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Increasing the participation of women in science
DEFEND shares the EC's view that equality between women and men is a fundamental EU value.
The DEFEND consortium aims to promote equality between men and women in all its activities, and, more broadly, to pursue sustainable structural and cultural change to advance gender equality. These aims will be guided by policies such as those outlined in EC's Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019
The DEFEND project will undertake practical activities to increase the participation of women in science.
Best practice guidelines are provided for the design of DEFEND activities in order to promote gender equality, and female leadership in the DEFEND consortium is made clearly visible. Female scientists in leadership positions are valuable role models for all scientists, especially early career female scientists who may strive for such a position in the future.
Gender equality activities that have been undertaken in DEFEND:
Information about gender equality has been shared via the DEFEND website.
There was a discussion during the consortium kick-off meeting focused on the participation and promotion of women within scientific fields.
Financial support to cover additional caring responsibilities has been and will continue to be provided to consortium members attending DEFEND conferences.
Resources to explore
For further information about gender equality: https://eige.europa.eu/
Equality Challenge Unit UK: https://www.ecu.ac.uk/
For further information about gender equality in academia:
European Institute for Gender Equality:
https://eige.europa.eu/rdc/eige-publications/promoting-gender-equality-academia-and-research-institutions-main-findings
European Platform of Women Scientists:
https://epws.org/
EqualBITE:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/equality-diversity/innovation-development/equal-bite
The Royal Society of Edinburgh:
https://www.rse.org.uk/inquiries/womeninstem-2018/
Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2015.02.012
Tapping All of Our Talents Review 2018: https://www.rse.org.uk/inquiries/womeninstem-2018/ Published by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in November 2018, Tapping All of Our Talents Review 2018 examines the progress that has been made on increasing the proportion of women working and studying in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) in Scotland. It builds on the RSE's 2012 original "Tapping Talents" report of women in STEM in Scotland.
WIAReport: https://www.wiareport.com/ Women in Academia Report is a website focused on the progress of women in academia, particularly the United States. It announces significant appointments of women to positions of influence in higher education, reports important awards and grants to women scholars, and reviews and provides a database of books of importance to women in higher education.
Women Leaders in Global Health conference: https://www.wlghconference.org/ The Women Leaders in Global Health conference took place on 8-9 November 2018 at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The WLGH conference brings leaders from across sectors and cultures to work towards gender equity in health leadership and to improve health for all. Podcasts featuring key participants are available on the website.
BBC 100 Women 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-46225037 Each year the BBC announces a list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world. The 2018 list includes the scientists (details taken from BBC website):
Frances Arnold – Professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry, US. Frances is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Asha de Vos – Marine biologist, Sri Lanka. Asha works in the area of marine conservation to increase diversity, inclusivity and opportunity in the field.
Fabiola Gianotti – Particle physicist, Italy. Fabiola is a particle physicist and became director general of Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in 2016.
Yuki Okoda – Astronomer, Japan. Yuki studies physics, and was the first person to discover a new star that could shed light on the origins of our solar system.
Donna Strickland – Professor of physics, Canada. Donna is a professor of physics at the University of Waterloo in Canada and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018.
Gladys West – Mathematician, USA. Gladys is a former teacher and mathematician whose work has recently been recognised as instrumental in developing GPS.
Conferences on gender equality:
WISE Conference 2019 will take place on Tuesday 14 May – The IET, Savoy Place, London https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/what-we-do/wise-events/
3rd International Women in Science without Borders (WISWB) Conference will take place 12-14 March 2019 in Egypt https://globalyoungacademy.net/events/3rd-women-in-science-without-borders-conference/
The 2019 Women Leaders in Global Health conference will take place in Kigali, Rwanda on 7-8 November https://www.wlghconference.org/
18th International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES 18) will take place at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, from Friday 11th to Monday 14th September 2020 https://warwick.ac.uk/services/conferences/icwes18/


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Smaznevo () is a rural locality (a station) and the administrative center of Smaznevsky Selsoviet, Zarinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1,193 as of 2013. There are 22 streets.

Geography
Smaznevo is located 38 km northeast of Zarinsk (the district's administrative centre) by road.

References

Rural localities in Zarinsky District

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B58.83 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM B58.83 became effective on October 1, 2018.
This is the American ICD-10-CM version of B58.83 - other international versions of ICD-10 B58.83 may differ.


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Q: which rulesets does the maven pmd plugin use by default? I'm trying to figure out which rulesets the maven pmd plugin (I have version 3.4) uses by default.
According to the plugin website, it uses only basic.xml, unusedcode.xml and imports.xml. However, I can say for sure that it must also use unnecessary.xml and empty.xml (as we have failures in our code from those categories without changing the rules).
How do I figure out which other rulesets it's actually using by default?
I want to use the default rulesets, but I need to make a few minor adjustments, e.g. to the UselessParentheses rule as described here.
Other useful links:

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*All java rulesets @ github

*One xml file that includes all java rules (somehow can't find find it on github)

A: According to the documentation of rulesets tag you are right:

Defaults to the java-basic, java-empty, java-imports, java-unnecessary and java-unusedcode rulesets

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Bidens entertain more than 330 guests at 1st state dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first White House state dinner of President Joe Biden's administration drew big names Thursday from fashion, entertainment, politics and business who turned out to help celebrate French President Emmanuel Macron and the return of large social events after the pandemic. ...
Allen: Alabama to leave voter registration partnership
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will withdraw from a 32-state voter registration partnership, the incoming secretary of state announced on Wednesday, a decision that drew sharp criticism from his outgoing counterpart. Republican Wes Allen, who will be sworn in as secretary of state...

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Mad Libs. Transforming a classic game into a modern story, but better (adj).
The Mad Libs App
For Mad Libs we re-imagined the classic, paper-based game for the digital era and the modern player. We created a suite of native apps, including Android and iOS for iPhone and iPad. In addition we built licensed versions from classic adult to Hello Kitty and WWE. But before any of that happened, we had to start by understanding what made Mad Libs a unique game in today's crowded games market. Then we used design and technology to bring that magic to the world in a liberatingly-modern format. The result is an app that stays true to the essence of Mad Libs and awakens a playfulness in all of us.
On our game
We had a lot of fun re-creating the Mad Libs game, starting with our very own "Mad Royale". Think of it as a one day competitive immersion that mixes creatives and clients to develop and prototype ideas. Through this we were able to identify the most important characteristics of the game and uncover assets they've always had but could now activate through design. For example, the mascot Phil can be found on the cover of every book, but in the app he talks to you and gives you hints and tips along the way.
The win
The storytelling experience responds to gestures, gives players feedback along the way, and makes the experience of crafting a one-of-a-kind tale fun and sharable. And the reception has been extraordinary. Launching the game as an App has helped to acquire 2,100,362 unique users and counting.
"Mad Libs was ripe for a digital update. It's a game people love, and now an experience they love too."
➽ Olivier Peyre, Executive Creative Director
Featured stories allow users to get right into the fun
Real-time feedback shows users what exactly they're up to
Meet Phil - he's here to help you along the way
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Giving names to vehicles is a notoriously polarising piece of anthropomorphism. But if any vehicle on the road had a personality to which you could ascribe human attributes, it would be this pretty camper.
The camper is almost completely original, with the leather strapped top box and modular furniture that came out of the Kent factory back in the time of the Ted Heath Government. The only thing that isn't is the two litre 'PInto' ford engine, a reliable bit of Dagneham engineering that propelled the two of them to the Western Isles of Scotland and back to the Essex countryside they call home. " It was a 1400 mile roundtrip, and we only had one little incident with what the man called an 'Ignition electronic amplifier'." Half a day's delay and eighty quid in parts and labour, and the sailed off into the distance unharrassed. "She's got a 50 mile per hour maximum cruising speed, so we still managed to get 25 MPG." Mickey is obviously a proud partner of the Canterbury.
" We at influx towers have always aspired to do proper off road adventure one day. There's something about the untrammelled feeling of freedom that comes with busting free from the rules and regulations of the highway. It's a different, primal "


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Q: Opening new tab in firefox using selenium I am trying to open new tab in current WebDriver instance and I am using this command  driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "\t"); but it did not work. I am currently using Selenium 2.53 and Firefox version 28 in a Linux system.

