, including Vancouver, have heard that the towers' design and location often compromise views and property values.
With regard to the third concern about the exclusion of municipal consultation, according to Industry Canada regulations, so long as the towers remain under 15 metres in height consultation is not required. Both the public and the local land use authority have no say in this matter. As a result such structures can be, and are, erected anywhere, and they become visibly pervasive and invasive to the landscape. Municipalities feel the pressure of residents' worries, and wrath, yet they are powerless to intervene.
Industry Canada is not doing enough to address these concerns. Instead, it has allowed the cell phone companies to police themselves. This virtual "free for all" situation is not working, as the growing number of court cases across this country will attest. The regulations that exist rely on the companies' goodwill and not on the public interest. In this regard I believe that ongoing site surveys must be made mandatory.
Site surveys would assess the RFR experienced by residents living in the area of the installation. Surveys would measure such effects as reflection and scattering of electromagnetic waves; exposure duration; distance from the source; and additive effects of other sources of RFR. These surveys would ensure that there are ongoing checks in the system, which are currently non-existent, to ensure that safety protocols are met.
To conclude, conflicts are happening all across the country, but it need not be this way. Industry Canada must put in place regulations that require its own department, companies, municipalities and residents to work together to find locations that are mutually acceptable and safe.
I look forward to your early reply, as this matter is one of urgency for local residents faced with these cell towers.
Libby Davies, MP Vancouver East
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Further Mathematics is an AS or A level qualification which both broadens and deepens the mathematics covered in A level Mathematics. Further Mathematics is taken alongside an AS or A level in Mathematics.
See Why study Further Mathematics? for more information about the benefits of taking Further Mathematics.
The information on this page applies to students starting Further Mathematics qualifications in 2017. Students who started Further Mathematics before this will have studied a course with a different structure.
A level Further Mathematics is a separate A level that is usually taken in addition to taking A level Mathematics. Half of the content of this will be Further Pure and the remainder will be from options such as Mechanics, Statistics, Decision Mathematics or extra Further Pure.
AS level Further Mathematics is a separate AS level that can be studied alongside AS level Mathematics in year 12, or taken up as a new AS subject alongside studying A level Mathematics in year 13. At least 30% of the content of this will be Further Pure and the remainder will be from options such as Mechanics, Statistics, Decision Mathematics or extra Further Pure.
A level Further Mathematics students who study an appropriate combination of options in year 12 are able to sit AS Further Mathematics at the end of their first year of study; however, any grade achieved in this will not count towards their final A level Further Mathematics grade.
The structure of AS and A level Further Mathematics varies across the different specifications. For details for each specification see: AS/A level Further Mathematics Structure.
The content of A level Mathematics is the same across all examination boards. The choice of applied units and other further pure units and their contents varies depending on the examination board. You can check the course structure, choice of available units and topics covered by downloading the relevant specification from the examination board's website. Ask a teacher at your school or college for information about which specification is currently taught.


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Although i don't agree with someone's ascertain that because of Pearl Harbor, we shouldn't aid the Japanese in their time of need, i'm certainly not going to tell someone how they should feel or act towards them. I don't know if this person happens to be a Pearl Harbor survivor or maybe he lost a parent or sibling in the raid . I have no idea how you can jump to the conclusion that they are now racist. You now sound like the idiot. I absolutely hate when people lable others a racist because they may not like a certain person. Like i said, i don't personally agree but i could see how someone who fought against or lost a loved one to the Japanese might feel that way. For you to make the leap and call them racist is ignorant on your part sir !


