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Dec 23, 2021 7:08am PT
Chinese Streamer iQiyi's Woes Have Been Long in the Making
Once billed as the "Netflix of China," video streaming firm iQiyi is now laying off staff in order to bring its costs under control. The former high-flyer is still busily promoting new original shows "Jirisan" and "Bad and Crazy," but it may struggle to regain altitude.
The Beijing-based company has previously been admired for its Chinese-made shows, smart software engineering and innovations, such as making the "Mysterious Summer," a rare Chinese-Japanese TV drama. It even experimented with development of user-programmable movie theaters.
In 2017, it announced a deal with Netflix under which Netflix titles would be available day-and-date in China, where western entertainment-tech firms do not operate. The announcement was a huge public relations coup, but the deal was short-lived and did not provide a breakthrough to either greatness or profitability.
A year later, iQiyi reached its corporate zenith with a share listing on the NASDAQ market in the U.S., with its ADR shares offered at $18 apiece. They now stand at $5.16, a more than 70% discount to the IPO price and 87% below their all-time high.
While the company has continued to do interesting things, including opening a Singapore headquarters for its overseas operations and, through it, getting involved with content that could not be shown back home in mainland China, the red ink and corporate bad news have scarcely stopped flowing.
The company was founded in 2010 with Baidu, China's internet search leader, and Providence Equity Partners as powerhouse backers. Baidu, seeing great promise in the two-year-old company, bought out PEP's stake in 2012. Around that time, iQiyi received two useful, external stimuli.
One was search integration with Baidu, which increased the visibility of its content. The other was the success of electronic payment systems launched by other Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent. These solved the recurring payments problems that had stymied many forms of subscription service in China and allowed the SVOD industry to flourish.
Stellar growth and those useful Netflix comparisons may have been at the root of iQiyi's first major corporate controversy in 2016. Robin Li Yanhong, founder of Baidu, and Gong Yu, iQiyi's founder, CEO and substantial shareholder, offered to buy iQiyi for $2.8 billion, a price which a U.S. institutional investor in Baidu said very substantially under-valued iQiyi. The company had recently achieved market leadership in China, with 20 million subscribers, and saw rival Youku Tudou scooped up by Alibaba for $4.8 billion.
The deal collapsed and in March 2018, Baidu instead gave iQiyi an IPO at a valuation of $13 billion — effectively confirming that the Li and Gong takeover proposal had been opportunistic and lowball. As part of the flotation, iQiyi also raised more than $2 billion of additional capital.
At the time, U.S. investors were still enamored by U.S.-listed Chinese companies and iQiyi's (ADR) shares soared from their $18 offer price to over $40 apiece by June 2018. That gave iQiyi a market capitalization close to $28 billion.
But hope value can only take a company so far. The problem then, as now, is that iQiyi has never made a profit.
Instead, iQiyi has burned through billions of dollars of capital as it splashed out on content production and client acquisition.
Competition with the video offshoots of China's tech giants, which had created vast ecosystems around e-commerce (Alibaba), social media and gaming (Tencent) was tough, especially as the emergence of apps had anyway lessened the usefulness of iQiyi's search integration with Baidu.
Simultaneously, at the short-video, live-streaming, gaming-related and user-generated end of the spectrum, users were increasingly turning to Kuaishou, Bilibili, Bytedance's Douyin (TikTok overseas), Huya and DouYu.
IQiyi's answer was to raise yet more capital. It did this through the issue of bonds that are convertible into equity in December 2018 and March 2019 and by selling convertibles and equity in December 2020.
By the time of the third fund raising, many of iQiyi's problems had been exposed.
In March 2020, with shares modestly under water at $16.71, iQiyi was broadsided by U.S.-based short selling firms Muddy Waters and Wolfpack Research, which accused the company of fraud by overstating subscriber numbers, inflating its revenues and multiple forms of accounting tricks.
The company denied the accusations and its shares quickly recovered on reports that Alibaba and Tencent had attempted to buy the company and had been rebuffed. Speculation that the tech giants might come back with higher offers were dashed when U.S. regulators announced a probe into some of the short sellers' accusations. Around the same time, Donald Trump's administration talked of expelling Chinese companies from U.S. capital markets, and the Chinese government started a multi-pronged regulatory assault on tech firms. Dozens of U.S. law firms began preparing class action suits against the company.
Some optimism still clung to iQiyi, as it doubled down on Korean content and the Singapore offshoot appeared to be gaining subscriber traction in Southeast Asian markets. But at home in China, things were looking considerably bleaker.
Astonishingly, and contrary to the ground gained by many streaming firms around the world, iQiyi failed to make lasting progress during the pandemic when hundreds of millions of people were locked down at home. In May 2020, it blamed COVID's inflationary impact on content costs. In February 2021, it pointed to "a lack of compelling content" for causing millions of viewers to cancel their subscriptions.
By the end of December 2020, iQiyi had 101.7 million paying subscribers. That was a decrease compared with 106.9 million at the end of 2019 and a 14% tumble since subscriptions peaked at 118.9 million in March 2020.
With more bad news on the content and subscriptions fronts in its 2021 third quarter financial results, iQiyi is now swinging the axe. While the company has said nothing publicly, Chinese media have reported that 20% of jobs are to be eliminated. That figure could rise to 40% in non-core departments. And other business media have reported a retrenchment in the Philippines, a loss-making part of its overseas empire.
IQiyi is not alone. Many Chinese companies affected by China's regulatory crackdown are finding that costs of compliance are rising and that their growth prospects have been trimmed.
Chinese streamers have been ordered to ban artists that don't meet moral or cultural standards. Some game show and reality TV programs have been taken off air. And companies use of consumer data (for marketing, content recommendation and cross-selling of services) is being severely crimped.
Kuaishou is reported to be cutting its staff by 10%, while Bytedance has stopped hiring since August.
There is now a yawning gap between mid-sized Chinese entertainment firms' bright shiny ambitions — all talk of ecosystems, super-apps and the metaverse — and the new realities of a Chinese economy that is slowing down and is being braked further by the regulatory crackdown.
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Grief over covid-19 deaths may be unusually severe and long-lasting
Health 8 July 2020
By Alice Klein
A funeral for covid-19 victims in Bergamo, Italy
Independent Photo Agency Srl / Carlo Cozzoli/Fotogramma
Since losing her mother to covid-19 in April, Helen Stoba, who lives in Liverpool, UK, has been racked with guilt, anger and confusion. She struggles to focus and has nightmares. "No one truly understands how different the grieving process is at the moment," she says.
Psychiatrists are observing similar emotions in others who have lost loved ones to covid-19 (see "Stories of loss," below). They warn that the unique challenges of coming to terms with these deaths could lead to a rise in a condition known as prolonged grief disorder.
Grief tends to ease with time as people adapt to life without the deceased. But about 10 per cent of bereaved individuals develop prolonged grief disorder – severe, unrelenting grief that lasts for six months or more and makes it difficult to function.
Read more: Why hasn't the UK seen a second wave of the coronavirus?
Previous research has found that people are more likely to develop the condition if a death is sudden and unexpected, they are experiencing other stressors or they lack social support.
More people are experiencing these risk factors during the pandemic, since the coronavirus often kills swiftly, many bereaved people have additional stressors, such as the loss of their job, and social structures are undermined. "Grieving people tend to appreciate a hug, which is impossible when we are required to adhere to physical distancing," says psychologist Lauren Breen at Curtin University in Australia.
Many covid-19 deaths also come with extra challenges that could further increase the risk of prolonged grief disorder, says Joseph Goveas, a psychiatrist at the Medical College of Wisconsin. These include not being able to say goodbye in person, covid-19 specific restrictions on rituals like washing, kissing or viewing the body and limits on the number of people who can attend funerals. These may all derail the healing process, he says.