A: All you do by that command is to send some keys so the HTML body. It does not affect the browsers menu at all.
Configuring Firefox for test automation is done by the help of Firefox profiles. So you should create a profile which opens new tabs instead of windows in about:preferences.
You can then use the profile in your test code by instantiating the driver like this:
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxProfile(new File("/path/to/ff_profile")));

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Remember Burisma? Expect to hear a lot more about it as Biden surges
Dylan Stableford
·Senior Writer
Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race. There are four days until the next contests in the Democratic primary and 242 days until the 2020 presidential election.
After Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses, cementing his position as the frontrunner in the race for the Democratic nomination, Republicans were preparing to take on the Vermont senator over his self-proclaimed democratic socialism and his praise for literacy programs in communist Cuba and for the Moscow subway system.
But now, after Joe Biden's remarkable comeback in the Democratic primary, those same Republicans are turning their guns back to the former vice president and his son Hunter, a line of attack they employed for much of last year and, it seems, only temporarily shelved.
For those who might have forgotten, the issue concerns Hunter Biden's appointment to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, while his father was overseeing U.S. policy toward the government.
For the GOP, Burisma is emerging as the Clinton emails of this presidential cycle, complete with chants of "lock him up."
President Trump and his allies claim Joe Biden acted corruptly in his dealings with Ukraine as vice president. Trump's repeated calls for Ukraine to investigate the Bidens led to his impeachment by the House last year, and were at the center of the Senate trial that ended with his acquittal.
Joe Biden has denied any wrongdoing by him or his son, and there is no evidence the older Biden acted inappropriately in carrying out U.S. policy in Ukraine. Still, as the former vice president inches closer to the Democratic nomination, expect to hear a whole lot about Burisma.
"Burisma wasn't necessary in the Republican playbook when Biden was down and out," New York Times correspondent Peter Baker said on MSNBC. "He was a fourth-place, fifth-place finisher in the early primary states, and they had bigger fish to fry. Now that Biden is resurgent, you're going to hear a lot more about Burisma and Hunter Biden."
Earlier this week, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to fellow members saying he wants to begin issuing subpoenas for witnesses and documents in the panel's ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden with his son Hunter in 2010. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
On Thursday, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, a member of the committee, told reporters that the probe appears to be politically motivated — and that he was not in favor of moving forward with it.
"There's no question that the appearance of looking into Burisma and Hunter Biden appears political," Romney said. "And I think people are tired of these kinds of political investigations. I would hope that if there's something of significance that needs to be evaluated, that it would be done by perhaps the FBI or some other agency that's not as political as perhaps our committee."
"We also have a lot of work to do on matters that are not related to Burisma," Romney added. "We probably ought to focus on those things."
Romney said he would speak to Johnson as to "whether there's something that might be helpful to clarify exactly what has happened in the past and put this behind us."
It's doubtful Johnson or the GOP are ready to do that.
"Joe Biden has never adequately answered these questions," Johnson said on Fox News Wednesday. "I've said repeatedly, if there's wrongdoing, the American people need to understand that."
Johnson said his panel is close to releasing an interim report on its investigations into the Bidens and Burisma.
"It's not our fault that Joe Biden, Hunter Biden got wrapped up in the whole Ukrainian story," Johnson said. "We are not closing our eyes to this."
On Friday, a spokeswoman for Romney said he would vote for the subpoena next week after Johnson assured that interviews with witnesses would be done in a "closed setting without a hearing or public spectacle."
Michael Bloomberg in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami on Tuesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Money well spent?
Billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent more than $500 million on his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, appearing on the ballot for the first (and last) time in the race on Super Tuesday. What did he get for his money? Four delegates from American Samoa, or roughly $125 million per delegate.
The Washington Post published a comprehensive postmortem on Bloomberg's ad spending on Thursday, a day after he dropped out and endorsed Biden.
According to the Post estimates, he spent between $60 and $220 per vote in 14 states that held primaries on Tuesday. (The analysis does not include what Bloomberg spent on other aspects of his campaign, such as staffing and transportation.)
Bloomberg got the most bang for his buck in Colorado and Virginia, and the least ROI in Minnesota and Maine.
• Minnesota: $220 per vote ($13 million spent; 62,000 votes)
• Texas: $180 per vote ($54 million spent; 301,000 votes)
• Maine: $180 per vote ($4.3 million spent; 24,000 votes)
• California: $170 per vote ($74 million spent; 440,000 votes)
• Utah: $170 per vote ($5.1 million spent; 30,000 votes)
• Alabama: $170 per vote ($8.9 million spent; 53,000 votes)
• Vermont: $150 per vote ($2.3 million spent; 15,000 votes)
• Oklahoma: $130 per vote ($5.6 million spent; 42,000 votes)
• Arkansas: $120 per vote ($4.8 million spent; 39,000 votes)
• Tennessee: $100 per vote ($7.9 million spent; 80,000 votes)
• North Carolina: $90 per vote ($15 million spent; 172,000 votes)
• Massachusetts: $70 per vote ($12 million spent; 157,000 votes)
• Colorado: $60 per vote ($10 million spent; 169,000 votes)
• Virginia: $60 per vote ($7.4 million spent; 128,000 votes)
A note of caution: When doing political advertising calculations on live television, make sure to double-check your math.
MSNBC's Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: "It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing"
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— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 6, 2020
"Gender in this race, you know, that is the trap question for every woman. If you say, 'Yeah, there was sexism in this race,' everyone says, 'Whiner!' And if you say, 'No, there was no sexism,' about a bazillion women think, 'What planet do you live on?' I promise you this: I'll have a lot more to say on that subject later on."
— Elizabeth Warren, when asked by a reporter to talk about the role gender played in her failed presidential campaign
"No, I think lack of talent was her problem. She had a tremendous lack of talent. She was a good debater, she destroyed Mike Bloomberg very quickly, like it was nothing, that was easy for her. But people don't like her. She's a very mean person, and people don't like her. People don't want that. They like a person like me, that's not mean."
— President Trump to reporters when asked if sexism played a role in Warren's demise
"Here's the deal, folks: Social Security is on the ballot this year, and the choice couldn't be clearer: I'll protect and expand it. Donald Trump will cut it and take it away."
— Joe Biden on Twitter Thursday
"Here's the deal: Joe Biden has repeatedly advocated for cuts to Social Security. I've fought my whole career to protect and expand it."
— Bernie Sanders's tweeted response
"Get real, Bernie. The only person who's going to cut Social Security if he's elected is Donald Trump. Maybe you should spend your time attacking him."
— Biden's rejoinder
"I will protect your Social Security and Medicare, just as I have for the past 3 years. Sleepy Joe Biden will destroy both in very short order, and he won't even know he's doing it!"
— President Trump's reply
Elizabeth Warren at a rally in Detroit on Tuesday. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
Read more 2020 coverage from Yahoo News:
Joe Biden pulls off historic Super Tuesday comeback
Bernie Sanders goes after Biden following Super Tuesday losses
Biden could finish off Sanders if he wins working-class voters in Michigan
Bernie's wins on Super Tuesday show power of Latino vote
What was behind Biden's Super Tuesday surge?
Clyburn says Biden should pick a woman to be his running mate
Poll: Most Democrats in Super Tuesday states support Medicare for All-style plan
2020 Democrats learned the lesson of Trump's GOP takeover: Unite or die
Michael Bloomberg ends presidential campaign, endorses Biden
Trump hails Biden's 'great comeback' and dances on Bloomberg's grave
Warren ends presidential bid, declines to make an endorsement
Warren weighs her options. Endorsing Sanders is probably No. 1.
Andrew Yang: Here's what I'm doing next
Trump's mental state, not Biden's, is the real concern, mental health professionals say


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import {Options as CsvParserOptions} from 'csv-parser';

declare namespace neatCsv {
	type Options = CsvParserOptions;

	type Row = Record<string, string>;
}

/**
Fast CSV parser.

Convenience wrapper around the super-fast streaming [`csv-parser`](https://github.com/mafintosh/csv-parser) module. Use that one if you want streamed parsing.

@param data - CSV data to parse.
@param options - See the [`csv-parser` options](https://github.com/mafintosh/csv-parser#options).

@example
```
import neatCsv = require('neat-csv');

const csv = 'type,part\nunicorn,horn\nrainbow,pink';

(async () => {
	console.log(await neatCsv(csv));
	//=> [{type: 'unicorn', part: 'horn'}, {type: 'rainbow', part: 'pink'}]
})();
```
*/
declare function neatCsv<Row = neatCsv.Row>(
	data: string | Buffer | ReadableStream,
	options?: neatCsv.Options
): Promise<Row[]>;