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FG Recruits 8,000 FRSC Personnel to Safeguard Highways
The Federal Government of Nigeria has recruited and trained 8,000 personnel of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to safeguard highways in the country.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday in Abuja while decorating the new FRSC Corps Marshal, Mr Dauda Biu, with his new rank.
He said that the injection of the personnel into the system was among the numerous support that the FRSC received since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration in 2015.
Mr Mustapha said that several interventions were targeted at reducing the high rate of carnages on roads in the country, noting that the support includes assenting to the six United Nations Conventions and Agreements on road traffic.
"Building and inauguration of a world-class auditorium, ICT Hall and ultra-modern medical centre at FRSC Academy Udi, Enugu State.
"Also, building and inauguration of administrative block, hostels for cadets of the Academy and Junior officers of FRSC Staff College at FRSC Academy Udi, Enugu State.
"The approval of the Nigeria Road Safety Strategy Document I and II to deepen road safety administration and encourage inclusiveness," he added.
Mr Mustapha said that the Corps was also able to expand the scope of its national driver's licence production plant with the building of a new print farm in Lagos.
According to him, this is in addition to a new training school for road Marshal Assistants in Shendam, Plateau.
"Also, the establishment of Marshal Assistant Training School in Awo Alero through effective collaboration with the Delta State Government.
"The workforce was also increased through recruitment and training of over 8000 personnel.
"On the operational front, a total of 958 vehicles were injected into the corps, and a total of 16 new Sector Commands were built to boost staff welfare and comfort in the workplace," he said.
The SGF charged all officers and men to consolidate on the successes made so far in achieving the mandate of road traffic crash eradication in the country.
Mr Mustapha said that the event was historic, as it was the second time a career staff was appointed to head the ISO-certified organisation in the capacity of corps marshal.
Speaking, the new corps marshal appreciated President Buhari for finding him worthy of the appointment. The president confirmed Mr Biu as substantive corps marshal on December 30, 2022, having served in an acting capacity since July 2022 after the retirement of Mr Boboye Oyeyemi.
"We will work hard, the appointment is giving us more vigour, and we assure you that we will not fail you and we will not let you down," Mr Biu said.
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Airtel Supports Police for Safety of Lagos Road Users
As part of its commitment to support the activities of the police in ensuring the coordination and safety of Lagos road users, Airtel Nigeria has donated some traffic booths.
According to the Commissioner of Police for the Lagos Police Command, Mr Abiodun Alabi, the booths will be placed in strategic locations across the state to serve as an inspiration to other organisations to support the police in the discharging of their duties.
At a brief ceremony to hand over the items at the Lagos State Police headquarters, Ikeja, on Thursday, January 19, 2023, Mr Alabi thanked the telecommunications service provider for the gesture, recounting previous support over the years.
Some of which included the donation of phones to all police commissions in Lagos, donation of patrol vehicles, renovation of Zone 2 Command, renovation of Lekki Phase 1 Police post and the provision of CCTV cameras, etc.
"On behalf of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Alkali Baba Usman, and the Lagos State Police Command, I would like to thank Airtel for their support to the Nigeria Police over the years and for this particular donation of traffic booths for our traffic officers through its corporate social responsibility.
"Not everyone or every organisation appreciates what the police does for society; therefore, we are pleased to see that Airtel recognizes and supports our effort to carry out our duties optimally," he said.
Also speaking, the Director of Corporate Communications at Airtel Nigeria, Mr Femi Adeniran, said, "Over the years, Airtel Nigeria has worked closely with the Lagos Police Command, and we have collaborated on several initiatives with a positive impact towards making Lagos a safer and more secured State to live in and do business.
"We are firm in our resolve to drive the vision of Airtel Africa towards sustainability consistently, and we consistently work to demonstrate this in our deeds through our CSR interventions.
"We are always glad to support the police force in the great work they do daily because we understand that once there is security, people can live and make ends meet without fear, and that is the only way we can say that we have a good society."
Traffic Gridlock: Lagos Directs Petrol Stations to Close by 4pm
Petrol stations located along the major roads in Lagos will now operate from 9 am to 4 pm daily, the Lagos State government has directed.
A statement signed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Frederic Oladeinde, explained that the move was to curtail the traffic gridlock witnessed around such fuelling stations in the metropolis.
The incessant scarcity of premium motor spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, in the city and other parts of Nigeria has caused vehicles to queue for the product, causing a clog in vehicular movement.
Most of the queues are seen around petrol stations belonging to major oil marketers because of their pump price. At the moment, most of them sell at the official price of N169 per litre, while other fuelling stations sell between N240 per litre and N260 per litre.
The quest to buy cheaper fuel has forced most motorists to queue for many hours at stations selling the official pump price.
To address traffic caused by the queues and ensure the free flow of vehicular movement in the metropolis, the state government has moved to "regulate the activities of major and independent petroleum marketers operating along major roads and traffic-prone areas within the state," according to the statement.
Mr Oladeinde said the state government was not happy with the "indiscriminate activities of motorists queuing to buy petroleum products and often impeding the free flow of traffic on some roads."
He said the government has now decided to ensure that, "petroleum marketers whose filling stations are situated on major highways and areas susceptible to traffic will henceforth be allowed to operate only between the hours of 9 am to 4 pm daily, pending when the fuel shortage crisis subsides."
The Commissioner added that the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS), Transport Operations Compliance Unit (TOCU) and other law enforcement agencies have been charged to ensure a seamless flow of traffic across the State.
Mr Oladeinde urged "all major and independent petroleum marketers operating across the state to comply with the directive to avoid sanctions."
Lagos Orders Evacuation of Trucks Ahead of Buhari's Visit
With President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to Lagos in sight, the Lagos State Government has warned all truckers' unions to remove their trucks and vehicles that are parked along the Blue Rail line corridor route.
The President is expected on a four-working day trip to commission some projects in the commercial city, including the Blue Rail Line and Lekki Deep Seaport.
In a statement by the Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO), it warned its members to adhere to the directive of the government on the evacuation of trucks so as not to have them impounded.
The statement signed by AMATO's National President, Mr Remi Ogungbemi, said that there was a need to do the needful so it would make it easy for the President to have smooth commissioning, hence the roads must be vacated for ease of vehicular movement within and around the state.
"The Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Transportation hereby directs the removal of all trucks that are parked on Blue Rail Line Corridor from Iganmu down to Okokomaiko or have their trucks impounded by the State Government due to the planned Four (4) days working visit to Lagos State by President Muhammadu Buhari for smooth commissioning of the Lagos Blue Rail Line project.
"Blue Line Rail would be running on electric tracks with Electric Motor Vehicle (EMV); hence, human activities, including parking of trucks around the Blue Rail line corridor, is a threat to life and general safety. Hence, the need to keep off the Blue Rail Corridor.
"That parking of trucks along the Blue Rail Corridor is a threat to the security of the rail infrastructure.
"To this end, all truckers are hereby enjoined to remove their trucks from the Blue Rail Line Corridor from Iganmu to Okokomaiko to prevent their trucks from being towed, as to be forewarned is to be forearmed," the statement read.