Goveas is also seeing high levels of guilt in patients who have lost loved ones to covid-19. "They feel like they didn't do enough or they have survivor's guilt and wonder why they were spared," he says.
Guilt is an emotion that Stoba feels keenly, because she was not able to be with her mother when she died. "I am devastated that she was alone with no one but medical staff," she says. Not being able to see her mother in the chapel of rest has also made it difficult to comprehend her death, she says. "Throughout her funeral, I kept asking if they were sure it was my mum in there," she says.
Read more: Risk of airborne coronavirus spread being underplayed, say researchers
It is too soon to know whether covid-19 will cause an epidemic of prolonged grief disorder, since it takes at least six months to diagnose, says psychologist Maarten Eisma at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. But he thinks there is a high risk, since natural disasters tend to increase rates of the condition and covid-19 shares similar features, like causing large numbers of sudden deaths.
Fortunately, there are effective treatments. A talking therapy called complicated grief psychotherapy, for example, has been shown to reduce symptoms of the condition and to work better than antidepressants.
Stoba has found that talking to a bereavement counsellor and joining online support groups have helped. "Being aware of the risk of developing prolonged grief disorder and accessing timely treatment may aid in mitigating a silent epidemic from happening," says Goveas.
Stories of loss
Lesley Branch from Essex, UK, lost her 67-year-old husband, Jack, to covid-19 in April:
He rang me [from hospital] and I got to speak to him for under a minute. We were able to tell each other that we loved each other. I told him he would be OK and I would see him in a few days. His last words were, 'I hope so and thank you'.
I woke at 4am to find a voicemail on my phone. It was the nurse looking after him. He died before they could ring me. I was in complete shock. I feel so sad and guilty that I didn't get to say goodbye or hold his hand.
We were told only 10 for the service. No clothes to bury him in or anything placed in his coffin. Flowers were hard to get hold of as everywhere local was closed. The funeral wasn't attended by anyone other than immediate family and we were seated apart.
Since his death, I find it hard to sleep. I have days where I get out of bed, sit in front of the TV though not really watching it, don't wash or get dressed, and cry. The covid-19 situation has made it so hard. No one to comfort me and give me a hug or make me a drink. No shoulder to cry on. It's not a natural way to grieve.
Evelyn from Bristol, UK, lost her 67-year-old husband, Richard, to covid-19 in April:
The ambulance came and he left in a wheelchair with the oxygen mask on, wrapped in a blanket. We never saw or spoke to him again. [After he went to hospital], they recommended that he should go on a ventilator straightaway and into an induced coma for five days. It was all so fast and almost unbelievable. I wasn't even able to talk to Richard about this and I will never forgive myself for not asking to talk to him.
On Easter Monday, they told us that he would not be able to recover from such terrible damage to his lungs. It felt unreal – we were so removed from him at that point and it was totally out of our hands.
We were not allowed to see him or sit with his coffin in the funeral home. The funeral was pared down to 15 minutes and it was only my son and I who were there.
It's like living a nightmare. The shock of what happened and the speed of his decline has been difficult to process. It was like he went on a plane and the plane crashed and that was it, we would never see him again.
On a positive note, counselling has been very helpful and I would definitely recommend it. Having a third party to talk to has been a bit of a life saver for me and I am continuing with this for the foreseeable future.
Laura Etherington from Sussex, UK, lost her 56-year-old mother to covid-19 in March:
The day before mum died, I tried calling her several times but she didn't answer. I have no idea if she was sleeping or if she just couldn't face saying goodbye to me. My dad was called to the hospital in the early hours of the next morning and was allowed 15 minutes to say goodbye.
The funeral director told us we would be able to see mum at the chapel of rest, but the day before [the funeral] they called and said due to government guidelines, mum had to be in a sealed coffin and therefore we couldn't see her. I know not being able to see mum after her death is meaning my brain can't process that she has really gone. I so wish lockdown had been earlier so that she might not have gotten it.
Pip Bensley from Southampton, UK, lost her 92-year-old father, Arthur, to suspected covid-19 in April:
Dad didn't really take the virus seriously or understand the risks. He was still popping out to Sainsbury's to buy things even though I had organised someone to drop fresh food off when he needed it. The last time I spoke to him on the phone I was really angry with him. I told him if he kept going out, he would get ill and would die in hospital on his own. That argument just haunts me as it was what happened.
Not being able to grieve together normally is awful. It feels so unreal. The funeral was the best we could do under the circumstances, but really, sitting there in masks just made it all feel so unreal. Our friends couldn't be with us to support us. I feel so unbelievably lost.
Need a listening ear? Bereavement Trust Helpline, UK: 0800 435 455, Grief Resource Network, US, Griefline, Australia: 1300 845 745
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Bill 771
Bill Number:                    771
Ratification Number:            225
Act Number:                     226
Type of Legislation:            General Bill GB
Introducing Body:               Senate
Introduced Date:                19950420
Primary Sponsor:                Holland
All Sponsors:                   Holland and Williams
Drafted Document Number:        JUD6047.DHH
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:   19960126
Governor's Action:              S
Date of Governor's Action:      19960212
Subject:                        Candidates, filing
Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________
------  19960222  Act No. A226
------  19960212  Signed by Governor
------  19960206  Ratified R225
House   19960126  Read third time, enrolled for
House   19960125  Unanimous consent for third
reading on the next Legislative day
House   19960125  Read second time
House   19960124  Committee report: Favorable              25 HJ
House   19950509  Introduced, read first time,             25 HJ
Senate  19950505  Read third time, sent to House
Senate  19950504  Read second time
Senate  19950503  Committee report: Favorable              11 SJ
Senate  19950420  Introduced, read first time,             11 SJ
View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A226, R225, S771)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 7-11-15, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS TO RUN AS A CANDIDATE IN GENERAL ELECTIONS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ALL CANDIDATES, EXCEPT FOR PETITION CANDIDATES, MUST FILE THEIR STATEMENTS OF INTENTION OF CANDIDACY BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH OF MARCH AND THE THIRTIETH OF MARCH, TO PROVIDE THAT CANDIDATES SEEKING NOMINATION FOR THE OFFICE OF STATE SENATE OR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MUST FILE THEIR STATEMENTS OF INTENTION OF CANDIDACY WITH THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTIES IN THEIR COUNTY OF RESIDENCE, WHICH MUST IN TURN TRANSMIT THESE STATEMENTS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE STATE PARTY, AND TO DELETE PROVISIONS RELATING TO PETITION CANDIDATES; TO AMEND SECTION 7-11-210, RELATING TO NOTICE OF CANDIDACY AND PLEDGE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ALL CANDIDATES UNDER THIS SECTION MUST SUBMIT A NOTICE OR PLEDGE NO LATER THAN THE THIRTIETH OF MARCH; TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-40, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO CERTIFICATION OF CANDIDATES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT CERTIFICATION OF THE NAMES OF CANDIDATES TO BE PLACED ON PRIMARY BALLOTS MUST BE MADE NOT LATER THAN TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON ON APRIL NINTH; AND TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-190, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO SPECIAL ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCIES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT FILING FOR PETITION CANDIDATES MUST OPEN AT NOON ON THE ELEVENTH TUESDAY AFTER THE VACANCY OCCURS FOR A PERIOD TO CLOSE SEVEN DAYS LATER AT NOON.
Filing statement of candidacy
SECTION 1. Section 7-11-15 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 583 of 1990, is further amended to read:
"Section 7-11-15. In order to qualify as a candidate to run in the general election, all candidates seeking nomination by political party primary or political party convention must file a statement of intention of candidacy between noon on March sixteenth and noon on March thirtieth as provided in this section.
(1) Candidates seeking nomination for a statewide, congressional, or district office which includes more than one county shall file their statements of intention of candidacy with the State Executive Committee of their respective party.
(2) Candidates seeking nomination for the state Senate or House of Representatives must file their statements of intention of candidacy with the county executive committee of their respective party in the county of their residence. The county committees must, within five days of the receipt of the statements, transmit them along with the applicable filing fees to the respective State Executive Committees. Provided, however, the county committees must report all filings to the state committees no later than five p.m. on March thirtieth. The State Executive Committees must certify candidates pursuant to Section 7-13-40.
(3) Candidates seeking nomination for a countywide or less than countywide office shall file their statements of intention of candidacy with the county executive committee of their respective party.
Except as provided herein, the county executive committee of any political party with whom statements of intention of candidacy are filed must file, in turn, all statements of intention of candidacy with the county election commission by noon on the tenth day following the deadline for filing statements by candidates. If the tenth day falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, the statements must be filed by noon the following day. The State Executive Committee of any political party with whom statements of intention of candidacy are filed must file, in turn, all the statements of intention of candidacy with the State Election Commission by noon on the tenth day following the deadline for filing statements by candidates. If the tenth day falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, the statements must be filed by noon the following day. No candidate's name may appear on a primary election ballot, convention slate of candidates, general election ballot, or special election ballot, except as otherwise provided by law, if the candidate's statement of intention of candidacy has not been filed with the county election commission or State Election Commission, as the case may be, by the deadline. The candidate's name must appear if the candidate produces the signed and dated copy of his timely filed statement of intention of candidacy.
The statement of intention of candidacy required in this section and in Section 7-13-190(B) must be on a form designed and provided by the State Election Commission. It must be filed in triplicate by the candidate, and the political party committee with whom it is filed must stamp it with the date and time received, sign it, keep one copy, return one copy to the candidate, and send one copy to either the county election commission or the State Election Commission, as the case may be.
If, after the closing of the time for filing statements of intention of candidacy, there are not more than two candidates for any one office and one or more of the candidates dies, or withdraws, the state or county committee, as the case may be, if the nomination is by political party primary or political party convention only may, in its discretion, afford opportunity for the entry of other candidates for the office involved; provided, that for the office of state Senator, the discretion must be exercised by the state committee.
The provisions of this section do not apply to nonpartisan school trustee elections in any school district where local law provisions provide for other dates and procedures for filing statements of candidacy or petitions, and to the extent the provisions of this section and the local law provisions conflict, the local law provisions control."
Filing dates changed
SECTION 2. Section 7-11-210 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 7-11-210. Every candidate for selection as a nominee of any political party for any state office, United States Senator, member of Congress or solicitor, to be voted for in any party primary election, shall file with and place in the possession of the treasurer of the state committee by twelve o'clock noon on March thirtieth a notice or pledge in the following form, the blanks being properly filled in and the notice or pledge signed by the candidate: `I hereby file my notice as a candidate for the nomination as in the primary election to be held on . I affiliate with the Party, and I hereby pledge myself to abide by the results of the primary and I authorize the issuance of an injunction upon ex parte application by the party chairman, as provided by law, should I violate this pledge by offering or campaigning in the ensuing general election for election to this office or any other office for which a nominee has been elected in the party primary election, unless the nominee for the office has become deceased or otherwise disqualified for election in the ensuing general election'.
Every candidate for selection in a primary election as the nominee of any political party for member of the Senate, member of the House of Representatives, and all county and township offices shall file with and place in the possession of the county chairman or other officer as may be named by the county committee of the county in which they reside by twelve o'clock noon on March thirtieth a like notice and pledge.
The notice of candidacy required by this section to be filed by a candidate in a primary must be signed personally by the candidate, and the signature of the candidate must be signed in the presence of the county chairman or other officer as may be named by the county committee with whom the candidate is filing, or a candidate must have his signature on the notice of the candidacy acknowledged and certified by any officer authorized to administer an oath. Any notice of candidacy of any candidate signed by an agent in behalf of a candidate shall not be valid.
In the event that a person who was defeated as a candidate for nomination to an office in a party's primary election shall thereafter offer or campaign as a candidate against any nominee for election to any office in the ensuing general election, the state chairman of the party which held the primary (if the office involved is one voted for in the general election by the electors of more than one county), or the county chairman of the party which held the primary (in the case of all other offices), shall forthwith institute an action in a court of competent jurisdiction for an order enjoining the person from so offering or campaigning in the general election, and the court is hereby empowered upon proof of these facts to issue an order."
"Section 7-13-40. In the event that a party nominates candidates by party primary, a party primary must be held by the party and conducted by the State Election Commission and the respective county election commissions on the second Tuesday in June of each general election year and a second and third primary each two weeks successively thereafter, if necessary. Certification of the names of all candidates to be placed on primary ballots must be made by the political party chairman, vice chairman, or secretary to the State Election Commission or the county election commission, whichever is responsible under law for preparing the ballot, not later than twelve o'clock noon on April ninth, or if April ninth falls on a Sunday, not later than twelve o'clock noon on the following Monday. The filing fees for all candidates filing to run in all primaries, except municipal primaries, must be transmitted by the respective political parties to the State Election Commission and placed by the executive director of the commission in a special account designated for use in conducting the primaries and must be used for that purpose. The filing fee for each office is one percent of the total salary for the term of that office or one hundred dollars, whichever amount is greater."
Special election, filing times
SECTION 4. Section 7-13-190(B) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 61 of 1991, is further amended to read:
"(B) In partisan elections, whether seeking nomination by political party primary or political party convention, filing by these candidates shall open for the office at noon on the third Friday after the vacancy occurs for a period to close ten days later at noon. If seeking nomination by petition, filing by these candidates shall open for the office at noon on the eleventh Tuesday after the vacancy occurs for a period to close seven days later at noon. If seeking nomination by political party primary or political party convention, filing with the appropriate official is the same as provided in Section 7-11-15 and if seeking nomination by petition, filing with the appropriate official is the same as provided in Section 7-11-70."
Time effective
Approved the 12th day of February, 1996.