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The Delaware Amateur Radio Association, Delaware Ohio
Pay dues conveniently with PayPal
Not a member? We would love to meet you, and welcome you to our organization! DELARA has been a gathering place for ham radio enthusiasts for over 35 years and we're still going strong. Our members bring a wealth of experience in many of the varied interests for our great technical hobby! Dues were reduced for 2018 to $20 per year ($2 famialy member). Our meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month, at the Delaware Chapter of the American Red Cross, 380 Hills Miller Rd. We start at 7:30 with speakers, training and friendship! Consider yourself invited!
Activities: The DELARA Calendar
DELARA is an ARRL affiliated club
The club that has achieved the status of "Special Service Club". These clubs offer extensive benefits to members, such as license testing, training, and many different activities. A Special Service Club is an example to other clubs, and is a great way for you to become interested in the hobby!
MESH Team Formed DELARA and Delaware ARES have formed a design and standards team to keep MESH technologies moving. MESH - a wireless data network independent of the Internet - will be a great emergency backup for Delaware County emergency agencies! The DELARA CONTEST TEAM is a very active part of our club, and contests are a big part of the Ham Radio hobby. A Ham Radio contest can range from "reach as many hams in a particular state" to "reach hams all over the world, each time looking for a new or different country on the globe." Our team's average is an impressive 390,576 points per contest! That's pretty impressive. If you are a ham and would like to get involved, it doesn't take a great station or a fast operator- team members are at every level! In addition to having a lot of fun, you'll find that contesting will train you to be a much better operator in general - quick, concise and attentive - all attributed with will help in times of public service or normal operating! Contact Tom to get involved! ARES Volunteers serve our communities. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service consists of ham radio operators providing backup communication for public events such as parades, as well as emergency agencies such as the EMA and Red Cross. The Delaware ARES (http://www.delares.org) volunteers provided over 2,000 hours of service each year since 2013. Hosted primarily by the Delaware County Emergency Management Agency, ARES members trained in terrorism awareness, Incident Command, FEMA courses, EOC (Emergency Operation Center) operations, and in both voice and digital ham radio messaging.
DELARA MEMBER BENEFIT: use the club
station at the Delaware Red Cross (ARC) building!
DELARA and the Delaware County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) have been granted access to the Delaware Red Cross building, 380 Hills Miller Road. We have established a contest-grade amateur radio station there to serve Delaware County in emergencies and public service activities, and to perform as a club station. We have four operating positions, three HF, and have established several quality antennas. Club members are invited to operate the station any time. Contact Dale, W8KTQ or Donn, K8AOK, for station information. This is a major step forward for the two organizations, and the construction teams are working hard to make this a great station!
DELARA News- read this month's Internet newsletter PAY MY DUES - use PayPal WADCO - Worked All Delaware County Award TESTING - Get your ham license
Welcome to the greatest hobby in the world!
Welcome to the web home of the Delaware Amateur Radio Association. We are made up of licensed amateur radio operators in and around Delaware County, Ohio. DELARA is an ARRL Special Service Club. We are involved in many community activities, including Field Day! Many of our members are also members of the A.R.E.S. (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) orgnization and as such train as partners with safety services to be a complete form of communication, both for emergencies and public service events. (See http://www.delares.org)
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The Statue of Cecil John Rhodes in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe is a bronze sculpture of a British colonialist, businessman and politician who was the founder of British South Africa Company through which he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia.

The statue was sculpted by a Scottish sculptor John Tweed and was erected in Bulawayo city centre in 1904. In February 1981 after Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the statue was removed from the city center to the centenary park at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe.

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Timeline of Bulawayo

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Any cryptocurrency is a fast-growing but volatile asset. That is why this way of investing and saving has so many fans and haters at the same time. Many people associate crypto assets with dishonest projects, and, unfortunately, the market is not finalized in terms of the law. Therefore, it is too early to say that…
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Bitcoin was first introduced in 2008 as a decentralized currency without the need for a central bank or any intermediaries. It can be sent to and from users via the bitcoin network, a peer-to-peer network in which transactions are authenticated by nodes and recorded on a blockchain. Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, remains a…
The Rollercoaster Ride of Bitcoin Prices Throughout History
Ever wondered how Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency for that matter) came to be? As a long-standing coin and the first of its kind, Bitcoin has revolutionized the cryptocurrency space, much like the internet changed the way people use the internet. A detailed history of Bitcoin as a whole is beyond the scope of this article,…
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Have you ever heard about digital currencies such as Bitcoin? No, of course you haven't! At least not, not that you can notice. But if you're in the business of stock market investing, it's almost impossible that you don't know about Bitcoin. In a nut shell, Bitcoin was the first decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency…
Why Did Bitcoin's Price Skyrocket? (A Brief History of Bitcoin)
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Q: Watchpack Error (initial scan): Error: EACCES: permission denied, lstat '/mnt/c/DumpStack.log.tmp' I run npm run watch on WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS). But get the following error.
Watchpack Error (initial scan): Error: EACCES: permission denied, lstat '/mnt/c/DumpStack.log.tmp'
Watchpack Error (initial scan): Error: EACCES: permission denied, lstat '/mnt/c/hiberfil.sys'
Watchpack Error (initial scan): Error: EACCES: permission denied, lstat '/mnt/c/pagefile.sys'
Watchpack Error (initial scan): Error: EACCES: permission denied, lstat '/mnt/c/swapfile.sys'

This is my webpack config
const path = require('path');
const devMode = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production';
const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');

module.exports = {
    entry: {
        "main": './views/js/main.js'
    },
    mode: 'development',
    output: {
        filename: 'js/[name].js',
        chunkFilename: 'js/[id].[chunkhash].js',
        path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public')
    },
    module: {
        rules: [
            {
                test: /\.js$/,
                enforce: "pre",
                use: ["source-map-loader"],
            },
            {
                test: /\.css$/,
                exclude: /node_modules/,
                use: [
                    { loader: MiniCssExtractPlugin.loader },
                    {
                        loader: 'css-loader',
                        options: {
                            importLoaders: 1,
                        }
                    },
                    { loader: 'postcss-loader' }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    plugins: [
        new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
            filename: devMode ? 'css/[name].css' : 'css/[name].[hash].css'
        })
    ],
    devtool: 'cheap-module-source-map'
}

Is there anyone with the same problem?
How did you fix it?

A: ubuntu doesn't like the fact that you are trying to write files in /mnt/c. Since WSL doesn't always tie in correctly with ubuntu's permission systems, even with sudo you cannot change the permissions of those files.
I'd recommend changing directories to somewhere you know your user has ownership of (e.g. your documents library or usr/foldername), and trying again.

A: The problem lies in the location of your files. They should be somewhere under /home/user not in /mnt/...
See here: https://github.com/webpack/watchpack/issues/187


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Hey there, all well? Over here all is great, thanks. I had a slow start to my week, in my slow fashion outfit. Ignore my skirt, thats an oldie from Zara! I'm not getting rid of anything that I purchased in the past, because that wouldn't make any sense.
Nowadays, I'm just more considerate with everything I buy – like this handmade item! Beautifully made by Boikova. Julia Boikova. Isn't it just perfect?


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La saison 1992-1993 du Championnat du Ghana de football est la trente-quatrième édition de la première division au Ghana, la Premier League et la dernière saison de l'ère amateur. Elle regroupe, sous forme d'une poule unique, les douze meilleures équipes du pays qui se rencontrent deux fois, à domicile et à l'extérieur. En fin de saison, les deux derniers du classement sont relégués et remplacés par les deux meilleures formations de deuxième division.

C'est le club d'Asante Kotoko, double tenant du titre, qui remporte à nouveau le championnat cette saison après avoir terminé en tête du classement final, avec deux points d'avance sur Goldfields SC et huit sur l'un des deux clubs promus, Cape Coast Dwarfs. C'est le dix-huitième titre de champion du Ghana de l'histoire du club.

Pour une raison indéterminée, il n'y aura aucun club ghanéen engagé en Coupes d'Afrique la saison suivante.

Les clubs participants

Compétition
Le barème de points servant à établir les classements se décompose ainsi :
 Victoire : 2 points
 Match nul : 1 point
 Défaite : 0 point

Classement

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|}

Matchs

Bilan de la saison

Voir aussi

Références

Liens internes
 Championnat du Ghana de football

Liens externes
  Page complète sur la saison sur RSSSF

Championnat du Ghana de football
Ghana
Sport au Ghana en 1992
Ghana
1993 au Ghana