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Theatre: Evita
There is something about the audience at Evita, the new version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical hit from 30 years ago which reminded me of the audience at a dreadful Elaine Paige concert I happened to see in 2004. There was a certain age and a certain style about the people. They didn't look like they were regular theatre goers but they would go to this. I wondered where the hell they bussed this audience in from. I am not exactly a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals (nor Elaine Paige) so it did dawn on me what the hell I was doing at this show. Well it probably was the promise that it was to be a new look at a (tired, dated, sanctimonious) old show.
As for what was new in this show… Well there were new orchestrations, but for the most part they sounded more like the ring tones on my mobile phone. Unusually for a Lloyd Webber show, the set didn't fly in or out in spectacular fashion or be projected oddly (although there was one exception for Don't Cry For Me Argentina the balcony started to extend out for some sort of dramatic effect that I didn't quite understand the point of). These were all good things.
This new production also got something else right. Amongst some of the most hideous music ever to be inflicted on an audience in a popular musical and some very scary dancing involving soldiers prancing about, there were the three leads. These were Elena Roger (Evita), Philip Quast (Peron) and Matt Rawle (Che), and they could all act, dance and sing.
Actually Roger, a lovely petite Argentine actress couldn't hit the screechy bizarre high notes that the role calls for but she gave such a star performance that it was easy to overlook this. Some of the other audience members were not so forgiving and during the interval were hissing to each other "Oh she's not as good as Elaine!" The chemistry between her and Quast was pretty good as well, even if he was twice her size.
I had been forewarned that Rawle lacked the charisma for such a key role as Che. But I thought he was not bad. Part of the problem with him however was that he was made to look like some Arts undergraduate in between lectures bumming about. Thirty years ago the audiences may have been dull enough not to know who Che Guevara was, but the production could have taken some cues from the V&A exhibition which highlights what a dominating figure Che now is in pop culture, and fashioned him to suit this. But at least Rawle could sing and do it rather well.
So it was a night of great actors in a not-so-great show. A show also written in a time when subtlety was not in fashion. Tim Rice's lyrics seemed to constantly use naughty words such as "bitch" and "slut" and "tarts" just in case you missed the previous song which also underlined that Eva Peron slept her way to the top.
If you do find yourself at the Adelphi over the summer, I would advise that a good stiff drink in the interval will help enjoy the second half of the show. After all Evita will die before the curtain comes down, but it will feel like an awful long time for that to happen. I lost interest after the money rolling in or out song and was just hoping she would DIE! Unfortunately before she does die there are too many prancing soldiers and banal songs to endure it sober. One can only hope that Roger, Quast and Rawle do more work in the West End in future however, just not in Evita. It should be remembered as a Madonna movie, not a revival…


Travelers Q&A: Why are the rates paid to Travel Nurses different from agency to agency?
Rates paid to Travel Nurses are different because of so many factors. The state the assignment is in, what the Hospital is willing to pay, the expenses of the agency, what is included in the benefits the agency is offering, and many more variables.
It is well known that larger public agencies like American Mobile, Cross Country. MSN, Nursefinders and others do not pay as much as the smaller agencies. The reason for this is because those larger companies have a lot more expenses and are looking to make a large %. The benefits of the larger agencies are that they might have more jobs for you to pick from.
Most experienced Travelers will not work with the larger agencies and will have 3-4 smaller agencies that they call when they are looking for their next Travel Nurse job.