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Q: Implement bearer token authentication for azure functions I have a few azure functions that I would like to set a token based authentication (using a bearer token). I would like to make sure that users that does not pass in a bearer token in the HTTP header, is not able to access the azure function. I am using visual code/Azure cloud. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. I have a way to obtain the bearer token using the client id, secret, tenant id, however how would I make it a required field for an azure function?

A: Well, in this case, you just need to enable the azure ad auth for your function app.
Navigate to the function app -> Authentication / Authorization -> follow this doc to configure the azure ad auth(recommend you to choose Create New AD App like below, it will automatically configure several settings for you and reduce some issues).

After configuring the app, select the Log in with Azure Active Directory.

I have a way to obtain the bearer token using the client id, secret, tenant id, however how would I make it a required field for an azure function?

After all the configuration, the access token is needed when you use the service principal(the client id, secret, tenant id stuff you mentioned, i.e. the client credential flow) to access the function.

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CHURCH presents Mark de Clive-Lowe's HERITAGE Live
Sat February 16, 2019 9:00 pm
Mark De Clive-Lowe
About CHURCH: "If Duke Ellington had been a DJ, this might be what he would have done." (LA Weekly) - - - Musical polymath Mark de Clive-Lowe seems an impossibility at first sight - juggling piano, synths, live sampling and beat making all on-the-fly, brought to life with a casual ease that's mind-boggling. In his formative London years, the half-Japanese New Zealander helped evolve broken beat, establishing himself as an undeniable voice in progressive electronic music. Since 2008, MdCL has called Los Angeles home where his acclaimed club night CHURCH has taken his brand of technology and beat-infused jazz mash-up from coast to coast and around the globe. Equal parts jazz musician, composer and live production wizard, MdCL's sets are a treat for the listeners, the dancers, the progressives and the purists alike - as he casually erases the lines between genres and eras. Whether he's remixing classic Blue Note Records in real time, on stage joined by the likes of Kamasi Washington, Nia Andrews or Eric Harland, improvising solo piano or creating live soundtracks to classic film material, MdCL is an artist in constant evolution, reaching for that next level. "a musical force unlike any other" - Popmatters.com
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package org.ovirt.mobile.movirt.auth.properties.property.version;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;

public class Version implements Comparable<Version> {
    public static final int API_FALLBACK_MAJOR_VERSION = 3;
    public static final int API_FALLBACK_MINOR_VERSION = 0;
    public static final int API_FALLBACK_BUILD_VERSION = 0;

    public static final Version V4 = new Version(4, 0, 0);
    public static final Version V3 = new Version();
    public static final Version MAX_VALUE = new Version(Integer.MAX_VALUE, Integer.MAX_VALUE, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    public static final Version MIN_VALUE = new Version(0, 0, 0);

    private int major;
    private int minor;
    private int build;

    public Version() {
        this.major = API_FALLBACK_MAJOR_VERSION;
        this.minor = API_FALLBACK_MINOR_VERSION;
        this.build = API_FALLBACK_BUILD_VERSION;
    }

    public Version(int major, int minor, int build) {
        this.major = major;
        this.minor = minor;
        this.build = build;
    }

    public int getMajor() {
        return major;
    }

    public void setMajor(int major) {
        this.major = major;
    }

    public int getMinor() {
        return minor;
    }

    public void setMinor(int minor) {
        this.minor = minor;
    }

    public int getBuild() {
        return build;
    }

    public void setBuild(int build) {
        this.build = build;
    }

    // serialization to authenticator's user data should not occur for these methods
    @JsonIgnore
    public boolean isV3Api() {
        return major < 4;
    }

    @JsonIgnore
    public boolean isV4Api() {
        return major >= 4;
    }

    public boolean isApiWithinRange(Version from, Version to) {
        return compareTo(from) >= 0 && compareTo(to) <= 0;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return String.format("%s.%s.%s", major, minor, build);
    }

    /**
     * @param another version to be compared to
     * @return a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer if this object version is less than, equal to, or greater than the specified object.
     */
    @Override
    public int compareTo(Version another) {
        if (another == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }

        if (major == another.major) {
            if (minor == another.minor) {
                return build - another.build;
            }
            return minor - another.minor;
        }
        return major - another.major;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (!(o instanceof Version)) return false;

        Version v = (Version) o;

        return major == v.major &&
                minor == v.minor &&
                build == v.build;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        int result = major;
        result = 31 * result + minor;
        result = 31 * result + build;

        return result;
    }
}

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Healthcare benefit costs in Asia Pacific projected to jump by 10.2% in 2023, WTW survey finds
The 2023 Global Medical Trends Survey reveals that the healthcare benefit cost trend in APAC rose from an average of 6.2% in 2020 to 9.8% in 2021, then declined to 6.9% in 2022. For next year, it is projected that cost will rebound to 10.2% in 2023.


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We're so accustomed to being able to take our music with us wherever we go that the thought of being without it may come as a shock to the youngsters out there.
For more than 30 years now, "Weird Al" Yankovic has been the king of spoofs and parodies.
Good news for 'Twin Peaks' fans: There's a new box set coming out with 90 minutes of unseen footage.


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Q: Trade reliability for speed in a slow filesystem On my box running Ubuntu Server 11.10 I have a rather slow soft RAID6 array on four USB sticks (and no other means for persistent storage).
I want a faster filesystem on that box.
I'm OK if I'd lose some data in emergency situation, but I'd prefer the system and files to stay in consistent state in case of data loss.
I can set up a RAM-drive, but is there some more robust solution? (Like, maybe, configure my ext4 to use more RAM and sync less often... if that is a good idea.)
Update: Please assume that the 4xUSB sticks, RAID6 and ext4 are constants as far as this question is concerned. I can tune RAID6 and ext4 settings, I can set up something on top of that (or on a side — like RAM-drive), but no lower-level changes.

A: RAID5/6 are probably a bad idea on flash. Lots of additional reads and writes for every operation.
Rebuild as RAID10?
USB sticks are also not generally that fast. You might be better served by two USB HDDs. (if not ssds)
Since you oddly can't make any changes to the RAID, you might look at flashcache. (it let's you front one block device with another faster one and acts as a simple L2 cache)  The typical use case is a SSD in front of a HDD, but a Ramdisk in front of your USBFlash may help you out here.


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Landec Corporation (LNDC) Plunges 5.61%
Posted on October 11, 2019 By News Team
Landec Corporation (LNDC) had a rough trading day for Thursday October 10 as shares tumbled 5.61%, or a loss of $-0.57 per share, to close at $9.59. After opening the day at $10.10, shares of Landec Corporation traded as high as $10.10 and as low as $9.55. Volume was 147,606 shares over 1,861 trades, against an average daily volume of n/a shares and a total float of 29.15 million.
As a result of the decline, Landec Corporation now has a market cap of $279.51 million. In the last year, shares of Landec Corporation have traded between a range of $15.57 and $9.02, and its 50-day SMA is currently $n/a and 200-day SMA is $n/a.
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Landec Corporation is based out of Santa Clara, CA and has some 736 employees. Its CEO is Albert D. Bolles.
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Prepare the marinade by mixing all the ingredients together in a shallow bowl.
Cut the tofu into large dices and place into the marinade. Turn each dice until the sides are covered in marinade and place into the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare the satay sauce by simply combining all ingredients in a small bowl. If you want it more on the liquid side, add more coconut milk/water and soy sauce.
Take wooden skewers and place 5-6 marinated tofu pieces on it.
Heat a non-stick sauce pan and place the skewers inside. Cook on each side for 30 seconds and turn. Then brush the satay sauce onto each side and cook for another 30 seconds or until golden brown on each side.
Serve on top of rice, steamed bok choy, mushrooms, cilantro, and avocado and add toasted sesame seeds and lime on top!
After the first 30 seconds, it's then cooked for 30 minutes each side???


"Mixed Convection Along Slender Vertical Cylinders with Variable Surfac" by Jeffrey J. Heckel, T. S. Chen et al.
Mixed convection in laminar boundary layer flow along slender vertical cylinders is analyzed for the situation in which the surface temperature Tw(x) varies arbitrarily with the axial coordinate εlunate. It covers the entire mixed convection regime from pure free convection (εlunate = 0) to pure forced convection (εlunate = l), where εlunate = [1 + (Grx/Rex2)1 4]-1 is the mixed convection parameter. The governing boundary layer equations along with the boundary conditions are first cast into a dimensionless form by a non-similar transformation and the resulting system of equations is then solved by a weighted finite-difference method of solution in conjunction with cubic spline interpolation. Sample calculations are performed for the case of power law variation in surface temperature,Tw(x)- T∞ = axn, for fluids with Prandtl numbers of 0.1, 0.7, 7, and 100 over a wide range of surface curvature parameters 0 ≤ Λ≤ 50 (or 0 ≤ ξ≤ 5). Local and average Nusselt numbers are presented. It is found that the local Nusselt number in the form Nux (Rex1 2 + Grx1 4) increases with increasing surface curvature, Prandtl number, and the exponent n, but for low values of Λ, it initially decreases and then increases as εlunate goes from 0 to 1. As curvature increases a linear relationship is found to exist between the Nusselt number and the mixed convection parameter. Correlation equations for the local and average Nusselt numbers are also presented. © 1989.
J. J. Heckel et al., "Mixed Convection Along Slender Vertical Cylinders with Variable Surface Temperature," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Elsevier, Jan 1989.