This is my father, Frank Claycomb, with a dog, and I think, my grandfather's team. That would make it be Wayne, Nebraska. And probably the early 1930s.
These are two of my father's i.d. cards. One is his student activity card for Wayne (Nebraska) State Teachers College. It surprises me that it would cost $3.25 for one semester in 1933. Seems pricey.
The other is his Michigan driver's license for 1936. It's printed on shiny paper – like photo paper. He was 21 and would be getting married that April.
This is the eulogy that was read at the services for Dad in 1999. He would have been 100 years old this year.
February 2, 1915 Frank Erwin Claycomb was born in Sycamore Illinois on the farm of his Grandfather, for whom he was named. His father Amos Townsend Claycomb had also been born in Illinois, but his mother Ruth Bressler Claycomb was from a small town in Nebraska. When Frank was 2 years old, the family moved to Wayne Nebraska where Frank's maternal grandfather had homesteaded in the 1880's. Here the family farmed raising corn, wheat and hay. Frank had an older brother John, 2 younger brothers, George and Richard, and a sister Barbara.
All the children attended Wayne High School; Frank graduated in 1931. He then went 2 years to Wayne State Teachers College.
In the mid-1930's he moved back to Illinois and got a job with the Central Illinois Power & Light Company, beginning his career in the electrical industry. And more importantly to his children, this is where he met Harriet Duncan. They were married April 11, 1936, and celebrated their 63rd anniversary 3 weeks ago. At their wedding, Harriet's sister Helen met Frank's brother, John. A few years later Helen Duncan married John Claycomb.
Frank and Harriet lived in several cities when Frank worked for Anaconda Wire & Cable Company. They moved from St. Louis to Detroit to Hollywood and Pasadena. This was during World War II when it was patriotic to raise as much of your family food as possible. Frank built a chicken coop, stocked it with hens that provided eggs. He joined a neighborhood Victory Garden. On what was a vacant lot, they produced vegetables for the whole block. Even in the city, the man from Nebraska never forgot the farm.
He was asked to come to work for Pacific Wholesale Electric Company in downtown San Diego so they moved to North Park. When he had a chance to buy some acreage in Eucalyptus Hills, he jumped at the opportunity to work the land again. He not only continued to work downtown, which meant a very long commute in the days without freeways, but it meant more work when he got home from his job.
With the help of his family, he tended the trees – avocado, orange, lemon, grapefruit, apricot, walnut, plum, loquat, pomegranate and more. He cultivated a garden of corn, lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, squash, carrots and radishes. He raised turkeys, hens, pigs and helped his children care for their lambs, rabbits and horse. The children always had a list of chores to do, but they also had pets, fresh fruit, and room to roam in a great rural neighborhood. Frank and Harriet provided a house full of love, strong role models and a wonderful place for children to grow up.
In 1960 the family moved to a more suburban setting on Vista Camino – less than ½ acre. But this didn't stop Frank from planting fruit trees and a garden. He moved violets from the farm in Nebraska to the yard in Lakeside. His garden flourished. Every year we had tomatoes, corn, several kinds of lettuce, squash, beets and whatever else caught his fancy. Because of his plantings, we will have apricots, boysenberries and asparagus for years to come.
Many years ago Frank lost the sight in one eye. He never complained. Then about 4 years ago he noticed more trouble with his sight. He was diagnosed with macular degeneration in what had been his 'good' eye. This curtailed his gardening, but he still tried to get the vegetables planted. His grandson, Dave, comes out every Thursday to help with the garden and learn from his grandfather.
Though not a formal student, Frank loved history. He enjoyed local history wherever he was. He never tired of hearing Doug McClain's stories of old Lakeside or John Lynton's Colorado homesteading stories of the land where Frank went hunting.
He cherished family history. He saved his father's diaries and kept his own throughout his life. He told us stories of his aunts and uncles so that we felt as if we knew them well even though they lived in the midwest. He passed this love of family history to his children. Tom collects the photos and household treasures of the past; Donna keeps the letters, diaries and researches the genealogy. When she was still with us, Jeanie collected family stories and family recipes. She made copies of these booklets for all of us.
Frank even appreciated the history of the electrical industry in San Diego. He and Neville Baker gathered the old timers together giving them a chance to reminisce and a chance for the current members to meet their predecessors. The Old-Timers meetings have become a regular event in San Diego.
It was not easy for Frank to express his emotions. It was easier to plant the roses you see in front of the house on Vista Camino. These roses were picked in celebration of ordinary and extraordinary days. He sent roses when each of his five grandchildren was born. He brought one red rose to the memorial service for his daughter Jean who died in 1993. His garden and his yard were the expression of his feelings and creativity and will be with us for a long time. We will all remember his love, his laughter, his steadiness and his integrity.
My father attended Club Week in Lincoln Nebraska in 1927 when he was twelve years old. This is the article he wrote for the local paper. And then a letter his grandfather wrote to him after reading the story.
Dad was named for his grandfather, Frank E. Claycomb, who did not sign this letter.
My brother has as much stuff to sort through as I do. It is overwhelming sometimes and often a joy. Here's his contribution this week.
Tom found it difficult to believe it was Dad's license since no violations were indicated. Or maybe he's remembering his own youth.
Frank Claycomb's wife, Anna Sarah Townsend, died in 1892 leaving him with five children ages 3 weeks to almost 8 years. He had a housekeeper, Mrs. Hill, who must have been a huge help in those early years. His son, Amos, kept diaries that mention Mrs. Hill. The earliest we have is 1900 when he was 14 – the first one can be seen here.
Frank lives in Cortland Township, DeKalb county, Illinois. He farms and invests in land.
On June 30, 1908, Frank's father, George Washington Claycomb, died at the age of 80 in Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois.
George Washington Claycomb with his granddaughter Eleanor. Eleanor was born in 1884, so perhaps this was taken about 1888.
In 1910 on October 27th, Eleanor, the oldest child married Arthur B. Gochenour. On 13 October 1911, Frank Claycomb's first grandchild was born and named Frank Claycomb Gochenour.
Four Generations: Sarah Goddard Claycomb, mother of Frank Erwin Claycomb who is the father of Eleanor C. Gochenour who is the mother of Frank Claycomb Gochenour (born 1911).
On 7 September 1911 Louise married Lewis Ray Love at "Anchorage" her Aunt Georgia Yates' home in Boise, Idaho. They later moved to New York.
In early 1912 – on January 12th – Frank Claycomb married for the second time – this time to Evangeline Shattuck, a teacher in the Sycamore schools. She was born in 1873 in Colorado – her parents were Orville and Harriet Shattuck.
The only photo I have found of Ve. She's holding granddaughter, Barbara. Her husband Frank is on the left. 1919.
She came to be Grandma Ve when the grandchildren and great-grandchildren arrived. There is so much to Ve's story that I don't know. In 1910 she lived with her two sisters, Edith and Ethel – none of them married and all were teachers. Evangeline was born in Colorado, Edith in Pennsylvania and Ethel in Ohio. That's a lot of moving in the late 1800s and there must be stories there!
In the 1960s I wrote to her about family genealogy – I didn't know she wasn't my grandfather's mother. I just knew she was my great-grandmother. She answered my letter that since there were no blood ties, her story wasn't important. Oh, what a mistake I made not asking her more.
Frank's children continued to get married. On 20 December 1913, George married Helen Virginia Quarles in Honolulu, Hawaii. They made their home in Boise, Idaho.
On 27 February 1917 Edward married Isabel Peake in Kansas City, Missouri where they lived.
A photo from about 1919 shows the family (people are identified here). All of Frank's children have married and there are many grandchildren.
In 1922 young Frank Gochenour died on July 11th. He was 10 years old.
And on 19 August 1926 Sarah Goddard Claycomb, Frank's mother and the matriarch of the family, died. She was 92.
On 2 August 1932, Frank Erwin Claycomb died at age 77. From his will: Petition of Evangeline S. Claycomb: Frank E. Claycomb died at his home in DeKalb Township in DeKalb County, IL, 2 August 1932. Real estate valued at at sixteen thousand dollars, personal property valued at three thousand dollars. Surviving him: Evangeline S. Claycomb; Eleanor Gochenour, daughter, adult, Sycamore IL; Louise Love, daughter, adult, Winnetka, IL; Amas [sic] Claycomb, son, adult, Wayne NE; George Claycomb, son, adult, Boise ID; Edward Claycomb, son, adult, Kansas City MO.
Lists real estate owned in DeKalb County, 5 shares of stock, Ohio Oil company, 20 shares of stock, Club Aluminum, 2 bonds secured by mortgage in Pierce Bank Building, 4 shares of stock in the First State Bank, Maple Park IL, 1 note secured by mortgage.
I wish I had more to write about Grandma Ve than just her death date – 10 February 1966, but I didn't know much. Even the adult grandchild who gave information for her death certificate knew very little. I know she lived on her own, quite independently, in a two-story house. We visited her in 1956 and I remember those steep stairs. Mom said she died while talking on the phone to a friend. Gently slipping away.
Anna Sarah Townsend was born 9 February 1864 in Malta, Illinois, daughter of Eleanor Pierce and Amos W. Townsend. She had an older brother, Frederick and an older sister, Jennie. She also had two younger sisters, Georgia and Mary.
The family moved to the Daniel Pierce farm just west of Sycamore, Illinois in 1876 when Anna's maternal grandmother, Phoebe Jane Brundage Pierce, died. This allowed them to care for her grandfather, Daniel Pierce.
In 1879 when she was 15, she went to Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, for a year. This is where she met Frank Claycomb. Anna's mother was active in the Universalist Church and later on was on the board of Lombard College, a Universalist school.
Anna then spent a year in school in Jacksonville, about 100 miles south of Galesburg. And then a further year at Rockford Female Seminary. It's interesting that about this time, Jane Addams also attended Rockford (Class of 1881).
In 1881 Anna's sister, Jennie, married Charles A. Webster.
I have a postcard Anna sent to her brother Fred in 1881 (could be 1887). It appears to be written in a foreign language, although I think it may be a secret sibling language. What does it look like to you? She has beautiful, legible handwriting as you can see by the front of the card.
When I sat down to write Frank's story, I realized how little I know about his life. A few basic names and dates, but not much else.
He was born Frank Erwin Claycomb on 6 May 1857 in Warren county, Illinois. His death certificate gives a birth year of 1855, but the early censuses are pretty clear that 1857 is more accurate. His parents were Sarah Ann Goddard and George Washington Claycomb.
He had an older sister Laura born about 1852 (she later married Patrick H. Shelton). He also had an older brother Albert R. who was born in 1853 and died in 1860. And Frank had a younger sister, Alta May, born in 1865 who never married.
As far as I know he lived in Warren county until a few years after his marriage.
On 27 December 1882 Frank E. Claycomb, age 27, married Anna Townsend, age 18, in Sycamore, Illinois.
Sycamore, Illinois and working as a gas meter reader for the local utility.
Now the entries here are not at all personal, they deal with wire manufacturing and annealing and weights of lengths of different sized cable. But there are lots of blank pages. I have decided to make this book my journal for 2013. I'm going to write on the open pages. This feels a tiny bit sacrilegious, but it also connects me to him. A shared journal.
Frank Claycomb (1915-1999) worked for Anaconda Wire & Cable from 1934 to 1945 as a salesman. He worked in St. Louis, Detroit, and Los Angeles. When Anaconda wanted to transfer him to Ohio, Mom and Dad opted to stay in California. Dad left Anaconda and went to work for Pacific Wholesale Electric Company in San Diego, selling electric supplies.