In an effort to identify and prioritize issues in the Central West End, we are asking our members for their opinions. It is our hope that this will help the CWEA focus on what matters most to you and develop programs that remedy the issue, educate our members, and enrich your living experience in the CWE.
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Views: Is Twitter sentinel of peace or war
Twitter is advised to appoint India based contact persons for prompt redressal of complaints, improve their system of response to investigations requested by our law enforcement agencies under the provisions of the IT Act and Criminal Penal Code as well as other laws.
By Rajan Kochchar
The country is going through challenging times. The COVID-19 has impacted all of us in a big way. There are serious economic issues, which are garnering attention as slowly our industries come to terms with themselves.
The push towards a digital revolution has commenced with social distancing norms in place, restricting the way we used to do work. We could also call this period a black swan event, wherein a few could have predicted the situation we are in today. If we do not adapt ourselves to this change and are not careful, the future will render us obsolete.
Today, we all are living in a more aspirational world where there is equality between the leaders and the led. The advent of modern technology has brought us extraordinary freedom. Millions now find love by swiping their phones; pod casters reach their audience of millions from the comfort of their bedrooms and on the other hand, we also run the risk of having our personal privacy which could be compromised through advanced technology equipment like spy cams.
Nowadays, elections pivot on viral content published online, while political careers can be ended by an ill thought tweet or launched with an indigenous piece of click bait.
According to a leading research over 61 percent of the millennial get their political news from popular social media platforms. In days to come TV and legacy media will cede power to the likes of Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram and so on.
'Twitter' has taken the world by a storm. '140 counts as all it takes' to stir a hornets' nest and set things on fire. It has become a catalyst in matters related to religion, politics, news, advertising and so on. A view of statistics would indicate that there are more than 320 million twitter users today.
There are 500 million tweets per day translating to 6000 tweets per second. In comparison, other social media platforms like Facebook have 1.5 billion users per month, WhatsApp has 1 billion users per month and driving on images as a mode of communication, Instagram has 400 million users. The share price of twitter gained from 17 US dollars to 36.4 US dollars. In the last year itself it has increased by 14 percent.
Ever since twitter came into being it has gravitated from being a social networking platform to a news portal. Today every news channel has a twitter account and there is posting of news every second.
As would therefore be evident, Twitter through its brevity in content has been able to impact the minds of the younger generation who relish on shorter bursts of adrenaline flowing through them. It has also been seen that to a large extent there has been a visible impact how people perceive issues when a post gets numerous likes, comments and re-tweets. The logic and rationale of the issue then becomes secondary, as there is a famous saying in Hindi "Bhed Chaal" prompts many an exodus of emotions leading to inflamed passions.
There is also a lack of transparency in how twitter modifies posts, which indicates a lack of integrity. Take the recent example of an advertisement tweeted by Amul titled "Exit the Dragon."
Amul's Twitter account was briefly blocked after the company shared a cartoon which called for a boycott of Chinese products. Now, after the handle was restored, the company has pinned the tweet on their profile so that this is the first tweet anyone visiting the company's Twitter profile will see.
There are also numerous fake accounts which get created but not detected by the moderator who controls the content on twitter. Take the example of "Omani Princess" a twitter handle created in the name of Her Highness Mona Bint Fahd which indulged in propaganda that all Indians working in Oman are being expatriated. Twitter has also been accused of 'Shadow Banning" by hiding tweets with content that Twitter is not in alignment with from public view. It is therefore evident that twitter has become a wayward child and needs to be more mature.
Another important issue which needs to be flagged here is the spread of fake news and false propaganda on twitter. In recent times, after the China-India faceoff at LAC in May 2020, there have been hundreds of fake accounts which have been created mostly from Pakistan commenting on the Indo-China situation. False profiles have been created with Chinese identity and photographs to make others believe that the posts are legitimate. A private cyber security company in Kochi has identified 500 twitter handles used to propagate false information in the current context. Most of these accounts have Pakistan and Chinese flags and a bio that Pakistan is highly backed by China.
One month after the violent standoff between Indian and the Chinese troops in the Galwan valley along the Line of Actual Control, Twitter had emerged as a battle front with multiple handles impersonating Chinese nationals and spreading dis-information about India. "The Quint" accessed several profiles which were set up in March 2020 and found clear discrepancies between actual facts and the information being shared by these handles.
@CNPakWW is a handle which was setup in March 2020, which stands for friendship between China and Pakistan, has been frequently relaying mis-information through its 17000 followers by posting unverified videos to assert the strength of the PLA over the Indian Army, twisting facts to criticise India's handling of its internal affairs and using mis-leading information to harm India's ties with its other neighbouring countries.
The Indian Army is known for its valour, honour and commitment to maintain our sovereignty. Today twitter is causing an irreparable harm to the efforts of our soldiers at the LAC. A few instances of this malicious campaign as seen on the Twitter are highlighted as under:
June 22, 2020: Showed old videos (2017) and depicted these as the Galwan Clashes.
July 5, 2020: Showed that the Indian Army created a Fake Hospital at Leh, as photo ops for PM Modi.
July 7, 2020: Deliberately showed Chinese helicopters patrolling over Pangong Tso lake, whereas it was actually the American Apache helicopters flying over Lake Havasu in Arizona.
July 11, 2020: Re-tweeted an old video of a military drill by Indian Army as a drill being done after the Chinese incursions.
Another important aspect which needs to be highlighted is about "Cyber Bullying" on Twitter. Cyber bullying occurs through social media platforms. It involves humiliation through hateful comments on online platforms, sharing negative or false information about another individual for causing humiliation and character assassination.
In a research by 'Symantec', 8 out of 10 individuals are subject to cyber bullying in India. Out of these 63 percent face online abuses and insults, 59 percent were subject to false rumours and gossip for degrading their image. The content on Twitter has had voices defaming national leaders of India in unparliamentary language and the hand owners have gotten away with this brazen act unscathed.
Twitter maintains a "Country Withheld Policy", under which twitter may censor specific tweets or accounts in a country, in response to a Govt order proving that the tweets were illegal under its local laws. Indian authorities have time and again sent removal requests to Twitter under this policy. According to Twitter "Transparency Report" in the second half of 2018, twitter received 667 removal requests affecting 2228 accounts from the Indian authorities. It would be interesting to note that the platform complied with only 2 percent of these requests.
The time has come now for the Nation to seriously consider statutory rules and regulations to deal with this infringement on our national security, religious harmony and well being of our citizens. Though, there are rules already for dealing with objectionable content such as Section 69 of IT Act and the Constitution also places reasonable restrictions on free speech, wherein the State can restrict speech that is against the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, but there is a need to do a lot more to control this unfortunate trend. A few suggested measures are enumerated as under:
Suspend Accounts spreading "unverified" and 'malicious content".
Section 69 (A) of IT Act to be invoked in situations demanding immediate measures to block accounts for their "Anti India rants".
Vetting of the "logic and algorithms" that Twitter uses by the Indian government for screening anti-India tweets.
There is a need for a law to take action against "Anti-India" content on social media. The Govt needs to formulate a law, circular, notification or a mechanism prohibiting Twitter from publishing such content which aids separatist organisations to create panic in some sections of the society. We may rely on something on the lines of the International Covenant of Civil and Personal Rights Act, which necessitates the State to prohibit allegedly seditious content. There is a similar law in Germany which can be studied for implementation in our country.
There is a need for social media KYC of social media handles to ensure that there are no fake accounts on platforms like Twitter. This aspect would need due consideration.
Can any well-meaning society or a nation tolerate this kind of discrimination of people with certain ideology, launching of vicious personal attacks and in particular anti-national activities? In a similar way as our Armed Forces guard our borders, there has been an awakening amongst the citizens of our country to report and bring to light any anti-India content to the law enforcement agencies and take collective action to keep the nation safe too. This service to the nation would be as valuable as the service of our soldiers fighting for the nation.