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3.1.1 Make use of assessment tools: which involves - developing a clear policy, and/or implementing agency procedure, for assessment; ensuring these are consistent with aims, ethos and objectives of organisation and theoretical perspective; developing and/or implementing pre-assessment tools; providing clear and transparent information to the potential patient/client about the psychotherapy and forms of assessment; where appropriate, using any pre-assessment information in the initial assessment interview to inform the process and outcome of the interview; etc.
3.1.2 Conduct an assessment interview: which involves - ensuring the assessment process is transparent and clearly understood; undertaking an assessment interview in a manner consistent with aims, ethos and objectives of organisation and theoretical perspective; discovering – as far as possible – the patient/client's issues, problems, insights and difficulties; discovering and recording any significant historical events, or previous history of psychological problems, or significant periods of stress; asking about previous experience of psychotherapeutic help; keeping a detailed record of the assessment; etc.
3.1.3 Conduct a risk assessment: which involves - being familiar with any agency/service risk assessment procedures and making use of any tools or guidelines, including ethical ones; recognising language used by the patient/client that might imply harm to self or others; asking direct questions about any intention to harm self or others; facilitating the patient/client's ability to talk about specific suicide plans and quantifying the likelihood of these being implemented; discussing and assessing the patient/client's general support system; involving the patient/client in the process using a straightforward, empowering and sensitive approach; etc.
3.2.1 Recognise any possible mental health / illness issues: which involves - remaining alert to possible indications of mental health needs, or of mental illness, or of disorders; assessing or diagnosing whether the patient/client has any social, relational, somatic and/or emotional problems related to mental health / psychic illness and disorders; using previous awareness, training and experience in psychopathology; involving the patient/client in the mental health assessment process; ensuring that any assessment or diagnosis conforms to any organisational policies and procedures, is in accordance with aims, ethos and objectives of one's theoretical / methodological perspective, and is in accordance with any national medical/psychiatric guidelines; etc.
3.2.2 Respond to mental health / illness needs: which involves - discussing possible outcomes or strategies with the patient/client, as far as is possible; recognising any need for advice, support, or for a second opinion, from supervisor, manager or mental health consultant; responding promptly to any indications of mental health needs in order to ensure that an appropriate intervention is made; assessing any immediate risk to the client, self or others that may result from worsening/declining mental health / psychic illness and disorders and taking appropriate action, if necessary; recognising indications of drug/alcohol/substance misuse (including prescribed or over-the-counter drugs) and taking appropriate action, if necessary; working in conjunction with other mental health specialists and in accordance with the aims, ethos and objectives of one's theoretical perspective and in accordance with any national medical/psychiatric guidelines; etc.
* Note: The word 'diagnosis' here is used more in a general sense, rather than in a precise medical or psychiatric sense.
3.3.1 Make use of clinical experience, theoretical & methodological insights, and assessment tools: which involves - developing a clear policy, and/or implementing agency procedure, for assessment; ensuring its relevance to the patient/client's needs and to an on-going professional psychotherapeutic relationship; conducting the assessment process in a manner suitable for the patient/client and consistent with the ethos of the psychotherapy; integrating any pre-assessment information and identifying any relevant issues; etc.
3.3.2 Conceptualize the patient/client's needs: which involves - identifying potential problem areas, including (i) (positive or negative) situations clarified by, or as part of, the assessment process, (ii) the patient/client's motivation, (iii) different individual needs, relating for example to culture, faith, ethnicity, language, sexuality, disability, age etc., (iv) any areas of potential risks (suicide, self-harm, aggressive or violent behaviour to others), (v) possible negative transference, etc.; using critical appraisal skills and developing a critical understanding of the patient/client's presenting problems; 'diagnosing' if there might be any underlying or long-term issues that might require further (possibly specialist) assessment; evaluating and discussing whether the type of psychotherapy offered, or whether the particular service, might be suitable and beneficial for the patient/client, and if not, making constructive and informed suggestions for an appropriate referral; etc.
3.3.3 Make decisions based on assessment: which involves - making a concise formulation of the patient/client's presentation; analysing and interpreting all forms of information collected in the assessment process; using all available information (including patient/client's presentation and responses in the assessment interview) to come to a conclusion about possible appropriate interventions; discussing with the patient/client the outcome of the assessment, ensuring language is appropriate and that the person understands; making an estimate of the amount, frequency and extent of any psychotherapy and/or implementing any competent 'care plan', or contract, or referral within the service; being clear about other possibilities for the patient/client's needs to be met; making an external referral, if appropriate, and explaining the reasons clearly; consulting with other colleagues/health professionals, especially if there are indications of potential risk; etc.
3.3.4 Conclude the assessment: which involves - in the event of mutually agreeing to proceed with psychotherapy, discussing and being open with the patient/client about their expectations, responsibilities, agreements, payments, etc.; where appropriate, providing an opportunity for the patient/client to review and feedback their experience of the assessment process; and recording the outcome of the assessment process; etc.
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Q: Renaming shapefile from Terminal Shapefile comes with a bunch of friends (often referred to as sidecar files) that all need to have the same basename. While software like QGIS deals with that very well I sometimes have the need to script this in a shell script / like to do this from the terminal without starting a GUI tool.
As @Vince mentioned in the comment, simply renaming is not a good idea "The safest way to rename a shapefile is to use a shapefile-aware utility."
Given a set of shapefile:

*

*oldname.shp

*oldname.shx

*oldname.cpg

*oldname.dbf

*oldname.prj

How can a shapefile be renamed via terminal (bash) only?

A: Expanding from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9558986/what-does-the-curly-brace-syntax-var-mean/9559024#9559024 it is possible to do
for f in oldname.*; do
  mv  -- "$f" "newname${f#oldname}"
done

A: If you have rename installed on you system, you can also use:
rename oldname newname oldname.*

or if you prefer a regex:
rename 's/oldname/newname/g' oldname.*

If you don't have rename, you can install it with your package manager, e.g. apt:
sudo apt install rename

A: Here is  my little tool to "move shapes" coded in Perl. If more "sidecar files" show up, append them to the line.
# Shape file extention candidates + so called side car files
my @ext = qw(shp shx dbf prj sbn sbx fbn fbx atx ixs mxs cpg);
May be it is a little bit noisy in terms of output.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# ------------------------------------------------------------
# shpmv -- Tool to rename ESRI Shape files
# ------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2016 Alexander Weidauer
# Contact: alex.weidauer@huckfinn.de
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# ------------------------------------------------------------
use strict;
use File::Copy qw(move);
use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;

# Read command line parameter $1 $2 and $3
my $src  = shift; # Source location
my $dst  = shift; # Destination
my $case = shift; # Extention handling upper or lower case