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Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 58
Local time: 20:30 PALASERRADIMIGNI
Real Madrid uses late run to down Sassari
Real Madrid improved its chances to finish first in Group A by downing Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 58-83 on the road on Friday. Madrid leads Group A with a 7-2 record, while Sassari dropped to 1-8 and will be sixth in this group. Felipe Reyes led the winners with 14 points and 6 rebounds off the bench. Sergio Llull added 12 points while Jaycee Carroll scored 11 for Madrid. Edgar Sosa pacd Sassari with 18 points and 6 assists. Jonas Maciulis and Llull combined for all the points in a 0-12 opening run for Madrid, but Sosa and Davis Logan fueled a 15-0 charge that helped Sassari get a 18-14 advantage after 10 minutes. Reyes and Gustavo Ayon shined throughout the second quarter and got help from K.C. Rivers and Carroll to give Madrid a 33-41 lead at halftime. A layup by Nocioni made it a 16-point game, 35-51, right after the break, but Sosa and Shane Lawal pushed Sassari to within 51-54 at the end of the third quarter. It didn't last long, however, as Reyes and Carroll fueled a 1-21 run that sealed the outcome long before the final buzzer.
First quarter: Sassari rallies from 12 down
Both teams struggled to score early until Sergio Llull got Madrid going with a bomb from downtown. Jonas Maciulis hit a three-pointer of his own, as Madrid held Sassari scoreless for more than six minutes. The hosts missed 10 shots and 2 free throw attempts in that stretch. Llull nailed another one from beyond the arc as did Maciulis, this time from the right wing to cap a 0-12 Madrid run. Shane Lawal tried to change things with a slam and a jumper by Edgar Sosa awakened Sassari. David Logan made free throws and a three-pointer by Brian Sacchetti brought the hosts back to life at 9-12. An acrobatic jumper by Sosa forced Madrid to call timeout with its once promising lead now only 1 point. Giacomo DeVecchi dunked off a steal to complete the hosts' comeback and a layup off a steal by Logan capped a 15-0 Sassari run. A layup by Rudy Fernandez and a buzzer-beating triple by Logan fixed the score at 18-14 after 10 minutes.
Second quarter: Rivers, big men ignite Madrid
Felipe Reyes stepped up with a layup-plus-foul early in the quarter, as Madrid tried to power the boards with him and Gustavo Ayon together on court. Reyes scored again and Ayon finished a three-chance Madrid offense with a layup for an 18-21 lead. Sassari kept struggling to score and a layup by Jaycee Carroll caused the hosts to call timeout at 18-23, after a 0-9 run. Sosa made free throws and Massimo Chessa added a fast break layup to tie it at 23-23. Jerome Dyson scored off yet another steal before Madrid calld timeout at 25-23. K.C. Rivers followed a three-pointer with a five-meter jumper and a layup by Reyes gave Madrid a 25-30 edge. Rivers scored again, but Sosa did better with a triple. Llull answered from downtown but so did Miroslav Todic to make it 31-35. Carroll hit a technical free throw and Ayon followed a wild dunk-and-foul with a layup for a 33-41 Madrid lead at halftime.
Third quarter: Madrid pulls away, Sassari returns
Both teams went scoreless for almost two minutes until Andres Nocioni hit a one-handed floater in the lane for a double-digit Madrid lead, 33-43. Nocioni kept pacing Madrid with a driving layup, as Sassari called timeout to find answers on offense. Lawal scored down low, but Fernandez answered with a fast break slam. Bourousis took over with a wild turnaround jumper, which Nocioni followed with a layup as Sassari stopped the game at 35-51. Sosa banked in a driving shot, as Sassari improved its defense. A huge three-point play by Lawal gave the hosts hope at 40-51. Sosa struck from downtown, as Madrid tried to use longer possessions without much success. Lawal split free throws and a three-pointer by DiVecchi ignited the crowd at 46-51, after an 11-0 run. Llull hit a triple off a timeout, but a three-point play by Sosa and free throws by Logan brought the hosts even closer, 51-54.
Fourth quarter: 1-21 run seals it early
Reyes stepped up with back-to-back backdoor layups early in the fourth quarter to give Madrid fresh air, 51-58. Sosa split free throws and a three-pointer by Carroll boosted the guests' lead to 52-61 with over seven minutes left. Carroll insisted from downtown and a free throw by Reyes made it a 13-point game. Facu Campazzo hit free throws and Ayon added a layup which sealed the outcome, 52-69, midway through the quarter. Rivers nailed a five-meter jumper, Campazzo made free throws and a fast break layup by Reyes capped a mammoth 1-21 run for a 52-75 Madrid lead. Matteo Formenti struck from downtown, but it was already too little, too late for the hosts, as Madrid had cruised to a valuable road win.
Referees: ROCHA, FERNANDO; PILOIDIS, ANASTASIOS; GLISIC, ALEKSANDAR
Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 18 15 18 7
Real Madrid 14 27 13 29
Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 18 33 51 58
Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari
3 LOGAN, DAVID 31:31 9 1/4 1/8 4/4 3 3 2 2 2 4
4 SOSA, EDGAR 26:38 18 5/13 1/3 5/6 6 4 1 1 5 12
5 FORMENTI, MATTEO 7:39 3 1/2 1 1 2 1
7 SANDERS, RAKIM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8 DEVECCHI, GIACOMO 30:11 5 1/3 1/1 2 2 1 2 2 3 1 4
9 LAWAL, SHANE 25:25 8 3/5 2/3 4 5 9 1 2 1 1 1 3 4 17
10 CHESSA, MASSIMO 9:26 5 1/2 0/3 3/4 1 2 2 2 3
11 DYSON, JEROME 15:59 2 1/4 0/2 0/2 2 3 1 1 -6
14 SACCHETTI, BRIAN 27:13 3 1/5 6 6 3 3 3 2 4
18 VANUZZO, MANUEL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
21 BROOKS, JEFF DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
22 TODIC, MIROSLAV 25:58 5 1/4 1/4 4 3 7 2 1 2 2 3
Totals 200:00 58 13/35 6/28 14/19 10 20 30 12 10 17 1 3 17 19 44
Head coach: SACCHETTI, ROMEO
4 RIVERS, KC 18:04 9 3/3 1/2 1 4 5 1 1 1 12
5 FERNANDEZ, RUDY 21:20 4 2/5 0/3 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
6 NOCIONI, ANDRES 21:17 8 4/5 0/4 1 3 4 1 1 1 2 6
7 CAMPAZZO, FACUNDO 14:23 6 0/1 6/6 6 1 1 3 3 11
8 MACIULIS, JONAS 18:51 6 0/1 2/5 4 4 2 1 2 1 1 7
9 REYES, FELIPE 20:11 14 6/8 2/3 2 4 6 3 1 2 2 3 20
14 AYON, GUSTAVO 19:10 9 4/7 1/1 1 3 4 4 4 1 4 3 8
20 CARROLL, JAYCEE 23:34 11 2/4 2/2 1/1 2 5 7 1 1 1 3 18
23 LLULL, SERGIO 25:37 12 4/9 2 2 3 2 3 1 8
30 BOUROUSIS, IOANNIS 16:57 2 1/2 2 4 6 2 3 2 1 1 8
44 SLAUGHTER, MARCUS 0:36 2 1/1 2
50 MEJRI, SALAH DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Totals 200:00 83 23/36 9/26 10/11 10 35 45 22 7 20 3 1 19 16 105
Head coach: LASO, PABLO
SACCHETTI, ROMEO
"We came back from two important gaps and we showed aggressiveness in the first half, but then we lost lucidity in the second half because we were very tired. Anyway, the last quarter couldn't take away what my team did well. We were in the game for 30 minutes with the right attitude."
LASO, PABLO
"My congratulations to Dinamo's team. They played very aggressive, with intensity and grit. I also want to say congratulations to my team. It's an important win, as every one in the Euroleague is. We'll focus now on the next game, which is important to get the first position in our group."
CHESSA, MASSIMO
"We played a good game, we showed intensity. Real Madrid is a giant, they don't forgive if you make a mistake. I think that we approached this match in the right way, even if just for 30 minutes."
CARROLL, JAYCEE
"The game started out really tough. They play really hard defense and got into the passing lanes and got a lot of steals and really made a killing off our turnovers. We settled down in the second half and were more sure about passes and got easier shots."
KC Rivers - Real Madrid
David Logan - Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari
Facundo Campazzo - Real Madrid
Edgar Sosa - Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari
Sergio Llull - Real Madrid
Giacomo Devecchi - Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari
Gustavo Ayon - Real Madrid
Nizhny Novgorod 65
Dinamo Sassari 58
Cedevita Zagreb 71
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 82
Unicaja Malaga 75
Limoges CSP 65
FC Bayern Munich 95
PGE Turow Zgorzelec 89
Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul 91
Panathinaikos Athens 64
Neptunas Klaipeda 82
Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 72
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria 93
Valencia Basket 89
Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 59


This set depicts the Russian children's fairy-tale "Kurochka Riaba" ("The Speckled Hen"). In the story, an old man and his wife have a spotted hen that each day lays an egg for them, but one day the hen lays a special golden egg. The old man, and then the old woman try to break the egg, but could not. Finally a mouse goes by and with a wag of its tail the egg rolls, falls and breaks. In the end they learn the value of the ordinary eggs.
There is a small dark spot in the wood at the back of Grandpa's head, but this small spot serves to give these handmade dolls character.