Today we have hidden enemies within us. The citizens of our country need to identify these hidden enemies, expose them and finally annihilate them. The Government needs to have a strict regulatory mechanism in place to guard against any anti-national propaganda or an attempt to incite passions on account of religion, caste or creed. The social media platforms like twitter need to be reined in. We cannot have these organizations play merry hell with the sentiments of the people and undermine the morale of the nation and its armed forces. The time for reckoning has come.
The author is former Major General AOC Central Command, Indian Army. Views are personal.
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Home Scene Drama You Stupid Limelight!
You Stupid Limelight!
Back in Gibraltar after what she describes as a hiatus, Geri Cummings is ready to tread the local boards under the direction of Daniel Strain-Webber, in a dramedy earmarked for 'the fall'.
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Geri Cummings will play Frances, a heavily pregnant 39-year old helpline call-centre operator in You Stupid Darkness!, the new play by Sam Steiner, whose Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Daniel entered in a past Drama Festival.
"No matter how different from you the character you are cast to play seems to begin with, you always connect with it, and they become a part of you and you a part of them," Geri says. "There always is a part of you in the characters you portray. You never lose yourself completely in them, and you pour a bit of yourself in them, that's why in my opinion each actor plays the same character differently, well beyond their obvious differences in physicality." She adds: "The bond you develop with your character during any production is real, and you grieve them when they're gone."
Geri also points out how the bond with characters and other actors on stage becomes an addiction: a good addiction to the escapism that theatre provides, for both cast and audience, because theatre transports both into a different world where the rules are separate from everyday reality, and once the play is over and you leave the theatre premises, part of that world still stays with you.
"They become a part of you and you a part of them."
"You Stupid Darkness is a challenging play, but I believe it is the right one to break the ice after lockdown and attract spectators," Geri says. She read reviews which claim that there are several emotional layers in this play, so the cast will have to convey this in ways that respect and fulfil the director's vision.
As customary for Daniel, the play features a minimalistic cast and set, so that the audience is not distracted by stage changes for an opulent background, and can concentrate on the journey of the four Brightline volunteers who juggle their personal and professional life with distress calls from strangers.
"It's not only about the characters on stage, but also those at the other end of the telephone line. The audience doesn't hear their voices, but can glean their conversations from the way the characters on stage respond to calls."
Geri has been involved in amateur dramatics for as long as she can remember, from an Alice in Wonderland musical production in her native Canada when she was in sixth grade, although she admits that singing is not really her thing. And when she first landed in Gibraltar while touring southern Spain in her early twenties, she fast became one of the oldest members of students' group Dramatis Personae.
She would like to see more impromptu theatre in Gibraltar, perhaps short plays or excerpts performed in the open air, perhaps in Casemates or Piazza, a dramatic permutation on flashmobbing as well as a novel way to promote forthcoming productions.
Geri introduced The Mouse Trap to Gibraltar, directing the famous play locally, after having starred in it back in Canada, and having enjoyed it so much that she felt she should give it a go from the darker side of the proscenium, so to speak. "Despite being the longest-running play ever, I hadn't seen it in theatres prior to being cast in it, or directing it, but I did so afterwards. Each production is different and it is always a new experience."
"A good addiction to the escapism that theatre provides."
After six years in Gibraltar, Geri went back to Canada, where she stayed for ten years before realising that she wanted to raise her children in a small, sunny community. "I acknowledged how metropolitan Canadians tend to live to work and not work to live, and that wasn't the kind of message I wanted my children to grow up with."
Her day-job is sales manager for recently formed environmentally-friendly cleaning products' distributors Green Rock, but her curriculum includes a stint at Rock Radio, drama teacher at Stagecoach locally and at an Ontario summer camp with 3,000 kids to entertain and four plays to stage!
In Canada, she flew high on the amateur dramatics radar, cruising the festivals scene, so her 'hiatus' is really referring to her Gibraltar activity. And here, she picked up where she left it, rejoining the drama community with this script that tickled her fancy and prompted her to give Daniel's auditions a go.
Geri is ganging up with Sam Vatvani, Carmen Anderson, and Kaigan Garcia, all of whom she had never worked before, to bring to life a production that she pitches like so: "If you want a place to escape yourself and your troubles for two hours, we are here for you. We are a helpline after all. We can help you."
Finally, is Frances giving birth on stage, in a theatrical crescendo? "Ha! You'll have to buy a ticket!" Geri cunningly teases.
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Raising the bar and widening the gate
We work to help inspire millions of young people to consider apprenticeships and technical careers as a prestige route to career and life success. However, I believe that we can't fully succeed if we aren't reaching young people from all backgrounds. Despite introducing a number of initiatives aimed at increasing the diversity of those who participated in our skills competitions programme, we are still failing to live up to our ambitions to be as inclusive as possible in our work.
That's why, we commissioned research from The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) to look at our programme model to better understand the challenges and opportunities for inclusion so more young people and their employers get the opportunity to benefit from our work to improve skill standards. Over a 12-month period, almost 700 interviews were conducted with our network to understand what motivated people to participate in our competitions and understand the barriers, if any, they faced to entering. We also convened a research advisory group, made up of leading FE and industry spokespeople and inclusion experts, to help support and provide strategic guidance throughout the project.
The research found that the issues we faced with diversity and inclusion were reflected in the wider FE sector. Many colleges reported that they struggled to attract young people to non-traditional skills, which has a knock-on effect on those they entered into our competitions. We know we have an important role to play in tackling these existing stereotypes and pre-conceptions. At WorldSkills UK LIVE, our major annual skills and careers showcase, last year, 33% of young people arrived hoping to learn about apprenticeships and after watching their peers in the national skills competitions finals and speaking with the UK's leading employers, colleges and training providers, 68% left planning to investigate apprenticeships as a career option. This shows how stereotypes can be addressed and the importance of peer role modelling in helping young people realise their full potential.
That's why I am pleased that we are creating more opportunities at LIVE to showcase more inspirational role models by expanding the WorldSkills UK Diversity and Inclusion Heroes Awards. As our 2019 Rising Star Award winner Raisa Matadar from Jaguar Land Rover told me last week 'you can't be what you can't see.' By opening young people's minds to all career possibilities, we are helping to create the pipeline for a more diverse, inclusive and productive workforce of the future which is integral to the success of the economy.
The research also confirmed that we need to work more closely with partners who are entering students and apprentices into competitions to help ensure the whole process is as inclusive as possible. After all, evidence shows that our competition activity is beneficial to all, with 97% of national finalists at last year's LIVE saying they felt inspired for their future after competing, while 95% said their personal and employability skills had improved. By using this insight and undertaking positive action, we will detail more explicitly what we are looking for in those who are put forward to take part in our competitions and most importantly why we are looking to make these changes. I believe meritocracy, higher standards and inclusion are not mutually exclusive – this is about raising the bar and widening the gate.
It is my personal ambition that by 2025, members of Team UK who participate in WorldSkills will be more reflective of young people across the UK. To achieve this, we need to act today and work together to ensure the registration process for this year's competitions, which closes on 2 April, is successful in tackling stereotypes and open to all: more young women in engineering and construction, more young men in hair, beauty and care services and in all skills more young people from disadvantaged areas, who are BAME and who identify as LGBT. Only then can we ensure we are selecting from a wider talent pool and the best and brightest young people, irrespective of their background, will represent the UK on the world stage.
I very much welcome the findings and recommendations from the comprehensive and ambitious report by TSIP– as a careers and skills development network with a global reach, as a convening platform for partners across the skill sector and as an employer. We are determined to make changes at WorldSkills UK and I hope those in the sector will commit to joining us, so together we can help more and more young people succeed.