# Parameter handling and help function
if ( ($src eq '-h') or ($src eq '--help') ) {
    print "Move ESRI Shape files\n\n";
    print "Usage:     $0 source-file destination [-l|-u]\n";
    print "Parameter:\n";
    print "  source-file -- Shapefile for the ensemble to move from.\n";
    print "  destination -- Shapefile destination without extension to move to.\n\n";
    print "Optional:\n";
    print "  -l extention lower case\n";
    print "  -u extention upper case\n\n";
    print "Example:   $0 ~/geodata/long_name.shp ~/data/short_name\n";
    exit 0;
}

# Shape file extention candidates + so called side car files
my @ext = qw(shp shx dbf prj sbn sbx fbn fbx atx ixs mxs cpg);

# Check parameter correctness and availability
die "Missing source Shapefile\n" if ! $src;
die "Missing destination name\n"   if ! $dst;

 # Lower case is the default switch
$case //= '-l';

# Make path an file management absolute
$src = File::Spec->rel2abs($src);
$dst = File::Spec->rel2abs($dst);

# Strip the extention from the input and
# check source and destination path
my ($sname, $spath, $suffix) = fileparse($src, '\.[^\.]*');
$src = File::Spec->catfile($spath,$sname);
die "Source '$spath' path does not exist!\n" if ! (-d $spath);

if ( ($dst =~ /\.shp$/) or ($dst =~ /\.SHP$/) ) {
   print "WARNING remove extention from destiantion '$dst'\n";
   $dst =~ s/\.shp$//;
   $dst =~ s/\.SHP$//;
}

my ($dname, $dpath, $duffix) = fileparse($dst, '\.[^\.]*');
die "Destination path '$dpath' does not exist\n"
    if not -d $dpath;

print "Move ESRI shape files\n";
print "    from: $src\n";
print "      to: $dst\n";

# Check files to move
my @suffix=();
for my $ix (0..$#ext) {
    my $lext  = $ext[$ix];
    my $uext  = uc($lext);
    my $lname = $src.'.'.$lext;
    my $uname = $src.'.'.$uext;
    my $done  = 0;
    print "  ..test $sname(".$lext."|".$uext.")";
    if (-r $lname) {
        push (@suffix, $lext) if (-e $lname);
        $done = 1;
    }
    if (-r $uname) {
        push (@suffix, $uext) if (-e $uname);
        $done = 1;
    }
    if  (! $done) {
        print " N/A\n";
        die "Cannot read one of the essential shape ".
            "files with extension $lext|$uext\n" if $ix < 3;
    } else {
        print " OK\n" if $done;
    }
}

# Proceed move operation
for my $sext (@suffix) {
    my $text = $sext;
    $text = lc($text) if $case eq '-l';
    $text = uc($text) if $case eq '-u';
    my $sfile = $src.".".$sext;
    my $tfile = $dst.".".$text;
    print "  ..move from: $sfile\n";
    print "           to: $tfile";
    move($sfile, $tfile) or die "\nCannot move file $sfile!\n";
    print " OK\n";
}
print ".READY\n";

# --- EOF ----------------------------------------------------


Prozac Nation tells the story of Elizabeth Wurtzel's childhood, her troubled relationship with her father who left her and her mother and refused to accept his responsibilities to his family, her move to Harvard, and her mental decline leading to several stays in hospital and a suicide attempt. Finally, after trying many different psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and medications, she tries Prozac and it helps her rise above her despair.
In the Afterword to Prozac Nation, written for the paperback edition in 1995, Wurtzel asks the question that will have occurred to many of her readers.
Wurtzel certainly succeeds in her aim to portray herself as capricious and self-preoccupied. Indeed, according to her own description, she seems so impulsive, self-preoccupied, needy in relationships, and manipulative that readers will probably wonder whether depression is indeed Wurtzel's most basic problem. It's very tempting to speculate that Wurtzel has just as much claim to a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder as she does to depression. Wurtzel says that her psychiatrists gave her a diagnosis of atypical depression, and DSM-IV-TR tells us that personality disorders may be more common in those with atypical depression.
Of course, even if I were a psychiatrist, which I'm not, would be ridiculous to offer a diagnosis based on an autobiography. What is clear, however, is that Wurzel's goal of telling some general truth about clinical depression is not accomplished. Reading Prozac Nation is a very different experience from reading other memoirs of depression such as Tracy Thompson's The Beast and Martha Manning's Undercurrents because Wurtzel manages to provoke such a mixture of conflicting feelings in her reader, while other authors of depression memoirs provoke far more consistent sympathy. By the end of the book, one feels far more sympathy for Wurtzel's mother and her friends than one does for her. Normally, I count myself as able to identify and empathize with people who suffer from serious mental illnesses, but I have to confess that, given the way she describes herself, unless she has changed dramatically, I'd recommend her friends to run a mile rather than put up with her manipulation.
Note that one gets a similar impression from Wurtzel's second memoir, More, Now, Again, (reviewed in Metapsychology April 2002) in which she becomes addicted to Ritalin and cocaine, and spends most of her time lying and hiding her addiction from her friends, mother and publisher. In Prozac Nation, Wurtzel several times suggests that she was addicted to depression and makes clear that her self-defeating behavior was often willful. What makes it so hard to sympathize with her is that that her problem seems to be her personality, rather than some affliction she has to overcome.
To be more precise, Wutzel describes herself sometimes as the agent of her predicament, and other times as the victim of it, and it's unclear for the reader what reasons there are for these switches. She manipulates people close to her: for instance, she tells calls her therapist at all times of the day and night, and then tells her therapist that if she does not listen to her problems, her (Wurtzel's) blood will be on her (the therapist's) hands. Sometimes even her crying seems like a deliberate action.
But at other times she feels immobile, and can't get out of bed. Consider, for example, how she feels after her brief romance with a man called Rafe, during which she was miserable, clingy, and insecure, and she explicitly ignored his request that he spend time away from her, since he needed to be with his family, who had their own needs.
Wurtzel's alternating acceptance and denial of her agency bemuses the reader, and ultimately makes Wurtzel a less credible witness to her own mental states. Far from knowing exactly how it was for Wurtzel, even though it is clear that she was desperately unhappy for most of the time, readers will be confused and exhausted by her narrative.
Far from undermining the work, these features are what make Prozac Nation so distinctive, standing out among other memoirs. It is a tour de force, and a powerful evocation of Wurtzel's experience, although it's not so clear whether that experience is depression, borderline personality disorder, or some other mental disorder.