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Digitization offers alpha opportunities in frontier markets
bySandeep SrinivasandAli Hussain
in Features, Hedge Funds, Manager News
Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan's capital city by antonpetrus/Envato Elements
Frontier markets offer much better opportunities than just investing in old economy consumption themes. We believe that digital literacy, improving infrastructure and supportive government programs have ushered a new era for entrepreneurs who can adapt and customize business models to cater to local needs.
The expansion of digitization presents opportunities entirely unique to frontier markets. The opportunities are grouped into three main themes: growing 4G availability, increasing e-commerce penetration and the adaption of real economy companies to digital enabled players.
4G availability
The emergence of 4G availability dates back little more than five years in Vietnam and Pakistan. This delayed start means that frontier markets trail developed markets in penetration levels for fast growing apps in a number of verticals such as ride hailing, and takeaway meal ordering. The rapid expansion of smartphone ownership and 4G coverage are also poised to enable a boom in e-commerce.
E-commerce penetration
Over the past 15 years digitalization of services has developed significantly in frontier markets. These companies are now reaching a sweet spot of scale where they can spend more on innovation and grow faster going forward. After 13 years of operations, M-pesa (the first and most successful mobile payment service in Africa) supports over 50m customers and processes billions of transactions. But this is just the beginning as only 25% of M-pesa customers have a smartphone and this is growing at some 10% every year.
Elsewhere, Kaspi in Kazakhstan introduced digital retail banking and currently services almost half of the country's population. In Bangladesh, Bkash brought the unbanked into the formal economy and now services around a fifth of the country's population. Compared to the 35% retail penetration rate of China, e-commerce penetration rates across frontier markets like Vietnam and the Philippines is 4-5% while Sub-Saharan Arica, Bangladesh and Pakistan are below 2%.
In a recent study, Facebook and Bain & Co estimated that the average gross merchandise value (GMV) per digital customer in Southeast Asia will increase five-fold by 2026 compared to 2019. Despite this exponential growth, e-commerce penetration in countries like Vietnam will only reach 10% by 2026, implying substantial growth potential beyond the next five years.
Increased digital usage, whether via e-commerce or the use of digital payment platforms, was a global trend during the pandemic. The key difference for Frontier Markets was the relatively lower adoption levels pre-pandemic, providing the headroom to grow since.
Growth alongside technological adoption in the real (old) economy is creating a new generation of nimble, adaptable firms that are using digital transformation to reinvent these themes in frontier markets.
Real economy company adaption
One success story is in Kazakhstan — a country with just over 18.5 million population, with low consumer banking penetration of just c.6.7% of the country's GDP versus 23.7% in China; one main impediment was to profitably access small-micro retail segment of the population. Kaspi which started as a conventional brick-and-mortar bank addressed this gap by completely transforming into a digital retail outfit. The management recognized that Kazakhstan was far more advanced in mobile penetration (currently stands over 130%) and decided to access customers digitally, which was cost efficient and enabled Kaspi to reach out to a part of the population that had limited access to banking. Over the past 13 years, Kaspi, which reinvented itself as a digital retail bank, developed a marketplace (like amazon) and a payment platform (like Square + paypal + Wechat) — currently Kaspi generates almost 54% of earnings from digital banking, and 46% from marketplace and payment platform. The management is on track to generate majority of earnings from marketplace and payment platform over the next 5 years.
Across our investible universe many businesses are adopting technology at a rapid pace. In the Philippines, Robinson Retail is using technology to connect traditional retailers. The company invested in Growsari, a tech enabled B2B platform that currently connects over 50,000 mom-and-pop grocery stores across 100 cities. The company is building up an ecosystem by integrating various services to merchants such as providing working capital loans, offering an e-commerce platform, electronic bill payments, to name a few. Growsari is allowing Robinson to capture a bigger share of the overall retail pie, which was not possible before given the barriers.
Mitra, an Indonesian multi-format retailer is a play on rising modern retail penetration in Indonesia. Online sales have grown 12x increase in absolute sales since 2018 as the company has invested in proprietary e-commerce platforms, with exclusivity clauses from Inditex allowing them product priority vs. third party platforms.
Not only do frontier markets offer terrific opportunities tied to digitization, it is also the case that they are under-researched compared with emerging and developed markets – there are between seven and 11 times more analysts covering a top 10 developed or emerging market stock versus a frontier markets one. The scale of this coverage deficit is even more pronounced in the frontier markets technology space where local, single country focus sell-side research (the bulk of coverage) is ill-equipped to appreciate the hidden value drivers of these new economy verticals given the short time frame that these opportunities have existed.
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Do COVID-19 phone notifications work? Here's what other states learned
Several states have been using COVID-19 phone notification apps for months, and while low participation is still a concern, some of the results are encouraging.
Author: Ted Land
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Updated: 8:28 PM PST December 5, 2020
SEATTLE — Several states have been using COVID-19 phone notification apps for months, and while low participation is still a concern, some of the results are encouraging.
On Monday, Washington state announced that it too will have a COVID tracking app.
Nevada launched its COVID phone notification system in late August. A Seattle-based company, called COVID Trace, developed the state's technology.
"In the last three weeks, we've actually doubled the number of people using the app, which has been incredible," said Dudley Carr, co-founder of COVID Trace.
He said he's encouraged by data showing that when people receive an exposure notification, many of them are then using the app to call the health department.
"To us, it's an indication that people are taking it seriously. They do want to know what the appropriate next steps are," Carr said.
He said 3-4% of Nevada's population is using the technology.
"Obviously, the more people are using it, the more effective it is," Carr said.
Pennsylvania debuted its COVID alert app in September, and the state said recently about 6% of its adult population has downloaded it. The technology has already notified more than a hundred people of possible exposure to close contact with COVID, the state said.
Even low levels of participation could help save lives.
A team of researchers from Oxford University and Google studied COVID exposure notifications in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties this year.
The researchers estimate that if 15% of the population participates in notifications, the region could see an 8% drop in infections and a 6% drop in deaths.
Public health experts hope the alerts will lead to quicker testing.
"This is just another thing that can help us operate more quickly," said Dr. Jen Balkus, a UW assistant professor of epidemiology. "But it still needs to be used in combination with many of the things that we're doing quite well within Washington at the moment (such as) mask-wearing, social distancing and working remotely if you can."
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Mind the Trap: What Basing Rights in Djibouti and Sri Lanka Reveal About the Limitations of Debt as a Tool of Chinese Military Expansion
Publication: China Brief Volume: 20 Issue: 7
By: Scott Wingo
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Images: Two different heads of state, and two very different relationships with China. Image left: Xi Jinping accompanies Djiboutian President Omar Ismail Guellah for a welcoming reception during the latter's visit to Beijing in November 2017. PRC state media used the occasion to announce a "strategic relationship" between the two countries (Source: Xinhua, November 23, 2017). Image right: Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in a November 2019 interview, during which he declared intent to renegotiate the terms of the agreement that gave the PRC a 99-year lease (and de facto control) of the Hambantota Port (Source: Sri Lanka Guardian, November 25, 2019).
On November 24, 2019, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa told reporters during his first interview as president that he hoped to renegotiate the terms of the deal that gave a Chinese firm a 99-year lease over the Hambantota Port (Strategic News International, November 24, 2019). The port had been handed over as Sri Lanka struggled to make loan payments on the loss-making Chinese-built facility—thereby leading to debates as to whether the People's Republic of China (PRC) had set a "debt trap" by intentionally lending Sri Lanka more than it could afford to repay, in hopes of eventually foreclosing on the port (China Brief, January 5, 2019). The subtext was that with a leasehold in hand, the PRC could use the port as a naval installation geared toward patrolling Indian Ocean shipping lanes.
As can be observed by the Sri Lankan government's desire to renegotiate, this has not happened. To the contrary, Sri Lankan security policy has trended against China since the debt-equity swap occurred. A comparison with Djibouti, where the PRC has established its only overseas military base to date, illuminates how this came to pass. In both Djibouti and Sri Lanka, Beijing has used infrastructure loans as a means to entice political leaders to allow naval access. However, three factors led to very different outcomes: 1) the recipient countries' inherent willingness to host a base; 2) the degree of political competition faced by recipient leaders; and 3) the degree to which recipient leaders can diversify toward different sources of funding to reduce overreliance on China.