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New ESG Disclosure For Asset Managers in Singapore
The Monetary Authority of Singapore ("MAS") released Circular No. CFC 02/2022 on ESG Disclosure and Reporting Guidelines for Retail ESG Funds ("Circular") which takes effect on 1 January 2023.
The Circular was released alongside the Sustainability Report 2021/2022 issued by MAS and also coincides with the release of Singapore's first green bond.
Prior to this Circular, MAS had started addressing environmental risks within the regulatory ambit. MAS introduced Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management ('ENRM Guidelines") for Asset Managers in December 2020 which set out supervisory expectations on sound risk management practices. The ENRM Guidelines took effect in June 2022. In 2021, MAS conducted a thematic review on selected asset managers, banks and other financial institutions to study how various entities have addressed the ENRM Guidelines. Based on the review that was conducted, MAS subsequently released as Information Paper on Environmental Risk Management highlighting emerging and/or good practices for financial institutions and identifying areas where further work was needed.
Objective of the ESG Circular
The Circular aims to mitigate risks of greenwashing, where investments are falsely or misleadingly claimed to be ESG focused. The new Circular sets out MAS' expectations on how existing fund requirements under the Code of Collective Investment Schemes ("CIS Code") and the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations 2005 ("SF(CIS)R") apply to retail ESG funds, and the disclosure and reporting guidelines applicable to these funds.
Scope of the ESG Circular
The new Circular is addressed to all holders of a capital market services licence in respect of fund management, and the trustees approved under section 289 of the Securities and Futures Act. The requirement of the new Circular applies to all authorised or recognised schemes offered in Singapore which:
uses ESG factors as their key investment focus and strategy; and
represents itself as an ESG-focused scheme.
Authorised schemes are schemes constituted in Singapore and recognised schemes are schemes constituted outside of Singapore. All offers of collective investment schemes ("CIS") in Singapore must be accompanied by a MAS-registered prospectus and product highlight sheet unless they are exempt offers.
In assessing recognised schemes, MAS will consider schemes' compliance with the relevant ESG rules in their home jurisdictions, if any.
Name of the ESG Fund
When a scheme (or fund) includes or uses ESG-related or similar terms (e.g. "sustainable", "green") in its name, the scheme should reflect such an ESG focus in its investment portfolio and/or strategy in "a substantial manner", which will be assessed based on whether the scheme's net asset value is primarily invested in accordance with the scheme's investment strategy.
According to MAS, "a scheme is normally considered to be "primarily invested" if at least two-thirds of the scheme's net asset value is invested in accordance with the scheme's investment strategy". In cases of exceptions related to determining the "primarily invested" requirement, the manager has to explain how the scheme's investments are substantially ESG-focused.
MAS ESG Fund Disclosure Requirements
MAS requires disclosures at two levels – upfront and recurring.
Upfront ESG Disclosures
The upfront disclosures are to be included in the prospectus of the scheme and the recurring disclosures should appear in the annual reports of Singapore ESG funds.
As part of upfront disclosures, an ESG fund should disclose the following:
Investment focus – which could include climate change, low carbon footprint, sustainability, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and the "relevant ESG criteria, methodologies or metrics used to measure the attainment of the scheme's ESG focus".
Investment strategy – which includes a description of the sustainable investing strategy, its implementation plan, the ESG Investment criteria, metrics or principles considered investment selection process and the minimum asset allocation into assets to meet the ESG focus of the scheme.
In case a Reference benchmark or Index is used, how the reference benchmark is consistent with or relevant to its investment focus.
Risks associated with the scheme's ESG focus and investment strategy.
Recurring ESG Disclosures
As part of recurring ESG disclosures, the annual report of an ESG Fund should disclose the following:
Narrative on how and the extent to which the scheme's ESG focus has been met during the financial period, including a comparison with the previous period (if any).
The actual proportion of investments that meet the scheme's ESG focus (if applicable).
Any action taken by the scheme in attaining the scheme's ESG focus (e.g. stakeholder engagement activities).
Disclosing Additional Information About ESG Funds
The Circular further states that where appropriate, additional information regarding the ESG fund, its managers or index provider should be disclosed to investors or prospective investors on the manager's website or by other appropriate means. Information includes how ESG focus is measured and monitored, as well as disclosures on data availability and quality.
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A Director Under the Influence of History
by Isaiah Seret
I make music videos. How this process often works is that someone sends me a song and asks me to submit a concept for a video to that song. When I received Cults' hauntingly beautiful track, "Go Outside," I was inspired to bring the band inside the world of Jim Jones' famous religious community, Peoples Temple. This was motivated by the song's sample of Jones' voice from the Death Tape during the opening intro, and then carried by its overall lyrical content. Even though this was an artistic inspiration and goal, it was obviously a controversial subject to work with, and I didn't want the video to be exploitative or disturbing. In fact, as someone with a master's degree in religious studies, and having spent much of my life learning about various religious traditions, I took on the world's most infamous cult as an artistic endeavor with a great deal of caution and perhaps trepidation.
My decision to commit to the project came when I received a DVD with over two and half hours of "home videos" from Peoples Temple from this website. I was surprised to see how normal everyone was – clean cut, well shaved, ethnically and culturally diverse, happy – with nothing naïve or dismissive about them. Essentially they could be any of us. Of course I had seen bits and pieces of this footage in various documentaries, but watching the raw clips, I couldn't help but notice their similarity to my current community of friends – i.e., smart, tolerant, with spiritual inclinations and a yearning for shared community. This really raised the bar for my video, as I had realized I simply wanted to re-tell and humanize their story – the story of the thousands of people who were swept into the whirlwind of Jim Jones. I decided I would use the many captured images of joy and melody to carry the story/song, then place the band as part of this energy. Beyond this, I was determined not to put an extra spin on their lives or manipulate some kind of extra drama.