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Margaret Link (MA, Dip. SMET) is an Integrated Somatic Therapist and Movement Educator with over 25 years of professional practice in the healing arts, offering Somatic Therapy, Shiatsu Body Treatments, Mindful Yoga and Authentic Movement, providing one-on-one sessions, groups and workshops, both in person and online.
Margaret creates a calm and caring, non-judgemental and confidential therapeutic environment. She facilitates individuals who present with a wide range of chronic and complex physical and emotional conditions.
"Your body is the ancient clay of the universe from which it is made;
and your feet on the ground are a constant connection with the earth.
Your feet bring your private clay in touch with the ancient
mother clay from which you first emerged."
(John O'Donohue)
Margaret's practice is rooted in the deep ecology of our human biology and psychology, dedicated to finding inspired and creative ways to connect with our own internal body-mind wisdom. Her trauma-sensitive approach to natural health allows to regulate the nervous system and attune to the body's self-healing ability as nourishing resource. As well as supporting individuals of all ages and from varied backgrounds on their inner and outer healing journeys, Margaret also offers support and mentoring for therapists and health professionals in their personal and professional development.
With a well-established background in bodywork, Margaret is qualified as a fully accredited Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist through ORIGINS, a four year ISMETA approved training with Joan Davis completed in 2015. ORIGINS comprises of a comprehensive somatically based study of the developmental process, from pre-conception to early childhood, including attachment studies and trauma restorative therapy, drawing greatly from Body Mind Centring and Biodynamic Craniosacral Osteopathy.
Most recently, Margaret has completed a three year post-graduate programme in the Discipline of Authentic Movement with Joan Davis and Julia Gombos (USA) in 2021.
In 1996, Margaret completed her diploma in Shiatsu and Macrobiotics in Dublin with Anne Currie and Pat Duggin, applying the Classical Meridian System and 5 Elements approach, including 9 Star Ki Astrology and Feng Shui with Jon Sandifer. To support her busy practice, Margaret expanded on her studies with John Garvey in Skibbereen and later Susan O'Toole, Maria Hallam and Idit Hourigan. She attended ongoing professional development with many renowned teachers such as Paul Lundberg, Rex Lassalle, Pamela Ferguson and Diana Cheong, amongst others.
In 2000, Margaret studied the Sivananda and Kripalu approaches to Yoga at Contemporary Yoga Cork with Marianne Gabriel and Charlie Stevens. This was a natural progression from her body-work complementing her experience with meridians, Shiatsu and Do-In. She deepened her Yoga practice with the study of Vanda Scaravelli's exceptional gravitational approach, joining dedicated teachers like Margaret Hardman, June Durkin and Diane Long. From this, Margaret gradually developed her own unique style of Mindful Yoga.
Margaret holds an MA in Women Studies and a BA in Community Education and Development. Her academic endeavours together with the resulting frontline work experience in the fields of Domestic Abuse and Community Health inform her ongoing practice. Additionally, being a registered tutor with SHEP (Social and Health Education Project) in the areas of Personal Development, Effective Communication and Stress Management, as well as Grief, Loss and Change, further enriches her therapeutic approach.
Margaret regularly attends supervision and is compliant to the code of ethics of ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association) and SSI (Shiatsu Society Ireland). Her continued professional development includes a year-long online training in Polyvagal Therapy with Deb Dana, the study of the Multivagal System with Michael Shea, Body Mind Centring with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Pre and Perinatal Studies with Jaap van der Waal and Mia Kalef.
Living according to permaculture principles, Margaret is surrounded by stunning views, organic gardens, herbs, trees and the many flowers of wild West Cork.
Margaret offers one-on-one sessions, online and in person, as well as groups and workshops.
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The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. PPIC is dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research.
Additionally, the PPIC Water Policy Center provides thoughtful research and discussion on innovative water management solutions that support a healthy economy, environment, and society—now and for future generations.
This 2015 report summarizes challenges and suggests reforms to strengthen the state's ability to weather droughts and shifting economic demands for water, while maintaining the existing seniority of water rights.
This 2015 fact sheet focuses on the current drought's impacts.
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This 2012 report, examines the need to address threats to California's water system, in order for the economy to grow and prosper despite droughts and water shortages caused by a changing climate.
This 2011 report examines the state's need to consider a set of wide-ranging reforms—for the benefit of the economy and the environment.
This 2009 report tackles common water myths and sets the stage for a more informed conversation about California water.
This 2009 report concludes that building an alternative conveyance system to carry water around the Delta is the most promising way to balance two critical policy goals: reviving a threatened ecosystem and ensuring a reliable, high-quality water supply for California.
This 2007 report provides a comprehensive, scientifically up-to-date analysis and outlines several alternative management strategies for the Delta.


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Gillespie, Beryl C.. "Shuta Got'ine (Mountain)". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 15 December 2013, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mountain-band. Accessed 17 January 2021.
Gillespie, B., Shuta Got'ine (Mountain) (2013). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mountain-band
Gillespie, Beryl C., "Shuta Got'ine (Mountain)". In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 07, 2006; Last Edited December 15, 2013. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mountain-band
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Shuta Got'ine (Mountain)
Article by Beryl C. Gillespie
The Shuta Got'ine are an Aboriginal group living on the Mackenzie Mountain slopes down to the Mackenzie River. Historically, various small groups using the eastern slopes of the mountain range have been called Mountain and have traded at all the posts between Fort Liard and Fort Good Hope.
The Shuta Got'ine (Mountain) are an Aboriginal group living on the Mackenzie Mountain slopes down to the Mackenzie River. Historically, various small groups using the eastern slopes of the mountain range have been called Mountain and have traded at all the posts between Fort Liard and Fort Good Hope. Those Shuta Got'ine trading into Fort Norman (now Tulita) since the 1820s have maintained their identity, while most others have gradually merged with the Aboriginal populations using other trading posts along the Mackenzie River. The Mountain are Athapaskan speakers and their language is closely related to K'asho Got'ine and Slavey.
Although the Shuta Got'ine have exploited a large expanse of the Mackenzie Mountains, from the Redstone River north to the Mountain River, their estimated population (1827-1971) has been less than 150. During the 19th century and according to their own accounts, the Shuta Got'ine were fearful of and sometimes hostile to all Aboriginal groups on the western slopes of the mountains. After the Klondike Gold Rush (1897-98), increased contact with Yukon Aboriginal people gradually reduced apprehensions and some settled and married into Yukon Aboriginal groups. There is no evidence in oral tradition of hostile encounters with the Aboriginal people of the eastern region, although contact was infrequent before the fur trade.
The Shuta Got'ine were almost totally dependent on moose, woodland caribou, mountain goats and Dall sheep. Population cycles or variations in migratory routes sometimes made it necessary to survive on the previous season's caches. This environment was often abundant, but during a bad winter entire family bands could starve. The area is not rich in fur-bearing animals valuable in the fur trade. Most trade was in dried meat, grease and hides. In the late 19th century the Shuta Got'ine developed the mooseskin boat - framed with green spruce wood and covered with raw moosehides sewn together. The boats were usually 12-18 m long and greatly increased the amount of trade goods that could be transported, although they were only functional for the trip down the rivers; people and dogs had to ascend the mountains by foot. This was often done in both spring and fall until the 1940s, when dried meat and grease were no longer acceptable trade items.
By the mid-20th century the Shuta Got'ine had made Tulita their permanent location. They now share their hunting, trapping and fishing areas with other peoples in the Tulita area.
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The commercial suborbital carrier rocket Tansuo-1 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China's Gansu Province, Dec. 25, 2019. The commercial suborbital carrier rocket Tansuo-1 developed by a private Chinese company was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China Wednesday. The rocket can serve purposes of meteorological observation, microgravity testing as well as satellite payload experiments. It was the maid flight of the first rocket developed by the company. (Photo by Wang Jiangbo/Xinhua)
A commercial suborbital carrier rocket developed by a private Chinese company was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time).
The rocket, Tansuo-1, was developed by Space Trek. It completed the whole maneuver flight and fairing separation at high dynamic pressure during the flight.
The rocket can serve purposes of meteorological observation, microgravity testing as well as satellite payload experiments.
It was the maiden flight of the first rocket developed by the company.
The Chinese government encourages the participation of private enterprises in the space industry. The country had more than 60 private companies in the commercial space industry as of December 2018.
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STUDENT STORIES – SUP YOGA – Kelsey Spratlin – Panama City Beach, FL – Thank you again for such an amazing experience yesterday! And for the great pictures! There is always discussions about how yoga is such a mind body connection and when you go to a yoga class to always remember to "keep it on the mat." A lot of times I let my mind wander to other events of the day or things I need to do, but during this SUP yoga it was such a unique opportunity to be there on the water and "on my mat/board." I felt very connected to my practice, my self, my mind. Thank you again for such an incredible time on the water!