Most countries are not interested in hosting foreign troops, but Djibouti is an exception. With little in the way of natural resources, arable land, or population, it has few economic advantages other than its location at an important maritime chokepoint. It has capitalized on its location in part via basing revenues from foreign militaries, six of which had forces stationed there before China's arrival (SIPRI, April 2019). All six countries negotiated access with one of Djibouti's two post-independence leaders: the current President Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has been in power since 1999, or his predecessor (and uncle) Hassan Gouled Aptidon. Such concentration of power has made it easier for the Djiboutian government to handle the inevitable domestic objections to foreign bases, but did not always sit well with many international investors.
Image: PLA Navy Rear Admiral Guan Bailin, commanding officer of the "Harmonious Mission-2017" mission of the visiting PLA Navy hospital ship PEACE ARK (和平方舟, Heping Fangzhou), shakes hands with Chief of the Djiboutian Navy Captain Abdourahman Aden Cher at the Djibouti port facility (August 23, 2017). The PRC has been successful in establishing Djibouti as a base for naval operations, in contrast with the difficulties it has encountered in Sri Lanka. (Image source: China Military Online)
This changed with the arrival of China. Inspired by its own experience building clusters of economic activity at home, the PRC bet big on Djibouti as a logistics hub, beginning with agreements to build a railway to neighboring landlocked Ethiopia (2011), a parallel water pipeline (2011), and a new seaport (2013) (CNA, July 1, 2017). Construction of the port was not yet complete when, in January 2016, the PRC Foreign Ministry announced that a naval facility would be built adjacent to the new port (PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 21, 2016). The infrastructure cluster was predominantly backed by debt from the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim), and Djibouti has indeed run into trouble repaying it since the port's May 2017 opening (IMF, April 6, 2017; PRC Ministry of Commerce, May 25, 2017). However, Djibouti's debt distress came only after agreeing to a Chinese base. This was not a "trap"—it was a voluntary exchange of bank credit for naval access.
Sri Lanka shares Djibouti's potential as a resupply site for Indian Ocean naval patrols, but its fractious political system leaves less room for enduring arrangements with foreign powers. During Sri Lanka's bloody, decades-long civil war, China was one of the few countries to back the Sri Lankan government (National Interest, November 28, 2018). This fact was not forgotten by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who took power in 2005 and hoped to find outside funding to rebuild from both the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the war, which ended in 2009. Like Guelleh, Rajapaksa relied heavily on Chinese funding. This included projects in and around the capital of Colombo but also a now-notorious grouping in his hometown of Hambantota. Home to only 40,000 people, Hambantota managed to draw over $1 billion in loans from China Exim for a new deepwater seaport, airport, and cricket stadium. The idea of a port at Hambantota had been circulating for years, but a feasibility study had ruled it uncompetitive with the country's existing major port at Colombo, and few other financiers were interested (CSIS, April 2, 2018).
Indeed, while the major PRC state-owned conglomerate China Harbour was building a debt-fueled white elephant as a favor to the president, rival China Merchants had been taking an actual equity stake in expanding the port at Colombo. China Merchants was backed partially by a $300 million loan from the Japanese-led multilateral Asian Development Bank (Asian Development Bank, May 16, 2013). Colombo quickly outpaced Hambantota, which could not bring in enough shipping traffic to cover its debt payments. In 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Sri Lanka and promised $391 million in equity investment for further improvements at Hambantota by both China Harbour and China Merchants (China Brief, January 5, 2019). In other words, Sri Lanka would not be taking on more debt, and China Merchants was moving in on China Harbour's territory. Lest anyone forget what the Chinese government hoped to gain, a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) submarine visited Colombo at the time of Xi's visit and was followed by another six weeks later (PRC Ministry of Defense, November 27, 2014).
By 2015, it was Sri Lanka's turn to question the arrangement at Hambantota. Running on an anti-corruption platform, opposition leader Maithripala Sirisena scored an upset victory in that year's presidential election, despite money from a Chinese-backed Hambantota construction fund allegedly finding its way into Rajapaksa's campaign chest (The Hindu, July 1, 2018). Under financial pressure from its predecessor's debts, the new government in June 2016 came to a $1.5 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which wanted budget cuts (IMF, June 4, 2016). Most of Sri Lanka's debt was owed to private bondholders with zero tolerance for missed payments—as of December 2016, the IMF estimated all Chinese loans combined at only 10 percent of Sri Lanka's outstanding external debt—and most of these funds went to more productive projects (IMF, April 6, 2017). This left Hambantota, a symbol of the last administration's cronyism, on the chopping block. In July 2016, the Sri Lankan government proposed a resolution to the problem: cancelation of all debts at the port and airport in exchange for Chinese equity stakes.
Image: An undated photo of the port facility at Hambantota, on the south coast of Sri Lanka. The Hambantota Port has struggled financially, as most shipping traffic for the country still uses the port facilities at Colombo. In exchange for debt relief connected to the construction costs of Hambantota, in December 2017 the Sri Lankan government turned over a controlling stake in the port to the PRC state-owned corporation China Merchants Port Holdings Company. (Image source: Belt and Road News)
Beijing refused the offer. PRC Ambassador Yi Xianliang said that such a deal "was not possible according to China's laws" (Sunday Times (SL), July 31, 2016). He did not elaborate, but any objections were almost certainly related to the losses faced by the Exim Bank. By October 2016, the parties had found a workaround: the Hambantota port facility was to be placed under the custody of a joint venture, in which a Chinese investor would take a majority stake. In exchange, the Chinese investor would assume the port's remaining debts, meaning that Exim would have claims on the port's future profits (were they to materialize). Sri Lanka was given a choice between China Merchants and China Harbour as the investor and ultimately sided with China Merchants, which had earned itself a good name with the Colombo port expansion (Forbes, October 28, 2016).
This deal allowed the Sri Lankan government to remove a financial albatross from its shoulders; it also allowed China Merchants to edge its rival out of Sri Lanka, and for China Exim to reduce its losses. Notably absent in this deal was the Chinese security establishment. China Merchants owns a majority stake in the company tasked with providing security at the port, indicating that the port could probably be used for intelligence-gathering or sanctions-busting purposes (Thorne & Spevack, April 17, 2018). However, the terms of the handover agreement explicitly bar naval access without express Sri Lankan permission, and such permission has yet to be given. Requests for further Chinese submarine visits have been denied since a May 2017 visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Since the handover, ships from the Japanese and Australian navies have visited Sri Lankan ports (Japanese Ministry of Defense, October 30, 2018; Australian Department of Defence, March 30, 2019). Sri Lanka has signaled sovereignty over Hambantota itself by relocating its navy's Southern Command there, and holding joint exercises in the area with the U.S. Navy (Reuters, July 2, 2018; U.S. Navy, April 22, 2019). This does not imply that Sri Lanka will take sides—it has accepted one donated Chinese warship and turned down a status of forces agreement with the United States—but rather that it intends to stay neutral (PRC Ministry of Defense, August 24, 2019; SCMP, July 8, 2019). This trend toward diversification has been mirrored in economics, as Sri Lanka has taken on projects from the Asian Development Bank, India, Japan, the Chinese-led multilateral Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and even a refinery project at Hambantota to be built by a company owned by an Indian parliamentarian (ADB, December 31, 2019; Nikkei Asian Review, May 20, 2019; JICA, March 11, 2019; AIIB, April 4, 2019; Economic Times, March 30, 2019).
China briefly attempted to regain some influence as one of the few countries to remain open to Rajapaksa's attempted comeback during a 2018 constitutional crisis, but his bid to return to office did not succeed (Rajapaksa Twitter, October 27, 2018). In November 2019, Rajapaksa's younger brother, Gotabaya, took office as President, but so far has not turned full tilt back towards Beijing. Why did China back the elder Rajapaksa's reelection campaign in 2015, initially resist the Sri Lankan-proposed debt-equity swap, and accommodate Rajapaksa's attempted comeback even after the port had changed hands? The obvious answer is that the port's handover was a significant setback for Chinese interests: the PRC took on $1.1 billion in distressed debt and an empty port, and in exchange lost the prospect of naval access. This was not a successful "trap": it was a failed iteration of the same loans-for-military access strategy that succeeded in Djibouti.