As we combed through the footage, I realized I needed to contact some of the other producers who had captured Peoples Temple on film. I visited and got footage from both David Gottlieb and Don Como, who also explained how they shot the original scenes, and further accessed archival footage from NBC and the California Historic Society.
With all this footage, we began filing the band in various matching or similar scenarios, using sets and greenscreen. With the support of my visual effects supervisor Bill Gilman, my cinematographer Matthew Lloyd, and my editor Luke Lynch, we completed the rough cut of the work. But we didn't consider the project to be done.
Some of the producers were quite concerned as to how Temple survivors may react to it. This was the primary consideration, since all parties were in agreement that there was merit in remembering history in general and this point in history in particular. We were heartened to learn that a handful of survivors who saw it appreciated the light in which we showed the community, particularly the video's focus on the people, as opposed to exploiting the graphic images of the final tragedy. Of course, we were also glad to hear that they recognized the artistic quality to the video – the merger and separation of music and news, of art and documentary – and several even talked about enjoying the song itself.
With this awareness, along with a clear understanding that this video would open a number of challenging and sensitive dialogues, we released the video through the internet magazine, Boing Boing, which included a short director's statement along with the video. The response from my side was overwhelmingly positive. The folks I talked to called the video powerful and effective. I received a handful of emails ranging from people who had barely, or even never, heard of Jonestown, along with others that were inspired to share this with a younger generation. There were hundreds of comments on various blogs, ranging from "exploitative" to "important" and others sparking a debate over whether this is similar to a movie such as Schindler's List (which was debatably exploitative/educational) since it is ultimately promoting a band.
On this point I do want to mention that I recognize that bands makes music videos to get people aware of their music. On one hand they are free to watch, as opposed to movies and documentaries, but on the other hand, a good video can increase record sales. This latter point has yet to be proven, though, which is largely why the music video business is 10 percent the size it was a decade ago. Personally I see music videos as one of the sole creative visual acts offered to society free of charge. Further, as a director, I see how the bands are often pressured to play it "safe" and make something easily digestible to their core audience. It is only in rare cases that the band wants to do something conceptually risky for the sake of art.
We all knew this song was a classic example. Despite its potential to present a sunshine-y summer imagery to drive record sales, the band instead wanted to go with our Peoples Temple concept, a decision I applaud. And if by chance the band does have some financial success – though sadly these days many non-pop-star artists often end up owing their record label money for investing in the recording and videos – I will encourage them to be good world citizens with their profits.
The most significant feedback I received for this video was from Don Beck, a former Temple member who first commented on the Boing Boing article under his online name of "Eiredon."
As one of the people whose face was changed digitally to one of a band member and as a survivor who lost children (pictured in the footage), I fail to see the artistic statement in this music video; rather I find the exploitation of myself, my dead children and friends little more than a way to promote a song and make money. I have tried to "hear" how it is more than exploiting horror to make money. The music is nice, the words are hard to hear and then make little comment beyond reinforcing that "cults" (like the footage shows) are just bad crazies. I don't understand what insights this "artistic work" into the inside of Peoples Temple, as the director states. The photos don't do it and the words don't either. It seems the director's insights came from reading more of what has been written by survivors, relatives, etc. I would welcome an article on this experience sharing his insights learned – alluded to in the Director's Statement above – the music video just doesn't do that.
I responded immediately to him:
I apologize if there is a sense that this video promised insights. You are definitely correct in that there were a number of personal insights I gained through this process… While preparing to make it, I realized many of the younger people I knew did not know the story of Jonestown. Or if they had heard of it, they simply knew the kool-aid expression out of context. So what emerged during the artistic process was an increased belief that this is a story worth knowing and remembering and ultimately that we can learn a lot from history. … I was still moved to be part of telling (and remembering) this story, in the way that I was capable of showing it.
Don and I have been in frequent contact since that initial exchange. I must say I really appreciated his direct engagement. We have discussed and learned a great deal about each other and our views (which were very aligned). Ultimately, much of what we wrote has informed much of my writing in this article.
For his last comment on the blog, Don wrote: "Isaiah was trying to give a different insight to what he found… if you didn't see or hear it, so be it. I appreciate his trying rather than sitting by doing nothing. If nothing else comes of the horror of Jonestown, maybe people can learn to speak out if they disagree with 'their' leaders, be they at home, at church, in a town or state or country. Maybe if we did, there could be more good in the world."
Don is right: the most valuable take-away from any historical situation like this is to question leadership. This is not new. In historic Tibet there were manuals written on ways to question a spiritual leader to insure they are authentic and have their students' best interests at heart. I am far from anti-leader or anti-guru, but I wish we all felt that it is socially appropriate to question teachers, that there is nothing blasphemous about critical inquiry or dissent.
While it's easy in hindsight for us to dismiss Jim Jones and the tragedy as some kind of anomaly in history, through making this video, I learned that at the beginning these followers were promised two things we all want: a meaningful life (closer to God); and financial security. These are two things that are very hard to pass up. And lest we think that we ourselves could never become susceptible to someone like Jones, we should remember that we have all been victims of influence or peer pressure in our lives – whether great or small, good or bad, inspiring or misleading – because we are social beings, each of us living in different communities and groups, all of which by definition expect some degree of conformity, compromise and adherence to negotiate standards of behavior. Even so, let us also remember we are all the guardians of our minds, and through our thoughts and actions we are free to decide and question what is wholesome and unwholesome, helpful and harmful.
(Isaiah Seret can be reached at subjectobject@isaiahseret.com.)
Last modified on December 12th, 2013.