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Rick Warren Caught In Chrislam Lie By Orange County Register
Rick Warren's staff has acknowledged the Register article is correct, he had a role in the "King's Way" document, he signed "CommonWord," and he even traveled to Syria earlier....
by Geoffrey Grider March 8, 2012
A false prophet field day
RELATED STORY: Click to read about Rick Warren and the birth of Chrislam…
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." 2 Peter 2:1,2
When an Orange County Register article about Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church's mission to heal differences between evangelical Christians and Muslims was published, many of America's Christians saw it as more evidence of Warren's blurry vision of "Chrislam," a blending of Christianity and Islam, despite his repeated denials.
The Feb. 23 article identified Saddleback documents that spell out the similarities between Christianity and Islam, saying that one document co-authored by Jihad Turk of the Christian-Muslim Consultative Group in Los Angeles and Abraham Meulenberg, pastor of Interfaith Outreach at Saddleback, claims the two religions "worship the same God."
While many supporters of Warren insist that claims in the article are false, both the Register reporter and an editor at the Register told WND that Saddleback Church leadership confirmed that the article was "factually accurate."
"Folks at Saddleback initially made but then withdrew a request for a clarification to the story's first paragraph," Jim Hinch told WND in an email. "Instead of the words 'Muslims and Christians worship the same God' they wanted the story to read 'Muslims and Christians believe that God is one.' The rest of the story, they said, is factually accurate."
Calls and emails to Rick Warren were not returned.
Despite his staff's acknowledgement to the Register that the article is factually accurate, Warren denied claims in the article by pointing the finger at the reporter for "getting it wrong."
"This is an example of why I always doubt what I read in newspapers and blogs about ministries," Warren said in a statement sent to church members. "Secular reporters trying to cover churches and theological issues often get it wrong," he said.
"But then Christian bloggers, instead of contacting the ministry, blindly believe, quote and repost the errors made by secular reporters. Then those errors become permanent, searchable, and global on the Internet," he continued.
"I couldn't count the number of times a secular reporter has gotten a story about Saddleback wrong but then it is perpetuated by Christians who never fact-check. And the three factors I mentioned about the Internet make it impossible to correct all the misperceptions, and outright lies that get repeated over and over."
Hinch, who has worked as a senior editor at Guideposts as well as a religion reporter at the Register, tells WND that numerous pastors at Saddleback were contacted about his article, and each one of them told him Warren would not be made available for comment for this particular story.
One pastor even emailed Hinch to say, "leadership decided they don't want the work of King's Way to be published." "King's Way" is a document that was a central focus of the Register story. The document was unveiled at Saddleback Church in December to an interfaith audience of more than 300 Muslims and Christians, and reportedly was co-authored by Meulenberg and Turk.
At the dinner, the five-page document was introduced through a slide presentation and outlined similarities between the two religions. Under the heading "A Path to End the 1,400 Years of Misunderstanding Between Muslims and Christians," the presentation included Bible verses and Quran verses side by side, identifying how the God for both religions are one in the same.
One example included a reference to "Who we believe in" followed by, "God is the Creator – Genesis 1:1, Al Shura 42:11″
Those two passages:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." – Genesis 1:1
"The originator of the heavens and the earth…" – Al Shura 42:11
Another example identified "God is One," followed by "Mark 12:29, Muhammed 47:19″
Those are:
"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear O' Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." – Mark 12:29
"So know that there is no Diety except Allah" – Muhammed 47:19
Hinch tells WND that he obtained a copy of the "King's Way" document from a confidential source on the condition that it not be published in its entirety. He said, "The document, which was given to me by a source for this story on condition it not be published in its entirety, outlines several areas of theological agreement between Christians and Muslims and commits members of both faiths to three goals: becoming friends; making peace; and sharing 'the blessings of God' with others."
"The Register story based the phrases 'same God' and 'one God' on the phrasing in this document, which states that Christians and Muslims believe in one God," he said. WND's repeated requests to Saddleback for a copy of the document went unanswered. After the Register article was published, Warren issued a statement via a Christian Post reporter in an interview format.
Warren said, "A few days ago, an article appeared in the Orange County Register that included some outrageous statements about Saddleback that were incorrect. "Of course, the media rarely gets everything right, and there's no way we could respond to every false statement made about us. But I felt this article created so many misperceptions that I agreed to do an interview in response…"
The interviewer also asked Warren if people of other religions worship the same God as Christians, to which Warren replies, "Of course not. Christians have a God that is unique." Steve McConkey, of bigworldwatch.com, a news gathering site, says of Warren's response to the article, "A person should not say one thing one time and another thing later and then blame the reporter.
"The problem that we have is that he has a case of doublespeak. Warren denies the Orange County Register article's contents, but the document he signed 'A Common Word Between Us and You' says differently," says McConkey.
McConkey is referring to a much publicized 2007 document, which according to the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, was signed by Warren, among many others considered to be Christian leaders, that within the first few lines says:
"…many Christians have been guilty of sinning against our Muslim neighbors. Before we 'shake your hand' in responding to your letter, we ask forgiveness of the All-Merciful One and of the Muslim community around the world."
The lengthy document then outlines how both Muslims and Christians serve "one God," and makes an argument that the two are one in the same, much like the "King's Way" document unveiled in December at Saddleback Church.
It is that perspective that other Christians have called "Chrislam." Saddleback and Warren declined numerous WND attempts to speak about the issue. But in the Christian Post, he responded.
There he's asked, "Are you promoting Chrislam?" "Of course not. It's the lie that won't die," he said.
Yet his staff has acknowledged the Register article is correct, he had a role in the "King's Way" document, he signed "Common Word," and he even traveled to Syria earlier.
The Register story mentions that both Turk and Dr. Gwynn Guibord serve an organization called Christian-Muslim Consultative Group.
WND reached Dr. Guibord regarding her interview with Jim Hinch. In his interview she states that her group has avoided inviting evangelical churches to join their endeavor to "foster relationships between churches and mosques" but is now changing that opinion because "Saddleback's effort is unprecedented." source – WND
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Sutherland Shire Libraries Monday, January 11, 2016
The Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum features crime fiction, short stories, a magical mystery tour and a biography. All available to request from the library.
Thirteen ways of looking by Colum McCann
As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing. It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside. Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything. Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives.
Ash Island by Barry Maitland
Detective Sergeant Harry Belltree, back on the job after a near-fatal confrontation with corrupt colleagues, has become a departmental embarrassment. The solution is a posting away from Sydney and a quiet life in Newcastle. Or maybe not so quiet. A body's been found buried just offshore on Ash Island; there may be more. There's also Harry's unfinished business. The car crash that killed his parents and blinded his wife happened not far from Newcastle. And Harry knows it was no accident. The other unfinished business is Jenny's longed-for pregnancy. Which means that now the stakes are higher than ever.
The heat by Gary Disher
Wyatt needs a job. A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn't have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That's the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time. So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten. He knows how it's done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful. But who is his client? Who else wants that painting? Sometimes, being very careful is not enough.
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a magical mystery tour.
Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography: Everything She Wants, Vol 2 by Charles Moore.
In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain's first woman prime minister changed the course of her country's history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.
The book reveals as never before how she faced down the Miners' Strike, transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as 'a man to do business with' before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between the superpowers.
But even at her zenith she was beset by difficulties. The beloved Reagan two-timed her during the US invasion of Grenada. She lost the minister to whom she was personally closest to scandal and almost had to resign as a result of the Westland affair. She found herself isolated within her own government over Europe. She was at odds with the Queen over the Commonwealth and South Africa. She bullied senior colleagues and she set in motion the poll tax. Both these last would later return to wound her, fatally.
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