It is difficult to convert economic influence into military access without either some degree of willingness on the part of the recipient—as was the case in Djibouti—or an outright invasion of the type which served the British Empire in Hong Kong, but has since happily faded into history. Competition from both domestic political rivals and international sources of funding, where they exist, make militarization even less likely. This dynamic can even work with rivals from within China, as happened when China Merchants used funding from a multilateral development bank to best its rival state-owned enterprise China Harbour. Chinese basing ambitions can succeed in countries with few economic alternatives and low elite turnover—Cambodia fits this bill, and perhaps Pakistan—but are unlikely to succeed elsewhere, regardless of debt.
Scott Wingo is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on China's economic engagement in the developing world and why its modes of doing business are different from those used by Western governments, international organizations, and multinational corporations. He has previously worked with the Woodrow Wilson Center, the World Bank, and the private sector. He holds both a Bachelor's of Science in Foreign Service and a Master's of Arts in Asian Studies from Georgetown University. You can follow him on Twitter @ScottCWingo.
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Hundreds of riders to saddle up this weekend in aid of safer roads
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Equestrians up and down the country are gearing up for this year's road safety awareness rides on Sunday (20 May).
The rides are taking place across the UK as part of the Pass Wide and Slow road safety campaign.
Cornwall-based Debbie Smith, founder of the campaign, is among those organising an event.
Riders will meet in Rosudgeon, west Cornwall, at 11am for a two-hour ride.
Ms Smith will use the ride to promote her latest road safety petition, which calls for greater legal protection for riders involved in road incidents (news, 17 May).
The petition (petition.parliament.uk/petitions/217985) was created this month and it has already received more than 3,000 signatures.
"Horses are getting hit and killed and drivers are getting away with it," she said. "If we get [dangerous driving] caught on camera or if the horse is hit or killed, action should be taken.
"Generally an accident has to have happened for a driver to be penalised, but I don't think it should have to come to that."
Essex-based road safety group Canewdons Equestrian will also be hosting a ride on Sunday at 10am.
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Liberty A-League Round 8 Match Review
The Wellington Phoenix are on the board in the 2022-23 Liberty A-League.
The Phoenix have drawn 1-1 with Western Sydney Wanderers in their round eight match at Sky Stadium in Wellington to snap a run of five straight defeats to open the season.
Michaela Robertson scored her maiden A-League goal to five the Nix a 1-0 halftime lead.
Wanderers equalised a quarter of an hour into the second-half and both sides had chances to win it in time added on.
But ultimately they were forced to settle for a share of the spoils and Wellington and Western Sydney remain level on points at the bottom of the competition ladder.
Phoenix head coach Natalie Lawrence had mixed feelings after the match.
"I think we did enough to win it," Lawrence told media post-game. "We had more shots, we had more crosses and we had more entries into the penalty box.
"I don't think anyone would have had any complaints if we did win it, but I'm more happy that we didn't lose.
"Getting a point helps us build. We wanted to start the new year continuing to build and more points will come."
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND – JANUARY 02: Coach Natalie Lawrence of the Phoenix looks on during the round eight A-League Women's match between Wellington Phoenix and Western Sydney Wanderers at Sky Stadium, on January 02, 2023, in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)
She was left to rue missed opportunities.
"It's going to have to be something we continue to work on and get more clinical and a bit more composed.
"I think we get into those moments and lash out at the ball or lose our instincts a little bit and that probably happens when you're not scoring heaps of goals."
But Lawrence was proud how her side responded to Wanderers' equaliser.
"When I look at that season-half and especially us pushing and pushing and pushing it shows the heart of the team.
"We've lost games but we're not just happy with a point, we want to go for the win. That's something we're going to try and build on."
Natalie Lawrence made two enforced changes to the XI which started their last match against Adelaide United before Christmas with Robertson and Milly Clegg replacing Paige Satchell (injured) and Emma Rolston (sick).
Clegg was a constant threat for the Phoenix down the right flank and had the first shot of the match in the opening minute, dragging an attempt wide from outside the box.
The 17-year-old earned the Phoenix a corner a few minutes later and the Wanderers almost headed the set piece into their own net.
Western Sydney came close to opening the scoring in the 13th minute when former Nix forward Cushla Rue pounced on a heavy touch from goalkeeper Brianna Edwards and shot narrowly wide of Edwards' right-hand post.
Wellington were also able to scramble clear a handful of minutes later after Wanderers striker Sheridan Gallagher had got into a dangerous position.
The Phoenix started to regain control of the midfield and produced a promising passage of play just before the half hour mark, but unfortunately midfielder Grace Wisnewski slipped as she unleashed her shot.
Moments later centre back Mackenzie Barry blazed over the goal after winning possession high up the park.
Edwards' fingertips denied Western Sydney the opening goal in the 38th minute. Wanderers fullback Danika Matos produced a curling shot from long-range that was bound for the top left-hand corner of Edwards' goal until she intervened.
Shortly after Robertson put the Nix in front from a corner. She bundled the ball over the line at the back post after Wisnewski's header rebounded off the crossbar.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND – JANUARY 02: Michaela Robertson of the Phoenix celebrates after scoring a goal during the round eight A-League Women's match between Wellington Phoenix and Western Sydney Wanderers at Sky Stadium, on January 02, 2023, in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Masanori Udagawa/Getty Images)
Buoyed by her first goal in professional football, Robertson was a constant menace down the left flank at the start of the second-half as the Phoenix pressed for their second.
But Wellington weren't able to find a way through the Wanderers' defence and soon found themselves level.
Gallagher equalised a quarter of an hour into the second-half. She took her opportunity well after being put through on goal by impressive Western Sydney midfielder Amy Harrison.
There were few clear-cut goalscoring opportunities for either side for the next half an hour despite plenty of endeavour.
The best chances came right at the end of the 90 and in time added on.
Phoenix forward Ava Pritchard delivered an enticing cross in the 89th minute, but substitute Charlotte Lancaster wasn't able to direct her header on target.
Nix midfielder Betsy Hassett launched a thunderous shot in stoppage time, but the Wanderers were able to get a body in the way.
Western Sydney midfielder Bethany Gordon came close to winning the match for the visitors at the death, but Edwards managed to turn her shot around the post to ensure both sides collected a point.
The Wellington Phoenix women have a short turn-around. They are back in action on Saturday when they will visit table-topping newcomers Western United.
Wellington Phoenix: 12. Brianna EDWARDS (gk), 2. Saskia VOSPER (17. Claudia CICCO 68th), 4. Mackenzie BARRY, 5. Marisa VAN DER MEER, 7. Chloe KNOTT (c), 8. Grace WISNEWSKI (15. Zoe MCMEEKEN 90th), 9. Ava PRITCHARD, 11. Betsy HASSETT, 14. Michaela ROBERTSON (18. Te Reremoana WALKER 81st), 20. Milly CLEGG (19. Charlotte LANCASTER 68th), 21. Michaela FOSTER.
Unused substitutes: 22. Georgia CANDY (gk).
Western Sydney Wanderers: 1.Jordyn BLOOMER (gk), 5. Lauren KEIR, 7. Amy HARRISON (25. Holly CASPERS 74th), 9. Sophie HARDING, 11. Danika MATOS, 14. Clare HUNT (c), 15. Cushla RUE (13. Jitka CHLASTAKOVA 82nd), 16. Malia STEINMETZ, 17. Sheridan GALLAGHER (8. Olivia PRICE 74th), 21. Alexia APOSTOLAKIS, 32. Bethany GORDON.
Unused substitutes: 20. Shamiran KHAMIS (gk), 23. Ella ABDUL MASSI.
14. Michaela ROBERTSON (Wellington Phoenix) – 41st
17. Sheridan GALLAGHER (Western Sydney Wanderers) – 60th
17. Sheridan GALLAGHER (Western Sydney Wanderers) – yellow – 30th
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From child marriage to sexual abuse, family issues due to spouse's alcoholism and lack of educational and employment opportunities – the economic and social status of women in the Chennai slums reflect a sorry state of affairs, finds a recent study.
A recent study conducted across slums in Chennai, including Vyasarpadi, Kasimedu, Besant Nagar, Ramapuram and Chemmenchery, assessing the social and economic status of women living in them, has found that child marriages are till rampant.
The study also brought to light several other problems like sexual abuse, lack of sanitation, etc, in the areas. The study carried out by Dhagam Foundation, as part of Aval project, surveyed women across age groups on topics like education, marriage, job opportunities, sexual abuse, equality and rights awareness. The results have brought out startling facts, as these women battle early marriage, suffer due to lack of freedom to make decisions on education and employment, apart from facing sexual abuse.
Govind Mururgan, convenor, Dhagam Foundation presenting the findings on Saturday, said that while a majority of school going girls drop out after puberty due to restrictions imposed by parents and (41 per cent), followed by economic problems (25 per cent) and out of them a huge percentage have child marriages as parents look at them as burden. He added, "Out of them, 36 per cent of them have returned to their parents houses, due to dowry and problems with their in-laws".
A significant 59 per cent of them women depend on their husband's income, even as 63 per cent of the women are interested in working. "But they don't get the freedom to work, or the opportunities, apart from constraints like taking care of their children," he added.
In these slums, 79 per cent of the men are addicted to smoking and alcohol and 81 per cent of the women in these households, feel their lives have been destroyed by the addictions.
A whopping 42 per cent face sexual abuse and are afraid to complain to their families and confide in their friends and colleagues, according to the study.