Christmas Postcards! - Click IT!
The children really enjoyed making their Christmas cards .They were able to choose whether to write to Santa or make a card with a message for someone special. Using the mouse or graphic pen to draw their design, they then saw their pattern repeated around the page. Here you can see some beautiful creations: a red present with a bow, a Christmas tree with baubles and a pink christmas tree!


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Q: How do I check if my local docker image is outdated, without pushing from somewhere else? I'm running a react app in a docker container, on a Coreos server. Let's say it's been pulled from dockerhub from https://hub.docker.com/r/myimages/myapp.
Now I want to check periodically if the dockerhub image for the app container has been updated, to see if the image I'm running locally is behind.
What would be the most efficient way to check if a local docker image is outdated compared to the remote image? All solutions I've found so far are bash scripts or external services that push on an update. I'd like to find a solution that is as native to docker as possible, and would like to refrain from pushing a notification from somewhere else (to alert the server of an updated image).

A: You can query the registry API for the image digest and compare it to that of what you've pulled.
$ cat digest-v2.sh
#!/bin/sh

ref="${1:-library/ubuntu:latest}"
repo="${ref%:*}"
tag="${ref##*:}"
acceptM="application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json"
acceptML="application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json"
token=$(curl -s "https://auth.docker.io/token?service=registry.docker.io&scope=repository:${repo}:pull" \
        | jq -r '.token')
curl -H "Accept: ${acceptM}" \
     -H "Accept: ${acceptML}" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" \
     -I -s "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/${repo}/manifests/${tag}"

$ ./digest-v2.sh library/busybox:latest
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 2080
Content-Type: application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json
Docker-Content-Digest: sha256:d366a4665ab44f0648d7a00ae3fae139d55e32f9712c67accd604bb55df9d05a
Docker-Distribution-Api-Version: registry/2.0
Etag: "sha256:d366a4665ab44f0648d7a00ae3fae139d55e32f9712c67accd604bb55df9d05a"
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 21:04:59 GMT
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000

You can compare that ETag or Docker-Content-Digest header to the registry reference on the image you've previously pulled:
$ docker image inspect busybox:latest --format '{{json .RepoDigests}}' | jq .
[
  "busybox@sha256:d366a4665ab44f0648d7a00ae3fae139d55e32f9712c67accd604bb55df9d05a"
]

$ docker image pull busybox:latest
latest: Pulling from library/busybox
Digest: sha256:d366a4665ab44f0648d7a00ae3fae139d55e32f9712c67accd604bb55df9d05a
Status: Image is up to date for busybox:latest
docker.io/library/busybox:latest

I've also been working on some Go APIs and CLI to work with more registries where you may need to pass different types of authorization. That project is at regclient/regclient and includes a regctl command.
$ regctl image digest --list busybox:latest
sha256:d366a4665ab44f0648d7a00ae3fae139d55e32f9712c67accd604bb55df9d05a

A: If you are using Docker Hub you could use a Webhook to notify the docker host about a update, and take action over that.
Using the webhook would be the "simple" way to do it (I think) otherwise you would have to do some kind of crawling in the docker pull or as explained by @alebianco comparing some hashs or build/creation dates.
Here is the docs about it: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/webhooks/

A: there's an API available for the Docker Hub
You should be able to get the list of tags, and from there the manifest details

edit
I did some digging around, looks like they don't expose any kind of checksum of the image, it's manifest or the layers that compose it.
The closest thing i found is the creation date ... which i wouldn't suggest using if you're trying to make something remotely secure.
Anyway, you need to get an access token first
curl "https://auth.docker.io/token?service=registry.docker.io&scope=repository:library/ubuntu:pull"

extract the token from the response, then you can load the manifest of an image version
curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" https://index.docker.io/v2/library/ubuntu/manifests/latest

look into the history object of the json returned, you'll find a created property.
Then you can get your local image created date with
docker inspect --format "{{json .Created}}" ubuntu:latest

Compare the two and cringe away ...

A: Issue 30906 (Docker command to check if a local container image is outdated?) just mentioned (in Jan. 2023):

You can try using Diun for this task.
It checks for updates and then can notify you via a number of providers.

Docker Image Update Notifier is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to receive notifications when a Docker image is updated on a Docker registry.
With Go, this can be done with an independent binary distribution across all platforms and architectures that Go supports.

See Marco d'Aleo blog post "DIUN: Docker Image Update Notifier"

Diun supports many services, but for this kind of projects I usually choose Telegram.

A: I solved this issue with a crawler that checks either the Dockerfile directly or a from string.
I backed everything into a docker image which could be found in the docker hub.
I simply run the image in my gitlab ci pipeline. If the base image is outdated is prints all newer versions so that you can easily pick the tag.
Link: https://hub.docker.com/r/olafnorge/docker-image-crawler/


Shutterfly is one of my favorite websites, hands down. In addition to allowing users to enjoy and share photos, the site helps users to turn those photos into photo books, meaningful cards, photo gifts, home decor, personal websites and so much more. I currently have 65 projects that I am working on or have completed since opening an account in 2010. In the fall of 2016, while working on my annual family Christmas cards, I came across a pop-up ad to create a custom recipe book.
Throughout my life, food was always what brought my family together. As my own family has grown and moved around, I thought this would the perfect way to capture all of the unique recipes that we have collected over the years. I spent several weeks compiling my favorite recipes and accompanying pictures when it occurred to me; I could also use the recipe book to capture our family history… or the story of how the family came to be through preserving memories with this cookbook. The result was a compilation of perfected recipes, loved and shared throughout the years along with stories about how our family came to be. I hope that this cookbook will be passed down from generation to generation as a living record of our family history.
The hardest part of creating the cookbook was narrowing down which recipes and locating the pictures to use. Shutterfly has multiple cookbook styles to choose from with a variety of layouts to make it easy to copy and paste recipes and show off photos of your favorite dishes.
This unique keepsake has made a perfect gift…excellent for grandparents, new graduates, mother's day and father's day. If you are interested in creating your own cookbook, head over to www.shutterfly.com.
Creating a cookbook means you'll have something to pass on to future generations of cooks!